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SATURDAY EVENING, SXRRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 17, 1917.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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SATURDAY EVENING, FEB. 17
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Woe unto him that giveth his neigh
tor drink, to thee that oddest thy
venom, and male est him drunken also,
that thou mayest took on their naked
ness.' —HAB. 2:15.
I NNOCrLATION FOR TYPHOID
THERE can be no question as to
effectiveness of innoculation as
a means of preventing typhoid.
It has been demonstrated beyond all
doubt that the body may be rendered
Immune by this means, without bad
effects upon the patient. Had precau
tions of this kind been taken previous
to the epidemic of last summer in
Harrisburg there would have been no
epidemic, since it has been established
pretty clearly that carriers of typhoid
germs were responsible in very largo
measure for the outbreak that re
sulted from contamination of milk
and Ice cream.
It is, therefore, gratifying to note
that the manufacturers and dealers, of
their own volition, will Insist upon ty
phoid innoculation for their employes
during the coming hot weather sea
eon. In so doing they are not only
safeguarding the health and the lives
of their patrons, but are making a
wise move in their own behalf.
Ice cream is growing in popularity,
especially as a warm weather dish.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars have
been and are being Invested in mod
ern plants for Its manufacture under
sanitary surroundings which would be
set at naught If It happened, as It did
last summer, that some of the men en
gaged In the handling of the product
■were typhoid carriers. Unquestion
ably many dealers entirely blameless
■were put to serious loss last year by
the ban that was pl'aced on ice cream
when typhoid fever was traced to it.
It is to the Interest of these to see
to It that no dealer shall make himself
the cause of a condition that may not
only make hundreds of people sick
but which would be ruinous to busi
ness.
Nothing "will do more to restore
public confidence in the safety of ice
cream from a food standpoint than
the earnest efforts of the dealers and
manufacturers themselves to insure
its purity. They are moving in the
right direction.
Frlghtfulnesa Is no respecter of
"safety lanes."
"WANTED, 1,000 DWELLINGS"
WANTED, 1,000 Dwellings!"
That is the "ad." of the civic
t authorities of Reading.
Reading needs new houses, needs
them badly, and despite tho fact that
hundreds have been built the past
year the usual spring scarcity is worse j
than ever. •
This Is a good sign. It proves the
steady growth of the city.
Harrisburg also needs new houses.
Not only are dwellings at a premium
here, but we have some hundreds of
them that must be torn away shortly,
having long since outlived their use
fulness as human habitations.
Why wouldn't It be a gooij thing for
both Reading and Harrisburg if some
big corporation were formed to build
attractive houses on a large scale in
order that they might be rented
cheaply? Tho Investment certainly
would be safe, at least, and those who
engaged In such an enterprise would
be doing both cities a good turn.
The Weatherman is going to have a
'iard time explaining the way the
■Groundhog hits oft the weather.
STEEL MAKING IN HARRISBURG
WITH the construction of one of
the largest open hearth fur
naces in the world at the Cen
tral Iron and Steel Company plant,
this city, and the blowing In of an ad
dltlonal blast furnace at the Steelton
mills of the Bethlehem Steel Com
pany, Harrlsburg's place in the iron
and steel industry assumes bttll
greater importance.
Both the Central Iron and Steel Com
pany and the big Schwab mills are
growing rapidly. The new blast fur-
nai-e at Steelton is only the first unit
of the big $15,000,000 improvement
program mapped out for the Bethle-.
hem mills, and the Central Iron and
Steel Company is now extending Its
gas producers and remodeling its idle
stacks. Under their present manage
ment there is no prophesying how im
portant these two plants may become
in the steel world, but their future
greatness is already more than as-
S * sured..
With tho blowing in of one of the
idle furnaces at the Central Iron April
|j& ]6, as announced In The Telegraph
Thursday night, at least more men
will find employment. The number
of men to be oddod to the Bethlehem
Steel payroll when all units of the im
provement program Improvement are
completed will run Into the hundred 3.
In the very heart of the distributing
district of the East, this city is bourid
to grow Into one of the really big steel
producing points of the world.
The difference between Cuba and the
United States Is that we prefer hot air
to hot shot, following a disappointing
election.
Why Not a Street Car Survey?
TTTTHY not a street car survey in
* * Harrisburg?
The question naturally arises
as a result of the excellent results
achieved in the police department
through the survey made at the sug
gestion of the Chamber of Commerce
and with the friendly co-opcration of
Mayor Meals.
Nearly every day brings to the Tele
graph offices letters of complaint re
lating to delays of street car travel and
what the writers are pleased to call
"inadequate service." Doubtless some
of these are the results of the jitney
controversy and the unfortunate labor
disturbance of last summer, but not
all of them. Where the fault lies the
Telegraph does not presume to say.
It knows only that a very large num
ber of Harrisburg people believe con
ditions could be materially improved.
The average citizen ha 3 no feeling
either for or against the trolley com
pany as such. He wants prompt and
efficient service for his nickel and be
yond that he is not greatly interested.
And he is entitled to that. Regular
schedules, reasonable frequency of
cars passing a given point, comfort
able seating arrangements and cour
teous treatment at the hands of effi
cient, honest and polite employes are
the passenger's rights. These are the
best advertisements any company can
have, but the opposite is also true;
delays, Inefficiency, dishonesty, care
lessness, over-crowding—all operate
against a trolley company in the opin
ion of the people it purposes to serve.
It is easy to fall Into a rut. It is
not easy to get out. There is doubt
less room for improvement In the ser
vice of the Harrisburg Railways com
pany. A friendly, co-operative survey
at least would give the people much
useful information and would not only
encourage improvements but would
place the blame for shortcomings, if
shortcomings there are.
rOTATOES AT S:t.ro A DUBHKL
POTATOES reached $3.50 a bushel
in Chicago the other day when
a new kind of boycott was
'started which brought the price down
with a bump to $2.75. The retailers
took the situation Into their own
hands and simply declined to buy at
any such ridiculous price, recommend
ing that their patrons use rice and
other foodstuffs of the kind as potato
substitutes. The result might be well
worth consideration in Harrisburg,
where prices of potatoes threaten to
go beyond all reason.
Chicago commission men insisted
that the high prices were due to ship
ments abroad, and doubtless that and
a short crop in this country last year
do have an important bearing on the
situation, but the fact that prices fell
away seventy-five cents a bushel In
one day under pressure of the retail
ers' boycott would appear to be ground
for the suspicion that they had been
artificially inflated.
Too often people blame the retail
dealer for the high prices of provi
sions, but in most cases he is simply
caught In the same trap that holds the
consumer —he must buy at the figures
quoted or do without. High prices
tend to lower consumption and the
small dealer whose profits are not in
creased to any extent, and often act
ually lowered, by exorbitant charges
for the goods he handles, would be as
happy as the consumer if the cost
of living were reduced to before-the
war levels.
EARL WHITE'S APPOINTMENT 1
APPOINTMENT of Eari white as
clerk to the police department
under the revised system order
ed by council takes Into the service of
the city a young man trained for the
work he undertakes by years of police
court newspaper reporting. Nobody
in or out of the police department
knows more about its workings than
Mr, White. He has a wldo aquulnt
ance in all parts of the city, holds the
confidence of the police officials and
officers and is of excellent character.
Mr, White fits into the place he has
been called upon to fill as though he
had been carefully groomed for It.
His appointment Is another Illustra
tion of learning one's job so well as
to be suddenly boosted out of It into
a better one.
PJX PORTS TO WARRING NATIONS
OUR total exports for tho calen :
dar year 1916 .were valued at
$5,481,423,689. Of this amount
France, Italy, Russia, the United
Kingdom. Canada, Australia and
New Zealand, and Japan, took
$4,320,000,000. — or 79 per cent, tq
THEY CAN'T PUT YOU IN JAIL FOR THAT By BRIGGS
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"Cl„,o g^^ ON
the Allied Powers. It is an ill war
that blows nobody good, but if the
end of the war flnd9 us with the pres
ent tariff abomination on the statute
books we will catch a blowing quite
different ip character.
Some people never will learn anv
sense; take this latest plunge of the
Crown Prince following the perform
ance of Verdun, for example.
Labor Notes
Organized actors, stage employes
and musicians have formed an alii- j
ance.
Vancouver (B. C.) women have pe
titioned to be allowed to become mem
bers of the Municipal Council.
A local branch of the National
Union of General Workers, an En
glish organization, has been formed at
Athlone, Ireland.
Belgian refugees have opened a
horse slaughter-house at Halifax,
Yorkshire, and are teaching British
workmen to eat horse meat.
For the first time In many years the
union house card is to be displayed In
restaurants and cafes in Saiv Fran
cisco that are employing union cull
nary workers.
Active work is now being done by
the Canadian National Service Board
to supplant male labor for female
wherever possible in munition plants.
Already nearly 1,500 women are en
gaged in the manufacture of mu
nitions in Ottawa.
On October 1,\1914, there were
about 2,300,000 women in Germany
registered at the different employ
ment insurance companies. On August
1, 1916, this number had risen to 4,-
000,000. The increase, though not so
great in the metallurglc industries, is
nevertheless Important, there being
140,000 women to-day instead of the
60,000 employed before the war.
2ynt Vfirt SJPLoLau shrdl taunn
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Another War Change
The woman window-dresser, strange
as It may seem, Is a war novelty. Now,
however, she Is frequently to be
found, even In the leading shops
where men alone were formerly sup
posed to have skill to arrange articles
of women's clothing in such a way as
to make women want to buy them. In
pre-war days, though a certain'
amount of the "fancy drapery" win
dow-dressing was done by women,
more important branches, such as
the arrangement of model gowns,
were seldom entrusted to them.
Window-dressing is regarded in the
drapery trade as an art. In houses
where there Is a great deal of glass
one or two competent window-dress
ers may be kept at this work all the
time, but usually they will only have
a couple of days a week at it, and dur
ing the rest,of the time may be em
ployed as buyejs or to supervise stock
or as salesmen. In the multiple shops,
such as tobacconists, there are usu
ally men whose business it Is to dress
windows at the different branches and
do nothing else. There are several
reasons given why women have not
until now found their way Into the
front rank of window-dressers. One
Is that 95 per cent, of women shop
assistants do not concentrate in their
work as a career In the same way as
men do; they usually have an eye to
marriage as the more attractive pros
pect. Another reason given is that
the dressing of windows is too heavy
work for women and Involves a good
deal of climbing about on ladders for
which they are not well suited.
But tho big drapery firm* have now,
as a rule, nothing but praise for the
women who aro doing this work. The
women are not getting tho same rates
as the men whose places they are tak
ing—where a man "living in" would
be paid £9O to £lOO the women are
receiving only £7O to £Bo. —London
Times.
They Worship Trees
I'nder the very shadow of the tele
graph pole we find tho tree worship
pers of Indta. Many kinds of trees aro
worshipped in India for many kinds
of reasons. Some are supposed to be
the abode of demons who must be
propitiated. The sacred Bo tree under
which Buddha received enlightenment
Is worshipped by pilgrims who come
in thousands.
In eome small villages where there
are more women than men it often
happens that there are no men of
equal caste to the girl whose time has
come to marry. Since the tree repre
sents a deity which can assume any
rank or caste, the parents of a mar
riageable daughter who has become a
burden to the family take her to the
village tree god and marry her to
him. She is bound to the tree and left
either to the mercy of the prowling
wild beasts or to be rescued by the
first male of a lower caste who is In
search of a helpmeet.—World Out
look.
"po£t£cC4 Ml.
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the
The Philadelphia Record to-day
prints a very interesting story to the
effect that the Governor is testing out
the Senate in regard to passing the
Sproul resolution for an investigation
over his rumored veto and also on the
Important question of its attitude on
his appointments by having some of
the members sounded in regard to
their feeling on Secretary William H.
Ball for superintendent of public
grounds and buildings. The fact
that Mr. Ball was being seriously con
sidered for the place made vacant by
the retirement of Samuel B. Rambo
during the days of turmoil preceding
the election of Richard J. Baldwin as
Speaker was mentioned in this col
umn early in the week and since that
time the friends of the Secretary have
been urging his qualifications for the
position. He was Chief of City Prop
erty in Philadelphia for years.
The Governor is more concerned
now than he was early in the week
over the attitude of the Senate on his
appointments as he is commencing to
realize that the dismissal of old and
tried men during the excitement of
the last days of December created
considerable feeling throughout the
State and is being reflected in the
Senate. The Governor and hia friends
have also begun to realizo that they;
can not count on any Democratic help
and that the sole aim of the Demo
cratic bosses, legislators, partisans and
newspapers is to "get" every Repub
lican, the object being to obtain capi
tal to help the present Democratic
machine get into power.
The Democratic game is very ap
parent. Day after day, the bosses and
their legislative leaders have been in
sisting that the investigation must be
"fair and impartial." After the
speeches the Democrats vote for the
very measures'they decry. Now, after
their scheme for a commission of
"outsiders" to investigate the execu
tive branch of the State government,
has been twice buried under ava
lanches of precedents they propose to
bring it up again for purely advertis
ing purposes. The Democrats are
pulling long faces over what they call
the dreadful state of affairs In Penn
sylvania, but having trouble about re
straining their glee over the Republi
can row.
—According to. reports in Philadel
phia the Penrose plan Is to start, tn
vostlgation by standing committees,
which have full authority, in the event
that the Sproul resolution is vetoed
and the veto Is sustained. The first
object of attack will, according to the
Philadelphia Ledger, be the Public
Service Commission and then the bat
teries will be turned on the Attorney
General. This Is the reason why Com
missioner Magee has been dropping
hints about plans of the commission
to do some Investigating of public util
ities in various cities.
—Senator McNichol got two fine
places In the Philadelphia Tax Revi
sion Board. He nosed out the Vares
and put in men who will fight V'are
men for control/of wards. The Sena
tor appears to be as lucky getting
places as* subway contracts.
—lndiana county is dry because all
of the saloons were penalized by Judge
Langh.im for violating: the antltreatlng
rule. They will open up again on
March 12.
—Easton Democrats will have a
special train to go to tho Inaugura
tion. .
—The borough of Knoxvllle voted
down a $150,000 loan for street Im
provements.
—The Pittsburgh temperance meet
ing seems to have developed an atti
tude of antagonism toward the Anti-
Saloon League on the part of some of
tho most conspicuous advocatoH of lo
cal option and prohibition In Western
Pennsylvania. Tho refusal of tho
league people to agree to tho plan
suggested may have a far-reaching
effect.
.—Henry Q. Wasson's SIO,OOO fee'ln
the Harmony escheat seems to have
attracted much attention among law
yers In Western Pennsylvania.
—The Johnsown Leader, which
went Into the hands of a receiver
latelv, Is to be sold by court ordor,
—The Philadelphia transit plans
appear to be taking a pretty big place
In political affairs. Borne of the big
men in Philadelphia deny the state
ments of Public Service Commission
ers and are inclined to go before
the people with their views, It Is un
fortunate that the plans should come
up at a time when politics 1B so para
mount in State affairs.
:—Erie county court's have granted
some new licenses and there will be
something doing In Luzerne cour.ty
shortly. Perry's license court la also
attracting attention.
:—Some attention has been attracted
at the Capitol by the news from Co-
TIPS ON THE
CLOTH top shoes are in for a Spring
run, and all cloth shoes with
leather tips and strappings will
also play an important part in the
summer's fashions.
Belts and girdles of gold and silver
tissue have carried over from winter
models, and are now shown on spring
dresses.
Stout ladies and those who are only
a little plump will be given as youth
ful lines in suits, coats and dresses as
the willowy-formed damsel, and when
these clothes are made correctly they
will not he lacking in the necessary
quality of dignity.
Beads of all varieties and all col
ors are used with distinctive and real
artistic value as trimming combined
with hand embroidery.
Green in brilliant and refreshing
shade is sure to be a popular color in
dress fabric as well as accessories.
A Paris blouse recently Imported
was of white voile, trimmed most
charmingly by conventional lines of
colored floss, put on by a couching
stitch. Three colors were thus effec
tively combined.
Cotton gloves may now be had In
quarter sizes, and this is surely an I
lumbus that Governor Cox smashed
precedents by appearing before a joint
session of the Legislature and asking
for a budget appropriation. He asked
for $42,660,000, $10,000,000 more than
his predecessor.
—Pittsburgh newspapers say that
the Governor will veto the Senate res
olution next week.
Taxidermists Are Sculptors
[From the Washington Star.]
It is very doubtful if many of the
300,000 or more people who visit the
animal exhibits of the National Mu
seum annually realize the great
amount of work put on each animal
in the mounting by modern taxi
dermists. The larger animals are
mounted on so-called "manikins" of
re-enforced plaster, and are not, as Is
quite generally supposed, ' simply
stuffed with excelsior or sawdust. The
expert taxidermists employed by the
museum are more In the nature of
sculptors than anything else. They
are said to have been the pioneers in
this kind of work, and at this time
complete their work by constructing
life-sized hollow plaster figures which
are not only light and durable, but
also far more realistic than those pro
duced with sawdust and excelsior.
Booze on the Run
According to statistics compiled by
the Commissioner of Internal Reve
nue, there were 1,413 breweries In the
United States In 1914. During 1915
this number was reduced by forty-one,
and during 1916 It was further re
duced by forty, there now being 1,332
breweries In tho country. The statis
tics further show that there were 743
distilleries in the United States in
1914. During 1915 there was a de
crease of 108 in this number, and dur
ing 1916 thirty more went out of busi
ness, leaving a total in operation to
day of 605. In two years eighty-one
breweries and 138 distilleries wore
closed. Thus is prohibition gradually
making itself felt throughout tho
country.—Colorado Springs Gazette.
Phones Made Trusts
The telephone, not the tariff, has
made the trusts. We have had the
tariff in this country for a hundred
years or more, but the trusts are bare
ly more than a quarter of a century
old. And if you will look into tho
question you will find that the last
twenty-five years about marks the de
velopment of the long-distance tel
ephone. It was that development that
made It. possible for a man to sit in
his office In New York, or Chicago, or
San Francisco, gauge instantly busi
ness conditions across the country and
give his order on the moment to his
I lieutenants. And I firmly believe that
if the age of electricity should cease
to-morrow —at the crack of a finger,
as it were —within twenty-four hours
every one of our big trusts would be
gin to disintegrate. Big business does
not merely thrlvo on communication,
It Is vital to its very existence.—Col
lier's.
Bill That Helps All
[From Chrlstlun Science Monitor]
It may seem a trifle overdrawn at
first blush, but when the matter If
looked Into carefully, the air of exag
geration vanishes from the statement
that every Missouri horse, every Mis
souri dog that travels under the wagon
every motorist, every farmer's wife
and girl, and boy, and man servant
and maid servant, every country mer
chant, and every consumer of produce
will be the gainer by the Hawes Bill
The arch-enemy of Missouri rura
civilization is mud, and Mr, Hawes
a member of the Missouri Legislature
is the arch enemy of mud, whlcli
means bad roads,
advantage for women who have here-
I tofore been obliged to wear a lialf
| size too large.
Blouses of sheer material, such as
i georgette crepe, chiffon, organdie and
• ! voile, are being shown in a wide range
• I of colors, in white and in ilesh tint.
Hand embroidery and application
of beading make pleasing trimming
on materials of sheer quality.
Delicate flesh-colored lingerie In
i silk is in good demand, and this nat
urally brings forth a decided call for
corsets in matching color, with tho
result that many exquisite models are
I to be had.
Leather embroidered in gold and
, i silver is a fashionable trimming fea
; I ture for millinery.
Figures and forms cut out of leath
;■ er and kid are applied to hats with
i loose and irregular embroidery stitch-
I es done in colorful flosses,
j Many French hats are in brilliant
I colors this season, such as cherry,
! rose and cardinal.
Huge silk tassels trim many separ
| ate skirts and one-piece dresses. On
| separate blouses and Jackets the tass
|el idea is used, but here the quaint
[ornaments are smaller.
i The American Ambulance
* Mentioned In orders; praised for their
1 grit—
• Men of the U. S. A.!
1 Those who start battling when others
. leave off;
1 Those who fight Death for his preyj
" Those who plunge on through shrap
nel and gas;
Those whom no cannon can rout;
Those who dread naught but to fall In
their Job
Of bringing the wounded out.
e
e Mentioned in orders—only a line —
But, ah, what a tale it tells
t Of dauntless devotion to stricken men
I Deep in that hell of hells!
. Lads who went over from your town
e and mine—
f Striplings we used to flout—
a Flowering to knighthood there In the
y work
B Of bringing the wounded out.
e
f Mentioned in orders; men from our
y land
j Gone there to kill the lie
B That we in America do not care
, If our brothers bleed and die.
} Christ, as you succor the souls of men
t In gory field and redoubt,
. Have in your keeping the tender and
brave,
Who are bringing the wounded out!
—D. M. Henderson in Collier's Weekly
Health Note
Little tubs of beer and
Little shots of gin
Make the mighty waistline
And the double chin.
—Huntingdon Globe.
| OUR DAILY LAUGH 1
THE ONLY
COURSE OPEN.
Why did you
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cy? I thought you
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tftk•: couldn't get any
■ more credit.
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IN SOCIETY,
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t | certainly do en-
II ; tertaln lavishly.
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■ n\ Vjl K 90 and has no
particular hobby
S-vb to Hh,ch h ® at -
Ay M i tributes his long
life.
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it The Lady; Sup
postng, Jane, I Jbmi
J* should deduct
from your (wages J(u2 A
the cost of all th /ft-g. TtJ B8
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' that case It's me- vB
h self'd be like the M , n
dishes.
Bmting (flJjat
Some interesting railroad history is
recalled by the fllipg in the office of
the Secretary of the Commonwealth
the other day of the official papers of
the merger of half a dozen railroads
Into the Western Maryland railroad.
The combined companies have a cap
ital of $78,000,000, and the Pennsyl
vania and Maryland companies of the
system are now one as was accom
plished recently when the big Pan
handle merger was made by the Penn
sylvania and the New Yorlc Central
consolidated many of its lines in
northern and western Pennsylvania. ~
The names of the companies absorbed *
by the Western Maryland are indica
tive of what was once contemplated,
especially the scheme to make Harris
burg in reality as it now is in the
matter of freight traffic, the northern
terminus of the Western Maryland.
In the list are the eastern and western
extensions of the Baltimore and Har
risburg railroads, which were part of
an ambitious plant to tap the rich
agricultural regions of the loWer Sus
quehanna and Cumberland Valley, '
which held charters from both Mary
land and Pennsylvania and which
formed the backbone of the system in
southern counties and the George's
Creek and Cumberland, which is the
West Virginia end and the Connells
vilte sfnd State line. Hundreds of cars
from the latter two lines pass through
Harrlsburg every day. They come
from the Connelisvlllf cut off,
which is supposed to shorten the haul
from Pittsburgh to tidewater, and are
brought into Harrisburg over the
Heading lines from Shippensburg
where the Western Maryland connects
with the Cumberland Valley and
Reading, by the huge engines of the
railroad.
Few meetings of medical men in
Harrisburg outside of sessions of the
State Medical Society have brought to
gether as many doctors and surgeons
as the conference held at the Capitol
yesterday by the Department of La
bor and Industry for discussion of
treatment of wounds. It was really a
preparedness meeting for the doctors
ns the most advanced methods,
learned on the battlefields of France,
were presented with pictures. The
doctors were told from actual experi
ence what had to be done to stop the
deadliest of all diseases, gangrene, and
what was explained yesterday will be
applied to industrial accidents. Men
who were In attendance said that the
lessons were invaluable and that more
meetings of the kind should be held so
that the medical men who have to
deal emergencies could have op
portunity to hear what is done in war
to the end that they would be ready
to tako their part in time of stress.
Can a justice of the peace admin
ister an oath to a man he meets 011
a highway? That is a question which
the State Game authorities are trying
to solve and Dr. Joseph Kaibfus, ex
pert in matters pertaining to game,
says that it is getting beyond him. It
appears that the doctor "flagged"
some of the affidavits sent to him by
claimants for bounties, for scalps of
foxes, wildcats and other vermin be-
I cause tlicy .vcre all written in one
man's handwritiiysi.v-C>ne explanation
given by a justice who was interro
gated was that he had met the claim
ant on a road and "swore him." AM
he did not have paper and ink with
him he simply agreed to take the
trouble off the man's hands and wrole
out and signed the whole business.
He got the fee, of course, but whether
he is guilty of fraud or perjury is the
problem.
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These are the busy days for the '
photographers, especially those who
specialize in outdoor work. The nu#
merous conventions and other gather
ings being held here have caused the
picture men to be right on the job.
Every day this week a photographer
has had his camera sighted on tho
Capitol front steps and there has been
one group after another photographed
with the great granite building and
the Barnard statues taking the place
of the woodland scenes of the studio.
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Dr. Joseph D. Findlay, of Altoona,
Pennsylvania railroad physician in the
city at the foot of the mountains, and
one of the premier road enthusiasts in
Central Pennsylvania, attended the
conference on industrial accidents at
the Capitol yesterday. Dr. Findlay is
not so busy with his large practice
that he cannot devote some time to
his pet hobby—better roads, and he is
Rlair county's representative on the
Board of Governors af the William
Penu Highway.
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Secretary of the Commonwealth j
Cyrus E. Woods, former minister to
Portugal, who is to speak before the
Civic Club in its series of winter ad
dresses, will give some of his ex
periences while at the court of Lis
bon. Mr. Woods was minister at a
very interesting stage of affairs in the
Lusitanian realm and was a figure in
the social as well as tho diplomatic
life of the world famous city.
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According to a note sent by a
friend Ohio is about to pass a law
which will require the reading of tho
: Declaration of Independence in all
! schools. Years ago this used to be
the custom in this State and in Har
risburg and vicinity, in the time of our
grandfathers, there were prizes for
the boy or girl who could recite it
best. In fact, in those days the
Declaration ranked next to the Bible
in the schools, as attested by old time
letters.
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1 WELL KNOVN PEOPLE
—E. G. Smith, the Wilkes-Barro
editor and publisher, has qualified
to become a major in the reserve.
—Congressman John M. Rose in a
speech at Altoona declared that he
was opposed to war until it simply
had to come. He is the man who
beat Pacific Bailey.
•—-Ex-State Treasurer John O.
Sheatz is'taking a prominent part in
the moves for tho new Delaware
river bridge.
—Eli M. Rapp, the Berks school
superintendent, in a speech in Dela
ware county urged county boards of
school control.
—Ex-Judge W. E. Porter, of Law
rence county, is the head of the new
Western Pennsylvania organization
that will work'for temperance. He Is
the man who made Lawrence dry and
suffered defeat for it.
—Col. T. B. Ellis, commander of
the Sixth Infantry, chose the long
Southern route for his regiment so
that the men could see the country.
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DO YOU KNOW 1
—That Harrif-burg makes
many tilings that go into Uncle
Sam's defense plans 'L.
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Harrisburg's first schoolhouse was
in Walnut street near whefe the new
hotel will be constructed.
This Girl Knew
"How useless girls are to-day. X
don't believe they know what needles
are for."
"How absurd you are. grandma,"
protested the girl. "They're to make
the graphophone play." r