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SATURDAY EVENING, FEB. 14
RETENTION OF MR. EORRER
PERSISTENT rumors of the inten
tion of the Superintendent of
Parks and City Property to dis
pense with the services of V.
Grant Forrer. who has been the execu
tive head of the old Purk Board, con- 1
tlnue to be discussed in municipal
circles. It Is reported that Superin
tendent Taylor has decided to give _
his personal attention to the parks and
playgrounds and as a consequence be-
Ileves it is unnecessary to retain Mr.
Forrer.
Perhaps the most striking develop
ment of the matter has been a com
munication sent by the old Park
Board, In its advisory capacity, urging
Superintendent Taylor to maintain the
present organization for the good of
the service. It is pointed out that
with the important work still to be
done the experience of Mr. Forrer and
Mr. Hoffert, engineer of the old
commission, would be extremely valu
able.
Those who are urging the retention
of Mr. Forrer contend that in the
years that he has given to the building
up of the park system he has attain
ed a knowledge of the and
conditions which make a continuance
of his service desirable.
It is a high compliment for Mr.
Forrer that the Board of Park Com
missioners, with which he has been so
long associated, has joined in this
strong recommendation for his reten
tion. They know his worth and it
was their duty to submit to Superin
tendent Taylor the facts in the case.
If in the further consideration of the
reorganization of his force, Mr. Tay
lor can see his way clear to the con
tinuance of Mr. Forrer's services, it
would seem to be the part of wisdom
to do so.
Economy in the administration of
the park system is desirable and neces
sary, but we do not believe that the
people of the city expect Superinten
dent Taylor or any other head of a
department to cripple his work in or
der to save to the city the cost of the
new city commission, which was im
posed on Harrisburg by the Legisla
ture.
St. Valentine, Cupid and the weather
man combined to make life miserable
for the letter carriers to-day.
UNFAIR TAXATION
ALL of us use the postal service;
even the humblest and poorest.
But not nearly all of us tlnd it
necessary to have a telephone
in the house or even to use one fre
quently. It is hardly fair, therefore,
to argue that because the government
controls the carrying of the mails that
Jt should have charge of the tele
graph and telephone. The cases are
not analagous.
The postal service never has paid
its own way. Since all of us use it,
it is not unfair to make up the deii
ciency out of the general revenues.
But it would be scarcely fair to tax
all of us for the benefit of the num
ber who find the telephone a neces
sary addition to household or business
activities, for doubtless the deficits of
the Post Office Department would be
increased by the addition of a. new
branch.
THE INEVITABLE END
SAMUEL TATE, aged 85, and
Charles Keilly, aged ''B, were ar
rested this week in Philadelphia,
charged with the crime of coun
terfeiting United States money' They
admit their guilt and will spend th
remainder of their lives in the gov
ernment prison in Atlanta.
Not for them the peace of old age.
Not for them the sheltered nook at the
family fireside in winter, nor the
shady spot on the porch in summer.
No grandchildren will romp at their
feet or listen in childish wonder to
their splendid stories of the golden
days agone. Theirs the lonely prison
cell and response to the last call of
all in the grim confines of a prison
hospital.
With a vision before him of all the
pleasant might-have-beens of a life
of rectitude and honest effort, and
comparing them with the awful cul
mination of his life of crime, aged
Charles Reilly said to the young re
porter who Btood by his side while
SATURDAY EVENING,
awaiting to be assigned to a cell:
| "Take It from one who knows, my
| lad, there is nothing in this game but
ruin for the man who plays it."
Here were two men who started out
in life with bright prospects and ex
ceptional talents. It requires talent
of no mean order to be a counter
j feiter, by the way, to say nothing of
[cunning and courage. They gave up
j everything in the hope of getting rich
quick. They failed and went to
prison. Reckoning all as lost' they
I made no further effort to get back
their lost respectability. They con
' tinued the outlaw life of the man who
i tries to live at the expense of society.
'At the end they decide that which
they should have known at the be
j ginning—"take it from one who
j knows, there is nothing in the game."
| Now we hope those who have been
. hoping for a ' little old-fashioned winter
] weather" are satislied.
j THE MONUMENT MAKERS
THE monument makers of the
country have been meeting at
Battle Creek the past week.
They approved the latest de
signs in grave decorations, discussed
i the death rate and the state of busi
ness and then became very much
peeved over the report of the secre
tary to the effect that those who sur
vive "the late lamented" in these de
generate days display a painful pro
pensity for the purchase of motor cars
and mansions, to the exclusion of the
lovely granite markers that used to be!
the family's tribute to "tho departed"
—said markers and monuments in size
and degree of scroll work and orna
mentation deciding largely the said
family's social and financial status in
their native town.
Now, however, the materially in
clined sons of wealth, not to mention
their sophisticated sires, according to
the monument makers, have ceased j
to care a hoot whether or not the fam- I
ily plot Is prominent in cemetery clr- I
cles, so long as the latest model six
is at the door of their newly built I
mansion.
Some of us may not sympathize j
much with the monument makers
save as we grieve to see any business j
on the decline —for there has long j
been a hazy suspicion in the minds I
of many that 'twere better to spend j
money on those who can enjoy it than
to burden a grave with a useless stone
that, in a large number of cases, is
but a memorial to family pride and
aflluence.
But above the burning question of
whether it shall be motor cars or
tombstones arises another. How in
Sam Hill does it happen that monu
ment makers select as a meeting place
a health resort like Battle Creek,
where the boast is that nobody ever
dies?
CARNEGIE'S GIFT
LIFE has many curious twists and
devious ways. ' Andrew Carne
gie's mills at Homestead were
among the first in the United
States to turn seriously to the manu
facture of armor plate. For years the
Carnegie interests were engaged in
selling battleship plate to the govern
ment. Carnegie made millions in the
business. Now he is devoting those
millions indirectly to the abolition of
the armor making mill. His latest
benefaction is a gift of $2,000,000 to
the cause of universal peace.
MONTHLY PENSION PAYMENTS
AN aged pensioner of the United
States government was found in
his shanty homo the other day
by Harrisburg authorities. He
was without the necessities of life and
suffering because he had not been able
to make his way to the olilce of the
alderman to whom he entrusted the
care of his quarterly pension fund,
and upon whom he was accustomed to
draw as he needed money. He was
afraid to keep it with him at home
lest some of his none too scrupulous
neighbors take it from him.
There is now in Congress a bill mak
ing it mandatory on the part of the
government to pay its pensioners once
every month instead of four times a
year.
There are many old soldiers not so
thoughtful of the end of the quarter
as was this old man, who trusted his
little all to the honesty of a friend.
Not all of them would fare as well as
he if they followed his example. In
too many cases pressing needs or de
sires of the moment offer strong temp
tation to spend the whole quarterly
stipend in a few days fol.owing pay
ment. Then comes lack of funds and
want until next pay day.
Certainly, if semimonthly pay for
the railroad and other employes in the
State was so desirable that the Legis
lature thought it necessary to pass a
law requiring it. Congress is on the
right track in dividing up the pay
ments to pensioners in twelve monthly
instalments instead of four a year un
der the present arrangement.
THE MUTTON SHORTAGE
HERB ER T SHOUT, editor of
"Farm and Fireside," predicts
a mutton famine in the United
States in less tnan five years.
Others have made the same predic
tion, basing their estimates on the
fact that farmers will not care to raise
sheep with wool on the free list.
Short believes that he has a remedy.
Tax all the dogs so high that nobody
will keep them, he advises, and then
fanners will be encouraged to renew
the llocks that have been in the past
the constant prey of dogs that have
been allowed to run at large.
We may have to part tearfully with
our lamb chops and the mutton we
eat disguised as "roagt spring lamb
with mint sauce" may retire to the
class of luxuries, along with terrapin
and lobster, but even so let us not
tax poor Faithful Fido out of exist
ence. We would rather hobnob with
the mangiest pup that ever ranged the
gutter for his dinner than be seen in
company with the ileeclest little lamb
that Mary ever had. There are thou
sands of dogs in this State that
wouldn't touch a sheep if they were
starving and hundreds of others that
bring the flock home every night.
Pish on such foolishness. Likewise,
tush, tush and piffie.
fcvenroft cuat
Removal of the wooden awning
from the pavement of the Bell prop
erty in Second street at Chestnut, calls
attention to the passing of thesu old
fashioned pavement protectors from
the city. There are now none of the
wooden awnings In Second street
north of Chestnut street and not many
are left south of that thoroughfare.
The few others are scattered about the
city, mainly in the older portions of
the city and to a slight extent uptown
and in the city portion of the Eighth
ward. Time was when one could pass
south on Second street from Market
to near Mulberry in time of a shower
and hardly get wet at all, thanks to
the awnings which were considered a
part of the business outfit of a store.
South Second had more awnings than
any other street twenty-live years ago
and they were mightly convenient
places to hustle to when a rain cumo
along, especially when you were
caught without an umbrella and had
a market basket or a parcel to carry
home. The last awning in the busi
ness district above Market street to
disappear was from the front of the
United Evangelical Publishing House
at Second and Locust, which had a
i line high awning and was a waiting
: place for trolley cars. The Baptistl
and Gardner store at Third and Chest
nut, formerly the Call office, the Russ
building in Market Square, the Smith
and Keffer tobacco store in Market
near Aberdeen, and the Bates whole
sale house in Market, formerly the
old Killinger grocery store, are among
the few houses which have wooden
awnings in the business section and
they are maintained because of the
handling of boxes and bags from wa
gons. The value of daylight in stores
lias caused the old wooden awning to
disappear und if a person who was ac
tive in affairs in 1880 would come to
town he would be surprised not only
at the disappearance of ihc awnings
that .made shelter for neople and
homes for martens but at the rapid
removal of the trees which used to
fringe the streets.
Noticing shad displayed at one of
the stores yesterday impelled one of
the men who has grandchildren to
talk about the times when Harrlsburg
never got its shad until April and
then received the best in the land.
"I remember when I was i boy that
we used to get shad in April. They
came from the Susquehanna river, be
ing caught at Columbia and brought
up here in trains," said he. "In those
days we did not have refrigerator cars
to bring us Florida shad in the mid
dle of January or Carolina shad for
Washington's birthday and Virginia
shad In March, but we waited until
th > shad came up the Susquehanna
and stopped at the Columbia dam. In
those dajs people caught shad by the
wagon load and they would come here
lresh and the thrifty folks would go
to the cars and buy them while some
would get wheelbarrows and peddle
them around the streets. Why, 1 re
member paying a quarter for a dandy
roe shad and twenty cents for a jack.
And there was all the difference in
the world in the llavor as compared
to wnat we get from southern waters
now. '
I think one of the most amusing
resolutions ever offered in the House
was a year ago on Thursday. It was
Lincoln s birthday and the House was
called upon to note it," said a man
who attends the general assembly.
"Everything was tame and Gus Wild
man J S°t up and offered a resolution
which recited that as the day was
Lincoln s birthday the House should
celebrate it by working."
Prof. John ICunkel Small, son of
George H. Small, of this city, a native
°f Harrisburg and now a professor of
botany at Columbia university, has
added ti>'the books on his chosen sub
ject which have attracted wide atten
tion. He published a series of books
on Florida which are notable and his
flora of the Southern States is an au
thority. He has come back to his na
tive State for his latest and has pub
lished a book on the flora of Lancaster
county, which is of much interest here
because the flora is almost the same in
Dauphin as it is in the mother county.
A. W. Greely, Jr.. the supervisor in
charge of the maintenance of way of
the Reading in this district, is a son
ol' the famous explorer and military
officer. General Greely was the speak
er at the Beading Chamber of Com
merce dinner the other evening and
his son who had not seen him in
months escorted him to the banquet.
S. B. Watts, who is to speak on
that much abused lady, "The Tele
phone Girl" at the Technical High
School, is a graduate of the Harris
burg exchange, of which he is now
the manager. Mr. Watts started In
the business office of the exchange,
where, by the way, L. H. Kinnard, Jr.,
the Bell vice-president, began his ca
reer. He collected bills and chased
around generally on business, even
handling part of the soliciting end
and now is in charge of the Harris
burg exchange, one of the most im
portant on the system in the State.
Speaking of the optimist, a promi
nent Democrat of the eastern section
of the State has written to the man
ager of the Senate Hotel asking that
a comfortable room be reserved for
him from January 15 to January 20,
1915, as he wants to attend the in
auguration of Governor Ryan.
|AV6LL'KnQ\Vr)-'P6OPL6'N 1
—Clarence L. Williams, well known
transportation man, was president of
the Pittsburgh Passenger Club, but
when run for re-election, surprised
his friends by saying he would have
none of it.
—Judge T. J. Baldridge, of Blair
county courts, named women to ap
praise a milliner's stock.
—H. J. Heinz, the Pittsburgh manu
facturer, is keenly interested in the
success of the Panama Commission's
display for the State at San Fran
cisco.
—Dr. E. D. Wartield had been pres
ident of Lafayette for 22 years.
—Burgess H. L. Bensford, of La
trobe, suspended his chief of police
for ten days.
—Frank H. Goodfellov, new presi
dent of the Pennsylvania and Seaboard
Hardware men, is a prominent Al
toona merchant.
—George F. Eisenbrown, Reading
councilman, is now engaged in a con
troversy over municipal research
work. Some of his fellow citizens do
not like that kind of work.
TOO MANY KOK THE BOSS
[From Lippincott's.l
One of the bosses at Kaldwin's Loco
motive Works had to lay off an argu
mentative Irishman named Pat. so he
saved the discussion by putting the
discharge in writing. The next day
Pat was missing, hut a week later the
boss was passing through the shop and
he saw him again at his lathe. Going
up to the Irishman, he demanded
fiercely:
"Didn't you get my letter?"
"Yis, sur, Oi did." said Pat.
"Did you read it?"
"Sure, sur, Oi read it Inside and Oi
read it outside," said Pat, "and on the
inside yez said I was tired, and on the
outside yez said 'Return to Baldwin
Locomotive Works In five days.' "
AN EVENING THOUGHT
It is not much business that
distracts any man; but the want
of purity, constancy, and ten
dency towards God.—Jeremy Tay
lor.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
JERMYN DECLARES
FOR MR. PENROSE
Scranton's Reform Mayor Says
That the Senior Senator Will
Be Elected Again
MORRIS MAKES REMARKS
iSays That There Will Be No With
drawal by McCormick— Lee
Is Being Boomed
About the same time that J. Ben
jamin Dlmmlck, elected mayor of
Scranton on a Republican ticket sev
eral years ago, was declaring that h«.
would be a candidate for the Repub
lican nomination for United States
senator against Boies Penrose, E. B.
Jermyn, the nonpartisan reform mayor
of Scranton, was announcing that he
was for Penrose for re-election on the
ground that the State needs him.
Mr. Jermyn is a wealthy man, of
collegiate training, a leader in reform
movements in Lackawanna county for
years, and his recent activities in
cleaning up Scranton have attracted
national attention. He is one of the
keenest observers of politics in the
State and his declaration for Penrose
at the same time that Dlmmlck. who
will attract the support of J. Denny
O'Neil and men opposed to the Pen- i
rose domination, is the most significant
thing that has occurred in State poli
tics since Palmer and McCormick ,
threw off the mask and slated them- j
selves for Democratic nominations.
Mayor Jermyn, in a statement de
fining his attitude on the United States
senatorship, said:
"I am for Boies Pen
rose for re-election to
♦he United States Sen- Why Jermyn
ate. I believe that the Will Help
material welfare of the the Senator
..oupie of Pennsylvania
demands that he be
returned to that body, where he
wields great influence. I have no
doubt that he will be elected.
"Those Republicans who left the
Republican fold and supported the
Bull Moose ticket in 1912 are coming
home," declared Mayor Jermyn. "The
present Bull Moose party in
wanna county is like the Bull Moose
party nearly everywhere else, full of
sound and fury, but without the votes.
The third party men made the mis
take of believing that it was the Bull
Moose party that carried Lackawanna
county. It was Colonel Roosevelt,
whose great popularity with the
miners generally was recognized. The
miners gave him credit for settling the
coal strike and nearly all of them
voted for him. But Roosevelt is not a
candidate this year and there is little
left of the Bull Moose organization in
any of the counties of the hard coal
country. The bulk of the Roosevelt
vote next Fall will be cast for the Re
publican ticket. The Republicans of
Lackawanna and other counties of
Northeastern Pennsylvania as a rule
are for Penrose and I have no doubt
that he will carry Lackawanna county
and receive a big vote throughout the
anthracite country."
E. L. Guss, who defeated the re
organlzers' candidate for member of
the Democratic State committee last
year, much to the dis
may of the bosses, who
Juniata had set up another can-
Democrats didate. has taken the no-
Are Busy tion that fie will be a
candidate for re-election
as the member from
Juniata and his friends will become
active in his behalf after next week.
Mr. Guss is a well-known resident of
the county. Representative I. D. Mus
ser. who was elected on the Demo
cratic wave in 1912, will be a candi
date for re-election. Candidates men
tioned on the Republican side are
James Bergey and Dr. W. A. Rogers,
of Mifflin, and A. J. Sausman, ol'
Wnlker township.
Revenue Collector Fritz Klrkendall
has arranged that Representative John
T. Matt, of Bedford, shall not suffer
during his candidacy for
the senatorial seat from
the district in which he Klrkeiulall
lives and has Just named Hel|>s .John
him as a district deputy .Matt Along
tovenue collector. Just
what Congressman War
ren Worth Bailey, whom Matt
thrashed for the division chairman
ship, has to say on the matter is not
given out to-day. Bailey's thoughts,
like those of Justice Mestrezat, are to
be preserved for the future. Fritz also
named N. R. White as deputy at Wells
boro; W. C. Myton, at Altoona, and
Thomas A. Ruddy, of Scranton, all
being good reorganizers. William
T.,0 mtz, Chambersburg, and William
V. Davis, Edwardsville, have been
named to places in the Lancaster
office. The manner in which Harris
burg Is being Ignored Is worth noting.
Scoutmaster Roland S. Morris felt
called upon last night to announce
from his headquarters in Philadelphia
that Vance C. McCor
mlck would not retire
McCormiek from the race for Gov
to Remain ernor. There have been
in Fight rumors afloat in Phila
delphia and Pittsburgh
to the effect that fears
that the Ryan-McCormick fight would
so damage the ship as to cause a
wreck might result in a compromise.
No one knowing McCormiek ever ex
pected him to Quit, but the rumors
made entertaining reading and seem
to have disturbed Morris. The Phila
delphia Record says of the matter to
day: "While Mr. Morris and his
friends are opposed to McCormiek
withdrawing, this view Is not shared
by many up-State Palmer lieutenants,
who are urging the national commit
teeman to use his influence to have the
Harrlsburg man quit in the interest of
his own leadership. Numerous letters
from prominent Democrats have been
sent to Palmer urging him to back
Ryan for Governor and thus strengthen
his own candidacy for senator. Palmer
has been informed of the weakness of
MeC'ormick's candidacy and has been
urged to declare for Ryan in advance
of the primaries."
Congressman Robert E. Lee's promi
nence in the Philadelphia dock and
river contest and his personal popu
larity have caused a num- *
her of Eastern Pennsyl
vania Democrats to sug- Schuylkill
gest him as a compromise Democrat
candidate for the guher- Suggested
nutorial nomination. They
recognize that with McCor
miek and Ryan as candidates there
will be a fight that will not be
forgotten for a decade and which may
smash the party organization so that
Woodrow Wilson would not care to
even inspect the remains. Lee has
been spoken of from time to time, but
he has always insisted that he wanted
to remain in Congress. However,
A. Mitchell Palmer insisted the same
thing until the time was rlne for him
to get busy in another direction.
The Philadelphia Record. Demo
jcratlc, of to-day says: "Encouraged
by cheering reports from all sections
of the State predict
ins an overwhelm-
Itjan Boomers ing sentiment In fa-
W ill Makt; n vor of the nomina
lilvely Time tlon of the City So
licitor, the Ryan
Campaign Commit
tee is planning to start an old-fash
ioned whirlwind campaign in his in
terest. With organization perfected
in each of the 67 counties and with
more than half of the active Demo
cratic workers enrolled as participants
in the Ryan movement, members of
the committee stated yesterday that
the preliminary work was now In ex
cellent shape. Mr. Ryan is expected
to speak in all sections of the State,
and prominent Democrats will accom
pan- him upon these trips. Delega
tions from Cumberland, Lackawanna
and Blair counties visited the Ryan
headquarters yesterday and reported
a dearth of McCormick support in
their sections. In Lackawanna coun
ty it was found that the sentiment
among the Democratic voters is 5 to 1
in favor of Ryan."
Webster Grim, who was opposed by
Vance C. McCormick, when he ran
as the Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor in 1910 and who was undoubt
edly cut by many Democrats last Fall,
is a candidate for the new federal
Judgeship in Philadelphia. He was In
Washington yesterday to see about It.
B. F. Davis, one of the guillotine com
mittee of the reorganizers, Is also a
candidate and thinks the time for his
reward has come. There are four
candidates in Philadeplhla.
The official organ of the Pennsyl
vania Anti-Saloon League in Its ed
itorial this week declares that the
brewers and their allies have made al
legations against Vance C. McCor
mick, In which, among other things,
they charge that as an executor of an
estate he refused to lease tho Com
monwealth Hotel In Harrlsburg with
out a clause In the lease prohibiting
the sale of liquor on the premises;
that us Mayor of Harrlsburg he held
the "lid" down tight; that as owner
of a newspaper he advocates local op
tion and refuses to print liquor ad
vertisements, and that he declined to
support Webster Grim's Democratic
nomination foi Governor because he
held he was nominated with the old
of the liquor Interests.
iPOLincAifSiDefcisftrei
Ex-Governor Stuart made the ad
dress to tho Norrlstown High School
graduates last night.
James P. Gourly, former member
from Philadelphia, will bo a candi
date again. t
—Senator Penrose will present a
flag to Philadelphia commander, P. O.
S. of A., to-morrow night.
Secretary Houck's friends here
are Jubilant and will circulate peti
tions for him.
—The Central Club heard all about
the Panama Canal digging last night.
It's got a bigger Job to keep the peace
inside its own organization.
Oh, well, the Stroudsburg Demo
cratic Club is now for the slate and
the Central having gone on record
what's the use of making speeches.
The Philadelphia Ledger says
that McCormick does not believe that
elections are won by speeches and in
timates that he will not make many.
R. D. Irving, of Carlisle, is said to
be harboring aspirations for the
Democratic congressional nomination
here. How about it, Mr. Kaufman?
—Webster Grim has his nerve with
him to ask for the federal judgeship.
—Wonder how a list of those who
voted for Grim last Fall would look.
—East Greenville will have a special
election on a $23,000 loan.
Arthur G. Dewalt is one of our
busiest little speech makers now.
—C. A. Bowman has decided to run
for the Legislature In Lebanon after
all.
—Dimmick and Ainey will speak In
the northeast next week.
—Speaker Alter is very much in the
limelight for a State nomination just
now and is being urged for Lieuten
ant Governor. His western friends
are still booming him for Governor.
—Those Ryan campaigners make a
noise as though they had heard from
the country.
—The slating of Arthur McKean
calls attention to the fact that he is
secretary of the State Democratic
committee and another segment of
the inner circle.
—The scheme to slate Joe Guffey
for internal affairs must have been hit
by the blizzard.
—Some of the recent appointments
to federal jobs seem to have caused
the Ryan ranks to swell.
—Arthur Dunn, Scranton Progres
sive, says he thinks the fight in that
party will narrow down to Young and
Lewis.
—Flinn says he's top old to make
any political lights and that he's for
Pinchot.
Speech is but the broken light
upon the depth
of the unspoken.
—George Eliot.
I A-L 1 nommaej
Khe overheard her father say that he
would have to get new tiles for the
office, but she didn't see what use a
broker could have for such tools.
"TO OUR VALENTINE"
lly Wing Dinger.
You vunder vhy it shnowed so hard
Last night und all to-day,
Der story true, I'll tell to you,
If you'll attenshun pay.
You see, ve peeples on der earth,
Ven troubles come our vay,
Do liken dem unto der clouds
Und mean things 'bout 'em say.
Now clouds is mighty sensitive,
By golly, dey von't leave.
To kick und cuss vill make 'em mad,
For clouds ain't hard to peeve.
So ven mean things were said by folks,
Upon dis earth below,
Der clouds got busy right away
Und made a heap of shnow.
Und ven dey got enough In hand
To fill a great, big mine,
Dey dumped It on der earth und said:
"To our dear Valent'ne."
FEBRUARY 14,1914.
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SCHOOLS AS SOCIAL CENTERS
In the brief article that I contribute
this week on "Community Needs," I
shall endeavor to point out what I
feel is a duty that I feel that the
community owes to the individual.
Aside from providing adequate pro
tection—a primal prerequisite for so
ciety's well being—a still greater ob
ligation is imposed, by well regulated
effort to foster the things which will
bring untold good not only to the in
dividuals benefited but also to so
ciety itself. For the community owes
a duty to all who contribute to its
►maintenance. This applies to those
who share the burdens of its mate
rial and spiritual welfare.
The movement toward making the
"Schools as Social Centers" is seem
ingly an innovation of recent years.
Yet an acquaintance with American
history brings up the pleasant infor
mation that a former generation made
good use of the schoolhouses by not
confining the use merely for the in
struction of the young but for any
purpose whereby the community was
benefited.
To-day we figure things in dollar
and cents values. And when school
property is estimated, it is learned
that the schools do not pay adequately
for the Investment made. There must
not necessarily be retrenchment but
greater use of the school buildings.
To be explicit in several directions
—the move is now on foot for the use
of school buildings as polling places.
No better use could be made in get
ting citizens to fulfill one of the duties
of citizenship—the privilege of the
ballot. Decent, clean surroundings
should replace the makeshifts hith
erto utilized, and use of the school
buildings would be an instrumentality
to get adults occasionaly to visit the
places where "the guardians of the
community," the children, are being
equipped with the weapons for future
citizenship. The schools belong to the
community and the cost of rental of
poling places could readily be saved
to the taxpayers—a consideration
worthy to be thought, of.
Again the parent-teachers' organi
zations have locally been called into
existence. The purpose of their for
mation Is extremely praiseworthy.
They are voluntary organizations. The
way is shown how boards of school
directors can keep the school build
ings in constant use. At the evening
meetings there could be lectures on
civic duty, the care of the body, and
more especially could there be provi
sion for the instruction of the adult
immigrant. The move is on foot at
i the present time to stamp out illiter
acy in this country, and one of the
best agencies would be by using the
schoolhouse constantly, at night as
well as in the daytime.
Another most excellent use of the
school building whereby they can be
made to pay on their investments to
use some of them in rotation in the
summer time. There are children who
are backward and who would wel
come the opportunity to overcome
their deficiencies. Again there are
other children who for one reason or
other would be glad of an opportun
ity to advance more rapidly. Besides
there are teachers who would gladly
serve during, the heated season, teach
ing at least half a day and not ren
dering themselves less efficient for not
taking the entire time of the usually
long vacations, so that they might add
to their earning capacity. Our school
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FOLLOWING OUR EXAMPLE
I From the Pittsburgh Dispatch]
Bills are being prepared in both
New York and New Jersey for pre
sentation to the Legislatures for the
establishment in each State of a State
police force modeled upon that which
has been so successful in Pennsylva
nia. The unprotected condition of the
rural districts in both States and the
increase in the number of crimes in
isolated sections has provoked a pop
ular demand for the extension of the
protection of life and property en
joyed by the urban communities but
heretofore practically denied to the
rural population.
Misapprehension of the purpose of
the force responsible for what oppo
sition has been cultivated must be set
right by the report of the work of the
Pennsylvania force for the past year.
Not one arrest was made in that pe
riod for rioting. On the other hand
forty arrests were made for murder.
As Major Groomo pertinently says, the
measure of efficiency is not the ag
gregate of arrests but the proportion
of convictions, and 90 per cent, of
the arrests made in 1913 were fol
lowed by conviction. That is an indi
cation of the intelligence which, cou
pled with energy, has made the Penn
sylvania State police so effective in
protecting the public and in running
down offenders.
That New York and New Jersey
should now be about to follow Penn
sylvania's example, Ohio has similarly
been giving it consideration, shows
how it has been viewed outside. Ul
timately there is no doubt that some
such protective force will be estab
lished In every State because the coun
try districts will demand with justice
that they be given proportionately the
security of life and property assured
to the urban residents.
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