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An Open Letter to the
In issuing his campaign literature as
a candidate for the House of Repre
sentatives, one of the candidates for
this office .from the City District, has
accused me of taking a fling at the
Holy Bible, as he terms it, during the
last session of the Legislature. I feel
that in justice to myself I should re
sent this accusation and explain my
position to the public in reference to
this matter.
During the session of the Legisla
ture of 1913, being at that time by
your grace a member of the lower
House from the City District, a bill
was introduced in that Body, provid
ing that every Public School Teacher
throughout the State be compelled to
read ten verses from the Bible each
morning without comment, no provi
sion being made therein as to what
Bible or what portion of the Bible
should be read, leaving it optional
with the teacher of each class to read
that version of the Bible that appealed
to his or her particular religious be
lief. Many addresses were made dur
ing the deliberation against the Bill
on this account. It was argued that
in view of the fact that all the differ
ent religious sects being represented
in a public school that the reading of
a certain version of the Bible by the
teacher would cause religious dissen
tion among the parents of the children
believing in another version of the
Good Book. Our forefathers in form
in- the Constitution of these United
States in their wisdom, provided that
every man shall have the right to wor
ship the Lord according to the dictates
of his own conscience. As the public
schools are public property, maintain
ed at the expense of all the people ir
r spective of creed or sect, it was con
tended that certain portions of the
Bible, that do not conflict with the re
ligious belief of the various creeds rep
sented in the public schools, should
be designated in the measure that it
was un-American and unfair in the
shape in which it was presented. This
argument appealed to me to be just.
I have always been a firm believer in
Commisions Need
More Time to Work
Out Great Problems
Members of the State Engineers'
Commission, which was named to con
sider provisions of a proposed code for
licensing of engineers engaged in con
structing or operating hazardous
works, will take up consideration of
the testimony secured at the hearings
recently held in Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh and Harrisburg and determine
whether to ask an extension of the
time for reporting. Under the terms
of the act creating the commission
the report was to have been submit
ted to the Governor this Fall, hut so
many matters have arisen in the in
vestigation of the problem that addi
tional time may be asked of the Legis
lature.
The State Commission to draft a
building code, which was given an
extension of time to complete its work
by the assembly of 1913, will shortly
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Joshua W. Swar
FOR
REPRESENTATIVE
FIRST LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT
HARRISBURG, PA.
Your Vote and Influence Will Be Appreciated.
SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 31, 1914.
Public
the injunction of the Master who said
"render ye unto Caesar the things that
are Caesar's and unto God the things
that are God's." At the time Christ
uttered these words Caesar was the
State and I believed that he had in
mind the separation of Church and
State. The public schools being a
thing of the State I believed it to be
best that nothing of a sectarian nature
should enter into them, excepting the
reading of the Lord's Prayer, the
Psalms or the Proverbs. In casting
my vote against the Bill as it stood. I
had absolutely no thcught of discredit
ing the Good Book. On the contrary
I have the highest regard for the
same, and I try hard to live up to its
precepts. I believe that when the Bible
is read or taught it should be done
with the reverence due to the Good
Book in the proper place, the Home,
the Church and the Sunday School,
and that to the youth In particular it
should be thoroughly explained. I
might say that I am a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
Knights of Pythias, the Loyal Order
of the Moose and the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks, the basic
principle of each being the Holy
Bible. I would surely be an inconsis
tent member if I failed to accept Its
precepts. Marcus Antonius In opening
his address over the body of Caesar,
said, "the evil that men do lives after
them; the good often is interred with
their bones." So it appears to be with
all public men, their many good deeds
are easily forgotten and their errors
are charged against them with In
terest.
In conclusion I might call the at
tention of my detractors to a quota
tion from St. Paul who said, "though
I speak with the tongues of Men and
of Angels and I have not charity I am
like sounding brass or a tinkling
cymbal."
Respectfully yours,
Augustus WLdman
submit its report. This commission
plans to issue drafts of Its proposed
act and to Invite constructive criti
cism. The code will govern the erec
tion of many types of buildings
throughout the State and is declared
by E. A. Weimer. of Lebanon,
chairman, to be the most compl«
the kind in the country. Parti.
attention has been paid to safety, lire
risks and health protection.
Japanese Bombard
Forts at Tsing Tan
Tokio, Oct. 31, 2.30 P. M.—The navy
department announces that the Japa
nese squadron, assisted by English
warships and masked by a mist, ap
proached and vigorously and effectively
bombarded the forts at Tsing-Tau on
October 29. Some of the defense works
were destroyed and on the next day
the bombardment was repeated. Only
the kaiser's northeast fort replied to
the bombardment. The funnel of a
gunboat was shattered by the Japa
nese shells.
THE LAST SHOT
By FREDERICK PALMER
c«»7rt«kt UH fcr Ckarlc* Sou.
[Continued]
"We have . a now
premier," he said. "Tho old premier
was killed by a shot from a crowd that
he was addressing from the balcony of
the palace. After this, the capital be
came quieter. As we get in touch with
the divisions, we find the army in bet
ter shape than we had feared it would
be. There is a recovery of spirit,
owing to our being on our own soil."
"Yes," replied Westerling, drowning
In their stares and grasping at a straw.
"Only a panic, as I said. If —" his
voice rising hoarsely and catching In
rage.
"We have a new government, a new
premier!" Turcas repeated, with Arm.
methodical politeness. Westerling
looking from one fact to another with
filmy eyes, lowered them before Bou
chard. "There's a room ready for
Your Excellency upstairs," Turcas con
tinued. "The orderly will show you
the way."
Now Westerling grasped the fact
that he was no longer chief of staff.
He drew himself up in a desperate
attempt at dignity; the staff saluted
again, and, uncertainly, he followed
the orderly, with the aide and valet
■till in loyal attendance.
Two figures were in the doorway:
a heavy-set market woman with a
fringe of down on her lip and a cadav
erous, tidily dressed old man, who
might have been a superannuated
schoolmaster, with a bronze cross won
in the war of forty years ago on his
breast and his eyes burning with the
youthful fire of Grandfather Fraglni's.
"They got the premier In the capi
tal. We've come for Westerling! We
want to know what he did with our
sons! We want to know why he was
beaten!" cried the market woman.
"Yes," said the veteran. "We want
him to explain his lies. Why did he
keep the truth from us? We were
ready to flght, but not to be treated
like babies. This is the twentieth
century!"
"We want Westerling! Tell Wes
terling to come out!" rose Impatient
shouts behind the two figures in the
doorway.
"You are sure that he has one?"
whispered Turcas to Westerling's aide.
"Yea," was the choking answer—
"yes. It is better than that" —with a
glance toward the mob. "I left my
own on the table."
"We can't save him! We shall have
to let them —"
Turcas's voice was drowned by a
great roar of cries, with no word ex
cept "Westerling" distinguishable,
hat pierced every crack of the house
A wave of movement starting from
the rear drove the veteran and tht
market woman and a dozen others
through the doorway toward the
stairs. Then the Bound of a shot was
heard overhead.
"The man you seek fs dead!" said
Turcas, stepping in front of the crowd
his features unrelenting In authority
"Now. go back to your work and leave
us to ours."
"I understand, sir," said the veteran
"We've no argument with you."
"Yes!" agreed the market woman.
"But if you ever leave this range alive
we shall have one So, you stay!"
Looking at the bronze cross on th«
veteran's faded coat, the staff saluted;
for the cross, though It were hung on
rigs, wherever It went was entitled
by custom to the salute of officers and
"present arms" by sentries.
After Lanstron's announcement to
the Brown staff of his decision not to
cross the frontier, there was a rest
less movement in the chairs around
the table, and the grimaces on most
of the faces were those with which a
practical man regards a Utopian pro
posal. The vice-chief was drumming
on the table edge and looking steadily
at a point in front of his fingers. If
Lanstron resigned he became chief.
"Partow might have this* dream be
fore he won, but would he now?"
asked the vice-chief. "No. He would
go on!"
"Yes," said another officer. "The
world will ridicule the suggestion; our
people will overwhelm us with their
anger. The Grays will take It for a
sign of weakness."
"Not if we put the situation rightly
to them," answered Lanstron. "Not
if we go to them as brave adversary
to brave adversary, in a fair spirit."
"We can —we shall take the range!"
the vice-chief went on in a burst of
rigid conviction when he saw thai
opinion was with him. "Nothing can
stop tills army now!" He struck the
table edge with his fist, his shoulders
stiffening.
"Please —please, don't!" Implored
Marta softly. "It sounds so like Wes
terllng!"
The vice-chief started as if he had
received a sharp pin-prick. His shoul
ders unconsciously relaxed. He began
a fresh study of a certain point on the
table top. Lanstron, looking first at
one and then at another, spoke again,
his worcfs as measured as they ever
had been in military discussion and
eloquent. He began outlining his own
message which would go with Partow's
to the premier, to the nation, to every
regiment of the Browns, to the Grays,
to the world. He set forth why the
Browns, after tasting the courage of
the Grays, should realize that they
could not take their range. Partow
had not taught him to put himself in
other men's places In vain. The boy
who had kept up h4s friendship with
engine drivers after he was an office!
know how to sink the plummet Into
Autuan emotions. He reminded the
Brown soldiers that there had been a
providential answer to the call of
"Ood with us!" he reminded the peo
ple of the lives that would be lost to
no end but to engender hatred; he
begged the army and the people not
to break faith with that principle of
[ "Not for theirs, but for ours," which
had been their strength.
"I should like you all to sign It —to
make It simply the old form of 'the
staff has the honor to report,'" he said
finally.
There was a hush as he finished —
the hush of a deep impression when
one man waits for another to speak.
All were looking at him except the
vice-chief, who was still staring at the
table as if he had heard nothing. Yet
every word was etched on his mind.
The man whose name was the symbol
of victory to the soldiers, who would
be more than ever a hero as the news
of his charge with the African Braves
traveled along the lines, would go on
record to his soldiers as saying that
they could not take the Gray range.
This was a handicap that the vice
chief did not care to accept; and he
knew how to turn a phrase as well as
to make a soldierly decision. Ho
looked up smilingly to Marta.
"I have decided that I had rather
not be a Westerllng, Miss Galland,"
he said. "We'll make It unanimous.
And you," he burst out to Lanstron —
"you legatee of old Partow; I've al
wayß said that he was the biggest mai
of our time. He has proved It b
catching the spirit of our time and in
carnating it."
Vaguely, in the whirl of her joy.
Marta heard the chorus of assent a.'
the officers sprang to their feet In the
elation of being at one with their chiel
again. Lanstron c&ught her arm, fepr
ing that she was going to fall, but s
burning question rose In her mind t<
steady her.
"Then my shame—my sending mr
to slaughter—my sacrifice was not i
vain?" she exclaimed.
• •*••••
The sea of people packed In th
great square of the Brown caplt;
made a roar like the thunder of wavf
against a breakwater at sight of
white spot on a background of gra
stone, which was the head of an emi
nent statesman.
"It looke as if our governmer
would last the week out," the premi<
chuckled as he turned to his colleagui
at the cabinet table.
AB yet only the brief bulletins whos
publication in the newspapers ht
aroused the public to a frenzy hn
been received. The cabinet, as eagr
for details as the press, had remaino
up, awaiting a fuller official account.
"We have a long communication ir
preparation," the staff hr d telegraphed
"Meanwhile, the following is submr
ted."
"Good heavene! It's not from th
army! It's from the grave!" e?
claimed the premier as he read th
first paragraphs of Partow's message
"Of all the concealed dynamite ever!
he gasped as he grasped the full mean
lng of the document, that piece o:
news, as staggering as the victory it
self, that had lain In the staff vault
for years. "Well, we needn't give i;
out to the press; at least, not until
after mature consideration," he d(
clared when they had reached the em
of Partow's appeal. "Now we'll heai
what the stafT has to say for itself
after gratifying the wish of a dead
man," he added as a messenger gave
him another sheet.
"The stafT. in loyalty to its dead
leader who made victory possible, and
In loyalty to the principles of defense
for which the army fought, begs to
aay to the nation—"
It was four o'clock In the morning:
when this dispatch concluded with
"We heartily agree with the forego
lng," and the cabinet read the names
of all the general stafT and the corps
and division commanders. Coursing
crowds In the streets were still shout
ing hoarsely and somwlmes drunken
ly: "On to the Gray capital! Noth
ing can stop us now!" The premier
tried to imagine what a sea of faces
in the great square would look like
In a rage. He was between the peo
ple In a passion for retribution and a
headless army that was supposed to
charge across thf " dawn.
[To BR Continued]
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GOOD GOVERNMENT RALLY '
In Chestnut Street
HON. A. MITCHELL PALMER
HON. VANCE C. McCORMICK
And Others Will Speak-—Everybody Welcome j
i 'A raLli l I ; i ....
Former Tech. Star I
Competes With Penn i
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E. A. FISHER—PENN-STATE |
ormer Tech Athlete in To-day's
Cross-country Run Against Penn
Penn-State to-day competed with
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! Wnßhington Party Nominee For
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
from the
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DON'T FORGET FOR REPRESENTATIVE
_ Democratic Ticket
Jesse J. Lybarge
HE STANDS FOR if •
Local Option-Workingmen's Com
pensation-Child Labor Prohibition v
HE WILL DEFEND THE HOLY BIBLE Jf '
6- NEVER UPHOLD THE RU lfg|l
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University of Pennsylvania In the an
nual cross-country run at Slate Col
lege. On the Penn-State team Is Earl
Fisher, a former Tech star, who Is
now In his senior year and has com
peted successfully In a number of
marathons.
The contest to-day Is the only one
between Penn-State and the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania. The team to go
up against Penn was selected after
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| Our Next Congressman j]
DAVID L. KAUFMAN
* < >
The only nominee for Con
gress who stands in with the
administration at Wash
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ington, and therefore, the
only one who can be of any
service to us.
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>— For Representative in the
General Assembly '
/JT % FIRST DISTRICT
W- H Augustus Wildman
\ WS/ 1 pledge myself that If elected, I will sup
\ M**- i P or ' only such legislation as is to the best in
\JPf terest of the people.
i YOUR SUPPORT KINDLY
SOLICITED
many trial races over the hills and
mountains in the vicinity of State Col
lege. The race to-day will be flv«
miles and will start and finish at Bea
ver Field. The Penn-State team will
Include:
R. S. Humble. "17; W. C. Schroeder,
*l6; E. E. Hunter, 'l7; T. L. Entwlqle,
'l6; A. E. Fisher, 'ls; L. M. Batten,
'l7; C. R. Texter, 17.