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SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. 2.
I
Oh send out thy light and thy truth;
4et them, lead me: let them bring me
unto thy holy hill, and to thy taber
nacles. —Ps. 43:8.
CIVIC CI,I B ACTIVITIES
DURING the coming winter the
Civic Club will outline its im
portant activities for the next
year and It may be assumed that tho
good work of these intelligent, publlc
■epirited women will broaden their
sphere of usefulness wherever pos
sible. Only those who have followed
the activities of the club realize how
rauch good it has done in many
ways. Much of the work has been
modest and along quiet lines where
only a few knew what had been ac
•complished, but throughout the years
the foundations of civic betterment
have been laid deep and what is being
done year after year will count
throughout the generations to come.
The Telegraph has endeavored to
eustain and support the Civic Club In
all its splendid .work and this,news
paper would be glad to have a-share
In the movement that has been sug
gested from time to time looking to a
thorough organization of the city for
the promotion of a more general cul
tivation of flowers and plants In win
dow and porch boxes. Harrisburg
can be made unique through a
widespread co-operation of all the
people and this co-operation may
easily be had through a general pro
gram that will invite the aid and sup
port of the people in all sections of
Harrisburg. It would not be difficult
for the leaders of the Civic Club to
block the city in such a way as to
form groups in every section, these
groups to have a simple organization
with officers to whom the members
would look for guidance in their work.
For instance, it would seem to be
comparatively easy to interest the
residents of a given territory in the
placing and planting of window and
porch boxes along harmonious lines.
In this way whole streets might be
decorated in such a manner as to at
tract the attention of all visitors and
create an interest in floral decoration
among our home people.
This would not Involve great expense
and would harmonize community ef
fort. Of course, the plans would
necessarily be worked out during the
winter so that with the opening of
Spring the boxes could be placed and
the flowers planted.
For several years the Telegraph
Building has been decorated from
top to bottom with boxes of flowers
on window ledges and these flowers
have attracted wide attention, having
been the subject of comment in a
nnmber of leading magazines through
out the country. The blocking of the
city for community co-operation would
not require much time and the several
subcommittees to supervise each block
could be chosen from among the goad
women of each locality.' These com- I
mittees could obtain the names of all
residents and obtain their aid in work
ing out a general plan of decoration.
It would be wise to treat each
block or consecutive blocks of houses
in harmonious fashion so as to obtain
the best results.
A "DRY" DISTRICT
OF all the judicial contests in the
State none is attracting more
general interest than the
district comprising Mifflin, Hunting
don and Bedford counties. Judge
Joseph M. Woods has been presiding
In this district for several years and
his record is one that appeals to the
people of the Juniata Valley.
Judge Woods is the first of the
State's Jurists to make an entire coun
ty dry and his Is the first district rtlth
more than one county to entirely
eliminate the licensed liquor business.
His district embraces 131 miles of
"dry" territory and the liquor interests
are now making a desperate effort to
defeat him at the November election
so that they may proclaim through
out the State and to the world that
the first. "drji" Judge in Pennsylvania
has been repudiated by the people at
the polls. It. is said that Judge Woods
has never known the taste of liquor
throughout his life and that* upon
principle be has endeavored to stamp
SATURDAY EVENING-
out the business wherever possible.
The interest in the contest has
spread beyond the immediate confines
of the three counties and the friends
of Judge Woods are concentrating
their forces In order to meet the on
slaught of the enemy from the out
side as well as the forces of liquor
within the district. Having served as
a State Senator from the Mifflin district
some years ago, Judge Woods is well
and favorably known throughout Cen
tral Pennsylvania, and It remains to
be seen whether the temperance peo
ple will overlook an opportunity to
defend one of their champions In an
open conflict.
It is expected that the annual meet
ing of the Chamber of Commerce at
th« Masonic Temple auditorium on
Munday evening will be one of the
most Important sessions of that body
during the present year. In addition
to the distinguished speakers, who Will
discuss topics of unusual Interest, there
will be an election of five directors and
other matters of much interest for all
the members.
THE GOVERNOR'S VIEWS
ALL Harrisburg will endorse the
views of Governor Brumbaugh
relative to the development of
the Capitol Park extension area as
expressed through the columns of t'Re
Telegraph yesterday. The Governor
went Into this important subject at
some length, but his thought on the
matter was summed up in the follow
ing closing paragraph of the inter
view :
I have in mind the greater Har
risburg of the future and the
greater Capitol of the years to
come, and these two interests
should be so wrought out as to give
to this city and to this Common
wealth the very finest setting for'
the Capitol building and the most
delightful park for the enjoyment
and enlightenment of the people
who reside here and who from time
to time come here.
That is precisely what Harrisburg
has had in mind ever since the incep
tion of the Capitol Park extension idea
and the people of the city are delighted
that there is in the gubernatorial chair
at this critical period a man of high
ideals and whose broad vision extends
oi't over the years that are to come
ond takes in a prospect of the city as
it ought to be.
The i Governor asks for the co
operation of the city, and he will have
it. He and the other members of the
Board of Public Grounds and Build
ings will find the Harrisburg Planning
Commission and Harrisburg people In
general with them heart and hand in
this great project.
One of the interesting suggestions
thrown out by the Governor is the
possibility of a union passenger station
fronting on the new park. Such a
depot has been talked of for years, but
has never got past the rumor stage.
If ever the plan is to mature, it must
be within the next two or three years.
The development of the park extension
must, be harmonious, and, as the Gov
ernor suggests, made along permanent
lines.
SOUTHERN POSSIBILITIES
A "POPULAR" vote has Just been
taken in South Carolina on a
subject of large local interest,
which is said to have induced "an ex
citing campaign." Yet only about
50,000 votes were cast, though South
Carolina has a population of a million
and a ha,lf and 335,000 men of voting
age. Even eliminating the colored
votes, as South Carolina does in de
fiance of the Federal Constitution,
there are more than 16 5,000 white
voters in the State. Yet less than one
tjiird of the electorate decides ques
tions for South Carolina.
Ultimately this little oligarchy
might decide questions for the nation,
because the small group who vote in
South Carolina might send two Sena
tors to Washington who would hold
the deciding votes on a question of
great Importance. The two Senators
from South Carolina are chairmen of
the important committees on naval
affairs and on immigration—so It is
evident how far the minority vote of
South Carolina now exerts an influence
on national problems.
WILSON AND THE TARIFF
PRESIDENT WILSON, we arc as
sured in dispatches from Wash
ington, plans a comprehensive in
vestigation by the government depart
ments of all points at which the In
terests of the industrial and financial
life of the United States may be
affected by the war in Europe. We
are further assured that means are to
be provided to prevent a flood of cheap
products from Europe on the Ameri
can market at. the end of the war.
Manifestly, President Wilson Is hav
ing his eyes opened to the defects of
Democratic tariff legislation and now
proposes to do what he can through a
Democratic Congress to readjust the
economic conditions so that the people
ol this country may not suffer further'
loss by an avalanche of the cheap
labor products of Europe.
Of course, everything will be blamed
on the war, but businessmen and
manufacturers and the army of Indus
trial workers of the United States will
not be deceived by any demonstration
at this time to conceal the real effects
of the free trade experiment.
Throughout the consideration of the
present tariff measure manufacturers
vainly endeavored to prevent the
adoption of schedules which were in
the interest of foreign manufacturers
and Importers and against the inter
ests of the United States. All the
theorists were given a full hearing,
while the men with experience had
the doors shut, in their faces. Now the
problem of preventing the flooding of
our markets by the dumping of ac
cumulated products of Germany and
other Industrial nations among the
belligerents after the declaration of
peace the President believes to be of
primary Importance. Most business
men will wonder why the flood gates
were not erected when the legislation
was under consideration. It may now
be too late. American producers and
American workingmen will be fortu
nate, Indeed, If they escape the results
of the Democratic experiment of free
trade which Involves the breaking
down of the protection wall that must
now be restored under the guise of an
economical readjustment by those nyho
were responsible for the trouble.
Perhaps the most favorable symp
tom of the whole matter is the fact
that President Wilson and his advisers
are willing now to admit that a great
mistake has been made and that
means must be taken to escape the
inevitable consequences.
1 TELEGRAPH'S P£RISCOPE~|
—Heaven is a place where news
papers are printed without typo
graphical errors.
It's strange but true that when the
political pot begins to boil somebody's
sure to get roasted.
—This "military touch" of "\vhlch
the fashion magazines are talking isn't
so new. For years and years women
have known how to make a rolling-pin
look more dangerous than a fourteen
inch gun.
—There will be some people heart
less enough to grin over the packing
house prediction that the war will
cause pork prices to go down to
' levels."
—What is it that makes a man hang
around when he thinks he may hear
somebody say things about him he
doesn't like to hear?
1 EDITORIAL COMMENT ~|
Seems to be a use for an international
marine police to protect inoffensive
submarines from malignant liners. —
Wall Street Journal.
The present waf will not only
change the map of Europe but also the
European conception of the map of
America.—Chicago Herald.
It's getting so nowadays that a near
sighted man can't tell the difference
between strict accountability and
watchful waiting.—Boston Transcript.
What has become of the man who
used to be always telling us that we
ought to train our diplomats like the
Europeans?— Charleston News and
Courier.
Some short sighted persons may re
joice at the successful demonstration
of science's power to make the human
volpe audible across a space of 4,600
miles; but the thoughtful will be ap
palled when at the opening of the
political campaign they consider the
Rossibilities of this dreadful gain.
ew York Sun.
It seems useless to expect an "agreed
statement of fact" from Paris and Ber
lin.—Kansas City Times.
FEAR OF THE I.ORD
BHIX«ETH KNOWLEDGE
Then shalt thou understand the fear
of the Lord, and'find the knowledge of
God. For the Lord giveth wisdom: out
of his mouth cometh knowledge and un
derstanding. He layeth up sound wis
dom for the righteous: he is a buckler
to theni that walk uprightly. He
keepeth the paths of judgment, and
preserveth the way of his saints. Then
shalt / thou understand righteousness,
and judgment, and equity; yea, every
good path.—Proverbs 11. 5 to 9.
A SMOKE REFLECTOR
A mirror arranged to show when |
a chimney is smoking Is one 4 of
the conveniences reecntly placed
in the yard of a large railroad shop
for the benefit of the firemen. In
stead of going out at frequent inter
vals to see if the ascending smoke is
likely to bring the company into diffi
culty, as well as to decrease tho
volume of heat produced, the firemen
simply glance through the window at
a mirror outside the bollerhouse.
.This enables them to accurately con
trol the amount of fuel and draft re- j
quired for a certain heat standard
which may vary with atmospheric
changes. ,
The mirror is 24x18 inches. Tt is
hinged at the top and attached to an
iron post at an angle of forty-five de
grees. so that it Is easily visible from
the firing room which Is sixty feet
long. Although the chimney is 155
feet high, any smoke rising from it is
perfectly reflected in the mirror.
FOREST LANDS NOW HELD
FOR ACTUAL SETTLERS
To prevent timber speculators from
Interfering with the settlement of the
land by real farmers, the government
is now" withholding from agricultural
entry all heavily timbered land In the
national forests, until after the tim
ber has been cut off. In each case the
land will he opened to entry as soon
as this is done, and settlers will be able
to acquire it from the government un
der the homesteam laws instead of
having to pay from S4O to S6O an acre
to speculators. The care that Is being
taken In classifying and disposing of
the forest lands is well illustrated in
the Kootenai Valley in Montana. Here
a large river winds for 150 miles
through the national forest. The val
lev Is heavily timbered, but except for
detached sections along the river it is
too rough or too thinly covered with
soil to be valuable for agricultural
purposes. Instead of opening the whole
vallev to settlement, the Forest Serv
ice lias painstakingly surveyed every
little river bottom, island, and bench
that contains enough arable land to
support a home, and only these will be
subject to entry. In this way more
than 300 small farms have been carv
ed out of the Kootenai national forest,
while the bulk of the valuable timber
land has been preserved for the nation
al governrpent. From the October
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
HEAVY EXCAVATION WITH
THE HYDRAULIC GIANT
Washing the dirt and boulders out
of the way with a Jet of water thrown
at high velocity from a hydraulic giant
is now recognized as one of the most
efficient methods for stripping the
earth from mineral deposits as well as
for many other kinds of heavy exca
vation. The hydraulic giant consists
simply of a tapering metal tube, or
nozzle, usually from six to eight feet
long, to which water is supplied un
der heavy pressure. It Is so mounted
that it ca nbe swung both horizontally
and vertically, a feature that makes it
possible to direct the jet at any point
in a big aren. The work done by the
hydraulic giant depends on the impact
of the water, and for this reason the
force exerted is a factor both of the
size of the Jet and the pressure un
der which the water is supplied. When
a Jet of water is thrown at high ve
locity from one of these machines It
has many of the qualities of a hard,
rigid bur. In tests made to determine
the hardness of Jets produced by heavy
pressure, attempts to cut through the
Jet with a sword have simply resulted
In the breaking of the blade. From
the October Popular Mechanics Ma
gazine.
UNPREPAREDNESS IN 1776
[Kansas City Star.]
"The game is pretty near up,"
Washington wrote to his brother In
the midst of the Revolution. It would
have been quite up If France had not
come to the aid of the American cause
In order to settle with England on its
own account.
The unpreparedness of the colonies
did not deter them from bringing on a
war which they were not equipped to
prosecute. Unpreparedness doesn't
prevent war. It makes it humiliating
!or prolongs 1L
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
""PoUttC* ot
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By the Er-Committeeman
The woman suffrage constitutional
amendment will begin to figure more
actively in State politics during the
coming week. In this city preparations
are being made to bring the issue
sharply before the voters during the
few weeks remaining of the campaign
and the State headquarters is a busy
place. Those who have given the mat
ter some thought believe that the
so-called "break of luck" is with'the
suffragists, as any organized effort to
defeat the suffrage might
Endanger the other two amendments
to be voted upon at the same time,
and there are very powerful interests
at work in favor of these two proposed
amendments and little or no objection
to them. Particularly fortunate, the
suffragists believe, is t-he fact that the
Philadelphia indebtedness provision 13
on the same ballot with the suffrage
amendment, which fact they believe
will result in the suffrage amendment
get-ting many votes it might otherwise
lose.
The newly formed Franklin party
of Philadelphia yesterday endorsed all
of the candidates of the Washington
party in that city. H. D. Allman was
named as manager of the Franklin
yparty campaign.
\ Alexaflder Simpson, Jr., and Thomas
S. Boyle were yesterday appointed
members of the Philadelphia board of
education. Mr. Simpson is law part
ner of Attorney General Francis Shunk
Brown. He will fill the vacancy caused
by the death of William T. Tilden, and
Mr. Boyle will succeed John Burt,
whose term expires in November.
Other members whose terms expired
were reappointed.
Harry Diamond, attorney for David
Johns, candidate for Allegheny county
prothonotary at the general primary
election September 21, went into court
in Pittsburgh yesterday afternoon and
asked that 140 ballot boxes from as
many districts in the county and city
be opened and the vote recounted.
This action followed the refusal of the
court to grant Johns' petition that
the order reopening the boxes in the
first six wards o? that city be annulled.
Johns' vote has shown a slight falling
off in, the recount of these wards. The
names of the election boards in whose
districts irregularities have been found
were given to the district attorney's
office in connection with a grand jurv
investigation that is to be instituted.
—Frank L. Dershem, of Lewlsburg,
one of the Democratic "lame ducks,"
has landed a. federal job. He got Into
Congress from the Seventeenth district
in the 1912 fight because of division
of opposing forces, but last year the
voters put him on an island. It la
understood his new job will be in
Philadelphia.
-Ex-Representative E. L. Wasson,
of Butler, was last night appointed by
Governor Brumbaugh as Butler coun
ty treasurer. He fills a vacancy caused
by death and the selection ends a
lively contest.
A PREACHER OF THE PLAIVS
[Kansas City Star.]
The Rev. Isaac Hosey, the cowboy
preacher who died the other day in
Depew, Okla., was one of the last of a
type of preachers who were the prod
uct of the old wild days of the back
woods, the frontier mining camps and
cow ranches. They were "fighting
parsons." No other kind could exist
on the border In those wild times.
Pete Cartwright, a Methodist- circuit
rider in the Middle West for fifty
years, was one of that type. He
preached fifteen, thousand sermons and
baptized twelve thousand persons in
Illinois. Kentucky and Tennessee in
an early day. He was a "fighting
parson" who used to leap across his
pulpit occasionally and whip a rough
disturber of his meeting. There were
many of those lighting parsons.
Ifi his youth Hosey was a cowboy
and as "rough as they make 'em." He
became sincerely converted and start- I
ed out to preach the gospel to the cow
boys of the plains. At first he follow
ed the advice of St. Paul to Timothy:
"And the servant of the Lord must
not strive; but be gentle unto all men,
apt to teach, patient."
Biit this did not well fit his case, for
the cowboys were in the habit of
shooting off their pistols while he was
preaching and thus breaking up his
meetings, and so Hosey sought for an
other Bible text that would justify him
in keeping order and found it, also in
St. Paul's advice to Timothy:
"Resist the devil, and he will flee
from you."
Hosey was seven feet tall and unus
ually powerful. He could "whip his
weight in wildcoats." In a cow camp
he would get up behind his pulpit,
often an upended feed box, open his
Bible, lay his long barreled 6-shooter
across the pages of the sacred Word
and say:
"Boys' this is my meeting, and I'm
going to run It. I've got a message
for you and I'd like for you all to stay
and hear It. If you don't want to hear
It and be peaceable, go now. for I sure
will make it hard sledding for the man
who starts anything here to-night.
Now let us pray."
He had many a fight, and he always
won. He was gentle as a woman, too,
and many stories are told of how ten
derly he nursed sick cowboys and of
what sacrifices he made In their be
half, for his religion was sincere and
he lived It as he knew it
The rough men of the plains came
to love him and he led thousands of
them to be better men. He was a good
soldier of the cross, he "fought a good
fight" and has gone to his reward.
Our Daily Laugh
i A LONG TIME.
Willie: Tou
| j once said you'd
U—jy \ love me till I was
an old man.
71Lulu: Yes, but
I never thought It
would take you
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What do you JL I /f
j think of these w
here "summer .
It's carrying I j .jj i
things prst/iy fur. I
CONTRARY WEATHER
By Hint; Dinger
Ain't no use in walking 'round, folks,
In your sliort length B. V. D.'s,
Wishing that 'twould get much warmer
And bring comfort to your knees.
Only way'to change the weather
Is to don the heavyweight,
I Then the mercury will fly up.
in the shade, to ninety-eight. i
American Girl Drives an Auto in the War Zone
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MRS. BARTLETT BODER .
Mrs. Bartlett Boder, an American, has just come back from the war in
Prance, where she drove auto ambulances under fire. When she has rest
ed time she will go back to the front.
"* can't keep away," she said. "It. is all so fascinating, the soldiers in
uniforms, the gay bands, the great camps, the air of expectancy for
whatever the day may bring."
Mrs. Boder is twenty-six and an athlete. When the war broke out
she was living in France but went immediately to England to offer her
86 wi! v S 48 a m °t° r ambulance driver. She wears the regulation khaki suit,
w| th and an army coat when in servi'e.
"I have ben as far front as any woman dares go," she announced en
thusiastically. "I have been to the base hospitals in Rouen and Boulogne,
v. e carr 'ed wounded soldiers from the battle front to the hospitals, but
the thing X want to do most is to drive the great army trucks that carry
provisions to the men. I could do it, too, just as well as any 'Tommy," only
it takes the red-taped British Government so long to get it through its
funny English head!
'Why, we women who really want to do things actually have had to beg.
The Englishmen didn't want us at. firsst. They said very politely but firmly
that we 'butted in.' Now they are beginning to rteed us, and I expect to join
a contingent and see actual service at the front immediately on my return.
"Several women I know have been decorated by the king of the Bel
gians for conspicuous bravery. I —l guess I'd rather have that happen to
me than anything else I can think of."
THE NA VAL RESERVE
By Frederic J. Haskin
THE Navy Department has just
completed its arrangements for
the development of a reserve of
men who have had service and upon
whom It may fall back in time of
war. Within a few weeks an active
campaign will be inaugurated which,
it is expected, will result in from 20,-
000 to 30,000 men who have sailed the
seas on American battleships signing
up with the department that they may
be subject to call If the great emer
gency should present itself.
Legislation that makes this possible
was passed at the last session of Con
gress. For six months now the man
who retires from the navy has had
I the opportunity of joining the reserves,
and receiving a long line of benefits.
But only a hundred men have come
forward.
Admiral Victor Blue, chief of the
Bureau of Navigation of the Navy, Is
in charge of the upbuilding of the
naval reserve, and has recently set
about finding out why It is not grow
ing more rapidly. With 25,000 eligi
ble former navy men scattered about
the country, and with nearly a thou
sand of them retiring from the ser
vice every month, there must be some
reason for the failure of the reserve
to develop Into handsome proportions.
Admiral Blue has been looking for
that reason, has found it. and Is sup
plying the remedy.
The law which Congress passed cre
ating the naval reserve provided that
members of It may in time of peace be
required to perform a month of ser
vice each year. The law said "may"
and not "must." This left the matter
of such service at the discretion of the
Navy Department. When the depart
ment sought for the reason of the
nonenllstment of retiring men in the
reserve It found that they were averse
to tying themselves up so that they
might be required at any time to leave
their civilian jobs and render a period
of service. That might mean the loss
of their positions. This stumbling
block is to be remedied by a ruling of
the department. It Is soon to an
nounce that reserves will be called
upon only In time of war.
Can't Locate Them
Of all those youngsters who have
passed through one or two enlist
ments, and have then left the service,
the department has the address of but
a handful. When they left their ships
they gave addresses to which mail
should be sent, but those addresses
were usually temporary. When the
department wrote thtm \hat Congress
had create' a naval reserve*which of
fered them regular stipends of money,
and a chance for active service In case
of war, nearly all of the letters came
[The State From Day to Day j
Wilkes-Barre Is about ready to put
the new Jitney ordinance into effect,
though the owners of the same are
fighting strenuously against It. One
of the features of the ordinance Is the
required filing of ,a bond amounting
to $2500 or casualty insurance double
that amount.
The big Lancaster County Fair at
tracted on Thursday sixty thousand
people, the greatest crowd ever gath
ered at an agricultural exhibition In
that county.
Undying fame has come to a Johns
town boy who performed the much
to-he-envied feat of ripping the pants
from the president of the Sophomore
clans at the University of Pennsylvania
In the famous annual "bowl tight." The
Sophomore president is surrounded by
hundreds of his class and the Freshles
attack him with the full intent of re
moving the garments mentioned.
OCTOBER 2, 1915
back. Uncle Sam had taken no plains
to keep in touch with his efficient and
well-trained fighting men.
So the department has set about its
double task to correct the impression
that reserves may be taken away from
their tasks in time of peace, and of
finding those who have left the ser
vice. Admiral Blue has in course of
preparation a letter which is to be
handed each man with his honorable
discharge. It will set forth the many
advantages of becoming a member of
the reserves. He is arranging a pub
licity campaign which will seek to ac
quaint the men already out of the ser
vice with the advisability of joining
the reserves.
Thatt conditions may be made so ad
vantageous to the man on the reserve
list that almost no discharged man
will fail to maintain his position upon
it, each is given the privilege of re
signing at any time he sees fit. So
is it arranged that under no condi
tion will a membership in the reserve
necessarily interfere with any career
upon which a former navy man might
embark.
Advantages Are Many
The incidental advantages to the
men are numerous. If they enlist in
the reserve and at any time later in
life want to return to active service
they get all the advantages of a con
tinuous service record which otherwise
would have been broken into by the
period of private life. Spscial oppor
tunities are offered for these naval re
serve men to win commissions as offi
cers in the lower grades, the depart
ment being Impressed with the advan
tage of having a long list of eligible
men of this sort in case of war.
But there are even more practical
advantages than these to the dlscharge
ed men who Join the naval reserves.
The Bureau of Navigation has recently
been assured by two large manufac
turing organizations that, they have
positions open for hundreds of men.
and that they would be ready at any
time to give the preference to honor
ably discharged men of the navy who
are members of the reserve. These of
fers came unsolicited, and suggest to
the Bureau of Navigation the possibil
ity of placing members of the reserve
in good positions. It has been defi
nitely decided that this securing of
employment for the members will be a
feature of the work.
The terms of the service have been
made so easy, and offer so many prac
tical advantages, that it is expected
few will retire hereafter without
pledging themselves to serve In time of
war. So may twenty or thirty or forty
thousand thoroughly trained men
eventually stand as an Important as
set to the nation in case the great
emergency should arise.
Harry Rose, of Johnstown, w«b the
first to reach him.
"There is profound dissatisfaction
among the parents because In the
eight minutes which the teacher can
give to each pupil, she does not give
them all a liberal education," is the
editorial comment of the Erie Times,
in speaking of the school situation
there.
The State Health Department pre
sents statistics showing that in the
month of June there were two births
to each death in this State. This Is a
fine tribute to the medical profession
as well as to those who appreciate
their responsibility to humanity.
GODCHABIiES AT HOME
Ex-Senator Godcharles has many
friends in the West Branch Valley who
would be pleased to hear of his ap
pointment to a high place In the State
service. If the announcement is made
this week, as Is said to be the plan,
these will feel assured that the ap
pointment Is one made on merit ss well
as availability. Willlamport Sun.
j Stoning fltyat |
The Jalk of the Harrlsburg school
district this week In the efforts made
by the teachers of the Penn building
whereby they were able to report for
the school demonstration of last Fri
day with 100 per cent, present. The
pupils of this school building: are '
mainly of foreign birth or fortfc?n
parentage. There are Russian and
Hungarian Jews. Germans, Hungar
ians, Austrians, Servians, Roumanians,
ttussians, Italians, Bulgarians and
many more, not to mention one little
iellow whose nationality is very much
or a mystery, none of the teachers
having been able to find out from
where he does hail.
A large number of the families are 1
poor, so poor indeed that the children
are ill-fed, poorly clothed and ta
some cases very dirty. Their cloth,
ing is nondescript and corresponds >
with their general condition. But for
all that there are no brighter children
In the city schools than these little
aliens who are being trained by Miss
Maude Gamble and her corps of de
voted teachers to be good American
citizens. They are ambitious to get
along in their studies, for the most
part and their parents are quite as
solicitous in this respect as the little
folks themselves.
So it wal that when the order
went forth for the school demonstra
tion it was hailed with delight by the
boys and girls of the Penn building <
and with terror by Miss Gamble and
her assistants. How to get all of the
girls garbed in white and the bovs
togged out in clean white shirtwaists
they did not know. Many of the lit
tle ones, it was suspected, did not
have such garments and others who
did have them would not present the
immaculate aspect demanded by the
school regulations. So the teachers
made a careful canvas and where the
children had no white clothes of the
kind required the teachers either in
duced the parents to invest therein '
or where they were too poor the teach
ers themselves did the buying.
In addition they collected the soiled
little skirts and the spotted little waists
and took them home with them and
many were the washboards that were
busy and the irons that were hot in
the homes of the teachers the night
previous to the great demonstration.
Some of the young women worked un
til far after midnight playing laund
ress in order that their pupils might
be spotlessly clad. When the lines
formed next morning the Penn build
ing's delegation was so clean that it
was next door to heavenly. Never
had it smelled so sweetly of starch
and soap and so little of perspiration.
It simply radiated cleanliness. Spot
less Town never had anything on the
Penn school pupils as they looked
that day.
But there was one fly in the oint
ment. One little fellow turned up
with a dirty white sweater covering
a very ragged black shirtwaist. (
"You cannot march that way." ad
monished a teacher. "Run home and
get your white shirt."
"I can't wailed the boy," beginning
to sob in his disappointment. "I want
so much to go in the parade, so I put
on this white sweater I borrowed,
'cause I have no white shirt. Won't
it do?" •
The teacher said it wouldn't, but
among her fellows she raised the
price of a white shirtwaist and the
parade was held up ten minutes wlule
the purchase was made and the lifht*, ,
fellow garbed in his new finery. That's
the way it happened that Penn build
ing had 100 per cent, of its pupils in
line and there are those who believe
that had the facts been known to the <
judges Penn would have been award
ed a prize.
* • •
The cleaning up preparatory to in
spection which has been under way on
the Pennsylvania railroad has nothing
on the State's highways throughout the
State. Men connected with the State
Highway Department are working
daily all over the Commonwealth to
get the roads into shape for winter
and some of the busiest are right near
this city. The Riverside has been put
into apple pie order and roads lead
ing to Gettysburg and out the Cum
berland Valley are being taken caro
of in the same way.
** * >
The State will call no more forestry
reserves after its governors. The num
ber of new reserves does not bid as
fair to hold up as does the list of
governors. Years ago when the State
started out to accumulate its more
than a million acres of forest re
serves and to buy back what it had
given away the plan was devised of
honoring governors by naming re
serves in their honor. In recent years
reserves were named for William A.
Stone in the northern part of the
State, for Samuel W. Pennypacker
in the Juniata Valley and for Edwin
S. Stuart in the Ligonier region. When
John K. Tener came in he saw that
reserves were growing short and as
most of the purchases were for addi
tions to those existing he suggested
abolishing the plan. No further nam- .
ing has been done.
VEIL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Fred T. Chandler, Philadelphia
broker, is making arrangements for
a big banquet to the winning Phila
delphia team.
—George W. Guthrie, American am
bassador tg Japan, will be the Presi
dent's personal representative at the
coronation of the Mikado.
—W. H. Donner, active man in
Pennsylvania and Cambria Steel, has
taken a residence in Philadelphia.
—C. D. Barney, Philadelphia bank
er, has returned from Put in Bay on
Lake Erie, his summer home.
-Ex-Governor Pennypacker, who
appeared in court with his arm in a
sling, insists he will return to his
duties this coming week.
—Walter Wood. Philadelphia iron
man, is a vice-president of the Amer
ican Foundrymen's Association.
1 DO YOU KNOW •
That hundreds of people from .
distant counties are visiting the,
State Capitol on special excur
sions?
HISTORIC HARRJSBIJRG
The site of Lochiel furnace used u,
be an Indian camp.
GIANT WAR HAWK OF THE
GERMAN AERIAL CORPS
War correspondents are describing
the appearance in northern France
of a German "battle aerqplane" of the
dual-tractor, twin-engine type which
has all but driven its enemy from the
sky. A page view of this great ma
chine is a feature of the October Popu
lar Mechanics Magazine. It is a bi
plane of 70-ft. wing spread. It has
two separate fuselages, in each of
which is installed a 100-horsepower
motor, and between these an armored
nacelle which mounts machine guns.
It maintains a six-nour patrol safely 4
out of firing range at a height vary
ing between 4,000 and 8,000 ft. While
awaiting the appearance of prey it
sweeps the sky in broad circles. Then
It swoops down like a hawk and siics
battle.