10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established IS3I PUBLISHED BT THE TELEURAFH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK POLK President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Tlegraph Building, 216 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern OfTlce. Fifth Avenue Building. New York City. Hasbrook. Story A Brooks. ■Western OfTlce. Advertising Building. Chicago. 111., Robert E. Ward. Delivered by carriers at <rtnroMa?mmr> six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dally average circulation foi the three months riding Oct. 31, 1915. ★ 21,357 ★ Ateti*f for the year 1014— 21.53S Avenge for the year I#lS—lD.'" Avenge for the year 1012—10.049 Average for the year 1811—1T.5A- Average for the year 1910—10,261 The above flarores are net. Alt re turned. tinaold and damaged copies de ducted. TUESDAY EVENING. NOV. 16. When I am very weary I do not try to pray: I only shut my eyes, and icait To hear what God will say; Such rest it is to wait for him As comes no other way. Alice E. Worcester. CITY PLANNING CITY planning is something more than mere esthetic idealism. Such men as Warren H. Manning and the members of the City Planning Commission of Harrisburg are giving lull consideration to the practical side of planning and as a result this city will be a still better place in which to live as time goes on. There is 110 groping In the dark here. Harris burg has passed through the experi mental stages. Intelligent expert ad vice and intelligent co-operation of officials have together brought about a situation which is at once inspiring and which holds great promise for the future. Here the planning contemplates not only wider highways, more detached houses and better civic conditions gen erally. but It also involves more con sideration of housing conditions and 'better homes for those of humble means. To-night Warren H. Manning will demonstrate in the hall of the House of Repesentatives some of the things which are contemplated for Harris burg, and as he has had a big part in what has already been accom plished. what he may say will come •rs from one speaking with authority. Throughout the Juniata Valley there is great interest in the proposed Wil liam Penn Highway, which will paral lel the Lincoln Highway that covers the Bedford route. Already long stretches of the William Penn High way have been constructed in perma nent shape and the co-operation of au tomobile associations and boards of trade and citizens generally will result in a splendid highway through the most picturesque region of Pennsylva nic - > WAR PROFITS FINANCIAL experts are of one mind respecting the abnormal profits of the industrial concerns now benefiting from the extraordin ary war orders of the belligerents. These experts believe that before there is any extra contribution to stockhold ers in the shape of increased dividends there should first be a paying off of floating debts so that the financial position of these companies may be strengthened against the day when there will be a resumption of foreign competition in the world's markets. It is significant that the United States Steel Corporation last week de ferred "a resumption of dividends on the common stock, evidently playing on the safe side until the war situa -1 ion has cleared somewhat. When It is shown that the probable total (surplus of the big steel concern for the calendar year will exceed $52,- 000,000 —more than 10 per cent, on the common stock—the policy of the corporation is easily understood. There is a general disposition to , withhold dividends until such time as there shall be a more permanent ad justment of values and less uncer tainty concerning the future business outlook. Gambling in Wall street amounts to nothing save as an indi cation of returning confidence and a general tendency toward the resump tion of business in all lines. Activities are manifest in many di rections and the conservative influ ences, which, after all. should domi nate the situation, must exercise a re straining hand upon the skyrockety tendencies of the thoughtless and tarelees element of the population. Governor Brumbaugh was a central figure in the interesting Arbor Day ex ercises held at old Derry Church last Saturday. He assisted in the planting of a considerable number of trees and made an inspiring address. This church U one of the landmarks of Presby terianlsm in this section of Pennsyl vania, and for years the place has been maintained by the congregation as a ► hrlne to which not only those of the neighborhood go to worship, but . many TUESDAY EVENING, from a distance. The planting of young trees on Saturday is an evidence of the interest which' is felt In the environ ment of the old church. CAPITOL PARK EXTENSION WARREN H. MANNING, the dis tinguished Boston landscape designer, who has done so much in the making of the new Har risburg. will be the guest of honor this evening at a dinner to which Gover nor Brumbaugh has invited the mem bers of the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings, the Capitol Park Ex tension Commission, the City Plan- ning Commission, the members of the City Council and the Mayor and Mayor-elect. This dinner will precede the important meeting in the House of Representatives which will be ad- dressed by Mr. Manning, who will out line the relation of the city to the State in the further development of the Capitol Park area, especially that part east of the Capitol which is now being cleared for the enlargement of the public grounds. Mr. Manning has given intelligent study to this problem and is probably better qualified to harmonize the land scape designing of the State and the city than any other expert who might be engaged for this work. Harrisburg has done a great deal in providing a proper and dignified setting for the imposing structure on Capitol Hill; it remains now for the Commonwealth, through its official*, to co-operate in the dignified treatment of the property now passing under the control of the State. Fortunately for both the municipal ity and the Commonwealth.the officials on Capitol Hill have shown an increas ing interest in working out the prob lems which are involved. Governor Brumbaugh and the members of the Board of Public Grounds and Build ings are. in close touch with the situ- 1 ation and the dinner to-night will af ford an opportunity for an inter change of views which will be helpful to all concerned. It will mark the be ginning of the final step in the land scape treatment of the big area east of the Capitol, as well as the correc tion of existing conditions in the pres ent park. Every citizen of Harrisburg is in terested in the development of this district along harmonious lines and the growing and widespread interest in the civic center proposition indi cates the public spirit of our people and their attitude toward the whole matter. FOR AND AGAINST JOSEPH H. CHOATE as head of the National Security League has ascertained through a canvass of the Senate and House the attitude of many of the members toward the President's national defense program. In a canvass covering not quite one third of the membership of the two national bodies it was discovered that !2 4 Senators and 113 Representatives had stated that they would be for pre paredness, while 1 Senator and 10 Representatives indicated that they would oppose the program. Of those Senators who will support the plan for ade quate national defense 16 are Republicans, 7 are Democrats and 1 is a Progressive. In the lower house the members for preparedness are made up of 78 Republicans, 32 Democrats and 3 Progressives. All those who are listed as against preparedness are Democrats. It remains to be seen how far the Bryan propaganda will affect the Democratic organization at Washing ton. President Wilson is approaching his great crisis in the White' House. GOSSIP IN the course of a striking sermon in which he outlined ten com mandments for' the modern woman, the Rev. Dr. Clayton Albert Smucker, pastor of Stevens Memorial Methodist Church, gave his women parishioners this injunction: Thou shalt not feed thy family I with idle gossip, and neighborhood I scandal. I This is good advice. Also, it is time- II y. Women of otherwise good repute | and admirable traits, and men, too, for that matter, apparently delight in tearing the characters and reputations of their friends and acquaintances to shreds. Conversations occur around the family dinner table, within the family circle or when men and women gather in a social way that would be small credit even to a barroom crowd. All of us have our faults and our foibles, but "there is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us that it ill-behooves nnv of us to talk about the rest of 1: and the most ardent gossip is apt to have a skeleton in her own closet she would not like to have paraded before the friends she regales so glee fully with the mistakes of others. Scandal mongerlng and character assassination go hand in hand. He or she who is guilty of one Is uncon sciously guilty of the other. If a thing is too nasty to be done without loss of respectability, it is too nasty to be related. Nothing is gained there by and something is lost to all con cerned. The habitual gossip has al most as evil a name in the commun ity as those she gossips about. Shakespeare said: "He who filches from me my good name, steals that which not enriches him, but makes me poor indeed." and it might be added that hewhosteals anotherVgood name not only not enriches himself, but really loses something, for he has violated the golden rule. Nobody who desires to have others do unto him as he does unto others, to transpose the text, wHI be guilty of gossip or of scan dal mongerlng. ' TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE I —A leper at Ann Arbor. Mich., is 'being cured by taking chaulmoogre oil. The cure sounds almost as bod as the disease. —That "Do Your Christmas Shopping i Early" sign is a mere mockery when a i fellow is trying to save up the price of a Thanksgiving turkey. —Coal is sl7 a ton in France. In some parts of the republic the populace need not worry about that. The Ger mans continue to make things warm. —Mayor Meals' program grows more ambitious every day. If he does all the good things he says he wants to do. he may be Mayor for the next 500 years. —Celluloid underwear is now being worn in Germany. That may be all right for women, but where is a man going to scratch his matches? —One of these days that old Peace Palace at the Hague is going to be the most popular place in Europe. [ EDITORIAL COMMENT The allies at the finish may have the sea. and the Kaiser all the ls.nd. —Allentown Chronicle and News. It is always impossible to tell just when Russia or Yale may come back. —New'York Sun. Announcement that conscription may be resorted to in Great Britain after December 1, and all unmarried men of military age drafted for army services, may result in an unusually large number of marriages before that date.—Wllliamsport Sun. "Time," wrote Winston Churchill in his letter of resignation from the British cabinet, "will vindicate my ad ministration of the admiralty and assign to me m.v due share in the vast series of preparations and operations which secured us command of the seas." Still, nobody ever had iac cused Mr. Churchill of being a shrinking violet.—Kansas City Star. TI'SKEGEE'S MAKER [New York Sun.] Dr. Booker T. Washington's work among the members of his rare was based on the belief that\the negro would win social and political advance ment. only after he had achieved eco nomic independence and stability. He held that time was better spent in demonstrating the capacity of the bluck man in those callings that are now open to him than in seeking op portunities in fields where every factor was opposed to him. This policy brought Dr. Washington into conflict with many other leaders of the negroes, but he maintained it from the beginning of his work at Tuskegee. He was not less concerned with the progress of the blacks in the United States than were those with whom he could not agree as to meth ods; their dispute was over the means to be used, not the end to be sought. His belief was supported by the intelli gent judgment of thousands of citizens who saw in Tuskegee a possible in strument for the solution of a pressing problem. Did the school's success depend on Dr. Washington's energy and per sonality, or was he able to install an organization competent to continue it? Such questions will be answered in the not remote future: it is to be hoped that the institution in which he labored for more than a generation possesses the apparatus and personnel necessary to its continuance and growth as a memorial to this sensible and interest ing educator. A PENNSYLVANIA ALADDIN [Philadelphia Ledger.] Another modern fairy tale —except that it is true—is the overnight es calade to fame of J. Leonard Rep logle. When the flood razed the homes and took the lives of thousands of Johnstown citizens he was a little lad. and he was carried for helpless miles upon the raging current, cling ing to the roof of his home. Two members of his family were drowned. He had to leave school and go to work all the time, instead of merely earning what he could outside of the school period. He walked into the office of the Cambria Steel Company at Johnstown, said he must have a job, and have it at once, and was ap pointed water-boy at five dollars a week. Then he rose, rung by rung, on the ladder of promotion, till be became vice-president. Amazing reversals are these that time occasionally brings. Resigning the vice-presidency of the company he had entered in the humblest capacity, he has now, at 38 years of age, formed a syndicate and bought 240,000 shares of the stock of the corporation for a price said to be $15,000,000. The victory is one of persistence, unconquerable ambition, fidelity to duty and sheer grit that would not say die, but dusted itself off and climbed to its feet and went on after each discomfiture. Such men as he, no matter where they start, will forge to the front in the long run. Our Daily Laugh ; TAKEN OUT /"T TOO SOON. Mrs. Justwed: It 3 W&? These hen's -J i seem very small M this morning. Parmer: Can't help it, lady. r W W Mrs. Justwed: ■ N ■ Well, let my next*""" ones stay in the I nest a little lon-pfe *er. . —» J | THE PRODI GAL'S PHIL ' OSOPHT. Mid pleasures and palaces 11 Though we may 1/ roam. W When the atom- V ach la empty if There'! no place like " • home. I'M \OT THE ONLY ONE By Wlna Dinger ' Wifey said: "I think you ought to. Of your health, take much more care. Shed those knee lengths you are wear ing And don heavy underwear." Answered I: "Now please don't worry, Foj since playing golf, you know. I've become quite weather-hardened. I care not how cold winds "blow." Last night wife and I went calling, And at half past ten walked home. 'Bout my knees cold blasts did strike me— Chills all o'er my frame did roam. I said nothtng to wee wifey, But this morning quiet like To the chest upon the third floor For mv woolens I did hike- HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH T>otaxc4 | 'PtKKOi^tcanXa By th* Ex-OammWc«BM I Beyond remarking that it was "in teresting" Governor Brumbaugh did not make any comment upon the stories printed in various newspapers to the effect that his friends were pre paring to make a contest for control of the Pennsylvania delegation to the next national Republican convention. The reports are that William A. Magee, a public service commissioner, is getting ready to make the issue one of control between the governor and Senator Penrose. However, no one at the Capitol seems to be desirous ofi discussing the delegate elections next Spring and from the executive down the policy appears to be one of watch ful waiting. The Governor is working on hie ap pointments to various positions and expects to clear his desk by Decem ber 1 of most of the important places. • » » Councilman Edwin U. Sowers, pres ent superintendent of Lebanon's De partment of Finance, who on Novem ber 2 last WAS defeated for the Mayor alty by Councilman George T. Spang, will be made City Treasurer when Council re-organizes. The choice of City Treasurer was given to Council man-elect C. Dorsey Mish who is to succeed Sowers as Superintendent of Finance. The other department sup erintendences will be filled as fol lows: Streets, George F. Krause; Citv Property, James E. Fisher: Public Safety, J. Herbert Manbeck. The City Treasurer will be paid an annual sal ary of SI2OO. • • • Clerks in the State department last evening checked up the official returns from sixty-four counties and an nounced the official results on the re ef nt election in all counties except Allegheny, Mercer and Philadelphia: Amendment No. 1, for, 251,215; against, 267,977. No. 2, for, 163,316; against. 14 8,- 082. No. 3, for, 263,089; against, 136,- 847. No. 4. for. 162,837; against, 141,- 242. Superior Court: Head, 317,828; Huselton, 152,997; Orlady, 312,967: Palmer, 173, Ssl; Wallace. 158.888; Williams. 252,200. Attorney Homer L. Castle, once Prohibition candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, was mentioned rather severely yesterday in an opinion hand ed down by Judge Thomas P. Trimble, of the Orphans' Court, who ordered Castle and his co-executor, John S. Stewart, of the estate of Joseph M. Klnkead. father-in-law of Castle, to revise and restate their accounting. Mayor-elect Thomas B. Smith, of Philadelphia, is expected home to morrow after his visit to Virginia and his keynote speech will be delivered at the Clover Club. The new mayor is expected to announce appointments in a few weeks. He is a much court ed man just now. —Mayor Blankenburg is saying that he wants the elections in Philadelphia probed. It might be started with a probe of his own way of doing things, especially with policemen on election day. —Congressman W. W. Bailey, m»]io is doing his best to split the Demo crats of Pennsylvania wider, is plan ning some speeches in which he will uphold the Bryan idea of unprepared ness. Bailey also plans to run for na tional delegates in the Cambria dis trict, it is said. In view of some printed matter from Pittsburgh it would be odd to have William A. Magee and J. Denny O'Neil on the same side in a national delegate fight. Both are Brumbaugh men. but hardly what you could call close personal friends. —lt is probable that after the Wel fare and Efficiency conference is over that the remainder of the appoint ments will be made in the Depart ment of Labor and Industry and that some appointments will also be made ir. the Public Service Commission. Several Philadelphians are said to be booked for Jobs In the latter branch of the Government. —The Allegheny County Committee of One Thousand has filed a petition in Quarter Sessions Court praying for an audit of the primary election ex penses of the Straight Republican Ticket Committee, the organization that managed the campaign of the Magee-Armstrong candidates for the county offices in the September primaries. Judge John C. Haymaker directed the Clerk of Courts to certify the attacked account to court for audit. —Mayor-elect Filbert, of Reading, has named C. K. Miller, a Republican, as hIR chief of police. The mayor and the chief are close personal friends. —Congressman T. S. Butler is busy building fences in the Cliester-Dela wnre district for re-election. —The name of the Franklin party was pre-empted yesterday afternoon for use In next year's elections in two Philadelphia districts. The pre-empt ors took the name for congress and legislature. —About two-thirds of Governor Brumbaugh's callers these days are men wanting appointments or boosting some one for places. IRVING COBB NOW A COLONIST; [From the Cincinnati Times-Star.] Old Irv. Cobb has bought him a house and a fine piece of meadow land up on Hudson creek, where neighbors are tol'ably close an' help plentiful. According to the usage of his native State, Mr. Cobb now becomes Colonel Cobb, his new house having more than three chimneys. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR' .V MUNICIPAL FLOWER HOUSE To the Editor of the Telegraph: (One of the Telegraph's prize winners in the Civic Club "Flower Contest." in acknowledging the receipt of the cash prize, says): "I want to express my sincere thanks for the same. I was surprised and de lighted when I saw in your paper that I was awarded a prize. Seeing so many pretty yards of other people I certainly will join In trying to make Harrisburg a city beautiful next summer. Woudn't it be nice if Harrisburg had a great big municipal flower house, where the people who love flowers could get them at a little above cost during the winter? Tt would not be taking busi ness away from the florist. As It Is now we have to be without them on account of the price. Wishing the Tele graph and yourself lots of success, I remain, sincerely, • GRACE 11. SPEEBE, 620 Geary Street, City. ANOTHER PRIZE WINNER My Dear Mr. Btackpole: Was very much pleased to be one of the fortunate winners of a prize In your "flower garden contest." Pease accept my thanks and appreciation for same. With the coming of another season shall put forth every effort to do my part In making Harrisburg "the flower city" of the United States. I love flow ers and beautiful plants and like to have them everywhere I look. Respectfully yours, MRS. J. C. MICHAEL, CSO Camn Street. I THE CARTOON OF THE DAY . | WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE PUN, BUT AIN'T IT THE TRUTH? —From the Philadelphia Evmlnft I.ertßcr. * THE WANDERING MAIL BAG By Frederic J. Haskin - t > NOT long ago the Post Office De partment was greatly puzzled to know why so many of the mail bags it sent to South America never returned. Some light was shed on this mystery when a letter reached the Washington office telling how a progressive South American merchant had a complete set of awnings for his store out of mall bag material. Investigation along these lines re vealed the fact that the striped mate rial of the mail bags had a peculiar fascination for the Latin American eye. and was considered especially de sirable for clothing. A rural mail car rier in one South American country regarded it as a privilege of his office to make all of his clothing out of United States mail bags. A couple of long, narrow pouches made a pair of trousers with very little reconstruc tion. while a soifcewhat wider one re quired only the cutting of armholes to make an excellent sleeveless shirt. The letters, "U. S. Mail," stamped upon the material he regarded as a particularly effective touch of decora tion. In South American countries U. S. mail bags have also been used for shipping fruit and other commodities. In fact, the pilfering of these bags has THE STATE FROM DW TO DA/ Turkeys are extremely scarce in Warren county this Fall and it is likely that chickens for Thanksgiving dinner will be substituted in a great many homes. It is fortunate for us that we have a fowl so closely resem bling the November 25 tid-bit. and we can always fall back on the old Sunday dinner reliable in case there be a shortage in the specialty. The State Highway Department an ticipates a busy season doling out licenses and answering calls for in formation and requests for special numbers, wherefore Commissioner Cunningham has issued a warning that the wise oneß might come early and avoid the rush. Even now the offices of the department are a seething mass of smoking pens and pencils and effi cient clerks performing their duties swiftly and well. And, by the way. speaking of auto mobiles, the number of orders for new cars shows no signs of decreas ing, although this is the season of the year when they fall off in anticipation i of coming cold weather. John Miller, 78, famous in Altoona as the 'boy drummer." a Civil War veteran who always led the Memorial Day parades, will lead them no more. He died several days ago in his home at Altooha. Boosting the bashful beauties! Out West, says the New Castle News, a minister is planning a campaign for next year to include leap-year pro posals by the marriageable young women of his church, to precede which he will deliver a series of love talks. We venture to predict a tre mendous attendance at those talks. Coal in the Susquehanna river, be tween Sunbury and Nanticoke, is vir tually exhausted for this year. Fifty thousand tons were removed last sum mer by dredges. Amos Wiraer, of Camargo, raised on one vine 655 pounds of the finest kind of pumpkins of different varie .tles, but being more than he could handle for pie purposes he distribut ed them among his friends and co horts. Industrial plants in the district about Tarentum are 'working at full capacity at this time; Allegheny Steel Company, West Penn Steel Company, Western Tool and Forge Company, Flaccus Glass Company, Allegheny Foundry and Machine Company, Tar entum Paper Mills, Kutherford Paper Mill, and several salt plants are all working up to the limit. The city water of New Castle has been tasting horribly for the past few days and an Investigation is under way to discover the source of the trouble and eradicate it. New Castle has had the same trouble at various times be fore. "TUNE OLD COW DIED ON" A Dublin letter to the Gallic-Ameri can. a newspaper published in New York, tells of the war's effect on Ire land as shown in the heavier taxation which Is to come. But it does more, it quotes verbatim "the tune that the old cow died on." Everyone is familiar with this reference, but few have ever heard the song itself. After reviewing the Trish party's fight against the Increased liquor tax last year the writer tells of the cabinet conference in London to "consider the situation," continuing: "It is the tune that the old cow died on: "There was a poor man that had an old cow. And he had no strass to give her. So he took down his fiddle and played her a tune. 'Consider, good cow. consider! This is no time o' year for the grass to Krow, i Consider, good cow, consider!" "The upshot of the considering does not concern the Irish electorate. Their duty is to pass votes of confidence, and pay the increased taxation, which will l>o somewhere about forty-five million dollars a year." NOVEMBER 16, 1915. become such a nuisance that consuls and diplomatic officers had to take ac tion in the matter. It takes 4.000,000 bags to hold and transport the United States mail. Keeping track of these bags, repairing them and sending them to the points where they are needed is a difficult and highly organized business. Just at present the slides in the Panama Canal are causing the post office department a good deal of em barrassment. The shipping of 100,000 mail bags from San Francisco was sent by way of the canal, so that they would reach the East in time for the holiday rush. Two days before they reached the canal it was blocked by slides, and now they are making the long, slow journey around the Horn. KflUcient System The system of collecting and dis tributing the United States mail bags is intricate but efficient. There are 250 freight shipping points in all parts of the United States to which the empty mail bags are sent from the small post office. From these points they are sent to nine of the principal cities of the United States for redistribution. Each shipping point [Continued on Page 13.] f UrttK on, CLKCL IT[L v Governor Brumbaugh has a Vivid recollection of the passing of the Louis iana lottery, the famous or infamous gambling institution which sent out its tentacles to every part of the United States and consumed the earn ings of thousands of men, women and children. The Governor was engaged in educational work in Louisiana when the fight was on in the Legislature for a further lease of the lottery company. It was a fight to the death and the fact that the lottery people offered the Stale more money for a renewal of the concession than the total of all the revenues of Louisiana at that time, caused many of the prominent Demo cratic leaders to line up with the oc topus. Governor Nichols, a Confed erate veteran, fought the bill tooth and nail. When the measure had been forced through the Legislature by the most corrupt means ever known in a legislative body, the Governor sent a veto in which he declared: "Having given my left hand for a cause which I still believe to be just, I should be ashamed to let it know what my right hand had done were' it to sign this iniquitous measure." Ex-Congressman Don Cattery, one of the Democratic leaders aligned with the lottery crowd, upon hearing the veto message declared: "MyGod, men, we can't stand against a man who talks like that!" Caffery then suggested a referendum as n means of breaking the deadlock in the Legislature and the result of the spe cial election was the defeat of the pro posed concession by over 40,000 ma jority and the end of the lottery. During the deadlock on the lottery bill Governor Brumbaugh was invited to address the Legislature as a neutral on behalf of the teachers, the inmates of the charitable institutions and the prisoners, all appropriations having been held up by the lottery in fluence until the lottery bill had been disposed of. His address was one of the big incidents of the great fight. A 365-DAY ROAD [Kansas City Star.] Five hundred delegates to a good roads convention don't pay an aver age of $75 railroad fare simply for a pleasant social gathering. The men who are to meet in New Orleans next week to discuss the Jefferson High way mean business. The New Orleans Commercial Club is planning shell roads in every direc tion from New Orleans. There is al ready the keenest compeUtlon between rival routes in Missouri and Kansas. The same conditions exist in other States. The time isn't far distant when there will be a 365-day road from Winnipeg to the Gulf. A 365-day road, mind you. Not merely a road to-day and a mud puddle to-mor row! Why Buy Advertised Goods ? —Because they represent cer tain fixed standard qualities. —Because through efficiency of distribution they sell at lower prices. —Because they will be the same to-morrow as they were to day. —Because they are invariably backed with a guarantee that protects the purchaser. —Because they represent the definite as against the Indefinite factor In advertising. Read the advertising In the Telegraph and form your own opinion. Ask for articles by trade marks and insist on getting what you ask for. I jEtomtng (Efott People who have been looking up highway routes to follow next summer In seeing Pennsylvania, now that It has become the recognized thing to do, have been surprised at the antiquity of many of the roadß. Some of the roads are, as a matter of fact, older than the province of Pennsylvania, and if their history could be traced it would be found that they were in large measure a Indian trails which antedated some of the more famous travel routes In Euro pean lands where Americans wera wont to spend their money before the great, war. Before the days of the Dutch and the Swedes on the Dela ware there were well defined Indian roads leading to Philadelphia, and probably when Hudson nosed Into Delaware bay on his expedition Indians had been traveling across Pennsylva nia from the Allegheny Valley to the lowlands of the Susquehanna for many years, while the settlers who followed the routes from Reading and Lancas ter to John Harris' ferry and thence on to the west were simply going along ways that Indian feet had trod for generations, although not dignified by the name of road. Many of the men who will be here this week for the conference at the Capitol will be able to tell of rehabilitation of old high ways and of linking of historic spots by the reconstruction or repair of highways which have become State property. Some of these roads have played great parts in the annals of Pennsylvania, some being roads over which the eastern counties sent iron to Pittsburgh and others highways over which the first, anthracite coal was hauled and still others which were used for military purposes. Some have incidents that remind one of Dick Tur pi n and of darker deeds. * » • One of the interesting roads which is rapidly being put Into shape is one which is of importance to Harrisburg ers because someday it may be a purl of the great north and south highway which is to connect New York State with Maryland and Virginia and the national capital as well. The Lincoln and the William Penn highways are almost accomplished and the Suscjue hanna highway will be next. The road particularly referred to is the Couders port and Jersey Shore turnpike, now a State highway, and being put into con dition by the men of the State High way Department. As early as 1824 the road was partially started by the Jersey Shore Turnpike Company, but not until 182!) did the real work of cutting out and grading begin, under the supervision of an English survevor a f?ent by the name of John King. The road originally had a width ■ , wen, y feet, the timber being slashed for ten feet on each side and drawn away with ox teams. Five years of arduous labor made the road passable and the first wagons went over the "East and West Road." as it was then called by some, in the sum mer of 1834. As early as 1808 tills route was traversed, but at that time it was little more than a trail through the wilderness and wild game was plentilul. Deer, elk and wild game of every description were in abundance and it has been said that while work ing on the road in 1833 it was no un common thing to see as many as twenty herds of elk cross the road in a single day. This road has the dis tinction of having more game hauled over it than any other road in the State. The road, like many others in the Susquehanna valley, was kept in a fair state of repair until about twentv years ago. when it was neglected, anil the active work of repair was begun during the past summer, when work was commenced by the Highway De partment. The width has been ex tended to sixty feet, the body rounded with plows, scrapers and drags, and sluice pipes inserted for drainage, so that now it has the appearance of a vast boulevard. The grades are grad ual and even and it traverses one of the most picturesque areas in Pennsyl- V vania. For a distance of fifty miles it passes through an almost unbroken forest area, on which is excellent fish ing and hunting. The majority of the forest land is now owned or controlled by the State Forestry Department. On its holdings reforestation is taking place by the planting of seedling trees, the opening of fire lanes, the erection of fire observation towers and the im provement and of the natural regeneration. This route will be used extensively by tourists from all over the eastern states. It means a direct » route from Wllliamsport to Buffalo and is decidedly unique in itself in that it passes through virtually an un inhabited region. Game is free to roam where it pleases and at present one travels sixteen miles without passing a dwelling. The water is pure and abundant and the scenery is beautiful. When on the summit one can look for miles and see nothing but unbroken mountains, clad in the verdure of beech, birch and maple. In the au tumn the scenery is especially beauti ful and the many and varied hues pre sent a picture that no artist can begin to imitate. Coudersport, the county seat of Potter county, is situated within an hour's run into the heart of the fishing and hunting region and this vast and varied territory shouts its in vitation to the tourist and true sports man to enjoy it over one of the State's oldest highways. * * * H. A. Beale. the Parkesburg iron manufacturer, who is prominent Iv mentioned for national delegate in the Chester county district, was formerly at Steelton. • He was connected with the big plant for a time and then went, to take charge of the family iron works at Pai kesburg. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE | —The Rev. F. J. McGovern. promi nent Pottsville priest, made a domestio prelate by the pope, is well known throughout the anthracite region. —Congressman-at-Large T. S. Crego is making a series of addresses on pre paredness. —S. M. Vauclain, the Philadelphia manufacturer, has been spending some time in Virginia. —B. Dawson Coleman, of Lebanon, one of the directors in the Pennsylva nia Steel Company, is mentioned in connection with a number of large eastern enterprises. —A. S. Deyser, prominent Reading man, has offered prizes for the best hogs grown by boys in Berks county. —David McCulloch, the Newport aviator, has gone to Italy to enter the r\ government aviation school. ' DO YOU KNOW "| That Harrisburg raises some of its food supply right inside the city limits? HISTORIC lIARRISRIRG The first evangelist to come here was George Whitefleld, who preached at John Harris' Ferry about 1740. CLEARED FOR ACTION Recently an official report was made to the Navy Department that, the battleship Texas had engaged In a sharp exchange of messages with a British warship which had called on the Texas at night to stop. It was said then that the commander of the Texas had replied by clearing his ship for action.
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