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MONDAY EVENING. NOV. 29
Upwards He leads us. though our steps
are slow,
Though oft we faint and falter on the
way.
Though storms and darkness oft 06-
• scure the day:
Yet when the clouds are gone.
We know He leads us on.—Anon,
SITE FOR TIIK FOUNTAIN
THERE has been considerable dis
cussion as to where the Hershey
fountain, so generously given the
city by the chocolate manufacturer,
should be placed. This Is very proper.
It shows that the people in general
have an interest in such matters and
that there is a healthy rivalry in var
ious parts of the city for anything re
lated to improvement or beautlflca
tion.
But the big thing is not that this or
that section of town shall be pleased,
but that this very valuable work of
nrt be so placed as to harmonize with
the development of the city from the
park standpoint. The whole scheme
of the "city beautiful" has been
worked out by Warren S. Manning,
the Boston landscape architect, and it
would be altogether in keeping with
the past policy of council if he were
given a voice In the matter.
The fountain must be made to fit
properly into the whole scheme if it
is to harmonize as it should. Possibly
Mr. Manning's advice on this score
would bring out some thought that
has not been considered. At all events
it would not be well to take any defi
nite steps toward location until this
expert, whom the city employs for
just such services, has been consulted.
THE "OPEN MIND" AGAIN
WE are told that the President
has not accepted Secretary
Redfield's views as to the best
means of preventing the "dumping"
of European goods upon the American
market, and that the President has an
"open mind" on the subject.
Is it not time that this phrase be
relegated fo "innocuous desuetude,"
to use another phrase manufactured
by another Democratic President?
Mr. Wilson's mind may be "open,"
but it is "open" only from within.
The sole method of approach to the
presidential mind from the outside is
with a charge of political dynamite.
He has shown such constant disre
gard for the opinions of others, un
less those others manifest themselves
in nation-wide protest—as in the case
of the demand for military prepared
ness—that the constant reiteration of
the President's "open mind" has long
since ceased to be even humorous.
The repetition of the phrase has be
come almost insulting to the country's
Intelligence.
THE SHOPPER TO BLAME
WITH the Christmas season again
fast approaching "sob sisters"
on some newspapers and sym
pathetic souls who write at space
rates for the magazines are bringing
forth their annual crop of "tlred-to- J
death" shop girl stories, and a good j
many women and not a few men will
shed tears over them and rail at the
heartless proprietors of stores who
keep their doors open evenings and
require longer hours than usual for
their help.
There will be no excuse for this In
Pennsylvania this year. The female
employment law, which is strictly en
forced, protects the girl or woman
clerk from the strain of long hours.
Girls under twenty-one years of age
may not be employed in stores or fac
tories after 9 o'clock at night or be
fore 6 o'clock In the morning. No
female may be employed more than
six days a week, more than fifty-four
hours a week, or more than ten hours
a day. When an establishment Is
closed for a legal holiday, females may
be employed, during such week, two
hours a day overtime for three days,
but the working hours for the week
must not exceed fifty-four.
Inspectors of the Department of
and Industry in all sections of
the State have been instructed to pay
•special attention to the working hours
of employes during the holiday season,
oiot for the purpose of instituting
MONDAY EVENING,
many prosecutions, but to see that the
laws are obeyed and to relieve the
often needlessly long hours of em
ployes.
To be sure, the burden of additional
sales will make the salesgirl's work
harder than usual, and if the sym
pathetic shopper who weeps over the
j story of the little girl who faints be
' hind the ribbon counter and Is car
| rled away to a hospital and loses her
| job and is forced out on the streets,
! seriously desires to make life as easy
1 as possible for the nearly-always eom
! petent, buxom and self-sufficient little
! ladies who preside over the Christmas
! sales, she will take the advice of Com
missioner of Labor John Price Jack
son and do her Christmas buying not
only early in the season, but early in
the day.
Merchants keep their stores open
late for no other reason than because
they believe the public wants them *o
do so. If they are convinced by empty
aisles and few sales that this is not so,
there will be no more trouble about
long hours. The baying public has the
remedy in its own hands and if there
are tired clerks and lights burning at
9 in the evening that should be out at
6, let the shoppers blame themselves
as well as proprietors.
WEST SHORE LEAGUE
AVAST amount of interesting
reading has been developed
with reference to West Shore
development by the interviews with
well-known West Shore men interest
ed in the improvement of that Impor
tant suburban district. There has not
been one dissenting voice to the sug
gestion that the West Shore's greatest
need at this time, and for the future,
is one or more civic or
ement leagues or associations, work
ing together for the betterment of
conditions along the West Shore.
If Harrisburg hat! had such an or
ganization fifty years ago, acting in
harmony with such a farsighted body
as the City Planning Commission,
what a different city we would have to
day! How many mistakes of judg
ment would have been prevented!
More than fifteen years ago Harris
burg people came to a realization of
this necessity of promotion and
supervision, and the great public im
provement movement that has trans
formed the city and has gone all over
the country as the "Harrisburg Plan"
was the result.
To-day the West Shore stands in the
position of the Harrisburg of fifty
years agone. It is just on the verge
of a wonderful building development.
There is nothing to hold It back save
lack of community interest on the
part of those who should be most in
terested. With expert advice, such as
the City Planning Commission is au
thorized by law to render and is will
ing and anxious to give, the whole
district from the mountains to New
Cumberland and from the river to a
point beyond Camp Hill, can be made
one of the most beautiful suburban
districts in the whole State. Large
areas of what is now farm land, un
der the guidance of a skilled landscape
architect, can be turned into most de
lightful home sites. Pure water, pure
air and the broad sweep of valley,
mountain and river combine to make
the whole countryside wonderfully at
tractive from the homemaker's stand
point, and cheap transportation, elec
tric light, gas, the telephone and rural
free deliveries are additional induce
ments for building.
In short, there is offered to the
builder across the river nearly all of
the advantages of the city, with the
added delights of country life, and
land that now sells at prices lower
than they ever will be in the future,
if proper precautions are taken to
maintain a high standard of develop
ment. But a continuance of haphaz
ard, hit-or-miss methods would not
only seriously handicap those who are
really desirous of improving along
proper lines, but e%'entually would lead
to the depreciation of all property
values.
Harrisburg has done much for the
West Shore in giving it an outlook
to the city from the west bank of the
river that is beautiful beyond measure.
The West Shore people owe it to them
selves, and to the city to do as much
for Harrisburg. Their own west bank
must not be allowed to be marred
and scarred by billboards, as Is now
threatened. No "Hardscrabble" dis
tricts, with backyards facing on the
river, must be permitted.
There is just one way in which all
this can be accomplished and Irrepar
able mistakes prevented, and that is
by community co-operation along the
lines favored by so many West Shore
men, whoso views have been set forth
through the columns of the Telegraph
in the series of articles now running.
PARTLY RIGHT
IN an interview given at Lincoln,
Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska.
said that the main issue of next
year's campaign will be Woodrow
Wilson. The Senator is njt enthu
siastic over Democratic achievement
in Congress and he looks for a man
and not measures to be the Demo
cratic rallying point in 1916. Mr.
Hitchcock admits that a few of the
legislative enactments by the Demo
cratic Congress look good to him, but
ho thinks they are not likely to appeal
to the voter who can see a Demo
cratic deficit in the treasury, a Dein
ocratic war tax when we have no
war, and many items of Democratic
incompetency and extravagance.
Therefore, the Senator predicts his
party's war cry to be, "Woodrow
Wilson or Bust."
Senator Hitchcock is only partly
right. The Democratic slogan will
be translated by the voters Into this:
"Woodrow Wilson and Busted."
Who says November weather isn't as
fine as that of May?
If you want a good imitation of At
lantic City take a walk along the city's
Front Steps any Sunday afternoon.
"Politics in Pennsylvania is warming
up," says a New York exchange. Poli
tics in Pennsylvania may be getting
hotter, but it is always warm.
TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE
—"What is International Law?"
asks Waldo D. Morse. The man
means, what WAS International Law?
—That rollicking old sea dog, Henry
Ford, appears to have some trouble
shipping a crew this voyage.
—After being well nigh ruined,
Louisiana sugar planters no doubt will
be glad to learn that the Wilson ad
ministration didn't mean it, after all.
—Come again, Mr. Herahey, and
bring along another fountain or two.
—That "Do Your Christmas shop
ping early" ought to be accompanied
by advice as to how to get your Christ
mas money early.
—lt will not be long before the
Senate Democrats will discover that
the proposed cloture rule will work
two ways.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
They are waging war in Europe
with gas, but nobody will ever make
peace with It. —New York Sun.
President Wilson is being urged to
call a peace conference of neutral
nations. What seems rather more
necessary is a peace conference of the
nations at war.—Kansas City Times.
"Much For Congress to Do," says a
headline. Yes, but much of it Con
gress don't do.—Kansas City Star.
Among the heavy losses suffered by
the enemy, Constantinople does not
specifically mention the Armenians.—
New York Evening Post.
Women never can learn to act like
men. Here's Mrs. Ella Flagg Young giv
ing up a SIO,OOO job.—Pittsburgh
Chronicle-Telegraph.
The New Haven trial is revealing
how much worry New England people
were saved through what thev did not
know.—Boston Herald.
Mr. Wheeler insists that women want
the vote as a weapon to gain other
things. In that, of course, thev differ
vastly from men.—New York Tribune.
Football heroes find In these discon
solate days that no man is considered
really a hero who has the regulation
number of arms and legs.—Chicago
Dally News.
e have a suspicion that a lot of
-..at recruiting that always follows a
Zeppelin attack Is Inspired by a desire
to get awav from the perils of life in
London.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
In praying that he may live to see a
woman President of the United States,
Bishop Moore is no doubt sincere.
Every good bishop has longings for
immortality.—Kansas City Journal.
Herr Edward Meyer, of Berlin, who
In his recent books says America is a
nation of degenerates, a nervous, sickly
race, is hereby turned over for atten
tion to Colonel Roosevelt.—New York
Telegram.
THE STATE FROM DAfTOIW
"Abraham Lincoln made me prom
ise that I would never smoke or chew
tobacco, never touch liquor and never
tell an untruth, and I have kept that
promise ever since," said Federal
Judge Simeon Woodrow King, of
Chester, who was appointed during
the war at the age of 21 by the mar
tyred president. The judge is now
eighty-four years old, but passes for
a youth of seventy.
The fever has struck the telephone
Igirls of Kittanning, Pa., tlnd nine of
the "hello" artists have been mar
ried recently. Either the lines have
or have not, been busy there, accord
ing to the way you look at it.
A Philadelphia paper appeared the
other day with the headline, "Old
Man's Intent to Wed Proof of Sound
Mind." In spite of the paper's well
known reputation for veracity arid
good judgment, the headline raised
a question in the mind of many a
jilted lover.
M. S. Hershey's presentation of his
artistic group of nude figures to the
city of Harrisburg seems to be worry
ing some newspapers fhat think the
code of morals that covers nude sta
tuary in this city will put Harrisburg
in an embarrassing position. Per
haps it will, but if the city can be
beautified with a $25,000 statue de
signed by an admittedly excellent ar
tist, perhaps the embarrassment may
be in a good cause.
Jacob Adams Emery, of Philadel
phia. a member "8f the junior class,
has been elected as orator of the Phi
Beta Kappa Society of Harvard. Em
ery was only recently admitted to
this society. Mr. Emery is a graduate
of the Central High school, of Phila
delphia and is a member of the Har
vard wrestling team.
Neither let mistakes nor wrong di
rections discourage you. Let a man
try faithfully, manfully to be right:
he will grow dally more and more
right.—Carlyle..
Our Daily Laugh |
PLATS OF TO-
Was It a good
Splendid. We
ftf expected the po
rn lice to raid tt
Rh every minute.
could tell you all
that's in my
your money talk,
that's sufficient. I
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
fotcttC* Ut
"ptKKOnltfcuUa
By the Ex-CotnmlUrrnutß
—Democratic machine bosses, who
thought that they hail things all
"sewed up" in some of the congres
sional districts for Wilson national
delegates, are said to be feeling some
what uneasy over the announced in
tention of Old Guard leaders to tight
for the same honors and the signs
that adherents of Bryan are not in
clined to go along with the machine.
The leaders who had a confab here
last week in the same secretive, locked
door manner that they used to de
nounce on the part of the old-time
bosses whom they dethroned are said
to have found that while the Demo
crats were generally for Wilson, the
"reorganizers" would have to fight to
represent him.
—Much will depend upon the way
things start off in Congress. With the
bulk of the Democratic members of
Congress opposed to the machine and
the Democrats of the nation split on
the defense program of the President,
it is feared that much will be reflected
on the Pennsylvania fight. The po
sition of Palmer. McCormlck and their
ilk is that they insist that they are the
President's own men, but they not only
have to tight to prove it against the
old Guardsmen, but have also to down
the Rryanltes who were formerly their
allies.
—Philadelphia last night goi a re
currence of the story printed in the
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times on Novem
ber 15 that Governor Brumbaugh
might run for Pnited States senator.
It was suggested that this would be
a graceful way of getting out of any
national delegate contest. The Gov
ernor. as was stated before, might run
as a resident of Huntingdon county,
which is in the center of the state.
Allegheny county has two receptive
candidates for senator. P. O. Knox and
E. V. Babcock. The latter may decide
to run for Governor instead of sen
ator, say Philadelphia papers, revamp
ing a story some weeks old.
—Tlie Philadelphia Ledger of yes
terday expressed the opinion that the
Penrose men had been digging-trenches
and that they were already in such a
strong position as to cause serious
misgivings whether the Brumbaugh
movement could go very far. The
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin de
clared that the Governor could not
hope to elect national delegates any
where in the state or even in Phila
delphia without a bitter light.
—The ledger also gives this gossip
regarding possible candidates for dele
gate: "Meanwhile State leaders were
preparing their tickets in the various
districts for national delegates. Phila
delphians were suggesting as candi
dates such men as Congressman
George S. Graham, Congressman Wil
liam S. Vare, John Wanamaker, who
was a delegate to the national conven
tion of 1912; E. T. Stotesbury and
others representative of the city's com
mercial and industrial interests.
Friends of Congressman Lafean, of
York, have already agreed on regular
organization candidates for delegates.
Former State Treasurer Wright is a
candidate from Susquehanna county,
and C. R. Dorflinger. a glass manu
facturer, is a candidate from Wayne.
Joseph R. Grundy, president of the
Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Associa
tion and a political opponent of the
Governor, will be supported from
Bucks county. Former Auditor Gen
eral Sisson will be a candidate from
Erie. Coroner Jamlton and Mayor
Armstrong, together with some of the
officers just elected under Penrose aus
pices, will be candidates from Alle
gheny county. Similar conditions will
prevail in the other counties, such as
I>ackawanna. where Mayor Jermyn, of
Scranton, will run."
—The Wilkes-Barre Record says
that friends of General C. B. Daugh
erty, former commander of the Na
tional Guard, who was conspicuous at
a Wilkes-Barre meeting for Palmer
and McCormick last year, is being
urged as a compromise candidate for
the Wilkes-Barre post office. Con
gressman J. J. Casey, the anti-Palmer
leader of the county, is boosting his
brother, and Dr. B. C. Mebane, boy
hood friend of the President, is work
ing an old friendship pull. Palmer is
said to be behind Daughert.v, who
wants to stay in the limelight.
—According to the Philadelphia In
quirer, there will be a bitter fight over
national delegates between the Demo
cratic factions in Montgomery county
and the differences of ten years will be
fought out.
—Mayor-elect Smith will be a mem
ber of the committee which will en- I
deavor to secure the next Republican I
national convention for Philadelphia. |
It is said that the new mayor has in- |
vited John T. Windrim to become di
rector of works, but that he may not
name John C. Groome for head of the
safety department.
—The Philadelphia Record prints
this interesting story regarding the
delayed appointment to the Supreme
Court vacancy: "In answer to one
persistent caller, he (the Governor) is
reported to have drawn a line from
Pittsburgh to Philadelphia on a map
of Pennsylvania and to have shown
that all of the six sitting justices live
in counties south of that line, a con
dition which, he argued, was not fair
to the rest of the State. This gave rise
to the belief that Judge Walling, of
Erie, whose friends have been active
in his behalf, was being given favor
able consideration by the Chief Ex
ecutive. How Judge Walling would
stand up on the prothonotaryship is a
matter of conjecture. Judges Martin,
of this city, and Kunkel, of Harris
burg, also have active supporters."
PRACTICAL INVENTION'S
A device to end sea collisions in fog
is all very well, but equally welcome
In certain places in the District of Co
lumbia would, be a device to end colli
sion in political fogs, one term planks
and such. — York Sun.
FORGET IT
If you see a good fellow ahead of the
.crowd,
A leader among men, marching fear
less and proud,
And you know of a tale whose mere
' telling aloud
Would cause his proud head in an
guish to be bowed,
It's a pretty good plan to —forget it.
If you know of a skeleton hidden
away
In a closet, and guarded and kept from
the day,
In the dark, and whose showing,
whose sudden display.
Would cause grief and sorrow and
life-iong dismay.
It's a pretty good plan to—forget It.
If you know of a spot In the life of a
friend,
(We all have such spots concealed,
world without end.)
Whose touching his heartstrings would
play on and rend.
Till the shame of its showing no
grieving could mend.
It's a pretty good plan f? —forget ;t.
If you know of a thing, just the least
little sin.
Whose telling would cork up a laugh
or a grin,
Of a man you don't like, for the
Ixjrd's sake keep it in.
Don't, don't be a knocker: right here
stick a pin—
It's a pretty good plan to—forget it.
—Wlillmnaport Sun.
| THE CARTOON OF THE' DAY
EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY
—From the Hiiltlmorr American.
f
THE MEXICAN MUDDLE
lll.—The Bandit War
By Frederic J. Haskin
SINCE the tirsft of August Browns
ville is a war center. Scarcely
a day passes without its alarm
of raid, skirmish or robbery. The
troops at Fort Brown are always
ready to start at a moment's notice,
and when civilians go from town *o
town they go armed and ready for
trouble.
This is the bandit war the
mysterious outbreak of lawlessness
that has terrorized a district as largo
as the State of Maine. Terrorized it.
because no man knows where the
bandits will strike next. No man
knows their numbers, or even who
they are. Your Mexican neighbor,
or your Mexican man-of-all-work,
may be the one who shot your friend
last night.
It began as far back as July, with
an epidemic of petty thefts. Rifles and
horses began to disappear from out
lying ranches. There was no stealing
of other valuables, and no destruction
of property. It was put down to the
unusual number of shiftless characters
driven across the line from Mexico by
the fighting around Matamoros.
On the second of August came the
report that Mexican bandits had in
vaded the south end of Cameron
county, which borders along both the
Rio Grande and the Gulf, southern
most county in the United States.
These bandits raided ranches as clo&o
a.' three miles to Brownsville, an Am
erican city of ten thousand with an
army post. They stole horses, saddles
and rifles. On the same day V. Con
rad. a civil engineer, with a party of
surveyors in an automobile, was fired
on thirty times from the brush lining
a country road. Conrad opened the
throttle and went through a closed
gate at forty miles an hour. He took
the gate along with him, but he and
his party escaped untouched. War
was on.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THAT WALNUT STHKET llltlDGE
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Presumably the ammunition in tlie
Anti-Walnut Street Bridge Campaign
has been discharged.
The Honorable Governor of the State, |
seconded by others of his official fam
ily; the Mayor-Elect of the city, the .
noted City Planning Specialist, Mr. |
Manning; the City Planning Commis- |
slon, and several city editors fired tor- i
rlble broadsides against this project, j
and. no doubt, all are congratulating |
themselves and each other on the sue- I
cess attending their efforts.
Now, that the smoke has cleared I
.away, will you. Mr. Editor, play fair ;
and permit a brief statement from the
other side?
The people of the Hill feel that they
are entitled to the relief such a bridge
would afford them. They took the
proper legal steps to have the voters
of the city pa3s on the proposition, and
a majority of them approved of the
project. So far, so good.
But now, instead of carrying out the
expressed will of the people, there is
stirred up this formidable-looking
storm against It on the plea that it
would spoil the plans of "The City
Beautiful."
The Honorable Governor, being a
preacher, will see the application in
the following quotation from the Mas
ter's sayings: "And He (Jesus), said
unto them * ' * if a son shall ask
bread of any of you that is a father,
will he give him a stone? or if he ask
for a fish, will he for a tlsli give him a
serpent? or If he shall ask for an egg,
will he offer him a scorpion?"
The Implied answer is plain. No! No
father would thus mock or insult his
son.
But that Is Just what those who have
undertaken to squelch the bridge pro
ject are doing. They, patronizingly,
say. "Yes, the Hill people should have
some relief, and we will supply it by
way of subways."
We asked for bread—for a fish—for
an egg; we are offered a stone—a ser
pent—a scorpion.
If we are to be cheated out of what
is our right, let it be so. but don't mock
or insult us by offering the relief need
ed through subways.
I plead not in behalf of the rich, who
can go anywhere In their carriages and
automobiles without fatigue; but I
plead in behalf of the army of women
and girls who go dally to their tasks
in the city and when weary and tired
in the evening must drag themselves
up either Market or State street hill,
or up the steps leading to the Twelfth
street crest.
I plead In behalf of the many moth
ers who, with their little ones. In the
baby carriage, or otherwise, find the
coming home journey up the long hill
so fatiguing.
I plead in behalf of the patient
horses that have to haul the heavy
loads up these hills. Who has not seen
the sickening spectacle of horses fall
ing, in harness, while dragging their
loads (something that the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
should look Into).
Subways, instead o£ relieving the
NOVEMBER 29, 1913.
Next day troopers and county offi
cers, searching for the trouble-makers,
engaged p. party of Mexicans in the
brush neui the Scrivener ranch eight
miles north of Brownsville. Two
troopers were killed and a river guard,
who was one of"the party, had the
saddle literally shot from his horse.
Two Mexicans were killed and two
captured. The remainder of the
band, estimated at about twenty- dis
appeared in the brush.
That is a sentence that occurs again
and again in the annals of the bandit
war, the report of irregular lighting
that ranges from the pursuit of a
single bandit to a pitched battle from
trenches. "The Mexicans disappeared
In the brush." To a great extent the
brush, the tangled thickets of mesquite
and chaparral, Is the crux, the heart
of the whole situation. The brush Is
the bandits' strongest ally. The Iron
tough mesquite flourishes in the ricn
soil all the way from a little bush to
a tree two feet in diameter. It is
dense and impenetrable from the
ground to a height of thirty feet.
Scattered through it are great piles of
the broad-leaved cactus, and hundreds
of the sword-like yuccas perched on
their prickly pedestals like little
palms. Where the ground Is moist
this confusion Is worse confounded by
a luxuriant growth of cane and wil
low. The whole is worse than an
African jungle.
To the Mexican native of the section
the brush is a haven of refuge, an
ideal rendezvous, a home if needs be.
and a perfect ambush from which to
attack. He can live safe and unsus
pected within a mile of a regiment of
troops. One Mexican prisoner told
of a camp of a dozen bandits where
the brush was so dense that it was Im
possible to carry a water-keg from
the nearby spring. Two men had to
push the little kegs along the ground
through the tangle of vegetation.
situation, would aKgravate it, for there
would be an additional hill to climb.
So, I plead with you—dont mock us
with your subway relief project; rather
give us nothing but what we now !
have.
If the State, in connection with its
Capitol Park extension plan, wants a
subway at State street, let it construct
one; but don't ask the Hill people to
help pay for it.
The- Hill people may get stubborn, If
driven to it.
When Behoboam, Solomon's son. suc
ceeded liis father as king, the people
asked that their burdens be lightened.
But he answered them roughlv, say
ing: "My little finger shall be thicker
than my father's loins • • • my
father has chastised you with whips,
but I shall chastise you with scorpi
ons. >
"So. when all Israel saw that the
king harkened not unto them, the peo
ple answered the king, saying: 'What
portion have we in David? neither have
we inheritance in the son of Jesse. To
your tents, O Israel! Now see to thine
house. David."
There is no threat implied in this
statement, but people, as a rule, don't
take kindly to being mocked or in
sulted
Thanking you for your fairness, in
permitting this feeble protest against
palpable unfairness to find space in
your paper. 1 remain,
Respectfully.
HILL-DWELLER.
THE WOMAN JOYRIDER
[Kansas City Times.]
A young woman was sentenced in
Chicago this week to eight years !n
the penitentiary. She had taken part
in stealing a motor car, in taking a
Joyride and in shooting up a saloon.
After her arrest, the dispatch says,
she said she went on the raid because,
she got so tired of framing mottoes
in a picture factory where she worked.
"So tired of framing mottoes."
Very likely. With no particular in
formation on this case the guess may
be hazarded that the opportunities for
wholesome amusement In this young
woman's life had been deficient. So
the repressed emotions finally broke
over in the great adventiire of tUe
theft of a motor car. and joyride and
the rest. People have got to have a
chance to play grownups as well as
children. Four things men live by,
says the wise Doctor Cabot of Boston,
are work, play, love and worship.
Amusement is recognized by modern
economists as an essential part of
human efficiency. If the chance io
play is taken away by too long hours
of work or by the failure to develop
opportunities, then there is apt to be
an explosion.
LIFE'S LOGIC
The logic of life is so simple
It leaves all the theories behind;
It's Just lo be honest and kind, lad.
Just to be honest and kind.
—Walt Mason. ,
Ebptttng CEhat
In speaking about the article ap*i
pearing In this column on Saturday
night on the names of the local dis
tricts now embraced in H&rrisburg
one of our constant reader friends
suggested that, there were some inter
esting names to he found in the towns
which ring about the city. For In
stance, he called attention to the fact
lltat West Kali-view and Worm leys
burg, which have just celebrated cctij,
tennlals. used to be called respectively]
N'eidigstown and Muttontown, al-<
(hough the use of the latter name was
never sanctioned by the people of the
place who struggled for many years
and finally, with success, to lteep their
settlement from being called Bridge
port. Bridgeport has disappeared and
Lcmoyne has taken its place, wh'le
Worm 1 eyshurg. 100 years old. goes on.
These changes are Interesting studies
In development because the farmstead
or the real estatedevelopment otto-day
may give their names to the borough of
to-morrow, or a railroad might move
away or the trend of building go ut>
a turnpike instead of along a railroad
line, ("amp Hill and White Hill furniaii
instances of such changes. White
ilill was the name of a farm which
had some outcroppings of white rocks
and was later the site of an orphans*
school, while Cainp Hill is supposed
to have been a camp site for prisoners
in the Civil War, or even belore that
used as a camp.
In regard to Harrisburg and lis
local names some friends have added
some to the list published on Satur
day. They were of rather restricted
use. but are interesting. For instance,
there was what the police called Castle
Garden, which was over near the Har
risburg Pipe and Pipe Rending Works,
and Brooklyn which was vaguely given
to the part of Sibletown Just over the
old Herr street bridge. Oinder Row
and Furnace Row were given to
strings of shanties tliat. spread out
from the old Porter furnace at Nintli
and State streets and about, the Wistcr
and Paxton furnaces as did the old
rows about Lochlel stack. Tin Mill
town was a name given to the section
about the and Grosjean tin
plate mills for a time but it became
merged Into the general designation
of the Tenth ward, just as Riverside
has become the name of the whole
district immediately north of the city.
Tlie town of Steelton is now built on
what was called Ashland farm. The
settlement along: the turnpike to Lan
caster, which was smaller than Higli
spire until the Pennsylvania Steel
works located there, was called Bald
win. probably in honor of the Phila
delphia locomotive builder. The West
Side was called Ewington from the
late Joseph B. Ewlng, who developed
It. Oberlin used to be called Church
*ille and the East Harrlsburg Railway
Company put it on the map by calling
It Oberlin. Enhaut is the fanciful
French name for Highland, the okl
name of the place and there were set
tlements known as Bressler and
Jerusalem. Paxtang is the old-new
name for the borough gathered about
old Paxton church. Everything up
this way used to be Peslitank town
ship 175 years ago. and Paxtang is
the modern name, although Paxton
church is English in its derivation.
Penbrook just grew and its name was
given to it because some one is said
to have found it in a novel, although
that has been questioned. Progress
was intended to be quite a town, but
Penbrook got the population, roxc.'/
town is older than Harrisburg atVl
was called Estherton before that. It
is said to date from 1765 and the
Hiester residence is still called Esther
ton. Coxestown and Coxe's Island
were named for Col. Cornelius Coxe,
one of the Dauphin magnates of early
days. Lucknow is a name given by
the Pennsylvania railroad to the dis
trict about Lucknow Forge. Green
Hill is a part of Lucknow. Rockvllle
was laid out about 183 8 as a part of
the old Fort Hunter district, Fort
Hunter being one of the early outposts
against the Indians. Dauphin used to
be called Port Lyon and then Greens
burg, while Linglestown was St.
Thomas. It is only ten years younger
than Middletown, the oldest town in
the county, which oddly enough never
had any other name.
A good many hunters took early
morning: trains to-day to have their
last crack at the rabbits which have
been provokingly familiar in some
sections of the country the last few
days, according to what has been
heard here. The season for quail,
rabbits and other small game ends to
morrow night when the deer hunter
will have the wilds to himself and
this morning there were numerous
hunters on the early trains, while
others left the city by automobile for
the country out about Ungiestown or
over along the mountains dividing
Cumberland and P<»rry counties.
WELL KNOWN PEOPUE "]
—Lieutenant Governor McClaln
spoke on Saturday at the dedication of
the Moose Home in Lancaster.
j. L. Replogle, who created a
furore in Cambria Steel, is not yet
forty years of age.
' —Charles M. Schwab has been
elected to the Cornell board of trus
tees. He is Htready a member of the
State College board.
E. p. Beale has been elected heail
of the Radnor hunt at Philadelphia.
Dr. D. T. Davidson, prominent in
Philadelphia hospitals, will go to the
Far East as a medical missionary.
DO YOU KNOW ~
That Harrisburg docs printing
for many firms outside of the
State?
HISTORIC HARRISBVRG
As early as 17-14 tax appeals
were held at the liousc of John
Harris.
"All Except the Fish"
Jules B. Schloss in Newspaper
dom tells the story of the darkey
who "was getting all the pleas-•
ure of fishing except the flsh." J
Some advertisers enjoy all the
expense of advertising without I
the profits.
They do not flsh wher« the
flsh are.
The shrewd advertiser finds out
where the best markets are lo
cated and uses newspaper adver
tising to land the game.
He advertises for definite cus
tomers in the most efficient way
and his bookkeepers do not have
to use red Ink for balances.
Manufacturers Interested in In
creasing the efficiency of their
advertising are invited to ad
dress the Bureau of Advertising.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association, World Building, New
York.