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THURSDAY EVENING, FEB. 21.
Love, hope, fear, faith —these make
humanity:
Wheat are its sign, and note, and
character. — ROBKRT BROWSING.
GOOD NEWS FOR STEEXTON
THE announcement of President
Grace that the plant, of the
Pennsylvania Steel Company at 1
Uteelton is to be modernized and en- ]
larged is good news indeed, not only ]
for that town itself, but for Harris
burg as well. The community had'
been stirred and depressed by the
rumor that the importance of Steelton
as a steel manufacturing center was
to be minimized by the new owners
of the property. That they intend to
continue the policy of enlargement
«hich has marked the management I
of the Pennsylvania Steel Company j
with respect to its local mills for the]
past few years means much to this;
localliy.
The expenditure of $4,000,000 at
Steelton in the past few years has !
given Ihe plant a variety of products |
that should meet with a j-eady market, j
even in times less prosperous than the
(•resent, through the effective selling
tigencies of Ihe Bethlehem Steel Com- i
p.inj. which are admitted lo be among |
Ihe most aggressive and successful in
Ihe world. The wisdom of these ex- j
Icrs-ions is now seen as never before, !
>\"d that an extensive Increase of pro- j
di-rtiafc i? expected is iudi- >
iated by the announcement ihat an !
additional blast furnace will be the)
first improvement made by the new
owntrs.
President Grace has asked for the
co-operation of the people of Harris-!
burg as well as of Steelton. Ho will!
have it. llarrisburg never fails to j
extend the hand of welcome to the
enterprising stranger at her gates. 1
Mr. Grace has been unusually frank!
in his statements, lie inspired con
fidence in ail those who met him yes
terday. He will find both Steelton
and llarrisburg ready and waiting to
assist him in whatever way possible ]
for the upbuilding of the great in-;
dustry, the control of which he and j
his fellow partners of the Bethlehem
Steel Company have recently acquired,
for whatever is of real and lasting 1
benefit to the sleel company must of
necessity be beneficial to both
borough and city. llarrisburg and ]
Steelton need the steel company, and J
Hie sleel company needs llarrisburg!
and Steelton. Their interests arc to
a very large extent identical.
It is a happy augury for pleasant I
and profitable relations in the future
operation of the plant ihat its presi-!
dent should almost in liis first words
of greeting to newspapermen ask for
Ihe co-operation of the press and the I
people. It shows that he is Tully awake '
to conditions aud that he realizes the'
importance of taking the public,;
with whom he must deal so largely.!
as far Into his confidence as present
rather chaotic conditions will per
mit.
All Indications point to a bright fu
ture for Steelton, which, of course,
includes llarrisburg.
OUR DIVERSIFIED DIET
f A CALIFORNIA university pro- 1
X X fessor, who shall be nameless,]
for chances are he will never j
loom across the newspaper horizon j
again, announces the discovery that]
tlie kind of food a man eats is respon- 1
aible for his character. For instance, !
if one eats chicken exclusively, lie says, i
"it brings out the finest trails in our!
character; beef makes us savage, and
the lighter foods, including vegetables
and fruits, make us esthetic." In
short, strong foods make us vigorous
and aggressive; light foods, mild and
meek.
What, then, shalfwe say of a people
who in the spring-time load their
lables with chicken and lettuce, and
dandelion, and fresh eggs, and straw
beries aud shad; who in the summer
have green corn, and raspberries, and
cherries, and eggplant, and cante
loupe, and watermelon, etc.; who in
the fall and winter indulge in apples,
and pork, and sauerkraut, and beef,
and mush and scrapple, and sausage,
and mix this diet up with all manner
®f other good things in and out of
season? What of such a people as
this? wo ask. Ought not they, if the
California theoiy be true, be possessed
of all the admirable traits of character
the human race is heir to? Ought not
such a people be a delightful com
| binatton of rugsjednoss and gentleness,
of meekness and courage, of solemnity
THURSDAY EVENING; HARRISBURG tdSfc&l TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 24, 1916.
and mirth? The answ»i>-42UuK be yes.
Well, that's us, rTHW/nere In fHylc old
1 larrisburg. *
Till-: BLUEBIRD'S COMJING
ABLUKBIBD sang In the tree
outside our window this morn
ing. A bluebird singing out
side a window must have prompted
the author who coined the phrase "a
bluebird for happiness." for though
but a moment before the skies were
dark and forbidding and an east wind
was threatening snow, all at once
Spring flew across the landscape, and
it was another world. Just the glad,
cheery song of a bird, and the winter
was gone. No matter what the
weatherman may visit upon us in the
next few weeks before Spring is offi
cially due. it will not be winter. A
bluebird singing outside the window
in the early morning means but one
thing the early advent of warm
days, of soft Southern breezes, of
bursting blossoms and all the hap
piness of a frozen world reawakening
,1o the throb of life.
BUILDING "AMI.RICA FIRST"
ONE of the chief efforts of cham
bers of commerce in all parts of
the United States is to hold out
inducements which will cause manu
facturing enterprises to locate in their
respective cities. The desire is to es
tablish industries which will maintain ]
large weekly payrolls.
Such efforts are laudable. A cham
ber of commerce can scarcely render
a service of greater value to its com- |
munity, and yet chambers of com- j
merce, in general, studiously avoid the j
advocacy or even the discussion of the !
principal means of establishing and j
maintaining industries which afford I
desirable payrolls. "Politics" is taboo
in chambers of commerce and the :
tariff question is regarded as politics, !
though as a matter of fact it is an eco
nomic and business question of the
highest order, if it is desirable for j
each community to have a manufac- I
turing institution with a large payroll, ;
it is equally desirable for the nation to
have a multitude of them. Every con
dition which encourages the establish
ment of industries in this country
makes it easier for each community to
secure its share. Manifestly,. there is
nothing that tends more to build up
American industries than a protective
tariff, which shuts out the products
of other lands.
One of the chief purposes of a labor
union is to secure employment for its
members at a satisfactory scale of
wages. This also is a laudable pur
pose. Experience lias shown that
there is nothing that lends more to
provide employment in this country
and maintain a high scale of wages
lhan a protective tariff, which ex
cludes the product of cheap labor from
abroad.
In labor unions also, however, poli
tics is usually barred from discussion,
except, perhaps, as to the altitude of
individual candidates toward labor
questions, instead of maintaining this
attitude toward political discussion,
labor unions should make it known
that they fully understand the value of
a protective tariff in providing employ
ment for American labor and main
taining the American scale of wages.
Here. Ilien, are two great classes of
organizations which should be insist
ent and persistent in the advocacy of
a protective tariff—the chambers of
commerce advocating such an eco
nomic policy for the benefit of the
community as A whole and the labor
unions advocating it because of its
particular benefit to the American
laborer, who is benefited by every in
crease in the demand for labor.
A XEWSPAI'KR'S HKAKi.INGS
TIIE headlines of a daily news
paper are its shop windows,"
says ihe Philadelphia Public
Ledger in one of the well-written ad
vertisements it is now causing to be
published in some of the leading
papers of the State, and adds:
If tlie meretricious, the false,
| unsound, bizarre—or worse—arc
"played up" in these shop windows,
you can readily Judge the contents
of the "store" of tile newspaper.
Scandal, crime and degeneracy
arc poor displays to attract those '
whose patronage is worth while.
! There is mu<-h that is uplifting in
the news of the day which may lie
shown to attract those who "hold
I fast to that which is true."
Sometimes, for the sake of a reform
j to be accomplished.' it is necessary for
] the conscientious newspaper to report
!in detail and give prominence to
stories of scandal and crime—but not
| often. The while light of publicity
has as curative effects when applied to
crime as has the violet ray in the treat
ment of physical disease, but, like the
violet ray, it must be applied with
i caution and used with skill and dis
crimination. Otherwise it aggravates
j rather than alleviates. The intelligent
reader will judge when the publication
|of "sensations" is yellow journalism
1 and when it. is designed for good eljfect
, rather than to morbidity.
In general, however, the Ledger's
I specifications may be safely adopted by
i any newspaper. I.ong since they have
j governed those who write the head
lines and handle the news in the offices
jof the Telegraph. Just as the sensa
tional play will draw large crowds to
; <he Iheater advertising It, so will sen
j sational headlines draw readers to a
i newspaper. But, as also it is the
I wholesome play that runs through the
' years and makes fortunes for its pro
i ducers long after the meretricious Is
forgotten, so does the conservative and
wholesome newspaper in the long run
i profit by persisiing in its policy. In
short, it. "pays to be good" in news
| paper making as in all other walks of
life.
It is not for this reason solely, how
ever, that the Telegraph prefers to
emphasize the decent and constructive
forces in the community. It believe?
that it is the duty of every newspaper
to build rather than to destroy, to be
I optlpilstic rather than pessimistic, to
I "boost" often and to "knock" infre-
I quently, to say the kind word as often
as possible and Ihe harsh word as in
frequently as may be—ln short, tc
make for uplift and happiness in tin
community it serves 1o the extent 01
, its ability, and to be upright, honest
fair-minded and clean all the time.
LK
By the Ex -Committeeman
Newspapers generally well informed
on developments in State politics are
commencing to voice the belief that
: most of the fighting in Pennsylvania
j this year will be done within the Dem
:! ocratic party. The impression is
gaining ground that there will he lit
[ tie or no contest within the Republi
can party an<l that national delegates
at large will "oe selected without oppo
sition and that even an agreement on
nominees for State offices and con
gress at large Is possible very soon.
The activity of friends of men leading
j various ramps is having its effect and
I the belief is that an agreement .will
; be made and an incursion by boomers
of one or more of the favorite sons
' from other States or of the Colonel
| will be headed off.
The Democracy of the State is fac
i ing a row over who shall be boss. All
of the Democrats influential in Slate
politics appear to be for Wilson, but
j very much divided as to who should
| he representatives of the administra
tion in this State. The feeling against
Palmer and his pals is growing daily
and it looks like a good old-fashioned
Democratic fight to settle who should
be In power at Ihe Philadelphia ma
chine shop and at the windmill in this
; city.
just why the llarrisburg siding
should be reopened by the Democrats
is puzzling a good many people be
cause if there is any county in Penn
sylvania in which the Democracy Is
split it is Dauphin. The recent post
I office appointments have destroyed
| chances of the Democrats amounting j
to anything this Fall or next.
i —The Seventeenth district Repub- j
licans will select Calvin Oreen, of j
! Lewistowti. and Harry W. Byron, of s
Mercersburg, as national delegates an«l
they wUI go to Chicago uninstructed.
This was settled yesterday at a meet
ling in the office of A. Nev... Pomerov,
State superintendent of public instruc
tion. and attended by men from each
of the eight counties. Mr. Ponieroy
I presided and Harry Bitter, Liverpool.
I was secretary. William Hertzler,
I former deputy secretary of the com-1
: monwealtli, Port Royal, and C. L. j
Darlington. New Bloomlield. were j
picked for alternates and Samuel I.
ISpyker, Huntingdon county Republi
can chairman, for presidential elec
tor. The unanimity of the conference
I was very displeasing to Democrats.
! —City Commissioner W. L. Gorgas
i is now being boomed for Democratic
national delegate from this district. I
There arc a couple of other Demo
crats with the idea that they should j
j be chosen.
—Nominating petitions for Repre
; sentaties Augustus Wildman and J. ;
|W. Swartz. of this city, are in cir-;
Iculation. The papers of Senator E. E.
Beldleman are being widely signed.
His papers will be a notable tribute to
him, say his friends.
—Justice George 11. Horning. of
i Enola. is out again as a candidate for
the legislature. He was an aspirant ;;
a few years ago.
i —Representative J. W. Yickermau.!
of Aleghehy county, who is handling I
the Governor's local option legislative j
campaign in Western Pennsylvania in]
conjunction with J. Denny o'Neil. will
be here next week to talk over the
progress of the campaign. A number]
; of candidates will be submitted to the
j Governor for his approval.
! —Friends or former Representative
George W. Allen are urging him to
come i)Ut as a candidate for the Re
publican nomination for senator in the
Forty-fifth District in Allegheny
| county, but he has not reached a de
jcision. Former Senator James L. |
: Adams is also being discussed. George
jC. Bradshaw, who has been put in the
race by David B. Johns, has started
to circulate his papers. Other prob- i
able candidates are \V. Heber Dithrich j
lof Coraopolis and William E. Sankey |
of Oar rick.
S. A. Barnum, of California, Wash-I
• ington county, who was the Democra- j
tic nominee for Congress in the Twen- ;
Ity-fourth district, last Fall, has an
nounced himself as Democratic can
didate for national delegate in tliati
district.
—L. B. Weller, merchant, Llgonier, j
Westmoreland county, to-day filed a
i petition to be a candidate for the
| Republican nomination for the House I
]of Representatives in the First West-]
• moreland district.
—Not only are there fewer ap-l
' plications for liquor licenses in Phila-i
' delphia, but liquor is under official j
j city ban. Mayor Smith added his pro-'
test yesterday to retaining in the city
service any employe who brings
liquor to work with him or who drinks i
it while on duty. "Rum and efficient j
public service is impossible," said thei
• Mayor. "My orders to the heads of]
departments is to suspend from duty
without pay at once any employe!
found using liquor while at work or'
found to be under the influence of j
liquor, or showing any evidence what-|
ever of having used liquor while on ]
duty. The suspension is equivalent to !
' ] dismissal where the facts will war-!
I i rant such action. No excuse will save
, i offending employes, no matter how |
: good the previous record." The Mayor]
1 i said that he wants to make as definite
• ] as possible this policy as affecting ail i
> i employes of the city. Because a for- 1
mal notice of the ban on liquor has \
' j been issued in but a few Instances by
5 departmental and bureau chiefs, the
i l Mayor said he regards it as neces
sary to have the staiement coming
" from him that in every department,]
3 bureau or division under the control 1
t of llie Mayor the warning against the]
i | use of liquor is to apply.
1 —Asserting their case proved, coun- I
I sel for the Rev. T. W. McKlnney, Ihe;
■contestant, declared at Coatesville that i
s quo warranto proceedings would be
I .ssued against W. L. W. Jones in
y '] Court next Monday, asking him to
e show cause why he should have quali
. i I'.ed ar. Mayor, when the evidence in
the contest hearings proved that he
had paid Stale and county tax of men
- ] in Coatesville who testified that they
o > had never authorized any one to pay
. j their tax.
a ! —The first Roosevelt boom in Phila
e j delphia was sprung last night by a
e ; group of Independent Republicans in
j the Fortv-sixth ward, who organized
" the Forty-sixth Ward Independent
s ] Republican Club. They expect to
tl s perfect organltalions in other wards
n of the city with the idea of sending
delegates pledged to Roosevelt to the
II Republican National Convention. The
- new organization plans to support for
f r.flices, from Congress on down, only
cat.dulates pledged to local option.
Speakers at the meeting denounced
• the I enrose-McNichol combination.
0 the Vare- Brumbaugh alliance and the
e r.ew Citizens' Republican League and
everything else,
s
1 LEFT BEHIND
c I From Harper's Magazine.)
o "Children." said the Sunday school
| superintendent, "this picture illustrates
I to-day's lesson. was warned to
n I take his wife and daughters aiul (lee
out of Sodom. Here is Lot and his
daughters, with his wife just behind
o them: and there In Sodom in the baclc
„ ground. Now. lias any girl or boy a
question before wc take up the study
>f 'of the lesson'.' Well. Susie?"
• i "Pleathe. tliir," lisped the. latest
• 1 graduate from the Infant class, "where
I itit the flea?"
When a Feller Needs a Friend . By BRIGGS
HASSCKJ FET-OT - I WAMT TO I
A6K YOO- DO Yoo TWIMK IT IS I
S WORTH WHILE COUTWOING \ L
—— ERICS MUSIC LESSOMS ?
// 1 1)0 HAV/E - A TIME TO L
I I 3 / MAKE HIM PRACTICE AWD IF \
1A A i / I ,T " ' SK, T X>OIM« HINA AIJY GOOD 1
/ V 4 4 * nil \AIC DONJ'T FEEL AS "THOUGH CUE I
I A'? ' ;/ / I <SH»OLX> PUT THE, M<JKJEV IOTA IT/
("TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE"]
—Come back agin, President Grace, [
ancl make a few more announce
ments.
—All the world loves a lover,' but!
by the endeavors of lovers to find \
seclusion, the affection one maj' judge
is not returned.
—Perhaps it's natural; at any rate |
about the time a girl begins to sit on j
a young man's knee is after he has
promised to support her for life.
—lt. begins to look now as though
the Czar knew what he was doing j
when lie transferred Grand Duke ;
Nicholas to the South.
—Our opinion of the Owen Wister
poem is that most of it is true but he ,
shouldn't have said it.
—Why make such o fuss about at- I
tacking armed vessels, O, Kaiser, \
when the North Sea is chock full of i
'era just waiting to be attacked?
EDITORIAL, COMMENT
One located at Last
[Houston Post.]
A North Carolina girl saved two j
trains froni being wrecked upon aj
■ broken rail. You may say what you
' please, the grand old red flannel petti
i coat is Just as noble as it was in the
i good old days of yore.
linguistic Note
fßaltimore American.]
Posted in Russia are signs that
j speaking German is strictly forbidden,
j And in Germany speaking Russian in
[ impossible.
THE SEARCHLIGHT
AN IIVSAIVE VII.I.AGE
I A whole village is now being built
I in New York State for the care of tlie
feeble-minded and insane. Already
j 1.200 patients are Installed in the four
' dormitories erected, and buildings are
' going up which will accommodate
I 3.000.
| The distribution of patients among
I the dormitories is made Hfter a rareful
[medical examination. which classifies
the exact extent to which they are ab
normal. Boys under 16 are kept sepa
! rated from the adult males, and young
1 gins are housed separately from the
older women.
One building is devoted to men who
are onlv slightly deranged or subject
to periodic lapses. Ilere they are
studied and suitable work provided
; them. Often they are given continu
' ous employment on farms surrounding
I Ihe village. Thus they aro able to help
iin maintaining the institution. Regu
| jar employment is also provided for the
1 women and girls, and in this way many
I of the patients are able to become self
-1 supporting.
1 OUR DAILY LAUGH I
I f Q ON A PALM
beach piazza.
Jl-Xral Pangs yonder
—^<7 —plUllllliH tells me he trusts
"*V his wife Implicitly
\ and absolutely,
Istr' » Well?'
Wf Well, X notice
l < lie carries his
\ {, / change and his
< fishhooks in the
l.fl same pocket.
BKTWEKX SI", * SONS
By Wing Dinger
! Yesterday was like a May day,
I the merchant thus did shout
I To his window decorator:
[ "Take the winter garments out,
| In the windows put some Spring wear,
| For the weather is so hot
| That the winter weights look stuffy
I An the people want 'em not."
I So the window decorator
! Yanked the winter garments out.
| Then some Spring and Summer gar
ments
| In the windows strewed about.
! Now to-day It's more like winter,
j And the merchant's In a stow.
' l-or not knowing how to-morrow
I Will be, what is lie. to do? '
LEARN TO SAVE
By Frederic J. Haskin
v _ /[
IF you would be really up-to-date,
save money. This is a year of
i thrift in America, it is positive-.
I ly fashionable to have a bank account
even if you work on a salary.
This year is the centennial of the
] founding of the first savings bank in
the United Stales. There are now
L',loo of them and they have ten mil
: lion depositors. The National Edu
! cational Association has offered a prize
of $l5O for the essay outlining a
method of teaching thrift in the pub
lie schools. In Springfield, Mass., a
i "Thrift Week" was observed by prac
tically the entire population not long
ago. Sermons on thrift were preach
ed in all the churches and lectures
] were given in schools and factories on
' how to save money. The movement
! was decidedly a hit with the people.
A number of other cities, including
lies Moines, Iowa; Dayton, Ohio; and
| Grand Rapids, Michigan, are planning
] to have thrift weeks.
Women's clubs, which constitute an
; excellent barometer of public inter
• est in any subject, are taking up thrift
j with all the enthusiasm for which they
] are famous. Some of them have or
ganized thrift departments, and all of
! them are having papers on thrift,
i There could not possibly be anything
| belter for the cause of thrift. If the
women decide they like it, it is here
|to stay. Furthermore, when Mrs. A.
j Clubmember prepares a paper on
thrift, you may be sure that Mr. Club
] member and the Clubmember chil-
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
REQUIESC AT TV PACK
I To the Editor of the Telegraph:
| Sir—lt is to be hoped tliat the kind
j hearted one who wrote that short let
| ter to the Telegraph a few evenings
j ago, commending to human sympathy
j the stray pup who dispensed liopeful
| friendly waggings and trustful doggy
J smiles to the general Market street
| public, was spared the sight of his
miserable end.
■ Perhaps the great dark other world
j is a happier one for pups than this
I present one when it is but a vale of
j bitter eohl and unprotected nights and
I of endless winter days of empty belly
i and gnawing hunger; and even if it
j should be taken into consideration that>
the dog mayhap doesn't endorse this
1 view, it is perhaps a necessity of public
| weal that, he should leavo us for nn
| other sphere. Yet there arc human
I ways and brutish ways of accomplish
\ ing a poor brute's end. To have sent
! the homeless pup on the Ions: journey
' with a kind word, a pat of the hand,
| and then a sudden blast of oblivion,
would have been perhaps both a neces
sity and a kindness.
But to see him dragged whirling and
spinning up the alley on the end of a
j noose that choked him tighter at every
struggle to a death preceded by the
| worse agony of panic and pain and
| fear, and horrid loss of faith in the
: race where he (like all his lovable an
j '-estry) had placed his trust, this was
I not a beautiful sijflit to a public which
| was not altogether needless of his ex
ample of absolute grouehlessness and
i courageous ability to grin when the
| world was handing him his bumps.
Those of lis who have owned a dog
or two and have gotten down some
small way into their bottomless
deapths of courage and big-liearted
ness and sameness and patience in
suffering and sweetness and miracu
lous faithfulness, so that we foster the
hope, and even feel conviction in us
some times, that these true friends will
be lined up along the shore with the
other ones we love (fairly squirming
out of his hide for unspeakable dog
joy), when we step off of Charon's
ferryboat—we who have owned a dog
i or two are led to wonder if the cop
, j who might just as easily have cajoled
| the friendly pup to his end instead of
| choking him on his whining, crying,
} frantically struggling drag up the alley
| to death, has half the heart in his
j body to face the stern jobs ahead of
I him in life as had the dog he might
• 1 have killed as a man would have killed
him.
»\s we think of the two of them
j going up the. alley together the often
j quoted words of a true lover of dogs
' and. humans comes to us again, say-
Idren will also become well posted on
I the subject. - j]
. j The Civic <'lub of Philadelphia has
I introduced talks on thrift'as a feature j
of its Leagues of Good Citizenship.
: | which are organizations in the public !
| schools for the purpose of teaching I
I proper ideals of citizenship to the chil- j
J dren. The American Bankers' Asso-j
j ciation has naturally taken up the j
j cause as its own, and members of that .
organization in New York are de- !
I livering lectures on thrift before |
. 1 meetings of all sorts. i<
J Back of this nation-wide movement j
;I to save, there must bo some funda-!
| mental force. No doubt, the sober- j
i i ing effect of the war, the realization |
i I that millions are in dire need, has
i fostered the spirit of thrift. But there
.: is a reason nearer home why the
:! American people, must save. They can
I j no longer afford to waste.
; j It was the tremendous natural
wealth of this country that made'
i ] Americans a nation of spendthrifts. :
■; Now the end of nature's bounty is j
actually in sight. All of the better
I public lands have been taken up. The j
government is carefully estimating our j
| resources of coal and oil. Water pow- j
J er is being developed and husbanded. !
I Wealth is not half so easy to create
|as once it was, and for that reason j
[there is a nation-wide appreciation of j
the necessity for conserving it. Thrift]
[means to the individual life exactly!
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ins;:
"The more T see of (logs, the less I |
think of some men."
| THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY"
Gas ad infinitum has been dis
covered at. Ellwood City, where an
1 immense well, n short distance from
• ! the city, was struck on the D. W.
I I Lesnott farm, Lesnott is the name
.i of the farm, but not the attitude
I which will characterize the working
j| of the well, the output.of which it is
' | estimated will be some 2,000,000
I | cubic l'eet per day.
- j Erie believes it is harboring; Jean
I j Crones, the poison chef who is
. j wanted in Chicago. The suspicious
! action of a stranger in a restaurant
1 in that city is authority for such a
belief. That he left the table wlth
. ! out finishing his meal, is one of the
.queer actions reported. However,
i the evidence is not strong: enough—
. i he may not have liked the prunes.
r Committees are being organized in
I the towns and cities through which
j ; the William I'enri Highway will run,
! for tiie purpose of furthering the
! project. 10. M. C. Africa, of ilunt-
I ingdon, is heading the movement and
L i his town already has a committee of I
• I over 100 members, each of whom is
. J paying $5 a year dues. Johnstown
[ ! has 200 and Aitoona expects 30.0
. | members.
; i Tcehouse owners in Lock Haven I
, | have been working overtime filling
. i their houses with the crop of frozen-1
I j water, which they fear may be the
> last of the present season. We haven't
put our skates awfey yet, however,
j and we are optimistic.
; Two hundred Bryn Mawr firemen,
. ! members of the "millionaire" lire
i i company of that place, were en
tliusiastic in their applause for the
> j speakers on "Preparedness" the other
4 evening, among them being Alba B.
1 Johnson, president of the Falawin
»I Locomotive works, and incidentally
;iof the fire company. Fitting Indeed
- is such a slogan for firefighters, to
? whom it is second-nature.
\ The latest news from the suffrage
1 camps reveals the fact that the ex
f I ponents of the votes for women party
, ! will introduce an amendment to the
State Constitution at the next session
< or the Legislature, an amendment
f , calculated to guard their rights and
t j privileges.
1 j .
Hard to l>o So. Though
I f Rochester-Union and Advertiser.]
i It in not difficult to appear brilliant
s if one can only resist the temptation to
-jlalk., ,
Evening Clfat
People who have been glancing ap
prehensively at almanacs to get line*
on the weather In store for us or
who have been musing upon the be
havior of the groundhog, wonder
ing how long the coal pile will. last
and whether it will be safe to lay off
the heavy coat, may take heart. .
Spring is coming. The first robin' v
has been seen in Capitol Park. Prob
ably a couple have been on earlv
house hunting tours to "Wildwood and
Keservoir parks, too. In anv event,
the first robin has been up in Father
Pcnn's own domain on Capitol Hill
and Spring will soon be here. For
| years, it has been understood among
observers of the birds in and about
Tlarrisburg that when Dr. John II
Fager found the first liverwort in
Wildwood Park and the first robin
had checked in on Capitol Hill that
Spring would be along beforo many
weeks. The doctor is yet to deliver
the first plant. Chickweed has been
noticed along roads and footpaths in
the parks, the first robin has been at
the Capitol and things are tending
toward Spring.
Telephone bells rang a good bit in
the Telegraph offices last night and
to-day in compliment, to the enter
prise of this newspaper in giving the
readers of all of its editions complete
accounts of the obsequies of Bishop
Shanahan, the visit of President B.
P. Grace, of the Bethlehem Steel
Company, to the plant at Steelton
with an announcement of policy and
the developments in license court. In
•spite of the efforts required the Tele
graph was enabled to present to the
readers of its first edition a complete
account of the services for the la
mented bishop together with the ser
mon of Bishop McCort in full. Tt was
printed in time for the numerous vis
itors who came hero for the funeral to
take with them on the early after
noon trains and was the only first,
edition to contain an account of the
services. Likewise the first edition of
the Telegraph contained an exclusive
account of Mr. Grace's visit. In other
words the Telegraph's first edition
was up to the minute and its first edi
tion was as finished a product as its
I last.
County Recorder .Tamps E. T,entz
has solved successfully the problem
of (lie "panhandler"—the professional
borrower of a dime or a quarter who
constantly figures that the public offi
cial is legitimate prey for the price of
a drink.
The other day an unshaven citizen
slouched into the office, waited about
awhile, and finally stepped up to Mr.
Lentz.
"You're Recorder L,entz, aren't
you?" he suggested confidentially.
"Could I see you a minute—pri
vately?"
The recorder glanced keenly at his
caller. Then he settled the panhan
dling question for all time:
"No, sir," he declared, in a tone
that approached a mild shout. "You
can't see me privately. This is a public
office and anything you may want to
say to mo must be said publicly."
But his guest had suddenly de
parted.
* * •
The State Board of Education has
confided to Dr. Nathan C. Schaeffer,
State superintendent of public instruc
tion; Dr. J. George Recht, its secre
tary, and William Lauder, secretary
nf State Industrial Board the pro
ject of considering a plan for Hie pro
posed State educational building which
is to ultimately house the offices of
the Commonwealth's educational sys
tem. The building will hardly be
erected for years to come, but it will
be thought out and a program out
lined when the State completes the
!Capitol Park extension. One of the
| features of the building will likely
: be a big auditorium for iheetings of
[ State-wide importance.
Recent announcement by the State
Forestry Department that it had some
millions of trees to distribute for re
forestation of woodlands, but not for
shade or ornamental uses, has re
sulted in a demand for trees which is
held to indicate the widespread in
i terest in reforestation. Many of the
j trees arc of varieties which are es
! pecially fitted for improving water
supplies and some organizations have
| aslced for a couple of hundred thou
i sands, agreeing to make reports on
[the way they thrive. Because of the
demand and the reawakened interest
lin trees as water conservators the
i State will plant many millions of seeds
in its twenty-four tree nurseries this
year.
» • 1'
Bishop Eugene A. Garvey, who was
! here yesterday for the services of his
friend. Bishop Shanahan. Is a native
of Carbondale. and was in charge of
parishes at Pittston and Williams
port before being elevated to the Al
toona diocese.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE*
Joseph CaufTield. former mayor
of Johnstown, hils started a savings
bank in Johnstown.
Dr. E. If. Yunker, the new presi
dent of the State Veterinary Medical
Association, is a prominent vet
erinarian. , „ ,
Mayor G. 11. Bally, of Union
town, has created a stir by saying
some councilmen ought to resign.
Burgess J. S. Grubbs, of Wash
ington, Pa., made the address at the
annual celebration of Washington s
birthday. This celebration takes the
form of a carnival and has been held
for ninety years.
Or. Nathan C. Schaeffer is to ad
dross the Cambria county school
teachers at their institute next week.
p v . William Patterson, former
Philadelphia clergyman, now in
Toronto, is visiting old friends in
this State. „
Dr. E. F. Eshelman, former Car
bon county treasurer, is said to h «ve
legislative ambitions.
I DO YOU KNOW \
i
That Harrisburg iron Is used
for horseshoe making In a nuin
lier of plants?
—
HISTORIC .HARRISBURG
The first Harrisburg Academy was
located in Front street, according to
old records.
"How She Shops"
Careful observation Indicates
that the woman who clioosos a.
coat or suit visits at least two
stores before she purchases.
She likes to compare styles
and prices particularly styles.
And for this same reason the
woman is a reader of newspaper
advertising.
She reads the advertising first
and makes up her mind which
three stores she wants to visit.
Sometimes the advertising may
be so definite anrl convincing that
Fhn needs to visit only two stores
-—perhaps only one, to make her
purchase.
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