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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
A KBWSPAPBR FOK THE HOME
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THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 23
tool: for goodness, loolc for gladness,
you will meet them all the while;
\f you briny a smiling visage
To the glass you meet a smile.
— AI.ICE CABT.
IIVHRISBURGERS INTERESTED
EDWIN P. HERMAN, president of
city Planning Commission, in
troducing Alton D. Albert, mu
nicipal expert, to the Chamber of Com
merce and the Rotary Club yesterday,
snid:
Thai 175 men will come hi re dur
ing the busiest hour of a duy th:?t
is most disagreeable from Hie
standpoint of the weather to hear
an address, from which nobody will
get any direct personal benefit, is
to m" ail indication that Harris
burgers are interested in city af
fairs and In the development of
ilielr home town.
in the light of the lack-interest of
a few years since, it is remarkable
indeed that the I'hamber of <'ommerce
luncheon-* should be so uniformly well
attended. Men who formerly could
not be induced to attend meetings
where city matters were under discus
sion now not only attend, but readily
pay for the privilege. It is, as Mr.
Herman said, a very good sign.
MII/EERSBIRG MOTOR CI,l li
THE Millersburg Motor Club an
nounces its annual banquet for
the evening of April 4. This club
is one of the live wires of the upper
end and it is not likely that the occa
sion will be allowed to pass without
some action looking toward the im
provement of the highway between
Hiis city and that town.
State Highway Commissioner Cun
ningham lias taken steps to that end
and motorists will not rest content
until the biggest town in the upper end
is connected by good road with the
capital of the county. Another matter
that has had the attention of the Mil
lersbtirg club for some time is the
project of a bridge across the Susque
hanna at Millersburg. Eventually this
must come. Millersburg and all Dau
phin county would protit thereby and
•a means of communication between
the east and west shores of the river
would do much to provide a proper
outlet for the agricultural products of
that thriving district and for a general
Interchange of trade.
A NEW HOLDING CODE ,
HARRIBBURGERB heard many
things of interest in the addres.s
of Allen D. Albert at the Tech
nical High School last evening, but
nothing of more immediate import
ance than the enactment of a new
nnd up-to-date building code for the
• Ity. No European city of any size
would for a moment tolerate the
crimes against utility and beauty im
posed upon us by every builder who
chooses the wrong or selfish way in
stead or the right and public-spirited
wa .v.
Frank Koester, city planner and
author of "Modern (,'ity Planning and
Maintenance," goes at gome length
into the codes of foreign cities and
shows that it is only by strict? super
vision that the admirable results ac
complished there may be attained
bere. For example. Hie regulation
heights of buildings, on which Mr. Al
bert laid so much stress in his ad
dress last evening, he linds Is one of
a considerable number of regulations
enforced abroad. Among other im
portant ones are those affecting the
ratio of the area of the building to
that of the lot, the separation of
buildings, classes of buildings, classes
of areas between buildings, minimum
number of rooms in an apartment,
window area, height of ceilings and
cubic contents of sleeping rooms.
The area of the lot which may be
built, over in cities in the grand duchy
of Baden, for instance, the regulations
of which are regarded as being very
well worked out, varies, according to
the zone, from three-quarters to four
fifths of the total area. In the out
lying districts these figures are re
's ersed, it being permissible to build
only over from one-quarter to one
fifth of the total area of the lot.
In other cities the regulations vary,
being about on the same basis, but al
ways differing in accordance with the
*one.
The buildings and the courts are di
vided Into from five to nine different
classes, and regulations are made to
suit each class.
The regulations abroad in regard to
the classes of buildings which are
usvd as workiiitfmeii'b homes rvquiru
THURSDAY EVENING, HARRIBBURO TELEORAPH MARCH 23. I<M«.
I the apartment used by a family to
consist of not less than three rooms
—a living room, a sleeping room and
a kitchen. The living room Is required
to be of a certain else—in Wiesbaden,
75 square foet; throughout Haden,
107 square feet; In Karlsruhe, 130
square feet; In Mannheim, 160 square
feet, at the minimum. In the latter
, city the kitchen must be not less than
130 square feet in area. There are
also requirements as to the total area
of the rooms, which In Duesseldorf,
Maedenhurg and throughout. Saxony
must be not less than 320 square
i feet.
The height of the rooms is generally
1 placed at not less than 2.5 meters, or
8.2 feet, while the window area must
be from one-eighth to one-twolfth of
I the area of the floor, an average
figure being one-tenth.
The regulations as to space not built
' upon are sometimes based on th 6 num
ber of families occupying a building.
In Altona 160 square feet per family
must be left.open in tlse main portions
of the city, while In the suburbs 1.100
squure l'eet per family must be left
I open.
Among other regulations arc those
in reference to light, there being pro
visions to the effect that certain win
dows of buildings shall receive light at
angles of from 30 to 60 degrees over
' the walls of others, but these regula
-1 tions are of a somewhat complicated
nature and not easily applied. In I.on
don the right of "ancient lights" has
had the effect of causing theaters to
' be built practically underground, so
that the highest priced seats are lo
cated in the gallery near the street!
level, and the pit is far below.
Regulations in some German cities
extend to the styles of architecture, i
For example, in old cities which were
once fortified, such as Nuernberg, all
buildings within the ring or location
of the old fortifications must be built
in the fourteenth century style. This
' regulation preserves the individuailty
and atmosphere of the central por
tion of the city. In Dresden, in cer-
I tain residential districts, a peculiar
i kind of iron fence of a certain height j
and design is required, which gives
i that portion of the city a decided in
dividuality. The whims of household
ers thus are not permitted to destroy
the appearance of the city.
We in llarrisburg may not he, and
probably are not, ready to go to these
lengths as a whole. But they offer
valuable suggestions nnd certainly
we owe our people more than shelter
from the elements in the way of an
abiding place. Every man. woman
and child has a tight to a fair share
of sunlight and air. Every one of
them must have these things, and
something in the way of beauty, too.
If we are to grow and develop as a
city as we so much desire to do. We
have done fairly well along other
lines. Now let us take up seriously
and aggressively this housing prob
lem, and solve it.
Those hopeful persons who are look
ing for an early adjournment of Con
gress should forget it. Only one ap
propriation bill has been thus far pass
! Ed —and the revenue legislation has not
, i yet been thought of in any serious man
ner. Secretary McAdoo is now off on a
junketing trip to South America and
will not be back in Washington until
about the middle of May. Congress
will not take up the discussion of reve
nue bills until after that—and it Is
, evident that the most vigorous contests
of the session will turn upon the ques
tion of taxation. If nothing is done
on the tax bills until the middle of
May, how long will It take to dispose
1 j of them, under the ordinary conditions
| which prevail in Congress? If the ses
[ sion can be brought to an end by Oc-
M tober, it will surprise many experl
, enced observers.
i
WOMEN AND FISHING
THE Fish Commissioner of New
York State, in the course of a
communication to the Legis
' j lature the other day, gave voice to the
■ opinion that "women are a negligible
factor so far as fishing is concerned."
i Tut, tut, and again tut! The man
isn't, qualified for his job. Women a
■ negligible factor in fishing, forsooth!
! Why the very idea! Was the commis
( sioner never a boy, and did he never
plan a fishing trip on Saturday morn
i ing only to find that his mother had a
prearranged program for whitewash
ing the back fence or hoeing the gar
den? Or hnvtng gone, didn't he find
that the most enjoyable feature of the
day's sport was the lunch mother
packed for him, eaten though it was
with fingers that had a distinct odor
iof angleworms about them, from a
stone that served as a table and a seat
that was the dryest of several very
damp spots along the edge of the
j creek ?
1 "Women a negligible factor In fish
ing?" Perhaps, so far as actual han
! dling of the pole is concerned. But
, take it from one who knows, she wields
I a potent influence over many a fishing
j party.
WE WANT NONE OF THEM
FOUR chicken thieves, convicted
and ordered out of Cumberland
~| county for a period of years, are
" \ headed this way, news dispatches say.
I With all due respect for the courts
of Cumberland county, we want none
of this gentry. Tiie Telegraph agrees
most heartily with a recently expressed
J ! sentiment of Judge Kunkel, who said
j he doubted the wisdom of ridding one
county of criminals by ordering thern
I into another. Judge Kunkel expressed
| the belief that the judges of the State
are not. responsible for law and order
merely within the confines of their
j own districts, but that It is their duty
j to safeguard society in all of the coun
ties, so far as it lies within their power,
and to punish by imprisonment or fine
rather than by ordering violators of
i the law from one county Into another.
! Dauphin county has sufficient law
breakers of its own. It wants none
from Cumberland or any other county.
j "Where Government and Business
Meet" is the title of a self-laudatpry
a | article In the New York Annalist by
j Secretary of Commerce Redfleld. They
jwtll meet at the polling place Novem
:> tier 7, 1916. following which the present
P j Government will surrender control to
uilhe Republican parly Mulct 4, 1917.
The Days of Real Sport BRIGGS
T>c u
By the Kx-Committeeman
Senator Penrose's reported state
ment at Washington last night that he
had not said that Theodore Roosevelt
would be acceptable to him as Pres
idential possibility following so close
ly upon the reports from Pittsburgh
that the Senator was not as violently
opposed to him as of yore, took prece
dence as a topic to-day over the de
velopment of the Brumbaugh cam
paign and the possibilities of the Bull
Moosers' State conference.
Pittsburgh people give the same
idea as that conveyed by the Pitts
burgh Dispatch in its article of yester
day morning. Mayor Armstrong is
quoted by some people as saying that
Penrose is softening toward Roosevelt.
On the other hand Senator Penrose
said at Washington: "I have given no
statement that Roosevelt would be
acceptable to me and 1 certainly do
not want to be quoted on every desul
tory rumor that is given out."
Hull Moosers here to-day appeared
to be somewhat miffed that the colo
nel should be mentioned In connec
tion with the Senator at all and at the
Brumbaugh headquarters continent
was avoided. There have been ru
mors that it was one of the Brum
baugh managers' plans to throw the
Governor's strength to the colonel if
opportunity arose.
• —The presence here to-day of J.
Denny OW'eil, the former Allegheny
county commissioner and leader of the
Governor's local option fight in West
ern Pennsylvania, caused a report to
he circulated that he was here in re
sponse to a request of the Governor
to discuss delegate matters. The Gov
ernor is known to be anxious to avoid
having Public Service Commissioner
Magee Involved in a battle for dele
gate. The Penrose forces In Allogheny
county are also said to be willing to
have the commissioner become a dele
gate without a fight as a compliment
to him.
—The Brumbaugh headquarter last
night announced that the name of
the committee in charge would be
"The Campaign Committee for a Re
uniteii Republican Party." The head
quarters was busy last night and to
day on petitions, but no list of the
names of the men who will be run
will be made public for some days.
When it is given out the names of the
committee in charge of the Gover
nor's campaign will be announced.
The Governor will head the list of
delegates.
—Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia,
has taken up- the question over the
transit, plans in Philadelphia with
considerable vigor and is bavin* in
vestigations made which he believes
will settle many of the matters which
have arisen. The mayor says that
the people shall have what they want
Representative C. A. Rowcll, of
Philadelphia, will not be a candidate
again. Herman 1.. Ileeht, former
member, will succeed him.
—Congressman H. J. Steele, of Eas
ton, is out for renoniination by the
Democrats. His friends are not those
of A. Mitchell Palmer.
—The Philadelphia Record prints
this interesting item about Philadel
phia politics: "The plan of the Vare
followers to raid at the May primar
ies all of the wards now controlled by
leaders atlllia'ted with the Penrose-Mc-
N'ichol w)ng of the Organization will
not receive the full encouragement
of Mayor Smith. One ward In which
the Mayor will not permit factional
strife for the purpose of taking the
leadership away from a McNichol
lieutenant is the Twelfth, where Re
gister of Wills James B. Sheehan holds
undisputed sway. In a conversation
with some friends yesterday the
Mayor made the assertion that he
would neither brook any interference
by outsiders with Sheehan'H conduct
of Republican affairs in the Twelfth
ward, nor would he sanction or aid
any attempt to oust Sheehan as leader
of the ward."
—Men identified with the machine
wing of the State Democracy arc in
sisting tliat thero will be plain Mailing
on the slate for delegates at large
notwithstanding the story that Weh-
Bter Grim, of Bucks, candidate for gov
ernor In 1910, has aspirations to run
for delegate. A man well versed said
to-day: "The Democratic State lead
ers have agreed upon a slate of dele
gates-at-large to the Democratic na
tional convention in St. Louis. The
following men have been agreed upon
as candidates: A. Mitchell Palmer,
Monroe; Judge Voris Auten. North
umberland; Jere I?lack, York; Wil
liam A. Glasgow and Roland S. Mor
ris, Philadelphia; T. H. Given, Alle
gheny: Senator W. Wayne Ilindman,
Clarion; William Mcintyre, Mercer:
Hubert E. l.ee, Schuylkill; John T.
l.enahan, l.iuserne: E. J. Eynett, Eack
awanna; Charles A. McAvoy, Mont
gomery.
—First Deputy Attorney General
William H. Keller last evening issued
an opinion in the matter of the print
ing on ballots of the stand of candi
dates for delegate. It is held that the
Secretary of the Commonwealth must
certify to county commissioners, who
will have charge of the printing; of the
ballot, whether candidates file with
their affidavits a statement whether
they will, or will not, support the
popular choice for president in their
districts. This must appear 011 the
ballot.
—The Governor's Philadelphia
headquarters issued last night com
mendations of Ills stand from people
in Chester, Huntingdon and other
counties several of whom are personal
friends.
—in dispatches from Washington
the Philadelphia Ledger to-day says:
"The suggestion that Philander ('.
Knox, of Pennsylvania. be chosen
temporary chairman of the Republi
can National convention to deliver
the "keynote speech" and to preside
over the organization and prelimin
ary business of the convention has
been received enthusiastically by the
Pennsylvania members of Congress.
The subcommittee on arrangements
of the Republican National committee
having postponed making its choice
of temporary chairman until April,
members of this subcommittee will be
made acquainted in tlie meantime with
the sentiment in favor of Mr. Knox."
—R was stated at the Treasury De
partment in Washington last night
that John W. Glover, deputy collector
of internal revenue in Philadelphia
and detailed to the drug act investiga
tions. has offered his resignation. It
was announced that Glover's resigna
tion will not take effect until the pres
ent term of the United States District
court in that city has terminated.
Glover is needed in prosecuting the
many cases of alleged violation of
anti-narcotic law.
TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE"
—The night watchman is a man
constantly looking for something ho
hopes he won't find.
—The trouble with the modern
drama is that, nobody recognizes the
villain until well along toward the
I last act.
—Spring, sprang, sprung! Stung!
[ —"Scouis suspect Villa has re
| treated to the hills," news item. Gosh,
! somebody must have told 'em.
—lf President Wilson Isn't careful,
first tiling he knows he'll have that
fellow Carranza getting the note writ
ing habit.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
NOW A-DAYS.
Itt I'll bet that in
r 4Wf L*. day " B one by men
/ AT ** not b ac k
ft (Hfl to thelr wives in
\ ® ]"•*' the fashion they
do now-a-days.
mH—~ The telephone
1« certainly a
\ip great Invention.
DEGREES OF ,
FINANCE. J
Did Hwift bor
row money to
higher financier:
he bought an auto ~
to borrow money.
IT SI'ITF.I) >IK
Bjr W in* Dintrr
Most folks bad an ugly grouch
I All day yesterday.
Just because It rained so hard
And did pave one's way
With a lot of-sloppy slush,
But It made me smile,
'Cause it cleared the golf course, bo.
For a little while.
I've been wantln' to get out
For a few weeks back.
At the pill with some new clubs
To take a good crack.
But 1 couldn't, 'cause the snow
Covered all the ground— %
Hope now, though, the next rain won't
For two luontiia come 'round.
A Store Owned by Factory Hands
By Frederic J. Haskin
A CO-OPERATIVE store that sells
to is patrons at 5 per cent, less
than any other store in the same
; city, and pays dividends upon its stock
j in addition, certainly deserves a high
' place on the long list of community
mercantile enterprises that have been
' launched in recent years. The c<>-
j operative idea seems to be sweeping
the country: but of co-operative stores
j only a few have attained success.
The employes of a great cotton mill
at Columbia, South Carolina, are Ihe
I owners and operators of this par-
I ticular venture, and its present suc
| cess crowns a long list of instructive
I failures.
The first cotton mills at Columbia
were built in 1895 by a man named
j Whaley, who was not only a nianufac
i turer, hut a dreamer and a philan
! tliropist. The mills lie erected were
architectural masterpieces, and are
still among the most beautiful indus
: trial buildings in the United States.
But his great purpose was to make
of his factories an ideal working place
for the poorer classes of white people
!in South Carolina, lie took many
measures for the comfort and welfare
of his employes which have since been
EDITORIAL COMMENT
'
The Office Han ltd Triumph*
1 From the Columbia State. I
| The office may not seek the limn, but
! It often manages to hold him pretty
J well after It gets him.
Our of His Few lllcmklok*
1 From the Toledo Blade. |
A paragrapher doesn't have to worry
about the possibility of hurting the
feelings of his Mexican readers.
Better Double It
I From the Hartford Courant.l
Let the average business man make
a note of how much of his dally mall
goes into the waste basket and then
decide whether it is b«st to double tlip
I amount the tired letter carrier shall
| carry by cutting postage In half.
WHAT A WORLD
if you don't go to church you are
i not good.
, If you go to church you are a hypo-
I crite.
If you dress shabbily you are a
I failure.
j If you dress well you are trying to
| bluff.
If you don't give to charity you are
a tightwad.
If you give to charity you do it for
show.
If you don't drink you are no kind
| of a regular guy.
If you do drink you are not a de-
J sirable person to know.
Tf you wear a beard it is to hide a
homely face.
If you are smooth shaven it is to
II ry to look younger.
If you let your wife waste your
: money you are a fool.
1 If you refuse to let your wife
1 waste your money you are a brute.
If you lose a lot of money you are
I Idiotic.
1 If you make a lot of money you are
i a crook.
j If you tango you are frivolous.
If you don't tango you are 11 back
number.
I If you are.poor you are no good.
If you are rich you got it by rob
bing others.
If you die you dissipate.
If you live to a good old age you
'attained it. through laziness.
If. when you die. you go to it
lis because you deserved it.
If, when you die, you go to Heaven
I you got there by mistake.
J So what's Ihe use?— Boston Globe.
DNE DAY'S DEVELOPMENT
ITEMS IN FLORIDA
Boys of Brooksvllle form a club for
raising thoroughbred hogs.
Paving of twenty miles of the high
j way between Tampa and Jacksonville
1 is added by the Putnam county bond
election for $80,00t).
Polk County flood Roads Associa
tion is working to secure a full vote
on the proposed bond issue of $1,250,-
000, which will be used in paving 211
miles in highways.
Governor Trammell proclaims
Thursday, March 23, as good roads day
In Florida.
Tampa Real Estate Board and
Tampa Board of Trade Join Tampa
Civic Association In big movement for
| the beautifying of Tampa in all sec
tions.—Tampa Times.
NOTHING MATTERS
[Chicago Newsl
While trying to submarine Ihe Wil
son administration Mr. Bryan is ob
livious to the fact that it has the
ijiatiujial Uouuj: ou bvaid.
adopted by progressive manufacturers
all over the I'nited States.
One of his favorite projects was the
establishment of a community store
which should retail the necessities of
; life at wholesale prices; and the store
was actually opened and operated
for a time upon that basis, lint the
1 mills passed out of Whaley's hands
| and into those of a great eorporn
] lion, which tried to run the store as
a part of its business.
This attempt was a failure, appar
ently because of the refusal of the
workers 10 patronize it. The store
then passed into the hands of a com
i mercial company, which likewise
made a failure of its operation and
was glad to Ret out.
At this point, another man of ideals
J entered into the situation in the per-
I son of fl. G. Wellborn, who was then
I manager of the Cotton Mills Company.
; lie felt sure that there should be some
way of operating this store so that it
I Would be both a convenience and an
' economy to the working people; and
in order to determine how this might
| be done, he went to the people them
[ Continued on Page 14.]
| | THE STATE FROM DA/TODM"
The movie-habit In the case of
! l.illtan Dallas, Ift years old. of Powder
Mill and Nicetown Pa., seems to
have besn atiticted with the curse of
the "double-tongue," as the Indians
i were wont to call those whose Imagin
ation ofttlnics led them to flights of
fancy in which truth had no part.
This girl's lather was a Parisian
gambler and her mother a Montreal
actress, and she herself lold the
Philadelphia police a series of fairy
tales about boing a mistreated heroine
' and white slave and gambler and a
1 possessor of many other unsavory
qualities. And yet it is said that
movie censorship is not needed.
"Why not make a woman Secretary
lof the Navy? She would be able to
| keep up with the rapid changes in
style among the navies of the world,"
iis the sage query which emanates
I from the Allentown t'hronicie and
{News. Wonder how the sally would
I appeal to the present secretary?
Preparedness among housewives Is
' prevalent in Haaieton, notwithstand
ing the prospects for an amicable set
tlement between the miners and
I operators. t'oal and food are the
| chief articles being stored up for fu-
Jture consumption.
Does advertising pay? Two little
j homeless New York girls are of the
! a (Urinative opinion. Recently their
! pictures were displayed in a Heading
1 paper and already they have been
adopted Into two good families, who
j seemed very anxious to take litem.
We read in the Philadelphia North
' American, in its biological column, of
a snapping bug which when upsel
throws himself In the air and flops,
using his backbone like a springboard.
It has been our observation that this
I hug is a very good example for us to
] follow, for it is usually the case that
\ the man without any backbone is the
| one who has no "spring" to him, no
clastic vitality. There are bugs and
hugs.
Do not black your chief's eves!
1 There may be temporary satisfaction
in so doing, hut it costs money in the
courts and money is the means of
j subsistence. D. I''. Adams, of Read
ing, lias found this out.
There is a suit pending in Potts
vllle before Judge Brumm for dam
ages against Sheriff Murphy for dump
ing 1,000 barrels of beer, belonging
to the Schuylkill Helm Brewing Com
pany. ' into a streaiYi. The cows and
the chickens, to say nothing of the
; fish, were heard to chant, "This is the
Life."
E. Sing, a Chinese laundryman in
| Altoona, was robbed the other eve
-1 ning and got awake just before the
I job was finished. Whereupon K.
| Sing, clad in his night apparel and
I in other respects meeting the require
ments of one of Riley's famous poems,
made a dignified pursuit in the newly
fallen snow, to the extreme discom
fort of his bare feet.
HELPFUL WARNING
Tl.ondon Standard.]
An Irish surveyor attached to a
district which suffered severely, from
floods posted up this notice in a vil
lage which lay in a valley; "Notice
is hereby given that when this board
is under water this road in impass
ible,"
iEtonmg (Eljat
One of lhe moat novel plans to win
the interest of the purent In education
of children and at the same time t»
develop usefulness is reported by Stat®
educational authorities from l-'ayetta
county where Superintendent Ira H»
Hess has evolved a system of horn#
credits, lie made a list of sixty-two aa«
tlvlties, chores, jobs about the
home work or whatever else you maV!
choose to call them, and will glva
credits in annual reports for the way
they are done. Not only the way it
is done, but the attitude of the child,
willingness, cheerfulness, promptness
accuracy and neatness will enter into
computation of the credits. The
parent Is asked to make a special re*
port. Youngsters need not enroll for
home credit work and any one is free
to quit the credit contest at any
time, but a good reason must, be given.
It seems like a good idea and one
which could be followed in some Har
risburg schools.
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Hosts of friends of Captain Robert
C. Williams, commandant of Ihe local
recruiting station for the United State*
army, are awaiting with considerable
eagerness the results of the army ex
amination which Captain Williams is
now undergoing at Port Ontario,
t iswego, N. V.. for promotion to
major. Captain Williams had been
retired from, active service several
years ago and took command of th®
general recruiting station here. Under
his jurisdiction the Harrlsburg station
won a place in the front rank ot
cities of this size in the country as a
recruiting center. About a year ago
Congress passed a bill permitting offi
cers on inactive service to undergo
examination for return to the active
line. Captain Williams accordingly
applied for a chance to return to ac
tivo service and incidentally to win
the gold oak leax'es.
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Harrlsburg is taking an Interest In,
Spanish. Inquiries are being made at
the new Public Library almost dally
for books in that language and the
trustees are now securing names of
books which afford means of easy
study and standard works which are
easy to read. Attention is also to be
given to books in Spanish on com
mercial subjects and the titles of the
books which may interest, persons who
desire to learn the coming language
of this hemisphere will soon bo an
nounced. The study of Spanish has
been pursued by a number of people
in this city and they have been ask
i ing for such books.
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< >n the subject of Spanish It mfey l>e
: said that it is now being given at
! lent ion in a number of the schools in
I this pari of tho state, Judging from
j what men who get about among
I educational folks say. In a city pot
far from Harrlsburg some students in
a High School organized a (class and
j wore helped by a teacher who knew
I Spanish and was enough Interested to
j conduct the extra class without com
pensation. When it Is'considered how
j many products are turned out in this
community which are salable to the
j south of 11s the importance of a
knowledge of the language can bs
realized.
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Captain S. M. Rutherford, who Is
j in the Mexican expedition with his
I command of cavalry, has spent sev-
I oral years on the border. He lias a
i wide knowledge of Mexican affairs and
; has spent much time faniillnrial nil
| himself with the condition which thu*
i American troops are encountering.
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The conferences being held at the
iCapitol this week by experts of the
Department of Labor and Industry
are going to have an important bear
ling on State affairs. They will formu*
late the policy In regard to approval
of plans for construction of every*
thing from school houses to factories,
including fire escapes and other equip
ment. The experience of several years
is being brought together and ar
rangements are being made to put
| them into effect, so that the dephrt.
mental policy in regard to approvals
may be well established and well
known to everyone. When the grades
get to know what the State demands
things will be considerably easier for
all hands.
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' The State Department of Agricul
ture, which maintains "an up-to-date
! bulletin service on agricultural ac*
tlvittes, Is asking and answering ques*
tions which have considerable
stimulus In them. Here is one: "How
many bushels of corn must you raise
' on your land in order to pay six per
I cent, on the money you have Invested?
: Experts have answered this question
ias follows: A yield of 86 bushels to
lan acre on SSO land; 42 bushels per
acre on SIOO ground; 5 4 bushels pe(
acre on S2OO ground; fit! bushels pe*
| acre on $250 ground and 72 bushels
| per acre on land valued at $3 76 pe*
! acre."
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i Col. L. A. Wat res, of Scranton, who
'was here yesterday, is the grand*
I master of the Masons of Pennsyl
vania and one of the big men of
Eastern Pennsylvania. Col. Wat res
was a colonel In the National Guard
and is now a member of the State
Armory Board.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE*]
I ' u r . James A. Dale, former mem*
ber of the Mouse from York, has re
turned from his winter trip to Florida.
—A. G. Connelly, prominent in slat a
belt affairs, has been elected a trus
tee of Nazareth Hall.
\V. H. Truesdale, president of tli«
Lackawanna, has been in railroad
work since' he was a youth.
The Rev. W. Charles Wallace, tlw>
new head of Westminster College, it
I a Rraddork minister.
Harry 3. Hill, the active spirit ot
the Johnstown Y. M. C. A. has re
signed to enter Red Cross work.
| DO YOU KNOW ~
Tliat Harrlsburg steel Is used la
making road rollers?
HISTORIC HARRISBUR©
The island now owned by the cit.*
and containing the tiller plant used to
be the favorite picnic ground years
ago.
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