10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A SEH SP.IPER FOR THE HOME FouHdrd list Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEI.KtiH.tFH PRIXTIXti CO.. Ttiemfk Huildins. Federal Square. E. J. STACK POLE. Pres't an J EdttjrinCkitf F. R. OYSTER, Busintu iljnasrr. GITS M. SHEINMETZ. Manors EJiter. * Member American Newspaper Pub § Ushers' Assocla sylvanla Associat — Gcs Building, Chl ~~ cago. 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg-. Pa., as second class matter. , By carriers, six cents & week: by mail. J3.00 " a year in advance. femora dallr average circulation ror tha , three months ending; April 1, 1810, "»• 22,432 * Theae l(nrr> are «et. All returned, auaold and damaged copies deducted. WEDNESDAY EVENING. APRIL 12 He irho aspires to nothing, who Irarns nothing, is not tcorthy of til ing.— Hei ps. SEVENTY YEARS A RAILROAD SEVENTY years ago to-morrow the State of Pennsylvania grant ed a charter to the Pennsylva nia railroad—then a more or less vague dream, to-day the most wonder ful reality in the universe of (transpor tation, the standard railroad of the world. What a far cry it is from the little single track, wood-burning system that followed the granting of this charter to the four tracks and the giant mile-a-minute locomotives of the present day, and yet in what a brief space of time the miracle has been accomplished. There are living to-day those who saw the first loco motive go rumbling and screeching through the erstwhile quiet valleys of the Juniata between this city and Al toona. Only the other day there died in Harrisburg the man who drove that engine, and scores there are in this city who for fifty years or more have helped in the development of the great railroad enterprise now known as the "Main Line." Just as the canal boat supplanted the stage coach, so the railroad came along and displaced for all time the system of internal waterways that ■were then the wonder of all the world. The speeding "day-coach," crude and uncomfortable as it was as compared with our modern drawing rooms on wheels, soon pushed from the slug gish streams of the paralleling canals the natty "packets" as a means of pas senger transportation and it was not long until even the palatiallv-fitted "yacht" of Superintendent Wierman, that used to arouse the envy of the na tives as it was dragged along at trot ting speed the length of the old canal, was tied up for the last time at its Harrisburg dock, where its furniture gathered the dust of disuse.its pretty green curtains faded and the junkman finally claimed it for his own. What the coming of the railroad meant for Harrisburg and the Juniata valley is well illustrated by the fact that wherever it touched it brought growth and prosperity and that the towns which were isolated by reason that they were "off the line" have shown little or no development in the years since the first tie was laid. Old Father Harris will doff his hat to-morrow to the "Pennsy"' and to the hardy and enterprising men who have built it from a mere permit on paper granted by the State to the gigantic transportation system it is to-day. HARR3SBI RG ON THE >1 \P HARRISBURG has benefited more than any other city, perhaps, in the wide publicity given our splendid program of public improve ments which has attracted the at tention of all civic workers. There bas just crime to the Telegraph a copy of a publication issued by the Com mittee of One Hundred at Newark, which contains a number of articles designed to show the progress of that city along civic lines. As'we have contended right along, it Ts quite as necessary for a city to know itself as for individuals to know them selves. Harrisburg must not hide its light under a bushel. Many commendable things have been achieved here dur ing the last fifteen years and it is entirely proper that what lias been accomplished should be known far and wide that others seeing our works may profit thereby. More and more as cities study their own problems they are learning how necessary is a wider measure of home rule. of legislation snd regulation during the last few years has been toward the centraliza tion of municipal control in the State rather than in the city. Governor Brumbaugh recently gave voice to the popular protest against this tend ency and we rather expect that the next Legislature will hear from him on this question. Our citizens are hampered entirely too much by laws that ought to be repealed or amended so as to give the municipalities greater liberty of action In affairs which concern them only and which do not infringe in any way upon the rights of other communities or the Slate at large. How absurd it is. for Instance, that public utilities shall beg Ihe State for permission to do this or that WEDNESDAY EVENING, which is entirely a matter for mu nicipal regulation. To-day the Pub lic Service Commission of Pennsyl vania is tied hand and foot and swamped with all manner of things which never should have been sub mitted to it. Of course, the act creating this commission was more or less hurried in its passage through the Legislature and it is reasonable to expect that amendment and im provement will come with the next session. But, returning to the main proposi tion. we simply want to emphasize the importance of the people of Har risburg realizing through their own investigation and study of the interests of the community that they are citizens of no mean city. This will arouse the community spirit so es sential to the proper development of any town or city. Therfc is published every month in New York City a magazine devoted to the automatic sprinkler and a whole page is given in the current number to the recent circular issued by our Cham ber of Commerce. It will have been noted on other occasions that the ac tivities of the city are attracting the attention of business men everywhere. THE I'KOPLE MARK THE TOWN GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH struck the keynote of the whole prob lem of municipal government when, in addressing the delegates to the borough convention here yester day, he said: Based upon a rather long obser vation of borough government and the fact that 1 was at one time an officer in such a government. 1 am constrained also to emphasize the importance of every citizen in a borough taking a patriotic interest in his community, and having him willing to serve when occasion arises in any office to the end that the very best people residing in a community shall be chosen to ad minister its affairs. The improvement and standardiza tion of borough laws is important, but not vital. The best laws in the world will not make good government where the people are wicked or indifferent. But. on the other hand, many a city, handicapped by obsolete and cumber some statutes, has been made to blos som like the rose and yield content ment, health and prosperity for its residents because of the public spirit of its citizens and the loyalty and in terest of its officials. The people of the community make the town. If the streets are unkempt and houses run down, if the whole place has a discauraged. hit-or-miss.l ive-or-die, survive-or-perish air, the people are of the same sort. Just as tlie condition of a house is indicative of the charac ;er of its occupants, so from the ap pearance of a town one may judge the spirit of the people who reside there. There is vast opportunity for im provement in the government of Pennsylvania boroughs and doubtless much will be accomplished at the present meeting looking toward that end. but if the delegates catch the spirit of civic service as outlined by the Go\ ernor and carry it home with them the convention will have paid for itself many times over. What we need in Pennsylvania is a deeper un derstanding of the duty of the citizen to his home town and of the right of the community to a share of his thought and energy. This makes not only for the betterment of localities where it is practiced but it sets a good example elsewhere. What are you doing to help along the flora! decoration of the city this year? Surely you can put up a window or porch box and thus aid in the move ment HARDING'S ATTITUDE SOME attempt has been made here and there by friends of Justice Hughes to create the impression that Senator Harding, who is to be temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention at Chicago, has been "put over" on the Progressive element of the party by the "stand-patters" and that he will be antagonistic to Colonel Roosevelt in any manner where antagonism will mar his chances of being nominated for President. This is the sheerest sort of nonsense. If Harding or any other man attempts "road-roller" methods at Chicago he will be the tirst to be flattened out by a body of delegates that will be above control and who will insist on a free voice in the convention. It is true that Senator Harding made the speech nominating Taft four years ago and that he was an ardent organization "stalwart." But since then there have been many Indications that he has grown more tolerent and it is known that certain Progressive leaders are very friendly, to say the lea st. Mr. Harding sees tariff and pre paredness as the big issues looming up as the principal issues of 1916, and in this he coincides with the platform as laid down by Roosevelt, only the Colonel puts preparedness first. Don't let anybody tell you that the Chicago meeting is going to be a one man convention. Every delegate will do his part and no one man not even Harding—is going to dictate the nomination or prevent the popular choice of that convention from being named. More power to the Civic Club of Har risburg. With its splendid club house now in its possession why not let us have a reception day for the women of the city? THE WEST SHORE I'MOX THE West Shore Firemen's Union is doing an excellent work. It is a very young body, but very vigorous, and it has started out in a way that gives those who have ob served its activities hope that it will be of vast service in the development of the West Shore. ' Everybody along the west side of the river realizes that something should be done in a community way for the up-buitding and harmonizing of the many scattered little towns that some day will be one. Some of them touch each other's borders even now. But there has been difficulty in get ting together. Time after time efforts have been made to form some sort of joint civic association. Each time the attempt has failed, not for want of interest but for lack of co-operation among the various towns. Now comes the Firemen's Union, as a result of this agitation, and already within its limited scope of activities, there are indications that the water supply will be improved, that roads will be put into good condition and traffic dangers avoided. If a Fire men's Union can do so much in a short time, what could not a West Shore Civic Association accomplish in the years before it? From the enthusiasm which has al ready been aroused over th©» Septem ber carnival on the river, we can ex pect something that will be worth see ing. Taking time by the forelock is a sure way to make the carnival a suc cess. I EDITORIAL COMMENT I The fly in the Old Guards' ointment seems to be T. R.'s bee.—Columbia State. That reward of 40,000 pesos for Villa's head will give you the best kind of an idea of the worth of a peso. Detroit Times. Survivors of the fighting around Pepper Hill may well be referred to as "seasoned troops." Nashville South ern Lumberman. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR" THE BOROUGH CONVENTION To tht Editor ef the Ttitg'jpk: Though not a resident of Pennsyl vania. the program of the State Asso ciation of Boroughs, has l>aen of more than ordinary interest. If there is any one branch of gov ernment by the people that needs a comprehensive and co-operative sys tem of conduct,, it is that part of gov ernment that lies closest to the people themselves. It is sometimes apparent —show me the towns and I will tell you what kind of people live there. While this is not always true, it is a fair index to the composite character of the controllers of civic regulation. My home is in Des Moines, lowa, which city was one of the pioneers, if not the pioneer in the institution of the commission form of government —all interests in municipal control delegated to a chosen body, as a com mittee of the whole and then duties divided so that each commissioner " as and should be held responsible for the whole administration of that par ticular department; the hope being that one man being singled out for one particular department, that he could not evade and get behind some other member and say he was block ed and defeated by a combination of others: for, each man having his job each man had only himself to be praised or blamed, for the administra tion of that particular department. This theory like all theories in power delegated by the people to individuals, gives every promise in itself that work will he well and economically done; because the power of recall and ref erendum on a twenty-five per cent, pe lition of the voters at the last election is in the Des Moines plan, and this should terrorize the man who contem plates evil. The theory is tine: and the practice all depends on the men elect ed; and. after all, this is all there is of administrative power as a governmental function, whether in a borough as alderman, commis sioner. or mayor; or in a State from constable to governor: or in a nation from a legislator or a president: all depends on the man! and his exercise of his executive powers! There is one topic in the program that should have the hearty co-oper ation of all people: should be made standard for each borough and for each county as well, and that is the "Uniform System of Accounting and Bookkeeping for Municipalities." The reasons for this system are so very numerous for the adoption of such a system that I refrain from every ex pression of any of them, except to commend. This meeting can be made of great benefit to all the people and the capa ble appearance and business-like in terest that all seem to be giving de voted attention, will, I believe, bring no disappointment to the people re presented here. SIDNEY A. FOSTER. April 11. 1916. BRICKS FROM A PACIFICIST To the Editor of the Telegraph: 1 have always taken great pleasure in reading the Telegraph, because I have felt that it was usually fair and impartial, and tried to give the news without bias. Recently, I with others, to whom I have spoken about the matter, feel that the Telegraph has shown a tendency not to deal "on the square" with a certain group of peo ple. who are just as truly trying to do what is right, just and Christ-like, and therefore what isnotonly for the high est good of this country but for all mankind as a certain other group. I refer to the so-called pacificists. The writer knows for a certainty that the Telegraph has declined to publish cer tain items of news of particular in terest to that group of men and wo men whom the newspapers have dub bed pacificists. 1 hold also that the editorial writer of the paragraph in to-day's issue en titled "A Lesson From Holland" tells only half the truth. He trys to make out that the Hollanders mobilized their 500.000 soldiers recently to frighten the Germans away, is it not just as true that Holland mobilized her troops because she was afraid that the allies were going to trespass on her neutrality? Holland has no more confidence in the allies than she has in Germany. And it is ridiculous for your editorial writer to say that Ger many is afraid to attack Holland be cause she has an army of 500,000 trained soldiers. Germany has not been afraid to face ten times 500.000 why then this awful horror of Hol land's soldiers? No, Germany has not attacked Holland because she is learn ing that her course for the past two years is alienating the friendship of the neutral nations. And this is the weapon which we pacificists insist on and we believe the world will soon come to demand that our statesmen shall depend on, namely, public opin ion, and not depend on brute force, for settling international differences. Persons and newspapers may sneer at the pacificists, but they have God and righteousness on their eide, and eventually, their methods will win. It is strange that your editorial writer could write such a paragraph and place it directly under these beautiful and virile lines from Henry Van Dyke. "Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true; To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellow men sincerely: To act from Honest motives purely; To trust in God and Heaven securely." O, Inconsistency thou art a jewel! I would respectfully call your atten tion to the admonition of one of the greatest and most righteous of our Secretary of State, he was not known as a pacificists either: I refer to John Ilay: he said: "If the press of the world would adopt and persist in the hij?h resolve that war should be no more, the clangor of arms would cease." , 1 am. Respectfully yours, , JOHN J. MULLOWNET, President of the Harrisburg Arbitra tion and Feace Society- HARRISBURG lififcftl TELEGRAPH *j»otaJw i*. IVHxOifLrcDua By fhr Ex-Committeeman j Ex-Congressman Jess* L,. Hartman. of Hollidaysburg. to-day announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for State Treasurer and his petitions were put into circulation on Capitol Hill and in this city, the plan being to file them before the end of the week. Hartman is considered to be the State administration's candi date against Harmon M. Kephart, of Greens burg, and J. Verner Clark, of Washington, who was endorsed by the Bull Moosers and who has filed a Re publican nominating petition. It is believed that the circulation of the petitions for Mr. Hartman is the outcome of recent conferences and it is said that his candidacy is largely sponsored by hie former associates in Congress who Include such men as ex-Congressmen Ainey. Patton. Reyn olds and others and Congressmen Yare, Lafean, Grlest and Crago. Mr. Hartman served in Congress from the Blair-Bedford-Cambria dis trict from 1910 to 1912 and is promi nent in banking and other interests in Centra! Pennsylvania. —Senator Penroses speech at caster. in which he said that Repub licans should unite and not quarrel and that the next President should be a man trained in executive affairs, was the theme of conversation on Capitol Hill to the exclusion of almost every thing else. Some of the men who heard the speech got the idea that the senator was referring to Theodore Roosevelt and in view of the gossip that he has been paying attention to what people are saying about the Colonel It caused some perturbation among the State administration forces. It will be recalled that E. A. Van Vai kenburg and A. P. Moore, two staunch Roosevelt men, have been making in teresting statements about the Colonel and Pennsylvania lately. —The Philadelphia North Ameri can. which yesterday printed a story about the Governor's presidential pa pers having been filed at the Capitol when they had not been put on record, to-day says that the Governor is going to stump the State. This information was also put out immediately after the letter to Wasson was issued and also the day after the Governor issued his version of the Oliver SI,OOO check. —"Walter X. Gemmill. a Carlisle brakeman. has filed a petition to run for Republican legislative nomination in Cumberland. So has John R. Brandt. Newville merchant. --The Socialists of the Second Dau phin district have put forward G. W. Troxell. I-ykens. and John Hosgood, Wiconisco. for Second Dauphin legis lative nominations, and J. P. Shless man and S. Roden. Steelton. for State committeemen. -•—John J. Covle. former senator from Schuylkill, is a candidate for Republican congressional honors In Philadelphia. —Brumbaugh headquarters last night gave out the names of a dozen or more men who had endorsed the Governor. They included Dr. E. L. Kemp, head of the East Stroudsburg State Normal School. —D. A. McGough was yesterday named as postmaster for Ebensburg. He is said to be a reorganizer. The Philadelphia loan bill was ap proved by councils last night and the fight appears to be on in that city. —With Representative W. O. Wal ton and W. D. Craig, both from Law rence county, in the field against him, Senator J. H. Thompson, of Beaver, has a lively contest in sight. —The nominating petitions of H. J. Dunin. Reading, and T. Hart Given, Pittsburgh, for Democratic delegates at large, were filed last evening. —George W. Sassaman. former Reading legislator, is out for Demo cratic nomination for senator in Berks. —The manner in which registration is being looked after in the cities indi cates that there is some fight ahead. —The Philadelphia Public Ledger in a review of the Republican situation to-day comes to the conclusion that there is no chance of averting a fac tional fight and that the Governor's friends are disposed to put the issue to the supreme test. —The Philadelphia Record to-day prints this interesting story of the campaign: "Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown, who returned to Harris burg on Monday from Philadelphia, is now more than ever regarded at the capital as the chief political asset of the Brumbaugh administration. He is cr'ven credit everywhere as the man who, up to the present time, has de feated the effort of the Penrose crowd to drive the Governor into political oblivion. Little by little the inside de tails of the movements of the past few weeks leading up to the sensation growing out of the Oliver check epi sode are becoming public property, and it is now pretty well known that Attorney General Brown saved the day for the Va re forces. That Governor Brumbaugh, pressed by the threaten ing Oliver exposure, had made up his mind 10 pet out of the political game and had indicated this determination to several of those in his confidence is no longer a secret. In fact, it is asserted that he had prepared a state ment giving his reasons for withdraw ing as a candidate for the presidential nomination, and that assurances of this had been conveyed to the Penrose people." —Pittsburgh dispatches indicate that Henry G. Wasson, Republican national committeeman, is having much to do with the management of the campaign in behalf of the Governor in Allegheny and adjoining counties. He was in consultation last evening at Pittsburgh with Commissioner \V. A. Magee. —Dudley Field Malone, collector of the port of Xew York, has informed the managers of the Central Demo cratic Club Jefferson dinner that he will be unable to speak. The club has some big speakers on the way, how ever. To-morrow [From the Silent Partner.] The word ' - to-morrow" to most men means the remote future. It is not a measure of time to them; it is an ex pression that frames an excuse. To-morrow is the hereafter of all hope. To-morrow is the refrain in the chorus of the failure-fellows. We all remember the litle girl who awakened in the night and wanted to see To morrow. Contrast this thought with that of the unwilling clerks, the business asso ciates who come to the store, the shop, the office, and yawn and say, "I hope business won't be so heavy to-day, for I'm tired." What a disloyal, disinterested, dis graceful .statement to make, when the owners arc struggling so hard for suc cess! What a damnable idea! To-morrow is a season that most men depend on, but to-day is the hour they live on. To-morrow is a by-product of the present. To-morrow is the day when you propose to start that bank account, take out that life insurance, fit your self for a higher position—change your course. But some day you will awaken sud denly, Mr. Man. to this situation; it will be your last chance, and you will, from force of habit, inquire, "Is this to-morrow?" Fate will replv. "No. von big whimpering idiot, this ts to-day!" And then the door of opportunity will .i»lam shut in your face. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY THE INNOCENT BYSTANDER •From lh» Philadelphia llrcoril. DIXIE GOES AHEAD Southern Ports Are Out For Trace By Frederic J. Haskin WITH the country full of talk , about foreign trade, and the need for improving the mer chant marine, and cultivating the business of South America, the far Southern ports of the I'nited States rise up and demand to be heard. New Orleans, of course, has a large and well-established business. Charles ton. Savannah. Jacksonville. Tampa. Mobile and Pensacola are the ones in question. They all have line bar bers which are free from ice all the year around: the government has spent many millions to improve their channels; and the citizens have built and are building excellent terminal facilities. They are all dressed up to go to the international trade party; but they have nothing to ride in. Kobinson Crusoe had a line harbor; but he had no bottoms. That's all that prevented him from forming a cocoanut trust, and getting rich. The southern ports are in the same fix. They have not the bottoms, mean ing thereby, regular sailings for for eign ports. Therefore, they can't get railroad rates from interior points that would attract manufacturers to export via the South instead of the N'orth. If they had the bottoms they could get the rates, and vice versa. But generally and broadly speaking they have neither. Now this is not to say that the Southern ports are not doing a pros perous business. They are. They are shipping out cotton and lumber and naval stores, and the tramp steamers that come for these commodities bring the materials from which the South manufactures immense quantities of commercial fertilizer. All of which is well and good. But this is the point: The Southern ports are shipp ing practically no manufactured goods, and while New York ia congested with traffic, they are getting a mere frac tion of what they have the energy and the facilities to ship. In a very real sense, it is a na tional waste. Manufacturers in the middle West—at Cincinnati for ex ample—can reach South America much more directly by way of Charles ton than by way of New York. Both the rail haul and the water haul are shorter. But there are no regular bottoms from Charleston to South America; and the manufacturer must have regular sailings in order to fill his orders. So he ships via New York, and adds to general congestion and TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —Austria will also put Its clocks back, but the war's end won't be de layed by that. • —The skill Villa displays in side stepping indicates that he must have been a close observer recently of White House methods. —We can't say that Spring is fol lowing a "hot trail." —Naturally it's not hard to turn the head of the man who has a "screw loose." —Roosevelt's second choice for the Presidency Is Wood, and nobody has as yet required an explanation as to his first choice. OUR DAILY LAUGH UP TO THE new?- — 1 MINUTE. f n ern ball-room In i \ «very way. • Th at so? / /< v| The amok -11 A * lng room has been I I enlarged three * n, * time* to accom ' MI R modate the hua bands who don't dance the new steps. KIM >1 Vt;K By Win* Dinner "Man wants but little here below" Has been declared untrue — Upon the other hand they say He wants things not a few. And any man of many wants, K'en though diversified, May fill them all to-morrow, bo. And be quite satisfied. The Rummage Pale for charity Provides a means whereby One may procure just what he wants And at a cost not high. If you're contented, rummage 'round And donate something, ho. Then Thursday buy it back again, i It's charity, you know. ' J 'APRTL 12. 1916. confusion of that port. Shoes are i actually shipped from interior points to Charleston, up the coast to New York (for there are plenty of coast wise bottoms) and thence to Cuba. Those regular sailings, which the manufacturer requires tare likewisa the life blood of a port. The shipping of raw materials such as cotton and naval stores and lumber, by way of (ramp steamers, leaves little money in the port city. The stuff is sold at interior points. Atlanta gets the money for cotton that is shipped out of • Charleston. That is why the greatest Southern cities are interior points, while the Northern cities are ports. The Northern port cities handle im mense quantities of manufactured goods, and make a large profit upon i them. Why do all of these commodities go North for shipment to Cuba and j Central and South America, when it is a shorter distance both by rail and by water via the Southern ports? It used to be because the southern harbors lacked terminal facilities. That, rea son is fast disappearing. All of them J have greatly improved their docks and coal bunkers and warehouses, and they are ready to build more as fast as they are needed. The great difficulty lies in the fact that the lines of transportation have ben fixed by time and usage and they all point North. The trunk lines from the middle western manufacturing section all lead to New York and Bos ton and Philadelphia, and to some ex | tent to Norfolk. Try to go to Charles ton from the middlewest and you ride ' | unheard-of railways that began life as sawmill lines which would go around a large stump. Then, too, competition by way of the Erie canal forced down Northern rates. The re sult is that, although Charleston is nearer Cincinnati than is New York, it costs less to ship to the Northern city; while Norfolk has a still greater advantage in rates. For example, on certain manufactures, the shipper gets ja commodity rate to Norfolk, which amounts to eighteen cents a hundred, and to Norfolk he lias to pay a class rate of thirty-five cents a hundred. • Now the people of the southern ports are fully aware of all these facts. They realize that if they could get the railroads to give them ! rates, ship lines would soon be es (Continued on Page 16.) THE .STATE FROM DAf TO DW The case of Frank M. Bierce, a Warren man who had served three years in the American Navy, was made a sergeant In the British army when the war broke out and now he wants to re-enlist in the American Navy. His case will go before Secre tary Daniels. We wish him joy! McKeesport is the scene of a scrap between the jitney owners and the mayor on the matter of parking their cars. The businessmen are against the major in the fight because they figure that the jitneys bring thousands of dollars worth of trade to the town from points up the valley. Tommy—"Pop," what is the differ ence between a fad and a wrinkle?" Tommy's Pop "Young girls have fads, my son: old ones have wrinkles." The Philadelphia Record is respon sible. Iveonard Collet! e, of York, has re turned home after spending a few days in Lititz. With all due respect to Leonard, we wonder whether his ancestors had a de before the last name. The lakes and rivers are calling: canoeists are responding; and the usual canoe accidents will take their place In the natural course of events. The Erie Herald, speaking: from experience, saye "compromise is the secret of success in married life. If you want to go to the lodge and she wants you to take her to a motion picture show, compromise and go to the movies." The "ehampeen" checker players of Greensburg went down to ignominious defeat last week before N. W. Banks, of Michigan, who is "certainly the champion checker player" according to the Greensburg Tribune. It is said that no upturned barrels nor cracker boxes were in evidence at the bout. The gateway that the senior class of Pennsylvania State College will erect as a memorial to the class will be one of the most imposing of any of the college gateways of the coun try. There is a man who recently regis tered at the Hotel Nelson in Johns town. He hails from Peoria, III* and he isn't the "ghost that never walked." For this man is traveling 7.000 miles on a dollar and a wager of $1,500 if he does it without borrowing any money. Eimttttg (tthat Announcement that the Harrisburg Public Library is arranging to add lo its shelves books of instruction in Spanish and for easy reading by thoso Interested in the language spoken by so many people has at tracted much attention and It is probable that some classes In Spanish will be formed here soon. Many peo ple here are awakening to the im portance of Spanish and nrc com mencing to realize what It means. Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh, who is not only an educator of wide ex perience in this State, but who was head of the schools of Porto Hico right after American occupation, said to-day in speaking about Spanish: "I'm glad they are going to get Span ish books for your Library here. They will be in demand more and more and you will be astonished how many peo ple take up the language in the next, few years. Do you realize that one tenth of the people in our country speak Spanish to say nothing of the millions to the South of us? We have a great trade opportunity in Central and Southern America and 1 think we are going to need commercial men who have a knowledge of Spanish be fore long. To my mind the study of Spanish is something that shpuld re ceive more attention from educators and 1 am glad that the Library is i going to do its part toward making j books on Spanish available." According to J. T. Campbell, who ! is one of the crop experts of the State Department of Agriculture, a good many people in this State are turning i to cultivating Canada field peas atui ; oats. These crops are something new jto Pennsylvania farmers, but they have been tried out and are held by 'the State experts to have passed the experimental stage in this part ot the State. They have to be sown early in the Spring, but the plants are hardy. • • • There is no more dignified man in llarrisburg than Dr. I<\ E. Downes, city superintendent of schools. Dr. Downes has a most trying position and : one that permits of no frivolity dur ing working hours, yet there is not a I man in professional life in this coin j munity who so delights in play when , it is play time than this same suave, j tactful head of the local school sys |tem. Said a man who spent a part of last year's vacation with Dr. Downes: "I never met a better com panion on an outing, lie can sail a boat just a little bit better, swim a little bit faster, fish a little more skill - j fully, walk n little bit farther an.l ! knows outdoors just a little bit mora j intimately than anybody else in tlie ( party he happens to be with. And jhe does love to play. You know." lie | continued, "I think that one of tlia jmost entertaining features of the Tele graph is the frank and friendly man j ner with which it presents in its Eve. I ning Chat column personalities ol j public men with whom the peopli jas a whole do not come into close con. i tact. Nearly every man has some sur prising traits, some characteristics jthat are as pleasing as they are as. tonishing when once revealed. Why don't, you let us have an inside glinipsa of one of our well-known people every evening?" So. by way of aceommo. ; dating, the Telegraph to-night gives in this inquirer's own words a few ill. | side facts about Dr. Downes, at tin risk of offending the modest subject of the remarks. ♦ * • Capitol Hill continues to be the re sort of the visitors from far and near;.* Last week there were people registered j in the big building from Serbia, Cuba | and Mexico. To say nothing of folks S from Idaho, California, Kansas, Florida I and Alabama. A good story is being told about Dr. John Hull, one of the associat« inspectors of the State Department ol Health. He found in a borough up in the coal regions that there was soma question whether the schools of tin town, administered by a board oi prominent business men. could b« closed because of measles by the board of health composed of rather forceful, but less prominent, citizens. The Stal« was called in and Dr. Hull was sent. Dr. Hull used to be a medical man in the regular army. The schools wer« closed. • • • Among visitors to the Capitol yes. terday was Robert W. Archbald, Jr, a prominent young- Philadelphia aN torney. Mr. Archbald is a son of tlx Scranton judge. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ' —Provost Edgar F. Smith, of thi University of Pennsylvania, is to niak< one of the addresses at Juniata Col« lege anniversary. —George H. Lysle, mayor of Mo. Keesport, is after the Jitney men l>e« cause they do not obey regulations h< laid down. —Ex-Senator E. H. Tustin, of Phila< delphia. says that Philadelphia is go« ing to have one of the best collection of playgrounds of any city in Amer ica. —George Wentworth Carr, one o< the men speaking for preparedness, ij a prominent Philadelphia lawyer and has been active as a reformer. —J. D. Bowman, long head of tin Perryville furnaces in Carbon countw celebrated his 97 th birthday thll week. —Judge C. A. Groman, of tin T.ehigh county courts, has been get,< ting after license holders with warn* ing to observe moral standards. DO YOU KHOV That Steclton steel la used for rails for Cuban lines? HISTORIC HARRISBCRG The first street car line wa| operated in Harrishurg before thi Civil War but it did not last long. Does Newspaper Ad vertising Pay? A large paint manufacturer asked this question of retailers k throughout the country: NO. 4 SAID: "We have always regarded the problem of advertising as a big one worthy of our most careful attention. In our opinion much | of the money spent in newspaper J advertising is highly profitable, while much more of it Is entire ly wasted, depending upon the thought and care used In prepar ing the copy. •'We began with some pro ducts just two years ago, and we are now selling as much or more paint and varnish than any other store here. We question very much whether this would have been poaalble without the advertising in our local papers." (Continued to-morrow) L
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