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FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 19.
Jesus saith unto him. 1 am the way,
and the truth, and the life: no one com
eth unto the Father, but By me.
—JOHN 14: 6. !
IMI'MBM GH AND HOME RULE
GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH HAS
clearly Indicated In a number of j
his public utterances that he be
lieves in a wider measure of home rule
for the municipalities of the State, lie !
is said to be gathering first-hand facts
which will proxide him with infor
mation necessary to make a strong
recommendation to the next Legis
lature.
For years the tendency has been
toward centralization of authority in
the State and this trend has proven so I
burdensome and so appalling in the'
matter of expense that there Is a de- I
inand for a return to the more simple -
forms of municipal control. Within
certain constitutional limitations the '
cllies and boroughs of the Common- j
wealth should be permitted to work
out their own salvation along proper j
a.nd conservative lines. It ought not |
to be necessary to appeal to some de- j
partment of the State government for
permission to do this or that at every
turn in the development of the minor
municipalities. Paternal oversight of j
the large number of cities in Penn- |
eyivaxila has increased the burdens of
administration on Capitol Hill to such j
an extent that there is danger of :
clogging the avenues of development
and checking municipal expansion.
Having put his hand to the plow in I
this regard, we have no doubt Gov- !
ernor Brumbaugh will bring the mat
ter so forcefully and directly to the
attention of the next Legislature tliat 1
concrete action will certainly follow.
Through the several informative |
bureaus of the State government the 1
Governor Is now in touch with munici
pal conditions throughout the Com- j
monwealth and he is known to be in
liearty accord with the home rule j
idea.
As a result of the referendum of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United |
States on the question of a permanent j
tariff commission the vote was 715 for
to 9 against. This would seem to indi
cate pretty clearly what the business
men of the country think about the use
of the tariff as a political football. A
bill Is now pending providing for a per
manent tariff commission and it is prob- i
able some definite plans will be adopted j
before the adjournment of the present
Congress.
FARMERS' CREDITS
THE farmers' credits bill passed by!
the House of Representatives this
week is not exactly what the
average farmer wants, but it is the
best, very likely, that could be gotten
through the present Congress.
Under this measure, if a farmer
desires a loan of SSOO, he will make
application to the local association
prescribed by the bill and subscribe
for 6 per cent., or $2 5 worth, of stock.
The secretary-treasurer will refer :he
application to the association's loan
committee. The committee will view
the. land and its report must be unani
mous. If the directors approve the
report, it will be indorsed and for
warded to the loan bank of the dis
trict. The title will then be examined,
the $25 in stock subscribed in the loan
bank and appraisers sent to view the
land. If their report is favorable, the
loan will be made.
The borrower's land must stand se
curity for the loan and he will be
liable for all loans of the local asso
ciation to an amount double the stock
he holds, just as stockholders in all
banks are now liable.
Ixians will only be made on first
mortgages on farm land to purchase
land for agricultural purposes and
livestock necessary for the operation
of the farm and for building and other
Improvements upon farm lands and to
liquidate existing indebtedness.
Loans may be run from five to
thirty-six years and will be payable on
'the amortization plan. Interest must
not exceed_6_ per cent, and it is con
tended by numerous experts who hav#
studied the proposition that In many
Instances Interest at 6 per cent, should
he sufficient to pay off both principal
and interest In thlrty-slx years.
The measure Is predicated on the
assumption that commercial hanks do
rot meet the needs of the farmer.
Commercial banks must always have
quick assets with which to pay checks
of their depositors.
Farmers require, s different system
of credit, it is held. Their loans must
be upon longer terms. They cannot
FRIDAY EVENING, ' HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MAY 10, 1916.
afford the heavy Interest rates charged
in many portions of the country In
commercial banks.
The administrative section of the
bill 1* patterned after the Federal re
serve bank act. There will be created
a Federal farm loan board, to be com
posed of three members, to be ap
pointed by the President. They will
have general supervision.
There will be established twelve
Federal land bank districts and their
temporary organization is provided for
with a capitalization of $7 50,000 each,
divided Into shares of $5. If this Is
not subscribed within ninety days afler
announcement Is made, the Secretary
of the Treasury will be -authorized to
subscribe for the balance of the un
subscribed stook on behalf of the
United States.
After 1100,000 Is subscribed by the
national farm loan associations the
bank will be permanently organized
with nine directors, six to be elected
by the association and three appointed
by the farm loan board to represent
the public Interest.
Local corporations, to be styled
national farm loan associations, are
authorized to be organized and char
tered when not less than ten persons
who desire to become borrowers of
not leas than SIOO and not more than
SIO,OOO each, the combined amount to
be not less than $20,000, shall make
proper application to the board. These
associations will elect five directors, a
secretary-treasurer, a president and
vice-president and a loan committee
of three members. Only borrowers
can be members, and when a loan is
paid up membership ceases.
When one glances over the Congres- j
sional Record he must be impressed j
with the fact that there is little left in |
the way of business which the wise |
men at Washington are not endeavor- j
ing to regulate. President Wilson set
the pace himself and now upon the eve
of another campalgrn for retention of his
present office he is emitting at frequent
intervals sage advice to the business
Interests of the country.
A WORKING STUDENT BODY
DURING an educational meeting in
Harrisburg some months ago
there was some discussion as to
how it happens that so large a pro
portion of State College students
"make good" in after life. No particu
lar reason was given, but the answer
probably lies in the recent statement
of the college agencies that one-third
of the students of the Institution are
earning their own way through school.
The boy who is "working through col
lege" has a definite purpose and goal
in sight. He knows why he is there
and he makes the most of his oppor
tunities, for he is buying his education
out of his own pocket, which cannot
be said of many lads whose funds
come easily and whose responsibilities
often rest lightly.
The college employment bureau
aided many to procure the work they
desired. This calls up the thought of
what the State Employment Bureau,
with headquarters in the Masonic j
Temple, this city, is doing for the col
lege student body at large. Every I
college boy who wanls work during j
vacation can have it through the;
instrumentality of this office. There i
are more vacancies than applicants.
It used to be that the college boy had 1
to search desperately and often In
vain for employment during the sum
mer months, and It Is a great boon I
to the young men who must work in j
vacation to be able to find positions I
by application to the bureau.
All parties doubtless will join in an j
eltort to overcome, through remedial;
legislation, the glaring defects of the \
present primary law. Conservative men I
of all parties agree that the primary j
system, which was hailed as the last
word In ballot reform, is an expensive, |
j inconvenient and vexatious scheme ■
i without anything to justify its con- j
tinuance.
THE NEXT PRESIDENT
IT is probable that the campaign of j
this year will be less heated than
usual owing to international com- I
| plications. But it must not be assumed 1
that the average voter is not quietly
making up his mind as to what he is
going to do next November.
Business men throughout the United j
i States have a preference for Repub- \
j lican administration. They have ex- j
perieneed the follies of Democratic ;
j experiment about once In a generation ;
and that is enough to satisfy even the '
most doubtful.
It Is strongly believed that the j
nominee of .the Chicago convention !
will be the next President, not so \
much because of his personality as !
for the reason that he will represent j
a fiarty that has stood always for the
upbuilding of the nation.
It Is plainly evident now that Roose
velt, or Hughes, or Root, or any other j
of the leaders above the horizon will j
be acceptable to the great bodv of!
Republican volers, stalwart and pro- i
gressive.
Harrisburg's compliments to Erie
with the assurances of this city's dis
tinguished consideration and best '
wishes. Erie has just approved four '
loans, with a total of $1,44,1,000. for great
public Improvements, including the
elimination of grade crossings. As the
metropolis of the northwest Erie is
maintaining its place In the sun.
SUNDAY REST
AN Important step forward In the
movement for the conservation
of the strength of the church und
Sunday school workers was taken by
the Grace Methodist Sunday School
this week, when it decided to hold the
Sunday school session hereafter Imme
diately following the Sunday morning
service of the congregation. For years
this change has been agitated and it is
believed the result will be generally
satisfactory, not only In this particular
school, but In furthering the general
movement looking toward a relief of
those who are responsible for conduct
ing the several activities of Harrisburg
churches.
Under present conditions some of
i the schools meet In the morning, others
i Immediately following the church
service and still others In the after
noon. It is contended by those who
are favorable to the session of the
Sunday school being held immediately
after the morning service that the
burden of the work falls largely upon
the same people and that the meeting ,
of the Sunday school during the morn
ing or the afternoon means an almost
continuous day of effort for the hJn
dreds of people In Harrlsburg who are
Interested In this great work.
One of the arguments advanced In !
favor of the session following the
morning service is the attendance at
both services would be largely in
creased with great economy of time
and effort.
"Pennsylvania should go Democratic,"
says the Pittsburgh Post. But it won't.
[ EDITORIAL COMMENT '
Carranza seems to think It Is suffi
cient punishment for any Mexican to
make him run three or four hundred
miles.—Philadelphia North American.
Maybe you can figure out for your
self why the Democratic papers prefer
Hughes to Roosevelt as the Republl
| can nominee. Philadelphia North
American.
I
I "Dutch" Carter, the eminent Yalq
niumnus. who has protested against the
appearance in the Yale Bowl of a wo
man v hose husband is undei indictment
for alleged pro-German illegalities, is a
brother-in-law of Charles Evans
Hughes. Does his brand of neutrality
reflect accurately the opinion of the na
tion's most reticent citizen?— New York
Sun.
Arithmetic Before Moses
[From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
The modern schoolboy may find com
fort in the fact that for 3,600 years
schoolboys have been worried by just
such desperate problems In arithmetic
as annoy him most.
Among the archeological discoveries
in Egypt is a papyrus roll, in excellent
condition, dating from a period of about
1,700 B. C. This roll, which has a long
heading beginning, "Directions how
to attain the knowledge of all dark
things," proves beyond a doubt that Uie
Egyptian of that time had a thorough
knowledge of the elements of arithme
tic.
Numerous examples show that their
principal operation with units and frac
tions were made by means of adltion
and multiplication. Subtraction and di
vision were not known in their present
form, hut correct results were obtained,
nevertheless.
Equations are also found in the papy
rus. Here is one which brings the
Egptian schoolboy home to us:
Ten measures of barley are to be di
vide-' among ten persons in such a man
ner that each subsequent person shall
receive one-eighth of a measure less
than the one before him. Another ex
ample "iven is: There are seven men,
each one has seven cats, each cat has
eaten seven mice, each mouse has eaten
seven grains of barley. Each grain of
barley would have yielded seven meas
ures of barley. How much barley has
been lost?
The papyrus also contains calcula
tions of area, the calculation of the area
of a circle, attempts at squaring the
circle, and finally calculation of the
cubic measurements of pyramids.
One Alamo Enough
[From the Kansas City Star.]
The country would appreciate it if
the Government could somehow arrange
to have an adequate number of
troops present on these occasions when
Mexicans attack American towns. It
isn't necessary to again demonstrate
that a handful of American soldiers can
defend themselves against almost any
number of Mexicans. That was dem
onstrated at the defense of the Alamo
as long ago as 183 S. Coloned David
Crockett and Colonel James Bowie, be
sieged in the old mission, with 158 sol
diets held off Santa Anna with an im
| mensely superior force for two weeks,
i Then when the walls were breached
i they fought until only five of their
original number remained alive.
' The country does not see the neces
] sity of any more demonstrations of this
sort. Yet at the attack on Glenn
j Springs as at Columbus It was the same
I story. At Columbus the American camp
| cut off front the town. At Glenn
Springs nine cavalrymen surrounded by
I superior numbers. The President, in
the most urgent manner, has told the
1 country there are not enough Arneri
| can troops to patrol the border. The
j I 'hamberlain army bill, which would
provide a sufficient force, lias been re
flected by the House, which stands by
j the Hay bill with its ludicrous provision
I adding 10,00 ft men a year to the pres
| ent force until it totnls 14ft,ftftft.
Must there be another Alamo and yet
| another before Congress shall give the
countrv something more to be nroud of
i than the knowledge that American sol
| diers know how to sell their lives dear?
Characteristics of Success
[ From time to time one runs across
j printed lists of characteristics from
which one tries to select a certain num-
I ber that If combined Into one person
ality would spell success In business.
Unfortunately we seldom find an In
dividual In whom Is concentrated all
| that Is good and that makes for perfec
tion.
A juggler of letters recently took
} the word "success" and essayed to se
lect a likely list of virtues that might
,happily combine to Insure reasonable
certainty of bringing success, each let
ter of the word success being an Initial
j letter of one of the seven virtues. These
vrtues are Self-control, Undivided at
tention to the task at hand. Courtesy,
! Character, Enthusiasm. Stlck-t/o-it
! iveneßs, and Self-reliance. A careful
| analysis, allowing a certain amount
|of expansion, will show that these
seven, if possessed in goodly propor
tions, ought to produce a well-balanced
; individual to whom success will come
I unbidden, because where these seven
j get together, success voluntarily at
| tends upon their combined efforts.
City Competition
[Kansas City Star.]
I A large factory was lost to Kansas
| City, R. E. McDonnell told the City
' Club yesterday, because the owner
couldn't get an Interpretation of a con
fused and antiquated building code.
! The site for the factory which had
(been purchased was sold and a new
I site obtained in an Ohio city.
Competition is so keen between cities
j that a city that expects to stay in tlie
I game can't let thing's go at loose ends.
Bad streets, poorly planned traffic ways,
expensive transportation and light, de
ficient gas, all count against a city's
progress. The man expecting to move
his factory to a larger place, the worker
' looking for a comfortable city to bring
• up his children in, shy from a city that
neglects the Interests of Its people
\ There are too many other cities com
! peting for them. They don't have to
put up with a town that is notably
deficient.
A city can't afford Inefficient govern -
| ment any more than an industry car
[afford inefficient management.
There Is No Death
"There is no Death! What seems sc
is transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elyslan,
Whose portal we call Death."
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CIT\
[Questions submitted to members o
> the Harrlsburg Rotary Club and thel
answers as 'presented at the organiza
j tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."]
How Is a loan for public improve
merits floated, safeguards for paymen
at maturity?
j Ordinance Is first passed by the
City Council submitting the qucj
tlon to a vote of the people, setting
forth the Items covered by loan. If
approved by a vote of the people
, an ordinance Is passed creating
the loan.
When bonds are floated a sinking
fund is created, in addition to in
terest charges and State tax, by
i appropriation from general reve
, nues, and as bonds become duA
they are redeemed out of sinking
I fund.
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*T the Ei-Omnmlttrfman
I " " r—. ~iJ
A boom for ex-Congressman W. D.
B. Ainey, of Susquehanna county, the
chairman of the Public Service Com
mission, for the Republican nomina
tion for Governor is to lie sprung by
Stale administration partisans if the
results of the primary election show
up the way the Brumbaugh headquar
ters staff is now claiming. Chairman !
I Ainey, who was a candidate for a time j
In the United States Senatorial prl-I
tnary two yoars ago, has been most ac
tive in the campaign In behalf of the
, Governor and made speeches with him
as well as participating in the war
councils.
The Brumbaugh headquarters which
increased Its claim to national dele
gates to forty-four last night. will
make another claim to-day and it in
timated that It will make a further
[advance in the list.. The headquarters
; is getting long distance telephone re
ports from county seats regarding j
. votes where roturns have thus far
been incomplete. No names have been
I given out, however. In a number of
jinstances it Is understood the claims
! are based on "personal assurances" to
j the Governor.
j There is a possibility that in the
j event of the Brumbaugh-Vare forces
being successful in their scheme to
throw (he election of a national com
| mitteeman into the Pennsylvania dele
jgation to Chicago instead of having
; I tlie election made by the State com-!
mittee, that they will endeavor to have
| Congressman W. W. Griest stand as
candidate. The Congressman has not
| been heard from on this proposition.
jThe Penrose forces will be for the sen
ator. Rumors have been that the ad-
I ministration would be for either Con
gressman W. S. V'are or Attorney Gen
; era I Brown.
If the claims of the Brtumbaugh ;
J headquarters are borne out by re
turns in the next few days the Gover-
I nor will he boosted for chairman of
the State delegation at Chicago.
—Evidence is piling tip that the |
whole fight made by the State admin
istration forces at the primary was for
| control of the State organization with!
I the national committeeman as the|
■ linch pin. The situation is much like!
■ that which prevailed four years ag*o!
when the Democrats thought they
were going to win and wanted to be I
; j able to handle the patronage. Hence, 1
| the statements being made by the,
' j Brumbaugh headquarters that dele- j
: gates are claimed "who will stand with j
I jthe Governor In all matters of business I
to come before the Chicago conven-j
I tion." The Penrose forces have the
ijState committee. Even the Brum
' I baugh people admit that, although
| they say that there are some "plants"
ion the list. The Brumbaugh people,
jas was pointed out yesterday, are try
ing to work out a plan to throw the
•j election of national committeeman |
II into the delegation to Chicago. The;
' j Penrose people say that this cannot be
1 done under the laws and the rules of
j the party. The Brumbaugh people
, Swill make a tight over It and thus the
• ; factional quarrel will be prolonged.
| —The Incomplete nature of the re
_ turns and the general dissatisfaction
. with the primary laws are the big top
. lies of conversation. It will be a repe
. itltionof two and four years ago all over
1 again. It will tie two weetis before
'{anything can ba officially learned.
. People all over the State are guessing,
j about results in some counties and the j
\ demand for a new system is growing
' stronger every day.
J ; —Governor Brumbaugh will soon 1
, I announce some appointments. It is
! , believed that there is something to the
< I gossip that Frank Black, of Somerset
-j county, member of the Stale Agricul
' tural commission, will be named as
.j highway commissioner.
\ | —The Philadelphia North Ameri
- | can in the course of a two-column edi
torial review of the recent primary has j
. | the following to say:
r : "Governor Brumbaugh won a State- 1
- I wide indorsement for the Republican
? 1 presidential nomination, although thej
honor was greatly diminished by the
'fact that no other name was on the |
, ticket. Also he achieved the distinc
tion of inflicting the first defeat upon
. | Penrose in a contest by popular vote.
. ! This was the more remarkable because
i he was opposed by t.he combined
J ! forces of the machine and liquor, and
1 i because in a primary fight the organ
. jized vote has a greater advantage than
in a regular election campaign. Turn
, jing to the other side of the count, it Is
. found that Penrose clinched his con
t itrol of the State organization and
e I strengthened his position as the par
_ ity's representative. He elected a large
I |majority of the State committee.
e i which, under the present law, will
. i name a national committeeman. He
■ will be privileged to sit in the national j
1 ' convention this year as a regularly
delegate, and for four years
t i thereafter will be Republican national
e | com mitteeman from Pennsylvania.
1 ! We were not supporters of Governor
A Bruntltaygji in his campaign for elec
,, tion to his present otlice; we have criti
n cised him severely; in this fight he j
. showed himself by no means a cour-<
ngeous or inspiring leader; whereas,
jif he had had half as much force and!
j fidelity as his ablest adviser. Attorney
General Brown, he would have swept
fh£ State and broken the hold of Pen
s rose completely."
r ! -—p:x-£ongressman A. Mltcliell Pal
- nier last night issued a statement from
*. his home in Stroudsburg in which he
d declared that fights should cease and
v the verdict of Ihe Democrats at the
primaries be accepted. Palmer called
s for complete party harmony,
e ; —Sentiment for a reunion of the
'• | Republican party does not appear to
s, jbe working very well. The talk of
- Mayor Smith of Philadelphia as leader
S'does uot even please Smith.
e! —Mifflin county Bull Moosers se
r j cured only seventeen votes. A Sun
g ! bury dispatch says: John T. McMul
t ! len. Shamokin, defeated of nomlna
5. | tion for Republican Candidate for
i- I State Senator In the 27th District, com
-0 posed of Northumberland, Snyder and
y | Union countries, was the first to file
| his election expense account in North
i- iimberland. He swears to contrlbu
njtions of S4OO from "Campaign Com
j mil tee for a Reunited Republican
Party," and shows expenditures of
i that amount.
JUST A CHIP. THAT'S At,L
Hy Mills' Dinger
T'other day my youngster
I'ame home late from school.
1 Mother asked the reason—
Kid said: "Broke a rule."
Mother asked in what way.
J* Kiddle, with a smile,
i- Said: "Made snake of putty.
Put It in the aisle.
!- "Thought 1 fl scare the teacher.
>t But some clumsy kid
Had to step upon It—
Took an awful skid—
Then he blamed it on me.
And, of course. 1 hart
To be punished, mother.
'Cause I was so bad."
What did mother do, then?
Punish little lad?
Not on your sweet life, bo—
Saved that ,lob fr.*- dad.
Did I scold him? Well, yes,
In a manner mild.
Knew from whom he'd rot it—
Couldn't blame the child.
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
i
THE CAMPAIGN ISSUE AND—THE SCRAPHEAP
—From (he N. Y. Snu.
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NANNIE BORROUGHS" IDEA
By Frederic J. Haskin
v ;
ON a hill overlooking Lincoln l
Heights, a suburb of Washing- '
ton, Is the National Training i
School for Girls. This school rep- j
resents the first united effort of the
colored race to provide adequate in
dustrial education for its women and ;
girls, who come here from all parts
of the country and from Africa, Ja- 1
maica and Haiti. Many other vo
cational schools for negroes have been
established by philanthropic societies,
but the tlrst conclusive evidence that
the negroes are willing and able to
help themselves is the National Train
ing School, built and financed by col- ,
ored Americans, and presided over by
Miss Nannie Burroughs, herself a
member of the race.
It is due to the energetic ability and
untiring efforts of Miss Burroughs, in
fact, that the school owes its existence.
Nine years ago, in her travels among
negro communities all over the coun
try, this young colored woman be
came impressed with the need for
such an . institution. It took three
! years, however, to convince her race
of the fact, for the general sentiment
[was against Industrial schools and all
for higher education. She talked be-
I fore religious societies and churches,
ihhe lectured high school students and
I gave addresses in public places where
.she summed up the problems of the
negro woman, her mistakes in deal
ing with them, and the possible future
• emedies.
According to Miss Borroughs the sit
uation was this: The modern negro
girl was in an anomalous position. She
graduated from high school at the age
Disappointment of Primaries
Ten years' experience with the prim
aries in Pennsylvania confirms the
truth of the statement so often heard
that rearrangement in the machinery
of government will not make govern
ment better unless the people resolve
to make it so.
When the primaries act was before
the Legislature the newspapers and
people were enthusiastic for it. They
argued that If nominations were made
directly by the citizens instead of by
gang-controlled conventions of dele
gates indifferently chosen, the gangs
would be routed and the milleniuni
In politics would dawn. We do not
say that the primaries have not. been
an improvement over the old system in
some respects, but it is painfully evi
dent that they liavo not nearly come
up to expectations.
I Th? primaries have not brought out
a better class of candidates. They
have not routed the gangs. They
mean a greater expenditure of money
by the candidates. They remain be
smirched with the old political filth
and foulness. Because of the expendi
ture of energy and money required in
going through two campaigns and the
! methods that must be resorted to in
order to compete with campaigners of
I the thug class, it is extremely difficult
to Induce the best men to run for
office. , „ _
The fault is not with the system. It
is with the people. In every prlmary
electlon the stay-at-home vote is
astonishingly large, and often it is in
the majority. And a large part of the
vote that does turn out is more in
fluenced by money and the gangs than
by the common welfare. It is a mighty
discouraging proposition. Even the
Corrupt Practices act, which was in
tended to confine money to legitimate
uses, has turned out to be a miserable
people would raise a general
kick if a bill were introduced in the
Legislature to abolish the primaries.
They would regard It as a bang
scheme to tighten its grip on Pennsyl
vania politics. But unless the primar
ies can be simplified and the people
take them differently it would be a
real Improvement to go back to the
old convention plan, with all its faults.
—Wllkes-Barre Record.
r OUR DAILY LAUGH |
W . jfe'h. What y'going
to do with your
daughter after
JV she graduates?
f If she can cook
; A. I'll keep her
B home. If she
can't, get her
HE CAME
RIGHT BACK. , ✓
She: I can't '
marry a man /Wk Wl tfji
who makes y
Jew than SSO
If I made that
I could marry
almost any-
lof 16 or 17, possessed of a good edu- <
cation that was practically worthless!
Ito her. There were already more I
teachers than there were places for j
them, and the other sources of edu-;
oated employment open to her were |
distinctly limited. The only thing for ]
her to do was to become a servant, j
| and this she felt beneath her high i
standard of knowledge. The result I
was that in the majority of cases she 1
did nothing at all but become a bur
den to her mother, who unfortunately I
had not been educated. The only I
answer to this problem, as Miss Bor- i
i loughs saw it. was to raise the stand
ard of household service—something
Jo be done by colored women alone and
! not by the patronage of vhite persons.
Hence, the need of a school that, would
I educate the girl and at the same time
| teach her a vocation by which she
i might become self-supporting,
j Miss Borrouglis managed to raise
the first thousand dollars among her
own friends, and in a little over a year
another live thousand was forthcom
ing from negroes all over the country,
some sending only tive cents or a two
i cent stamp. With this six thousand
dollars the property at Lincoln
Heights was bought, Including a small
!dilapidated structure of eight rooms.
1 From this small beginning the school
! has grown until there are now five
i cottages, accommodating a hundred
iand ten pupils from 27 States of the
I union and three foreign countries. The
j courses taught include Bnglish, do
, mestic science and arts, dressmaking,
I [Continued on Page «]
THE STATE FROM DW TO DAY
Why is it that every time some poor
defenseless little tot is born into the
world some writer must report that
the lives of Mr. and Mrs. So-and-o
were brightened by the arrival of a
bouncing boy of lusty lung power, just
as though he were a rubber ball or
something.
Mall carriers in Wilkes-Barre have
cast ofT the old and are now appearing
in their summer head finery, a new
style having been adopted this year.
The Charleroi Mail takes it that
"when a girl looks around to see If you
arc looking and then casts a sidelong
glance downward you may feel fairly
certain she has on pretty stockings."
An observance worthy of a seer.
Efficiency has found its greatest ex
pression in the departure from his
pulpit of a Congregational clergyman
of Scranton, who after twenty-seven
years of service in ministerial work
has joined the forces of an undertak
ing establishment. The Scranton Re
publican suggests that the Rev. Mr.
Lewis is undertaking to prove his
theory that in time of sorrow there is
need for a person of high training and
sympathy to give solace. Mr. Lewis
is said to have accomplished big things
in the field of literature as well as re
ligion. and it is just possible that he
may by his latest move have provided
himself with a splendid atmosphere
for a good story.
A certain organization met recently
in a western town of this State and ac
cording to the report of the local pa
per, the ladies did "crochet all after
noon." And there is some suspicion
that the tongues likewise "did wag"
during the stiplated period.
Charlie Chaplin received a vote for
President In Philadelphia at the pri
maries Tuesday. Simultaneously with
his election as president," Charlie was
sued for $500,000 for breach of prom
ise. Such Is fame.
Olaf Hanson, a Ptinxsutawney prod
uct, is training carefully in preparation
for his hair-raising "Human Fly"
stunt, which will be to scale the side
of the Pantall Hotel without human
aid or device, according to the Spirit.
Olaf will probably wing his way to
other realms.
The Hill
The climbing was difficult.
The earth trembled and shook.
Huge rocks and giant trees tottered,
then crashed down.
Tumultuously tossed masses of smoke
hid the sun.
Through this chaos he climbed
stealthily.
lie fired steadily—lnto the air.
His thoughts were ever on home: his
loved wife; his two pretty children.
He loved peace. He loved even his
enemies.
He had not volunteered. He had been
drafted.
Three months ago he had been badly
wounded: sent home.
Now he was back again in this mill of
death.
I<ater, there on the crest, they found
him, dead.
"There (on the hill) they crucified
him."—The Christian Herald.
iEtaning (Uliat
People about the Capitol are recall
ins the fact that tomorrow will be Just,
one year since the General Assembly
of 1915 adjourned and the Statu is
.itißt launching a campaign for the
election of a new one to meet next.
January. The nominations for the
''n senatorial vacancies and the 107
seats in the House are just now b?ing
made and the State is pretty thor
oughly' stirred up over politics. The
chances are that there will be more or
less attention bestowed at the next
convention on the subject of a con
stitutional convention. A good many
people are of the opinion that tin,
State needs a new foundation for its
laws, but the confusion that would
follow such a proceeding would lie
worse than the present trouble. Hence
it is likely that there will be a number
of amendments suggested and from
what we hear there will be a repro
duction of the proposed amendment to
have the inauguration of the Governor
take place at some oilier time 'han
January, Just about the time a new
Legislature is getting under way, and
this time in May is being mentioned in
| some of the gossip, Everyone knows
what the quadrennial coincidence of
a new administration and a new Legis
lature means, it is also suggested that
the Legislature should meet every Tour
| years, as acts are not given time to be /
thoroughly tried out in less time, but
11his suggestion will hardly get very
j far. It took almost 100 years for (his
5 State to do away with annual sessions
and any idea of abolishing biennial in
favor of triennial or even less frequent
sessions would be apt to be smitten at
the election.
"Penn," writing in the Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin, makes some ob
servations on (ho recent primary cam
paign which will appeal to every
thcughtful man. lie says: "In the
recent campaign there was a good deal
of truculence and abuse, some of it
gross. But il came chiefly from the
principals in the factions; there was
comparatively little of It among the
rank and tile outside of a few wards.
The campaign hail not lasted long
enough to breed violence of temper in
the mass and body of either faction. If
il had lasted a month longer, it would
have been pretty certain to have de
veloped a much fiercer eruption of
rancor and scandal. The sewer rats
were held in leasli for the most part;
at least no such use was made of them
as there was in one campaign afler
j another in the period of hostilities be
j tween the Quay and the anti-Quay
: factionists. Throughout the city there
lias been fhus far much less, .foo, of
! the rupturing of personal friendships
(than there was in the upheavals and
i uproars that attended the Warwick
j administration. Half of the ward lead
i ers seemed to go into the contest this
I year not because their fighting blood
Was really up. but because they could
j not escape the tests and demands that
] were put upon their loyalty to the
| chiefs of one or the other of the fac
] tions."
• • •
"Uncle Henry" Houck is still able to
| take care of himself. Yesterday lie
! was accused of "ducking"
and of sending the committees which
; sought oratory to Dr. J. George Becht.
' the secretary of the State Board of
Education. Dr. Becht is some speech
maker, hut he has been kept busy with
the requests.
"Oh, have T been doing that?" in
quired "Uncle llenry" innocently.
"Yes. you have," it. was charged.
"Well. I'm not going to do Ihat any
more. Do yon know, the last time
that man Becht and I were on the
same program he made a better speech
i than I did."
Among the nominees for the Legis
i lature is "Flick" Stites, who was eap
j tain and third baseman of the Uni
j verslty of Pennsylvania baseball team
i for a couple of years and who is well
,; known here. Officially he is
IW. Stites. physician. Narherth. tVe
i publican legislative candidate in the
| First Montgomery district, heretofore
represented by Speaker Charles A.
Ambler.
• « •
Col. L. V Rausch, who Is directing
the preparation of the Mt. Gretna
camp ground for the encampments of
the National Guardsmen this year, is
' deputy quartermaster general of the
(iGuarii and superintendent of the State
t j arsenal. He succeeded the late Col.
W. P. Richardson and has the details
> of the supply depot at his fingers'
i ends. Col. Rausch has prepared the
r camp for several years.
* • *
Dr. Alfred Stengel, the medical man
here for yesterday's' conference, has
» the reputation of being one of the
most expert diagnosticians in the « 'ity
of Brotherly Love. He has most of
the prominent men of that city.
j WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"]
T. W. Tobias, who is a national
delegate from Blair, Is county cor >~
troller of that county and one of the
voung Republican leaders.
- ' The Vare brothers, who are figur
ing very much in the limelight, were
I I both born In South Philadelphia.
II Charles C 5. Spatz. who tried "on
elusions with Congressman Dewalt.
"limed to he in the legislature and was
" known as "Herr" Spatz. He lives in
■ Bovertown and was a busy legislator.
8 RE Diefenderfer. who defeated
s Senator Heacock for a Democratic con
-1 gressional nomination in the Rucks
-3 Montgomery district, was in Congress
B three years ago.
The Rev. J. Luclen Roush was
B elected head of the Heading classls of
1 i the Reformed Church.
0
1 DO YOU KNOW
That llarrisburg annually ships
' thousands of tons of groceries to
nearby towns?
r HISTORIC HARRISBVUO
Tt is tradition that the Indians used
» Harris ferry because there was a ford
s at that point.
Wherein Have Ye Wearied Him?
Ye have wearied tlie I-ord with your
" words. Yet we say, Wherein have
] we wearied him? —Malarhi 2: 17.
5
Applied Proverb of
Modern Business
"Moke hay while the sua
s ■bliioa."
And when was the sun of pios
-1 perlty shining more invitingly
than just now?
True, a few old croakers ate
> chirping, "look out for the crash
when the war stops."
i But no one is paying any at- !
tention to the kill-Joys,
i , Wise men are going right af
ter business under full L stcani.
' If their business or brand la
advertisable they are advertising
f It.
And they are using the daily
• newspapers like tills one to do.lt
—for somehow or other the news
paper advertising seems to bring
1 an extra share of the prosperity.