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TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 30
Yet they, believe »t«, who await
yo gifts from chance, have conquer
ed, fate.
— MATTHEW ARNOLD.
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MEMORIAL DAY
WHEN you lay a flower to-day on ;
the grave of a soldier you |
honor the memory of a de
parted hero. But you do more than
that. Tou not only pay tribute to the
dead: you light a taper before the
altar of the living, bright-shining spirit
Of patriotism.
Pessimists have been fond of telling
us that patriotism in the United States
is dead; that it has been sacrificed to
the dollar; that we are a nation of
money-grubbers, with our thoughts on
material prosperity and our vision no
higher than the topmost figure In the
ledger of business. But that is not so.
Perhaps it was true that for a time we
were like self-conscious boys who love
their mothers with whole-hearted de
votion, but who are bashful about ex
pressing their feelings in public. Time
was, and not so long ago, about the
time that "spread-eagleism" went out
of fashion, that we wondered mightily
as we stood to sing the "Star-Spangled
Banner," for instance, what the other
fellow thought about It. We were
patriotic, but we were chary of dis
playing our sentiment. We feared we
"might be overdoing it."
But times have changed and a new
national consciousness has come to us
in the past few years. Yesterday the
Rotary Club stood to drink a silent
toast to the soldier-dead and to sing
the national anthem, and it was not an
occasion either for mawkish sentiment
or heroics. It was a simple ceremony;
the men of the community voicing
their admiration and veneration for
the soldiers who stood "between their
loved land and the war's desolation."
To-day the Technical High School
boys laid a wreath on the soldiers and
sailors' monument, and this, too, was
a simple service, without pomp or cir
cumstance. It was simply an expres
sion of love and reverence for the men
who marched away to "glory or the
grave" at the call of their country.
A thousand other such scenes were
enacted to-day. Their meaning is
plain. Our men are no less lovers of
the old flag than were their fore- j
fathers, and the honor they do the
hallowed dead is but a guarantee that'
they, too, would make the great sacri- j
fice as willingly and as courageously
as did the Boys in Blue who sleep
their long sleep hcneath the blankets |
of blossoms strewn by loving hands j
to-day. . Above the peace and quiet of
the tomb shines the light of patriotic
devotion, bright and eternal.
The last Democratic campaign—in |
fact, the entire Wilson campaign, begin- j
nlng early in 1911, and ending in No
vember, 1912, was conducted by William |
F. McCombs, who furnished nearly all |
the brains and raised most of the I
money, McCombs has the reward of I
whatever satisfaction he feels. McAdoo, |
• who was not known in the Wilson cam- j
paign prior to the convention, was the
chief recipient of political favors. Mc-
Combs will not be chairman of the Na
tional Committee in 1916.
WILSON'S PEACE SPEECH
PRESIDENT WILSON'S speech be
fore the conference of the League
" to Enforce Peace at Washington
Saturday night, as usual, lacks the
definite note and is therefore disap
pointing to those who had expected
him to outline some program to be
followed by the administration during
the remainder of the war and in the |
negotiations leading up to a treaty i
of peace. Indefiniteness clothed In !
high-sounding phrases is the Presi
dent's besetting weakness, but in this
Instance he may be excused for not
going on record, although the infer
ence was plain In the newspaper dis
patches from the White House that
at last he did mean to speak plainly
concerning his views and purposes in
this respect.
The President, however, struck a
popular note when he expressed him
self In favor of the United States join
ing heartily in any such move as the
League to Enforce Peace proposes,
despite the fact that such a declara
tion is in open violation of the oft
repeated warning against American
alliamces with foreign nations. When
Washington uttered his solemn pro
test against "entangling" relations he
could not have foreseen such condi-
I tlons M the world faces to-day and
' TUESDAY EVENING, ""
any auch thought as that expressed by
the League to Enforce Peace was quite
as impossible then as the use oC aero
planes in warfare at that early date.
It is not fair, therefore, to the first
President to quote his views on this
subject as applying to-day and Presi
dent Wilson Is quite right in expressing
the belief that the country is ripe for
such an experiment as the league pro
poses.
"Jimmy" Lentz, the popular County
Recorder, is not only a skilful politi
cian, but a good citizen as well. To
day he headed a party of G. A. R. vet
erans, who were enabled by automo
biles provided by him, to conduct Me
morial Day exercises in all of .the Upper
End cemeteries, many of which other
wise would have been neglected.
ONE BOROUGH ADVISABLE
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS people
in town meeting last evening
appointed a committee to take
up with Camp Hill borough council a
proposal to unite with that borough.
Ten years ago there was no such place
as Washington Heights. To-day it is
a thriving, enterprising community,
destined to be the connecting link be
tween Camp Hill and the river and
clamoring for better government than
the legal limitations of the township
permit. The rapid development of
this section is an illustration of the
growth of the whole West Shore resi
dential district, fn the course of a
very few years it is certain to become
one of the big centers of population in
thisisection of the State.
Its people are on the right track. To
go into Camp Hill is the logical and
natural step. The West Shore has
too many boroughs as it is. To create
another would add only confusion and
expense.
To create a new borough at Wash
ington Heights would necessitate the
expense of a separate school system,
the erection of a town hall, the ex
pense of an additional board of health,
fire department, highway commis
sioner, engineer, solicitor and what
not.
On the other hand, with Washing
ton Heights as a part of Camp Hill,
one council would govern the whole
and instead of having two borough
governments to maintain the tax
payers would have but one, which
would, of course cut down the tax
rate.
Washington Heights and Camp Hill
adjoin each other. To have two sets
of officials to operate them would be
like having two factories side by side,
owned by the same people, making the
same goods, and each operated by a
different set of officials. Of course, it
requires more to run two shops under
two managements than to run two
shops with one management, and the
same applies to expenses of govern
ment. If Washington Heights wants
to be a separate borough, it will have
to "pay the piper." As a part of
Camp Hill the economies of adminis
tration are too numerous to mention.
"Sa-ve yourselves labor by keeDing j
your boys and their muddy shoes oft
your hardwood floors," says a news- j
paper "woman's page writer," but we •
have noticed that it Is the happiest !
homes that occasionally "get all
mussed up" as the result of raids by
muddy feet.
OX TO PIJATTSBURG!
THE lure of Plattsburg is growing |
stronger as the time for holding
the camps draws nearer and the
number of citizen recruits grows
steadily. At the present rate of In
crease It may be figured that within
a week or ten days the total number
of enrollments will be over ten thou
sand for the four camps, including the
students' camp in July.
A number of the cities that will!
send representative business and pro- j
fessional men to uphold the honor of'
the town for thirty days or more, are '
arranging plans to organize in ad- 1
vance 'for the purpose of getting a
little preliminary training with a view
to appearing somewhat less "green" I
on their arrival at camp. Wilkes- j
Berre and Johnstown are active in
this respect, but it is doubtful if the j
plan is feasible for the reason that
so little time can be profitably given
b> a busy man without devoting him
self almost exclusively to the task.
Harrisburg will send a fair-sized
delegation of students and business- [
men to the July and August camps,
but no effort has been made to |
actively recruit in this city. The j
truth is that men in large numbers
would swarm to the camp if they felt
they could give up a month in the
middle of the summer. The hard
ships are nothing compared to the
benefits that accrue and the con
stantly increasing , enrollment of
volunteers bears adequate testimony
to that fact. At the present rate of
increase in numbers, it will soon be
|a case of the supply surpassing the ac
commodations with a consequent de
crease in desire for recruits on the
part of those in charge. Better get on
bc-tore the train starts, Mr. Business
Man, you who want to go but can't
quite make up your mind.
The selection of Frank A. Smith to be
assistant chief secretary of the Chicago
convention does honor to Dauphin
county and Is proper recognition of per
sonality and ability. Mr. Smith is a man
iof charming manners and his ability
jas an organizer is demonstrated not
I alone In his own very successful busi-
I ness, hut by the Taft campaign when
he, as county chairman, was largely In
! strumental In carrying to victory the
| local Republican ticket at a time when
the Progressives swept the county for
Roosevelt.
It is strange that the Democrats are
paying l so much attention to the nomi
nation of a Republican candidate for
President, and tj-ylng to ignore the
numerous important administrative
mistakes which their own party has
made. If they really wish to help In the
! promotion of good government, they
| ran best serve that purpose by giving
some attention to their own party af
j fairs.
| The Rotary Club set other organiza
| tions a good example yesterday by con-
I tributing to the Grand Army Decora
tion Day flower fund.
If Harrisburg doesn't look out, the
West Shore will have a new High School
before we have one her*.
foCttutf. CK
Si the Ex-Committeeman
Returns of the primary election in
every county in the State with the ex
ception of Butler and Delaware have
| been recorded at the State Capitol
jand the names of the men elected to
the various State committees have
been certified so that they can meet
j to-morrow. If thG returns from the
| two counties are received in time spe
t cial certificates will be made out for
them and the papers will be sent to
the places of meeting.
| The Republican, Democratic and
I Prohibition State committees will meet
i to-morrow under the primary law for
! organization, the former In Phila
delphia and the Democrats and
Prohibitionists 'in this city,
j Except for Rutler and Delaware the
I tabulation of the votes cast for dele
i gutes-at-large is complete at .the
i Capitol and as soon as the missing
j counties are heard from the totals
! will be computed. About two-thirds
of the counties have filed returns on
Congress-at-large, Supreme Court and
other nominations.
—The Republican party appears to
be furnishing all of the excitement
this year. The Brumbaugh people
have decided that the call for the Re
publican State committee is legal
and that they will not make any
trouble, while their failure to refer to
the election of national committee
man in the statements issued in the
last iwenty-four hours shows that
they have given up any hope of de
feating the election of Senator Boies
Penrose as national committeeman.
The real fight in the Republican party
is over the national delegate honors.
The Republican State committee will j
meet at 10:30 to-morrow morning In,
Philadelphia and the delegates at ;
2-30.
The Democratic State committee I
meeting will be held at the Board of |
Trade building at 11 o'clock to-mor
row and contrary to recent gather
ings of that organization there is no
fight in sight. The reorganization and
rehabilitation factions have appar
ently agreed to have a nice meeting,
although of course this plan may be
changed on short notice. No one is
ever safe in making a prediction on a
Democratic State committee meeting
although Just now Palmer and Llebel
are busy throwing bouquets at each
other and the retirement of State
Chairman Roland S. Morris eliminates
one sore spot. Had Morris decided
to run again there would have been
a bitter row in the committee.
—No one seems to know just who
will be picked for the chairmanship,
but the name of Joseph F. Guffey, the
Allegheny county chairman, is much
mentioned. Senator W. W. Hindman
of Clarion, is also to the front. It
seems to be the general desire to keep
the chairmanship out of Philadelphia.
There was some talk to-day of James
I. Blakslee, assistant postmaster gen
eral and former secretary of the State
hut the genial Jim is probably too busy
In Washington fighting senators. A
new secretary will be elected, resolu
tions approving the president will be
adopted and Palmer will make a
speech.
—The Prohibition State committee
will meet at its headquarters and re
elect State Chairman B. K. P. Prugh,
who Is putting the organization into
good shape.
—The Montgomery county Republi
can committee yesterday re-elected
Freas Slyer, Penrose man, as county
chairman. The Brumbaugh people!
did not put up any contest.
—The Philadelphia Bulletin com- :
menta upon the fact that not as many.
people attend presidential direct prim- |
arles, even in a year of a ruction, as
attended the old-time primaries and |
thinks that more interest should be |
displayed.
—Pittsburgh Democrats were all J
stirred up by a visit paid yesterday by j
Palmer. It was reported that he went j
to make sure that the Old Guard was j
going to be good to-morrow.
—The Philadelphia official count j
shows that Ambler went 12.000 ahead!
of Snyder in that city. It was ex- j
pected by Ambler's friends that he I
would get 50,000 in the city. Knox
polled the high vote with 146,000 with!
Kephart next with 133,000.
—Friends of T. W. Templeton, Re- ]
publican candidate for Congress in ;
Luzerne, expect him to win this year
against Congressman J. J. Casey.
—The Philadelphia Record to-day [
says: "An alleged effort to prevent
the meeting to-morrow of the Republi- |
can State committee in the Bellevue- j
Stratford, by wiring committeemen ,
that the meeting would be illegal, was j
blocked yesterday by quick action on i
the part of State Chairman Crow.
From his home in Uniontown Senator!
Crow wired every member of the com
mittee that the State organization !
would meet to-morrow in accordance j
with the law governing that body. j
Chairman Crow had learned that some
unknown person had telephoned mem
bers of the State Committee that they
should not appear at to-morrow's
meeting, on the grounds that the offi
cial count had not been completed at
Harrisburg and that certificates of
election could not be given. In con
tradiction of this statement Senator
Crow announced that the committee
men would be seated and recognized
under the count submitted by the
commissioners of their respective
counties.
—At Pottsville Judge Brumm hand
ed down an opinion finding 87 infrac- 1
tions of the law in the Dost Creek poll
of West Mahanoy district last Novem
ber. He said: "Brute force, black- j
guardism, fraud and corruption were
rampant, and an imported bully In the
shape of a trained prize-fighter from
Philadelphia, ran the election, while
free beer was served to voters." The
costs of the investigation were placed
on the school district, as court was
prevented by law from putting the
costs on the school defend
ants.
We Hear From Harrisburg
Every once in a while somebody
rambles in from Harrisburg to tell us
something about ourselves. Usually
these somebody* give us a story we
arc not glad to hear. Some delin
quency has to be called to our atten
tion. Latest was a gentlemen who
hurt our feelings by reminding us that
It really Is not possible to send a 20-
foot stream of water under a 10-foot
bridge, and that when we innocently
try to do this Impossible thing we are
not only destroying our property, but
violating sundry state laws. Occas
ionally we do not need the word of a
gentleman from Harrisburg to set us
right. The Lord sends a cloudburst
upon us, and we con see for ourselves
that our engineering, In spots, defies
all thrs laws of nature, and that as a
<.onsequence we have vast pools of
water upon our streets and plugsed up
sewers. We are going to remedy the
sewer defects, at considerable cost. But
nobody has started a real campaign,
Ito shove encroachera off the river
| hanks. "Everybody's business is no
body's business," we used to write in
the copy books. And when we quit
writing in copy books we kept right
on proving that the adage wag true. —
, .Johnstown Leader.
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the second year of a course In the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art at Philadelphia. Mr. Beckenbaugh was
a graduate in the class of 1914 at the Central Highi School, and while in that Institution was art editor for several
years on the Central High School Argus.
TELE6RAPH PERISCOPE
—An impossibility—a Memorial Day
without a threat of rain.
—Some folks think Memorial Day
was designed especially to permit them
to go off and hold a jollification.
—The growing conviction is that the
nomination won't have to be tendered
Justice Hughes on a silver platter—
most any old kind of a platter may be
acceptable.*
•—The popular opinion seems to be
that quarantine laws were created foi
, the restraint of everybody but oneself.
—Do you remember the days when
national delegates used to strut up ana
down the Union Station platform be
tween trains proudly displaying their
badges and railroad passes?
—William Penn was not referring to
political peace when he proposed a
Peace Parliament with headquarters
In Philadelphia.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
j A natural association of ideas should
j keep aviators out of Switzerland for
I fear of the holes in the air.—Washing
| ton Post.
i Another thing the war has demon
! strated Is that the way to save daylight
jis to use more of it.—Pittsburgh Ga
j zette-Tlmes.
I Two "punitive expeditions" would
I come very near to equaling one war.
Philadelphia Recfird.
The Kaiser having disregarded their
advice. German-American newspapers
will now sever relations with Berlin. —
Philadelphia North American.
If silence gives consent, Justice
Hughes has already used enough to ac
cent a nomination and deliver an in
augural address.—Richmond rimes-
Difcpatch.
Kitty Talked to Him
[From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.!
Jack Robinson, 3 years old, Shelby,
O. has a bulldog with an abbreviated (
tail The remnant of caudal append
age would make an ideal handle, and
most children of back's tender age
would employ it as such —but Jack
never does. When interviewed by
our reporter on the subject, young Mr.
Robinson explained his position as fol
"No. I don't hold htm by the tail.
Once i took my kitty by the tail. But
she looked around und whispered to
me. and then jagged me with her
... „ .
"Whispered to me!" Can Maeter
linck beat that?
Lowell and Preparedness
(From Roosevelt's Memorial Speech)
If we are true to the men of the
mighty past we shall guide ourselves
by what Lowell wrote to the pacifists
of his time, who—to use his own words
—wished to "knuckle down," to their
foes, he said:
"Peace won't keep house with Fear.
If you want peace the thing you've
got to do
Is just to show you're up to fighting
too;
Better that all our ships with all their
crews
Should sink to rot in ocean's dream
less ooze,
Each torn flag waving challenge as it
went
And each dumb gun a brave man's
monument,
Than seek such peace as only cowards
crave;
Give me the peace of dead men or of
Brave."
"Come Peace! Not like a mourner
bowed
For honor lost and dear ones wasted,
But proud to meet a people proud.
With eyes that tell of triumph
tasted.
"Come, while our country feels the lift
Of n great instinct shouting 'For
wards!'
And knows that freedom's not a gift
That tarries long In hands of cow
ards!"
Father's Boyhood
"When I was young," my father said
"At 5 a. m. I Jumped from bed
And fed the stock ana brought in wood
And did just everything I could."
! (Then Grandma smiled the strangest
way •
I But didn't have a word to say.)
'But now most boys aren't worth their
salt.
The friends they choose are most at
, fault,
For my best friend I chose a book."
Then Grandma shot the strangest look,
And added with the slightest shrug,
i"Like that you read behind the rug."
—Carlton Fisher In Farm and Fire
side.
jjf Muffle the drums and let the marching feet
i|| Move softly 'ere perchance we fail to hear i i
j I The voices of our dead.
| 1 From far and near, | I
{| From unmarked grave, from massive granite tomb, j !
| From battlefield and churchyard sounds the cry, j
11 "Remember us and how we died—and why! jl | [
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'We faced a Hell you cannot understand; I
We left our wives and little ones to feed, |
Defenseless and alone,
l A war's red greed;
We died to save a Union undeHled.
Hold thou in highest trust the flag that waves
Its folds t'ward God and Heaven o'er our graves!" [| I
—ANNA H. WOOD,
Written for The Telegraph ||J
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THE STATE FROM DAY TO DW~]
Noting that York is fostering a
porchbox and backyard contest, we
cordially invite those who are the
strongest advocates of the plan to i
come to Harrtsburg and see what real- '
ly can be done to improve the floral l
appearance of things.
William Howard Taft, than whom
no one possesses a more expansive
smile and congenial personality, will
be one of the speakers at the nine- ,
teonth annual Spring exercises at the I •
National Farm School, DoylestoNvn, on
Sunday next.
'♦Blessed is the peacemaker" but not
always is his lot most enviable. A
would-be peacemaker in Fairmount
yesterday received serious injuries
from a razor wielded by one of the '
contestants whom he would have sep- i
arated, so that ho will probably die. 1
i
The Philadelphia Record has a 1
head-writer of poetic tendencies. And 1
the meter isn't bad at that. Here it 1
is: "Not a Note From Artist Throat as 1
Audience Vainly Waited; "Caruso's
Peer" Missed All the Cheer and Plung
ed Plump Into Lawsuit."
Governor Brumbaugh is credited
with being a very versatile man. One
day he seizes a golf stick, another a
shovel, and now he is reputed to be
employing the ax rather strenuously.
An Allentown Italian, unversed In
the art of paddling a canoe, took his
bride on the river and upset, after
which he swam to her rescue and
saved her from drowning. Which we
opine to be a very friendly act.
Gymnastic ablllty.coupled with pow
erful wrists, saved the lives of two Na
tional Guardsmen caught on a high
trestle bridge over the Schuylkill river
near Reading the other day. One of
the three was knocked off, but the
others clung to the trestle and were
saved.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza
tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."]
How are repairs to paved streets
made?
By the city under the supervision
of the Superintendent of Streets
and Public Improvements. An as
phalt repair plant has been con
structed for that purpose.
"Gone, Not Forgotten"
I [Wilfred Grenfell in the Outlook.]
I Beyond a tiny tot of rum no dope
has ever been given, or needed, by the
;Knglish or French. in the general
| headquarters in France I saw on the
wall n notice with a deep black bor
der all around it; It was dated June,
1915, and it read: "Sacred to the mem
ory of the rum ration; gone, but not
forgotten "
MAY 30, 1916.
| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR"
THANKS MR. MEftGKR
To the Editor of the Telegraph :
A a meetimr of the Sisterhood of
Ohev Sholem, a resolution was passea
extending the thanKs of the Slsterhooa
to John N. H. Wenger for the uso of hr*
storeroom, 110 North Second street, and
to the newspapers, merchants and the
?üblic for the genorous support Riven
o the Sisterhood on the occasion of the
festival and bazar conducted May 24 for
the benefit of the charity fund.
At the direction of the Sisterhood
notice of this action is beinfr Bent you
bv
Very truly yours.
MRS. H. U TAUSIG,
Treasurer Bazar Committee.
Yale Spirit
A great university is not altogether
without honor even from the small hoy
In her own country. A New Haven
Sunday school youth was being taught
to repeat some verses from the Psalms
gave this wholly, though unconscious
ly, original rendering of a familiar
phrase: "Yale, though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death, I
will fear no evil."—Harper's Magazine.
| OUR DAILY LAUGH
FOR HIM "
illSv I cawn't quite
■flD., make out what
JW • ißuth means.
IP t n She keep* on
fr ]S referring to my
fll |§ man, donc he r
j I Jjj know, as a keep-
i EVIDENCT!S,
) 4 Vhey tell
_ Jji v <1 young Dobbs is »
young man • of
about three hun
«/ 'l<l r e d dollars'
gjjf 'worth of hla
W I®* Tc " m promises myself.
WHAT WOULD THEY DOT
By Wing Dinner
All honor to the soldier dead—
The Gray as well as Blue—
For In the breasts of those who fought
Beat loyal hearts and true.
And though some fifty years ago
Those men divided were.
Could they come back to life again
What think you would occur?
Think you that in these threatening
days.
When thore abroad who i ule.
lightly treat with this fair
Its people ridicule—
That those ifien who, in sixty-five
Their lives did sacrifice.
Would fight and die agpln, or urge
A peace at any price?
——,
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Pew cities in the land gave more
spontaneous and hearty support to the
proposition for establishment of Me
morial day, when it was first proclaim
ed by Gen. John A. Logan back in
1868. The general was then the com
mander in chief of the Grand Army of
the Republic in America and his sug
gestion that the memory of the fallen
be kept green and that i exercises, in
cluding the strewing of flowers, should
be held was issued on May 5 of that
year. The idea was at once taken
hold of and while there was nothing
like the elaborate ooservance such as
we have" known for the last twenty
years, yet there was general noticey
taken. In this city, where Gen. John
W. Geary was in office as governor
and Oliver Kdwards was mayor, the
veterans of the civil war found many
to join with them and the exercises
and parade attracted so much atten
tion that they were established as an
annual custom. Since that time Me
morial day has been observed in keep
ing with the traditions of the capital
of the Keystone State and the site of
the great mobilization camp of the
civil war. This part of the country
is rich in memories of the civil war
and there is not a hamlet or a ceme
tery where the flag does not stand
over the grave of a veteran and flow
ers mark the last resting places.
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One of the interesting things about
the lecture given to the school chil
dren ot the city at the Public Library
on Saturday afternoon by O. P. Beck
ley was that so many children recog
nized the flowers about which Mr.
Hockley spoke. The illustrations
were from photographs of flowers and
mounted at the McParland establish
ment. When they were shown Mr.
Beckley would ask how many knew
the flower. It was surprising how
many youngsters held up their hands,
iney were well acquainted with the
woodland beauties and demanded
many encores.
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If plenteous unfurling of "Old
Glorj; • to the breeze be anv indica
tion of patriotism thten all city and
county officialdom was nothing if not
patriotic. For Memorial Day was ob
served very successfully in at least two
ways.
From each window of the front
portico a great flag flew; heretofore
not more than one ba'nner adorned the
front of the courthouse even on a holi
day. Courthouse Custodian "Charley"
I eters who by the way, is an ardent
advocate of "preparedness," inaugu
£«»• # stom of swinging three
flags from the courthouse front on hol
idays and a single flag from the middle
window at all times. So much for
the decorative effect. But the de
®hlefs ar ><> attaches cele
brated the day to a man in another
way:
Everybody took a day off.
• ♦ •
Something slipped a cog or two in
the pumping machinery of the pipe
organ in an uptown church recently
and two small boys from the congre
gation more or less willingly volun
teered (at the suggestion of pleased
as-pie parents) to operate the pump
by hand.
?, he „ • iob luite evidently began to
pall after awhile and the pair decided
in whispered conference to "spell"
each other off. That each "take everv
other hymn turn about" was the basis
of the agreement. The novelty of that
arrangement wore off after awhile,
too, and during the rendition of the
final hymns the feebleness of the or
gan accompaniment was plainly no
ticeable. Eventually the service drew
along toward the end and the minister
announced the doxology; the young
sters heaved long deep sighs. Congre
gation and choir rose, as one, the «
chorister signaled with his book, the 1
organ pealed forth for a few bars
| sputtered, trembled—and finally
moaned itself into silence. Choir and
congregation shot inquiring glances
toward the organloft. There side by
side before the motional levers, stood
the small pumpers, heads thrown back,
voices raised—
"Praisa God," heartily sang the
youngsters, "from whom all blessings
flow!"
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It remained for the National Geo
graphic Magazine, leader of all the
periodicals in artlstic.reproduction of
beautiful America to recognize in the
April number the grandeur of the pic
ture presented by the Rockville bridge,
the river and the ridges beyond. Be
neath the etching is this line: "One
might travel all over Europe without
seeing a more picturesque landscape
than this or a more successful combi
nation of art and nature in a single
scene. And this fine bit of local scenery
is included in an issue almost entirely
devoted to a showing of the wondrous
natural attractions of the United
States. It is high time that we ap
preciate the sublime and incomparable
scenery at our own doors.
• « •
Isaac R. Pennypacker, who was
here yesterday to attend the meeting
of the Meade Memorial commission, is
a noted author of books on Pennsyl
vania and Pennsylvanians. His book
on General Meade is noted and he is
an authority on the historic events in
eastern Pennsylvania.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~
—Dr. R. Tait McKenzie, who has
been abroad the last year, has sent
word that he will resume his course at
the University of Pennsylvania.
—C. F. Gramlich, who issued the
ordef for thn Grand Army encamp
■ont here next month, was stationed
here during trie civil war.
—Ex-President Tart will speak at
the National Farm school in Eastern
Pennsylvania next Sunday.
—Walter Smith, Uniontown athletic
instructor, will walk 600 miles to at
tend Amherst commencement.
—Councilman J. P. Kerr, who has
Pittsburgh mayoralty ambitions, is a
physician. So is Congressman Barch
feld of Pittsburgh.
1 DO YOU KNOW
That Hanisburg steel is used
for making bolts for battleships?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The dedication of the first canal
lock here in the thirties was an occas
ion attended by the governor.
Do You Hear the Call ? 1
These are the days when the
little birds are cheeping "Come
Out in the Garden." But gar
dening Is not all play. The cor
rect Implements, however, make
for fewer blisters. What about
a wheelbarrow, lawn-mower,
hedge-trimmer, shovel, spade,
trowel, rake, hose, hose-reel,
sprinkler, grass-trimmer or a
lawn-roller? The Advertising
News in the Telegraph quotes
these very necessary garden tools
at n reasonable price. Do you i
read the ads? Does this talk re
mind you of the tough cutting
last summer with that antiquated
grass-chewer of yours? BUY A
LAWN MOWER.