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FRIDAY EVENING, JFXE 16
Where you see no good, silence is
best. —Anon.
WIISON AND MARSHALL
PRESIDENT WILSON has been
renominated by the Democrats,
with Vice-President Marshal as
t 3iis running mate, that being the
Inevitable outcome of the St. Louis
convention.
There are two reasons for the re-
of President Wilson and
one for the renomination of Marshall.
In the first place, the Democrats were
compelled to put up the President for
a second term or confess publicly the
failure of the administration, as many
of them privately admit. In the sec
ond place, the President has absolute
control of the party machinery and
federal patronage, which has been ex
tended greatly by breaking down the
civi: service system at many points
and by the creation of hundreds of
iiew johg in the past four years, and
he could have forced himself upon
the delegates if there had been a show
of opposition. The cards were stacked
In advance and Wilson and everybody
else knew it. He couldn't lose.
With Marshall it was different. Mar
shall has made an unenviable reputa
tion for himself in the Vice-President's
el air. He has not only lacked dignity,
but he has shown anything but good
taste In many of his activities and
utterances. He would have been de
feated but for the fact that the
President ordered the Democrats to
renominate him—and they were afraid
tc face the wrath of the executive.
But while the renomlnatlons came
without a fight, re-election will be
another matter. It must be remem
bered that President Wilson Is a
minority President. He went into
office only because of the split In the
Republican ranks. He did not receive
a majority of the popular vote; far
from it, indeed. Now he faces a
reunited party. Many Republicans
voted for him four years ago who are
back in the fold now. Some Pro
gressives will support him this year,
but mighty few. In addition he has
lose the German-American vote and
the votes of many Democrats who
have been disgusted with the utter
failure of the administration to live
up to Its responsibilities and its op
portunities.
The biggest factor, however, in the
coming campaign will be Charles E.
Kurhes. The personality of the Re
publican candidate and the principles
lor which he stands will sweep the
country. And as for Fairbanks, he
is infinitely the superior in every way
of the trifling Mr. Marshall.
THK HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH is now
giving consideration to the fill
ing of several important
vacancies in the State Government.
The regrettable death of Robert J.
Cunningham, who as Commissioner
of Highways had in a comparatively
brief period established for himself
and the administration an enviable
record for that important depart
ment. places upon the Governor an
obligation greater than that imposed
by any of the other appointments. We
believe he realizes this fact and will
proceed with the utmost care and
discrimination In choosing Mr. Cun
ningham's successor.
II is within the knowledge of the
Telegraph that no official on Capitol
Hill enjoyed the confidence of the
Governor more than the late head of
the Department of Highways and of
all the constructive work of the pres
ent administration the creation of a
gieat system of roads has appealed
most strongly to Governor Brum
baugh. He was in close touch with
the work of Mr. Cunningham and
renlieed how consistently and effi
ciently his own plans and policies re
specting the highways were being car
ried out through the Highway De
partment.
Of course, it will be said that the
breach In the Republican leadership
of the State will result in a reorganiza
tion of the Highway Department in
tlie interest of a political faction. It
is inconceivable that any such course
would have the approval of the Gov
ernor. He knows quite as well as
others familiar with conditions In
Pennsylvania that any loss of confi
dence among the people in the work
ing out of the highway system would
entail consequences so serious In their
character as to practically destroy
what has already been accomplished
FRIDAY EVENING,
in the direction of improved roads.
So much hag been achieved during
the past year or two in awakening
public interest in better highways that
the constructive program of the pres
ent administration will almost cer
tainly have the approval of the people
through the creation of a long term
loan, but any political maneuvering
would just as certainly check and
Inevitably destroy the one big con
structive enterprise which Governor
Brumbaugh has so muoh at heart.
It would be well for the people to
suspend Judgment regarding alleged
political activities, eßpecially where
public confidence Is Involved, until
some concrete and definite act on
Capitol Hill warrants adverse criticism
regarding the conduct of the Depart
ment of Highways or any other de
partment.
NEW DAY FOR STEELTON
STEELiTON stands upon the thresh
hold of a new day; a new era is
dawning in its industrial and
municipal history.
That this la true, is the concensus
of opinion among unbiased observers
at the brilliant "Booster Banquet"
given last evening under the joint
auspices of the Municipal League and
the Merchants' Association, two of the
town's leading civic organizations.
Already the borough has progressed
far in its municipal development and
has much of which Justly to be proud.
As so ably set forth hy Professor
1,. E. McGinnis, who has placed Steel
ton on the educational map of Penn
sylvania, It has had a remarkable his
tory.
Steelton is just thirty-six years old,
a mere Infant among municipalities;
yet It has paved streets, sanitary
sewers, excellent filtered water, a
school system unsurpassed by any in
the State, adequate fire protection and
other things of which any borough
may well be proud.
These things, however, are only a
beginning.
Following out the plan outlined by
representative citizens in a full page
feature of the Telegraph a year ago,
the borough has now adopted a model
ordinance for a Parks and Play
grounds Commission and this body
already has been appointed.
Within another week an adequate
system of playgrounds will be thrown
open to the borough's youth. Pro
vision has been made for nearly every
need for the small folks' recreation.
Competent Instructors will be in
charge of each playground to watch
over the safety of the boys and girls
and to direct their energies along the
lines that will tend to produce good
citizens.
In addition to this, Steelton has In
Luther R. Kelker park a beautifiU
recreation place for the older folks
and in time the new commission will
undertake further development of this
plot.
Not only does the borough now
have good paved streets, but In order
to keep pace with its growth, addi
tional highways are to be paved. Just
one month ago to-day a loan of $50,-
000 for paying the borough's share of
the cost of paving more streets was
aprroved by the borough's voters.
Another loan for the purchase of
motor fire apparatus and garbage col
lecting trucks was also approved.
With the borough's citizens
shewing their desire to go ahead in
this unmistakable manner, it is
scarcely to be wondered that Quincy
Bent, the new general manager of the
bip 6teel plant which has recently
passed into the control of Charles M.
Schwab, should hint that big things
aro in store for Steelton industrially.
With the huge steel mills expand
ing and increasing their output, with
the borough striding forward in every
line of municipal endeavor and with
a ccmmunlty of optimists, such as the
"Booster Banqueters" showed them
selves to be, there can be littje doubt
that Steelton will be heard from when
it comes to calling the roll of Pennsyl
vania's leading municipalities.
STATE COLLEGE BOYS
ALL over the United States, Penn
sylvania State College boys are
holding important positions.
None of them arc fire-eating mili
tarists and we have not heard that any
of them have any but the most peace
ful desires. They are interested in
the development of industry and not
in the creation of a great standing
army.
But if war ever did come, these
Pennsylvania State College graduates
would know how to take care of them
selves In the field. Thej would be pre
pared to meet the other fellow on his
own ground. They would not be poor,
helpless victims of the enemy's skill
and training. They would know how
to give and take, for State College for
many years has included regular army
instruction in its course and every boy
not physically unfit must know how
to handle a gun and how to conduct
himself in the ranks. The result is a
physical carriage that gives the average
State College boy the look of a West
Pointer, a discipline that is beneficial
all through life, and a preparedness
that any day may stand him in good
stead.
Richard Stockton, Jr., in his book,
"Peace Insurance," very ably expresses
the value of military training for the
student as follows:
Military training has an impor
tant value entirely apart from its
actual military value. This is con
clusively proven in the numerous
military schools of the United
United States. The majority of
these schools disclaim any attempt
to train soldiers, but include mili
tary training merely to make bet
ter citizens. They find that the
man trained militarily learns
obedience, promptness, cleanliness,
orderliness, coolness, and secures
that priceless asset known as ex
ecutive ability—the ability to make
others obey. Such schools form a
stronger character and make bet
ter men.
If this is true in a military school,
it must be equally so with similar
training received elsewhere. If
thousands of parents pay from SSOO
to $1,500 per year to secure this
training for their boys, surely there
is some gain to the nation in the
men who receive this training In
the army. The fact is too well at
tested by educators throughout the
world to admit of serious question
ing.
There Is food for thought in this for
those who have been condemning so
vehemently the introduction of mili
tary t*LlniQg in schools, The truth is
that the average school gives no
thought whatever to the physical con-*
ditlon of its pupils. The average school
and college course is lopsided. It
dwells upon the mental to the exclu
sion of the physical development, and
there is no better means of physical
training than the "eettlng-up" exer
cises of military drill.
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE
—lt begins to look as if Germany her
self Is caught In one of those giant nut
crackers her leaders have been so fond
of talking about.
—Despite the fact that the election
is not until November, the Wllkes-
Barre Record is willing to go on rec
ord with this general observation: "An
exchange says a squirrel was seen com
ing out of the basement of the capltol
at Harrlsburg carrying nuts. The
squirrel can have a much richer harvest
when the Legislature Is in session."
—We don't notice much In the plat
form about "pitiless publicity."
—"Never have I been afraid of the
noisy man. Ever have I been afraid
of the quiet man," says President Wil
son, which comes pretty nearly being
a confession.
—There's good In all things—for In
stance think how many fish lies yes
terday's weather prevented.
Mr. Hughes' Handicaps
[Wilkes-Barre Record.]
"Big Business will be for Mr.
Hughes," says a Democratic exchange.
Of course It will be. So will little busi
ness, every klpd of business. So will
the employes of business. So will
the patrons of business. So will the
wage-earners who cannot have the
money with which to secure the neces
saries of life unless business flourishes.
Business, big and little, recently
went through one of the most distress
ing experiences in the history of the
country. It began soon after the
Democratic party came into power and
it continued until the mlllp and fac
tories were swamped with war orders
or with orders for home use, made
possible by the increased purchasing
power of the people owing to war or
ders. Business will be anxious to sup
port a candidate for President who is
set against the blundering economic
policies that brought this fearful
period of distress upon the country.
Big Business will not be for Hughes
because It expects to be given protec
tion for misdeeds. If comparisons
count for anything, Big Business has
less to fear from the Wilson adminis
tration than from a Hughes adminis
tration. During the present adminis
tration Big Business has had a quiet
time. No prosecutions of any account
have been Instituted, the Sherman law
has remained a dead letter, and the
Federal Trade Commission, created by
the administration, is as good as dead.
The party of which Mr. Hughes is a
member tested every phase of the
antitrust law with a degree of energy
and honesty that cannot be denied. It
instituted proceedings against every
malefactor in business against which
there was evidence. In comparison,
the work of the Democratic adminis
tration has been entirely barren of
results.
In spite of the Republican party's
activity in getting after Business for its
misdeeds, the representatives of Busi
ness, big and little, will support Mr.
Hughes because they don't want to go
through another penod of closed mills
and factories after the war.
Youth and Arms
[From Collier's Weekly.]
At this season the basic idealism of
American education is flowering in the
closing exercises of countless schools
and colleges. Jane and Johnny are
coming up by the ten thousand to get
all sorts of diplomas before halls
packed with more or less admiring
friends and relatives who marvel at
the sudden emergence from pigtails
and short trousers to this new dignity
of learning and hope. In June it is
rather easy to think of Jane as the
home maker of the next generation.
No amount of thesis talk about the art
of Shakespeare or secondary muscular
reactions among the coleoptera can
disguise the fact that there will be
rosebushes by the front door. It's a
lot harder to see in Johnny's heated
grin the embattled majesty of our
United States, and yet that is the fact.
If the worst comes to the worst in this
iron world we live in, it will be Johnny
who goes out to war. Most of the boys
in academy, high school and prep are
seventeen years of ago or under, and
over eight hundred thousand such
youths enlisted in the armies of the
North during our Civil War. These
kids outnumbered all who enlisted at
ages greater than twenty-two years.
The average college freshman is "about
eighteen and the average senior, there
fore, Is about twenty-two: over two
million men enlisted from 1861 to 18S5
at these ages (eighteen to twenty-two),
and they made up over three-fourths
of Lincoln's armies. This ts natural,
for the older men are embedded in the
industries which must back up the fir
ing line and are bound by those family
ties which are the nation's life. So
Johnny shoulders his musket. None
of us want war, and our political sys
tem gives us a better chance than
some of the older countries have had
to avert willful or unjust hostilities,
but if attack is to be met. Johnnv must
have a fair chance for his life and his
duty. That Is what preparedness
means. Just think about it when you
see them step up for their diplomas.
A Rural Industry
"What you want to do first," said a
Boston man to a New England farmer
whom he was advising touching cer
tain needed improvements In and about
his place, "Is to have that mudhole in
the road fixed."
"Tou experts and reformers don't
understand local conditions," said the
farmer, scornfully. "Why, I've purty
nigh paid oft a mortgage with the
money* I've madq haulin' automobiles
out of that mudhole !"Chlcago Herald.
1 OUR DAILY LAUGH
I —I. ON WITH THE
| 1 (yVV--- ' I'm awfully
' A \BY7V —'sorry I stepped on
your foot. Did it
DO you know
% yesterday that I
ft »a« very light on
feet?
ENTHUSIASM. - WSTh
>h, see the throng
rise up a n d
And hear Its
mighty cheer.
KTiat for? A foul
tip has de-
The umpire of _
BJU fiftT.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
IK
""PoiKOtfCotuua
St the Ei-Oommitt<rman
A statement made at Pittsburgh last
night by Henry G. Wasson, former Re
publican state chairman and generally
regarded as the mouthpiece of the
Roosevelt element which was swept
into power in political affairs in 1912,
was taken to-day to moan that the
Colonel would advise his Penn
sylvania friends to swing in for
Hughes. The statement came in the
course of some Wassonia® comments
upon the nomination of Hughes and
has pretty effectually dashed the hopes
of the Democrats who had been en
deavoring to flirt with the Bull
Moosers.
It Is a well-known fact that Presi
dent Wilson has been bent upon break
ing up the Republican organization in
Pennsylvania and that the Palmers
and others active In the Democratic
machine in the Keystone State have
found him a ready listener. It will be
recalled that Palmer and his pals
promised Pennsylvania if Wilson was
nominated. They did not deliver even
in the year of the great division, but
they have indicated that they could do
better next time, and the President has
given them all the tools with which to
do it. It is believed that some Demo
cratic leaders have been figuring out
that with the Progressives uncertain
what to do and the matji works of the
national machine practically located In
this State, Pennsylvania might be
made debatable.
From what has been heard lately
and what Wusson sa> s, the Democrats
will not get the Bull Moosers.
Wasson's statement Is as follows:
"The c&ndidary of Mr. Hughes will,
I believe, receive the hearty support of
Republicans and Progressives alike in
Pennsylvania, and for that matter in
nearly every section of the country.
"The promptness with which the
candidate resigned from the supreme
bench and the very vigorous way in
which he accepted the nomination and
declared his stand on the issues in
volved did much to win favor for him,
especially with those who feared that
his nomination would result In a list
less campaign.
"Under the provisions of the pri
mary act of 1913, adopted to obviate a
recurrence of the awkward situation
which confronted us in 1912, when
presidential electors nominated prior
to the holding of the national conven
tions of that year publicly declared
that If elected they would not vote for
Mr. Taft, the present nominee is em
powered within thirty days of his
nomination to certify to the Secretary
of the Commonwealth as the nominees
of his party the names of the presi
dential electors to which the State Is
entitled.
"I sincerely trust and I have no
doubt Mr. Hughes in certifying the
nominees for presidential electors will
recognize all the elements of his sup
port in Pennsylvania."
—A. Nevin Detrich. state chairman
of the Washington party, who was
here yesterday looking up who had
been elected to membership in his
committee, said that lie would call the
Washington state committee after the
conference with the Sage of Oyster
Bay. Mr. Detrich appeared more con
cerned about finding whether he had
a committee than about dates.
—Members of the State Woman Suf
frage executive committee, who were
here yesterday for the meeting of the
committee, expressed the utmost con
fidence to-day that there would be a
big proportion of legislators elected
favorable to suffrage. They plan to
have the amendment introduced early
in the coming session so that It can be
passed upon finally in the session of
1919.
—The State Suffrage flag is to make
its appearance in the Fall campaign.
The flag will have a field of yellow
with a blue keystone surrounded by
thirteen white stars, representing
States which have given women the
vote.
—The final filing of accounts yes
terday included the A. W. Powell Em
ployes Campaign Committee, which
backed the Auditor General's cam
paign for delegate-at-large, and the
Straight Republican Ticket Commit
tee. which operated in Allegheny
county. The Straight Ticket commit
tee accounted for $24,4fi0 contributed
and $23,572.78 expended. The Powell
committee accounted for $2,168 re
ceived and $1,795.2-4 spent. The Powell
committee's largest giver was Paul S.
Ache, of Pittsburgh, treasurer of the
committee and personal friend of the
Auditor General, who gave SSOO.
Deputy Auditor General C. E. Willock
gave $165 and other attaches gave
from $5 to $l5O. The expenditures
were for traveling expenses, advertis
ing and other items.
Hughes Leagues are being formed
in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to
boost the campaign in behalf of the
ticket, much to the disgust of the
The leagues are largely
composed of Progressives and Inde
pendents.
—The Vares ara still cutting off
heads in Philadelphia. Two more
McNichol men were dropped from
countv offices yesterday.
—Traveling men from New York
and other States who were here to-day
ventured the assertion that there
would be some active times among the
Democratic machines in New York,
Illinois. Ohio and other States when
McCormick becomes national chair
man. The Harrisburg man these vis
itors considered the very antithesis of
the Murphys. Sullivans and others who
have run machines.
—Out in Erie they are calllne upon
Mayor Kitts to clean up the city. A
committee of ministers yesterday
asked him to clej'r out thirty-nine
places which were named.
—Willliam Potter, former ambas
sador to Ttaly and one of the Phila
delphia delegates who voted to the
last for Koosevelt or Chicago, is out
for Hughes. He visited him yesterday.
Subsidy and Not Subsidy
[Collier's Weekly]
An acute observer of events at
Washington gets a good deal of
amusement out of noticing how
adroitly President Wilson practices
one of the most ancient devices of
statesmanship, namely, giving new
names to things which under the old
names have become odious to large
numbers of people. At Jackson Day
banquets and Jefferson Day banquets
he still affirms his belief in the un
dying principles of those two gods of
Democracy, and Adam Smith is still
put forward as the sum of all wis
dom as regards political economy. But
in practice President Wilson and the
Democratic party are adopting a good
many devices which would seem
strange to Jefferson and Adam Smith.
One example of this was pointed out
by Senator Lodge in speaking of the
President's Shipping Bill:
"It is proposed, as I understand
this bill, and as I certainly know the
President said, to run these ships at a
loss until they begin to make money,
and then to turn them over to private
ownership. Why, Mr. President,
what becomes of this opposition to
subsidy then? There never has been
proposed any subsidy so gross as that
which I have Just quoted, and which
was flatly stated by the President in
hie message."
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
IMPOSSIBLE!
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DEMOCRACV—I wonder If iihe taken me for nn a«s!
—From the Baltimore American.
MADE TO ORDER TOWNS
By Frederic J. Haskin
THE State of Virginia lias acquired
a new manufacturing center
within the last few weeks. An
industrial plant has reared Its huge
structures on what was formerly pas
ture and corn land, wringing hundreds
of factory hands to dwell in Quan
tico, Virginia. So entirely rural are
the surroundings, however, that hous
ing facilities are extremely inadequate
and the plant is now offering free
week-end excursions to surrounding
cities in order to get builders, con
| tractors and businessmen to look
j Quantico over and learn to take her
seriously.
The rural factory town, which had
its beginning in Homestead and Pull
man in the early eighties, is fast be
coming one of the great civic prob
lems of the country. Attracted by
low land values the factories are leav
ing the crowded cities, seeking the
open spaces and erecting their plants
and towns in a frenzy of hurry with
out consideration for the requirements
of posterity. Of course, there are
some exceptions to this rule, but for
the most part the town is built for the
sole convenience of the factory and
not for the health, sanitation and
comfort of its future citizens.
In most cases the emigration of the
factory is confined to the rural dis
trict* skirting the large city, for it is
necessary to have at least one relia
ble market close at hand, and also
an abundant supply of labor. Thus
we have the various manufacturing
suburbs of Boston, the numerous
plants on Long Island and Staten
Island, the factories op the outskirts
of Philadelphia, suen as the Baldwin
Locomotive works.' the automobile
factories of Flint, Mich., not far from
Detroit.
Tlje first of these of any conse
quence was Pullman. The dream of
a big manufacturer who believed in
the paternalism principle as carried
out in England on the large landed
estates, Pullman was built in 1180 on
open prairie land lying south of Chi
cago. In five years a fair-sized in
dustrial town had risen, with wide
clean streets, shade trees, well-built
houses and sloping green lawns. There
were shops and storey a hotel, a bank,
theater and library and recreation
grounds, all of which were under the
patronage of the Pullman company,
which owned all the land. The peo
ple lived in the houses, they attended
to the business and enjoyed the few
amusements, but they were never per
mitted to forget that for these things
they were indebted to the house of
Pullman. The city, after all, did not
belong to them, and in due course
they became discontented.
A well-known proressor described
the town as feudalistic. After this
it was but a short time before the
town was annexed by Chicago and the
employes of the big train company as
serted their independence of the house
of Pullman by a strike. The last
THE SWE FROM DAf TO DM
Not content with robbing: the Le
high Valley Railroad station in Cen
tralia once, robbers the other evening
returned for the twentieth time in six
months and got away with a goodly
quantity of goods. He who laughs
last may chuckle, but the authorities
haven't as yet even had occasion to
! crack a smile.
There are certain Camden boys who
could give Shylock cards and spades
and wallop him to death in the mat
ter of stinginess, said boys actually
robbed the poor box at the Broadway
M. E. church to the amount of $1.17.
The Philadelphia Inquirer "some
hew or other can't work up very much
sympathy for a motorcyclist who is
run down by a four-ton truck." All
right, but why isn't the Lilliputian
analogy Just as appropriate as the
fable of the tortoise and the hare in
this instance?
The burglarizing visitor to the
Wilkes-Barre store who regaled him
self with such edible delicacies as bars
of soap, butter tubs with stove polish
dressing, etc., must have a cast-iron
interior or else the man ia a human
vacuum cleaner.
The Pottsvllle Rotary Club is pre
pared to place a dynaa4te cap under
JUNE 16, 1916.
vestige of control was taken from the
plant in 18*J8 when the Illinois su
preme court decided that the com
pany's charter did not include the
holding: and disposing of real estate
other than that required by its busi
ness.
Cincinnati is also the center of a
number of more or less famous satel
lite cities. Norwood, for example, a
rather exclusive suburb of the Ohio
city, was suddenly cnosen by several
large factories as the place to erect
plants and establish colonies. The
wealthy residents, however, were not
Impressed with the need for a town
boom, and discouraged all attempts to
trade in real estate. As a result, the
majority of the factory hands con
tinue to live in Cincinnati, journeying
back and forth daily, but in spite of
this consideration on their part, the
suburb has grown from a population
of 6,000 to 16,000.
Ivoryville, the home of a large soap
factory, is an offspring of Cincinnati,
as is also the suburb of Oakley. Here
a half dozen companies bought [land
belonging to four targe dairies* and
built a manufacturing town of their
own. They have established co-oper
ative power plants for distributing
light heat, water, compressed air,
steam and pressure for Are protection
. systems. Each company pays for the
exact amount of service it requires
I Very few of the operatives live in Oak
i ley, most of them residing in the
| crowded sections of Cincinnati and
| some in Kentucky towns across the
river. No effort has been made to
Induce them to live within walking dis
tance of the factories—which is an
I economic necessity in most instances.
While in most industrial towns the
operatives are encouraged to buy their
own homes, such a course is not ad
vlsable when the town is dependent
upon one industry. if anything
should happen to that one industry. It
would doubtless be difficult to sell the
houses and depart for another indus
trial opportunity. In Gary, this has
been overcome by the land company,
which has agreed to take back any
house at the price paid for it.
Perhaps the most remarkable of all
industrial towns is Gary. Ten years
j ago a certain corporation which has
made an impressive reputation in the
j manufacture of steel, bought several
j acres in a wilderness bf sand dunes
| and scrub oak at the southern end of
! ,X® -Michigan. In three years this
j wilderness had grown into an active
j town of 12.000 inhabitants, with a
steel Plant that employed over 14 000
I men. There were sidewalks, a sewer
electric llsrhts; two banks and
three newspapers added to the dignity
s?x t SY' aIUe ° f lts a th b e°re a wert
many churches. Now
£?r? tlon of 60,000. And 'if you
rirv.f ® nc .°" nter the hatred of the
Gar> ite just intimate that Gary is
a satellite of Chicago.
f£rt h tl eIS of , the c ' l - v council in an et
fort to awaken them from the leth
hav^nL nt f<.l7 hlCh ™ ey Bre accusefl Of
na\ing fallen. The Eastern Steel
ompany threat to leave town, actual-
L m *l? or D infer red, doesn't appeal to
the active Rotarians, who want action
and want it quick, from council.
Erie celebrated FJapr Day with a
b g parade in which the Secret Orders
played a prominent part. The north
western community is always up to
demonstrations 6 " " C ° meS l ° PatriotlC
A Greensburg man of Russian de
®cted to having the term
dumb applied to him and became
involved in court as a result of his
subsequent indiscretion. Which more
or less vindicates the eplthet-hurler
.James Mangolo, of Scranton. sliced
the tip of his landlady's,nose off when
she demanded that he pay his rent.
Perhaps the man wanted a receipt in
advance.
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 paved streets cleaned? Cost
per year? Cost per mile?
Paved streets are cleaned by the
city under the supervision of the
Superintendent of Streets and Pub
lic Improvements. Amount appro
priated for the year 1916, $59,000.00.
Cost per mile Is estimated at
I&00.00.
fEbettinij (Elpl
Incorporation of electric companies
for some districts in the upper part
of the county brings to this county a
form of activity in such lines which
has been notable In the vicinity of
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and in
Berks, Lancaster and other counties.
Owing to the fact that some of the
districts in this county are rather
sparsely settled not much effort was
made to pre-empt rights within them
by chartering companies, but the de
velopment of power plants and the
chance to sell current have caused
companies to reach out, just as has
been done by the Yorfc Haven j)ower
Interests. There are some small'elec- A
trie plants in this county, but it is the
evident plan of men interested in the
power stations in the Lykens Valley to
get them under one concern. The
charters granted for Berrysburg and
Milflin and Halifax townships and
for two in Schuylkill county are all
for the same persons just as was done
in the case of the companies chartered
by the Harrisburg Light and Power
Company for Dauphin. Penbrook and
adjoining places. It would appear
that Dauphin county will one of these
days be divided between two big elec
tric interests, one from the Lykena
valley and the other from this city
and York Haven.
• • •
Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, the State
Commissioner or Health, has given
some very sound views in regard to
preparedness in his address at La
'fayette college. The Commissioner
holds that what counts in these days
of preparedness is the individual unit
and that it is best to do all that wo
can to develop it in the best way. Dr.
Dixon, himself an athlete in younger
years, and now able to hold his own
in not a few lines, came out for gen
eral athletic , training as a means of
advancing tltness. This training, he
said, should be considered in the
broadest sense.
• • •
The plan of the allied agricultural
organizations to have their efforts
placed on a co-operative basis and an
office opened here has been vinder
way for perhaps ten years and seems
to be getting close to realization.
While some people call it the "farm
ers' lobby," there is no question but
that the organized agriculturalists
have succeeded in doing a good many
things in the Legislature, especially in
the halting of bills which would have
removed restrictions on oleomargar
ine. The embattled farmers will have
the help of the railroads, which are
now regarded as their best friends, in
their legislative work. The office will
|be located here.
1 John E. Barrett, the Scranton edi
tor and poet, whose song Pennsylva
j nia has attracted national attention,
j has written a poem dedicated to the
I "Indian Apple Tree," which is the
j only relic of old Capouse blockhouse.
The blockhouse stood In what Is now
the center of Scranton and the State
Historical Commission recent ly marked
the site with a tablet. The Indian ap
ple tree according to Mr. Barrett's
poem, was a trysting place for Indian
lovers, then the scene of the council
Arcs, of the settlers' fort and then of
the city dwellings.
* » •
The students of State College who
are here this week for the survey
of Capitol park are tackling their
first Job in a city. To many of them
the surveying work has been done in
rural communities or at the college
or in the woods. The survey of the
park and of the district which is being
rapidly cleared of houses will be ne\\
work and will result in the State get
ting some valuable information about
the tract it must develop. The clear
ing away of the Hickok plant will be
finished within a few weeks and then
other buildings along the railroad will
begin to disappear. The big cigar fac
tory in the old Bay building will not
be torn down unttl the company's new
home In Cameron street is completed.
• • *
His pictures show Charles Evans
Hughes, Republican nominee for
president, to be a member of that
famous honorary Greek letter society.
Phi Beta Kappa. Some of the fore
most statesmen and scholars of the
country have belonged to the society,
which Includes among its numbers
William Howard Taft and Woodrow
Wilson. Membership in the society re
quires in undergraduate days the
maintenance of a certain scholastic
stand, and it is only the cream of the
real students who attain to the coveted
honor. While this Is not necessarily
a commentary upon tfhe former jus
tice's fitness for the position of
president of the United States never
theless dopesters may perhaps see in
it an additional indication of victory
in the coming election inasmuch as
the two prevous presidents are wear
ers of the key which is so greatly cov
eted among university and college un
dergraduates.
• • »
j Among visitors to the city this
!week was Rebert D. Dripps, former
: director of safety in Philadelphia, and
; member of Quaker City councils. Mr.
! Dripps was here on matters con
j nected with public charities in which
j field he has been studying for years.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Christian Gunzenhauser. presi
dent of the State Bakers' Association,
is a big Lancaster baker.
—Dr. W. N. Irvine, president of
Mercersburg Academy, was given an
honorary degree by Lafayette Col
lege.
—George A. Woodward, prominent
Germantown man, will spend the
summer on a ranch in Wyoming.
—Ellis A. Gimbel. Philadelphia
merchant, is organizing his clerks into
military companies.
—C. E. Chambers, new head of tha
Car Builders' Association, Is head ol
1 motive power for the Jersey Central.
1 DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg State Hospital
was one of the first of the kind to
be erected by the Commonwealth?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Cumberland Valley colonists
made Harris Ferry their headquar*
ters before staking out farms.
AND HE KICKED
By Wing Dinger
The day was drawing to a close.
The players left the course.
Some happy at the scores they'd made*
Some filled with deep remorse
Because, forsooth, they'd dubbed som(
strokes,
And 'bout the place did storm
Because in drives and putts, et cet..
They were not up to form.
The climax, though, was peached when
one
Good player, filled with gloom.
Came mumbling, grumbling to himself
Into the locker room.
He'd finished with a thirty-six—
Contented? No. not he—
He figured out, with care he would I
HiveTmi a tbirty-ikree. _j
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