Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, September 06, 1916, Page 6, Image 6
6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded it,it Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Tekpaph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE. Pres't and Editor-in-Chief R- OYSTER, Bujtntsj Manager. ■ OVS M. 6TEINMETZ. Manning Editor. t Member American latlon and Penn sylvania Assoeiat- Eastern offlce, nue Building. New cago, Illf' Entered at the Post Offlce In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall. $3.00 a year In advance. WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 6. Impatient people water their miseries and hoe up their comforts. —Spurgeon. HOW GOD WRITES HIS CHECKS STEWART C. MacFARLANE, of Pittsburgh, speaking before the Harrisburg Rotary Club yesterday on "The Higher Side of Rotary," made a point of this thought: Strive to be rich, not only in the mind and the spirit, but in the ma terial things of the world, for you must remember that God can write His checks only through you and me. "God can write his checks only through you and me." Here Is a truth worth remembering. God has no bank account save that of the individ ual man or woman. The possessor of wealth ts not Its owner, but Its stew ard. Mc. McFarlane brings the par able of the talents down to date. The man who has wealth and does not use It for the benefit of his fellows may be leading an exemplary life other wise, but he is not letting God write his checks through him and mighty little can be accomplished these days •without the assistance, in some meas ure, of cheeks. FOLLOWING Ol'U EXAMPLE HARRISBURG has set a good ex-1 ample for other cities in Penn-j svlvania in the beautification of Its river front. Several towns have given attention to the matter recent ly and to-dav it is announced that S. S. Woods, one of the progressive and enterprising citizens of Lewistown, has purchased all of the land adjoin ing the river in ttiat borough and will give It absolutely to the com munity providing town council will agree to beautify it and preserve It for the use of all the people. Lewistown should not hesitate for a moment to accept the gift. Harris burg regards its River Front as a pos session beyond price. It is the city s most valuable asset. Mr. Woods is a far-seeing man, as well as generous. He could perform no greater service to Lewistown than to preserve for all time the beauty and utility of its river frontage as a public recreation place. WETZEL'S OPPORTUNITY J EDWARD WETZEL, if he Is given the full and unquestioned authority over the police force to which, as chief of the department, he is entitled, will have a rare oppor tunity for service in Harrisburg. With no desire to reflect on anybody and appreciating the difficulty of properly patroling the district with a force far too small for the purpose, it must be said that the city Is suffer ing seriously from defects In the po lice system. Firebugs have operated with impunity and robberies have been of almost nightly occurrence since early spring. Chief Wetzel will have public sup port and co-operation in the correc tion of these conditions if he sets about that task promptly and ef ficiently. The new police head has an excellent chance to make a name for himself and those with the good repu tati >n and the safety of the city at heart will hope that he will take full advantage of the opportunity at hand. STATISTICS EXPLAINED COKE is the "vittels" of the steel mills. If the steel mills are making good time they con sume lota of coke and that means em ployment for thousands of soft coal miners and coke oven operatives in the vicinity of the Pittsburgh coal seam, which stretches for miles through Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. The steel mills of this country dur ing 1915 were glutted with orders from Europe for war material. So It is not surprising that the United States Geo logical survey finds that the amount of coke produced In this country dur ing 1916 was 7,023,2315 tons more than the 1914 record, or an increase of 20 per cent. The report statfs that this was within 6,000,000 tons of tho re cord output of 1913, and that was the last year of a Republican protective tariff law. Everyone in Pennsylvania will re call the slump In steel production In 1914, before the war broke out, and that reacted on the coke Industry. Aocording to the Geological Survey figures, therefore, the production of eoke In 1813 was about -47,000,000 tons;'ln 1914, with a Democratic tariff law paralyzing industry, it fell to about 35,000,000 tons; and in 1916 a war or der prosperity put it up to 41,000,000 tons. Couple this with the recent report of the Geological Survey which stated that the iron ore mined In the Unit ed States in 1916 "reached the great WEDNESDAY EVENING, total of 65.638,490 gross tons, the greatest output made in any year ex cept 1910 and 1913" and an Increase of 14,000,000 tons-over the output of 1914, and It will serve as a classic ex ample of the effect of European war orders on our prosperity. But where do the Democrats come In for the credit of this prosperity? Democratic stump orators will be around presently shouting "prosper ity!" and "he kept us out of war!" We have had two shindigs with Mex ico, and the European war kept us out of the ooorhouse. CITY COUNCIL RESPONSIBLE FOR some reason not easily under stood, the Ave officials now con stituting the government of Harrisburg have placed themselves In antagonism -to the City Planning Commission. One of them, In the dis cussion of the overhead bridge on Seventh street yesterday at the session of City Council, was more concerned about declaring his right to his own opinion than about the serious phases of the matters Involved in the erection of such a structure over a public high way in the city. So far as this news paper has knowledge of the contro versy, no person has questioned the right of Commissioner Gross or any other commissioner to his own opin ion. This, however, is not so much a matter of hastily formed Individual judgment as It Is the formulation of a fixed policy by the city for the protec tion of its highways and the rights of property owners therein. Commis sioner Gross belittles the whole im portant Issue by a puerile defense of himself and his colleagues against public disapproval of what is believed to be an illegal act. Mock heroics on the floor of Council will not serve to conceal the utter disregard by the City Commissioners of the people in this matter. Perhaps the most lamentable show ing of Council in the premises is the effort to throw dust In the eyes of the people by declaring that the time within which the ordinance granting the right to erect this bridge could be reconsidered had elapsed; that, there fore, Council could do nothing further in the matter and it was for the courts to determine the issue. Thus the bur den of safeguarding the Interests of the city is weakly shifted to the Chamber of Commerce by the regu larly elected and authorized represen tatives of the municipality who are the paid servants of the people. This community is rapidly getting awake to the reactionary attitude of City Council. Harrisburg for many years has maintained a proud place among the municipalities of the coun try. Only this week it gave expression to its public spirit in a splendid water carnival, which has attracted wide spread and favorable comment It has been a leader in many unique public improvement projects. In fact, this city has blazed the way for a large number of communities elsewhere. Under these circumstances the gentle men composing the preseht Council cannot hope to escape censure. They have called down this criticism upon themselves by an indifference to pub lic sentiment which can be ascribed only to a failure on their part to real ize their duty to the city and its peo ple. They are not acting for them selves, nor will the people long endure the pettiness which has too often characterized their official attitude. The Planning Commission makes no claim to superior Intelligence, nor has it at any time manifested any domi neering or arbitrary disposition to override the Council or any other body. Without cost to the taxpayers and confining themselves strictly to the provisions of the law under which the body was created, and In pur suance of the high public duty of planning for a still better city, these men, after full consideration of all the facts, have done no more than submit for the gutdance of Council conclu sions in harmony with expert legal opinion. Had they done less they would have been false to the people, whom they serve without reward save that which follows service well ren dered. The Planning Commission acted promptly and Council, on the same day that the negative recommendation was received, passed the objectionable ordinance with little or no consider ation of the points raised. If the measure is beyond the point where it can be reconsidered Council and Coun cil alone Is responsible. NEW DIVORCE I/AWS MUCH Interest attends the an nouncement from Philadelphia that several bills changing and modifying the divorce laws of Penn sylvania will be submitted to Governor Brumbaugh for his approval previous to their Introduction during the next session of the Legislature. The whole subject of divorce In tho United States is so confused and the laws governing legal separation and dissolution of the marriage relations differ so widely in tho individual States that the adop tion of a uniform, standard statute by all States would appear to be the~one accomplishment toward which those at work upon the problem should bend their efforts. liodern practice and opinion are to be traced mainly to the old Roman law, which recognized marriage mere iy as a civil union to be terminated at any time by consent of the parties without legal process, and to the Christian religion which reinvested marriage with the religious character from which In the law of Rome It had completely escaped. The fluctuating views of modern society and the vag aries of lawmakers have been respon sible for the widely divergent statutes which prevail In the United States. The result has been to makb divorce easy to procure in many courts and the easier it has become to break the marital tie the greater has become the legal practco attached to such pro ceedings, until the connection of many lawyers wtih the divorce court* are little less than scandalous. If the pro posed laws do away with some of the present red tape and make divorce more difficult to obtain by all means they should be adopted. 'fotitLc* Ik By the Ei- Committeeman Pennsylvania's Republican cam paign will be mapped out in detail next week in Philadelphia. W. Harry Baker, secretary of the Republican State committee, who returned to-day from Philadelphia where he had been arranging for the opening of the State headquarters for the campaign, sard that the details would be taken up Immediately. According to Philadelphia news papers State Chairman William E. Crow is expected in that city early next week and will meet leaders of various counties and determine upon a date for the meeting of the Republi can State committee. The State chairman has been vfsiting various counties in the western end of the State and getting the campaign de tails started in that section. The preliminary reports received at State headquarters are all of a very favorable nature and the candidates on the State ticket who have been getting about quietly have found general sup port for the whole ticket and con siderable resentment against the na tional administration. . Philadelphia Inquirer of to day says; "Thomas H. Garvin, of Dela ware county, chief clerk of the House of Representatives, has been suggested for the chairmanship of the speakers' bureau of the Republican State Com mittee. It is planned to arrange a regular itinerary for Candidates Knox, Snyder and Kephart, and to have meetings held under the auspices of the State Committee in every section of the State." —Mercer county which four years ago gave Roosevelt a vote greater than the vote for either Taft or Wilson, yesterday organized solidly for Gov ernor Hughes with the Progressive element which in 1912 dominated the situation virtually in control of the Hughes Independent movement. At ® meeting held yesterday afternoon at Sharon, the Mercer county branch of the Hughes Alliance in the State of Pennsylvania was officially organized and an active campaign in behalf of the national Republican ticket pro mulgated. The leading spirits in the Mercer organization were men form erly active in the affairs of the Wash ington Party in Pennsylvania. Benja min J. Jarrett, of Farrell, a former Stat© Senator, was elected chairman. J. J. Pierce, Jr., of Sharpsville, for mer Washington Party county chair man was elected vice-chairman. Harry B. McDowell of Sharon, former Re publican county chairman, was elected treasurer. —New organizers have been added to the staff of the Hughes Alliance in the State of Pennsylvania and the work of organizing county units throughout the State will continue. National headquarters of the Hughes Alliance in New York have approved the constitution and bylaws of the Pennsylvania Alliance and approved the election of Powell Evans as Penn sylvania's representative on the Na tional Committee of the National Hughes Alliance. —Much speculation Is being In dulged in regarding the successor of Samuel W. Pennypacker on the public service commission and there are rumors that the Governor may decide to name some one from outside of Philadelphia. While Mr. Pennypacker officially lived in Montgomery county he was always considered as one of the Philadelphia commissioners. There are now two commissioners from Philadelphia, Messrs. Ryan and Al corn. The general belief is that the return of the Governor the latter part of the week will be followed by the first of the appointments. The public service commisslonershlp will come along after older vacancies are filled. —Notice was filed at the State De partment to-day of the withdrawal of Arthur L. Bates, Meadville, and Frank H. Buhl, Sharon, as Republican presi dential electoral candidates. In their places were named Walter I. Bates, Meadville, and Bryan H. Osborn, of Franklin. The selections were made by Candidate Hughes. —Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, is arranging to inaugurate an elaborate system of playground supervision next year. He will accept the chairman ship of a committee to have, charge of such matters. —Henry O. Wasson, of Pittsburgh, former Republican State chairman, who was here to-day on business at the State Capitol said that while he was out of politics nowadays he was doing his part for Hughes. —Democratic State Chairman Joseph F. Guffey is expected to pay a short visit to the Windmill in Market Square the latter part of the week. Mr. Guffey has been busy in the western end of the State and will have con ferences here with more of the leaders of the hopeless contests. —Plans are being made by Demo rrats up in the anthracite region to hold a series of meetings to be ad dressed by men prominent in national and State Democratic affairs. Must Be For Hughes [From the Kansas City Times.J President Wilson now gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning. Secretary Tu multy says it's for work, but thu Wichita Beacon believes it's to get the paper and see what Mr. Hughes has said about him. All a Political "Frameup"? [From the Railway Age Gazette.] The President has acted throughout like a man who had entered into a pre vious understanding that he would do certain things and who was anxious to deliver the goods as promptly and in as good condition as possible. Tf he was playing politics, recent develop ments have been showing that he has been playing very poor politics. He has done nothing in his administration that has worked him as much harm ai> the policy .he has adopted in dealing with the railway strike crisis. True [Topeka (Kan.) Capital.] The impressive merely is the un familiar. The man who la compelled to get up at 4 o'clock In the morning the year around never gets much store by a sunrise. i HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH < THE CARTOON OF THE DAY .* * SMALL CONSOLATION J J||p^"'' ?2fSSS(£»*'- "* —„—i^~ : _jl.— / chronicle *. r^'Qy*** o', 0 ', TELEORAPH PERISCOPE | —The war has done one good thing j anyway—lt has taken the red out of red flannels. —There appear to be landslides In Panama politics as well as in the canal zone. —Mr. Hughes answered that ques tion "what would you have done about the eight-hour day?" before it was asked. —ln condemning the protective tariff principle while passing laws in accord with It the Democrats continue to be consistently Inconsistent. —You know, If you register on the first day there will be no chance that you will not find opportunity to do so on the second or third. EDITORIAL COMMENT"! An exchange asks, "How many baths should a man take In a week?" If there is only one bathroom In the house and the family is the average size, he probably won't have a chance to take more than one.—Trenton Ga zette. A Long Course [From Philadelphia North American.] Useless • statistics —it has been esti mated that the President's course in Mexico, if extended in a straight line, WQuld encircle the earth three times. \ Trouble Ahead [From the Wheeling Intelligencer.] With the South in the saddle the Democratic donkey is due for many balks before Congress adjourns. Method in Discoveries [From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.] The Louisiana farmer who professes to have plowed up a box containing SI,OOO may be an advocate of deep plow ing in disguise. How Good Roads Help When the Lincoln Highway was talked about several years ago local folks had an idea that It would help Chambersburg somewhat, but nobody hereabouts dreamed that in a few short years this main transcontinental highway would mean that from the ordinary sources of travel, for two successive nights, every available sleeping room in Chambersburg would be occupied, while scores of tourists would be compelled to go to other towns to seek sleeping accom modations. But this very thing hap pened Saturday and last night. Chambersburg Public Opinion. Prices Go Up The Des Moines (la.) Capital has increased its selling price from one to two cents. The Superior (Wis.) Telegram has gone up from 35 to 40 cents per month. The Scranton (Pa.) Republican now sells for two cents instead of one. All Cleveland daily newspapers will sell at two cents outside of the city limits after October X. The Plain Dealer effected the change fully on September 1. Increases In wholesale subscription rate are under consideration In Minne apolis. and the Tribune has increased Its advertising rate. The Philadelphia North American withdrew all exchange courtesies on September 1 and will furnish copies only at regular rates, less publishers' discount of 20 per cent. WHAT THE~KOTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrlsburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quia."] How many school buildings In the city? How many teachers? How many pupils? Thirty school buildings; 30$ teach ers; 11,121 pupils. , SAVING, LIKE CHARITY, BEGINS AT HOME, INVESTIGATOR FINDS THE New York Evening World has been offering a sertes of cash prizes for the most sensible plan of saving as applied to the manage ment of a household, where the in come does not exceed $l5O a month. A large number of plans were sub mitted by persons in all walks of life, a reading of which leads to the con clusion that there are a lot of level headed people getting somewhere by good management and definite plans of living. A perusal of these answers would seem to Justify the following conclusions: First, that the only method of sav ing that proves practical and perma nent is the adoption of a well-defined plan. This means a scheme of living that provides for the various expenses Incidental to rearing a family, such as rent, food, fuel and light, clothing, recreation, education, etc. No one gets anywhere in particular by a "hit and miss" method of life. This is the reason so many people are living next door to poverty all the time. Any plan of life to be successful must in clude the determination to save, and If possible a definite amount as a mini mum. The determination without a plan accomplishes but little. Second, that the wife is the saving element In the household. As a rule the man earns the money and the wife spends it. To her is entrusted the buying of the supplies, the care of the children, their clothes and spending money. Even though the husband pays the bills, his wife contracts them. She has time to shop and he has not. Third, that the most workable plan is as follows: Apportion the income. There are certain fixed charges In every home, such as rent, clothing and food. It Is well settled that the rent snould not exceed one-quarter of the income—"a week s wage for a month's rent." If it Is larger, it Is out of pro portion and extravagant. You cannot live in Fifth Avenue with a Third Avenue income. The greatest extrava gances are possible in the line of food and here the wife can do her best work. The cost of clothing can be fairly well estimated from experience. Educational expenses can be figured with safety, and recreation can be (THE STATE FROM DAY TO DW' Temptation in the form of the good old apple was the downfall of Francis Gilda, a Philadelphia youth who fain woud have "dumb" a tall tree and plucked the juicy fruit therefrom. A limb broke, however, and he fell, in a somewhat different way than had his ancestor Adam before him, and both arms were broken above the wrists. A rush for the Bonanza in oil, wild rumors of the discovery of which set prospective persons in Sharon all agog on Labor Day, resulted In the dis covery that kerosene had been poured down a well and leases disposed of at tremendous figures. The hoax involved many men who saw fortunes in their minds' eye. A pretty Coaldalo girl recently con fessed that she had two husband*, living within one block of each other. Any woman who can keep two hus bands thus Ignorant of the existence of the other must stay awake nights thinking how to continue the decep tion. "I nearly died laughing" la a com mon expression among girls, but one seldom finds a case where the threat Is actually carried out. Little 16-year old Mary Bofane, of East Mt. Carbon, however, was suddenly stricken while laughing heartily the other day and died on the way to the hospital. David Ruth, one of the prise win ners at the Farmers' Picnic and Ex hibition at LuLu park, Quakertown, recently, won as a priae first choice on one half doaen plums and aome nur •ery stock. Winner of second prist In SEPTEMBER 6, 1916. kept within bounds. The doctor and dentist may be uncertain quantities at times yet these need not be excessive burdens as a general rule. An appor tionment should be made for life in surance and the savings bank, no mat ter how small the latter may be. A great many people set aside a definite amount for each class of expenditures and try at least to keep within the appropriation. Practically every competitor In the contest confessed that they started their financial success with a savings bank account. It was small in many cases, but grew steadily. The man who starts out to save will astonish even himself with results he never an ticipated. It is the small steady sav ings that count. Some people divide the weekly wage into parts, setting aside enough for each class of expenditure, while others make the apportionment and keep an expense account as a guide to deter mine how they keep within or exceed their allotment. To pay each bill out of Its particular compartment in the family cash box is sometimes impossible, and the sim ple and effective way is to merely keep an expense record, and if the expendi tures exceed tl e expectation, curtail ment or readjustment is in order. Lastly, many who have acquired property have done so through the medium of a debt incurred —helpful debt, such as a mortgage, building and loan shares, instalment home buying, etc. But look out in incurring such obligations that they be within your powers to fulfill, and the values con servative. Pon t hitch up to more than you can pull. The marvel in such experiences is not that these people saved a consid erable sum, but that they saved at all. It was all the result of planning, will ing, sacrificing the little things to have the greater ones, elimination of waste, foresight, good judgment, setting a course and steering by it, making reso lutions to keep and not to break, and being firm with one's self, but not parsimonious. Thrift Is jetting a habit and keeping it until it gets you. These people got the habit of getting ahead and the result is they got ahead. I It always works that way. his event had second choice on the plums and some wagon grease. "Hello, girlie! come here!" was the lure that has been sounding from the doors of Camden's fire headquarters of late. Complaints on the part of outraged girls led to the investigation and discovery of a big green parrot that was causing all the rumpus. | Our Daily Laugh WHAT SPOILED \ Newcomer (at » c rest) —Is this jfxSclr rsstful place. olrK Native —Weli, It used ter b« un- JM V til folks btg&n r~ oomln' hsr* far NOTHING SERIOUS. What's tho mat- JyVijll My business has IBEF? (RI WW Bah! Ton look St 7 thought it might have been tho borne team. Ebetttng (Elfat The best test of the success of any thing- is always to he found In the ex pressions of opinion of people the day after and very frequently you can get "a line on" the way an affair turns out from the remarks mado by folks from other places or by neighbors. Almost everything heard yesterday was high ly complimentary of the Kipona. Trav eling men who happened to bo in Harrlsburg on Monday and who saw the afternoon program or witnessed the night display on the broad Sus quehanna praised tho success and some made very favorable comparison with similar events of greater age In other places. It was all very fine to hear what the visitors had to sav, es pecially when a Northumberland coun ty man wanted to know why the folks up about Hunbury did not have some thing like it on the fine stretch of water that fronts the county seat, a place, where, by the way, there used to bo great boat racing years ago. The com mittee in charge must have felt its eurs burn many times yesterday, but probably the best compliment of all was from the mouth of a babe which piped up to ask it* mother "Won't they have any more like that until next year?" \ • » • South Harrlsburg doesn't lack for enthusiastic river sportsmen and rare indeed Is the celebration that has to do with the Susquehanna which doesn't boast of a big representation of First warders. And the first Kipona was no exception. At a previous water car nival the South Harrisburg Amuse ment Association numbering several score of First ward folks, sailed up t:ie river in a great float (that repre sented to the last detail a three-mast ed, square-rigged brig. Monday even ing the same association had a similar turn out. Two long flats, used on the construction of the dam, carried the association members. The equipment was donated by City Commissioner W. H. Lynch. Mounted In the forward end of the craft was the big spider like derrick which had been used to lift the last slabs of concrete into place. Tacked high up on tho mast was the First ward's notice to grin ning observers what It does about tho things it starts. The notice read: "DAM FINISHERS!" One of the many interesting and unique sights that entertained La bor Day vacationists who promenaded the river bank on the morning of the Kipona was a water bicycle, rigged up with homely skill, but just as effective as a motorboat, with proportionate speed. The owner and manufacturer had taken the frame of a bicycle and attached it to a sort of miniature flat, with water paddles in the rear. On either side of him little chairs were built and the owner's two small chil dren comfortably sat while Daddy did the work. The ingenious device must have made about four or five miles an hour and attracted considerable atten tion as it moved slowly up and down the river. • • • "One of the things which amused me very much during Monday's cele bration was the fact that the girl who did the stunts in the water wore what looked like a onepiece bathing suit," said an uptown man. "I remarked that such garb was rather against the reg ulations of the city fathers, but per haps the rules were set aside for tho time being. While I was commenting upon the fact that the girl in the un usual garb was allowed I noticed, tho name on her canoe. It was 'why.' " * * * Girard, writing in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, contributes the follow ing to the interesting material writ ten about the late Samuel W. Penny packer ' "Everybody around town yesterday was telling stories about Samuel W. Pennypacker or listening to them. Ex-Governor Stuart told me how he had first met the other ex-governor. When the former was a lad of twelve some one inquired in the bookstore where he could find a notary public. "I told him," said ex-Governor Stuart, "that around the corner was a young lawyer named Pennypacker, and I took him there." A few years ago the Judge recalled the incident at a public dinner where the two met and he said ho would take that occasion to thank publicly his successor at Harrisburg for bringing him a fee. John Gribbel, president of the Union League, told mo one day that when the Pennypacker library was sold it was found that one volume was a copy of the Constitution of the United States which had belonged to Jefferson Davis. On the fly leaf the Governor had writ ten: "Much good it did him!" » • « It Is seldom that the funeral of a public official brings out so many ex pressions as were heard yesterday up on the late Samuel W. Pennypacker. Too often men In public life pass away without much more than perfunctory notice and little of the comment in private conversation which shows how a man is held. Yet on Capitol Hill yesterday there were many things said about the former governor and In this city appreciation was voiced by many Harrisburgers. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Archbishop Kennedy, who has been seriously ill at home, is a native of Conshohocken. —William J. Brennen, the Pitts burgh lawyer, is home from a trip to the seaside cities. He does not often take a vacation. ■—Levi L. Rue, the Philadelphia banker, is home from a western trip. —J. Loyd Coatee, Philadelphia busi ness man, has gone to Nova Scotia for Fall hunting and fishing. —Col. H. W. Shoemaker, the Al toona publisher, is collecting material for a new work on legends of the In dians of Central Pennsylvania. DO YOU KNOW 1 That many thousands of dol lars' worth of agricultural Imple ment wove sold through houses in this city this summer? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harrlsburg's first railroad bridge was built by the Cumberland Valley and was one of the most traveled rail road bridges in this section for many years. ) Wickersham On 8-Hour Law Commenting on the enactment by Congress of the eight-hour law George W. Wickersham says: "I believe all lovers of free government must have followed with mingled feelings of scorn and humiliation the panic strick en action of Congress in passing the eight-hour law in response to the inso lent threats of the organisation lead ers and the urgency of their President. "No American Congress ever reach ed such depths since that which en acted an embargo on American com merce at.the Instance of the first Democratic President, Thomas Jeffer son, in order to keep us out of war with England. And as war Inevitably followed that act of cowardico and folly, so assuredly a new chapter of industrial warfare lias been opened by President Wllßon and Ills Congress. "The constitutionality of the laglHla tion will depend upon whether or not In any case the new statutory wage would reduce the company's profit be low a reasonable return upon the In vestment In Its enterprise."