fOR TUB HOMB except Sunday by PRINTING CO., Federal Square. Pres't and Editor-in-Chief Business Manager. BTEI NMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American Newspaper Pub a Ushers' Assocla- The Audit Bureau of Clrcu lation and Penn sylvanla Assoclat ed Dailies. |BI HI Eastern office, f :ory, JJrooks & Finley, Fifth Ave nue Building. New York City; Wcst ern office. Story, Brooks & Fln ley. People's Gas Building, Chi cago, at the Post Office in Harrls- Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall, $3.00 a year in advance. EVENING. SEPT. 10 flattering life no more, redeem past, each day as if it were thy last. WM. DRUM MONO. JOY-RIDERS and automobile speed in general should note the sentence Judge Kunkel im upon Clarence L. Bates yester- the killing of George Donahue. of Involuntary manslaughter Bates ample opportunity to on the folly of reckless drlv- Judge Kunkel hints very that he has the same rod In for others like him who appear Dauphjp county court. )ua gre is amply justified in this Automobllists and motor of the Bates type are all to to regard the public highways own private racing courses look upon pedestrians and law- drivers of both motor and vehicles as trespassers who use at their own peril. There be a lesson for all such in the punishment of the Lebanon upon the'heels of the new hotel by the Chamber of Com- committee here comes a story the Tarentum Evening Telegram a campaign for a new hotel in ' city. We read from the Tarentum j that "for years business i In fact, residents In general, have that one of Tarentum's great- was a hotel and that much comment regarding the ae of the local Chamber of Commerce Doubtless the important ac- the Harrisburg business organl- will prove an inspiration to the people. CAMP HILL PAVING ■amp HILL citizens are so anxious ! to have their main street paved that they are petitioning borough to go ahead with the work, the money voted for that pur- more than a year ago. Some of conncilmen have been hanging this proposal, due to the fact theV, had UU-d the voters the was Vj*lse assisted hy money tho State Highway Department, since has been withheld. It is however, that the amount of the loan will pave the street and the readiness with the voters are signing the for the paving is ample lndl- that council is justified in going with the Improvement. to do otherwise would be to in the way of the best interests Hill. This beautiful suburb but one drawback—the condition main highway. Motorists who It on their way to and from Har through the Cumberland Valley, to watch the road so closely that see very little else. The beauties the towh-afe lost to them and about remember of Camp Hill Is has the worst streets of any between Harrlsburg and The paving of the thoroughfare will be worth much the borough. It will be the one necessary to make Camp known far and wldo as one of the Hott desirable residential communities H Central Pennsylvania. Hot course, you will not wait until a calls upon you to add jour to the now hotel fund. la your hotel and It ought to be pleasure to promptly get into with those who are lending tho ■ EGYPT YIELDS SECRETS ■ TTHILE millions of men are wag pV B war that may change current of her history for to come, Egypt beneath the and shovel of the scientific secrets she hid away when Europe WU a wilderness, when Berlin, Paris, and Petrograd wero only so untenanted spots In the wllder- and waste-places of savage or peopled lands. When the children ■>f Israel made their historic exodus most magnificent palace of tho an- Pharoahs, Merenpthah, was tho of a government as powerful as Bfiat of any in Europe now and of a ■Civilization the accomplishments of are the wonder of scientists Hj&to this day. And it is this great an expedition from the Unl- of Pennsylvania, under direc- Htlon of Dr. Clarence S. Fisher, has Bust unearthed. Vast interest sur- Mpounds the find. Dr. Fisher made his 'excavation around the palace of . ~~ i ~~ i ' 1 1 1 1 ■ ■ 11 Merenpthah several months ago. His more recent excavations show that the palace Is moro than twice as large as archeologlsts believed It to be, thus establishing that It Is the "greatest of all palaces." According to Dr. Fisher, the portion first excavated seemed to be complete In itself. It contains the famed throneroom where, according to Biblical scholars, Moses and Aaron ap peared before Pharoah to plead for Israel. Surrounding the throneroom, ac cording to Dr. Fisher, are many cham bers for various purposes. The front of the palace has a magnificent vesti bule or corridor, with rows of elabor ately carved and gorgeously colored marble pillars. Specimens of Egyp tian art will be brought from the exca vated city and added to the University Museum's collections. From this unearthed palace possibly may be gleaned new information re garding the exodus and certainly fresh light will be thrown on doubtful points in Egyptian history. No field of research has had the chrm and lure of Egypt either for the scientist or the layman who has fol lowed step by step, with undiminished interest, the revelations that have re warded the searchers at almost every turn of the spade In tho ancient land of the pyramids and the sphynx. Soon Egypt will have yielded up the last of her historic treasures. Her mys teries will be mysteries no more. The silence and the fall of arrested de velopment, with Its ages of decay, that have brooded over the waters of tho Nile since the fall of the civiliza tion that was at its zenith before Eu rope emerged from savagery, will bo dispelled. With the'end of the war yielding a victory for the allies, Egypt again will begin to come into her own. Already the work has been started. It will develop rapidly in the next de cade. Those who would see the old Egypt would do well to see It soon. There Is nothing of the weather vane in Charles E. Hughes. Ho does not change his opinions over night for tho sake of political expediency. In his Nashville speech ho denounced, in un equivocal terms, the surrender of trie principle of arbitration in industrial controversies, and declared his advo cacy of executive and legislative action based upon facts rather than fear. President Wilson tried to cater to the labor union vote; Hughes stood for the application of the principle of arbitra tion, not in the interests of employers or employes, but in the interest of all the people. Time and experience will dem onstrate the wisdom of Hughes' atti tude, and the day is not far distant when the unions themselves will real ize that Wilson's course was dictated by what seemed to him to be political expediency rather than far-slghtea statesmanship. A POLITICAL GOLD BRICK JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, the dis tinguished engineer, has given Ills views at some length to a New York newspaper upon President Wilson's so-called eight hour law. He does not believe the law will prove as popular as generally believed; that it will certainly not bo popular among the agriculturists and many other classes of labor. Mr. Hammond says that even with the railroad employes many objectionable features will be found when the law is applied. As Congress has assumed tho right to in crease wages, he believes that it will undoubtedly have also the right to re duce wages in certain contingencies. For this reason he says many believe the law to be a political gold brick. Further considering the effects of thc new law, Mr. Hammond says: From the point of view of politi cal expediency the measure is a failure. It will lose for the Demo cratic administration the support of a great number of independent voters, who are more concerned with the maintenance of American principles than with partisan ad vantage. Nor will it avail to secure the labor vote —so-called—since tile wage-earners are a patriotic and independent body capable of doing their own thinking, and jealous or any dictation by labor leaders, es pecially for political considerations. In short, the so-called labor vote cannot be delivered by labor lead ers of either party. Wage-earners resent such imputation. The record of the Republican party on labor legislation will ap peal to wage-earners quite as forci bly as that of the Democratic party, and Governor Hughes proved conclusively during- his administra tion as Governor of New York that he is sincerely desirous of better ing the condition of labor. Mr. Hammond emphasizes the con ditions which will prevail at the close of the European war and every wage earner, out, is directly In terested In the development of our foreign trade because it affords em ployment at home and every citizen, whatever may bo his vocation, is di rectly Interested in a greater or less degree because the development of a great foreign trade immeasurably en hances the welfare of the country. Whether tho name of tho now hotel will bo any one of the several sugges tions already received probably does not matter so much as the fact that there Is State-wide interest in the proposition. All of Pennsylvania is pat ting upon the back those who have made possible this much-needed place of entertainment". AMERICAN EXPORTS IN the first seven months of this year American exports amount ed to almost one billion dollars more than for the corresponding sev en months ending with July last year. This year the value was $2,926,000,- 000; last year It was $1,970,000,000. Until the European war began tho portion of our exports going to Eu rope had been gradually decreasing, having fallen to 62 per cent. In 1914 after being 86 per cent. In 1880. In 1915 this percentage rose to 71. This year it has dropped again, being about 68. Of course, this decrease does not reflect a drop in value; as the values of exports sent to every Eu ropean county showed an Increase ex cept the exports to Germany, Den mark, Holland and Sweden. Our exports to Canada this year are reaching a value of 71 per cent over tho value of last year and the exports to Cuba have reached a percentage In crease of 70. The greatest increase over the first seven months of 1915 occurred in tire exports to Japan, which have risen 124 per cent. While our trade with China has been diffi cult, the exports to that country are 45 per cent, moro In value than in the corresponding part of last year. As a result of this enormous in crease of exports growing out of the war, the number of vessois now Hy ing the American flag has largely in creased. Since tho United States in August, 19X4, definitely abandoned its earlier policy of allowing American registry only to American-built ves sels a total of 188 foreign built ves sels have come under the American flag. These vessels aggregate 628,000 gross tons. TELE6RAPH PERISCOPE ~\ —The bandits who got away with $62,000 ought to come and give our Harrlsburg robbers who got only $62 Sunday night a few lessons. Many of us would be glad to be placed in a position to be robbed of $62,000. a poet's work is sent back to him for rewriting he naturally looks upon it as a reverse. • —Camp Hill people have discovered that Main street needs paving, but lots of folks from other towns found it out the first time they rode through the West Shore suburb. —When a man takes a tumble to himself he often avoids a nasty fall. —James Scarlet is some lawyer- Just now he is at one and the same time counsel for the Pittsburgh brew ers and Evangelist Stough. —Pittsburgh is having trouble with a young woman who wants to be a bride and a teacher at tho same time. Permit us to suggest that she be per mitted to try it for a year or more; Euch little difficulties often work them selves out satisfactory to all concerned if allowed a little time. EDITORIAL COMMENT Criticisms of the President and of Congress for their surrender of prin ciple to expediency are by no means confined to Republicans. Indeed, the most scathing come out of the Demo cratic South. The Manufacturers' Record of Baltimore has been collect ing some of them. Tho Record it self declare? that "tho honor of the Nation, the welfare of democracy, the stability of our Republic have been bartered for an imaginary present ease."—Philadelphia Inquirer. Trade Briefs Three wells have been drilled near Muscogee, Okla., with a capacity of 100,000,000 feet of gas a day. Fac tories in this vicinity will be supplied with gas at the rate of four cents a thousand feet. A now shipbuilding plant will be built in Jacksonville, Fla. It Is cap italized at $200,000 and will employ 300 men. Dealers In Costa Rlca are in tho market for American dress goods, clothing, fancy goods, wrapping pa per and paper bags. American contractors are bidding for the construction of twenty-four roundhouses on Mexican railways. One thousand and five tons of Bar le Due jellies and jams were imported by this country from the Department of Meuse, France, in 1915. The f train service on tho State rail ways in Chile has been reduced be cause of the scarcity of coal. American made telephone and tele graph supplies are being purchased by Guatemala. The Government has set aside $25,571.41 for this purpose. Switzerland's grain and potato acre age has been increased as a result of the European war. Glass and nails aro in demand In Bristol, England. During the last nine years 548 homes for workingmen have been erected by the New Zealand govern ment. The United States, Canada, Austra lia and India are large purchasers of Japanese porcelain. During the first months of 1916 exports of this pro duct have reached the total of $2,- 492,500. * Exports from Hull, England, to this country In 1915 amounted to $4,004,- 375. Imports totalled $49,042,014 during the same period. Tobacco exports from Bahia, Brazil, average 60,000,000 pounds a year. This city also supplies most of the | tobacco for domestic consumption. The United States supplies all coal used for tho district of Para, Brazil. Canada has experienced a shortage of ice because of extraordinary con sumption due to the prolonged hot spell. Norway has passed a law prohib iting the use of wood fuel for sea going vessels. Tho cultivation of medicinal plants Is being studied by the Government of Uruguay. The manufacture of chemical products will be increased in the country, and the Government is desirous of supplying raw materials for the new industry from domestic sources. A. destructive hurrlcat%e has ruined Jamaica's entire banana crop. There will be no shipments for at least a year. The Border Stretches of yellow, glaring Rand, Grnv dust smarting with alkali; Mf-squilo huddled on either lmnd And a beaming, sun-drenched sky. Creak of leather and clnnk of steel, Ivb.'.ki \ illage and sun burned men, Rifling elouds when the horses wheel Back to the camp again. Mess and gossip and drill and rest Mght with the white stars thlcklv sown, Moonrlsc over the ragged crest, And thc coyotes dreary moan. Hot gray rocks where the lizard runs Skulking greasers In haggard bands! Swift brown horsemen, the click of guns, And a splash of blood on the sands —Rose Henderson in the New York- Independent. A Rainbow as Is a Rainbow! [From tho New York Sun.] Another visitor was A. Mitchell Pal mer, of Pennsylvania, who told the na tional chairman that the Democrats had a good chance of carrying Penn sylvania. Democratic headquarters note. That must have been a little too much even for Vance McCormick, who as a Democratic and Progressive can didate for Governor In the Keystono State was knocked Into a cocked hat by Martin Brumbaugh, a little matter of 222,345 plurality. Getting Even [From the Washington Star.] Denmark may be Inclined to put enough of a price on those islands to compensate her for the embarrassment she Buffered at tho hands of our Doctor Cook. MV By the Ex-Cornmltteeman Newspapers throughout tho State are adding new names to the list of possible candidates for Governor which was printed in this column three weeks ago and Boine of them suggest interesting angles. Democrats are also commencing to sit up and take notice and to discuss men who may be avail able to fit in with the conditions which will follow the presidential election. Tho Pittsburgh Dispatch says that A\? nf f les>Slnun Henry W. Temple, of Washington county, a former Progres sive and recently elected to Congress as a Republican, is being very strongly urged, while it also hints that while ' n Pl ttsburgh are suggesting public fc'ervico Commissioner William A. Mageo for mayor of the city again there is a possibility that the Pitts burgh man may be asked to run for Governor. It is'a new development in tile situation. The Philadelphia Ledger ? a >'s that Congressman John R. K. tM'ott is a candidate for gubernatorial honors and that Chairman W. D. B. Ainey, of the Public Service Commis sion, is being supported up State. Jvow names which havo been turn ,n thc Hst are State Chairman William E. Crow, as a "harmony" can didate; Congressman W. W. driest, of Lancaster, and F. W. Fleitsi, ex-Deputy Attorney General. On tho Democratic sido western Democrats say that Vanco C. McCor mlck, with the prestige of the Demo cratic national chairmanship, plans to f° r Governor again in 1918, but the Harrisburg man has not given any intimation of the sort. Roland S. Mor ris, former Democratic state chairman, is regarded as the more likely cholco of the reorganization cult. —Samuel McCurdy. member of the House from Rlair county, was injured in an automobile accident a few days ago. —Delaware county's Jail has been condemned. The people of the county, however, are not inclined to spend much money for a new one. —ln spite of all the hot air the arrangement of parties on the ballot in November will be just as It was In 1914. The election of 1912 settled that for four years following". Political clubs in eastern counties pre applying for licenses with stipu lation that there shall be no bars. —The convention of the State League of Republican Clubs, the initial icsslon of which will be held in York next Tuesday night, will not be fac tional in character, according to Fred "• AAillard, of Philadelphia, State president, who visited York to discuss arrangements. "Senator William E. Crow, the State chairman, will be on hand," declared Mr. Willard. "Stories of an alleged meeting of the State committee in Pittsburgh on September 27, which will require his presence there, are without foundation. He has accepted my invitation and has sent out letters to members of the State committee and county chairmen, ask ing them to be present also." Colonel Roosevelt or Charles W. Fairbanks will deliver the speech opening the campaign in the State, it was said. Governor Brumbaugh will also be a speaker at the meeting, to be held in the Biederwolf tabernacle Tuesday night. —Democratic headquarters yester day admitted that William Jennings Bryan will make a number of speeches in this State, most of them, however, to be in support of friends running for Congress on the Democratic ticket. He is billed to speak in Johnstown on October 16, where Warren Worth Bailey, Democrat, is a candidato for re-election. —According to messages coming here to-day, there is brisk registration in progress in Philadelphia and Pitts burgh and presumably there will be much doing in the smaller municipali ties. The first day's results were not satisfactory and there was a general stirring up. —The Republican committee of the Fourteenth ward of Philadelphia, of which Congressman Scott Is leader, last night endorsed the whole Repub lican ticket. —James B. Smarr, former clerk to the mayor of Philadelphia, has sued Mayor Smilh, charging that ho was thrown out of office without cause. —Of 383 applications for civil serv ice jobs in Philadelphia over 250 were from out of the city. In a determined effort to purge Philadelphia's voting list of all phan tom and illegal names, the Committee of Seventy yesterday issued a general appeal to citizens to come forward at tills time and give information which will aid in its present campaign against irregularities of the ballot. The Phila delphia Inquirer says: "It also became known that a number of Philadelphia's most prominent, professional men and bankers have been of aid to th§ com mittee In securing information on which action has been or will be taken against alleged violators of elec tion laws. • Especially important evi dence of n direct nature against elec tion boards has been furnished by one well-l'nown banker." Students Fight Booze [Kansas City Star.] A force in the prohibition campaigns in six Western States this Fall is the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association composed of college students who vol unteer to go out and work against the saloon. The best organization of this kind is in Michigan where, seven hun dred college men have nirrced to take a hand In the State-wide prohibition campaign, going out In couples and quartets, as speakers nnd entertain ers in temperance meetings. In the California campaign college students have been at. work nil summer canvaen ing, distributing literature and sneak ing. Students from the four colleges In Montana are at work there, and in South Dakota several teams of college students are busy in the campaign. In Nebraska, where the tight between the "wets" and "drys" Is very close, the students of tlie colleges are assisted by several quartets of young men froiii colleges In Kansas. In addition to speaking In halls and churches these teams from Kansas have held many successful street meetings. Their mis sion IH especially to refute the argu ments of the liquor interests that pro hibition has ruined Kansas. These young men were born and grew up Ih saloonless towns In Kansas. Missouri is to vote on State-wide prohibition In November. Already the brewers nnd distillers are sou-lng the State with circulars telling how Kan sas has come to the bring of financial ruin, how her Insane asvlums, noor houses and ,lall are packed full, all be cause of prohibition. There iq a chance for these Kansas students to do some good work in Missouri. All He Had [From the Chicago Herald.] "But, darling," said Bertie, whose sweetheart was anxious for the flxlntr of the day, "how on earth shall we live? You know, I've grot absolutely nothing—nothing at all." "Oh. that's all right!" murmured the beautiful babv doll. "T'll fix dad all right, and he'll sec us through." After much argument dad gave In, and the day was fixed, in church, on the happv morning, Bcrtio cried in K deen baritone: "With all my worldly goods I thee endow!" Then a low chuckle came from the bride's father. "My goodness!" he exclaimed, In tones audible throughout the church. "Hanged If he Isn't throwing In his cigar case." THE NAME OF CHRIST Neither Is there salvation In any other; for there Is noneother name un-' der heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.—Acts 4: 12. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY "Say, Willie, if I wuz you I'd get up a strike. It's too much for one engineer to haul." —From the New York World. PAPER MANUFACTURERS URGED TO CREATE RESERVE SUPPLY CHAIRMAN HURLEY, of the Federal Commission, bus made public a statement ho deliv ered Thursday to a meeting of the ex ecutive committee of the News Print Manufacturers' Association in New York, which met to consider tho com mission's proposals for means to pro tect smaller newspaper publishers who are dependent on the open mar ket for their print paper and who are in danger of being cut off from their supply. Chairman Hurley said: "I cannot impress upon you too strongly the critical situation now con fronting these smaller dailies and weeklies, who have built up a circu lation of a few hundred or a few thousand subscribers on the basis of an outlay for paper of from two to three cents a pound and who are now obliged to pay in many cases more th'an six cents. "In fairness I should say that such unreasonable and burdensome prices are usually for sales through Jobbers, who In some instances appear to be making excessive profits. According to reports recently received, the sales men of one such house have been urg ing publishers to buy at five and a half cents, telling them that the price will soon be seven cents and possibly ten cents per pound. Protection For Small Publisher "You may say that this is none of your concern, that you are not a party to siich transactions and have no re sponsibilities in the matter. But is not that a narrow and selfish view to take? It is to your interest as well as to the Interest of the public that the newspapers of the country be pre vented from suspending publication on account of paper shortage or prohibitive price. The commission feels th'at your association through co-operative action can do much to bring this about by putting a paper supply Into the open market. It has no power or desire to'compel such ac tion, but feels that it has a duty im posed upon It by Congress to use Its good offices In behalf of the publish ers who do not have contracts and are therefore dependent upon the market. "The reason why such high prices VrHE STATE. FROM DM TO "It was a great week for suicides" chortled the Reading Herald in large black headlines. But, alas, how few murders'. Tho big JCrle Exposition Is on this week and children will attend and. see ftio sights just like their elders. State Health Commissioner Dixon ruled that they should not congregate In build ings, but inasmuch as all happen ings are in the opon, the youngsters will be there in force. A half century of work In the minis try is the long service of the Rev. J. Zentner, pastor of a leading church in Sharon, who tendered his resignation to his pastorate on Sunday. He at least may be sure of the final Judg ment, "well done." • The Gettysburg Times reports whole sale raids on chicken coops In the western part of the county, one theft alone amounting to seve..ty-five young chickens.* Must have used a moving van in proceedings. A one-cent trolley fare scheme un der way in Philadelphia Is causing a lot of worry, because it Isn't quite clear as to how a firm can pay five cents for a ticket, sell It at one cent and still make money. Some say it do and some say it don't. Sure of Our New Hotel [Scranton Republican] Hundreds of Scranton people who have business or personal calls to Hnrrlsburg, from time to tlpie will be pleased to noie that a movement has been successfully launched for the construction of a lino million dollar hotel, which will he located on the site of the old Grand Opera house. It has been the experience of resi dents "of Lackawanna county that thero i$ a great scarcity of hotel ac commodations whenever any unusual event occurs In Harrisburg, and the need of a large new hostelry has been felt for a long while. The movement for the new hotel was begun at a meeting of representative citizens held at the Harrisburg club at which $505,000 was. subscribed for the pur pose. One man took fifty thounand dollars worth of stock, another put his name down for twenty-flve thou sand, and a third man subscribed for twenty thousand dollars in stock. The plans for the hotel have not yet been drawn, as a matter of course, but the fact that It is to cost a mil lion dollars Is a sufficient guarantee that it will be ample in size and mod ern In every respect can be charged is simply that the un protected publisher hn3 but one source of supply and that is sometimes" un certain. No one but the mill or dealer whom he has been patronizing will sell him a pound of paper. This be ing the case, it occurs to me that to remedy the situation It is necessary for a number of the larger compan ies in your association to create re serve stocks of paper which will be offered in the open market to pub lishers needing help at a reasonable price. It would not require a very large stock to control the situation. The mere public announcement that such action has been taken would tend to dissipate the fears of pub lishers and materially help to keep prices within reasonable limits. Methods of Securing Reserve Stock "The important question is how can the companies, who wish to co-oper ate with the commission in this work, procure a sufficient reserve stock of paper to make the plan effective. The commission has already made two suggestions to this end: "First, working a number of mills each alternate Sunday or for an ex tra shift each Sunday, if this can be done, and second, changing machines temporarily from other grades to news print, which involves the ques tion of relative profits of different grades of paper. "A third suggestion has been made by a member of your committee in a letter to tho commission, namely, that such manufacturers,with the consent of the publishers supplied by them under contract, make a pro rata distribu tion of their output so as to obtain a surplus quantity to use as a reserve. "I hope that these various proposi tions will be thoroughly discussed at this meeting and that some plan will be adopted which will effectively meet the situation." At the conclusion of the conference it was agreed that the association would file a statement with the com mission setting forth fully the views of its members regarding the sugges tions made by the commission for in creasing the output of paper. This statement Is expected to be submit ted in a few days. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR —————^ WHY NOT "TIIE PENNSYLVANIA" To the Editor of the Telegraph: What more dignified name could be applied to the Greater Harrlsburg hotel that-18-to-be, than "The Pennsyl vania?" The greatest State In the Unjon, tho greatest railroad In the country, the greatest battleship owned by the American Navy, one of the greatest ' railroad terminals In the country, all get along more or less successfully under the name of Penn sylvania. Why not then the best and most up-to-date hotel between burgh and Philadelphia, located In the capital of Pennsylvania, a city that is always on the lookout for tho best interests of the State and its capital? Penn-Harrls is a splendid name, but are there not suggestions In "The Pennsylvania" of a massive structure sending Its towering person ality out through the State and call ing visitors to tills city to enjoy with us the beauties and improvements of which we are so proud? (Signed) NAMELESS. ADVERTISING IN NEWSPAPERS MIAN IIIIIU West T'rKe* Krnternnl Socie ties to Use MrillliiiiH That ' Reuch People Miss Blna M. West, supremo com mander of the Woman's Benefit Asso ciation of the Maccabees, addressing the National Fraternal Congress held tills week la Cleveland, Ohio, empha sized the value of dally newspaper ad vertising for all fraternal organiza tions. "Such advertising," said Miss West, "goes directly into the hom'is of per sons whom fraternal societies wish to reach. You can centralize your pub licity and cover valuable fields to good advantage. "Most people read their favorite newspapers dally. Many times their opinions and beliefs are formed from the opinions and beliefs expressed In their daily newspapers. Our people are busy people, and the newspaper brings to the home each day the fresh, new thought of the day. It expresses opinions which Its readers Jiave not considered before and which some times become their opinions. "For these and many other reasons It is the opinion of the members of your committee that no better medium for carrying educational Information relating tothese Institutions and what they are undertaking to do for the homes of the land can be secured than the public press. "I therefore recommend, both as a general medium of publicity If con certed action can be secured and to the Individual society diesiring good pub licity at a minimum of cost, the use of the newspapers for this purpose." Ibetttng (Chat It will be Just eighty years to-mor row since the first locomotive puffed Into Harrlsburg. The railroad, which Is now known the world over as th Pennsylvania system, sent Its first train to the State Capital from Mld dletown on September 20, 1836. Th Pennsylvania, the Reading, the Cum berland Valley and the Northern Cen tral railroads with their Immense en gines and huge trains" have been so much a part of our lives that It is hart? to realize that it was only back In the days when Martin Vail Buren was president that the first train came in to tlio city which is now one of th division terminals of four great rail roads and In touch by rail with every state in tho Union and every prov ince In Canada and such parts of Mexico as are traversable by the iron horse. Tho arrival of the first loco motive with a train naturally made a tremendous stir in Harrlsburg. Gov ernor Joseph Rltner and the State of ficials and their families went down to tho First ward below Paxton street tt see the train come in and Christian Seller and-Jacob Shoemaker, the bur gesses, were on hand to extend their welcome to what was the start of a traffic of " which they little dreamed. The old newspapers say that the first locomotive came from Portsmouth, which was the old name of Middle town and was run over th*o Harris burg and Lancaster railroad. It later became the Harrlsburg, Portsmouth, Mt. Joy and I,ancaster and some of the old securities are held about here yet. The locomotive was taken from Columbia, which was connected with Philadelphia by rail, by canal boat to Mlddletown as it was some time later before the two down the river bor oughs were linked by the tracks. Tho engine was of the type known as the John Bull, which wo saw at tho va rious expositions, and pulled three cars. Just what were the feelings of those forefathers and foremothers of ours as they lined tho railroad from about Tuscarora street to Paxton fur nace cain be imagined. It was not long, however, before they became ac customed to trains for the railroad, was built through to Lancaster and in 1837 the Cumberland Valley bridge was opened and trains came hero from up the vallev. • * • And byway of the contrast of eighty years it may be stated that there are now 280 trains arriving and departing from Harrlsburg every day. Of this number 23 4 are on the three roads which form the Pennsylvania system and sixteen on the Philadel phia and Reading. Forty-two trains come into Harrlsburg over the very line traversed by tljat old locomotive of 1836. And forty-three depart on the same route. • • Failure on the part of a Cumber land Valley postmaster to get his mail pouch on the morning train has been explained. He had his own idea of how a post office should be run. Not long ago this postmaster was put in charge of a small office along a branch line south of the Mason and Dixon line. Every day a mail train, coming north in the morning, was expected to throw off a mail pouch; and take one on. The railway mall clerk in charge-tossed off the pouch on sched ule time, and made ready to grab tho bag from the rack as the train passed the station. For two weeks there was no pouch to take on. One day the train stopped at this station. The I postmaster was there. The clerk thought it would be a good time to find out whv no mail was coming out of that particular town. The postmaster was called to the mall car and asked: "How is it you have no mail for us." The answer came back: "Don't you tell me how to run my post office. I know my business. When I get enough mail to fill a p'ouch, I'll have it out on that pole for you to snatch off, and no sooner." Of course there was no argument with this rural official and his case was reported to the proper authori ties. Later on an Inspector turned up in that town. Now the mall Is mov ing' more regularly. Ex-Senator James D. Adams, of Al legheny county, who was here yester day on business at the Capitol, was the chairman of the committee of tho whole when the first school code was considered in the House. He was la ter elected to the senate and was a member of tho San Francisco exposi tion commission. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "" —The Rev. David M. Steele, Phila- t delphia, Just home from a western trip, says there is not enough relig ious co-operation between the east and west. —Carroll J. Kelley, commander of the Honesdale company of the Na tional Guard, is to be one of the new majors of the 13th Infantry. —Albert Mamatey, who is presiding at the Slav meeting at Scranton, is prominent in business at Braddock. —W. J. Pattison, Scranton publish er, was a loader in the movement to buy a motor truck for the 13th in fantry. —Bishop Courtland Whitehead, of Pittsburgh, was the preacher to tho Scottish Rite Masons at Pittsburgh. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburgr shoes are sold in Danish West Indies? HISTORIC HARRISBURG John Penn. grandson of tho foun der, visited Harris Ferry not long af ter it was laid out as a town. 11 Our Daily Laugh ! ACID TEST. What is the | acid test of affec- A willingness Mf W to eat any kind of 1 HL salad that a worn- Ik- ° ver 'y^^ ? Q||ar o such fl atter " \\|/f HI forty over three months ago! v WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB v 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 Quia."] What, provision Is made for the In spection of the health of the children 1 attending schools? The physlcans give two hours each every school day. Two nyrsea i' clve all their time.
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