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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME
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TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10
In all things be prompt. Get the
thing done. Do it noiv. Delay is fatal.
The only way for a busy man to get
through his tvork is to take up one
thing at a time and stick to it until
he puts it through. Sever mind if the
work is difficult —it must be done. —
Walter H. Coltingham.
DOING THEIR DUTY
NOT many fully realize what the
railroads are doing to make
Harrisburg what it aspires to be
—"The Heart of Distribution." Really
great developments are under way.
The railroad managers see farther
than most of our own people. They
are spending their companies' money
; to make their visions come true. They
are building not only for to-day, but
for the future.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany is erecting a great freight depot
and constructing immense freight
yards adjoining. The Cumbefland
Valley is spending three-quarters of a
million to give itself a double track
entrance to Harrisburg and much
more on subways and yard room. The
Heading is increasing its trackage to
Rutherford and preparing to handle
more fregiht in the yards there.
The city and the railroads are
growing and developing together. This
is as it should be. The railways and
the community they serve are in
reality partners in business. The
owners of local commercial concerns
are all working for the prosperity of
their own individual enterprises. The
sum of their progress represents the
advance of the community as a whole,
and each one of them to that extent
is working for the benefit of the com- I
munity, even though he may con- .
tribute nothing to public-spirited !
movements. Intelligent self-interest i
prompts the railroad to be an active
partner in the work of community;
development, and in Harrisburg the j
railroads are realizing their duty in !
this respect to the full—and are do- I
ing it.
It begins to look as though New
York's little trick in favor of Brooklyn j
liad been played in vain.
After to-day it will be hard to make '
anybody believe that Harrisburg is \
not enthusiastically for Hughes.
SECRETARY GKEGORY
THERE appeared in the Telegraph
last evening the picture and birth- i
day greeting of Frank H. Gregory. !
The Telegraph delights in paying
homage to such as he.
Mr. Gregory is typical of the best!
citizenship of Harrisburg. It is an old ■
Baying that there is risk in building a I
monument to any man still alive. A j
memorial might l>e erected to Mr.
Gregory with absolute assurance that ;
he would live up to it. Rut he needs !
no monument at the hands of his I
fellows; he has built his own. It is the
Pennsylvania Railroad Y. M. C. A.
Mr. Gregory took charge of that In- '
stitution when its future was in doubt '
and when its quarters consisted of an \
obscure suite of rooms in a rented I
building. To-day it occupies a beautl- I
ful structure of its own and has set the '
pace for the rest of the city by in- j
stalling the only swimming pool in
town. It is a great and growing force ;
for good in its sphere.
The reporter carelessly, or carefully, ;
we don't know which, omitted to note !
which birthday it was that Mr. Gregory j
yesterday celebrated, but it is no mat- |
ter of consequence. Men like the sec- I
retary measure their lives by deeds, i
not years, and they never grow old in !
spirit, and but slowly in body. The !
Telegraph wishes him many more
of 'em.
A "relative of the President" writes
for the Public Ledger a long article
brimming with tears about "the lonely
man in the White House." but most of
us feel that he knew how to dispel his
loneliness and didn't pause long in
doing it.
CLEAN" LANGUAGE
FIFTY thousand men and boy
marched along the principal thor
oughfares of Philadelphia yester
day carrying banners of Holy Name
societies and giving visible evidence
of their pledge against "perjury, blas
phemy, profanity and obscene speech."
Thl movement of the Catholic
Church Is an example for all denomi
nations. Profanity is all too common.
Obscenity too often masquerades as
humor. The oath Is the signpost of a
deficient vocabulary. Profane language
Is weak language. It conveys no other
meaning than that of ungoverned
temper. It Inspires neither respect nor
TUESDAY EVENING, BXSSiBBORG TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 10,1916.
obedience. It arouses antagonism and I
sows discord. It offends the ear and
disgusts the hearer. He who damns,
damns to his own condemnation.
As for obscenity—that is worse, if
anything, than profanity. The "shady
story," the Joke that defiles the mouth
and the mind, the tale that drags
womanhood In the dirt; these circulate
almost wherever men foregather.
They are not confined to wicked men,
cither. Otherwise decent, respectable
citizens Indulge in them. Nevertheless,
there is no excuse for these racy tales
or tho Joke with the double meaning.
The Holy Name Society's pledge is
one way to discourage both profanity
and obscenity. The other Is—never
use any language nor tell any story
that you would blush to have your
mother hear.
| Many an Investor learned yesterday
j that he doesn't know as much about
| Wall Street as he thought he did.
! Those U-boats should have been nam.
j ed O K-boats.
BLOCKING OUR PORTS
VON BERNSTORFF blandly as
sures President Wilson that
Germany's "pledges will be
| kept," the while the German govern
! ment is blockading our ports against
| neutral shipping, sinking neutral shipn
j along our coasts without search and
j disregarding nearly every policy of
I submarine warfare laid down by the
Wilson administration.
"The lives of non-combatants can
not lawfully or rightfully be put in
jeopardy," President Wilson himself
declared and added that to "put them
| In small boats and leave them to the
| mercy of the sea" was placing them In
| the very peril which the. President as
| serted the United States would not
1 tolerate.
j Only the presence of American
' naval vessels In large numbers pre
| vented loss of life following the whole-
I sale destruction of shipping on Sunday.
! Passengers, regardless of nationality
i and without inquiry as to whether or
I not they were American citizens, were
i hurried into tiny boats and heft to the
i mercy of threatening fog and a rough
J sea. All day long the reckless com
mander of the submarine used his one
! mounted gun to spread terror and de-
I struction about him. Whether his
shells struck an American vessel or
warship in the otfing or whether they
flew wide and destroyed property
ashore mattered naught to him. He
was without the ridiculously inade
! quate three-mile limit and he cared
I not a hoot for anything but the ac
! complishment of the purpose on which
he was bent. The safety of American
shipping and American lives was noth
ing to him, nor to the government that
sent him.
The result was a slump in the Amer
ican stock market that wiped out
values of millions and a panic among
shippers that has demoralized the ex
port business of the whole Atlantic
coast. The effect is an attempt—more
or less effectual—to blockade Ameri
can waters against neutral shipping.
Our naval officers have been placed in
the ignominious position of life-savers
in the wake of German men-of-war.
Our business has been struck a terri
ble blow. American lives have been
placed in danger and, if the operations
of the submarines are not brought to
a prompt halt, we shall awaken some
fine morning soon with another Lusi
tanla horror on our hands and at our
very doors.
Yet President Wilson sits supinely
by with bolded hands, enraptured by
the siren song of Von Bernstorff, who
tells him that "Germany's pledges will
be kept."
The people, however, are of another
mind, and it will go hard with the
President in November if he does not
take -steps to guarantee the safety of
American lives and neutral shipping
in American waters. This latest exam
ple of German insolence is Intolerable.
We must see to it that the American
flag is supreme in American waters or
we may as well haul down the Stars
and Stripes and hoist the German
standard on every American ship of
war.
HIT IT THIS TIME, ANYWAY
MODERN science has given the
old-time, long-distance almanac !
a hard jolt, lifting it from many
time-honored places by the fireside
and relegating It to the waste basket.
It has lost Its rank as a household
god. The farmer and the gardener
now read their weekly government
forecasts and scorn to take stock In
the prognostications of the author of
the almanac. (By the way, who Is
the author of the almanac?)
But casting down the columns of
a stray copy of the Century Almanac
for 1916, one reads that In "the latter
part of summer or Fall there will be
many diseases, almost pestilential in
their nature, such as fevers, intes
tinal disorders, and others." The pre
ceding paragraph predicted "cold,
wet weather for Spring and shortage
of grain crops for the year."
Which, it is respectfully submitted,
was a pretty good guess, considered
from the viewpoint of conditions here
abouts. This is no argument in favor
of the almanac as an infallible or
even as a reliable forecaster. There
is an old saying to the effect that
"even a blind hog sometimes finds an
acorn."
Confessions are good for the soul;
also they cut down court costs.
If you can't find a business man
with whom you have an engagement
go look for him before one of the bast
ball bulletin boards.
CAPITAL AND LABOR
NOTHING has so encouraged pes
simism In the United States as
the attitude of President Wil
son in the matter of the so-called
eight-hour law. But pessimism as to
the Inherent soundness of
character generally, one writer points
out, Is not warranted. We have not
forgotten how the voters smashed the
slxteen-to-ono foolishness of William
Jennings Bryan and the people will
Just as certainly crush the tendency
toward paternalism which has char
acterized the present weak admlnls-
tratlon at Washington. We must meet |
with courage and honesty the obltga- !
gatlons of our day, says thts same!
writer, and we must resist with all our
might every influence making for na
tional disintegration.
Intelligent labor leaders themselves
are. realizing now, and much sooner
than the President had anticipated,
how adversely they will be affected
by the reaction of public opinion
growing out of increased living cost
and other results of excessive legisla
tion to cure the alleged ills of society.
The only result of loose and hasty leg
islation is to stimulate agitation and
unrest, and real friends of labor are
not disposed to Involve the working
man in endless controversy and dis
content. Capital and labor must go
hand-ln-hand; It cannot be otherwise.
""pottttC* OV
By the Ex-Committeeman
The Republican State committee at
its meeting in Philadelphia late yes
terday afternoon adopted a platform
emphasizing national issues, especially
Americanism, preparedness and the
tariff, arid referring to the fact that
Republicans elected to State and legis
lative offices two years ago did their
duty. The meeting was very largely
attended, and while there was much
discussion of the platform plans among
the members and county leaders pres
ent, there was no debate upon the
floor. In the subcommittee in charge
nn effort was made to give more atten
tion to woman suffrage and the State
administration and when the platform
came before the whole body H. A. Da
vis. of Blair, offered a resolution deal
ing with local option, which was not
pressed by anyone else.
The meeting was notable for the ad
dresses made by Philander C. Knox,
candidate for senator, who was given
a complimentary reference In the plat
form, by United States Senator Rotes
Penrose and George T. Oliver, State
Chairman William E. Crow and others.
Everyone in attendance at the ses
sion went to the Hughes meeting in
the evening.
The platform as adopted is as fol
lows:
The last platform adopted by
the Republican party of Pennsyl
vania declared our faith in repre
sentative government and alle
giance to the principles of the
national Republican party. Upon
Democratic matters we declared
in favor of progressive, humani
tarian and economic legislation.
The General Assembly of 1915,
controlled by a large Republican
majority, honestly redeemed the
pledges of the State platform, and
under that platform the people
elected by a grand majority a
United States Senator 'sound in
the faith,' wise in the counsels of
the nation, and recognized in his
years of service and experience as
one of the dependable and strong
men in the United States Senate.
They also elected a Governor,
Lieutenant-Governor and other
State officials, who need no com
mendation, and when their terms
of office shall have expired they
will be enrolled among the many
loyal, efficient and honored men
of the State.
Realizing that the paramount
questions before the people at this
time are national, we pass by State
questions, with the declaration
and promise that the party will
pursue the same wise course in
matters of State laws and govern
ment that It always has, and which
has olaced Pennsylvania in its
proud position among the States;
j'.bsolutely free from debt; ad
vanced in education; liberal in its
charities: progressive in public im
provements: and in all things
careful for the advancement and
welfare of its people.
Appreciating the ominous out
look of the times and looking for
efficiency and integrity, the Re
publicans of Pennsylvania have
unanimously nominated for United
States Senator a man who has
been tried and proven. He has
been United States Senator, Attor
ney General and Secretary of
State. No man ever has been bet
ter trained and educated in a
school of preparedness.
They also have nominated for
Congressman at large. Auditor
General and State Treasurer men
of capacity, integrity and experi
ence.
The all-important national ques
tions before the people are the
tariff. preparedness and true
Americanism. These questions all
have been considered in the na
tional platform and we earnestly
indorse the declarations therein
relating io them; and we Indorse
the candidates nominated by the
national Republican convention
for President and Vice-President
of the United States: and with
grateful *lianks to a wise Provi
dence for the bounties of nature,
a prosperous State, and a happy
people, we pledge, as exemplifying
th*e intelligence of this people, an
ovfrwhelmlng Republican major
ity in the State for hoth the na
tional and State tickets at the ap
proaching election.
The suffrage plank was urged by a
delegation of the Pennsylvania Woman
Suffrage Association, which asked the
subcommittee to indorse specifically
the national Republican woman sur
frage plank. Although the platform
committee did not act upon the sug
gestion. the executive board of the as
sociation, In a statement last night
signed by Mrs. Mary J. T. Orlady, the
president, and Mrs. Lucy K. Miller,
party chairman, said that it was not
to be supposed that the State commit
tee intended to discredit the suffrage
plank any more than other planks in
the national Republican platform, to
which no reference was made In the
platform adopted by the State com
mittee. On the other hand, the ex
ecutive board argued that the State
committee doubtless believed that all
Republicans accept, as not debatable
or to be questioned, all those planks in
the national Republican platform, in
cluding the Monroe Doctrine, rural
credits, rural free delivery, conserva
tion and civil service reform, not men
tioned in the platform adopted by the
Republican State committee yesterday.
The State committee adopted a re
port of the subcommittee on rules, of
which ex-Judge W. D. Wallace, of
I.awrence county, was chairman, and
in which was a provision that vacan
cies In the offlce of member of the
Republican national committee shall
be filled-by the State committee, and
that the national committeeman shall
bo ex officio a member of the State
committee and the executive and
finance committee thereof.
' Ex-Senator Knox attacked the
Democratic administration for Its
"claims, pretensions and spurious pro
gram of legislation." He called it an
administration of "pleasant phrases."
Mr. Knox declared that the coming
campaign Is one of the most Important
In the nation's history. The policies of
the Wilson government, so far as they
relate to the external world, he as
serted, have been repudiated.
Senator Oliver said following the
clots of the European war the men In
charge of our national affairs will be
confronted with problems which will
transcend in Importance anything that
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is been presented to the American I /
has been presented to the American
people from the American govern
ment since the time of Abraham Lin
coln. To megt these problems, he
said, will require a man in the White
House and a ruling body in Congress
with sane judgment and serene mind.
Senator Penrose declared that all
breaches in the Republican party had
been closed and that all Republicans
were now working shoulder to shoul
der. He predicted an overwhelming
majority for Hughes of 300,000 in
Pennsylvania, 200,000 in New York,
200,000 in Illinois, 60,000 in New Jer
sey. "And if," he continued, "we do
lose some small western States, it will
be forgotten in the victory of Hughes."
Speeches were also made by Charles
A. Snyder, candidate for Auditor Gen
eral, nominees for Congressmen at
large, M. M. Garland, of Pittsburgh,
and Joseph McLaughlin, of Philadel
phia. Congressman Ixuiis T. McFadden,
of Canton; W. I. Schaffer, of Delaware
county, all of whom forecast the elec.
tion of Hughes and Fairbanks in vigor,
ous onslaughts upon the Wilson ad
ministration.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR"
XO TYPHOID AT lIKRSHKY
CHOCOLATE FACTORY
To the' Editor of the Telegraph:
In the early part of the typhoid epi
demic in and around Harrisburg your
paper stated that the Hershey Choco
late Company had no connection with
the Hershey Creamery Company and
that it was not a dealer in ice cream.
In spite of these published state
ments there is> confusion in the public
mind and the Hershey Chocolate Com
pany is receiving ino.uiries as to the
facts. As the Hershey Chocolate Com
pany and its allied interests employ
2.?00 persons, any false report or im
pression that disturbs its business may
be a serious matter for a considerable
part of Lebanon Valley.
We ask, therefore, that you inform
your readers again by the publication
of this letter or otherwise that the
Hershey Chocolate Company, the Her
she> Industrial School, the Hershey
farms, the town of Hershey and all the
interests associated with the name of
M. S. Hershey are wholly distinct and
separate from other organizations
using the name of Hershey.
None of the Hershey interests here
has any connection, direct or'indirect,
with the Hershey Creamery Company,
which is a concern owned mainly by
nersons living in other counties.
HERSHEY CHOCOLATE COMPANY.
F. R. Murrie. President.
Hershey, Pa., Oct. 9, 1916.
Species of Blackmail
We have discovered that it is pos
sible to get a lot of attention around
home by threatening to sing.—Toledo
Blade.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[QuMtlons submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers us presented at the organiza
tion's annual "Municipal Qulz."l
What property taxes do public ser
vice corporations pay city?
Public service corporations only
pay property tax on real estate not
actually used in the operation of
their business.
THAT OIJD GRAY COAT
By Wins Dinger
This morning it was taken
From out the wooden chest.
Where for six months it's hidden
And had a peaceful rest.
And out upon the clothes line
It's hung the livelong day
In order that the breezes
Might 'round about It play.
For odors strong of camphor
And moth ball, too, so round.
In every crease and wrinkle /
Do certainly abound.
I'll tell you something, brother.
The old, old billy goat
Has nothing on the flavor
Of last year's overcoat
UNCLE SAM PATHETIC WORLD
FIGURE, SA YS EMERSON BROWNE
HUGHES has a record as clean as
a hound's tooth, and as straight
as a sapling. That you must ad
mit whether you like him or not.
When he investigated the Insurance
scandals in New York he didn't sit
down and write notes to the perpe
trators thereof. He went to them
calmly, capably, firmly: and he put
them through the hoops like bare
bark riders.
He never played politics. You never
caught any of Hughes' appointees ask
ing for places for deserving Republi
cans. If he had. inside of five minutes
said appointee would have been out
looking for a similar situation him
self.
You never found Hughes fostering a
•Tosepus Daniels or a self-confessed po
litical jobber like Hay. or Virginia, or
that other amiable pork barrel expert
who announced that when anybody else
took home a ham, he wanted a whole
hog; which sounds very much as
though he meant to kidnap himself.
Look over Hughes' life and you will
find that he has read broadly, traveled
broadly, thought broadly. He has been
honest. He has been fenrless. He has
never traded, never truckled.
When he has said a thing he has
meant it. When he has said he'd do
a thing, he has done It. When he was
governor of New York he appointed
men not because they were deserving
Republicans, but because they were
the right men for the right places. He
closed the family entrance to the Capi
tol; he abolished the habit of whisper
ing so prevalent among politicians.
Anybody that had anything to say to
him had to Speak rttght Out Loud.
It wouldn't have taken Hughes two
years to find out what he thought about
preparedness; and to have done some
thing to prepare. Nor, when the time
came, would he have vacillated be
tween good plans and bad until mem
bers of his own cabinet became sick
and disgusted and resigned while he
selected the worst.
Where Wilson has been weak, Hughes
has been strong. Where Wilson has
followed a policy of vacillating oppor
tunism, Hughes has hewn to the line.
Where Wilson has dlllied and dallied
and sidestepped, "too proud to fight"
one minute, and "feeling himself In a
fighting mood" the .iext Hughes has
said what he has meant and meant
what he has said.
Wilson has spoken before he has
thought. Hughes has thought before
he has spoken. Hughes has led. Wil
son has followed. Hughes has acted.
Wilson has talked.
A Pathetic World Flaure
Before a fighting world, giving of I
their heart's blood on sodden battle
fields in causes that they think are
right, we stand a pathetic world figure,
rich, fat, selfish, clinking in our full
pockets dollars wrung from the suffer
ings of others.
They have outraged us; they have
Insulted us; they have berated, and
abused, and heaped on us indignity af
ter Indignity. And or only answer has
been a fat and fatuous smile, like the
half-witted boy you used to know at
school who, no matter how they kicked
him in the shins, or pushed in his nose,
or picked on him generally, would
only grin and hang around for more
• • •
An American frlena of mine attended
a dinner given In Mexico by the erst
while revolutionist thereof, Pascual
Orozco. Pascual was puzzled. He ask
ed my friend to explain that which so
mystified him.
"'We have robbed your men, dis
honored your women, killed your chil
dren • • • Tell me," pleaded Pas
cual, "what does an American need to
make him fight?"
Pascual, you see, being only an ignor
ant Mexican, couldn't understand why
a wife or a couple of children more
or less mean nothing when you have a
new automobile and a fat bank account.
1 But to those of ua who are still old-
fashioned enough t< put a wife and
children above dollars, and our honor
above a shameless suplneness, no bet
ter commentary than Pascual's could
be made on tills, thr "New Freedom"
that has come to us through Woodrow
Wilson • • •
The Weakness of Wilson
Cod knows, we don't want war. No
more do we want disease. War may
never come to us. Nor disease. Only
do we demand that should either come,
we be strong, and clean, and firm to
combat It.
This Wilson has failed to make us,
failed because he does not understand
and cannot seem to learn. And four
years is a long time for a nation of a
hundred million people to stand and
wait while one man (joes to school.
Wilson has failed o make us strong
because he himself is weak. He has
answered a blow with a note; he lias
replied to Insult with more notes; and
to inquiry with yet other notes. He
has left American citizens, whom he
was pledged to protect, to the mercies
of any and all who cfiose to rob, to
dishonor and to kill.
The ocean is laden and the land is
fringed with the corpses of American
men, American women, American chil
dren who, giving their ail to their
country, found that their country would
give them nothing. No written word
of man ever restrained a Nubian lion,
a Mexican bandit or a German subma
rine. They live by force alone; and
the only thing that they respect or un
derstand Is a greater force.
Words may be met with words! But
deeds can be checked only by deeds.
This, Woodrow Wilson in four shame
ful years has failed to learn; nor, ap
parently will he ever. He has said.
"America first." But he ljas meant only,
"safety first," hiding the while behind
the miasma of his own grandiloquent
periods while Ills countrymen have red
dened sea and land with the blood of
their bodies, and America, last, head
down, eyes sunk in shame, has followed
in the dust of his defeats.
The Ktrrnictb of Hughes
Hughes has been strong. 4le has aald,
America first and America efficient,
America great and America honored.
He thinks It not enough to talk of
America being first. She must be
made first. He knows that to do this,
her citizens must not be strong in word
only, but In deed, great not only In
council, but In action, calm In thought '
and In speech, Jealous in honor, zealous
in the protection of American lives and
American liberties, willing to talk when
talk Is wise; but ready and powerful
to act when words fall and deeds must
take their place.
May we not, then, nope and believe
that through him can we once again
become strong and crean and firm,
strong as was Washington, clean as
wap Lincoln, firm as was Grant, strong
and clean and firm as were those line
men from whom we sprung, who won
for us. and left to us. this great and
wonderful heritage that is alike our
country and our trust?— Porter Emer
son Browne, In Collier's.
Dust Throwing Phrase
[Kansas City Star]
The defense of the President, "He
kept us out of war," sounds good as a
campaign cry. But It Is becoming In
creasingly apparent that it Is being
used to cover up failures In foreign
policy and to divert attention from
the real issues.
What those failures have been were
catalogued by Colonel Roosevelt In
his reply to Secretary Lane printed
yesterday. The outcome of the ad
ministration's submarine policy and of
Its Mexican policy was there set forth
in detail. The record is one that no
American can contemplate without
humiliation.
It Is In an effort to keep this record
In the background that the campaign
orators are attempting to center at
tention on the sentence, "He kept us
out of war."
Ebftting (Eljat
When the Eighth infantry cornea
hack to Pennsylvania, which Is said to
be probable some time before Thanks
giving day, Harrlsburg will be more
than ever a military center and will
have no less than five units of the
regiment to say nothing of the Gov
ernor's Troop, or Troop C, of the First
cavalry. It Is not Improbable that
before long there may be other or
ganizations formed and located here,
owing to the growing requirements of
the military establishment in which
the National Guard of Pennsylvania *
constitutes an Important portion or
the first line. Col. M. 13. Finney, co ™-
mander of the Eighth, will have his
headquarters in this city and the
headquarters company, the supply
company and the machine gun com
pany will also be located here. There
are quite some organizations although
not as numerically strong as Infantry
companies D and I which will have
the peace strength of 65 each. The
headquarters company, for instance,
has a list of sergeants, including the
sergeants major and those with the
colors, stable sergeant? mess sergeant,
horseehoer and others while the band
Is also carried as part of this com
pany. The supply company consists
of the men In charge and one wag
oner for each wagon. There are
twenty-two wagons authorized for the
Eighth. The machine gun company
which has the two guns, Is composed
of llfty-two men. The City Grays'
armory will be a pretty busy place
because those organizations will have
to drill and to undergo Inspection and
there will also have to be considerable
property like the wagons stored some
place. In time probably more in
fantry companies will be located here
and there may also be a branch of the
artillery arm or maybe an engineer
company. The National Guard is shy
three engineer companies and with
the steel works, railroad shops and
similar establishments here there
ought to be little trouble forming such
an organization in this city or Steel
ton If needed. "When the five com
panies are definitely settled It will put
Harrlsburg in line for a very substan
tial appropriation for a new btate
armory. ,
The baseball games are taking a
good many men away from their
places of business these afternoons
and there are some amusing collis
ions between partners, masters and
men and others who do not tell each
other where they are going. Yester
day one man called up his place of
business and asked for his right arm.
Mr. Right Arm had just stepped out.
Then he called for his left arm. He
had just "gone to the station to meet
a friend." He called for a third man
and he had been "taken ill." Finally
he asked for himself and the loyal,
lucky fellow at the other end of the
wire responded: "Why, ho was just
here a minute ago. He has just gone
out."
• • •
This Is the time of the year when
the youngsters are being taken out on
rambles and hikes and when they are
getting close to nature and learning
more about the birds and animals
and the trees and plants than they do
at any time of the year. The young
sters are apt to ask a good many
I questions and It happens that a
couple of young women who are
teachers in planning a ramble took
some forethought and marched squads
to Boyd Rothrock's collection of birds
and animals and reptiles and bugs in
the State Museum and there let the
youngsters become familiar with their
appearance and fire questions with g
some one In range to help if they be
came too Involved.
* • •
The manner in which the Cen
tral Iron and Steel company has come
up out of Its difficulties has attracted
much attention throughout the coun
try and there are many inquiries being
made about the company and what it
has' been able to accomplish. Its
steel production and tonnage of plates
have been running close to records.
• • •
Auditor General A. W. Powell, who
is adjutant of the Tenth infantry, will
rejoin his regiment to-night In Pitts
burgh. The captain was granted a
furlough to enable him to attend to
State tax settlements and the time is
up to-night. • He said when he came
back that he would be willing to wag
er that his regiment would be home
before his furlough ended. He won.
T WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Col. C. C. Allen, who commands
the First infantry, is a United States
army officer on leave.
—Judge J. W. Ray, of Greene coun
ty courts, has been taking some auto
mobile tours of the southern coun
ties according to the newspapers.
—Judge Charles lj. Brown, of the
Philadelphia municipal court, will be
the speaker on juvenile court work
when the State Federation of Women's
clubs begins Its sessions In Philadel
phia.
—Charlqs M. Schwab gave $50,000
to the big Bethlehem bridge project.
—Ex-Senator Charles A. Ambler
will give a dinner to Northern Mont
gomery Republican leaders this
month.
[ DO YOU KNOW fi
That Harrlsburg book binding
machinery Is in use in the big
gest publishing houses in the
land?
HISTORIC HARRKISBURG
It took three months for the offic
ial proceedings to put Harrlsburg on
the map to be consummated.
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