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FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20,
If we find but one to whom we can
speak out our hearts freely, with whom
we can walk in love and simplicity with
out dissimulation, we have no ground
for (juarrels with the world or with God.
— STEVENSON.
THE HIGH SCHOOL LOAN
ONE thousand one hundred and
forty-eight boys and girls
crowded into a school building
having a capacity for not more than
600!
That is the situation at Central
High.
If a family finds itself too big for
the old home, it moves into a larger
house. If a businessman is in hasty
need for more room and equipment
he goes straightway and borrows
the money to buy it. That is what
the people should do to meet the High
School situation. Every businessman
worth the name borrows to meet his
needs. Schwab, for instance. Is one
of the heaviest borrowers in the
country. He borrows to build. We
are asked to do the same for the sake
of the boys and girls who have a
right to expect of Harrlsburg the kind
of education that other cities give
their young people. Good business
demands that we comply.
It Is hard enough to gather funds for
Wilson's campaign without having dif
ficulty In finding a committee to do the
soliciting.
HARRLSBURG AND OTHERS
THE Saturday Evening Post com
ments at length on the growing
debts of American cities. It
points out that In 1903 the indebted
ness of 146 of the 204 cities of the
country of over 30,000 population, of
which the government has record,
was almost exactly the same as that
of the nation —a little under a billion
dollars. In 1915 it was two and a
quarter billion dollars. Population of
the cities In that period increased
thirty-eight per cent., while debt in
creased a hundred and forty per cent.,
now standing at seventy-eight dollars
a head of their population.
"Undoubtedly," says the Post, "a
great part of this borrowed money
was spent for valuable public im
provements and represents a wise in
vestment. Undoubtedly, also, there is
considerable waste. And no city has
anything to waste. Broadly speak
ing, the American city is one of the
most poverty-stricken institutions
known to man generally living Just
on the bread line, without a spare
dollar to its name. And in many
cases citizens must take the expendi
ture of their money mostly on faith.
They have not the means of knowing
whether it was economically expended
or not."
Harrlsburg, fortunately, is not one
of those to which tho Post's very
proper criticisms apply. Our public
improvement loans have been so
wisely expended that our assets far
more than balance the liabilities in
curred. Our balance is heavily on
the right side of the ledger. Our
parks are worth double and triple
what we paid for them. The paving
laid In recent years would cost twice
as much now—the same applies to our
filter plant, creek improvements,
sanitary dam, interceptor sewer, river
wall, and to everything in which either
material or labor has entered. In
every case we have got more for our
money than it would buy at this time.
But that is not all. We have mate
rially reduced the bonded Indebted
ness created for the purpose of mak
ing the Improvements named and In
some cases have wiped it out en
tirely.
Most of this successful financing
and contracting, bo it remembered,
was done under the old system of
government, which the Clark act
knocked out and since which time
Harrlsburg's city government has
been slowly, but surely, retrograding.
When a man tells you he is a "Cleve
land Democrat," he Is serving notice
that he Is going to vote for Hughes.
"AND SO FORTH"
GIVING his reasons for thinking—
or, at any rate, for saying—
that Wilson will bo re-elected,
Chairman Vance McCormick claims
the 'lndependent vote" for the Presi
dent. He seeks to fortify this claim
by a list of fifteen men and women
who, he says, answer the description.
After naming them he says, "Ac."
The list Itself is of small conse
quence. In it are two women, neither
of whom lives In & State where presi
dential suffrage prevails, and at least
FRIDAY EVENING, ITARRISBITRG TEXEGPJVPH OCTOBER 20, 1916.'
four known Democrats. But the "&c."
If of real interest.
"And so forth," Is, In fact, the main
Democratic reliance this year. When
a Democrat is asked to recount some
of the reasons why the Democratic
party should be retained in power, he
generally starts oft with an enumer
ation of the legislative exploits of the
Wllsonized Congress. He names the
tariff law, the federal banking act,
the rural credits act, both of which
latter had Republican origins and
which owe their only good features to
Republican wisdom, and then says,
"And so forth."
Behind "and so forth" lurk all the
petty politics, the hatred of business
success, the sectionalism, the narrow
ness, the greed and the sordldne3s
which have characterized the chief
events of the Democratic party record
In the last three years and a half.
"And so forth" means the taxing of
the industrious and thrifty
North for the benefit of
tho shiftless and Imprudent South.
"And ap forth" means the Investment
of millions of public money in en
terprises which will come in direct
competition with Individual inltiatve
and which cannot be made profitable
under government control. "And so
forth" means the creating of thou
sands of unnecessary offices to be filled
with "deserving Democrats" who get
into place without having to run the
gauntlet of the civil service examin
ation. "And so forth" means our na
tional humiliation, the murder of our
citizens on the sea, in Mexico; yes,
even on our own soil.
"And so forth" means the whole
shameful record of the last three
years, which the Democrats are so
anxious to have the country over
look, but which the country is deter
mined to bring to an end. "And BO
forth" may be a useful phrase for
Democratic managers who are trying
to hoodwink somebody—but when
election day comes, the Democratic
party will know how the voters feel
about Mr. Wilson "and BO forth."
Another large, beautiful rainbow was
to be seen yeßterday morning at Demo
cratic headquarters.
OUTRAGEOUS FALSEHOOD
THE outrageous tactics and the
Bhameful falsehood to which
Democratic campaign speakers
have been put in their attempt to
Justify President Wilson's course in
Mexico has not been better exemplified
than by tho outburst of Secretary of
War Baker on Monday night, when
he said:
Washington's Continentals were
like the Mexican revolutionists to
day. They stole everything they
could lay their hands on and drove
ministers from their churches on
their march to Valley Forge. They
were Just as bad characters as the
Mexicans.
Girard, in the Philadelphia Public
Ledger, takes Baker sharply to task
for his slanderous attack upon a body
of patriots whose zeal, sacrifice and
devotion to the principles of liberty
and humanity have never been sur
passed in the world's history, and
seldom equaled. The Ledger's gifted
writer points out that Baker could
not have gathered his information
even from the history of the American
people written by Woodrow Wilson,
who pays therein a fine tribute to the
Revolutionary Army, and he quotes
the following from the address of
Washington to Congress on April
21, 1778:
Without arrogance or the small
est deviation from truth, it may be
said that no history now extant can
furnish an instance of an army's
suffering such uncommon hard
ships as ours has done, and bear
ing them with the same patience
and fortitude. To see men without
clothes to cover their nakedness,
without blankets to lie on. without
shoes for the want of which their
marches might be traced by the
blood from their feet, and almost as
often without provisions as with
them, marching through the frost
and snow and at Christmas taking
their winter quarters within a
day's march of the enemy without a
house or hut to cover them till they
could be built, and submitting with
out a murmur, is a proof of patience
and obedience which, In my opinion,
can scarce be paralleled.
And if that is not enough to satisfy
this traducer of American patriotism,
Girard proceeds to quote from the
writings of the illustrous Dr. Ramsey,
than whom there has been no more
reliable writer on the American revo
lution, he having lived through that
period and having been a keen and
accurate observer of men and events.
It was Dr. Ramsey who wrote:
The American army might have
been tracked by the blood of their
feet in marching without shoes or
stockings over the hard frozen
ground between Whitemarsh and
Valley Forge. Some hundreds of
them were without blankets.
All about these men, who camped
cold and on the verge of starvation
at Valley Forge, lay fertile farm land.
Farm houses and small settlements
were within striking distance. Some
o!f these contributed generously to
the continental soldiers, but In no case
has there come down to us the record
of a Revolutionary Boldier robbing
one of those Americans whose rights
he had taken up arms to defend.
But this attack upon the heroes of
the Revolution, false and outrageous
though it be, is itself of small conse
quence. They will live in the memories
of the people long after the peurlle
Mr. Baker has been forgotten. That
we have at the head of our national
defenses a man who has no more re
gard for the traditions of his country
and the reputation of its fighting
forces than to call them murderers,
looters of churches and bloodthirsty
bandits—that is the important thing.
We are asked to be patient with the
President, to believe in his patriotism,
to support his policies. How can any
American with red blood in his veins
bellevo in a President whose right
hand man is one who likens the men
who fought Bide by side with Wash
ington to Mexican desperadoes? If
we accept that as true, wo must be
lieve that Washington was no better
than Carranza or Villa.
To-morrow Is Armenian and Syrian
rllef day. Think how you would feel
if your wife or children were cold and
hungry—and a-t accordingly.
Princeton's straw vote stood 138 in
favor of Hughes. They must know
President Wilson pretty well down
thera.
The Days of Real Sport By BRIGGS J
F oh w II
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I By the Ei-Oorcunltteeman
Republican state candidates con
tinued their swing through tho north
ern counties yesterday and to-day are
touring Lackawanna county, where
they are speaking in a number of the
boroughs and will address a big meet
ing to-night under the auspices of the
Lackawanna county Republican com
mittee. It will be the first big meeting
In Scranton and Is expected to be
notable, as all of the Republican can
didates have many friends in that dis
trict.
To-morrow the Republican state
candidates will be in Philadelphia and
will make addresses. They will also
meet with State Chairman Crow at
State headquarters. The reports they
have received are all distinctly favor
able.
Next week's schedule includes Belle
fonte on Tuesday for the whole party,
although on Monday candidates will
make speeches at different places. The
whole party will be in Harrlsburg on
Wednesday and on the 26th the state
candidates will be In Lebanon, Philan
der C. Knox, who speaks in this city
Wednesday, going that night to In
diana county, where he will speak on
Thursday.
Thursday night the party will go to
Blair county and spend Friday in that
district, and on the 28th will tour
Fayette county, Mr. Knox being the
speaker at the Uniontown rally.
Schuylkill county will be toured on
October 30. '
—Senator Beldleman, Congressman
Butler and others were speakers at the '
big Republican rally at Honeybrook '
yesterday. T. L. Kyre was also on the 1
platform.
—The commissioners to take the ! '
vote of the soldiers were to-day sum- I 1
moned to appear here on Tuesday to 1
take the oath of office. They will then 1
be given their supplies and start for 1
the border as soon as possible.
—Bucks county's Republican organ
izntion is making an energetic cam- 1
paign and meetings are being held
nightly in the county. Election of Re- 1
publican legislators is expected, i
—lndications are that there will be
a big Republican vote in the Cumber
land-Perry-Juniata-Mifflin district and
that Senator Franklin Martin will he
re elected by a substantial majority.
The people of the district have declined <
to take Scotty Leiby seriously as a 1
candidate against Mr. Martin.
Congressman D. F. T-afean Is mak
ing nightly speeches in York county in
behalf of the Republican ticket and
looks for a big vote in that, district.
—According to the latest discoveries
In municipal affairs in Philadelphia,
there is a "Joker" In an ordinance
which permits the appointment of an
unlimited number of street Inspectors,
which is quite valuable around election .
time.
—President Wilson will be greeted
by a large committee of representative
Democrats when he comes to this city
to-night to spend ten minutes. The
Hughes visit here was too much for
the Democrats and they Insisted that
the President stop here and If possible
stay longer than Hughes did In Harris
burg. The President will arrive at 6.45
and the bands and all the Democrats
will be out.
—Mayor Smith and Congressman
Scott will make speeches In Mont
gomery county to-night.
—Allegheny county's campaign Is
eoing forward pretty rapidly and it is
believed that the county will return all
Republicans for Congress, State Senate
and Legislature and give a big ma
jority fr national and state tickets in
spite of Democratic claims to the con
trary.
—The Democratic windmill on Mar
ket Square is a rather lonely place
compared to what It was in the days
of the 1912 campaign, when they were '
going to give Wilson Pennsylvania and
did not. Then there were meetings
and all sorts of things going on. Now
the state chairman only gets here
every now and then, and Federal
officeholders shun the place, probably
for fear of being "Invited" to con
tribute.
Short Tariff Speech
"Glrard" In the Philadelphia Ledger
gives this tariff speech in tabloid form:
Tho H. K. Mulford Company sends
out In a year millions of little glass
tubes filled with things to prevent or
cure slcknoss.
Before the war these glass tubes
came from Germany, but now the
Mulford company makes them 'ln Its
own newly built factory.
"We' pay our employes," Mr. Mul
ford said to me, "about four times the
wages Germans receive for the same
work."
But the medicines and serums which
come In these tubes cost you no more
In an American glass than in a Ger
man glass.
Query: "Would it be wise or unwise
to keep these 400 Americans at work
after the war by a law that would pro
tect them from German competition?"
1 EDITORIAL COMMENT 1
"Kept us out of war!" cried Colonel
Roosevelt scornfully. "If tho Wilson
administration could point to one sac
rifice Ihls nation has made for the
right, to one Indication of willingness
to face loss on behalf of a principle,
it might deserve some credit. • •
If we had done what we ought to have
done our neutrality would have been a
badge of honor and not one of shame."
Strong words, but does not every
American who loves his country and
knows its traditions share Colonel
Roosevelt's honest Indignation?— New
lork Sun.
Now that Mr. Hughes has given his
views on the eight-hour law. some labor
leaders are doubtless glad he is no
longer on the Supreme Bench. Des
Moines Register and Leader.
Tell the readers of The Associated
Press that I have smoked French to
bacco for forty-five years.—Premier
Kalogeropoulos. These Balkan people
have strong constitutions.—New York
World.
John Bull doesn't claim to own tho
ocean, but he seems to think he has
leased It for a while.—Charleston News
and Courier.
Why Hughes ?
Prof, Roland G. Usher does not re
veal himself as more than a rather
grudging and unwilling supporter of
Mr. Hughes in his statement of "The
Case for Mr. Hughes," in the current
issue of the New Republic, but he
marshals the reasons that are going to
actuate that great body of voters who
are going to vote for the Republican
electors on November 7 for reasons
apart from traditional party loyalty.
With Mr. Usher the question seems to
be, not which candidate and party he
prefers, but which can best be trusted
to deal with the great administrative
problems of the next four years.
These he properly summarizes as pre
paredness, military and industrial, and
reform of the Administration; and he
prefers to see this work in the hands
of the Republican leaders for two con
vincing reasons; that the Republican
leaders are, man for man, abler and
incomparably more experienced, and
because their belief in the expediency
of strengthening the army and navy,
of reforming the Federal Administra
tion and of securing something resem
bling Industrial co-operation "is of
long standing and is not, like that of
the Democrats, a reluctant and grudg
ing response to a popular demand."
Imagine for a moment the absurdity
of Intrusting the protection of Ameri
can industry, in the commercial crisis
that is bound to follow peace, to men
who only yesterday regarded free
trade or a tariff for revenue only al
most in the light of a religious dogma!
No less fatal will it be to put Into the
hands of a pronounced pacifist, or a
man who "doubts the need of any
navy at all," the task of upbuilding
the army and navy. These are only a
few of the many reasons that can be
adduced for preferring Hughes and a
Republican Congress to President Wil
son and the Democratic party, but
they are reasons that should appeal
with tremendous force to the common
sense of the nation. Recent converts
to a national policy may bo vocal In
their assertions of faith In new doc
trines espoused for reasons of political
expediency, but a farseeing and pru
dent people will prefer to see the di
rection of affairs in the hands of those
whose faith is more firmly rooted and
whose record of devotion is cut deep In
the history of the country.—Evening
Ledger.
The Real Friends of Labor
Colonel Roosevelt's message to the
workingmen of the antnracite region
at Wllkes-Barre was one which will
have to be taken to heart by the
laborers of the nation If they hope for
a realization of the dream of a per
manent settlement of the relation be
tween employers and employed on a
basis of justice and humanity. It may
be that the real force and meaning of
that message, delivered with the di
rectness and earnestness that are so
characteristic of the speaker, may be
obscured for the moment by tjie pas
sions of partisanship. But the posi
tion which Colonel Roosevelt, In com
mon with Mr. Hughes, has taken on
the great Issue created by the Adam
son law Is bound In the end to com
mend Itself to the sense of Justice of
the American worklngmen. They
must realize that the true friends of
labor are not the cringing politicians
who are willing to yield to the menace
of force In order to win a temporary
political advantage without Inquiry
into the Justice of the course they
pursue under duress. They are wise
enough to understand that no arbi
trary adjustment of wage disputes,
effected by compulsion and without
regard to the underlying conditions,
is going to be permanently advant
ageous to the workers, and they will
see this when they shall have had
time to review the situation apart
from the passions of the moment,
when they shall have escaped from
the Illusions and deceptions of a
great political campaign. The
' Philadelphia Public Ledger.
GIRL WITH FIVE MILLION
TURNS BACK ON SOCIETY
WHAT would you do if you were
a woman with five million dol-
lars? asks Margaret Moore
Marshall in the New York World, and
continues:
You might buy a steam yacht or an
Italian prince. You might aspire to
the title of diamond queen. You
might, If old and weary, plunge on
futures by becoming a noted philan
thropist. You might spend your time
devising new ways for your heirs to
escape the payment of an Inheritance
tax.
Women of wealth have tested all
these methods of spending time and
money. But there's one thing which
few wbmen of wealth have done; one
thing I fear you, newly rich, would not
do. You would not earn your own
living; you would not work as steadily,
as laboriously, as successfully as if—
you had to.
Yet Frances Nash is adopting that
very course. Which is one of the rea
sons why Frances Nash is a person
worth knowing.
There are other interesting details.
Miss Nash is the daughter and the
heiress of the late E. W. Nash, presi
dent of the American Smelting and
Refining Company, known as the
smelting trust. Miss Nash is said to
be worth a mere five million dollars in
her own right. Miss Nash is a young
and attractive woman. Yet she has
chosen the arduous career of a profes
sional musician, and she made her
first New York appearance at a piano
recital in Aeolian Hall the other after
noon.
"So Stupid to Be Idle"
X was sure that I knew why Miss
Nash wants to work. But I was almost
equallv sure that her manner of spend
ing her life would completely mystify
ever so many American women and
men. Therefore, when I saw Miss Nash
in her home at 506 Madison avenue,
the first question T put to her was,
"Why do you do it?"
"Why do I work?" she repeated, a
bit impatiently. "I suppose it's be
cause I like it so much, because in my
work I find self-expreesion. I don't
see that having money has anything
to do with the matter. Nobody In the
world, who is well, has a right to loaf.
Every man, every woman, ousht to do
something, to have some definite aim.
for the good of his or her soul. Be
sides, it's so stupid to be idle."
Miss Nash spoke in a low, shy voice
and she looked shy. A slim young
Westerner, with blue eyes and corn
colored hair, there is something singu
larly unspoiled about her. She is
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR"I
Every Safe a Germ Killer
To tin Editor of the Telegraph: ,
I have been thinking many times to
day, do they ever test money for germs?
I should say that millions of microbes
collect on the paper money being han
dled daily by sick and well persons
from one to the other and think some
notoriety should be given on this sub
ject. A suggestion I would offer would
be to have the banks and all places
where money is handled or kept in
vaults or safes to keep a crock or con
tainer holding formaldehyde in the com
partments, making a sterilizer out of
every safe when closed for the night.
The stores could Join In on a move
ment of this kind. I want to say that
hundreds of lives would unquestionably
be saved by this means. There are
many diseases carried with paper
money, to my estimation, and a nation
wide campaign to make sterilizers out
of every money safe should be started.
Germs would be killed over night. It
Is simple, cheap and can be done. Who
shall start this In Harrlsburg? Let
the Telegraph come out at once as a
suggestion to the banks and I am cer
tainly sure it will meet with success
and consent of the health authorities.
This is one of the neglected dlscase
breaders, so let's get busy.
If this thing Is done Telegraph way
I don't see any reason that the Treas
ury Department in Washington would
not spread this over the United States.
J. B. U
Paper Still Soaring
"In view of the high price of labor,
coal, chemical and mechanical pulp,
and wood pulp," states a bulletin of
the News-Print Manufacturers' Asso
ciation, dated October 7, "It is quite
evident that such advances in price
will be asked on renewal of contracts
for the year 1917 as would have been
deemed unreasonable six months ago.
The pulp wood situation 1a Canada is
utterly devoid of either opulent or pro
fessional arrogance. She is a phe
nomenal artist in one respect at least
—she shows more interest In ideas
than in personalities.
"How long have you been working?"
I asked.
Studied In Berlin
"Four years," she replied. "I re
ceived most of my professional train
ing in Germany. I should have stayed
there longer, but my family became
alarmed. They had visions of me be
ing eaten up by the Russians. So I
came home. I hope to be in New York
for several weeks now, and after that
I shall tour the country."
Miss Nash played twice in Cleveland
last year with the New York Philhar
monic Orchestra, and this winter she
is to appear with the Boston Symphony
Orchestra.
"How long do you practice?" I in
quired.
"Five hours a day," she replied.
"Ono can't accomplish anything in less
time. Of course there isn't oppor
tunity for much else. I live outdoors
and I ride a great deal. I am pas
sionately fond of dancing as an art: I
really consider it the greatest of arts,
though I suppose I shouldn't say that.
But I don't do social dancing."
"You dislike society?"
"It would be rather silly and affected
to say that, wouldn't it?" Miss Nash
answered. "My friends consider me a
recluse, but that's only because I must
save my strength for my work."
Then she went on:
Ilurd for tlic It loh Girl
"It is harder, not easier, for a rich
woman to do worth while work than it
is for a poor one. In the first place,
there is the lack of incentive always
present with the economic pinch. In
the second place, the rich girl's friends
and family are pulling at her con
stantly, urging her to give up. The re
verse Is the case with the poor girl.
Then, finally, if the rich girl achieves
any measure of success there are al
ways those who will credit her with
having bought it Instead of earned it.
"I like fun and good times, just as
any sane woman likes them. But,
frankly, T should be bored to death if :
I had nothing in my life except 'so- I
ciety' affairs. It seems to me that
parties and gayeties are like dessert,
a little goes a long way. Ice cream
and candy are delicious, once in a
while, but who wants to live on them?
"Honestly, though," Miss Nash
added, "I can't see that I'm doing any
thing remarkable. In society it usod
to be singular If one had an occu
pation, but now so many women are
working who could afford to be Idle."
particularly menacing and ominous.
Mills which were paying SIB.OO and
$26.00 a month with board to ordi
nary workmen In the woods last year
are now competing with ono another
for an adequate supply of this sort,
and are offering anywhere from $55
to S6O per month with board, and
camps in many cases are not supplied
with a full complement of men> There
Is every probability that the cost of
pulp wood will advance very sharply
this year as compared with the pulp
wood costs of the past, but the chief
source of worry will not be the high
cost of pulp wood, but the possibility
that the mills may not be able to se
cure a sufficient supply to provide for
their requirements during the whole
of the year of 1917."
Our Daily Laugh
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From the best Information obtain**
able by the State Game Commission,
it appears that no one will win the
reward of SI,OOO for a passenger
pigeon as the result of a flock o£
pigeons alighting on a farm in War
ren county. For years there has been
a standing reward for the famous
pigeons which were blown out to sea
and lost. The information came here
a few days ago that a flock which A
resembled the long lost birds had *
alighted on a farm in the northern
county and experts were sent post
haste to examine them. The reports
coming here are that the birds were
not of the passenger variety, but
something very much like it. Fop
years there have been periodical dis
coveries of pigeons, but when they;
have been looked over they liave been
found to be something else. The re
ward of $2,000 for a pair has been
standing for years at Washington.
• * *
From all accounts Pennsylvania is
In danger of losing its proud place
as the leading raiser of buckwheat in
the nation. The reports coming to
the Capitol indicate that the crop this
year will run between 75 and 77 per
cent, of last year. Tho yield last year
was 5,540,000 bushels. This buck
wheat was eaten in cakes the length
and breadth of the land and in
Canada.
• • •
No action has been taken as yet by;
the State's military authorities re
garding the uniforms of the Gover
nor's staff. The Indications are that
an order designating a uniform dif
ferent from that of the United States
army will be issued, but that it will
be of a rather severe military type
without much gold lace or braid. Tho
staff now wears the same uniform as
the army staff and the disposition is
to simplify it.
• • •
A good many people in Harrisburg
are talking about the speech made by
Dr. Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer, tha
Philadelphia historian, at the meeting
of the State D. A. R. conference. The
remarks struck a responsive chord in
many parts of the State and found
quite an echo from Harrisburg, es
pecially from Capitol Hill. Dr. Ober
holtzer, like Governor Brumbaugh,
wants more attention given to the
historical importance of Pennsyl
vania.
"Our country from end to end," ha
remarked, "has an exaggerated notion
of the part New England played in
the Revolution, and too small an
opinion of what was done in Pennsyl
vania and Philadelphia.
"Possibly we Pennsylvanlans didn't
write so well as the New Englanders.
Possibly we were more modest In
matters of this kind. But there will
never be a better time than now to
let the world know just what we did." l
• * *
A good story is being told about
some Scranton men who came hero
a few evenings ago on some business
at the State Capitol. It seems that
they got chilled near Sunbury and
got off the train at that place. Tho
train did not wait for them and
started off with their overcoats and
grips. After some excitement they
decided to beat the old train anyway.
They hired the fastest automobile in
Sunbury and raced the train. From
all accounts it was neck and neck and,
the Scranton men had their over
coats before they went to bed.
• •
Wilmer Johnson, of the commis
sion of the State Department, has
just finished one of the biggest taqks -
that has fallen to him in the finest #
way. Mr. Johnson makes out tha
commissions for men appointed to
everything from Public Service Com
missioner to Justices of the Peace,
There are forms for some of them
but it happens that there were no
forms for the commissioners to taka
the votes of the soldiers on the Bor
der. So all had to be written out on
parchment in an-Old English script
which takes hours and hours. It was
done in India ink and there is not tha
difference of a pen stroke in the wholo
seventeen. It was a long Job, but tha
results have attracted much atten
tion.
• • •
Ex-Senator William M. Meredith, o(
Kittanning, who was here yesterday
on business at the Capitol takes pride
in telling how he voted for Quay
ninety days for Senator. The Sena
tor spent some time at the Capitol,
meeting old friends.
• • •
The State Association of Real
Estate men which will be held at the
Capitol next Tuesday will be a notable
gathering of men active in land ipter
i ests in the State and some of the ad
dresses, notably by men who have been
in that field in the big cities,
| will be well worth hearing. H. P.
Haas, the president of tho National
Association, who is a member of tho
Pittsburgh board, will be one of tha
men on the program.
* * *
Ueutenant-Governor Frank B. Mc
Clain is a hard man to "get away
[ with" on pleas at the State Board of
Pardons. Tho other day an attorney
i was eloquently declaring that a man
should be pardoned because of his
relations.
"This man," said he, "comes from
an excellent family. Why, T know
j his people—they are fine people."
"How about him?" cluntly asked
" Mr. McClain.
. "Well, he —well, his family Is fine'*
—began the lawyer again.
"Yes, I have known some fine cows
! in our country to have bad calves,"
[ replied the man from the garden
| county of the nation.
' W&L KNOWN PEOPLE \
r —■ ———————
1 —Charlemagne Tower may remova
from Philadelphia to Wateryllle, N. Yy'
j! —The Rev. Dr. Asa S. Ferry who
„ Is stirring up Philadelphia police, lives
in West Philadelphia and is a Presby
terian clergyman.
—Captain S. R. McKamish, of
Pittsburgh, active In Guard affairs for
years, has resigned from the First
Artillery.
—C. Laßue Munson, the Williams
port lawyer, is at the seashore for &
brief rest.
—Dr. J. P. Garber, superintendent
of Philadelphia schools, says that tha
enrollment of 202,000 scholars this
year Is the largest ever known in that
city.
—Oliver P. Bohler, the new presi
dent of the State School Directors,
has long been active In such matters
in Philadelphia. '
[ DO YOU KNOW 1
Tliat Harrisburg manufactures
steel for making chisels?
HISTORIC HARRISIURG
John Harris' house was the council
place for colonial officials and Indian
chiefs before the French and Indiai*
war.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrlsbur* Rotary Club and thel*
answers as presented at the orcanls**
tlon's annual "Municipal Qui*."]
What Is the purpose of the City ON
flclal Plot?
It definitely fixes the of i
present and future highways of the I
eitx. I