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MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23
The sweetest music is not in ora
tories, but in the human voice when
it speaks from its instant life tones of
tenderness, truth and courage.
— EMERSON.
THE NEW INDUSTRIAL HOME
HARRISBURG'S charltes keep
pace With the growth of the city.
The latest development along
this line is the plan of a number of
influential men of the city to provide
proper quarters for the over-worked
and over-crowded Children's Industrial
Home.
Laboring under the heavy handicap
of a building far too small for its
needs and ill-suited from the very
first, the Industrial Home has made
a splendid record. Hundreds of men
and women in all walks of life once
called it home. Scores of little folks
find refuge there who otherwise would
not have where to lay their heads.
From the highways and the byways
they come, from homes of discord and
from others where death has enter
ed all of them penniless and help
less, and all of them made welcome
and sheltered and succored until able
to care for themselves.
It Is a great and good work the In
dustrial Home has done and is doing,
but what it has done will be as noth
ing when compared with the oppor
tunities for service that will lie before
it when it is situated in the country,
surrounded by broad fields and rolling
hills and with its cottages ranged
about a main building. There the
little ones will have a taste of real
home life and there they will grow
up to useful manhood and woman
hood amid surroundings ideal for
mental, moral and bodily develop
ment.
For this purpose Harrisburg peo
ple will be asked to give and it is
easy to foresee that the fund neces
sary will not be hard to raise.
Not many farmers will fail to under
hand that the high prices they have
•been getting for their products are due
'to the demand created by the war of
Europe. In a ten months' period be
fore the war began, we exported $132,-
000,000 worth of breadstuffs and oats,
but In a corresponding ten months, with
the war in full swing, we exported the
same commodities to the value of $366,-
000,000.
KREIDER AND EIGHT HOURS
CONGRESSMAN KREIDER ex
plained very clearly to a party of
railroad men the other evening
where he stood on the Adamson eight
hour bill. He had been accused of be
ing unfriendly to labor because he
voted against that measure. He ex
plained by saying that he was perfectly
■willing to vote for the bill had It pro
vided an eight-hour day for all rail
road men. He introduced and heartily
eupported an amendment making the
measure take in all classes of railroad
employes, and It was because he felt
that the track hands, the shopmen,
the clerks and others were just as de
ter\lng of the short day as the higher
paid trainmen that ho refused to vote
J for the bill.
This is perfectly reasonable. The
President is posing as the friend of
labor because he forced this measure
through Congress. It takes in only
about 400,000 trainmen. He cquld just
as well have pushed through a law
xuaklng eight hours the legal working
period for all railroad employes. If he
believes, as he has said, that the eight
hour principle is right, why did he not
see to it that all railroad men were
included?
An enthusiastic supporter of the
President calls his speeches "pearls."
Yes. They are pearls of great price—
paid for at the cost of the national
prestige.
THAT HUGHES COLLEGE 1.EA(,1 E
r I "'HAT Hughes College League, an
active branch of which has been
organized in Harrisburg, has
given an awful jolt to those Wilson
supporters who foolishly Imagined be
cause their candidate was once a col
lege president all college men would
vote for him. The local newspaper
organ of the Democratic party, which
,knows better but will not admit it,
(complains bitterly because the rolls
fOt th organisation here "are filled
With old grads separated by long years
ffrom the atmosphere of the classroom
iand the instruction of the profes
,ors.'' Laying aside the thought that
wisdom Increases with the years and
that at all events both young gradu
ates and "old grads" make up the
membership of the Harrisburg Hughes
alliance, how does our Wilson defend
(•r make Its claims of the young col
lege man for Wilson gee up with the
jC&ct that straw votes ot U the men
MONDAY EVENING,
at both Harvard and Princeton, the
latter Wilson's own Institution, have
been heavily In favor of Hughes?
Commenting upon the President's
campaign of oratory, the Springfield
Republican, which Is supporting him,
makes this rather dismal observation:
"It is true, also, that if a President's
record in office will not re-elect him. no
amount of speech-making will save
him."
GOMPERS' FOOLISH ATTEMPT
THE foolish attempt of Gompers
to deliver the entire lubor \ote
of the United States to Presi
dent Wilson has failed, as anybody
conversant with American history and
acquainted with the American view
point knew it would. No one man
can swing the whole labor vote of the
United States, just as no one man or
group of men can swing the whole
capitalistic vote of the country. Gom
pers cannot handle the bulk of the
laboring men any more than Rocke
feller can command the votes of a ma
jority of rich men.
Take Harrisburg for example. Dem
ocrats right here at home are telling
us that Wilson is the worklngman's
friend and that Hughes is supported
by capital. Yet a group of the wealth
iest men in Harrisburg are openly
for Wilson and one of the very richest
men in town —a man whose \money
was made mainly by exploiting the
laboring man—ls one of the most ac
tive Wilson men in the country.
The truth is that Americans are
Americans first and workingmen and
capitalists second. Thousands of rich
men will vote for Wilson and thou
sands more for Hughes. Millions of
laboring men will vote for Wilson and
millions more for Hughes. The man
who tries to range class against class in
this country does so to gratify per
sonal ambitions and to accomplish sel
fish ends. He is a dangerous influence.
What a grand President Wilson
would have been if lie had done all the
things he promised and had not done
most of the other things he did do.
"HE KEPT US OUT OF WAR"
WITH this Biogan, the Wilson
propagandists hope to further
deceive the American people.
But just when the rallying cry was
being worked to the limit along comes
official admissions which knock the
slogan Into a cocked hat. First, the
Judge Advocate General of the United
States Army, In the pursuance of his
duty, declares that even now a state
of war exists with Mexico "by reason
of the fact that the United States is
prosecuting its rights by force of
arms and In a manner In which war
is usually conducted." And on top
of this important ruling the State De
partment admits "a constructive state
of war, in which the United States Is
involved, exists In Mexico."
Disconcerting, of course, for the
"kept us out of war patriots" who
calmly ignore the fact that President
Wilson made the memorial address
on the return of our dead from Vera
Cruz, that he ordered Pershing and
his men into Mexico, where they are
at this hour; that there Is a large
army of volunteers on the Mexican
border while their wives and children
are wondering why; that Captain
Boyd and his brave troopers gave up
their lives at Carrizal, and other In
cidents of a similar nature disproving
the "Kept-us-out-of-war" theory.
No occupant of the Whte House has
ever attempted before to so flagrantly
misuse the power of his great office
for the gratification of his own am
bition. Thousands of patriotic Demo
crats have already turned to Charles
Evans Hughes ns the only person to
stop the further humiliation oi the
American people.
The frost is on the pumpkin, and the
frosting is on the pumpkin pie.
BETHLEHEM'S EXAMPLE
THROUGH the co-operation of the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation the
board of education at. South
Bethlehem has decided to add a four
year industrial course to those which
now go to make up the curriculum of
the high school..
Under the plan agreed upon the
students taking the industrial course
will spend part of each day in the
various departments of the great
plant gaining practical knowledge. In
this way the high school boys will
obtain both theory and practice.
Thus the boys will remain in school
while they are actually apprentices in
the big steel plant and receiving
wages. What has been done at South
Bethlehem is also possible here. At
the Steelton plant of Mr. Schwab's
corporation should be similar oppor
tunities for the students of Technical
High School of Harrisburg and we
have no doubt a conference between
Quincy Bent, the directing head at
Steelton, and the local school officials
would result in a like admirable ar
rangement.
Such a plan would equip many of
the Tech students for responsible posi
tions Immediately upon graduation
and still further enhance the value of
their line training at the Walnut street
Institution.
The chestnut blight does not extend
to the prices.
SPEAK UP, MR. MARSHALL 2
CAN It be that the Democratic
campaign managers have put a
muzzle on Vice-President Mar
shall?
Not long since, In Indianapolis, Mr.
Marshall Is quoted as having said:
Did I say "civil service" or "snivel
service?" They both mean the same.
We found the offices guarded by
snivel service, and our only regret
was that we couldn't prv more of
the appointees loose and fill their
places with Democrats. If there is
any office under the Government
that a Democrat can't fill. I believe
that office should be abolished.
The National Civil Service Reform
League, wishing to be in a position
to deny that Mr. Marshall ever gave
voice to such astoundingly undemo
cratic views, sent htm a letter asking
him either to deny the quotation or
that he "take such effective action as
to removb the Impression that you
favor the use of the public service
for private gain and partisan ad
vantage."
Beyond doubt Mr. Marshall said
just what he was quoted as saying.
If he had not he himself would have
been the first to deny It. He Is so
thoroughly lnnoculated with the
spoils virus of the administration
that If left alone he would be ready
enough to affirm the truth of his
speech. That .he remains silent is a
fair Indication that the' Democratic
campaign managers have spanked his
well creased black trousers and put
a muzzle on him for the remainder of
the campaign.
"fo&tfcc* £K
""P t >uvo ufauxuLo,
By the Ex-Committeeman
While Democratic State machine
bosses are sending out appeals to
Democratic jobholders to contribute to
the campaign funds and indulging in
claims that Include even the moon.
Republican campaign work is going
ahead smoothly and with vigor. Ar
rangements are being made for the
closing week of the campaign and
events which will attract national at
tention are to be staged. This week
State candidates will tour the State
and meetings will be held in twenty
seven counties, while county commit
tees will be called together for dis
cussion of campaign work.
The Republican State candidates
will be in Center county to-morrow
for a tour of the county and will
speak In Bellefonte at night. The next
day will be spent In adjoining coun
ties and Wednesday night they will
meet Philander O. Knox In this city at
the big rally. Thursday the Republi
can candidates will be in Blair and
that night Mr. Knox will speak in
Indiana.
In Philadelphia the Republican
committee is arranging for a strenu
ous finish for the campaign. Meetings
will be held in every ward to-morrow
night at which the details will be
worked out. The plans in that city
are for a big rally the final Satur
day of tho campaign with Governor
Brumbaugh as one of the speakers.
The Governor will speak in New
York and vicinity two days the lat
ter part of this week and in New
Jersey next week.
Washington party leaders in Phila
delphia have taken all of the starch
out of the Democrats in eastern
Pennsylvania by issuing an official
appeal to progressives to get busy and
work for Hughes. The call, coupled
with the withdrawal of the State can
didates of the Washington party and
the collapse of Democratic attempts
to work out fusion combinations in
various districts has about demolish
ed the structure of claims put up by
State Chairman Guffey, National Com
mitteeman Palmer and their pals.
—Fred Brenckman, the Carbon
county Progressive, who withdrew as
a candidate for Congress at large on
the Republican ticket, is out in a
statement in which he says he is for
Hughes and will work for him and
wants others to do the same. Mr.
Brenckman is one of the fighting pro
gressives and his statement has added
further discomfort to the Democracv.
—The Democratic State windmill
in Market Square is running at a
pretty slow rate these days as the
Democrats throughout the State do
not appear to realize that it is more
blessed to give then to receive this
year. The days of 1912 when Demo
crats rushed in with contributions,
as was declared at the time, are now
but a fond memory.
—State Chairman Joe Guffev may
have another meeting of the jDemo
cratic State inside committee within
a few da.vs. There are still some
vacancies which must be filled.
—Mifflin county Republicans get
together in good old-fashioned style
at a meeting on Saturday night. The
committeemen were guests of Chair
man Fisher and addresses were made
by Ex-Judge Joseph M. Woods, F. W
Culbertson and others identified with
the party in years gone by, factional
differences being buried. Senator
franklin Martin was given an ovation
and so was Representative G. C. Cor
bin.
One of the liveliest campaigns be
ing waged for a senatorial seat in
iP®. State is in Chester count}', where
William H. Berry and others have
started in to make things warm for
1. U Eyre, the Republican candidate.
Lyre has one of the best organiza
tions he has had In a long time and
his friends say that he will win easily.
—The Philadelphia Public Ledger
to-day prints this interesting storv
, ?l? 0U, Pre,s 'clenfs recent trip
through Pennsylvania and how the
State boss tried to make
thL r. W L SO " play Ponies: "While
the President was on his way through
Pennsylvania Friday Mrs. Wilson
was reluctant to get out on the plat
forms with the President to greet the
crowds. Joseph F. Guffey, acting State
in Pennsylvania, joined the
President at Pittsburgh, and at
Greensburg he said: "Mrs. Wilson I
us P elio°t U J'," * e ' out here and help
us elect a Democratic Congressman
in this district." That brought a
response, -and Mrs. Wilson agreed to
cave the car. Mr. Guffey Repeated
the argument at every succeeding
With 4 i? e same result. Finally
Guffey ugaln expressed the desire u,
assure a Democratic Congressman
district. Mrs. W£n
Mr. Guffey, m don " n vou he ?hfnk : we've
there' arer* ail the Congressmen
An Amazing Apologia
i-v, . [Philadelphia Ledger]
past i°8 r h^ t ' 8 f PrOU<i Position in the
past as head of one of the nation's
foremost institutions of higher educa
tion, andi the respect in which ilia
hither? 8 h" m °. St PUb " C c<uest 'ons have
hitherto been held by a large section
the tl pubfie e r' C ri n Pe ° ple ' alone Juatlf y
the Public Ledger in givinir so nn.h
space in the present Issue to his oxtra
ord nary apology for President Wilson.
nn.i v,i , ) efense of the President
and his policies, for the present em
the tru°th nr 1 SpeClf,cal| y admits
the truth of the most serious indict
ments returned against Mr. Wilson
How then he can ask the American
people to accept his conclusions and
to have sufficient faith to believe with
him that in spite of the blundering
policy and vacillating experimentation
of which he admits the President is
guilty he is still to be trusted' is a
problem to nnswer which would re
quire a psychologist more skilled In
the subtleties of political casuistry than
munities fOU " d m ° St Amerloan co >-
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
{Questions submitted to members ot
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers u presented at the organisa.
lion's annual "Munfclpal Quia."]
Did the City of Harrisburg contribute
anything to the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for an Executive Man
sion?
In 1 fifi4 the City of Harrisburg
appropriated $:0,000.00 to the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania for the
purchase of an Executive Mansion.
This was accepted by the Common
wealth with the understanding that
If the Capital was ever moved from
the city, the Commonwealth would
reimburse the City of HarrisbucA
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR]
Watching the Sunset
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Some citizens and tux-payers are
wondering why the street-cleaning
forces assemble at a given point up-,
town and do nothing but watch the
sunset for three-quarters of an hour.
Twice last week I watched this per
formance or lack of performance which
seems to Indicate the general trend of
things under the present city admin
istration. But the people are not so
blind as they seem.
PEDESTRIAN.
Back to the Fray
[Kansas City Star.]
Comrade George Ade of Armageddon
has the full sympathy and understand
ing of this newspaper. We know Just
how he feels. The Star also marched
with the Progressives as long as there
was anybody left to keep step with, in
the hope, as Mr. Ade says, that we
would ultimately overtake some kind of
a destination. As that hope dwindled
and finally departed, and as the sounds
of distant firing which at the beginning
of the march seemed to be straight
ahead gradually shifted around until
we found we were headed away from
the battle rather than toward it, we
were forced to Comrade Ade's conclu
sion that It was better to be going
somewhere, even in more or less mixed
company, than to continue a course that
didn't even promise a fight.
The Star liked the company it march
ed In and Is glad to hear Mr. Ade say
he liked It too. The Star Iked It be
cause there were so many men like
Ade In it, fellows who wanted to pttch
In and clean the Nation's house of some
unpleasant accumulations and who pre
ferred to do it by throwing things out
the window rather than by carrying
them down stairs. It was a young,
blithe, earnest, hopeful and fighting
company and it wai a helpful and In
spiring thing just to march along with
it. To go Into battle with It would have
been a Joy.
But there wasn't any chance of a
fight. Every day the Progressives
marched! they got farther away from
the battle, and as fast as they found it
out they began dropping from the ranks
and heading for the quarter whence
came the sounds of the fray. After
awhile it got lonesome. There was
hardly anybody left to talk to. The
leader was gone, and as we paused In
our march and Inclined an ear to rear
ward we could hear the screams of the
foe as he charged among them laying
to right and left. And with every
shout of triumph brought on the
breeze more of the company dropped
out and rushed to bear a hand l .
The Star realizes with Comrade Ade
that the battle Is between two parties
this year, and the progressive party is
not out of them. The ony way the
Progressives can make themselves felt
Is to fight In one or the other of the
parties that are doing the fighting.
Mke Comrade Ado, the Star believes
that the banner carried by Mr. Hughes
is the one for Progressives to fight
under and that the fight is worth mak
ing.
Meaningless Slogans
[Kansas City Time*.]
The campaign oratora are trying to
re-elect Mr. Wilson on two pleas:
1, He kept us out of war.
2. He gave railroad labor an 8-hour
day.
But—
1. There was no reason for anybody
to get us into war.
2. He did not obtain an 8-hour day.
The American people do not elect
presidents on the strength of campaign
slogans that aound well but art mean
ingless.
SUGGESTIONS FOR CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE MADE IN
TWO LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
V
CTJERK AnnftKSSES CHAMBER
The following open letter to the
Chamber of Commerce has been re
ceived by the Telegraph with the re
quest that it be published:
Apparently this is a day of boost,
efficiency, safety first and what not.
The Chamber of Commerce is to be
commended for the good It has done
and what, it is doing—ln fact. It stands
for everything which tends to progres
siveness and the betterment of our
city.
The Chamber of Commerce has in
the past bent every effort and has suc
ceeded in increasing its membership
100 per cent, y.nd assisted in boosting
the new hotel, and now are about
ready to launch another active cam
paign in favor of the school loan. May
success attend your efforts. With all
these booms, past and prospective, you
have failed or rather have not
thought of one class of people to whom
I would call your attention and say a
word in their behalf, and ask, has it
ever occurred to you during your de
liberations (many of whom are en
caged in business) that in all your
deliberations you have overlooked your
loyal clerk, who would enjoy at least
II Finn 11 per cent, of the prosperity that
is being handed out?
Did it. ever occur to you that the
clerks are a mighty factor in your suc
cess and are entitled to at least some
consideration?
Every business man is aware of the
ever-increasing prices, varying from
•25 to 75 per cent., and probably more,
and in every case the merchant has a
way of getting back when prices on his
merchandise are increased. With the
clerk it is entirely different whose
salary is fixed and has no way of
boosting his income.
Our dollar to-day ia worth about
00 cents as compared with prices of
several years ago. Take, for instance,
the price of coal, potatoes, meats, gro
ceries Rnd in fact everything that en
ler" into living, yet many a clerk is
to-day receiving the same salary as he
did prior to the day of boost and must
say that our dollar is stretched to the
I EDITORIAL COMMENT ]
Anybody who doubts the devotion of
the Middle West to the American flag
has got a revelation coming to him.—
New York Sun.
King Constantino has postponed the
meeting of the Greek Parliament for a
month. Maybe he was afraid it would
ask him what he was going to do.—
Kansas City Star.
Prohibition Has Helped Georgia
[From the Kansas City Star.]
Nat E. Harris, Governor of Georgia,
has sent out the following telegram in
answer to an inquiry about th effect
of prohibition upon crime in that State:
"I have had occasion to collect some
data regarding this recently, and In
that connection I have had reports
from commissioners of counties, which
reports, analyzed, show that since pro
hibition went into effect in Georgia
crime of all sorts has fallen oft 40 per
cent, in Middle Georgia counties and all
the way from BO to 60 per nent. in the
lower portions of the State, where
negro population predominate*. Also,
these reports show that school attend
ance—white and colored—has Increased
materially, as has the ability of the
average householder to pay his bills
and keep his monetary pledges. These
commissioners to a man are complain
ing of a shortage of chain gang crews
to work on the roads, and they blame
it to nothinsr but prohibition."
In spite of this testimony, the liquor
Interests are sowing Missouri with cir
culars stating that prohibition has hurt
Georgia. It lias hurt the booze business
and the chain-gang Industry, which go
hand In hand everywhere. The more
booze sold, the more men for the >4ls
uA oUAin-Jcangs. j
OCTOBER 23, 1916.
breaking point.
Many may call it prosperity, and to
many it may be, hut to manv more it
is absolute adversity and a desperate
struggle for existence.
This letter is written with the hope
that some member of the Chamber of
Commerce will read It and remember
that, whilo be is boosting he will not
forget to boost his loyal clerk.
To the Editor of the Ttlttraph: '"kEßK.
Now that our Chamber of Commerce
hfts been so successful in settling the
hotel question, which has long been dis
cussed. is it not time this same pro
gressive organization does something
to aid in furnishing the city of Har
rishurg with at least one ambulance?
It is without a doubt r shame and a
oiscrace that a progret've city sucli
as wo claim to be cannot boast of hav
ing a. hospital ambulance. I dare sav
it is a crime that a person whose illness
causes them to be removed to a hos
pital must ride in a. police patrol
wagon. Probably just before this pa
tient was placed in this wagon several
drunks were picked up out of a dirtv
alley. I ....
We are fighting against diseases of
all kind every day: we are constantlv
being told by our health doctors what
to do to prevent disease; hut we never
hear of these doctors nresentine to our
Citv •'omniiesloners the matter of an
ambulance.
No matter how much real estate we
own. or how great our taxes are we
must abide by the health laws, but.
those who make them do not attempt
to enforce a law hereby a citv must
provide a sanitary conveyance "for re
moving a patient.
As a taxpayer I repeat it is a shame
and disgrace to our progressive city
that when we are obliged to call for
an ambulance we must look out of
our door and nee a police patrol await
ing.
Let us continue our progressive
movements, fellow-citizens, and begin
to bring this much-criticised subject
to an end.
TAXPAYER.
Our Daily Laugh j
WOULD NEVER Rl ESS
Why can't you 'V/ >
wear that hat (j\ Jjjr
It 1* trimmed WJNkgafrMi ;
with cherries,
And cherries
are out ms,- Mr;' \ ■ I
NO JOT IN Lira
Mrs. I. N. Quire
*—l ee you've
jjgmife moved away from
Ctc/ , Cfi Torporvllle. I
thought It waa
such a lovely
i i community o (
' I ill Mra. R.. E.
.A/fl I ll| Former—lt waa
|J that but tt was t
\~iirJ dreadfully dull
'■*lr our civics society
couldn't And a
thine to reform
or suppress,
1
Ebenmg (Eljat
~T Penn sylvania* State Society,
which will have the memorial meeting
for the late Samuel W. Pennypacker
nisht in the hall of the
iJ?n^ of f* cprese ntatlves. is an organ
are U 2nlv n ß lQ f e St " ,e capitals There
cmm.*,- y i ew soc ' e ties like it In. the
Kuvtjtn'ne. a L . nonc is as large as the
&,ate organization. The so
of thG h eads of de
lunorfnn? ™ members of the more
and honrHa^S? 1 ?!. antl bureaus
f th , e ' state government,
senators hoV einK The* v
which wn J' own Sta,e society,
ft nf< which h*?i several years ago.
in the eilv ,f dlnners at the seashore
bere Vn J', 01 ' time - former mem "
,u . ® ln BT in the same standing: as
Societv°wh^ r i, nK the toga. The Ita?e
lndtikS ™ l las monthly luncheons
at the various movements
'rctiv ".'? s formed last Fall,
the initiative of John
I'ommMm. of the Public Service
nack^• .' ■ and the lateMr.Penny-
SfrestedTn it of - those much in
ifs of.wt th es P et 'ally as it has for
State encouragement of a
have noifiri oo ?"• s whlch many
in* about <?... ® ,n *. occasionally lack-
L ~ fc>late capitals. Secretary of
the p°r^?denr e n Uh CyrUS E " Wood 3 la
of opinion -h .i KCneral consensus
ganiJert ho V. ,he society was or
pointive , at the highest ap
d®nt" presi-
BidSr *,?•■kws-S:
l> rou ght hdiit S Hnd "as thereby
methods l hL S ""Provement in
A lln n ? Ca of the Kovern
is-at on mLJ i KOes on tllia organ-
Canitol mn V? extremely useful on
be at PhiiaiJft rst blff funcUon will
will have n Jm n"^ 1 month, when it
•ler with nr>. # Pennsylvania din
uresent ~? ,he Keystone State
present from an over the country.
flblm th?X to wllich the Parkways
there are actually more peoola to h
een walking along it than riding The
popularity V £ y I s a,so prowin
to real!a n pe ? p,e are commencing
to realize the beauty spots. Com
pletion 01 these links is causing a
Wrong public sentiment to develop for
ween S n ° nt °. f the Parkway 17-
-<R W lll?, r ? ir and Wild wood.
Ant J i d to more folks PTOiIIK
north iff & w Paxton "eek vallev
noun of (he city, which i 3 a delightful
Place for a walk or ride. aciln ui
who attend market liero
fay that even if they did not get all of
he corn hoped for they are able to
llalke CO Th J a il! e fodder from the
stalks. The stalks are unusually large
® tr f thanks to the earlv sum-
S h Lt w ,J n immense amount.
"V' J* Pt into the silos. One farmer
'™' £ e J iat ' more cornstalk fodder
( l, e ft ever known before and
thai the fact would mean much for
cattle raising this winter.
J he frosts have brought the pnV
pawsi to market. There is not the de
mand for this delicious Fall fruit that
!^ C V® l ; s(!< ? <o he. probably because it ts
so little known and because no sys
tematic effort has been made to cuitl-
them. There are some spots along
the (..onodopuinet where pawpaws used
to grow and in this county there are a
number of places which twenty-five
years ago were visited regularly by
boys and girls from this city.
One of the big swans at Paxtang
Park tried to play truant a few davs V
ago and is back in the park, living In
a crate and with shot in one of its
wings. This Pall three new swans were
placed in the lake and one of them de
veloped a wanderlust. It headed for
the Susquehanna river and about the
time it got to I.<ochiel some early morn
ing gunner took a crack at it. The
swan came tumbling down and was
recognized. It was soon sent, back to
the park, disgusted and hissing its
indignation and pain at all comers it.
is to be kept penned up until it learns
the lesson of contentment from the
other swans.
* ♦
Members of the State Milk Price
Commission, which will meet to-mor
row in Philadelphia, will probably call
as witnesses some of the milk pro
ducers of this section of the State. The
commission will make an effort to get
at the bottom of the milk problem and
the question of rates will enter into the
probe. It Is not generally known that
o good part of the milk supply of
Philadelphia conies from up-state and
milk is shipped from 4he Cumberland
V.illey not only to lliat. city but to New
York.
* •
In the market place at York an inci
dent occurred which illustrates how
the high cost of living is still further
increased without justification or ex
cuse. A woman asked a farmer's wife
the price of green poppers. "One cent
apiece." she replied. "What ts your
price for the red and yellow peppers?"
was the next question. "Oh, thov'ro
five cents apiece." Tills surprising
statement was so amazing that the
purchaser asked why the red and yel
low varieties should cost five times as
much as the green ones. Without so
much as blinking an eyelash the stall
renter explained that the cost of dyes
was so high that they couldn't sell
them any cheancr. Sounds like a
joke, but it's a fact just the same and
the reason is about as silly as other
excuses for boosting prices.
♦ •
Speakers plaza is the name suggest
ed for the Union station platform
whero presidential candidates have
been speaking this year. Come to
think about it that platform has beeiv
used by some noted men in the lasi
twenty years. McKinley, Roosevelt,
Taft and Wilson have all spoken there.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ]
—Controller W. M. Hcebner, of
Montgomery county, has isued a state
ment showing his county out of debt.
—Lloyd Mifflin, who is seriously 111
at his home near Columbia, Is a de
scendant of .Governor Mifflin of early
days.
—J. H.McFadden.the Philadelphtan.
who has been buying pictures abroad,
is a member of a family long identified
with the cotton industry.
—Congressman M. M. Garland, of
Pittsburgh, has been drafted to make
speeches in Indiana.
—Mayor Smith," of Philadelphia, is
having a lot of fun-making speeches
about how Democratic Civil Service
affected him.
DO YOU KNOW 1
That ITarrlsburg Is one of the
big cement distributing centers of
Central Pennsylvania?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
St. Patrick's cathedral occupies the
site originally chosen for It about
1825.
As to Keeping Out of War
[Prom the Kansas City Times. |
The United States has kept out of
the European war. But so lias Switzer
land, which is much closer to the fight
ing—and Holland and Denmark and
Norway and Sweden. In fact, no nation
has got in that didn't want in. except^