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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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SATURDAY EVENING, NOV. 4
Love took the harp of Life and smote
on all the chords with might;
Smote the chord of Self, that trembling
passed in music out of sight.
—TEXNYSOW.
THAT HIGH SCHOOL LOAN"
VOTERS of Harrisburg will decide
on Tuesday whether they want
to provide new high school facili
ties by merns of a loan or by direct
taxation.
Jl you adopt the loan plan there
will be little increase of tax and no
excuse for any raise in rents.
If you kill the loan the School Board
vill build the new high schools out of
current taxes, and rents will have to
be raised.
There Is no question that the high
6chools are needed. Everybody admits
that. Every day that we permit pres
ent conditions to continue we rob our
boys and girls of rightful advantages.
Neither is there any doubt that the
School Board can and will build these
needed schools out of current revenue.
If they are permitted to borrow the 1
money the directors believe they may
rot reed to advance the tax rate next (
year. If there is no advance in tax,
of course there will be no advance in j
rents, and we have it from the biggest
landlord In Harrisburg that there will 1
be no excuse for putting up rents even
if the tax rate is raised one mill. But !
If eight or ten mills are added to the
tax rate each year to pay for the j
buildings by direct taxation, property
owners will of necessity have to raise
rents.
The proposition therefore is—
Pass the loan and get your high ]
schools without an advance in rent; |
or—
Kill the !oan and have your rents
raised two or three dollars a month to |
pay for the new schools.
THE WM. PENN HIGHWAY |
NO association or organization is j
doing more to create substantial
sentiment for the improvement l
of the highways of Pennsylvania than
the William Penn Highway Associa
tion. This organization is full of gin
ger and its work is of the most pro- |
ductive character.
Through its impulse and activity, I
several thousand men and women
gathered for the dedication of the fine
stretch of the New York division of
the highway between Easton and
Bethlehem this week. Such an en-!
thusiastlc assemblage of people in the
interest of good roads would have been
impossible a few years ago. Every
where the sentiment for the improve
ment of highways is increasing by
leaps and bounds. Communication be
tween rural communities and towns
and cities has become so important j
as a partial solution to the high cost
of living that opposition to the 1m- j
provement of roads has practically dis- !
appeared.
It is the purpose of Governor Brum
baugh and ttf&se who favor better
roads to ask the Legislature for an 1
appropriation of five millions for con- j
struction purposes and the use of the
automobile license fund for mainte- i
nance. This is a reasonable program
and ought to go through without any
dissent at the approaching session.
Secretary of War Baker has been '■
called the "Burchard" of the Wilson ad
ministration. His Inexcusable refiec- I
tion upon the Revolutionary heroes and
his still more blundering charge that
enemies of the Wilson administration '
were endeavoring to foment an attack
by the Villa bandits upon the troops on
the Border, have given him a notoriety
which must be exceedingly "trying for
those responsible for his place in the
Cabinet. Baker is the incarnation of
the Wilson administration, and repre
sents the indifference of those at the
head of the Government to the best tra
ditions and principles which have from
the very foundation of the Republic
been honored by the people.
WEST SHORE'S OPPORTUNITY
IF the West Shore is half as pro
gressive as it pretends to be it will
pass the central high school loaij to
pome before the voters next Tuesday.
Bucb an opportunity has never been
presented to the voters of the cross
river towns to assist in the develop*
ment of their home districts.
The West Shore Is a desirable resi
dence district. Hundreds of people
who have gone there looking for home
sites have come back to the city de
lighted with what they found—but de
ploring thai the schools were not up
to city standards.
The fact that the educational system
was regarded as not as good as that of
Harrisburg has kept large numbers of
people from building or buying in
SATURDAY EVENING, ECOtfUSBURQ TEIJEGRAFH * NOVEMBER 4, 1916.
West Short© communities. Ask any
real estate man If that Is not true.
Give the West Shore a central high
school and it will soon rival Harris
burg in population, and every time a
new "house goes up on the West Shore
it means added valuation to the ad
joining properties. Land and houses
sell better and rent better where the
school facilities are good. Ask any
property owner if this is not true.
The question of taxation ought not
to enter into this high school loan,
lor the reason that it is going to cost
West Shore people more in the next
fw years to send their boys and girls
to the Harrisburg high schools than
it will to build and maintain the cen
tral high school that is planned. The
school code provides that under con
ditions such as now prevail pupils may
attend the Harrisburg high schools,
and that means an expense for tax
payers, and parents, too, which should
r.ot be necessary and which as the
years go by will exceed by far the cost
of the proposed high school.
Besides, the central high school in
operation would enable the various
towns to use their little high school
buildings for grade school purposes
and thus avoid erecting new buildings
as the towns grow.
There is everything good to be said
of the West Shore high school loan
proposition and no reasonable objec
tion can be raised to it.
If the voters turn it down they will
make a grave and costly error.
As usual, our Democratic friends are
raising the searcecrows of a great cor
ruption fund and the invisible govern
ment to frighten the voters into sup
porting President Wilson. They have
even constructed a Cabinet for Mr.
Huehes. which is designed to deceive
the working man into the support of
the Wilson ticket. All these signs indi
cate more fully than anything else the
fear of the Wilson promoters that their
game is up.
THE NONPARTISAN CAMPAIGN
PENNSYLVANIA has no higher
duty to perform on next Tues-
day than to elect to the State
Supreme bench a man well qualified
for the duties of justice of the highest
tribunal of the Commonwealth. We
were told that when the nonpartisan
law, under which judges are now
chosen In Pennsylvania, was enacted 1
mora attention would bo paid to the
choice of men to wear the ermine.
It was asserted that the bench would
be removed from politics and selec- j
tions having been made without j
partisan consideration or prejudices,:
the best man would always win.
Just how these very laudable objects |
have not worked out In the operation I
of the nonpartisan law must be ap- j
parent to anybody who has observed:
the workings of the statute in question. ,
The judgeships have not been taken
out of politics, except in very rare
cases, although the names of candi
dates have been removed from party
ballots and it usually follows that
when party leaders have failed to take
an active interest in behalf of judicial
candidates the public has lost sight
of the contests.
It happens there is just such an
instance at hand now. Party leader
ship has been so engrossed with its !
own particular problems and interests
that it has paid little attention to the;
candidacy of Judge Emory A. Walling,!
candidate for the Supreme Court, and 1
the just.ee, living strictly to the let
ter of the nonpartisan law, has left I
his candidacy entirely in the hands
j of the voters, with the result that one j
l of the most Important offices to be
filled this Fall has had little or no;
i public discussion.
It would be a pity if lack of atten
; tion cut into the vote that Judge Wall
ing should have. He has had a long
and distinguished judicial career. He
; was appointed to the Supreme bench
; because of his eminent fitness there
for. He has won the approval of his
fellows on the bench and of all those
who have watched his work in the !
; Supreme court. There will be but two
, names on the ballot, those of Judge
Walling and a man of unknown
abilities and no judicial experience.
As between the two Judge Walling is
so far the superior that his election
should be unanimous.
Von Hindenburg says he can hold the
western line for thirty years, but how
I long at the present rate would it re
-1 quire him to take Verdun?
P. S.—WILSON
OUR postscript President is finding
out in these closing days of the
campaign that the American
, people are not quite so indifferent to
j their country's reputation as he had
imagined. The story that Mr. Wilson
; accompanied his "strict accountability"
note on the Lusitania with a postscript
to the effect that the note was not to
be taken literally will not down, in
; -pite of the evasive statements of cer
| tain Democrats who are more or less
familiar with the circumstances.
| Ex-Secretary of War Garrison is
' quoted to prove that President Wilson
' upheld a separate note to mollify Ger
(many and only recalled the postscript
| after repeated protests by Garrison
; c.nd others. Senator Lodge is not the
sort of man to indulge in campaign
j misrepresentation and the fact that the
letters from reputable people sustain
ing the postscript charge have been
confirmed by other evidence places the
burden of proof that no such thing
occurred upon President Wilson and
his apologists.
It is certain, however, that the
people have at last become aroused to
the double dealing and hypocrisy
which have characterized the present
administration. Shifting and insincere
at every turn, the President Is at last
confronted with unmistakable evidence
of his own weakness and insincerity.
His whole course has been marked by
temporizing and expediency based
upon a personal ambition which con
siders neither the honor nor the wel
fare of the country.
A thoughtful people are going to
determine next Tuesday the question
of a further continuance of this sort
of administration. What has been
mistaken for apathy In the campaign
will doubtless prove to have been a
thoughtful consideration of all the
matters Involved in a remarkable po
litical contest.
CARTOON HASH By SULLIVAN
BTHTiei OYER
IT WAS ONLY A PEW WtfS AGO / (ItfWL -~= BE.CAUS& IT'S RIGHT.
THAT I SAID VfK J&Xo
PRCVE THAT ApJ
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POLITICAL COSNE& "THE J, TNE\ PARAOE. CALLED ON MAT—TRAINING RULES BROKEN.
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By the Fx-Committeeman
Ftnnsylvania's campaigns will reach I
high tide throughout the State to-!
night ami in many of the counties the I
final rallies will be held for national,
state and district tickets, although
meetings may be held as late as Mon
day night to keep things moving. In
fluenzal party leaders are taking ac- I
count of stock to-day and the tide is)
running strongly for the Republicans, i
Republican State headquarters in |
Philadelphia to-day declared that j
Hughes would sweep the State with a i
majority of 250,000, this statement be- !
ing made as the result of a canvass of !
all the counties and the visits paid to |
them by the candidates. The Demo- j
cratic State headquarters, which has I
been more like a morgue th:\n usual |
this campaign, has not made any i
claims. However. State Chairman Joe
Guffev has supplied any deficiencies 1
|in that respect by his remarkable
statements in Philadelphia. The State
windmill here has carefully avoided
being connected with the Guffey state
ments.
—Philander C. Knox. Congressmen
Graham and Vare and Mayor Smith, of
: Philadelphia, were among speakers at
o notable Republican rally in Phila
delphia last night. It was one of se\-
cral in that city. In Allegheny county
Republicans and Progresives alike
united in addressing meetings. Re
publican state candidates spoke in sev
eral places last night, Phoenixville,
Gettysburg and Serar.ton.
—To-night Mr. Knox speaks in
| Pittsburgh, William Draper Lewis in
j Altoona, Colonel Sheldon Potter in
Titusville and Senator Snyder in Potts
ville.
: —Fifteen hundred pounds of specially
i printed ballots and about the same
j weight of supplies of various kinds for
! conducting the election among the men
of the Pennsylvania military organiza
! tions now at the Mexican border will be
| delivered to the commanders of the
, soldiers on Monday by the commis
, sioners now on their way to El Paso,
j The ballots are all carefully wrapped
and sealed and are in the custody cf
I General C. B. Dougherty, acting for the
•other commissioners. In the packages
j of supples are poll books, lists of can
didates and other papers and twelve
' gross of lead pencils, the State supply
;ing the soldiers with the same mater
• ials that are put before voters at a
: polling place in Pennsylvania. The elec-
I tions will be conducted by the com-
Imanders of organizations and the com
! raissioners will have nothing to do
| with the sitting of election boards or
; polling of votes. All they do is to turn
j over the supplies and bring home the
returns. The judges of election will
! send figures to the- Secretary of the
! Commonwealth and the prothonotarles
jof each county represented so that the
(votes may go into the districts where
j they belong. The official returns will
jbe brought here by the commission
ers and formally entered. It is not ex
pected that the official count will be
delayed by the votes of the soldiers
as the big counties always take a
week or ten days and sometimes long
|er to certify their returns.
—Governor Brumbaugh, who was
[the orator at the Republican meet
ing in Asbury Park last evening, re
ceived much note for his address. The
Governor said: "The welfare of our
people, the future stability of our in
dustries and the steady employment of
our army of workers alike demand
this. We shall never be content to
have our American workmen in direct
competition with workmen in other
lands, whose standards of living are
FO vastly below that which are enjoyed
by our American people. We want an
Executive and a Congress that w(ll
promptly and definitely enact and en
force a protective tariff adequate to
the economic necessity of guarantee
ing a fair and just return to Ameri
can capital and to American labor.
What we want is not a vacillating and
uncertain truckling to the changing
conditions of other countries, but a
policy so clearly cut and definitely an
nounced and of world-wide interests
as to make us loved at home and
revered abroad. This attitude of the
administration is the only permanent
and political safeguard of our perma
nent peace and progress."
—The Luzerne county court has up
held the contention of the Republican
county chairman that registration
lists should be open only to those who
appear in person. This suit headed off
a Democratic scheme.
The movement for a third class city
charter in Shamokin took form yester
day at a big meeting. The election
will be held next year.
—M. P. Shannon, well known to
many here, has been stopped by a
court opinion from acting as solicitor,
tax collector and treasurer of Wilkes-
Barre township, Luzerne county. Judge
Fuller holds that public policy is
against such a concentration of offices.
—Allegheny county Republican com
mitteemen were called together this
afternoon for the final meeting. Chair
mo n Coleman, who is confident of his
cwn re-election, said things were in
excellent shape this morning.
—Jesse E. B. Cunningham will be
one of the speakers at the Altoona
meeting to-night.
—A. P. Moore, the Pittsburgh Bull
Moose, bet If to S in thousands that
Hughes would win.
—State Chairman Guffey was here
between trains last night to order
crepe for the Democratic windmill in
Market Square.
—While William Draper Lewis,
leader of Progressives, was speaking
for Hughes last night Arthur R. Rup
ley came out for Wilson. Enough
said.
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President,
Charles Evans Hughes, of New York
For Vice-President,
Charles Warren Fairbanks, of Indiana
For Auditor General.
Charles A. Sr.yder, of Pottsvllle
For State Treasurer,
Harmon M. Kephart, of Connellsvllle
For Congress-at-Large,
Thomas S. Crago, of Waynesburg
M. M. Garland, of Pittsburgh
Joseph McLaughlin, of Philadelphia
John R. K. Scott, of Philadelphia
For Congress—lßth District
Aaron S. Kreider, of Annville
For Senator,
Edward E. Beidleman. of Harrisburg
For Representative,
First District
Augustus Wildman and J. W. Swartz
Second District,
Ira E. Ulsh and David J. Bechtold
For Mine Inspector,
Charles J, Price, of Lykens
Nonpartisan Ticket,
Supreme Court,
Emory A. Walling, of Erie
Notes About Books and Authors
An interesting episode showing the
difficulty of maintaining neutrality is
recorded in the "Memorandum Written
by William Rotch in the Eightieth Year
of His Age," recently published ty
Houghton Mifflin Company. William
Rotch was a Quaker and one of the
richest of the whale ship-owners of his
time. The policy of nonresistance on
the part of the Quakers led a majority
of the Nantucket owners who were of
that faith to preserve neutrality in the
war. After the war, Mr. Rotch won the
honor of first sending the flag into an
English port on one of his ships, the
Bedford, which arrived in the Thames
February 6, 1783. In America, in Eng
land, and in Frano?, the man of peace
found himself in the midst of a whirl
of war, yet he struck to Ills principles
where tt might have cost him his life,
and came out unscathed. His memor
andum Is of permanent and especially
now, of pertinent interest.
On October 28th, at Saranac Lake,
New York, a permanent American mem
orial to Robert Lewis Stevenson will
be established, when the Stevenson cot
tage Is thrown open to the public.
"Their Spirit. Some Impressions of the
English and French During the Sum
mer of 191 C." By Robert Grant. This
Is an unofficial, straightforward ac
count of a simple visit abroad during
the summer. Judge Grant first went
to England to visit his son, and then
later to France, where through the In
terest of Mrs. Edith Wharton and the
courtesy of the French Government, he
was enabled to visit the trenches.
Outlook Increases Price
The necessity for change in price is
due to the increase In the cost of pub
lication, due in turn to the great ad
vance in the price of paper. One of
the effects of the European war most
severely felt on this side of the At
lantic i; 3 that higher price of paper of
all kinds, but particularly of the paper
used by books, newspapers, and peri
odicals. In the manufacturing cost of
producing The Outlook the paper bill
Is much the largest single item. Nat
urally, therefore, an increase of over
Fifty Per Cent In the cost of paper
means a very material increase in the
total cost of production. The more
that a periodical has been giving for
value received, the more seriously
does this increase in cost affect it.
In the case of The Outlook there
are only two conceivable ways of
meeting this increased cost amount
ing to many thousands of dollars.
One way is to give poorer quality.
This we will not do. The other is to
increase the price; and becauses this
Is the only alternative, we choose it.
\—The Outlook.
IN TIME OF WAR PREPARE
FOR PEACE, IS TEXT OF NOTED
STUDENT OF WORLD CONDITIONS
THAT businessmen have not been deluded by the clap-trap of
the political campaign but have been thinking along funda
mental lines is indicated by the accompanying extracts of a speech
by John C. Schmidt, president of the Standard Chain Company, of
Pittsburgh, delivered at a banquet in St. Louis a day or two ago.
Mr. Schmidt is head of one of the largest chain manufacturing com
panies in the world and is a student of industrial economic and social
conditions., I lis speech is so sane and thoughtful, so applicable to
the present situation and so full of suggestions for businessmen and
workingmen that it is reproduced herewith, as follows:
We are now in the midst of a great !
presidential campaign and the air is
filled with what Dr. Holmes would call
"mutual undervaluations" and it seems
to me that this "mutual undervalua
tion" is what is blocking our progress.
We, as a nation, have never been
charged with undue modesty. We
proclaim our greatness only too will
ingly, and possibly without first fully
informing ourselves as to the strength
and ability of other nations. We want
to blaze our own trails. We make
laws which we think are for the good
of all because they are meant to pre
vent wrongdoing. In other words, we
are searching for error and trying to
correct a possible evil rather than
consider what we can best do to build
up. We all know that it is much
easier to sit on the side of the table
and criticise, but the dreamer of
dreams and those who see visions and
then crystallize them into action pro
ducing great industries are those who
must sit at the head of the table.
Oh! if those who make our laws
would only realize how much too far
♦his undervaluation has gone. The
fact that a corporation has the power
to do evil does not differentiate It from
i the genus homo. This should not be
a crime. The daily press is pointing
j with pride to our stupendous exports,
and some people even are taking
credit for more than their share In
producing them. We must not forget
that we of almost all the world are
the present financial beneficiaries of
this great and terrible war. We who
are now experiencing unparalleled
prosperity must recall that all things
come to an end, and while the sun is
in the zenith we should remember we
, have no Joshua to make the sun stand
! still and that as the shadows begin to
; point to the east we should give
1 thought to what will happen when the
I war ends.
I hold no brief to speak for anyone.
My thoughts are only those of an
ordinary businessman based on his
reading, travel and observation.
The newspapers almost forget the
price of paper when they gloat over
the mass of gold possessed by this
country, which seems to grow all the
time larger and larger. This gold re
minds me of an historic sword which
adorned the walls of an office of a
friend of mine. One day # client no
tired it and asked for its history.
"That," said he, "It the sword that
Balaam used to slay the ass." "You're
wrong, Ed," said the visitor. "Balaam
had 110 sword; he only wished for
one." "Then," said he, "this is the
sword he wished for!"
Now don't let us suppose that our
commercial rivals will content them
selves with simply wishing for tthls
old. They are now laying their plans
to get it through the game of inter
national trade. Money is always liquid,
but it is most liquid when it is leaving
us, and it is against such time that
we should prepare.
In preparation the first thing to do
Is to stop thinking In parishes and
think In nations. We must forget state
lines—we must take thought of what
Is best for the nation and not any sec
tion. And how arc we to continue this
prosperity unless commerce is encour
aged, sustained and protected? I tell
you, gentlemen. If this nation Is ever
to take its rightful place in the nations
of the world we must have the un
grudging and heartfelt co-operation of
the government, the banks and big
business, and withhold criticism of
business solely because it is big.
Those who against fierce competition
have built up our great industries
must be a part and a welcomed part
in co-operating with the government
in plans to meet the changed con
ditions that the ending of the war will
bring. There must be no sneers at
dollar diplomacy. No matte who Is
. lected.in November next, the Incom
ing President should bring to his aid
as Secretary of Commerce one of the
giants of industrial life. This govern
ment should now call together the
unquestioned leaders in every one of
the great lines of business and counsel
[with them. They should be asked to
suggest constructive laws on broad
lines to foster our commerce.
The President has appointed a com
mittee of engineers to aid the Secre
tary of War in formulating plans and
moans of defense. Is not our com
merce worthy of similar aid?
Who could be of greater service to
the nation than those giants we all
could name, and many others of simi
lar ability in other lines?
The French have a proverb, "Ad
versity brings strength and prosperity
weakness." Let us while there is yet
time prepare for the and co
operate for commerce.
LETTERSTOTHE EDITOR'
j LAW AXD OHDER WARNING
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
The Dauphin County Law and Order
' League has secured information that
votes are to be bought in a number cf
city and county precincts at the elec
tion on November 7. There are plans
being made for the use of liquor in
those precincts in order to influence
voters.
The league has no desire to send men
to prison. It wants to break up the
corrupt elction work that has been
practiced throughout many city and
county precincts. To accomplish that
result it prosecuted a number of elec
tion law violators, who were sentenced
to pay fines or serve three months In
prison. At that time both Judge George
Kunkel and District Attorney M. E.
Stroup stated their positions with re
spect to the election law violators, and
gave emphatic notice that the law
would be upheld and violators punished.
The Law and Order League has men
working in both the city and county
districts to watch for the use of money
or liquor on election day. They will
also watch for the men trying to vote
who have not been assessed and per
sonally paid taxes. Complete lists of
the exonerations for the past five years
are ready for use it men on the ex
oneration list attempt to vote.
The election law regarding the use of
money provides that:
"Any person who shall give or prom
ise or offer to give an elector any
money, reward or other valuable con
sideration for his vote at an election
held for the purpose of voting on an
amendment to the constitution, or any
other public purpose, or for withhold
ing the same, or who shall give or
promise to give such consideration to
any other person or party for such
electors' vote, or for the withholding
thereof, and any elector who shall re
ceive or agree to receive for himself
or for another, any money, reward or
other valuable consideration for his vote
at such election or for wltholdlng the
same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall pay
a fine not exceeding one thousand dol
lars and' undergo imprisonment not ex
ceeding one year."
The law regarding the use of liquor
on election day states:
"It shall not bo lawful for any per
son with or without license, to furnish
by sale, gift or otherwise to any per
son any spirituous, vinous, nialt or
brewed liquors, on any day upon which
elections are now or hereafter may be
required to be held • • * and it shall
be held and deemed a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof the offender
shall be nned not less than fifty dollars
nor,more than Ave hundred' dollars, and
undergo an Imprisonment of not less
than twenty nor more than ninety
days."
Any watcher or voter who sees any
one using either money or liquor at
any time or place on election day
should take the name of the person or
persons and of any witnesses and tele
phone 232 Bell phone. Prompt action
will be taken by the Law and Order
League.
No tther warning will be given. All
violators of the law will be prosecuted.
JOHN P. GUYER,
Secretary.
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Ex-Governor John K. Tener, who
a visitor to Harrisburg a short
time on Thursday, heard with tho
greatest Interest plans for the Im
provement of Capitol Park, especially
the project to widen the streets
i bounding tho State's reservation. It
was John K. Tener who signed the
bill which made possible Capitol Park
extension after it had failed in legis
lative sessions and been vetoed prior
to his term as chief executive of tho
State. It was also this Governor
wanted to make the West front of thlr
Capitol something in keeping with the
great building in which he took a
pride, but which project was lost in
politics in the 1913 legislative session.
Governor Tener heartily endorsed tho
plan to get the best landscape architect
advice obtainable and for the syste
matic and harmonious improvement
of the whole Capital Park. "I always
telt that in time the Capitol Park
would become the civic center of Har
risburg and I was glad to do what I
could when the time came for ex
tending the park," said he. "I hope
to see it made a beautiful place and
that it will be some day lined with
handsome buildings and be the central
P°>nt of your park system," he con
tinued. The former Governor who has
always admired our River Front im
mensely and everywhere praised Har
risburg s plans for making it attrac
tive, heard with much pleasure that
for further care for the bank
had been worked out.
* •
The dinner given by Governor
Brumbaugh to his staff here Wednes
day evening was made a most enjoy
able occasion by some "stunts" work
ed out by Private Secretary Ball. Mr.
Bali took tho United States army
regulation that only military organ
izations can wear uniforms as his idea
and proceeded to have fun with it.
The members of the staff must get
uniforms unlike those of the United
States army and Mr. Ball furnished
suggestions in the "way of gorgeously
costumed tin soldiers at each place.
A number of telegrams were also sent
in bearing on the subject, among
them being offers from firms for sec
ond hand uniforms and offers to outlit
the staff officers so that they would
outshine peacocks and be as incon
spicuous as a prairie chicken. One of
the telegrams, said to have come from
Easton was:
Hon. G. Brumbaugh,
Governor, Harrisburg, Pa.: —
Newspaper reports indicate you
will be accompanied by staff to
morrow, although it will be im
possible for them to appear in
uniform. Our people are very
conservative and would resent
anything too advanced or modern.
Kindly advise at once what ar
rangements have been made to
clothe them with respectability.
MAYOR OF EASTON.
• * *
The Pennsylvania Farmer, one of
the leading agricultural journals of
the country, contains some matters
of interest to Dauphin countians. An
article on practical dairying is
illustrated by photographs of Her
shey farms which are cited as models.
, Special attention is called to the dairy
barns as Illustrative of the best type.
Charles L. Reid, of this county, con
tributes an interesting article on the
camera on the farm showing how it
can help in the sale of produce and
livestock and especially in the sale of
products of the field.
Captain Frank E. Zeigler,
mander of Company I, of the Elghtlv
Infantry, who is mentioned to suc
ceed Major E. M. Vale, who resigned,
has been in the National Guard since
1896. He was in the Eleventh In
fantry of the Provisional Guard
where he was a sergeant and when
• Company I became part of the Eighth
he entered it, becoming a lieutenant
in 1905. He became a captain Sep
tember 21, 1908.
• • •
People who are familiar with
military matters wonder that the Na
tional or State Governments or the
Pennsylvania Railroad or the patriotic
orders of some one does not mark
the site of Camp Meade. This camp
was one of the model camps of the
' Spanish American war and was con
t tinued for two years as a place for the
, mobilization of recruits. The Nine
teenth Infantry was reorganized at
that camp and four Phillipine regi
-5 ments were formed there. Yet there
1 Is nothing to make the place notable
! to the casual visitor. The camp was
a most .interesting part of local lils
-1 tory and the site deserves some at
! tention from Dauphin countians.
> •
1 Harrisburg Is going to have numer
t ous meetings of the State organiza
• tion between the first of December
1 and the iirst of April. The State
i Educational Association, which will
hold its biennial Harrisburg session,
. comes right after Christmas and dur
- Ing the last week In January there
1 will be six or seven agricultural and
r allied associations meeting here
. when the midwinter corn show will
i be held. The State Vegetable grow
ls ers is the latest organization to book
r a meeting for that week.
1
; [ WaL KNOWN PEOPLE J
3
—j3. t. Stotesbury will present a
loving cup to John Philip Sousa on
t the part of friends this week.
—The Rev. Robert MacGowan,
. Lancaster minister well known here,
r has received a call to a big Pittsburgh
, —Col. James N. Schoonmaker was
, chief marshal of Pittsburgh's big cen
. tennlal parade yesterday.
—W. T. Treadwell, Pittsburgh at
r torney. has been making speeches
, through West Virginia.
—Dr. J. D. Moffat, president emeri
tus of Washington and Jefferson, wh,
. has been very ill, is reported as ho!d
--j jng his own.
\ | DO YOU KNOW 1
Tliat Ilarrteburß steel is being
used on Russian railroads?
. HISTORIC HARRISBURG
As early as 1774 John Harris began
work for Improvement of navigation
j of the Susquehanna.
' r HUGHES OR WILSON ?
• "America's future demands Charles
e Evans Hughes." concludes the booklet
1 recently Issued by the Hughes Na-
J tional College League, and winds up a
r brief comparison of the two men with
these words:
1 "The prospect calls for a leader; for
u a man with a national and an lnter
t national mind, not a man born of the
political school which believes in de
. centralization of government and con
t siders all government a necessary evil;
, a man of action, not a man of words;
.. a man with a great heart and broad
human sympathies who will not se
" elude himself, nor consult with ill
chosen advisers, but who will surround
r himself with the most capable men
this country has produced, and who,
1 while taking counsel with them, will
• lead the thought and action of the
nation for a new America in a New
World."