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TUESDAY EYEING. DEC. 19
To be feared of a thing and yet to
do it, is just what makes the prettiest
Kind of man. —STEVENSON.
THE NEW HOTEL MANAGEMENT
NOTHING could better illustrate
the caliber of the corporation to
which the new Penn-Harris
Hotel has been leased than the pic
tures published in this newspaper yes
terday, showing some of the hotels
managed by the United Hotels Com
pany. The pictures shown were only
a few of many. Everywhere the
United Hotels Company's hostelries
are reckoned among the best in the
land. That Ilarrisburg is to be put
on the same level with respect to its
new million-dollar hotel is a matter
for public rejoicing.
Yilla has offered to forgive President
Wilson, but he hasn't yet got within
handshaking distance of General Persh
ing.
MARS
PROF. HENRY N. RUSSELL, of
Princeton, has added a new and
interesting chapter to the his
tory of Mars. He has discovered, he
says, that the temperature of the
planet always is below zero and that
some cause not yet understood
operates to make it warmer, the exis
tence of life on the planet is improb
able.
Other astronomers have written
that Mars is inhabited, that civiliza
tion there is much farther advanced
than on the earth and that, doubtless,
some day we earth-mortals may get
into long distance communication
with our celestial neighbors—a sort
of "Messenger From Mars" arrange
ment, so to speak.
There is no more interesting sub
ject for speculation than that having
to do with conditions on this mys
terious planet, which is so near, and
yet so far. The man whose sole con
ception of a telescope is that of the
clothes receptacle variety is just as
competent to ,opinionate as the as
tronomer whose nights since childhood
have been spent peering at the stars
through the small end of a skv-scour
ing lens of gigantic diameter. When
one "star shark" writes solemnly of
•'the great, vegetation conserving,
man-made canals of Mars." and an
other tells us, with all the enthusiasm
of a discoverer, that "the temperature
is always below zero" and that life
on Mars would be a far rougher prop
osition than Dr. Cook found 111,1116
Arctics immediately adjacent to the
North Pole, the amateur may be ex
cused for rejecting the opinions of
both and he may be permitted to do a
bit of romancing on his own aecount.
For some time to come, probably.
Mars will be for each one of us just
what we think it is—that is, if we
happen to do any thinking about it.
Harrisburg is going to have a white
Christmas, but Europe is in for another
of the blue variety.
PARIS AND MARY GARDEN
THERE is humor even in tragedy.
Paris gravely chiding Mary
Garden for wearing too frivol
ous clothes illustrates the point. Two
years of war have warped the French
point of view. The sun of peace and
prosperity does not shine for Paris—
therefore the whole world must be a
gray, drab place. Paris forgets that
while tears were flowing and hearts
were aching elsewhere in other days
her boulevards were scenes of color
and animation—and her fashion fac
tories were working double turn.
Paris is distraught. Two years hence
the gown designers of the City by the
Seine again will be bidding against
each other for the privilege of cater
tng to the vagaries of Miss Garden's
desires for "something different" in
dress.
About the only feeling any true Re
publican has for the squabbling now
going on Is that of disgust.
\ LESSON FROM THE WAR
PERHAPS the most beneficial lesson
America is learning from the war
in Europe is the importance of
foreign markets to the business of the
country. Time was when the Ameri
ran's proud boast was that his country
was sufficient unto itself—that, if nec
essary. It had but to close its ports, go
ibout its business and forget the rest
if the world. But that period, if it ever
►xisted outside the imagination, is long
inee past. Modern invention has
nade nations inter-dependent. Cl>-11-
zed men want the fruit of the tropics
nd the furs of the northern woods,
hey need the wheat of the temperate
lone and the rubber of the equatorial
TUESDAY EVENING,
belt. All thin'gs of all countries they
want, and must have. If life Is to go
smoothly along in the ways man has
made for It.
We In this country have become a
great producing people and we must
sell abroad if wc are to prosper. The
war has given us markets that we
must light to keep once peace comes,
and It is with this thought in mind
that James A. Farrell, chairman of
the National Foreign Trade Council
and president of the United States
Steel Corporation, his issued to all
American business men the formal
call for the Fourth National Foreign
Trade Convention, to be held at Pitts
burgh, January 25. 26, 27, 191". The
call is based on the council's research
into problems of foreign trade since
the last foreign traile convention was
held at New Orleans. The convention
will consider among others the follow
; ing questions:
Conditions in foreign markets
! after the war, and the measures
necessary to safeguard American
foreign trade, as well as the foreign
trade aspect of the American tariff
system.
Co-operation in foreign trade de
velopment.
The American merchant marine.
Foreign investment of American
capital as an aid to oversea com
merce.
Problems of the smaller manu
facturer and merchant.
As Mr. Farrell points out, foreign
trade is a vital clement in domestic
prosperity, whether such prosperity
be enhanced by war demands or di
minished by lack of foreign orders in
peace. The constructive encourage
ment of sound national foreign trade
policy, which will be the purpose of
the convention, should have tho co
operation of all elements engaged in,
or affected by, foreign trade, and that
embraces about everybody.
The council, which Is a non-political
and non-partisan board of fifty promi
nent merchants, manufacturers, bank
ers, farmers and other producers of
natural commodities, railroad and
steamship men, constantly engaged in
investigation of foreign trade%>robiems
and encouragement of sound national
foreign trade policy, will present to
the convention a report on "World
Trade Conditions After the European
War." This will make public the
result of a year of research into war
changes in Kuropean commercial and
industrial organization, the possible
effect of European economic aliances
upon the foreign trade of the United
States, the industrial reconstruction of
devastated areas of Europe and the
probable post-bellum competing power
of various nations. In this report the
council will offer certain recommenda
tions for national commercial prepar
edness, to meet changed conditions
after the war.
The convention promises to be one
of the most interesting and impor
tant gatherings of business men in
years.
MILITARY TIIAIXIXG ARGUMENTS
LIEUTENANT GENERAL S. B. M.
Young, in an address to the Na
tional Association of Military
Training the other day. said among
other interesting things:
The physical condition of our
young men, as shown by the recent
examination of National Guards
men, calls for at least a year of
military training and regular liv
ing as a necessity on the basis of
health, the development of many
and independent qualities, alertness
of mind and body, promptness in
action, individual hygiene and dis
cipline. respect for authority, obedi
ence to law, and the unifying influ
ence created by the association of
the young men of all races and of
all classes. •
There is no doubt in my mind
that a shoulder to shoulder asso
ciation will tend rapidly toward the
decline of our unmanly, un-Ameri
can and senseless class distinc
tions.
It is necessary that every young i
man be impressed with the dutv he
owes to his country and his obliga- 1
tion to prepare to defend it. With i
all our young men trained and li
able to be called for military ser
vice we shall be practically secure
against invasion, and every family
in the country will have a live, per
sonal interest in avoiding. war. if
possible, with honor.
The ages 18 to 21 are suggested,
because not all boys are equally
mature at IS. Generally speaking,
the average city boy is as mature
mentally at 18 as the average coun
try boy at 20. Conversely, the
country boy is as fully developed
physically at IS as his city cousin
at 20.
The economic life of the nation
as well as the future of America
rests upon these two classes. Regu
lar habits under constant medical
care will conserve our young man
hood and guarantee our traditions
to posterity in all their sacred po
tentiality.
The argument for universal military
training has never been better nor
more concretely presented. We re
produce It for the consideration of
those who may be doubtful as to the ■
wisdom of teaching all boys to care '
for themselves under any and all con- j
ditions. Read it again.
Francis Joseph left *22,000,000, but
we never heard that he got much fun
out of his money.
MRS. RIPPIN'S APPOINTMENT
MANY Harrisburg boys have gone
out of their old home town to
make lasting names for them
selves in their adopted environments,
and now comes a Harrisburg girl who
has "made good" after a manner that
has attracted wide-spread attention.*
Of the appointment of Jane Deeter
Rippin to a $5,000 position in Phila
delphia, announced in these columns
yesterday, the Public Ledger says:
Jane Deeter Rippin, made chief
probation officer of the Municipal
Court, owes her nomination to her
self and to the good work she has
done, whereby her eminent quali
fications have been demonstrated.
She brings knowledge and Judg
ment, tact and sympathy to bear on
the difficult and tangled problems
of domestic relations and readjust
ments and the discrimination be
tween the hardened misdemeanant
and the inexperienced offender. It
is hard, exhausting work, and it
••alls for every i|iiality of woman
hood that is admirable, in the
patience, the insight, the common
sense, the inspired intuition it re
quires. These are qualities beyond
the ken of a hireling to whom an
office is nothing more than the
money there is in it and the labor
Is hut an evil incidental to the pay
envelope. Mrs. Rippin comes to
her post with the indorsement of
those who are sure of her ability.
The service she will perform is not
to he measured by the mere emolu
ment, though the amount of the lat
ter strikes another blow at the
superstition that women who do
work that men might do should be
underpaid for It.
Mrs. Rippin Is well known here and
is as loved and respected by those who
know her best as by those whose ap
preciation has won for her a high
NEAf? AM II I
y OPEN WNDW tN A cwrtu ™ 0w.22" L 0■
/ SNONSToom —TAKE YOUR HE TRIED TO RYHME, u
x BLANI(ET WD W AM ,C - ,CL E~ MAN SHAKES HMSELF WFrERENT.
* THAN AN ANIMAL.
place in the affairs of the Quaker City.
Harrisburg folks will agree in all that
tho Ledger has said of her.
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By the Ex-Committeeman j
It is not the organization of the
House of Representatives for the ses
sion of 1917 nor the control of the
trend of legislation, to use Governor
Brumbaugh's apt way of characteriz
ing the contest now raging among Re
publicans in the State, that is at stake
in the struggle which is attracting
attention of people In this and other
states. The governorship and the
other offices to be tilled at the elec
tion in #9lB are the prizes. And it
might added that the Democrats
are just as keen about their chances
in that election as the Republicans.
Governor Brumbaugh is naturally
anxious to have a hand in the naming
of his successor and hence his zeal In
behalf of Representative Edwin R.
Cox. If the Governor wins the organ
ization of the House he will be In a
position to hold his trenches against
the hostile Senate and some of his ap
pointees inav not have such rough
roads as appear likely. If he falls
there will be raids made upon his ad
ministration similar to those which
were made by John R. K. Scott against
the Tener administration in the fam
ous session of 1913. Another result
of the failure will be the weakening
of the Yare-Magee plans for the suc
cessor to Governor Brumbaugh.
—The Penrose forces behind Rich-,
ard J. Baldwin are Just as keen to
prevent the election of a Governor
who will be aligned with the Vares and
this is the reason why the man from
Delaware county is being backed with
so much vigor. For the Vares to cap
ture the next governorship would be
disaster for the Penrose forces, who
lost the city administration of Phila
delphia and who will have to fight for
that in Pittsburgh next time. Penrose
could survive the election of a Demo
cratic governor better than the Vares.
These are some of the things which
are behind the very interesting cam
paign now being waged. The Gover
nor is referring to the contest for
speaker in some high sounding terms
and is disposed to fight, even if de
feated for the speakership, for the
legislation he placed upon the statute
books.
Newspapers throughout the State
are not getting very much excited
over the speakership contest and hhe
Governor's activities while editorially
scored by the Philadelphia Bulletin
and some other newspapers appear to
have been expected last May instead
of just before Christmas. The Demo
cratic Philadelphia Record is very
gleefully helping along the fuss and
also taking shots at Scott's guberna
toral aspirations. While the North
American says that the Governor will
"go the limit" to prevent Baldwin's
election, it is suspected that much of
the talk about dismissals is put out
for "scaring purposes." The Governor
has several times said that he was not
responsible for all the rumors of "be
headings" which are put out by those
close to him who would like to have
the Governor chop right and left and
whose animosity toward Highway
Commissioner Black, Superintendent
Ram bo and others, is not concealed.
The Philadelphia Ledger and Press
intimate that a big shake-up will be
made in the Brumbaugh cabinet. The
Pittsburgh papers aid printing the
news and having lots of fun. It. is
noticeable that few are' taking, sides
|and that a rvtimber of up-State papers
j are for George W. Williams.
—One of the significant things about
the campaign for speaker is that thus
far only the Baldwin people have
made any definite claims. They have
stood out for numbers, which the Cox
people have refused to give. Baldwin
last night claimed 110 and said more
were coming to see him. The Cox
people said they Jiad the speakership
"tied up" but gave no figures. The
Vares declare the claims for Baldwin
are "absurd" and the Baldwin people
point to the extravagance of the claims
for thf South Philadelphian and the
fact that no ungues or figures are giv
en. One, Baldwin man said that the
Cox campaign was "generously and
'glitteringly general."
—Scott's declaration for a commis
sion to deal with hospital appropria
tions drew from Baldwin last night
the remark that Scott did not seem to
think much of the State Board of Pub
lic Charities, which had that function
and whose members are under control
of the Governor. "Scotty is so busy
that he sometimes forgets," comment
ed the man from the Brandywlpe.
Robert D. Drlpps, of the organization
which keeps a tab on charities, also
has a plan.
—Democratic legislators who did
not attend the conference here on Sat
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
urday at which it was decided that
the Democratic senators and members
should have their own party rows are
sending word of their adherence to
the party program laid down here on
Saturday. The Democratic legislators
say that the rank and tilo of the
Democrats approve the course of 1
their State leaders and that any man j
who proceeds to stray from party lines)
on the speakership will get into trou
ble. The men mentioned as inclined
to vote for Cox after having seen Gov
ernor Brumbaugh are said to have de
termined to stand with their partv in
everything.
—Considerable curiosity is being
manifested here as to what support i
the Anti-Saloon league is going to
give Representative George W. Wil
liams, the sponsor for its bill last ses
sion and an out and out local option
ist. Mr. Williams is the leader for
local option in the legislature and his
friends naturally expect that the Anti-
Saloon league should give him its
support. The attitude of the league on
the speakership has generally been
widely proclaimed long before this
stage of the proceedings in other
years. This year even the individual
members have been singing low.
The National Guard
(Saturday Evening Post)
Experience at the Mexican Border j
shows plainly enough that the Nation
al Guard is very ill-suited to regular
army work. A hundred thousand
young civilians, mainly dependent
for livelihood and the support of
their families upon modest salaries
or wages, were abruptly taken from
their customary paths and sent upon
strenuous public business, for which,
on the whole, they were not well-1
trained or well equipped.
It is a lasting disgrace to the nation
that the guardsmen had scarcely
answered the President's summons be
fore agencies in various cities were
passing the hat for pennies to save
their families from want. Many em
ployers promised to keep the guards- 1
men's places open for them and to
continue their pay. c We know of one
by no means plutocratic concern that
was put to a charge of several hun
dred dollars a month in paying sal
aries and wages of absent guards
men.
Why should this comparatively
small business bear that grossly dis
proportionate tax for national de
fense? Reports show that, as regi
ments returned from the Border,
many guardsmen found themselves
out of jobs and with empty pockets.
Why should these patriotic guards
men bear that grossly disproportion
ate burden?
The National Guard is constitution
ally ill-suited to regular-army work.
That part of the new army bill which
pretends to adapt it to such work,
by making it more extensively sub
ject to federal control and contribut
ing fifty million dollars to a year, or j
more, of federal money to its sup- I
port, is only a transparent and pork- I
barrely sham. It ought to be repeal
ed.
Conscription, for which our a ma- !
teur militarists are so ardent is >
that the remedy?
By no means. Evolving an army of I
ten millions, when everv tangible
probability can be met with five per
cent of that number, would be more
absurd than relying upon the Nation
al Guard. Our national situation no
more calls for universal military ser
vice on the Continental plan than the
situation of Chicago calls for universal
police service.
Like Chicago, we should have a
police force adequate to probable
needs; and we should get It in the
same way tha.t is, by increasing a
regular army of fairly paid profess
ional soldiers.
End of the Strain
[New York Sun.]
The man started home from his
office.
As he departed the stenographer
told him that shorthand pads had ad
vanced 15 per cent.
An evening paper informed him
that the city budget was $211,115,016.
In the subway an Interborough of
ficial advised him to help out the crush
by riding on a local.
On the train a man told him that
the national expenses had reached
$1,268,715,834.
At Fourteenth street he heard i#
I rumor that dodo cages, which he
manufactured exclusively, would be on
the embargo list.
At the head of the subway stairs,
coming out. he was asked to contribute
to the distressed of four more Euro
pean peoples than he knew existed.
At the bootblack stand he met
Mcßillowitz, who assured him that
prohibition was a matter of months.
At his own door his wife told him
that the cook had gone to Connecticut
to make munitions at $6 a day.
His face drawn with anxiety, the
man went directly to his bureau and
from the corner of a drawer drew a
long, narrow box. He lifted the cover
and looked In. Then he began to
whistle. c
He was going out to dinner and he
had a freshly laundered tie!
PENNILESS BOY BECOMES
ONE OF MORGAN'S PARTNERS
THERE is a great story for poor
boys In- the announcement that
* at the close of Its most success
ful year J. P. Morgan & Co., "the
house of eleven partners." will add a
twelfth member in Thomas Cochran,
who will resign the presidency of the
Liberty National Bank and join the
Morgan firm on January 1.
Mr. Cochran is one of the men in
whom Henry P. Davison foresaw great
financial possibilities and in whom he
has seen his judgment verified.
Mr. Cochran was born In St. Paul
on March 20, 1871, prepared for Yale
at Phillips Andover Academy, entered
the university in the early nineties,
played on the football team and was
admitted to Skull and Bones. When he
was a junior his father met business
reverses and it became necessary for
the son to work his way through.
After his graduation he taught for a
year at New Haven, subsequently had
a railroad position in Albany and
went to New York in 1900 without a
penny but a surplus of energy.
He was treasurer of a real estate
company when he met H. P. Davison,
then president of the First National
Bank. New York, who selected him
and Seward Prosser to carry out a
plan for organizing the Astor Trust
Company. The trust company was
founded in 1907, with Mr. Davison as
chairman of the executive committee
and Mr. Cochran as vice-president. In
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Staff of Life
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Why do you all remain so still?
Why do you not in unity raise your
voices? Why so insignificant on such
a vital question? Yes your daily
bread for you and for your children,
raised in price to six cents a loaf with
its weight reduced to only eleven
ounces, truly it is a roll for it is not
worthv of the name we know as a
loaf of bread. This vice is tightening
upon the workers, yes, the masses,
the millions who are working hard
to keep a shelter ovej; their families.
It does not affect the men of plenty.
I say it is your duty to use indefatig
able'energy and endeavor to repel this
terrible imposition on the working
masses, particularly those with fami
lies.
Does it seem comprehensible that
America, the greatest of nations, has
not created laws to guard and protect
its children's staff of life and put an
end to the gambling and corners in
this cereal, upon which the millions
are so dependent. ,
I say. let us all help to urge our
president by an appeal to help us. In
Kurope the halters are governed by
laws. Take the Hritish Isles as an ex
ample, they have the half quartern
loaf, it must weigh twenty-eight
ounces, if a loaf is short of this weight
another piece of bread must be added
to it.
They have also the quartern loaf
which weighs exactly double. The
laws there stipulate that broad must
be made of pure and wholesome wheat
and any baker committing a breach
of these laws is held under a heavy
penalty of a fine. Before the Euro
pean war the half quartern loaf sold
for five cents and the quartern loaf
for ten cents.
I„et me on behalf of the working
masses pray that we may be similar
ly protected and have a wholesome
and substantial loaf, not a mere bub
ble and something entitled to the name
of "The staff of life."
This matter in importance to the
nation is second to none.
If these flour combinations have
such powerful and almost impregnable
fortressts for attack then let our gov
ernment predominate and remove
them.
If the baKeries will not comply with
laws that will compel them to supply
a real staff of life of a given weight,
purity and price, then our government
should open up everywhere bakeries
that will,
Yours sincerely,
DRIVE OREEX.
1814 Oreen St., Harrisburg, Pa.
Fly Leaf Verse by Riley
As a young writer Clara E. Laughlin
was aided by the advice and encourage
ment of the Hoosier poet and she has
gathered into an attractive little book
gome very entertaining "Reminiscences
of James Whitcomb Riley" (Revell, 7E
cents net). If for no .other reason it
will find a welcome among all admirers
of Riley because in it Is reproduced
the following lines he inscribed on the
fly leaf of the first book he sent to Miss
Laughlin:
O Wonderland of wayward Childhood.
What an easy, breezy realm of summer
calm
And dreamy gleam ar.d gloom and
bloom and balm
Thou art! The Lotus-Land the poet
sung.
It is the Chlld-Wcrld while the heart
beats young.
DECEMBER 19, 1916.
1914 Mr. Co2liran became president of
the Liberty National, which has be
come one of the most profitable na
tional banks in the United States.
The Morgan tirm now consists of
J. P. Morgan, H. P. Davison, Charles
Steele, Edward Stotesbury, Arthur E.
Newbold, 'William Pierson Hamilton,
William H. Porter, Thomas W. La
ment. Horatio G. Lloyd, Dwight W.
Morrow and Edward R. Stettinius.
Mr. Cochran lias many interests in
business. He is a director of the As
tor and Bankers' Trust Companies,
the lntcrborough Rapid Transit, Knox
Hat, Kennt'cott Copper, Braden Cop
per, American Piano, United Dry
Goods, Associated Merchants, Inter
national Motor and Morris Plan Com
panies. the Bankers' Commercial and
Submarine Corporations, the Liberty
National Bank, Hecla Iron Works and
Lord & Taylor. He is a governor of
the Bankers' Club of America, Secre
tary and Treasurer pf Group 8 of the
New York State Bankers' Association,
and a member of the Chamber of
Commerce of the State of New York,
the University, Union League, Yale
and Englewood Clubs, the Bankers -
Club of America of New York, and the
Knickerbocker Country Club.
In 1910 Air. Cochran married Miss
Martha Griffln of Saugerties, N. Y„
among whose ancestors were John
Qutncy Adams and John Marshall.
She died in May, 1914.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
ill' rl UIVTV' THE LUXURT>
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I ! \V''< 7*. v *''i< I has married a
'l ! 1 \ surgeon?
5 IWS Mrs. W. Yes.
j, /j ® I'm so glad. At
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HARD JOBS. j
What is the / rJ\
hardest thing
you do?
Writing jokes,
what is yours? |n>!i
Trying to see f (jfi,
the point In 1 || H\ /
your jokes. jf | j
(Vffcjfc EXCEPTION
V N TO THE RULE,
Sts ill llr - New brooms
N/ilrj sweep clean.
' Iff'/ ° cleaner
JJ,\ than old brooms
before Chriat-
NO WONDER. t fa
Why is It that - I -OJj
experts claim
that department 1
•tore clerks l
make fine sol-
I™don't know I (mmj/Mi
unless lt' be- \
cause they are \ yjfH I
not afraid to \/ jj n/I V\ a
charge any- (j (l\ |
POOR THING. ,
Miss Hour
Glass: Oh dear,
won't waists
ever coma into
letting ffltjat
Richard J. Baldwin, Edwin R. C
and George W. Williams, the thi
candidates for the Republican CHU<
nomination for speaker of the Hoi
are all colleagues of bygone sesah
and very good friends. In fact, til
have served on the same commttt
and huve taken very prominent pa
in the deliberations of tho last thi
sessions. With Fred C. Ehrhardt,
Scranton, and John M. Flynn.j
Rldgway, the Republican and Den
cratic "fathers of tho House" fc-esp<
tlvcly, and James F. Woodward.
McKeesport, these three men fo
the most prominent group in legis
tive affairs. They aro veterans
many a debate and much lcgislat
work. Of the six Mr. Baldwin is t
most active and he was one of t
leaders in 1913 and 1915. Mr. C
served as chairman of the manufi
tures committee and Mr. Williams
law and order, having charge of bl
which bore their names and we
talked and written about all over t
country. The contest has attract
much attention because in some i
spects it resembles that of 1913 a
bids fair to lead to the same kind
a session.
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Except for 1313 the speakersh
contests have been pretty well settl
in the caucus meetings. Republica
have always predominated and t
nomination passed unquestioned,
the nineties there was not much o
position and in the next decade the
were some revolts in which 8. Tayi
■ North, of Punxsutawney, and othe
figured. The McClaln and Cox reglm
were marked by some strenuous timi
but nothing like what followed fro
the 1913 selection. In that sessl
John R. IC. Scott took the warpa
and the record of the session Is
tremendous size.
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"We're getting out early. Chris
mas is coming," exclaimed a couple
youngsters who were roaming aroui
with snowshovels about daylight t
day. Tho boys were industrious
ringing doorbells and going after bus
ness with the same eagerness that
good many people did many yea
ago. The snowshovel bridge has n
had much to do in recent years, a
cording to the boys but this tin
there is a chance to get Chrlstm
money.
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Prof. C. H. Alkens, named as tl
president of the Susquehanna Trc
Highway association which plans
develop a great North and South hlgl
way between Harrlsburg and Elmii
along the lines of the old Indian tre
of which Col. Henry W. Shoemaki
and Fred Newell love to write, is pre
Ident of Susquehanna University, t
Is a close personal friend of Gnvernt
Brumbaugh and an authority upon tl
history of Susquehanna valley. I
was one of the Brumbaugh delegati
at Chicago and a presidential electo
Prof. Alkens will not let anyone forg<
the Susquehanna Trail any more tha
William Jennings misses anythin
when the William Penn Highway
concerned.
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State Fire Marshal G. Chal Port
working to get farmers to do somi
thing for better protection of bari
from fire. lie has been plodding alon
that line and is bent on reducing tl
number of barn fires by education
nothing else. One day he struck
farmer whose barn did not seem t
be a good fire risk so the marshal b
gan making: some suggestions. Til
farmer was "sot in his ways" an
averred that if he "fireproofed" li
barn the cattle would not thrive.
"Go on," said Port. "I was reare
on a farm and I used to be in th
cattle business."
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It's rather hard to imagine what*
in the mind of a person who climbs t
the top of the Capitol dome on a da
when a snowstorm is raging. ,Th
last few days there have been numei
ous requests for permission to go t
the top of the dome. Some of ther
come from youngsters, some froi
women and more from men. Th
view is not very attractive in a snoi
storm.
Preparations to hang the Oakle
paintings have attracted much atten
tlon at the Capitol and the nurnbe
of visitors to the Senate chamber ha
been increasing. The descriptions o
the paintings nave aroused much in
terest and there will be a repetition o
the interest which marked the placini
of the Abbey paintings. Those work
drew people from all over the Stat
and from New York and Baltimore
The Oakley paintings will be in plac
before New Year's day.
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"I think the Oakley paintings ar
going to be the finest in the land am
we are very fortunate in being abl
to secure them for the Capitol. I hat
a chance to see them in Philadelphii
and was delighted with them," sai<
Governor Brumbaugh. The Governo
is eagerly awaiting the placing of th
pictures.
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Among visitors to the city is Majo
C. C. Mehard, of Pittsburgh, whos
criticisms of National Guard affairs le<
to his retirement. The major btllt
In military training and is strong fo
the camps. He is here on insuranc
matters.
""well KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—Frank M. Rlter, former legislator
is stirring up the animals by ohargei
of Infraction of civil service at Phila
delphia.
—Mayor John V. Kork, of Wilkes-
Barre. is working on n. plan to tak
the police out of politics in his city.
—General Nelson A. Miles will mak<
a series of speephes in this state.
—Ex-Attorney General John C. Bell
who has been ill, has been spending
a short tlmo at the seashore.
—Congressman T. S. Crago in an
interview in Washington, praises the
National Guard and says the War de
partment failed to realize the emer
gency.
—Mayor E. S. Hugentogler, of York,
is in favor of choirs singing in
public squares on Christmas nlghta.
[ DO YOU KNOW "j
Tliat Harrisburg sells large amounts
of plates to bridge builders and ship
yards?
HISTORIC. HARRTSBURG
In old days John Harris' ferry land
ing was used as a town wharf.
Protecting Child Life
(Kansas City Star)
People In comfortable homes witn
happy children growing up about
them often fail to realize that thero
are other homes in the community
where the boys and girls are not pro
tected in this way. Thero are homes
from which the bread winner has been
removed, where has to
work hard to a scanty supply of
food and clothing for the children,
where the children are sent out to
earn a living before they have had a
chance tq get more than the begin
nings of an education, where for lack
of normal home life the boys and girls
are turned loose in the streets, com
mit some trifling offense, are dealt
with like hardened criminals and are
headed into a life of crime.
These are conditions that exist and
that must be dealt with if the chil
dren are to have anything like a fair
chance in the world.