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THURSDAY EVENING, JAN, 4
Without the love of books the
richest man is poor; but endowed
with this treasure of treasures, the
poorest man is rich.—J. A. Lang
ford.
WATER CONSERVATION
PUTTING before the Legislature
the water conservation program
as outlined by Governor Brum
baugh in his message read before the
lawmakers on Tuesday, the Slate flood
control committee, headed by Dr.
Dixon, has taken a momentous step
In the history of the State. As is
usual, private capital saw the profits
to be gained from use of water supply
and water power long before the pub
lic became at all interested In the sub
ject. Indeed, there is no very great
public demand for water conservation
at this time, although the subject is
receiving the growing attention of all'
thoughtful people. The Governor, j
Dr. Samuel G. Dixon and others of
'the flood control committee are uj
little ahead of popular demand, as j
wise and far-seeing public servants;
should be.
Their recommendations should re
ceive all the more earnest considera
tion of the Legislature because they
do not propose to rush haphazard into
any pet scheme of legislation which
might or might not prove best. They
very properly ask for a comprehen
sive survey of the whole situation.
They propose to view the subject from
every possible angle and with all]
available information at hand before!
they venture upon recommendations:
that will, if enacted, affect the lives
and prosperity of Pennsylvania people
for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
years to come.
The water works of the ancients
were most carefully constructed. They j
were one great public asset in the I
early days of civilization. Many of;
those of the East and Far East were ■
so well built that if not in actual !
operation to-day they are still ob- j
servable as well preserved relics and;
as illustrations of those "elder days,
of art" when "builders wrought with j
greatest care" and when vast public j
moneys were expended in providing
for water supply and irrigation pur-1
poses. During the Middle Ages no;
artificial provision was made in Europe
for water supply and the people of J
those countries paid extravagant prices !
in health and taxes for their neglect. |
That period in European history may j
be compared with the much briefer!
interval in America when the use of l
streams as sources of waterpower was'
permitted to fall very largely into
decay, when large coal-driven mills
took the place of those which the
early settlers by force of necessity ran J
by the dammed-up water of the
streams that passed their doors.
But the "inexhaustible" mines of!
coal already are nearing the end of j
their supply and the hope of the peo- I
pie for cheap water power in the|
future lies in the long neglected;
streams. Big corporations have seen j
this and vast sums already have been !
expended in dams and plants and fair!
profits are being realized from the In- i
vestments. It would be unwise, as the
Governor points out, to permit all of
the vast water resources of the Com
monwealth to fall Into the hands of
private capital. Every householder in j
the State is paying the penalty fori
the exploitation of public coal lands
at the hands of greedy interests and !
it would be criminally negligent, with
yds example so disagreeably demon-1
strated, to permit the same thing to
happen with our water supplies and
sources of water power. Properly
conserved, the streams of the State
may be made not only the servants of
the peopl.e, but a source of great '
revenue for public purposes that now
must come from the individual
or from corporations in the form of
direct taxation.
The proposed survey is rich in
possibilities. The subject is one of
the most interesting that has been
presented to the Legislature in years.
There ought to be no quibbling over
thn granting of appropriations suffi
cient t# carry the proposed work
along.
MORK PUBLICITY FOR \YM. PFW
ONE hears a great deal more about
William Penn lately than for
years; and one reason why this
is so is because of the efforts of the
William Penn Highway Association.
There is now being mailed by thou
sands the first issue of the Bulletin of
the William Highway, a twenty
four-page monthly issued In the in
terest of the Penn Way and of good
roads generally. Typographically per-
THURSDAY EVENING,
MOVIE OF A MAN WITH THE ITCHY FLANNELS : : . . . By BRIGGS
tCPT slt>e AnP NJPPER UPPER
SHOULDER I==AR jRIGHT QBFT
, | "Ga" i Rear
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feet, this bulletin has a list of con-
I trlbutors who command attention.
|_ Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh
| leads the publication with a glowing
[tribute to the Penn road and its
"many matchless miles of scenic splen
dor." Highway Commissioner Frank
B. Black tells of the aims of the State
Highway Department. Then there are
j signed articles by Colonel Henry W.
j Shoemaker, of the Altoona Times; H.
! G. Andrews, Strickland Gillilan, Judd
j Mortimer Lewis, Edgar A. Guest,
j Charles Henry Davis, president of the
! National Highways Association; E. J.
j Stackpole and others.
I There are special articles dealing
j with the recent William Penn road
opening at Easton; with Charles M.
Schwab's handsome summer home
along the William Penn Highway at
Loretto; with what the members of
the Senate and House think of the
good roads proposition, and in this
i article many legislators permit them
selves to be quoted.
The Bulletin of the William Penn
Highway seeks to get away from the
; bromtdisli passageway traveled by
I road boomers. It will present road
' facts in a new light and an interesting
; manner. It is not a money-making
I proposition—being issued solely to
! publicize better roads. As such it is
alone in a wide Held. That it will
be appreciated by advertisers is evi
denced in the first issue. The Tele
graph congratulates the association on
having issued a very clever and very
pretty first number.
If the President must have Carranza
sign something he might send him an
endorsed note for >5,000,000.
STATE DAIRY INSPECTION
THE State Grange very properly is
moving slowly in the matter of
proposed dairy inspection. It
is very geneially reported that some of
the leaders of the Grange would' like
to come out openly against such in
spection, but that they realize such a
course would put them in a very un
favorable light before the public.
The farmer cannot afford to oppose
State dairy inspection. On the other
hand, he ought to welcome it. The
stigma of typhoid fever has attached
itself to many a dairy farm. Careful
farmers with modern methods at their
command know this and take precau
tions against the contamination of
their dairy products. Imppre milk
can be produced more cheaply than
clean milk and under present condi
tions the two are brought into unfair
competition. The farmer whose dairy
is above reproach has nothing to
fear, and he ought to welcome the
State inspector. His -neighbor whose
products are not above suspicion ought
to be forced to do what his conscien
tious competitor does of his own voli
tion.
The attitude of the public in general
toward dairy inspection" may be
judged from the fact that the Ameri
can Federation of Labor at its recent
meeting in Baltimore, where 2,000,000 ;
labor men and their families were
representaed, adopted by an over
whelming vote, a resolution fav
oring the adoption by Congress of the
Linthicum bill for a Federal in
vestigation of the manner in which,
milk Is produced and distributed.
More children, not to mention the
adults, die from bovine tuberculosis
every year than from the infantile
paralysis outbreak, which caused such
a panic last summer. Municipal dairy
inspection has proved ineffective.
Either State or Federal inspection, if
npt both, is g. certainty of the future.
The farmer will do well to accept the
Inevitable gracefully.
The most discouraging thing about
Rumania is that it doesn't know when
It's licked.
PENNSYLVANIA CITIES
GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH HAS
indicated quite clearly in his
message to the Legislature that
there is need for a larger measure of
home rule for the municipalities of
the Commonwealth. In this view he
has expressed the opinion of many
who have studied conditions in the
Pennsylvania cities.
Williamsport is even now in the
throes of a municipal revolution and
students of municipal government are
in practical agreement upon the propo
sition that the present commission
form is more or less of a failure.
Discussing the problems which con
front many of the American cities, tho
Kansas City Star says:
What the city manager plan pro
poses is the election of a small
board which shall hire the best man
obtainable to run the city. There is
a chance to get high class men on
the board. Hut even if professional
politicians should get control of it,
as they would at times, the system
would be so much simpler and more
direct than the present one, and the
responsibility so centered, that the
administration would certainly be
far more efficient than it is when
politicians control the present ma
chinery.
I'nder the existing system the
city has little chance to improve
conditions, because there is con
stant change in the administrative
officers—the mayor and his depart
ment heads. The system condemns
the city to government by ama
teurs. The city manager plan at
least makes it possible, as public
sentiment becomes more ;Jert, to
keep trained men in charge of city
affairs.
Those who are concerned with tlie
efficient management of our Pennsyl
vania municipalities should see to it
j that the Clark act, under which all the
! third-class cities are operating, Is so
I amended as to make it optional with
I these cities whether the commission
i shall be a paid body or one serving
j without pay and employing a manager
| or heads of departments.
Manifestly there are weaknesses
which must be remedied, and the pres
ent Legislature should not adjourn
without giving some relief.
President Wilson "had a hundred
thousand men; he marched them into
Mexico and he marched them out
again."
A SIGNIFICANT RECORD
LOOKING back over the campaign,
it may be of value to note that
none of the members of the
Cabinet who took the stump for Wil
son—and they were almost unanimous
in doing so—was able to do for his
chief what their ex-colleague, Mr.
Bryan, did. The States where Daniels,
Baker, Redfield, et al, spoke went Re
publican, while the States where
Bryan put in his work went Demo
; cratic. It is no wonder that the
Bryan men look upon the rebirth of
I their idol as the outstanding feature
of the politics of the day.
| We bet you could have heard a blue
bird sing in Wildwood Park this morn
ing.
Need More Movie Censors
"Seventy-five .per cent, suggestive
melodrama, and no good.
"Twenty per cent, obscene or slap
stick comedy, ana no good.
"Five per cent, travel and educa
tional, and all right."
That is the manner in which Dr.
Ellis S. Oberholtzer, one of the Penn
sylvania board of censors, summed up
tho average output of the moving pic
tures that are submitted to the censors
for their inspection in an address be
fore the Federal Catholic Societies.
"You have no idea." he added, "of
the number of films that need censor
ship. We have to cull from nearly
every scenario submitted to us some
obscene situations and we need a bet
ter grade of censorship to keep our ;
moving pictures clean and well worth
while. Only four other States com
pel the submission of films to censor
ship, while the law should be such-in
every State."—From the Philadelphia i
Public Ledger.
TO STOP DRINKING, STAY IN BKD
Booth Tarkington, one of America's
greatest writers, has written an ar
ticle for the January American Maga
zine on ttu- liquor habit in which one
of his characters says:
"'I didn't plan to do it. I didn't even
attempt to do it. I just did it or
something did it for me. I woke up
one morning, after an unusually tierce
night, and when I crawled out of my
bedroom for some brandy I found I
couldn't lift a glass to my That
didn't alarm me, I'd been thai shaky
before, but I decided to go back to bed
and sleep until my nerves were some
what quieted. I did go back to bed.
and I decided to stay there until I got
"up normal" without alcohol. 1 stayed
there all that day and the next—when
I began to care a little about real food
—and the next, and the next. I stayed
there ten days, andwhen I got up I was
feeble enough In body, but I'd given my
mind or soul, or "something, enough
rest for It to get a quiet and true vision
of what had been happening to me, of
what I'd slid into, so to speak. And I
was through. I had decided. I knew
X couldn't "drink moderately,'""
HAKRISBURG TELEGRf Xt
Ut
.By the Ex-Committeeman
All is quiet on Capitol Hill to-day.
Aside from the water supply and
power and the game conferences there
has been little stirring since the
Legislature adjourned. There was no
talk of dismissals this morning and
not even a new rumor as to any ap
pointments for the places made vacant
by the Governor's requests for re
movals. The Vure leaders generally
reiterated yesterday their statements
that the Penrose-McNichol power in
the Legislature is not sufficient to hold
up confirmation of appointments by
the Governor nor to pass any meas
ure over his veto. The political out
look forecasts peace in Philadelphia
until the election next summer of city
committeemen, but factional warfare
in this city until the Legislature ad
journs. It was said the Vares are not
prepared in the light of recent events
to push John It. K. Scott's claims for
the governorship nomination in 1918.
—Accentuating their victory in the
election of the presiding oltlcers ot
both the Senate and the House, the
Penrose leaders yesterday let it be
known that they will add to their
prestige in the domination of legisla
tion at Harrisburg by the appointment
of Clarence J. Huckman, of Bucks
county, and James F. Woodward, of
Allegheny county, to be chairmen of
the Committee of the Senate and
House, respectively, on Appropriations.
This will mean that the sixty millions
of dollars or more which is to be ap
propriated for the administration of
the State government and for educa
tional and other purposes, including
the large sums to be spent for good
roads, will be allotted not by the men
who have been backing the Brum
baugh political leadership,' but by the
supporters of Senator Penrose.
—Penrose men say it is logical to
assume that with Buckman and
Woodward named for the chairman
ships of these committees the presi
dent pro tern, of the Senate and the
Speaker of the House will see to it
that a working majority of each com
mittee will be in sympathy with the
policies which the chairmen will ad
vocate.
—There was a report yesterday that
S. J. Gans, of Philadelphia, who was
chairman of the Law and Order Com
mittee four years ago, will be renamed
for that position. It. is authoritatively
stated that there has been no agree
ment upon any candidate for chair
man of the Committee on Law and
Order of the House by the Penrose
leaders. It is to this committee that
nil legislation affecting the sale of in
toxicating lirpiors, including the Local
Option bills will be referred.
Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks
| Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks
Sit together, building blocks;
Shuffle-Shoon is old and Kray,
Amber-Locks a little child;
But together at their play
| Age and youth are reconciled,
| And with sympathetic glee
Build their castles fair to see.
"When X grow to be a man,"
So the wee one's prattle ran,
"I shall build a castle so—
With a gateway broad and grand;
Here a pretty vine shall grow, •
There a soldier guard shall stand,
And.the tower shall be so liiKh,
Folks will wonder, by and by!
Shuffle-Shoon quoth: "Yes, I know;
Thus I builded long ago!
Hero a gate, and there a wall;
Here a window, -there a door;
Here a steeple wondrous tall
Rlseth ever more and more!
But the years have leveled low
What I builded long ago!"
So they gossip at their play,
Heedless of the fleeting day.
One speaks of the Long Ago
Where his dead hopes buried lie;
One with chubby cheeks aglow
Prattleth of the By-and-by
iSide by side they build their blocks—
Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks.
—Eugene Fields.
"Copy Germans to Beat Them"
Max Eastman, author and editor,
called the Lloyd-Georgo regime in
England an effort to imitate Germany
to defeat Germany in a lecture on
Socialism in Philadelphia recently.
In answer to a question on the effect
of the Lloyd-George coup, Eaatman
said: "England is showing what the
people of this country will not rec
ognize: that war and military success
are incompatible with freedom end
democratic government. When war
comes you must look for one-man
power.
"England to-day Is imitating Ger
many to defeat Oermany. England
will never go back to Its old regime
It will organize until it has state capi
talism, government ownership and op
eration of all industries in the interest
of capital."—From the Philadelphia
North American
THE GOSPEL OF PREPAREDNESS
MAKK TAPLEY, in the romance
of Dickens, you remember, was
Cheerful. No matter what con
ditions or troubles he encountered,
Mark always saw a cheerful side to
the prospect.
And when he couldnt bo as cheer
ful as usual he bravely insisted on
being as cheerful as possible. Amer
icans need to emulate the example of
Tnpley.
TVith the world mostly at war. the
United States is us yet only dabbling
Parties Don't Have Ideas
President Wilson, In one of his
speeches during the recent campaign,
uttered this sentence: "The Republi
can party h%s not had a new idea In
thirty years." This utterance natu
rally invited nrgument, and there Was
a good deal of hooting at it.
Examination of the subsequent de
bate leaves two conclusions. First, the
statement, sweeping though It appears,
is quite true. Second, that it is just
as true of the Democratic party, of
Which President Wilson said nothing,
as it Is of the Republican party. The
difference of opinion hangs about the
word which Mr. Wilson used—"had."
Political parties don't "have" Ideas.
They reflect them and adopt them.
This thought was expanded by one
of our readers, C. J. Buell of St. Paul,
Minn.
"The truth Is (he said) that great new
ideas never originate in organised
parties, but always outside of them
among a few advanced thinkers. These
ideas grow and spread and gain popu
larity until tlnally they are embodied
in legislation, sometimes by one party,
sometimes by another."
Mr. Ruell cited a large number of
examples, such as railroad regulation
and conservation of natural resources.
—Prom Collier's Weekly.
Every Man Own Cleaner
A Fostoria, Ohio, youngster nailed
his trousers to the floor in the kitchen
of his home and put the electrfc
vacuum cleaner on 'em. The cleaner
did the work.—From the Toledo Blade.
The Booze Motto
The enormous consumption of liquor
in Kansas disturbs Senator Reed. He
attributes it to prohibition. To to sure.
That is why the liquor forces always
welcome proposals to make States dry
and have as their motto, "Prohibition
and Prosperity for Booze!" Kansas
City Star.
Backsliders
Return, ye backsliding children, and
I will heal your backslidings. Behold,
we come unto thee; for thou art the
Lord our God. —Jeremiah iii, 22.
AND THE CAT CAME BACK
Zim in Cartoons Magazine
Did you ever try to lose a cat? I
mean a cat that- your wife didn't want
hanging round the house and had or
dered you to carry off eight or ten
miles and drop into the lap of nature.
Maybe you think cats have no idea of
the points of the compass. Well, you're
wrong, for they have the human race
cheated in their powers of orientation.
Last niglit.l placed an unwelcome feline
in a bag, bade it God-speed, and sent
a boy on a bicycle with full instruc
tions and a bill of lading as to his des
tination and thanked goodness that not
one corpuscle of its blood had been
shed in the commission of the act. This
morning Grimalkin sat in his accustom
ied corner on the porch, ready for
j So, it was not Grimalkin's ghost. It
I was Grimalkin in the flesh.
I "Re-n't you superstitious about cats,
mister? I be!" said the boy. "I let it
out of the bag head first but I think I
ought to've took It out tail first, so I'm
going to try it again to-night and tnke I
it out 'tuther end to, and ridg me bicycle
home hind end foremost, so't to make
the cat b'lieve he's running back track
and discumfuddle him so s he won't
know where he's at!"
PHONOGRAPH JiEKDI.E RRI SII
Do you really clean your phonograph
records when you rub them with a
cloth? Doesn't the rubbing* compress
some of the dust into the grooves?
I Arthur Herrman, of New York city,
j thinks so, says the Popular Science
Monthly for January. He has taken an
ordinary brush and lias attached it to
the sound box in such a way as to dis
lodge all dust from the groove just be
fore the needle reaches that particular
portion of the groove.
His sweeper Is composed of stiff
bristles. It may be swung to an in
active position out of engagement with
the record by turning it on its swivel
connection. It is adapted for the play
ing of records having hlll-and-dale or
laterally cut grooves.
THE I.ATRST IN BABY CARRIAGES
The up-to-the-minute baby carriage
has its electric gong and batteries, op
erated by a conveniently located
pushbutton, preferably on the handle,
to clear the pathway of the carriage.—
"Popular Science Monthly for January.
JANUARY 4. 1917.
in the pool of blood. Let's be thank
ful that, bad as our circumstances and
our standing are in this respect, they
are no worse.
True, we are yet in no condition to
defend ourselves if assailed by some
rapacious power. Rut we are coming
to recognize this fact, and perhaps
we'll be able to take the proper prep
aratory steps by and by—indeed, some
steps are now being taken. Let's be
hopeful—and vigilant in this regard.
—Detroit Free Press.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
MENTAL
LIIJERTY.
Do you enjoy WT
novel reading,
Mi as Fullman?
piuch. One can | JjMUb r
associate with \T
people in fiction W\\Jjj w.Rjh
that one 't Ff/ R:;l
wouldn't dare to /iti|
•Peak to in real j\V /i ■ t
JpC A HIS LITERA
/j| TURE.
/(TN'l * Not literary,
ixk w •
. The only book
he cares for li
fa the volume ot
J* business.
IN THE COURT Q r-\ r>
ROOM. T ]—/ T
Judge How I
long have you \
owned a car?
Motorist
(charged with .\ 1
speeding) —One
week, your hon- 11
or judg 0 —um maa
—then you can ifji" fr-|
Itlll afford to I [ j V\ I
fay a fine. • I ' —I
! 'maKßsm
! wmtmw in ™
fP' aMM TOUCH.
j If / JwWMjnj Your so#
i t~ ✓ £ plays very well
! I — he has such a
sensitive touch,
llas he?
\ not when ha
\ touches me!
AT SEA.
V First Passen
' gcr—Sir, I fancy
rf your mother
■n over there ha/j a
£ OJSL touch of sea
m'" sickness; per
haps you'd bet
ter l°ok after
Second Pas
scnger The
W s / i§|f lady Is my
'ia mother-in-law.
/jffiiil / First Passen-.
• ger—a thousand
pardons.
GAME AND | jjf llj M ifl||
GAMES. I I Jill IV mlljl
Were you ever [! ill! l|| I jli
on a big game j
Yes, and sad ID •—)
to say I found **-
It—l spent xwo BSnrafifc
days at Monte
Winks—What did Jones die of?
Blinks —Overwork^-earning money
enough to pay for the operation that
saved his life.—Judge.
Tommy (during heavy bombard
ment, to his musical pal)— Chuck It,
Nobby! I can't get to sleep while
you're making that awful noise!
London Opinion.
limuttg (Htjal
Announcement by the Harrlsburi
Railways Company that it is planning
service improvement and changes in
an effort to maintain schedules during
rush hours, brought forth a number of
tralfic tie-up stories and the sympa
thies of at least one autoist who has
occasion to use the downtown streets
frequently during the day. "Ser
vice improvement!" the autoist said
in a "peeved" sort of a way as he
told his trouble to a friend. "I'd lika
to know how they can do it. Why
sometimes it takes me from fifteen to
twenty minutes in my automobile to
get from Market Square to the Phila
delphia and Reading station. Most of
that time I spent creeping through the
Market street subway behind a coal
wagon. Four cars, three automo
biles and another wagon were trail
ing us. It's going to be some job to
better traffic conditions, there ought
to be a help in keeping schedules."
Talking about better service brought
a story from an olficial of the railways
company, too. He was discussing the
plan started some years ago to run ex
tra cars out State street, and the re
sults of the trial. in that sec
tion of the city asked for better ser
vice, then with extra cars running to
Twentieth street, they preferred tak
ing a crowded Progress or L.lngles
town car instead. I rode out on sev
eral occasions and found that often *
the extra car would have only a few
passengers, while the Progress car fol
lowing it had more than 80, many of m
them getting off at points passed by
the other car."
"If you must have an accident, don't
have it in a tollbridge, especially if
there is an unreasonable Amazon at
the one end that takes the toll," is the
advice of a local man who relates the
following experience:
"Crossing a tollbridge in a nearby
county an auto collided with his two
horse spring wagon from the rear.
The wngon was so badly damaged that
he could not continue his trip with
out repairs. He did not care to leave
the horses stand while he went in
search of the village'smithy,' so he
unhitched them and lead them across
the bridge^
"At the tollgate he paid 10c for each
horse and 3c for himself. He later re
turned with a blacksmith and paid 6c
to enter the gate. When the wagon
waa repaired, he again paid 6c to
leave the bridge. Securing the horses
he was forced to pay another 23c to
pass tho gate. He had paid 58c and
still wasn't across the bridge. How
ever his troubles were not. over. When
lie finally passed the tollgate he was
charged 30c,the regular rate for a two
horse team. Altogether his toll had
cost him 88c.
"The matter was taken up with the
bridge authorities and the 58c re
funded, but then maybe the experience
was worth that sum.
•
Retail milk dealers in the city kept
the telephones busy tho other day
when they learned that the dairymen
were talking of another increase in
the wholesale price. Members and
efilciuls of the city dealers' association
decided after short phono conferences
that no meeting will be held for sev
eral days until the action of the farm
ers is known. It was intimated that a
fight will be started at once If the
dairymen attempt to Jump the prlc
again. A 2c increase per gal
lon became effective November 1
1916.
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Only a few of the third-class cities
in the State pay 9c a quart for
milk, according to a recent census of
Pennsylvania. In one or two places
the price is 10c per quart, but
the big demand with a small supply is
largely responsible. In some of the
sections there are few farms and
much of tho milk that is sold is
brought from other points.
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The value of the phonograph in the
school and the appreciation of the var
iety of music made possible by this
machine are causing youngsters in a
number of schools to make plans to
buy talking machines. In one school
in a borough nearby the teacher and
boys and girls are working together.
Each day pennies and nickels are sav
ed, which otherwise would have been
spent for candy or other transient
joys. The youngsters are working
hard and expect to get their machine
soon.
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George H. Wirt, chief forest, fire
warden of the State Department of
Forestry, is tho author of an illus
trated article in the recent issue of
tho Journal of the Engineers Society
of Pennsylvania in which ho teUs
what the State is doing and says that
if the waste spaces of Pennsylvania
could be reforested and protected
from lires there would be no question
about water supply. Forest fires, he
says, are inexcusable in Pennsylvania
and SIOO,OOO invested in means to
check tires can save millions of dol
lars.
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Now that the Christmas rush is
over it is probable that something will
bo done pretty soon about a new high
school for the West Shore. The
school directors of that section have
been studying the problem from vari
ous angles and from all accounts are
about ready to make known some line
of policy which will bring tile realiza
tion of hopes and furnish the educa
tional facilities which must coine with
the increase of population.
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It is an interesting thing to note
that the Stutc appropriation for the
common schools, which Dr. Schaeffer
would have Increased to $18,000,000,
hsvs jumped by ten-year intervals, ex
cept in the last instance. In 1915 the
total was made $16,000,000, although
the extra million added for the first
time since 1908 can scarcely be con
sidered as an increase because it was
specifically appropriated to certain
objects. The increase in 1908 was the
result of agitation begun back in 189S
and brought about in 1908, when it
was made eleven millions.
f~~WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
Judge falling, re-elected in Novem
ber, took the onth as Justice of the
Supreme Court yesterday.
The Rev. Dr. Daniel E. Weigle, well
known in Hnrrlsburg. made an address
In /vllentown yesterday urging wider
publicity for churcheS.
Ambassador Fletcher, of Chambers
burg, brother of ex-Sheriff J. ltowe
Fletcher, of this city, is finally to bo
sent to his post in Mexico City.
DO YOU KNOW *
That large quantities of tho timbers
from the old, •tumble-down houses in
the Eighth Ward were found to be so
heavy and so well preserved that they
have been used in some of the lino
homes of Harrisburg and vicinity
erected in the past three years?
The Season and the Thing
To everything there is a season,' and
a time to every purpose under the
heaven; a time to be born, and a time
to die; a time to plant, and a time to
pluck up that which is planted; a time
to weep, and a time to laugh; a time
to mourn, and a time to dance; a. time
to love, and a time to hate; a time of
war, and a time of peace.—lScclesl
astes, 111, 1 to 8.