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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1917.
JVe would have misery cease
Yet will not cease from sin.
— MATTHEW ARNOLD.
THAT "BONE-DRY" BILL
NATIONAL prohibition may be
nearer than even its most en
thusiastic advocates have imag
ined. Passage by Congress of the bill
to forbid the shipment of intoxicants
into prohibition states came as a big
surprise to those who had not noted
the steady growth of prohibition sen
timent at Washington.
The bill was attacked as opposing
"State rights," but it is distinctly a
State rights measure, in that it forbids
outsiders violating State laws. Its
passage is the biggest temperance vic
tory in the history of Congress, the
members of which do not go far be
yond what they believe to bo the wish
of their constituents in matters of
popular legislation. Congressmen with
their ears to the ground no doubt
have heard the distant roar of the pro
hibition wave and have taken heed.
The next big temperance move will
be the adoption of a resolution for
the amendment of the federal consti
tution forbidding the manufacture or j
sale of alcoholic drink in the United !
States —after which national prohibi- |
tion will be only a matter of time.
CHANCE FOR TEAM WORK
GILBERT A. MONTAGUE, of New
York, sees In the Webb bill the
sole hope of our industrial sal
vation when the end of the European
war shall luui ue threatened with the
bitterest commercial competition that
has ever been presented to our view.
In an address to the Business Science
Club at Philadelphia recently, Mr.
Montague said:
The Webb bill promises freedom
to American export trade, oppor
tunity to smaller American manu
facturers, and stimulus to our en
tire American commercial and in
dustrial life; but, still more, it
promises the only possible salva
tion and continuance of our for
eign trade against the threatened
economic alliances now forming in
Europe against us.
One of Mr. Montague's eyes is ex
ceedingly clear of vision; the other, it
is feared, is out of focus, inasmuch
as the report of his address contains
no mention of the tariff question.
There has been considerable propa- j
ganda of late circulated in relation i
to the Webb bill for tho purpose of i
drawing the attention of the Ameri
can public from the more engrossing
question of tariff protection to Ameri
can industries. A few of our smaller
manufacturers have actually "fallen
for this stuff" and have become im
bued with the idea that if they un
unite in highly organized combina
tions they can control the trade of a
large share of the world.
Now the Webb bill may be a good
bill, but it is by no means the sine
qua non of commercial prosperity.
American manufacturers can com
bine to the nth degree, but if our
European competitors can beat them
in their home market by displacing'
goods "Made in America" with goou.,'
made at a labor cost, equaling one-!
third or one-fourth our own, the out
look for the extension of our trade
abroad is bound to be dismal. And
that our European competitors can do
it under a tariff law but nine per cent,
above absolute free trade is a fore
gone conclusion.
Tho entire domestic production of
the United States is in excess of
135,000,000,000 annually. The esti
mate of the Department of Commerce
of $45,000,000,000 is doubtless over
drawn. A serious curtailment of tnis
production due to inroads of foreign
goods in our market, means a curtail
ment of production here and a conse
quent Increase in the unit cost of such
production, hence an additional hand
icap to our manufacturers in compet
ing with foreign vendors abroad. Se
cure In their domestic market, our in
dustries can operate at capacity and
reduce this unit cost of production;
They will then have a larger oppor
tunity in the markets of the world.
The Webb bill perfected and har
nessed up with a protective tariff law
will afford tine team work. The Webb
bill by Itself will never get the goods
to market.
GREECE NEAR STARVATION
THE allies starving Greece are no
better than Germany starving
Belgium. America, which has
shed tears over Belgium, should not
rest quiescent while men, women and
children of Greece suffer. The relief
of the helpless and homeless of Eu
rope has become a well-nigh Impos
sible task, but we should do what we
can and our sympathies should be as
warm for tho victims of the entente
FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 23, 1917.
powers in Southern Europe as for
those of Germany in the North. Two
wrongs never made a right and the
allies are making a blunder of the
first magnitude in Greece.
The funniest thing we have seen in
the newspapers recently is an article
on "Threatened Invasion of America"
by the German army that hasn't been
able to get so much as across the Eng
lish channel.
REPUBLICAN LEGISLATION
TT has required the action of a r.on
partisan, non-political organization
to draw the attention of warring
Republicans to the fact that the voters
are watching closely their constructive
work in the Legislature and that there
is little or no public interest, save of
a deprecatory nature, in the petty bick
ering of factional leaders. There
should be a lesson for every Repub
lican in official life and for every man
high in the counsels of the party in
the resolutions adopted on Wednes
day by the State convention of the
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers, endorsing the administration of
Governor Brumbaugh and severely
censuring leadership in any faction
that would devote more time and at
tention to the squaring of personal dif
ferences than to the enactment of a
legislative program at once popular
and constructive.
The resolutions mention Governor
Brumbaugh specifically, and very
properly so, for it happens that nearly
if not quite all of the progressive laws
enacted since his inauguration had re
ceived endorsement at his hands cither
during his campaign or in his mes
sages to the Legislature. But it must
not be forgotten that these bills be
came statutes by the support largely of
Republicans in the House and Senate.
Had they been obstructive, instead of
constructive, in their attitude not one
could have been pushed through.
However much the issue may be be
clouded by personal antagonisms and
the efforts of Democratic newspapers
to make the people believe otherwise,
the truth is that the Republican party
since the last gubernatorial election
has made a record for the enactment
of advanced and progressive legislation
second to none in the nation.
Here are a few of the more notice
able of a great number of laws of the
kind passed by Republican votes and
approved by Governor Brumbaugh:
The best Child Labor law in the
United States.
An advanced female employment
law of great benefit to thousands of
poor women.
I Workmen's Compensation law, a;
modern, effective and highly beneficial
act.
State insurance fund law, designed
to keep down insurance rates and pro
tect employers and employes.
Continuation school law, a great step
forward in the way of education for
the poor.
Purchase of the remaining Capitol
Park extension zone.
Improvement of school conditions In
general.
These and more like them are dis
tinctively Republican laws. They were
conceived by a Republican Governor
and enacted by a Republican Legisla
ture, and the credit belongs to the
party as a whole.
Not a single bill antagonistic to
labor has been written on the statute
books of the State since Brumbaugh
became Governor with a Republican
Legislature in power.
But the point to be pressed home
upon Republican legislators and Re
publican leaders is this—that while!
the voters are deeply interested in the |
kind of laws enacted, they resent any
factional differences that may tend to
concentrate the attention of the law
making bodies upon political prefer
ment rather than the best interests of
the people. The surest way of perpet
uating the party in power is to con
tinue to jive the people the kind of
laws so warmly commended by the
carpenters in the aforementioned reso
lutions. v
If this thing keeps up, Poland and
Belgium may yet be called upon to
send food to starving America.
Social note during the food short
age—"As a souvenir each guest was
presented with a cold boiled potato."
OH, MAN! By BRIGGS
'
f ' 1 1 NEV6.R -To I I JUST HAPPENED Tb I EVE MING
Ha-hah* ha
(THERE'S somethim< IN ) "IJLANCHE DEAR-
1 EVPRESSIOM NOUJ J LIST6M- IV6 GOT 1118 Hlllll TUP
Tfwr RE.N\f-4'DS ME OP • Amm IV HI M / y ■BMBI lli ..~
| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR"
SOUP AND BREAD
To the Editor rf the Telegraph:
Last Tuesday's issue of a local Dem
ocratic newspaper contains the follow
ing editorial paragraph: "For humor
ous reading you are referred to last
election time's prediction of 'soup
houses' in event of Wilson's re-elec
tion." The first page of the same
paper contains under a bid headline an
account of starving women in New
York rioting in their desperate need
for bread for themselves and their
Children. It must require a fine abil
ity in distinguishing technical differ
ences between starving for want of
soup and starving for want of bread,
but to the average reader the two
cases will seem to be about the same.
Such thoughts may strike the mil
lionaire owner of the paper as "hu
morous," but to common people they
are a tragic revelation of what Dem
ocratic "prosperity" means, with Its
exorbitant prices for food and all other
necessities of life.
ONE WHO PAYS THE TOLL.
Rhymes From the Nursery j
Tea Party Time
Our breakfast comes at 8 o'clock, af
ter we're bathed and brushed
We eat It in a hurry, for we're always,
always rushed;
Daddy, he must make a car, and baby
wants a bath,
And sister has a lot of tasks —a sort
of aftermath
From yesterday—so mother says; so
breakfast ain't much fun,
We. eat some cereal, then drink some
milk —and run!
And luncheon time is just as bad. Then
daddy isn't home.
And we jest have a pot of soup; then
mother gets a comb,
And straightens out our hair, and
sends us back to school.
At luncheon time there ain't much
fun —least wise not as a rule.
And dinner 1 time we're sleepy, and
want to go to bed.
And long before desert comes In each
fellow hangs his head.
But say!-we've one meal in the day
that's heaps and heaps of fun,
We eat it in the nursery, Just as the
clock strikes one
For half-past three; that Is the time
we're happy, for that's when
It's party time—tea party time! at
that there ain't no men,
Nor grown up folks to rush us! just
dolls and dogs and bears,
En we eat cakes 'n candy, en some
times fruit like pears.
En sometimes mother bakes a pie
with dough that she has over,
And sticks some sugar on the top,
oh, then, we are in clover!
Er sometimes we've just nursery tea,
that's only made of milk,
Er lee cream made of crackers —but
it's all as fine as silk!
Of all the meals through the long day,
tea party time's the best,
When the great big bear or the Curly
Doll, is our "estingulshed
guest!"
—By Edna Groff Deihl, Paxtang, Pa.
"The New Telegraph"
Following an announcement Saturday
that the Harrisburg Telegraph had
purchased the Star-Independent, of that
city, the two papers were consolidated
in the Telegraph Building, and Star-
Independent readers on Monday re
ceived the Telegraph, which is now en
tering its eighty-sixth year. The com
bine was dictated by the unprecedented
conditions in the printing trades. For
many years the Telegraph, under the
able management of E. J. Stackpole,
has filled the highest ideals of clean
newspaperdom, standing for complete
news service and the best interests of
Harrisburg and the Commonwealth at
large. The Telegraph incorporates all
the features which make up an ideal
family newspaper and with the increas
ed opportunity afforded by the addition
of thousands of readers we predict even
increased power and effectiveness under
the splendid management of Mr. Stack -
pole and his able corps of assistants;
covering a Held which renders it not
only the greatest newspaper In Central
Pennsylvania, but one which will reflect
credit upon the publishers and the
State, comparing most favorably with
our greatest metropolitan dailies.
Keystone Weekly Gazette. Bellefonte,
Pa.
Preparedness
Claude had disobeyed his parents,
and his mother knew it. "I am
afraid." she said, "that when I tell
your father what you have been do
ing this forenoon he will punish you
severely."
"Have you got to tell him mother?"
asked the boy.
"Yes," was the reply; "I shall tell
him Immediately after dinner."
"Well, mother," said the boy, "give
him a real good dinner, won't you?
You might do as much as that tor
me."—Uppincott's.
'Pottttca- ck
"^ > e.n,KOi{£tf<uua
By the Ex-Committeeman
The fact that Ex-Congressman A.
Mitchell Palmer, the titular boss of
the Democratic State machine, has
taken the center of the Democratic
stage, is regarded as being rather sig
nificant and some of the lesser bosses
are looking for a boom to be started
for him for the next nomination for
Governor, so as to keep other aspiring
Democrats out. It will be recalled
that just about three years ago Palmer
was very much to the front as the pos
sible Democratic nominee and that
while there was talk of others he was
kept so much In the limelight that it
dampened enthusiasm of some of the
men who had been longing for the
chance to display their strength. Then,
suddenly, President Wilson prevailed
upon Vance C. McCormlck to be a can
didate, and he emerged from the shad
ows as the President's own, Palmer
taking up the sacrificial role of candi
date for United States Senator and in
augurating the famous "siege of Pen
rose" which was raised by the voters
of the state In a rather startling way.
It commences to look as though Pal
mer was going to be a stalking-horse
again.
In some remarks made at Atlantic
City last evening Palmer declares that
Penrose "has the goods on Brum
baugh," but that he is afraid to go
through with a real Investigation be
cause lie might get caught himself.
Therefore, argues Palmer, the investi
gation ought to be given to the Demo
crats to "put over." In addition to
this pleco of advertising Palmer pro
ceeded to "stand from under" the
blame for the increase in the cost of
living by saying that the Democrats
nor anyone else could remedy condi
tions by legislation. It Is part of the
price this country is paying to Europe
because of the war and that if this
country gets into it the cost will be
greater, he said.
—Reverting to the conditions in this
State the Democratic national commit
teeman indulged in this wail: "We told
the people all about It In 1914 and
they would not take our word for it.
Now It looks as If it was going to be
proved to them. It is time there was
a shakedown in Pennsylvania. It has
been a long time coming, but I think
it is on the way now. Mark my word,
the whole State will be seething next
year. I wouldn't be surprised if an
overwhelming demand for a new man
at the head and a new deal all through
came near blotting out party lines."
—The Philadelphia Public Ledger,
in an extended article to-day, says
that the factions of the Republican
party are moving for peace and that
much will be arranged at a conference
to be held at Philadelphia to-morrow.
None of the other Philadelphia news
papers discussed the report, which has
been going the rounds for a week. The
Ledger says that it is planned to agree
on a legislative program and to give
the Penrose people recognition in fill
ing vacant State places. Discussing
the matter the Ledger says further:
"In short, it was the general feeling
that unless Senator Penrose swings tho
mightiest kind of club over the Legis
lature, and it was not thought that We
would, his comprehensive plan for an
investigation of ail public officers of
Pennsylvania, and especially of the
Brumbaugh administration, would run
ahead on into a blind alley. At the
present moment It Is the almost unan
imous belief of Penrose and Vare lead
ers that the original Investigation pro
gram in all respects is dead beyond re
call. It is anticipated on all sides that
the Governor will veto the Sproul res
olution and things have come to such
a pass that some of the Penrose lead
ers would he disappointed if the Gov
ernor should sign the resolution. They
would then regard the Governor as
even a greater enemy of the Repub
lican party than they had previously
and }>oVH,y declared h)m to be. On the
other hand," Representative Stern, one
of the Penrose floor leaders, said last
night he haA heard of no change In
the program, no matter what the Gov
ernor did."
—The Philadelphia Press to-day ed
itorially attacks the plan for taxing
natural resources proposed by some of
the legislator. The Press says: "There
is no need of a tax on natural prod
ucts. It is of more than doubtful con
stitutionality. If good legally It would
be bad practically and economically, as
it would place a disadvantageous han
dicap on the natural products of this
State in whatever market they reach."
—The publicity bureau of the State
Suffrage Association has issued a
statement in which loyal support is
pledged by the members in whatever
emergency may arise.
—Tt is probable that some steps will
be taken In a few days to get the
State Highway Department into closer
touch with legislators. The feeling
NUNS WINTER IN FLEMISH BARN
A Correspondent in the Weekly London Times
A BARN stands in a field, few
yards back from the chaussec
which leads to the trenches.
Flemish barns are small, thin-roofed
structures through which the winter
winds howl doefully. The ground floor
usually accommodates the pigs, which
no peasant, however poor, is without,
the poultry and the garnering of the
Held—potatoes, beans, onions and
cabbage. The loft contains the fodder
which keeps tho cow through the win
ter.
This particular barn at one time
contained similar farm stock. On grey
winter mornings when the fog clung
to the trees and spread over the stunt
ed shrubberies, the peasant wife would
stand Inside its open door threshing
the beans with a great unwieldy flail.
In the sty, hard by, the pigs grunted.
Before the door the fowls gossiped. In
the summer the scene was much the
same, except for the absence of the
grayness and fog and the increased
size of the pigs and fowls. A monoto
nous contentment held the place until
one day, when the sun blazed down on
the plans and the barges on the canal
basked in the heat, word came to the
peasant wife, that all was not well with
her country.
That was the beginning of the
change. The barn was desolate during
the early autumn months after that
August day. The peasant wife was
safe in France when the new occu
pants arrived hurriedly and settled in
the cottage. And soon all the cottages
round about were filled and still new
occupants arrived.
One night, when the fields lay
brown beneath the harvest moon, a
dozen homeless stragglers stopped be
fore the door where the peasant wife
used to flail her beans. Their journey
had been long and tortous. Through
clumps of forest, over ploughed fields,
across streams, and past solemn rows
of barges which everywhere dot the
canals in Flanders, came this strange
human procession, their eyes wide in
wonderment at the sights which met
them. They walked with difficulty, for
their long, black skirts trailed heavily
in the sodden fields. One of them had
seen eighty-three winters. She couldn't
walk, and had not walked for many
months. Her journey was made in a
wheelbarrow, which the others in turn
trundled.
This was part of a colony of nuns
whose convent near Bruges had to be
abandoned when the enemy marched
Into Belgium. Their first glimpse of
the world outside their sacred walls
was when their own countrymen were
brought to Bruges wounded. They were
obliged to pass by the convent, and
many received their first dressings
from the hands of the black-robed sis
which has grown up among the law
makers Is due to . misunderstanding,
say the people at the department.
—lndependent Republican legisla
tors to-day discussed printed reports
about a community of interest with
relish. One legislator said that If a
community was to be established it
would not Include any reorganization
Democrats, because if Democrats got
control in Pennsylvania they would
not recall Independent Republicans
any more than they did at Washing
ton.
—Dropping of Clerk Neall by the
Auditor General does not appear to
have received much attention from
certain newspapers which have here
tofore found fault with every Repub
lican action.
—This is the season of the borough
council banquet in many sections of the
State, and the membors of the minor
legislatures are commencing to say
things about bills which are pending.
—ln Exeter it was discovered that
one reason why the chief of police did
not co-operate in closing Sunday
amusements was that he had an In
terest in a movie.
—When Republican leaders go to
Atlantic City it is a dreadful thing
and their statements from that place
are denounced as utterances from
meetings where matters for the 111 of
the body politic are framed up. Lately
Democratic State bosses appear to be
going to the same place and the re
marks they give out are considered by
some newspapers as only a little less
than gospel. It all depends upon who
is doing the talking.
An Infant Pessimist
A youngster of four in a family in
the city, which family had just re
ceived a visit from the stork, was told
that he had a new baby brother, and
would be allowed to take a look at
the latest arrival. Taken to the baby's
crib he gave tho newcomer a careful
and prolonged survey, then turning to
his father with an expression of utter
disgust remarked. "There's things in
this house we need much worse than
that."
ters. Others, too, on their way to bat
tle, stopped at the convent walls and
turned in through the gate to receive
refreshments. Some four or five hun
dred came, every day, for weeks, and
were looked after by the 19 nuns—for,
although prosperous, the colony was
small.
The Might
The nineteen left their home to
gether the night they started out to
find a new lodging in the part of their
country where the enemy had not yet
penetrated. Seven became separated,
and wandered aimlessly about the
fields. They never reached the small
corner which has been kept free from
the German heel, and are now some
where within the area from which
no news comes.
These were the twelve refugees
who paused before the barn door.
They occupied the barn for many
weary months. For a bed, they had
the bare loft, with a thin layer of
straw; for a coverlet, a strip of car
pet from their chapel. The Govern
ment. allowed each 30 centimes a day
for the purchase of such food as could
be purchased. It was mainly potatoes.
Their neighbors were mostly refugees
like themselves, and could give them
but little help. But they managed to
exist through the first winter months,
even the old Marie, who was carried
in the wheelbarrow. Those months
brought more unaccustomed sights to
their eyes. For that part of Flanders,
though not actually invadfed, was
within range of the enemy's guns and
within the airmen's radius. The barn
escaped both bombs and shells, though
the fields round about were ploughed
with them. In the spring the nuns
were discovered by an Englishwoman
who motored up and soon afterwards
established a depot a stone's throw
away.
In the big subterranean living room
of their new home the nnns told me
of their experiences. They were very
comfortable there, having been install
ed in an old chateau which had sur
vived other wars. In one of the great
rooms upstairs was 4 bed which is
held, if not in reverence, at least in
awe by the peasants all round, for
the fearful Duke ol' Alva, when on one
of his visits to the town, had slept In
It. The nuns are still there, and still
hear the booming of cannon, the
whistle of shells, and the hideous
noise of bombs. But although old Ma
rie still shudders when the tocsin from
the belfry warns that aircraft is on the
wing, she does not know the fear she
felt when she lay in the barn loft.
Bhe has plenty of food and a warm
bed, and never ceases giving thanks
to the Blessed Virgin for her deliver
ance from the hand of the enemy.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
RESTING.
S poor cripple with
his arm In a sling
1A H and h ' B heat * a "
JLA\ sT bandaged up?
yHj He's a moving
rl picture comedian
on his vacation.
HAPPY MAN.
To what do you JUI/i -
attribute your re
markable health? | V
Well, I reckon
I got a good
on moßt people
by bein' born be- AbM gTHP
fore germs Bi • |
discovered, there- f?J . til
by havln' less to
worry about*
ATHLETIC REC
ORDS.
——- I suppose all
jJV -you fellows out
pT" there In Qulet
ville are Tegular
That's what!
v There isn't one of
Vll us but can cut his
fifty square yard*
ot f?Tass with the
' '® wn mower In
four .hours or bat
|ltettittg (ttlfat
According to the records of the
State Department of Agriculture horse
breeding has assumed considerable
proportions In Dauphin and Lebanon
counties and there is a pronounced
growth of sentiment among farmer*
and others using horses for betterment
of the stock. The demand is not for
fast horses, but for good, strong work
horses and the value of careful breed
ing is being more and more recognized
in this community which, in spite ol
its industrial and transportation ein!
nence, is nevertheless one of the Im
portant agricultural districts. There
arc no less than eighty stallions In the A
two counties, of which sixteen are reg
istered. Cumberland has sixty-five
and Dauphin fifteen. In this county
five are registered and in Cumberland
eleven. Only one of the registered Is
not considered as up to par. The reg
istered animals in this county are C.
H. Cassell, Hummelstown. standard
bred; M. S. Hershey, Hershey, Per
cheron; John H. Miller, Harrlsburg,
standard bred; John K. Smeltz, Loyal
ton, French Coach and the Upper
Dauphin German Coach Horse Com
pariy, of Ellzabethville, German Coacli.
The registrations in Cumberland
county are:
S. B. Best, Boiling Springs, Belgian;
Israel Failor, Newville, Belgian;
Farmers' Horse Company, Shippens
burg, Belgian; V. C. McCormick, Rose
Garden, Percheron; W. 11. Miller,
Highland Farm, Carlisle, Standard
bred; George K. Nelson, Newville,
Percheron; Newville Percheron Horso
Company, Newville, Standardbred and
Percheron; Slilppensburg Horse Com
pany, Walnut Bottom, Percheron; S.
E. Wonderly, New Kingston, Per
cheron; Carlisle Percheron Horse
Company, Carlisle, Percheron.
* • *
Some person asked the question the
other day, "What are the veteran pen
sioners of the Pennsylvania railroad
doing?" None physically able have
idle moments. Of course, they are not
doing strenuous work. Their long
service with the railroad cohipany
gives them a right to take things easy.
If you watch closely their movements,
however, you will see they are follow
ing some vocation. In several of the
big department stores the elevators
are in charge of railroad "vets." Some
have gone into business. One retired
passenger engineer is passing the time
in making oil paintings and he has be r
come quite an artist. Up on North
Sixth street there is a passenger en
gineer who is selling oil. He knows
what good oil is. having used it on his
engine for many years. A well known
train man is making furniture; while
a shopman who had a record as a car
builder is a carpenter and is keeping
busy. Railroad pensioners believe
that keeping active prolongs life, and
as long as they can be their own bosses
or have proper hours for work, they
will not kick.
It is not often that a trolley car par
takes of the nature of a zoo, even on
Saturday nights when the "owl" cars
are more or less filled with the hilari
ous. But last evening a suburban car
furnished the entertainment. A man
got on a car with a dog in a box and
placed it on the front end. There were
a couple of chickens in another box on
the platform and the dog snuffed th
fowls and began to give voice. He
gave some yelps and the chickens
clucked a little until they were sura
they were well protected. The dog
continued to growl and when the pas
sengers were all taking notice from the
rear came a loud "quack." It was
from a duck, safe and sound in a bas
ket carried by a very much fussed
young man.
City health officers are keeping clos
watch upon the development of con\
tagious and infectious diseases this
spring and declare that in spite of the
weather there have been few out
breaks. Some of the people observing
health conditions attribute the situa
tion to the cold weather and others to
the lessons learned last year when
there was so much sickness. In othei
words, say doctors, people are taking
more care of themselves and theii
families. Whooping cough has noi
been as prevalent as usual.
• • •
Albert Rosenthal, the Philadelphia
artist who appears to be considerably
In the llmelightat Philadelphia bec*us
of some attacks made upon paint
ings he executed of the fathers for In
dependence Hall, is well known here
Some ten or fifteen .years ago Rosen
thal appeared to be the only artisl
with any standtng on Capitol Hill and
he painted the portrait of officials and
flourished about as though he was th
court painter, as indeed, he was dub
bed by some. Rosenthal was strong
on having collections of portraits
made for departments and when h
was not doing that he was executing
likenesses of eminent Pennsylvanians
for various expositions, some of his
works being now in the Department
of Public Instruction. Ho painted th
gallery of chief justices of the su
preme court and various department
heads and if his voguo had not de
clined he would probably have antici
pated Governor Brumbaugh's sugges
tion that the history of Pennsylvania
In art be made a feature of the Capi
tol.
Unconsciously Ilarrisburg appears
to have taken the bull by the horns
and forged ahead of the rest of the
country in the "save an hour of day
light" plan. At least that largo part
of the city's population that lives on
the Hill and uses the Mulberry street
bridge Is an hour ahead of the rest ol
the world if it regulates its life bj
the large electric clock that blazes
brightly each evening. Some weeks
ago a new electrically lighted face was
put on the clock which is part of a
huge sign. Whether the workmen
squinted carelessly at their watches
when they came to set the tlmeplec
or whether they are publicists for th
"save an hour" propaganda Is not Just
clear. Anyway the clock has merrilj
blazed ever since one hour ahead of all
competitors. So it is no unusual thing
to see persons scurrying rapidly across
the bridge wondering how they cam
to be a whole hour behind time.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—L,. C. Maderla, the Phlladelphian,
who has taken issue with State Treas
urer Young on State appropriations,
has been a trustee of the University oi
Pennsylvania for years. He graduated
there.
—Fred Rasmussen, State College
agricultural expert, is urging peopU
to do more planting.
—Judge Joslah Cohen, of Pitts
burgh, says that people who allow
automobiles to stand without taking
care of them do not deserve any con
sideration.
—Franklin Matthews, of Columbia
University, is to speak at the Cornel)
dinner in Philadelphia.
—Superior Court Judge Orlfldy was
congratulated yesterday upon his
birthday.
—Frank McGrann, well known her®
has offered land for quarters for th
Lancaster militia units.
| DO YOU KNOW 1
—That Hsurrisburg payrolls hav
quadrupled and then some In twi
years?
HISTORIC HARRIHBURG
Back in 1835 they talked about •
tabllshlng a summer resort hotel nea|
Harrlsburg.