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IRDDNESDAT KVKMNO, MARCH 7
In Thee Ooi't promise is Amen and
Tea;
Wfcat art Thou to usT Prize of ev
ery lot,
thepherd and Door, our lAfe and
Truth and Way—
Kay, Lord, what art Thou not!
— CHRISTINA ROSSETTI.
AUSTRIA'S NOTE
| A USTRIA'S note supporting Ger
many's decision to wage ruth
less U-boat warfare contained no
•urprisea. Austria Is the creature of
Germany, in this war, Anything: the
imperial government does must of
needs be stamped with the seal of
Austrian approval at Vienna. The
note reads as though it might have
been written in Berlin. All the in
tricacies of Teutonic diplomatic argu
ment are used in an attempt to prove
the good faith of the central powers,
and the effort is so strained that one
feels, upon reading the document, that
even those who framed It must have
felt the weakness of their case and
tried to make up in length what they
lacked in logic. There appears to be !
but one thing to do, and that was I
inevitable from the moment relations!
were broken with Berlin—ask lAy
Penfleld to return and send back the
newly-arrived Austrian ambassador.
ALL TOR ONE; ONE FOR AM,
THE difference between American '
labor and English labor is well
illustrated in the selection of
Samuel Gompers by President Wilson
to be a member of the new National
Council of Defense.
When England entered the war
with Germany organized labor did
everything but help. The occasion
was seized upon as opportunity for
strikes and demands of all kinds. For j
a time the newspapers of Great Brit- j
ian expressed doubt as to which was
the greater enemy of the empire—
Germany or-English labor. Of course,
all this has been changed and British
workmen have responded so loyally
that the mobilisation of Industry in
the Isles is regarded now as superior
even lo that, of Germany itself.
But American labor does not wait
until the fate of the nation hangs in
ihe balance. The moment the country
is beset by o foreign foe the head of
Ihe great American Federation of
Labor is called to the assistance of
the President, his part being the mo
bilization of labor for the great work
of guarding the country; even as Dan
iel Williard, of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, is to mobilize the trans
portation system; Howard E. Coffin
the industries of the country; Bernard
Baruch the nation's finances and
Julius Rosenwald the country's busi
ness men and its business.
When the armed fist comes knock
ing at Uncle Sam's front door it finds
the whole Tankee family waiting
within and ready for the fray. They
may have differences among them
selves, but they prefer to settle them
without any neighborhood assistance.
capital, business, the profes
sions, all stand ready to do what they
may be required to do, and In that lies
greater national strength than all the
armed preparedness in the world, de
sirable though that, too, may be.
SENATOR KNOX
THE most valuable addition to the
Senate this year Is Senator
Philander C. Knox, of Pennsyl
vania. Senator Knox is not only one
of the biggest men In the country, but
he is peculiarly fitted for senatorial
duties at a time when our foreign
relations are badly snarled In many
quarters. His long experience In the
Senate and as a member of the cabinet,
suppllmented by travel and extensive
study, have given him knowledgo of
great use to the administration leaders
if they choose to avail themselves of It.
Senator Knox goes to Washington
as the overwhelming choice of the Re
publicans at Pennsylvania for the post
;he so well fills and he received as well
tha votts of thousands of Democrats
ivrho saw In him the State's foremost
icitlien In publlo life. Ha holds his
commission from tha people, and the
people alone. He Is his own man If
.any Senator ever was, and he may be
nxpected to conduct himself In a man
ner calculated to reflect credit upon
both himself and the Commonwealth.
< ' FREE SUMMER TRAINING
THE decision of the government to
make the Plattsburg and other
military training camps kbsolute
ily tree ot cost next summer Is a step In
|th right direction. Doubtless the ex
pense regulation was necessary In the
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
experimental days of these great
camps, but that time is long since
passed. Many young men of splendid
military qualifications could afford the
time for summer training but not the
financial incidentals.
"A dozen well-located and perma
nent camps, taking the place of five
or six sporadic, imperfectly situated
training places; an expected attend
ance of 40,000 men as compared with
about 20,000 last year and 2,600 in
1915; a Federal appropriation of $2,-
000,000 for the expense of the camps
and the consequent relief of the In
dividuals from nearly all the finan
cial sacriflc hitherto Involved in se
curing summer training; the formula
tion of a progressive and uniform
course of study, practical and theo
retical for the various camps—these,"
says Secretary of War Baker in Na
tional Service Magazine for February,
"are among the considerations that
occur to me when I am asked to de
scribe the progress of the citizens'
training camps for elementary in
struction in military practice."
The Institutions that seem now
about to develop into permanent, ade
quately financed organizations had
their beginning in two training camps
for college students in the summer of
1913. The experiment proved suf
ficiently popular and profitable to war
rant its repetition in 1914; the follow
ing year, 1915, witnessed not only the
continuation of the students' camps
but the inauguration of similarly con
ducted business men's camps at
Plattsburg, N. Y., Fort Sheridan, 111.,
Monterery, Cal., and Tacoma, Wash.
The attendance at last year's camps
increased COO per cent, over 1915, and
Army officers are confident that the
number In the camps of next summer
will nearly double that of 1916.
Secretary Baker hits the nail on the
head when, In the same article, he
says:
The future army of the American
people will bo democratic. In a Re
public such as ours it is essential
that every citizen shall have an
opportunity to become an officer
and that the officers shall be se
lected for reasons of merit alone.
While the recent legislation pro
viding for the training of reserve
officers in the colleges of the coun
try is unquestionably necessary to
supply a pressing temporary need,
we are not in sympathy with such a
system as a permanent measure. It
is neither right nor wise that a
system should be perpetuated under
which a large proportion of the of
ficers are selected from the com
paratively small percentage of our
people who are able to attend col
leges. All should enter the ranks
and rise to authority on their
proved capacity, so that the son of
the millionaire and the son of the
mechanic will have equal oppor
tunity to demonstrate their capa
bilities for leadership. Such a sys
tem would be a cornerstone for the
democratic army. It would furnish
an effective guarantee against a
military caste and all the evils in
herent in such a class.
Freo military training at the volun
teer camps will be a long step in that
direction.
LARGER OUTPUT—SMALL COST
THE London Telegraph, In a recent
issue, says:
If the British motor industry
after the war is to be recreated
and developed, a protective tariff
will be necessary. • • • Even
before the war American competi
tion was becoming more and more
severe, but to-day the Americans
, have the field to themselves, and but
for the entire prohibition of im
ports would have overrun the Brit
ish market. • • it is diffi
cult to explain why American com
petition should be so keen, as
wages are higher, buildings more
costly and material no cheaper In
the United States tlan in this coun
try.
The "Autocar," an Influential Brit
ish motor journal, believes that the
explanation is due to the fact that
the individual output of the Ameri
can workman Is not restricted, ihat
the American market is vastly great
er than the British market and that
the purchasing power per unit of
population in America is far greater
than that of Great Britain. "One
might add," says the Telegraph,
"that in Great Britain cars are pro
duced as from an engineer's labora
tory, and not from a factory, as In
America."
There Is a whole lot of tariff phi
losophy in that item of news. What
chiefly concerns the auto manufac
turers of Great Britain at present Is
the competition of the cheap Ameri
can cars. Under the Republican
tariff law all automobiles imported
paid a duty of 45 per cent, ad va
lorem. The Democratic tariff law
made a reduction of 33 1-3 per cent,
on those valued at less than $2,000.
Probably the influence of Mr. Henry
Ford had something to do wltlj this
reduction. Ford has patents on his
cars which give him ample protec
tion, and any loss sustained by other
cheap cars, through foreign compe
tition, would affect hla output but
little. Of course, tho war practically
put a stop to any such competition.
Those who are acquainted with the
Ford will be amused to read what
Ford had to say with reference to
the automobile, when tho Republican
law was being framed: "This differ
ence (in the, amount paid to labor)
is very small, as the amount of labor
on automobiles in proportion to the
amount of material Is almost insig
nificant." Naturally, he had the
Ford car In mind.
On the high grade oars the Demo
crats preserved the Republican rates
on the score that they constituted
luxuries. The present abnormal
prosperity, derived from the Euro
pean war, has Tnade trade in these
high priced cars quite prosperous,
through the process of elimination has
considerably reduced the number of
manufacturing companies.
But the development of oui 1 foreign
trade in the low priced car, the car
which makes Great Britain turn to
a protective tariff, has been due pri
marily to unrestricted output, which,
of course, means an exceedingly low
unit cost of production, and this un
restricted output will continue so long
as we have no competition from
abroad, and the United States re
mains prosperous. But let the end of
the war find us operating under a tar
iff law but 9 per cent, better than ab
solute free trade, and the prosperity
of the farmer and of the purchasers
of low-priced cars generally will melt
away, the output will be restricted by
smaller demand, and all the evils
which attend the Democratic tariff
fwiNTER GOLF AND GOLFERS >:■ By
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policy In normal times will be reflect- I
ed In the automobile trade.
Great Britain, however, recognizing
at last the value of protecting her In
dustries, is ready to adopt the policy
which has been denounced and re
pudiated by tho cotton-planting rep
resentatives from the South.
| Rhymes From the Nursery J
The Paper Doll Family
When I hear grown-ups talk, it surely
makes me sort 'er smile.
Why, some folks call a family jest an
"only chile!"
And when folks have, say, three or
four, why goodness me, you'd
think
They lived in a volcano, or leastways
on the brink.
Says Mrs. J. to Mrs. T., "Four chil
dren, goodness me!
"However you can manage, I simply
cannot see!"
And Mrs. T. she nods her head, as if
she were quite smart.
And says, "Well, Mrs. J., this raising
children is an art."
When I hear grown-ups talk it surely
makes me sort 'er smile,
Talk about a family! I wish you'd see
the pile
Of kids I have, there's sixty-eight. I
stand them in a row.
And fit a dress on Caroline, and on
Camille a bow,
Or turn the flaps on the twin's caps,
and one most always snaps!
And then the thing is ruined! There's
always some mishaps.
With sixty-eight kids, Mrs. .T. would—
What do you s'pose she'd do?
I guess she'd 'bout c'mit suicide, with
my bunch to subdue!
—EDNA GROFF DEIHL.
Jules Verne's Prophecies
When man was a boy he read Jules
Verne. Now that lie is a man (or, is
be?) be acts Jules Verne-—in how many
instances in the war. and before it?
Was it not Jules Verne who absconded
a. man in a traveling case and sent him
oversea. who invented suffocating
shells, mines at sea, submarines, air
ships—although the last two were
adumbrated, with many other inven
tions not yet manifested, in Bacon's
"New Atlantis?" Jules Verne is. indeed,
representative of the French imagina
tion. which is scientific: the Russian Is
psychological; the English poetical; the
German transcendental.—E. H. Vlsiak
in The Westminster Gazette.
Tragedy in Wasted Foods
[From the New York World.]
According to the report of the
Health Department, more than 960,-
000 pounds, or approximately 481
tons, of food products, were con
demned and destroyed last week. The
lot was made up of food which, good
for use when it started for New York,
liad spoiled en route and had been
seized by inspectors. It was dumped
below the lower hay. Back of this
amazing piece of business, which
amounts to little less than a tragedy
of the markets In this season of mon
strous overcharging and needless de
privation, Is a story of faults In ship
ment, or in transit management, or
in both these particulars.
Labor Notes
Porto Rico employs 400,000 agri
cultural laborers in its principal in
dustries.
Toronto (Canada) District Trades
Council has endorsed tbe formation
of a labor party.
The total membership of the Laee
Operators' International Union Is
1,152.
Fifty thousand women are employ
ed in the factories and stofes of Wis
consin.
Eleven members of the Labor group
of the War Industries committee have
been arrested <•
charge of conspiring to overthrow the
existing regime and establish a Social
Democratic Republic.
San Jose (Cal.) Woman's Civic
Ijeague has asked the Supervisors to
donate seeds and labor to plow vacant
lots in the city so that the unemploy
ment problem will be lessened by the
employment of men.
San Franclseo Labor Council has In
dorsed the physical training bill In the
State Legislature. The bill proposes
to lnstal a system of physical training
for boys and girls In the public
schools, as opposed to military train
ing.
New York trade unionists are oppos
ing the Bewley overtime bill, intro
duced in the State Legislature, which
•would authorize the State Industrial
Commission to permit persons over 18
to work unlimited overtime in making
up for losses occasioned by break
down of machinery.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
Ot
"ptKKQljlcafcUi,
Kx-CommiUeeman^^Jj
Announcement In Washington by
National Committeeman A. Mitchell
Palmer that Pennsylvania's Demo
cracy will urge National Chairman
Vance C. McCormick for Secretary of
the Treasury has stirred up consider
able comment In the State, because
It would give Pennsylvania, whose
Democrats failed when they had all
the odds in their favor in the last gu
bernatorial campaign, two cabinet
places. It is believed that the Pal
mer announcement is the commence
ment of a big drive by the national
administration to get more congress
men from Pennsylvania and to further
weaken the Republican hold in the
coming gubernatorial election. The
Pennsylvania Democratic leaders have
gotten a tremendous lot of patronage
for their own friends and they are
now scheming to get more to keep
their machine In running order.
The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times has
this to say about the Palmer state
ment: "Mr. Palmer said lie is not
a candidate for the Democratic nomi
nation for Governor of Pennsylvania,
but. did not say he would not be. He
admits Mr. McCormick lias said he
would not seek the office again, but
added: "You remember he said that
prior to 1914, but he was the candi
date, and may be again.' If success
ful in the campaign to put Mr. Mc-
Cormick in the cabinet there is a
strong likelihood that Mr. Palmer will
ask tho party to name him for Gov
ernor. He thinks the Democrirtfc have
an excellent chance to win in 1918,
remarking that he felt confident the
breach between the Penrose and ihe
Vare-Brumbaugli factions of the Re
publican party could not be healed.
He expects the followers of Senator
Penrose to nominate a Republican for
Governor, and predicts the Vare-
Brumbaugh combination will give aid
to a third party movement to defeat
the regular nominee."
—Palmer's statement, coming so
soon after the announcement that Mc-
Cormick had an Idea of running
against Senator Penrose in 1920, has
been taken by a good many Demo
crats as notice that as far as the big
i nominations go the two star perform
ers during the disastrous year of 1914
propose to keep the center of the
stage or to name the men who are to
do so. Tn some quarters the position
of the two leaders is considered to be
bosslsm of a most interesting type.
* —ln this connection it is noted that
all of the men talked of as possible
candidates for Governor or Senator
have been gentlemen of the highest
type, but any of whom would with
draw the Instant word came that the
President of the United States favor
ed someone else. The President dic
tated the nomination* in 1914.
—Senator Penrose's return to Phila
delphia the end of the. week and tho
reconvening of the Legislature next
Monday are being awaited with hope
by the Democrats and interest by
evoryone else. The Senator Is suld to
intend to call for some inquiries.
—The Philadelphia Press in an edi
torial to-day on State grants to char
itieu says: "But the solution will
scarcely lie either in withholding State
aid from all privately managed chari
ties or in taking them entirely under
control of the Commonwealth. Rigid
State supervision and partial control
after au equitable system of State
aid has been devised would come
nearer to being a remedy for the pres
ent acknowledged evils."
—Senator Edwin H. Vare and the
twelve members of his party who left
for Hot Springs, Va, ten days ago,
returned yesterday, excorft Chairman
Harry A. Mackey. of the Workmen's
Compensation Board, who remained at
the resort. "About the only thing we
did not do on the trip was to discuss
politics." said Senator Vare. on his
return. "Recorder of Deeds Hazlett
and myself spent the better part of
the time horseback riding. The oth
ers golfed during the morning and
afternoon and danced -at night. I nev
er had a more enjoykble trip In my
life and other lhembers of the party
seemed to be of the same opinion."
Congressman Vare was in lengthy
conference yesterday afternoea with
Mayor Smith but the nature of the
matters discussed was not made pub
lic. Senator McNlchol and/ward lead
ers In his party who are at St. Lucie.
Fla.. are not expected to return to
Philadelphia until Saturday.
—Albert Tj. Moist, Philadelphia bus
iness man and one of the favorites
the State machine leaders, is being
boomed for the vacancy In the ap
pralsership of the port fo Philadel
phia. This is the job mad* vacant by
1 \
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
Palmer and Postmasters
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
I noticed" In Saturday's paper uomc
of the doings of A. Mitchell Palmer
concerning postoffice appointments.
Perhaps you never have heard what
he did concerning the Mt. Union post
office.
Owing to the death of A. W. Jones,
the office here became vacant Novem
ber 27, 1916. The applicants all con
sisted of good citizens and lifelong
Democrats of the town and men who
have spent their lives building up the
party. Among these applicants v.'as
Mr. Jones' son, who asked for the un
expired term.
The Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer ig
nores all these applicants and sends
the name of Jas. Wiley to be con
firmed as postmaster. _ At the time of
Mr. Jones' death this man was not a
resident of town a year, and never
voted in the town but once.
The citizens of this place were bit
terly opposed to his appointment.
It is the belief of the citizens that
they know the way Palmer was in
duced to hand over the office, but they
are not saying.
Yours respectfully,
A MT. UNION CITIZEN.
Extends Thanks
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Please allow the members and pas
tor of the Asbury M. E. Church space
in your valuable paper to thank Mrs.
Carrie Patton and Mrs. Lawyer W.
Justin Carter for the delightful enter
tainment given last evening, sth inst.,
in honor of Rev. D. W. Hays, district
superintendent, and Rev. W. H.
Gaines, pastor, at the home of Mrs.
Patto.n, 117 Balm street.
We also tender our sincere thanks
to Rev. K. Cunningham, B. M.
Ward and U. G. Tjcoper and a host of
friends who contributed in no <small
degree to the pleasure of the evening.
Rev. E. Luther Cunningham, repre
senting the friends there present,
presented to Rev. and Mrs. W. H.
Gaines the turn of $16.50, as a tok,en
W. W. Roper, when he refused to play
machine politics.
—Justice John Stewart, of the Su
preme Court, is quoted by the Phila
delphia ledger to-day as opposed to
capital punishment,
—Acting Democratic State Chair
man Guffey is soothing some of the
postmasters who aro worrying lest
they lose their second terms by stat
ing that none will be removed without
"just cause." However "just cause" is
a flexible term in the Pennsylvania
Democracy.
The Debt to W. J. B.
The American people owe to Mr.
Bryan a great debt of gratitude. The
longer Mr. Bryan lives and the more
he eays It grows plainer that in all Bin.
cerlty the whole nation should be
thankful to Mr. Bryan —for getting out
of the Cabinet, before he had a chance
to make any more breaks!— Boston
Advertiser.
Wonderful Self-restraint
The Kaiser showed wonderful self
reHtralnt in merely ordering our mer
chant marine to wear stripes, when ho
might have ordered our Navy oft his
ocean.—New York Evening Bun.
The Thinker
Back of the beating hammer
By which the steel is wrought.
Back of the workshop's clamor
Tho seeker may And the thought.
The thought that is ever master
Of iron and steam and ateel,
That rises above disaster
And tramples it under heel!
The drudge may fret and tinker,
Or labor with lusty blows,
But back of him stands the Thlnkor,
The clear-eyed man who knows;
For into each plow pr saber,
Each piece and part and whole.
Must go the brains of labor
Which gives the work a soul!
i Back of the motor's humming,
1 Back of the belts that aing.
Back of the hammer's drumming.
Back of the cranes that awing,
There is the eye which scans them.
Watching through stress and
strain.
There Is the mind which plans them—
Back of the brawn, the brain!
Might of the roaring boiler.
Force of the engine's thrust.
Strength of the sweating toiler,
Greatly in these we trust,
But back of them stands the schemer,
The Thinker who drives things
through;
Back of the Job—the dreamer,
Who's making the dream come true:
—Berton Bralejt t
MARCH 7\ 191 7.
of their friendship and esteem, and
wished God speed. Rev. Gaines leaves
Monday for Baltimore, MU., the seat
of the Washington annual conference,
Methodist Episcopal Church, over
which Bishop W. F. McDowell, D. D.,
of Washington, t). C., presides.
MEMBER.
Let Us Have Them
To tfit Editor of the Telegraph:
Why does not not Commissioner
Gross make public- his specifications
tor fire apparatus? Ho is boasting of
low prices for the equipment he is
about to buy, but what does he get
with it? Does the city receive only
the bare apparatus or does it receive
all of the appliances and fittings usu
ally regarded as necessary to proper
operation? I understand the firemen
have asked for this information but
that it has not been forthcoming.
FIREMAN.
That Citizens' Committee
To the Editor of tht Teltgraph:
When the school board asked us to
vote for the high school loan last fall
the members told us that a committee
of prominent business men as a Citi
zens' Advisory Committee would be
called in to help decide what would
be for the welfare of the district. In
particular wo were assured that this
committee would be permitted to
have a voice in the selection of an ar
chitect. Now we are told that the
committee of citizens, any one of
whom is head and shoulders above
the average citizen in business Judg
ment, if their success In a business
way is any criterion, has made a
| grievous error in selecting Mr. Ittner,
of St. Mollis. If the board didn't want,
ithese men to make a decision why
were they asked to act? I for one
would sooner accept, the judgment, of
the committee than that of the board.
K the committee and the board could
vote together Ittner would have a ma
jority, yet five directors pretend to
know more than a majority of the
board and the committee combined.
J. U FRALICK.
I OUR DAILY LAUGH
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DIFFEKEN- , 1
TIATION.
The men are
Oh, no; some
hare at lot more 7 jL L
Boner than oth- L
TRtne.
J&jfc Children
flfl ' \fw\ should be aeen
tg/i \ and not heard.
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A. that respect I
know a lot ot
I | old folka wh
I ft haven't rrowm
GOOD REA- /jw\
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Is unable to col- ■j
Perhaps there
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-~if. demand Mrs.
Perch is suing
her husband for
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Ibmttg Cdifat
Student* of municipal affairs in
Pennsylvania will find quite a few
things of interest just now anions the
third class cities o< the State and some
activities which would not have been
thought of a decade ago are occupying
the attention of oflcials. Paved streets,
parks and improved sewer systems are
now regarded a much matters of
course as police and flro protection
and the new lines of activity are along
the lines of community work, espe
cially devotion rf certain streets at
fixed times to playgrounds for chil
dren and dancinf; the close regula
tion of markets, even to the extent
of bluntly telling food price gougers
to stop their practices and the opera
tion of gardens sch aa were much in
vogue in the duys ot the Pingree po
tato patches, and along the lines.of the
summer gardens conducted with so
much success in this city the last few
years under the auspices of the Civic
Club and the associated charitable or
ganisations. Yorfc and Wilkes-Barre
are giving considerable attention to
the gardens now, while Erie, which is
rapidly developing its port facilities
and its fishing industry, is doing the
same thing. Cliestsr, which has had
a phenomenal development, is now
planning annexatioi of adjacent dis
tricts to create a gieater Chester and
to make the water iront a bigger bus
iness nsset, to establish model hous
ing and to extend parks. Allentown
and Bethlehem seen to be forgetting
old rivalries and shw a disposition to
work and plan for treat things in the
days when their Halts will be within
a stone's throw. Eeeton is moving for
annexation, and if a legislative bill
goes through Bethlehem will grow up
In spite of county lhes. Fottsville Is
giving countenance to reforesting
plans In its neighb>rhood and Al
toona and Johnstovn are keenly In
terested in development of water sup
plies and now highvays. Out In the
coke country the cities of Uniontown
and Connellsvllle aie projecting ex
tensive municipal Improvements and
the new city of Butbr will launch an
ambitious program when it celebrates
its centennial this spilng. Coatesvllle,
which has been suffering effects of ab
normal industrial coiditlons and im
ported labor now has plans for mu
nicipal efficiency in administration.
All of the third class cities are grow
ing and have plen:y of resources
which their people ire now content
shall be employed for common bene
fit to a greater extent than ever.
• • •
In this connection it Is interesting
to note from conversations of legis
lators that some of the larger bor
oughs of the State are awaiting
changes in the third class city code
and further tryouts for others before
submitting to their voterH propositions
to become cities. On several occasions
recently questions of entering the city
class have been defeated largely
through antagonism of the liquor In
terests, which objected to the higher
license fees and were strong enugh
to hamstring good municipal moves.
Enactment of a "home rule" amend
ment to the constitution, such as is
proposed by Senator Beidleman, will
bring more boroughs into the' city
class where there are greater oppor
tunities and where they should be
with their big populations and fine re
sources.
• • *
The manner In which every H&r
rishurg kid took to coasting late yes
terday afternoon and last night was
well worth watching. There *' re
dozens of sledding parties in the 11111
streets last night and they wers by
no means confined to youngsters. Nu
merous grownups took part. Quite a
few llarrlsburgers went over to Cum
berland county to enjoy the hilla and
folks living in Steelton went to those
of Swatara township for fun. It was
about the last chance for coasting fun
this spring and no one seemed to
want to miss the opportunity. In the
east end of the city it seeimd as
though everyone who owned a sled
was out for the fun.
• • •
"Something seems to be frong
about this Legislature," obserted a
former member who stopped ot? here
yesterday on his way home from the
Inauguration.
• "Well, outside of the fact that It
has n6t done anything there does not
appear to be anything different from
other general assemblies," wis the
reply he got. from several newspaper
men who had run across liiti In a
Capitol corridor.
"You're a fine bunch of wltcliers,
you are," replied the ex-member.
"Here you have been in sesstpn two
months and you do not Jiavo a bill
in hand for a State song or ft State
flower."
• • • ,
Herman XJ. Collins, the Gipard of
the Philadelphia Public Ledger, makes
this Interesting observation on the re
cent report of the Pennsylvania Kail
road: "An annual statement toy- Pres
ident Rea is the tallest talk -re ever
hear. What I mean is that lie deals
in such stupendous figures on the one
hand tiniest fractions of pen
nies on the other. Gulliver's giants and
llliputlans are mere symbols iof the
Pike's Peaks and grains of dust which
President Rea must alternately nego
tiate in his work. One moment he
needs a IJck telescope and the next
a thousand-power magnifying glass.
'Whadya mean telescope and mifro
scope'? you ask. Just this. Presi
dent Rea with one breath telli us his
railroad system last year collected
$4 43,000,000 of revenue, but that to
earn the price of one two-een.t stanl>
it had to carry a ton of freight twelve
miles, fan you beat that for vivid
contrast?" .
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "
—John Wanamaker is cruising on
Florida rivers in his house boat. .
—Congressman Thomas S. Butler,
of Media, who completed twenty years
In continuous service Sunday, Is a keen
navy advocate.
—Judge J. Willis Martin, who Is
urging social service as on adjunct of
the courts, is one of the veterans of
the Philadelphia bench.
—Mayor Armstrong, of Pittsburgh,
will return from Florida this week.
—Robert Whesley, the Philadelphia
Golf Association president, says base
ball Is the national sport, but golf is
next.
—John Williams Patton. of Devon,
noted for years for his horses, has
gone In for dogs and has raised some
prizo winners.
—A. 8. Deysher, of Reading, the ,
president of the new racing circuit,
has been Identified with racing and
fairs, for years In Berks oounty.
| DO YOU KNOW
Ttiat HarHsbnrg RIMI Is in me In
machinery in Imftte Island JfnJT
yarfl?
HISTORIC 11ARRISBVRG
In old days the weekly newspapers
used to be during
legislative sessions.
Noteworthy Fact
It Is noteworthy that the Mexicans
occupying the "territory vacated by
Pershing are VtUlstas, not Carransta<.
aa—New Tor* Evening Sun.