6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded 1831 'Published evenlags except Sunday by THE TELEORAFH PRINTING CO., T<l(Taph Bulldiuc, Federal Square. 'E.J. 6TACKPOLE./ J r#x' *5" Editor\n-C hirf E. R. OVSTER, Business Manager. OUSM. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. yl Member American lation and Penn -19 Eastern office, Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as scond class matter. By carriers, ten cents a V* week; by mail. $3.00 y a year in advance. MONDAY EVENING, JULY 30 j i' , Give rue an ideal which will stand ' the strain of weaving into human 1 stuff on the loom of the real. — Hexby ; VAX DTKF.. ' DOWN WITH NOISE MAKERS CHIEF OF POLICE WETZEL and j his force are now under civil j service regulations and any ' temptation under old conditions to' treat with consideration persistent < noise-makers among automobile and [ motorcycle maniacs should no longer interfere with prompt and effectivj' suppression of these public nuisances, j One need onlv stand for a few min- ; utes on any driveway of the city to learn first hand the need for vigorous j police enforcement of the regulations against open cut-outs and unneces sary blowing of horns in addition to outrageous speeding. Also, the dis- ' regard of parking regulations de mands an awakening of the police department. If the civil service innovation Is to amount to anything in the way of • improvement it must be manifested in the effective and fearless putting down of the noise-makers who are running wild in Harrisburg at the preaent time. A few courageous cycle policemen can stop the cut-out racket and all the other needless noises in a jiffy, but there must be no "don't do it again" at headquarters., Stiff fines and still stiffer fines for every offense with arrests without fear or favor in all cases will soon make Harrisburg a habitable city. Down with nclse-makersl City Council i 3 right in prohibiting j pssrkicK of automobiles in Third and ! Fourth /treets between Walnut and | Market, but why not make both these \ crowded sections one-way highways tor *ll traffic. Also, why should not ! tbe i>usr traffic officers have "Go" i aafi "Stop" semaphores? WHAT WILL COUNCIL DO ? CITY COMMISSIONER DUNKLE and his colleagues of the City Council will meet public expec tatioxi with regard to the ash and , garbage conditions in Harrisburg; only when they take over the pres-! eat reduction plant from the pri vate concern which has been op erating it and establish without un- j nces6&ry delay a municipal plant. 1 All classes of citizens demand a change. They have a right, to ex pect that the waste of the commun- j ity will be promptly and efficiently' handled to the end that the health and comfort of all the people may be conserved. We must not drop back Into a' situation that had become intoler able. It is due this beautiful and progressive city that we have full j and permanent relief from the old | order and that is what the people j have a right to insist upon. If definite action c n the option to \ purchase the existing plant must be ! taken on or before August firs:,' Council must act within the next' twenty.four hours. Somebody recently wrote something about the war taxes and he wa_? moved to observe that about one ninth of the population paid the taxes while the other eight-ninths ran the Government. He was not far from ; the truth and the fact that so few are ' furnishing the sinews of war may ac- I count for the readiness of certain ; persons at Washington to spend j prodigally other people's money. A GOOD MOVE EMPLOYES of the American rail- \ roads disabled by reason of the j war are to he extended such j practical assistance as will enable them to earn a livelihood when they : return to peaceful pursuits through a movement which C. W. Egan, gen- j eral claim agent of the Baltimore & ; Ohio Railroad, is behind to educate i these men along lines that will make them capable of self support. The work will be undertaken by a com mittee, of which Mr. Egan is one, of five members representing 117 Am erican and Canadian railroad sys tems. "At a meeting recently of the heads of railroad claims depart ments," said Mr. Egan in outlining the plan, "a committee was ap pointed to provide the ways and means of educating crippled railroad employes made so by reason of the ■war. teaching them the work In the department to which they may be "beat adapted and providing them, after they become efficient, with work at or near the salary they would be likely to command had they not gone to war. The work wll he carried on not only from an economic standpoint. It will be ln I v ' ' ? '' '*'"' MONDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JULY 30, 1917. spired by the humanitarian duty we all owe our fellow-countrymen who are fighting the world's battle for democracy. Those interested In the movement will endeavor to make i every railroad employe who goe9 to I the front and is unfortunate enough | to sustain injury feel secure In the ' knowledge that when he returns he will find a position awaiting him paying a livable wage." This i& a move In the right direc tion. The railroad men of the coun try have responded nobly to the call for volunteers. Hundreds of those from along the Reading, the Penn sylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio systems have gone into the engineers, even though it is strongly suspected that few railroad men will be draft ed. The man who volunteers wheu he knows the chances are good for his exemption is a real patriot and nothing is too good for him. It is to be hoped that all of the railroads \ of the country will take up the Egan , plan. Many railroad men will re turn disabled, but they will not want to become objects of charity. The Brotherhoods are also moving for the relief of their members by pledging them their death and dis ability claims while in the service. AN ARMORY NEEDED HARRISBURG will send into the war nine separate units of the National Guard with a big share in a tenth company located elsewhere. This compares very well with any j other community of its size in the! State and far surpasses most. Yet Harrisburg is without a State-owned armory, notwithstanding that many other cities have been favored in this way to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Governor has Just approved an appropriation of $1,190,000 for armory purposes. Of this Harrisburg should have a very generous slice. As has been frequently pointed out, the, new armory should be located at ! State street and the railroad, front ing on the new Capitol Park exten sion. It should be of design in keep ing with its surroundings and large enough to permit of cavalry and In fantry drills at one time, with room for all units and tracks for the load- j Ing of supplies direct from the! building. The time Is here when this subject should receive consideration. When the troops return from the war they will find the old City Gray's Armory entirely inadequate and the cavalry armory torn down to make way for park improvements. Nothing will dls- j courage recruiting for the new Guard I more than lack of proper quarters, j Nothing will do so much toward keeping up the standards as a mod ern armory conveniently situated. By all means let us take up this matter with the State without delay. THE MILI.ERSBURG BRIDGE IT is too bad that money sufficient could not be found with which to build the proposed bridge across j the Susquehanna at Mlllersburg. I There Is no public improvement in Central Pennsylvania more needed than this. Twice Senator Beidleman got the bill through the Senate and this year the House added its ap proval, only to have it vetoed because of lack of funds. Unquestionably, the Mlllersburg bridge eventually will be built by the State Two serious set-backs will not dampen the enthusiasm of the active upper end people who are back of the project. They know so well the vast benefits to be derived from such a structure that temporary disap pointment will not be permitted to stand in the way of continuing the campaign that eventially will bring success. SECTIONAL AND INEQUITABLE GOVERNOR MCCALL. of Massa chusetts. protesting against the Increase in the draft quota! from his State, makes the suggestive comment that the new apportion ment, which is supposedly based up on the registration, "penalizes States where registration was complete and thorough in comparison with State* where registration was incomplete." The latter States are all tn the j South—yet we do not hear of any ' widespread activity among Federal authorities down there in seeking out and punishing slackers Whereas, in I the Northern States where, as Gov- j ernor McCall says, the registration j was complete and thorough, the! prosecuting officers and the courts) have been busy rounding up and | dealing with those who did not reg ister. In this view of the situation it is far more serious than a sectional in justice—to which the North has be come somewhat accustomed through Democratic taxation. It involves an official negligence, if not connivance, which is vital to the equities. UPHOLD GOVERNMENT BY LAW TWO years and 10,000 fine is the penalty imposed upon the first Socialists who found their theories in conflict with the laws of the United States. Emma Goldman l and Alexander Berkman will doubt-1 less deem themselves martyrs for the' cause. But that will not prevent their sentence from having a strong deterrent effect upon others of their Ilk who are made of a little leu stem stuff. The war Is not going to "be without its blessings—and one of them will be to teach the country the dangers of Socialism of the Gold man-Berkmin order. RAILROAD COUNTRY CLUB IT Is to be hoped the plans of those back of the movement for a county club for railroad men along Wlldwood Lake on railroad property will materialize. The pro pose** Ite is well suited for the pur pose. Target ranges, baseball fields, tennis, croquet and other outdoor sports could be encouraged on the eight acres of ground the originators of the movement have in mind. The Pennsylvania Railroad Y. M. C. A. Is filling a useful place In Its field, and it began in one small room. So, perhaps, with the talked-of coun try club. The small beginning may make a good ending. A large fraction of Harrlsburg's population is made up of railroad men and anything of benefit to them is of benefit also to the whole city. Ik By the Ex-Commlttecmnn Governor Brumbaugh's disposal of the mass of appropriation bills left , with him by the last Legislature, his : | approval of the teachers' minimum ; | salary and fish code bills and his j j veto of the bill to suspend operation of the full crew law during the war do not seem to have aroused near as much newspaper comment as ex-| pected. Of course, there is much more in the public mind now be cause of the war and national affairs | and the legislation appears to have excited comment only among the people directly interested. The Philadelphia Public Ledger] says that the veto was Justifiable !f what the Governor says about it is correct, but the Democratic Phila delphia Record attacks the Governor in sharp terms, styling the action "a | hypocritical veto." There is very little comment, In-1 deed, upon the handling of the ap-j proprlatlons except on purely local I matters. —One of the things about the final! output of rpessages at the Capitol t was the whack the Governor took In his reference to the approval of the fish code to the senators who hadi assailed Commissioner Buller. From 1 the way the message read It would I seem that the Governor thought that, the senators were as bad as illegal fishers. —David H. Lane, the sage of Phil- I ' adelphia politics, who was 78 yester- 1 day, says that if he had his life o live over again he would not do anyj' differently. Mr. Lane and Senator) : E. \V. Patton, of the West Philadel- i phia district, have been issuing some j very interesting reminiscences of I of early days in that city. - —Governor Brumbaugh's approval 1 of the bill to increase the salaries of! judges in nine counties was more or ; less of a surprise to a good many j people. The bill will be certified to the counties affected shortly. —Governor Brumbaugh is not ex- j pected to return to Harrisburg until i late in August. The Governor re-1 marked to friends before leaving on his vacation that he had never work- j yed as hard in his life as he had on i the bills left with him. District Attorney R. H. Jackson, of I Allegheny county, and a bar com-1 mittee are having an interesting time ! these days. They appear to be say- ( ing things about each other. —Some person must be alarmed about the possibility of Senator Wil liam C. Sproul being a candidate for j governor next year judging from th-?! shots being taken at him in editor ials. —William S. Robertson, whose job j in the Philadelphia city service has i been upheld in court, is a son-in-law i of Mayor Smith. —Select Councilman Lennon has' let go a broadside at Secretary Dan- j iels that makes interesting reading. Congressman Vare is also saying a few things about the secretary and his peculiar, ways. —Albert Karhan, of Sabinsville, dismissed as a state factory inspec tor last summer because he refused to fight certain Republican candi dates for the Legislature in one of the northern tier districts and lately reappointed an inspector after pass ing an examination before the State Industrial Board, seems to have been on the state payroll between times. Karhan's dismissal came in the midst of the presidential primary fight last year and it was charged that he was dropped because he would not fight Senator Frank E. Baldwin, Repub lican candidate for senator. No one connected with the administration would admit it and no reason was ever given for his dismissal. It turns out that he was employed by the State Insurance Fund, of which Robert K. Young. Tioga, former State Treasurer, was chairman for a while. At the olTices of the fund to day it was stated that Karhan had been employed "for a limited period last winter." The Insurance Depart ment denied ever having emp'oyed Karhan. —Whether Auditor General Charles A. Snyder will start to scru tinize the expense bills of Governor Brumbaugh now that he is on his vacation and whether Private Sec retary William H. Ball has the list of changes to be made in the depart ments are the two big questions at the Capitol. Things have generally happened after the Governor leaves on a trip and it is said that some dismissals which will furnish warn ings will be made. Mr. Ball has been giving very close attention to appointment matters. —The boom for Congressman H. j W. Watson, of Bucks county, for I Governor is showing signs of another j healthy revival. —Fifth Sunday meetings of Rail road brotherhoods passed resolu tions thanking the Governor for ve toing the full crew bill. —Atlantic City dispatches tell of prominent Republicans gathering there yesterday and of much Sproul talk for Governor. —The boom for E. Lowry Humes for the Democratic nomination for Governor is due to be trotted out in various counties will fall. —The Philadelphia Ledger prints the following: "Senator Crow, of Uniontown, the Republican State chairman, was in the city with Mrs. 1 Crow and the two motored out to , their farm in Bucks County. Sena tor Crow, like United States Senator Knox, is a Western Pennsylvanian, i but each finds the eastern end of the t State well suited for the real country r life. Senator Knoifs country estate ' is at .Valley Forge. State Treasurer Kephart accompanied Senator Crow i ] and looked mveh like a Mandarin , / \ The Days of R • > . . By BRIGGS ff|W M " LISTEN TO THE ' i |V\OCKIMG BIRD" '""' with a new style in broad-brimmed straw hats." —A Scranton dispatch says: "Fol lowing the announcement that a se cret probe of the Dunmore School Board affairs had been in progress for nearly six months and . that sweeping disclosures are expected as a result it was learned to-day that counsel for the Taxpayers' Associa tion, which is controlled by the mine operators are also looktng into af fairs of borough council. It is said proceedings will be started against both the school directors and coun cilmen within a week." —L. L. Shoemaker has been chosen city treasurer of Scranton to succeed the late P. J. Lynott. Labor Notes A number of German women have cut off their lialr and given it for war purposes. The longer strands are used to make belting for mu nitions factories and the shorter ones are made Into felt. William the Conqueror introduced horseshoes into England. Stirrups were, however, unknown to the an cients, who had posts erected on their roads to enable horsemen to mount. It Is predicted that by 1940 half the women of the country will be self-supporting, and it is figured that at that time every two women out of three will be earning enough money to keep themselr*>s. Women who have replaced skilled men in England are paid at the same piece rate as men, but because they cannot turn out as much work their earnings are only 75 per cent, of that earned by the men. When .Luxemburg miners, de manding a share of the profits being made on work for the German gov ernment, struck. German troops ar rested the leaders and' brought in Belgian "slaves" to work the mines. The strike then collapsed. Canada reports "comparatively lit tle unemployment in urban centers, except in two or three cities in the Far West. The outlook for the com ing winter Is considerably brighter than at this time last fall." There Is no strike nor labor dispute of magnitude In the Donlnion. A Japanese newspaper man in Honolulu has built a typesetting ma chine with which it possible to set about 5,000 characters used by Chi nese and Japanese printers. The Secretary of War and the Sec retary of the Navy have agreed to prefer women employes henceforth In appointments to the clerical forces of the War and Navy Departments. Meat Prices The investigation which the Fed-1 eral Trade Commission is making as to the high range of prices for meat, and as to the general operations of the packing industry, cannot be ac complished in a few days or in a few weeks, if it is to be as thorough as is promised. According to one of the commissioners, it is not to be satisfied by a merely superficial ex amination. but is first to study the books of the packers, then to trace the factors of cost from the ranch to the retail counter, and lastly to consider the relation of by-products and their Income producing value to the cost of the edible meat, which now is hardly more than a by product of the development of the auxiliaries of the meat supply. The profits of the packers are enormous. The c'onsumers are charged prices that are beyond the reach of many. And yet it is said repeatedly that the breeding and raising of meat animals have been reduced to such a low margin of profit that the supply Is not showing its adequate rate of increase, but, to the contrary. Is diminishing. In answer to the complaints of the consumers on one hand, and the livestock breeders on. the other, it is said by the packers, and demon strated, too, that the margin of profit between the animal on the hoof and the dressed carcass, is small and far from exorbitant. The factor which makes for big nrofits is In the de velopment of the by-products, and the economic question which is the key to the whole problem of meat prices is as to the apportionment of these side profits to the public as the consumer of meat. Continuity? profits of twenty per cent, or more—and even that flfr ured largely on the basts of past surplus capitalized, rather than on oriKlnal investment—in an essential article of food supply, when prices are maintained at a fnmine level; are not corsistent or warrantable, and if the Trade Commission shall pur sue this lnouiry to 'tsvery end. the result ourht to he for the economic advantage of the nation as a whole, even if there must be a considerable wait for ita conclusion,—Philadel phia. Bulletin "IF THE CIVILIANS HOLD OUT" It Is the "Folks Back Home" That the Army De pends on to Help Them Win Through BY GILBERT VIVIAN SELDES PROVIDED the civilians hold out." The phrase came first from the French, and Barres has made it I the title of one of his books. "Pourvu I que les civiles tiennent." Later an- i other expression was given to the j same idea by. I think. Sir William i Robertson, who answered a question j concerning the war with these words: "Why do you ask me, who am con cerned with only 25 per cent, concern ing a thing which depends on the 75 per cent. —the people at home?" From the day ten million Ameri cans registered in preparation for calling-up, the center of gravity shift ed to the ninety million who did not register. The disposition of the ten million is in the hands of the authori ties. But the control of the ninety million is, with due allowance for children and incompetents, in the hands of those ninety million. That, at least, has been the experience of England, and one of the things the ninety million in America can do is to scan the record of the British ci vilians, to avoid their mistakes and to take cheer from their successes. Because, on the whole, it is a cheer ing records. The civilians have held, they have stood the frightful gaff of three years of war and the signs are that they have still plenty of staying power in them. Their lot has been easier than that of the French, im measurably easier than that of the Germans. But their spirits never were supple steel, so the French had all the advantage of resilience; and they were never taught to lie down and shut up, so the Germans had the inestimable advantage of training. And yet the English have held. Their sense of humor has done it. (I know this is a shocking statement, but it is true.) At a dinner party the other night I heard an officer on leave remark that when the war ended, ten years hence, some people would posi tively miss It. "Ten years?" queried an old profes sor, for whom that seemed the allot ted span of life. "Why, my dear fel low. some of us will just be getting used to it and know how to live with it then!" And this man had told me, not an hour before, of the tragic death of his son in the flying corps. The sense of humor is not the thing which cracks Jokes about the war, al though there is plenty of that. It is the sense of proportion which enables so many hundred thousands to see that their losses are parts of an awful and Irreparable disaster. They feel their sorrow quite as poignantly as. if a railway accident had snuffed out the life of a dear one; there is no cal lousness to the blight of death. But no bitterness can enter in. because .people have learned to think of them selves in their social relations as well ias in their personal relations. It is not likely that a mother who loses a son thinks deeply of "the State"; but it is certain that she thinks of all the mothers who have lost the sons of Britain In the war and, If she Is heartbroken, she is still capable of pride. EnllfitliiK For a I.urk In the way of Joke humor many things come up. At a tribunal re cently a man was asked why he didn't Join the army. "What!" he replied, "Join the army with this bloody war •on!" That is, of course, an attitude which many people will appreciate, but it is uncommon. The more usual sentiment is that of a friend of mine, one-time grain merchant, who was kept out of the army in spite of vio lent efforts to get in. until three months ago. I saw him Just before he went off to France, and he mixed j me a cocktail of British and Ameri can slang, like this: "This is the life, eh, what, old kid? Believe me, I'd never have heard of the merry old army if it hadn't been for this ruddy war, and think what I'd have missed! I tell you, civil life is a washout after this. Cut the stufT about what we're fighting for. I tell you, I like it for itself alone." I wished him good luck In France, and then I thought of something which hadn't occurred to me before. When ever soldiers and civilians are to gether the soldiers always wish the clvles "good luck." And the civilians smile and look a bit sheepish. | The civilians need the wishes, be , cause they are not under orders and can be as cantankerous as they please. They can "grouse" at the government and at the food controller and crlti , sUe the higher strategy of the war because It deprives them of mashed potatoes on Friday nights or cut* down the size of their saddle of mut- I ton. The soldier grouses at the mud alone. Yet, to the civilians' honor be it j said, those at home have schooled : themselves moderately well In disci pline. The more fact that voluntary rationing in breadstuffs has actually cut down the bread consumption to the point where official rationing may be unnecessary is an indication of what a democratic people can do when it makes up its mind. But I am not so much impressed by the mere bearing of discomforts, because every man in the British Isles has before him every day pitiful and; striking examples of those who have borne worse and will bear worse to the end of their days. You can hardly pride yourself on learning to eat por- j ridge with salt Instead or sugar when your neighbor is humbly learning to cut his meat with one hand instead of two. Physical sacrifices are trivial when they are made by those at home. The thing on which the civilian popula tion of England can bank is the tem per in which it is taking these stress ful months. The whole world is in an agony of doubt; everywhere the old question returns,' Can it be done? , How much longer will it take? Will there be anything left of us when it is done? Will it be a good peace, after all, when peace does come? These questions are everywhere, and the most thoughtless give heed to them. And every day there Is an other tug at the taut string of their emotions. The string does not snap. There are precious few signs of "nerves." People talk more about themselves, perhaps, than they did before the war, although I am inclined to doubt the stories about "silent Englishmen," un ; less they referred to a small and un important class. But it is the fact that they are still not afraid to talk about themselves, to show you how much they feel, which guarantees what can be said of them. The cards of their emotions are on the table and you cannot detect a false one. How One Woman Felt About It A woman whose husband has Just been called up told me what she felt. I think she was trying to, prevent me from feeling cut up about his going. "I am sorry Philip is going," she said, "but I feel Just as I always did when he went off on long trips to South America. Of course, I think of the danger of his not coming back; I'd hate myself if I couldn't bear to think of it. because he's bound to think of It, too. I suppose I'm very like most of us. When the war began I knew nothing about it. I was for England and against Germany, like the rest. I won't bother you about the separate phases—read Mr. Brit ling or something—because I went through the usual experiences. Phil wm for Joining up at once; I kept him back. He told me in a half- Joking way that he wanted to go out and fight so that Phil junior would be able to row in the eight at Ox ford twenty years from now and not have to pay German taxes on his home In Sitrrey. • "Well, now he's going and he's hap pier. I'm not happier and I suppose I shall be rather miserable at times. I don't think I shall be particularly proud of Phil unless he does some thing specially noteworthy; and It certainly will not be any consolation to me if he gets wounded or worse to know that it was for the right side. I'm simply praying that he'll come out of it with the lucky majority. If he doesn't—l—well. I don't want to talk about it any more. But I think we'll all see it through, and I'll be Just like the rest." It would be very hard to say "Good luck" to that. Can Aid Lonely Soldiers Owing to the war conditions existing in this country to-day , nearly every bridge, viaduct and tunnel throughout the country Is guarded by our soldiers, who have little' oV 110 chance to buy a daily paper or rcuflinp matter of any kind. If you will throw this pn pe- off to one of them when you j ;tre throuuh with It. or a raami , j zlne you may have read, wu (eel ' 1 sure that It would be much ap -1: predated. 'IV, L ■■ , The Wrist Watch Among the many things that have been permitted to go to waste in this land is the nation's noble heritage of humor. Founded by Benjamin Franklin and carried along through many decades by a race of men who were both witty and wise, American humor that was once racy of our soil has of late years been eclipsed by the inferior hee-haw school, ill which every man is his own humor ist. What mechanical contrivances have done to music by placing it within the reach of everybody pos sessed of a hand or foot—the ear no longer counts —the hee-haw school, with rib-poking as a nimble acces sory, has done for humor. In its scheme of funmaking wisdom has no part. Its shafts are aimed at what ever strikes the humorist as odd or new in the dress or personal appear ance of the victim. Women's clothes have been a favorite target of these latter day Franklins and Lincolns for many a long year, but of late they they have trained their batteries on the wrist watch. Thanks to their efforts the greater part f our unthinking population firmly believes that the wrist watch is a sure indication of effeminacy, whereas it is merely a timepiece car ried in the most convenient fashion. Every soldier in Europe—which, happily, lies outside the hee-haw bailiwick —either has a wrist watch or wishes he had one. There is noth ing funny in the spectacle of a brave man who can tell the time of day at a glance.—New York Herald. OUR DAILY LAUGH 1 DEFINED. AyS>.P Grandpa, mi I what's a "Jack 0t A " TradeS7 " fellow who can lU Wpii produce every- HsJf' thing except re- MORE " & WORRY. A FSJFCSJ I joined a rVVs •'Don't worry X, \ $ And now I'm " worried for fear pMW/tfr I can't live up /-\~^\,\H to my obliga A CHARACTER JC_ SKETCH. ( \ He wore a curl J L -upon h1 a \ *K~ u head 7 *."-j tr A mustache Ay-V J\ on his mug /1 NA a Posie in his \ \H ,#_ bottonhole \ Y \Jfß* Eccentric? \ \jjT D ° J UB t \ \/ smug. Hi HE AGREKD. , "That remark that Mr. Gruff ! made tonight, about not being ablo i to soc how co Intelligent a man could married, wue very Impolite." "Well, Grufl doosn't stand on for malities —he's a great stickler for truth."', Bmttng QU|at Governor Brumbaugh's veto of th full crew bill was the longest he has written. The Governor has been a busy wielder of the a* and aomv. of his vetoes have been long. Ha seemed to prefer to administer re proof In many of hla vetoes and few" of them had the brevity of the Tenet messages or the terse statements of the Stuart documents. The Governor In a few of his vetoes seemed going In the style that characterized Sam uel W. Pennypacker, but he pre- * fcrred longer documents than tha4 noted killer of 111-advised legislation. The Brumbaugh decoments are not able for the argumentative style. In many of them the Governor arguea ■with the sponsors for the bill, ask lng many questions and showing In many instances a comprehensive grasp of what is desired. In a num ber of instances the Governor sharplj criticizes the motives behind bills, in others he lectures the sponsors for their schemes, and in some he de nounces the measures. The number in which he raps the Legislature for carelessness or for falling to enacl what he considers as necessary com plements Is far larger than In 1915. The vetoes are a rich contribution ol legislative and political history ol Pennsylvania. • • • In another respect the Governoi adopted an unusual plan. He had many explanations for signing bills. Few other Governors have ever gone to as much trouble to explain rea sons for approving bills. Most ol them have signed them and let It go at that. The Governor issued a 1 least a score of statements in ex planation of his approvals, some ol which will be entertaining reading In years to come and will furnish the student with an Idea of situations existing at this time. Between his numerous proclamations during the early weeks of the war, his legis lative messages, the vetoes and the explanations, the literary output ol the Governor this year has been ex tensive and varied and certainly in teresting. • • • It Is doubtful whether any Gov ernor ever assembled as much data about legislation as Governor Brum baugh this year. He sent the bills to the Attorney General's department to be studied and for opinions otr form, phraseology and other points and he wanted the reasons for and against from the law men: he asked heads of departments to furnish re ports on why acts and appropriations were necessary and boards and com missions had to supply data of all kinds. All this was supplementary to the elaborate study of the state government made by Harry S. McDevitt for the State Economy and Efficiency Commission. Furthermore, the Governor had reports and briefs from counsel and people interested in projects and the data of the legis lative appropriations committee and the State Board of Public Pharlties was provided for him during con sideration of appropriation bills. And in addition he had reams of letters and reports from institutions wanting appropriations. The remarkable pari about It is that he seems to have read them all, as men who discussed bills with him found him well in formed on everything and were kept busy answering or parrying the ques tions he seemed to delight to throw at them in rapid-fire order, crkilto. dficflgf .rCGroundofwhos. fl i t t On the Capitol Park extension and Camp Curtln memorials the Gov ernor loaded up himself with in- | formation that the average Harrls burg man does not know. He argued with business men about values in Capitol Park and said he would like to talk over Camp Curtin with Pro fessor J. Howard Wert or anyone else who had made a study of It. He knew the number of properties and their values in the park district and he went up and walked over the Camp Curtin tract to see what it was like and approved the parcel which it was proposed to buy before the Legislature was half over. The one thing people here seem to have over looked was getting him interested In the site of Fort Washington and the rfal "high water mark" at Oysters Point. James C. Deininger, the executive clerk, who read the Governor's proc lamation of the vetoes of the session of 1917 to a mystified assemblage of five visitors from rural districts, two Capitol policemen and a guide shortly after 7 o'clock Saturday night so that everything would he legal, has per formed that interesting ceremony or taken part in it six times. He was formerly connected with the Depart ment of the Secretary of the Com monwealth and helped do it before it fell to his lot to run the procla mation. Chief Clerk George D. Thorn, of the State Department, has attested to the proclamation and listened to it ten times. Charles R. Willetts and A. L. Shomo, of the State Department, who also took part, has assisted several times. The proclamation is the only one of all that Governors put out that is ever really read. Years ago they used to go out on the portico of the old Capitol and assail the air with the information. When the present Library was built the proclamation was read one time from the roof of the porch and characterized by much levity, especially among those gath ered before. When the new Capitol was built the corridors of the south wing were chosen, but four years ago it was decided to have the ceremony in the rotunda. The only thing it needs to bring back the Middle Ages ir, a herald with tabard and trumpet. r WELL KNOWN PEOPLE " —John Stewart, veteran riverman of Western Pennsylvania, celebrated his ninetieth birthday at Rochester. —J. Rogers Flannery, active spirit of the Pittsburgh Red Cross, is work, ing for a state federation. —E. F. Entwlstle, the new directoi of the Bethlehem's Lebanon eountj plants, comes from Johnstown. —Melville Gourley, of Phlladel phia. is among those going abroad for Y. M. C. A. work. —General P. C. March, the head of American artillery In France, lived for some years in this state. —John A. Brashear, the astrono. mer, of Pittsburgh, was visited bj the foreign scientists when thej stopped at Pittsburgh. 1 DO YOU KNOW That 'Harrisburg Is shipping car i loads of steel every day for gov ernment use? HISTORIC HARRISBITRG The patent to John Harris wai granted January 1. 1726, and in cluded 600 acres of what is now Ilarrisburg. Only Chance For Congress If there ore any capsules left'Ji the bi glass bowl we should like urge that Congress try to set InV service that way.—Grand .hasiA Press. - • - ' r
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