10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded list Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Building, Federal Sfurtb E. J. STACK POLE. Pre ft 6r Editor-**-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. BUS M. STEINMETZ. Mamafint Editor. Member of the Associated Press— The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. • All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American ( T Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Assocla- HSIBtK Eastern office, hrfilflnfißjff Avenue Building. Finley, Ch'cagoPilV. lDg ' Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. fIaTTT) B >" carriers, ten cents a week; by mall. $5.00 a year In advance. THURSDAY, JUVE 6, 1918 Adversity borrows its sharpest eting from, our impatience. — Bishop Hor.NT. THEN AND NOW THERE are hints from railroad quarters that Mr. McAdoo is very desirous of learning what the opinion of the shipping public is relative to the proposed twenty-five per cent increase in freight rates, but he need not be concerned. The shipper is a patriotic citizen. Mr. Mo- Adoo says the increase is necessary as a war-measure to keep the rail roads up to par and the American shipper is no slacker. He may think much, but he will say little and pay his share 'of railroad expenses as cheerfully as his individual dispo sition and the fervency of his pa triotism will permit. But it does seem peculiar that the government should have turned so completely right-about face with re gard to freight rates. If the increase was unwarranted when the railroads Rsked for it, it is unwarranted now. If it was a proper request then, it is proper now, and that being admitted, It would appear that an injustice was done the railroads by repeated re fusals on the part of the government lor a revision upward of the tariffs. Had the railroads been permitted to meet growing expenses with ade quate advances in rates there would have been no wage controversy of importance and the crisis of the war would have found them well equipped financially and mechanic ally to meet the new burdens. Mr. McAdoo need not worry. The public will "pay the freight'' cheer fully, but it must be permitted to smile a little over the difference be tween Mr. McAdoo politician play ing for votes and Mr. McAdoo rail road manager. Another of the Harrisburg boys has Just been notified of his admission to the West Point Military Academy. This city has given many of its finest young men to the service, and those who are now about to don the uniform of the United States have the privilege of taking part in the greatest struggle the world has ever known for liberty ond humanity. THE MEAT OF THE NUT MEMBERS of the Rotary Club are quite right in their con tention that traffic regulation is not so much a matter of council manic enactment as of police en forcement. We have on the ordinance books of the city rules governing the oper ation of all manner of vehicles that if enforced would leave little ground for complaint. But, unfortunately, these ordinances are violated without more than passing attention by the police an<} without punishment of those guilty of breaking the laws. Many persons are unaware of their existence. The proposed code may be devised with the utmost care, it may be skillfully drawn, it may be drastic in the extreme. It may be a model of its kind, but if it is not to be en forced it may as well remain un written. GET INTO STEP WITH a determination to see the war through to a victorious conclusion. Congress has voted $12,000,000,000 for an unlimited Army. On this enormous Item the House was unanimous, which is an Indication of the definite purpose of the American people to end this big job In the right way. We must now grit our teeth and. turning our backs on all that is past. Press forward as a united people for the one definite aim of winning the war and destroying for all time the German menace. We have the men and the resources, and while It would he foolish to minimize the formid able character of the enemy there Is at the same time no occasion for complaining or depression. There will be sacrifices and patience will be ' necessary, but victory is as certain as that God rules the universe. Much occasion for criticism has arisen in the mobilization of the na tional things that were vital, but a change has come over the spirit of . tho American people during recent J THURSDAY EVENING, [weeks, and whatever there was of doubt or uncertainty or division is i rapidly giving way to a solidarity that means only one thing—the I crushing of the Prussian beast. In every community, however, it will be necessary for Individuals to get into step with Uncle Sam in every possible way. Anyone who falls to take his or her proper place must be made to feel that the com munity as a whole will pass Judg ment and punish the alders and abetters of the common enemy. The death of former Vice-President Fairbanks removes from life a loyal Republican, an able lawyer, an honest, conservative citizen who proved to the country that brassband methods were not necessary to win preferment. THE ROSE SHOW IT was Riley writing of roses who said: And I tell you. when I find a bunch out where the sun kin strike _ 'em. It alius sets me thinkln' o the ones 'at used to grow, _ > And peek in thru the chinkm o the cabin, don't you know. And for most of us, also, roses hold memories. Of a day in June and a commencement campus, perhaps, or a bride tossing her boquet to the eagerly outstretched hands of a bevy of laughing girls, or the faded re minders of a dead romance, or Just the June blossoms of a homely gar den that blossomed when skies were blue and the days held naught but pleasure and life itself was a rose bordered path leading along toward a golden future. So the rose show at the Y. M. C. A. to-morrow and Saturday—the first of the kind for Harrisburg—should have an attraction for all of us. It is the initial public movement toward making this a city of roses. How far we have gotten along in that direc tion and the possibilities ahead may be Judged by reproduction of photo graphs published elsewhere in this issue of the Telegraph. Don't miss the rose show. Help by your attendance to make it an an nual event. That was quite a birthday party our lately arrived fellow-voters had yesterday. INLAND^"WATERWAYS CONGRESSMAN HAMPTON MOORE Is Justified in his vig orous statement regarding the procrastination of the Government In the matter of the inner waterways along the Atlantic coast which would now be the most effective means of defense from the submarine menace. If the millions which are being squandered from year to year in the dredging of alleged harbors and deepening of creeks in the South and elsewhere had been utilized in pro viding the ship canals for which Congressman Moore and others have been contending, the country would to-day be less disturbed about the possibilities of further raids along the Atlantic coast. It seems that our lessons in this country must be gained at enormous cost, but let us hope that the tend ency to procrastination which been the great national failing may quickly give way to energetic and constructive effort in all directions. OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE AN important conference has been held this week in New York city looking to the re cruiting of not less than 4,000 men and 700 women for Y. M. C. A. war work and canteen service over seas. With the increasing American army on the other side, the imminent need of the services of high type men and women is emphasized. Now is the time for men who cannot do actual fighting, but who are equipped by experience to do the many im portant things that may be done by the Y. M. C. A., to come forward. The morale of our troops now fighting for us in France must be sustained and it is the testimony of hieh officers and men in the ranks alike that the Y. M. C. A. is the one institution which is most needed to maintain the fighting spirit and to give comfort to our men in the service. NO DOUBT OF RESULT IT is the concensus of opinion of those who are in position to know that the continued arrival of American troops in Europe is the secret of the desperate tactics of the Prussian gang at the present time. German prisoners have disclosed the fears of the Hun and the expression of confidence in the official state ment Issued by the Supreme War Council of the Allies gives added as surance of the morale of the troops in the war zone. There Is no doubt of critical days ahead, but neither is there doubt of the victory which is as certain as that there is a God in heaven. FEWER CROSSINGS MEMBERS of the Public Service Commission are to be com mended for the decision in the Nantlcoke case, wherein an additional siding, which meant a new grade crossing on a busy highway, was re fused because the industrial concern owning the siding tried to hold up another which had been using It un der lease. It was a plain case whore an effort to get a larger rental was made and the alternative wai an other siding and another crossing. The Commission has laid down the principle that sidings are as much utilities as main lines and tfat, all things being equal, the public interest Is to be con served first. It very properly offers to make an order fixing a reasonable rental If the parties can not agree to Joint use. The ruling is a timely exercise of the authority granted to the commis sion and if it to going to keep down the number of grade crossing* there should be more of it. T>otitU+ IK "PtKKOi^tctMUa Cm Kx-OaomttttMMß Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Nell's formal statement of last night that he 'will support Senator William C. Sproul for Governor and ask his friends to do so because the Senator stands for ratification of the prohibition amendment ends any chance of a third ticket in Pennsyl vania. It makes the fight between the Republican and Democratic parties. The amendment will be the paramount issue. The O'Neil statement had been ex pected. However, it was awaited with interest because Mr. O'Neil was un derstood to have been studying the returns with relation to the legisla tive nominations very carefully. There is nothing in the statement to indicate that the Highway Commis sioner cherishes any resentment against his successful rival. On Cap itol Hill there was to-day a notice able interest In the campaign, al though Governor Brumbaugh de clined to make any comment on the O'Neil statement, which he said he knew was coming. The O'Neil headquarters have been closed and it Is apparent that the man from McKeesport intends to be regular. —The high cost of Democratic nominations was strikingly Illustrat ed by the statements filed yesterday i by Democratic candidates. Joseph F. Guftey, candidate of the defeated bosses, certified that he had spent $15,095.68, of which all but a few hundred dollars went to his cam i paign committee. The Bonniwell statement showed nearly $5,000. —A story is going the rounds that i William S. Leib, county chairman of Schuylkill county and now resident clerk of the House, has a boom for chief clerk of the House to succeed the veteran Thomas H. Garvin, who Is seriously 111. —lt Is evident that the Prohibition state committee proposes to make some endorsements of legislative candidates this year. It will be a factor in some counties where the contest is close. —Senator Edward E. Beidleman. of Harrlsburg, and Congressman John R. K. Scott, of Philadelphia, rival candidates for Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor, were the last of the state-wide can didates to file expense accounts at the Capitol. Senator Beidleman cer tified to expenditures of $2,250, $2,- 000 of which he gave to the Beidle man campaign committee; SIOO to the Candidates committee of Dau phin county and $l5O used for trav eling expenses. Congressman Scott certified that he had expended SB,- 929.88 and that bills amounting to $2,864.67 were not yet paid. Senator Vare contributed $5,000 to Mr. Scott. Expenses accounts of campaign com mittees of candidates are to be filed at the State Department before June 20. —Formal calls for the meeting of the newly-elected Democratic state commiteemen to elect a state chair man will be issued from the head quarters In a few days. The meeting will probably be held here on June 19. —Four counties have not yet filed their official returns on Superior Court Judge. They are Allegheny, Lackawanna, Luzerne and Lehigh and on their figures hangs the ques tion whether Superior Court Judge W. D. Porter will be the sole nom inee or not. —lnsurance Commissioner Charles A. Ambler, defeated candidate for the Republican nomination for State Senator in Montgomery, spent $5,- 600, and Fletcher W. States, who un successfully sought to be nominated for Congress, expended $3,020, ac cording to their expense accounts filed in court to-day. James S. Boyd, who defeated Ambler, spent $2,899. —Reports that election frauds were practiced at the nomination of the Republicans for Congress in the Schuylkill district at the recent pri maries were given color late yester day when G. F. Brumm, of Miners ville. one of the candidates, asked the Court to review the election In eight of the most important districts of the county. —The meeting of the Republican State Committee in Philadelphia on Flag Day will mark the formal start of the Republican campaign. Sena tor Sproul, who is to address the meeting, will consult with county leaders and arrange for some visits in advance of the regular Itinerary for the fall campaign which the State Committee will arrange. The general expectation is that the meet ing will be a love feast and the Phil adelphia Inquirer to-day says: "Fol lowing the reorganization of the Re publican City Committee next Wed nesday a luncheon will be given at the Hotel Adelphia, to which mem bers of the committee, the ward chairmen, candidates for Congress and the legislature in this city, and Senator Sproul, Senator Beidleman, P.epresentative Woodward and the other candidates on the Republican state ticket and prominent city of ficials will be invited. - It was an nounced at the Vare headquarters yesterday that the entire Republican City Committee will attend the meet ing of the Republican State Commit tee, which* is to be held at the Belle vue-Stratford next Friday, upon which occasion Republican National Chairman Will H. Hays, Senator Penrose and the candidates on the Republican state ticket wltl make addresses." —The Philadelphia Record says It cost Joseph F. Guffey $1 for every vote he received in Philadelphia. —The Insider writing In the Phila delphia Press says of the Republican primary: "It is evident that Sena tor Penrose has almost a clean sweep of the leading state offices, should the Republican titfket be elected, and there Is every indication that it will be. Leaving the Governorship out of the question, as Senator Sproul will, if elected, probably remain neu tral between the Vares and Penrose, it will be seen that the Lieutenant Governor, the Secretary of Internal Affairs, the Auditor General and the State Treasurer are out-and-out Penrose men. With the exception of State Treasurer Kephart. these men were all opposed in the primaries by the Vafes and owe them nothing. In addition to the elective offices named above, the president pro-tem pore of the Senate, Senator Buck man, is a Penrose man. This strengthens the Penrose organization considerably, for it has had the Governor actively against it with all the Influence and patronage that the Governor commands. Senator Sproul if elected governor, certainly will re organize the Penrose organization as party agent for the state, and in Philadelphia matters will give it an equal share with the Vare organiza tion at least." COMING, UNCLE SAM! The navy wants one hundred thou sand more men. Aye aye, sir!— Kansas City Times. HARRISBURG <dsßß6l TELEGRAPH A HANDY MAN AROUND THE HOUSE .... .... ... ... .... BYBRIGGS syr- %JM/i | 7 w/H 1 Y^ c r,kr^ °°I (what?; I NeCR Vlfciew t|f \ 11/ *' %,fu W l/ ' u | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR \ ADDRESSES CUSTOMERS To tht Editor of the Telegraph: Through some disobedience of the food law, the Schmidt Bakery plants were shut down for twenty-eight days. lam one of the drivers and have a retail route on the Hill con sisting of about three hundred, re tail customers. The majority of them have from me from the beginning, the balance have come in later. They have treated me with the greatest respect and courtesy and paid prompt with but few exceptions. I would be less than human not to thank them for this. Misfortunes will come In any one's life. It is best to take them up bravely, bear them cheerfully and at last lay them down triumphantly. Excepting Providential prevention, I will be back on my route just as soon as the bakeries open. Therefore I ask my customers to kindly wait for me and receive me with the same re spect and courtesy they always did. I will assure them the same square deal I always give them. No doubt: many of my competitors have lots of fun at my expense. All right, boys, I am glad you have the chance to laugh and grow fat. But, do not forget the old scriptural saying, "As Many as There Are Without Sin Let Them Cast the First Stone." J. W. HAAS. WARNING TO AUTHORS One of Mr. Kipling's trees was in jured by a bus, the driver of which was also landlord of an Inn. Kipling wrote this man a letter of com plaint, which the recipient sold to' one of his guests for ten shillings. Again the angry author wrote, this time a more violent letter, which immediately fetched one pound. A few days later Kipling called on the landlord and demanded to know why he had received no answer to his letters. "Why, I was hoping you would send me a fresh one every day," was the cool reply. "They pay a great deal better than bus-driving." —Boston Transcript. Opportunity For Them An increase of the draft limit to 40 years would be very cheering to some of the fellows who are talking so much about how quick they'd go if it weren't for their age.—lndian apolis News. The American Husband I wonder whether you American men, when the test comes, are go ing to live up to your very high repu tation, asks Mrs. A. Burnett-Smith, in the June Atlantic. As husbands you are considered to have no equals on the face of the earth. When little jars occur, as they do in the best households, we have been known to tell our lawful spouses that we wished we had married American husbands. Even now, I suppose, you have to eat things that you don't -articularly want. The true patriot *s the man who can cat an imitation beefsteak, with a smile on his face, and tell the woman who prepared it that It is as good as the real thing. THIRTY YEARS AGO Ladies wore bustles. Operations were rare. Nobody swatted the fly. Nobody had seen a silo. Nobody had appendicitis. Nobody wore white shoes. Cream was five cents a pint. * Most young men had "livery bills." Cantaloupes were muskmelon3. You never heard of a "tin Lizzie." Doctors wanted to see your tongue. Milk shake was a favorite drink. Advertisers did not tell the truth. Nobody cared for the price of gas oline. Farmers came to town for their mall. The hired girl drew one-fifty a week. The butcher "threw In a chunk of liver. Folks said pneumatic tires were a joke. Nobody "listened in" on a tele phone. There were no sane Fourths, nor electric meters. Strawstacks were burned instead of baled. Publishing a country newspaper was not a business. People thought English sparrows were "birds." Jules Verne was the only convert to the submarine. Tou stuck tubes in your ears to hear a phonograph, and it cost a dime.—Pike County, 111., Republican. Scum of the Melting Pot [Saturday Evening Post] A MERICAX carelessness, cussed ** ness and politics "are respon sible for the internal situation that has caused so much anxiety during the past year. In the heat and stir of preparation the scum has risen to the top. As America has turned her face toward the enemy every dirty cur in the country has snapped at her heels. We have found that enemy intrenched in America as well as in France—sapping in our schools, un dermining in our press, burrowing in our municipal and state govern ments—sniping whenever a back has been turned. It looks bad, but It is only scum, and beneath it Americanism is com ing to the boiling point. We are in the healthy condition of knowing what the trouble Is. We have been too free with America—giving every thing and demanding nothing. We have had a happy-go-lucky, care theory that nobody need worry about what the unassimilated for eigner did or thought; that every thing would come out right in the end: that there was some magic in our air that would transform the lazy, the weak, the vicious. into hard-working, honest, desirable American citizens. We have con sidered the "rights" of every nation- National Spirit in Lithuania It is a pitiful story that Dr. John Szulpas, of Scranton, representative of the American branch of the Lithu anian Relief Committee, brings back from his native land. The natives, he says, are strongly anti-German; they are going to do everything in their power to resist the plans of the Hun to embrace them within his dominion; they are in dire want and face a dreary prospect but they are determined to struggle on toward the goal of independence. Poor, miserable people! It is to be feared that they are dreaming in vain, unless the power of the Hun can be shattered so thoroughly that there will be nothing of it left. Ger many once toyed with the suggestion that compact nationalities be given the right of self-determination. Once upon a time they promised indepen dence for the Polish people. But when the Hun gnawed into the vitals of his neighbor - Russia and tasted blood, the ravenousness of the beast was revealed. There will be noth ing in the way of independence for Lithuania or Poland or any other overrun nation unless through a vic tory for the Allies. There can be no other hope.—Wilkes-Barre Record. Parenthetically Speaking Oh, Carranza sent a cable- (on the Kaiser's birthday) gram To the Kaiser there at Pots- (that's a German palace) dam, And it said, "Look out for Uncle I that's my northern neighbor) Sam, For he's coming after you!" Then the Kaiser waved his iron (as the papers have it) hand, And he danced a little sara- (that's a Turkish tango) band. And he said: "I'm safe in Hell- (In the German sea) goland, But I thank my friend Carranza." —Chicago Tribune. WHEN TRANSPORTS SAIL The ships move out of the Icy bay And a group of women watch them go. Our eyes are salt as the blowing spray. But we smile with hearts that glow. Why should our eyes be brimming so? What right have our hearts to that fire divine? There's never a soldier sails to-day That is hers—or hers—or mine. By the right of farewells that can never be said. And a right that never was worn. By the right of a lad in his spring-* time dead And a boy that never was born, O mothers of sons who sail this morn We are praying them out to sea. Your children, that God might have given Instead To her—to her—to me. —By Amelia Josephine Burr. ality in the world except our own. The immigrant who comes to America to become an American and who works at that job should be welcome; but of late years too many of another kind have settled here. Powerful influences have been at work against their Americanization in the old way. Free entry and op portunity have been given not only to the honest, sturdy immig.-ant with a sincere admiration for our country and the will to work and become a loyal American, but to the f Mow who had only the will 1 1 work us and against us. The foreign agi tator has been welcomed and told to go ahead and agitate, even when he blackguarded our country and lied to the ignorant and the creduious about our government. The pro fessional troublemaker has been per mitted to go ahead and make trouble. Almost any scoundrel in Europe who fancied a trip to our shores has had a fair field and plenty of favor over here—because "this is a free coun try and the refuge of the oppressed." It has been the refuge of the op pressed, but it has also been the haven of a lot of rascals who have abused our hospitality and besmirch ed our institutions, not only from the soap box but from the forum. COMMUNION I send my love unto my dead each day; I know not how; I only know It goes Forth from my heart, and, going, ever grows; That, as it flies, there's nothing can affray; That, like a dove, it fondly keeps its way Through dark and light along the path it knows; And if I toil or sleep, goes not astray. That in its faithful fligfit it never slows. I send my love unto my dead, and they— They know 'tis sent, that I have not forgot; For often when I am alone, I feel Their love return—and, oh, no words can say That peace that comes to me! It matters not What woes betide, I have here with to heal. —Samuel Minturn Peck in Harper's. A FIGHTING PARSON [Kansas City Times.] The Rev. E. C. Palmer, a Meth odist Episcopal preacher of Norwood Park, Chicago, has resigned his pas torate, waived all exemptions, and is on his way to a training camp to serve in the army as a private sol dier. "The best way I can serve the Lord." he saiid, "is to help beat the Hun." Which is the declaration of a re ligious principle worthy the prayer ful consideration the "church mili tant" everywhere. It's a good time to sing the otd Methodist hymn: "Shall I be carried to the skies, On flowery beds of ease, While others fight to win the prize And sail through bloody seas?" MOTHERS OF MEN Mothers of Men—the words are good indeed in the saying. Pride in the very sound of them, strength in the sense of them, then Why is it their face? haunt me, wist ful faces as praying Ever some dear thlngvantshed and ever a hope delaying. Mothers of Men? Mothers of Men, most patient, ten derly slow to discover The loss of the old allegiance that may not return again. You give a man to the world, you give a woman a lover— Where is your solace then when the time of giving is over, Mothers of Men? Mothers of Men, but the title is worth the earning. You who are brave in feigning must I ever behold you then By the door of an empty heart with the lamp of faith still burning. Watching the ways of life for the sight of a child returning. Mothers of Men? , —By Theodosla Garrison. JUNE 6, 191*5. LABOR NOTES Nine members of the American Federation of Labor are in Europe to state to the leaders of labor there the position taken on the war by labor in the United States. Communities within a hundred mile radius of Seattle, Wash., have asked that city to clear out the I. W. W., who they claim, are organ izing sabotage from that center. German official reports on labor, health, housing, insurance and re lated subjects consider the man not as a man, but chiefly from the stand point of his capacity as recruit. Our eastern railroads, during a period of nine months, hired over 1,000,000 new men, fer about three men for each vacant position, this being about double the normal turn over. Building trades returns from thirty-five Canadian cities for Feb ruary indicate that employment de creased over 42 per cent., as com pared with January, and over 46 per cent, as compared with February. 1917. Certain employers in Connecticut close their plants between 10 P. M. and midnight to evade the state law which prohibits the employment of women after 10 o'clock at night. Recruiting for the South African native labor contingent will cease. No further contingents of laborers will be dispatched overseas. The establishment of a wholesale purchasing department by the Cen tral States Co-operative Society is a success, reports John H. Walker, president of the society and presi dent of the Illinois State Federation of Labor. Brooklyn! (lowa Laborers' Pro tective Union has increased wages. Ninety per cent, of the munitions sent from England to France are made by women. There are 2,600,000 members of labor unions in this country. The demand of the New York Mu sicians' Union for higher wages has been rejected. OUR DAILY LAUGH \ 'MM. SURE. 10^ Woodpecker— I jMfc lii They say if you I iwj? ;V| keep pegging away at the tame old "gait," "■ , you're bound to I V/ succeed. |j| LOTS LIKE HIM. -*Gee, what's that chesty indU ridual. Must be a big gun." "Oh no, that's only Mr. Pouter Pigeon." ■ . AWFUL. Saucer—Why so doleful? Cup—Cause it's awful to bo broke, that's rhjr. , Itentng (Eljat People who met Archibald Johns ton, the first mayor of the new city of Greater Bethlehem, on the occa sion of his visit here yesterday were Impressed with the enthusiasm wt£J which he has undertaken his direc tion of municipal affairs In the city where he was reared and where In won his fame In Industrial affallft Most folks about here know Johnston as the away-up executl£ of Bethlehem Steel and he Is a flgui* wherever steel men meet. The stof# of his rise is an inspiration to younL Pennsylvanittns and it seems that th" people of the Bethlehems were lucky in getting "Arch," aa everyone calls him there, to run their city In the period of transition to a big town from two small ones, a time when awkward situations are likely to arise and when a man with the force of. Johnston is needed. Just aa an illustration of the way he does things It may be stated that Bethlehem is revising its layout of streets, Just as Pittsburgh had to do after It con solidated with Allegheny, and some feelings have had to be ironed out and the will of the city impressed in the matter of highways on the surrounding districts which will ulti mately become a part of the city. Harrisburg Is up against the same problem. So are other cities. In Bethlehem they have It down in black and white and when they found the State of Pennsylvania was apt to interfere to a certain extent the new mayor just took a train for Harrisburg and asked the Highway Department to change things. Mr. Johnston found George H. Biles, the deputy In charge of work over in that section, right there and in a short time an agreement was made whereby the State will help along Bethlehem's plans. There are some other communities which come charging here like a wild bull or drop around hat in hand when they want the State to do something. The Johnston method seems to produce results. Eli N. Hershey, the new president of the Harrisburg Rotary Club, Is possibly the only living Harrisburger who ever visited Iceland. Mr. Her- in his younger years a great traveler. % During a summer spent in England, where he combined busi ness with sightseeing, he thought he would vary his experiences by a. trip to Iceland. He represented Under wood & Underwood and other con cerns of the kind and took with him a vast number of scenic photographs calculated to attract the eye of the prosperous but provincial Icelander and with a large number of stere scopes set out for the North. He found the country anything but the frigid land the name might imply and the people prosperous and cour teous. He is rich in reminiscences of this remarkable Journey, as he is of his experiences off the beaten track throughout Central Europe. Mr. Hershey, like many another suc cessful man. started work as a school teacher. He was born in Lancaster county and got his early business training there as well, dealing in but ter and like products during his boyhood. The whole family is iden tified with the milk, ice cream and creamery business. Two years ago, when the typhoid fever epidemic in this city almost wrecked the ice cream business, Mr. Hershey was not content with bringing his factory up to the standards required by the new enactments of City Council, but re built entirely in concrete and steel what is now pronounced one of the most complete and sanitary lqg cream and creamery establishments in the whole State. Mr. Hershey was made vice-president of the Rotary Club when Vice-President George F. Lumb was elevated to the presidency after the removal or Andrew E. Buchanan, division passenger agent, to Baltimore, and was unanimously elected president at the close of the fiscal year. • • • Speaking of Andrew E. Buchanan naturally calls to mind Norris S. Longaker, his successor in this city. Mr. Buchanan was a good citizen in the best sense of the word, taking part in all public movements and be ing Instrumental in obtaining metro politan stop-off privileges in Harris burg for through passengers. But Mr. Longaker, who lives in the house on North Third street formerly oc cupied by Mr. Buchanan, has made a host of friends and an excellent reputation for himself during the comparatively brief period of his residence here. He has done effect, ive work in all of the Liberty Bond, Red Cross. Y. M. C. A. and other war campaigns staged since his com ing to the city and is an enthusiastic member of the Rotary Club; so much so indeed that he ha 9 been entrusted this year with the chairmanship of the committee of that busy organization. To complete this brief, "who's-who" biography, Mr. Longaker drives a Chandler car and loves to go fishing—whether he catches 'em or not. • • • • • • As the grading of the new highway which is to cross Capitol Park exten sion goes along people are com mencing to get an idea of the height at which the park will be graded. Most tolks have an idea that the park will be on the same level as at present, forgetting that Fourth street was cut down and that the old Eighth ward was on a much lower line than even Third street. The fact is that when the park is graded it will be on a level with the present park with a slope toward the rail roads and Walnut and North streets will go into the park to meet the approach to the new State street bridge on a gently r'sing grade. The same will be true of the new street, while Fourth street will be filled In. [_ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. J. C. Biddle, the Ashland surgeon, has been connected with the State hospital for thirty-six years. —Charles M. Hall, state secretary of the Junior O. U. A. M., is arrang ing for the state convention In Potts ville thin year. —J. G. Gibson, new head of the Pennsylvania Orioles, is a prominent Tork secret society man. —John C. Bell, former Attorney General, will spend the summer at his rural home at Radnor. —Geoorge S. Oliver, Pittsburgh publisher, has been named industrial director for th Pittsburgh district. * DO YOU KNOW That HarrWburg st*l products are tn demand for ship work? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harrisburg had its first building boom right after the War of 1812, Price Up in Lowell The Lowell (Mass.), Courier-Citi zen advanced Its price from 1 cent to 2 cents on Monday, June 3. The increasing costs of labor and materials are given as the cause for the advance.
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