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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.
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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.
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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
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keep pegging
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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.