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TUESDAY, JCTiY 16, 1918
It costs much to be capable of real
friendship, but those tcho are would
be ashamed to be othertcise and I
rather suffer than be incapable.— j
FENTLOX.
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NOT BURLESON, PLEASE
THE President is said to be hesi
tating about making Postmaster
General Burleson chief of the
telegraph and telephone lines about
to be taken over by the Govern-1
ment, and well he may. If the Post- |
master General makes as lamenta- j
ble a showing with the wire lines
as he has with the mail service.
Heaven help the country. There
was no finer organization i/i the
world than the postal department
when Burleson took charge. To-day
It is a wreck of its former self, and
efficiency means no more to the
Postmaster General than does fair
treatment of employes.
Organized labor has Burleson
sized up correctly, and if the Presi
dent listens to his advisers among
the labor leaders he will save him
self from one of the worst blunders
of his administration.
THE LATEST DRIVE
WHILE It is too early to foresee
the end of the latest German
drive, there is every indication
that it has met with little success.
Most interesting of all the news that
has been cabled concerning it is the
terrific drubbing the Americans gave
the Germans at Vaux and at every
other point where American infan
try clashed with the Hun forces.
From all accounts the Americans
in most sectors played the old Bun
ker Hill game all over again on a
massive scale—waiting until they
could see the whites of the German
eyes before firing. Dispatches in
dicate that they punished the on
lushing enemy severely and then let
them come up close enough to make
good targets. After that they coun
terattacked and what was left of
the enemy went back whence it had
come even more quickly than it had
advanced.
All America thrills with the news.
We have met and defeated the
Hun in its most tremendous effort.
Americans are better than Germans,
man for man. Even green troops
have displayed their superiority over
German veterans. We know now
beyond peradventure of a doubt that
all we need in France to beat the
Kaiser back across the Rhine is
men. and still more men. The allies
have not looked to us in vain. Our
armies are the cream of the earth.
Crossing swords with our adversary,
we have forced him to his knees at
every point of contact, and men who
have not yet been to the front will
now go into battle firm in the con
viction that the best Hun brigade
in the whole of Europe would have
a difficult time with a single Amer
ican regiment. W e have taken the
enemy's measure and he is not
shoulder high to our boys.
Whatever shall come of the big
drive, this much we know—that
American troops are all we thought
them and much more. The whole
nation rejoices.
•X THE ALBANIAN FRONT
NO .WONDER the allied troops
are being welcomed by the
Albanians with "open arms,"
as the press reports put It Albania
understands as well as any other
country In Europe what Prusslanlsm
means to a free people. Manhan
dled by the Turks and the constant
prey of Hohenzollern and Hapsburg
plotters, the Albanians have clung
desperately to their own customs
and to a measure of independence.
Living In & wild, rough country and
under conditions that date back un
changed for centuries, they never
theless hold the key to control of
the Adriatic and an opening to the
Balkans that, in possession of the
French and Italians, will prove a
constant and Increasing menace to
the Bulgarians, who are reporteA to
be pretty well tired with the war
and, for one* in their tempestuous
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TUESDAY EVENING,
lives, have had about enough of
fighting.
With Albania safely In the hands
of the allies, there is every reason
to hope for the early redemption
of Montenegro and Serbia, with a
well-defined threat against the Aus
trian! in their most Important posi
tions. Give the allies Albania and
the Macedonian situation will be
greatly Improved and a general
breakdown in Austria and Bulgaria
brought that much nearer.
But it is not the allies alone who
will benefit by such a series of vic
tories as the French and Italians
are now scoring. The Albanians
themselves can hope for independ
ence and freedom of action only if
the allies win the war. They will be
made tributary to Germany and
*\ustria if the Central Powers
should come out ahead. President
Wilson's doctrine of the Independ
ence and protection of the small
states is their only hope.
A VITAL FACTOR
CORRECTION of the housing
conditions in Harrisburg goes,
beyond mere increase in thej
j number of good houses to rent at!
j reasonable figures. That is essen-|
• tial, and should be attended to as
( soon as possible to meet the exist
ing emergency. But the problem
is bigger than that. To reach a
solution we must have a State law
backed up by city ordinance. It;
will be easy, comparatively, to pro-j
cure such legislation at this time.
The moment is ripe for It.
We should have State regulations
establishing definite minimum
standards for lpt occupancy, together
with enforced requirements for open
space, and fixing regulations for
light and ventilation, water supply,
sanitary accommodations, privacy,
protection against fires, maintenance
of dwellings and the use of the
same. And it should be made com
pulsory that each city adopt a hous
ing ordinance in conformity with this
law in general outline and elaborat
ed to meet local conditions. Part
and parcel cf these regulations, of
course, would be a zoning system,
such as is being worked out in many
progressive cities.
Zoning is now very properly re
garded as a prime requisite to good
housing. "Zoning" is the term town
planners use for laying the city out
into districts for the protection of
the residents against obnoxious in
dustries. Zoning is designed to give
stability to property values, to pre
vent deterioration of neighborhoods,
allow for necessary changes and pre
vent conditions of a Shifting char
acter. It is intended to prevent the
intrusion of obnoxious trades, pre
serve the character of residential
areas and stimulate the use of na
tural advantages for the purposes for
which they are best adapted.
Zoning also is useful in simplify
ing traffic regulations and expediting
traffic, and by scientific distribution
of homes tend to the eventual elimi
nation of congestion.
Likewise, it segregates factories
along natural or artificial traffic
lines, and while providing for the
general well-being of the public it
also improves the living conditions
of workers and aids in reducing the
cost pf living. It reduces insanita
tion to a minimum and establishes
more equitable housing standards,
while contributing to the beauty of
the community and aiding in the ad
ministration of municipal problems.
is far behind other
cities in respect to these regulations,
just as Pennsylvania is in its general
housing laws. But public sentiment
is awake to the needs of the hour
and the Chamber of Commerce
should add housing legislation to its
program.
THEY ARE LOOKING TO US
DISCUSSION" of the situation In
Russia gives emphasis to the
Importance of reorganizing
the east as a condition precedent to
the winning of the war on the west
ern front. A few days ago the Chris
tian Science Monitor went Into the
matter rather fully and concludes
that Intervention in Russia will in
evitably have to comj. "It may be
peaceable intervention or it may be
military intervention," says the Mon
itor, "but it is inevitable in one form
or the other."
More and more the thoughtful
minds of the world are being led to
the conviction that Russia is largely
the key to world peace and that un
less this great chaotic nation is re
stored to something like order and
its proper relation to other nations
the war which we are now fighting
may be lost in the end.
The editorial in question argues
that the Untted States l s the only
country with sufficient surplus man
power to undertake the task of re
storing Russia to its proper place In
the family of nations. This must be
done through an alliance with the
allies on the east so that in the final
settlement of the myriad problems
growing out of the war there may
be left no place where a fresh as
sault upon the peace of the world
can be inaugurated.
Out of the chaos of to-day may
emerge a sensible and practical solu
tion of the difficulties In the east.
Germany realizes the menace to her
own ambitions and is to-day striving
quite as hard to overwhelm and
take possession of Russia as she is
to defeat the allies on the western
front. All the cunning of the Pots
dim oligarchy is being exercised to
deceive and defeat the Russian peo
ple, to the end that Germany may be
in a position to demand her "place
in the sun" in the eastern zona
rather than the north of Europe.
While we are awaiting with all the
patience that a great people can
summon for something to turn up
that will show us the way out of the
Russian muddle, things are happen
ing which may yet result in a per
manent adjustment of the rights of
the millions of people now occupying
the great areas covered by Russia
apd the adjoining countries. As the
Monitor suggests, Germany cannot
be permitted to become the arbiter
of the fate of Russian commerce and
Industry, as she Is now proposing to
do, unless the democracies of the
world are prepared to fight aether
tremendous war in the future with
the advantage more than ever on the
side of autocracy.
Our .government is being fofced
every day Into' the place where we
must Intervene for the salvation of
Russia in one way or another.
Russians, Bohemians, Rumanians,
Slavonians and thousands of Aus
trlans are looking to us and we must
not fail them In this crucial hour.
By the Ex-Committoenmn
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State Chairman William E. Crow,
of the Republican State Committee.
! to-day announced the names of the
: men who will draft the platform for
the Republican state campaign of
j 191S and the special committee on
| changes in rules. Notices were sent
to each of the men selected and the
chairmen will call the meetings.
The platform committee is
headed by John R. Halsey, of
Wilkes-Barre and is composed of the j
following: Charles H. Hetzel, Pitts- ,
i burgh: Elwood W. Minster, Bristol;
iR. Earl Penrod, Johnstown; Harry I
B. Scott, Philllpsburg; C. Victor j
Johnson, Meadville: John H. Myers.
Lancaster; Fred B. Gernerd, Allen-1
town; Harry G. Seip, Easton; Wil- |
liam E. Finley, Philadelphia; Wil- i
liam S. Rial. Greensburg; with j
the state candidates: Senator!
William C. Sproul. of Chester:
Senator E. E. Beidleman, Harris- j
burg: Representative James F.
Woodward, McKeesport; Thomas S. i
Crago, Waynesburg; M. M. Garland,
Edgewood; William J. Burke, Pitts- j
burgh, and Anderson H. Walters, S
Johnstown.
The rules committee is composed
of B. Harry Warren, West Chester;
Representative William T. Ramsey,
Chester, and Henry T. Albee. Gale
ton, Potter county.
—Officials at the* executive and
state departments at the State Capi
tol declare that nothing has been
determined upon as yet as to the
measures for taking the votes of the
Pennsylvania soldiers in France.
Governor Brumbaugh, who will be
at the Reserve Militia encampment
at Mt. Gretna this week, will prob
ably consult with Adjutant General
Beary," who was at the War De
partment in regard to the matter.
—George J. Brennan, writing in
the Philadelphia Inquirer, says thati
Congressman W. W. Griest is bentl
on having the next State Treasurer
from Lancaster county. He says
there aro signs that Represen
tative Michael R. Hoffman, of May
town. is the roan who is being much
mentioned and prints an interesting
story of which this is a part: "Ches
ter W. Hill, former collector of -;us
toms at this port, who is secretary of
the Patriotic Union of Pennsylvania,
an organization formed by men of
affairs 'throughout the state, primar
ily to insure the nomination and
election of William Cameron Sproul
to the governorship and which, when
it appeared that the Vare favorite,
John R. K. Scott, was becoming a
formidable candidate for lieutenant
governor, swung its influence to Sen
ator Edward E. Beidleman for sec
ond place on the ticket, remarked to
a friend juSt after the primaries, "If
the Penrose leaders had assured
Griest that they would support Mich
ael Hoffman, of Lancaster, for State
Treasurer, Beidleman would not
have had to bother about Lancaster
county's vote." Griest turned the
full power of his organization to
Scott in a combination with the
Vares and the Brumbaugh adminis
tration, but Scott's friends were dis
appointed upon his getting but a lit
tle more than 3,000 majority over
Beidleman when they were counting
upon nearer 6,000. Beidleman com
ing from the neighboring county of
Dauphin made a surprisingly good
run In view of the opposition to his
candidacy by the leader of the or
ganization."
—The strenuous Chamber of Com
merce of Wllkes-Barre, which made
a report on police conditions in the
Luzerne capital that started a coun
cilmanic investigation and a public
upheaval has given intimations that
it has been looking into other mat
ters in the city. Yesterday Mayor
Kosek, was served with formal no
tice that the Chamber and the Dis
trict Attorney are not in favor of his
presiding, but the mayor flatly an
swered that under the law he is com
pelled to sit and that he does not In
tend to violate his oath by neglect
ing the duties of his office. The
Chamber of Commerce officials and
the District Attorney allege that jus
tice will be best served if the mayor
has no official part in the investiga
tion, but the mayor has fired back
that he is determined to sit to see
that justice is done.
—Joseph F. Guffey, late chairman
of the Democratic state committee
and candidate of the Palmer-McCor
mick faction for Governor without
results of a satisfactory character,
seemp to have been well taken care
of by the national administration.
He has been put in charge of vast
properties by Custodian Palmer.
—Westmoreland county people
have started to speculate about the
next judge for that county. Judge
McConnell will be commissioned as
president judge and the Governor
will name an additional law judge
soon. Half a dozen men are being
mentioned, but it is believed that the
Governor will do as he did in the
McClure appointment—follow his
own inclinations.
—The Philadelphia Ledger is not
inclined to sit quietly under the
criticism of the State Bar Associa
tion for its action in favor of a
change in the judicial election. The
Ledger thinks that there should be a
change and that the present law is a
failure, which even critics of the
State Association must realize.
—Chester city council took a short
way of dealing with a housing prob
lem. The fleet corporation wanted
some housing arrangements made
and a land company did not. Council
enacted ordinances which the land
company did not want.
—From all accounts Clinton Rog
ers WoodrufT, named as a member of
a local draft board ttt Philadelphia,
was appointed by Washington. It is
said that Oovernor Brumbaugh op
posed him.
—The Altoona Tribune makes
these observations on politics in the
state: "The RepubliMn leaders must
present a constructWe platform if
they wish to win the confidence of
the majority of the voters. • • •
President Wilson H expected by
Judge Bonniwell to render valuable
aid during the coming campaign.
Perhaps the Judge will not be disap
pointed." j
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)'
A PUBLIC PARK PASTURE |
To th* Editor of the Telegraph:
Srr—When. Mr. Editor, did 1
the people of Harrisburg consent to
the pasturing of cattle in the parks I
of the city? My inquiry is prompted j
by the presence of eight or ten. cows
on the city property along the Jones- ;
town Road at the northeast corner J
of Reservoir Park. We've had i
some peculiar things happen under I
this "Don't Blame Me" administra- I
tion, but somebody must be respon- .
sibie tor this latest bid for votes. j
AN OBSERyER. |
HELPING WIN THE WAR
Steamers running out of Tacoma,
Wash., are employing -women as
oilers.
The average rate or pay paid
women time workers In England Is
$6.08 per week.
Over 1,000 women are now at work
on the surface and subway systems
in New York City.
Several women are employed as
draftsmen by the lowa State High
way Department.
The further drafting of clergymen
in England makes women preachers
a possibility.
The Quartermaster's Department
in Milwaukee has four passenger
automobiles operated by women.
A unit of Stanford University girls
are going to France to care for fath
erless babies.
Among the possibilities of the fu
ture is the employment of women
as railway mail clerks.
Only women with men folks In the
service are allowed to make gas
masks for the American Army.
It is estimated that during the
present year over 500,000 women will
act as farm managers.
Unlike our women, the women In
Germany are kept at home and are
not allowed to do any work near the
war front.
The Baltimore division of the
Pennsylvania railroad has 247 wom
en doing work exclusively done by
men a year ago.
The latest field for women's work
in England is helping to provide eyes
for the army and navy by making
lenses and prisms.
The large estate in Ireland owned
by the Countess of Drogheada is be
ing farmed m by her and her young
son. She does all the plowing.
When her brother was called away
•to war. Miss Eunice Maloney, of
Ladysmith, Wis., took his job as a
linotype operator in a newspaper
office.
The women members of the Sioux
Indian tribe, located in the Stand
ing Rock reservation in North Da
kota, have organized a Red Cross
auxiliary.—Exchange.
HEAL YANKEE LANGUAGE
[From the London Opinion]
A French soldier who came proud
ly up to an American in a certain
headquarters town the other day
asked:
"You spik French?"
"Nope," answered the American,
"not yet.
• The Frenchman smiled compla
cently.
"Aye spik Eengleesh," he said.
The American grinned and .the
Frenchman looked about for some
means to show his prowess in the
(foreign tongue. At that moment a
French girl, very neat and trim in
her peaked hat, long coat, and high
laced boots, came along. The
Frenchman jprked his head toward
her, looked knowingly at the Amer
ican, and said triumphantly:
"Chicken."
The American roared.
"Shake," he said, extending his
hand.
"You don't speak English; you
speak American."
Banks and Certificates
[From the New York Sun.]
"The marvelous manner in which
the banks of the United States did
their allotted work in meeting Fed
eral tax requirements has relieved
public and banking anxiety as well
with reference to the ability of the
institutions to take care of the bil
lions of dollars' worth of Treasury
certificates which must be sold prior
to the issue of the fourth Liberty l
Loan Ift September or October," ob
serves the Financier. "Whether we
figure the national income at J50,-
000,000,000 or a larger sum, It Is
still true that the certificates to be
disposed of in the next four months
will take an uncomfortably large
percentage of the national surplus.
The demand will be met willingly.
Probably if its meaning were bet-1
ter understood, people would appra
clate just what must happen be
tween now and October If the cer
tificates are to be absorbed, as they
must be."
Says Trotzky Rides in
Nicholas IPs
Herman Bernstein's Report on Conditions in Russia Shows tlio
Nobility Forced to Menial Labor While the Bol
shevik! Indulge in Various Excesses
WHEN Herman Bernstein ar
rived in America after spend
ing six months in Russia for
the New York Herald, that newspa
per devoted nearly its entire front
page to the first instalment of Mr.
Bernstein's vivid report.
Mr. Bernstein, who said that
chaos under the sway of the Bol
sheviki grew steadily, found Russia
"practically transformed into a Ger
man colony, the people betrayed,
humiliated, disheartened, the coun
try dismembered—a smaller Russia
than Ivan the Terrible left behind."
He went on:
"Petrograd was filled with wild,
fantastic rumors, with fears and
forebodings. Strange legends were
circulated freely. The people in the
streets looked ghastly, palefaced
both from hunger and from fear,
haunted by the horrors of German
invasion. • • •
"I have seen the equality imposed
by the dictatorship of the proletar-i
iat. Student girls and cultured, once'
wealthy, women were cleaning the
streets or selling newspapers: officers
of high rank, professors and teach
ers, to keep from starving, also sold
newspapers or carried bundles at
railroad stations. Anarchists and
Bolsheviki were riding about in mo
tor cars, dining in fashionable res
taurants, feasting and amusing them
selves, while Russia was experienc
ing her most tragic period in his
tory. Trotzky was riding about In the
A WAR-LULLABY
[By Emilc Cammaerts.]
Sleep, sleep, baby, sleep,
Baby will soon be asleep.
The fire dwindles and the wind
moans.
The rain lashes the window-panes...
Is it blowing end raining there?
Hailing or thundering, perhap^?
Sleep, sleep, baby, sleep...
Is he well?
Is he warm? .
Is he lacking naught?
Has he all he wants?
His coat, his matches, and his gloves,
And, in his pocket, next his heart,
I My last letter
And all its love?
Baby scon will be asleep...
The lamp burns low, the fire
dwindles.
We shall have to go to bed.
The child Is clasping its wee fista...
Is niy big child sleeping, too?
Sleeping peacefully before the
battle?
I Is he running madly
j Through the shells?
Or is he lying in some hole,
j With open mouth and with closed
I eyes ?
Sleep, sleep, baby, sleep...
The child moans and the wind swells
the curtains.
The wick upltters.
The child turns In Its cot.
The rain ceases, the night shivers,
The sadness of it is fearful...
Baby soon will be asleep. ..
From the Germans' fury
Deliver us. O God!
MOBILIZING GIRLS
Abbe Wetterle, the Alsatian priest,
whose 'book, "Behind the Scenes In
the Reichstag," has Just been pub
lished by Doran Company, writes re
vealingly of the German Colonial
League, its hopes and its activities.
"If the enterprise of 1914 had suc
ceeded. as its organizers hoped it
would," he says, "the whole world
would have been In servitude. The
League provided all articles required
by colonists, even housekeepers. It
assumed, in fact, the mission of
mobilizing a large number of big.
strong girls of Brandenburg, and
sent them, carriage paid, to the Cam
eroons and East Africa fo rthe Ger
man farmers, who were requested to
choose their legltimaA 'collaborators'
from among them. The lordly race
must not. Indeed, prostitute itself by
cross-breeding. German blood in the
colonies, as in Wurone, must remain
free from .t.uie."
motor car of Nicholas 11. The Bol
shevist leaders requisitioned food,
wines, chocolates and various deli
cacies for themselves, while the Rus
sian population, even the women and
the children of the proletariat, were
starving.
"I have seen tyranny such as
Nicholas never dared impose upon
his people, graft such as even Rus
sia could not equal in the past. Go
gol's masterpiece. 'The Inspector,' is
antiquated now. It is too mild a pic
ture of the art of grafting.'.'
All Russia needed, he declared,
was "another master to produce a
new epic of graft under the regime
pf the so-called liberators of the
Russian working people."
In the second instalment Mr.
Bernstein declared that "the Bol
sheviki have removed their mask of
socialism and style themselves com
munists now. But they are enslaving
Russia more thoroughly than the
kaiser could have done without their
aid, for they are posing as Russians
and as liberators of the proletarat."
He quoted a letter from Vladimir
Bourtseff, "one of Russia's foremost
champions of li'lerty," in which ap
peared this paragraph:
"For Russia is actually helping
now the Germans against the allies,
and if nothing is done to offset this
perhaps to-morrow Russian armies
under the command of Lenine and'
Trotsky, Hindenburg and Ilertling,
may be forced to advance against the
allies."
THE LIBERTY MOTOR
[Tho Literary Digest.]
The cheerful news that "recent
tests of a seaplane equipped with the
Liberty motor resulted in 'better*
than similar airplanes equipped with
one of the best types of European
engines," is contained in adispatch to
Secretary Daniels from Admiral
Sims, who commands our naval
forces In European waters. This an
nouncement gives a fitting climax to
what we are assured is the whole
story of the Liberty motor as con
tributed to the New York Tribune by
Theodore M. Knappen. It should be
of interest to timid souls. Accord
ing to Mr. Knappen the much-be
rated delay in motor-production was
due to necessary changes in the mo
tor, made at the advice of an official
committee, who were unwilling that
we should turn out anything but the
very best work, "program or no pro
gram." Final tests were not made
until April last, and thereafter the
motors began to be turned out fif
teen or twenty a day. At the date
of Mr. Knappen's writing they were
being produced fifty per day, and lie
assures us that the rate is rapidly
rising. The whole trouble has. been,
he thanks, "premature official pub
licity." We now have a good mo
tor with delayed production, which
very properly gives that publicity
the lie; we might have made good
in the publicity program and lost the
lives of our aviators by thousands.
Who is sorry for what we actually
did?
SOMEHOW
Seliehow I never thought that you
would go.
Not even when red war swept
through the land—•
I somehow thought, because I loved
you so.
That you would stay. I did not
understand
That something stronger than my
love could come.
To draw you, half-reluctant, from
my heart: .
I never thought the call of fife and
drum
Would rend our cloak of happi
ness apart! *
And yet. you went. . , And I—l
did not weep—
I smiled, instead, and brushed the
. tears aside.
And yet. when night-time comes, I
cannot sleep
But silent lie. while longing fights
with pride—
You are my man. the foe you fight
my foe.
And yet—l never thought that you
would go!
— B " ' SfcßssUr la ce<
JULY 15, *NW.
LABOR NOTES
New Brunswick, Canada, has pass
ed a workmen's compensation law.
Street railway employes at Mon
treal have a union with 3,500 mem
bers.
Casper painters have se
cured a wage scale of 90 cents an
hour.
Union membership in Manitowoc,
Mich., has increased from 600 to 1,-
700 in a year.
Clarksburg, W. Va., has elected a
union man as mayor of that city.
A daily labor paper is now pub
lished by labor unions at Seattle,
Washington.
A union plumbing inspector has
been appointed by the city at Allen
town, Pa.
There are now 52 organization® af
filiated with the Dayton (Ohio) Cen
tral Labor Union.
All factories and building trades at
Coffeyville, Kan., have the eight-hour
day.
' Des Moines (Iowa) Trades Assem
bly is now managing a local labor
paper.
Plasterers at Richmond, Cal., are
now getting $1 an hour.
Molders' International Union has a
membership of over 60,000 in 422
locals.
Virginia City (Nev.) Miners'
Union, organized in 1867, has never
gone out on strike.
I OUR DAILY LAUGH
NOT BEING
CONSULTED. if
How does /m
--your .boy like jjUKK® '/'/ f
army life ? 14/ M
Fairly well. 1 J
He has one arit- KWmjST y .
icism to make v
, though. The
j cfllcers don't LVI
take him into ||j|jjj|MH ly
their confidence. , /
NO HURRY. iO„ 1
When is the
proper time to
congratulate a J
bride and bride- I B
After they 7
have lived to- flfll A, •
gether for at ■ ®j| fj
least a year and
are still happy.
AT THE MUSIC COUNTER.
"Have you Mendelssohn's brook
song?"
"'Do you mean his spring song?"
"That's it. I know it was some
thing wiii runnlss water mixed up
in It." i
■
£totttng (tttfal
Survey of the housing situation In
Harrlsburg proposed by the Cham
ber of Commerce will result In the
bringing to light of conditions cf
living within sight of the State Capi
tol dome which will surprise a good
many people whose knowledge of
the city wherein they live Is re
stricted to half a dozen streots add
as many highways leadtng out
of the municipal gates. There were
doubtless quite a few residents of
Harrlsburg, who got the idea that
when the state wiped out the sec
tion of the Etghth ward which fig
ured extensively in police court and
which had stagnated awaiting tho
day when the capltol park had to
bo extended that the worst section
of tho city would be eliminated.
North and South alley and various
buildings in the portion which used
to bo known as "de ward" had &.
notoriety that extended beyond the
city limits. In some respects con
ditions were simply moved further
north into the Seventh ward and
North Seventh street, the part that
used {o be known years ago as
"Pennsylvania Avenue" replaced
East State street as the thorough
fare that never sleeps. And it alSo
began to furnish examples of con
gested living. Slbletpwn is a sec
tion of Harrisburg which has been
some time called the "piano box
tract" because boards taken from
piano boxes were found useful for
building of shacks. The portion of
Sibletown known as "Brooklyn," be
cause years ago it was beyond the
Herr street creek and canal bridges,
and the locality known in police par
lance as "Ant Hill Terrace" will still
furnish some opportunities for study
by the Harrisburg sociologist even
if Lochiel and the old nail work?
district have been changed materially
by removal of old established iron
works and the denizens of "Cinder"
and "Furnace" rows have been scat
tered to the four corners of the city
and become memories like the
"Seven Bleeders" and the "Cinder
, Bank Sliders."
• • ..
It is interesting in this connection
to note that several of the most pro
gressive of the third class cities have
undertaken special studies of hous
ing conditions impelled by the scar
city of homes and the miserable ac
commodations offered for skilled
workmen who flock to these towns
because of the war industries. Ches
ter, for instance, when confronted
with a situation worse than our own
organized several companies md
proceeded to build houses, getting
tho jump on the rest of the state.
There is scarcely a city of any size
which is not troubled about how to
house its new residents and in Johns
town the city fathers have taken up
the matter and asked citizens to
give all the help possible. Ex-Sen
itor George T. Weingartner, of New
Castlo, who is well known here, has
been making the inquiry for the
people of his city and reported to
the Board of Trade of New Castle,
which saw what wag coming months
ago, that from 800 to 1,000 families
are living in two or three rooms be
cause they could not get homes.
Quoting his report the New Castle
News says: "Many of these fam
ilies have their furniture stored. In
fact every storehouse in the city is
tilled. Houses that are needed are
four, five and six rooms. There have
been practically none built for rent
ing purposes of late years owing to
low rents. In a majority of cases
owners "have been unable to realize
six per cent, on their investments
and the result is the present house
shortage. While it is estimated that
there are nearly 200 houses -under
construction at the present time
they are being built for sale or for
homes by the owners of the lots."
• • •
The newspapers of the state tell
of many interesting movements be
ing undertaken on a county basis and
of various municipal advances.
Bethlehem, which was formed of the
two boroughs, is moving along half
a dozen lines under the stimulus of
Mayor Arch Johnston and will set a
pretty hot pace for the other cities
of the state soon. York has added
to that remarkable diversity of small
industries for which it has been
famous and is pushing Its house
building as rapidly as the materials
permit. Easton, which has had an in
dustrial development such as this
part of the state scarcely realizes,
has spent thousands of dollars to
improve living and housing condi
tions, while many smaller places
have taken their problems into daily
life and,moved to better them. An
Interesting move In Schuylkill county
is the'formation of a county chafn
ber of commerce to bring the coal
county's numerous boroughs and big
townships closer together.
• • •
Demolition of the old Capitol con
servatory appears to hold a tremen
dous interest for the unofficial com
mittee which sits daily in Capitol
Park. The workmen engaged in
wrecking the place have about fifty
watchers all day long. And they pre
not all children or nurse girls, eith
er.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Major W. W. Babcock, well
known Philadelphian, has been pro
moted to be a lieutenant colonel.
—Ralph A. Ammerman, of Scran
ton, who went to France with the Y.
M. C, A. a couple of years ago, haj
been given charge of a district of the
American sector.
—Major R. F. Campbell, the new
camp adjutant at Camp Lee, comes
from Jenkintown and has lately been
stationed at Charleston.
—U. G. Lyons, former guardsman
and oil refiner, who figured In & re
cent congressional contest, has gone
into the Army as a lieutenant colonel
In charge of oil matters.
—Altoona people gavq a reception
a few nights ago in honor of ex-Con-*,
pressman J. D. Hicks, commander of
the State G. A. R.
—V. M. Stevenson, noted Penn
football player, has become a T. M.
C. A. military secretary.
—The "Rev. Luther LeYoe, for
merly of this city, will be one of the
daily speakers at the Mt. Airy Lu
theran conference of ministers.
1 DO YOU KNOW
—That this city la one of the
points where moat la prepared
to be shipped to men on the
fighting front?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Tho first Dauphin county court la
believed to have been held In Front
street near Washington.
IT COMES OFF
This is a grouchy world. Ah, me!
A fellow seldom 'laughs.
Why don't we wear the smile that we
Use In our photographs?
—Cincinnati En<julrr,