12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! A. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Itelldtag, Federal Sijaare ' E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager GL'3. M. STEINMETSS, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENKR, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. MCCVLLOCGH. BOYD M. OGEUJBY. F. U. OYSTER. GL'S. M. STEINMETZ. 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 otherwlso credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. „ , , All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American Newspaper Pub -11 aheqf'^ I —' Chicago, 111. i Entered at the Post Office in Harris- , burg. Pa., as second class matter. ( —————— - | By carrier, ten cents a 4yfaaVweek; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. * Hare mercy upon me, O God. ac cording to Thy loving kindness: ac cording to the multitude of Thy ten-', dcr mercies blot out my transgres sions.—Psa. 51:1. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY' 8, 1#1 j WHAT WILL THEY THINK? • ALTER Shaffer sits penniless AAy in Paris to-day, impatiently j * * awaiting the postofflce de- j partment's delivery to him of $4OO that ought to have reached him , three weeks ago. And in Dauphin his distracted j parents are wondering what thej , can do to galvan.ze the Burlsonlzed j cable companies into action. Young Shaffer couldn't wait the j slow decision of the government to j get into the war. He went across , and joined the French forces as an j aviator, paying from his own wages , as a printer for the training he needed. Ho performed such heroic services that he was promoted from tho ranks by the French and given thf war cross. He was shot down behind the German lines, escaped barely with his life, was captured and released when the armistice was signed. Without money to , come home he cabled his parents ; for funds, and they managed to get , together $4OO to send him. In their anxiety they cabled the money. But the Burlsonized telegraph com panies in some manner that never j would have occurred under the old > regime, failed to get the cash to j him. This the parents know, for young Shaffers bank in Paris so notified them by cable. They com- ( plained to the government con trolled companies and were in- j formed that all such complaints must be sent by mail; that . the, errors of the telegraph companies cannot be corrected by wire, but must be done by letter. Think of a system that is not per mitted to check up its own mis takes. And Mr. Burleson wants to continue that sort of thing indeftn- j Itely. Meanwhile the government has Shaffer's money, his parents can af ford to raise no more and the young aviator sits helpless in Paris. What Is Bhaffer going to think of a sys tem like that? What are the other Shaffers abroad going to think about It? We believe we know, and when they express their opinion at the polls Mr. Burleson will head back toward Texas as rapidly as a pri vately owned railroad train can take hint. "Jim Ham Lewi* got an awful grill ing in the Senate yesterday," observes a correspondent. Sort of minced Ham, as It were. THE PERSONAL TOUCH THE Government has gotten out tons and tons of publicity matter since the beginning of the war. Some of it has been good, much of It has had some value and whole carloads of it were dumped into the wastebaskets of editors who could find nothing of interest in it. The value of the "press agent" at Wash ington just now is abquf seyepty-fiv* below par and still going down. That has been brought about by overdoing a good thing. The Federal Board of _ Vocational Education, the duty of which' is to train wounded or disabled soldiers for useful occupations, has a method of its own that Is refreshingly new. It has Bent into this district an •xrnest, enthusiastic, virile repre sentative to spread among employers the propaganda of providing jobs for the men the Government will edu cate. He talked straight from the shoulder before the Rotary Club last night and won support Uiat a whole basketful of letters or circulars would have failed to get. The per sonal touch is vital in work of this kind. The sooner Government agen cies get over the idea that they can get all the publicity they desire by sending out reams of mimeographed WEDNESDAY EVENING copy to overcrowded newspapers that have neither the time nor the space for It, the better for all con cerned. President Wilson is to write his autobiography as soon as he leaves office. Beating history to it. as it ! were. NO TIME TO LOSE OVERNQR Brumbaugh in his farewell messaso to the LegU i lature urges that body to move promptly in the provision of funds for the erection of a mem i orial bridge across the Pennsyl ivania Railroad at Stato street as a part of the Capitol Park develop ment, and this is good advice. The city is getting its plans under way, the necessary legislation for tlio special election to transfer J300,000 from the old Walnut i street bridge fund to that for the city's share in the State street viaduct is prepared and the people of Harrls burg hope that city and State will move along hand in hand on this big project. No doubt the Governor's recom mendation will fall on sympathetic oars. The State Is committed to the improvement of the new park area. Its officials who have direct charge of the enterprise are deeply Im pressed with the possibilities of making the Pennsylvania Capitol one of the beauty spots of the world. The city is co-operating and all things point toward success. No doubt Senator Sproul, in his in augural address when he becomes Governor January 21, will include n park development paragraph, for he too is heartily in favor of the im provement. But the approval of the Legisla ture must be of a substantial char- j acter. It must do as Harrisburg is doing _ se t aside funds with which to meet the necessary expenditure, and there is every indication that it will do this, handsomely. What, we wonder, will become of the rosy nnd rotund gentlemen who for years have constituted the "liquor lobby" after the nation goes "dry?' RETURN THE ROADS THE Interstate Commerce Com mission has advanced the first and only sensible railroad pro gram that has come out of Wash ington since the roads were taken over by the government. Neither sudden relinquishment nor perma nent ownership is the answer, the commission believes. The country at large is lukewarm on government ownership where it is not openly antagonistic. A great deal of noise is being made but there is no real popular sentiment.. Indeed the op posite is true. The average man is sick of government interference. What he wants is service and eco nomy.and he is getting neither. AT THE PENN-HARRIS THE Harrisburg Hotel Company has thoughtfully provided a second dinner and Inspection of the new Penn-Harris hotel for the benefit of those who by the very nature of things could not attend the stockholders' celebration on New Y'ear's Eve. The new hostelry even now Is not completed, but It will be well along toward that state by Jan uary 17. the date of the second func tion. It is well worth a visit. The hostelry promises to change the whole social life of the city and to advertise Harrisburg in a very favorable manner abroad. Harris burg people should see its- interior and come to an understanding of. its beauties and conveniences. The sec ond dinner now being planned will give them that opportunity. HEALTH INSURANCE AMONG the humanitarian legis lation which will be considered at the approaching session of the Legislature is a proposition looking to health insurance, espe cially for workers In Industrial and manufacturing plants. Lieutenant Governor - Elect Bei dlemnn. of this city, is a member of the commission which has had this subject under consideration since the last session of tbo Legislature and It is expected Governor-Elect Sproul wtll.be asked to make a rec ommendation in his first message to .the. law-piaking body. Health in surance has been receiving more apd mpre consideration during re cent years and the Pennsylvania commission will be able to report some interesting facts concerning this new form of welfare work. A FINE TRIBUTE THAT was a fine tribute Gover nor Brumbaugh paid In his message to-day to Captain Lumb. superintendent, and the members of the State po'.ico force, but it was deserved. Likewise, the public will be sympathetic with the recommendation that the police be given more pay and be Increased in number. Captain Lumb has made an excellent record and the compli ment was deserved. CN. By the Kx-Oommlttccman , With harmony that promises well for the influence.of the Incoming ad ministration over the Legislature the State Senate and House of Represen tatives got under way yesterday for the session and. after transacting some matters of routine business, adjourned to meet Monday evening, January 20, the night before the inauguration. So well-oiled was the legislative machinery that not the slightest jar disturbed anywhere. All the old employes were re elected, following the choice of Rob ert S. Spangler as Speaker and Clarence J. Buckman as president Pro tern, of the Senate. Comment everywhere Is made on the unexciting nature of the sittings that have marked the organization of the Legislature. None of the tur bulent scenes that have marked the sessions of the Brumbaugh adminis tration are in evidence. The strength of Governor-elect Sproul is what is holding the contending elements of the party together. Prophecies are already being made on every hand that the coming session is to be one of the midlest In years. h nder the conditions there is much more interest in the situation which has arisen with regard to Governor Brumbaugh and the court vacancies than in the routine doings of the Legislature. His appointment of William H. Keller to the Superior Court is expected to be followed up very shortly by the appointment of Thomas F. McNichol to the vacancy In the Municipal Court of Philadel phia. The Governor can have his way about these appointments without question .for law does not require the appointments to be confirmed by the Senate. During his four years in office Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh has drawn $134,000 from the State Treasury .according to figures an nounced by Charles A. Snyder, Audi tor General. "The state owes hint nothing now," srfld Mr. Snyder. "His last draft for $l,BOO was drawn Decem ber 1.." the sum of $134,000 is included the Governor's salarv of $lO,OOO a year, a total of $40,000. Approxi mately $lB,OOO was spent for im provements to the Executive Man sion and more than $60,000 was ex pended front the contingent funds granted the Governor, by legislative enactment. There are other items of expenditure, but Mr. Snyder did not announce them. Despite the large sum drawn by I the Governor. Mr. Snyder says he : recently received two vouchers turn ed into his office from departments! other than the Executive Depart- | ment, but which the Auditor General i says he was certain should have I been credited to the Executive De partment. One was for thirty-six ! gallons of gasoline, submtf'.od by the i Highway Department anil charged ! against the Governor's automobile ' which is maintained by the state! ! The other voucher was "for $lOO for 1 flowers turned in by the Public Grounds and Buildings Committee. Mr. Snyder held them up for a time but later permitted their payment. ' Governor Brumbaugh has expend ed all of his contingent account of $24,000 some two months ago and the fund is now exhausted. There is nothing illegal, or in fact unusual, in this. The Governor's contingent : fund was cut from $34,000 to $24,000 1 two years ago after bitter debate. Auditor General Snyder was ask ed if it would, not be legal for the to expend all of the con tingent fund within a few months if ho saw fit. "It would be legal." he said, "if the Auditor General on the spot per mitted him to do so." —The Legislature by joint resolu tion has appropriated*sso,ooo for the 1 inauguration ceremonies incident to the induction of Senator William C. Sproul into office as Governor, and Edward E. Beidleman, as Lieuten ant-Governor. It provided for a committee of nine senators and fif teen members of the House, who, meeting later, chose Senator Wil liam E. Crow as chairman. The amount provided for the expenses ; is about double what it has been in the past. The main feature of the inaugural ceremonies will be the administer ing of the oath of office to Governor elect Sproul in front of the Capitol at noon, January 21. Lieutenant- Governor Beidleman will be sworn in at the Senate chamber. Follow ing .these formalities there will be a great parade, consisting of a pro visional regiment of the Pennsyl vania Reserve Militia, marching clubs of Republican organizations ! state political and local organiza- ! tions. The grandstand will be erected ! facing Third street and in front of ! the main entrance to the Capitol. ; This will be for the state officials, their friends and the members of the Senate and the House. It will be used for a reviewing stand for the parade immediately after the ad ministration of the oath. —The first open play of the liquor interests was made yesterday, when members of the Legislature received letters from the International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal and Soft Drink Workers of America, asking them to oppose the ratifica tion of the prohibition amendment. The letters were sent from interna tional headquarters, Cincinnati. New Railroad Problems (From the Providence Journal) Although the plan of the railroad managers for the restoration of the properties to their owners has not been published in detail, the general points agreed upon indicate that new legislation will be required to meet the new conditions created by the war, and that the 21 months speci fied in the law is ample time fo/ working out a transportation pro gram. The conditions to be emphas'trj. at the hearings before the inter | state Commerce Committee of the Senate include provision for meet ing the increase of $800,000,00 in wages granted by the Federal Rail road Administration, legislation for preventing the "collapse of the rate structure throughout the country" and income sufficient for annual ex penditures of a billion dollars for the next tive years. There is noth ing complicated in any of these propositions, except, perhaps, in the one pertaining te maintenance of the rate structure —this calls for ac tion that will prevent state commis sions from nullifying to a consider able extent the schedules approved by the federal government. The problem of intrtistate and interstate rutes is a troublesome one. but it ought to be solved in less than 21 months after the formal signing of peace terms. BABJRISBURG TELEGRAPH AIN'T ITA GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELItP? ..... .... ... ... A" - Ano - \ " ™" M I weens nj England "lets Go 7 o See "voulez vou-s cinema WJILL Va(J HAVE a p L<v y TONI&HT"? AwEPICAirJ 5, "TEA with ME *• maoemoisgue ?" To DAY ? " . -AND- " ' AND - " ' To GET Back TO AMERICA "VOULE2 VOUS DinjeO "VQUL<=Z VOOS AND HUG Ybuß Ovjun GIRL- AveC MOIR SI SOIR OH-H-M- BOY! Ain'T IT MADAME"? MADcMd SELLS . GR-R-R-WAiND AND _oGLO-R"R!OOS FE?6LIFN' ? No, Not With Kansas (From the New York Tribune) "What's the matter with Kan sas?" asked William Allen White in a day long past, immediately start ing himself on the road to fame with the answer to his own ques tion. Regardless of what the an swer was at that time, it is appar ent from the report of an agent of the United States Department of Ag riculture that that matter doesn't matter now. Nothing is the matter, from a business standpoint at least, with a state that plants 11,184,000 acres to wheat,, particularly when that acreage "has a potential yield, under present crop prospects, which are placed at 98 per cent, of 200,- 000,000 bushels, for which the gov ernment has obligated itself to pay $2.20 a bushel. If we remember rightly, at the time the sage of the Emporia Ga zette assumed the double role of in terlocutor and endman Kansas was being seared by hot winds that might have served for early models for a German llammenwerfer, and the Sahara desert was a Flanders bog compared with the scorched depressions which had once been the beds of Kansas streams. The heaven-born ratio of Sixteen to One had become the Fourteenth Amend ment of the Decalogue, Populism was the ne plus ultra of political wisdom, Mary Elizabeth Lease was advising the farmers' to raise less corn and more hell, and Jerry Simp son was stalking sockless through the halls of Congress because he and all other Kansans were too poor to buy hose. But times change and men change with them. Since that day, antedat ing the movies, when the greatest of outdoor sports in the Sunflower State was watching William Jen nings Bryan pluck the crown of thorns from the brow of labor, there has been a monotonous succession of big crops and high prices. Fields which once produced only taxes have spouted oil ,and the hardy agri culturists who "sat under" the apostles of "fiat money" and who felt themselves being enmeshed in the slimy tentacles of the octopus, now draw their millions a year in royalties from the Standard and other "predatory interests." Every farmer has a motor car and some have as many as five, not all of them by any means the out put of a Detroit man who would be Senator, but now will be an editor. A tractor ploughs his fie'ds, a ma chine milks his cows and a power plant lights his house. The rain that patters at night upon his man sard roof lulls him to pleasant dreams of his boys taking the scientific course in agriculture at Manhattan, or law or engineering at Lawrence; of his girls being gradu ated in domestic science from the state schools and being "finished" in the East, and of himself and "maw," when the young folks get big enough to run the farm, mov ing to Hutchinson and living the easy life of retired farmers. Where as his rare dissipation of old was ;an occasional "one fare for the I round trip" excursion to Kansas City ! to see the resplendent annual 'Priests' Of Pallas parade, he now winters in California or is perfect ! ly at home amoAg the white lights •of Broadway. Two hundred million bushels of wheat at $2.20 a bushel, an annual oil output valued at a billion dol lars, and cattle, corn, alfalfa and the like for "small change"—what was it you said, Mr. White, was the matter with Kansas? LABOR NOTES • Before the war girl- worker* in France were paid about 40 cents a day. Now they are earning on an average of over $2 a day. As a result of strong organiza tion, broom makers at Texarkanu, Texas, have secured substantial wage increases. Puddlers are now making from $6,000 to $12,000 a year; rollers-earn from $5,000 to $lO,OOO and lowly heaters receive around $2,500. A conference was held at Ottawa, Canada, with a view to employing as many munition workers as pos sible on railway work. Building of houses for workers in munition plants and shipbuilding yards at Elizabeth, N. J., has been temporarily held up. Salaries of elementary school teachers In Middlesex, England, have been raised $70,000 per annum, and , later on will be raised by $335i000. High Ideals in Business COMMENTING on the recent I convention of businessmen and I industrial leaders, the Iron j Trade Review says; "American business caught a I vision at Atlantic City. It was the future of American industry and ! commerce changed in its horizon, ! obligations and opportunities by the ! far-reaching effects of the war. It j was the recognition that a new era I of economic and social standards had i dawned and the appreciation that I to the extent that the business in- | terests of this country adjusted I themselves to these changed condi- I tions would they fare or deserve ! well. With no physical domestic de- i struction to be redeemed, reconstruc tion for the United States it was seen I in reality means the reshaping to I new ideals, practical still,' but of a i considerably advanc edplane from ; the days before the war when in- i dividual interest largely was para- ! mount. "From the spirit and tone of thes convention it is clear that the high ! patriotism which had marked the j conduct of American business during ] the war remains in full vigor. It' was made apparent that something j of this spirit is to extend in the j trade relations of the United States' toward foreign countries and par ticularly so toward the Allies. Ex pressions were in a common chord that the signing of the armistice or peace had not terminated the ob- ! ligations of this country toward the I Allies and the world. "The dominant tone of the con-1 vention was a frank acceptance of the responsibility of service. This applies not only to the attitude to ward crippled Europe, the misfor tunes of which were not to be made the basis of unlimited profit, but likewise in the conduct toward la bor. "Addresses delivered by John D. The Soldier's Return What shall we render when the men return from war — The men who fought that this, our land, might live? Is there too much—too much in kind, in deed— For they who lived in hell, that we can give? Some sturdy cheers, a pittance, charity, or praise, With waving flags for strife no longer feared, Forgotten as the past, and unre * deemed— The broken pledge that trusting men have heard. Yes, they are conscious of the fate there is in store . For men who sacrilice the ease- ! worn way; Who, lighting in the dark before the dawn. Reap for the craven the safety j of the day. : Deep in some hearts is Mammon still intrenched, Th<, trnder's mart, the gods of gold and clay; They have not found the vision of the soul Revealed to those who walk the hero's way. 'Yet it shall pass, if one, the least, shall fall, i Broken and maimed, unheeded by the state. All we have suffered, spent and hardly won Shall by our deeds become the sport of Fate. % Then through a land a fiery cross will rage, , Fierce, righteous wrath, with stern consuming speed, Shall sweep away those at the reck oning hour Who debts of plighted honor fail ed to heed, j MaJ. M. S V. Carey in the Eng lish Review. , And the Mound Builders, Too Spain wants Gibraltar back again, | and if the peace commission stalls ' long enough the American Indians ; may be sending ovjr a delegation to Versailles to see about having the ; continent of North America returned to them. —Seattle Post-Intelligencer. A Pertinent Query Now that the war is over there are many persons in this country who would like to hear the reasons of President Wilson for hummlllat ing General Leonard Wood.'—From I The Los Angeles Times. ! I Rockefeller, Jr., by Secretary of] I Commerce Redfield, and by Mr. J j Schwab, breathed a sentiment ! j this subject highly idealistic when i compared with the position large | ! employers were wont to take hi i times past. Mr. Rockefeller's pro ! po'setl creed for industry especially I was lofty in tone and concept. The surprising thing was not so much j that these adddresses were made in j this vein as that they received prac tically unanimous and hearty in- I dorsentent of the whole convention | representing as it did the largest and I most diversified gathering of Ameri ( can business minds in the history of the country. | "The idealistic tone that stamped' j the Atlantic City convention - was its' I most striking manifestation. Like- ! , wise the unanimity by which free I recognition was given to the funda-1 I mental changes in the ordinary re- ' j lutions of business which have I out of the war. Many i strajghtforward resolutions were | adopted dealing with the subjects | which are now uppermost in the ! commercial field in this country in j eluding among others a decision to [ have a commission of representative I American businessmen establish it ] self in Paris during the peace confer- I ence. | "It was, however, the frank ac ceptance of world service and recog ! nition of the greater democracy of I industry that made the convention la notable one. Reconstruction as I far as this country is concerned was ' shown by tho Atlantic City confer ence to be chiefly of trade and social relations. If the convention shall prove effective in promoting none of the definite ends to which it com mitted itself, it still will have served a purpose in demonstrating that American business has caught step with the new spirit of the times." This Is a Democracy (From the Kansas City Star) Senator Lewis of Illinois has a conception of democratic govern ment different from that held by most Americans. It was he who in troduced the resolution pledging the Senate in advance to support what ever the President did in the peace conference. Now he charges a po litical plot because certain senators ■in speeches have advanced views at variance with the fourteen points | of the President. That policy belongs to an autoc ! racy, not a democracy. Whether j one agrees with Senator Lodge and other Republicans or not, one must frankly recognize the propriety of their discussion of the peace terms. The war was not the President's war. It was the American people's war. The people's representatives are Intrusted under the constitution with the obligation of advising on all treaties. England, Frapcc and Italy have the right to know the views of the dominant party in the newly elected Congress on the great settlement. America would fail in its duty if it did not discuss free y and independ ently the questions now before the worid. Only through such discus sion can a democracy be maintained. Negro Heroes of the War (From the New York World) War has sinister markings of its own, in all sufficiency. There is no 1 < room for tho color line across its j horrid front. Such is the thought i that suggests itself afresh, for there | have been other events calling to ' mind the gallantry of our colored ' troops, to one who reads the news j from Paris of 124 American negro 1 soldiers being decorated by French 1 authorities. "For extraordinary heroism under Are" —that is, as translated, the lino i of commendation that goes with the medals and war crosses conferred , j in this highly satisfactory instance. . : The words sweep aside every con -1 sideration other than that of soldier -1 ly merit. The man who dares and ' does, he is the man for all this and , | ull that. It Is a matter of curious interest I to note the wide geographical sourc jes of the regiments represented by the boys honored nt Paris. Those bodies of colored fighters came from : Massachusetts and Ohio in the 1 ! North, from Washington, D. C., '! from South Carolina, Maryland and i Tennessoc. The courage and capac ■ lty of negroes militant from New York have won recognition also on the fields of France. JANUARY 8, 1919. EDITORIAL COMMENT""! A Bolshevist is a man who sees only the ruction in reconstruction. Boston Herald. Whatever "freedom of the seas may mean, it will not include the privilege of ordering non-combat ants into open boats 1,000 miles off shore. —Boston Herald. London reports that the Huns are still working for a rift between Eng land and America. That settles it. Whatsoever the Huns work for can't happen.—Houston Post. William Hohenzollern always Said, that he received his crown from the Lord. "The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the. name of the Lord!" —Little Rock Arkansas Gazette. It looks very much to us as if all the titulary bunk, gewgaws, and bull that have characterized royalty and nobility for tlfty centuries will soon exist only in our fraternal orders. — Houston Post. State and Its Waterways (From the Phila. Public Ledger) It is not without a special signifi cance that a somewhat imposing waterways convention meets in Pittsburgh at a time when a new and broad-minded administration at Harrisburg is viewed with hope by all classes of citizens. The par ticular gathering in Pittsburgh deals with the plan of linking up the Mis sissippi throufc'Ci the Ohio Lake Brie and the Atlant" .sned and the Atlantic ports t..cinselve* The convention Is not discussing a new proposition. The generall idea, is almost as old us the country. Nor is there any novel phase of his in terstate waterways problem, since the Pittsburgh-to-Lake-Erie canal project is one that has been before the State and Congress for years. However, like, many other subjects, against which no objections can be urged and which has no real ene mies, it requires a tremendous amount of discussion to get anything done. * u . . At the same time, it must be plain to all that the period of discussion must end some tie. Tmho public by this time should be supersatur ated with the fact that no canal or internal waterways problem is a local one. And so recognizing the basic facts, they ought to be insis tent that both the state and federal authorities should begin to start things going. To the particular project which has been the special concern of Pittsburgh, the .Lake Erie and Ohio River canal, this is so far from being local to Pitts burghl that it might almost be viewed as a Philadelphia project. That this is the case is in evidence at this convention, since the last session of the convention, which is \ given over to a presentation of tho j Ohio-Erie canal plan, also presents the Philadelphia phase of the gen eral problem through the addresses of Wilfred H. Schoff, who has the • canal across Now Jersey in his ! hands, and of John Irwin Bright, j whose scientific treatment of the j port of Philadelphia makes it clear I that it is not a problem merely of I developing a harbor on the Dela ware in the Philadelphia district, hut of . linking it up as a part of tho Ohio and Lake Erie and the Ohio and Mississippi development. Not | only that, but the modern view seos lin these logically connocted-up i waterwuys a part of a greater prob lem, in which scientifically devel oped railways and motortruck high ways with the proper coast termin als and Interior distributing points are io play an Increasing part. Clock Runs 1,000 Days (From the London Chronicle.) One of the most wonderful pieces i of timekeeping mechanism ever tn ! vented keeps time in a way which 1 would make the hands of the old fashioned conventional clock stand I still and strike in horror, i It does not tick, and It keeps time iin any position—even upside down j—ln a drawing room or a motor car. 80 Independent is It of the services jof man that it does not require j winding for a thousand days at least, I and at the end of that time an ordi nary shilling electric battery will j renew its energy and accuracy for | another thousand days. A Disguised Blessing ! A soldier who had been unable to change his socks for several days , felt that a blister was coming on ! oho of his toes. On removing the j sock he found a llttlo roll of paper which had been Irritating his too. One It was written: "God bless your poor tired 'feet!" From the On tario Post. Eumtng (Eljat^ Harry W. Keeny, who has been suggested for appointment as assist ant city assessor since Council cre ated that position. Is widely known In realty circles in the city and ac cording to many businessmen wfS make a highly efficient and capable assistant for James C. Thompson, who has been city assessor for the last few years. Mr. Keeny has bona actively engaged In real estate busi ness In the city for about ten yeapc much of that time with one of tne largest realty firms in Harrlsburg. Ho has been In close touch with many other leading dealers and also private owners and as a result has an accurate knowledge of the actual Selling price of properties not only In all districts of the city but In out lying districts adjacent to Harrls burg. During the triennial assess ment Just completed last year Mr. Keeny and Mr. Thompson spent much of Iheir time together In going over the books on 1110 and in Inspect ing the properties In each ward to determine us neurly as possible the accurate and fair assessment valua tion. As a result there were many changes made in the books, but the I fact that less than 5 pe|j cent, of the property owners in the city rais ed any objections to the changes, ani in most instances valuations were in creased, shows the confidence placed In these men. • • * Other cities in Pennsylvania dur ing the past year have benefitted much from methods of city govern ment used in Harrisburg. Lancas ter still is using the old assessment system of having an nssossor In each ward to fix valuations. Recently officials front that' city came to Har risburg to study the methods used here by City Assessor James C. Thompson. Less than a year ago Wllkes-Barro officials adopted a police reqord system similar to the one installed and in uso here. Read ing and other cities are endeavoring to work out a paving assessment as satisfactory as the one now In use here, perfected by City Engineer M. B. Cowden. Incidentally Mr. Cow den has spoken on a number of occa sions at conferences and conventions of officials of third class cities ex plaining the advisability of the foot front paving assessment system. Plans as outlined by Warren H. Manning, park expert, for the de velopment of Italian Park as a part of the city's extensive system, glvo Harrisburgors an opportunity to re view the many changes which have been brought about with the great improvement campaigns which have been so successfully carried out sinco 1902. Many residents will never forget the ash and rubbish dumps ulong the River Front. Now long rows of shade trees, stretches of grass and plots of shrubbery, and well-kept walks mako the River Front a most inviting place for strolls. Wildwood Park, tilled with acres of young trees, thousands of shrubs of many varieties, not so very long ago was considered nothing better than a swamp. With the con struction of a driveway from Ma clay street to the Linglestown road, and the development of the large lake, this big tract of beautiful woodland has been saved for the Harrisburg of many years to come. These are only a few examples of what can be done by a progressive community such as this one, and the residents how are looking with in creased interest toward the future and the part they are to take in giv ing to Harrisburg still greater im provements. • * • Naomi Antoinette Ackley, who was a prominent figure in the Moor head vaudeville show in the Chest nut Street Auditorium last Friday night, has been for years an inti mate friend of Victor Herbert, the eminent musician. When his fa mous musical comedy, "Eileen .came out several years ago, Miss Ackley became understudy to "Ei leen." One night in a crowded Buf falo theater she was called on to play" the part gnd acquitted herself so well that she played it many times afterward. "I wasn't a bit nervous the first night," she said. "It was like a dream.", Miss Ack ley is the daughter of Mrs. Florence Ackley Hey, now the soprano solo ist in Messiah Lutheran Church. El mer Hobbs Ley ulso is a widely known soloist who sang in the "Prince of Pilsen." He is now- solo ist at the Pine Street Presbyterian Church. • • • The election to membership in the Kiwanis Club last week of J. A. Tyson marks a chapter in a col lege drama. Some years a S" P B Rice, better known as "Dutch to liis hundreds of friends here, went to Gettysburg College he join ed a Greek letter fraternity. Over at Bucknell University "Jim' Tyson joined a branch of the same organi zation and the two, in keeping with the traditions of the two schools were deadly rivals in college spirit hut close friends in every other way When they left college each decided to enter the insurance business and it was resolvel that when tliey rose to the point of eminence known to the profession as "general agents they would go into a partnership. The long-waited opportunity camo at last and the firm name is now Rice and Tyson. An interesting inci dent about the two progressive voung men occurred several weeks ago at the Buckncll-Gettysburg game when each rooted for his Alma Mater and a big crowd was at tracted by their arguments. The Wise Squirrel (From The Detroit Journal) The early morning and late even ing inspections of our coal bins fur nish gratifying confirmation of the open-winter prediction made by the nut trees and the squirrels tliref months ago. £ But we would have felt mua mc lo grateful had wo been giftcij with the wisdom and sublime fultji in Providence of the squirrel. While humans ran about in pan last September and begged piteousH for fuel, usaging the pneumonia and frozen pipes of a hard winter, the squirrol stood pat and took 4 vacation, lie hud a straight from nature that there would be *1 open winter and that ho stock up on,nuts. So he saved self the labor of lugging them a*r one at a time and climbing a with them. Presumably when then are an open winter and few nuts tb* rodent has supplies that cat be easily obtained. Mankind got the same tip bu ignoted it. Remorse over a swollei coal outlay and the conseque> shrinkago of the Christmas allotment is Its punishment. Stujiy the ways of the squirrel. Political Lessons Wanted The ease with which Mr. Lloyi Oeofgi or M- Clemericeau can get-il vote at confidence <at any tlm would naturally Btrlke a vlsitlm president as extraordinary.—Fron The Cleveland News. ■-V ...g ' .
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