14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph BilMlaS, Federal Sgaare E. J. STACKFOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. M i JHENER, Circulation Manager Execatlve Beard J. P. McCULLOUGH. BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American ri Newspaper Pub ®s y 1 \a nU Associa- Eastern office Story, Brooks & Butting Gas BuiSPing 1 ■ Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., aa second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a owl week: by mail. $3.00 a v year in advance. i 'There is one body, and one spirit, even as a.'so ye were 'called in one hope of your calling; one Lord; one' faith, one baptism, one God and Father j of oil, urho is over all. and through all. ■ and in all.—Eph. 4:4, 5, 6. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1919 SOCIAL CENTERS THE school authorities are plan- | ning a real social center for the j Shimmel school building, j Much depends upon how this is con- | ducted whether or not it will be a I success. "Social center" is a high-sounding i name for what ought to be "neigh- , borhood club." Once we recognize , the need for community recreation j during the winter we shall provide j a clubhouse for every ward in the i city. We make few attempts to regu late attendance at the parks in the warm months. People go there any time they desire and enjoy them-' selves as they see fit. That, in the end. will be the way in which the social center or neighborhood club will be conducted. rcople do not like to have set programs provided for them. Once a week, perhaps, a lecture or a moving picture show, or something of the sort, might be acceptable. But in the main, folks like to gather in a social way and arrange their ! entertainment for themselves. The community clubhouse of the j future will be as free to the public j as the parks or the schoolhouses. | It will be regulated only insofar as, is necessary to preserve order and to guide the play or study of those who need guidance. It will have play rooms, bowling alleys, pool tables, reading rooms, auditoriums and small rooms with kitchen attach ments, where neighborhood or pri vate dinners may be served by those whose homes are too small for en tertainments of the kind. We shall not have fulfilled our social duties as a city until we have j placed one such building in every ward of the city. DESPERATE DEMOCRATS THE determined purpose of the Democrats of the Senate to dispose of the Michigan Sena torial controversy while they have a working majority has been clearly revealed. After an attempt on the part of the Democratic chairman of j the Committee on Privileges and Elections to get his report by ques tionable means before the Senate, a motion was made to refer the resolu tion of Investigation to the Com mittee on Contingent Expenses in order to get an approval for the ex penditure of money in conducting the inquiry. The rules of the Senate plainly say that "All reports of com mittees shall lie over for one day for consideration, unless by unani mous consent the Senate shall other wise direct." When the Michigan report was presented Senator Lodge, the Republican leader, made formal request that it lie over for a day I under the rule. He was peremptorily! overruled by the Vice-President, who! referred the report to the Contingent! Expenses Committee, and then an-1 nounced that an appeal might be i taken from his ruling, well know- > lug that the Democratic majority in ! the Senate would sustain him. As! there was nothing else to do. Senator Lodge took an appeal, and the de- ■ cision of the Chair was upheld by a strict party vote of 36 Democrats to : 26 Republicans. In that way the j Michigan investigation has been set forward at least one day. The Constitution of the United i States requires that "each House j shttll be the Judge of the elections, ; returns and qualifications of its own' members." But that does not mean ! that the Senutors or Members of one j Congress are competent to pass on, the qualifications of Senators and Members of the next. A'though the l Senate is a continuing body, it is, i ? nevertheless, a fact thut 32 of Its' FRIDAY FVENTNG. members will go out of office on March ♦, and 32 now Senators ap pear to take their places. To say that the Senate as now constituted has a right to pass judgment on the membership of its successor in the next Congress is putting a construc j tion on the Constitution never in tended by its framers. But the Dem ocrats know that their ony>- chance to deny a seat to Mr. Newberry and declare that Edscl's father was right fully elected is before March 4 while 1 they have a working majority of six |in the upper house. Strong arm methods can be brought into play 1 under those conditions, and it is evi -1 dent from what has transpired al -1 ready that the Democrats will stop i at nothing to prevent the Republi -1 cans from ousting them after March 1 4. A MAX OF ACTION C GOVERNOR SPROUL'S every J" act since his inauguration has ! been marked by promptness and decisiveness characteristic of of the successful American business- I man sure of his ground and cer | tain of his ability to carry through I the plans his judgment dictates. Is there a task to be done? Then do |it, is his motto. His quick decision to take advantage of the dpen win i ter to begin a road-building pro f gram that a less aggressive man | might have been until springtime in j maturing, is an illustration of the j point. Even more notable was his I sweeping approval yesterday of the | j Capitol Park extension and memor- I lal bridge plans, after a thorough j j explanation of them by Architects J Brunner hnd Greiner, and his rec- j ! ommeiidation that specifications be at once completed for at least one ; of the office buildings to be erected ' on the Capitol plot. Governor Sproul is putting tho' same "ginger" into his administra- '• tion of public afTairs that he does! into his own business and the re sults, while somewhat surprising l to those who are accustomed to more leisurely processes of govern ment, promise to be highly gratify ing from the standpoint of the tax- : payers. Governor Sproul has urged ■ the resumption of public works as j a cure for unemployment and to stimulate industry during the tran- j sitional period from war to peace, j and he has prescribed for the Com monwealth a large dose of his own medicine. He is not one to see the State street viaduct fall to pieces while the State sits idly by and plans to erect a memorial bridge there some sweet day when the j treasury is full of money and there is nothing else on hand to be done. Nor is he one to see the Common wealth expend thousands upon thou sands of dollars yearly in rentals, while State-owned land intended j for office buildings grows grass and j the architects' plans gather dust in j a pigeonhole. He sees the r.eed of j bridge and buildings and will insist upon both as early as the blueprints j and specifications can be made and the construction completed. The Governor has with him as members of the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings Lieutenant- Governor Beidleman, Auditor Gen eral Snyder and State Treasurer Kephart, all of whom are enthu siasts in the matter of park develop ment. Mr. Beidleman had a large part in procuring the original legis lation and has been back of the project ever since, while Messrs. Snyder and Kephart were of the original board that commissioned Mr. Brunner to prepare the general plans and afterward invited Mr. Greiner in as bridge designer. They will be as much pleased as the public to learn that their ideas are not to mature throughout a long period of years, but are to be worked out in concrete form during their own terms of office. Governor Sproul is an ardept dis ciple of the great American cult of getting big jobs done well and S promptly. If he continues the pace | he has set for himself, he will revo j lutionize State government and I establish a record for himself sur -1 passing that of any other Stale I | executive, both as a thinker arjd a 1 doer. The State is fortunate in j having such a man at the helm. PUSH OUT THE WALLS T 1 HE "Y" huts have been the homes Of the soldiers in the training camps. The "Y" build | ings should be the gathering places j of the men and boys of the com ; munity at home. The local associa ! tion is urging this upon Harrlsburg j this week in a drive for 1,500 mem j bers. The association needs a i.ew building. The way to get it is to put so many members into the present j structure that they will literally I { push out the walla. The new build-I ling will come just as sooif as the! membership Is big enough and Inter ested enough to insistently demand it. fUXUiU | By the Ex-Committeeman jj Governor William C- Sproul Is not an advocate of the bill to abolish the direct primary, and he is not sure that the next governor Jof Pennsylvania will be nominated at a state convention. In speaking I to newspapermen last night the gov j crnor said bluntly that he did not ; see any reason why the state-wide primary law should be set aside. Then he added that he thought that there were "some kinks in the non partisan act which should be straightened out during the present session of the legislature." The governor's action is said by j morning newspapers to be indica- I tive of his opposition to- the Eyre i bill which abolishes the primary I and returns to the old convention j system for state officers. This statement should go a long ways toward clearing tip some un certainties about the election laws. There have been reports of whole j sale changes. while bills for all i kinds of new appliances for the vot i ing machinery have been presented, i The non-partisan repealer looks 5 like the only bill that is at all like ; ly to get anywhere. Revenue legislation said the gov | emor, had not yet been worked out jin detail. Suggestions were being ! reeived from all sources, and all ! suggestions made were being given i consideration. The school people, 'who are anxious to raise funds with which to finance a $10,000,000 in j crease for teachers are advocating a j two-mill tax on manufacturing cor porations. The capital used in I manufacturing is not now subject Ito a state tax. Governor Sproul ex pressed himself as being inclined to ' oppose any general real estate or lo i cal tax for state purposes. He was. I however, anxious to do something toward tax revision. Governor Sproul reiterated tho view expressed in his inaugural that it would be impossible for the state to give the schools a twenty million dollar in crease in appropriations for the next two years. Legislation providing for the ap pointment of a commission of twenty-five to study the problems that should be brought up before a constitutional convention will soon be introduced. The commission would be authorized to report to the next legislature, at which time the question of whether or not a consti tutional convention should be call ed will be decided. While discussing proposed com munity memorials, Governor Sproul said: "I think that community houses which can be made centers of community life.' make the only kind of suitable memorials. These buildings should not be formal structures, but should be built with a view to making them places in which to foster community hos pitality. J am against the erection of bronze and marble statutes. Buildings of warmth and well light ed are much to be preferred." A couple of bills for additional judges in coal counties are said to be in prospect, but to be in storage until the fate of the Allegheny judge bill is settled. —Concerning the Mearkle met ropolitan district bill the Pittsburgh Post says: "Business sense alone should be sufficient to end the folly of having scores of municipal gov ernments working separately and to cross-purposes in this closely built up district. Civic organizations of the community should be prompt in getting in touch with the members of the legislature who show a dis- > position to act for systematizing ; public improvements in this county. The splendid team-work of the citi zens of the district in meeting war needs should be seen in solving their problems at home." —The dinner activity at Washing ton the last week is believed by some people not to mean so much that Congressman J. Hampton Moore has any boom for the speak ership, but that rather he is lining up for floor leader. —The editorials in the newspapers of the state on the prohibition amendment ratification in the House are interesting. The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, the big "dry" paper of the state, sounds a call to keep up the tight and expresses pride in the action. The Philadelphia Press reports progress on the amendment and urges prompt action in the Sen. ate. The Philadelphia Bulletin dis cusses seriously the effort to get compensation for the people In the liquor business The Pittsburgh Dis patch and Philadelphia Inquirer in news articles say that "the real bat tle royal" is coming over regulatory legislation. The Dispatch says the liquor people want a bill giving "lib eral interpretation" to the laws. The Philadelphia Record and the Ga zette-Times give Governor Sproul the credit for putting the amend ment through the House, the latter saying he "kept the faith. ' LABOR SOTES Wives of men in military service are now admitted in the Kansas City post office. Four mining workmen have been appointed magistrates for Glamor ganshire. England. Since the inception of the Wil mington (Del.) yard of the Pusey & Jones Company In 1848 it has built 295 vessels of iron ,and steel. The riveters at the Merchant Shipyard, near Bristol, Pa., recently set a new record for Government I fabricating yards by averaging 40 an hour per gang. The presidents of all the textile organizations in Lowell, Mass.. have begun a campaign of education in the interest of obtaining an eight -1 hour day in the mills. The executive council of the American Federation of Labor at a recent session rejected a proposal calling for the formation of u na tional political labor party. The members of the Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants employed in the hairdressing trade in London, have made demands for an ad vance of $2.40 a weelf in their wages. Carpenters, sheet metal workers, plumbers and steamfitters in Kings ton, Canada, have been granted an increase in wages amounting to from 50 to 60 cents an hour. Every restaurant and hotel din ingroom In Berlin, Germany, was closed on New Year's night as a re sult of tho waiters refusing to work until granted an increase in wuges. BABBISBURG TELEGRAPH J WONDER WHAT A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD CANARY BIRD THINKS ABOUT .... IWELL IVE <Suess 7 I LL*', I SUJG MY Beueue ME BECM HANGING TAKE ' A FOOL HEAD , IT'4 A AROUND TMS DRIMK- IT'S 6FP FOR "CM GREAT OLD HOUSE FOR WONDER BUT THEY'VE LIFE. HERS, I Six years " GOT SO USED AM SEVEM MOW - Gee! , se f o *- s To HEARIMS YEARS OLD I D LIKE .A > That CLAIM CHIRP . AND GCTTING X CHAN/ (IF OF 1 I THCV OWN ,> Y TVJAJ T \\ * LON6 IN I SCEMERY ' Me.WUULtWf t-ueN, T.P I L ' Fe - NoT 5 :F SUP ME A ! N A 5 A WORM T <! UTTLC ' ► ANYMORE J - FOUR .YEARS. Q O WATER X ■ c i OCCASIONALLY * JK. 1111 l '((mi <s:lßal33 * ss sL : s s=i:y !*• i „ , K MIGHT AS HERE COMCS C RFAT°"T? I MAY A3 •WELL TAKE 6UESS N ILL THEY NEVER WELL TAKE ANOTHER. SS"IMA LOOK AT ME! A BATH^PUT RIDE OSL THE L !R_* I'M GETtimC, ONL, MY NKaHlie OLD SWING. OONG JUST A 9AT> THROAT . AND TF'T TH<= NOT MUCH 10 CHEBREM FROM TMIS J' <SLD HAYP|(,E. ; IM'THE WAV 8 • S SINGING•' 6OMC 3 i OP AMUSEMENT < 5 L;XTSTI;NC£! BUT ITS ALL < ✓ A 5 HAND S' " " Jk sr JjJfi. Jjbt JL Wi lir • Ifffr Mmm - 1 - 1 -' 'JU. ami . - K ' ' ' ■ ■—■■■ ' I > ' • " " I " Two Women in the War (From the New York Sun) The natural hope cherished in the minds of all that the report of the death of the Misses Cromwell was unfounded has been removed by the testimony of their fellow passengers on La Lorraine and the receipt pt messages in which their decision to end their lives is made clear. Their selfdestruction is to be attributed to physical and nervous collapse result ing from their labors in the Red Cross in France, in the course of which their strength was overtaxed and their senses overcome by the somber and depressing incidents of war that were their daily fare. These young women, like scores and hundreds of others, were engag ed in canteen service. The work is arduous, putting a heavy burden on the physical endurance of thole who take it up, and the mental strain is continuous. The Red Cross made every efTort to exclude from the ranks of its workers women who by disposition and training were not fitted to perform the functions fall ing on them, but it was unavoidable that among the many who volunteer ed and were accepted there should be a few who could not stand the pressure. Even those who have been able to maintain their poise will not escape entirely the effects of their experiences in doing war work. The women of the United States have given with open hands and hearts of their strength in the ser vice of their country. Thev have richly earned the praise that has been bestowed on them by all. They have earned more, in fact, than most of us have given them, for it has not been possible for the ma jority of Americans to understand the tremendous exertions that have been necessary on the part of those who conducted the various relief stations behind the lines in war torn France. The tragedv of the Misses Cromwell should bring home to all the sacrifices our women have cheerfully made that our military effort should lack nothing of com pleteness or of effectiveness. EXFORCE PROHIBITIOX Says William Howard Taft, in a copyrighted article in the Philadel phia Public Ledger: "What is the present duty of those of us who opposed the adoption of the eighteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution forbidding the manufacture, transportation, impor tation, exportation or sale of intox icating liquor? Many of us opposed it not because we thought that prop er personal liberty was denied by legal prohibition, but first because we doubted whether practically pro hibition would prohibit in large con gested communities where local pub lic opinion did not sympathize with the purpose of the law, and, second, because to vest the national govern ment with the needed police power and patronage, normally parochial, would so disturb the proper consti tutional balance of central and local powers between the Federal and state governments as to imperil the stability of the union. Now the Secretary of State has by proclama tion declared the adoption of the amendment by action of Congress and the approval of the requisite number of State Legislatures. It is now the duty of every good citizen in the premises, no matter what his previous opinion of the wisdom or expediency of the amendment, to urge and vote for all reasonable and practical legislative measures by Congress adapted to secure the en forcement of this amendment." Sold Billions of Xeedles (Front the San Francisco Bulletin ) There is a scarcity of needles in the world, and the price of certain kinds of them, from the manufac turer to the jobber, has jumped from eighty-five cents to four dol lars a thousund. according to N. W. Flaisig, who celebrated his eighty first birthday the other day in San Francisco, and who has been ' a salesman for sixty-one years in the United States for an English needle manufacturing corporation. "I have sold, since I first entered the needle selling trade, sixty-nine years ago. not less than four and one-half billion needles," said Flai sig. "In 1917 and 1918 the number I sold dropped to below four million a year. Lack of steel and war work caused the falling off. A revival of the trade is soon coming, how ever." The veteran needle man says the Japanese have entered the market with needles at two dollars a thou sand. He classes them as inferior in make and suys they are a cheap ar ticle, as the German needle he fore the wi The New Roosevelt Park to Be a Fitting Memorial Its Million Acres Contains Some of the Greatest of America's Mountain Peaks as Well as Gloves of the Giant Sequoiu Trees—Mount Whit ney One of TW°ITC lofty Sentinels -Along Its Eastern Boundary. ROOSEVELT PAP.K, which Con gress is creating as a mcmori- ] al to the former President, is characteristically fitting. It lies in the heart of the Sierras and it pos sesses scenery that exercises a pro found attraction for the true nature lover, such as Mr. Roosevelt was. Us upstanding granite masses'typify the rugged character of the man and its groves of giant sequoia trees are as distinctly and sturdily American as was he. Roosevelt Park, as laid out on the map, will extend for approximately one hundred miles along the main Si erras in the central eastern parr of California. Its boundary wall on the east will be sentineled by ten peaks above thirteen thousand feet in alti tude. with Mt. Whitney, the topmost crag of all continental United States, shouldering high above, the rest. *ts southern and western sides are like wise mountainous and nine summits along the course, all ranging from eight thousand to twelve thousand feet in elevation. Within the bord -rs of th e park is a region studded with peaks and domes almost as high as the surrounding heights. It is gashed across by the canyons of King's river in the north and Kern's river in the south. They are two of the most wonderful mountain gorges in the A Meaningless Compromise i [From the New York World] Under private ownership and oper-J ation the American people had rela tively the best and cheapest tele phone service in the world. What-, ever the faults of private manage ment may have been, the telephone became a great public utility that, reached to every nook and corner of the country, and the public had lit tle reason to complain of either the cost or the quality of the service. Since the telephone systems were taken over by the federal govern ment as a war measure and put in .charge of the Post Office Depart ment the service has steadily de teriorated. Nothing has come out of government control except annoy ance, vexation and increased charges. In his argument for the extension of the period of federal operation the Postmaster General stated that he had been informed by representa tives of the teephone companies that "deterioration and confusion" would follow if the systems were turned back without legislative guarantees. The deterioration and confusion are already here, personally conducted by the Postmaster General. There are only two obstacles to the immediate return of the telephones to private ownership. One is Mr. Burleson's public-ownership cam paign. The other is the desire of the companies to have their rates equal ized and stabilized by the United States government before the prop erties are turned back to them. The Post Office Department has under taken to do that particu'ar Job for them, and is'now engaged In litiga tion with a dozen states over arbi trary changes in rates. The action of the House commit aee in providing for the return of the properties on December 31 is a meaningless compromise but wholly characteristic of Congress. Having no telephone policy and being in capable of framing a telephone pol icy, the committee postpones the in evitable day of action in the hope that something may happen. There 'is no reason why the United States government should not get out of the telephone business at once. There is not even the shadow of a reason why it should operate the telephone systems until December 31. The longer it is in charge the worse the service is sure to be and the more complications will arise. The sooner the properties are re turned the sooner the private owners can be compelled to restore the for mer service and give subscribrs what they are paying for. As an operator of telephones the Post Ottice Department leaves about everything to be desired that could be desired, and if Congress had any capacity whatever for transacting public business it would hand these properties bacfc to the companies without a day's needless delay. country, their sutrounding walls ris ing, almost four thousand feet. Other Grent Parks Aienr The present Sequoia Park will form the southwestern cornerstone of Roosevelt Park, which will embrace more than one million acres. General Grant Park lies only six miles to the westward. The John Muir Memorial Trail, row being built, will connect the c.rat Yosemite Park on the north with the new scenic reserve. All the territory embraced in Roose velt Park now belongs to the Se quoia National Forest. It contains many of the groves of giant trees that are the marvel of that section. Some of them tower nearly three hun dred feet and are as much as thirty six feet in diameter. The ages of these veterans of nature are estimat ed at from 3,500 to 7.000 vears. Its Beauty Idttle Realized The real magnificence of the scen ery embraced in the new park is lit tle realized by most Americans. Con gressman Gillett of Massachusetts, one of the ardent supporters of the Roosevelt Park bill in the House, said of it in a speech "It seems to me to be a great camp- | ing cut spot for the American people. It is peculiarly designed as a grand aggregation of scenic beauty where tired man can rest and refresh him-! self. Nothing could be more nppio prlate than to name it after such a lover of nature as Theodore Roose- I velt." i Card Indexed For Peace [lsaac F. Marcosson in the Saturday- Evening Post.] "The whole program of adjust ing machinery for the munitions of peace [s already in operation," Win ston Churchill told me in London the day the armistice was signed. "We have arranged to dispose of half of the government arsenals to private manufacturers, who have already begun to adapt the equip ment. A lathe remains a lathe. The other government arsenals will be kept as going concerns. We must be prepared for any emergency un til the actual peace treaty is sign ed." Within a week after the Kaiser had fled to Holland the ministry of munitions of war had become in reality a ministry of the munitions of peace. I will tell you why. When Dr. Christopher Addison was shell master of England—he suc ceeded Lloyd George when the latter became secretary of state for war on Kitchener's death-—ho establish ed a card index for every machine tool In the United Kingdom. The original purpose was to, release tools from nonessential to essential work. That index was also started with the idea of having an inventory on hand when peace came, when' every bit of machinery would be worth as much to reconstruction as it had been to war., Tjbe. net result was ■ that on November 12 British In dustry was able !to take immediate I stock of itself aiid know precisely j what it had oh hand to' iCork with. The card index became .immedi ! ately available for every British ' manufacturer who by reason of the nation-wide pooling of machines | had a stake in this enormous mass lof equipment. Nor was it a per ! functory collection of dates, makes ! and numbers. On every card was 1 the type of machine, its origin, ! make, capacity and condition on October 1. Those suffering from I wear and tear were marked accord i ingly. Every machine that hud ! been scrapped was so indicated. In ! other words every tool marked j "available for peace work" was ready to start up, and it did. On the day after the war ended [ the ministry began to allot this ma- I chinery to the new needs of the country. The small manufacturer | came in on the same pro rata as i the big one. The supreme lesson of I co-operation, learned through the j stress of war when shells meant life jin turn meant the safety of the i world, has been translated into peace, anfl It can only mean a vita lised and speeded up industry. The ink was scarcely dry on the armis tice before applications for machin ery began to pour in dn the minis try of munitions, and they were filled without confusion or delay. v FEBRUARY 7, 1919. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES ] Readers of "America in France" (Dodd, Mead &- Company) will be in terested to learn that its author, Frederick Palmer, has recently been commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel. At our entrance into the war Frederick Palmer was Riven a commission as Major and was appointed chief cen sor in France. He sailed on the Hal tic with General PcrshinK and his 150 associates who were our first contribution toward the force of nearly two million men that were abroad when hostilities ceased. Col onel Palmer is still in France. It was his long service and first ha id information that made "America in France'' so vitally interesting. "Retail Credits and Collections" Is the title of a new book-by Dwight E. Beebe to be published immediately by Harper & Brothers, making the third volume in Harper's Retail Busi ness Series. The aujhor has here devoted himself entirely to one of the most important factors of modern business, treating first the place of credits in retail business. He shows that the extension of credit costs money, even though it makes good customers'. He also gives examples of how department stores, clothing stores, hardware-stores, drug-stores, and Jewelry-stores collect. Having lectured extensively on credits and collections and being assistant in business English at the N. Y. Univer sity School of Commerce, Mr. Beebe has had access to all the most up-to date business methods and in "Re tail Credits and Collections"* has given only modern principles of his subject. Montague Glass, author of "Worry ing Won't Win'" and originator of the famous characters. Potash and Perlmutter, had an amusing story told him concerning his book. At a store out West an old lady went up to the clerk and for a copy of "Why Worry." The clerk looked over" all the books in stock and re turned with a copy of "Worrying Won't Win." "We haven't any such book as 'Why Worry,' " he said. "But | 1 guess this is Just as good and will 1 suit your purpose." In "Worrying ! Won't Win," published by the Har j pers, the inimitable Potash and Perl ' mutter view the war and all other matters of the day from their prac- I tical, humorous standpoint. It is | rumored that Mr. Glass is busily at I work on another novel which the Harpers will publish later in the year. "Daredevil" is the name that was applied early in the war to the dis i patch riders of the Motor Cycle t Corps and. Captain A. P. Corcoran, i who was one of them, tells about the ■ things they had to do and his own 1 experiences in "The Daredevil of the I Army," which E.iP. Dutton & Co. ! are publishing this week. He entered i the service in August, 1914, and his I book narrates in picturesque style ! and with many humorous touches all ' the varied things that happened to ! him until, many months later, he was invalided home after being se j riously wounded. He had many nar . row escapes from death and thrill j ing adventures without number. He ' and others were burled in a tunnel j by the exxplosion of a German shell j and, because no one knew they were j there, came near dying before they ; were rescued. Again, wounded by I pieces of an exploding shell, he was | scalped by the barbed wtr into j which he fe'l, Captalrt Corcoran j won his commission from the ranks ! by carrying a dispatch safely through • after six other men had been j killed in the attempt. His book is i the first to tell the story of the dis ' patch riders and also of the "buz -1 zers" or field telegraph operators, I with whom he worked during part j of his service. j The fo'lowing general reading mat | ter will be published for the month | of February by George H. Doran i Company: "Eating in Two or Three I Languages," by Irvin S. Cobb; "Ten I Years Near the Gernion Frontier," j by Dr. Mauric'Francis Egan; "Araer- I ic&n Labor and the War," by Samuel | Compere; "Christopher," by Sir : Oliver Lodge; "The Riddle of Nearer Asia," by Basil Mathews; "The American Hunting Dog," by Warren H. Miller," and "The Book of Lin coln," by Mary Wright Davis. A Valuable Haul (From the Boston Transcript.) rfL"You say your Jewels were stolen Vtile the family were at dinner?" "No, no! This is a serious theft, officer. Our dinner was stolen while we were putting on our Jewels." lEunttitg (ttljat J. William Bowman, head of the Boy's Work Committee of the Y. M. C. A., Is already making plans for next summer's camp. The first outing of the association boys last summer was such a great success that the lads are already clamoring to know the dute for this year's encampment. Last season the tents were pitched in a very beautiful spot along the Susquehanna river below Liverpool and the people of that town, coming down in the evenings, entertained tho boys very dellghtfullly, and were entertained in turn. But .this year the camp will be located in some other spot nearer to the city for the conven ience of parents who desire to Visit their sons and in order that supplies and. mall may be gotten back and forward more easily. Also, there is a desire to have better swimming facilities than arc to be had in the shallow and swift water opposite last year's site. Mr. Bowman hopes to see the day, in the no very distant future, when there will be within easy hiking dis tance of street car line or railroad a cabin where "T" boys and men may . go to spend a night or a few days in the open with their sons. He has been looking about for a favorable place and hhs no doubt that he will be able to get the neces sary money together when onco Jte finds an Ideal location. Nobody loves a day In the open more than he and his young son and he may be seen almost any time in the year hitting the trail for the country. They know the mountains, woods and streams for miles about Harrisburg and Mr. Bowman is bent upon put ting at the disposal of all the boys and men of the city who desire it means for a cheap and pleasant outing when they so desire. In this he has the support of Arch Dinsmore the boys' work director and C. W. Miller the physical di rector of the "Y," both of whom arc ardent lovers of the open. To them more than to anybody else' lies credit for the success of the big camp last year, for they were in charge, but how they would have gotten along without Al. K. Thomas and his automobile nobody knows, for he provided the only accommo dation train and local freight run ning between the city and Liverpool during a large part of the time the tents were up. • •' • Civil service laws are right in their way nobody doubts, but it ap pears that the police civil service examinations might on some occa sions be made a little more difficult without hindrance to the depart ment. For example: "No wonder there's automobile accidents in Harrisburg," remarked one of the city's policemen this morning, "No wonder people get run over crossing street corners. The traffic officers do their part, but they ought to have saxaphones at the busy corners.'? "Saxaphones? What .do you mean, saxaphones to regulate the traffic?" was the query. "Why, you know, those revolving signs on standards, like they have in the big cities," said the enlighten ed copper. "Oh, you mean semaphores!" said his listener, stooping to fasten a shoe string which didn't need fas tening. while he hid a grin. "Well, semaphores or xylophones, or whatever you call 'em, we ought to get some," said the guardian of the law. • • • It is not all superstition which makes people refuse to walk under a ladder, says S. S. Kiddle, editor of the Department of Labor and In dustry publications, in commenting upon an article in this column the other day about the tendency of people to avoid going beneath a lad der. According to him it is safety. "More people have been hurt walk ing under ladders than from fall ing oft them, I'm sure and it's just safety," said I.e. "Why, the state is ] preaching it and many people are obeying the injunctions which we have been giving them." • • A touch of nature has been doing things since the world began and it was strikingly exemplified in this city the other afternoon. A young ster about six years old started to get on a car at Second and Walnut streets. A driver of an automobile who would probably be cowhtded by the other drivers of cars in Har risburg if they could get him, came bowling down the street and if it had not been for the alert conductor of the trolley car reaching out and pulling the kid in by his collar the youngster would have been run down. As it was the automobile whizzed by just as the boy was pulled to safety. The conductor yelled to the driver that he should come back and be licked. When the kid got into the car a workman dried his tears and a lady gave him a cake from a bag. • • • Pr, Francis Schill, of Johnstown, a school controller for the last six teen years and still a young man, attended the educational confer ences Wednesday and Thursday. Dr. Schill is a man who has never been "caught short" for an after-dinner or before-dinner speech. For twen ty years he has made a practice of collecting droll talcs which he in dexes and stores away in a file. At an instant's notice he can supply a story to fit any occasion, or illus trate any example. Dr. Schill went to Philadelphia this morning to spend a day or so before returning h L, He had one commission here whTch he did not fill. Francis Schill 111, at home, wanted a squirrel from Capitol Park. I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Dr. Samuel Hamilton, the Alle gheny county educator who was here for the school officials' meet ings this week, is one of the oldest superintendents in the harness. Dr. j. D. Orr, who took a prom inent part in the state directors' meetings, has been a prominent fig ure in educational matters. He lives at Leechburg. —S. M. Clement, Jr., Philadelphia attorney here yesterday, was one of counsel in the Capitol cases. jj B, Farr, northern tier Re publican leader, was here yesterday. Charles H. Kline, who may be named one of the new Judges in Allegheny county, served over a dozen years in the Legislature. f DO YOU KNOW | That Harrisburg's munici pal park system Is being stud ied by people from other ctttak who admire it because of Ma provision for the future? . HISTORIC HARRTSBCRO Indian priests used to hold in woods on the hills back of aitti is now Lochiel. The mouth of th Paxton was the location of an In dian village. . ' ' 'V
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