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Lord of the world! whose kind and
gentle care
Is jog and rest,
Whose counsels and commands so
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gracious arc,
Ifiscst and frraf.
Shine on my path, dear Lord, and the
way.
List my poor heart, Jorgetting, go
astray.
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—Henry Batcman.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19, 1919
UP TO US
GOVERNOR SPROUL, IN a char.
acteristically forceful and con
structive speech at the Chamber
of Commerce reception to him
self and the Legislature last even
ing put it squarely up to Harris
burg to keep pace as a city with
what the State intends to do In the
way of public improvements and the
concentration of governmental forces
in this community.
The Commonwealth during the
next four years, the Governor said,
will spend millions or dollars here
in the improvement of the Capi
tol Extension zone and the erection
of public buildings; it will spend
other millions on arteries of travel
which will center in Harrisburg, and
it will bring all State officials now
quartered elsewhere in Pennsylvania
to Harrisburg to reside as rapidly as
Harrisburg supplies suitable houses
for fliem.
All these good things Governor
Sproul and his colleagues in the
State service have planned for us,
and the Governor, in return, very
properly asked: "What is Harris
burg going to do for itself?" And
then he suggested a joint city hall
and court house, intimating that
legislation permitting the county and
city to join forces in such an enter
prise would not be difficult to pro-
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cure, and premised State tenants for
proper houses as rapidly as the citv
provides the houses.
Clearly it is up to us. Never in
the history of Pennsylvania or an
other State has tt more generous of
fer been made to a capital city. We
have made an enviable reputation
throughout' the country as a pro
gressive municipality., ,We have
done many worthy things in the way
of public improvements. But these
things are in the past, and we can-
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not live upon a reputation fifteen
years old. Fortunately, a great ma
jority of Harrisburg people rea'ize
the city's problems and responsi
bilities quite as well as does Gov
ernor Sproul, and his message comes
at the moment best suited to make
conrrete the more or less nebulous
plans that have hgen formulating in
the minds of those upon whos*
WEDNESDAY EVENING
shoulders the leadership of the city
rests in matters of the kind.
The municipal hall and court
house question is one which has
been agitating the County Commis
sioners and City Councilmcn for
some time and all of them are In
favor of the project. The finances
of the county are In splendid shape
for such a development, thanks to
the excellent housekeeping of the
present board of commissioners,
and the city is also in position to
float bonds for Its part. No time
should now be lost in getting the
I necessary legislation prepared and
(under way. Meantime, it would be in
| good form for the Chamber of Com
! merce to join in the movement by
j the appointment of a committee to
| co-operate with the city and county
authorities in a campaign of public
education and in working out the
details of the plan.
With respect to housing, the
Chamber already has a committee at
work. If there has been any doubt
in the mind of any Harrisburg resi
dent as to the need of an energetic
housing campaign, it must have
been banished by Governor Sproul's
frank statement with regard to the
desire of the administration to
bring State employes to this city as
soon as houses can be procured for
them. Houses we need, and houses
we must have, and the Chamber's
special committee on this subject can
do much to encourage the erection
of the right type of residences.
We in Harrisburg may thank our
good fortune that we have in the Gov
ernor's chair at this critical time a
man of vision and courage, accus
tomed to planning big things and
seeing them done, who has at hts
elbow a Lieutenant-Governor deep
ly interested in the welfare of his
home city and ambitious to see it
developed along modern, progress!', e
lines. TVe nuist keep step with the
administration's vigorous pace or
miss an opportunity for advance
ment and development such as
scarcely has come to any city with
in the history of the Commonwealth.
It. is up to us. What are we going
to do about it?
BILL KILLING TIME
IT WAS a good precedent, as well
as an example, that was set to
the State House of Representa
tives last week by the committee on
judiciary special when it started to
negative bills. Generally, this is the
time in a legislative session when
bills just commence to flood the
lower house of the General Assembly
and in spite of the representations
of Governor Sproul, Lieutenant Got -
ernor Beidleman and others with
legislative experience that the State
Has more laws than it needs and
the general recommendation from
persons in authority that legislation
be confined to essential things, it
is apparent that the bill drafter has
been at work as usual.
Brtis that have been before legis
latures year after year are being
presented; measures sent to law
makers by constituents are being in
troduced without much attention;
proposed changes in important laws
to serve certain local ends have
shown up and there is a tendency
for legislative history to repeat itself.
Some of the bills in hand are in
danger of being placed in that class
known as "Junk." There are many
of little merit.
It costs the State between $73 and
SIOO to print bills and some of them
never get out of committees. Some
are never expected to be sent out.
Some are forgotten when presented
and chairmen have been known to
send for sponsers to ask what they
intend to do about measures.
Speaker Spangler is acting for the
best interests of the legislators when
he urges the committeemen to get to
work and dispose of bills. Work
now will relieve things later on in
the session when the weather gets
hot. But killing of bills that are
of no value to the people of the
State will save money, time, work
and annoyance. And this is the time
to sort them out and put on the
negative stamp. Big things are
corhing and the ways should be
cleared.
TWO YEARS AT TROUGH
GENERAL, CROWDER has sug
gested that the draft machinery
be made use of to take the com
ing decennial census. This is a mighty
good suggestion and exhibits the con
structive mind of the man who has
been ignored by Secretary Raker be
cause of his highly efficient work
in making our 4,000,000 army a
possibility. Rut the chances are
Crowder's suggestion will fail on un
responsive ears. The Democratic
party has but, two mqre y ears to
deplete the Federal Tieasury, and
the prediction is confidently made
that the host of census enumerators
soon to be employed will be Demo
crats almost to a man. Spoils, not
efficiency, is the ordei of the day
under this adminislralon.
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| By the Ex-Committeeman jj
| Intimations from pretty high up
I that there will be precious few salary
raisers passed by this Legislature is
being interpreted by some of the
men who follow politics in Pennsyl
vania as notice that Governor
Sproul is getting ready to put his
program into action. Salary rais
ers, like liquor and similar legisla
tion, generally make for discussions
and the evident determination not
to have them take up time is re
garded as clearing the way.
The governor's highway bills will
by laws by the end of the month in
all probability and then other bills
prepared for the executive will come
along. Between tnose and the ap
propriation bills there will not be
much to take up the time. The
House is establishing an unusual
record for industry so early in a
session but the bills being acted upon
are not very exciting.
—The Allegheny county two judge
bill went to the governor last night.
The belief is that he will sign it.
Senator Charles H. Kline is being
strongly urged for one of the scats.
—Public Service Commissioner
Harold M. McClure is given quite
complimentary reference in the
Philadelphia Inquirer. He is de
clared to be one of the ablest men
in state service and a Republican
of the old school.
—The House concurred late yes
terday afternoon in the Barr resolu
tion calling upon the Secretary of
War to bring home the Keystone
Division as soon as possible. There
was not a word said about it and
it now goes to the governor for ac
tion and will be transmitted by Sec
retary of the Commonwealth Woods
to Washington.
—Protest against the repeal of
the "Blue Laws" are commencing
to appear in the House in the form
of papers from members. They are
coming in such volume that it is
believed that a hearing will be ar
ranged at an early day.
—Legislators were considerably In
terested to-day in the project ad
vanced by Councilman W. J. Burke,
of Pittsburgh, a former senator to
divert the Allegheny river and use
the bed for a boulevard and tunnels
for subways.
—People connected with the Leg
islature believe that Chairman B. M.
Golder, of the House military affairs
committee, will start something when
he commences his hearings on mili
tary training and hears former Na
tional Guard officers. Some of the
old lawmakers are resentful of that
treatment accorded such men as
Captain S. A. Whitaker, of Chester,
a former Legislator.
—From indications oleo and op
tometry which could always be de
pended upon to break the monotony
of a session of the Legislature will
furnish some discussion *his time.
Now that liquor is fairly out of the
way these two subjects will have
an open session.
Senator George Woodward of
Philadelphia has presented a bill
providing that hereafter that all
bequests and devises to institutions
of purely public charity would be
exempt from inheritance taxes.
There is a proviso that the proposed
act would not apply to institutions
incorporated under the laws of any
other state or country. For many
sessions of the Legislature this bill
was introduced by Senator William
C. Sproul. Frequently he succeeded
in having it passed, and a number
of Governors have vetoed it on the
ground that the legislation would
take needed revenue from the state.
Now that he is Governor the meas
ure is expected to find a place on the
statute books.
—Commissioner of Fisheries Na
than R. Buller was confirmed by
the Senate yesterday afternoon in
short order. Senator T. L. Eyre,
who had opposed him in 1917 and
last week, made a speech in which
he explained his attitude and in a
short time the commissioner was a
full fledged official again. His friends
sent him many congratulations to
day. His work and value to the
Suite have been generally recog
nized.
—William Jennings Bryan's re
mark that parties are well rid of
the liquor influence was applauded
by many people in the Senate cham
ber yesterday. The liquor men were
not inclined to be pleasant about It.
—That the action of Mayor George
E. Lysle of McKeesport in prevent
l 1 the holding of labor meetings in
the Tube City "is entirely unwise,
to say the least," is the opinion of
Govfrnor W llliam C. Sproul of
Pennsylvania, says the Pittsburgh
Dispatch. A letter from the State
Executive in which the above criti
cism uppeared was read in Labor
Temple Sunday by Frank Morrison,
secretary of the American Federa
tion of Labor, at a convention held
in the interests of the Pittsburgh
district and in furtherance of the
efforts being made to organize the
iron and steel workers of the coun
try.
—The Scranton Republican says
"Threats that they would not be al
lowed to live on a public thorough
fare. that they would not be per
mitted to raise chickens or ducks
and that they would be banished
from the country in the event that
they refused to vote were some of
the methods employed in an effort
to have noneitizens residing in Mi
nooka, part of Lackawanna town
ship, vote at the congressional elec
tion in November, according to the
testimony of witnesses heard in the
Farr-McLane contest proceedings"
—"ln opinion of the Williams
port Gazette-Bulletin: "The pros
pects for the much-needed addition
to the Williamsport government
The efforts of Congressman Edgar
n. Kiess to impress upon the com
mittee the absolute need for more
room have been rewarded with suc
cess. The House public buildings
committee has ordered an appro
priation of SIOO,OOO favorably re
ported. The bill, which originated
with Congressman Kiess, has been
closely followed by Him and only
last week he was twice before the
committee.
DUTY
A sense of duty pursues us ever.
It is omnipresent like the Deity. If
we take to ourselves the wings of
the morning, and dwell in the utter
most parts of the sea, duty per-,
formed, or duty violated is still with
us, for our happiness or our misery.
If we say the darkness shall cover
us. in the darkness as in the light,
our obligations are yet with us.—
Daniel Webster.
Where Weems dot Left
Parson Weems wrote the cherry
tree history- of Washington.
"If his mind functions like Wil
| son's, this will land me a fat Job,"
he cried.—New York Sun.
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No Flouting of France!
(From the Kansas City Star.)
It is incredible that there should
be any split in the peace conference
because France, living under the
German guns, desires additional pro
tection to that afforded by an un
tried experiment in a League of Na
tions. It is impossible that public
opinion in America would sanction
any such dissension.
Behind the ocean barrier the
United States may be able to afford
an experiment in further interna
tional organization—always provided
it has an adequate fleet and that it
can put a well equipped and trained
army in the field without undue de
lay. But France cannot take a
chance. If she were attacked a
League of Nations might come to
her aid with adequate forces, but
again it might not. Her only assur
ance of safety lies in the measures
taken at the peace conference to
supply her with adequate coal and
iron and to provide a neutral zone
on the west bank of the Ithine, and
in her own ability to defend herself.
While the American people are
hopeful that some sort of an asso
ciation of nations may come out of
the peace settlement that will dimin
ish the likelihood of war, the Star
believes the great majority are in
sympathy with the French insistence
on practical measures to assure the
safety of France.
It cannot too often be insisted
that in all probability for another
generation at least the French fron
tier is the American frontier —the
"frontier of freedom," to use Presi
dent Wilson's phrase—and that the
interests of civilization demand its
protection. The hard sense of the
French people and their readiness to
make the necessary sacrifices in time
of peace, saved the world in the
war. The world cannot afford to
disregard the well considered views
of France to-day.
The American public will find it
difficult to believe that there is any
serious intention on the part of its
delegation to flout the nation whose
magnificent services are everywhere
recognized by proposing to move the
peace conference from Paris.
"Bourgeois" and Bolshevik
[From the New York World]
"I have been on street cars in Pet
rograd and have heard Bolsheviki
taunt women passengers because
they happened to be wearing pre
sentable hats," said W. W. Welsh
to the Senate committee.
Thrown into prison by the Bolshe
vists,, Roger E. Simmons of our
■Department of Commerce "expected
to find that most of the prisoners
were of the nobility" or rich. They
were in fact, "mechanics, printers,
shopkeepers. peasant farmers,
loyal soldiers, merchants." Mr. Sim
mons himself saw one instance of
the disrobing/of women in the
street that is so common in "free"
Russia. Most of those were of the
middle class.
"Bourgeois" means in Russia
Linco'n's "plain people." the thrifty
middle ranks who are in the United
States a majority but in Russia are
not strong enough, to withstand or
ganized criminality protected bv a
Prgtorian Guard of Letts and Chi
nese. It includes farmers, skilled
workmen, stenographers, shopgirls,
physic'ans. women who wear '.'pre
sentable hats" All priests are sub
ject to murder as "bourgeois." all
nuns to violation.
Following that of Dr. Huntington,
our attache in Russia, the testi
mony of Mr. Simmons, n trained
observer who saw the inside ns well
as the outa'de of Bolshevik prisons,
niirht onen the eves of some of our
nar'or Tn r>ussla thev
■world he sehWt to deeth or dead
ly insults as "bourgeois."
LABOR NOTES
Waiters in Warsaw, Poland, are
demanding fifteen per cent, of the
profits of hotels and restaurants,
while the cooks are asking twenty
five per cent.
Machinists in Saginaw, Mich., have
received an eight-hour working day
and a twenty per cent, increase, re
trocative from June 27.
Members of the newly organized
union of street railway car men in
York, Pa., are now allowed to wear
their union buttons.
Labor Aldermen in Winnipeg,
Can., propose raising the Aldermanlc
stipend from SSOO to $1,500 at a cost
to the city of $21,000.
The Manitoba (Can.) Grain
Growers' Association recently adopt
ed a resolution that they strive for
I a closer relation with labor unions.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Down to Brass Tacks
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
The letter of Mrs. llartwell ap
pearing in the "Telegraph" the
other evening was read and ap
preciated very much by the writer.
Coming out as it did on the anni
versary of Lincoln's it
vividly recalled Lincoln's great Get
tysburg address.
Where is the school boy who can
not recite this oft hand? Compare
it and its sentiment with the self
complaisant assertions of Woodrow
Wilson and the extraordinary efforts
he puts forth to call attention to
"me and my fourteen points."
With his record for fooling the
people, it would appear that he took
a leaf out of P. T. Barnum's book
and figured that the "peopie liked
to be fooled." At any rate we know
that it was the slogan "he kept us
out of war" that re-elected him.
When Senator Chamberlain in an
address in New York criticised some
of Wilson's inconsistencies, he was
taken to task by Woodrow. When
Chamberlain returned to Washing
ton he took occasion in the Senate
to justify his assertions. In a criti
cism of his action a Senator (also a
democrat) admitted "that every
thing pointed to war" for us as far
back as 1914. yet the campaign of
1916 was made on the platform of
"he kept us out of war."
If things were to be called by
their correct names, we would have
to call their campaign slogan by a
nasty name.
If on the other hand, the party
in power had looked the situation
squarely in the face and prepared
for the inevitable, by setting the ma
chinery going and preparing for
what they now admit was inevitable
it looks to the writer as though
thousands of lives might have been
saved. Their failure to prepare for
eventualities looks as though they
were accessories to the fact of the
useless wastage of life and wealth.
Today Wilson is certainly "mired
in the mud of political intrigue" for
he has been asked bluntly "will
your country fully and unreservedly
support your policies. Will the
United States in support of his doc
trines, dispatch military and naval
forces to Europe or elsewhere when
so directed by the executive of the
League of Nations" or will we per
mit anything of this sort that in
any way conflicts with the Monroe
Doctrine?
The Japanese are noted the world
over for their athletic feats, par
ticu'arly their "tumbling" but the
leader of the Democratic party can
pull off as many "political flip-flops"
as they can along athletic lines and
the party has the nerve to face the
people and ask for more power, lee
way and money to spend without
question or restriction.
If I remember correctly in con
nection with the investigation, of
the "Packers", that it was admitted
that the $100,000,000 asked for to
"buy food" for starving Europe, was
also intended to keep the market
from breaking, in so far as provi
sions were concerned.
E. P. Swift admitted when ques
tioned by Mr. Heeney, that if this
was not done that his firm would
loose approximately $2,T,00,000. I
think that he stated that the packers
were promised that they "wou'd be
protected." *
Take the management of the
railroads, by the general use of ter
minals and ticket offices and the
abolishment of soliciting agencies,
the administration saved money, but
while saving with a "snoon they were
loosing it by the shovelful else
where.
The cartoon that appeared In the
"Telegraph" Feb. 12. is verv i/ood
and in itself is a lesson. If with
the advance of passenger and freight
rates and the curtailing of expense
at other paiats. the .roads arc still
operated at a loss, then it is high
time to devise some other way of
management, or perhaps change
managers. From the speech of Sen
ator Penrose at Washington yester
day. I quote "there is a pending
resolution colling for $10,000,000 to
enable railroads to handle food and
coal." He further states that he
thinks that the Bolshevist govern
ment in Petrograd could have run
the railroads better than the repre
sentatives of the American people
have run them in the lust eighteen
months." He also spoke of railroad
securities as being hardly safe In
vestments for a savings bank and
that many banks had been unloading
them on the market. He sums up
the loss of operating the railroads
by blundering inefficient governmont
control as approximating $800,000,-
000.
I am not quite certain as to the
exact figures, but as i recall it there
was a sum of $5,000,000 set aside
for expense of the direct distribution
of the allotments made by the sol
diers to their dependents and that
recently It wus shown that there was
a deficit of $7500 and that this de
partment asked for an appropriation
to cover the deficit and $10,000,000
making a total of $22,500 for this
particular service. The worst service
in connection with this particular
department is certainly a parody.
Here in our little city I know of
one couple who have two sons in
the army. One in about a year, the
other probably six months. Each
designated an allotment of $lO per
month for the support of their par
ents. Not a dollar of it had been
received up to January 1, 1919. The
father is bed-ridden and the mother
almost helpless with rheumatism,
her hands and joints swollen and
distorted. This mother made a per
sonal appeal to the writer to see if
there was no chance for relief and
I took the matter up with Congress
man Kreider. He wrote me that
there were thousands of such cases,
but that he would do what he could
to secure relief.
Take the action now pending be
tween the state and the "Bell" Tele
phone Company. The action of Mr.
Burleson in directing them as to
rates and charges, it is to be re
gretted that more states do not have
Governors like Pennsylvania, who
are determined to see that the peo
ple are protected and that the sov
ereign rights of the state are re
spected. In this action it is pointed
out that it is an attempt of the fed
eral authorities to transgress on the
state's rights.
It is to be hoped that we may
soon get back to the old way of
doing things, wherein things are
done ns provided by the "Constitu
tion, by law or authority of the
courts, not by "divine rights," dele
gated powers or the illegal usurpa
tion of authority and the trampling
under foot of the rights of a slate to
control and direct a corporation
chartered within that state and sub
ject to its laws.
Isn't it about time we "got down
to brass tacks" and quit this "high
brow" stuff? Ask the common peo
ple. M. G. M.
Gamblers, Too
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Several months ago wuen tile led-*
era. authorities made their raid in
Uurrisuurg, n was very amusing to
read Mayor Keisier's excuses ot not
having the authority to do as the
lederal authorities did. It will he re
membered Just a lew months pre
vious to the raid the federal au
torney's made, the I).strict At
torney's ottlcc made a raid and at
that time .Mayor Keister was peeved.
1 just wonder what he will say if
there happens to he a raid of the
gamblers who infest the city und
who have preyed on the public for
the last several years and have made
the gambling business very expen
sive to the wage-earner. No one
knows better than the wage-earner
who went to murket during the holi
days to buy his Thanksgiving or
Christmas dinner and who found out
that turkeys, geese or, in fact, all
poultry, was beyolid his reach.
There is only one answer to the
high prices in 1 larrlsburg, and that
is gamb lug. Ask the huckster who
goes through the country anil buys
up produce how the gamblers went
through the country and bought au
tomobile loads of poultry and" paid
any price. There is not a city, big
or small, in Pennsylvania where
gambling goes on at full swing like
Harrisburg. Here are a few of the
gambling schemes that are played
vear in and year out:
Baseball poo', played in lots of
cigar stores, in industrial establish
ments; lottery tickets sold at same
places: old Ixjuisiana lottery, square
deal. Globe and many others too nu
merous to mention: football, basket
ball and all sorts of gambling of
nckel machine and punch boards.
The gambler and his games go mer
rily on, and the wonder is, whut
will the Mayor and police officials
say If the hand of the law would
scoop down and some of the no
torious gamblers would find them
selves behind the bars. It is not,
too late yet to punish those who
have made the turkey prices soar in
Harrisburg. •
Mr. Editor, when the federa' au-'
thorit'es made their raid at Head
ing, Chester, Harrisburg and other
places' the first load that should
have gone to the fede-ul building for
a hearing were the officials who. be
fore God and man. with uplifted
hand, swore that they would tip
hold and enforce the laws, but who
have made a mockery of the same.
Mr. Editor, I certainly admired
your editorials on the vice raid and
FEBRUARY 19, 1919,
your open denunciation of those who
have betrayed the people; also your
open editorial and denunciation of
the ruffling matches in Harrisburg
and across the river, and I hope thut
you will keep it up. While the Harris
burg newspapers and many of our
public-spirited citizens and Cham
ber of Commerce are trying to
Harrisburg a greater city, deepen
• the river and get many other im
provements, wo should try and rid
the city of crooks and gamblers.
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IV alc/iuuj the Legislature
[From the Philadelphia Ledger.]
That the Pennsylvania Legislature
in session always needs close watch
ing is a self-evident truth. And the
Hood of bills on all sorts of subjects
which has already begun to flow at
Harrisburg gives point to a sugges
tion that comes to the Public Ledger
from a well known member of the
bar of this city. This lawyer, like
many others of his profession, has
at many previous sessions of the
state law-making body been retained
to watch the course of legislation,
especially to discover and block, tf
possible, measures affecting adverse
ly the interests of his clients. As lie
puts the situation in a nutshell:
Unscrupulous little politico-law
yers are elected to the Legislature,
not in any sense on their merits or
from any public demand, but be
cause they are slated by .some bos?
They go to Harrisburg with private
jobs in every pocket, bills of their
own to introduce for the purpose of
accomplishing sortie personal object
and bills which they are secretly em
ployed by other lawyers to introduce
und push, the last being hills often
to the detriment of the public Inter
est. Private interests if they are
wealthy enough, cap employ at
torneys to watch for. und if possible,
scotch crooked jobs, ,but ordinary
business interests cannot.
It is perfectly obvious that the
routine processes of the legislative
mill—the reference of bills to com
mittee, the repeated "readings" be
fore submission to final action, even
the scrutiny of Governor and Attor
ney General—are no Infallible pro
tection to the public.. Committees
are often packed solely for political
reasons, and there is always n great
deal of give and take between mem
bers having "jobs" In hand. The
newspaper correspondents are al
ways alert to discover and expose
the secrets underlying many of the
bills; but even they are often unable
lo find out the authorship of such
measures or to intercept correctly
their real motives. Our lawyer cor
respondent suggests as a remedy for
this evil the creation of a small non
partisan and nonpolitlcal commission
to be appointed by the Governor to
which should be referred all bills
changing existing laws: all bills of
this character to be accompanied by
a statement of their authorship and
hacking and of the purpose to be ac
complished by its enactment.
Tilts plan is too revolutionary to
find much favor "on the- hill"; but
there can be no question that it or
some equally effective means of se
curing ruthless publicity for bills that
are now fathered in secret—and too
often in iniquity—would cut down
the number of bills at.every session
and exercise a wholesome restraint
upon "jobs" of every sort.
Turks Are Still Suuogss
One fact stands out clearly. Turk
ish rule over populations of "a differ
ent faith must, cease forever to ex
ist. Turkish government has been
the very worst which has afflicted
humanity during the lust (iftecn cen
turies. The Turks have always
been what a distinguished European
historian of the last generation call
ed them—"nothing better than a
band of robbers encamped in terri
tories which they had conquered and
devastated." They have never be
come civilized, they have never im
bibed or tried to apply any of the
principles on which civilized govern
ment must be conducted.
So far front progressing with the
progress of the years, they have
gone from had to worse. Savages
they were when they descended into
Western Asia front the plains of
Turkestan, savages they were which
Kdntund nurke so described them
130 years ago, and their government
still retains its savage and merci
less character. Viscount Juntes
Uryce In the New Armenia.
Lone Finds a New WOIJ
(Front the Springfield Republican.)
The "honeymoon express" is the
nante of an airplane on exhibition
at New York, it is elaborately up
holstered and has a telephone be
tween bride, bridgeroam and pilot,
a windshield and other novel fix
ings. The bicycle built for two, how
far in the distant past!
Ebrtiittg (Eifal
J . ust „ ,10w people living in anotht
part or the state view the possibility
or Harrisburg as a result of the cor
t' U i, °l, ot the new Penn-Harr
lotel which gives the state's cap
tai the accommodations it needs fc
Msitors was well told last night b
Joseph N. Mackrell, a Pittsburg
P^'f r ' upe '' man. Mr. Mackrell :
f r J he session and has motore
extensively over twenty states. H
Z pot ®ntiate of Syria Temple, c
•I ..rf K - V one of t,UJ largest organ:
Aitlons of the Shriners In the countr
• l nK ahout the city and th
ieffect of the how hotel Mr. Mackre
eferred to a couple of new angle:
I saying:
lu..'" T . he ,* ummer feature of Harrii
burgs life will be considerably nl
tered in the present and comln
jours because there is no doubt ths
this city, for many reasons, and th
1 en n-Harris hotel is a good one, wi
ne the Central Pennsylvania mecc
for tourists who use the automobib
l his city is being advertised all ovc
the country l>y word of mouth aim
ply because it has new and ntoder
hotel. It is sure to be included in th
itinerary of motorists because of th
beautiful Capitol buildings, the won
derful drive here along the Susqut
lianna and the accessibility of otlie
plcusant localities using llarrisbur
as a hub. Good roads lending t
desirable places radiate from lien
feel bold yet safe In predicting tha
Harrlsbufg's entry into the list c
real cities becnuse of real hotel at
coniniodations will unconsciously a
tor the east-west route on the Lincol
11 igliway. Coming east the tourls
if he has not seen Gettysburg wi
go on there and then take the shoi
run up here. Coming here from Get
tysburg lie enn cither use the Dills
burg route or delve further int
historic lore ami take the longe
route through Carlisle. If ho ha
seen Gettysburg he will surely brea
oft at Chambersburg and take advan
tagc of 51 miles of the fastest an
"nest road improvement in the na
ti°n. including the Walnut Hottoi
stretch, and through the wonderfi
agricultural valley. The Penn-Harri
will play to capacity throughou
the summer season. Its contempor
aries in other cities are already tell
tug their stories of Harrisburg an
I have heard many say that "ne*
summer I will go by the way of Hai
risburg. There is a hotel there now.
Naturally other local hostelries wi
also benefit. Down town shop keep
ers will benefit largely. That Is
natural sequence. It means a re;
city boom. That cannot be stoppei
Hurrisburg's future, in that respec
is bright. The live citizenship her
will take care of it in other direction
You are only a few hours from Phila
delphia and there are many wh
like a few hours touring and then
rest. Harrisburg answers that. On
thing is sure, Harrisburg will cu
deeply into the National Pike travc
Again referring to the eastward trav
el, it will not all continue due eas
but will break at Hagerstown am
come north through Chambersburi
and possibly Gettysburg. Then an
other feeder is the Wm. Penn High
way, north and south travel. Thet
is n natural drawing power in a stat
Capital-and the one here is de luxe
comparatively speaking, and as al
know, and for various reasons, quit*
thoroughly known. Putting it quick
ly, Harrisburg, has become a tourls
summer station. One thing romain
—ADVERTISE. If necessary go 101
miles away on known lanes of moto
travel and tell your city's story it
brief Illuminating phrasing. Th<
mileage to this city from a givet
point could be given, and stronf
welcome assurances flu ri i
forth. Use attractive boart
signs and do not be fearful of sound
ing your own clarion call of civit
pride and even a little "blowing'
will help. It will bring tourists a;
sure as the sun rises. There are nu
merous other-angles. This space wil
not suffice for them but it is a matter
that Harrisburg's bunking world
business section, small store keep
er, hotel activities and motor supplj
dealers with all the ramifications ol
the subject, can well give some at
tention to and help finance. -The div
idends await your efforts."
* * •
Herman L. Collins, who is now
writing in the Philadelphia Press
under his old name of Girard, says:
One of the virile men with a real
punch in Pennsylvania is former
Lieutenant Governor Frank B. Me-
Clain. He is now chairman of the
state Welfare Council.
Nobody east of the Ohio state line
knows more about cattle and meat
than does this son and former mayot
of Lancaster.
Muybe you think the Governor's
trade is politics since he has been con
spicuous for so many years as legisla
tor and as ai city and state official.
"I'm not a politician," says Mr.
McClain. "I'm a drover."
And that's right too. because he is
a big figure in the largest cattle mar
ket in any of the dozen New England
and Middle states.
That's Lancaster.
"Say, what's the reason people who
who live below Relly take cars for
' Riverside at the rush hour when
I we're running special cars up Second
and up Reilj- to Six-th to take off some
of the crush?" Queried a somewhat
indignant pilot of a Fourteenth ward
car yesterday.
"What's the trouble?'
"Aw, use your eyes. Why, here
we put on ears to take care of the
people that live below Reily so the
folks that live away up Second won't
be so crowded. And the people who
ought to take the cars with the
brown signs packed Into the away tip
town eats and make trouble in get
ting out. And they make us late,
too," concluded the pilot with con
siderable emphasis.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE , ]
—J. J. Guenther, who is direct
ing some of the home defense work
in Philadelphia, served in "Y" work
in several camps.
—Judge F. M. Trexler Is taking a
rest in Michigan.
—General W. M. Rose, recently
decorated, is a native of Lancaster
and won fame for work before the
war.
—E. D. Sollenherger, president of
the Social Welfare conference, has
been prominent in charity work for
a dozen years or more. He lives
in Philadelphia.
—Col. Henry Shoemaker will pre
sent a portrait of the late judge
C. A. Mayer, of Clinton county courts
to that county. , '
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1 DO YOU KNOW
That 1® 18 was the banner year
or tlic production of the Iron and
steel In llaiipliln county history.
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
In 1790 Harrisburg was forward
ing Lebanon iron to Pittsburgh
shops.