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ATCRDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1019
,:OFFEE SUCCEEDS BOOZE
MANUEL GORZYL, of Porto
Rico, believes the coffee house
will succeed the corner saloon
at the United States, just as it has
in his island home, and that coffee
will become the popular American
Jrink between meals as it has at
meals. In the days of Ben Johnson
and his period coffee houses were as
numerous in London and far more
popular than grog shops are to-day,
he points out, and expresses the be- j
lief that men will foregather as !
readily in congenial atmosphere to
drink a cup of coffee as they once
did to quaff a beaker of beer.
And right there a Pittsburgh
writer rises up, like a skeleton at
the feast, to demand: "What, get
rid of one poison only to substitute
another?" Using that as a text he
proceeds to tell how injurious to
health coffee is to the Individual
with the habit.
Granted that while there may be
"some dregs in the cup" of coffee at
which the human system would rebel
if given too much, a cup of coffee at
least hasen't got any of the "kick"
or a glass of old Jersey lightning.
A cup of coffee never sent a man
home with a brick in his coat pocket
to kill his mother-in-law. As be
tween the corner saloon and the
coffee house, give us the coffee
house every time. As the late Gov
ernor Pennypacker one-e replied
when a friend told him that coffee
was injurious: "If coffee is a poison
it must be a very, very slow poison;
I've been drinking it for sixty years."
The Republicans in Congress have
started out with the harmonious se
lection of a candidate for Speaker
who will preside over the House at
the next session. Under National
Chairman Hays there is a manifest
disposition to iron out all the rough
places in the party organization and
to present a formidable front for the
highly important work which will de
volve upon the Republican party In
the new era that is now opening in
the United States. As a constructive
political organization, it will be ex
pected to take a large part in the vital
reconstruction undertakings and the
direction of national policies under
proper leadership will be an important
phase of the party's responsibility.
CITY A BEACON LIGHT
ONE of the Important phases of
the work of the State Bureau
of Municipalities, which Is to
be placed under the Jurisdiction of
the Secretary of Internal Affairs in
the reorganization of State depart
ments, is the aidV. which the Com
monwealth proposes to give through
this department to boroughs and
the smaller municipalities in town
planning.
It developed during the confer
ences of the borough officials that
many of these smaller municipal or
ganizations have suffered by reason
of the haphazard nature of the plans
or lack of plans which have been
followed In the building of the
towns of the State. No attention has
been given to the sanitary or esthetic
or other features, and the conse
quences have been prejudicial to
health, morals and the social well
being of the community.
It was brought out at the confer
ence of farmers at State College a
day or two ago that eonstructlve Im
provement in the small communi
ties In the way of planting shade
trees, widening narrow streets, es
tablishing parks and recreation
squares, and the liberal application
of whitewash and paint would do
much to eradicate the public health
evils and promote contentment
among the people. In this confer
ence It was also developed that there
has been too much rectangular
planning of villages and towns with
out regard to the topography of the
site, resulting in heavy cuts instead
of curved highways that would have
preserved the beauty of the location
FRIDAY EVENING, HAKRiSBtrRG tSSftl TELEGRAPH . FEBRUARY 28, 1919. 1
and provided more attractive sur
roundings.
According, to Professor Cowell's
observation, our largest cities are
yearly spending vast sums to correct
planning mistakes made In their vil
lage days. Streets are widened, the
grades changed, river fronts re
claimed, ugly billboards removed,
sore spots of crime and infection
cleaned out, shade-trees planted and
breathing places created. All of this,
he said, could be avoided if prepara
tion for the city's urban develop
ment had been made while it yet
was a cross-roads hamlet.
As before indicated the Bureau of
Municipalities has a great work
ahead of it, and the manner in
which it has tackled the various
j problems which are confronting the
city and towns in Pennsylvania give
encourtgament to those who believe
that great benefits are to follow
leadership of this sort in the making
over and designing of Pennsylvania
towns and cities. Even the farmers
of Pennsylvania are beginning to
realize that there is something in
farming beside planting, sowing and
reaping, and that the proper location
of barns and sanitary and attractive
homes will solve many of the prob
lems which now disturb the agricul
tural communities. No less will the
satisfactory building of towns and
villages correct evils of which many
of the people now complain.
Harrisburg has set a fine example
of public improvement through a
long period of years, and it is now
regarded as a leader in modern mu
nicipal development. We shall hope
that it will continue to serve as the
beacon light for all of the munici
palities of Pennsylvania.
Winter tourists at Miami were
given a talk fest the other night on
the subject of politics with the slant
that "politics is the curse of America."
It is not so much the politics that
is out of joint as it is the failure
of many critics of existing conditions
to take their proper part in the poli
tical movements of the day.
Most of our troubles in the local
community and throughout the ac
tivities of the State and nation are
I primarily due to the fact that too
many otherwise good citizens fail to
do their full duty in the conduct of
public affairs.
WORTHY APPROPRIATION
OF THE thousands of appropria
tions proposed or enacted by
the present Congress that set
ting aside $12,500,000 for education
in English of adult illiterates, both
native and foreign born, should be
passed. It is an entirely worthy
measure, in full accord with the
Americanization program endorsed
by both State and national govern
ment and approved by all good
citizens. The problem Is national.
The South has a large number of
native illiterates. The North a great
segment of population that knows no
English and vejy slightly educated
in their native tongues. Both are
potential seed-beds for all manner
of radical doctrines that would not
be accepted by trained minds.
Here in Harrisburg we have un
dertaken the problem of Americani
zation and education in a practical
way. Not all cities have either the
breadth of vision or the finances to
undertake the work. Even here the
program could be greatly broadened,
and the field of effort widened if the
funds were available. The proposed
federal aid plan, outlined by the ap
propriation bill mentioned, would
finance the Americanization program
in countless communities. By ail
means it should be approved by Con
gress.
NEW VICE PRESIDENT
HIS friends generally will be
more than pleased with the
announcement that Colonel M.
C. Kennedy, president of the Cum
berland Valley Railroad company,
will be an official of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad company when the
absorption of the Cumberland Valley
railroad by the Pennsylvania rail
road shall have been accomplished
in April. Under the new arrange
ment Colonel Kennedy will be a resi
dent vice president of the larger
corporation, in charge of the Cum
berland district, with headquarters
at Chambersburg. He has been
president of the Cumberland Valley
Railroad Company for many years
and will continue in that position
until its corporate operation has been
terminated.
During the war this experienced
railroad head was at the side of
General Atterbury in France, where
the construction of a great railroad
system and the other transportation
facilities was one of the big under
takings which contributed to- the
winning of war. Colonel Kennedy
is not only a thorough railroad man,
but Is one of the great executives
of the country, and in view of what
has happened to the railroad sys
tems during the last year or two it
is encouraging to know that men of
his type will continue to direct the
transportation facilities of the coun
try. With a colossal deficit under
government operation of the lines,
the only hope of a resumption of
prosperous and normal railroad con
ditions is through the direction of
men like Colonel Kennedy,
Manifestly, the only solution of
the present problems is the appro
priation by the government of mil
lions of dollars for railroad recon
struction and equipment and the
average business man will almost
involuntarily wish that his deficits
might be likewise made up by Con
gressional appropriation. The liqui
dation of the railroad corporations
is going to be a more or less diffi
cult proposition, but we have faith
that the enormous resources of the
United States and the patriotic char
acter of the railroad Interests and
railroad men, as was demonstrated
during the war, will bring order out
of chaos without great delay or in
tarrußUon to business.
'"politico- IK
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By the Rx-Oommltteeman
A. Mitchell Palmer's appointment
to be attorney general of the United
States, which has been his ambition
for years, may have the effect of
starting off again the row in the
Democracy of Pennsylvania, which
Mr. Palmer split so effectually one
summer's day last year by making
charges against Judge Eugene C.
Bonniwell, the nominee of the Dem
ocratic voters of Pennsylvania for
Governor. It is taken for granted
that Mr. Palmer will resign as Dem
ocratic national committeeman from
Pennsylvania and the Bonniwell
Democrats are evidently planning to
make the selection of the State rep
resentative on the Democratic na
tional committee the occasion for
an attempt to seize the organization
controlled so long by Palmer and
his pals.
Palmer's clique will be given more
recognition than ever now. The re
appointment of E. Lowry Humes as
Western district attorney indicates
that quite aside from the preferment
of Palmer. This is another reason
why the Bonniwell faction will start
after the levers of the State machine
because they dislike Humes as much
as the new attorney general.
While most of the newspapers say
something nice about the honor of
the attorney generalship coming to
the Keystone State some newspapers
make comments not so kindly. The
Philadelphia Press says that Pal
mer's fitness is being taken "on trust"
and that his selection looks like the
naming of a deserving Democrat.
The Public Ledger is complimentary,
but winds up by saying, "it remains
to be seen" how he will work out.
—The Philadelphia Record which
has opposed Palmer and his pals in
Democratic affairs prints this char
acteristic editorial: "But it may well
be that the President had in view
in making Mr. Palmer Attorney Gen
eral the idea that he could add a
competent lawyer to his cabinet and
at the same time contribute some
thing to the rebuilding of the Penn
sylvania Democracy. As Attorney
General Mr. Palmer will, of course,
retire as the Democratic leader of
Pennsylvania,, in which ho has not
been a success, and open the way
for a successor as National Commit
teeman who may be able to re
assemble the shattered remnants
and rebuild upon lines that will
prove more successful. Mr. Palmer
has many admirers in Pennsylvania
in and out of the Democratic party
who will rejoice in Ris elevation to
tlie Attorney Generalship of the
United States and who will wish him
every success in his new field. Those
who have not approved of his polit
ical methods will be no less sincere
in their hope that ho will add to
his reputation by the ability and
energy he will employ as an intimate
associate of President Wilson."
Visitors to the office of Governor
William C. Sproul Lit is week were
given the greatest shock of years
when they were ushered into the
smaller reception room and saw
the door to the private office of
the governor open and the State
executive working at his desk. Ow
ing to the rush of visitors from all
parts of the State, many of whom
came without any appointments, the
Governor has been compelled to limit
his engagements on days when the
Legislature is in session to the sen
ators and members, but he has made
them feel that they could see him.
The number of callers at the office
has been something unheard of and
the Governor open and the State
jump to receive lawmakers. State
officials and members of commis
sions coming to present their reports.
But such a thing as the door to the
Governor's office being open and
people walking in, transacting busi
ness and walking out has made a
sensation on Capitol Hill. The last
time that was seen was back in the
days of the Tener administration.
—Just how Governor Sproul gets
away with the slioals of correspond
ence that gather about him is one
of the mysteries of the Capiiol and
the conclusion is that he goes to
bed late, and gets up early. The
mail for the executive office has
reached proportions that were at
tained in the early days of the war.
—Capitol Hill people are discuss
ing drafts of a bill to place all at
taches of the State government on a
purely business basis and to have
their duties defined and salaries
fixed by a State Board have been
made and will probably make their
appearance in the Legislature at an
early day. The situation at the
Capitol as a result of the abnormal
conditions prevailing since the start
of the war and the agitation for
bigger salaries have brought home
the necessity for creation of some
body to deal with work and pay
without being hampered with sal
aries and duties fixed by law which
can be changed only once in two
years. r
—lf therecommendation in the
Economy and Efficiency commission
report for 1917 had been allowed to
become a law instead of being visit
ed with executive displeasure two
years ago the State would have been
able to retain the services of valu
able men and women who left Capi
tol Hill after years of experience for
better paid positions in business es
tablishments. At the same time men
who were devoted 1o their work and
who remained could have been given
just treatment and not compelled
to take pay much less than earned
by women In offices and in manu
facturing plants within sight of thfe
Capitol dome.
—Briefly, it is the idea to create
a board consisting of the Governor.
Attorney General, Auditor General
and State Treasurer with power to fix
the pay and prescribe duties of
clerks and other attaches without
regard to precedent, statutory en
actment or anything else if the pub
lic interests require it. A lump ap
propriation could be made to pay
salaries and chances of interference
lessened.
—Norman D. Gray, who has just
been reappointed first assistant State
librarian, goes back to his old job.
He was displaced to make room for
I. G. Regan, a Chester county friend
of opponents of Senator T. L. Eyre.
The action made Eyre stronger. Mr.
Gray is one of the most competent
library officials and has many
friends here.
—Governor Spronl's idea of em
ploying experts will probably take
form soon. The Governor's friends
say that tbe Governor as head of
a big business corporation should
have authority to secure tbe best
engineering, scientific or other tal
ent to make investigations on behalf
of the State, especially on projects
involving large amounts of moncv.
It would put into tbe State govern
ment some ideas of the national
and foreign governments.
The biggest bill of tbe Legislature,
the general appropriation measure
carrying the funds to run the State
Mvammwt for two years from tbe
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end of next May, will make its ap-1
pearance in the House of Represen
tatives, as required by the rules, on
Monday night. The bill is not yet
complete, but it is hoped to intro
duce it in an advance stage. Chair
man W. J. McCaig, of the commit
tee, is at work on it and the depart
mental estimates are being inserted
as far as gone over. The bill will
carry considerably over $30,000,000.
After being presented it will be re
committed to be finished.
Thus far the Legislature has re
ceived just six short of a thousand
bills. There have been 686 pre
sented in the House, including some
Senate bills, which get House num
bers, and 308 in the Senate includ
ing those passed by the House. A
considerable number of appropria
tion bills are yet to appear.
Some of Governor Sproul's pro
gram of legislation will also be pre
sented soon, the final draft being
now before the Governor.
—Something akin to consterna
tion was caused this week among
men interested in military training
by the discovery that to establish
the system as proposed in severul
bills would cost millions of dollars.
The upshot will be that the Bigler
bill, which was drafted by the State
Board of Education and provides for
military exercises without arms. Will
be put to the front. There will be a
battle by the advocates of a system
of real military tfgining with arms
furnished by the national govern
ment, but the cost of instructors will
be a deterrent.
PALMER AND SPROIJL
(Glrard in the Philadelphia Press.)
It's a good thing Swarthmore is
a Quaker college. She needs every
wit of self-control instilled by the
Society of Friends to keep her from
busting her buttons with pride.
Honors ilow as easily and steadily
toward Swarthmore as the water of
melting snow comes down Pike's
Peak. Nobody can hold Swarthmore
and especially is the class of ninety
one unholdable. Wasn't it enough
that the class of ninety should turn
out the senior partner of a great
Philadelphia stare, Morris L.
Clothier? Not on your life. Ninety
one came through slambang with
Alexander Mitchell Palmer, one of
the small coterie of Democratic
leaders who nominated Woodrow
Wilson for President. And then
that same class rushed forward with
a Governor for Pennsylvania, Wil
liam C. Sproul. And now it seems
that the same insatiable maw for
glory is about to gobble up the At
torney Generalship of the United
States in the person of our statesman
from Stroudsburg, Mr. Palmer.
Maybe this will hold Swarthmore
and the class of ninety-one for a
little while, but I doubt if it will
hold it for long.
There they stand, the Big Three
—Morris L. Clothier. Governor Wil
liam C. Sproul and Alexander Mitch
ell Palmer. A fish has as much
chance of keeping dry as Swarth
more has of ducking a hew honor.
It would be just like that class of
ninety-one to reach out and grab
the prize bouquet in the whole po
litical conservatory. What do I
mean? Nominee of both the Demo
cratic and Republican party for
President of the United States.
Palmer and Sproul! That would be
like a race between Damon and
Pythias, because those two ancient
friends were no closer or warmer in
their relationship than are the new
Attorney General and the Governor
of Pennsylvania.
Classmates, fraternity brothers,
best-man-at-the-wedding and all
that sort of thing. Strappling big
fellows, one a blonde, the other a
brunette, one with locks as wavy as
a chorus girl, the other with hair
straight as an Indian, big business
men, one a Republican, the other
a Democrat, both Phi Beta Kappa
men. Young, clean, and neither of
them afraid. Sproul and Palmer
would be a big team for any class
in any college, so It is no wonder
Swarthmore ninety-one is throwing
out its chest.
LABOR NOTES
Hungary has over 50,000 female
trade unionists.
Women employes of the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit Company num
ber over 1,000, while the New York
Street Railways Company carries
over 2,000 women on its pay roll.
The bricklayers, masons, plas
terers, marble setters and tile set
| ters in Canada are now all under
| one charter affiliated with the inter-
I national Bricklayers' Union,
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
An Open Letter
To the Legislature of Pennsylyvania:
It was remarked that the late
Senator Matthew Quay said, "The
people of Pennsylvania quickly
fprget." How true this is! I re
member of deeds when committed
aroused the wrathful indignation of
the offended people, and who won
dered why there was no law nor
authority to suppress them, or pun
ish the offenders; yet in a very few
days in the maze x of other affairs
they were, forgotten.
There are very few deeds com
mitted, especially, by the thought
less youth that are more aggravat
ing irritating, which provokes more
bad feelings, that is destructive to
property, and imperil life than the
senseless, reckless, wanton and often
malicious celebrating of Hallowe'en
and wedding serenading.
There, evidently, should be en
acted and enforced a law to restrain
the thoughtless and reckless from
running into excesses in these cele
brations.
Such acts are mischievous as re
moving door stsps, carrying away
gates, placing obstacles or stretch
ing ropes across paths or roads or
on bridges, placing ties or rails across
trolley tracks, throw switches, re
moving cattle, taking off vehicle
wheels or loosening bolts or nuts,
cut harness, place railroad ties or
fence rails against doors, so as to
fall inwards and injure the inno
cent opener; and in case of wed
dings to imprison the bride or
bridegroom for hours and even days
to the alarm of all.
I shall add, there should also be
enacted some strenuous restrain
against the socalled 'strike sympa
thizers," mostly boys and youths who
do much to prejudice the public
against strikes and oft-times defeat
what may be a righteous cause.
C. D. RISIIEL, Pastor,
Beal Avenue, South Enola Church
of God.
Blames the Farmer
To the Editor of the Telegraph'.
X was very much pleased to read
your timely editorial on the Day
light Saving rider, which would take
away one hour's valuable time from
the working man who likes to grow
a few fresh vegetables for himself
and family. We are told that the
farmers object to it, and why do they
object to it? Why, because it robs
them of quite a few chances to rob
the working man; for if more peo
ple would grow their own vegetables
it would give them less chance to
gouge people the way they have
done for the last year or two. The
only reason the farmers have is a
selfish one, and it is unfair of them
to try and rob the working man of
one hour of daylight. If they really
have a grievance why don't they be
"good fellows." They are in the
minority and should think about the
other fellow who is in the majority.
Yours, A STEELWORKER,
Who likes his garden.
Would Give Odds
After the grand review of Ger
man troops at Potsdam the kaiser
called out to the officer commanding
the Prussian Guard in a voice loud
enough to be heard by all the dis
tinguished guests who were grouped
in front of the palace;
"Pick me out a hundred men
from the Prussian Guard!"
Then, taking the arm of King
Edward VII, who was there, he said,
"Come with me." He escorted King
Edward very delicately round the
hundred men and then ,sald ban
teringly: "Well, do you think you
could find a hundred men in Eng
land to beat them?"
"I don't know so much about
that", promptly replied the late
king, "but I could easily find fifty
who would try."—From the Argo
naut.
The Grand Young Man
Mr. Clemenccau was severely
wounded by a half-baked assassin
on February 19. On February 26,
Mr. Clemenceau was taking a drive
in Paris, to the great joy and sur
prise of his fellow-citizens. Any
statesman of ordinanry ago and
constitution and docility would have
been imprisoned by his doctors for
weeks. Mr. Clemenceau, who is only
78, chaffed his doctors and his
nurses, saw on one day forty vis
itors, a monstrous grist even for a
well man, behaved throughout like
the untamable, inexhaustible, vital
and viable and wiity power and per
sonage he is. "None but himself
can be his parallel." -Mr. Lloyd
George rightly caled him the Grand
Young Man. —From the New York
Times.
"Black Man No Slacker"
yhe black man is no slacker;
never known to be a traitor. Poor
boys who have had to struggle hard
for. every mouthful they have ever
had to eat, are among them as well
as some brilliant young fellows with
clear heads and quick brains. There
are commonplace boys with nothing
especially clever about them—-but
soldiers every one of them; every
inch a soldier and every drop of
blood in their veins representing
courage and loyalty. It is strange as
Americans we have never realized
before what stuff they were made
of. How strange it is that we forget
the noblest qualities of their souls
and think of them only as we see
them on the surface. Some of them
we know or think we know well, and
yet we know nothing about them,
except the vain, shallowest outside.
Thoughtless, heedless, careless and
even worthless, we believe many of
them to be, and perhaps many of
them were these things, until the
great genii of democracy touched
them with his wand and bade them
live up to their better selves, and
here they are showing the world
what they can do.
What blind creatures we are, yes,
all of us. How are we going to live
up to such standards as these? The
question foremost in their minds is
"'How are we gc!ng to find things
when we get home?" I dare say
they will be astonished after brav
ing the great perils of the sea, and
facing death in a thousand forms.
I say they fought, and that well;
triumphantly, they embark for
America, having gone to no man's
land and helped win freedom for
the world they come back to their
birth land to find that they have in
stead of liquid fire, poisonous gases,
etc., as was thrust on them by the
enemy. They will find thrust upon
them discrimination, segregation
and Jimcrowism. I say they will
be astounded. How are we going to
live up to such standards as these,
made by our boys who are living on
the Heights to-day?
THOS. W.' EDWARDS,
227 River St.
M. C. KENNEDY
[Girary in the Phila. Press.]
You would not be surprised to
read that the City Hall is to remain
in Penn Square?
Nor that the rock of Gibraltar is
to stay put on the southern extremity
of Spain?
Nor thut the great pyramid is to
stand another thousand or four
thousand years on the edge of Sa
hara?
Nor am I surprised to learn that
Colonel M. C. Kennedy is to be a
resident vice-president of the Penn
sylvania Railroad in the Cumber
land Valley and its railroad would
not be the valley nor the railroad
without the colonel.
He is as much a part Of the re
gion as the mountain walls which
border that garden of America. For
years Colonel Kennedy, like his
father beford him, has been not only
a masterful railroader, but a sort
of benevolent czar a father for the
whole valley.
I doubt if a similar relationship
exists between a railroad chieftain
and the community he serves, any
where else in our country.
When General W. W. Atterbury
was sent to France to construct and
operate a railroad system for
handling American troops, he soon
called for Colonel Kennedy. ■
What this Cumberland Valley
railroad chief did in France, but
more especially what he did in Eng
land in handling and supplying
American troops will make a fine
chapter when the "Pennsy" comes
to write the story of what the more
than 24,000 stars on it's big red
service flag represented in the war.
And so now that Colonel Kennedy
Is back officially at "Ragged Edge,"
the Cumberland Valley will resume
business at the old stand and the
seasons will come and go as usual.
Incentive to Wed
A West Dallas widow says that
the latest proposal she has received
was from a local Bolshevik, who said
if she would marry him before a
Soviet government was set up he
would save her from becoming the
property of the state—Dallas News.
Bless Him!
A guy I like
Is Eddie Rose;
He says: "I've got
To go." . . . And goes.
_ i—New York Tribune.
No Beer, No Work; No Work,
No Pay
Alas! Alas!
Tis come to pass
That I must leave my frothy glass
Or lose my job and be an ass.
No more to fill
The brewer's still
With many a hard earned dollar
bill.
But put the cash in mine own till.
Ah, Me! No more
To feel so sore
After the drinking night is o'er.
But better feel than e'er before.
My wife, a peach,
My children each,
Are dressed so neat. They aim to
reach.
What I now practice, teach and
preach.
At first, I fought.
At first I thought
I'd help the booze so dearly bought.
Maintain it'is right. It came to
naught.
Good bye, dear beer,
Thine end is near.
Thy foes are fierce, they know no
fear;
Thy friends are froth; none shed a
tear.
Farewell to thee.
Booze policy!
That ruled the State, enslaved the
free.
The whole rum crowd is up a tree.
'Twas rather rough,
To meet thy bluff.
With such a call, and kick and cuff,
Till all the crew cried out, enough.
I'm on a jag,
A bouncing nag,
A lighter job, a heavier bag,
There's money in it for me and
Mag.
No beer, you say,
No work, no pay,
Shall booze forever lead astray?
Keep work, keep pay, bid booze
good day.
R. M. RAMSAY,
The Manse,
Dauphin, Ba.
How Sap Rises in Trees
Wfien spring comes and sap begins
to rise in trees many people will
wonder what causes the enormous
pressure necessary to raise so much
of this fluid to such a great height.
Many theories have been advanced
as to this force but it is probably
due to a number of causes.
The same force that makes oil rise
in a lamp wick undoubtedly has
something to do with the rising of
sap in trees but it is hardly sufficient
to say that this one cause would
drive so much sap and moisture to
the upper branches of the tallest
trees.
The roots of a plant are so con
structed that an enormous pressure
on them is produced, doing much to
drive the sap along its way. There
are certain membranes which cover
the roots of trees and these mem
branes have extremely small holes
In them through which certain
fluids may readily pass: other denser
fluids cannot go through them. The
water in the soil surrounding the
roots can pass through these mem
branes into the roots, but the minute
holes will not allow the sap inside
to come out.
Water continually soaks into the
roots and there mixes with the sap
and becomes a part of it. Thus it
cannot escape back into the soil, the
root is soon filled to capacity, and
as more enters it is forced through
the trunk of the tree up to the
branches and leaves.
When we consider the amount of
water and sap that travels to the
tops of trees often more than a
hundred feet in height, it Is surpris
ing that tin little hairlike sub
stance which covers the roots can do
so much work every year and still
go un-notlced by so many people.
THE TRIVIAL
The great emotional experiences of
life are belittled by the insistence
upon -the trivial; Life and Love look
into each other's eyes, a man and a
woman select each other from aM the
world. But the Joyful solemnity of
marriage is ruffled by the details of
the wedding, perhaps family squab
bles over flowers and gowns and in
vitations! Or Great Death comes in
at the other door and the little hu
man soul, overwhelmed with grief,
appalled by the sudden opening of
eternity before its eyes—yet fusses
(there is no other word for it) over
"mourning" over the width of the
hem on the veil or the question of
crepe buttons or Jet. —Margaret
Deland. j
jEbgttfttg
State Librarian Thomas Lyi
Montgomery, is on the trail of w
may turn out to be one of the e
llest, if not the earliest, book prln
In Harrisburg. This city has b
a center of publishing for mi
years, but there has always b
more or less discussion about v
established the first printing of
for issuance of books. The ho
of printing the first newspaper
longs to John Wyeth, the first fS<
master of Harrisburg, who was <
tor of the Oracle of Dauphin, wh
columns still furnish many an
teresting sidelight upon the days
long ago. Mr. Wyeth also conduc
a book store and recently some
his bills for furnishing books to
first Public Library in Harrlsb
were discovered in this city. T
library was founded back arot
1792 and was the ancestor of the
brary which flourished in the tl
ties and forties and of the pres
institution at Front and Wal
streets. The extent of Mr. Wye l
publications has never been ca
fully investigated, but he did issu
number of pamphlets. In i
event, the book which Dr. Montgc
ery is hunting is said to be a Har
burg imprint of 1797. It bears
remarkable title of "Fortune's F<
bailer" with a subtitle of "The .
ventures of Mercutio," by Jai
Darker. It will make a valua
addition to the splendid collect
of early • Pennsylvania impr!
which Dr. Montgomery has built
at the State Library.
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It is of interest to note that
membership of the State Federat
of Historical Societies of which
Stp*- 7 brarian is the moving sp
anu of which Dr. Hugh Hamilt
of this city, is president, now ni
bers fifty. County Historical sot
ties have been formed in Union <
Potter and have become affilia
with the State Federation.
First quail from Mexican hi
lands for stocking the counties
Pennsylvania adapted to the rals
of "Bob White" are expected
reach Harrisburg in a fortnight i
steps are already being taken
send out the birds to men who
oversee their distribution, incl
ing the Lykens valley preserve.
State has cpntracted for 20,000 qi
and reports indicate that they
being trapped and are in good tr
They will be held for a while al
being received until they can
looked over and fed. The beliel
that the project will be success
as the birds are coming when
matic and food conditions apprt
mate their native heath. Efforts
purchase rabbits fitted for stock
this State have not been success
thus far and the State Game Cc
mission people are uncertain w
to do about the problem. It is p
sible .that the idea will be given
as rabbits everywhere seem to h
suffered the same as in Pennsylva
from the rigors of the winter
1918. Some deer are yet to co
from Michigan and New York Sti
The deer turned loose have b
doing well and in some districts d
taken from Clearfield and cen'
counties have made themselves v
much at home.
Signs are not wanting that
battle over schemes to license oi
ers of firearms will be renewed
the Legislature the coming w
over the Horne bill which would i
for the registration of all weapc
The HotfsS voted down the Ne
bill for issuance of permits for oi
Ing firearms In spite of the plea t
it was needed to curb the holi
artists and there is something ct
ing to the Horne bilL Opposil
Is also looming up to the Dithr
bill to forbid use of live pigeons
shooting matches or at traps.
latter measure which was presen
"by request" is a biennial flowei
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Its a rather interesting commi
ary upon the value of the Harrisb
Library to this community that
many people have appeared for
registration. The library regis!
persons to take out books for
year periods and the first reglsl
tions are now expiring. They
not only being renewed, but inert
ed. In spite of the influenza i
other disease outbreaks the libr
has been doing more circulating
books than ever.
| WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—George F. Krause, who
started the ball rolling In Lebanc
mayoralty contest, is well known
many Harrisburgers.
—A. Mitchell Palmer, the new
torney General, used to play f<
ball when at college.
—Col. E. D. Burns is taking an
tive part in the good roads cs
paign in McKean county.
—Col. R. W. Guthrie, well kne
to the people in this section, g
a talk on the activities of the El
teenth regiment to the Pittsbu
historical society.
—Col. Albert Archer, one of
damage adjustment commission, 1
Mercer countlan and graduated ft
West Point.
—Dr. T. E. Munce, acting St
veterinarian, has been at the St
College meetings.
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—Tlie first bridge over the Susq
11anna here was so Important t
State and counties helped build
DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisburg Is dally ha
ling large amounts of postal s
plies for adjoining counties, I
being the distribution point?
Stewart Statue Ready
The bronze statue of the late .
Jutant General Thomas J. Stew
presented to the by the officers
the National Guard is about ct
pletcd and arrangements for
placing of the figure in one of
niches of the Capitol rotunda t
shortly be made. It is proposed
unveil the statue late in the spr
or early In the summer. Gent
Stewart was adjutant general for
years and handled the Induction
the guard into two wars.
General Stewart's statue has bi
highly praised by men who seen
and It is the intention to place
In one of the second floor niches, '
color of the bronze going very v
with the marble at that place.
The statue was presented throt
efforts of Adjutant General Frs
D. Beary, who was deputy under
general and the funds were colleo
at Camp Hancock shortly after
Keystone division mobilized at t'
place. General Beary also 'sup
vised th casting and finishing,
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