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THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1019
The way to find out truth is by
other's mistakes. — Seldon.
A SINGING NATION
new song sheets of the War
Camp Community Service bears
this inscription:
"A Singing Nation to Welcome a
Victorious Singing Army."
There is much more than mere
sentiment back of this motto. It is
a good catch sentence, but it ex
presses a truth as well as a hope. |
For in the past few years we have
become a singing Nation. When
first the Rotary clubs of the coun
try joined the college boys in mass
singing, sedate and dignified person
ages, who did not understand, look
ed askance and shook their liead3
In doubt. But the contagion spread,
and now, to use an old slang phrase j
descriptive of another type of popu
lar diversion, "everybody's doing it."
Doubtless the war did much to
increase the popularity of the so
called community singing. But it
was coming anyway. It is the evi
dence of a spirit that speaks weil
for the future of the Nation, for a
singing Nation, like a singing army,
is a victorious Nation. Men sing
from exaltation of soul, from exu
berance of spirits. The man who
sings sees visions and dreams dreams.
Only sullen, hopeless or vicious peo
ples are silent. The young, the
vigorous, the upward-looking, for
ward-going peoples of the earth are
those who sing. We sing and there
by express our confidence in the fu
ture, our will and desire to be up
and doing. Thank God that we are
a singing Nation and that our army
comes home as it went away, sing
ing.
There will be general approval of
the efforts of the Legislature to es
tablish military training in the
schools of the State. This training
will mean more for the boys of the
present generation than now appears
on the surface. It will develop
physical strength, discipline, obedi
ence and respect for law and order,
and In this day will do as much as
any other thing to steady the rising
generation and defeat the horde of
theorists and Bolsheviks who are pre
suming on libery to develop a dan
gerous license and disruption of our
American institutions.
UNCLE SAM'S TREES
POSTMASTER SITES as custo
dian of the Federal Building,
has found it desirable to remove
the surviving shade trees along the
property on Walnut street. May we
not hope that the unsightly stumps
of these trees will give way to new
trees that will be encouraged by a
wider area of space in the side
walk and protection gratings.
While it is difficult to get the best
results in tree planting along paved
streets and granolithic sidewalks, it
has been found possible to provide
sufficient space by increasing the
area of planting and protecting the
same by a sidewalk grating.
Uncle Sam is abundantly able to
care for the artistic features of his
property and we have no doubt
Postmaster Sites will do what is pos
sible to restore the shade tree effects
around the Federal building.
All credit to the Public Service
Commission for its effort to get the
Federal Railroad Administration into
line in the matter of subways at rail
load crossings. Pennsylvania is in
the midst of a great highway era. and
it is important to get rid of as many
railroad crossings as possible. Federal
control of railroads should not inter
fere at any point with the public
spirited efforts of the Public Service
Commission.
ANTI-BOLSHEVISM
EVERY man and woman in Amer
ica should read the full page
advertisement, "The Frozen
Breath of Bolshevism." published
In the Telegraph Saturday afternoon.
It is the story of poor, prostrate,
hopeless, helpless, starving, bleeding
Russia in language nobody could
fail to understand. It is the first of
s series of advertisements to be pub
lished in this newspaper by patriotic,
Americans who want their fellow
THURSDAY EVENING, BARRISBURG I TELEGRAPH APRIL 10,1919.
countrymen to understand just what
kind of "government" Trotzky and
Lenine wish to force upon the world.
The more we see and know of
the frightful conditions Bolshevism
brings in its wake, the more we will
want to combat the insidious efforts
of its agents to bring the same kind
of ruin to America that they have
wrought in Russia. Trotzky and
know that they can continue
in power only a short time in Russia,
unless they can persuade other
countries to turn Bolshevik, thereby
opening up new sources of revenue
to them and new opportunities for
robbery and murder.
America must stand steadfast
I against the wiles of these monsters,
j not only fo-r her own sake, but in
I order that the people of Russia, a
! great majority of whom have had
j their fill of Bolshevism, may be en
i couraged to assert their rights and
! throw off the yoke.
Now that the Chamber of Commerce
has set in motion a plan for a great
I homecoming celebration for the re
\ turning soldiers on the Fourth of
July, it ought to be possible to con
| centrate all associations and commit
j tees on this one big celebration. It
j would be unfortunate, perhaps, to
j have a division of effort along this
line. We cannot show the men who
j have rallied to the colors too much
j honor, but it will be wise for all of
| those who are contemplating a home
j coming celebration to unite their ef
fcits in the big Fourth of July parade.
ISPANGLEIUS GOOD POINT
SPEAKER ROBERT S. SPANG
LE R was exactly right a few
i days ago when he called the
| big city legislators to account for
i hiking home on Tuesday and pre
| venting work being carried out as
t hoped in the lower branch of the
Legislature. He properly said that
it was unfair to the members from
distant counties who have to stay
here and emphasized the fact that
the pecple of the State expect at
tention to work even though the
salary allowed is an anachronism !
and the cost of living sky high.
Thanks to a superior organiza
tion, the best of any in a State
Legislature, the Senate of Pennsyl
vania seems able to clear up its
work in two days. It is true that j
it has been aided in this by adher- j
ence to the thought of the fathers |
that the upper house should be a j
check on the lower, as the lower is ,
supposed to be on the upper, and
that there are many people who
disagree strcngly with the way the j
Senate is run. But the fact remains
that it does handle its work ex- j
peditiously. It is also rare that it j
passes bills for the House to kill.'
As tar as the House is concerned, !
it has evolved a policy of passing |
many useless bills and In spite of!
predictions to the contrary, the com
mittees of the lower branch have
put out an awful lot of legislative
material. But the members of the
House are not keeping step with
their committees. Instead of stay
ing here and working to push
through the bills, seme city mem
bers have been following the Sen
atorial plan of going home Tuesday,
endangering quorums and prevent
ing disposal of bills which serve to
clog House calendars on Mondays
and Tuesdays.
WAS BARN I'M RIGHT?
IF THE people can forget in less
than three years, how adroitly
they were fooled in 1916 by the
"kept us out of war" slogan, they
deserve to be fooled again with a
"league to prevent war" slogan.
Mayr KeLter's appeal for a clean
up week starting May 4 will have an
immediate response throughout the
city. Harrisburg has a wide reputa
tion for municipal progress in the
up-to-date conduct of its affairs. A
clean city is a recommendation that
gees far beyond anything else in the
way of a municipal asset. Sanitation
stands at the head of every provision
for the comfort of the people, and it
is highly important that at least one
week of the year should be devoted to
cleaning up private premises. Too
often housekeepers grow careless and
depend upon municipal cleaning out
fits to do what they should do them
selves.
Mayor Keister would do well to fol
low his proclamation with frequent
appeals to all classes of our citizens
to co-operate in a great clean-up
week.
A GOOD MOTTO
THE city of Chester has formed
its own little League of Nations,
embracing in its membership
all of the foreign-born residents of
town, and the league has adopted
as its motto: "America first, last
and all the time."
Would that more American-born
residents had the same motto.
These newcomers know that the
L'nited States is the best country on
earth in which to live. They know
that there is more opportunity and
real freedom here than in the parts
of the world from which they came.
They know that wages are higher
and that we in America get more for
our money in the way of comfort 3
and luxuries than do the people of
any other country anywhere. ,
We do not need to have any fears
as to where the very large bulk of
our foreign-born population stand.
They demonstrated their loy
alty during the war. They are for
the most part good citizens now and
their offspring will be the backbone
of the Nation in the next generation.
As an evidence of this, note the re
ports of local public school teachers,
who assert that many of the chil
dren of foreign-born parents are
their best pupils. It will be re
membered, also, that the winners in
the Colonial Dames essay contests
last week were all daughters of cit
izens who were born abroad.
Let us look to our own patriotism.
That of the average foreigner who
has come to this country to live and
make hiuuy is above suspicion-
fdiUc* Lk
""PtKKO^tcanXa
By the Ez-Committeeman i
Issuance of the warrant for arrest
of William S. I.cib, former resident
clerk of the House of Representa
tives and for years Schuylkill coun
ty leader, at the direction of the At
torney General last night, made ev
eryone forget that the legislature
had gone home for the Easter va
cation and the probable results of
the action will be the big theme in
State politics for days. The State
administration is determined to go
through with the matter.
—The adjournment of the Legisla
ture, without any of the protests
which it was declared were going
to resound in the hall of the House
of Representatives caused consider
able amusement and the story goes
that two or three of the men asked
to get up and object yesterday, de
clared that they had personal mat
ters at home which had to be at
tended to.
—One of the incidents of the week
was the meeting of the representa
tives of the third-class cities and
boroughs here yesterday to arrange
for the protest against the Eyre bill
and the fact that opposition to the
Public Service Commission was so
strongly manifested. Another thing
which may have effect on State pol
itics was the reporting out of the
bill to provide counly boards of as
sessors elected by the people, which
will overturn the Luzerne board and
affect every county.
j —lt took several conferences be-
I fore the House committee on coun
i ties and townships determined to
I make the Jones hill establishing a
! hoard of three county assessors, to
|be elected for four years on party
tickets with minority representation,
apply to every county in the State.
I outside of Philadelphia and Alle
j trlieny. The bill originally applied
[to counties having less than 150,000
] population, but the committee de
• eided to incorporate into it the idea
j of the Palmer bill designed to give
j Schuylkill. Westmoreland, Berks.
Lackawanna and counties similar in
population, an elective board. The J
limit of population was first raised
to 500.000 and then to 1,000,000.
The committee then made up a scale
of salaries ranging from $4,000 down
to $750. The bill would authorize
the assessors to district the county
and name sub-assessors. Bights of;
appeal to the county commissioners!
and courts would also be arranged, j
-—The most important administra
tive feature of the bill would be that
it would provide for quadrennial in->
stead of triennial assessments and !
that the board would be sitting fre- j
quently to record changes and to
make investigations such as are now
in progress in Dauphin and other'
counties over the anthracite fields.
—Together with the bill the com-!
mittee decided to report out the i
.Tones bill to make seven classes of I
counties as follows: First, 1,500.000 |
and over: second. 800,000 to 1.500.-1
000; third. 250.000 to SOO.OOO;
fourth. 150.000 to 250,000: fifth.
100.000 to 150,000; sixth, 50.000 to
100.000:: seventh, 20.000 to 50,000.
—The State administration bill to
reorganize the State Department of
Agriculture, which was placed on
the postponed calendar when reach
ed in the House of Representatives
yesterday, was involved in some
"agricultural politics" late in the day
when the members of the legislative
committee of the State Board of
Agriculture called tipon Secretary'
of Agriculture Frederik Rasmussen !
for an explanation of what the bill
meant. The Secretary told them very
blandly that the bill embodied the
ideas of the Governor and that it
was felt that the best interests of
Pennsylvania agriculture could be
served tinder a centralized authori
ty. While no request was made by
members of the committee for re
storation of the hoard which it is
proposed to abolish after forty years j
of various meetings for debates, that
thought is presumed to have been in
the minds of some of the Secretary's
visitors. A few of them pointed
out that the board was a valuable
adjunct to the agricultural branch
of the Government and should be
retained, while others referred to
the Jennings bill to re-establish the
board and give it an executive com
mittee to have a hand in the man
agement of the department. They
did not get very far. The commit
tee present consisted of Louis Pio
lett, Wyoming county; Dr. E. E.
Tower. Susquehanna: J. Aldus Herr,
Lancaster; P. S. Fetistermacher, Le
high. and Clark M. Bower. Perry,
the latter being a member of the
House and all of them prominent
in the board.
—Lancaster and Berks counties
are about to get rid of their present
jails. New ones, along modern lines,
will be erected and in the case of
Lancaster cause of complaint elimi
nated.
—The Pittsburgh Civic Club is out
in a hot protest against the school
board "ripper." This is not a good
year for "rippers" applicable either
to Philadelphia or Pittsburgh.
—Judge John G. Harman, former
legislator from Columbia, is sitting
in the trial of the Lackawanna coun
ty primary fraud cases. Quashing
of the indictment has been refused.
—The Pittsburgh Post. Western
Pennsylvania's Democratic beacon,
is presenting some facts about the
bills to revive the Department of
Internal Affairs. It seems to prefer
the abolition of that branch of the
Government as proposed by John
K. Tener in 1913 instead of the in
crease of its business. In a review
of the bills signed Saturday affect
ing the department and those pend
ing it says they would not only in
crease powers and places, but give
the secretary authority to fix sal
aries. The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
also notes the movement to build
up the department in advance of
the induction of James F. Wood
ward next month.
THE CHANGE
All the daytime I belong
To the Solemn-coated throng
Who with grave, stupendous looks
Study cash and ledger books,
Staid and slow.
On sad business to and fro.
But when twilight comes. I range
Over topics new and strange.
Wasting aM my leisure hours
On fay birds and phantom flowers,
Or T sing
Some mad fling
Through the impish evening.
Yes, and when the moon goes by
Rocking in a foamy sky,
Then I swear I'm more akin
To the laughing Cherubim
Than to those grave men who go,
To and fro. to and fro.
On sad business to and fro
—George Rostrevor, "Escape and
fantasy" (Mactaillan). '
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A NOTABLE OPINION
[From the Philadelphia Press.]
The recent opinion of Judge Kun
kel, of the Dauphin County Court,
denying the right of the President
and Postmaster General to set up
new and higher rates for private
telephone users in Pennsylvania has
not received the attention that its
importance deserves. The Federal
Government under cover of its war
powers and war necessities has been
running amuck among the supposed
reserved rights of States, prostrating
them at its pleasure. ,
VVe are now at peace practically,
though official peace is still in the
future. Can the Federal Govern
ment, while waiting for the League
of Nations, employ some portion of
its leisure in raising private tele
phone rates in Pennsylvania? Jus
tice Kunkel holds that it has no such
right and he has issued and has con
tinued an injunction restraining the
Bell Telephone Company from charg
ing rates for the use of its lines
within the State different from those
approved by the Commonwealth's
Public Service Commission.
The injunction, though nominally
agninst the Bell Telephone Com
pany, is really against Postmaster
General Burleson, under whose or
ders the company is acting. The
latter, in turn, was controlled bv the
President of the United States, "who,
on July 22. 191S, directed that tele
phone systems shall be controlled
and operated by the Postmaster
General "so long and to such an
extent and in such manner as lie
shall determine." This is stronger
than the act of Congress which em
powers the President "whenever he
shall deem it necessary for the na
tional security or defense to take,
possess and control telegraph, tele
phone. radio and cable systems and
to operate them in such manner as
may be needfull or desirable for the
duration of the war."
The fighting is over, though the i
end of the war still awaits the issu
ance of a Presidential proclamation.
Peace came on the eleventh of No
vember last, and one month later,
on December 12, the Postmaster
General directed that Mr. Jones
should pay more for talking over the
telephone with Mr. Brown than
heretofore. Was that necessary for
the national security or defense?
No one can pretend that it was or,
is and therefore it does not come
within the act of Congress. Post
master General Burleson exceeded
his powers in issuing this order and
has brought himself into conflict
with our State Public Service Com
mission. A Pennsylvania Court, at
the instance of the Attorney Gener
al of this State, forbids the 'Federal
order to be carried out.
This will soon bring to the Su
premo Court of the United States
for review, a Federal question of the
first magnitude. It bears on the
exercise of war power by the Presi
dent and his subordinates and agents
and the use of that power for pur
poses that can have no relation to
t.be national defense. It is difficult
to deal with the President of the
United States, as he is the sole
judge of his official discretion. If
he acts within his discretionary
pawers. his act cannot be challenged,
but if he goes beyond his powers
and attempts to do what he has no
right to do, then a Common Pleas
Court may enjoin him or the per
son or corporation through which
his authority is exercised. This, at!
least, is the view of Judge Kunkel j
and bis Bell Telephone decision pro-1
mises to be a leading case of the!
very highest importance.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT j
We can not think of him as of the j
dead.
Tho ancient dead whose ghostly |
caravan
Threads the dim ages since the j
world began.
We can not see that high erected
head
Lie in the dust whence all the dream
has fled;
Stern, mighty Death has neither
power nor plan
To rule the spirit of the valiant
man
Who unto Immortality is wed.
Life is the pulsing, radiant victor
here,
For he and Life together held the
day
Down many a stern, beleaguer'd
road.
Wherefore, as falls our unashamed
tear,
We flume our greetings on his
sturward way
To Life's unfading and supreme
abode. •
—By John Jerome Rooney.
i
I The Attorney Who Now Runs the
Railroads For The Government
[From the Literary Digest.]
;j.{f A X odd prank of fate," which]
j somehow or other seems to '
j be always up to something |
j prankish, now appears in the fact j
;that Walker Downer Hines, attorney \
for railroads and their defender
j against Government control, should!
now be serving the Government as
Director-General of Railways. And
jit is The Nation's Business that
1 points out this surprizing somer- i
] sault. As railroad counsel and offi
cial, says a writer in this periodical.
} "He opposes rates named by the i
j Interstate Commerce Commission. ]
He opposed any more railroad legis- I
lation at all. He declared himself i
i against Government ownership, say-|
' ing that it would cause delay in |
1 getting action from political or Gov- j
ernment railway managers. Now
! he is Government manager of near- j
] ly all our roads and . runs .the job j
j beneath the roof of the Interstate j
I Commerce Building!
"The somersaulting here obviously j
| was done by the situation and not i
jby Mr. Hines. It all goes to show]
i what a war can do to a country t.
! when it tries. It has set Mr. Hines i
jto solve a problem more vast and ;
| baffling than any railroad man has i
ever faced before. And now he is >
at it at least ten hours every day— l
absorbed."
It was while acting as counsel for j
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad ]
that Mr. Hines found and develop- 1
ed the opportunity that brought him j
forward. The railroad came into |
conflict with the Interstate Com- ■
merce Law; and in consequence Mr.
I Hines mastered the intricacies of (
that statute with a thoroughness
| that led to his call to New York
j as counsel for the Atchison, Topeka
Santa Fe Railway Company and
to his subsequent prominence in rail
road affairs. Thus we read:
"In the last fifteen years. Walker
Hines has been appearing in the
highest courts of this country argu- j
1 ing intricate railroad issues, several |
times summing up before the Su- i
preme Court in masterful fashion !
the labors of batteries of other legal
celebrities His brief in the Minne
i sota and North Carolina rate case
lof 190S is one of the finest ever
| written. Before the Interstate Com- 1
j merce Commission he represented j
the anthracite carriers in the coal- |
rate investigations, the Santa Fe in j
the famous Five Per Cent Case, the I
New Haven stockholders in the Com- !
mission's investigations of that road. I
"He has pleaded for all our ex
press companies united against re
ducing their rates. In all these his- I
, toric conflicts Mr. Hines displayed
. I that modern legal eloquence which
.lis overwhelmingly effective by rea-
I son of its very simplicity and direct
,l ness.
"From his seventh year, when he
, made his first dollar selling tomatoes
for his mother, to his sixteenth year,
, when he became a shorthand re
porter. in the circuit court of his
■ State, to his twenty-third year, when
, he finished a university law course
in one year, to his thirty-first year,
when he was appointed First Vice-
President of the Louisville & Nash
' ville, he has always exhibited the
1 same conscientious devotion to his
duty, the same exhaustive thorough
-1 ness. He has a natural endowment
] of genius in a precocious mind; but
I the real secret of his wizardry in
' bringing order out of the chaos of
i thought is his method of studiously
exploring any problem to its depths
! before attempting an answer. His
] zeal for getting facts first hand has
! often appalled men of lesser resolu
tion. As one of his closest friends
| declares: 'When Walker Hines quits
] a subject, it's finished.'
Mr. Hines was born in Russellville,
] Kentucky, February 2, 1870, and his
I chief regret is, we learn, that he was
I not born on a farm. Says the arti
i cle further:
I Nobody here remembers having I
seen Walker Hines play games, I j
, am told in a letter received from an I
old friend of the Director-General,
still living in the Kentucky town '
where his boyhood was spent. He
was a youth without humorous epi- I
sodes. He was always very studious, i
He was devoted to his little sister '
and worshiped his widowed mother.'
who was a model Southern woman !
1 and one of the very finest women I
God ever made.
' "And yet Walker Hines, take him
the year around, is one of the most
1 normal American men of business.
He has an ideal home life with a
> wife and a daughter of sixteen. He
takes long walks when he can. On
! his vacation he rides a horse, sails a J
boat, or starts out In pursuit of!
one of those pestiferous golf-balls, j
I He was born with good health—and
has conserved it. And he reads for
amusement: one evening it is Bab
Ballads, the next Boswell's Johnson.
He doesn't smoke. He sleeps
soundly.
"No, if you wish to know Walker
Hines as he is, you must know him
at work. If the aspiring youths of
the coming generation are to have
inspiration from his life, they will
find there no log-cabin birthplace,
no chapter of picturesque cow
punching on the western plains, no
dramatic moments of high wit or
sudden daring. His achievement is
something more modern, more diffi
cult."
As to the ideas about Government
entertained by the new head of the
railroads, we learn,
"He believes with our forefathers
that that country is governed best
which is governed least. Yet he
| says government is a serious task;
it is a big man's job. The greatest
defect In our system of government,
he has argued, is its failure to fix
responsibility. We have outlived the
necessity of longer heeding Monte
squieu's guaranty of democracy, a
separation of legislative and execu
tive functions. In other words, we
must cease passing the buck in
Washington, in our State legisla
tures. our county scats. This slang
is not Mr. Hines's, though the
! thought is.
"As to politics, Mr. Hines is a
Democrat. He confesses he is a
! radical in his social thinking. He
believes that the industrial processes
of the United States would profit by
being socialized more than they are.
!As to a violent upheaval in this
i country, we have at hand the means
lof copying with every crisis that
can impend.
"Mr. Hines's first public message
on taking office was a plea for a
better understanding of our railroad
j problem.
"A vigorous difference of opinion
will not shock or disturb him. He
will meet it calmly. He will gener
ously and patiently examine everv
issue that is raised. He will go to
the very bottom of this problem."
ANARCHY
■I saw a city filled with lust and
shame, j
i Where men, like wolves, slunk'
through the grim half-light;
i And sudden, in the midst of it, there
I came
One who spoke boldly for the
cause of Right.
And, speaking, fell before the brut
ish race
Like some poor wren that shriek
ing eagles tear.
While brute Dishonor, with her
bloodless face.
Stood by and smote his lips that
moved in prayer.
"Speak not of God! In centuries
that word
Hath not been uttered! Our own
king are we."
And God stretched forth His finger
as He heard
And o'er it cast a thousand leagues
of sea.
• —By Lieut.-Col. John McCrae.
LABOR NOTES
City laborers at Milwaukee have
been Increased 5 cents an hour.
The pay offered harvesters by the
Holderness, England, Agricultural
Club is $16.80 a week, with beer and
tea.
Salaries of officials of the Amal
gamated Society of Carpenters and
Joiners have been advanced by 25 per
per cent.
| Boston, Mass., eamsters' union has
secured an increase of $3 a week and
an additional 10 cents an hour for
| overtime.
! he state horticulturist In Nebraska
I are carrying on a campaign to Inter
j est farmers in the planting of home
orchards.
Coal miners in the Fernle. B. C.,
district have asked the Government
to protect them from gaseous mines.
Italy, at the end of the third year
j in the war, had built up a number of
i enormous ordnance factories, one em
ploying <O,OOO people^
SACRIFICE
[By J. Corson Miller.]
Sing not to me of eurthly power,
For winds make sport of the dust
of kings;
In many an immemorial hour
Men fought and bled for trivial
things.
Sing me the prayer that lifts from
[ some white heart,
As Earth's immortal part.
For deeds that live to gain reward,
And dreams that barter Love for
Pa me;
These all shall die as with a sword.
And be forever linked with shame.
The great white visions born of pain
and death.
These have eternal breath.
And as a comet sweeps the sky,
To reappear through cycling years,
So shall Love's deeds supreme and
high
Enkindie hope again from tears.
Sing me Love's utter sacrifice and
loss —
Christ's death upon the Cross.
"UNCLE TOM'S CABIN"
The rehinding of a hook in a pub
lic library is one sure test of the
hook's popularity. The book that
goes oftenest to be redrest from one
public library is "Uncle Tom's
Cabin," and this fact leads Frank
Parker Stockbridge, writing in the
New York Sun, to a little speculating
on the answer his librarian fur
nished:
" 'Every year there is a new gen
eration of young readers coming
along who have never read 'Uncle
Tom;' we keep a dozen copies of it
in circulation all the time.
| "One wouldn't expect to And
'Uncle Tom's Cabin' in active de
mand south of Mason and Dixon's
line; but only a few days later, cu
riously enough, the title of Mrs.
Stowe's epoch-making work popped
up in a list of the six most popular
hooks of the month reported by a
library in Texas!
"If I believed that coincidences
run in threes I would expect to see
before long the announcement of a
revival—with an 'all-star' cast, per
haps—of 'Uncle Tom' on Broadway.
One of the wisest theatrical man
agers I ever knew found it profit
able to revive 'Uncle Tom' for a
month's run every four or five years.
And New York must be the only
spot outside of the still unrecon
structed corners of the South whose
inhabitants have not had a chance
to see 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' in one
or another of its dramatic forms
within the last few years.
"My librarian friend thought be
was doing pretty well to keep a
dozen copies of the book in circu
lation all the time. Allowing a week
to each reader, that would give six
hundred persons their introduction
to Eliza and Degree, to Topsy and
Little Eva and Tom himself, in the
course of a 'year."
Loosely Drawn Bills
'{From the Scranton Republican.]
Governor Sproul, in the veto of an
Importunt measure that reached him
last week, warned the Legislature
against the passage of loosely
drawn bills.
Both Houses had adopted what i 3
known as the Stadt'andcr bill, au
thorizing counties, cities and bor
oughs to make appropriations for
entertaining, aiding and caring for
returned soldiers, sailors and ma
rines.
It is generally admitted that this
is a very desirable measure in view
of the various movements Inaugu
rated in the State to finance, liber
ally, the committees planning proper
receptions for the soldiers heroes re
turning from abroad.
In his veto message the Governor
points out that the bill is a com
mendable one, but "it is so loosely
drawn as not to be e'early under
stood," and in its present form might
"give rise to grave abuses." To pre
vent that, the bill was vetoed.
It is obvious that any measure of
Importance, such as the one under
discussion, should be carefully
scanned by a competent lawyer be
fore its introduction into the Legis
lature. The courts have been bur
dened with work in this State be
cause a large proportion of the bills
passed by the Legislature, are word
ed in such a defective manner that
they do not make their purposes
clear.
Different Views
Some people call a spade a spade.
But other folks abuse It
And call it simply awful names
'Most every time they use it.
—Tennyson J. Daft, in Kansas
i City Star. ,
Stoning (Elfat||
Borings made with a view to de-<
termining what foundations couldi
be obtained for the proposed Moa-i
orial bridge to be constructed u Jbl
part of the Capitol park improTe-1
ments, have demonstrated that noC
only is the State Capitol of Penn-'
sylvania founded upon a rock, buti
that for the whole length of the
viaduct there is rock foundation
available at a comparatively short
distance beneath the surface. The
engineers in charge of the boring*
have made a preliminary report with
some samples of what thev struck
at about iifty feet and it has been
most gratifying to the men planning
the great structure which the Legis
lature will soon be asked to author
ize. The dike of trap rock which
crosses the Susquehanna and has an
outcrop at what has long been called
Maclay's rock at the foot of South
Street, known to generations of boy
swimmers as "Biggie," goes through
Capitol Hill and some of the borings
developed ii not far below the sur
face. The trap dike separates the
hard shale and slate from the lime
stone, which is so abundant in the
lower end of the city. For the most
part, the borings struck a very hard
shale with some specimens of trap.
The whole situation in regard to
the foundations is all that could be
wished and there will be no diffi
culty in the region of the old Penn
sylvania canal line or Paxtang creek.
In older times the creek used t<v
ronm about the whole valley between
what is now the Pennsylvania rail
road and the hnse of the blufhe
which make AJJison hill. Before
that it was the old river bed and
some engineers wondered what they
w'ould strike. They no longer have
any misgivings on the subject.
Men who have been out looking*
over the streams in Dauphin and
Cumberland counties recently stock
ed with trout by the Slate authori
ties, say that the fish are showing
excellent of vitality and that there
should be some good sport. Not
only brook, but brown trout were
distributed in these streams last fall
and followed up during the early
months of this year. Inspections
have shown that they are doing well.
Reports are current that when the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
?i 1 ! 0n " see *- financially again
that is, when the government funds
are forthcoming—a new building
development will be started at Enola
and a largo number of handsome
houses erected for railroad men who
will reside there. This news comes
from a reliable authority, and while
no railroad official will be quoted to
that effect, it is regarded as fore
casting the plans of the company
pretty accurately. There had been
rumors that with the completion of
the big yards at Marietta those at
Enola might lose some of their im
portance, but this is denied by those
who know conditions and there is
every indication that with the re
sumption of business on a large
scale and the consequent increase in
traffic Enola will become more than
ever a freight center on the PennswJ,
lines. Incidentally it is pointed out
that Knola is one of the few towns
of its size on the Pennsy main line
that lias no passenger station. Only
freight is handled in the vards there
and excellent street car facilities
from llarrisburg make passenger
connections unnecessary. Many of
the men who reside there own ttoeir
homes and most of the time houses
to rent are at a premium.
"A town that can build as One a
high school as this will do a lot
for the deeper Susquehanna pro
ject,' said Eli N. Hershey, presi
dent of the Harrlsburg Rotary Club,
speaking before the Columbia Mer
chants' and Manufacturers' Associa
tion the other evening. And the
visiting Rotarians from Harrisburg
applauded vigorously. For Columbia
has indeed done well in the matter
of its new high school. Many a town
of twice or three times its popula
tion cannot boast of one so good.
Indeed there are few towns in the
State that have done so well. When
the old high school was outgrown
the school board wisely went to the
lower end of the borough and pur
chased the large open tract of
ground at ono time occupied by
the town reservoir and in the cen
ter of which had been erected a
large building used as a military
academy. But having acquired more
land than was required for the
school building proposed, did the
thrifty citizens of Columbia do
as our own penny-wise found-fool
ish directors did when thev sold oft
the old reservoir lots at Forster
street and kept only enough for
a school house that now cannot be
enlarged or extended to meet grow
ing needs? They did not. They
kept all the ground and let the trees
stand. Indeed they went so far as
to retain the rear of the old aca
demy mansion and built a modern
high school building with big audit
orium, stage and all the equipment
of an up-to-date high school right
across the front. So now Columbia's
high school site problem is intelli
gently solved for all time to come,
even though Columbia outgrow
Philadelphia in population, and the
people arc proud of their work.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE [
—R. A. Mercer, Bradford county
lawyer here yesterday for a hearing,
is a son of the former chief
—Colonel Edward Martin, Stata
Commissioner of Health, has been
playing golf for years and works as
hard at it as his professional and
official cares permit.
—Governor William C. Spronl Is
reported as improving at Hot
Springs. \
DO YOU KNOW
—That Jlnrrisburg has dovel
oped some of tlic finest river
bank treatment In the country
and that it Is mueh admired, by
visitors from Canada? I'
HISTORIC HAItRISBCRG.
—Th'e State used to have an am
munition loading plant in tha old
State arsenal in Capitol park.
To a Post Office Ink Well
How many humble hearts bar*
dipped
In you, and scrawled their manu
script!
Have shared their secrets, told their
cares.
Their curious and quaint affairs!
Your pool of ink, your scratchy pen.
Have moved the lives of unborn men.
And watched young people,. breath
ing hard.
Put Heaven on a postal card.
—From "The Rocking Horse" <Do
i ran). By Christopher More!*, ?