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FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1019 I, - j Let front- religion make you more I VONEIDERA&I, more loving and attrac meeri (sWfe to think of and enter into tht PLEASURE and INTCI-est* of .others.—SLILREP RAIL. MEMORIAL DAY SCATTER your, flowers to-day on the grvP of the dead who sleep at heme and send a loving, .thought screw the sea for those who lie burled t France, Always ami ever it will be so on Memorial Day in the. years to come. As it has been the custom of the sailors and marines to set a flower boat afloat on the outgoing tide in memory of their fellows who died upon the ocean and lie entombed In Its depths, so must wo who may never see the fields where our heroes fell, decorate their graves with lov ing thoughts and garland them round with prayers that we, too, If called upon shall render as good an accounting of our stewardship, for these men are beyond our prayers and from their places (n the skies they look to us to carry on the work they so gallantly began. There is new note to-day in the observance of the holiday, a note that elevates it and renders it holy. No more will it be observed only by a handful of veterans of a war long since fought. The new generation has caught, the spirit of the old, a spirit born of sacrifice and sorrow, and who shall say that this is not one of the blessings that have come out of the horrors of the recent con flict and that the country will not be the better for it? Official figures show that exports of manufactures from the United States since the termination of the war have continued to run at about 'three times as much as in the pre war years. Our exports of manufac tured products are now running at the rate of more than $3,000,000,000 a year as against an annual average of about $1,000,000,000 a year prior to the war. It would therefore .appear that the large gains In cxportatlons which characterised the war years were by no means dUe to the demands for war requirements, but to other causes. JAMES DOUGHERTY THERE is general regret in steel circles and wherever he was known over the death of James Daugherty, one of the original group of those who developed the open hearth furnaces at Steelton. Having learned the secrets of the open hearth process with the Wellman . family, who introduced the new methods of steelmaklng in this coun try. Mr. Daugherty brought from New Hampshire to Steelton a knowledge that made him an author ity in this important industry. His passing recalls the Bent regime and revives memories of those of his day and generation who have died during the last few years. Highly regarded and a man of sterling worth, James Daugherty will be long remembered as one of those who made the present big steel plant on tho eastern outskirts of Harrlsburg a great industrial suc cess. Nor will his consistent optimism ever be forgotten in the borough which he did so much to develop. Verdicts in the Hardscrabblc cases have been almost invariably in favor |of the city, and higher than the esti imates of viewers and real estate ex perts. All of which shows the con tention thit the properties on the eastern side of the street were not benefitted by the removal of the buildings on the west side and con tinuation of the park development is not seriously considered by the aver re real estate man. KEEP THE ROAD OPEN THE whole upper end of the county is up In arms over the proposed closing of the Clark's Valley road, and very properly so. There is no good reason why this road, which would cut off from com munication with the lower end of -the county a large portion of Rush and a fine hunting and SVfeNtNG; HAimiSßtnßG PjSafeSg Tkt.KGHSPH: " ~MAY 30, 1919. fishing territory; should be closed and many teasons Fhy it should not: ■fhls highway costs little to main tain and 6ne 6f these days It will be. In all likelihood, a through highway from tfarrtsburg td Botts vilie; affording a short but through as beautlfui d piece ttf Country as there is within tnany utiles of Rar rlsburg; It Is true that a great por tion of this land Is wilderness; al though there are tiulte a few farms throughout the region, but the fact that it is wild and affords many Harrlsburg and tipper tend people opportunities tor feereatioii in al most virgin mountain eountry that the}' would bfe denied If the road Were closed Is a strong argument In Its favor; Furthermore; the State has re cently placed A game preserve just across the mountain from the valley through whleh the road runs and In d year Or twd the valley will afford first class Ueer hunting; as well as small game shooting; which; If the road were closed; would be enjoyed by only the officials of the big cor poration that It Is said Is back of the closing movement: The people's money Is going Into this game pre serve and it Would be unfair and little less thaff ffishenest to divert this game to a privately Controlled tract, inaccessible te the public as a whole-. It is argued that travel through this valley might pollute A source of water supply-. The answer is thnt lrt all the years this water has beep used for drinking purposes It has not heert defiled-. Furthermore, the stream which supplies this reservoir, Clark's Creek, rises quite a distance above the point where it is possible to close the road and in territory much more subject to pollution than In the mountain sections belon', I'll is is ho time to close highways. We are living in a period of great highway development, when, roads are being reopened that have been long disused and when hundreds of millions of dollars are being put Into road improvements. The Clark's Valley road is not only on the map, but it is being used daily. No good purpose would be served if it were closed and the people would be de nted something to which they are justly entitled and which they have enjoyed ever since the v&llpy was penetrated by the early settlers. It should remain open. The upper end people are perfectly justified In their contentions and have good cause to be jyigry. Dispatches indicating that the proposition to recognize the Omsk government in Russia is being held up'because of the attitude of the en voys from this country suggests the indefinite course pursued hy President Wilson in sending American troop* to the former realm of the Czar. Let us hope that he will not attempt to set up a government for Russia in view of the disaster which followed a slnTl lar piepnsal at the time'of our Inter vention in Mexico. SOCIALIST CONVERTED . A SIGNIFICANT thing happened tho other day when, through an advertisement In a metropoli tan newspaper, Hanford Henderson withdrew from publication his socialistic book, "Pay-Day." fhsfhis book he advanced many socialist theories, condemned the present in dustrial system and declared that the entire plan of life ought to bo changed if possible. In withdrawing his book from pub lication, Mr. Henderson said that he had decided that it advocated "economic policies which recent ex perience has shown to be unsound." Tho advertisement said that the author "now sees that Government ownership and interference, and paternalism generally, are contrary to the highest social welfare, and tend to make a people inefficient, un just and . singularly uninteresting." It added that "it is a grave mistake to try to do for either adults or chil dren the things that they ought to try to do for themselves," and con cluded that "Mr. Henderson is there fore a pronounced anti-Socialist and' once more a believer in salvation through individual effort." This is rather an unusual conver sion, but indicates a .trend back to sanity on the part of many propa gandists of impossible theories of government which have been demon strated in practice to be utterly without real substance and respon sible for much of the unrest and dis content of the world, and for many grave blunders on the part of in dividuals and groups of individuals. Hanford Henderson ' has seen the light and has been manly enough to come out in the open and admit h-is error. It would be well if others would follow in his footsteps. Germany has some nerve to present a counter claim of over three billion dollars for damages from the allied blockade as an off-set to the repara tion demands of the Allied powers. What was feared by many people who have observed the doings of the Peace Conference has come to pass; Ger many is acting not as a defeated belligerent, but as one having the right to negotiate terms. Insistence upon unconditional surrender last No vember and the imposition of terms justified hy the character of the Hun warfare would have prevented much that is now transpiring on the other side of the oceans to further disturb the world peace. A bill has been introduced in the Legislature prohibiting the sale of dangerous fireworks to children un der sixteen years of age. It would seem that the time had come to stop all the dangerous flre-workH nonsense everywhere. Throughout the war the practice was stopped under regula tions ther. In force, and there is no Justification for again introducing this dangerous element into the cele bration of the country's independence. I*pot£tic*. IK By the J2x-Committeeman More bills have been recalled from the Governor by the two bouses of the Legislature for amendment than ever known before In the his tory of lawmaking: For years the number has run from twenty to fifty; but thus far seventy-two have twetl recalled and resolutions re calling eight mors arc pending. Such actions require the approval of the Governor: Last session forty in all were recalled, which was con sidered a iarge number: One of the reasons Why so many bills are recalled this session is said by legislators io be that errors have been found Iri Construction and that typographical mistakes have been discovered which might affect the bill. Irt years gone by some bills which contained printing errors were signed with notations made by Gov ernors that they had corrected mani fest mechanical mistakes: A number of Instances: bowevef: are to obtain further Consideration on measures and Some are reported to have been nllowed to he teealled to avoid ne cessity of vetd: Over a score Of hills became laws during this week: While only ft few appropriations Were Signed-. The latter were fef deficiencies: —Reorganisation of the Adjutant General's department in accordance with the bill approved by the (Jov ernor a few days ago Is to be under taken at once lis the not takes effect on June 1: There Will be few changes iri fiersoritteti but the de partment Wilt be divided into bu reaus which Will handle everything pertaining td the military establish ment of the State, including the ar senal: The State has extensive ac counts with the tTnlted Rtates Gov ernment and much equipment will be turned ovei* to Pennsylvania for ihe rise bf the hew National Guard which wilt be under supervision of the department: Benjamin ff- Dem niing will be renamed as chief clerk. •—The reorganisation of the State Banking Department will also he un dertaken very shortly under the new act: ■—George D: Thorn, who will ho succeeded next week as chief clerk of the State Department, by Samuel C, Todd, executive controller for the last eight years, has been connected with tbe department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth since the first of February, 1896, He came from Gettysburg and served for some time as chairman of the Republican com mittee of Adams county, By an odd coincident, he became chief clerk of the department on the first of Feb ruary, 1898, succeeding Wilson M. Oearhart, of Danville, Mr. Thorn, who has specialised In election mat ters for State and congressional of fices and also to many legislative candidates. For some months past he has not. been In robust health and will hereafter devote himself to the election bureau, which was created by the net recently approved. The work of the department has In creased rapidly owing to corporation business and new duties and the ad ditional business fell heavily upon the veteran clerk. ITndor the new action. Secretary Cyrus E. Woods has reorganized tho department com pletely and It is now conducted like the executive offices of a big cor poration. —Samuel C. Todd, the pew chief clerk, is a nn.tive of Brownsville and was for several years a hanker at Charlerol. He was named as ex ecutive controller by John K. Tener and Is one of the best posted men on State government affairs on Cap itol Hill. —Newspaper correspondents of the legislative session will have tha bi ennial dinner of the association of men who report the legislative pro ceedings next Wednesday at the Tenn-Harris hotel. Governor Wil liam C. Sproul, who Is a newspaper man, will be the guest of hrfhor. Joseph N. MackrelJ. of Pittsburgh, is chairman of the dinner committee. —Considerable surprise was mani fested on Capitol Hill to,day when It became known that the State Sal ary Board hill. Just reported out by the House appropriations committee, contained a provision that "It shall be unlawful for any employe of any of the several departments to ap proach any member, officer or em ploye of the board with regard to a change of his or her salary." At tached to this amendment is this penalty clause; . "Any violation of this provision shall subject such em ploye to dismissal from the service of the Commonwealth." —The hill Is an administration measure and makes the Governor, Attorney General, Auditor General and Stale Treasurer Ihe board with broad powers to readjust salaries of. people below the grade of chief clerk. The head of the interested department becomes a member of the board when any matter relative to his department is under consider ation. Another amendment made in the committee would provide that any change would not be effective until the person affected is reap ppinted or appointed anew. Changes for meritorious service are also al lowed. The amendments were in serted after a study of the bill by State officials and the drastic provi sion created much surprise. It places the control of salaries absolutely in the hands of the head of a depart ment subject to review by the board. —A whole new series of amend ments has been made to the bill merging the State Fire Marshal's De partment in that of the State Police. Many objections were made to the hill In its former shape and the hill is out for action Monday night. It adds a troop to the State Police to be located here. One amendment would allow the appointment as an assistant of the head of the State Police the head of any fire depart ment or the burgess or chairman of a board where there is no fire de partment. This restores part of the present system of the marshal's de partment, while provision is also made for appointment of civilian as sistants, another feature of the pres ent law whose proposed elimination caused a protest. These assistants, however, are subject to call, and must work when called upon, reports being demanded in five days. Au thority to make rules governing stor age of explosives and inflammable materials Is added. Reports on fires are to be paid for, a small fee being established. Might Have Met Him [From the Omaha News.] "Well," said the man on the Har ney car, "I see they've caught the biggest hotel robber in the business." "What hotel did he keep?" asked a fellow clt. WHY MEN ARE DRIVEN TO THE 19TH HOLE By BRIGGS —^ \ "***" r y~~\ ( > r £*** f\ • ix^ •'^ WELL T LOOKS \=: ?~i ( ) LEAST eiGHTCENI / RA-NING - i LIKE AN AU- L i * \J TH.S (// f agajm just; * DAY RA.M- j/VT ~? V __-f // ■ A sex?! /,/ f~Hoo&AT- THE: SUM ,r) / OH- HAUS A HEART! I I • ALL~~RTGHT BtuT-^^T OUT- \-r va/AS ONLV / N \- AUt. CI_OUOIN<3 / / GUESS ITS CLCARcO V \Wl\ pAasuufe \J C/P y -~ • / | . . Let Daylight Law Stand [From the Phtla. Press.] A vicious attempt is being made in the House of Representatives to put an Immediate end to the Daylight Saving law by attaching its repeal as a rider to the Agricultural Appro priation bill. We turned our clocks on one hour less thar.' two months ago and are feeling In these the long est days of the year the full advant age of It. The agriculturists who are aggrieved at this turning back of the clock are not willing to let It com plete the'season but propose to undo the attempt to give the people more daylight, before the Summer has fairly begun. There was at least some sense, though gross selfishness In* the op position of the gas companies to day light saving. They sell less gas when the people cut an hour and of sleep in tho light of the morning and go to bed an hour earlier In the evening. It is the farmers or at least some of them who are now objecting to day light saving. Other farmers are in different, while millions who are not farmers heartily approve of It as an addition to their money, their pleas ure and their health. The farmers who have been ac customed to save all the daylight by beating the sun up Summer and Winter complain that they are com pelled to rise ar.' hour earlier by the moving ahead of the clock In order to bo in time for trains and shops and market opening while they can not well begin field work an hour earlier than they have been accus tomed to because of the morning dew. Dairymen- and market garden ers may be inconvenienced by the trains they are accustomed to use starting an hour earlier but this is trivial compared with the great vol umo of advantages to the credit of daylight saving. Farming generally Is not affected by this law. It does not fix the hour of rising. Those who have been customed to rise as soon as it is light do r.-ot have to get up in the darkness becauso the clock has been moved on. It Is the laggard in cities and towns, millions of them have been accustomed to lose the morning daylight In slumber who have had sixty minutes of daylight each day added to their waking hours by the daylight saving law. Congress has no business now to rob them of this great advantage. This law is a war measure. It saves coal, gas and time. It was adopted and is still maintained with out thought of repeal by Great Brit ain, Germany, France Holland, Aus tria, Turkey, Norway, Sweden, Den mark, Italy. Switzerland, Spain and Portugal. It is the best conservation measure that was inspired by the needs of war time. Its blessings are no less in peace and they should bo preserved. It starts men and women to work in the cool of the morning and releases them from the strain of the last hours of work in the heat of the afternoon. It gives them a larger period of daylight leisure after their work. It saves about a million and a quarter tons of coal used in the manufacture of gas and electric current. It has many other incidental advantages which everyone realizes except per haps the members of the Agricultu ral Committee in the House of Rep resentatives. The Daylight Saving law is a popu lar law. The people like the char.-ge and Congressmen will find they are not winning favor by repealing it. The objections made to it are trivial and affect a comparative few. The advantages are very great and upi versal in their application. Cor.-- gress should let the law alone. Political Reading in Japan In a recent book order received by Harper & Brothers from Tokio, it was found that a great number of John Bassett Moore's "Principles of American Diplomacy", were ir.- de mand. This book comes in rtarp er's Citizenship Series, a series de fining and applying the principles of such vital subjects as Labor Legis lation, the Administration of Jus tice. et al: "Principles of American Diplomacy" was written to enable the reader to gair.' a clearer and more intimate understanding of American diplomacy than can be de rived from a mere chronological de tail of transactions connected only in point of time. To it Professor Moore has added a valuable ap per.-dix which includes many docu ments of importance. Sympathetic Strikes [From the Galveston Tjgbune.] It has never been adequately ex plained why they are called sympa thetic strikes. Surely none of the Innocent bystanders or others affect ed by them have any sympathy for the movement. , More War Books Coming [From the Idaho Statesman.]' An nvalancho of books will pour down on the reading public within the next two years, if publishers do not find the field too over-supplied and the profits somewhat in doubt. It every book now designed is pub lished, the readers of the world will not need new volumes for decades to come. Hundreds of the boys who went to France have been bitten by the bug of authorship. Many records of in dividuals are being published; his tories of soldiers of various States are proposed; regimental organiza tions' records are bbing printed in the form that partakes of historical record. Hundreds of newspapermen were called to overseas duty, and j many of these are writing stories In i which fiction and facts are inter mingled, and each probably hopes to 1 produce the great war novel. Aside from these, every principal J at the Peace Conference and many | of the attaches have announced in-1 tention of transcribing for publica-1 tion their personal record of the great gathering, together with their comment and criticism. Clemenceau calmly declares he will give to the world an authentic history -of the meeting. Similar expressions have como from Premiers Lloyd George and Orlando, while President Wilson is known to be a bit of a writer him self. The public is going to have a chance to get the personal views of each of the leading spirits at the Paris gathering, as well as the lesser views of the lesser lights. The vol ume of reading on the war and on the Peace Conference will be limited only to the number of dollars the readers have to expend in that di rection. Even the former emperor of Germany is writing a book, and Count Karolyi, the Hungarian states man. and nearly all the sprigs of royalty and nobility who have been demoted and impoverished because of the wave of democracy, have turned to the literary field to plant books in the hope of reaping dollars. TRADE BRIEFS South Africa is said to held the world's record for the number of varieties of asbestos tibers. It has been definitely decided to erect a thoroughly up-to-date hotel at Polana, Delagoa Bay, Portuguese East Africa. The Hanyang Iron Works, China, under Japanese supervision, are to be enlarged so that the output of the 1 two smelting furnaces will total j 280,000. tons a year. The output of |the Shihtzeshan miVies has also been | increased to double the original ; quantities by the installation of new | machines. i The names of a number of Greek ; firms desiring to form connections with American concerns have been j received by the Bureau of Foreign j and Domestic Commerce from Con- I sul-General Alexander W. Weddell, | of Athens, and may be obtained from 1 the bureau or its district and co-op ! erative offices by reference to File No. 112,813. A company has been formed .in Copenhagen called A|S lactose, for the application of a method invented by H. Schandorf for the industrial Utilization of milk, or rather its by products. The capital stock is $lOO.- : 000. The factory will be erected in connection with a creamery, which will treat 20,000 kilos of milk a dtv.v. j making 800 kiios of butter. 5,500 | kilos of buttermilk and 13,700 kilos i of skimmed milk. Good News for Prohibitionists "It is harmful to drink water with our meals" has been the rule handed I down from one generation to an {other, but Philip B. Hawk, author of "What We Eat and What Hap j pens to It," has entirely exploded i this old fallacy. "Desiring to know | just what would happen to a mar.* I who drank freely of water with meals," Mr. Hawk says: "I was de lighted when one of my college as sociates volunteered to be the 'goat' for our first water test. And the 'terrible results' which were forecast for us by popular and. professional opinion was not forthcoming. In fact, the man gained weight, his food digested exceptionally well, and he was in fine physical condition at the end of his two weeks' ride on our scientific water-wagon." In his hook, "What We Eat nr.-d What Hap pens, to It." published by the Harp ers. Mr. Hawk has given the results of his experiments during the most extensive food Investigation ever made. The Challenge of Peace [Dr, Frank Crane In World Outlook I for May.] The problems of peace are more difficult' than the problems of war. J In war the aim is destruction; in j peace it Is construction, and it is i easier to smash than to build. War | means that we go out and lick some- i body; it may be hard to do, danger- j ous and costly, but at least it is ( simple; there's Just one thing to do j and when that is done it's all over. I But in peace nothing is ever over, j every triumph is but the girding for j a greater struggle: it is baffling, complex, vast as life, while war is simple as death. So the task of reconstruction now ! before us calls for more brains, more' soul, more skill, longer courage, steadfast?r devotion —in a word, more man-power, though less brute power, than war. The enemy is not dead, never will die. The German Junkers are finished, but the American Junkers are vigorous yet. After the lion, the jackals. After the war monsters have made their kill, out from their holes creep the unclean wolves and hyenas, from their hidden nests emerge the carrion crows. Greed, fear, jealousy, race-hate, national vanity, contention, ambition for personal prominence, partisan ship, come forth to fatten upon the siain, to snatch what morsels of loot they can in the general confusion. 1 Bolshevism abroad and Bourbon ism at home join hands to slay the ideal. It behooves us, "having done all, to stand." We must go into politics seriously. Ye have made the world safe for democracy; but democracy means politics. To say we care nothing for politics is to speak treason against democracy. To excuse ourselves upon the plea that politics is vile implies that democracy is a failure. If you would secure the future of your country, and make it safer and sweeter for your children's children, you must enlist under the banner of the ideal. You must put morals into civics, and take your government seriously enough to put ideals into it. You must work, pray, preach, or ganize, watch and co-operate for a League of Nations. Not necessarily The, but A league. Not any one man's or faction's scheme, birt some plan by which the civilized nations of earth shall band themselves to prevent war. The one resolve that ought to be in every decent man's heart as the final outcome of this war should be: "It must not happen again." All the forces of American Junk erdom that clamored to plunge us into war in 1914 now rage to keep us out of any program of permanent peace in 1919. We must go on. We must mend the broken famil ies, remedy the bad housings, de velop whoiesome community cen ters, open the farm lands for sol diers, construct huge public works, win the labor organizations to righteousness, increase schools, strengthen the rural churches, and elect to our legislative bodies men of character and vision, instead of pot-house politicians and expert demagogs. Forward march! "Allons! After the Great Com panions!" THE SELF OF ME I plan to give my TIME to those about. To serve in never ending, never fail ing love; To place the joys of those I hold so dear. All other thingts I'd do far, far above — But then the Self of Me steps in And good intentions far away doth shove. I plan to give my love' to those about— To center alt iw doing good to men; To call the little children to my knee And tell them stories simply now and then;. But the old Self of Me stes in And much of Love is lost in it again. 1 plan to give Myself, entirely, free, | To service, love nnd life anew; ITo bury everything which I have found Like weeds of selfishness within me: grew— ! But even while 1 plan the Self steps ! tn And makes me do the things I would not do' —EDNA GROFF DElHL—Written for The Telegraph. > 1 | A GARDEN SOLILOQUY I lam a peony! I have grown and j waxed more beautiful each day for j some time. And now I am perfect I and red and full bloom, with a flush j on my cheeks, and a great joy in |my heart. Would you know why? i To-morrow is Decoration Day. For years my ancestors have gone to the ! green graves of the old soldiers on ' this anniversary, and have lain their ! beads upon the breast of the brown | earth, thus to do homage to the l brave, who died to make men free. I have lived for this day from the I moment of •my birth. To-day my I baby peony, who lies close to my | breast, a tiny perfect bud, with a ! heart of gold, said "Mother, when i you go to the cool, green grave may il go too?" "Yes, my little one," I j answered. "But I shall ask :he i gardener to place you on the grave j of one of our new heroes; for this I year there are many new green mounds, under which lay soldiers brave as those others to whom I go —for they have taken the liberty of {his land for which the first fought unto the whole world. But, as for me, I shall lie, as have my ances tors on the grave of one of the old, old soldiers who fought so many years ago." "That seems right, mother," said the wee baby peony who lies close to my breast. "You bloom for the old. old soldier, and 1 11 bloom for the new —age for age and youth for youth." So to-morrow 1 my baby peony shall leave the breast of her mother, and we shall go forth into the world as we should —for every thing has its own mission, and ours is to cheer the hearts of those who are left, those who mourn for the young and those who remember the old. EDNA GROFF DEIHL. Paxtang, Pa. Mrs. Roosevelt Back Home [Front the New York Evening Mail.] Among the passengers on the Giuseppe Verdi, which arrived the other day from Europe bringing a big contingent of New York fighters, was Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., who went to France to visit the grave of her son, Quentin, and to visit her sister, Mrs. Carew, in a villa near Genoa. Mrs. Roosevelt, who was in deep mourning, told re porters she was glad to get back, but that, as she regarded herself as out of public life now, she had noth ing further to say. She admitted, however, that she was greatly pleased because her son, Theodore, had decided upon a career in politics. Lieutenant Colonel Theodpre Roosevelt. Captain Kermit Roose velt, Doctor and Mrs. Richard Derby, Captain Archie Roosevelt and Mrs. Alice Longworth were in the big crowd outside the pier in the street waiting for Mrs. Roosevelt. They were not allowed to enter either by the customs guard or the military guard until Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt went to a nearby restaurant in West street, got in touch with Brigadier General Mc- Manus in Hoboken, who allowed the lieutenant colonel and Captain Ker mit to go on the pier. Caucus of New Grand Army The stupendous task of organizing an Institution which will correspond to the G. A. R. is begun. In a short book recently published by George H. Doran Company, Lieutenant Col onel Loren C. Grieves lays the first broad, general outline for the new organization. ''The New Grand Army of the Republic" outlines the probable policy of the new Grand Army and points out the vital im portance of this nation-wide move ment. The first convention was held in St. Louis where the matter of the caucus' attitude on prohibition and on the charges of national guard of ficers that they have been unfairly discriminated against in favor of regular army men, were laid aside temporarily. Minneapolis has been chosen for the next convention. Forecasted Christ's Coming And John was clothed with camels' hair, and with a girdle of a skir." about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey; and preach ed, saying. There cometh one mtghter than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. I indeed ; have baptized you with water: but ihe shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. —Mark i, 6 to 8. The Value of Earth [From the Ohio State Journal.] Still, we suppose terra flrma will always be-useful to land on, i_ ' . '•* M lEbnting (Eljat Death at Steelton yesterday of James Daugherty, one of ths oldest steel men in the country, calls to mind that one by one the men who made the industrial borough that stands at the southern g-tes cf Harrisburg are passing away. StecJ.. ton has always been a town of un, usual interest to the student of com munities. It is a striking example of the way a city develops about an Industry, keeping pace with its growth und in time obtaining an in dividuality even among munlcW palities which owe their rise to sim ilar causes. When Steelton was established it was a problem. Al ways teeming with labor, it required men of force of character, foresight and ability to get it into the proper ways and keep those ways. Now the steel borough, as it is called, is noted not only for its production, but for its progressiveness, improvements and spirit'. And much of it has been due to the men interested in the community long years. Steelton be gan just about half a century ago. It was a one-street village, indeed hardly that, when the Pennsylvania steel works was located there and some of the older folks here recall when it was called Baldwin. Although this space of years is not long, most of the men who figured in its early history and who formed the backbone of tho community have gone. It is only a short time since the deaths of J. Donald Cameron, ono of the factors in having the steel works established there; of Henry A. Kelker, who did much to develop the town; of Major L. S. Bent, who enlarged the works and was the dominant figure in that community for many years; of Wy man E. Ambercrombie, one of its foremost business men, and of Dr. William H. Seibert, its largest prop erty owner and a. believer in the future of the town in sunshine and storm. Mr. Daugherty is the latest name to be added to the melan choly list. Few men in the borotish were better known than Mr. Daugherty, or wielded a wider influence. He was one of the greatest boosters of the town and one of the strong men, who help mould its spirit. He went to Steelton when there was not much of a place and ho took a staunch pride in its development and in the industry which made it. It is not generally known that he was born into steel. His father was one of the I men in the early steel development in New Hampshire and the son went into the mills when only a lad. From Nashua he went to the origi nal works at Nicetown, now the great Midvale plant, where he spe cialized in open hearth steel, then Just, rising into prominence, and next took charge of a branch of the Siemens-Potts concern at Pittsburgh, where he became one of the best skilled men in crucible steel. In 1872 he went to Steelton, where the Pennsylvania steel works was just beginning its eventful industrial his tory, and was put in charge of the gas producers and reheating fur naces. He remained with the com pany until some seven years ago, when he retired. Mr. Daugherty knew personally many of the big steel men of the country and was one of the standbys of Major Bent and of E. C. Felton, who later eon ducted the great plant. Many a man in Steelton owes his place in life to the hard sense of Mr. Daugherty. He had no time for narrow minded ness and he would not stand for "knockers." Ho believed Steelton was "the place" and would listen to nothing against It and neither would he stand for a man not getting out the best there was in him or for hearing anything unfair against a fellow who played' the game fairly. Mr. Daugherty was the father of John W. Daugherty, now one of the big steel men of the s{eel capital of Pittsburgh. He applied his princi ples to him and made him learn everything there was about metal working from blaeksmithing to charging furnaces and then sent him through Lehigh to learn the techni cal side. Young Daugherty not only absorbed the collegiate training, hut found time to be one of the greatest football tackles in the TTflited States. For years he was in charge of im portant departments of the Steelton works and is now president of the Pittsburgh Crucible Steel Company and vice-president of the Crucible Steel Company of America. There are few men better known in steel than John W. Daugherty and he takes a pride in saying that all ho is, he owes to his sturdy parent, to whom Steelton also owes a debt to day. • * * A couple of newspapermen were talking yesterday about, being iden tified. One man told a story of how he was sent to interview a man prominent in politics. "How do T know you're a reporter and tliat you represent that newspaper?" said the man.. The reporter, of course, did not have a card with him and start ed to convince him. It was no use. The man said that a fellow alleging he was a newspaper man had one time gotten his confidence and had not done a thing to him. Finally, the scribe got an idea. He said: "Well, I have two theater passes." The interviewee demanded to see them. They had the name of the newspaper printed on them. He got the interview. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Charles S. CaHvell, Philadelphia hanker, is taking a prominent part in securing a fair for Philadelphia to celebrate the one hundred and fif tieth anniversary of independence. —Mayor E. V. Babcock expects Pittsburgh's big loan election to be one of the most interesting in the country. —Alan C. Dodson, of Bethlehem, well known here, is the'head of big new coal exporting corporation. —Senator Boies Penrose is the first Pennsylvanlan to head the fin ance committee of the Senate HI many years. —Frederick B. Black, the new grand commander of the Templars, is a resident of Franklin and well known here. [ DO YOU KNOW —That Steelton products are being used by tlio army in France? HISTORIC HARRISBFRG —First experiments in iron mak ing were undertaken in Harrisburgi In the thirties, ;
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