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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1919
The fate of the country doef not de
pend on what kind of paper you drop |
into the ballot-box once a year, but on
what kind of man you drop from your
chamber into the street every morning.
—Thoreau.
WHY THEY CRITICISE
THE Telegraph is in daily receipt
of letters from its readers favor
ing or opposing President Wil
son's course in the matter of the
League of Nations. One anonymous
writer urges us to "come out strong
against everything Wilsonian."
These communications are not al
ways in good temper, but they serve
to demonstrate the interest of the
American public in what is going on
at Paris.
President Wilson's apologists are
constantly excusing his weather
vane tactics, but the average Ameri
can is not going to overlook the
President's inconsistencies and his
flagrant disregard of the rights of
the United States Senate, a co-ordin
ate branch of the Government in the
making of treaties. The people had
a right to expect that his repeated
declarations in favor of "open cov
enants openly arrived at" would be
observed in the peace negotiations,
but instead of frankly taking the
people into his confidence, he has
been responsible for repeated efforts
to keep his countrymen in the dark.
There are those who will continue
to criticise the attitude of the United]
States Senators, but these critics j
must remember that a grave obliga- I
tion rests upon the upper branch |
of Congress and its responsibility!
cannot be shifted on the score of
patriotism or any other pretext. The
people of the United States have a
right to expect that the Senate will j
discharge its full duty in this criti- ]
cal hour and without reference to
the ruffled feelings of President Wil-j
son or those who believe that he is j
a super-man, in spite of his frequent]
changes of front on vital features of i
the peace treaty and the incidental '
League of Nations.
Governor Sproui has met public j
expectation in the reappointment of
Captain George F. Lumb, as the act
ting superintendent of the Depart
ment of State Police. Captain Lumb
has demonstrated in the most effi
cient manner has unusual fitness for
this important post. His large mili
tary experience and high ideals of
public service admirably qualify him |
for the important duties devolving j
upon the superintendent in the or
ganization and supervision of the
constabulary of the Commonwealth.
He can be trusted to organize the
new Harrisburg troop. Just author
ized by the Legislature and approved
by the Governor, as a model for the
whole organization.
A P. R. R. PRODUCT
A WRITER, in the New York
Sun. commenting upon the
election of Samuel M. Vau
clain to the presidency of the Bald
win Locomotive Works, recalls that
not o many years ago "Sam" was
a machinist's helper in the Penn-]
sylvania Railroad shops at Altoona. ]
And so, indeed, he was. as many it I
veteran of the Middle division will
fell you. for Vauclain was at one 1
time "one of the hands," and a few i
years later was recognized from
Altoona to Harrisburg as the "best
engine mechanic on the division." :
As such he got out of trouble more
than one locomotive manned by j
engineers older than himself, most'
of whom are now on the retired list.
All of which points anew the les
son that opportunity is not dead in
America; that the machinist of to
day may be the corporation presi
dent of to-morrow, that advance
ment comes as the reward of indi
vidual effort and ability and that
poverty and riches are next door
neighbors in America. Also, this
I henomenal rise of the former ma
g• - mist's helper Is seriously in con
i t with some very popu'ar actions
tf compulsory education, for at six
teen. when most of his companions
were at school, Vauclain was clean-
FRIDAY EVENING, SLAJUUSBURO iSßft "nstEGRXPK JUNE 13, 1919.
Ins flue" and polishing the brass
work on engines in the Altoona
roundhouse. Vauclain, however,
was not an ordinary lad, for after
twelve hours in the shops, he spent
his evenings in study of technical
subjects, so that what he missed of
common school education he gained
, in specialization. That kind of a life,
plus brains and energy, will take a
boy anywhere he aspires to go.
J But "Sam" Vauclain is not the
only captain of industry the Altoona
shops has produced. What a re- j
union it would be if they all got i
together—Majoir General W. W. |
Atterbury, who .was a vital factor j
in winning the World War while in
charge of all the American railroads j
in FYance; Gen. Sir Henry Worth'
1 Thornton, placed by Great Britain at:
the head of the Great Eastern Rail- i
way. and another war winner; Sam- i
uel Rea, president of the Pennsyl- ]
1 vania Railroad, not to mention j
Alexander J. Cassatt, former presi- |
dent of the same company, and a
host of others who have made their j
mark and their fortunes in the j
railroad world. The "Pennsy" re- i
cruits from the ranks and merit is |
the watchword of those who are|
constantly on the lookout for men'
to fill important places. There is]
nothing miraculous about Vauclain's ;
advance. He is the logical product ]
of his own industry, ability and j
ambition.
Supplementing the activities of the ;
hotels of the city, the Homes Register j
Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce I
is doing a commendable work. Scores ,
and hundreds of rooms in private j
homes available for the hotel ovet-j
flow are registered at the beadquar- i
ters of the Chamber of Commerce j
and during the present week this j
service has been greatly appreciated ]
by hundreds of people.
A BRILLIANT OFFICER
WITH more or less frequency]
there appears in important
newspapers references to the I
slight recognition which has been
paid by the United States Govern- i
ment to Admiral William S. Sims, j
who won the admiration of all fight- j
ing men by his splendid service dur- ■
ing the war. Indeed, this fine Penn- |
sylvania naval officer has quietly j
returned home, assumed his duties]
as president of the Naval War Col
lege at Newport and without a mur- ;
mur has dropped back front a Vice i
Admiral to Rear Admiral.
The Wilkes-Barre Record, com
menting on this indifferent treat
ment of a splendid officer, observes
that Admiral Sims maintained the
proud traditions of the American
Navy in foreign waters and won the
praise of the fighting seamen of
Great Britain and France.
Those who 1,-riow the Admiral
understand his stoical acceptance of
whatever is passed out to liim
through official channels, but just!
the same his friends everywhere be
lieve that this brilliant officer has
not received his desserts and that he
is worthy of the greatest honors
which can be bestowed upon a patri
otic. efficient and gallant com
mander.
June 20 is to be another great day
in the social activities of the Cham
ber of Commerce. Under the general
title of "A June Joy Jaunt." the busi
ness men of the central organization
are ■ going to give the new members !
a unique reception at the Colonial I
Country Club. These get-together |
occasions mean more for Harrisburg :
than may appear on the surface. As j
the live-wires of the community learn i
to know each other better, the pro
gress of the city is further assured.
SPROUL AND ADVICE
Governor sproul in an ad-j
dress at the commencement
exercises at Swarthmore Col
lege deqlared that he would not
give much advice, because he got
too much of it himself and yet had
none to spare. He suggested as an
American weakness the free distri
bution of advice in large quantities
and significantly observed that every
citizen "knows better how to run
the Government than those entrust
ed with the duty." He thought this
was a good thing, however, as it
showed interest. He told the stu
dents and those gathered for the day
that his daily correspondence was ]
' an instructive lesson in human na
j ture, inasmuch as he got advice up
on every possible subject.
Manifestly, the Governor is find
ing his large experience in public
life on Capitol Hill valuable in
shielding him from the amateur ex
perts in government and political
reform. In his Swarthmore speech
he urged the people to stand firmly
for the tried and proven- American
institutions and not be carried into
the currents of impractical and ut
terly impossible theories of govern
ment. He appealed strongly against
all false teaching and left for the
people this pregnant thought:
"Where the spirit of the Lord is.
j there is liberty."
It would seem to the average
i American citizen that the time has
! tome to eliminate the preferential
i treatment, of German newspapers in
! existing laws of this Commonwealth,
j During a long period of years the
Ge'.nan publisher, working the old
game of the German vote, managed
to have inserted in many acts of As
sembly a provision which compels
sheriffs and other officials to place
official advertising In German news
papers. There is pending in the Leg
islature a bill which repeals this
mandatory clause and leaves to the
officials the right to place the ad
vertising in English newspapers at
their discretion. Why not?
MEN FOR OUR SHIPS
THE War Department reports
that 44,700 officers retired by
the demobilization of the Offi
cers' Reserve list —more than fifty
per cent, of the whole number re
lieved of active duty—have applied
for places as officers. In the new
Regular Army about to the recruited
and that more than 17,000 enlisted
men already have gone back Into
the service. We should like to hear
a report covering similar applica
tions and re-enllstments in the navy
and merchant marine. If we are to
transport our own goods, we must
have seamen as well as ships and
officers of training and ability.
The war has given us a sea-going
element of population that it would
have required a generation of peace
ful pursuits to develop. Is it all to
slip back Into land service, or will
a serious effort be made to retain
a large part of it to man our new
and growing merchant fleet?
IK
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By the Kx-Committeeman
Exercise of the supreme authority
of the House of Representatives to
enforce attendance of a quorum for
the transaction of public business
has seldom occurred in the Penn
sylvania Legislature in the last
quarter of a century. It is not
uncommon for the doors to be
locked a couple of times and the,
House polled to ascertain the pres- ]
ence of a quorum when the men
do not vote, hut only three times
in the last decade has the sergeant
at-arms been directed to bring mem
bers to the bar of the House such
as he was directed to do yesterday.
The events of yesterday recall how
in 1913 the House failed to show a
quorum on a call and George E.
Alter, then speaker, directed that I
the absentees be rounded up and I
as a result of a hurry call to the'
Island, the attendance at a ball j
game dwindled while that of the
House increased. In 1909 the ser-j
geant-at-arms went out by orders!
of Speaker John F. Cox and arrested j
a number of members as a result of
the deliberate breaking of a quorum j
by up-State members under leader- |
ship of some men who hold rather |
-Important positions to-day. This
occurred on a Thursday and the
next Monday night half the House I
was haled to the space in front of ]
the desks and the incident forgotten. |
Absence without leave is serious
only when conditions become such
as they have grown this session j
through the dragging along of busi
ness or when things are tense such
as they were ten years ago.
Some twenty-six years ago the
House was polled one afternoon
when a big ball game was on. This
was when the old Capitol was still
standing and the members were
thoroughly scared and the sight of |
men climbing in windows was re-1
called yeserday by some of the old
timers. It was a rare event and a
couple of the older newspapermen
talked about the frightened state
of the members.
—The most serious outbreak in
the history of the House occurred
in 1911 when M. Clyde Kelly, now
in Congress, and George Baldwin,
now judge of Beaver county, de
clined to take their seats at the di- i
rection of Speaker Cox and precipi
tated a small sized riot in which the
sergeant-at-arms took the mace to
them and was defied. The members
got into a serious wrangle and an
ink well narrowly missed Daniel L.
Kiester, now mayor of Harrisburg,
and then a member from Harris
burg. Several members doffed their
coats and a couple had fist fights.
Some of the most dignified lost their
heads and were only persuaded from
making spectacles of themselves by
friends. Through it all. Speaker
Cox, supported by Chief Clerk
Thomas H. Garvin, Resident Clerk
Charles Johnson and James N.
Moore and others at the desks,
maintained their places, the Speaker
demanding order, which he finally
obtained. It was an unpleasant in
cident and laid the foundation for
some of the bickering of 1913.
—The Senate has rarely had any
troublulous scenes in the last halt
century, but the House, because of
its larger membership, has furnished
much history.
—ln connection with yesterday's
developments it may be said that
Representative Richard Powell, who
was one of the figures in the debate,
has not been out of the House five
minutes since the sessions began.
Messrs. Cox and Glass, of Philadel
phia, Vare leaders, and Chairman
Dawson, of the ways and means
committee, are other men who have
j not been away and their records are
I with that of Speaker Spangler for
! attendance. Some of the rural mem
bers like Bower, of Perry; Corbin,
|of Mifflin; Berckley and Bowman,
:of Cumberland; Rolard. of Craw
ford: Mallery, of Venango; Jordan,
of Lawrence, and others have good
attendance records. Messrs. Ulsh
and Bechtold. of Dauphin, have also
been regular in attendance and were
on hand yesterday when the test
came.
—lf sergeants-at-arms had been
sent ' after everyone-of the absent
members of the legislature there
would have been a big bill rolled
up for the State. The expedient was
adopted of sending telegrams to men
whom It was thought would prompt
ly respond. If they do not, the
House may demand that the men
purge themselves of the contempt
in which they stand, all of which
would go into the Journal.
—Members of the House coming
back to Harrisburg in answer to
the summons to explain absence
I without leave encountered unpleas
ant hotel conditions in this city.
Practically all of those living at
hotels during the session had given
up their rooms when they left on
Tuesday or Wednesday and on their
return found the city entertaining
the State Council of the Red Men
and the State Laundrymen's conven
tion about to begin. Hardly a room
was to be had in hotels and many
hctel men had been sending guests
to boarding and lodging houses.
—Speaker Spangler received nu
merous telegrams, some of them
declaring that members were very
ill, while ex-Senator George W.
Williams, of Tioga, who left the
House a few minutes before the roll
to ascertain a quorum was called,
wired that by no possible train con
nect'ons could he get here before 2
o'clock In the afternoon. Some of
the members had gone to Philadel
r Ilia fo- tho weekend and others to
homes in distant parts of the State
wtich tould not be reached under
a U v. teon e of the telegrams came
back to the Speaker with informa
tion that the member addressed was
not at hand, but in Harrisburg.
—The Friday meeting of the
House is the first in ten years, while
no one refnembers when the Sen
ate held a Friday session.
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The Industrial Titan of America
A Great Story of Pennsylvania's Wonderful Resources, by John Oliver La Gorce
Reprinted From National Geographic Magazine With Special Permission
(Continued From Yesterday)
The Rollcall of Counties
From the Maryland line to the
New York line is 158 miles, while
from the Ohio line to the deepest
salient in the Delaware River sec
tor, between Trenton and Bristol, is
306 miles. The diversity of physical
aspect, soil, and resource is great.
Southeast of the Blue Ridge Moun
tains lies one of the finest agricul
tural regions east of the Appalach- |
ian chain. Franklin, Adams, Cum- j
berland, York, Lancaster, Lebanon,
Rerks, Bucks, Montgomery, Chester
and Delaware —was there ever a
group of counties with fairer farms
than these possess?
Then come the eastern mountains
and beyond, the wonderful succes
sion of ridge and hollow that em
braces the anthracite mines, the
slate quarries, the cement rock beds,
and so much else of the State's re
sources. Further westward is the
great Allegheny upland region,
whose deposits of bituminous coal
are richer than all the gold mines
of the earth.
A Canal Equipped With Amphibious
Boats
A high plain, undulating in wide,
low swells and gently descending
southward and southwestward, this
area comprises more than half of
the territory of the State. Its oil
and its gas have been almost ex
hausted under the demands of in
dustry, but its _coal mines go on .
and on. yielding more fuel in a year [
than all the world produced at the j
beginning of the American Civil
War.
With its unequaled situation as
respects the navigable waters of the
nation, it was but natural that
Pennsylvania should have early
taken steps to develop her ifiland
waterways. A hundred million dol
lars were spent in the building of
canals to handle the State's com
merce. Public appropriations and
private funds alike were made
available for the building of a net
work of waterways. As time went
on. these spread out over the State
like the branches of a tree.
The Schuylkill Navigation Com
pany built a 108-mile canal up the
Schuylkill river, and at one time
had a thousand boats in operation.
The Union Canal, from Middletown
to Reading byway of Lebanon, was
seventy-seven miles long, with a
twenty-two-mile branch. It had
more than a hundred lift-locks.
Sixteen of these were in a tunnel
just west of Lebanon, carrying the
canal to Swatara creek. The Mo
nongahela was canalized by the con
struction of sixteen dams in order
to form slackwater navigation.
The Main Line Canal, connecting
Philadelphia with Pittsburgh, was
in reality half canal and half rail
way. The journey began at Broad
and Vine streets, Philadelphia.
Mr. Wilson Uninformed }
[From the Chicago Tribune.]
If Mr. Wilson had ever served at]
the front in the, war, he would not
have said that our soldiers died for
a cause not strictly their own, but
for the cause of humanity and man
kind. It is not that soldiers are less
altruistic than civilians. Indeed, in
the constant presence of death, they
reach a spiritual development that
the civilians perhaps do not attain.
The American infantry did not
charge through the German barrage
to create a mandatory in Armenia.
The artillery did not serve its guns'
to the death in lethal gases to obtain
self-determination for Fiume. Our
soldiers fought and gave their lives
for their own country, for their
America that it might live. Our sol
diers died for their country. What
the living will do about the peace
treaty is a different subject. To
attach it to our reverence for the
departed smacks of impiety.
Students Must Know Bible
[From the Youth's Companion.]
Beginning with this year, some
knowledge of the Bible will be a
part of the requirements for admis
sion to Columbia University. Stu
dents must know the epic narrative
of the Old Testament, the history of
the Hebrews from the Egyptian per
iod to the destruction of the Jewish
commonwealth in A. D. 70, be able
to repeat some of the most memor
able passages of ptbltcal prose and
noetry and know something of early
Christian biography. How many men
and women of to-dav could pass an
examination covering those sub
jects? I
Students Must Know Bible
[From the Youth's Companion.]
Beginning with this year, some
knowledge of the Bible will be a
part of the requirements for admis
sion to Columbia University. Stu
dents must know the epic narrative
of the Old Testament, the history of
the Hebrews from the Egyptian per
iod to the destruction of the Jewish
commonwealth in A. D. 70, be able
to repeat some of the most memor
able passages of ptbltcal prose and
noetry and know something of early
Christian biography. How many men
and women of to-dav could pass an
examination covering those sub
jects?
From there to Columbia, on the Sus
quehanna. sectional canal-boats and
railway cars were hauled on wheeled
trucks. There the boats were
pinned together and towed up the
Susquehanna and Juniata rivers to
Hollidaysburg. Here they were put
on an inclined railway, dragged up
the mountain by steam winches and
let down by the same method to
Johnstown. From there they pro
ceeded to Pittsburgh through the
I Coriemaugh, Kiskiminetas and Alle
| gheny rivers.
Waging a Losing Battle
Inadequately constructed to meet
the competition of the railroads, as j
th° latter transportation facilities j
improved and expanded, the canal
system began to fail and now is!
practically in ruins. Everywhere
one sees decaying locks and rotting
canal-boats, relics of a remarkable
era. But recently the strain of the
tremendous volume of local and
through traffic is too great, even
for the splendid railroad systems of
the State, and there is a strong
movement to rehabilitate the canal
system and to extend it.
Tentative plans have been formu
lated to connect Pittsburgh with ]
Lake Erie by a canal which will j
touch Ohio at Beaver, enabling tho
ores from Minnesota and Michigan
to come into the Pittsburgh district
by water, and the coal from the bi
tuminous regions to float practically
from the mouth of the mine to the
Northwest. Plans have also been
| made to bring Philadelphia into
I touch with New York waters by a
I canai across Jersey from the Dela
y/are at Trenton, to Raritan Bay at
South Amboy.
It is almost impossible for the
layman to realize what vast advan
tage there is in canal transportation j
for heavy and slow freight. It costs
hut little more to bring ore from !
Duluth, at the head of the fresh- !
water seas, to Erie and Conneaut j
and Ashtabula, nearly a thousand |
miles, than it costs to haul it from
the Erie ore piles to the Pittsburgh j
furnaces, less than 125 miles.
Cutting Down the Disease Harvest !
In matters of health Pennsylvania !
has always been one of the forward- i
looking States. It long ago came I
to realize the Commonwealth which ]
is willing to give Its sanitarians ade- ]
quate support can go before the |
world with a clean health slate. In
1906 the State's typhoid death rate
was 56.'5 persons for each 100,000
population. In 1915 it was 12 2. In
oilier words, Pennsylvania's health
agencies are rescuing 3,700 people
from typhoid graves every year.
The same situation prevails with I
refeience to tuberctilosis. In 1907, |
129.6 persons died of that disease]
out of each 100,000 population. In ;
1915 the.'e were only 97.8 such i
i I deaths—a rescue of 2,600 people
I from tubercular ends each year.
Through a system of in
spection of water supplies and sew-
The Two Fountains
I saw, from yonder silent cave,
t Two fountains running hide by
I side;
' The one was Memory's limpid wave, ]
t] The other cold Oblivion's tide.
• "O love!" said I, in thoughtless!
i] dream,
i! "Here in this dark and chilly ctEgam, j
'! Be all my pains forgot at last." I
t|
..But who could bear that gloomy]
t| blank.
Where joy was lost as well as
] pain ?
> Quickly of Memory's fount I drank.
] And brought the past all back
j again;
; And said. "O love! what'er my lot.
Still let this soul to thee be true—
! Rather than have one bliss forgot.
Be all my pains remembere'd,
; too!"
] —Thomas Moore.
j Quentin Roosevelt's Prayer
| When the personal effects of
l Quentin Roosevelt were returned to
, ] his father's home at Oyster Bay,
L the following prayer, a copy of
. which was recently sent to Mrs.
. Hector Baxter. of Minneapolis,
> Minn., by a neighbor of the Roose
r velt family, was found In a private
. book of his:
i "Teach us, good Lord, to serve
s Thee as Thou deservedst, to give and
.! not to count the cost: to fight and
I not to heed the wounds; to foil and
r not to seek for rest: to labor and
i not to ask for any reward, save that
i of knowing that we do Thy will;
. through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
, Amen/ ' ,
age disposal; through its sanaLor
iums, its Visiting nurses and it ao
medical aid for the tubercular,
through its tiee antitoxin service m
diphtheria and other diseases, and
through the employment of all mod
ern agencies for keeping the people
free from contagion, the State lias
won the lasting gratitude of its citi
zens for the longer, better and
healthier lives it is enabling them
to live.
Millions of Seedling Trees I'lnnted
Only threescore years ago Penn
sylvania was richly provided with
forests. A former Commissioner of
j Forestry relates how in his youth
j he traveled through almost unbrok-
I cn forests of splendid trees from
! the mouth of the Sinnamahoning to
ihe Allegheny river a Warren-*—sev
enty-five miles-—and also from
Clearfield via St. Marys to SmeUi
port—sixty miles. In his day, he
says, he has seen one-seventh of
the total area of the Commonwealth
cut over and made barren and des
olate.
Aroused to the necessity of sav.ug
l,cr upland soils by lestoring to Lie
bare nills and mountain sides the
] trees that thoughtless industry rc-
I moved, the State oiganized a fores
tiy l.u'ieau and acquired more than
a in ": >ii acres, ivi/ch it is fast re
foresti ing. Millions of seedlings
have been planted and the work is
tut well begun. Corporations, the
publii schoola anu institutions of
many kinds have joined in a gen
eral "nin\rment to restore every actc
of waste la"d to the condition which
existed before the woodman's ax
'ik.x si.ch te'iiblc toll of the tim
ber resources.
No State in the entire Union has
a broader or more comprehensive
| plan of highway building than the
i Keystone Commonwealth. Under a
i law passed eight years ago, 7,500
! miles of highway were taken over,
i and recently a $50,000,000 bond is-
I sue was authorized. With local and
Federal contributions, the amount
| to be spent will reach the enormous
total ol $125,000,000.
I Under the plan now in force some
! 300 routes are marked for improve
jirent. These include jhe main high
! w.ivt between county seats, those
ji. ning the State roads of .adjoining
j ,-tn'es, and those connecting prin
i cipal cities and towns. They are
under State rather than local juris
diction.
In addition to bearing the entire
burden of the construction and
maintenance ot inter-county and
inter State highways, the State will
fin nisi: the counties with half tho
I fu.-.ds for improvement for local
I roads.
One who tiavels over such splen
did highways as the new concrete
1 road from Easton to Allentown w.ll
not fa;' io appreciate the Keystone
State r splendid good roads policy.
(To Be Con tilled)
"Bleeding Kansas"
[From the Hartford, Conn., Times.]
Kansas is still bleeding. Latest
i bulletins concerning its condition are
jof general interest. Apparently the
j Agricultural Department's forecast
j of a wheat crop of 197 million
| bushels was not an exaggeration.
A prospect of 400 million dollars
| pouring into a State of less than two
j million people for wheat alone is
lone to move the stoutest heart. The
great soul of the Nation is stirred
for bleeding Kansas. The sympathy
of sellers of tractors and motor
trucks and pleasure cars and air
planes will be especially excited. A
great multitude of mobile persons
will come from all parts of the
country to aid in staunching the
wounds of Kansas. For that which
exudes from Kansas's wounds now
is good, warm cash.
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Root on the Revised Version
[From Harvey's Weekly.]
Soon after the revised version (of
the League of Nations covenant)
appeared, Mr. Taft's ■ brother, Mr.
Henry, and Mr. Henry's partner, Mr.
Wtckersham, hailed Mr. Root upon
the street and asked that distin
guished statesman If he did not con
sider that the corrected covenant
embodied all essential amendments
suggested by himself. Now every
body knows that Mr. Root has no
superior in the selection of words
designed to express precisely the
thought in his mind, but never be
fore has he demonstarted it better
than when he ejaculated:
"Hell, no!"
| —and went hie way.
Damon Sproul,Pythias Palmer
Governor Sproul, otherwise "Bill,"
and United States Attorney General
Palmer, otherwise "Mitch," chums
at Swarthmore, hobnobbed at the
commencement exercises of the old
college this week. Here is the way
the president introduced them:
"You are favored in having at
your two academic occasions, bacca
lnureate nnd commencement, the
Governor of Pennsylvania and the
Attorney General of the United
States. It would have been a mem
orable event at any commencement
season to have had the Governor of
this State and the Attorney General
of the United States, the one the
most important political officer in
a great Commonwealth of over
seven million, the other holding per-'
haps the highest political office
which a lawyer in the United States
can attain.
"When we remind ourselves that
these dignitaries (or distinguished
men) are just plain William and
Mitchell or more familiarly 'Bill'
and 'Mitch:' that they are class
mates who have not allowed politi
cal differences to interfere with
their fine friendship; that they both
are Swarthmore. alumni, who, in
season and out of season, recognize
their debt of gratitude to our college
and are never too busy to give her
and her children a helping hand:
and that they are now giving to the
State and nation Dy precept and ex
ample those very ideals of co-op
eration and service for which
Swarthmore has stood from her
foundation: when we remember
these things, this event stands out
as unique in the history of the col
lege.: It should be an inspiration to
you and vitally help you to realize
something of what your opportunity
may be if you each lay out a pro
gram of life in harmony with the
teaching and training which it has
been your privilege to secure at
Swarthmore."
Legislators and the Law
[From Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.]
legislators who hold law in con
tempt cannot expect the people to
respect either themselves or the laws
they enact. Members of the Penn
sylvania General Assembly would do
well to give some thought to that.
Having done so, let them hasten to
provide for enforcement of national
prohibition. The tricks they are
playing with this essential legisla
tion do them no credit, will bring
the Commonwealth into disrespect
and in invite trouble that should
not be courted.
It is nothing less than self-stul-!
tification for the legislature which]
gave its approval to the prohibition
amendment to refuse or neglect to
make provision for its enforcement.
In the end, to be sure, it will make
little difference, so far as law en
forcement is concerned, whether the
Pennsylvania lawmakers have acted
as they "should or not. The prohibi
tion law will be enforced. It may
be, and very probably will .be, vio
lated for a period after January 16
next. That, however, will not be the
fault of the amendment. And it will
not convince any sensible persons
that prohibition is unenforcible.
Simply it will create a demand that
cannot be ignored for the perform
ance of duty bv the public authori
ties. The next Legislature will have
to pass an enforcing bill and it will
be distinguished for the nhsence of
anything promotive' of evasion of
the fundamental law. For one thing,
it is highly probable that the mem
bers who are now so busv striving
to prevent enforcement of prohibi
tion will not be permitted to have
a hand in the work two years hence.
That also is worthy of consideration
by the gentlemen at Harrlsburg. The
present course finally will react most
severely on those responsible for It.
Items About Authors
Captain James Norman Hall,
author of "Kitchener's Mob" and
"High Adventure" (Houghton Mif
flin Company), is scheduled by the
J. B. Pond Lyceum Bureau to give
a lecture also entitled "High Adven
ture" during the coming season.
Ellis Parker Butler, author of "Goat
Feathers" (Houghton Mifflin Com
pany), Is to give humorous readings
from his works under the same
auspices.
The World Run
When old Tribulation
Is comin' 'round the bend,
I've got a quick engagement
At the wide world's end!
For I tell him to his face;
An' then he fears to follow,
"My schedule is for gitttn'
To the jump-off place!"
—Arkajiaaw Thomas Cat.
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iw- ''■ ■ ■ .. II III* I
The late Dr. J. W. Richards, for 1
several years professor of Practical!
Theology at the Gettysburg Semin
ary, was a strong believer in the
future of Harrisburg. Twenty years 1
ago he favored the college remain
ing in Gettysburg and the removal
of the seminary to this city, pro
phesying that "in twenty-five years
Harrisburg will be the greatest in
land city in the United States."
Twenty years have elapsed since-this
prophecy of Dr. Richards and for
eighteen of these years Harrisburg
has gone ahead in its wonderful ex
pansion under a cohesive and co
ordinated plan of modern develop
ment. Seven years yet remain of
the twenty-five embraced in the pre
diction of the Gettysburg theologian
and who can tell what greater stepa
are still to be taken in the making
of an inland city on the Susque-'
hanna in the fulfillment of this in->
teresting prophecy?
Dr. Richards had a great vision
and many of this day are still
dreaming of the city's future alongl
substantial and artistic lines. It is
for these to see that the dreamst
come true.
The old "fighting Tenth" infantry, i
of Greensburg and vicinity, which
became the One Hundred and Tenth
in the recent war, will resume its
interrupted social relations on the
28th of this month, at the Pike Rani
Country Club, when the returnedi
officers of the famous Pennsylvania
outfit will get together for a big.
picnic at the clubhouse which itti
years past has been the scene of
many a pleasant revel. There will;
be some new faces this time, buti
many of the old familiar ones will
be missing from rollcall, for thei
casualties in this old regiment were
extremely heavy in France. "There,
will be plenty doing at the club:
even if someone wants to make a
speech there are miles of country
around there and he will finnoy no
one." according to regimental adju
tant, Captain William E. Pierce,
who is handling the paper work and
looking after the arrangements for
the outing. The Coulters, Martins.
Boyles, Hitchrpans, and other names
familiar to everyone who knows the
old Tenth will be there in force
and all enlisted men who were com
missioned into other outfits are wel
come. It looks as though there Were
a good time in store for those who
were fortunate enough to come
through the war and enjoy the
after-pleasure of peace. There are
beds in the club for one hundred
people and it's going to be an ex
clusive party for the officers so that
the war can be rehashed at leisure
and in detail. The guests are in
vited to remain ad infinitum or ad
perpetuam, whichever suits their
convenience.
• • •
Proceedings in the House yester
day when the unusual event of or
dering a poll occurred had some
funny sidelights. Just as the Speak
er ordered the doors locked a num
ber of school teachers were in the
House, sitting along the walls and
did not understand that every one
I except those officially connected
with the legislature had to with
, draw. They were then shown the
doors and told they might go into
the gallery. All turned up in the
gallery and there had a discussion
with "some people already seated
there who had started to go out
under the impression that everyone
had to leave the hall. In the midst
of this the Speaker told people in
the gallery they could remain and
see what was going on. It suddenly
occurred to one mild looking indi
vidual who had sat in the rear of
the hall that he had no business
there and he started to leave with
the intention of going to the safer
vantage of the gallery. But by that
time the sergeant-at-arms had
closed the doors and no one was
allowed to go out. So the whole
procedure was gone through with
one scared but curious citizen of
somewhere in Pennsylvania sitting
in one of the seats of the mighty,
from a legislative point of view.
♦ * *
The incidents of yesterday recall
how a messenger boy who "ran
copy" for The Associated Press from
the Capitol to the operator in the
Harrisburg Telegraph building in
1909 got into the hall of the House
and got out again. Much the same
thing occurred a decade ago as yes
terday and John F. Cox, then speak
er. ordered doors locked and a poll
taken. Things were going along
! nicely when there was a terrific
thumping on one of the big side
doors. The man on the door paid
no attention. The thumps grew
worse and the irate officer opened
the door and beheld one kid, about
knee high to a grasshopper.
"Whatcher doin'?" demanded th>
sergeant-at-arms.
"Lemme in, darn yer," declared
the kid.
"Go run yerself. Aus," answered
the sergeant.
"Say. der yer know who I am?
inquired the unabashed boy.
"Naw."
"Wed, I carries copy fer A. P. An
I'm goin' in."
i The sergeant-at-arms was puzzled
| and held the boy at the door. News
paper men attracted by the fuss
went to see what it was all about
and championed the boy. The ser
geant was inclined to stand fast,
but Speaker Cox who was appealed
to, suddenly broke into the rollcall
with "a roar of laughter and called
to the man at the door: "Det the
boy in. He's a real one. The roll,
wiil proceed."
The boy carried the copy through
all that strenuous day nnd got in
when high officials did not. He quit
the next week to work in a shoe
factorv. If be is still alive he is
probably getting wherever he sets
out to go. V
• •
I .lieutenant Governor Edward B.
Reidleman has half a dozen invita
tions already to speak on the Fourth
of July. He will be kept busy filling
engagements that week alone.
[ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—William Li. Rentz. New Castle
newspaper man, has been elected
head of the Rotary club of that city.
—William A. Johnson, New York
businessman, will be the speaker"
at the University of Pittsburgh ex
ercises. He has been out of col—,
lege a quarter of a century.
—W. M. Davidson was the speak-,
er at the I.atrobe School Commence-,
ment this week.
—Samuel t>. Reed, the new or
phans' court judge of Cambria,
county, is one of the prominent law- j
yers of that county and an authority j
on orphans' court matters.
Congressman J. Hampton j
Moore has been given a degree by]
Ursinus college. 1
T DO YOU KNOW 1
—That Harrlsborg steel Is being (
supplied for building of tank strips? |
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
.—The River Front had half a dosenJ
big grain warehouses 110 years ago. 1