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SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1920
If a i cell to be up to dot, but it's fool
ish to borrow trouble in advance.—The
Daily News.
SETTING AN EXAMPLE
THE boroughs of Central Penn
sylvania are setting an example
of progressiveness that Harris
burg will have difficulty In match
ing if they keep it up. Their ac
tivities extend from model school
house construction to housing de
velopments, and now comes Man
heim with a $65,000 street improve
ment program.
It has been said of Pennsylvania
towns that the automobilist knows
the moment he crosses the boundary
line of one of them, by the poor con
dition of the highway, but Manheim
it not of that sort. Millersburg in
Dauphin county, Mechanicsburg,
Carlisle and other progressive com
munities have spent large sums on
street paving and are the better for
it, and the Lancaster county town
will not regret the large expenditure
it is about to make.
. A man is judged by his shoes,
somebody has said, and a borough
by the condition of its streets.
Germany weeps for her "lost hon
or," but fails to realize that she her
self threw it away when her armies
ravaged helpless Belgium.
MINISTERIAL TOMMYROT
A MINISTER of the gospel, speak
ing before a gathering of
preachers in Philadelphia a
few days since, called the Boy Scouts
"hoodlums who rough house in
church." The Scouts, he thinks,
are mere agent& of Satan who annoy
pastors and some times are absent |
from church on camping trips.
These appear to be the sole counts
against them in their accuser s
mind, which leads one to the con
clusion that the reverend gentleman
in question seems, in the language
of the street, to have "gone off half
cocked."
Of course there can be no good
excuse for boys misbehaving in
church, but the tone of some ser
mons is sufficient to arouse the
latent bolshevik in any spirited lad
and we are tempted to the belief
that the boys in question may have
had ample provocation.
Of course nobody believes that the
Boy Scouts are any of the things
charged. The public, knows them
too well for that. But isn't it pitiful
that the pulpit of a Christian church
should be occupied by a man of such
small discernment, of such limited
vision and understanding, of such
woeful lack of sympathy and Christ
like spirit? How different is this
attitude from that of Him who said
"suffer the little children to come
unto me." Possibly our ministerial
friend has repented at length his
hasty remarks. For his own sake
we hope so. It is such remarks as
his that bring criticism upon the
church and keep many excuse-seek
ing people from uniting with it.
The great majority of
Christian ministers are more careful
and just in their criticisms, but all
are injured by the thoughtlessness
of the few.
Well, well, well, see who's here to
take the place of the war on the first
page; none other than our old friend,
Harry Thaw.
COMMUNITY CENTERS
THE school board, with Dr.
Downes in the lead, is deter
mined to give the school house
community center idea a thorough
tryout in Harrisburg. For years
it has been believed that the school
house is not performing its full
duty when it is in use only five or
six hours a day, five days in the
week. The problem has been to get
people into the school house after
it has been vacated by tho pupils.
The community center idea so far
has failed, beneficial as it would be
if worked out to a point where it
would meet the approval of the
public. It is not that the idea has
\ Jbeca proved wrong, but that tho
EVENING,
proper means of popularizing the
community center has not been
found.
Dr. Downes, like many of the pro
gressive thinkers of the country, is
so firmly convinced of the good that
could come out of school house
community centers, properly con
ducted, that ho intends to go thor
oughly info the plan the coming
year. He will have at his disposal
the two new junior high schools,
each of which has a large auditor
ium, gymnasium and bathing facili
ties, and adding to these attractions
the opportunity for night study he
will be in good position to offer in
ducements to community center at
tendance that should not fail to
draw. •
Eventually we shall have com
munity centers of another sort—
community clubs, if you will—main
tained by the municipality and con
ducted by the members, member
ship being dependent upon the pay
ment of a merely nominal fee, suf
ficient to take away the element of
charity and make those enjoying
the club privileges feel that they
are paying their way. But until
the community reaches that stage
of education, the school houses
must suffice and at all events al
ways can be made to serve purposes
beyond those to which they are now
put. Dr. Downes' experiment will
bo watched with interest. The suc
cess of it would mean much in the
life of Harrisburg.
We wonder what will become of all
the mirrors and brass foot rails.
HOW ABOUT THE GARAGE?
J HORACE McFARLAND, chair
man of the Harrisburg Cham
• ber of Commerce Housing
Committee, in a pamphlet just issued
by the American Civic Association,
calls the attention of town designers
and architects to the necessity of
talcing notice of the automobile in
the general scheme of building.
The six million automobiles in the
United Slates will soon be doubled,
says he, and in addition to providing
garages for them, Mr. McFurland
believes that some provision for
parking them when away from the
garuges should be provided, to the
end that streets may not be cluttered
up and traffic blocked by automobiles
left standing in the center of thor
oughfares or beside curbs while
their owners transact business, do
their day's work, shop or sit in the
movies. Says Mr. McFarland:
Wo are paying much attention
to the looks of our towns, but un
less we consider this matter of
the location and character of the
garage in connection with the lo
cation and character of the house,
all our town planning may fail
to give us the udjunct of beauty
and good order so desirable. To
neglect provision for the garage
in connection with town planning
is only a little less neglectful than
to continue to overlook the street
traffic and street "parking" prob
lems.
Let us wake up the architects
and the town planners by de
manding that each of them in his
work accept the possibility that
every wage-earner whose income
exceeds SI,OOO a year is likely to
own an automobile within the
next five years, which must have
room to run and to stand and be
conveniently stored when not In
active use. •
Here is a matter that must soon
force itself not only upon the atten
tion of architects and planners, but
of municipal authorities everywhere,
providing they do not take it up
voluntarily in the very near future.
The automobile, with the coming of
peace, will descend upon us like a
flock of locusts a'.'d unless we pro
vide for it parking space near the
centers of our cities and at other
convenient points our traffic prob
lems are bound to become much
more serious than they now are.
Most likely we shall have to come
to the place of buying land and set
ting it aside for public parking pur
poses. At all events, live city coun
cils everywhere will he turning their
attention to this matter very seri
ousy before the yrfar is out. Mr. Mc-
Farland has struck a keynote in
municipal affairs.
How are we going to keep him
down in the White House after he's
seen Paree?
WAYNESBORO'S EXAMPLE
PURCHASE by the Landis Com
pany of seventeen acres of land
at Waynesboro as a site for
houses the corporation means ito
erect for its employes is a recogni
tion of the employer's responsibility
for the living conditions of the em
ploye. The employing agency nat
urally expects a full day's work for
a full day's wages, but workmen who
must pay excessive rents are likely
to have their minds on matters
other than their work and men who
spend their leisure in the unhealth
ful surroundings of overcrowded
districts are not physically fit to
meet their tasks as they should.
Employers whose financial means
would permit could very well take
a lesson from the Landis company's
program.
The old style type of "company
house" —those disgraces of so many
Pennsylvania mining and manufac
turing districts —is no longer toler
ated. The wise employer, going into
houso building, recognizes this and
proceeds accordingly. What the
average working man wants is a
decent, good-looking house at mod
erate rent and the employing com
pany that meets his demand is bound
to have fewer labor troubles and a
greater degree of contentment among
its men than that which pays no
attention to its employeß except dur
ing working hours.
There are corporations not a thou
sand miles from Harrisburg that
might, with profit, give the Waynes
boro project careful study.
I Latest reports from the bedside of'
J. Barleycorn are to the effect that he
is breathing heavily and not respond
ing to presidential restoratives. The
end Is expected in a day or two.
IfolXUt in
By the Kx- Committeeman
Governor William C. Sproul has
660 bills passed by the Legislature
io be acted upon by the twenty
sixth day of July and expects to
clear up the list before that time.
The Governor will return to Har
risburg next week by which time
the financial plans will be worked
out and he will take up the ap
propriation bills with Auditor Gen
eral Charles A. Snyder and the
chairmen of the appropriation com
mittees.
The Legislature sent 1,138 bills
to the office of Secretary of the
Commonwealth "Cyrus E. Woods for
action by the Governor and of this
number 130 were recalled, some of
them twice and most of them sent
back again.
The Governor signed 41 appro
priation bills, including the defi
ciency and emergency bills and the
Highway department bills, the ag
gregate being over $17,000,000.
Thirty-seven bills were vetoed.
—Two bills which are intended
to confer authority for the Depart
ment of Public Instruction to carry
out the plans of Governor William
C. Sproul for the improvement of
the educational system of Pennsyl
vania were to-day announced as
approved by the Governor. Through
these measures and such authority
, as the Governor has given to Dr.
J Thomas E. Finegan, superintendent
lof public instruction, it is planned
to carry out numert us investiga
tions and to bring about substantial
changes in the school system. The
Governor intends to have a series
of consultations with Dr. Finegan
the next month to prepare for
changes in the fall.
The first bill makes the Superin
tendent of Public Instruction the
"chief executive officer" of the
State Board of Education instead
of merely the ex-officio president.
The second increases the salary of
the first deputy superintendent to
$7,500 and it is understood that Dr.
J. George Becht, now secretary of
the State Board of Education, will
be named to the place. The salary
of the next deputy shall be $6,000
and salaries of other employes will
be fixed in accord with law and
"commensurate with importance of
their duties." This will enable em
ployment of such specialists as the
Governor may deem necessary.
—Governor Sproul has also ap
proved the bill providing that hold
ers of liquor licenses shall be per
mitted to surrender licenses and be
refunded an amount proportionate
to the license for the period for
which the license is given 'up. Taxes
paid are to be included on a simi
lar When any license is
surrendered the county treasurer is
to notify the Auditor General, the
state treasurer and the. municipal
ity to whom a part of the fee has
been paid so that they can return
the proportionate sum. There is
also a proviso that the act shall
operate for the return of money to
licensees prevented from selling
liquors by any State or Federal reg
ulations for the period when they
were so prevented.
—The Flynn sedition bill under
which Pennsylvania authorities will
be able to arrest the enemies of
the Government which have been
from time to time reported as com
ing to Pennsylvania because of the
drastic laws enacted in New York,
New England and Middle Western
States against hatchers of plots and
terrorists by mail is now the law
of the Keystone State. The most
bitterly contested of all the legis
lation of 1919 was signed by the I
Governor yesterday and announced |
as approved without comment. i
—Ever since the passage of the
bill the Governor has been getting
letters and telegrams urging him to
sign the bill, while the protests,
which found voice in the Legisla
ture have also been made. The
Governor has kept in close touch in
regard to conditions in other States
where such laws have been passed
and is familiar with what has turned
up in various places in Pennsyl
vania.
—Simultaneously -with the ap
proval of this bill the compensa
tion amendments, the most advan
tageous to labor measure of the
session were announced as approved
and becomes effective on January
1 next. This bill gives victims of
industrial accidents an increase of
rate of ten per cent., making sixty
per cent, or only six per cent, less
than asked when the session started
and a liberal basis of computation
together with other provisions all
of which were vigorously opposed
by employers. The bill was the
subject of hearings and many bat
tles in the two houses.
—The Governor signed the wom
an suffrage resolution. He was not
strictly required to do that, but con
sidered it best to be done as he did
in the case of the prohibition
amendment. He signed it in pres
ence of Mrs. Lawrence Lewis and
Miss Ella Riegel, of the Woman's
National party who provided a pen
about eighteen inches long made of
a big yellow quill.
—Reading people say the elec
tion of E. G. Hunter to the Hall
vacancy in council was due to in
iluence of W. M. Croll, late candi
date for Congress whoso campaign
was handled by Hunter.
—Dauphin, York, Lancaster and
Northumberland county attorneys
are sitting up and taking notice of
the amendments made to the assist
ant district attorney bill presented
by Representative B. F. Bungard, of
Westmoreland county. It now ap
plies to every county having a popu
lation between 90,000 and 760,000.
This bill has been to the Governor's
oflice a couple of times and recalled
for amendment. A schedule of sal
aries is contained in amendments.
In counties having between 90,000
and 150,000 population the district
attorney with approval of the presi
dent judge may name two assistants
the court to fix the pay at not over
2.000 a year: in counties having be
tween 150,000 and 200,000 the dis
trict attorney may appoint a first, as
sistant at $3,00,0 and a second at
$2,000, while in the final class the
first assistant is to be paid $3,500,
second $3,000 and third $2,500,
while if the president. Judge ap
proves there may be a fourth at
$2,000
Large Families in Those Days
And Shimei had sixteen sons and
six daughters: but his brethren had
not many children, neither did all
their farpl'y multiply like to the'
children of Judah. I Chronicles,
IV. 27,
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Heine Sees Napolean
When I think of the great em
peror (Napoleon), all in my mem
ory again becomes summer, green
and aolden. A long avenue of Jin
dens "rises blooming around, on -the
leafy twigs sit singing nightingales,
the waterfall rustles, flowers are
growing from full round beds,
dreamily nodding their fair heads.
* * * I am speaking of the Court
Garden of Dusseldorf, where I often
lay upon the bank, and piously lis
tened there when M. Le Grand told
of the warlike feats of the great
emperor, beating meanwhile the
marches which were drummed dur
ing the deeds, so that I saw and
heard all to the life. I saw the
passage over the Simplon, the em
peror in advance and his brave
grenadiers climbing on behind him.
* * • I saw the emperor with flag
in hand on the bridge of Ig)di—l
satf the emperor in his gray cloak
at Marengo—l saw the emperor
mounted in the Battle of the Pyra
mids, naught around save powder,
smoke and Mamelukes—l saw the
emperor in the battle of Austerlitz.
* • • I saw, I heard the Battle
of Jena. • • •
But what were my feelings when
I saw • • • with my own eyes,
him * • • the emperor.
It was exactly in the avenue of
the court garden at Dusseldorf. As
I pressed through the gaping crowd,
thinking of the doughty deeds and
battles which Monsieur Le Grand
had drummed to me, my heart beat
the "general march." * * * And
the emperor with his cortege rode
directly down the avenue. *
The emperor wore his invisible
green uniform and the little world
renowned hat. He rode a white pal
frey. which stepped with such calm
pride, so confidently, so nobly. * *
The emperor sat carelessly, almost
lazily, holding with one hand his
rein" and with the other good na
turedly patting the neck of the
, horse. * * * A smile which
warmed and tranquilized every heart
flitted over the lips—and yet all
knew that those lips needed but to
whistle, et la Prusse n'existait plus.
* * The brow was not so clear,
the phantoms of future battle were
nestling there. * * * ,
The emperor rode calmly straight
through the avenue; no policeman
stopped him; behind, his cortege
rode proudly, loaded with gold and
ornaments • • * the trumpets
nealed * * * and the multitude
cried with a thousand voices, Es
lebe der Kaiser!" (Hong live the em
peror).—Heinrich Heine.
After a Rainy Day
[Judd M. Lewis In Houston Post]
The streets are wet that '^d
home across the dripping
The asphalt mirrors back the
lights, and still the ram
comes down!
The gutters overflow, and scrooged
up little newsboys call.
And still, aslant against the dusk,
the gleaming raindrops fall.
And In the windows of far home ,
kept Indoors by the ri y n -
The little children wait and press
their noses to the pane.
And watch for father to come home
a'ong the dripping street
Then he will hear their cries of
joy and dancing feet.
And they will rush to meet him
and rush to fling wide the
And they 1 "' will hold his
hands and snuggle with ae-
And a'lf h of their unhappiness be
flown into the night;
And he will press his rain-wet
cheeks against their dear
cheeks, and they
Will be glad for the. night that
comes behind the rainy day,
And mother will call them to where
the table's all alight—
Earth's little homes are homes in
deed upon a rainy night.
Humor in a Dictionary
[Frogi Christian Science Monitor]
Johnson's Dictionary, says the
latest writer on the life of Mr. Bos
well's "illustrious friend," often ex
pressed his personal prejudices and
point of view. He enjoyed having
a "dig" at Scotland, and so when he
defined "oats" he wrote, "a grain
which in Epgland is generally giv
en to horses, but in Scotland sup
ports the people." In defining
"lexicographer," he looked humor
ously at himself, and set down "a
maker of dictionaries, a harmless
drudge;" and Grub street he de
scribed aa "the name of a street in
London, much Inhabited by writers
of small histories, dictionaries and
temporary poems." And his defin
ition of "network" as "anything re
ticulated or decussated at equal dis
tances, with interstices between' T.he
intersections," became famous as a
definition needing more definitions
to define it.
The Passing of an Art
The bronze statute of the late
Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart,
who was executive officer and chief
of staff of the military forces of
Pennsylvania longer than any man
who ever held the office, will be un
veiled in the rotunda of the State
Capitol on Monday afternoon at 2
o'clock. The statute, which was
placed in position some time ago
and which is now covered by the
largest flag in Harrisburg, measur
ing 2 4 by 36 feet, was the gift to the
State of officers and men of the
National Guard and of the Keystone
Division, which was formed of the
organized militia of the State so long
directed by the General. The funds
were raised by subscription after the
war began.
Many men associated with the
General in military matters anj in
the G. A. R., of which he was nat
ional commander, will attend. Busi
ness in the Capitol will be suspended
during the afternoon.
Major General William G. Price,
Jr., of Chester, commander of the
new Guard, will make the presenta
tion address in the rotunda and Ad
jutant General Frank D. Beary will
accept it. Chaplain rf. N. Bassler,
of the 112 th infantry and former
chaplain of the Eighth Pennsyl
vania, will offer prayer and make a
few remarks on the General. The
Capitol orchestra, composed of at
taches of the State government, will
furnish music and there will be sing
ing.
The statute is nine feet high and
is mounted on a pedestal with alle
gorical figures. It shows the General
in dress uniform, the likeness being
of the officer about 1908.
Tribute to General.
General Beary in speaking of the
statute to-day said: "General
Stewart, more than any other man
in the county, was instrumental in
making the National Guard an es
tablished fact and in bringing it up
to a standard of efficiency that has
been well recognized since the days
Teach All Citizens English
[From the New York Evening Post.]
A one-language commonwealth by
the time the 1920 census takers call
around to ( ask about your health
and make some other neighborly in
quiries is the somewhat ambitious
program of the New York State De
partment of Education. Also a
literate commonwealth. Governor
Smith has approved a bill passed by
Republican and Democratic legis
lators, appropriating SIOO,OOO for
organizing and directing this phase
of education. The bill permits local
ities to appropriate money for fac
tory classes, night schools, homo
classes and other approved forms of
carrying instruction to non-English
speaking and illiterate adults.
The State appropriation probably
will go for the necessary expense of
organizing and supervising such in
struction, and for co-ordinating the
methods in this interesting and in
creasingly popular social endeavor.
The appropriations by local boards
of education will pay the teachers
and provide the school materials.
But as there is to be co-ordination
of official and volunteer agencies,
the latter including broad gauged
employers who have realized the
value of a one-language working
staff, and civic spirited men and
women who have been pushing
Americanization work, the cost may
be expected to be far less than the
value of the result.
It is a big job. Now York State
in 1910 led all the other States of
the Union in the number of its illit
erate residents. More than 406,020
individuals more than 10 years old
were unable to read and write, and
of this number 362,025 were foreign
born. Non-English speaking resi
dents of this State in 1910 were
counted at 597,012. tn the years
1911, 1912. 1913 and in more than
half of 914 immigration added to
this number, although the addition
was doubtless offset by those of
alien tongue who acouired English.
New York State has the largest pop
ulation and that is the reason why
it has more Illiterates than any other
State in the Union,
A Reminder
[From the Springfield Republican.]
Before Senator Hiram Johnson
gets nominated for President on the
republican ticket next year the re
publican voters will be sufficiently
reminded that in 1916 California
gave a plurality of 297,000 for Mr. i
Johnson and a minority of 3,773 for
Mr. Hughes, which gave the presi
dency to Mr. Wilson. Who killed
•Cock Robin?
it first got into the fighting in
Europe. He was the pre-eminent
character in the affairs of the Nat
ional Guard of the country and it
was through him that Congress and
the War Department gave recog
intion to the National Guard as part
of the first line of defense of the
country. That his judgment was
good is evidenced by the splendid
record of the National Guardsmen
in the war with Germany and es
pecially by the National Guard of
Pennsylvania.
"General Stewart died suddenly
on his birthday, September 11, 1917,
when he was 69 years of age and on
the very day when the last organiza
tion of the National Guard left the
State to go to war. The sentiment
in favor of erecting a memorial
statute to his memory was crystal
lized at Camp Hancock, and the var
ious organizations of the Guard con
tributed towards the fund used for
the bronze figure. Not only did the
officers who knew him best con
tribute, but all other officers and
many privates gave their mites.
"The selection of a sculptor and
the erection of the statute were
placed in my hands and I chose a
prominent Philadelphia sculptor.
Otto Sweizer, who has made numer
ous similar memorials and whose
works stand on many battlefields.
He has an international reputation
as a sculptor."
The bronze was cast by Bureau
Brothers, of Philadelphia, who have
made the memorials for many pub
lic parks and whose work is repre
sented many times on the battlefield
of Gettysburg. The figure and base
weigh 2,300 pounds.
The figure was modeled by Sculp
tor Sweizer, only after he had been
furnished scores of photographs of
the late Adjutant General and
photographers had made many com
posite photographs of these pictures.
General Beary, who is shorter than
General Stewart, posed several times
lin the uniform of a Brigadier Gen
eral.
He Left Me Dreams
(In memory of J. W. H., despatch |
bearer in Rainbow Division, killed J
in action in France.)
He left me dreams, —bright, starry :
shafts, unbroken,
Rose-decked and sweet, as sign-!
posts down the years;
A wreath of gallant memories for a
token
To 'twine within the tribute of my
tears.
His songs were sheafs of triumph,
proud, unbending,
A glory unforgetable, to trace
Upon my life—my children's lives
—nor ending,
But, like Dawn's sacred flame, for
ever blending
With Honor sprung from Love's
high dwelling-place.
The sunset's ruddy kiss, the moon's
brave wonder,
In merry messages he sent to me;
His words . were silver bells amid
the thunder
Of death-commissioned guns across
the sea.
He left me Faith and Hope and
smiles immortal,
And thoughts that flung stern chal
lenges to Wrong;
A Knight—he fought, and stormed
the Tyrant's portal,
His deeds like seeds shall flower
into Song.
The Night's cool whisper, when the
Dawn is 'waking,
And ghostly hands unclasp, yet
clasp again,
He knew; and drank, like wine, for
spirit's slaking
The melancholy music of the Rain.
He left no gold, he sent no earthly
treasure,
His sacrifice is hidden deep from
fame.
Forsaking home and friends and
peace and pleasure,
He left me Love in Friendship's
hallowed name.
—J. Corson Miller, in the Forum.
Germans Unchanged
- [From the New York Tribune.]
Germany professes no repentance.
She says the peace is one of vio
lence, thus declaring that lack of
physical power, not her will, pre
vents her renewing it. May the
next generation not reproach the
present one. May determinations
harden. Germany may not be trust
ed until there is a change more
fundamental than yet manifest.
Germany must be kept unarmed and
frontiers strong until the dinger
passes. Here are our bulwarks of
peace. There are none other as
long aa Germany la aa she la.
JUNE) 1919.
No Wonder Germany Quit
NUMBER SEVENTEEN
"A few days ago I got to talking
about our American artillery during
the Spanish-American War and the
Philippine Insurrection," said Col
onel J. B. Kemper, of the Army Re
cruiting Station, 325 Market Street,
Harrisburg. "That reminds me of
some figures that came in from
Washington showing the difference
between those guns that we thought
so wonderful and the guns of to-day.
For example, the field pieces used
up to the start of the Civil War were
smooth bore guns with a maximum
range of 1,670 yards, a little less
than a mile. About that time they
started rifling the barrels of cannon
and the range promptly increased
to 3,960 yards or two miles and a
quarter. Next came the crude
breech-loading rifled guns we used,
up to 1900. Their maximum range
was about 6,000 yards or three and
a half Jnlles. The guns that came
into use then were what were called
quick firers with 'fixed' ammunition,
that is they made big cartridge cases
and put the shell in the case so that
the entire cartridge was simply an
over-grown rifle or pistol cartridge.
Until that was done they loaded the
shell into the cannon and then the
powder, making two separate opera
tions. The latest type quick firers,
such as were used during the late
war had a maximum range of 8,500
yards, or about five miles. Now
comes an interesting tidbit: When
we got into the World War we got
to experimenting. Vou all remem
ber the change in automobile bodies
when the 'streamline' type body
came in. Well, that is just what
they started doing with shells. We
experimented and experimented and
finally evolved a real streamline line
shell, and to everyone's surprise that
new type gave about 3,500 yards
more range or about 12,000 yards
(seven miles). Can you believe it?
Merely changing the shape of the
shell gave it two miles more range.
Among the other changes has been
the loading of the shell with high
| explosive of black powder. The old
J fashioned shell contained about half
I a pound of black powder as a burst
| ing charge, whereas the new three
! inch shell (75 millimeters) has one
and three quarter pounds of high ex
. plosive. Further, the high explosive
lis approximately eight times as
| powerful as the black powder, so the
I burst, of the 75 shell is about twenty-
I eight times as violent as the burst
iof the old fashioned shell. And as
the 75 (ires with ease twenty times
as fast as the old gun it is no wonder
the returing Doughboy says that
Artillery fire is 'sure hell.' "
Goat Dairy For Seattle
[From the Seattle Post-Intelli
gencer.]
With the arrival in Seattle the
other day of eight hundred goats
from Tuscon, Ariz., to be added to
his herd on Cypress Island of the
San Juan group, the largest herd in
the Northwest, Dr. Henry B. Parker
of Urban said he is planning the
establishment cn a vast scale of a
goat duiry industry next autumn.
He has great faith in the milk-pro
ducing qualities of goats, declaring
them to be superior to cows. Their
milk, he says, is sweeter, and, im
mune to tuberculosis, makes ideal
food for infants and invalids.
Seattle consumes one thousand
quarts of goat's milk daily, said the
doctor, almost exclusively used by
babies. It is recommended by phy
sicians because its composition more
nearly approaches that of mother's
milk than any other domestic ani
mal, he remarked.
The doctor plans to establish a
dairy this fall and aside from the
sale of milk will manufacture Swiss
cheese.
The average daily production of a
milk goat is from two to three quarts
and a person can keep a goat at
a cost of five cents a day, said Doc
tor Purkcr in alluding to the prac
ticality of keeping goats by the aver
age family.
His Turn
[From Answers, London]
Two golf fiends—an Englishman
and a Scot —were playing a round
together. After the first hole, the
Englishman asked:
"How many did you take?"
"Eight," replied the Scot.
"Oh, I only took seven, so it's my
hole!" exclaimed the Englishman
triumphantly.
After the second hole, the En
glishmen put the same question
again. But the Scot smiled know
ingly.
"Na, na, ma man," said he; "it's
ma turn tae ask first."
Storing <2H}ri
Within the next two months the
State of Pennsylvania will expend
in Harrisburg on public improve
ments alone more than two and
one-half million dollars. The erec
tion of a great office building, the
construction of the State street me
morial viaduct and the beautiflca
tion of the Capitol Extension, not
to mention the widening of Walnut
and Third streets, the relaying of
the great water mains in Stat®
street and the reconstruction of the
sewer system in the park area, will
give work to hundreds of men, and
greatly improve any condition of
unemployment tbat might develop
here. Superintendent Shreiner, who
will have a large part in the con
struction work, says that the Board
of Public Grounds and Buildings Is
anxious to finish up the details oh
the plans and specifications and as
soon after that as possible the work
will be started. Of course It is not
intended that the present appro
priations shall cover the entire cost
of the park development. That
will be a matter for Legislatures In
years to come, when the other of
fice buildings outlined by Architect
Brunner are needed. But enough
will be done to make the extension
zone one of the beauty spots of the
country, so that the next Legisla
ture will not hesitate to provide
additional appropriations for the
continuation of the work.
• • •
"We have gotten entirely away
away from the idea of ornamenta
tion in office buildings such as that
about to be erected will be," said
Mr. Shreiner. "The exterior of the
building while corresponding to the
capitol in design and construction
will bo as plain as possible. The
interior will be severely simple.
The members of the Board are de
sirous that the improvements shall
stand as monuments to their ad
ministration and every care is being
taken as to details, so that there
shall be nothing but favorable
criticism when the next Legislature
reviews the work done in the com
ing two years.
• • •
Harrisburgers who visited Den
ver with the Rotary party two
weeks ago were impressed with the
similarity of capitol developments
there and here. While the capitol
at Denver is neither so large nor
imposing as the Pennsylvania struc
ture, it stands apart from other
buildings, like that in Harrisburg,
and a big plot of ground has been
purchased adjoining the capitol
grounds for the establishment of a
civic center. The plot bears the
same relation to the Denver build
ing as the extension zone does to
the capitol park here, the only dif
ference being that Denver as a city
made the purchase and controls this
property, while in this city the
State owns and controls the addi
tional acreage. Like Harrisburg.
Denver is preparing to erect a new
city hall and courthouse and there
is much talk of locating these
structures, or a joint structure if
that be decided upon, facing the
civic center. Denver has what
Harrisburg ought to have, a large
auditorium. Denver people say that
the ai*.itorium is the largest fac
tor the city has in procuring con
ventions and that it is worth more
than the $650,000 which it and the
big organ it contains cost the munic
ipality. The Rotary club of Den
ver raised money for the organ,
which is said to be on a par with
the largest instruments of that kind
in the United States.
Harrisburg Rotarians are delight
ed with reports that are filtering
back from the International Con
vention of Rotary Clubs held last
week in Salt Lake City. Reporting
on the work of the year John Poole
international president, told a
gathering of Rotarians from the
Fifth district that the conference
held the past spring in Harrisburg
was the most interesting and in gen
eral the best of any held in the
country. This was especially pleas
ing to the members of the Harris
burg club, inasmuch as the Harris
burgers arranged the program for
the event, with District Governor
Howard C. Fry in charge, and the
entertainment was provided by a
local committee appointed by Eli
N. Hershey, then president. When
the Poole special, bearing a hundred
or more Rotarians, bound to Salt
Hake, was made up in this city
some weeks ago, the tourists were
dined at the Penn-Harria hotel by
the local club and taken about the
city in automobiles. This little act of
hospitality so pleased the visitors
that they advertised Harrisburg all
over the west and even compared
our scenery hereabouts with the no
ted mountain scenery of Colorado,
Utah and Wycoming. Dr. C. E. L.
Keen,, who was one of the delegates
to the Salt Lake City convention,
joined a party of Rotarians at Salt
Hake City and is touring through
Yellowstone Park. He will be home
next week. Samuel Fishburn, of Pen
brook. also in the Salt Lake party,
is spending some time with relatives
in Denver.
With the installation of a new
index jsystem for listing grantees
and grantors in deeds attorneys have
little trouble now in tracing prop
erty titles at the county recorder's
office. The cost of the new system
was about $24,000 and was paid for
by the county. Charles H. Bergner,
one of the well-known members of
the county bar, strolled into the re
corder's office the other day and no
ticed the new books of indices. He
immediately asked them about them,
and then said, "I'm going to see if
they're all right, I've been trying
to locate a deed for months and
couldn't do it In the old index." He
looked up the names of the parties
In the deed and in a few minutes
found the book in which the instru
ment had been recorded. He is only
one of the many lawyers who are
pleased with the new system.
What Ho! Scenario!
(By Howard Dietz)
The call of the movies has reached
to all corners—
Society's fathomless niche.
To steeplejacks, truckmen, profes- i
sional mourners.
The humble as well as the rich.
Mj relatives, servants, my gossipy
neighbor—
The merchant, the man with the
plow;
You query the cause of the shortage
of labor? v
They're writing scenarios now.
Now authors have entered the
cinema calling—
The Eminent Authors, you know.
The list of the bookmen is more
than appalling.
For see who have formed the new
Co.
There's Atherton, Rlnehart; there's
Beach and there's Morris,
There's King, and there's Scott,
and there's—wow!—-
Old Rupert the Hughes! Be a movie
fan, Horace — I
They're writing sumimtag ovm „J