HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH I HEWBPA.PER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by TIB TKLKGIUPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Sqmare B. J. BTACKPOIJ! President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager QUE. M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor A. R. MICHENEH, Circulation Manager Bxecative Beard J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER. GU& M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub- Bureau of Circu- Associa- Eastern M o a. Avenue Building, Western office' Gas' Building, I Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a rwigtajit week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY. JULY 2, 1919 Sißjr me, O singer, a song of lifet Cried an eager youth to me: And I sang of a life irithout alloy, Beyond our years —fill the heart of the boy Caught the golden beauty, and love and joy Of the great eternity. —Edward Kotoland Sill. CUMBERLAND'S SHARE CUMBERLAND COUNTY has earned its right to celebrate the end of the war. No county in the State did more in a patriotic way than Cumberland. Under the able direction of a committee of volunteers, its war service activities became models not only for the State but for the Nation, and its young men volunteered for all branches of the service in large numbers. Ever since the days when Carlisle was an outpost on the frontier the people of Cumberland have been noted for their courage and enter prise, for their patriotic devotion and interest in everything pertain ing to the welfare of the Nation. Through its valleys the settlers made their way against the hostility of the Indian, and back across its wheat laden fields rolled the last high-tide wave of the Civil War. 'Just as the fortifications at Carlisle stood as a buffer between civiliza tion and the Indian hordes to the west, so did the hastily constructed trench works on Washington Heights stand as a barrier between the rebel hosts and the capital city of the State. What it did in the war just closed was in full accord with its splendid traditions Cumberland county has written a new chapter in its history fully as bright as any of those preceding, and its neighboring counties extend congratulations, and their people during the next few days will join with its people in making the cele bration a great success. A GREAT OPPORTUNITY VIEWED from any angle the proposed Hoffman's Woods high school site, as placed formally before the School Board yesterday by the City Planning Com mission, offers unusual advantages. Coupled with the proposal to create in connection therewith a parked area covering the old Italian park section, it affords an opportunity for civic development of really great proportions. The fifty acre?, more Jess, comprising the two tracts ippear to have been saved almost providentially for some such civic improvement as that contemplated. To the north and the south the city has grown in recent years by leaps and bounds, but the Italian park and Hoffman's Woods plots remain unimproved and are as bare of buildings as they were a half-cen tury ago. The argument for the purchase of the proposed site for school pur poses was well set forth in the state ment of the Planning Commission yesterday and was ably supplemented by the views of Dr. Charles B. Fager, Dr. C. E. L. Keen and others, who spoke in favor of the university plan and the necessity of caring for fu ture needs. The thirty-five acres which it is proposed to purchase would provide amply for the growth of the city for the next century, and the whole plot may be had at a price that would not buy more than a few lots in the heart of the city, sufficient only for the next ten or fifteen years at the most. Also, it may be said in vor of the HolTman's Woods loca •jn, that only as many buildings us 1 are actually necessary at this time need be built, while if the school Is erected elsewhere on limited space under one roof a very large initial In vestment will be necessary because the whole plant would have to be built at one time. Harrisburg never has purchased wisely with respect to school grounds; that is to say, never ade quately. Always the immediate ex penditure has been considered above future needs, which is a penny-wise and pound-foolish policy. The op portunity is at hand now to buy for the future as well as for the present, and at a price below the market value. Indeed, there is no other site within the range of pos sibility that offers so many advan tages, however viewed. With regard to the matter of location, with the growth of the city, the majority of high school students must pay carfare, wherever the school may be built, and the Hoffman's Woods site is within a one-fare range of every part of Harrisburg. Jhe ground lies high and affords ample opportunity, with Its great trees of mature growth, for a fine campus and the adjoining field offers such possibilities for athletics and out door exercises as would be impossi ble in any other part of town. Fortunately, the School Board, as now constituted, is made up of men of vision who have been giving the high school problem in recent months most careful attention. They have not been slow to grasp the advantages offered by the pro posal of the Planning Commission and no urging will be necessary to induce them to seize the opportunity afforded. Indeed, it was evident yes terday before the close of the lunch eon at which the matter was dis cussed that a majority of them are heartily In favor of the plan. And so with City Council. The Planning Commission has placed be fore the commissioners an offer for the donation of fifteen acres of land for park purposes, providing the city develops it, and at the same time outlines a way for the opening of streets that otherwise would re main closed, much to the injury of the city. The improvement of this section would create another fine residence district and would trans form a piece of swamp land at small cost into a handsome city park. The city and the School Board should act immediately to secure these two plots for the public. Often matters of this kind have been al lowed to drift until too late. The time is ripe for action. Council should not lag for a moment be hind the School Board. Eventually the change which the Planning Com mission advocates must be made. The city will never get the land on more reasonable terms. GOOD WORK MAYOR KEISTER has earned the/appreciation of the entire community in his determined efforts to suppress unnecessary noises in Harrisburg. He has al ready heavily fined a number of the open cut-out offenders and with the efficient co-operation of the police department, there ought to 'be no difficulty whatever in preserving the decencies of the situation. Those who will not observe the regulation regarding the use of cut-outs should be brought up with a round turn. LIGHTS FOR VEHICLES STATE HIGHWAY COMMIS SIONER SADLER will have the support of the public in the en forcement of the new law requiring that all vehicles, excepting hay wagons and farm machinery, using the roads at night carry lights. This is a statute that ought to have been enacted long ago. The automobilist will welcome the new regulation and the farmer ought not to complain, for it will be as much a benefit for him as a help to the man piloting a car over the highways after nightfall. No wagon not carrying a light is safe, with traffic as heavy as it is on all the main highways, and both the automobilist and the driver of the wagon or carriage Is protected by the statute which Mr. Sadler has announced ho will enforce to the letter. LOCAL WAR HISTORY DEFINITE steps are now being taken to prepare the data for Dauphin county's chapter in the forthcoming history of Pennsyl vania's part in the great war. In order that this record may be as complete as possible, William Jen nings, chairman of the Dauphin County Council of National Defense, and Benjamin M. Nead, chairman of the historical committee of the Chamber of Commerce and president of the Dauphin County Historical Society, have outlined a plan for interesting all who can In any way contribute to the compilation of the important facts concerning this city and county. Through the co-ordination of the efforts of the County Council of Na tional Defense and Chamber of Com- j merce committee it ought to be pos- ' jrtble to gather without much diffi culty the essential records for this corffmunity's section of the State history. Assembling the facts while they are fresh in the minds of those familiar with the mobilization of our men and with the war activities at home is going to bo much easier than would be the case a year hence. Harrisburg and the county of Dauphin had a large and honorable part in the war and the compiling of the necessary data is an important duty which ought not to be imposed upon a few people. Every village and hamlet, as well as the larger towns, are equally interested in com piling an accurate and adequate re cord of a remarkable period in the world's history so far as it relates to this particular section of Penn sylvania. r j > otCtic4- Lk CKKQ IftcUKUl By the Kx-Committeeman Announcement of the approval by Governor Sproul of the judges' sal ary raiser, was made at the Execu tive Department late yesterday. The bill becomes effective at once. Un der its provisions the chief justice of the Supreme Court will receive $16,000 and the associate judges $14,000. The president Judge of the Superior Court will receive $13,- 500 and the associate judges $13,000. In Allegheny and Philadelphia coun ties, Common Pleas and Orphans' Court judges will receive $12,000 each. _ The salaries for Common Pleas and Orphans' Court judges in districts outside of Philadelphia and Allegheny counties will receive the following: In districts having a population of more than 100,000 and less than 500,000, $10,000; districts having a population of more than 65,000 and less than 100,000, $8,00; in districts having a population of less than 65,000, $7,000. For trying State cases each of the judges on the Dau phin county bench are to receive an additional $3,000. In the county court in Allegheny and the municipal courts of Phila delphia, the judges will receive SB,- 000 and each president judge will receive an additional SSOO. Estimates that have been made show that more than $200,000 will be necessary to meet the increases. —With the signing by Governor Sproul of the Cox House bill regu lating the transfer of secondhand motor vehicles, trafficking in stolen motorcars becomes in Pennsylvania a perilous occupation. This is par ticularly true inasmuch as on May I, Governor Sproul signed a bill pro viding that upon conviction, motor thieves shall pay a fine not exceeding $5,000 and undergo imprisonment for a period of not less than ten years. State Highway Commissioner Lewis S. Sadler, and Acting Superin tendent of State Police George F. Lumb to-day declared that the pro visions of both of these acts will be rigidly enforced. "With the co-operation of the courts of Pennsylvania," said State Highway Commissioner Sadler, "we hope soon to put an end to the business of stealing automobiles —a business incidentally which seems to have been highly productive, judging from police records throughout the State." Captain Lumb issued the following statement: "Every member of the State police force has ' been instructed to give particular attention to enforcement of the Cox bill just signed by the Governor and to the act which pro vides $5,000 fine and ten years' im prisonment. We are determined to put an end to motor thieving in Pennsylvania. It is going to be as unhealthy to steal an automobile in this State as it used to be to steal horses In the far West." —The act of May 1 is one of the most drastic measures ever signed by a Governor of Pennsylvania. It provides, "that if any person shall feloniously take or steal any motor vehicle, or shall be an accessory thereto before or after the fact, or shall receive or purchase any mo tor vehicle knowing the same to have been stolen, the person so of fending shall be guilty of a felony, afnd upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceed ing five thousand dollars and to undergo imprisonment by separate or solitary confinement at labor not exceeding ten years." Briefly, the Cox Bill contains the following provisions: That the person conveying or passing title to any used motor vehicle must furnish to the buyer or transferee a full de scription of the vehicle in duplicate. The description must include the name of the manufacturer, horse power of the vehicle, the number under which it was last registered by the State Highway Department of Pennsylvania or of the state wherein it was so registered together with a full account of the numbers and marks Identifying the vehicle. The description must be accompanied by a statement in duplicate giving the name or names of residences of the previous owner or owners, giving complete information as to where they may be found. It is also provid ed that this statement shall include information concerning the date and place at which ownership began by the person transferring the vehicle and whether he acquired title by pur chase or in some other manner. De tails must be given covering changes and alterations in the finish design or appearance of the second-hand ve hicle. These provisions are contained in Section 2 of the Act. Section 3 provides that persons who buy or otherwise acquire title to a used motor vehicle must obtain from the vendor or transferee there of a written description and state ment in duplicate provided for in Section 2. The person thus buying the machine must make a statement in duplicate giving his name and complete facts concerning his resi dence, together with the description of the motor vehicle itself. The state ment and description in duplicate must be verified by either oath or affirmation of the person buying the vehicle, who within ten days after acquiring the used car shall file one copy of each of the verified state ment and description with the State Highway Commissioner at Harris burg and one copy in the office of the police chief of the city or borough wherein acquisition was made, or in the office of the clerk of the Courts of Quarter Sessions If the transfer did not take place in a city or bor ough. In Section 4, it is provided that no licenses shall be issued by the State 1 Highway Department until state ments and descriptions have been WONDER WHAT SOME WAD WAITERS THIN&BOVT ~ ByBRIGGS Y MWAT ARE Yop\ /7"VF~<SOTA\ T~HOPE I )U VAJASO'T /WOMESTLY JOMKTT?) I ALU SWELLEX> / BET FOOL, ENOUGH "LB I W ' MV R F S / TOO NCEP A I / r jssi~srn 4 r x e b,s BeT ° m rrtAT * °° *=( SALARY OR I XTJMOIOEY I PCRSOWY YOU WA/OU, 1 TOO OUT OF J /POM'T ROO KMOOO THAT USTEM -SIMPLETOW- VAJILLARD WILLARD ,s GOIMC, TOKMOCK I WILL J-UST POSH THAT LOKJG 6H 7 H AS CCM \ A>EMPSEV OUT THE / LEFT OF HLS IMTO DEN\PSCV 5 I E J O Y OU? OF LIFE VOHY D EM PI£V , / RO FIET H -%MS MAY BF R,6HT 1 WILL THRASH AROOOD THAT / A TWO REEL COMBDV- THAT I PLN<3, LIKE A LITTLE WILD THSIS BAN& - OUT <AOES DEMISEY MAU-A6JO YOU OCXS HT TO ~ AMD YOO MAKE A MOM KEY OUT IS WWT THAT filed in the department. The sunt of $2.50 is required for each state ment and description furnished to the department. In Section 5, It is provided that the State Highway Commissioner when ever he shall receive the report of the theft of a motor vehicle, whether this vehicle has been registered in Pennsylvania or not, or whether it. is owned in this State or another State, shall make a record of the theft and file it in numerical order with the rec ords of the vehicles of such make al ready registered. In the event of the receipt of an application for the registration of such motor vehicle, he must immediately notify the rightful owner. In the event of which the State Highway Commis sioner has been notified, it shall be the duty of the owner immediately to notify the State Highway Commis sioner, who shall cause the record of the theft to be removed from the i file. Section 6, provides that no trade mark, manufacturing number or any other distinguishing mark on any motor vehicle may be destroyed or obliterated. In Section 7, it is made unlawful for any person to have in his pos session any motor vehicle or parts thereof from which identification numbers or marks have been remov ed, obliterated or covered. It is pro vided in this section that persons having in their possession cars from which identification marks have been removed. obliterated or changed, "shall be presumed to have knowl edge thereof, and the burden of proof shall rest upon such person to show that he had no such knowledge." Po- i lice officers are instructed that they must immediately seize cars on which numbers have been obliterated and arrest the owners or custodians. Section 8 provides that proprietors of public garages must keep a record of the names of all persons owning or having charge of vehicles stored or left for repairs or other purposes at the public garage, together with the make, manufacturer's number, name of the State or registration and the registration number. After July 1, 1919, it is provided in Section 9, of the Act, it is unlawful for any person to carry on in Penn sylvania the business of selling or dealing in used motor vehicles un less he shall have received a license from the State Highway Commission er authorizing him to conduct such a business. The Passing of an Art [From the Detroit News] IF your tears are not all shed in the sorrow of recent years, save one for the vanquished clown and the vacant place he leaves in the passing pleasures of the race. What are these animated makeups the modern circus foists on the pub lic to take their place? Stiff-jointed automatons, performing set stunts, depending on novel tricks and a gen erous stock of stage properties. No art is found in them, nothing that any chalk faced biped couldn't do, sans genius, sans cleverness, sans humor, sans everything except their clown suit and trick instruments. The art. apparently, is dead. There were great clowns before Grimaldi, and great clowns since; masters of the silent pantomine who conquered an audience by individual effort even when the expanding size of the Big Top and made the old familiar joke cracking impossible. They were mimics, artistic foolers, with rubber faces and highly gifted physical equipment. Think of Dan Rice! of John Lolo! Of Slivers, prince of them all! Of Patterson, the singing clown! These were the masters of their profession, when to be a clown was artistic achievement and fooling a cultivated art. The lights may be brighter, the turns fresher, the costumes more garish, and a dress suited ringmaster may control his vast and various per formance with a compelling whistle Insteac of the picturesque long lash ed wl ,ps of other days. |lut the clown —the clown is gone; and they give us instead regiments of me chanical fools. THE SAILOR Back to your lips across the whole broad world. Back to the same dear lips which kissed "Goodby," Mother, I came: and now they are no more. What though from Universe to Uni verse, Some day I follow whither you have gone Unresting, till I find your lips again? I cannot find them now when I go home: I only find the memory of them, And the memory of my coldness and your tears. —H_ G. D. In the Poetry Review. BRITAIN HOPES TO RULE AIR Mastery of the Sea Not Enough for the Far Flung Empire. [From the Now York Tribune.] [From the New York Tribune] GREAT BRITAIN is actively en gaged in laying the founda tion of a world wide aerial supremacy as complete as was her maritime supremacy prior to the war. Her plans to achieve this im portant object were started even before this country entered tho war. Moreover, she is completely con vinced that aerial transportation will revolutionize her widespread empire and lirmly weld it together V'y the speed that is tho chief at tribute of aircraft. Realizing the importance aero nautics would play in the economic development of the world in gen eral, and the reconstruction period alter the war in particular, the Brit ish government appointed the civil aerial transport committee May 22, 1917, to "consider and report to the air ministry with regard to: "1. The steps which should be taken with a view to development and regulation after the war of avi ation for civil and commercial pur poses from a domestic imperial and an international standpoint. "2. The extent to which it will be possible to utilize for the above pur pose the trained personnel and the aircraft which the conclusion of peace may leave surplus to the re quirements of the naval and mili tary services of the United Kingdom and overseas dominions." The committee was presided over by I.ord Northcliffe, and included many prominent citizens of the Brit ish Empire. Its report was com pleted and presented to Parliament Says War Diet Was Best [From the Indianapolis News.] Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, a Hoosier who became famous a$ an authority on the proper food, has been mak ing a short visit to Indiana friends. He says: "I regret that the American peo ple so soon abandoned tho restricted diet enforced by the war time Food Administration.. The use of white flour instead of the war mixture Is a step backward so far as the public health is concerned. The war bread was more nutritious and, in every particular, more to be desired than the bread we are using to-day.** Doctor Wiley says his family went on a war diet before the rest of the country and the same diet is being kept up, even though restrictions have been, to a large measure, re moved. He also thinks the curtail ment of sugar was a great thing for the country and is sorry the sugar bowl has gone back on the restau rant and hotel tables. How Americans Are Blessed [From the Manufacturers Record] While American people are com plaining about the high cost of liv ing, they have little appreciation of what it means to have high prices and in connection there with ex tremely low wages. Spain is an illus tration of what some European countries are suffering in that re spect. In Spain common workmen are getting less than sixty cents a day, carpenters and blacksmiths $1.40 a dav, and other laborers in propor tion. Notwithstanding these ex tremely low rates of wages, wheat is selling on the basis of more than $2.50 per bushel and sugar fifteen cents a pound, while a sheep costs sl2 and a cow about $l6O and a work mule S4OO. Spirit of the Foe [Harvey's Weekly] The Huns run true to form. While whining aboutwhatthey falsely pretend is the Allies disre gard of the terms of the armistice, they themselves wantonly and flagrantly violate the armistice in spirit and in letter and commit an act of war by treacherously their surrendered ships. While pleading for peace and for equal recognition in the community of nations, they seek to fix a date for beginning an unprovoked war against a neighbor nation. These things are not surprising, save to those whose memory ends with yes terday. They are a useful remind er of the spirit, of the foe whom we have been fighting, and whom some purblind persons want us immedi ately to take to our hearts as a long lost brother. May 11, 1918, and just become available to the American public through the Manufacturers' Air craft Association. By far the most remarkable part of the report is the reservation n ado by Frank Pick, one of the members of the committee, when signing it. In it Mr. Pick says: "Tho strategic position of this country in relation to the air differs fundamentally from tpe strategic position in relation to ithe sea. So long as the shores of the North At lantic are occupied by: the leading civilized peoples, so lopg the Brit ish position is advantageous as a center of sea power. But if air power is to usurp to arty degree the piace of sea power, and this seems i probable so long as flight over land holds appreciable advantages over flight over sea, so thq position of a country placed centrally as gards land must be superior to the position of a country! placed cen trally as regards water! "Our self interest, therefore, as a great power lies towafd an inter national settlement of air sov ereignty. "The right to pass peross other national territory without let or hin drance, relief from varying terms and conditions attaching to flight which may be onerous and irksome, the absence of customs restraints or tariff restrictions, and generally the absence .of the apparatus for hampering or artiflcally routing trade are all wanted. On all' these grounds it is submitted that the case for nn international settlement is strengthened." City Paid Life. Insurance [From the New York Times.] At a recent meeting of the sinking fund commission, it developed that for the last ten years, the city has been paying premiums on the life in surance policy it took out for the sculptor, Frederick C. MacMonnies, who is author of the plans for a new fountain in City Hall Park. The policy is for $20,000, and the pre mium paid yearly is $833. Controller Craig explained that this was done to insure the city against the loss of money which it has been expending for the new fountain, in case the sculptor might have met with a mishap before fin ishing his work. The plans for the fountain have been practically com pleted for some time now, but the art commission is withholding its aproval to its being installed in City Hall Park until "a few finish ing touches" are added to the work. How to Enjoy a Smoke [Representative Robert Y. Thomas, Jr., of Kentucky, in a speech in the Hous'e of Representatives.] If a man wants a good, comfort able soul satisfying smoke he should get a Kentucky or a Missouri corn cob pipe and some natural leaf hill side tobacco and go out into the country to a log farmhouse and sit in the front yard under an old oak tree, in his shirt sleeves, with his shirt unfastened in front and his suspenders down, close by an old well of cool water with a sweep and an old, moss covered bucket. There he can get tho right kind of smoke, such as the denizens of crowded, profiteering cities never dreamed of in their philosophy, while with half closed eyes he watches the curling, fragrant smoke drift away and min gle with the lazy, fleeting clouds while he dreams of home and heaven. TRADE BRIEFS The Republic of Portugal has is sued a decree declaring free of im port duties tho following articles: j Wheat and all other flour cereals, in , the grain or as flour; corn, under i license from the Ministry of Supplies, | and olive oil of an acidity of not less j than 5 degrees. An act which has just passed the j Nova Scotia l.egislaturo fixes 5 per j cent, per annum as the rate of in- I terest on judgment debts. Joshiiig the Medico [From the Boston Transcript] ! "And shall II he able to play the ! piano when iqy hands heal?" asked the wounded soldier. "Certainly fou will," the doctor said. /"Gee, that'll .great! I never could before." Dawn of New Era [Fourth Estate] The prediction made in The Fourth Estate some months ago, soon after the signing of the armi stice, that wc were approaching the greatest era of advertising the coun try had ever known, is being amply fulfilled at the present time, and this is only the beginning. The war is over. We have paid the i price for world democracy in blood and in billions of money. We have earned the right to a period of prosperity, and it is at hand. That the big advertisers now be lieve what this paper has long main tained, that judicious advertising should be considered as an invest ment and not as an expense, is amply proven by the very large number of full page advertisements in the daily papers. Those ads cost real money, great chunks of it, but the adver tisers evidently have faith that they are merely ousting bread upon the waters that will surely come back to them manyfold.. That we have entered upon a new period of the advertising business is also evidenced by many things be sides the large space being used. For one. several of the advertising agents are ticking their own medicine, and not in homeopathic doses either, for thev are using full pages in dailies in the big cities. This is a radical departure, and one that must com mand the respectful attention of the business world. Where these men lead the national advertiser need not hesitate to follow. Another significant thing about re cent developments is the fact that the United States Government is now paving the market price for its ad vertising. instead of begging for the space that is the stock in trade of the publisher, and which he has given freely to the government during the war. There is one more point that it is especially pleasing to the publishers to note, and that is that there is n steady increase in the percentage of advertising outlay that goes to the newspapers. This has been noted bv the experts for the past five years, the trend in this direction having been especially strong in the past few months. INVEST THAT SURPLUS [From Fourth Estate! The large amount of advertising business now going out is evidence that the suggestion made in this paper a few weeks ago to the effect that surplus earnings be put back into the business in the form of ad vertising is being heeded. It is a business-like thing to do, and the habit once acquired will be likely to last. The fact that Government bu reaus are placing their business through the advertising agencies, just as other advertisers are doing, gives them thus a recognition that is both gratifying and well deserved. The day has gone by when the big advertiser thought that he could handle his advertising direct. It requires skill, training, and a classi fied and thorough knowledge as to mediums that the private individual or even the big firm or corporation cannot afTord to acquire, especially when it is considered that it is his for the asking if he goes to a good agency. It has taken the Govern ment a good while to get around to that viewpoint, but it is there at last, and, no doubt, there to stay. And here Is a point for the ulti mate consumer to bear in mind, and that is that quantity production, made possible by big advertising, tends toward a lowering of prices, for the greater the output the smaller the unit cost of production. SALOON SUBSTITUTES [Phila:. Public Eedger] It is encouraging to find multiply ing examples of the conversion of abandoned, dismantled churches and schoolhouses Into community cen ters, and in some instances the old saloon building itself finds the bar sinister displaced by the soda foun tain with tables for sociable games in the offing, rooms for boy and girl scouts, gymnastic apparatus, a pool table and perhaps the Imple ments for manual training. Surely, if it iB important that people should go to church it is Just as important that the church should go to the people, especially in this era of and question, when the ft.tindatlons of faith are tested and those who profess a genu ine Interest in their fellow men are called upon to prove It by their work*. I Stoning (g^ One of the handsomest booklets that has come to the attention of the Telegraph in months is that is sued by the Lebanon Chamber of Commerce, descriptive of the advan tages, merits and beauties of Leba non as a place of residence and as a location for business and Industry. The cover bears in relief an out line of the map of Pennsylvania on which are the words LEBANON PENNSYLVANIA, and below a red keystone bearing the lnscriptlo®: "Lebanon, Keystone City of the Key stone State." The authors of the booklet hays assembled a series of 317 photo graphs which show off Lebanon city and its surroundings in a manner that would have been impossible to describe in as many pages of written matter. But Lebanon has more than mere beauty and industry to commend her. Eighty-six per cent of Leba non's folks are native white of na tive parentage, as compared with 65 per cent for the State and 49 r>fr cent average for cities near its size. The foreign-born white population | sb per cent while in the State at ' '*'B® an d other cities it is 18.8 ai)d 2- per cent, respectively. Illiteracy 8 at 3 per c ent in the Lebano®, 6.9 for the State and 7.7 for other cities of the size. Its stone has been used in countless buildings, from cottages to the Washington monu ment at Washington, and iron from . e .tT ornwall mi nes has contributed to the success of our wars from the days of Washington down to the . present, including a vast number of projectiles large and small that made Fritz take the long journey back to one last year- More than 200,000,000 tons have been mined there and the mines are still pro ducing at the rate of 300,000 tons a year. Limestone is another pro duct that enriches the people of Lebanon, the average daily shipment being 4,000 tons. But the county does not rely solely on its mineral*, manufacturies and business enter prises. It has a cultivated farm area of farm land totalling 160,000 acres, which last year produced three quarters of a million bushels or wheat, one and a half million bushels of corn, 713,000 bushels of ?7 nhn h *£ 6 ? bushels of Potatoes, 37,000 bushels of rye and 42,196 tons or nay, in addition to vegetables and rruits, the total valuation of which is fixed at $6,500,000. - ** • f Lebanon has & live Chamber of M Commerce always on the lookout for : good things for Lebanon and it has had a very large part in the rapid, development of the city in recent years. Also it has been identified with all of the war activities, has helped put over the Libertv Loan and other drives and now that the war is over it is turning its attention to attracting business and industry to Lebanon. • • • The War Camp Community Serv ice has a number of other and big ger "stunts" than it has as yet developed for Harrisburg, according to the director in charge. Mr. Gar vin. It is not yet ready to announce its plans but during the course of , the summer and to wind up the , vacation season several programs that are bound to attract the at tention of the whole city are being outlined. The people of the city are becoming wonderfully interested in the work the service has under taken here and it is believed much will bo accomplished in the way of bringing all classes together for civic organization and other activities. *. < • • • The hum of the reapers and bind- , ers is heard all through the coun try round about. By the evening of Julj 4, most of the wheat in Central Pennsylvania will be in the shockf The crop according to those who have been through the Cumberland t Valley and surrounding country will be above the average in many sec tions, although here and there it has ' been seriously damaged by smut , and insects. But at current prices the farmer is not worrying much ; over that. He is counting the bush - els and rejoicing that he planted so ' much. Corn, which was somewhat J behind the season, is rapidly catch - ing up, duo to the rains of the pas 4 week and the fine growing weather I which followed. Farm help Is hard ■" to procure but the shortage will not ' result In any serious losses. VACATION TIME [From the Detroit Free Press] With June's long, warm days come thoughts of vacations, thoec inter vals of rest and recreation so es sential to physical and mental re freshments and renewal. Everyone needs to get "out of the rut" at least once a year, otherwise the monotony wears like a grain of sand between hub and axle, making for friction. True, there are some un fortunates who are so firmly fixed in their grooves that they cannot enjoy a vacation because it takes them from the only zest they know; and there are others to whoih life is all vacation in that they are at liberty to roam as they please, and neither know the real joy of freedom from care and responsi bility. Several items demand considera tion in planning the worker's vaca tion, as distance, expense, compan ionship. The usual time limit neces sitates short journeys, too much of it must not be spent In transit; rail and hotel rates must be con sidered; if we "go cousining" we must not put acquaintanceship to too severe a test. A change of seen* and association also is desirable, though one requires a companion able companion as a standby. A vacation is a good test of the genu ineness of a friendship. The little Irritations and inconveniences of a journey try the stuff of which a friend is made. Vacations have done much for the minds and manners of the Ameri can people. Getting away from home educates us in the customs and observances of others. However careless or brusque we may be at home we take along our best man ners as well as our best clothes when we make holiday. The social life of summer resort piazzas is observed and imitated, and we trj*. to act as if we were accustomed' to the same thing at home—only a little more of it, perhaps—due to the human tendency to swank. The beet holiday is that which provides the largest amount of new experiences; one of its best fruitsI*' 1 *' is a new friendship. Work on Solomon's Temple And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdom. And Solomon told out three score Ad ten thousand men to bear burdeniv and four score thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.— II Chronicles 11, 1 and 2. Mercy For an Immortal [From the Wisconsin State Journal] Application for pardon: Helen Rush Skibosh, convicted December 11, 14. of larceny frees pweoo. ".i i
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