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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.
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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
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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. -
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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.
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