10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Tublished evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINTJETZ. Managing Editor j A. R. MICHEXEU. Circulation Manager Executive Board S. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. j 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. Alt rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ; . A Member American F} Newspaper Pub tlishers" Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocla ated Dailies. Avenue Building, Western office'. Story, Brooks & Gas Building Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. ■ | By carrier, ten cents a US'r.TV.r.gft.> week; by mail, 83.00 a | N year in advance. MONDAY, JULY 7, 1919 Keep a brave spirit, and never de spair; Hope brings you messages through the keen air— Good is ricforioits —God everywhere. Anon. j DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION N interesting fact came to the i A surface at the meeting of the j National Education Associa tion in Milwaukee the other day. One of the speakers, Guy Stanton Ford, dean of the graduate school of Minneapolis, under whose direc tion the Committee on Public Infor mation sent more than 40.000,000 educational pamphlets to Europe and throughout America to culti vate civilian morale in wartime, declared that "insidious foreign propaganda poisoning national ideals and secret anarchy must be com bated by the right type of demo cratic education." Another speaker, the Director of Citizenship of the Federal Department of ad vocated extension of the Feueral plan of Americanization through wide use of school houses. Pennsylvania has at the head of the Department of Public Instruc tion now one who is thoroughly im bued with the importance of Amer icanization effort in the schools. Dr. Kinegan, as acting president of the University of the State of New York and Commissioner of Education, last March submitted to the Board of Regents a table and map dealing with the question of illiteracy and demonstrating that it is not a sec tional question. For the purpose of approaching this question in a di rect and comprehensive manner and of obliterating illiteracy within the next few years. Dr. Finegan stated that New Y'ork had been di vided into fifteen zones, -each com prising several counties, the table submitted showing the population of and the number of illiterates in each of such counties. In his report. Dr. Finegan recom mended that provision be made for the appointment of a director in each of these zones; that boards of estimate and apportionment; boards of supervisors and town boards be authorized to make appropriation to aid in the work; that teachers be employed in the several zones to give Instruction to all illiterates under the supervision of the zone director: that wherever possible the public schools be utilized in giving instruction to illiterates; that when a public school is not accessible to all illiterates classes be organized for the benefit of those who could not be thus reached in shops and factories, and when found necessary home instructors should be appoint ed in order to reach women, and in some cases men. who could not be induced to attend a public school or a class in a factory or shop. It is the opinion of the present head of Pennsylvania's school sys tem that many men who have re turned from the service will have an appreciation of the necessity for teaching illiterates and non-English speaking persons and that these men will gladly give their time to aid in this patriotic work. He believes that all organized civic agencies in the State should be brought into active co-operation in the campaign. As in New York the military census for 1919 contains the names and addresses of all Illiterates, this in formation Is available for zone di rectors. teachers and other agencies Interested in the work. In his Investigation of the condi tions In New York, Dr. Finegan found that there were 597,000 per sons In that State unable to speak English. He declares that one of the most Immediately pressing edu cational problems before the Nation Is that of educating the adult llllter •f, " * MONDAY EVENING, ate. In the opinion of the new head of our educational activities we should enter into a specific and definite program contemplating the teaching to read and write the English language of those who can not read and write within the next two years. Having gone deeply into the problem us it affects the Empire State, it may be assumed that Dr. Finegan will make the Americani zation work an important feature of the educational effort of Pennsyl vania. The other day a young Italian who came to this country at the age of 18, and who has since become a most enthusiastic and patriotic American citizen, expressed some forceful views in u published article on the weakness of our attitude as a Nation towards the immigrant. Out of his own bitter experiences he concluded that a personal interest in the immigrant and a real effort to help him understand our institu tions and would do as much to correct the unrest of the alien population as the educational facili ties which are provided in night and other schools, although he favored all such agencies in solving the problem. Speaking for himself, he had found, he said, a better ap preciation of America through liv ing in a sympathetic home than in any other way. An aged oitizen of Harrisburg, who was born overseas, said to the Telegraph not long ago that there is too little interest taken in the immigrant by the average good cit izen; that because of this indiffer ence the foreign-born resident im bibes the notion that he is not wanted here and as a result him self becomes indifferent to our sys tem of government and the Ameri can ideals. A general Americanization move ment throughout the State, fostered by patriotic and civic organizations, would probably bring about a re markable change in the attitude of the alien population and reduce in large measure the menace of Bol shevism and similar movements of the restless element of our popula tion which comes from overseas. Dr. Finegan may be trusted to give force and effect to an active propa ganda looking to Americanization in every corner of the State. City Council cannot afford to pass up the Italian Park proposition ow ing to the comparatively smalt cost of improvement of that district. Too many opportunities have been lost to • Harrisburg through exaggeration of the first cost as against the wide spread benefits involved in present action for the future good of the community. It will not be forgotten' that the city once declined to accept a gener ous tender of land for park purposes by the late Dr. E. H. Coover, and found too late what a serious mis take was made. Let no such blunder follow with regard ti tblffcu.v Plan ning Commission's proposition and j the generous tender of the McKee- Graham estate. Faithful canteen workers in this city have been made unhappy by the occasional carload of military prison ers who have received their kindly attentions. These prisoners are said to include a considerable number of young soldiers whose offense was ab senting themselves from camps in Europe without leave after the armis tice. Handcuffed and without shoes they present a sad spectacle, and the good women who minister to their comfort during their stops here can not understand severity of the punishment imposed upon these men who fought for the sake of humanity. Maybe the time will come when the tremendous water power of the Sus quehanna river will be utilized to illuminate Harrisburg, furnish power for its street railways and industrial plants and electrify the railroads, which are now consuming great quantities of coal and belching smoke over the city and neighborhood. In cidentally, Congress is giving consid eration to water power legislation and the improvement of navigable streams, which facts encourage the hope that the canalization of the Susquehanna river is not a far-dis tant dream. Of course, the location of the pro posed new high school building on the Capitol Park civic center would have been ideal, but as one discouraging report after another regarding that particular location had the effect of holding up final decision in selecting a site, it is not surprising that public sentiment has crystallized in favor of another location. Careful study of the problem by the school direc tors has resulted in the almost unani mous conclusion that a central site is now out of the question. Inasmuch as the Boy Scouts of Harrisburg have taken an honorable and useful part in the city's activities! it is not too much to hope that the organization mr.y be specially equip ped for real propaganda and real ef fort In a movement for the planting and care of trees throughout the city. As nothing officially has been done the city may find, it necessary to ap peal to the sturdy boys who are soon to be the sturdy men of this progres sive community. The American people are looking with confidence to the present Con gress to untangle many of the snarls which have resulted from the incom petence of the present administra tion. Already the Senate and Houae have accomplished much In a short time, and the determination to en force economy of expenditure is an encouraging symptom under existing conditions. The Dupont's are making good use' of their millions in developing a great system of highways and modern school facilities for Delaware. Penn sylvania has not been so fortunate in private beneficence of this sort, hut the recent session of the Legis lature, under the tutelage of Gover | nor Sproul. took a long sten forward la the field of education. Ifotitcc* 1% By die Ex-Committeeman Governor Sprout's action upon bills now in his hands may have ! considerable effect upon dates for tiling nominating petitions with county commissioners this year. The ! bills were among those passed In the ! closing days of the recent session I and as they are operative upon ap proval there will be more or less I effect upon petitions and also nomi nation papers if they receive the signature of the executive. The period for circulating peti tions for judicial nominations, the only ones to be riled with the secre tary of the Commonwealth this year, is open and under the present law they may be tiled until August 8. If one of the bills is approved a day will be clipped off this period. In event of approval of other bills there would be a shortening of the time for filing petitions, with county commissioners. Under the existing law these papers can be circulated commencing on July II and must be filed August 20. If the bills are approved a state ment will be issued giving the new dates for circulation and filing. —The first nominating petition to be filed by a candidate for a judi cial nomination was entered by Timothy Everitt, of Stroudsburg. candidate for associate judge of Monroe county. All judicial nomi- J nations are on a nonpartisan basis, Jno change in the law as regards judges having been authorized by the last Legislature. —Governor William C. Sproul comes back to Harrisburg to-day to one of the greatest tasks that has confronted a Governor in regard to disposal of bills. Over 650 meas ures have to be acted upon within less than three weeks and when some of them are approved they will bring oth£r matters in their train as for instance the reorganiza tions or appointments for changes for which they provide. Virtually a third of the State Government is affected by the bills in the hands of the Governor and by August 1 it is probable that changes will be started. When a department is re organized every place under it be comes vacajit automatically and the job of selecting a force anew starts. Two-thirds of the bills in the hands of the Governor are appropriation measures and chairman of the ap propriation committees will be here during the week to present such in itiation regarding this year's ap propriations and what was voted in other years as the Governor may desire. Heads of several depart ments of the State Government, commissions and boards have also been summoned to be prepared to give information and the Capitol looks for a strenuous two weeks. —Gpvernor Sproul has been away from Harrisburg for about ten days, the greater part of which time has been spent at White Sulphur Springs, Va. He took a number of bills along with him and action on them is anticipated at an early day. Affile William I. Settr#* fer and his deputies have been busy on studies of various bills for Governor. —lt is probalile that the bill abolishing the State Fire Marshal's Department and transferring it to the State Police Department will he announced as signed soon. Mar shal Howard E. Butz. of Hunting don. will likely be the head of the new bureau and take most of his staff with him. —State wide interest has been aroused by the special bond election in Pittsburgh to-morrow. The loan submitted will be the largest to go before the people of any city in the State since the war and there are many ohieets to be carried out under it. With exception of the Pittsburgh Dispatch which is op posing the subway proposition in volving $6,000,000. the newspapers of the city are giving much space to the discussion in the newspapers. Mayor Bahcock's speeches are being printed extensively. This loan elec tion will be the preliminary to an interesting primary contest in Alle gheny county this year, the signs of which are to he seen. —The Philadelphia Evening Bul letin, which has been giving much attention to the coming mayoralty election in the Quaker city says first steps toward picking an independ ent candidate for mayor, will be taken to-day by the special commit tee named to discuss possible can didates. In this connection names of Congressman J. Hampton Moore. A. Lincoln Acker, A. E. Buck and Bayard Henry have been mentioned as Republican candidates. The In quirer says: Mr. Moore would not run without Penrose support. The Public Ledger is serious about the mayoralty, saying: "The choice of a Mayor and Council for the city of Philadelphia, under the terms of the revised charter, is not in any strict sense of the term a question of party politics. The Philadelphia Record on the other hand looks for a fine old fight. —Colonel George Max McCane, whose urticles in the Evening ledger are much discussed, has handled Philadelphia people a jolt by an article in which he says the new charter means a whole new crop of bosses. He writes: An entirely new order of things will be put in force a system that has never been tried in this or any other city in Pennsylvania. The New York system of district leadership which has made Tammany so powerful in the past, will form the basis for the reorganization of factions and par ties dominant and otherwise In the city." —William H. Wilson, former leg islator and now director of snfetv. is spoken of as a likely candidate for council. So is Pep-esentatives R. J. Oans. Patrick Conner. .James A. Walker. T. J. * Hefferman and "Jimmy" Franklin. More Responsibility TFrom the fsieieb News and Observerj No matter what t*>" Rtock Ex change mac do in cotton !no and down it ir ih weother man rb determining the final land- In* Dlace. > w HARRISBUBO TE3LEGRXPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEEWPT ~ B y BRIGGS & Vr^i~ I YauRS " YOU'LL \( ®. 'V OLD SHOES OUT- JAV O J/ AN ana,ful l M GO "° 6 To PL T . I ,XL FfMD V asaiisi Harmon /f handy SOME DAY // LOO^ injG im jne RAG BAG A u3e FoR tT ' 1-SOM6 DAY VAfHEN I GO OM A J V SlfiHT , -You NCV6R / x>AY > ( —— A, /T- .. _ "Awß THSIU ONE PAY YOUR THOSE T,<= i ARE \ / . / V predictions CAME TRUE /Too Good to Throw ] ( ?ausim& f SHY ! what do yoo J TesTu / OUT- SKEW To „ P e f WAIUTA Throw Tn'.i OLtU A R.ouS mu-'f / MF- I'LL F/UD A (FOR YEARS HAT OF MIWC AO/AY FOR? X GL *X R To VUEAR I ' ™" s JUS>T T,Ae ' TV,,M FOR ) X m-fi-flfl I CHMJCE to VUtA _ AT uUAS / X Ti> Tor. \ THEM OIU MY J \ A GOOXJ MAT-YOU f >v VUA /-OV V VACATION- y J V T BUY 'EM No Wonder Germany Quit NUMBER TWENTY-ONE "I wonder how many people have j any idea how a relief is made in j the trenches," said Major Frank C. j Mahin of the' Army Recruiting sta- | tion, 3-5 Market street, Harrisburg. j "In the first place, in 1917 they ] changed the system of occupying the ] trenches from a continuous line of j men to the so-called 'combat group' i system. Under this system the | trenches were held by groups of i from twelve to twenty-five men with : unoccupied gaps of from fifty to i four hundred yards between combat I groups. Patrols in No Man's Land I and through the trenches prevented 1 the Bochc from coming in. In the I active sectors the groups were fifty ! yards or so apart, but as you got j into quieter areas the distances in- j creased up to four hundred yards | or even more if the country was mountainous. Each company of in fantry would hold a certain 'front' | QThe trenches with four or five i combat groups in the front line; about an equal number in rear in | the support line of trenches and us- j ually two larger groups in the third 1 or reserve line trenches. Each | combat group had a permanent j number so that it would be known j for example, as G. C. No. 3 (Trench: I Groupe de Combat). When a relief | was to be made, the relieving troops would be moved up to a village or woods six or seven miles back of the trenches and would be scheduled to arrive in this woods or village just before daylight. They would there all day and at dark would be lined up. Perhaps a company ; was to occupy an area containing j eleven combat groups. During day the Captain would be given a I list showing the number of men for i each group by number. When his ! company was lined up at dark, he I ,/ould designate fifteen men for G. . C. No. 1; twelve men for G. C. j No. 2, and so forth, until every man : is assigned. About that time four or five men would report to the . captain as guides; the company would be split up into the combat groups with the guides scattered at j intervals through the column and , away the first group would go. Sin- ; gle men—called connecting files— I would follow at about twenty-five yards between men, until the first group had gone perhaps two hun dred yards when the second group, less the connecting files already gone, would start, and so forth until at last the whole company was under way. If the guides and con necting files are not on the job every minute some group may take a wrong turning in the dark and get lost. Since they are following little trails, often through dense woods and frequently intersecting with other trails, it is a most easy thing to get lost. In silence, no smoking, no lights of any kind the men tramp along through the dark carrying everything they own on their backs, including two days food and two hundred and twenty rifle cartridges each. Now and then there will be a distant flash like lightning and then after a long time a dull boom: then a .rat-tat-tat of a ma chine gun harassing the enemy, then perhaps a rocket shooting high up into the air. bursting out into a vivid white light that seems to last for. hours but is really only seconds and lights everything up so you feel sure the Boche have seen you. Fin ally a voice from the shadow of a tree will demand 'what G. C. is that'; •No. 7' 'Numero Sent.' the voice .will say. and a Frenchman will step out repeating 'Numero Sep'* and lead nff down into a trench. The group bv now nrettv tired, muddy, and nerhfins also a little nervous, trnmn for miles throneh appnrentlv end less trenches with not a thing to sap except a strip of skv. Thev pass innumerable cros trenches and fln a!lv someone calls out 'halt;' the guide advances and 'here Is a muti tared conversation; then the groui) nass on through a harb wire gate in the trenep end someone whe sneak English sings nut "welcome to ou r dtv' or some similar greet 'ng. For n few minutes all is coo. fusion; eacer Frenchmen voluhlr es-nlainlpg In Frrert, p lot of stuff nnhod v understands. The lieuten nof anpnrentlv gets some iiiens. •hough, and shows the men their dugouts, post sentries to relieve the French and In fifteen or twenty The Original "Ape Man" NEWSPAPER reports that pro-1 feasor R. L. Garner, of the; Smithsonian Institute of Wash- j ington, D. C., has found in the French Congo a "man monkey" or ' "talking ape" lend interest to a com- i munication sent by the late Theo- j dore Roosevelt to the National Geo- j graphic Society telling of the pre- j human ape man of Java, who lived J some 500,000 years ago, and marked j an upward stage in the evolution of j mun. Colonel Roosevelt's famous jungle I hunt was in the vicinity of Profes- I sor Garner's travels, as they are dc- j scribed in newspaper dispatches, and ! the Roosevelt big game is mounted ! in the Smithsonian Institute with which Professor Garner is associat ed. Regarding this "ape-man" of Java, one of many "missing links" in hu man evolution Colonel Roosevelt wrote to the National Geographic ] Society: "This being was already half way j upward from the beast, half way be- j tween true man and those Miocene ' ancestors of his, who were still on i the psychic and intellectual level of ! their diverging kinsfolk, the anthro- | poid apes. He, or some creature like : him, was in our own line of ascent j during these uncounted ages when i our ancestors were already different i from all other brutes and yet had j not grown to be really men.- He i probably used a stone or club at need; and about this time he may I have begun very rudely to chip or otherwise fashion stones to his use. "His progress was very, very slow; the marked feature in the progress of man has been its great accelera tion of rapidity in each successive stuge, accompanied continually by an inexplicable halt of dying out in I race after race and culture after ! culture. "After the ape-man of Java we skip a quarter of a million years or so, before we get our next glimpse of a near-human predecessor of ours. This Is the Heidelberg man, who lived in the warm second in- i terglacial period, surrounded by a minutes the clump of French feet die away in the distance and another section of the west front has been j taken over by the Americans." Dr. Anna Howard Shaw [From the Philadelphia Record] In the hour of victory. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, the woman suffrage leader, is dead at her home in Moy lan. Her associates will speak of her as a martyr to the cause, and in a sense they will be right, for the pressing work put upon her during the past few months could not but have aji injurious effect upon her system, weakened by intermittent I colds during the winter and by the added burden of years. But Dr. Shaw's work was donc,\ and as she was "all woman ' it is not surprising that she should pass as she did. It was but natural that she should display the womanly trait of holding determinedly to the work in hand while that work was yet to do, and of giving way only when the stress was over. She lived to see accomplished the dream which she shared with Susan B. Anthony, and she had the comfort of ending her days surrounded by loving friends who rejoiced with her in the victory. The woman suffragists were most fortunate in having in their leader such an attractive and winning per sonality as Dr. Shaw possessed. Eminently sane in her views, opposed to militancy, tolerant, witty, dis tinguished in appearance and thor '• oughly devoted to her cause, she I mude'friend3 for it where the more I radical advocates repelled them. A I wholesome and lovable character in I every way, Or. Shaw will he missed Iby thousands who found In her a I safe guide and a generous and help | ful friend. Kansas at the Soda fountain [From the Salina Journal.] One of the most helpless things existing to-day Is the nickel. It can do nothing without the help of a penny. Discomforts of Minnesota [From the Red Wing Eagle] Mrs". R. J- Long, of Minneapolis, is rpending a few dy is at peace and dreams have closed his eyes. But his enlrlt drains the cun of love for wh'eh his body hied. Oh, poems may be made'by fools, as humbly he has said. Yet God and he have made the tree beneath whose shade he lies. —Louis Ay res Garnett in Poetry. JULY 7, 1919. BRAKE OS RADICALISM [From the Ohio State Journal.] A man's personal circumstances make all the difference in the world in his views of economic rights and wrongs. Give the most extreme and vociferant Socialist on the tows plat at job at $ 15,000 a year and he no longer will believe that all the money on earth ought to be divided up equally. He will buy a sedan and be converted to the eternal prin ciples of conservatism . No State in the Union is more opposed to Bolshevism in all its crack-brained and hideous tenets than Kansas. Kansas stands like a rock, a living speaking rock, for the recognized and just rights of property. Kansas is harvesting its wheat crop, 11 million acres, 225 million bushels of the golden grain, worth 450 million dollars if a cent. The only bone Kansas has to pick with capitalism at present is that motor car companies are shamefully behind on their deliveries. Other wise the status quo is just about right. But if the Government had fixed the price of wheat at 50 cents a bushel or if the hot wtnds and the grasshoppers and the Hessian fly had harried and ravaged and de spoiled those golden fields then Kansas, as we know by past experi ence, woufd be for Bolshevism in some rural guise so earnestly, so deafeningly. so determinedly and so contagiously that all we sober minded. sound minded, sound money, rights of property citizens of Ohio and other points in the effete Fast would be worried to death' about the control of the national convention. We wish Kansas and evervhody else could he prosperous and hanpy all the time though per haps the world makes more real progress when a grasshopper year is thrown in occasionally. Prarl Fishinq in Ozarks [St. T,ouis Republic] Picknninnies solved a big problem for John T. Winston, pearl king of >ho Ozarks. and made it possible for him to nick 512.000 from the bottom of White River during the pearl fish'ng season of i l 9lß. Heavv floods swamped the pearl fishing business at the height of the season. Thorn are manv pearl fish ers along White River, which is pocuHarlv rich in pearl-bearing mus sels. and thav knocked off business heefiiise of the hleh water. Not so Wins'on. He employed twenty o thirtv little negro bovs. who rowed out in boats and dived for mussels. As a result Winston sold SI,OOO worth of mussels to button manufac turers and $9,000 worth of pearls in addition to one fine gem of splen did luster weighting 12" grains, for which he received $2,700. Winston began pearl fishing three years ngo. He started out with a fiat-bottom boat and a pair of tongs with handles ten feet long. The mussels he fished up with his tongs he cooked in an iron boiler to> enable him to extract the meat easily and leave yie shells smooth and clean. That year he sold fifty tons of pearl shells to button factories and found 120 pearls. The larger and finer of these he disposed of for $3,580. With the smaller ones his wife began a collection for a neck lace. The next year Winston hired sev eral helpers and cleaned up $7,000 in addition to 200 small but beauti ful pearls which were added to his wife's collection. This year, in addition to the $12,- 000 he made from his fishing, he found enough pearls to complete his wife's necklace, which is now valued at $6,000. It is composed of 500 pearls In seven strands and rang ing from the size of a pinhead. to five magnificent gems weighing' forty grains each. A Missouri Summer Day [From the Kansas City Star.] Frank Robinson, a farmer of Oak Grove, was driving a self-binder lrf his wheat field Wednesday, when he smelted smoke. He found nothing wrong with the machine and start ed to drive on. Just then he felt a painful sensation In his r'ght arm. His Shirt Sleeve was burning. Oil from the machine had soaked Into It. and the heat of the sun set the grease afire, he believes. Robinson extinguished the blaze before *- ther harm was done. < Ebftiiitg (Elfal ? If any one haa an Idea that the people of Harrlsburg are not ested in the project of establishing an educational center for the higher branches of the city's school system in the Hoffman's woods sector, so to speak, all he needed to do was to observe the people who roamed through the old woods and looked over the adjacent property in spite of the heat yesterday. This prop erty has been talked of for so many things and is familiar to so many people becuuse of picnics of years gone by and the site of gypsy camps that more are interested than would be thought of. Yesterday morning there were a number of men and their families strolling through the tall trees and stepping over the wet places In the abandoned grove and In the afternoon notwithstanding the weather conditions people were to r be seen going about and looking over it. Harrisburg's high school > problem is interesting more people than the school directors and men , In public life Imagine and the pre sentation of the new project has not only stirred up street car conver sation, but also caused folks to go and look over the land discussed. The site has many an advantage even if it is not in the middle of the Harrlsburg of 1919 and occupies in this day and generation a place com parable to Sixteenth and State streets did possibly a score of years , ago or Second and Kelker streets did when Dauphin county celebrated *1 its centennial. " • • Reference to that mythical sale of automobiles by the United States army reserve depot is getting dan gerous around Harrisburg and if the man who started the canard gets caught he will likely get a swim in the river. The* story went around that Uncle Sam was to sell surplus cars, some of high grade, some of medium brand, at low figures under certain conditions. A number of people hastened to Middletown de pot to get down their names and according to Ray Shoemaker, who '* was one of those who went to the place, the man at the depot won dered what it was all about. He " has not heard of it and did not have the cars in the depot ware house anyway to hand over at bar- '* gain prices even if he had received the orders from Washington. • • • A proposition for the State of Pennsylvania National Guard to take some other divisional number than the Twenty-eighth in the new scheme of army organization is be ing vigorously combatted by State officials and men who served in the i Keystone Division overseas and i many who were members of the guard in years gone by. Adjutant • General Frank D. Beary, who some ' time ago protested against the plan i to have Camp Dix in New Jersey , made the base for organization of , the Pennsylvania troops in event of a call for active service, was at Washington by direction of the t Governor in opposition to any plan which did not give Pennsylvania's > new National Guard the right to . use the red keystone divisional mark and the historic designation of the I Twenty-eighth Division. Governor r L Sproul will take up the matter this . week and it is probable that some • urgent representations against any change will be made. Numerous i letters have come to General Beary from men who served in Franco i with the Keystone Guard Division. , including some men who were I wounded while in its ranks, asking . that every efTort be made on behalf I of the State to retain the number r and divisional mark. • • • Incorporation of a dozen com t parties for the construction of houses ! in the last fortnight has attracted# , some attention at the Capitol. The charters have been issued to com- J panies to operate in industrial cen . ters and the object is given in some cases as construction of moderate price homes, while others are for construction of dwelling houses. Men who came here in the interest of the charters stated that the com panies had been formed because of 1 the housing conditions which threat , ened to interfere with industries either because of scarcity or lack of J convenience desired. Some of the cities are not as large as Harrisburg, Chester, Franklin and Bethlehem ' for instance. • • • One has only to observe the river i ' on hot days to note the extent of " the popularity of the canoe. When 5 there is a combination of hot ' weather and holidays such as came last week the result will surprise ' anyone who has not noted the river craft. The canoe has supplanted 1 the old flat bottomed boat from which many fathers of Harrisburg families swam and fished in years gone by and fifty canoes can be r counted almost any Saturday after noon and evening. ■ [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE |*' ; ' —General Edgar Jadwin, who i commanded the Pittsburgh engineer regiment in France, is one of the f army officers sent to observe condi i tlons in Poland. 1 —Colonel John C. Groome, who r organized the State Police, is in 3 command of special troops In Baltic provinces. —The Rev. Dr. J. Gray Bolton, Philadelphia clergyman is urging the approval of the Deague of Nations. —Charles M. Schwab will be hon- • ored by Cambria county friends who will erect a flagpole at his Doretto home. > —Dr. John G. Brashears, the Pittsburgh scientist, made speeches on July 4, in spite of his age. —Judge Charles L. Brown, of the Philadelphia Municipal court, celebrated a birthday yesterday. f DO YOU KNOW . | —Harrlsburg pretzels ape sold •• I 4 4 In Berks county? , i e HISTORIC HARRISBURG f —Supplies for Bouquet's army - were gathered here by John Harris, * The Name Survives in Kansas n [From the Medicine Dodge Republi „ can.] , Mr. and Mrs. Albert Redwlne wera guests of Mrs. Redwine's brothel* i near bun City Sunday.