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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.
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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
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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 <l a *' B 4n town,
owing to a scarcity of dancers.
I fauna of huge or fearsome beasts,
' which included the saber-tooth and
i the hippopotamus, and also rhinoce-
I roses and elephants of southern type.
I "He was a chinless being, whose
! jaw was still so primitive that it
j must have made his speech imper
jfect; and he was so much lower than
j any existing savage as to be at least
| specifically distinct—that is, he can
j be called "human" only if the word
I is used with a certain largeness.
"Again we make a long skip—this
I time of somewhat over a hundred
j thousand years—and come to the
j Piltdown man, or near-man—a be
j ing seemingly a little farther ad
vanced than the man of Heidelberg,
j and in some ways less so, for he
! possesses apelike canine teeth.
"The next race was that of the
Neanderthal man. much more mod
ern and more advanced, but lower
than any existing savage, and specifi
cally distinct from modern man. This
race dwelt in Europe, without other
human, rivals, for an immense per
j iod of time; probably at least, fifty
[ thousand years; certainly an age
j several times as long as the period
j included in the interval between the
! earliest polished stone men and our
j selves—in other words, several times
; as long as the ages of polished stone,
j bronze and iron and the total of his
• toric times all put together.
"Some of their favorite caverns
were lived in by them and by their
successors for fifty thousand years.
"At last' the life term of these
primitive hunter folk drew to a
close. They were not our ancestors.
With our present knowledge, it
seems probable that they were ex
terminated as completely from Eu
rope as in our own day the Tasman
ians were exterminated from Tas
mania.
"The most profound change in the
whole racial (not cultural) history
of Western Europe was the sudden
and total supplanting of these sav
ages, lower than any existing human
type, by the tall, finely built Cro-
Magnon race of hunters, who in in
telligence evidently ranked high as
compared with all but the very fore
most modern peoples, and who be
longed to the same species of man
that we do—Homo sapiens."
The State Constitution
[From the Johnstown Tribune.]
While a commission to be ap
pointed by Governor Sproul is con
sidering the necessity and advisabil
ity of a Constitutional Convention,
there are three more proposed
amendments to the State's charter
of rights for the voters to consider
this fall. The first is of the peren
nial sort, applying to Philadelphia
only. It has to do with the borrow
ing capacity of the city. It is not
of importance to the rest of the
State and will doubtless be approved
without question.
The second proposed amendment
is of interest to everybody, especi
ally to those who pay taxes on real
estate and improvements. It is
also of interest to our Single Tax
friends and will be looked upon by
them as a step towards their idea
of taxation. It provides that it shall
be lawful to classify subjects of
taxation for the purpose of laying
graded taxes and taxes which prog
ress to a standard. If the amend
ment becomes law it will be legal to
make separate assessments of
ground and improvements and to
grade taxes on classifications so that
the disappearing point may event
ually be reached.
The third proposed amendment
has to do with the State banking
system. It limits charters of State
hanks to 20 years, following the
Federal law In relation to National
banks.
ARBOR VITAE
J. K. —Died July 30, 1918.
Nothing sings so sweetly as the
silence of his song;
Nothing runs so swiftly as his
feet, supremely still;
Nothing seems so neighbored to
to the heavens as the hill
Whereon he sleeps all conquering,
forever young and strong.
His soldier h->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.