10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Fcd-rnl Square E. J. STACKPOLE *President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager OUR M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Bonrd 1. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, OUR M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—Ths Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub iahed herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub- Associa- Bur'eau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Eastern office Story, Brooks & Avenue Building. Gas' Bui fifing - i Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, 13.00 a ■uarfficS- year In advance. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1918 I * We are inclined to look upon bad j temper as a very harmless weakness but the Bible again and again con demns it as one of the most destructive elements in human nature. Henry Orummond. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS EVERY Step in the development of the school system of Harris burg, whether in the con struction of buildings or in the adoption of progressive educational policies, seems certain to encounter active criticism, not always of the constructive sort. As a result there j is more or less public dissatisfaction j and too often because the people I make no real effort to learn tlie j facts. 1 At the present time and on the threshold of the fall term a contro versy has arisen over the manner of enrolling pupils for the two Junior High schools, the latest in novation in the local school system. These two schools are located in the northern and eastern sections of the city, and a third school, similarly | equipped will be established in the j Technical building for the central! district as soon as the proposed new ; High school shall have been erected. I Not all the pupi s eligible for the' Junior High schools can be immedi ately accommodated, owing to tl.o regional plan that contemplates the admission of those within the limits of each of the three schools, and until the Technical building is avail able for the central territory there will be a considerable number of young students who must wait the building expansion. Because these cannot be immedi ately received into the Junior High schools there lias been some com plaint and all manner of changes have been proposed to overcome the difficulty. Dr. Downes, the city superintendent, has declared that the process of change to the Junior High school plan must of necessity be gradual and that almost invariably the custom elsewhere, even in larger cities, has been to open one Juiuor High school and then follow with the o tliers. Here two are being opened at the same time and be cause the third is not ready it is being urged in some quarters that the whole plan, which has been care fully worked out, be rejected and some other scheme devised. It is understood such an overturning would involve weeks of effort, result in demoralization and work hard ships upon many litt e children by compelling .them to walk long dis tances to school. Changing the present arrangement •would mean, according to the edu cational authorities, the arbitrary setting aside of the accepted practice in the organization of Junior High Schools, and in their judgement would be a serious mistake. Public protests are not always based upon knowledge of the facts, and attempting to remedy the situ ation, the School Board may com mit a grave blunder, unless the whole situation is carefully studied with a view to the good of all. Hav ing evolved a plan for the system of education in the higher grades, those responsible for results can hardly be blamed for regarding as serious bu3irfess the throwing of the monkey wrench of opposition into the gears of the educational machine at this late day. If any practical revision of the existing arrangement in harmony with the .program outlined for the inauguration of the Junior High .school work is proposed, it will doubtless be considered, but the school directors should proceed with great caution in making changes at the eleventh hour which might dislocate the whole system and imperil the success of an Important departure in education In this city. Mayor Keister is going to see to it with the co-operation of his col leaguos In the City Council, that proper bathing facilities are provided for llarrlsburg while tlie conditions are MONDAY EVENING, suitable for a study of the problem. It Is doubtful whether a recent sug gestion that bathing pools be located at different points In the city will strongly appeal to the city authori ties. They understand quite as well as the average citizen that the real desire of thousands of our citizens Is for proper bathing beaches and bath houses In the Susquehanna basin. Whatever additional swimming pools may subsequently be provided the first consideration should be the river facilities for the great body of the people. BOATING AND BATHING MAYOR KEISTER has heard from many people since the Klpona carnival, regarding his ordinance for bathing facilities, and if there was ever any question about popular support of the loan for this purpose it has been dis sipated in his mind and in the thought of every other person who has given consideration to the sub ject. We are only beginning to realize how important is the river and its possibilities in the future de velopment of Harrisburg. Its broad surface should be dotted next sum mer with hundreds more of sail boats, canoes, motor boats and craft of every kind. And the Kipona will attract increasing multitudes of admiring people to witness the great river spectacle. Boating and bathing facilities should be certain ties in 1920 and City Council ought to lose no time in developing and adopting the necessary plans. ' The Forestry Commission having | decided to erect six steel towers for I observation purposes on State for ! estry reservations, it might be well I for those interested in the shade tree j movement for Harrisburg to secure |tm observation tower for those who j should be able from a lofty perch to | discover the places most In need of [tree planting In the city. It is certain, j tower or no tower, that thousands of [ttees ought to be planted along the sidewalks and on the premises of Harrisburg property owners. THREE PARTIES TO IT BUSINESS is bound to improve in proportion to the vanishing labor difficulties and industrial complications here and there. Trade experts concur in the opinion that there has been a turn for the bet ter and that the labor outlook is less threatening through an ex change of views of intelligent leud ers in every part of the country. Secretary of Labor Wilson, in his speech before the Pennsylvania post masters, declared with great confi dence that the working forces of the United States would never adopt the crazy theories of the Russian Soviets or extreme Socialists of Eu rope. He declared the widespread intelligence of the workingmen of this country would safeguard them against acceptance of proposed radi cal changes in industrial and gov ernmental methods. It was his clear judgment that the backbone of the propaganda from overseas had been broken and that there was less danger of an industrial up heaval than appeared imminent a few weeks ago. Employers and em ployes are realizing that their mu tual interests demand sane decisions and general co-operation. As the vacation period draws to a close greater activity may be ex pected in all lines of trade and tn industry. But unless and until it is definitely understood that there are three parties to the con tract in all cases—the employer, the 1 employe and the public—there will j be no permanent industrial peace. It | is evident, however, that this view ' of the situation is becoming mote universal and must in the end pre vail for the good of all. Governor Sprout in not manifesting wild enthusiasm over the suggestion of his name as an available candidate for President. He- has been long enough in public life, however, to ap preciate the fact that the strongest recommendation for the higher office in all cases is a record for efficiency In the public service. And it will be conceded by all intelligent Pennsylva nians that the Governor is doing a good job on Capitol Hill in the ad ministration of the affairs of this great Commonwealth. Emma Goldman, the notorious an archist. now behind the wails of a Missouri penitentiary, wants her lib erty because she is not able to pay her fine of SIO,OOO in addition to serving two years of imprisonment for inter fering with the army draft. Let us hope that Washington will not weak en Ir. its unnounced policy to bring to book the alien propagandists and the mischiefmakers in our own country who. during the war and since, have been responsible for much of the un rest that has disturbed the United States. In taking the leadership of the forthcoming welcome-home celebra tion in honor of the returning sol diers, the Chamber of Commerce baa again demonstrated its proper con ception of the functions of that Im portant body. Harrisburg has a repu tation to maintain along many lines and it will not fall short in according the boys who have come back a whole-hearted welcome and at the same time pay tribute to those who fell with their faces to the foe. Funny how Secretary of War Baker is fairly bursting with enthusiasm over an enlarged army. This is the same Baker who doused cold water on the preparedness activities of a lot of far-seeing men in 1914 and later. The" Secretary of War has evidently learned that the Roosevelt theory of speaking softly but having a big stick handy is the only safeguard of the American people. Admiral Bowman is finding a gen eral spirit of co-operation among young and old in the proposed confer ference to consider the program for the next Kipona and the constructive work which must be undertaken in the development of the Susquehanna basin. Plant a tree in October and get the feeling of a kindness done the future generation. In, By the Kx-Committeeman While all of the figures have not been checked up. it seems pretty certain that the registration in Philadelphia has broken all records and that the next ten days will see one of the greatest battles fu mayoralty and councilmanic nomi nations ever known in the Quaker City or anywhere else in the State. Even Pittsburgh's historic combats under the nonpartisan act will not be in the same class. The champions of Congressman J. Hampton Moore Insist that the big registration means his nomina tion and the congressman candidate for mayor is not backward about saying the same thing, supporting it with estimates, while Senator Ed win H. Vare, the target in the cam paign, says that the big enrollment is the work of the organization of which he is the guiding spirit and that it means the nomination of Judge John M. Patterson. The newspapers generally regard the figures as distinctly favorable to Moore. | —The registration in Pittsburgh has also gone ahead of first day records and is put at 45,000. As the great majority of the men registered are Republicans just as they are in Philadelphia and nine-tenths of the cities of the State this indicates un usual party strength in an "off year." The Pittsburgh Gazette- Times says the registration indicate** that the voters of Pittsburgh are aroused and that coupled with the attention being given in the bor oughs which cluster about the steel city, it means the overthrow of the Leslie-Rabeock combination. Cer tainly nothing even in the terrific contests of former years was ever known like the attacks being made upon Senator Max G. Leslie. One of the most formidable combina tions ever formed in Allegheny county is against his organization. The Pittsburgh papers say that the Leslie people soft pedalled on regis tration and that the big figures mean that they are doomed to lose. —This week Pittsburgh and Scranton will have another regis tration period and on Saturday comes the last day to register In the third class cities. The Scranton registration ran high owing to local contests and the third class regis tration on two days is believed to have smashed records generally. Almost everywhere the Democratic ■showing was poor, considering all factors of this unusual year. —The campaigns in the big cities are not without their funny sides. Thomas Robins, the former progres sive who is so active in behalf of the Vare ticket, is engaged in a controversy with H. S. Morris, a prominent Philadelphian, who says Robins is an apologist who is hyp notizing himself. He calls htm the chairman of a committee of "A Thousand Shadows" in derision of thq Patterson committee of One Thousand. Mayor Thomas B. Smith entered the campaign in behalf of Patterson and was saluted with the name "Bondsmith" and asked where lie came from. A Labor split over Moore has also cropped up and the congressman found so many people cheering when he said he would "fire" Director of Safety Wil liam H. Wilson, that he has been saying it ever since. —ln Pittsburgh William Flinn Is being twitted by Leslie men how he likes training with the men who fought him for years, while Col. J. P. Kerr, eandidate for county commissioner, charges that Gov ernor Sproul foiled Leslie's scheme to he mayor of Pittsburgh when he could never be elected by vetoing the "deputy mayor" bill. —While Governor Sproul contin ues to "sit on the grand stand" and to keep religiously out of the Phila delphia and Allegheny fights as well as the judicial fusses where his ap pointees are not involved, the fact that E. Lawrence Fell, head of he Philadelphia registration commis sion, sent inspectors to watch regis tration in the "River wards" of Philadelphia is being commented upon. —New Castle politics, which are complicated by the : numerous can didates for mayor and by Socialist activity, are further perturbed by action of council in declaring va cant the seat of Councilman W. C. Shenafelt following an inquiry. He says he will take it to court. —From all accounts the Palmer partisans are pretty well pleased with what they learned from the postmasters and the county nn-1 lesser leaders who were here last week for the convention of the men who hold presidential appoint ments. If they had not received good news they would have been in a bad way because the office holders ore about the only machine that the reorganization clique of Democratic State bosses has left. Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell and the Old Guard gathered together most of the really effective workers last fall when Joe Gttffey, the Palmer-McCormick can didate for the gubernatorial nomi nation, was defeated at the primary. On that historic occasion it will be recalled that it was three days he fore the bosses would admit they were beaten. —However, the reports of the scouts sent out by the Democratic State windmill to find out the lay of the land In regard to the rank and file of the Democratic party do not bring such encouraging reports. In every county there are reports of little interest in enrollment and of slumps in registration of Demo crats in cities. In certain counties the Democracy is little more than a side show and there Is no confi dence or interest in Palmer's can didacy for presidential honors and much scepticism about the worth of some federal officials In the pub lic service, anyway. —Astute Palmer men are sitting back to await the issue cf the Dem ocratic primaries. In Philadelphia the Donnelly-Palmer crowd is be ing fought by the Bonnlwell men for the Democratic city nominations and another factional Democratic fight Is waging In Allegheny where the Myer-Houlihan contest for county commissioner Is as hitter as the Holstet n-Taylor-Morgen thai er- Wells-Buffington split is In Dauphin county. If it were not that the Democratic strength in these big counties was so small these contests would command much attention. They all go to Indicate that there is a most unhealthy condition of un rest in the Democracy of Pennsyl vania. reorganized and disorganized, which was once promised to make the" Keystone State Democratic in a presidential year, hut which has been furnishing factional fights In stead of majorities. —The last contest for county office on the Bucks county Republican ticket was removed when Sidney V. Morris, of Bristol, who was oppos ing Klwood W. Minster, also of that borough, for the nomination for register of wills, filed his formal withdrawal papers. All the candi -1 dates now are unopposed. HjHUUSBrmd TELEGRAPH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND By BRIGCS ill*"' * / ated <- " FIRE- EMGINie.S J(r vs/Mii BY. No Wonder Germany Quit By MAJOR FRANK C. MAHIN Of the Army Recruiting Station The late war necessitated and de veloped an entirely new kind of work for fighting troops to do and that was Intelligence. In the old days Military Intelligence was car ried on by a specially trained lot of officers and by spies. In this war it became necessary for each battalion of infantry to have an in telligence officer and about thirty enlisted men, observers, special scouts, draftsmen and soforth. Each morning the intelligence of ticer put in a report to the Regi mental Intelligence officer covering all activities of our own and the enemy. The Regimental Intelli gence officer consoiidated the three battalion reports and forwarded this report to the Division, then it went, to the corps,then to the Field Army, then to American Headquar ters and finally wound up in the Allied Headquarters. Every mo ment .of the day and night, trained observers studied the Roche lines through powerful telescopes set up in what are called observation posts or O. P.'s. Nothing is too small or insignificant to report. Each thing reported is stated as occurring at certain numerals called co-ordi nates which indicate the exact spot on the map. For instance, the re port of the Battalion Intelligence Officer would state that a woman was seen walking north at .015 .389 at 15.13 o'clock. To avoid er ror the 2 4-hour system was always used so 15.13 o'clock would mean 3.13 P. M. Smoke was seen com ing out of the Boche trenches be tween such and such points—which would indicate the installation of gas tanks for a gas attack. The re port would further show the exact number of shells the Boche sent over into the battalion sector, the time of arrival and the size of the shell, also as nearly as could he de termined the location of the batter ies doing the firing. The working up of these reports was an endless job. One of the main duties of the Battalion Intelligence officer was to go round each day through the trenches and ask questions and lis ten to conversation In order to pick up bits of information. When he got something his first remark in variably would be "what are the co-ordinates," so that naturally his nickname was always "Old Co ordinates.' But of all the jobs he had his hardest was to get the npcpss3ry information out of the patrols. He would wait at scout headquarters from about 3 A. M. until the last patrol came in, usually about 6, and each patrol leader would report to him. Then would come a funny argument. The poor scout had been out in No Man's Band and the Boche trenches all night long. He was tired out. chilled to the bone, soaking wet, sleepy, and with a lovely grouch. As soon as he would see "Old Co ordinates" he would begin to swear, but would, nevertheless, start right off: "I went out of G. C. 3 at 21.10 o'ciock with 8 men. We went over into the Boche trenches. worked back to their third linp where we had a fight. Came back into G. C. 6 at 6.40 o'clock." "What were the co-ordinates of the point you en tered the Boche wire?" would come the question. "How the Hell should I know?" would be the answer. Then both men would bend over the map and the scout would point out on the map the route he had fol lowed, where the fight had occurred and the route he followed coming back. "Old co-ordinates would pa tiently figure out the co-ordinates and then go on questioning as to what the scout had seen here and there, what was the condition of a certain trench which had previously been reported in bad condition, and so forth until he felt he had squeezed his scout dry, whereupon with much profanity and growling the scout would depart for bed. Then poor "Old co-ordinates" would start in on the next scout and fre quently he would have to put twelvq "TINY TOWN" STARTED A CITY'S BUILDING BOOM In Springfield, Mo., Schoolboys Ituilt a "Village"' of One Thousand Model Houses, Schoolgirls Furnished It and Tliclr Parents Caught the Infection. Tom Shiras in the Manufacturers' Record. WHEN William H. Johnson of Springfield, Mo., conceived the idea of having the school children of that prosperous little city build a town to arouse the "build now" spirit in their parents, lie hit upon an original and distinct idea that has given Springfield a building program that runs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and which has absorbed all the idle labor in the city. Besides this it has brought out a great deal of un expected talent among the pupils in the schools and has created a much wider interest and manual training than has even been manifested in the city before. The town that the school children constructed was named Tiny Town, and laid out on the floor of Spring field's Convention Hall. All told, there were one thousand tiny resi dences and other buildings in the exhibit, no two being of the same design. The campaign was financed by interested business men through voluntary contributions which amounted in "round numbers to $5,- 000. The campaign hud the co operation of the chamber of com merce and the school authorities. After the building program of Tiny Town was well under way, the thought occurred to the promoters that it should have a set of city of ficials. Commission Government This was voted on by the school children, but defeated, and a com mission form of government insti tuted instead. The election was one of the most hotly contested ever held in the city, the little chaps carrying their announcements in the newspapers before the election just as in a regular election. There were stump speeches also and a lot of quiet campaigning on the side. All this assisted them to gain a broader knowledge of civil govern ment. The designs for the little build or fifteen of them through a regular third degree before his data would be complete. The usual parting shot of each scout each morning would be "hope the Major sends you over scouting with ME some night. You never will ask anybody else for any d d co-ordinates, if he does send you out, you cold footed, coffee cooling, yellow livered, Span ish Inquisition." But it was this endless patience, this attention to detail, together with wonderful scouting by our patrols that made the Boche put a new verse in their "Hymn of Hate" for the benefit of the Yanks. Why W. W. Left Washington Now, I want you to understand, my fellow citizens, that I didn't leave Washington and come out on this trip because I doubted what was going to happen. I didn't. For one thing, I wanted to have the pleasure of leaving Washington and for another thing I wanted to have the very much greater pleasure of feeling the inspiration that I would get from you. Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of Amer ica sometimes sounds faint and dis tant. In that strange city you hear politics until you wish both parties were smothered in their own gas. An Early Peace Treaty [New York Sun.] Noah regarded the rainbow. "Wonder if that Is a legal or a moral obligation?" he meditated. ings were all furnished by the local architects, who delved into their old liles for blue prints which were lent to the young builders. The houses were all built on a scale of one-half inch to the foot, the complete city being based upon 155 acres reduced to the same scale. It was properly laid out with streets, parks, etc!, with real grass and flowers. The construction of Tiny Town be gan May 4 and was completed June 25, when the completed town was placed on exhibition in Convention Hall. Five hundred dollars in prizes was awarded to the schools and the individual builders of the town. Girls Furnished Houses The work of furnishing the houses by the pupils was all done at their homes. The psychological effect of this feature caji be seen at a glance. Immediately the youngsters started to work ou their miniature building, dad and the rest of the family be came interested, and, in many in stances, the small idea as it was be ing worked out by a small son be came transferred to his father on a larger scale, and in a number of cases was directly responsible for the erection of some substantial buildings. The house building contest was only open to the boys. There re mained the problem of interesting the girls, many of whom possessed artistic ability. Therefore an interior home decoration contest was put on. and the girls decorated and fur nished the houses that the boys con structed. Many miniature' works of real art were shown In these in terior furnishings in the way of rugs and other floor coverings, draperies frescoing and design painting. William H. Johnson, originator of the idea, says that the Tiny Town idea is to be carried out next year on a much l:<r—w snnle in the open. A -acre tract will likely be devoted to plotting anu landscaping the Tiny Town of 1920. Shantung It is always easy to prophecy an event after It has happened. The world is full of sages who wag their heads and say, "I knew ten years rgo that this would come to pass." But the prophecy which is made betorehanu, when proved true, has, somehow, more poignancy than the aposteriori one. The following passage of Jefferson Jones's "The Fall of Tsing Tau," published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1915, is, therefore, persuasive: "Regardless of the inconsistent statements of Count Okuma on Aug ust 24, 1914, relative to eventual restoration, and that of Baron Kato on December 8, 1919, in the Diet House at Tokyo, Klaochow and the Chinese Province of Shantung will probably become a Japunese sphere of influence after the close of Jap anese peace negotiations with Ger many. • • • China having no voice in the peace negotiations, and with Germany in no position to dis pute Japan's claim, the Shantung railroad will pass into the hands of Nipponese government. With this concession will also go the right to station Japanese troops along the railroad right of way to protect the property, and gradually the province of Shantung will pass from Chinese or German influence to Japanese in fluence. Shantung will follow ex actly in the footsteps of Manchuria and under the Japanese system of freight rebates for Japanese ship pers, such as has been practiced in Manchuria, Kiaoehow, the birth place of the Chinese nation, the home of the Celestial philosopher, Confucious, will have become a part of the working empire of Japan." SEPTEMBER 8, 1919. Increased. Production [Erom the Washington Star.] Citing the failure of many histori cal efforts to have governmental fixing of prices and wages, Andrew J. Frame, economist and financial writer of Waukesha, Wis., a prom inent member of the American Bankers' Association, urges in a statement Just given to the newspa pers that "increased production is the only true remedy for the high cost of living." Mr. Frame says, in part: "The high cost of living seems to be the paramount issue throughout the world to-day. To our mind the real cause is sidetracked because the fallacious millenium builders are filling the air with 'blessed balsams' that appeal to the masses to our# insidious disease, that if not checked will end only in eating out our vit als and in- slowing up human prog "Andrew D. White, former presi dent. of Cornell University, former minister to Germany and Russia, vividly portrays a lamentable failure of "The Law of the Maximum' in France in 1793, notwithstanding the guillotin-e was freely used to com pel compliance with the edict. Mr. White says: 'There are limitations to the powers of government and of peoples that inhere in the constitu tion of things and that neither des potisms nor democracies can over come.' Let us call pre-war prices normal in the United States in 1914. Since then, the productive energies of 30 mi lions to 50 millions of men; also vast manufacturing plants have been turned into destructive employ ments. As some 10 million strong men and 12 million tons of ship ping have been ruthlessly destroyed; as the remaining ships at command have been largely used in trans porting armies, munitions, etc., across the seas; as war-torn Europe, that could not produce much be fore to sustain life, has produced less food and other necessaries than prevailed before 1914; as the Russian supplies, wheli formerly helped feed Europe, under Lenine and TroUUy were confiscated and that great source of supply practically cut. oft: as shortage of shipping has greatly curtailed the neutral world from helping supply the war zoie; as starving Europe cries aloud for food, etc., from the United States; as since the armistice was signed, the demobilizing and change back to normal have tested the world's eceigies, therefore up to the ore-sent time litt'e progress has actually been made to attain reproduction approx imating former conditions. "If so. is it not clear that abnor mal demands for an underproduc tion oi world foo i nncl othe'- neces saries has forced prices abovo nor mal the world over'.' "If farmers are forced to an eight hour day, we fear the city man will be compelled to hoe his own corn or starve. "Theories never made two blades of grass grow where one grew be fore. But labor does. Longer and not shorter hours a starving woild must have. Increased production is the or.-ly true remedy for the " igli cost of living, and also the only true principle for added comforts in the world of progress. Music and Booze [From Kansas City Times.] A speaker at a musical gathering in Pittsburgh, quotes Musical Amer ica, announced his fear that prohi bition would increase the demand for light and frivolous music. "De prived of alcoholic beverages," he said, "intoxication by music will bo sought by those whose emotional vi brations attune them to such a stim ulant." The result, he concludes, will be much musical composition of an "inebriating" and other unde sirable character. The inference that the age of booze was not productive of the kind of musical composition he depre ciates will hardly stand. What pro duced jazz, we wonder. We won't undertake to say, but It doesn't sound exactly like a W. C. T. U. convention to us. What sort of emotional vibrations were the musi cal revues of the last twenty years written to catch? But we don't need to be confined to the moderns. What of that Venice that would al ways leave off talking to hear Gaiuppi play? Didn't Browning say he was equally good at grave and gay? We Judge that those balls and masques burning ever (o midday, when they made up fresh adventures for the morrow, were not danced to measures entirely want ing in emotional ntunements, even though Venice did not lack the stim ulant we are now deprived of. On the whole—bah! Music will continue to be good and bad as it always has been, irrespective of the habits of the age. If the age of al cohol produced a "Salome" so did it a "Messiah." The age of re straint probab'y will not do worse or better. Summer Is Dying Ah! 't'.s a melancholy hour When fades the fragrant Summer flower, When through the woods and meadows dry The thistle-ghosts go drifting by. While soft and solemn winds scent sighing, "Summer is dying." Ah! 'tis a melancholy scene When fields no longer smile serene With waving grain, when birds have flown. And gladness seems to sadness grown. When reminiscent winds seem sigh ing. "Summer is dying." Ah! 'tis a melancholy sound When leaves begin to rustle 'round. When crickets chirp their lonely lays In tune to thoughts of bygone days. While restless, plaintive winds seem sighing, "Summer is dying." Ah! 'tis a melancholy air That nips the heart with withering care; But, bird-like, let our minds take wing To soulful southlands, there io sing Beyond the chill winds that seem s'ghing, "Summer is dying." f ABCANUS. Wilson us. Wilson May 27, 1918—"Politics is ad journed. The election will go to those who think least of it, to those who go to their constituencies with out explanations or excuses, with a plain record of duty faithfully and disinterestedly performed." October 24, 1918—"If you have approved of my leadership ana wish me to continue to be your unembar rassed spokesman at home and abroad, I earnestly beg that you will express yourself unmistakably to that effect by returntng a Demo cratic majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives." 1 larating (Efott j It Is not generally known thai the Technical High school, which is now more or less in daily con versation because of the plan to ultimately turn it into a Junior high school, occupies a site that has probably been in continuous use for educational purposes longer than any other school property in Harris burg. The building is the third v school building to stand on the site and it has a very interesting local history as an educational point. Harrisburg was one of the places where the Lancasterian school sys tem, so called from an Englishman who started it, according to educat ors, was tried out in Pennsylvania. This system really led to the founda tion of the present public school sys tem of the Commonwealth and had a great vogue in the twenties. The legislature recognized it and made grants for trials at various places, [Harrisburg being among the first. The Dauphin county commissioners, who then made appropriations for schools, also contributed and like wise gave the use of a room in the, court house where in 1827 the first school was opened. It was a sue- I cess for a time and through appro priations by the borough and the i county the school building kno to older residents as the I.ancas" 1 ian, then as the North Ward r finally as the DeWitt school w. built. Samuel Bryan had the con tract and it cost $42501 which was a pretty big sum for those days, but small in these times of half million dollar structures for schools. It was occupied in the fall of 1829, I Just ninety years ago. The records of the county commissioners about this time shed an interesting light ion the teachers' salaries of those days because William C. Jenks, who j was the teacher and who made it go, was advanced from $550 to sßoo per year. Later on the school dis trict, when organized, took over the school and called it the North Ward school where in the forties and fifties many a Harrisburg boy and girl learned to recite the Declaration. |By and hy the DeWitt name was given to the school and it was en larged and improved, being a model and in our own time the Technical high school came into being and the old building served for a time as an entrance into the newer part and then gave way to the present fine structure. With this record the corner has ninety years of continuous school service its credit. • • • A friend who is interested in the development of markets in this city suggests that the old market house which stood in Market Square until the late eighties were the second i pair to occupy that site. He writes that the first buildings were merely sheds and that they were torn down and the market houses which many residents of the city recall visiting on frosty mornings were erected in the thirties. It would be interesting to ascertain the date. In early Har risburg times Market Square \vas little better than a swamp and there was much complaint about the water that used to gather after every rain and sarcastic references to "duck boards" fill early newspapers. The place was drained before George Washington visited here and prob ably about that time some sheds were erected to shelter the farmers who came in with their produce. Early records tell of appropriations by town council for their repair. • • • Celebration of Lafayette day in Philadelphia on Saturday in connec tion with the gathering of the Knights Templar for the conclave recalls that the marquis visited Har risburg in 1825. He came here Jan uary 30 and the newspapers of the day tell of a three day visit, in cluding receptions, banquets, visits to the Capitol, where the Legisla ture welcomed him, a parade and a visit to Perseverance Lodge of Ma sons. • • • A couple of men Interested in schools were talking about new forms of instruction which are much in vogue just now and one remark ed that he was glad that "safety first" was going to be taught iii the schools under a new law. A second man said that he thought that in the physical training of the schools there should be included boxing because owing to the army j training it had taken on an entirely I new form and was now out of the professional class. "Well, we have I them both in our school body now", observed a third man. "I saw two boys boxing in front of a school and when one went after the other too hard ho fell back on "safety first" and did some 1,0.11 slugging." • • When it comes down to the popu larity of the Susquehanna on Sun day one bus only to note the num ber of youngsters who go swimming, the canoes and the boats that dot its surface. It is not so many years ago that Sunday swimming meant having guards to give warning of ap proach of policemen and a canoe was a curiosity. Just as an Idea of the expense the State is put to holding Public Service hearings it may be said that an examiner was sent to Ebensburg to hold a series of hearings and it developed that ten complained of as running jitneys were Just taking their friends foi a ride and that in another case a young man had bor rowed his father's car and taken a party for a ride. On the ride the gasoline gave out and the crowd >i "chucked in" to buy more. On that a complaint of running a jitney illegally was made. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ! —lee S. Smith, head of the Tem plars, Is a Pittsburgh business man. —General W. G. Price, the head of the new National Guard, marshalled the Darby homecoming parade. —F. J. Connery, New Castle Arc chief, was presented with SI,OOO in # honor of fifty years In the fire de partment. —Dr. E. M. Schwartz, of this city, * will speak at Pittsburgh in the .. religious meetings this week. —Archbishop D. J. Dougherty of ficiated at a dedication in Delaware county yesterday. He has been call ed upon for this service almost weekly. —Dr. W. D. Lewis, Philadelphia High school chief, decried what he called "jazz" stories which teachers have been children to en- . tertain them. He said "Jazz" comes from Africa and could be forgotten. r | DO YOU KNOW | * —That Harrlsburg is rapidly be coming a big tire distribution cen ter? HISTORIC HAHRISBURG | —The court house was used for ' : trials, Sunday services and daily Bchools 100 years ago.
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