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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 19t0
When the fight begins scithin him
self
A man's \corth something.—Bbown
o.
NEWSPAPER ATTITUDE
W. E. PORTER, chief of Pitts
burgh's bureau of smoke
regulation, in an otherwise
excellent address before the Cham
ber of Commerce yesterday, left
his audience under a misapprehen
sion, tho Telegraph believes. He
said that in the early days of hig
campaign for smoke prevention in
Pittsburgh the newspapers of that
city declined to give the project
their support, for the reason that
their advertisers did not wish them
to do So. but that now, "because
their advertisers want it" they are
doing excellent work In the move
ment to make Pittsburgh a clean
City.
Mr. Porter ought to know. If he
does not, that the interests of the
community and not those of any in
dividual are the concern of every
! Influential newspaper. Not a day
passes that every newspaper worthy
■ of the name does not tramp on the
K toes of some one of its advertisers.
It is very much to be suspected
that what Mr. Porter mistook for
subservience to advertisers was
I really a mistaken loyalty of the
newspapers to the basic industry of
- their community, they fearing that
. smoke prevention might also mean
i Industrial extinction or unnecessary
f hardship.
Speaking for itself, and judging
Mr. Porter's remarks on the Pitts
burgh situation from that stand
point, the Telegraph can say that
It is constantly endeavoring to pro
tect the legitimate Interests of its
advertisers, but that primarily Its
Influence is everlastingly thrown
on the side of the community, and
that, if the interests of any of its
advertisers are opposed to those of
the community at large, the mere
fact that a patron may be offended
does not alter the newspaper's at
titude toward the duty it manifestly
owes the public. The Telegraph
does not believe that Mr. Porter
thinks the newspapers of his home
eity are any less devoted to the in
terests of their community than the
Telegraph is to the best interests of
Harrisburg.
Incidentally, it may be mentioned,
the Telegraph is highly favorable to
the abatement of smoke in Harris
burg, and it has not consulted any
body In reaching a decision to sup
port the movement.
WE MUST PRODUCE
EVERYBODY knows that if the
farmers of the country pro
duce an abundance of food-
Stuffs, the people will be well fed the
following year, and it is also appar
ent that if every farmer cut down
tile labor to four or six hours a day
the snpply of wheat and corn and
ether lines of provisions would be
go reduced the next year that many
f M would be on the verge of
Starvation.
The farmer must work if we are
ID eat and the same applies to every
Other line of trade. We cannot con
ttnue to cut down the number of
working hours without cutting down
prod Tie 11 on and when production is
eat prices go up because the supply
•f goods is limited and the country
Ends itself without the wherewith
either to live comfortably or to go
■forward. Nothing that we eat,
EVbtlng that we wear, nothing that
Uro mse in any way is produced
PjWlthout labor both brain and
7 manual. If labor Is reduced, that
Is, If by reason of strikes or six
hour days or forty-four-hour weeks,
we cut down the amount of goods
we tnrt out or the amount of food
we produce, we ourselves are the
sufferers.
The world cannot live in idleness.
It has been pretty well proved that
by giving one-third of our time to
labor, eight hours during six days a
week, we are able to keep ourselves
and the world at large supplied with
SATURDAY EVENING,
those things needful for life and the
luxuries which all of ns to some
extent enjoy. But wljen we go be
low that standard we are in danger.
And when we produce less than our
capacity during an eight-hour day
we are not giving a fair return for
our wages, and the result in the
great world of supply and demand
is the same as though we had
worked only six or seven hours.
Although we may not believe so.
the fact nevertheless remains that
we ourselves suffer from the effects
of our own idleness, if we persist
in it. The man who does not work
does not eat, unless he does so at
the expense of somebody who does
work.
It Is not so much the things that
we do while we are at work that
hurt us as the things which we do
during our period of leisure. So long
as work is healthful, it can be made
enjoyable. The man whose mind
is on his work is usually a happy
man. He is entitled to a living wage
and the opportunity of laying some
thing aside for a rainy day, but in
return therefor he ought to be
willing to give a fair day's work for
a fair day's pay, and to work at
least as many hours a week as will
guarantee his fair production of the
things which the world must have
if it is to continue to live.
The trouble with the present
period is that all of us seem to be
trying to get, and are forgetting the
other important essential, to give.
It is not only more blessed to give
than it is to receive, but we must
give in full return for everything
we get if the world is to continue to
stand. *
Production and still more produc
tion is the crying need of the hour.
No matter how high wages go, if
production continues to fall as it
has within the past several years,
we shall still be on the verge of
starvation and our money will still
continue to buy ever less and less
for the dollars "wo spend.
MIS-REPRESENTATION
HERBERT HOOVER, speaking
before a gathering of profes
sional men in New York the
other day, said, among other things,
it is his observation that socialism
is on the wane in Europe; that it
has failed wherever it has been tried
and that gradually the people of
European countries are coming to
understand that it cannot be made
to work for the benefit of the public.
Wherever it has been put to the
test production has fallen almost to
the vanishing point, with consequent
idleness of all classes, great reduc
tion of wages and income, with
economic ruin and starvation facing
millions of people who have placed
their future in the hands of advo
cates of socialistic forms of gov
ernment.
Mr. Hoover has been President
Wilson's right hand man in many
difficult circumstances. At no time
has he failed. He has done more
to popularize President Wilson in
the warswopt areas of Europe than
has Mr. Wilson himself. He is a
hard-headed man of affairs and his
judgment is generally good. It
might have been thought that under
the conditions Mr. Wilson would
have placed much weight on Mr.
Hoover's beliefs, but apparently such
is not the case. For example. Presi
dent Wilson in appointing twenty
two men "to represent the public"
at the conference to be held in
Washington for the consideration of
labor and industrial problems, has
named Edward Russell,on a number
of occasions socialistic candidate for
governor of New York, and John
Spargo, who has been active as a
socialist lecturer, writer and worker
for many years. To be sure, Spargo
has recently displayed some com
mon sense as to the practical work
ing out of the doctrines he in his
earlier years advocated, but still he
and Russell are both out-and-out
socialists. They represent a politi
cal doctrine that Mr. Hoover says
has failed in Europe. It is as fool
ish to call them into conference at
Washington as it would to have two
quack doctors lecture before a con-
I ventlon of physicians who are
I specialists in their lines.
The President has an unfortunate
habit of naming little men for big
jobs. It would seem that in the
choice of twenty-two men "to rep
resent the public" at so Important
a conference he might have chosen
representative citizens rather than
radicals whose policies and opinions
have failed to work out under the
most favorable conditions.
POOR POLICY
AS ITS only suggestion as to re
duction of the high cost of
living, the administration ask
ed for appropriations exceeding 11,-
500,000 with which to investigate
and prosecute.
An administration that has done
practically nothing with the power
and funds already appropriated,
wanted to take up a collection from
every man, woman and child in
the country to help reduce the cost
of living. And that in the face of
the undoubted fact that the poll
| cies of the administration, more
than any other one thing, have
been the cause of excessively high
costs.
The "cost-plus" plan of govern
ment contracting, the high wages
voluntarily offered on every Govern
ment Job, the waste of labor and
materials on every Government un
dertaking, the scrambling of the
railroads, the discouragement of
productive Industry, the inflation of
the currency—all these have tend
ed to Increase the cost of living.
And then the administration want
ed J1,500,000 with which to try to
correct some of its mistakes.
The Post Office Department is living
up to Its reputation In the delivery of
war department food orders.
All the older that Is being made Is
not intended lor apple butter.
FOTFLXC* IK
*Ptiut44j6?attXa*
By tho Bx-Oommltleemad
It seems to be pretty generally
agreed throughout the State that
the results of the Republican pri
mary on Tuesday end any chance
of there being launched even an
annoying fight against the re-elec
tion of Senator Boies Penrose next
year. If the Philadelphia mayoral
ty contest had gone the other way
there would have been an immed
iate campaign started and much
noisy comment. But since the re
sults of the strenuous primary in
Philadelphia and in Allegheny and
in other counties where Penrose
adherents are prominent have been
announced there has not been very
much heard about 1920.
The Senator has been following
up the campaign developments in
Philadelphia fully as closely as he
did the progress of the charter leg
islation in the Legislature and as
soon as the session of Congress
ends, will start his campaign in
Pennsylvania. The primary next
year will be in May when in addi
tion to the Senatorial candidates
there will be Presidential delegates
elected.
No one has been heard of as a
possible candidate against the Sen
ator except GilTord Pinchot and it
is believed that the activity of the
former forester in calling his pro
gressive conference here late in
July and in touring the State,
speaking to Granges and various
agricultural meetings is part of his
preliminary campaign. Pinchot is
better known in Pennsylvania than
he was six years ago.
—lt Is very apparent that the
Democratic State bosses plan to
capture the Keystone delegation to
the next national convention by the
use of federal patronage, flattery
and fuss. Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer, is more willing
than usual to make speeches in
Pennsylvania and there has been a
systematic effort to boom him. The
small Democratic registration this
year while it is an evidence of in
capable leadership and disgust of
rank and file will be, if anything,
a help to Palmer. Between the fed
eral jobholders, who constitute
about all the machine Palmer and ;
his pals have left, and the hide
bound Democrats who vote under
the sign of the Democratic rooster
he is assured of enough votes to
win quite a few delegates and to
put up a fight in districts where
Bonniwell Democrats were taking
an interest in Republican primar
ies and where the chances of en
gaging in a fight tempted some men
to forego their party allegiance this
fall, facts which may rise to
plague them in the spring of next
year.
—Governor William C. Sproul
will make speeches in two States
this fall under the auspices of the
Republican National Committee
and also take part in various po
litical meetings in Pennsylvania,
according to what has been learn
ed at the Capitol. Some time ago
an inquiry was made at the Capitol
as to whether the Pennsylvania
Governor, who made a considerable
impression Mpon the men at the
conference of the Governors In
Salt Lake City, would consent to
make some speeches for the Na
tional committee. It was suggested
that he speak in New Jersey and
Massachusetts because of the im
portance of the gubernatorial bat
tles in .those Commonwealths. The
Governor will likely devote the last
two weeks of October to these
tours.
—Although there have been ru
mors and reports going around, it
looks very much as though the re
organization of a couple of depart
ments of the State government and
the organization of some bureaus
about which much was heard this
summer and which was deferred
until "after the primary" would be
postponed until "after the elec
tion." The Governor has not shown
much inclination to make changes
or to upset things.
—Dauphin county has two new
residents, Dr. Thomas E. Finegan,
State Superintendent of Public In
struction, and Dr. George H. Ash
ley, State Geologist, both of whom
have made Harrisburg their home
and who are credited on official
records as of Harrisburg, Dauphin
county. v
—One of the interesting things in
connection with the primary as
brought here by men connected
with the State government is the
failure of the Prohibition party to
make county or municipal nomina
tions. This seems to have been
general, even in counties where in
years gone by the Prohibitionists
were a factor in local contests and
occasionally In county and legis
lative battles.
—The outcome of the primary in
Chester city and Delaware county
has enhanced the prestige of Gov
ernor Sproul considerably. People
up the State were watching what
would happen In Delaware county
very closely In view of the break
between the Governor and the Mc-
Clue people during the Legislature
and the militant way in which the
Governor backed the new Republi
can League won much commenda
tion. The editorials in the Ches
ter Times, the Governor's own
newspaper, were widely read
throughout the State and the vig
orous manner in which the Gover
nor calls for a reckoning with
money in politics will form a theme
for much discussion in the long
winter evenings in more than one
election district.
-—The Philadelphia newspapers
are very frank in declaring belief
that the nomination for mayor of
Congressman J. Hampton Moore,
now conceded means better things.
The Puhllc Ledger says that it
means "the opening of a new era."
While the Press calls on the peo
ple to support Moore because he
stands for much. The Evening
Bulletin speaks in the samo vein.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer is
out with a demand that election
frauds be uncovered and the crooks
be jatled. There are similar utter
anees In other Philadelphia news
papers and it looks as though a
concerted efTort to get rid of some
of the stains would be made this
year.
—The Philadelphia Press is go
ing after the voters who fail to
vote. It attacks them with a sharp
stick and asks why if they go to
the trouble to register they do not
vote and why a man who does not
vote when a whole city is stirred
up takes It on himself to growl.
The Press says: "Men who can vote
and won't vote should at least for
feit their suffrage rights. The vot
er's privilege should become void
by nonuse. Such citizens are
slackers. They are unfaithful and
disloyal and should be punished for
their failure to meet a plain civic
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No Wonder Germany Quit
By MAJOR FRANK C. MAHIN
Of the Army Recruiting Station
"Night after night during the early |
part of August my patrols came in I
and reported a hidden Boche I
machine gun which was raising the j
devil with them. We finally got the
blamed little gun exactly located
and found we could not reach it
with the stokes mortars, and it was
so hidden behind hills and woods
that the .37 millimeter guns could
not reach it. So the only thing we
could do was to get the artillery
on the job and I requested that they
destroy the machine gun. In a
couple of hours a young captain of
the 155 millimeter howitzers (6-
inch) came up to my headquarters
and wanted to see the effect of the
fire of his battery. I had a telephone
strung up into a big tree and the
captain and I then went up. He
called his battery and remarked:
'D —Y speaking. Play ball! Bat
ter up,' said cryptic remarks mean
ing that Captain Donnelly was
speaking; that he was in position
watching and to commence firing.
A couple of minutes passed and a
shell went screeching overhead, I
landing with a cloud of black smoke
and a huge pillar of mud about 100
meters beyond the machine gun
emplacement. The captain spoke
into his phone 'over, one hundred,
line.' I remarked 'gottcha, Steve!
A hit one hundred meters too far,
but directly beyond with no correc
tion needed to either side.' 'Right
you are!' my friend answered.
Whoosh! went another shell towards
the machine gun emplacement and
this time it hit about a hundred
meters in front. This time the cor
rection was 'short, one hundred,
line.' Again we waited for the old
familiar whoosh, and soon it came.
When the third shell hit there was
an entirely different mess of debris
thrown up; it was a mess of flying
white fragments, evidently concrete.
In my ear came a cool voice, 'A
hit! Fire for effect!' And then the
captain laid down his phone and
grinned at me. Another short pause
and that part of the landscape of
northern France contained in a
radius of about twenty-five yards
I from the machine gun emplacement
began to rapidly disappear. Be
lieve me! things were happening.
At the end of ten minutes no hu
man being would ever have believed
that there had been a machine gun
emplacement in that churned up,
shell shocked piece of ground. When
the firing had ceased I was satis
factorily convinced that my patrols
would have no further trouble from
that particular locality. But the
trouble was that evidently our Teu
tonic friends did not appreciate the
little fireworks display the captain
and I had viewed from the upper
story of a big pine tree, for about
an hour later they proceeded to drop
about two hundred of their own
six inch shells into one of my com- j
bat groups. Naturally at the con- j
elusion of their party there was a
decided need of repairs to trenches
in that combat group. I hastened
down there to see if there was any
thing left of the seventeen men oc
cupying the group and found six
teen of them safe and sound dis
cussing their narrow escapes be
fore reaching the shelter of the deep
dugout A number of rifles and one
automatic had completely disap
peared, as well as one man. He had
been out in front of the group as
an observation and listening post
and where his sand bag reveted hole
had been, there was now simply a
huge shell crater. Right next to
that hole and actually Joining it
was another shell hole. Three or
four of us were looking around for
some sign of the missing man and
climbed into the adjoining shell
hole. We stood there talking about
him when suddenly there was a
movement under our feet as though
a big mole were burrowing around.
We all stepped back with amaze
ment and out of a cascade of dirt
there arose the missing seventeenth
man. He was a pretty pasty green,
eyes as big as saucers and still pret
ty nearly scared to death, but not
e'-en scratched. It seems a shell
had burst, making the shell hole
In which wc found him and Immedi
ately. afterward one had burst be
hind him, literally blowing him over
Into the first hole and then suc
cessive explosions had proceeded to
completely bury him alive. When
he heard us talking English it sud
denly occurred to him that possibly
he wasn't dead yet. so he stood up
to see. and found himself not only
alive but still whole."
A Long, Long Time
(From Kansas City Star).
! Uncle Johnny Shell of Kentucky
is 131 years old. He can remember
when Bryan wasn't running for
President.
Growth of Oar Cities
Estimates taken on the eve of the
official ten-year census and based
upon reliable reports show a start
ling growth in the population of
American cities. In 1910, the census
showed only four cities in the United j
States with one-half milion or more (
inhabitants. To-day, If the federal
census last year verifies estimates,
there are thirteen.
The New York Herald has pub
lished the following table, showing
the estimated growth of the twenty
larger American cities in the last
nine years:
Rank. City 1910 1919
I—New York. .4,766,883 6,244,616
2 —Chicago 2,185,282 3,059,396
3 —Philadelphia 1,5 4 9,00 8 1,936,260
4—Cleveland .. 560,663 936,300
s—Detroi 465,766 910,616
6—Boston 670,585 830,625
7—St. Louis ... 687,029 824,435
B—Baltimore8 —Baltimore .. 558,485 726,030
9—Pittsburgh.. 533,905 667,381
10—Los Angeles.. 319,198 574,656
11—San Francisco 416,912 555,882
12—Buffalo 423,715 616,832
13—Milwaukee .. 373,857 504,707
14—Cincinnati .. 363,691 472,668
15— N. Orleans. . 339,075 440,797
16 —Washington .. 331,069 430,390
17—Minneapolis.. 301,408 421,971
18—Newark. N.J. 347,469 416,963
19 —Seattle 237,194 395,323
20—Rochester .. 218,149 349,038
A great part of the growth of
New York City is explained by the
great increase in the number of resi
dents of foreign birth or of foreign
parentage. New York's population
is classified by the Herald as fol
lows:
1910 1919
Population 4,766,883 6,244,616
White 4,669,162- 6,116,602
Negro 91,709 120,138
Other races .... 6,012 7,876
; White, native
parents 921,318 1,206,926
White, foreign
parents 1,820,144 2,384,384
White, foreign
born 1,927,703 2,625,292
Males 2,382,482 3,121,051
Females 2,384,401 3,123,565
Males, voting age 1,433,749 1,878,211
Illiterates, over 10 254,208 333,013
Number of school
age, 6-20 1,334,357 1,748.008
Number in school 828,720 1,079,445
The Hour of Fate
[Victor Murdock in Association Men]
What is the' hour of fate in a
young man's life? I should say
7 p. m.
That hour Is the springboard from
which most men leap to success or
fall off to failure.
I am also convinced that 7 p. m.
is the fork in the roads, one of which
leads to character and the other to
the lack of it.
There are twenty-three other
hours in a day, but there is no hour
so potent as this 7 p. m.
Why? This is the answer: a
man's waking hours are divided be
• tween industry and leisure. To a
j majority of mankind, 7 in the e"en
j ing marks the end of work and the
• beginning of leisure. It is the hour
j when a man makes a choice of the
j kind of leisure he is to have. If he
| turns to the leisure that means im
provement to his mind, his body and
his soul, he wins; if he turns to the
pleasure feeding frivolities, he loses.
! It is a cold blooded proposition, but
lit is true. Genius is 99 per cent,
hard work and the best of leisure is
a shift from one kind of work to
another kind of work. Ninety-nine
out of every hundred men who win
in this world use the time, when
they are not at work, in activities
which look like work to the loafer.
| , F
s As to Article X
[David Jayne Hill In the North
American Review]
"We may rightly refuse to deal
with any nation that violates Inter
national law until it has made
reparation and acknowledges Its
authority. We should, undoubtedly,
bring all our available forces to bear
against any nation that criminally
breaks its legal engagements; and
we may ptoperly lend such aid as
we are at the time reasonably able
to lend a nation that is the victim
of criminal aggression; but to be
come the guarantor of possessions
the acquisition of which was iniquit
ous, or of the consummation of
future transactions of which we
may not even be aware, is not only
wholly outside our national obliga
tions, but violative of the only prin
ciples upon which international
peace and harmony can ever be per
manently organized. Unless our
ideals are respected, our force and
our resources might prove more
helpful to the true interests of man
kind if left entirely under our own
control, with no prospect of future
stultification through exposure to
the charge of being faithless to ob
ligations which we ought never to
have assumed.
Irish Balk on Prince
[From the New York World.]
When Hia Royal Highness the
Prince of Wolea vlalta New York he
will be the guest of the city only
in a manner of speaking, unless many
of the aldermen change their minds,
which' does not seem probable.
There is a firm determination among
these aldermen that no city money
shall be appropriated for the recep
tion of the royal visitor.
Something resembling an alder
manic strike threatened the other
day because Mayor Hylan in hia let
ter explaining the need of funds for
entertaining General Pershing spoke
of other distinguished visitors >vho
are to come here shortly, including
the prince. Several aldermen of
Irish extraction debated long in the
corridors of city hall before they
would attend the special meeting at
which $lO,OOO was appropriated for
the Pershing celebration.
In the meeting itself an alder
man interjected a remark about the
Prince of Waies and another across
the room answered: "That won't
get my vote." A little later Alder
man Falconer, Republican, asked
President Moran if any part of the
$lO,OOO was to be spent on the re
ception of the prince. Mr. Moran
replied somewhat emphatically in
the negative.
Later Mr. Moran Issued a state
ment explaining that the appropria
tion was made to enable the citi
zens to express their appreciation
of the work done by American sol
diers and added:
"The entertainment of foreign
guests on visits of a friendly nature
during peace should bo defrayed by
private subscription and not from
the pockets of the taxpayers."
Less Efficiency
[From the St. Paul Pioneer-Press]
Some Boston authority, eminent
no doubt, but lost to memory at the
moment, issued a statement which,
dealing with labor production, took
the ground that efficiency, after all,
was the only accurate measure and
wages were negligible. If wages,
for example, increased 30 per cent,
and efficiency increased 60 per
cent., the situation was vastly im
proved. This is axiomatic, of course.
Then the authority went on to as
sert, rather than to prove, that
labor efficiency had enormously in
creased since the beginning of the
war and there was nothing but op
timism to be spread out for our de
lectation.
Unfortunately the facts are not
all in corroboration of the efficiency
assertion. In the steel industry,
commonly said to be the barometer
of all Industry, the reverse has been
asserted. Reports by the several
steel concerns, show that since tho
beginning of the war Bteel wages
have advanced an average of 170
per cent, and at the sams time ef
ficiency has decreased an average
of 20 per cent. If this Is true, the
labor cost of the average ton of
steel produced has increased ap
proximately 225 per cent.
The books of the steel corpora
tion show that in 1902 it paid an av
erage wage of $717 per man, or
$14.70 per ton of steel produced;
while in f9lB this average wage had
increased to $1,685 and to $32.68
per ton of steel. The figures indi
cate a distinct lessening of labor
efficiency at a time when Increased
production is acknowledged to be
the world's greatest necessity.
Ifs a Long Road
(Forbes Magazine.)
American business men should
take note of the fact that the Brit
ish House of Commons has adopted
an amendment to its profiteering
bill empowering the Board of Trade
to fix wholesale and retail prices.
When Britain, a "nation of shop
keepers," to quote Napoleon's his
toric phrase, adopts such drastic
regulatatory legislation, what may
we expect, what may we not ex
pect, here, now that the public have
started in earnest to wage war
against the business community be
cause of the rapacity ruthlessly
practiced during and even more es
pecially since the war? The. ac
claim with which the announcement
that the Government would sell to
consumers surplus war supplies was
received, coupled with the extraor
dinary stampede by the public to
purchase the goods, reveals how
keenly the people feel about this
whole question of living costs and
profiteering. The truth is that the
temper of the public is ugly, very
ugly. The reforms demanded may
lead to something more than cor
rective measures; vengeance may be
demanded. The sins of the profi
teers are likely to be visited upon
not only the guilty profiteer, but
upon business men who have con
ducted their operations with hon
esty and self-restraint.
SEPTEMBER 20, V9T9.
Dr. Finegan's Going a Loss
[Schenectady Union-Star.]
It la not probable that the gen
erality of citizens of New York
state realize that the vast public
service that Dr. Thomas E. Flnegan
has rendered public education and
the magnitude of the loss in his de
parture. He left this week the of
fice of deputy commissioner of ed
ucation at Albany to become head
of the school system of Pennsyl
vania.
The Keystone state pays a com
pliment to the Empire state In
selecting Dr. Flnegan to reorganize
the school system in the land of
William Penn.
For twenty-seven years Mr. Flne
gan—he wasn't Doctor Finegan al
ways—was connected with the of
fice of public education at Albany.
Without detailed information, it is
Impossible to assess here the exact
value of the work of this one man.
A natural teacher, Mr. Finegan led
in changing and advancing me.thods
of public education. A master of
detail, he has been charged with
infinite toil in adapting new ideas
to the practical, every-day needs of I
the schools. An inveterate, In
satiable worker, he has been bus
led day and night, and the results
are seen In a system of public
schools, probably the best In the
Union.
The highly complex job that has
been his lot you may understand
when you step from one of those
Immense public schools In the me
tropolis, a city In itself, where hun
dreds of children from the homes
of those born under other flags are
made into good Americans—step
from one of those schools to a little
district schoolhouse back on the
hills, where In one room four or
five generations of native-born
Americans have been trained. Dis
similar as they are, both these
schools do their parts In the day's
work largely because Dr. Finegan
co-ordinated them.
The schools of the Empire state
doubtless are a long way from what
they ought to be; but they are vast
ly nearer their ideal than they were
when the blacksmith's boy up in
Montgomery county got the idea
that he'd like to be a school teacher
and help along education.
He goes now to one of the high
est salaried educational positions In
the country, and now New York
must look out or Pennsylvania will
run away with the scholastic
, honors.
Autumn
Do you remember, sweetheart, how
along this woodland path.
We walked last June, when every
thing was green?
The flowers bloomed aronnd us, and
our hearts with beauty
thrilled,
For a glorious summer bounty
filled the scene.
But here to-day we wander midst a
very different world—
We cannot recognize our path at
all;
The changing leaves, the stalks, the
pods, the fruit, the berries
red—
Our very souls with rapture view
the fall.
And where was all this glory when
we walked the path last spring?
Deep hidden in the green and in
the flower.
And so in lives about us, people
whom we daily meet—
Their souls arise to greatness for
the hour.
—Emily Granger in Portland Ore
gonian.
Loss to Profession
[From the Kansas City Star]
The Washington * correspondent
occupies a position of very great
responsibility. It is his business to
interpret to his readers the develop
ments in national and international
affairs. He must be a man of abil
ity and integrity sufficient to estab
lish himself in the confidence of the
biggest men in the Nation so they
will talk freely to him, knowing
their confidence will not be abused.
And he must have such a grasp of
affairs that he can point out the
significance of matters that might
appear trivial to the casual observer.
A man of this type was Ben F.
Allen, correspondent for the Cleve
land Plain Dealer, who was killed
in an automobile accident while
accompanying the presidential party
In Oregon recently. He had been
long in Washington, had. a wide
acquaintance among public men,
and had made a strong impression
through his intelligence, his high
ideals and his integrity. The people
of Ohio whom he served and the
newspaper profession suffer a severe
loss in his death.
ttlttg f
Plana for the In Har
risburg of the new post of C**>
American Legion and which It is ex
pected will make It one of the
largest and most influential In Cen
tral Pennsylvania, call to mind the
fact that Pennsylvania's capital was
among the earliest to organize a
post of the Grand Army of the lie
public. A few weeks after the firl
post was formed in the middle west
a preliminary meeting was held iu
Harrisburg. This was in the fall <—
1866 and the next April the post wx
formally organized, received iw
charter and was named. The fact
that it was among the early onc><
of the hundreds which were forms*:.
In that period Is shown by Its low
number of 58. At first It had C--y
of the largest memberships in the
central section and was in fact r.
large that a year or so later tho
so-called uptown post, No. 116, w*-
established. Post 520 was formed
by the colored men later on. Pcv
58 and Post 116 have had the barm
meeting places for many years, in
fact College Block has been s>
Identified with 58 that it was called
G. A. R. Block for a time.
• •
Girard in the Philadelphia Press
has this interesting pragraph about
a man well known here:
"Lancaster has just made a lieavy
draft on Harrisburg's brain reserves
by taking Professor Omwake, who
becomes dean of Franklin and Mar
shall College. Liko the McCrackens,
whose family furnished four college
presidents, the Omwakes are teach
ers. Doctor Leslie Omwake is presi
dent of Ursinus. In the presence
of the latter, the late Dr. N. C.
Schaeffer related to me the story of
what he said was the best after
dinner speech he had ever heard.
The Omwakes were being feasted in
testimony of their success, where
upon the brilliant sons being asked
to talk, spoke particularly and elo
quently about their mother and what
they owed to her. Then Father
Omwake was called, and this was
his speech: "I married those boys'
mother."
• • *
Squirrels in Capitol Park are get
ting a change of diet through the
kindness of Frank M. Eastman, the
lawyer. Mr. Eastman is a great
walker and on some of his rambles
in the woods about Harrisburg has
noticed many acorns on the ground.
He brought some of them to the
park and the squirrels had an after
noon party. Since then he has made
further donations and the denizens
of the park are developing a taste
for another item of their natural
food.
• * *
int ® ns t brimary there has
been little of the fool betting re
ported, at least on the local tickets.
There were some bets on the Phila
delphia contest and several pretty
. s ' zed aums changed hands in
the business section. Only one freak
bet on the city trcasurership was
reported and that makes a man buy
a friend two ten cent cigars every
morning for two weeks.
• • *
Governor William C. Sproul has
received a letter from ColSnel j£fn
Price Jackson, who has been in the
Army almost from the outbreak of
war. telling of his departure for
Armen a with the Ilarbord Mission.
Colonel Jackson was in charge of
labor and distribution .of labor in
France a.nd also got into other coun
tries. He will probably not return
to Pennsylvania for months to come.
Judging from the inquiries being
made a number of Harrisburg men
who were in the Army and have been
away from home lately are coming
, back for the official welcome. If the
number of men heard from and the
, number of men In tho city who will
1 be entitled to participate in the wel
, come turnout, there will be one of
• ; he I ? ost interesting parades ever
. seen here and every branch of the
, service will be representd.
s•
> - 1 ?® decision of the State Council
S hL^? D /L° yn ., Arci i num to hold the
biennial meeting: of the Pennsylvania
r Grand Council in this city hereafter
1 S i4. a iit to Harrisburg: hos
"PJ J a accommodations. It Is
5 the first fraternal organization of lm
, portance to determine upon the city
, as a permanent meeting place, a
logical choice in view of the railroad
5 facilities and provisions of good
t hotel accommodations. There will
. probably be more organizations to
s do the same. It is also notable that
i the meeting at which this action was
1 L ak ?P ™ as the firat be held here
p by the State Council.
Youngsters of Harrisburg do not
seem to be able to wait for the open
ing of the school libraries which the
Harrlsburg Public Library plans to
place in 21 school houses next
month and they are trooping to the
Library to take out books and to
look up facts about various things.
Some of the boys and girls appear
to be greatly interested in the na
ture study, judging from their in
quiries and from indications the city
will be able to furnish plenty of
aviators before many years go by.
About every fifth boy wants a book
on airplanes with some Interested in
submarines.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—John Wanamaker is a member
of the Philadelphia committee to
meet Cardinal Mercier and escort
him to the Quaker City.
—Dr. C. J. Marshall, former State
veterinarian, will devote himself
hereafter to work at the University
of Pennsylvania, which he has taken
up again this week.
. —The Rev. Dr. Hugh T. Kerr,
honored by election to a national
church organization, is a Pittsburgh
er.
—C. L. Huston, the Coatesvtlle
manufacturer, is chairman of the
commission of the Presbyterian
Church on Evangelism.
—Charles M. Schwab speaking at
the Blair County Pair, recognized
many of his boyhood friends.
—Judge John M. Patterson, of
Philadelphia, has gone to the sea
shore for a rest.
f DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrlsburg had many
men In the overseas battleship
fleet?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—At this time in 1862 Harrisburg
was filled with men summoned here
for emergency military service.
The Planet Carnegie
(From the Westminster-Gazette)
Mr. Carnegie shared an almost
unique honor with the Empress
Eugenie in having a planet named
after him during his lifetime. Two
of the remarkable family of minor
planets situated between the orbits
of Jupiter and Mars were named
Carnegie and Eunie.