10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 4. VEWSPAFER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Feleftiaph Building, Federal Sqeere E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Ctycf P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager BUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENEK, Circulation Manager Executive Board r. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. tCembers of the Associated Press—The Aseociated Prees 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 ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Avenue, Budding! Western office', I Chicago, 111. NS ' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a SFTUTRAIA- year in advance. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1919 Education is a capital to the poor man, and interest to the rich man.— HORACE MANN. PIONEERING CLARENCE E. ZORGER address ing the Harrisburg Rotary Club on his work as superintendent of special activities in the Harris burg public schools, drew attention • to the increased opportunity for community work in this city and ex pressed his intention of taking full advantage thereof. We have the School Board and Dr. Downes to thank for that—also Tor the engagement of Mr. Zorger to perform the service. The two junior nigh school buildings and the Teeli lical school are ideally equipped for Community work. They have ample Symnasium room for evening classes, volley ball and basketball contests, and the auditoriums are large and can be used for all manner of neigh borhood gatherings. Night schools can be conducted there, on a large scale, for both old and young. To develop this line of school work will not be easy. It is com paratively new In Harrisburg and will have to be carried along slowly gnd carefully at first, until it grows In momentum and popularity. The need is here. Just how best to meet It remains to be worked out. It is not right that the school houses should work only five hours a day for five days in the week and ten months in the year. Nor is it wise to provide all manner of recreation activities for old and young during the summer months only to allow those who take advantage of them to shift entirely for themselves dur ing the winter. It is the belief of those who have given thought to the matter that discontent can be greatly lessened and the standard of citizenship materially raised by giving to every man, woman and child who desires It the opportunity to take his or her place in the community. The school house community center is only a step toward the neighborhood club, built and operated by the city, and open to everybody. Time will come when every ward will have such a building. Just now. how ever, we must confine ourselves to the pioneer work of proving the value of that form of service. THE CENTERPIECE ARNOLD W.RRUNNER,explain ing in detail his plans for the city's memorial to the men who saw service in the war with Germany, said that he had chosen the flagstaff as the central figure of the memorial scheme for the reason that all our ideals of Government, all our prospects for the future, all our hopes for generations vet to come, center around the Stars and Stripes. This Is not only a beautiful sen timent, but It is a hard, cold fact. We need to think more of the flag of our nation. So long as it flies, so long will Americans continue to live under the principles of the first and greatest true democracy the world has ever known. The men in whose honor this memorial will be erected fought for the preservation of the flag which is to be Its center piece and it is very fitting that the banner under whose folds they rallied for the defeat of Germany should have a perpetual place in our 'thought as we cast back over the memory of the stirring war period now drawing to a close. OUR STATION NEEDS INDICATIONS that Pennsylvania Railroad authorities ure consid ering the building of a union station adjacent to the State Me morial Bridge to be erected at State street are not lacking. Superin tendent Elmer's open declaration In favor of such a building In a speech before the Rotary Club recently was reflected In the discussions before the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings on Thursday of this week. Harrisburg Is sorely In need of a MONDAY EVENING. new depot. Our present structure, large though it Is, Is a mere make shift. It was not designed to ac commodate the traffic that now passes through It and all additions and changes that have been made in the past fifteen years have not greatly bettered conditions except to provide for a little more room. The structure is antiquated and inade quate in every respect. Superintendent Elmer recognizes this and has promised to do his best in the way of improving conditions, but he is handicapped by the present Government control of railroads, with its constant shortage of funds and its limitations of service. We have in this inability of the Penn sylvania Railroad Company to make needed improvements in Harrlsburg an illustration of what we may ex pect if the Government should be put permanently in control of the railroads. In the old days, with private in terests in control and each railroad bidding for the business of its ter ritory, corporate management saw to it that depot necessities were met, no matter how great the cost, but since the Government has taken over the roads, no improvements to property have been made that have not been vitally essential to the movement of trains, and even some of these have been neglected. It is doubtful, indeed, if the depot situa tion here can be met until the rail roads shall have been returned to their owners. Meantime, it is proper that the officials should be giving thought to th® subject and getting their plans ready for action the moment the opportunity arrives. VETERANS OF THE CROSS WHAT a tine thing Stevens Me morial Church did yester day and Saturday, when it entertained the veteran members of the congregation in honor of their long and faithful service to the church. It is remarkable that this congregation embraces fifty-six men and women between the ages of 70. and 90. Length of church member ship indicates church interest and church interest betokens good home training and is reflected in right-liv ing. "Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the earth which the Lord thy God giveth thee" is more than a high sounding precept. It works out in life, as any one of these Veterans of the Cross might test fy. TALKING FOOLISHNESS E\ ERY soap-box orator in the land is talk ng "revolution." Even President Wilson used the ominous word in several of his western speeches, and now comes Senator Johnson to say that the country will be on the brink of revo lution if the Wilson league plan is not soon killed.' We may expect foolish chatter from irresponsible radicals, but both the President and Senator Johnson are amiss when they talk of "revo lution"—and, what is worse, both of them know it. The great majority of Americans arc taking the league debate calmly and revolution is an unknown word in America, except as it applies to occurrences in countries that do not enjoy our democratic form of gov ernment. We are not going to have any such turn-over here. The only form of revolution in which the American voter indulges is operated through the ballot box and Mr. Wilson and Mr. Johnson both should be more temperate in their language in the light of what is to take place in 1920. THAT AIR FIELD THE necessity of getting a mu nicipal flying field for Harris burg as soon as possible is shown in the trip made recently from Mlneola to Washington by an "air-liner" conveying fourteen peo ple. At last the commercially pos sible heavier-than-air type of plane has been devised and it will be but a short time before we are taking passage from Harrlsburg to New York or Harrisburg to San Francisco as nonchalantly and with no more thought of the risk involved than now attends the purchase of a rail road ticket. We have come to the place where freight and passenger traffic by air routes are accom plished facts. Harrisburg can no more afford to be without a landing field than it could have afforded to be left off the main line of the Penn sylvania It ail road when it was sur veyed. Private capital already Is pioneering along this line in Harris burg and it may be possible to de velop something for the city in that connection. In one way or another, we simply must have a field. OH, YES, IT PAYS TRULY there is nothing like newspaper advertising. Take the case of George Unger, of Chambersburg, for illus tration. In Thursday's issue of the Tele graph, George advertised for a wife. Yesterday came the answer—5,000 English girls on their way to the United States in search of husbands, and every girl of 'em is said to have a pocketful of money. If George can't "cop out" a renl beauty from this multitude of ro mance-seeking young ladies, he is a poor piker and deserves the fate of wretched bachelorhood he appar ently dreads. Nothing pays like advertising —• particularly Telegraph advertising. Here is a man who modestly ad vertises one day for just one, lonely, lonesome wife and next day is of fered his choice of 5,000. We im agine even such an expectant old soul as the late lamented Brigam Young would have been satisfied . with "ad" returns in such propor tions. fitUlciU 'J > tKK4^lLra'>ua, j By the Ex-Committeeman i Two matters connected with the | Pennsylvania primary of last Tues ; day are causing comment not only in newspapers within this State, but In New York and Washington. This is due to the prominence of the men whosi political future is involved In what happens In the ' next six or seven months, to the enormous preponderance of Repub licans in registration in the cities, the collapse of the Democratic party and to the blunders made by election officers in various parts of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other places. It is always fashionable for commentators to work over time when anything seems wrong with the ballot in Pennsylvania, but this time more evidence of carelessness and ignorance than fraud has come i to the surface. It seems to be generally agreed that the results of the Republican primary have assured the return of Senator Doles Penrose to the Uni ted Stales senate and that Gover nor William C. Sproul is a greater force than ever in State politics. Furthermore, example of the Gov ernor in challenging the party lead ership in his county when it failed to rise to the occasion and ignored "dry" sentiment and many other points which have become recog nized in sane politics will be follow ed in many other parts of the State as circumstances require. There is considerable talk of in dependent nominations in county and municipal affairs. Some may develop, but in most places such talk furnishes a vehicle for relief of feelings. —With the Republican party in Pennsylvania stronger and more militant than in years, defeated leaders turning in for the victors and the bitterness of a week ago already being forgotten, the disap pearance of the Democratic strength in the primary is all the more cause for comment. The Democratic in Pennsylvania has us its titular rulers, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, candidate for Presidential honors and Vance C. McCormick, former Democratic na tional chairman. The fact that tne.-.e men and those aligned with them in'the struggle for control of the party machinery, Ambassador Roland S. Morris, Joseph F. Gufl'ey, of the alien property ortlce; James 1. Blukslee, of the post otfice de partment, were the recipients of such marked favor from President Wilson and not only failed to give Pennsylvania which they promised, but allowed the party organization to go to smash is being much dis cussed. —The editorial view is well sum ned up "in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin which in d.seussing the re sults of the primary says in part; "The number of citizens who en rolled themselves as Democrats or who appeared at the polls as such was so small as to be almost sug gestive of the virtual extinction of that party in Philadelphia. The oldest Democrat now living here can hardly remember the time when so few Democrats made their appearance at an election as those who voted on Tuesday last. Such veterans as John Oadwalader and Henry Budd, for example, must be confounded when they contrast the Democratic party in Philadelphia as it was in the time of their youth with what it is to-day" —ln regard to the disclosures rel ative to the election couats it soen.s apparent that many members of election boards felt like those in Berks county who refused to go through the labor of counting th<- ballots of the high cost of living, holding that the pay was too small. In some Philadelphia districts (lie boards, as in Harrisburg and tithe" places, were what might be tailed "dumb." In others there were evi dences of crookedness, tampering with ballots and other things which cai'. for punishment in opinion of many men. —lt seems probable that as a re sult of the count before Judges Audenreid and Ferguson in Phila delphia that manv wholesome step; will be taken and that presence in court of ex-Judge James Gay Gordon and other eminent men will assist in straightening out a situa- | tioi. that has caused blisteiingl words in years gone by and whicli i may involve a change in Pennsyl vania State politics that will bo re flected next year. —Progress of the official -count of the primary election vote in the various counties is being followed with the closest attention by offi cers of the State department be cause of questions which may arise in the construction of the election law amendments of 1919 and be cause of reports of returns tangled up and regulations not complied with. The State authorities have | to certify judicial nominations and it Is hoped to get everything hand led without necessity of going to courts. Reports that Judicial can didates in Allegheny county would waive any "sole nominee" benefits because of size of vote created some surprise here ns the position on Capitol Hill is that they can do so and the State authorities will not certify as candidates men whom figures show to have been elimina ted in the voting. The first nomination paper blanks were Issued Saturday to men who had requested copies in Phila delphia. These can be used only for county or municipal nomina tions and not for Judges. —An Interesting slant in regard to Judicial elections is given in the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times in discus sing the judicial primary in Alle gheny county where there were seven candidates and five places to be filled. This primary being un der the nonpartisan act may have some elimination results. The Ga zette-Times says: "Lawyers in Pitts burgh yesterday were in doubt whether Judge Henry G. Wasson had been eliminated as a nominee under the provisions of a new act and on'y the names of Judges I Kl'ne, Stone. Evan, Haymaker and Drew appear on the ballot without opposit'on for Common Pleas Court. A recent amendment provides that where there are more places to fill in a particular office, and where more candidates than enough to flit the number of plaees receive more than 50 per cent, of the vote, only the necessary number to fill the places shall appear on the ballot in November, nnd these shall be those who received the highest number of votes. This would eliminate Judge Wasson, some lawyers say." —The Socialists do' not seem to have been active this year, while in some divisions In Jefferson and other up State counties, not a Democratic vote waa cast. RXRRIBBTTRG tG&jj&fl. TEEEGR3LPH WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND Found Americans Groping U'hilip Gibbs in Harper's Magazine] 1 At dinner parties and evening I receptions I met the different actors ' in the great drama of American life, and found them, in that time of armistice, desperately earnest about the problems of peace, in trigued to the point of passion about the policy of President Wilson, divided hopelessly in ideals and convictions, so that husbands and wives had to declare a So Man's Land between their conflicting views, and looking forward to the futures with profound uneasiness be cause of the threat to the "splendid isolation" of the Monroe Doctrine — they saw it crumbling away from them—and because (more alarming still) they heard from afar the first rumblings of a terrific storm between capital and labor. They spoke of these things frank ly, with an evident sincerity and with a fine gravity—women as well as men, young girls as fearlessly and ntelligently as bald-headed business ! men. Many of them deplored the i late entry of the United States into J the war, because they believed their people would have gained by longer sacrifice. With all their pride in the valor of thc*ir men, not one of them in my hearing used a braggart word or claimed too great a share in j the honor of victory. There was fear among them that their Presi dent was abandoning principles of vital import to their country, but no single man or woman I met spoke selfishly of America's commercial or political interest, and among all the people with whom I came in touch there was a deep sense of responsibility and a desire to help the world forward by wise action on the part of the United States. Their trouble was that they had lacked clear guidance, and were groping blindly about for the right thing to do, in a practical, common sense way. The Menin Way Along the cobbled Menin Way The wine and wool were sent, I And market wagons every day i To Ypres and Menin went, And oh! the laughing women sat and sewed Before their houses on the Menin road. There are no houses now; the rain In pools where they have been Lies deep; or out up on the plain A few frail walls may lean; And oh! the little children must not play With what they find beside the Menin way. And I remember gallant men And lads who fought and died. And think of all their laughter when I They said good-bye—and died; I For "O! it's not too bad," they used to say, "Along the Armentieres and Menin way." —Punch, London. Remarkable Tribute [From the New York Sun.] Oyster Bay is not the easiest place in the world to get to. Traveling by rail it is at the end of a devious branch line. By motor it is oft the beaten puth, far from the main roads which lead to and from the popular place of Long Island. And yet we read that every Sun day Americans go, not by hundreds ] but by thousands, to Sagamore Hill I to see the place where a man has i lain in his grave since last January. There was nothing in the way of speech or ceremony to attract the 4,000 pilgrims who went in the piti less heat of last Sunday. Sometimes it has seemed as if Americans were a people careless of great memories; and then something without plan, something spontane ously rising from the depths, the real national heart, occurs and proves that the apparent forgetful ness Is only a mask. In this case the something is the ■ processions up the distant hill of 1 grateful men and women to whom Theodore Roosevelt WM the ideal American Jack London's Spring To the Editor of the Telegraph: The "Sparkling Water" near Har risburg has been remembered with joy by at least one world-renowned sailor, although the word Kipona was not in use when Jack London spent that day in June, 1895, in and about the city. He enjoyed his swim "oft one of the piers" despite the fact that his clothing was rob bed of all his possessions—cigar et papers, tobacco and about thirty cents while he was in bath ing. Many Harrisburg people, no doubt, are familiar with his vividly written description of that day's experiences, in the story called "Pictures," included in his book, "The Road," which, I think, is now out of print. The suggestion was once made to Mr. London that the water-drink ing revel at the card-party on the railroad bank, on the West Shore, might have been due to the telepa thic influence of Dr. Swallow's near residence to the scene. To which he replied from Pa peete, Tahiti: "What a funny name for a pro hibitionist. Swallow! "I guess it must have been tele pathy that made me drink so much water that day, for I had never heard of Dr. Swallow. On the other hand, I have a strong lean ing toward other hypotheses—first, that our excessive water-drinking was due to the heat of the day, or secondly, that it was due to our own infernal cussedness." And this from the Hotel Tivoll, Ancon, Canal Zone, July 1, 1909: " As regards that spring! Let me see if I can, after this lapse of time, describe it to you. Cross ing the bridge from Harrisburg, and approaching the bluff where the gypsies were, facing said bluff, It seems that my right hand point ed along the railroad track to the north. From the bluff, I went north along the railroad track. It may have been two miles, but I really don't think it was more than a quarter of a mile when I came to the steep grade up which the freight-train bound for Baltimore would come slowly. "Somewhere down the bank, from the edge of the railroad track, on the grade, you should find the spring—unless they have changed the railroad grade there " "JACK LONDON." Perhaps, someone familiar with Jack London's spring, will tell us about it, and what has become of it? Can you find room for these few I lines from the story "Pictures"? "The game proceeded, and I learned the stake for which we played. Down the bank toward the river descended a steep and narrow path that led to a spring some twenty-flve feet beneath. Wo play ed on the edge of the bank. "The man who was 'stuck' had to take a small condensed milk can. and with it carry water to the winners. "The first game was played and the coon was stuck. He took the small milk-tin and climbed down the bank, while we sat above and guyed him. We drank like fish. Four round trips he had to make for me alone, and the others were equally lavish with their thirst. The path was very steep, and some times the coon slipped when part way up, spilled the water, and had to go back for more. But he didn't get angry. He laughed as heartily as any of us; that was why he slipped so often. Also, he assured of the prodigious quantities of water he would drink when some one else got stuck. "When our thirst was quenched another game was started. Again the coon was stuck, and again we drank our fill. A third game and a fourth ended the same way, and each time that, moon-faced darky nearly died with delight at apprec iation of the fate that chance was dealing htiri. And we nearly died I with him, what of our delight. We laughed like careless children, or gods, there on the edge of the bank. I know that I laughed till I thought the top of my head would come off, and I drank from the milk-tin till I was nigh water-log ged. Serious discussion arose as to whether we could successfully board the freight when it pulled up the grade, what of the weight of water secreted on our persons. This particular phase of the situa tion just about finished the coon. He had to break oft from water carrying for at least five minutes while he lay down and rolled with laughter. "The lengthening shadows stretched farther and farther across the river, and the soft, cool twilight came on, and ever we drank wa ter, and ever our ebony cup-bearer brought more and more. Forgotten was the beaten woman of the hour before. Thgt was a pagw read and turned over. I was busy now with this new page, and when the en gine whistled on the grade, this page would be finished and another begun; and so the book of life goes on, page after page and pages with out end-—when one is young. "And then we played a game in which the coon failed to be stuck. The victim was a lean and dys peptic-looking hobo, the one who had laughed least of all of us. We said we didn't want any water which was the truth. Not the wealth of Ormuz or of Ind, nor the pressure of a pneumatic ram, could have forced another drop in to my saturated carcass. The coon looked disappointed, then rose to the oc casion and guessed he'd have some. He meant it, too. He had some, and then some, and then some. Ever the melancholy hobo climbed down and up the steep bank, and ever the coon called for more. He drank more water than all the rest of us put together. The twilight deepened into night, the stars came out, and he still drank on. I do believe that if the whistle of the freight hadn't sounded, he'd be there yet, swilling water and re venge while the melancholy hobo toiled down and up. "But the whistle sounded. The page was done I caught a i flat-car loaded with mixed lumber and crawled away into a comfort able nook. I lay on my back with a newspaper under my head for a pillow. Above me the stars were winking and wheeling in squad rons back and forth as the train rounded the curves, and watching them, I fell asleep. The day was done—one day of all my days. To morrow would be another day, and I was young." R. C. Friendly Trees (From "Poems," by Herbert Trench, published by E. P. Dutton & Co.) O dreamy, gloomy, friendly Trees, I came along your narrow track To bring my gifts unto your knees And gifts did you give back; For when I brought this heart that burns — These thoughts that bitterly re pine— And laid them here among the ferns And the hum of boughs divine, Ye, vastest breathers of the air, Shook down with slow and mighty poise Your coolness on the human care, Your wonder on its toys, Your greenness on the heart's des pair, Your darkness on its noise. Keeping It Dark (From Blighty, London) Master of the House —Why did you tell the mistress what time I came in this morning, after I ex pressly paid you and told you not to do it? The Cook —Sure, sir, an' Oi didn't tell her. She asked me what time you got in, an' Oi tould her Oi was so busy getting the breakfast that Oi didn't look at the clock SEPTEMBER 22, 1919. The Underpaid Professor [From the Review.] He la being cramped and humili ated on all sides, la conscious that he la becoming quasi-miserly through over attention to pennies— in fact. Is himself living a petty and sordid life, and, what is much worse, sees those he most cares for, and for whom he Is responsible In volved In the same destiny. He wil lingly took on the vow of poverty for himself, perhaps, but not for them. He would go into plumbing if he knew enough. He is in the clutch of an out-and-out exasperat ing experience, one that is destruc tive both of his dignity and his self respect. Whether, under this harrow, he j reveals Bolshevoid tendencies or not, a man in such a mood ought not to 1 be teaching our sons. Jle is bound 1 to be wearied and distraught, if not 1 bitter and cynical. It takes enthusl- '• asm and fervor to fire the heart of ' youth. There is call for the clear | and equable mind, sufficiently at : rest as respects its own concerns to ] be able to spare that force upon i which his charges ought to have the 1 right to draw. As things now go, < the best men will keep out of teach- ing, and presently the inferior ones, i less robust and resistant of non- : sense, may actually fall, as some < have already fallen, into the status : of suggestible malcoptents. The 1 heads of most professors are not : yet weak enough for Bolshevism; but certain Journals that dish up ' brain softening compounds, full of : insinuation and suggestions are far too popular among them. To such influences they are becoming ever more "open-minded." This is dan gerous. If the cure of Russian--Bol shevism is more food, the prophy laxis of professional Bolshevism is more salary. In An Attic [By D. B. Van Buren.] Into a dusky land of dreams The sunlight falls in moted l)ams Where lie, in ordered disarray, The relics of an elder day; Dead scents of lavender and thyme Still linger in the dust and grime. While through the sleepy after noon Whisp'ring of long-forgotten noon The wind that round the attic sings. And as it pipes Its world-old song. Pale shadows rise, a phantom throng Of quaint, fantastic belles and beaux Who lived and loved long, long ago, The shattered mirror's dusty face Reflects a spectral beauty's grace, While stretched across two arm less chairs A grim old codger writhes and swears; A testy sufferer, no doubt. From twinges of a ghostly gout. Such visions of the past it brings— The wind that round the attic sings. Deep hidden underneath the eaves, Where his frail home the spider weaves. An old worm-eaten cradle stands, Carved by unremembered hands; And Altered sunbeams softened fall Where bends the fairest face of all. Lit with immortal radiance. Defying death and time and chance, And as the zephyr passes by It croons an ancient lullaby, Soft as the sweep of angel's wings— The wind that round the attic sings. Ton antique spinet's chords are hushed. Its vibrant strings together rust, Voiceless and mute, the silent keys Echo no more love's harmonies; Yet ever o'er the keyboard strays The filmy hand of one who plays— A form in crinoline and bands. While close beside another stands Whose gently prying fingers seek The ringlet on her cheek; Still, as the airy fingers touch Once more the keys that told so much, The wind's Aeolian minstrelsy Evokes a phantom melody In plaintive murmurs from the strings— The wind that round the attic sings. Through the long autumn after, noon Ever it drones its drowsy tune. While all the peopled corners stare With lofty, supercilious air At one who with unhallowed feet Invades the spider's last retreat A year or so too soon, at most, For fellowship with bat and ghost; And then? Why, then, as oft before, The ghosts will welcome one ghost more— Such melancholy presage brings The wind that round the attic sings. Influence [Forbes Magazine.] The only Influence worth having is the influence you yourself create. Money can be bestowed or be queathed by a rich man, but the things most worth while cannot. The man who wields a wide, wholesome, helpful influence is the man who has mastered both his Job and himself, the man who has ac quired wisdom by painstaking study, effort and experience, the man whose parts and character are respected by others, the man whose personality inspires admiration, the man whose achievements testify to his worth. The influence possessed by others cannot do much for you unless you have done something to enlist their influence on your behalf. A letter of introduction cannot do that. An invitation to lunch or dinner in order to meet the man whose Influence you court cannot do it. You have to make your own im pression upon him. You have to do something or say something or ex hibit something that convinces him you are all right, that you will meas ure up to expectations, that you will fill the bill, that you will deliver the goods. You have, in other words, to "sell" your worth to him. Deliver the goods. Part of your reward will consist of Influence. A Lethal Answer [From Punch, London] A laundry company's announce ment on the advertisement screen of a provincial mi sic hall: "Why kill the wife? Let us do your dirty work." Elm Most Popular Tree The consensus of opinion seems to be that the white elm, or American elm, is our most popular tree. It is . a shapely, dignified producer of ■hade and grows over a large area. Euimtng QHjatj Steelton furnace No. 1, which has played an important part in the in dustrial history of Dauphin county and which was the iirst stack to be built by the Pennsylvania Steel Company, now controlled by Beth lehem, is being torn down and be fore long the tall chimney which was one of the landmarks of Steel ton for half a century will disap pear. This furnace, which made iron for steel for some of the early steel rails rolled in Pennsylvania and for bridges in a dozen lands, was built in 1872 and blown in the following fall. It was originally 60x14 feet and was remodeled in 1883. The stack has a remarkable history for continuous service. Before the end of the year it is probable that No. 2 furnace, which was blown in .al most on the Nation's centennial day in 1876, will also disappear. This furnace was one of the first in Eust ern Pennsylvania to attain the size of 80x20 feet and has been remodeled and improved several times. Both furnaces have had their share of ac cidents, but it would be difficult to find any units of industrial estab lishments in this county which have for fifty years filled so large a place in the lives of thousands of men. When the smoky plumes were rising from the tall chimneys it was a sign accepted by people of Steelton that times were good and that the bor ough was "busy," while the furnaces furnished employment to a couple of generations of iron workers. They were of the old type and like many another similar plant will go to the scrap pile before the march of im provement. Fortunately for Steelton, new furnaces are rising to take the places of the two pioneers and the iron producing laurels will remain there and not disappear as they have from other parts of Dauphin county. A friend in the Grand Army of the Republic in commenting upon a paragraph in this column the other evening about the organization of the posts, says that Post 58 was mustered on April 24, 1867, and was one of the largest in the State in a short time. It still has a remark able roll, there being about 175, pos sibly more, veterans who are mem bers. This post has furnished two commanders of the department of Pennsylvania, the late George G. Boyer and the present commander, George Rhoads. It was joint host with Post 116 when the national encampment of the Grand Army was held in Harrisburg in May, 1883. It has a tine history, indeed. Pennsylvania's official goldfish placed in the basins of the foun tains in the front of the State Cap itol this summer are having a hard time between school boys, predatory torn cats, hungry squirrels and the weather. The tish are large hand some fellows which were obtained by the head of the State Depart ment of Fisheries and placed under charge of Superintendent "Tom" Templeton. Before the school bells rang tho fish had only the cats to contend with. Then the squirrels began to try to fish. Some of them fell into the basin, but the Capitol policemen say that squirrels do try to catch the smaller ones. The basins have to be watched now to prevent boys from taking the fish, but the other day one of the guards found that some boys had opened the trap protecting the drain and that some of the fish were heading down the sewers for tho Susque hanna. It Is a race with the frost in Penn sylvania now, say State Agricultural Department officials, who have been getting reports of many late toma toes, beans and other produce and of much corn still on the stalks. Date produce seems to be rather heavy, probably due in a measure to the weather conditions and there has been a tremendous crop of grapes in many sections which have been much in demand by foreigners and others who want to make their own supplies of wine. Corn cutting has been under way generally, but there was so much of it planted this year owing to the attractive price that it will be some time before it is all in. The late vegetable crop is large in the southern counties and farmers are working to get the apple and potato crops gathered be fore Jack Frost comes around. Although 1919 automobile tags have still over three months to run, there have been a number of re quests made for 1620 numbers. Many of them, are from people who want to continue their present numbers or to get some one which they failed to draw last winter. The usual freak requests for "poker hands" and odd combinations are being made. Owen Johnston, the author, was among visitors to Harrisburg the other day. He stopped here while on his way East to see the Capitol and meeting up with Captain Fred A. Godchnrles, on old friend was shown through the building and about the city. The State Medical Society, whose members meet here to-morrow, is one of the oldest societies in the country. It has met in Harrisburg almost every five years and several Harrisburg men have been honored by the presidency. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Bishop J. P. Berry will preside at the Methodist conference at Unlontown. —M. L. Montgomery, well known In Lehigh county affairs. Is ill at Allentown. —Mayor Arthur M. Scully, for merely In Harrlsburg newspaper work, !e home after service In the army In Germany. -—William A. Law, Philadelphia, banker, and Vance C. McCormlck, chairman of the War Trade Board, have been named on Atlantic City Trade Conference Committee. —Mgr. Bernard McGiveny has re tired after 30 years' notable church service at Dußois. —General R. C. Davis, adjutant to Pershing, is to be guest of his home city of Lancaster. —Freeland Kendrlck, prominent In the Shriners, has gone on a trip to Western states. —Dr. H. B. Haskell, president of Beaver College, has resigned to tako up work in New York. —U. G. Lyons, Warren busines man, has been elected president o( the National Petroleum Association. f DO YOU KNOW ~ —Harrlsburg is now one of the chief freight car repair places? HISTORIC HARKISBITiu; —Harrisburg's baseball ground; used to be up in what Is now th< Eleventh ward.
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