10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A. NEWSPAPER FOR TEE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Teltsiiph Untitling, ti'cd'riil Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STMINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager I Executive Hoard It P. McCULLOUGH, " * BOYD M. OGLESBY, E. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—Tha 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 lshed herein. SAII rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dallies. Eastern office Story, Brooks & Avenue Building. Western office'. Gas Building i Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Fa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a f week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 11)1!) Do good around you; preach what you beliere to be the truth; and act accordingly; then go through life looking forward. —MAZZINI. COMIX fx TO IT THE most progressive cities in the country have smoke-abate ment regulations and Harris burg should get in line with the progress of the times in this respect. We have much more smoke than is necessary. Go to the hills opposite Harrisburg along the West Shore or . to Reservoir Park and see how the j beauty of the city is marred by the dark, dingy cloud that hangs con stantly over it. If Pittsburgh can get rid of sixty-five per cent, of its smoke, so can we, and that would 1 make Harrisburg one of the clean- , est cfttes in the country. The recklessness with which smoke is poured out by the railroads and mills of Harrisburg is a disgrace. Property Is damaged and made un sightly and some sections rendered unfit for human habitation. We are just about to develop here the most beautiful formal park in the world and to build new Capitol buildings and a monumental bridge. Are we going to make them targets for a constant volley of soot and cinder? Contrary to popular belief, smoke in objectionable volume is not neces sary either to mill or railroad op oration. Every shovelful of coal that comes out the stack in the form of smoke represents fuel wasted. Smoke prevention needs no costly apparatus, but it does require care ful firing. Once the subject and the method o£ treatment are more fully understood there will be no objec tion to preventative measures in Harrisburg. We are coming to it, slowly but surely. RESULTS CERTAIN A STUDY of the returns of j Tuesday's election in Harris burg and Dauphin county only serve to emphasize the dominance of the Republican party as indi cated by the enrollment and regis tration figures for this year. In some cases defeated Republican candi- | dates polled twice and three times as many votes as victorious Demo crats. The hopelessness of the whole Democratic situation is ap parent at a glance. Republicans should accept with a grain of salt Democratic news paper reports of dissatisfaction among those Republicans who failed at the primary elections. Every Republican who went into the pri maries fully expected, if nominated, to receive the support of all other Republicans at the general elec tions, and those who won out last Tuesday, having made the fight in good faith, are entitled to the votes of those who went down in the pri mary contests. Republicans generally are well content with the outcome. A strong ticket, made up of honest men of good reputation without exception, has been named and so far as the Re publican candidates are concerned there can be no mudslinging.' The record of the party in office is so good that even censorious Demo cratic critics have been unable to dig up anything for use in their po litical campaigns. The county of fices have been well managed, the county's money well spent* and the interests of the taxpayers carefully safeguarded. In addition, the long dispute over mine property valua tions has been put in a fair way of a settlement from which the public purse will be greatly enriched. County Commissioners Stine and Cumbler who are out for re-elec tion deserved the tremendous vote they received on Tuesday and their election is assured. The overwhelming vote by which their colleagues on the ticket were nominated is ample proof that they stand in high favor with the voters of both city and county and so far as Democratic opposition is con cerned they are already elected. Of TUESDAY EVENING, course, no stone will be left un turned by the militant Republican management in this district to roll up a big majority on November, because next year is a Presidential year and the showing made* by Re publicans at this time will have a great weight in the Spring primary, when delegates to the National convention are selected, not to mention the Presidential election itself in November, 1920. While it is "all over but the shouting" in Harrisburg and Dau phin county, so far as election of the Republican ticket is concerned, it is the duty of every Republican voter to go to the polls in Novem ber and record himself in favor of the party that not only gives good administration locally, but which promises reforms in National af fairs vitally important to the whole country. LOST REPUTATION WAS in the reign of George I the Third," Charles Dickens tel's us in his Child's History of England, "thttt England lost North America, by persisting in taxing her without her own consent. That im mense country, made independent under Washington, and left to it self, became the United States; one of the greatest nations of the earth. In these times in which 1 write, (1851) it is honourably remarkable for protecting its subjects, wherever they may travel, with a dignity and a determination which is a model for England." What would Dickens say to-day could he but contemplate the shameful history of our relations with Mexico, and review the policy of note writing that preceded by many months our entrance into the war with Germany, resulting there by in the unnecessary destruction of thousands of lives and the waste of billions of treasure? NOT FOR THE U. S. THE English government i)ro- | poses the standardization of 1 women's garments. Increasingly I high prices for clothing of the femi nine variety has given rise to the sug gestion that a half million of these | "standard" costumes and coat frocks ; be manufactured. During the war I many English women were content ' to wear this style of dress, but they j railed it a "uniform" and felt that they were doing their bit by wear- ; ing it. The soldier felt the same way i about his uniform, but the haste j with which he discarded it the mo- ; ment his discharge papers were is- i sued gives rise to the suspicion that ! women will feel somewhat the same way about the standardized gowns they are being asked to don. We in America will watch with interest this latest experiment in feminine finery, but in our hearts we will hope it will not succeed. The only bright spot on the American landscape these days is the Ameri can girl in her infinite variety of millinery and costume, llemovc that and you take away from the scene not only its greatest attraction, but you abolish the most popular theme of conversation that has yet been devised to while away the deadly afternoon call or a trip home on the street car. What, we wonder, would women talk about, if they all wore the same kind of dress. What would become of the editors of fashion magazines, what would the department store advertisers Write about, who would dare get up a dance or a dinner party, what would be the use of having a good-looking wife, who would dare devise a stand ard garment and tell an American woman she had to wear it? A lot of heroes have come home from the fields of France, but it would take more than the offer of a Croix de Guerre or even the French Legion of Honor to induce an American soldier to suggest any such scheme as the English govern ment has put forth in that country. The American woman is a law unto herself and her dress knows neither the limitation of law or economy. She wears what she wants to wear whether she can afford it or not, and standardized garments have ever been so unpopular here that if the prosperous Airs. Jones discovers that the less prosperous Mrs. Smith has a garment of precisely the same cut as her new gown she lays it away sorrowfully or passes it along to the lady who does her weekly wash, with unkind remarks concerning the lack of ingenuity of dressmakers who must use one pattern for two dresses. OUR LITTLE TOWNS NO TOWN or village of Central Pennsylvania is so small or so poor that it cannot afford a welcome-home celebration In honor of the young men of the com munity who went out to save the Nation front the Hun. This is a good sign. It indicates a deep, un derlying, patriotic sentiment that marks the present wave of discon tent as a surface movement without great force and that will spend itself in time, leaving the Nation all the stronger and better for the experi ence. The little town always was and always will be one of the bulwarks ! of American democracy. There life i is quiet and normal. The currents i of disturbing influences pass it by, or at most it feels no more than the backwash the floods of radicalism and foreign thought that are con stantly buffeting the great centers of population. People grow up and grow old in the houses where they were born. The little things of life, as the city sees them, loom large In the lives of those who reside in the small towns. Thrift is there, and true home-life and a reverence of the Aug and our National institu tions that nothing can shake. I Thank God for our little town.s and villages. By the Ex-Oommitteem*n It's rather an odd sequel to the strenuous primary election heid in Pennsylvania last Tuesday that the proceedings for counting of the vote should be so stormy in so many counties. In at least a dozen counties there have been protests and objec tions filed to the way the votes were returned, while Election Hoard mem bers are being hailed in half the courts and County Commissioners' offices in the State to explain what they were trying to do. It is the business of the courts to count {he vote and the State officers can only certify what is returned. However, they are following all of the pro ceedings closely. No one here takes very seriously the suggestion thrown out in Phila delphia that there may be a contest of the wlio'e election in that city because of the alleged failure of the County Commissioners to comply with certain provisions of the law. It is certain, however, that there will be an overhauling of Election Boards that will accomplish some good. The newspapers of Philadel phia, notably the Inquirer and Eve ning Bulletin are demanding that the election frauds be e'eaned up and others express belief that Congress man J. Hampton Moote, when he gets into his office, will insist upon better things in that line. —ln addition to the ruction in Philadelphia over the ballot boxes there have been steps taken to im pound the ballot boxes in Delaware and Cambria. From all accounts the ballots were numbered in some dis tricts in the latter county. Schuyl ki'l county has a real fight on ore election ballots in one district ot Pottsville and boxes have been order ed impound. J. B. Dengler, a candi date for council threatens a row. There are also steps being taken in Lackawanna and other counties where close results may bring con tests. —ln regard to the judicial situ ation tho Philadelphia Press says: "Judge Wasson, of Allegheny Com mon Pleas, who was a candidate for nomination at the recent primary and fai'ed to get votes enough lo entitle him to have his name print ed on the official ballot fcr the No vember election, proposes to test the constitutionality of the Act which virtually gives tho election to tiie judicial candidate having fifty-one per cent, of tho vote cast at the primary and loaves all others off the ballot. He intends to request tho Secretary of tho Commonwealth to certify his name, and failing there wil' takp the maitor to the Dauphin County Court, and ultimately to the Supreme Court if necessary. There has berni a srond deal of speculation about this feature of the nonparti san judiciary Act. but it has never been passed upon in any case before the Supreme Court. It may not b° undesirable to have a decision on it from the highest authority." —Juniata county was first of the counties of the State to file its of ficial return for the primary fcr superior court judge last Tuesday. Cameron camn in second, only a short time behind. Roth counties also filed returns on the primary for associate judge. Each elects one this year. The State Department will keep a table on the superior court judicial primary and also list the judicial nominations for formal certification for the ballot. —ln response to letters which have come hero nsklnrr for judicial nomination papers the State officials have issued notice that no judicial nominations can be made except at a primary. The time for filing nomination papers for county offices expires on October 7. —Close attention is being paid to tho progress of the official count in various counties owing to the chances that matters needing.corrective legis lation may arise. —Completion of the offioia' count of the votep cast in the primary elec tion in Luzerne furnished some sur prises for candidates and others in terested in the proceeding. The count shows that Charles Treth nwny, of Parsons, has beaten P. I. Hnvden. of Swoyersville, for the Democratic nomination by over 800 votes. This gives Tretlinwav both nominations. Boyle, of Wilkes- P.arre, who was conceded the Demo cratic nomination for recorder, lias lost out to Charles Berger. The count also shows that Sergeant Matt Steph ens, cf the 109 th Artillery, lost the ■Republican nomination for AVilkes- Barre city controller. . He was henten by ninety-two votes hy Dal'as Schobert, former councilman. —ln discussing the Democratic slump the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin says: "The vote cast in Presidential years for candidates such as Bryan, Parker and Wilson has been an almost pitiable min ority as compared with what it should have been in the customary progress and ratio of political par ties. For example, nearly forty years ago General Hancock polled as many as 70,000 Democratic votes in Philadelphia: at the same rate in the present population he would have more than 150,000. But the other day, when the municipal campaign for the Mayoralty brought the entire vote of the city to its high-water mark, there were actually fewer Democrats who vot ed than there were when the whole party went to smash in the wreck age •of the ill-fated campaign for Horace Greeley, in 1872! —Adell Hauser writing in tile Philadelphia Press says Mr. Moore will be Mayor of Philadelphia ac cording to his own ideas and then makes this suggestion: "The logic of the present situation calls for an entirely new line-up. namely, a death to the present Vare-Penrose fnctional strife, and a coalition of the three influences of Penrose, Varc and Moore, whereby the lat ter is free to run the city Govern ment according to his own Ideas, Penrose is free to go back to the Senate for another term, and Vnre is free to flit merrily from flower to flower in the bright sunshine gathering honey wherever he flijds It and keening what he has. —Says the Evening Ledger, edi torially: Uncle Dave Lane says Hampy w'U make n darned good Mayor; which shows that Uncle Dave is a darned good lo~er." y \| S o this remark: "Members of the Pro hibition nnrty will probab'v think up something else to prohibit." —Count of Delaware ronnty votes is almost as bitterly contested In the Media courts, as the prim ary. There Is a fuss over ballot boxes. —Judge John M. Garman heat Paul Sherwood by over 15,000 in Luzerne county. And the Demo cratic reorgantzers were all after Garman recently. HXRRIBBTTRA NFFLLFTL TELEGKXPH OH, MAN! By BRIGGS 1 1/-JOE. I PEEI UKE J |/THE*E-S MO ARGUMENT I ( C/\N4 TURI*4 [ | GO TWENTY I F \SJOE.— PROHLBLTLOFO LS / / ] OUT MOPE WORV< AND/ BOUNDS WITH / REALLY P* GOOD THING BEX TER _ C-T * ( LOOK AT MV CHEST FOR OS AMD WE FYSBA JULY I MAY No Wonder Germany Quit By MAJOIt THANK C. MAHIN j Of tlu- Army Recruiting Station ——— j "The moon was going to be full | that night and the weather promised | to be clear, so I took my maps and wont down to call on my scout lieu-1 tenant. Spreading put my maps and j laying a couple of aerial photo- I graphs on top of them I told .him ; that we were certain that this par- ! ticular house, pointing it out on the i map and photographs, was the head- | quarters of a Boche battalion. The • house was on the edge of the vil-1 lage of Menil about 1,100 yards j back of the Boche trenches. Menil was one of the villages in the Vosges that was never shelled. On our side ; was a place called Moyenmontier and vice versa. I suggested casually to my lieutenant that I did not be lieve he had nerve enough to go over to Menil 'that night and nab the Boche Major in his nightie and bring him back as exhibit A. As I had hoped and intended the as persions on his nerve made my | young friend quite peevish to say I the least. Seeing that I had his! goat 1 proceeded to outline my plan | and showed him on the map and the photos just how he could get into j the village and get away again. We talked it over at length and then sent , lor his sergeant and corporal and went over the scheme with them until they too thoroughly under stood what was wanted. To be perfectly frank, I never dreamed they would succeed in reaching the itoehe headquarters, bu it was worth a try, because if we succeeded in kidnaping our beer-drinking friend in his pajamas it would be the joke of the whole West .Trout and incidentally be a wonderful thing for the Allied morale and a mighty bad thing for the Boche. Well! at dusk about twenty of ;ny men started for Menil. A couple of groups were left at certain points in the Boche trenches to cover the retirement of the lieutenant and his six picked men who were to do the kidnaping. About one o'clock every thing along the front was dead quiet the full ntoon was hanging in the western sky, flooding with ivs white light the forest clad mountain sides and the open yellow fields surround ing Menil. (Oh! Boy! .ome Eng lish.) Suddenly the calm peace of the beautiful night was shattered by a volley of shots. Close to the house where slumbered restfully the stout Boche major, the night was split by the spiteful flash of Amer ican .45 automatics and then by the answereing spit of German rifles. Anxiously we waited for news of ; our during comrades. A moment or j two and rockets began to roar up into the sky from the Boche trenches machine guns to vomit their bullets In a searching death dealing spray across the landscape, and then the crash of bursting shells as the Boche luid down their barrage in No .Man's Band. For a few minutes the night was made hideous with the revenge ful din of the enraged Boche and then as they still didn't know what all the excitement was about things quieted down to a desultory spitting of machine guns. But all joking aside, that patrol got back safely and reported they crawled through the belt of barbwire surrounding Menil, got into a shallow drainage ditch and crept towards the house they wanted to raid. In the moon light they could see a sentry march ing up and down in front of the house, a big, black bearded man. They hoped toeach th'e shadow of the house before he saw them and then jump out and been him with a pistol butt, but no such hick. He saw them moving in the-, ditch and came over to investigate. As he ar pi cached his figure was silhouet ted against the setting moon and I seven Yank pistols were covering I hirr. When he' got within fifteen feet seven shadowy figuies rose up and a low voice said 'But' am up, you Boche, blankety, blank, blank. ! Evidently ho did not understand i English for instead of putting 'em -up' he raised a bugle to his lips and ! gave one toot which was the stg ' nal for seven .-hunks of Yank lead jto go tearing through his body, 'flic combination of the toot and the vollev was too much. Sleepy Boche ' enme boiling out of the houses, cel jhns, dugouts and trenches, running j towards the scene of action. Out I patrol hastily qccided that lie who ' runs away will dve to fight another I day, so they high tailed It in a gen- I eral southerly direction at the ut- I most limit of their .ability, which | same ability proved s'lHViciu tc I bring them safely, although r.omt - what winded, back to oar t.*en .'lioj.' SHALL WE EXPORT LUMBER? QUICKER depletion of our forest resources, with higher prices and shortage of raw materials in our wood-using industries, is pre dicted by Henry S. Graves, Chief of the United States Forest Service, in a recent pamphlet entitled "Eumber Export and Our Forests," provided present attempts to increase lumber exports are not accompanied by steps to secure our forests. Says a Forestry Bureau bulletin: "We are already, according to Mr. Graves, cutting three times as much wood each year as the forests grow, while on the privately owned timber lands, which supply practically all of the material for export, no effort is being made to secure replacement after cutting. Under these condi tions any increase in our export trade will merely aggravate the shortage that is now felt, resulting In hard ship on the wood-using industries and the public in general. Southern yellow pine, the author points out, affords a particularly good example of the dangers attendant on any at tempt to Increase exports without at the same time changing present methods of utilization. While the remaining supply at the present rate of cutting will be exhausted in about 14 years. Southern yellow pine still leads in our cut and constitutes about one-half of our export trade, and consequently sets the pace for the price of lumber. An increase, there fore, in the Southern pine export business will likely be followed by increases in lumber prices all along the line. This may be considered a favorable condition from the stand point of the lumber Industry. But what about the building trade, which uses over 3,000,000,000 feet of South ern pine lumber; the railroads, which use 4,000,000,000 feet for ties and timbers, and the manufacture of boxes and crates, using 250,000,- 000 feet of Southern pine lumber; the builders of railroad cars, in the Children of the City Street [By Augusta Kortrecht.] Ye children of the city street. Who run to me with laughing cry. Who run to me as I pass by, And pluck my dress with courage fleet. Then hang your heads, abashed and . shy; Ye children of the swarming way, Whose world is dark and pinched and gray, My heart beats quicker when you smile, And walk with me a little while. Pale blossoms, choked 'twixt bier and stone, You reach to me as I pass by, You reach to me, I know not why. Who neither balm nor flower have known; For you I'd pillage God's blue sky— The perfumed air, the golden sun. The myriad stars—ay, every one I'd give to you, ye bitter sweet, Who bloom and wither In the street. Oh. children of the cruel street, So helpless and ashamed am I, So weak to answer to your cry, 'Tho bread I bring, or drink, or meat, I bring no light from God's blue Ye children of the swarming way, Whose life is starved and gloomy gray. You stab me when you love and smile And walk with me a little while. i Belgium a Land of Art A new edition of "Belgium A Band - of Art" by William Elliott Grlffls, bringing the book up to date, is now being prepared by Houghton Mifflin Company. The book will be of especial interest to American readers at the present time, for the imminent visit of the King and Queen of Belgium and 'of Cardinal Mercler will certainly agi tate curiosity about that little coun try across the sea. The Truth Is Told "Prisoners of the Great War," is the First authoritative statement of actual conditions in German prison camps by the deputy Red Cross commissioner to Switzerland, Carl P. Dennett, who had charge of feed ing, clothing, and caring for the American prisoners of war. The book has Just been published by I Houghton Mifflin Company * construction of which Southern pine lumber enters to the extent of 350,- 000,000 feet; the manufacturers of agricultural implements, using 100,- 000,000 feet, and the manufacturers of vehicles, furniture and wooden ware and the builders of ships and boats, all of whom use large quan tities of Southern pine? The in crease in the price of this lumber must affect the cost of their prod ucts, and therefore eventually the welfare of the farmer, the worker and the plain citizen who buys these commodities. "These facts do not, however, in Mr. Grave's judgment indicate that the export business should be cur tailed as much as possible, but rather ♦ hat immediate steps should be taken to keep the forest lands of the coun try productive. The Southern yel low pine lands, for example, instead of being practically exhausted in the next ten or fifteen' years under the present methods of exploitation could, if fully stocked and in good growing condition, provide all the yellow pine lumber necessary for domestic needs and leave a much larger surplus for export than is being shipped to-day. As the chief forester sees it, 'The public must take cognizance of the dissipation of our forest wealth and insist on the use of constructive methods of hand- Jing forests instead of destructive exploitation. It will be necessary that the public, through appropriate legal and administrative measures, insist upon adequate forest protec tion and the use of such methods of cutting as will make possible forest replacement by natural reproduc tion. At the same time, the public must liberally assist the owners in such measures as are necessary to make good forest handling a feasible matter. Such a policy, coupled with a broad policy of public acquisition of forests—national, state and mu nicipal—would make safe and wise the encouragement in a largo way of the export of lumber and other for est products." New Daylight Shving Plan (Forbes Magazine.) Many men who have achieved much have the habit of working while others sleep. John H. Pat terson, the dynamic head of the National Cash Register Company, for many years never went to bed without pad and pencil at his bed side, and rarely did morning find the pad empty. He got up at 5 o'clock and had one day's work done by noon. Incidentally, the move which led Julius Rosenwald, head of Sears, Roebuck & Company, to success and wealth, came to him and was decided upon in the middle of the night, many years ago. The idea which won E. C. Simmons, founder of the Simmons Hardware Company, fame and fortune also came to him between midnight and dawn. LABOR NOTES The present rate of wages for female laundry workers in Toronto, Can., ranges from $9 to $l6 a week. The Provincial Council of Carpenters in Ontario has a membership of 5294, an Increase over last year of 1379. , Employment of foreign labor in Sonora, Mexico, is limited to 20 per cent, of the employed force. The Switchmen's Union of North America has chartered locals In Au burn, Wash.; Toledo, Ohio, and Mead ville, Pa. Nearly 30,000 men are employed in the shipyards located on San Francisco bay. Cleaners and dyers in San Francisco have organized and affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. A wage of 35 and 40 cents per hour and eight hours as a working day pre vail at the present time in Porto Rico. Denver street railway employes have agreed to accept a 48-cent-an hour wage scale and submit their de mands for higher wages to arbitration. It is said that the lack of capital is responsible for the abandonment of the scheme to develop the Ballycastle (Ire land) coal fields. . Extensive tests of the lenses made in Nottingham, England, indicate that the lenses are superior to those hitherto made in Germany. The glass used in making these lenses is manufactured in the vicinity of the cities of Derby and . Birmingham, England. SEPTEMBER 23, 1919. WALKING AT NIGHT [By Amory Hare.] My face is wet with the rain But my heart is warm to the core, For I follow at will again The road that I loved of yore; And the dim trees beat the dark. And the swelling ditches moan, But my heart is a singing, soar ing lark. For I travel the road alone, Alone in the living night. Away from the babble of tongues; Alone with the old delight Of the night wind in my lungs; And the wet air on my cheeks And the warm blood in my veins, Alone with the joy he knows who seeks The thresh of the young spring rains, With the smell of the pelted earth, The tearful drip of the trees, Making him dream of the sound of mirth That comes with the clearing breeze. 'Tis a rare and wondrous sight To tramp the wet awhile And watch the slow delight Of the sun's first pallid smile. And hear the meadows breathe again And see the far woods turn green, Drunk with the glory of wind and rain And the sun's warm smile be tween! I have made me a vagrant song, For my heart is warm to the core, And I'm glad, oh, glad, that the night i long For I travel the road once more, And the dim trees beat the dark And the swelling ditches moan. With the joy of the singing, soar ing lark I travel the road, alon4! The Straight Path [From the Kansas City Star] "And to-day our Nation is standing at the crossroads of its destiny. On the one hand is the tortuous path of sinister European and Asiatic diplomacy. On the other hand is just the straight and narrow path of Americanism." —Senator Johnson in his Convention Hall speach. And you can bet on it, America is going straight. Part of the Game (From Louisville Courier-Journal). "Those golf clubs look rather fragile." "They are made that way pur posely. Wouldn't do to have 'em too heavy. If you can't make the stroke you can at least smash the club." Prisoners to Cheaper Board (From Louisville Courier-Journal). Louisville —Federal prisoners are being removed from Jefferson Coun ty jail to jails in rural communities, where authorities assert a saving of at least twenty-live cents a day on board can be effected. Reward and Punishment •For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the trans gressors shall be rooted out of it— Proverbs ii, 21 and 22. Life Is Power For him that is Joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.—Eccle siastes ix, 4. The Open Hand [By Beatrice Cameron Mansfield.] See, dear, my hand is open—you are free! I would not hold you by a single thread. All love I give you, but. with liberty. For love held by restraint is cold and dead. Upon my palm a bird comes, wings alight; Love bids me clasp it closely to my breast; But as it poises for its instant flight My steady hand a haven makes, of rest. So bird and man are mine, I leave them free, They fly into the world, but with a smile I say, "Godspeed!" For surely back to me Will come my man, my bird, to rest awhile. So. Love, I give you perfect lib erty— Look, dear, my hand is open! You are free! Emmtttg (Hijat ;| Just how to provide the proper facilities for the rapidly increase tin number of Harrisburg folks who uro taking to the Susquehanna for boat ing and swimming when the rivet wall is built through "Hardscrabble" and extended up Front street above Maclay street is a subject that is occupying the attention of far more people than the city fathers realize. In a general way, some plans liavu been made for boating and bathing. More people are enjoying the rivet now than known in a long time and they will be rather insistent upon the best when they vote their money lor it in November. One of the plans is to make bathing beaches on two or three islands in the river, while another calls for bathing places at seven or eight spots along the rivet wall, which would give something to every part of the city on the river, and for bath houses in other sections. One of the best sugges tions that has come along in regard to the river front boating is from a man who has studied the situation. Here's his idea: "When the city gets Hardscrabble let it buikl the river wall as soon as possible and also extend it beyond Maclay to the city limits. Hardscrabble is the cen ter- of the city, or practically so, as far as river front that is improvable is concerned. Now let the city buy a couple of lots on the east side of Front street and put up a big boat house and either run it or lease it. Make it large enough for boats for years to come and let it insist on the best management. From the cellar of this house there can be built a tunnel to a landing on the river wall, which can be closed by flood and ice gates when not in use. It will en able people to keep boats in a cen tral place and to get them well cared for and also to use them when they want. It is either this or boathouses dotted along the bank. Think it over. People are going to insist on more boating facilities, do not for get that. The Kipona has stimulated interest in the river and the Har risburg Navy will help a lot. Again I say think it over." Here it is to think over. Plans for Harrisburg's welcome to its soldiers and sailors next week has revived interest in the vfar his tory of the community and the Dau phin County Historical Society will make a special effort next week to have the veterans of the World War give the data desired to make com plete the list of men who went out from this city. Arrangements will be made to have some one at the Society building on South Front street to take down statements of men who served in the war. The Society is to be the depository of this information for Dauphin county and the names and war service, resi dence when entering service unft present residence are desired. The information asked, says President B. M. Nead, will only take a short time to furnish and will not only furnish authentic data, but also pro vide something of value, not only to the community, but to the veterans of the World War in years to come. "One of the things which Harris burg will have to provide in the fu ture, and that time is not very far distant, is some place for parking of cars," said a business man this morning. "There are streets now which are lined with cars every day during business hours and others which in the evening are literally filled. One-way highways are help ing and so are regulations as to where cars may be placed, but more such spaces are eysential. On some days Market Square is literally filled with cars." The late Judge John B. McPher son used to say that for some rea son the weather man always sent some of the hottest weather about the time that the Dauphin county quarter sessions court for September began. The Judge called it the "farewell of summer." In any event, the weather has been run ning true to form for September weather. Here we have criminal court and there has been good warm weather. • A question of unusual interest was submitted to the Public Service Com mission last night in the contest by the Northern Cambria traction line against an auto bus tirm that asked a right to operate jitneys on the same route as the trolley line. The attorney for the trolley company de clared that the State having im proved the road a jitney company now wanted to have the use of it, the State having built the road and being obligated to maintain it, "This raises the question as to what this Commission is going to rule; whether a jitney line can capitalize, so to speak, a State highway," said the lawyer, who also remarked that the company had made a big investment in building a line and was asking an increase in fare. The company paid taxes to the State and was held to a schedule, while the ahto bus peo ple paid no taxes and were not under the same regulation as to schedule as a traction company. It will be of interest to a number of Harrisburgers to learn that Gen eral H. D. Styer, who retired re cently after many years spent in the army and who was one of the offi cers sent to Siberia, intends to speak on the Far Eastern situation. He is a Montgomery countian and has numerous friends here. At present he is at Fort Niagara. General Styer went through the Cuban and Philippine campaigns and gathered much experience in the recent war. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE Charles M. Schwab is to be the speaker at the meeting of the American Mining Engineers institu tion at Chicago. —Representative J. G. Steele, of McKees Rocks, was here this week attending the State medical meet 'H—Highway Commissioner Lewis S. Sadler has declined to make any speeches on road building. He says he wants to get the roads started. —Bishop E. A. Garvey, of Altoona, has just celebrated his fiftieth an niversary as a priest. —Admiral W. S. Benson has agreed to visit Pittsburgh during the" Holy Name Society's big meeting. —General L. T. W. Waller, the marine officer, is to preside at the American Legion mass meeting in Philadelphia. ' w. T. Wittman, the State poul try expert, is in charge of the big poultry exhibit at Allentown fair. r DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg is making quantities of shoes for the big cities and increasing production ? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —ln old times there was a sto- i yard at Tenth and Market streets.
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