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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
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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.