10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH \iiJfSWBPAPER FOR TRE HOME Founded 1831 Published evening* except Sunday by TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. TsSesreph Building, Federal Sqvure P< => H. J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chief OYSTER, Business Manager QUEL. M. ST EI N METZ, Managing Editor Jkm H. MICHSNER, Circulation Manager ILiecßtlrt Board Mccullouqh, M. OGLESBT, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. IL STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press Is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. *n rights of republication of special augk&tches herein are also reserved. I Member American lation and Penn- Assoc la- Eastern office. Avtnui Bui idling, l Chicago, 111. nB Entered at the Post Office In Harris bnrg. Pa., as second class matter. -iSSCEPw. By carrier, ten cents a C6ra&li*SSE> week; by mall. 13.00 a year in advance. MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1919 I _ We may build more splendid hab itations, fill our rooms with paint inffs and with sculptures, but rrr cannot buy icith gold the old uso nations. —LONGFELLOW. A PROPER MOVE THE Rotary Club plan for a Joint meeting of the various civic organisations of the city to hear Warren H. Manning, the en gineering expert, discuss the munici pal loans to be passed upon in No vember, is a proper move. We have heard all too little of these loans, their purposes and benefits. Beyond question all of them should be pass ed. Those who have made a study | of the proposals pronounce them ab- j solutely necessary to the progress' of tba city along tha lines that have made this an up-to-date town. Tha Rotary Club has undertaken | to educate the community as to Just! what these improvements mean. It! is to be hoped the meeting will be j largely attended. Fashion journals say American women will wear fewer clothes next summer, which gives rise to the thought that, such being the case. America will be no place for a re spectable married man. THE GOVERNOR'S VISION GOVERNOR SPROUL has a wide vision of the greatness of Pennsylvania and its relation to the welfare and prosperity of the United States. He misses no oppor tunity to magnify in a proper way the splendid resources of the Com monwealth and he at the same time gives utterance to the most sane views regarding the relationship of the alien citizen to our institutions and the promotion of our American ideals. He intimates very clearly and forcefully that the alien who cotnes here without any apprecia tion of our liberty and the oppor tunities presented and who indulges in propaganda contrary to these in stitutions should find room else where. Americanization efforts cannot poostbly be successful so long as tboee of foreign birth refuse to be come part of our citizenry and give of their beat co-operation in the de velopment of the country's pros perity and resources. rne Middle West town that served baked beans on its "Welcome Home' menu is of the same type as the Blather who wanted to make her sol dier son feel at home by giving him far his first meal at home a plate of corned beef. • ARE YOU DOING IT? ARBOR DAY is coming on apace and it will be necessary for every citizen who pro poses to give expression to his in terest In the shade tree situation by planting one or more trees to im mediately get into touch with a re liable nursery with a view to plant ing the right kind in the proper places before the end of October, preferably on Arbor Day. Look over your sidewalk space and see. after consulting with the City Forester, whether you cannot plant to advantage a fine tree or two In this campaign. Under the supervision of the Department of Parks, a surveyvpf tho whole city has been made and the City Fores ter will be glad to assist in making the tree planting program this year a great success. Of conrse, every tree which Com missioner Gross can find place for will be removed from the nursery at Island Park and started on its wider life of usefulness in the city's parks or elsewhere. But it must not be left to the park authorities to do what the individual property owner himself or herself should un dertake. Harrisburg should be made a more attractive city through an Increase of its shade tree area. There jAra many treeless streets and un MONDAY EVENING, less attention Is given to these un sightly stretches, the generation which Is to come will have little reason to remember with respect or appreciation those of us who have been indifferent or careless in the performance of a civic duty. j Out North Dakota way another ( visionary scheme for aiding the prole tariat hn* fluked and In the fluking | caused a Fargo bank to be declared insolvent. The bank's association with the National Nonpartisan lieagXio. | for which It has acted In a financial I capacity for two years. Is largely re j sponsible for the smash. When will I fsrmers and worktngmen and the ; people generally learn that there are |certain immutable principle* which ■ cannot be flouted in a vain effort to overturn the fixed order and estab lish an arcadian era? ALL OF THEM THE campaign for the raising of money with which to erect a memorial to Harrlshurg sol diers, sailors, marines and service men and women in general opens to-day. Twenty dollars per capita Is the sum named to care for each In dividual. We must see to It that each of the names listed at the Chamber of Commerce is taken up. No matter how humble the sol jdler, his name must he among those j for whom subscriptions arc taken. His name must be removed from the list before the close of the cam paign. There must be no favorites, no j left-overs. Every Harrlsburg sol dier is as worthy of the honor of the community as any other. Step up, ladies and gentlemen, and take out the names of those in whom you are most interested, and j then go over to the list of those who may have no friend or relative to think of them, and subscribe for one of those. Every Harrisburg service man and woman MUST be remembered in j this memorial. CITY BOATHOUSE WITH the removal of the "Hard scrabble" buildings and the conversion of the strip along the river between Hcrr and Calder streets into a park the question of a municipal boat house will have to be determined. One of the most practical suggestions provides fo the placing of a concrete boat house on a level with the extension of the river steps and extending back into the terrace, the whole to be covered over and hidden from view by the parking and shrubbery. Bulkhead doors, opening on the granolithic walk, would make such a boat house available and provide boating facilities in the very heart of the city. This and other matters will prob ably be taken up immediately on the final settlement of the "Hard scrabble" appeals by the court. It is expected that a decision will be handed down not later than next month and the long-deferred perma nent treatment of that particular section of the River Front can then proceed. Harrisburg has been delighted to have as its guests this week the men who demonstrated to the world that this country is not too proud to tight. THE STATE POLICE WE SHALI- want more proof, than the mere "say-so" of unfriendly individuals before we shall believe that the State I'olice have been guilty of beating up women and children and mistreat ing men. Anybody who knows the State Police knows they are not that kind of men. It must not be forgotten that the officers were thrown into the midst of unruly mobs of foreigners in western Pennsylvania, that they were few and the rioters were many, and that they had to act quickly and vigorously. When bullets nre flying about a policeman's head it ts only natural that he reply in kind. In deed. it is all he can do or admit defeat. And those who are associat ing themselves with mobs are not "innocent bystanders." If women or .children have been hurt in the strike disturbances it is too bad, but it must be remembered that they should have been at home at a time like that. Prepare to plant a tree either on your sidewalk or on your premises, | but first And out the best kind of tree to plant and the proper size from one who knows. Call up the Department of Parks or the State Forestry Com missioner at the Capitol. BUSINESS CLASSES THE business classes at the Harrisburg Y. M. C. A. are to be large'y attended, Secretary Robert Reeves announces, which is a good indication. Particularly is he interested in the large number of former soldiers who have applied for admission, indicating to his mind that many men who wore the uni form have come home determined i to get on in life and willing to make sacrifices *o that end. The salesmanship course, with Walter Spahr, salesmanager of the Elliott-Fisher Company, at its head, is particularly attractive, in view of the practical nature of the work proposed. Experts of national repu tation will address the men and the instruction will be far in advance of the small sum required for tuition. yazuctu ftKK&jtwt&l By the Ex-Commit iceman Official forms of the ballot to be used for the November election In Pennsylvania are being prepared at the bureau of elections In the de partment of the Secretary of the Commonwealth and will specify the manner In which party squares, the 'first column," shall appear on the ballot; the position and form of the nonpartisan column and the spaces for county and municipal elections. Owing to the delay In completing the count in two or three counties the State bureau will be unable to certify the nominees for Judicial of fices thirty days before the general election. The general election falls on November 4. The official ballot will show the Republican, Democratic, Socialist and Prohibition party squares, which will be enlarged by such parties as may pre-empt names for local elections this year. The su perior court election, for which Judge William H. Keller is the only candidate, heads the nonpartisan column, spaces for judges of other courts fol owing. The nonpartisan column is surrounded by a heavy black border. The other columns are not so surrounded. Sheriff heads the county lists. For the first time there appears : in the directions as to marking the ! following; "For an office where : more than one candidate is to be ' elected the voter, after marking in the party square, may divide his vote by marking a cross (x) to the J right of each candidate for whom he desires to vote. For such offi~e votes shall not be counted for can- ; didates not individually marked." Notice Is also given that a cross in a party square does not carry a i vote for any judge. To vote for judicial candidates names of cnndi- | dates must be marked, says the no- i tice. i —No one seems to know when | the Philadelphia count will be com-, - pleted and the remarks of judges designed to end the various attempts to delay are commencing to meet 1 popular approval. The newspapers ; charge the Vare lawyers with at tempt to retard results and a story > Is printed by the Press that a man who was aligned with the Vares wont to the court and declared his petition made on false premises, which drew warning from the bench j that any more such performances would mean arrests. The Public '■ I-edger says the Vares have been on a "fishing expedition" for fraud in I the primary and the Inquirer as- ' serts that it must be plain to sens!- I hie men that Congressman J. Hamp- j ton Moore has been nominated for • mayor and predicts that he will be ! formally endorsed by Vare leaders j and elected. The Inquirer says the results have demonstrated "a fair ; election" and that District Attorney Botan's warning was "heeded." The | Evening Bulletin expresses the gen- ' oral inipa'ience with the policy of 1 delay in the count. —ln most of the other counties judges put a quick stop to any at tempt to delay and in spite of charges appear to have avoided pro tracted sittings. The Delaware situ ation is one that has attrncted much attention because of the charges made in connection with the elec tion in Chester City. Pittsburgh did not have more than the usual flare-up. but a movement for better elections is likely. —Of much greater interest than the wrangles over Philadelphia di vision primary tables is a statement by Mr. Moore that he intends to end the factional fighting in the Quaker City which has distuibed the Re publican patty in the whole State; bothered Legislatures and ruined reputations. The Public Ledger says regarding it: "Representative J. Hampton Moore, Republican nominee for mayor, is determined to end fac tional warfare in the Republican party in Philadelphia and to assume the party leadership himself. "It will be necessary," he says, "to knock some of the older political bead 3 toeether." He is prepared to do so. He is not going to deal par t'ally with the lenders of any fac tion, but is going to conduct his own campaign from a new headquarters, where he says all Republicans, whether they be Vare men. Penrose men or independents, will be re ceived with n ready welcome. Dur ing the pr'mnry campaign Mr. Moore' asserted that if elected mayor there would be a new leader of the Republican party in Phila delphia. He is now preparing to set the stage for his own leadership. To that end he has conferred with leaders of all camps and he will meet other lenders to-morrow." —The Kvenlng Ledger rises to re mark: "That Rucks county voter who all bv his little lonesome pvit a complete Prohibitionist ticket in the field has a dry humor." —Charles Seger. the Philadelphia councilman, left an estate of $200,- 000. —Schuylkill and Rlair Repub licans are confident of electing thpir i tickets this fall. Carbon and Centre are also classed as surely Repub lican. —Harry L. Hackett. former legls- ' lator and son of the late ex-senator, | has been appointed register of the Philadelphia Water Bureau at $2,500. He succeeds Frank J. Gorman. —Congressman Arthur G. Dewalt made a harmony speech at the Rending Democratic rally on Sat urday. However, most of the men there were old guard adherents and the Palmer boom was not on ex hibition. —Reading is preparing to submit a million-dollar public improvement loan to voters in November. Food Profiteering in Germang "You see that farm over there?" nsked n food-convaaser with whom I walked an hour or more one Sun day. "I stopped there and tried to buy butter. 'We haven't an ounce of butter to our names.' said the woman. 'Ah,' said I, Just to see if I could not catch her In a lie, 'but 1 1 pay as high as twenty marks a ; pound.' 'ln that case,' said the I Unverschamte. 'I enn let you have lany amount you wont, up to thirty j pounds.' I could not really pay that ' price, of course, being a poor man, working hard for nine marks a day, l ot when I told her I would report her to the police, she laughed in my face and slammed the door." It was easy to understand no.v why 10 mnny of those I had inter viewed in my official capacity at r ohlenz had expressed the opinion tl.ar rooner or later the poor of the cities would. descend upon the peasants In bonds and robs them of their hoardings. The countrymen themselves showed that fear of this new and then gnaweel at their souls, not so much by their speech as by their circumspect actions.—Harry A. in Harper's Magazine for October. " . HARJRUSBTTRG Q&FJ&FI. TELEGRAPH ON THE HIP By BRIGGS • - f * (PORE! / — XVVTO L E^ GE L TIMS TO - ' \L H * D A HOOK-/ HOLLER R <rs. ) P IF YOU PLAYERS WOULD OBSERVE \ THE RULES OF GOLF —ESPECIALLY O V THE ONE ABOUT WAITING UNTIL . A PLAYER AHEAD OF YOU '& , T , I ~„... '*' BEYOND RANGE OF YOUR NEXT - • / ,|\ ()| XJU '<• SHO-T- FEWER AND LESS 'H: ., DISTRESSING ACCIDENTS would HAPP • BOOKS AND MAGAZINES Henri Barbusse's "Light," the new story in which the author of "t'nder Fire" portrays the enlight- ! enmcnt and new vision which come to a French soldier while he fights in the great war, which E. P. Dut- j ton & Co. will publish at the end j of this week, will have a very strik ing paper Jacket designed by A. Dun- j can Carse, who made the imagina tive and artistic cover for Blasco , Ibanez's "Mare Nostrum," published by the Duttons six week ago. Mr. j t'arse is an English artist whose work is much admired in London. | During the war he served with the ! camouflage division of the Royal Engineers. He is now in the United States and is having more requests for work than he can fill. At pres- , cnt he is decorating Otto H. Kahn's , palatial new residence, near the Car- j ncgie home, on upper Fifth Avenue, ! New York City. E. P. Dutton & Co. will publish | later in the season a volume by i Elisha M. Friedman on "Interna- ! tional Commerce and Reconstruc- | tion" which will complete the trilogy j of books in which he deals with the | problems civilization must face, now that the war is over. The first, which the Duttons published last winter, "American Problems of Re- I construction, their Economic and Financial Aspects," presented a sym pos'um of views in which a score or more of well known Americans discussed urgent problems of the reconstruction period and made sug gestions concerning how they should be solved. It is now in its third edition. The second, which the Duttons brought out last spring, deals with "Labor and Reconstruc tion in Europe" and gives a concise but comprehensive view of the pro grams of reconstruction mapped out by European countries. Thus, having covered in the two former volumes the problems of the United States and of Europe, the new work dealing with reconstruction in inter national relations will round out the series. The sub-title calls Wilfred Row land Childe's "Dream English," i just published by E. P. Dutton & Co., "A Fantastical Romance." It : might also he called "a lovely ro mance of love," for it is exquisitely i beautiful in setting, in language, in every feature. The story it tells of love and beauty is without flaw in ; the loveliness of scenes and souls 1 and is as simple and as dignified as it is beautiful. It takes place in ! some age-old time in England, Just when or where does not matter in the least. There are beautiful wo men, as good as they are beautiful, 1 fields and woods and hills of en trancing loveliness, noble old cities and alluring ancient little men fine to look upon and good to j know. and. finally, growing out of 1 all the beauty, a love romance that in its simplicity and goodness and I faith is the symbol of all bridals. It i is a story to read when one wearies lof the ugliness, the dust and the ' uproar of life, for in its pages of I beautiful magic are rest and re freshment. Early in October E. P. Dutton A Co. will bring out an Author's Edi tion of Blanco Ibanez's two war novels, "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" and "Mare Nostrum." which so remarkably complement each other. The former, as every body knows, has swept the coun try since its publication a little over a vear ago and has been brought and read far beyond the sales of any other recent book in the United States. It is selling now, its publish ers say, in larger numbers than at anv previous time since Its publica tion. "Mare Nostrum," pubished six weeks ago, is now in its fortieth edition. E. P. Dutton & Co. are preparing an American edition of J. K. Huys man's "En Route," which they brought out last winter in an im ported edition. The sixth edition of "Balt," Charles Norris's epic story of the mis-education of an American boy and his final regeneration of him self bv his own efforts, is reported |by E. P. Dutton A Co. Many critics have found in it evidence that Charles Norris is only a little less gifted in the sweep and strength and visualizing power of his imag ination than was his older brother, Frank Norris. A Possibility [From the Philadelphia Press.] Perhaps the farmers, the Anti- Saloon league and the labor unions will have to tops up to determine which of them is going to run the Government. AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE WAR IN the section on "The Work of Women for the War," one of the thirty-five chapters in Florence I Finch Kelly's "What America Did,"- | recently published by E. P. Dutton | & Co., the author summarizes and describes all the various ways in which the women of this country aided the prosecution of war. It | makes an Impressive total and the i author says of it: ! "From the mother who sent her | sons across the ocean to tbe little i Girl Scout who ran errands for a t Red Cross chapter, the women were ready for any sacrifice it should be ! necessary for them to make and i any service they could render. Their ■ spirit was as high, their patriotism !as ardent and their wish to serve | as keen as that of their husbands, | fathers and brothers, and their ; spirit and their service were essen , tial factors in the war achievement |of America. Their spirit was al ! ways the same, but their services j were of the greatest variety, being, ; for the greater part, such as they | could render without leaving their i homes. Being undertaken in ad j dition to their usual duties in the i care of homes and families, their | war labors were less out-standing i and much less likely to impress the superficial observer than if they had been detached from woman's usual I environment. But they were none Who Shall Make Our Budgets? The Prodigal Son was a liberal spender and the fatted calf was killed to make a feast when he re turned to his father's house, but he was not put" In charge of the family purse. That was left in con trol of the elder son, who continued to work in the field and create in come. Modern civilization has fol lowed that rule in family and in government budgets, because In come is the first item in every budg et and the one item which we can not do without. We cannot be spenders until we have become pro ducers. My wife and I tried budget making when we began housekeep ing, regulating family expenditures by my small income. She spent the money, but I had to first get the money to be spent. We got along fairly well, but made one mistake. We raised a pig to increase our as sets, but I took so much interest in that pig, feeding it, scratching its back to hear It grunt Its satisfaction, and conversing with it, until by the time it was grown big and fat I could not turn it into our winter's meal. That pig became a liability instead of an asset. There are a lot of people who make the same mis take in government budgets and for get the real purpose in raising a pig. They become so much absorbed in their ambitions and efTorts that they forget the purpose behind their ef forts; and the liabilities they cre ate are the liabilities of the people who pay the taxes. It is not sur prising that the people sometimes get an idea that a government pig is not very different from the golden I calf which the Children of Israel i worshiped, Instead of a source of food-supply. ! The Federal government was not ! established as a money-making en i terprise, but the expenditures must ;be regulated by the income, and ; the income comes out of the pockets of the people in the form of taxes. ! The only part of the Federal gov ' ernment that has the power to tax i the people is Congress, and all rev i enue bills must originate in the j House of Representatives. The makers of the Constitution were I somewhat explicit about that and insisted that Congress should con- I trol the national purse or national | budget, which covers both taxation and expenditure. Franklin thought I that the purse should be controlled I by the House because the ltepresen i tatlves were to be elected by direct ' vote of the people and for short 'terms; but Madison suggested that i the power of amendment should be 1 given to the Senate so that it might j "diminish" an extravagant budget by j the House. Senator Smoot recently I said in debate that once during his I eighteen years' service the Senate j had reduced an appropriation passed | by the House and only once.—Hon. I Joseph Q. Cannon in Harper's Mag azine for October. Altitudinous [From the Washington Star] "We have never known a time when the cost of living was so high." "No." replied the man who re fuses to be cheerless; "l-.or a time when wages were so high that most .people could keep up with the cost." the less essential." The authot then goes on to tell what the women of America did—their work in es sential industries; what they did in the Railroad Administration, in which 100,000 women were em ployed; their zeal in the production and conservation of food; what the Woman's Land Army did; the re markable efforts of the woman's committee which aided in the financing of the war, which in state after state raised from one-third to one-half Its quota in the Liberty Loans; the varied and vast labors of the women for the Red Cross; the work of trained nurses in war service and of yeowomen in the navy; the part that women took in the organizations for the welfare of the fighting forces; the service of their several motor corps; and, finally, the nation-wide and most im portant services of the Woman's Committee of the Counsel of Na tional Defence, which was organized in every state and had 16,000 sub ordinate units at work by mid-sum mer of 1918. The story which this chapter tells is one of which all women who shared in the work can well be proud, just as all Americans, who were members of the fighting forces or were sustaining those forces at home, can be proud of the wonderful story the whole book re lates of this country's war-time achievements. Sproul on Americanism [Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph] Governor Sproul could not chosen a more appropriate theme for his address in Harrisburg yes terday than "Americanism," for he was speaking to the American Legion of Pennsylvania, every one of whose members has proved his practical patriotism by bearing arms in the defense of his country. The Governor's auditors require no ad monition to stand by America in whatever emergency may arise in the future. That was not the pur pose of his address. But he fitting ly took advantage of the occasion to deliver a message to the people of the entire State, to sound a ring ing call to all good citizens to unite now in defense of sterling American institutions, even as the former sol diers to whom he spoke enlisted for the battle of righteousness when our Nation was threatened by Ger man autocracy. "One of the things we have to do in this country is to separate the Americans from those who are not Americans or do not wish to become Americans. We have been too tol erant here of those who are enemies of our country and its institutions. In our easy-going way we have al lowed colonies of traitors to exist in our land. Surely there is suf ficient variety in the forms of gov ernment in the world now to en able every restless spirit to find somew-here, a state which will suit him." This is an expression of ro bust Americanism, straight from the shoulder. It may be said that some "restless spirits" will never be sat isfied with any form of government. What they want is to have no government at all; that is to say, they are anarchists. To deal with such we have Fed eral laws, long on the statute books, providing for their exclusion or, if they have happened to slip in as so many evidently have done in the last few years, for their deporta tion. Some against whom proceed ings have been brought for this pur pose are now being defended by American citizens who should know better. Any person who goes around making speeches against our government and all government Is as much an enemy of our Nation as a captain of a hostile submarine who sought to sink our ships and kill our people. A German propa gandist has recently' declared that ■the "Americanization" movement 1r merely a scheme of the British to Increase their "grip" on our coun try. That statement sufficiently In dicates the kind of foes we have yet to deal with and should strength en the loyal stand taken by the American Legion and all who are in sympathy with its patriotic prln [ ciples. Thinks in Big Figures [From Punch, London] Ex-Governor Folk of Missouri, who told the United States Senate foreign relations committee that 1 million Egyptian soldiers fought un der the British flag, is only about 1 million out. We gather that 1 million isn't much of anything in Missouri. OCTOBER 6, 1919. How Foch Redeemed. His Vow In January, 1871, was signed the shameful peace that marked the tri umph of Prussia. Twilight was fall ing upon the somber study-hall where all the hearts were somber also. Around Metz the voice of the cannon began to thunder forth the triumph of Germany. The ground trembled, the windows shook. No one dared say a word. Then a Jesuit father, who had been a naval officer, said, slowly, scanning his words: "My children, pray God for the future of France. Alsace and Lor raine are no longer ours." "We prayed," said the marshal; "no, we did more than that. We made our vows. And now that we are at the evening of our life, our prayers are heard and our vows are fulfilled." Bavarian troops occupied the city and went out of their way to be in solent. They allowed, however, the future polytechniciens to finish their studies. But the troops, multiply ing demands and stipulation, occu pied a part of the college. The students had to meet continually in the corridors and on the playground and at the door the German sol diers, who bullied them and made them submit to humiliations without number. Foch was beside himself with rage. He passed his examina tion successfully at Nancy to the sound of the German bands that General Manteuffel, with his habi tual lack of tact, ordered to play, Foch never forgot these musical notes which rent his ear and his soul. Forty-two years later, when he was named commander of the superb Twentieth Corps of Lor raine, he ordered for the day of his entry at Nancy, August 23, 1913, a great parade in which participated the bands of the Sixth Regiment of the city. It was an unforgetable night, for it marked his entry into service when the hour came to wipe the post that found him ready for out the blot of 1871. I have dwelt on these facts be cause they form an important detail of which no biographer of Foch has spoken. During the occupation he studied the German soul, which he knows intimately. The depths of its baseness, he says, we must keep constantly in mind. He was In one of the great cities of France when that city was annexed to Germany. It was on that day, at the College Saint-Clement, that the thought of a life-task was engraved upon his heart. From that moment he swore to concentrate all the efforts of his lite toward a single end—the Just .revenge. It was at the time of his first contact with the enemy that the impressionable youth, smarting under the humiliation of his coun try, said to himself: "We must retake Alsace and Lor raine. France must not remain a conquered nation. I must be the liberator."—Baron Andre de Mari court in Harper's Magazine for Oc ; tober. Silk Shirts [From the Wall Street Journal] A New York silk buyer contracted for silk shirts at S4O a dozen by the thousand dozen. When ready for delivery the manufacturer of fered the buyer SSO a dozen to sell ;them back to him. Satisfied with .the profit he made, the buyer was surprised when the manufacturer telephoned a dry goods seller in Lawrence, Mass., and sold the lot to him at S7O a dozen, by the thousand dozen. When the transaction was com pleted the mill owner informed the New York buyer that the man in ;Lawrence could sell the product at S9O a' dozen, so great was the de fniand for luxuries in the factory and mill districts, where frugality is be 'ing looked upon as an oddity instead '.of a virtue. Where? Where, oh, where, has he gone to, pray? We miss, and have missed him long. The landlord fat, who used to whang on the resonant hotel gong. And, ah, the tune he played each noon, with loud, inviting din. To warn the boarders dinner was served and bid them welcome In. •Twas rude and crude, no doubt, his tune, but, oh, how sweet its greet; For that portly host with his roaring gong announced such things to eat .as chicken fry and fat mince pie and eggs (It seems a dream) And frosted cake eight inches high, and coffee with golden cream. When I 'pass o'er to the other shore, to burble my sanctified song, I I know I shall carp if he's there with a harp instead of that resonant gong. J —Tennyson J. Daft. Euntmg Glifat j "It seems strange thilt the we - derful scenic features of Pennsy .- vania, like its remarkable histo..u Interests, have receiv tl so little , • tentlon from those who write of to beauUful world and the thinks that happen in It," says John T. Fa. .a In his introduction to "Seeing Pen.i sylvania," one of the new books just placed in the Harrisburg Pubi o Library. And it does seem strain, that Pennsylvania, whose everlast ing hills and fruitful valleys hn\ j made it leader in production of natural resources and given it tlu garden country of America, should be so little known to its own people. I erhaps, because wnrs closed tlio Atlantic steamship lanes and tl.o Sproul laws gnve Pennsylvania a start toward decent highways, more people with means to travel saw the beauties of this State in the last four years than before in any similar period since New Kngland enter prise, seashore attractions and south , ?? ate combined with the palatial liners to take Pennsylvanlans away from their own splendid do main at vacation lime. Mr. Paris, who has already become known on library shelves and among lovers of history of the Keystone State by his books on °W roads out of Philadelphia and the romance of the has done a marked m by assembling in a book that will for the "gasoline rest less tours garnished with bits of history and tradition and filled with appeals to pause and view the beau- °™. P, enns ylvanla. Like Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, J. Horace Mc- If?. a* 1 ]! I and "thers who have studied, written and photographed the glory of Pennsylvania, Mr. Fails I™=? f ° r ., a revival of Popular in- J™ ! ln t m scenic attractions, the f nature, the lore and the iw ° °. ur Commonwealth, so 'v-'t those who are living in its pul ?t P re f e nt may realize the part it dlnr?v th cn,rial times and how „ th °r tiave gone loved ♦w' ? Ce , or State> Such books tho. i Faris are what Pennsylvania publisher should specialize In. Few states are so rich lo„rl ~ni nnd storigi of Pennsyl \ania will make young folks proud and incidentally create their own market. The late Samuel W. Pennypacker !° dPlipht to tell friends and acquaintances of Stirling events and then dumbfound his hearers by re marking that they occurred either close to where he was speaking or .I t v.w He °' their own ancestors or neighbors had been a participant. Andrew Carnegie once assembled a I?/ , P hoto ßraPhs of bits of beau tiful country taken within a score of miles of Homestead mills and ,2 l * ( ' for da >' s ov er the inquiries of Pittsburghers as to what state to to SPe them. Members of the Legislature four years ago thought that some pictures of big trees came from California, wben as a matter of ftict they were taken in Clarion county, and more than one man associates the Black Forest, of which Col. Shoemaker has written so en tertainingly, with German taverns and bee hives instead of with our own northern tier. I have heard men standing up in an automobile on Scenery Hill in Washington county wonder if they were still in Pennsylvania, and laughed when Maine devotees come here from Sus quehanna county lakes and talked half the night over how few Phlla delphians know of them. Mr. Faris gives a splendid picture in his book of what one bpcs from the dome of Pennsylvania's Capitol and his references to John Harris' foresight and appreciation of Harris burg's river front and natural park ' so far from the center of the city" link past and present in such a fascinating way that one seems sorry that he must hurry on up to- Iward the Rockville yap and the Blue Juniata. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Harry T. Stoddart, new member of the Philadelphia Board of Edu cation, is 43, and the baby member. —James Ryan, of Danville, who won a county commissioner nomina tion in Montour county on a tie. is well known here. ! —Col. Joseph H. Thompson, who commanded the 110 th Infantry and is a former Senator, was a Harris burg visitor. —Senator A. F. Daix, of Phila delphia, has just celebrated his fifty-third birthday. —Mayor E. V. Babcock, of Pitts burgh, was among the Governor's visitors at the weekend. —Charles L. Taylor, who was made a doctor of engineering at Dehigh's Founders' Day, is a Pitts burgh business man. —J. Borton Weeks, active in the election crusade in Delaware county, is law partner of Attorney General William I. Schaflfer. ——Clarence Dolan, prominent Phil adelphian, is at White Sulphur. ( DO YOU KNOW —Harrisburg stool was used in ships built at Hog Island? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The Bolton House corner has been a hotel for more than 80 years. Educational Congress [From Pennsylvania Farmer] Superintendent of Public Instrun tion Thomas E. Finegan is plan ning for an educational congress to be held in Harrisburg the week of November 10. Leading educators from all parts of the country will be present to confer and advise in the many problems of modern edu cation. The opinion is general among educators as well as with the public in general that there should be an adjustment of the work of the schools to meet the new conditions growing out of the war. No place is the need of revision greater than in the system of rural education and it is to be hoped that Congress will be able to formu late a plan in which the essential differences between city and country needs is recognized and provided for. Not only are the questions of curriculum, grading and buildings important, but the problem of rais ing sufficient money to run the rural schools as they should be is a most pressing one—one that the Legisla ture has so far failed to solve. Still Winding [From Punch, London] A government department has been discovered which L still wind ing up the. affairs of the Great Ex hibition of 1851. One of the junior officials ndmits that he mev have heard the Great War whizz by
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