10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A±NEWBPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Building, Federal .Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief fTr. OYSTER, Business Manager QtJS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor IA. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board McCULLOUGH, " M. OGLESBY, P. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. 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 tills fiaper and also the local news pub lshed herein. 'All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American sylvqinia^Associa- Eastern office, Building. I Chicago, 111. S ' Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a <Tfcfoggficov'd". week; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1019 Whether on the scaffold high Or at the battle's van. The noblest place for man to die Is where he dies for man. We never know the true value of friends; while they live we arc 100 sensitive of their faults; when wv have lost them, we only see their virtues. — HAßE. WORK WELL DONE ' GEORGE S. REINOEHL, who retires as president of the Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce, well deserved all the con gratulations he received at the an nual meeting last evening. While his administration, due to war con ditions, has been of but nine months' duration, the program he and his colleagues outlined, the work they have done and the wonderful suc cess that attended all their efforts marks the past year as one of the best in the history of the organiza tion. From the reception to Governor i Sproul last February, when the big Capitol Park zone developments, the proposed city hall and court house and other improvement plans were given a great impetus, to the de lightful and elaborate "Welcome Home" celebration last week, the Chamber has conducted itself in a dignified and entirely praiseworthy manner. It has led many com munity movements and activities and has brought its greatly increased J membership into a close relation- | ship that makes for better feeling j among the people of the city. The ! rapid growth in membership is of | itself an indication of the favor in | which the body is held. Mr. Reinoehl, in his annual sage, points out that the Chamber is always ready to be of service to the | city, but he need not have said so, ] for the public has had ample oppor- i tunity to note the readiness of the. Chamber to meet its obligations in i this respect. Its work during the j war was invaluable and the program! outlined in the early part of the! year is so comprehensive that it | could not possibly have been com- I pleted during one administration, ! but leaves the Chamber with a sched- ! ule of work to be done which can ; be followed to advantage for the : next three or four years. This is one of the best things the Chamber has done. It recognizes the "over- i lapping duties of administrations as I they come and go and lays stress upon the necessity of continuing a ] good work well begun until it shall have been completed. The housing problem is an example. The Cham ber early in the year undertook seriously to meet the shortage. The Job, under the circumstances, could not be completed in one year. So the new administration will take it up where the old will leave it. And so with a score of other matters now in committee or under consideration by the Chamber. There will be 110 fitful stopping and starting, but a continuous working arrangement that will keep the organization con stantly moving ahead under full power with all cylinders hitting. That, perhaps, is the most important accomplishment of a very important year. Wlhlle we are preparing to put over th fund for the Harrisburg memorial to our soldiers, sailors and marines, let us prepare also to plant a tree or two on the coming Arbor Day in memory of the soldiers and for the benefit of future generations. YOU NEVER CAN TELL EVERY World's Series brings out a hero and sees other heroes of fair reputation and popular fancy relegated to the scrap heap of fandom. This year Is no excep tion. Yesterday Mr. Eller, the agile and athletic young gentlemun who helped pitch Cincinnati into the championship class, took down a new wqrld'a record by striking ou^Six ' TUESDAY EVENING, men In two successive Innings, re-' tiring batters whose average for the season has been beyond the .300 mark. j And by the same token all the old standbys In the two contesting teams, who had been hitting the Ty Cobb pace at the bat this season, have been fanning the air with great regularity and performing like a band of bush-leaguers. Some of them are below the .100 mark, shameful to relate, all of which Is proof of the old adage that "you never can tell," especially in base ball. If we may judge from the advices coming out of Washington, most of the brilliant officers of the Army will have retired to public life before the end of the year unless Congress takes some action to recognize their great services in' the war and to compen sate them accordingly. Those who held high rank during the war are now dropping back to the grade which they held previous to the war, and their compensation is rated ac cordingly. Republics are said to be ungrateful, and unless the United States takes a different course with respect to its leaders in the war, this reputation will be Justified. EACH ONE OF US EVERY man, woman and child in Harrisburg, aside from sol diers aid possibly their fam ilies, ohould have enough interest in the memorial to the soldiers, sailors and marines of this city to mak3 a contribution to the splendid memo rial designed for the site it State and Thirteenth street:'. Tills loca tion is admirable for mar.v reasons, not the least important being its proximity to the eastern approach to the great memorial viaduct to be erected jointly by the State and the city as a part of the Capitol Park improvement. | Individuals, corporations, firms and associations, fraternal and other wise, are contributing to the me morial fund on the unit basis of twenty dollars for each soldier, sailor and marine who represented Harrisburg in the great war. The memorial designed by Arnold W. Brunner is a worthy conception and it will be characteristic of Harrisburg in the campaign which started Monday to promptly sub- I scribe the necessary funds and thus complete the chapte.r of home ac tivity in honor of our lighting forces. Don't wait for your neighbor to do what you should do. but get into line and make your subscription or subscriptions at once. Major General Wood de clared In an address recently that the disgraceful riots at Omaha were directly due to the activities of the I. W. W. He expressed the opinion that good citizenship will counter act these influences and, to teach good fellowship, foreign languages should be eliminated from the grade schools. He also declared that there will be no red flag where there are brave public officials. Most thought ful people will agree with General Wood that the time has come to stop the activities of the foreigner who comes to this country for no other purpose than to overthrow the Gov ernment and upset our institutions. But it will be necessary to do some thing more than talk to restore the equilibrium of a sane and ordinarily lawful and liberty-loving people. The Greater Harrisburg Navy, in endorsing the ordinance for bathing facilities here, is performing its real function. As the problem is studied, it' becomes evident that the sugges tion of bathing pools at different points in the city is impractical at this time and that the proposed loan should be utilized entirely for estab lishing proper bathing beaches and bath houses. We. have waited long for suitable bathing accommoda tions in the Susquehanna Basin and no mistake must be made, now that the matter has been taken up in a proper way by the City Council. Governor Sproni- understands the valtle of cororrfunity service and is back of the energetic movement at Chester, his home town, to give force and effect to the work undertaken during the war by the community or ganizations. He realizes the impor tance -of Americanization efforts and believes in the people of a given community letting together for co operative activities designed for the public welfare. Harrisburg is pre paring to move along similar lines, this city having learned through the War Camp Community Service how much can be accomplished through the people getting together in wel fare activities. Attention has been called by the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Asso ciation to the absence of adequate representation for Pennsylvania at the Washington conference. It is pointed out In a resolution adopted by the association that the great manufacturing industries of the State have no direct representative. This situation suggests again the indif ference of the present administration at Washington to the great Common wealth which contributed so large a proportion of men and resources to the winning of the war. Colonel House is on the way home from Europe for the alleged purpose of hastening action on the Beague of Nations. The Colonel can probably hasten action best by keeping away from the United States Senate and allowing that body to complete Its importunt work without further in terference from the outside. Peter Maguro has made a substan tial contribution to the history of the war in his moving picture record of the homecoming events in honor of the Harrisburg soldiers. These pic tures have been shown at the Jijgent theater and will be preserved for the historical records of the city. c* Civ By the Ex-Committccmi Notwithstanding opinions of some of the men who have been writing national politics that Attorney Gen eral A. Mitchell Palmer will not be the man to go in the Democratic Presidential nominaton or to take up the mantle of leadership, there is no lack of intention on the part of the Attorney General and the practical, hard-headed Democratic politicians about him not to start a campaign to corral the national Democratic delegates from the Key stone State and to battle with all comers for the honor. They are already setting up the pins in vari ous districts and preparing to meet not only the Old Guard, the Bonni wellians and others, but any men who have been aligned with the le orgunization clique and who not now subscribe to the talented Attor ney General as the sole Democratic leader in Pennsylvania. The Palmer people have shown a disposition to take advantage of things in Washington and are going right down the line with their prep arations to orgunize the Democrats in every district in Pennsylvania. The Old Guard element has been devoting more time to winning county elections this fall and is not looking ahead in the same manner as the faction which acknowledges the Attorney General as its chief. —The statement that Congress man J. Hampton Moore intends to iron out the Philadelphia situation and that he will insist upon Repub lican leadeis composing their dif ferences, has attracted much com ment among men active in politics. Many of the Republicans on Capitol Hill, and they represent men from most of the counties that count, have hailed the intention of the mayoralty nominee with delight and some even go so far as to say that Moore will have an organization of his own that will halve to be reck oned with by the Vares. —To-day's argument in the Dau phin County Court on the Wasson mandamus is being closely followed all over the State. It is the first test of the provision in the act of 1919 establishing a method of deciding "sole nominees," which everyone here believes was devised by the last Legislature to meet just such a sit uation. It is claimed by the Wasson petition that the provision of the' law does not fit the Allegheny prop-1 osition. —Judges John D. Shafer and Am brose B. Reid, who presided at the count of Allegheny county ballots, handed down an opinion in which they directed that the evidence of irregularities which developed in connection with the count should be turned over to the district attorney for such action as he may choose to take. They declared that in all eases where election officers permitted persons to receive assistance in vot ing without making the affidavit re quired by law the officers and the voters alike were liable to prosecu tion. The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says: "The court recommended that the County Commissioners provide a place near the Courthouse for stor ing of the ballot boxes, holding that it is too much to require of the judge and minority inspector that they carry them to the nearest alderman, legislation to make this possible will probably be necessary and the court said the legislation ought to be procured." —Concerning Governor Sproul's interest in Chester's community service plan, the Phiadelphin Press says: "Governor William C. Sproul is one of the strongest backers of community service in Chester and vicinity, and it was a personal letter from him which was responsible for a large meeting at which it was de cided to raise the $41,000. Associ ated with Governor Sproul in the management of the campaign are such well-known citizens of Chester as Thomas W. Allison. Col. James A. G. Campbell, Ellwood J. Turner, Frank C. Wallace, the Rev. Father Timmins, the Rev. Dr. Edward B. Pollard, Mrs. Frank G. Sweeney, Mrs. Samuel D. Clyde and two score or more other leading represent atives of the business and social life of Chester and vicinity. With the $41,000 that will be raised, commu nity service in Chester and vicinity will greatly enlarge and broaden its work." —Congressmah J. R. K. Scott, counsel for the V'ares, yesterday in the election court, conceded the nomination of J. Hampton Moore i for mayor and Robert Ei Lamberton . for sheriff on the Republican ticket, | and this announcement was follow- : ed by the news that two of the can- ] didates backed by the Vares, Coro ner William R. Knight and Recor- j der of Deeds James M. Hazlett, had \ directed that their names be stricken j from the independent ticket headed by Joseph S. MacLaughlin for mayor. They have decided to cast their lot with Mr. Moore and all of the other nominees and make their fight on the Republican ticket. Candidate MacLaughlin, who is thus left without the backing of the Vares and the Martin influence which he had hoped to win, stated last evening that he will make his ! canvass on the Charter Party ticket and that special attention will be paid to the mayoralty and to the election of candidates for councils. Senator Edwin H. Vare, alone of all the potential men who backed Judge John M. Patterson for mayor, is temporizing. He will not admit the i defeat of his candidate, and while j not claiming victory for Judge Pat- I lerson, will not haul down his (lag 1 until the election court shall offi cially declare the name of the win ner. —Discussing natural politics in j the Philadelphia Press. O'D e 1 1 Hauscr says: "The incapacity of' the President will produce an inter- j esting stuation in the Democratic j ranks. If it Is long continued it will | certainly develop a leader or a 1 group of leaders.. There will prob- : ably be a struggle for the honor: among men of thb old-line element like Speaker Clnrk and our genial and energetic Postmaster Genejal, on the one hand, and the new ele ment the President has brought into the national councils like Attorney General Palmer and Secretary of War Baker, on the other. It is now as certain as anything can be that Mr. Wilson, whatever his inward in tentions may hdve been, will not be a candidate for re-election. The man who can gain the position now as spokesman for the party, or the man chosen by the group of men who can gain that position, will be the logical candidate to succeed Mr. Wilson as the Democratic nominee for President. And the odds do not seem to be altogether against the .Attorney General and National 'Committeeman from Pennsylvania. WONDER WHAT THE ENGINEER OF A WHEEL-CHAIR THINKS ABOUT? 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CHARIOTS PY THE AROUIU 1 CHAMGS SAY SOME DAY IHINI' LIKE TUJO BITS J%i| A ii LfH! m Railroad Economics [Current Topics in Ledger] A Pennsylvania Itailroad official calls my attention to these conser vation figures, which are calculated to bring Joy to. the heart of any per fect Hooverite in a country still too careless of its convertible and sav able "waste products." The Pennsylvania last® year took in $43,000 from selling 5,375,000 pounds of waste paper, which in other years would probably have been destroyed. Two year ago John L. Hanna was put in charge of collecting the "fly ing leaves" on the Pennsylvania lines from Pittsburgh to New York und from Washington to the Great Lakes. One doesn't usually think of a great railway system as finding something like a little gold mine in its own waste baskets. A central "baling plant" was es tablished In Philadelphia and an other near Pittsburgh. Electric machines are used, with three men to operate them, and 25,- 000 burlap sacks, filled with "rub bish," travel by the carload to these central points. The collection is made at least once a week. All wire fastenings and other metals and all heavy bindings are removed, so as to "cull out' any material not suitable for paper pulp. At Philadelphia alone 2,300,000 pounds of waste paper were taken in during 1918, and in June alone the intake came to 900,000 pounds. Jn ante-bellum days they made attar of roses from the garbage of Berlin. We don't need Germany any longer to tell us what to do i with things we used to throw away. Fire Prevention Day [From Pittsburgh Gazette-Times! Every <lny in the year should be Ore prevention .lay. It would be if the people had due sense of what is essential to their own well-being and the energy to act on their knowledge. Since they have neither, the next best thing is an annua •Fire Prevention Day on which all will be spurred to clean up their premises and get rid of accumula tions that might become the start tne places of fires. Next Thursday a the day set apart this year for he purpose. It should be observed generally. If it is we may face the winter season with a feeling of se curttv that Is not commonly Justin able.' But the larger P"^ 08 ® i Fire Prevention Day is educatße. | The precautionary er\- gagcd in on that occasion should impress upon all people the n e <?<? - sitv of reducing the fire hazard pro gressively. What is the use of stor ing a wVy most of the stuff which is permitted to accumulate In honaes and business places. No use at a", evervone will agree when the hoard tngs are surveyed. Why then is It done? First, we are slaves to a false conception of what is Second, we are too lazy to clean „n as we go along. On the coming Fire Prevention Day, let us resolte to make a general clean-up day un -1 necessary by getting rid of all rub- Ihish daily. Next, let us pull our selves together and act on the •reso lntinn If we do, n. lot of money i now lost in preventable fires will be ! saved. Wonderland Sweet eyes by sorrow still unwet. To vou the world is radiant yet, A palace-hfvll of splendid truth | Touched by the golden haze of youth, .. Where hopes and Joys are ever rife Amid the mysteries of life. And seeking all to understand The world to you is Wonderland. 1 turn and watch with unshed tears The furrowed track of ended years; T see the eager hopes that wane. The jovs that die in deathless pain, The coward Faith that falsehoods shake, . • .. . The souls that fniht, the hearts that break, The Truth by livid lips bemoaned. The Right defiled, the Wrong en throned — ! \nd, striving still to understand, I The world to me is Wonderland. A little time, then by and by ' The puzzled thdught itself shall die. ! When, like the throb of distant I drulms, The call inevitable comes To blurring brain and weary limb. And when the aching eyes grow dim. And fnst the gathering shadows creep To lull the drowsy sdnse asleep, We two shall slumber hand In hnnd To wake, perhaps. In Wonderland.. —Harry Thurston Peck. JOSEPH AS A PROFITEER CONGRESSMAN LUCE, of Mas sachusetts, made a clever speech the other day on the storage bill. Hear him: "And the seven years of plente ousness that was in the land of Egypt were ended. "And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: And the dearth was in all lands, but in the land of Egypt there was bread. "And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: And Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he said to you, do. "Imagine, if you will, to-day, pro ceeding on his triumphal tour through the West, the Chief Execu tive saying unto the people, "Go unto the storage men, who know something about this situation, and follow their advice." (Laughter). "Now, what happened? "And the famine was over all the face of the earth; and Joseph opened all of the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt. "And all countries came Into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; be cause that the famine was so sore in all lands. "This went along until the great original profiteer saw his chance to make a killing, and he said, "I have stored up all this corn and I will feed you," and he sold the corn, i He said, "I will give you corn if you I will give me land." And they trad | ed all the land of Egypt unto this man Joseph, the great original | profiteer, had all the land in his May Revise Calendar [From the Pittsburgh Dispatch] One of the first projects to be laid before the league of Nations, when it gets ready for new business, Is one to revise the calendar and make it uniform throughout the world. Government burdens of the United States, Switzerland and Breat Britain got into touch with church officials before the war on the subject of calendar revision, and have kept up consideration of the matter since. Church leaders say an agreement has been reached and a uniform re port is nearly ready to go to the League. The calendar has not been revised before because of objection from the churches to dates for the great religious feasts. These objections are said to be removed. A fixed date for Easter, the add ing of a thirteenth month, the mak ing of every week begin with a Sunday and have exactly 28 days in each month—these are the main features agreed on. Church people favoring the revision act, can designate a calendar congress to do so, to sit at Geneva. South Turns to Sheep Raising The South is going in for sheep raising again, and the Southern Set tlement and Development Organi zation, in connection with the sheep raising campaign, is interesting of ficials of southern states in the pas sage of dog control laws. The necessity for the enactment of such legislation is apparent, says the or ganization, for sheep raising cannot be carried on successfully if dogs are allowed to prowl about at night and prey upon the flocks. • . These proposed dog control laws provide for registration and taxa tion of dogs, outlawing dogs not so officially recorded, permitting the killing of stray dogs, especially, at night or on sheep farms, and com pensation to sheep owners for dam age sustained. Reports from the j Department of Agriculture show i that in one recent year 34,000 sheep j were killed by dogs in 502 counties ! reporting 6,800,000 sheep within I their borders. German Camouflage [From Harvey's Weekly] Facing America, Germany pleads poverty, depression of Industries and general inability to meet reasonable obligations. Seeking a loan from Argentina she boasts of her strong industrial efficiency and of her re sources and plants left quite un touched and uninjured by the war; even of the great reserve funds which she has accumulated, and of her Instant readiness to resume ex ports on a large scale. To which Is she lying? Both? possession, and he turned it over to Pharaoh; and then he made a trade with the people. t'And it shall come to pass in the increase that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh." That is, he demanded, as a return for his foresight that a fifth of the products of all the land of Egypt should belong to the King. What he said was: "Four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones." Now, see how different the im pressions of the people in those days from the attitude of the people to day toward the infamous men who follow in Joseph's footstep's, for the people of Egypt said, "Thou hast saved our lives. Let us find grace in the sight of my Lord, and we will be Pharaoh's children." "Thou hast saved our lives," for while they were grumbling at the profiteer, while they were complain ing about the huge profits of the man of foresight, while they were denouncing his reward, yet the men of those times knew, "Thou hast saved our lives." And while the profiteer was buy ing all the land and all the grain, and after he had put the grain in his stofe-houses, when famine was sore throughout the land, the chil dren ate because of the profiteer; and when the famine waxed even more sore the women ate because of the profiteer; and then, at the end of those seven years, Egypt sur vived because of the profiteer; and even since that time it has been al ways the man of foresight who has saved the peoples of the world from 1 their own shiftlessness. Did Sports Win the War? Admiral von Tirpitz comes up | pathetically with a statement in his book that he couldn't bring himself to a spirit of rejoicing over the Ger man victories in 1914. since he says that he felt that "our people do not yet understand that the greatest danger, the polo-playing English, still remains. It is a mistake to hold them in contempt." Well, after the resolute French and the polo-playing, football-playing and cricket-playing English had held the German line along came the baseball-playing Americans and fin ished up the job. So, in these days, when what the Cincinnati "Reds" are doing to the White Sox is dis played before all eyes in the biggest of type and described in "baseball ese" with a vigor and eloquence that give some surcease to the strike sit uation or the Deague-of-Nations is sue, one may well wonder whether in the long run it cannot be proved that the sporting nations won the war and that it was the play spirit in both the two great English speaking nations that saved the lit uation plus the heroic and indomi table resistance of the French to the invasion of their country and the destruction of their homes and firesides. Blacklist of Wild Life [From the New York Sun] The principal birds and animals which work against conservation are the common crow, hunting house cat, whose numbers Dr. Frank M. Chapman of the American Museum of Natural History estimates at 25,- 000,000 in the United States; red squirrel, red fox, weasel, great horn ed owl, goshawk. Cooper's hawk and sharp shinned hawk. These might be termed the blacklist. Other enemies of useful wild life include the lynx, bobcat, gray fox, house rat, porcupine, woodchuck, English sparrow, starling, great gray owl and .snowy owl. In the white list might be placed hawks that aid con servation, the red tailed, red shoul dered, broad winged, sparrow and marsh hawks. Rights of Pedestrians [From Harvey's Weekly.] With the incessant slaughter of pedestrians and others by reckless drivers of motor cars, which is now going on, it is gratifying to hear now and then such words as those of Judge Rosalsky, of New York, the other day. "The time has arrived," he said, "when those operating mo tor vehicles must be taught the les son that life and limb should not be valued too cheaply, and it is only through the rigorous enforcement of the law that chauffeurs and others will learn to respect the rights of pedestrians." That is sound doc tiren, which every judge in the land | will do well to put into efficient prac -1 tice. The New Duckling "I want to be new," said the duck ling, "O, ho," said the wise old owl, While the guinea hen cluttered off chuckling To tell all the rest of the fowl. "I should like a more elegant fig ure," That child of a duck went on. "I should like to grow bigger and bigger, Until I could swallow a swan. "X won't be the bond slave of habit, I won't have these webs on my toes, . I want to run round like a rabbit, A rabbit as red as a rose. "X don't want to waddle like mother, Or quack like my silly old dad, I want to be utterly other, And frightfully modern and mad." "Do you know," said the turkey, "you're quacking! There's a fox creeping up thro' the rye; And, if you're not utterly lacking. You'll make for that duck pond. Good-by!" "I won't," said the duckling. "I'll lift him A beautiful song, like a sheep; And when I have —as it were—biffed him, I'll give him my feathers to keep." Now the curious end of this fable, So far as the rest ascertained. Though they searched from the barn to the stable. Was that only his feathers re mained. So he wasn't the bond slave of habit, And he didn't have webs on his toes; And perhaps he runs round like a rabbit, A rabbit as red as a rose. —Alfred Noyes; "The New Morning" (Stokes Co.) Bald Heads at Peace Table [From Answers, London] An amusing sidelight on the re cent Peace Conference at Versailles is thrown by an American corres pondent, who not only reported the proceedings proper, but took notes regarding the hair, mustaches, beards and whiskers of the peace makers. Two-thirds of the delegates were more or less bald. Perhaps some of them made up for this by wear ing mustaches. Out of sixty-five men who sat around the peace tabic, all had mustaches but fourteen. Whiskers, on the other hand, were not popular. Ony three peo ple wore them, and by a curious coincidence, the names of all these three people began with V. They were Venizelos of Greece, Vander velde of Belgium and Vassitch of Serbia. The letter's whiskers were particularly prominent. In regard to dress, here was less formal attire than one might have imagined. The English paid no spe cial attention to dress. Bowler hats and frockcoats, once a combination that would never have been sanc tioned, were quite popular; but there were some countries which put all they knew into their attire. These were, notably, the Japanese, and some of the South American states. Button boots and lace boots, we are told, came out even. The Secret Dove I know where a dove sits brooding in the dark. Nested in leaves, the quiet boughs among; And when the midnight falls I lean to mark Her home, where a great star is hung. The star, it does not know the se cret dove. The dove that firefly planet may not see. i What lovelier things the night may fold from me— ' The watching eye, the brooding heart, and love. —Zona Gale in Harper's Magazine for October. Time to Search Hearts [From the Pittsburgh Dispatch] Never have the emotions of man kind been so deeply probed as dur ing the war. The time Is ripe for a searching of hearts, a recording of men's thoughts and relations. The churches realize this and are setting out to recover lost ground and to strengthen their position in moral leadership, of which there was never greater need than at the present hour. iEtmttttg QMjat || For the benefit o£ a friend, who, after reading last evening's appreci ation of Susquehanna Valley scen ery In the vicinity of Harrisburg, remarked upon the fact that things worth seeing near at home were not well known or often visited, there will be set down just a few of the spots In Dauphin county that are within easy automobile distance of this city and some of which are al most in sight of the State Capitol or Oak Knob at Reservoir Hill. If the average Harrisburger would climb the crest of the ridge at the Reservoir once a year and not put oft going to visit it just as he does that sight-seeing hour or two he is always going to devote to the State House and State Museum, he would get an idea of why the people who came to Harrisburg a century ago, soon after it had been made the Capital of the State, confirmed the statements of early sojourners at Harris Ferry. John Perm and the. Duke de Laincourt remarked upon the unusual setting trf Harrisburg and Thomas Ashe, who visited here about 1806, went into rhapsodies on the location, its surroundings and the splendid river. Other writers have done the same. But the sub ject has never been given justice. Dauphin county is bounded by three unusually attractive streams. The Susquehanna is nationally famous; the Conewago, the southern boundary, is at the bottom of a re markable valley into which the Lan caster pike dips and which is strewn with boulders left by the glaciers, and the Mahantongo, the northern line, abounds in beautiful country. On the north, back from the river, there is Union-town gap which is a smaller edition of the Susquehanna's gaps and lets one of the frequent small streams join the larger. The Lykens valley, unknown to so many Harrisburgers, is bordered by ridges that are largely woodland, forest arrd game preserve. Deer look down on coal mines. The Wiconisco valley is bordered by mountain ridge on one hand and farms on the other, going from Halifax to Millersburg byway of the river or byway of Fisherville to Elizabeth ville one gets ideas of scenery which are not associated with our county and a ride down through Fowl's valley and over Peter's mountain is worth taking on any afternoon. The eastern ends of Clark's and Stony creek valleys are woodland, rapidly going back into timber. In old days they" furnished charcoal for Vic toria and Emmeline furnaces, which made iron for Harrisburg. Perry county hills, which might almost bo said to have been made by some Cyclops in playful mood, so oddly are they laid and turned, need to be seer? from Peter's mountain or the site of the Country Club of Harris burg in Fishing Creek valley to be. appreciated. Manada Gap, where there was a blast furnace making iron eighty years ago, has bits of scenery that in New England wou'd be advertised. Swatara creek valley, which bi sects lower Dauphin county, not on-ly contains some of the prettiest country one would want to see, but is historic because along the side of this stream, almost hidden by underbrush, is the ditch of the Un ion canal. It was the first built in the United States and was favored by George Washington to -connect the Schuylkill and the Susquehanna. It touches some of the fairest 'coun try in the land and passes out into Lebanon county from a gap of its own. Our own Paxton creek, if one takes certain roads running as ijpurs to the Linglestown pike, affords some lovely stretches of stream and bank. And the Harrisburg park system, if one has not much time, has charms all its own for a short ride. • • * * As for the Susquehanna itself one has only to go along the river front or drive over the bridges in the spirit of the visitor to Harrisburg to appreciate the mile wide splen dor of the stream, the first of the series of gaps, the rural beauty of the Yellow Breeches or the winding Conodoguinet, or if one wants real untouched woodland a trip up the west shore to Duncannon and then a canoe up Sherman's creek. • ♦ The Harrisburg Public Library, which has been enjoying a run from the boys of Harrisburg on books about airplanes,- is now meeting a new series of interesting demands. They come from soldiers who have returned from foreign service and who want the books they have been studying in army courses. There are requests for books on automo bile truck repair, internal combus tion engines, practical engineering and "all sorts of things which sol diers were instructed in overseas. It is a new field for the Library and several orders for books especially to meet this demand from returned soldiers have been given to pub lishers. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE G willing Hare, who was sales manager for the American Army in France, has returned to Philadel phia. He says that the sales were better than expected. —General E. E. Wood, of _ West Chester, has been taking part in the Lancaster home coming. He is a former Lancaster county man. Franklin Spencer Edmunds :s one of the Philadelphia delegates to the Detroit convention of the Episcopal church. —General Edgar Jadwin, former army engineer ofTicer at pitt ® bur f' 1 ' thought to be in danger in the Ukraine, is safe, according to late C !Lctty Controller E. S. Morrow, of Pittsburgh, is being congratulated upon a premium of $78,000 on a $3,261,000 bond issue. DR G. W. Richards, of Frank lin and' Marshall, is making a series of addresses in Western Pennsyl-, U —Claude T. Reno, Allentown lawyer and former legislator, is the new State president of the P. O. S. of A. I" DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg tin plato Is used for big army camp build ings? HISTORIC HARRISBCRfi Political parties held meetings at Harris Ferry before the StaU adopted a constitution.
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