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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1919 For Jehovah will not east off his people, niethcr will he forsake his inheritance. —l's. 94 :14. A REAL POLICE STATION At LAST, thanks to Mayor Keis ter and members of City Coun cil, Harrisburg has a police headquarters of which it need not be ashamed. The transformed Fager school building is well located, dignified, conveniently designed and generally what it should be. The suggestion has been made that the city buy the structure and use it permanently for police sta tions purposes. This, It is argued, would nowise conflict with the pro posal to erect a joint courthouse and city hall, but rather would tend to simplify that problem by removing j for all time, the police headquarters from the municipal building. It will be a short time. Indications are until the Legislature relieves the mayors of third-class cities from police hearing duties, in which case it would be no longer necessary to have the Mayor and the police quartered together. In addition, there is a growing feeling against police stations being located in city halls. At all events, the proposal is ■worth thinking about. Certainly. | Councilmen are to be congratulated on giving the Mayor and the police the kind of offices to which they are entitled. If yo haven't ordered that tree j yet for the Arbor Day planting, may I we not suggest that now is the time ! to look into the matter and provide , for your personal participation in' tho Arbor Day program. Dcafl: trees, it any. should be removed and ' replaced by others of the proper | species. Speak to your neighbor and I encourage him also to join in the j shade tree movement. BOROUGH STREETS STATE HIGHWAY COMMIS SIONER SADLER and the bor ough authorities of Duncannon have reached an agreement on the I Improvement of the principal streets of the up-river town. More and ■ more the boroughs are understand-: ing that the State wants to help puli j them out of the mud if they will only co-operate. Dauphin county towns should size j up the situation and co-operate with | Commissioner Sadler in every pos , sible way. A great highway system | cannot be constructed with jolting I links represented by the streets ot - indifferent boroughs. The Dauphin County Historical! Society will have its regular meeting this evening, and the importance of! the work of this association is be-1 coming better understood and ajipre- [ dated as the necessity for gathering the data for the history of the county! tn the great war is emphasized, j This society should have in its mem-j bership all who are concerned in i preserving the records whieli mean! so much to the community. It is all a labor of love, of course, but bf mini': It is a disinterested and un selfish proposition is all the more reason why citizens who are inter eated in perpetuating the worth whfls things of the county should take part in the work of the asso ciation. COMBINING ACTIVITIES , IK IT be true, as generally re- ] ported, that the Ohev Sliolom , synagogue on North Second street is to be converted into a head - quarters for the Red Cross and the associated benevolent institutions of Harrisburg. it is a step in the right direction. Harrisburg has learned through its war activities that much effort and considerable overhead ex pense can be conserved through n combination of these associations co operating under the same roof. There has been considerable criti cism ef lost motion in the past and of waste in overhead expense by du plication of effort, and as the same < p THURSDAY EVEJO, community must provide the funds for yhe worthy charities of the city J and the welfare activities, it Is only proper that these funds should be safeguarded in every possible wn>\ Placing the various activities in one building, where there can be an ' Interlocking of heads and aSHiatanta i for routine work, seems eminently j practical and desirable, Mueh religious activity has fol- I lowed the various movements having for their purpose the reviving of I church efforts a'oug practical : lines. The power of organiza tion. as demonstrated in the eo-opcra ] tlon of the war period, lias impressed the religious community and must result In great achievement. A FINE EXAMPLE TIIK EXAMPI.E of Herculean lodge, Brotherhood of Rail road Trainmen, in appropriat ing sllO each for the forty members who served their country In the war, toward the City Memorial fund, should be followed by every lodge in the city. It is not always easy to reach down into the treasury of an organ ization and take out SBOO. however worthy the purpose, but Herculean lodge did it voluntarily and by unanimous vote. That is patriotic spirit worth recording. Every organization and business, fraternal or otherwise, in Harrisburg ought to take as much pride in see ing to it that its members are in i eluded in this memorial as it did in , I . •> putting their stars on the service flags which were so prominently dis played during the war. The Memorial will be the city's | service flag for all time. It will ! never be demobilized. It will stand ' for all time as a testimonial to the ' love and esteem in which Harrisburg i people hold the men and women ! who donned the uniform and went out at the call of country. What lodge will be the next to follow this splendid example of the Railroad Trainmen? EDUCATIONAL GROWTH SO THE Harrisburg Academy is to } have another new dormitory. | When the big preparatory i school was located on the northern outskirts of the city, amidst pictur-1 esque and delightful surroundings, j its development was as certain as j that day follows night. It is not • going to be a question in the future j of obtaining students for the ! Academy; it will be a problem of: providing accomodations for those ; who seek admission. Already at the | opening of the present term scores have been turned away daily and; only additional dormitory accommo-; dntions will make possible further j expansion of the industry. Headmaster Uiown and the trus- , tees have outlined a comprehensive J plan of further development and j the city is doing its part by provid- I ing its own great educational build- j ing on the bluff immediately east of; j the Academy property. it doesn't! require much of a vision to see the j ■ future of the Academy as one of the • great preparatory schools of the United States, attracting hither not only our own boys but the youth ol ' South America and the islands of | the sea. I Things are coming our way in the! educational line ami soon Harris- ! burg will be known far and wide as ' j;t leader in progressive educational j methods as it is already famous for its municipal progress and develop- j i ment. Harrisburgers have not forgotten I in these cool October days the ciis- ( | comfort of last summer's heat and. the constant desire for bathing fa-: , cilitic-s in the river. They are going ! to put over that loan for bath houses - and bathing beaches with a jump. ( THE RENTING PROBLEM E\ -LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR FRANK 11. McCI.A IN is looking carefully into the alleged rent j profiteering in Philadelphia as the j operating, head of the Public Welfare Commission. The unfortunate part jof inexcusable rent profiteering is the effect upon reputable real estate | operators. The indefensible tactics lof those who are selfishly filling j their own pockets at the expense of the renting section of the com munity too often bring upon the heads of perfectly honest house owners and landlords unreasonable and unjustifiable criticism. We believe the associated real es tate men of this city are accomplish ing much in iheir determination to (stamp out this sort of thing so far las it relates to Harrisburg. There is reason to believe that the (housing conditions will be son.e- I what relieved during the next few months, but no considerable relief may be expected until there shall he a large increase in the number of dwellings to supply the constantly increasing demand. Clcotti is a name that can tie pro no>;need variously. Thank heaven it not be necessary to wot-ry with it very long. Some times we think the roast chestnut venders ought to be arrested fcr cruelty to animals. I Fond of hacon? Join a Pauphin County pig club and laugh at the high Wives. :'i ! yuitusu fbn.hSijLa.nla By tlw Bx-OommlttoeaMß | iiuibilit> of election boards In j i half a dozen of the counties In Penn- j sylvaniu to complete the count of; the primary elections and certify ! - the official figures to the seeretaiy j 11 of the Commonwealth has prevent ed tlie State from certifying the ju-j ; dicial nominees as the law requires. For the first time in years the law has to lie disregarded and State law officers who were consulted about i 1 say that there Is nothing else to do las the figures have not been re reived. Telephone and telegraphic mes sages have been sent to county seat? 1 urging that the returns be rushed. Dauphin county is one of the coun |tles which was late, the othcis being located in distant parts of the State. : Much interest is being shown here in reports of various independent, i movements in t lie State. Some at tempts to pre-empt'names for local use hate heeu made at the Capitol but as tile elections this year or, , purely* county or municipal the papers were returned. i —Howard W. Douglas, city so | licitor of MoKeesport. was recom -1 mended for Republican county chairman of Allegheny to succeed Judge Chailes H. Kline of common i pleas court, who resigned when he was appointed to the bench, at a meeting of ward and eitv cha'rmen in the office of Mayor E. V. HnU i cock. Attorney George Weil, of Braddock, vice cha'rman of the county committee, who acted fol i lowing the appointment of Chair ' man Kline to the bench, was asked I to cull a meeting of the county com mittee for Tuesday w wen the chair i man will be chosen The Pittsburgh I Dispatch says: "Several names : were suggested but agreement was reached that Citv Solicitor Doug las' selection would reunite all ele ' ments of the party in the county." 1 —-Joseph F. Guffev. the western j Pennsylvania end of the Palmer or- j ! sanitation of the Keystone Stale; Democracy, is getting busy at Wash- j ; ington again. Following his vis't i there it wns announced that Attor- - j ney General A. Mitchell Palmer had } i made these apnointments: i Edward F. Duffy, of Pittsburgh, i j as special assistant district attorney | j vice B. H. McGtnniss. of Pittsburgh recently appointed speciul assistant j attorney general. ' Major Augustus P. Rurgwin, of. , Pittsburgh, as sn"c'ai assi-t-int dis trict attorney, vice ('. H. King, re-I j signed. The Pittsburgh Post says: I "Roth appointments were made on j recommendation of Mr. Guffey as j divis'onn! chairman of the Demo- i | cratic State committee for Western I Pennsylvania. It is understood the j appointees will lake office as soon i as they can he sworn in. Mr. Duffy one of tlie new appointees, is now . ; I'liiled States commissioner at ' i Pittslmigh and bag been active in! j Democratic politics in Pennsylvania! j for many years, serving as a dele- i j gate to state and national conven- | j tions." —Tlie Philadelphia Public Ledger ! says there is need for the Committee lof tine Hundred to show in the; I field. It remarks: "It is impossible j i to look for frank and loyal co-opera- i j tion from a council the majority of ! • the members of which owe their j I allegiance to the leaders of a de j feated and discredited faction. For (these and many other reasons that [ I could be given the light at t te No-! : vember election will center around | ! the candidates for tlie council.' j Hence the necessity for untiring; I vigilance on the part of every good i j citizen against a return to power of! the politicians whom they repudi-I j ated at the primary." I —The independent movement has! : Mown up in Montgomery county. ! but seems to lie tinder way in Read- j , ing, Lancaster and Altoonn. The : Altoonn. Tribune says: "The non- ! partisan league executive committee | will announce the labor ticket to lie! j placed in the field in the course or: the next day or two. Numerous r\i ntois have been Hying around as to! } whom tlie candidates for.the various! I city ami county offices would lie. but '■ j this will not be determined until tlie ; ticket has been announced.'' ; —There are 151 candidates for, county surveyor of Lehigh county ; according to the official tabulation ! ; of the vote, and the county comm's j sioners are in a quandary as to the ! j printing of tlie ballots. The sittta- j jtion came about primarily through ! i the fact that there were neither Re- ! ! publican nor Democratic candidates I | for this office at the primary elec-' I tion last month, and secondarily he- j i cause the office, although on the j official roster ever since the eountv! i was created 10? years ago. has al-' I ways been a dead letter, so. names' I were written in. j —James M. Breslin. Democratic, i candidate for district attorney in ' Gar lion county, has withdrawn be ; cause be says be was named with :! out his consent. Former Rttrgess Thomas Gallagher, of Iginsford. at 1 j the solicitat'on of his friends, has : consented to become a candidate for | chairman of the Democratic com-, . mittee of the county to succeed At-1 ■ torney F'-ank P. Sharkey, of Muuch . Chunk, : ltd for th's position he has : no opnosit'on as yet. —Elwood Citv voters will vote on ! -ft bond issue for $200,000 for 'the' , | erection of a new school, at the No- j I vember election. 'j —The official count of the Read ying primary vote shows that J. \V. ■ ;1L Glass, comparatively a neweom ; er in the city and ioeal polities .jcante near getting a nomination on ! the Republican ticket for city eoun -1 j ell. There were four nominations !to be made and Gins- ran fifth. He , J came in ahead of the veteran. P J Frank Ruth, now serving his third " I consecutive term in council, bv 1 nenrlv 400 votes. Ruth losing for tlw ( first time in a long political career. Glass is a brother of Glass 'of Philadelphia, a Vare leafier in ' ' the Legislature. He wenl to live in M Rending about two years ago. • t —The' Philadelphia Record oli | serves: "The primary ma jority fo>- Mr. Moore is apparently less than ' 2.000. More than 2"i.000 Philadel phia Democrats registered as Re r publicans and voted for him at the . recent primaries. They so regis tered and so voted because tbv fet' • that as c'Hreps of Rhl'ndnlnhia thp' r was (he thing 'o dc If *i>e- "-nn*"d to strike a" cfTec' lc-> Mow nt the | corrupt machine t-hV-h opnoswl th se'ection for mn'-ir e' nnv man t* eftutd not Tbo'tannila o r holiest re—iste-'ert nn." t voted frr Mr. Moo-e for the sam t reason." —John S. Fstertv. of Moil"' Penn next to the suer-essftil ennd'date fe* t the Democratic nomination fo r , sheriff in Berks county Is thankful for the vote given him. and says: "I will return tn 19?S, when t hope ♦ o win." Samuel S flehmebl. of 1 fending, defeated ° for director of 1 \the poor, announces his candidacy lor the nim office in 1921. -.. - •>:, > '*r ' HARIUHBURO TELEGKAFa !| OH, MANI T T- TT ByBRIGGS ! ■ '| f WAS vwoKDeßiMc.) NoTtCGD THAT \ . FIRST OF JUt-V ' F Vooß 6u.SIMe.SS/ / Vou'Re I EVeHHo\3 NOVAJ/ -pRBTTV Resu LAR] /■ \ / i ,✓ **"\ S3 MUCH MORE / V ABOUT aeXTIfJH/ I I Un>r ) F® *£C^ e W w £ s ( I NOTICED YOO~7USVER\ . BJn -it. \ HAVC MECTinQS. / \ AT \ ArW Moßft -t \ THOOCHT \ ( \AAEIL- tion. officers were permitted to i ;wear the clothing of civilians, which | they preferred for self-protection, I not wishing to incite the class feel- j 1 ing or violence of the soldiers by J I,wearing epaulets, bright metal but j tons or other conspicuous marks of | i distinction." Poetic Fragments A flutter of falling leaves, A clinging of hearts together; A whisper of wind that grieves, Bright sun, nnd it's autumn weather! Nothing to me shall eonie i am not worthy of— Neither the power of wealth. Neither the crown of love; Nothing that life holds high To me shall be a part Unless 1 have earned it hy The pure dreams of my heart. No life gets life at best Thai has not of its own Given at Its holiest erest Service of highest tone. The way you feel at morning's start Is partly what you know And partly what falls on your heart Prom Naure's wonder glow. —-Folger McKinsey in Baltimore Sun A Slow Job [Prom Kansas Pity. Starl "The cost of living is coming down, and " "So was the water coming down at Lodore, in McGuffey's Third Reader of forty or flfly years ago rapidly and w'th a rush and a roar." interrupted Festus Pester. "And if you will examine a late edition of that fine old book you will find that whtle the water is still In the act of coming down at Lodore It hasn't got down yet." This country will not he a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in. •-Theodore Roosevelt. ' 1 AMIABLE BUT ILL-SMELLING BOLSHEVIKI AT BUDAPEST 1 There Was a Decidedly Humorous Side to Bela Kun's Short ; Lived Revolution ; I —■ 1 — THE humorous side of Bolshev ism as it manifested itself In Budapest under the short lived regime of Bela Kun is engagingly revealed by a correspondent of Lon don Truth who was in the Hungar ian capital at that time. He tells how he was awakened in the dead of night to find a lot of Red Guards wandering aimlessly about his hotel room, examining his shaving soap and things. He continues: "I think it was the smell that woke me up, because it was a good deal louder than the noise they made. Besides the dirt, they were 1 : dressed in the remains of field gray uniforms, and they had cherry col ored ribbons round their caps and in their buttonholes, and rifles and bayonets in their hands, and I ex pect they thought they looked very impressive. "I was annoyed, and I told them so, and they ' came and stood all around the bed like a 4 o'clock in the morning conscience, and we I talked a great deal. I couldn't un- j I derstand what they said, and they ; could only understand one word of what I said—but it was a very good j word. It was 'Angol,' and I had been told in Vienna to use it freely. I It means 'English,' by the way, in Hungary. When I had said it a few | times they got the hang of it, and went away to wake somebody else | up. One of them stayed behind — ■ one of the dirtiest, who correspond ed to an officer. He had a sense ! of duty, and stood upright by the j 1 side of the bed all night, feeling the i I point of his bayonet on his thumb, j I Or he may have been cleaning his | finger nails on it. I am "not quite [ sure, because I switched the light ' off and tried to get to sleep again. , But he had an unpleasant habit of J sniffing, and it took me some time." j The writer met Bela Kun—or Al bert Cohen, as his real name ap pears to be —the following day. "He wore a bowler with a flat brim set far down on the back of his shiny hair so that his ears spread out like young palmtrees. He had a very tasty brown overcoat with an amber colored velvet collar and very large The Laundry Strike And now It seems the laundry strike, the laundry strike, the laun dry strike, Approaeheth swiftly down tlje pike. The shirt, in Scotland called a "sark," Deserts your torso, leaves you stark; The collar too will be taboo; You will not get it in the neck— Xo, that your beard must deck. Each bachelor above a tub, above a tub, above a tub, Must soap and rinse and squeeze and rub. Unless he finds him tout de sweet A Phyllis handy, swift and neat, A kindly scout who'll help him out, And fake for pay a wedding ring— The Benedict's the thing. But who knows what the end will ] be, the end will be, the end i will be, For you, dear reader, and for me? A charitable mantle weaves, So Adam found, from certain leaves, j While collars trig? For them a, fig- That trouble's easy to avoid With snowy celluloid. —Maurice Morris. A Step at a Time [From the New York Sun! Mr. William Allen White, of Kansas and fame, who is reporting the Industrial Conference, sends this .item to the Evening Post: "Mr. Lane's speech was a liberal speech; it advocated the 'step at a time,' which is the slogan of the evolutionary Socialist." Perhaps the evolutionary Social ist has copyrighted "the step at a time" as a slogan, but the process itsejf is too old to be patented. It has been used by the infants of pre historic caves, by cats on fences, by the Israelites of the Exodus, by Na- I poleon and Edward Payson Weston, by big business and little business I by ait and science, by commerce | and trade, by war and peace, by I banks and delicatessen stores. Thb ■ Soctatsts adopted it when they dts : covered that any other form of , economic advance would breuk 'be | experimenter's neck. '#• k-. ... . yellow bone buttons. His trousers were of very bright and broad stripes and spread out bellwise over his bright yellow button boots. He had a yellow glove on one hand and a very nice yellow diamond —though, perhaps, it can hardly have been a real diamond because he would have had to surrender it to the govern ment if it was real—on the other. His favorite scent was, I think, wood violet, and he was very fond of it. "The rest of the government were all very like Mr. Cohen, though Borne preferred Patchouli or Ess Bouquet, and some wore rather more pomatum than others. If you happened to see them all at once, discussing some knotty point about the division of the swag or some thing like that, with all the sixty six hands going at once like so many seals' flippers, the sight was very impressive. But I cannot honestly say that they struck me at all alarm ing. An to me that is the most cur ious part of Bolshevism, in Hun gary and elsewhere. "To hear ordinary people in Eng land talk about what is happening jin Bolshevist countries you would ! imagine that they are entirely in ' habited by murderous monsters, j twelve feet high or thereabouts, ' who go about armed with huge axes, | lopping off the outlying limbs of anyone who doesn't happen to agree | with them, and lapping up the blood. . When I was on my way to Hungary ' I had to give up mentioning my des ! tination to respectable friends be cause they always fainted first and I burst into tears afterward. And [ when you got there you found these bloody minded monsters were poor little East Enders from London who were just as frightened as they could be about what was going to happen to them, and only kept in power be cause everybody else was too fright ened to turn them out. It is a solemn fact that the only reason the soviet government came into power in Hungary was the terror of the middle classes, who had been re duced to lumps of Jelly by the stories of what was happening in Russia —nine-tenths of which were not true." H. P. Miller, Encyclopedia [George Nox McCain, in the Phila delphia Evening Ledger] One of the best things Don Cam eron ever did for the Senate of Pennsylvania was when he appoint ed Herman P. Miller to be a page In that body. That was away back in 1876. The boy was barely old enough to qualify for the position. During the succeeding decade Herman P. Miller rose through all the gradations of service on Capitol Hill. To-day he holds the responsi ble position of librarian of the Senate. He has held it for twenty eight years, succeeding the late Cap tain John C. Delaney. For years before Captain Delaney retired in 1891 Herman Miller had been his assistant. He stepped into the place fully equipped for the work. He was the youngest man | ever appointed to the position. I think that I have solved the J secret of his long and honorable . service; it is his perfect self-efface ment. lie is never in the limelight. In that respect he is distinctly dif ferent from some other Harrisburg officials. Senators may come and senators may go, but Herman Miller remains, for his services are essen tial to the perfect organization of the upper body. He knows every senator who has served during the last forty years. He possesses a kodak memory as to names and faces. He has an encyclopedlac knowl edge of legislation. He has legal, legislative and ref erence information at his finger ends. During a session if a senator requires data of a biographical na i ture concerning some one who has been dead for a quarter of a cen tury. the name and the information required are handed on a slip of paper to a senate page. In ten , minutes he is back from the librar ian's office with the documents. He is editor of Smull's Hand Book ' and the custodian of all reports ' bills and documents of the Senate, •j Modest, retiring and the possessor f! of unfailing oouHcsv, lie 1- the nnr 1 J indispensable official to the Stall 4 Senate. OCTOBER 9, 1919. The Spirit of the Law i [From the Scranton Times] Nothing will so much help to re establish confidence in communities i that have felt that property rights are too frequently emphasized at the I expense of the humanitarian side of existence than to have courts take strong stands favoring humanitarian j principles when property rights clash ! therewith. Such a decision has been ! made by the Supreme Court of New | York State in the case of certain i tenants against landlords who ! sought to evict them, i It was contended by the pleader | for the tenant that tenants should I not be thrown into the streets i through the .arbitrary action of a landlord. The life, health and wel fare of the citizen as against the value of property, was stressed. It so happened that the case involved the disposession of a man, his wife and seven children and that on the day the writ was to be executed it rained. The officer refused to serve the writ. He was mandamused by the land lord. The supreme court sustained the action of the officer, who acted on the advice of an assistant dlr trict attorney. The point is not that the officer used common sense in holding in abeyance the writ. That should al ways be done in the administration of law. What Is of importance is that that the highest court in the state confirmed the principle that human rights were superior to property rights. It is when individual. court 3 ■ and corporations stand rigidly upon the letter of the law that guarantees property rights, that law is often , brought into disrepute. The law is at the most a guide. , Its letter is intended to be fulfilled, but since law cannot fully define its spirit in letters there is left to the administers of law the exercise of the Judgmeftt of common sense. This Judgment is not sufficiently exercised. PEACE! The war Is over—yet. it's not. It's only just begun; There's silence of the shell and shot— But that was minor fun! The war is over—paltry row— First feud was, who'd begun it; Just hark the bitter babel now That rages o'er who won it! The war is over; bless our souls. Just watch those wild Ukrainians Finns, Bolsheviki. Serbs and Poles. Letts, Magyars and Rumanians! The war is over—swift there comes A loud and lyric No! To rolling rhymes of guns and drums Deploys d'Annunzio! The war is over—from its strain Our ears no more are deaf? Forget you over there Sinn Fein? And here the F. I. F. ? The war is over, waged and won, And all its horrors cease— Just list that scrap in Washington, That strife of making peace! The war is over; 'twas the last— No more its red intrigue. Hark Wilson's whoop and Borah's blast To crown or crush the league! The war is over, now you'd like To chant its requiem? Hub's cops, the steel crews lured to strike. The Senate—go ask them! The war is over—hail the joys Of concord, peace and love! Now, 'mong the blows and 'mid the noise. Anyone seen that dove? —B. F. Griffin in Wall Street Journal Objects to Private [American legion Weekly.] It is all wrong to call a soldier a "private," says a correspondent of the West's Recall. "There is noth ing private about me," he asserts. "I have been examined by fifty doc tors. and they haven't missed a blemish. I have confessed to being married and having no children. I have told my previous occupations and my salary. I have nothing in my past that has not been revealed. I am the only living thing that has less privacy than a goldfish. I sleep in a room with countless other men and eat with about nine hundred. I take my baths with the enUre de tachment. I wear a suit of the same material and cut as 5,000,000 other men. I have to tell a phvsi cian whenever I kiss a pretty girl. I never have a single minute to myself. And yet they call me 'Pri vate.' " A Kansas Musical Note [From the Atchison Globe] P. Percy Johnson has come back to the old home town on a vacation. P. Percy has made progress. When he was a hoy in Atchison he played ' the guitur, but now he plays the | calliope. Haientng Cfjat jj J udging from the manner m which the Kutlonul und Stale authorities studying the possibilities of deepening the Susquehanna River from Harrlsburg to tidewater from a business standpoint are going about I things, there will be a report madj | one of these days that will be ... I surprise to the folks who have been j of the opinion that the scheme is impracticable. From what army en j gineers iay, the use of modern ex plosives can provide a channel m | the bed of the river which will pei mlt of navigation the greater pa. t of the year and as far as the techni cal side of the proposition goes n .s ! believed that a method which wnl ■be within means available can lie devised to cut a way in the roc U.i which form the base of the river and make the Susquehanna a sue ! cession of shallow pools. While thai has been going on there huve been studies made of the business that arises in the way of products and produce and of the share which water transportation may reason ably be considered as likely to I get in competition with rail roads in the present state of equipment. This is what is engag ing the thoughts of the experts. Tilts Susquehanna navigation possibilities, as has been pointed out in this col umn, have been studied three times. 1790, 1824-1835 and at present. The survey now under way is the most serious since that of the eighteenth century, although the Harrisbutg Chronicle and other newspapers of 1828 und 1829 gave much space to l legislative discussions of the subject. 1 and frequent estimates of the amount of wheat, pork, whisky, coal, hay | and other commodities of those du>s which could be floated to Harriu- I burg. The ilgures run into the thou | sands and include coal from Lu zerne and Clearfield counties and whisky from Columbia county. Float ing of produce down to Harris Ferry on boats known as "broadhorns" or "arks" begun as soon as the rivet was made safe from Indians, who had been the pests of the hunters and trappers who used to come down with their pelts in canoes to trade with John Harris. It is interesting in this connection to note that the first wheat and anthracite coal brought to Harris burg came down the Susquehanna in "arks" or big boats built with con siderable width hut very shallow to navigate the "ripples."' This trade | began before Harris laid out Hat— -1 tlsburg in 1785 and for 50 years was an important item in the business of this place, which has always been a transportation center. The barges continued to be used after the Penn sylvania canal and railroad were i opened. There are earlier family stories current hero of Cornwall iron brought here on muleback from Lebanon furnaces, taken from this city and on up the Juniata in barges and then sent over the mountains on mules again to Pittsburgh, i Wheat for Philadelphia was brought down the two branches of the Sus ■ quehanna and the Juniata before ■ 1800 and sent overland from this i place and Middletown and the desire ■ of the shippers for a longer water [ haul caused the first cut around the • Conewago "falls" to be made in 1797. This was one of the reasons for the , making of Columbia, which gained . in respect of being a water terminal at the expense of Harrisburg. • . . The Rev. J. W. Bobst, of Phila delphia, is the youngest man at the . Lutheran conference. He was here , 57 years ago and does not look It. Mr. Bobst's first visit here was as , a boy when he went away from t home to join the army. He enlisted , at Camp Curtin. which was located , almost where he is attending the , sessions of the conference at St. , Matthew'* church at Third and ! Seneca. He was 15 years of age 3 then, but recognized the camp local -4 ity, although the building develop ment has made many, many changes. He recalled the old camp pump so well known to many veterans and • tells interesting stories of the serv s ices of the 128 th Pennsylvania . Volunteers, which he joined here, and of the First Pennsylvania or ' Juniata Cavalry in which he served a short time. When this venerable clergyman, who is more active than some men half his years, got here for the conference he wanted to go to the old camp site and was delighted to learn that the church was almost on the grounds where I he learned to be a soldier. Mr. Bobst is minister of the Lutheran Church of the Reformation and one of the most lovable men in the con ference sessions. He is the oldest active man in the Lutheran ministry In the State who was in the Civil War and his age kept him out of the last one. • • • The Philadelphia Press says that s ex-Senator John E. Fox. banker and lawyer, is a farmer. This is what 1 the Press remarks: "So if Senator John Fox, another eminent citizen of Harrisburg, cannot raise alfalfa, he can grow pine trees and black walnuts. And the Senator was a real success as an alfalfa farmer. He tells me that on nine acres of ground he produced for five succes sive years about 39 tons a year. Jn t ability to get farm labor finally In duced this lawyer-agriculturist to plant 27,000 pine trees. On three acres of land he will plant black p walnut, which eventually ought to be worth a good deal more than the ground cost the Senator. And these crops of pine and walnut trees re quire no labor." [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE \ —John Duggan, mayor of Con nellsville. who has been ill, has re sumed his duties. —T. J. Underwood, well known here, has been elected president of the Association of County Controll ers. He comes from Washington county. . _ ~ —The Rev. Dr. Edwin Heyl Delk. who speaks at the Lutheran confer ence to-night, is one of the promi nent clergymen of Philadelphia. —John E. Baker, prominent in York county affairs, has erected a chapel for workmen at Billmyer. —County Treasurer Edward Frei bertshauser, of Allegheny county, says that every license holder in his county has paid up for license re newal. _ —Ex-State Treasurer W. H. Berry has attracted some attention at Philadelphia by a statement that Joseph was "a dreamer." [ DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg's plan of raising its memorial is attract ing mnrh attention from other cities? HISTORIC HAIUUSIU'RG —The first court was held hco in May, 1785, under the name of Dauphin county, but curl er as branches of Lancaster county.