20 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH {i MHWBPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 B= ' 1 {Published eventngo except Sunday by jIBB TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. .Tell*l sph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief OYSTER, Business 11 onager j QTJS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor UL & MCHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Beard kgS. McCULLOUGH, ABO YD M. OQLESBY, r. R- OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. fcdumberi of the Associated Press—The Associated Press la exclusively en- : titled to the use for republication i - of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub llshed herein. RH rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. ; A Member American pi • Newspaper Pub • ti' SherS 'h Assoc ( j®" JESggESDI Bureau of Circu- Kpwfffin lation and Penn ■fUßjlWgyM sylvanla |pfl 2 S3| Mt Eastern f i c e. Se '^. ven Building, ' Western office'. f —' Chfca'go, ?lli ldinK ' fcntered at the Post Office in Harris < burg, as second class matter. t By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a ■ year in advance. ' FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1019 Have you and I to day Stood silent as tcith Christ apart - from Joy or fray Of life to see his face: |Qp look if hut a moment, on his grace. fnd grow by brief companionship more true, ffore nerved to lead, to dare to do for him at any cost? L -ANON. — THE NEW ADMIRAL At.t. hall the new Admiral of the Greater Harrisburg Navy. David E. Tracy has long been active In the affairs of the city. He was on the Board of Public Works When the dam was built and the •■front steps" constructed. He is a great believer in the future of Har risburg and enthusiastic over the liver. No better choice could have been made for head of the Navy. The Hext Kipona should be the most suc cessful In the history of the city. NO ACCIDENT DRIVE STARTING at midnight to-night the Pennsylvania railroad em ployes aspire to have no acci flents on the system for a whole meek. . If the campaign results In the sav ing of pne life or prevents the in jury of one person It will be a great gnccess. But aside from the Immediate re mits Is the training in carefulness Which the men will receive. Too often we think merely of the Wgh pay that railroad men receive and not at all of the risks they take. Theirs is a hazardous calling. If ft can be made less so they and all •f us will be the happier therefor. No accidents for a whole week on (he great system. That is a big •rder, but it can be filled. And if possible for a week, it may be pos glble for a month, or a year; or if pot that at least the number of acci dents can be greatly reduced. Careful Is the watchword. I ' r yALUE OF DISCUSSION 1T E ' wa h t neither a Repub yy lican nor a Democratic system of taxation, but fed American one," chirps the New Bfork Journal of Commerce. At any gate it appears that this pro-Admln latration paper has had enough of the Democratic system, although, feeing a staunch advocate of free grade, it never ceases to abuse the Republican system. But the ridiculousness of this ggatemeßt lies in its demand for a nonpartisan tax system, or, as the Journatl puts it, "one that transcends BUT party politics in the funda mental principles upon which it is built up." If there has been one political factor in the history of our arrrernment which has made for party division, it has been the sys tem of taxation. It is humanly Im possible to secure unanimous agree ment on that subject. In this coun try the collection of large revenues at oar ports through the policy of protection has been anathematized W the Democratic free traders, and Increasing the burden of internal taxation by ignoring port sources fees been severely criticized by the Republicans. There seems to be an idiotic idea fct tb minds of some of our people Slat there should be no party align rr— ♦ no disagreement among states men on any question. A few years ago the cry was for a nonpartisan tariff board, as if any group of men be brought together who y" bring about universal accord n the tariff. Now these same peo ple are demanding that there be no party alignment with respect to fb consideration of the peace * i FRIDAY EVENING, treaty and League of Nations, and yet there Is not an article In the treaty which is not the subject of varying interpretations, each one having its proponent. And the glory of it Is that this is so. What a blundering stupid na tion we would be, if we accepted everything without question from any source which arrogated to itself divine omniscience. No political subject can transcend party politics until it has been threshed out by the pros and the cons and enacted into law, and even then it is subject to amendment or repeal. It is this threshing out which discloses its im perfections and effects such com promises as human selfishness will permit. What this country needs is more party alignment, and less mas querading on the part of some men in authority under party titles which they are quick to destroy once they are elected to office. A STEP FORWARD WARREN H. MANNING'S hearty endorsement of the bathing beach proposal marks the taking of another big step forward for Harrisburg. After his speech before the Navy last night and the Harrisburg Ro tary > Club, with the Chamber of Commerce and Kiwanis Club as guests, to-day there can be no doubt that Harrisburg will approve the plan when it comes before the vot ers in November. The idea is popu lar and Mr. Manning's suggestions show that it can be worked out in a most practical manner. Slowly but surely the Susque hanna river basin is coming into its own as the great play place of the people in summer. No city has a finer river front than ours. No other has such a set of "front steps" and shortly we shall have in addi tion the bathing beaches, bath j houses and boat houses. That the I city can be provided with bathing places and accommodations capable of giving pleasure to 5,000 persons * a day at the small initial outlay of $40,000 is an investment proposition that will appeal mightily to the tax payer. With these bathing beaches in operation, with the shower baths and dressing rooms attached, and all free to the public, we shall have right here in Harrisburg summer resort facilities unmatched by any thing but the seaside watering places, and with some advantages over them. Mr. Manning's idea of transforming the Island Nursery into a picnic grove also is appeal ing, as it will give a setting for the island bathing places that will add much to their convenience. Even tually, with all these advantages, we may expect to see Harrisburg be come a great center for outings both by automobile and railroad. Hundreds of people will come here to embrace the opportunity for beach bathing such as we will have and the grove on the island will add materially to the attractions, af fording picnic parties a place where they can have their lunches and where they may frolic while not in the water. The nursery has outlived its usefulness and it is a happy thought on the part of the planning engineer to transform it into a pic nic place, utilizing the larger trees that have been grown for shade. We are just about to take another big step forward. With all due respect for the opin ions of Dr. Raunick. we're willing to run the risk of a few more pounds of sugar. MOORE'S BIG TASK MAYOR-ELECT MOORE pro- j poses to have the political atmosphere and the setting of his administration in harmony with his plans and purposes. He no political Jangling to di vert his attention from the big things which he hopes to do for the benefit of the city that has hono'red him. All Pennsylvania wants to see Philadelphia get out of its political rut and move forward toward the ultimate place which it should hold among the great municipalities of the world. Big, brainy, patriotic men almost trample over each othor in the wonderful city at the conflu ence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, but for some inscrutable rea son the town has been held back and held down by political maneuvering such as no community ought to en dure for a single day. Mr. Moore has had sufficient pub lic experience to pull the big town out of the mud and we shall be greatly surprised if he falls on the Job. He has courage and vision and a lot of initiative. What is perhaps to the point also, he knows the political game as a trained new - | paper man before he became a rep resentative in Congress. By the Ex-Committeeman Intimations given here this week by visiting legislators that Hugh A. Dawson, member of the House from Scranton and chairman of the im portant ways and means committee in the lower branch in this year's session, may be a candidate for speaker of the House in 1921 are likely to bring some statement from Speaker Robert S. Spangler as to his aspirations. The speaker hails from York city, where he has been elected four successive times to the House and from all accounts he wants to make it five and quit. In the event that Mr. Spangler is re-elected to the House it is gen erally believed that he will be a can didate for the gavel again. Rep resentative W. p. Stadtlander, of Pittsburgh, if he runs again, will also be a candidate for speaker, al though Representative C. J. Jordan, the farmer-preacher member from Lawrence, has had some thoughts in that direction, according to friends here. Philadelphia with some of its vet- I eran members out will not have ! much speakership material. —Democratic State headquarters men have been out getting into tojich with chairmen of county com- 1 mittees and Democratic candidates 1 aligned with the Palmer faction the ' last few days to see how the lines | are going to shape up in advance \ of the struggle for election of presi- \ dential delegates and State commit- ! teenien next spring. The whole Democratic State committee will be elected anew in May and already ad herents of the rival factions are commencing to talk of men to run for the seats. This is the earliest i that such talk has been heard I around the State capital. —The campaign of Senator Boies j Penrose for re-election was formally | opened at a meeting of the Alle gheny County Republican Commit tee at Pittsburgh, Wednesday. His candidacy was unanimously en dorsed. The record and attitude of Senator Philander C. Knox was also unanimously endorsed, as was the State administration of Governor William C. Sproul. The endorse ment of Senator Penrose's candidacy for another term in the United States Senate was contained in a lengthy platform or declaration of principles reported by a resolutions committee of which State Senator M. G. Leslie was chairman. —The action of the Allegheny County Committee will probably be followed by the county organizations of other counties throughout the State, friendly to Penrose," says the Pittsburgh Dispatch. —Howard Dougless of McKeesport was elected chairman of the Alle gheny County Committee to succeed George Weil." —Declaring that he did not want his name connected with anything about which there was a suggestion of taint by fraud. Dr. George W. Mc- Neill, candidate on the American party ticket for County Commis missioner, withdrew in court at Pittsburgh when suit was called. —"I am not going to be county chairman of the Republican party only for this campaign and I am going to see in jail any man who at tempts such tactics as ballot box stuffing during this campaign," de clared John H. Dando, Luzerne chairman, at a Wilkes-Barre meet-, ing. —Developments in the Supreme Court in the Wasson appeal in,the "sole nominee" case, which is being argued at Pittsburgh to-day, will be followed with the closest interest by everyone interested in politics in i the State, because not only Alle gheny county but a dozen others may be affected. It is expected that the court will hand down a de cision very promptly. The question at issue is whether the Legislature of 1919 in prescribing the method of determining the "sole nominee" went beyond its powers. —The Philadelphia Press comment ing upon this case says: "The Dau phin County Court has decided against the plea of Judge Wasson of Allegheny for an order to require the Secretary of the Commonwealth to certify him as one of the judicial nominees in Allegheny County. Judge Wasson, who is now on the bench, sought renomination, but was de feated at the primaries, four other candidates for four places to be filled having received more than fifty-one per cent, of the vote cast. Judge Kunkel, in deciding the case against Judge Wasson, points out that the law giving a judicial candi date the exclusive right to have his name printed on the official ballot, was clarified at the last session of the Legislature, and that as the act is an election regulation it is consti tutional. Judge Wasson is appeal ing the matter to the Superior Court, and the election may take place be fore he gets a decision." —ln most of the counties of the State, especially where there were several candidates for judicial nom inations it is taken as a foregone conclusion that the Dauphin county court will be sustained and except in Allegheny county the certification of nominations for judge by the Sec retary of the Commonwealth has been followed in making up the bal lot. The secretary followed the Dauphin county decision. —Newspapers are remarking feel ingly that there are almost three weeks left of the campaign and from all accounts everyone will be pleased when the struggle is over. The Philadelphia newspapers give much attention to the plans of J. Hampton Moore to make his own campaign and much speculation on the Vare attitude is being indulged in. Luzerne newspapers tell of activity by the Republican candi dates and numerous meetings be ing held in various parts of the county, with noon meetings at Wilkes-Barre. Pittsburgh papers are almost devoid of politics, hav ing apparently had enough during the primary. Williamsport, Read ing and Altoona newspapers chron icle only an ordinary campaign thus far. —The Philadelphia Inquirer gives this as its idea of what the cam paign should be: "J. Hampton Moore's speech before the Repub lican i£ity Committee yesterday was one of extreme boldness. The can didate challenged the Vares in their own lair. He challenged all faction alism and l*oBBism. He planted him self firmly upon a plane of indepen dence which will meet with the hearty approval of every citizen who loves his city. But the big idea is to re-establish national good will to ward Philadelphia. That is the kind of talk that is refreshing. No more shall the city be the butt of other cities. Hereafter no Philadelphian need apologize for his citizenship. He will be able to boom and boost, not run away from knocks." —ln Susquehanna county institute a lecturer urged school all the year round. They are still saying this about him. BOWISBDRO TELEGRAPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? By BRIGGS t-AND Your B/SU . ; AkJD You MISS \ >oS£Ti_es isi AH. T \x)6 foot "Putts \ OQ\ *- AMTi TMB-M AFTER ' r HUSW& (JH -H-W- K- BOY !- aia*'T ANJD. .. AN® PHILANTHROPIST |T A fiR-R-R- RAND ALL. THAT IT s, WHISPERS >J vt>yß AP s> starts TO DID YOU KNOW THAT: By MAJOR FRANK C. MAHIN Of the Army Recruiting Station On the declaration of war the United States had 55 training air planes, of which 51 were classi'.ed as obsolete, and the other four ;.s ob solenacent. When we entered the war the Allies made the designs of" their planes available to us and before the end of hostilities furnished us from their own manufacture 3,800 service planes. Aviation training schools in the United States graduated 8,602 men from elementary courses and 4.02S fiom advanced courses. More than 5.000 pilots and observers were sent overseas. The total personnel of the air ser vice. officers, students, and enlisted men, increased from 1.200 at the out break of the war to nearly 200.000 at its close. There were produced in the United States to November 30, 1918. more than B.OUO training planes and more than 16,000 training engines. The De Haviland-4 observation and day bombing plane was the only plane the United States put into quantity production. Before the signing of the armistice 3,227 had been completed and 1,885 shipped overseas. The plane was successful ly used at the front for three months. The production of the 12-cylinder Liberty engine was America's chief contribution to aviation. Before the armistice 13,574 had been completed, 4,435 shipped to the expeditionary forces, and 1,025 dedivered to the Al lies. The first flyer in action wearing the American uniform were members of the Lafayette Escadrille, who were transferred to the American service in December, 1917. The American air force at the front grew from 3 squadrons in April to 45 in November, 1918. On November 11 the 43 squadrons had an equipment of 740 planes. Of 2,698 planes sent to the zor.%i of the advance for American avit tors. 667, or nearly one-fourth, were of American manufacture. American air squadrons played Im portant roles in the battles of Chat eau-Thierry. St. Mihiel, and the Meuse-Argonne. They brought down in combat 755 enemy planes, while their own losses of planes only num bered 357. Literary Notes Brand Whitlock, whose "Belgium" still maintains its phenomenal popu larity among all classes of readers, was recently made ambassador to Belgium by a record vote of the Sen ate. Just at present Ambassador Whitlock is touring the country with King Albert, having been appointed by President Wilson to the Belgian sovereign's official American recep tion committee. The date of Mr. Whitlock's return to Belgium has not been announced, but it is to be hoped that when he does go back he will at last find time to get at that novel which, as he in the opening pages of "Belgium," ho so confidently expects to write during the long hours of leisure he would have in Brussels, "the city where nothing ever happens." "What is a conscience to a wife? It is no good imparting a secret to a married man and putting it to his conscious not to speak of it to an other soul. There is his wife to reckon with and though he may tell her nothing she will, nevertheless manage to get it out of nim. 'You've got your own ldias of what you ought to do,' says she. 'I don't want to influence you one way or another. I wouldn't influence you for the world. But I sharj't speak to you again if you don't tell me!'" —A smile from E. Temple Thurston's latest, "The World of Wonderful Reality." We wonder whether Douglas New ton, who is reporting the Prince of Wales' visit to America ever read "His Royal Happiness." We suspect that he has read Mrs. Cotes' romance both attentively and with approval for we seem to be constantly see ing little newspaper articles on the Prince of Wales' interest in some lovely young miss who hails from the U. S. A. Quien Sabe? The press seems to be all stirred up about "The New Frenchwoman vs. the New American Girl." Articles on the one, the other or both to gether appear nearly every day now. But no one has said anything better about the French side of the femin ine question than Mrs. Wharton has in her little book, "French Ways and Their Meaning," while Josephine Daskan Bacon has sized up the "new American" pretty well in "Square iPeggy" although she has cast her ideas into fiction formf THE PRUSSIAN WHO IS WAGING A PRIVATE WAR (Kansas City Star) FIELD MARSHAL KOLMAR VON DER GOLTZ is the world's latest and most trying puzzle. What is the aim of this un regenerated member of the Prus sian Old Guard?" Is the private war he is conducting in the north west corner of Russia only a free booting scheme on a gigantic scale? Is it a covert continuation of Ger many's plan of aggression eastward? Or is the reseating of dynasties in Germany and Russia back of the grim old field marshal's defiant en deavor? These questions seemingly remain unanswered in the sessions of the Allied council at Paris, where Von der Goltz's move is causing even greater annoyance and uneasiness than the seizure of Fiume of the Dreamer-Soldier d'Annunzio. At any rate Germany has been ordered to get Von der Goltz out of the Baltio and has replied that it Is unable to do so. Von der Goltz himself has returned bitter and insulting replies to the Allies' orders, refusing to rec ognize their authority over his ac tions. Perhaps the best manner In which to gain a line on the motives actu ating this old warrior who refuses to accept peace is to run back over the career of Baron Kolmar von der Goltz. He has been a soldier flfty eight years. As a stripling officer he fought in the Franco-Pr.ussian War and won unusual distinction by his skill and almost mad daring. From that time on he was a marked man. Bismarck was his devoted friend and the kaiser, it Is said, held him in a respect that amounted almost to a fear, for Von der Goltz was an irrascible Bort, who spoke his own mind and carried out his own will and ideas with little regard for the prerogatives of the throne. Break With the Kaiser By 1906 Von der Goltz had risen to the ranking position In the Ger- : man army. He was considered one ( of the foremost strategists of the , age. Had war come a few years ! earlier than it did he would have commanded the German armies, i and there are many who hold that : the German reverse at the Marne , never would have occurred had the lron-visaged old field marshal been in charge of the Teutonic armies. But Von der Goltz, In 1912, had come under the disapproval of Wil helm. Their break grew out of the army maneuvers of that year. Von der Goltz, It Is said, had contemptu ously rejected some of the kaiser's strategic plans in the maneuvers. So the next spring Von der Goltz was retired. He was still In retirement when the Great War broke upon Europe. When the German armies reeled back in astounded dismay from the repulse at the Marne, Von der Goltz was called back into service. He was given the task of Bal gium and he proceeded to do that lob with all the brutal inflexibility of his nature. But that was a rather inconsequental task for a man con sidered in his day one of the great strategists of the world and soon he was given the assignment of recon structing the Turkish army, Ger manizing it in other words. He had an army that, as a result of defeat in the Balkan War of a few years before, had become little more than a rabble. He made it a formidable army, put German officenp in charge of the important units and filled it with a confidence and fighting abil ity that made it a force to be reck oned with. The defense of the Dar danelles was Von del Goltz's great est feat; he saved the toppling of the Teutonic Alliance a full two years by his work in that cam- palgn. But Von der Goltz was a campaign maker along tremendous lines. He urged the Germans to launch an at tack that would sweep the British out of Western Asia and would imperil Egypt and India. But the German general staff temporized and the chance was lost. Then he appeared as the proponent of the far-flung drive against Russia. It is said that he was a full year in persuading the general staff that it should permit Von Hlndenburg and Mackensen to make the sweeping attack that put Russia out of the war. All this time Von der Goltz, the great strategist, the man Bis marck had stamped as a man of marked promise, had to be content with a more or less obscure com mand, had to urge often and some times in vain for action upon his plans, knowing all the time that he was held back by the hatred of the vain man in the imperial palace. With the collapsing of the Ger- man dream, the break-up of the great armies. Von der Goltz was re called from Constantinople and putj in charge of the eastern armies. It i was a task of even less moment than I he had held thus far in the war. i There, smarting under the slights 1 he had received, Von der Goltz no j doubt conceived the plan, whatever i it is, that is causing him to wage a private war up in the Baltic region. ; Von der Goltz hates Lenine and Trotzky, he has contempt for So cialism, and for democracy as well. In him is the strain of generations of domineering Prussian aristocracy. So any thought that he will ally himself with the Bolsheviki can well be left out of reckoning. Almost as well can be left out of consideration the theory that he is acting in be half of the incongruous German re public. What then is his dream? His Purpose a Puzzle If it is not the return of dynasties that he is seeking it may well be that this old strategist, shelved dur ing the Great War, is waging a war for the satisfaction of his own am bitions. ' He has rallied about him a force made up largely of profes sional soldiers; his officers almost entirely are veterans. He has an ex cellent opportunty to display the strategy for which he once was famed. It is possible, therefore, that the motive back of Von der Goltz's seemingly wild campaign is nothing less than to demonstrate his capac ity as a leader and, at the same time, carry on a forlorn hope of restoring the greatness of Germany by the seizure of a large slice of Russia while the rest of the world is helpless to prevent. Americanization in Schools [From the Scranton Republican.] "Americanization Work in the Public Schools of Scranton" is the subject of the leading article in the September issue of the Scranton Board of Trade Journal. It is from the pen of Dr. S. E. Weber, super intendent of schools. He tells, in condensed form of the work now being done in this city to teach Eng lish to residents of this community who do not speak or write it now, and to lead all foreign born to be come naturalized American citizens. Dr. Weber says that "to-day the greatest single achievement in Amer icanization is found in the complete amalgamation wrought in the chil dren of the immigrant by the public schools of the United States. "Another link in the chain is the enactment and the enforcement of State laws requiring the elementary school subjects, with special empha sis on the history and civics of the United States, in both private and public elementary schools, to be taught hi the English language only and by teachers whose loyalty is above question. "In Scranton we believe that ade quate provision should first be made for the instruction of American youth in the American language, in American traditions, customs and ideals, and then their permanent as similation in American life is as sured." Dr. Weber declares the question that is now being worked out in Scranton is: "How shall we reach the adult who can't speak English?" j In carrying out the qjan outlined by Dr. Weber the schools of this and every other city in the United States will be doing a useful and patriotic work of great benefit to the country. A Four-Legged Soldier [From the Wall Street Journal.] In the southwest It has been demonstrated that the best means of defense against an invasion of army worms is a strong force of hogs. Year after year the army worm has attacked the crops of the United States, and the damage done runs into millions of dollars. To the damage must be added the cost of defense, fighting It with poison and other meana But the best the farm er could do was merely to hold the enemy in check. Now an effleent fighter has been found in the hog, which hunts the army worm as eagerly as the Australians went after the Boches. In the form of bacon and ham as well as g'ycerlne for explosives, the American hogs helped roll back the invading armies from Germany. The danger past, they can now meet the invading army worms and save millions of dollars of foodstuffs every year, while add ing to their own weight and value OCTOBER 17, 1919. Keystone Library Meeting The Keystone State Library Asso ciation held its annual meeting on October 9 to XI at Ligonler Springs. The meeting was most successful in the fact that so many small towns, were represented. The list included Foxburg, Johnstown, Wellsboro, Mansfield, Duquesne, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh. Braddock, Meadviile, Williamsport, New Castle, Home stead, Butler, Ellwood City, Grove City, Huntingdon, Scottdale, Sharon, Erie, Franklin, Beaver Falls, Somer set, Greensburg, California, Tyrone, Bradford, Munhall, Bloomsburg, j Paxtang, Wilkinsburg, Tltusville, | Wilkes-Barre, Turtle Creek and Mil i lersville. At the first Session Mr. Lamb, the president, discussed Mr. Carnegie i and the free library movement, and i j Henry Russell Miller, of Pittsburgh, j ! gave a very vivid story of "A Fight- I ing Division," a description of the ! 28th at the front. At the second | session H. A. Davidson, until re cently secretary of the Board of Commerce at McKeesport and now holding the same position in Erie, discussed "The Business Man's At titude Toward the Public Library," and he was ably answered by Mr. Stevens, of Homestead. The round table was conducted by Miss Helen E. Rockwell, of the State Library, and Miss Edith Patterson, of the Pottsville Free Library, spoke well upon how the small library can re tain the place in community life gained during the war. In the eve ning Hugh S. Walpole, of England, delighted his audience with his talk entitled "Creating a Novel," in which he brought in a great many reminis censes of modern authors. On Sat urday "The Country Library" was discussed by Dr. Antrim, of Van Wert, Ohio, the discussion being led .by Miss Hannah Fox, of Foxburg, and Miss Ines Crandall, of Mauch Chunk. There were meetings of the school and college section and the trustees' section. At the latter Thomas Ad denbrook, trustee of the Carnegie Library at Braddock, spoke on "Uni formity in Library Accounting," fa voring the single entry system, and the negative side was discussed by O. R. Howard Thompson, of Wll llamsport. The new officers elected were: President, Dr. John H. Leet, of Pitts burgh; vice-president. Miss Hannah Fox, of Foxburg; secretary, Miss Mary E. Crocker, of Williamsport; treasurer, Miss Anna R. McDonald, State Library, Harrisburg. "The importance of these associa tion meetings to those who cannot attend the national gathering is manifest. Problems which affect the small library alone are eagerly dis cussed and the outing is a boon to librarians of small institutions enter ing upon a busy winter season," said one of the delegates who attended. Motor Thieving [From the Washington Star.] A bill is now pending in Congress to increase the penalties for the stealing of automobiles and to con stitute as a Federal offense the tak ing of stolen cars from one state to another. The passage of this bill, it is believed, will help greatly in the suppression of motor thefts, which have become a serious evil through out the country. The present penal ties are not adequate tor the punish ment of those who steal cars. The chances of detection are slender and the gains _are rich Cars that have been stolen can be easily run out of reach and marketed. That there is a well organized business in the buying and selling of stolen auto mobiles is definitely understood, and every possible effort is made by the police to locate and identify those engaged in it There is no longer a matter of mere "Joy-riding," as the phrase once ran The motor thieves, as a rule, do not take cars without own ers' permission for the purpose of riding about and then abandoning the machines. They are professional thieves, seeking property to take and sell. Stricter watch of license tags, better records of ownership, the in stitution of intercity lists of car owners, these devices will aid in the prosecuting of the campaign. In some cities every car owner must carry with him constantly clear proof of his right of possession. "When He's Feelin' Prime" [Atlantic Constitution.] When he's up an' goin'— When a feller's feelin* prime. He's mighty glad, I tell you. There's another hill to climb:— When he's equal to the climbiu, — When he's gettln' there on time. That gives him grit for goin,— It sets him "all to rights;" The thought is so upltftln,— That you're headed for "the heights," | An' when the sunshine leaves you The Dark'll shifts the lights Euenuuj (M|at i Some studies made of the lists of corporations being granted letters patent for manufacturing purposes made by George S. Keinoehl's pub licity committee during bis presi dency of the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce have shown some in teresting tendencies in regard to in dustrial operations in districts which have become noted as "one industry" communities. For montlis there has been a steady incorpora tion of silk manufacturing com panies for the anthracite regions, notably in Lackawanna and adjoin ing counties. This follows a ten dency in the same direction which ma/ked incorporations from the Al lentown, Kaston and other sections of the Lehigh Valley, long famous as an iron manufaeturing part of Pennsylvania. It shows attention being given to diversification of in dustries, something that has mado Philadelphia one of the manufac turing capitals of the world. Few people know that for variety of products there is no city in America to approach the Quaker City and a study of a Pittsburgh directory will show the efforts being made in that hive of industry to establish various lines not so directly depend ent upon Iron or steel. Williams port is getting a diversity of industry that would not have been thought of in its lumbering days and similar steps are being taken in oil produc ing sections, while Erie's industrial list is scarcely suggestive of it as one of the ports of Pennsylvania. Dauphin, Lancaster and Lebanon counties, long celebrated as centers of iron manufacture, have been building up shoe manufacturing in a way that would surprise people, I just as they have also become noted for chocolate making. Harrisburg, it may be added, is getting to be noted as a bread making center. Few people have any idea of the number of loaves baked here every day that are eaten anywhere from twenty to forty miles away from the State's Capitol. Herman Neumyer, the veteran mfisieian, has sent us an interesting note about the article in this column the other rwght about the band stand on top of the old "meat market" in Market Square at the time of the Dauphin County Centennial. Mr. Neumyer, who has been in poor health for some time, resides at 320 Peffer street and his friends 'will be glad to know that he is watching the passing events. Mr. Neumyer says that he well remembers the band stand and some of his friends say that when the band played on the market Mr. Neumyer led most of the concerts. W. Paris Chambers was the instructor, but Mr. Neumyer was the real leader. He was a mem ber of a band in the Civil War and for thirty years or more there were few musical things in which he did not have a part. He played in Opera House and other orchestras in the old State Capital and other bands of other years. We have had state ments from others who recall the . pagoda on the market house. Wild turkeys are to be seen in sight of the State Capitol dome, ac cording to some lovers of small game who have been out scouting around in advance of the opening of the bird season. The turkey sea son comes along later and the bronze birds seem to know it be cause they are impudent and strut ting now. A few years ago a flock of wild turkeys was noticed on First Mountain and two flocks had a home on Peter's Mountain. However, when the season came on they dis appeared and the belief is that they went over into the "wilder country of Perry county. Lycoming county's Historical So ciety is preparing to take up active ly the compilation of the war his tory of that county and arrange ments have been made for a meet ing to be addressed by Dr. Thomas Lynch Montgomery, the State li brarian and curator of the State Historical Commission; Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, noted as an authpr, and other men who will outline the importance of complete and accu rate data of each county's share in the war being placed in the custody of the historical society which is co operating with the State War His tory Commission. In Dauphin county the gathering of the war data has been undertaken as a joint enterprise by the Dauphin County Historical Society and the Harris burg Chamber of Commerce, the home of the Historical Society being the depository where soldiers, sail ors and marines may go and present data about themselves. President B. M. Nead is urging that either every man who served from this county or his relatives see that the society gets the information for preservation. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. William T, Ellis, the trav eler, is home from Turkey and tells Philadelphlans there is danger in Egypt. H. M. North, Jr., well known here, is undertaking a campaign for enlargement of the Columbia Hos pital, of which he is president. —John Kendrick Bangs, Just home from Europe, says a lot of the things told about the French are pure Hun propaganda. —The Rev. W. S. Mitchell, for merly at Oil City, is now a professor at Boston. —Senator Wallace Barnes, of Honesdale, was here yesterday on business at the Capitol. —Postmaster L. J. Casey, of Wilkes-Barre, well known here, was married a few days ago. —John A. Dempwolf, named as a member of the State Art Commis sion, was for yeats architect for the State Board <tt Education. —John F. Lewis, in charge of the shipyard recruiting activities, has resigned his place and has been con gratulated by Philadelphlans for his work. jr DO YOU KNOW That. Harrisburg has been a center of religious activity ever 6ince its founding? It had missions here long before the Revolution. HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first executive mansion was on Market street between Third and Fourth. Right Dp [From the Wilkes-Barre Record.] The Harrisburg Telegraph take! pride in the fact that building per mits to the value of over $2,000,00 C have been taken out in the city so far this year. Evidently the peopit of the capital are not going to lie left at the tail end of progress by watchful waiting for the cost ol labor and material to come down.
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