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' 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.