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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1919
Friendship is lo be valued for
what is in it, not for what can be
tottcn out of it. —H. C. TRUMBULL.
Be stands best who kneels most;
WHY WE SUCCEED
does Harrisburg do it?"
I That is a question that
Harrisburg people often are
asked by visitors discussing our
achievements in the way of civic
enterprises and public improve
ments.
The answer lies in the public
spirit of Harrisburg people and their
willingness to co-operate for the
good of the town.
The luncheon at the Penn-Hurris
yesterday affords an illustration.
There were assembled, at the in
vitation of the Rotary Club, mem
bers of the Chamber of Commerce
and the Kiwanis Club, men of every
walk of life, of all manner of poli
tical belief and affiliation, to hear
the matter of the four public im
provement loans discussed impar
tially in open meeting. It was one
v for all, and all for one, nobody try
ing to achieve any personal honor
or advantage, but everybody keen
to learn what he might do to ad- j
vance the interests of the whole.
Co-operation was the keynote of
the meeting, and co-operation and
public spirit are back of whatever
success we may have had in our
community efforts.
We're a democratic people, but just
the same we would like a look at
King Albert.
GIVE THEM BOOKS
WHOEVER conceived the idea
of the "Children's Book
■Week," to be observed the
country over November 10 to 15.
deserves a badge of merit.
It is a bright idea, this thought of
putting good books into the hands
of children who should be taught
the value and the charm of litera
ture of the better kind. It is too
bad that this campaign for the
wider circulation of good books
could not be accompanied by an
other having for its object the mak
ing of a great bonfire of the mil
lions of volumes of trash, and worse,
that have found their way into the
hands of readers too young to judge
of quality. .
The boy who has substituted
"Nick Carter" for "Treasure Island,"
or "Deadwood Dick" for "Tom
Sawyer" has not only wasted his
time, but he has acquired poor taste
and has missed a world of rosey
dreams, of thrills, and pleasures and
memories that would have accom
panied him all through his life,
smoothing out many a hard spot on
the road, yielding him joys unending
and never growing stale or old.
There i 3 neither poverty nor care
for the boy with his nose in a book,
and the extent of his travels are
bounded only by the limitations of
the author's imagination or his abil
ity to describe.
By all means give the children
books; good books and many of
them. They make for better men
and women, and happier, healthier
boys and girls.
PEOPLE WON'T FORGET
REAR ADMIRAL SIMS, WHOSE
brilliant record overseas con
stitutes an admirable chapter
in the history of America in the
war, is to be denied the high rank
of admiral to which he is clearly
entitled and to be given the rank
of vice admiral simply because it
was feared another officer or two
might hot be satisfied with the pro
motion of Sims to the first rank.
Perhaps, a mere land lubber
should have no opinion about such
matters as stars and things like that
in the Navy, but those who happen
to know the splendid qualities of
Sims can hardly beblamed for feel
ing strongly about the way ne nas
been treated by the Washington big
wigs.
The people will not forget hie re
markable service under the most try.
SATURDAY EVENING,
ing conditions possible to conceive,
but he is entitled to public recog
nition and to the satisfaction of a
rank which would in some degree
represent his achievements on the
sea.
And now to put the Memorial Fund
over in a day's drive.
GOOD TALK
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
13EIDLEMAN, in his manly
and public-spirited address
before the Rotary Club, the Cham
ber of Commerce and the Kiwanis
Club yesterday, said many things
j worth repeating, but three of them
j are so far out of the ordinary that
i they stand out clear and distinct
I
as features of a meeting that was re
markable for its interest and en
thusiasm. The points he made were
these:
A man in public life ought to
be willing to sacrifice political
preferment for the good of his
C 'wVe must forget sectionalism
and all unite for the welfare of
the city as a whole.
The man who is not broad
enough to change his mind about
building the bridge at btate
street instead of \\ alnut is not
broad enough to be a Harris
burger.
That is not the kind of laTTfcuage
we usually hear from men in public
life, and it is refreshing, especially
since Lieutenant Governor Ueidle
man was himself a supporter of the
Walnut street bridge loan when it
! was before the people some years
ago. He was taking the medicine he
himself perscribed.
There is all too much "pussy
footing" for personal benefit and
too little thought for the public
good. The man with the courage
of his convictions is a strong man.
He commands public respect. But
it requires courage of the first degree
to take a public stand that may of
fend friends whoso interests lie in
another direction, as the Lieutenant
Governor did on several matters of
public importance yesterday.
Unquestionably, Mr. Beidlemun's
address made many supporters for
the bridge transfer and other loans,
but better than that was his advice
to the people of Harrisburg to for
get personal and sectional interests
for the welfare of the community as
a whole. That is xho keynote of
success for any city everybody
working wholeheartedly and har
moniously for the upbuilding of the
town in which they live. If the
missionaries for the—Various loans
caught the spirit of his speech and
went out of the meeting yesterday
preaching that kind of gospel, the
success of the loans is assured.
It was a good talk, the kind of
talk our people ought to hear oftener
and it will bear fruit. The Lieuten
ant Governor has set a splendid
fashion for all- our public officials to
follow.
FOR A HALF MULL
FOR a half-mill on the city tax
rate possibly less Harris
burg can:
Pay its share of the great
Memorial Bridge at State street.
Make possible the extension of the
city by building sewers in districts
where new structures await their
coming.
Pay the municipality's share of
paving some miles of dm streets.
Enjoy the pleasures of bathhouses
and bathing beaches matching the
best there is at the largest water
ing places, and better than most.
Is Harrisburg going to take ad
vantage of its opportunity?
Of course: Harrisburg knows a
bargain when it sees it and never
has been known not to ad
| vantage of one that has been of
fered.
PLANNING FOR FUTURE
THE City Planning Commission
liuving worked out plans satis
factory to all concerned for the
development of the Italian Park and
HofTman's • Woods tracts, acting at
the suggestion of City Council, there
remains little more than formal ap
proval to' place the street changes
on the city's oflicial map. The trans
formation of the properties to meet
the new grades and lines mill be a
matter of the future, to be taken
care of with the growth of the city
and the construction of the new
high school.
Sixth street and Division street, in
the newly workedout plotting of the
district, are to be eighty feet wide,
each. There is a lesson in the
widening of these narrow thorough
fares to meet future needs that
should guide the city in all its de
velopment plans —which is this, that
the time Ho plan l'or the growth of
the city is to plot_ new territory
while it is still farm land, or at least
while it is controlled by one or a
limited number of owners. Sixth
and Division streets must be wide if
they are to meet the traffic needs of
years to come. Dealing with the
problem while \he land adjacent is
not built up, the Commissioners
were able to get the consont of the
single interest Involved and the
change will be made without cost to
the city In consequential damages.
We have in Harrisburg a City
Planning Commission of foresight
that, as Warren H. Manning said
yesterday, is second to none in
Pennsylvania, and which is doing
much to make a better and more
beautiful city. It is looking to fu
ture fenerations, but it is also sav
ing Harrisburg much expense and
inconvenience in the big develop
ments-that are just around the cor
ner. Its work is done for the most
part so quietly and its character is
so lacking in spectacular qualities
that it is only when its activities
are so conspicuous as in the present
instance that the public gets a
glimpse of their magnitude and in
fluence.
| In j
By the Ex-Oommtttceman
Pennsylvania's county and mu
nicipal elections campaign, which
was launched after some of the hot
test primary contests known in
years, marked by a return to the
partisan system of election in third
class cities, the preliminaries for
election under the new charter for
Philadelphia and by numerous judi
cial situations, will enter upon its
final fortnight next Tuesday and in
dications are that it will be speeded
up. For the lust ten days or so
things have been dragging, and al
though there was much talk of in
dependent movements, very few of
them materialized.
Leaders of both the Repulican and
Democratic parties, after observing
the primary contests and their ef
tects, are now getting ready to begin
the advance movements of the
presidential candidates and for
an unusual amount of discussion of
State, congressional and legislative
candidates is being heard, while men
are already being talked of for
presidential candidates and for
State committee seats, especially in
the Democratic party.
Indications are that the Repub
lican party, which has gone through
a strenuous series of primary con
tests, will have a presidential year
more nearly approaching the nor
mal in Pennsylvania than for some
time, but the Democratic party, true
to tradition, will furnish plenty of
factionalism. A struggle for control
of the State organization with At
torney General A. Mitcheil Palmer
as the central figure and a presiden
tial nomination aspirtant is assured.
—ln all probability Governor
Sproul will name the commission of
twenty-five to study and recommend
revision of the Constitution ol" Penn
sylvania within a week. The Gov
ernor has btrbn giving more atten
tion to the makeup of this body than
any since he has been Governor and
plans to address it when it meets
at the Capitol. He will qjso name
the new Health InsuranceUomnils
sion shortly. Both of these com
missions will be called to meet very
promptly.
—The resolutions adopted by the
Allegheny County Republican Com
mittee at the resent meeting read:
"The members of the Allegheny
County Republican Committee, in
session assembled, sincerely indorse
the State administration of Gov
ernor William C. Sproul; that we
I record ourselves as unanimously in
favor of the nominations and re
election of Roise Penrose to the
United Stales Senate; that we hereby
pledge ourselves to gird on our
armor; to unite us never before;
to seriously and patriotically go
about the work of he'ping to place
a Republican President in the White
House in 1921; and to install once
again the policies and principles of
Lincoln, McKinley and Roosevelt in
our National Government."
Men who have been following the
course of the judicial contests in
various counties of the State looked
for a marked speeding up of the
campaigns in a dozen counties in the
next two weeks, now that the Secre
tary of the Commonwealth has cer
tified the names of the candidates
and the questions raised by Judge
Henry G. Wasson, of Pittsburgh, in
the "sole nominee" determination
amendment of 1919 to the act ol'
1913, is in the supreme court.
—One of the features of this year's
election has been the quietness of
the campaigns for associate judge in
various counties which in former
years were stirred for weeks because
of the "wet" and "dry" issue. Sny
der, Fulton, Mifflin, Wyoming. Sul
livan and other counties in which
the liquor question was the big
theme for discussion have had ex
tremely quiet primary elections.
Perhaps, the only instance out of
the ordinary was in Huntingdon
county, where PJ. M. Beers, who had
not filed a petition to run for asso
ciate judge, led the candidates when
the vote was counted and became
a certified candidate along with J.
Weslcey Kice. W. D. McCarthy, who
had filed a petition, ran third and
does not go on the ballot. Messrs.
Beers and McCarthy are the present
associate judges. In Cambria county
the declaration of James W. Leech
that he would not be a candidate
and the refusal of the Secretary of
the Commonwealth to accept a with
drawal, created a peculiar situation.
Mr. Leech's intention ir, to leave the
field clear for Judge S. Lemon Heed,
the Governor's appointee to the first
orphans' court judgeship. In Le
high and Washington counties,
where new judgeships were created
but no appointments made, contests,
which are -being closely watched at
the Capitol, are under way. The
common pleas contests in Somerset
and Lackawanna are also attract
ing attention here.
Campaign expense accounts of Ihe
recent Allegheny Ilepublican pri
mary election were filed by E. H.
Swindell, treasurer of the Leslie
ticket, und W. C. McEldownoy,
treasurer of the Anti-Leslie ticket
at Philadelphia. The accounting of
Mr. Swindell showed contributions
of 72.720,80 and expenditures Of
$72,712.66. The contributions in
clude an unpaid note for $20,060
and there nre unpaid bills of
$4,008.97. making a total deficit of
$24,008.97. The Anti-Leslie account
showed contributions of $120,72",.
with $120,297, expended and unpaid
I bills of $28,996.
—The new State Art Commission
and - the State Board of Examin
ers of Architects and other new com
missions will come tfT" Harrisburg
for their initial meeting:- end will
likely be addressed by Governor Wil
liam C. Sproul to outline his policy
for them. The Art Commission will
find plenty to do, as there lias been
numerous correspondence accumu
lating upon the subject of memorials
to Pennsylvanians in the war and
its members will Hkely have some
hearings beforfe they get very far
on with the duties of their office.
The State War History and State
Historical Commissions will have
stated meetings here with the Gov-
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ficials to discuss tho progress of
their work.
—This interesting item concerns
past Luzerne politics and comes
from the Wilkes-Barre Record: "A
political mystery of Plains town
ship of 20 years ago may be solved
by information coming from a town
in Illinois, that a Plains ballot box
had been bought for |l2 during an
auction sale of unclaimed freight.
Twenty years ago a ballot box dis
appeared from Plains during the
election in, which Patrick Burke de
feated Rosscr Muinwaring for school
director. The vote was close and
the result in one district decided the
election."
DID YOU KNOW THAT:
By MAJOR FRANK O. MAHIN
Of the Army Recruiting Station
Two out of every three American
soldiers who reached France took
part in battle. The number who
reached France was 2,084,000, and
of these 1,390,000 saw active service
at the front. .
Of the 42 divisions that reached
France 29 took part in active com
bat service. Seven of them were
regular army divisions, 11 were or
ganized from the National Guard,
and 11 were made up of National
Army troops. .
American divisions were in battle
for 200 days and engaged in 13
major operations.
From the middle of August until
the end of the war the American
divisions held during the greater
part of the time a front longer than
that held by the British.
In October the American divi
sions held 101 miles of line, or 23
per cent, of the entire western front.
On the Ist of April the Germans had
a superiority of 324,000 <in rifle
strength. Due to American arm als
the allied strength exceeded that ot
the Germans in June and was more
than 600,000 above it in November.
In the battle of St. Mihlel 550,000
Americans were engaged, as com
pared with about 100,000 on the
northern side in the Rattle of Gettys
burg. The artillery flred more than
1 000,000 shells in four hours, which
is' the most intense concentration or .
artillery fire recorded in hi f to !?' .
The Meuse-Argonne battle lasted
for 4 7 days, during which 1,200,000
American troops were engaged. The
American battle losses of the .war
were 50,000 killed and 236,000
wounded. They are heavy when
counted in terms of lives and MJffer
lng but light compared with the
enormous price paid by the nations
at whose sides we iought.
The Price of Meat
(From the Philadelphia Press]
The Department of Agriculture
has brought forward facts which
prove that the present price of meat
is artificially inflated and cart be
brought down if the Government
and the public display sufficient zeal
in that direction. There are as
many meat producing animals in
the world to-day as there were be
fore the war. There are more in
America to-day than there ever
were. Europe is not importing
great quantities of meat from this
country because Europe is poor as
well as thrifty and because the rate
of exchange is high in America's
favor.
Protection For Industries
(From the Binghamton Press!
I The "anti-dumping" bill intro
' duccd by Senator Smoot, if properly
administered, is as clearly and le
gitimately a protection to American
industry as any measure proposed
by Congress.
What it aims to effect is simply
this, to prevent foreign goods—Ger
man goods among others —being
sold in America at less than cost or
at less than their price abroad. The
tariff commission is charged with
the administration of the law, and
will investigate the home market
price of foreign goods that seek
entry into America.
Mohammedan Aids Red Cross
[From the Washington Star.]
Differences in class, race or re
ligion mean nothing to the Ameri
can Red Cross workers. Dr. Vir
ginia Murray of San Gabriel, Ca[..
| reports that one of the best helpers
and advisers of the Red Cross has
lin Polans is S. Saforcwitz, head of
Ihe Mohammedan colony that has
existed in Novogrodek 250 years.
"There is no more honest man in
Poland," said Doctor Murray. "It
has been repeatedly proven that his
information can always be depended
upon. He is energetic in getting
help for people of all fgitna alike.'.'
Ben Bolt's Lady Friend
[lrvin S. Cobb In the Saturday Evening Post]
In another noticeable regard our
auctioneer friend betrays samewhat
the same abrupt shlftings of temp
ermental manifestations that are re
puted to have been shown by Ben
Bolt's woman friend I am speak
ing of the late lamented Sweet Alice,
who—as will be recalled—would
weep with delight when you gave
her a smile, but trembled with fear
at your frown.
Apparently Alice couldn't help be
having in this curious way—one
gathers that she must have been
the village idol, harmless enough
but undoubtedly an annoying sort
of person to have hanging round,
weeping curiously whenever anybody
else was cheerful, and perhaps im
mediately afterward trembling in a
disconcerting sort of way. She must
have spoiled many a pleasant party
in her day, so probably it was just
as well that the community saw fit
to file her away in the old church
yard in the obscure corner mention
off more or less rhythmically in the
disclosures recorded as having been
made to Mr. Bolt upon the occasion
Half Past the Worry
Half past worry when you come
down the stair
With a song of morning greeting
and goodby to care.
Determined in your spirit to make
glory all the way
Through the toil and the struggle
and the heat of the day.
Half past the worry
When your heart starts right
In the morning full of beauty
And the bright, sweet light!
Half past the worry when you start
down the street
With a whistle, not a whimper, and
your heart feels sweet.
And all the world around you seems
a happy place to be,
With work to do, and music, and the
young, fresh glee.
Half past the worry
When your will is at your call
To change the gloom and shadow
For the light that helpeth all!
Half past the worry when you take
your place and stand
With the lever and the engine firmly
grasped within your hand,
And your old heart singing, and
your face a smile of bliss
At the blessing and the beauty of a
world like this.
Half past the worry,
And along the road to win
When you've thrown your heart
wide open
For the world to walk right in!
—Folger McKinsey, in Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
His Amazing Eccentricity
(From the Kansas City Star.)
"I have reached the age of 831
years," admitted old Tybalt Totter, |
"and yet I do not think that a man is
only as old as he-ee—hee! hee! —
feels, and that all the comely widows
are after me, merely because they
treat me with civility. I have never
had much cause to complain of any
body's lack of respect for the aged
—I find that the aged generally get
all the respect their behavior en
titles them to. And I have found
that the average busy citizen is not
deeply interested in the trivial hap
penings of 1854 and thereabout.
"As well as I can remember, the
weather back yonder was usually
just about the same as it is now. I
cannot say that I am greatly sur
prised to find profiteering going on,
£or to the best o'f my recollection a
considerable proportion qf the peo
ple have hogged each other at every
chance they got. But what is espe
cially queer about me is that I do
I not make a practice of denouncing
I and raving at your people for cut
' ting the same fool papers that I did
when I was their age."
Keep After the Anarchists!
[From the New York Sun]
If the report from Gary, Ind., that
the maker of the bombs mailed in
this city last spring and bearing the
addresses of prominent Americans
has been arrested is true, justice has
gone a long way tbward repressing
the authors of anarchistic outrages.
Attorney General Palmer, one of the
victims selected by the anarchists,
believes the culprit has been caught,
and his confidence should be based
on knowledge not available to
others.
of his return to his native shire af
ter what presumably had been a
considerable absence.
The poet chronicler, Mr. English,
is a trifle vague on this point, but
considering everything it is but fair
to infer that Alice's funeral was
practically by acclamation. Beyond
question it must have boen a relief
to all concerned, including the fam
ily of the deceased, to feel that a
person so grievously afflicted mental
ly was at last permanently planted
under a certain slab of stone rather
loosely described in the conversation
above referred to as granite so
gray.
One wishes Mr. English had been
a trifle more exact in furnishing the
particular details of this sad case.
Still, I suppose it is hard for a poet
to be technical and poetical at the
same time And though he failed to
go into particulars I am quite sure
that when asked if he didn't remem
ber Alice, Mr. Bolt answered in the
decided affirmative. It is a cinch
he couldn't have forgotten her, the
official half-wit and lightning-change
artist of the country.
The Old Age Dead
[Dr. Charles A. Eaton, In Leslie's]
What few seem to understand is
that America, in common with the
rest of the world, has entered upon
a new era. The old age, familiar
to us and our fathers, is dead and
gone forever. The new age, born in
the travail of the Great War, is like
a new, continent unexplored and un
charted. Temporary makeshifts are
of doubtful value. The ax must be
laid at the foot of the tree. We must
-d§al with causes rather than with
effects. And we must think eur
problems through to the bottom if
our thinking is to do good rather
than harm. Agreement may be
reached in the Washington Confer
ence upon matters now in disputes
between employers and employes.
Certain rights of workingmen to
organize may be confirmed. A truce
may be declared In certain areas of
the industrial war such as the rail
roads and the steel industry. And a
better understanding between per
sons and parties may be achieved.
All of this will leave the nation
about where it found it, and trouble
headed off in one place will inevi
tably break out somewhere else.
The history of mankind is a con
fused story of strife, ruin, failure
and waste. In the war Just ended
we have crowded into five years the
ruin and waste of centuries. But
above and beyond the dark clouds
of human failure- and strife there
shines a great alluring hope. Some
time, somehow, men will learn the
secret of living together in peace.
America, Beware!
[By Rev. Herbert J. Bryce, Des
Moines, lowa.]
A League of Nations, yes, but where
Does God our Father find a place?
I search the scroll, but find not there
The name of God upon its face;
Was He the author? Did He guide?
Was His the master, sovereign will?
Then, wherefore is His name denied.
Was it for good? It bodeth ill.
When o'er the seas our fathers came,
In search of larger liberty,
They did not fear to use His name.
Or recognize His sovereignty;
And here, upon our shores they
reared.
With faith In God its basic stone,
A great republic, world revered,
America, our loved, our own.
A League of Nations! Shall we then
Subscribe, in absence of His name?
Shall we Ignore our God, as when
The ancients built on Shlnar's plain?
We scorn the lures of crime and lust;
What lesser sin to compromise
With those who do not place thelf
trust
In God who rules in earth and skies?
A League of Nations! Shall we sign?
My native land, beware! beware!
No Covenant should ere be thine,
Unless thy God is honored there.
Hold fast thy faith, the faith of
those
Who for that faith both bled and
died; / ,
Thou hast no friends, but only foes,
'Mnngst them where God hath been
denied
OCTOBER 18, 1919
Recalls Trial of Guiteau
[Henry Watterson in the Saturday
Hvening Post.]
In one way and another I fancy
that I am well acquainted with the
assassins of history. Of those who
slew Caesar I learned in my school
days, and between Ravaillac, who
did the business for Henry of Na
varre, and Booth and Guiteatr, my
familiar knowledge seems almost at
first hand.
One night at Chamberlin's, in
Washington, George Corkhill, the
district attorney who was prosecut
ing the murderer of Garfield, said to
me: "You will never fully under
stand this case until you have sat by
me through one day's proceedings in
court." Next day I did this.
Never have I passed five hours in
a theater so filled with thrills I oc
cupied a seat betwixt CorflfhiU and
Scovllle, Guiteau's brother-in-law
and voluntary attorney. I say
"voluntary" because from the first
Guiteau rejected him and vilely
abused him, vociferously insisting
upon being his own lawyer.
From the moment Guiteau entered
the trlalroom it was a treatrical "ex
travaganza. He was in irons, sand
wiched between two deputy sheriffs,
came in shouting like a madman,
and began at once railing at the
judge, and the jury and the audi
ence. A very necessary rule had
been established that when he Inter
posed whatever was being said or
done automatically stopped. Then,
when he ceased, the case went on
again as if nothing had happened.
Only Scovllle intervened between
me and Guiteau and I had an ex
cellent opportunity to see, hear and
size him up. In visage and voice he
was the meanest creature I have,
either in life or in dreams, en
countered. He had the face and in
tonation of a demon. Everything
about him was loathsomfe. I cannot
doubt that his criminal colleagues
of history were of the same dos
cription.
Charlotte Corday was surely
lunatic. "Wilkes Booth I knew. He
was d,runk, had been drunk all that
winter completely muddled and
perverted by brandy, the inherltanl
of b l lood ' Czolgosz, the slayor
of McKinley, and the assassin of the
sane"" 688 Elizabeth were c i ear ]y j n _
Sonnet
(John Masefleld In the Owl )
Forget all these, the barren fool In
power,
The madman In command, the
jealous O,
The bitter world, biting Its bitter
hour,
The cruel now, the happy long
ago.
Forget all these, for, though they
truly hurt,
Even to the soul, they are not last
ing things,
Men are no gods, men tread the citv
dirt, I *
But in our souls we* can be queens
and kings.
And I, O Beauty, O Divine white
wonder,
On whom my dull eyes, blind to all
else peer.
Have you for peace, that not the
whole war's thunder.
Nor the world's hate, can threat or
take from here.
So you remain, through all man's
passionate seas
Roar their blind tides, I can forget
all these.
Lived on 75 Cents a Day
[From the New York World.]
Filing of a report the other day
by James A. Donegan, as refugee in
a dispute over the settlement of an
estate loft by Mrs. Charlotte V. Ack
erman, showed that, although the
decendent owned an estate valued
at a quarter million dollars, she
had lived on 76 cents a day.
In his report Mr. Donegan said
that the decendent had two servants
for her house, and that she paid
them salary, but required them to
furnish their own food. She ran no
charge accounts, he said, except for
bread, ice and gas, and her living
expenses did not exceed 76 cents a
a day.
The Plain Truth
[From the New York Herald]
It is agreed by all authorities that
amendments of a treaty by the Sen
ate do not require a new signature
by the other powers if the latter
agree to the amendments. Amend
ments or reservations amounting to
amendments of the treaty now be
fore the Senate will not require new
signatures if the other nations agree
to these amendments or reserva
tions.
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tottttutg (&§at j[
The picture Warren H. Manning,
city planning expert, drew for his
audience at the Penn-ilurris hotel
yesterday of the Harrisburg of a
red years hcnc e will live long
in the minds of those who heard his
address. Mr. Manning said that l-lar-
K a „ " r ? People must begin to look *•
a , clty boundaries, even be-
Ji? n i Hi® imme diate countryside in
their thoughts of city development
fit? m u st think of Harrisburg's rc
f°D n to the country as a whole and
to Pennsylvania in general. Even
now experts are looking over the
ft°"?. y : miPP'n* it by regions in
stead of b y states, and Harrisburg,
he said, is fortunate in lying at the
lii t®" se °tion of two great natural
highways. one formed by the Appa
lachtan mountain system running
from New England toHhe Gulf, the
great Susquehanna Valley leading V
from New York to the Chesapeuke
„ ay b f. ln 8 a section, and the linu
generally followed by the main sys- '
tern of the Pennsylvania Ituilroad
westward through the Juniata Val
ley being the second. He pictured,
the Susquehartna as canalized for
ffim' north and southbound
H~9S. and forecasted the day when
* hesapeake Bay will become one
of the great distributing points of
* ,* ? ntlre eastern seaboard, the com
of the proposed inter
coastal canal system feeding com
merce naturally into that great
ionr e c Way „ WU u lts ,r °mendous re
fVr , aboUt ' The tlm will
M^ nnin Sr oid, when the
noir a f sa f ng f ar " rea ching plans
now being worked out by J. Herman
Knisdy, E. Clark Cowden and others
of the Municipal Bureau of the De
partment of Internal Affairs will **
more intensely cultivate the'lands
that ought to be cultivated and will
turn back mt 0 forests the acreage
that is too poor for profitable work
ing, thus increasing the timber re
sources and providing recreation
places for the people. By that time
the coal to the north of the city will
be transformed into power at the
mines and distributed all over this
section, which will become more
than ever a center of tremendous
industrial activity, with Harrisburg,
if it lays its plans properly, as the
central and most important city of
it all.
"Manning is a dreamer, but he t
certainly has dreamed some dream,"
said one of those who heard him. -
But Mr. Manning is 'also a doer.
"First dream your dream, and then
make it come true," is his idea of
practical achievement of high ideals,
and the creation of the Harrisburg
park system under his direction il
lustrates the point. Mr. Manning's
head is not always in the clouds.
Most often he Is considering prob
lems of the most everyday sort; how
to make one dollar d<f the work of
two in city development and park
work, and how to make the public ;
utility a thing of beauty as well as
useful. For example, he took stock
of the city's accomplishments In the
development of th- r \vi bank above
Mac-lay street and added that some
way should be found to continue the
front steps to the city limits. This
is becoming an important problem
and the probability Is that with the
growth of the city in that direction
efforts will be made to carry out the
Manning idea in order that the
whole water front may be uniform
and the walk continued from one
end of the city to the other. He
was greatly pleased with the way *
the park department has covered
the riprapping above thevwall in the
upper part of town by planting it
with matrimony vine and completely '/•
stopping the washing out which
threatened the permanency of the
improvement. The planting looks
good and serves a useful purpose.
• V
Drillers who are making the tests
for the foundations for the new State
Capitol office building and the gran
ite trrraces which are to take up a
good part of what is now Fourth
street are showing no favorites in
regard to the places where they are
putting down holes. One drill is
working in the middle of a pave
ment beside the State Library, while
another is sinking in the side of a
State street grass plot. Others have
been working over on the line of
old Tanner's alley. Some idea of the
scope of the improvements which the
State will moke can be gained from
the preliminary work under way.
* o •
The Central Construction Com
pany which has the contract for the
new Memorial Bridge in sight is
getting its equipment assembled for
the big operation. Sidings will be
run into the park extension from the
Pennsylvania Railroad to handle the
materials and there will be steam
shovels and other appliances em
ployed. One of the first things to
be done will be to erect a temporary (*'
foot bridge at State street over the
tracks of the Pennsylvania and then
the old bridge which goes back al
most half a century will be taken (
down.
• • •
It's a sign that a man is a real
duck hunter when he gets up before
daylight and goes out to sit in a boat
tn a grass patch in the Susquehanna
river before daylight to get a shot
at the birds that are swinging so
saucily over the city and the coun
try round about. There have been a
score or more of duck hunters who
have braved the raw winds of the
last few days and have been re
warded by some good hags.
[ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
Col. David J. Davis, chief of
staff of the new National Guard,
was city solicitor of Scranton for a
long time.
—Commander Ignatius Cooper,
who has been in charge of recruit
ing for the Navy at Philadelphia, has
been retired.
—William H. Stevenson, named
again on the Lake Eric and Ohio
Canal Board, is active in historical
work in Pittsburgh and vicinity.
James M. Breslin, prominent-
Carbon county lawyer, is seriously ill.
Col. W. S. McLean, Jr., new com-
mander of the Luzerne artillery regi
ment, used to be Democratic Stute
chairman. , , . .
Col C. N. Bernthetzel, judge ad
vocate of the Keystone Dlvisrton and -
former legislator, was orator at Co
lumbia's memorial service.
—Mayor E. S. Hugentugler has
announced that York's welcome
home will be held on November 11.
Col. L. H. Beach, engineer offi
cer of the Ohio river, has been at
Pittsburgh looking into plans for
harbor Improvements.
— • /
\ DO YOU KNOW 1
—That Ilarrlsburg has been
manufacturing meat products
for shipment overseas?
HISTORIC HARRISBCRG
—M&claysburg was merged with
Harrisburg over 100 years ago. It
was the first annexation.