12 (HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH \AINEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded IS3I (Published eveningw except Sunday by THE TBLEGIIAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph IJuildlnß, I'ctlcrai Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. P.. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor 'A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Hoard JJ.YP." McCULLOUGH, s BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEIXMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. JAll rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. A Member American r] Newspaper Pub § Ushers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation aatl Penn sylvania, Associa ated Itoilies. Eastern office 6tory, Brooks & P inley. Fifth Avenue Building, office! G a s ' B'.Ulding ' Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a 9 week; by mail. S:;.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21. 1913 i The tcajj to gain a good rcputa- ] ft on is to endeavor to be what you \ desire to appear. — SOCRATES. . MOVEMENT GROWS THE movement to continue the Daylight Saving plan in the United , States, whether Con- j gross re-enacts the law repealed or not, has taken firm hold in Phila- ■ delphia. Following the action of the New York board of aldermen, which has ; been hailed with rejoicing in thou- • sands of cities all over the country, i a resolution has been presented in ! the common council of the Qtiaker j City to save the extra hour of day light for the people of that metrop- i olis. It is to be hoped that it •will be passed. Nothing will swing the i whole country into line, for this great conservation measure like the action of a few such cities as New York and Philadelphia. If Chicago and San Francisco add \ their OK to the plan the campaign will have been successful, for what } these cities do in the way of meas uring time the rest of us can do easily, regulating train times, stock j market closing and industrial cus- j torn as the big municipalities do. The movement is growing by | leaps and bounds in Harrisburg. | "Wherever Daylight Saving petitions ■ are circulated they are signed al- ! most unanimously. Many of the in dustries have returned their peti- : tions with 100 per cent, of their 1 people signed up for continuing the i practice and our City Council may J be relied upon to do the right thing j at the right time. But Philadelphia ! can help a lot by joining the move- ' ment officially. West Fairview and Highspire have ' set a pace in the way of "Welcome j Home" days that will be hard for j other Pennsylvania towns to follow, j OUR HOUSING NEEDS THE records of the building in- | spector's office show that liar- j risburg builders have responded generously to the call for new houses in this city, despite high cost of , everything that goes into construe- ' tion. But numerous as the opera- ; tiOns of the year have been, they ■ have not nearly met the demand. ■ Nor is it likely that purely private enterprise can be relied upon to re- J duce the shortage materially, ob viously, if we are to grow as a city as rapidly as the opportunities for 1 increased population afford, it must be by organized effort. The building season of 1919 is rapidly drawing to a close. The period is approaching when next year's building program will be out lined. Part and parcel of it should be the formation of some kind of organization designed to meet the needs of Harrisburg for good houses at reasonable rentals or for sale at figures making them possible for persons of moderate means. Also, we must work out a way by which a man with a limited sum in hand may be able to purchase a honic without spending too much on in terest charges. One of the reasons why people un familiar with property transfers do not become owners of real estate is that they are afraid of the numer ous technicalities and complexities of the real estate laws. If an organi zation could be formed whereby those in charge took over all the details and placed the buyer of a property in position to meet all necessary .expenditures taxes, in terest and other incidentals —in certain stipulated monthly sums cov ering every Item involved, it is very likely that many would purchase homes who under present circum stances remain renters. The scarcity of houses makes for high rents and prices for properties far beyond those of a few years ago. It is but natural for the owner of a property to ask for it not less than he could duplicate It for to-duy, not withstanding that it cost him some hundreds of dollars loss than pres ent construction cost when he bought TUESDAY EVENING,' 1 jor built it in the pre-war period. 1 He would be a poor business man if he placed a lower value on it. 1 And these advanced valuations make for higher rentals und add to the i cost of living. It is not likely that ! rentals will be lower in Harrisburg j as u result of new building this year j or next, for so long as there is brisk ; demand the asking price will remain | up. but more new houses would pre , vent rents from taking another jump, jas they arc bound to do if the ■i scarcity continues to grow. I The biggest problem now con- J fronting Harrisburg, as this news j paper has pointed out consistently and continually, is how to provide ' homes for the people who want to live here. The remedy lies in organ ized community effort. j Perry county's jail being empty, we 1 arise to remark that there are some j folks down this way who could be ; spared to All the vacancy. "THE GREATEST STRIKE" mHE leader of the mine workers forecasts the "greatest strike" j the country has ever seen in ! the bituminous coat fields. Before the public gives its sym ! pathy, cither to the miners or the i operators, it should pause and count the cost to itself of any protracted I shutdown of the mines. While the miners and the opera i tors tight out their grievances these ! are some of the things that are likely to happen: Thousands of railroad men will be laid off because there will be no coal to haul. Thousands more will be out of j work because there will lie no goods j produced once the coal supply fails. Thousands of mills and industries ! of all kinds will have to stop work, j because there will be no fuel to i operate them. Thousands of stores will have 1 it- I tie or nothing to sell, because the I manufacturers will stop and freight I traffic, even of already manufactured 1 goods, will be tied up. Thousands of people will go hun- j gry, because the cities must have j food by rail every day if they are ! to avoid starvation. Thousands of others will have no j household fuel. These are only a few of the evils j that will follow the Inauguration of • the "greatest strike." Before we give either miners or t operators our sympathy let us count ' the cost to ourselves. What are WE, the people, going j to get out of it? Dr. J. George Beclit's Arbor Day! speech will be well worth going to | Reservoir Patk to hear. Dr. Becht is one' of the best speakers in Pennsyl- , vaniu cud is especially good on such occasions as that of Friday. I AMBITIOUS CARLISLE j CARLISLE is ambitious to have j a population of 25,000 within j the next few years, and it is | in a fair way to get it. Nothing is impossible for a town that lias ' shown such remarkable public spirit and ability to co-operate as have j been demonstrated in Carlisle the j past few years. A new hotel, as tine as one will j tind in any place of the size; apart- ; ment houses of which any city might j be proud, new housing developments, j a number of large new industries ( and more to come these are some of the large accomplishments to the credit of the town through the lead ership of a live Chamber of Com merce. This evening the members of the Chamber will hold their an nual dinner. The occasion will be marked by speechmaking of the constructive kind and as a result, it ; is anticipated, Carlisle will take an- j other long step forward on the road I to becoming a third-class city. Harrisburg people sympathize with the folks of any town who are for ce urd looking and progressive. We have so much of that spirit in this city that we can understand and ap preciate how others feel who are I headed in the same direction. All i Central Pennsylvania is looking to j Carlisle to do big things in the next | year or two. TAKES OWN MEDICINE COLONEL. ED WAItD MARTIN is a believer in taking his own medicine and in compelling his 1 immediate force to do the same. For instance, ho requires the employes of his big department to thiow op.-t: the windows at tniervais a..d exer cise in order to keep in good physi cal trim. He also believes that bodily ills can be traced directly to neglect ' and will not stand for inefficiency as a result of carelessness. He is going to keep an efficiency chart, based on physical fitness and all employes will be subjected to regular physical ex aminations. Colonel Martin likewise insists that the female employes shall in clude overshoes in their ward robes this fall. This example is going to accomplish much and u thoroughly fit force in the Department of Health will have an influence upon all the other State departments, and inci dentally the public. A BIG OPPORTUNITY IK CONGRESS will adopt Senator Penrose's plan for a national budget, it can go before the peo ple next year with a remarkable record of achievement. Kor yeai'3 Congressmen have talked approvingly of a budget. Speeches have heen made in its favor, editorials by the ream have been written about it, bills for it have been introduced in Congress —and then pigeonholed and for gotten. At last there appears to be some real interest in the budget plan at Washington. If Republicans, who are In majority, desire a real cam paign issue let It be the budget—let them adopt it, and the country will write on the bottom of the record "Well done," no matter what else may or may not be accomplished. "American people will miss their monthly- magazines." observes a New York writer. But over many of them we shall shed few tears. IT™ =1 fMtU* U By the Ex - Oomml 11 ccinan * \L J The Philadelphia campaign has gotten Into its stride and there are now meetings being held by three parties, with Congressman J. Hump ton Moore, the Republican candidate, being greeted by big audiences wher ever he goes. H. S. Wescotl, the Democratic candidate, is being sup ported by Democrats anxious to get on board the band wagon in ad vance of the presidential delegate elections next year, while Joseph Macl-aughlln, the Charter party can didate, is running on a local and accommodation schedule, speaking at all points. While there is talk about the Vare element being in clined to gun for various candidates, there is no question about its strength being for Moore, and as the Vares are after council seats there will probably be some healthy lights in the districts. Mr. Moore is reiterating some of his primary campaign statements in his speeches, and there is general support for his ideas of carrying out the intent of the new charter. Mr. Moore has also made a favorable impression by his declaration that he intends to put an end to factionalism and there are some who think that lie is going to clear the way for a united party effort in the Quaker City next spring and summer which will have a good effect up State. i —The Connellsville Courier has printed an interesting contribution ;o I the primary history of Fuyettj | county which is based on evidence lin court. In one district known as ! George township. No. 4. the Courier I says that IS persons who are non | residents and two who are dead i were voted at the primary. It cads it the Democratic honor roil. One j man who "voted" died four years, iago. another died last fall, another! ! went to West Virginia years aco. ianother had gone to Akron, another: | was st ! 11 In t'ae Army, nnd so on.! Including on> man who was given as! a member of the township hoard nnd ! who lives in another district. —Lehigh Republicans look fori good things front Orrin E. Boyle, ! of Allentown. who was selected to i succeed Senator Horace W. Scham/:, as Republican county chairman. lie has arranged for 30 Republican meet ings and is jrgnnizing the county in' the good old way. Lehigh lias been ' going Republican through the ef-' forts of just such active young Re publicans. Mr. Boyle, who is a , graduate of Muhlenberg College and' Penn T,aw School, was recently ad-| mitted tf> the bar. During the war' he von a line reputation as secretary I of the draft hoard. —The Philadelphia Press says: "Perhaps Congressman Moore's sup porters ought not to he too hard on the alleged Republican City Com mittee. It helped to nominate Mr. Moore bv opposing him." —Lackawanna county Republicans have opened their campaign with a series of big meetings, and the in terest being taken in the Scranton district indicates that there will be a battle royal at the polls in No vember. There will be meetings every night from now until election. The same plan is being followed in the Luzerne conntv contest, which is a duplicate of that in Alleglienv ill a small way, as the victors and vanquished have united and are going right at it. The Scranton Re nuidienn savs of County Chairman R. A. Zimmerman's opening add'ess: "Mr. Zimmerman's talk bristled with cold, hard facts and figures that will confound flic Democratic, spell hinders who have charged the Re. publican Countv Commissioners with mismanagement of county affairs. By presenting facts that cannot he disputed, he showed how. to-day, the coal companies of Lackawanna county are paying 77 per rent, more in taxes than they paid under Demo cratic administration; how Republi can Commissioners have built up a sinking fund of $175,000 in seven years, and recited numerous improve ments made by Republican Commis sioners." —With the nomination by the York city Republican committeemen of \V. Edward Koch as candidate for school director, succeeding Henry Small, who withdrew from the party ticket. another tep was made to har monize local Republican factions. Koch had the support of the La •Viuis for the nomination and was supported by the Lewisites,- says a dispatch. The York County Re publican Club has adopted resolu ttors indorsing the city and county la-kits of the Republican party. The Ninth '.Var Republican Club held its ratifh ation meeting lust night and indorsed the ticket. —The Scranton Republican savs of the campaign in that section: "It will be gratifying to all citizens of the county to note the announce ment by Chairman Zimmerman that the Republican local campaign is to be conducted along clean and digni fied lines in which the worthiness of the party's standard bearers is to be set before the voters in a strong and convincing manner. If thev are elected, as they will be by large ma jorities, the people of Lackawanna county are assured of an efficient, business-like administration of their a flairs." -—This interesting view about mu nicipal affairs comes from the Pitts burgh Gazette-Times: "Councilman W. Y. English favors appropriating every year about one-quarter of a mill on taxable values of city real I estate to maintain a fund for street | 1 repairing, instead of the present sys- ' tern of appropriating only a small ; sum. The latter policy, he thinks, tends to allow the streets to get into such bud conditio'i that repay ing is necessary oftcner than should be necessary. He will bring up the wbjeet. when council meets to pre pare the 1920 budget." Flew Otter Prairie Schooner [From the Omaha Daily News] As one of the transpontinenb'* air planes roured over -Council Bluffs and swiftly disappeared over the horizon, a prairie schooner, fol lowed by two men on horseback, ap peared on the outskirts of the city, headed west. The dusty vehicle was driven by an aged woodsman from the north ern Wisconsin forests, who appar ently did not notice the speeding plane. As the wagon creaked along it contrasted sharply with the more modern mode of travel. The party was twenty days com ing from Wisconsin. It will be twenty more going to Wyoming, its objective. Lieutenant Maynard, (be Baptist "sky pilot," covered the dame distance In a day. SLARRISBURG TELEGRAPH WONDER WHAT A DOG WITH A FANCY KNIT BLANKET ON THINKS ABOUT?-:. By BRIGGS ■ / WHAT DO YOU , WAS NEVER G<=E-I-THINK!**ACAR L YSED To BB THINK OF A MORE MORTIFIED JIMMY COM ING-5 I HAPP y ' A M D GAY- I,K,N T INCT, O /°-R WORK IN LIFE- DON'T WANT HIM' NOW LOOK AT ME? LIKE THIS OmTp? WHAT |F MY TO vS£E ME - I KNOW LOOK-J HS on Me? LA£)Y FRIBMD HE . L I Des-Pisf me JSI ME YES MF SHOULD SEE ME AND NEVER. TAKE IN* THIS MAKE- / ME ALONG WITH*.IM UP - SHE'D ANY^MORE. THINK M£J A I COULD WOW-00-OO WHAT L KNOIN WHAT OH THE,* A MY EYES OUR- VAJ,LU MY PAL;I THINK- I'LL DO- ILL PITY OF WHAT DID I EVER THEY WON'T WANJT To HIDE MYSELF-- IT- THE JS R DO To DESERVE ' SEEN WITH ME GO INTO SECLUSION DISGRACE THIS DISGRACE EVGFI-EU<R* AND NJEUCPL BE - ' QW SEEN AG AIIV - I i_. DID YOU KNOW THAT: By MAJOIt I'HAMi C. MAHIN Of the Army Recruiting Station The war cost the United States considerable more than $1,000,000 an hour for over two years. Our expenditures in this war were sufficient to have carried on the Revolutionary War continuously for more than 1,000 years at the rate of expenditure which that war actually Involved. In addition to this huge expendi ture neai ly $10,000,000,000 have been loaned by the United States to the Allies. The army expenditures have been over $14,000,000,000. or nearly two thirds of our total war costs. During the first three months our war expenditures were at the rate of $2,000,000 per day. During the next year they averaged more than $22,000,000 a day. For the final 10 months of the period from April, 1917, to April, 1919, the daily aver age was over $44,000,000. Although the army expenditures are less than two-thirds of our total war costs, they are nearly equal to the value Of all the gold produced in the world from the discovery of America up to the outbreak of Jlte European war. The pay of the army during the war cost more than the combined salaries of all the public school prin cipals and teachers in the United States for the five years from 1912 to 1916. The total war costs of all nations | were about $186,000,000,000, of I which the Allies ami the United I States spent two-thirds and the j enemy one-third. The thsee nations spending the greatest amounts were Germany- Great Britain and France, in that order. After them come the United States and Austria-Hungary, .with substantially equal expenditures. i The United States spent about j 'one-eighth of the entire cost of the j war, and something less than one- • fifth of the expenditures of the Al- | lied side. "Uncle Joe" and the Lobbyist [Front the Washington Star.] Joseph Guernsey Cannon, more affectionately known throughout j the length and breadth of the land | as "Uncle Joe," is nearing his eighty-fourth birthday. He loves his fellowntan arid is one of the most affable members of Congress toward strangers. But Uncle Joe hates "bounders" and lobbyists and is still young and vigorous enough to resent their attempts at familiarity. For the benefit of a couple of men with legislative axes to grind whom he was endeavoring to im press with his own importance around the Capitol one of the well • known lobbyists held up "Uncle Joe" near the cigar counter in the House restaurant. "Hello, Uncle Joe!" he exclaimed. "Haven't seen you for some days. You sure are looking fine. Won't you have a cigar with us—one of your old favorites?" Then the cold, steady, steely look in Uncle Joe's eyes gave him a warn ing. He tried to bluff it to. "Why. Uncle Joe, you don't seem to remember me!" But he reckoned without his host —you just can't bluff Uncle Joe. He has played the great American in door game too long for that. With shoulders thrown back, arms stiffen ed at his side, eyes piercing the I presuming acquaintance, he raised j himself to his toes, leaning closer land daringly toward the face of the I other, and said: ! "No, I don't remember you. Why, if when you get to the pearly gates yon don't look more familiar to St. i'eter than you do now to me, he'll say to you, 'Get to hell out of here, I don't know you!' " To Teach English [American Leg'.on Journal] Chairman Henry D. IJndsley, of the National Executive Committee, announces that a commission is to bo appointed to co-ordinate and in tensify the work being carried on in America to teach English, civics and' patriotism to candidates for citizenship. The committee will be appointed at the National Conven tion in Minneapolis. British Build to Beat U. S. [From the Edinburgh Scotsman.] The Cunard Company has em barked on a large program, involv ing a new tonnage of more than a half million, to compete with the United States shipping trades. The vessels, orders for some of which already have been .placed, will be of an iveiage gross tonnage 6f 30,000. BUSINESS GOES AHEAD (From Manufacturers Record.) i THE past week lias been note-1 worthy for the size and im- j portance of new industries | and commercial enterprises contem-1 plated or established throughout the | South and Southwest, according to the current issue of the Manufac turers' Record. Typical of these is the announcement that a sugar cor poration chartered at Miami, Fla., for $10,000,000 will grow sugar-cane and manufacture sugar, its first mill to be constructed costing $1,000,000. A twenty-tive-story hotel costing | $5,000,000 is contemplated by a combination of hotel interests at j Kansas City, Mo. Plans of the light j and power company at St. Louis, ] Mo., call for a $7,000,000 power plant addition in that city. Several large pipe 'line and refin ing corporations have been char tered in Oklahoma and Texas dur ing the past week. At Tulsa, a $10,000,000 pipe line corporation has been formed. At Fort Worth, | Tex., oil refineries, casinghead gaso line plants, pipe lines and pumping! stations will be built by a $5,000,000 ! organization. At Wichita Falls : eighteen miles of six-inch pipe line | will be built by a concern which re- ] cently acquired twenty-five tank cars. At Liberty, Tex., a $5,000,000 j oil company has been incorporated. | While these operations are much 1 larger than the average, they are j indicative of the activity that is tak ing place in many parts of the South west due to the oil industry. An electric generating station ex tension costing $600,000 is contem plated at Port Arthur, Tex., by the i traction company there. Installation of a water-wheel and generator and the construction of an eleven-mile transmission line is planned from Goat Rock to Columbus, Ga., at a cost of approximately $350,000. Properties including more than 100,000 acres of timber land and the towns of Bagdad and Munson, Fla., together with fifty miles of railway, locomotives, ships, etc., have been purchased by Alabama and Florida interests, and extensive improvements are planned, includ ing doubling the daily capacity of a 200,000-foot lumber mill. The L. R. S. The last rose of summer was bloom ing so bold, We patiently waited fori nights to grow cold. The mercury rose and refused to re verse. And humidity made the condition much worse. The weather predictions set him to work. He promised a rain and a drop in the mere, That lust rose of summer kept blooming so gay. And seemed to prefer brown Octo ber to May. ' i Oh, last rose of summer, we've loved you in song; But we wish you would stay where 'you strictly belong, 'Mongst fancies poetic and delicate tunes, And not hang around through the hot afternoons. And the rain which brings surcease from heat without fail, We hope it is followed by frost, snow and hail, While an icicle 'round you is thrown by the blast. And puts you away in cold storage at last. —Washington Star. Butter Problem in Ireland [From Christian Science Monitor.] Dublin—The recent ministry of food order increasing the price of butter from sixty-six cents to seventy two cents per pound is expected to stay the decline in butter making by the creameries which have lately found cheese making more profit able. The experience of butter re tailers is that butter is bought at practically any price in preference to margarine, even by the working classes. If the price had not been raised there would have been a but ter famine. Builded, Sword in Hand They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every.one with one of his hands wroughy in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon. For the builders, every one had a swojd girded by his side.— Nehemiah, IV, 17 and 18. A $300,000 corporation has been formed at Macon, Ga., fOr refriger ating and cold-storage purposes, the plant to have capacity of twenty carloads of fruit and vegetables. At Macon also a $250,000 company has organized for the construction of a canning, pickling and preserving plant. At Huntington, W. Va„ factory buildings will be erected at a cost of $600,000 for the purpose of manu facturing thermos bottles, and at Charleston a smokeless coal com pany has been incorporated by New York parties for $2,500,000. A $1,000,000 plant will be con structed at Dallas, Tex., by a casket manufacturer. In tlie textile districts several new mills have been#organized, a $500,- 000 concern at Spartanburg, S. C., contemplating an output of 7,000 pounds of yarn per week. In the same city, cotton mills have been •chartered for $500,000. A mill or ganized at Marietta, Ga., will have a daily capacity of 300 to 400 dozen women's hose. At Spindale, N. C., a cotton mill has been chartered for $1,000,000. Included in road building and street improvement activities in Texas are plans at Rockwell for over thirteen miles of concrete brick road, grading and concrete drainage structures at a cost of approximate- ' }y $500,000. At Denton, Tex., pav- \ ing, curbing and storm sewers cost-1 j ing $300,000 is contemplated. On the Mississippi river several ! miles above Natchez, New York and j Chicago interests plan to develop, gravel beds with an estimated ca pacity of 10,000,000 cubic yards, the dredge and other equipment to cost about $300,000. A $1,000,000 bag and awning plant will be constructed at St. Jo seph, Mo. for the manufacture of cotton, burlap and paper bags, awn ings and roofing. New dwellings and semi-public structures to be erected include the (following: Jewish Hospital at Mem phis, Tenn., to cost $350,000; forty two brick dwellings at Alexandria, Va., to cost $225,000, and at El Paso, Tex., a $300,000 office building. At l St. Louis, Mo., a housing association ' with a capital of $2,000,000 will j build a number of dwellings. Trees and Highways [From Altoona Mirror] / i Although there is much talk about i planting trees along highways in ! every part of the country, the United ' States has as yet no definite policy for this work. Local authorities! and private citizens are agitating for an increased interest in tree plant ing. A good deal of educational work is being done. Trees are planted here and there. But that is all. There has been a government tree planting policy in France for most of the 400 years since Francis I ordered the setting out of some Lomburdy poplars. To-day all the national roads are lined with lovely trees. It is said that altogether there are 24,000 miles of tree-bordered highways The Government is responsible for more than 3,000,000 trees. Along roads between ten and six teen meters in width a single row of trees is planted on either side. Where the road is wider, there arc double rows of trees with footpaths running between them. Tree planting is done by local men working under contracts. When (he trees are planted the contractor re ceives a lump sum. For two years he remains responsible for the" care of the trees and must replace any that die or are defective. At the end of the two years he receives the bal ance of his pay. The only way to insure regular and satisfactory tree planting is bv some such centrally controlled systeip. Ary traveler who has come upon a lovely road shaded by stately and beautiful trees, after passing along miles of highway open to the blazing sun and adorned only by commercial bill boards, should be willing to do his small part in bringing about a na tional tree planting policy for public highwdys. Very Inconsiderate [American Legion Journal] The War Department only gave "cor pcientious objectors" who re fused to fight, to work or to wear 1 the uniform of this country, their fell pay "from date of enlistment" and an honorable discharge. It's not enough; they should have de manded D. S. M.'s. \ v OCTOBER 21, 1919. | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR j N. Y. Symphony Endorsed fo the Editor of the Telegraph: I desire to express my keen inter est in the novel method adopted by a Harrisburg music teacher for ac quainting our high school pupils with the many different instruments used by a large orchestra. Using a large picture of the New York Symphony orchestra of a hundred pieces, and as many instruments as were available, the pupils were asked to Identify the various in struments, and all went well until the bassoon was encountered. It is doubtful whether our adults would have done better than these pupils. The enthusiasm and astonishment of these pupils was evident when they learned that Mile. Mugdeleine Brard, the sensational little French pianiste and soloist with this or chestra under Walter Damrosch, is only 11> years of age, and had toured France, Spain and the United States during the past two years when only 14 and 15 years old. By emphasizing the personal ele ment in connection with the musi cal artists and geniuses, a livsly in terest in the best music can be in stilled iu the coming generation, and the methods described here are gratifying steps in the right direc tion. Our musically inclined school chil dren who can hear a 16-year-old genuine artit will be encouraged to better efforts and higher attain ments, for Harrisburg's ultimate good. The parents of our children should make a real effort to enable them to understand and enjoy the good series of concerts which are booked for Harrisburg this winter, beginning November 1 and closing in April. MRS. WILLIAM HENDERSON, President Civic Club of Harrisburg. An A. f E. F. Kick [American Legion Journal.] Pitiless publicity is the president's expression For the Government's endeavor to smoke out profiteers, So I trust that you will pardon me for this petit digression As their work so far produces tibald jeers. Let s have this justly-fained p-p for Secretary Baker, Or whoever let the conchies and the slackers go at large; The gink who'd pull a stunt like that's a patriot-faker For they got back-pay, apologies, and an honorable discharge. i Now Newton D. despises war, the soldiers, too, I guess, And he loves these pseudo-Quakers, I suppose, The yellow-stripers claim him as their leader, they confess, While the gold 'uns claim he's saf fron 'neatdi his clo'es. Let's have probes, investigations, inquiries and quizzes, too. Find out just who it was who gave them pardons and back pay, It's doggone poor inducement for a doughboy, old or new, But "pitiless publicity," if tried, may save the day. And when this King of Conchies is found, we'll hang him high, To a sour apple tree, or Wilson's "gibbet" it may be; But we'll kick him out of office, throw his body to the sky, For ho smells too bad to livo with you and me. SOS Goldbricker. As to War Debts [From Philadelphia Press.] Compared to Uncle Sam's, the war debts of our Allies are stag gering. America owes $26,000,000,000, but $10,000,000,000 of that was loaned ! to our friends to help them fight. | Thus our net debt is only about $l5O for each person. England's net debt is nearly double that of the United States, while the United Kingdom's popula tion is less than half of ours. So every Briton has something like $6OO of national debt on his back. France's net debt is greater than England's and her population ten millions less, so that every French man is loaded with about $B6O. With a population of over a mil lion less than that of Pennsylvania, Belgium has a debt of two billion dollars, but that is light, compared with England und France. The Bel gium debt is-$260 per person. Italy's is $345 for every inhabi tant. (Eijat j ' A note iu this column last night about Meadow Lane, one of the old est thoroughfares In llarrtsburg having disappeared from the map. • caused one of the elder residents of section" r .t? m,k lh!lt Possibly no mn 'h i.° i hls l ' ity luul heen so w risbi . * l Jy tllu I,,ill 'ch of I lur •L Inn . to "' a !' d its K'-eut destiny as of ho i°i o " centei ' as the heart vears .. Second ward. About 100 the im, South Second street was bure p . nt highway of Harris froift m 1"?" Blrt ' , ' t Wtts a husy river last e phwi ' y ' Market street was n ie 1,1,0 its own as an ave duko hor . Y- hlch tHUSe( I a French remark 171,7 or hereabouts to that hail number of inns he tr , , Kr ° Wn up I,e,e because of rlsbi.rT e l erS . that Bt °PP ed hi liur trinee u X treet was an en- <i anil ni 'toroughfare and Mulberry tiaf ?ro 1 t o Streets were tesiden businooo Second street was the business and classy street. The wern S | ° f U , le P r °ntinent burghers ' mtw. 'ocated on it and the post dotted S tvi' Se ,i ofllCCS ' c hurdles, etc.. e. v i thoroughfare and prop -0 her ,ti U f S % r ei ;° hlgh - compared to otlier parts of the town. Now whole blocks of Second street houses have disappeared. It really began to de- War wh?* th" 1 * beforc 'he Civil , he grade of u >e street a ®Lt i ed ' necessitating expensive changes to many houses and the high on P th f h W °' e features of homes irol e K Street for years - Mulberry street began to disappear from the map some years ago when the Cum berland Valley Railroad extended its P . ~ , Preparatory to the sub ways, and the Pennsylvania took away the usefulness of Meadow 1 Lane. The city map, if one looks at the original and then sees how the railroad improvements have caused red lines to be drawn on It, will furnish some interesting local history. Parts of Mulberry and Chestnut streets, part of Court and most ot Mary street, ends of Third, : ou '*h and Fifth streets, all of Eighth, have gone. When one con siders that these sections were im portant residential parts of Harris burg when there was nothing worth while above North street and preci- . ous little beyond Cameron, the ad vance of time in Harrisburg can be grasped. As for Meadow Lane, it began at Second, officially, although at one time it ran diagonally to the river front where the tirst ferry had its landing. It went up along a line that took it from Second and Wash ington to about Ninth and Market. In due time part of it became Canal street and it followed the lino of the Pennsylvania Railroad to North when it gave up in despair at the prospect of further twists and turns. The lane was originally an Indian trail to the ford before Harris estab lished the ferry and it is said that Jonestown road, which comes down the hill near Cameron and Market, l was a continuation of it. In old days the lane was lined with wagon and coach repair shops and when the railroads came they made it a freight thoroughfare. The city offi cially abandoned it most of the way ' about ten years ago. Harrisburg book lovers and those interested in locnA history will hope for some publication in time lo come of the paper which State Librarian Thomas Lynch Montgomery will read before the Philobiblon Club at Philadelphia Thursday. It will be an Illustrated talk entitled "In Bellaire." This was i the old name of Carlisle, famed in story, army annals, State history and political life. Dr. Montgomery has studied the ancient, borough and his address will be of rare interest. Major William Murdock, the for mer chief of the draft in Pennsyl vania and the new State Adjutant of the American Legion, is an authority on history of the' Susque hanna Valley. Descended from men who settled Northumberland county, he was naturally interested in af fairs of that section and he made extensive studies of the early days and has written a number of articles about it. General Edgar Jadwln, the former Pittsburgh engineer officer here a few years ago and thought to be In danger in thje Ukraine, is very much in the newspapers this year. The Philadelphia Public Ledger says: "General Jadwin comes from Hones dale, in this State. He is a Lafay ette alumnus of the class of '9O. He showed himself in his college days to be a man of the type Cecil Rhodes desired the Rhodes scholarships to bring to Oxford, for his mates even then marked him out as a sure leader of men in days to come. He ran away with all the oratorical prizes in sight, and still the fluent speech maker proved that the . mettle of the soldier was in him. For he went to West Point, became a Panama Canal builder under Goethals and in the war commanded the service of supplies for the A. 13. F. in France. General Jadwin has never been patient when departmental routine sought to festoon him witli red tape. As colonel, he got his men aboard the Franceward transports by pay ing for their equipment himself and letting the reimbursement by the Government came along by slow freight monthly." f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE Dr. G. B. Gordon, director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, is making a study of price and food conditions in the war coun tries. _ ~ —Ex-Senator Francis S. Mcll henny, of Philadelphia, has been visiting the seashore. Guy C. Smith, State Chief of Markets, delivered the address at the Geigertown farmers meeting and told what his bureau is trying to do.. —Col. Asher Miner, of Wilkes- Barre, gave a dinner to all employes of his company in honor of his fortieth year with it. —Bishop M. J. Iloban laid the cornerstone at the new church ut Avoca on Sunday. Bishop T. J. Garland, who goes , from the diocese of Philadelphia to that of Utah, has taken a promi nent part in Philadelphia civic af fairs. , Edward Bachman. a.- Wilkes- Barre angler, won a fly-casting con test with 74 feet, 9 inches of a cast. John G. Miles, of Wilkinsburg, supreme officer of the Knights of Malta, is attending the State conven tion et Reading. [ DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg steel was used to manufacture tanks for use in the war? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —The first bridge over thc v Sus quehanna caused the business oL, both ferries to decline 90 per cent in a year.
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