16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH < FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Teleeraph Building, Federal Saare E. J. BTACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Execatlve Beard ' J.*. P." McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. OGLESBY." F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. 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 paper and also the local news pub lished herein. 'All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. I Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion. the Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dallies. Eastern office. Story, Brooks & Finley. Fifth Avenue Building New York City; Western office. Story, Brooks & Gas' Building, 1 Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. . i 3~ t C r **tr. B Y carrier, ten cents a frfeaiV;:gliosaSv> week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1919 By all means use sometimes to be alone; Salute thyself; see tehat thy soul j doth wear; Dare to look in thy chest; for 'tis thine own; And tumble up and down what thou flnd'st there." — GEOBGE HERBERT. THE KING'S VISIT KING ALBERT'S visit to Harris burg to-day is an historical occasion comparable to such days as when Washington, Lafayette and . Lincoln did Harrisburg the honor of their presence. All of them were great patriots, beloved by the people, and so is King Albert. Every war brings forth its heroic figures, and the conflict with Ger many was no exception, but of all those upon whom the bright light of fame has shed its rays none stands out more gloriously than the King of Belgium. He is worthy of ! his title. He is a kingly king; a real leader, a soldier and true patriot. Democracy can pause to honor him, not for his title but for himself. Americans have little regard for the trappings of royalty, but they know a man wherever they see him and they were happy to-day to pay homage to the man of the hour in Belgium, who did more to preserve the principles of democracy in Eu rope from the destroying hand of the Hun than any other man. In honoring him we honor ourselves. A NEW CONFERENCE IT is to b£ hoped that out of the wreck of the Industrial Con ference at Washington some program can be devised that may bring employers and employes to gether on a reasonable basis. Neither labor nor capital can af ford to be high-handed. Unques tionably the right of laboring men to organize would be approved by a popular vote of the country. Col lective bargaining has been conduct ed with more or less success for years, and in sorr\e cases at least it would seem to be the only means of reaching satisfactory agreements. Capital in many industries has rec ognized this and has acted accord ingly. But if we go back into recent ne gotiations far enough there arises the suspicion that the employers' group was more opposed to the closed shop than to labor unions, as such, or to collective bargaining, and there are many Americans who are not employers who do not be lieve in the principle of forcing a man either into a union or out of his job. Many hold that the union has no mora right to ask for a closed shop and the dismissal of non-union men than the employer has to dis charge from his service men for the reason that they are members of a union. It is a rule, they contend, that ought to work both ways, and if this is the real bone of conten tion we may expect to see capital unalterably opposed and labor un ions just as strongly in favor of it and neither getting anywhere. After all, the interests of the pub lic are greater than the interests of either capital or labor. What they agree between themselves alTects every man, woman and child in the country, and if one or both are not fair and reasonable they may expect to hear from the great mass of peo ple who are interested only in fair play for all concerned, themselves included. If America is to stand, it must be as a land of opportunity and decent treatment for all. If employers are unreasonable, they must be called to account. If labor is arbitrary it must be brought to a place where it considers not itself alone, but the people as a whole. The public has long sympathized with labor.. The efforts of its lead t I- ~ ' FRIDAY EVENING, ers to improve the condition of working people have had public ap proval. That is still the attitude of the millions who stand in the middle between these two forces, but there is a growing conviction that unwise labor leaders might be as liable to swing the pendulum as far in one direction as dictatorial employers would in the other. These millions of Americans, intent only upon fair play and a recognition of their own interests, hope that President Wil son's suggestion for a conciliatory program to both the warring factions will subscribe may be suc cessful. We must reach a peaceful solution to these problems or admit that all concerned are at fault and the industrial situation hopeless, which no real American for a mo ment believes. Naturally, William A. Glasgow, at torney for the Government Sugar Board, was astonished that Refiner Spreckles should censure the Board for its part in the sugar shortage. Doesn't Mr. Spreckles know that the administration can do no wrong? TYPELESS PRINTING WHEN the automobile first came into being it was known as a "horseless carriage," an <1 now, we suppose, the accomplish ment of the Literary Digest in the printing of its current issue without type ushers in the new era of "type | less printing." If the comparison holds true and the development of printing without type, by means of photoengraving typewritten copy, gains as rapidly in public favor and is brought to as high a degree of perfection as the automobile has i since the first akward> "carriages" I took their self-propelled courses about the highways of the country. | we are due for such a in the publishing business as the I world has not seen since the days of j the first movable type. The present process of publishing is cumbersome and complicated. Books, as cheaply as they are sold, are costly to produce. Every devel opment of the business has been merely the improvement of old pro cesses. We still hold to the old way of putting type into a stick, j then into a form and printing from the impressions therefrom; all the other in-between matters of plate making, cylinder presses and the like merely being short cuts for the sake of speeding up the process of transferring type impressions to paper. If the typewriter can be made to take the place of the typecase, the typesetting machine, the makeup man, the printer, the platemaker and other workmen, the cost of photoengraving, the specially pre pared typewritten copy will be cheap by comparison. There are many difficulties to overcome, many rough places to smooth out and many im perfections to eliminate, but judging from its first effort, which is at tractive as well as novel, the Liter ary Digest has hit upon a big idea that is bound to grow in popularity as printing costs continue to ad vance. "Necessity is the mother of invention," the Digest explains, and apparently the publishing strike in New York will not be without its benefits, although of a far different nature than those who are back of it imagined when they quit work. THE NEXT MOVE WITH the approval of the sev eral loans'which will be sub mitted to the voters at the November election, the city will pro ceed with its progressive expansion policies. With the additional pav ing, sewer extension and the creation of bath houses and bathing beaches the city is going to maintain its record of progress during the last fifteen or twenty years. Next in importance to the matter which are at present in the public eye is the final step in the elimina tion of the "Hardscrabble" district along the river front between Herr and Calder streets. Owing to legal proceedings, this improvement has been held up for years, but the in terests of citizens and property own ers now demand that there shall be a conclusion to the whole matter. It is understood that the final ap peal before the Dauphin County Court will be considered in Novem ber. Most of the delay has been oc casioned by the unpreparedness of those who are opposing what the city has been attempting to do. They seem to have had a reasonable day in court and all Harrisburg will hope that the final steps may be taken be fore the end of the year, so that City Council in the preparation of its budget for 1920 may consider such changes as are contemplated in the readjustment of that partic ular section of the river front. Surely no hardship can follow a prompt decision in the court pro ceedings, inasmuch as every possible feature of the taking over of the property has been considered at length. Many of the property own ers on the west side—those most af fected by the changes—have been ready for a long time to locate else where, but until they are compen sated for the properties which have been condemned by the city in the regular way they are prevented from doing what so many of them are anxious to do. It would appear that the interests of those on the east side of the street cannot be imper/led in any way by a conclusion of the litigation affecting the west side. In any event, it ought to be possible to bring this controversy to a cl&se In the interest of the whole city. The Philadelphia Press publishes a three-column article on the subject "Shall the King of England's Title Be Broadened?" and the Philadelphia Inquirer on the same day prints a half column on the necessity of pre venting white paper wastage. "~pot&CO iK. "PeKKOifttftuiZa fly the Ex-Committeeman Governor William C. Sproul is in demnnd for speeches for the close of the campaign. Not only has he been drafted by the Republican Na tional Committee to send into Massachusetts for several speeches and for a tour of New Jersey in behalf of the Republican guberna torial candidate, but there have been several requests for him to make speeches in Pennsylvania counties where there are contests. The Governor, who will leave hero late to-day to be absent until after the election, does not expect to be able to take part in any extended speech-making in this State. If he does attend any meetings it will be either in intervals of his speaking tour in other States or at the close when he will be in Philadelphia. Numerous requests for the Gov ernor to take part in the Philadel phia campaign have been made and if possible he will do so. —Whi'e there has been a lot of talk about the Republican nomina tion for Auditor General next year, it has been mainly from Democratic sources with a manifest desire to start something. Philadelphia Re publican leaders say that they have not even discussed any candidate for the nomination in their vicinity and Senator Max G. !,eslie, of Pittsburgh, who was here yesterday did not register interest when told that there was talk of some Alle gheny county people being candi dates. The State Administration has let it be known that it is not'be hind anyone, but anxious to see as many Republicans elected to coun ty and municipal offices as possible throughout the State next month. The general opinion is that both candidates for State Treasurer and Auditor General will be up-State I men, with Charles A. Snyder away I in the lead for State Treasurer. I ' —Discussing political candidates, tne Scran ton Republican savs, edi | torially: "Hon. William H. Keller is the choice of the Republicans of the Stale for the office of Judge' of the Superior Court. He is a brilliant lawyer and well qualified for n place in the higher courts. District At torney George W. Maxey was nomi nated for judge because of his record of service after being twice ffiected to the office he now holds. He has shown himself able and en ergetic. learned in the law, and faithful to the public interests. Tlie large majority he received at the primaries is proof of the public confidence which he enioys." —Huntingdon Republicans say there Is no doubt of election of their whole ticket this fall. This mentis a Republican legislator In 1920. —A decrease of about SIO,OOO In revenue from the police court, due to prohibition, has caused the Mc- Keesport City Council to favor a tax increase of 10 per cent. According to the increase in snlaries granted McKeesport city emploves has amounted to $40,000 and with the increased cost of material, the ad ditional increase in taxataion is necessary. Caleb 9. Rrinton, who may he ♦he next Republican senatorial nominee in the Thirty-first District, says Cumberland is going to have a Republican sweep this fall. The Shearer "come-back" jitney is said to have tire trouble. —Clerks In the Auditor General's Department are becoming experts in the geography and transportation system of Pennsylvania because of the vigorous manner in which the auditing department is going over travelling expense accounts of everyone connected with the State Government. The Auditor General has placed mileage books on the same basis as other supplies for the conduct of the Government and when a book is bought a statement must be filed of how it was used, just as all hotel bills must be itemized. The cost of living and other conditions incidental to travel ling, however, are causing bills to be passed now which a few years ago would have brought a summons for the head of a department to appear before the Auditor General and explain what seemed like -ex orbitant charges. —Men who are members of State Ronrds and commissions are not al lowed to charge mileage from their homes to Harrisburg and then to another point where a meeting or hearing is to be held. Their trips start and end at Harrisburg. —More or less uncertainty and numerous questions about the oper ation of the teachers salary increase law mark the correspondence of the State Department of Instruction these days and it is believed about the Capitol that sooner or later the several problems that have arisen will be taken into court. The State authorities have avoided any gen eral ruling, recognizing that there are so many different angles in the affairs of over forty thousand teachers that there must be special problems. However, some of the scdiool boards about the State indi cate that they wish a court test of some questions. —The Altoona Tribune is paying much attention to Republican meet ings these days. It says: "General ly speaking, the Republicans of Blair county and the city of Altoona have an admirable ticket. There was no apprec'able improper voting at the primaries. The story that hundreds of Democrats participated in the Republican primaries is not susceptible of proof. No doubt some Democrats did register as Republi cans for the sake of helping a Re publican friend or two. But such registration was Infinitesimal and had nothing to do with the result." —The Philadelphia Press remarks about this year's election: "If any citizen is preparing himself not to vote at the coming election he is preparing to leave the municipal government. Including the disposi tion of the money he pays in taxes, to those who do vote: and those who never fall to vote are the or ganized politicians." • —Murdock Kendrick, who man aged, the Moore campaign, may be come city solicitor of Philadelphia —County Commissioner P. J. Ro land, of Uackawanna. Is having some time because of the activity of the Scranton Republican In going after his record. Boland has been doing some exnlalning and also at tacking the Republican candidates in which he has the hearty assist ance of the Scranton Times. *—The I.lebel-Kitts combination in Erie county and city Democratic af fairs is being watched with interest at the Democratic windmill because of some possible effect it may have upon t*e primary n°xt Mnv. The w'ndmill has all sails up to catch the word from various counties and even so small a district as Montour is getting attention. HARRISBURO TELEGRXPS A PATHETIC SCENE IN THE 19TH <3o-r .X Down To > ; I !iwJS> r " AT ' V >OR6 ■ 1 HIrrSEL s " SCIENCE- I ( SAV USTEM- LI A.UT THAT -J>. V -~R { THEY'VE GAT "THIS &I.ASS 1 E U ?I < J| / ) TRAIWED EVESY HA$ A NARROWER \ >. — _ Y K -* FOR BOTTOM TO IT TRYHNG "TO APPORTION VSIITH AGSOLUTE PReCuStor\y THE LAST REGAINING COMTENTS OF THE. LAST BOTTLE OF SCOTCH - INTO' THREE EXAOAL. PARTS , So Unfair of Irvin Cobb! [From the Kansas City Star] Macon women were so provoked by Irvin Cobb's article, "Oh, Well. Yon Know How "Women Are," that several of them appealed to Edgar f White of the Republican to write; something which would shake Mr. j Cobb up and show him how little he i knew about women. Notwit hstand- I ing the fact that he is a bachelor j and therefore can write authori- ! tatively and fearlessly about j women, Mr. White instead sent out; a girl sleuth to investigate Mr. j Cobb's charges. The part of Mr. j Cobb's article which particularly j incensed the Macon women asserted ! that women have a habit of block- ! ing doorways and public passage- j ways while they stop to chat. But | let the Republican tell the rest of | the story: Our detective turned in her re- ! port Saturday, as follows: "Monday —At postofllce. Two j women waiting in entrance for an- i other who was buying stamps. Had • to squeeze by. Got my mail, read ! it. and had to squeeze past same two | women going out. Others had j to do same thing. Two steps would I have put them in clear. Tuesday— Two women holding confab in main entrance department store. Joined by two more. Shook hands all around and stood as if nailed. Fri day—Noon, at restaurant. Girl stood with back to screen door which opened outward, talking to friend. Had to ask her to move, and she frowned as if I had insulted her. Saturday—At station. Girl coming from chair car stopped on last step blockading both lines." i The editor scanned the report i with a grio. "Seems to be a clean score for I Cobb," he said. "But that last item, j Do you mean she deliberately stop- I ped on the car steps, blocking egress I and ingress, because she met some- ! one she wished to talk to?" "She met me," replied the ingenu- i ous sleuth. "It was an old friend I i hadn't seen for a month." Roosevelt Day [Altoona TribuneJ Governor Sproul has issued a 1 proclamation designating next Mou- j day, October 27, as Roosevelt Day. ! It is proposed to make the day j memorable as an occasion for large- j ly increasing the membership of the Roosevelt Memorial association. As,) the Governor, suggests, Colonel Roosevelt was one of the country's greatest sons and it is eminently fit j and proper that his grateful coun- , trymen should create in his honor a suitable and a lasting memorial. ! Every American who realizes the ! value of the life of Roosevelt and the beneficial influence of his ex ample, will be eager to become a member of the association that pro poses to create a memorial of a fit ting character to commemorate the achievements of this truly 'great American. His death was a calam ity for which few Americans were prepared: it is a high privilege that they have this opportunity to enroll for service in the Roosevelt Memor ial associataioan. Next Monday's the day. [Philadelphia Inquirer] Governor Sproul in eloquent words, has proclaimed next Monday October 27, as Roosevelt Day in Pennsylvania. He urges the holding of suitable exercises in the schools and elsewhere on the ground that in times of perplexity and unrest we should have fixed stars by which , to steer our course. "His life," says the Governor, "is a beacon of real , Americanism. The organized move- ' ment to create a worthy memorial [ of him should have the whole- | hearted-support of all the people of , Pennsylvania." There is little to be added to ; these words. Theodore Roosevelt | won the regard of the people of the j entire Nation, but nowhere was he j held in such high regard as in the j State of Pennsylvania. Roosevelt : Day furnishes Americans an oppor- j tunity, not only to do honor to an i outstanding patriot, but also to nf- | firm their loyalty to American 'n- | stitutlons. and their determination i to preserve unspoiled the wonderful heritage which has come down to ) nil of us In this country. It is safe to nredlct that the day will be gen- i ernlly and enthusiastically observed in the Keystone State. A Theory [From the Ohio State Journal] Yesterday we read a poem by Gabriele d'Annunzio, and perhaps Providence in its infinite wisdom knows what dt's about in keeping him busy at something else. Since Father Got the Gasoline Fever (From the Kansas City Star.) HE said he never would do it, i but he did. He'd never be troubled with motorists, but he is. Never put his foot on the pedal j of a car, but he has; and on all ; three—brake, reverse and low —at j the sunie time. And father said further that if he : ever should change his mind, he'd > "buy a car, not a tin shop," as he , called our next door neighbor's fliv- j ver. For several days we'd heard 1 father say a kind word or so about cars. This happened after telling ) us of riding down town several \ mornings in a jitney—the first we j knew of his ever being in a car. Well, sir, last Friday morning we j noticed a car pass our house with j two people in it. One of them was j father, the other an instructor. They passed the house twice, but I never stopped or looked our way. About 3 o'clock that afternoon \ mother and I heard a peculiar i grinding noise out in front, not un- | like that made by a car in distress, j We looked out and there was I father in the car alone, pulling first j with his hand and then pushing . with his feet, but finally, with the ; car uttering a groan as he slapped j on the brake too suddenly, -lie came j to a stop in front of our house. Father didn't appear at all wot- j ried although he had committed ! murder by killing the engine when j he stopped. He stepped out just as ; we came to the door and said as I calmly as you please: "Well, how do you like her?" He wanted us to get right in and take a spin over the boulevards, but mother took a sudden headache, and I tell you the reason I didn't go, T was afraid. Father is bull headed, and I knew he would run that car or bust. I could see, too. that mother was ashamed of the car. Father had bought a Ford of the vintnge of 1913 or 1914, because the owner, a mechanic, had told him it had the best engine in town, being a hand built combination of the years, 1914, 1916 and 191 S. Father was up with the birds Sat- ) urday morning and away, as he' -4 National Strain That Is A ppreciated lFront Philadelphia Public Ledger] Governor Sproul has had occasion several times recently to discuss the question of the types of citizenship that occur in Pennsylvania among the large groups of those who are of alien origin. He has been pretty emphatic at times as to the lacks of certain naturalized and unnatural ized elements, but he has not hesi tated to point out that while we have some rather dubious nation alities among us that show small in clination to care for or respect America, this attitude of indiffer ence is quite foreign to our Italian citizens. Indeed, he has expressed himself recently as considering that we are under deep obligations to the culturul value of the Italian civiliza tion as it is known to-day over there and reflected in the so-called Italian colonies over here. And he has given proof, as it were, of his belief by selecting one of the best known of the artists of Philadelphia, Nicola d'Ascenzo, as a member of the State Art Commission as a recognition of the civic value of the leading Ital ians who view America as their second home and whose real con cern for the advancement of their foster country is enhanced, not les sened, by the affection they still re veal for the country of their origin. In view of the curious unrest, for instance, which has led the Russian irreconcilables in New York to pa rade with banners inviting deporta tion, it can easily be seen that the patriotic attitude of the Italians over here must come as a benison to harassed executives informed from all sides f the uncertain attitude ; of those to whom America has been more than a generous foster-mother. ! Why Prophecies Are Lacking [From the Indianapolis News] Perhaps the reason we have not I heard any goose-bone weather pre dictions is because nobody can af ford to cook a goose. Similarity [From the Boston Transcript.] A maty is a good deal like a pen cil. To J take his mark, he not only has to jfe sharp, but he has to be pushed.! i said, for a nice quiet, spin among j . the trees,, the clover and the bees, j ; o'er country roads and lanes. Ho ] ; cranked and cranked and crunked 1 i some more; still Lizzie wouldn't j start. Neighbor Stevens came out, ; asked father if he needed any help, j Father said the engine was just a i little frosty and would start in a moment. It didn't though, until < Mr. Stevens turned on the spark. ; Still father looked wise—got in, j looked where to put his feet and ! prepared to take a jump. After kill ing the engine seven times, he was | j off with a snort and smoking at the 1 rear like a volcano in trouble. About 3 o'clock father called up j out at Twenty-ninth and Wabash ! and said he might be late for sup i per, as he had run into another car I (not his fault) and was waiting for j repairs. Well, father did get home for sup per and the car looked but little | worse on account of the accident, j One wheel had to be replaced, also !a tire; the downspout on the nortli | east corner was badly bent and the I eaves on the same side battered and (wisted. j After two weeks of these maneu | vers father seemed as earnest to i break his neck as ever: has bought j a heavy overcoat, a pair of driving j gloves and we heard him telephon- I ing about tire chains; so it seems he i is going to stick to it through the , winter. Chronology to date: j Cranked for ten minutes without uniting: a neighbor asked him K he jhcd any gas. He had none, i Attempted to run with his feet on tail three pedals at once. | Cranked himself red in the faoe i before switching on the coil box. ! Killed a chicken on Blue Ridge I Boulevard. ! Ran over a dog at Independence i and Rlue. | Locked the steering gear, turned | ari-und five times in a turnip patch (before getting car under control. i Hit a man at filling station at Fif teenth and Pasco. Ran into another car at Twenty ' ninth and Wabash. | Hit bv the "Met" at Sixteenth and | Troost. Father says all he needs to com- I plete his initiation is a broken arm. 4 "PF.M." Dances to Phonograph [From Continental Edition of the London Mail] A battered, war-worn cottage pi j ano is on view in a dealer's window lin Paris, labeled: "Rescape—retour !du Front." Its case is splintered i beyond all possibility of repair; the 1 keyboard barely holds together; the ' candle-holders, wrenched and twist ! Ed, hang from the sockets. It tells |an eloquent and forlorn tale of a devastated home in some modest street of a northetn town, and no doubt there are thousands of instru ments in a similar condition. But it does not follow that piano dealers are inundated with orders for new ones. On the contrary, it appears that many people will this year sup prera the piano they formerly hired for Jthe winter season, and will use : the phonograph in its place for their 1 Impromptu dances. The Americans i i set the fashion in Paris of dancing 'to a phonograph, an unheard-of II proceeding before the war, and al . i ready in the sociable Latin Quarter ! there have been some impromptu ' tangos to the wail of the phono . graph. The dancers supplement its feeb . ler notes by stamping on the par • quet, like the peasants who mark . the rhythip of their bourrees with . the clank of their sabots. "Real Man Never Succeeds" [From "Ambition and Success," Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York, by Orison Swett Marden.] When a man who is said to be the highest salaried official in the United States was asked to give the secret of his success he replied, "I haven't succeeded. No real man ever suc ceeds. There is always a larger goal ahead." >- It is the small man who succeeds In his own estimation. Really great men never reach their goal, because they are constantly pushing their horizon out further and further, get ting a broader vision, a larger out look and their ambition grows with their achievement. May Lose on Cheap License [From the Dallas News.] You can still buy a marriage li cense at the 1914 price, but even at that you can lose. OCTOBER 24, 19T9. Seven Ages Are. Enough [From Kansas City Star.] From the number of persons re ported to have had new glands and things stitched into them it is ap parent the quest for perpetual youth is still on. Man never is but al ways to be blest. Not having achieved his ideals in his allotted span of years it seems perfectly feasible to him that if he could get his life's note extended he could make good on the second lap. It is much to be doubted. The enjoyment and success of life never have been particularly identitied with its length. Byron, Shelley and Keats died young. Walter Savage Candor, who was their contempo rary but lived to be 90, propounded this question toward the end: "Is it not better at an early hour In its calm cell to rest the weary head, While birds are singing and while blooms the bower, Than sit the lire out and go starved to bed" Philosophy and experience will applaud Landor's implied afflrmat tive. It's a busy changeful world and they who linger too long on the stage are likely to find their wel come grown cold. The greatest heroes owe no small part of their fame to the perspective lent by their receding figures. If Napleton had lived to be 100 and had fallen into the dotage of the lean and slippered panatloon there is reason to believe he would have become a terrible bore. Think of him as a graybeard loon holding up every passerby to tell him about Waterloo, and not telling the truth. Everybody would run when he approached, and the good-natured when caught would soothe him with, "Yes, yes, Uncle, you're right," and turn him gently around and slip away while he diz zily clutched the air. Life is a brisk and purposeful business. No rain checks are given out at the gate. We enter and make what we can of it, but if we do not move on after a reasonable enter tainment we are apt to be jostled a good deal. Others are crowding in and pressing to the front, and they all seem to feel they are. entitled to elbow room. Entitled or not, they take it if they can, and youth and strength will not be denied. Just what kind of a world it would be if the entrance doors remained open and the exit doors remained closed is a shuddering question to contem plate. One thing is certain, it would be crowded. Persons who make a I point of swinging a cat by the tail would be greatly inconvenienced in i the exercise of that pastime. On the whole the advantages of the present system seem sufficient. I The banquet protracted all night makes for anything but a, festive | morning. The wise go home while I the music still throbs and the lights I are undimmed. It is better to be I missed by going early than by over i staying to have our presence unduly remarked. Taming the. Wild Taxicabs [Philadelphia Evening Ledger] Rules announced by the Public Service Commission for the regula tion of taxicabs are favorable to the tnxicab companies and more or less discouraging to the men who oper ate what are known generally us wild cabs. The owner of a wild cab operates usually at night. He owns his own machine and often wishes he didn't. His aim in life is to get all he can in the way of fees. Under the new code taximeters are required in all such vehicles and the owners must show that they, like other common carriers, have arranged to compensate passen gers in case of accident. The taxt companies have already met these requirements. The regulations laid down by the service commission are similar to those existing' In other cities and are altogether commendable from the viewpoint of public safety. Re cause of earlier laxity the wild taxi business has flourished in Philadel phia. Drivers often impose ex orbitant charges and their patrons have had none of the guarantees of safety made necessary under the new code. None There [From the Dallas News.] Mrs. Peavish says that the reason she quit searching Mr. Peavish's pockets for money is the same as why she doesn't search her flower pots for an oil well. He Remembered It [From the Edinburgh Scotsman.] She—Do you remember that you onqe proposed to me and that I re fused you? He —Yes, that is one.of ny most beautiful memories. lEimting Gttfat It does not often fall to the lot of the smaller inland cities of the United States to entertain royal or notable visitors, but a reading of the newspapers of Harrisburg pub lished over a period of more thun a century and a quarter tell of dis tinguished men being in the capital of Pennsylvania, some of them of ficial guests of the Commonwealth, such us Theodore Roosevelt was when he dedicuted the present State iCapttol and others as guests of the municipality as arc King Al bert and the members of the royal Helgian party for their brief sojourn to-day. Back in early days John Harris' mansion, which stands on the river front overlooking the site of the ferry, was the place where John and Richard Penn, sons of the pro prietor, visited when they came here and where Colonial officers, British officers, Conrad Wetser and Indiun chiefs made their head quarters while here. Generals An thony Wayne, Thomas Mifflin, Henry Knox, John Sullivan, Arthur St. Clair and others of the Revolu tionary army came this way on sev eral occasions to visit Harris and William Muclny. But the first great visitor was Washington who tarried here and was given a public reception on his way to put down the Whisky Insurrection. He was here October 3 and 4, 1794. John Adams came here for a short visit on his way from Washington and so did other early Amertcans of promi nence. among them Albert Gallatin, who became famous as secretary of the treasury. General Lafayette was a guest here January 30 and 31, 1 825, and the visit of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, October 2 and 3, 1860, has been much written of. President Lincoln stopped here on his way to be in augurated on Washington's birth day, 1861, while James tluchanan, whom he succeeded, was a frequent visitor to Harrisburg, when he was becoming a national figure. Gen-' erals Zachary Taylor and Winfleld Scott were here After the Mexican War. President Johnson visited Harrisburg late In September, with Genernl D. S. Grant and Admiral Duvid Farragut and General Grnnt was guest of Governor Hoyt at the Executive Mansion December 15, 1879. General Winfield S. Hancock came here while on a visit to the late Col. James Young, at Middle town, and many men of fame were visitors to Harrlshurg in the days when General Simon Cameron was alive. One visit of James G. Blaine to Harrisburg is well remembered by many. President Woodrow Wil son was here several times before he became national chief and Wil liam H. Taft came here a couple of times to make speeches when ha was president, saying that he enjoy ed his visit immensely. The visits of Charles Dickens and Jenny Lind to Harrisburg have been left in their writings. William Henry Har rison came to Harrisburg soon after' he had been nominated in 1839 for the presidency in Zion Lutheran Church, which was visited years afterwards by his grandson, Benjamin Harrison. It is an inter esting fact that no less than five members of President Wilson's cabi net and three of the men who sat in the Taft cabinet have been speakers at Harrisburg gatherings. • * • It is an interesting thing how people come to Harrisburg to visit the scene of some event in their lives or in the lives of a forefather and occasionally to see a portrait. A few days ago Captain Frederick A. Godcharles, Deputy Secretary ol the Commonwealth, was visited by Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Rushmore, of Plainfield, N. J. They were on their wedding trip and stopped here to see the Capitol, but rather surpris ed the Captain by asking to see the portrait of James Trimble, a big figure in early Commonwealth his tory. The portrait of James Trim ble, who was fifty-nine years in the service of Pennsylvania, is in the gallery of the secretaries of the Commonwealth. He was secretary of the supreme executive council from 1777 to 1791, part of the time when the British were very anxious to catch members of that body and Deputy Secretary of the Common wealth from 1791, when the Gov ernment was organized under the constitution, until 1836. He was the great grandfather of Mr. Rushmore, who bears a striking resemblance to the likeness of this sturdy Pennsyl vanian. • • ♦ One of the first drives in this city for Belgian Relief, was made in a quiet way April 8, 1916, King Al bert's birthday, when Harrisburg chapter. Daughters of the American Revolution, co-operating with the National organization, sold hundreds of Belgian flags as tags. The city was districted, and groups of women offered for sale, at anything one wished to pay, the tiny souvenirs ol black, yellow and red, with the King's picture on one side and the words: "Let us highly resolve thai this people shall not perish from the earth," on the other. The chap ter realized several hundred dollars which was turned in to the general headquarters in New York City. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. Henry Van Dyke, the for mer minister to Holland, is to bs one of the speakers in Pittsburgh's big meetings next month. —Dr. S. C. Black, new president of Washington and Jefferson, used to be a teacher in Toledo. —The Rev. Dr. M. G. Wiant. ol Reading, hns been elected head ol the State Baptist Association which has been meeting at Bradford. —John Brophy, of Clearfield, presiding at the miners' meeteing al JohnHtown, is well known here, as he has appeared at legislative hear ings. —Col. W. H. H. Morris, Jr.. m ll tary Instructor at Bucknell, is ths youngest lieutenant colonel in ths Army and won the D. S. C. —Mayor A. T. Connell is taking a very practical way to help soldiers at Scrnnton. He asks them to writs him letters. —C. C. Harrison, former provost of the University of Pennsylvania, Is a member of the committee ol ' Phtladelphians to meet the Belg'an > King. | DO YOU KNOW ( ' —That Harrisburg people 1 made a good record on Liberty i Bonds and on Thrift Stamps bat appear to have fallen down on some other directions? , HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Early meetings for organizatioi of the Cumberland Valley Rattraai : were held in a hotel at the VoWe( "end of Market Square.
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