6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH \LKNEWBPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 (Published eveningo except Sunday by >EHB TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. nelesraph Building, Federal Sqnare 4 " ■* E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief OYSTER, Business Manager bus. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor IA. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board gjPf MCCULLOUGH, YBOYD M. OGLESBY. 1 P. R. OYSTER. Gua M. STEINMETZ. ! h 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. lAII rights of republication of special herein are also reserved. Jt Member American PJ Newspaper Pub [V dSfteSi ti' S ' ierS tl As ®° C j a " Jsjsi|m|s3B Bureau of Clrcu fo'HßfCfiHa latlon and Penn w!lSlß! Associa- Eastern office. jflll O flfe| S Avenue Building, SSpKSgW; 'Western office'. Story, Brooks & ** Gas' Buffding 8 I Chicago, 111. !. . Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa-, as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mall, $3.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1919 At courage and intelligence are the tiro qualities best worth a good marts cultivation, so it is the first part of intelligence to recognize our precarious estate in life, and the first part of courage to be oOt at all abashed before the fact. —STEVEN- BON, WELL DONE HARRISBURG may be proud of the manner in which it arose to the occasion yesterday. The distinguished men and women who were our guests could not have been other than impressed with the city's hospitality, its beauty, the dignity of its Capitol and the immensity of its industries. The people have every reason to be proud of their reception. It was a fine thing to do. King Albert and Queen Elizabeth are rulers of which any nation might bo proud, and added to that la the love and esteem for all Belgium that lies in the heart of every true American. Ever since the very first days of the war Harrisburg had given to Belgium and worked for Belgium and watched with ever-growing respect and ad miration the conduct of the people of that stricken land, one and all, under the most trying of circum stances. And so we were right happy to have opportunity of seeing and greeting the King and Queen who so lately have come back into their own after years of struggle against an al most superhnmanly powerful enemy who had laid waste their fair do main. The whole occasion was marked by that good feeling, unity of effort and hearty co-operation which is characteristic of Harrisburg, and re flects credit upon all who had a part in it. DEPARTMENT MOVES THE Health Department of the city has removed from its of fices In Tlie Telegraph Building Into its new quarters in the recently remodeled "Walnut street school "building, now being used by the Mayor, the Police Department and the city health authorities. This is step in the right direction. After a time, doubtless, the health •fitaes will be moved again, and this •ime into the proposed new city hall. But no matter how soon the city -bell may come, municipal officials should give thought to the purchase of the school house as a police head barters. It is well situated, has been fitted up at great expense and •tight to be maintained as a police jrtmtion, even after the Mayor has •amoved his offices to the city hall Md oourt house, which every good Hnrtlsburger hopes is just around f tb corner. t H CAMPAIGN OPENS Republican campaign was I opened most auspiciously at the Harrisburg Republican Club's (recaption to the city and - county candidates Thursday evening, and flalaes all signs fall the forecast of MM overwhelmingly heavy .Republi ea vote at the coming elections will b* fulfilled. Everywhere the party la harmonious and united. The bCfcat la unquestionably strong und Oreo those who were its most bitter Contestants in the primaries turned •ct at the reception to pledge their loyalty to the nominees. Aa Emerson Collins, Deputy At torney General, said in his address before the meeting, there really is tto such thing as an "off year" in politics, and his assertion that the ■etvrns of the coming election will be an indication of the results of next year's Presidential election is cnqnestionably true. Republicans, Ma well as Democrats, are looking to gee which way the wind is blow to* Last November the Republicans of I flpvntxy swept the Democratic SATURDAY EVENING, majorities in House and Senate out of power and this year, if the ma jorities are repeated or enlarged, the opinton will prevail that the Demo cratic cause is hopeless and that 1920 will be a Republican year. In Dauphin county it would be surprising if this does not prevail. It certainly is not an "oft year" locally with such important city and county offices to fill as now appear on the ballot. National government is no better than local government, taking it by and large, and by the same token if the local govern ment goes Democratic in a Republi can district the probabilities are that the voters are none too en thusiastic over the party's national politics. , But here we have a nor mally Republican district in which we are to elect important officials this year, the candidates named are all above reproach, well known and able. The rank and file is content with the party management and the district is unalterably opposed to the Wilsonian administration. All of which spells a great Republican vic tory in November as a harbinger of what the city and county will do next year. THOSE LOANS NOT a single objection, so far as has come to public notice, has been raised against any of the four loans to come before the people in November. This is remarkable, considering that numerous opponents have turn ed up to fight almost every public improvement measure ever before the people. But for all that we should not sit back, fold our hands and imagine that the loans will be approved. It is common knowledge that j more loans of this nature have been lost by inattention and indifference than by actual opposition. Very often it is necessary to call the vot ers' attention to them in order to have him vote on them at all, and in most cases all that he needs is a word of that nature. Harrisburg voters believe in their town and they may be depended upon to do their part on election day, once they are fully informed. Some measures must be taken to get the loans into the minds of the men as they enter the booths. No other form of electioneering will be necessary, but that item is important. THE SCOUTS AGAIN ONCE more the Boy Scouts have demonstrated their usefulness. Co-operating with the police and acting in perfect accord with them, they did wonders yesterday in keeping the crowds within the allotted space and the streets clear so that the procession might have ample room to move and everybody an opportunity to see. The police department acted wisely in taking the boys into their plan. They were able to do in many in stances what the police could not have done. People took with a smile words of advice from the Scouts they would have resented from the officers and in no case was there any of the rushing and push ing that ordinarily mark the gath ering of large crowds. Harrisburg is proud of its Scouts. They are good citizens, and they are getting training in self-reliance, dis cipline and ability to "stay put" under difficult circumstances that will prove valuable to them all their days. But how did we get along without the Scouts before we had them? And how did the boys get along without the Scout organization? BAD LEADERSHIP THE effects of bad leadership in labor disputes is shown in the recent troubles at Waynesboro where a number of men highly re spected in the community, men of families and some of them property owners, were induced to become so disorderly under the inciting influ ences of an imported strike leader that they have, since been sentenced to jail and are serving their terms. They smashed property and assault ed persons who had done nothing to oppose them other than to insist upon working when an imported agitator had put a strike order into effect. Since that time this so-called leader has been dropped from the union and has left town. The heads of the union discovered their mistake, but the damage had been done. Now, while men who, under ordftary circumstances, are peace-loving and law-abiding are in jail, the fellow really to blame for the whole thing has gone scot free to join some other organization and stir up the same kind of trouble elsewhere. Pity for those who were misled will do no good, we all may take a lesson from Waynes boro's experience. PROPER STEP THE organization of the property owners on Market Square for the safeguarding of the inter ests of that important section of the city is a step in the sight direction. It would be a good thing if other sections of • the city were likewise organized with a view to co-operat ing in all public matters and in the I Improvement of the particular locali ties concerned. I, || FOLITICO CK r J > IKK4L{icQ>KUI By the Ex-Commltteeman Pennsylvania's municipal and county election of 1919 enters upon its home stretch on Monday with the Republican party united in places where a few months ago there were bitter rivalries and with the leaders taking nothing for granted and moving as carefully as though they had a fight on in coun r ties where there is nothing to indi cate anything by the usual Repub lican majorities. People on Capitol Hill, who come from every county in Pennsylvania, who keep in close touch with home conditions, are not inclined to worry and somo of them will not go home until late in the week to take a hand in the canvass, a fact which is indicative of favorable situations. Many of the reports coming here tell of Republican strength being manifested in unexpected ways. The Philadelphia and Allegheny situa tions have cleared up, although to read some Philadelphia newspapers one would imagine the city sizzling with plots. In Lackawanna and Lu zerne the chances are strongly in favor of election of Republican county commissioners again and there are good chances for the Re publicans in Lehigh county. Some of the mayoralty contests have simmered down considerably and there is now a well settled be lief that the mayors of Reading and York are going to be Republicans and that Miles B. Kltts may be rout ed in Erie. —Democratic State headquarters | men are out watching every devel | opment in the county fights so that ■ they can get lines on the chances for national delegates this year and [ also to see if the federal office hold ers can not be brought to a realiza tion of the importance of providing grease to run the windmill. The Democratic tithe gatherers have been having a hard time but are hopeful that the next State commit tee statement will show a clean sheet. —Pittsburgh newspapers are (commenting upon the lackadaisical manner in which the Democrats in western counties, especially Alle gheny, are conducting their cam paigns. The breaches caused by the primary have not healed and there are some things being said as a re sult of the Houlahan-Myer fight for county commissioner in Allegheny. —The court disclosures in Fayette coupty, referred to in this column the "other day, are causing some an noyance to Democratic leaders. Fay ette is the home of Bruce F. Sterl ing, one of the chief ringmasters, and so much fuss has been made about them that the soft pedal is being put on the stories. —The Charter party is declared to be making a target of Robert E. Lamberton, the Republican nominee for sheriff of Philadelphia, by the Evening Ledger, which goes into de tail of the way it is handling its campaign. The Record says the same thing and remarks that the Mackey men are "refusing to play." The Bulletin on the other hand lias this to say: "It had been expected when the 'Charter party' was formed that it might at least provide some entertainment or diversion for the town. But up to this time it has not furnished us with even some passing amusement. Sometimes lit tle side-show concerns of this sort relieve dull campaigns of their monotony." —Delaware county unterrifled Democrats will start a boom for A. Mitchell Palmer for President. This will be the first of the moves to be made in advance of the delegate election of 1920. —The Philadelphia Inquirer says about the' big Moore meeting: "Party harmony was the watch word at a Republican rally held last night for the First Councilmanic district, embracing all of tbe wards in the First Senatorial district, in cluding the First, Twenty-sixth, Thirty-ninth and Fortv-elghth wards, each of which returned a majority for Judge John M. Patter son for mayor over the successful candidate, Congressman J. Hampton Moore. Congressman William S Vare. who, with all of his political associates, supported Judge Patter son for mayor, was the presiding officer. Both factions were repre sented In the cheering throng. —William J. Tracy, formerly a magistrate in Philadelphia and for years active In organized labor in Philadelphia, has been offered the place of Chief of the Bureau of Mediation of the Department of La bor and Industry at $4,000, and will probably accept it. Mr. Tracy has been in Colorado on sortie business for several weeks and is under stood to be on his way East. He is expected here within a week. The appointment of Mr. Tracy will be credited to the influence of Frank Feeney, prominent in labor affairs in Philadelphia. He has been a union man most of his life and had wide experience in such matters. The place had been held by James A. Steese, of Cumberland, who re signed to take effect on November —William A. Riddle, at present acting chief clerk, is regarded as likely to get that place as succes sor to Louis A. Irwin, who resign ed. -J—While the name of James W. Leech, of Ebensburg, formerly State Compensation Commissioner, Is mentioned for the neb place of Supervisor of Referrees it is not re garded as probable that he will get the position. No appointments of new referrees are expected for some time. —Judge John M. Patterson is proving a good sport. Speaking to the Dickens fellowship in Philadel phia, the Judge spoke entertainingly of what he called his "adventure" in politics and urged support for Con gressman Moore. The Evening •Ledger soys he delivered a "humor ous apologia." The Philadelphia Press says that there have been some lively meetings held and the Rulletin remarks that Congressman Moore has been assured of enough money to run the Government with out a tax boost or interference with the school program. The Record says the Charter party has been scored as a scheme to slide men into small offices. The Nortlf American goes into more detail about the latter move: "Managers of the new Charter party are cen tering their fight to obtain minority jobs for candidates on the new ticket which is headed by former Director MacLaughlln, the mayoral ty candidate. While the political workers of all parties are finding that little interest is being taken in the forthcoming election, which Is less than two weeks off, the Charter | party workers are pointing out to Republican machine, workers that SuHitnßunalMlk teeeorxph: OH, MAN! ... .... By BRIGCS * |AU R|T &£) fu-STeM FLO You MJU3T F —— . CARE U)HAT| nosaj I f a.. J, )we f*\At>e [I Yow JDRESS CLOTHES fsneu \ \ *rbo • OnCERSTOoD-'No C(V-tL%< II AN ft6RBB_ , I) HO N\ATT6 WHETHER I PROMISPD 1 I GO..OC. To B5 DR6SS Suit £ erJT **ortlc ? AwYflooy etse HoJ> ID I \ DRE&Jeo V\(\ You (oh You ocd/Z^TZ PROIVALSS \\ Yo LOOK AS OTM4R I \ s)*<" = Iv/Ee-// ( 10 HAX/* / uiirn ) , AMD I OU6HTW WSIV Do- VoO CHKiMTI >/ / LA7 6H - J C*M W■ C |*Al>& PoTl f'"'7f 2?t) r?S-J2S )i \%Tt3fr/ afe / SSSAUt:] 0f r %-L js&asssfr. r they can help elect Vare men to | minority oiliees and at the same j time support the Republican ticket. | MacLaughlin's managers seem to be ! more concerned about the election , of county commissioners and magis- j trates than mayor." —Discussing the Equal Associa tion ticket rumpus in Schuylkill the Pottsville Republican says: "The Tuesday morning decision of the court squarely puts up to the coun ty commissioners the responsibility of refusing to place on the ballots the names of Peter J. Cuff and Wm. \V. Thorn, E. A. party candidates for county commissioners. Under the decision of October 16, the other candidates sought to be plac ed on that ticket are out of the running." • —The Philadelphia Evening Bul letin remarks, regarding the open ing of the Moore campaign: "Re publican harmony seems to be pretty well established again. This was the comment to-day of Con gressman J." Hampton Moore, Re publican nominee for mayor, fol lowing the opening of the campaign for the general election last night." —ln the city of Wilkes-Barre there is a stirring contest for mayor between Charles N. Loveland, a pres ent city commissioner, and Daniel L. Hart, playwright, after-dinner talker and former city treasurer. Loveland was one of the Brumbaugh leaders in the northeastern section, and, though he won the Republican nomi nation for mayor, the Hart organi zation is counting on securing/the support of many Republicans. Hart has spoken scores of times in Har risburg at dinners and celebrations. Poe, Poet of October [From the Denver Times] Within the month has come and gone the seventieth anniversary of that melancholy time in Baltimftre when Edgar Poe, picked up on the street, died in a public hospital and was buried in a churchyard to which he was a stranger, later to be hon i ored with a pitifully inadequate monument contributed by the school children of his adopted city. A po etic interest attaches to the month (Of his death, for October is en trancingly entwined with his im mortal verse. No one can think musically of October without think ing of Poe and of his "most imme morial year!" Poe belongs with those mountain peaks of American genius that grow larger and more sublime as they recede from view, after the manner of mountains in general. In his lifetime and long after his death it was impossible to advert to his memory without the feeling of apologetic deprecation; but as time has flown without offering nny rival to his peculiar note of melody and verbal splendor, we realize how wonderful his achievement was, yet how remote from life and from the land and even the age in which he lived. He "resembled nothing that is ours." He sang and dreamed as he might have done anywhere and in any time. There was nothing about this man hut was strange. He was as weird and detached as his characters were or his art. His curious desire to confuse the facts about his birth; his inexplicable entrance into the army and even West Point, where he was expelled at his own instance; his marriage to his cousin when she was only 13; his penchant for writ ing to strangers, coupled with his aversion to companionship after he had made acquaintances; his om nivorous reading without being touched by it except for the mere furnishing of his literary equipment; his passionate craving for sympathy, taken in connection with his utter aloofness from our common human habits of friendship—all stamp him as one of the strangest beings that ever dwelt a little while on this bank and shoal of time—a sort of wild bird from Eidolon, on its way to that distant Aidenn. Japanese Gain in Hawaii [From the Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu] A steady gain in the Japanese population of the islands through the excess of births over that of deaths is shown by official figures compiled by the Japanese consulate made-'public yesterday. According to these figures, 397 Japanese were born and 83 died in the islands in the month of September, showing that the number of the births was nearly five times larger than the number of deaths. The net gain in the Japanese population for Septem ber was, therefore, 314. Of the 397 births, 222 were males and 175 fe males. During the month twenty I marriages and five divorces were re ported to the Japanese consulate. w Roosevelt House By FRANCES L. GARSIDE IT takes time—a century or more —to beautify that which was re garded in its day as beautiful, and in a later day as hideous And since Col. Theodore Roosevelt was only 61 years old when he died, not enough time has elapsed to softon tho shock produced when one goes to the Roosevelt birthplace and gazes on the furniture which has been reassembled. We go prepared to say "How quaint" and find our selves saying "How funny." The Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association has purchased his birth place, a four-story brownstone front at 28 East Twentieth street. New York City. This house, while not old enough to be a landmark, is of a style that is rapidly becoming so rare that it is approaching that period when people would go out of the way to look at it, regardless of the fame given it by our beloved Roosevelt. There are 12 rooms in the house, narrow halls, flat chested closets, and a small balcony in the back overlooking a handkerchief size yard. The price paid was $40,000. The association has put the furni ture in this house in place, finding much of it in a good state of pres et vation in the various family attics. The original furnishings, family por traits and other heirlooms have been given by the Roosevelt family, which is co-operating with the association in making the interior as much like it was in the days when Roosevelt 1 was a child as can be. Not Merely a Museum But this was not enough. The place would become merely a Roose velt museum were there not some means provided for carrying out the Roosevelt ideas and preserving tho Roosevelt ideals. To meet this need the association also purchased the house next door, in which an uncie of the youthful Theodore lived, pay ing $45,000 for it. "With the addition of this building —the uniting of the two properties being worked out harmoniously in the architectural design—there is room for those things which tho Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Asso ciation believes will form a memor ial to the Roosevelt national person ality. There is, for instance, a free circulating library containing not only the writings of Colonel Roose velt, but many copies of his books which interested him, those books on travel, natural history and biog raphy which had potent influence in shaping his career and his opinions. Classes will be held in this house for the teaching of English, the one language for all Americans, to peo ple of foreign birth and to those who perchance had to leave school before they acquired a working mas tery of the language. Lectures on the history of the nation, the state and the city will be given to stimu late Interest in good government, and a large assembly hall has been pro vided. The houses are only a block from Gramercy Park, which remains to this day an exclusive residence dis trict, but within this block, on both sides of the Roosevelt houses, across the street and in the rear, factories are encroaching. Commerce has swallowed up the homes in its march uptown: the association might not have found a brick of the two houses left standing had the members de layed action a year longer. It will be remembered, however, that the association was formed, and the money began pouring in the day after the ex-President was buried. Sock One Million Dollars The goal of the association $l,- 000,000; there is no doubt the amount will be oversubscribed. At the very first meeting $25,000 poured in, and to date the fund is between $75,000 and $85,000, with the work of ap pealing for funds not fairly begun. This association is working inde pendently of the Men's National Memorial Association, which has started out to roll up $10,000,000, with which to erect two memorials: in Washington and in Oyster Bay. There were 200 women at the first meeting: there are now more than 1,000 foundation members. "I feel," said the secretary, "that the women owe more to Roosevelt than to any other man of recent times. Just one thing alone that he did has made countless women contented in their homes. And that? And that was rural mail delivery! The Panama Canal closes up in insignificance when com pared with what the rural mall do livery means to men and women, especially women, in the Isolated regions. But to get back to the interior of the birthplace of this great Ameri can. If you have a relative who furnished her parlor some 50-odd years ago, and has never done any thing to it but give it semiannual cyclonic cleanings since, you have some idea of how you are biffed in tho eyes when you enter the parlor of the Roosevelt house. Perhaps it might be called the mid-Victorian style. The name doesn't sound at all bad unless you have kin whose parlor had made you previously acquainted with it. The carpets are of floral design; great bunches of blue roses and pink lilies with green of the greenest shade, all surrounded with broad sprawling frames of scarlet dividing one bunch from the one in the next strip. Haircloth Furniture They are not pretty. Time is slower in its work of subduing these carpets than in anything else it works on. You lift your eyes to the wall for relief, and a yellow morn ing glory, as big as your grand mother's sugar bowl, jars you. Per haps, with all these colors scream ing at you, you sit down on the sofa, hoping to shut your eyes and for get them. You slide off to the floor, for the furniture is of haircloth, and it is the same set on which the child Theodore used to scratch his bare legs. Of course, there is a chande lier, made of long prisms of glass; there is a long mirror in a gold frame, in which the morning glories on the wall are reflected, and there is the carved wood piece hanging near showing a hunter's dog pursuing a stag, which used to worry the child on his rare visits to the parlor, so afraid was he that the dog might catch the fugitive. The bookcases, to quote Mr. Roosc velt's own description, are of "gloomy respectability," and your kin's par lor has some Just as gloomy and as respectable, of course. In the dining room there is a car pet, and a wall paper as lurid, and to "brighten up" this room there are hung many fruit and game pieces; the expected glass dish con taining June strawberries and Octo ber apples in defiance of the differ ence in their seasons; fish lying on the bank, and hanging by their fins. Beside these hang pictures of the Colonel's hunting trophies of a later day. Fidelity to Its Day The interior of the house is not beautiful; it is not even quaint, nor in any way attractive, if one goes to look for such things. But it is true to life, which is much better. The visitor to the Roosevelt house - gets all this in the very precious privilege of standing, sitting or mov ng where Theodore Roosevelt stood, sat or moved, of seeing the house hold articles which he used from infancy to manhood, and thus per petuating in a spiritual sense the contact and comradeship • which he manifested toward all his country men. It Is recalled that a woman. Miss Pamela Cunningham, of South Caro lina, started the movement among women which culminated in the ac quirement and restoration of Mount Vernon. In like manner the women of to-day are perpetuating the inti mate life of another great American, who, in his alms and in his achieve ments, comes a little nearer, per haps, than any other man of mod ern time to embodying the popular concept of the vigorous, resourceful, fearless and uncompromising Ameri can. Seems to Be Slipping, Anyhow [From Charleston Evening News] The clgaret must go next, says a prominent "reformer." If the re former will only wait a while longer, the Government and the trade to getehr will tax most of the clgaret smokers out >of the habit. If They Can Spare Time [From the Columbus Dispatch] If the' Chicago packers can spare time enough from their Indignant refutation of those horrid charges of profiteering, maybe they'll tell us why portc went higher when hogs slumped In price. Diverse Opinions [From the Washington Star] The fighting that was brought to view Has set our brains a-splnning. Some say it is forever through. ; Some suy it's Just beginning. OCTOBER 25, 1919. Bouquet For Schwab [Philadelphia Evening Ledger] Lord Fisher, who Is usually cred ited wth having made the modern British navy what it is, has taken his pen in hand for a series of broadsides devised to shock the English out of a complacency which he deems worse than fatal. The ad miral's criticism of popular war he roes has been scathing. He alms to speak for the future with the voice of trumpets. The British have just been read ing Lord Fisher's latest proposal, presented as Bernard Shaw might have presented it in his best days, for a practical bond of unity be tween the United States and Britain. He wants forty-mile-an-hour ships running between New York and Blacksod bay, on the west coast of Ireland, with fast rail service through the green isle and a tunnel to England and a tunnel to France and other radiating lines to the heart-of the continent and farther east. The project Is colossal and ro mantic, but by no means impossible. It would solve many of Ireland's troubles. It would give the British and all Americans a common inter est. Such a system of communica tion would be to Anglo-Saxons far more than the Berlin-tO-Bagdad Railway was in the dreams of the Pan-Germans. But it is Lord Fish er's parting shot to the British that should interest Americans. "Schwab," says he, "could do it!" Most likely he's right. Another Phase of It [From "Girard's Talk of the Day" in the Philadelphia Press] J I've seen coolies in China spading fields with an Implement that cost a feW cents. I've seen farm laborers in /m eri ca turn five deep furrows setting on a tractor which cost the boss $l,OOO. I saw Japanese in Tokio who worked twenty in a room for four teen hours a day sewing by hand the felt covering for shoes. In Philadelphia you can see men and women in a great shoe factory sewing leather on machines driven by electric power. I saw in Venice girls by the thou sands who toiled twelve hours in a lace factory for 20 cents, and who ate for luncheon nothing but a piece of black bread. Capital behind a sewing machine lin a Philadelphia clothing factory j enables a woman to earn ten times I that- Yoked together labor and the big dollar mark make an unbeatable team, and it is folly for either of them to kick the driver, who is the public, in the face. Roosevelt The great-souled patriot has gone to rest, His stormy life is o'er; his battles fought; We think of his career, his deeds, his thought. Who always served his country with his best. A bold "Rough Rider" on the firing line, A President who proclaimed the "Square Deal" For all, who labored for the common weal; A seer who saw autocracy's decline. Roosevelt lives to-day; his words still burn; His life the heritage of all good men He gives us hope, courage; he makes us bold The wrong in places low and high to spurn; To prize that holy name, ."Ameri can," To maintain justice for a broken world. —Paul H. Ditzen. Vain Effort [From Birmingham Age-llerald] In spite of all he's tried to do for her, China will never place Senator Lodge on a pedestal along with Confucius. Any Housewife Knows [From the Pittsburgh Dispatch] The utter worthlessness of H. C. L. statistics is again demonstrated to every housewife by a federal bu reau claim that food prices dropped last month. CAties Not Exempt [New Orleans Times-Picayune] "Running Expenses in 147 Cities Exceeded Income During 1918." Headline. The average city, it ap pears, is sharing this unpleasant ex perience with the average family. Qlljat tha " c,t interest ha! M?n^Tn r £ U ? e o Y th ® moV mcilt Ol the Market Square business men for citv'° Ve h len ° f th ? b ' K B Pace in the Ktrefoh ' whose desert-likf stretch of asphalt has long been d UP ° n by visi tors to Harrisburg as a spot to beautify. Indeed, men who have come to this city as State officials and on busi ™ve. of ten expressed astonish "?®" , , tbat . a city so progressive should not at least have some bit of green in the center and thai more T aS t not mado to niake it like tbe ™ 3to j\ c squares of Philadelphia °c bits of park in New York wui? v> G treatmcnt of squares in Wilkes-Barre, Chambersburg and the like has been suggested from WW • Hampton L. Carson, when Attorney General, used to take the greatest interest in the develop ment of Harrisburg and this citv had no firmer supporter in its ♦ P n oe lf m tO T'Y d better things than the distinguished lawyer. Mr. Car son once said when he heard that the plan was to overlay the Square with asphalt that he hoped some way to break the monotony with some flower beds or strips of grass at least. It is a remarkable fact that every movement for improve ment of the Square has had to have its initiative in the people engaged in business around it or residing thereon. Over 100 years ago the Square used to resemble a duck pond after every rain and it was not until the people got together and Insisted on a sewer being built that something was done to drain it. The market sheds came there through enterprise of people who were interested in the Square and the movement which led to their disappearance started in much the same way. And now the Square which is developing with the rest of the city, is just as it was fifteen years ago. • • • TTio chorus of young girls, trained under the tutelage of Mrs. Wilbur Harris and Miss Reichenberg, of the Seller School faculty, whose singing of the Belgian National air in French brought the tears to the eyes of the Crown Prince at the Capitol yesterday, can always be depended upon to make visiting rulers and representatives of foreign nations feel at home. When the famous French Blue Devils visited Harrisburg during the war. these ? am .? Z°" n * plrls rendered "Made !?"• ttjataong dear to the heart of every poilu," so that the much decorated, oft-wounded French Devils were completely eaptivated. Pbar < f, ntly there is nothing in the way of foreign languages put to £ t o G Seller * ir,s will not undertake. Several of the chorus were not satisfied, however, in merely singing to King Albert and the Crown Prince. They pushed their way through the crowd and as the King passed them the girls reached out and touched him. Something to hand down to poster ity, that! And then, when they should have been back at their les- they sought out the Queen of Belgians, who was reported ap proaching the Capitol, and touched "Y." 8 81,6 deBoendp(l fro ™ bor car with Mrs. Sproul, wife of the Gov ernor. The Queen smiled and waved , r . hand, and three very much elated little girls returned to school. • * * ■Among the visitors to Harrisburg this week Is Joseph Blackburn, who will be remembered bv the elder generation of baseball fans as the captain and first baseman of the old Experts. Mr. Blackburn, who has not visited here for a long time, Is the guest of John S. Tress, of South Second street, and has been much interested in the way old Harrisburg bas speeded up. The Experts were in their heyday in the early eighties and played on Third street up around Mueneh or Peffer, which was out of town in those days. They were a noted team and gave some of the best professional nines of that day cards and spades. • • ♦ Harvey M. Watts, named as secre tary of the new State Art Commis sion, is one of the best known news papermen in Philadelphia, an authority on art, music and meteor ology. He was for a long time con nected with the Philadelphia Press, part of the time as managing editor. Lately he has been connected with the editorial work of the Public Led ger and has contributed some strik ing articles on matters relating to the war. He was one of the first critics to write about the mural dec orations in the State Capitol and his suggestions caused the correction of the lighting effects in the rotunda. Outdoor rambles are commencing to be in order for Saturday after noons and there will be many peo ple from now on going to the hills and ridges near the city to spend a few hours in the woods. Through the coming of the automobile there are more people who have been ex ploring the beauty spots of Dauphin and Perry counties than for a long time and many of the places which have been known mainly through recollection of people born near them are now enjoyed by persons who can go within short distances by automobiles. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —Adjutant General Prank D. Beary is one of the authorities on National Guard matters in the country now and is frequently call ed to Washington for consultation. —F. Herbert Snow, chief engi neer of the Public Service Commis sion, has been named again on the committee of nine in charge of gas supervision study by the Federal Bureau of Standards. —Governor Sproul has been given three degrees since he began execu tive of the State. —Frank B. McClain, director of the Welfare Commission, says that he is getting to be an authority on Philadelphia real estate. B. M. Clark, prominent Jefferson county lawyer, was among visitors to Harrisburg yesterday. —Highway Commissioner Lewis S. Sadler refuses to make speeches. He says he wants the roads to speak for him. f DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg iron was used to manufacture plates for oil tanks used in western fields? HISTORIC HARRISBURG ■ —The first real estate assessment of Harrisburg was made in 1785 and contained less names than are now to be found in an ordinary pre olnot Organized Farmers [From the Boston Herald] Politicians with ears to the, ground report the formidable tread of organized farmers.
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