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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1019
It is the business of this life to make
excuses for others, but none for our
selves. —Robert Louis Stevenson.
ROOSEVELT'S BIRTHDAY
TO-DAY the American people
pause to pay respect to the
memory of Theodore Roosevelt,
on his birthday.
In doing so they place him along
side Washington and Lincoln in the
history of the country.
It has not required the perspec
tive of years to show us the figure
of Roosevelt in its truly great pro
portions. The country realized its
loss the moment the news of his
death was flushed across the wires.
Roosevelt was the greatest expo
nent of Americanism his generation
has seen. It is a pity that he could ;
not have been permitted to die as
he desired —on the baitle lines of
France fighting for the perpetuation
of the ideals of democracy; it is sad
to think that pettiness and jealousy
of men in high places which couid
not keep him from rendering a great
service to the Nation during the war j
should have been successful in keep
ing him out of uniform. History j
will write it to their discredit; not j
his.
His example will stand for all time.
Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt!
So long as tlio country produces
men like them, America is sale.
By the way. as an individual eiti-1
s:en it is your duty to take an interest j
in the loans which are to be submit- j
ted to the people at the November
election and no indifference on your j
" pari ought to menace any of thej
items which will appear upon the 1
ballot
I
CLIMBING THE LADDER
A MOTHER Harrisburg boy is j
bearing alclt the banner of |
the old home town as he as-1
cends the ladder of a useful and sue- j
cessful career. We have 1 eforence,,
of course, Jo the election, Saturday, j
of L. H. Kinnard, at Philadelphia, as
the president of the Bell Telephone,
Company of Pennsylvania—the very j
top round of the great telephone j
system which he has helped to tie- 1
velop step by step and which now
finds him at its head.
Of course, Harrisburg is proud of
him and gratified because of this
latest recognition of his proved tit
ness for high executive position.
Mr. Kinnard has never lest touch
with the city of his birth anil ids
pleasure in the growth and improve
ment of Harrisburg lias been no leas
than the appreciation by his friomis
here of his interest in the city where
he began, in a modest and patient
way, the career which has made him
an outstanding figure in a foremost
utility. His is a brilliant record of
achievement and Harrisburg is glad
to acclaim him as a worthy son who
is maintaining the best traditions of
the home town —the progressive com
munity where he climbed t lie first
telephone pole.
THE RED CROSS BRIDGE
A SUGGESTION made in another
column to-night that tlio
bridge which the State of
Pennsylvania will some day build
across the Susquehanna ta provide
for a western entrance to the civic
center of the Commonwealth be
named In honor of the Red Cross
of Pennsylvania is most excellent
and timely.
The great bridge to he construct
ed on the East front of the Capitol,
which has been lauded by everyone
who has been told of the plan,
is to be the memorial of a grateful
State to its warrior sons and the
capital city will build its memorial
to Its own at the eastern end of the
half-mile granite structure. t
Comprehensive plans cull for the
building of another bridge to link
the Capitol with the great roads
coming from the southern counties
end States, and certainly nothing
could be more appropriate than to
name It In honor of the women who
did their part so well during the
MONDKY EVENING,
World-wide struggle for freedom.
The Red Cross is the greatest
women's organization in the world,
the sign of mercy and sacrifice.
; A bridge dedicated to the women
' of the Red Cross of the Keystone
: State would be fitting indeed.
MORE PROFITEERING
BROWN sugar sold as' high as
twenty cents a pound in Har
risburg on Saturday.
Butter went to a maximum of
ninety cents a pound.
Both these prices are unreason
able, unjust and beyond the patience
! of a very patient public.
| Both are plain evidence that Mr.
i Palmer is not getting very far in his
I
j "war" on the profiteers.
,
] If brown sugar was worth only
[ ten cents a few days ago it is not
j worth one cent more to-day and
i with many milk condensers closed
j and milk being refused by many of
j the creameries—due to the sugar
I shortage—there is no excuse for
ninety cent butter.
There is only one reason for it
all—greed; the desire to wring the
Inst cent of profit from every sale;
to gouge the consumer and grab as
much as possible, giving in return
as little as possible.
This is the sort of business, that
adds fuel to the public unrest. It is
rank injustice and when the Gov- j
j eminent promises to correct the evil j
and does not, unthinking men lose '
i
confidence in the Government, fail
ing to distinguish between good in-
I
I stitutions and weak or faulty public
| servants.
; •
The price of sugar must bfe ma n- j
tained at a reasonable figure, and i
butler and other foodstuffs the same j
if we are not to add recruits to the !
|
forces of disorder now doing their j
best to upset the country. Every
merchant or manufacturer who
takes a penny more profit than Is
fair is playing into the hands of j
"reds" and radicals. And a Govern- I
ment official who tolls us that food |
prices are declining the while we j
know that some of them are going !
up like sky rockets is either woe
fully misled or is trifling danger
ously with public sentiment.
Next year, thank heaven, comes a j
presidential election, when we shall
have opportunity of turning out of
office the army of incompetents and
worse who have well nigh ruined
the country.
But that does not remedy the
present perilous situation.
|
THE PRESIDENT'S STAND j
THE American people as a whole
will heartily approve the firm j
stand President Wilson and \
his Cabinet have taken in the threat- j
enod bituminous coal strike. The'
statement to which he subscribed on j
Saturday is vigorous in language, '
forceful of purpose and designed to |
give the miners pause for thought.
It is a pity that he did not show his j
mettle earlier, thereby avoiding 1
much of the present industrial dis- ;
turbunces. for it is unthinkable that 1
the soft coal minors will fly in the (
face of authority so strongly rep- |
resented. If they do their fate is ;
in their own hands and they perforce
must accept the results, whatever >
they may be. Uncle Sam is not so '
easily frightened us private em- j
ployers. If necessary, ho can oper- 1
ate at a loss for a time, until he gets j
flic industry on its feet and the dif- i
Acuities settled and the people could
afford to stand such a loss better ,
than to be deprived of coal.
The President does not say so, but
the miners up to this lime have not
produced any real reason for their
demands over and above (he fact
that they believe their organization
able to demand anything it chooses
to ask, realizing that the livelihood,
yen the very lives, of millions of
people depends upon a steady flow
of soft coal from the mines. And
the American people are getting
pretty tired of this, "Money or your
life," "stand and deliver" policy.
They have more at stuke than the
miners themselves and they will
stand back of the President in his
determination to insure for them
the fuel they must have.
Mr. Wilson has offered the miners
a way out. They may arbitrate if
they wish, and be assured of a
square deal. There ' remains for
them to accept his suggestion or
declare a strike with which nobody
outside Iheir union will have any
sympathy and which is bound to
fall.
Another publication, the liache Re
view, has been issued without the aid
of typesetters. The current number
was produced from engraved sheets
of typewriting and the appearance of
the publication is quite attractive.
Wonder whether the striking print
ers in New York City are now forcing
a new era in.the whole printing In
dustry by changing the methods of
printing? Necessity is the mother of
Invention and the important maga
zines and other publications which
have been suspended during the con
troversy in New York City will find a
way out of their difficulty.
CK
feKK^^anZa
By the Ex-Commltteeman
Forgetting of the nonpartisan
judicial election law in half a dozen
districts of the State and the vigor
ous manner in which both Demo
crats and Republicans , are assailing
the political side show known as
MacLaughlin's Charter Party jn
Philadelphia are among the things
which are standing out in the wel
ter of county and municipal con
tests in Pennsylvania in the last
ten days of the campaign.- There
are. however, numerous counties
and cities where the local interest,
which seemed to sag after the
liard-fought primary, has been re
vived and things will be worth
watching next week.
Republican leaders, in statements
made to men at the State Capitol,
are generally sangu ne of victories
and Democrats appear to be more
interested in watch-ng how things
will shape tip for the delegate and
State committee struggle of 1920,
and in collecting their campaign
fun than in almost anything else.
In some counties Democrats com
plain that the bosses of the State
machine are not giving them any
help and that everything is being
subordinated to clinching sole con
trol for Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer, already recognized
hs the unchallenged head of the or
ganization. Palmer is to-day more
influential than Harrity and Guffcv
in their heyday in his party's af
fairs and has reached that stage
where he can pick his own ad
v'sors and not be bothered •foith a
partner.
—ln the Philadelphia contest |
there lias been a cross fire of i
statements and remarks between j
Congressman J. Hampton Moore ;
and the Charter party leaders, in j
which the Congressman is being as- ■
sailed as being a politic an. Mr.
.Moore has answered this exceed- j
ingly serious assertion by Issu.ng a •
call for independents to get out on i
the firing line and not listen so |
much to jazz music. City Chairman I
E. \V. I-;tnk, of the Democratic or- |
ganization, hns attacked Mac Laug- I
lin as running an enterprise de
signed to gather in magistracies and
minority places. The inside of the I
Philadelph'a fight is that there is a j
red hot fight for control of council j
between the Vnros and their op- j
ponents and so much jockeying j
around that the Democrats, already
split up the hack, are afraid they j
may lose the minor ty places. The !
Yares are making drives Tor coun
cilman so hard that the charge is
made that they are trading Repub
lican nominees on the county ticket,
notably R. E. Lamberton, candidate
for sheriff.
—ln Allegheny the election of
the Republican county ticket is as
sured and the Pittsburgh OazettP-
Times is calling nttent'on to the
importance of the councilitlanic
elections. The city fight has sim
mered down to one of those con
tests in which the popularity of the
candidate has much to do with the
result. \V. A. Magee and a number
of his friends have organized in
behalf of Counc lmun P. J. McArdle
while the Pittsburgh Dispatch
seems to be playing other candi
dates. Harry L Hutchison, one of
the clerks of the last House, has
been elected secretary of (he Re
publican county committee and
Mayor E. V. Babcock made chair
man of the finance committee, with
Senator Max G. Leslie as chairman
of the campaign committee.
—Johnstown is contributing its
share to the Cambria county politi
cal fuss where the Democrats havo
been in a fight over their county
chairmanship. The Conemaugh
metropolis has an independent can
didate for mayor in Joseph Cuuffiei,
former mayor, who was beateu
when he was not looking, at the
primary. It has a school bond issue
of big size and councilmanic con
tests worth while. In the county
there are all sorts of candidates and
the withdrawal of James W. Leech
as a candidate for judge has start
ed speculation as to wha. he is going
to get. It is not believed that
he will be named to, any place in
the State Compensat on system.
—Altoona und Erie are Indulging
in municipal battles that are tind
ing expression in large advertise
ments in newspapers, but where the
advertisements are blossoming is in
Luzerne county where there is an
old-fashioned party buttle over
county offices and the importance
of good roads is being emphasized.
—But the piaoe where the riul
old time ding dong fighting is be
ing done is in Lackawanna. Tire
candidates are carrying big adver
tisements' and eel'tu nly saying
tilings about each other, while the
Republican and the Times are
breaking lances every day. This is
a sample of the way the Republi
can is going after the Democratic
ticket: "The minority commis
s oner, Mr. Roland, wno lias devoted
so much time to laying wires for a
re-election that he has had little
leisure to look after the county's
business in recent months, has left
a malodorous trail of falsehood be
hind him whlcji has been reproduc
ed in the columns of the party
organ."
—Election of Republican county
officials in York county, which has
been occurr ng pretty regularly of
late years, bids fair to be repeated
this year, thar.-ks to the excellent
organization work that has been
carried out under direction of S. S.
Lewis. The York Republicans are
making very plain that they have
good business ideas and as York has
recently authorized a $2,500,000
loan for good roads construction
they are basing the!r claims to elec
tion on business administration.
York papers carry page advertise
ments promising "an economical
and business-like expenditure" of
this money by Dr. Charles A. Kcagy
rind D. Eugene Fry, candidates for
county commissioner, and George
T. Eckert, candidate for cdunty
treasurer. It is a pretty effective
argument.
j —"Hitting straight from the
j shoulder and not mincing words
i bounty Commissioner John Von
I Bergen, before a crowd that jam
j med Smith's hall, Peckville, to its
I capacity last night, charged that re
i leases signed by residents in Lacka
wanna county, living along the
' countv road, are net in the count-'
'commissioner's office to-day and
| were net there after the Democrats
j left office 'n 1911," says the Scran
ton vtu' I'e"n.
—The Wtlkes-Ra rrc Hecord is
giving much space to -discussion of
Taiserr>e county affairs and seems to
have the Democratic ring on the
i run.
i —Rcarding the nnssine an of the
nonnartisan election ideas the
; Tocknwmnn and T.ehigh contests
' "co worthy of mention. Thev look
I ke stra'ght nnrty fights and there
j ere some others in the a-sociate
■ *tdrshin elections. Regarding the
; Lackawanna fight the Philadelphia
i Press says: "The doctrine of non
i nartlsanism In elections of judges
' has been knocked to the four winds
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in tlio campaign now being
between District .Attorney George ,
Maxo.v and Judge James O'Neill, in
Lackawanna county. Each party is <
openly supporting one of the two i
candidates with leaders in the Re
publican wing, including County
Chairman Zimmerman, advising
voters to support Mr. Maxey op the j
ground that he has always blen a j
Republican, and that through his |
election the Republicans will gain ;
control of the bench here. The
Democrats were the first to violate |
the nonpartisan policy in the
judgeship campaign an-d the Repub- :
licans promptly accepted the chal- !
lenge."
Siujdr Short or Dislocated
[From the Washington Star.]
It makes but "little difference to ]
the housekeeper whether the sugar j
supply is short.or is merely "dis-j
located." as Clans A. Spreckels testi- !
fled recently before the Senate Com- !
mittee on Agriculture, investigating j
the matter. All that the sugar user ;
knows to-day is that it is next to im- j
possible to get sugar in any quantity !
at any price. So far as the domestic j
use of sugar is concerned there is a •
.shortage, call it what you will. "Dis- ,
location" Implies hoarding, and the j
Mr. Spreckels charges, naming par- j
ticular firms as guilty of holding j
back immencc quantities of sugar.
It should be possible under the law, I
certainly under the amended food l
control act, which is now iwaiting !
the President's signature, to punish !
those guilty of the holding back of !
supplies of necessities.
If there is no real shortage of'
sugar in this country, if there is j
enough to keep the people supplied, j
somebody is assuredly guilty of a !
most criminal "dislocation." Vari
ous explanations have been advanced
to account for the situation, but none !
has been entirely satisfactory. Some ;
allege undue interference by the |
Government in the matter of price, j
Some allege the failure of transpor- '
tution through the strike of long- i
shoremen in New York. Some con
tend that it is due to a conflict be
tween beet and cane sugar inter- !
esls. Meanwhile the housewife suf- '
fers for sugar. During the preserv- j
ing season she was held on short \
rations and immense quantities of I
fruit that could have been saved fcr !
winter use went* to waste. There is
no token that the use of sugar in ,
the manufacture of ice cream and 1
candy hits been curtailed, and the
display of great quantities of eom
fccttoncry is calculated to arouse the
indignation of those who are fruit
lessly seeking sugar for family use
from store to store day after day.
The World's Age
; Who will say the world is dying?
! Who will say our prime is past?
i Sparks from heaven, within us lying,
j Flash, and will flash, till the last,
j Fools! who fancy Christ mistaken;
Man a tool to buy and sell;
! Earth a failure, God-forsaken,
' Ante-room to hell.
I Still the race of Hero-spirits
i Pass the lamp, from hand to band,
1 Age from age the Words -inherit—
i "Wife, and Child, and Father
land."
I Still the youthful hunter gathers
I Fiery joy from wold and wodd;
: He will dare as dared his fathers
1 Give him cause as good. • .
j While a slave bewails his fetters;
i While an orphan pleads in vain;
While an infant lisps his letters.
I Heir of all the ages gain;
While a lip grows ripe for kissing;
1 While a moan from man is wrung;
j Know by every want and blessing,
| That the world is young.
—Charles Kingsley.
Hail the Jitney Liners!
[From the Providence Journal.]
Now it is rumored that Mr. Ford
is going to establish a line of trans*-
Atlantic steamers. Hail the jitney
liners! . ,
Too Good to Be True
[From the Detroit News.]
There is no loss without some gain.
The volcanic eruption in Hawaii may
have buried many ukuleles.
Small Piece of Platinum, Far in
the Rear of Battle Lines, Located
Hun Guns and Helped Win War
Professor Towbridgc, of Princeton, Who Had Charge of Work, Explains
How Instrument Detected Location of Enemy Guns and
Gave Target They Were Firing At
NOW a little piece of platinum,,
electrically heated, placed on
the top of an empty kerosene
can and wired up with other ap
paratus, far in the rear, located Ger
man guns and helped .win the war
was explained to the members of
the Franklin Institute by Prof.
Augustus Trowbridge, of Princeton
University.
Doctor Trowbridge has charge of
a corps of men who did excellent
work in the American expeditionary
force in sound and flash ranging
work for artillery firing. He has
been decorated with the D. S. M.,
the p. S. O. and awarded the Legion
of Honor by France for his s.iare in
directing these men.
In the former days of warfare
artillery was not used to such an ex
tent as to make this branch of the
service necessary, but with the in
crease in size and number of can
non it was found that means other
than actual observation were needed
to locate enemy batteries. Prof.
Trowbridge, who holds the chair of
physics at Princeton, offered his serv
ices to the Government, and was
placed in charge of this new work.
Need For Method Seen
"The need for some method of
spotting enemy batteries was evi-1
dent soon after the outbreak of the
war," he said, "and it was found
that my observing enemy guns from
different stations and reporting to a
central bureau that the positions
could be quickly plotted.
"For instance, if we have three
observers watching the enemy lines
about a mile apart and each one
sees the flash or smoke of the enemy,
they can easily with instruments get
the angle from north of that object.
This is immediately telephoned to
a central station. There, there is a
large plotting board and njap with
the observation posts clearly mark
ed. Then by following the lines of
sight reported, the intersections of
the three lines will pretty closely
mark the location desired. ,
"This system was found very ex
cellent for good weather, but in rain
and fog was absolutely "impossible.
It was then found possible by means
of scientific machinery to locate the
guns by means of the sound. This
took a delicate and complicated* bit
of machinery. The important work
was done by a small bit of platinum
wire heated by electricity and con
nected with other apparatus which
would record all changes in tem
perature.
"This change of temperature
would take place when the vibra
tion, caused by the noise of the shell
as it broke the air in passage, and
the sound of the gun, forced fresh
air against the bit of wire. Six such
instruments \Vould be set up along
an arc equidistant from the sus
pected area.
"In addition, there would be ob
servation posts with watchers con
stantly on duty. The posts and in
struments were all connected to a
central station. When the watch
ers heard a gun fired they touched
a button that sent the current
through the delicate wire and start
ed the recording machinery in mo
tion.. Then by means of relays and
other electrical appartus we would
have the sound wave photographed
on a strip of moving picture film.
From this it was not difficult to de
duce by mathematics the position de
sired.
"This little instrument not only
told us, by means of the vibration
recorded, the location and kind of
i gun firing but also the target being
fired at. It was found that the dlf-
I ference of time between the sound
j of the gun and the sound of the
I shell breaking the air gave a great
I deal of this information. This lat-
I ter sound must not be confuted with
the whistle or shriek of the shell
which is caused by the wake of air
following the projectile.
Accuracy of Work
"The accuracy with which the
work was done is remarkable. Dur
ing the St. Mehiel drive, in a period
of three weeks of advance, the corps
found 425 separate locations of
enemy batteries. Of these two
American flash posts found 63 per
cent and three French posts got 16
per cent. Three American sound
posts located 21 per cent.
"A little later during a stationary
period in which 392 positions were
located, three American flash posts
found 38 per cent, two French flash
posts 8 per cent and three American
found 54 per cent. The American
were much faster and worked with
l'ar greater accuracy than the
French. It took but six or seven
observations to locate within 20
yards of an enemy battery.
"The Germans tried ear sound
ranging, but it was insufficient and
slow. We did in two minutes what
it took them about three-quarters of
an hour."
In closing Doctor Trowbridge paid
a tribute to the men who worked
under him.
"It is entirely due to them," he
said, "that the work was successful.
I was but the figurehead and direc
tor. The honors which I have since
received are but a tribute to them,
given me because I happened to be
their leader. They worked tire
lessly, without rest or leave, and
only about 1,000 of them served the
entire army."
New Thrift Campaign
[From the Easton Free Press.]
The National Thrift campaign is
now to be gotten formally under
way, backed by the public schools
and the churches.
The study of thrift has been made
a part of the curriculum of the
schools, with recommendations from
Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, State Super
intendent, that regular and syste
matic instruction on this great vir
tue be given in every school. To
morrow will be registration day in
the schools, when the children will
register their intention of becoming
regular savers and will be invited
to give a practical demonstration of
their purpose by opening a savings
account with their teachers.
Next Sunday has been designated
as Thrift Sunday in the churches, by
the Savl/igs Division of the United
States Treasury. On this day minis
ters will make "Thrift" the theme
of their sermons, with the view of
calling definitely to the attention cf
congregations the wisdom and now
pressing need of more systematic
saving.
It is thus believed that the schools
and churches combined will form an
impressive medium of bringing be
fore the public the desirability of
developing habits of thrift and sav
ing that have such stabilizing influ
ence in the restoration of social and
industrial equilibrium.
Saving Sugar
[From the Houston' Post.]
They tell us that a sugar famine
is certain. We heard that during
the war, when the system was to
restrict us to a teaspoonful for a
cup of coffee and permit us to buy
candy by the ton.
Who's Who in Russia
[From the Chicago News]
If Russia has a national "Who's
Who," it must be necessary to get
out an extra edition every day or
I two.
OCTOBER 27, 1919.
Ode in Memory of Theodore
Roosevelt
[Read at the Roosevelt Memorial
Meeting held In Lyon]
A man has died. We pause to meet
this hour
Of reverent grieving.
And see the empty road where once
he led— -I
This comrade of our youth thhrman
of power,
Upon whose sudden leaving
A something in each one of us
seems dead.
He lived the wonder spirit of our
land,
He breathed the fervent zeal
Of our cities with their towering
dreams
Of brick and steel;
He breathed the glow of Arizona's
sand,
Barren but glistening where the
desert teems
With burning life. He heard the
crying call
Of cattle ranches far In Tdaho.
And in Dakota's summer grazing I
plains
He sought the hoof prints of the
buffalo.
Within his very veins
He felt the message of our soil, and
all
Our craving for the forest and the
might
Of giant shouldered Rocky moun
tain peaks
Rising to touch the beckoning stars
at night.
He breathed from sea to sea
The fragrance of things infinitely
free,
And heard the endless miracle that
speaks
From every corner of our Mother
land.
Thus could he fling with tempered
soul
His life upon the world and press
his hand
Up to the high fruition of his goal.
His days in their torrential zeal of
living
Were but a flow of ever candid
giving,
Until at last this ageing man of fire
Whom sixty years made young with
young desire
Has died.
We pause before his shrouded
bed
And something in each one of us is
dead.
Rudolph Altrocchl,
2nd. Lt. Inf., U. S. A., Liaison Officer
Ami-Tuberculosis Campaign
[From the Williamsport Gazette and
Bulletin.]
There are 10,000 deaths annually]
in Pennsylvania from tuberculosis,
while 75,000 to 100,000 others have
the disease.
At least 50,000 of those having
consumption receive no systematic
medical treatment, either because
they do not know they have the dis
ease or because they fail to go to a
doctor through timidity or indif
ference:
Over 3,000 Pennsylvania men were
rejected for army service because
they had tuberculosis unknown to
themselves and the health authorities.
School medical inspections in
Pennsylvania show that 65 per cent,
of the children have physical defects.
State county and city authorities
are doing much excellent work in
fighting the white plague.
But they cannot do all.
Their work will be a success only
as public opinion is enlightened anil
people made to see the vital need of
better health habits.
The State can legislate but laws
will do little good if the people are
not educated and train off-.
Private health agencies, such as
the Pennsylvania Society for the Pre
vention of Tuberculosis, find their
chief work in educational propa
ganda. Their efforts are fully en
dorsed by the State Health 'Depart
ment. In fact, State health officials
say they can do little If the people
are not educated by such agencies
as the tuberculosis society.
National and State health authori
ties have joined in asking private
health agencies to enlarge their pro
gram for next year. It is for this
reason that a much larger sale of
Red Cross seals is being planned for
this fall.
Locally this work Is In •charge of a
committee of the anti-tuberculosis
society.
Williamsport and Lycoming county
will, as always, do their full share
in this work.
The Capital City
Penn, writing in the Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin about a conversa
tion with a Harrisburger Interested
in public improvements here, says:
"One of the things that is taking
place," he informs me, "is the cul
tivation of a broader public senti
ment In the relations of Harrisburg
to the rest of the State. We feel
thr.t in having the seat of State gov
ernment with us we should be
more of an object of interest as a
community to all the people of
Pennsylvania. The sort of distrust
which used to exist between the in
land and Philadelphia, for example,
a sort of inherited state of mind,
.has much declined and there ought
to bo none at all. Philadelphia
constantly becomes nearer to us by
reason of fast trains, motor cars,
telephones and so on, and Pennsyl
vanians in the Interior ought to
take pnfcde in it as their great city
and port. As for ourselves at Har
risburg, we want to have Philadel
phia take pride in us at the State
capital."
Time was when Philadelphia
wanted the return of the Capitol; in
fact that feeling lingered as late as
the period when the Capitol was
burned down in 1897 and the ques
tion came up as to how it. should
be replaced., To-day, or since the
present Capitol was dedicated, the
fixity of the capital at Harrisburg
j has become apparently immutable,
and sometimes, too, when one goes
thither on the 1.11 P. M. train and
finds himself there before he has
finished reading the early edition of
the Evening Bulletin, he almost
feels as if the seventy thousand
population on the banks of the
Susquehanna may some day be
come a Philadelphia suburb.. Cer
tninlv the time is not distant when
aviation will easily carry us There
regularly in thirty to forty minutes.
Daylight Saving
[From the Altoona Tribune.]
The question of daylight saving
wi'l not became acute before late in
May. 1920. Before that time arrives
Congress may have been convinced
by popular protest and appeal that
it blundered when it passed over the
Presidential veto the bill to repeal
daylight saving. Voices from var
ious sections of the Republic may
be so numerous and so strenuous as
to convince Congress that there is
nothing to be done but to march
down the hill again.
Earth Is Not Perfect Yet
[From Seattle Post-Intelligencer.]
Some of the sharps are trying to
communicate with Mars, but it would
seem the part of intelligence to try
to improve our mall and telegraph
facilities and try also to understand
each other's signals here on earth
before we aspire to interplanetary
communication.
lEtfttttttg (Etpit
Do you realize that there is not in
Pennsylvania, probably nowhere in
the United States, a memorial, a
great public structure, an enduring
l ? exprMS gratitude
l ® y ° ne f eels to the women of the
Red Cross. Everyone knows what
r,„a W °!£ en of Penns ylvania, enlisted .
under the great sign of mercy, did
to win the war. Their work, their
devotion are bright parts of the rec
° ° f the Keystone of States in the
world war. But nothing has even
been suggested to commemorate for
time what they did. This fact was
rather strikingly borne home the
other evening in conversation witli
one of the older residents of Harris
burg, a native of the city, who ex
pressed what everyone feels regard
ing the wonderful organization of
mercy. I understand that the plans
S, . , Capitol improvements,
which have,been in the newspapers,
call for the building some day of a. ,
bridge across the river at State
street. As a matter of fact that is
where a bridge should have been
hunt long ago and when it comes
nt * call It the Bed Crosi
Bridge, the bridge dedicated to tli
memory of the work of the women
in the great war?" said he.
Theodore Roosevelt, whose birth
day to-day is a holiday and to whose
memory Americans pay tribute, was
the central figure at one of the most
notable ceremonies ever held in
Ilarrisburg thirteen years .ago nl
most to the week. lie dedicated the
Mate Capitol on October 4, 1900.
Many people recall his visit to Har
'V s ride up to Capitol Hill
escorted by the Governor's Troop,
his sudden appearance in the midst
stand at the west front anil
the frantic cheers that, greeted him,
his stirring speech with its recogni
tion of Pennsylvania's •magnificent
part in the building of the Nation
h!!?ui frank admiration for a
building at which many eminent
Ppnnsylvaniniis were throwing mud.
-the then president had been in Har
risburg before, as • a casual visitor
between trains anil as candidate
Was in Harri ' our s"hsv
quently as speaker in political cam- k
Paigns but it was that visit which
may be best recalled to-day. Ho
was aware of the Capitol scandal,
hniMG? , ba r p,v bitten into the 1
building when he began to exclaim
ab ° at v ! thoso who heard him
when he reached the rotunda recall
how lie said so that he was .heard
feet aoun<l: "A fine
building, a wonderful building Gov
ernor Pennypacker, I'm delighted to
have seen it. Now let's go on out to
the stand." After tho Bpopch of fhR
was over the President went
0 n Capitol and squeezing
tne Pennypacker arm declared that
there was nothing to he said but the
best about the stately proportions of
tho building. When the parade was „
passing, the Colonel saw the Penn
sylvania Stale Police for the first
V'i" 1 he:ml of ,h " m and
he had asked when they wore com
ing: bine, a fine body of men.
fine, was his remark. When lie*
reached the river after the parade
he turned to those in the carriage
with him and said, "Some river.
Harrisburg's lucky." The story of
t . P , ' e ' qk,Cnt Patted the head
of a child as he left the Capitol, how ,
he wrote his name on the back of
an envelope for a girl who wanted
his autograph and how he kidded
rain-soaked reporters standing in
1 * r^ n , greet him .about having
man n a r J irag u with the weather •
man and how he left the executive
mansion with a shout of "Thank
you. Governor Pennypacker, for a
bully time' are only a few of the
revelations that day of the very hu
man side of the great dead.
• * •
fix-Governor Edwin S. Stuart is
watching with much interest the
progress of Harrisburg and never
fails to compliment the activities of
f^ p. several civic associations here
I have many pleasant memories of
Harrisburg and its people " said h°
a Harrisburger whom he'met in
Philadelphia a few days ago, and "it.
is With grateful appreciation of
many kindnesses to me that I recall
my sojourn in your city." The ex-
Goyernor is now president of the
Union League and he has a wider
acquaintance among (he public men
of his day, perhaps, than any other
man in the United States
Anbther former State official who
has a continuing interest in Harris
burg is Ex-Attorney General Hamp
ton L. f'ttrson. He is recovering
from a recent impairment of health
through overwork, but is almost
himself again and as usual with all *
active men of his temperament, he
can hardly resist the temptation to
dive into public activities. He is
one of the most popular speakers in
Pennsylvania and is frequently
called to points all over the country, *.
a recent invitation having been re
ceived to address the leading asso
ciation of lawyers in the world. He
was discussing the improvement of
Harrisburg the othet- < .y and said:
"You have in Harrisburg a fine
plaza in Market Square, but it is
covered with asphalt. Why not"
and he drew a pencil sketch of his
idea—"why not place an oval at
each end of the square, plant it with
shrubbery and fringe with flowers.
This would add another attractive
feature to the city and relieve the
broad expanse of asphalt without
serious injury to the traffic condi
tions or to business now surround
ing the plaza." It is interesting in
this connection to note the interest
which is constantly being displayed
by prominent men outside of Har
risburg in the improvement of the
Capital City.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—John C. Acheson, Pittsburgh
college president, says the death
penalty should be meted out to dan
gerous radicals. V
—John C. Jones, Philadelphia
manufacturer, has been given the
distinguished service cross for ord
nance work during the war. Jr
—Thomas Patterson, attorney,
well known here, is chairman of
Roosevelt Day celebration in Pitts
burgh.
—Ellwood Jj Turner, of Chester,
chairman of the Chester Community
Service drive, has long been active
in municipal affairs.
—Ex-Mayor Ira W. Stratton has
been selected as head of the Read
ing Red Cross.
\ DO YOU KNOW 1 "
—-That Harrisburg made steel
used for flat cars employed lit
war work?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
—lndians used to come here for
big annual fur sales late in the
winter.