12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH I&iJfirWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published eveningc except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Tekcrafk Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief -OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor LA. R. JUCHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board *" > BOYD M. OGLESBT. P. 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 fiaper and also the local news pub ished herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub ay Associa- Eastern office Avenue Building. Western office'. i Chfca B go, Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28. 1919 Only so far as a man believes strongly eon he art cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing. —ROß- T.TSON. PROGRESSIVE ALTOONA ALTOONA is fairly on its toes and, with Harrisburg as an example, it is going ahead with a great community hotel move- j ment. Indeed, so much progress has been -made that the hotel is as- j sured, an architect and manager j having already been agreed upon. I Also, a central site has been pur chased not far from the main rail road station and in the heart of the business center. The total invest ment for site and building wili ap- i proximate three-quarters of a mil- | lion dollars and in the campaign, which has been responded to with spirit by the community, the same general appeal was made as that which resulted in the construction of the Penn-Harris here. Plans will be rushed and it is ex pected that the new place of enter tainment in Altoona will be ready within a few months. The city at the foot of the Allegheny* is also having a thorough planning survey , made by experts with a view to cor recting some of the mistakes of the earlier days. Like Harrisburg. tin city at the other end of the Middle Division of the Pennsylvania Rail road Is throwing all kinds of "pep" j into its public activity and the fu- ' ture is full of promise by reason of . the aroused interest of the people in ' their own community welfare. President Wilson is about to learn that the present Congress is not like the old. It has a mind of its own and it does not see much virtue in rum. The country is "dry." There is no rea son why we should go back to an orgy of drink, even if the President does approve, and the Senate may be expected to follow the course of the House in passing the enforcement bill over the executive's veto. A GOOD MOVE CHIEF STONE, of the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers, has made a move toward low ering the high cost of living that, if properly handled, may got some where. His plan is to get together a party of consumers and producers and outline plans for getting foodstuffs from one to the other without man\ of the unnecessary transactions be tween them that now add so much to the cost of provisions. Some middle men are necessary. There can be no doubt about that. But others are in the market purely on a profit-making basis. They serve no good purpose and could be elim inated with benefit to both producer and consume:. Lot us hope that Mr. Stone is suc cessful in his effort, in order that his example may be followed by others. At Lewistown the county jail holds no prisoners and there has been no body in the lock-up for five months. Lewietown is dry. TIME TO MOVE IF HARRISBURG is to get into step with the capital cities of other States and to keep pace with Brie, Meadville, Greensburg. West Chester and other county towns of its own Commonwealth in the mat ter of facilities for its military or ganisations, it has to move right now. Much has been stud and written In this city the last ten years about the armory that the State is going to build for Harris burg aome time. The State is not building armories as presents. It is building them where municipalities or communities provide the ground and some cash to help pay for the cost of construction. Places smaller than Harrisburg have given fine lots and the lake city not only presented the State with half a TUESDAY EVENING, block, but donated )75,000 beside j for n building. j Hnrrlsburg is an important mtlt tnry center both from official and transportation standpoints. Ita ar mory facilities were woefully In adequate before the war. If this | city is to have any place in the new National Guard worthy of its pa triotism. its sons and its standing as a capital something has to be done, and the time to start to buy that property for the new armory is : right now. Other cities are already I moving. A LIMIT TO LAW HE Railroad Brotherhoods , I threaten to strike as a protest i against "nonstrike" legisla tion in the railroad bill now .M'ore i Congress. i They are perfectly right and rea ' sonable in opposing an attempt to stop strikes by law. it was nonsensical to include such a provision in the railroad : measure. Nobody can prevent a man front leaving his job if he be ; so inclined, and what one man can | do a thousand or a million can do. J If a million railroad men chose on ' a certain day to take "vacations," who could prevent? Their em ployers might dismiss them and the i law although that is very doubt ! ful —might indict them, but it ! could not compel them to return to j work. The way to prevent strikes is not I by legal prohibition, and to try to I do it that way would be merely to i make a laughing stock of law j makers and law-making. The Brotherhood leaders have the right end of the argument and Congress will do well to heed. A clause to forbid men to inter fere with others in their desire to ! work would be all right, but a non , strike provision is hopeless. I Is this Indian summer or Just H of the regular variety? THE NEXT STEP INASMUCH as City Council is in lull sympathy with the important Italian Park plans and the devel opment scheme which comprehends important street changes and deci sion of water so as to provide for a small park, we may expect prompt action to the end that all of these matters shall he determined before the coming of winter. The city is now ready for its next step forward and the election next week will he a signal for greater activity in all directions. Harrisburg officials have never failed to respond in a public-spirited way when the eonun inity has indi cated definitely its wishes. Then can be no doubt that the plans for the development of the Italian Park district will be worked out without unnecessary delay in any particular. Pressrt sugar prices do not tend in sweeten the disposition. IXDLSTRIAL CONDITIONS AS indicated in an authoratative business publication to-day the real object of the Wash ington industrial conference was to arrange for business* to proceed un disturbed hereafter by unrest and dissatisfaction on either side. Many theories have been advanced for the solution of the industrial controversy which has been so widespread, but the determination tof the disputes seems to hinge upon a change of view as much as upon wages or working conditions. What the worker may do with his money, as has been suggested by a recent writer, is the affair of the worker, but it is believed that a remedy for j the situation must lie found either l<y educating the workers to get i lasting benefits from their increased j earning or by putting into operation ; some plan which will bring about i this result in another way. The same authority observes that education 1 toward thrift is. of course, the bet ter way, but it takes too long. Arti j (ioial arrangements will not change I economic laws. Rubor cannot be 'b.-nefited permanently unless pro ; duction is actually increased. "An honest day's work for an honest day's pay," according to Charles M. I Schwab, is the only solution. The great public, which is usually ouishie in conferences between labor I and capital, is waiting for the happy ■day when employer and employe will j realize that the interests of the third j party are quite as important as those j of cither of the other two. It is believed that the I. W. W. ' propagandists are at the bottom of most of our trouble; that they have i stirred v.. dissension wherever pos- I sible and thai until their activities are supp.-essed no real progress will ' be made in the way of agreement between the workingmen and their • employers in many industrial cen ! ters. The radical element must 1 first be eliminate 1 before a reason | able settlement can lie reached be i tween the two great forces, which • should never have disagreed, be ' cause their interests are mutual. But there are signs of sanity in j many directions at the present time i and as both sides to the controversy , move irresistibly toward the same ' goal of confidence in each other and consideration for the public there , must come a solution of the whole | problem. | As has been suggested by the Tele : graph more than once the individual responsibility of the citizen at this time is greater than ever before in the history of the country. Each must do his part and do it with the sole purpose of advancing the wel fare of the particular community in which he resides, to the end that a great community movement may be started which will extend from one end of the country to the other. Upon the outcome of the labor contest in America depends in a large measure the future prosperity of all classes of our people. There must be reasonable concessions on lall sides; no autocracy of any sort will bo permitted to rise In tho I United States eo long as so many of the people are determined upon a I course that Is manifestly fair and reasonable and just. TMtin U ~PC.KlV4ufvrahfa. By the Ki-Commltteeman • tine week from to-ilay Pennsyl vania will be voting to settle one of the most interesting series of coun ty. municipal and judlclul elections held in a decade and the echoes of various contests are coming across the counties to the State Capitol in n manner that indicates that the men who play politics have an eye on next year's campaigns. The Democrats are showing particular .nterest in the way their vote comes out because the fate of factions may depend upon some slants which uiuy be given to the balloting in the , big counties In several counties the Palmet wing of the Democracy lias had an idea that the Bonniwell people might try to do something and they have been ready and waiting for something which never happened, while in other count.es they have tried to demonstrate that they are on the job by taking various matters into court and getting beaten most ■ ol the time. In add.tion to the judicial and j mayoralty contests which have been j reviewed front time to time are a score or more of loan elections. In Heading, a mill on dollar improve . merit loan is an Issue and movies and speeches are being used to boost it. Johnstown has a school loan which is being extensively ad vertised in the newspapers. 11l Bradford county a million dollar road loan is being voted on this fall. I ~* —Just as an instance of the way the Democracy of var oils counties is all fussed up. this statement about the battling factions of Cambria county mav be printed, it is taken from the Johnstown Tribune: "Heal war' in the ranks of the Demo cratic party of Cambria county was declared wiien the AleGuire faction held M meeting Saturday and elect ed Attorney J. Wallace Paul Coun ty Cbn'rmnn. Air. Paul is the sec ond man to be named chairman of the Cambria County Democratic Comm'ttee within the nest two weeks, the other being Philip P. Sharkey, who was 'named chair man' of the 1919 committee in an announcement by the llailey-Cooney Democrats several days ago. The AleGuire men claim that Air. Paul is now tlie only county chairman who has been legallv elected to office They point out that the law his b a n complied with in every part of the proceeding that resulted in the naming of Attorney Paul. No mem ber cf tho party has speeifie author ity to call a meeting for the organis ing of a committee, but it is argued that Air. AleGuire, through his of fice of State Committeeman, has implied authority to call such a meeting." —Democratic politicians have also heen making trouble for them selves and their party by some court actions in Scranton. The Re publicans have them on the run in the Lackawanna county ticket fight and the Democrats are struggling lor an opening in Scranton. The i Scranton Republican says: "In a , statement issued yesterday Rogistra tiou Commissi oners B. T. Jayne, A. P. O'Donnell and Alex T. Connell I brand as 'without foundation and is j in fact a deliberate untruth' the p. tition presented to Judge Xewcomb ; Saturday by the Democratic candi | dates for county office and several registrants and on which Judge Xewcomb issued a temporary in- I junction restraining the registra , tion commissioners from taking any action in the ease in which 400 voters, registered as Democrats, are charged with having registered ille gally in that they failed to pay a ; State or county tax w thin two . years preceding the coming election. ! The injunction is returnable Wed i nesday morning." When it was shown to tlie Lu ■ zurne County Court that candidates lor office in Warrior Run Borough i oil an independent ticket had filed [ their papers only fifteen days hefoie election nstead of twenty-eight days before. Judge Woodword declared i tlie nominations invalid and the names will be stricken off .the bal lot. Attorneys for the candidates i affected filed under the old law lie cause they used an old form of nomination papers specifying fifteen ; days as the time for filing. Judge • Woodward said, however, that he ; would have to sustain the excep tors because the new law was not I complied with. —Schuylkill Prohibitionists say they will not take any court steps to knock Lewis Heim off their ticket. Heim is not a Proh'bitionist I but a man more or less identified with the liquor business. York county Republican candi dates are swinging through the | county ftiis week and everywhere j their platform of economy and good business in county affairs, es [ peclally the road construct on bond I issue is meeting with favor. —The Wtlkes-Ba rre Record is saying snmp sharp things about the Democrats in I.uzerne county af- I I'airs. especially in regard to roads. I It holds that the county needs Re j publican commissioners for its own I good. . —Reading's campaign r s getting ; all beated up. The Reading Eagle ; of Saturday devotes a page to nr j ticles about the campaign and the ! paper is filled with candidate's ad i vertiscments. The Republican , -om'nee for mnvor. John Kdm I Stai'ffer. and J. Henrv Stump, tho ' Por'alist nominee, are having a long , range debate over the water loan StiiTrn is against ; t. William Ah ' t-ot Witropo the candi date savs his Republican onnonent 'J" "afraid of criticism." W'tman 1 don't mind it. He's use to it. 1 Stnnffer is eonidered the likely winner ! n the fight. j —The Altoor" Trihune has this to J say about the speaker" for tho big • Republican rally in the mountain eifv on Thursday night: "The cam paigners selected are men welt k"-wn here and are speakers that w>]| certatptv draw a h'g crowd. L'otitenan' Oovernn- Reidleman w"l h" one of tbc rpeekers. He ncds '•o introduction to the voters of this citv. for he has been a stnnn-h friend of the workers Auditor G"n jeral Charle- Snyder will be another ! sneaker. He has frequently visited i the city, has always been an enter j tainer. sneaker and famous as a good | story teller. Deputy Attorney Gen- I eral Collins will also be here. He ■ is a fluent orator and a man that lent i his voice and time in assisting to jkeep America alive nnd patriotic dur ing the World War." Buausscno U!Q9fti telegraph WONDER WHAT Al9 MONTHS' OLD BABY THINKS ABOUT? .... .... By BRICGS V m 1 " T ' ■ T i r ■ --TTlr-i t .. \ JUST Love TO I DOM'T S'Poae They A LOT IP I pAPJCG draw PICTORP6- The marks \ MAKE "to ME. MY Father I'm <®oin6 To BE Am GIVE ME A PENCIL ON PAPER MEAM S* YS HE'S AFRMD CTR "i"'V.^r^ .. n Paper Aiol> I A TVHIM& To YoO (OOIM.CJ To BE AM PtAMO KeYS TwCY vTtJS £n^TCAReWMT VT _ ARI-.AT- OOT MOTHER KNOW I'VE A MUSICAL. m OS OPTIN\ISTtC CAREER BCFoRE me . So IT DOSSM'T make Guess You 3>OM"T I vWowl l Got SO MUCH XIFFEREMC E. - AW,ALL T„ E W Al£-. , WUCPSP MM* u"*7r,n SAO TViinWS 1M A < ts AQA.NST .TUB Diwt 00 NOTHIM' A i' KE ,^ T ORN MORAL K£2*A"S,ALm I BUT **'""= ON THt FOR A PICTURE ITS PAIN Yep. —IP MO TAKE, a chance - j OLO WALL MV DA ' D OIUE IS U>OKINCA - " -2^T( Iron Ore From Bacteria rFrom the Youth's Companion] The most imaginative among us would hardly suspect that bugs are responsible, at least in part, for the common tlaiiron and other useful articles made from the same nietal. Yet European physicists have known for some time, says Chase P. Os horn. former governor of Michigan, in his autobiography, that there are "iron ore bacteria," and the fact is now commonly accepted in America. Iron bacteria live in either stand ing or running clear waters that con tain iron compounds: not in turbid waters and those containing much organic matter. So active are they in establishing deposits of ferric hydroxide that water pipes of cities where the water contains ferrous carbonate have been known to he completely closed by them. Sheaths of dead iron bacteria have been found in multitudes in linton ite deposits, and enormous deposits of several kinds of iron ore are known to result from their work. Yet we know little übout them. They may even be at the very threshold of life. It is interesting, however, to note i that the greatest deposits of iron' ! ore in the world that are being . mined are in arctic and subarctic ' : regions, or in zones where nearly i half the year is winter, as in the ; lake Superior country. The greater commercial activity in the colder j regions may partly account for „this, > , for there are extensive iron ore \ formations in the tropics and sub tropics. But the fact remains that ! iron bacteria live in pure water and that in the colder regions water is i most likely to be pure. Although iron bacteria ate nianu- j facturing new deposits all the time.' this is not of great importance nsj far as the supply of iron is concern- , od. Bodies of ore are being formed i 'more rapidly than we used to think. Hut Nature probably cannot create : iron as fast as we are using it. "Moira's Keeping" lb N'OITOV- Jcphson O'Couor I From "A Treasury of War Poetry."! Houghton-Mittlin Company, Boston] i <i mountain of Etin, Your beauty is fled: Beyond von. in Flanders, My darling lies dead. .Through the dune s and the grasses Bespattered yvith blood. ; They bore him: and around him Bareheaded they stood, i While the chaplain in khaki Was reading a prayer. And the wind for his keening Was moaning an air. 0 son of gray Fonnaught, No more shall we stand | By the dark lough at evening. My hanil in your hand. And talk of a houseen ! To hold you and me. | The scent of the heather. The gorse on the lea. i Yet, bridegroom of mine. You are waiting afar, ; Past the peak and the blueness. The shine of thon star. Where Mary the Mother Is bending her head, i And you sleep at her crooning, j O boy of mine! dead. T. It. on Industrial Peace ' ""In our complex industrial civili j zation of to-day, the peace of ! righteousness and justice, the only | kind of peace worth having, is at j least as necessary in the industrial world as it is among nations." Those words, spoken by Theodore Roosevelt, in 1910, showed the ;Colonel's understanding of the Im portance of a problem which has ; come to press the entire yvorld for ; solution since the world war. Col onel Roosevelt used those words in a speech in Christiania. Norway, In j acknowledging the Nobel peace prize of 1905, awarded to him fo -1 his work in promoting the peace between Russia and Japan. The prize consisted of a gold medal and *40,000 in cash. The medal Colonel ! Roosevelt kept, but the f40.000 he used as a "nucleus for a foundation to forward the cause of industrial pea ce." "I think in most cases," Colonel i Roosevelt said in his speech, "It would be eminently just and proper : thgt the recipient of the prize should keep for his own use the prize in its j entirety. But in this case, while I did not act officially as President of the United States, It was, neverthe less only because I was President that I was enubled to act at all: and T felt that the money must be considered as having been given me In trust for the United Stetoe." TO ROUT BAD ENGLISH BY PAGEANTS AND PLAYS "Better Speech Week" Plans Provide For n Unique Campaign Against Slang—Detroit Schools Exact a Pledge of Their Pupils. The gingham dog and the calico cat Side by side on a grammar sat; 'Twas half past 12, and (what do you think?) Not one or the other had slept a wink! The bottle of ink and the fountain pen Declared the two would fight again And waited for a terrible spat. (Of course, I wasn't there just then, 'Twas told to me by the fountain pen.) It seems the two had fought before. And carried on a terrible war, And this is how the fight began: The gingham dog was called "I Can," And the calico cat, though 'twas a sin. Always went by the name, "I Kin." So Can killed Kin forevermore. (And this tale is true, I think. For it came to me from the bottle of Ink.) BY parodies of child rhymes, of which the quoted adaptation of Eugene Field's "The Duel" is typical, Detroit teachers will drill their pupils in pure English during "Better Speech Week," November 2 to 8. "Better Speech Week" originated in the Eastern District High School of Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1915, and in the four years since it has spread to almost every state of the Union. In Detroit, for example, plans for the week this year are especially lavish, inspired Miss Claudia E. Crump ton, secretary of the committee on American speech of the National Council of Teachers of English, who is a teacher in a Detroit high school. A few of the features of the pro posed program have been described in the Detroit News. In the beginning, every school child will be required to make the following pledge, prepared by Mrs. Howard L. Willettt of the Chicago Woman's Club: Tlic Better Speech Pledge I love the United States of Amer ica! I love my country's flag; I love my country's language. I promise: That 1 will not dishonor my coun try's speech by leaving off the last syllables of words; That I will say a good American "yes" and "no" in place of an Indian grunt, "Umhum" and "Humum," or a foreign "ya" or "yeh" and "nope;" That I will do my best to improve American speech by enunciating dis tinctly and by speaking pleasantly and sincerely; That I will try to make my coun try's language beautiful for the many boys and girls of foreign nations who come here to live; That I will learn to articulate cor rectly one word a day for one year. From this point the pupils will carry on their propaganda for pure speech with parodies of poems and songs, posters, tableaux and allegori cal plays. They now are drilling in tableaux and pageants picturing the fight and victory of good English over bad. An adaptation of St. George and the Dragon is one of these. St. George represents the Knights of Good English. "Bad English" is the dragon he must overcome, a dragon scaled with language errors embla zoned on bits of paper. The English Truants In another tableaux, the meddle some Pandora opens her box and re leases a great cloud of speech errors to harass the words till they are gathered up again and locked in their chest. The elementary grades have a more ambitious program, of which an allegorical play, "English Tru ants," an adaptation of Frank Stock ton's "Christmas Truants," is one of the most interesting features. Grown weary of teachers who in sist on pure speech, a little band of children runs away from school. But they have not gone far when they are captured by the "Robbers of Good English," who carry them off to their lair. Ignorance Castle. There the children have a dream, in which the great men of their land come before them, Benjamin Frank lin, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt appear before them In their vision, each in some scene from his life depicting his struggle for better English. Awaking they listen in terror to their captors planning raids on the alphabet and conjur ing up slang phrases as weapons against the pure words of the lan guage. "Do Without" Clubs Then It is that the children plan their escape. Seizing their captors, I who are. intent on plans for further attacks on the purists, thsy bind them, and rush from the castle. A year later they again go to view their prison, but they find the Cas tle of Ignorance transformed into the Castle of Better Speech. These are only a few of the many novel means being employed in the Michigan city to impress upon school children the advantages of pure speech. Teachers are endeavoring to shun the commonplace—to at tract and hold the interest of their little charges in the "Better Speech" campaign. "Do Without Clubs" have been or ganized in many of the schools, their members pledged to drop the use of one slang expressiori a week. As the weeks pass, one by one these phrases are being eliminated from the vocab ularies of the school children. Hard boiled language is headed for the land of the Dodo and you tell the world, it's travelin' fast. Echo Seat It is the greenest nook beside the way! A dark hill climbs behind It, dark with pines, Where one may know not if 'tis day or night; But, all in front, the laughing river shines. And, near the rive!* bank, there is a seat. So old none knows the time it was not there. Where many rest them from the summer heat, And breathe the cool, down float ing, pine sweet air. Then, they who still are young enough to play. Toss one another's name across the stream, And laugh to hear a hidden mocker gay In accents clear the cadence word redeem! And there are others in youth's later bloom, Who of the cavern dwelling nymph require What fortune shall be theirs, or who loves whom (Say, did that hidden one grant their desire?) How many a voice since then is lost is still. Of those that called with fresh and lusty cheer; Or if they call, 'tis past some heavenly hill. The voice responds—not heard of earthly ear. • • • It is so many absent years gone by, Since 1 the airy magic put to test, I doubt me, If the Echo would reply To those old names I lock within my breast. —Edith M. Thomas, in the New York Sun. The Twenty Eighth [By Lawrence Doyle. Private first class. Twenty eighth Division.] We are lads from Pennsylvania From the grand old Keystone State, And I'm glad that I am fighting In the famous Twenty eighth. We fought in many a battle The work we did was great. I tun proud to be a sofdier In the grand old Twenty eighth. i We fought at Chateau Thierry, From the Marne up to the Rhine, : And every place we fought them, i They retreated double time. We always had them running, ' If they stopped they knew their fate For they always got their medicine. When they fought the Twenty eighth. Nothing could ever stop us For they feared us all the time; It was the Twenty eighth Division Which broke Old Hindy's line. We are lads from Pennsylvania, That grand old Keystone State; | I'm proud I am a soldier In The gallant Twenty eighth. —From the "Dauphine Doughboy." Speak Evil of No Man Put them in mind to be ready with every good work, to speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, hut gentle, showing all meekness to all i men.—Titus tii, 1 and 2. OCTOBER 28, 1919. W. Va. Assails Pennsylvania [From the Philadelphia Inquirer] This State has very properly en tered legal proceedings to prevent West Virginia from executing the law passed by its recent Legislature which prohibited the transportation of natural gas from its limits until local demands have been satisfied. Ohio, also having interest, has Join ed in the proceedings and the Su preme Court of the United States is asked to take original Jurisdiction in order to settle the matter quickly. There arc many important indus tries in Ohio and this State which depend on natural gas from West Virginia. If West Virginia takes from Pennsylvania the gas upon which it lives industrially it does much material damage. Of course, the whole point is in volved in the Constitutional clause as to interstate commerce, together with certain other provisions, such as one stute giving good faith to what the other does as represented through corporations duly erected. It seems monstrous to suppose that West Virginia should try to get rid of all its obligations so suddenly, but there is something back of it which illuminates the problem. Recently after many years of liti gation West Virginia has been com pelled to pay Virginia some $13,- 000,000 in bonds as its share of the debt of the Old I>ominion in 1861 plus interest. West Virginia's claim was that the treasury assets of Vir ginia in 1861 exceeded all debts and that they were wasted by the Civil War. Unfortunately the promise in the West Virginia Constitution made no reservations and the Supreme Court upheld the claim. The bonds have been delivered and must be reduced rapidly by annual pay ments. Hence the State is trying to conserve all its resources and pro j hibits giving us gas when it is need ed at home. Once more the Supreme Court must decide. The moral is that the next time a State wishes to remain in the Union when part of it decides to secede it should make no rash promises. West Virginia could have escaped paying a dollar, but she wanted to appear fair. She was ad mitted to the Union under circum stances which made Constitutional lawyers shudder, but necessity pre \ ailed and the same consideration would have admitted her if she had never agreed to pay a dollar. So that Pennsylvania and Ohio are really asked to suffer now because Western Virginia counties were loy al almost sixty years ago. Was Constitution Inspired? [Harry T. Atwood, author of "Back to the Republic," in Motor World] I believe that the Constitution was as much inspired as parts of the Bible. You know they met for four weeks, day after day, and had not written a single word or a single sentence, and on the morning of the fifth week, in the midst of a verv heated discussion, they were about to adjourn and abandon the great purpose for which they had met and what a difference it would have made in the history of this country and the entire world if that had happened!—but Benjamin Franklin, one of the wisest men, if not the wisest man who sat in the conven tion, arose and, addressing George Washington, who was in the chair said: ' 'Mr. Chairman, we have been groping for four weeks in the dark ness searching for political truth and have not found it. How is it that we have not invoked the divine guid ance of the Father of Dight upon our proceedings? The longer I live and the more I know the more I believe that God governs in the af fairs of men, and if the sparrow cannot fall without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his assistance? 'Except the Dord build the house, thev labor in vain who build it.' I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in our political building no better than the builders of Babel. I, there fore. move you that from henceforth we open our daily deliberations with morning prayer." And from that moment they be gan to make progress in the fram ing and adoption of that fame crowned old document. Women Voters in City Politics [From the Twilight Hour Magazine.] The purt that women will take in city politics in the next election is a wholesome prospect, provided they put more importance upon organiz ing for a nonpartisan city govern ment than they do on the mere act ■of voting. lEtimng ©ljaf Suggestion made in this column lust night thut the proposed Stute bridge, to be built some time in the future as a part of the comprehen s ve plan to make the Capitol the oleic center of the Commonwealth, should be named the Ked (Jro.v, Bridge In honor of the women of the Pennsylvania branch of the great organization, seems to have met with much favor, but object.o.i was promptly made to-day thut .1 would force a change in the rouds leading to Harrisburg from the Cumberland valiey. As a matter of fact, it would not disturb a single I existing road and being primarily a ; bridge for tourists would not inter fere very much with the ordinary ! traffic over the present r.ver I bridges which by that time will , probably be freed, anyway. So muca i tor those objections. As to the liigh ; w °y problem it would simply mean :a new road cutting off from th t-arlisle-Chambersburg pike some where near Camp Hill and follow ing, most of the way, a ravine or series of depressions that come down to the Susquehanna at the j Northern Central water tanks al most opposite State street. This I would take it past properties which were considered a few years ago as a possible site for the Country Club of Harrisburg and bring 'in the traveller through some very pretty | Cumberland county farming lands. | There is a road a small part of the way now. It would simply mean a new road which will come soma | time of the demand for it and the I changing of a small part of the | highway on the West Shore which J comes up from York and Baltimore ! and brings down traffic from the j Juniata Valley that docs not cros* | the river at Clark's Kerry. Tbe change in the hours under the Daylight Savings Law, which went into effect at midnight on Saturday, caught many unprepared and there was more confusion Sun day. People say the newspapers had not discussed the matter as general ly as they did last spring, when the law became operative, and so items announcing the change had escap ed the attention of many. Some who had remembered the law for got to turn back their clocks when they went to bed on Saturday night and they arose at the usual hour to find that they would be able to en- Joy a longer Sunday than usual. The trolley cars and railroad trains ad justed themselves easily to the change. Trains in or near termi nals on the steam roads were held an hour to adjust themselves to the new order of time. Insurance people are nothing if not versatile. In recent Legislatures they have been getting through laws which extend the field of in surance, one of the recent acts an thorizing insurance against bom bardment from ail* or land and sea. while others were from various kinds of natural disturbances. Now various firms are offering Insurance against "riot and civil commotion." Scarcely a day passes that one or more letters with a complaint do not reach the office of William El mer, superintendent of the Phila delphia Division. Some of the com plaints are humorous. The com plainants frequently take up much space and paper in telling the r troubles. Most of them overlook the fact that there is a place for filing complaints, and in many cases they get the wrong railroad. This was the case the other day, when a trav eler wrote the local head of the Philadelphia Division of the Penn* sylvania railroad that while travel ling from one city to another in an adjoining county he had occasion to leave his grip in the baggage room for a short time. On his return to Harrisburg he opened his grip and, according to the letter, had an at tack of "cow itch." "I scratched all night" said the complainant. He asked for an investigation into con ditions at that certain baggage room. Unfortunately Superintend ent Elmer has no connection with the railroad over which this travel ler rode. A year or so ago an appeal was made by the late Dr. Joseph Kalb fus. for years secretary of the Stale Game Commission, for the planting of the American walnut tree and other nut trees. The doctor pointed out that the black walnut hud been largely bought up for gunstocks and that there was danger of the tree becoming very scarce. As a result there were literally thousands of the trees planted in this State. In Hat risburg alone more than 500 were planted, some of them being young saplings brought in from the coun try. In other instances people bought the nuts and planted them. Not many of the trees survived, but the thing is that interest in' the trees did not die out. It seems to be as strong as ever. Years ago there used to be many chest nut and hickory nut trees in the vicinity of Harrisburg, but they are very scarce now. Tweiity flye years ago there were chestnut trees lining the back roads for miles around Harrisburg and Oherliu, Progress and Shiremanstown were places where chestnuts were to he had, while the hickory nuts were on the Blue Ridge and on many hills. Some were even to be seen on Fort Washington. And the beech nut which used to furnish much of the pabulum for wild tur keys was frequently met with in upper Dauphin and Perry counties and along the Swatara. Now they are rarities and some people can not even identify them. .' for the birches that used to be so inim n r • s along the Susquehanna the> n w more garden ornaments ihe Uombardy poplar has replaced them along the streams. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Thomas Shipley, of York, well known here, is head of the commit tee named for the Knights Templar conclave in that city in May. —Dr. Deo S. Rowe, former Uni versity of Pennsylvania professor, has left the United States Treasury Department to become head of jthe Datin American Bureau In the State Department. Bishop T. J. Garland, of Phila delphia, who declined the bishopric of Utah, may become bishop of Deleware. —Ex-President Taft is to speak at State College next month. —Major Alfred M. Collins, of Brywn Mawr, has taken charge of a housing survey near Philadelphia. \ DO YOU KNOW —That Harrisburg hosiery is sold in Cuba? HISTORIC HARRISBURG —Harrisburg used to be a dist ribution point for Huntington an 1 Mifflin county wheat a century aeo.
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