16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded ISSI Published evenings except Sunday by TUB TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Square E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. _ R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STEIN METZ, Managing Editor ; LA. U. MICHENER, Circulation Manager j Executive Beard 'J.J P.* McCULLOUGH. " > BOYD M. OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER. GUS. M. STEINMETZ. ! Members of the Associated Press—The | Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication 1 of all news dispatches credited to. it or not otherwise credited in this ] faper and also the local news pub- j ished herein. [All rightsNif republication of special ' dispatches herein are also reserved. /Member American Newspaper Pub- I Eastern fc a Avenui Building. I Chicago. 111. *' Sintered at the Post Office in Harris ' burg, Pa, as second class matter. I Br carrier, ten cents a week; by mall, $3.00 a ***&*& year In advance. IKHHtSDATt XOTEMBFR SO. 1919 Every hand is icanted in this world ghat can do a little, genuine, sincere tfrork. —Geobok Eijot. HOW YONKERS DID IT HOW Yonkers disrupted a Bol shevist meeting by singing the "Star-Spangled Banner" in the lace of Rose Pastor Stokes, the an archistic wife of Millionaire Stokes, "has been told in the dispatches from that city of recent date, but the exact methods used are set forth for the first time in a letter from Fran cis Theodore Brown, who set up the '"back-fire" on the parlor Bolshevists, to the New York Tribune. Mr. Brown and his companions did Hot disturb or interrupt the million- Hire anarchist: they just let her rave ntil she ran down for lack of breath and permitted herself to be ques tioned, which Mr. Brown did. to use his own language, as follows, with the results as he describes them: "Why do you, Sirs. Stokes, as sume that your knowledge and judgment regarding Bolshevism are superior to John Spargo's, whose analysis .of that revolution as a ruthless seizure of power by an armed minority—an inverted tyranny and utterly undemocratic , —must appeal, it seems to me. to any unbiased mind as true and unanswerable?" She replied: "I have not mentioned Mr. Sphrgo this evening, but I do not agree with him." "No." I said, "eminent Socialist authority as he is and sharing all your humanitarian sympathy and hope to the full as he does, he is absolutely against Bolshevism as being the foe of democracy, and against you on this issued And 1 haven't the shadow of a doubt that he is right and you are wrong. You have said some things to-night that were very true. Your criticism of business, in so far as it is selfish competi tion for profits rather than co operative service of human need, is perfectly just. I have no doubt that we are to work out a far better social and industrial order with far greater socializing of privilege than at present. But your injunction of this foreign nomenclature, your constant talk of the 'bourgeois,' tile 'proletariat' and the rest, your deliberate fos tering of the class consciousness and class antagonism which these terms suggest, is an impertinence in this democracy. We are all Americans here, and please God we arc going to work out these problems of a juster order pro gressively and together!" I was interrupted here by cheers; some one called for three cheers for the Constitution of the United States, which were given with a will, and the "Communist" meeting ended with a heartfelt and prayerful singing of "The Banner. We congratulate Mr. Brown and the people of Yonkers. That is the way to meet Bolshevism—with 100 per cent. Americanism. If you know of a gathering of radicals, take a fair-sized group of good citizens and go around to the hall, listen to their harangue and then sing them out of the hall with "The Star-Sangled Banner." No Bolshevist in the world can stand up before an aroused American audience, either those of the notoriety-seeking Mrs. Stokes type, who lives off the fat of the land and spends money she in no way helped to earn, or those who are as sincere in their beliefs as they are mistaken in their atti tude toward the problems of the day. Ail pf them can be sung into silence by any liberty-loving crowd that packs the halls where they would speak. The community service being estab lished in this city through the co ordination of special school activities, the Park Department and the Cham ber of Commerce aid and support is certain to appeal to our people. Bringing all classes of the com munity into harmonious relations for the furtherance of the general wel fare Is certainly a laudable and proper movement. Through it will come a larger contentment gild a better atti tude toward things which are vital in any community. Some times we think these boardi of arbitration ought to be paddles o arbitration. Down in Berks County the P. O. S of A. has a poor opinion of one Jainet Maurer. the noisy radical who wp denounced by Attorney General Pal mer in his recent Harrisburg speech His beloved Soviet in Russia is beck- THURSDAY EVENING, oiling Maurer and manifestly the pa triotic order in his own bailiwick feel that he ought to lose no time in getting where the atmosphere seems more to his liking. BIG PROBLEM AHEAD THE Harrisburg Chamber of; Commerce is fortunate in hav ing within Its membership such I a body of able and practical business j men as have consented to serve on < ' the housing committee. The prob- j lein facing the city is not only of l ! grave Importance to our future j ! growth and well-being, but it pre- | ■ sents difficulties of the miAt puz- j ;zling nature. We need houses, there j lis no debating that, and they must j he put on the market at reasonable figures if built for sale or compara tively small rentals if they are to be rented. Just how to combine good houses with what the average man looks upon as reasonable terms with present costs of both labor and material is hard to see. That is the first stumbling block in the way of the committee. There are many others. But what other cities are endeav oring to do, and which some of them have done with more or less success, will not dismay Harrisburg. The make-up of the committee is a promise that the utmost measures will be taken to give Harrisburg as good and as practical a building program as it is possible to devise. The whole trend of living condi tions is upward. The effort to im prove the status of people in general is not confined lo any one group. Wherever business men and em ployers gather, there this question of general welfare is uppermost. The employer has awakened to. or is fast awakening to, his responsibilities. Even the most humble workman is no longer contented with a mere roof over his head. He wants a decent place in which to spend his leisure and to raise his family. Har risburg always has been blessed with a large number of home-owners, and in general its people have been am bitious to improve their state in life. That they are not clamoring in vain is the other side of the story, i Co-operation is the keynote of the hour. The day will come when this spirit will rid the city of the last of its slum sections, but the progress toward that end must be necessarily slow, desirable though it be and much as we may condemn present day conditions in many quarters. Somehow, some way, we must find e means of lifting even the poorest to the place where he can afford a decent home. The problem just now confronting the housing committee is to find a way to build houses at reasonable cost for skilled me chanics, sales people and others who ;must have them if they are to con tinue to reside in Harrisburg. The rest must be worked out more slow ly. If the actual shortage now isting can be met, a great step will have been made in the right direction. The ice man wore a pleasant, satis factory expression this morning. We are just beginning to appreciate what a coal shortage would mean. Rainbow sugar by any other color would taste as sweet—rand probably would be cheaper. The Treaty having been killed by the Senate, still remains a very live issue. Bolshevik Martens threatens to leave the country, taking a million Russians with him. but we're afraid he's only bluffing. Yes. we put 'em on for the first time this morning. Sow idleness and you will reap the same a hundred fold: sow work and you will reap success. One of the smallest worries is thai, the Geiman mark, worth 24 cents be fore the war, now brings only a little more than two cents. Coal strikers who refuse to work pending the settlements now under way. should be barred from any bene fits the. miners may receive. A Wilmington preacher wants the convicted I. W. W.'s 1 and other radicals stood up against a wall and shot instead of wasting time on de portation, which he regards as a , process entirely too slow. We are now confronted with a Nation-wide embargo on tile rail roads as a result of the coal strike controversy and 13,000,000 men may be thrown out of work as a re sult. War was what Sherman de acrlbed it. but getting back to peace seems to be even worse. ""PO&UCO IK By the Ex-Commttteeman Congressmen of most of the mid dle Pennsylvania districts will he candidates for renomlnation at tin- May primaries and several an nouncements will be made within the next six weeks. The time for circulating; petitions comes early next year, being in February, and the petitions will have to he tiled at the Capitol in April. Many in quiries are already being; made at the State Department as to the form of procedure and the availability of blanks after the first of the year. Congressman Aaron S. Kreider, of the Da uphin-Lebanon-Cumberland district, will be asked by friends to be a candidate again. County Com missioner Howard O. Holstein. of this city, may be an aspirant for Democratic honors. In the York- Adams district. Congressman K. S. Brooks, the first Republican con gressman In years, will rufi again, while in the Seventeenth or "Shoe string" district. Congressman B. K. Kocht, of I.ewisburg, will respond to the call. The usual unsuccessful campaign to defeat him will be made, mostly from Harrisburg. In the Schuylkill county district Congressman John Reber will be a candidate for renomination at the hands of Republicans. In Luzerne Congressman J. J. Casey, the au burn-haired Democratic member, will have contenders and so will Patrick McLane, of the Lackawanna district. Two other Democratic members, H. J. Steele, of the 26th. and Arthur G. Dcwalt. of the 13th, have not said anything, but Mr. Steel will probably run again. Con gressman John G. Lesher, of the 16th, will have the fight of his life if he runs again. The Republicans will likely run A. W. Duy, the Col umbia county leader. Congressman W. "W. Griest, of Lancaster, Thomas S. Butler, of Chester-Delaware, and H. Watson, of Montgomery-Bucks, are regurded as probable candidates. In the Wil liamsport district friends of Con gressman Edgar S. Kiess say that he will be renominated. The same is said about Congressman 10. J. Jones, of the Centre-Clearfield -Cameron- McKean district. -—Appointment of Frank Feeney, president of the Central Labor Union of Philadelphia, lo be tlie first incumbent of the new office of super visor of workmen's compensation referreos. is a recognition by Gov ernor William C. Sproul of the con servative element in Pennsylvania labor. It is also a personal appoint ment in a way, because the Governor has known him for many years. The now supervisor, who will receive a statutory salary of SO,OOO a year, will assume his office at once anil will have duties connected with each one of the referee districts, now numbering ten, but which may be increased to fourteen under the re organization act passed this year. —Mr. Feeney is national presi dent of the Elevator Constructors' International Union, having held that position for a quarter of a cen tury and has been one of the most active labor leaders in the State. He was named by Edwin S. Stuart to represent the State at an indus trial conference at Chicago several years ago and has attended various conventions as a delegate. He was the first chief of the bureau of ele vator , inspection in Philadelphia, having been named by Mayor John E. Reyburn and lately has been ac tive in placing injured men in po sitions. The appointment was an nounced by C. B. Connelley, Commissioner of Labor and head of the compensation burerfu. W. J. Tracy, of Philadelphia, was recently named chief of mediation, in the Labor and Industry Department. —Considerable interest was aroused here by the filing of a pre emption of the name of the Single Tax party for 1920 elections by Alva A. MacKenzie, James H. Dix, Frank E. Martin. Joseph E. Jennings and Frederick A. Bocli, of Philadelphia. —Governor Sprout's reappoint- ! nient of G. \V. French, of Pottstown, ' as a trustee of the Spring City State Institution, recalls the changes made by Governor Brumbaugh in that board. Air. French was removed to make room for a political rival and now he is back again and his rival is out. Amos H. Shultz, another Brumbaugh man. also goes out. —Persistent rumors of further changes in the Labor and Industry inspection force are going tile rounds on the Hill. It is said that between now and the llrst of the year there will be some changes of the inspec tor personnel that will make for bet ter efficiency and remove some men who got in'when politics was in the ascendant in the department. —Ex-Governor Edwin Svdney Stuart, president of the Union League, expects a big contingent of the up-State membership of that famous organization to be present at the celebration of Founders' Day, which will take place Saturday. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia College, has accepted an invitation to make an address with "The Republican Party" as his text. The Philadelphia Inquirer says: "The history of the Union League is as closely interwoven with the story of the formation and the ac complishment of the Republican party as it is with the preservation of the Republican form of govern ment. conspicuously in its support of the Union arms in the days of the Civil War and in every other military crisis with which the coun try has been confronted since the attempt to disrupt the Republic brought the Union League into be ing. President Stuart is the only man who ever was elected to the office of president of the League after he had retired from the po sition. —Gettysburg's voters will he asked at a special election, to be held in January, to authorize two new bond issues, one for .$30,000 for street improvements, and the other for $2 0,000 for the erection of a municipal light plant and the'build ing of the necessary lines for street lighting. This action was taken at a special meeting of the town coun cil which authorized the ordinance committee to present the necessary treasures at an adjourned meeting to be held in a few days. A Thrifty Suitor [From the Tatlcr] For two long years Jock had been courting Maggie. One evening, after a silence of nearly, an hour, ■Maggie said shyly: "I'll gie ye a penny for ye thochts, Jock." "Weel," replied Jock with sudden boldness, "I was just thlnkin' hoo fine it wud be if ye were to gie me a bit klssie." She complied demurely, and again there was a long silence until Mag gie timidly ventured, "What are ye thlnkin' aboot noo. Jock? Anither?" ",\a. nn, lassie." was the reply. "1 was just thlnkin' that it was nboot time ye were pay-in' nic that penny for ma thochts."- ) .. •• '■ _ _ HARRISBURG S®!FESS TELEGRAPH OH, MAN! -- O I T I F° R "SUSAR- ) MIGHT- EVEN / V R / \ B "F IR' \ L HOIAJ I DREAD /\F IT IMD COST I UFY.'E \ NVGM \ |KI A Y A-T-J-A I \ ~—— / KA CR IA-,, AO [ WILL HAV£ J \POKER SAME- J \ T ° TELL JOE , ' \ * UT / BUT I HAD ;/ JOE I V R~-RWI \ V / j YI E/ Y {"TORA YOU WOOLDN*TTI ,*" " 7 DLCK I W AS> ' 7111") BELIEUE IT! WHY OUR ° ,LL \ SURE IN TOUGH V*/HV DON. T I HELD UP PTOUR / TWO I)OLL * R - S ) LUCK —. BOT YOO KEEP/ LUEEMS AND ORE TH,S WE& K'/ IT S ALL 1M A TH£ BILLS J= RO Y KE'BH HELD |>HEV/J!! f L!FE TIME— X>OVM'.'? I FOO VI\ R _l__Y LS / T A^/ YOO ,MINT SUCK y eveM lF 1T Y TT^AUEN-V) TAPPED <, [COSTS MOMEVY I T YO / ME FDR OV/FER. A- 5 V_ ! THP MEFTT / I HUNDRBD BUCKS/ ( •"5 . / Courting ["Uncle .lot-" Cannon in the Wash ington Star] Courting? Why, bless your heart, the young fellows of to-day do not know the meaning of that word! When a young man would walk live or even ten miles through the snow or rain or mud, freeze his ears and lingers and face the danger of wild cats, to see his girl, and that, too, in the general living ioom, with the family, he was entitled to admit that he was courting. And that was the rule, not the exception. The young fellows would start out Sunday afternoon to see Jheir sweethearts, and no weather was too bad to keep them at home. It might lie too cold or muddy to take out a horse, but in that case he would go on foot, and he would go through as much hardship to see his girl as did the knights of old to rescue fair maidens in castles bold. But it was his devotion, his court ing; and when he won that girl he stuck to her through thick and through thin, through good report and evil report, obeying the scrip tural Injunction that what God has joined together no man shall put asunder. There were no marriages of con venience and few hasty marriages then. The courting was long and there were no divorces to follow. The young people might meet often at the singing school or the dance or the husking bee, but these did not. take the place of regular "courting." The courting was on Sunday I night, and the young man went re- j ligiously to see his girl and remained I until midnight with the object of his affection, even though the father and mother and younger children were present to share in the visit. When he went home, either through the storm or under the bright star light. he walked the earth as a con queror—for he had been in the presence that to him represented the real poem of life. He had been courting—and that is all we need to bring back safe and sane ideas in marriage—courting—courting in the true sense of the word: The man seeking, if not serving, like Jacob, seven years for the object of his af fection. Then he will stick to her and she to him through life. There are some old fashions that! have not been improved upon, and one of them is the old way of courting. Doid's To Save Coal \ [Front the New York Sun] Don't fail to clean furnace before starting fire. i Don't build a fire until necessary. Don't build a tire larger than is necessary. Don't fail to make check draft damper in smoke pipe do its work. Don't neglect keeping fresh water in your steam heater boiler. Don't fail to keep your kitchen stove clean. Don't keep your home at over 68 degrees. Don't leave your draught open at night. Don't open your windows and try to heat all out of doors. Donit keep your fire going on pleasant days. Don't sit in north room when the sun heats the south side. Don't waste water —it takes coal to heat it. Don't forget that one gas jet will raise the temperature of a room 5 degrees. Don't fail to put up storm doors and windows. Don't fail to sift ashes. Don't burn coal when wood is available. Don't fail to wrap your pipes with asbestos. llooks and Magazines j Captain James Norman llall has just, completed the writing of "The I History of the Lafayette Squadron." I the offlclul definitive book on the I subject, which will appear under the j imprint of Houghton .Mifflin Com pany. Captain Hall is in Boston at tending to the final steps in connec- I tion with the publication of the work and arrangements have been made for him to speak on the eve ning of November 19 at Jordan Hall under the auspices of the North Bennett Industrial School. "The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys," of F. P. A.'s "Conning Tower," says: "Read this day 'When I Come Back' of llenry Hydnor Har rison, a brief piece, the story of a soldier, and taken mostly from his letters; and the best thing 1 have read of how a civiliun feels in war." ("When I Come Back"—just pub lished by Houghton .Mifflin Com pany. ) HARRISBURG SCHOOLS PAST AND PRESENT By A. C. STAMM Member Harrisburg Scliool Board. Writes Historical Sketch for Dauphin County Historical Society (NO. 2) (Continued.) i The advantage to the young per son of facilities for education de pends pretty much on what he is taught and how it is taught him. In the last fifty years or so there have not been very great changes in the substance of the school curricula, except that the manual and domes tic arts have come along in recent years. Beading, writing, arithmetic and history have always been taught, and as long ago us 1850, as stated by Professor Foose in a brief history of high school education in cluded in his annual report for 1896, "The records show that so early as 1830 the then principal of the North ward high school for girls, S. D. Ingram, was teaching such studies as chemistry, astron omy, rhetoric, botany, algebra, drawing, etc., and that in 1854 in the boys' high school of the same ward, Dr. A. E. Eyster, then an en thusiastic teacher of that school, was teaching such studies as Latin, algebra, natural philosophy, chem istry, astronomy, etc." These same subjects are still taught, and with some changes in the method of teaching, particularly, perhaps, in the sciences, and with a few subjects added to them, they still constitute the basis and substance of academic instruction. But now, merely byway of illustration, in the two high schools and in the two intermediate schools there are physical and chem ical laboratories, fully equipped; physical geography is taught by the laboratory method, so to speak, and so in some of the classes is even Latin. In the girls' high school and in both intermediate schools the girls are taught cooking, sewing and millinery, and in the boy's high school, as well as in both intermedi ate schools, the boys have, or will have, courses in wood working, ma chine work, tinning, blacksmitliing. printing, applied electricity, etc. Tf the main purpose of the schools—to educate, to develop the capacity for sustained and orderly thinking—be kept in mind, and it they are not regarded, at least as at present or ganized, as institutions for the equipment of boys and girls, without further special preparation, for par ticular activities in life, it would [ seem as though this manual train ' ing, utilizing as it does, the physical faculties, as well as the mental, in I the process of individual develop | ment, must be of distinct value, and j we may say that in this respect we I have made much progress. Related to the Increased facilities provided for education are a num ber of activities that were unheard of, and, perhaps, even undreamed of in the earlier days. For instance, this school district maintains a school called a continuation school, at which all boys and girls between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, who have left the resrulur schools and have gone to work, are taught, under compulsion of law, for eight hours a week, the courses being specially adapted for the needs of the patrons of the school. The dis trict maintains two schools, presid ed over by teachers specially pre pared, for children of deficient men tality. It maintains three or four schools in one building, for children of tubercular tendency, where plenty of fresh air and good, simple food provided by the district, are includ ed in the curriculum. The district employs three physicians and two nurses who mean to do, and I have no doubt really do something worth while. It maintains night schools, in which some hundreds of persons are now enrolled, many of them foreign ers taking a course in Americaniza tion. The district even takes care of the teeth of the children of parents who are unable or unwilling to bear the expense themselves. This does not seem to be altogether democratic but it seems to respond to tlie pub lic opinion of the moment. The dis trict also contributes $5,000 a year toward the maintenance of the Pub lic Library and it might very well contribute as much more. One of the tendencies in educa tional progress which we will all support and approve. Is that toward the reduction in the number of pu pils per teacher. Sixty years ago there was one teacher to about ! every seventy-five scholars enrolled. The average attendance was not so high then as now, but there was only one teacher for every sixty scholars in average attendance. Twenty-five years ago there were about fifty-five scholars for each teacher, and last year there was one teacher for about every thirty-six scliola/s en rolled. It Is sometimes thought the schools are getting into the haud& of the women, but whether this ten dency, if it existed, be good or otherwise, it does not exist. Twenty five years ago there were 135 teach ers in the public schools, about twelve per cent of whom were men. Last year there were 34 3 teachers, twenty per cent of whom were niett. Sixty years ago it cost forty-niue cents per month to teach each scholar. Twenty-five years ago it cost about a dollar; last year it cost over $3. Twenty-five years ago the entire cost of operating the school system, per pupil, including salaries and wages of teachert and janitors, supplies, supervision, etc., was $15.53 a year; In 1918 it was $42.78. Sixty years ago the average salary of teachers in the public schools was less than $35 a month: twenty-five years ago, the average salary of male teachers was $69.62 and of female, $45.42: in 1918 the monthly average salary of male teachers was $139.76, and of the fe male teachers $84.30. And this year the average monthly salary of male teachers is about $l9O, and of female teachers about S9B. The average salary of all teachers this year is about $1,125. (To be Continued.) Yank Refused to Retreat [From "The Truth About Chateau Thierry" by Alexander Woolcott „iti the Home Sectorl At this time arose the great legend that General Bundy then command ing the 2d Division had met the French order to retreat with a re sounding refusal: "Itetreat h?ll, 1 just got here!" Which story born of the mood of those wonderful days spread like the flu from continent to continent. It was not true. But it was not sheer invention. Captain Williams, of the marines, getting into position with his company on the first day, was met by an excited French officer who told him that the order was to re treat, which, as far as the French troops were concerned, was quite true. And Captain Williams told him to go to hell. He did not know that he was mak ing a historic remark. When he re ported what he had said by runner to regimental headquarters it was not in the spirit of one who proclaims to his superiors. "Oh listen; 1 have just done a wonderful and coura geous thing." Far from it. He had spoken out of his heart, and then fearing that perhaps he had not en ployed the proper attitude toward on Allied officer of higher rank, he hod sent in his own report of the proceeding to beat anyone else to it. Captain Williams was wounded later, and whle he was on the operating table in the dressing statioti he was killed by a random shell. He is among the multitudinous dead who lie in the valley of the Mnme. But the tiling he said and the work lie did is very much alive. It lives nnd works to-day in the Treaty of Pence. What Did George Mean? [From the Pittsburgh Dispatch] The Guildhall speech of Premier Lloyd George in which he hinted at 1 an "understanding" of practical na | ture which should be beneficial to England and Russia, has stirred every angle of political activity among his opponents. The storm which the speech provoked in Eng land is In extraordinary contrast to the calm with which the suggestion was received and is discussed in Paris. Englishmen arc sharply di vided between those who see In the near future a working arranye | tnent with Lentne and Trotsky and j those who believe the premier mere- Ily kicked up n little extra dust to I' better conceal something else he has in preparation and which he does not want disturbed by the politicians. NOVEMBER 20, 1919. BOOKS AND MAOAZINES Abraham Lincoln, a Play by John Drinkwuter; Houghton Mittlin Com pany; $1.25. AH England lias gone crazy over the play by John Drink water, who presents the story of Abraham Lincoln in the truest anil most gripping way that either this country or Great Britain has ever seen. The play has not yet been pro duced in America, but from the tre mendous vogue which it is enjoying In London, it should not be long before American theatergoers will have an opportunity of passing 011 it. Arnold Bennett, who writes tlie in troductory note, says that it is one of the great dramatic triumphs of flic age. Beading the play, one can readily see why it has been such a won derful success on the English stage. The author has caught the true spirit of the Lincoln that we know, the pathos, the loneliness and the greatness of the man. It is a rare thing, indeed, for an Englishman to produce a play on an American sub ject which is really In a fair way to outdo any similar attempt by Ameri can playrights. The dramatic scene in the White House when the President is being urged to retire from his position toward secession is one of the most wonderfully conceived scenes imag inable. All the concentrated hate of war and suffering, all the intense 1 desire to free the slaves and yet hold ! the Union together which Lincoln I felt tire remarkably brought out. in 1 this short scene. ! The author shows supreme tact in j introducing the character Burnet Hook, fictitious Cabinet member, who I personifies all (lie antagonistic forces [against the President. AvC'W Americans, by I.icut.-Col. Theodore Roosevelt: G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York and Donilon; S2. Theodore Roosevelt, commanding of ficer of the "ilth Infantry, First Di vision, A. K. F„ is a "worthy son of a worthy father." in bis book, "Average Americans," which is pref aced with excerpts from his father's letters during the war, Colonel Roose velt shows that same keen insight into (he needs of this country, and the same courage in going right to the heart of the matter without mincing words, which his fighting sire so often showed. Going back to the days when, with his brothers, he attended the early jtraining camps under General Wood, !<'olonel Roosevelt traces the course lof American unpreparedness to the [time when we at last became in a [measure prepared; to the time when I we began to make our power felt on j the western front. 13 months after [the declaration of war. ; Reviewing the work or his own I division, the First, the Colonel tells ia most interesting storv of service |in France, and concludes with on I appeal to this country to take i ('all's Perry is a scaled book. . * . , In Philadelphia, recently, .Tudge A. W. Johnson, of Union county, I was horn up the river, made a ! speech on Pennsylvania, which at tracted much attention and started Quaker City people to reading the. hooks of Colonel 1-lenry W. Shoe~( maker, John T. Paris and others who have been endeavoring to arouse that v i Pennsylvanian of to-day to tlia | bounties of their State, which were I written down by the i travelers from overseas a century 1 |ago. Judge Johnson knows the liis-; i lory ttnd the beauties of the Sus->] iquehunna valley and he made bold, !' to tell the Philadelphlans the.y wer; missing something. The Philadelphia Inquirer toole hold of the Johnson remarks, and Geocge J. Brennan, writing: in th "Who's Who" column, has this to say 011 the suggestion: "As the out come of Judge Johnson's recent sug gestion there is'a proposition to havo., the Hproul administration inaugurate a State-wide campaign for an ex-*-; 1 ploration of Pennsylvania's natural,' industrial and commercial resources, such as that in which Mayor-elect J. j Hampton Moore proposes _"to inter-j nationalize Philadelphia" as he re-- cently expressed it.. A feature of an informally-discussed program would 1 be a wide distribution of a series of lantern slides, motion picture reels { and other reproductions of natural! scenery, battlefields, historic build-; ings, model farms, oil wells, coat', mines, shipyards and other Indus- ; trial plants. State institutions antti their varied operations, modern road I building, sucli as has been inaugu-j rated under Highway Chief Lewis* , S. Sadler's comprehensive systemj and other activities of private and! State forces. Dr. Thomas E. Pin-.; egan, State Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction, President Edwin E. Sparks, of State College, the farm lecturers of the State administration, leaders of the State Grange, members, of the Boards of Education In all' the large cities and district school boards throughout the interior of th State, are among others counted upon to co-operate in the suggested 1 educational drive that every man, woman and child in the State may "Know Pennsylvania." Dr. Sparks, by the way, was here-i yesterday and remarked that he knew of nothing- finer than to get ' the people of Pennsylvania to know their own State. "There are threo - Pennsylvanias, have you ever stopped' to think, and it is my opinion that nothing better could be done thart. to get to know them all," said he. ( "What do 1 mean by that? Well*, there is the mountain range divid—> ing the State. It's the only State so divided. And that fact operates to make an eastern section and a western section separated by moun, tains and then there are the central] mountain counties and the northern, . tier, it's an Interesting study and if we all got to know each other and each other's counties it would be a wonderful thing. And I think it. is not only possible, but with the, changes in transportation that it is very, probable that we will be able to talk of the beauties of the Stat%i that we have seen and of the delight-] ful fellow Pennsylvanians we hav*< met." Dr. Homer B. Hulbert, who hat been speaking here the past fewi days electrifying his audiences withii stories of conditions in the Far Kaar,, is a native of New England and, lived for 10 years in Springfield.' Mass. His father was a college fiesscr anil when the doctor wag) graduated from college he desired! to follow the same profession, find-.) ing the opportunity in Korea, 10,00