14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 'iL+KEWSPAPER FOR THE IIOUE Founded 1331 eveninga except Sunday by THB TELEGRAPH PRINTING to. ' HulidloK, Federal Sganrr E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief !$f7R. OYSTER, Business Manager tJfcUS. M. STEINMETZ, Managing iiditor R. MICHEXER, Circulation Manager Executive Board ig.lP." McCULLOUG.i, N BOYD M. OULUSBY, F._ R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. I of the Associated Press—The * Associated Press is exclusively en- J titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to Si it or not otherwise credited in this a. paper and also the local news pub e lished herein. •{All rights of republication of special •; dispatches herein are also reserved. u>- J - Member American Pub- lation anil l'enn * J iOI Si 83f |R Eastern off k t * Avenue Building. - Chicago, Ilk S >i 2Jntered 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. ■ THURSDAY. DECEMBER I, l#t9 * Burning the candle at both ends is V poor wail to male both enits meet, t— Anon. "A LIVE ORGANIZATION T* HE program for the com ins year, as outlined by the Cham ber of Commerce in the Tele graph yesterday,indicated the type of live-wire organization that has been developed by the business men of the j etty for the upbuilding of the coin-j m unity. Nor does the Chajnborj merely outline what should be done; I it acts, as its record the past few- years plainly shows. Take the Penn-Ilarris Hotel ns a sample of its concrete accomplish ments. Not only lias it given its a hotel of which all may be proud, gut has made a very good invest ment for the men who were patri otic enough to put their money into It, many of them merely for the benefit of the community and with out much thought of financial return. Another type of work is the housing problem now under consideration, with'every prospect of a successful aolution. Still another service of similar nature is being performed through the housing bureau of the organization, which is a clearing house where all manner of informa tion is gathered for the home seeker. There the prospective ten- ant is brought into touch with the empty house, if there be such avail able. and the assistance is given free and gladly. Along this line, aJso, is the community service branch, just Inaugurated to take over the work the War Camp Community Serv ice. with Mrs. Ley in charge. • It is a favorite saying of fault finders that "Chambers of Commerce talk a lot. but seldom do nvueh." No such thing can be truthfully said of the Harrisburg organization, and when it outlines a program for action during the coining twelve months, judging tlie future in tlie light of past experience, it fully means to do everything it has set out to do in to far as possible within Hie period >reserihed. That it has clearly sensed the prime needs, of the com munity is another matter for con gratulation and commendation, for tydth the best intentions in the world wid unbounded energy to do. all its pfforts would be in vain if it had not planned righl. Watchful waiting has developed •uto painful waiting. : GETTING RICH NOTHING could better illustrate the boundless opportunities open for even the humblest in America than the recently made pffblic will of John Mitchell, former head of the United Mine Workers. Hiowing he had accumulated a fortune of nearly a quarter of u mil-' ion dollars. Also, this very substan tial estate is an unanswerable refuta tion of the oft-ljeard assertion that men get rich only by grinding others down, for Mr. Mitchell, it is admitted by everybody, was one of the most notable leaders of the uplift move ment in the world and a inan of ex emplary character, trusted by all a.nd respected even by those who did not always, agree with his conten tions. It will not be denied that the mine thieftain got his money*honestly and jot at the expense of other men. It must be accepted then, as a fact, that be was shrewd, tireless and thrifty, and that given these three qualities any man can succeed in laiing by sufficient to tide him over the rainy day that always conies, if not to attain to riches. Mitchell started work at wages that workmen of to-day would re gard as impossible. But he saved money. Part of his pay, it is said, went into the bank no matter what his earnings were, and after a time he had enough to make an invest ment. All through his life he worked, and worked hard, but he also made the money he had saved work as hard as he himself did. Thero is nothing •IHUHSDAY KVENING. phenomenal in what John Mitchell did. Any man can have money if he is content to sacrifice and save. The trouble with most Of us is that we want to eat our cake and have it, too, which is an age-old problem that nobodv has as yet been abla to solve. A PLACE IN THE SUN PRESIDENT WII.SON has at length found his place in the sun, and a daily sun bath forms part of his convalescent treatment. It is to be hoped that his national ism will strengthen as he recuper ates in mind and body. It takes Old Sol to dispel the visions conjured up by Luna. Jurors striking for more than $3 a day remind us of the good old days when there was a scramble for jury duty at $lO per week. "FROM INSIDE" ONE of the plans of the Bolshe vists calls for the destruction of all jails. Let them begin the attempt from the inside. A FOUNDATION TALK before the Associated Aids at the annual meeting this week favoring the creation of a Har risburg Foundation is in line with what the Telegraph has urging for some years, but. of course, such a Foundation by the very nature of things would have to cover much more than the charities of the city i if it were to perform its proper func tions in the community, and doubt less that was the larger thought behind the discussion. Some progressive American cities already have received through such | foundations, administered by duly chosen representative and responsi ble persons, millions of dollars in bequests, not only for charitable pur- I poses, but for the development of all j manner of welfare projects. Parks, playgrounds, works of art, commu nity clubhouses, fountains, these and many other useful purposes have been met through Foundation funds, and there remains always on hand money for the promotion of any community project that receives the approval of the trustees, after proper public discussion. Many persons want to leave some- I thing to their home towns upon ' lit ' . j I their death. Some have thousands. lo give and others only a hundred orj two. They refrain only because theyj either do not know what sift would be most acceptable or because the! amount they have to offer is com paratively small. The Foundation removes both difficulties. It not only receives very large bequests, but veryj small ones as well, and it leaves the] way open whereby a inan may let j to the commission the expenditure of his money in whatever way may be deemed best suited for the public welfare. 1-atge sums can be solicited in this way by Foundation trustees, who do not hesitate to ask nteu of their acquaintance or known to have considerable money to remember the city in their wills. It is becoming more and more.the! thought of men of wealth that they owe at least a substantial gift to the 1 cities or towns wherein they accu- j mulatcd their fortunes, either at | I their death or before, and the fact] that HarrWburg, for example, had! such a Foundation would be an en- j couragement and a canstant reminder to the timid and the thoughtless. We' 'should have such an institution, and !it should be broad enough to take In every proper welfare enterprise or j other project for the good of the Iwhole community. If this sugar shortage keeps up our j Christmas cake is likely to he all | dough. ! A CHURCH CENTER j I*-y\11 ItISUFTIC is becoming more I —l and more a church center, just us it is the heart of business jand transportation for the whole (Central Pennsylvania district. This is illustrated by the meeting here this week of all the high officials of the l.'nited Brethren Church iu the country, gathered to transact (he business of that growing denomina tion for the coming year. At this time the Church Federa tion for the district has its head quarters here, the United Evangeli cal and the Church of God publish ing houses and many of' the high officials are locuted in Harrisburg, and this is the see city of the Har risburg diocese of the Roman Cath olic Church and the Harrisburg dio cese of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Few cities in Pennsylvania can cluim residence~to more distin guished churchmen and chimb etuis than ee ■ CK By the Ex-Committeeman Notwithstanding the activity of friends of General Leonard Wood in several of the counties of Penn sylvania, people at the Capitol be lieve that the Keystone State delega tion to the next llepublican National convention will go unpledged. A number of the men spoken of as likely to be candidates for delegate in districts will only run on that busis and the political forecasters here say that they do not think any thing will cause that prospect to change. Governor William C. Sproul will not be a candidate for President be tore the Republican voters of the State. Dike many of the other men mentioned for the honor, he will be receptive and nothing else. The Governor will be one of the delegates at large himself, as will Senator Boies Penrose. The Wood boomers have been working in the big central districts where there was such a strong Roosevelt sentiment in 1912 and are in hopes that it can be revived in favor of the general. Date reports are that they have not made much headway. B. p. Ruth, a Reading Roosevelt man who has been much in politics in the Berks county capi tal. is the only Wood delegate to an nounce. Some eorts to get the gen eral to make speeches in Pennsyl vania may be made. —Remarks of Judge S. B. Sadler in the Cumberland county court yes terday to the effect that if supervis ors did not have time to attend to the public business they should re sign, will have considerable effect in the State. Judge Sadler was told by some supervisors that they found they could make more money husk ing corn than working on highways, and received a stinging retort from the Judge, who held that at this time when efforts were being made to meet the demand for good roads officials elected for that purpose should attend to business. —Election of Charles D. Wolfe, assistant State Pi re Marshal, as president of the Young Men's He publican Club of Williamsport. means that there will be ginger in jected into that noted organization. The club will have a big Lincoln Bay diuner, its annual function, and has invited Senator P. C. Knox, Gen eral Leonard Wood. ex-President William Howard Taft and Attorney General W. i. Schaffer to be its speakers. The club's .Lincoln Buy dinners have been occasions lor some speeches and some of the men now prominent in State affairs made debuts on such occasions. I—John1 —John G. Neithammer, re-flected chief of the Reading tire department, is one of the well known firemen of the State. He is one of the few to be re-etected to that place and in cidentally Reading is one of the few cities which have lire chiefs selected ' by the tire companies. —Simon Grata, the veteran Phila delphia school director, shook up things yesterday when in a speech he denounced critics and said that some of the people throwing bricks ought to go out and shake hands with thetnselves for the havoc they had wrought. Sheriff H. C. Ransley may be backed by the Vares to succeed Con gressman Moore in the lower bouse of Congress after January 1. The mayor has not been heard from, but it is doubtful if Martin and Lane would be for Ransley if Moore was against him. —The Sprou! defeat of the Mc- Clures in the Chester school board election means a serious check for the old leaders of that city. —Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia, evidently does not intend to let gubernatorial and other bees bother him. Speaking of the new mayor's speech at Atlantic City the Philadelphia Bulletin says: "Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore will let the dim future take care of itself and pay attention to the busi ness in hand—that of being a good mayor. He will not be turned aside from that purpose by siren songS telling him of preferment awaiting him in the form of higher offices. This was the burden of a short ad dress he made last night at a dinner given in his honor at the New Wil lard by Congressman Isaac Bacha rach, of Atlantic City. 'Some have suggested,' said Mr. Moure, 'that my election as mayor of Philadelphia is but a stepping stone to higher hon ors. They begin too early, I will not be deviated from the big job on hand by any illusionment with re gard to the future. No. T am not listening to the siren now, and am not likely to.' " —The Evening Eedger lias been studying the situation created by women getting the vote. Taking the recent row in the Philadelphia Wo men's Republican Club as a text, it says: "Politicians in this State have been dreaming a sweet dream. Any student of political undercurrents knows that efforts began a year ago to mobilize feminine sentiment of the State in behalf of the different parties in order that when the fran chise became universal large blocks of votes would be ready for delivery as necessity arose." ■ Reorganizing National Guard (From Philadelphia Bulletin.] Appointments thus far made for officers of the reorganized National Guard of Pennsylvania indicate that the Governor intends to put it on a better basis than ever. Only men of experience in the late war, and. for the most part, those who were in active service in France, have been chosen. It is an open secret that the Adjutant General's office at Washington has taken a deep inter est in the subject, even to the rec ommendation of certain officers. It is also no secret that many of these officers have accepted only as a mat ter Of duly and at great personal sacriiice. , One reason .why seasoned men are needed is that the reorganization is to bo thorough. At least one com plete division is to be organized on the regular army basis and in ac cordance with the now art of war. It is noteworthy that the War De partment wants fSu.OOO,OOO for the National Guard for the coming year, which would mean about $7,000.- 000 for this State. That ought to be enough to make the Keystone Divi sion efficient in a short time. France Wants Canada's Fleet [From the Toronto Globe.] The French government is said to need ships so badly that she has even offered to buy the Canudian gov ernment fleet at its cost to Canadu dollar for dollar. That offer, it is understood, has been refused. The Terrors of Ruin [From Centralia (Wash.) Chronicle] We were shaved this morning by a drunken barber, and be cut its. "There." cried we. "you see what drink does," HAWUSBURG TELEGHTXIft THE DAYS OF REAL SPORT ByBRIGGS foH- ' mu R A BUShLA hick-rv / \ y \AW| . |\Jt>T 5 ' A BUSHLA S L l \ A / / WALLS AMt> A BUSH LA A \ ivn \ \| \\ y}\ / |, I V haiels --.'N I KNOW// \]m Lr/ ( LofSMofte / fek. 'i . s|M IJ ml||| NOT A CURE-ALL • Samuel Crowthcr in tlie World's Work. WHEN eminent citizens advo cate the equal representation of the employer and the etn plove and presumably therefore equal authority in management, and in the same breath talk about deal ing justly with complaints and re taining well-trained employment managers, and so forth, they are disc cussing an equality which can exist only as a pound may equal a quart. The chief engineer is, in his way. as important as the captain, but he does not navigate the ship. If we believe, and most of us do beliete. in the private ownership ot capital, then we cannot go beyond repre sentative regulation and into demo cratic control- * * J liat ' r f p \ sentatlon in industry is good is no longer open to question, but it . equally not open to question that mere representation as such is ot particular moment. tH A great many employers would like to think that merely starting up some kind of a representative system will solve all the problems of Indus try—that it will substitute .for natural leadership or skill. It will do nothing of the kind, as experience has amply shown, and the onl> r £ a " son for the many unreasonable nectations of the results to flow from representation is that the has not been visualized in its en- U Tinder our capitalistic system the wages of both capital and labor• are paid out of production, and out of nothing else. Capital does not pay wages."and it could not pay them for more than a week or two at the most, even if it wanted to any more than a camel could live indefinitely on its hump. Without produc ion the dlcussion of wages or "° rking hours or conditions is acu emic o f T existJnce ne in dustry. then, is valuuble when lUu i It is a means to an end and not an end in itself. Scwfoundlund Rii'h in Iron [From the London Mail] Lord Morris in a lecture at St. John's Wood Presbyterian < hurch, Marlborough-plaoe. I ' on<^" n ' scribed the development of New foundland for the last hundred vears. "from the time of the early colonizers up to the day when that great captain of industry. Lord Northcliffe. established the great pa per mills that are now supplying the TRnes. the Daily Mail, tlie Daily Mirror and the Sunday Pictorial Wl |!e said'that in Newfoundland to dav there were many paper propo si ions" quite as attractive, if prop erly developed, as that of Lord Northcliffe and his brother, Lord H There" were also sufficient fish on the Newfoundland banks and along the Newfoundland and 1-a.brador shores to feed the whole ot the British Empire. They had only touched the fringe of that great fishing industry in which _^' e possibilities of cheap food for Eng ,B,|?ord Morris drew an attractive picture of wonderful mlnehil pos sibilities. showing that Newfound land was the second largest pro ducer of iron in the British Em pire. England coming first. There was enough iron ore to supply all the needs of the British Empire and of the world for the next hundred yea rs. Just Away just to have you away. John, Is trial enough for me. I promised you not to mind it- Who counts this perjury'? It wasn't the war that claimed you. It wasn't the largest call; I promised you not to mind it- Yotl're just away. That's fill! Just to have you away. John. What struggle to stiile tears! You said it wouldn't he long, John — A week is a thousand years. And yet, it you came in smiling. I'd tease you a little, I know; "Why did you hurry your trip, John?" — For women are made just so! —Emily Louise Whiting In the New York Times. As a Special Favor [From Punch, l.ondon.J Members of the Surrey Volun teers on being disbanded were told that they could keep their over coats on payment of one pound, tt is h4P<d that thev mar also be allow ' • ii t - next war on pay l IVI*. • D'OLIER ORGANIZED THE SALVAGE CORPS IN FRANCE Now llead ol' (lie Aiiierieaii Legion, lias 'filmed Down a Rig Trust Company Joli to Keep Pledge to Soldiers [William A. Met!any in tlie New York Post] WHEN the American Eegion in its recent convention at Min neapolis followed up its state j meat that it is not u political or | gtinization by electing Lieut. Col. Franklin D'Olier, of Philadelphia, its first national president, some thousands of American businessmen who know him intimately agreed that the organization proved its | contention. And since then the pol iticians have recognized tiiat if the Legion should decide 10 go into pol itics it is in position, by reason | of this election and what may rea sonably be expected to accrue from j it, to break over the limitations of the "soldier vote" and to draw | strength from several other political j groups which are said to lie form ; ng. : Four,years ago D'Olier was un -1 known as a public man outside his home city. In Philadelphia his • name generally appeared on cont ; mittees for civic betterment and occasionally for charitable organi zations. He never got into print. He never ran for office or started campaigns or movements. Yet, 1 when the leaders of such tilings wanted something done, they turned 'to him. And if the cause was worth while they generally got him. When the United States got into the war D'Olier gave himself an indefinite leave of absence from his ' yarn business and volunteered. On tlie strength of his business ability ami an engaging personality that had made him- one of the national leaders in his business he was made a captain. Then lie was sent to j France to organize tlie Salvage j Corps. Many stories appeared from time | to time about tlie \vonders worked I by this system and the millions sav ed for taxpayers* But curiously lit tle got into print about the man who was iis creative and directing gen ius. The army knew, however. So did its commanders. Witti the re sult that the captain became a ma jor and then a lieutenant colonel. \ And one day when Lieut. Col. Theo dore iioosevelt was expounding to an American general his iilens of tlie kind of organization which i should lie formed by the fighting ; men ol" the states upon their return tlie general remarked that he could put. It is hand on tlie man to do the great work of organizing. lioosevelt got some of D'Olier's history, and D'Olier got some of Roosevelt's enthusiasm. It was not ; hard to instill, because D'Olier-was for tlie legion front tlie beginning. At the end of a conference with ! Roosevelt lie promised to get into tlie movement heart ami soul, which is Ihe way he does every thing. Both men came back to tlie Our Educational Army [Harvey's Weekly.] That wus an interesting array of "national groups" that was muster ed the other day to greet the Prince of Wales on his visit to New York, and we have no doubt that he was considerably impressed by It. He was reminded of the fact that the United States within its compact continental compass is no less var ied in its racbil composition than the globe-circling empire over which his father reigns, multilist "people ami tribes of every tongue" here learn to speak the language of Shakespeare and find entrance to the realm of lawful liberty which dates front Magna t'hurta. The Prince would have seen, how ever, a far more impressive and sig nilleant demonstration of tlie same truth if lie eould have visited Camp Upton, l.ong island, and eould there have inspected the working of its Hermit Kducational t'enter, lie would there have found men nol merely of some twenty-odd but of forty-three different nutioiyil ori gins—many more than all the pro posed original members of the "League of Nations" —all laurelling in dhe same company, all using the same English language, all learning and becoming thoroughly imbued and inspired with the same princi ples of American citizenship. When We're Down We're Up [From Blighty, London.] When we arise In the morning we (ire said to "get up." We then "go . down" to our breakfast. When I "down" we are said to be "up." Who . wouldn't be a foreigner and learn English? United States at about the same time. ( Both went to tlie St. Louis convention, where D'Olier was chair man of tlie Pennsylvania delega tion. After that convention the real work of forming tlie Legion started. J Roosevelt's purl in this is widely ; known, and no invidious comparison is intended when it is stated that | D'Olier diii the work. lie opened j offices in New York and without any | blare of trumpets or publicity for l himself started to do for the Legion I wliat he did for tile salvage sys | tern—started, in short, to organize. Turns Down Fat Job When he was in the midst of this j job one of the largest trust com- I panics in New York got detailed re- I ports of what he did in France and J offered the lieutenant colonel a joli ' with a salary almost equal to that jof the President of the United : States, lie explained without turn | ing a hair that he had pledged him self to stand by the Legion for one I year and to see it started. Of course, I he might have delegated the work | of organization to somebody else, j But D'Olier's method of getting | things done is to stay on the joli | and do them. So the trust com- I putty's offer went by tlie board. The first president of the Legion j will be more than an official to pre | side at social functions. If his rec -1 ord to date may lie accepted he i will be the dynamic force in tlie or j ganization. But unless somebody. | else recognizes this and continually \ points out his achievements as his plans come to fruition hardly any i body will know it. For Colonel 1 D'Olier gets liis fun out of' tlie work i and doesn't care a snap of his finger j for the plaudits that sometimes fol . low work well done. In the Lull Business I For twenty-two years tlie colonel ; iias been known in business circles ; in Philadelphia as a man of sound | judgment and vision, lie was horn April 28. IST", the only son of Wil j liam D'Olier, a yarn merchant. The | boy went to the Van Rensselaer | Seminary, in Burlington, N. J., J graduating in 18H1. lie then studied j at Princeton, taking the A. B. with | honors, in 181)8. When lie left, col j lege he went immediately into his j father's office and four years later was admitted to the firm. Colonel D'Olier married Miss Helen Roberts Kitchen, daughter of | Theodore Kitchen, in 11)03. They have three children. The colonel ; has lived all his life in Philadel , phln. Burlington and Riverton, N. J, lie is a descendant of John Wool ! man, the Quaker preacher, and re former. and his great tinhle was Rob i ert T. Conrad, the first mayor of Philadelphia under the ronsolidu tion of 1854. Tobacco and Booze I. From the Chicago Herald and Kxantiner. ] j There may la; both alcohol and I tobacco in the "next world," accord j ing to the belief expressed liy Sir Arthur C'onan Doyle, famous writer. "What we have in both body and j mind we carry over to the 'other world' with us," Sit- Arthur says. | "There is no physical side to love and there is no childbirth, although . there Is a close union between those |ma tried persons who really love •each other, only those who have sympatny shall foregather. "The sullen husband and the flighty wife will no longer be there to plague the innocent s ßouse who • is tiie victim of the mate's disturb ing ways. It is ait sweet and peare . ful. it i.s a long rest cure after the . nerve strain of life. | "II is described as a place of joy and laughter and games and sports ; and peopled by those who are with out deformities or bodily woak i nesses. I.et no woman mourn her ; lost beauty. I.et no man sorrow for (his lost strength. All is waiting on I the other sitle. ; "Every earthly thing has its j equivalent. Scoffers have guffawed : over alcohol and tobacco, but if all I things are reproduced it would be a j flaw If these were not reproduced | also." Did You? • [From l-oulsville Courier-Journal] "Hoston people ajl speak aftec- I tionstely of the Kiver Charles." "They seem a tritle formal about their affection at that. f never I heard one call it the Charlie." DECEMBER 4. lUI9. Manxlel's Soliloquy lo Date [By Sergeant William W. Soule, Recruiting Service, United States Army.] To re-enlist, or not to re-enlist — That's the question— Whether 'tis better fo rub up against A eold, unfriendly and forgetful public In search of job which is not — • Or don the uniform once more And by re-enlisting place myself in a I Position where I may request all To go to tiie devil with their fair Promises of a warm welcome and my old Billet buck upon my return when they bade Me a tearful adieu, as I went fortli to Help niuke the world safe for de moo lacy—that Their business might flourish and their Bellies wax fat from profiteering while Our beloved country was in the throes of war, To be a soldier once again—by'heck 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished— As I gaze upon the leaden skies of an Approaching winter, the "situation that confronts" Me is appalling—; The prospects of Howling blizzards filtering through my B. V. D.'s, ' Reinforced only by a flimsy fabric of | lland-me-down Palm Beach panta loons; My heart grows faint within me and I : Pine for the flesh pots of my old company Mess—the aroma of roast beef Assails my nostrils—and I long for 1 lie pie . In which r once did revel. I This good right hand which once did my Trusty rifle grip on battle fields Of France is becoming palsied and My knuckles calloused front knock ing I pon back doors in peaceful, pan handling Pursuits which avail utc naught. Aiy once well fatted form is Wasting away because I have not The wherewith to purchase chow—; The shoes upon mine feet are grasp ing Plutocrats, they have no soles, j Bismiilah! Old Glory looks good To me, I'm on my way. London Sees Menace in '/' rains [From the I'ontinental Edition of the London Mail.] The tramway menace in London is growing rapidly. A4O million dollar scheme for linking ltp the North and .South London tramwavs is being out lined. London, the most innately beauti ful city in the world, gains moat cf its charm through its swaying roads whose glorious sweep is broken by no line of rails in the middle of the shining wooden pavement. Trams have the strange and horrible power of removing individuality from the street. All main roads with ranis have the same appearance. Fleet Street, the St ran I, Picca dilly, Regent Street, Ludgate I fill, are like no. streets in the world. The winding. twisting, untrammelled flocks of motor omnibuses only ac centuate their mad-muddled loveli ness. Place trams in thpm—tail, glittering, yellow trams—moving in a steel groove, clanging a hideous hell, inelastic, rigidly going forward —and those essentially London streets might be Eighth Avenue in New York, or a Paris boulevard, or Cliftonville High Street. Trams are essentially un-Eng lish. They are very Get man and rather American. They are exact — thov 'an only go one way, and obey a little flange of steel with immun ity. They cannot, like a young md un sophisticated motor omnibus, run past Heir corner, and. their rc.l face blushing with shame, back s'owl.v and noisily to their right course . i gait,. They cannot, owing to some min ing operation on the road, tu -n d itn a little sleeping side stieot. and thunder with Jolly abandon i . iween tin* century-old houses whoso prim windows open wide with disgusted astonishment. London owes a great deal of its charm to the motor omnibus, w filch does not disligure the street. You Tell 'Em [Front American Legion Weekly.] A detail of Florida Guard troops were standing before u company kitchen at Camp Wheeler when a Georgia convict wagon passed, haul-1 ing clay. "Hey, Sam." yelled an army-sick ' rookie to the stripe-clad negro J driver, "['ll swap uniforms with you." "Not a chance, white boy." laughed ' the convict, "Ah knows when Ah'll I git out." J lamtmg (Eljat The conscience of Pennsylvania Hea?-°venU rt l a " m , UCh hl the Stute istul jtai just closed as in for eutli ??' according to the de it,. statement of receipts at the that*'sour V " T, ! fi ' ~Venue { ™<" was 10w... n"" °. nly *<7.65, which veirs \i n known in recent In' Moneys which are paid to atate th"t" thmf Ult ' 1 \ ,y peop ' e wha after 'ivh, °! v !t to the State ■no what f. < eP 1 back ure P ut science fund as the "con unotlier . . , ,s se Parate from uhh as tho fund '"to there is n p,ud '"one.vs in which I.". ~ . ~i l question as to idenitv h'v i vn " ,unds - "nless specified en withheld and which hurt the 't he "iv.vn 1 . 1,1 ormer years Sionvi"'! i' an son,e times over small sums ° tIICIU arc made in out soc m Hllon yniouß)S' and with kind of in * Batem ? nt as to what f ' "*• ,or what year or for write I \' n,V - Cran ks occasionally wute letters about the fund and I sint'the smtl 8 , known wh,, re a man ..n I .1 at four Payments, i/nder an hallucination that he owed money before members of his family shopped Efforts to get owners and drivers of trucks to place mirrors or some anangements that will show what are hisr * ! e,n on such vehicles with the ß tts . b )' men connected with the State Automobile Division U uclT' 1 ,,. l |s eH V Sa^ ions inlt> various truck accidents have shown that they were preventable and attention the J"i ope i' atin K such machines to h ° f sonie device to furnish a Mew of the road is being invited reouirct f" 1 ? SUCh a PP''ances are ' a ', l , •' bv law - The number of ; trucks in service has increased rap idly in the last year. P omnnlt.",' 1 intc, ' Mte<l in Dauphin count \ history suggests tliut some ef ort should be made in the schools of the county to impress upon the minds of the school children the irn- L°. , ; ance . of the early stand of the settlers in Dauphin county for in dependence and the stalwart char acter of their patriotism in the earlv days of the Revolution, when tories were active in parts of Pennsylvania. It has been said that there were ?° V Harris Perry coun a' A e ", w hen you con sider the declaration of the Han over men, to which you referred in your Evening Chat column last night, it is not surprising. It would not have been a healthy country for tneni. it is a pity that something is not done to get into the heads of the school pupils of this city at least the fact that it was within the limits of their county that men re solved two years before the Dec laration of Independence to trust in God and their rifles if oppression was attempted from overseas." The Hanover declaration to which reference was made was the first in this section and was followed by two others made at towns in what is now Dauphin county. The Hanover nun are said to have met at or near Han over Church, June 4, 1774, with Col. Timothy Green presiding. The men of the Middletown quarter met on June 10 with Col. James Burd pre siding and the Hummeistown vicin ity meeting was held next day with Frederick" Hummel, fhe founder of Hummeistown, presiding. Presiding at such meetings meant charges of treason to King George of England and the fact that the leading men of each community, whose names should be household words in Dau phin county, were chairmen and the emphatic tenor of the resolutions showed of what stuff were the men who settled this county. Some interesting, ir not exactly veracious, tales are being brought in from the hills of the South Mountain region by deer hunters. There seems to be no lack of deer, but there is ap parently a dearth of hunters who can get the deer. More hunters than ever known before are in that sec tion and incidentally there are more bullets fiying'around. The reason is that many of the hunters are inex perienced in the woods and they often lire after a deer has dashed to safety, one story is told of a deer breaking from (he woods 100 yards in front of a Harrisburg man who was running his automobile to the hunting camp. .He was so sur prised he only stopped the ear. An other story tells of a man shooting at a deer which stopped and looked at him after he had tired the tirst shot. Then he ran on. tt is not generally known that, there have been more big contract ors and representatives of such en terprising gentlemen in l-larrisburg this year than ever before. They have been brought here by tlie im mense operations of the State High way Department and is now one of the high spots in such construction work. Firms which handled some of the great building projects in the New York highway system, which built railroads and trolley systems, constructed camps and depots for the Government dur ing the war lmve had their men here looking over what Pennsylvania plans to do and the Penn-Harris the night before a bid opening is a point of interest where men from some of the oiiices whose works are house hold words are to be seen. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —Frank Hall, deputy Chief of j Mines, is attending the sessions of the Coal Institute of America at Pittsburgh this week, i —A. I', i'erley, one of the men talked of for national delegate from the Willia-msport district, is promi nent in affairs of that section, and has long been a Republican. —John 1,. Gerber, the new presi dent of the York Manufacturers' As sociation, is well known to many people here. Frank M. Wallis, former Public Service Commissioner, who was here yesterday, says Krle is going to show a population close to 120,000 next j ear. —Judge F. B. Moser, of Northum berland. a Cupitol visitor, is an en thusiast on good roads. —G. W. Funics. Columbia busi ness man. heads the school board of that town. —A. I.lncoln Acker, the new Phil adelphia city purchasing agent, says there will be no "subways" in city buying while he is on the job. | DO YOU KNOW ( —That Harrlsbtirg has one of the largest per capita Sunday school enrollments of any city of its size in the country ? HISTORIC HAKUISBtfRG The lirst military company raised here was in l"7. r > and it was the second to reach Washington at . Cambridge.
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