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MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1919
There is no action so slight or so
wican hut it mag be done to a great I
purpose and ennobled therefore; nor
i any purpose so great but that slight
Ictions mag help it, most especially
'hat chief of all purposes, the plats
ng of God. — ANON.
SOMETHING TO CORRECT
IT SEEMS almost incredible that
difteronc.es of inches should exist
in the diameter and in other es
icntial details of such emergency ap
pliances as fire hose in towns within
; comparatively short distance of
,ach other. And yet the statements
if experts of the State Fire Proven- ,
lon Bureau indicate that not many
C the more than 700 cities and bor
ughs surveyed have the same types
f couplings. Scarcely a week goes
iy but what some community is not
ailed upon to speed aid to another,
,nd the statement that firemen were
'hampered by hose" is a familiar
tatement in the news columns.
And the most remarkable thing
bout it is that there has been a
tandard recommended by the fire
xperts, the insurance men and oth
rs whose business it is to fight fires
,nd that efforts have been made to
lave it adopted. Thousands and
housands of dollars are being spent
y municipalities for modern auto
mobile fire apparatus and yet fre
uent sales of hose, are being made
rithout regard to whether the
ouplings are in accord with the
iroposed standard. The trouble ap
iears to be that manufacturers are
making their own patterns, and as
pr the man whose business it is to
ell hose, there are few to compare
rith him in enterprise.
State officials can help meet this
Ituation by getting the firemen, the
nunicipal officers and the manufac
[jrers on a better basis of under
landing.
STRIKER OUT!
r HE strike epidemic has entered
the world of baseball. The dis
ease has appeared in violent
orm in Chicago, with lighter attacks
irevailing elsewhere and the tem
peramental artists of the diamond
pave proved easy, if not willing,
Ictims. The symptoms are feverish
ro*ws, loud and incoherent demands
Dr more money and threats of leav
ng the baseball field for the corn
eld next summer. Pampered young
Duthpaws and luxury-loving batters
f the .400 class find they cannot
Übslst on any such paltry sums as
bey have been receiving—say $5,000
d SIO,OOO a year—and they demand
a living wage." Yes, sir, that's
rhat they must have, a "living
Fage," which, it is to be supposed, is
ny sum ranging from SIO,OOO to
25,000 for the season.
All very well if they can "get
way with it," but it should n.ot be
that the baseball player
K<T strikes too often is out.
MARIETTA IS FIRST
i r ARIETTA is the proud pos
y! sessor to the first memorial
* community house built in
•ennsylvania to the memory of the
>wn's war veterans. It is the gift
[ Mr. and Mrs. Henry Heistand and
n, Gerald, in memory of their son
rd brother, Lieutenant Benjamin
[eistand, who lost his life in the
ar with Germany, and will be
talntalned by popular subscription,
(ready provided.
Marietta is to be congratulated,
he era of the community house,
'hether memorial or merely utlli
irian, is here. Harrisburg must
me into line with two or three, In
irlous localities, or fall behind. The
tloon used to be called "the poor
ian's club." The community house
I the whole neighborhood's club, for
ieh and poor alike, and properly
nducted can be made one of the
reatest Americanizing agencies in
te country. Such places make for
cquaintance, acquaintance pro-
MONDAY EVENING,
motes friendships, friendships pro
mote content, and content makes for
good citizenship. We must think
iqore and more of the happiness of
those about us; more and more of
bringing to those who have them not
the means of social enjoyments and
self-improvement, and the commun
ity house is no mean agent in the
carrying out of such a program.
Marietta is to be congratulated.
One more Jump to Leap Year.
USES FOR BIG FORTUNES
IT WOULD seem, almost, that
there is a providential dispen
sation in the accumulation of
such large fortunes as those of
Rockefeller and Frlck, both of
whom recently have made over to
public uses the bulk of their mil
lions. The Frick bequest and the
Rockefellar Christmas gift of SIOO,-
000,000 to the cause of popular edu
cation indicate that these very
wealthy men have regarded them
selves more in the light of stewards
of their vast possessions than as
owners. If, as our socialistic friends
would have it, this money had been
divided up pro rata, each man,
woman and child in the country
would have had perhaps as much
as $1.75 more to spend, but it would
have been frittered away to meet
individual desires or needs and
there would have been no great
endowment funds for the future
welfare of society. Perhaps that is
the answer to the so-called swollen
fortunes about which the soapbox
orators rave.
More and more men of wealth are
coming to look upon their accumu
lated riches in this wise, and all
over the land communities are re
ceiving gifts of the kind. There
are men in Harrlsburg who should
give of their means to the city in
which they have made their money,
and many are so doing in various
ways. But the practice could be
generally encouraged by some such
agency as the proposed Harrlsburg
Foundation now In process of for
mation by a committee of the
Chamber of Commerce. The sooner
this foundation is brought into be
ing the better for the city. A dozen
projects of a public welfare nature
are crying for support at this mo
ment.
Beware not only of wine when It la
red but of whisky that may have wood
alcohol In it.
A WISE YOUNG MAN
THE country will applaud Lieut.
Belvln W. Maynard's determi
nation to leave the service of
the air for the service of the church,
even while regretting the loss to the
Nation of such a gallant officer. -
Lieutenant Maynard freely admits
that he is getting out while the get
ting is good; that he Is retiring un
der the belief that like the pitcher
that goe3 too often to the well, the
aviator who flies once too often
loses his life, and Maynard is young,
with a family and with honor
enough to satisfy any man. He has
proved his courage and skill in a
manner that has aroused the ad
miration of his countrymen. He has
played the part of a patriot, risking
his life for his country, and no
body will do other than approve
when now he chooses the safer
courses of travel and goes back to
his chosen work, with money
enough to insure him a livelihood
If properly invested and a com
petence for his old age.
Mr. Maynard is a wise young
man. He has lived to learn that
there is more than a mere plati
tude in the old saying that some
times discretion is the better part
of valor.
THE RAILROADS, TOO
PUBLIC sentiment for "daylight
saving," as expressed through
ordinances passed by the gov
erning bodies of New York, Balti
more, Philadelphia, Ilarrisburg and
other important cities of the east,
has brought the railroads to the
point of adopting passenger schedules
to conform. More than 300 com
munities in New Jersey have gone
on record as favoring the plan and
a bill is to be presented in the
Legislature to make the change of
time statewide. Practically every
city and town in Pennsylvania has
expressed preference for the "day
light-saving" schedule and the rail
roads will be conferring a great
favor upon the public by complying
with popular desire in this respect.
It becomes more and more evident
that the people of the cities and
towns do not mean to be cheated
out of the extra hour of light, and
the sooner Congress wakes up to
the error of its judgment In this
matter the better.
AT LAST!
mills of the gods grind
slowly, but their grist is ex
ceedingly fine," according to
the old proverb, and at last the Allies
are getting around to the indictment
of the ex-Kaiser and the former Ger
man Crown Prince. Frederick Wil
liam is to be tried along with his
infamous father in connection "Vith
the crime of German invasion and
Its attendant outrages against help
less humanity.
The ex-Crown Prince Is to be
brought before the bar of justice
as a common thief, which about fits
his character. Born of less power
ful parents he would have been in
jail long since. But mere thievery
is too light a charge. The honor
of French and Belgian girls, whom
he treated so lightly, demands the
extreme penalty. Degenerate by na
ture, crimlnarby instinct, Frederick
William should be £ut where he will
do no more harm. It may be safely
left to the French to see that he
and the one-time Belf-proclaimed
"war lord" get what is justly com
ing to them.
FOUTLCQ CK
*7 > tKK44|taaiua
By the Kx-Committeeman
February 28 will be the rst day
upon which candidates for State
wide congressional and legislative
nominations and for national dele
gate and State committee places can
circulate their petitions for the May
primary, according to the way Chief
George D. Thorn, of the bureau of
elections in the State department,
has figured out the operation of the
amended election laws. Although
this day is some two months away
there have been numerous inquiries
for blanks and for information rela
tive to the time and manner of cir
culating such papers with every in
dication that there will be a strenu
ous primary campaign. Many of
the inquiries have come regarding
congressional nominations.
Chief Thorn says that the time
for filing nominating petitions will
expire on April 8, which will be a
change from former dates. Owing
to the large number of nominations
to be made next May and to the
delegate elections there will prob
ably be a heavy filing of papers and
the usual strenuous final dac.
The blanks for the nominating pe
titions are now in the hands of the
State printer and Chief Thorn Is
compiling a statement which will
show the time for circulating and
filing petitions, together with other
changes in the laws.
—With Governor William C.
Sproul here this week to hold a
series of conferences with heads of
State departments and many men
from other places and Auditor Gen
eral Charles A. Snyder scheduled tq
announce the appointments of mer
cantile appraisers, Harrlsburg will
be an Interesting place politically.
The Auditor General Is expected to
give out his list to-morrow or next
day. The first of the changes long
anticipated in various departments
will he made about the middle of
January.
—Situations in the State Depart
ment of Forestry are to be laid be
fore Governor William C. Sproul,
hoth in regard to operation without
a budget system and problems at
tending the contracts for cutting
timber, and the State executive will
then determine what changes are
to he made. The Commission is
scheduled to meet on Friday and at
the last meeting the proposition of
whether the meetings. In view of
the controversies which have been
waged lately over contracts and ad
ministration, should be open to the
public came up. No one has ever at
tended the meetings except commis
sioners Considerable differences of
opinion as to the management of
the Department, which has evolved
its own system in recent years, have
arisen between Commissioner Rob
ert S. Conklin and Gifford Pinchot,
a member of the commission, and
said to want a scientific forester put
in charge instead of Mr. Conklin,
who has been connected with the
department since its foundation.
—Governor William C. Sproul
has given Philadelphia newspapers
and politicians something real to
talk about in the flat-footed way in
which he came out in support of
Mayor-elect J. Hampton Moore at a
dinner in Philadelphia. Ever since
Mr. Moore announced that he pro
posed to put adamper on the blazing
factionalism among Republicans
in Philadelphia he has been em
broiled with Vare leaders, including
Senator David Martin and other
puissant personages. Now the Gov
ernor has bluntly said he is behind
Moore and says it this way, accord
ing to the Philadelphia Inquirer:
"Following a complimentary remark
on the class of men that Mr. Moore
has selected as his political asso
ciates in the various city depart
ments, Governor Sproul said: 'I
want to say something to you,
Mayor Moore, and maybe some
folks will consider this the import
ant thing, that while we don't want
to interfere in local affairs, we do
realize that to work out the plans
which you have in mind, and that
the people expect of you, you have
to have harmony and undivided po
litical support in this town or you
won't get along as you ought to get
along. In support of that, I want
to say to you here that the State
administration will uphold your
hands and do everything we can to
help you, and that nothing, in ap
pointments or anything else, will be
done in this town without due re
gard to their effect upon your ad
ministration and the great work
which you are trying to do."
—The battle between Republicans
and Democrats for control of the
register of wills office in Columbia
county, which is rapidly losing its
reputation as a Democratic strong
hold, is entering on another stage.
Judge John G. Harman, of Colum
bia county, has granted the motion
of a number of qualified electors of
Bloomsburg seeking to have the ex
pense account of Clyde S. Shuman,
of Bloomsburg, declared to have
been elected Register and Recorder
of Columbia county at the recent
election, audited. Attorney R. O.
Brocway, of Berwick, was named
auditor. This is the second step
taken by Abe H. Gennaria's friends
to contest the election of Shuman
over Gennaria by four votes.
■ —The Republicans have been led
by A. W. Duy, who came near being
elected Congressman last year In a
hitherto Democratic baliwick.
—A Northumberland dispatch to
the Philadelphia Press says: Kobert
Lesher, brother of Congressman
John V. Lusher, of Sunbury, to-day
resigned as postmaster of Northum
berland, a place which he held for
several years. It pays $1,900 a
year It is said Le3her was forced
to resign under pressure from the
Post Office Department, because of
alleged inefficiency in his work.
Rumor has been for several months
that Brother John had mado inef
fectual attempts to keep his brother
in the place, but reports from Post
Office inspectors of the poor man
agement of the office by postal In
spectors continued, it is said."
—According to Pottsvllle dis
patches, Congressman John Reber
will be a candidate for re-election
In the Schuylkill county district and
Frank J. Noonan, United States
Marshal, may be the Democratic
nominee. Noonan wants to stay In
politics and evidently sees what Is
coming to Democratic federal Job
holders.
—The Philadelphia Press, in an
article by Odelt Hauser, gives an Il
luminating story of the difficulties
that are confronting Highway Com
missioner Dewis S. Sadler and the
manner in which be is handling ad
ministrative problems such as never
arose before on Capitol Hill.
—Ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart
was congratulated upon his birth
day by many friends yesterday.
—Hasleton councilman have rais
ed an interesting question as they
have declined to advance the salary
of the city controller to the figure
row held by the councilmen, al
though it is contended that the act
of 1919 makes it mandatory.
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The Gang
[By James Carroll, in the New York
Times.]
There's a Boy Scouts' bunch on the
corner—aw, gee!
An' ta think o' the felers that usta
be there:
Brady, Bertoni, Smith an' McNair,
Scrup Dolan, Skin Harvey, Tod Heus
tis—an' me!
Them guys won't be there again,
never no more,
An' Mulin, the cop that usta get sore
'Cause we couldn't be bullied or
coaxed to keep quiet.
Can salt down his "Scattor, Now!
Yez are worse nor a Hot."
Brady went first, in the Road o' the
Ladies—
A spectacled Lieut, said that that
place was Hades,
But I guess he meant Hell in the
language he spoke.
The Jerrys sent gas to us, then they
came raidin'.
But we gave 'em a skinful, ourj
French allies aidin'.
We hammered 'em hard till they
staggered an' broke—
'Twas the first chance we'd had at
a two-sided bout— ,
But a lungful o' bullets put poor
Brady out!
Dolan went next! Say, that kid was
a dandy!
Gloves or bare knuckles he was ready
an' handy—
He could hit like the kick o' a mult:
I had height, weight an' reach on
him, but even at that.
Whenever we scrapped I played
mouse to his cat.
But a shell crossed his guard at Bois
Brule!
Two outa the gang gone, we swore
when we lost 'em—
Well, never mind that, the Jers
know what they cost 'em!
Then we played in good luck till
Marvoisin,
Where we sure gave the Jerry the
rout.
They hit all the high spots leavtn'
that place.
An' I'l say they'd 'a' won if 'twas
only a race.
I was helpin' to hasten their hurry,
An' I'd no time for lookin' about.
So I lost sight o' Harvey, but, after
a while.
We found him an' seven good Jers —
in a pile!
The rest of us held till the Argonne,
But two days o" that cost us three,
An' the pair that was left had to
fight for the gang—
Bertonl an' me.
Now I ain't sayin' much for meself,
but that wop
Was all over the job, an' wouldn't
spell "stop"
"Til a raft of Hun bullets from a
cammiflaged nest
Gave him the nudge 'twas his turn
to go west.
Seven good guys gone out! an'
there's only me knowin'
That though they wasn't no heroes,
v they made a good showin'.
They didn't get no citations nor no
crosses de gare,
But, while they lasted, them fellers
was there! !
Seven outa eight—ye can't call that
bad!
They took what was comin' and
gave all they had,
An' none could do better than that,
you'll agree—
Besides, there's left only three-quar
ters o' me!
Public Benefactors
[From the Wllkes-Barre Record]
For generations to come the public
will be benefited by the munificent be
quests contained in the will of Henry
C. Frick. In the pleasure to be given
to admirers of art, in the help to be
rendered by increased educational
facilities, in the comfort to be
afforded to the people of Pittsburgh
b/ additional park and recreation
advantages, the millions set aside
for the public will yield results the
scope of which cannot be estimated.
So many persons of wealth are
distributing large parts of their for
tunes for public uses either during
their life-time or in the form of post
mortenr\ bequests that it is evident
that they are impressed with a sense
of responsibility towards the public
that makes selfishness appear all the
more as a personal reproach. It is
the privilege of every person of
wealth to tie up his millions in
family inheritance, but when that
is done the public is plainly disap
pointed because of the contiast. The
person who piles up tens of millions
may be particularly capable or par
ticularly fortunate, yet in a sense it
is wealth that others have helped to
create, and it is a recognition of this
partnership, that undoubtedly Im
presses those who remember the
public.
Uncle Sam Puts a Checkon Spendthrifts
Ilccau.se 53 of Every 01 Men Pant 03 Arc Dependent, Government Is
Teaching Americans to Sate.
James B. ilorrow in the Philadelphia Record.
WHA' fore you don't save your
money?" one negro in Wash
ington asked his grasshopper
friend. "When you git ol' you'll
need it."
"But Ah won't live to be ol,' " the
grasshopper replied, and then he
danced a pigeonwing and laughed
as only an African can.
Of course, thoughtlessness is at the
roots of most instances of personal
improvidence.
Something good is always going to
happen—as, happily, visions are
seen by most people. Next week I'll
pay my debts. Next month I'll be
on the road to wealth. Or, looking
at the matter humorously and care
lessly, next year I may be dead.
But at any rate the Government
has taken a hand in this situation
here in America. In an effort at fin
ancial evangelization the secretary
of the treasury called on William
Mather Lewis for assistance.
Since early last summer Mr. Lewis
has been director of the savings di
vision in the treasury department.
He is the man who is now directing
the sale of thrift stamps, war sav
ings stamps and treasury saving
certificates in all parts of the coun
try.
The Majority Improvident
Here are some cold facts about
our improvidence which Mr. Lewis
sets out:
"Of the 3,000,000 widows in the
United States over 65 years of age
1,000,000 of them lack the bare ne
cessities of life and 1,700,000 of the
others lack its comforts?
"So much for the women, who in
poverty have reached the closing
days of their stay on earth. Of
100 males who are born, the 6 4 who
attained the age of 25 are living at
65. What is the state of the 64?
Five are wealthy, six are self-sup
porting but must work for a living,
and 53 are dependent upon their
children, their relatives or charity.
"More than 5,250,000 persons in
the United States are compelled to
ask for food, clothing, fuel and med
icine each year—one in every 20 of
our population. These figures do
not include the Inmates of poor
houses or of asylums for the deaf,
dumb, blind and insane. Every tenth
person who dies in a large city is
buried in the potter's fie'd.
"Now we shall never. b<? as solid,
prosperous and self-respecting as
we ought to be if we, as a people,
continue to spend all that we earn.
Idealism Run Wild
[From the Kansas City Star]
During the war the War Depart
ment coddled the radicals who not
only refused to fight, but tried in
every way to obstruct military pre
parations. Secretary Baker wrote
the President that he was doing all
for them "that public opinion would
stand." He installed as assistant Mr.
Keppel, who made them his special
charge and virtually destroyed dis
cipline in the prisons where they
were confined. Finally there were
wholesale discharges of these pie
cious slackers with back pay.
■ It was a notorious fact that the
war labor board was the refuge of
the lunatic fringe during its exist
ence. Men who were wholly out of
sympathy with American institutions
were certain of being taken care of
at Government expense as investiga
tors.
Now it is disclosed that the Com
missioner of Immigration of the port
of New York, F. C. Howe, was the
particular champion of foreign re
volutionists who, finding It too dan
gerous to continue their trade at
home, had taken advantage of the
freedom of America to conduct pro
paganda for the overthrow of this
Government.
The watchman set to guard the
gate not only threw it open to the
reds who sought to destroy the
Government, but he undertook to
overrule his superiors and prevent
the deportation of the trouble
makers after they had been found
cut.
For the continued policy of sub
ordinates the President cannot es
cape responsibility. The policy of
tolerance to the revolutionary foes
of nil that America stands for can
be explained only as another example
of that Impractical Idealism that Is
as dangerous to the national life as
the blindest bourbonism could pos
sibly be.
' We should be humiliated when we
think that only 108 Americans in
, each 1,000 of our population have
| accounts at our savings banks. Italy
j more than doubles our figures. Eng
j land, Germany, France and Belgium
1! multiply our figures three times and
11 Switzerland five times."
i James J. Hill, the great railroad
j builder and manager, once wrote,
i j 'lf you want to know whether you
i are destined tq.be a success or fail
j ure in life, you can easily find out.
i The test is simple and infallible: Are
you able to save money?
j An "Orgy or Buying"
j "I know," Mr. Lewis continued,
"that the American people are now
| in the midst of an orgy of extrava
gant buying. War has turned every
thing upside down. But the reaction
; will come, from one cause or an
-5 other. The old habits will be re
sumed. But that will not be enough.
We must save more than ever here
! tofore. There are signs that we
i shall do so.
"At this moment, for example,
there are 160,000 savings societies
; in the country—societies operating
under plans formulated by the
■ United States treasury. Every society
is buying thrift stamps, war stamps
land savings certificates. Labor
I unions, fraternal orders, churches
1 and Sunday schools are organizing
i j societies in large numbers,
j "There are 1,000 societies among
| the industrial establishments of
I Minneapolis. There is a Chinese so
i ciety in Michigan. There are so-!
; cietics composed of the sheep and
] goat growers of Texas. Thrift
donees, socials and parades are be
ing held in some towns. Eleven
' thousand agencies are selling stamps
i in lowa. Lessons in thrift are be
. i ing given in hundreds of public
; schools. Soon arithmetics, gram
j mars, readers nnd histories contain
ing examples, and fncts
j bearing on thrift, for use in our
! schools, will be published and sold,
j Policemen, firemen and postmen
I are selling stamps nnd buying them. l
| "And the money, $7,000,000 a
month, is steadily flowing into the
treasury. Indeed, we are to become
'.a nation of capitalists. Every man
: and women, every boy and girl, al
, most, is going to be the owner of the
11 securities of the Government. At-
I taehment to the Government is to be
practical as well as sentimental,
i Nothing better could happen,
either for the Government or the
people."
After All, Let Georqe Do It
[From the Kansas City Star.]
Attorney General Palmer's cam
paign to reduce the high cost of liv
| ing seems to have gone all the way
| around the circle and arrived at the
! point where it started. After exert
| ing the full power of his office and
exhausting every legal resource at
I his command and doing all the other
things of a familiar sound which
Government officials are In the habit
of doing or saying, the Attorney
General heads In about where it was
expected he would.
He now renounces, after a full ex
amination of the subject, that reduc
ing the cost of living is a job for the
public. It Is very simple, if the pub
lic knows how, and \yhlle the At
torney General is a busy man and
hates to be Interrupted, he will turn
from more pressing matters for a
moment and explain how. First,
communities should organize fair
price committees. Second, women
should organize and refuse to buy
everything except things they don't
want. Third, communities should
hold meeting and listen to speakers
explain how desirable economy is.
Fourth, mayors and prosecutors
should bring their Influence to bear
to prevent strikes. Fifth, the four
minute speaker should be brought
out again to entertain theater
audiences.
In other words, let George do it.
That's us, George is. Our Job Is to
do any little thing the Government
can't do. The Government talks
about it, rolls up its sleeves at it,
shadow boxes with it and then walks
off and leaves us to do it. Mr. Pal
mer, who has gayly handed this
little Job along to us. Is a candidate
for President, too. He wants us to
believe he can lead us out of all our
troubles. By leadership we suppose
he means he would tell us what we
ought to do in case we needed any
thing done.
If Mr. will excuse us wo
have, a different idea of the leader
ship we look for in a President
DECEMBER 29, 1919.
Europe Goes On
[From the New Tork Evening Sun. 1
The speeches of King George V of
England, of his Premier, Lloyd
George, and of the French Premier,
Clemenceau, have expressed three
practically simultaneous views of in
ternational affairs. All three speak
ers coincide in offering UB a picture
of the British and 'French nations
moving systematically together to
put the Old World in order.
Clemenceau informed the French
Chamber, for instance, that it was
intended to sustain systematically
the buffer states on the borders of
Bolshevik Bussia, notably Poland
and Rumania. He gave assurance
that French and British diplomacy
were at work to settle the disposal
of Flume, a less vast but nearer
source of possible future trouble for
the leading parts of Europe. The
King expressed his expectation that
the co-operation now going on in
Europe would be long continued.
In none of the speeches appeared
any suggestion that could be turned
into warrant for a belief that the
affairs of Europe had suffered ma
terially by the abstention of the
United States from the League of
Nations. The policy of Britain and
France, on the contrary, is seen to
take its course much as it must have
with the United States as a League
member.
As between the statesmen's and
rulers' declarations of to-day and
those of a few months ago, one dif
ference deserves note. No one now
speaks of the finality of each mo
ment's arrangements. The period
for negotiating permanent treaties
draws toward its close. It leaves
the leaders abroad with a growing
sense of the need for continuing
activity to settle matters that elude
summary treatment and call for
gradual action. This is quite con
trary to the tendency of a League
of Nations, which literally construed
would have removed the powers of
contjnuing action largely from the
leading nations to put it into the
hands of synthetic political crea
tions such it sought to bring into
being.
Interpreted Feelings
f!* rom the London Times]
The Blackfriars Club gave a peace
commemoration dinner recently at
n® Monico. Captain Bruce
i>airnßfather, responding to the
toast of •The British Imperial
1 oices, said that when he started
drawing pictures he was merely in
terpretlng what British soldiers were
feel l ng—- what "ole Bill" and "Bert"
and Alf were thinking and say
ing at the time. He drew his first
picture at "Plug street," and he
wrapped it up in old newspapers and
posted it to London, and then for
got all about it. in course of time
he received a letter and Inside he
ceived * check—the first he had re-
Not Welcome
[From the Houston Post ]
A youngster of three was enjoying
a story his mother was reading
aloud to him when a caller came
In a few minutes his mother was
called to the telephone. The bov
turned to the caller and said: "Now
you beat it home."
— 1—
The Birth of Jesus
Now when Jesus was born in Beth
lehem of Judea, behold, there came
wise men from the east to Jerusa
lem. saying, Where is he that was
born king of the Jews? for we have
seen his star in the east, and are
come to worship him.—Matthew ii
1 and 2.
| VEIL KNCTO PEOPLE ~)
—Joseph H. Taulane, assistant
district attorney of Philadelphia,
who has been ill, is able to resume
his duties.
William H. Kcffer, prominent
Reading railway official, is ill at his
home in Readirf.
—W. S. IVfcDowell, the retiring
mayor of Chester, intends to con
tinue his interest in politics.
—Dorrls Fulkman is the new head
of Lawrence county school directors.
I DO YOU KNOW
—That Harrisbnrg will have a
convention or State-wide meet
ing almost every week in 1920?
HISTORIC HARRISBCRG
—Harrlsburg manufactured steam |
engines back in the twenties.
Eotttutg (Eljat
The oldest house In Dauphin
county, for well nigh 190 years stand
* near wh ere the western road
winds over Peter's Mountain from
orLJ aU . ey of Picturesque Clark's
"®f h k '. ,B °t entertainingly de
mlde a y aluable contribution
IJiu to the written history of Penn
sylvania s capital county in a
by Prof ' Nevin W. Moyer,
ifj Vfldd J? town ' who comes of the
Pioneer Moyer family in Lower P&x
ton and who served with distinction
iili i ran rif, M a memb er of the 108 th
Heldl artillery. Thls houae , of which
Prof Moyer writes as "Peter Al
en s, is none other than the coun
try residence of Christian W. Lynch
president of the Harrisburg Foundry
and Machine Works, known now as
Edgewood and possessing a story all
£i£ Wtha . t outrlval the homes of
t°£\ Ha " iß and Wllll m Maclay
which still stand in Harrisburg, at
testing the sturdy character of colon
ial building and the firm belief of
their owners in the destiny of the
city which they laid out when the
echoes of the celebration of York
town were still ringing over the land.
' u nry w - Shoemaker, owner of
the Altoona Tribune and an author
and historian by love of has
written for Professor Moyer a fore
word, in which he sets down some
facts about Dauphin county history
that ought to be taught in the
schools instead of being treasured
in monographs and handed down
from father to son. Col. Shoe
maker supports Prof. Moyer's con
clusions and newspaper practice en
tbles him to establish vital consider
ations of date and ownership, so that
the pamphlet, all too short to the
student of local history, can be taken
is about the last word on the sub
ject.
• • •
Prof. Moyer writes that this stone
house, now a most attractive coun
.-ry home, was standing June 9, 1729.
I*hat is its earliest appearance in the
i ecords and it is often referred to Ire
those of later years. Prof. Moyer
says that whet; the boundary of old
Paxton township was surveyed that
year, which readers of this column
will remember was also the year of
the formation of Derry and Hanover,
the genesis of Dauphin county, men
tion is made of the house by the
men who ran the lines. He believes
that the house dates from 1716 and
that such year will be found or? the
stone in the gable. The late Dr.
ki ?? id that Peter Allen was prob
ably the first white settler in what
is now Dauphin county north of
laxto n creek. He must have been
a man of substance or he could not
have built such an enduring house
Tn,° r ? a r nted U ,n a manner that
still challenges the admiration of the
antiquarian. Mr. Allen's name turns
up in a good many deeds of that
section of the county and especially
in the region back of Dauphin does
apbears as selling. Men who have
studied Dauphin county believe that
John Harris came here on trading
or exploring expeditions about 1705.
French traders were active on the
west shore of the Susquehanna be
fore 1700 and Chartier, who gave
his name to a part of Allegheny
county, is said to have had a post
near what is now Lemoyne before
William Penn had visited Philadel
phia. The date of Harris' definite
locating here is given about 1717 sc
that Peter Allen must have been
settled in Clark's Valley before Har
ris set up his trading warehouse and
started Harrisburg on what is now
200 years of history. The John Har
ris mansion at Front and Washing
ton streets Is a quarter of a century
younger than this old house of Peter
Allen's and the Maclay mansion at
Front and South streets, now the
home of William E. Bailey, was
built years after.
• • •
Peter s Mountain and Clark's and
other valleys of Central Dauphin
county are rich in history if some
one could only take the time to col
late it. From the top of Peters
Mountain, which is crossed by a
couple of roads, one much used
while the State was rebuilding the
river road from Dauphin to Clark's
Ferry, a person can see several stone
houses which go back more than a
century. Indeed, there are few sec
tions of the county which give evi
dence of having been settled by
more substantial people. This sec
tion seems to have been the home
of more than well to do settlers and
in later years was a center of iron
manufacture on a scale that recalls
the Iron master and his lordly ways
of the thirties, where coke hod not
become familiar fuel and wide tracts
of woodland were needed to furnish
the charcoal. There are a number
of families which could be men
tioned as owning much land In this
district, one of whom, the Berryhllls,
gave name to a Harrisburg street
and none of whom now lives here.
in tracing the history of Peter Al
len's house. Prof. Moyer goes into
much detail regarding the title to
the land, which he states was patent
ed in 1734. Years often intervened
between settlement nnd patent, as in
the case of John Harris. He also
refers to the fact that the Gtrty
family land adjoined Peter Allen's,
recalling to mind that the renegade
of early days was black sheep of a
family that had early settled !i this
valley. He mentions the mill of
Col. Timothy Green, one of the early
patriots and a Hanover Associate-,
which is still standing and brings in
a wealth of local history that should
be in the minds of many people who
do not know the record of Dauphin
county in dnys that tried men's fiber.
After Allen died the property had
several changes of ownership and
like most big houses <)f early days,
became a tavern or stopping place
on the highway, but Its list of guests
showed that it must have been a
famous place for sojourning on trips
up the river. The hall room was the
biggest place in the establishment,
showing that it was not only a place
of entertainment but of community
gathering. John Penn, Conrad
Welscr, Spangonbsrg and Zlnzlndorf,
Shickalemy, the groat Indian and
friend of Weiser, the Duko de la
Rochefoucald, who wrote the first
description of HarrlsbOrg, calling it
a town of taverns, a tribute to its
importance as a transportation cen
ter; David Bralnerd, the missionary;
Col. Benjamin Chambers, who
founded Chambersburg, and many
others whose names tell of their ac
tivities In the formative days, were
frequent visitors. Peter Hocker,
Benjamin Umberger and Benjamin
Moyer were among the landlords.
• • •
| The place was bought some thirty
I years ago by the Cofrode family and
I remodeled, Mr. Lynch purchasing
It later.