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TUESDAY, DECEMBER SO, 101®
Not what has happened to myself s
10-day, hut what has happened to s
tthers through mc—that should he t
ny thought. FREDERICK DKEBINQ
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COLLECTING TAXES [
LTOONA has made an arrange- g
A ment whereby all city, school
and county taxes in that city
gill be collected by the new city c
xeasurer. Under the law the treas-
irer is required to collect the
Sity and school taxes, but in Altoona
the county commissioners will share
m the payment of a salary of $6,000, ■
the treasurer agreeing to turn his
Fees back to the city, school and s
jounty treasurers. Ordinarily the r
Kees of the joint offices would run c
■17,000 a year, out of which he <
Brould be required to meet all of j
Bis expenses. <
| This is precisely the situation
L-hlch was contemplated in the .
fceldleman bill, providing for a re- ]
Reiver of taxes for Harrisburg and (
Kther cities, but which measure was
Brushed by the opposition of near- 1
lighted political leaders in other :
Bounties.
I The time must come when the 1
Convenience of the taxpayer will be '
Considered as against the patronage i
tpresented in the appointment of 1
County tax collectors in every ward ,
In the city and township in the ]
Bounty. ■ ]
I Not only would such an arrange- ,
Lent be more economical, but es- .
Cntially efficient and convenient for ]
Khousands of people. It is con-
Eeivablc that even now Harrisburg
Could make such an arrangement
Knttl sich time as the Legislature
Krovides for a general receiver who
Crould be empowered to collect all
■axes. In these days of high ad-
Einistration cost, every step should I
He taken to save public expenditures
Hnd reduce the pressure upon those
Hrho must pay the freight in the
Hhape of taxes.
H High prices of hats have not pre
vented a large number being cast into
Kfe Presidential ring.
I BIG BROTHER DINNER
LIHAT was a fine thing the Rotary
II Club did yesterday, in enter
ic taining unfortunate little folks
Hf Harrisburg, to the number of
■early 500, at a holiday dinner.
Hot only fine because of the spirit
Hiat prompted it and the worthiness
Ht its object, but because the mem-
Hera of the organization laid down
Htelr own work for the day, and they
Hre a " busy men, to act as waiters,
Hntertatn the little folks, distribute
operate automobiles and make
Hiemsclves generally useful. And
■bat applies as well to the good
Bomen who helped them.
■ Xt is good for any of us to get out
H| our narrow ways of life, to see
How other people live, to extend the
Hl ess ' n ® B tbat we enjoy to some less
Hortunate than ourselves and to ren-
Her service to our neighbors. It may
He a selfish way of looking at it, but
Judge the Kotarlans got quite as
Hiuch enjoyment and Just as much
out of the Big Brother dinner
Ha did the little folks they enter-
Hflned, and that is saying much.
KTHY NOT HARRISBURG?
H_HIS city hus not given the at-
H tention to a zoning system
H Which such a system deserves in
■ growing community like ours. The
Honing movement la extending to all
Hrogressivu cities and Harrisburg
not been without sufficient warn-
aa to the necessity for soiue such
to prevent hodge-podge bulld-
here. The whole purpose of
Honing, as recently stuted by an
Hilthority on the question, is to eiv-
Houruge the erection of the right
the man v develops his
Hroperty along proper lines against
man who develops his property
Hlong Improper tinea. Rightly un-
Herstood, soiling means ih substi
TUESDAY EVENING,
tution of an economic, scientific, ef
ficient community program of city
building for wasteful, inefficient,
haphazard growth."
We leurn from a recent bulletin of
the Civic Club of Allegheny county,
that in six months St. Louis proved
the value of the zoning law, since it
prevented the erection of n commer
cial building in one of the best resi
dential districts; a dog hospital in an
exclusive residential section; a small J
iron foundry in a district occupied j
exclusively by wrfrlcingmen's homes; j
a junk yard and crematory in a resi
dential district; a factory at an im
portant point 011 one of the main
boulevards of the city.
Every yeur this city and other
progressive communities are com
pelled to engage in controversies
over building operations which
ought to be unnecessary if Harris
burg had a proper zoning ordinance.
It will be utterly impossible to create
attractive residential sections so
lorrg as the individual can erect
alongside a line home or church or
other similar building a factory or
industrial plant or other enterprise
out of harmony with its surround
ings. Chicago has provided regu
lations, through a State law, to pre
vent serious encroachment upon res
idence districts.
Here in. Harrisburg we have iir
the City Planning Commission ade
quate authority for inaugurating
proper zoning restrictions, and before
any further controversies arise on
the threshold of a great building era,
it may be suggested that our com
mission of far-seeing and practical
men should take steps to prevent
any invasion of the residenttal dis
tricts by purely manufacturing or in
dustrial plants. This is not an
esthetic matter at all. It is a neces
sity which will be recognized by all
sensible people and ought to be eas
ily Inaugurated for the benefit of
the entire community.
Town planning has become a most
important factor in the development
of the State, and its Bureau of Muni
cipalities has proved, through care
ful investigation, the imperative need
of proper control of building in all
growing communities.
Increasing population and a wider
development of our industries will
compel some official action looking
to the prevention of those mistakes
which have so frequently resulted in
the impairment of property values
and the comfort and contentment of
the people. Now is the time to take
such action as may be necessary to
avoid serious interruption of the
cohesive and wide-awake activities
of .Harrisburg with respect to its
public improvement projects and the
expansion of its residential sections.
It by no means follows that a zon
ing plan is an interference with the
manufacturing or industrial life of
the city. Indeed, those who com
prise the great industrial forces of
any community—the workers —are
entitled to such safeguarding of
their homes as is involved in the pre
vention of manufacturing activities
in the heart of residential districts.
More and more the great employers
of labor arc realising that they must
have contentment among their em
ployes if they are to have efficient
service. The humble home must
have the same protection as the
more pretentious mansion and when
the owner of the modest dwelling
locates his home where he has a
right to expect comfortable sur
roundings he ought not to be threat
ened with the destruction of his
roof-tree by the erection of an in-
I dustrlal establishment.
There is ample room in Harris
burg for home sections as well as
manufacturing districts. All that re
mains is that there should be
proper zones established for both.
"One of the problems of states
manship of this country," said a re
cent writer, "is to provide that in
the future our great cities will grow
in such a way as not to impair the
health and mentality of those who
are producing the wealth of the
country."
No proper appeal to the City Plan
ning Commission ever goes un
heeded and the people of Harris
burg can with confidence look to
that unselfish body to establish, in
co-operation with the City Council,
such a zoning arrangement as will
make a more healthful and attract
ive and modern city. It ought to
be obvious to the average citizen how
utterly futile it would be to encour
age the development of fine residen
tial districts and then permit those
same districts to be ruined by the
construction of manufacturing
plants which would destroy the har
mony of the surroundings and the
comfort of the home-builders.
As we come to the close of the
year and begin to think out the
problems of 1920. we beg to submit
that the bullying and zoning ques
tions deserve careful thought, with
a view to some sensible and prompt
! solution.
Major Frank R. Leib has left upon
this community the Impress of a use
ful and unselfish life. We can't think
of him in the passing as an old man.
Ha was one of those who refuse to
bow under the weight of years. His
erect, soldierly bearing, vigorous
mind and active Interest In the af
fairs of his later home of New Cum
berland gave no hint of the approach
of the end. but really caused hia
friends to think of him as the same
vigorous, forceful and public-spirited
citizen whom they had known for
years. Ho the announcement of his
death was n dlstinet shock.
Again taps will sound over the rest
ing place of another brave comrade
of the great Army of the Illue, as
he responds to the call to the colors
on the other side.
'POTTFXCO LK
NZA
By the Ex-Committeeman
Prom what men who have been at
Washington and in various places in
the southern and western states have
to say, there is more to the William
Jennings Bryan boom for the presi
dency than ordinarily realized. The
Nebraskan is said to have left the
matter in the hands of his friends
and to have adroitly consolidated
some of the chief oppo.nents of the
Wilson policy. Owing to the candi
dacy of Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer, it is not regarded as likely
that the Bryan boomers will pay
much attention to the Keystone
State, which has been known to play
a minor role in other conventions
where the Nebraskan was a head
iiner.
The man the Bryan men are said
to be shy otl is William G. McAdoo,
Secretary of the Treasury, and said
to be making headway in the eastern
states. Similarly the Palmer men,
who are counting on some aid for
the Attorney General from nearby
states, are also watching what Mc-
Adoo, who organized the first Wil
son campaign, has under way.
—The Scranton Times, which rep
resents up-State Democracy, is out
with a strong Palmer declaration. It
says; "It is becoming more and
more apparent that the Hon. A.
Mitchell Palmer stands out above
all his competitors as the logical
candidate of the Democratic party
for President next year. He has
not yet formally declared his candi
dacy and has done nothing personal
ity to forward his chances for the
nomination, but the people all over
the country are talking about him.
He has been the right hand of Presi
dent Wilson since he has become ill
and needed a strong man beside him.
He is being impressed more and
more upon the minds of the people
every day. Mr. Palmer is our next
door neighbor, coming from Mon
roe county. He has never failed
when called upon by the people of
Scranton to render any service. I
believe the Democrats of Lacka
wanna county to be solid for him.
The men in Washington who are
closest to Mr. Palmer desire that
Lackawanna county should be rep
resented at the National convention
by true and tried friends of Mr.
Palmer."
—Auditor General Charles A.
Snyder, who has having his own
troubles making up the list of ap
pointments of mercantile appraisers
for the first time under the law em
powering the chief fiscal officer to
select such officers, expects to com
plete his work before nightfall. The
Auditor General said to-day that he
was waiting for two or three sugges
tions from counties.
—The new appraisers will be com
missioned at once and the Auditor
General is of the opinion that the
work cannot only be greatly ex
pedited, but the collections consid
erably increased.
—Among the appointments which
Governor William C. Sproul is ex
pected to make during this week, in
addition to a magistrate for Phila
delphia, will be an orphans court
judge for Westmoreland for which
James S. Beacom, former State
Treasurer and legislator, is men
tioned, and a county Judge for Alle
gheny. Two water supply commis
sioners are also to be named.
—Several changes in the Depart
mens of Labor and Industry force
are rumored and some additional ap
pointments in new bureaus are prob
able early next month. There will
also be a selection of an assistant
manager of the State Insurance
Fund.
—Officials of third-class cities
throughout Pennsylvania are wait
ing with considerable interest de
velopments in the latest move at
Altoona, a city where they have a
habit of doing things in municipal
affairs that make the rest of the
State sit up and take notice. This
time the Mountain City has decided
to have all its taxes collected by the
city treasurer. This is something
which other cities have been trying
to do for a long time.
—The postmaster of Ridley Park
wants to quit. He is tired of a
Federal job which does not pay and
which has many annoyances. But
although he resigned some time ago
no one has been named in his
place.
—The Pittsburgh Post says that
both parties are arranging planks in
their 1920 platform to entice the
women voters.
—Mayor A. H. Swing, of Coates
ville. has declined to take an in
crease in salary. Incidentally,
Coate.wille is going to have an ad
vance in the tax rate.
—The Philadelphia Press' Wash
ington letter has this to say about
Senator Boies Penrose: "Senator
Penrose has ordered a new auto
mobile, with which to make the trip
to the Chicago convention. His
present machine, especially built for
him. large enough to accommodate
a bath tub in the tonneau, has not
held up under the strain of trips
to and from Washington and to
other parts of the country. Mr.
Penrose has used five of the cars
of this make, but at last has bought
another style, called the "G. O. P.
1920." It is building for him and
will be delivered in February.
• * According to late reports
here, Mr. Penrose is not recovering
as rapidly as his physicians de
sired and there are manifestations
of a condition which may prevent
his being very active in the coming
Presidential campaign. His plans at
present are to go South next month
and return to Washington about
February 1."
—Schuylkill county's Controller
elect, Captain John E. Schlottman
of PottvtMe. announces the follow
ing appointments: First deputy,
Charles T. Straughn. o< Shenandoah:
second deputy. Fnnk • Kantner, of
Tx>fty: clerks. . William Becker, of
Mahanoy Citv. and William Watson,
of Bhenandonh. E. D Smith, of
Pottsville. has been appointed so
licitor. Although Register Frank
Ball has made no announcements
as yet, it is known that John Reese
of St. Clair, will he appointed as
sistant clerk of the Orphans' Court
and Thomas Herb, of Pottsville, will
be appointed first deputy.
Silenced.
[From the Boston Transcript.]
A young fellow who married a
rich man's daughter was In the habit
of troubling his father-in-law with
complaints about his wife's be
havior.
"Really this Is too bad!" cried the
Irascible old gentleman one day
after son-in-law had told of new
domestic difficulties. "If I hear of
any more complaints I will disin
herit her."
There was no more.
Jobs For Soldiers
[From the Halt Bake Cltisen]
I The Reds are out to supply Jobs
for soldiers
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It's All a Matter of Choice
[From Kansas City Star]
People who go about complaining
of high prices while struggling
frantically to beat somebody else to
the counter to pay them might just
as profitably employ their minds
upon the problem of why water runs
down hill.
We go up and down the street
shedding money at every pore, and
then howl like a wolf because some
body picks it up.
"How much is this?" we ask.
"Eighteen dollars," says the sales
man; "used td be $6." "Wrap up
two of 'em," we say, "you robber."
Prices are high, but no higher than
we like to pay. When we roar that
we had to pay |ls for a hat we are
really boasting of it. Those of us
who are really ashamed of it keep
mighty still. It's the ones who are
proud of having the sls to throw
away that tell about it, and it is
those same ones who are respon
sible for the rest of us having to pay
$7 for a hat that ought perhaps to
sell for $4.
It is possible in all times to buy
high priced things, but it is only in
these times that everybody has tried
to do it. Nothing but the best for
us, by which we mean the most ex
pensive. When only the staggering
rich smoked 10-cent cigars—and
that wasn't so many years ago—
lots of people found a nickel smoke
all they needed; but because Prince
Fortunatus, who butted into an oil
well, now buys only 50-centers, the
rest of us can find no solace in any
thing less than two for a quarter.
Oh, but we're the little spenders!
We're setting 'em up to the house.
Everybody step up and have a dime
out of our dollar. Producer, manu
facturer, carrier, wholesaler, re
tailer, delivery man—here, catch!
Take it, our good man, and
spend it as you will. And as for
our little purchase, go to as much
expense as possible with it. Put it
in a fancy box, tie it with a couple
yards of ribbon and send it to our
address in an *B,OOO delivery truck.
We cannot carry it ourselves be
cause our hands are helpless in sl2
gloves.
Thus we go about with a hole in
every pocket leaving a trail of coin
which we seem to think will follow
us home. We toss out a quarter tip
for a penny service, and the recipi
ent runs after us to remind us we've
forgotten the war tax.
We go to a store where more con
veniences are provided for us than
we enjoyed at hotels when we went i
on our wedding journey, and wonder
why dollar bills are no longer leral
tender.
Wherever we go some attentive
person opens the door for us, an
other takes our hat, and a whole
bodyguard in resplendent attire
conducts us to a seat. When we get
out we are very sarcastic about
water, free in the river, being ten
cents a glass on a table. But If we
didn't get that service we'd cut that
place and go where it was to be had
—and to be paid for.
Prices are up, there is no question
about that. But they are not nearly
so high at home as they are else
where. Some old-fashioned people
(pikers, of course) who have clung
to the old custom of eating at home
say it is much cheaper that way.
Eight dollar shoes are cheaper than
$lB dollar shoes, too. And the same
with everything Pay the highest
prices if you want to, but shut up.
Be a sport if you want to, but pay.
If you can't pay be something else.
I-ots of people are something else by
choice and find it not at all bad.
T. R.'s Successor
[From the New York World.]
Letters to Santa Claus were writ- ]
ten by the children of the little Cove ]
school at Oyster Bay, and only the
older ones know that this year there
will be a new St. Nicholas.
The late Col. Theodore Roosevelt
played the part for many years, and
this year It will be enacted by his
eldest son, Lieut. Col. Theodore
Ttoosevelt About twenty-five years
ago the former President w;nt to
the teachers from whom Ms chil
dren received their first schooling
He requested that the pupils write
notes to Santa, and that they be
turned over to him. When he re
ceived them he and Mrs. Roosevelt
purchased the gifts- He also bought
bags of candy of the kind he liked
when a boy.
This Christmas Lieutenant Col
onel Theodore has the letters and
will buy the presents and candy.
The Lowly and the Rich
Let the brother of low degree re
joice In that he is exalted; but the
rich In that he Is made low; because
as the flower of the grass he shall
pass away.—James i, 7 and I.
DR. CA RREL, A MERICA N SURGEON,
IN PEACE AND WAR
(From Tlie Literary Digest)
IT was the often-exaggerated re
ports of his research and experi
mental work in surgery that ap
peared in the newspapers that made
Dr. Alexis Carrel's name familiar
to the average reader in this coun
try. But if he was thought of, some
what vaguely, as a theorist, or a doc
tor who did some remarkable sur
gical "stunts" in the way of trans
ferring parts of ono anatomy to an
other, it is now known that his work
in France in applying the results of
his laboratory work at the Rocke
feller Institute for Medical Research,
has saved the lives and alleviated
[the sufferings of thousands of wound
ied soldiers. A writer in La France
[ tells us that —
His laboratory hospital was lo- ]
cated at Compiegne. Driven out of
that town by the German advance :
early in 1918, Dr. Carrel transferr- j
ed his operations elsewhere and was
again actively at work when " the
armistice came.
Nobody knows how many thous
ands of hours of suffering were
saved by the Carrel-Dakin method
of cleaning and draining wounds.
There will always be more or less
discussion of everything of this kind
in the medical profession, but the
wounded man and the layman who
saw anything of war-hospitals in
France cannot be made to believe
that the Carrel-Dakin method is not
a huge success. What Dr. Carrel ac
complished in fighting wound-in
fection, which was almost universal
in the early days of the war. Is an
achievement no doubt shared by
others, but probably no one did
more than Dr. Carrel to reduce
wound-sepsis to a minimum.
One of Dr. Carrel's associates at
the War Demonstration Hospital
gives the following impression of
him:
Amazing vitality is the overpower
ing impression of one meeting Alexis
Carrel for tlie first time. Of less
than medium height, compactly built,
erect, and graceful, the great sur
geon gives n suggestion of youthful
ness, strength, and power. His mo
Changed
In distant fields they lie,
Young lads whom you and I
Have teased and played with sunny
afternoons,
Have kissed or flouted under gentle ;
moons —
In distant llelds they lie,
Beneath the blood-bought so'.l of
Picardy,
Their names forever set
Among the great whom Time may
not forget—
In distant fields they lie
So clothed upon with majesty,
So far —so far—
We can but view their shining as a i
star
That thrones its deathless fire
Above the puny reach of our de- j
sire—
Or love —or grief.
It seems beyond belief
That we have ever knowrr
These lads to hero-stature grown;
That these have ever been to us the
Bay
Light-hearted comrades of a sum
mer day.
—By Ida Judith Johnson.
Wives Are Breadwinners
[From the Louisville Courier
journal.]
The work of the housekeeping
wife is not listed among gainful oc
cupations, yet nowadays the woman,
who will not have a maid, because
maids can be had at fancy prices
jonly, Is no mean figure as a bread
i " ' \ n< writer upon domestic economy
asserts that a fair estimate of the
' cost of a kitchen servant is arrived
I at by multiplying the salary by two.
ito Include board lodging, fuel, "Bht
I breakage and uneconomical meth
' ads If the estimate is approxi
mately correct a $lO-a-wcek maid
Costs the householder S2O a week,
t>r $1,040 a year.
In such circumstances the house
keeper in the establishment which
j boasted two maids before the war
I and now has but one, or the house
keeper who had one maid before the
war and now hus none. !s occupied
gainfully—painfully as well —in
that the family budget may be sl.-
040 less, for the same scale of living,
than it must be if a maid at $lO a
week la added to expense.
bile, clean-shaven face is aeeentu- j
ated by the baldness of his head.
Thin, firm lips, tightly shut, would
be almost stern were it not for an |
ever-lurking smile that illumines i
his countenance even in serious con- j
versation. Behind the eye-glasses, ;
there gleam two remarkable eyes, ,
one a violet blue in color, the other
of softest dark brown. The thin
straight nose shows the keenness of |
the scientist.
Reviewing Dr. Carrel's career, ]
and also that of Madame Carrel, the j
writer proceeds:
Dr. Carrel is still young and looks
younger. He was born at Sainte !
Foy-les Lyon on the 28th of June. I
1873, and obtained his first degree!
from the University of Lyons in'
1891. Front 1896 to 1900, he was j
interne at the Hospital of Lyons j
and, from 1900 to 1902, a professor
of the faculty of medicine of the j
University of Lyons. Fortunately i
for the United States and for the I
world. Dr. Carrel came to New York j
in 1905 and soon became identified
with the Rockefeller Institute for
Medicial Research. With the re
! sources and freedom obtained in the
| Institute, he has been able to nc-
I complish those wonders which secuf
i ed for him. among other lioncrs, the
| Nobel prize In 1912 for his work in
' suturing blood-vessels and trana
| planting of organs.
| Madame Carrel is herself a trained
investigator and a surgeon of no
| mean ability. As Anne de la Motte
; she was a laboratory student of the
| distinguished French surgeon Tuf
j fier, w hen she married the Marquis
ide la Marie. Soon after she was
I widowed she resumed her labora
| tory work in a Paris hospital. There
she met Dr. Carrel and became his
I laboratory assistant at his hospital
iat Lyons. They were married in
1 1913. Madame Carrel accompanied
| Dr. Carrel to France in 1914, and
i the outbreak of the war found them
I there. He at once entered the
j French Army JVledical Service as a
| major and soon established the
i Compiegne Hospital, Madame Car
rel continuing to assist him.
Paris Needs Traffic Rules
[Boyd Cable in the Loudon Ob
server.]
It is bad enough to be held up :
when you're trying to hurry in a j
taxi in London and a brewer's dray
checks a long line of motors and
forces them all to drop to a two
mile-an-hour crawl. But it is not
nearly so unpleasant as to go in j
mortal terror of your life as you do |
in Paris every time you make a j
street crossing, to have to stand for |
minutes with a crowd of foot pas- i
Jengers whenever you want to cross j
any main and most side streets, wait
ing until a moment's break comes in i
the whirling stream of motors.
If you're off the main traffic '
streams and want to cross an appar
ently quiet road, you must look care
fully up and down, draw a deep
breath, and make a leap for it; and
then you're lucky if Just when you
reach the middle a furious taxi driv
ing Jehu doesn't swirl around the
corner, raise your hnir with a sav
age yelp on his horn, and just miss i
running over your toes.
Every kind of vehicle appears to
try to outvie the next in the loud
ness and unpleasantness of the noise
it can make. The motor cars have
hooters that wouldn't shume a full
sized factory, sirens that wail like a
lost soul in torment, horns that
scream, groan or hoot in every tone
and key and note of savagery. The
street cars have bells with a head
piercing clang and clamor; even the
pushbikes carry some sort of how
ling motor horn.
Everything moves at a most dis
i concerting rate of speed, and why
; there are not umpteen accidents a
I minute at every busy corner 1 don't
! know. Perhaps there are, and I'd
like to learn the average of street
casualties-in Paris.
The Foundling
[From Harvey's Weekly.]
In the words of Justice Brandels.
which we have quoted elsewhere,
"by the Constitution a treaty is only
a proposal until approved by the
ser/ate." The proposal was submit
ted; the conditions on which it
would be approved were attached to
the smothering mass of garments in
which the tre.aty was wrapp&d up,
, and the pestiferous Infant deposited
on the President's door-step.
But now the President himself. It
seems, has shut tho door on his offi
spring
DECEMBER 30, 1919.
The School Problem
[From Pennsylvania Farmer.]
It is to be regretted that the Leg
islative Committee of the Pennsyl
vania State Grange felt it its duty
to disapprove of the centralised
school idea. For a generation there
has been increasing complaint that
the rural schools were not meeting
the needs of the rural children, and
this complaint is well founded.
When the cause of their deficiency
is sifted down it is found to be
largely because of: 1. —Insufficient
equipment; 2.—Unprepared and in
experienced teachers; 3.—T00 many
grades for 1 teacher; 4.—Text bookr
and curriculum not adapted to the
environment and needs of the child;
s.—Either over-crowded conditions
or too few pupils to incite healthy
rivalry and interest.
Where consolidation of schools
has been intelligently carried out the
public opinion is almost undivided
in its favor. The opposition which
existed at first has almost invariably
died ofit because the results have
Justified the move. The fundamen
tal principle of co-operation which
the grange has preached for years
applies in the matter of conducting
educational work. In spite of the
I prejudice which some farmers still
I have against education, time empha
| sizes more and more the necessity
I of proper intellectual training if the
j young men and women are to be
[ able to meet the competition of the
' twentieth century. The average
j rural school of to-day furnishes lit—
i tie beyond a meaningless eighth
j grade, hence the country boy and
girl is unable to enter any higher
institution of learning without first
spending three to four years at a pre
paiatory school. With proper grad
-1 ing of school in the home districts
ali this could bo changed, besides
I making it possible to have such a
school as would provide a more or
less finished education within the
| shadow of home .
To have such schools it is neces
j sary to have something along the
j line of the centralized plan. Per-
I fection may not yet be reached in
! their development, but the leaders
I of agricultural matters have not dis-
I charged their duty when they have
| simply made a protest against a
i proposition without suggesting a
better one.
Home Owners in the State
[From Scranton Republican.]
The people of Pennsylvania are
home-builders. The fact is made
evident by a report recently issued
by Banking Commissioner Fisher,
which shows that there are 709,000
shareholders in the 2,123 building
and loan associations in the Com
monwealth.
At the close of 1918 these associa
tions had assets exceeding 3353,000-
000, and they had been factors in
the acquirement of more than 30,-
000 homes.
Inasmuch as there is every Indi
cation of an early resumption of
building, owing to the urgent need
of structures of all kinds, the report
for 1919 and for next year is certain
to show gratifying the
number of homes occupied by those
owning them.
Commissioner Fisher is evidently
pleased with the work done by the
building and loan associations but
desires additional legislation which
I will bring them more fully under
I the control of his department. His
purpose seems to be not only to make
the organisations of greater useful
ness in helping workers to purchase
their own homes, but to throw ad
ditional safeguards about those in
vesting their savings in building and
loan associations.
Montana Night
Montana night. The velvet of the
sky
Is powdered thick with silver dust
below,
A realm of half-lights, where black
shadows flow
To Stygian lakes, that'spread and
multiply.
Far to the east the Moccasins rise
high
In Jagged silhouette. Now, faint and
low,
A night bird sounds his call. Soft
breezes blow
Cool with the dampness of a stream
hard by.
Dim, ghostly shapes of cattle gras
lng near
Drift steadily across the ray of light
From a lone cabin, and I think I
hear
The barking of a dog. All things
unite
To lull the senses of the eye and ear
It. one sweet sense of the eye and
ear
In one sweet sense of rest; Montana
night.
r—By Elliott C. Lincoln. -
Hunting Qlljat
Memory of Frank R. Leib, who
died Sunday evening at his home
near the Yellow Breeches, will be
cnerlshed by many a Harrlsburger,
and yesterday and to-day there were
n . a ' ew s of men who talked
°fl* r ta e major's interesting person
,y' , h J" flrm friendships and his
splendid devotion to Harrlsburg.
Coming here soon after the Civil
1 he en listed with the
\ i Ji" and won a remarkable re
anls as everyone knew
mm, soon became prominent in ev
m,y^m? Ve 7l ent for banging Harris
nlm l he front - The strategic
.1 ° hla c,ty ,n that struggle
made it much talked of and thanks
™ le 'V. Major Lelb its people
ab, f to bold not only advan
tha^ w °re won, but to move on
riifi ' i . ere Were quite a few men
active in that somewhat trying time
r'sburg, some of whom have
J" 1 / 1 S ? me of whom still live,
and Major Lelb was one of the real
ViJ type : Not only was he in the
orefront of various movements, but
ror a time there was hardly a parade
>r a demonstration but what Frank
.-eib was chief marshal. In fact,
:s one man who knew him well said
esterday, he was the official chief
larshal for a time, the man to
horn men turned to start things,
vnother interesting fact was that
6 W il lS i quite a few years the
narshul on ceremonial occasions of
vobert Burns lodge.
* ♦ •
One of the city's oldest newspa
aper men said yesterday: "Frank
cib was always a strong booster for
arrlsburg. He was one of the com
mittee representing the old Board
. trade that was instrumental In
, , 8 ..f La'ance-Orosjean tin
late mill to locate in this city and
E WM one of the organizers of the
ast Harrlsburg Passenger Railway
ompany, a big factor in the Peo
les Bridge Company and other lo
al enterprises." The first meeting
>r the organization of that railway
ompany, by the way, was held in
he office of Mr. Leib on Third
treet. Among those who met with
dr. Leib were the late Harry M.
Celley, the late Amos Dunkle, the
ate Joseph B. Ewing, and A. M.
tudy, this city; Robert M. Sturgeon,
low of \ ork, and John Robertson, of
Uechanlcsburff. The first visit the
ommittee made was to officials of
- 'he City Passenger Railway, where
• die new projectors were informed
'hat a new railway line could not
I l >e undertaken at once. However,
i r cessary f unds were raised and
J -lie line was built, running to Eigh
. 'eenth and Derry streets In East
i Harrisburg. and to Front and Locust
• street, Steelton. Mules were used
■ to draw- the cars. This was in 1888
- xnd following the opening of the
new line, the developing of the Al
lison Hill district started. Two
vears later the line was electrified
hutting Harrisburg two years ahead
of Philadelphia in thia improvement
• • *
Baseball was a favorite sport of
Mr. Iyelb. lie was an enthusiastic
"an and at one time was a stc
holder in the Harrlsburg Basel I
Association when games were plaved
an the grounds now occupied by the
Cameron school building. Mr. Leib,
oseph Montgomery and the late Col
onel William Rodermel, were big
boosters for the National game. Har
risburg then had a baseball team
equal to any in the big leagues.
Teams from New York. Brooklyn.
Boston, Providence. Pittsburgh and
Chicago played here. Mr. Leib was
one of the stockholders that backed
the team during the year Chicago
nlayed here with Billy Sunday in
he line-up. Later he dropped out
of the game as a stockholder, but
was always ready to do his bit in
[buying season tickets or helping
with a financial contribution.
Referring again to Prof. Nevin
W. Mover's story of the oldest house
In Dauphin county, it may be said
that his monograph has received
, a . t\ orale menti °n from the
Philadelphia Press. Qirard speaks
of it as a valuable contribution and
rather wishes for more like it. Prof
L°? er 27 18 been highly compliment!
° u.w h J s work and t,le fidelity with
which he carried out his task
• • •
0t * \ h ° ' nterest 'ng facts he
brings out is that Dauphin county
was the scene of an early battle be
tween colonials and Indians. It is
known that Indians fought over Dun
can s Island and that possession of
the Gap and the ford which made
Harris Ferry were bones of con
tention among redskins, but there is
Uttlo known of the battle of 175 7
when a platoon of the Augusta regi
ment marched from Fort Halifax to
reinforce Fort Hunter and fought
what we may call the battle of
Peter's Mountain.
• • *
It appears that there has been
some mix-up over the alleged action
of the American Legion headquar
ters in ruling against the use of all
military titles in addressing mem
bers. No such thing has happened
according to the statement of an of!
fleer in New York. He declared that
the only thing that had been voted
upon and made a part of the con
stitution was a ruling that all mili
tary ranks and titles be dropped
in any formal meetings or gatherings
of the American Legion. And that it
applied to meetings and conventions
only; that there was some reason for
such a ruling being formulated in
asmuch as every effort was being
made to put the Legion on the most
democratic platform possible, where
an ex-private would not feel that
he was inferior to a captain who
was on the same committee with
him; that there was the danger of
such a feeling existing when the
army titles were retained. Irrespect
ive of the wishes or; inclinations of
the men." So Colonel this, or Major
that, &c. would seem to be entirely
permissible save in formal sessions.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—C- P. Wood, who made trade In
vestigations in France, has been as
signed to the Philadelphia district.
—Joseph Pennell, the artist, will
give a talk in Philadelphia on the
interesting places in that city.
—District Attorney C. Rothermel,
of Berks county, who retires next
week, will go to Florida for a rest.
—W. C. Rehm, Lancaster county's
new district attorney, was a major
in the army and will command one
of the new National Guard unlta.
\ DO YOU KNOV |
—That Harrisbui* products
arc used Ih many branches of
Government service.
HISTORIC HARKISBURG
I —The first coal yards In Harris-
Iburg were along the river front near
Market street and the coal was
brought down the river la arks.