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8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 1 FOR THE IIOME 1 Founded 1831 1 Published evenings except Sunday by , THE. TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. , Telegraph Balldlag, Federal Sgaare _ E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief OYSTER, Business Manager OUB. M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor ; 1 U. R- MICHENER, Circulation. Manager I > Executive Beard { < bOfPTMcCULLOUGH, > BOYD M. OOLESBY. F,. R. OYSTER, ( GUS. M. STEINMETZ. 1 > e I Wombers of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication ' of all news dispatches credited to ] it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- ' lished herein. , {All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. 1 p. ] t Member American ' lation and Penn- ' * ted* D^ill^ 8800 '*" ' Eastern olf U e ] Building, j Western office! Story, Brooks & ] I Chicago, 111. . i Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. ' By carrier, ten cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. 1 1 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 i BLAKE. R ■ c 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 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH OH, MAN! -- ByBRIGGS 1 ii vf it L" I Lvj-TS SG.T Dovajnj \ / , Thimk VAJE >, To BUSINESS- w<S ) X . fH r To float V ttff // r uc Wl ThKT AR.CS RUNMIN6 LOW / OU S. H \ / VI Hfc VAJON T K I J)M (<s HeRC W|TH 0 J funds HAVE / V A **0,000,000.000? | // I PACKA66 - — - ... -^"(1 —--"I'll. ( Mow ThGWE'.S A \ A \ > r- ' i A /> COuPCA' (iOARTS - ' / HE .SaYS H£ ) —P —T7=^r — "* i ( HtftcA /.Goot> I / A* i Gotta lims /MS <KASE/ <C. i 6cT I Viiv .TTs-rTT \ Toft. You Sift- / /Sft /*—ViLz [- 1 /P 5 004 a 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.