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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 18 FRIDAY EVENING OCTOBER 15, 1937 Founded 1831 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A newspaper For the Borne Published evenings except Sunday. Telegraph Building, Federal Square. J. STACKPOLE 1901 1936 E. J.

STACKPOLE, JR. A. H. STACKPOLE President Editor in Chief BION C. WELKER Managing Editor Members of American Newspaper Publishers' Association, the Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Association.

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Telegraph's Platform For Harrisburg More Industrial Plants. Increased Business Facilities. Encouragement of Infant Industries. Additional Factory Sites. Free River Bridges.

City County Building. Higher River Dam. tCivic Center rounding Capitol. Opening River Channel. Kelker Street to Mccormick's Island.

Equitable Assessments. Adequate Public Library Support. Extension Northward of Front Steps and River Park. Removal of County Prison to Suburban Site. Spanish War Memorial.

Traffic Problem Solution. Adequate P. N. G. Armory.

Partially accomplished by purchase of Technical High School Building for City Hall Purposes. tGradually being developed by City Hall and other buildings. Planks Already Ratified (These proposals, originally embraced In the Telegraph platform for Harrisburg have been ratified by the people since the platform first War Service Club. Survey for Future Expansion. Widening Market Street Subway.

World War Memorial. Boathouse Facilities. Shade Tree Commission. More Homes. Water Supply Extension.

High School Facilities. JLarge Auditorium. Zoo in Wildwood Park. JZembo Temple, Education Building and Farm Show Building, meet this need. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1937 The idealists are creating a human tcorld after the pattern shown them in the Mount.

String. Costs and Frauds GOVERNOR Earle and Auditor General Roberts have started to get facts about handling of relief millions in Pennsylvania in a most praiseworthy manner and it is to be hoped the inquiry set afoot this week on Capitol Hill will not only be wide, but deep. For months there have been criticisms of the cost of relief administration and for weeks stories going around about frauds and chiselling and other unsavory things in various phases. Relief authorities have made efforts to punish those responsible, but what the public wants to know are1 facts about what relief is costing and how it is being disbursed. Heavy taxes are being paid to keep relief going.

It can not rest under any clouds. The Governor proposes to find out whether the administrative costs are too high and will have the survey go into his departments, too, for the sake of comparison and information. The auditor general has for some time been ex WELL I'LL TELL YOU Many a home has been broken up by unfounded suspicion. That's because they go on brooding about it and letting it build where if they had gotten to the bottom of it, they would have found out there was nothin' to it in the first place. My Aunt Kezzy Moo maw objected to my uncle chewin' tobacco.

Finally one night he i promised her he would quit but she was a suspicious woman and she decided to check up on him. The next morning she sneaked out behind the hedge where he was plowin' and sure enough, here he come plowin' down the row with a big lump in his jaw. If she had turned then and gone back both of their lives woulda been ruined, but she was one of them strong women that faced the situation. She jumped out from oemnct the hedge and ran up to him and says, "I though you promised you would quit chew in'?" He says, "I did." She says, "Well, what's that big lump in your jaw?" And she was so happy when he told ner that it was just prune he was a i n' to eat when he finished Plowin'. 7 K' Copyright 1937, Esquire Features, Inc.) amining relief Expenditures.

The Governor says he will not stand for any lowering of the standard of relief. Many will agree with that but they are showing signs of impatience over other features. Let the inquiry be speeded and thorough. "Sitting" Judges FOR years and years it was customary in many parts of Pennsylvania to renominate aftd re elect as a matter of course a judge who was nearing 4he close of an elective term with a good record. In numerous instances judges of conspicuous service were not even opposed and the General Assembly of this year excepted judicial candidates from the "one nomination" law.

A "sitting" has always been considered one who was nearing the end of an elective term. But this year there are a number of Earle appointed judges running for full terms in Philadelphia, York and several other counties including our own. Hence the term "sitting" judge is being stretched by Democratic chieftains whose memories are short this fall. Just as examples of Democratic inconsistency in interpretation of what constitutes a "sitting" judge, it may be observed the Republican judges whose elective terms are ending in Allegheny, Luzerne, Schuylkill, Blair and other counties are being hotly opposed by Democratic organizations allied with the same party authority that is classing "sitting" judges to suit situations elsewhere. Summer Happiness SIX agencies in Harrisburg have helped make hundreds and hundreds of.

youngsters happy the summer that has just'gone by. The Y. M. C. A.the Y.

W. C. the Jewish Community Center and its associated units, the Boy Scouts, the. Girl Scouts and the Child Welfare Association. They are all well established character building affairs, devoted to making good citizens.

Mighty few people ever get to hear about all they do for boys and girls. For instance the big Y. M. C. A.

gave 753 free memberships' to boys last year and the Y. W. C. A. provided 440 such membership privileges.

The Jewish organizations and the Child Welfare were active in seeing children were made happy during the warm months, while the Boy Scouts gave free camping for twenty boys and the Girl Scouts cared for eleven girls at camp. They, gave a great lot of fun for youngsters. Camp Hill Trees CAMP HILL people have ordered something that could be very well followed out in other towns around Harrisburg. There has been extensive planting of shade trees on the streets of the "enterprising community on the West Shore and certain of the branches have, been growing low. Complaint was made they made walking unpleasant.

Just what can be more disagreeable than a rain soaked limb full of leaves on a wet evening is a matter of opinion. Fortunately Harrisburg Shade Tree Commission keeps an eye on the height of branches here. Now the West Shore is going in for such care. It may not be a function high up on the roll of civic progress, but it can certainly smooth many a homeward way. SHORT STORIES OF.

HARRISBURG OCTOBER looms in the story of what is now Harrisburg in two terrible periods in the annals of the Blue Ridge country and while John Harris' settlement in what is now Harris Park was never attacked in both the man who later founded the city played a big part. Both times this place was garrisoned. Right after Braddock's defeat in the summer of 1755 Harris received word of Indian unrest and promptly organized his neighbors with the aid of the "Fighting Parson" John Elder, Colonel James Burd, of Tinian, near rvjiddletown, and others. Anniversaries of Indian attacks on settlements up the Susquehanna fall today and several other days the remainder of this month and it was this week in that far off year Harris received word of a French engineered mobilization of war parties near where Liverpool stands today. Then followed raids on settlements near Selinsgrove of today and the march of Harris and his neighbors to their help.

It was this service that almost cost Harris his life for his horse was shot under him, 'a man riding on the same animal wounded and the man who later founded Harrisburg 'was compelled to swim for his life through the Susquehanna. He came home in safety with his neighbors and put his trading post on a war Eight years later when Pontiac's Conspiracy set the frontier aflame Harris mobilized his neighbors for defense again, but they decided the best way to be safe was to attack. The result was. a series of marches north of this place which helped make Pennsylvania history. A few raids fell upon parts of Dauphin county, but were isolated and did not come close to Harris Ferry.

But it was no one sided warfare this time. The men of this neighborhood took no prisoners. They pushed war into Indian country and burned village and destroyed crops. October of 1755 marked commencement of a period of terror hereabouts; October of 1763 marked the last fighting before peace came to the lower Susquehanna. A.

B. H. DAUPHIN TOWNS COUNTRYSIDE Killing frosts and Indian summer weather have been visiting rural Dauphin county through this week and reports from farms in the' Upper End, especially the Lykens valley, and from the Round Top sector near Middle town are that frosts were heavy. Comparatively little loss has been suffered as cold nights have given warning and most of the potatoes have been taken in. Hay making and corn cutting in the Pax tons have been well advanced.

Wheat planting has for years been delayed as late as possible because of fear of the Hessian fly, but plowing has been going forward in a number of Lower End and Derry township regions. With the coming of cold weather projects for Halloween have taken a leap and there will be eight or ten celebrations about the county, most of the upper Dauphin boroughs having something proposed. All of them will have comic parades with prizes. The Rev. Charles B.

Foelsch, of Zion Lutheran Church, Sunbury, has accepted the invitation of the Lykens Valley ministers to preach at Reformation, Day services in old St. John's Church near Ber rysburg on October 30. There will be similar services in other Lutheran churches through the county that Sunday. Among speakers at services the last few days in up county churches were Dr. R.

C. Shaw, of Harrisburg, at Immanuel Lu (Continued on Page 40) ON THE RECORD By DOROTHY THOMPSON The Cornucopia Club Meets "We had intended to take up the nineteenth century this afternoon," said Mrs. William J. Rattler, president of the Cornucopia Club, "bu s0 many of the ladies have asked me to take up the program for the next session of Congress that we will put off the nineteenth century until next week. I hope that each and every one of you agree with me that it can wait.

"Now, ladies, the members of the Cornucopia have always stood firmly for what might be called, without fear of successful contradiction, the more abundant life, and the very name of our club symbolizes the horn of plenty filled to overflowing with the fruits and flowers of the field, given us for our happiness by bountiful mother nature. 1 We are all, I am sure, interested in agriculture, and nobody more than the members of our agricultural committee whose zinnia campaign last summer was one of the brightest chapters in the history of this club. Congress is going to take up agriculture as soon as everybody is settled down in Washington in November, and as one of our mottoes is to be forehanded is to be forewarned, we (Continued on Page 40) HARRISBURG PARADE Parent Teachers These are days when the organizations known as Parent Teachers Associations get on the job in the schools and meetings heard of every now and then are expressions of a movement among the most valuable adjuncts education has in this community. Harrisburg is only one of many districts in Pennsylvania where these organizations are functioning but what is being done here is notable. Where twenty years or so ago there were criticisms and growling and complaints there is today frank discussion "leading to mutual helpfulness in maintaining health, happiness and discipline among those at their books.

Harrisburg has between 13,000 and 14,000 pupils and students. There are fifteen Parent Teachers organizations, one to that many of the school buildings. The School Board has nothing to do with them. It long ago made rooms available for meetings of such bodies, but outside of that the associations and their sittings are matters for principals, teachers and parents. Programs of timely interest are arranged, but the main business is seeing that each element in the associations tinder stands what the other is up against.

Parents get to khow the kids' teachers and the teachers become acquainted with the fathers and mothers of their prize pupils or school room terrors, as the case may be. Just what these gatherings have, accomplished would take a long time to tell, but they have been distinctly worth while. Persons whose children have gone away from school or graduated maintain interested membership and give benefit of experience so instructors feel they have a support that encourages. Steelton, Middletown, Millers burg, practically every community of size in Dauphin county, has such an organization and the West Shore has several that are doing things, too. In this county the associations are allied in a Dauphtn ounty Council that is a clearing house for good ideas and helps knit together parents and teachers for after all they have one object welfare of a rising generation.

NEVER DO THIS Never pronounce cogomen kog' no men; say kog no' Going in Opposite Directions at the Same Time .7 vaV1 iff25vr. Bticnf VICKIE 4 A0oDy eye GV Sa Mr CALL IT A DAY I ANNUAL JAUNT FOR full many a year, now, it has been the CUSTOM of your correspondent to head east BY north every fall, in the general direction OF New Haven, when the young men FROM the United States Military Academy CONVERGE on the Yale Bowl in a mood to BROOK no fooling from the Yales i this1 YEAR is going to be no exception, and all THINGS being equal, this afternoon was TO be given over to transport between here AND New York whether by stage coach, CANAL' or steam train had not been DECIDED at this writing but in any case, THE hegira is on, with Manhattan the first LEG of the trip which reminds me that I must see one of the latest musicals TONIGHT and thence, after a quiet and RESTFUL sleep high above the hooting TAXIS of Gotham, on to New Haven and the GAME I've seen the cadets from West POINT march on their own home grounds, and I'VE seen 'em at Franklin Field and the YALE Bowl and Baltimore But as often AS I've seen the corps march, I never fail to GET one tremendous thrill from the sound and SIGHT of the magnificent West Point band AND its ajid the never ending lines OF cadets stepping smartly along to the MARTIAL music Sitting opposite the center PORTAL in the Bowl, when the band moves OUT and the cadets follow from the CAVERNOUS depth's, it seems that there's "For night i swift dragons cut the clouds full fast. And yondef shines Aurora's harbinger." Midsummer Night's Dream. NEVER to be an end to that river of gray FLOWING out on the turf of the gridiron IT seems that the football field and the SIDELINES and the area behind the goal posts ISN'T going to be big enough to hold 'em all FOR the field is almost filled by the companies, AND still they come pouring through that PORTAL but as the last available space SEEMS to be crowded, the last company COMES through into the sunlight, and the CORPS is formed and you have the CHEERS and the always impressive ABOUT face of those hundred of kids, as THOUGH manipulated by a single lever AND with that the band plays a quickstep AND the cadets double time up into the STANDS and soon the game begins WELL, there's something about that contest I don't know what it. is, but there's something THAT sets it apart from many of the other GAMES I've seen up there in the Bowl THERE'S the greatest rivalry of course, BETWEEN the Army and Yale, but there's A friendliness in this rivalry that seems to ME to be somewhat beyond the usual spirit BETWEEN cbntesting teams maybe I'm LETTING the imagination work overtime, BUT I still think my dope is right in any CASE, the head of the house and I are on OUR way to New Haven, by some vehicle OR other, and I'm looking forward to seeing A lot of old friends I never see at any other TIME of the year you'll pardon me if I call it a day? A.

H. S. 'ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK In an episode every bit as dramatic as any of the scores of dramas he has been identified with, Ray Henderson came to a violent, climactic death in Europe the other day. The slender, affable representative of Katharine Cornell was flying from Egypt to Greece when his Imperial Airways plane plunged info the sea. So it was with a strange sense of excitement that this department received, posthumously, this note from him.

It was a postcard from Bali, Java, and it pictured a young girl with a basket of fruit on her head. With something akin to unconscious prophecy, he wrote: 'This is one of the reasons why Bali is To the glory of the Dutch it is still unspoiled. The calendar has stood still a thousand years. I'd be content to do the same, but Miss Cornell's tour is progressing, and so must Curiously enough, the first dispatch coming through identified Henderson rather anonymously as an "American traveler." This was an apt description, for he traveled incessantly. There is not a major hotel in America whose do not include his signature.

Nor is there any place in Europe or the Orient to which he had not been. Henderson always spent his summers in Europe. He especially liked Munich, where he went to listen to opera. He would travel any distance and go any place to hear opera. This last was a sort of triumphal holiday business tour for which Henderson had evidenced the keenest of pleasure.

He was paving the way for a world tour by Miss Cornell in 1938. He went to Honolulu, and from there to Australia, then on into the Orient, after which he curled around to Bali. From there he traveled to Alexandria, and was then flying to Greece, with the goal in sight, when something went wrong and his plane fell into the sea. Henderson, more than anything else, was your true traveler. He had few personal belongings, and in an hour's time he could pack for a trip to the end of the world.

Broadway will remember, among other things, his unfailing courtesy and his good manners. He was a press agent purely because he would rather be a press agent than anything else, and he brought to press agentry a sense of dignity which that slandered profession had never had. He was also the most companionable of men, and he knew a tremendous loyalty. You could be talking with him in a bar, and if you inferred that Miss Cornell wasn't the world's greatest actress he would gently but firmly assail your lack of judgment. We have in our files a note from him just before he left New York.

It was attached to some information we had requested on Guthrie McClintic, and it ended: "Well, I must be off. Au revoir in 1938." That was the day he left on that long, circuitious journey which took him, eventually, to Bali, where the calendar has stood still a thousand years POLITICS IN PENNA. Watching Democrats Although Republicans are mak ine the widest public use of the nil cident, there are many Democrats who are quietly pleased by tha current fuss over waste in tha Pennsylvania unemployment re lief system. They are the poll tical minded Democratic local leaders and legislators who reJ gard the Department of Pubhd Assistance as the last frontier fori additional patronage. To this group, former Deputy Secretary, Philip Mathewsl charges of $1,500,000 lost in over payments, forgeries and stolen checks offers ammunition to be used next year or in 1939 when new efforts will be made to ove? haul the legislative machinery.

Gradual Approachments Since the inauguration of the Earle Administration three years ago, Democratic politicians have gradually encroached upon ad ministrative territory which, from their point of view, had been dom inated by professional social work ers. The continuing conflict be tween the politicians and the trained welfare workers resulted in the steady retreat of the latter. The 1935 session of the Legisla ture had hardly convened before! the Democratic politicians and Legislators launched their attack on the unemployment relief sys tern and the State Emergency Re lief Board. For political reasons, the principal charges were that the Board was dominated by Re publicans and Republican appointees. The attacks continued through the full directorship of Robert L.

Johnson, Governor Earle's ap pointee, and culminated in a coup staged at Washington by United States Senator Joseph Guffey. Failing to obtain Johnson's disJ missal, Guffey rewrote the Fed eral relief legislation to take allj work relief from the State Emer gency Relief Boards and centralize it in the WPA. In Pennsylvania the new Federal work relief machinery was placed under Edward N. Jones, a Guffey lieutenant, who carried on the Senator's feud with Johnson and his successor, Karl deSchweinitz. New Inroads Political minded Democrats reg istered further gains during the 1937 legislative session which wrote the law converting the tern porary SERB into the permanent Department of Public Assistance.

They incorporated desirable features of the Goodrich Commit tee report and revised others to suit themselves. They adopted the committee's plan and set up an entirely new and separate department instead of following the New York ex ample of making the relief ma chinery a division of the Depart ment of Welfare. They rejected the committee's plan to institute an effective civil service system aided by organized labor leaders they set up a modified merit sy stem which gives little or no job insurance for department employes, Clipped Wings To clip the wings of Secretary de Schweinitz they created a State Board to formulate all Legislative policies and sfcuck out a provision under which the de partment secretary would be en ex officio member of the policy making group. Thus, while Secre tary de Schweintz is a member of the State Board by appoint ment of Governor Earle, there is no assurance that he or his suc cessor will continue to hold that membership. In view of the emphasis now being' placed upon the Adminis trative expenses of the Department it is significant to note that the Democratic Legislative ma jority established the precedent of increasing "such expenditures.

One of the first things the all Democratic Legislature did this year was to wipe out restrictions which the Republican Senate hadJ placed upon departmental salaries, last year. In addition to eliminating those restrictions, the Democratic House and Senate phrased new appro priation bilLs so that any appro priation made this year could be used to cover previous administra tive expenditures in excess of the 1936 restrictions. DAILY POEM LIFE The quality of life on earth Is all that dreams could make it be; And all I ask for in this world Is but increase in quantity. My corn and wine how sweel are these! Is it not Man's ingratitude That looks for better after death? W. H.

DAVIES (From the London Mercury) An ROCKERY OMOT poverty Of WIT.