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li FORWARD HARRISBURG TO THE GREATER CITY OF Planks Demanding Action Free River Bridges. More Industrial Plants. ISew Courthouse. Cheaper Factory Sites. Civic Center Surrounding Capitol.

Equitable Assessments. Adequate Public Library Support. Extension Northward of Front Steps and River Park. Traffic Problem Solution. Increased Recreational Facilities.

Improved River Basin. Completion of Military Post. Additional River Bridges. Planned Development of Harrisburg Area. Better Housing.

Extension of Capitol Park and Adequate Approaches. Dauphin County Industrial Planks Already Ratified These proposals, originally embraced in the Telegraph's platform for Harrisburg 1 have been ratified by the people since the platform first appeared in 1920. War Service Club. Survey for Future Expansion. Widening Market Street Subway.

World War Memorial. City Building. Shade Tree Commission. High School Facilities?" Large Auditorium. Zoo in Wildtcood Park.

JZembo Temple, Education Building and Farm Show Arena, meet this need. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1938 He who does something at the head of one regiment, surpasses him who does nothing at the head of a hundred. Lincoln. ing gardens, no matter how small, seems to be on bulbs. Russell Tuckey, who sits up at night working out plans for the park plantings, says this is the time of year to bury bulbs and give attention to what folk want to grow next spring.

And a good many people are following his ad The number of amateur trimmers of trees and shrubbery. rose bushes and vines, is increas ing in Harrisburg. Chrysanthe mums are being propped up and where mangolds remain they are watered. It all goes to show that no mat ter how restricted the opportunity for gardening may be, or even if limited to geraniums in flower pots the average person likes to go back to the soil and the farmers' wives in Lower Paxton, for instance, have folk running along parallel courses in Harrisburg. There are castor oil beans grow ing in sight of the State Capitol and a "few petunias and even nasturtiums struggling against the weather in gardens in shadows of Harrisburg churches.

But the big business is planting bulbs and getting ready for the gajdens of 1939. 9 8 TUESDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 1, 1938 Founded 1831 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A Newspaper For the Home Published evenings except Sunday. Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J.

STACKPOLE 1901 1936 E. J. Stackpole, Jr, president; A. H. Stack pole, editor in chief; H.

R. Corwin, executive assistant; Bion Vtfelker, editor: Leo W. Sheridan, managing editor; A. Boyd Hamilton, associate editor; Bowman A. Brown, secretary; Everett O.

Jones, advertising manager. Member the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Eastern office, Story, Brooks Finley, New York Central Building, New York City. Western office, Story, Brooks Fin ley, 1518 London Guarantee 360 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago. The Philadelphia office, Brooks Finley, Fidelity Trust Building.

Cleveland office, Story, Brooks 8c Finley, 1900 Euclid Avenue. San Francisco office, Story, Brooks Finley, Monadock Bldg. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Entered at the Post Office in Harrisburg, as second class matter.

By carrier fifteen cents a week; by mail $7.50 a year in advance; single copy three cents. STATE NEEDS JAMES Some time ago the statement was made that Pennsylvania needs Judge Arthur H. James as its next governor. As this campaign of campaigns of a generation rolls into its final week the strength of that observation is apparent. Every week has brought something to the surface about the way things have been administered in the State government.

The' legislative committee inquiring into the. serious charges of the Democratic primary last May has made people in every eounty wonder how men dared to resort to such means to prevent the sun shining oh how matters have been conducted. Expense of the extraordinary sitting of the two houses has angered many taxpayers. Judge James has likened himself to a broom and says he will clean house in the various branches of government coming under authority oi the Governor. On this alone he should be elected.

The State government needs a cleaning and a cleaner. RALLYING TO RALLIES It is one of the signs of the times in both urban and rural communities that services of home coming, harvest home or fall rallies have drawri such marked attendance. They have been under way for a month or more in the churches of Dauphin and Cumberland counties and the large groups gathered for services w.hen the leaves began to turn caused comment. They have continued to be well attended. Such services bring back to regular attendance many former church members or Sunday school scholars, particularly the cities, while for the rural churches they are a time for reunions of branches of families and renewals of friendship.

There has been a distinct encouragement to religious activity in many parts of the two counties through the way people have rallied to the rallies of autumn. FARM VOTE IS BACK HOME The Democrats have raised, many issues in the current, election campaign. But in attempting to woo the Pennsylvania farm vote'tney have been discreetly silent on the absolute failure of the New Deal's program. With wheat worth half last year's price, corn down to forty cents for a shelled bushel, the New Deal orators, probably realize the farm vote has returned to the Republican fold. PREVENTABLE BUT First day hunting casualties are a striking warning to those who survived' the day.

Newspapers, magazines, radio, the Game Commission, other agencies have, in text and picture illustrated the dangers of thoughtless actions in the fields and woods. But despite these warnings many men are killed and more are injured each hunting season. A majority of these accidents are pre ventable. AMERICANIZATION Most timely indeed is the program of the American Legion posts in this district of the war veterans' Pennsylvania area. It contains as a cardinal point Americanization.

Our sector has a good many people of foreign origin who would like to be Americans and others who need to be made Americans. The Legion has an admirable plan and it should be publicized as much as possible; popular support wilL be abundant when it is more widely known. Harry J. Stites, the new county commander of the Legion, and his fellow legionnaires of the Upper End, have taken hold of the' Americanization work with energy and have been assured of sup port Harrisburg, Steelton and the Lower End as well as onthe West "Shore. This is a time when every one should be 100 per cent! American.

EVER BIGGER AND BETTER The thronged sidewalks of the West End during the annual bigger and better than ever Halloween parade and frolic last nights indicated the spectacle has grown far beyond regional bounds. Sprinkled through the crowd were city residents, suburbanites and a large number of rural neighbors who thoroughly enjoyed the capers. The West End for many years has demonstrated an enviable community spirit. At Christmas time it excels itself in kindliness and generosity. A touch of this spirit was revealed by tne ruverside Fire Company last night.

Each child in its division was given ginger bread and popsicles. Next year another innovation will be created. This is the answer to the West End's continued progress toward ever bigger and better celebrations. GRADE CROSSINGS Well timed are orders of the Public Utility Commission to railroad companies not to relax vigilance in protection of grade crossings even if retrenchment because of finances does bear down on such branches of their service. It is true the railroads have been so seriously affected by business conditions, niotor vehicle competition and costs they must cut budgets.

But the public is concerned about the dangers of grade crossings. Signals cost money, but they save lives. It is surprising the number of grade crossings remaining in Pennsylvania. Tens of millions of dollars have been spent to get rid of them in a decade or so, but there are still 11,509 listed on the State Commission's records. Of the great majority of the crossing are 'in rural districts with a minimum of traffic on railroads or roads, and there are others in cities and towns on which watchmen or signals must be maintained.

Some day there must come a relieving of certain burdens of the railroads if they are to go on. But revision of obligations on protection of grade crossings is probably far off. Not enough people have been educated to the Paxson dictum of "Stop, look and listen." NOT CRICKET BUT SWELL John Barnini, "twelfth man" on the' Providence team who tackled the Xavier quarterback oh a touchdown un will not gain a niche in football's hall of fame but fans will long remember his feat. Your dyed in the wool, spectator demands action. And the John Barnini's supply not only action but a liberal dose of the unexpected.

The two combined, created a perfect afternoon for the boys and girls in the stands. WITHOUT FEAR OF REPRISAL Again Washington announces that WPA workers should feel free to vote as they deem best. This is encouraging news to those thousands who have decided that the best interests of the State and Nation demand a return to safe, sane, sensible Many were willing to risk reprisals but since they have received official assurances they may now vote without fear, as their consciences dictate. TODAY AND TOMORROW By WALTER LIPPMAXN Mr. Lippmann, distinguished liberal, expresses his individual views in this column.

They are not necessarily the opinions of this newspaper. THE AMERICAN STAKE IN A REDISTRIBUTION OF COLONIES Informal negotiations are, it would seem, already in progress looking towards a redistribution of colonial empires in Africa. Now the United States has not the slightest inlerest in African colonies as such. It has no African colonies and it wants none, and will "not wish to have anything to say about what the European powers may decide among themselves. But since the western coast of Africa is on the Atlantic Ocean, a redistribution of empire in that region of the world will raise a question that the United States cannot ignore.

For as matters stand now there is only one naval power in the Atlantic Ocean, the British, and for innumerable obvious reasons the British navy is no threat to American security in this hemisphere, or to the maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine. That is the reason why oip to the present time American naval power has been designed for the Paqjfic Ocean, and on the assumption that no great navy was needed in the Atlantic Ocean. But since Munich it has become clear that the situation i6 greatly changed. It is now an open question whether the British navy is able to exercise its former mastery of the Atlantic Ocean. What with the aerial threat to London, with the greatly weakened position of (Please Turn to Page 9, Col.

8) DAUPHIN TOWNS COUNTRYSIDE Upper Dauphin sportsmen are to make a practical test whether I propagation work is successful north of Berry's mountain and hunters shooting ringnecks and other birds finding leg bands on their game have been requested to take them off and forward them for study. At the end of the season bands will be drawn and prizes awarded. Harvey Helt and Ted Dunkle in Lykens will receive the bands and names in that area and F. Park Campbell and P. Marlin Weaver in Millersburg.

The Tri County Association with which the Upper Dauphiri organization merged is in charge of the project with the Millersburg Gun and Conservation Club members co operating. There are said to be numerous ringnecks in the fields of the Lykens Valley and any number, of rabbits. Mr. and Mrs. B.

W. Kurtz, of Middletown, 1 ated their fifty ninth wedding anniversary. Mr. Kurtz, who was formerly connected with the State government, served as burgess of Middletown. Members of the Lykens Rotary Club are considering a plan for an inter city meet.

Clubs in a large area will be invited to meet in the mining town and discuss their proTJTems. When the' Williamstown mummers' parade was breaking up the (Please Turn to Page 9, Col. 1) HARRISBURG PARADE Big Fall Industry Next to getting meals and youngsters off to school the biggest line of domestic business in Harrisburg and its environs right now is gardening. Every home that has a bit of yard is just now taking thought for next spring and summer. Leaves are coming down and used for covering and the late flowers are being cherished.

It has frequently been said that in the last few years Pennsylvania's capital has become garden conscious. That is certainly true and there are more devotees of flowers in and about Harrisburg than any one would have dreamed of ten years ago. Old and young have gone in for flowers and the removal of fences has not only made yards into gardens, but banished ash barrels and rubbish. Cannas are still showing where weeds flourished last year and unsightly junk has gone from many a property. Now the attention of folk hav THAT ALWAYS HUNGRY RETRIEVER JJ A TT1 A HAV or logons cut the clouds Kju1uLjI IX Jl J.

full fast. And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger." Midsummer Night's Dream. RADIO K1CT EVERY time something exciting happens via RADIO, it seems that I have to be out to LUNCH or tuned to another program. Such WAS the case on Sunday evening when, ACCORDING to the more hysterical reports AS presented by witnesses and the press, all HELL broke loose over the witching waves. YOUR correspondent, being a Charley MCCARTHY addict, was tuned to an NBC STATION at the' time and therefore missed THE whole show as produced by Orson WELLES, but from everything I can gather IT was realistic enough to send a number of SENSITIVE folks into a state of jitters.

APPARENTLY, if you tuned into the BROADCAST right in the middle of things AND didn't hang on long enough to catch the REITERATED announcement that it was a RADIO dramatization of H. G. Wells' "The WAR of the Worlds," it was hard to believe THAT it WAS only a radio presentation and NOT the terrifying experience so many BELIEVED it to I must admit that the RADIO has on occasion sent tne cold shivers UP my back, what with its exciting dramas AND it's March of Time realism, and I'm SORRY I didn't get to hear this Sunday EVENING broadcast, for as it is I'm not REALLY qualified to discuss or argue the all of the, dope on both sides BEING second hand. And since I didn't HEAR the original, I'm wondering which side Hollywood. This is saddening.

It makes us think how time flies. It makes us think that pretty soon life will be a crust, or at best a dud. The Marx brothers are quitting. Not right now, understand. The crisis is not immediate.

"When we get through this present contract," said Grou cho, "we'll be all through. Three more pictures one a year. By that time the public should be overly fed up with us. It will be amazing if they are not fed up with us before then. "I myself," this is Groucho the sad eyed, "have been fed up with myself for some time.

"A man, even such a man as hardened to most things, cannot keep on seeing himself on the screen without becoming violently nauseated. There is a limit." The next Marx picture, incidentally, will not be an adaptation of the most expensive stage play on Broadway. It will be a throwback to their own standard brand of comedy. It will be as different from "Room Service" as possible. "Room Service." says Grou cho, was an attempt to satisfy I TO take.

Shall we blame the radio for PRESENTING a realistic dramatization from THE pen of one of our greatest writers? Or SHALL we question the listeners, who, WITHOUT waiting for a station break or CHECKING up on the program, decided THAT it must be the McCoy and forthwith WENT into a spin? Frankly, I can't see how EITHER side can be The radio THOUGHT, and still thinks, it was putting on A good show The listeners who were in at THE start, and who sat through the whole BUSINESS, agree with the radio people. But THOSE who caught up with it in the middle, TO have their nerves shot to pieces andtheir BLOOD pressure run up to a thousand, are OF the belief that the radio, shouldn't scare THE public like that without a lot of warning ANNOUNCEMENTS put out during the hours BEFORE the actual broadcast and they CONTEND that the schedule of radio BROADCASTS carried by the newspapers WITH Welles' program included didn't give THEM enough warning on what was to come. WELL, it'll be either one thing or the other EITHER we'll have to tone down ENTHUSIASM of radio for realism, or we'll HAVE to educate the listening public to know WHAT it's hearing and to back away from IT if it's 'too exciting. We certainly don't WANT any radio riots such as the one that APPARENTLY startled the whole country ON Sunday. A.

H. S. 'ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK By GEORGE TUCKER those who asked why the Marxes didn't tackle something different. As such, they're glad they did it. They'll be just as glad to get back in home territory for "A Day at the Circus." Just as there are limits to a Groucho's endurance, there ought to be limits but aren't to this tough kid craze in pictures.

Once upon a time Jackie Searl had this bad boy racket sewed up. Jane Withers, right on his heels, zoomed up as the Shirley Temple foil a little girl who wasn't so much sweet ness and light as fun. Jane, still mischievous, has gone rather sweet too. But in her place, there's a raft overloaded with brats. All the' current crop stem, directly, from "Dead End." That Goldwyn.

picture using, the stage play's original kids, did so well that Warner most, crime conscious studios, seized the lads and put them in "Crime School." Result, a clean up and Universal hopped in with "Little Tough Guy." "Little Tough Guy" fared bo wejl as an unexpected hit that the studio assembled its own "Dead End" kids and, dubbing them "Little Tough Guys," has started a series of features. Republic chimed in with "Tenth Avenue Kid," all about a tenement boy, and Metro turned out by far the most moving picture of the lot in "Boys Town" no juvenile gangster stuff, but one bad boy against a barrelful of good boys and a courageous priest. The "little tough guys" as nearly like the "Dead End" kids as possible are currently in "In Society." Somehow, they don't seem as tough as the Dead End Kids would have you believe they are, although Tough Guy David Garcey is a cousin of Dead End Kid Leo Garcey and with some of his associates were on the stage in "Dead End." One of the new Tough'Guys js none other than Billy Benedict, the Oklahoma kid who used to be in so many Will Rogers films. And a lead character in "In Society," the sissy rich boy, is played' by none other than Jackie Searl, one time prime brat of the screen. It goes to show, sort of.

Both Sides of Pennsylvania Politics Leo W. Sheridan An angry Democrat writes from Western Pennsylvania that party leaders have carried macing into the State Hospitals. He insists nurses have been told that" they must contribute to the cam 1 "NT TV 1 ticket. On the Hill, there is a well founded story going the rounds that a girl clerk was called in and asked why she had not given her share toward the campaign fund. "With the salary I am getting, I can't afford it," she protested.

This department is informed that she Was. told to take the money from her retirement fund. Farm Imports Heavy From the Republican National Committee in Washington we have received word that farm imports from Europe, South America, Canada and the Orient gradually are depriving American farmers of their own home market. The committee cites Department of Commerce figures showing that last year the United States imported great quantities of every article produced on the American farm. Corn imports, for example, were 86,377,248 bushels for the calendar year, or more corn than would have been produced on 3,000,000.

acres of land at home. At the same time, the American corn farmer is being compelled to reduce his acreage under the threat of severe Federal penalties. The total imports of competitive meat products last year were 191,906,012 pounds which, cut to a single item, would be equal to almost 2000,000 head of average grade maKket cattle. These meat imports came from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and South America, where living standards are far below those of the American farmer. Turning Republican Senator John Townsend, Delaware, chairman of the Republican Senatorial campaign committee, says that voters in 15 states which had been classed as doubt ful, are turning to the Republican cause, he includes Pennsylvania.

He asserts: "We are gaming ground every day. Republican prospects are Tcwnsend said the party's gains resulted from voters' "disgust" at what he termed the "political administration of relief funds," (Please Turn to Page 15, Col. S) SHORT STORIES OF HARRISBURG Mention the other day in this corner of the years following erection of the first State Capitol before systematic improvement of the park was undertaken furnishes an interesting commentary upon the way both people connected with the State government and residents of Harrisburg regarded this now famous ground. From all traditions the four acres placed in trust by John Harris when he laid out the town in 1785 for use of the Commonwealth "if it located the State capital here was for a quarter of a century a t. grazing ground for.

such cattle as could climb into it just a sort of It is said Harris and his heirs.pid the taxes on it until the State took possession after passage of the act of 1810. Harris ifr his "proposals" for laying out the town informed the Legislature, then the Assembly of his donati6n of the present lower end of the Capitol Park. It was a briar clad knoll elevated anywhere from eight to fifteen feet above street levels. The section above Pine street's line was worse." On the Third street side there" were rocks and on the High or Fourth street side were four gullies. The North street side ran clear up to near Briggs street and when the rarlr was lairl nut thprp had to ba cuts with a graveyard to be re moved before the lines could be run to North and Fourth.

On Walnut street the park was six or seven feet above the street when it was cut through. The council passed an ordinance about 1812 forbidding anyone from taking sand or gravel from the tract, which indicates plainly it was re garded as a convenient place to obtain filling. Even after the State took possession a paragraph in an act of the other twenties contained provision for fining persons removing earth from the "public ground." There notices in Harrisburg Tiewspapars in the 1800s that trespassing cn the tract must cease and earth and stone must no longer be carted off. But one of the most striking instances of how the park was regarded even after the first Capi tol was finished is furnished by advertisements pf business places that they are adjacent or near the "Public Hill." This seems to be the commencement of styling the Capitol Park as "The by which name it has been known among people in Pennsylvania official life for generations. But it would appear that for a time folk here did not consider the present park site as much more than common land.

A.B. H. 1.

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