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nATOUSmmG Ct TELEGRAPH 12 THURSDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 26, 1929 A rmM MS Puolisbcd evenings except SuiTBajr bw THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING Ilrgrpu Building. federal Square K. J. STACKPOLK. President and Editor io Cniei.

v.ce Presldent and Treasurer. Slack pole, General Manager. A B. alicbener; Editor. Stelnmets; Managing Editor Blon Wlker: A toclate Editor.

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All rights of republication ot special dispatches herein are also reserved. Entered at the Post Office In Harrisburg. as second class matter. By carrier ten cents a week; by mail 15.00 year In advance. TELEGRAPH'S PLATFORM FOB HARRISBURG 'Equitable Assessments.

More Industrial Plants. Increased Business Facilities. Encouragement of Infant Industries. Additional Factory Sites. (Pree River Bridges.

City County Building. Higher River Dam. tCivic Center Surrounding Capltd. Support of Harrlsburg Foundation. Opening River Channel Kelker Street to Mccormick's Island.

Adequate Public Library Support. Extension northward of Front Steps and River Park. Removal of County Prison to Suburban Site. Partially accomplished by purchase of Technical High School Building for Cltv Hall purposes. tGradually Being developed by City Ball and other buildings.

rianks Already Ratified (These proposals, originally embraced In the Telegraph's platform for Harrlsburg, have been ratified by the people since the platform first appeared: Adequate P. N. O. Armory. World War Memorial.

War Service Club. Survey for Future Expansion. Widening Maiket Street Subway. Boathouse Shade Tree Corimisslon. More Homes.

Water Supmy Extension. High School Facilities. tLarge Auditorium. 8olving Citv's Traffic Problem. Zoo In Wildwood Park.

tZembo Temple and Farm Show Building will meet this need. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1929 What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but irom the assumption on which he habitually acta Shaw. REDUCING TAXES Wl ITH an enormous surplus for the nine months of ip29, advices from Washington in dicate fiscal officers of the Govern ment are analyzing the figures with I a view to recommending a substantial cut in incomes taxes at the approaching regular session of Congress. On the basis of the present statistical' position it is assumed that the surplus piling up to the end of the year would justify a cut as much as $300,000,000. It is contended that the Treasury does not need the large margin of $100,000,000, as some of its executives formerly be lieved.

Income tax receipts are running far ahead of what the department expected, and it is known that President Hoover favors reduction if the studies of the financial conditions warrant. BRANCH BANKS IN THE banking world there is much discussion of the proposal to establish under an act of Congress branch banks of great metropolitan financial institutions for the alleged purpose of providing greater latitude in banking facilities. From the standpoint of the metropolitan octopus such an idea is probably quite attractive, but to the smaller cities and towns the proposal to take over for the bene fit of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and other large metropolian centers the local institutions which have for years on end been providing necessary banking accommodations the picture Is not so attractive. It is inconceivable that Congress will make possible this uprooting of community banks the country over for the bent fit of the money grabbers of large cities who would have no consideration for the Individual of the community in which the branches would be established. This branch bank movement has already attained considerable impetus, but it is doubtful that Congress will easily fall for such a plan of merger and consolidation.

It is one thing to do business with a bank where officials know the customers and are disposed to Rive them every reasonable consideration compatible with good banking practice, but It, Is quite another thing to enter a branch bank of the big New York or large city institution and encounter cold Indifference and the uppity attitude of a paid manager of the parent long distance banking house. Of course, the country Is passing through a stage of merger, consolidation and combination, but there Is rrave doubt whether the people will submit to such expansion of banking facilities as Will represent a menacing octopus In the Wall Street district with tentacle reach. if SB I ft BUI If rmM I tag out in every direction for the conservative and friendly banjts of the nome town. Chain banking is regarded by bankers as little more than a substitute for branch banking and designed to come within the present law. Of course, it is pointed but, that chain banking differs 1 from branch banking, in that each of a chain of banks operates independently and in case of difficulty has no call upon the resources of the other members of the chain.

What seems to be the real mir pose is to consolidate and bring under one controlling head the enormous banking resources of the country. Among the smaller banking groups the proposed branch and chain banks are regarded as a distinct menace to the old fashioned, independent rural unit bank. SCRANTON'S PROBLEM THE Scranton Times, commenting on centennial edition of the Syracuse Post Standard, which is' only a little older than the Telegraph, suggests several reasons why Syracuse, once the twin city of Scranton in point of population, has outstripped the anthracite metropolis in growth. Syracuse once based most of its prosperity on salt, but, the Times notes, when that industry began to wane, Syracuse without waiting for the finality started to replace that business with others, and "new and varied industries were built up or encouraged to move to the city until to day Syracuse is no longer dependent upon a basic industry and consequently does not suffer as greatly during times of business depression as in cases of one industry communities." Speaking of its waning coal industry the Times says: "The question ahead of us, therefore, when we consider is whether or not we can do as well or better than the Salt City in the time that is left before the mining of anthracite finally ceases hre. Our job ahead is to bring in or develop more industries and payrolls as well as to attract more people to live here." Every wise community is to day looking ahead.

Industry is in a state of flux. None may see its future save in this that the present era of mergers will be followed by a return to handicraft in small factories made possible by the wide distribution of electrical power and cheap motor transportation over good roads. Bringing new industry to a community is no one man job, nor a one year job. It is a policy that must be continually the goal of the entire citizenship, high and low, rich and poor. To ignore this Vital essential to future growth and prosperity is to live in a fool's paradise.

Syracuse has acted and profited. The Times is pointing th way in Scranton. Every city worth while must do the same. A disagreeable condition once recognized and cataloged is on the way to being eliminated. The people of Scranton owe the Times a debt of thanks for seeing clearly and being courageous enough to dare the indignation of the "All's Well With the World" Brotherhood of Rainbow chasers who cry treason every time anybody chooses to call a spade a spade.

With such leadership Scranton need have no fear of the day when the coal trade shall be no Muzzled "Just think! A man came into the music room and said, 'Not a I sound or I "Were you Just going to sing?" Fllegende Blaetter (Munich). Poems that Live THE HOUSEKEEPER THE frugal snail, with fore cast of repose. Carries his house with him where'er he goes: Peeps out and if tbrre romes a shower of rain. Retreats to his small domicile again Touch but a tip of him, a horn 'tis well He curls up in his sanrtcary shell. He's his own landlord, his own tenant; stay Long as he will, he dreads no Quarter Day Himself he boards and lodges; both invites And feasts himself; sleeps with himself 'o'nlghu.

He spares the upholsterer trouble to procure Chattels; himself is his own furniture, And his sole riches. Whoreso'er he roam Knock when you will he's sure' to be at home. From the Latin of Vincent Bourne. MERE 'THERE EVERYWHERE Sasaj Cost of School Textbooks When this writer was a school boy textbooks were purchased by pax errts or guardians and they were changed frequently, due to active and persistent school agents. All this, however, has been changed and textbooks, according to the Department of Public Instruction, now cost $1.53 for each pupil in school.

So it can hardly be charged that the ccst of education is beyond the poor boy. Uncle Billy Penn pays the freight and almost any child can obtain the fundamentals of an education. Harrisburg Preparing the Way Now that the Chamber of Commerce committees on industry have disclosed through an investigation the actual conditions it should be possible to interest the outside field tn the unusual distribution oppor tunities of Harrisburg and the rail read facilities for industrial and commercial development. Many national concerns have established branch houses here in recent years and so frequently are these locat ing in the city' that little argument is needed to persuade others to come this way. Meanwhile every effort should be made by the municipal officials and private corporations to place these facilities in the most at tractive shape for those who seek new locations.

Chanffeuring Street Cars Now there is a type of trolley car which is operated in exactly the same manner as an automobile with the feet. Successful experiments with this sort of car have been made by the General Electric Company in Ibany. Foot control gives the operator the use of his hands to open and close doors and make change without loss to time. In handling the car he has his feet upon pedals on the floor of the motorman's cab. Under normal conditions he brakss the car with tke right Braking equipment makes the car as efficient as the four whp.c i brake system of automobiles.

Thus we roll along. The MacDonalds Are Coming While official circles at Washington are stirred by the silly row of precedence in the various social events staged for the coming of Prime Minister McDonald, the younger fry among women of the United States are awaiting with interest the coming of the Prime Minister's daughter, applelcheek Ishbel MacDonald. She is a great pal of her distinguished father and has been of real assistance in his political career. So the MafcDon alds are coming with assurance of fine American hospitality. i A.

Practical Suggestion City Commissioner Sherk has made a practical suggestion in the matter of overcoming the junk con ditions along the Paxton Creek in vert from Wildwood Park to the river. After removing tons and tons without end of refuse of every kind dumped Into the concrete invert, Mr. Sherk feels that the only per manent solution is arching of the channel with a concrete lid which will, not only prevent further nuisance but provide a passageway along the creek for the business concerns developing in that section. Farm Show Attractions While the completion of the Farm Show Building at Cameron and Maclay streets will provide facilities for a great agricultural, horti cultural and livestock exposition, it is expected the big auditorium and other facilities will also be utilized for still other public expositions. These are expected to include an annual horse show, pageantry of one kind or another, and various public entertainments.

Then and Now (John T. Flynn, in American Magazine) On Monday I bought share on share, On Tuesday I was a millionaire: On Wednesday I took a abode; On Thursday In my carriage rode; On Friday went to the opera ball; On.Saturday came to the pauper's hall. Now, when do you suppose that was written? Save for a little quaintness in the language, it might have been turned out last March. As a matter of fact, it was written 200 years ago. From which we may see that the contagious disease called speculation is not by any means a modern infection.

When that bit of verse was penned, the notorious Mississippi bubble had broken in France and the frenzied stock buyers were rushing madly into a little lane in Paris called Quincampolx street, where the stock sharpers carried on their trade in the open air. The municipal authorities, in ordrr to check this crazed speculation, boarded up the street to keep the foolish victims out. The Amende Honorable! Pastor H. D. Knickerbocker, In the Oklahoma Methodist: "Do you remember how a few years ago we were calling the Oermans 'Huns' and saying it with a hiss ot hatred? Well, I was as bad as some during the war, but I have recovered completely.

Prepare for a startling statement. This Is my fourth trip to Europe and I have traveled through most of Its countries, as well as through 'Asia, Africa and part of Arkansas and the German people are the kindest, most courteous and altogether admirable people I've ever seen outside of America "Hooch" (From Liberty) The American word Is derived from "Hoochlno" a distilled liquor clandestinely made by Alaska Indians. Privacy CALL IT IN RE COOKING. HAVING practically no knowledge OF the kitchen other than that IT is a place to be thrown out of A WHEN the cook becomes annoyed at i a XOUR presence, we approached, yesterday, THE Harrisburg Telegraph's Cooking SCHOOL in Chestnut Street Hall, all PREPARED to learn how to make our MORNING coffee or orange juice or WHATEVER" other essential foodstuffs WE might have in mind. We weren't at ALL prepared for the elaborate display OF equipment, the thorough going efforts OF the head cooking Instructress, and SO we sat, in the rear of the big hall AND observed many hundreds of the more CONVERSATIONAL sex getting earfuls of HOW to throw the rations together so THAT there might be more failures among THE delicatessen dealers.

We were ACCOMPANIED on this visit by a fellow TYPEWRITER pounder who declared, before ENTERING the hall, that the technique of kitchen was no news to him and THAT should he be called upon, he would BE glad to get up and show them how to CONSTRUCT a full course dinner out of VERY little besides what was left in THE ice box alter Sunday's gorging! BUT you could have knocked his eyes oft 1 WITH a stick when he heard GIVING the lowdown to her flock OF interested women. Pouring out A little of this, slightly mort of THAT, adding a pinch of the other and MARINO a pass at the gas stove to TOP It off, this wizard of the kitchen BO BROADWAY By Joseph VanRaalte NEW YORK Jack Haley, the big laugh in "Follow Thru," Is the father of a 5 year old bundle of fascinating fragments, who, the other day, fared forth for the first time from the sheltering hade of the paternal radiator In answer to the call of the distant KhoolbelL Unversed In the procedure obtaining under such circumstances, the parents of the fair young student permitted her to enter the academy minus the customary dill pickle, ham sandwich, wedge of pie, Baldwin apple and container of milk that make up a baby scholar's midday repast. Thus, when the 13 o'clock whistle b'w and the youngsters discarded their algebras, philosophies, biology books and atlases to go out and Just Isn't For Goldfish A DAY PRODUCED beautifully done biscuits, cakes, itOASTS, and whatnot with all the insouciant CHEERFULNESS of a Thurston getting rabbits OUT of the, little boy's coat. And besides I OUR wonder at the skill with which she DEMONSTRATED how to prepare a dinner that WOULD keep the old man from running out GRETA Garbo's latest bonfire, we gazed popeyed AT the technical apparatus that has become AN essential, evidently, of kitchen equipment. ELECTRIC refrigerators, shiny gas stoves with ALL sorts of trick controls, remote and OTHERWISE, kitchen cabinets designed with ALL the intricacy of a bank vault, bright COLORED mixing bowls, and even radios to TOP off a pleasant afternoon.

We don't KNOW whether you boil eggs according to the LENGTH of one of Rudy Vallee's songs or not, BUT there must be something technical about RADIO in the kitchen. Anyway, we came away FROM there with our expert cook reporter, who WAS duly extinguished by that time, and we BROUGHT away with us the memory pf freshly COOKED, appetizing food, 'done In the most MODERN manner and with the old time skill THAT has made the kitchen a pleasant place AT all times and through all ages. We HAVENT been Invited back, but we'rev GOING to sneak In again anyway, about THE time the hot biscuits are finished AND they're spreading 'em thick with NICE, golden A. II. eat, little Miss Haley, having nothing to consume, did what any well bred woman of the world would have done under similar circumstances.

She sat where she was and said nothing. A. teacher came across her there later, and wanted to know why she wasn't lunching. "Because," replied the baby, "I'm dieting." "For heaven's sake, child, what for?" "Just because I don't want to get fat," was the answer. The newest stories are those longest forgotten.

Fifteen years from now, Jack Haley's baby's press agent' will spring this as original. Eddie Cantor says he's been operated on so much thai the next "Tommy, you from school "Well, it ain't "It tnt? Why? 'Cause I done "For night' awift dragons cut the clouds full (at. And yonder ahinaa Aurora' har biater." Midsummer Night's Jream Slcw JVitted (Frcm the Eoslon Test) have no good excure for staying away stirday." my my best to think of a good one time he has an operation the doctor Is going to put In a tipper. Add Similes Fair and square as a Swede longshoreman's head. Because Irene Franklin was born on Friday the thirteenth, she swears her old man gave her a name with thirteen letters in it.

In the matter of sleep AL Woods, the play producer, out Edlsons Edison. He sleeps only three hours a night But that's all right," says AL "I sleep rapidly." And Billy Jerome Is authority for the statement that opening night audiences, nine times put of tea art rehearsed better than the actors. 1 i The World and All By CHARLES B. DRISCOLL OLD BAILEY A DAY at Old Bailey courts and Newgate Prison. Here the most notorious pirates were imprisoned and tried.

Here many of the most noted footpads and highway men of old times were hanged. I am shown the very window outside of which the gallows used to stand. I visit many of the old cells in which robbers, cut throats and pirates were confined. There was a time when it went hard with a male factor in England! Prison reform was unknown, and murderers were not lodged in steam heated hostels with read ing lamp and radio in every room. I sit with my barrister friend on the barristers' 'benches, and listen to a trial and several arraignments.

The trial judge, in black robe, long white wig and white collar with white "dickey," sits upon a high bench, somewhat like the judicial benches in America. Beside him sits the High Sheriff, in red robe with what appears to be beaver fur trimmings. In front of the judge is always a bouquet. It is explained to me that in former times this "nosegay" was furnished the judge to keep him from being overcome by the odor of the unbathed prisoners, just dragged in from long confinement in damp cells. The prisoner comes up a stairway into the dock, a fenced in box in the center of the courtroom, when his name is called.

He is an old man, white and trembling. He was assistant postmaster at a London substation, and was almost due to retire on a good pension when he was caught stealing almost worthless packages from the mails. He admits the thefts. He says he does not know why he did it. The prosecutor isn't hard on him.

He doesn't try to get him punished severely. Defense counsel cites his client's excellent war record and his half century of blameless service in the post office. He says he suspects the old man has taken to using dope, and thus become a thief. The judge sums up the evidence in a calm and kindly manner, and sentences the old man to fifteen months in prison, without hard labor. The prisoner tries to thank the judge, but falls fainting into the arms of a policeman.

Old Bailey has seen them come and go. Judges and judged, thief and murderer, innocent and guilty. What a world! Fair to the Public (From. Editor and Publisher.) A newspaper columnist some time ago inserted a facetious remark that the Congressional Record, of Washington, was read only by its proof readers. On the legislative day of Thursday, May 16, 1929 (Monday, May 27), Senator Nye of North Dakota asked consent for the publication of an article entitled "Newspapers and the Public" a radio talk by the well known newspaper man, William McMasters of Boston.

The issue, containing this talk over WLOE, is well worth the passing glance of every newspaper man. Mr. McMasters concluded his remarks with this definition of a real newspaper, "An independently owned 'i medium, giving unbiased news to its readers, honest in its editorial opinions, supported by clean advertising, and doing its best to be fair to the public as a whole." In Traffic "What did. your wif i say when you drove past the traffic cop?" said Mr. The occasion was one of those valued incidents in life when Hen rietta permits me to do most of the tajiflng.

Washington Star. Shutter Up Cat Salesman And is there any thing else I can show you about this new model? Younat Ladv Yes: nlease show me how to turn on the radiator if the car gets cold. Butte Chronicle. Dynamite "It' is high time you were insured against accident, sir." "Why?" "You are sitting on the boxing champion's hat." Lustlge Blaetter. Father and Son The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into His Hand.

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abldeth on him. St. John, ill, 35, 36. Pungent Paragraphs That announcement of Steve Far rell's retirement from track coaching will be welcome news for nine of the Big Ten. The Ann Arbor Dally News.

The statesmen seem to think that a little fighting in Manchuria doesn't matter so long as they don't call it war. The Worcester Evening Gazette. EVERYDAY Answered by DR. S. PARKES CADMAN Braddockt Pa.

If yon were limited to a choice of ten books for life companionship, what ten would yoa choose and why? I am a medical student with little time for reading outside my professional work, but I should like to muter the ten greatest books that you know of. Is an artificial strain in questions of this kind. Who in our age is likely to be limited to ten books for a lifetime? I personally would select the Bible, Plato's "Republic," Shakespeare, Milton and Bunyan's "Pilgrims Progress" together with the best commentaries on the Old and New Testaments, R. W. Livingstone's volume on "The Greek Oenlus and What It Means to Us," and the works of Professor Ollbert Murray and 8.

H. Butcher on the same subject. I have already exceeded the number fixed by you and yet I have scarcely begun the enumeration. What about Bacon's essays and those of Montaigne, Thomas A. Kempls and Cervantes, Newman's "Apologia," and the poems of Dry den, Pope, Keats, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Browning and 8helley? St.

Augustine, St. Chrysostom and St. Francis usher In the fathers and WOMEN of Cumberland county are already organizing to give Mrs. Grace Sponseller, of Shippensburg, a rousing majority for poor director at the coming elections. Mrs.

Sponseller won a handsome victory at the primaries largely the result of the backing she received at the hands of those familiar with her rather remarkable record. She was chosen by Republican women of the county to represent them in the first contest ever waged by weman in that district for county, office. Mrs. Sponseller will take "to her duties on the board first hand knowledge of hardship an'd misfortune. When her husband returned from France with their two children she went to live on a farm in the hope that Mr.

Sponseller might overcome the effects of having been severely gassed. When he was compelled to go to the hospital she conducted the farm and with her two children in the dairy wagon with her served a milk route. When her father died at Mont Alto she took up his duties as a preacher and after being ordained carried on that work until her husband was graduated from Shippensburg State Teachers' College, where he is now a member of the faculty. Then she went back to homemaking. She is deeply interested in the missionary work of the United Brethren Church.

David M. Rosser, Luzerne county commissioner, has demanded the resignation of William Martin, of Pittston, chief clerk in the transcribing office, holding him responsible for errors on the registration books. William J. Diehl, who died in Pittsburgh, aged 85, was mayor of that city in 1901, when he was removed from office by the noted "ripper bill" passed by the Legislature. The Scranton Times Joins with a number of other newspapers in questioning the justice of the law which requires the payment of taxes and assessment at least sixty days before an election as a qualification for voting.

The Times calls attention to the fact that before the recent primaries about 25,000 people in Pittsburgh were harried from the polls on the charge that they held fraudulent tax receipts that is, they were supplied with receipts by political crooks without having been assessed cr having personally pa'd taxes. On the other hand, says the Times, "it is an easy matter for a political organization or even an Individual who may be elected assessor to disqualify thousands of decent citizens from voting." QUESTIONS the saints, a goodly company of choice and inspiring souls. As for biographies, their name is legion, and few exist without purpose. Sir William Robertson Nicoll declared he had read these by the hundred and always to advantage. What you need is not ten books, but a discriminating mind.

Browse among the novelists, poets, essayists, biographers, philosophers, theologians and live with those who appeal to you. To prevent wasted effort, consult literary masters and critics. They know the best books and make It easy for you to know them. These stand out like mountain peaks above the desert plains, where much current so called "literature" Is doomed to die aborn In jwEL WELL KNOWN PEOPLE Dr. William Mather Lewis, president of Lafayette College, will deliver the address at the dedication of the Sullivan trail marker at Em ton October 18.

Eltsha Lee, vice president on the Pennsylvania Railroad, Is being congratulated on another.