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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03
4 NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
By Frederic ]. Haskin

terested in cooking and darning socks.
Very well. Uncle Sam is still with
you. The Department of Agriculture
has an expert chemist who devotes
all OF his time to devising new receipts
for jellies and jams. He has learned
now to make syrup out of cider and
preserves out of orange peelings
1t would be impossible in one short
article to give you any idea of the
wealth of Uncle Sans educational
resources. The medical library of the
surgeon general is recognized all over
the world as one of the most COM
plete collections of it's kind in eXis-
tence. European physicians come to
the United States to consult it. Our
department of Justice has almost
equal facilities for the study of legal
problems. Our great western irriga-
ton projects and the Panama Canal
are striking proof of what govern
ment engineering can do.
So Uncle Sam has all the constitu-
ents of a great university-the men,
the books, the laboratories. Further
more, he has in an unusual degree
an opportunity for the application of
everything practical that his students
evolve. The criticism leveled against
universities in general is that they
are too theoretical and tend to make
knowledge a pursuit in itself quite
apart from its value to men. But
Uncle Sans scientists and thinkers
are in daily contact with the practi-
cal problems of a great nation. The
United States OF America is their field
of experiment. No student under them
would have much chance to become
a slave of theory.
A very important provision Of the
Fess plan is that the national uni
versity shall be entirely a post-grad-
in
has already a number of excellent uni
versities, and it would be out of the
question for the government to enter
into competition with these. So it is
provided in the measure now before
Congress that a student must have a
masters degree before he can enter
the national university. Thus its work
would supplement rather than conflict
with that of the other universities.
And this fact has been recognized by
! educators throughout the country. The
| plan has been endorsed by the ma
tional association of State universities
and a number of the larger endowed
institutions, including John Hopkins,
Harvard, Chicago, Leland Stanford
and Cornell.
! Since Uncle Sam already possesses
all of the facilities for his great uni
versity, the one thing necessary to
bring it into being is an act CO.
ordinating these facilities for educa-
tional purposes. This is the plan OF
the present measure. It provides only
100000 for the establishment Of the
university in 1915 in Washington. The
institution will be controlled by a
board of trustees OF which the Com.
missioner of Education would be
chairman. The twelve trustees would
be appointed by the President. The
measure also provides for an advisory
every State in the Union. Presidents
of State universities are to serve in
this capacity.
The work of the university is to con.
sist of lectures by the government ex-
perts and research work by the stu.
dents in government laboratories.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03

TIME project to make a great uni
versity out of the men and la
loratories and books which Uncle
Sam has gathered at Washington Is
one of the newest and one of the old
est before the American people to-
day.
1t is new because bill has just
been introduced into Congress by Rep
resentative Fess, of Ohio, (who re-
Gently addressed the city teachers
instituted, which provides for the
founding of such a university; and it
is old because George Washington rec
commended it in his first message to
Congress.
In fact, George Washington did
more than recommend it. The most
substantial bequest in his will was an
appropriation of $4,000 to aid in the
founding of this national university,
which seems to have been a plan very
close to his heart. Now, the advo-
Gates of the project in Congress to-
day are asking what has become of
that $4,000. 1t was evidently paid
over to the treasury of the United
States and all account of it in some
way lost Yet it must be still among
the national funds, and furthermore,
il has been drawing interest for some
thing over a century. Representative
Fess calculates that this little nest
egg, bequeathed by George Washing
ton to the American people, must
amount to about S4,000.000 to-day.
Trusting Mr.. Fess for the mathema-
tics, it would seem that in a very real
sense the Treasury Department owes
the American people s4,00O,000 to be
used for a national university.
There are few Americans who real
ize what wonderful facilities for such
an establishment they have at Wash
ington. Any university consists of
men, books and laboratories. The gov
ernment has, in the first place, the
Library of Congress and numerous
highly specialized libraries belonging
to the various departments. In those
departments it has experts upon all
most every science and art. and
laboratories worth millions of dol
lars.
Unless you have come to Wash
ington and explored intimately among
the government departments you have
no conception of the interest and va
riety of their activities. If you are
an iron manufacturer, for example.
and want to know the modulus of
torsion of an iron bar of a certain di-
ameter, you can go out to the Bureau
of Standards and find a man who is
leading authority on the subject and
laboratory which is as good as
money can buy. If you are interested
in raising fur-bearing animals, you
can go to the Biological Survey and
find a man who devotes all his time
to studying the subject. He is COM
petent zoologist of scientific standing,
but he is also a practical fur-farmer.
He will take you out to the zoologi-
cal gardens in Rock Creek Park, and
show you large collection Of minks
and martins which he is raising on
corn bread and skinned milk. If you
are an astronomer or meteorologist,
Uncle Sam has some of the best OBJ
servatories in the world for study
ing the stars and the weather.
But perhaps you are interested in
none of these things. Perhaps you
are just a housekeeping person, in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03
THE NEW PACKARD RULE

T>URNING one of the greatest mo-
tor car factories in the world into
a concrete embodiment of Israel
zangwill's conception. The Melting
Pot" the Packard Motor Car Company
will demand that among its employees
from now on American ideals, Ameri-
can patriotism and loyalty to America
shall be first in the minds and hearts
of all Packard employees. and on their
stanch Americanism will depend all
hope of promotion.
This is a step in the right direction.
Too often our industrial managers are
interested only in getting work out of
their employees. This is particularly
true in many of the large metal manu-
featuring plants. Raw material is
dumped in from Europe, employed at
wages which would not be attractive.
to say the least, to an American, hud-
died together in makeshift living quar-
ters and left to work out their salvation
as best they may. Instead of trying
to lead these foreigners to respect
for our flag and our institutions, we
have in large measure placed a pre-
MUM on the hyphen.
The Packard company has hit upon
an excellent idea. 1t is to be hoped
that others will follow. II our foreign
population is devoted to American
ideals, it is TO a large degree despite
what we in America have done rather
than because of any encouragement we
have offered
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

What does the Grounding know
about it, anyhow?
THE president and Mr.. Wilson
are under Wall street influences" says
the Altoona Times. which might be
sensational charge II we only knew
which president and which Mr.. Will
son.
This is Thrift Day'-have you
been thrifty?
Why is it that the hungry tramp
never comes around on the day there
is snow on the pavement?
The Big Stick appears to have
developed into roost for the Dove of
Peace.
The new Pennsylvania freight
station is to be four stories in height
instead of one-worth waiting for.
After all, our X boats appear to
be OK.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Taken by and large this country has
had but one President who received the
unqualified approval of Colonel Roose-
velt.-Baraboo News.
Declares Danger in Preparedness"
says Herald headline. That's better
than preparedness being in danger Just
at present.-Chicago Herald.
We are in favor OF Pan-American
unity. Also like to see a little more
unity in Congress on United States
Americanism. New York Evening
Telegram.
Still, it may be. modestly suggested
that Mr.. Brandeis' fitness for the Su-
preme Court doesn't depend on whether
he happens to be a Methodist, Baptist,
Presbyterian, Unitarian, or a worship
per in a synagogue.-Kansas City Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03

sadly jar the advocates of the larger
proposition to know that after all
these years of watchful waiting we
are not TO have that ornamental and
impressive structure which had been
held forth as the inevitable thing that
was to follow should two citizens OF
Harrisburg ever become members OF
the Board.
But Commissioner Slime declares
we ought to have a city hall and
nobody will question the sanity of that
suggestion. There may be, however,
disagreement as to separate build
ings. But II the present ancient court
house can be reconstructed and
remodeled for the uses of the county
from that building 1t may strike some
people as unnecessary to provide an
exclusive and expensive structure for
the city officials only.
II the present county building,
which is now occupied jointly by the
county and some city officials, is sus-
ceptible of enlargement for a period
county only, then it ought to be pos
sible with slightly larger expendi-
ture, perhaps, to make ii a suitable
structure for all the off1cials-city and
county. Only the other day a dis
tingulshed speaker before the Cham
Der of Commerce at one of its noon
day luncheons complimented Harris
I
cially praised the court house as one
of the finest types Of Colonial architec-
ture he had ever seen. 1t Is therefore
worth while to consider whether there
is any occasion TO spend a million
dollars, or approximately that amount,
on a city hall when the city and county
officials cooperating in a neighborly
way and representing largely the same
tax payers can be comfortably housed
for a generation or two without a
large expenditure of the public funds.
Nobody with any civic pride in his
system will question the necessity of
concentrating the officials of the city
set in touch with them without the
necessity of a guide. Nor will any
body doubt that the present court
house can stand a good deal of
renovation without seriously impair
ing the strength of the structure or
affecting the balance in the county
treasury.
The Telegraph admits a slight !
weakness for those old columns and
the dignifed front of the ancient
structure while favoring a proper
housing of the city officials.
We therefore submit for the con-
of the members of the City |
Council and the Board of County !
Commissioners-two of the three
being citizens of Harrisburg the |
proposition that now is as good a
time as any to get together and do /
besides exercising their
vocal chords.
Mayhap Commissioner Slime has
performed a public service in throw
ing out the hint that there is to be
no large expenditure of the public |
funds upon a combination court |
house and city hall. Assuming that
to be the dictum of the Board of
County Commissioners, there ought TO
be little time wasted in further pow
wowing when the need is so obvious.
1t should be an easy matter to elevate
the present county building into the
atmosphere and place the courts
nearer the sky for the comfort of the
judges and all concerned in the ad-
of justice.
A combination building is the thing
whether it comes now or a half CEN
tury hence: whether it be new build
ing or an enlargement of the present
structure.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03
Standardizing
Retailing

Retailers, especially the small
storekeepers, are becoming bet
ter educated.
They are learning how to
count costs. compute prohts and
stop leaks.
They are discerning the money
making possibilities In smaller
stocks and quicker turnovers.
They are learning the power OF
newspaper advertising and the
profit that comes from cooper
alton with their local newspaper.
They are watching the national
advertising in the newspapers
and studying how to make 1t
pay them.
They are seeing to it that
their windows show the adver
tised goods at the time the news
paper advertising is running.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03
! COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL

GO We are not to have a COM
y bination court house and city
hall after all? At least, we
gather from an interview with one of
the Harrisburg members of the Board
of County Commissioners that this is
the policy of that body. Perhaps he
Is right that a great expenditure
should not be made at this time in
the erection of fine structure for
the accommodation of the city and
county officials, when for $4,000
IS he suggests-the present building
can be remodeled for the uses of the
eOunty for half century, but it will
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. NJ. r. Maltbie, who is taking
part in the Philadelphia Electric case.
is a former expert of the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
e. S. Stewart, the new advertising
chief of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
has been with the company for
twenty-three years.
L. f. Nagle, long with Coatesville
Iron Works, is at the head OF a new
plant organized at Pottstown.
DIR. L. r. Pattee, one of the State
College professors, has been installed
as superintendent of a Sunday school
for the twenty ninth time.
County Treasurer Adamson, of
Schuylkill county. took in a quarter
of a million dollars in one day as
LIQUOR license money.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03
AMERICAN ExTRAvAGANCE

MYTH concrete fact and the elo-
wv quent use OF incontrovertible
figures Edward A Woods
Forced home a vital truth in his i'm
pressive address before the Chamber
of Commerce and its guests at the
monday luncheon yesterday. His
theme was the extravaganza OF the
American people as a national prob
lem. Extravaganza in our personal
expenditures, extravaganza in our
municipalities and government. ex-
trayasance everywhere was the basis
OF talk so full of meat that all who
crowded the room went away thinking,
and thinking hard.
Mr. Woods is the leading field gem
eral of the life insurance forces of the
United States and as president of the
National Association of Life
Underwriters is in personal
and direct touch with the
lives of the people. He has made a
study of the habits of Americans and
his direct thrusts at our extravagant
Customs-individual corporate and
Eovernmental-whic are gradually
undermining the structure of thrift
upon which the nation has been rear
ed, left most serious impression upon
oil present. Nothing more forceful
has been heard in this series of lunch
con meetings and nothing more help
full.
The speaker is a man of wide vision
VINO has no mistaken notions of where
we are tending in this country. He
showed in unmistakable language that
unless we call halt upon our indi-
Nidual waste and our follies as a peo-
pie we must go the way of the Roman
empire, where decay set in at the mo-
ment of its greatest material power.
Throughout the address the domi-
nant thought was the building of char
acter and energy and thrift OF the peo-
pie. He drove home the lesson that
the American boy is too prone to spend
and not to save; too ready to regard
expenditure and reckless extrava-
gance as an evidence of his ability
rather than frugality and the habits of
economy and thrift.
Perhaps there was nothing more i'm
pressive in his vital talk than the dec
laration that the preparedness which
we are now discussing in the United
States is not confined to the enlarge
ment of the army and the navy, but
forces the realization that as a peopIe
We must be more thrifty, more care
full in our expenditures, conserving our
physical well-being and our mental
health, and doing what is manifestly
necessary for the safeguarding of the
interests Of this country when we shall
be confronted with the inevitable con-
hict for supremacy that must follow
the close of the European war.
It's pity that there cannot be ab-
sorbed into the inner consciousness of
every citizen of Harrisburg and the
whole country, for that matter, the
facts so plainly and con-
Vincingly set forth in
this remarkable speech. 1t was a
warning and an inspiration. Side by
eide with the Presidents appeal TO the
people to support a program of ma
4ional defense should go forth the
propaganda OF thrift and character
building and patriotism so we'll epito-
mized in the admirable address of the
Pittsburgh insurance expert, whose
vision extends far beyond the mere
theory, important as that is, Of pro-
lection for the family.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03

a winning fight. The above really
happened at Towanda on Tuesday.
Mrs. Augustus Cordes didn't raise
her husband to be a soldier in the
army of the Kaiser. so she has left
Quakertown, Pa, for Germany, where
she hopes to have her husband re-
leased from duty. She is an American
girl and her husband had lived IS
years in the United States and was
detained in Germany while on a visit
to that country recently.
"The Ballet of Orlando" a goth
century version of a 14th century
Italian comedy, was presented in the
ballroom of the Bellevue-Stratford
Hotel by the Junior League of Phila-
delphia yesterday afternoon. Several
young society women appeared in the
silhouette dances that for the last
few weeks have been charming New
York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03
MOVIES
IFrom the New York Sun.

IFrom the New York SUM-
We congratulate the President upon
the elimination from the Wilsonian code
of this article or aphorism:
There is such a thing as being too
proud to fight"
Nothing has hurt him more. here and
abroad. He now withdraws from the
Illuminated screen the foregoing le-
gend and in its place projects the sub
joined sentiment:
"The American people are ready at
any time to fight for the vindication of
their character and honor"
This film runs no risk of being mis-
understood. 1t is a vast Improvement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY |

Poor old groundhog! What chance
would he have had yesterday? Had
he had the courage TO put in an ap-
pearance, he would undoubtedly have
expired from disappointment, or
would have been so chagrined that
you couldn't dig him out again with
an infinite pole.
Beggars in Reading believe in bad
pennies always turning up to such a
degree that they insist on being jailed
or else they threaten to return i'm
mediately. in spite of the gently-ex-
pressed wish of the judge that their
presence is undesirable. DO some
thing with me or I'll be right back, &"
is the way one of the tribe recently
expressed himself to the judicial
holder-down of the bench. Incident
ally there don't seem to be many beg
gars extant. While the war lasts, and
we hope thereafter, it will be the
same.
1t is an occasion for mirth when a
friend. unable to swim, makes wild
volplane motions in a couple of inches
of water and thinks himself a second
Annette Kellerman, or at least her
masculine counterpart. But when a
man becomes intoxicated, falls into a
ditch, his head forms dam, the
water rises over his face. and he
browns. there is only one more Incl
dent chalked up opposite the curse
against which this country Is waging
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03

steelton is preparing for further ex-
pansion with the coming of Spring
Many more homes are needed in the in
dustrial borough. and the facts are
pointed out that there is not single
desirable building for rent; that many
employees of the big steel plant are COM
PEELED to reside elsewhere. Under the
direction of the Municipal League of
the borough it is proposed to form CO.
operative building association. What
ever is done, it is certain that the de-
velopment of the town cannot be
checked through any lack OF proper
housing facilities.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03

seem to be a proper thing to put the
matter squarely before Council, to the
end that we may not be forced to apollo
gize to all strangers for the failure to
place the statuary in a proper location.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03

City Commissioner Lynch seems to
have saved more than $1,000 in street
repairs last year through the installa-
tion Of the municipal asphalt repair
plant This is a significant fact in
comparison with the contract system
and the deplorable results which were
constant source OF disagreeable dis
cussion for several years
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03

1t is hardly believable that City
Council will fail TO install the Hershey
statuary promptly. 1t was understood
that City Commissioner Bowman had
agreed to provide for the cost out OF
the funds OF his department. but as he
is in doubt on this question. it would
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03
THURSDAY EVENING, FEB. s.

Politeness and ciriHty are the best
capital euer iRUeSted in busineSS.-P. T.
BARNUM.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03
OUR DAILY LAUGH
ONLY THING.

ONLY THING.
Coises! She
npOins me love-
Ali that keeps me
from leapin' in
the river is cause
I can't swim!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03

W a n e 3: She
said on her we'd
ding day that she
would so through
e v cry thing for
him.
Bangs: Well, /
guess she has. i
loaned him a ten
spot this morning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is a supply de-
not for automobiles for many
miles around?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Harrisburg began to grow
above North street right after the
Civil War.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03

a winning fight. The above really
happened at Towanda on Tuesday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03

E. ]. STACKPoLE, Pres'f aEd EGiior-is-Ch Chief
F. r. OYSTER, Busixess Ncnassr.
GUS NJ. STEINAIETZ, M5sesinS Ediser.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-05-27
DEPOSITS INCREASED.

According to bulletin just received by Postmaster l.. k. Bailey, the Bisbee postal savings department can now re- ceive deposits up Co and including S1,000. on which interests will be paid. This was made possible by the sigma ture by President Wilson of a bill which enlarged the scope of the de- partment. Formerly the limit of a single deposit was $500 The new bill also abolishes another detail which has often been embarrassing to both the postoffice and the depositor; that of limiting the amount deposited in one single month by any depOsitor to S100. This part of the former bill has been eliminated Bisbee, un- doubtedly, will take full advantage of the added facilities and continue to lead the Southwestern cities in the matter of greater savings deposits.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-05-27
BASEBALL SCORE CARD.

A new baseball score card and program will make it's appearance at the Copper Queen-All Star game to- morrow-a iour page affair in two col ors. containing complete lineup, places for scoring, and different athletic and social announcements. The card is gotten up by w. A. Gallagher, the proceeds from the advertisings on which will go toward purchasing new uniforms for the All Star aggregation. The cards, hundreds of them, will be distributed free at each game. Bis bees merchants entered into the stunt with readiness and as a result the card is filled with advertisements. The All Stars, at present leading all clubs in the district. have been playing in varied colored suits and need better outfittings.