Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-09
LOANS PASSING
PLEASES ALL
City at Last Can Give Proper
Educational Advantages
to Children

Both A. Carson Stamm, president of
the School Board. and j. Horace
Mcfarland, chairman of the Chamber
of Commerce committee which con-
Quoted the propaganda for boosting
Ne new high school loan. to-day ex-
pressed keen satisfaction at the way
Harrisburg solved the high school
problem.
THE School Board construes the
vote as an expression OF commence
declared President Stamm. The
money will be borrowed only as needed
and the board will expect to spend 1t
as wisely and economically as any
business man would spend 1t In his
own personal enterprise.
''The success of the loan is u great
thing for the girls and boys of Har-
risburg. The Chamber of Commerce
and its special committee having
charge of the propaganda for the loan
deserve great credit and high con-
graduation. The Rotary Club. the
Civic Club, the Municipal League, the
all the newspapers-well, l shan't try
to name all who helped. but l hope
someday even those who couldn't see
their way clear to vote Yes will be
glad the loan has been authorized
dents and teachers that paraded, and
From Mr.. Mcfarland
J. Horace Mcfarland, chairman of
the Chamber of Commerce committee
which conducted the school loan cam
paign, expressed his keen satisfaction
ut the passage of the school loan in a
brief interview just before his de-
parture for Pittsburgh. Said Mr..
Mcfarland:
1.-The result of the school loan cam
paign is just another evidence of the
intelligence and discrimination of Har-
risburgs voting population. The voters
were supplied with the actual, plain
truth. and they voted right in conse-
cuence.
Campaign of Education
ut was campaign of education.
surely. The newspapers did every
thing to set forth the facts. Many of
the pulpits of the city justified anew
the city's support of the churches in
tax remission by the sermons preached.
'The business men, particularly
those of the Rotary Club and the
Chamber of Commerce, were active
missionaries of truth.
Commends Pupils
THE high school pupils did great
work for their fellow pupils of the
lower schools and much of the ma
Jority is due to their parade and their
individual efforts
But most of all do see satisfaction
in the steady march of the city. We
have been doing things for ourselves,
advanced things, for fifteen years, and
now we add school advance to our
parks and filtration. TO our sewers and
paving and water front. Probably few
voters have realized that old Harris
burg is far ahead of any city in Penn
sylvania in her economical, intelligent
and successful attention to the best
living conditions.
Not Picayunish
What a triumph the loan vote is
for the idea of expert service, the best
for the money! We have asked those
who know what we ought to do for
our boys and girls. and now we are go
ing to do it. We have the price, and
Nse're not picayunish or piffiing-the
Best Is good for usi
THE School Board has had a vote
of confidence to which l am sure it
Will react A new day in education is
dawning for Harrisburg. The people
are welcomed in the counsels of the
school directors An advisory COM
mittee of able men will sit with our
elected representatives. We will get a
hundred cents worth of better school
facilities for every dollar of that loan"