Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-02
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Newly elected members of the gem
eral assembly of 1917 do not seem to
have had much trouble finding the
way to the State Legislative Refer
enco Bureau to have bills drawn for
presentation to the Legislature and
| there have been so many requests
| the last three weeks that there are
| suspicious about the State Capitol
| that there will be the usual flood OF
bills Notwithstanding the talk of a
| short session with q minimum of new
| laws which has been heard here. The
| requests have been made by members
| in person and by mail and there have 4
| also been some requests from people
| interested in legislation to have pro-
| posed statutes drafted by the States
| experts. The legislators, however,
| come first. Director James N. Moore
is former member of the House and
| has served for years as assistant clerk
| under appointment and under the acc
creating his bureau which makes the
director the parliamentary authority
of the House. He has united many
a knot and is the last word on legis-
lative procedure.
Tramping through the country back
of Losch's Run, in Perry county the
other day, Harrisburger ran
across a little house on the edge of
the woods attached to which was q
neatly painted, we'll constructed
garage. This, I suppose" he OBJ
served to the native who was his COM
panion, "is the summer place of some
town family; I see they bring their
automobile along"
mot on your life," replied tho
aforesaid native. '"rhat is the home
of a track-hand on the Pennsylvania
railroad, and that garage is his. Also.
the automobile on the inside is his.
Sundays he and his family spend tour
ing. He's the worst auto bug in this
neighborhood."
And to think" observed the Har-
r1sburger," that l had been pitying
the track workmen as my train sped
along from the city this afternoon"
There is much sentiment among
old soldiers in the proposed purchase
py the state OF plot of ground ad-
Joining the Camp Curtin Memorial
Methodist church, which will be dedi-
Gated Tomorrow, as a site for q Camp
Curtin memorial. James L. Frisbee.
now resident of Wisconsin, and one
of the men who enlisted at Camp Cur-
tin sends this testimonial of appre-
citation for the movement in a letter
to the Telegraph: "And now re-
ferring to the idea of buying a plot
on which to erect a memorial for the
GoVernor and the boys who together
made old Camp Curtin famous.
= think 1t is good idea. l would like
to see as part of that memorial the
\ old Camp Curtin pump, now, believe
in the hands of one of the G. A. r.
| posts or Harrisburg, encased in glass
ana stone and put there so that all
could see this famous relic and So
that 1T could be preserved for all time.
| VIII you please print this suggestion"
In discussing the development of
. the State school system, Girard writ
=, makes this interesting reference:
= we now take a public school with
- as much matter -factness as a
!, drink OF water But our schools are
quite new. What of the older day?
How did they grow? Who made them
=. grow? Doctor Becht has set his class
- in pedagogy before which he lectures
S at Pennsylvania the task of actually
u gathering from all Libraries all the
a, written written, facts act; about education in
= sort of thing for concreteness i'm
% teaching. From the data collected
% may be written the only real history
y OF education in Pennsylvania, NOT
even excluding that by the late Doc
q tor Wickersham. Among the ro-
- mances in Pennsylvania education are
n the sixty academies that Doctor Becht
10 tells me were built in the State after
If the revolution and prior to the birth
n OF the public school system in 1894
m SUI = VI llSHl grew into colleges
President Wilson's father was identi-
= fed with that of Washington and Jeff
erson. Hardly anybody to-day knows
Id that the first public schools very
m nearly caused civil war in Pennsvi-
D vania. So hath the stone that was
rejected by the builder become the
cornerstone of the greatest SINCE in
I stitution. in the Commonwealth"
|
} Harrisburg friends of D. B. Case.
formerly of Marietta, who commanded
the Fourth Pennsylvania Infantry in
the Porto Rico campaign, in which
this city had a company, will be in
terested to know that he has been
d transferred from Honolulu, where he
4 was in charge of quartermaster af-
fairs to Kansas City Major Case has
been in the Philippines and in other
|. places.
f County schoolteachers are giving
their pupils something new in the line
of history work. At the county insti-
portant dates in American history and
asked what each one represented
Many of the teachers copied these
dates and have given them to the
youngsters to answer. Here they are:
1861, 1887, 1853, 1920, 1872, 17SS,
1888, 1865, 1850, 1854, s1775. 1881.
1928, 1S46, 1898 and 1915. How many
do you know?
N Some of the Harrisburg soldiers
who are doing duty on the border
will no doubt file their applications
for assistance for their families who
are eligible for help under the recent
act of Congress which provided $2,-
600, 900 for that purpose" said County
Commissioner H. M. Stine, an ex-cap-
tain in Uncle Sans army recruiting
service. The probabilities were dis
cussed by Captain Stine in connection
with his note to Colonel M. e. Flnney
commander of the Eighth Pennsyl-
= vania Regiment relative to urging the
, men to get in their applications
. The note by the way will be sent to
= the border via Captain o. NJ. Copelin.
We've already had some instances
where the absence of the head of the
D house on border duty has worked
more or less of a hardship upon those
at home" said the commissioner.