Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-29
GOVERNOR WAKES
UP RURAL PEOPLE
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journey. The governor had Just Wis
tied one of the fairest sections of the
Keystone State and was fresh from
addressing impronlptu meetings Of the
Perry county farmers who showed an
appreciation of his work and his hopes
as did those of q dozen other counties
lying wide apart.
The Governor and those who OBJ
served the people and heard the COM
ments upon the three tours were i'm
pressed by the deep interest taken by
his audiences in what he said. Speak
ing in year marked by hounteous
harvests in many sections the COVER
nor voiced the gratitude of the whole
people to Providence for the blessings
vouchsafed and his words found a
ready echo everywhere.
Ready For Work
Now we are ready for work" said
tho Governor just before coming into
Harrisburg. He had placed his ideas
before the rural folk and had found
them in sympathy with his policy of
going out and talking it over. He
will embody in his Forthcoming mes
sage which the constitution requires
he shall send to the general assembly
plans for such legislation as will give
the funds for the Improvement of the
education, the placing of scientific ad-
Vice for farmers within immediate
reach of all and the making of life
in the country so attractive that the
ratio of population in favor of the
urban communities shall be over
borne.
Details must be worked out, but the
governor feels that the people are with
him and although ne must study out
propositions involving revenue, appro-
priation and disbursement so that this
years conditions shall not come again
and schools and public improvements
be advanced. he will take up his la
Dor heartened by the interest dis
played.
The three tours covered sections of
the State notable for every crop ex-
cept those peculiar to the western tier
and the extreme northwest In his
abounding knowledge Of the affairs of
the people Of the State which the
Governor evidenced so many times in
the eighty or ninety speeches he made
IN thirty-hve counties of the State DR..
Brumhaugh showed he was aware of
what the districts unvisited required.
The Highways
The Lincoln highway came in for
its share of praise during the first and
second days journeys, but the new
William Penn highway received un-
final days run.
IT want this William Penn high
way. stretching from Philadelphia to
the Ohio line to be a panorama of
the life and the interests of the people
of this marvelously endowed common
wealth." said he at Millerstown. At
Lewistown he bade the people rejoice
for the time was coming when the
Juniata valley would be justly famous
for the scenic features he eulogized
in a speech at Huntingdon which his
friends declare to have been one that
even this master of diction has seldom
equaled.
You Juniata county people may
feel certain that will never rest until
the William Penn highway is as fine
from the eastern to the western line
of Pennsylvania as 1t Is from Lewis
town to your gates" was the remark
of the Governor at Miff1in.
at other points the Governor chided
borough people for not rising to op-
portunities to better roads and to CO.
operate with the State and he praised
the people of Cambria and Blair for
the excellent county roads they had
built from their own funds to match
what the commonwealth is doing in
memory Of William Penn.
The Lincoln highway the Governor
said in one of his speeches In the
southern tier is destined to be known
throughout the land and he pointed
to the ever-increasing traffic and to
the automobile license tags of many
States which he met upon the tours.
For Better Schools
''The child that lives in the remote
districts is entitled to just as much
of chance to get an education as
the boy in city" said the Governor
in New Bloomfield. He said short
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army of children in this State was
so important that everyone should
realize it. If the school children of