Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-30
URGE PASSAGE OF
LOAN FROM PULPIT
CONTINUED From First Pagel

SSfiu uCs HIS Is Wlhtt q City OWSo Aeo
citizens. This is what the city of Har-
risburg is trying to do. This Is the
real Interpretation of the $1,25O,OOO
loan which the citizens or this munich
pality will be asked to sanction Tues |
day, November z. VIII they do 1t?
they do less than vote 'yes.'"
While the sermon dealt particularly |
with the high school loan issue, 1t was
particularly applicable at this time in
view of the other grave problems that
the citizens of the city, State and ma
ton, will be called upon to solve at
the polls on election day. His reference
TO the high school question, however, |
was especially interesting.
DIR. Smucker SAID in part:
What are the city'S duties to its
citizens? A city is not loath to tell it's
citizens what their duties are to 1t. |
but here is this other pressing ques-
ton, what ought a city to be, and how
ought city to do, SO as to make peo- |
pie born in it glad of their birthplace?
To-day / call the growing municipality |
of Harrisburg to draw it's breath deep |
and say, 1 am fit to have people live
in me-.
What has a citizen the right to ex-
pect of his city? Well, he has right |
to expect of his city that it shall be
clean; that its streets shall be wide |
enough to give room for the earth
and sky; that there shall be city |
cleaners enough to keep the streets |
decent; that taxes enough shall be
raised and applied to make highways |
highways, not lowways. The cleaning |
of city streets is really a great |
philanthropy.
Every city owes it to its citizens
that it have plenty of lung room. I
have been in many cities and Harris
burg, 1 believe to be one of the best |
equipped cities, for it's size, in the mat
fer of marks largo and small fhpra q |
in this great country. Now, l don't
know who is responsible for that
statesmanlike procedure, but who
ever he is, blessings on him forever.
Now, the city owes to it's citizens
to give them intelligence. To make |
things In my humble opinion, that |
is not the thing. The falling over our
selves to teach every child some craft |
is losing the essence of citizenship. |
We are not trying to breed carpenters
in America, though carpenters are
very good; we are not trying to make |
preachers nor shippers nor iron
mongers in America, though those are
very good; but the public schools of |
America and the public schools of the
world are to give intelligence. That
is it, intelligence. Not how to make
a living, but how to be man. A city
has no need and is not bound to teach |
a child a trade, but it is bound to teach |
Intelligence SO that when they are at
the trade they can be men. In
telligence, city owes that to it's citi-
zens. Now, the city must look to that
if it is good
This city has a great school in
dustry and 1 assume it will grow bet
ter year by year. It's business is to do |
so. city which doesn't furnish the
very best possible educational op-
portunities ought to be ashamed that
children are ever born in it.
'DOeS a city feel 1t iS oblipated IN |
furnish clean streets, and does q city |
feel it is obligated to give fine privi-
leges? And is q city's business done |
at this juncture? Not by any man.
ner of means. We are not yet got into
the roots of the soul We are not yet |
come into the highways of life. The
city owes larger matter than any of |
these. Why? Because if man were
an animal and you gave him a play
ground and gave him a clean place
and plenty of food, if he were an
animal and you gave him such privi-
leges as those. he would have enough. |
But man chances to be an animal
plus. Therefore, a city ought to feel
it is obligated to give the very best !,
possible educational opportunities to
its citizens. This is what a city owes
it's citizens This is what the city of
Harrisburg is trying to do. This is
the real Interpretation of the s1,250.-
600 loan the citizens of this munich
pality will be asked to sanction Tues
day, November T. Will they do it.
May the Good God help. How dare
they do less than vote yes?
What l long for for the city of
Harrisburg, what I long for for every |
city of my beloved land, is that it |
should learn that the responsibility |
of a city to its citizens cannot be stated |
in terms graphic enough, but that a
city that fails to give moral might and |
give moral atm mospheres for breathing |
and moral bread for food, and moral |
drink for the dry parched lip and |
throat, has failed absolutely in its
obligations. And, therefore, city |
peoples may well hazard themselves !
in the matter of making for municipal |
cleanness and strictness of sobriety, |
and high educational opportunities,
cleaning away of all balefulness as by |
the besom of destruction
Distribution of the 10000 or more |
pamphlets explaining the city's needs |
on the high school question, was be-
gun to-day. Each voter will get a |
copy. In the. booklet the whole ques-
ton is fully threshed out the letter
of the citizens committee to the school |
board, the recommendations of Presi- |
dent A. c. Stamm, the school board, |
city superintendent and DIR. James II. |
Van Syckle's report who made a sur
vey of the situation at the direction of |
the school authorities.
The necessity for building improved |
structures on a much larger scale is |
also discussed. 1t is pointed out that |
the sanitary and fire needs nowadays |
require building costing at least $3.50
per pupil.
STATE COLLEGE POLITICS