Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-25
Ehrntttg Gl1at

The other day Governor Martin G.
Brumbaugh went out to show the
Oakley paintings in the Senate cham
Der to Mrs. Brumbaugh and some
friends and had an amusing expert
ence, but did not know 1t. The Gov
ernor had gone a little ahead of his
party and was in the Senate cham
Der before they were within yards of
it. When he got there he found
couple of men who seemed to be in
terested in things and who promptly !
asked him questions. The Governor
explained the theme in the mural dec
orations and wherever he went the
men follow ed him about, deeply inter-
ested in the information that the Gov
ernor was giving. Finally Secretary
Ball told one of the men that If he
desired to see the Capitol he would
procure him a guide.
"Oh, we'd rather have this one"
answered the man addressed.
Mr.. Ball looked up at the ceiling
and skillfully detached the visitor from
the group. Then he asked him wnere
he came from.
"Oh, from away up in New York
State" answered the visitor Il Ger
tainly think that guide Is a dandy. He
| is a most unusual man anu 80 Wcil III
formed" he added as the Governor
was going on to point out the beau
ties of the room.
Yes, he is. Do you know his
name?" asked Mr.. Ball.
No, who is he?" replied the New
Yorker.
His names Brumbaugh."
"Brumbaugh? Well, he certainly
knows this building"
Haven't you ever heard of him?"
why, no, / can't recall the name.
We'll, he's the Governor"
The New York man looked little
queer and then remarked, "Oh that's
it. I noticed he shook hands with me.
l guess I'll have to start for my train"
DR.. e. e. Sparks, president of State
College, who was in Harrisburg this
week attending the agricultural meet
ings and the State College alumni BAN
quet, expressed himself as much
pleased with the interest the labor
unions are displaying in the institu-
tion of which he is the head. Re
Gently" he said, eight representa-
tives of different branches of organized
inspecting the equipment and facilities
for training young men and women to
be teachers in vocational high schools
of the State.
/ Some time ago it developed that the
I Pennsylvania State Federation of La
1
fund of 5000 for the endowment of
scholarships at State, designed for the
support of forty students. A we'll
known member of the local branch
said in this connection that he re-
garded this as one of the most ad-
vanced steps the Federation has ever
| taken, not only because 1t will give ad-
vantages to many boys who otherwise
! would not have them, but because ii
will help to improve the standing OF
1oh npOnlp
understand their objects. He gave it
as his opinion that the more work or
this kind the unions undertake the
better they will be regarded by the
public in general and by many per-
sons who evidently believe that they
are organized merely for wage advanc-
ing purposes.
The request of State College for an
preparation from the Legislature for
the purposes of encouraging State Col
lege boys to give more attention to
military training, brings to mind the
success of Gettysburg College in this
respect. With little or no armory
equipment nearly 80 per cent. of the
students there have enrolled in the
course that was started the first of the
present year under the direction of a
United States Army officer assigned to
the work by the government under the
recently enacted larger army act.
Gettysburg has military traditions and
the students are evidently determined
to uphold them. One of these days.
the trustees say, the college will be
compelled to respond by giving the
: student body such an armory as it
now needs.
What Mr.. schwab's purchase
: means to Harrisburg is the title of
n folder issued by Miller Brothers &
: Co., which calls attention to something
: which the average Harrisburger or
Dauphin and Cumberland countian, for
that matter, little realizes. The fold
err comments upon the tremendous
strides which were taken in the Beth
lehems after the steel magnate began
5 to develop the famous Bethlehem
: plant and remarks: There are many
, who already see what is in store for
our town and who are investing or
are about to invest their money here
in enterprises of various kinds, all or
, which means for Harrisburg the COM
[ ing of many more people who must
have homes, more and larger busi-
ness houses.
: THE seed catalogs are beginning
l to go through the mails, gol darn it,
complained a mail clerk yesterday. II
. guess this back to the farm stuff is
getting into the minds of a lot of fell
lows whose farms are never likely to
be bigger than their backyards. At
any rate the seed books are more
numerous tlian ever this year. They
are the first signs of spring, beating
the poultry catalogs and the blue
birds by few weeks and getting the
postal clerks all 'het up by the extra
burdens they impose"
The visit of the Corn Boys" as
they are called to the city yesterday
was the first to be made here by
Pennsylvania boys on such a mission
and recalls that the State Capital has
been visited for years by corn club
delegations from Ohio and other
Western States. The corn clubs have
attracted much attention in other
States and Pennsylvania is rapidly
coming to the front.