Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-20
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ioNe with his work. He is one of
those who believe all boys are good.
The bad boy" he says. is a mis-
nomer. Give any bow the nroner
kind OF activities with which to en-
ptoy ms mind and he will be an in
ulviouai or whom any father will be
proud is Mr.. Stine's belief.
1t has been his experience that +bA
more Boy Scouts there are in anv
Guy the fewer juveniles there are
III Ihe municipal and county courts
Be1ore the Rotary Club the other
udy ne explained the necessity for
eAecutlVe control of the scout move
llent IN every city of any size. "The
oiaster s',ouena Is the secret of the
Is the unit around which tba city
organization is formed" he said. aft
Is necessary for some adult Of ex-
ecutlVe ability to interest Young men
II. thls work of leading and direct
ing the troops. to teach them how to
90 tne work and in the principles of
sseoutlng. BY this means we hope to
plihs the scout opportunity to 1000
Doys IN Harrisburg, instead of 200"
IL is the intention of scout executives
10 teach the boys how to earn their
own scout equipment Work, instruc-
tion IN all manner of useful activi
ties and service will he the watch
"orus Oh scouting in Harrisburg.
]. B. Taft. the new division pub
hc1ty manager for the Bell Tele-
phone Company, has Joined the Har-
TlsDurg Reserves and will be out for
urliI TINS evening. Taft has had
mllrtary experience both in school
ana as member of the National
Guard cavalry. He is just the kind
OF material the reserves need and
they were glad to enroll him. Taft
is former Philadelphia newspaper
man man ana comes to this city highly
recommended by those who knew
MN there. He was makeup man on
the old Muncey publication there,
winch was one of the best papers
from a typographical standpoint
ever published in Pennsylvania. He
is now devoting his talents to the
| publicity and printing work of the
telephone company in this division.
A couple of men prominent in
| city affairs were observed in very
close confab the other evening. They
| spoke earnestly together for a long
| time and people who saw them con-
| cluded that there were big matters
IN the wind. When they separated
| one of the men remarked to the
other: THAT man may know a lot
t'bO'h lliltlhtS anu OlllGF IIlnSS DuI
hes clean off when it Games to po-
tatoes to use for seeding"
The parade of the Spanish War
| veterans yesterday afternoon at
tracted a good many favorable COM
ments because of the manner in
which the men marched along the
streets. They seemed to have the
spirit of 1898 and they kept step
IDn1 a1nnnr inc IN
and May days when they were sum-
moned to camps to be hammered
into shape. Some of the squads
which marched along yesterday were
heartily applauded for the way in
which they handled themselves. The
soldiers of this day, in their khaki,
were most generous in tributes to
the men in the blue and gray.
Quite few of the men here for
the convention of the Spanish war
convention went to the site of Camp
Meade to look over the field where
they spent good many weeks in
the latter part of 1898. Some of the
men who visited the place were
among those who Joined the four
Philippine regiments organized at
the camp in 1899. The people at the
Jednota orphanage were probably a
good bit surprised to see men in uni
forms strolling about the lanes of the
old Young farms and pointing out
places from the rising ground on
which the big barn stands. The sites
of the corps headquarters and the
hospitals were visited by number
of men who spent time in their tents
nineteen years ago. One of the vis-
itors commented upon the fact that
there was nothing to mark the site
of the camp. not even a marker
along the pike.
Ex-Speaker George 2. Alter in
the course of his visit to the Legisla-
ture yesterday commended the law
makers for not piling up a lot of
laws. He spoke feelngly because the
| session over which he presided
worked into hot weather to get the
statutes in shape. THE merits of q
session are not to be judged by the
size of the books of laws. The Legis-
| lature is often to be commended more
for the things it refuses to do than
for the things it does" said he. THE
things it is asked to do are mar
velous A great many seem to have
the impression that the function of
a Legislature, the purpose for which
! 1t is created, is to enable people
with fads to impose those fads upon
other people,"
The systematic manner in which
the roofs are torn off buildings and
things are ripped apart in the
demolition of the structures in Cap
itol Park extension is attracting
some attention. When the wreckers
start on a building it is only a mat
ter of hours until the filling up of
the cellar excavation starts. The
building is taken apart and the ma
| terial piled up. 1t does not stay long
as it is in demand and houses are
memories in a mighty short time.
Third-class city officials who have
been here considerably this year
keeping tabs on the legislation af-
fecting that class of municipalities
in Pennsylvania say that they pro-
pose to start early next time. The
Third-Class City League will meet
in Hazleton in August and the plan
s to have the changes favored in
the laws thoroughly threshed out
long before the next Legislature
meets so that the bills may be dis
cussed next year before the legisla-
tors are elected. In this way many
things which have caused trouble
this session will be overcome.