Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-02
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There is something to the conten-
ton of members of the legislative
committee of the State Grange, as
voiced here a few days ago by Master
John McSparran, that city people can
help smash the high cost of living by
thinking rather than boycotting. Tho
Changers point is that people in the
cities could just as well buy on a CO.
operative plan as the farmer can SELL
ing in large lots. The State is giving
much time and spending money to
| encourage the formation of co-opera-
tive buying and selling associations
among the farmers of Pennsylvania
and there are probably 100 associa1(
tions which have arranged to sell in
carload lots, after proper grading and
routing of cars next summer. The
railroads are helping because 1t means
business and the practical experience
is that the farmers instead OF selling
to buyers for commission men who
do all the work of packing and ship
ping are getting after some of the
proht Numerous instances are
known of successful sales in large lots
this year from Lancaster and York
counties. The Changers say that IL
people in cities will do as the specula-
tors do there will be little trouble. Ono
prominent Granger said that there
was nothing to prevent fifty house,
| holders in Harrisburg going together
and sending man out to buy up po-
tatoes, eggs, chickens or anything else
! from the farms and having it placed
in cold storage in Harrisburg until
needed. In other words the Changers
say that the city people can buy on
cooperative plan as cheaply as the
speculator, the commission merchant
or the individual in the time of pro-
! auction or the period of plenty and
low prices and hold the food until
the winter. 1t simply means an out
lay of capital and some eXertion in
summer. When one thinks of what
various things brought in the Harris
burg markets last summer and fall
and what they are now the Grangers'
idea does seem exceedingly practical.
George ]. Brennan, writing in the
Philadelphia Inquirer, tells the fol-
lowing story about days when Senator
]. p. McNichol and Max Leslie, the
Pittsburgh leader, were on opposite
sides of tie fence. He tells How
McNichol walked into the Finn
| Wanamaker headquarters the night
before the Speakership election,
January l, 1901, and planked down
said I'll bet this that Marshall will
be elected There was some scurry-
ing around among the Finn men over
this unexpected evidence of confidence
of victory from the Quay camp. But
there was no backing of water by the
| cooperation came up with another
five thousand dollars and the wager
was soon covered. The late Frank
Bell, one time City Treasurer, OF
Philadelphia, was stake holder. With
caucus bolting on both sides the next
day, the Quay men put Marshall over
for Speaker by Il majority of just one
vote. That resulted after u two-year
deadlock, in the reelection of Quay
to the United States Senate, from
| Ixvh inh hn hn1 vote faI
certificate of appointment by Cover
nor Stone, lacking exactly one vote to
win, with the late NJ. a. Hanna lined
up with his opponents AS the result
of the bet, McNichol entertained Les
lie and some friends at dinner at
which the ten thousand dollars in
volved in the wager was displayed in
greenbacks in the center of the table
in a basket of flowers"
1t was only an instance of the Slip
perry streets and the holiday crowds,
yet it seemed worth recording al
though there is little chance that the
angels who watch us through tie
peep-holes in the sky" ever miss al
act of kindness shown the children or
the aged. A young man was swinging
down Third street, evidently in a great
hurry to get somewhere" Across the
street, woman, Srayed with at least
her three score years and ten had
stopped at the edge of an unusually
slippery bit of pavement, evidently
afraid to make another step. The
young man glanced across the street
and then at his watch. Without q
moments hesitation he crossed the
street and preferred his arm to the
woman, obviously q stranger to him.
The kind old eyes lighted up as she
slipped her arm through his. Instead
of the free and easy strides that q
moment before had been carrying him
down the street he now matched his
steps with the halting ones beside
him. Not until he had reached Third
and Walnut and his new friend was
safely on the car, did he desert her.
A few minutes afterward as the OBJ
server was entering the Pennsy sta
ton he saw the young man come out,
and heard him remark to friend,
well, / guess its the eight for me this
time" But then after all, there are
greater things than merely making"
the first train home in the evening.
People at the Capitol are awaiting
with considerable interest the out
come of the contention of the Han
over and Carlisle turnpike company
that its affairs are not subject to the
jurisdiction of the commission but to
the Cumberland county court. The
turnpike company has an old charter
and the chances are that there will be
plenty of action when the case comes
before the commission for argument
on the point raised, which, by the
way, is the first of the kind to come
up.
John r. Brady's New Years break
fast, which is one of the institutions
of Harrisburg on the first day of the
year, began some years ago with seven
persons. Yesterday $50 were his
guests and the big potatoes were once
more the big thing. In the break
fasters were number of men from
other cities. including Senator w. C.
Sproul.