Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-25
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The fifty-fifth anniversary, O few
days ago, of the delivery of Lin
coins Gettysburg address was COM
memorated yesterday in a number
of Dauphin county churches and
that brief enunciation of deathless
principles styled an example of wap1
derful English by the foremost mon
of letters of America and Greas
Britain was read from pulpits. Il
was recited in every schoolhouse IL
Harrisburg last week and it is sarA,
to say that the spirit which II
breathes is stronger to-day, in view
of world events, than ever before
in this community, so close to the
battlefield and so associated with the
great event that occurred in the
Adams county town. This address,
which was one of the epochal deliV-
erances on Pennsylvania soil, is to
the average Dauphin county school
boy one of the most delightful TO
lrecite, not only because of its DreVltY
which sometimes carries It's appear
to the juvenile mind, but because 1t
is in words so Understandable. A
veteran teacher said to-day that he
had seldom known boy to repeat
the lines without throwing his heart
into them. And there have been
few addresses not of a sacred char
acter that have been heard so often
from pulpits in this community.
Several residents of this county
are said to be living who heard the
martyr President deliver the ad-
dress. They went to the battlefield
town tosattend the ceremony at the
ceme etery which brought the Presi-
dent to Adams county and few or
them realized until they began to
think over what Lincoln said that
they had listened to words that
would be immortal as long as Eng
lsh is spoken. From all accounts
there were hundreds of residents OF
Southern Pennsylvania counties at
that gathering and to-day it is
heritage in families that one OF their
forebears heard Lincoln speak.
John J.. Kendlehart, who is in
charge of various matters connected
with the State Board of Pardons
and Is one of the legal luminaries
of the department of the Secretary
of the Commonwealth. was one of
the men who heard the President
speak MIR. Kendlehart was young
ster and like most boys got pretty
close to the stand and heard every
word. He gives some interesting inn
pressions OF the address and of the
great affection manifested for Lin
coin by the people. George ID,
I.Thorn, acting deputy Secretary of
! the Commonwealth, also heard the
address, but as he was just about
half decade old, his recollections
of the great occasion are interest
| ing, too. He was impressed with
the reverent manner with which the
great crowd listened to the short
remarks.
Lincoln's Gettysburg address is to
| he placed in a fitting place in the
! PENNSYLVANIA State Capitol within
| the next few years and it will be con-
sidered by the proposed commission
in charge of art works for the states
official center which it is believed
will be established early in the COM
! ing administration. In spite OF the
fact that Lincoln's address ranks
with the Declaration of lndepend-
ence in the historical paintings IN
the series placed recently in the
Senate Chamber the complete text
! is not set forth in any OF the apart
ments in the Capitol. There nave
been propositions from time to time
to have it placed in legislative nails
or corridors. but nothing has come
of them and the latest idea present.
ed to the Legislature was for the
painting of the words in gilt letters
on the vacant space Immediately pc
hind the chair of the Speaker OF the
House of Representatives. The ad-
dress has been quoted in legislative
sessions probably oftener than any
other. while reference has also been
made to the fact that the state had
not properly commemorated IN lhe
Capitol the words delivered on Key
stone State soil by q descendant OF
a Pennsylvania settler speaking at
ceremony intimately related to the
great struggle that occurred Withih
the boundaries of this Common
wealth.
Announcement that applications
for automo obile license registrations
made after this week would possibly
NOT result in applicants getting num-
! hers requested because of the rusn
that comes with December mas
caused a flood of letters to reach
! George M. Brusstar, registrar or the
automobile division, asking for spe-
cial numbers. Some of the letters
are insistent, too. The first snip
ments will be made next week and
as far as possible the numbers Will
follow requests. although it has re-
ouired some diplomacy to take care
| of persons who wanted the same
numbers. Certain requests were lor
"doublets," trips" and all allKes'
Il a.al HaaNan
while there were others whlch were
ooiiod "nol,er hands" by the men
S,r,adIir~ Them. Combinations with