Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-22
Ehrnttg Gl1at

Senator Boies Penrose's remarh
yesterday that the completion of the
road building program in Pennsyl
vania, will attract national attention
has a special interest for Harrisburg,
because when the construction OF
primary roads is finished, the State
Capital will in reality be the civic
center of the Commonwealth. In
the language of Governor Wilkanl
@. Sproul upon a recent OCCASION:
"All roads in Pennsylvania will lead
to Harrisburg" This is literally true
now because the highways, primary
as the main roads are known; Sec
ondary as the county or lateral roads
are classed and tertiary as the State
officials call the dirt" roads. are
so linked that the traveller can soon
! get to a road which leads to thu
| official seat of the State. Roads rad.
late from Harrisburg like the spokes
of Il wheel. Four of these roads are
main State highways or primary
| highways. They are the Lancaster
pike or the road through Middletowu
and Steelton which enters at Cam.
eron street; the Reading pike, as
the 150-mile road to the Berks coun-
| ty .catpital is known, which enters
at Derry street and Poorhouse lane;
the River road, which comes down
into Front street at the upper end
of the Fourteenth ward and con-
meets with the Susquehanna and the
| William Penn highways and many
others, and the Carlisle road, which
comes across the Susquehanna and
links with the road to Gettysburg,
down the Cumberland valley to the
| Lincoln highway, and bitches up
with the roads to York and Marys-
Vile. The bulk of these roads are
improved now. but when the rough
spots are smoothed out, there will
be fine riding right into Harrisburg
and when the Capitol park is fin
ished all highways will lead right
to the State House.
There will be a great chance for
the State to erect a distinctive build
ing for the courts of the Common
wealth in the event that it is de-
cided to establish headquarters of
the supreme and superior courts in
Harrisburg. The Capitol park extern
sion contains ample space and n
courts would he a notable addition
to the States official center and be
something of general importance.
Very few States in the Union have
their courts housed in special build
ings and the courts would have tho
dignity and importance that they
occupy. in relative sense, at
Washington.
In writing about the discussion OF
George Wharton Pepper as a candi-
date for the Presidency, and the
nomination of Governor William C.
Sproul and Senator Philander c.
Knox, "Girard" of the Philadelphia
Press says: Both the Governor and
Mr.. Pepper have the edge on tho
Senator in years. The latter is just
a decade older than the average age
of American Presidents when first
elected, which was about fifty-siX.
And Mr.. Pepper is nearer the aver
age than is the Governor, who is the
youngest of the trio, although both
are below that mark. Most of our
Presidents went to college and so
did Knox, Sproul and Pepper. Be.
ginning with Washington. who was
early decorated by Yale with q IL
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entitled to add a goodly portion Of
the alphabet to their names-marks
of distinction awarded by colleges.
In this particular Pepper. Sproul
and Knox are deficient. All are
Doctors of Law and other things
Mr.. Pepper was even a teacher of
laws.
More millions of dollars invested
in manufacturing, mining and vari-
: Gus other enterprises were represent
ed at the conference held in the
Supreme Court chamber to-day on
the compensation act than seen here
in long time. The big railroads.
coal and steel and other companies
all had picked men here and the
aggregate of the money they repre-
sented would seem almost like Il
Liberty Loan.