Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-20
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In view of the movement now
under way among the lovers of that
section of Pennsylvania known as
upstate" to get the people living
in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to-4
realize the beauties of their Comm on
wealth. 1T is interesting to recall that
a number of Harrisburg folks have
finished some automobile trips
through Dauphin county and one or
TWO of them have said very frankly1
that they got the inspiration fori
their tours from reading thisi
column. In the last few years there
nave been some residents of our
county who have been endeavoring
to interest the thousands of personst
owning automobiles hereabouts, toi
get acquainted with Dauphin county
nils and valleys, ridges and streams,
EaNlnS noticed that there are uuitei
a rev people more familiar with thei
price of chicken and waffles in thet
Cum mberland valley, and ways of fry-i
ing catfish in Lancaster county, than1
with the splendid scenery to be seen
! from the hills back of Halifax.
similarly, there are men and women7
who know Gettysburg like q book
and who are ignorant of the inter-I
esting history of Middletown and of
now close ii came to being tho
county seat of Dauphin and possibly.l
remotely so, of the capital of Penn
| sylNania. There are some Harrisburg
people who are greatly interested in !
the garden farms of Lancaster and |
Cumberland counties, but who have!
| only whizzed by the splendid collec-
! ton of farms that NJ. S. Hershey hasI
/ acquired in the vicinity of his choco-
late plant, which is as essentially al
| Dauphin county industry as thel
| Bethlehem steel works or the LykenSf
valley coal mines To all intents I,
and purposes the fine scenery of the.
| SuSquehanna above Rockville Gap Is !
| little known to others who talk much !.
of Niagara and the White Mountaina.s {
while the trip down the river to McS@
Calls Ferry is sealed book.
|
In Philadelphia. recently. Judge A.
| w. Johnson, of Union county, who'd
/ was born up the river, made q
speech on Pennsylvania, which at
| tracted much attention and started
Quaker City people to reading the
books of Colonel Henry w. Shoe-4
maker, John T. Faris and others who
have been endeavoring to arouse the 1
| Pennsylvania of to-day to the
beauties of their State, which were
written down by the enthusiastic,
travellers from overseas a century
tago. Judge johnson knows the his,
tory and the beauties of the Sus-l
quehanna valley and he made bold
to tell the Philadelphians they We're
missing something.
The Philadelphia Inquirer took
hold of the Johnson remarks, and
| GeoEge j. Brennan. writing in the
who's Who" column, has this to
say on the suggestion: "As tie OUT
come Of Judge Johnson's recent sug-
geStion there is proposition to have.
the Sproul administration inaugurate
n Statewide campaign for an exc;
Iploration of Pennsylvania's natural,
industrial and commercial resources.
Isuch as that in which Mayor -elect j.
Hampton Moore proposes TO inter-
nationalize Philadelphia" as he re-
Gently expressed it. A feature of an
linformally-dis program would
be wide distribution of a series of
lantern slides, motion picture reels
and other reproductions OF natural
scenery, battlefields, historic build
ings, model farms, oil wells, coal
mines, shipyards and other indus
trial plants. State institutions and
their varied operations, modern road
building, such as has been inaugu-
rated under Highway Chief Lewis
is. Sadler's comprehensive system
State forces. DIR. Thomas e. Fin
egan, State Superintendent OF Pub
lie Instruction, President Edwin e.
Sparks, of State College, the farm
lecturers of the State administration,
leaders of the State Grange, membe
, of the Boards of Education In all
the large cities and district school
boards throughout the interior OF the
/ State, are among others counted
upon to cooperate in the suggested
educational drive that every man.
woman and child in the State may
, Know Pennsylvania"
DR.. Sparks, by the way, was hero
yesterday and remarked that he
knew of nothing finer than to get
5 the people of Pennsylvania to know
their own State. There are three
Pennsylvania, have you ever stopped
= to think, and it is my opinion that
{ nothing better could be done than
to get to know them ALL" said he.
= What do l mean by that? Well.
8 there is the mountain range divid-
ing the State. It's the only State
so divided. And that fact operates
I to make an eastern section and q
} western section separated by noun
tains and then there are the central
: mountain counties and the northern
tier. It's an interesting study and
if we all got to know each other and
? each others counties it would be
, wonderful thing. And I think it
2 is not only possible. but with the
9 changes in transportation that IL is
/ very probable that we will be abls
1 to talk of the beauties of the State
I that we have seen and of the delight
r full fellow PennsylVanians we have
met"
S DR.. Homer B. Hubert, who has
e been speaking here the past few
I days electrifying his audiences with.
S stories of conditions in the Far East,
e is a native of New England and
D lived for 10 years in Springfield,
I Mass. His father was n college pro-
! fessor and when the doctor was
| graduated from college he desired
= to follow the same profession, find-
ing the opportunity in Korea, 10000
8 miles away, where he went and be-
;. came a factor in the life of that
little nation of 100000 people.