Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-12
IN o attempt a survey of the


Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- in a magazine article is AKIN
TO describing an empire on sheeI
of note paper; for more than d
dozen of the sovereign nations OIL
the earth as they were In the year ,
before the Prussian ran amuck WeLe
smaller in area, and more than nan
of the rulers of the world governed
fewer people than live Wlthlh Che
confines of that State.
with vast natural resources, I'M
mense industries, plus the uncon-
ouerable spirit of progress tnat Iellu9
to create local happiness ana ma
tional well-being, the keysIone
State, as it is proudly calleo, cliai
lenges admiration and stlrs Ihe I'M
agination. oun
country. Pennsylvania has many
surprises for the investigator OIL its
nosition in the Union. one mlshI
add the populations OF 1our Tar
western States to that OF all new
england and still have fewer people
than dwell in the land of W1lllam
penn. Draw a line from the cana
dian border to the Rio Grande on
the meridian that separates the va
kotas and Nebraska from Montalia
and wyoming, and all of the peoPIe
who live between that line anu tIo '?
shores of the Pacific would pareIy
suffice to equal Penn-land's popuia-
ton. ... oaa
ouicklv gathers the impression that
II is peopled with foreign-born. lts
vast Industries have laid heaVy
drafts upon the labor markets OF the
morId in times gone by, and for
vears not a, ship that carried an i'm:
niprant to America came without
a ouota. bound for the iron. Steel
and coal centers of the Common
Many Nations Have Contributed
An analysis proves, however, thaC
even with the influx OF amen lauoi. :.
Pennsylvania outranks every oeher
etate in the Union in the NUMBER
of sons and daughters of native par
entape. Even New York has mil
lion fewer people whose parents
were horn under the aegls OF the
American flag.
stilI the state is distinguished for
tic Great number of foreigners. NO
other State has so many Welsh,
knstrians. or Hungarians. 1t has
more welsh than County Radnor-
shire. more Austrians than the Prov
ince of Salzburg, more Hungarlans
than any two cities IN hungary,
Budapest excepted. lt mas as many many
English as the counties of cam
bridge and Oxford together; as
many Irish as County Kerry; as
many Scotch as County Clackman-
nan. as many Russians as the Gov
ernment of KharkoV.
essentially Thrifty People
pennsylvanians are not alone DIS
+ipo,,ished because of the large
numbers who boast of native ances-
trv for an examination OF the CEN
sus returns dealing with the owner
shin of the homes of the people OF
the nation reveals the fact that IL
has more home-owners tnan any
other state. They are essentially a
thrifty people. Nearly seven hum
drad thousand families live under
their own roof-trees-and the strik-
ing mart of that situation is that
most of these homes are mortgage
free. -.
Manv men have essayed to look
into the future of the American peo-
ME to see what the United States
will be when the nation reaches its
maturity. Perhaps pennsylvania
can supply the answer. When one
travels through the farming and in
duStrlal SeCJlOn OIL lilS SouIilSoSN' ~
visits the anthracite country of the
northeast. wanders around through
the splendid valleys of the central
section, and then goes into the BIZ
luminous and manufacturing region
beyond the Alleghenies, he marvels
at the number of people who find
there a homeland, and at the tre-
mendous volume of business which
has been developed.
Yet Pennsylvanians know that
there is room in the State for mil
lions more, and see no reason why
the country at large cannot support
n population as dense as that of
keystone state to-day Such den-
sity of population would make ours
a nation of half billion souls
more people than, inhabit the entire
continent of Europe.
The manufacturing industry of
the State is an epic Of human en-
! -ergy. What bit of fiction could
thrill more than the facts showing
how one-twelfth of the people of
the United States. the busiest nation
on earth, can succeed in producing
one-eighth of the Republics manu-
factures and more than a fourth of
its minerals! Or what story could
appeal more than the one which
tells how a district constituting only
q thousandth part of the earth's