Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-21

That familiar jingle which has
gone down in railroad history as the
classic in wreck reports:
Off agin, on agin, Finegan
does not apply to DR.. Thomas E.
Finegan, the superintendent to be
after June l of public instruction
for the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
Vanla. DIR. Finegan is mostly on any
proposition and stays there until it
is flnished lie has all the charac-
teristics of the folks with whose ways
his name is associated. They say
at Albany that he has stayed on more
propositions than any man who has
been at the Capitol and has a dozen
big school laws and II large quanti-
ty of scalps to his credit. The scalps
he accumulated in acquiring the var
ious laws. DR.. Finegan is in Harris
burg to-day with his six feet of
Drawn and muscle. He intends to
come here and stay on the job after
June l and the school system of
pennsylvania, predict the educators
who know him, will be aware that
TINS tlnegan is on and seldom takes
u day off. DR.. Finegan has lectured
burg having been one of the places
where he has talked to the teachers.
He has been in demand in various
States, but of late has been staying
on the ground at Albany getting his
laws on the books. They say up
the Hudson that it was a toss up
whether Smith or Finegan would be
selected for the gubernatorial nom
ination and except that Finegan had
some things on, he would have been
picked out to make the run. DIR.
Finegan is an affable man, accused
of knowing something about politics
and the way to make it an adjunct
TO education. Likewise he is some
thing of scrapper, as his name and
appearance would imply And from
indications he will have abundant
opportunity to exercise the tradition
al talents of men of Irish ancestry
in remaking the school system of
Pennsylvania. As they say in sum-
ming up biographies at State capitals
he is tifty-two and worked on a
farm; is married; is a Presbyterian
and has been accorded many de-
grees. The golf playing and walking
brotherhoods of the State Capitol
are matching" to-day to see which
clan he is going to join.
'For getting the men of a COM
munity together on common foot
ing, where each understands the
other better and all become better
friends. there is nothing better than
an automobile sociability rum" said
Carl X. Deem, of Camp Hill. the
other day. And he ought to know,
for he has been chairman of the
Camp Hill run ever since the first
was held. The Camp Killers get
together once a year and spend two
days touring attractive parts of this
or other States. They have gone as
far as Baltimore and Harper's Ferry,
making their headquarters at Fred
erick both times. and another time
took in the Delaware Water Gap
and scenic sections to the north and
east. This year they propose to go
to Bedford. Hollidaysburg and Lew
istown, testing out sections of both
the Lincoln Highway and William
Penn Highway. They will be gone
two days, starting next Saturday
morning and returning Sunday even
ing. The Camp Hill men got to-
gether for the run in years agone
when there was not so much socia,-
bility in the town as there is now.
They did not know each other so
well, but they knew their neighbors
were good fellows and the trip was
devised to bring them to a place
where they would know each other
by their first names. And the plan
succeeded wonderfully well. No
community anywhere did better war
service than Camp Hill, and it was
largely because the men were used
to each other, knew each other and
were ready to work together in all
sorts of campaigns. Spending two
days roughing it over the roads to-
gether and cumming in the even
ings and at meal times at the same
hotel does a lot to improve acquaint-
anceship, as Chairman Deem says.
The fact that it is no longer the
penny or even the nickel and that
it is the dime that the youngster has
to spend, was rather strikingly en-
phasized yesterday when a brigade of
York boys visited the Capitol to see
the sights. the legislators, the squir-
rels and Speaker Spangler. Each boy
broke for candy and soda store
soon after going through the build
ing and most of them bought at a
regular Saturday night rate. The
Speaker said that he was glad to
see the boys. but that he was also
glad he had seen them before re-
freshment time.