Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-07
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| evpie VINO attended the "fair
pllce conference at the State Capitol
VIII be historic in PennsyIvania. MOT
IN the memory of any one Connected
with the State government have the
rulers of the cities and the boroughs
and the prosecuting officers of the
| law in so many counties gathered
! mere Tor any great undertaking. the
nearest approach being the meetings
VI CITY and county officials in the
early days of the war for discussion
of the methods of operating the
! registration and other preliminaries
| OF the draft. The notable thing
| ABOUT the conference yesterday was
| the unanlm1ty with which the ex-
| ecutives of the municipalities upheld
the course of the Governor in insis-
tence upon maintenance of law and
oroer In the steel and coal strikes, a
leenns winch found expression in
| every address, while there was also
manifested pretty general idea
that IL would not be a bad plan
TO hold more such meetings. Gov
ernor William G Sproul, who pre-
sided, was chairman who was
| surprising" to use the words of a
couple of mayors. He was earnest
most OF the time, but threw in Just
| enough Jocular remarks and inter-
| ~ Ailtiily pltdSdnLIleS Nltn
MS lntroductionS that the group of
men of many diverse types and ways
OF thinking was with him to a finish
| The Governor showed a broad grasp
| OF the problems of the cities of the
State and a knowledge of what each
! city was doing, while his restoration
| of the balance of the meeting after
some especially vigorous remarks by
speakers was worth watching. He
4 nor a NP
| clsmS OF farmers, but he also gently
| kidded' the master of the State
| Grange who was rather fervid by
remarking Il guess we had all bet
ter eat cornmeal mush and get fat
while we are fooling the profteers"
| Everyone was impressed by the Gov
ernor's references to the necessity
for return of the old time habits
of industry and thrift.
The fact that four of the speakers
yesterday were Quakers and all de-
cidedly positive, even belligerent,
was another feature of a notable
meeting. The Governor and Attor-
! ney General A. Mitchell Palmer were
anything but pacific in discussing the
men who would subordinate law to
force, and Col. Edward Martin, the
State Health Commissioner, indi-
1
| from army training which he would
apply to the breadth and stature of
| the youth of the State AS for
Joseph r. Grundy, he was militant
and his comments upon the Ma
tional administration attitude to-
ward Pennsylvania was made in
| fighting terms which were very
pleasing to the Keystone State parti-
sans who filled the hall.
1
Mayor Daniel l.. Kiester, who at
tracted considerable attention by his
| vigorous remarks in regard to rent
profiteering, was congratulated by
some friends among thirdclass city
| officials. II didn't know you could
make such a speech in such big
hail." said one. "Oh," replied the
Mayor, "I'm used to this place. l
have made them here before and
when they were not as quiet and well
behaved as they are to-day"
Some of the Red Cross workers
have run across some funny things
| in their canvass of the city and it
| illustrates the peculiar ideas people
| hold in regard to the militia of
| mercy" A Tenth ward man indig-
nantly refused to make a suoscrip-
| ton and, when asked why, said
|
help. I had influenza last year and
no one came near me-" He said he
had never contributed and would
not He did not. In another part
of town when the committee came
| into a street wb ose houses had open
backyards the word went along the
row. Verify, there was nobody
home.
| Of fhn NTpdnaa-
| day Club the other afternoon was
a most delightful affair and the
change to afternoon hours was
greatly appreciated by the members.
| However, when some one sang with
fine effect the song, Spring Is Here"
| there was an uneasy result among a
couple of members. What disturbed
them was the exclamation of one
member, in mock sorrow, I've just
bought winter hat"
One of these days the sight is
going to be presented of some Har-
risburg residents taking down screens
with the snow flying. There are
many houses where the screens are
still in place. Some of the excuses
heard are:
| The man who always does it is
away.
Can't get anyone 10 10 dnyInihB
like that nowadays and l have not
had time.
| There's football on Saturdays now.
The flies are apt to be still bad
until real frost comes
We never take them of until IT
gets real cold.
Are they still there?
|
Some odd ideas about the confer
ence held here yesterday for dis
cussion of means to combat the high
cost of living were abroad in the
city last night. A few people got
the idea that some price fixing was
to be established and others that
body which had extra legislative
powers was in session. There was
general curiosity manifested at the
Capitol in regard to the plan of the
meeting and the fair price sugges-
ton mystified many persons until
they found that it was always with
in the ability of people by refrain
ling from buying to move prices OF
foodstuffs down with bang.