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WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY l»
POSITION OF THE KAILUOADS
THERE Is much criticism of the
railroads of tho country In their
refusal to go ahead with plans
for tho future pending the de
cision of tho Interstate Commerce
Commission as to whether or not the
5 per cent, increase in freight rates
for which they ask will be granted.
The railroads aro very much in the
position of tho man of limited means
who has applied lor an increase in
salary. He needs a new suit of clothes
and some furnishings for his home,
but until he learns from his employer
whether or not he is going to get the
larger pay for which he hopes he is in
no position to make any expenditures.
Imagine yourself in the place of a
railroad manager. Traffic is on the
decrease. The tariff is having its effect
on industries that do not need now the
cars they demanded so insistently a
year ago. Month after month reports
show a falling off of receipts. Wages
are higher now than ever before. The
prices of all manner of supplies have
grown by leaps and bounds. Your
company has asked for permission to
raise freight rates 5 per cent. Your
whole future course depends on
whether or not this permission is to
be granted.
Put yourself in the position of that
railroad manager and then ask your
self whether or not you would not be
very cautious as to your expenditures.
You would if you valued your job and
the prosperity of your road.
State Treasurer Young endorses
Judge George Kunkel for the higher
court, which fact argues the discern
ment and legal insight of the custodian 11
of the State funds. As one who served ' 1
with Judge Kunkel in the Legislature I
and has known him intimately for 11
many years of official contact, the State .
Treasurer is qualified as few other men I,
1o understand and appreciate the lit-| ■
ness of the president judge of this dis
trict for service in the Supreme Court.
Till: BOY SCOUT MOVKMKXT
IT is interesting to note that the Boy |
Scout movement, instead of dying'
the death of a "fad," as it was
predicted would happen, is steadily
growing and has become part and
parcel of everyday life. The Boy Scout
is an institution. According to the
annual report, just issued, the move
ment lias spread like wildfire in Amer
ica, and there are few cities that do
not have their Boy Scout bands. The
Boy Scout movement makes American ;
hoys better Americans. It takes tirem i
out of doors and teaches them how to 1
do things tliey never would learn any
where else.
While the movement is of great ben
efit to lads in the country and small
towns, in the cities it Is of inestimable
value. The aim of the leaders of the
Hoy Scouts ol America is to develop
men of the type of the great men of
history.
As the Scout the boy willingly
adopts as real and vital the universally
accepted principles of life as set forth
in the Scout oath and law. This ef
fectively influences the boy's nature
and character so the better to prepare
him for that work which the church
can best do.
A Scout promises that upon his
honor he will do his duty to God, his
country and obey the Scout law; that
he will help other people at all times
and that he will keep himself physi
cally strong, mentally awake and mor
ally straight.
•The Scout law, covering the twelve
fundamental principles, requires a
Scout first of all to be trustworthy.
That means that he must not tell a
lie, cheat or deceive, but 'keep every
trust sacred. A Scout is loyal to all
to whom loyalty is due, including his
Scout leader, his home, his parents
and his country. Furthermore, a Scout
is helpful, prepared at all times to
save life, help injured persons and do
at least ono good turn daily. A Scout
is friendly to all—a brother to every
other Scout.
A Scout is courteous, especially to
women, children and old people, and
he must not take pay for being cour
teous. A Scout is kind to animals and
does not kill or hurt any living crea
ture needlessly. A Scout is obedient.
A Scout is cheerful, even when facing
hardship and drudgery. .\ Scout is
thrifty. He works faithfully, wastes
WEDNESDAY EVENING HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MAY 13. 1014.
nothing and makes the best use of his
opportunties. A Scout is brave and
does what he knows is right, in spite
of Jeers and threats. A Scout is clean
in body and thought, stands for clean
speech, clean sport, clean habits, and
travels with a clean crowd. Finally, a
Scout is reverent toward God. He is
faithful in his religious duties and re
spects the convictions of others in mat
ters of custom and religion.
Finally, the Scout has banished to
the realms of forgotten fancies the
mistaken notion so widely discussed
when the organization was In its in
fancy that the . Scout movement was
intended to breed a race of military
men. If the Boy Scouts be military,
let's have more of them.
Nelson O'Shaughnessy, the late
chargo d'affaires at Mexico City, says
Huerta, Is a stubborn man, but denies
that tho Mexican dictator Is a drunkard.
In view of the attitude of some Ameri
can officials in the Mexican matter
stubbornness doesn't necessarily indi
cate drunkenness.
FLAG DAT
THE public school authorities have
very properly decided to close
the schools on June 15, when
the 393 hattlcflags of the Com
monwealth will be transferred from
their long resting place in the State
Library and Museum Building to their
position of honor in the rotunda of the
new Capitol.
This will be Flag Day In a new sense
of the word. The old battle standards,
tattered and torn, weather-beaten and
blood-stained, are tho dearest heritage
of the State. They typify the patriot
ism of tho sons of Pennsylvania who
stood In tho forefront of battle when
the integrity of the nation was at
stake. Every stain, every mark upon
them Is an honorable scar. Many of
(them are mere remnants. The devastat
ing effects of summer sun and winter
•snows, hard marching and the scream
ing showers of shot and shell through
which they passed are plainly evident,
and none may look upon them without
being the better for the thoughts they
arouse.
Tho rotunda of the Capitol—through
which thousands upon thousands of
people pass every year—is the place
for the old flags, and it. is right that
tho school children of the city should
be taught, the new lesson of devotion
to the flag that will be inculcated when
the color-bearers who carried the
standards through storms of death or
snatched them falling from the dying
hands that held them shall carry them
lovingly and proudly to the position
of honor which the State has accorded
them.
Tt is entirely fitting that the school
children of Harrisburg should have an
Important part in the ceremonies inci
dent to the transfer of the battle flags
of the State from their present location
in the State Museum to the rotunda of
the Capitol. These lessons of patriot
ism are not lost upon the rising genera
tion, and the tendency of recent years
to get away from the old-time patriotic
celebrations Is having Its reflex In the
indifference of the young people to the
things which increase respect for our
institutions and Inspire patriotism.
THE CANAL IN USE
WITHOUT ceremony and her
alded only by a line or two
in the newspapers the first
ship is passing through the
Panama canal. The liner Pennsyl
vania has progressed through the big
ditch from the Pacific side to Cris
tobal, within a stone's throw of the
Atlantic end. In a few days, with
cargo for New York, the vessel will
steam out into the Atlantic to com
plete the first short voyage from San
Francisco to tho eastern metropolis.
Later the building of the canal will
be. properly celebrated. Just now we
should rejoice in the fact that the
great task undertaken by America
after failure by the French has been
I completed, that the theories of our
engineers have been worked out In
splendid fashion by tho efficient or
ganization at work upon the isthmus.
It seems a pity that such an energetic,
capable working force should be dis
banded after the years spent in per
fecting its complex machinery. It Is
too bad that It cannot be transferred to
son"> other of the great works the
government must some day under
take.
When you approach the Capitol
you see a standing army of men
ill uniforms and they are the park
guards and guides, enough to fight
a battle.
This is a sample of the sort of stuff
which is being submitted to the people
for serious consideration by the Har
risburg candidate of the Democracy
for Governor. There aro nineteen
policemen and six guides on Capitol
11111.
Owing to the late Spring it Is prob
able that the outdoor work of tho city,
most of which is under contract, will
be greatly retarded, and this fact
should emphasize the importance of
preparing in every possible way for im
mediate operations as soon as the con
ditions are more favorable. Labor is
now abundant and there will be no rea
son for failure to rush the work.
It is unfortunate that oW firemen are
engaged in a controversy which will
take the oldest company out of the big
parade next October, and it ought not
to be too late to harmonize tho differ
ences. It is wholly a. matter for the
firemen themselves, and the public can
only regret that anything has occurred
to mar the harmony of the arrange
ments for the big event.
It is a pleasant little shindy our
Democratic brethren are having in
these fragrant Springtime days, and
the clash of arms Is heard In every sec
tion of the Commonwealth. Democrats
who have taken no interest in the pri
mary campaign within the generation
are out In the open, and there are few
heads that have not had a hump.
"We have gone down to Mexico to
serve mankind, if we can find out the
way," declared President Wilson In his
memorial address at New York. Mean
while his Secretary of State and Sec
retary of the Navy are traveling about
the country making political speeches
Instead of finding the way.
I EVENING CHAT I
The Engineers' Society of Pennsyl
vania, which is a state-wide organ
ization and rapidly becoming widely
known for its important work in be
half of science and industry as well as
betterment of conditions, is to have a
dinner of rather unusual interest to
the people of this vicinity on Friday
night. The president of the club is
John Price Jackson, the State's first
Commissioner of Labor and Industry,
who is known from one end of the
country to the other and who is work
ing to make the society a still greater
factor in public affairs. Dr. Jackson
will give the dinner as president of the
society in honor of Governor Tener
and leading men of learnod societies.
The Governor was recently elected the
llrst honorary member of the club in
recognition of his interest in legislation
and tho election was by unanimous
vote of the big society. There will be
present at the dinner the past presi
dents and officers of the society and
many prominent men. In fact, the
gathering will be one of the most Im
portant functions of Its kind in a long
time, for it will bring together many
who are leaders in affairs.
Wistaria, which vies for loveliness
with the dogwood and the apple blos
som for delicacy of color as a Spring
flower, Is blooming on a number of
homes in Harrisburg. Some of the
vines, which are covered with flowers,
are twenty or thirty years old and*
years appear to have no effect upon
their beauty. Along Front street there
are several residences where the dis
play of the lovely flower is well worth,
observing.
People at the Capitol are inclined
to sit up and take notice of the new
Economy and Efficiency Commission,
which has started an investigation of
conditions on the "Hill" which means
business. When the commission met
it. determined to send out letters to
people in charge of departments, bu
reaus and institutions asking number,
duties and salaries of employes. About
100 letters were sent out. It appears
that only 25 replied, the others having
passed up the letters or held them for
information without going to the
trouble of sending an acknowledge
ment. The other morning each one
who had not I'eplied got a letter fur
nishing the information that tho com
mission had full legislative authority
to get the information and that it de
sired what it asked for, as the General
Assembly was behind it. It was a
really "sassy" letter and information
has been arriving.
Firemen from a number of towns in
the State are planning to come here
for the big convention in the Fall out
side of the organizations which will
send delegations and the men who will
be here in official capacity, in f;tVt,
the hotels have had many requests for
rates and accommodations from mem
bers of tire companies whose presence
in the city will be out of interest and
desire to visit the city, as they will not
be delegates and will not parade. As
the delegates will run into the hun
dreds and the paraders into the thou
sands, it would appear that the city is
going to have a fine old time in the
Fall.
People, connected with industrial
plants in this section of the State and
especially those who have to do with
the iron and steel business are taking
notice of a move just made by thb
Cambria Steel Company to ascertain
the number and circumstances as well
as duties of its 16,000 emploves in an
ticipation of the enactment of a work
men s compensation law. The Cam
bria methods are attracting some at
tention in this neighborhood just now
and it is of general interest to note
what was done. The company vir
tually made an industrial census and
every man was listed and a lot of in
formation about him gathered so that
n he is hurt the company will be in a
position to handle his case.
"You've got a great lot of kids in
this town,'' said a commercial man
last night. "I came up street this
evening about 7.30 and had a bag. I'll
bet seventeen kids wanted to carry
my bag for anywhere from a nickel to
a quarter, but the prize was a boy who
said he d carry my bag if I would take
him to the movies."
Among visitors to the city are Judge
John M. Garman, of Luzerne countv
courts; C. S. L. Tingley, head of the
American Hallways company, operat
ing lines in several cities, and J y
Bell, prominent resident of Dußois!
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
Judge Francis J. O'Connor, of
Cambria courts, presided at the ban
quet ol State Knights of Columbus.
—Mayor Ira Stratton, of Reading,
and the members of the city council
will go to the water works convention
at Philadelphia to discuss their prob
lems.
—Judge C. N. Brumm, of Potts
ville. has been visiting in western
counties.
—Vice-President Marshall will see
Pittsburgh play ball on Thursday.
—W. D. Swingle, well known in
patriotic orders, has organized a regi
ment for war service from Philadel
phia secret society men.
I POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS
—Bryan always did seem able to
stir up trouble among Pennsylvania
Democrats.
—Reorganizes who remember what
happened when Bryan went into Ne<v
Jersey are having chills to-day.
—McCormick plans to close his
campaign with meetings in Schuylkill
county on Saturday night.
—Candidates are always handicap
ped when they have to call in the big
fellows after being on tho defensive.
—With Pennsylvania Democrats
brawling over his slate President Wil
son also faces a revolt among Demo
crats in Congress.
—Chester manufacturers 'Strongly
endorsed Penrose yesterday.
—Pinchot did Northampton county
in an automobile yesterday. No one
got excited.
—Dean Lewis says he favors a
county unit in local option.
—Congressman Ainey has taken to
the stump in the northwestern Boun
ties in his candidacy for Congress-ai;-
large.
—W. H. Nelson has been picked by
Berry for postmaster of Chester. The
rest of the applicants will now take
to the warpath.
—State Treasurer Young's state
ment in favor of Kunkei does not
please the backers of Endlicli in Mar
ket Square.
—lf Bryan does not do better in
helping the Democratic machine cause
than he has done in Mexico he hi'.d
better go home.
—Ryan Democrats to-day declared
that the coming of Bryan would make
Democrats desert McCormick's stand
ard all over the State.
—lt's a shame to saddle candidates
already explaining and defending
themselves with such a load as Bryan.
For <»oo(1 Huniln In Went
IFrom the Washington Observer.]
Perhaps no movement of a public
spirited character has ever been in
augurated in this county which receiv
ed the support and aroused the enthusi
asm as that being given for Good
Koads day in the county on Tuesday
May 26. "
AN EVENING THOUGHT
Too low they build, who build be
neath the stars. —l'oung. ,
BRYAN'S CIIHG
in mib
Democrats Indignant at Butting
Into State Affairs on Part Of
the Administration
REORGANIZERS ARE WORRIED
Afraid That Bryan Visit May Prove
Boomerang; Palmer Forced
on Defensive
Announcement that Secretary of
State William Jennings Bryan will
desert his departmental duties itt
Washington to-morrow to come into
Pennsylvania to make speeches in be
half of a Democratic factional tickyt
appears to have put the finishing
touches to the breach in the Pennsyl
vania Democracy. Democrats all over
the State are voicing resentment at
tho interference of the administration
in the primary fight, the anti-machine
element on the ground that the na
tional administration has nothing to
do with a family row and the ma
chinists because they say that the
Wilson administration has been put in
a position by Bryan and that it i.n
unfair to send him to make speeches
for the slate when the issue is doubt
ful enough. Democrats close to the
bosses say that Bryan's coming is in
fulfillment of a promise but do not
disguise their uneasiness over the out
come of the battle next Tuesday.
In this city Democrats who have
been inclined to favor McCormick as
a matter of home pride have been
protesting all along against the inter
ference of the national administration
in Pennsylvania Democratic affairs
and those who stood for Secretary
Daniels' invasion of the Keystone State
are inclined to buck now that Bryan
is being called in as a life saver.
The situation is viewed at Wash
ington, according to special dispatches,
with the greatest concern by tho
President and his officii. l i
family who are already
Wilson worried by Mexico and
Worried other things. Wilson is
by Kmv looked upon as a candi
date for renomination
and is greatly worried
over a possible defeat for his per
sonally selected slate coming so soon
after the terrific beating given to his
policy in the congressional election
in his own State. The moral effect of
a defeat in Pennsylvania would be
tremendous. -Added to this incentive
to butt into Pennsylvania affairs there
are yells for help from Palmer and
McCormick, who led the President
into the muss and have been unab>e
to develop the strength they claimed.
Some dispatches say that the breach
will not be healed by November and
that 100,000 Democrats have turned
against the administration.
The warring Democratic candidates
held forth in Schuylkill and Butler
counties yesterday. McCormick's
caravan toured parts of
Schuylkill and Northum-
berlancl counties and to Warring
put it mildly, found that Parties
they were in the enemy's Spouting
country. Everywhere the
machine candidates found
people sore at the national adminis
tration and inclined to take a cra«.k
at the men slated by Wilson just for
luck. In Butler county, where the
machine had things all fixed, Ryan's
aggregation stormed around and de
nounced Palmer as a boss and de
manded homo rule with no dictation.
The usual unkind things were sa:d
by both candidates.
Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer
has stopped defending Vance C. Mc-
Cormick from the numerous attacks
made on him in order to
give a little time for de-
Palmer fending himself. Palmer
Defends has been thoroughly irri-
Himself tated by the demand that
he return to the files in
Monroe county his ex
pense account for the 1910 campaign
and decalred in an attack on the men
who are harassing him in his homo
county that he never received any
help from J. K. P. Hall in his fight
that year, although admits money was
given by Hall and used "under his
direction for purposes strictly within
the law."
Senator Penrose, who spoke jester
day and last night in Philadelphia,
will tour a number of eastern counties
to-day and then go into Central Penn
sylvania, coming here on Monday.
Dimmick spoke at New Castle yester
day and attacked men who are back
ing Penrose. He will speak in Wil
iiamsport, Altoona, Wilkes-Barre and
Scranton.
Expense accounts of candidates for
Congress in Pennsylvania, mailed Sat
urday and received yesterday, which
are accepted as complying with the
corrupt practices act requiring the
filing of such accounts within ten days
of election, include:
Congressman-at-Large ,T. R. K.
Scott, Republican, $309.75; \V. D. B.
Ainey, Republican, nothing; Albert J.
Logan, Republican, $868.83; Samuel I.
Stover, Republican, $36.63; Charles N.
Crosby, Delnocrat, $806.35; John S.
Shirley, Democrat, $6.62; Samuel E.
Shull. Democrat, nothing; William K.
Meyers, Democrat, nothing; M. J.
Calin, Democrat, nothing.
The Philadelphia Keystone party
county committee, with J. S. McQuade
in the chair, last evening indorsed
these candidates: For United States
senator, J. Benjamin Dlmmlek, T>acka
wanna; for Governor, Charles N.
Brumm, Schuylkill; for Lieutenant-
Governor. William T. Creasy, Colum
bia: for Secretary of Internal Affairs.
Henry Houck, Lebanon.
I N£W W^aTl
[From the Telegraph, May 18, 1864.]
Capture Rebel General
Washington, May 13, 12 M. —Sen-
ator Nesmith has received Information
that Hancock has captured 4,000 pris
oners and 4 0 guns. Tho rebel Gen
eral Johnston mid a host of lesser
officers are among the captured.
Humor of Surrender
Washington, May 13, 1 P. M.—There
is a rumor that Lee has surrendered
with 4,000 men. Colonel Lyle, of the
Ninetieth, is killed.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph, May 13, 1864.1
Ordered to Front
The One Hundred and Eighty-fourth
Regiment of the Pennsylvania Vol
unteers has been ordered to tho front
and are expected to leave to-day.
Accepts Call
Rev. S. P. Mitchell, we learn, has
accepted the call lately tendered him
by the Old School Presbyterian Church
I of this city.
OVR DAILY LAUGH "|
"mm m *im —mm*o j
Another Marine A New l.lne
IllNnHter "Why has your
"Iter hopes of daughter dropped
marrying the her hospital work
Duke de Hroke so soon?"
were dashed to "She fou n d
pie"ces on the she'd have to
rocks." nurse poor pati
"On what ents for two years
rocks?" - before they en
"On the rocks trusted her with
her father sunk in any millionaires.
Wall Street." So she's going on
the stage in a
musical comedy."
"I>» IT NOW"
Itj \\ lug Dinger
How doth the little buzzing fly
Spread danger every minute?
By walking 'round the food we eat
And putting his feet In It.
It makes no difference where lie's been
Hefore he strikes the table,
He'll stick his feet in every dish
Of food that he Is able.
And once he moves into the house
He doesn't act the pig
By trying to eat all himself,
But rears a family big.
And where we have one buzz to-day
It won't be long until
We'll have a, thousand buzzes, which
Our peace of mind will kill.
if dire dangers you'd avoid.
And save yourself a lot
Of sickness, buy a swatter now
And swat and swat and swat*
WAH OI KICK VICE TO MANKIND
TFrom the New York Sun |
In President Wilson's finely phrased
tribute to the dead of Vera Cruz there
is one paragraph which stands forth
with almost startling distinctness:
"We have gone down to Mexico to
serve mankind if we can find out the
way. We do not. want to fight the
Mexicans. We want to serve the Mex
icans if we can, because we'know how
we would like to be free and how we
would like to be served If there were
friends standing by ready to serve us.
A war of aggression Is not a war in
which it is a proud thing to die, but a
Getting and Giving
|P|F we were running this big business
of ours on the principle of getting ail we could
instead of giving all we can it wouldn't be long before folks
would stop buying here and our position of recognized
leadership would soon be a thing of the past.
tThat we do not intend
to allow such a condition to come
about is being demonstrated daily,
is being emphasized by every sale
of the hundreds we make week in
and week out from what you'll find
on inspection to be the mo6t com
prehensive display of men's cloth
ing in all Harrisburg.
O
K'ippenheimer
Clothes
The Hou»c of Kuppc
A
with which to visualize our greater value giving ideals, is
only the natural result of the most careful value getting
on our part. They're the best to be had, but on account
of our cash purchasing principles, as a result of the most
rigid expense economy, low overhead it's called, we can sell
them to you successfully for as little as $ 18.00 and others
from $15.00 by easy stages to $30.00.
304 MARKET ST. HARRISBURG, PA.
I: We Invite Ladies
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Ladies who have had little or no experience |
jl in banking can do business at this bank with- |
|; out embarrassment, because we place our ser- |
j| vices at their command and willingly give any 1
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Jl itig here pleasant and satisfactory. We cspe- |
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war of service is a thing in which it is :
a proud tiling to die." 1
This declaration is of high impor- <
lance, because it is the first public at- :
tempt on the part of the Commander
in-Chief of the Army and Navy of i
the United States to define and justify
the purpose of the military operations
which he is at present conducting in
, foreign territory.
So it Is war, after all! N<it a war of
aggression upon Mexico, not a war of
[ conquest, not even a war of interven
tion for the protection of American
life and property in Mexico, but a war
of altruism, of friendly service to man
kind. undertaken in an experimental
and exploratory way by the Adminis
tration in order to ascertain what we
can do, by the expenditure of the rev
enues of the United States and the
lives of our soldiers and sailors, to
make the people of Mexico free and
I happy and grateful to us.
The explanation is welcome, and we
are not now going to discuss the con-
stitutional power of the Kxecutlve i<>
embark the country In such a war in
order that he may Und the best way to
serve, the nation attacked by our bat
tleships and troops.
But what does President Wilson
I mean when he declares over the dead
I bodies of these mourned Americans
that it would not have been just as
proud and quite as glorious a lliing
for them to have died as they did, do
ing their duty behind the flag, if that
flag had been ordered by a blundering
Executive into a war of criminal ag
gression ?
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