6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Etlabluhid i>3' PUBLISHED BY THE TELBGRAPH PRINTING 00. *. J. 6TACKPOLE, Prei't and Treatfr. F. It OYSTER, Secretary. OVB M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building. 216 Federal Square. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story ft Brooks. 'Western Office. 123 West Madison street, Chicago, 111., Allen A Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at SB.OO a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg as second class matter. ®Tbt Association of Amor- ( 1 ican Advertisers has ex ■mined and certified (o i' th* aircalatioa of thispab- (' ' i lication. The figures of circalation i i contained in the Association's rs , > pact only are guaranteed. i; Assetiitien of Americaa Advertisers i , No. 2333 Whitehall Bld|. N. T. City Iwors dally average for the month of April, 1914 ★ 23,606 * Average for the year 1913—21,577 Average for the year 1813—31,175 Average for the year 10H—1H.851 Average for the year 11)10—17,485 TELEPHONES! Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 2040. United Business Office, 203. Mltorial Room 586. Job Dept. SOI. FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 29 FIRST AIR TO DEMOCRACY GIFFORD P INC HOT and his friends throughout the State must realize before the cam paign shall have been fairly started that Mr. Pinchot can hardly figure more in the contest than as first aid to the Democracy. Even the vig orus campaign of Colonel Roosevelt could do no more than increase his friend Plnchot's efficiency as an indi rect supporter of the Democratic ticket. About all that can reasonably be expected from the third party move ment In Pennsylvania is a reduction of the Republican vote. This is the hope and prayer of the Palmer-Mc- Cormick bosses, who realize that with out a split of the Republican vote their cause is desperate. Already they have sought the further aid of Presi dent Wilson, but the administration is going to be of little avail in Pennsyl vania this year. It is the administra tion which is responsible for the indus trial and business conditions which prevail throughout the Common wealth, and any appeal for the sup port of Palmer and McCormlck as an endorsement of President Wilson's policies will only serve to accentuate the feeling of resentment which is growing more general every day. Mr. Plnchot and his running mate, Dean Lewis, the AVashington party candidate for Governor, are absolutely without hope of election. If they do not realize it now, those who are re sponsible for their nomination can hardly fail to appreciate this fact. Their only service In the campaign will be as aids to the Democracy, and Republicans who have been affiliated with the third party movement through their admiration for Colonel Roosevelt are not likely, even to please this magnetic leader, to again bow their backs for the Democrats to walk over them into place and power. There is no occasion for hysteria or bitterness In discussing the situa tion. It is a simple proposition. The third party ticket cannot be elected and the only possible effect of a split in the Republican party would be the election of President Wilson's hand picked candidates. This Is so obviously the fact that we can hardly Imagine any considerable number of Republicans being de ceived by the holding out of a pros pect of Washington party success this year. LOCAL OPTION IT seems unnecessary to make argu ment in favor of LOCAL OPTION. Local option stands so perfectly se cure on its own square base. It imposes nothing; it restricts no indi vidual liberty. It does not deprive a man of a right to drink whatever he pleases. It simply gives a community thfc right to declare whether liquor shall be sold within its borders. It simply gives the community the right to determine whether or not It regards strong waters as poison, or, If it does, whether it wants to continue their sale or not. Local option does not curtail liberty. It increases freedom by allowing the full will of the majority to rule, it is so clear, clean-cut and American; it Is so congenial to basic principles of democracy that it is not easy to under stand how the Legislature can longer refuse to submit the question to the people. WILL THEY NEVER LEARN ? FOUR young men of Harrisburg— trusted employes of one of the great express companies—have been arrested on the charge of stealing valuables given into their care and have confessed their guilt. There is nothing remarkable in this. Only a month ago another young Har risburger was sent to the penitentiary when the theft of large sums of money from the United States mails was traced to his door. The crime is of common occurrence. Most likely these very lines will fall beneath the gaze of one who has been guilty of a similar offense, whose peace of mind has van ished and whose good name and lib erty, too, will soon be gone. The matter becomes subject for comment only by reason of the con stant repetition of the crime and the unvarying result. That almost every month brings with it the discovery of FRIDAY EVENING. KARJRISBTTRG TELEGRAPH MAY 20, 1914. some such offense Is apparently no deterrent; points no lesson. The prison cell holds no terrors until the baleful shadow of the Jail falls athwart the quaking culprit. Time and money are as nothing to the government In search of a ciiHi nal, and the big express companies operate on much the same principle. Every employe of the postal service or of an express company knows this. From the moment he has crossed thu line that divides honesty from dis honesty he knows tftat always and ever a shrewd brain is planning to trap him. a keen pair of eyes are watching for him, and that sooner or later his time will come. It docs come to ninety-nine out of every hundred such offenders. The persistent mall or express thief stands no.more show of escaping the clutches of the law than does the wily wolf that has tasted of the blood of the farmef's flock and has not sense enough to stay away from the fold. How much better the peace of mind of the patient toller, slowly plodding toward advancement, than this clutch- | ing for quickly gotten gold that turns to ashes In the hand that grasps it. There Is not one of the little army of soul-sick occupants of federal prison cells who would not go back, if they could! to the time when temptation first assailed them —and then turn their faces unfalteringly toward the way that leads to honesty, good repute and self-respect, small though the ma terial rewards might be. — MORE STUPIDITY AFTER the Belzure of Vera Cruz we were told that the crisis had been hastened by the deter mination of the Wilson adminis tration not to permit the landing of a shipload of sm«il arms, ammunition and rapid-fire guns consigned by a German firm to Huerta. The fight that followed cost some twenty Ameri can lives, but the country felt that the step had been wisely taken—that it would have been folly to permit Huerta to acquire this potent means of carrying on possible war against the United States. So we took Vera Cruz and we still hold it. Now comes word from Washington that the Wilson administration has held more than a score of big war ves sels swinging idly at anchor while these same arms, over which we pre viously fought, have been landed down the coast a few miles and are now in the hands of President Huerta. What gross stupidity to fight one day for what you grant the next with out a murmur of protest! What ex planation. pray, has President Wilson to offer for permitting the Mexican government to possess guns that any moment may be turned on the American forces before Vera Cruz? Did he imagine that the blockade running German captain would obey the mere request that he take his cargo right back home? APPLE MARY WALSH THERE is nothing more pathetic in the romance of the world than the case of Apple Mary Walsh, who for sixty years has been meeting every ship that came in at the East river piers in New York city, looking for a lover who has never come back. Now she is 86 years old and yesterday was compelled to ask a magistrate to send her to the workhouse for two months until she could recover from heat prostration. "When 1 get out," she said, "I'll he much better and I can go down and meet the ships again." Mary Walsh was born in Ireland and came to this country as a girl. Sixty years ago she met a young- man who was third officer on a ship plying between New York and Chinese ports and they decided to get married after he had made one more trip. He never came back. He wrote one letter, but that is all she ever heard from him or his ship. After he had been gone nearly a year she gave up her work at a hotel and began selling apples, so she could meet all the ships. That was sixty years ago, and until yester day, when she couldn't stand the heat any longer, she had gone to Battery Park every day to watch the ships come in and sell enough apples to keep her alive. Such"* Is the undying love of a woman, and those who know Apple Mary are quite sure that she will be back in her old place watching the ships for her hero of the seas. A FRIEND OF THE POOK _ACOB A. RIIS. friend of the chll- T dren, is dead, but his devotion to I the children of the poor will not J be lost upon New York and the nation. He started his great work of reform as a newspaper reporter. One writing of him says: He knew how to write so as to wring men's hearts with his news of oppression, misery and hopeless ness. He compelled indifferent city officials to concede the reforms he suggested or approved. It was Riis who forced the de struction of rear tenements, i.nd thus relieved the hideous darkness and density of life among the very poor. He forced the obliteration of Mul berry Bend, the worst tenement block In the city, and had the space turned into a park. He spoke the word that induced Commissioner Roosevelt to abolish the police lodg- - ing houses. He fought for and se cured a truant school. He drove bakeshops out of tenement base ments. He demanded light for dark tenements, thus illuminating the hiding places of dirt, tilth and crime. He worked for the abolition of child labor, and when a law wus en acted compelled its enforcement. Playgrounds for schools and the opening of school rooms to boys' and girls' clubs were of his plan ning. Ho started the movement for tiowers for the healthy, as well as for the sick poor. Another wrote of him: Jacob A. Riis was a power for good not only in this community, but throughout the country, alien as lie was by birth and humble of antecedents. Such a struggle up from obscurity to honorable useful ness Is peculiar to this country, and there was no better clt'zen than this Danish emigrant. What greater work than this. "Even as ye have done It unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have done It unto Me," Jacob Riis lias set an example for the world and his life will be an inspiration and help for others who would serve their fellowmen. EVENING CHAT I While Decoration Day is a holiday and there are many events of athletic or picnic character which appear to be specially reserved for that day, there is nevertheless observable a dis position to take more note of the real object of the day than was the case a decade and even fifteen yearß ago. In the nineties and, Indeed, for several years after 1900 the observance of the day was confined to the veterans of the Civil War, with the younger men who rought in the later wars and the men active In military uffairs. The day had a distinctly military flavor and except for the ringing of the chimes of old ZIon ' the individual decorating of graves and the holding of a few serv but little else beside the program 7» I f velera ns marked Memorial Day. Hilt in recent years the protest of the veterans and of many thinking men that the object of the day was being lost sight of has awakened a respon sive note in the hearts of many resi dents of Harrisburg and there will be still more cognizance taken of the truly memorial port of the day. More people will pronably g« to the ceme teries during the morning than before and the city will take a few minutes to recall those gone before. The Idea of pausing in memory of the departed. C S! i* when veterans were voicing criticism of the tendency to make the day a holiday without regard to the object of its creation, received a state wide impetus through a poem and articles in the Philadelphia Press The suggestion was endorsed by Governor otuart and the mayors of almost every city and veterans by the thousand. In some places the pause has become an official part of the day. It happens « i.M new spaper men who con ceived the idea was one well known here. Richard J, Beamish, a former resident of Scranton. That the sugges ♦l? 1 Tf?,? finely is shown by the fact mat I* ive minutes for memories-" is a phrase known all over the state. J his city was one of the first to ob serve the suggestion and has continued •in so " over the state people will pause to-morrow about noon to think upon those who have gone be fore. The locust blossoms are appearing on all sides of the city and these days it is a delight to take a ride through the country roads, which are lined with the beautiful white flower of early summer. The locusts bloom pro fusely In this part of the country and there are farms which are bordered by the tree, the old idea that locust tree's draw lightning apparently not count 'u j° r ln J UL ' h w 'he npeople consider the shade and appearance of the trees and their value for posts. The flashing of the electric lights in the red globes on the new standards along Market street which is to call officers is something which is not un derstood by many people and fur nished an amusing incident last even ing. A group had gathered about one standard and in the midst of laughing one man, who apparently had recoi lections of the days when the police chased away people who loitered along curbs, called out: "Say, better move on, the red s flashin' for a cop." niore Sunday excursions to the state Capitol are schedule for the fv?* 1 ! a nlon t' l an< l the chances are that Sunday pilgrimages to the State House will become popular and regu lar events. When the battle flags are installed the rotunda will be a still greater point of interest for visitors. The guides are on duty on excursion i 8 and have their hands full, although as one guide put it, "Thev seem so much interested and so glad to get in on Sunday that we are not kicking about having to work seven days a week. We'll make that up somehow. ' Speaking of the battle flags, Ad jutant General Stewart says that the number of organizations for which the committee in charge of the transfet has had to select standard bearers is rather larger than expected. In many cases there was lack of an official designation and as a result survivors had to be asked for suggestions. A number of Harrisburgers have re ceived invitations to attend the annual picnic given to the school teachers and RVJi 11 -® of McKeesport by J. Denny i_ ei * county commissioner of Alle gheny and one of the best known tttr tires in the political and business life oi the western end of the State. Mr. * £*Y es .*h ese picnics every year at Olympia Park and lust year 45,000 people attended. It was the greatest gathering of the kind known in that part of the country and prominent men from near and far attended the gathering. Mr. O'Neil began giving the picnics a long time ago and thev have grown and grown until they are looked forward to by thousands. He pays all the bills and gets as much fun ° U Li? u hem as any kld ' Newspaper publisher, merchant, politician and !n' everyTiiie. 1 ' 's a M Another gathering, which attracts much attention, is being given to-dav at Wild Cat Palls, along the Sus quehanna. While this is pre-eminently a Lancaster county affair, it is at tended by many men of prominence in Dauphip, 1 ork, Chester and other counties, men even going from Phila delphia. / I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE I Edgar S. Cook, the Pottstown iron manufacturer, Is home from Europe. George Hetzel, Chester manufac turer and member of the Industrial Accidents Commission, has been mak ing a study of the subject in other states. —Harry P. Sweeney has just heen named as superintendent of the mines of the Thomas Iron Companv in this State and New Jersey. —Charles M. Clement, of Sunbury, grand senior warden of the Templars is commander of t.he Third Brigade of the National Guard and as eminent in church affairs as he is In military and Masonic circles. S. Hubbard, director of public safety in Pittsburgh, will equip the Pittsburgh firemen with oxygen helmets. —The Rev. J. Thomas Davis, of Blalrsville. has been elected president of the Indiana County Sunday School Association. —Harry E. Grimm, nominee for Congress in the Eighth district, is a brother of ex-Senator Grim, of Doyles town. NEWS DISPATCHES OF THE CIV I WAR LFrom the Telegraph of May 29, 1864] Shelby Moves North Fort Smith. May 25. Shelby crossed the river a few days ago at Dardaneiie, and is moving North. Gen eral Steele has sent a force after him, and Thayer is driving him out in this section. Army Crosses Pumiinky Washington, May 29. A dispatch from General Grant, dated yesterday at Hanover town, has Just been re ceived by the War Department. It states that the army has successfully crossed over the Pumunky and now occupies a front about three miles south of the river. F,VKMN<; THOUGHT Human improvement is from within outward.—Froude. PLATFORMS HOLD MUCH Hli Republicans May Not Adopt at the Meeting to Be Held Here Next Wednesday PALMER PASSES IT ALONG Makes Morris Lhe Burden-bearer For lhe Imporluniles of the Democrats This year the resolutions to be adopted by the State committees will take the place of the platforms which used to be adopted by the~Btate con ventions, now done away with, and naturally there Is a great Interest be ing taken in them. The Washington party, it is understood, will rest on its declarations at the January conference and the Democrats will probably adopt a series of resolutions declaring for Wilson and the tariff without blinking. The Prohibitionists always have a platform ready at any time. .lust what will be done about the Republican platform Is problematical and there is gossip that the adoption of resolutions may not be taken up at the meeting of the State committee next Wednesday. Three State committees will meet here Wednesday and Thursday. The Prohibitionists will meet at 10 a. m. in Ridge Avenue Church; the Republicans at 11.30 a. m. in Chestnut Street Hall, and the Democrats at 2 p. m. In the Board of Trade. Thursday the Washington party committee will meet. Congressman Palmer, Federal dis penser of patronage in Pennsylvania and candidate for the senatorship against Senator Boies Penrose, admits that he is weary of being Palmer to used as a foothall by Keep String ambitious Democrats on < Mliees of the Keystone State who wish to serve their country in good Federal jobs with large salaries attached. Palmer last night announced that from now until after the November election he will confer upon State Chairman Ro land S. Morris the power to handle all offices yet to be handed out in the State. He says that he will give all names submitted to him by Chairman Morris his approval and will send them to the President personally. The fact is that the patronage distribution has been so unsatisfactory to Palmer that in almost every appointment made to date in Pennsylvania party workers have been disappointed and in a great many cases they have refused to assist the reorganization Democrats. In the primary campaign many of these workers enlisted under the ban ner of Michael J. Ryan, the opponent of Vance C. McCormick for the guber natorial nomination. These men, as a rule, sympathize with the old guard Democrats and refuse to accept the White House-made ticket of Palmer and McCormick. Five more, counties filed their official returns of the primary election at the Capitol to-day, and it is believed by officials at the State Department that they Five More will be able to certify Counties to the election of con- Have Filed siderably more than a quorum of members of each of the State com mittees by next Wednesday. The Philadelphia and Allegheny county re turns will probably be late. The coun ties tiling to-day were Bucks, Clear field, Chester, Washington and Centre. The work of tabulating Is progressing slowly, owing to the numerous-groups which have to be handled separately. Another interesting feature of the legislative nominations has come to light in the discovery that James F. Woodward, of McKees port, former member of the House, is the Woodward Democratic as well as Does Well the Republican noml- in Ninth, nee in the Ninth Alle gheny district. Mr. Woodward was a member for several terms and was twice chairman of the appropriations committee. He ran for all three party nominations in his dis trict and was beaten for the Washing ton by a small margin. It is probable that Woodward will be a formidable candidate for the chairmanship when he comes back in January. The Creasy machine failed to defeat Charles A. Shaffer, of Berwick, for Democratic renomination at the pri maries in Columbia county. Arthur Creasy ran against Shaffer, but the Berwick man was too swift for him. I POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS —The Pinchot Perry county cam paign yesterday was a handshaking tour, few speeches being made. —The Prohibition party is claiming Clark as its candidate for Superior Court. Yet there is a nonpartisan law. —State Chairman Morris is an amiable burden-bearer anyhow. —Wilson is to make one speech anyhow. The Cabinet will work over time. —Representative Ambler seems to have done well In his district. —Detrlch seems to have a bad case of Brumbaughophobia. A FIVE-DAY WORKING WEEK [From the PottsviUe Journal.] John Wanamaker announces that he will close his Philadelphia and New York stores on Saturdays during the months of July and August and that he proposes carrying out the custom, confidently looking forward to the coming of the time when five days will constitute a working week. Clerks In every store In the land will heave a sigh of regret when they hear of Mr. Wanamaker's announce ment and some or them will fall to anathematizing their employers he cause they do not follow suit. The employer would be glad to work but five days a week if he could see his way to do it. Business Locals JUNE BRIDES AND GRADUATES « Young ladies we have been looking forward to this great event in your life with as much preparation as you have. Accordingly we aie now ready to take care of your footwear needs by a special display of such shoos and slippers as you will want for such oc casions. Come and see what suits you best at Jerauld Shoe Co., 310 Market street. ALWAYS INVITING That noon-hour luncheon that Is specially prepared for the busy men of Harrlsburg at the Columbus Cafe Is surely a delicious luncheon for 40 cents. The food is nicely cooked and faultlessly served. Try one of these luncheonß to-morrow noon. Hotel Co lumbus, Third and Walnut streets. I OUR DAILY LAUGH ] IniHgewtlhle'* Hay' Isn't Mr. CJoat—l'm afraid Rooster everlast- that century al ing stuck up? manac I've de- Rlght you are! voured is not' go- He has been read- Ing to agree with Ing up his lineage me.' nnd claims to he a Dog—What can direct descendant you expect? You of the hen that are so careless, laid the egg that William. Didn't Columbus stood on you know it was end. guaranteed to last ' '" lni ' r< ' (l years? Hong o4 the I'oiitfil Egg Deep Sea Tnlk Why didn't you I hate old Bill cackle when yau Lobster. He al lald that egg? ways looks so What's the use? sour. The postman will He can't help whistle when lie that; It runs in his delivers It. family. All of his ancestors were made up in salad. nnosT tomorhow By Wing Illnicer That baseball team of ours Is going pretty strong, So let's turn out to-morrow And help the bunch along. They're tie for first position. And full of vinj and fight. And with your help they'll have It Cinched right to-morrow night. Get on the .iob to-morrow. Support them In the race, And give them all the help you can To land 'em in first place. In sports, as well as all things, Let all adopt this creed, That we believe this city Should always take the lead. CAN HE COME BACK ? [From the Scranton Truth.] There are a number of reasons why the country would like to see "Uncle Joe" back in his place in Washington. Unquestionably he is honest. Every one admits he is an Intense American, who thinks his country the fairest and greatest on earth. He eschews shams and hypocrisies. His experience as a legislator has been very wide. In ad dition he has a hreeziness of style and a winning way that his admiring coun trymen like exceedingly well. No, "Uncle Joe" has no apologies to make in again announcing himself a can didate. HONOR STUDENTS OF MISS MABEL CLARK, First MISS SARA WENSELL, Third MISS ELVA LIPPI, Second MISS MABEL CLARK TAKES FIRST HONOR AT CENTRAL HIGH Miss Elva Lippi Second; Eleven Named Altogether This Year The eleven students who made the highest marks in all studies during their four years' course in Central High School were announced to-day. There are 148 in the class and 40 per cent, of these went, through the four years without being conditioned. Calculating the total of the marks of the students as w«ll as what they made in examinations produced the following results: First—Miss Mabel tiark. Second—Miss Elva Lippl. Third—Miss Sarn Wensoll. Fourth—Russell Lindsay. Fifth—Miss Esther Wleseanan. Sixth—Miss Mabel Hall. Seventh—Miss Kathryu Harris. Eighth—Ralph Schradey. Ninth—Miss Louins Aughtnhniigh. Tenth—Miss Faith Mell. Eleventh—Miss Mabel Harris. Usually only ten are announced, but Miss Mell and Miss Harris wero so close that it was decided to announce eleven honors. Miss Mabel Clark, who will say the valedictory at commencement receives the alumni prize of $25; Miss Elva Lippl, who delivers the salutatory wins the alumni prize of sls. Miss Lippl also will receive a special award of a a kutzlte stone of nearly three karats for excellence in Latin. The donor'a name is withheld. In addition to these two speakers Russell Lindsay and Kathryn Harris will speak at com mencement. MAYOR M'CLAIN TO BE ORATOR Special to The Telegraph Columbia, J'a., May 29.—Mayor Frank B. McClain, of Lancaster, Re publican nominee for Lieutenant-Oov ernor, will be the Memorial Day or ator at Mountville, where Grand Army veterans and various secret societies I will hold exercises In the cemetery. WisiiructTvety Individual fSSSSSSI JM fflf » TURKISH BLEND H . CIGARETTES ■ * focima Coupons can be exchanged for 9f I IXTTERSTOTHE'EDITOR 1 TELEGRAPH AND TRIBUNE To thr Editor of The T/lcgrapli: The enclosed slip from the New Yotk Tribune seems to fit in nicely with your editorial on "The President and the G. A. R." of to-day: "After the collapse of the great re bellion in 18fi5 the master minds of the Democratic party in the North were accustomed to go fishing on the 30th of May. They were sad at heart over the failure of their friends, and the sight of the blue-clad comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic was abhorrent to them. Therefore, they sought the solitudes of sylvan streams and for a time laid aside their woes. While Mr. Cleveland occupied the White House he went a-fishing one fine morning toward the end of May, and the 'Journal of Civilization' printed a full page rear view picture of hint as he strolled along the pier to the waiting boat which was to take him down the Potomac. It was his protest against the celebration, and when election day came the American people resented his act. / "Mr. Wilson may take heed. The President is a part of the United States government, and the men who saved that government from destruc tion have a right to ask him to assist In honoring the dead defenders. Dast year he was Invited to take part in the Decoration Day exercises in Ar-i lington, but he preferred to go auto mobile riding. This year the Presi dent was again asked, as the repre sentative of the country, to be present in the National Cemetery, but he re fuses on a pretext which can only he classed as frivolous. He prefers to participate, in his official character, at a celebration in honor of those who sougHT the Republic's destruction. This might have been expected from his bringing up. What the people think of it may be learned when their judg ment is rendered at the polls." FRIEND OF VETERANS. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph of May 29, 1864] Canal floats Busy An immense quantity of coal, lum ber and other freight is being carried on the canal. Hundreds of boats pass here dally. Make Hay ut Capitol Haymaking has commenced on the Capitol grounds. A portion of the grass was cut Saturday. Wilson "Propaunder of Splendid Theories" Says Frenchman Third Rate Advisers—Mexican Policy Unique Piece of Foolishness New York, May 29.—Prince Andre Poniatowski, banker and long a close friend and business associate of E. H. Harriman, who arrived yesterday on the Olympic, told a reporter that Eu rope does not think overhlghly of the way this country has been run lately. He said that in practically all the countries where universal suffrage prevails governmental policies are tending rapidly to become chaotic. In the course of an interview the dis tinguished Frenchman was asked: — "What do they think abroad of President Wilson?" "Ah! 1 don't like to find fault with Mr. Wilson," the Prince responded. "You see I know him. I have met him and talked with him. T am a. little afraid of hasty comment. "This must he said, however, that in the general opinion abroad the United States for the last ten years has not been under the guidance of men of constructive ability. You have suffered at the hands of politicians and nolltlcal leaders without construc ts _ skill. "As for President Wilson, in Europe we have hundreds of men of his kind —cultured, tho propounders of splen did theories, able in many ways, charming men. But we do not think of them as men able to guide a na tion—and they aro not. "What I mean by constructive abil ity of the first order—of a degree nec essary in the heads of a great nation —is exemplified in such a man as James J. HiU. He is a builder. That Is the secret of the thing—the power to build. "To the foreign observer it is diffi cult to grasp the theories that such men as President Wilson are trying to put in practice. We are perfectly familiar with such things as theories, but that they should be adopted as national policies is to us incredible." The Prince was asked in regard to current opinion in Europe as to our attitude toward Mexico. "Europe readily understands that the United States finds itßelf on the ejdge of war—indeed, actually at war with Mexico," he replied. "But that status has been preceded by fifteen months of. the. most atrocious diplom acy the world has ever seen. The ARROWS IN THF, AIR [Louisville Courier-Journal.] The world has witnessed wars and wars. There have been savage wars— all of the religious wars were savage— and Merry wars, where the ladies were largely in evidence—the War of the Fronde, for example, anil the War of the Crazy Janes In England. Rut we have never heard of a war where there was no fighting, and where there Is fighting there must be, presumably, some killing. Even the benevolent brush we are having with the gentle m Mexicans has cost some score, or more, of lives. Shall we go forward and shoot our affection into the greasers until they fairly burst with gratitude and civil ization. or, insisting that Huerta step down and out, shall we, in case he does, get out ourselves, leaving them in the tender custody of the decentest cut-throat we may be able to find among the bandit chiefs? CAREFUL CRITICISM [From the Johnstown Deader.] One of the Standard Oil weekly pub lications has dared to print a gentlo hint that, perhaps John D. Rockefeller was a little harsh in his murdering of women and children in Colorado. Colonel Harvey had better go easy. He may lose an old subscriber up In Po cantlco Hills. r BEADItDAHTEni FOB SHIRTS! -SIDES & SIDES % J I United States seems to have had no good counsel in all that time. It has been advised, apparently, only by third rate minds. "War with Mexico, we understand, hut war between two men—Mr. Wil son and General Huerta—wo cannot comprehend. Whoever heard of sudi a thing? And 1 think there Mr. Wil son was led into a grave mistake. Huerta left much to be desired as a ruler, we will grant, but the essential fact remained that, he was a ruler and his was a stable government. Not only that but It was the only stable government in the country. "The world has been treated for the first time to the spectacle of a great nation like the United States allying itself with a little band of insurgents and rebels under the leadership o( such a man as Villa, ex-bandit. Field Carnival at Academy Tomorrow Plans for the annual track and flel\J carnival at the Harrisburg Academy, tco take place to-morrow afternoon, were announced to-day. There will be twenty events In all. Greek and Ro man teams will contest. The trial heats in the. 100-yard dash will start at 2 o'clock. The officials are: Referee and starter, Roy G. Cox, Princeton. Judges of track events. Dr. J. J. Moffltt, University of Pennsylva nia, and Henderson Gilbert, Yale. Judges of field events, Lawrence W. Phillips, Yale; W. Harvey Musser, Princeton. Timers, Joseph W. Beach, Yale; Howard R. Omwake, Princeton. Scorers, Warren S. Taylor, Princetop; Sherman A. Allen, Brown. Inspector, Raymond D. Kennedy, Bowdoln. Clerk of course, Brenton G. Wallace, Univer sity of Pennsylvania. Announter, C. C, Johnston, Cornell. BURIAL LONG AFTER DEATH Halifax, Pa., May 29.—The body of Mrs. Bessie Callahan, who was killed In an automobile accident at Colum bus, Ohio, about one and a half years ago, and which at that time was placed in a vault in the Paxtang Cemetery at Harrisburg. was brought here on Wed nesday evening and buried In thq Methodist Episcopal Cemetery.
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