12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established lt]l PUBLISHED BY TlUt TELEGRAPH PKIimHO CO. ■- J- STACKFOLS, Pre.'t and ». R OYSTER, Secretary. pus M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. published every evening (except Sun 4ay), at the Telegraph Building. 21* ' federal Square. Plaatern Office, Fifth Avenue Building. New York City, Hasbrook, Story • Brook*. RTeatern OfNce, 128 West Madison ■treet, Chicago. 111., Allen * Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a *® e ~- Mailed to aubscrlber® At SB.OO a year in advance. pntered at the Pest Office in HarrtN burg as second class matter. ® The Association of Aaaw (can Advertisers has ex- i 1 tnind and certified to i the circulation of this pnb- i' ' i !ication. The figures of circulation I contained in Ue Association's re- ! 1 pact only are guaranteed. i; AssociatMa of Amerkaii Advertisers i J, No. 2338 Whitehall Bldg. M. Y. City | to sin dally average for the month si May, 1914 * 24,402 # Average for the year 1913—-21,KT Average for the year 1912—21.1T5 Average for the year 1911—18.8111 Average for the year 1910—1T.4MH TELEPHONES! Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 104#. United Business Office, 208. Room 585. Job Dept. IM. FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 26 FILLING MATERIAL CITIZENS and taxpayers of the western section of the city—the Important territory north of Broad street—are watehing-with much interest the River Front devel bpment. They believe that now is the •time to complete the work and are decidedly of the opinion that the op portunity to obtain the filling material necessary from the excavations for the Bubway at Second and Mulberry streets should not be neglected. Fill ing material is about as hard to pro cure in Harrisburg under present con ditions as gold in Alaska and this fact should be, considered in any nego tiations for the transfer of the ma terial in sight for the grading of the elope in the narrow stretches north of Calder street. The rapid progress of the con tractors on the river wall suggests the necessity for immediate action to the end that the material from the ex cavations for the subways shall be made available without further delay. Inasmuch as the; last park loan is available for park purposes, Superin tendent Taylor will be Justified in mak ing any reasonable arrangement for utilizing the 20,000 or more loads of dirt that will come from the Second and Mulberry street excavations. The esteemed Palmer-McCormick bulletin of this city says that Dr. Brum baugh must be defeated because he Is the choice of an alleged political ma chine, but not a word about the hand picked candidate of the White House machine in this Stats. WHO HAS BEEN FOOLING HIM? WHO has been misleading Presi dent Wilson? Or has he, like an East Indian fakir, been gazing into the dream mirror of his own making until he has hypnotized himself Into a world of fancy and hallucination? In an effort to bolster up his own courage and to let the people of the country know that business may ex pect no mercy at his hands, he took occasion, on the day of the greatest mercantile failure in the history of the United States, to tell a party of visit ing editors that his game of badgering is to continue unabated. Not one word of sympathy for the head of the great bouse that fell yesterday, or the hun dreds of creditors who stand to lose heavily, but fatuous reiteration of the assertion that the administration is determined, willy niliy, to put through the program of experimental legis lation upon which it has decided. The President says that he is "in formed" that "Congress and the na tion are with him." Cengress certainly, for the Presi dent has it bound hand and foot. But the nation, never. There never was a more unpopular President than Wood row Wilson is to-day. He has wrecked U? e nation's prosperity at home and has made it the laughing stock of gov ernments He will learn how much the nation Is with him when the .November elections overturn the Demo cratic majority In the House and put an end to the one-man rule that has been the bane of the country ever tinre the last inauguration. "The nation is on the eve of a busi ness revival." he told those to whom he spoke. This Is in sharp contrast ■with hia attitude of a week ago, when he asserted that no business depres sion exists, except in the imaginations of buainess men. And, he continued, "when the tariff was passed it was found that the readjustment was pos sible without any serious disturbance whatever." Wa« ever a supposedly intelligent jman guilty of such stupid assertions? I Business revival! No serious disturb ance! As well say the San Francisco [earthquake shook down no buildings! The Iron and metal market is the (barometer of trade In this section. The .official records show that of the 423 .coke and anthracite furnaces In the ■.United States only 197 were in blast .June 1. Eighteen additional furnaces ■went out of blast during May; among those blown out were three at Buffalo, N. Y.; one at Steelton, two In the Pittsburgh district, two "in the She nango Valley, one in West Virginia and the rest in Ohio and the West. The production last month, accord ing to The Iron Age, wu at the rate of pjM than 25,000,000 too* & year. To* FRIDAY EVENING day it ia at the, rate of lew than 24,000,000 tons a year, showing a fall ing off of about 30 per cent below the same period'last year. The dally pig Iron production dur ing the month of May averaged less than at any period since 1907, except during May, 1909. The railroads show a continued fall ing oft in traffic, the Panhandle passed its dividend this week, there have been bank failures in Chicago and else where, and a great mercantile failure in New York affecting thousands of banks all the United States. Our local steel mills are working on a 20 per cent, basis. Business men say they will be content If they weather this year without a loss; their thoughts of profit are for the most part gone. Textile mills are closed or operating on quarter time. Our exports are fall ing off and our imports are increasing, which means that foreign laborers at starvation wages are supplying our wants while our own workingmen are idle. And the reductions in living ex penses which the low tariff were sup posed to bring have not materialized. Prices are just as high now as ever and work and wages are hard to get. in the face of all this Wilson sa ift "the country is on the eve of a great business revival." Somebody has been fooling the President, or he has been fooling him self, and now he wants to fool every body else. Unfortunately for the ad ministration, the White House "dope" loses its potency outside of the imme diate official circle. Every new dose of It teaches a normally Republican country the futility of entrusting Its affairs to men antagonistic to business principles and reckless of its interests. Now that the improvement of the River Front between Paxton street and Iron alley 'is nearing completion, all Inter ested citizens will be able to Bee for themselves just what the treatment of the river frontage means. BE CHEERFUL A NOTED physician gives as his chief means of keeping cool these hot days this brief but ■">mprehensive bit of advice: "Don't worry; be cheerful." u. ...jgiu have gone further and said that cheerfulness is not only con ducive to mental and physical comfort in summer, v but a promoter of good health all the year around. The habitual "grouch" is sowing the seeds of 111-health in his own body. Bad humor gives imperceptible strokes,to the delicate fibers of our beings and the human machine suf fers to a degree so minute that we do not at the time note it, b'ut which persistently followed will in the end result in the disaster of physical breakdown. It isn't always easy to be cheerful, but the greatest means to that end is a habitual consideration of one'j many blessings and constant repres sion of the tendency to dwell on wrongs or misfortunes. Next Tuesday the Chamber of Com merce will have a luncheon meeting at the Board of Trade building, and E. S. Herman, president of the City Planning Commission, and one of- our best known business men, will outline a plan of action during the fall and winter for persons Interested in sales and ad vertising. Mr. Herman is a student of publicity In business, and his talk at : the luncheon will doubtless be well worth hearing. Members have been In vited to bring guests, and while many of the members of the Chamber of Commerce are out of the city there will be a good attendance notwith standing. GOLD EXPORTS WRITING to the Telegraph a correspondent asks: Why Is It that the ex port of gold to Europe Is causing so little concern now, whereas a few years ago the coun try was threatened with a panic whenever gold was sent abroad in large quantities? Doesn't this show that business is on a sound basis? The answer is simple', and it does not indicate a sound condition of business. On the other hand, it shows that business is so slack in the United States that money is plenty and cheap. The manufacturer is clearing his decks, rather than creating new obli gations. He is out of the money market. Consequently he doesn't care where the gold supply goes. A few million, more or less, means noth ing to the business of the country to day. But if trade were booming and gold were being exported at the prese it rate we might be having full oppor tunity now of testing the elasticity of our currency system and the prac tical benefits of the new banking law. HUNTING FOR AN EXCUSE THERE is more than a difference of views in the refusal of the •Democratic City Committee of Philadelphia to endorse the Palmer-McCormick platform al though that would be serious enough in Itself to excite comment. Democrats in Pennsylvania have been known to overlook more than is in volved in this platform controversy. If the Democratic leaders of Philadel phia had been really desirous of giv ing Palmer and McCormick their full and unqualified support there would h»ve been no open row over resolu tions. The truth is, the Ryan leaders of Philadelphia are looking for an ex cuse to desert the heads of the State Democratic ticket who maligned them in the primary fight. And the dis interested voter will wonder why Pal mer and McCormick are so anxious for the support of men who only a few weeks ago they were calling "party traitors" and "corrupt poli ticians." Banks are almost choked with fundk, but what good is money when capital has lost all confidence In investment under the present administration. Jack Johnscn is going to fight as a , Frenchman. No protest from this tilde. I EVENING CHAT I One of these days the men compos ing the Grand Army of the Republic will be so diminished in nurpbers that many of the posts will go out of exist ence. Of course, we all hope that the day may be long deferred and that the veterans will be with us years to come and that they may be enabled to par ticipate in ceremonies as interesting as the battle flag transfer exercises on Capitol Hill some ten or fifteen days ago. But some there will be a passing of the organizations of the veterans of the great war and many objects of patriotic interest and relics of great sentimental as well as his toric value will then be In danger of dispersion. Some of the posts have collections which should as a matter of public concern become the property of the Commonwealth in whose regi ments the veterans won imperishable glory, but unfortunately nothing has been done to prepare a place for such things. Even the battle flag collection which has been so much in the public eye lately is not complete and there are' flags which properly belong to it which are owned by posts and individ uals, who are disinclined to present them at this time because of desire to retain them longer or because they do not deem that the means afforded for public display in the Capitol ro tunda are adequate. The State Mu seum, which has been developed in the face of considerable discourage ment, to be frank about it, is going to be very much crowded within a short time and the space left by the transfer of the flags will be quickly taken up. The Museum is not large enough for its purposes now and if these relics of war days, which stir the blood of everyone and which form a mighty big factor of interest to the boys and girls at school, were to be offered the State could not display them as it should do. The Capitol is overcrowded and some day the departments housed outside will have to be concentrated. When the time comes to extend the wings of the great granite pile into what will be park extension some thought should be given to providing fireproof quarters for a Museum worthy the name and of the State. There is a good story back of the appearance, in this city yesterday of J. A. Shindler, member of the govern ment inspection party that is going over the proposed Lincoln Highway frqm the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. Only a few years ago Shindler, who is still quite a young man, was an ap prentice boy in the office of the Sun day Courier, and, tradition has it, was one of the most mischievous boys that newspaper ever employed. If there was anything about the office that was amiss it was safe to lay the blame at Shindler's door. But the lad was am bitious as well as active and his sur plus energy prompted him to try his fate in Washington, where after a hard struggle he won a clerkship un der civil service rules in the Treasury Department. No sooner had he be come acquainted with his duties there than he entered a Washington engi neer school for a course as geograph ical engineer. After a year and a half of study, during which he worked all day in the office and nearly all night over his books, and during which time he spent most of his money for books and tuition and only a mere trifle on food and clothing, he was granted his diploma and at once pre pared for government service as geo graphic engineer. He passed his ex aminations and was sent to Ohio, where he was mixed up in the great floods that over a year ago devasted that State and was for a time reported dead. Recently for good work he was assigned to the Lincoln Highway in spection party and will assist in the survey of the route to be laid out be yond Ogden, Utah, the present term inus of the route. Shindler wears a handsome uniform and is to-day the envy of all the printers' apprentices in town who know his story. Last Monday was the fourth anni versary of the nomination of Gover nor John K. Tener. It took place in the Majestic theater on a day- about as hot as those we have been having lately. It is also of Interest to note that the year before that the Gov ernor was the chairman of the com mittee on resolutions of the conven tion which named Auditor General A. E. Sisson. Work on the River Front attracts the attention of almost every man in terested in municipal affairs who comes to the city. Lately because' of numerous conventions there have been many men active in the affairs of their home cities and they have taken trips over the park system and along the River Front. One man who had walked along the whole River Front asked the cost of the parking, paving, river sewers, wall and dam and when an approximate figure was given he remarked: "It would be cheap if it cost three times as much. Just look what you've got. There's nothing like it possessed by any other city in the State and Trenton's just waking up to what can be done." 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Mayor Blankenburg, of Philadel phia, has gone to the Poconos on his vacation trip. —Mayor Ira Stratton, of Readjng, says that the referendum vote showed conclusively how Reading felt regard ing the paid fire department. —Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong, of Pittsburgh, says that people should be allowed to sleep n parks at night if they want to. Btime people do nqt agree with him. —Mayor S. H. Walker, of Altoona, is moving to have more paved streets in his city. —Mayor Joseph H. CaufHel, of Johnstown, is going after the public utility companies in his city. PENROSE CRUSHED TFrom the New Sun.] In the whole gallery of political vir tue, no deed more elevating, no example more inspiring, can be found than the stern rebuke administered by Herbert Parsons, of this fortunate. State, to the wicked and abandoned Boies Penrose, of Pennsylvania. Himself the product of a purity in politics that dazzles with Its whiteness, the practitioner of a partisanship Im maculate In its idealism, the supporter of a factionalism irreproachable in Its methods, Mr. Parsons finds the narrow fields of the Empire State too small to contain his natural and carefully cul tivated superior righteousness. How heartening to the Hon. Gilford Pinchot must be the knowledge that he commands and receives the unquali fied endorsement of Mr. Parsons; how crushed must Mr. Penrose be to learn that he Is not fit for the chaste society of this phenomenon of New York! IN HARRI3BURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY [Prom the Telegraph of June 26, 1864.] One Session a Day But one session per day will be held by our public schools during the sum mer. The schools will open at R a. m. and close at 12 m. The new arrange ment went Into effect to-day. Dun Rlw Here To-morrow Dan Rice's Great Show will make Its grand entree Into this city and will exhibit In the afternoon vad evening near the cotton factory. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MACHINE BOSSES LOOK FOR PEACE McCormick-Morris Plan to Rip Out the Philadelphia Committee is Not Favored MORRIS SAYS HARMONY SOON Detrich Did Not Have His Wireless Working and Stirs Up Dust to Hide Troubles Some of the Democratic machine bosses are reported as losing their nerve over the plan of Candidate Mc- Cormick and State Chairman Roland S. Morris to rip out the Philadelphia Democratic city committee, elected by the people at the primary on May 19, and there may be objections to be smoothed over before Morris can get revenge for2Hls frequent defeats at the hands of the old organization and Mc. Cormick for what was said about him in 1911 and 1914. It is pointed out by some of the cooler heads in the inside ring of the Democratic machine that to throv out a committee elected at the pri mary when McCormick ran woold have a bad effect on many people and attract attention to the split. State Democratic headquarters de clines to make any statement about the matter. A Nevin Detridh, chairman of the Washington party State committee, did some beautiful sidestepping yester day when his opinion was asked about the Colonel's espousal of Unhappy Perkins in the fuss with Days For the Pinchots. Detrich Detrich said that the Colonel could not make a mis take. This is taken to mean that Detrich, the State chairman, does not stand with Pinchot, his senatorial can didate, and shows the disruption in the Bull Moose party very plainly. Detrich is now stirring up a lot of dust with the Health Department to hide his dis comfiture since Senator McNichol said he should go to Pittsburgh to be told how to think and since he got in bad by lining up with Pinchot without a tip as to how the Colonel would stand. In Philadelphia last night Mr. Mor ris was asked if the executive com mittee would hear the appeal of John M. Hill and Jajnes (Saghan, reorgan- Morris Says izers, who were un- There Are No seated as members l'lots Afoot of the city commit tee from the fourth Ward to make way for Ryan followers. "If Mr. Hill files an appeal," he re plied, "we will hear it, just as we will hear any appeal from any part of the State. In fact, there are differences in one or two other counties which must be straightened out. That is part of the'executive committee's routine busi ness. The committee has not been called for that purpose, however, nor for any other special purpose, merely for the transaction of general busi ness. If you will trace these stories of disruption to their sources you will find that they are put out mainly by Re publicans who want to se the Demo cratic party split. Ours will be a har monious party this Fall, flgliting against a disrupted opposition. There are no underhand plots afoot, as has been charged." While Charles E. Steel, of Miners ville, the Washington party candidate for Congress in Schuylkill, assigned his reason for with drawing to be due to personal reasons. Steel Said lack of physical To Be Angry strength, It has With Bruinm come to light that Steel got out be cause of Judge Brumm's remarks at the meeting of the county's party leaders last week. The meeting was held behind closed doors. It lias leak ed out that Steel took umbrage at Brumm, who "bossed" the party in this county, notwithstanding that Wil liam Wilhelm, the defeated candidate for Supreme Judge of the party, stands high up in its counsels in State and nation. In Rpite of the clashing of the cym bals by the Democratic machine press and the piping of the Harrisburg Pa triot, Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer; who Palmer Is is running for Senator, Roasted in does not appear to he Congress as assiduous in attend ance on his duties at Washington as some assert. Speaking in the House yester day, Representative Humphrey, of Washington, said: "If a man wants to go away during the heated term, I do not know that he can be criticised. We are being kept here by the dictation of the White House, and looking on the Democratic side of the chamber I note the distin guished gentleman from Pennsylvania, Mr. Palmer, is absent. He so seldom comes on the floor that the new mem bers here are not fa,millar with his dis tinguished appearance. He is another White House favorite, but all these pets of the teacher are not here at tending to business. has become of the leaders by White House dictation? They are out preaching the doctrine of repudiation. They are tellipg the peqple what a grand thing it is under the British flag and domination of the transcon tinental railroads, under the direction of the White House, to repudiate their platform. They are telling the rest of us to stay here the rest of the summer while they are looking after fences." 1 FOUTICAL SIDELIGHTS —The mint appointment in Phila delphia appears to be making some what of an odor in Democratic cir cles. —Detrich ought to have had a wire less connection with the Imperator. —Pretty nervy for Democrats to try to fuse with Bull Moosers on Con gress when the Colonel says Wilson is no good. —PJnchot has not yet answered the .Colonel's stand for Perkins. —Wonder If Detrich will follow the Colonel If they read him out -of the party with Perkins. —No one seems to have any more doubt that there is a good referendum clause in the third-class ctty act. • —The remarks In Washington yes terday about Palmer's absenteeism were not given much space in the Patriot to-day. —Berry can give Palmer some points on long distance job holding. —Adam Joyce Is now being boosted for the Philadelphia mint. Up-State Democrats are demanding to know why It must go to Philadelphia. —The Democratic machine bosses appear to have trouble getting their mejx to think allk*. OUR DAILY LAUGH ) ( I "«5 5s I see why you get t B'veup my so mad, X only 1(1 f wu, ! kissed your .cheek. a 1 .? I' KS y ' I She lt's the aln t smoked a the cheek of the cigaret or Played thing that I ob- marbles for '«* to. A Sure \V«y , " t * erl % 11 "You say you George T. married Fred to ou ? h t to be satls get rid of him?" flfd: I save you a B Yes—he got to nickel because be an awful nuis- >'° u caught me ance hanging kissing your sis around the house ter. *»-_* every night, I Johnnie Most hardly ever see fellers give me a him now." n Tt 6 ' } aln 1 v ® r . y flattering ter Bis when you only think it's worth a nickel. IT CANT BE DONE By Wing Dinger Every day there are words that we use In our speech, which to write would confuse. Now there's two, to and too, But pray tell how would you Write "There are in our language three tuse? Just a moment, I've only begun; Now we'll have just a little more fun. On® and won you can say. But please show me the way To write "there are two ways to spell wun." Don't be peevish and slam shut the door, I've another that surely will floor— For, fore and four sound Just the same, but I'm bound I can't write "there are three styles of foor.' And on this one I'd like to get straight And relieve my poor brain of much waight. eight sound the same, But I'm sure I can't frame In writing "there's two kinds of aight." NEW oVPM!I E^n IFrom the Telegraph of June 26, 1864.] Meet the Enemy Marietta, Ga„ June 19. The enemy made a demonstration this morning from Big Shanty towards Canton, on our right, and were met by a division of ours, when they precipitatetly with drew. Our army is being daily rein forced by slightly wounded and eonval valescent troops. Sheridan at Jlanaver Richmond, June 20. Sheridan is re ported at. Hanover to-day, moving towards James river with the remnant nf his command. The capture of the entire party is confidently anticipated. THE HOBBLED SENATE A lamentable state of feeling has grown up In the Senate. The attitude of some of the members toward pend ing legislation is one of fatigue. These Senators recognize that their opportu nities of usefulness are limited to pruning away excessive evils. Feeling that as regards the main issues they :an do nothing but submit to pres sure and ratify the program forced upon them they are beginning to clamor l'or a hasty release from their humiliating plight.—New York Sun. SUBMARINE BELLS FOR LIFEBOATS [From the Engineering News.] Submarine signal bells as equipment for ship lifeboats are suggested by the experience of a lifeboat of the burned transatlantic steamer Columbian. This boat drifted for two weeks directly in the path of transatlantic liners, and her occupants saw several steamers, but were unable to signal them. There were fifteen men in the boat, and eleven died before rescue came. Had ships been equipped with submarine signal receiving apparatus and had the drift ing lifeboat of the Columbian been equipped with a submarine bell, it could have signaled passing steamers a long distance away. It is stated that the sound from a submarine bell rung by hand can be detected at a distance of several miles. AN EVENING THOUGHT Verily I say unto you, Except ye turn, and become as little chil dren, ye shall In no wise enter into the kingdom of Heaven.—Matt. 18:3. WHY IS THERE FAILURE? Government StußK»'r» Because It it A friil,l to Stand lip [From the Outlook.] Business is disorganized. New en terprises are not begun; pld enterprises are curtailing their business; willing workers are laid off; every morning newspaper reports the cry of the un employed; dividends are reduced or passed altogether. The crops are prom ising; conditions demand prosperity. But business is not good; prosperity is conspicuously absent. Why? Mexico does not want war; the United States does not want war; and yet we are in a state of restrained war with Mexico. American property has been looted; scores of American 3ltlzens have been killed. The Ameri can flag has furnished no protection; for protection Americans have fled to English and German flags. The hos tility of the Mexicans to the United State* is increased; their respect for the courage and efficiency of the Unltett States is diminished. That our re ations with England, Germany and spaln are not more seriously strained is due to their unparalleled patience. I'hat we are not embroiled In actual warfare with Mexico is due to the tindly offices of our South American iclghbors. No one wants war, and yet we are on the edge of war. Why? We have had the responsibilities and luties of sovereignty thrust upon us n the Philippines. We have fulfilled :hose responsibilities and performed :hose duties with notable success. We lave substituted law for anarchy, and i domestic government partially rep •esentatlvg for a foreign government wholly despotic. We have subdued lostlle tribes, made life and property lafe, banished epidemics, established a jubllc school system, built good roads promoted .commerce and industry, and furnished'protection to a helpless peo ■BAOOCAkTEKI Tmm^ SHIRTS SIDES 4k SIDES JUNE 26,1914. F k 2(