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TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 25.
GOOD FOR CAMP HILL
CAMP HILL evidently has imbibed
the spirit of public improve
ment that has done so much in
recent years for Harrisburg. It is re
ported that the paving loan of $30,000,
which has been before council for
some time, for the purpose of provid
ing funds for the paving of Market
street, will be> passed with small oppo
sition at the special election on June 12.
Automobilists know that the high
ways of the small towns of Pennsyl
vania are almost Invariably in worse
condition than the country roads. In
this Camp Hill is no exception. In
deed. there are very few towns in
which the main street is In such de
plorable condition as in the 'cross
river suburb. But the case is not
hopeless, since the people realize the
need of improvement and are setting
about to accomplish it.
Camp Hill is one of the prettiest
suburbs within many miles of Har
risburg. It has fine homes and spa
cious lawns, but few of the thousands
of people who pass through there now
have any time to look for anything
but the bumps in the road. The town
has been long famous for its splendid
sidewalks. Add to these and its other
attractions a paved street through the
beart of the borough and the place
will become known from one end of
the State to the other.
Possibly, also, the enterprise of
Camp Hill will bestir the State High
way Department to steps looking
toward the proper repair of the road
between Camp Hill and Lemoyne
bridge. The property owners of the
township are still paying State aid
taxes for its construction, but so little
has been done to keep it up since it
was built that it is now in as had con
dition as before It was improved and
is rapidly nearing total ruin that will
necessitate an expenditure of thou
sands of dollars for reconstruction
from foundation up.
There is to be heard much commen
dation of the force of employes at the
city pumping station for the care they
exercise and the interest shown in
making that one of the most attractive
spots in the city. With the completion
of the wall on the river side of the sta
tion there will be still further improve
ment.
PREPAREDNESS MEANS PEACE
SECRETARY OF WAR GARRI
SON'S address at the Mohonk
conference and the statements
of President Hibben, of Princeton, and
that of President Hadley, of Yale, all
indicate the trend of sentiment in this
country toward preparedness on the
part of tiie United States for any
eventuality. We are a peaceful na
tion, but that does not argue that we
Bhall be unprepared for war. Prepar
ation in a republic like ours is the
most effective guarantee of peace.
Unless we be ready for anything that
may transpire we are likely to invite
trouble infinitely more serious than
anything that might otherwise occur
in the event of international contro
versy.
The sentiment of the people is now
decidedly In favor of a preparedness
which will assure a wholesome respect
for our flag and our national rights
everywhere. This form of prepared
ness must manifest itself in a strong
navy and an army commehsurate with
the needs of our enormous interests at
home and abroad.
There Is no disposition to place a
chip on our shoulder and go out hunt
ing for trouble; but there is an in
creasingly vigorous demand for prepa
ration that will safeguard the na
tion against such conditions as are
now devastating Europe. Sanity is
not confined simply to a peaceful at
titude. We must be prepared for the
national defense and effective prepa
ration will almost certainly eliminate
the very danger that our ultra-peace
advocates f^ar.
There is throughout Europe a grow
ing respect for American ideals. There
Is no longer, except in certain impe
rialistic quarters, a contemptuous atti
tude of indifference to us and the no
tion that we are simply a nation of
money-getters Is giving way to an ap
preciation of the generous impulses
which control our national policies.
Many of our foreign-born citizens re
alize better than any others of our
population how sincere we are in our
feeling of nelghborliness toward the
other peoples of the world.
Perhaps nothing is so striking as
Showing the changed attitude of many
of tfeft old-world countries toward
' TUESDW EVENING.
America as a recent poem by Edmund |
Rostrand, author of "Cyrano de Ber
gerac" and "Chanticleer" and one of
the most celebrated of the literary
men of France. This poem is really
an apotheosis of the "Star Spangled
Banner." Harvey M. Watts has writ
ten for the Philadelphia Public Ledger
a story of this poem which tells how
the Kaiser endeavored to get the Amer
ican flag to float to the breeze in favor
of Germany, but failed in the attempt,
even though he tried "to act and dress
and behave like an American." Sir.
Watts says:
This fantastic poem is really a
tribute to Ajnorlcao ideals and
presents us to Europe In a way we
have never been presented before—
as a people to whom the world can
turn for Justice, as a people
have a true appreciation of the
higher rights and wrongs of hu
manity. It is fitting that this
tribute so deserved should come,
too. at a time when In Belgium, for
instance, the emblem of the United
States has become almost a sacred
fetish. Floating from the front
of relief automobiles and above
relief depots, it has been saluted
by a grateful people there, and
some of the Incidents that have oc
curred in connection with the al
most idolatrous devotion oj the flag
have been heartrending. Women
have kissed it and have held their
children up so that they might
touch Its sacred folds, others have
knelt down and prayed before It
and for what it represented; asylum
and sanctuary and a inercv and
charity unparalleled In the history
of the world.
It will not be forgotten by those
who have traveled through Europe
that American Institutions have been
an inspiration to those beyond the j
seas. There are two statues of Wash
ington in Europe, one in Paris, erected
by the school children of the United
States In appreciation of the Statue of
(Liberty in the New York harbor, and
the other at Budapest, erected by
grateful Hungarians out of consider
ation for the kindly treatment of
their countrymen In the United States.
There is also at Prague memorials
erected by distinguished Bohemians to
show their appreciation of our institu
tions and ideals. The "Star Spangled
Banner" was carried at the head of a
procession of sixteen hundred ath
letes in honor of the American victors
three years ago in the same city.
Surely the American spirit is spread
ing throughout the world. While
we may be Intentionally misunder
stood in diplomatic exchanges it is
certain that the sincerity of our na
tional attitude toward other nations, as
demonstrated in Cuba and China and
Belgium and elsewhere over the globe,
will be recognized by the masses of
the world.
But while we must maintain friend
ly relations with the other countries,
we must not forget that preparedness
for the national defense Is. the only
way to insure peace and respect.
More power to the Motor Club of Har
risburg In its determined effort to sup
press the reckless driving of automo
biles through the streets of the city.
This organization of automobile owners
realizes that unless there is some im
mediate improvement in the traffic
situation, the municipal authorities will
be compelled to adopt most drastic
measures.
THE FARLEY RESOLUTION
PITTSBURGH is very properly op
posed to the Farley resolution
now in the hands of the Gov
ernor calling for a commission to in
vestigate the need of a branch of the
State Capitol in Philadelphia.
With the revenues of the State at
low ebh and the needs of government
constantly Increasing, with a Capitol
improvement under way here and the
necessity near at hand for the building
of an addition to the present Capitol,
the Farley resolution is at this time
especially ill-advised.
It is true that there are and will be
always certain offices of the State gov
ernment in Philadelphia. So there
are in Pittsburgh. It is not likely that
Philadelphia would be content with a
building costing much less than a mil
lion dollars. If such a building for
Philadelphia, why not one as well for
Pittsburgh? And why not for Scran
ton or Erie? The interest on a million
dollars would far more than defray the
expenses of all the offices that will be
required for State purposes outside of
Harrisburg in any city of the Com
monwealth and there Is no call for a
branch Capitol anywhere. Such an
institution would only lead to needless
expense and much confusion.
WHY NOT HERE ?
WE have with us in Harrisburg
this week the distinguished
gentlemen comprising the Su
preme Court of Pennsylvania. They
will sit in the hearing of cases in the
handsome rooms of the court at the
Capitol during a part of the present
week. But why shouldn't they sit at
the seat of government permanently?
There was a time, perhaps, when,
by reason of conditions which no
longer exist, it was necessary for the
higher court to sit in several places
at different seasons of the year or on
different dates, but there is now nt
occasion for holding sessions of the
Supreme Court outside the Capital.
Now that there Is an intermediate
court which hold* sessions at different
places throughout the year, the argu
ment in favor of permanent sitting of
the Supreme Court at Harrisburg is
immeasurably strengthened.
HELP FOR CONVICTS
PUBLIC sentiment favors modern
treatment of the criminals of the
~ State. Instead of mere incarcera
tion, which means loss of health and
every inspiration to a better life, the
present theory of those who have
made a study of criminology is dem
onstrated In the significant fact that
forty prisoners in the Eastern Peni
tentiary at Philadelphia are studying
agriculture by correspondence. Warden
Robert MeKenty believes the number
of students will be largely increased.
Complete lessons, popularized by ex
perts at State College, are sent to the
students, together with sets of ques
tions and answers. Warden MeKenty
then supervises the work of the con
vict students.
This is somewhat In line with the
theory of Warden Francies, of the
i Western Penitentiary, who is now in
charge of the new institution in Center
. county, where It is proposed to com
bine both the Eastern and Western
penitentiaries. Mr. Francies has long
been of the opinion that men who err
and are punished by the State should
not lose all hope of future usefulness.
He believes that they should be helped
and not driven bjyond reform.
ENCOURAGE YOUR BOY
IN the current issue of Farm and
Fireside a contributor advises par
ents In part as follows:
Does the boy want to leave the
farm? Well, whose fault Is that?
Has he been useful? Has he ever
been told that lie is useful?
Has he an interest In the farm
ing? Does he own any live stockT
Does his father help the boy as
cheerfully as he expects the boy to
help him?
To be sure, when I was a boy I
had to work hard and didn't expect
any pay for It. I was expected to
obey my parents. I was up In the
morning to build the fires, and it
was my frost-bitten fingers that un
locked the harn door at daybreak.
But that was a long time ago. In
those days there wasn't a town
every few miles with moving pic
ture shows, street cars, and tempt
ture shows, street cars and tempt-
Things have changed.
The city is full of poorly paid clerks
and mechanics who might have been
prosperous farmers. There is more
room in the country to-day for ad
dancement and happiness than there
is In the city. City people know this.
That is why so many of them are
going back to the land and why Farm
and Fireside and other rural publica
tions are as largely read in town as
in the country. Keep the boy on the
farm and the day will come when he
will look back and bless you. In the
rural section only lies the un
trammeled freedom that our forefath
ers of the fields and woods enjoyed,
EDITORIAL COMMENT ~
The whole world watched Italy for
six months, expecting her to get In the
war any moment, and now the Aus
trians call It a surprise attack.—
Philadelphia North American.
It Is to be hoped that there is no
substantial basis for the report which
comes from Washington that the meet
ings of the Pan-American Financial
Conference are to be made the occa
sion for bringing forward the Ship
Purchase project again. This ill
starred bill, on which so much valu
able time was wasted in the last Con
gress, was President Wilson's greatest
political error, and it would be poor
party tactics to attempt to revive It,
especially on the verge of a Presiden
tial campaign. It was killed once, and
for the sake of the Democratic party
it should be allowed to stay dead.—
Philadelphia Record.
The European war seems to he one
of the circumference against the cen
ter.—N. Y. World.
—Count Reventlow says Italy's en
trance into the war will merely delay
German's victory, but there seems to
be an impression in most unprejudiced
minds that it is calculated to postpone
it indefinitely.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
CURBING THE MEDDLESOME
[ Philadelphia Inquirer.]
All sorts of bills aimed at the Jitney
have been considered by the Legis
lature and have given way to a propo
sition to allow city councilmen to do
all the necessary regulating. The prin
ciple involved is important. It con
cedes that cities are quite competent to
manage their own affairs without the
everlasting interference of Harrisburg.
There is a meddlesome spirit abroad
which is constantly calling for the
passage of new laws that are neither
necessary nor desirable. It is all very
well to go to the State lawmakers when
we lack authority or need to he advised
of our rights, but there is no sense in
running to the State capital for every
trivial cause.
Curb the meddlesome spirit: let mu
nicipalities attend to their own busi
ness. The nearer the city comes to
home rule the better it is going to be
off and everybody in it.
EXPERIENCE NOT WHOLLY NEW
TFrom the Jamestown iKan.) Optimist.l
Tom Thompson, editor of the How
ard Courant. found a wasp in his
trousers pocket the other day. The
pocket was empty as usual and when
Mr. Thompson put his hand into the
pocket the wasp stung him. History
does not record the exact words Tom
uttered on«this occasion, but we'll ven
ture a guess. He said what Mrs.
Thompson has no doubt said a good
many times in years gone by when her
hand would slip into this same empty
pocket—"Stung again!"
EGGS AND OPULENCE
$700,000,000 Presented the Country
Last Year by the Hens
To a lot of Individuals, not how
ever. including the hens, it is pleas
ant to read that the egg crop of the
country during the year past amounted
to $700,000,000. exceeding the average
wheat crop of the past 10 years. Par
ticularly elated is the householder who
finds on visiting the hennery of his
accustomed and trusted purveyor of
fresh laid eggs that the price has gone
up to 65 cents a dozen.
It may be a case of pride to the lit
tle dominicker hen. which lays an egg
a day and goes barefoot, to read that
she is one of the greatest and the
most dependable contributors to the
nation's prosperity. Were it not fdV
her a byproduct of agriculture would
not be the profitable thing it is. The
little dominicker hen is not assertive,
except on occasions. But she knows
full well that her owner would, but for
her, still be scratching his slow and
laborious way about the country be
hind a spavined horse or two. instead
of luxuriously progressing in a car
smoothly propelled by gasoline.
The farmer of to-day is not the
farmer of a decade ago. Farming is
a polite and effeminate occupation
compared with the old order. The
farmer who now goes to town in a
seven-passenger car and has a tennis
court on the front lawn does not face
the hard knocks and the narrow life
that featured the'old order. Existence
in the country, with the better roads,
the social centers, the telephones, and
one thing and another, is not what it
used to be. The farmer, of course,
takes credit for this to himself, point
ing to his progressiveness, his improv
ed methods, his Increased efficiency,
keeping pace with the times. But the
little dominicker hen knows all the
time that if she once stopped laying
for a year there would be a different
story to tell. —Newark news.
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Nervous Prosperity
The only nervous ailment a,
man acquires in pushing his busi
ness is "nervous prosperity."
Most of us are glad to have
an acute case.
One of the best methods of ac
quiring this desirable 111 Is
through energetic newspaper ad
vertising.
Your advertisements stamp
von as a "seeker." They fa
miliarize the public with your
goods and service.
They start the dollars on the
runway to your cash register.
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HXRRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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"P^KKOi^tcaKUL
By the Ei-Commltteeman
—Men active in politics all over
Pennsylvania are sitting up and tak
ing notice of the mandamus action
brought in the case of Judge A. G.
Heck, of Potter county, which raises
the constitutionality of the act re
cently signed by Governor Brumbaugh
detaching Clinton from Elk and Cam
eron and adding it to Potter. Behind
it all is the question whether a legis
lature can alter a district which has
been established by a general appor*
tionment act.
—The Legislature which has Just
adjourned failed to ckrry out the con
stitutional mandate and apportion the
State into congressional, legislative and
judicial districts. A bill was presented
for a legislative apportionment by
Representative Wood, of Indiana, but
it was never heard of. and this subject
does not appear to have figured In any
of the conferences in the Governor's
office on legislation. If a Legislature
can alter one judicial district by ail
act, there would be nothing, contend
some people at the Capitol, to prevent
it from altering any of the congres
sional, senatorial or assembly districts.
It Is one of the most Interesting
questions that have arisen *in the
courts in years and the decision may
have a far-reaching effect in Pennsyl
vania politics and bring about re
apportionment next session.
—Folks at the Capitol are specu
lating what will be the effect on the
political activities of William A. Ma
fiee now that he has been named as a
public service commissioner. It is gen
erally believed that the duties of the
commissionership, which will grow
continually, will keep him so busy here
that he will have little time for poll
tics in Allegheny county. It has been
the expressed desire of Governor
Brumbaugh that the commissioners
should stay here and work, and Magee,
who has a talent for working, will
find plenty of things to do.
—Expectations are that Governor
Brumbaugh will not be in any haste
to fill the vacancies existing in various
State boards and in the State govern
ment until after he disposes of the
bills which are piled up on his desk.
He is receiving numerous applications
and some of them come from men of
prominence who can be of great as
sistance in his local option legislative
campaign next year. The various jobs
created by the Legislature will be filled
gradually.
—Friends of ex-Mayor Charles D.
Wolfe, of Williamsport, have taken off
their coats for him for the Republican
nomination for Congress in the Fif
teenth district, in which Public Serv
ice Commissioner Edgar R. Kiess was
elected last Fall after a brilliant fight.
Mr. Kiess has resigned as congress
man with an excellent record and there
will be a lively battle for his successor
this Fall. Mr. Wolfe is strong in the
district.
—Ex-Senator Ren Jarrett. of Mercer
county, is out for the judicial nomi
nation in his county and has about five
candidates against him. The prospects
are that there will be a stirring cam
paign in that district.
—The name of Walter H. Gaither,
former secretary to ex-Governor Tener,
is being mentioned as a possible ap
pointee to the position of chief of the
bureau of statistics and information of
the Department of Labor and In
dustry.
—James F. Woodward, chairman of
the House appropriations committee,
has returned to his home in McKees
port for a rest and is looking over the
field for next year when Pennsylvania
will elect an Auditor General and State
Treasurer. Mr. Woodward has many
warm friends who will be active in his
behalf if he shall decide to enter the
race for any one of the nominations.
11 appears to be settled that one of
them will go to the western end of the
State.
—The mandamus proceeding in the
Potter judge case is one of the few
instances in which the original juris
diction of the Supreme Court has been
invoked. The situation in the new dis
trict is rather serious. Judge Heck, of
Potter, holds that he cannot sit' in
Clinton county affairs, although the
Legislature joined Clinton to his dis
trict. and Judge Hall holds that he is
not judge in Clinton because it has
been severed.
—T>. E. Long, prominent in legal I
affairs in Franklin countv. is being
strongly boomed for the judicial nomi
nation in that district. Judge Gillan
will also be a candidate and there is
talk of Senator Hoke.
—ln Pottsville yesterday Judge
Koch refused to grant some petitions
for appointment of election officers
contending that the signatures apl
peared to be in the same handwriting
—According to reports which have
reached this city, there will be no fac
tional contests among Republicans for
the important county nominations in
Allegheny county. A get-together
spirit has been manifested.
Our Daily Laugh
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JOHSXY'S C/^R
By Wing Dinger
Johnny had a little car—
The make I do not know—
But everywhere that Johnny went
The car was sure to go.
"Where does John get the coin," folk*
asked,
"Too keep up a machine?
He doesn't make enough to buy
The oil and gasoline?"
And one day when he figured up
Just what the bloomln' car
Was costing him, the answer gave
To John an awful jar.
He tried to sell the car, but found
No one who wished to buy.
And Johnny said unto himself
Another scheme I'll try.
He painted up a jitney sign
And hung it on the hood
And by the curb on Market street
John with his small car stood.
He's hauling folks for Jitneys now.
By night as well as day.
He's paid the mortgage on his house
And eats three meals a day.
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THE CARTOON
"RAVS!"
Prom the Washington Herald
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QUARRYVILLE PHILOSOPHER ON
RURAL MAIL DEMORALIZATION
GEORGE HENSEL, the Quarry
ville philosopher, has this to
say of the demoralization of the
rural free delivery service:
"A great deal of excitement and
righteous indignation has been aroused
throughout the rural districts by the
action of the postal authorities in
cutting down the number of rural
routes and adding many » miles to
routes already too long. The very
laudable purpose of the government
Is to economize, which Uncle Sam fre
quentlj* does by saving at the bung to
leave out at the spigot, and Lancaster
city patrons of that office are soon to
look with awe upon a public building
to be erected which is to cost several
hundred thousand dollars, while a
measly $4,000 a year is to be saved
in the county at the positive inconven
ience and decided disadvantage—nay,
even financial loss—of hundreds of
rural patrons of the postal service.
This process of economizing it not
confined to this county alone, hut
there's no more striking illustration of
its Impracticability than is to he seen
in the lower end, where for years five
rural routes have radiated from Quar
ryville, affording splendid service to
, IN HARR.ISBURO FIFTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph of May 25, 1865.]
Extension of SMreet
South street has been opened from
Filbert street to the Pennsylvania Rail
road.
Repair ('mini
Workmen are busy repairing the
damage done by Spring floods to the
canal. It is not known when the water
will be turned into it again.
Custer In ( My
General Custer and his staff were in
this city yesterday. They are enrouta
t" Join General Sherman, west of the
Mississippi.
Edison's New Batteries
Will Allow Submarines
to Take 100-day Trips
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West Chester, N. J.. May 25.—The
Edison storage battery works here is
busy making cells for the United
States submarine E-2, which is being
refitted, its lead batteries having been
unsatisfactory. Tt is also constructing
storage hatteries for the submarine
L-8, the first government-built subma
rine, which will be christened by Mrs.
John Eyre Sloan, daughter of Thomas
A. Edison.
"Three times a year for four years a
representative of the Krupp people,
acting for the German government,
came to the United States to see what
progress was being made with the
submarine battery, having found the
lead battery not entirely satisfactory.
Mr. Edison, however, would not sell a
set of cells until he was satisfied they
were perfect. This battery was not
perfected until last September, or a
mouth after the war started.
MAY 25, 1915.
the people of that section, and the
several thousand patrons of the two
local hanks who find It convenient to
bank by mail, with a transit of but a
few hours required to land their
money in steel vaults. An order has
been Issued to reduce the routes to
three in number, increase their dis
tance to thirty-two miles, and mail
that heretofore traveled four miles
will now be carried from 50 to 145
miles to arrive at the same destination.
Moreover, the carriers will not be
physically able to cover the distance
in seasons of bad roads. In snow
storms mail will be a curiosity to pa
trons depending upon the Columbia
and Port Deposit Railroad, and the
highways that drift, while the parcel
post carriers will have to increase the
size of their vehicles and the number
ol their horses to command more pay,
of course. The patrons of these routes
are up in arms, and, while some of
them think best to petition for a tsen
eral restoration of the old country post
offices, others would protest to" the
department, and the indignation of the
patrons and their demands will in all
probability find expression in a public
meeting:, which will likely be held in
Quarryville In the very near future."
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
You remember the "veal and 'am pie"
in "David Copperfleld?" But have vou
ever eaten it at Its best? Boil a small
knuckle of veal slowly, until well re
duced, with a bunch of savory herbs, a
small onion stuck with cloves, a piece
of mace, one teaspoonful of salt, one
half teaspoonful of paprika, one table
spoonful of vinegar. and a few whole
peppers. That is the beginning. But
It is all in "One Hundred Lunch
Dishes," by Linda Hull Darned (Scrlb
ners). Also ninety-nine other equally
delectable things to eat. ,
"Daybreak," a new novel bv Eliza
beth Miller (Mrs. Oren P. Hack), pub
lished by Scribners, puts a new face
on the famous episodes of Isabella ana
her Jewels in the Columbus story. It
turns out to have been the funds of
Ferdinand of Aragon and not those of
Isabella of Castile, which financed the
expedition. This, however, should in >
nowise deprive the great queen of her
claim to the credit. She was not
the first woman to spend her husband's
money and call her purchase "mine."
LORI) KITCHENKR LOOKS
TO SCHWAB FOR HELP
Little wonder that the Allies are
short of ammunition when the entire
daily output of the Bethlehem Steel
Company of 35,000 shrapnel shells and
50,000 one-pounders are consumed in
a single day on the firing line.
British ammunition and ordnance
contracts given by Lord Kitchener to
'the Bethlehem Steel Works have risen
[to upwards of $100,000,000. His latest
I order to the big Schwab plant is for
lyddite shells, to be used against the
German trenches in Flanders.
The order is for 1,000,000 shells,
four inches In diameter, to be deliver
ed at the rate of 4,000 a day for the
next 250 days. Captain Scott, a Brit
ish ordnance officer, who is here as in
i spector of the lyddite shells, in the
I making and handling of which he is an
expert, has told of the successful tests
lof sample shells. A mile and a half
away, in a field on a hillside, were
seven cows, scattered over an era, of
about an acre.
A single shell was planted as near
ly as possible in the midst of them,
Rnd it killed them all. So powerful
is the explosive that the crucible steel
shell does not burst Into fragments,
but explodes into an impalpable pow
der. It is said this shell means death
to any living thing within fifty yards
of where It bursts.
The Baldwin extensions at Eddy
stone are being made not primarily
for the manufacture of shells. The
Baldwins have transformed their old
cylinder department in their main
plant in Philadelphia into a machine
shop for shells, and the cylinder de
partment is being removed to Eddy
stone.
Subcontracts for turning the shells
have been "let to nearly every worth
while machine shop in this and other
States, including the Carpenter Steel
plant, at Reading; the ingersoll, at
Easton; the Carnegie shops, at Pitts
burgh, and a number of plants in New
England. After being machined they
are shipped to Redlngton, where on its
proving grounds the Bethlehem Steel
Company has established a fuse fac
tory, where the shells are loaded.
About 1,000 girls, men and boys are
employed at the loading plant. The
force will soon be increased to 2,000.
So as to increase the capacity to
furnish 50.000 shells a day, a new
shrapnel building is to be erected at
Bethlehem.
Lord Kitchener Is in communication
with the Bethlehem plant every day,
cablegrams flying to and fro constant
ly. He Is not an easy boss, and In
one of his urgings to hurry up he said
that all the Bethlehem Steel madfe In a
day often did not la*t his gunners at
the front an hour.
The assertion is made that a sixteen
candle-power carbon filament incan
descent electric lamp at Wllkes-Rarre,
Pa., has been burning steadily without
Interruption for mors than fifteen
years,
Etatttng Ctjat
i 1 1
Üb« of oil on the highways tn the
vicinity of Harrlsburg Is more general
thi» year than ever known before and
State Highway CommlMloner Cun
ningham through his division engi
neer! and superintendents is enoourag
lng it all along the lines. The first
oil used In this section was ten years
ago and strange to say there were let
ters written to the newspapers by men
who complained that their tires and
horses' hoofs were smeared with the
tar and who protested against it as a
nuisance. Probably because of this «.
local prejudice not much waa done in
the way of roads until six years ago
when the work became more or less
general. Lately people in the bor
oughs and townships ha\e been com
pelled to depend upon their own re
sources and with encouragement from
the State, which has improved Inter
vening stretches, they have been buy
ing oil. Last year people In some parts
of the city oiled streets by private sub
scription. but with the extension of
the paved area there Is not so muaih of
that to be done. Tt is prob&bto that
several of the boroughs that fringe
Harrlsburg will adopt the example of
Hummelstown and some other plaoea
and deep down the dust with oil
• • •
It was on this day four years ago
that the Legislature adjourned. The
recent Legislature was a week earlier.
As pointed out by the Telegraph some
time ago the Legislatures have a habit
of adjourning in May.
Some of the locust trees lining roads
to the east of the city resemble huge
bouquets of white just now and it is a
delight to drive between rows of lo
cust trees -with the fine blossoms and
the sweet odor. Out toward Llneles
town and LTnion Deposit and in some of
the southern townships there are
roads which are lined with flowering
locust trees for half a mile or more
at a stretch.
• • •
Harrisburg's newest golf clubhouse,
the structure erected on one of the
hill crests at Reservoir for the Har
risburg Park Golf Club, was complet
ed yesterday and will be formally
opened to the members on Saturday.
Plans, however, are under way to hold
I a "Visitors' Day" probably on Pridav
| so that the public generally may have
a chance to Inspect the splendid quar
ters. The new clubhouse is modern In
every respect and comfortable In all
its appointments. In addition to a
commodious lounging and locker room,
there is a private office for the profes
sional and large sized bath and wash
rooms. One of the prettiest features,
however, is a brick-tiled porch that
extends across the front of the house,
permitting a splendid panoramic view
across miles of rolling country to the
Susquehanna water "gap" at Rock
vllle. Instead of a roof the porch is
covered with pergola-like supports for
growing vines.
• • •
Because the next legal holiday.
Memorial Day, will be observed Mon
day, the regular weekly session of mo
tion court will not be held by the Dau
phin judges until Tuesday of next
week. The change of date caused
some interlining of dates on return
able orders which were presented to
the court yesterday morning, as most
of the lawyers forgetting the holiday
observance next week, wrote "Monday,
May 31" into the blanks.
John G. Johnson, the famous Phil
adelphia lawyer, who was here yester
day arguing in a case before the Su
preme Court, last appeared here in the
"full crew case" which attracted much
attention. Mr. Johnson is one of the
big men of the national bar and his
address yesterday was heard by manj%
attorneys.
• * •
Straw hats and rain in May do not
form the best of combinations, accord
ing of a number of men who notice the
hats worn on the streets. Last month
when the mercury was soaring in the
nineties the straws were becoming
popular a month hefore their time.
Now, the men are busy rumaging
around for the castoff felt hat, and it
feels mighty comfortable these days
the majority seem to think.
• * *
Rainy weather is an old enemy of
the bootblack.
"People don't get their shoes shined
when it rains," one of the boys said
in speaking of the slow business. "I
don't blame them much, but it makes
a big difference to we fellows whether
the sun shines or not." However, the
bootblack's loss Is the clothing store's
gain as the raincoats, umbrellas and
other devices to keep people dry are
selling in the downtown stores."
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~
—R. L. Austin, of the Philadelphia
Reserve Board, is attending the Pan
American Congress.
—Senator Elmer Warner held a big
good toads meeting at Mauch Chunk
and people from all over Carbon coun
ty attended.
—Congressman W. W. Bailey, of
Johnstown, is to be Memorial Day
orator at Barnesboro.
—J. W. Flannery, Pittsburgh manu
facturer, is visiting the seashore.
—The Rev. R. L. Archer, formerly a
Carrick minister and lately minister
in Java, is delivering a series of lec
tures in Allegheny county.
—District Attorney L. H. Rupp, of
41!entown, is getting after the base
ball pools in his home town.
| DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisbur* is noted for
the silk It manufacture*?
1 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR"
L.KM) A HAND
To the Editor of tlir Teletrapli:
There are those who contend that an
people are innately selfish, and with
this contention they prefer to sit bacit
in their seats of indolence and perm t
the selfishness to go on. Hence, py tneir
indifference and refusal to aid
they make of themselves a conspicuous
specimen of their own belief. \\ e would
ask: "Why not help to spread the sPi"t
of altruism by you yourself making a
stab at it? Lend a helping hand some
where. sometlne, to some one.
Do you ask, who Is It wants helpT
Take the sand out of ,yo« r «£*■ iK!
. the dust from your brain and you will
And unfortunate ones on all sides to
whom you can be of service. If:>ou
. have a liberal supply of this worlds
wealth, loosen up! If you can BrJje J""
' tellect, give that, and you will still re
l tain It while some poor creature wTft
profit. If you have not been blessed
with either of these things, then give
. sympathy, a smile or a hearty h®"<jl
; shake. Anyone who cannot give these
1 last 'named willingly and cheerfully Is
what we might term an anachronism—
' he belongs not on this plan? l - , R t
r You want happiness, don t you? But
■ vou will never get it by waiting for It
" to visit you or even by searching for it.
, It will come to you only in so much a»
vou exert effort® to make otheri happy.
. Tumble to this hunch. Whatever vo
catlon you follow, whatever pleasure
i you desire, whatever hobby you may
I have; acquire a hobby that will
smiles on the faces of those who
\ around you dally and those within y°"£
reach wno happen to be less fortunat®
than you. v ERO.
Whnt ■ Corrupt BOM I*
Before the ends there
Is likely to be' a Judicial definition of
political corruption that ought to be
i Illuminating.