8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established iSji PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PniKTING CO. E. J. STACKPOLB v President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER • Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Publlihed every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 218 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at <rntiCT< , jL six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post OfTlce in Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dally average for the three ★ ■aonths ending May 31,1815. 21,577 * Average for the year 1914—28,218 Average for the year 1913—21,377 Average for the year 1912—21.175 Average for the year 1911—18,851 Average for the year 1910—17,496 SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 5 The reason some men do not succeed is be cause their tvithbone is uliere their backbone ought it be. —Anon. GERMANY'S OFFER THE offer of Germany to pay for the loss of the Gulflight is no more than an unduly deferred recognition of a perfectly apparent obligation. It seems to be nothing more than an effort to justify the home government with the German people and to confine as much as pos sible the demands of President Wil son's note to the Lusitania incident. So long as the German foreign office thought it could Ignore or delay ac tion on the Gulflight Incident and "get sway with it" no move was made There would have been none at this time had not Germany become sud denly awake to the understanding that the United States is in no mood for trifling. The Gulflight was torpedoed in the English channel five weeks ago while ■bound from Port Arthur, Texas, for Rouen, France, with oil. Fortunately rhe was able to make shore, but two of the crew were drowned and the cap tain died next day. The incident oc curred in broad daylight while the Guflight was displaying the American flag at mast-top. Germany pronounces it an "unfor tunate' accldent" and offers "to fur nish full recompense for the damage thereby sustained by American citi zens." That Is all very well, but it does not give back the lives that Ger man recklessness blotted out and it convicts the German government of the very crimes of which President Wilson complains in the case of the Lusitania. Furthermore, who will be lieve that the German submarine crew did not see the American flag until the very "moment of firing the shot?" And how are we to know that there •will not be many more such "unfor tunate accidents?" The whole course of Germany on the seas In this war has been as out rageous as her behavior in Belgium nnd the Gulflight admissions merely serve to strengthen the case civiliza tion has made out against her. There must he no international pardon board for this convicted criminal among the nations. The full penalty must be ex acted In one way or another and the whole country will rejoice that Presi dent Wilson has concluded not to re cede one Inch from the position he at first took. Something must noon he done by the municipal authorities In the matter of regulating the size anil use of heavy motor trucks on the paved streets of the city. If the destruction of the asphalt highways Is to follow, as seems now quite probable, then it will be necessary to specify the weight of trucks and the size of load that will be permitted. Much damage has already been done and It is said still larger trucks are about to lie put Into service. SAVING HERE are a few brief stories for you. young man, who are won dering how so many others are Having; money while you are putting nothing aside from your weekly salary. "Give me the young man with SSO saved and I will show you a young man who is started on the road to success. I cannot impress on em ployers too strongly the wisdom of encouraging their employes to econo mize and to save in little as well as In big things," said a great merchant prince who began life as an errand boy and climbed to the presidency of the same business. "Be prepared," the motto of the Boy Scouts, is a good motto for any body who would get ahead in the world. Few men can achieve wealth on a salary alone, but the habit of thrift, tf persisted in, will make even the •mall-salaried man well off in the end. Innumerable Instances might be cited. Nearly every great man has been an economist. Every rich main has had to be one in the beginning of his career and habits acquired early in life usually continue to the end. Frederick Weyerhauser, the lum berman. whose fortune was estimated as greater even than Rockefeller's, de clared that the surest way to make money is to save money. Marshall Field, the great merchant, «ald, "If you want to succeed, save. SATURDAY EVENING, This is true not so much because of the value of the money which the young man who saves accumulates, but because of the infinitely greater value of the system and organization which the practice of saving intro duces into his-life." Mr. Field was an exemplar of the habits of thrift to the end of his life. One of his early habits was never to ride when he could walk. If he was not in a hurry he always walked and the habit persisted. A wealthy New York man who owns real est&te worth $20,000 de clared that this property represented what he had saved by shaving him self and blacking his own boots. The story is told of one Octave Glrard, of Ware, Mass., who retired well-oft at the age of 70, not long ago, after working at manual labor most of his lifetime and never re ceiving more than $1 a day. He said he was able to put aside a comfortable sum for his old age because both he and his wife believed In economy and practiced it rigor ously. "Steadfastness of purpose and steady work is the. secret of saving," said Mr. Glrard. "We paid cash for everything we bought. We lived on simple fare, and although we had no luxuries, we had all that anyone needs." A few men have made great wealth almost over night—but very few—and even these founded their fortunes on a "nest egg" saved from small earn ings. It is easy to save SI,OOO after you have saved SIOO. Try it. "THE OPEN MIXD PRESIDENT NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER, of Columbia Univer sity, in his address to this year's graduating /class, urged the young men and women to be at great pains to maintain open minds. He cau tioned them especially against the closed mind; the mind "for which all the great issues of life are settled once for all," and which is known in fitmiliar speech as the Bourbon mind. Then he said: There is another type of mind equally to be shunned. To be sure, fnls type of mind is not closed, for unfortunately it is quite open at both ends. This is the type that remembers nothing and which learns nothing. To it the name of no historic family hk i yet been given. There is every prospect, however, that some contemporary name may, through contnnt associa tion with this type of mind, yet become as distinguished and as fa miliar In the speech of our grand children as the name of the House of Bourbon is distinguished and fa miliar to us. Dr. Butler may not have had a particular name in view when he said this, but the description he gives suits to a nicety the word Progressive. Progressiveness itself is a fine thing. No mind can be open, fair, optimistic and healthy without a generous amount of it. But that movement In American politics which is known by the name Progressive, and of which Roosevelt Is the prophet, is quite another thing. Some few of these Progressives—the hard-headed poli ticians with axes to grind—are not handicapped by minds which, to bor row another phrase from Dr. Butler, "consist wholly of openings," but those -who take seriously the plat forms and campaign utterances are. These people welcome with open arms any proposition that promises a change from existing, conditions. They never stop to be sure that It is not inherently absurd or dangerous. "Give us something new" is the constant cry of the typical open-at-both-ends minds, and the saddest feature about the whole thing is that they never learn that many of the "new" things are but the repudiated nostrums of earlier ages, while others are the il logical and impracticable schemes of dreamers. \ MR. SHAW'S VISION KF. SHAH, Chinese Ambassador to the United States, speaking before the New York Chamber of Commerce the other day, gave more than a hint of what is passing in the minds of Chinese statesmen regarding the future of that great country. Mr. Shah evidently has a vision of the time when China shall be the leader of the East, relatively as powerful in that quarter of the globe as is the United States in this. He foresees a strong rivalry between London and New York for supremacy as the money market of the world and with the Panama Canal in operation and exchange possible on a liberal basis in New York he urges the estab lishment of regular steamship lines between Atlantic coast ports and China. Best of all, he pleads for a continuance of the "open door" policy in China, and the perfect good will and friendliness of the Chinese to ward the United States is well set forth in this rather remarkable por tion of an exceptionally strong ad dress: If we wish to open our door to any country or any people in in dustry or commerce at all, we should like to open our door to the American poople first and best. We would like to open this door, but the doorway may be blocked by some extraneous forces which we may not be able to conquer for the time being. We hope that since we are opening our door wide open to you, if you desire at all to have any communication with us, let us Join hands and maintain the open door to you. Furthermore, we are trying to pursue another policy which is better than the open door policy, and that is the open heart policy. We mean that we want to have our heart open to you in busi ness transactions. In developing In dustry and commerce and In the establishment of intimate and cor dial relationship and friendship be tween your great country and ours. This open heart policy cannot be blocjted or hindered, and there will be always a thorough pasageway through which the friendly feelings and the cordial relationship will flow from your country to our coun try and from our people to your people. We sincerely hope that through this visit of ours we will not only see tremendous possi bilities of trade and commerce be tween your great republic and ours, but we shall also see tremendous opportunities for the two greatest republics of the world to Join hands to stand for liberty, equality and universal peace." Here we have more than an intima tion of what Chinese leaders have in mind, and who shall say the vision ia beyond fulfillment. Dr. C. Newton Dubs, of this city, who has spent more than ten yearf among the Chinese and who is one of the best versed men in the world on China and its posslblll ties, says that the time la coming, and at no distant date, when China will have to be reckoned with as a great world power. The progress of that mighty nation since the revolution that overthrew the ancient ruling dynasty and resulted in the establishment of a republic has been the wonder of the age. China is grappling with tremen dous problems and solving tflem with little bloodshed and ki much more orderly and sensible manner' than has marked the course of many of the so-called "enlightened" countries In recent years. Once well organized, developed and equippvd, the Chinese nation will he a powerful friend or a formidable foe, and evidently her own statesmen realize this as well as any body, perhaps better. At all events here Is a friendship offered that ought not to be carelessly thrown away. In the end It may prove much more help ful than the closer relations we are trying so desperately to establish with South America, depirable though these beyond question are. "It becomes prudent men to remain quiet so long as they are not injured, hut courageous men ought to exchange peace for war as soon as they have been wronged; when they have brought the war to a successful Issue, peace may be made with the enemy; but no one ought to be uplifted unduly by suc €ess in war, nor should any submit to injustice because they are unwilling to sacrifice the calm delights of peace."— Thucydldes. Cutting up asphalt streets to put down pipes that should have been laid previous to paving Is not only wasteful from the city's standpoint, but it shows a woeful lack of management on the part of the company, which Is thereby put to the expense of repavlng as well as of excavating for the pipes. The news that one woman stood oft a whole company of Mexican troops for half a day will give more confidence to those who have been fearsome of what might happen to American troops in case of Intervention. "The renegade Plutes have hit the trail again," says the Baltimore American. The same Issue notes that "Billy" Sunday Is spending his summer on a western ranch. The German capture of Przemysl is something like fighting for and getting an empty pork barrel with half the staves gone. Just to add variety to the news, it is announced that an English Subma rine has torpedoed a German transport. "This fickle June weather" Is the way an exchange defines It. Fickle, noth ing. Faithless is the word. | EDITORIAL COMMENT | Americans who contemplate a tour of Europe might find it safer to pass the summer In Mexico.—Chicago Dally News. In a nutshell, the* proposal Is to change the freedom of the seas from the vertical to the horizontal.—Wash ington Post. It looks as if von Tirpitz might suc ceed General Weyier in American af fection.—Columbus Dispatch. On account of possible slides and for other reasons the fleet's trip through the Canal may be postponed.—Wash ington Post. You see. Germany, it isn't as if you wouldn't still have the British Navy for your submarines to practice on.— Boston Transcript. If the Kaiser wants to treat the President's note as a scrap of paper, the United States will be right there with the scrap.—Philadelphia North American. In discussing the sale of munitions it should be borne in mind that Uncle Sam's shop is open to all comers, but he maintains no delivery service. l ndianapolis Star. To say that the I.usitania had "ample warning" Is a misuse of language: what It bad was a threat that it would be sunk without warning. The two things are as different as can well be.—Spring field Republican. The sinking of the llier is equiva lent to a naval defeat, and perhaps one result of the incident will be the col lapse in America of faith in England and greater regard for the German Empire.—Vienna Neue Frele Press. PREPARING FOR PREPAREDNESS fFrom the Kansas City Star.] Senator Hoke Smith told the visiting Chhiese commission In Washington that the next Congress will probably make large naval and military appropri ations. "If you should see us preparing this (coming* winter for more battle shins than ever before, don't be alarm ed." Senator Smith told the Chinese. Indeed the Chinese would not need to be alarmed at that forecast, even If they thought we were going to war with them. Preparedness takes time. Congress will not meet (in the ordin ary course of events* until next De cember. Naval "preparedness," which is going to begin to prepare nine or ten months in the future will be com pleted about three years off. The quickest a battleship lias ever been built in the United States Is two years and two months. Preparedness Is the shield and buck ler of a peaceful but strong nation. Preparedness cannot be prepare/! for too quickly nor kept too constantly at the 100 per cent, standard. WHAT, IS ENGLAND DOING? FFrom the Kansas City Times. 1 Sir William Van Horne , sneeringlv says that President Wilson probably in the end "will apologize to Germany." This Briton with the Dutch name is like many of his kind who keep thous ands of miles from the seat of war and strive to goad the United States Into fighting Great Britain's battles. An English newspaper asks, "Now what will America do?" Germans are killing a thousand Englishmen every day. The real question Is, what is Great Britain doing? SUPPI.Y AND DEMAND By Wing; Dinger It's funny how the prices soar On things much In demand. And ones demand falls ofT, how they Will drop to beat the band. East Saturday I went to buy For Decoration Day Some peonies, and ten cents each Is what I had to pay. To-day we have In our yard Of flowers a good supply, So none In market this A. M. Was I compelled to buy. Curious to know what peonies Were selling for to-day, I asked their price of one woman, And to me she did say: "Well, I was asking three cents each. But mercy, sakes alive. No one will buy them, so you may Have them at three for Ave," HARRISBURG flfSjjftl TELEGRAPH CK 'PtKKO^tcanXo. By the Ex-Commltteeman Lieutenant Governor Frank B. Mc- Clain declared last night In Philadel- I phia that reports to the effect that he would lead a revolt against the Gover nor inside of the Republican party were absurd. He declared that there has been some stories built out of his announced intention to address the Bucks county Republican committee on June 19 which had no foundation and that the engagement had been made long ago. The lieutenant-governor has on sev eral occasions spoken his mind on the relations between the executive and legislative branches of the State gov ernment, but people acquainted with him know that Is his frank way of putting it and that he had said things right in the presence of Governor Brumbaugh. iJast night Mr. McClain made this statement of his position: "I have accepted an invitation to address the Bucks county Re publican committee at its meet ing on June 19. My- theme will be' Republicanism.' Any suggestion that 1 am identified with any re volt against the State Administra tion is simply absurd. It is true that 1 have differed with the Gov ernor on some matters of legisla tion, yet that clearly is my privi lege. It in no way disturbed our personal relationship. Some of the legislation with regard to which we differed is now on the statute books and our duty is to obey and uphold this legislation and give it a fair trial. If it shall be demonstrated that these laws are oppressive after the experience of a fair trial of them it will be easy to have them amended or modified at the next session of the General Assembly." Ex-Governor Edwin S. Stuart and Mr. McClain were speakers at the ban quet of the Textile school alumni in Philadelphia last night and Mr. Mc- Clain made some comments upon ten dencies of the times in his speech. He said in part: "Too much hysteri cal idealism, too muqh sentimental energy expended in suppressing labor of both young and old, that could have been profitably employed in de vising ways and means to furnish more work. We have had humanitarianisni run mad, and now social justice, as it is called, contemplates rusts in idle ness to be followed perhaps by 'rot in vice,' rather than the honest toil of our fathers, which, even though it was ten hours a day or more, did not prejudice their health or that of their offspring, and did create a citizenship certainly as high in morals, vigorous in vitality, and useful in endeavor as any that will grow from the new freedom.' " • —People who follow politics in Pennsylvania profess to believe that Auditor General Powell's activity In legislative matters just now and his issuance of a statement on the finances at variance with the estimates made by the appropriations committee chair men is' preliminary to embarking on a campaign for the United States sen atorship. Unlike State Treasurer R. K. Young, Mr. Powell never left the Republican party and his friends as sert that while he has been aligned with William Flinn in many moves, he is a Republican and can .enter the lists for senator if he desires. It is intimated, however, that the auditor general will take his time to look over the field and will not make any move unless he can get the Governor to sup port him. —Lebanon county Republicans are commencing to sit up and take notice of the situation in regard to appoint ments on Capitol Hill that are filled and have been filled by Lebanon peo ple. They will make an effort to re tain the position filled by the late A. R. Houck, but it is believed about the Capitol that the Governor will place it somewhere else. —The Allegheny County Bar Asso ciation yesterday declined to! take cognizance of the charges brought against District Attorney R. H. Jack son. The bar association considered that the charges were not matters for its Jurisdiction. —An interesting battle will be wag ed for the election of a judge in Wyom ing county next Fall. Judge Terry is a candidate for re-election and there are several men announced in opposi tion. Jefferson county will also have a lively battle for judicial honors. —Governor Brumbaugh's action on appropriation bills being awaited with the greatest Interest because of the effect upon institutions in interior counties. The Governor plans to take up the charitable appropriations next week. —Representative E. E. Jones, who has had charge of the "dirt road" leg islation for several years, was here to-day looking after legislative mat ters. He is mentioned as a candidate for senator in his district ■ next time. —lt appears to be a foregone con clusion that Edgar R. Kiess, of Lycom ing county, will decline the public ser vice commissionership, if he has not already done «o, and remain in Con gress in deference to wishes of the leaders of his district, the advice of personal friends and the demands of his own businejis interests. The re ports regarding Mr. Kiess have re vived the stories that Emerson Col lins. of Williamsport, will he selected for the place. The Governor, however, is keeping his own counsel as usual and the politicians are guessing. THE STEEI, COItPORATIOX TNew York Sun.] The United States Steel Corporation is the greatest of our great industrial units, the foremost example of that centralization anil aggrandizement of functions which lias Inevitably attend ed tlie development of modern business methods. So also the Government suit to dissolve this great concern, the suit begun by the Taft Administration near ly five years ago in the United States District Court at Trenton, Is the su preme and perhaps the final repressive effort of that period of legislative vagueness and economic mistakes and political folly during which the Sher man anti-trust act has been emploved In attempts to eradicate the acknowl edged evils of big business bv eliminat ing the bigness Itself of business. Our Daily Laugh DANCING MEN IN DEMAND. JflQ We never knew what to do with ,v grandpa before. *5 Yr'yy And new? fc/Ck He'll oe a big SVa 1 help to us ao- fjljt I cially. We're hav- jM I >ng him taught MH all the new dance step*. § FASHIONABLIB. Hubby (scath ingly): You get narrower every Wifey (c om placently): Yes, I have the fash* lonable figure. » THE CARTOON OF THE DAY DISCONCERTING, TO SAY THE LEAST! *, y | —Reynold* In tkr Portland OrrKonUi. ANECDOTES OF CHAS. FROHMAN DROWNED j BELASCO and Frohman were sepa rated a number of years before they made the joint production of "A Celebrated Case" this Spring. At the opening they sat in the same seats from which they had watched "The Girl I Left Behind Me," which Mr. Belasco wrote for the opening of the Empire. After the third act the audience called for them. "You take the call," said "C. F,." shrinking back. "Not without you," was Belasco's reply. "But I have never gone before the curtain in my life." "But I can't without you." "I am the proprietor of this the ater," returned Mr. Frohman, "and you must do as I tell you." Mr. Hayman said to his "chief" one day: "Do you know you are not doing right in sending money to all the people who write and tell you they are in hard luck? They may be im posing on you." "There may be some that are im posing," Frohman answered, "but I know that there are others in want, so t can't afford to make a mistake." On one of the rare occasions when Frohman granted an interview he was asked: "What is the difference between metropolitan and out-of-town audi ences?" "Fifty cents," he said. Mr. Frohman was not fond of lux uries. When he brought an automo bile several years ago it browe <Jown in Fifth avenue, and when the chal feur was cranking it the car lurched forward with a severe shock. Mr. Frohman made no comment until sometime afterward, when he said to his companion: "I guess automobiles are for aris tocrats." He sold the machine within a very few days and never bought another. One of the manager's most precious souvenirs was an unframed panel photograph of. Clyde Fitch. It always stood on a marble mantel near the mahogany table where Mr. Frohman worked. The particular reason for his regard for it was a clever compliment embodied in this autograph: "To C. F. from c. f." * • * Six years ago there was a rumor that Mr. Frohman would retire. He denied it in these words: "in actual funds X am not rich BOOKS AND MAGAZINES" Frederick W. Taylor, though dead, inay be exerting an appreciable Influ ence on the present European war. Mr. I Taylor's publishers have just received by cable from London a large order for "Principles of Scientific Manage ment." A recent review in the London Spectator of "Principles of Scientific Management" emphasized the value of Mr. Taylor's discovery of the proper re lations between the intervals nf rest and work, and this and the action of the British Government in pressing In dustries and labor for the supply of munitions of war lias created a de mand in England for the book. And the managers of a factory in Switzer land wrote a short time ago for infor mation concerning the theories put forth in this hook, as they desired to install the Taylor system. Margaret Cameron, author of "The Golden Kule Dolllvers,' is just starting for a trip to California, to her old home at Oakland. As she acknowledges that she spends from "six to ten hours a day" at her desk, week in and week out, it would seem that a vacation were about due. Mme. L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone, whoso recently-published book. "The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life," told of the varied experiences of this observing American at various European courts, will spend the Spring in Copenhagen, where she has been for some time. In "The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life""she tells of arranging and staging In Ber lin the new opera of a young American, and securing the patronage of the Kaiser for It. Recently she has re peted the experience to a certain ex tent. for she has rehearsed another opera, this lime to raise money for the war charities. Hamlin Garland, whose latest novel, "The Forester's Daughter," was recent ly published, was the guest of honor at a luncheon In Chicago, given by the Cliff Dwellers Club. He was its first president, continuing for six years, and at the luncheon was given a loving-cup by his associates. Mr. Garland has now begun his residence in the East, his first work being the filming of one of his novels In New York. EARNINGS FALL OFT TFrom Philadelphia Record] Interest and dividend payments next month will be $6,000,000 less than a year ago, is the computation of The New York Journal of Com merce. The dividend payments will be about $12,000,000 less, chiefly due to the passing of the Steel Corpora tion common dividend, and the in terest payments will be nearly $6,000- 000 more, on account of new bond and note issues. It is an interesting detail that the railroad dividends will fall off less than $1,000,000. Street railway dividends will decline about half a million, which is a rather high proportion of the total. The steam railway and traction dividends com bined for the six months will be about $8,000,000 behind last year, a reduction of a little more than 4 per .cent JUNE 5, 1915. enough to retire. All I possess is the little money I have added to the $46 I had when I produced 'Shenandoah.' In this country you have to be a mil lionaire before you can retire—or properly conduct a theater." Mr. Frohman had an engagement to dine after a performance with a dis tinguished foreigner. The manager liked nothing better after a hard night's work than a stack of wheat cakes, and his guest, who no doubt had expected an elaborate meal, sat down to an after-theater supper con sisting of "two stacks of wheats,'* coffee and corn muffins. Mr. Froh man watched both the cakes and the muffins being cooked in the window. Mr. Frohman was asked to explain his success. . "Because," he answered, "I am glad to spend as much energy in producing a single song as a whole play." During one of Mr. Frohman's visits to London he bought a mechanical tiger and used to enjoy watching it crouch and spring. Some of his guests were frightened by the toy, and one young actress fainted. Rich ard Croker came in one day and asked Mr. Frohman how to work the ma chine. "Ha!" laughed "C. F." "Fancy showing the boss of Tammany Hall how to work a tiger!' • • » The Frohman anecdote which will probably live longer than any other is that of his words to Miss Kita Jollvet. the actress, just before the Lusitania sank: "Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life." To a man who rushed up to Mr. Frohman and Sir Arthur Pinero when they were dining at the Princess res taurant. calling loudly: "Hello C. F.! Hello, Pin! I'm Hopkins!" Mr. Froh man replied: "Ah, Mr. Hopkins! I can't say I remember your name or your face, but your manner, is deliciously familiar." Charles Dillingham, ordered to hurry to New York once when he was a subordinate to Mr. Frohman, sent this telegraph message: "Washout on line; will report as soon as possible." Mr. Frohman promptly sent the fol lowing reply: "Never mind your wash: buy a new shirt and come alongsut once." ITALIAN WAR MINISTER IwRM GENERAI, ZUPELLI General Zupelli will have control of the war department of the Italian gov ernment during the war with Austria and Germany. The king has taken an active part In the management and it Is not known how much authority he and Premier Salandra will leave to the head of the department. A VOICE CRVIIVO IX THIS WILDERNESS And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him. Who art thou? And ho confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked, What then? Art thou Klias? And "fie said, I am. not. Art thou that prophet? Anil he 'answered. No. Then said tliey unto him. Who art thou? that we may give an answer to tliem that sent us. What sayest thou of thveelf? He said, I am the voice of one crying In the wilderness, Make straight the way of the I.ord, as said the prophet Ksaias.—John i, 19 to 23. Bmrotg (Eljat While many, of the acts of the leg islature signed by Governor Brum baugh have attracted wide attention and are of far reaching effect It Is doubtful If any of the bills approved has stirred up as much comment as one wTiich was announced as signed yesterday. TJlis bill prohibits un naturalized foreigners from keeping dogs. It was presented by a legisla tor from the coke regions and was designed primarily to supplement th# statutes prohibiting foreigners who have not become citizens from hunting. It does forbid I#ie .killing of any game by such persons and another law, en acted this year, forbids them from Ashing. Some of the foreign bom folks have, through the recklessness of a few, spoiled hunting and tishing in many parts of the State. Unable to comprehend the laws they have shot at anything and thrown dynamite into streams. This has led to restrictive laws, the arrests of people responsible having failed in numerous instances to check the disregard of law. The new act forbids foreigners to keep dogs. The people back of the bill con tended that in some parts of the State there were more dogs than members of a family In a house and game suf fered as well as sheep. This condi tion has prevailed more in the coal and coke regions than about here, although there are some foreign settlements where dogs are a nuisance of the very first class. What the dog act will do will be to require the killing of thou sands of animals. Every constable and every warden is charged with the duty of enforcing the act and it means that there will be raids on foreign set tlements and no end of trouble. The tines for violation to go to the game propagation fund and all dogs killed are to be reported to the game commission. Steelton and some of the nearby places where there are for eign settlements will probably see some battles over dogs. One of the interesting things con nected with the overthrow of the gov ernment suit against the Steel Cor poration was the manner in which HarMsburg people turned out to he holders of the stock. The stock was largely held in this vicinity half a dozen years ago, but most people got the idea that it had been sold. The news of the dissolution brought out a good many smiles. Some of the business before the Public Service Commission this week was interesting because it was so trivial. For instance, it was required to pass on a lease for four poles and for th© renting of office room in a building of a public utility. Another piece of business called for approval of an agreement to allow a pipe to be run across a bridge. The failure of the Legislature to enact bills recom mended will force the commission to handle much of the same kind of business in the next two years. Effects of the European war are being shown at the offices of the rail roads here in the increased demand for information regarding tours in this country. Many people have been ask ing about Canada and the western states and San Francisco is benefiting, or rather will benefit, at the expense of Germany. A good many people have been asking about tours through the State as well. George H. Biles, who was yesterday appointed Second Deputy Highway Commissioner, has lived In this city for so long that he is almost a Harris-j burger. He has been connected wiftf the State Highway Department for about a decade and has many friends in the city. He is also related to a number of Harrisburgers. Among visitors to Harrisburg yes terday was Superior Court Judge George B. Orlady, of Huntingdon county. The judge, who is as well known to people here as though ho was born a Harrisburger, will be re elected this Fall. He was one of the original judges named to the bench. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —E. M. Herr, of the Westinghouse Company, says that what this country needs is more shops to South America. —Herman Eoeb, Philadelphia di rector of supplies, asks the modest sum of $717,000 for supplying depart ments this year. —A. B. DeSaulles. of Bethlehem, is prominent In the athletics of that sec tion. —Theodore Voorhees, president of the Reading, was sixty-eight yester day. —Harry C. Carey, president of the Bill Posters Association, comes from Philadelphia and is well known here. —William H. Donner. chairman of Cambria and Pennsylvania Steel, will take a trip to California in July. —The Rev. W. A. Jones spoke at the unveiling of the "Penn Grant" tablet in Pittsburgh. —F. W. Sapper, Erie hanker, has been elected secretary of the State Bankers' Association group No. 7. —Controller E. S. Morrow, of Pitts burgh, calls attention to the fact that Pittsburgh will celebrate one hundred years of cityhood next March. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg used to ship many tons of Iron to Pittsburgh? HIS MISTAKE He moved up to the city. When lie'd made his little pile: Built H house and had a garden. Dressed his girls in city style; He read the city papers, And he ate the city food. His wife joined half a dozen clubs, , His boy became a dude; But he left his religion in the country. He took a dab in polities, The city kind, of course; Ho bought a high-powered auto, It was faster than the horse. He had a box at opera And a lot of gilt-edged stock: Built the bank right in the renter Of the city's finest block. But he left his religion In the country. The church just round the corner Was of other brand than his; So he visited the movies Or' speht Sunday at his "biz." He knocked the city preachers And he laughed at Sunday laws, While his boy went to the mischief And his girls were lost —becaus* He had left his religion in the cour>;«>, And when he took his Journey « To the place where all men sta?»£v He walked up to the Golden Gate As though he owned the land. "I know you're from the city," Said St. Peter, with a sigh: "And I'm sorry I must tell you This is once you can't get by. For you've left your religion in the country." —Rev. Oeorge S. Fulcher, in Christian Herald. CIVIC CLUB ' Ply Contest June 1 to July 31 ft Cent! a Pint Prizes of $5, $2,150 and several • 1.00 ones
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