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WEDNESDAY EVENING, JTNE 9
It is better to keep children to their duty by
a sense ef tea or and kindness than by fear. —
Terence.
BRYAN'S RESIGNATION
SECRETARY BRYAN has at last
done something. It was the right
thing, but at the WTong time.
From the very moment he entered the
Cabinet It was apparent that he was a
misfit in the chair of Secretary of
State. His appointment was In pay
ment of a political debt contracted at
the Baltimore convention when he was
instrumental in the nomination of
Wood row Wilson for the presidency.
Bryan's selection for this Important
place was the first error of the Wilson
administration and the President is now
paying for it by the embarrassment
ot' internal differences at a time when
the government should be presenting
ji solid front to the outside world. It
is a heavy price, but the recompense
of Bryan's elimination will go a long
way toward balancing the account.
Bryan's whole course as Secretary
of State has been painful to Americans
who remember the distinguished men
who preceded him and the high place
accorded American diplomacy under
their administration. At the very out
start he signed a message addressed to
Henry Lane Wilson, the then ambas
sador to Mexico, congratulating him on
the pursuit of a policy In direct oppo
sition to th" views of-the President,
and when called to account demanded
the head of an efficient subordinate
upon whom he found it convenient to
place the blame.
Immediately thereafter, with affairs
In Mexico near the breaking point, the
Secretary of State started off on a long
lecture tour in company with a band
of Alpine yodlers, this Joint attrac
tion playing one-day stands for forty
consecutive days. During his absence
the heavy* diplomatic work of the de
partment was performed by the coun
selor and in some cases by the Presi
dent himself. In 1913 he repeated his
Chautauqua lectures and in 1914 op
posed the President when the latter
Insisted upon sending the fleet to Vera
Cruz. During the trying period that
followed he again permitted the sit
uation to be handled entirely by Coun
selor Moore, who resigned rather than
perform double duty, and the present
counselor, the well-trained and efficient
Mr. Lansing, has performed the bulk
of the labors of the department since
that time.
Bryan has been a figurehead or an
obstructionist In the Cabinet ever since
be entered. His only constructive
efforts have been In the negotiations
of peace treaties between the United
States and some seventeen other na
tions. These have been both praised
and condemned. Worthy in purpose,
diplomats of experience have pro
nounced them of small practical value,
ajid in the light of recent occurrences
in Europe many others have come to
that view of them.
The resignation of Bryan at this
time is unfortunate only because Ger
many and other foreign governments
may misunderstand. They may see In
it not the severance by a mere Indi
vidual of the tlea that hare held him
very loosely connected with official life,
hut may get the idea, that the Presi
dent does not have the support of the
entirp nation in his present course.
There should be no room left for doubt
on this score. The President has the
backing of men of all parties. Ameri
can rights must be upheld at this time
at *n coats, or we must stand ready to
submit to the tyranny of whatsoever
international bully may In the future
car* to ehaTtonre them. In his action
Bryam stands almost alone, as un
popular &• he once was popular and
ss dismal a failure as ever stepped out
of a Cabinet. At any other time his
going would have been hailed with
universal delight.
Tf it were not for the advent of the
cherry pie we might feel worse about
the passing of the shad.
STATIC COLLEGE EXCTOBTON
r ■ VHE excursion of Pennsylvania
J_ farmers to State College, in
which thousands from Dauphin
and surrounding counties are partici
pating. is entirely without precedent in
the hietory of agriculture In Pennsyl
vanls. For some years it has been the
custom of State College to provide a
special week of instruction for farm
ers and their wives during the Christ
mas holidays, hut never before dur
ing the season when corn U to be cul-j
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
tivate.d and when hay harvest Is ap-|
proachlng has there heen any such in
terest in the affairs of the State's one
agricultural training school.
The wtd» Interest that has been
aroused in this excursion well illus
trates the recognition that is now ac
corded to the scientific principles gov
erning soil productivity, cattle breed
ing, stock raising, egg production, but
ter making and the marketing of farm
produota. Never before has the farm
ing element of Pennsylvania been so
keen for self Improvement as now.
Those who partioipate in thi» excur
sion may not be able to acquire any
great amount of knowledge of a tech
nical nature by one day spent at col
lege, but they can very .well acquire a
j general idea of the methods used by
it he experts there and compare with
[them the faults of their own farms.
| The Spring season is at Its height and
| the State College farms are In splen
| did condition for demonstration pur
poses.
Then, too, the relations between the
college and the farmers, already close,
will be made closer, as they should be,
and no doubt the foundation for a col
lege course will be laid for more than
one farmer boy whose father has been
up to this time doubtful as to the ad
visability of expending money for agri
cultural training.
General Obregon is said to have ob
tained considerable military success by
use of the "hollow square." Probably
modeling his tactics after the condition
of his stomach.
COMPLETING IMPROVEMENTS
THE three Republican city coun
cilmen who voted yesterday to
postpone Indefinitely action on
the resolution to discharge on July 1
all of the engineering force employed
by the Board of Public Works on im
provement work were Justified In their
action.
It was clearly brought out that the
Improvements, now In their final
stages, should be completed by the
engineers who are familiar with all
the details. Furthermore, the city en
gineer reported that if .the force is
dismissed and the work transferred to
his department he would be compelled
to hire the engineers so discharged,
because they are best qualified to su
pervise the completion of the con
tracts. Thus an adoption of the reso
lution would have served only to
transfer the expense from the Board
of Public Works to the office of the
city engineer. No saving would have
been accomplished and considerable
confusion and embarrassment would
have resulted. It would have been
purely a case of robbing Peter to pay
Paul.
Perhaps the percentage of engineer
ing expenses is high, but that, as the
Board in its verycomplete and concise
statement shows, may not be a fair
basis for judgment. Th« city has
saved by the employment of expert en
gineering advice hundreds of
sands of dollars and contractors have
been held to strict accountability. It
is true beyond dispute that the con
tract prices for work done In Harrls
|burg have been uniformly low and the
quality of the construction is unusual
ly high. AH this mtfst be charged up
in favor of efficient engineering meth
ods and the saving thus effected de
ducted from the sum expended for
this purpose.
Men familiar with the work should
be in charge of the closing up of the
contracts. Thousands of dollars are
involved and if the final settlements
were to be made by persons who had
not every detail of the several im
provements at their command it
might be easily possible for the ctiy
to lose far-more than the compara
tively small amount that will be neces
sary to keep the engineers at work
until the middleiof August, by which
time, with favorable weather, the whole
Improvement scheme will have been
completed.
Who said the rain had spoiled the
strawberry crop?
GET Ol'T
IF you know what is good for you,
get out into the open these days.
Take a walk along the River Front
or through Reservoir Park or 'Wild
wood—any place, just so you are out.
The air is filled with the bloom of
Spring, the atmosphere is as tranquil
as the fragrance of a rose and the
sky is as blue and as gentle as It was
when in your boyhood days you used
to lie on the grass and watch the sum
mer clouds float by. After the rain
and the cold of the past few weeks the
change is unusually pronounced.
There Is a great uplifting influence
In a beautiful day. Tou will be better
morally, spiritually and physically for
a walk in the open, your mind free
from the cares of the work-a-day
world and open to a smiling Spring.
Every flower preaches a sermon,
every bird sings Its song of praise. All
one has to do is to open his soul to
the joys of nature. He is a narrow soul
who prefers his easy chair these days
and evenings to a tramp amidst the
luxuriously growing things that make
all outdoors a riot of color and frag
rance.
At any rate Mr. Lansing will see to It
that Bryan's absence will not be greatly
felt in the State Department.
DEMOCRATIC CRISIS IMPENDS
THE resignation of Secretary Bryan
from the Cabinet promises to
be of far less Importance inter
nationally than in the affairs of the
Democratic party. In the judgment of
many, the Democrats are now facing
a crisis somewhat similar to that with
which the Republican party was con
fronted when Taft and Roosevelt fell
out. In many respects, politically,
Wilson holds the same relationship to
Bryan that Taft held to Roosevelt,
and Bryan bids fair to become even
more radical than ever, while Wil
son has displayed recently a tendency
toward that conservatism usually to
be observed in second term candidates
bent upon bringing: as many diverse
elements to his colors as may be pos
sible.
Dispatches from Washington pre
dict that the break between the Presi
dent and his Secretary of State will
project Itself far Into the politics of:
the future and result in as wide a j
preach In the Democratic party as the:
circumstances that led to the Repub- j
llcan split In 1»1J, and with Just as
disastrous results from a party stand
point. The President and Mr. Bryan
were thrown together by political ac
cident. Their views were never In
harmony. in many instances their
opinions were at wide variance. When
the President paid his political debt
by naming Bryan to head hla cabinet
the press of the country united in
wondering how long the relationship
I would continue. Nobody expected
that it would last throughout the four
jyear term. '
j It would not be surprising If Bryan
:were to become a candidate In oppo
sition to the man whose nomination
he was largely instrumental In pro
curing at Baltimore. If so, the end
of Democratic administration at Wash
ington will become even more appar
ent than it Is now.
"The Ford factory Is turning out
I.HOO cars a day." says a new* dispatch.
We Judge that two-thirds of them come
to Harrisburg.
When, after the war. the Olympian
games are resumed, it would not be
surprising to find trench digging com
petitions as one of the numbers on the
program.
I EDITORIAL COMMENT I
The Man Artnnllr Stops to Think
I From the Chicago News.]
♦ President Wilson is expected
ix.r- I sht and courageous thing.
[?' r, K a general feeling of satisfac
man e he 13 not a hair-trigger
Slightly More Important
[From the Springfield Republican.]
The country is not so vitally Inter
ested in what Colonel Roosevelt would
do as in what President Wilson will do.
Wasting Thefr Energy
[From the Philadelphia Record ]
ir "SI 0 ?* * h ° ul « K° to Flanders
lr they wish to tight.
Maybe He Meant Furlongs
[From the Cincinnati Times-Star.]
to ,d°ubt weather bureau
statistics, but It becomes absolutelv i
necessary to our independence of mind 1
X«i? n - forecaster Devereaux says that 1
onl\ j,.4 inches of water fell in May. He
must mean fathoms.
Value of Veto Power, When Used
[From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.]
More salary-raiser bills killed by the '
Thus „ is brought to naught
lators hopes of some graftuous legis-
Tng'a One Accomplishment
Ai. the Topeks Capital.l
•nr... 0 "/ can be said for Tug
.V he * aved Mrs Watts from
being an old maid.
One of the Donieadr Atrocities
[From the New York Press.]
The woman who thinks the atrocities
wsr * le Just to ° terrible for any
thing will soon go away for the sum
mer and leave the cat with a jar of
condensed milk and no can opener.
CLEAN DRINK OR NONE
[From the Phila. Evening Ledger]
When the liquor men of Pennsyl
vania banned the cabaret they took
a big step toward the salvation of
their Interests in this State. But when
they declared 'that these breaches of
the license laws were responsible for
the local option and general prohibi
tion waves." they told a half-truth not
so creditable to their perspicacity.
There are a dozen other sinister fea
tures of the liquor trade which have
raised this fierce distrust. The caba
ret is only one. If the men who have
invested their millions in the brew
houses and distilleries of America
want to save their bacon, thev must
make a clean sweep of the adventi
tious corruption of their business.
WORLDLY WISDOM
[From the Philadelphia Bulletin]
—The person with a charitable dis
position can find a lot to put up for.
—A small boy doesn't have to saw
wood to develop an appetite.
—lf a man has any good points ad
versity is apt to bring them out bv
the roots.
—A married man's idea of heaven
Is a place where his wife's folks won't
bother him.
—This is a strenuous old world at
best, but the other side of it seems
to be a little more strenuous than
usual this Spring.
—Untidy women are always ask
ing for a pin to fasten something on
with.
ZEPPEI.IX AND AEROPLANE
[From the New Tork Sun]
The achievement of Lieutenant
Warneford of the British navy in de
stroying yesterday morning between
Ghent and Bruges a Zeppelin with a
bomb thr.iwn from his monoplane bears
a strong- resemblance to the torpedoing
of a dreadnaught by a submarine on
the surface of the sea. The advantage
which the small aeroplane has over
the great dirigible Is the ability to
move more rapidly and climb faster.
Also the aeroplane presents a small
target to the dirigible's guns. So the
submarine is not only a comparatively
small but a submersible target to the
guns of the battleship, and one tor
pedo discharged from the elusive foe
may send the dreadnaught to the bot
tom.
In the thrilling contest between the
monoplane in Belgium and the Zep
pelin. Lieutenant Warneford rose
swiftly in his easily handled machine
to a point directly over the bulk of
the sluggish dirigible and dropped
bomb after bomb, until the sixth at
tempt was followed by an explosion and
the dreadnaught of the air collapsed,
falling to the earth a blazing wreck.
The British aviator seems to have had
the luck of the daring, for after he
had lost control of his monoplane and
the machine turned a somersault, he
righted It, descended into the enemy's
lines and then rising again made his
escape.
What Lieutenant Warneford accom
plished can be done by other British
aviators, whose numbers are becoming
legion. Plainly the way for England
to deal with the Zeppelin menace Is
always to have a fleet of aeroplanes
ready for a raid of tile enemy by day
or night. As a Zeppelin is visible at
any height it can be reported by tele
phone when descried approaching the
coast. Provided the defending aviators
are prepared to ascend with a supply
of bombs, the enemy dirigible should
have a poor chance of returning to its
base from a raid.
EFFECT OP RHiID DIETARY
[From the Sprinsrtield Republican.]
Boiled thistle leaves are said to be
ono of the main ('"ms on Albanian
menus under present conditions Some
one had probably been eating some of
these when Prenk Bib Doda was named.
SENSE AND NONSENSE
The good time will come Motto of
Earl Harcourt.
"I thought Jiggs was going to use
his Influence to get you elected to mem
bership in the club." "He did." "What
happened?" "He's been asked to re
sign."—Buffalo Express.
Ho shines in the second rank who is
eclipsed in the first. —Voltaire.
Jimson "Oh, yes, I knew old Sim
son. He was a »cood sport. He did
a very kind action once for m« wh*n
the clouds were dark and threatening
land the world looked so black." Pim
son "What did hi- do?" Jimson
"He lent me an umbrella."—Boston
I Globe.
HARRISBURG tjHftft TELEGRAPH
TUlUc* IK ,
"f* IKKOfIvCIKUI
By the Ei-Caaunltti^mii
Pennsylvania Democrats were thun
derstruck by the resignation of Wil
liam Jennings Bryan, but there 1b no
question but that they will decide to
stay where their bread is buttered and,
will stand by President Wilson. Bryan
has been accepted by the former gold
bugs because he became part of the
Wilson administration, but the ad
miration and eulogising of him has
been more or less forced, although
furious at times for effect.
It is probable that the resignation
of the Secretary of State will precipi
tate such a condition of affairs in the
Democracy that the meeting of the
State committee to select a'national
committeeman to succeed A. Mitcheli
Palmer will be deferred until later in
the summer. The scheme was to have
It in July, but State Chairman Morris
will decide to wait to hear from the
| people again.
One of the amusing things about the
resignation of the secretary has been
the manner in which the machine
press has denied that such a thing was
possible. Only a few days ago machine
organs declared that people who talked
and wrote that way were scuttling the
ship or else were working up trouble.
It will be interesting to watch the
Dauphin county Democratic commit
tee next week. Herr Moeslein has
declined to be a candidate for re
election as chairman on account of
•advancing age." C. W. Rubendall,
of Millersburg, is a candidate.
| Amonit the speakers at the State
Bar Association meeting is t' be John
O. Bane, prominent Western Penn-
I sylvan la lawyer, who will talk on the
I modern attacks on the governmental
'forms. Mr. Bane was formerly very
! active In Democratic State alTalrs and
is well remembered by many In this
city for the vigor with which he used
to press home his arguments.
—The Allegheny county Washing
ton committee is waiting to see if it is
worth while to keep on the map.
Some of the leading spirits do not
seem to have gotten much satisfaction
out of William Flinn and are inclined
to let things swing by themselves for
awhile at least.
A strong movement for the re
nomination of Judge E. A. Reppert
has been started in Fayette countv.
He Is very strong in that county and
since his appointment by the Governor
has received many assurances of sup
port.
WORLD WILL NOT STARVE
[From the Lewistown Journal!
In the eighteenth century Malthus
foreboded that the world would starve
to death for want because means of
subsistence would soon be overmatch
ed by population. Malthus did not
reckon with scientific agriculture, with
the capacity of an acre of land to pro
duce twice and thrice the ordinary.
Notwithstanding the world's, war, it
looks as if. next Fall, wheat would be
32 per cent, cheaper than it is to-day.
By the use of electric tools on farms
as well as in shops, production is
cheapened, while in use of phosphates
production iR multiplied. Last year
this country produced five times more
farm crops than in 1879. We have
several millions of idle acres capable
of cultivation or less than 20 per cent,
of acre capacity is now under culti
vation.
BORROWED BATHING SUITS
[From the Phila. Evening Ledger]
Every little while some city official
goes clear out of his way to hunt for
trouble. Just now it's Dr. Zlegler on
the danger of strange powder puffs.
He not only tells the vacation girl to
stop using friend Oertie's rice powder
when her nose is in danger; but, once
and for all. he puts the ban on the
botrowed bathing suit.
The motive is all right: but when
will these philanthropic public ser
vants learn that human nature is hu
man nature? Gertie and Amle are
going to trade clothes and cosmetics
to their dying day: and it's quite pos-
Isble that the next world will hear re
marks such as, "Lend me the loan of
your halo-polisher, Emily."
When good Dr. Ziegler says that a
shiny nose is better than lumbago, ap
pendicitis or any of the other myriad
consequences of borrowed powder
puffs, he simply displays his abysmal
ignorance of the eternal feminine. *
HIFI.K THAT SHOOTS
AROUND A CORNER
A rifle that shoots over the parapet
while the user sis in comparative safe
ty in the trench without necessity for
exposing himself to the fire of the
enemy Is a late invention brought out
bv a well-known sportsman and de
scribed, with illustration, in the June
Popular Mechanics Magazine. The
feature of this invention is that the
! rifle is held vertically while the pro
ijectille is fired horizontally. This is ac
complished by a curved deflecting tube,
fixed to the muzzle of the gun. that
changes the course of the projectile
from the vertical to the horizontal as it
leaves the gun. In spite of the enor
mous friction that must accompany this
change of direction, the tube, as shown
Iby actual tests, is not subject to ex
cessive wear, while the effective range
of a rifile equipped with this device is
I between 100 and 150 yards.
Our Daily Laugh
SOME PLANS,
Made any plan*
for the summer?
Tes l'm go
1n g somewhere
NOT FULL
fledged.
\ L ) I hear you'vs
wp'M "Tbd J°' ncd the bene-
As an honorary
WORTH WHII.K
By Will Dinger
Recollect that weather
Not so long ago
When it rained like biases*
Tes you do, I know.
Tou and I were kicking
'Cause It rained so hard
And the joys of Springtime
By the rain were marred.
But when we can go out
Days like this and see
Flow»rs all around us
And especially
All the handsome roses—
It's worth while. I say,
Every now and then to
Have a rainy day.
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
■
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—From Washington Rvrnlng Mir.
r \
RETIREMENT OF SECRETARY OF
STATE BRYAN IS POPULAR
FROM THE PHILADELPHIA REC
ORD
"As a champion of pacific principles
Mr. Bryan, by resigning rather than
sacrifice them, will commend himself
to the advocates of peace at any price,
who are not just now conspicuous for
their numbers. But as a patrotic
American he has placed himself in a
very difficult position."
PITTSBURGH GAZETTE-TIMES
"It is a great relief to the people of
the United States and President Wil
son. It puts Mr. Bryan just where he
belongs. He never was fitted for the
place. He has not filled it with dig
nity, ability or satisfaction, nor yet
with fidelity. For the first time in his
life in a position of genuine responsi
bility, he has been but a cheap imita
tion. He has been largely a sordid
seeker after jobs for 'deserving Demo
crats' of the Bryan breed, and for the
gate receipts of country fnirs, side
shows and Chautauqua circuits."
CHICAGO HERALD
"Probably for the first time in his
public career, William J. Bryan will
find the people of America practically
unanimous in favor of something he
has put forward —his resignation from
the Cabinet."
KANSAS CITY JOURNAL
"Coming as a culmination to events
of remarkable importance in our rela
tions with Germany, this ruction in
our government cannot fail to have
a very marked effect abroad—more
so, perhaps, than the circumstances
really warrant. If Germany takes
consolation from the incident by con
struing it as an indication that the
American people are not 'solidly be
hind the President' it will be wholly
without justification. Mr. Bryan as
Secretary has failed dismally to
measure up to the standard of states
manship traditional to that high of
fice. Thus far. It Is currently be
lieved. in all the bigger affairs of the
Administration he has been a drag
and a hindrance to the President
rather than a help, and it may not be
too much to say that President Wil
son is to be congratulated that the
opportunity for securing a really able
adviser was not longer delayed."
CLEVELAND LEADER
"The resignation of William J.
Bryan as Secretary of State is a dis
tinct and important victory for strong
and thoroughgoing Americanism. It
Is a triumph of the upstanding and
vigorous elements in the national life
of this Republic. Mr. Bryan steps
down and out because he has not
agreed with the President and high
er members of the Cabinet in regard
to the controversy with Germany and
the stand taken by the Administra
tion. He retires because he found
himself hopelessly out of harmony
with the sentiment and convictions
of the great majority of the people of
the United States."
RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH
"It is Wilson, not Bryan, who strikes
to-day the note to which the hearts
of the American people respond, and
with which it beats in general sym
pathy. The nation is with him. If
here and there are dissenting voices,
they are drowned in the great surg
ing chorus of national approval. In
the support that has been tendered
the President there is neither party
nor section, class nor creed. East
and West. North and South, it is uni
versal ant| all-embracing. At this
crisis of our fortunes, in the presence
of this menace to our happiness, our
■afety and -our honor, even Mrfc
Bryan must share national aspira
tion, oppose resolutely every further
invasion of our rights—or stand
aside."
WORCESTER. MASS., TELEGRAM
"Uncle Sam gracefully accepts con
gratulations. Colonel Bryan has re
signed from the Cabinet. He does not
like the last note prepared in answer
to the German latest. The Democratic
fog about Washington Is a little thin
ner with the Nebraskan Colonel eli
minated. The act of resigning was
one of his best. The movies have
not caught anything so good for a
long time. Mexico will applaud be
fore long, and that will make it
unanimous."
BUFFALO COURIER
"The resignation of Secretary Bryan
will no doubt be regarded and be
treated as a more or'less sensational
event. For this reason it Is regrettable
that It should take place at a critical
stage of our relations with Germany
and with Mexico. But at a time like
this all Americans, men of all parties,
should put behind the temptations to
mix up domestic politic? with foreign
relations. And why should a dis
agreement between a President and
a Secretary of State over a question
of mere method in dealing with a
I foreign country with a view to use
-Mr. Bryan's words, 'of reaching »
•JUNE 9, 1915.
peaceful solution of problems,' be re
garded as a reason why the people
should hesitate for a moment to sup
port their President, whose lot it is,
again to quote Mr. Bryan, 'to speak
officially for the nation.' At this time
the wise, patriotic course to pursue is
to stand by the national spokesman."
BOSTON GLOBE
"Mr. Bryan's move will doubtless
do much to impress upon the Ger
man Foreign Office the seriousness of
the situation in that it causes a most
unusual disruption of the American
Cabinet. His resignation shows how
paramount an issue in America is the
dispute with Germany. Mr. Bryan's
move will strengthen the President's
hands. At a critical time he will have
a united Cabinet, which will assist him
upon the course on which he has
started without annoying him with
impractical suggestions."
BALTIMORE AMERICAN
"Without paying too much atten
tion to Mr. Bryan at this time, it may
be said that the country will feel a
sense of relief to have the affairs of
his portfolio definitely in the hands
of Mr. Lansing and the head of the
nation relieved from a halting and
undeterminate Influence in the pre
mier place in the Cabinet. His re
tirement crystallizes yet more firmly
the American sentiment for the policy
of the American President."
ST. PAIL PIONEER PRESS
"The resignation of William Jen
nings Bryan is an event of great mo
ment and one with comparatively few
parallels in American history. In spite
of the unpopularity Mr. Bryan has
achieved during his incumbency, it
is somewhat unfortunate that the
break is any way founded upon dif
ferences of policy which have an in
ternational bearing. To close ob
servers of Administration affairs the
retirement of the Secretary of State
was 1 merely a matter of time."
THE NEW IUGGAGK RILE
Mary has a little trunk,
She likes it not a bit.
For everywhere that Mary goes
She has to value it.
—New York Sun.
R. S. Lansing's Post
Now Most Important
HHhI
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ROBERT 8. LANSING.
Counselor to the State Department
and one of the foremost authorities on
international law in the world. Mr.
l-anslng has been most conspicuous in
the work of framing President Wil
son's second note to Germany on the
submarine warfare being waged by the
Kaiser's navy. He has been in con
stant consultation with the Chief Ex
ecutive. discussing the proper choice
of phraseology and terms included in
the second note and attended the en
tire session of the Cabinet meeting, in
which the President's advisers con
fined their attention solMy to the Ger
man controversy. This latter is an ex
tremely unusual occurrence, as none
but the Cabinet officers and the Presi
dent attend such conferences except
when some momentous question is un
dw consideration. -«
Ebattng Chat
Some Idea of the amount of paper
used up In th® dally operation of the
State government can be gained from
the remark by Superintendent Samuel
B. Rambo, of the State Capitol, that
the contract let for removal of waste
paper from the "Hill" will aggregate
a ton a week. For many years the
State used to throw away Its waste
paper and old books for junk. Per
sons who would cart away stuff could
sometimes make a handsome stake
out of reclaiming the paper and sell
ing the books. But a few years ago
Mr. Rambo made some calculations
and figured out that Father Penn was
losing a pretty penny. So he started ,
selling the waste paper. Pretty soon
it became so valuable that balers
were installed in the basement of the
Capitol and the waste paper which
often used to be carted off by Janitors
aad other persons was carefully col
lected and put Into bales. It waa
nothing uncommon to get eight or
ten hundred weight of paper from the
letters, envelopes, old documents and
other sources which figured in the
every day business of the Hill and the
waste paper business rose to magnifi
cent proportions when the legislature
was in session and bills by the score
were thrown away every day. Per
sons who saw the throwing of paper
about the legislative halls in the clos
ing days of the session were not aware
of the fact that all of it was carefully
gathered up and put Into bundles and
that these bundles were sold. It is es
timated that the paper sold by the
State brings In close to $2,000 every
year. This is quite a tidy sum for
what a good many people did not even
consider as a by-product.
• * •
Prominent among visitors to the
city yesterday was Alexander Graham
Bell, the Inventor and perfector of the
telephone. Mr. Bell came from Wash
ington on an automobile trip. He was
accompanied by Mrs. Bell and they re
mained here over night, leaving this
morning.
• • •
Not as many senators and members
of the House have been coming here
to look after legislation in the handn
of the Governor as usual. In years
gone by legislators were numerous
while the Governor was working, hut
Dr. Brumbaugh has established the
rule that he will see no one except
those for whom he has sent and he
stays at the Mansion while visitors go
to his office. Everyone is at liberty
to file briefs, and judging from the siza
of the mail many are availing them
selves of the privilege.
The bridges erected over Front and
Second streets by the Cumberland Val
ley Railroad are being ornamented and
will be attractive additions to that part
of town. They are being topped with
fences of concrete work and the panels
are taking form. The operations of
the railroad are attracting much at
tention and every afternoon and even
ing there are numerous visitors to
Mulberry street to watch the progress.
Flag Day exercises which are to lie.
held at the Reservoir Park under
auspices of the Elks next Monday will
be part of a general observance of the
day throughout the country and if the
weather is fair Harrisburg will have a
fitting ceremony to recall the Flag Day
exercises of last year. It will be re
membered that a year ago next Mon
day the flags were transferred from
the State Museum to the rotunda of
the Capitol after most impressive ex
ercises. It was one of the memorable
days for Harrisburg.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "
—Dr. J. X. Morgan, the new presi*
dent of Dickinson, is one of the coun
try's prominent Methodist laymen.
—R. W. Tener. brother of the for
mer Governor, will become a suburban
resident of Pittsburgh.
—Judge A. B. Reid, of Pitttsburgh,
has gotten after constables who do not
obey the court. One constable has
been ordered for trial.
—J. K. Blake, prominent In the
Spanish War Veterans' state organ
ization, Is a prominent Wilkes-Barre
man.
—Congressman J, M. Morin, of
Pittsburgh, is taking a prominent part
in the convention of the State Eagles.
j DO YOU KNOW ~
Tliat Harrisburg has not had as
many conventions this year as
usual?
AX EFFECT OF WAR
TFrom the Pittsburgh Sun!
That one effect of the European war
will be to create a new market for
American harvest machinery is Indi
cated by the reports that t;ome from
Italy. It is said that the harvest there
Is sure to be large and that it cannot
be handled 'ln the old, laborious and
slow hand way, for there are not
enough people left on the farms. ft
Is estimated that in Italy alone 2,600-
000 reapers would he required As a
result machinery will have to he em
ployed, and the one place In which the
different kinds can be procured Is in
the United States. Once the natives
of Italy learn how to use machinery
and their prejudice against It Is re
moved it will mark the beginning of
a mighty change in southern European
agricultural methods.
As is well known, the farm work
now not only In Italy but in the Ral
kan states. In Hungary, Croatia. Dal
matla. in southern parts of Austria, a*
well as In many sections of France,
most of the farm cultivation and the
crop harvesting is done by hand. The
ground Is prepared by hand, men and
women engaging in the work, and the
growing crops are cultivated by hand,
as is also the final harvesting. Finer
fields or better examples of Intense
farming cannot be found anywhere
than in parts of the countries named.
There an» or rather were enough peo
ple to prosecute the work, for things
were done leisurely and everyone was
content. Now, with most of the able
bodied men at the front and not enough
women at home to properly handle the
crops, something extraordinary is re
quired. and that is the forcible Intro
duction of American harvest machin
ery. Once tried and mastered, the old
style farming is doomed, .and that will
he a good thing for Europe—and Inci
dentally for America.
ABOUT HARDY I.AI'DRR
Harry has many popular
songs, but none more popular than "I
Love a lassie.*' The story of how it
came to be written Is worth relating.
Harry was leaving the stage door of
a provincial theater one day, when he
was handed a letter that had Just ar
rived from Ills wife. "A lady's hand
writing," said the messenger. "I sup
fiose you love the lassies. Harry?"
"I'm fond of them all," laughed Mr—
Lauder; "but there's one lassie I love.ifll
The sentence stuck In his mind: and
as he wended his way home, he kept
humming the words, "I love a lassie"
And later on these words blossomed
Into one of the most popular songs
that have ever been sung before the
public.
CIVIC CLUB
Fly Contest
June 1 to July 31
S Cents a Pint
Prizes of ill. $2.50 and mgll
H.IH) ones ,
duplicated by Mr. B«a Stron*®