10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Establish*d 11)1 PUBLISHED BT THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK POLE President and Editcr-in-Ckitf ■ F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 218 Federal Square. Both phones. Ife.Qiber Amerioan Newspaper Publish ers" Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building. New York City. Hasbrook, Story as a party to the European war has called attention to the fact that for the last few months that country has been an enormous buyer of American products, either in preparation for her own needs during the war or as an intermediary in sup plying material to other European na tions. For nine months ending in March exports to Italy amounted to $137,- 700,000, as compared with $58,800,000 for the corresponding period of 1914. Shipments of wheat alone during this period amounted to 41,370,000 bushels, as compared with 1,400,000 bushels for the same period in 1914. This shows. In a large measure, the reason why farmers have been getting a high price for wheat. Dispa»"hes from Chicago give the Information that British and Belgian buyers have been taking American horses freely and paying as high as S2OO each. Market reports from Kan sas City contain the information that the European war has added enor mously to the value and demand for grain and has provided a market for thousands of horses for which the farmer had little need. It is apparent that although Ger many Is cut off from direct communi cation with the United States, it Is securing American products In large quantities from other sources. For example, in March of this year our exports to Denmark were more than 111,500,000, while for the same month a year ago they were only $1,850,000. Other countries bordering on or adja cent to Germany show corresponding Increases in purchases from this coun try. leaving no room for doubt that FRIDAY F.VENING, goods sold to them find their way to German buyers. It is not alone in munitions of war and foodstuffs that America haa found enormous demand in Europe. A Provi dence. R. 1., concern ships hundreds of thousands of pairs of shoe lacea each wee* to England, and a Philadelphia I factory filled an emergency call for 10,000,000 needles In one lot to Liver pool. Drugs, chemicals and hospital supplies add very materially to the de mand. Automobile exports in Feb ruary. 1915. aggregated $4,807,812 in value, as compared with $2.461,955 in the same month in 1914, an increase of more than 93 per cent. All this not only creates a market for American products, but provides busi ness for steamship companies that necessarily do part of their own buy ing in this country. The French Line alone has within the past three weeks placed under charter thirty-seven steamers to be utilized mainly for the transportation of war freight from the Atlantic seaboard to Europe. But even all these orders for Ameri can products are not sufficient to keep up the price of some commodities un der comjfctition with products given free entry under the Democratic tariff law. week corn declined about 1 cent a bushel, largely on account of prospects of larger shipments of corn from Argentina. Mr. Bryan seems to be trying to make up for lost time in note-writing. BRYAN'S STATEMENT BRYAN has been out of office about three days and he has had two statements published and a third In preparation before the Ink was fair ly dry on the second. It is about time Mr. Bryan learned that the country is tired of his explanations. Possibly there may leak out in his messages to the public some of the secret inner workings of the Wilson administra tion, in which case they will prove in structive, but this Is no time for any body to be antagonizing the President of the United States with relation to the policies of the government as they pertain to International problems. If the ex-Secretary Is afraid he may be forgotten In the excitement of the moment and to prevent auch an awful personal catastrophe must keep him self constantly before the public, let him disabuse his mind of the Idea. Nobody Is going: to forget Mr. Bryan In a hurry. He has been a disturb ing element In American public life too long for that. There Is In his every action indication of an attempt to place himself In a better light be fore the people than that In which the President stands. He is heading di rect toward an open break with the ad ministration. There are distinct signs that he means to oppose the President for renominatlon. Of course, it Is not the part of Republicans to dissuade him from a course that will make their task easier at the next national election, but all good Republicans will regret most sincerely the Injection of party politics into a situation In which the honor and the peace of the whole country are Involved. Mr. Bryan dis plays In his all too frequent statements not only very bad taste but a very poor quality of that ardent patriotism of which he Is endeavoring to pose as the nation's foremost exponent. "The fly-swatting contest opens this week," says an exchange. Wrong. Baldheaded men have been at it for a month. PRESIDENT AND MEXICO PRESIDENT WILSON has shifted his policy with respect to Mexico - 1 BO frequently that It Is difficult for the people to follow him. Upon taking office he immediately declared against Huerta, the recognized head of the only government below the Rio Grande, and at once raised our embargo on arms at the Texas border for the benefit of a faction. Later he sent troops to Vera Cruz, a sort of marching up hill and then marching down again. Still later he made a speech In which he declared "It was none of his business" how long the Mexicans take in choosing their gov ernment; that the country is theirs and the government is theirs; that the "country, which we could crush, shall have Just as much freedom In her own affairs as we have." And finally he sends an official notice to the Mex icans to get together and set up a gov ernment or suffer the consequences of intervention by the United States. Some times It is hard to stand by a President who doesn't stay put long enough for the people to know where he stands. With Bryan out of the Cabinet, our national policies may be more definitely stated and adhered to. Germany will be greatly mistaken should the Bryan episode be interpreted in that country as evidence of a split of the people in their support of the President. Nobody wants war, but the "peace-at-any-price" policy of the late Secretary of State is far from the real attitude of the nation. RAILS AND WAGES CORRESPONDENCE between the "Big Four" Company and the Illinois Central Railroad Com pany brings out in a public way a very close relationship between the pros perity of American workingmen and the tariff on steel rails. These letters show the desirability of purchasing supplies of rails in this country from the steel concerns which give the rail roads the bulk of their revenues. They also serve to rivet the attention of businessmen upon the failure of the Democratic tariff law to raise revenue from Importation of steel rails. The letters bring home likewise to every workingman in Pennsylvania, which is the country's greatest center of coal, coke, Iron and steel, the failure of the Democratic Congress and the Demo cratic administration to protect the In terests of labor from competition of foreign business and foreign labor. Purchasing rails in Canada with half of the rail mills of the United States standing idle Is not good busi ness for any American railroad. The railroads live largely oft the steel mills. If these mills are Idle, railroad business Is slack. It is apparent that the one Is largely dependent upon tint other. The foolishness of buying steel In Canada with such lndustrl&l condi tions at home as we have had for the past year, need not be further demon strated. But there Is another side to this matter. With the Democratic tariff in vogue Canadian workmen have been making rails for American railroads that otherwise would have been manu factured In the United States. Thua the American .workman has been left In idleness, while the National Treas ury has been in no wise benefited, for rails are on the free list. Yet our Democratic friends tell us that the tariff issue will have no weight In next year'a campaign. It begins to look as though Connie Mack might have retained the veterans 'and released the youngsters with better j results. I About this time of year we begin |to figure how big a vacation we can j have on the money we ought to spend for next winter's coal. "Those guns on the Lusitania must have been air guns," says the Balti more American. "Yes, "hot air." ( . If Mr. Hershey wants to endear him self to Harrlsburgers he might move that big convention hall up to this city. Bryan believes In no ultimatums or threats save his own. | EDITORIAL COMMENT \ J Colonel Roosevelt Is characterized by lan admirer as "a human bullet." But not of the dumb-dumb variety.—Pitts burg Gazette-Times. Two British coroners' Juries have charged one Kaiser Wllhelm with mur der, but so far there have been no ar rests.—Philadelphia North American. If an impulsive, romantic peoplo like the Italians can deliberate a year be fore going to war, how long should a sober, practical people like us Ameri cans deliberate?—-Chlcagt> Dally News. Colonel Roosevelt has been ousted from two German societies In New York, and he will probably return the compliment by presenting the members of both societies with credentials In his well-known organization.—Chicago I Herald. WHO IS CIVILIZED? (Louisville Courier-Journal.) If anyone should write a book called "Who's Who In Civilization." would not the Mexican chieftains, brigands though they are, be better placet! than certain "bone-headed" persons with high pretensions to culture who have agitated in America in behalf of Ger many, and who have declined to con sider anv action neutral that is not de signed to aid and comfort the Kaiser? How much more "savolr faire" is shown by the Mexicans, Carranza, Huerta, Villa and the rest, in their observations upon President Wilson's latest declaration than has been shown by the Ridders, the von Bernstorffs. the von Reventlows. the Dernbergs, of the propaganda staff of His Imperial Highness Wllhelm 11. Note the restraint with which Vlc torlano Huerta speaks: "As a foreigner, enjoying the hos pitality of a foreign country, 1 should not criticise nor even discuss state ments of the government or officers of the foreign country I live in, but 1 may say this: "Any foreign country that is sin cere and honest In its endeavor to help our nation would commit the biggest blunder by giving Its moral support or assistance to any person or factions. "Such actions, instead of bringing the results desired, would result in the opposite direction. "The Mexican nation, as a whole, will never accept any such party, even If It would only be suspected that that party received any help from a foreign country. "Our people will never stand for any government inspired by foreigners, no mattter how humanitarian or no ble the motives of such foreign na tions appear to be." I Huerta, a. man with a grievance, a deposed Dictator, an Indian, speaks with grace and calmness utterly im possible to such natures as that of the self-appointed and the Kaiser-ap pointed assailants of American neu trality who have caterwauled unceas ingly since the beginning of the war. If the Kaiser would Impress the world with an idea of Teutonic "kul tur" he should secure as his Ambassa dors, official and unofficial, persons with powers of self-restraint and cul tivated sufficiently to make it possible for them to discuss an issue of world politics without ungentlemanly ve hemence and ignorant malignancy. WHY GERMANY HAS FOOD [From the Kansas City Star.] Germany's system of food produc tion is a very different thing from I America's lack of system of food pro duction. Germany's whole system of | wealth production is on a different I basis from America's wealth produc | tion. Those who predicted the German I Empire's quick starvation marvel at j the stores of food she possesses. It is 'a marvel; but the marvel is a part of I the German thorough organization of i its resources. It is a common thing throughout the world to say, or assume, that our problems are no longer problems of production; that they are problems of distribution. But only a few countries, notably Germany and Belgium (before the war), have come anywhere near solving their production problems. It Is true that potentially, through the vaster areas of soil opened to settle ment, through Invention, chemical dis coveries, transportation development, etc.. we could produce wealth "beyond the dreams of avarice." But we don't. Germany comes nearer to it than most countries hecause Germany has recog nized the fundamental interest of every one In her natural resources. NOBODY'S QUITE PERFECT (Topeka Capital.) Xo man does his duty as he sees It. The most conscientious man concedes something to his convenience and to his desires. DEI.IGHTV OF CAM Eli RIDING It was my first experience of camel riding, and therefore Interesting. If not altogether charming. The saddles used in this country are formed of large pads, one In front and one behind the hump. The driver climbs into place In front, with a huge peaked pad to keep him from falling off when the camel rises. Then the passenger mounts be hind the hump, and the camel is with difficulty persuaded to rise. This he does hindquarters first, and the pas senger finds himself thrust up In mid air as if on a tower. The huge pad offers no possible support and he can scarcely overcome his desire to pre vent a fall by putting his feet on the driver's shoulders. That worthy, how ever. soon monies up to Join him, and the expedition starts. . The first sen sation Is of being astride a table, and as the miles go by the table increases alarmingly in width, and the tyro on the back seat begins to despair of ever i getting his legs acquainted again.— From Uia Wide World Magazine. IT A RRISBTTR G TELEGRAPH TolLtlcc. IK fe-KKOi^loajua Ry the Ei-Commltt(«imo NextJn interest to the developments in the Philadelphia mayoralty situa tion is the determined manner in which Governor Brumbaugh is going after the men who oppose his poli cies. The appointment of Thomas J. Ryan, of Xew Hope, to be deputy fac tory Inspector for Bucks county, an nounced yesterday, Is a direct slap at Joseph R. Grundy, the Bucks county leader who antagonized the Governor on child labor, and is expected to have big results in the attempt to wrest control of the Republican county or ganisation from the Bristol manufac turer on June 19. Ryan is one of the oldest men to be named in State service and is said to be potential among the element op posed to Mr. Grundy's leadership. Protest against his appointment to succeed John Berkey, removed, was made by Senator O. J. Buckman, but the Governor did not pay attention to it. Neither has he paid any atten tion to the attack made by the news paper which enunciates the Grundy policies on the Governor's political hopes. It is expected that more appoint ments in Bucks county will be made and that when this county has been cleared up .he Governor will turn his attenUon to others. His order to de partment chiefs to make no changes without consulting him has been taken literally at the Capitol and there is nothing doing without his sanction. —When the Governor goes to Al lentown on Saturday to make the playground address some of the men Influential in political affairs in that section expect to meet him. The Governor has no plans, but he will let it be known, if asked, that he is in earnest for local option and adminis trative measures, and that those who do not support him need not come around. This attitude has been real ized by many men in the State and the Governor is commencing to have things his own way. The expected boom for Congressman Vare for mayor of Philadelphia did not ahow up last night at the banquet of the uptown club. It is said that the congressman has discouraged any zeal on the part of his friends -for the present. Mayor 'Walker, of Altoona. has stirred a hornet's nest by refusing to allow suffrage meetings. Ex-Sheriff Judd H. Bruff is about to plunge into the contest for the Repub lican nomination for register of wills In Allegheny county. Register Wil liam Conner may also run again. S. J. Toole, Democratic county com missioner of Allegheny, will be a can didate for renomination. The silence with which reorgan ization Democratic leaders are treat- Ins the Bryan resignation is attracting much attention. They are waiting to see if Bryan has any strength before lining up with the President who has helped them along. David H. Lane, the sage of the Republican organization In Philadel phia. who was yesterday re-elected as city chairman, made the meeting memorable by turning the light on Mayor Blankenburg. His address ap pears to have been one of the most remarkable ever presented and the Mayor made a feeble attempt to come back. The Republican city commit tee organized in the greatest harmony and there was not a contest. When this had been done Mr. Lane pointed out that the Blankenburg administra tion had spent more money than any other and had legs to show for it. In closing he said: "Philadelphia, dur ing the last two generations, has been transformed by an enchanted wand into a swarming hive of industry, vi brating to the hum of its machines and its skyline blurred by the smoke of its countless factories. Cannot we justly claim that this is the condition largely of our party policies? If our city's good could be promoted by ex aggeration and falsehood, then we abound in more patriots than any city on the continent. It is suffering from a chronic epidemic of shams. In con clusion, I would suggest that a com mittee on platform be appointed with Mr. Connelly as its chairman, the same as we did two years ago with such excellent results." Officers of the committee, who were re-elected, be sides Mr. Dane, were: Vice-presidents, Harry C. Ramsey and Jacob Seeds; secretaries. Senator E. W. Patton and Magistrate John McCleary; treasurer. County Commissioner Robert J. Moore; auditors, John F. Flaherty, John E Puhl and C. R. Love, Jr.; chief clerk, Harry Wittig. DOESN'T SEEM POPULAR (Charleston News and Courier.) Mr. Walsh has denounced Mr. Rockefeller again. All the charges may be true, but the fact that Mr. Walsh makes them destroys their force. First Woman Elected to Council of Big City Blr M ' 1 £S3B3& - MRS ESTEI/.LS. L. I/l NDSAYL of Los Angeles, Cal.. who Is the flrst woman to be elected to the council 1 of a city of the first class. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY UNCLE SAM—"These panarebad is that bloodstain to be covered up?" [From the Philadelphia North American] ( AMERICANS SAVE $100,000,000 CUTTING OFF EUROPEAN TRIPS Immense Sum Usually Spent Abroad to Be Saved or Dis tributed at Home. I New York. June 11.—It is estimated than as a result of the European war from $100,000,000 to $150,00.000 which heretofore was spent abroad bv American tourists will remain in the United States. Statistics show that approximately 150,000 Americans have been in the habit of going abroad during the summer months each year. It is estimated each one spends on an average from SSOO to SI,OOO on the trip. Of the total amount expended by Americans abroad fully two-thirds goes to pay hotel bills and transpor tation. It is estimated that no less than $5,000,000 is given away in the form of tips. The balance of the vast expenditure goes for amusements and various incidentals. The payments for steamship fares alone amounted to something like $20,000,00. At least 90 per cent, of those who went abroad in former years will remain at home. A large proportion of them will de vote their time and their money to seeing America. Not only will this result in adding to the prosperity of the United States through the fact that a hundred million dollars or dinarily transferred abroad will be kept at home, but it is predicted also that it will give permanent impetus to the "See America first" movement and will develop among the people of this country a better appreciation of the scenic and other attractions of their own land. Events of the past two weeks have BOOKS AND MAGAZINES" Harper & Brothers announce that they will put to press next week for reprinting Zane Grey's new novel, "The Lone Star Ranger." Rupert Hughes, whose new novel, "Empty Pockets," was published a few days ago, disclaims any Intention of "trying to put all New York into one novel, but rather," he says, "to make a little epic of the descent of a girl Into Hades. It represents the contrast of the very rich and the very poor." And now that the New York newspapers have been filled with the adventures of an heiress, which have led to the close scrutiny of certain metropolitan place of amusement, the truthfulness of "Empty Pockets" is borne out by actual facts. According to Gertrude Atherton, au thor of "California. An Intimate His tory," the present activity of Mt. Lassen represents merely "tho pangs of old age." It Is something over two million years ago that the great earthquake rift was developed, and "that old wound," she remarks, "has never heal ed; every forty or fifty years the Coast Range has an attack of Miocene fever, accompanied by spasms and followed by many minor protests at this long chastisement of nature." Mrs. Atherton has made this stupendous geological drama of the Sierras the prelude to the historic development of her State as related In "California; An Intimate History." "EATING UP" THE AMMUNITION Figures Which Give an I«lea of the War Factories' Task [From the American Machinist.] A French engineer reports that he has seen carload after carload of rifles going back from the fighting front in France for repairs, and has said that It is estimated that every soldier active ly engaged will require ten rifles a year. Of course, many of those returned are repaired and sent back into ser vice. Records from the maneuvers of some of our State mllltla show a loss of 10 per cent, of the rifles issued dur ing a 10 or 12-day encampment. If the loss is as great as this In a few days of training, what must It be in weeks of active fighting? Turning to shells for the larger guns. It is said that the French fired 150,000 75-milllmeter shells In the bat tle of the Marne. Their 75-mllllmeter guns can shoot sixteen shells per minute, and there are guns which have records of having shot two thousand shells In a single day. At the first of this year the French government was Just completing its equipment to pro duce two hundred thousand explosive shells a day. A plant now under con struction in Paris is to have a capacity of fifteen thousand 75-milllmeter shrapnel shells a day. At the rate mentioned, eight of the French 75- mllllmeter guns could fire all the shells produced by a factory employing say four thousand to five thousand men. ROCKING THE BOAT "Now do not rock the boat, my boys," Quoth Bryan to his crew, "There's breakers on the farther shore And shallows not a few. So Just sit tight and ply the oars. Nor think of fame nor pelf, And when we reach the danger tone, I'll rock the boat myself." —Beau Broadway in New Tork I Morning Telegraph , JUKE 11, 1915. given a tremendous Impetus to the movement for a larger navy. The presence here of the North Atlantic fleet for review by the President brought home to the public as noth ing else could that the navy Is the one reliance on which the country must depend for upholding its rights. II is doubtful if the plea of inade quate revenues will again be allowed to stand in tlie way of the adoption of a more extensive program of naval construction. It is pointed out here that the wealth and resources of the United States are sufficient to make it easy to provide a navy equal to the best in the world. One suggestion put forward is that instead of remov ing the revenue tariff on sugar which is scheduled to be dropped next May, the present rate of duty be retained and the proceeds applied to providing an adequate fleet. The figures of the Treasury Department, just published, show that the sugar duty brings in $50,000,000 a year and in twenty years has yielded over $1,000,000,000. The advocates of this plan show that the $50,000,000 a year now drawn from sugar would provide half a dozen battleships annually, or four of the latest type of superdreadnaughtj and twenty submarines. Whatever the method to be adopted, a vast num ber of Americans have come to the conclusion within recent days that the United States must be better pro tected, particularly In the naval branch. —LON'GACRE. I LLTTERSTOTHEEDHOR I CONDEMNS SUNDAY EXCURSIONS To the Ecilor of the Telegraph: The citizens of Harrisburg and vi cinity, together with the police force, have made every effort to clean Har risburg of its vice, and there can be no doubt in the minds of all concerned that this has done a great deal for our city and the welfare of its people. We must say that Harrisburg is a better city to-day that it was five or more years ago. There is now a movement on foot that will last practically all summer, which will bring to our city many strange people, and, worst of all, they will come here on the Sabbath day. I speak of the Sunday excur sion. There is no doubt In my mind but that this will go a great way toward stimulating such evil doings as have Just been stamped out. lam sure that we all feel proud of our city and would like to have our neighbors call to see us but not on the Sabbath, as all well-regulated cities and God-fearing people have set aside this day for rest and worship. By bringing all classes of people into our city I fear that It would soon drift into a deplorable condition. It has often been said that the "welfare of our country depends on the education of its youth," and I believe that the welfare of our city depends on the education of its youth. Sunday excur sions would not help along these lines. Neither will it help our merchants for their stores will not be open. It will not help our churches for the average person who goes on a Sunday excursion does not go to church very often, and especially not when away from home. I have tried to view this matter from both sides and I cannot see that Sunday excursions will do H&rrisburg any good. Sincerely yours, H. D. SOLLENBERGER, 610 Seneca Street. Harrlsburg, Pa., June 9, 1915. Our Daily Laugh otck,ob - The Hen: Tea r- — V k that womai V work* for me— a" * KOt to do ** lay a eKB an ' ; jjK cackle, an' sht Afrfgh comes an' takes 11 . away! EVIDENTLY NOT. v\V \ pi Ha: I don't have to take iny v \ N u'iVj back talk from v v v anybody In our x j) office now. i i'i'X She: Then y° u vmf 'l' '.WJB have no stenogra- \ Ebmng QHjat Pew of the Industries of H&rrisburg have had a greater influence in their time on the life of portions of this city than the Chesapeake Nail Works, which plant is about to be sold for the metal that it contains and to pass out from the list of "going" concerns in this county. The Chesapeake works were established In 1867 by the late Charles L. Bailey and at the time of their construction attracted much at tention as a model plant and formed a very important addition to the iron and steel industries of this part of the State, always noted for the excellence of its products. The nail works came into being about the time the Penn sylvania Steel Works and the Central Iron Works were established and Chesapeake puddlers and nailers in cluded in their time some men who were widely known in the affairs of the First and Second wards. In the seventies and eighties the Chesapeake plant was one of the big employers of labor in this city and people got up and had their meals according to its whistles. When it ran many homes were happy and in dull timer; it affect ed far more than the average person realizes to-day. The Introduction of the wire nail put the cut nail into the background, and while Chesapeake held to much of its local and foreign trade for a long time after other cut nail works had passed out, even send ing nails to Chili and China, it finally felt the competition of modern plants and has operated irregularly in the last ten years. The works contained over 100 cut nail machines and had nearly a score of puddling furnaces, with three heating furnaces and two trains of rolls. "Chesapeake" brand was one known far and wide and did much to advertise Harrisburg. • * * * Senator Horace A. Tompkins, of Ebensburg, who was here yesterday for a short time, was on his way home from attending the twenty-fifth anni versary of the graduation of his class at Blairstown. N. J. The senator will enter his son in the same institution next year. • • • No matter what may happen to ap ples and other crops from the appear ance of blights and flies of predacious nature there is not going to be anv shortage of hay in this part of the State. The "grass fields" of Pennsyl vania are showing their old-time crops and there will be some fine cut ting if the weather does not turn wrong. Farmers consider that the real June days have come and as there has been an abundance of rain they are looking at the fields and watching the grass shoot up. Some of the fields in the lower end of the coun ty present fine appearances and there is a good strong growth as a re sult of recent weather. Farmers here abouts have started to cut in some sec tions and alfalfa that has been cut is showing good weight and quality. The hay crop ought to be good because of the demand from Europe. There is always a good demand from this country and in this State the hay com mands good prices for local use. With the added requests for it for export there ought to be money In the pock ets of the Pennsvlvanians. Any one having doubts about the j popularity of baseball as a sport of I boys and young men has only to go to the fringe of vacant lots about the city. There are more diamonds laid out than ever and every lot that can be considered as "common" has been marked off. Some of the diamonds show lots of hard work and some of the thrifty fellows have turned moßpy for equipment by cutting sod and sell, ing it. • • • Placing of new street signs ahout ths city has enabled a good many people to get a line of the real names of the city's highways. There are a number whose names have been changed from the medieval nomenclature and they now appear correctly on the poles to the great advantage of strangers and the edification of natives. Then, too, there are a number of new streets which have never been properly mark ed and they are now distinctly la belled. • • • "Amateur photography is becoming more popular hourly," remarked alocal dealer in cameras and supplies while speaking on the subject the other day. "And some of those amateur picture takers would surprise you. For good results a number of them had me guessing. Some of the pictures they took and finished themselves were equal to many that I have seen that were taken by professionals. The peo ple are beginning to find that the. next thing to speaking to people is to see them in a picture, and practicing the belief Is making trade for the dealer, and giving them an instructive amuse ment." jf • • • "Parents are usually Inclined to blame the driver of an automobile when their children get run down and in some instances killed," remark ed a chauffeur the other day, "but this Is not always the case. Parents often forget an Important duty, that of training their children to avoid need less risks, and also the danger of care lessness when on the streets, on roller skates, bicycles or small wagons. Sev eral days ago I was driving out Mul berry street at the other end of the bridge, when a youngster shot out of an alley In front of me at a fast pace in a small wagon. 1 missed hitting him by two inches. Tf r had been going just a little bit faster, T would in all probability have killed the child. The parents would have blamed me. Wltnesse~ and passengers, criticised the parents of that boy for not teach ing him more common sense and pitied the child being neglected. Sending children to school may be all right, but school and the street are two things. Traffic Is dangerous In a city and children should be taught the risk they run in recklessness while on tha street." WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Judge Frank M. Trexler, of Allen town. will preside at the playground meeting in that city to-morrow. —William J. Barr. the United States officer who is Inspecting the Delaware river. Is a Pittsburgher. —Mitchell Harrison, of Philadel phia. who has been abroad, has sailed for home. —Clyde A. Heller, Philadelphia banker, has returned from a trip to British Columbia. | DO YOU KNOW Tliat Hnrrisbtirjf has one of the few monuments to Mexican war soldiers In the country? CIVIC CLUB Fly Contest June 1 to July 31 5 Cents a Pint Prizes of *5, 92.50 and several SI.OO ones duplicated by Mr. Ben Stronae