6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established ii|l PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chtef F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 219 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 <EhjaC<|k"iiKl> six cents, a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In HarrU burg, Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dally average for tbt three ★ months ending May 31,1010. 21,577 Average for the year 1014—23,21S Average for the year 1015—31,577 Average for the year 1912—31.175 Average for the year 1811—18,851 Average for the year 101ft—17.405 , MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 14. He aho follows two hares it sure to eateh neither.—Latin Proverb. FLAG DAY Unfurl onr banner, let It fly Till bine meet bine ngalnat the sky And on the air a Nation's prayer Shall reach the Throne of Grace on high! . Then coll the children from their play, ■ Tell them the story of the day When might was downed and right was crowned And this, their flag, won right of way. j Let every head uncovered be, Let reverence bow every knee! A cheer for It, n tear for it, And death for H if that need be! ANNA H. WOOD. For the Telegraph. DOUBLE ANNIVERSARY is Flag Day, a doubly impor tant anniversary because just fifty years ago to-day the Star- Spangled Banner was restored to its proud place as the recognized emblem of the reunited North and South. Peace was restored in the United States after four years of internal strife. The Union was re-established on a basis that has made it the most stable gov ernment In the world. How the rancor of that great con flict has been eradicated by the soften ing Influences of time and how good feeling has taken the place of family discord is best shown by the formal presentation to-day of a flag by the Historical Society of the State of Ala bama to float from the flag peak of Independence Hall. The letter accom panying the emblem shows not only how friendly are relations between the States, but how intimately the history of States north and south, east and west, is related. This letter says that the society "Not only presents the flag in memory of the fiftieth anniversary of the close of the Civil War, but as a memorial to Dr. Edward Brooks, for mer superintendent of schools, to whom the people of the country are indebted for the origin of Flag Day, and Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh for his splendid work accomplished twenty-nine years ago in organizing the public school system of Louisiana." Thus, also, does the South set us an example of the manner and spirit with which Flag Day should be cele brated by the nation at large. The question now arises—will Champ Clark Join with the ex-Secretary or the President, or will be just stand by and grin? THE STATE AND CANALS THE hearing held last week before Governor Brumbaugh for and against the signing of the Pitts burgh-Lake Erie Canal biUs, is only one of many indications that the pub lic mind is turning toward canals as a means of inland transportation for what Is termed In railroad circles "slow prising to find similar schemes before the Legislature from other parts of the State in the near future. The people are just beginning to realize that Pennsylvania lost a val uable asset and the shippers of the State a means of slow, but cheap, transportation when the canal system, that once formed a network over the State, passed largely Into the hands of the railroad companies and out of existence. This is the conclusion that has been reached every time experts have ex amined the transportation history of the Commonwealth, but the difficul ties encountered by the investigators, due to imperfect and incomplete ree ords with relation to freight classifica tion and tariffs in the early days, intake the proof of the proposition in statistics by no means an easy task. So many obscure transactions, condi tions and factors of cost and calcula tion enter into the comparison be .tweten the freight rates of today and those of the canals during the period that witnessed the height of their prosperity that exact figures are al most impossible to'ascertain. But this much seems absolutely certain, that had It been possible for the canal icompanies and the railroads to have v heen maintained until this time under MONDAY EVENING, separate managements arid In compe tition with each other, tf»e people would have been the gainer by mil lions of dollars. On the other hand, the popular conception of the railroads as having deliberately planned the absorption and closing of the canal systems Is 1 not altogether borne out by the facts, for the State repeatedly tried to sell the Pennsylvania canal, for Instance, to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and only succeeded after the proposal had been put to a referendum vote and approved by a majority of the voters of the Commonwealth, after which .the sale hung Are for years before a bar gain was struck between the State Government and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. As an illustration, when the Penn sylvania Railroad Company did offer In 1855 the sum of $7,500,000 for the "public works" —meaning canals—be tween Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Governor Pollock in his message to the Legislature heartily approved the sale as the "beginning of a process that would free our Commonwealth from debt and our people from taxa tion." However, once acquired the whole policy t>f the railroads has been to put the canals out of business, either by the slow process of strangulation or by arbitrarily closing them. In the history of Pennsylvania, 94 charters were issued to canal companies, but only 28 of these ever became opera tive, and of these the records account for only 19 as having actually con structed and operated canals. All but three have been abandoned, either by the decision of the railroad companies under whose control they eventually fell, or because the cost of operation was greater than receipts and they were put out of operation by their owners or sold out by order of the sheriff. These three canals still in opera tion are the Schuylkill Navigation company's ditch, folTows the Schuylkill River from Port Clinton to the city of Philadelphia, a distance of 90 miles, and two operated by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com pany, extending from Coalport to Easton, 48 miles, and the Delaware Division Coal Company, which it leas es, extending from Easton to Bristol, on the Delaware River, 60 miles. Neither the Department of Internal Affairs nor the State Public Service Commission has in its records any fig ures showing either the tonnage or the tariffs on coal, the principal item of canal freight, in the early days of their operation, but that such infor mation exists and is at the hands of the railroads controlling the anthra cite traffic between the mines and the city of Philadelphia, is shown by quo tations in the testimony of witnesses for the companies in the coal tax case, now pending in the Supreme Court, and by the Public Service Commission at its conclusions in the recent Phila delphia coal rate controversy. Such a comparison would be highly interest ing. Possibly, also, it might have a tendency to cause canal advocates to move a little slowly, for while advanc ing freight rates maker • the canal proposition look attractive in a gen eral way, a closer examination may tend to the belief that reconstruction at this time of the State's inland wat erways is not so imperative as high way building and certainly Pennsyl vania is not now in position to shoul der both at one time. The man who needlessly interrupts another at his day's occupation is rob bing him and he should be held guilty of larceny. Worst of all there is no means of recovering the stolen goods. IN CASE OF WAR COMMENTING upon the possi bility of war with Germany, the Philadelphia Evening Ledger bids Americans not to be greatly alarmed, expressing the thought that aa we have no army to send Germany and Germany has no army which it can send to us, our ac tivities in such case would be confined largely to confiscation of German property in this country, the blocking of all shipments from the United States destined for German consum ers, the vitalizing of the allies by convoyed traffic in the sinews of war, and the co-operation of our fleets with those of the allies on the seas. The German government must real ize these facts as well as we: The great sacrifice of property that would be suffered by the Imperial Govern ment as a result of the declaration of war is doubtless one of the restrain ing forces upon which the President has been relying in his negotiations relating to the Lusitania Incident. The great fleet of German steamers in our waters is larger in aggregate ton nage than the whole British merchant shipping destroyed or captured thus far in the war. First and foremost is one of the two giants of the Ger man mercantile marine, the 5^, 000- ton Vaterland, of the Hambuiw-Am erican Company, at New Y.ork, "reat er than the Olympic or Titanic, which could not have cost much less than i $10,000,000. Second in size and value j is the George Washington, 25,570 tons, iof the North German Lloyd, at New York, and next in importance are the Amerika, 22,622 tons, of the Hamburg fleet and the Kronprinzessin Cecllle, 19,508 tons, of the North German Lloyd, at Boston. From these leviathans the German ships "detained" here dwindle gradu ally down to vessels of 3,000 tons or less —smaller and slower than the average ships of American coastwise services. The German-American Pe troleum Company is represented by eight tank ships ranging from 10,000 to 4,000 tons. About one-fourth of the whole Hamburg-American fleet and one-fourth of the North German Lloyd fleet is shut up in American ports open to seizure by our govern ment. The loss of all this shipping would be a terrible blow to the mef cantlle sea-power of the German Em pire. ' It would be a far more serious in- Jury to Germany than substantial ad vantage to the United States. For these are German ships, built for Ger- man trade and designed for certain distinctive purposes, the chief of which Is the carrying of passengers and a certain amount of freight be tween America and Europe. If all of these German ships capable of con veying passengers were put upon the trans-Atlantic route, there would be no profitable business for them —the trade would be heavily overdone—and there is no other trade for which these large and expensive steamships are adapted. There is South America, where Am erican ships have been so conspicuous ly lacking. But South America re quires one type of ship «nd Europe quite another. Modern freighters of moderate draft and tonnage, it Is true, can be used Interchangeably In both trades, but it Is In Just this kind of ship that the locked-up German fleets unfortunately happen to be moat defi cient. A passenger, mall or cargo steamer for service to Rrazil, Argen tina, Chile or Peru should be able to carry 100 or 200 cabin passengers, 300 or 400 third-class passengers, and 6,000 to 8,000 tons of cargo, with a speed of from 12 to 16 knots. Such a ship should be designed particularly with a view to free ventilation and comfort in the tropics, through which she must pass, going and returning. The most satisfactory steamers for South American routes have always been of a design very different from that required for the cold and bois terous latitudes of the North Atlantic. So it would seem that while Ger many would lose heavily by a declar ation of war nobody could justly ac cuse the United States of plunging Into the European conflict or of pro voking a quarrel for the motive of robbing Germany of her merchant marine stored in our ports. , A Pittsburgh man committed suicide because his wife "smiled at him iron ically." If that practice becomes gen eral the job of coroner will become one of the most lucrative in the coun try. Excitement over reading war bulle tins caused Frank Wahl, of to die of heart failure. Must be getting a different brand of news out there. Milwaukee city council blames the advent of the jitney for a decrease of 100 saloons in that city. Score one for the jitney. Evidently there is no truth in the notion that drink and joy rides go hand in hand. EDITORIAL COMMENT ] The shortage of ammunition in Rus sia must be making the poor fellows at the front regret all those bombs they used to waste so lavishly on the Czar. —Boston Transcript. If Italy's ambition to bring all Ital ian soil under the Italian (lag persists there will come a time when France will not be so glad to see Italy show light as she is no«v.—St. Louis Repub lic. When the theorists have finished their learned dissertations at the Pan- American Conference we would like to suggest that the way to trade with South America is to trade with her.— Boston Transcript. After all the complaints about de tention of cotton-cargoes, It seems sur prising that the real owners can not be found to receive payment from Great Britain. We need to consider under hand as well as undersea tactics. Wall Street Journal. German War Expert Says Italy Will Only Delay Victory.—Headline. Lav observers will find it difficult to he lieve that the Italians, even if they should fail to aid the Allies, can be of any real hindrance to them.—Philadel phia North American. TELEORAPH PERISCOPE —ln ordering your dinner don't for get that green cucumbers are apt to make one feel blue. —The man who runs into debt is very apt to be putting a mortgage on his Mansion in the Skies. —ln Mr. Bryan we witness the re markable example of hardihood that would attempt to unite the German and the Prohibition vote. —We are surprised that Germany has not Issued an official warning as to what the German government will do to anybody who Interferes with the passage of Dr. Dernburg. —"Choose between me and the Pres ident," says Mr. Bryan. In effect, and if he is referring to next year It Is very likely that the country will do neither. It may be that Dr. Dernburg was called hime because the Kaiser's sup ply of gas at the front was running short. LOVE FOR WOMAN PUTS ITALY ON AI.I.IES' SIDE IN GREAT WAR Alice Robe writes from Rome: "Be hind the diplomatic plots which have landed Italy in the war there was one struggle not chronicled in the green book. It was the struggle between a man and a woman. "The man was Glolltti, former prime minister, -who at the eleventh hour plunged Italy into a surging sea of neutralism. The woman was Queen Helena herself—the Queen of Italy, the Princess of Montengro, who has been using all her influence over the King to counteract the machinations of Gio litti, the neutralist. "The world knows that to the King of Italy the deares thing in all the world is this beautiful Montenegrin princess. For her country by marriage to take up arms against her father's country has been a tragedy hanging over the head of the lovely Queen. "Love of a woman has decided the fate of nations many times. While di plomats were working for the fall or the reforming of the cabinet the wo man's direct influence was at work in the Villa Savola. Italy's entrance into the war means the triumph of a woman's love." "FINS" OF A SI'IIM Alt INE There are few persons outside of the navy who have ever seen a submarine's "tins" in action. The modern sub mersible craft built for the United States navy are all provided with these lateral rudders, but when the vessels are at the surface or moving in a level plane under water, the fins are folded back into recesses in the sides of the hull. The purpose of these planes, which are shown clearly in a remarkable photograph published in Popular Me chanics Magazine, Is to aid the sub marine to rise or sink on an even keel. "Porpoising" or rising and diving at an angle Is avoided in submarine prac tice as much as possible. The lateral fins are attached to the hull by ball-and-socket joints, so that they may be rotated to give a planing effect either upward or downward, at any angle, and folded away when not in use. TO MAKE MORE} COINS To provide Ingots for making one cent and five-cent pieces, which are be ing cotned in larger quantities every year, a new casting machine that turns out Ingots weighing more than Ave times as much as those heretofore used, has been placed In service In the Unlteo States mint at Philadelphia. In con nection with this machine larger rolls for forming the plates from which the coin "blanks" are cut are also being used, the whole purpose of the improved equipment being to turn out more coins in a day. How Important this is, Is shown In the fact that eash year there is now a demand for approximately 100,000.000 one-cent pieces and 60,000.- 000 five-cent pieces, or "nickels." From the June Popular Mechanics Magazine. HARRIS BURG TELEGRAPH tn, ""PouvOift<rcuua By the Ex-Committmmf Senator Penrose and Congressman W. W. <Jriest spent yesterday on a cruise off Atlantic City. The senator plans to spend considerable time in Philadelphia until midsummer, when he will go west. Friends of Judge J. M. Bouton, of McKean county, are getting busy in his behalf. The election of the McKean county judge is expected to be rather an exciting event in that part of the State. E. A. Jones, late Second Deputy Highway Commissioner ,1s actively working to be nominee for county controller in Lackawanna county. He tilled the office for over a dozen years. The Bucks county Repuhlican com mittee will meet Saturday afternoon and Lieutenant-Governor Frank B. MeClain will be speaker. In spite of the fact that the Phila delphia Washington party city com mittee has announced that it proposes to nominate a whole city and county ticket this Fall and that some of the men active in Washington party cir cles in Pittsburgh and Scranton are commencing to stretch their arms and talk about battling, reports indicate a gradual Increase in the number of men who are returning to the Republican party. In some localities this is be ing done in the face of efforts being made by Democrats to induce the wandering ones to throw in their lot and be part of the "united and har monious" party of which so much used to be printed in this city. The way the progessives return to the fold is interesting. They say that Governor Brumbaugh has signed bills which embody their ideas and that therefore the Republican party has adopted their planks and it is no use wasting effort. This has been said here in the last fortnight by at least a dozen men who were noisy in the progressive ranks two years ago. Only the other day William Wilhelm, one of the out and out progressives, remarked that the Governor was progressive and that coming from the head of the Progressive League is extremely signi ficant. All that is needed is an announce ment that 'William Flinn does not see any further use to maintain a separate organization. When that comes there will be a break in the last line. And from all accounts Flinn seems to think that way. • ' —The first announcements in the in teresting judicial contest that is ex pected to be made in Cumberland county ihls year came on Saturday when John W. Wetzel and E. M. Bid die. Jr., declared that they would run. Several more are expected to throw their hats into the ring. Mr. Wetzel ran against Judge Sadler ten years ago and has attending very care fully to fences ever since. In fact, he has never lost sight of 1915. —WJhile the election of judges will be nonpartisan this year there Is no question but that there will be some evidences of the split in the Democra tic party in a number of counties. It is a bit too early for the Democrats of the State to get to fighting over Bryan and Wilson, but it is bound to come. The Nebraskan has a lot of sincere admirers in this State, men who have been for him since 189 6 and who did not see in him any elements of greatness until the Baltimore con vention and who resented anything he might have to say about Pennsylvania politics until 1912. When this break occurs it will be worth watching to note the alignment of the Old Guard element. —Another funny thing about the Democrats is th 6 silence of the men who were denouncing about one week ago the newspapers which printed stories that Bryan was about to resign. Seven days ago people who talked that way were called names. Now some of the folks who protested would like to call Bryan names., —The Dauphin county l)emocratic committee will line up behind the I President when it meets here to-mor row to elect a chairman and organize for the unpleasant campaign which faces the machine this Fall. It is said that some mischief makers may try to i bring in Bryan, but the reorganizers will have enough men there to see that no resolutions likely to emphasize the split get into the records. THRKK-PIECE POWER BOAT For the vacationist or sportsman who wants a comfortable power boat for fishing, hunting, or recreation, and needs to transport It to some out of-the-way camping place where boats are oberwlse unavailable, a three piece craft which may be packed In a small crate and shipped easily, is described, with illustrations, in the June Popular Mechanics Magazine. It is 16 ft. in length, has a 46-inch beam, and is made of cypress. When the seats are removed, the three sec tions nest together, leaving sufficient room in the crate for a pair of "knocked-down" oars, the seats, an outboard motor, and whatever ropes or anchor chains it is wish ed to carry. JEFFERSON'S TEX RI'LES Never put oft until to-morrow what you can do to-day. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. Never spend your money before you have earned it. Never buy what you don't want be : cause it is cheap. I Pride costs more than hunger, thirst ' and cold. We seldom repent of having eaten too little. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened! Take things always by the smooth handle. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count one hun dred. WHAT NEXT T By WlnK Dinner Bill Bryan ran for President And lost out In the game And when he tried a second time— The answer was the same. And yet a third time did our Bill Go out to seek renown But voters set him farther back And told him to sit down. And finally Bill got a Job — A good one—when, of State He was made Secretary, bo, Where he let big things wait. While he went out from town to town And flowery words did fling Unto the multitudes, who'd come To hear the yodlers sing. But recently when notes -were writ BUI didn't like the way In which the notes were framed, and • 'cause He couldn't have his way He quit the Cabinet, now he's out. With State duties he's through— And now I'm wondering what next Bill Bryan's coins: to do. i HISTORY OF i I THE history of the American Fla* began with the landing of the Mayflower in 1620. The first colonial flag was known as the "King's Colors," combining the red and white crosses of England and Scotland upon an inner field of blue. During the memorable struggle of the colonists to establish themselves, var ious attempts were made to evolve a general flag, emblematic of their cause, but nothing definite resulted. The animating sentiment of the fathers of the republic was that of freedom, and in support thereof the <vord "Liberty" was emblazoned upon many of the flags employed in those early days. So great was the prejudice against England and the trappings of royalty that the use of the "King's Colors" be came intermittent, and was finally discontinued. Similar prejudice de veloped against the crimson banner subsequetly adopted by the Mother County, and known as the "Cromwell Flag." In the year 1707 the colonists selected a red flag as their ensign, bearing in the upper corner the green symbol of a pine tree on a white field. This banner was in popular favor for many years, and is thought to have been the one carried by the Americans In the battle of Bunker Hill. In 1775 a flag was designed for the Continental army and navy, showing thirteen alternate stripes of red and white, corresponding to the number of the colonies, with an azure field in the upper corner bearing the red cross of St. George and the white of St. An drew. This was the beginning of the flag of Stars and Stripes. In this form it was hoisted by General George Washington over his headquarters at Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 1, 1776. The same pattern of flag was raised by Lieutenant John Paul Jones on his vessel, the "Alfred"—lts first use on a man-of-war. The right of freedom was pro claimed by the colonists on July 2, 11776, and, two days later, on July 4, the Declaration of Independence was adopted. In response to the demand fora banner more representative of the aims and ideals of the new country, on June 14, 1777, one hundred and thirty eight years ago to-day, Congress de- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THE SUNDAY EXCURSIONS To the Editor of the Telegraph ■ Apropos of the discussion on Sun day excursions, I fail to see that there can be any material harm resulting to anyone from the desire to enjoy recrea tion on the Sabbath day. The average person works six full days of each week —Sunday comes as the one solitary "day off." Why should anyone with altruistic and brotherly feeling deny his neighbor the right to take an occasional pleasure trip on the only day granted him for his own use? Concerning "strangers" coming to our city by means of Sunday excursions, I consider it a splendid medium for advertising the home of the Capitol. We need not fear the strangers, for there are no "stranger" people in other near by cities than In our own, the average human being Is the same everywhere. Who takes in the Sunday excursion? lls it the person who spends several months in Europe, takes a voyage to the Bermudas, enjoys a vacation of two months touring the Weßt or some oth er distant place? Foolish question No. 1. We know very well that it is the person \yho hasn't been born with a sliver spoon in his month, the person who anxiously awaits the Sunday ex cursion with the few dollars that he can spare as an opportunity to see something of this old world on which he is made to exist. Take away the Sunday excursion and he will take his pleasure trips anyhow over Sunday when he has the desire and the neces sary cash, for he then gains a day and loses not so much time from his work, but then you are compelling him to pay much more for his trip. Let us not forget that "The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath." C. A. S. June 11, 1915. (HOOKS AND MAGAZINES A leading Chicago book store reports Howard D. Wheeler's "Are We Beady?" as most in demand of any of the so called war bcyoks. Houghton Mifflin Co. report second Impression of Fritz Kreisler's "Four Weeks in the Trenches," Dallas Lore Sharpe's "The Whole Year Round," and the Visitor's Edition of Joel Chandler Harris' "Uncle Remus and His Friends." A Spanish edition of Roland G. Usher's "Pan-Germanism," translated by Fernando Duran, is now on sale at the Biblioteca Corona, Madrid. Miss Jessie Rlttenhouse, editor of "The Little Book of Modern Verse," has been asked to deliver a course of lec tures next year at Columbia Univer sity on Modern American Poetry. A new anthology, on which Miss Rltten house Is now at work, will be published this Fall by Houghton Mifflin Co. Copp, Clark Co.. Ltd., Canadian book dealer?, have ordered editions of the following books published here by Houghton Mifflin Co.: "Doodles," by Emma C. Dowd; "Sundown Slim,' by Henry Herbert Knibbs, and "K," by Mary Roberts Rinehart. The following books will be publish ed May 29, by Houghton Mifflin Co.: "A Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson," by Os car W. Firkins: "Writing an Advertise ment," by S. Roland Hall; "The Divine Mystery," by Allen Upward, and "Para dise Found, a short play by the same author; and "Bronson Alcott's Fruit lands," a compilation, edited by Clara Endlcott Sears, of all that has been written regarding Alcott's Community experiment at Frultlands. William Llndsey's drama, "Red Wine of Rousslllon," which was announced by Houghton Mifflin Company for pub lication this Spring, will not appear until Fall. THEX HE HAS HOURS (Milwaukee Journal.) Many a man hasn't time to talk — ualoea you lot him talk about hims«ir JUNE 14, 1915.' clared the national flag to be thirteen stripes, seven red and six white, with thirteen stars in a circle on a blue field. According to most authorities the first flag of this description was made by Betsy Ross, at her home, No. 239 Arch street, Philadelphia, a building still preserved and pointed out as the birthplace of our national emblem. George Washington, acting as com mitteeman, submitted the design of the flag to Betsy Ross, and it was upon her suggestion that the stars were made of five points, as In France, instead of six points, as in England. In 1795, after Vermont and Kentucky had been admitted Into the Union, two stripes and two stars were added to the flag. The War of 1812 was fought under such a flag, and it remained in this form until July 4, 1818, when the stripes were reduced to the original thirteen, and the stars Increased to one for each State. These changes also brought about a rearrangement of the stars from the circular to the present group forma tion. For a time the constellation was depicted as one large star, thus sug gesting the motto, E Pluribus Unum: "One formed of many." The red. white and blue colors in the flag were inherited from England and Scotland, and the stripes from Holland. The combination of stripes, colors and stars, was an American Idea. The red In the flag has been interpreted to mean defiance to all forms of tyranny and oppression, the white is indicative of purity and charity, while the blue represents justice and fidelity. In the American navy a special flag is dis played during the Sunday religious service—a square pennant of white, charged with a blue cross emblematic of faith, and this is the only flag that is permitted to fly above the Stars and Stripes within the proper juris diction of the American Government. In its present form, thirteen colonial stripes and one star for each State, the flag represents the American nation as it was at Its birth, as it is at the present time, and betokens what It 1 may be In the future when other stars shall have joined the constella- I tion. Read to-day by Michael E. I Stroup at Flag Day exercises. Our Daily Laugh SB NOT A TAKING l' bred ACTRESS. fiES] First Manager: jQppJ I see you have a new leading worn an. Did the other one take sick? V Second Mana- TIT 1 urer: No, but shs didn't fake well. ■ MOTOR w.n TROUBLE. j Hello Joe! Hear you bad •u accident ? \ LA Yes I struck, f a man with my \ tcMT Anything ss- Yes I broke my lamp. Letter List LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN the Post Office at Harrisburg, Pa., for the week ending June 12, 1915. Ladies' List —Mrs. Ella Bailor, Mrs. Emma Balsbach, Miss Helen Buak, Miss Lula Boswell, Miss Sarah Bowman, Mrs. J. Boyer, Mrs. Carrie Dekjer, Mrs. Emily Ellis, Mrs. Julius W. Erickson, Miss Myrtle Evans, Mrs. Louis Forman, Mrs. Katie Garrett, Miss Catherine Gaston, Carra Gilbert, Mrs. G. J. B. Gilbert, Mrs. Linn Gould, Besse Graw, Mrs. Emma Heckend, Miss Clara Herbert, Miss Het chel, Miss Hetricks. Mrs. G. Holmoran, Cathrlne Johnson, Mrs. Marsmie Jophy, Miss E. A. Knowles, Mrs. Clarence W. Leach Mrs. Leonard C. Lewis, Miss Dorothy Lucia. Miss H. S. Marsh, Miss McCormick, Mrs. S. Mitrule, Miss Blanch Oyster, Miss Bessie Parker, Miss Edith Pierce, Edna Reed (D. L.), Mrs. Harry Rily, Miss E. C. Smith, Mrs. Francis Smith, Miss Catherine Taylor, Miss Fannie Togan, Miss Elsie Tuck son. Mrs. Jac Williams, Miss Carrie Yingst. Gentlemen's List.—Dr. J. W. Andsley, W. W. Armentrout, Walter S. Baer, H. Baker. Albert W. Becker. Albert Bitt ner, T. W. Block, Charles H. Borman, J. W. Bounds, Samuel M. Bowrmaster, W. M. Bray, Charles A. Burns, P. F. Burns, W. Carnes, J. P. Cavanaugh, Warren L. Clark. William Clay, F. S. Campton, V. B. Crawford, W. D. Crump (D. L.), Harry Devine, C. F. Dewlse, H. Docker, Professor Isaac Fisher, R. J. Forrest, James Francis, Jacob G. Frey, Charles O. Games (3) John Charley Games, Mr. George, Wm. A. Green, Oscar Grimes, Roger Hager, G. G. Hamaker, W. W. Harness, Harry Heim, James Heslles, John Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Hoke, Harris Hoyt, R. A. Hubber, Howard G. Huber, J. W. Hurst, E. C. Janker, Ed. Johnson, L. R. Jones (D. L), Ilhar Karotz, Robert Keller, Mr. and Mrs. John Koch, Albert Marlatt, James W. Maston, Pierre Math ers, George S. Miller, Charles J. Moller, Wm. H. Mumper, Edgar O. Oeters, Leon ard Powell, Master Edgar Singer (2), A. Smith, Edward Smith, M. Stance, F. A. Stevenson. Blmon Stine, C. T. Stuart, H. B. Tietrlch, W. L Tltlow. E. O. Tur ner, Ph. G.; C. F. Vandelln, William Walborn, W. E. Warren, Blspandlmi White. (D. L), John 11. Witmer, C. A. Woodbine, R. N. Wright, F. A. Wyers, L. W. Yost, J. F. Young. Firms—Golden Rule Gutlery Co., S. Grumbacher & Son, H«rrah Manu facturing Co., Ideal Music Store, Pitts burgh Construction C". Foreign—Mrs. Wm. McLean, Fagnanl do Marino Jullppo Maerni fu Talestlno Glovani. Panenrudl Mlnuoqsete, Mattia dl Biovanl, F. W. Alfred Smith. Persons should Invariably have their mall matter addressed to their street and number, thereby Insuring prompt delivery by the carriers. Boning (Eljat The late George S. Comstock was one of the active spirits in organizing the industrial welfare and efficiency conferences which have been such fea tures of the autumn in this city tha last few years. Mr. Comstock was president of the Engineers' Society of Pennsylvania when Commissioner John Price Jackson took up the proposition of holding a series of meetings at which the best that had been devised for the health, welfare and prosperity of workers could be explained. Mr. Comstock Immediately lent his aid and' Interested some of the tnen prominent In Pennsylvania affairs. The results obtained attracted national attention. Fishermen throughout the State ara commencing to write letters and ask about the changes the last legislature made In tho fish laws. One of the important bills relative to the seasons Is pending and if it is approved there will doubtless be an effort made by fishermen to discourage any further changes in the fish laws. As one man put it. "A person has to take a lawyer or a leather-bound volume of laws with him when he goes fishing now adays. It's getting as bad as hunting. They change the laws so often that the men In charge of the games and fish de partments no sooner get their forces working right before another change is made." What the fisherman said is true and It is regrettable that it la necessary to amend the school code, This monumental piece of legislation haa been changed eight times thU year as the result of bills signed. Some of the lovers of fishing in this city think that there ought to be good places for trout fishing along the Swa tara- or the Beaver or some of the other streams within easy reach of the State's capital and will make exami nations this year with a view of mak ing applications for the young fish. Years gone by some of the creeks which are now being mentioned were known as good trout streams and if they had not been ruined by over fishing or by pollution would probably have been good to-day. A man who gets around a good bit among the foreign element in this city and Steelton says that when the State starts to enforce the new law pro hibiting unnaturalized foreign-born aliens from keeping dogs it will result in the banishing of hundreds of ani mals and for himself he says he cannot see where they are going to go. Tf the enforcement of the law starts without the foreigners having availed them selves of the State officials' announced notice to prepare it will mean that there will be some scenes compared to which the excitement of a dog catch er's career will be nothing. In some communities a dog ranks very high and attempts to kill would probably cause some heart burnings. Then, if the foreigners themselves start to get rid of the dogs, there will also be more or less annoyance. That this is the close of the college season is very apparent from the peo ple seen at the stations. Boys and girls, youths and maidens are passing through Harrisburg every day in num bers, the suit cases and tennis cases gaily marked and college colors dis played in more than one'way. The farewells at the gates when young people take different trains are as sin cere and as prolonged as at the side of an ocean liner. Speaking of ocean liners, It is Inter, esting when in New York to watch the steamships that engage In transatlantic business. They bear signs on th<* sides with letters as largo as those o» the electric sign oh top of the Harris burg Telegraph building. The Amerl. can liners have signs larger than the side of a freight car, while the Dutch and Scandinavian ships have great, big letters which can be made out miles away. Among the visitors to Harrisburg or Satui day was Charles S. Hamlin, on« of the biff officials of the government's reserve bank system. He was here on an automobile trip and paid a visit to the Capitol. A "newsie" who had an undeniably foreign cast of countenance and a thatch of black hair furnished a good, swift answer to a man who sought to stir up some local warfare yesterday. This man noticed a youngster who looked like a German and bought a paper from him. Then he noticed an other. and buying a paper from him asked: "Say, Dago-American, when are you going to lick Dutchy over there?" / The boy came back on the Instant with: "Doan you calla me Dago. X born In Secon' street. Me an' Dutchy buddies." Even the juveniles are carrying out the presidential admonitions about neutrality and dwelling in amity. • • • Another story along the same lin9 is being told about a farmer from down "Elisabesstown way." This man is a shrewd, well-educated and well informed man and comes to Harris burg every now and then on business. He ran across a couple of men in a store the other day and one who knew him began to "kid" him about the German chances in the war. The farmer protested that he was not much interested, although Jie spoke with a marked German accent. Then the two of them got at him and he said that he was more American than either of them. He would not bet, but ha offered to make a show down. One of the men who spoke to him said that his father had been born in England, but that he was a Pennsylvanian by birth. The other man "fessed up" that he was pretty young when he came to this country. "Oh, veil," said the farmer. "Mine people come over in 1754." WELL KNOWN PEOPLE | —Governor Brumbaugh said In a speech at Allentown on Saturday: "We governors are but a part of the passing show." —Charlemagne Tower is on an auto mobile trip to New York State by way of the Delaware valley. —Senator Henry S. Wasbers, of York, has been elected vice-president of the State J-aunderers" Association. —E. J. Cattell, the Philadelphia city statistician, addressed the graduate* at Temple University'. —'James B. Hughes, of Bellefonts, was the oldest graduate at the Prince ton commencement. | DO YOU KNOW ), That Harrtalmrg is handling con siderable material for the allied I armies? CIVIC CLUB ' Fly Contest June 1 to July 31 6 Cents a Pint Prizes of $5, $2.50 and several SI.OO ones duplicated by Mr. Ben Stronso
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