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WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 16.
I have found by experience that nothing is
more useful to man than gentleness and affa
bility.—Terence.
IMPROVEMENT SPIRIT
THE public improvements started
many years ago in Harrisburg
are nearing completion. Almost
all of the money provided through
the various loans has been expended.
The city is about to celebrate the ac
complishment of the plans and efforts
of a decade and a half. But the pub
lic spirit that took Harrlsburg out of
the class of sleepy Inland towns and
made a progressive city of it Is very
much alive. No better proof of this
need be cited than that on one day
this w«ek two noted landscape archi
tects, one in the employ of the Muni
cipal League, the other in the pay of
the city, came to Harrisburg with In
structions to outline plans for the fu
ture.
Mr. Manning is looking to the time I
when both sides of the river basin
produced by the construction of the
now nearly finished dam at the lower
end of town shall be the great pleas
ure resort of the people, and he Is
sketching out in a general way the
beautification of both banks, not only
of the Susquehanna, but of the Con
odoguinet creek as far up stream as
the first dam. the marking of all shal
lows and the deepening of the boat
channels. Some of this work may
not be done in the immediate future,
but its accomplishment is not so far off
as some of the developments contem
plated in the first improvement loan
appeared to be at the time that increase
of debt was before the people for dis
cussion. The City Planning Commis
sion is wisely looking into the future.
The results of its work will be best
seen a dozen years from now. Had it
been created twenty-five or fifty years
ago, Harrlsburg would be much better
off to-day in very many respects.
We suppose the naval critics will at
tribute the rejection of a Utah battle
ship jackie by a New Jersey girl who
was won by a baseball player to some
"weakness of the navy."
TAFT'S PEACE PROPOSAL
THE League of Nations for Peace
which former President Taft
suggests, and the formation of
which is to be discussed this week in
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, is
by no means the Impractical plan that
most international peace proposals
have proved to be. Like everything
else that former President Taft has
advocated, it is feasible and workable.
It probably represents the utmost
limit toward which the great powers
would be willing to go to-day. And,
indeed, in one particular, it includes
more than some of these powers will
be willing to concede of their individ
ual sovereignty and independence.
All justiciable questions, says the
proposal, are to be submitted to an
International tribunal for hearing and
judgment, both upon the merits and
upon any Issue as to Its jurisdiction of
the question.
But what are justiciable questions?
They may be defined as questions of
law or fact relating to the Interpreta
tion of a treaty or the obligations of
international law. But this definition
Is most elastic. International juris
prudence is yet in a rudimentary con
dition and Its principles, many of
them, are undetermined. No one
knows yet Just how far they may be
extended by construction.
And now we come to the much dis
puted question whether nations should
agree to refer questions affecting their
honor and vital interests to an inter
national court. Here we are In this
dilemma. If a treaty agreeing to sub
mit disputes to such a court should
exclude all such questions, then al
most any question may be considered
a question of honor or vital Interest at
the will of the nation so desiring, and
the treaty will mean very little. On
the other hand, If questions of honor
and vital Interest are Included In the
things to be submitted, then If a vital
interest Is really affected, the prob
abilities are very strong that the de
cree of the court will not be acquies
ced In by the losing party. Germany
considered that her vital interests de
manded a passage through Belgium
Into France, so the treaty became a
"scrap of paper." America thinks
that her vital Interests require that no
new aggressive foreign military pow
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
er shall obtain a foothold close to our
boundaries on our own continent. We
feel that our national securtly re
quires this. Would we consent to
submit this question to a world court?
No nation will submit a really vital
question Involving its national life to
a world court and then keep the
agreement if the decision is adverse.
It is evident that the agreement of
submission should Itself provide ex
actly what vital questions shall be ex
cluded. In other words, that the sig
natory powers "shall by solemn cove
nant agree as to their respective
rights, which shall not be questioned:
that they shall agree that all other
questions arising between them shall
be submitted to a court."
This agreement would provide that
the territory of each of the contract
ing powers should be inviolate: that
each should be guaranteed absolutely
its sovereign rights In certain other
particulars, including, for Instance,
the right to decide the terms on which
immigrants should be admitted, to
regulate its domestic affairs in Its own
way and such other questions as the
contracting powers considered affect
ed their vital Interests or the vital in
terests of any of them. These speci
fied questions ought not to be submit
ted to the court: they ought to be
mutually guaranteed in advance, and
then all matters not so specified
should be subject to the Jurisdiction
of the international tribunal.
Her© you have the Jurisdiction of
the court definitely laid down in the
treaty creating it. Just as the juris
diction of our Federal Supreme Court
is laid down In the American Consti
tution, which was the compact be
tween the thirteen States upon which
our present Federal government was
established. Wider Jurisdiction can af
terwards be conferred as circumstances
may Justify, but this more extensive
Jurisdiction would be granted only
after the federation had become "a
more perfect union" and when there
should be established a sufficient sanc
tion of Its decrees. *
The raid of an unfortified city by the
French In retaliation for German air
raids on French cities may teach the
Germans a lAson, but there can be no
excuse for the killing of women and
children by the allies because the Ger
man government has adopted that
brutal policy. If the French begin
that sort of thing they will soon find
themselves as heartily despised in this
country as those of their enemies who
have adopted the murderous practice of
killing noncombatants.
BENEFITS OF ASSOCIATION
PRESIDENT ARTHUR D. BACON,
of the Harrlsburg Rotary Club,
has outlined plans to bring the
membership together at least twice
during the summer months when no
regular meetings are held. The Cham
ber of Commerce announces that It
also will have an outing to which all
members are invited.
The Rotary Club and the Chamber
of Commerce have no more Important
functions than the bringing together
periodically of the professional and
I businessmen of the city. Somebody
has said that association begets
i acquaintance, acquaintance begets
friendship, friendship begets confi
dence and confidence begets business.
That is all true, but association does
more than that. It promotes a kindly
feeling among men, It engenders a
better community sentiment, and takes
men out of their narrow, selfish little
circles and teaches them that the
I great thing in life is unselfish service.
Mr. Bacon, of the Rotary Club, and
Mr. Gilbert, of the Chamber of Com
merce, are doing much more than
merely arranging pleasant social
events when they plan to bring to
gether for summer outings the men
of Harrisburg who are doing things.
Since Rockefeller millions are to be
used for hospital purposes in China,
why not let the surgeons experiment a
little on the backbone of Yuan.
PASTEURIZE THE MILK
TYPHOID fever has broken out
In Harrisburg on a scale that
has alarmed the health authori
ties. Health Officer Raunlck advises
everybody to pasteurize the milk used
for family purposes. Not only does
he recommend that the consumer in
sist upon the dealer pasteurizing his
product, but he urges that all milk be
"repasteurized"—that Is, pasteurized
in the home.
Pasteurized milk Is absolutely harm
less, no matter how many typhoid
germs It may have contained In the
untreated stage. There Is nothing diill
cult about pasteurization. All that Is
necessary Is to set the milk bottle on
the stove in a deep pan of water and
let the water come to the boiling
point. The milk is permitted to cool
slowly In the water and Is then trans
ferred to the Ice box.
The process Is simple and protec
tion Is absolute. It is the cheapest
form of health insurance known and
parents who fail to take the precau
tion, especially at this time when the
need is greatest, make themselves
criminally responsible for resulting
illness of their children.
The war Is costing England $15,000,-
000 a day, according to news dispatches.
Almost anybody could put up a pretty
good fight for that amount.
THE INTERNATIONAL DOLLAR
THE American dollar is coming
into its own at last. The day is
near when United States dollars
will be accepted at face value in any
of the Americas, and eventuallly in
any country, according to statements
made by leading exchange bankers.
Already American institutions are Is
suing dollar letters of credit good
throughout the western hemisphere
with the intention of making them
available anywhere on the globe as
soon as the European war Is over.
It is pointed out that when this is
accomplished the dollar will have ar
rived at its own and Americans will
not have to put pounds in their pock
ets when they set out from their na
tive lands. The bankers say that
not only will it facilitate traveling to
be able to spend dollars In foreign
lands, but that there can be no better
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
trade Introduction to our foreign
friends than the American dollar.
The new movement began only a
few months ago with dollar ex
change. Shortly afterward dollar ac
ceptances were instituted. Now come
dollar letters of credit. Decidedly, it
la the day of the# dollar. It never
lacked popularity at home, and the
more It travels the more friends it
will make both for Itself and for Its
native land. It Is a sane and sensi
ble medium of exchange. Its decimal
proportions are easily reckoned In
making change and Its credit at home
is unquestioned—which Is more than
can be said for some other forms of
coinage.
| EDITORIAL COMMENT |
The German press In Germany are be
coming almost as bitterly antl.Vmerican
a® some of the German papers in the
United States.—Boston Transcript.
China and Japan have again demon
strated their unfitness to rank with the
civilized Powers by signing a treaty
that assures peace in the Far East.—
New York World.
Venice never will know what wai
ls until a German submarine bobs up
right in the middle of the main street
and sinks a few gondolas.—Philadel
phia North American.
The ..aiser's dependence on the Mil
waukee vote looks like the biggest
piece of political sagacity since fepain
in '9B thought that the South wouldn't
fight.—Boston Transcript.
TELEORAPH PERISCOPE ~|
—The weather man was kind to tho
bass liars yesterday.
—An Altoona motorman -almost ran
down a big black bear on the tracks
near that city yesterday, but as yet
the bear has not appealed to the Public
Service Commission.
—The man who is all wrapped up in
himself Is apt to have a blanket etfect
on his associates.
—We suppose it is natural for the
man who is in the pink of condition
never to have the blues.
—Life Is just one thing after another
—the fellow who has money worries
for fear he will lose It and the fel
low who hasn't any worries because he
hasn't any to lose.
—lt Is not always the unmarried who
are being disappointed in love.
PENNSYLVANIA'S GRAND PRIZE
[From Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.]
The Department of Health of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has
been awarded the grand prize for its
exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Expo
sition at San Francisco. Health Com
missioner Dixon, who planned and ar
ranged the display, is given honorable
mention by the international jury.
This is the only exhibit made at the
exposition on the part of the State. It
relates to school hygiene, tuberculosis
and typhoid fever and is a demon
stration of the progress and methods
of Pennsylvania in these lines of
human conservation. The exhibit was
made by invitation and designation of
the commission authorities, who asked
Pennsylvania to provide it because our
Department of Health stands at the
front of all similar public agencies in
the United States. The funds—s2o,ooo
—were supplied by State Panama-
Pacific Commission out of its appro
priation—the first time any commis
sion employed its finances in this com
mendable manner. There are included
in the display 436 separate exhibits.
They cover the organization of the
State Department of Health, school
medical inspection, transmissible affec
tions common to school ages, tubercu
losis work and typhoid fever. As far as
possible everything is visualized or
illustrated by means of charts, maps,
colored transparencies, photographs,
tabulating machines, relief models,
legends, casts, mounted specimens,
etc., so that the layman may be en
lightened and informed as well as the
scientist or student. It is doubtful
whether there has ever been anything
quite like this exhibition in the coun
try—certainly none as modern and as
ihgeniously devised. No Pennsylvanian
who goes to the exposition can afford
to overlook it. Seeing it, one develops
a better appreciation of the strong po
sition of Pennsylvania in its health
service and of its conquest of peace so
notable as to have evoked the compli
ments of medical men of the nation.
In the matter of general exhibits
provided by private enterprise Penn
sylvania is more numerously repre
sented in the exposition than anv other
state in the Union save California. It
may be taken for granted, therefore,
that in the further award of prizes
and honors the artists, manufacturers
and producers of this commonwealth
will figure conspicuously.
WONDERFUL 15.000,000 FAMILY
(From Leslie's.)
Few persons are aware that more
than 22.000,000 human beings, or
nearly one-quarter of our entire
population, depend directly for their
livelihood on the manufacturing in
dustries of the United States. This
includes the 9,000,000 employes of the
various establishments and the mem
bers of their families. The total in
vestment in the industrial plants of
this country is $24,000,000,000 and tho
normal yearly output aggregates $28,-
000,000,000. This production is over
twice that of the country ranking next
in Industrial activity. It exceeds
largely the amount of the manufac
tures of Great Britain and Germany
combined, and is worth three times
as much as the annual agricultural
yield of the United States or Russia.
The manufacturing interest is thus
seen to be of stupendous importance
in our national life. The largest and
strongest organization of manufactur
ers in the world is the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers of the
United States of America, known for
short from the chief initial letters as
"Namusa." This body has about 4.-
000 members who have Invested more
than $12,000,000,000 in their busi
nesses and employ nearly fi,000,000
workers, who. with their dependents,
number 15,000,000. The members'
plants produce more than one-half the
I output of manufactures in the United
States and over 00 per cent, of the
manufactured goods exported from
America.
STRIKING DOWN LOOSE LAWS
[From the Pittsburgh Dispatch]
More loose legislation of the recent
Assembly session at Harrlsburg is
brought to light by the illuminating
vetoes of Governor Brumbaugh, par
ticularly those of Tuesday, dealing
with the subject of precautions for
the safety of human life in theaters
and moving picture houses, and the
power of police authority to suppress
Immorality In public stage exhibitions.
The purpose of these bills, or the
effect of them, according to the Gov
ernor, was to curtail the restrictive
power of officials with regard to pub
lic places of amusement to such an
extent that It would have amounted
almost to practical nullification of ef
fective supervision and direction: and
would have permitted managers to
engage in a continuous "go-as-you
please" in the display of films and the
protection of human life.
Considering the cogency of the Gov
ernor's points as to these important
matters, and his wisdom in this light
In striking down the bills, a feeling
of surprise is created that the char
acter of the legislation was not per
ceived while it was pending in the As
sembly, and the death blow given It
there.
*Pottt£c4- Ov
"pc-KKO^^raKca
Br the Ex-Committeeman
Dauphin county's Democratic com
mittee attracted the attention of the
whole State of Pennsylvania by its
action late yesterday afternoon de
nouncing William Jennings Bryan for
quitting the Cabinet and the remarks
of the men who spoke upon the reso
lution will doubtless And echoes at
some of the Democratic meetings to be
held In the next month.
The Bryan discussion was precipi
tated by Charles D. Stucker. Reso
lutions endorsing President Wilson and
complimenting A. Mitchell Palmer and
Vance C. McCormick upon their cam
paigns last Fall had been presented
and adopted without discussion and
with apparently some good feeling
when Mr. Stucker offered a "stand by
the President" resolution which had
Incorporated in it a resolution that the
committee deplored and criticised the
retirement of Bryan at this juncture
and his attitude toward the President.
The resolution also suggested that the
late Secretary of State "give his tongue
and pen a rest." It was evident that
the majority of the members of the
committee felt that Bryan was only
making trouble for the President at a
time when every good citizen should
str.nd behind him. but Warren Van
Dyke, secretary of the Democratic
State committee, scented danger and
argued that such a resolution was out
of place in a Democratic meeting.
Herr Moeslein. who had concluded not
to be a candidate for chairman. al3o
deprecated such action. Stucker in
slfted on action and Charles A. Wll
helm. one of the war hor3es, arose and
declared that the committee should for
get the name of Bryan and allow him
to remain interred in the grave which
he had dug for himself. He referred
to him as the "Benedict Arnold of the
Democracy" and moved the striking
out of the Bryan end of the paper.
This was defeated and the committee
went on record firmly for the Presi
dent and very much against Bryan.
The whole State was interested be
cause this is the home county of
Vance C. McCormick. late candidate
of the Democrats for Governor and
the man mentioned for national com
mitteeman, and because the commit
tee approved of McCormick's cam
paign.
—The result of the election of offi
cers in the county committee is said
about the streets to be a tactical defeat
for the coterie headed by Herr Moes
lein and friendly to McCormick. When
Herr Moeslein decided that he had
been chairman enough it is said that
the frame-up was to put in Deputy
Register C. W. Rubendall. The Moes
lein crowd found that the committee
did not take kindly to the suggestion
a.nd Fred L. Morgenthaler, who is well
liked by all sides, was put in as chair
man. Then an effort was made to
smooth things for Rubendall and he
was named for vice-chairman. Some
one else named George A. Werner,
school director, and who figured in a
recent campaign for city chairman.
Werner did- not want 'to run, but his
name went up anyway, and the vote
was 21 for Rubendall and 16 for
Werner.
—it was very apparent last night
that the faction opposed to McCor
mick control is stronger than it has
been for years. The manner in which
Charles D. Stueker put through the
Bryan resolution and the election
demonstrated to many observers in
and out of this county that Dauphin
is to give the State one of those in
teresting exhibitions of fighting before
long.
—People In Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh are awaiting the next move in
the Wilson "Lexow" resolution. The
effect of Attorney General Brown's
decision that the Governor need not
sign the resolution means that it is
now a law. Of course, all deoends on
what the Governor does with'the item
in the general appropriation bill car
rying SB,OOO for the expenses of the
commission. The presiding officers of
the two houses can name the commit
tee whenever they get ready. It the
Governor vetoes the item there will be
nothing doing.
—The No-License League of Jeffer
son county has started things mov
ing by endorsing Charles Corbet for
judge. There are half a dozen candi
dates, including Judge Reed, who seeks
re-election. Corbet is a Democrat.
PEACE NOT IN SIGHT
[Prom the Philadelphia Inquirer.]
Colonel House, Texas politician of the
millionaire variety and trusted friend of
President Wilson, has come home from
Germany and England. He brings de
nial on his lips that he was sent to
the other side as the personal repre
sentative of the President, with the
idea of taking soundings with peace
lines. No doubt he has much to tell
his friend in the White House, but
whatever information he has he has
collected in an unofficial capacity. His
opinion of the situation, which he has
permitted to go to the public through
the newspapers, is this:
"The spirit for peace? There is a
great spirit of hopelessness, or at least
no spirit of hopefulness for peace.
Everyone in England and on the Conti
nent is tired of the war, but there is
no lessening of popular support among
the masses of each warring nation. I
cannot say that there is any feeling
that peace Is near."
How can there be? For as yet war
fare has resulted in nothing decisive
between Germany and her enemies
The armies in Belgium and France oc
cupy to-day practically the same posi
tions that they have been In through
out the winter. There are apparently
but two ways in which peace proposals
can be considered—after one side or
the other has won smashing victories
that will leave no reasonable doubt as
to what the final result of continued
fighting would be, or after both sides
have fought each other to a point of
exhaustion.
It is much to be desired that peace
shall not come after exhaustion, for it
would be temporary only. Far better
that the outcome of the fighting shall
be conclusive, so that when a settle
ment is effected It will be a lasting
one. The world never wishes to see
another such disaster forced upon it.
Before there can be peace, Belgium,
of course, must be restored to its peo
ple. And unless a death blow shall be
given to militarism as fostered ana
built up by a military cabal in Berlin,
the war will have been fought In vain.
To plunge Germany, which was pro
gressing so splendidly In the arts of
peace. Into bloody strife for no pur
pose than to serve the mad ambition of
the Maniac of Europe, was a crime so
black as to be utterly incomprehen
sible.
When the military spirit Is broken
or allowed to dream Its dreams only In
the narrow confines of St. Helena, na
tions now engaged In destroying each
other may be able to return to the
ways of peace and forget—lf they can
—the horrible nightmare of the pres
ent.
HIS FAULT
By Wing Dinger
T'other day when It was raining
On the street I met a chap
Who was grouchy, with the whole
world,
Seemed to me he had a scrap.
Then I asked of him this question
"What's the matter, got a pain?"
"No," he answered, "I had planned to
Fish to-day. now see it rain."
"I can't understand." he added,
"Why when I pick out a day
To derive a bit of pleasure
It must rain and spoil my play."
"Bill," I answered, "you've no one to
Blame but you, I muchly fear,
When you pick a day for pleasure
, Why not choose one that la clear?"
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
TORPEDOING THE REMNAV'T.
—From the N«w York Sun.
Rotary Means G
In Business,
New President of Harrisburg Rotary Club Defines Movement in
Inaugural Address
; In his inaug- |
— — in general. He
Arthur D. Bacon, said:
"The Rotary Club of Harrisburg
meets at least twice each month except
July and August. Its membership is
formed on the unique plan of one most
active and most representative man
from each line of huslncss and pro
fession in the community. Benefits,
making the acquaintance of men you
ought to know genuine, wholesome
pood fellowship, enlightenment as to
the other man's work, problems and
successes, developing true and help
ful friends, education in methods that
increase efficiency, stimulation of a
desire to be of service to your fellow
men and society in general, business
returns that come from enlarging your
, acquaintance and inspiring confidence
[in your business.
"Obligations, to 'attend meetings
regularly, to pay your dues promptly,
to do your part when called upon, to
be a big-hearted, broad-minded man—
a man of energy and action —a real
man—a ROTARIAN.
"Rotary code of ethics for business
men of all lines.
"My business standards shall have
in them a note of sympathy for our
common humanity. My business deal
ings, ambitions, end relations shall al
ways cause me to take Into consider
ation mv highest duties as a member
of society. In every position in busi
ness life; in every responsibility that
com»s before me my chief thought
shall be to fill that responsibility and
discharge that duty so when I have
ended each of them, I shall have lift
ed the level of human Ideals and
achievements a little higher than I
'found them. In view of this your
committee hold that fundamental in
a code of trade ethics for International
Rotary are the following principles:
"First: To consider my vocation
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES"!
Leonid Andreyev's play, The Sorrows
of Belgium, is scheduled for publication
within a few weeks. It is written in
six scenes and is said to be the most
powerful presentation of the horrors of
war yet issued. It deals particularly
with the invasion of Belgium and Its
devastation, introducing in the course
of its action characters undoubtedly in
tended to be Maeterlinck and King Al
bert.
The Bryce Report on Alleged German
Atrocities is apparently to take its
place as one of the historical docu
ments of permanent value bearing on
the European war. The committee of
distinguished men under whose sup
ervision the investigation was conduct
ed and the results brought together
is a guarantee of the accuracy and re
liability of the statements set forth.
There has been crying need for a pre
sentation of the facts that could be
regarded as truthful and completer
which need in the opinion of unbiased
Judges the Bryce commission has well
met. It may not be generally under-'
stood that the report has been pub
lished in permanent form by the Mac
mlllan Company, from whom it may
be obtained.
Clayton Hamilton has a good word
for the bibliography In Frank Wad
leigh Chandler's Aspects of Modern
Prama. Writing in the Bookman Mr.
Hamilton says that "the book would be
worth buying for th« bibliography
alone. This occupies fifty-six closely
printed pages of small type and con
stitutes the most labor saving 'Who's
Who In The Modern Drama' that has
thus far been set at the disposal of the
student." As for the text. Itself Mr.
Hamilton pronounces it "an invaluable
summary of the subject matter of the
modern drama."
PRESIDENT WILSON'S DELAY
[From New York Press.]
While he is negotiating the crisis
between the government of the United
States and the government of Ger
many the American people would be
loath to give President Wilson any
thing less than undivided support. But
there is no gainsaying the fact that
the people regard with disappointment
bordering upon Impatience the con
tinued delay In sending to Berlin the
answer which. In a case so clearly and
unmistakably marked, might Just as
well have gone the day the Von Jagow
note was received as at any time later.
JUNE 16, 1915.
worthy, and as affording me distinct
opportunity to serve society.
"Second: To improve myself, in
crease my efficiency, and enlarge my
service, and by so doing attest my
faith in the fundamental principle of
Rotary, that he profits most who
serves best.
"Third: To realize that I am a
businessman and ambitious to suc
ceed; but that I am first an ethical
man, and wish no success that is not
founded on the highest Justice of
morality.
"Fourth: To hold that an exchange
of my goods, my service, and my ideas
for profit is legitimate and ethical,
provided that all parties in the ex
change are benefited thereby.
"Fifth: To use by best endeavors
to elevate the standards of the voca
tion in which I am engaged, and so
conduct my affairs that others in my
vocation may find it wise, profitable
and conducive to happiness to emu
late my example.
"Sixth: To conduct my business in
such a manner that I may give a per
fect service equal to or even better
than my competitor, and when in
doubt to give added service beyond the
strict measure or debt of obligation.
"Seventh: To understand that one
of the greatest assets of a professional
or of a businessman is, his friends,
and that any advantage gained by
reasons of friendship, is eminently
ethical and proper.
"Eighth: To hold that true friends
demand nothing of one another, and
that abuse of the confidences of
friendship for profit is foreign to the
spirit of Rotary, and in violation of
its Code of Ethics.
"Ninth: To consider no personal
success legitimate or ethical, which is
I secured by taking unfair advantage
of certain opportunities in the social
order that are absolutely denied
others, nor will X take advantage of
opportunities to achieve material suc
cess that others will not take because
of the questionable morality involved.
"Tenth: To be not more obligated
to a Brother Rotarian than I am to
every other man in human society;
because the genius of Rotary is not in
its competition, but in its co-opera
tion; for provincialism can never have
a place in an institution like Rotary,
and Rotarians assert that human
rights are not confined to Rotdry
Clubs, but as deep and as broad as
the race itself exist to educate all
men and all institutions.
"Eleventh: Finally, believing in the
universality of the Golden 'Rule, all
things whatsoever ye would that men
should do unto you, do ye even so unto
them, we contend that society best
holds itself together when equal op
portunity is accorded all men in the
natural resources of the planet."
Our Daily Laugh
BALL FIXED.
He: I hear you
intend to teach
after you grad-
She: Yes, and
I # have the man
already picked
out, whom I'M
going to teach.
: THE WATER'S ft
Giraffe: Coma
on in Monk, it's
only up to my '
CERMAXT STILL MISSING POINT
[From New Tork Herald.]
Germany's moral blindness con
tinues. Berlin is ready to do almost
anything to placate the United States
except to acknowledge wrongdoing in
the destruction of American lives on
the Lusltania. Thus from day to day
appear offers, anonymous, but never
theless to be traced to German sources,
to cease attacking American ships even
if they carry contraband, to cease at
tacking American ships providing the
United States enforces its laws regard
ing carrying explosives on passenger
ships and to cease attacking passenger
ships carrying guns for the enemy if
no explosives are carried. But Ger
many still fails to realize that the first
question at issue is over matters which
have already occurred and which have
to do with wholesale murder of inno
cent persona. (
Bttnittg (Ehat
Quite a few residents of Harris
burg will wateb with Interest the
manner in which Wllkes-Barre tackles
a problem that Is bound to arise here
sooner or later. It seems that within
the district which might be considered
Greater Wllkes-Barre thero are nine
teen boroughs and some populous
townships. They all have streets and
thefe is nothing like uniformity of
names. Most of the highways connect
and either by design or natural causes
they link up. But with the names It
Is different. They do not match and
what may be one street in one town V
will be another half a block distant In
another municipality. The city Plan
ning Commission of Wllkes-Barre has
undertaken to get these small town#
together in a general plan to harmon
ize names. There has been much con
fusion and the duplication was forci
bly borne In on the representatives
of the various towns where they saw
the list. It is now the plan to have
the list gone over in each council and
efforts made to agree on common
names. This is what Harriiburg,
Steelton, Penbrook, Paxtang and may
be some of the west shore towns will
have to do some day. Cameron street
of Harrisburg runs into Front street
of Steelton and Nineteenth street be
comes Harrisburg street. Highsplre
has a set of streets, too, and Penbrook
has a few names that would not hook
up very conveniently with streets in
Harrisburg as well in name as in
plotting.
• . •
Who is the girl who prowls about
the river in a canoe that contains a
search light in the bow? That is the
question agitating a number of spoony
young folks who like to sit on the
City's "front steps" or float down the
river without being bothered. There
have been a good many people of
masculine gender who have made nui
sances of themselves in the past by
disturbing lovemaking. but this is the
first time a girl has been known to
butt in. This girl has the light in
the bow and by turning a switch can
turn on the current from a battery
with little trouble—to herself.
•. • .
There is a youngster up town who
will be a strategist some day. He de
veloped incipient chickenpox the other
day and his mother noticing spots on
his arms announced that he had the
disease.
"No, I ain't. Howdyouknow?" re
plied the youngster.
"Why, look at your arms."
"They're bedbug bites."
Here the mother intervened and
proceeded to inform the youngster
that the clmex was unknown in her
home.
"Don't care," retorted the boy. "I'm
going to say the bugs bit me. If I say
chickenpox no one will play with me."
No one is playing with him now
anyhow.
Up in Williamsport they are con
i gratulating Dr. J. George Becht on
i his election to the honor of vice-presi
dent of the trustees of Lafayette Col
lege. Dr. Becht was formerly super
intendent of the schools of Lycoming,
i having taken up teaching in that
county when a young man and becom
i ing superintendent. Later on he be
• came head of Clarion State Normal
! school. He was one of the popular
men Of his class in Lafayette and was
I highly thought of by Lycoming coun
i ty people with whom he grew up. Dr.
■ Becht has been secretary of the State
• Board of Education since it began its
i work and has been active in affairs
! in Harrisburg since residing here.
i While Park Expert Warren H. Man.
I ning will depend to a large
, upon the surveys of the engineers ill
■ collecting accurate data to embods
■ in his report to the City Planning
Commission relative to the proposed
i improvement of the river basin, much
1 of the first-hand Information has been
' obtained from the old rivermen who
! have boated up and down the stream
r for twenty-five or thirty years. Some
of them, particularly the heads of the
I big sand and coal collecting firms
i know every Inch of the river and they
! are able to tell within a few feet, the
I exact location on a map of the new
I islets and grass patches, shoals and
: ledges. Of invaluable aid to the park
■ department and Planning Commission
s on this work have been Samuel A.
. Peace and Solomon Santa, two of
I South Harrisburg's prominent citizens
i and probably the most widely-known
; rivermen in this section. Another is
i "Mayor" Harry J. Berrler of "Hard
■ scrabble."
> ...
Among visitors to the city yesterday
i was Dr. D. P. Gerberich, senator
■ from the Lebanon district. Dr. Ger
i berich is one of the oldest senators
1 in age and one of the best posted on
legislative affairs.
, ...
I Robert Herbert, who was mentioned
i in National Guard orders yesterday
i as advanced to a first lieutenancy in
► the crack company of the National
" Guard, Company I of the Tenth at
, Greensburg, is a son of Robert W.
Herbert, well known In newspaper
work and a nephew of Alderman
George D. Heckert
...
Just as an illustration of the popu
larity of the Harrisburg Public Li
brary it may be stated that in the
month of May the circulation of books
was 2,000 greater than in the same
month last year. This rate of increase
has been marked in a number of
months.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ""
—Charles A. Eldon, of Williams
port, is active in behalf of the com
paign for bird houses.
—T. C. DuPont, who is figuring in
insurance affairs just now, was form
erly Interested in Johnstown street
railways.
—Col. C. T. Cresswell, Just promoted
to command of the Third infantry, is
a prominent Philadelphia artist.
—D. T. Riffle, Pittsburgh contrac
tor, is on a fishing trip to Michigan.
—T. S. Crago, reappointed lieuten
ant colonel of the Tenth, is a congress
man-elect and an ex-congressman.
| DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg is noted among
traveling men for its bridges?
DEFINING PEACE CONFERENCE
(From the Altoona Times)
Dear Mr. Thompson: Can you tell
me just what the Lake Mohonk peace
conference Is? —Gwendolyn. '
Certainly I can. It is the thing that
put the "honk" in Mohonk. Also it
put the "con" in conference and
knocked the "ace" out of peace. If
I were to go farther I would say that
it put the "ake" in lake.
CIVIC CLUB "
Fly Contest
June 1 to July 31
5 Cents a Pint
Prizes of 85, 52.50 and several
SI.OO ones
duplicated by Mr. Ben Strouse