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THURSDAY EVENING. JUNE 17.
There is no place mere delightful than one's
can fireside. — Cicero.
BLOTTING OUT MALARIA
MALARIA is now so rare in Har
risburg that when a case is re
ported to us we at once insist
on a blood-test, fearing it may be an
unrecognized incipient or light form
of typhoid." said Health Officer Rau
nick, discussing local health condi
tions recently.
Time was. before the improvement
of the Paxton creek valley and the
construction of the river dam, when
malaria was a common summer com
plaint in Harrisburg. There were at
times hundreds of cases in the city.
"When engineers asserted that the
■building of the Wildwood storage res
ervoir. the construction of the inter
ceptor sewer along Paxton creek, the
paving of the bottom of the creek, the
Improvement of the drainage system
and the erection of a sanitary dam at
the lower end of the city across the
river would eliminate the malarial
r.uisance in Harrisburg there were
many who were skeptical. The im
provements have been made as rec
ommended and malaria has disap
p«ared. If the people of Harrisburg
had received no other benefit from the
vast sums expended on public works in
this city during the past fifteen years
the price would not have been exces
sive.
WELL WORTH CONSIDERING
THE suggestion that the cost of
increasing the width of the Mar
ket street subway be procured
before the city commits itaelf to the
erection of a bridge over the Pennsyl
vania railroad tracks at Walnut street
Is well worth considering. As Mr.
Taylor says, there will be eventually
a commodious subway at State street
and if it be found that a wider pas
sage at Market street, combined with
adequate facilities at State, will pro
vide the people of the Hill district
with proper highway communication
at a cost cheaper than that of a bridge
then it would be foolish to build a
bridge. The investigation which Mr.
Taylor asks can have no ill-effect on
the bridge project and it may bring
out some very profitable information.
At all events council should give the
matter due attention.
BUSINESS IN GOVERNMENT
DOUBTLESS the European war had
some part in producing the six
and a half million dollar deficit
in postal business, but there are some
circumstances that point to other con
tributing causes. Eor instance, it seems
to be one of the theories of this ad
ministration that practical experience
is of minor value in determining fitness
for responsible positions in the postal
service.
When Woodrow Wilson became
President one of his heaviest responsi
bilities was that of choosing a Post
master General. The responsibility
was great because the postal service
is the most extensive and most com
plex feature of governmental operations
and affects the business and personal
Interests of all the people. That depart
ment handles more than $300,000,000
a year in receipts and disbursements.
L'pon the efficiency of this service
largely depends the prompt, con
•venlent and satisfactory dispatch of
private business.
The postal service is complex be
cause It involves not merely the han
dling of mail in post offices, but the
"Collection and delivery of mail in
cities, collection and delivery on rural
routes, transportation by rail, by star
route and by steamboat, management
money order business and operation
of the parcel post and postal savings
bank. Scarcely any enterprise in the
.United States presents so many varied
problems as does the postal service.
President Wilson knew this. Did he
i«ndeavor to place at the head of the
department a man already possessed
,of practical knowledge of postal af
fairs? Not at all. Of course he would
.appoint a Democrat. Quite properly
lie would seek for available men in
jCongress. though he might have found
good men in the department itself.
There were seven Democrats on the
Senate committee on post offices and
;jiost roads and fourteen on the corre
sponding committee In the House. All
twenty-one men were familiar
.■with postal affairs through their an
•tuiajl study of the post office appro-
THURSDAY EVENING,
priation bill and other bills affecting
tho postal service.
Not one of them was called to the
head of the Post Office Department.
Neither did the selection go to a man
of large experience in private business.
The appointment went to a Texas con
gressman who began practicing law
when he was twenty-one. held po
sitions continuously as city and district
attorney for eleven years and then
went to Congress, where he served
fourteen years.
Inspection of the Congressional Rec
ord fails to show that Mr. Burleson
e\er served on the post office com
mittee or took any part in the discus
sion of postal affairs. He was in no
way Identified with the enactment of
the parcel post law—the most impor
tant development In the postal service
in recent years. However good a law
yer he may have been, he had no
special fitness for the business man
agement of so large and so compli
cated a public service as the Post Office
Department.
No private enterprise would have
selected a manager in any such man
ner. If it did. It would certainly meet
the fate the postal service has met in
its financial accounts. No factory, con
struction company or other large con
cern doing a business of $300,000,000
a year could succeed if such policies
prevailed in the selection of a manager.
Undoubtedly, Mr. Burleson was a
good prosecuting attorney, and his
seven elections to Congress are strong
evidence that he is a good politician.
But his lack of special qualification for
the position of Postmaster General,
together with his experience in poli-
I tics, is not altogether reassuring to
those American citizens who think
there is more need for business man
agement than for politics In the postal
service.
If the League of Peace plan is suc
cessful. Mr Taft will learn that there
is something bigger and better than
the Presidency of the United States.
TINCTURING FICTION WITH FACT
CLEVELAND MOFFET, in a re-'
cent rather lurid magazine
article dealing with a supposi
tious invasion of the United States by
Germany in 1921, locates one of the
United States government concentra
tion troop camps at Gettysburg.
Evidently Mr. Moffet must have read
rather closely the newspaper reports
of the fiftieth anniversary reunion of
the great battle, else he would not
have selected a site so far off the
mainline of any railroad for his en
campment The files of the Telegraph |
show that during the five days of
the reunion the Reading handled 103,-
000 persons in and out of Gettys
burg over this spur without a single
accident and with no loss of time.
Officials of the company said they
could have carried half as many more
without overcrowding. Mr. Moffet
has tinctured his Imaginative pas
sages with just enough fact to make
them sound convincing to the man
who does not think beyond the writ
ten word.
A Chicago girl by the name of Anna
Talkmuch has Just been married We
suppose she will reserve her maiden
name for use when desirable.
PEACE TALK.
THE effect of the latest axchange
of views between Washington
and Berlin upon the relations of
the United States and Germany has
continued to monopolize attention and
discussion this week. While there is
practical unanimity that the Presi
dent must be upheld the time that
has elapsed since the sinking of the
Lusitania has brought out one fact
with impressive force. This is that
the man in the street does not want
to see the United States involved In
war with any of the European
belligerents. To those who can re
member the events of IS9B, the pres
ent contrast with the overwhelming
popular demand for the punishment
of Spain which then existed is most
impressive. As illustrating this point,
a New Tork newspaperman of note
writes:
To learn the average American's
view of the situation, I spent two
days this week getting the opin
ions of all sorts and conditions of
representative Americans on this
subject. These are not people who
are quoted in newspapers, but those
who really make up sound public
opinion. To get an average point of
view I have talked with hundreds
of men in all walks of life, from
laborers to the heads of some of the
greatest corporations in the coun
try. The surprising thing about
these interviews was the simllarltv
of the views expressed. Aside from
the futility of a war between the
United States and Germany at this
time, which nearly all of those
questioned referred to, the common
expression was one of pride that the
United States alone among the
world's great powers has kept out
of the war. and a belief that a bet
ter way can be found of adjusting
the present difficulty than to plunge
into the maelstrom. Criticism of
Germany's first note Is general, but
the average man holds that there
are two sides to every question and
that calm consideration of this fact
should lead to a friendly under
standing. The clamor of pro-Ger
mans and pro-Allies does not shake
him In his desire that America
should use every effort to remain on
terms of friendship with all the
countries now at war.
And now from Berlin comes the
news that the German people feel
precisely the same way about it and
that powerful newspapers are urging
the Imperial Government to move I
for peace with the United States,!
advancing some of the most reason
able arguments that yet have been
brought out to support their conten
tions. While public opinion and
newspaper influence in Germany do
not have the weight with respect to
government policies th%\- have in the
United States, nevertheless they will
play their part In the present negotia
tions, and where the bulk of the
populations of two nations are dead
set against war, it is scarcely likely
that there will be war.
Divine favor seems to have been
shifted from the vicinity of Jerusalem
to the United States. Two bumper
wheat crops In successive years Is too
much tc ascribe merely to good luck.
A DFATH-BKD CONVERSION.
ACCORDING to neA's dispatches,
every sentence of death by
court martial/In Belgium here
after must be er/jorsed by Emperor
WilUam before/ the prisoner® are
executed. The Emperor is said to
have telegraphed these instructions
on learning that eight citizens of
Liege had been shot for alleged mili
tary offenses and that twenty others
were In prison awaiting a similar
fate.
It ia to be hoped that this will mark
the end of the savagery that has
marked the German Invasion of Bel
gium. So much evidence has been
brought out to prove the charges of
wholesale butchery In that devastated
country that there can be no longer
any question concerning them. 'ln
deed. this very intervention of Em
peror William is proof positive that
even he believes the German author
ities to have overstepped. If he did
not think so there would have been
no call for such an order as he has
just Issued. But it is a death-bed
conversion. Germany stands con
victed of an awful crime against
humanity in Belgium and the saving
of a few from the slaughtered thou
sands will not lessen the enormity of
the offense.
A man went fishing near Johnstown
yesterday and committed suicide by
climbing a pole and taking hold of a
live wire. We knew fishing in Cambria
county was poor, but we never supposed
it was as bad as all that.
I 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT
Iln declining to be sunk by a mine or
torpedo, the Xebraskan was following
the precedent set by another well-
I known Nebraskan. who has been sailing
in the political war zone for a number i
of years.—Chicago Herald.
In view of the Austrians' assertions. \
made when they lost Przemysl. that |
the city was of little importance, any- |
way. the Teutons seem to "nave gone to '
undue trouble to get it back again.— |
Philadelphia North American.
Among the captains of the United
States Navy on the active list just 1
published, are: Augustus Fechteler i
John Hotogewerff. Gustav Kaemmer
ling. Emil Theiss. George Kline. Joseph
Straus. E. W. Eberle. loyal Americans,
all.—Syracuse Standard.
[ TELEORAPH PERISCOPE
. I
—The "silly season" has reached Its I
height. Western statesmen again have
begun to divide Pennsylvania into j
two States.
—No. Maude, the "Full Crew" has no j
connection with the temperance ques
tion. '
—An optimist is a person who expects I
to find the bathing girls as attractive I
as they appeal on the resort posters.
—Bryan is the man who put the "dip" |
in diplomacy.
—About the only sensation the pres. i
ent war has not produced is a battle •
between an aeroplane and a submarine !
—Possibly they are called baseball I
| "fans" because they stir up so much
hot air.
—Says an exchange editorially:
"Under the Democratic administration
the interests of the workingman have
been advanced.' And the cost of living,
too.
WE HUMBLY APOLOGIZE.
(From Philadelphia Record.)
The Harrisburg Telegraph, in refer
ring to Mr. Bryan's recent antics, in
fers that the days of demagogues are
over Hardly, in view of the fact that
within the city of Harrisburg on the
I very date of the publication of this'
opinion Mr. Bryan was denounced by j
some of his professing friends of a!
few months ago who induced him to
come into Pennsylvania and mix his
voice with the noise they were then
making.
THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
(From Louisville Courier-Journal)
In the resignation of Mr. Bryan the
inevitable has come to pass. Why It
was delayed so long is a puzzle to
those who. possessing some knowl
edge of the President and the Secre
tary of State, counted from the out
set their disagreement as but a ques
tion of time. Two men more unlike
In temperamental outfit and Intel
lectual equipment were never yoked
together in the same service.
Observing that since the clash of
arms in Europe the Secretary of State!
has been a millstone not only around j
the President's neck, but around the I
country's neck as well, it is but fair j
to say that, prior to these untoward;
times, he had made himself indis
pensable.to the legislation which Mr.
Wilson sought of Congress and thus
to the immediarc success of the Ad
ministration. Spite of some personal I
gaucheri«s which brought Mr Bryan'
into ridicule, but did not impair his!
party standing, he lent a helping hand I
to measures which elsewise had gone I
astray. There was a glimpse of fric- |
tion in the matter of Prohibition. But ]
this was in a way tided over. The
break comes therefore suddenly, a
bolt out of the blue, when the public
was least expecting it.
Yet the relief, which most thought
ful people feel that at a supreme mo
ment a most unequal Foreign Minister
is disposed of, takes second place in
their minds by the assurance that his
exit means no backdown of the Gov
ernment, or lowering of the flag be
fore duties which, however repugnant,
are inexorable.
OXE MILLION DOLLARS
Rose Stahl. who Impersonates the
working girl so cleverly, tells the fol
lowing story anent the crowded condi
tions of the slums.
Three pretty girls of fourteen or fif
teen talked, as they sat making artifi
cial flowers, about what they'd do if
they each had a million dollars.-
"I'd buy a house at Coney and live
there all the year round," said the first
girl.
"I'd buy automobiles and diamonds |
and live in Europe," said the second.
The third little girl, heaving a sigh I
of divine content at the thought, said:
"I'd sleep alone."—Young's Magazine, j
TO MEADE D. DETWEILER
The absent one we mourn and vainly j
look for through our tears.
Was bound to us by sacred ties through
all the passing years;
We miss to-day his cheerful face, but
his mem'ry cannot fade
Till life and love and friendship in a
common grave are laid.
And the pulsings and the strivings of
mankind are at an end.
And the present with the future in one
symphony shall blend.
And the choirs of heaven proclaim, in
anthems most sublime.
Eternity's good-morning and the last
good-night or time!
Rend bv Fred C. Hand, past exalt
ed ruler. Scranton lodge. No. 123. Elks,
at Flag Day exercises before Detweiler
monument on Monday.
A LEGEND THAT WAS HISTORY
fFrom the Philadelphia Press ]
Seldom in the history of science had
such complete proof been given of the
truthful origin of a cave in Nevada
recently, filled with relics believed to
be of the ancient race from which ttn»
North American Indians sprung. Every
thing pointed to the fact that the cave
had been sealed by nature more than
3,000 years ago and one of the fossil
ized skulls found in the cavern Is be
lieved to be 5.000 years old—older than
the famous Plttdown skull found In
Kent. England.
Yet th» story of that cave and the
lives of the ancient people whose relics
were found within had been handed
down through the generations b<-. word
of mouth with such accuracy and truth
that it fT'ilded the scientists to the cave
itself. The story had come first to civi
lization through General Fremont, the
great explorer, when he led a little
band of whites through the Piute coun
itry in Nevada in 1844.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
"~POI£T£C4 CK
T&KKQUIVCCKUI
By (he Ex-Committeeman
Dauphin county's Democratic com
mittee was not the only one in the
State of Pennsylvania that expressed
itself on the subject of William Jen
nings Bryan's retirement from the
cabinet, although the action of few
committees has been as widely dis
cussed in the State as that of the
committee in Vance C. McCormick s
home county. On the same day that
the Dauphin people were calling Bryan
names the Wayne county Democratic
committee was regretting that the erst
while "peerless leader" had taken it
into his head to act as he did. The
Wayne countians adopted resolutions
endorsing the President quite as
strongly as did the Dauphin countians.
William J. Ferber was elected chair
man and Ray J. Brown, secretary.
Wayne county has been more or less
inclined to the reorganization crew.
In Cambria it is said that only the
influence of Congressman W. W. Bai
ley prevented the Cambria county
Democratic committee from passing
resolutions criticising the Xebraskan.
Bailey is a very warm admirer of Bry
an and as he was re-elected last Fall
he is quite a factor. Bailey also inti
mates that when the time comes he
will tell a few things. In the meeting
at Ebensburg John X. Cooney retired
as chairman and Philip P. Starkey,
who is well-known here, was elected
chairman. Senator Horace A. Tomp
kins and ex-Representative Joseph A.
Gray were mentioned for chairman but
declined to be candidates.
—State Chairman William E. Crow,
who is regarded as the most likely man
to succeed Senator George T. Oliver in
the United States Senate, left for home
yesterday saying that he planned to
keep in close touch with the various
county organizations during the sum
mer. Friends of the Fayette senator
believe that he will announce his
candidacy for senator some time in the
Fall. Already he has been assured of
considerable support in the eastern
counties if he determines to run.
—Xorthumberland county Demo
crats are commencing to prepare for a
lively campaign this Fall and believe
that they are going to have troubles
because of Bryan. The county has
never been very keen for the reorgani
zation element and this may add to the
troubles.
—Willian) P. Young, a Montgomery
| county lawyer, who endeavored to break
i into the limelight as a candidate for a
! legislative office in the organization of
ithe session of 1913. is out as a candi
date for judge in Montgomery county
on a no-license platform. He will op
pose John Faber Miller, appointed to
the bench last winter. Young was a
! delegate to the Republican national
(convention and followed Roosevelt into
I the progressive convention.
—Lieutenant-Governor Frank B.
| McClain is to make two speeches the
\ latter part of this week. He will speak
in Philadelphia and on Saturday will
appear before the Bucks County Re
publican committee to speak on Re
publicanism.
—Roscoe B. Smith, of Wilkes-Barre,
one of the young attorneys of Luzerne
county, has been named as commis
sioner for that district by Judge W"it
mer. He is a Dickinson graduate.
—Ex-Judge W. D. Wallace, of New
[Castle, was here yesterday. There are
rumors that the judge may be a candi
date for the nomination, but he has
not talked that way.
—Congressman T. S. Butler, of West
Chester, is out in strong speeches on
the need of preparedness for war. The
Congressman is one of the big figures
in that part of the State and his
speeches are attracting much atten
tion.
—George W. Sassaman. of Reading,
one of the members of the session of
1913, will be a candidate for the Dem
ocratic senatorial nomination in "Alt
Berks" next year.
—The general appropriation bill this
year carries Items i"or the expenses of
the members of the electoral college
which will meet here after the presi
dential election of 1916.
—Among visitors to the city yester
day was Judge S. McC. Swope. of the
Adams-Fulton district, one of the
prominent jurists of the southern tier.
The judge spent a short time in the
city and greeted a number of acquaint
ances. It is generally believed that
friends of the judge will induce him
to be a candidate for renomination.
Ex-Senator D. P. McPherson. who is
very well known to many Harrisburg
ers. may be a candidate for the nomi
nation, too. Few people regard it as
likely that Fulton county will enter a
candidate unless the contest should
divide Adams county.
It is generally believed in Philadel
phia. that within a short time the Re
publican leaders will have that "round
table" conference of which City Chair
man Lane has been talking and will
decide upon candidates for mayor. It
is said that friends of Colonel Lewis
J. Kolb. a member of the Governor's
staff, will boost him very strongly.
NEW STEEL MERGER
[From Pittsburgh Dispatch]
The merger of the Cambria Steel
Company, with works at Johnstown,
and the Pennsyl%-ania Steel Company,
with plant at Steelton, foreshadowed
for some time, is now announced to be
on the verge of completion. The
present capital of each company is
$50,000,000, but this, it is understood,
is to be doubled, and Improvements
and enlargements made sufficient to
give the reorganized $200,000,000 cor
poration an annual capacity of 2,000,-
000 tons.
W r hile the companies have had an
identity of interest, the consolidation
will assure closer co-operation and the
new capital will be available for addi
tions necessitated by the improved
business outlook. The merger is sig
nificant of the optimism In business
induced by the recent decision in the
steel corporation case, indicating that
there will be no further attempts to
restrict proper and lawful business ex
pansions by legitimate combination
either at home or abroad. The
launching of the project is an evi
dence of the confidence In present and
future trade conditions held by lead
ers in the financial and industrial
field.
SECRET DIPLOMACY
SHOULD BE ABOLISHED
[From Xew York American.l
In his remarkable series of articles
entitled "Common Sense About the
War" G. Bernard Shaw says: "Our
autocratic foreirrn policy, in which the
Secretary of Foreign Affairs makes
war and concludes war without con
sulting the nation or confiding in it, or
even refraining from deceiving it as to
his intentions, leads inevitably to a
disastrous combination of war and
unpreparedness for war. I therefore
suggest that the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs be powerless to fire a
shot or sign a treaty without authority
of the house of commons, and that
nil diplomatic business be conducted
in a blaz® of publicity." These frank
and sensible words of Shaw exactly fit
our own American case.
SELF EVIDENT
[Seattle Post-Intelligencer.]
Japan's "Monroe doctrine," it Is an
nounced. Is "Asia for the Asiatics."
Of course. It goes without saying that
the Asiatics primarily in view are the
i Japanese.
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
VACATION PLANS ARE NOW DECIDED UPON
—From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger.
I WOMAN MAYOR IN TEARS
C[From the Minneapolis Journal.]
HICAOO.—Mrs. A. R. Canfleld,
elected mayor of Warren, 111.,
last month, came to Chicago "to
broaden her views and learn some
thing of the ways of the big world
outside." She went to her lodgings
with tears in her eyes, so deeply was
she affected by what she saw.
From cafe to cafe she hurried in a
taxlcab. At A 1 Tierney's cafe flashy
dressed men and women turned in
their seats as the woman, now over TO,
who had come to "learn something of
the ways of the world" passed.
Once in her seat, she looked around.
At the table to her left sat a young
girl and a man. Both were drinking.
Her eyes became fixed upon the end
of the long room, where couples were
dancing. Two girls brushed against
her chair as they passed. One of them
locked down and giggled.
Mrs. Canfield's escort watched her
closely. He remembered having read
of her as a fighter. He recalled her
domination of a belligerent village
council. He expected to see something
of the spirit which In less than two
weeks had brought to the woman at
Our Daily Laugh
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WHEN YOU MISS
By Wing Dinger
When, with a good drive you start oft
In playing at the game of golf.
And figure how in two strokes more
You'll make the green with prefect
score—
But mJss the ball on number two,
As doubtless you at times will do.
Oh, tell me, brother, tell me, pray.
In such a case what do you say?
The answer is a simple one.
Of course, if you are all alone.
But ofttlmes there will ladies be
Who've come out just your play to see.
They're close enough to hear you speak,
No matter how low you may squeak—
Oh. tell me, brother, tell me, pray.
When they're around what do you say?
A DAY IN JUNE
And what so rare as a day in June!
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries earth if it be in
tune
And over it softly her warm ear
lays. *
Whether we look or whether we listen
We hear life murmur, we see it
glisten
Every clod feels a stir of might,
An instinct within that reaches and
towers,
And groping blindly above it for light,
Climbs to a soul in grass and
flowers;
The flush of life may well be seen
Thrilling back over hills and
valleys;
The cowslip startles in meadows green
The buttercup catches the sun in Its
chalice,
And there's never a leaf nor a blade
too mean
To be some happy creature's palace;
The little bird sits at his door in the
sun,
Atilt like a blossom among the
leaves,
! And lets his illumined being o'errnn
With the deluge of summer it
receives;
His mate feels the eggs beneath her
wings,
And the heart in her dumb breast
flutters and sings;
He sings to the wide world and she
to her nest —
In the nice ear of nature which song
is the best?
—JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
STILL AT IT
(From' New York Times)
W. J. Bryan has lost none of his old
facility in writing himself down an
ass. "I am glad to note the change in
the tone of the press in regard to the
note to Germany," he says. He is the
only man in the world who has ob
served any change in the tone of the
press. "It is a relief to find that the
papers are emphasizing the friendly
tone of the note and pointing out that
It does not necessarily mean war."
That is more of Mr. Bryan's sapiency.
"But without exception the newspapers
emphasized the friendly tone of the
two previous notes, signed by Mr.
Bryan himself, although it is the gen
eral opinion that those notes were
written in languages of greater firm
ness than the note of June 9.
TIME TO QUIT
T Judge.]
When two people's chief delight is
in each doing what the other doesn't
want done, it's time they divided the
woodpile and went their separate ways.
. JUNE 17, 1915.
his side the sobriquet of "The Fight
ing Mayor of Warren." But he was
disappointed.
There were tears in Mrs. Canfield's
eyes as she looked away from the
revelers.
"Where are all their mothers?" she
asked.
"Doesn't it feel good to be outside in
the air—out here where It is dark?"
she asked. "Somehow I know all this
is wrong and yet It takes all the fight
i out of me.
"That girl we just saw seemed so
young and innocent. I heard once that
bad is only good gone wrong. I never
understood that until to-night.
"Do you know what I believe? I
believe that girls will continue to live
that way until we get wisdom and tol
erance—tolerance to give us sympathy
and understanding and wisdom to
teach us that vice exists because the
! people have studied how to make it
attractive.
"When I go back to Warren," she
said, "I will do everything in my power
to make the town attractive to young
girls. If only I can keep Warren girls
in Warren, I shall be happy."
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES"
A great many opinions have been
expressed on the new anonymous
novel, "Getting a Wrong Start," but
these have, with few exceptions, been
written by reviewers who were not
informed as to the authorship of the
volume. One has recently been re
ceived by the publishers which is of
special interest because it comes from
one who knows the maker of that
optimistic little book. After referring
to his acquaintance with the author
of "Getting a Wrong Start," this cor
respondent says: "I like the work
immensely and lam sure it will be of
benefit to those upon whom discour
agement sometimes sits heavily. I
find it a true erflection of the author
and into it he has woven his own
courage, hopefulness and wholesome
ness."
It is somewhat surprising that the
identity of the author has not been
discovered by any of the critics whoo
have passed upon it for, as this let
ter bears out, the story is faithful in
its narration of the life and career
of a now well-known novelist.
Katrina Trask's peace play, "In the
"Vanguard, which lias been read many
times by clergymen and by platform
speakers, is being produced this week
in Buffalo by a stock company. The
production was undertaken at the re
quest of men and women interested in
the establishment of world-wide peace,
and is but another recognition of the
merit of Mrs. Trask's work, which has
been pronounced by critics to be the
most powerful plea for peace ever
penned.
The girl who is going to college next
year is fortunate in having at her com
mand the small volume "Talks to
Freshmen Girls" written bv Helen
Hawes Brown. Miss Brown "is a col
lege woman herself, a graduate of
\ assar, and she knows, both from her
own experiences and from a large ac
quaintance with college girls, the diffi
l culties which beset a girl when she first
I enters the college world. In four chap
ters she discusses the question both
, from the academic and the personal
point of view, suggesting wisely what
influences to cultivate and what to
curb.
Pell-Laimbeer $750,000
Damage Suit Against
Railway Company Begins
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Photo shov Osgood Pell,
whose husband with William S. Laim
beer was killed at a grade crossing on
a Long Island railway, when his auto
was struck by a locomotive. Claim
ing that this crossing was improperly
guarded the widows of the men killed
have brought suit against the railway
company for $750,000 damages, of
which Mrs. Pell claims damage to the
| extent of |E>OO,OOO.
Stoning Oltjat,
Governor Brumbaugh remarked to a
friend the other day that he had Just
as much trouble with the little bills as
the big ones and that some of a few
lines were Just as difficult to handle
as those of twenty pages. As a mat
ter of fact, there have been half a
dozen bills of less than six lines eaah
this session which have been of mo
mentous Importance. The full crew
repealer is not a very large bill and
yet it has potentialities as great as
some of the bills of fifty times its size.
The largest bill to be signed was the
borough code and the shortest were a
couple of repealers. One bill was only
three lines long. The Governor has
literally Isolated himself since ha be
gan to act on bills. He took them seri
ously and after reading the briefs and
memoranda filed on them by the At
torney General and his assistants,
heads of departments or people inter
ested he often sent them back with
some of those barbed-wire questions in
his scratchy handwriting. These ques
tions were on little slips of paper
which bore the legend "Governor's
memoranda" and more than one de
partment chief found that the Gov
ernor came back pretty strong when
he thought he had given an expla
nation that would suffice. Dr. Brum
baugh set some precedents in acting
on bills and the State has not gotten
used to them.
• • •
A man who is very fond of cherries
and who has a number of trees in
which he takes great pride has corno
to the conclusion that there is only
one way to prevent robins from steal
ing the fruit. He has tried various
schemes, including placing a stuffed
cat in a tree and hanging bits of glass
or tin on branches so that when the
wind blew It would cause them to
make sounds and also to reflect the
sunlight. The other day, he said,
nothing worked and a neighbor sug
gested that he hang bells in the trees.
"You might sit around and ring the
bells, too." remarked the friend. The
next night he heard a regular dinner
bell rung at intervals. His cherry
loving neighbor had concluded that
he was trying to "kid" him and, seeing
a storm was due. hung a. dinner bell
where the wind would have full sway.
It did.
• * •
Curious phraseology frequentlv ap
pears in the wills admitted to probate
from time to time by Register of Wills
Roy C. Danner, but it is doubtful if
any instrument more unique in its lan
guage has ever been filed in Dauphin
county than the last testament of
Benjamin Brenner. The will was writ
ten in the original Hebrew and is the
first of the kind penned in that lan
guage to be probated in this country.
David F. Baker, the official court in
terpreter, worked several hours on
the will in translating it to English.
In closing the will Brenner wrote:
"There should be no complaints. I
wish that this will be recognized as
those of the best, wills written." The
instrument, by the way. was dated
May 26, 1912, but the date as written
by Brenner is fixed in ancient Hebrew
as follows: "13th day Sivan, in the
year 5676."
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Some real problems in finance mod
eled upon the kind that the country's
"captains of industry", frequently
work out in practice are often in
cluded in the course of study pre
scribed for the local school of the
Wharton school of finance of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. An assistant
to one of the trust officers in a leading
banking institution recentlv exhibited
just such a problem with a pardonable
air of pride. "Of course, I'm not
sure." said he, "but I think this is the
plan of the Wabash railroad for float
ing a bond issue." The student mod
estly admitted that he had solved the
problem.
• • *
"Closed for repair," a small sign
hanging for several weeks on the
elevator of the Post Office building,
to which an addition is being built,
meant climb the stairs if you wanted
to get to one of the offices on the
upper floors. But the elevator boy,
not being busy, just strolled in to see
how the old piece of machinery was
and also if his sign was still working.
"Well, who in thunder did that?"
were his first words. Someone had
crossed out the word "repair" and sub
stituted another so that the sign read
"Closed for-Ever."
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Speaker Charles A. Ambler, who
was here a day or so ago to see the
Governor about the Fourth of July
celebration in Philadelphia, savs that
the indications are that it will be ono
of the most notable events of the kind
ever held and that it is the plan to
make It the first of an annual cele
bration which shall be national in
scope.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~
—Harris J. Latta, the new president
of the Rotary Club of Philadelphia, is
well known to many residents of this
city because of frequent visits.
—Governor Brumbaugh has been
elected a trustee of the University of
Pittsburgh.
—William Whitaker, burgess of
Whitaker, opened the bridge between
that town and McKeesport and de
clared it free.
—Boyd Crumrine, of the library
commission, was host to members of
his class in Washington and Jefferson
at his home in Washington. They
graduated in 1860.
—Ralph DePalma, the speed king,
is on a tour of this state to see the
scenery.
—Thomas Shallcross, prominent
Philadelphia real estate man, has gone
to Los Angeles.
| DO YOU KNOW
That Hurrlsburjj's Mulberry street
bridge has been more written
about than any bridge In the state
to the last few years?
NAVY LEAGUE'S PLAN
[From New York Times.]
Nobody can doubt the absolute sin
cerity of the Navy League. Its mem
bers are well informed men whose
anxiety for the improvement of the
national defenses is due to their exact
knowledge of the situation. But we
are inclined to think that their de
mand for a special session of Con
gress and the immediate appropriation
of $500,000,000 for the army and navy
Is somewhat extravagant. The move
ment in favor of strengthening our de
fenses is wholesome, and we hope it
will be kept up with unabated energy,
but the immediate expenditure of
$500,000,000 the regular appro
priations seems unnecessary.
CIVIC CLUB '
Fly Contest
June 1 to July 31
5 Cents a Pint
Prizes of $5, $2.50 and several
SI.OO ones
duplicated by Mr. Ben Strouse