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For July
V
Including latest
dance hits, song hits,
operatic and concert
selections by great
artists—go
On Sale Te-morrow
Come in and Hear Them
J, It. Troup Music House
Troup Building
15 South Market Square
Even If Old Mr. Moon
Doesn't Get Busy It
Really Doesn't Matter
Even If the moon doesn't get busy
when he's needed hereafter the
Twelfth street playgrounds and the
section of River Front park from Pax
ton street southward will not suffer
any from a lack of light—the new
electric standards will be ready for
business at both points possibly by to
morrow night, certainly by Monday or
Tuesday at the latest.
On the Twelfth street playgrounds
fltfteen of the lights are now being in
stalled by the Harrisburg Light and
Power Company and these will be
ready for service to-morrow night so
the company has informed Mr. Taylor.
The cable for the sixteen standards
that will be placed along the top of
the park embankment between Iron
alley and Paxton street Is in place and
a force of men will begin the con
necting of the equipment early in the
week.
FOUR BIG BLUECOATS
LIBERTY BELL GUARDS
[Continued from First Page.]
lowing instructions were sent today
by Secretary D. D. Hammelbaugh of
the HarriHburg School Board to all
school principals.
"All pupils desiring to see the bell
will assemble at Front and Market
streets at 6:30 p. m. on Monday, July
6, 19X6.
"All teachers who are willing to
help take charge of the children on
that day and march with them to
view the bell are requested to send
their names to me not later than Fri
day, June 18, 1915.
"Companies D and I of the Na
tional Guard will parade with the
children and act as a guard at the
railroad station to soe that the crowd
does not interfere with the children.
"Each child participating will be
presented with a small flag of our
country and a card containing a his
tory of the bell."
President Boyer Gives
48 Tech Boys Diplomas
Forty-eight Tech graduates were
given diplomas by Harry A. Boyer,
president of the School Board, at the
conclusion of ttie ninth annual com
mencement exercises in Tech audi
torium, last evening. More than 1,000
persons attended the exercises.
Professor Rromley Smith, of Buclc
nell University, spoke on the Lusltania
crisis and the present position of me
United States. Normal S. Stlteler, salu
tatorlan, spoke on "The Fundamental
Cause of War." C. Stephen Anderson
delivered an oration on "The Basis of
Good Government in the Republic." He
was followed by John C. Wohlfarth,
with "A Plea For Adequate National
Defense." Franklin A. Metzler, vale
dictorian, took for his oration, "The
Environment of the School Boy." Don
ald Cresswell, president of the Alumni
Association, gave Metzler the alumni
prize of $25. Professor F. E. Downes,
superintendent of city schools, presid
ed at the exercises.
UNION OPPOSES USE OF
LIQUOR IN CHRISTENING
By Associated Prtss
Chicago, 111., June 18. The National
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
with ROO.OOO members, is against the
use of alcoholic liquors in the christ
ening of the Arizona."
THE DIPLOMA
Should Be
Framed
Not only for the sake of as
sociation; but as well, for tha
■aka of preservation.
Saltzgiver's framing is
what your diploma de
serves, for like the di
ploma ; our framing repre
sents the study and ex
perience of years. It is
the best to be had, at a
cost surprisingly low.
Saltzgiver's Art and
Antique Shop
228 N. SECOND ST,
FRIDAY EVENING,
£?TRP'i
NEW MILL WILL HELP
GET MORE BUSINESS
Plant Now Equipped to Make Sur
plus of Steel "Shapes";
To Roll Ship Steel
The Pennsylvania Steel Company is
fast completing its Improvements and
chain of new mills at the local plant
which will enable it to compete with
other companies on a more advan
tageous footing than formerly.
By the placing in operation a few
days of its new 28-inch finishing
mill the company is now able to supply
all its own requirements for steel
shapes. With a capacity of 30,000
tons, per month, the new mill will give
a surplus above the company's own
needs which may be sold to other
consumers.
The 3,000 tons of shapes required
for the second Munson Line steamship
to be built at the Sparrows Poitn plant,
it was announced In Philadelphia this
morning, will be rolled In Steelton.
To meet an increased demand for
open hearth steel the fifth furnace in
this department was placed in op
eration yesterday. This leaves the
number of furnaces in operation still
considerably below that of a few weeks
ago.
Work on the new 125-foot stand
pipe at the foot of Swatara street is
progressing. The two huge inlet pipes
through which the water will be forced
into the standpipe have been put into
place within the past few days.
Steelton Snapshots
Finger Crushed.—Edward Jenkins,
a machinist, had a finger crushed at
the steel works yesterday.
To Address Bible Class.—Professor
J. A. Spenkle, of New Cumberland,
will speak berore the men's Bible class
in St. John's Lutheran Church Sunday
on "Temperance."
Entertain for Daughter.—Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Taylor entertained a
number of friends at their home, 32
South Second street, last evening in
honor of their daughter Jane's birth
day.
Disagree Over Work. ln the office
of Squire Gardner, this morning,
George W. Mitchell and his wife,
Amelia, aired a few of their domestic
woes. Mitchell was held for court to
answer charges of assault preferred
by his wife. Mrs. Mitchell asserts that
hubbie hit her over the ear when she
urged him to go to work.
Sickness Passim. Health officers
are puzled over the cause of the illness
yesterday of several members of the
family of Mrs. Margaret Punch, 424
North Harrisburg street. Infected
water or food is believed to be the
cause.
To Give Entertainment. Pupils In
St. Mary's Parochial school will give an
Interesting entertainment in Croatlon
Hall to-night.
FUNERAL OF MRS. PETROFF
Funeral services for Mrs. Clara Pe
troff, aged 73, who died yesterday, will
be held in St. James' Catholic Church
to-morrow morning. Burial will be
made in Mount Calvary Cemetery.
"MARRYING SQUIRE" BUSY
Squire T. V. Gardner enhanced his
reputation as a "marrying squire" yes
terday In the attorneys' room at the
Courthouse. In the presence of a num
ber of attorneys he officiated at the
ceremony that made George E. "De
kins and Lena Stanton, of Harrisburg,
man and wife.
GOVERNOR CUTS I
OFF $1,380,000
[Continued from First Page.]
appropriation for payment of cost of
advertising constitutional amendments
is reduced from $225,000 to $200,000.
The Department of Internal Affairs,
which was heavily cut two years ago,
was cut $7,200, mostly in the land
office bureau.
Among the reductions are:
Auditor General, clerk hire, cut from
$202,200 to $196,200, while SIO,OOO is
cut from another item for clerks and
experts and $5,000 each from delin
quent tax and escheat expense items,
a total of $29,000.
Treasury Department, $12,500, most
ly clerk hire.
Attorney General, $22,000.
Banking, $26,000, mostly from fund
for examiners and expenses.
Public Instruction, $3,500.
Professional education bureau,
SIO,OOO.
Medical Licensure Bureau, $5,500.
Dental Council, SI,OOO.
Adjutant General, SII,OOO.
Insurance, $17,000.
Fire Marshal. $88,200, including
total vetoes of $5,000 for statisticiian,
$4,000 for chief clerk, $2,200 for mes
senger, SB,OOO for clerks, $21,000 for
deputies and $48,000 from traveling
and other expenses.
State Library, $10,000; State Mu
seum, $500; Free Library Commission,
$7,000; Legislative Reference Bureau,
$7,000; because bills creating places
did not become laws; State reporter of
decisions, $2,000.
Public Grounds and Buildings,
$87,000, of which $25,000 is from the
labor and salary list.
Agriculture Commission, $6 3,000, In
cluding $3,000 from expenses of com
missioners, $2 6,000 from tree pest sup
pression funds, SIO,OOO from fertilizer
inspection fund and $5,000 from farm
ers' institutes; dairy and food division,
$21,500; Livestock Sanitary Board,
$106,400, SIOO,OOO being taken from
the cattle indemnity funds.
Forestry. $107,000, mostly from
labor and rngers and foresters,
expenses of fighting fires and purchase
of new lands.
Mines, $116,000, of which SIOO,OOO
was contingent upon the approval of a
bill for assistant mine foremen, which
was vetoed.
Fisheries. $2 4,100.
State Censor, $4,000.
Printing, $41,800, including $25,000
frcm printing fund and $15,000 from
paper fund; distribution of docu
ments, $17,000.
Highway department, $48,800. The
funds for highway construction and
repair are in another bill.
Labor and Industry, Inspection,
$7,500: Industrial board, $48,000; com
pensation bureau, $20,000.
Quarantine physician, $2,600; Phila
delphia health officer, $1,640.
State police, S 16,000.
Health, laboratories, $1,400; vital
statistics, $2,900; engineering, $4,420;
dispensaries, $56,000; medical inspec
tion schools, $56,000.
Water Supply, $15,500.
Public Service Commission, general
expenses, $40,000.
Public Charities Board, $4,500.
Supreme Court, $500; Superior
Court, $1,000; orphans' court judges,
$10,000; associate Judges, $5,000.
Senate, $27,500; House, $38,750,
mostly for salaries and expenses; Legis
lative Journal, SI,OOO for Index clerk;
Legislative Handbook, compiling,
$2,000.
Miscellaneous —Payment State fiscal
agent In Philadelphia, $1,000; his
torical commission, $2,600; military
agent. $1,000; publishing monthly
statement condltlop of State Treasury,
$5,000; mercantile appraiser expenses.
Many Prizes Awarded at
Sunday School Picnic s
Event winners In the various con
tests at the union Sunday school picnic
at Mount Gretna yesterday and at the
Grace United Evangelical Sunday
School picnic at Hershey Park on
Wednesday were announced this morn
ing.
At the Mount Gretna outing the
winners were: Running race, Mrs. W.
Kluiss; coffee race, Mrs, Carl Stevick;
egg race, Mrs. Huiner; baseball throw,
Miss Anna Bannan; throwing for ac
curacy, Mrs. Elmira Detweiier; prize
hunt, Mrs. W. Klaiss; nail driving con
test, Miss Gross; grinning race, Mrs.
J. L. Porr; 60-yard dash .for girls,
Helen Paxton; auto race, Pauline
Stevick; cracker contest, Romalne Ar
nold; fat men's race, John Beidel;
lean men's race. Clayton Maurer.
One of the big features of the out
ing was the baseball game between
St. John's Lutheran and Centenary
United Brethren Sunday Schools. Cen
tenary won; score, 9 to 7. The Rev.
A. K. Wier, of Centenary Church, was
the umpire.
The Grace United Evangelical out
ing winners were: Fifty-yard dash for
boys under 8, Marlin Eshelman; 60-
yard dash for girls under 8, Marguerite
Worthington; 100-yard yard for girls
8 to 12, Sylvia Bloser; 100-yard dash
for girls 12 to 18, Leona Watson; 100-
yard dash for men, Maurice Relgart;
ball throwing for ladles, Mrs. Albert
Louder; bag race for men, Maurice
Reigart; peanut scramble, Ruth
Schlessman; coffee race, Mrs. J. M.
Cooper, Mrs. Albert Louder and Mrs.
Frank Lighter. The baseball game
between the married and single men
resulted in a 3 to 1 victory for the
married men.
OBJECTS TO BEING PUT
OUT OF BO A RUING HOUSE
When Stephen Horvath ordered
Karoly Balasky from his boarding
house, at 458 Mohn street, last evening,
according to the story the boarding
housekeeper told Squire Gardner, this
morning, Balasky went upstairs, pro
cured a knife and attempted to stab
Horvath. This morning Balasky was
arrested by Constable Gtbb.
STEEI.TON PERSONALS
Mrs. Elizabeth Stegerwalt, of Lan
caster. Is the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Geesey, Swatara street.
W. S. Greenawalt, of Monessen, was
the guest of friends here yesterday.
Mrs. Mary Trawltz and Miss Agnes
Herman are guests of Dr. and Mrs. M.
P. Hocker, Middletown.
hffIGHSPIEE 7777 !
BANQUET FOR GRADUATES
Members of the graduating class
of the teacher training course of the
United Brethren Church will be guests
this evening of the alumni association
at a banquet. The affair will be held
in the church parsonaage. The grad
uates are Miss Hetty Hastings, Miss
Martha Frutiger, Miss Lydia Erhardt,
Paul Eckenhaur, Russell Erhardt and
Clarence Lyter.
HIGHSPIKE PERSONALS
Arthur Poorman will leave to-mor
row for Philadelphia for a visit of
several days.
Mrs. Augustus Mathias is visiting
her son, the Rev. P. E. Mathias, in
Bridgeport, Conn.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Carrothers and
daughter Alice, of Shippensburg, are
the guests of R. W. Lerch.
Mr. and Mrs. James GledhiU and
children, of Warwick, are guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Muni ma.
Mr. and Mrs. James Grimes and
Charles Callahan, of Driftwood, are
visiting Mrs. Grimes' sister, Mrs. Jen
kins.
$2,000; Judges' retirement, $500; regis
tration births and deaths, first and
second class cities. $4,000; mural
paintings in Capitol, $2 2,000; State
pension fund. $2,000; psychopathic
wards, $10,000; economy and efficiency
commission, $5,000.
The SB,OOO item for expenses of the
commission to investigate municipali
ties and report on laws and defects
therein provided by the legislative
resolution passed Just before adjourn
ment day was also vetoed.
SUGGESTS MEDIATION
AS "THE WAY OUT"
[Continued from First Page.]
desire for war can be rooted out."
Cannot Be Exterminated
"Great nations cannot be extermi
nated," says Mr. Bryan. "Predictions
made at the beginning of the war i
have not been fulfilled. The British
did not destroy the German fleet in
a month; Germany did not take Paris
in two months, and the Russian army
did not eat Christmas dinner in Ber
lin. But even if extermination were
possible, It would be a crime against
civilization which no nation or group
of nations could afford to commit."
Mr. Bryan continues:
"When can peace be restored? Any
time now, if the participants are real
ly weary of this war and ready for it
to end. If any nation is not ready, let
its ruler state in clear, distinct and
definite terms the conditions upon
which it is willing to agree to peace;
then if an agreement is not reached,
blame for continuance of the war will
be upon those who make unusual de
mands."
In proposing mediation, the former
Secretary points out that The Hague
Convention expressly declares an of
fer of mediation shall not be consid
ered as unfriendly act.
To assure permanent peace, Mr.
Bryan urges that his plan of investi
gation treaties be adopted by the war
ring nations.
DR. MEYER-GERHARD
TELLS OF CONDITIONS
[Continued from First Page.]
W. S. Solf, at the latter's country
place, after a conversation with Gott
lieb Von Jagow, the foreign minister
and under secretary Zimmerman.
That Dr. Meyer-Gerhard's first ex
tended report on conditions in the
United States should have been made
to Dr. Solf is regarded as natural, in
view of the official position of the Co
lonial Secretary; and there are other
indications that Dr. Solf is taking in
terest in the question of German-
American relations.
Dr. Solf Is one of those most famil
llar with life and conditions in the
United States. He has, in fact, a good
deal of the American In his manner of
talk and action. His influence upon
Germany's policy may be expected to
be favorable to an ultimate under
standing.
It is still too early to predict what
form the German note will take. Ap
parently an endeavor will be made to
open the way to further discussions.
BASEBALL AS INSANITY CURE
San Bernardino, Cal., June 18.—
Baseball as an insanity cure is to be
tried out at the State hospital here.
The first game of a series to be play
ed by teams made up of patients and
attendants was scheduled for to-day.
The effect of the sport upon the pa
tients will be carefully noted.
HARRISBURG *&&££& TELEGRAPH
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COOL Summer Dresses For Street or Porch Wear Jj 1 yjLjM
The usual low prices of the up-town store are especially appreciated j / . pVjf^Srt
these warm days—these dainty wash dresses cost little more than the iL j/\ '
*2.00 Wash Dresses ...$1.19 *5.00 Wash Dresses . ..*3.08 *8.98 Wash Dresses ...*5.98 /ZJSS&bi
Voiles, tissues and lawns; Made of batiste and voiles, new t/ \ I l ir^P^
stripes, checks and figured figured and stripes; plenty tunic and 3-fl'are effects rf 1 | iil'K \ ' iftlL
lawns. of the black and whites. with colored silk girdles. Y j #1 •wr I\®
*1.50 Organdie Waists, *I.OO *2.50 aiul JS.OO Crepe de *5 to *9.50 Spring Costs, (y
Neatly embroidered with Chine Waists 51.98 *2.98 f^w
the new Quaker collar. flesh and 8« of this Spring s coats
Also the awning stripe, maize, in a full line of on "ale Saturday; light
(pink, blues and blacks). sizes. and dark colors.
White Shoes For Women & Children Eddy Refrigerators At considerable savings to-morrow.
Women's white pumps, canvas and poplin, plain Save ice. keep your food sanitary with a dry, 50c Nainsook Night Gowns, 25 dozen 9Q C
and blLfk trimmed high «1 QO to «9 AA cool circulation. to be sold to-morrow
d , v, ep i„ ' SI.S/O 3)«J»UU Refrigerators 818.00 up 4 styles of Longcloth Night Gowns, /IQc
0"> en 1i * Oln nr *KI Qtt Ice Boxes , .$«.50 up j ow nec i il nicely embroidered. Special
S>Z.oU oport onoes, «pi.«7o It costs VOU up to SI.OO to join Rob- $1.60 Corset—the famous Royal
White canvas oxfords with guaranteed white i J f Worcester make; 10 dozen will be (1 f|fk
rubber soles; black trimming or plain <t?-| QQ inSOn S refrigerator CIUD. sold to-morow, at «DI.UU
white ________ ————- SIL.K tXDtiKWHAK
Veranda pumps—white canvas: white (J1 EQ .« > 11/_ Women's Pure Silk Shirts, made of d»l
rubber soles W* • IVleTi. S WCOT a Milanese Silk in white and pink..
Children's white canvas to <gl OJ> $1.50 Shirts 95c Envelope Chemise of Milanese Silk, dJO Qo
pumps, Mary Jane Silk fronts, solsettes and crepes. Beautiful as- white or pink I/O
Children's Straps Pumps—white rub- CI QQ sortment of new patterns; all sizes. KNIT XJNDEBWEAR
ber soles * SI.OO Palm Beach Shirts 69c 26 dozen Ladies' Union Suits; thin OS.
The new Palm Beach color with neat contrast- g w j ss ribbed; all sizes «-OC
Special For Saturday sol"Mesh""underwear": 250 10c Swlßß r ' ,bbed Vesta ' 3 for V.'.V 25c
50 pxirs of Women's Colonial pumps—patent Shirts and drawers of white mesh; long and Union suits- all
leather, some with black cloth combination; short sleeves, ankle and knee drawers. sizes .. ... . 39c
o ntvtes a s 2 Bo'&nd m'so'"alues 10 l 51.69 '"Athle'tlc union suits, made of nainsook—all *I.OO Ladles' SUk Hose 69c
styles. $2.00 and $3.50 values g(zes Black and white and all colors.
PRESENT PROSPERITY
SMEARED WITH BLOOD
[Continued from First Page.]
last long and that we will soon be,
back on a peace basis of doing busi
ness. Wnen that day comes we will
find ourselves confronted with the
problem of doing business under the
Wilson tariff. Every well-informed
businessman knows that before this
war broke out -ve had gathered con
siderable downward momentum in the
business world under the Wilson
tariff: that had it not been for the
war we would by this time have been
flat on our industrial backs because
of the Wilson tariff; yet the Wilson
administration which gave us this
tariff is proclaiming that the war and
not the Wilson Tariff caused the acute
business troubles of recent months
and that If it were not for the war
prosperity would be with us in greater
abundance than it is. There never
was a more absolutely false doctrine
and if the European war- ends before
the Wilson tarifT is changed we will
find ourselves in a short time, facing
the same conditions that existed when
the war broke out, facing and
struggling with the same tariff prob
lems.
As to the Wilson Tariff.
"In place of being made by experts
on the subject, by men capable of
framing a tariff law along scientific
and reciprocal lines, It was made, as
all our other tariffs have been made,
by politicians along political lines.
"During the last thirty years we
have had at least five revisions of the
tariff and several attempts at revi
sion—practically a continuous per
formance of tariff tinkering for
politics only, with the result that no
body has been satisfied, business has
been periodically upset and millions
of workers have often been In sore
distress. We have never had and
never shall have, under existing con
ditions, a fair and properly balanced
tariff schedule. What we must have
is a permanent expert nonpartisan
Tariff Commission.
"A number of efforts have been
made for tariff boards and tariff com
missions, both temporary and per
manent, and numerous bills have
been Introduced. None of these bills,
however, has given the proposed com
mission the latitude and the power it
must have if the country is to re
ceive the relief and benefits It so sore
ly needs. Generally speaking, bills
have simply provided for a commis
sion to study the question, and to
"speak when It was spoken to," where
as power of initiative should be given,
also power to hear complaints and to
I make reports of recommendations.
If we are to nave a change in the
method of tariff-making that Is
worthy of our day and generation, we
must have a nonpartisan Tariff Com
mission, the personnel of which will
command the full confidence of the
people, and it must be given authority
and facilities to deal with the subject
in a big way. Given this, public
sentiment will surely see to it that the
recommendations of tt»e Commission
are followed by Congress.
"The Commission should be a sort
of Tariff Court, to which the people
of any Industry may at any time ap
ply; and upon demonstrating that
Injustice has been done and that re
lief is necessary, stops oan be taken
to have the matter promptly acted on
by Congress.
"Under the Constitution, Congress
cannot delegate the enactment of
tariff rates to a Commission. It can
•and should, however, delegate to such
Commission general supervision over
the preparation of tariff schedules;
and Congress should be guided by the
expert advice that such a Commission
would be able to give. Congress has
the power to wholly disregard the
recommendations of such a Commis
sion, and absolutely Ignore It; but as
members of Congress would undoubt
edly find such a course unpopular,
there would be little likelihood of
their doing so.
As To Merchant Marine.
"The present difficulty of trans
porting goods to other countries, be
cause of the war, makes the need of
American-owned ships more apparent
than ever. We are indulging In much
bombastic talk to the effect that New
York city is speedily to become the
financial center of the world because
of the war. This will be well nigh
impossible so long as Europe has
practically all the ships with which
to carry the goods, has the large in
dustrial organizations with which to
economically manufacture and dis
tribute the goods, and has the navies
with which to protect their great ship
ping Interests.
"You gentlemen are all familiar
with the confusion now existing In
connection with our shipping inter
ests because of the La Follette law;
you are familiar with the efforts made
last winter by Wilson and McAdoo
to establish a government-owned mer
chant marine, and you are aware that
the present administration apparently
is still determined to push this latter
idea again next winter. At the very
time when American-owned and oper
ated ships could be of greater value
than ever before In extending the
foreign commerce of this country, we
find ourselves confronted with the
confusion and uncertainty of the La
Follette bill and with the present ad
ministration's determination to give
us a government-owned merchant
marine.
As To the Corporations.
"Our policy In this respect is so
short-sighted, so absolutely stupid,
that all men are beginning to realize
how handicapped our country is in
this respect, both in its domestic and
foreign trade. The wonder is that
with the incompetent, out of date, hit
and-miss methods of our Federal
Government, in regard to the business
Interests of this country during recent
years, we as businessmen and mer
chants have been able to achieve as
much success as we have achieved.
If our national policy towards busi
ness had been as intelligent, up to
date and far-sighted as that of other
countries where business is encour
aged and fostered, our prosperity to
day would be far more permanent
and many times greater than it is. No
country that was not doubly blessed
with natural resources could possibly
survive the wretched Federal mis
management that has existed in busi
ness affairs in this country during the
past few years. Practically all our
lack of prosperity is chargeable to
Federal mismanagement that has
existed in business affairs in this
country during the past few years.
Practically all our lack of prosperity
is chargeable to Federal mismanage
ment and to political interference in
one form or another.
"I, for one, believe that there is
only one sensible, satisfactory way to
dispose of the trust question, and that
is by legislation which will create
corporations and supervise them in
the following manner:
A Solution for the Trust Question.
"First: Through the establish
ment by the Federal Government of
a competent business court, board or
commission, with power to create
Interstate and international corpora
tions, In place of having them created
as now, by some one of our forty
eight separate states.
"Second: Requiring that any
group of men desiring to organize a
business concern Intending to do busi
ness in our various States and foreign
Countries go to said court in Wash
ington and obtain a charter.
"Third: Requiring that before the
granting of any such charter the
business court or commission should
be convinced that the proposed busi
ness undertaking was to be conducted
In the public interest and that It was
not to restrain trade or acquire private
monopoly.
"Fourth: Requiring: full publicity
as to the operations of the company,
for the information of the business
oourt that, as the company proceeded
with Its business, the court might be
sure that it was not improperly re
straining trade or acquiring monopoly;
and for the protection of the public,
whose money and labor were to be
employed and whose consumers were
to be served.
"Fifth: Requiring that capitaliza
tion be honest and legitimate and rep
resent a proper value for every dollar
issued in securities.
"Sixth: Requiring that violation of
the law or the rules and regulations
of the court be punishable with im
prisonment of individuals, exactly as
is the case with National Banks,
whose officers, when guilty of wrong
doing, are punished without disturb
ing the activities of the bank. There
should be more thought of dissolving
a large properly conducted interstate
and international business, in which
many thousands of people are inter
ested as stockholders, employes and
customers, than of dissolving a great
National bank because an otflcer has
done something wrong. Such a step
should be the very last one resorted
to. Bad practices should be reached
and eradicated either by Indicting in
dividuals or by injunction.
"All this could and should be done
either at the time of organization, or
in case of necessity, subsequent to
organization, and not, as is the case
now, after a long and weary legal
battle, extending from one court to
another and covering a long period of
years.
The Tariff and the Trusts.
"The tariff and the trusts have been
the greatest assets of our politicians
and the greatest liabilities of our
businessmen. When a man could not
be elected to office with the tariff as
an issue, he has been elected with the
trusts as an issue, and vice versa. It
is high time for American business
men to awaken to this condition of af
fairs and realize that It is up to them
to take a sufficient interest in public
affairs to see to it that business has
a fair and square opportunity.
; "With the activities of the great ln
' dust rial countries of Europe diverted
! from Industry to war, now is our gol
! den opportunity to be laying a firm and
! broad foundation for international
; trade. AVhat a pity that at such a time
iwe are thinking of little else and doing
little else in the Industrial line than
making money out of war materials,
doing this when we should be laying
the foundations for a bigger, broaoer
market In all parts of the world for all
our wares that are needed In times of
peace: but under our present tariff con
ditions and because of our lack of
a business policy which any business
man can understand and safely operate
under, we find ourselves almost help
less to take advantage of the unprece
dented opportunities that offer.
Take nuHlnesa Out of Politic*
"The tariff, the trusts, and our
merchant marine are all essentially
business questions and yet they are ail
just as essentially political questions.
They must of necessity be the back
bone of our business prosperity ana
yet for years they have been the very
center and life of all the activities of
our politicians. This condition of
things cannot continue provided our
JUNE 18, 1915.
country's prosperity Is to continue.
Business and politics have been too
closely associated; they must be dis
sociated and that speedily. And yet as
businessmen meet and discuss this
question you hear them saying- that it
Is impossible to take business out ot
politics and they regard any attempt
to do it as all but hopeless. Yet why
should it be hopeless? Is the business
of England mixed up with politics in
any such way? Is the business of
France or Germany hampered and ham
strung by the politicians of those coun
tries? Ws all know it is not. Business
has been the football of politics in this
country for the past ten or a dozen
years for the following reasons:
"First. Because businessmen have
utterly neglected their civic, duties and
have allowed any cheap skate to have
any political office he sought.
"Second. Because many of our poli
ticians on the stump have resorted to
any and every kind of a subterfuge and
misstatement as regards business that
they thought would win them personal
success at the polls.
"Business can be taken out of poli
tics if the businessmen of this country
will unite in an effort to do it; if they
will be unselfish In their united effort
and will go at the undertaking with
a view to its acomplishment in such a
a way as to bring benefits to the people
as a whole and not to a few men and a
few industries.
"I believe that the time is ripe and
the necessity great to take the tariff
out of politics, and that it can be done
by having our tariff questions handled
hereafter through a permanent, expert,
nonpartisan tariff commissloa such as
11 have described above.
"I believe the trust question can be
taken out of politics by the establish
ment of a permanent, competent busi
ness court or commission of such a
character as I have described above.
"I believe we can be given clear and
constructive laws and the necessary
help from our Federal Government for
the establishment of a merchant marine
that will not be Government-owned,
but operated efficiently In the inter
ests of our people as a whole,
"What better place to start this
movement than In the great industrial
State of Pennsylvania?
"Look at our export trade of the last
six months and you will find enormous
sales to foreign countries but you will
also find that these sales consist almost
wholly of two things—foodstuffs and
munitions of war. What is there in
either of these items that guarantees
any permanent prosperity to the great
manufacturing State of Pennsylvania?
Where is your prosperity going to
come from when this unfortunate war
Is over and we go back to the Wilson
tariff?
"This Is your problem. There never
was a clearer problem. The present Is
the time to Ret ready for the future.
You men of Pennsylvania have due
notice; It Is a perfectly clear proposi
tion. What are you going to do about
It?
Will not the Chamber of Commerce
of Harrisburg blaze the way In an ef
fort to arouse the whole country to the
necessity of taking business out of
politics, of doing it speedily and, as a
move in that direction, start a cam
paign for three things:
"First. A permanent, expert, non
partisan tariff commission.
"Second. The right sort of a
merchant marine.
Third. The Federal Incorporation
and regulation of our great interstate
and international industrial corpora
tions.
"THERE IS NO TIME TO LOSE."
SARGENT SCHOOL GIRL
CAMP INSTRUCTRESS
[Continued from First Page.]
of the plans for the opening of the
city playgrounds for the summer on
Monday.
Miss Little is a Cambridge, Mass.,
girl, and In addition to being a grad
uate of the Sargent school and camps
has had a wide experience as a phys
ical instructor for girls. She notifiod
Commissioner Taylor yesterday of her
acceptance. The girls' camp will
probably open July 1, and Miss Little
will arrive in Harrisburg a few days
before.
Everything Is practically In readi
ness for the opening of the play
grounds Monday, and what few details
are yet to be settled will soon be ar
ranged. Supervisor George W. Hill
will meet with the instructors this
evening or to-morrow to issue final in
structions.
Temporary equipment will be In
stalled on the Sycamore and Emerald
street playgrounds as the new steel
paraphernalia will not arrive In
time. The grading work is nearing
completion on both new recreation
places and while the running track
at Sycamore is not yet in shape, the
baseball flolds are laid out and ready
for business. Tennis courts are al
ways being rolled on both play
grounds.
So, at 10 o'clock Monday all routes
will lead to the nearest playground—
If your're just a Harrlsburg kid.
25,000 Tree Seals to
Be Bought For Use of
Forester to Boost City
Every time Uncle Sam carries a
mailed letter or circular from the of
fice of City Forester Harry J. Muel
ler in the near future he will adver
tise Harrlsburg In a highly - colorful
way and urge a boost for the city's
tree protecting movement at the same
time.
The city forester has ordered print
ed a daltltlly lithographed two and a
half-Inch circular seal bearing a view
of a nicely shaded street with the cap
ltol dome in the background above the
tree tops. On the seal is the inscrip
tion "Help Beautify Your City. Co
operate With Harrisburg's Forester."
Forester Mueller will order 25,000
of the seals.
FISH CODE GETS
GOVERNOR'S HOOK
[Continued from First Page.]
that while organizations favored the
code, many individuals object to it.
"A multitude of individual citizens,
many of them by their own state
ments, of limited means who on holi
days and when unable to obtain work,
fish for food strongly object to cer
tain features of the now code," writes
the Governor. "They particularly ob
ject to the regulations relative to bait
fish and point out that only rich peo
ple able to purchase live bait in ad
vance could fish under this code.
They also object to the taking of trout
under six inches on the ground that
this is a slaughter of the babies, and
in opposition to sound conversation.
They vigorously combat the Idea that
a trout once hooked and returned to
the stream cannot survive. They also
object to other features of the bill on
the general theory that it was drawn
in the Interest of those who fish for
sport and regardless of the cost of
the sport, and that It discriminates
against the poor man who fishes for
food. There is much In the code to
j warrant these protests. But the vital
matter is that we are so regularly
changing the fish code of Pennsyl
vania that few know the law and
many unwittingly disobey it. Con
servation is a matter of vital concern
and it would be well to conserve all
our natural resources. It ought not,
however, be done against the wilt of
the common people, and by laws tJpit
deny to all equal favor and oppor
tunity. The solution of this wholtt
matter Is a campaign of education for
two years to the end that a new code
of conservation and of administra
tion may be drawn and that when
drawn it may have the united sup
port of our citizenry. To arrive at
the best, to study in a broad way our
fish, game, forest and water prob
lems and to legislate at the next as
sembly upon all these topics In a
comprehensive and effective way will
be better than specific acts that will
only tentatively serve and that are
not favored by the great body of peo
ple who toil and to whom recreation
such as fishing is a blessing."
Not For Jurymen.
The Governor also used his axe on
the Senate bill empowering Juries in
first degree murder cases to fix pen
alty at death or life imprisonment.
It has been vetoed several
times In the last two decades. "The
jury and the court ought not to have
this power and would not welcome
this obligation," says the governor.
"The tendency would be against so
cial justice. Much as one may ob
ject to having the death penalty im
posed, and this law does provide that
it may be imposed, it is not wise to
place upon persons set to secure Jus
tice this responsibility. The present
statute gives court and Jury th£ duty
to find the facts and declare a verdict.
The law—an impersonal public will—
fixes the penalty and it should until
we see our way clear to abolish cap
ital punishment. There Is a growing
sentiment in this direction and it
would seem wise to let the present
law operate until an enlightened pub
lic sentiment brings about the de
sired change from capital punishment
to Imprisonment."
The governor also vetoed the reso
lution requiring the Board of Publlo
Charities to report to the next legis
lature a method for the state to take
care of all its dependent insane. The
Governor says the best results would
come from an open rather than a di
rective study of the needs of the de
pendents. "It Is a matter so vital,"
he said, "That the Board of Charities
will at once be requested to make
this study and report to the executivo
in time to formulate bills In advance
of next session."
"SILENT CURFEW" IN
EFFECT TO-MORROW
[Continued from First Pa«e.]
their children a second notice will be
sent calling the father or mother, or
both, to the police station for an ex
planation, and perhaps a fine.
It is understood that Mayor John K.
Royal will issue permits to boys who
are required to be out after that hour
selling papers or working at other
Jobs. Colonel Joseph B. Hutchison Is
not sanguine that the new curfew law
will work out satisfactorily
signal.
PEOPLE LIVE ON ACORNS
By Associated Press
Douglas, Ariz., June 18.—L*«k of
food In the towns and farming dis
tricts have driven most of the people
in Eastern Sonora Into the moun
tainous sections, where they are sub
sisting on acorns.
CARRANZA WIM/ TRIUMPH
By Associated Press
San Antonio, Tex., June 18.—Gus
tavo Esplnosa Mireles, private secre
tary to General Venuestlano Carranaa,
who is here on business for the first
chief, declares that developments of
the last few weeks In Mexican affairs
Indicate conclusively that the Carran
-2a cause will triumph.