8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established lilt PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PHIXTIJIO CO. E. J. STACK POLE President and Edi'jr-in-Chtef F. R. OYSTER Secretary OUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 218 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building:, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Bulldlna Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. >«on dally average circulation for the Urce month* ending May 31, 1015. ★ 21,577 ★ Average for the year 19X4—21,859 Average for the year 1013—19,963 Average for the year 1912—19,649 Average for the year 1911—17,563 Average for the year 1910—16,261 The above figured are net. All re turned, unsold and damaged copies de ducted. TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 29 Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.—Addison. TIME TO SAVE IF our people all work harder and save more money the United States could soon become the world's banker. That is the opinion of the i Bankers Magazine and other authori-1 ties on finance. Even if the European war speedily! closes it will leave in its train a vast burden of debt to be provided for, so that London, Paris and Berlin will have on their hands all they can han dle for a good while to come. The United States should be in a position to take its place as international pur veyor of capital. It must not be forgetten that we shall require a large amount of money to fiflance our own enterprises which hitherto have been accustomed to go abroad for loans. To meet this de mand, to take back our securities from Europe and to provide for the inter national financing already coming to us as a result of the war, and which is bound to come in an ever-Increasing volume, we must bring about a prompt and material addition to the saving capacity of our population. The idea that prevailed in Europe previous to this disastrous war was to use everything that was available and to throw away nothing that could be used to great or small advantage. On account of the scarcity of land in the producing sections, intensive farming h£d been brought down to an exact science, with the result that in these times of stress there can be enough, produced upon a limited acreage to keep the people from starvation. If this habit of saving were practiced more in this country our people would be In a far better condition to take care of themselves should some dan gerous emergency arise in the future. We repeat, there never was a time ■when so much of individual benefit, of national welfare, and of public pro fit, could be derived from the general adoption of the saving habit by the people of the United States. REGULATE THEM THE inevitable has happened In this city; a jitney has run down and killed a woman. Setting aside all question of the driver's guilt or innocence in this par ticular case, there can be but one les son In this tragedy and* that is regu lation of the jitney business in this city. Far be it from the Telegraph to sug gest regulations so stringent that it would mean the driving out of busi ness of the nearly 300 Jitneys now operating in the city's streets. But one thing is eertain. Such regulation should be adopted, and that imme diately. as will give the public assur ance of safety 4 and of the possibility of collecting damages when It Is shown that the jitney driver is at fault. CAMPING INFORMATION A WESTERN exchange calls the attention of prospective excur sionists to the fact that the United States government maintains a bureau to give information to tourists about the attractions of our national parks and forest reserves. Our gov ernment owns 200,000,000 acres of those national playgrounds, and the most wonderful scenic attractions of this country are Included In them. The man who lives in the East has only a short distance to travel to reach the quarter of a million acres in the national forest reserve recently set apart In the White Mountains. For those of the Middle West the Hot Springs Reservation in Arkansas, the forest reserves of Colorado and the charms of Yellowstone' Park may be quickly reached; while for those of the Far West who do not wish to travel far there are the Yosemite. Mount Ra nier. Crater Lake, Mesa Verde, Sequoia and Glacier Parks. A letter addressed to the Chief For ester, Forest Service, Washington, D. C.. will bring free information about any of the national forest reserves and anyone wishing to learn of any of the foregoing national parks may get a bulletin about It simply by writing and asking for the particular one wanted. Those bulletins give information about fcow to get to the parks by rail from TUESDAY EVENING, various points, stage routes, hotels and boarding campf, with rate*, and a lot of general Information valuable to tourists. But even easier of access for the Harrlsburg man are the vast State forestry reserves of Pennsylvania. These great areas of virgin woods and overgrown mountain land abound In fishing and In everything that makes camping the delight of summer life for thousands of people. A card to the State Forestry Department will bring the necessary details and in formation. THE CHAMBER'S WORK THE Harrlsburg Chamber of Com merce has just issued one of its bulletins to members. It is an Interesting publication and educational as well. It ought to be generally circulated. Particularly ought it to be brought to the attention of the occa sional person who does not believe that the Chamber is doing much for the betterment of the city. Of course the bulletin does not pretend to cover all the activities of the Chamber, but it does outline a sufficient number of points to convince the doubting non member. Here are a few of them: The Housing Survey of Harris burg. The meeting of the Pennsylvania commercial secretaries. Trade excursion to Central and Northeastern Pennsylvania. The arrangements* made for a fitting celebration of the civic im provement program just complet ed. Countless inquiries received and promptly answered. An increase in the number of members in good standing, as com pared with previous years. Fire insurance inspection and re rating of all buildings In Harris burg. Credit Rating Bureau installed and now operating. Vigilance work in stopping il legal auction sales. Putting into effect of the best censorship of advertising and charity solicitation in use in this country. "Making Good In Business" talks delivered three times to audiences of one thousand people at each talk. "Welcome" signs installed at passenger stations. Refurnished headquarters and provided business reading room. Did much publicity work and es tablished reciprocal relations with over fifty organizations. Stimulated interest In foreign trade making conference on that subject continue to bear fruit. Arranged for retail merchants to close stores on Friday afternoon. Liberally supported the publicity run of the Motor Club of Harris burg. No mention is made of the Cham ber's part in the establishment of the Wharton school In this city, its ar rangements for the reception of the Liberty Bell on July 5 or of the big outing of members it is planning for later in the summer. But the list is long enough without their addition. PESSIMISM THAT 'HELPS THERE is a distinctly pessimistic note in dispatches from Great Britain relative to the great war. Last winter English writers were talk- Ins glibly about the "spring movement forward" and the "early end of the war." But the "spring movement" has failed to materialize and midsummer is approaching. British Journalists are now talking of the "failure of the cam paign" and have been blaming con ditions on everybody from Lord Kitchener down. But the war lord foresaw this state of affairs at the very outstart. His viewpoint was re garded as "pessimistic to a degree" by one London writer of note last sum mer, but it has proved to be the kind of pessimism that the empire has needed. So long as England felt sure of vic tory at comparatively early date, so long were the people complacent. This new note of pessimism, which is merely a late realization of the truth as Kitchener saw it at the beginning, is apt to prove a blessing in disguise. The Englishman aroused is a different person by far from the Englishman sluggishly pursuing his home life calm in his faith on the "thin red line of heroes'' battling for him on a foreign shore. There are signs that England has at last come to her senses, which 13 the mo6t significant development of recent months in the European sit uation. TRUSTING OURSELVES SAYS Lindley M. Garrison, Secre tary of War, in the North Amer ican Review: If we cannot trust our own strength and our control of our strength, if we cannot trust our selves not to misuse our strength, how much reliance should we, as sensible men, place upon the con duct of other nations which are strong? Here, in a single question the an swer to which is apparent, is outlined the principle objection that is heard to the popular cry for "national pre paredness." If we cannot trust our selves with a gun, how can we trust our liberties to our neighbors who possess weapons and who have shown an alarming disposition to raid the adjoining habitations of those un able to resist? The burglar is In clined to pass by the house where the watch dog is big and pow erful or where the head of the house is known to possess an automatic and to know how to use It. PROFITS IN LIQUOR SALES THE KANSAS CITY STAR draws attention to the enormous profits in the whisky business as indi cated by the proposition made to the State of West Virginia by Samuel G. Walker, a wealthy liquor dealer of that State. He offered, If he Is glvert the sole right for ten years to sell liquors within the State, to pay the State debt of $12,393,929.50. with in terest, and at the same time set aside a half million dollars each year to be used by the State In permanent Im provements. He agreed to file a bond of two million dollars as a guarantee that he will carry out his part of the contract. In these figures, one may find the sole reason for organized opposition to the 'prohibition movement. Liquor men collect profits that would bring down the wrath of the government on the Standard Oil Company or any other form of "big business." Take away these gigantic profits and the liquor question would cease to be a. "Personal liberty" Is merely another definition of "personal profits." TELE6RAPH PERISCOPE —Complaint la made that the At lantic City Boardwalk la too narrow. We reserve judgment until ascertain ing th« habits of the complainant. —lf there is any abridgment of the freedom 't speech In the Neartng case the face Is not apparent. —Russia having Just ordered 5,- 000,000 shrapnel shells in this coun try will not prevent the Jingolsts from continuing to declare that we have no facilities for the prompt manufac ture of war materials. —What has become of the Iron dog without which no well regulated lawn was once completed? —A college professor tells us that man reaches the height of his men tal powers at 21. Judging everybody by himself, evidently. —An argument is the result of two trains of thought in head-on collision. EDITORIAL COMMENT " What d'ye mean, "Dark ages?"— Bo ston Transcript. It isn't the initial cost of a war—it's the upkeep.—New York Tribune. Is It possible, after all. that grape juice is intoxicating?— Kansas City Star. Why worry? Tom Marshall has not resigned the Vice-Presidency. Chi cago Dally News. The well-known war-babies, it seems, have no Pars—only Mars.—New York Evening Sun. China is now in a position to appre ciate the high cost of living at any price.—Boston Transcript. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR" REPLY TO PRO-GERMAN LETTER To the Editor of the Telegraph: Yesterday's Telegraph contains a communication signed by a Steelton minister of the gospel of so remark able a character and so scurrilous in the epithets it applies to the Italian people that it certainly deserves a reply from tt-e people he has maligned. After disposing, to his own satisfac tion, of Russia, France and England, •with a few contemptuous words, this man who claims to be a herald of the Prince of Peace pours out the vials of his wrath upon the Italians in the fol lowing vituperation: "Italy is no good. It always played the black handed game. Beggars thieves, organ-grind ers and blackhanders." When a man thus denounces the land from which came millions of honest, honorable, industrious citizens of America his language is such as no gentleman would use, much less one who occupies the sacred desk, and rea son, perhaps, is lost on him. I? the reverend gentleman so igno rant of history or so blinded by his partisanship that he does not know that the armies of Rome had borne the golden eagles over the known world when Germany was a pathless forest inhabited only by savage tribes? And the bravery and triumphs In army of the land of Garibaldi have cared for Italy of to-day a fame as great as was that 6f ancient Rome. Time would fall to tell of the poets, the painters, the sculptors, the mu sicians who have given to literature and art unnumbered gems that have placed on Italy a wreath of glory that can never wither whilst civilization en dures. The land which has produced a Dante, a Petrarch, a Michael Angelo. a Raphael and thousands of others of almost equal celebrity in every depart ment of the liberal arts deserves better treatment than the unqualified con demnation of this reverend gentleman who has doffed the mantle of his holy calling to engage in a mud-slinging tournament that would be disgraceful to the most ignorant inhabitant of the slums. His sneer because some Italians have made an honest living as organ-grind ers is the world-old sneer of would-be aristocrats against poverty. It is so supremely silly and malicious that it will simply excite scorn for the person so blinded by his partisanship as to use it. But, when he characterizes the Italians as a nation of blackhanders, he reaches a depth of scrutiny that disgusts. Again and again men who have come to the United States from Germany have gone to the gallows for atrocious and brutal murders. Would it be fair to brand the whole German citizenship of America with the stigma of their crimes? The writer, in common with all the peaceful and law-abiding citizens of Harrisburg who claim Italy as the land of their birth, fail to see what right any man ot any nationality, even if he claims the designation reverend, has to incite class hatred against his fel low-citizens of America who are loyal to the land of their adoption and to the Stars and Stripes to which they have pledged their allegiance. JOSEPH J. PARIALO, Notary Public, 302 South Second street. June 29, 1915. To the Etiitor of the Telegraph: Replying to the letter of C. F. Tie man, of 206 South Third street, in last | evening's issued of the Telegraph, in (which he claims that Germany will win in the war now in progress in Europe, we. the Italian residents of Harrisburg, are not interested in Ger many's campaigns in any way whatso ever, but we are interested in the wel fare of our country. You say in your letter: "Italy is no good, it always played the black handed game. Beggars, thieves, or gan grinders and blackhfenders." We demand that you retract this statement. We demand an apology of you for these, unjustifiable charges Italy is, we firmly believe, the most highly civilized nation in Europe. When Germany was a howling wilder ness, Inhabited by uncouth savages, Italy was enjoying all of the advan tages of a stable form of civilized gov ernment and had a world-wide repu tation for skill in the arts and sciences. Columbus, an Italian, was the discov er of America, and Italians have been world leaders In discovery and diplo macy for generations uncounted. We remember the days of 1812 and 1848 and 1865 when Austria took un fair advantage of the weakness of Italy, when the Italian government was in no position to defend itself. Now we are but paying back with In terest the debt incurred then. We are not taking anything that does not belong to us. We are merely assert ing our rights and demanding hack that which was taken away from us when we could not help ourselves. I challenge you in open debate at any time or place you suggest to dis cuss these matters in a public way, and I will leave the decision with the audience. C. GAETA, 212 Locust street. Harrisburg, Pa. HIS EYE ON THE GETAWAY A slight intimation of Villa's change of heart was given when he began to warm up toward the border.—Wash > in* ton Past. I HARRISBUHG TELEGRAPH • Ck By the F.i-Commlttremaa Circulation of nominating petition* for candidates for county and city nominations will be in order through out Pennsylvania after Friday and it i* expected that one of the grandest rushes ever known will occur. The nomination petitions must be filed at the courthouses in the proper counties on August 81. Petitions for judicial candidates will be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth on August 24. It is not expected that the situation in regard to the Superior Court nomi nations will develop for a or two. There are some suspected candidates, but they have not appeared. In many judicial districts there are candidates being boomed who were not even heard of a week ago. Democrats throughout the State aro awaiting developments and fighting among themselves to keep in practice. It is believed that State Chairman Morris will keep off the meeting of the State committee as long as possible in order to avoid further breaches. To all Intents and purposes, the Demo crats regard A. Mitchell Palmer as no longer national committeeman. Jesse H. Wise, of Waynesburg. who created a furore a few years ago by his candidacy for Congress on the Demo cratic ticket, is out for the judicial nomination in Greene county. LackawannaDemocrats have adopted a new set of rules which will enable the voters to have some say in the selection of committeemen. E. F. Saxton has been picked as assistant director of docks in Philadel phia. Mr. Saxton has been connected with the department for some time. Chairman William J. Noll, of Corn wall. who succeeded the late Alfred R. Hcuck as Republican leader in Leb anon county, yesterday made an nouncement of the appointment of two committees, executive and advisory, to assist him in directing party affairs. The executive committee consists of Attorney Roy M. Bowman, Deputy Prothonotary Alfred K. Mills. Clifford Strauss, Ralph R. Hutchinson and Edward D. Fake. Those who will act in an advisory capacity are ex-County Treasurer C. Z. Weiss. ex-County Com missioner H. M. Miller, ex-Assembly man William C. Freeman, Congress man A. S. Krelder, State Senator D. P. Gerberich and B. Dawson Coleman. Allegheny county Prohibitionists are meeting to-day to frame their ticket and it is expected that they will pro vide for a complete list. They are making it a picnic affair. Delaware county Prohibitionists spent yesterday discussing their ticket at an open-air meeting. They plan to raske a strong dry campaign. Philadelphia city officials do not seem inclined to take the estimates of Director Zeigler for the operation of the new bureau of housing, as they are showing signs of cutting them down. Charles H. Harman, justice of Wico nisco township, has announced himself as a candidate for the Republican nomination for county commissioner. He is well known in the upper end. Nominating papers for ex-Senator D. P. McPherson are in circulation in Adams and Fulton counties and are being very liberally signed. The can didacy of the former senator has many supporters all through the county. Lackawanna county is going to have an interesting contest for the job of countj' surveyor this year. F. O. Stone, the present surveyor, is a candidate for re-election and Wallace Muir is out for all nominations for the same office. Fleetwood is planning a special elec tion for $50,000 for a town hall and other improvements. F. B. Hendershot. county controller of Luzerne, is a candidate for renomi nation. He is well known to many In this section of the State. Susquehanna county Democrats had a meeting at Montrose the other day which was unusually peaceful. E. J. Whitney was elected county chairman without any battling and a committee on rules named. This committee is to get the county committee in sympathy with the times. Woman Will Engineer Big Strike of Garment Workers in New York J ' : X fIL ~ IflH j I ; B I x SEFtTRUDe BARNurr MISR GERTRUDE BARNUM New York, June 29.—Miss Gertrude Barnum. after a year's work with the Federal Commission on Industrial Re lations, Is back In this city ready to organize the huge strike of 50,000 garment workers, which now seems imminent. Miss Barnum la one of the chief organizers In the various gar ment workers' unions, and in the past several years has engineered some ser ious strikes, in every case the unions being successful. Interviewed re garding the threatened strike she said that the manufacturers themselves were to blame for the conditions which brought about a desire for the strike on the part of the workers. She charges that the manufacturers are not living up to a protocol signed some five years ago. , '** • ' l^p^?' '•* * : r IN THE WMft'S VAST ARENA Dixmude, a Medieval City, Now a Wreck, Was Noted For Its Blind Finches WASHINGTON, June 29.—Among the European towns that were before the war, but which a long-continued hail of shells and ex plosives have swept away, is Dixmude. a month's long center of the Flanders battle theater. This city, as it was in 1914. is described tn a National Geo graphic Society statement: Dixmude, the melancholy little vil lage of yesterday and the ruins of to-day, was once a brave, wealthy merchant city, with more than 30,000 inhabitants. In the days of its pros perity It was a port for large ships, and the products of many countries filled its warehouses. In those days it was a strongly walled and bas tioned city, and its well-trained citi zen soldiery knew how to uphold the honor of their thriving port upon the sluggish Yser. The German invaders, however, found no evidences of the old-time walls and fortifications, nor of any Yser quays. Dixmude. just before the war has tened the final process of its oblitera tion, y&8 a decaying village of 1,100 people, with grass and weeds growing in Its sleepy streets and in its large Grand Square—that square roomy enough to hold in comfort a mass meeting of twice the town's popula tion. This large square, the splendid Church of St. Nicholas that stood upon it, and some solid old stone houses lining the crooked streets, re mained to bear testimony to Dix mude's earlier importance. Much of the city's splendor was wiped out by the soldiers of Ghent and Bruges in the middle of the six teenth century. During 1553 enemy troops burned 310 homes, the palatial BOOKS AND MAGAZINES Perhaps the first book for boys in spired by the European war has been written by an already famous author, and is announced by the Longmans for Immediate publication. Sir Henry New bolt, the author is well known in this country for hl6 "Admirals All,' and, more recently. 'T'he Book of the Blue Sea," and the present volume elabo rately illustrated with eight colored plates and many other illustrations in black and white, relates the adventures of six boys In the American Civil War, the Peninsular War, Waterloo, and in Worth and South America. Another book of present interest is a studv of the race problem In the United States from a South African point of view, by Maurice S. Evans, author of "Black and White in South east Africa." Longmans. Green & <~o. will bring it out under the title "Black and White in the Southern States. ' "The Sources and Literature of Eng lish History." by Dr. Charles Gross, of Harvard, has been out of print for sev eral years, but its publishers, Long mans, Green & Co.. announce that the continued demand for It has necessi tated a revised and enlarged BOYS AT PLAY [Ohio State Journal.] The training of the youth the&e davs seems to he carried on upon the idea that the boy and girl have no inventive genius of their own, and even the opportunity to play must be provided or there won't be any playing. Thus self-reliance is being discouraged and dependence upon others is made a part of the outfit In life. The right training of youth must put self-reliance as the - very first consideration. Those boys of a former generation, who used to con trive all their playthings and origi nated their own devices for having exercise and fun, are to-day the cap tains of industry and the great lead ers in the worlds trade. Will the boys of to-day be the leaders of en terprise in the next generation? There are some reasons for doubting it. A boy's play is the best thing in his life, and nothing should stand in its way, but where older hands are supervising It and'telling him how It Is to be done and providing the ways and means the very soul is taken out of it. A few years ago the boys used to do all the stunts that the col leges have appropriated and changed to somber art or classic tricks. In those davs the boys jumped bars, skinned cats, threw big boulders, ran races, turned handsprings, just for the fun of it and never thought of getting their names in the papers or displaying their athletic shins. ORIGIN OF JUNE WEDDINGS The first people to adopt the month of June as sacred to Hymen, the god of marrla*e, were the ancient Ru mans, who considered June the most propitious season of the year for en tering upon matrimonial relations. The Romans held that June weddings were likely to be happier than alli ances contracted in any other month q* the year, especially if the day chosen were that of the full moon or the conjunction of the sun and moon. They also held that of all months May was to be most avoided, as in that month newlyweds would come under the Influence of spirits adverse to happy households. These ancient mar riage superstitions were retained by the Christians in the middle ages and even to-day June is considered by many to be pre-eminently the month of marriages. The word "wedding" is derived from the ancient Anglo-Saxon j "wed" custom. The "wed" consisted of gifts. Including a ring, given by the bridegroom to the bride. At the marriage ceremonies in those times the father of the bride presented his son-in-law wtth one of his daughter's shoes as a token of the transfer of authority, and the bride was struck sharply on the head with the shoe by her new spouse as a reminder that he was henceforth her "boss."—New Or i>»n« Dally States. , .TUNE 29, 1915. guild and corporation halls and the chateau at Dixmude. Its walls and the palaces of its merchant princes were destroyed long before the pres ent war. When Dixmude became one of the key positions in the Flanders cam paign it was a substantial, quiet vil lage. The martial and mercantile fame of the town had sped. Its chief rf-nown was that of its superior but ter and eggs, and that of the sing ing—or, better, trilling—competitions of its blind finches. The natives snared these shy birds, and, that they might sing undisturbed by the pres ence of onlookers, they were blinded by the searing of their eyes with hot irons. These singing competitions be tween the birds were held on holi days, and money prizes were distrib uted for the sweetest trilling. Ac complished birds often brought their owners large sums. More than 1,000 trills in one hour by one of these sightless little finches was a Dix mude record, and as proud a one to the burghers there as is a baseball pennant in an American city. The town was medieval in appear ance. Many of the houses had win dows screened by heavy, rust-eaten Iron bars, and heavy, one-piece wood en shutters. Some of them were very ancient, and thus valuable memories of Europe's struggles. St. Nicholas Church, an imposing structure with a Gothic tower, was the town's princi pal boast, and its interior contained some exquisite ornamentation work — patterns carved in stone as delicate as rare hand-made lace. The altar screen was prized as one of Europe's marvels. Our Daily Laugh BETWEEN They say one Xiyv ""L gradually grows MA ~&