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WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 30
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There never was a good war or a bad peace.
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Born of the deep, daily need of a na
lion—l am the Voice of Nov*—the incar
nate spirit of the Times—Monarch of '
things that Are
My "cold type" burns with the fire- <
blood of human- action. I am fed by
11 arteries of wire that girdle the earth. I •
drink from the cup of every living joy <
I and sorrow'. I sleep not—rest not. I <
I knotf) not night, nor day, nor season. I ,
B know no death, yet lam born again with ,
V every morn with every noon with (
■ every twilight. I leap into fresh being (
f with every new world's event.
L Those who created me cease to be—
the brains and hearts-blood that nourish '
*nc go the way of human dissolution. 1
yet I live on—and on. 1
/ am Majestic in my Strength—Sub- i
lime in my Power—Terrible in my Po- 1
tentialiti-es —yet as democratic as the j
ragged boy who sells me for a penny. ]
I am the consort of Kings—the partner (
cf capital—the brother of toil. The in- (
spiration of the hopeless — the right arm (
of the needy—the champion of the op
pressed—the conscience of the criminal.
I am the epitome of the world's Comedy '
and Tragedy.
My responsibility is Infinite. I speak,
and the world stops to listen. I say the
word, and battle flames the horizon. I
counsel peace, and the war-lords obey. ,
I am greater than any individual—more
powerful than any group. I am the
dynamic force of Public Opinion.
Rightly directed, I am a Creator of Con- 1
fidence. A builder of happiness in liv
ing. I am the Backbone of Commerce.
The Trailblazer of Prosperity. lam the
Teacher of Patriotism.
I am the hands of the clock of Time—
the clarion voice of Civilisation.
I am the Newspaper.
—Address of Joseph H. Finn at the con
vention of the Advertising Clubs of
the World.
WHEEL-CHAIRS FOR RIVER WALK
TTTHEEL-CHAIRS for the River
|y y Front promenade would be not
only a novel, but a very prac-
tlcal and desirable Innovation. Super
intendent Taylor has hit upon a good
* Idea, No doubt the chair concession
forithe walk at the top of the "Front
Steps" would be profitable, as well as
pleasurable for the thousands who
unquestionably would use them.
With the closing of the gap at Mar-
ltet street wheel-chairs could make the
"** trt® from the lower end of the city,
or any convenient point, to "Hard
■crabble" and back again. With
"Hardscrabble" removed there will be
on unbroken stretch of concrete walk
from Paxton street to Maclay. No
other city has anything like our river
walk. Wheel-chairs operating on it as
they do on the Boardwalk at Atlantic
City would attract the thousands of
visitors who annually come to Harris
burg as well as many of our own
people. The city stands in need of
Just some sych novel recreation as this
and It wolild be hard to conceive of a
better way of advertising Harrlsburg
abroad than as the inland city with the
Atlantic City boardwalk.
THE MTLK INSPECTION
EVERY day brings developments
to prove that Dr. Raunlck is
more than Justified in conducting
the rigid Investigation of the milk
supply of Harrlsburg. "Pasteurized"
milk that is not pasteurized, milk sold
as pure for use in Infant feeding that
contains not only germs which have
no business there but filth of the most
vile kind, milk that is advertised as
above reproach In which flies have
been drowned and which is alive with
harmful bacteria, dairies that are dirty
qnd unsanitary in unspeakable ways,
etables that are unfit for habitation,
water supplies that are contaminated
and cows that have not been examined
for tuberculosis in years—all these
have been brought to light, and more.
Not all milk is bad, however, and
not all dairymen are careless. Many
of them are as careful of the product
they sell as though they designed to
uie it themselves. Not all of those
who hi.ve been offending h» ve done so
maliciously or recklessly. Some of
them have not understood. They were
conducting their dairies as their grand
fathers did before them, with the idea,
a* one milk producer told the in
spectors, that "what was good enpugh
for my father is good enough for me."
But that is not true. We understand
things about milk now that our grand
fathers did not know. In those days,
before the discovery of the germ
carrying possibilities of milk, if milk
looked all right It waaxagarded as be-
WEDNESDAY EVENING. HARRIBBURG TELEGRAPH JUNE 30. 1915.
Ins so, and many an untimely death
of baby and adult may be traced to
that mistaken, notion.
Tho dealer who permits dirt, and
therefore harmful germs, to get into
his milk becomes a spreader of typhoid
fever, cholera infantum and even of
tuberculosis. If he knows he is vio
lating the laws of health, then he
makes himself criminally responsible
for the illness or death of any of his
patrons who contract disease through
use of the milk he sells. No dairyman
wants to charge himself with responsi
bility for the death of a human being.
The only sure prevention lies in abso
lute cleanliness from start to finish in
the milk business. "
Furthermore, it is not fair to the
conscientious dairyman who lives up to
the rules of the health board to permit
hia careless neighbor to sell milk either
below the standard for butterfats or
unclean. The milk supply of Harris
burg must be made as pure as the
city's water supply and the public will
support Dr. Raunick heartily in what
ever he may do to improve conditions.
GOOD NEWS FROM BERLIN
NEWS that filters through devious
channels from Berlin relative to
the attitude the Imperial Govern
ment will take In reply to the latest
Wilson note is distinctly encouraging.
Every indication is that Germany will
agree to measures that will insure the
proper protection of American lives.
That Is all this country can ask in
fairness. Germany has a perfect right
to continue its warfare on the mer
chant marine of her enemies so long
as it is conducted with due regard for
the rights of humanity and the regu
lations prescribed by international law.
The most effective means of war
fare that Germany has been able to
bjring to bear against the Allies has
been the activities of her submarines
against contraband shipping. It would
be almost equivalent to asking Berlin
to lay down the sword, for the United
States to demand that the submarine
be ruled out of the European war as a
weapon against the uninterrupted
commerce of the allied nations on the
seas. It is not the use, but the mis
use, of the submarine to which this
country has objected.
Every American worthy of the name
will rejoice that the warclouds which
darkened the skies are passing. We
do not want to fight Germany any
more than, we suspect, Germany wants
to fight us. German-Americans have
complained that we are selling muni
tions of war to the Allies. We would
do the same for Germany, if Germany
could find a way to import them. We
In America do not hate the German
people. If our sympathies have been
aroused in behalf of the Allies it has
been because we have stood always for
fsftr play, decency and the rights of
humanity, and therefore have found
ourselves at variance with the methods
and practices of the German war ma- i
(Jhlne a_s it has been "operated in this
war. "'Doubtless, many of the loyal
Germans, down in their own hearts,
nurse the same grievances. We would
not like to think otherwise.
THE SITUATION OF PALMER
THE' political' future of A. Mitchell
Palmer, who last November
achieved a distinction which
some one summed up in the expression,
"the worst licked Democrat in the his
tory of the State," continues to be a
matter of interest to all Democrats,
and of anxiety to some.
We violate no confidence when we
declare that there was a general sigh
of relief in the ranks of the Unterrified
after President Wilson appointed Pal
mer to a vacancy on the Court of
Claims. The position is a desirable
one and the appointment promised to
take the appointee out of politics for
the rest of his life. And that would be
a condition of affairs much to be de
sired from their viewpoint in the case
of a man whose distribution of federal
patronage split the party wide open
and made a farce of the pious pro
testations of party virtue upon which
the Reorganization rested.
But Palmer is ambitious. He also
has a pretty good opinion of his own
talents, and while he has not refused
the tendered judicial appointment his
name by some mysterious influence is
mentioned with significant regularity
in connection with every promising
opening in the federal service. If Presi
dent Wilson continues to ignore the
hint, why there is tho Judgship to fall
back upon. A regular pay day, even
when acceptance of it involves closing
the door of political hope, is much to
be preferred to the cheerless status of
a lame duck.
In the meantime the Democracy is
very much in doubt as to its internal
economy. The leaders cannot be in
Ignorance of the fact that Palmer Is
"In bad" with the rank and file, and It
Is probable that they would be glad to
be rid of his dead weight. But on the
other hand, If he goes. If he takes a
job that will Involve his resignation
from the national committee, which
position for many years has carried
with It titular leadership of the Penn
sylvania Democracy, it will be neces
sary to call the State committee to
gether. And it Is evident that the
prospect of this call Is associated In
their minds with thoughts of the wrath
to come.
And this explains why there has
been so little open resentment with the
cavalier course Palmer has heen pur
suing with respect to the appointment
which he has been holding under con
sideration for so many weeks. Both
sides of the factional squabble are
anxious to avoid a showdown as long
as It is possible—the Ins because they
are afraid and the outs because they
have been unable to get together on a
program and a candidate for the party
post Palmer now holds.
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY
>T>HIS from the Kansas City Star:
Deacon W. C. Palmer says:
■a "If you want to be an old man
at 40 work seven days a week; If
you want to be a worthless man at
40 loaf seven days a week."
That is the trouble with most men.
They are either workers pr loafers.
Too few know how to vary work with
play. "All work and no play makes
Jack a dull boy." How glibly we quote
it when we send our sons and our
daughters off for a holiday In the
wood* or at the seashore. We check
their trunk*. Bay good.by before the
train pull* out. glance hurriedly at
our watches and rush back to our
offices begrudging the "lost time."
The loafer In America exists, but he
is a rarity. The seven-day man, on
the other hand, Is too much the rule.
"An old man at forty!" None of us
wants to be that, but all work and
no play will produce the result Inev
itably. Perhaps not at forty, exactly,
but at all events much sooner than
need he, and of all pitiable objects the
man old before his time is the most
wretched.
But the signs of the times are hap
pily pointing in the other direction.
The automobile, the golf club, the ten
nis club and a hundred other influ
ences are tempting men to play and
physicians are forsaking medicine to
preach the gospel of good health
through recreation.
Employers are coming to under
| stand that a half-holiday each week
I is beneficial to their employes and that
| they actually get better results from a
I five and one-half day week than they
Ido from six days. The movement has
gone to such an extent in Harrisburg
that some of the big business houses
are understood to be considering a
movement for the closing of stores
on Saturday afternoon and evening, in
place of the present Friday half holi
day. This would add an evening of
liberty each week to leisure time of
all employes.
Of course, it is understood that store
keepers cannot move more rapidly in
this direction than the public desires,
but as Harrisburg is rapidly becom
ing a Saturday half holiday city, the
way is prepared for the move now
under consideration. If all the stores
Join in the movement none will lose
and the time of everybody will be con
served.
It is an open question whether it Is
the Czar who Is going to the front or
the front that Is going to the Czar.
The difference between Diaz and
Huerta is that Diaz not only knew
when to get out of Mexico, but when
to stay out.
Ex-Governor Slaton aspires to the
United States Senate. If the decision
lay with the country at large his ambi
tion would be gratified.
"Huckleberries blacken the teeth."
says an item In the woman's column.
Bring on the pie. Let "em do their
worst.
TELEORAPH PERISCOPE
—lndiana's political news begins to
make us believe that Booth Tarking
toD has been mixing his fiction with
fact.
—May be the Yaqui Indians had
read "Dickey" Davis' article on the
"Unpreparedness of the United
States."
—Mexico City has been evacuated
again. We suppose this will be fol
lowed by another "triumphant entry."
—lowa farmers are reported to be
wearing garters this summer. Won
der If this has anything to do with
the way wheat prices are being held
up?
—Now that Mr. Bryan is outside the
circle of Influence, who is looking af
ter the interests of the "deserving
Democrats?"
—An optimist *s one who not only
sees the good in life, but also the good
in the bad of life.
[ EDITORIAL COMMENT
Mr. Bryan is one editor who knows
how to make news as well as com
ment on it.—Columbia State.
The rumor that The Commoner and
The Fatherland are to be merged is
baseless.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Youthful students of Scriptural and
modern history will never be able to
reconcile the two Bethlehems.—Wash
ington Post.
Mr. Winston Spencer Churchill says
the British navy is growing, which
must be one reason for helng 60 care
ful of it. —New York Tribune.
What broke Constantinople up so
completely was the fact that the 13,000
wounded sent back weren't Armenians.
—Washington Post.
GREATER MEAT SUPPLY
[Pittsburgh Dispatch.]
When Congress assembles Repre
sentative Kent, of California, intends
to press his bill for regulated leasing
of the Government-owned range as a
practical step toward a solution of
the high cost of living problem. Tho
number of cattle and sheep on the
Western ranges has been decreasing
rapidly, nearly one-fourth in five
years in 17 Western States. Reckles?
misuse of the grazing lands has been
largely responsible, much of the
range having been overfed and re
duced to almost desert conditions.
On the contrary, the range in the
forest reserves, where care has been
exercised in grazing, is supporting an
increased number of cattle. Expe
rience has convinced even the cattle
men who bitterly opposed regulated
grazing that it was a short-sighted
and disastrous policy to exhaust the
range without thought for the fu
ture. They are now. It is said, readv
to accept such a system of regulated
grazing on the 300,000,000 acres of
Government land if the Kent bill or
one of that sort is passed.
The destruction of cattle in the war
zones of Europe and the world scar
city for meat, leather and wool likely
to result, holds out encouragement to
the American stock raiser. It is cal
culated that the Western ranges
properly regulated could support dou
ble the stock now there and that
within a few years the production
could be increased from 25 to 50 per
cent.
LIGHT-FINGERED
At a dinner given by the prime
minister of a little kingdom in Rurl
tania a diplomat complained to his
host that the minister of Justice, who
had been sitting on his left, had
stolen his watch.
"Ah. he shouldn't have done that,"
said the prime minister. In tones of
annoyance. "I will get it back for
you."
Sure enough, toward the end of the
evening, the watch was returned to
its owner.
"And what did he say?" asked the
diplomat.
"Sh-h!" cautioned the host, glancing
anxiously about him. "He doesn't
know that I have got it back."—Pitts
burgh Chronicle Telegraph.
*PtivK«i|2aa)ua
By the Ex-
Ex-Representative A. Mitchell Pal
mer, mentioned as a possible successor
to Robert Lansing as counselor of the
State Department, was In Washington
yesterday and conferred with Chief
Justice Covington, of the District Su
preme Court, and a number of other
associates and political friends. No an
nouncement was made whether Justice
Palmer was an active candidate for tho
place. It is believed that Palmer went
to Washington chiefly to learn Just
what progress had been by those
who had advocated him to the Presi
dent. He declined to discuss the mat
ter, but the belief is that he Is en
tirely in the hands of his friends who
are urging his appointment. Mr.
Paimer called upon Secretary of the
Navy Daniels. The latter is believed
to be favorable to the appointment of
Mr. Palmer as counselor.
Pennsylvania Democrats are inter
[ ested in the story from Washington
Ito the effect that political advisers of
President Wilson have learned de
finitely that William J. Bryan will op
pose the President's nomination on
the ground that Mr. Wilson is bound
by the one term plank of the Balti
more platform. The President's
friends have learned that Mr. Bryan
will take the stand that Mr. Wilson as
the candidate of ti.a convention which
adopted the one term plank, is bound
by this in principle and that regard
less of the fact that no legislative act
limiting the Presidency to one term
has been passed by Congress, Mr. Wil
son may not seek to become the stand
ard bearer of his party in the next
national campaign. All of the Bryan
influence which has survived his rup
ture with the President, officials expect
will be exerted to defeat the efforts of
Mr. Wilson's managers to secure for
him the nomination for a second term.
It became known that before his de
parture for the Pacific Coast last week
Mr. Bryan sounded some of his closest
political associates regarding his con
templated stand and that as a result
the news reached the President's ad
visers. There are reasons for believing
that the President knew of Mr. Bryan's
plans before he (the President) de
parted for Cornish, N. H., last Thurs
day.
WITH WHOM WOULD WE GO TO
WAR?
[From the Omaha Bee.]
Our militarists are busy again, show
ing how unready we are for war. Our
culpable neglect in failing to provide
for arms and ammunition and fortresses
and the like is again being reviewed,
and the administration of the nation's
affairs is seriously criticized because
nowhere in its program for many years
has appeared detailed plans for a large
army and a larger navy.
All these charges are well founded.
The United States is unprepared to
engage in war on the stupendous scale
now being exhibited in Europe. We
have 10,000,000 young men who would
make splendid soldiers and who
would die like heroes in the trenches
and elsewhere, but we haven't the
10.000,00 rifles to put into their hands.
Wherefore we should go to making
rifles immediately.
Why not determine with which na
tion we are to go to war, and then
make our plans accordingly. A cen
tury of peace with Great Britain may
well be followed by another. The tra
ditional friendship with the other great
powers is not likely to be broken
soon. Wo have no really good reason
to look for war anywhere.
INTERFERING WITH FIREMEN
[From the Providence Journal.]
After a verdict of $51,608.48 in favor
of a manufacturing company and
twenty-one fire insurance companies it
is not likely that hereafter the rail
road companies in New York State will
interfere with the activities of a mu
nicipal fire department. According to
the testimony in the case just decided
the crew of a freight train refuSed to
break cars at a Syracuse street cross
ing for the purpose of allowing the
passage of the fire aparatus over the
tracks. The delay thus caused, it was
asserted, was largely responsible for
the tire losses, and parties directly con
cerned looked to the railroad for re
imbursement. The returning of a ver
dict in three minutes showed that the
Jury was not in doubt as to the cause
of the excessive damage.
Probably it is understood in rail
road offices that highway crossings
shall not be obstructed when the fire
men need every second of time and
that trains shall not run over hose laid
upon the tracks. But this unusual suit
indicates the necessity of impressing
on employes the importance of giving
firemen the right of way. The substan
tial New York verdict will be a lesson
to all concerned. It is cheaper to brekk
a train than to fight a suit for dam
ages.
LATE; TOO LATEf
[From the New York Sun.]
We reprint from the news dispatches
from Washington the subjoined sen
tence:
"President Wilson is having the new
seamen's law closely reviewed to deter
mine whether its effect on American
shipping or its relation to other laws
on the same subject makes amendments
necessary."
The law to which Mr. Wilson is di
recting the attention of presumably
qualified authorities is the La Follette
statute which was passed by the Sixty
third Congress in its last session, and
signed by the President, who now seeks
light on the effect of its provisions, not
yet operative. It has already com
pelled the abandonment of the Pacific
by one of the few survivors of our
trade. The enforcement of its require
ments will compel the renunciation of a
score of treaties with foreign nations.
The ruinous conequences this statute
would inevitably have on American
shipping were not hidden during the
time It was before the House, the Sen
ate and the President. Legislators ana
Executive alike were warned, solemnly
and repeatedly, of the suffocating re
strictions it would Impose on our
merchant marine. Again and again
they were informed by the men most
competent to speak on the subject that
It would effectually suppress the poor
remnant of our foreign carrying trade.
Despite these admonitions, despite
the necessity it created for negotiating
new treaties, despite the pleas of men
who longed to see the American fiasr
flying from merchantmen on the high
seas, the Congress and the President
put it on the books, and now the
President is having it examined
experts "to determine whether its ef
fect on American shipping or its rela
tion to other laws on the same subject
makes amendments necessary!"
SOMETHING NEW
By Wing Dinger
Every year, It seems to me.
Brings forth some new ill
Helping those who profit by
Sales of drugs, until
I am thinking that ere long
Every month there'll be
Some peculiar ill to bring
Pain and misery.
Hay fever and asthma, too,
Rose cold, with Its sneeze,
Dread pneumonia, too, I dodged,
Then bo, if you please.
Just as I thought I was safe
For the summer, zip,
Some new fangled 111 hit me.
Known as "summer grippe."
You may talk of aches and pains
That you've had before.
You may mention ills you've had
In the day* of yore—
But for making one feel mean
This new tangled 111
Better far than all the re«t,
Brother, ails the bill. .
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THE WOMAN'S LIBERTY BELL
WHILE Harrisburg is celebrating the arrival of the real Liberty Bell in
this city next Monday another Liberty Bell will be the center of at
traction in Pittsburgh, and early on the morning of July 6 the old
Liberty Bell and the new Liberty Bell will meet in the Smoky City.
The new bell was cast by the Pennsylvania Woman's Suffrage Associa
tion and on a big automobile, driven by John Hall, a Harrisburg bov, and
accompanied by Mrs. Frank Roessing, state president of the suffragists, is
touring all the counties of the state in the interest of "votes for women."
"This bell," said Mrs. Roessing, "will be rung for the first time on the
day that the women of Pennsylvania are granted the right to vote."
The bell started from Sayre on Juno 23. It is en route from Union City
to Meadviile to-day. Harrisburg will not see it until early Fall, when it will
pass through the'city on its way to close the campaign in Philadelphia with
a big demonstration.
The bell, which started on its state-wide tour just a week ago to-day,
has traversed all of the northern tier counties west of Bradford. In the
week that the bell has been on tour it has covered 300 miles and been
cheered by more than 60,000 persons. From the very beginning the demon
strations accorded the bell party have been so remarkable that those who
are traveling with It are more than hopeful of a suffrage victory in November.
Why Not Have a Garden?
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MANY persons who love flowers
lament the fact that they live
in the city, that they live in
an apartment, that they live in a
hoarding house room, that they spend
their time in an office—that they can
not have a garden because they have
no place to plant it.
Two Hungarian laborers who live
in the slums of a small manufactur
ing town on a canal wanted a garden.
On their wa> to work every day they
spied an irregularly shaped plot of
ground under one of the piers of the
canal bridge. It was walled up with
i stone, and It was overgrown with
weeds. It was, perhaps, fifteen feet
long and seven feet wide.
They bought some tomato plants
and some young cabbages and some
onion and lettuce seed. They bor
rowed a rowboat, and rowed out to
the middle of the canal one evening,
clambered on the deserted little is
land, uprooted the weeds, dug up the
1 LETTERS TO THE EDITOIT
BOTH WRONG, HE SAYS
I To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Having read the open letter in your
evening paper on June 28 and the re
ply on the following day, I wish to say
that both parties are greatly mistaken.
When and where did that minister
of the gospel find such a little heart
{ for Italy? Are they the fruits of his
life's work and his years of study? Has
he no better principle to go by?
There is no doubt that Austria
wronged Italy, and he ought to know
that an unrighteous deed brings its
consequences. Does not Steelton need
many improvements? Why is he Judg
ing a land far off when there is much
work at his own door?
On the other hand, the statement that
Italy stands for the "highest civiliza
tion" is found on no base. Who gave
it the right to enter this conflict? There
was revenge and a thought of gain only
and there is one thing Italy needs to
day, and that is civilization.
Those noted men of art; do they
make a nation? Have we not men even
greater in every land of the globe?
Their fruits do not express horrors
like those existing in Italy to-day.
Then it says that Italy was civilized
when the Germans were still savages.
No doubt the men of the north learneu
from the Romans, but tliey, too, show
ed the latter the short way home
again? The mission of the Romans
was an evil one and was similar to that
of Spain and other countries. It sought
to conquer and loved the gold.
Where are the powers of yesterday.
Why did they fall? What are the beau
tiful countries of Europe' to-day with
all their fancy-—and wrong Govern
ments? Are we not glad that America
stands for us and that we can stana
for America?
Therefore, whatever trouble or argu
ment may arise, here and abroad, let
us be Americans. Let us not judge by
disadvantages, but let us show the
world a better way. It says: "Let us
bear one another's burden and so ful
fill the law of Christ." Let us not be
moved by international law and other
nonsense, nor by our own understand
ing. but know that when we "trust in
God" we cannot fail.
AN EX-GERMAN. |
Our Daily Laugh
A FEW CHORDSESEaj
FROM CHOPIN. ra| ' y
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•was once quite aM**3j
musician, an' I ji|
guess I ain't for-
got all about It
Indeed! Well, |mo»
you can take the
axe and chop a JgJSgB
few cords out of In
that woodpile. 'V. . z&P j
EAST MONET, i
I suppose you I 1
writers are well
word for my last
Dad "Please send
NOT OF OUR MAKING
[Springfield Republican.]
It is estimated by men acquainted
with the situation in Pittsburgh that
at least $30,000,000 in orders for war
material is without takers at present
in this country. The bas's of prosper
ity thus indicated is tragic, but the
tragedy. Is net, fif America's making.
soil, and planted a neat little garden.
Each evening they row out to it.
weed, water and cultivate it. And
later on they are going to row out
each evening to reap their harvest of
| fresh vegetables.
They wanted a garden and so they
| found a place to plant one. In the
! slums of all the big cities vegetables
and flowers are grown on many roofs
and window sills. The poor who de
sire things are satisfied with a simple
means of having them. So to them
a soap box on a window sill or a bit
I of filled-in land under the pier of a
bridge makes an acceptable field for
their agricultural experiments.
If you want a garden, plant one
now. A box in your office or bed
room window can be filled with mar
guerites and geraniums, pansies or
migonette. A jar on the kitchen
window sill can be turned into a lit
tle farm to produce chives, parsley,
and mint to give enviable flavor to
roasts and soup.
This is the Birthday
Anniversary of
*■ j
I 4
Francis H. Hoy, Sr., the veteran of
| the Civil War, who is 70 years old to
j day. He has been a resident of Har
| risburg since he was 15 years of age.
The Telegraph Joins with his G. A. R.
comrades and many friends in wish
ing him many more birthday anniver
saries, and continued happiness.
AN APPRECIATION
(Miss Fannie I* Johnson)
They counted the years since the path
was new,
But we of the book and pen
Think of a thousand gracious deeds
That were yours to do since then.
They named the places your presence
• filled
While the days sped by and then
We glimpsed your throne in a thousand
hearts.
The boys who have long been men.
May you tarry awhile, for the world
hath need
Of those that strived and won,
'Till night is come and with childlike
trust
You wait for His clear. "Well Done."
MARIE C. HIGGINS.
BUYING BACK OUR SKCURITIES
FROM EUROPE
[From the New York Press.]
If the "leading financial author
ity of the government" who estimates
that since the beginning of the war
Europe has sold back to us $2,000,-
000,000 of American securities really
calculated, or as much as guessed at,
that financial and economic result,
we wonder how many hundred mil
lion tons of green cheese he com
putes the belligerents have sliced out
of the moon for army rations. How
can any man who ever heard of the
rule of three inuiginp that our finan
cial market could have taken from
abroad since tho first day of August
$2,000,000,000 of our securities, or of
any securities and have an interna
tional position, financially and econo
mically, what It is to-day?.
lEtettUuj (Sliat
At half-past four o'clock yesterday
morning there were three foursome
matches under way on the Reservoir
Park links and shortly before 5 every
tennis court was occupied. For the
last week or 80, barring Sundays, golf
ers have been out playing before 6
o'clock in the morning at the Reser
voir. The tennis courts are filled
while the hours of daylight last. These
are plain statements which can be
verified any morning. They indicate
the way golf and tennis have taken
hold in Harrisburg and the way in
which the city's free links and courts
are appreciated. Time was not ten
years ago when people played golf
In Reservoir park to the accompani
ment of many Jests. Now one has to
wait turns to get on the links. Tennis
is even more popular and the courtj
are occupied in relays. A person has
to be a real enthusiast to get up to
play golf or tennis at half past five
In the morning to say nothing of half
past four.
Hoffman's woods will have a grand
old-time picnic on July 5. It will be
the first real picnic the woods have
had in many moons and it is being
looked forward to with great Interest.
The Trainmen's band will hold forth
in the erstwhile popular picnic ground
that day and many railroad men and
their families will take baskets and
go to the woods. Time was when the
woods was the object of fighting on
July 4 and the fire company or organ
ization lucky enough to get there first
and to hold it was talked of for a
year.
With the clearing of the muddy
water from the river, fishermen are
busily over-hauling their tackle in
preparation for what many believe
will be an unusually large season. The
mud which has been flowing along
both sides of the Susquehanna since
the opening of the season is now clear
ing away. The fish forced to feed in
the center, rather than swim through
the muddy water, old fishermen be
lieve, will bite at most any old thing
now. It is a well-known fact that
bass like to feed along the shore, es
pecially near the mouths of creeks and
small streams. It is there that scores
of fishermen will take their stand.
Just how a Capitol park squirrel
got on top of the Majestic theater is
something that Walnut street people
are trying to solve. The squirrel was
seen running about on the roof and
the cornice very much disturbed about
his lofty perch and uncertain
whether to Jump or not. The belief
is that It dropped from a wire while
taking a trip.
Not long ago another squirrel was
seen walking about 'on top of the Jail
wall. This animal was not concerned
a bit, but made the trip along Court
street without much ado and when
tired climbed down and disappeared—
into the prison y&rd.
Advance details of National Guards
men may not be numerous about this
city this year as the guard officers are
planning to have the men put up more
of their own canvas than heretofore.
The regiments of the First Brigade
have been doing that for years and
will do so again. The guardsmen say
that they believe the same rule is to
be applied to other commands.
State Zoologist H. A. Surface has
completed a work on which he has
been laboring for years. It is a bul
letin of the birds of Pennsylvania,
along the same lines as his bulletins
on the insects and snakes. These
bulletins which represent years of
scientific study and minute observa
tion, will become State text books in
time. In his bulletin the zoologist
says that while bird study is very gen
eral the birds of Pennsylvania are not
increasing the way they should be and
that people ought to pay more atten
tion to their welfare.
• * •
Col. Louis A. Watres, of Scranton,
former lieutenant Governor and one
of the big factors in affairs in North
i eastern Pennsylvania, was here yes
terday to attend a meeting of one of
the State boards. Col. AVatres is
active in financial affairs in the Lacka
wanna region and a power In politics.
[ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Charles B. McElhany has been
elected vice president of the Cambria
Steel Company and will have charge
of sales.
—J. Benjamin Dimmick will build
a summer home near Scranton, tho
Adirondacks being too far away.
—Robert F. Gross, sales manager of
the Pennsylvania Steel Company, has
been elected a member of the Amer
ican Iron and Steel Institute.
—Dr. F. P. Garland, city manager
of Dayton, is making a tour of this
State to tell about the new system of
government.
—District Attorney M. D. Patterson,
of Blair, has ordered constables to ar
rest joyriders who are drunk on
sight. f
DO YOU KNOW "1
That Harrisburg has more Jit
neys thai) any city of its size in
the State?
AGAfNST GOVERNMENT SHIPS
[From the New York Press.]
No part of our people have a greater
Interest In an American merchant ma
rine than the businessmen of the Unit
ed States, nor so great. Manufacturers
and merchants are now suffering severe
hardship and loss because of our lack
of shipping; but they have felt this lack
for years.
What the business interests of tho
United States think of President Wil
son's plan for a merchant marine
owned and operated, either in part or
In whole, by the Government may be
Judged by a canvass which has been
made of the Chambers of Commerce of
the United States.
The vote on Government ownership
of merchant marine was only 82 in
favor of but 698 against. Government
ownership with private operation got
a vote of 54 in favor of but 711 against.
But ships subsidies sufficient to offset
the difference in the cost of operation
of vessels under the American Flag as
compared with deep-sea ships under
foreign flags was approved by a vote of
568 to 186. For a postal subvention the
vote was 718 in favor of to 48 against.
Mr. Wilson Is understood to put the
United States Government into tho
shipping business; but from this vote of
tha United States Chamber of Com
merce it is evident that he cannot do
anything of the kind with tho approval
or assistance of the business Interests
of the country.
LIKE A VACCINATION
[From the Boston Transcript.]
Mr. Wilson regards a one-term plank
as a good deal like a vaccination
sometimes It takes and then aga'n It
doesn't.
CIVIC CLUB
Fly Contest
June 1 to July 31
5 Cents a Pint
Prizes of 85, $2.50 and several
SI.OO ones
duplicated by Mr. Ben SLrouse