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Average for the year
Average for the year 1013—19,963
Average tor the year 1912—19,849
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THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 1
The mind that u anxious about the future
is miserable. —Seneca.
CONFIDENCE IN HARRISBURG
F A GRATIFYING condition in an
otherwise somewhat dull business
season Is the report of the local
Building Inspector, which shows that
In June new building operations In
Harrlsburg amounted to nearly a quar
ter million dollars and that for the first
half of the year the figures are near
the million-dollar mark. This, of
'course, takes no account of suburban
"building, much of which has been done
<md Is now being done on the outskirts
•of the city. New building for 1915 in
Harrlsburg will exceed that of last
by several hundred thousands of
dollars, the Indications are.
As everybody knows, this city has
rot been blessed with an oversupply
of prosperity this year. While some of
our Industries have been busy as a re
sult of war orders, and while public
Improvements and railroad construc
tion work have kept labor fairly well
employed, business in general has not
been what It might have been. It is
all the more to the credit of those who
•bava gone forward with their develop
ment enterprises that they have not
been deterred thereby. The con
fidence they are displaying in the
future of Harrlsburg Is distinctly en
couraging to every line of trade and
the optimistic Influences thus exerted
radiate In all directions.
Harrlsburg is not only a delightful
place in which to live, but it also has
bright possibilities in a way.
With a restoration of prosperity
throughout the country, the biggest
boom In the history of the city Is
bound to follow. The new building
operations of this year are but as the
ripples that precede the flood tide.
American labor should be protected
by tariff duties that at least equal the
difference in cost of production at home
and abroad. Temporary shortage of
world supply may maintain prices for
a time, as in the case of wool, but
placing on the free list commodities
produced in competition with cheap
labor abroad must ultimately bring
hardship to American industry. The
American farmer should be aided In
borrowing money at rates of interest
as low as paid by others who give se
curity equally sound, but It is more im
portant that he be aided in securing
such a price for his products as will
relieve him of the need of borrowing
except In case of emergency.
EFFECTS OF COAL SLUMP
THE Pennsylvania Railroad is a
great carrier of soft coal and so
" ' is the Reading. On both Har
risburg depends for a large share of
■whatever degree of prosperity it en
joys. There is. therefore, much of
intereat locally In a digest of the
bituminous coal trade issued to-day
for the first six months of 19X5, as
estimated by C. E. Lesher of the
United States Geological Survey. He
fixes the output as between 180,000,-
000 and 190,000,000 short tons, the
rate of production having been from
eighty-five to ninety per cent, of the
average for the previous year. Thus
the bituminous coal production during
this six months' period has been con
siderably less than for the correspond
ing period in 1914 and the reflex is
felt right here in Harrisburg. The
rate of production this year decreased
After January, reached low ebb in
March and April, and Is now happily
on the Increase.
... The States west of the' Mississippi
k River, which In 1914 produced less
I than 13 per cent, of the total, do not
appear to have suffered from this de
ft crease as much as the Eastern States—
I reports from certain districts in the
f West showing an increase over 1914.
This is attributed to the Increase in
metal mining and smelting, and to
greater railroad activity. In Pennsyl
vania and West Virginia the loss of
bunlcer trade on the Atlantic seaboard,
much of which passes through Har
risburg. and the slowness of the Lake!
season have been only partly offset by
the increasing coal exports. The re
cent activity in the iron business has
been slow to affect the coal trade, al
though coke has gained consideraby
during the last i KO months and for
the rest of 1916 the Increased output
should continue.
The anthracite producers have
fared better than the soft coal oper
ators, since it is estimated that the oat- j
THURSDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JULY 1, 1915.
put of anthracite has fallen oft only
from i to 5 per cent, below the aver
age for 1914.
Whatever affects the soft coal trade
affects Harrlsburg. When the mines
are busy so Is our railroad population,
and all of us are benefitted. The re
verse is also true.
Amont the many inconsistencies of
the Underwood tariff is the fact that
there Is a 10 per cent, duty on cattls,
while all the Imports which constitute
parts of the cattle are allowed into the
country free. For example, while the
cow Itself is subject to a 10 per cent,
duty, yet the bones, hide, flesh, hoofs,
blood, horns,- milk and hair of the cow
are free. We are forced' to conclude
with Representative Gardner, of Mas
sachusetts, that "the countryman Is
said to have accepted many a gold
brick in his time, but nothing except
his sense of humor will keep him from
exploding when he hears of that 10
per cent, duty on cattle."
POOR CONSOLATION
EVEN the most resourceful mathe
matician finds It extremely diffi
cult, if not impossible, to use any
comparative statistics in such a way as
to bring credit to the present national
administration. Some, however, make
desperate efforts to put the figures to
gether In such a way as to relieve
Democracy of its burden of discredit.
In an attempt of this kind one Demo
cratic newspaper refers to the fact
that railway earnings for April, 1915,
were $33,821,308, as compared with
$32,222,791 for the same month in
1914, an increase of a million and a
half.
Even though that Is comparing one
Democratic month with another, and,
therefore, proves nothing, the apparent
good showing is entirely reversed when
the Democratic editor finds himself
forced to admit that the gain in net
earnings "is not due to an increase in
gross earnings, but to a decrease in op
erating expenses." That decrease in
operating expenses must mean either re
duced wages, reduced purchases or re
duced employment. In any event, it
means less money for the workers on
railroads or In railroad shops. Nor is
that all, for the same editor goes on
to admit that although gross earnings
"were down only $2,000,000 for the
month (April), they were down
$79,000,000 during the preceding nine
months," or an average of nearly
$9,000,000 a month.
While most people will be glad to
know that the railroads as a whole,
aided by increased rales and by re
newed industrial activity due to the
war, are not as badly off as they were,
It is difficult to comprehend what sat
isfaction a Democrat can get out of
presentation of statistics showing the
depths to which railroad business had
sunk within recent months.
The Constitutional Convention in
New York has wisely voted down a
proposition for a single-chambered
Legislature. Ours is a government of
checks and balances and if one wishes
to know what is possible in legislation
under a single-chamber system, when
pressed by a dictatorial Executive, one
has only to consider the half-baked
measures thrust through the last House
In Congress by Presidential mandate,
only to be amended and put into shape
In the Upper Branch.
The Democratic convention of 1516
will have to perform some remarkable
rhetorical stunts if it works a "Made
ln-America" policy into its free trade
.platform.
CONSTRUCTIVE LEGISLATION
NO other national legislation within
the last quarter of a century
has done more to protect and
promote the health of the American
people and prevent financial loss
through fraud and deception than has
the national pure food law, which was
enacted In 1906 by a Congress that
was Republican In both branches, and
signed by a Republican President.
This law was peculiarly a Repub
lican idea, for It asserted the power of
the general government to enact legis
lation of this kind, a power which was
denied by Democrats who were advo
cates of the doctrine of States rights.
President Wilson apparently overlook
ed this law when he said recently that
the Republican party had not had a
new Idea in thirty years. The only
votes cast against the bill were by
Democrats, and one of those was by
Congressman A. S. Burleson, of Texas,
now Postmaster General, the only
member of that Congress specially
honored by President Wilson.
While commonly referred to as a
"pure food law" the act regulates the
manufacture and sale of not only food
but drugs, confectionary, medicine and
liquors; insures purity, prevents mis
branding, prohibits adulteration, re
quires full weight and measure, and
forbids use of poisonous and deleter
ious substances.
The law requires that if certain
habit-forming drugs be contained in a
medical preparation, that fact shall
be plainly stated on the label and that
the quantity of alcohol contained in
medicine be specified. It prohibits
removing part or all of the contents
of a receptacle and substitution of
another article different from that In
dicated on the package. In the case
pf foods put up In packages, it re
quires that the weight or measure be
specified on the label. Sale or packing
of partly decomposed meats is for
bidden. All these provisions were
necessary for the protection of public
health and for the prevention of fraud
in the manufacture and sale of food
and drugs.
The enactment of the pure food law
was laigely due to the persistent rec
ommendations of a Republican Presi
dent The bill which became a law
was introduced in the Senate by a
Republican Senator, Heyburn of Ida
ho, and although It had only four
negative votes in that branch of Con
gress, those four votes were recorded
by Democrats.
The bill met more vigorous oppo
sion in the House, where a minority re
port was filed against it by Represen
tatives Adamson, Bartlett and Rus
sell, Democratic members of the Com
mittee on Interstate and Foreign Com
merce, who asserted that pure food
I legislation is a matter within the Jur-
lsdlctlon of the several States, and not
within the jurisdiction of the general
government.
Only seventeen members of the
House had the temerity to vote against
the bill, but every one of these was a
Democrat. The Pure Food bill was
one new Republican Idea that they
couldn't approve.
Though heavy receipts from stamp,
corporation and Income taxes have
added to funds In the Federal Treasury,
the balance on hand at the close of
business Saturday, June 19, was only |
$25,519,973.00 as compared with a bal
ance of $137,312,883.86 on the same date
two years ago, when Republican laws
were in control of revenues and expen
ditures. The deficit, as represented by
the excess of all disbursements over all
revenues, for the fiscal year up to June
19 waß $120,871,159.81.
[ TELEQRAPH PERISCOPE "|
—"The Astor baby carriage cost
$600," says an exchange. What does
the editor mean, printing things like
that? Does he want to discourage the
manufacturers who are cutting the
prices of automobiles to something
like reason?
—lf the President makes as big a
hit in New Hampshire as did Thaw
he may carry the State next year.
—Says the Houston Post: "It is
bonehead work that has forced the
Jackass on us as a party emblem."
The court will please note that the
'prisoner pleads guilty.
—lt's a very cold summer that
doesn't have a Thaw.
—On© swallow may not make a
summer, but It Is often sufficient to
start a hot old time.
The Philadelphia Inquirer suggests
that women are sure to get the vote
in Indiana if a recent law out there
that "the curtains of booths must be
of sufficient helghth to make the lower
limbs of the voter visible" Is carried
out literally. Also, it might not be so
difficult then to get men to serve on
the election boards.
OUR RIGHT TO THE SEA
[Frtom the New York World.]
In plain words, the British memo
randum in relation to the lawless in
terference with our ships and cargoes
ie an Impudent persistence in wrong
doing. Nobody is more conscious of
this offense than the members of the
British Ministry, for in answering us j
now with sophistry and falsehood they .
reverse the record of their own Gov- i
ernment in like cases for many years.
When the United States under inter
national law has rights clearly estab- I
lished. what can be more intolerable !
than to have a professed friend say that
those rights will be invaded only with
the minimum of inconvenience? What
can be more insolent than to be assured
by such a friend that on interrupting
our lawful trade with neutrals it will
graciously refrain from violence or
confiscation? Is there any outrage that
one nation can inflict upon another at
peace more humiliating than to sub
ject its legitimate commerce to a pirati
cal censorship?
No matter how many diplomatic
notes may be written or how cleverly
or falsely they may evade the real is
sue. the British Government cannot
justify the seizure of neutral ships
laden with noncontraband goods bound
from one neutral port to another. In
ternational law recognizes and defines
blockades, but It specifically declares
that no blockade shall be operative
against nations at peace.
EDITORIAL COMMENT 1
If the Germans would whip the
French it would help them out a lot.
It doesn't do them any good to whip
the Russians.—Florida Times-Union.
The chief danger at this moment
would seem to be that Germany and
Austria may wear themselves completey
out licking Russia.—Chicago Herald.
Ambassador Bernstorff declares he
will stay in Washington all summer.
Hope he won't find It too hot for him.—
Philadelphia North American.
ARE YOUT
By Wlug Dinger
'Aint been saying much to-day
'Round the office, bo,
But to-morrow afternoon,
I have planned to go
'Cross the bridge to Island Park
And take In the game—
Guess a bunch of other chaps
Plan to do the same.
Seems to me 'most everyona
Whom I chanced to meet
As I wandered 'bout the town,
Up and down the street.
Had a question to propound.
Each time 'twas the same—
So I'll ask you. too, "Are you
Going to the game?"
1 LETTERS TO THE EDIToF
CONDEMNS PRINTERS' INK WAR
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Dear Sir —When will the foreigners
01' the warring countries ever become
true Americans? From the letters of
late In the papers and the English
used In the composition of some I
would Infer some of the writers have
been In this country long enough to
have better sense than to fight in be
half of the lands from which they
came with other would-ba Americans.
They for the sake of peace should try
to forget they ever came from a for
eign land, and if they did not mean
it from their hearts when they took
the oath to become Americans at
least should try to be Americans and
not show their unfaithfulness to their
oath by so much unnecessary printing
ink wars about the countries they still
seem to hold dearest to their hearts.
It really is a sad state of affairs for
the real American to think that there
are so many of old home ties among
the would-be Americans. They take
tho oaths to become Americans and
really In heart they are not. By this
unnecessary printing ink war they give
themselves awav and show oaths taken
was not from their hearts, but for a
purely selfish purpose; maybe that
they might not be called back to de
fend their home lands. May God pro
tect our fair America from such awful
false pretense, and may those would-be
Americans get their thinking caps on
and not continue this printers' ink war
on each other any longer. It Is sick
ening. They are here on the free,
glorious land of the Stars and Stripes
and expect protection and therewith
ought to be contented and at least
try to be what their oath to this coun
try calls for. I was born la Canada
In 1864, came to this country in 1884,
took out my citizenship papers in 1889
and have been a real American ever
since, In mind, heart, soul and body,
because here I have lived, moved and
have my being. What more can I ask ?
Why should Canada and I have any
pulling of strings so long as I have
taken an oath to become an American
citizen ?
Stars and Stripes,
United States,
Oh, glorious land and free.
I lift the old Canadian gates
And now I'll live for thee.
F. G. DARLINGTON.
Harrlsburg,-Pa.. June 28, 1816,
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tMvO ifLraKUl
By thu Ex-Commit
Pennsylvania's four congressmen-at
large got together yesterday at York
for discussion of their interests and
divided up the appointments which
fall to tho members representing the
whole State. They also planned a
number of things In the interest of
legislation for the State. Congress
men J. R. K. Scott and M. M. Garland
will name the appointees to West
Point and Congressmen D. F. LaFean
and T. S. Crago the alternates. The
Annapolis appintments will be made
next year. The congressmen were the
guests of Congressman LaFean.
It begins to look as though some
I booms were being exhibited in Phila
delphia to' draw out candidates for
mayor. George D. Porter, the direc
tor of public safety, was boosted yes
terday at a luncheon and a downtown
club boomed Congressman Vare.
Porter Is backed by a number of In
dependents and it is said that their
activity is designed to get the mayor to
endorse Porter.
Lawrence county lawyers held a
meeting at which the candidacy of ex-
Judge W. D. Wallace of New Castle,
for the Superior Court, was boomed.
A. Mitchell Palmer says that he is
going home to Monroe county to take
a rest and that he is not bothering
about politics. Just the same he was
in Washington with State Chairman
Morris looking after patronage early
this week.
Montgomery county's Democratic
cjmmittee must have had a Joyous
I meeting yesterday if the reports sent
out from Norristown are true. Ac
cording to one story "reorganization
Democrats were in control at a ses
sion of the Democratic standing com
mittee of Montgomery county, and
nearly precipitated a row among the
few members present after Chairman
Chrlstman had made a strong plea for
harmony and a united Democratic part
in the county in order to capture some
of the county offices to be filled in the
Fall. New rules formulated by the
Rules Committee In accordance with
the new laws were presented by the
"Old Guard" and were turned down
temporarily and ordered printed so
that all the committeemen might di
gest them before finally adopted. This
action was opposed by Vice Chairman
Clark, one of the Old Guard, who saw
no necessity for the printing of the
rules because, as he stated, there were
no "jokers" in them, and only the date
of the primaries had been changed.
Mr. Clark said afterward that as a
member of the Rules Committee he for
one would not take the promises of
any one for the payment of the print
ing bill. Attorney Hartigan of Lower
Merion. opposed the adoption of the
rules on sight and offered to pay for
the printing himself. Further parley
was cut out by a motion to adjourn
coming from the Old Guard and car
ried."
The Allegheny county campaign Is
exciting more than ordinary interest
this year because of the strenuous
manner in which the candidates are
working. It has reached the ex-roast
stage and picnics and meetings are
being held in every section of the
county.
The borough of Farrell has voted
$50,000 for Improvements and th»
borough of Berlin SS,OOO for improve
ment of highways in conjunction with
the State and county.
A Reading dispatch to the Phila
delphia Inquirer says: "Great interest
is taken here in the decision of the
Luzerne county courts in which all of
their four judges agree, that Mayor
John Kosek of Wilkes-Barre, may run
for another term, as It is taken that
the same ruling applies to Mayor
Stratton, of Reading. Mayor Kosek
was in Reading recently seeking legal
advice on the subject, and it is be
lieved that Mayor Stratton gave him
some valuable pointers in reference to
tho Clark Commission law of 1913,
which has been construed in Luzerne
as permitting Mayors of third-class
cities to succeed themselves, setting
aside the old law of 1889 In this re
spect. Recently Governor Brumbaugh
vetoed the Catlin bill, which directly
specified Mjat Mayors be permitted to
succeed themselves, but It is maintain
ed that the Governor and many with
him took the position that the Catlin
bill was not needed to make Mnyors
eligible to run again. The decision of
the Luzerne courts has somewhat
cleared the Mayoralty situation in
Reading, and it is believed that Mayor
Stratton will now announce himself
for a second term, possibly as an in
dependent Republican."
WHERE THE COUNTRY GOES FISH
ING
[From the Birmingham Age Herald.]
The Mann Presidential boom on the
"wet" ticket will soon be jostling the
Bryan Presidential boom on the "dry"
ticket.
NEITHER WILSON NOR BRYAN
There Is a vast body of sentiment
that is not represented by either the
president nor Mr. Bryan. It may be
said fairly that a majority sentiment
is not represented by either or by
both together, at least the majority
has never so voted.
If the president could speak for all
the people who believe in a deter
mined foreign policy and Mr. Bryan
for all the people who believe the
time has come for a new internation
alism, it would be easy to determine
the issues and proceed to the debate.
But there are too many thousands
of those who denounce Mr. Bryan who
cannot accept the president for their
leader, and too many thousands who
subscribe to Mr. Bryan's general
views In the present situation, who
have too lively recollections of other
points of difference to ever rally to
his standard.
Neither the president nor Mr. Bry
an is able now or ever will be able to
obliterate the past lines of political
division in this country, the president
because with all his admirable
qualities he is a man of narrow range
and pedagogical rigidity and precision,
not enough a human being of flesh and
blood, and Mr. Bryan, because with
all his warmth and enthusiasm and
abounding good Impulses, is possessed
of the congenital defects of the orator,
an impressionability and quick re
sponse, that give him at times the ap
pearance of Instability and want of
executive capacity.
If the president had been a bigger
man he wotild not have broken with
Mr. Bryan, and if Mr. Bryan had been
more of a man of detail, more of a
manager, he would not have broken
with the president. It has been mu
tual defects of temperament that
have brought about the party disas
ter, and those mutual defects of tem
perament everybody has been quick
to recognize.
Therefore what la said In a general
way In support of the president in
this or that or in support of Mr.
Bryan in this or that is not and will
not be taken as the sort of indorse
ment that will mean anything when
the time comes, for the very men
who may to-day be most outspoken
for one or the other may be the men
who will lead the opposition to both.
The natural conclusion ought to
be a national "line-up" behind Wil
son and Bryan. But th e "line-up"
will not be formed. Much more
likely will be an overwhelming re
versal for the friends of both, and a
return to the old leadership. Neither
the president nor Mr. Bryan can com
mand the present situation. Des
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WHAT IS CRUELTY?
I DIDN'T know It was cruel!" said
a Harrisburg woman to the agent
of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, who had re
monstrated with her for keeping her
dog tied all day in the blazing sun.
This 1b a common excuse. Many a
failure to report Improper treatment
of animals to the S. P. C. A. arises
from uncertainty as to what consti
tutes cruelty under the law. Frequent
inquiry at headquarters of the society
brings.the following suggestions:
The surest preventive of cruelty is
to Include animals in the working of
that golden command on which hang
all the law and the prophets. Culti
vate Imagination. Put yourself In the
place of horse, dog or cat. Then act
as you would like to be treated.
He Is cruel to animals who inflicts
unnecessary pain. In defining the
"necessary" It is safe to err on the
side of "softness." Stoicism and Spar
tan training may be good for man—
who can answer back —it means, too
often, cruelty to the animal.
He Is guilty of cruelty:
Who overworks, underfeeds or neg
lects to provide plenty of good fresh
water for any animal in his posses
sion.
HOW SLATON FA
I MAY dig my political grave," said
ex-Governor Slaton, of Georgia, to
a friend, "but in this Frank matter
I am not Jack Slaton. but the Governor
of this State. People have told me
that If I interfere in the Frank case
I need never aspire to another political
office within the gift of the State in
which I and my fathers were born, and
that efforts to resume the practice of
law within Its borders would be futile.
What have I to do with either of
these? Jack Slaton will take the
consequences of acting as Governor of
Georgia."
"The action is characteristic of the
man," said Stephen L. Snowdon, sec
retary of the New York Southern So
ciety, yesterday. "For myself I am not
expressing an opinion as to whether or
not Frank was guilty. Opinion is di
vided upon that question; but there is
not doubt in the mind of any South
erner with whom I have talked that
Governor Slaton acted according to his
best judgment."
Slaton is a big man physically. He
stands a little over six feet tall, Is
broad-sl. >uldered and weighs about
200 pounds. He is an athlete, with
out a pound of superfluous flesh on
him. Morally he has shown his cour
age a number of times, but never until
the mob moved on his home in Peach
tree road last Monday night was he
called upon to exhibit his physical
courage.
"These are my people," he said.
"Not a soul among them will do me
harm. I am going to speak to them
from the veranda and I am sure they
will go away without trouble. It may
be that a word from me will make
them disperse and prevent possible
bloodshed."
Friends tried to dissuade him. His
wife, Miss Sally Fanny Grant, as they
still call her with the Southern pro
pensity for continuing the maiden
name of a woman even long years
after she has married, sat tight-lipped.
"What do you say, Sally?" he asked.
"One bullet," interposed a friend,
"from some Irresponsible man will be
enough to do for you. Anybody might
Are it. Stay inside."
"If you think you ought to go and
speak to them," replied his wife, "you
go. A bullet may be a big thing, but
not half so big as the thought that
may come to you later that you were
afraid of it. I know you're not afraid,
Jack; show the people that you're not."
So he went to the veranda and
showed himself to the people who were
threatening him. He comes of fighting
stock. His father, the "Major," W. F.
Slaton. served through the Civil War
and then resumed his profession of
teaching. He is living in retirement,
but was one of the Scuth's most con
spicuous educators.
When Mr. Slaton was elected Gov
ernor in 1912 the State's finances had
become confused. A large bond issue
was to mature in 1915 and the State
treasury was wrestling with a deficit of
about a million dollars. Governor
Slaton urged that the method of as
sessing property for taxation be re
vised. His political associates advised
against any proceeding that would
change matter*,.pqinUng out that some
years ago a Governoiihad advocated
aoid put through a soViewhat similar
measure and that subsequently the
Governor, seeking rQ-electlon, had
been overwhelmingly ddflrfted and the
law revoked. Ir
"Never mind," said
people do not want do not
have to have me. is right
and T'm for it. This State
needs, and if I can it this
is what the State Is no
matter what happens
He staked the
ministration upon the
was enacted. The tax
was passed and during
its operation values
$85,000,000. a large
Ijvhlcb had sever, paid
Who drives a horse or works him
when his condition is such that suffer
ing follows. Some of the things which
make this unfit condition are: Har
ness that rubs on a galled spot, lame
ness, driving unshod on a hard pave
ment or shod so that no footing can
be had on an icy or slippery pavement;
to keep horse standing unblanketed
in cold or stormy weather.
Who uses a bridle on a horse where
the blinders crowd in on his eyes; who
uses too tight a check rein, a bit that
tortures, or a collar so tight that it
chokes or so large that it plays about
the neck.
Who allows children to torment a
dog or cat; or who closes a house for
the summer without making proper
provision for a domestic pet.
Ignorance of law is no excuse for
injuring men and should not be in
the treatment of animals. No one so
stupid or ignorant not to know when
he is causing pain should be allowed to
be with animals.
Neglect or indifference is often as
cruel as wanton blow or infliction of
pain. To pass unheeding any suffer
ing beast or bird is cruelty, though it
is not amenable to law. —Supplied by
the Harrisburg S. P. C. A.
added to the tax levy, thus clearing up
the State's fiscal difficulties. This, with
other reforms he instituted, reduced
the tax rate 10 per cent., and - every
body in Georgia is now satisfied that
the right course was pursued.
There has been some prejudice
against Mr. Slaton because he was not
what is called In Georgia "a wool hat
Governor," by which is meant a man
from the agricultural districts. It is a
tradition in that State that no man
shall be elected to the highest office
who was born and raised in a large
city. Mr. Slaton is an Atlantan by
birth. He is the first city man to fill
the executive chair since the term of
General John B. Gordon, a Southern
soldier, who took office just after the
close of the Civil War and who was
elected upon his war record.
Governor Slaton is wealthy. Not
only has he amassed a comfortable
competence from his law practice, but
he married the greatest heiress in
Georgia. His wife is still called "Miss
Sally Fanny Grant," although they
have been married for fifteen years
and he is her second husband. Her
first husband, Tom Cobb Jackson, died
soon after she married him.
Mrs. Slaton is the great-great-grand
daughter of General James Jackson,
one of the State's early Governors and
a United States senator. A thorough
Georgian, General Jackson resigned his
place in the United States Senate to
bt-come a member of the Georgia legis
lature for the purpose of fighting the
so-called "Yazoo fraud." His was the
time of duelling and his activities in
exposing the evils of the project led
him into eight duels. He was wounded
in several of thorn and finally died
from the effects of his injuries, but not
urtil he had accomplished his purpose.
It was Mrs. Slaton's ambition that
her husband should become Governor
of her State. She had advised with
him in every issue and to her Mr. Sla
ton attributes not a small part of his
success. Their home, about five miles
from the center of Atlanta, in Peach
tree road, is famous for its hospitality.
LACK OF APPRECIATION
After shaking hands at the depot
one colored man inquired of another;
"Didn't you marry de widow Jones de
first of January?"
"Dat's me—l did," was the answer,
"but I've dun left her."
"Why, how's dat?"
"Well, de fust week she called me
honey, de next week she sulked around
and called me old Richards, the third
week she cum for me wid a flatiron
an' I'se kinder got a hunch she didn't
like me."—Exchange.
Our Daily Laugh
• * I'JK *
SPENT HIS
'Jj George has of
fered m 0
.mm • That '" *ll be
&■ ''ffijNj ' \ has left since he's
been engaged to
COMPET
-1 l *' e " m ®'
\ ble, how I stand
with your sister.
Bv Oh—about the
DV] foot of the class,
I should say.
Ebpning CEljat
To have Harrisburg in the Inter- 1
national League sets a rather unique I
record In class AA baseball, ac- 1
cording to a baseball fan wno watches
the leagues closely. Harrisburg has J
an estimated population of 90,000, ac- I
cording to the 1916 directory. To have
this city included In the league would
mean that Harrisburg would be the I
city with the smallest population, as
Richmond is next in size with a popu- '
latlon of about 150,000. The remain- i
ing six towns in the league represent I
cities of more than 200,000 people. I
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Notwithstanding the fact that uie I
item of 122,000 for mural paintings
for the State Capitol was vetoed by
Governor Brumbaugh, there are nu
merous applicants for the State's com
mission to decorate the building. This
Item was carried for several years in
the hope that John W. Alexander, the
former Pittsburgh artist, would be
able to undertake the work, the idea
being to have him paint fourteen
lunettes showing the development of
the industries of the Keystone State.
Upon Mr. Alexander's death the Gov
ernor decided to veto the item, feel
ing that the State needed the money
and that within the next two years the
Board of Public Grounds and Build
ings. could select some other Pennsyl
vania artist to do the work. The north
ccrridor is the only portion of the
building for which paintings were
planned which has not been decorated I
or for which commissions have not
been given. 1
• * •• '
Although the new State employment
bureau will not be organized for some
time, there are already a number of I
requests being made for what aro
termed "hands." Most of these re
quests'are coming from the country
districts and the Departments of Agri
culture and Labor and Industry have
been getting thenx, the writers being
farmers who want to make sure that
tliey will have men to help with the
hay crop, which is now being cut, and
with the wheat, which will come along ,
next. One farmer wanted to know
from a State official if he could not get
some "hands" to hoe potatoes. The 1
prize story is told of Highway Com
missioner R. J. Cunningham, who re
ceived a letter asking if some of the
men working on state roads could not
be turned in to help with harvest.
Governor Brumbaugh has received
some similar letters.
• • »
Colonel Lewis E. Beitler, secretary
of the commission which made the
Gettysburg reunion such a great suc
cess. was here the other day looking
after the new edition of the Gettys
burg book. The Legislature, rec
ognizing the great interest in the pub
lication and the demands for it far in 1
excess of the supply, arranged for re
printing. The editing has been in
charge of the colonel, who was in the
matter from the very beginning. He
has added something like twenty more
pictures and some additional matter,
which will make the publication
eagerly sought.
. • •
The fact that calls were issued for
statements as of the same dav from
all banking institutions under the na
tional and state supervision is the first
time such has occurred in six years.
The last time was in April, 1909, when S
the same day was chosen for the pur
pose of getting a line on exact finan
c!al conditions. The call made bv the
State is the third this year. The flu
ures secured from the statements
called will be read with interest by
many.
. . •
The new year book of the Engineers' ■
Society of Pennsylvania, which has .
just been issued, shows that the club V
has almost 800 memhers. The list com- fl
prises not only many men of pron.i- M
r.ence in this section, but number:!. ■
throughout the state. The most im- ■
presslve thing about the year book Is m
the number and variety of the so- '
ciety's publications. All of its activi
ties are not set forth, but the publi
cation list is there In full. The society
and its works are doing much for
Harrisburg.
• • •
Two of the principals who sat on
opposite sides of the counsel table in
June divorce court had been employed
together for years at an upper end
shoe factory; 'twas there, the attor
neys explained, that the romance that
culminated at the altar had begun.
The frequency with which the lawyers
referred to the earlier work-a-dav as
sociations of the pair finally aroused
President Judge Kunkel's curiosity.
"Seems to us," finally commented
the court, "that the fact that they had
wrrked together for so long in a shoe
factory might have helped them to
tread the path of life the more easily. '
"True, your Honor." quickly retorted
one of the lawyers, "but it didn't last'"
* • •
John P. Gohl of this city attended
the big meeting of the Master House
Painters and Decorators at Pittsburgh
this week. He was one of the first
members of the organization.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Bishop Thomas Garland, of Phila
delphia, will spend the month at At
lantic City.
—E. R. Crawford, head of the Mc-
Keesport Tin Plate Company, an
nounces big additions to his plant.
J. B. Colahan, of Philadelphia,
who took a prominent part in the
State Bar association meetings, was
one of the members of the Industrial
Accidents commission.
—R. E. Griscom. tof Philadelphia,
has gone to Rhode Island for the
summer months.
| DO ,YOU KNOW "|
That Harrisburg will be the first
stop for the Liberty Bell?
LABOR AXD MILITARY RULE
[From the Philadelphia Press.] <
Nothing more drastic has ever been
attempted . under a militarist regime
than the British proposals for settling
the labor problems that have been
perplexing the Government and handi
capping the nation in the war. The
men are told by David Lloyd-George,
the most advanced radical In the Cabi
net, that if they do not go to work
voluntarily In the munitions factories
they will be conscripted and forced
to do so. This ultimatum has had the
effect of inducing the labor leaders
to ask for a truce of seven days In
which to round up the workmen as
voluntary laborers.
If the efforts of the labor leaders
are crowned with success, the next
step of the Government will be to or
ganize a volunteer army of work-
men. These industrial soldiers will
enlist for service during the whole \
period of the war, pledging them
selves to go wherever they may be
ordered by the Government. Strikes
and lockouts in establishments for
the manufacture of war material are
made illegal and the making of mu
nitions is to be organized on a strict
ly military basis. Great Britain alms
to manufacture more munitions than
the countries of Central Europe,
which are said to be turning out
250,000 -shells dally. These plans should
have that result.
CIVIC CLUB
Fly Contest
June 1 to July 31
5 Cents a Pint i
Prizes of 95, $2.50 and several
SI.OO ones '
duplicated by Mr. Ben Straus