8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established itti PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. • K. J. STACKPOLH President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening: (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 216 Federal Square. Both phones. Uember American Newspaper Publlih ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111.. Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at <Ulilok®miaki> six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dully average circulation for the three raontha ending; June 30, IBIS ★ 21,231 ★ Average for the year 1014—21.888 Average for the year 1013—10,003 Average for the year 1013—10,049 Average for the year 1011—17,88S Average for the year 1810—10,361 The above flgurea are net. All re turned, unaold and damaged coplea de ducted. SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 10. If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself. — Seneca. WEST SHORE RESPONSIBILITY THERE are signs even now that' people residing along the west shore of the Susquehanna oppo site Harrisburg are realizing the oppor tunities afforded them by the damming of the river at the lower end of this city. Here and there owners of homes and summer bungalows are beautifying the river bank down to the watar's edge. Never, before the construction of this dam. did the "West Shore have a depth of water sufficient to make boating there a pleasant recreation. With the dam still open at places, due to the construction of the Cumberland Valley bridge, the water is already uni formly higher than ever before, and it will be Increased In depth at least a foot when that work is completed. Harrisburg has done its part in the beautlflcation of the river basin. It has expended many thousands of dol lars in the task and is pleased that it has done so. It is not to be expected that the more sparsely settled West Shore will be able to do anything so comprehensive, hut It is entirely within the powers of the township, the bor ough and individuals to decide upon some harmonious form of treatment that would add not only to the beauty of an already picturesque locality but would increase property values as well, and make the West Shore an even more delightful place in which to live tban it now is. Wormleysburg people are noted for their public spirit. If they want new fire apparatus or a town hall or some Other municipal Improvement, they join hands and get it. Doubtless they arc already thinking of the future of their river front, which is every bit as attractive as that of Harrisburg. A community meeting to discuss the mat ter would be entirely in order and might bring about means for an early consideration of the subject by a joint committee or other body delegated to take up the matter. Why is it that when we ask our friends, "How are you?" we are bored when they begin to tell us. FLOOD WARNINGS ONE of the most valuable services the State Water Supply Commis sion renders to the communities lying along the banks of rivers and streams that in rainy seasons are apt to overflow their banks is the warning it issues at such times. Flood warn ings that come out but a few hours before the rise of the waters are not of much value. The commission realizes this and strives to estimate the height of the streams at various points at least twelve hours in advance. This gives everybody interested ample time lh which to take necessary precautions and results in the saving of much property that otherwise would' be damaged or destroyed. The accuracy with which the Horn mission makes its forecasts is well illustrated in the bulletins Issued dur ing the present flood stage of the Sus quehanna and Its tributaries. "Courage conquers all things," said an ancient philosopher who never charged a machine gun battery. GRADE CROSSING RELIEF CONSIDERATION has been written and much more said since the accident at Hummelstown Mon day night, concerning the responsi bility of the State Public Service Commission with respect to grade crossings. There are more than 11,- 000 such crossings in Pennsylvania and it is a task of no mean pro portions to attempt their regulation. The commission has never declined i ,to extend proper relief to communi ties asking for it in this respect. It has suggested, when complaints of dangerous grade crossings were laid before it, that the residents or the authorities of the territory tmme- i diately adjacent were In better posi tion to pass upon the subject than a body of men sitting miles away a* : the Capitol, and to that end decisions i have been based largely upon testl- i mony taken on the spot. It is certainly the duty of the community, us well as of the rail- ] road and officials, to see to it that the : public is adequately protected wher SATURDAY EVENING, ever the crossing. Conditions such as those at Hummelstown ought not to have been allowed to exist, and the people of the town share In the re sponsibility Inasmuch as they not only made no complaint previous to the accident, but actually petitioned the Public Service Commission less that a year ago for another grade crossing within the limits of the bor ough. Probably the coroner's Jury did not have these facts when It rendered its verdict, against which there can be made no complaint save that It should have been framed to Include the bor ough of Hummelstown as censurable along with the others Involved. Other communities should look to their crossings before attention is called to them by a tragedy such as that which cost six lives this week. Wo fall to note in any of our ex changes that one time standard sum mer Item to the effect that "Mr. and JJrs. So-and-So left yesterday to spend the summer In an extended tour of Europe." 1 STATE POLICE AID THE utility of the State Police is well demonstrated in the as sistance they are rendering just now In breaking up rowdyism and robberies In the eastern end of the county. The local authorities found them selves unable to cope with the situa tion. Lawless men and boys paid no attention whatever to the. constables and the populace for weeks has been at the mercy of these rural "gang sters." Now comes the State Police and Immediately the trouble is at an end. To be sure It Is a pity that some of the offenders were not brought to book, but it is pleasing to note that the bullies who terrorize helpless country constables have a wholesome respect for the men who constitute the State constabulary. It is in just such service as this that the State Police are Indispensa ble. Rural communities canriot be expected to go to the expense of maintaining large police forces, and in most cases such are not needed. But here and there over the Com monwealth disorder breaks out at intervals and is not quelled until some such powerful and fearless force as the constabulary is called in. The man who advocates the abolition of the force labels himself at once as an enemy of law and a friend of the law less. It is not recorded that a State policeman ever arrested or inter fered with anybody who was con ducting himself with due regard for the law and Its requirements. Mrs. Thaw is a better press agent for herself than she would be a witness for her husband. CHAMBER'S GOOD WORK THE Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce is doing an excellent work in bringing men of national repu tation to the city. The coming of United States Senator Theodore E. Burton on July 15 is only one of many euch instances. More really big men have spoken before the Harrisburg Chamber In the past year than have addressed similar gatherings in either Pittsburgh or Philadelphia. Every one of these speakers has brought a mes sage well worth hearing, many of them embracing lessons that are keynotes to success with respect to community life or applied individually. This is one of the important duties of the Chamber —to keep Harrisburg in touch with the country at large, to keep its members abreast of the times! and in no way can this be accom plished so well as by bringing to Har risburg the big, deep thinkers of the nation to tell us of their own experi ences and ideals and what others are doing. The study of history is inval uable to the man engaged in public work. Biography contains important lessons for the man bent upon per sonal success. The addresses of such men as Burton are both history and biography brought down to terms of everyday life and having their appli cation to every one who hears the messages they bring. "Nothing dries sooner than a tear," nor leaves such a stain on a well pow dered cheek. BURLESON'S ADMISSION TN his last annual report, Postmaster . General Burleson presented sta- X tlstics showing the steady growth in postal savings deposits and then said: "These facts afford conclusive proof that the practical operations of postal savings In this country have amply fulfilled the predictions of its advocates." That is certainly some admission, coming as it does from a man who, as a member of the House of Rep resentatives, voted against the postal savings bank bill. It is one more 1 acknowledgment of the superiority of Republican ideas. But Burleson had plenty of bad company, for every Democrat in the House who voted at all recorded his vote against the measure. If we had our way. the river would j clear up and bass Ashing would lm- | prove. CONTROL OF THE BUDGET ] THE last session of Congress was an extremely extravagant one j and yet it appropriated $113,- 000,000 less than the Executive .De- ] partments urged it to appropriate. Let this fact sink into the minds of those who advocate a national budget system for the United States. That a budget system Is desirable, few will question, but those who believe in economical administration will also agree that the control of the budget board or commission should be in j Congress and not in the departments. I The reason for this is plain. The | head of each department, upon the Insistent recommendations of his subordinates, and because of his de sire to extend the activities of his' office, asks Congress for larger ap propriations for work already in hand and for new appropriations for new governmental activities. He Is naturally impressed with the lm portance of his department and is more or less actuated by vanity and ambition. Congress, the only branch of gov ernment chosen directly by the peo ple and Including men from every walk of life, Is not Influenced by per sonal ambition, so far as departmental expenditures are concerned, and upon that body we must rely for the check upV>n extravagance. A budget system we certainly need, but not one In the control of men who ask for $113,000,000 more than a liberal Congress will grant. | TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE " —Henry Ford says we eat three times too much. Thereby spending for food what we might otherwise put into gasoline. —Was Thaw crazy or his jury? —The "bear that walks like a man" knows how to run almost as well as walk. Also he is "some" stopper. —The crankless automobile Is some times one that has transferred its crank from the radiator to the driver's seat. —Holt was a bad man, no doubt, but what of the merchant who sold him dynamite? —One of the advantages of going on vacation is that we enjoy home so much more when we get back. I EDITORIAL COMMENT | Mr. Bryan's successive statements make it Increasingly evident that he resigned in a fit of passionate admir ation for Mr. Wilson. —New York Evening Post. An exchange informs us that all the Balkan countries are mountainous. We knew already that some of them were not on the level.—Charleston News and Courier. Must have een easy for the Presi dent to tell what the flag stands for after having written three notes to tell what it won't stand for.—Philadelphia North American. The bottom has fallen out of the motor car price lists. At the rate the cost is being reduced the idle rich will soon have to abandon motoring en tirely.—Kansas City Star. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph, July 10, 1865.] Sunday School Picnic The annual union Sunday school picnic will be held next Thursday on the west shore of the river. Convention in This City ? Prominent colored men in the State are discussing having a national con vention in this city beginning Au gust 1. V Three More Engines Council has passed an ordinance authorizing the purchase of three new steam Are engines. DRIVE CAREFULLY [Prom the Kansas City Star.] Two fatal motor accidents in Kansas City last night call attention once more to the need of the greatest caution in driving. Ift speed makes the automo bile both a great convenience and a great menace. It is not merely that passengers in a motor vehicle are endangered by care lessness on the part of their own driver. They are endangered by care lessness on the part of other drivers and of people on foot. That means that the driver must never take anything for granted on the part of anybody he meets. He must assume that other people are liable to bewilderment, and must be prepared for anything. STEPS TOWARD PREPAREDNESS [New York Sun.] No action undertaken by any of the numerous associations devoted to the improvement of the national defence has been more practicable or better calculated to achieve results than that which proposes to enroll all employ ers of labor for the encouragement of enlistment in the National Guard. In a numerous, well drilled and properly accoutered body of citizen soldiers, instructed in the profession of arms, lies the only immediately available means of increasing our mili tary establishement to a degree remote ly approaching the pressing necessities of the country. Unfortunately the National Guard has not received in the past the en couragement from the public that an intelligent understanding of its func tions and purpose requires. It has had to meet the open or secret hostility of labor unions and employers, and to struggle against the indifference of the. populace. Were it brought to the place in the community it should occupy, the men ace of our present condition would be notably modified: and the taxpay ers. while they would be called on to contribute something to its develop ment, would still remain in happy ignorance of the burden imposed by a large standing army. "BABY WEEK" IN PITTSHURGH Pittsburgh has Just finished the cel ebration of "baby week." Its object was "a campaign for happy and healthy babies." There was an exhibition throughout the week at Wabash Sta tion. On the first floor was an exhibit on the care of the baby with an infor mation booth. On the second floor was the State exhibit on baby welfare, with examples of the "do care" and "don't care" families. Besides, aspects of the care of babies were illustrated with moving pictures. In various places in the city there were appropriate programs. Moving pictures were shown in parks and schoolhouses. In one of the settlement houses there were talks In different languages. "Baby Sunday" was ob served in the churches. Each day had some distinctive event. Flags were dis tributed on Monday at the homes of babies. On Tuesday there was a "little mothers' parade." One day was devoted to talks to fathers in the streets and in the shops. On anothsr dav mothers and babies were given an outing. The idea was to get everybody to talking about the care of babies, so that a general interest in the subject would be aroused. The Goers and Comers Some are just starting on va cations: others are coming home sun tanned and invigorated. It is one of the great Invig orating months of the year. And the transitions bring their disclosures of new wants to be supplied. The weather is warm, time is important. One does not want to shop around. A glance through the advertis ing in the Telegraph will help you to locate a satisfactory place to supply your needs. Perhaps you can do the rest by telephone. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH CK 'Pe.KKOiffccaKta By the Ex-Oommltteemaa State wide interest in Philadelphia's campaign to land the next Republican national convention is being shown and men active in party affairs In half a dozen of the eastern counties are ready to do what they can to aid in the movement. It will be recalled that the recent legislature adopted resolu tions inviting the convention to como to this State and this has been fol lowed up by quiet work among influen-' tial men. Practically all of the eastern coun ties would be Interested in the con vention more than that held in 1910 in Philadelphia, because this year a Pennsylvanian is being boomed. Senator Penrose is in Atlantic City for the week end meeting prominent Republicans preparatory to going tQ New York next week to discuss the national situation with Chairman Hllles and the big men of the party. Congressman Edgar R. Kiess last night announced at Williamsport that he had declined the proffer of the public service commission a month ago. This has been persistently re ported, but both the Governor and the Congressman declined to discuss the matter. Yesterday Mr. Kiess spoke out, but the Governor left for Somer set county to-day without having said anything. A Williamsport dispatch says: To-day Mr. Kiess received a letter from the Governor accepting his de clination. At the Governor's request no announcement was made until to day. Mr. Kiess, in his letter, says the position is one which carries with it great possibilities of service to the people of the Commonwealth and he would accept It were he free to do so. Continuing his letter says, In part: "I am convinced that my duty lies in the direction of serving my term as Representative in Congress, to which I was recently re-elected by the people. The Sixty-fourth Congress will have many important matters to consider, and the present foreign complications may necessitate the calling of Congress In special session, therefore, my suc cessor could not be elected. My peo ple having by their vote expressed their continued confidence in me, I feel that my first duty is to them." In his letter accepting Mr. Kiess' declination, Governor Brumbaugh states that he does so with sincere re gret. He assures the Congressman that his sacrifice in this matter in the interest of the people of the district touches him greatly and accentuates the feeling of loss which he feels over Mr. Kiess' declination. It is an open secret that the Con gressman yielded to the pleas of his friends to stay in Congress because of the turmoil his retirement would make among the Republicans of the four counties of the district. It Is acknowledged that Kiess is the strong est man in the district and who backed him wanted him to stay. The Governor has given no intimation of whom he will select. The Vare brothers are going to have a big oxroast in Philadelphia next month at which it is expected some announcement relative to the mayor alty is expected to be made. • Senator Oliver's announcement of his retirement from politics has stirred up the worst political ruction known in Pittsburgh in years. Magee, Arm strong, Plinn and others who have been fighting each other are now try ing to get together on a slate for both city and county. A Washington dispatch to the Eve ning Ledger says: "Whether' the re organizer element, now in actual con trol of the party machinery, will make any attempt to bring about- harmony and placate the Old Guard of Pennsyl vania Democracy probably will be known in a very short time. It is be lieved here that the selection of a na tional committeeman to succeed A. Mitchell Palmer, who sought and got a place on the bench of the Federal Court of Claims, will determine the harmony question. Up to date the re organizer element has shown no de sire to seek harmony; on the contrary, there are many instances in which Mr. Palmer, State Chairman Morris and Vance McCormick, who has contri buted most of the lubricant to keep the reorganizer wheels well oiled, have gone out of their way to oppose the Old Guard leaders. This has been especially true in the matter of Federal patronage." WHY PEOPI.E GO AWAY [From the Louisville Courier-Journal.] The New York Herald publishes the following letter from a New Yorker: "When the most delightful season of the year in New York is coming on many New York City people are get ting ready to leave here. "Except by the people who live here, this is known as the most delightful summer climate in the United States. "It is only the New York man and woman who go away from here for the summer." The question of whether the climate where you are to "summer" is better than your own is by no means the question uppermost In your mind when summer comes. The verb "to summer" owes its origin to a love of change, partly, and obedience to the laws 01 pride and fashion greatly. Change is a good thing. It sometimes rejuvenates the person who has grown old in the rut. Fashion isn't a bad thing, altogether, although it is greatty assailed. It causes human beings to hold up their heads, pick up their feet and prance spunklly and airily through the world, like show horses, even when almost gripped by the curved claws of the Creditor. Fashionable summer re sorts, though the rooms be cramped and the food not altogether to the average liking, the rates high, the tips higher, and the company mutually ex clusive and susplcloxis of stealthy at tempts at social climbing aren't al together deplorable. They stimulate in dustrious farming in the hot plains of Kansas and industrious gambling in the fevered hives of Wall Street since everybody who is or would be anybody, must go somewhere for the summer. Be It ever comfortable, there is no place so unfashionable as home. A home which is not closed and made flamboyantly untenanted during the season when society is engaged In the annual performance by which it conju gates the present tense of the verb "to summer." Is as unfashionable as a cot tage where the good wife takes the air upon the doorstep in the evening with her sleeves rolled up and recounts the ups and downs at the tub and range to her pipe smoking lord and master. But a great deal of constructive human en deavor owes its Inspiration to the ne cessity for living as well as one's fash ionable neighbors, so why quarrel with fashion's fads? It does seem a pity that It Is not fashionable to exchange houses for the summer, Instead of closing- them up and going our ways to less comfortable quarters. Such a waste of comforts Is Involved by putting up admirably equipped domestic plants all over the country and going to places at which shelter space sells by the cubic inch, and where the vegetables seem so much more remotely connected with agriculture than they do when they are brought fresh from the homo garden or bought fresh from the market man who must please his customers the year round or try another calling. Men with good bank references and in other respects eligible could easily form a. co-operative company of sum merers upon a basis of a swap of homes for the summer. But. of course, their womenfolk would not countenance such a plan, and as the men are In the main allowed to stay at home most of the summering season they are In no position effectlvel" to complain against the existing custom. '66—What a lovely ring! Is It sil ver? 'l6—No, platinum. "86—-You don't tell me! I thought It was real. AVhat good imitations they do make nowadays!— Harvard Lam poon. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY WAITING AT THE CHURCH—BY HUNGERFORD. CUNE wedwng ! 11 | **"* —From the Plttfihurffli Sun. LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT By S. W. STRAUS President American Society for Thrift pie were far mem in comfortable circumstances. His father owned several farms, grist mills, etc. It might be supposed from this that young Cyrus lived a life of careless ease and was not required to take thought for the morrow. Such was not the case, however. While he was not overworked as poorer boys often are, he was tAught to be industrious and careful. His parents did not con sider it to be his right to "throw away" the money accumulated by the hard work of his ancestors, or to rest on their laurels. His training was such that his genius was not frittered away. He never was known as a "poor Inventor". He was early taught the lesson of thrift. He made money, he saved money, and he made more money. John Wanamaker's start was very different, for he began on nothing. His parents were poor, and after school be had to help his father, a Our Daily Laugh FORETHOUGHT I wish Ingomar l. ■ y-rarra to think only of II I would Remember, you HH //evivA will need a pre at IB < many expensive things. SHE THOUGHT f Wlf «y: What do 7 y ° U conssder the ehief cause of dl- Hubby: Wlvat OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS n> Wins ninictr Sound your praises, if you will. Of some flower new That someone has just brought forth. Rut I say to you Or to anyone who thus All his favor showers Soon or late you'll come back to Old-fashioned flowers. Go into a garden filled With species rare, And you'll pause to note the new Blooms here and there; But the one that wins most praise From your lips will be That old-fashioned bloom which you Very seldom see. BREEDING GROUND FOR MICROBES Improperly cared for, what a happy hunting ground for germs and mi crobes the dishccloth be, ex claims Eva J. De Marsh in Farm and Home. Just put one in a pan with a lot of dirty* greasy dishes, rinse it in lukewarm water, or not at all, hang it in a warm, dark, shut-in corner, and leave it overnight. You will know it is there! Drink some milk, eat some butter, pudding or Jelly that has stood where it absorbed all the dishcloth had to give, and if you suffer no ill effects, you are germ proof. • The materials of your cloth may be anything, so long as it is absolutely clean and free from dyestuffs. Let your dishes be scraped clean before they go into the pan, use your cloth to wash them only, and always rinse it well when you are through. If you can, frequently hang it In the sun, wash and boll often, and never leave a cloth so it will remain wet a long time, and get sour. How's your dish rag? HK COULDN'T RELIEVE IT [From the Detroit Free Press.] "What a beautiful girl that is, stand ing over there." "I'm glad to hear you say so. She is m.v daughter." "Hallelujah!" he said to his wife, when the mother had departed, "for I once In my life I struck It rltrhtl'' JULY 10, 1915. brickmaker. Thus the habit of indus try acquired BO early became of the greatest benefit to bim in after life. Starting to work on a salary of $1.40 a week, which was eventually raised, he managed not only to help his parents, but to save one hundred dollars. It took great thrift to save this amount, but no one has a corner on thrift. In stead of spending his hundred dollars on a vacation, young Wanamaker in vested it. The investment proved to be so fortunate that he made s£,ooo out of it and with this sum he com menced for himself in the clothing business, a business that he not only understood, but liked. The times were then hard It *U just at the outbreak of the Civil war— and predictions of failures were numer ous. But he knew the clothing busi ness thoroughly, was schooled in a home of thrift and was not discouraged. Moreover he started modestly, refrain ing from a displuy-of expensive furnish ings and plate glass. "If you would have a faithful serv ant, and one that you like," said Franklin, "serve yourself." Again: "Keep thy shop and tby shop will keep thee." These two things John Wanamaker did. He employed no superfluous help, took down his own shutters, made his fires, swept the store and often delivered Esrcels for customers himself. He also ept his own accounts. Fifteen years later Wanamaker was giving employ ment to three thousand persons. Washington Hears Davis Is to Succeed Lansing ■SHB| * '<<?% M 1• . .. '''fjjttf AVashington, July 10. According to rumor, John W. Davis, solicitor gen eral to the United States is to succeed Robert Lansing, recently appointed Secretary of State as counsellor to the State Department. The rumor adds that A. Mitchell Palmer will succeed Mr. Davis in his position of solicitor general. YOUR DISHCLOTHS One of the most used, and at the same time most abused things in the household is the dishcloth, declares Eva J. De Marsh, writing in Farm and Home. Some people have plenty of them and keep them clean; more do neither. Oh, you needn't hold up your hands in protest; It's true. Who hasn't seen those raggedy, much-used cloths hanging over the dishpan for weeks and weeks? Of course, they are rinsed, but how many thorough scrubs and boils do they get in the course of human events? A lot of nlco clean people use their dishcloths until they are worn out. And then the way the dishcloth is Imposed upon! Not only does it ful fill its legitimate purpose of washing the dishes, but it scrubs the pots and gives the stove a lick as well. Be sides, often the corner is converted into a scouring rag. Tour dishcloth cannot be too sweet and clean. Always rinse it well when you are through with it, and hang it in a place where it will be well aired and dried. Change your cloths often, frequently wash and boll them, and never, no never, use them to wash the rftove. Have one cloth for silver, china and glassware, and another for the kettles and frying pans. Milk dishes are better washed and dried by them selves, with their own towels. j iEfottmg (Sli\nt Pennsylvania people who visit ths San Francisco exposition will have a fine chance to see one of Harrtsburg's industries at work In the dally display of moving pictures In the Pennsylva nia building. The pictures are of thfl river coal fleet, dredging the Susque hanna for the fine coal which is so ex cellent for steaming and which is oni of the important sources of fuel sup ply for this city. They were taken last summer when the fleet was In midst of its busy season and when there were more steam dredges and flats around than at present. Some of the pictures give excellent ideas of the scenery about Harrlsburg and the location of the city and the numerous islands and banks of the stream are depicted in an excellent manner. This industry, strange as it may seem, was picked out as one distinctively belong ingtothiscommunity. Mostoft'heplante are duplicated or shown in a larger scale at other places. Later on it is the plan to show some pictures of the i an< S Its grounds. Har rlsburg and Steelton are represented by a number of products In the var ious buildings. Steelton contributing to the displays. ♦ • • Uncle Sam has a miniature mint bed in Harrlsburg although he prob ably does not know it. In the midst of the twenty-four varieties of weeds that now adorn the formerly Immacu late lawn on the Court street side of the federal building there grew until a couple of days ago several mint plants. They were spotted near a couple of the meanest weeds to be found and the man who saw them save they disappeared over night. "1 thought when I saw the mint thai something would happen," said he. It did. They were gone next day. And under a pile of timbers, strange to say, I saw an empty pint bottle." • • » While City Councilmen generally approve of the proposed plan to dis pense with weekly meetings during July and August, some of them ques tion the advisability of adopting the resolution which provides for but one meeting each month during the vaca tion season. If the resolution which was offered last Tuesday is adopted at next week's meeting, then there will be no further meeting until Au gust 3. That will be the final ses sion until the first Tuesday in Sep tember. Pending legislation, however, might interfere with this plan for as one commissioner put it, "we don't know just what matters may turn up which will require prompt settlement and I question whether or not it will be advisable to hold but one meeting a month." • • * ..^ rrit i nß: in the Philadelphia Ledger Girard" has this to say about some thing which this newspaper has sev eral times discussed and expressed a similar wish: "I trust nothing will deter ex-Attor ney General Hampton L. Carson from a work which he told me he means to perform. He intends to write a book about the Philadelphia delta and its part in the Revolution. 'Draw a line,' said this scholarly lawyer 'from Princeton to Valley Forge, making the third side of an angle formed by the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers, and in that delta were pitched the critical events of our fight for Independence.' Then Mr. Carson explained his state ment in detail. The possession o£ Boston by the British meant merely their retention of a part of Massa chusetts. Holding New York, as tHe.v did for years, failed to sever the colo nies on the line of the Therefore, Howe and Cornwallis deter mined to push farther South and cleave the thirteen States bv seizing Philadelphia and holding the line ol the Delaware. Such events as occur red at Trenton, Princeton, Brandv wine, Paoli, Germantown, Camp Hill, Valley Forge, the Crooked Billet and the capture of Philadelphia, the Na tional Capital itself, were part of the struggle for Mastery of this little delta formed by these two rivers. Washington won, and the delta, as you know, is still in the possession of America." • » ♦ Samuel I. Spyker, the Huntingdon county Republican chairman, who was a visitor here yesterday, is a lawyer and was listening to Harry S. McDev itt, who is also a lawyer, tell his expe riences of the first year in criminal court. Mr. McDevitt had a client and got him off. Then the man took him self off without paying any fee. "Humm!" said Spyker. "You're in J'our first year all right." * » » * "Women will never learn to get oft a car right," said a Harrlsburg Rail ways Company official to-day. "Nine out of every ten women try to get off a car before it stops," he continued. 'We are having trouble now becauso of the summer cars. With the pay-as you-enter ears the women cannot get off until the door is opened. "I rode to Paxtang the other even ing. getting on a summer car at Mar ket Square. Before we reached Pax tang seventeen women left the car. Only two of these women got off prop erly. The others stepped off backward Two were given a hard jolt when thev landed on the asphalt pavement. In e\ery instance the women were warned by the conductor, but they would not heed the warning. It Is the way of women." ] WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Col. H. M. Morrow, of the United States army, well known here, will go to the Philippines. —A. Roy Goetz, new head of ths postal clerks' organization, lives at Altoona, where he is connected with the postal service. —Dr. Joseph Leidy, of Philadelphia, has gone, to Narragansett. —John R. Edwards, a Philadel phian, has been retired as a rear ad miral in the navy. —A. G. Rosengarten, of Philadel phia. has gone to the exposition. —Ex-Congressman A. Mitchell Pal mer is motoring along the New Jer sey coast. 1 DO YOU KNOW 1 That Hnrrlsburg steel is used for trolley poles? MILKS AND SUM.IVAIf General Nelson A. Miles Is an gant, self-centered, strutting old pea cock.—The Hon. Jown L. Sullivan. Tut. tut, John: General Miles Is not old, and It Is not a cause of reproach that he Is handsome and bears him self well. Most of ns are self-centered. Let the cold water campaign go for ward without these violent misrepre sentations of its supporters. New York Sun. CIVIC CLUB Fly Contest June 1 to July 31 5 Cents a Pint Prises of $&. 92.60 and several 91.00 ones duplicated by Mr. Ben Rtrouae
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