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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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V. R. OYSTER
Secretary
GUS M. STEINMETZ
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Sworn dully average circulation for the
three months ending June 30, 1910
tr 21,231 4
Average for the year 1914—21.858
Average for the year 1013—19,903 '
Average for the year 1912—19,049
Average for the year 1911—17,50S i
Average for the year 1910—16,201
The above figures are net. All re- 1
turned, unsold and damaged copies de
ducted.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 14.
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They also sent who only stand and wait.
—Mflton.
MAGAZINE CENSORSHIP
OTHER cities might well turn their
attention to the censorship -which
Pittsburgh has prescribed for its
magazines. Henceforth publications
overstepping the bounds of morality
and propriety will fare badly in that
city. Orders which established four
Pittsburgh policewomen who will act
as a bureau of censorship to pass upon
all magazines and which require the
i bureau of police to be on the watch
!for obscene or improper material in
ithose publications were issued yester
day by Charles S. Hubbard, director
'of the Department of Public Safety.
The penalty for transgression will be
the prohibiting of sale of the offending
issue In Pittsburgh and news dealers
who fail to observe such prohibition
will be subject to arrest, according to
the director, upon a serious charge.
It is a shameful thing that such a
police order shAuld be regarded as
necessary. The magazine ought to be
as high a moral influence in the home
as any literature that goes into it.
Attractively printed, beautifully illus
trated, and edited with especial thought
toward attracting the attention of the
casual reader, the magazine falls nat
urally Into the hands of those of im
mature thought or those whose habits
(Of life make them most easily In
fluenced by their reading.
If these publications came merely to
the attention of men and women of
mature age the effects might not be so
bad, but unfortunately they lie upon
the reading table where young and old
may have free access to them. Maga
zine reading is a desirable habit and a
pleasant recreation. There is so much
wcrtb while in even the worst of the
magazines that their danger is doubled
by the difficulty of selecting what is
good and rejecting that which is bad.
Indeed, there are some magazines
which make a specialty of appealing
to both Bomse and sensuality; to both
the moral and the depraved.
Pictures and stories that would not
have been tolerated in the United
States mail only a few years ago, much
less permitted in the family circle,
now have unrestricted circulation and
are granted free admission into fami
lies the heads of which regard them
selves as above reproach and who
would be highly indignant if It were
Intimated that they are careless of the
influences to which they subject those
whose welfare they have most at heart.
The evil has reached such an extent
in Harrisburg that the local police
would be well justified in following
the admirable example set by Pitts
burgh. The only reason for the
obscene and the salacious in the
popular magazine is the appeal for
circulation. Remove that and the
editors and publishers will return to
sane and common sense methods of
attracting readers. If a half-dozen or
more cities in the United States bar
from sale within their limits copies of
all offending magazines It will not be
very long before the deefred reform
-will have been accomplished.
PROFIT-SHARING
BOTH labor and Industry will
watch with some Interest the
working out of the profit-shar
ing feature of the award of the arbi
trators In the wago dispute between
Tnotormcn and conductors and the
"Wilkes-Barre Hallway Company. if
(St operates satisfactorily to both par
ities a way may be found, as those who
outlined the plan hope, for future
settlements of similar disagreements.
But profit-sharing, fine aa it sounds In
general terms, has not often proved
satisfactory In bringing the earnings
of employes up to a desired standard
or in preventing strikes.
The purpose of such an arrangement
4s clearly to Induce laborers to in
crease their efflolency. Improve the
(quality of their work and thus contri
bute toward the profits of the eom
ipany in which it is proposed they shall
«hare. Experiments in this line have
been both successful and unsuccessful,
tout the failures far outnumber the
successes. A common reason for such
failures is that there have been very
email profits to divide, or even no
profits at all; so that employes have
'lost. Interest In the scheme and have
not hesitated to express their dis
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
satisfaction by striking If they thought
they saw any Immediate advantage
therein.
] If increased profits of a business are |
wholly or largely due to the in
creased efficiency of the employe, then
certainly he is entitled to his share
in them, but unfortunately for the
success of this plan, the proflt« «.ctual
ly realized from such a business as
that of a traction company depend so
much upon good management by the
employer that their amount may not
vary proportionately with the increas
ed zeal and efficiency of the employe. j
Motormen and conductors, by cour
tesy, promptness and avoidance of ac
cidents, may increase the earnings of
the company for which they work, but
bad management at the head of the
concern may result in an aotual loss
of business for any given period.
In such case profit-sharing would be
unjust to the employe, especially when
it is injected into his wage-seal© as
part of an increase in pay for which he
has asked. There must be considered
also, the possibility of profits being
reduced by the competition of other
trolley lines or of jitneys.
On the contrary, if the profit-shar
ing amounts merely to a gratuity from
the employing trolley company, then
the system is unfair to the corpor
ation. A plan that does not work
both ways is scarcely good business,
at all events, and a profit-sharing
scheme that does not involve a loss
sharing feature appears to be weak on
one side.
A careful review of the profit-shar
ing plan as proposed for 'YVllkes-Barre
shows that not many such have work
ed out well, although in industries of
the peculiar character of that of Hen
ry Ford, the automobile manufactur
er, or of M. S. Hershey, the chocolate
maker, profit-sharing on the basis of
uninterrupted employment appears to
be giving very satisfactory results.
' PROSPERITY WAVE
EVIDENTLY the country is in for
the long predicted but slow to
materialize prosperity wave re
sulting from the war in Europe and
the placing of large orders for supplies
and munitions in the United States.
Following the announcement of the
Central Iron and Steel Works and the
Pennsylvania Steel Company that their
plants are busier than for many
months comes the advertisement of
the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending
Company for 200 skilled workers and
the statement that the company has
put to use every available foot of
ground adjoining its manufacturing
site and is working twenty-four hours
a day.
The Cambria Steel Company will
operate on full time for the first time
in two years, beginning next Monday
morning, and Pittsburgh reports that
its mills are behind with their orders.
This is good news, but until some
way is found to export the coal that
in normal times passes in such huge
quantities over the Pennsylvania and
the Reading railways through this city,
Harrisburg will not enjoy the full
measure of prosperity that appears to
bo at hand for many towns. The boom
in the steel trade will help matters
materially and the movement of grain
in due season will add to the volume
of freight traffic, but coal for export
must come through before the rail
roads will be in position to make any
new records.
Our present prosperity is clearly
built on a war basis, but even so the
orders now in the process of being
filled will tide the mills over the winter
at least and trade should show a dis
tinct improvement in all lines with the
coming of Fall and the return of the
vacation seeking public to the ordinary
walks of life.
SAFETY AT CROSSINGS
HUMMELSTOWN has set a good
example for other localities
similarly situated with respect
to grade crossings. Every effort should
be made to make crossings as safe as
it is possible to make them. The bor
ough officials are determined that there
shall be no more such accidents as
that of July 5 and in this they should
have the hearty support of all con
cerned. The public has a right to
expect safe transport across the rights
of way of railroads. These rights of
way once belonged to the people and
they are now the property of the rail
roads because the people saw fit to
give title to them, and, useful as the
railroad is to the community, it must
recognize also that it may not trans
gress upon the freedom or the safety
of the public upon the highways. All
crossings may not be bridged or tun
neled, and at many even watchmen are
not a vital necessity, but there aro
many unguarded spots as deadly In
their possibilities as that at Hummels
tewn and such menaces should be re
, moved.
SHOCLD BE PUNISHED
THE twenty or more members of
the National Guard arrested at
Mt. Gretna for being intoxi
cated should be punished to the full
extent of the military regulations pre
vailing at State encampments. They
not only have violated the order of
Adjutant General Stewart against the
use of liquor in camp, but they have
brought disgrace upon themselves and
the entire military organization of
Pennsylvania.
The large majority of National
Guardsmen are self-respecting citizens
who perform the military duties re
quired of State militiamen through a
sense of duty to their Commonwealth
and the country at large. They go to
the annual encampments not only at
great sacrifice to themselves but be
cause they, as loyal soldiers, believe
they should make themselves as effi
cient In military tactics and the
knowledge of warfare as is possible.
They naturally resent any such mis
conduct as that of the men arrested
yesterday. The Guard can well do
without this drinking, roistering ele
ment. There are plenty of sober
minded men of temperate habits ready
to enlist. All others are a mere bur
den to the discipline and efficiency of
the organization and the quicker they
are dishonorably discharged the bet
ter.
TELEORAPH PERISCOPE
—Even the man who Is on the level
may reach the heights of fortune.
—The Water supply of Mexico Clt>
has been cut off, but It had become so
bad that probably the residents won't
mind much.
—lt's doubtless never too late to
mend but It Is also well to remember
that a stitch in time saves nine.
—lt's funny, but by the time straw
bats come down in price we have gotten
past the stage of objecting to wearing
that of last season.
—The muddy condition of tha river
has been a blessing to fishermen—
having given many of them an excuse
for coming home empty-handed with
out the necessity of lying about it.
—With Edison at the head of the war
invontion bureau it is natural to expect
that we shall shortly receive a little
light on the subject.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
If we get into this war, what fun
those Russian wags will have with
Chillicothe and Punxsutawney.—Col
umbia State.
Mr. Bryan's prohibition views ex
plain why his numerous statements
have no punch in them. —Philadelphia
North American.
If the "See America First" propa
ganda wants a patron saint, what's the
matter with Christopher Columbus?—
Washington Post.
It seems perfectly easy to get a full
copy of Germany's peace terms these
days from every source except Ger
many.—Chicago Herald.
With the balance of trade piling
up like this in our favor the present
is no time to handicap the cash regis
ter trust.—Boston Transcript.
IN HARRISBURO FIFTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY'
[From Telegraph of July 14, 1865.]
Completing Linos
tracks down Third street for
the Street Railway lines are bein«
rapidly placed. Traffic will be opened
in a few weeks.
Teachers Will Convene Here
The National Teachers' Convention
will be held in this city opening
August 16. Sessions will be held for
three days.
Semiannual Meeting
Members of the Washington Hose
Company will hold their semiannual
meeting this evening-.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR"
THAT STEEL.TON LETTER
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
"Italy is no good it always played
the blackhand game, beggars, thieves,
organ-grinders and blackhunders."
l'he above are precise words which
a certain C. F. Tiemanri, of Steelton,
Pa., writes in a letter published In the
Harrisburg Telegraph the 28th of June.
I do not wish to analyze the bile of
this reverend person, because 1 am sure
that if I were to do so I would find in It
all the disgusting elements of that
which revolts your stomach and mind
and further it is not my intention to
have the readers undergo such an acid
test.
On the other side, to assume as an
argument of discussion that which is
the production of an intoxicated and
degenerated brain not only, but which
lacks rudimentary education and
politeness, would be the same as to
give consideration to a certain class of
horrible und deformed creatures which
the old Spartans inhumanly but wisely
precipitated from a cliff to death, to
prevent them from perpetuating their
same deformities and horrible vices to
a comingr generation.
The only reason, therefore, that
prompts me to speak, and thereby
abandon my reserve, is for the loye I
bear toward peace, fairness, and above
all, to neutrality.
The United States represents a neu
tral nation, and as the population is
constituted of a cosmopolitan element
at the beginning of the war the divers
warring kings recommended a neutral
attitude, as well as President Wilson,
who issued the proclamation for neu
trality, and this was said with special
reference for the press of this country,
whose principal duty was to avoid ex
citing the people to racial hatred and
prejudice and there was contemplated
among the other things, that an editor
who was guilty of such a crime, would
be punished very severely.
In violation of neutrality, the law has
dispositions which defer those guilty to
Judicial authority and consequent pun
ishment. and in violation of neutrality
among other things are comprised writ
ings that seriously offend a nation at
war and its people, revealing racial
hatred which spurs the offended to a
Just reaction.
In his letter, this illustrious reverend
says: "Russia is done for, France is
Impoverished. England has yet her
money and men. but no fighting ma
terial." Of Belgium he does not speak.
His hand has trembled and lacked of
courage to write the name of that
heroic nation down, fearful, perhaps
lest his Luther God would strike him
from the heavens, since Belgium is
bleeding and weeping sacred tears for
the loss of her children, barbarously
massacred by the Kaiser's valiant
troops; considering Belgium will be the
phantom that shall torment eternally
thd teutonic soul, like the shadow of
the murdered haunts the sleep of the
assassin; considering that poor Bel
gium has Impressed herself on Ger
many's face as a solemn slap given by
a lady to a vulgar person, because Bel
gium shall keep alive the smouldering
ruins that testify of the teutonic In
vasion and among which on a monu
ment more lasting than bronze, she
shall write: "Here Passeth the Civility
of the Kaiser's Sons."
The emeritus reverend does not dare
to mention Belgium, because, perhaps
the blood of so many innocent victims
there, sacrificed by the ferocious ires of
his brothers, is in his throat and he
fears it will drown him.
We will never be subject to certain
fears, reverend sir! The Italian sol
diers fight against the enemy with law
ful arms or war. and wherever they
trod they bring bread and the smiles
and sunshine of their bonny land, ana
not hunger and desolation, between our
arms and those of the Teutons runs
the same difference as between those
of the knight and those of the execu
tioner.
To the reverend of Steelton I reject
all the epithets of which he has been
so kind as to bestow my people with
retaining only, one; that of organ
grinder? With the happy augury that
my people shall be the iirst to play the
funeral march to the eugemony and
militarism of his Kaiser, with an orean
JOSEPH G. GATTO,
7003 Hamilton Avenue,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
TEMPERA*CE 8.800 YEARS AGO
TFrom the Christian Herald 1
A foreign exchange has this Interest
ing paragraph: "There Is still in ex
istence an Egyptian papyrus of the
date of 8500 years before the Christian
era, which contains the following cau
tion: 'My son, do not linger In the
wine-shop or drink too much wine It
causeth thee to utter words regarding
thy neighbor which thou rememberest
not. Thou fallcst upon the ground thy
limbs become weak as those of a childf
One cometh to trade with thee and flnd
eth thee so. Then say they, 'Take awav
the fellow, for he is drunk.' " This is
believed to be the oldest temperance
i lecture in existence.
H3ORWSBURGTEEEGRXEHI
"~PoCtt(c4 CK
*| > tn-TvO^Cca.Kca
By the Ex-Commlttecma*
The effort to land the Republican
national convention for Philadelphia 1B
attracting attention of other States,
and it is probable that there will be
lively competition for the big gather
ing, which is expected to be one of
the most interesting in the history of
the party. The decision will not be
made until the meeting of the national
committee in the winter, but by that
time it is believed all plans will be
complete for Philadelphia to make an
impressive showing.
Yesterday in Philadelphia the
Chamber of Commerce, despite the
fact that there is no adequate hall for
the purpose, extended a formal invi
tation to the National Republican
committee, asking that Philadelphia
be chosen as the location for the 1916
national convention. Immediately af
ter a meeting of the executive com
mittee a telegram was sent to Charles
D. Hilles, chairman of*the National
committee. As soon as the resolution
of the chamber, which set forth the
advantages of that city and call atten
tion to the success with which the 1904
convention was handled, are complete
ly drafted, they will be mailed.
Senator Penrose Is going to Western
Pennsylvania to-day. He will be in
Pittsburgh to-morrow to make a
speech at the orphans' picnic and will
meet Republican leaders.
It la now said that W. D. George
will not be boomed for postmaster of
Pittsburgh, but that a brother of Com
mitteeman Jo© Guffey will be picked.
A Pittsburgh dispatch says: "It
was announced here to-day by lead
ers in the Oliver wing that a full Oli
ver ticket will go into the field at the
coming primaries, with the possible
exception of a candidate for county
commissioner. Despite the fact that
United States Senator Oliver announc
ed his retirement from active politics
some time ago, it is understood his
organization will be held Intact. The
only point not yet determined by the
Oliver leaders is whether the slate will
contain one or two candidates for
county commissioner. The fact that
they will make their flght on a "dry"
platform has somewhat upset calcu
lations in respect to the commission
ership. J. Denny O'Neil, an ardent
local optlonist, will probably have
final say in the county commissioner
ship. Percy F. Smith, who is accept
able to the Prohibitionists, is promi
nently mentioned as O'Neil's running
mate. That the liquor question is to
be paramount in the coming primaries
the Oliver people openly assert."
Robert D. Dripps, secretary of the
Public Charities Association of Penn
sylvania, yesterday issued a statement
scoring the methods of appropriation
now in vogue by the legislature.
Forced cuts by the Governor in the
recent appropriation bill were pointed
out, and it was declared that unless
there is a distinct reduction in the
amount of State aid afforded private
charitable agencies State institutions
cannot be provided for on an equitable
basis. Mr. Dripps in his statement
calls attention to the crudity, of the
methods now In use and says:' "Com
plaints are being made all over Penn
sylvania as to the cuts made by Gover
nor Brumbaugh in so many of the ap
propriations to charitable institutions
and other agencies. It is recognized that
the action of the legislature In passing
appropriation bills aggregating at
least $7,000,000 in excess of the avail
able revenue made it practically neces
sary for him to exercise his veto power
to keep the appropriations within the
necessary limits. This does not alter,
however, a growing conviction that
our whole system of appropriating
State funds to charities—pub.ic and
private—is radically wrong. In the
absence of a uniform system of ac
counting it is exceedingly difficult, if
not possible, to ascertain the relative
efficiency of institutions performing
the same sort of work."
James J. McKee, well known here,
is a candidate for Republican nomina
tion for prothonotary in Allegheny
county. Mr. McKee says he is going
to fight for the nomination.
Congressman B. K. Focht In mak
ing a speech at MontanGon yesterday
said he did not think the United States
would get into the war.
Lebanon is enjoying a real exciting
contest for municipal nominations.
There are numerous candidates.
Bucks county seems to have quieted
down as a place where there is even
any contest among Republicans. Men
active in affairs in that county say that
the Republicans will have a strong
ticket and will elect it.
Governor Brumbaugh last night is
sued his writ for the special election
of a congressman in the Beaver-Law
fence-Washington congressional dis
trict. This election will be held at the
usual time, but was necessitated by
the death of William M. Brown, before
he could qualify.
Friends of Congressman Kiess say
that as a result of his declination of
the Public Service Commissionership
he is in splendid political shape and
that his re-election in 1916 is assured.
The congressman's retention of his
place at Washington saved the district
from a factional fight.
, As far as Perry county is concerned,
the Progressive party has ceased to be
a factor of any consequence. The only
time that the Bull Moosers were of any
consequence here was during the presi
dential campaign of 1912, when Perry
county voters gave "Teddy" a slight
margin. This year there are numer
ous county offices to be filled, but there
is a dearth of Progressive candidates,
not one man of their party having an
nounced himself as yet. What the
trouble is, it is hard to say. Probably
they are satisfied with the Repub
licans; maybe they can't stand to bo
game losers; and then, possibly—and
this seems more likely—there are no
longer any Progressives in Perry
county.
THE SUBMARINE'S BULLET
[From the Christian Herald.]
But what could they do, those small,
skulking hulks, to Injure that tower
ing mass of steel, with its double
bottom and 170 watertight compart
ments, rushing on through the water at
the rate of eighteen knots an hour?
Well, when still 4,000 yards distant, a
submarine torpedo about seventeen
feet in length, weighing half a ton, and
traveling at a speed of twenty-eight
knots, could strtke her full and fair in
a vital spot; at 3,000 yards Its speed
would be thirty-two knots; at 2,000
yards, thirty-four knots; at 1,000 yards
that half-ton explosive could strike
that oncoming ship at a speed of forty
knots, crash open her massive plates,
hurtle through her double walls, tear
apart her steel beams and pillars and
decks, opening a breach for the ocean
to pour through like a river.
Those torpedoes are filled at the for
ward end with gun-cotton, most fear
ful of explosives. Behind that is the
compressed-air chamber or power room.
Then a compartment with delicate
mechanism that controls the move
ments of the torpedo. Then there lb
the engine room and behind it the
buoyancy chamber. When the torpedo
Is launched on Its death errand two
screw propellers at the rear, driven at
high speed by the engine, operated by
compressed air, hurl it forward, and
It Is kept in position and steered by a
marvelous and unerring mechanism.
The thing is discharged from the com
pressed air tube at a submergence of
about fifteen feet, and lnstantlv be
comes alive, cleaving the under-sea like
a giant arrow, its screws sending
to the surface a swirl of bubbles that
disclose its course to the onlooker, as
a swirl of dust above the highwa>
marks the rush of a racing automob
blla.
THE, CARTOON OF THE DAY
LEST HE FORGET
mMmm
—Kroin the N. Y. World,
WHO WILL BE
Elihu Root Apparently First Choice of Leading Re
publicans, Sun Finds; Senator Burton in High
Favor
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 14.
Elihu Root is apparently the first
choice of leading Republicans of
the country for the nomination for
President in 1916. Senator John \V.
Weeks of Massachusetts and ex-Sen
ator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio have
country-wide support and next to Sen
ator Root are highest in favor with
Republican politicians.
It is evident from a canvas conduct
ed by the Washington bureau of the
New York Sun that if the Republican
convention were held to-day and the
State of New York presented Mr.
Root's name to the convention with
his consent he would be nominated.
With Mr. Root out of consideration
the choice would appear to be between
Senator Weeks and ex-Senator Bur
ton.
More than 500 letters sent out from
the Washington bureau of The Sun to
acquaintances and friends throughout
the country have brought responses
which lead inevitably to the conclusion
given above.
The information was given in each
instance upon the assurance that the
names of the writers of the letters
would not be published. That, of
course, was necessary in order to ob
tain a frank expression of opinion. The
object of the inquiries was to elicit in
formation as to local conditions in the
various States upon which a fair esti
mate could be made of the political
sentiment of the country.
Burton's Prospects
Senator Burton's prospects depend
upon the State of Ohio. If he can dem
onstrate at an early date that he will
have the united support of his State
delegation he will be formidable. Such
at least is the opinion generally ex
pressed by men who have responded
to The Sun's inquiries.
Senator Burton's chances have been
menaced by an incipient boom for
Governor Willis and a covert move
ment for Senator Harding. Ex-Am
bassador Myron T. Herrick has been
much discussed, but the friends of Mr.
Burton apparently believe that there
can be no misunderstanding between
the two men when the time comes.
Senator Burton's friends express con
fidence that Governor Willis will be
found giving his support to Senator
Burton at the proper time.
Michigan will send an instructed
delegation for Senator William Alden
Smith, but up to this time, if the infor
mation that has come to The Sun is
correct, Senator Smith has made no
great progress outside of his own
State. A Michigan authority who can
not be questioned writes:
"Senator Smith will undoubtedly
have the support of the Michigan dele
gation. T hear of very little opposi
tion to him anywhere. Senator Bur
ton is respected highly for his ability,
the same as are Senator Weeks and
Senator Root.. If any one of these
three should be nominated he will re
ceive the practically unanimous sup
port of the party."
Our Daily Laugh
hb was —n
WARNED. i—il
My wife is my f
dearest posses- \ C jjp hs- yt.
I warned yon P Sig
that two couldn't | Hv, / fln|
live as cheaply as 1 JS® \ jßffj
SOME DO.
Mgbb -jißiTt In the summer
JL £ time I sit all day
an ' es ' loolt at de
Br-r-rl Why,
v{ a people bathes in
rj\\ 'wl' Yep> but then
• ® you don't have to
drink It!
YOU CANT BEAT 'EM
By Wing Dinger
There'i one of my youngsters who
never hag time
To sit at the table and eat
Because he's too anxious to get out of
doors
With the rest of his playmates to
meet.
His mother Informed him at breakfast,
one day,
That If he did not eat some food
He'd get naught to eat ere lunch time
came around.
But the warning availed not much
good.
The table he left, and much to the sur
prise
Of mother, the morning went bv
Without any pleadings for something
to eat—
Then into affairs she did pry.
It seems that a pistol, for which he had
paid
Ten cents, and no longer did prize
Was sold to another for fifteen cents—
and
With proceed* he purchased three
BUM.
JULY 14, 1915.
Neither Taft Nor Roosevelt
It is significant that the overwhelm
ing, sentiment of those who replied to
these Inquiries was that neither Taft
nor Roosevelt is likely to be nomi
nated. Most of the writers said that
the Progressive movement is dead,
that the Republicans and former Re
publicans are getting together and that
they are anxious to have a President
who Is a straight-out Republican and
one who can be expected to restore
prosperity. The tendency is unmis
takably in favor of a conservative.
In the Progressive States of the far
West and in some of the middle West
ern States, like lowa, Minnesota,
Nebraska and Wisconsin, most of the
responses suggest that some candi
date should be nominated who will be
acceptable to the Progressives. A
prominent Republican of Indiana of
national reputation expressed surprise
at the large number of Republicans in
that State who followed President
Roosevelt and the Bull Moose party
in 1912, but who are now advocating
Senator Root.
Root's Strength In West
One of the surprising and most sig
nificant developments of The Sun's
canvass is the strength developed for
ex-Senator Root and Senator Weeks in
the Middle West and in the West.
These localities, which were seething
with Bull Moose sentiment 1n1912, now
appear to be favoring either Senator
Root or Senator Weeks for nomina
tion. A Chicago correspondent long
identified conspicuously with Republi
can politics says: ,
"Chicago probably will favor Root
beyond anybody and as a second,
Mann."
Another Chicago Republican of na
tional prominence says that Mr. Mann
will have the delegates from Chicago,
if he is a candidate, and adds:
"The names of Fairbanks, Knox and
Root are, of course, familiar, but the
only one of these three that Chicago
Republicans are talking about is
Root."
A Republican leader in South Da
kota, well known to the country from
his public service, writes:
"Of the candidates mentioned I have
heard more favorable comment for
Senator Root than any of the others."
A prominent lawyer in Oklahoma,
who has presided over the Republican
State conventions and been a con
spicuous figure at national conven
tions, writes:
"It is my opinion that the support
of the Oklahoma delegation will be
for a conservative, not an ultra-con
servative nor a progressive. Mr. Root
is a good type, it looks to me, for
Oklahoma to support."
A leading editor of southern In
diana writes that that State after com
plimenting Mr. Fairbanks is likely to
be for either Mr. Root or Mr. Bur
ton.
"Mr. Root stands very high among
the general run of Republicans and so
does Senator Burton of Ohio."
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
i
I It is well for us to forget that the
past history of a language must neces
sarily be traced by means of written
records, these are to be regarded as
affording us merely an indication of
what was actually taking: place in the
spoken language itself. Change in
language implies a change in the men
tal and physical habits of the living
human beings who speak the language.
In H. C. Wyld's "'A Short History of
English," E. P. Dutton & Co., the in
quiry is largely on the problem of the
origin and development of that form
of English which is now spoken by
educated and well-bred people, and,
of that form which for the last four
or five centuries has been that used
in the composition of private or public
documents, no matter what the native
i form of speech of the writers might
be. In such a book as Mr. Wyld's
the study of the history of English
must be supplemented by the study
of the language itself, as It exists in
the actual documents of the different
periods. His work Is a very valuable
addition to the '"History of English"
and is not a mere piercing together of
i materials gathered from older text
! books. All that the best history of
English ever written can do for a stu
dent is to act as a guide to the path
which he must tread anew for him
self.
THE ENCAMPMENT
[From the Philadelphia Public Ledger]
By every token the present encamp
ment of the National Guard at Mt.
Gretna Is to be one of the most busi
ness-like ever held in this State. The
schedule for drills and dally routine Is
about as stiff as it can be made and re
veals a determination on the part of
the commanding officers to cut out all
the picnic features and get the men
down to serious and studious effort. For
Ithis spirit, the whole organization is to
|be congratulated. There has been a
big improvement In the efficiency of the
Guard In recent years and Pennsylvania
need have no apologies to offer In com
paring its citizen soldiery with that of
JJuur sis tar States. ,
iEbmittg (Ei|at
An interesting Idea of how the war
is regarded in far-off Austria, the east
ern provinces of the empire, is afforded
by a letter received by Joseph L. Kun,
Deputy Attorney General, from a near
relative who Is connected with the gov
ernmental service. "Now as to this
terrible war." he writes, "we all should
like to see it end, but of course, not at
our expense. You ask when it will
end. Well, It would have ended long
ago if your American government
would have kept honest neutrality and
left all parties, as far as arms and *
ammunition are concerned, to their
own resources. Now it seems that the
war will end only when the Germans
will have sunk enough ships to pre
vent the rest from feeding the guns of
our adversaries." The letter makes
'some terse comments on American
neutrality which helps the majority
and is really a secret enemy, in the
opinion of the writer. "We much de
plore the sinking of the Lusitania,"
writes the Austrian gentleman, "but
people had been warned in timg not to
travel on it or on any other ship bound
to Europe during the war and bearing
war goods. What are to us 1,300
drowned who were not compelled to
jfturney in these times when hundreds
of thousands of our brothers, whose
duty is to risk their lives, are bleeding
and dying by United States made balls?
I really do not mean to offend your
patriotic feelings, but I cannot help
stating this fact. We don't care much
if our adversaries get embittered.
They will be even more so when they,
who —without strict necessity—came
to destroy us together with Germany,
will be beaten down all together, and
that will surely be the end. Don't
think I swagger, but we are very
strong and very far from the end of
our resources."
Steelton policemen are working to
break up Ashing for chickens by some
of the foreigners living in the lower
end of Steelton. For some time past
this interesting and profitable amuse
ment has been going on among the
men living on the "Heights" and com
plaints reached the office of the police
almost daily. The chickens would bo
strolling about streets or alleys or on
vacant lots and would suddenly dis
appear, sometimes with a squawking
and sometimes Just gradually as
though they had some business in a
certain locality. A watch was kept
anci It was discovered that the chick
ens always disappeared after they had
discovered some corn. Finally the
police discovered some threads hooked
Into grains of corn. The men fled, but
complaints were renewed.
Attorney General Francis Shunk
Brown is getting too popular as a
source of legal Information for his
convenience and that of his deputies.
The Attorney General is the law officer
of the State government and is the
man to whom the chiefs refer when
they want to know how to proceed or
to have someone tell them how to bear
the burdens of official life. Lately
members of the Legislature have start
ed writing to Mr. Brown for infor
mation on subjects not. within the
scope of the state government. Let
ters from people wanting legal advice
without paying for it are not new, but
this is the first time a legislator has
come forward with a request for in
formation outside of state affairs.
Among visitors to the city yesterday
was John Townley, of the Pittsburgh
Press, who was here on his way to
Atlantic City by automobile. Mr.
Townley has been prominent in news
paper work and was chairman of the
Pittsburgh Civil Service'Commlssion.
• » »
The night concreting which has been
undertaken by the contractors for the
paving of the Harrisburg Railways
share of the Derry street pavement
has attracted much attention these
evenings. People get off the cars to
watch the machines at work and the
bright lights which surround the mix
ers and the piles of material likewise
attract many bugs which keep the
men busy. People living in the neigh
borhood have a fine time watching the
wcrk pushed along yard by yard under
the electric light.
♦ • •
Edward M. Bigelow, former Stata
Highway Commissioner, was here to
day for a short time with Mrs. Bige
low. He was on his way to Werners
ville, where he will spend August.
Ex-Judge Allison O. Smith, of Clear
field, was another state visitor.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"""
—The Rev. Dr. C. R. Zahneiser,
active in reform work In Pittsburgh,
used to be prominent in ministerial
wcrk.
—Alba B. Johnson says that the
Interstate Commerce Commission held
that railroads were entitled to increase
in revenue in acting on the "spotting"
case.
—Colonel H. C. Trexler, of Allen
town, plans to personally look after
the building of the new model high
way between that city and Bethlehem.
—Mayor Blankenburg is acting on
ordinances at his summer home in the
Poconos.
—E. T. Stotesbury is at Del Monte,
California.
1 DO YOU KNOW 1
That Harrisburg steel 1s used In
holts in the new destroyers?
THE LIBERTY BELL
So many praises have been sung.
So many tributes written.
Of honors famous bells have rung
For Scot or Celt or Briton.
So many tales of Issues great
These metal tongues have spoken.
When weaker nation met Its fate
And war's suspense was broken.
So many deeds of kingly strife
Now read in legends olden,
Of valiant men in knightly life.
When gallantry was golden.
Above these bells of foreign kings
And all their victory,
A reigning bell forever swings—
Our bell of Liberty 1
How sweet the wildly clanging note
To those who stood below it
And heard the chimes of freedom float.
That all the world might know It!
How strong our Independence pealed
Its deep-cracked surface tells;
The pride of patriots Is revealed
Within this bell of bells!
—Belle Barker In Farm and Home.
OUR AMERICAN VOICES •
"We Americans are of two kinds: we J*
either talk too loud or too low, par
ticularly In public places. A European
family will sit down In public without
feeling the necessity of putting a mute
on the voice and retiring as though be
hind a wall. They are not noisy or gay,
they do \ jt toot on tin horns, but they
say what they wish without lowering
the tone to that painful depth which
we mistake for a cultivated note. Let
us be brave, and be ourselves: for noth
ing can be better than that."—Louise
dosser Hale In the Century Magazine.
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