6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established iSir PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK POLE President and Editer-in-Chitf F. R. OY9TER Secretary OVS M. STEINMETZ ilanat'xg Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 216 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Stojy & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago. 111., Allen & Ward. xtfijgqjgftv Delivered by carriers at f-ml'or.'a. llbel> six rents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dnlijr Brrrngf circulation for the three months rndlna June 30, 1015 ★ 21,231 Jf- Average for the year 1014—21,838 Average for the year 1013—19.903 Average for the year 1012—10,640 Average for the year 1011—17.R03 Average for the year 1010—10,261 The above figures are net. All re turned, unsold and damaged copies de ducted. THURSDAY E\ENING, JULY 22 When thou prayest rather let thy heart be without icorits than thy words without heart. —John Banyan. STRIKES BELATED XOTE COLONEL THEODORE ROOSE VELT in his speech at San Fran cisco strikes a popular but be lated note. The country does not need hi:, vigorous appeal to rouse it to a use of national insecurity and a de b.iu for preparedness against foreign attack. It was already aroused when the Colonel spoke, albeit he was but repeating in more carefully set terms thoughts to which he had previously given voice. There is food for reflection, however, in this, possibly the most striking pass age of the Colonel's remarks yesterday: Some day or other it may weft be that we shall have to pay on a ten fold greater scale the same price for exactly the same reasons; and, if such should be the case, remem ber, my fellow-countrymen, that, whereas the case of the Belgians excited warm sympathy, our mis fortunes would excite nothing hut s< orn and contempt; for a rich, powerful, boastful people invites the ridicule of all mankind if, whether from sheer silliness and shortsightedness, or from soft, tim idity, or from gross and greedy de votion to the material bemtHg of the moment, it fails to prepare itself to. defend its own rights with its own strength. The Swiss means of national pro tection appeals to Roosevelt, who is not the first to .suggest military service vm the Swiss model for the United States, and probably that view is not popular because a majority of our pe< pie do not believe such a measure necessary. But certainly we are in need of some kind of military training, and the idea of making "setting up" exercises, rifle drill and care of the individual under conditions'approach ing those of warfare are not matters tf> look upon with fear or loathing. The boy who has been trained to be a good soldier 1b likely to be all the bet ter citizen for that, and may live lor.ger and enjoy better health as an other result, • MEN WORTHY OK HONOR OF the three men mentioned by Governor Brumbaugh in con nection with the nomination to the authorities of the Panama-Pacific exposition of the foremost citizen of the State, only one had the advantage of a college education. And the only one who can now be regarded as a rich man, as that term is understood In this country, started with the great est candlcap. He was forced to enter the r&.nks of the breadwinners at the tender age of 1 4. But all three early in life began to think for themselves. They were un willing to become mere drifters with the current of life that surrounded them. That and clean living are the lactors that determine between suc cess and failure. The man who is 'willing to make the effort to solve for iiimself the problems that confront him from day to day will soon acqulrp the mental faculty called inltiatire, which in some men is so pronounced that we call It inspiration. Such a man is bound to rise. Not, of course, tir pre-eminence in every case, but well above the level of his fellows. And for the man who is willing to make this supreme effort there never was a time in the history of the world when the reward was so certain to follow, and no country where it is BO large as in America. Few, if any, people will challenge Governor Brumbaugh's selection of l)r. Brashear as the State's most dis tinguished citizen. He is without a superior in his field or a peer in Penn rylvania and has made many impor tant contributions to the intellectual luster of his State. He has, In fine, tulded to the laurels of his fellow citizens in a national and an interna tional sense. As for the other two whose names were forwarded to the exposition authorities, Mr. Wanamak cr and Dr. Conway, they lead in their particular spheres of activity, beyond ft doubt, but in a State with such wide ly diversified and highly important in terests it is difficult to point to any one leader and say of him that he Is more important titan the leader of some other group. Home of us, for Instance, will say that the two men whose names were sent to San Fran cisco are in no wise more entitled to wucb distinction than are Charles M. THURSDAY EVENING, Schwab, the South Bethlehem Steel manufacturer, who 1b conceded to be the foremost steel maker not only In this Rreat steel State, but In the United States as well, and perhaps In the world, or John G. Johnson, the emi nent Philadelphia lawyer, who Is rec ognized as a member of the small group of men who stand at the head of the practice of the legal profes sion In the United States. Beyond question these men are, leaders in practically every sense of that word, but there Is a significance that should not be lost sight of in the fact that Mr. Wanamaker and Dr. Conway have not been content merely to achieve personal success, but have sought with striking persistency and conspiouous results to Inspire others. To their material distinctions they have added that far more important and much rarer attribute spiritual leadership. Beyond a doubt this ex plains why they predominated so con spicuously in the voting which was carried on by a number of newspapers while the subject of selecting the State's most distinguished citizen was under consideration. ONE OX THE LOBBYISTS IT has just been discovered that a piece of legislation containing a Joker as big as a house got by the last session of the New York Legisla ture, and If the people of that State are not laughing heartily over the incident it is because they are abso lutely devoid of a sense of humor. For, unlike most occurrences of the kind, this time the joke is on the very in dividuals who make a business of bamboozling the public, to wit, the lobbyists who look after legislative matters for those who are vaguely called the interests in every capital in the land. • Timber land still owned by the peo ple of New York was so ruthlessly despoiled by wealthy and well organ ized timber thieves that when the con stitution now in effect was adopted, a matter of twenty years ago, a section was put into it which absolutely pro hibits the cutting of trees on public land under any circumstances. This put a sudden end to the acquirement of a good deal of easy money, and ever since efforts have been made to circumvent the barrier in the funda mental law. These activities were without effect, however; so, at the session of 1913, a resolution submitting to the people an amendment which would remove this obstacle to timber piracy was Intro duced, and under the plea that dead timber is ty great menace, It was passed. The fact that thiß amend ment also made it possible to cut tim ber of all kinds was not enlarged upon at the time. The New York system of constitution amendment is like that of Pennsylvania In that the resolution submitting it to the voters must pass two sessions of the legislature. So during the rush hours at the close of this year's session—the very last day, in fact —the matter came up for action the second time and was rushed through. In the ordinary course of events the amendment would have been passed upon at the election to be held this Fall, but it has been discovered that in the hurry the resolution was pass ed the second time was an exact dupli cate of it as it was adopted by the session of ISIS and instead of send ing the matter on to the people refers it to yet another session of the law making body. Of course, under the circumstances, the whole thing falls and the lumber people have lost two years' time and a lot of money unless they can bring the constitutional con vention now in session to their way of thinking to the extent of being will ing to Incorporate a section that will serve their purpose in the draft which the convention will submit to the people at the November election. There really must be something in the tales about better conditions on the hill at Albany. Back in the days of Yellow Dog funds and expert ac celeration of legislation the "boys" of the Third House never were guilty of such slips. At all events lack of practice would be one possible ex planation of the untoward result. FIGHTING AXD RCXNING AWAY THAT there is such a thing as too much determination, a too great degree of courage in warfare, is' indicated by Associated Press corres pondence from France, in which the writer attributes the heavy losses of the English to the "bull-dog tenacity" of the British soldier which keeps him in his trenches long after he should have retreated. According to this in formation the '"Tommies" remain in the ditches to the last man. The French, the Germans and Belgians have no sentiment about yielding ground, if to their military advantage to do so, especially when they can draw the enemy on to marked ranges. But the tradition of sticking it out to the last, born of the days when man was pitted against man instead of man against machine, is so strong in the British army that one of the most important lessons of the war has yet to be learned by it. According to this account, the French and German, unlike the British, lay no stress on holding their front line of trenches. In case of an attack they withdraw to the rear lines. Being ft carefully measured range, the enemy !n taking the first line gets into a wasp's nest. The French, with marvelous accuracy, pour both shrapnel and high explosive shells from their famous "seventy-five" field guns. When they assume the offensive and capture a German trench, they protect their men with a curtain of fire as long as possible; but if its occupation seems likely to prove too expensive, they withdraw, measuring the ground as best they can in their retreat in order to correct the aim of their batteries. Somewhat the same tactics are fol lowed by the Germans, who, however, UEO machine guns instead of Meld cannon. Hut the British hold on to their front trench when attacked, und on to the captured trench when at tacking, with a courage unexcelled in history. However, they act /nth mure courage than intelligence, since they play into the hands of the Germans by their very stubbornness. British losses have almost all bean due to an effort to atlck it out to the last man, when the French would have retreated, shelled out the foe and made a fresh attack.This is the French policy of attrition. It enables them to assume the offensive at will and to keep up a constant and wearing action, while the British make their fight and then remain as they are for long periods of inaction. We have long poked fun at, the sol dier "who fights and runs away" in order that he "may live to fight an other day," but apparently it has its place in modern scientific warfare. f TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE " —Smethport people, seeing strange lights in the sky at night, suspect the presence of an airship. There are large lightning bugs down this way, too. —lrt a few days It may be said that Warsaw saw war. —Hudson Maxim comes naturally by his rapid-fire speeches. —What excuse will the fishermen have when the .river gets back to normal? —lf that public improvement jubilee *ls as big in proportion as the improve ments themselves, it will be a whopper. —lf Reading peanut merchants know what we know they would rise up in a body and insist upon that order for bidding squirrel habitations in Penn Park being rescinded. it is in violation of the antitrust law forbidding re straint of trade. EDITORIAL COMMENT"" It will strike most people that the Armenian ought to have been tor pedoed by a Turkish submarine. Philadelphia Inquirer. Berlin report* the capture of 521.630 Russians since the first of June. Still, It does not seem to have taken enough. —lndianapolis Star. A careful survey of the German sub marine war would indicate that when threat Britain's loss reaches 5 per cent. °i £ er vess ols, the merchant marines of Denmark. Norway and Sweden will have totally disappeared.—New York Evening Post. BEEIXG PENNSYLVANIA FIRST [Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.] Announced plans forGovernorßrum baugh's "See Pennsylvania First" au toirobiie tour confirm first impressious of the excellence of the original idea, ine itinerary as arranged includes more than half of the counties of the State and will occupy a week. His toric shrlneft, the industrial and agri cultural regions and places noted for their scenic attractions will all be vis ited and it is safe to say that the Gov ernor and his companions, whatever their previous knowledge of the varied resources of the Keystone State, will be surprised at this glimpse of their extent and richness. The entire ,lour re.\ is to be over State highways. Thus the tourists will be able to obtain valuable information at first hand on the subject of good roads; they will perceive what an immensity has been accomplished by the State Highway Department and will also realize the size ol the task that still confronts those engaged in the work of provid ing adequate means of communication between the numerous centers of pop i !Si I( is a P d tlle vi H a ses, hamlets and individual dwellings. The New England states have achieved added fame from their asso ciation with well advertised "tours" kiliT" ever > enthusiastic automo »» ♦ i . Ex P* ns j v «ly printed and illus trated handbooks proclaim the beauties anci conveniences of these excursions Inn keepers vie in providing special accommodations for automobile tour ists and Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and the mountain states reap a rich harvest every summer from the strangers with money to spend. Pennsylvania, with scenery unexcelled i hese sißter st ates and a rapidly increasing system of excellent roads can offer equal attractions. No doubt we are still deficient in country hotel facilities. With improvements in arrangements for hospitality Penn sbH V |"o thi« W H Ul | d i'f a Position to share this desirable tourist trade with New England. This Is only one thought suggested by the Governor's forthcom ing tour of the State, which should wiVh'Yh ennsyl VHnitt automobilists With the opportunities for recreational and instructive journeys within the bound- of their mighty common! MADE IX AMERICA, TOO When the fierce old eyes of Count Zeppelin fall upon the names of Edis °n and drvilie Wright, in the advisory board co w|th the United states an the m f ay for once ' realize that all the ideas are not made in Ger many.—New York Evening Sun. Our Daily Laugh AFTER THE HONEYMOON. I think his love 1 |i| ha growing oold. V A7V N Now, my dear, ( *1 you must imagine B\>- JjM It is not imag- '/r ination. He reads / \ a newspaper Jfli / \ While lam sitting #II /i \ on his lap. ftlHl W SYNONYMOUS? C tffr /A\ your husband's \M// arera«e, Mrs. W. t about midnight. I'M uttn By Wing Dinger Gee, I'm glad to see this weather. That we're having, tell you what It's a big improvement over Those days when it was so hot. Makes a fellow's work go easy, And in a determined way. Rather than with resignation He goes on the Job each day. And these nights, say, ain't they pip pins get In some good, sound sleep— As the early morning breezes Up and down your backbone creep? But 1 welcome this cool weather Most because It calls the bluff Of the "hot-spell" pest who queries, "For you, is it hot enough?" HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH folltlct ov By the Kx-Committeeman While all the politicians in all the parties in the eastern half of the fatate are watching the progress of the campaign preliminary to the mayor alty flght in Philadelphia political in terest is at such a low ebb In the western half that the newspapers are worrying about what might happen in the way of patronage in the event that the Republican candidate wins at the next presidential election. However this situation is not as funny as it seems on the surface, for a peculiar situation exists in the Bea ver-Lawrence-Washington congres sional district which is the center of this outbreak of long distance trouv ble. A special election for Congress will be held in the district this Kali and Henry W. Temple who represent ed It in the last Congress as a Pro gressive-Washington party man wants the endorsement of the regular Re publicans. There is a disposition to give it to him because that would mean his certain election and almost automatic re-election at the regular election next year. But 'there Is also a more than bright prospect that the elections of 1816 will also place a Re publican in the White House and the Republicans of the district are anxious to know what disposition will be made of the post offices and other federal putronage usually at the disposal of congressmen in that event. Unless Temple can convince the regular Re publicans that he will not turn them over to Uncle Ernest F. Acheson, of Washington, who used to represent the district in Congress, but is now a ben evolent boss and father confessor of all the kickers and political mavericks in the southwestern section of the State the endorsement is likely to be withheld. There are 134 presidential post offices in the district and the an nual pay roll from this source totals $95,700. —Representative J. Hampton Moore, who is one of the acceptable eight, is reported to be in a receptive mood when approached on the sub ject of the Republican mayoralty nom ination In Philadelphia, it is believed, however, that it will take a great deal of popular demand to make Moore a practical possibility. Both the Vare people and the clan McNichol are be lieved to feel that he s:iouty not be taken up except as a last resource. —The only really interesting recent development in the Philadelphia situ ation is the report that Dr. W. Horace Hoskins, former president of the Democratic club, and who is not at all loved by the Reorganizes, is being urged by his rriends to make a try for the Democratic nomination. Mr. Hos kins in the past has been open and active in his opposition to the faction headed by Democratic Slate Chair man Morris in Philadelphia, and the Morris people could not with propriety refuse to meet the issue his candidacy would raise. And that would involve a test of strength wheh the Reor ganizes have been at great pains to avoid ever since the elections last Fall. The Old Guard Democrats are confi dent that the showing the Reorganiz es would make in Philadelphia now would make the pretentions of that faction positively ridiculous. —The journey shoreward of Repub lican leaders began to-day and it is anticipated that the week-end gath ering at Atlantic City this week will be particularly large although it is not expected that any .action will be taken on the matters that are upper most in the minds of politicians. —Being congressman from the Berks-Lehigh district is no sinecure if you happen to be a Lehigh county man. Former Democratic State Chairman Dewalt of Allentown who represents the district now finds it necessary to proceed to Reading every once in a while for the purpose of holding a levee for the faithful among his Berkshire constituents. He was in Reading Tuesday' and announced that he would visit the manufacturers of Berks county and ask them what legislation might be needed for the general public good. Some Job for a Democratic congressman! —State Senator John W. Hoke, of Chambersburg has formally an nounced his candidacy fpr the Frank lin county Judgeship. —Ralph B. Strassburger, of Norris town, who takes an aottve Interest in Republican party affairs in Montgom ery county called at the office of the Republican National committee in Washington for the purpose of pre senting the views of several groups of New York and Philadelphia business men in favor of holding the Republi can national convention in Philadel phia next year. —Friends of J. Frank E. Hause' held a meeting at West Chester for the pur pose of boosting his candidacy for the Chester county judgeship. Other can didates are Judge Robert 8. Gaw throp, who was recently appointed to the bench by the Governor end Ar thur T. Parke. MEAT IN HOT WEATHER A Knv Simple Precautions for the Housewife Who Does Not Want Her Supplies to Spoil A few simple precautions will aid the housewife in keeping meat un tainted In hot weather. It Is, of course, common knowledge that the higher the temperature, the quicker meat wll spoil, but the family's supplies are not abso lutely at the mercy of the thermome ter. Ice and cleanliness are two great weapons of defense. For many families a refrigerator Is obviously out of the question, but It is perhaps better, to have no refrigerator at all than a neglected one. Merely to wash It out occasionally does little good: It should b'e thoroughly scalded at frequent Intervals, in particular tlie drain. This, if overlooked. Is apt to harbor fungous growths, which may spread to the food. On one occasion a man applied to the department because he had found that a Joint of beef plac ed In his refrigerator bad turned a peculiar bright red. Upon examination it was ascertained that the meat was covered with a peculiar fungous growth due entirely to the condition of the refrigerator. Growths of this kind do not always advertise themselves so prominently and there may be much evil In an Icebox that the eye can not detect. If the refrigerator drain Is not thor oughly cleaned, moreover, it Is likely to become choked, the water Is not car ried off quickly enough and little pools are left .standing In the Interior. Damp ness is one of the conditions most fa vorable to bacterial growth. An ice box in this state will not protect foot, long. It Is, In fact, a wise precaution to wipe the interior of a refrigerator every day with a dry cloth. The temperature of the average re frigerator is higher than most persons suppose, and in those households where a regular supply of Ice Is not obtain able a cool cellar, a sprlnghouse, or the depths of a well may serve somewhat the same purpose. . NO roSKKIt NI.KKP OVER THEIR > SHOPS [From the London Chronicle.! Living "over the shop' is no longer the custom with tlie great West End tradesmen: they sleep in the outer suburbs. One of the very last Is threat ened with dispossession by the riale of the Arundel] estate. For more than a century generations of have stuck to the famous shop In Coventry street, denllnc In it as alive l