6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established iSll PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRI>TING CO. E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief » F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. 6TEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 216 j 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, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at 'jLViet i > six cents n week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. •worn <lnliy nvernge circulation for the three months endlui; June 30, 1015 ★ 21,231, Average for the year 15114—21.55S Average for the year 1013—10.003 Average for the year 1012—10.H40 j Average for the yenr 1011—17,503 ' Average for the year 1010—10.281 J The above Ugurea are net. AH re- | turned, unaold and damaged coplea de ducted. MONDAY EVENING. JULY 26. Uever deliberate about u-hat is clearly wrong, and try to persuade yourself that it is not. —Frederick Temple. GRADE CROSSTNGS FROM the standpoint of public' safety, the determination of the ■ Public Service Commission to first safeguard, and finally abolish all ; ■grade crossings in Pennsylvania is the j most important step that body has j ever taken. The task* to which the' Commission has set itself is gigantic. j There are more than 10,000 crossings scattered throughout the Common- j wealth, and each one of them' is a, potential deathtrap. The sum of' $300,000,000, which the Commission estimates will be requrred to replace! them with subways or bridges, is of ! staggering proportions, yet in the end ! the railroads, which must bear the bulk of the burden, will be the gainers. ' Watchmen by the hundreds will be i displaced, safety gates will be te-1 moved and the constant possibility of ' enormous damages, such as the Read- j ing faces as the result of the recent j Hummelstown tragedy, will be" re-' moved. The grade .crossing is a constant j menace to people who find it necessary j to use it. As Chairman Ainey, of the Commission, says, courts and the legis- ! ilatures have condemned it and the! Commission is right in assuming that the law places upon it the duty of: ridding the State of a peril that in the ' first place should never have been per mitted to come into being. Secretary Daniels is said to be delay ing work on the naval program for tha next Congress in the hope that he may secure from belligerent operations In Europe some useful suggestions. One such immediately occurs to us: In Eng land there has been a change in the he?' of the admiralty. THAT DEFENSE PROGRAM IT is intimated in Washington that President Wilson has under con sideration a national defense pro gram which will call for a navy "on an equality with the most efficient" and an army reserve of "at least 500,000 men and perhaps more." Not a word Is said about the size of this efficient navy or the efficiency of the half mil lion reserves. What is even more sug gestive. no definite time has been fixed for submitting these plans to Con gress. On the surface it looks very much as if the administration, with an eye on the elections of next year, has de cided to reply to the piffle of the news paper and magazine volunteers in the armar.ent lobby with piffle of its own. If that is the actual meaning of the vague announcement from Washing, ton the country might as well pre pare itself for a great deal of army and navy mismanagement, with inci dental waste of large sums of money. There is no more important problem before the American people at this time than this of the national defenses. It is so important that there should be general agreement that it is a question for experts tv consider and settle in an atmosphere free from political bias, hysterical fear or chauvinism. But what is happening is exactly the reverse. Landlubber poli ticians are vociferously reconstructing fthe navy and deciding off hand problems of offense and defense that the authorities confess themselves ail at sea about, while penny-a-liners with no greater knowledge of military affairs than may be picked up during an occasional visit to a State guard camp on the big day, lay down army plans with the assurance of a Von Moltke. We became u.-ed to Hobson, and many know to a nicety just how much Importance to attach to the out givings of the Dickie Davises, but the large number of those engaged in this, to them, remunerative activity is a bit disconcerting, and unless something is done to counteract it, it is bound to thave an unfortunate effect upon the public. Considerations such as these mu«t have prompted close advisers of the President to put forth the national defense statement at this time. What we have of naval power al ready Is as efficient as any in the ■world. But we need a great deal more —more, In fact, than any other na tion except Great Britain. Our army " MONDAY EVENING, 1 also Is good as far as it goes, but it Is too small. It totally lacks a reserve j force and most of the time it is ln i sufficiently supplied. These deficiencies | call loudly for a remedy, but !t is not merely a matter of more dollars, as so many of the people seem to believe. IP spite of our small showing on land and sea we already spend ns much money as do the franxly militaristic nations of Europe. True reform must begin with elimination of the graft and the waste. When that is done, and the Government is getting a dol lar's worth of service or supplies for each dollar expended, we can proceed with confidence to increase the na tional forces. Right here is where the duty of President Wilson and the party in power lies. Public opinion will sup port them in the complete wiping out of useless navy yards and army posts. This should be the first thing taken up by the Congress which will meet this coming winter. pork barrel scandal, which has been worse since the Democratic party came into con trol of the Government than ever be fore in the history of the country, ] must be suppressed. Congressmen with the instincts and the intellects of errand boys must be taugnt to thinl; nationally and internationally and thy whole campaign must be carried on | with a frankness and sincerity that will command the confidence of- the public. This would be a large order for any party, especially that part of it which calls for congressional re form, but it will be especially hard for the Democrats to fill it. However, if it should develop that President Wil son is in as complete control of the new Congress as he ».*.s of the late one there is hope that some gains will be made. The New York American was one of the first newspapers to condemn Bryan for resigning. Yesterday it held him up in the light of a martyr to the cause of peace. Is this a first step toward supporting him for the Presidency next year? The New York Evening Staats- j Zeitung seems pleased that the Presi dent talks less about humanity in his j latest note. We didn't know humanity i entered into German calculations. THIS STATE IX LEAD A MOTHERS' pension bill was j passd by one branch of the Wis- j consin Legislature last -week. We mention this in the hope that it will: attract the attention and stimulate the ! reasoning facilities of a few of those j earnest souls who have been taught j by conscienceless politicians and news- j papers to believe Pennsylvania to be I hopelessly reactionary and its legisla- j tures invariably steeped in toryism, j while Wisconsin and the little group i of States in the extreme northwest, where "reforms" run riot, are in a' condition of political idealism. The plain truth is that Pennsylvania J is more frequenyy in the lead than! not when it comes to genuine reform. We do not embtace every wild idea that comes along, it is true, for a cer tain amount of conservatism is neces sary to guard against palpable errors and costly experiVnents in government. But if we adopt fewer so-called pro gressive laws we actually make more real progress along all lines, and we are called upon less frequently to | wipe mistakes off of the statute books. And at the same time, as in the case of the mothers' pension movement. States that are anxious to be regarded as advanced in their views frequently are content to follow our lead. These facts are clearly understood by all who are familiar tfith Pennsyl vania conditions. Even those people who have been most active in recent years in misrepresenting the State and its citizens know theni, but for reasons that are as despicable as they are palpable these people refuse to acknowledge them or even admit them. It is safe to say that if an equal amount of energy had gone into legitimate boosting of Pennsylvania as ! went into vilification Curing the past; five or six years the effect would now be apparent not only in the spirit of the people; in their atlitude toward each other and the rest of the world, but In the bank balances. I I And after the Germans have captured j Varsaw will the end of the war be any i nearer, or must they go on and on I wasting .men and money in a vain at- I tempt to subjugate the whole Russian I Empire? Boston and Philadelphia newspapers are puzzled as to where Secretary Dan iels got his "mobilisation of brains" idea. We suggest a cross-examination of the bright young correspondents summering at the nation's capital. FACTS ABOUT FLAX F' ARMERS' BULLETIN, No. 669. of the United States Department of Agriculture says that "It has ! been demonstrated beyond all doubt ! that fiber flax of excellent quality can .be grown in various sections of the I United States." The trouble seems to Ibe that the fiber flax can be g'own, ! but the farmer can not prepare the I fiber, and It Is suggested that the farmers unite to pay for experienced men to superintend this work for them. "There appears to be no reason i why American-grown fiber and Amer ican manufactured linens should not I be substituted for at least a large part ;of the imports," says the Weekly News Letter, published by the Depart ment. , We can suggest one reason: Charles W. Hees, of the United States Linen Company, appearing before the com mittee on Ways and Means when the Underwood bill was under consider ation, traced the experiments, step by step, which his company had taken to achieve some measure of success In the growing of flax In Minnesota and Wisconsin. He closed his brief with the state ment: "Under the present tariff (Re publican) America can have a linen industry; without at least that amount of protection she cannot. Under the present tariff the flax-grower will have a profitable market for his byproduct —flax straw; without at least that amount of protection his straw will continue in the main to be burned on the fields." The Democratic committee looked | wise, put flax straw on the free list ( when it had been dutiable at $5 a ton; j flax, not hackled, on the free list, from $22.40 per ton; dressed linen (hackled) on the free list, from $67.20 per ton. That is the way they encouraged the industry which the department of ag riculture seeks to revitalize. ~ELECJRAPH PERISCOPE : —Mr. Bryan Is harping again on his i theory that the editorial should bear i the name of the writer. Let's see. i As editor of the Commoner that ought to get the ex-secretary into print at least six more times each week. —There are those who believe that the man who invents a motorcycle in capable of a speed of more than twenty-five miles an hour and equipped with a Maxim silencer should be en titled to a niche in the hall of fame. j —Certain recent messages to the public give rise to the thought that | Colonel Roosevelt is not only a rough rider but also a rough writer. —What's the use of being a great temperance reformer? Here's a writer who calls Mr. Grape Juice Bryan a "milk and water statesman.'* —Capital punishment is to be in cluded in New York's new consti tution. Gunmen please take notice. —Every time we see a boy headed toward the river with fishing rod and bait can we realize what a great man tht poet was who wrote that "barefoot boy" piece. BOOKS AND MAQAZINES"I SOIRI.ES OF WATER ANU FICTION Holman Day stated in a recent let- I ter that some of the situations which I make the plot of his just-published 1 novel, "The Landloper," were suggest ed by events that actually occurred in 1 a part of the country with which he is personally familiar. There was a series of typhoid epidemics similar to the one that roused the chlvalrlc hero of "The Landloper" to action; and the w-ater syndicates in real life—as in novel—'persisted in laying them to anything except the water sources con trolled by them." PEANUTS AT THE XOHTH POLE Frederick F. Rockwell, author of "The Key to the Land," has stated his belief that there has been a lot of sen timentality and some unpardonable ex aggeration in a good deal of the re cent back-to-the-land literature. "One cannot fail in some instances to feel." he says, "that what he reads is based upon Imagination and second-hand knowledge rather than upon experience: the ear-marks of an easy-chair in a city rflom, a good brand of tobacco, and the perusal of Government bulletins and per acre crop statistics are strong upon it. It is quite feasible to grow peanuts at the North Pole at an excel lent profit—on paper. My purpose in writing 'The Key to the Land' has been not only to show the advantages of 'life on the soil.' but also to demonstrate how certain problems to be encountered may be overcome. I say this with a certain positiveness because every In cident in this story is based upon actual experiences, either my own or those of which I ha\e had first-hand knowledge." A WOMAN'S POWER IN WAR Atherton Brownell's peace play, "The Unseen Empire," written before the war. offers some startling coincidences with later conditions. The cabled re ports of a threatened strike at the Krupp Works, which may imperil Ger man s suply of munitions, and the men tion of the great Influence of their owner over the workmen is paralleled in "The Unseen Empire." There, too, the owner of the big steel works is a young woman, and her influence is so great that she is able to avert war. And In "The Unseen Empire" Mr. Brownell has pointed out a method by which the United States might bring Germany to terms. CHI N A FIE D? [Kansas City Star.] Is the United States to be Chinafied? That issue, made vital by the course of recent events, has never been more forcefully stated than by Colonel Roosevelt In his San Francisco speech. To-day Belgium and China are living examples of the fate that menaces pacifist nations. They trusted in inter national guarantees and in their inof fensive dispositions. To-day they are subject peoples. To contend that preparation against attack invites war is as absurd as Colonel Roosevelt pointed out. as to argue that the maintenance of a fire department is an invitation to care lessness against Are. REGRETTABLE, INDEED [From the Harrisburg Sunday Courier.] It would be regrettable, indeed, if anything Is permitted to Interfere with the completion or the city's public im firovement enterprises now so verynear y finished, one can scarcely imagine that party politics may go to such lengths. It is to be hoped that some way can be found whereby the work may go ahead, especially in view of the fact that the City Solicitor has pro nounced the hold-up without legal grounds. Nothing can be gained by foolish delay. In the end the work will be done. Those who put themselves in the way as obstacles to that end may expect nothing but public censure. No good can come out of such a proposal for anybody. This straining at gnat* and swallowing of camels has gone far enough. Inside facts concerning the financial transactions of the cttv In the recent past may bring to light circum stances more open to criticism than the proupsition to finish a public work which the people themselves have au thorized. OLD MAIDS [From Scribner's Magazine.] I am not only an old maid, but I know many others, just as I know many married women, and I believe that It is time for the world to look upon them neither as pitiful, perverted beings nor as unclaimed blessings, but as fellow workers and comrades in a world in which there is serious busi ness to do whether one be married or not. After all, does it make so very much difference except to the novelist and the fcoet ond the scientist—this question of being an old maid? | LETTERS TO THE EDITOF AS TO THE JITNEYS To the Editor of the Telegrapn ; Correspondent of tne Telegraph writes as follows regarding the Jitney development In the transportation ser vice: "I am just back from several days in Detroit, Mich., and was surprised to find that there were no jitneys in that city of many automobiles. I inquired from several residents as to the absence of the Jitney service, and was informed ' by what I believe was a verv reliable ! authority that the street cor aervlee mil «o excellent that the JltnevM. though they tried aevernl times, could ! never get a holil. "It occurred to me that this might he of Interest to you with regard to the conditions in Harrisburg. I believe the same kind of street car service here would accomplish the same purpose I mention this to you because I know you are interested in ali such things." HAJLRISBURG TELEGRAPH I T>oUKc* u "PtTvTvoijtcaKca i I By the Ex-Commlttfcman ' | It is announced that an attempt will jbe made this week to get Governor j Brumbaugh to declare in favor of the j woman suffrage movement. Miss I Mary Winsor, president of the Limited ] Equal Suffrage League, and Miss Julia j Lewis, vice-chairman of the Suffrage I committee, are preparing letters which ! W 'U b e sent to the Governor asking I him to publicly place Himself on rec lord. If the letters are anything like | the interviews given out in Philadel ' If , on ! s su bject they will contain r p '° lnat ' c suggestion that sympathy : ior the suffrage movement might j prove helpful in making Governor) I Brumbaugh a candidate for the Re- I Publican Presidential nomination, j ji?aid Miss Lewis. "The attitude of Gov-! einor Brumbaugh at this particular | time is of great importance. The wo men who are working for suffrage in , Pennsylvania will, of course, want to support a man for President who has openly espoused the cause. The wo men of the West also will want to sup port such a man. There are 4,000,000 who vote in the West." tfle in w hich the people of Philadelphia hope something defin ite will be arrived at in the matter of selecting the Republican mayoralty candidate. It is understood that with in a few days a conference of the leaders will be held at Atlantic City at which the matter will be taken up. It is hoped that the Vares will in the meantime make a definite announce ment of their intentions. The other day Congressmen Dewalt while in Reading issued a pressing in vitation to the Berks county Demo crats to attend the annual meeting of their Lehigh county brethren. It now develops that there was something more than mere hospitality in that for the principal e.vent of the gather ing this year will be an announcement of Dewalt's candidacy for renomina tion. The date for the meeting is Au gust 14 and the place is Breiningsville. This usually is a great event in the eastern section of the State, for it is an actual survival of the days when barbecues and huge mass meetings were the big features of every political campaign. Civic patriotism is at a low ebb in Hazleton. The office of councilman pays $750 in that town, but so far therq is an actual dearth of candidates for the places that are to be filled this Fall. Nowhere in the State is the Wash ington party slump and the Republi can gain as shown by the party en rollment more pronounced than in Cumberland county. According to fig ures compiled at the office of the county commissioners the Republican enrollment is 6890 as against 5100 last year. Last year the Washington en rollment was 750; this year it is 225. Three years ago Roosevelt polled 3 500 votes in Cumberland. The total regis tration was 15,591. Of this number 1730 refused to name a party prefer ence. The Democratic enrollment is 6470, Prohibition 129, Socialist 147. The plant of the Scranton Daily Xews which was started to boom the I Bull Moose cause in the upper anthra | cite region was sold by the sheriff jof Lackawanna county last week for $lO2. The purchase was made by the George B. Markle estate and is sub ject' to leases that aggregate nearly $25,000. It is estimated that the Markles dropped $150,000 into the News venture. They are buying up all the claims and it is said that they will b back of a new newspaper to be started in the near future. TEACHES CHILDREN- TO PLAY Number of Foreigners Makes Xeces sury Standard Games for All Classes. [From the Boston Transcript.] Harvard adds to the teaching staff an experienced director of playgrounds offering thereby technical training courses in the management of recrea tional centers. Nowadays children, especially in communities deriving from different nationalities, need to be told and shown how to play. The thread of Old World tradition in games being broken, the folk sports of one element being not readily communi cated to and accepted by another, and the native American customs, which vary with the locality, finding the playground a sort of Ssargossa Sea of aimless, currentless stagnacy, the prur fessional grown-up director has de veloped from the necessities of the situation. So serious a word as "necessities" is applied because the end desired is to keep children from mischievous and vicious lapsing through street idling and aid them.to good habits and future good citizenship. Lately the advant age of utilizing recreation facilities for I diminishing the untoward temptations !of the leisure hours of men and wo | men, as well as for increasing means to better .information and standards, has been made use of, particularly in Bos ton. where several public spirited as sociations recently have been doing ex cellent new work. I Our Daily Laugh THE BETTER P - HALF. I give my wife iialf my salary jsT every weelt to &(r--n —li spend on tho R / «•' house - keep.'ng OpW / and herself. vDI If tl And what do ¥// Ufl ~ you do with the /l//nj other half of your f&(• salary. j >3l "*-C. Oh, my wife .A? borrows that. /r J? NOT MARRIED YET. This is the last resort I'll ever go Well, you came P here 48 a last re " y» sort didn't you? WHILE THE TEAM'S AWAY By. Wing Dinger In offices and stores, et cet. About this little burg, you bet Hard work will more attention get, For three we'eks—here's the why! j Because till August 14th. bo, | There'll be no baseball games, you know, ; And fans will have no place to go— I Hence at their Jobs they'll ply. I But if the players, while away. The character of ball will play [ As they have played for many day— j They'll cinch first place, and say— i The fans at home will sure be proud. They'll sound their praises long and loud— And. gee, but there will be some crowd i When next "at home" they play, [ SUMMER SCENES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA 7" -JJ s< u/3 lfl - ♦ nt s . • £ ' I' \ * i , ■ - >- "THE REAL. THING." (Courtesy Eastman Kodak Company.) IN THE WAR'S VAST ARENA Moscow, the Most Russian of Russian Cities—lts Kremlin and Its Mighty Bell. WASHINGTON. D. C., July 26. — Deep in the heart of European Russia, more than 700 miles from the German frontier, guarded over the intervening space by lake country, marshes and innumerable riverways, always certain of reinforce ment by the bleakest of winter j weather, with its heavy, blinding drift of snow, is Moscow, the old capital of Russia, the city against whose walls the craft of Napoleon smashed. Mos cow seems more secure from war hor rors and devastation than any other metropolis within the confines of the fighting nations, begins a bulletin describing the most Russian of Rus sian cities, issued to-day by the Na tional Geographic Society at Wash ington. Moscow belongs alike to the Orient and the Occident; more, however, lo the East than to the West. It is fur- | ther east than Jerusalem, and behind it extends a vast, sparsely settled, half-civilized, limitless, little-known region, sweeping the Arctic Sea to our West and China. Moscow is the pulse of this vast and undeveloped region, and through it have flowed endless streams of pioneers in peace times on the mission of civilization to the bleak northern plains' and their Asiatic natives. To the Rus sian, Moscow is a sacred city; to the stranger, it is a city 'of surpassing beauty; to both, it is the heart and soul of Russia. Irregularly built, the Intricate and uncommonly involved plan of this mighty city adds to its charm upon acquaintance. Its streets are one of its most trying experiences to the foreigner, mostly badly paved and filled with "raisins," as the cab driv ers call the sharp projecting §stones over which their ancient droshkiea lurch. Then, too, the magnificent and the sordid are oddly mingled in the city's architecture, and beside the wonderful cathedral and the impres sive government structure one sees the mean buildings of poverty. The peasant, the gentleman and the mil- i IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS I AGO TO-DAY , [From the Telegraph of July 26, 1865.] Ordered to Washington Lieutenant B. C. Cook, in command of the Fiftieth Company, Veteran Re serve Corps, has been ordered from this city to Washington. Soldier Killed Samuel Bortz, a corporal In Com pany A, First Pennsylvania Artillery, was almost Instantly killed when ha walked in his sleep last night and fell from the balcony on the third story or Orsinger's Hotel. He was a resident of Shiremanstown before the war. Bank Cashier Commits Suicide William M. Beetem, cashier of the Carlisle Deposit Bank, committed sui cide early this morning by hanging himself In the garret of his home. He was a prominent businessman of Car lisle. IDIOTIC Lays evil on woman's dress.—Head line." Of course, of course. The evil comes and the blame stays with woman. We hate to be rude of speech, but usually i when we find a man chattering about ! woman's dress, we can't apply to him ! a more endearing title than "Idiot." j —New York Sun. | f i More Reason to Push Harder Speaking of business condi tions recently, John Wanamaker said: "People to-day are buying only three things— automobiles, wear ing apparel and shoes. "They are buying the first be cause they are cheap and shoes and clothing because they must be replaced." Then he made the telling point that If manufacturer* of oilier lines arc to meet tlila condition they must pu*l» hnr«lcr. They must follow the aggres sive methods of the large stores. They must advertise. >■ i JULY 26, im lionaire are Inextricably mixed up in external Moscow. Moscow is a city of churches. Their brilliantly colored tower domes, strik ing bulbous affairs, like uprtirned beets or onions, or often motfled like a Holland cheese, give a delightful piquancy to the city's panoramas. First of the Moscow sanctuaries is the renowned Church of the Saviour, one of the most luxurious temples in the world a tempte proving the warmth of imagination and the love of splendor of the North. Built in the form of a Greek cross, perfectly proportioned, Us cream-colored mar ble base and bright domes are a feast Qf beauty, while its Interior is an awe-inspiring medley or precious stones, metals and marbles. The Kremlin, the heart pf Russia's heart, the ancient fortress of the city, Moscow's Acropolis, is the point of greatest interest to the visitor. The Kremlin is the Inner circle of Mos cow. wherein are situated the treas ury, the arsenal, the imperial palace, sacred temples and around which are drawn heavy battlements of mason ry. Within the confines of the Krem lin the first city on the site of Mos cow grew; .the modern town extends in an outer ring around it. Most of the Kremlin escaped unharmed from Napoleon's visitation, though its towers were scarred by the fires to which the retreating Russians en deavored to sacrifice their city. I The largest bell in the world is pre- I served here in Moscow, with almost I enough metal in it to make a modern I battle. There are many hundreds jof relics of Napoleon's visit here abandoned cannon and cannon balls lof the French and their allies. The | famous palace in the Kremlin is one j of the richest buildings in the world, ! built, decorated and filled with a lux j ury that is oppressive to those unae | customed to associate in environ ; ments of boundless wealth. The I treasury of the Kremlin is a mar velous collection of priceless historic I relics and souvenirs of the past. General Botha Controls All South Africa (^^LOOIS^BOT^A Pretoria, July 26. General Louis Botha, commander of the British forces in South Africa, is in control of the entire southeastern section, hav ing accepted the surrender of all the German forces. Hostilities have ceased, it was announced. , ! lEbenmg flltjat ll I Sunday afternoon has become the gala day for canoeists and swimmers on the Susquehanna. Yesterday after noon and last evening the boat liv eries along the river were almost empty and the hundreds who own the pretty water craft of Indian design were to be seen lolling about the pretty islands that dot the stream from tne dam to Reily street. The biggest crowds gather of a Sun day afternoon, perhaps, on Independ ence Island, where hundreds of men, women and youngsters splash away in the cooling waters. Many a man and woman who are toll-bound throughout the week find Sabbath Day afternoon the one time when they can be kids again and enjoy the pleasure of the old swimming hole de luxe. With the big yellow moon that is shining this week the river will be prcbably more popular than at any time during the summer, since the water has fallen to a safe depth again. There is really only one annoyance found by the canoeists nowadays—the mcsquito. • * • While the average citizen who goes to Reservoir to hear the band concerts prefers to listen from one of the benches close to the bandstand, there aro those who believe the slopes and terraces beyond the administration building offers a better place; some even trail all the way out to Oak Knob, where, even though it be faint, the music can be easily heard. The other evening a bare-headed youth in white flannels and a very pretty girl hustled up»on the lookout in a gray runabout, gazed out over the moonlit landscape awhile and then—the far-away band hit up the liveliest kind of a one-step. For Just a moment the pair listened, then the boy said something, the girl eagerly acquiesced: "Come on— quick!" she said, "before the music stops!" And they hurried from the car to the concreted top of the Oak Knob reservoir and then swayed and dipped and side-stepped and swung and dipped some more in a "pigeon walk." Breathless, they stopped when the breeze no longer carried the dis tant music, and they were on the way back to their car when the band swung into the waltz from "Cecile." Back to the open-air dance floor the pair hurried again and swayed and dipped and swung some more. Then tliey went back to the car and chugged away, down past the bandstand and its crowd and on out of the park. The fecent announcement by old rivermen at Clark's Ferry that the dam 1s slowly going to pieces was received with general expressions of sorrow by scores of canoeists here who have paddled many times over its broad, quiet surface. The wingwall at the chute was broken by the recent freshet and water from the pool is rushing cross wise into it. The dam backs water for several miles above Clark's Ferry and has added much to the attractiveness of Inglenook as a summer resort. Local canoeists who usually shoot the chutes on their way down the river for the sake of additional ex citement have been warned that it is extremely dangerous, as long spikes and part of the. flooring protrude through the water to near the surface. Recently two canoeists from Steelton came through and smashed their boat to splinters when they caught on one of these planks and overturned at the "big wave." One particular brand of prize apples, the pride of a nearby fruit grower, will not he exhibited at the annual meeting of the State Horticultural So ciety during Fall. These apples ha\'e been the subject of much favorable comment for many seasons. One -" colored man is responsible for the elimination of this brand of fancy fruit. Two weeks ago the owner found I two small trees suffering from an at tack of insects. The fruit from these trees was never very valuable. The owner told the colored man to cut them down and be careful he did not injure the roots of the tree near by, which bore the prize apples. The owner was called to the East for two days. On his return he went into his orchard to see how his prize fruit tree- was coming on, and found it had been cut. The two smaller trees were still standing. There is now one col ored man looking for another job. | DO YOU KNOW That the Elliott-Fisher Type writer Company was one of the first industries in the country to inaugurate the "efficiency vaca tion" plan? FINANCING AMERICAN' TRADE [From the New York Sun.] Our bankers are reaching out in the right direction for realization of the commercial opportunity of the war. In all likelihood the loan just nego tiated for the Canadian Government, in which is Involved $45,00,000, and starting with one and two year notes which may be converted into twenty year bonds, is but the beginning of ex tensions of -large credits to foreign countries. Operations of this sort have been going on for about half a year to an aggregate of $300,000,000, more or les3, preliminary* to the real work of co-ordinating our finance and commerce in such a way that the unprecedented International trade in which we have been engaged can be promoted and maintained. The new Canadian loan illustrates how utterly remote from an American standpoint is the standpoint of the alien propagandists whom we have too much tolerated. They will assert that American money is to finance the war, thus clearly demonstrating that their reasoning is controlled by for eign sympathies exclusively. The Canadian loan is not at all a contri bution to the financing of the war. It is simply a transaction for the furth erance of our own export trade and but a small instalment of the financ ing which wet must do to keep our trade going and growing in these times when our is the only country that has surplus goods to sell abroad, the means to produce them, and the capital to enable other nations to patronize our markets during the strain of the war. CITY WITH A FUTURE FAVORED [From the St. Louis Republio.] The average man is not ambitious to cast in his lot with a city that is reeled up and finished, no matter how neatly reeled it may be, or how per- _ feet the finish is. This Nation, speak- • ing generally, is in the constructive stage. The people of America have a fancy for places where there is "some thing doing." They like the towns where the big transformations are be ing made, where the big struggles are going on. A city attracts people by the opportunity it offers to the in dividual. \ CIVIC CLUB Fly Contest June 1 to July 31 5 Cents a Pint Prizes of $5, 52.50 and several SI.OO ones duplicated by Mr. Ben Stronse
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