6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established lSil PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRIXTIH© CO. E. J. STACK POLE President and £ditor-tM-Chirf F. R. OTSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Mnnaging Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 214 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. SggSN. Delivered by carriers at dWWwryiuUl l > six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. Sworn daily average circulation fur the thrw months ending July 31, 1015 ★ 21,084 ★ Average for the year 1014—21.868 Avernse for the year 1013—10.0#3 Average for the year 191^—19,640 Average for the year 1011—17.303 Average for the year 1010—10,281 The above flsnrra are lirt. All re turned, unsold and damaged coptea de ducted. WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4. Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds, the holiday of fools. —Lord Chesterfield. POLITICS IN COUNCIL PARTY politics should have no place In City Council. The fool ishness of injecting petty feel ings and selfish ambitions into the affairs of the city was never better demonstrated than yesterday, when, after a long delay and bitter wrangling over the completion of the River Front the two minority councilmen were compelled to yield the untenable position they had been striving in vain for weeks to hold and to agree to the appropriation of money with which to finish the work. Everybody realized rrom the very ttart what the end would be. Even the minority members knew their stand was hopeless. They played j cheap party politics in the hope of j strengthening their candidacies for re-, election by holding up public work on | the plea of economy and regard fori 'law. Nobody would for a moment ) ■urge a public official to do anything j irregular, much less juggle public imonies. But if there was a doubt in 'the mind of the mayor or the super intendent of finance as to whether or not there was sufficient in the regular funds to complete Improvements that they knew in the end would have to be completed, certainly then It was the I duty of his honor, as the presiding! officer of council, and of the superin-1 tendent of finance to look Into the' financial condition of the city and to suggest ways and means of procuring the necessary sum from otner sources. Instead, they continued to place obstacles in the way of "the three majority councilmen at e*ery turn and it is to the efforts of Commissioners Bowman, Taylor and Lynch that the balances were found with which to complete the work. What a splendid city government we should have if sueh petty differences as these could be eliminated; if public officials could forget their own per tonal feelings and ambitions to con duct the affairs of the city purely on a business basis, as they are sworn to do. In the end littleness never pays and finally common sense and tl % right prevail, just as they did yester day, but in the interval much precious time is lost and no good whatever is accomplished. It is to be hoped that the results of yesterday's meeting will be a lesson as to the futility of such petty scheming and,that we shall have no more of i«. PROPER PREPARATION THE whole country is aroused as never before over the subject of national preparedness against the attack of some covetous and unscrupulous foreign power. We as a people have come to a sudden realizationthat we are as a sheep among wolves, a rich man among thieves. Hudson Maxim sized up the situation very well before the Chamber of Commerce a few days ago when he likened the United States among the nations to a New Jersey countryman alone on the Bowery at midnight with both hands full of hundred dollar bills. "It is not a ques tion of whether that countryman will keep his money or lose it; It Is simply a question of which gunman sees him first," is the way he put it. Hundreds of college students, realiz ing the seriousness of our position and the necessity of a military re serve, have been attending the sum mer military school at Plattsburg, and the}' will be followed by a train ing camp for businessmen, the total enrollment for which to date has reached 1,015. The last day for en rolling Is Thursday, and by that time the army officers In charge of the camp believe they will have 1,200 men enrolled from all parts of the country. There will be bank presidents, doc tots. lawyer*, brokers, engineers and many others, mostly college gradu ates who will shoulder a gun and be instructed in all branches of the land service so that they might some day become comnilssionad officers If an emergency required the raising of a large volunteer army in this country. There is nothing war-like In this preparation. The military reserve so created will never be used by an un tprtsclplMl ambitious ot bloodthirstyi [WEDNESDAY EVENING, J autocrat to carry an unjust war against a helpless Belgium, for the simple reason that the government of the United States is so constituted that such an eventuality would be lmpos alble without the consent of the peo ple, who are peace-loving and disposed to deal honestly in their international relations even to the point of their own detriment. In training our young men we are simply doing for the coun try what the householder does when he purchases a revolver to protect his valuables from burglars. A military reserve In this country is our Insur ance against international burglary, and like all forms of Insurance It will cost something. But it will pay for itself. Any able bodied boy or man Is the better for the discipline and exercises of mili tary education. They tend to moral rectitude and physical well being, for no man can excel as a soldier unless he is mentally alert and bodily able to do his share of work. .. Which brings one naturally to the thought that whatever may be said of the mind-tralnlng the pupil receives in our public schools, his physical training has been neglected most woe fully. Some years ago this newspa per was instrumental In the organiza tion of a cadet corps In the Central high school. Partly by reason of a careless Instructor and partly because the Idea appears to. have been in ad vance of the times, the organization was discontinued. Conditions have changed, however, and it is probable that a revival of the military feature of high school life now would be met with an enthusiastic response on tho part of the student body. No possible harm could come from such instruc tion and doubtless It would be produc tive of much good. Harrisburg has set an example to cities throughout the country In many other respects. Why not In this? JOHNN Y APPLESEED ABOUT a century ago Jonathan : Chatman left his orchard and little farm at Pittsburgh and started on his mission of service to his fellow men. He determined as a re sult of the yearning of the emigrants, who stopped at his place on this way over the trail westward to enjoy his apple orchard, to give his life to the J planting and nursery of orchards j among the settlements of the Middle West. He was then a young man and j for fifty years he continued this work, establishing small nurseries and set ting out orchards all over Ohio, In diana, Michigan and Illinois. He gathered seeds from the pomace at the cider mills every year and with his bag of seeds he tramped the for ests and endured the privations and perils of the early pioneer days on his remarkable mission. Says one writ ing of him: Half mystic, half poet, a lover of nature and of his fellow men, his long life of solitary and perilous wande'-lng always in the van of migrat' >n wns consecrated to the blott-oming of the wilderness. Some of his trees are believed to be standing to-day and the lesson of his life is the lesson of service to our fel low men. It Is likewise a suggestion for the thousands of automobile tour ists traveling up and down the high ways of Central Pennsylvania. Let the life of "Johnny Appieseed," as Chat ruan came to be known among the In dians and settlers, be an inspiration. Let every tourist as he passes in and i out among the hills and valleys of this part of Pennsylvania make it a rule to carry with him packets of flower] and fruit seeds, scattering these where ! they will grow and beautify the land scape. We have been a destructive people long enough. Waste for a century has characterized our development as a nation. Let us follow the example of I "Johnny Appleseed" and do our part | in making beautiful not only with the ! blossom of the apple trees, but flowers and plants, the highways and byways of this imperial Commonwealth. Harrisburg is a good place to start the movement and may we not hope that our automobile tourists and all others will take fire from the life of the Inspired orchardist and frontiers man of one hundred years ago. REAL PATROLMEN UNDER orders just issued by Police Chief Joseph B. Hutchi son. Harrisburg will have police men on the beats who are real patrol men. The Chief has issued strict orders that the officers keep close tabs on all law violations, that special attention be given houses wherein vice of any sort is* suspected, and that all such violations, together with petty thievery reported, shall be turned in to head quarters when the men go off duty. The order has been issued, Colonel Hutchison explains, because "the pa trolmen frequently tell persons mak ing complaints to come to the office." Naturally many people are loth to make a trip to headquarters when the losses involved are inconsequential. The result is that many offenders es cape and many live outside the pale of the law In comparative safety. To end this the Police Chief says of his men: "In the future they must take the complaint, report It to the office, and get busy inquiring Into complaints. In the future, where a prosecution is made on Information received, the pptrolman who has failed to do his duty will be punished accordingly." In every up-to-date city of the coun try the patrolmen make dally reports on the many minor details of police duty. The aiding of a child to find its home, the breaking of an electric light globe on the city streets, accidents which on the face of things are trivial, ere all reported in black and white to the officer in charue. The wisdom of this procedure has been shown time and time again. No one knows when a child is struck by a bicycle, for instance, and sufTers slight abrasion of the skin on hand or face, whether serious consequences! from blood poisoning will result or not. | The instant reporting of a child found ■ to headquarters may save a worrying '■ mother hours of anguish. There are j dozens of other similar duties which I every patrolman is expected to per-1 form la cities Uke Philadelphia and' New York which officers In many of the smaller towns would think entirely outside their Jobs. Byt In Harrlsburg the Police Chief bat the right ldea > and from now on the city's patrolmen will be "more than figureheads," to quote. Colonel Hutchison again. The seriousness of neglect of these minor duties was shown In a recent case at the Harrlsburg Hospital. A girl was struck by an automobile at Third and Market streets and seriously Injured. Through the neglect on the part of the police to get the names oC the principals and of the Harrlsburg Hospital to get the name of the man who brought the Injured girl to the Institution and who happened to know the name of the automobile owner. It took three days before the girl's family found out whose car struck her. And they found out then only because tho owner himself called to effect a settle ment. Under the new order of things In the police department such Instances will not occur. 1 TELEORAPH PERISCOPE —Well, yesterday you were begging for a little wind, weren't you? —After this war Is over there will be quite a few munition manufacturers turning their shrapnel case mills Into plowshare factories. —The Russian Bear certainly has been hugging Warsaw. —Before going on vacation It might be well to figure out how ycu are going to finance next winter's coal pile. —At all events fishermen may take consolation in the fact that there will be more fish in the river this Fall than would have been the case If summer fishing had been as good as usual. —Cupid may not be an expert tennis player, but he does know how to serve a love game. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR] WHERE HOG RAISING IS PROFIT ABLE To the Editor of the Telegraph: Hog raising In Pennsylvania, If carried on in the right way, can be made a profitable business. I learn ed this recently during a visit to Astola Ranch, fourteen miles southwest of Johnstown, in Somerset county. Hearing much about this money making project, I was curious to know how hogs were raised for a profit. Having arranged with the manager and treasurer of the National Hog Company, owner of this ranch, I was given every opportunity to see each department, and have It ex plained to me. Mr. Wehn gave me every courtesy possible. He is a Very busy man, but not too busy to take care of visitors who manifest Inter est In this enterprise. Just before we reached the ranch in an automobile, Mr. Wehn stopped a few minutes to show me a beautiful stretch of land, covering 19,000 acres. This land is In control of the Na tional Hog Company, owners of the Astola Hog Ranch. There is ample room for extension of this business. "Arriving at the ranch I found lit tle hogs, big hogs, white and red hogs, enough almost to feed a Euro pean array. Contrary to expectation, I found the ranch a clean odorless place. The land occupied was for merly owned by a lumber company. The big timber had been cleaned off and small trees were growing all over the place. These young trees offered many shady places for the hogs. About the place are a number of buildings, and around the ranch are dwellinghouses, barn and everything necessary for a busy little town. There is also a schoolhouse not far away. The barn is used for taking care of the sows and their Utter. I found hundreds of little piss being cared for by their mothers. The Utters numbered from six to twelve. At pres ent there are 850 breeders on the ranch. AH the very best stock. The National Hog Company has been of fered from $5 to 1800 for some of their male hogs. On the ranch there is a total of 2,000 head, including 1,100 shoats and pigs. This is a remarkable showing as the raising of hogs at this place started in October, 1914. There are buildings for sheltering the hogs, a pool for dipping. At times this pool is diluted with ingredients to pre vent vermin from attacking the hogs. A State veterinary surgeon inspects the ranch four and Ave times each year, vaccinates the hogs and sees that it is up to sanitary regulations. A mountain stream runs through I the place furnishing fresh water daily. This is an important feature of this ranch. The hogs are supplied with the best feed that can be purchased. Each department has its special feed, the little ones receiving special at tention in food. The hogs are all In good healthy condition and never get too fat. My visit impressed me with the belief that hog raising is a good investment for one that wishes to make money in an honorable way. SAMUEL. PLOUGH. THB ANNIVERSARY OF WAR [From the New York Sun.] The end of the first year finds the major belligerents variously and per haps characteristically engaged in pro cess of reminiscence and prospective reflection: The Teutons, who seem—we speak without Intent of irreverence—to have least need of Divine support of their arms, thank God for special direction In their "defensive war.' The British, who have not scored the most brilliant successes in the field, are not proclaiming their share In the Divine patronage, but, no less confident than their foes, are taking vows to yield only in death or utter destruction. Brave little Belgium, symbolist by nature, expresses herself in the wear ing of a badge: a "scrap of paper." France sends a message of courage to the firing line. The Pope appeals, to ears that are deaf. Russia glorifies her patriots, redeclares her Innocence, and. In Duma assembled, prepares to supply her guns with shells afresh, while the Caa- sends an anniversary message to the troops: We shall suc ceed, for we have the blessing of the Almighty. And Juggernaut rolls on. YES, THEY ASKED HIM When William H. Crane was younger and less discreet he bad a vaulting ambition t<#play "Hamlet." So with his first profits he organized his own company and he went to an inland Western town to give vent to his ambition and "try it on." When he came back to New York a group of friends noticed that the actor appeared to be much downcast. "What's the matter. Crane? Didn't they appreciate It?" asked one of his friends. "They didn't seem to," laconically answered the actor. "Well, didn't they give any encour agement? Didn't they aak you to come before the curtain?" persisted th« friend. "Ask me?" answered Crane, "ilan, they dared mot" nXIUUSBtrRG TELEGRAPH *7 > ottttC4- ut 'PeKKO^t^anXa By the Ex-Csommttterm*n | 1 Leaders of Pennsylvania's Inhar monious and disunited Democracy are expected to spend a couple of days in Harrisburg and vicinity to discuss the unpleasant reports which the scouts have been turning- lip in their visits to various counties in the last few weeks. National Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer, State Chairman Roland S. Morris and Secretary J. T. Keenan, of tho Philadelphia annex to the State windmill, are reported as about to visit this city and to confer with Vance C. McCormick. For some time Keenan has been roaming about the State gathering information which he has ready for the chiefs and it is probabla that the effect of certain contests on next year's campaign will be discussed. It is regarded as certain that McCor mick will take a prominent part in the national committee's work in this State and both Palmer and Morris expect to be busy telling how they will be running the Wilson campaign for re nomination at least until the State committee meets. Keenan spent a few days here and made flying visits to Cumberland and other counties. It is a well-known fact that the Democratic bosses are miffed over the clashing ambitions of the Democrats who seek Judicial honors in Cumberland county and have found some of the local leaders, like Post master Goodyear, of Carlisle, who wculd like to have but one candidate in the fleld. The Rupley candidacy is taken as a mere midsummer flyer and few think that even if the, Democrats did get together on a candidate they could do anything against Sylvester Sadler. Hence, the Democratic State leaders do not want to make a bad showing in Cumberland on judge and would like to have only one candidate. Keenan is reported to have had a long powwow with John W. Wetsel and found that the Democrats are split up the bftck and that the blterness engen dered'this campaign will last for years. The Piddle people are said to privately admit that there Is no hope of doing anything against Sadler and are deter mined to put Wetzel down and out as a contender at the primaries. —The Philadelphia mayoralty con test is rapidly assuming proportions which make it of State-wide interest because of the effects upon next vear and the belief that men high in'the State administration may be drawn into it. The interest which was taken in the Allegheny county rumpus a few weeks ago appears, to have swung to the eastern end of the State, although the results of the Allegheny countv primary may be quite extensive. These two big counties hold great possibili ties for next year for the Republicans, just as battles under way among" Demo crats In Lackawanna, Luzerne and other counties may mean much for Democrats. —ln regard to the Philadelphia mayoralty the Philadelphia Inquirer, which Is always well informed as to what is going on in Republican affairs, says: "A clean-cut contest between Congressman William S. Vare and Con gressman J. Hampton Moore for the Republican nomination for mayor would appear to be the inevitable out come of an announcement by Mr. Vare of compliance with the request of the delegation of labor leaders who have urged him to become a candidate. Mr. Vare yesterday gave no Intimation of what course he will pursue. Lieu tenants of the Vares, however, con tinued to predict that he will make another attempt to gain the mayoralty and some of them are reported to lie lining up division carriers to prepare for a battle royal at the primaries. In the event of Mr. Vare's becoming a candidate. Congressman Moore is looked upon as the logical choice of the opponents of Mr. Vare, as well as of many citizens who are advocating the nomination of a candidate not allied with either the McNichol or the Vare camps. Congressman Moore has been a free lance politically in local affairs. —The Philadelphia Record In a resume of the intensely interesting political situation in that city says. "Included among other gossip de veloped by the situation was a well defined report that Congressman Vare having demonstrated that he was a decided factor and could run if he wanted to, would withdraw personally but throw his support to a distinctively \ are candidate. Tax Receiver Ken drick. State Senator William Wallace Smith and Judge John M. Patterson were prominently mentioned as Vare possibilities in this connection. While there were reports of new candidates being groomed by the Vares, there was talk also of datk horses In the Penrose-McNichol camp. There was a revival in the interest of George H Earle, Jr., during the day, while there was also considerable mention of Judge Charles Y. Audenried, District Attorney Samuel P. Rotan and Re corder of Deeds Ernest L Tustin." DONE PROPERI/Y "How Is it you were so long over your work to-day" „ "Sure, ma'am," replied the servant, you were watching me most of the time." —Judge. Our Daily Laugh »*«.,. NEWS FROM GlJMlf THE TRENCHES AMI / '* Te your o£j■ 'll S an( * tllat WOTUan next door 'till Intermittently. /I /Jw i They exchanged 1 & r fflgoaaip today un tc~.P A/jWf der a flae ot truce. A HORRIBLE THOUGHT. The Germans have a gun that /■' -*■>■ re"jVmM will shoot 27 /.'. Terrible. Just ujlji; Vy imagine what Is Ufl liable to happen jj fji' |jfl if some fool who jj HLB- - * doesn't know It's n —' Qt- sj loaded start S\M monkeying with*. » WHERE, OH, WHERE! By WiBR Dinger Everybody's worried. 'Cause they want to go To to-morrow's circus, But they do not know Where they're going to find It Since the grounds of old. In the form of home-sites. Now are being sold. Everyone's been asking Where the show will be— Here's the Information That will bring much glee To the hearts of parents Who with kids would go, Seneca and Fourth Streets Is the place 'twill show, " , SUMMER SCENES IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA \ v J >• + Jjl (Courtesy Eastman Kodak Company.) AT OYBTKR'S DAM—TIIE SCHOOL BELL IN THE FAR DISTANCE. r UNCLE SAM AND By FREDERIC J. HASKIN L J THE announcement by Secretary of the Navy Daniels of the ap- pointment of a Naval Advisory Beard, composed of men who have "done things" in the world of inven tion, has once more centered attention upon the fact that the United States is the leading nation of the world with respect to inventive ingenuity. It is not an empty boast that "Yankee skill" leads the world, but a fact easily proven, us a glance at the records of the Patent Office of this and other countries will soon show. The United States, with a patent system less than a century old, issued its one millionth patent on August 8, 1911. France, our nearest competitor, has Issued only a little more than half this number, while Great Britain, Germany and the other European countries have still fewer patented inventions. The war abroad has, of course, seri ously impaired the business of creating and patenting new devices in prac tically all the countries of Europe, while it has only stimulated Americans to greater efforts. The average num ber of patents issued daily at the pres ent time is larger than ever before, and there are apparently no bounds to be placed upon the creative genius of the American inventor, for no sooner is one device finished, patented and placed on the market than some one devises something just a little better and a new patent is issued. in this connection it is rather amus ing to note that there is on file at the Patent Office In Washington the letter of the superintendent of the Patent Office, written in 1834. resigning his position because "there was nothing left to patent." This man, who had never dreamed of the telephone or telegraph, the automobile or aero plane, the electric light or moving pic tures. this man who would have con sidered that a person who spoke of sending messages through the air was a hopeless lunatic, and that he who imagined that a gun could shoot a dozen miles with accuracy sufficient to hit a target only a few feet square should be Incarcerated lest he harm his neighbors, voluntarily gave up his lucrative post rather than defraud the government. One has only to glance at the epochal inventions of the last century to see how much the world can and probably will change before 2015. Amerioan Creative Ability And it is because American genius and American creative ability have alwciys been in the forefront of these changes that the Secretary of the Navy decided to form his Advisory Board, appointing thereto men whose names arc. household words and whose inven tions are familiar to everyone. Thomas A. Edison, admittedly the foremost inventor in the world, will head the board, and it is assuredly within the bounds of modest imagine ation that his brain will evolve some machinery of warfare which will be comparable in destructive energy to the constructive force exercised by the incandescent lamp, the moving picture camera and the many other inventions which bear the name of the American wizard. The word Edison has been one to conjure with in times of peace; It is the opinion of Secretary Daniels that it will be no less powerful in time of war. Alexander Graham Bell, the in ventor of the telephone, is another in ventor slated for a position upon the Naval Advisory Board and it is neces sary only to consider of what tremen dous advantage the control of wireless telephonies would be to a nation at war to realize the probable sphere of Bell's activities. Wireless telegraphy has practically relegated the old fashioned system of signaling between warships to the scrap heap. The.per fection of the wireless telephone would entirely do away with signal Hags, save for decorative purposes, and the com mander of a fleet would have all the units of his armada directly under his control and subject to his slightest wish. Wireless telegraphy is rapid, but wireless telephony would be In stantaneous. Others Mentioned Others who have been mentioned foi places upon the Advisory Board are Wilbur Wright, the man who Is credited with having brought the aero plane to Its present state of excellence and ease of control, and Simon Lake, whose work with submarines has placed him at the head of the list with respect to the under-sea craft. At present the American navy is rather deficient with respect to sub marines and its aero fleet is smaller than that of any first-class power In the world. But this condition will probably not maintain long after the Naval Advisory Board gets under way and it is almost certain that th« gov ernment will have the exclusive use of' AUGUST 4, 1915. a number of remarkable achievements in the science of warfare. Another function of the board will be to pass upon and to stimulate in ventions by men who have never been heard of in the world of science. Since the announcement of the appointment or the Advisory Board the Navy De partment has been deluged by a flood of inventions from all sections of the country. The great majority of these, of course, will be worthless, but there will possibly be some among them which possess at least the germ of an important idea which may be devel oped by one of the master minds of the board. The old principle of "two heads being better than one" will be here exemplified, only instead of there being two heads there will be half a dozen or more, for the Navy Depart ment hopes to obtain the services of at least six men of the highest rank as inventors. The board will not only work out Its own ideas, but it will en deavor to assist other inventors to per fect their plans. this theory becomes an estab lished fact, and there appears to be no valid reason why it should fail. It will be only another instance of the repe tition of history. America has not alcne the steamboat, the cotton gin, the electric lamp, the telephone, the telegraph and many other peaceful in ventions to her credit. She also leads the world in the perfection of new ma chines of war, as a glance at history will show. Wooden vessels of war had been in vogue since the earliest days of history up to the time of the historic battle between the Monitor and the Merri mac in Hampton Roads, a battle which sealed the doom of this typo of war craft. According to many experts, I among them Sir Percy Scott, the Eng lish authority on matters pertaining to the navy, the submarine has sound ed the knell of the surface battleship as effectually as did the Monitor send all the wooden ships to the scrap heap. Put here, again, the superiority of , American creative genius makes itself seen, for the submarine is quite as much a product of American skill and ingenuity as was the first steamboat or the Monitor. Holland built the first modern submarine and Simon" Lake is responsible for the majority of the im provements upon this type of craft— so that the United States may truly be I said to have been responsible for all the great changes in naval warfare during the past century. The improvement of the aeroplane by Professor Langley and the Wright brothers is too well known to require comment other than to state that the aeroplane now used in warfare is es sentially the same as that which the Wrights brought to its present state of usefulness. The sea realm of Mars and the air which covers it have there fore been successfully invaded by Yankee ingenuity. With respect to warfare upon land it is necessary only to recall the fact that Richard Gatling, a North Carolina school teacher, not only perfected ma chinery to sow cotton and rice, but astonished the world with the first ma chine gun—the famous Gatling gun of the Civil War—while Colonel Der inger gave us the vest pocket pistol that bears his name and which was the immediate progenitor of the mod ern automatic. The disappearing gun use in coast defenses, and the giant howitzers which played havoc with the defenses of IJege and Antwerp are also of American origin, as are many or the smaller machines of war. It will therefore be seen that If American genius merely lives up' to tho traditions and achievements of the Pa«t •"will more than enable the United States to protect Itself against aggression or invasion. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT "I Ty Cobb says he never drinks, but it is thought he does not obect to see ing the bases full.—Columbia State. Thaw is sane, In which respect ht has a tremendous advantage over some millions of his admirers.—Boston Tran script. Caruso Is the last man we Imaglnea Italy would exempt, considering his unequaled experience in charging.—Co lumbia State. The stork has brought a lusty baby boy to Mrs. Walter Johnson. It is un derstood that he has a very swift bawl. —Boston Transcript. Count Okuma's apprehension for India In case Germany wins will be appreciated In China.—Washington Post. Just because the President works his own typewriter, von Jagow mustn't think he takes dictation.—Columbia Stat*. lEimring (Eljat Scarcely a flay passes without Its testimony from some distinguished visitor regarding the value and char acter of the public Improvements In this city which are to be th® subject of the bier September celebration. George W. Perkins, the distinguished financier of New York city and chair man of the Palisades Commission of New York state, was crossing the river bridge at Market street on a recent visit when he asked the driver to stop and exclaimed: "Who was responsible! for that treatment of your river front? That Is the most attractive scheme I have ever seen and It Is a suggestion for our problem along the Palisades on the Hudson!" William T. Ellis, the well-known religious writer, was in Harrlsburg a few minutes last Saturday and this Is what he said: "You have a beautiful city. I have heard much about it and now have had a glimpse mvself. lam coming back to visit the Capitol and spend some time in looking about Har riaburg." These are but samples of the dally testimony to the wisdom of what has been accomplished hero in a few years. • • » The route laid out for the tour to "See Pennsylvania first" which Gov ernor Martin G. Brumbaugh will lead from Harrlsburg in the first week of October is now being gone over and everything about it noted. The route was worked out for the Governor be fore he went to the encampment of the national guardsmen at Mount Gretna last month. Highway Commis sioner H. J, Cunningham and Chief Engineer W. D. Uhler having studied the road problem after figuring out where the Governor desired to lead the party. The route was then marked out on a map and the Governor made a few changes so that historic or scenic spots would be touched and the Itin erary was made. A few days ago W. H. D. Hall, the statistician of the Highway Department, started out in one of the department cars to mark the route. A complete report regard ing it will be laid before the Governor on his return from Maine and he will then begin making up the party. • • • These are the busiest kind of days for the State officials in charge of the making of the bonds to cover State de posits and State Treasurer R. K. loung is making searches of records so that he will have Information on which to base estimates. By the new system under way every deposit of State money, whether the account of a hospital or the contingent fund of a department of the State government, is to be protected by a bond. This new order Is now being worked out and will not only multiply the number of bonds, but the size of the security. In many instances companies which have State deposits at interest have also accounts of institutions and the funds of departments. » • • The construction of the concrete walls and floors of the new Graupner bakery at Tenth and Market streets is attracting much attention as the big gang of workmen pushes along the filling of the wall and floor spaces. The pillars are formed by huge cylin ders which have capitals like a morn ing glory. The work is going ahead as long as daylight" lasts and it is expected to get the building under roof long before snow flies and not to do any concrete work after cold weather sets in, as was the case with the Emerson- Brantingham building. • » • John P. Dohone.v, investigator fa accidents of the Public Service Coi*n» mission, is getting to learn much about the State. He has been investigating most of the grade crossing accidents and now is taking testimony for the commission between accident probes. He is at Indiana to-day listening to a fight between the Chamber of Com merce and the railroads. Every day or so someone starts something about some idle iron or steel establishment going to be fired up right away on "big war orders" and there is a lot of talk about the extraordinary rush. Yesterday after noon a couple of men were talking about the revival of industry and one man said that every plant in this county was going full tilt. There are now six idle blast furnaces in Dau phin county and some mills and other works. Lebanon also has some idle plants and there are some in the Juniata valley. The war orders are very real, but they are not as large as stated, and by no means general in the trade. • • • John W. Dougherty, former general superintendent of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, is one of the high offlcersof the Crucible Steel Company, the Western Pennsylvania concern which is much in the public eye at present. Mr. Dougherty has been with the company for several vears and contributed materially to bringing it up. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE " —William A. Law. the Philadelphia banker, is president of the American Bankers' Association, which will meet in Seattle this month. —A. E. Turner, prominent Phlladel phian, has been spending the summer in the Poeonos. —lsrael M. Bertolet, of Berks coun ty, has been elected president of the Bertolet Family Association. —Edward Mcllvain. of the Beth lehem Steel Company, is giving assist ance in establishment of dye works in this country. —Thomas H. Greer, the Butler law yer. has returned from & visit to the northwestern states. —John Williams, prominent In the organization of iron workers, is a can didate for Pittsburgh council. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg still has some idle furnace capacity, but that It will probably be going before long? ' Furs in Summer Time Summer furs are the rage this summer. Though tho lokesmlths have poked fun at the idea the wo men have retorted that it is Jost as sensible for them to wear fluffy boas as it is for men to "keep thick coats on." And there are "styles" and "styles" In the summer furs as a matter of course. You will And them described from time to time In the index of "fashion" the advertising columns of the Telegraph. In summer or winter it pars to read the advertising In the Tele graph. < ( SECOND FLY CONTEST of the Civic Club for 1915. August l*t to September 20th. Five cents a pint tor all files, many prises tn sold. L
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