8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Eslablului tlu PUBLISHED BT THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK POLE Prttidtni and Editor-in-Chnf F. R. OYSTER Stcrtiary QUS M. STEINMETZ Managing 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 Dallies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story A Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago. 111., Allen A Ward. Delivered by carriers at <Brass:e-zfisnE> Six centf. 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 dally average circulation for the three months ending July 31, 1015 it 21,084 Average for the year 1014—21,858 Average for the year 1013—19,903 Average for the year 1012—19,641) Average for the year 1011—17»r>OS Average for the year 1010—10,261 The above figures are net. All i'e tarned, unsold and damaged copies de ducted. SATU RDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7. The way to make the best of any sit uation is to make it better. —Cope. THAT MILITARY CORPS f A CORRESPONDENT, in a long letter to the Telegraph, object ing to a recent editorial in this newspaper urging the organization of a military corps in connection with the Harrisburg high school, says: You cannot get away from the fact that such a corps as you sug gest would be a step toward com pulsory military service, for edu cation is compulsory in this State and therefore the drill which you recommend would be compulsory. You are evidently one of those who »t»nd for a big army in this coun try of freedom from any but volun tary military service and I tell you that is a step toward acknowledg ing the failure of liberty as we know it. England is facing that condition right now through some fault of government or of ner peo ple to feel the patriotic thrill that has always sent our own young men to arms when needed. This ia hardly a fair statement of the case. For instance, it might be easily possible to have a volunteer corps in the high schools, just as some courses are elective in the high schools. Beside, the compulsory school rge does not reach the'high school. Even those who are for "peace at any price" cannot deny a certain value —physical, mental, or even moral— to military drill. Nobody should de preciate the work of those men who have given their lives to the upbuild ing of the character of boys in mili tary institutes. To act together, to act promptly, to obey orders all these may constitute the best of train ing for young men. All this has a value wholly outside of war. It has nothing to do with unwilling con scription. Enforced military service of grown men bears the same relation to mili tary discipline of willing students that stoking a furnace bears to building one's own campfire in a forest. The successful military school has sym pathetic teachers, men to whom the end of the work is character-build ing. It deals with boys at that age In which order and obedience furnish the best lessons. It is as far •s possible from the atmosphere of barracks and brothels, the chief fea tures of the idle standing army. This applies in a large measure to such & corps as the Telegraph recommends. Knowing how to use a gun is one thing, and carrying it about con tinually is another. That Is mainly the difference between national pre paredness and a big standing army, whfch nobody in his senses wants. HAVE REASON TO CELEBRATE THERE is widespread interest throughout the city in the com ing September celebration. Har risburg is awake as never before to the importance of the civic improve ment which has attracted the atten tion of a nation. No city has done so admirably in every direction as the Capital of this great State during the last fourteen years. Those who once lived here and are now residing elsewhere return to Harrisburg as typical Rip Van Winkles. They can hardly believe that what they see is not a dream. In stead of an overgrown borough they find a progressive, wide-awake and ambitious city. It is for this reason that our own people, now recognizing the value of what has been done, are ready to stand shoulder to shoulder in a great civic celebration which will still further spread the fair reputation of Harris burg and expand its influence for higher civic ideals. ENCOURAGING INVENTIONS MUCH is expected of the newly constituted national board of Invention and doubtless much Will be realized, but, as Waldempr Kaempffert, managing editor of the Scientific American, points out, good results will depend most likely not so much upon the encouragement of in ventors as the encouragement of in- Tentions. That inventors should be encouraged no one would be foolhardy enough to deny. When we remember that the Maxim machine gun, the Wright flying machine, the Janney gun-elevating mechanism, the Lewis gun, Harveylzed armor—to mention only a few great invention* were frowned down by SATURDAY EVENING, ■ American government officials and ac cepted after they had found favor In the sight of supposedly less progres sive governments, we nave reason enough to applaud any sensible meas ure which will enable us to make the most of our national ingenuity and which will insure at least a sym pathetic hearing for the inventor. Most of the revolutionising mechan isms which have made the modern army and navy possible, which have reduced the soldier to the level of a machinist, sprang from the brains of civilian engineers and inventors of the Edison, Lake, and Wright type. Naval and military officers developed their crude Instruments of destruction to their present pitch of deadly per fection. It 1», the same in industry. Pioneer Inventions are rarely practical in a commercial sense; they must be moulded into usable form by trained engineers with minds less Imaginative than those of a Bell or a Morse. And the history of every one of these in ventions, whether they relate to a new way of shaving chin bristles or a new way of blowing a regiment to atoms at a distance of five miles, is the usual history of a bitter, heart-rendering struggle against self-sufficiency and prejudice. But will a board of inventors be more sympathetic than a board of admirals? It may be doubted. Ericcson submitted the plans of his "Monitor" to Napoleon, only to have them re jected by Dupuy de Lome, one of the most brilliant, imaginative intellects that ever flowered in France. Why? Because Dupuy de Lome was himself the inventor of an Ironclad. Will an American Inventor of torpedoes, who happens to sit on the Daniels' hoard, view with enthusiasm plans of a torpedo better than his? own? Inspired by Edison, tne Secretary of the Navy speaks of establishing a laboratory in which mentorlus inven tions may be tested and developed. That is the one real constructive sug gestion that has come out or this tumult. There, working under the guidance of the master minds of such men as Edison, the great defensive forces of the country will be devised. THE COST OP THE WAR THE end of the first year of the European war brings with it no indications that any of the belligerents are weakening In resolu tion or running short of men or money. A review of the financial drain upon the various countries at .war proves, especially interesting at tnis time, showing, as it does, the gigantic cost of war. Excluding Italy, the war roans have aggregated approximately $15,500,- 000,000 for all the other belligerents. To this must be added the total in debtedness of the warring nations at the outbreak of the war, including the debts of the several States of the German Empire, which was ap proximately $23,000,000,000, and the resulting $48,500,000,000 shows what a stupendous burden these countries are now bearing. The cash expenditures of Great Britain are larger than those of any other country, as service in the army and navy is voluntary and the pay and allowances are much higher than in the continental countries. In March the extraordinary expenditures of Great Britain were stated to be about $10,000,000 a day, but the Chancellor of the Exechequer recently stated that they had reached $15,000,000 and were still rising. The expenditures of the Gerpian Government are probably next to those of Great Britain. The Government has realized $3,490,000,000 by means of two loans, which It is understood will carry the war into the coming Fall, but as its expenditures have, been growing, it is probable that they are now as much as $10,000,000 per day. Altogether the estimate of $61),- 000,000 per day for the outlays of all the governments engaged In the con flict is seen not to be improbable, but on the other hand quite probable. The sums are staggering, but they will shrink into insignificance com pared with those that will represent Europe's Indebtedness if this blood madness is continued for another year or two. THE REFRIGERATED CHURCH WE have heard much of "coldness in the church" as a bar to at tendance, but now comes the Rev. Dr. Daugherty, formerly of Har risburg. attracting congregations to his Sunbury church by means of elec tric fans. The experiment is being watched by pastors elsewhere who have been unable to keep their pews filled in hot weather. But for all that the Idea of a re frigerated church is not new. It took the western progressiveness of Orange, Texas, to first utilize the idea in mak ing the church attractive and comfort able upon a hot Sunday. A refrigerating plant has been set up in a small building just back of the church. Cold brine pipes lead from It to the basement of the church, where Is Installed a big ven tilating fan. The fan draws the air through a water spray, which removes all dust) The air is then passed into the refrigerating pipes, and goes up to the registers, which distribute it throughout the auditorium. This arrangement lowers the tem perature of the church twenty degrees below that out of doors on a hot sum mer day. In winter, the same pipes are used to hold the steam which heats the building. The economy and efficiency of this plant are due to the inventive genius of the pastor, who designed it and superintended its in stallation. Other churches in town suspend all or part of their services during the hottest weather, but the re frigerated church keeps open and has more than Its normal attendance; be cause it attracts many members of other churches not so well equipped for comfort. The Rev. Dr. Daugherty Is on the right track, but he should not forget that while electric fans may take peo ple into church they will not keep them there. ■ ■ ftUUct U ftcCLKUI By the Ex-Committeeman The time for filing petitions to be candidates for the Judicial nominations to be made this Fall will expire in a little over a fortnight and it Is ex pected that there will be the usual eleventh-hour rush to enter paper#. More judicial nominations are to be mode this year than ever before, partly due to the operation of the consti tutional amendments which extended the terms of Judges whose terms would f>» v « expired on the first of January this year. There are three Superior Ccurt judges, six associate judges and one- municipal court judge. Philadel phia will elect the most common pleas judges, having four, and Adams the most associate judges, having two. Very few nomination petitions are on file, although scores have been sent out at the request of committees in charge of campaigns and of candidates themselves. Less <han ten common pleas judge petitions are on file, but there are a dozen papers for associate judge on record at the State Depart ment. Forest county has five candi dates already. Tuesday, August 24, Is the final day for filing petitions for Judicial nomi nations, which must be entered at the office of the Secretary of the Com monwealth. The time for filing pe titions for municipal or county nomi nations, which must be entered with county commissioners, expires on Au gust 31. * * * Edwin M. Abbott, former member of the legislature from Philadelphia, to-day filed a petition to be a candidate for judge of common pleas court No. 2 in Philadelphia. » » •• Democratic State Chairman Roland S. Morris, who spent a few days in this section of the State in conference with Democratic leaders and in an effort to secure some support for liquidation of debts left from the last campaign, is planning to visit a number of the in terior counties. The State chairman is keeping a close line on the judicial contests. • • » The Philadelphia Inquirer In a Washington dispatch says: "Progressives of the country are now engaged in what virtually amounts to a 'stampede' back to the Republican Party is admitted by lead ers of the Democratic Party here, who, have been hoping against hope for a third ticket in the field in 1916 at the Presidential contest, it is admitted now that the only man among the Pro gressive leaders who Is fighting against the general return to tne Republican Party is George W. Perkins, nnancial backer of the Bull Moose. That Col onel Roosevelt will return to the Re publican standard when he beliefs the time most opportune is now re gretfully admitted bj r the Democrats. While it is conceded thnt the men in the Progressive ranks have already re turned to the Republican Party, the whole discussion in politics turns upon the question of what is to be done with the'skeleton organization that still re mains." • • * —Ex-Senator Ernest L. Tustin is be ing backed by almost all factions for renomlnation for recorder of Phila delphia. He seems to be about the only one on whom all are united. It is generally believed tsiat an agree ment upon a mayoralty candidate will be reached in Philadelphia next week. Judge Barratt is being strongly boom ed. —Senator R, V. Farley or Phila delphia's Old Guard, is Deing boomed for nomination for county commis sioner. The reorganization Taction will also have a candidate for the place. —William C. Wilsoi!, an assistant city solicitor of Philadelphia, is a can didate for superior court. A com mittee of lawyers has presented his name. —An organization is being built up in some of the cities or the State to bring about registration of every voter. It is chiefly made up of church men. Branches have been established 'in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. —Charles Palmer of Chester, is be ing boomed for superior court Judge by Prohibitionists. —The friends of J. Henry Williams are making a strong bid for him for superior court nomination. Commit tees are active in half a dozen couj ties. —Frank A. Moore, the new deputy factory inspector, has resigned his place as court crier in Schuylkill county. , 1 TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE " —Circumstances may alter cases hut they do not alter International law, as Germany and England are now finding. .—Japan is as good a friend as she is a staunch enemy. She Is now giving to Russia the big guns she turned on her a few years ago in the Russian- Japanese war. Napoleon Bonaparte has been ap pointed Russian military attache at Italian headquarters. And now we know there is nothing in a name. —lt is reported that Villa is coming to this country to reside. He might take the house next to Bernstorff and thus save the secret service men watch ing two places. —The man with a criminal bent is naturally a crook. —We seem to be getting quite a roast in this Frye case. Our Daily Laugh BT NO MEANS. 4^7^ Do you believe . matches are made jjjtpyV jL In heaven? I Not the kind i\iw 1 •where the heads I I fly off every time I Oil you light 'cm. A NOT VERY ENVIOUS By Wins Dinger I envy not the chap who owns A great big motor car And has the coin to drive It. friend. To points both near and far. I care not that some other chap Can take a trip to shore Or lake or mountain to have fun For, say, two weeks or more. I am not jealous of the one Who doesn't have to work ' As hard as I, no feelings 'gainst Him. in my bosom lurk— The only one I envy is The chap who owns a block Of fifty shares of Bethlehem Steel Company's stock. r BARRISBTJRG tjisS&l TELEGRAPH I BIG IMPROVEMENT IN SOUTH HARRISBURG The entire southern end of Second street has been transformed by the erection of the subway under the tracks of the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company, and Incidentally, one of the most dangerous grade cross ings In the city, has been abolished. The view of the subway in the etching is gained by standing opposite the site of the new Pennsylvania railroad freight station In Second street and looking north toward Market Square. ( In the Land Where Cannon Died By Frederic J. Haskin L HAD you forgotten that Uncle Sam has an armed force of a hun dred men sitting upon the lid of that most revolutionary' of the Latin Americas, Nicaragua? Had it slipped your mind that this handful of marines is in the far interior with but a thread of a railroad connecting it with the coast .and then but an oc casional steamer from the outside world making a landing. This little band of men from the United States has been stationed at Managua for three years. Matters have been so deadly quiet In Nlcara- j gua during that period that it has scarcely had a date line in a dis patch. Yet before the marines landed there had been many years of con tinuous revolution. No sooner would one faction come into power than it would break in two and begin to I fight again. There was a desperate I war going on when the American ma- j rines landed. In two weeks, however, all was quiet. It has been quiet ever i since. Nicaragua has enjoyed an era I of peace and prosperity such as it had never known before. Every man in the nation sleeps peacerully in the assurance that his life and his prop erty are safe, and there Is an era of development going forward that not even the present commercial condi tions can disturb. Interesting Experiment This experiment of Uncle Sam in maintaining peace In a Latin Amer ican community Js particularly Inter esting in the face of other delicate situations that now exist. There is Mexico, for instance, which has had five years' of continuous warfare in which one leader after another at tempts to make himself supreme. There is Santo Domingo, in which there are just now many evidences of a new revolution ready to break— Santo Domingo which has not known a peaceful decade in 300 years. Haiti, on the same island, is almost con stantly at war, being now in the throes of its customary summer up rising, with bodies of these same marines ashore to restore peace. But all is quiet in Nicaragua. Since this nation has been enjoying a pe culiar peace and prosperity, may It not be well to look into the peculiar conditions which there exist and see if there is a lesson that may be ap plied elsewhere? Cannon's Execution But a vague impression remains in the public mind of the issue which arose half a decade ago between the United States and President Zelaya of Nicaragua. Theer was a revolu tion in progress down there at that time. Two Americans, Leroy Cannon, of Harrisburg, Pa., and Groce, got mixed up in it, were captured and summarily executed by Zelaya. So dis pleased was the United States that it exerted such pressure as to force President Zelaya to give over the government to a Dr. Madrlz, against whom a new revolution was inaugu rated. which resulted in his being driven out of office by Juan Estrada and Adolfo Diaz. But there was a big, fighting In dian, General Mena, with political am bitions. who started a new revolu tion. and the chaos continued. He terrorized the capital and other cities and his followers hacked a lot of peo ple to pieces with machetes, which are very desperate implements used in cleaning up the jungles. Among those injured and endangered were many foreigners, some of whota were Amer icans. . . The United States decided that, for the protection of its citizens and of American property, and also to avert a seemingly pending great tragedy, it was the part of wisdom to land ma rines and bluejackets at Managua, the capital, a hundred miles inland, and at Granada, at the top of tne continent. It was a spectacular campaign that ensued, and one about which com paratively little has ever been said. Admiral Southerland, an effective of ficer who had reached thac position from the enlisted ranks of the navy, was in command of the Pacific fleet off Corinto, the port of Nicaragua on the west. The battleships, California and Colorado, and the cruisers, Den ver, Cleveland and Annapolis, were lying off shore with marines and bluejackets ready for action. Force Is Landed It was on October 4, 1912, that the order came from Washington to land a force and to proceed inland. It was merely a matter of hours when 2,350 men were ashore and ready for the expedition. They immediately helped themselves to all available stock for the railway, made up long trains, load ed them with ammunition and food and were ready to proceed. The marines, "soldiers and sailors, too," are specially trained for this sort of expedition. There are among them men who can turn their hands to almost any sort of operation. The trains were handled entirely by the military • forces. Engineers from the battleships ran their engines, while marines acted as trainmen. Colonel J. H. Pendleton was In command with Lieutenant Colonel Long and Major Butler under him. Battle From Train The first atop was Leon, a city of 50,000 people. Here the revolu tionists got their first taste of Yan kee fighting. They met the incoming train and started a battle. The Amer icans had machine guns mounted on the front of the train and they mow ed their way into Leon with them. Revolutionists were killed by the score. So deadly was the fire of the Yankee guns that the men took to i their heel*. At Masaya Major Butler walked the streets unaccompanied. A revo lutionist ran out and wildly brand ished a revolver In front of him. Ma jor Butler took It away from him, broke it, threw out the cartridges and gave it back to him, telling him to behave himself. The revolutionists approached an encampment of ma rines and asked them to move to an other point, as the town was to be attacked from this side. ."Go ahead," said the American officer. "Just fire over our heads. We will be asleep." * > The attack was not made. It was a Cayotope Hill that the most desperate fighting occurred and at which point half a dozen Amer icans lost their lives. This was a fortress held by the revolutionists and of which the government troops said there was no chance of capture, for, they said, it had never been taken. Yet at daybreak one morning a ring of marines and sailors crept high up the hillside and were under the very guns of the enemy when dig covered. They charged the breast works, stormed them >and turned their guns on the fleeing revolutionists. The trains were run into Managua and Granada. There the marine offi cers called upon the revolutionists and told them that they might sub mit peacefully or all be killed, as the whole United States government was back of the expedition. The reports of the deadliness of the machine guns and the accuracy with which these young men shot had preceded them. The revolutionists in their strongholds submitted without a fight. A legation Guard Americans were no more popular here than elsewhere in Latin America. The government of Nicaragua, how.- ever, saw a great light. It had fought to come into being and had been steadily fighting to maintain itself. Might not an acquiescence to-the presence of the troops from the great nation to the north aid it in remaining in power. Juan Estrada and Adolfo Diaz believed it would. They welcomed the Americans, and invited the government to station a permanent force at the capital, Mana gua. It could be called a legation guard. Had not Peking such a guard? Why should not Managua? All this happened nearly three years ago. To-day the legation guard amounts to but 100 men. It is un der the command of Captain Pres ley M. Rixey, nephew of Dr. Rixey, who was President McKinley's phy sician. At Corinto on the coast lies the cruiser Annapolis, with 150 ad ditional marines aboard. Not a for midable force to guide the destines of a nation of half a million people. But Nicaragua has come to under stand the American guard. It credits the United States with being in no way a menace. It accepts the action of this government in Cuba as es tablishing a precedent. It believes, at least outwardly, that the United States desires only to serve Nicaragua. It may be that Adolfo Diaz and his as sociates merely accept the American protectorate as a condition offering less danger than would its absence. At any rate the marines have been taken to the bosom of Nicaragua. They are given most comfortable quarters. They participate In all cere monies. They are asked, by the gov ernment, to advise it as to the crea tion of a native guard. They have done much toward developing an effi cient organization of this sort and toward its training. They are leaned upon by the president himself. They are not merely a hundred first-class fighting men. They are the United States and there Is unlimited force back of them. The United States is wondering if Its accomplishment in Nicaragua will cause other such nations to follow the example of that government. That nation is being transformed by the Influence of peace, as have been Cuba and Porto Itlco. It is reaping such blessings as it has never known be fore. It has secured practically un limited credit in the United States. Its customs houses are administered by its chief creditors, who thus pays himself and turns in handsome sums for the operation of the government. Never before has an arrangement so satisfactory been found. U'SITANIA INSPIRES A SONG Welsh Singers Who Were Survivors Sing It in Chautauqua [From the Brooklyn Eagle.] The members of the Gwent Royal Welsh Singers have reorganized on account of the loss of three of their number in the Lusltanla disaster. The organization returns to fulfill engage ments on a tour of Chautauqua meet ings in the West that will take the singers to the Pacific Coast. The most striking feature of their repertoire is a poetic and musical com position descriptive of the scenes that followed the Lusitanla's sinking after receiving a fatal wound from the Ger man torpedo. Both the verse and the music of this composition were written by T. Risca Williams, a baritone singer oi the organization, one of the five survivors. It was while Williams and his four colleagues were singing "Nearer, My God, to Thee," "Abide With Me," "Praise God. from Whom AH Blessings Plow," etc., in response to the requests of men. women and children who were escaping with them on a raft after the Lusitanla went down, that he obtained the inspiration for the poetical and musical composition. This is scheduled on the program as "The Loss of the Lusitanla." Its sing ing requires about fifteen minutes, and those whose have heard it pronounce it both beautiful and stirring. AUGUST 7, 1915. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES" "K." by Mary Roberts Rinehart, novelist, short-story writer, red cross nurse and war correspondent, Hough ton Mifflin Company, $1.35 net. Out August 7. K. LeMoyne has been a famous sur geon. That much Mrs. Rinehart Jets us know soon after her story opens. But why, at the age of thirty,, should he drop out of the world that has known him? Why should he change his name? Why waste the sure and supple hand of a surgeon on the dull ledgers of a gas office? Why come to the little town -where Sidney Page lives? Sidney is a strong, beautiful girl, training hard and happily to become a. nurse. Perhays it is because she is so splendid, so happy, and so young, that life suddenly begins to press in upon her, crowding her Ideals with puzzling, harsh realities. She learns that there are nurses who do not love [their work, doctors who are far from being heroes, love which is not ideal. But life is interesting, for it is crowd ed with sensations. There are friends who love and watch over her—and there is "K." It is a matter for congratulation that Mrs. Rinehart has emphasized In this novel the strongest elements of her success as a story-teller—her keen and sympathetic appreciation of the Joys and troubles of young love. "K." is warmer, richer, truer, than anything she has done before. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR" BLAMES THE TELEGRAPH To the Editor of the Telegraph: Dear Sir: I wish this merely as a personal communication. I enclose a clipping "Letter to the Editor" sign ed by one G. A. Herring. While I perfectly understand that letters to the "Editor" are printed with the writ er's responsibility assumed, yet I can not refrain from taking exception to your printing in a respectable news paper such atheistic, ignorant, Chris tian-insulting jargon. I feel that every decent citizen of our community would voice the same opinion, and hence X feel that it is a pity to let a fool and an Ignoramus have the honor of a space in your columns. I remain, Very truly yours, T. B. JOHNSON. August 5, 1915. MARYSVILLE PASTOR OBJECTS To the Editor of the Telegraph: Marysville, Pa., Aug. 5, 1915. X was surprised to see in your paper this evening a letter to you by G. A. Herring, of 2130 Penn street, asking who should fear a God as described by the Christians. He also stated that in the light of modern science you can not believe the dogma of Christianity. To the first question I wish to say that any man who has any intelligence at all will admit that there is a Supreme Ruler. History tells us of Him. his tory tells us of Christ, history tells us that He was the Son of God. To deny Christ we must deny history. To the second question modern science also teaches of God. Let G. A. Herring go to our leading universi ties and find out what they have to say. What has infidelity done for the moral uplift of the world? It cannot compare with the gospel of Christ. Facts are facts. The best men of our day are Christians. Any man who docs not believe the Bible and In the God the Christians uphold, surely needs an intellectual house cleaning. Any brainless man can deny it, but it takes a man of intelligence to believe and understand the Bible. Yours, THE REV. C. A. PARSON, Marysville, Pa. MR. WANAMAKER'S MIRACLES [Kansas City Star.] . Mr. John Wanamaker ought to hire a good clerk to sift and sort his ideas. Tliey don't hitch up. They are Jum bled. For example: 1. We should have protested against Germany's invasion of Belgium: yet we should recognize its validity by buying Belgium from Germany and paying 100,000,000,000 dollars—enough to make Germany's invasion of Belgium the most profitable venture any nation ever entered. 2. We should prohibit world trade and put a Chinese wall of tariffs and embargoes around us; yet we should resent any effort to keep our ships and commerce and people oft the seas. 3. We should labor always for peace; yet we should assume that Ger many insulted us in her notes v,n the Lusitania incident and should resent these Insults. Just how Mr. Wanamaker would ac complish his miracles, even if they weren't conflicting, is not clear, cither. Mr. Wanamaker had better hire the clerk to set his ideas in order. | EDITORIAL COMMENT One reason that the Russian army feels so perfectly free to make a strate gic retreat is that it has so much traversable territory behind It.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Herman Rldder characterises the German replly as "sound." and for once we find ourselves in full agreement.— Columbia State. Mr. von Jagow aems to have thought that what we wanted to know especi ally was how wicked England Is—Ohio State Journal. Evervthing suggests that the Mexi can leaders would much rather light for a Constitutional Government than to get one. —Chicago Herald. When Colonel Roosevelt' decided to support Hi Johnson, of California, for President the Johnson forces were doubled.—New York Sun. I Ebmtttg dljat The semimonthly pay distribution In now in Cull swing on Capitol Hill and the State Government Is paying Its at taches on the first and fifteenth of the month just like a manufacturing es tablishment, although most of the chiefs of departments are being paid on a monthly basis. Thus far twenty ,one of the departments have asked for semimonthly paydays and approxi mately 625 checks are being drawn for payment on the first and fifteenth of v each month. Probably as many more Jfe are being paid on the monthly basis and some few at less frequent Inter vals, according to request. The monthly checks are given out on the first of the month covering the pre vious thirty or thirty-one days. At first there were comparatively few people asking for the semimonthly pay distribution, but it became popular and close to 1,850 checks are now drawn instead of something like 1,200 under the old monthly system. In ad dition ths State is paying out thou sands of checks for various objects, like bounties for scalps of animals, which were formerly handled through the departments. The business of the Treasury, which has always been heavy, has been considerably Increased in the last few years and will be still greater next year under operation of new laws. • • • Guides at the State Capitol say that they can always tell when there Is an excursion at Hershey or some point near this city. They can tell because of the number of visitors to the Cap itol. The people take advantage of their proximity to the Capitol to pay a visit to the building. This week there were scores of people from Reading registered at (the big build ing. * • * Farmers at the city markets this morning said that the loss to the cornfields as a result of the storms that swept over the State lately will run very heavy and that one of the most promising crops will be seriously curtailed in some sections. Whole fields in this district have been beaten almost flat. • • • I The annual pilgrimage of the Engi neers' Society of Pennsylvania, one of the big events of the year among engineers of the State, will be held on September 18 this year. The plan now is to see Philadelphia, including the shipyards, League Island, Baldwin Locomotive Works, the filter plants and a boat trip on the harbor. A number of Harrisburgers will take the trip. • • • The Wild Life League of Pennsyl vania, of which a number of promi nent Harrisburgers are members and who are helping along its work, calls attention In its current number to the chance of doing something to protect game by having closed counties. The closed county means that when a cer tain number of people petition, hunting ol' various kinds or all hunting may be stopped for a couple of years to allow game to increase. Ov>er a dozen coun ties In the State have been closed and there are movements under way to have others closed to aid the State work of game Traffic In the Market street subway certainly does follow restricted lines. Yesterday morning there passed through In close, and slow-moving or der: Two automobile trucks, one milk wagon, one piano wagon, three automobiles, one trolley car, one beer wagon and a plain buggy. All of these were moving west. And mov ing east in solitary state was one ba- 1 ker's wagon. Yet not bna of the ve hicles broke the line! • • • Builders about the city say that the recent storms have been serious mat ters for them and that they are fac ing considerable loss as a result of the series of deluges that have coma down on the city and its environs this week. Some builders were canny enough to note the trend of the weather and to make preparations for anything from an inch of rain fall to a hailstorm, but there were some others who were not quite sure of what was going to happen and who were not ready. All, however, have suffered from the thorough soaking of foundations and superstructures and the settling of parts of buildings. Mayor Ira D. Stratton, of Reading, who was here yesterday on business connected with the State Government, is quite an observer of the manner in which Harrishurg meets its munici pal problems. The Improvements made by this city In highway, sanitary, park and other matters have been closely followed by the alert Mayor of the Berks county seat. • • • Charles E. Dorworth, owner of the Bellefonte Republican, and one of the representative publishers of the cen tral section of the State, was here be tween trains yesterday. Mr. Dorworth who was formerly legislative corre spondent of the Philadelphia Press knows Harrishurg well, but he has not been here for a couple of years and marked the improvements made along the River Front. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Fred T. Chandler, Philadelphia broker, Is in Chicoutlmi, Que. —Ex-Mayor R. J. Black, of Mc- Keesport, is again in poilticaV'life. He is a candidate for director of the poor In Allegheny county. —James M. McKee has been elected president of the Butler county oil pro ducers. —D. N. Craft, of TJnlontown, has returned from Arizona. • —William Conner, former legisla tor and register of wills of Allegheny county, underwent an operation at Pittsburgh. —T. DeWltt Cuyler, Philadelphia financier, Is home from the Pacific coast. ( DO YOU KNOW DO YOU KNOW? That Harrishurg is sending qntto a few people to the Panama-Pa cific Exposition? The Heart Appeal All of us marry sooner or later and some—both sooner and later. Which Is Just another way of |f saying that all the great alms of llft» center about the making of a home. Any news that helps the home is good news and Interesting news. That is one reason the adver tising columns of a live news paper like the Telegraph are such good reading. There is a personality to the advertising that finds a respon sive chord In the averag-e heart. / 1 SECOND FLY CONTEST of the Civic Club for 1915. August Ist te September 39th. Five cents a plat for all flies, and many priaea In cold. ' ■
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