6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Establish*d rttr PUBLISHED BT THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK POLE Presidtnt and Bditor-in-Ckitf F. R. OYSTER Stcrttary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published erery evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, lit Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of CSrculstion and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Bulldlnr, New York City. Hasbrook. Story A Brooks. , Western Office. Advertising Building. Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at 9 '* 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. Snora dally average circulation for tbe three niontba ending July 31, 1015 ★ 21,084 ★ Average for the year 1014—31358 Average for the year 1813—10,0«2 Average for the year 1012—19,448 Average for the year 1811—17.54JS Average for the year 1810—16,201 The above flsurca are net. All re turned, unaold and damaged copies de ducted. THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19. Nothing is di/flcutt; it is only we who are indolent. — B. R. Haydon. PENBROOK PAVING PENBROOK has determined to put no stone in the way of the pav ing of the main highway through that borough. The property owners and taxpayers who so generously came to the support of the State and the traction company, both of which have agreed to bear their shares of the ex pense. are to be congratulated. Thev are not the men to haggle over techni calities and thus hold up a public im provement that will be for the benefit of their neighbors as well as them selves. Any town is the better for that kind of citizens. Nothing now remains but to adver tise for bids, let the contract and do the work. But the season is drawing to a close. Those responsible must hasten if the pavement is to be put down this Fall. The way is open. Let the work proceed. STEELTON'S PROGRESS STEELTON, despite the dull times j in the iron industry, is making rapid strides. When the tide of prosperity returns to flood there will be no busier nor happier town any-, where. The steel company is laying the foundations of a gigantic industry there for the manufacture of products that have not heretofore been made at the Steelton plants. Part of this ma chinery is In operation. More remains to be completed. And the borough, too, is awake to its interests. Tourists ordinarily avoid towns of Steelton's size where possible for the reason that for the most part their streets are not fit for automobile travel. Not so, Steelton, however. There is no better automobiling In the East than over the wood block paving of Front street. Another evi dence of the progresslveness of Steel ton people is the recent organization of a Board of Trade by the merchants of that town. In every way the iron town to the south of us is qualifying as a fit neighbor for the capital city of the State. "MADE IX AMERICA" OXALIC acid is used In tanning, calico printing, woolen and silk dyeing, and in various bleach ing processes, especially the bleaching of straw for hats and bonnets. The laundries also use nearly 3,000,000 pounds a year In whitening shirts and collars. From eight to ten million pounds are annually consumed in this country', and prior to 1903 it all came from Germany, England, Norway, Bel glum and Austria. which> countries had combined to form a syndicate to con trol the price all over the world. Prices to the United States at that time ranged from 8 to 11 cents a pound. The syndicate was controlled by Germany, from which came three fourth of the acid. In 1903 the manufacture of oxalic acid was undertaken on a small scale, experimentally, in this country, the plant being located .in this State. No sooner did the construction of this plant come to the attention of the syn dicate than prices dropped, in 1903 to 4.7 cents; 1904, 4.6 cents; 1905, 4.7 cents; 1906, 8.2 cents. This sort of price-cutting knocked the American company out of the ring, and Imme diately the oxalic syndicate raised the price to 7% cents, and in 1907 to 9 cents. In 1908 the American com pany made another Btart, and the syn dicate dropped tbe price tt> 6% cents. The Republican revision of the tar iff was up about that time, and the American company presented figures which Induced Congress to give a pro tective duty of 2 cents a pound on oxalic acid. This duty was based sole ly on the difference In cost of common labor at home and abroad, per pound of product, and did not take Into ac count the overhead.charges and sell ing costs. When this duty went into effect the foreign price went to 7% cents, where It remained through 1910. 1911 and 1912. By some pretty close figuring the American company was able to operate at a profit, and it acted as a check on the foreign syn dicate methods of price controlling. A large share of the annual consumption was being manufactured In the United Statefcand the only money going abroad THURSDAY EVENING, was for the purchase of potash, the raw material; American labor was be ing employed at wages which enabled the men to be good customers of the clothier and the food producer, and the country was the possessor of a new Industry, which would. If properly fos tered, render us wholly Independent of Germany. Then came the destructive tariff leg islation of the Democratic party, which sneaked into the Capitol through a crack In the protective party wall. The duty on oxalic acid was cut 25 per oent. This was too low for pro tection. but It gave the foreign syndi cate the opportunity it sought to dump oxalic acid on this marker, and they lost no time in taking advantage of it. The first quarter of the fiscal year 1914, under Republican law, 1,600,000 pounds were imported; the second quarter, when the Underwood law took effect, 1,720,260 came in; -the third quarter, 2,600,000; the fourth quarter, 2,850,000 pounds. Then came the war, acting as a high tariff, and the American company is now recov ering from the shock. Even yet, how ever, the importations for the ten months ending April, 1915, amounted to 4,300,000 pounds. If that 1% cent duty remains in the law when the war has ended, Germany will hand the American company a side-winder from which it will never recover, and another skeleton will be found lying alongside the Democratic trail. And what Is happening to the ox alic acid industry Is happening to many others. THe Telegraph merely cites an example. POPULAR AND PROPER THE River Front is to be lighted in time for the big celebration in September. The Telegraph's course in approving the plans of coun cil and the electric light company is not only proper, but it has proved popular as well. The people want this improvement and they approve the efforts of both the city officials and the corporation to give them the lights as th'e finishing touch to the great city improvement plan so constantly sup ported by this newspaper and the public at large. Without the lights the celebration would be incomplete. The Telegraph is quite ready to assume its share of responsibility in urging that the work be pushed to the earliest pos sible conclusion. If*there is one virtue in the form of government under which Harrisburg Is now operating it is that It permits of prompt action in emergencies. When the Clark bill was under con sideration in the LepSslature we were told that as a law It would be far less burdensome than the two council form, that It would cut the strings of official rfed tape and permit the city's business to be conducted like that of a private corporation. In some re spects this has worked out as forecast ed and the problem of placing the lights in the brief time remaining for the task was solved along that line. Council and the electric company came to an understanding that nobody de nies is exceptionally favorable to the city and without a lot of red tape the work was begun. That's all there Is to it. Yet those who were most insistent for the new law and most vigorous in their contentions for the conduct of "public business on a business basis" are the first to object. If the good names of conscientious officials were not involved and if the welfare of the city were not endangered by this fond ness for mud-bathing the "attack" would be worthy of a niche in the laughing gallery. COLLEGE WORK COLLEGE and university educa tion has outgrown the boom stage," declares Dr. Samuel P. Capen, in the Annual Report of the United States Commissioner of Edu cation, just issued. The day of the academic promoter of the inflation of values is over, continues Dr. Capen. Expansion is still going on, he says, but for the most part unaccompanied by the fren zied advertising so common in the past and encouragingly free from the optimistic confusion of prospects and realities. The developments of the year strengthen the condition which has been ripening for some time that higher education is now looking to Its foundation and setting Its house In order. Says the writer: Colleges and universities have come under the sway of the slogan "efficiency." Surveys undertaken by outsiders and by officials of the Institution to be examined have become increasingly frequent. There has Deen vigorous activity on the part of several voluntary as sociations that concern themselves with standards of entrance, gradua tion and constitutional equipment. Some of this activity has crystal lzed In the form of recommenda tions that will effect educational procedure over considerable areas. The adoption of some form of group system has been reported to the United States Bureau of Education by twenty-one institutions, un doubtedly only a fraction of the whole number of colleges that have taken this step. The idea that it Is quality rather than quantity of work done by a col lege student that counts toward effec tive education has already received tangible recognition in a few institu tions through the granting of extra credit for quality. Several prominent Institutions have been reorganized and other new departments have been formed; and several others are ex perimenting with new types of voca tional courses related to local Indus trial activities. Dr. Capen mentions Montana, Kan sas and Idaho as "three more States where the administration of State in stitutions of higher education has been further centralized through re icent legislative action." But he nat urally says nothing concerning the failure of the Pennsylvania Legisla ture to give Penn State the money for similar improvements so many believe it should have. That Is on the other side of the ledger. However, let no body think the Bellefonte institution is falling behind along the lines sug gested by Dr. Capen. Rather it is leading most schools of the kind. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE" —The worst part about It is that Georgia isn't even ashamed of her self. —"Remember," says the Baltimore American, "vacation days will soon be over." This Is our idea of adding In sult to injury. —Most of us will agree that Old Father Time is parent to some pretty bad half-hours. —"Many proposals at the seashore this year," says an Atlantic City dis patch. Perhaps the young men went down there In order to get the sand to speak up» —lf Greece isn't careful she will yet slip Into this war. —Japan seems to be about as much favored in the Russo-Japanese al liance as she was In the Russo-Jap anese war. EDITORIAL COMMENT " SKYLARKING [From the Baltimore American.] One is tempted to apply to the Brit ish policy of watchful waiting In the great war. the proverb, if the sky should fall we would catch larks. LOSING TRADE [From the Chicago Herald.] The exchange of prisoners has begun in Europe, and if the war keeps on much longer the nations won't have anything but prisoners to exchange. LET GEORGE DO IT [From the Charleston News and Courier.] One is almost convinced that if Lloyd-George would go over and make a speech to the Germans they would all surrender. OUR MUNITIONS RESOURCES [From the Providence Journal.) Some public Interest has been stirred by the action of the War Department in calling for full and exact informa tion of the private facilities available for providing the army with munitions. But there appears to be nothing sig nificant about it, excepting that the country's resources have grown tre mendously since the last returns. It is the practice of the military authori ties to have such information at hand at all times and to keep it up to date. Normally, the facilities of the 'Govern ment arsenals are an approximately fixed proportion of the aggregate re sources for manufacturing munitions. But the phenomenal expansion of pri vate industry, in response to order 3 from Europe, calls for a special in quiry. It Is expressly stated in the letter ' addressed by the Ordnance Bureau to : the manufacturers that the Govern- j ment is not in the market, nor is there 1 any idea of building up reserve stores j to a war basis. At the same time, the lesson of the European war is that calculations, by which the military au thorities have heretofore arrived at their estimates for the annual replen ishment of permanent supplies, must be revised. Congress will undoubtedly be asked for a larger appropriation. TIRE EXPENSE [From the Atlanta Constitution.] Motorist (to chauffeur)—Be careful avbout running over anybody here about running over anybody here and most everybody has a bottle in his pocket. [From the Greensburg Daily Tribune.] "May I kiss your hand?" he asked. "You may if you care to,' she re plied. "But I can assure you that I have not been eating onions." Our Daily Laugh A KNOCK ) KK. } Does Tom dance? He thinks h« does. HE WAS WIS EL Well, what about that little |ii)J But I told you to call at four HpF, ' Jjfek o'clock and It 1b fT only three now. ™ • f|p I know It. I • wanted to catch you in. " /frk ' ll SOME CONSOLATION By Wing Dinger This cool weather makes thin shirt waists, Skirts and Palm Beach suits look sick, And compels one to get into Garments made of cloth quite thick. Bargains that we all have purchased In sales recently must wait "Till the temperature goes soaring Once again to ninety-eight. It Is sure a disappointment. After waiting all this while. To make purchases of clothing That will put us right in style It gets too blamed cold to wear them— But let us our patience keep, For the nights that we are having Sure are great to get in sleep. 1 r 1 \ Paying Interest "Interest the public in your goods and they will willingly pay you interest on your expen diture," says a wise sage. And to interest them you must tell them your message. You must put your message In the proper place. And the proper place is the ad vertising columns of leading daily newspapers sifeh as this one. i Information about newspapers can be had by addressing the Bureau of Advertising. American Newspaper Publishers Associ ation, World Building, New York. JHARRISBURG TELEGRAPH "fMiciU I>e.K>vot|£ca>vta1 > e.K>vot|£ca>vta By the Ex-Committeeman Nominating petitions of several can didates Tor Judicial nominations were sent back to the committees in charge of campaigns to-day by officials at the department of the Secretary or the Commonwealth because of cerects. in some instances the number of names was half a dozen short of the total required by the act. In other cases there were defects in the attiuavits and in others the information required from signers was not set forth as the law directs. The time for nung such papers will expire next Tuesday and there are many petitions not yet neard from. Judge J. Davit Brodheaa, or North ampton, appointed by Governor Tener to the bench, to-day filed his papers. Judge W. E. Porter, of Lawrence, also filed papers to-day. Others papers tiled for common pleas Judge were Ex-Rep resentative Frank H. Rockwell, Tioga, and Evan B. Lewis, Court No. s, Phila delphia. Isaiah E. Stephens, candi date for associate Judge in rerry en tered papers and Harvey taccort filed for municipal court in Philadelphia. —Pretty plain intimation was given last night by the bosses of the Demo cratic and Washington party machines that this is going to be an expensive campaign. The old plan of the fusion bund of 1911 was trotted out ana it was openly proclaimed aiiout rown to day that there was a working agree ment between the partisans or Wood row Wilson and the remnant or tne supporters of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, his most severe critic. Committees to interview candidates and make proper "arrangements" have beei- named. The fellow who gets most voces will be put on the list of "approved" candi dates of the new fusion buna. —-Judge Morris Daliet, of the Orphans' Court of Philadelphia, has filed a nominating petition. —The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day contains this significant item: "The pressure that is being brougnt to bear upon Senator Penrose to organize the opposition to the proposed candidacy of Congressman William 6. Vare is said to indicate a pronounced senti ment among active and influential Re publicans upon that issue. Until there shall be something tangible develop it would appear that Senator Penrose will maintain his policy of neutrality. But should occasion arise for action, there is reason to believe he will not dodge the issue. Congressman Wil liam S. Vare spent part of the day yesterday in the offices of his brother in the Lincoln Building. He appeared to be in good spirits, but was, as usual, silent as to any plans he may nave in connection with the mayoralty. There was the customary speculation as to whether he will or will not announce himself as a candidate and there was the same conflict of opinion among men who have been associated with the Vares politically as to wnat ae will finally conclude to do. Men or un questionable standing in the Republi can Party organization continued to predict that there wil be harmony upon a candidate for mayor who will be supported at the primaries by the various potential factors in me party organization." —Councilman S. S. Woodburn, of Pittsburgh, who has a number of friends here, is a candidate Tor re noiYiination to council in that city. —Scranton is not llkeiy u> adopt the two-platoon system for pot:ce ana firemen, although it has been put into effect in Pittsburgh. —Mayor James B. Murrin, of Car bondale, is suing that city for $1350 back salary. He contends that nls $25 per month is not what he snouia get. —New Castle has ten candidates for city council and the hottest kind of a contest has been staged. —Agitation has been started in Norristown, Chambersburg and a num ber of other places which tried to get third class city charters by elections •to have the question again submitted to the voters. —Fred Beyer, member of the last House, is a candidate for tne Re publican nomination for mayor of Philadelphia. Beyer will »e remem bered by a number of Harrisburgers because of his speeches against woman suffrage and local option. —Fred S. Drake, law partner of Ex- Mayor John B. Weaver, is a candidate for Judge of Court No. 2 in Phila delphia. Mr. Drake has orcen toeen here. —Blair county Bull Moosers, who have wasted to a shadow, have decided to put a ticket in the Held this year. They will open a recruiting oiilce for candidates. —The Philadelphia ledger to-day calls attention to the fact that if Con gressman Vare happens to ne elected mayor of Philadelphia he would havo to pass on his brother's work. The Philadelphia Ledger to-day says: "The Pcnrose-McNlchol wing of the Republican Organization is ready to open war on Congressman Vare just so soon as he announces himself for the mayoralty. The Vare plan or cam paign to keep the candidacy of the Congressman quiet until the last pos sible moment does not worry Them in the least. Followers of tho miil-Vare wing believe the delay of tne Vares may shorten the attack on the Con gressman, but it will not lessen its in tensity. It was stated fro.-.t an au thoritative source in the Venrose-Mc- Nichol camp yesterday that two weeks was ample in which to do everything necessary if the Congressman openly comes out for the mayoralty." Friends of Congressman Moore have started a lively movement for him for mayor of Philadelphia. It is neing organized all over the city on a "har mony" basis. PRICES FOR DOLLARS [From the New York World.] The demoralization in the foreign exchange market of New York is of extraordinary intensity. Sterling bills fell to $4.64, which is the lowest figure within living memory. It amounts to a premium of 4% per cent, on the dollar In pounds sterling. Exchange on Paris. Berlin and Italy Is at a far worse discount. This Is a situation for England and her allies in particular which wll« soon demand heroic measures in the way of remedy. They are paying very high prices in dollars for American supplies. They are paying high pre miums for the dollars with which to pay. Wall Street is predicting that sterling will go to $4.2! i. If It should, that would mean a premium of 12 per cent, for the dollars with which to pay prices already high. This lnvplves an enormous addition to the costs of prosecuting the war. It suggests a decided lapse from the gold standard even in England. It cannot go on without serious inter ference with the American export trade. Why immediate steps are not taken to remedy the situation, either through exports of gold this way or the placing here of loans, passes the understanding. England and France have gold enough to meet this crisis and will then have plenty to spare. But as matters stand, they might as well bo doing business on Inconvertible paper Issues, as the United States did in the Civil War. WHEN THE LAND MOURNS Therefore shall the land mourn, and everyone that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven: yea the fish of the sea also shall be taken away.—Hog.ea iv, 3. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY THE CONGRESSMAN'S VACATION ft® —From the N. T. Evening: Mall. NATIONAL DEFENSE PROBLEMS I.—Reserve Officers By Frederic J. Haskin THE nation is to-day facing a problem of such gravity as it has been called upon to con front but once or twice in all its his tory. It must decide whether or not it will prepare for the coming of a possible powerful foe. The problem is one of particular difficulty because the United States is inherently nonniilitary—has through out its history stuck to the principle of maintaining almost no army and the smallest navy that would seem In any way .to serve the obvious needs. Its people are opposed to the idea of mili tarism but desirous of that sense of security which comes with a con sciousness of their ability to give an account of themselves in time of need. The fascination with which they have watched the progress of the war in Europe has had in it the element of personal interest, for the American has instinctively asked what his own government would be able to do if it were called upon to meet such foes as have here been flung back and forth, one way and another. When he has read of a force of a million and a half trained men, fully equipped, setting out for the accom plishment of a military purpose, he has thought of the 30,000 mobile troops that the United States has in j readiness were it the object of such an attack. When he has read of fleets of submarines running into the hundreds he has called to mind that flotilla of a dozen underwater craft that might be concentrated for the defense of the Atlantic seaboard were a fleet of the enemy to set out across the ocean. He hud considered death grapples be tween great, civilized, humane, modern nations, a thing that would never hap pen—has argued that the terror of it, the cost of it, the folly of it, made It unthinkable. Parting of the Ways But such a war has come and other nations as civilized as the United State, as strongly opposed to war, as apparently secure from it, have been plunged into it. So Uncle Sam has come to the place where he must de termine whether or not to trust to his ability to remain forever at peace. Must he or must he not prepare for the coming of a possible foe of the future? May he wager the chance of even ceasing to exist against the privi lege of remaining democratic and un military ? That is the problem which will this Fall face the administration of Presi dent Wilson, the Congress of the Unit ed States, and the American people. Already the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy have been call ed upon to submit expert opinion as to the needs of those services. These are in the course of being prepared. Upon these reports, supplemented by his own opinions and those of his civil ian advisers, the President will sub mit recommendations to Congress. The session of that body which will occupy the coming winter and Spring, and probably last lato into the Fall, will be largely given over to the dis cussion of military preparedness and at its close the nation will be com mitted to a policy. Reports of Kxperts The reports that are made to the President by the military experts will be based to a very large extent upon the lessons that are to be learned from the European war. Those reports will recommend the laying down of a pro gram of military preparedness. There will be certain items which will be cited as desirable but not indispensa ble. But there will bo no dissenting voices among the experts as to the im perative need of a greatly enlarged corps of trained officers. If, for Instance, the army is not en larged or is enlarged but slightly, if it is decided that the United States will stick to its present program and depend upon a volunteer army when an emergency arises, the need will be even stronger for this corps of offi cers than otherwise. Need of Officers It is held that the United States, finding itself thrust into a war, would need every officer it now has to handle the regular army In its efforts toward resistance. If It called for a million volunteers and secured them, it would be without trained officers to convert them from raw recruits into efficient fighting machines. It Is granted that an intelligent recruit may be made a prettv good soldier with six months of the right sort of training. But to get that training he must have efficient handling. There must be competent, highly-trained officers to effect the transformation. To handle a million recruits there must be a large num ber of officers. The experts say that if we were plunged into a war with a first-class power it would require the services of 40,000 officers to make us an adequate army. Kngland's Difficulty England, It is claimed, has encoun tered Its chief difficulty in making an army because of an insufficient force >f trained otficers. Trouble with en listments and in the production of i munitions has been easier to over come. Russia, it is also stated by the experts, haß found her great handicap! when the day of mighty battles came 'in the fact that her troops, admirable 1 AUGUST 19, 1915. in most instances, haye been without trained officers to lead them. The President and Congress and the people will he asked to provide means for the development of a strong 1 corps of reserve officers. There are many plans for making this possible. The first suggestion is to double the ca pacity of the military schools and to graduate double the number of men from them. The need is greatest in the army ard to supply this need West Point could, under such an arrange ment, graudate an additional hundred men. each year. Hundred men a Year The number turned out by that in stitution annually has been below, a hundred for each year of the last five until the present when it jumped to 168. A hundred men a year, going from West Point Into the reserve offi cer lists would, in twenty years, build up such a reserve 2,000 strong and maintain It thereafter. An education at West Point with a possibility of service only in case of war would be more attractive to the youth of the ination than such a course requiring a I military career after graduation. A j similar increase in the number of . men graduated from the Naval Acad emy at Annapolis would supply the needs of that branch of the service. It is found that the nation has other resources for the production of re serve officers. There are for Instance, the land grant colleges, one in each State, which receive stipends each year from the federal government and which, because of it, have cadet corps in which service is mandatory. These colleges, in a four-year course, give the student a considerable appre ciation of.military training, it is pro posed that the equipment of these col leges be materially improved and that the training be consequently bettered. It is proposed that all students gradu ating from such colleges and passing satisfactory examinations, be given an opportunity for a year's service in the regular army with the rank and pay of a second lieutenant. Another pro posal is that these youngsters should spend five weeks with the army at the completion of the Junior and senior years and then be given their reserve commissions upon passing examinations. So would a reserve force of officers with less training than those graduat ing from West Point be provided. These is yet another class of insti tution that might be relied upon to furnish good material for reserve offi cers. Thefe are military schools in the nation, mostly private, aside from those which the government helps support and which turn out about 10,- 000 graduates a year. These men are good material for reserve officers. They need a bit of actual service to bring home their theoretical training. Provision might be made to give these men second lieutenant's commissions for a year upon the passage of satis factory examinations. Then they might be placed on the reserve offi cers' list. There are even the cadet corps of the many high schools that Rive mili tary training and whose courses would be of great value in the making of a new army out of raw material. These boys might be taken to encampments operated under regular army condi tions and trained to the duties of non commissioned officers. When an army was in the making they might perform valuable service as drill sergeants and find themselves well along toward commissions by the time they got to the front. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph, Aug. 19, 1865.] Find Dead Child A dead child was found this morn ing in the bushes of the cemetery. People In the vicinity said that they had seen a wcynan pass and throw a bundle over the fence a short time before the body was found. Death Sentence For Rupert Howard Rupert, convicted In the Cumberland county court of the mur der of Wilson T. Vanasdlen, has been sentenced to be executed. The date has not been set. Teachers Banquet The teachers who are attending the sessions of the National Teachers' Convention were the guests of the city at a banquet last night at the State Capitol Hotel. FORGOT HIMSELF A negro parson, calling upon one of his flock, found the object of his visit out in the back yard working among his hencoops. He noticed with surprise that there were no chickens. "Why, Brudder Brown," he asked, "whar's all yo' chickens?" "Hum." grunted Brother Brown, with out looking up. "some fool pusson lef de do' open an' dey all went home." HASN'T HEARD OF LANSING [Houston Post.] In other words, Germany concedes everything Mr. Bryan would have de manded if he had written the second Americas not*. ! lEbmntg Gtyat I During a recent tour of the city with some distinguished guests E. 8. Her man, the president of the City Plan ning Commission, stood upon the high est eminence of Reservoir Park and listened to the enthusiastic commenti of the visitors upon the magnificent panorama. One visitor from the East waved his arm in the direction of the Lebanon Valley, whence he came, and described its beauty. "Yes," observed Mr. Herman, "I have two sisters there." Then a Perry countlan In the party %, pointed in that direction and waxed eloquent over the glories of the Juniata Valley. Again the quiet head of the planning commission remarked: "You are right about old Perry; I have a summer home there!" Then a York county visitor pointed to the hills across the river and described the wonderful scenery of that section, and again the irrepressible Herman ob served: "All true, every wdrd of It: I was born there" ! Fortunately, >no member of the party talked about Cumberland county, where the presi dent of the planning commission has a couple of cigar factories and is presi dent of a bank. • • • George B. Tripp, former president of the Chamber of Commerce, has been spending his vacation in an auto mobile and tishing trip through the northern part of Colorado and the southern section of Wyoming. His party covered approximately a dis tance of 500 miles through the Irri gated farming sections and in the cattle range country. They also had some good fishing. Mr. Tripp is much interested in the forthcoming cele bration of the city's improvement cam paign and will doubtless be here to take part in the festive occasion. « » ♦ The campaign being waged in this city by Health Officer Raunick in be half of wholesome milk is attracting the attention of officials In other cities of the State and the vigor of the Har rlsburg crusade is being sort of "cast up" to some of the officials who have not been as energetic in their home communities. The Harrisburg milk showing, as a result of the manner in which it is supervised, has attracted attention because there are so many State visitors. • • • Harrisburg people will be interested to know that James Gay Gordon, Jr., son of the former Philadelphia judge who is very well known here, has re signed as an assistant city solicitor in thr office of City Solicitor Ryan. Mr. Gordon has appeared at a number of proceedings at the Capitol in behalf of the city of Philadelphia. ♦ * • "You'll never scare me again with stories of hot summers in Pennsylva nia." said F. W. Wright, the insur-i ancc man, to'a Telegraph reporter yes terday. "I hail from Nebraska and t have lived in many parts of the West, and when I determined to settle in Harrisburg my friends who had been East held up their hands in horror, telling me that Pennsylvania summers were hot almost beyond endurance. My experience is just the opposite. If this is a sample, I am ready to accept the whole consignment." • • • Among visitors to the city yesterday was Congressman-elect Arthur G. De walt, well known to many Harrisburg ers because of his long service in the State Senate and as Democratic State chairman. The congressman was here on business and said that he was glad to get back to see old friends and to look over the city. • • • The approach of a primary paign is evident these days. Alwayr when politics is commencing to get heated up there are groups of peoplu gathered about the Courthouse during the day. These afternoons there are tlid beginnings of the usual throngs, sitting on the steps and standing in the portico discussing the candidates and possibilities. • • • The way the builders have been pushing along the. John Y. Boyd memorial in South street is attracting considerable attention and there la general interest in the institution for work among men and boys which is to be formally established this Fall. It will be the first of the kind on a largo i scale for vnen and boys and with the . changing Industrial conditions in this vicinity it should have a good field in which to operate. For years there have been movements for boys under , way in Harrisburg, some of them suc ■ cessful and some not. It must be con i j fessed certain ones have been con ducted more or less spasmodically. \ The Boyd memorial offers a way to . put such lines of endeavor on a firm foundation. • • • , Among visitors to the city last even . ing. were Dr. Charles B. Penrose, chair [ man of the State Game Commission, L and his son, Boies Penrose. The com , missioner came here with the name sake of the senator to take a trip to . some of the new game preserves. : I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE > ———— 1 5 —Judge J. C. Haymaker, of Pitts burgh, is taking a trip through the ' State. —Charles M. Schwab has been spending part of the month at his • home at Loretto. ' —Dr. J. R. Morrow, of Pittsburgh, I has gone to the exposition. 1 —H. J. Fink, Erie businessman, has > been taking a cruise on Lake Erie in ' his new yacht. —George A. Mentzell, new head of ■ the Pythlans in this State, is a resi f dent of South Bethlehem. i —Charles R. Lowert, of Philadel- I phla, Is in Montana. I —W. T. B. Roberta. Philadelphia > real estate man, has returned from his annual trip to Eagleamere. He has visited it yearly for a quarter of a century. j DO YOU KNOW ' That Harrisburg was one of the first of the smaller cities of the r State to adopt a city flag? \ CHANGES IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS [From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.] The State of -Indiana claims to be , the real pioneer In doing away with the one-room, one-teacher district school and establishing consolidated 1 single schools In each township dl ' vision, in a recent bulletin, which unfortunately is sent out without a 4 sponsor, it is claimed that the change has resulted in a decided improve ment of rural conditions In several s wavi. The children as conveyed to ' and from the consolidated schools tn 1 hacks. Thus, indirectly, the country > roads have been much improved to make the use of hacks possible. Ac cording to this bulletin, the stand ards of education, including the com petency of teachers, have been raised, with only a slight increase In f the per capita cost of maintaining th« - t schools. Whether the Improvement r would be as marked in other States than > Indiana remains to be shown on of ficial authority. • . V SECOND FLY CONTEST of the Civic Club for 1915. Aacwt Ist to September 23th, s Five ceata a pint for all fllea, and *; many prlaea la gold.
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