8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established itu I .. ■ -a»' PUBLISHED BT THE TELEGRAPH PHDITIIIS CO. E. J. STACKPOLE President end Edtter-i»CU»tf \ f • f • F. R. OYSTER \ Stcrttcry' i GUS M STEINfcIETS Published every evening (except »un- j d»>) at the Building, Jl4 'Federal Square. Both ifcionee. Member American Newspailer Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation »nd Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building./; New York City, Hasbrook. Story Aj Brooks. Western Office. Advectletng Chicago, 111.. Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers atlj <mrm. A. six cents a week./! Mailed to •t SB.OO s year In advance. j, Entered at the Post Office In Harris-*s burg. Pa., as second class matter. j ! - Sworn dally avernae rtrnlatlnn for Ike! three month* ending An*. 31, 1915 ★ 21,083 ★ Average for the year 1014—21.558 Average for the year 1013—19,00 Average for the year 1912 19.M9 t Average for the year 1911—17,583 Average for the year 191t»— 16.J51 The above flgarea are net. All -e --tarneri, unaold and damaged copies de ducted. | THURSDAY EVENING, SEPT. 16., . He that A-ill not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason t'« a fool; and he fhat <1 ares not reason is a slave. I —IV. Drummond. i ONLY PARTY DEFENSE SECRETARY GARRISON has htth erto been recognized as one of the i two strong men in the cabinet, j The secretary is in danger of losing i . his reputation. Whether the call of the wild* Demo crats in New Jersey who want Gar rison to run for Governor has turned the secretary's head or whether the dire necessities of his chief are the moving cause, may not be stated with positiveness. But the fact remains that for some reason or other. Mr. cSrrison has laid aside the atmosphere cf efficient silence in which he has heretofore been doing his #vork and now bursts into print with absurd and petulant criticism of all who venture to express an opinion contrary to that held by the Administration. His rebuke of General Leonard Wood for Roosevelt's speech at Platts b*>rg is a case in point. And more has come another in a pub lished rejoinder to a letter from the American Defense League, in which the League accused the Wilson Ad ministration of opposing practical ef forts to put the nation in a state of military preparedness. This letter Secretary Garrison says, "quite obviously was prepared and published to cause me embarrassment." If that is the result of the letter it is only because the secretary had put him self in a position to be embarrassed by It. The fact Is that the Administration has set back the program of prepared ness for more than a year. The President himself discouraged any discussion of the topic at the last ses sion of Congress, and, at a time when there was pending before the Senate a proposal for the construction of an adequate updersea flotilla, he insisted upon wasting six weeks of the Sen ate's time in a vain attempt to pass the iniquitous ship purchase bill. It is no wonder that the Administra tion is sensitive on this point, and the secretary's letters and interviews con tribute largely to the general belief that the accusations of neglect are well founded. The President himself has also joined the lists and has made public the letters which he wrote to the War and Navy Departments last July. In these letters he tells of the quantity of thought which he has de T voted to the subject of preparedness. Rut In December last he told Congress that national defense had not been neglected and that the country had been misinformed. The fact is that he has not departed from the position he took last Decem ber and the Democratic leaders in Congress have not departed from it. Senator Kern, of Indiana, majority leader in the Upper House, and Mr. Kitchin. of North Carolina, who holds an analagous post in the Lower Branch, have lately come out in op position to any adequate Increase in either the army or the navy. The Democratic flock will largely follow these bellwethers—and the President will be well content. A brief respite from the tension which has existed with Germany serves to turn the Democratic mind to ship-purchase legislation and to pork-barrels. If anything Is to be accomplished for national defense next winter It will be by the sturdy advocacy of Republican « Senators and Representatives, with the aid of a few Democrats who do not echo the thoughts of "Olympian super iority" which emanate from the White House. At present It is plain ly evident that the kind of defense which Interests the Administration is largely the defense of the Democratic party. GOMPERS IN BETTER LIGHT SAMUELGOMPERS stands in much better light before/he American people to-day than a week ago. His ringing call to labor to stand by th» country and against those foreign Agents who are endeavoring to em hares* industrial production Is very commendable. Undoubtedly European representatives have approached work lngtnea—foremen and union leaders. THURSDAY EVENING, !especiaJly with offers of material reward if they helped shut down a' mill or curtailed its production. Gomp ' ers says these men have refusod to , have anything to do with sucti plotting ! and conditions the country over ln- I dtcate that this is true. He also says he haa a vast amount of direct proof of these activities which he will make public "at the proper time " This ought to provide interesting' reading and unquestionably will servo to ad vance Mr. Gompers in the opinion of the people as a whole. But the real credit belongs to those workijigmen and foremen who declined to benefit themseKes to the detriment of their fellows and the discredit of their country. MISTAKES OF NEW YORK AS the progress of the city is studied more closely by our citizens they are learning how I great has been the benefit of expert j advice in every step of our develop ment during the last fourteen years. :On« or two mistakes have been made ! and in every instance these have re ! suited from failure to consult with en j giueers and experts familiar with con ; ditions sought to be remedied. Even : now there is an occasional criticism in J 'sarcastic vein of the "expert." but lessj [and less of this sort of silly talk is j heard as the untold benefits which [ have come from intelligent study of our problems are realised. The next great forward movement of the city must be along the lines of city planning. Errors of the early years in this respect have been costly and will be increasingly expensive as i the city grows. Fortunately for Har risburg long-headed men of the pres ! ent generation are profiting from the | mistakes of other cities and even those of our own in former days. The City I Planning Commission, which com prises level-headed and public-spirited men devoted to the best interests of the city, is making a careful and ex haustive study of the future Harris burg with the assistance of Warren | |H. Manning, the landscape architect | who has done so admirably in trans forming and making over the present city. His work has not only been along esthetic lines, but it has em braced the practical problems as well. Recently George McAnemy, presi jdent of the New York Board of Alder j men. told the Outlook that: Other cities, most of them being younger than New York, should be able to profit by our mistakes as well as by our present planning. A large part of our problem here to day lies in dealing with defects inherited from the past. Aa an il lustration. take Manhattan's street system. Those who laid it out manv vears ago did not foresee that in 1914 the city would have a fiopulation of more than 5H mil ion centered in this island, and that bv 1934 that population would be more than 10 million. Conse quently the north and south ave nues. being -too few. are choked with traffic. To help remedy this i situation. whicJi has grown to be intolerable, we are now extending Seventh avenue southward at a cost of nearly $9,000,000. Discussing the same problems, the Kansas City Star says that in laying out the street system of that western metropolis the New York mistakes are being repeated: that those who are engaged in the work "do not fore see that within ten years the conges tion of population is going to choke the north and south avenues with traffic; they do not understand the opportunity to construct a system of traffic ways that will handle the motor I traffic of one million, two million and three million people." And that's precisely the situation in Harrisburg to-day. We must look far into the future. That is the function of the City Planning Commission. This body of five broad-minded men is giv ing intelligent, searching study to the very problems which are now caus ing the larger cities untold trouble and involving them in enormous ex pense. It is gratifying that the fu ture of our city is in the hands of men willing to devote their ability and time without selfish consideration to save the*good of the community to the welfare of all. Mr. Manning, under direction of the Planning Commission, is looking ahead to broad avenues and outlets for the expansion of the future. Unless this is done now it can not be done with out much difficulty and great public expense. And It Is likewise a signifi cant and gratifying feature of the work of the commission that the peo ple themselves are responding intelli gently and in a public spirited way to the suggestions of the commission. Harrisburg is no mean city at the present time and a few- years hence with its population doubled or trebled the vital need of planning open spaces and wide main highways must be ap parent. to-every intelligent person. BAITING PUBLIC OFFICIALS THE baiting of city and county offi cials for political or other pur poses is to be regretted by all thinking men, and It should be em phatically resented by the voter. Any person who stop? to think for a mo ment must know the inevitable conse quences. It simply means if continued tc its logical end that self-respecting men will refuse to consider holding public office under any circumstances. This would result in a class and char acter of candidates aspiring to office who would be neither satisfactory nor safe. Constructive criticism should be en couraged. not only for the welfare of the persons criticised, but for the city itself, and just criticism is.always In place. Mere fault-finding is one of the easiest as well as the silliest things that human beings can indulge in. It ! never has and never will accomplish i any good. In fact, the methvd and manner of a criticism often defeats the very fault that it is intended to cure. We cannot believe that deliberate mis representations, twisting and distort ing facts, making a difference of i opinion appear a* a dishonest act, can do anything but harm to the city as a ' whole. The Telegraph has reserved and ex ercised the right to criticise any pub lic officials for what it believed to be actions contrary to the general wel fare, but It never has and does not now bellevo that annoyance, ridicule or misrepresentation can or «ver will take the plaoe of constructive criti cism. How any person who pretends to I have the welfare of the city at heart ! can Justify actions that are distinctly ; harmful and unquestionably defeat the things»they pretend to believe in, simply becaaise for personal or political reasons thee,- want some other person to do these things, or as it appears do not like the particular person who is doing these things, Is beyond reason. The jfresent municipal campaign can only be likened to the fierce upheaval that is frequently caused in a small village over the election of a constable who probably does not have a half dozen official acts to perform during 'his term of office and where all the 'candidates are equally qualified to per i form those services. The faultfinders, the gosslpers knd muckrakers have had more or less success in the past several years, but if we do not miss our guess the ma jority of sober-minded, thinking citi zens are weary and disgusted with the whole performance and are in a frame of mind to say. and we believe will say, "Plague on your whole house hold." TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —A billion dollar loan! Back to your dungeon cell. Monteguina, there'll be no splurge to-day! —"Zeppelins planning to smash Lon don." says a newspaper headline. Some Zeppelins! —Mayor Royal says the motor club has been discourteous to him. Being a member of the club, how much dis courtesy does he attribute to him self? —"Don't pick up a brick when Ap proaching a dark alley," says the man who does not believe in preparedness, because in the event of no highway man appearing you may be tempted to throw it at an innocent pedestrian. —We're glad Standish defeated Outlet; we never were sure how to pronounce Ouimet. —"No more the golden voice," is the headline of an Evening Ledger edi torial. No, Bryan has not been stricken dumb, it refers to Sarah Bernhardt. —Connie Mack says he will come back; perhaps, but, like Tipperary, it's a long way to go. —Millionaire Woolworth confesses he borrowed fifty cents in his youth to attend a circus. Thus is early thrift as an agent of later wealth I given a Jess Willard wallop. | EDITORIAL COMMENT ~ While no woman raises her boy to be a soldier, it's a possible contingency not incompatible with patriotism or mother love. Allentown Chronicle and News. It is proposed to call an extra ses sion of Congress in the interest of peace. Some folks have a queer idea as to just what peace is. Lebanon Daily News. "State Department Will Not Use Un due Haste."—Headline. The determination to hold Germany to strict accountability was announced on February 12. The prophecy that the speed limit will not be exceeded seems to be perfectly safe. Public Ledger. Henry Ford's announcement of a million dollar fund to be used in a propaganda against military prepared ness is now followed by the statement that nine millions more will be added to it "if necessary." It really isn't nec essary. The country is fully as unpre pared already as even Mr. Ford could wish.—Kansas City Times. NOTE THE SUPPLEMENT [Detroit Free Press.] Paris offers a new skirt, knee length, supplemented by pantlettes. We take it from this that most of the best fash ion designers have been killed in the war. THAD. STEVENS' GRAVE His Epitaph Tells AVhj- He Chose His I.ong Home. To the Editor of The N. Y. Sun: Sir: Permit me to call the attention of Thomas Dixon to the epitaph which Thaddeus Stevens wrote for himself, as follows: I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not for any preference for soli tude, but, finding other cemeteries limited by charter rules as to race, I have chosen it that I might be enabled to illustrate in my death the princi ples which I have advocated through a long life, the equality of man before his Creator. On learning that the cemetery in Lancaster, Pa., In which he hoped to be buried would not admit bodies of negroes to burial. Mr. Stevens indig nantly sold his lot, and purchased one in another ground where, in the com mon dust, of God's acre, all men might be equal; and so, even in his grave, we may still salute him as "The Great Commoner." Brave soul! Champion of liberty, equality and fraternity! Hail and farewell! H. N. Barton. Trenton, N. J., September 14, A WARNING [New York Sun.] It is reported on excellent authority that certain hyphenated citizens of the United States, in addition to ex ercising their absolute and undenied right of refusing to lend their money to foreign nations with whose con duct and purposes they are not in svmpathy, seriously contemplate a campaign of boycott and terrorism against all Americans and American banking institutions that .take part In Euch transactions. We counsel these ill advised and : intemperate adherents of the warring nations to give sober consideration to the inevitable results of the course they advocate, and to reckon care fully its effect upon themselves. If they have failed to recognize the reaction among Americans against their propaganda of domestic violence, industrial upheaval and social disturb ance. they should seek enlightenment. Particularly they should examine the recent case of r>r. Dumba and his associates. They should pay heed to the popular approval of the uncom prising course adopted by the authors tie*. KXBHZSBURG TELEGRAPH IT>0 Utlc* u T > lKtv«n(<KMua. By thr EI*COITI iiiHlgffirnfl The greatest political activity in ad vance of a primary since the mem orable contest of 1912 is being mani tested all over Pennsylvania to-day i because of the primary for nomination of candidates for Superior Court by the state at large, of Judicial candi dates in almost thirty districts and of county and municipal candidates. The registration and enrollment has been so tremendously Republican that everywhere predictions are made that the Republican vote will break rec ords. It i$ certain that chances favor i the election of Republicans in almost j every county, the Democrats being di vided. as in Dauphin, over the nomi nations and because of the manner in which patronage was distributed. Senator Penrose has two Important engagements which will take him out of the State within the next month. He has been Invited by the national officers of the Patriotic Order Sons of America to address their national en campment, which will bo held In Bal timore on Wednesday, September 29. The senior senator is booked to make the principal address at the annual meeting of the Southern New England Textile Club, which will be held In Providence, R. X., on Saturday, Oc tober 16. It is expected that upon this occasion Senator Penrose will outline the general character of the textile schedule of the tariff bill which he is drafting for submission to the coming session of Congress. Senator Penrose will make an address at a flag raising under the auspices of the Henry G. Dodge Camp, Sons of Veterans, at Darby, on Wednesday, September 22. He has accepted an invitation to at tend the annual outing of President Kennedy, of the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company, at his home. Ragged Edge, Franklin county, on Saturday, October 2. Upon the invi tation of officers of the association he will visit the Bedford County Fair at Bedford on Wednesday, October 6. The Schuylkill county grand jury, which is holding a special session to determine whether fraud has been used to transfer hundreds of Demo cratic voters to the Republican col umn, in order to Influence the Repub lican nominations, spent the whole of yesterday inspecting registration books and is expected to make a report to court to-morrow. Judge Brumm was very pointed in addressing the jury. He said: "If only one man has been falsely registered, that man has cheat ed somebody else in making that regis tration. If a Democrat has registered as a Republican for the purpose of foisting on the Republican ticket some particular person, that man has cheat ed some Republican voter. If a Re publican has falsely registered as a Democrat for the same purpose, he has cheated some Democrat." The Philadelphia Inquirer says: "A serious division in the ranks of the in dependents has resulted over an at tempt to have Director of Public Safety George D. Porter picked as the choice of the Public Service Commit tee of One Hundred to be supported for the nomination for mayor. The issue will come to a head at a meeting of the committee which has been called for to-morrow. It is possible that the outcome of this gathering will be a decision to leave the question to the voters to decide at the primaries next Tuesday. Friends of Director Porter hope, however, to get a majority to declare in his favor. There is an ele ment in the committee which holds that there should be no indorsement of any candidates until after the pri maries. Colonel Sheldon Potter does not Intend to allow the proposition to indorse Director Porter for mayor to be put through without a protest. —The Cumberland county Pro hibition committee has offered re wards aggregating $250 for frauds at the primary elections next week. This cffer has been made every year. —The Philadelphia independents are in a bad way. They do not know whom to support and want to know it Potter and Porter will start a new party in case of defeat. —Philadelphia and Pittsburgh city councils will resume sessions next week for the winter. —An active campaign against the proposed big loan for Pittsburgh has teen started. It is contended that it is an amount not justified. —Porter and Potter have renewed their warfare and rival platforms and inquiries are spreading about the city. It now involves James Alcorn and ox-Representative Samuel B. Scott, who are rivals for city solicitor. SWISS WOOD CARVERS* NEW JOB They Whittle Out Artificial Lees and Arm* For Soldiers [From the London Chronicle.] Zurich—The peasant wood carvers of Switzerland, whose handiwork is ordi narily sold to British tourists, though badly hit by the war. are managing to make ends meet by manufacturing wooden limbs for soldiers mutilated in the war. The originator of this gruesome, though necessary, industry Is Edward Binder, whose factory, picturesquely situated on the edge of the Lake of Brlenz, was vitited a few years back bv the present queen, then Princess of Wales. Mr. Binder, realizing that the wooden limb industrv was practically a German monopoly, got into touch with the British and French governments, with the result that -lanv large orders have been obtained by him from both counties. The wood used for these artificial limbs is hewn down on the mountainous slopes of the lakes of Brlenz and Thun, is sorted and planed at Mr. Binder's factory, and Is transformed into artirt ; clal legs, arms and feet by the wood carvers in their own cottages. OF HISTORICAL INTEREST In a letter to the New York Tribune, James H. Baum. of Trenton, N. J., an old veteran of Slocum's Twelfth Corps, reminisces on the Battle of Gettys burg, which, in his estimation, was a I close rival to Waterloo. "Gettysburg had four phases," he said. "First, the cavalry fight at Han over; second, the attack on the First and Eleventh Corps on July 1; third, the fight on Sickles by Longstreet, and the late afternoon fight of Ewell on the Eleventh Corps and Culp's Hill. The fourth phase was where I was particularly Interested." he continued, viz.. the morning of the 3d of July, which, with Pickett's charge, made up the closing scenes of Gettysburg. "One of the heroes was General Greene. I saw the old man, with his long, dark hair, and said to myself: 'Well, old man. if you can fight at your age, certainly I should fight at my age.' There was then a difference of forty years between us." A MAX WITHOUT A COUNTRY [Philadelphia Ledger.] In these days a man without a pass port Is a man without a country. And this Is the condition of Archibald, the dispatch-bearer for the Dumba-Von Bernstorff clique, and. while the mat ter is serious for Archibald, there is a certain amount of humor in it. albeit it is a kind of grim humor which will hardly be appreciated by a victim of his own folly. Suspect as he was last winter, through his bitterly partisan lantern-slide lectures, the finding out of Archibald comes as a logical arjd natural conclusion to the career of a man w-ho has sold himself and his birthright, one does not know for how I many more than thirty pieces of 'silver. VIEWS OF OLD HARRISBURG .. ; ; I. ■■<*., i \ Recognize the old market house that long ago stood in Market Square? Seems quite different from the Square where the throngs will crowd next Wednesday. Thursday and Friday during the Municipal Improvement Cele bration, doesn't it? ( FOREST FIRE FIGHTING By Frederic J. Haskin s. . This week and next are the most dangerous In the span of the year from the standpoint of those who have charge of the protection of the na tional forests from fire. It is the dry season in the forests. The dead leaves lie like tinder on the ground and the Fall rains have not yet come. The vacationist, the hunter, the angler, are abroad in the wilds, and the matches for their pipes and the sparks of their campfires always threaten to unleash the fire demon for a career of destruction. Quietly the government has been developing toward perfection a fire lighting organization that is the great est in the world. From the stupen dous mountain ranges of Alaska to the savannas of Florida, from the watershed of San Diego to the White Mountains where the President has a summer home, the government owns extensive forests that are in danger of fire at almost any time, but particularly during September. Each year there are 6,000 fires to be fought and put out on these vast areas. One of these may be but a smouldering log that has caught from a campfire and sent out a tentacle or two Into the ground brush. Another may be such a fire as raged in the tops of great forest trees in Idaho in 1910 and left a blackened scar 60 miles wide and 200 long and beneath the ashes of it the remains of TS men who had died in the fight for its control. The Forest Service has labored for ten years to make its fire fighting or ganization effective. To-day it is as well ordered as a military organizaton, as thoroughly drilled, as thoughtfully prepared in advance of the coming of the foe. In those past ten years the service has built 3,000 miles of road. 21,000 miles of trails, IS,OOO miles of telephone lines. It has established lookouts on a thousand mountain peaks and trained them into scien tific observers. It has built networks of firebreaks that are intended for the time when it may be necessary to turn the demon back upon himself. Training Schools Every forest supervisor has his school for the training of lookouts, guards and rangers. That school fights theoretical campaigns Just as does the army war college. The forest supervisor, as schoolmas ter. sticks a tack in a map of the region for which he is responsible. There is a lookout attending this school whose station is nearest that tack. It is his turn to recite. He Our Daily Laugh M NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT. The country about here re minds m • of Yes—every time I look at it I want 'fii Sometimes the] i m Janitor cleans out , jfT^ the bank, some times the cashier. *** jpfk, T. R. THE YOUNGEST PRESIDENT The Chief Executives' Ages Rio From That of Roosevelt, -13, to Harrison, OS [From Philadelphia Evening Ledger.] In American political life we And that one of the commanding figures before the public to-day, Senator Root, is "0 years old. His recent speech In support of the short ballot has caused him to be discussed as a prospective nominee fro President. If he should be elected next year, he would be inaagurated at the age of 72. It may be Interesting to note the ages of our Presidents at the time of inauguration. Washington was 57; John Adams, 62: Jefferson, 58; Mad ison, 58; Monroe, 59; John Quincy Adams, 58; Jackson, 62; Van Buren, 55; William H. Harrison, 68; Tyler, 61; 55; William H. Harrison, 68; Tyler, 51; Polk, 60: Taylor, 65; Fillmore, 50; Pierce, 49; Buchanan, 66: Lincoln, 52; Johnson, 57; Grant, 47; Hayes, 54; Gar field, 49; Arthur. 51; Cleveland (first time), 48; Benjamin Harrison. 55; Mc- Kinley, 54. Roosevelt, 43; Wilson, 56. John Quincy Adams was over 80 when, in Congress, he did some of his best work in statesmanship. SHEEP AS LAWS MOWERS The service sheep can render in keep ing down growth of grass and weeds Is of even greater value in some locali ties than their wool and meat. They have been used to save the expense of ?;rass cutting on the grounds surround ng the Washington Monument for two years to the great surprise of thousands of visitors to the National Capital. The Reclamation Service has lately called them into service for the de struction of the growth of Johnson grass which clogs up the • irrigation ditches. Keep lng this grasse down by hand Is an expensive process. Last year 1,000 sheep were placed along forty miles of ditches in the Salt River Irriga tion project in Arizona. They reduced the cost of maintaining the ditches from $7,499 to less than $3,000. In addition to the destruction of the grass the sheep pack the banks of the ditches hard with their sharp feet. This reduces the usual seepage and also closes up the holes made by the bur rowing gopher, a small animal which has frequently caused serious loss of water and occasionally the total de ' structlon of a considerable length of ditch embankment SEPTEMBER 16, 1915. n:ust tell what action he would take should he discover a fire in that loca tion. He states that he would sight at the fire an instrument he has on a table top into which is built a map. Thus would he be able to draw a line on the map through his station and the fire. Then he would telephone to an other lookout station, calling the at tention of its occupant to the outbreak of the fire. That lookout would also extend a line through his station and through the fire. He would tell the first lookout of the angle made by that line. The first lookout would lay the line down on his map. The point at which the two lines met would be the location of the fire. Then the lookout would call up the ranger cabin and Inform his superior that there was a fire at the given point. His responsibility would have ended. The schoolmaster then calls upon the ranger for a statement of what his action would be with a fire started at this point in his domain. The ranger states that at this point there is heavy timber, that a draw leads up into a very valuable forest. It is a real emergency. The loss will be great ii" the fire is not stopped. It is a task too big for one or two men. Dashes for Help He jumps on his horse and dashes to a settlement two miles distant. He has an understanding with certain settlers, with a garage keeper and with a liveryman to come to his aid in case of an emergency. There are the members of his reserve army. In fifteen minutes he has twenty men in automobiles and is rushing for the scene of the fire. The flames are running like mad up the canyon. Fire is one thing that runs faster up hill than down. The ranger estimates the speed of the fire and the length of time It will take his force to cut a break across a narrow place in the gulch two miles farther up. He believes he can establish a gap that the flames will not leap be fore that point is reached. His men run with augers and begin boring holes in the great trees along the strip where the firebreak is to be established. Into these holes are thrust sticks of dynamite. It will cut a tree down quicker than it may be done with an ax. With explosives a swath is cut across the canyon. It is a crown fire, which is to say that it [Continued on Page 11] j The State From Day to Day I v • A thrilling movie film could have been created at Sunbury yesterday if the picture men had only had warn ing. The heat of the night produced an effect on the mind of Josiah Koch which caused him to imagine he was in swimming in a nice cool pool. So he rose from his bed and took a beauti ful "jack-knife" through the window of his room, on the second story of the house. He was awakened by the shock of landing and his cry of agony brought rescue. Aside from a wrench ed back he was all right to-day. The removal of a certain hubby's mustache took with it the love of his wife, who became extremely angered and haled hubby, namely, Wayne Rutt, of Lancaster, into court on the charge of desertion. Quarrels followed the removal of the mustache and the court scene was the result. • • • Any man who has been brought up in the country and been intimately connected with the handling of cows and calves will appreciate the feelings of "Mike" Stolz, proprietor of the Mountain House at Ebensburg. "Mike" kind-heartedly attempted to help a smtfll boy manage an unruly cow. First ho tried to halt its passage by block ing up an alley with his own width, but failing in this he appended himself to the cow's "caudal appendage." aa the Johnstown Leader terms it. The rest of the story is somewhat hazy in Mike's memory. • • • The suggestion of having firemen as ushers for the Stough Evangelical meetings at Lebanon is a very good one. Even though the danger from fire may with care be minimized, nevertheless it would do no harm to have the proper means for tempering the expected heat of the campaign. * * • The celebration In Sharon yesterday afternoon in honor of Frank H. Buhl was a fitting testimonial of the grati tude and appreciation of the citizens for the generosity of Mr. Buhl. Their patron presented the vp.lley cities of Sharon, Farrel and adjoining suburbs with a great amusement park, a $200,- 000 athletic club, and a magnificent boulevard, totalling over a million dollars in cost. • * * John W. Wise, of ""Washington, Pa., belled his name by his action in get ting a divorce and being married again the same day. He was stricken with paralysis during the ceremony of hi 3 second marriage. MARTIAL HYMNS [Kansas City Times.] The hymn, "The Son of God Goes Forth to War," has been barred from the new Unitarian Hymnal. It is re garded by the compilers as too mili tant. It suggests martial Imagery, when It should preach peace. There ifi incongruity, it is felt, in picturing the Prince of Peace as leading military hosts. A couple of years ago that argument would have seemed more impressive. Now there is a growing feeling that battle hymns are not yet ready for the discard, and that "Onward Christian Soldiers," and "The Son of God Goes Forth to War" w»U be needed for sev .eral years. lEbming Ottjat Harrlsburg's new motor Are appa ratus bids fair to put the old fashioned fireman's lantern out of business. This has been recognized .' couple of times lately, but the manner in which the searchlights of some of the trucks were utilized at the fire a> the 801 l factory in Howard street late Tuesday night demonstrated what the new style of apparatus means in other ways than mobility. The 801 l factory is at a corner where electric illumi nation is not as good as some other * corners. In fact, it has no arc light, ' and as the fire was under a long slat« roof it meant that men had to work on a sloping surface which soon be-, tame slippery and offered many chances for getting hurt. The lanterns carried by the men bobbed around and afforded very little light. Then the motor apparatus catne into play and ft couple of trucks were run up in a businesslike way and turned their searchlights on the roof. The firemen had no further trouble and folks a couple of blocks away could see the men at work fighting the fire. Speaking about fires and automo biles, it is astonishing the manner in which people owning automobiles turn out at a fire. Cars show up at a scene of a blaze from far ends of the city end even from Steelton. Given a hot night, such as Tuesday, and there is nothing more exciting than a run to a fire on a warm night. However, some of the operators of cars aro taking chances when they try to race with motor apparatus and some men who tried stunts on the Mulberry street bridge were told by firemen to get away. The wisest plan is to get to the curb and stay there until the fire apparatus passes. An Idea of the automobiles going to fires can be had from a statement by a prominent resident to-day. He made a canvass of the district in which the 801 l Brothers mattress factory fire occurred Tuesday night. Here is what he found: Lined up in Fourteenth street between Derry and Vernon streets were 34 automobiles and 4 mo torcycles; between Market and Ver non, 22: Thompson street between Thirteenth and Fifteen. 18: Vernon between Thirteenth and Fourteenth, 12; between Fourteenth and Fifteenth, 16. and in Derry street between Four teenth and Fifteenth, 7. Total. IXO. Four of the automobiles were auto trucks used by local business houses. Just where this practice is going to end is a question worrying Fire Chief John C. Klndler. Fred C. Huston, one of the best known soldiers in the National Guard, is very proudly wearing the silver medal given to him by Father Penn for twenty years' continuous service an a marksman. There are very few of them in the Guard. Mr. Huston is commissary sergeant of the Eighth In fantry and one of the old-timers. More fans which were bought as advertisements and laid aside when the August cold spell came along have lieen trotted out and made to do duty this week. In one store a lot of fans which had been consigned to the depths of the storeroom made their appearance yesterday and were as eagerly snapped up as in July. The Rev. M. D. Lichliter, president of the Federation of Historical So cieties, has been invited to deliver an address at the three hundredth anni versary of the arrival of the first white man in Pennsylvania, to be held on Spanish Hill, near Athens, Bradford county, October 15, 1915. This man was Stephen Brule, a Frenchman, and his mission to what is now Pennsyl vania was one of war. Sir. Lichliter has received several invitations to at tend functions of a Historic character and is invited to take part in the ceremonies of the marking of Harris' Ferry during the festivities of this month. • » » Among Harrisburg visitors yester day was Samuel I. Spyker, the Repub lican county chairman of Huntingdon, who is prominently mentioned for an important place in the workmen's compensation system. Mr. Spyker has many friends here and he will make Quite an addition to Harrisburg. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Ex-Attorney General John C. Bell is homo again and devoting himself to practice in Philadelphia. —Michael J. Ryan, Philadelphia city solicitor. Is working on his judicial aspirations. —James S. Rich, of Doylestown, is planning for the reunion of Durrell's Battery. —Joseph Wood, Pennsylvania Rail road official, will return from Rhode Island this week. —William T. Tredway, Pittsburgh lawyer, was given a dinner by brother lawyers in honor of his candidacy for judge. —J. C. Sibley, former congressman, is taking a hand in politics in Venango county again. | DO YOU KNOW That material for car wheels Is being turned out in Dauphin county works? HISTORIC HARRISBURG This city and county have alwayfc had their offices together. AUSTRIAN WOMEN DOST HATE Tier Join In Protent Against Movement to Stir Up Feeling Zurich, Switzerland, Sept. 10.—To day's'Soclallst Volkzeicht publishes the text of a manifesto just issued bv Aus trian women of all classes protesting against the attempt being made in Aus tria and Germany to stir up a new cam paign of hate. "We women," runs one of the sentences, "have stood at the stck beds of our heroes but never have we heard from them the humiliating abuse of their enemies. We are convinced that our sisters in the countries against which we are fighting share our stand point on this question." —> The Micawbers Like Dicken's quaint charac ter. too many businessmen are prone to sit around and "wait for something to turn up." And when it does It not in frequently has the shape and V semblance of bankruptcy pro- •< ceedings. Live businessmen make things turn up. They assert their right to thrive, and do. They recognize the value of newspaper advertising. They employ it as an effective weapon ana grow and prosper. [*■ ( SECOND FLY CONTEST of the Civic Club for 1915. August let to September 2Sth. rive eenta ■ pint for all (Ilea, and many prlaea la gold.
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