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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.
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—IV. Drummond.
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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
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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?
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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
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j The State From Day to Day I
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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."
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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.
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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.