8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established itji PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary OUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 114 ll Federal Square. Both phones. Uetnber American Newspaper Publish era' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New Tork City, Hasbrook, Story A Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at wKft iti© six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris* burg, Pa., as second class matter. I Sworn dnlly average circulation for the three months ending Sept. 30, 11)15 ★ 21,307 ★ Average for the Tear 1P14—21.8M ..Average for the Tear 1015—19,003 Average for the Tear 10t5—19,840 Average for tlie Tear 1011—17,OAS Average for the Tear 1010—10,201 The above figures ere net. All turned. Unsold and damaged copies de > ducted. SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. 2. I Oh send out thy light and thy truth; 4et them, lead me: let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy taber nacles. —Ps. 43:8. CIVIC CI,I B ACTIVITIES DURING the coming winter the Civic Club will outline its im portant activities for the next year and It may be assumed that tho good work of these intelligent, publlc ■epirited women will broaden their sphere of usefulness wherever pos sible. Only those who have followed the activities of the club realize how rauch good it has done in many ways. Much of the work has been modest and along quiet lines where only a few knew what had been ac •complished, but throughout the years the foundations of civic betterment have been laid deep and what is being done year after year will count throughout the generations to come. The Telegraph has endeavored to eustain and support the Civic Club In all its splendid .work and this,news paper would be glad to have a-share In the movement that has been sug gested from time to time looking to a thorough organization of the city for the promotion of a more general cul tivation of flowers and plants In win dow and porch boxes. Harrisburg can be made unique through a widespread co-operation of all the people and this co-operation may easily be had through a general pro gram that will invite the aid and sup port of the people in all sections of Harrisburg. It would not be difficult for the leaders of the Civic Club to block the city in such a way as to form groups in every section, these groups to have a simple organization with officers to whom the members would look for guidance in their work. For instance, it would seem to be comparatively easy to interest the residents of a given territory in the placing and planting of window and porch boxes along harmonious lines. In this way whole streets might be decorated in such a manner as to at tract the attention of all visitors and create an interest in floral decoration among our home people. This would not Involve great expense and would harmonize community ef fort. Of course, the plans would necessarily be worked out during the winter so that with the opening of Spring the boxes could be placed and the flowers planted. For several years the Telegraph Building has been decorated from top to bottom with boxes of flowers on window ledges and these flowers have attracted wide attention, having been the subject of comment in a nnmber of leading magazines through out the country. The blocking of the city for community co-operation would not require much time and the several subcommittees to supervise each block could be chosen from among the goad women of each locality.' These com- I mittees could obtain the names of all residents and obtain their aid in work ing out a general plan of decoration. It would be wise to treat each block or consecutive blocks of houses in harmonious fashion so as to obtain the best results. A "DRY" DISTRICT OF all the judicial contests in the State none is attracting more general interest than the district comprising Mifflin, Hunting don and Bedford counties. Judge Joseph M. Woods has been presiding In this district for several years and his record is one that appeals to the people of the Juniata Valley. Judge Woods is the first of the State's Jurists to make an entire coun ty dry and his Is the first district rtlth more than one county to entirely eliminate the licensed liquor business. His district embraces 131 miles of "dry" territory and the liquor interests are now making a desperate effort to defeat him at the November election so that they may proclaim through out the State and to the world that the first. "drji" Judge in Pennsylvania has been repudiated by the people at the polls. It. is said that Judge Woods has never known the taste of liquor throughout his life and that* upon principle be has endeavored to stamp SATURDAY EVENING- out the business wherever possible. The interest in the contest has spread beyond the immediate confines of the three counties and the friends of Judge Woods are concentrating their forces In order to meet the on slaught of the enemy from the out side as well as the forces of liquor within the district. Having served as a State Senator from the Mifflin district some years ago, Judge Woods is well and favorably known throughout Cen tral Pennsylvania, and It remains to be seen whether the temperance peo ple will overlook an opportunity to defend one of their champions In an open conflict. It is expected that the annual meet ing of the Chamber of Commerce at th« Masonic Temple auditorium on Munday evening will be one of the most Important sessions of that body during the present year. In addition to the distinguished speakers, who Will discuss topics of unusual Interest, there will be an election of five directors and other matters of much interest for all the members. THE GOVERNOR'S VIEWS ALL Harrisburg will endorse the views of Governor Brumbaugh relative to the development of the Capitol Park extension area as expressed through the columns of t'Re Telegraph yesterday. The Governor went Into this important subject at some length, but his thought on the matter was summed up in the follow ing closing paragraph of the inter view : I have in mind the greater Har risburg of the future and the greater Capitol of the years to come, and these two interests should be so wrought out as to give to this city and to this Common wealth the very finest setting for' the Capitol building and the most delightful park for the enjoyment and enlightenment of the people who reside here and who from time to time come here. That is precisely what Harrisburg has had in mind ever since the incep tion of the Capitol Park extension idea and the people of the city are delighted that there is in the gubernatorial chair at this critical period a man of high ideals and whose broad vision extends oi't over the years that are to come ond takes in a prospect of the city as it ought to be. The i Governor asks for the co operation of the city, and he will have it. He and the other members of the Board of Public Grounds and Build ings will find the Harrisburg Planning Commission and Harrisburg people In general with them heart and hand in this great project. One of the interesting suggestions thrown out by the Governor is the possibility of a union passenger station fronting on the new park. Such a depot has been talked of for years, but has never got past the rumor stage. If ever the plan is to mature, it must be within the next two or three years. The development of the park extension must, be harmonious, and, as the Gov ernor suggests, made along permanent lines. SOUTHERN POSSIBILITIES A "POPULAR" vote has Just been taken in South Carolina on a subject of large local interest, which is said to have induced "an ex citing campaign." Yet only about 50,000 votes were cast, though South Carolina has a population of a million and a ha,lf and 335,000 men of voting age. Even eliminating the colored votes, as South Carolina does in de fiance of the Federal Constitution, there are more than 16 5,000 white voters in the State. Yet less than one tjiird of the electorate decides ques tions for South Carolina. Ultimately this little oligarchy might decide questions for the nation, because the small group who vote in South Carolina might send two Sena tors to Washington who would hold the deciding votes on a question of great Importance. The two Senators from South Carolina are chairmen of the important committees on naval affairs and on immigration—so It is evident how far the minority vote of South Carolina now exerts an influence on national problems. WILSON AND THE TARIFF PRESIDENT WILSON, we arc as sured in dispatches from Wash ington, plans a comprehensive in vestigation by the government depart ments of all points at which the In terests of the industrial and financial life of the United States may be affected by the war in Europe. We are further assured that means are to be provided to prevent a flood of cheap products from Europe on the Ameri can market at. the end of the war. Manifestly, President Wilson Is hav ing his eyes opened to the defects of Democratic tariff legislation and now proposes to do what he can through a Democratic Congress to readjust the economic conditions so that the people ol this country may not suffer further' loss by an avalanche of the cheap labor products of Europe. Of course, everything will be blamed on the war, but businessmen and manufacturers and the army of Indus trial workers of the United States will not be deceived by any demonstration at this time to conceal the real effects of the free trade experiment. Throughout the consideration of the present tariff measure manufacturers vainly endeavored to prevent the adoption of schedules which were in the interest of foreign manufacturers and Importers and against the inter ests of the United States. All the theorists were given a full hearing, while the men with experience had the doors shut, in their faces. Now the problem of preventing the flooding of our markets by the dumping of ac cumulated products of Germany and other Industrial nations among the belligerents after the declaration of peace the President believes to be of primary Importance. Most business men will wonder why the flood gates were not erected when the legislation was under consideration. It may now be too late. American producers and American workingmen will be fortu nate, Indeed, If they escape the results of the Democratic experiment of free trade which Involves the breaking down of the protection wall that must now be restored under the guise of an economical readjustment by those nyho were responsible for the trouble. Perhaps the most favorable symp tom of the whole matter is the fact that President Wilson and his advisers are willing now to admit that a great mistake has been made and that means must be taken to escape the inevitable consequences. 1 TELEGRAPH'S P£RISCOPE~| —Heaven is a place where news papers are printed without typo graphical errors. It's strange but true that when the political pot begins to boil somebody's sure to get roasted. —This "military touch" of "\vhlch the fashion magazines are talking isn't so new. For years and years women have known how to make a rolling-pin look more dangerous than a fourteen inch gun. —There will be some people heart less enough to grin over the packing house prediction that the war will cause pork prices to go down to ' levels." —What is it that makes a man hang around when he thinks he may hear somebody say things about him he doesn't like to hear? 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT ~| Seems to be a use for an international marine police to protect inoffensive submarines from malignant liners. — Wall Street Journal. The present waf will not only change the map of Europe but also the European conception of the map of America.—Chicago Herald. It's getting so nowadays that a near sighted man can't tell the difference between strict accountability and watchful waiting.—Boston Transcript. What has become of the man who used to be always telling us that we ought to train our diplomats like the Europeans?— Charleston News and Courier. Some short sighted persons may re joice at the successful demonstration of science's power to make the human volpe audible across a space of 4,600 miles; but the thoughtful will be ap palled when at the opening of the political campaign they consider the Rossibilities of this dreadful gain. ew York Sun. It seems useless to expect an "agreed statement of fact" from Paris and Ber lin.—Kansas City Times. FEAR OF THE I.ORD BHIX«ETH KNOWLEDGE Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and'find the knowledge of God. For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and un derstanding. He layeth up sound wis dom for the righteous: he is a buckler to theni that walk uprightly. He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. Then shalt / thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.—Proverbs 11. 5 to 9. A SMOKE REFLECTOR A mirror arranged to show when | a chimney is smoking Is one 4 of the conveniences reecntly placed in the yard of a large railroad shop for the benefit of the firemen. In stead of going out at frequent inter vals to see if the ascending smoke is likely to bring the company into diffi culty, as well as to decrease tho volume of heat produced, the firemen simply glance through the window at a mirror outside the bollerhouse. .This enables them to accurately con trol the amount of fuel and draft re- j quired for a certain heat standard which may vary with atmospheric changes. , The mirror is 24x18 inches. Tt is hinged at the top and attached to an iron post at an angle of forty-five de grees. so that it Is easily visible from the firing room which Is sixty feet long. Although the chimney is 155 feet high, any smoke rising from it is perfectly reflected in the mirror. FOREST LANDS NOW HELD FOR ACTUAL SETTLERS To prevent timber speculators from Interfering with the settlement of the land by real farmers, the government is now" withholding from agricultural entry all heavily timbered land In the national forests, until after the tim ber has been cut off. In each case the land will he opened to entry as soon as this is done, and settlers will be able to acquire it from the government un der the homesteam laws instead of having to pay from S4O to S6O an acre to speculators. The care that Is being taken In classifying and disposing of the forest lands is well illustrated in the Kootenai Valley in Montana. Here a large river winds for 150 miles through the national forest. The val lev Is heavily timbered, but except for detached sections along the river it is too rough or too thinly covered with soil to be valuable for agricultural purposes. Instead of opening the whole vallev to settlement, the Forest Serv ice lias painstakingly surveyed every little river bottom, island, and bench that contains enough arable land to support a home, and only these will be subject to entry. In this way more than 300 small farms have been carv ed out of the Kootenai national forest, while the bulk of the valuable timber land has been preserved for the nation al governrpent. From the October Popular Mechanics Magazine. HEAVY EXCAVATION WITH THE HYDRAULIC GIANT Washing the dirt and boulders out of the way with a Jet of water thrown at high velocity from a hydraulic giant is now recognized as one of the most efficient methods for stripping the earth from mineral deposits as well as for many other kinds of heavy exca vation. The hydraulic giant consists simply of a tapering metal tube, or nozzle, usually from six to eight feet long, to which water is supplied un der heavy pressure. It Is so mounted that it ca nbe swung both horizontally and vertically, a feature that makes it possible to direct the jet at any point in a big aren. The work done by the hydraulic giant depends on the impact of the water, and for this reason the force exerted is a factor both of the size of the Jet and the pressure un der which the water is supplied. When a Jet of water is thrown at high ve locity from one of these machines It has many of the qualities of a hard, rigid bur. In tests made to determine the hardness of Jets produced by heavy pressure, attempts to cut through the Jet with a sword have simply resulted In the breaking of the blade. From the October Popular Mechanics Ma gazine. UNPREPAREDNESS IN 1776 [Kansas City Star.] "The game is pretty near up," Washington wrote to his brother In the midst of the Revolution. It would have been quite up If France had not come to the aid of the American cause In order to settle with England on its own account. The unpreparedness of the colonies did not deter them from bringing on a war which they were not equipped to prosecute. Unpreparedness doesn't prevent war. It makes it humiliating !or prolongs 1L HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ""PoUttC* ot ""ptKKOntyanZa By the Er-Committeeman The woman suffrage constitutional amendment will begin to figure more actively in State politics during the coming week. In this city preparations are being made to bring the issue sharply before the voters during the few weeks remaining of the campaign and the State headquarters is a busy place. Those who have given the mat ter some thought believe that the so-called "break of luck" is with'the suffragists, as any organized effort to defeat the suffrage might Endanger the other two amendments to be voted upon at the same time, and there are very powerful interests at work in favor of these two proposed amendments and little or no objection to them. Particularly fortunate, the suffragists believe, is t-he fact that the Philadelphia indebtedness provision 13 on the same ballot with the suffrage amendment, which fact they believe will result in the suffrage amendment get-ting many votes it might otherwise lose. The newly formed Franklin party of Philadelphia yesterday endorsed all of the candidates of the Washington party in that city. H. D. Allman was named as manager of the Franklin yparty campaign. \ Alexaflder Simpson, Jr., and Thomas S. Boyle were yesterday appointed members of the Philadelphia board of education. Mr. Simpson is law part ner of Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown. He will fill the vacancy caused by the death of William T. Tilden, and Mr. Boyle will succeed John Burt, whose term expires in November. Other members whose terms expired were reappointed. Harry Diamond, attorney for David Johns, candidate for Allegheny county prothonotary at the general primary election September 21, went into court in Pittsburgh yesterday afternoon and asked that 140 ballot boxes from as many districts in the county and city be opened and the vote recounted. This action followed the refusal of the court to grant Johns' petition that the order reopening the boxes in the first six wards o? that city be annulled. Johns' vote has shown a slight falling off in, the recount of these wards. The names of the election boards in whose districts irregularities have been found were given to the district attorney's office in connection with a grand jurv investigation that is to be instituted. —Frank L. Dershem, of Lewlsburg, one of the Democratic "lame ducks," has landed a. federal job. He got Into Congress from the Seventeenth district in the 1912 fight because of division of opposing forces, but last year the voters put him on an island. It la understood his new job will be in Philadelphia. -Ex-Representative E. L. Wasson, of Butler, was last night appointed by Governor Brumbaugh as Butler coun ty treasurer. He fills a vacancy caused by death and the selection ends a lively contest. A PREACHER OF THE PLAIVS [Kansas City Star.] The Rev. Isaac Hosey, the cowboy preacher who died the other day in Depew, Okla., was one of the last of a type of preachers who were the prod uct of the old wild days of the back woods, the frontier mining camps and cow ranches. They were "fighting parsons." No other kind could exist on the border In those wild times. Pete Cartwright, a Methodist- circuit rider in the Middle West for fifty years, was one of that type. He preached fifteen, thousand sermons and baptized twelve thousand persons in Illinois. Kentucky and Tennessee in an early day. He was a "fighting parson" who used to leap across his pulpit occasionally and whip a rough disturber of his meeting. There were many of those lighting parsons. Ifi his youth Hosey was a cowboy and as "rough as they make 'em." He became sincerely converted and start- I ed out to preach the gospel to the cow boys of the plains. At first he follow ed the advice of St. Paul to Timothy: "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient." Biit this did not well fit his case, for the cowboys were in the habit of shooting off their pistols while he was preaching and thus breaking up his meetings, and so Hosey sought for an other Bible text that would justify him in keeping order and found it, also in St. Paul's advice to Timothy: "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." Hosey was seven feet tall and unus ually powerful. He could "whip his weight in wildcoats." In a cow camp he would get up behind his pulpit, often an upended feed box, open his Bible, lay his long barreled 6-shooter across the pages of the sacred Word and say: "Boys' this is my meeting, and I'm going to run It. I've got a message for you and I'd like for you all to stay and hear It. If you don't want to hear It and be peaceable, go now. for I sure will make it hard sledding for the man who starts anything here to-night. Now let us pray." He had many a fight, and he always won. He was gentle as a woman, too, and many stories are told of how ten derly he nursed sick cowboys and of what sacrifices he made In their be half, for his religion was sincere and he lived It as he knew it The rough men of the plains came to love him and he led thousands of them to be better men. He was a good soldier of the cross, he "fought a good fight" and has gone to his reward. Our Daily Laugh i A LONG TIME. Willie: Tou | j once said you'd U—jy \ love me till I was an old man. 71Lulu: Yes, but I never thought It would take you 85 I<>n * tC> B with their general condition. But for all that there are no brighter children In the city schools than these little aliens who are being trained by Miss Maude Gamble and her corps of de voted teachers to be good American citizens. They are ambitious to get along in their studies, for the most part and their parents are quite as solicitous in this respect as the little folks themselves. So it wal that when the order went forth for the school demonstra tion it was hailed with delight by the boys and girls of the Penn building < and with terror by Miss Gamble and her assistants. How to get all of the girls garbed in white and the bovs togged out in clean white shirtwaists they did not know. Many of the lit tle ones, it was suspected, did not have such garments and others who did have them would not present the immaculate aspect demanded by the school regulations. So the teachers made a careful canvas and where the children had no white clothes of the kind required the teachers either in duced the parents to invest therein ' or where they were too poor the teach ers themselves did the buying. In addition they collected the soiled little skirts and the spotted little waists and took them home with them and many were the washboards that were busy and the irons that were hot in the homes of the teachers the night previous to the great demonstration. Some of the young women worked un til far after midnight playing laund ress in order that their pupils might be spotlessly clad. When the lines formed next morning the Penn build ing's delegation was so clean that it was next door to heavenly. Never had it smelled so sweetly of starch and soap and so little of perspiration. It simply radiated cleanliness. Spot less Town never had anything on the Penn school pupils as they looked that day. But there was one fly in the oint ment. One little fellow turned up with a dirty white sweater covering a very ragged black shirtwaist. ( "You cannot march that way." ad monished a teacher. "Run home and get your white shirt." "I can't wailed the boy," beginning to sob in his disappointment. "I want so much to go in the parade, so I put on this white sweater I borrowed, 'cause I have no white shirt. Won't it do?" • The teacher said it wouldn't, but among her fellows she raised the price of a white shirtwaist and the parade was held up ten minutes wlule the purchase was made and the lifht*, , fellow garbed in his new finery. That's the way it happened that Penn build ing had 100 per cent, of its pupils in line and there are those who believe that had the facts been known to the < judges Penn would have been award ed a prize. * • • The cleaning up preparatory to in spection which has been under way on the Pennsylvania railroad has nothing on the State's highways throughout the State. Men connected with the State Highway Department are working daily all over the Commonwealth to get the roads into shape for winter and some of the busiest are right near this city. The Riverside has been put into apple pie order and roads lead ing to Gettysburg and out the Cum berland Valley are being taken caro of in the same way. ** * > The State will call no more forestry reserves after its governors. The num ber of new reserves does not bid as fair to hold up as does the list of governors. Years ago when the State started out to accumulate its more than a million acres of forest re serves and to buy back what it had given away the plan was devised of honoring governors by naming re serves in their honor. In recent years reserves were named for William A. Stone in the northern part of the State, for Samuel W. Pennypacker in the Juniata Valley and for Edwin S. Stuart in the Ligonier region. When John K. Tener came in he saw that reserves were growing short and as most of the purchases were for addi tions to those existing he suggested abolishing the plan. No further nam- . ing has been done. VEIL KNOWN PEOPLE —Fred T. Chandler, Philadelphia broker, is making arrangements for a big banquet to the winning Phila delphia team. —George W. Guthrie, American am bassador tg Japan, will be the Presi dent's personal representative at the coronation of the Mikado. —W. H. Donner, active man in Pennsylvania and Cambria Steel, has taken a residence in Philadelphia. —C. D. Barney, Philadelphia bank er, has returned from Put in Bay on Lake Erie, his summer home. -Ex-Governor Pennypacker, who appeared in court with his arm in a sling, insists he will return to his duties this coming week. —Walter Wood. Philadelphia iron man, is a vice-president of the Amer ican Foundrymen's Association. 1 DO YOU KNOW • That hundreds of people from . distant counties are visiting the, State Capitol on special excur sions? HISTORIC HARRJSBIJRG The site of Lochiel furnace used u, be an Indian camp. GIANT WAR HAWK OF THE GERMAN AERIAL CORPS War correspondents are describing the appearance in northern France of a German "battle aerqplane" of the dual-tractor, twin-engine type which has all but driven its enemy from the sky. A page view of this great ma chine is a feature of the October Popu lar Mechanics Magazine. It is a bi plane of 70-ft. wing spread. It has two separate fuselages, in each of which is installed a 100-horsepower motor, and between these an armored nacelle which mounts machine guns. It maintains a six-nour patrol safely 4 out of firing range at a height vary ing between 4,000 and 8,000 ft. While awaiting the appearance of prey it sweeps the sky in broad circles. Then It swoops down like a hawk and siics battle.