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TUESDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 19
The Life of God is not to be discov
ered by reasoning, but by obeying.—
Ruskin.
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THE SHORTCOMINGS OF FAIRS
'TT/'HILE the retiring admlnistra
|y y tion of the State Department
of Agriculture has inaugur
ated some important movements in
behalf of the advancement of agricul
ture in Pennsylvania, notably the es
tablishment of the farm advisers' ser
vice, the supervision of feeding stuffs,
seeds, fertilizers and materials and the
taking of orchard instruction to the
people, there has been one thing done
fc-hich may prove to be the salvutkm of
the county fairs, from the farming
point of view. This has been the in
stallation at a couple of fairs of an
Exhibit purely agricultural.
The Pennsylvania Farmer, one of
the best edited journals in the coun
try, declares in an editorial that
''many fairs are little better than
Street carnivals; with the carnival fea
tures always in the foreground." In
the course of its keen analysis of the
Situation it remarks that fairs are rec
ognized as agricultural institutions
and as such receive a State subsidy
and'that "except In minor fairs, which
are almost entirely local in character,
the agricultural exhibits are minor
features."
In other words, the county fairs and
agricultural exhibitions of the State
Ore in ganger of being conducted for
gate receipt? and not for agricultural
advancement. There are a few fairs,
Etock shows and exhibitions which are
agricultural and where the amusement
feature is minimized, but they are
really few in number and it is high
time that cognizance be taken of the
[fact. The State exhibit may serve to
inform the people of the purpose of ;
the fairs and If managements are wise '
they will take the cue and revise their
attractions so that State support can
he assured In the future.
Our new Secretary of Agriculture is
a practical farmer and knows how to
turn a furrow. He is also a business
man and we believe, that he intends to
promote agriculture.
OUR CIVHO CENTER
HARTFORD is a city much like
Harrisburg In all that consti
tutes civic activiy and municipal
progress. Among other things Hart
ford is interested now in the creation
of a civic center such as this city
hopes to have in co-operation with
the State through the development of
the Capitol Park Extension zone. And
this city is peculiarly fortunate In
having on Capitol Hill at this time an \
administration whicM is interested in!
Its various departments in construc
•tive work.
Governor Tener had the vision
which made possible the purchase of
the necessary property east of the
Capitol as an adequate setting for the
magnificent building that represents
the dignity and power of the Com
monwealth. Governor Brumbaugh
has the Imagination and the vision
and the esthetic taste which will in
spire a comprehensive treatment of
tho entire zone bounded by Walnut,
Third and North streets and the Penn
sylvania railroad.
It will be the pleasure of the City
Planning Commission to co-operate
•with the State Board of Public
Grounds and Buildings in such a way
as to cseate a civic center that will not
only be a credit to Pennsylvania, but
also an impressive object lesion for
the millions of people who pass
through Harrisburg over the main line
of the Pennsylvania railroad every
year.
Harrisburg is going on its way re
joicing, the recent municipal cele
bration having given even greater
momentum than ever before to the
, civic impulse of the people and the
several projects which are under con
sideration for the further lmprove
ment of the city and the welfare of Its
people.
There Is general interest in the pro
posed civic center and all must loott
with pleasure toward the development
of a central feature which will be an
object of pride for the entire com
munity and a credit to a city which is
TUESDAY EVENING,
always doing things and doing them
well.
j And while we are on the subject,!
nothing better in the way of com
munity co-operation has ever been
written than the following:
If you wint to live in the kind of
• a f<uvn
Like the kind of town you like.
You needn't slip your clothes in a
grip
And start on a long, long hike.
You'll only And what you left be
hind.
For there's nothing that's really
new.
It's a knock at yourself when you
knock your town,
It isn't the town-t—it's you.
Real towns are not made by men
afraid
Lest somebody else gets ahead.
When every one works and nobody
shirks
You can raise a town from the
dead.
And If, while you make your per
sonal stake.
Your neighbors can make one,
too,
Your town will be what you want
to see.
It isn't the town—it's you.
IS IT RIGHT?
JOHN WANAMAKER, founder of
one of the really great business
houses in this country, declares
that the foundation of his success is
based on these three words:
"Is It Right?"
The very success of this man makes
those who would succeed pause and
ponder over the three litMe homely
Anglo-Saxon words by which he sets
such store. In and around them is
I grouped everything that counts for
truth, righteousness and progress in
biTsiness or In individual life.
It is an adaptation of the old in
junction to "be sure you're right; then
go ahead," and it ought to be a fac
tor In every man's life.
PARKS FOR USE
Governor brumbaugits
strong declaration in favor of
parks and playgrounds at the re
cent municipal celebration meet
ing' here has aroused much interest
throughout the country. From the
American Civic headquarters at
Washington has gone out a statement
of the Governor's views and some
facts regarding the development of
park land in this city.
Governor Brumbaugh believes, with
all other advocates of the park as a
distinct asset of the <*lty, that much
of crime, unhappiness and discontent
may be prevented through a proper
appreciation of the economical values
of parks and recreational areas in the
congested centers of population. The
Governor believes, as do all practical
park advocates now, that these public
resorts should be for service rather
than ornament; that they should be
accessible to all the people and that
street railway lines and other means
of ingress and egress ought to be pro
vided so that the parks may be large
ly utilized.
FACTS AND FANCIES
FACTS have a cruel way of sub
stituting themselves for fancies,"
said Secretary of Commerce Redfield
in an address delivered before the
Case School of Applied Science.
Ever since the Democratic tariff
law was enacted the Republican party
has been unearthing the facts, while
Mr. Redfield and his press agent bu
reau have entertained the public with
fancies.
To-day the substitution is complete.
GENTLE GERMANY
CAN you picture American soldiers
leading a woman out to bo shot?
Can you picture the poor
creature falling fainting to the earth
as the firing squad prepares to shoot,
and can you picture an American offi
cer calmly kneeling by her side, draw
ing his pistol and blowing out her
brains? And then can you imagine
that officer and the firing squad going
quietly off about their daily duties?
You cannot, because, in the first
place. American soldiers do not lead
women out to be shot and in the sec
ond place an American officer who
killed a woman would himself fall be
fore the righteous wrath' of his own
men. Thank Heaven the process
demoralizing military discipline has
not gone far enough in this country
where men will become brutes and
murderers at the behest of command
ing officers. Thank Heaven that Am
erican manhood is still supreme over
all things.
Cultured, humanitarian Germany!
Gentle Germany, forsooth! The ap
pellation Is a mockery. The recent
murder of an English nurse under the
circumstances set forth above is on
a par with the blowing up of pass
enger ships and the assassination of
babies and their mothers by Zeppelins
in London. And yet we are asked to
give our sympathies and lend our
moral support to a cause whose watch
word is murder and whose badge is
the blood of women slain.
THE SOrTH IN THE SADDLE
THE South is exulting because one
of its sons 14 found as acting
head of the State Department.
Frank L. Polk, the new counsellor of
the department. Is a grandson of that
Leonldas Polk who was both a bishop
and a colonel in the Confederate army
—and Southern newspapers are roll
ing as a sweet morsel over their
tongues the phrase, "Acting Secretary
of State Polk."
The South has reason to exult.
When Mr. Polk heads the State De
partment, the South can show almost
a clear majority of the Cabinet. At
any rate, an even half of the group
are Southern men: Polk, of Tennes
see; McAdoo, of Georgia; Gregory
and Burleson, of Texas; Daniels, of
North Carolina.
The South is in the saddle.
With his well known enthusiasm for
all constructive work In the city and the
State, the Governor Is preparing to co
operate with Harrlsburg In the har
monious development of the Capitol
Park extensiqji zone. This is an Im
portant matter and, fortunately for the
city and the State, Governor Brum
baugh realizes what myst le done to
obtain the best possible results in mak
ing over the section of the city now
.embraced In the State's park area.
| TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE
—On November 2 we suspect the
anti-suffragist women of Pennsylva
nia will wish they had the right to
vote.
—lf this thing keeps up the officers
of the several armies of Europe will
have to be supplied with diagrams ex
plaining Just which nations are their
allies and which their enemies.
—The poet who pronounced them
"melancholy days" probably wrote his
little poem immediately after buying
his wife a new coat and paying his
coal bill.
—"You can blind men by throwing
gold dust in their eyes," says the
Philadelphia Bulletin. We don't
know how true that is but if the Bul
letin wants to experiment, why we
can furnish a willing subject.
—The casualty lists from New Jer
sey lead us to suspect that the deer
hunting season is on there.
—General Villa persists in assert
ing that he is not dead. Oh, well, let
him have his way; it doesn't appear to
make much difference anyhow.
EDrTORIAL COMMENT
Maybe the allies are trying to "lure"
the Austro-Gcrmans into the Balkans
the way the Russians "lured" them
into Russia.—Kansas City Times.
What will the State of Missouri do
to prevent lynchings when the Hon.
Champ Clark's duties as a statesman
require his presence in Washington?—
New York Sun.
The Czar no doubt consoles himself
for certain failures along the main
battle line by the striking success of
the operations against the Duma.—
Chicago Herald.
Since he learned that the billion
dollar loan is to remain in this country,
Mr. Bryan somehow has seemed less
eager about his European trip.—Boston
Transcript.
The Panama-Pacific Exposition at
San Francisco has repaid the njoney
borrowed. How many of the folk who
nave attended the show can say as
much?— Los Angeles Times.
Poking fun at Henry Ford's sugges
tion for a miniature submarine is now
In order. If history is due to repeat,
this means the unqualified success of
the plan.—Detroit News.
On top of what the war has done to
the map of Europe the poor school
kids of the next generation will have
to bound Vilhjalmur Stefansson Land.
—Boston Transcript.
A New York pastor calls the war "the
greatest blessing since the Reforma
tion." He talks like an army con
tractor.—Chicago Herald.
I'NITED STATES REAPS
WHERE WILSON SOWED
Within two wet ks the seamen's law.
a statute of the United States by the
Affirmative act of Woodrow Wilson,
will have done its complete work on
the Pacific. It will have transferred
the commerce of that mighty ocean to
the Japanese. American merchants,
American farmers, the American gov
ernment itself, will be at the mercy of
their natural rivals.
On the Great Lakes the incidence
of the act is beginning to be felt. Al
ready it takes its place in the causes
of bankruptcy and heartens all the
owners of Canadian ships in their
struggle for supremacy on their south
ern water boundary. When, next year,
all its provisions are effective, the full
measure of its contribution to alien
prosperity will begin to be apparent,
although its whole mission cannot be
accomplished until peace in Europe
restores normal competition on the
Atlantic.
President Wilson knew when he
signed the seamen's law what its en
forcement would mean. It lay within
bis power to avert the catastrophe.
Instead, he put the law on the books.
Will he now urge the Inevitable con
sequences of that deed as a reason for
supporting the folly of a government
owned merchant marine?
HELP AMATEUR ATHLETICS
[Kansas City Star.]
On© hundred thousand persons saw
the last game of the intercity baseball
champotnshlp in Cleveland a few days
ago. One hundred thousand! Think
of it. What an interest in amateur
sport there inust be when so many
persons will turn out to see a game.
For such an attendance indicates an
enthusiasm which can come only from
hundreds of corner lot baseball clubs.
A widespread interest in amateur
athletics is what every city must aim
at. There is nothing like participation
in such athletics to keep young fellows
wholesome and fit. The Greeks knew
what they were about w*hen they put
the Olympian games on a par with
literature and art and philosophy.
But in this country the tendency
generally has been to make atheltics
too expensive for anybody to take
part in except rich men and rich men's
sons. The great mass of young fellows
who are making their way in the
world are barred, in the cities at least,
from most kinds of sport.
The admission fee to professional
baseball games makes attendance a
good deal of a luxury. The reduction
in Federal league admission fees is to
be noted as in the direction of popu
larizing the game. But there never
was an athletic club which did not suc
cumb to the tendency to elaborateness
of equipment, with a consequent in
crease in expense. Os a
such clubs tend to become institutions
of middle-aged gentlemen, too expen
sive for the average young man to be
long to. That tendency is illustrated
in Kansas City, where the Athletic
club has just voted to start on the
usual course of expansion. The golf
and athletic activities of the
country clubs, of course, fall in the
same class. They are too costly for
young men.
The obligation of the city is the
clearer, then, to see to it that ample
sport grounds are available for
its young men. Kansas City is
making a beginning in the public ten
nis courts and ball grounds. But the
facilities are far from sufficient to en
courage the athletics that a town like
this should have. It would be worth
while for the city to undertake to
arouse the sport enthusiasm that has
been stirred up in Cleveland.
YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM
By W ing Dinger
It beats the dickens how a kid
Will put up to his dad
Some puzzling questions—l've in mind
One asked by mv wee lad.
This morning, at the table, he
Asked: "Has an egg an eve?"
"Why, no, it's not an animal,"
To him I did reply.
But ere the meal was finished, he *
Asked, "Is a potato
An animal?" to which, of course,
I quickly arißwered, "Na."
"I Just was wondering," he said,
' Because it has an eye"—
I tried to think an answer out.
But wound ujp with a sigh.
HARJRISBURG TELEGRAPH
R F*C>LLUC4- CK
' ""PiKKOift^arua
By the Ex-Committeeman
Now that It stands to reason that
the next legislature will be asked to
either clarify the nonpartisan judicial
nomination act or to pass a new one
which will be workable and enforce
able It is probable that there will be
a determined movement inaugurated
to get some better system of com
puting the primary vote. Three weeks
between the conclusion of a count and
election day Is entirely too short for a
campaign.
It was only last week that the offi
cial returns from the State were re
ceived at the Capitol and until they
came In It was impossible to in
augurate the suits which candidates
had a right to start to obtain legal
definition of their status. The result
is that the business of the Dauphin
county court has been Interrupted to
hear and dispose of cases in which
the whole State is interested and the
time of certification of the nomtna
tious is perilously close to the limit.
Either there will be some limitation
of the time taken to secure a fair
colint or else the primary date In odd
numbered years should be fixed llj he
summer. The suggestions will prob
ably be heard In numerous places be
tween now and the time the next
legislature meets.
Attorney General Francis Shunk
Brown is giving attention to the de
fects uncovered In the nonpartisan act
and will take up the matter with the
Governor at an early day. More and
more, the mistake in not accepting the
work of the Election Law Commission
of half a dozen years ago as a starter
at least is becoming apparent.
—The Democratic reorganization
bosses in Allegheny county have got
ten into such a State of fright that
they have turned to the Old Guards
men for aid. Col. J. M. Guftey, W.
J. Brennan and other men who have
been denounced by the Allegheny
wing of the reorganization gang have
been urged to come to the aid of the
party. In other words the reorganiza
tion machine has collapsed in that
section of the State, just as it has in
Lackawanna, Erie and other coun
ties and as it will in Philadelphia. The
internal fighting in Dauphin county is
nothing to the warfare under way jn
Democratic camps in other counties.
—Developments were numerous in
the Philadelphia mayoralty campaign
yesterday. Thomas B. Smith Jolted
the Blankenburg and reform crowd by
denouncing the removal of veterans
and declaring that if elected he would
restore the civil war soldiers. Promi
nent businessmen had a meeting and
endorsed Smith in the interest of a
business administration, showing their
weariness of the reformers who do not
reform. Mayor Blankenbuig went on
the stump for George D. Porter and
drew a hot return fire, while Smith
and Porter engaged In a lively inter
change of speeches.
—Dr. M. L. Chadman, the Demo
cratic candidate for mayor of Lan
caster, has made a bid for votes bv
offering his salary, If elected. to
charity. There is a string to it In the
shape that fhe payment shall be less
expenses.
—Chester county temperance peo
ple have endorsed Judge B. S. Oaw
throp for election to the full term. He
Is the Governpr's appointee.
The Allegheny county ballot will
measure 25 by, 38 inches and be print
ed on both sides.
—Charles O. Schroyer, Bepublican
county >chairman of Fayette has ar
ranged that the Bepublican county
committee will move into new head
quarters in Untontown. The announce
ment by Chairman Schroyer virtually
means that the Bepublican nominees
for the county offices will begin a
whirlwind campaign to continue until
the election on November 2, Just two
weeks off.
—Resolutions expressing Republican
appreciation for the successful efforts
of City Chairman David H. Lane to
bring about* an agreement on candi
dates this year that meant a united
party, were presented to the veteran
leader last night at a meeting of the
Twentieth Ward Republican Execu
tive Committee in Philadelphia prior
to the entrance of Mayoralty Candi
date, Mr. Smith, and the other cam
paigners on their tour of the wards.
At Pittsburgh the ballot boxes,
which had been taken to the court
house from the many precincts
throughout Allegheny county in which
fraud was alleged to have been per
petrated in the recent primary elec
tion, were removed to the County Jail
by order of the court. Judge John D.
Shafer signed a petition filed by Dis
trict, Attorney R. H. Jackson, who re
quested the Court to allow the ballot
boxes to remain in the custody of the
| district attorney and the county com
missioners, until' such time as the
pending criminal actions could be
prosecuted by the Commonwealth. Mr.
Jackson declared he wished to use the
ballot boxes as evidence against those
persons who will have been indicted
for election irregularities by the time
the Commonwealth Is prepared to be
gin the prosecution.
CAMPAIGN NOTES
The eastern end of the county not
only makes good farmers, but It pro
duces campaign orators par excellence,
as well. The latest development in
that line is F. B. Sn&vbly, Republican
candidate for poor director. Asirte
from having charge of some 6,000 or
7,000 acres of land attached to the
Hershoy farms, Mr. Snavely is a busi
ness man of no mean ability and he
finds time to go about the county
evenings making the kind of speech.es
that people like to hear. This Fall
marks his first appearance on the
stump but he goes at his job like a
veteran and Is making: scores of
friends thereby.
It has been twenty-five years since
the upper end of the county had a
candidate for county recorder. Philip
Swab, of that district, was the last
man from that part of the county to
hold the office and the upper end peo
ple are much pleased that James E.
Lentz won out for the Republican
nomination this Fall. He will get a
tremendous vote throughout that dis
trict
It is not generally known, but when
Mark Mumma. Republican candidate
for county treasurer, became tax col
lector for Steelton some years ago
that thriving borough was very much
"up in the air" as to where it stood
financially. Since that time Mr. Mum
ma has put Steelton on its feet and the
taxes have been collected up to the
minute each year. He will carry the
same careful guardianship of public
funds to the county treasurer's office.
The public declarations of William
S. Tunis and Alderman Bayles that
they out for the whole Republican
ticket have robbed the Democratic
campaigners of much of their thunder.
After those declarations, stories of
dissension In Republican ranks were
received only with grins by the vot
ers.
The Central Democratic Club la not
going to hold a "pass key" rally. Tho
newspaper upon which the Democrats
depend for support. It Is understood,
Jias suggested that the Central Club
I THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
METROPOLITAN MOVIES
—From the sl<»w York World. .
"An-n-n-d, my fellow citizens, do you she will be satisfied when she
gets the vote? Oh, dear no! She will never rest until she's at the helm!"
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THE PANAMA CA
Vlll.—Popular Hospitals
By Frederic J. Haskin
Si J
THE Hospital Service is one de
partment of the Panama Canal
Government which is doing a
great work in the promotion of Pan
American spirit.
This is not to say that other depart
ments of the canal government are
not doing their share in building up
the friendship between Uncle Sam and
Latin America, but it cannot be over
looked or denied that there has been
much friction and some bad feeling.
This was Inevitable. The Panama
nians, a people of traditions centuries
old, who had lived their lives in the
earn© way ever since the Spaniards
crossed the ocean, suddenly found the
greatest industrial project in the world
pitched down among them. It could
not be expected that they would In
stantly appreciate the blessings and
opportunities it brought that will
fall to future generations. For the
present, change and confusion and
competition are what the canal has
meant to many of the isthmian peo
ple.
Many of them have not even ap
preciated the extermination of the
tropical diseases. They assert that
they were Immune to these, and that
sanitation to them has meant noth
ing but immigration, which they do
not desire.
Toward the hospitals their attitude
Is different, as Indeed It must be.
Formerly, the aristocrats of all Latin
America journeyed to Europe when
in need of surgical skill. Both the
trip and the treatment were fearfully
expensive, while the delay often meant
death. As for the poorer classes,
when the swift diseases of the tropics
fell jjpon them, they simply lay down
in their huts and waited.
Splendid Hospital
Now in the beautifully situated hos
pital at Ancon. which has every equip
ment known to modern surgery- and
medicine, and the highest skill that
money can buy, anyone may secure
treatment at the most reasonable
rates. For patients in the wards four
dollars a day is charged, and for those
call theirs a "sandwich" rally, thus
encouraging Democrats to attend and
at the same time giving that newspa
per an excuse for advertising the ral
ly, It being well known that "pass
key" rallies are reserved for Republi
can criticisms. All the same no Cen
tral Club member who doesn't have
his "pass-key" will be admitted.
The East End Republican Club
members are wondering what excuse
the Democratic publicity department
will find for criticising their rally on
Wednesday evening. The club has no
buffet and any Republican who desires
may attend. There will be no "pass
keya."
[ The State From Day to Day^|
The chestnut crop In Carbon coun
ty this year is far bejow the average,
and the nuts are of an inferior qual
ity. They are selling at sl2 per
bushel, the highest price in many
years.
Mayor Stern has been asked to ex
tend the time on the removal of ships
aground in the Erie harbor. If they
are flying the American flag, Mayor
Stern should be lenient.
South Bethlehem is also making a
for pure milk. Dealers
must come clean.
The annual reunion of the Forty
seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Vol
unteers, will be held on October 22,
the anniversary of the Battle of Po
cotaligo, with a dinner at the Lafay
ette Hotel, at Allentown.
Bethlehem Firemen's Relief Asso
ciation, Thursday night elected seven
candidates to membership. It was de
cided to apply to the court at the
next term, to have the name of the
organization changed to The Beth
lehem Volunteer Firemen's Relief
Association.
Because the employment bureau
has worked out so successfully In the
evening higrh school at Lancaster It is
understood that a similar bureau will
be started in the Lancaster and
Stevens High schools. Professor A. F.
English started the work in the
evening school.
There has been an Increase of 2,-
000,000 In the city assessment of
Reading, this Increase being almost
entirely due to the new buildings!
erected during the year.
GUILTY CON
SCIENCE. a.
"What'i yer
hurry?" iJI
"The Metropoli
tan Museum has
offered a SI,OOO \T
prise for a speei- I m
men of a kissing I «"
bus. I'm afraid i3 ut«j
thiiv mean me,"
OCTOBEH 19, 1915. "
in rooms six dollars a day. There is
an extra charge for operations, but
not for nursing or the attendance of
a physician.
You may do many things to help a
man and still make him your enemy,
but when you find him sick and make
him well he must become your friend,
and that is just what Uncle Sam's
hospitals on the isthmus are doing.
Patients are coming to them from all
the countries of South America, and
from as far north as Mexico. The
promising son of an aristocratic Co
lombian family, for example, is strick
en by some mysterious disease which
no one in that land understands. He
is sinking and may die in a week.
But a few days now bring him to
medical skill and facilities as fine an
the world contains. At Ancon hospital
his disease is quickly diagnosed and
treated, he is sent home a well man
and a friend of Uncle Sam for life.
His family will forever be promoters
of the feeling that Is steadily bring
ing all the Americas closer together
in trade and friendship.
Not less inspiring is the thought of
what high-class medical skill on the
isthmus means to the poorer classes,
for whom disease was formerly with
out hope. For a time the West In
dian blacks who came to dig the
canal distrusted the hofitals and
threw away the quinine given them
by the sanitary inspectors, but they
have learned that the white men effect
wonderful cures and have come to
trust them.
Had Chronic Malaria
This work of the hospitals among
the native peoples is of importance to
the health of the isthmus as well, for
in the interior of Panama sanitary
conditions are extremely bad. A
sanitary inspector for the government
of Panama recently made a trip
through the interior and found every
where a lack of sewage, combined
with the use of shallow wells, which
was certain to breed disease. Many
[Continued on Pa«e 12.]
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
"THE GREAT WAR"
"The Great War," by George H. Allen.
Ph. D., of the University of Pennsyl
vania. History Department, and Henry
C. Whitehead, captain In the United
States Arm£, with an introduction by
ex-President William H. Taft. This first
of a series of nonpartisan volumes on
the causes of and motives for the great
European conflict is printed and pub
lished by George Barrie's Sons, of
Philadelphia, and Is easily one of the
most important contributions to the
literature of the war.
Governor Brumbaugh, who is a great
reader and a student of history, has
been much impressed with the work,
as have others who have had opportu
nity to read the opening chapters. Com
menting upon this remarkable publica
tion, the New York Evening Post savs:i
It would be difficult to name another
volume that attempts to do Just what
this one does and does it so well. Its
Impartiality Is evident upon every page
as Is its author's knowledge of the
tangled skein of events that at last
tightened into the present knot. The
illustrations, some of which are In
colors, are of persons and places of in
terest in connection with the great
drama; reproductions of famous paint
ings of historic events, as the Impres
sive one by Carl Wagner of Bismarck
Dictating Conditions to Thiers,' of
| parts of the Treaty of 1839 guar
anteeing the neutrality of Bel
gium, and of cartoons. Including Ten
niel s 'Dropping the Pilot.' In addi
tion. there Is a good array of maps
and a comprehensive chronological
table. The type is delightfully liy-ge
and clear. Mr. Taft is well within
truth when he says: 'lf the other vol
umes, i. e., a second on the military
preparedness of each belligerent coun
try, a third on the diplomatic prelimi
naries, the mobilization, the attacks on
Serbia and the Invasion of Belgium,
I and others on the progress of the war,
are as clear, concise, and helpful as the
one now published, they will consti
tute a real addition to the literature of
this great world disaster."
Mr. Taft gives a most illuminating
analysis of the work as a whole and
1 presents in his introduction to the first
volume such a clear and fdrceful review
of its salient features that the reader
Immediately finds himself Immersed In
the very moving causes of the extraor
dinary international convulsion that Is
now threatening dynasties and nations.
As Dr."Allen was In Russia at the out
lu-eak of the war on his fourth visit to
that country and has lived much of his
time in Europe, he Is unusually quali
fied to discuss the questions which have
arisen and which have now been re
ferred to the arbitrament of arms. Ex-
President Taft says that "on the whole
the volume is a most useful one for a
practical survey of the European situa
tion leading to the war and bears on
every page evidence of the Impartial
spirit In which It is written."
The text, the Illustrations and every
thing connected with the work are
worthy of the enterprise of the pub
lishers. and it is doubtful whether any
thing hereafter will be more llluminat
-1 18 r,, ?r 'mportant from the standpoint
of literature of the war than this par- I
tlcular work.
LACK OF KNOWLEDGE
My people are destroyed for lack of
iowled*e. —Hosea iv» 6.
Ebrtting (Etjat
It needs but the spectacle of •
couple dozen bead of cattle being
driven through a city stoeet to con
vince one thoroughly that they are
blessed with as little intellect as a
f)® 8 Amid hoarse cries of "Ho" and
"Hup" a bully herd surged down Front
street early this morning on a pilgrim
age to an unknown place of execution,
perhaps. That they were unaccus
tomed to the ways of the world 4a
typified by city streets and grass
was evident and the most casual ob
server could tell'that they knew not
the traffic rules. The first sight, of
them revealed a mass of bodies mov
ing sedately along except when one
would be shoved out of the ranks; and
everything was clover for the goaders.
The last view was that of a million
swishing talis and leaping backs as an
automobile claxoned Its way through
their midst and scattered them in a
galloping one-step to all corners of
the road and vicinity.
Pennsylvania is not exporting near
ly as much of the foodstuffs it raises
as is generally believed in the opinion
of State Zoologist H. A. Surface and
other State officials who have been ob
serving the disposition of the grain,
vegetables, and fruit raised in the
Keystone State since the European
war began. It was the impression last
Fall that a very large portion of the
wheat, corn and rye crops would go
abroad and that the demands for
vegetables and fruit for canning for
export would be heavier than ever
known. Unquestionably, says Dr.
Surface, some of the grain was ex
ported and there were some ship
ments of canned vegetables and fruits
made from this State to England or
other countries, but the amount was
not very great. Instead, the State
absorbed a big proportion of what it
raised and sales to commission men
at the distribution centers in Penn
sylvania were immense. The high
prices for wheat caused all but a
small portion to be sold earlier than
usual, but there was plenty of it used
at home. As for the vegetables and
fruit more could have been taken
right in Pennsylvania last Fall and
if labor had been available for pick
ing this year in some peach districts
the supply would have run greater. It
is the opinion of men at the Capitol
that in spite of the strides made in
agriculture and horticulture in this
State in the last decade there is still
a big place to put the foodstuffs that
can be raised.
An unusually large attendance is
looked for at the annual convention
of the Federated Humane Societies of
Pennsylvania, -which will hold its ses
sion at the Commonwealth Hotel next
Wednesday. John T. Olmsted is the
delegate of the Harrisburg Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
and the report of the local branch will
be of great interest to the delegates
owing to the fact that the society here
has been very active during the past
year and has been supplying a col
umn of interesting notes regularly to
the city newspapers. Anybody inter
ested in the subject will be admitted
to the convention without card.
The question of abolition of grade
crossings on the line of the Lincoln
highway is being considered by three
of the members of the Public Service
Commission and will be acted upon
within a month or so. Owing to the
big expense attached to municipali
ties the commission will go slow and
its recommendations will likely <!fa
trlbute the burden over several years.
The resignation of Robert W. Hoy
as commercial manager of the Harris
burg Light and Power Company to
accept a similar position in Elmira,
N. Y., marks the passing of one of n
pair of brothers who for many years
had had a prominent place in the
amateur minstrels and similar enter
tainments. With his brother, Frank H.
Jr., the manager of the electric light
company composed a team of "end
men" that compared favorably with
some of the professional minstrels
that appeared here from time to
time with Fields', Dockstader and
other big companies. Both were ex
cellent comedians, both could sing and
while both could tell a good story, the
pair in concert formed a fun-making
combination that was mighty hard to
beat.
I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Charles Hayden, prominent Phila
delphia financier, has been elected to
the directorate of the Pittsburgh Rail
ways Company.
—Morgan Bovan, well known to
many here, has been made superin
tendent tof the Ashland division of the
Reading's mining operations.
—The Rev. Dr. Henry T. Drum
goole, head of St. Charles Seminary,
has been made a domestic prelate by
the pope.
—A. J. Bihljer, of Pittsburgh, has
been re-elected president of the Na
tional Hardware Association.
| DO YOU KNOW
—That Horrlsburg Is supplying
the mill work for building opera
tions for many towns in tills sec
tion?
HISTORIC HARRISBVRG
—President Tyler was the first
President to make a speech on Capitol
Hill.
IN HARRISBURO FIFTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph, Oct. 19, 1860.]
Mayor Recovering From Illness
Mayor Roumfort, who has been ill
for several weeks at his home is
slowly recovering.
City Delegates at Synod
A number of delegates from this
city are attending the session of tho
Old School Presbyterian Synod, a{,
Baltimore. Carlisle was selected to*
the sessions next year.
Old Resident Dies
Mrs. Elizabeth Conner, one of thf
oldest residents of the upper end of
Dauphin county, died last week at her
home near Lykens.
Signs of the Times
All signs point to very much
better business this year than
last year.
The effects of the war are un
derstood and discounted.
Crops are bountiful. Buying is
more in evidence.
Money for investment is plenti
ful.
While there is no sudden hoom
there is steady progress.
The advertising columns of this
newspaper reflect this spirit.
They show the "push
of merchant and manufacturer.
They show you the names of
those who deserve business by
their willingness to work for It.