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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH S
If you tell the truth, you have in
, thrtU" power supporting you ; hut if not.
fou have infinite power against you.—
CKAKUB George Gordon.
"DOPE" LAW VIOLATIONS
discovery by the police that
the Harrison "dope" law is being
violated in Harrlsburg should
riot be considered in the light of a
failure of the law. Rather it is a'
Iribute to the excellency and need of
the new act. It is certainly much
better to have placed such a restric
tion on the sale of habit-forming drugs
that they can be obtained only with
great difficulty and in limited quanti
ties, than that they should be on open j
sale for the purchase of all comers, j
The fact that only an occasional I
' violation of the act comes to light ;
lihows how strictly It is being enforced
end is convincing denial of the old 1
assertion that "prohibition does not
prohibit."
tn MEXICO
THE announcement that Felix |
Diaz has left the United States
for Mexico recalls his prediction
lliat the recognition of Carranza would j
not bring peace to Mexico and that
Carranza would be powerless to re- '
store order in the country. Whether
or not Diaz means to organize a
revolution against the present govern
ment is not known, but if he does It
will be of no mean order. Diaz knows
Mexico as no other one man knows
it and the power of his name would j
draw many to his standard should he
decide to take up arms.
At all events, the prospect of early
peace in Mexico is most discouraging.
The Wilson administration policy, or
lack of it, in respect to that country
has left it in worse condition than
It was when Madero was slain.
Neither we nor the Mexicans have
profited by the sacrifice of American
Jives at Vera Cruz and the record of
events in that country during the past |
three years is written on the blood- !
Stained pages of reports of Americans I
slaughtered by the hundred to make
p Carranza holiday. Failure has
marked the efforts of our "statesmen"
n.t every turn.
Our sympathies go out to that
sturdy and able Pennsylvanian, Henry
Prather Fletcher, who succeeds to the
United States ambassadorship in that
troubled country. In the language :
of the street he is going .to have 1
"lome Job."
STEEI/TON'S PARK PLANS
r A COMMITTEE from the Munlci
jtx pal League of Steelton will re
quest the borough council, at
Its meeting Monday evening, to create
the office of superintendent of parks
and playgrounds.
This is another move in the right f
direction and the Municipal League
tias the proper idea of how to go about
obtaining an adequate system of play- !
(rounds for the borough and exten
sions to Its park system.
Steelton, with a population well
above 16,000, is large enough to have
a man employed regularly in direct
ing activities on its athletic field and
looking after the establishment and
upkeep of playgrounds.
Although the borough, at the pres
ent time, despite its cosmopolitan
population and peculiar industrial
conditions which make recreation •
facilities for Its youth especially \
desirable, has no playgrounds, it is'
making rapid strides toward solving
this big problem.
Through the generosity of the
Pennsylvania Steel Company a large
field on Cottage Hill is available for j
use as an athletic field. Football and :
baseball grounds are laid out there. 1
but Its use as a playground is ham
pered by the lack of equipment. The
borough, however, has no public ten
nls courts, nor are there any places 1
In the thickly populated foreign sec
tions where youth may play un- j
restricted.
To remedy these conditions the
Municipal League has been conducting
a campaign of education and making
comprehensive plans. In a full-page!
feature In the Telegraph last Fall
members of the League outlined the!
possibilities of the borough along j
these lines and it is now doing its
utmost to Induce council to co-operatc j
In making these plans a reality.
Already much has been done with !
Luther R. Kelker Park. Council has
shown Itself very willing to do its
•hara It has ordered the grading of
FRIDAY EVENING. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 3, 1916.
a new street into the park tract to
, >(iake It accessible from all parts of
the borough and has repeatedly sent
borough employes Into the park to
help clear away bushes and make the
tract a real beauty spot.
Council should now. go one step
further and adopt the League's recom
' mendatlons to appoint a competent
i man to direct the plans for establish
ing playgrounds and to handle the
mass of detail that will be necessary
1 to get the proposed recreation places
, well developed.
Money spent in this manner will be
j well invested and will help as much
• as anything else to attract people to
I take up their residence in the
| borough.
GORE'S CHARGES
SENATOR GORE not only did the
President of the X'nited States a
grave injustice in the Senate yes
terday, but he lowered the dignity of
the whole country and endangered our
1 friendly relations with Germany when
!he gave an unverified and unbeliev
>able rumor as reason tor the intro-
I rluction of his resolution warning
I Americans off armed merchantmen,
i The senator said he based his action
j on the rumor that President Wilson
; had said It might be a good thing to
j have the country go to war with Ger
i many at this time. We in the United
| States know this to be false. However
j much he has erred in his methods, it
| cannot be said that President Wilson
! has been desirous of plunging America
I into the European slaughter. If he
had been looking for an excuse for
taking up the cudgels with the im
perial government he would have
found it long -ago. for Germany has
provoked this nation almost to the
point of desperation.
So the senator's speech, which was '
followed by an immediate and em- i
phatlc denial by the President, will j
have little effect here at home, but '
with feeling inflamed against us in 1
Germany, it may do unlimited harm I
there. Senator Gore's speech Is inex- j
cusable on any grounds. It has no 1
precedent in the history of the Senate, j
It was worse than a blunder. It was ;
wicked as well as stupid. It is the j
pinnacle of Democratic folly as exem
plified at Washington during the three j
years of the present administration's j
disastrous course.
WHY NOT HERE? j
ACCORDING to an official an- J
nouncement made at Altoona
yesterday, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will build a new
station for that city and to replace
the venerable Logan House, famous j
as a hostelry since Civil War days,
The railroad company will give
its moral support to erect a modern
hotel.
If in Altoona, why not in Harris- ;
burg, which is far more in need of |
a large hotel than is Altoona? AVe
rejoice with the Mountain City in its
good fortune, for the Pennsylvania
Railroad never speaks without first
having assured Itself of its ability to
perform, but won't some generous
citizen or corporation please come for
ward with a similar offer for Harrls
burg?
MARJORIE'S BATTLESHIP
THE Honorable Josephus Daniels
doesn't take kindly to the idea
of a battleship built by popular
subscription, but don't let a little thing
like that prevent you from sending in
your contributions. The Honourable
Josephus will be back running bis
little old newspaper long before the
battleship is ready for the launching. :
Beside, there is current rumor to the
effect that on many other things the
Honorable Josephus is given to the
entertainment of ideas that make
naval officers laugh in their handker
chiefs when they are not behind the
door "cussing."
Just why the Honorable Josephus :
should object to a present of some
ten million dollars is not known.
Heaven knows his democratic friends
are searching desperately enough for
money with which to carry out their
"preparedness" program, at the same
time not cutting too deeply into the
regular ration of pork, and one might
imagine they would- be willing to go
even to the limit of giving their own j
personally picked President a vote of
confidence in return for a tidy little
sum like ten millions; so we will ven
ture the guess that the Honorable
Josephus doesn't have even the sup- I
port of his colleagues at Washington
in his objections to the fund.
And who knows what tide of battle
Marjorie's battleship may turn? Who
knows at what critical juncture she
may be thrown into the balance to
decide whether or not this country of
ours is to be invaded by a foreign foe?
No, there can be no good argument
against the battleship fund. The
; United States is fortunate to have
boys and girls ready and willing to
help in its work of defense, and good
i ness knows we need the ship.
DEFINING THRIFT
THOSE in charge of the High
School and Technical High school
j essay contests conducted recently
I under the auspices of the Harrisburg
Rotary Club say s that some of the
boys and girls who were required to
, write confessed that\.they did not
know even the definition- of "Thrift,"
' the topic in question. But they know
; now, and if 1350 of them, the number
j that prepared essays, have been
brought to think only temporarily of
the importance of saving, much good
lias been accomplished.
Chancellor David Starr Jordan, de
| lined thrift as "a determination to live
; with a margin for future advance
ment: to earn a little more than one
j spends or to spend a little less than
one earns, getting meanwhile the
value in strength, in satisfaction or
in other worthy return for the money
I one feels free to spend."
"The spirit of thrift," he said, "is
opposed to waste on the one hand
and to recklessness on the other. It
does not involve stinginess, which
la an abuse of thrift, nor does It re
quire that each Item of savings
should be a financial Investment.
The money that Is spent in the edu
cation of one's self or of one's fam
ily, in travel, in music, in art, or la
helpfulness to others, if it brings
real returns In personal development
or in a better understanding of the
world *e live in. is in accordance
with the spirit of thrift."
We never hear of a man who
| climbed to a place of eminence from
obscurity and poverty that we do not
'say of him: "He was thrifty."
I izi—iz:
TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE
! —We rush into print an official de
!nial of the base rumor that leap year
proposal season ended February 29.
The wicked report was started by a
couple of confirmed bachelors.
! —Have you ever noticed how Colo
nel Roosevelt manages to go away
just in time for a return- home at the
psychological moment, so to speak?
I —Some of those witnesses in the
i brewers' probe appear to be afflicted
with aphasia.
—All the military commentators on
j the situation at Verdun appear to
ag/oe that if the Germans win the
Freni li will lose, and vice versa.
|
—The King of Norway was injured
while skiing, but at that he ought to
be glad he was hurt on a hill instead of
in a trench.
| EDITORIAL COMMENT"!
Regular Work Resumed
(Columbia Stale)
i The circus season must be over up
North, as to-day we distinctly reeog
' nized the Wild Man of Borneo, Only
I One in Captivity, driving a hack in
] Main street.
Evidence of Washington's Wisdom
(Philadelphia Inquirer)
Washington carried the same pocket
, knife for 56 years, we are told. It's
, a cinch he never loaned It to the for
-1 nier Mrs. Custis to open cans with.
Failure in Life Explained
(Houston Post)
j Another reason why an American
■ girl who marries a European prince
! never does very well is that it is pretty
hard to mix an absence of brains and
an overabundance of vice and get
; satisfactory results.
THE LONG-WINDED BRETHREN
[Kansas City Star.]
Man tells but little here below, but
he tells that little long.
THE SEARCHLIGHT
BEAVERS HOL1) I'P TRAINS
Trains were held up a number of
times this winter on a Wisconsin rail
road by heavy floods. Investigation
showed that the floods are due to large
dams constructed by the beavers in
habiting one of the smaller rivers. It
took ten blasts of dynamite to destroy
one of their dams and it was rebuilt
within three weeks. It was necessary
to secure special permission from the
Conservation commission of the State
before using the dynamite. One of the
dams destroyed was over a mile in
length. The solidity of its masonry
surpassed that of many man-made
structures. A petition is now being
circulated asking the' State authorities
to capture the beavers and remove
them to some locality where they can
be confined.
! TEUTONIC DIPLOMACY
[Philadelphia Public Ledger.]
Austria makes a characteristic re
ply to the protect of the United States
i against the attack on the American
i steamship Petrolite. According to the
summary given out at Washington,
; the contention is that the commander
of the submarine thought the Petro
lite was going to attack him, that he
, feared she was an enemy ship flying
I the American flag and that her skip
per furnished the supplies "voluntar
ily." There is no occasion to comment
at length upon the absurdity of all
this. The significant point is the
revelation of the methods of Teutonic
diplomacy. The Lusltanla was attack
ed because she carried mythical guns,
the Arabic because she was trying to
i ram with her stern a submarine her
officers did not even see. and so on
| down the whole list of outrages. If
the policy of frightfulncss is resumed,
jit will make no difference whether a
merchantman is armed or not; there
I will be guns visible to the imagin
ation, if not to the eye. Entirely
apart from questions of international
law, that is a sufficient reason for re
fusing to recognize any distinction be
j tween armed and unarmed merchant
men. The only safe ground, in short,
j for the Administration to take is the
j ground it originally took—that the
whole business is an offense against
i civilization which is not to be toler
! ated.
PRAISE OF RED HEADS
[Kansas City Times.]
"To be red headed is a signal
honor." said Bishop W. A. Quayle in
a speech last week. The good bishop
is red headed himself, and he was ad
dressing the Hamline University Red
heads' Club. He pointed out that all
the angels painted by the old masters
had red hair.
The list of red heads who did great
things Is a long one. Julius Caesar,
world genius, was red headed. So
was Robert Hruce, and so was Queen
Elizabeth. It is reputed that Helen of
Troy, Dido, Cleopatra and Alexander
the Great were red headed. It was
said of Thomas Jefferson that "he had
the reddest head in Albemarle coun
ty."
Swinburne the poet, John Bunyan,
author of "Pilgrim's Progress," Schil
ler the poet, all had polls of blazing
red; and in our own day we have, to
keep Bishop Quayle company, Ber
nard Shaw, Victor Murdock, Gover
nor Stubbs, J. Ham Lewis, yes and
"Bob" Fitzsimmons.
Judge Wofford, for many years
judge of the criminal court of this
city, used to say that he never knew
a red headed criminal. Dr. E. L. Ma
thias. chief probationary officer of our
Juvenile/court, asserted in a speech
recently that he never knew a boy
with red hair to be inherently bad;
and it is an old saying that there are
no red headed men in the peniten
tiary. Of course, this may be merely
a coincidence. but it is here offered
to the red heads for what it is worth.
Red headed persons have always
been reputed to be quick tempered
and ready to fight at the slightest
provocation. "Red haired people be
folke that are to drede," runs a pre
cept of the Fifteenth Century; and an
old French proverb says: "Salute no
red haired man nearer than thirty
feet off, and even so, hold three stones
In thy fist wherewith to defend thy
self." '
Arthur S. Hoffman, editor of Ad
venture Magazine, may have this
adage in mind in his attempt to re
cruit a regiment of red haired men
to l>e ready to defend this country if
attacked Already enough red heads
have applied to make it certain the
regiment will he recruited.
It will bo safe to wager that if this
red headed regiment ever goes to war
it will be heard from, whether Liishop
Quayle goes with it or not. -
LfiKKOiftmfua.
By the F*-Committeeman
Senator Charles A. Snyder, of Potts
ville, candidate for the Republican
nomination for Auditor General, who
was here to-day. declared that as fat
as he was concerned he was a candi
date to the finish. He added that he
was entirely i-atlsfled with conditions
and not disturbed by reports that both
ho and Speaker Ambler would with
draw and a third man be named.
Governor Brumbaugh remains as
silent as before in regard to presi
dential nomination matters. He has
declined to discuss this subject, and
although people in Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh insist that a statement is to
be made, he lias refused to break his
silence.
—The Dauphin county Washington
organization liad a meeting last night.
—According to Pittsburgh news
papers, things are rapidly lining up in
Allegheny county for a State commit
tee fight. There are to be contests for
places on the Republican and Demo
cratic committees.
—Lackawanna and Luzerne Repub
licans are said to be firmly against any
factional tights this year.
—The incorporation of the Vare
League in Philadelphia yesterday at
tracted dome attention among men in
politics. It is said to be a social or
ganization.
—H. E. Klein, of Erie, yesterday
sent word to this city that he had an
nounced himself as a candidate for
Republican delegate on a Brumbaugh
platform.
■ —A Philadelphia newspaper to-day
says: "More than 75 per cent, of the
2,000 voters addressed by members of
the Citizens' Republican League in the
interest of a united Republican party
fo.r participation in the coming presi
dential election have pledged them
selves to co-operate in the movement.
Recently the league sent out 2,000
cards addressed to Independents and
Republicans who participated in the
recent mayoralty election. They were
asked to sign the card if their political
trend was in line with the purposes
outlined. George D. Porter, secretary
of the league, yesterday said that
about 1,500 cards had been returned.
The cards were sent to Philadelphia
voters only."
—Montgomery county Republicans
yesterday endored Congressman H. W.
Watson for renomination.
—Reading councilmen came near
having a fist fight in council yesterday
and the ill feeling is growing, it is said.
Philadelphia's new loan will be
$87,000,000 and there is trouble find
ing the money for an art gallery.
Representative I. D. Musser, of
Juniata, is out for Democratic re
nomination.
—Philadelphia City Solicitor John
P. Connelly yesterday announced six
additional appointments to his staff
of assistants In the municipal law de
partment. In are Joseph G.
Magee. of the Twentieth ward, a per
sonal appointment; State Representa
tive "Ephralm Lipschutz, of the Four
teen! h ward, recommended by Con
gressman-at-Large John R. K. Scott;
William l*. Rorke, indorsed by Repub
lican City Committeeman John Fla
herty, of the Thirteenth ward, and a
class graduate of the 1901 Central high
school, a student in the law office of
John C. Hell: Elwood J. Rotan, of
the Forty-second ward, a relative of
District Attorney Rotan. and Marshall
E. Coyne and George B. McCracken.
The city solicitor, in making public
this list, announced that these appoint
ments "included, up to date, all that
is available pending further readjust
ments. All clerkships will be filled by
proper assignments. This substan
tially completes all of the open
changes in the office."
In compliance with the peremptory
mandamus issued by Common Pleas
Court in Philadelphia.on February 28, i
Attorney General Francis Shunk
Brown received a warrant yesterday
for $4,000, representing the sum origi
nally agreed upon by adjustment of 1
the claims growing out of the employ
ment of the Manufacturers' Appraisal
Company, of Cleveland, in 1910 to
make a scientific assessment of the
real estate of Philadelphia subject to j
taxation. The warrant was drawn by
Daniel W. Masterson, assistant clerk
of Select Council, at the suggestion of !
City Solicitor Connelly. It is likely
that other claimants will now present
their demands for payment. Attorney
General Brown was employed as coun- j
sel for Council's special committee.
ANOTHER COUNTY DRY
[Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.]
The drying up of Mercer county is'
notable because, like Crawford, it was j
not brought about as the direct result
of an election based upon the liquor
issue. Judge McLaughry had given
no pledges and made no promises.
His sweeping decision may therefore
be taken simply as his carefully con
sidered conclusion that, in view of
all existing conditions, the county of
Mercer would be better off without sa
loons. It cannot but be regarded as
a manifestation of the spirit of the
times and a reflection of the general
trend in the direction of temperance
and all that it implies. It is note
worthy that the judge had reached
the position which made him the ar
biter of the county's destinies in the
matter of drink in such manner as to
leave him entirely unharppered in
consideration of the sdbject. He stood
upon his own feet. His campaign for
the judgeship was made at his own
expense and he neither asked nor re
ceived the organized backing of either
side on the license question. Conse
quently when license court fell due,
he was able to approach the subject
with no personal feeling in the prem
ises except to arrive at such decision
upon the merits of the matter as
would best conserve the interests and
welfare of his county. That he has
ruled wisely and well Is no more to
be doubted than that the results ac
cruing from his ruling will redound to
the lasting benefit and well being of
those within reach of his jurisdiction.
YOUNG AMERICANS
[Theodore Roosevelt In Scribner's.l
The two boys were untiring; nothing
impaired their energy, and no chance
of fatigue and exertion, at any time
of the day or night, appealed to them
save as an exhilarating piece of good
fortune. At a time when so large a
section of our people, including es
pecially those who claim in a special
sense to be the guardians of cultiva
tion, philanthropy and religion, delib
erately make a cult of pacifism, pol
troonery, sentimentality and neu
rotic emotionalism, it was refreshing
to see the fine, healthy, manly young
fellows who were emphatically neither
"too proud to fight" nor tod proud to
work, and with whom hard work,
and gentle regard for the rights of
others, and the joj£ of life, all went
hand in hand.
Picturesque Nevertheless
His mistake, however, was certain
ly not greater than that of the re
cently arrived American doctor in
China, whose wife had been greatly
disturbed by a rooster during the
night. In the morning he made this
startling statement to the servants,
"Last night the gentleman chicken
greatly burked and troubled the
teacher lady in sleep.—ln World Out
look for March.
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
DROP THAT GUN!
—From Ihe >ow York World.
( 1
PHILIPPINE PROBLEMS
Teaching and Cleaning Up
By Frederic J. Haskin
AFFAIRS in the Philippines are
going through a critical period.
The complex system of educa
tion and administration that we built
up is getting Its final test. We know
that the organization is efficient, that
it will work. We have still to find
out what effect its workings have on
the mass of the Philippine people:
In how far they are willing or cap
able of receiving its benefits.
There is the question of the Eng
lish language, for instance. The
whole school system of the islands has
been making every effort since Its in
ception to teach its little brown pu
pils the tongue of their new country.
English to-day is more generally un
derstood than Spanish ever was,
though Spain held the Philippines for
centuries. You can get about the
Islands more easily speaking English
than with any one of the Filipino
dialects. It would seem that the Eng
lish-teaching campaign has been a
great success, and this is undoubtedly
the case to a great extent. Yet there
are intelligent Americans who believe
that the lower-grade school work
should be carried on in the native
dialects.
They say that the many thousands
of Filipino children of the poorer
classes only go to school for a few
years. They spend most of that time
learning the new language. Then
they go home, take up their native
dialect again, and forget what English
they knew. According to this theory
it would be better to take them for
the limited time at the teacher's dis
posal and give them as much solid,
general instruction as possible in
their own tongue. Thus they could
get something out of the school that
they would retain.
The weight of opinion in the islands
is against such a course. There is no
literature worth mentioning in any
Filipino dialect. There are none of
the works of Information, or books on
how to do things, that English is rich
in. In a word, the English language
as a tool is incomparably superior to
any native dialect, and even if the
majority never make use of it, any
step forward establishing it is a step
in the right direction. But the mere
fact that such a dispute exists, shows
that the school question is not solved.
Admitting this, there is no doubt
as to the remarkable work done by
the Bureau of Education. It is the
bureau nearest the people.' Many of
the other bureaus have to work'
through it. It teaches over half a mil
lion pupils, and employs nine thousand
Filipino teachers. It has done more,
perhaps, to establish friendship and
confidence between the people and the
government than any other single in
fluence. Yet we cannot regard its
work as done, its future as a mere
matter of routine development. The
permanence of its results has yet to be
established. The present school sys
tem ca*hnot accommodate more than
half of all the children of school age
in the islands.
The education of the hill tribes is
just beginning. They present a prob
lem much more difficult than the civ
ilized Fjlipino. Shy, savage, super
stitious, they have to be humored and
coaxed, with infinite patience and tol
erance. If the Filipinos are given
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DM
Embarrassment was not the chief
trouble of Herbert W. Luckenbach, of
Allentown, when his house was turned
into a roaring furnace day before yes
terday and he was forced to jump from
his window in his nightclothes. Luck
went back on Luckenbach, but kind
friends gave him pantaloons and
shoes.
There is a movement on foot in
Lancaster for a great armory and con
vention hall combined, the stimulus to
which will be the formation of a new
National Guard Company. It is un
derstood the State will provide forty
thousand dollars for such a building
if the city will provide the site. The
organization, if effected, will be either
a machine gun battery or a company
of light artillery. Perhaps the now
company will be used to insist upon
the Pennsylvania station remaining
; where It Is instead of being moved out
, into the country.
Agitation will soon be renewed in
Reading for a paid fire department
according to rumors emanating from
that vicinity. It is said that many
vounteer firemen will support the
proppsition.
Howard T. Baker, of Williamsport,
who was graduated from the High
School there In 1909, is in the British
army in France. .
Judge McLaughry at a blow made
Mercer county dry, it being the first
time in its history that the county has
found itßelf in that condition.
Mrs. Schaeffer no longer sews for
Mr. Schaeffer. They used to live to
gether in Catasaqua and she led him
to believe that she was 33 years old
when she married him. Since then he
charge of the government of tlie
islands, one of the surest tests of
their spirit and their ability will be
the way they carry on the edacatlon
of the Ifugaos and the Mangyans.
The Filipino himself often displays
a keen appetite for knowledge. There
are two higher schools at Manila with
a combined enrollment of over twelve
hundred, as well as the University of
the Philippines. The latter institu
tion is very popular, hut most of the
young Filipino college men take
courses in letters and the fine arts.
In the present stage of development
of the country, it would be much bet
ter if they cai'ed more for the sciences
and engineering.
Tn the lower schools, a very suc
cessful feature is the work in manual,
training. It is no mere side line,
more or less of a mere novelty, as it
is in the United States. An old Span
ish friar many years ago said that
the brain* of the Filipinos are in their
fingers. They are dexterous in the
most delicate operations to a high
degree. Hence the manual training
work produces some fine results, with
a true professional finish, unlike the
patently amateurish products usually
turned out by such departments. In
these manual training rooms may be
founded new industries for the islands.
The lace-making work has been
greatly stimulated.
One of the most important works of
the Bureau of Education has been
the way it spread the propaganda of
the Bureau of Health. The Health
Bureau work in the Philippines is as
fundamentally Important as the same
work in the Canal Zone, and the re
sults achieved have been as great.
We found the islands in a state of
almost unbelievable uncleanliness,
swept periodically by all the plasties
of Egypt, and every step forward was
made against forces of ignorance and
superstition. There were a few edu
cated and intelligent natives who real
ized that conditions needed bettering,
but that was about as far as they got.
The Health Service fought the
cholera until instead of sweeping away
a third of a city, the plague took
only a few hundred victims. On one
occasion the people of Manila would
not believe that the cholera was
among them because the deaths were
so few. There are still outbreaks at
intervals, but the machinery for fight
ing the disease is so well organized
that the old panics at its approach
are a thing of the past. The bubonic
plague has been put down by cam
paigns of rigorous sanitation.' and a
strict quarantine system. All this
work is being done among a people
who used to close every window
tightly at night—and still do, very
often—because they believe in an evil
spirit that wanders around in the
darkness.
The work against smallpox has
been carried on by means of exten
sive vaccination, with results even bet
ter than were hoped for. Some of the
most hostile of the wild tribes were
won over by means of cures that
seemed to them miraculous. The
whole record of sanitary work is one
for the United States to be proud of
—but it cannot be regarded as fin
ished. It has not reached the stage
where It will run along on its own
momentum.
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has discovered the existence of a
daughter 3 4 years old, and he could
not reconcile the discrepancy in years
to his own code of living, so'they
parted.
Evangelist Biederwolf says that
Jacob was the "smoothest" man in the
Bible, because his name meant
swindler, liar, supplanter.
IRREPARABLE LOSS
[Lyman Abbott in the Outlook.]
There is only one irreparable loss—
the loss of courage.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
HIS FEARS.
Reggy, I'm WON
If ,v\ r ' ed about you.
mP* vv i J Ba * l ' ove!
You're so aw-
L wEk:/' . /fully English that
flTlfLj V JSI fear it may be
I itfHi ll illihlfim | construe d as a
111 l llr> l ill I wlli violation of our
IT| neutrality.
HE CAUGHT
Dad: Wllllev f
when a lady W
always be a gen- I S3 PB Jfi M
, tleman and give I
Willie!' You I
don't give ma S6O
for a new dress Lj ' 1
whenever ah e ti> s'j, 3**
asks for it.
lEbntutg (Eljat
The project for annexation to tlio
city of the district known as Pleasant
view, which has been revived after
several years of quietude, would have
the effect of running the city limit up
j against the borough of Penbrook on
the upper eastern boundary as It is
against Paxtang borough on the lower
part of the same line. Ploasantview is
the section which has grown up about
\Nalnut, State, North and other streets j
Immediately north of Reservoir Park
and extending out to about the line of
Twenty-first street with some lines of
buildings extending toward Penbrook.
It is supposed to have taken its name
from that given to a farm belonging
to the Haldeman family which was
t . llp . lnt » lota - The old brick barn
which stands up at the end of Stale
street and is a familiar sight for manv
miles around was the barn on this
farm. Pleasuntview does not contain
many people, but if It could be taken
into the city it would give the district
the benefit of city improvements, es
pecially in highways and extend the
municipality to the borough of Pen
brook, which has been discussing im
proved streets for some time. Prob
ably in the next ten years not onlv
Pleasantview, but Riverside, Pen
to rook, Paxtang and other settlements
which have grown up about Harris
burg will bo incorporated in the
great Capital City.
• • •
The Association of Pennsylvania
boroughs which is to have
its annual convention here
next month, as formally an- •
"°, un ' e< J l>y the governor, was estab
lished here five years ago. It was
formed by men interested in securing
certain definite understandings in re
gard to the smaller municipalities and
the Stale government and discussed
legislation which ultimately led to the
borough code. When the public ser
| vice company act came along the
j Borough League was an object of
j great interest because of the extent of
the interests affected by that law. In
li'l3 the Association was quadrupled
(in size and its meetings have attracted
|as much attention as those of tho
| Third Class City League.
A Harrisburger who has been do
ing some visiting writes this: Swe
denborgianism to the many is nothing
but a word, and conveys nothing of
significance to the mind. To others,
it is a religion, a belief, a doctrine
promulgated by the famous Swedish
philosopher and religious writer who
claimed to be in special communica
tion with Christ and who was later,
according to his own sincere belief.
I permitted to converse with spirits and
j angels. In the beautiful little town of
j Bryn Athyn, Pa., is established the
| Swedenborgian "New Jerusalem," a
model of clean living and pleasant re
lations. At present this settlement,
of which little is heard and of which
j little has heretofore been known out
side the fact of its actual existence,
is building a wonderful new and last
ing monument to the memory and
doctrines of the mystic founder of the
j religion. Emanuel Swedenborg. The
I monument is to be, when finished, a
! new cathedral. It is being raised by
purely Gothic methods,entirely by hand
| and with the best workmanship ob
| tainable. There is no hurry to finish
lit within any stipulated time; the pur
pose is to have it perfect in every de
tail, and time is no consideration. For
several years it has been building,
j yet it is not neatly completed. Indeed
:it is very similar. In .a sense, to the
| building of 1 lie temple to the Lord by
j Solomon and the Israelites many cen
turies ago.
I Many famous men have in times
! past adopted the views of Sweden
| borg, among them the father of Hen
jry James, the novelist, who but re-
I cently died in London. Last month
! this small but thriving and contented
! colony at Bryn Athyn won its tight
to become an independent borough.
In all probability the movement.
| started by residents of the West Shore
town for improvement of the roads
j between Wormleysburg, Lemoyne and
New Cumberland will lead to some
substantial betterment of condition of
the highways even if it is impossible
for the State to reconstruct the road
because of lack of funds. The plan
is to have the road carefully inspected
and such repairs as are essential will
be undertaken when the weather is
fit. Highway Commissioner Cunning
ham assured a committee headed by
Senator Franklin Martin and ex-Sen
ator John E. Fox of his interest in the
matter this week.
* * *
Samuel M. Clement, the Philadel
phia lawyer who was here yesterday
on business at the Capitol, has been a
frequent visitor to Harrisburg. He
was one of the counsel in the Capi
tol cases.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—George Wharton Pepper has been
elected chairman of the Philadelphia
branch of the Security league.
—James A. McLaughrey, the Mer
cer judge, who made that county dry,
was elected last Fall after a hot fight.
—Director George E. Datesman, of
Philadelphia Public Works, was
among the speakers at the road con
gress In Pittsburgh yesterday.
—F. N. Morton, head of the State
Library Association, is presiding at
the meeting of Librarians at the sea
shore.
—Dr. E. S. Deubler, of Narberth,
has been elected president, of tho
Pennsylvania Berkshire Association.
1 DO YOU KNOW
That Steelton makes steel for
needle factories?
HISTORIC IIAKRISBI'UG
The State's second constitutional
convention met in the State Capitol in
the thirties.
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