8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THK TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph HulldlnK, Federal Square. E. J. STACK POLE, Pres'l and Editor-in-Chief K. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. BUS M. STS2INMETZ, Managing Editor. (Member American Newspaper Pub —Ufj Ushers' Associa ggjll tion, The Audit ■MB Bureau of Clrcu- BBpA latlon and Penn jgjj aylvanla Associat es Eastern office, Has- Si brook. Story & 91 EV nue Building, New BB W York City; Wert- SSjjfk ern office, Has brook. Story & Gcs Building, Chl - cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Ilarris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a <UOnkwg£sK£> week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. Sworn dally r.vornare circulation for th« three month* rndlnic April 1, ltllK, 22,432 if The*r figures nrr net. All returned, unsold nml dainngrd copies deducted. WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL O. When I see about me, in the fields of intellectual attainment and culture, in the walks of business and in family life, so many disasters and tragedies long drawn out, of failing health and collapse of nerve, brain and muscle, I leel that health is the only bulwark upon which everything we prize in in tellectual culture and religious perfec tion can ever be reared. —G. STANLEY HALL. MAKE THEM WORK THOSE social workers who the other defy recommended that the school buildings of the city be made to work fourteen hours a day, Rix days a week, Instead of six hours for five days, as at present, are on the right track. School buildings are costly and not nearly so productive as they might be. : What manufacturer, do you suppose, | would put l'rom $70,000 to SIOO,OOO ' Into a plant and then work it only six j hours a day for five days in the week, i not more than nine and a half months j In the year? The proposal would be i regarded as absurd. Manufacturers j who get the most out of their plants work them as steadily as possible. The same thing should apply to the schools. | Our investment in them is too great to j permit them to stand idle when they j might be working. To be sure, there are problems in | connection with the opening of school houses that do not appear 011 the sur face. tut they can be overcome. They must be overcome. There is no reason whatsoever why the school house should not be the community house — the social center—of its own district. Those back of the movement should not be discouraged by the "It can't be done" element. The time is coming! when the school house will work its ! fourteen-hour day, but a good deal of j educational work will be necessary to bring it about. The ButTalo baseball club might get their arms in trim by rowing over the island baseball diamond. There's noth ing like making full use of a lease. BHTHIiKHEM'S OFFER THE absurd position in which the nation has been placed by fail-1 ure of Secretary Daniels to of fer encouragement to private ship building plants is made evident by an nouncement in press dispatches from Washington that even though Con gress appropriatesmoney for the naval program now in contemplation—two battleships, one battle cruiser and two scout ships—the work cannot be com pleted in less than three years unless Van emergency arises demanding that private work be laid aside in favor of government contracts. At this junc ture comes the Bethlehem Steel com pany with the statement that it can J deliver two battleships or two battle cruisers in :t8 months, four scout cruis ers in 32 months, eight destroyers in 24 months, ten auxiliary vessels In 24 months and submarines, any num ber, the first in sixteen months and one each month thereafter In dupli cate. "In the event of an emergency," the letter of President Grace con tinues, "our facilities can be dou bled and we could deliver one battle ship in 24 months." "In conclusion," says Mr. Grace, "permit us to assure you that we rec ognize, as citizens, our first obliga tion Is to serve the United States. Wo aro willing to co-operate In the most effective manner to assist the de mands of the government." And yet this is the company, the vast armor plate equipment of which Secretary Daniels would "scrap" for the doubtful experiment of a govern ment owned armor plate plant, which has not yet even reached the blue print stage. "We offer," says the Bethlehem company, "to place all the cards on the table —to open our books to the Federal Trade Commission, and to put our experience, our facilities and our economies at the service of the na tion upon such terms as the Govern ment itself shall name as fair." What the people of this country want is a navy. We are not interest ed in the fanciful savings of a govern ment-owned plant, to be built and op erated as an experiment some time in the future. The Board of Naval < ifdcers, headed by Captain Kossuth Niles, is on record as saying that "the establishment and operation of an ar mor plant unconnected with other works would without doubt Involve additional costs not Included in the development of existing plants," and the whole Daniels idea is built upon a WEDNESDAY EVENING, theory that even economical Germany) found Inexpedient and Impossible of "realization. All the great naval pow ers of tho world—Japan excepted— have found it profitable to utilize pri vate rather than government-owned armor plants, and Japan was forced ') the manufacturing business be i the country possessed no pri va.ii.iy controlled plant. Bethlehem offers the government armor at its own price, and quickly. What we want is action. If we are to have a greater navy it must be built before the types now planned are ob solete. Instead of discouraging pri vately controlled ship yards the gov ernment should do everything in Its power to induce them to give the naval program precedence over all other lines of work. Despite his wound. Villa seems to be able to limp along about as fast as a horse can trot. DEFENSE OR OUR MARKETS FINANCIAL problems are almost as engrossing in England as military problems are. Taxes are piling up and prudent John Bull is trying to look to the future. The "Statist," one of the leading financial journals of Great Britain, contributes an interesting suggestion to the dis cussion. The "Statist" says: If additional taxes ate imposed, the country will be under the nec essity, First, of making savings needed to meet the instalments on loans payable by investors, and, secondly, of making the savings needed to meet the demands of the tax collector. The combined effect of these two operations may be an appreciable increase in economy, di minished imports, increased exports and a much more favorable condi tion of the trade balance and of the foreign exchange. Hei r e is English evidence in sup port of the position which the He publican party has been urging upon Americans. The "diminished imports" and the "increased exports" which the "Statist" foresees for England as a re sult of war's' financial operations have a direct meaning for America. "Diminished imports" mean in the first place the cessation of "war order" shipments from this country; and in the second place that the added efficiency which war conditions are giving to British producers will be continued in the arts of peace when the war is at an end. Great Britain, in other words, will seek to supply herself from her own factories. She will do more. Through the speeding up of her production she will have a larger supply oft goods with which lo go after the "increased exports" to which the "Statist" refers. Now the only considerably, market for these "Increased exports" for Great Britain is in the United States. Thanks to the low tariff which Mr. Wilson and his party have imposed upon the country, we aro open to an invasion of British goods whenever the British producer chooses to send them to us. For the moment he can not do this, for he is busy with war orders at home. But the day will come, as the "Statist" foresees, when Great Britain will show "diminished imports" and "increased exports." When that day comes, will It find the United States with its tariff defenses broken down? That will be a determining ques tion in the campaign for the presi dency. Another term of Democracy would mean continued low tariffs and the inundation of our markets with the "Increased exports" from Great Britain. A return of Republican rule means a higher tariff and a defense against the "dumping" process which England Is preparing for us. Reading that "Fighting Scott" Near ing is heading a peace movement is like hearing that Jess Willard has started out to stop prize fighting. PLAY DAY WHEN Allen D. Albert, president of the International Asso ciation of Rotary Clubs, was in Harrisburg recently as the guest of the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club he made a strong plea for the encouragement of wholesome play. He said that the average American does not know how to play properly and he asked his hearers to get out with their sons and learn to be young again. The Harrisburg Rotary Club has taken up the idea on a big scale in its customary energetic and progres sive manner. At its meeting last even ing it adopted the Albert sugges tion by deciding to have one great "Play Day" for all Harrisburg. The club plans to ha\e everybody join the movement. At a certain hour on the day to be selected all work, so far as possible, is to cease and everybody, old and young, rich and poor, is to give himself or herself over to play. The idea is a good one, and the Rotary Club may be relied upon to make a success of It. Governor Brumbaugh, in his excel lent address before the Greater Har risburg celebration last Fall, voiced the thought that cities in the future must think of the pleasure and recreation of their people as well as of their material well-being, and he suggested that the next big step in legislation will be along tills line. Per haps the Rotary Club is making the first move toward an annual appro priation for amusement purposes out of the general revenues of the city. This is no radical thought, as might appear at a glance. AVe are now spending money for playgrounds, for parks and for the encouragement of sports. Why not a step forward to provide entertainment for the masses as a whole? THE MILLEKSBVHG IDEA THE Millersburg good roads Idea is to have everyone join in the movement. That was demon strated very well last evening at the annual dinner of the Motor Club of that town. The guests were by no means all owners of automobiles. But they were to a man strong and enthusi astic advocates of good roads, and so they joined forces for the betterment of conditions in that district. When Governor Brumbaugh ad dressed a meeting in Millersburg dur ing his campaign he made very dis tinct promises to do what he could for the improvement of the highways of that vicinity and Commissioner Cun ningham has gone a long way toward the fulfillment of that pledge by taking the preliminary steps toward what will be a broad and well-constructed high way between Ilarrisburg and the me tropolis of the upper end. The Millersburg Motor Club is a live-wire organization. It would be a happy thing for the good roads move ment if there were more like it. foUUc* IK "J* CKKO H ItfClHUl By the Ex-Committeemaa Resentment at the entrance of Con gressman Michael Llebel, Jr., into the open primaries as a candidate for Democratic national committeeman against Committeeman A. Mitchell Pal mer is becoming quite heated in Demo cratic machine circles and the reorgan ization faction now appears to realize that Its right to boss the organization has been challenged. According to word that is received here, Liebel is to be attacked on the old time-worn bipartisan plea and Palmer and his pals will issue a state ment in a few days proclaiming how pure and proper are the motives which animate the dominant faction. Liebel will also have some statements in which he will stato the issues as he sees them and voice some opinions about the purity and propriety of the motives of the reorganization clique. The prospects are all for one of the grand old Democratic rows which have in years gone by diverted not only the state but the nation. —Ex-Senator Webster Grim's re fusal to stay dead politically is dis turbing the reorganization machine bosses. They did not. put Grim on their slate for delegate at large and he insists 011 running without permis sion. W. N. McNair is also insurging and it is understood that other men who decline to take orders will do the same thing. —The visit of Judge Brumm here yesterday attracted some attention. The judge is said to have talked war, Progressiveism and bird cage ballot boxes, but neither he nor the Governor gave out any information about it. Speaker Charles A. Ambler launched his campaign in Berks county for the Republican nomination for Auditor General yesterday and an nounced that he would undertake a speaking tour of the State at present, but was confident of victory at the pri maries. He declared that the "future welfare of our nation depends upon Republican success next November" and that, "this can be accomplished only by a reunited party." "I am con ducting my own campaign and I am making my appeal direct to the Re publican voters of the Commonwealth," lie added. "If elected, my single pur pose will be to give the State an efficient and businesslike administra tion." ■ —According to reports from Blair county, j. Banks Kurtz may become a candidate for Congress on the Repub lican ticket. There is also talk of John M. Rose, of Johnstown, taking a hand. —James W. Kinnear, prominent Pittsburgh lawyer, may enter the race as a candidate for Congress against Congressman John M. Morin. —Mayor Smith yesterday ordered work to proceed on the Taylor transit plans, thus ending the whole contro versy over the plans. The city loan bill was changed yesterday so that it. will carry $114,000,000. The transit and port improvements are in the same list; the other items are in an other bill. —Calvin Green, of Lewistown, one of the candidates for Republican na tional delegate in the Seventeenth dis trict. has sent out a denial that he has withdrawn. He says he is a candidate in the interest of harmony. * .T. J. Rogan. of Erie, is out as a candidate for Democratic national delegate from the Erie-Crawford dis trict. —The Philadelphia Record to-day prints a long story about a row in the State Agricultural Commission because of objections of some members of the commission to political activities. As the matter stands, none of the com missioners has indicated any intention to resign and the chief fussing appears to be coming from outside the com mission. From the Record's account, the adoption of some pretty hot reso lutions was stopped by the appearance of Secretary Patton, who, it is stated, poured oil on the waters. Promoting Public Welfare [Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.] Governor Brumbaugh spent Sunday in the Wyoming Valley, delivering two sermons in churches and a speech in a public school auditorium. All Penn sylvanians will applaud his words at West Pittston. where, in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, lie said: "In society we support the things that are right and oppose the things that are wrong. But if we battle for laws and procedure that are right wo can make Pennsylvania a cleaner, sweeter, happier place in which to live." That, in a way, sums up the whole duty of citizenship. In a way, it describes what all of us are striving for. it rep resents the ambition not alone of the people who would exalt themselves as "reformers," but that of those others who have the public welfare equally at heart, even though they may be more "practical," in a manner of speaking. In the last analysis,. the "reforms" for which any man or body of men labor represent his and their Ideas of what would be good for them selves, and, it follows naturally, in their view, for their fellows. Not nec essarily are they merely selfish. If they are selfish can their opponents be deemed less selfish? Does not the charge tit each side equally No one has questioned the sincerity of Gov ernor Brumbaugh's advocacy of cer tain government and political princi ples and measures. But he must know, as most everybody realizes, that no man or set of men can have a mon opoly of all the virtues. The citizenry will give support unfailingly to the good proposals presented for its con sideration, but only after having de cided them good by tests which in cline the judgment with special refer ence to the good that will be person ally derived or the harm or inconven ience or annoyance that will not be his own portion therefrom. Everyone will wish the Governor well in his ef forts to make Pennsylvania a better place in which to live, and will aid him when they are sure that he is as un selfish in his motives as they believe him to be pure in his life and deeds. EXAMPLE FOR PA. I Kansas City Star.] All of Wyandotte county's seventy six miles of macadamized road is to be repaired this spring and summer. The commissioners estimate that no new roads can be paved, since all the avail able funds will be necessary for repair work. The situation in Wyandotte county Is very much like that in other coun ties where the importance of main taining a paved road after it. is built is not appreciated. Abroad they keep men inspecting the roads and repair ing small holes all through the year. The consequence is the roads always are in good shape. The American practice has been to build the roads and then neglect them until they arc In such shape that they have to be rebuilt. HLAJRRIBBURG TELEGRAPH" TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —The paper famine is before Con gress. but If tliat body is no more suc cessful in finding n remedy than it has been in other problems recently, kind heaven help the poor printer. —Mr. O. B. Glpple is the new city forester. Now Mr. Gipple, O. B. rea sonable. —"Roosevelt and Hughes," says a New York news item, "are passive can didates." No doubt the Colonel wants the nomination, but not badly enough to be passive. —Henry Ford tells the voters not to take him seriously as a candidate for President. Hen will have his little joke. —Webster Grim is a candidate again, thereby demonstrating that there really is such an animal as an unterrified, unterrifiable Democrat. —Russia is to use vodka in the manufacture of automobile tires—es pecially designed, we suppose, for joy rides. —About now the grim question arises, will our winter shoes last until time to put on oxfords? EDITORIAL COMMENT THIS NEVER FAILS [Toledo Blade.] Anybody who wants an equal divi sion of wealth can always get an ar gument out of the fellow who has more money than he. ADVANTAGE OF HOME LIFE [Houston Post.] Some young men apparently marry and set up a home just to have some place to remain away from at night. SURE [Philadelphia Inquirer.] Personality is something a young man always gets from his mother's side of the family. RICHES OUT OF WAR [From the New York World.] Every country at war happens upon a time sooner or later when it thinks it is getting rich out of the struggle. This was the common state of mind In the North particularly during the last two years of the Civil War. It has been the prevalent and even the stated official view in Germany almost from the beginning of the present war. The English economist. Sir George Paish, is now giving figures which will incline the British mind to the same empression. With 1.000,000 men taken away from productive industry, i lie yet calculates that Britain's gross annual income lias increased from $12,000 000 uOO to % 10,000,000,000 since I the war began. Very likely it has—on paper. It was on paper that we were rich from the Civil War until the bubble burst some y«ui'j later. Women ami former un employed may have largely taken the places vacated by Great Britain's 4,000.000 soldiers, and there has been a speeding up in working activity all around. There is also an inflation of the British currency, as the foreign exchanges show, in relation to the American dollar, which is a factor in bringing higher nominal wages. But if from all these causes the gross nominal Income of Great Britain Is greater than before the war, the ac tual net income must be much smaller anrl growing smaller all the time. The higher wages are offset by the higher prices and cost of living, am. there js left a general net income cer tainly no greater than before the wai with which to meet the Government's rapidly increasing war-tax levies to pay Interest on the war debt and In contribution to current war expenses. ON BEING REPUBLICAN (Ohio State Journal.) Someone told us we were not. a Republican. We are, too. But not the sort that breaks every faith for party success. The poet, Holland, wrote our party platform as follows: Strong minds, great, hearts, true faith, and willing hands; Men whom the lust of office docs not kill; Men whom the spoils of office can not buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demago gue And dam his treacherous flatteries without winking: Tall men, sun-crowned, who livo above the fog In public duty and in private think ing. Anyone who says that is not Re publicanism wants an office so bad lie can't think. That was the sort of Re publican Lincoln was. One cannot embody the idea in a policy, but in aspiration, in prayer and in hope he can.see real Republicanism all through it. That Is the kind of Republicanism that founded this republic, and the kind that, at a perilous moment, saved it. OUR DAILY LAUGH LANDED. Mr. Pupp: I f f hear that you are engaged to Miss Ml AA JT_ Katt! Mr. Wr a 11: / a Tea, she's been UMM jWk. running after me SffleL / (or years. f !'] GROUND. Mr. Hare: Are JTfL i]{ D you the ground hog I hear so much about? ■ sfr Mr. Hog: No, iSviiiii?! but * would be If CTil;|j;ji\ f /SBF X was made Into k as'? sausage. SOMETHING NEW Ily Wing Dinger "How old is Ann?" that question old A puzzle still remains For years, it has, day in day out, O'ertaxed a lot of brains. No longer does the public care To ferret out some clue To this old threadbare mystery- It longs for something new. So let. it rack Its brains a bit And help out Uncle Sam By solving where in Mexico That scoundrel Villa am. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY BEST CARTOON OF THE DAY r j WELCOME TO MEXICO —From the Brooklyn Flaelr, DIXIE GOES AHEAD Birmingham's New River By Frederic J.' Haskin BIRMINGHAM, A LA. —By building seventeen locks and dams across Black Warrior River, Uncle Sam lias presented the people of tills city with a fine navigable river. The work cost the government $17,- 000,000 and required twelve years to finish, and the Birmingham people are deeply appreciative of the boon that the nation as a whole has con ferred upon them. "The Black Warrior River and What We are Going to do With It," would make a good headline for most of the conversation and a large part of the news in Birmingham right now. The city is going to extend its lim its to the banks of the river. It is already shipping coal to Mobile by boat and it expects to bring back ores and fertilizers. The wholesal ers see a new chance to reach sea ward, and to force lower rates out of the railroads. The iron and steel makers assert that they will now sup ply Texas with nails and wire, and reach the Cuban market in a single shipment from their own home term inals. In a word, the possibilities seem almost unlimited and the city Is making good progress toward their realization. The Black Warrior project is one of the most striking engineering feats that the government ha§ ever accom plished. seventeen, the recent completion of which brought navi gable water within twelve miles of Birmingham, a mountain city, is said to be the highest lock in the world, for it holds back a head of water 63 feet deep. Since very early times, the Black Warrior has been a navigable stream below Demopolis, a little city half way to the sea; and as long ago as 1856, steamers came up to Tuscaloosa during high water. But that did not do Birmingham much good. The city is only twelve miles from the river; but at that point it was only a big mountain stream a couple of hundred yards wide, full of rifflM and shoals, and often as low in the summer that a man could wade across it. Now that same stream has been converted by modern engineering in to a river half a mile wide on an average, thirty to fifty feet deep in many places, and navigable fur large barges all the way to the sea. The narrow mountain creeks that once came tumbling into the Black War rior have been converted Into deep, navigable bayous reaching back in to the the heart of (he mountains where the iron and coal are mined. Incidentally, Birmingham has now one of the most attractive water ways in the South for pleasure boat ing. Running between steep wooded mountains, and reaching its arms far up among them, the Black Warrior is a beautiful stretch of cruising water; and to add to the delight of sportsmen, both fish and wild ducks have appeared in great numbers. Just at present, however, Birming- THE STATE FROM DW TO DN Grafton item. —"There has been lots of rain and mud for the last few days. Cupid has been kept "on his toes" In York county since tlie first of the year, to lapse temporarily into base ball parlance. Since January 1 about 276 couples have taken out licenses to wed. or to assume the veil, depending on the point of view. It is said that visible feet are going out of style and that skirts are going to be longer. The men of the shoe industry are rushing to the colors. The news will undoubtedly please large numbers, for various reasons. "Vincent Patrick Ignatius McGrath played a mean trick on his bride-to-be at. Camden the other day when he changed his mind at the license bureau and refused to carry out his promise to marry her. A mutilated nickel found on the person of a Reading man has led to the recovery of a large sum of money which had been stolon. Indications point to an early settle ment of the painters' strike which has been going on in Erie since Saturday. The "mind the paint" artists are ask ing forty-two and one-half cents an hour. "Acres of Diamonds lie all about us," said Dr. Kussel H. Conwell, who has lately been called the "Baptist Napoleon." Melvin Bamford, a .Schuylkill Haven boy, will subscribe APRIL 5, 1916. liam is primarily concerned with ways and means of utilizing: this water way, which is one of the few in the world that actually reaches from the mountains to the sea, and one of the few in the United States that main tains a uniform navigable depth, free from ice, all the year round. Birm ingham has resolved that the first step shall be to bring the city and the river together, both to facilitate ship ping and to prevent private capital from gaining control of water front age which should belong to the city as a whole. To accomplish this, the people of Birmingham plan to extend their cor porate limits in a long narrow strip clear to the banks of the river. It is not a project without precedent. I'OS Angeles brought itself within touch of the Pacific coast by exactly the same measure, and has enjoyed many practical benefits therefrom. The Birmingham people have made a careful study of the Los Angeles method, and will probably succeed in a similar manner. A strip of land about two hundred yards wide reach ing from the city to the river will be come a part of the incorporation. Up on this will be built a fine macadam ized boulevard and a passenger and freight electric line owned and run by the city. This line will carry both passengers and freight during tlie day, but will handle the bulk of its freight at night. At the end of the strip will be the municipal terminals. This, at least seems to be the plan most generally agreed upon. There is abundant difference of opinion, wherefore this is not offered as au thoritative. The project has already gone so far as a preliminary survey of two routes by the county engineer, and a hot battle of words has been waged as to which route ought to be accepted. There are bound to be delays, but the people have fully made up their minds to the project, and there is little doubt but what it will ultimately be carried out. It is esti mated that it will cost the city a mil lion dollars to finish the project. The completion of this great gov ernment work has opened to Birm ingham a wealth of opportunity at a single stroke. The industrial strength of the city lies in the fact that it has immense quantities of iron, coal and limestone so located in the mountains surrounding it that the force of gravity literally carries them to the doors of the furnaces, making Birmingham a. natural center of steel and iron manufacture. Her weak ness has been the lack of cheap trans portation. The Black Warrior pro ject has supplied the opportunity to make up that deficiency. For ex ample, by the river freight mav be shipped to New Orleans for less than half of what it costs by rail. The most immediate and obvious opportunity the river affords is to ship coal to Mobile by water; and this already is being done by several i companies. heartily to the sentiment, for he re cently found a large quantity of Her man dyes in an abandoned warehouse owned by his uncle. The dves are now worth 1000 per cent, increase over their former value. LURE OF SPRING (By Helen Richardson) L.o, Spring is coming! how the cattle sniff The balmy air! List the impatient stamping of their feet, The mute despair With which they watch the close shut stable door That bars the mln; Voicing their disapproval bv low moo And gentle whin. Then note the robin's jubilant re frain. The bluebird's call; The blackbirds's whistle from the marshes, and Above them all. The song sparrow a-quiver with the Joy That thrills it when It hears Spring's rustling garments trailing through The field and glen. 'Tis not humanity alone sends forth Its note of praise For unlocked streams, for fields in verdure clad. For length'ning days;— From stanchioned stalls hoof-beats de mand release; For Nature's thrall That lures to field and wood and lim pid stream, la felt by all. —Our Dumb Animals. f&ptttng ©hat The record breaking circulation of books from the Harrisburg Public Li brary during the month of March means that if we assume there are 100,000 people. In what we call the llurrlsburg district, almost one person in every seven in the community took out a book. There are approximately 16,500 books in the library's collection and the total circulation during March was 13,730. This showing, which is unusual in Pennsylvania library ex perience, is almost embarrassing to the institution which is not equipped either with books or funds for such a demand. None the less interesting than the jump in March of 1,000 over the best previous record for a month ly circulation is the notable manner in which school children have taken out books. Ordinarily a third is con sidered to be an excellent circulation among children. In March the cir culation was over half children, the figures being, adults 8,542 and cliil dren 5,188. Incidentally, there was no increase in the usual proportion of fiction, the reference and general literature collections being well patronized. • * * The new site selected fyr the Coun try Club of Harrisburg is on a knoll overlooking the Susquehanna Vallev with a marvelous sweep. It lies be tween the First and Second Mountains commands an expanse of country in Cumberland and Perry c ounties that is as varied as it is attractive. In the immediate foreground is historic Fort Hunter, where tlie road to the new club site branches off. The Fishing • reek Valley roail passes on the north side of the new site and the creek itself practically bounds the south side. * * » The political excitement is not so deep after all. The other afternoon a man took occasion to start a political argument in a 'cross-river car contain ing a lot of railroad men. Four years ago the railroad men were rather keen about politics and joined in every ar gument. Tile man did not get a starter. Another man says that he was in a car filled with men coming from Steelton and nine-tenths of them did not appear to be caring very much about who was on top or who wanted to get to the apex of the political heap in any party. "Most of the talk," said this man, "was about the way work was being turned out. The river ap peared to be next in favor as a topic." O. Renjamin Gipple, Harrisburg's new city forester, has a real college j degree in the science of forestry. Gip ple graduated from the Central high ! school in 1911 and in June of last year I lie got his degree as a "bachelor of ; science in forestry" from Pennsylva nia. State College. Immediately lie joined the city forestry service and from the start his work got to the notice of the departmental heads. That is why in city circles it is gen erally believed thai Gipple's appolnt ; ment by Park Commissioner Gross j yesterday, while "temporary," will | really lead io his permanent rctcn | tion in t'liat office. Mr. Gipple is a ' son of Mr. and Mrs. William G. Gipple, i -19 Peffer street. * * * That army circles generally believe | opportunities for rapid advancement | from enlisted ranks to shoulder-straps I are growing brighter, especially in view of the Mexican situation, is indi ciated by the tendency in many posts and forls to arrange for special ofli- I cers" examining boards. "In years gone by," said an officer to-day, "the chances for promotion from the ranks was a question of years. Then, only noncom- I missioned officers were eligible to takn j these tests. Now, however, a man who has been in the enlisted service two I years, may go before an examining j board and try for shoulder-sl raps. Incidentally, many of the army post commanders are preparing to assemble special boards for this purpose, and 1 ? this looks to many of us as if some particular legislation was expected whereby the opportunities for thcen listed men in this direction might lie increased. At that we've had half a dozen or more young men from Har risburg and vicinity who are now working toward a commission—men who enlisted here because they figured they couldn't win shoulder-straps any other way." ♦ ♦ * .Tust as an instance of how many measles cases there are In Harris- I burg it may be stated that six were counted in one block. This out break is said by medical men to be one of the worst ever known here. In some districts of the city the youngsters are so much in quarantine | that the usual childish noises 'are | lacking in spite of mild weather. * • * Milo It. Maltbic. who was here yes terday as expert for the Public Service Commission in the Philadelphia elec tric case, was formerly connected with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Me has been expert in numerous big cases throughout the country. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"" —Mayor K. R. Jertnyn, of Scranton. who was elected after a strenuous campaign, believes in visiting every public improvement that is made i'l his city. Senator Hacked, of Kaston, do nated a park to that city several years ago and takes an interest in seeing that it is kept up. —D. 13. 1/ong. Franklin county law yer. who will run for the State Senate, also conducts a newspaper. —C. A. Sensinger, prominent In Car bon County educational affairs, has re signed from school work and will de vole his time to raising strawberries. —Councilman W. A. Wit man. of Heading, well known here, presented an organ to one of the Heading churches. 1 DO YOU KNOW Tliat wlicn the river was liisdf years ago huge rafts- and string* of logs were floated to tills city? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The first State Treasury after the Capitol was removed to this city was located In Market Square. LAMENTATION Therefore the Tx>rd, the God of hosts, the Ijord, saith thus: Wailing shall be In the streets; and they shall say In all the hlghwavs. Alas! alas! ana they shall call the husbandman to mourning and such ,as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.—Amos v, 16. Your Questions f What are you? What have you? Where can people get what you want to sell? I.et the public know those things, and they will buy your goods. People are anxious to learn, but they don't go to great trouble to find you oujt. They expect you to tell them. And the place they look for your business message In In the advertising columns of the Tele graph.
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