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WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 19.
One thing i» certain, the »Mp with
Christ o?i board must at last reach
the happy shore. — Princess Beatricb.
ARE YOU HELPING?
IN a recent publication of a dream
of Heaven the writer, describing j
the celestial city, says "one pleas
ant fact was that every liomo has its j
large door yard full of trees and |
llowers and pleasant walks." liar- j
risburg would be something like that |
should all our people take an active
part in the window and porch box J
movement this year.
It isn't what your neighbor is going |
to do, but what you are going to do (
in this matter. Now is the time to
arrange for your box and the planting
of the flowers.
llundreads of our citizens have al- ,
ready made preparations and the city]
is going to be more beautiful this j
summer than ever before in its his
tory. Business houses as well as;
residences are going to be decorated
with blooming plants and flowers and
those who want to help In the move
ment should remember the several j
institutions like the Y. W. C. A., the!
Y. M. C. A., the hospitals and similar j
buildings for which funds are not j
available for this purpose.
Flowers not only give pleasure to j
ttiose who are immediately concerned j
in their planting, but also sp rd joy i
to thousands who pass by.
Unless immediate steps are taken by j
the Department of Parks to prevent |
the vandalism that is constantly being 1
manifested along the River Front there
is no use spending any more money In
the effort to make the park strip and j
the planting attractive. The attention j
of this newspaper has been called to the j
fact that yesterday girls and boys were j
seen breaking the flowering plants in
the section between the pumping sta- ,
tion and Walnut street and carrying
away large bunches. Surely this can j
be stopped by proper police arrange- |
ment.
I
HOME RUG-MAKING
TF the war and the resulting high j
prices of raw materials have had
their distressing effects they have
brought about at least one thing for
which we may be thankful. High prices
of rugs and carpets have driven house
wives to the economy of rag rugs, knit :
by their own hands as their grand- j
mothers used to do.
Before the days of the department!
i store cheap reproduction of oriental
weaves, the rag carpet and the home- \
knit rag rug were standard floor cov- !
erlngs of the households of the coun- I
try, rich and poor. Who of us, past i
the middle milestone of life, does not
remember the old rag bag and grand
mother busy on cold or stormy days
tearing the contents into strips to be
sewed Into "pound balls" by the un
willing hands of little folks who longed
for more pleasurable pastimes and less
exacting supervision. For grand- \
mother "boSsed the job" with a gentle
but firm hand and she tested the
strength and the smoothness of the
sewing at embarrassingly frequent
intervals. No shirking there! She
knew exactly the size of a ball that
woujd weigh a pound. She knew,
also, just how long it ought to require
to produce a "pound bail" and you
never could fool her by wrapping the
rags loosely. Oh, no! The way she
could stick her thumb half-way
through a mushy carpet rag ball gave
you a sickening feeling that extended
all the way down to your toes. Sewing
carpet rags used to be the most dread
ful form of punishment the family
could Inflict on disobedient sons. It
was simply awful. The Spanish
inquisition was a mild form of holiday
diversion by comparison. Burning at
the stake was pleasant beside it. The
Prisoner of Chilon knew something of
the miseries attendant upon carpet
rag sewing, but not. all.
However, the result was well worth
while. With what pride we beheld
that new bedroom rug when grand
mother had completed It to suit her
exacting tastes. How cheerful it
looked between the walnut bed and
mahogany bureau with the. summer
sunlight on It. and how grateful to
youthful barefeet when winter winds
blew and the night was wild without
and cold within.
Looking back over the years we
know of no prettier picture than an
old-fashioned room with lis quaint
furniture and Its rag rugs upon the
floor. All unconsciously our ancestors
made necessity fit in with true art.
Tliey took the contents of the humble
WEDNESDAY EVENING, HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH 1 APRIL 19, 1916.
rag bag and of It made something at
once useful and beautiful. Of neces
sary economies they made virtues.
Over the worn and castoft family
habiliments they waved the magic
wand of good taste and industry and
produced a work of art, and If the
hardships If present high prices force
us back Into that frame of mind they
will have served a good purpose.
"We And little comfort in election
statistics," said a Southern Democratic
Congressman, recently, as qcoted by a
Washington correspondent. "X sat
down in my office a few nights ago and
looked over the vote of 1914 and found
there are about forty districts In the
United States where a change of 1,000
votes would shift the House to as
strongly Republican as it Is to-day
Democratic. I do not think we are as
strong politically before the voters as
we were two years ago. The Republi
can party is again united in nearly all
of the States, and I am frank to say
that our chances of controlling the
lower branch of Congress are not very
promising." This is a frank acknowl
edgment of a self-evident fact from a
source not unusually given to admitting
self-evident conditions of that nature.
THE ARMOR-PLATE SITUATION
SAYS President Grace, of the Beth
lehem Steel Company, in an
article on armor-plate making in yes
terday's Issue of the Philadelphia
Public Ledger:
We are selling to the United
States Government at prices lower
than any Government in the world
is buying armor for, even where
the Government itself has embarked
in the business. Drawing attention
aKnin to the fact that our average
selling price to the United States
• Government has been $ 131!.G2 per
ton for tlia last twenty-nine years,
I submit the following figures,
which show the prices which dif
ferent Governments pay for armor
plate as shown by the Naval Year
book In the office of the naval af
fairs committee of the Senate:
Turret Krupp
Country. armor, side nrmor,
Japan ?t!H) $l9O
Austria 729 511
Italy 444 405
Germany 4 90
France r.98 400
England 1191 50S
Russia 610 368
England, Mr. Grace shows, has Ave
armor-making concerns, all privately
owned. The English government does
not advertise for bids. They bring in
to consultation their armor-plale
manufacturers, go over the situation
with tlicm, and agree upon what is a
satisfactory price. There are two
plants in Germany, ICrupps and one
other, and their business Is nego
tiated in the same way. They send
for the manufacturer and adjust a fair
price, on the basis of getting a rea
sonable product and keeping them in
business. France has three plants;
Russia, two plants. Japan is the only
country using armor that has its own
government plant. There is no pri
vate capital Invested in Japan in
armor-plate works. The inference is
that Japanese private capital would
not Invest in the industry. It Is ap
parent that nearly all other govern
ments now engaged in the war have
adopted a policy which the United
States may abandon, and that five im
portant naval powers—Japan, Aus
tria, Germany, France and England—
are all paying a substantially higher
price for armor than the United States.
And yet, in the face of these facts
and figures, and the offer to permit
United States government experts to
set their own figure for armor-plate,
after a careful exqmination of the
company's books and methods, there
are those at Washington who still in
sist on spending millions of dollars
on an experimental armor-plate plant
that may or may not prove success
ful.
.lITXEY REGULATION'S
CITY COUNCILi had another round
on the jitney question yesterday
and It would seem from the dis
cission that the recent regulation or
dinance is a mere "scrap of paper."
Among other features of the debate
was a proposition to permit jitney
stands on Market street. This Is a
matter in which the merchants of the
central business district have a vital
interest and doubtless all concerned
will be given a fair hearing.
However, whetj, the whole thing is
sifted, the trouble is a weakness in
handling the new transportation diffi
culties. If there is any abuse of the
jitney development, it is the business
of the Police Department to get on
the job without any seesawing or tem
porizing.
Those Jitney operators who have
compiled with the ordinance have a
right to the protection which their
license contemplates and Mayor Meals
and the Police Department will cer
tainly see to it that those who are
trifling with tile regulations are made
j to understand that ordinances are en
, acted for a purpose and not as a joke.
NEW USES FOR ALCOHOL
A WELL-KNOWN European cor
respondent is authority for the
statement that Germany is mak
ing a substitute for gasoline out of
potatoes; France at the close of the
European war will use the absinthe
once sipped by carefree boulevardiers
to run her automobiles; anil Russia,
I not to be outdone by her enemy or
: her ally, has discovered a scientific
process by which artificial rubber can
bo made out of vodka, thus creating
a material of which motor car tires
can be made and disposing of the great
quantity of alcohol that a year and a
half ago came under the ban of the
Czar.
This sounds like some of the scien
tific fiction Jules Verne used to spin,
but after all it is not strange that the
alcohol formerly consumed by the in
temperate before the edicts of pro
hibition should find Its way Into other
uses. If all the money now spent by
Americans in drink were put into auto
mobiles, gas and tires, all of us would
be riding. But even so, energies de
voted to the manufacture of alcoholic
beverages in this country are now be
ing turned In other directions as the
temperance sentiment grows. Wise
brewers in many places are turning
their breweries into bakeries, cold
storage plants, ice and ice cream manu
factories and candy factories. The old
idea that prohibition would be fol
lowed by tremendous financial loss
and that prohibitory laws amounted to
confiscation in the liquor business does
not hold true In practice. Capital and
energy dammed at one spot will find a
new outlet.
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TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE
—A German newspaper calls the
work of the "U-boats" "humane."
What, we wonder, Is the editor's idea
of savagery?
—Says the New York Tribune:
"Josephus Daniels is still Secretary of
the Navy." Yep, still, so still that
the Navy hopes he's going to remain
quiet for a time.
—The "Payroll Brigade" at Wash
ington is showing signs of "prepared
ness" —for the coming presidential
campaign.
—The nomination petitions having
been filed, all that remains for the
voter to do Is to take a day off to read
the ticket, another day to choose his
| candidates, a third day to mark the
'ticket and a minute or two to cast his
ballot. These simple election laws cer
tainly are convenient.
—The real baseball season begins
May 10, when the Senators start out
to win the State League pennant.
I EDITORIAL COMMENT ]
About the only drawback to Russia
in viewing the Dardanelles as a warm
water outlet is that it's a bit too warm.
Washington Post.
T. R. and Root Bury the Hatchet.—
Tribune headline. But the place where
the hatchet is buried is carefully mark
ed.—x\ew York World.
The New York Herald reports that
Democrats are proud of the tarifT com
mission idea. Thpy ought to be-—it's
one of the best the Republican party
ever had.—Boston Transcript.
Why Not a Businessman?
The Business Men's Presidential
League is a New York organization
which has just issued an appeal from
which we make these extracts:
"Why can't we have a business man
in the presidential chair next time?
"Government is a business, and a
big business.
"Seagoing and overland commerce,
taxation, tariffs, rate regulation, mo
nopoly regulation, the mails and par
cels posts, conservation of resources,
development and maintenance of
waterways, the huge payrolls of gov
ernment employes, the courts of jus
tice, the nalional revenue collectors
and police, the army and navy—what
are all these but pure business prob
lems. demanding the same trained and
capable business executive direction
that any great business concern de
mands?
"What board of directors would
think of hiring a professor of Sanskrit
to be president of a great railroad?
"What huge shipbuilding or engi
neering concern would select a peri
patetic stump orator or a lyceum lec
turer to direct its activities?
"Big business concerns seek big busi
ness men with big business brains to
be executive chiefs.
"Big business concerns look about j
for men who do things, not men who !
talk things. \
"Now, here is this big business cor
portion in which every one of us, big
and little, is a stockholder —the United I
Slates of America. It does more busi- |
ness. owns more wealth, collects more j
revenues, produces more goods and !
expends more money than all the rail- I
roads on earth, or all the corporations,
public and private, in any country on
earth.
"Tt is the BIGGEST BUSINESS
CONCERN the world ever saw.
"And what do we do every four 1
'ears by way of selecting a head for I
this wonderful, gigantic business con- !
ecru ?
"Why, we always select a man who I
has never shown enough business j
ability to run a one-horse draying con- I
cern.
"Is It any wonder that our national '
business is one long serial story of;
stupid hindrance of prosperity, stupid 1
depression of commerce and trade,
stupid opposition to the forward Im
pulses of business co-operation and
consolidation and of wasteful and
criminally extravagant expenditure of .
the people's money to the tune of
thousands of millions?
"Suppose that just once, by way of
experiment, we gently, but firmly and
positively, set the whole lot of profes
sional politicians, horn-blowing orators,
briefless lawyers, pretty phrase-mak
ers, theoretical schoolmasters and all
that sort on a shelf in a back wood
shed and put a big, brainy, capable,
experienced business man, who has
done big things well all his life, in the
chair of the President of the United
States."
The Searchlight
\ WATER LEAK INDICATOR
Heavy annual losses are incurred in
every city by undetected leaks in the
water mains. These will be overcome
in the future by the use of a newly
invented instrument known as a leak
indicator. It resembles a standard
telephone receiver, made of hard rub
ber and aluminum. A metal post is
driven down into the ground near the
water main. The point of the instru
ment is placed on the end of this post.
If there is a leak nearby, the sound
of the escaping water can be distinctly
hoard through the receiver. The in
strument is light, and easily operated.
Prosperity's Other Side
[New York Sun.]
On another page of The Sun to-day
will bo found a comprehensive survey
of the notable Increase in commodity
prices that has occurred since the
midsummer of 1914. The great, rise
in wholesale prices has been reflected
in the retail markets; no housekeeper
needs to be told that articles of daily
use and consumption have "gone up";
no business man has been fortunate
enough lo remain in ignorance of the
higher cost of everything that he uses
in his calling. This is the other side of
the prosperity that has solved the
problem of nonemployment and put
to work every man with the desire and
capacity to labor.
Tho heavy demand for our products,
the transportation ditflcultles on sea
and land, the dislocation and suppres
sion of numerous European industries,
have brought about tho situation that
now exists, snd until normal conditions
arc restored the cost schedules that
prevailed two years ago cannot be ex
pected to return. But when the
extraordinary factors now In operation
cease to affect the markets, will the
readjustment of wages and prices be
brought about without serious de
rangement of the industrial com
munity? The difficulties that must, be
overcome are obvious, and it is not
too early to give serious study to their
solution.
Can There Be a "Last"?
[From the Boston Traveler.)
The Administration Is assembling the
evidence now at luind in support nf Its
conviction that Germany has been tor
pedoing and lying almost sinniltaiieoiis
!ly and will embody that evidence in
"Its last warning to Germany," For
"last" we move to substitute "latest."
I It Is Impossible, no matter how vivid
j one's imagination, to visualize a "last"
warning from Wilson and to
Germany or any other offender acalnst
I the rights of mankind and tliu dignity
■ of a great nation.
C'YolLtLct. Lk
"~P LKKQIjtc&IUJX
By the Ex-CommitteemM
If the nominating petitions tiled at
the State Capitol are anything to go
by factional contests are impending in
both the Republican and Democratic
parties which will not only be of in
terest far beyond tho borders of the
State, but attract national attention.
Governor Brumbaugh's presidential
aspirations and the intertwined effort
to unhorse Senator Penrose make the
prospects for a strenuous Republican
contest, while the battle of the re
habilitation faction of the Democracy
against the reorganization faction
will furnish amusement for people far
and wide. ,
Governor Brumbaugh is the leading
presidential candidate in this State.
Allen L. Benson is the Socialist candi
date. Behind the Governor are tho
Vares and various antl-Penrose in
fluences. With Senator Penrose are
the Olivers and many men who are
opposed to the Governor on various
matters. As the matter stands the
contest is around the Governor. One
of the Interesting features is that but
two of the delegates who are not
known as distinctively Brumbaugh
men have filed pledges to support the
popular choice. The Penrose candi
dates are all unpledged. But there
are quite a number of men running
in the Interest of the Governor who
declined to file pledges either. So an
other angle is added to an already
many pointed proposition.
—One of the surprises of the
tremendous rush to Mile papers for
nominations last night was that no
papers were liled for Jesse L. Hart
man, of Hollidaysburg, for the Re
publican nomination for State Treas
urer. Mr. Ilartman was groomed by
personal friends and his papers were
signed, but after the papers of Har
mon M. Kepliart were liled with
Senators Vare and McNlchol, Phila
delphia leaders; David 11. Lane and
other men aligned with the Brum
baugh people on tho lists, the Hart
man partisans quit and the big Con
nellsville man was left with J.
Vernon Clark, of Washington county,
as his only rival. Clark is the Bull
Moosers' candidate. Ho is on the Re
publican and Washington tickets.
Another interesting thing was that
Frederic W. Fleitz. ex-deputy at
torney general, did not file any petition
to run for national delegate in Lacka
wanna. Fleitz seemed to enjoy the
uncertainty.
—ln al! about fifty petitions were
rejected. Some of these came in the
last three hours of the filing period
and the lateness destroyed all chance
of the papers being put into proper
form. One was from a wesrern county
which could not be reached in ten
hours. The bulk of the petitions re
fused did not have enough signatures.
There were also a number which
lacked affidavits, this important fea
ture being overlooked in probably a
dozen cases. Shortage of signatures
was Ihe most common error. One of
the last half-hour callers presented a
paper for a nomination in the anthra
cite region and it was rejected be
cause of defects. Half an hour after
midnight he came tearing back to the
Capitol with a paper which turned out
to be perfect. The first paper he pre
sented was intended to be a supple
mental petition and he overlooked
what was planned to be the ofilclal
petition. Several requests were made
to turn back the clock in the hopes
of getting late papers here, but Chief
Clerk Thorn, of the State Department
refused and when tho post office re
ported the last mail distributed the
department doors were locked.
—The most remarkable feature
about the filing of the petitions was
that about 1,000 came in during the
last twenty-four hours. Tho holding
back was greater than ever known,
due, no doubt, to the political condi
tions. This eleventh hour rush was
complicated by the continued filing of
supplemental petitions which trebled
the work of the clerks in charge and
delayed the entering of papers. Inci
dentally, it brought out much com
ment from those who were present
about possibility of limiting the
maximum of signatures as well as re
quiring a minimum. Every paper
would have been cleared up hours be
fore the task was finished if supple
mental and additional papers had not
been brought In without explanation,
necessitating scanning of form, count
ing of names and checking up.
The conditions attending the filing
of petitions this year were observed
by a number of people connected with
the State government and it is pos
sible that some suggested changes will
be made in the form of legislation to
simplify the preliminaries.
—A lot of political accidents and
old-timers have appeared on the lists
tiled from the sixty-seven counties. It
would seem from a scanning of some
lists as though 1916 bids fair to bring
to the surface again some of those
who emerged from obscurity in the
upheaval of 1912. Some men whose
chances for being chosen dog catcher,
should that position be subject to
the direct primary and direct elec
tion, would be remote, are running for
offices which have been ornamented
by the biggest men In Pennsylvania.
—Dauphin county furnished some
of the half-past, the eleventh hour ex
citement as several men stood around
with papers in their pockets awaiting
what they deemed the strategic hour.
Among the late candidates put on rec
ord were the Rev. Dr. W. N. Ytites
for Senator and Ira J. Mosey for mem
ber of t he House.
—The businesslike way in which
Ihe Philadelphia organization Re
publicans handled their papers was
as striking as in years gone by. John
Yoorhees filed for the McNicliol peo
ple and William E. Finley for the
Vare people. They came with every
paper in form, tied up and accom
panied by receipts which were given
promptly.
—The attaches of the State Depart
ment were given many compliments
for the manner in which they dis
posed of the work and celerity with
which lists of the candidates fifing
were made available for the dozens
of interested persons who thronged
the third floor corridor.
—Next to tho contests for control
of the organizations of the two older
parlies and the Governor's chances the
big theme of discussion was whether
there would be peace after all in
Philadelphia. The conferences held
yesterday between the Mayor and
Senators McNlchol and Vare were re
garded as significant. Public Serv
ice Commissioner Magee filed as a
candidate for national delegate in his
district, being the only major State
ofilclal to run. Senator Charles A.
Snyder, candidate for Auditor General,
put out an anchor to windward by
filing for Senator, too.
—Stalwart Democrats gave Alder
man George D. Herbert, the glad hand
when he filed his papers for Senator
in this county.
—lt would seem from papers filed
that D. F. La
fean and John R. K. Scott are up
against a fight. So is "Uncle Dave"
Lane, who asnires to be national
delegate in Philadelphia with a pledge.
Judge Charles IJ. Brown is running
against him. But Philadelphia poli
tics. on both sides of the house, are as
muddled as Allegheny this year. And
when you come to thinlc about It the
whole State is more or less out of the
uonual politically.
1 THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
BUT THIS IS HOW HE DID IT
/ NO,<D&NES,I WrtotiT StffiSREP Wftf4 ntW BARKER VOU
\ RECOMMENPED. SOU SEE, PORING TtC GOORSE Of A J
1 ARGUMENT HE FORGOT AU- ABOUT T&E SHWE I ASKED 1
V TOR W GPWE ME A FfICE MASSAGE
B>UT THIS 16 HOW HE DIP IT ;
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DIXIE GOES AHEAD
Making Sand Hills 8100m —Southern Pines
By Frederic J. Haskin
THIS Is a country made of sand,
rolled into long ridges, festooned
with wiregrass which nothing
will eat, and decorated here and there
with a crooked pine tree not worth
cutting down. It looks like the poor
est farm land in the world, and for a
long time it was taken at its face
value. According to a saying current
not many years ago, if a rabbit wanted
to cross this county he had to carry
his provisions with him.
If Bre'r rabbit came this way now,
he could camp beside some of the
finest sweet potato and truck patches
in the country; he could find vineyards
of sweet grapes that covered hundreds
of acres; and his bobbing tail would
be multiplied a million times in the
bursting bolls of the cotton fields. For
the sand hills have been transformed.
In ten years a waste has been made
a productive farm country. There are
still thousands of acres to be re
claimed; but their productivity has
been proved, and this is the story of
the men that made the sand hills
blossom.
First of them was Dr. Seaman A.
Knapp, government expert, and rural
philospher. There arc probably poo-
THE STATE FROM m TO DM
"Wanted —Five hundred sets of old
false teeth." This advertisement re
cently appeared in valley newspapers,
but it is a question if even tho most
ze&lous of antique-hunters could con
vince himself of the beauty and value
of such an acquisition. Perhaps he
was a second-hand dealer.
As soon as the students of Bryn
Mawr College lind out what constitutes
"high fortitude and courage" in a
girl, they will be able to decide upon
the winner of the 1 lelena Ritchie prize,
one of the annual commencement
awards. It Is said that a great many
of the girls fill the bill.
The light on a certain street corner
in Sheffield has insisted on being ex
tinguished every evening to the an
noyance of pedestrians who fear what
the dark may bring forth. The au
thorities have issued an ultimatum to
spooning couples, upon whom they
have placed the blame.
A little head-work on the part of a
forger in Corning who had just been
sentenced to a long period of confine
ment effected his release with the best
wishes of the judge. It was tills way.
In the same cell with him was a con
tortionist charged with drunkenness,
and the forger was taken into court
by mistake for the contortionist. The
judge asked for a proof of his twisting
ability, and the forger, quick-witted as
he was, turned a hand-spring, ac
knowledged the applause of the court,
and airily took his departure.
"Thomas O'Rourke, of Middlefork,
while out looking after his traps Wed
nesday, had an encounter with a 200-
pound bear. Round one—Tom put a
few kicks to the bear and the bear
tore Tom's overalls. Round two—Tom
was getting the worst of it. and shot
the bear." —Ridgway Record.
Mrs. Guida de Nuccio. of Butler,
goes the Philadelphia woman one bet
ter who had preserved an apple half
a century by sticking cloves in it. By
a liberal use or cloves and a coat of
paint, Mrs. de Nuccio has kept intact
a beautiful red-checkcd apple for more
than 03 years.
The return to popularity of the con
venient bicycle has brought along with
it the apparently Inevitable bicycle
thief. A 23-year-old has been caught
in Pottstown with a long string of
two-wheeled thefts to his discredit.
Cobb Describes Kentucky
In the May American Magazine Tr-
Vin S. Cobb writes about his native
State ns follows:
"Of late, Kentucky has gone in less
for pistol toting and more for beLter
schools; for fewer homicides and a
greater number of good roads. Yet in
her essentials she is what she always
has been. She leads the planet and
the subdivisions thereof in the produc
tion of chewing tobacco and Bourbon
distillations, which age in the wood,
or would do so were it not for the de
mands of the New York clubs. Like
wise, she leads in fine, fast horses; in
hemp, although not so much hemp
since the electric chair came into
common use and the lynching* began
to fall off; in corn bread, without any
sugar in it: in hog jowl and turnip
greens; in ancestors: in colonels who
Inherited the title or had it wished on
them; in poets—not all of our poets
write poetry, but all of them think it;
in silver-tongued orators; in the pro
portionate number of latchstrlngs
hanging on the outside; in the use of
pie in the Carolina hills who never
heard that Teddy went to Africa, and
are still ignorant of Bryan's fondness
for grapejuice, hut there, are none who
do not remember and revere Seaman
A. Knapp. He came to the sand hills
to study the cotton boll weevil. lie
found a community of Highland
Scotchmen living in the valleys and
bottoms, where they raised enough
food for their own consumption. The
vast rolling areas of the sand hills
had never felt the bits of a plow. They
were regarded as fit for nothing, after
the timber had been out.
Dr. Knapp knew that Boston got all
its truck from a sand flat, and New
York from a sand bar namely, Bong
Island. The truck section back of
Norfolk is made of sand, and so la
Florida, which supplies a nation with
winter vegetables. He knew that the
sand hills had a future, not only in
truck but in corn and cotton, both of
which would grow in the sand if
properly fertilized. But these people
had never used fertilizer, and further
more. they had no money with which
to buy It, for they sold almost noth
[ Continued on
doormats with the word 'Welcome' on
them; in pretty girls with soft voices
and tiny feet and llirtutious souls; in
men who believe that Kentucky has
the fairest skies, the softest land
scapes, the deepest waterways, the
clearest rills, the finest people and the
greatest undeveloped possibilities in
natural wealth, and ull willing to
tight, you to prove it.
"Within her own borders she excels
in the ritualistic mint julep and the
high-church ham. It lakes three
years to cure a Kentucky ham proper
ly. The trouble is, that so few persons
who have ever tasted one can wait
that long."
Nelson and the Star
What he did for Kansas City is
known to all men —his fight for city
beautifieation, for parks, boulevards,
attractive houses in settings of shrub
bery, for wholesome living conditions,
for good government, for the restraint
of grasping interests, for social and
industrial justice, for the fellow, as he
was fond of putting it, who had less
than his share. All this is history.
The amazing resources of his rest
less intelligence were constantly busy
over the problems of the city and its
people. The questions of traffic ways,
of clean streets, of public health, of a
decent building code, of rapid and
cheap transit, of efficient administra
tion, of a better chance for boys and
girls, always concerned him.—Kansas
City Star.
OUR DAILY LAUGH I
A MARTIAL a jflfc
ATROCITY.
Dobbs—What's f
the trouble at ' V ifijniffl BT"
Pec.kham's home ? JrLigJ m|||| MM
Bobbs Peck- W.|||||r
ham accuses his |l| j«
wife of using •mß'
dum-dum bullets
In making bis- 4 ®
cult*.
V\"l HE KX'FW.
'\ fTls: I wish yon
would be nice to
x||p|jb George, you
s know I'm going to
v K \ , n marry him soon.
- Bobby: IMa
nice to about a
dozen feller* al
ready dat you
Ist was goin* to
■ fins'* marry.
POOR FATHISIt:
By Win* lllnicrr
Gloom is all about me,
Wlfey's Koing away
With the kiddies for the
Easter holiday.
Shoes and hats and other
Wearing needs galore
For them have been coming
Daily from the store.
Sunday, while the others
In the family roam
Elsewhere, poor old fattier
Will remain at home
And among the masses—
If it doesn't rain—
He will mingle with his
i.asl Spring's suit and cane.
Stoning (tthat
John T. Bretz, who was yesterday
appointed a captain of infantry and
assigned to command Company 1),
Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, the
"City Grays," has been a member of
the National Guard for Sixteen years
und has worked up his way, showing
how interest in military affairs and
sticking to it bring reward. Hi« ap
pointment will probably stimulate a
good many men who are in the Guard
for it is promotion by merit. Captain
Bretz enlisted March 13, 1900, and
was made a corporal next year and ser
geant in 1903. In 1908 he was elected
second lieutenant and became first
lieutenant April 18, 1911. His ap
pointment dates from April 17. Captain
J. J. Hartman, whose commission ex
pired on April 17, and whom Captain
Bretz succeeds, has a long record in
the Guard, lie enlisted in Company
I), June 8, 1891, and advanced by
grades from corporal to captain, be
ing given the two bars April 18, 1911.
He served as sergeant of Company D
in the Spanish war. Jerry Hartman
lis probably one of the best-known
j Guardsmen In this part of the State.
| Josiah P. Wilbar, who was advanced
i from second to first lieutenant, has a
i line record in tlie Guard, too. He is
! one of the younger men, enlisting in
j 1903 and being made a second lieuten
ant in 1911 after going through the
various grades.
Under the administration df Dr.
Charles H, Crampton, the People's
Forum during the past year has grown
from a membership of about 75 to
more than 700, all of them enthusias
tic and active. The weekly Sunday
afternoon meetings have increased
from a handful to 800 and 900. Dur
ing the year eleven of the best known
negro speakers of the country hava
addressed the Forum and as many
white men of prominence. Dr. Cramp
ton is a Harrisburg boy, educated in
the Harrisburg hiprh school and after
ward at medical college. He has very
distinct ambitions toward the better
ment of conditions in Harrisburg ami
is rapidly making for himself a prom
inent place in the community.
The post office plaza, which just
now is anything but. a beauty spot, is
more appreciated by the birds than
by pedestrians. The interior of the old
federal building has been ripped oul
in the rebuilding process and tons ot
all manner of debris are piled up on
the lawn. Thus come the nesting
birds by the hundred for material
with which to construct their summer
homes. The piles of plaster are par
ticularly popular. Here at any hour ot
the day a dozen or more birds may ba
seen with their beaks full of hair,
looking enviously at that they hnva
to leave behind and perhaps wishing
that they had brought a bag or a
basket along.
• * •
Pussy-willows are budding In minia
ture forests in Wildwood park these
days and the thousands of folks, old
and young, who promenade through
the wooded stretches of a Sunday, se
riously and permanently damage the
growths in their efforts to cut or break
the prettily covered branches. With
the exception of the bloodroot
there are no wild flowers a-bloom in
the park as yet but the bloodroot ami
the pussy-willows appear to afford
easy "picking" for the scores who go
flower hunting. The damage that has
already been wrought is a matter ot
serious concern to the park officials.
"Something should be done by tha
people themselves to co-operate with
us in trying to eliminate the practice,"
said V. Grant Forrer, park superin
tendent. "It. is against the park regu
lations to pull the flowers or break oft
the branches of the trees but the park
is so big that it is almost Impossible to
protect the whole stretch. All wo
can do is to urge the common sensa
folks of the city to help by doing thcii
little share. Whenever you see any
body pulling up flowers or breaking ✓
'branches from the trees, stop them;
and see," added the assistant superin
tendent smilingly, "that you don't da
it yourself."
» • •
Among visitors to the city yesterday
was William Dawson, of Scranton, who
was for years chief clerk in the State
Banking department. He came hera
to file papers for his son Representa
tive Hugh Dawson, who will run foi
the Legislature again.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"
—W. A. Glasgow, Jr., a Philadel
phia lawyer here yesterday for a Pub.
lie Cervice case, was temporary chair
man of the last Democratic State con
vention.
—James S. Austin, Philadelphia
mining man, has returned from a trip
through the West.
—A. E. Turner, of Philadelphia,
well known here, has bought tin
Sharpless property in the Poconos.
—R. B. Scandrett, who is running
for the House, is a Pittsburgh lawyei
who was a law partner of ex-Stat«
T easurer James E. Barnett.
1 DO YOU KNOW
That Allen D. Albright says the
Susquehanna basin is regarded as
the most attractive tiling In the
way of artistic development tlint
any city possesses.
HISTORIC IIAIIRISBURG
Representatives of William Penn
made the first arrest in Harrisburg,
They captured a half-breed who waa
making trouble about 200 years ago
where Lochiel furnace now stands.
Our Statesmen
[New York Sun.]
Senator Jones, of Washington, arosa
in his place in the Senate chamber on
Thursday, glanced compassionately
upon his fellow-members and said:
"Mr. President, I desire to say to
Senators who are here that I shall
j probably take the time of the Senate
; for an hour and a half, and Senators
] can govern themselves accordingly."
No serious casualties are reported in
the ensuing rush as Senators governed
themselves accordingly, but they do
say that some Senators started with
such impetus they never stopped until
they reached the Chevy Chase Golt
Club house.
SelHng For the
Retailer
Mr. Manufacturer, which IR
the best way—to load up the
dealer and let him worry out; or
to -keep the goods moving from
his shelves?
There Is less selling cost In
constant repeat orders is there
not?
A satisfied dealer doesn't worry
you much, does he?
The easy way to help your
dealers and tn enthuse them Is
through newspaper advertising.
Information on this subject
will be given by the Bureau of
Advertising, American Newspa
per Publishers Association, World
Building, New York.