6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Hnlldinf, Federal Square. E.J. STACK POLE. Prest and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. QUS M. BHEINMF.TZ, Managing Editor. * Member American Newspaper Pub aylvania Associate I Eastern «fflce, Has- K3 Hi jfll M Brooks, Fifth Ave ifffilfiSfflS HT nUe Huiulinff - ew Gas Building. Chi- cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. B >' carriers, si* cents a <!IBKO£»j3KD' week: by mall, $3.00 a year In advance. 8n n m dnlly p.vcrnge circulation for the three niontn* ending April SO, 1016, W 22-341 ★ Thear flvrurr* are net. All returned* ■naold and damaged copies deducted. MONDAY EVENING. MAY 1 'Tis virtue and not birth, that makes us nolle; Hreat actions speak great minds, and such should govern. — FLETCHER. [ HARRY C. WRIGHTS DEATH IN the death of Harry C. Wright, president of the Municipal League, member of the School Board and widely-known citizen, Steelton loses one of its real assets. Of Mr. Wright It may be said that he did more perhaps than any other one man to bring Steelton out of tho slough of municipal Indifference Into the very first rank of progressive boroughs In the State. He was one of the first men to urge the paving of Front street, the principal thor oughfare, which improvement is gen erally recognized as the commence ment of Steelton's awakening. As president and one of the guiding spirits In the Municipal League he dicl much to obtain passage of the various Improvement loans which have marked Steelton's advancement to Its present enviable position among boroughs. Aside from his constructive work in slrictly municipal circles, Mr. Wright has always been an ardent advocate of adequate recreation facilities. Al ways a booster for development of the Luther R. Kclker Park, Mr. Wright was one of the first to see the^ad- I vantage oT a phiv-grounds system for the borough and up to the very day j-hat he was taken ill, worked kenuously to Induce council to pass an ordinance creating a Parks and Playgrounds Commission to get the recreation work under proper ad ministrative control. As a member of the Steelton School Board Mr. AVright did to pluce Steelton schools in their present high position. While he was u. member of the board politics in school affairs was unknown. He was also a constant advocate of a bigger and better Steelton. Not only did he urge outside capitalists to invest their money there, but showed his faith in the town by investing practically every cent of his own money in Steelton real estate. Mr. Wright's career has been a constant source of inspiration and j help to the constructive civic forces in i Steelton and his sudden death will be i deeply mourned by all with whom he came In contact. I'IjATTSBURG AS the summer draws near and the schools and colleges make ready to disgorge their thou- j sands whose tremendous plans for j the summer vacation, if carried out. j would require months of time and n mint of money, there are many young i men whose personalities are a sensl- 1 ble mixture of serious purpose and , wholesome appreciation of the out-, doors, who turn eager eyes toward the j opportunities for physical develop ment. For such young men the War 1 Department several years ago in its wisdom provided a means for the out- j let of suppressed steam and a month's work and pleasure combined. The an- j swer is Plattsburg, New York. Discipline, obedience, cultivation of muscle and an erect bearing, pleasant, association with men and boys of like i mind, health, appetite, toughened sinews, military knowledge, apprecia tion and acquisition of authority, a healthy sunburn and a stimulated love for America, and all she stands ■M' are only a few of the characteris tic things which a month at the beau-; tiful camp along Lake Champlain brings. The sight of hundreds of young men, representing some of the best blood of the country, units of a machine that in a short time attains to remarkable efficiency, marching across the drill plain on parade, in perfect step, heads erect, eyes flashing, [while the regimental band plays stir- Irtn* martial music, is a picture that lis never forgotten by the marty eivii- I ians who daily visit the camp to watch [ the volunteers on dress parade. The decision which has been reached by a dozen or more of the stu dents of the Harrisburg'Academy who are Interestetd In the idea of a month's training at the combination play and work camp at Plattsburg, will never be regretted. The enthusiasm dis played by every man who has in years past spent a month at. this summer military camp is sufficient proof of the adx-antages which it offers and the benefits which accrue therefrom It MONDAY EVENING, is to be hoped that members of the Senior classes of both the Central and Technical high school will arrive at the same conclusion as the Academy boys. The big universities of the country predominate the Junior camp in July, but the percentage of high (school and preparatory school students is not small. Businessmen of Harrls hurg, you who are always talking I about getting out In the open and re ducing, but who never do it, now Is your chance! Follow Mayor Mitchel's example and take a month off this summer. A CITY OF FLOWERS EVERYWHERE throughout Harris burg the campaign for window and porch boxes this season is I arousing great interest. Since the ! clouds have ceased to weep dally the !work in the gardens and among the flowers has been taken up earnestly In all parts of the city. Likewise many of the most important business houses 1 have decided to Join in the floral dec oration scores of persons in the resi dential districts are failing into line. A GETTING TOGETHER DURING the last year there has been organized in this city an, association of railroad men which is founded upon the principles of harmony and unity and co-oper ation. It is designed to bring together under more satisfactory conditions the employer and employe with the dom inant thought that through a better understanding of each other's plans and purposes the general relations of the railroad management and railroad men will be Improved. This organization is said to be grow ing rapidly and the meetings from time to time, which are addressed by those Interested in co-operative effort looking toward the promotion of a spirit of good fellowship, are having a wide Influence for good. The meet ings are attended by railroad officials and all classes of employes and already there is manifest a feeling of confi dence and fraternity which augurs well for the future. COAL STROKE AVERTED APPARENTLY' the threatened coal strike is to be averted. Both sides have yielded something and if the operators and the mine work ers approve the award of the Joint committee the danger of a summer of idleness and a fuel famine next Fall and winter will be avoided. But the public will pay the freight. Be sure the operators will not shoulder the cost of additional wages and shorter hours. They will charge it up to the retailer and the retailer, if he is to continue in business, must pass it along to the consumer. RAILROAD PROBLEMS JUST when the great railroads with terminals at Philadelphia and New York were getting ready to enjoy a share of the returning prosperity of the country the congestidn at these terminals is so great that It is impos sible to move traffic with any degree of certainty. AFI official of the Penn sylvania Railroad slated a day or two ago that there is an average of 2,500 loaded cars clogging the system In the ; vicinity of Philadelphia and New Y'ork. As fast as these cars are moved in snail fashion through the Inadequate terminal facilities other loaded cars 1 take their places and thus the condi tions continue to worry and embarrass the transportation companies. Of 1 course, this result is largely due to the ! big exports of war materials and sup plies and the fact that New England is Jat the present time an enormous work shop, with most of the product going to these shipping points. This congestion of traffic has be-! come a problem which the railroads' were never before called upon to meet, j As the main arteries of internal com merce the railways are necessary to the prosperity of the country and when the normal flow of traffic through these arteries is impeded or stopped altogether there is certain to be a serious effect upon business. The transportation experts are wearing their gray matter to a frazzle in an effort to overcome this situa- j tion. It is thought possible, however,' that the normal weather conditions of; the Spring will render less acute the congestion which has continued for months without material improve- j I ment. EXPERIENCJE UNNECESSARY WHAT the present Administra tion lacks in knowledge of government service it up In egotism. In the opening paragraph , lof his latest annual report, the First 1 Assistant Postmaster General says: The plans for%mproving, develop [ Itig and extending the post office j service laid down at the outset of this Administration * * * have l been followed consistently to the ' present time. Mr. Roper became First Assistant Postmaster General without a single day's experience in the postal service I—a 1 —a service that expends $283,000,000 a year. Mr. Roper's own bureau spends practically' one-half of this amount and has control over nearly 60,000 post offices. Without a day's experience Mr. Ro per says that "at the outset of his' ad mir .iration he made plans for im j proving, developing, and extending the service and has followed those plans consistently to the present time." What great opportunities are being I missed by such corporations as the United States Steel Company, the Standard Oil Company, the great New York banks, or the large manufactur ing establishments of Chicago! What a pity they should go on employing supervisory officials who have worked up in the service when they could Just as well employ a man like Roper who, I without a day's experience, could lay out plans for Improvement and devel opment. Hut, on the other hand, perhaps large business enterprises have ob served the results of consistently fol lowing plans thus laid out and prater j their own policy of employing men of I experience rather than men whose chief qualification is that they are de serving Democrats possessed of unlim ited conceit. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE | I —lreland has Mexico beaten a mile j —a president made and deposed In less j than twenty-four hours is enough to j niake even Villa jealous. , —Whenever Democrats want an ex cuse for getting together to talk poli tics they hold a Jefferson banquet. —lf this Is a sample of the kind of weather we are going to have during May. the month was worth waiting for. —"Dead Man's Hill Pivot in Fight ing"—newspaper headline. And yet they say there is nothing in a name. —A State College professor says Bacon could not have written Shake speare. If he lived in Chicago he'd be in contempt of court. -—lt's a hard world. Just as times are prosperous enough to permit the purchase of an automobile the price of gasoline goes up another cent. —Time flies, and» procrastination is the swatter. EDITORIAL" COMMENT | Becoming more and more evident that T. R. now stands for "To Run."—Co lumbia State. The T. Coleman Du Pont boom for the Presidency blew up as soon as a Roose velt spark fell into the magazine.—New York Sun. Russia having engaged Americans to build a submarine, evidently expects the war to last two or three years yet. —Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. Ford's selection in the Michigan Presidential preference primary will doubtless be regarded as a victory for the Ford machine.—Chicago Herald. Doubtless Villa had nothing to do with the attack on Columbus. N. M. A sketch drawn by him will show that It was another town at the same place.— New York World. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR \ WEST SHORE ROADS To the Editor of the Telegraph: Carlisle, Pa., May 1, 1916. Recehtly there appeared in our Carlisle dailies a communication call ing attention of the public road at Lruioyne and Camp Hill, and giving sixty days in which to remedy condi tions. May we add the conditions at Camp Hill are exceedingly bad and should be remedied at once. Now may we call attention to our Capital City streets between Eighteenth and Xineteenlh streets. April 28. on Boas street between Eighteenth and Nine teenth streets conditions were so bad, with a Ford car capable of going any where, we sunk into mud so deep it i was necessary to employ four men to j dig us out. taking an hour to do j the work. Should there be occasion i to order at short notice cannon from 1 the State arsenal it is doubtful ] whether they could get them out at, any cost as these road conditions! « xist a stone's throw from the State' arsenal. There is positively not a public thoroughfare In Cumberland county equal to the present bad Condi tion right In Harrlshurg. Have some one look it up. A SUBSCRIBER, Can Teach Us Something [Philadelphia Public Ledger] Like other cities that have suffered i severely from fire, Augusta, Georgia, ; has plans for rebuilding of an! ambitious kind. The new business: center of Augusta will do far finer I than the old. Better architecture, 1 broader streets, more parks these' are things the energetic Inhabitants intend to provide. Thus in a sense the great fire was a blessing. Yet it j is pertinent to ask why so many i American communities should wait 1 ! for (he disaster carelessness has In-, I vited before they make a serious effort In the direction of more tieauty and | security. This Is the land Of wasted opportunities In many ways—in none more than in civic development. We permit fire-traps to exist in crowded sections, we Ignore the possibilities of improvements that would mean financial advantage as well as greater ! attractiveness, we persist in hap hazard construction and tolerate lack of enterprise. Cannot. Philadelphia, at least, learn from the misfortunes of others the lesson they so plainly teach? A New Literary Hope [Kansas City Times.] The touch of romance that has been wanting in the great war has been sup plied—an Trish There is noth ing more romantic than an Trish rebel lion. It has the best literary traditions of any form of rebellion Known. It has more of poetry, oratory, saga and min strelsy than was ever boasted by lost cause. The hoofbeats and saber rattles in Dublin are but a faint eclio of It. Charley over the water never held a candle to It. No plot, no conspiracy, no sedition that did not have the smell of peat smoke about it ever had an equal chance of Immortality. One regrets to hear from Mr. Blrrell, chief secretary for Ireland, that the sit uation is undier control. It seems hardly fair to the Interests of ro mance. One could have hoped that it would remain beyond control long enough, at least, for a Charles Lever to take a few hasty notes. The Kngr lish government In times past has con i sldered a decent patronage of literature !to be one of Its prerogatives. How ! good and how pleasant It would be If it could see its way to go a little easy now and let our pallid literary era Ife refreshed with a new chapter of Irish rebellion! Democratic Split [From the New York Sun.] That split [on the Philippine bill] is svmotomatic only of the distrust, sus nicion and dislike the members of President Wilson's party feel .toward him. They would opnose him as vio lently on any other measure on which his ambition was set . provided that measure was one they dared to oppose: thev would throw his whole program out of the window If they had not a high desire to retain their Jobs; and whenever they find it possible to thwart his wishes without endangering their own skins they may be counted on to do It. There is no mystery about the troub les of the Democrats In Washington. t XONR WORSE By Wlif Dinger There are a lot of things that take One's breath, but gee, the shock i That's always bound, the workings of The breathing cogs, to block Is when sopoe chap plays through the mud. Three hundred yards or more, Plays three upon the green to sink His murmurs "Four! 1 HAKRISBURQ {S@^TELEGRAPH ""Potctccfl. LK 'PotKO^tuanXo, By the Ei-Committecman Governor Brumbaugh's remark in the opening speech of his campaign at Altoona on Saturday night to the effect that he was not a candidate in the sense of seeking an office, but before the people solely with the object of reuniting the party in the Stale, ap pears to have evoked no end of discus sion and to have started criticism again. Senator Penrose seized upon this remark to reiterate his statement that »he people of Pennsylvania do not consider the Governor as a can didate and added that thev are giving him silent treatment, while the Phila delphia Ledger takes occasion to print an editorial on when a candidate is not a candidate. The Governor in his speech placed the responsibility for a factional row in the Republican party on his oppo nents, saying that he had "ttrst sug gested a harmony ticket with which it seemed possible to avert any contest in the matter of delegates," but that the other side refused to accept it and must therefore take the responsibility. The Governor then said: "We have never sought personal preferment, I am not a candidate for any office." The Governor urged his hearers to support the position he had taken and closed with a hearty plea for local option. The Governor's declaration that he was not a candidate when his name is on the ballot for presidential prefer ence nnd he is running for delegate-at large was taken up by Senator Pen rose. He said that the Governor's campaign had collapsed and pointed out that he had previously declared that the Governor was not a candidate in good faith. Then he repeated the Governor's own words in support of his position. In till? connection the Philadelphia Ledger says: "Comment on the Gov ernor's Altoona speech. In which he took himself out of the race as a real candidate for the presidency, was varied, though both politicians and business men were reluctant to discuss the. matter for publication. Their point was that the Governor's lan guage needed no interpretation. In saying he was not a candidate and at the same time appealing for support for instructed candidates, it was ar gued, the Governor presented himself as the forefront of a purely factional tight, as the public leader of the Vare and Flinn-Van Valkenburg forces." —The Citizens Republican League of Philadelphia last night issued a blistering: attack upon Speaker Ambler as a candidate for the nomination for Auditor General. It referred to him as interested in contractors and as the candidate of contractors and talked about a county bridge contract near Phoenixville, which, it was as serted, was going to go more than bar gained for. —Attorney General Brown coun tered yesterday on Senator Penrose's declaration that the Governor's cam paign had gone to &mash by saying that the Senator was a false prophet and citing some erroneous prognosti cations of the Senator in 1912, when Roosevelt got 70 delegates and Taft 6 in Pennsylvania. Mr. Brown appeared to be in tine form and handled with out gloves the Senator's predictions in other campaigns which had not turned out right. —The real anti-Brumbaugh cam paign is to start this week in Phila delphia. It is intimated that some severe arraignments are to lie made. Senator Penrose while here Saturday said that he would speak Thursday in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia In quirer says he will then present "the real issues" of this campaign. —Nightly meetings are to be held in Philadelphia and the McNichol men will invade Vare wards. The rest of the. State will sit back and watch the Philadelphtans, who started all the trouble, fight it out. —Belligerency seems to have spread to the Luzerne and Delaware county Democrats. They are lighting over every place on the list. —Lebanon Republicans registered 2,625 of 3,730 voters . —C. J. Buckman and J. A. Ander son, uninstructed delegates, were ! boomed at a meeting of Montgomery manufacturers on Saturday. —Harry A. Mackey," chairfnan of the State Workmen's Compensation j Board, whose ward in Philadelphia; has been invaded by the Penrose men, is getting on the warpath. ,In letters! issued yesterday he attacked those! who had been assailing him. —More charges of activity of police I in politics against the expressed pur pose of Mayor Smith are being made j in Philadelphia. —Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, j candidate for the Democratic Sena- j torlal nomination has been visiting York county. —Railroad men in meeting at> Wilkes-Barre yesterday adopted reso lutions praising Governor Brumbaugh for his legislative course. Similar action was taken at other railroad meetings. —Former Schuylkill countians living in Philadelphia held a meeting and endorsed Charles A. Snyder for the Republican nomination for Auditor Geperal. —-The Philadelphia I-edger to-day j calls attention to the fact that the Vares are being opposed and sup ported by liquor dealers in their marks that it is the first time tljat they - have been between ftvo fires. —Senator Franklin Martin will be unable to take up his campaign work for several days, maybe not for two weeks. An injured foot \e the cause. —Committeeman A. Mitchell Pal mer will be here for the Central Club's Jefferson dinner on May 18. —Congressman Michael Liebel did not let the week-end go by without hurling a brick at Palmer. Taking up some remarks by the harassed na tional committeeman he issued this statement: "My opponent, Mr. Pal mer, seems to believe that he. and not the Democratic voters of the great State of Pennsylvania, Is to determine who shall and who shall not be elected to office. And in persisting in this obsession he goes much further in his dictatorial attitude than was ever dreamed of in the history of Pennsyl vania politics. Mr. Palmer says that, even should I be elected to member ship in the Democratic National com mittee I will not be recognized. This statement alone. In my opinion, stamps Mr. Palmer as being totally unfit to represent the Democrats of Pennsyl vania. When he says that the will of the Democratic majority of the State will be set aside by his mandate, he speaks as he feels, but he is wrong. If Mr. Palmer thinks that he Is the owner of the party and the sole arbiter of its future, he Is mistaken. He will find that on May 16 the Democrats of the State resent hla bossism and will settle for all time the question of party management by self-constituted bosses." A Real Newspaperman Tommy Trant came to Chicago with n pencil In his pocket and a dream in his eyes. >T» csme from Indiana, a tall. stooMra. awkward, heavily spec tacled boy. to stand by the desk of the pitV editor of The Record, seeking a fob. The city editor told him. as city editors have told hundred* of other solemn-eyed youths from Indiana, that there was no job, but plentv of jobs for n«>wsg*therers. Tommy Trant took the hint that most of the other aspir ants for Journalistic' fame bad ignored. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY l_———— ______J BIRDS OF A FEATHER WILL THEY GET TOGETHER? —From tlie Baltimore American. , ( \ PROTECTING THE TEA DRINKER By Frederic J. Haskin WASHINGTON, D. C. —Not long agoalarge shipment of Chinese leechi nuts arrived in San Francisco and passed theusual examin ation of the customs officials. In load ing the boxes on a truck, however, one dropped to the ground, scatter ing its contents and Incidentially dis closing the fact that it contained not leechi nuts, hut tea. The customs of ficials immediately ordered the boxes returned to the dock where every one of them was opened and its contents investigated. As was suspected, the whole shipment was well padded with small pound baskets of a peculiar kind of Chinese tea prohibited entry by the United States government. This tea, called by the Chinese,"Otd Man's Tea," is believed by the super stitious of their race to contain many wonderful medicinal qualities, but the practical government experts have pronounced it nothing but an ordinary tea, so highly fermented as to be sour, and untit for consumption in this country. Hence the customs officials are continually exasperated at the cunning methods devised by the Chi nese who seek to smuggle it into the country in shipments of crude drugs, joss papers and peanuts. It is a nui sance to have to go through several thousand boxes of peanuts, for instance, in order to hold up perhaps five or six one-pound baskets of sour tea. But so exhaustive has become the precautions taken by the customs officials that a basket of this tea now rarely enters the country. In fact, tea is by far the safest and most protected commodity to buy, for not one pound is released in the course of trade that has not been examined by a government expert. No longer does the clever application of Prus sian blue and soapstone deceive Am erican consumers. The government allows the importer just six months to get shipment of tea out of the count ry; if by that time it is not deported, the tea is confiscated and destroyed. These rigorous measures have resulted in the passage of laws by tea-produc ing nations prohibiting the use of col oring and adulteration in teas. The tea inspection service main tained by the United States govern ment is direct and thorough. In the first place, there are tea examiners In New York, Boston, Tacoma, San Fran cisco and Honolulu, which are ports receiving the greatest number of tea shipments. While the headquarters of the examiners is the customs of fice of the port at which they are em ployed, they are directly under the pupervtsion of George F. Mitchell, the Supervising Tea Expert at Wash ington. In addition, there is a United States Board of Tea Appeals before which are heard the cases of import ers, dissatisfied with the decisions ren dered by the examining experts. When a cargo of tea arrives In any port in this country, consigned to Am erican importers, the law requires that it sliall be placed In a bonded warehouse. Here sampled of the tea are obtained by the customs officials and turnod over to the federal exam iners, who, by comparing It. with gov ernment standards, decide whether Its purity, quality and fitness for con sumption are such that It can be placed upon the market. If there Is He sought out news In the places where news grew. He poked his long nose into queer corners of the town that was developing so many queer corners in those days after the World's Fair. He struck and held acquaintance with waiters, and cab-drivers, and bartend ers. He traveled beats with friendly patrolmen. He found the Pilot's Club, In South Water street, and the Goose Grid in Milwaukee avenue. In a city that editors knew only by ma-s and by gossip- Tommy Trant came to know real people, men and women who were shoving Chicago up to the 2,000,000 mark. He found stories In them. He made stories of them. He wrote stories out of the strange gift within himself. The city editor read all of them and used some of them. One week, Tommv Trant had drawn more money for space-writing than the citv editor drew on salary, The Record put the mnn from Indiana on its staff.—Krom "The Sandals of His Youth," by May Synon, In the May Scribner. Riding Power of a Nickel [From the Electrical Pallwav Journal.] One of the advertisements which the Chicago Surface Lines has now been running about a year called attention to the fact that the power of the nickel for street railway rides in Chicago had Increased about 1625 per cent. In fifty years, although In the same period the buvlng power of the nickel as applied to six leading commodities —flour, lard, sugar, shoes, cotton and wool—has in creased but 77 per cent. That there was any Increase at all Is due to the fact that the priced of 18fi0 were war prices. For twenty years the value of the nickel In terms of commodities has steadllv declined, but It has gone up pnormously In terms of street car ser vice. Very [From the Springfield Republican.] What seems odd Is that so correct a diplomat as the Count could hare sur rounded himself with Von Papens and V<» IgeU, MAY 1. 1916. no examiner in the port where the tea arrives, samples of the product are sent by parcel post to the nearest federal examiner. When the tea is up to government standards, it is immediately released by the examiner and resumes the us ual course of trade. When it is not up to the standard, however, and is rejected by the examiner, the im porter is given a period of six months in which to remove the tea from the country; at the end of that time, it will be confiscated by the government and destroyed. Samples of rejected teas are always furnished the Super vising Tea Kxpert at Washington, who also puts them through certain tests, with the privilege of correcting the decision of the examiner if it should appear that he is wrong. In the event that the tea is rejected by both experts, the importer may still take the matter to the United States Board of Tea Appeals, which has been created by congress for the purpose of trying tea cases. ITpon the decision of this board, which tests the tea in open court and hears the testi mony of any witnesses in the case, de pends the fate of the tea. The num ber of cases appealed to this board, however, are negligible, the decisions of the port examiners being accepted without complaint in almost every in stance. As every tea merchant is fam iliar with the government standards, and in buying tea is able himself to make the tea tests that the examiners make in ascertaining its purity and quality, there is little excuse for a shipment of poor tea ever reaching this country. The government has selected twelve tea standards which it considers the lowest maximum of purity and quality that should be sold to people of the United States. In comparing the sam ple of a tea shipment with these stan dards, the tea examiner brews a cup of each of them and tastes it. To the layman -who drinks whatever tea is placed before him, and prefers coffee anyway, this seems a rather in adequate method of deciding so im portant a question as the destiny of several thousand pounds of tea. But I when you have sampled as many kinds of teas as many times a day as do the 'tea examiners, your tea-taste comes i pretty near to being infallible and you are qualified to judge as to its quality, at least. i In determining its purity the exam ! iners employ what is known as the j "Read Test," invented by a woman | scientist of the Department of Ag riculture. A small sample of the tea ! Is placed in a sieve, where the dust is shaken over a piece of white paper. When approximately one grain of dust has been accumulated it is pressed on to the paper so that any particles of coloring matter contained in it will streak the paper. The dust is then re j moved and the sheet of paper is in spected through a magnifying glass, I when the presence of Prussian blue, [Boapstone or adulterating material is j at once revealed. Impossible for us to drink an Impure and inferior cup of tea, and the gov ernment expert* enthusiastic in their work, want us to discard coffee and become a tea-drinking nation. " 1 OUR DAILY LAUGH WILLING TO I / JTL * n klssin K> many .nfi 1 , v .i) ®tW\ germ s may | j A claim that J scientists ad- I ® ut when w ® *•• & pretty lasa ffS 4SM=R- clined to talc* a chance. NOWADAYS. A - I suppose you /V, graduate soon ? __ I -dunno. I'm >retty weak on lewlnr and cro- ihetlng, I might lot pass. j Lesson From War [Buffalo Commercial.] If America lias advanced a hundred years In tho brief !«pao« of the war, Is It not possible that other members of the family of nations—not a very happy fnroily Just now— may also take a leap ahead to a clearer understanding of the futility of war and to a realization of the necessity for an International compact to suppress troublemakers? [lEtenmg (Chat 1— . . ~ii United States Senator Boies Pen rope, who was here on Saturday night on his way from Pittsburgh to Phila delphia, made a remark that ought to interest every Pennsylvanlan of means who can not go abroad because of the war and, incidentally, which shows that he and Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh agree in their admira tion of the scenery of their native State. The Senator said that he had just come over the Alleghenies by-'i automobile and that he expected to j go over them again. "I have been J going over the mountains of Pennsyl-J vania by automobile a good bit latclyfl and I have especially enjoyed the trip*® I have taken the last week. I got tafl know and appreciate our mountatnH when I was a young man and m.H admiration for them hns increased th<* more 1 travel about," said the Senator A "Your city lies right where the moun-l tains begin and you have within a few miles which people arel commencing to appreciate. Yearsl ago, when 1 first came to Harrisburg, 1 I I sed to enjoy your surroundings and " with the highways being developed I J think that thousands will soon know I more about the beauties of this sec- ] tlon of the State. Pennsylvania! abounds in places which are well! worth a visit and the mountains cjuß now be reached easier than ever. Do* you know I think that every man whn can ought to take a couple of trips year across the Alleghenies." "What's the reason people do nrfl take more interest in Arbor Day? In it. because planting time can not n\M ways be relied upon to furnish ideal day or are we letting the fellow do it?" asked one of the businessmen yesterday. "I've been tending to plant trees every year the last dozen years and I htfvH planted two lilac bushes in my Varß and let my family take care of tmem® 1 guess it's the same with most one else. We get up and recite 'Woodman, spare that tree' andksub scribe to forestry movements anWthen we forget all about it until we read the Governor's Arbor Day proclama tion when we make a note to buy some trees. Then we lose the note. Here In Harrisburg, where we make the proclamations, we forgef Arbor Day regularly." * • • • James N. Moore, director of the State legislative Reference Bureau, is receiving many compliments for the latest publication of that valuable branch of the State government—the text of the constitutions with analyti cal fndex and cross references. This publication, which seems to have been desired for the last thirty years, was prepared after mopths of work in the bureau and there are indica tions that the edition will be too small, the demand being greater than antici pated. One of the most valuable fea i tutes Is the material showing the i development of each section of the I constitution. Mr. Moore, who served in the legislature and was the parlia -11 mentarian for years, personally di rected the work and had the hearty j co-dperatlon of a staff of experts as I lieenly interested as himself. * • • i The Spring migration of birds may , bo said to be in full swing Just now, ! the feathered travelers being appar -1 ently satisfied that the cold weather | is over in the Northern States and that. I ! they may safely venture in house • j hunting tours without incurring the I danger of waking up in a snowstorm i some morning. There have been more . j birds about the city's parks and on • the farms near the limits than usual, j many of them having halted here be . cause of the cooler weather to the north. Incidentally, the encourage . i ment given to robins has caused hun- I dreds of the redbreasts to gather in II the parks. i « » • • Joe and Teddy, the Paxtang Park bears, the rabbits and groundhogs and birds in Wildwood Park and the fat robins in Reservoir Park have dis placed the Capitol Park squirrels and pigeons as the popular pets. Yester day was such a fine day that hundreds of folks who have been passing through Capitol Park on their Sunday after noon walks turned to the outlying parks for their strolls. The Paxtang zoo was popular for many youngsters and Reservoir Park grassy slopes were filled with youngsters who watched the robins and other birds with de light. Prof. Arthur E. Brown, headman',•'f of the Harrisburg Academy**'* Ex- I Mayors Vance O. McCormick atra John K. Royal and George Ross I*i 11 were I llarrisburgers attending the/ meeting of the American Academy/of Social and Political Science in Philadelphia i last week. • • • ! Opening of the golf courses about I the city this year is not going to wait for the weather. The late Spring has caused those with a liking for out - j door sports to be eager and the j chances are that a good many greens : and tennis courts, as well, will be j used "t the earliest possible moment. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE,"* Benjamin Thaw. Jr., prominent; Pittsburgher, has passed the tion for the diplomatic service. f The Rev. 11. C. Stone, who started the Stonemen's movement, is a Phila delphia clergyman. O H. Priestly, whose purchase of Petty's island in the Delaware, has interested Philadelphia, is prominent 1 in oil affairs. ——— : ! The Rev. Dr. W. O. Thompson will dedicate the new administration building at Western Theological Semi nary. Pittsburgh. Henry Hornbostel, architect of the Pennsylvania building at San Francisco exposition, is the expert in charge of plans for the Johnstown High School. _ I DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg steel is being used in governmental arsenals? HISTORIC HAHRISBCRG John Harris had commercial rela tions with the Indians of a dozen tribes and stood between them and many of the wandering traders. Punishment For Not Voting [From the Providence Tribune.! \ clergvman In New York has drop ped the rismes of 1,300 inactive mem bers from his parish roll. A good Idea. In like manner, why not drop from the voting lines all nonvoting voters: The Governor's View Governor Capper, of Kansas, """There are many businessmen who make money without adver tising but they are few and far between. You can't now, to yourself, name a live, go ahead town that has poor newspapers, , a live town that does not have enterprising merchants. "A live town Is mane up of live businessmen, and a live businessman shows his liveliness by going after business. And there is only one way of going after business. "You can't help yourself and help boost your city in any way mors effective than by telling the world, through your local newspapers." |i
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers