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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. ,
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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