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SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 20.
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And it shall be, that whosoever shall,
call on the name of the Lord s)utll be
saved. — ACTS 2:21.
GIVE THEM FLOWERS, NO}\,
AGAIN the Grand Army veiei'ajis j
have asked for donations of j
flowers with which on Memorial
Day to decorate the graves of their
comrades who are sleeping their long
sleep 'neath the sods of the cemeteries.
We of the younger generations
should give without stint.
In the light of what is happening in
Northern France, in Poland and else
where in blood-stained Europe, we
better realize to-day than ever before
what the boys of '6l, who stood be
tween their "loved land and the war's
desolation." did for the North when
the gray-clad hosts swept up to and
over the Mason and Dixon line.
It would be a pretty and an appro
priate thing if every boy and girl in
Harrlsburg were given a bouquet .ind
sent to the post rooms on the eve of
Memorial Day. Such a visitation
would be more than a tribute to the
veterans, dead and alive; It would be
a great lesson In patriotism for the
youth of the city.
Again the menace of the non-partisan
Judiciary scheme is demonstrated in the
possible nomination of a candidate al
most unknown over Justice Walling,
now serving the unexpired term of the
latq| Justice Elkin. All over the State
the popular assumption was that Jus
tice Walling would be practically unop
posed. Even Mr. Palmer, the possible
nominee, has no. -et recovered from
his surprise.
THIS STATE AT CHICAGO
PENNSYLVANIA will have a large
part in the work of the Repub
lican national convention at
Chicago. It is, therefore, vitally neces
sary to the welfare of the State and
the nation that the representatives of
a great party shall compose what
ever differences now divide their coun
sels and present to the country a har
monious and united front. It matters
little who is who in Philadelphia so
far as party leadership is concerned,
hut it matters a great deal whether the
potential power of Pennsylvania in
the great conclave of this crucial year
shall be frittered away in fruitless and
unneeesaary factional war.
Xo other State will go to Chicago
representing greater interests and it is
extremely important that the contro
versies which have engaged the
thought and activities of the party
leaders shall be terminated to the end
that the delegation at Chicago may
sit under the banner of the State a
unified force in the councils of the
party.
It ought to be plainly evident to ail
who are interested in Republican suc
cess this year that a continuance of
factional bickering can only benefit
the common enemy and accomplish
nothing from the standpoint of the
Republican party. Surely the lesson
of the recent primary is clear enough
to be understood by those who really
desire to Interpret its meaning. The
great body of Republicans have no
wish to engage further in factional re
prisal and since the fruits of victory
last Tuesday are not particularly pal
atable there ought to be little difficulty
In reaching a common ground of
agreement and harmony of action
ORGANIZED EVANGELISM
THE proposal of the Preabytarlan
assembly to put evangelism on
an organized basis In the
United State*, with the object of pro
curing greater efficiency in thiß meth
od of spreading the gospel and elimin
ating the commercial feature from
evangelistic campaigns, will have the
ready approval of many who have
flven thought to the matter.
There aeems to be little doubt that
clever but unscrupulous men have
been using this branch of religious ef
fort for money-making purposes. Not
all of the evangelists who have re
ceived large returns for their work
are Insincere, but it unquestionably
true that the thought of "gate re
ceipts" has entered into many cam
paigns to such an extent as to Injure
the cause of the church In the eyes of
the very person whom the church,
through the revivalist, was trying to
reach.
We have been underpaying the local
minister and greatly overpaying the
traveling evangelist. Organization and
proper pay for evangelists would do
SATURDAY EVENING.
away also with sensation mongers and
unscrupulous persons who have been
, posing as "evangelists" while engaged
I principally in feathering their own
nests.
OI H CITY PLANNERS
A LL. over the country the impor
'AX tance of city planning is receiv
ing serious consideration. Many
! of the older cities are now undoing at
enormous expense what ought never to
have been done. Newer cities are
utilizing the mistakes of the older
municipalities and are planning along
modern lines. Replying to a corre
spondent as to the object of a city
planning board under a new charter
for that city, the Kansas City ?tar
illustrates the work of the planners In
this way:
If you live In the Southeastern
part of the city, and have to make
a long trip west and then another
north to get downtown, you are
,sufferlng from the lack of a city
planning commission in Kansas
t'lty. For such a commission
would have planned for diagonal
thoroughfares, and you could have
come downtown on the short cut
Instead of on the two sides of a
right angle. When the city was
small the need of such short cuts
wasn't obvious. But a city planning
board would have looked ahead,
with the experiences of other cities
In mind, and would have planned
against the day of expansion.
That illustrates one of the things
such a board would do. Other
duties are suggested in the pro
vision for a city planning board In
the newly issued "Model Charter"
of the National )funictpal League.
I The board is to keep Itself Inform
| ed of the progress of city planning
in this and other countries. It Is to
make studies and recommendations
for the Improvement of the plan of
the city with a view to facilitating
the movement of traffic, "the con
venience, health, recreation, gen
eral welfare and other needs of the
city dependent on a city plan:" and
to report on proposed streets,
bridges and public buildings, and
on the laying out of new subdi
visions of the city.
The Idea is that a modern city is
much too complicated an affair to
be allowed to Just grow. Some
body should be In a position to
study its problems and to direct its
growth.
This Is precisely what the City
Planning Commission of Harrisburg
is now doing. Its work is constructive
and of great importance to the j
community. The labors of the five
progressive and public-spirited men
comprising the commission are not al
ways understood by the general public,
but that does not In any degree lessen '
the high character of their service.
They realize what must be done and
arc- going about it in a quiet and effect
! lve way. It remains for the public at
, large antl the several official bodies of
' the city to co-operate earnestly in this
work so that the future Harrisburg
; may be even more attractive and more
I convenient than the present city.
THE DAYLIGHT HOURS
THERE is now a movement on foot
in Kansas City to increase the
daylight hours of all workers.
The plan provides that at a designated
hour all clocks be moved one hour
| ahead. The business hours would re
main the same as now so far as the
clock was concerned. Workers accus
tomed to arrive at their place of em
ployment at 8 o'clock would get there
at the same hour by the clock, but, as
a matter of fact, the correct time
would be 1 o'clock. The clerk would
leave at 5 o'clock, but, as a matter of
fact, his hour of departure would be
only 4. In the summer this would
mean five hours of daylight before
dark for recreation.
Kansas City's big merchants are said
to be ready to Join in some such plan
and the discussion is creating wide
spread interest. This daylight plan
simply means starting an hour earlier
j in the morning and quitting an hour
earlier in the afternoon, but the face
of the clock will represent the present
hours of labor.
One of the Kansas City suggestions
is to change the official time of that
city and have the railroads co-operate
so that there shall be no confusion.
The idea originated in Europe and is
at present working out satisfactorily
in Germany, according to recent dis
patches.
DEMOCRATIC "CIVIL SERVICE"
THE Democrats of the Senate have
again given proof of their "de
votion" to the principles of
civil service reform by refusing to
provide that the employes of the pro
posed land bank board shall be taken
from the certified list. They have
provided, however, that these em
ployes, once appointed without exam
ination, may be covered into the classi
fied service by executive order,
j We can foresee the procedure. If
'the bill passes, a lot of Democratic
henchmen will be given good Jobs un
der it; and about the first of next
March, Just before Wilson, leaves the
"White House, he will issue a procla
mation covering all these deserving
! Democrats Into the protection of the
civil service rules.
NONPARTISAN' SPEECHES
IT would be interesting to see Presi
dent Wilson smile to himself be
hind the scenes after he has made
one of his nonpartisan speeches. It
takes a clever man to put that over
on an intelligent audience at the same
time that he is trying to compromise
| with Tammany by throwing out the
most competent postmaster New
York City ever had, in order to make
a place for a "deserving Democrat."
j The smile may come off in November.
ALL RIGHT SOON
THE State Department has Issued
a circular chiding some of the
ambassadors in Europe because
they style themselves Excellency.
Never mind. After a short time they
can all refer to themselves as Ex
I .
DANIELS NOT RESPONSIBLE
CONGRESS appears to be In a fair
way to pass a ship building bill
that will go far toward giving
the United States In as brief time as
possible the foundation for an ade
quate navy. But if the measure goes
thrqjigh, the present Democratic ad
ministration will be in nowise respon
sible. largely due to Republican
efforts in the Mouse naval affairs com
mittee, the five-year prpgram of Secre
tary Daniels has been overthrown and
the recommendation made that the
work of construction be completed as
rapidly us possible. "What has been
accomplished has been In spite of
Daniels; not because of anything he
has done.
| TELEtjRAPH PERISCOPE~~
—Just so he'd be sure Ford would
read It. T. R. fixed It so that Detroit
(papers liad to print the speech as a
local item.
—The death lists of Villa bandits
■make It appear that It Is not necessary
, for a repeating rifle to reiterate.
—The Csar of Russia has just had a
birthday, and we bet he looks younger
than he did last year this time.
—Some daughters are so high-minded
i they won't even help mothers with the
up-stalrs work.
—The funniest announcement of the
week Is that W. J Bryan has been en
gaged to write newspaper reports of
the Republican convention.
—The Progressives will have grand
opera singers fill In the waits in the
Chicago convention—bound to have
' harmony at any cost.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Possibly the transfer of that Rus
sian army to France was intended as
a slap at Marshal von Hlndenburg. who
failed to keep them busy at home.—
New Orleans Times-Picayune.
The New York World again insists
that the Republican party nominate
Wilson. It must be admitted that it
might be possible to re-elect hltn that
way.—Boston Transcript.
A genius has arisen who asserts
that he understands all the Intricacies
of both Nebraska and Pennsylvania
politics.—N. Y. Sun.
Ambitious Politicians
[Philadelphia Inquirer.)
The people have refused to be led
Into factionalism. They have In a
forcible manner recorded their disgust
with bitter strife in a year when har
mony is not only desirable, bue essen
tial. They have chosen him as a dele
gate-at-largo to the Chicago conven
tion. He will be chairman of the dele
gation. He will resume his place as a
member of the National Committee.
Thus is his leadership assured
At the same time they have ignored
political attacks on Governor Brum
ha ugh. If Penrose Is Senator, Brum
baugh is Governor. It is but proper
that both Senator and Governor should
attend the presidential convention as
the leading representatives of the State.
1 here never should have been any ques
tion to It. The original list of suggest
ed delegates-at-large, which included
the names of Penrose and Brumbaugh,
ought to have been satisfactory. But
private interests of ambitious polltians
threw it to the winds and Insisted upon
a fight which was as unnecessary as it
was disgusting.
A Mile With Me
Oh. who will walk a mile with me
Along life's merry way?
A comrade blithe and full of glee
Who dares to laugh out loud and free.
And let his frolic fancy play,
Like a happy child, through the flowers
gay
Where he walks a mile with me.
And who will walk a mile with me
Along life's weary way?
A friend whose heart has eves to see
, The stars shine out o'er the darkening
lea.
And the quiet rest at the end of the
dav—
A friend who knows and dares to say.
The grave, sweet words that cheer the
way
Where he walks a mile with me.
With such a comrade." such a friend,
I fain would walk till journey's end.
Through summer sunshine, winter rain
And then?— Farewell, we shall meet
again!
• —Henry Van Dyke.
Bits From the "Silent Partner"
Few, very few real Americans are
against preparedness—preparedness in
its true meaning. They are opposed to
militarism. And there is where we
get our wires crossed.
He was run over by an automobile,
and the coroner s Jury called it a nat
ural death.
My relatives are so gosh-darned
poor they are always asking for help,
or so wealthy that they don't notice
me.
The infallible individual will be over
on the next boat. lie has not arrived
yet. No one is perfect, flawless.
Every individual has his handicaps
to carry. But when you do find the
dependable, reliable individual, you
have discovered the highest type of
human help.
All the world loves a lover, but who
In the world has failed to love his
mother?
Within the past ninety-four years
Mexico has had fifty-seven rulers.
Loves Peace, Hates War
The Republican Psrty loves peace
and hates war: It abhors and will never
submit to military domination: but It
is composed of men who love our coun
try and who deem that the Independ
ence. the liberty, the honor and the op
portunity of the American democracy
are not merely to be talked about with
weak and flabby sentiment, but are to
be maintained and safeguarded by the
practical power of a virile and patrio
tic people.
J'lt is clear sighted enough to see
that preparation for defense must have
due relation to the possibilities of at
tack: that under the conditions of mod
ern warfare much preparation must be
made before a possible attack or all
preparation will be impossible after the
attack.
"The Republican party stands for ai
citizenship made competent by training j
to perform fhe freeman's duty of de
fense for his country. It stands for a
regular army no larger than Is neees->
sary, but as large as Is necessary to
serve as a first line, a nucleus, a source
of Instruction and of administration for
the army of American citizens who mayv
be called upon to defend their country, j
"And the Republican party stands for
the gospel of patriotic service to our
country by every citizen according to
his ability In peace and In war. It
stands for a reawakenfhg of American
patriotism. It is not content that while
the people of other lands are rendering
the last full measure of devotion In
sacrifice and suffering and dying for
their countries, America shall remain
alone dull to the call of country and
satisfied In the comforts and pleasures
o' prosperity.—Ellhu Root.
Matthew Becomes a Disciple
And as Jesus passed forth from
thence, lie saw a man, named Matthew,
sitting at the receipt of custom; and he
salth unto him. Follow me. And he
arose, and followed him.—Matthew
IX. 9.
Believes In Preparedness
I From the Boston Globe.]
Wonder if one of the reasons why
Justice Charles K. Hughes Is so silent
Is because lie is busy drafting a speech
of acceptance of the Chicago nomina
tion.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
"Pottttco. I K
"PowKOi^ttfanXa
•y the Ex-ConunlUeeman
Incomplete and conflicting returns
of Tuesday's primary election have not
only' prevented anything like accurate
results being; worked out, but have
Plso exasperated people all over the
State to such an extent that there are
heard suggestions from many quarters
for a return to the old convention sys
o '^ le PX Perience of the people of
this State ever since tlio enactment of
the statute that State nominations
must be made by popular vote lias
been unsatisfactory because of the
long time required to get official re
sults. Under the convention system it
was known in preity short order who
were elected delegates in counties or
legislative districts and the convention
quickly settled things. Now the voles
must be officially computed by county
commissioners and certitied to the
Mate Capitol, which will then work up
an official total for the State.
It begins to look as though the re
sult of the election for Kepublican
delegates and alternates-at-large and
of the contest for the Republican
nomination for Auditor General would
not be known for a week, which is
absurd, to say the least.
—The Philadelphia Kecord, a Denio
rratic newspaper, says to-day that
radical changes in the primary law will
be made by the next Legislature and
asserts that Penrose is in favor of re
turn to the convention system, al
though friends of the senator say that
he had made no announcement on ihe
subject. The article notes the general
dissatisfaction with the primary and
says that an efTort will be made in the
next legislature to revive state con
ventions and city conventions.
—Senator Penrose, who spent last
night at Willianisport. will go direct
to Washington from that city to-day.
He speaks at the cornerstone cere
mony at the State institution at Muncy
and will pass through here late to-day
on his way back to the national capi
tal. He will go to Chicago about
June 1.
—Governor Brumbaugh is In Phila
delphia or its vicinity for the week-ond
and is In consultation with friends
over the outlook. The Governor will
return here on Monday. It is said that
he has engaged rooms at Chicago for
the convention.
—Brumbaugh headquarters last
night put out a statement reiterating
the claim that forty-four national dele
gates had been elected who would
stand by the Governor, but did not
state for what or how long. It is Rcn
erally taken to mean that the Brum
baugh headquarters is claiming elec
tion of men who will vote for the
Governor for President, but not go
through with any other program lie
and his advisers may start. The head
quarters statement claims the election
of Aiken and Benedict in the Seven
teenth district and assails some Pen
rose claims. The Penrose people coun
tered last night at Philadelphia by
claiming at least flfty-flve uninstructed
delegates. Neither side produced any
thing substantial on which to base
claims and it all goes to show the
singular condition brought about by a
primary law under which results can
not be known for a week.
—The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times says
that it will take eight days to com
plete the count of the vote in Alle
gheny county.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day
says that it looks as though the Gov
ernor would be the only one of the
Yare-Brumbaugh candidates for dete
gate-at-large to pull through. Other
newspapers say that William S. Aston,
of Altoona, first man on the list, is
likely to be along with the Governor.
—Tn Pittsburgh Governor Brum
baugh and Henry Ford are running
neck and neck on presidential prefer
ence.
—One vote was cast by the Key
stone party in Luzerne county.
—As over 700 members of the Union
League joined in an invitation to
Colonel Roosevelt to make a speech
before that organization, he will be
invited notwithstanding the movement
in the other direction a few days aao.
—lt seems to be pretty generally
believed that the anti-Brumbaugh
forces in the next Legislature will not
go after Governor Brumbaugh on the
charges brought otit during the cam
paign. but unquestionably there will
be attacks made upon Mayor Smith,
of Philadelphia. Senator Penrose is
said to be determined to push his plan
for a change of government in that
city, which would mean a ripper bill.
—His overwhelming victory in the
Willlamsport district has been noted
with pleasure by the many friends here
of Edgar R. Kiess, who has been re
nominated as the Republican candi
date for Congress. His Tioga county
opponent. W. E. Champaign, wired
lsim congratulations and the assurance
that "the Champaign Republican Club
of Tioga County will be with you." In
the township where he was born he re
ceived every Republican vote cast.
Hughesville, his home town, gave him
a handsome vote.
—Although Congressman Michael
Liebel, Jr., has wired to National Com
mitteeman A. Mitchell Palmer assur
ances of his co-operation in the reha
bilitation of the reorganized Democ
racy it is believed that the meeting of
the Democratic State committee will
not be harmonious. State Chairman
Morris is said to be willing to drop
any plans to run again in the interest
of harmony. In this event Bruce
Sterling, of Fayette, will be offered as
a candidate. Local optionists may
buck on Sterling.
—Two brothers named Willard were
elected to Philadelphia council. They
are on opposite sides of the fence.
—Contests are already threatened in
the Republican State committee. Ma
gee and Vare men are said to be pre
paring them.
—Court officials in half a dozen
counties have rapped election boards
for defective returns of the primary.
A Literary Achievement
Anent the complaint of a famous Yale
baseball pitcher against the engage
ment of the wife of a German spy to
sing in the Yale Bowl next month, the
Elizabethan Club, the university's ex
clusive literary organization to which
admission is generally conceded to be
on merit only, makes the following un
literary statement:
"To the Chairman of the News:
"Sir: The engagement of Mme. Gadski
to sing in the bowl makes Walter F.
Carter sore. It don't us.
"(Signed)
"MKMBKRS OF THE ELIZABETHAN
CLUB."
My~ Plea
Father, this I ask of thee,
Knowing thou wilt grant the plea;
Strength for weakness, this I pray.
As I need It, day by day;
I'll not ask a lifted load.
Or a smooth and thornless road;
Simply strength to help me bear
All life's burdens—this my prayer.
Give me strength that I may make
Some one glail for thy dear sake—
Strength to lift from sorrowing heart
Grief that makes a teardrop start.
O my Father, grant the plea
That I make to-day of thee—
That, at even, I may say,
"I have helped a soul to-day."
—Eben E. Hexford, In the Christian
Herald.
Fixing the Blame
(From the Indiai.apolis Star.]
It is a safe gnesa t:iat next time any
thing happens to a merchantman at sea
It will be the fault of a Turkish or Bul
garian wasp commander.
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
UNCLE ON THE JOB
—From the Erie Dlapateh.
THE PANAMA CANAL OPENS
By Frederic J. Haskin
J
WHEX the slides pinched the Pan
ama Canal closed, all the world
knew it. Now that it has been
reopened with a better prospect of re
maining so than ever before, the fact
is scarcely realized away from the
zone. Three ships of the United
States Navy passed through the big
waterway in March and since .that
time regular commercial trafflo has
been resumed.
It is a notable fact that although
the public confidence in the Canal sag
ged perceptibly when the slides block
ed its channel the shipping never lost
faith in it for a moment. All through
the periocl of dredging, vessels kept
coming to Colon and Balboa, ready to
wait for a passage through the canal
if the zone government would give
them any assurance. But the officials
would make no promise and the ships
went their long way via the Straits
of Magellan. When at last the canal
was announced to be open, there were
vessels waiting. Also the South
American Steamship company, oper
ating between Panama and Chile,
which gets most of its business
through the canal, has increased its
fleet from three vessels to five, and
now schedules five sailings in six
weeks.
So the shipping world has kept its
faith in the canal, and meantime, the
canal government, by means of its
little railroad, has done its best to
handle the business across the Isth
mus. A dozen big lines have been
wholly dependent on tne Panama rail
road, and they have been fairly well
served, though not without a terrific
straining of resources. The force of
the railroad was increased by a thou
sand men, and it was run to capacity.
It might have handled regular through
business fairly well, but a great deal
of cargo was delivered at the Atlantic
terminals, to be trans-shipped when
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrlsburg Uotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza
tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."]
Is It good business to construct per
manent improvements by a bond issue,
or by direct taxation?
Based upon a loan of $300,000.00,
the interest charges and State tax,
for a period of thirty years, amount
to $208,000.00. This means that the
city pays on an average of $6,-
933 1-3 per year for the use of a
permanent improvement, exclusive
of the cost of the improvement.
If constructed by direct taxa
tion, based upon a valuation of
550.u00.00 the millage to take care
of improvements would be six mills,
this In addition to regular appro
priations.
Primitive Man Defended Seif
[New York Sun.]
A chemist could run the brains of
Hay and his "little army" pals through
a Pasteur filter without getting a trace
of an Intellectual process above the
mental grade of the pithecanthropus
erectus. —Chicago Herald.
Is not this a reflection upon the pre
historic man? At least he knew how
to defend himself and his woman and
the little pithecanthropi, providing him
self with a branch torn from the tree
on which he swung or with cocoanuts
to hurl down on an enemy.
Your Goat
[From the Silent Partner.]
Every time 1 got mad it co3ts nie
money. Anger Impairs my judgment,
upsets my nerves, and actually ends In
real regret.
This does not mean that out on the
rocks back of my cabin you will not
find a goat. I have a goat, and every
time I lose him the loss makes me slclt.
You can tell when my goat Is lost. My
face is ashen pale, my hands cold, my
heart thumps, and somebody gets hell.
Not long ago. a man got my butting
beast and got my whole system derang
ed for three days. I was morbid, nerv
ous, sleepless—a physical wreck, a men
tal mutt. My services to myself were
worth $2 a day In counterfeit money.
Pointer For Merchants
The advertising manager of ,one of
the biggest mail order houses in the
country, in a talk before members of
an advertising club recently, gave some
interesting information as to how they
secured much of their business. He
said: "We have a bureau whose duty
It is to read each week the country
newspapers from all over the country.
There is not a paper of any con
sequence in our trade territory that our
bureau does not get. Tills bureau looks
over these papers and when we find a
town where the merchants are not ad
vertising in the local paper, we Imme
diately flood that territory with our
literature. It always brings results far
in excess of the same effort put forth
in territory where local merchants use
their local paper."
The Search Light
It is the course of mortal things that
the good should be shadowed by the
bad. and virtue shine the brighest when
contrasted with vice. Whoever proposes
to discourage vice and to vindicate re
ligion, mortality, and social ordei.
against their enemies, must unveil
crime in all Its deformity and place It
before the eyes of men in its colossal
magnitude: he must diligently explore
Its dark mazes and make himself fa
miliar with sentiments at the wicked
ness of wlilcli Ills soul revolts. —Schiller.
MAY 20. 1016.
iever Pacific bottoms could be found
! to accommodate It.
! The shipping business was exceed
| Ingly lively. Vessels soon became
| booked with orders far ahead, and
they began to refuse the cheaper
kinds of freight. Hence cargoes piled
up mountain high on the great gov
ernment terminals, leaving just space
enough between the piles for the toil
ing trucks and black men to move
about. The berths were filled with
vessels waiting a chance to unload,
i Worst of all. rolling stock of the rail
road was left under load when it was
badly needed. The railroad finally
declared an embargo 011 all cargo des
tined for points south of Callao.
Now the stress and overcrowding
| will be quickly relieved, and the Pan
jama canal will take its place again in
the world's commerce, better equipped
'to do its work than ever before.
I While the dredges have been clearing
! out Culebra cut, great improvements
j have been under way at the Pacific
terminals. An immense coaling plant,
a drydock a thousand feet long, and
new piers are now nearing completion.
A new water tank has been built at
Balboa, and a signal station establish
ed on the top of Sosa hill, which is 363
feet high and overlooks an important
j stretch of the canal. By means of
; time ball signals, it will be possible
ito control vessels from this eminence.
' There is hardly a department of the
I canal government that has not
strengthened itself while the canal was
S idle. The commissary department,
1 which has built up an Immense busi
j ness in fresh meat is laying out a
pasture of forty thousand acres. The
| sea going dredge Carribean has been
adapted for use as a cattle boat. In
j this vessel native cattle will be brought
in, and then fattened on the govern
(Continued on Page 5.)
THE STATE FROM Dflf TO DM
Suppose they do move the day for
ward an hour, what are those poor in
dividuals going to do who crawl de
jectedly out of bed about 11 In the
morning:? It doesn't seem fair to rouse
them at the unearthly hour of 10 a. m.
The students of Warren high school
have received a letter from Spirit-laud,
written and signed by good old W
Shakespeare, in the 300 th year of his
departure from this earth, "explaining
to them that he will return on the 26th
or the month to appear before them
with his company of players. The
pageant will be a credit to the stu
dents.
Miss Pauline Trumpfheller. of York
has attended school for twelve years
and In all that time never missed a day
nor had been a second tardy. Poor
Pauline! What a gloriously monoton
ous existence.
"When n man is at the end of his
argument, lie cusses. When a woman
is at the end of her argument, she
cries. —Allentown Chronicle and News
At least it shows she has reached the
end of the argument.
One hundred dollars' worth of Eski
mo-performing-dog made a Jonah-like
disappearance at the Wild Animal Cir
cus at Pottstown yesterday when a
friendly leopard stretched out a grasp
ing paw between the bars of his cage
and filled his hollow tooth with the un
fortunate canine. Pax eanlnecum!
Fifty-seven creameries in Pennsylva
nia have entered the first of seven
educational creamery-butter scoring
contests being conducted at State Col
lege. What a luscious, cool sensation
the utterance of those words makes
Pennsylvania creameries in butter scor
ing contest. The mouth waters at the
sound.
Snow fell the other day In Warren,
but the skating was bad.
Forty members of the Philadelphia
Orchestra have been engaged by Dr
J. Fred Woile. conductor, to plav at
the 1916 festival at Lehigh r n Fv??slfy
in nion or or the famous composer. Bach
on May 28. ' •
James Smith, one of the nf
the Declaration of Independency used
to own a stable on a certain site in
York, where workmen have uncovered
ma'n * the bones of a young
OUR DAILY LAUGH
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=3l=2-. iO/uSSI* 1n * tomorrow.
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1 tell. Michael, till
eee Uie ring?
Ebpttittg (fttpl
Within the next month or so th»
State Board of Public Grounds ami
Buildings will take the first steps to
ward working out a plan for the im
provement of the Capitol park exten
sion. a recommendation being now be
fore It for the making of a survey of
the whole district to be added to tlio
park so that the problems attending
trolleys, highways, walks, trees, or
namentation and other details which
will be involved in the big scheme can
be threshed out. The properties in
the district are to be turned over to
the State by June 1. 1917, and likeh
all but those tied up in litigation will
bo ready before that time as the Capi
tol Park Extension commission has
been doing splendid work. The
that will get into court will not sta>
long because one case will likely fur
nish a precedent. The removal of the
buildings is to follow in short order
the expiration of the time limit. The
survey work will give the Board the
data upon which It can go to the next
Legislature for an appropriation for
the Improvement and alsoXor the bet
terment of conditions on the West
front.
• • •
Superintendent Samuel B. Rajnbo,
of the State grounds and buildings, is
planning to save the trees in the Park
Extension district as long as possible.
There are some rather attractive trees
in the .old ward, but they are not of
the type which have been placed in
the park in recent years and some are
not well located. However, they will
be kept as long as possible and if the
tree experts agree some may stay. The
difficulty about troes in public grounds
is that they have to be such as will
withstand the weather and storms and
the subject is one which has had care
ful study from many men In recent
years. Planes and other hardVood
trees have been placed in the Capitol
park lately taking the place of the
I maples and other early trees which
were apt to suffer from heavy snows
1 or storm. •
Among those who will be present
from this city at the unveiling of an
otfiriat stone marker at Fort Granville
next, Tuesday, will be State
Librarian Thomas Lynch Mont
gomery and George F. Ross of
this city. Mr. Montgomery is a mem
ber of the Pennsylvania Historical
Commission and will make the princi
pal address. Fort Granville is about
a mile west of Lewistown and was de
stroyed by a large body of French and
Indians in 1756. The marker will be
located on the old Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh turnpike east of the farm
residence of Sylvester Brought in Gran
ville township. Mr. Ross assisted in
definitely locating the fort.
• * «
Senator Franklin Martin, of the
Cumberland-Perry-Juniata-Mifflin dis
trict, who was renominated yesterday
by the Republicans, has been unable
to make much of a campaign because
of breaking bones in his foot at West
Fairview some time ago. His friends,
however, saw that he did not need to
worry.
* * *
Much attention was attracted here
by the reports of the surgical work of
Durwent Wood, the Englishman whose
father and mother lived here for a
time and who is a relative of well
known tlarrisburg people.
• * *
Another case in which Wood hn
salved human wreckage Is that OL'
Driver Fergnsson, a member of the
Canadian Field Artillery, who was
hideously wounded at Ypres on April
25, 1915. A piece of shell carried
away his right eye entirely, and as the
surgical report professionally puts it,
"the surrounding structures." In tliu
ordinary way there would have been
nothing to fix an artificial eye
and as in the case of Trooper EveiW,
his disfigurement was so appalling to
behold that It is doubtful if he ever
could have taken up his old trade,
which was that of a machinist. Now
with the upper part of his right cheek
restored and what appear to be two
perfectly good eyes beaming at you
from behind spectacles this youngster
not only will be able to earn his living
hereafter, but is going to get married,
and the gratitude of his fiancee to
Derwent Wood is only surpassed by
his own.
"I spent months in experiments,"
said Wood, "before I undertook my
first case. This was in December last,
my patient being Trooper Everitt. My
'masks,' as we call them, consist of
plates of thin copper, silvered and
then painted to match the hue of the
patient's skin."
Ex-Senator George W. McNees, of
Kittanning. who was here yesterday
on business at the Capitol, has been
the active spirit in the State geo
graphical and topographical survey
the last few years and he will urge
an extension of the work at the next
session of the Legislature.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"
—Col. Sheldon Potter, elected a
transit director by the city councils of
Philadelphia, was formerly on the Na
tional Guard staff.
—Senator W. J. Burke. of Pitts
burgh, who is likely elected a delegate
at-large, is a railroad conductor.
—James A. Steese, chief clerk of the
department of Labor and Industry, is
trying his hand at mediating in the
Wilkes-Barre strike.
—Dr. R. J. Black, elected a dele
gate in Western Pennsylvania, used to
be Mayor of McKeesport.
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisliurg is a great cen
ter for illMtributing agricultural
supplies?
HISTORIC HARRISBI'RO
The tirst Cumberland Valley railroad
bridge was one of the engineering
feats in this section of the State.
Suicides and Alcohol
In the June American Magazine Dr.
Edwin F. Bowers says:
"According to the linlted States mor
tality reports, 23 per cent, of the sui
cides in the United States are direct!*
traceable to intemperance. Betwe«-i
1900 and 1908, It is estimated, 11,986 al
cohol addicts died by their vwn hands."
\
f A
Applied Proverb of
Modern Business
-I
"A word In time wives nine."
That applies to the proverbial
stitch to the fabric ef business.
Don't wait to sound your mes
sage until the other fellow has
gotten all the business.
The few words you could use
now will cost less than the many
it will take then
Advertise. Begin now.
This newspaper furnishes a
most receptive audience to the
timely word.
Its subscribers read advertising
because they are alert folks, and
want to know what is going on.
They buy advertised brands and
they patronize the merchants
who Invite their trade.