8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A HBH'SP.IPER FOR THE H/JMB Pounded iSjr Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH FIUXTING CO., Telegraph Bulldlne, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOL.E, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. ST>EINMETZ, Managing Editor. I A Member American rl Newspaper Pub -rgjvg Ushers' Assocla aSi tion. The Audit Bureau of Clrcu yE|M latlon ar.d Penn- BTa sylvunla Associat es «I Eastern office, Has gt Kh brook. Story & HI BJ Brooks, Fifth Ave SS nue Building, New ££jff ern office, Has brook. Story <ft SSjjS Brooks. People's Gcs Building, Chl- Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall. $3.00 a year In advance. Sworn dnlly average circulation for the three months ending May 31, 1016, * 22,189 * These figured aro net. All returned, unsold and damaged copies deducted. / I I SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 3 tW ~! From, the lowest depths, there is a path to the loftiest height. —Carlyle. j NEW HIGH SCHOOL IMPERATIVE HARRISBURG must have a new j high school. That became apparent yester day when Dr. Downes reported to the j School Board that 290 new pupils will j enter the Central High School this Spring and that In order to provide them with seats, even on a two-session basis, the chapel must be broken up into rooms, the laboratories changed Into classrooms and the teaching force enlarged. The demand for a new high school has been heard Croni time to time dur ing the past six years, with more or less frequency, and every time it has appeared to be near the point of suc cess this or that Influence has stepped In to prevent. Now the time has come ■when the need is imperative. We can no longer tolerate conditions. The people of the city owe it to themselves to see to it that the loan which it is proposed to float next Fall is adopted in order that the School Board may proceed at once with the actual build ing operations. Even so, it*will be two years at least before a new high school can be made ready for occupancy. The rank and file of the voters: ought to be more interested In the j proposed new high school than they I appear to be. The wealthy parent may send his boy to a private school and college, but the poor mark must look j to the high school to supply his child with an education, and for that reason the high school should be the best' possible. If it is not u? to the stand ard of former years, the student is robbed of something he can never re gain. The elimination of arithmetic from the freshman course Is an illus tration of how seriously the over crowded condition of the Forster ■treet building Is crippling the school. A FOOIAS PARADISE DESPITE the fact that in Harris burg and elsewhere "war order" factories are shutting down, Sec retary Redfleld, of the Department of Commerce, declares there is no rea son to fear industrial or commercial depression in this country at the close of the war. The official economist of the Democratic party states that the so-called war business of the country does not exceed five per cent, of our total Industrial and commercial activ ity. War exports do not exceed one- j quarter of our total exports, says Mr. j Redfleld, and our shipments to South America have at least doubled. This display of business acumen from the head of the Commerce De partment is as superficial in its reason ing and as far from the truth as any- ■ thing he has uttered in recent months. j Yes, our exports to South America j have nearly doubled. .We are not ship ping war supplies to South America. Therefore, the Increase is not a war in crease, reasons Mr. Redfleld. It does not take much more than schoolboy ability to kick a gisrantlc hole In the Democratic commerce ex pert's argument. But in all fairness we must remember that Secretary Redfleld's chief function right now is to paint prosperity, which, by the way, Is also the task of all other Demo cratic chieftains not writing notes or Juggling treasury balances to the point of attractiveness. What will happen when German, British and French export markets and banking organizations resume In the South American field at the close of the war? What is the Democratic I Secretary of Commerce doing to' strengthen the temporary grip we are ; securing In South American trade? He is issuing prosperity manifestos and trying to lull the business inter ests of the country into a dangerous quiescence. But the American businessman 1 knows the phenomenal growth of, American export trade is largely due to the war. He knows that at its close Europe will bend all energies to recoup. He knows that then, if ever, ■will come the acid test of American ability to meet foreign competition. What la the Democratic administra tion doing to assist the businessman to meet this eventuality? It Is talking about antl-dumplni? legislation, post poning action on the proposed tariff commission, dodging the necessary protection of dyestuffs, hut really ac complishing nothing in a positive way SATURDAY EVENING, toward Industrial and commercial pre paredness. During the present year, with the war at Its height. Imports of thirty eight commodities from the category of general merchandise and agricul tural producta commodities which have had the most severe competition In normal times—show an Increase of $22,831,006 In January, 1916, over January, 1916. What would have been the Increase if there had been no war? What will bo the lncreaso after the war? With foreign products besieging our markets in unprecedented fashion through the benevolence of the Under wood tariff, and with our exports re duced materially through the resump tion of manufacturing abroad, It will not take long for boasted Democratic prosperity to vanish. If we are to consider an advantage so obviously dependent upon condi tions subject to change without notice as prosperity, then we are prosperous not because of the Democratic party but In spltfe of It. Secretary Redfleld would have us live content midst the economic instability of this fool's para dise. But the American businessman and the American voter have wit nessed something of Democratic in competency in the last three years. When the Fall elections come round it will take more than prosperity preach ments to return Woodrow Wilson to the White Housi, especially since many workmen already are feeling the pinch of shrinking war business, with nothing to brighten their horizon. GERMAN VICTORY OX SEAS THE German victory over the Eng lish fleet is not decisive, but it will have a far-reaching moral effect. That is as much as can be said until the complete details of the fight are at hand. One thing, how ever, is apparent, that the British navy has not lived up to Its reputation and the results of the battle will shake the confidence of the empire In its ability to stand up ship for ship with the Germans. To be sure, England still continues "Mistress of the Seas" by virtue of the weight and number of her ships, but it is extremely likely that the Germans will take heart from their success to worry the English fleet as it has not been worried since the j war began. More frequent dash*; from the Kiel base may be looked for i and a general "gingering up" of the English navy may be expected. On the other hand, if it is true that the Germans lost in all eleven vessels, that is a serious blow to the Kaiser's sea power, for while England can stand the loss of many more vessels without endangering her superiority on the waves, Germany is so hard pressed for ships that she has been compelled to keep what she has "bottled up" all through the war, with the exception of an occasional foray such as that which resulted in the battle of May 31. If early reports are correct, the fight demonstrated that heavier caliber, longer range and more guns are the deciding factors in naval warfare of to-day and the lesson for America is plain. DENVER'S REACTION* REACTION from the commission plan of government by Denver, as noted by the Telegraph yes terday, is reviewed by H. S. GUbert sor. in the American City Magazine, one paragraph of which is particularly enlightening. He says: That there were sound reasons for the abandonment of the old charter is not to be denied. The weakness inherent in the commis sion plan, which have been fre quently pointed out by political scientists, revealed themselveß in Denver. The lack of a strong ex ecutive to keep the commissioners working in harmony seems to have been evident, for', as the Denver Times said, "There has been enough lost motion, beginning with Mayor Arnold and continuing through the present headless administration. * » • The return to Mr. Speer may mean 'one-man' power, but that is better than no-man power." The commissioner-manager plan, which would have unified the administra tive departments, was suggested as the way out, but apparently the city was in no mood to enter upon what it chose to consider an experiment. The worst feature of all these ex perimental forms of municpal regula tion is that they remove the govern ment too far from the people and thereby discourage individual interest and initiative. The small council and major system, with a corps of paid department heads, doubtless had its faults, but they are not such as have been developed by the commission form, and it kept the taxpayer con stantly in close touch with the city government. PAPER FROM XEW WOODS MUCH interest, in these days of high cost of paper, attaches to the announcement of the gov ernment that its experts in the Depart ment of Agriculture have succeeded in manufacturing satisfactory pulp from a number of hitherto little known woods. It has long been the puzzle of paper manufacturers as to what they would do when the spruce forests of the country become exhausted, and al ready, as a result of the vast quantity of pulp required, these forests have been decreasing rapidly in size and the price of wood paper has been tending steadily up. The government experts have pro ceeded on the ground that if the price of newsprint paper is to be kept at a reasonable figure more efficient meth ods of converting spruce into pulp must be developed or cheaper woods substituted for it. They say that the method of manufacturing groundwood pulp has changed very little since its introduction into this country In 1867. It was with the Idea of developing new methods and improving the old that tests were undertaken at the Forest Service" laboratories at Wausau and Madison, Wisconsin. As a result, the relation of the different steps in the manufacturing process to each other has been definitely established and the merits of each treatment determined. The paper made from new. woods was ,?iven a practical tryout byHwo large newspapers with satisfactory results. The tests, It Is said, show that eleven new woods give promise of being suit iable tor the production of newsprint paper, while a number of others will produce manlla paper and bozboards. Most of these woods are confined to the west, while the ground wood Indus try now obtains the bulk of Its raw muterlal from the east. It Is thought that pulp-making plants must eventu ally move to points where they can ob tain a plentiful supply of wood and an abundance of cheap water-power, two prime requisites In the business. The experts say that because the Na tional Forests contain Immense quan tities of the suitable woods and abun dant opportunities for power develop ment, they will undoubtedly play an Important part In the future of the wood pulp Industry. It Is to be hoped that the tests have been thorough enough to warrant the importance attached to the results ty the Department of Agriculture and that they will have more beneficial ef fect on the price of newsprint than the inventions of a government expert not long since have had on the price of gasoline. SCARCITY OF HORSES UNITED STATES Army officers predict a scarcity of horses In this country because of the shipment of 1,600,000 animals to Eu rope for war purposes. They advo cate government purchase of breeding animals In order to encourage farmers to produce a higher type of horse. Evidently we are to repay some of this war-order prosperity. I TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE , —lf the Gen-nans and the English fight a few more sea battles like that of May 31 the American navy may be come first without building a ship. —The William Penn Highway hav ing risen to the dignity of a secretary, we may expect to hear considerable it shortly. —They have a "Billy" Sunday in Japan, but we bet he can't match ours; no man on a diet of rice could lead the "tat-'em-allve," life that '"Billy" does. —A spot on the sun Is going to spoil j fishing this year, according to the prophets," says an exchange. Wrong, j dear prophets; the way to say it is this J —"On account of a spot on the sun i fishing is going to be as poor as usual." —These coal dealers are a heartless lot—just as we were figuring on va- I cation expenses along they come with a lot of talk about the high price of | next winter's coal. EDITORIAL COMMENT^ The Italian army is said to be handi capped by a shortage of shoes. Maybe this accounts for the bootless cam paign against Austria. Nashville Southern Lumberman. Henry Ford announces his plan for a six-hour day and a minimum wage of $1 per hour, and yet some people re fuse to take his Presidential boom seri ously.—Boston Transcript. "Carranza." says exenange, "dearly loves a Joke." Egotist!— Columbia State. We may be plunging headlong into militarism, but you can't prove it by the recruiting offices.—Pittsburgh Ga zette Times. It'll take more than an act of Parlia ment to give more daylight to London. —Boston Transcript. Eccentric J. Bull [From the Columbia State.] John Hull still seems to be paying more attention to our letters than to our notes. Rice Unknown to Chinese [From the New York Times] Tens of millions of persons in China have never seen or tasted rice, accord ing to Commercial Attache Julean Arnold. Peking, in spite of the fact that it is often spoken of as the staple article of food for the whole of the Mongolian population. Vast areas of the country in the north cannot grow rice, lie says in a report to the Depart ment of Commerce, and even in its rice-growing sections millions are too poor to buy or use It. Get What You Are Worth "As a matter of fact the world owes a man nothing that lie does not earn. In this life a man gets about what he Is worth, and he must render an equiva lent for what is given him. There is no such thing as inactive success." Dr. Russell H. Conwell in the American Magazine. For Him All the Time The editor-hero of the Ishpeming frame-up of two or three years ago has declared for the Colonel. The hero has been "for the Colonel" all the time.— Rochester Herald. Great to Be Foolish President Wilson said once that a man who wanted the Presidency was a fool. Has he changed his mind, or is he willing to stand for it?— An geles Times. Dying For Third Cup T. R. isn't a candidate any more than the small boy who doesn't ask for a second piece of pie. —Detroit Free Press. The Family There's a girlie upstairs in her bed so deep— Hark to the wind a-croon! She's wrapped in a silver web of sleep. Snug In her dream cocoon; She hears the birds and crickets call, She stirs and smiles and loves them all. But somewhat less than she loves her doll — Heigh-o for the little maid! There's a laddie asleep In the house to-night— Hark to the sound of wings! Hl3 slumbers are filled with soft de light And strange, ecstatic things: He dreams of brave knights on a sunlit plain. Of fairy queens that soothly reign, That wave their hands to banish pain— Heigh-o for the sylvan glade! There's a mother of both. Hark! she gently sighs. Kneeling beside them there. The long day ended, 'neath starlit skies She offers a broken prayer: But out on the field, where the wild blades leap, Where the shrapnel bursts and the bayonets sweep, One lies quite still where a trench yawns deep. And the toll of Mars is paid! —-£ L Stanley Baskins In Ivife. HARRI6BITRG TELEGRAPH LK *r the Ei-OonimlHwnu Henry F. Walton, of Philadelphia, one of Senator Penrose's political lieutenants, Is to be dropped by Gov ernor Brumbaugh as preslderft of the board of trustees of the State Hospital for Criminal Insane, at Farview, It was announced by ex-Deputy At torney General Frederic W. Fleitz at Scranton last night. Radical changes in the management of the institution aro to be made. Fleitz said. A local man in sympathy with the Governor ana his ideals will succeed Walton as head of the board. "The Governor is going to announce these changes in the very near future," Fleitz said. "He is going to select men of capacity, who live close enough to the institu tion to give it personal and constant attention, and who will be actuated or.iy by a strong desire to serve the institution and its unfortunate charges.", Until now, according to Mr. Fleitz, th( affairs of the hospital have been directed from Philadelphia, where all supplies are bought and its manage ment directed almost wholly by Wal ton. There nre nine trustees on the board, Senator W. M. Lynch, former Ser.ator Walter McNichols, and H. A. Denny, Republican county chairman of Susquehanna are Brumbaugh men and will not be disturbed. These three, with two appointments to be made, will place the Governor's men in charge. Senator Sproul, of Dela ware; Senator Oatlin, of Luzerne; Al fred Marvin, of Pike county, and Charles Dortlinger of White Mills, are ihe other members. It was also an nounced by Mr. Fleitz that Governor Brumbaugh has decided to appoint former State Senator McNichols as a supervising factory inspector, at $2,- 500 a year. McNichols was one of the Governor's most earnest support ers in the recent primaries. "Political leaders who have linked their fortunes with the Vare-Smith Machine ara calling for 'fodder,' " says the Philadelphia Record to-day, "and it is reported that Mayor Smith has decided to consider a program for the reorganization 6f some of the bureaus in City Hall so that places can be made for the faithful who have been lured away from the Penrose- McNlchol faction on the promise that the Civil Service regulations will not prove a serious obstacle to those who balk at a competitive test after they have delivered the goods on election day. The preliminary efforts toward putting the reorganization program into effect is to determine how many of the present employes that were not heretofore allied with the Vare leadership have seen the light. Some of these are being taken to the Vare offices to make their declaration, and as self-protection many are being forced to acknowledge the Vares as the real municipal bosses." —Coincident with the departure of the Schuylkill delegation to the Chi cago convention, headed by William I.elb and Senator Snyder, nominee for Auditor General. Judge C. N. Brunra, Progressive leader, gave out an Inter view: "The rule or ruin bosses have adopted the tactics of 1912 by packing the Republican convention, especially with the lily whites, yellow and black delegates, who have practically no constituency." Judge Brumm ad vised the Progressives not to allow themselves "to Vie bartered and cheated by a rump convention, but at once to renominate Roosevelt and Johnson." But Brumm isn't taken very seriously this year. i —A petition asking for a recount of :tho ballots cast in 12 precincts of the ; Thirtieth Congressional district, Alle gheny county, for delegates to the Democratic National Convention was j filed in Allegheny Common Pleas Court 1 by counsel for Martin F. Howley, a I candidate. Howley was certified by the County Commissioners as the win- I ner. and his certification was recom -1 mended to the Secretary of the Com j monwealth, Cyrus E. Woods. Later John J. Gallagher, his opponent, con gested the election and a recount in ; twe districts gave Gallagher a lead of seven votes over Howley. i —William Potter, minister to Italy under President Harrison, and a well known Republican will go to Chicago as a delegate to-day to vote for Theo dore Roosevelt on every ballot taken in the Republican national conven tion. Hughes and Whiskers [From the Boston Herald.] Popular' discussion of the Hughes ' candidacy strangely centers about his whisker.s. as if these in some way de- j I traded from his ability. How the 1 ] times have changed! Nobody mention j ed this of Harrison, or Blaine, or Gar ; field, or Hayes, or Grant. In fact, the ! bearded presidents, all Republicans, and beginning with Lincoln, constitute al most an epoch In American history. How did it happen that the Demo | crats never fell for this fashion? If all the hirsute appendages of their ! candidates, from 1876 to 1912, inclu sive, were assembled in a costumer's \ showcase, there would be just three I mustaches and one bit of cliin wliis ! kers, popularly known as a goatee. | fashion, moreover, seems turning to i ward the Democratic practice, the last three Republican presidents possessing: among them only two mustaches, j Perhaps the greatest change has | come in the side-whiskers. Chester A. I Arthur was the best-dressed man In | America at the time of his Incum . i bency of the presidential chair, and he . | wore side-whiskers. To-day William C. : Redfield is the most eminent of living; j American statesmen thus adorned. Preparedness i j Dr. W. T. Grenfell, Labrador's med : leal missionary, home from France, t says regarding preparedness: "Last December, before I 'went to France, I prayed and hoped this coun try might not break with Germany I and go to war. I did not understand ' then that there are times when a man ; cannot be neutral. Since I've been ; back I've been advising my friends to • go. I have been asked If extensive preparations for war are justifiable, as 5 if any force could be used with effect without preparation. I am not so pes simistic as to believe that being pre . pared makes a man want to fight. My ' : experience has been that the man who , lis best prepared is the last one to I want to fight." ! WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Ilarrisburg Rotary Club and their . answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] How are sewers constructed, and how i may same be tapped? Council authorizes the construc > tion of sewers, which are paid for by city. Same may be tapped by , property owner paying $1.25 per root front of the property to be tapped. 1 Smile! The world Is all too sad for tears. 1 I woud not weep, not I, But smile along my life's short road, , Until I. smiling, die. , The little flowers breathe sweetness out Through all the dewy night; i Should I more churlish be than they, And plain for constant light? THE CARTOON OF THE DAY DUE FOR AN INTERRUPTION BETTER CARE By Frederic J. Haskin WASHINGTON is Just at the end of a Baby Week. From the the sixth to the thirteenth of May the National capital has been turned over to the National Federa tion of Women's Clubs for their bet ter-babies exhibit and propaganda. One of the most important features of the week's program is the exhibits and conferences of the Washington Diet Kitchen Association, which has work ed so vigorously during the past few years to cut down the infant mor tality of the District of Columbia. The whole nation has recently be come aroused to the need for taking better car® of its babies. The Chil dren's Bureau, which has conducted exhaustive researches on the- subject of infant mortality and investigated the problems of several representa tive communities, last year opened an Infant Welfare Station at the Panama Pacific Exhibition, where large au diences were lectured on the proper care and feeding of babies, many of whom were examined and treated on the platform. In New York city, pam phlets on the proper care of infants have been distributed in seven differ ent languages in an affort to reach every mother who might possibly save the life of her baby with the aid of a little knowledge and advice. In Louis iana and Texas, exhibition cars are sent into the rural districts where practical demonstrations are given to instruct the mothers how best to care for their infants. Here the Washing ton Diet Kitchen Association has opened five infant welfare stations to act in the nature of training schools for mothers. The Washington Diet Kitchen Asso ciation was first established in 1896 by a woman philanthropist, for the purpose of supplying milk and other nourishment to the sick poor. The society grew but slowly and in 1901 considered dissolving entirely, owing to the lack of finances with which to meet administration expenses. But at this juncture the Visiting Nurse Society of Washington came to the rescue, of fering its services in the distribution of broth, milk and eggs to the poor on its visiting list. Subsequently, upon the recommendation of the health de partment, the distribution of broth and eggs was discontinued and only milk was delivered free. In 1908, the first milk stations were established by the association at Neighborhood House and Noel House—social settle ment houses —and later another at St. Mary's Chapel. It soon became apparent, however, that the need for free milk was rela tively unimportant as compared to the need for proper instruction and training for the business of mother hood. In the poorest districts the ma jority of the babies were fed on human milk and in other cases the families were able to pay for good, clean milk. The association also realized that if : they were to b(* successful at all they must do all of their work themselves, employing special agents for the pur- I pose and not depending absolutely on I the Visiting Nurse Society as a med- [ OUR DAILY LAUGH §J UST THE I hear the la dles are organiz ing a Monday Morning Club. What's it In tended for? For ladles who already belong to (six afternoon I presume. Harry proposed 4 to me four times * In two weeks. Ksnfil i'&xtrfa- "1 Whom do you suppose he is \QCjf practicing up for? gSrajßaflfcAflS WANTED—A SAFE! By Wing Dinger A friend of mine, who, with his wife, Sometimes gets round our way, Called at our house, the other night. At cards a while to play. I mentioned the infrequency With which the families met And my desires that oftener We might together get. Friend's wife replied: "I've wanted to Come often heretofore, But hubby has begged oft. so that O'er Journals he might pore. And thus in work keep up-to-date— I've acquiesced in past, But I've served notice on him now The last time was THE last. "One of those periodicals I looked through t'other day. To get a hint of what It said In a technical way— I delved through it, and then my throat Filled up with gasps and choices— Ohe page was scientific stuff. The other sixty,. Jokes." JUNE 3, 1916. ium of distribution. As a result, a large charity entertainment was given at the residence of a Washington so ciety woman, the proceeds from which were turned over to the association and used to establish headquarters for the first infant welfare station. This was in 1914. The experiment was at once a success, and to-day there are five of these infant welfare sta tions in the poorer districts of the city, with a staff of twenty-eight volun teer physicians, a superintendent and eight nurses. Each station has one large, well-lighted, well-ventilated room, equipped with plain white fur niture that would be within the in come of almost any home. In one cor ner there Is a white screen on which is hung the model baby outfit. Including a small woolen shirt and band, a flan nel petticoat, a white petticoat—not Insisted upon—and a white dress made of longcloth or nainsook. The gar ments are fastened with strings on the shoulders, so that there will be no tight bands around the baby's waist to give him indigestion or interfere with the expansion of his lungs. Here the mothers foregather and have their conferences learning the principles of hygiene and home sanitation. On back of this room is a small kitchen where the babies are brought after the.v are weighed and examined by the physician, who advises the mother as to the baby's health and. if necessary, prescribes a formula for ar tificial feeding. The nurse in charge then takes the mother over to the gas stove In another part of the room and shows her how to prepare the milk with materials kept for that pur pose by the kitchen. The Diet Kitchen, is not, primarily, for sick babies, although it handles many cases resulting from malnutri tion. If the infant has any serious trouble, the mother is given a card to, a dispensary or a hospital. It is es sentially for well babies, and its ob ject is to keep them well; for It is a la mentable fact that motherhood, the one professional monopoly of women. Is often the least understood. Routine at the Infant Welfare Cen ter runs something like this: The mother of a young baby hears of the Diet Kitchen—either she reads about it in the newspaper, or a neighbor tells her about It. or perhaps a visiting nurse of the society that used to deliv er the milk, explains Its advantages. So a day or two later she takes the baby to one of the stations. Here he is registered on a card of application, and the mother is told to bring him the next week. A baby must be brought twice in two weeks before he may be enrolled on the records of the station, in order to prove that the mother ls\ actually interested and In tends to come regularly. The second time he is undressed, weighed on a large set of scales In the front room and then carried into the kitchen to be examined by the doctor. The results of the examination are written on a large record card, together with his date of birth, original weight, history and heredity. THE STATE FROM DWTODW i ■ - i It's never too late to mend, think the romantic younc couple who were the other day granted a marriage li cense to wed, the one being 78 years of age and the other 71. The question is, who will gather at the foot of the stairs to catch the bridal bouquet? A contribution to a Philadelphia peper recalls history in the matte* of kidnaping and cites the instances of the baby of A. Levine, Sharon, who was stolen in 1599, and the case of "Billy" Whital, of Sharon, kidnaped It; 1909. Sharonites don't have to worry for three more years, at any rate, if the kidnaping takes place at such stated intervals. The Warren High School is this year graduating young girls and men of all sts-es, says the Mirror. Helen Hall is tlie heavyweight of the class and weighs 166, while petite Doris Hazel tine tips the scales at Just half that weight. That's the long and short of It. The Philadelphia Inquirer is worry ing considerably about the length of skirts nowadays. It comments pro fusely. as "Suppose Ihe girls would get. mad if we referred to some of those high shoes as hip boots," and "Pres ent day skirts remind us of the song of the frog: 'Knee deep, knee deep.' We see no reason why the girl's can't find a legitimate excuse in blaming it on the war and the shortage of skirt materials. Everybody's doing it. "Japan will become a second Pitts burgh," said Sukuro Yamada, the steel buyer from Tokio, Japan, who has just contracted for $2,000,000 worth of structural steel. Immediately the price of soap in Japan will soar, we foresee. The Gou*lersville band Is in a bad way. There is a violent dispute as to the ownership of band instruments, uniforms, and a set of harness, which was worn by the saddle horse of the band team. A touch of the dramatic entered into the "trail-hitting" that followed a sermon by Evangelist Nicholson in South Bethlehem the other evening. A tall figure wearing a black mask striked In a sinister manner down the aisle, while terrified women nearly fainted with fright. It turned out tl"at he was a Phlladelphlan, and his sanity will be tested. lEtonittg (Etjat Hello, 1b this the editorial room of the Telegraph?" "Yes." "Well, I want to know whether Buchanan was born In Lancaster or Franklin county? A couple of us are having an argu ment here and X want you to decide it for us." The Pennsylvania President was fcorn In Franklin county, he was told, ut a place called Stony Batter. The supporter of the argument that our fifteenth President was born In Lan caster county had evidently been mis led by the fact that Buchanan as a young man in his 'teens studied law In Lancaster. As a matter of fact a $26,000 monument has been raised in Franklin county as a memorial to the < only occupant of the presidential chair who came from the State ot Penn sylvania. • • • Until the question of supremacy is settled between the baseball teams representing the Department of In dustry, and State Insurance Fund De partment, daily business will move slowly on Capitol Hill. According to reports everybody is all wrought up over the claims of each team. Wagers are being made and to-day It was said that friends of the Labor and In dustry players expected to raise a purse of $250. Both teams have an rrmy of backers, and the next game will be for "blood." Some wild rumors spread over Har risburg at intervals. How they start is a mystery. Thursday afternoon It was reported on Allison Hill, in the vicinity of Fourteenth and Derrv streets, that two piers of the Walnut street bridge had toppled over and a number of people hurt. Later came a report from West Harrlsburg that ail automobile had run off the Market street bridge into the river. The only accident that occurred during the aft ernoon was the collapse of several small bleacher seats at the track meet. Two persohs were slightly injured. » • • Progress in the plans for the com bining of the High schools of the West Shore into a Central High School, now being made by the school boards, de pends largely on the Interest taken by the people and members of several of the boards in the move. To date it appears that several of the boards are deadlocked on the proposition and in several of the towns the sentiment of the residents is of a like nature. However, it has been learned by the promoters that the transportation ex penses Appear to be one of the rea sons for the ditference of opinion. A campaign of publicity and education will be started soon. • • • "In what other country in the wide world but these United States could such a thing as a great school chil dren's track athlete meet- be pos sible?" smilingly observed Attorney John A. Herman as he gazed up at trio thousands of excited faces of small spectators at the grammar school track meet on the island. "Why," went on the enthusiastic at torney, "I've traveled a littlp bit abroad but I don't believe 1 ran imagine anything quite like this. Boys and girls together having the time of their lives untrammeled by the careful eye of duenna or chaperon. And this Is Just the thing that helps to make of the American boy and girl th e self-reliant youth whom foreigners so much admire if they can't quite understand." • • * Bockville bridge is quite a shelter place In time of storm. On afternoons when showers come up or thunder storms come along the great arch which spans the Riverside road Is sought by everyone riding within a mile and automobiles and teams are packed into the shelter sometimes to the number of eight or ten. In the matter of religious fervor and heartfelt utterances of religious joy there is no race that can excel the col ored race, as shown by the baptismal service which was performed by the Uev. W. Tolliver, pastor of the Zion Baptist Church of this city on Sunday morning. The rites took place In the Susquehanna river just below Verbeke street, where fiats, boats and canoes and hundreds of people gathered to see the converts "dipped." Coal dirt and mud were as nothing to them in their higher zeal and the happy "aniens," joyful laughter, "yas-suhs," "speak-ons," Zucharlahs, "uhtn-m-ms" and so forth ad infinitum followed one another with rapidity as the frosty haired old men caught the spirit of the occasion and joined their voices to [that of the speaker in cries of enthusi astic approbation. t » • There is printed in the April number of the National Geographic Magazine a picture of the oldest living thing— the "General Sherman Tree," the patriarch of the Sequoia National Park of California. It was 2,000 years old when Christ was born. It was dis covered in 1879 by James Wolverton. a hunter, who gave It the name of General Sherman. It towers 279.!» feet into the sky; its base circumfer ence is 102.8 feet. Its greatest dtam eter 36.5 feet. Who knows the big gest tree in Central Pennsylvania and will he tell us about it? Vain Glory It is not good to eat much honey; so for men to search their own glory is not glory. —Proverbs, 25:27. Planning Details of Republican Convention < V - - •• , •••"j l < rnl I t/AMes a «swoii>». Chicago, June 3. With a staft of six clerks from his Washington office, James B. Reynolds, secretary of the Republican National Convention U working over the details of the huge conclave.which convenes here on June 7. An almost Inconceivable multitude of details confronts those who are ar ranging the convention.
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