16 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THB W)HB Founded itjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE TBLLGRAPR PRINTING CO., Tclcgiapk Uulldlntr, Federal Square. £. J. ST ACKPOLE, Prts't and Bditor-im-Cht't F. R. OTSTER, Busxntu Manager. GUS M. STWSINMETZ, Managing Editor. « Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocl^V Es3tern efflce, Has brooK, Story A Brooks, Fifth Ave nue Building, New York City; West-, ern office. Has brook. Story ft Brooks, People's Gts BuUding, ChV> Entered at the Post Office In Harril'= burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a <muailJ(ri3lfcC> week; by mall. 13.00 a year In advance. Sworn dally average circulation for the tkaee months ending May SI, 1016, it 22,189 * The** flfnrn are art. All returned, unsold and damaged copies deducted. FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 9. Our best is bad, nor bears Thy test BUH, it should be our very best. —Browning. PENROSE AT CHICAGO PENNSYLVANIA Republicans may well be proud of the course of Senator Penrose at Chicago. He hat- demonstrated his ability as a clear-headed leader at every turn. His voice has been for harmony and his influence has been thrown con stantly toward the nomination of one man by the two conventions. His open mindedness was demon-1 strated when he proposed to ask the Republican convention to appoint a committee, with a Roosevelt man as chairman, to meet a similar commit- j tee from the Progressive convention. ■ That this was not done was due to no j f:;ult of Penrose. Beyond question it was the right step to take and the Scnjitor was induced to withhold his motion for such a committee only I aftei he had been convinced by the, Hughes element in the convention that they would name such a com mittee as woulei make the move worse than useless. Senator Penrose has held out for no one candidate. He and his friends in the convention have stood ready to step into line behind any strong man vho could unite the Old Guard and the Roosevelt forces. If there were more Penroses at Chicago Just now there would be less of confusion and fewer threats of a disastrous outcome. SEEING PENNSYLVANIA FIRST SEEING Pennsylvania First" has become popular since Governor Brumbaugh and his party of tourists spent a week on the roads of ! the State last Fall. Now comes the Motor Club of Harrisburg with a trip that will take those who are fortunate enough to participate through the most picturesque portions of the cen- | tral part of the State and over a long stretch of the William Penn Highway, j This organization is nothing if not ! enterprising and constructive. The run planned is to be far more than a mere sociability affair. It is to in clude stops at historic spots along the way almost every mile of the trip teems with associations of the early days of the Commonwealth and those who occupy the cars will be given a forceful demonstration of just •what the new William Penn highway! movement means to the State at large. If every automobile club in Penn sylvania were as alive to Its possi bilities as is the Motor Club of Harris burg the passage of a good roads loan would bs & mere matter of form and automoblUng would be a safer, pleasanter pastime than It is. HOW LONG CAN IT LAST? /TVHE greatest question of the war now Is not one of military or naval supremacy, but how long can Germany endure the pinch of hunger that appears to be slowly but surely throttling it? The desperate attacks on Verdun, the dash of the fleet Into the North Sea, the frequent heroic speeches of high officials goad ing on the people to utmost sacrifice and the recent declaration of the new food dictator, Adolph von Batockl, that no meat shall be eaten for the next eight weeks in Germany all Indi cate the dire straits in which Ger many finds herself and the extremity to whloh she Is put to carry on the war. The admiration of the world must go out to any nation that can practice such self-denial, and even the fact that the vegetarian diet is made com pulsory by governmental command does, not lessen the degree of fortitude required to endure it. Fearing the effect pn the outside world of this admitted scarcity of food von Batocki is quick to add that the situation Is not hopeless, that there is no fear of starvation, that there are plenty of potatoes and that cattle should be fit for slaughter by August 1. But thla does not obscure the fact that Germany is desperately hungry; that her people are actually feeling th* pinch of that hunger which only a few months ago they were boasting could never be the lot of the Central Powers no matter how effectively they WfXfc cut off from the commerce of the world. Much depends upon the crops now lr\ the field. If they are a fair aver age the situation will be saved. If [they are below the average Germany FRIDAY EVENING, will find herself beset by a foe far more difficult to deal with than any that has confronted her on the tield lof battle. Time lights on tno side of ithe allies. More and more it becomes : evident that Germany must win in | the next month or two or not at all. I And "winning" in this case means {putting the enemy on all sides com . pletely hors du combat which Is un- I thinkable. The capture of Verdun, for j lr.?tani"s, would help Germany at home, but would be no more a decisive defeat for the French than the loae of Warsaw, pictured last year aa a catastrophe of the first magnitude to the Russians, has proved to the Czar and his allies. The great outstanding fact In the war at present Is that neither side shows any sign of complete victory on the field of battle and that the war Is more than ever one of exhaustion ! with Germany apparently nearer that stag« than her antagonists. "An army travels on its stomach" and a nation cannot long maintain a heroic poise with its thoughts constantly upon an empty breadbox. THE DARKEST HOUR LLOYD-GEORGE is an optimist. Through the darkness, the wind and the rain of the night of war now hanging over all Europe he sees the bright dawn of a new and better day for all mankind. It requires an optimist to speak as he did recently in England when he said: I read only the other day about a ! mining camp at the foot of a black | mountain in the great West. The l diggers had been toiling long and hard with but scant encouragement for their labors, and one night a terrible storm swept over the moun tain. An earthquake shattered its hard surface and hurled its rocks about and in the morning in the rents and Assures they found a rich deposit of gold. This is a great storm that is sweeping over the fa vored lands of Europe; but in this night of terror you will find selfish ness, the hard crust e>f selfishness anel greed, has been shattered, and in the rent hearts of the people you will find treasures, golden treasures, of courage-, steadfastness, endurance, devotion, and of the faith that endureth forever. "The darkest hour is just before the dawn," and surely if there is to bo a dawn for England the present must constitute that "darkest hour." This war will bring one of two things to all Europe either a long step for ward in the way of freedom of govern ment and Individual liberty, or an equally long step backward, with Im perialism rampant and militarism in the saddle. The hope of peace in America lies in victory for free gov ernment over the sea. If that princi pal la lost in the war now being waged, America, the citadel of Republican government, will be the only block in the path of the conquering kings. That is one reason why the sympathies ! of America are generally with the al lies. Lloyd-George may speak from a hopeful heart or a knowing mind — very likely both—but at all events it is heartening to note this spirit of opti mism abroad In England even in the hour of dire misfortune. HARDING'S SPEECH IF the Republican and Progressive conventions at Chicago hew close to the line laid down in the speech of Chairman Harding before the Re publican gathering on the opening day the delegates of both could go home with a full sense of duty well performed, nor could their constitu ents find any fault with their action, for Harding said just what is in the heart of every true Republican or Progressive in the country. The speaker engaged m no lofty flights of high sounding oratory. He did not adopt the Wilsonian manner of glossing over in a wordy way a lot of sentiments that might mean much or little and hiding his true meaning In a maze of amnlguities. Convinced that it Is the great duty of the delegates now assembled at Chicago to rescue the country from tho incompetence of the Democratic administration, he made a close analysis of all the problems now con fronting the American public and prescribed the remedy in language that all could understand. Harding said in a masterly manner what has been the conviction of every Re publican who has given serious thought to the present situation. Strong, patriotic, sensible, practical and appealing, this address of the chairman should be a clarion call to duty at Chicago. Representatives of the voters of the two parties have no right at this time to think in terms of selfish ambition. The welfare of tho whole country for a future far cutreaching the next four years is at stake. Harding has pointed a way out of the wilderness of confusion in which the delegates find themselves. Will they take it? The Public Ledger scores Chairman Harding for making a "catch phrase" speech, and Just to be consistent winds up Its criticism with the words, "the destiny of America and the duty of Americans." OX THF. RIGHT TRACK THE garden spirit is spreading throughout the land. Harrisburg has confined Its attention very largely this year to flowers, although there has been some attempt at vegetable cultivation, and there is a practical suggestion for this city in what Cincinnati is doing along the line of teaching boys and girls to love growing things. A comprehensive plan whereby every child in that city will have an opportunity to preside over a garden plot has been worked out by Roland W. Guss, director of the city's depart ment of school gardening of the pub lic schools. "A garden to grow for every child" has been made the slogan of the department. School children In all parts of Cincinnati, even In the tenement districts, will find it possible to grow flowers, vegetables or fruits. sa\s Mr. Guss. Three thourand home gardens have been reported already by seventeen schools. The total en rollment, after all schools have re ported, Mr. Guss expects, will exceed 10,000. More than'loo upper grade pupils have promised to cultivate one twentieth of an acre or more. School gardens are to be established by at least twenty-flve schools on school grounds or vacant lota and several | | others are to have gardens placed In- I i doors or on the roofs of the school | buildings. j One plan of teaching the more technical features of gardening will ;be the growing of seedlings in paper drinking cups. In this manner the children are to be taught how to care ! for the young plants and to transplant i tfcem. At the close of school these pots will be taken home by the chil dren and transplanted in gardens, window boxes and pots. The Garden Club of Cincinnati, composed of a number ot prominent women, is doing much to increase in terest In gardening and general beautiflcation, Just as the Civic Club is in Harrisburg, and as the Telegraph has done in the matter of encouraging the planting of window boxes. Al ready the result of Cincinnati'# win dow box campaign is apparent Dozens of establishments in the heart of the shopping district now have blossomed out, with flowering plants \ and vines adorning the windows of their buildings. ' Sixty thousand rambler rose bushes have been dis tributed to chilren. Several highways leading into the city have been lined with rose bushes and this work has just begun. Harrisburg is on the right track, only a little ahead of most cities of our size. Let us keep ahead by add ing all the school children to our growing army of amateur gardeners. '|| , ~~1 SiclcU<shC4 OK at Chicago ■' 1 (By a Staff Correspondent) Chicago, June 8. About half the! Pennsylvania delegation in Congress is here to attend the convention and ■ hike part in the deliberations, which ; are mainly held outside of the con- I ventlon hall. Congressmen Griest, [ \ are and Graham are figures in the delegation, while Congressman Kreider has a lot of friends among the busi- ! nessmen, including a number from the western end of the State. Con-; gressmen Kless, Porter and Farr have been among the speotators. • • • Horace Brock, the Lebanon iron master. was among the arrivals for the opening of the convention and stopped at the Auditorium. • • • Representative H. Atlee Brumbaugh of Blair, came out to see the sights and to look over automobiles. • • • Robert \V. Herbert, the Greensburg eciitor, is working with the newspaper nier and has decided to remain until the convention ends. City Commissioner George L. Holmes, who did the Legislature for the North American and who is now a Philadelphia city official, says this is the best convention he ever at tended. He does not have to work. • • • Senator Penrose, Governor Brum- j baugh, Attorney General Brown, Con gressman Vare and Commissioner < Magee bumped right into each other | at the entrance of one of the Con- : gres elevators. "Hello, Mr. Mayor," exclaimed the Senator. The others nodded and the situation was saved. Over a dozen Lancaster county men ate here attending the convention and are taking a big interest in the liar mony program. of Agriculture Patton is sporting tne badge of an assistant ser ge ant-at-arms. Several Pennsyl vanians asked him to please arrest them so that they could get out of the wet. Princa Cupid, which is the eoltoquial | nunie for the Hawaiian who would ! have been king if the United States had not annexed the islands, called on the Pennsylvanians at their headquar ters in the Congress. Some of them did not know him and thought he was from Lombard street, Philadel phia. Then l hey woke up and offered him one of the gilt chairs. Chicago newspapers say that Roose vell men helped Penrose cinch con trol of the Pennsylvania delegation j and hail him as one of the big figures 1 of the convention. Some of the Pennsylvanians have solved the problem of what to do on a rainy day and a Chicago rainy day i at that. When it rains here the winds ! take part and as the whole convention j business is on the lake front the i sweep is magnificent. Fortunately I the two big hotels aie connected by a| tunnel and communication is easy. I But the unfeeling hotel management h.ts taken all the chairs out of lobbies} and corridors because of experience ; lit 1912. Hence, when you are not < eating you must stand if you want to see the parade. Chairs and .settees arc at a premium in headquarters and the next best thing, if you are one of the great army of teetotallers and are ! not on speaking terms with the bar-' tenders, is to get shaved, hair cutted or maiicured. •• V • Probably more men have discovered I the need of hair cuts since the rains ! began than could be counted and some have taken to being shaved twice a day with ail the frills that go with the j operation. Leaning against a wall or I a pillar or a desk gets tiresome and ! with everyone herded together the barber shop looks like a haven of! refuge. The average elelegate or j alternate and convention sightseer re- I gardy gotng to his room as something not to be thought of. He might mls3; something. Hence ho stays in the; crowd and gets jostled and pushed around until he feels that ho needs a j shave. And as for the manicure girls! they are working in defiance of the women's employment laws and coin- | ir.g money in tips for prolonging the' work for delegates and visitors who are tired of standing around. Pennsylvania's seats in the conven tion arc away up front In the Coliseum practically the same place as they were In 1»12 and the men are so situated so that they can be seen from every part of the vast hall. The Coliseum every Chioagoan says is the greatest hall in the world and It does seem to be able to take care of an awful lot of people. You could get the greater part of the population of Steelton into it and yet tb'e acoustics have been so arranged that you can hear speakers in every part. The Pennaylvanians are right near New York, the two big delegations having been neighbors since the days of Quay and I'latt. They are to the left of the speaker's stand, which juts out like a prow of a ship from the main plat form the ofilers nrd dignitaries sit. The Kcyatone men have the riierit of being prompt because they have bqen in their seats when the gavel fell and because of the stories which came here about the dlstur'oances at home they have attracted much atten tion. A. B. H. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH THE CARTOON OF THE DAY - - JUNK! V AAA ~"\ ~l*rCr" 1: —From the Erie Dfwpateh. TELE3RAPH PERISCOPE —With the strawberry preserving season at hand housewives are begin ning to appreciate the advantages of the Democratic tariff as it relates to sugar. —The trouble with these new anti septic telephone transmitters is that ihe disinfectants are worse than the germs they are intended to kill. —The health papers have so much to say about the virtues of abstinence that we have concluded Sampson must never have eaten too much, never have Indulged in tea, coffee or tobacco and doubtless slept nine hours a day —but then, look what happened to Sam pson. —Some publishers think it journal istic enterprise to hunt up some noted man who knows nothing about poli tics: and pay him a big salary t<> tell the people what he does not know about a national convention. —Roosevelt is fond of exercise of all kinds but his favorite sport ap pears to be running. EDITORIAL COMMENT Correct Definition I From the Columbia State.] A brazen grab, a? we understand It, Is an appropriation bill that the other party passed. I.lhcrtle* Nearly Cut Off Now [From the Houston Post.] After awhile It will be so that about the only way a fellow can be sure of not committing crime is to find out just what he would like to do and 'then not do it. Lest We Forget God of our fathers, known of old Liord of our far-flung battle line— Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine; Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget. The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart— Still bands Thine ancient Sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of osts be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget. Far-called our navies melt away— On dur.c and headland sinks the fire— Lo, all our pompt of yesterday. Is one with Ninevali and Tyre! •Judge of the nations, spare us yet, Le3t we forget, lest we forget. —Rudyard Kipling. Not Ready For Peace (From the Indianapolis Star.] ■it Is but just to President Wilson to sn 1 tha' he does not discuss the possi bility of peace mediation by this Gov ernment as some of the misguided members of bis partv are doing, there by betraying a suspicious eagerness to have nedlation activities brought Into the political campaign. The President told the World Peace League that he hoped the war would end In the near future, but he did not Indicate any intention of offering his services to the belligerents at this time. His hearers, on the contrary, gathered the idea that he was disin clined to suggest mediation on his own initiative, but would act if requested formally to do so by one or more of the hrlllirerents. This hesitation on his part Is wise. Our Covernment should wait for an Invitation to aid in p. peace settlement. It i« not hv any means certain the ser\-|'cs of the I'nlted States will be .nought or desired, and an unusunl eagerness on our part just now and 1 Tor a few months to come will he in terpreted. rightly or wrongly, by the ; foreign Governments as having a hcar > Ing on home politics. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUR LEARNED OF THE CITY ' rQuestlons submitted to members of I the Harrlsburg Rotary Club and their answers as nresented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Ouiz."] How ore the ndminlstra 1 ive and cx ! ecutlve departments of the cltv dis : trlbnt->d? The Ma'-or Is by lew the S'loerln- I tendent of Public Affairs. The ro ! malning superintendents are chosen j by Council, earh superintendent be j lnsr assigned to one of the four re maining departments. The dlvi | sions of the departments are ar | ranged by City Council, who have [ power to cbange superintendents. OUR ALLEGHENY FORESTS By Frederic J. Haskin v ; A GREAT strip of forest land along | the backbone of the Allegheny I mountains from Pennsylvania j to Georgia has now been put under the administration of the United States Forest service. For several years \ the service has been engaged in pur chasing and surveying these areas, 1 straightening out titles that date back to the land grants of colonial times. Now the actual work of forest admin istration has begun. Roads and i trails are being built; telephone lines, ! lookout tower and tool stations have ! been established; guards and rangers 1 patrol the woods. Although much smaller and less im- l posing than the great Western forest areas, these new national forests are of more immediate importance than any of them. They cover the water shed which is the source of all the great rivers of the South Atlantic sea board. The Potomac, James, Roa noke, Santee, Savannah, their tribu taries and many smaller streams rise in these mountains. These rivers carry commerce, furnish cities with water supplies, are the basis of im portant industries. Their even flow | —the prevention of freshet and flood 1 —depends upon the protection of the [ forests that cover the watersheds at J their sources. Furthermore, these mountains are 1 within easy reach of Philadelphia, i Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, ' Raleigh, and many lesser cities of the South Atlantic section. The people ; of the West have learned to use the j national forests as their summer play- j grounds. They resort to them by the j hundreds of thousands every summer. The establishment of these eastern forest reserves means for the people of some of our largest cities similar playgrounds, where the natural scen ery is preserved, where the most de sirable camping places are made ac cessible by roads and trails, and where anyone may lease tne land upon which to build a summer home for a nominal sum. The forest service has now secured Prophecies That Failed [Omaha Bee.] Barely half a dozen years ago pro phets of woe filled the land with la- | mentations for the country's safety. ; Every patriot with money to lend foresaw the country rushing to disas ter. Nearly every banking house echoed with dervish wails and every trust company shed scalding tears be cause the powers that be heeded not their warnings. Earnest, vigorous and innumerable were the pleadings against postal savings banks. The fateful step was taken by a heedless Congress. What are the woeful re sults? The system of savings decried and denounced before birth has proven signally successful in a few years. Half a million depositors have over $80,000,000 to their credit, and that great sum piled under the SSOO deposit limit. The results have been so satis factory and the public benefits so clearly established that CongTess rais ed the limit of deposits to 1,000 each without a squabble. Those whoße fears kept them awake nights- long since ceased to worry. Their alarms were imaginary and their prophecies without substance. No financial Insti tution was hurt by the' innovation. There is an abundance of money to go around. Culture and Sympathy There could be no greater calamity for the universities than for the belief t<> gain ground that the education they furnish to their choicest and most gift ed graduates shuts them oft from a living sympathy and fellowship with the great body of their countrymen who have not had the fortune to share their advantages of training, and from a vital interest in a pure and beneficent administration of government. It would be a calamity to the nation to have such jaw all of partition between the scholars and the rest of the people. But It would. If permitted, be a yet greater ' misfortune for the universities which l bad begotten such children. —James B. Anaell. Will Liven Them Up [From the Detroit Free Press.] Democratic leaders say that the St. Louis convention will be quiet. Don't they know Bryan is going to b« there? JUNE 9, 1916. f most important areas along the Allegheny u.i ,ui, ano tho purchases have ceased for Ihck of funds. The foresters assert that Congress should immediately make further appropri ations so that these reserves may he rounded out and made certainly suf ficient to serve their purposes. One of the most interesting phases of the establishment of these new forests has been the contact between the government forces and the moun taineers. The people of the Alle gheny ranges have been the subject of a grsat deal of romance, usually cen tering about their feuds and their moonshine "stills," and of occasional ministrations by the forces of uplift, which have brought them religion, and sometimes small quantities of food and clothing. But no one has taught them the economic efficiency which is the basis of all modern civ ilization, and so they have remained picturesquely backward. The forest service has enabled them to take some steps toward the attain ment of economic efficiency, find it may be that conservation will be an important factor in the development of these people. When the foresters first entered these lands they found themselves confronted by an attitude of profound suspicion. For generations a govern ment officer had been to many of these people simply a. revenue officer, in search of illicit distilleries. A people of fine natural intelligence, however, they were not long in per ceiving that the foresters were in no way dangerous to their interests. The government men found that in each neighborhood there was usually some old patriarch, who, as one forester de scribed it, was the kingpin of the community. Without the authority of office, he exercised wide control and once he had been won over to the cause of conservation, the wav was open. The mountaineers took the foresters into their homes, and even (Continued oil Page 29) Wisdom From Perkins [From the Philadelphia Inquirer.] George W. Perkins, who has the dis tinction of being the chief backer of Colonel Roosevelt, has been addressing the members of the Progressive party, and in the course of his remarks he gives them some sage advice. He says: "The process of tearing down men and things in this country and in the world should stop. It is time to be for some body, for something and to build up." This is so very, very sensible that we fear It may not be followed. It seems to be the fate of some souls in this world always to do the obviously wrong thing, and the words of Mr. Perkins contain so much wisdom that the chances of their being disregarded are very strong. However, while there Is life there is always hope, and it is not yet too late for the rule-or-ruin members of the Progressive party to turn in and prove that they are patriots as well as poli ticians. No man has a better right to advise them than George W. Perkins for he has furnished the wherewithal' without which the third party would have cut a small figure. OUR DAILY LAUGH IN THE AIR. Bracing weath er, eh, Jones? I should say so. I've been braced four times to- KIDTOWN. What's Jimmie , •o stuck up C ! about? • Ain't you J U _ heard? His big SjP W brother organized a baseball team and appointed ipS Jimmie official | home - plate Tj i sweeper. Bmting (ftljal The big bird hotel in Harris Park leased rent-free throughout the year by the city to any and all feathered guests on the "flrst-come-first-served" plan can accomodate no more lodgers this season. Xot at least, until some of the present boarders move out. Some disgusted late comers from the South disiovered that yesterday and they vociferously voiced their com plaints at Harrisburg's lack of hotel accomodations. The newcomers were two thrushes In modest brown and two orioles gay in black and gold. The former didn't make much fuss. One waited outside on a branch while the other poked an in quisitive head Into two or three of the little doors. Apparently he found , every room occupied—and he and hia I companion departed. The orange and black visitors, however 1 , didn't leave without complaining. Around the little porch they went, hopping off to an adjacent tree, returning to investi gate again, all the while they chirped excitedly. Finally they too decided that local bird hotels are just one painful thing after another, anyway. And they flew off with a sort of a what's-the-use flirt of their wings. How a big corporation which plans to make certain extensions and im provements within a certain period of time, pushes ahead the work it has to do regardless of old Ma Nature or the elements, has been pretty well il lustrated during the last few weeks by the contracting company which lfl building the upper half of the ne-.v Cumberland Valley bridge. While the rain was driving its hardest, while the wind was blowing a gale, while thunder roared and light ning flashed, the big corps of men with their derricks and pile-drivers, and concrete mixers and electric trains and cranes went cheerfully on With the work. Then ihe sudden rise of the Susquehanna threatened to start something. During the night several sections of the temporary bridge which carries the electric train tracks were swept away. In a few minutes the work of several days went for naught. Did that delay the job? It did not. Even while the high waters were still swirling through the gap, engineers and repairmen were busy as bees rebuilding the structure. The Wormleysburg School Board took an encouraging step in the Cen tral High School proposition recently when a resolution endorsing the ac tion of the school boards of the West Shore, in their efforts to combine the schools of that section into a Central High school, was passed. This board was the first of the number to pass a resolution. The board passed the resolution showing its in tention to support the move and to In crease the indebtedness of the district to be used for the purpose of erecting a building. The other boards will pass resolutions at their regular meetings this month and permanent plans on the procedure of the central idea will hr> started at once. Should the propo sition be put up be!ore the taxpayers at the November election, and passed by them, it is predicted that the Cen tral High School will be erected in two years. The residents of these districts are becoming more interested in the move and the hjgh school is the discussion of many an evening's conversation among the taxpayers. One of the chief points of interest for the visiting G. A R. men this week was the ('amp Curtin Memorial Church building, now in course of erection on the site of old Camp Curtin, as a last ing memorial to the hundred thousand men who were mustered into the ser vice of their country there fifty years ago. A memorial tablet is to be placed in the main entrance of the new church with names of veterans, mustered in at Camp Curtin, who are among the contributors to the church building fund. Romance Ever Young [From Collier's Weekly.] The most recent mysteries of science are the ones that receive most atten tion. The air is full of talk nowadays about the thrilling wonders of wireless telegraphy and aviation and subterran ean transportation and submarine navigation. And very rightly, for these are marvels. But, for that matter, so are some of the thlnes which we have gradually grown so used to that we never see them at all. There is the railroad. Plenty of romantic mystery is to be found in the railroad yard of a great terminal. It is, first of all, a net work of steel pathways which seem un threadable. Trains come and go by devious ways, semaphore arms rise or fall in that one rectanguar gesture of theirs. The Providence that shapes the ends of all this takes the form of men tugging at some very prosaic-looking levers tn switch towers. To get still another effect, look at the yard by night, when great llmiteds come surging freights being made up trundle about, are set pieces of multicolored switch and signal lamps. The cars of night freights beinb made up trundle about. And the yard never sleeps. In its way it is as full of life as the jungle. Every locomotive is a dragon harnessed to man's service. The marvels of science are all about us, and the ones we have grown used to are just as remarkable as those of to-day and to-morrow. Wilson Not Wanted [From Baltimore American.] If evidence were wanted of t-he un fortunateness of furu.er observations by the President of the United States upon the subject of peace for Eu rope it would be furnished by the passionate speech of the German chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann-Holl weg, and his bitter controversy with the leaders of the Conservative party in the Reichstag. The Chancellor as serted he had not the slightest offi cial intimation of American media tion. This was an outburst In answer to the goad of the Conservative lead er, Count von Westrap. who had de clared his uncompromising opposition to President Wilson as a peacemaker. The acrimonious debate in the Reichstag was brought on by the ene mies of the Chancellor in efforts to unseat him, aroused by the ill-placed peace talk in this country. To secure himself from attacks for his Ameri can policies, thereby laying himself open to suspicion of courting Ameri can mediation, the Chancellor has de clared for a fight to the bitter end with his country's foes. Von Bethmann-Hollweg will, doubt less, be overthrown, and the United States may have a fresh chapter •».' difficulties to meet, provided Mr.Wllson shall remain In the White House. His passing and that of the German Chan cellor would place American-German relations upon a new footing, and with the elimination of the bitterness and acrimony that the submarine Issue created In Germany. Means of Grace PFrom the Ohio State Journal. 1 It IB all very beautiful this bare armed and bare-legged dancing In the educational arena. It Is graceful, art ful, fascinating, and one likes to see it, but It Is something that should be kept within the exception, and not seem to be the paramount illustration of a girl's education. It should not be omit ted, nor furnish the full complement of educational delight. We do not want to spoil a beautiful custom by criticism, nor do we want to see the beautKul custom spoil itself by excess. There fore, gently, wo refer to the danger. Noticing the display at a scanty dress affair at a big Institution, a gentleman remarked "I wouldn't have a daughter of mine In there." But he had. It iH so easy, and it Is so beautiful. The heart yearns for angels here as well an In the Beyond, but they won't stav angels, and that Is the which—joy or Borrow of itT
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