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WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 28.
It is difficult to be always true to our- \
selves, to be always what we wish to be
—what we feel we ought to be. As long
as we feel that, as long as we do not
surrender the ideal of our life, all is ,
right. Our aspirations represent the 1
true nature of our soul much more than '
our everyday life. — MAX MULLER.
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LET'S HAVE .MORE GINGER
UNUSUAL weather conditions have !
seriously "interfered during the !
Spring with the outdoor work of
the city. It is believed now, however, j
that progress may be made along all [
lines and that there should be consid- j
erable activity during the rest of the !
summer.
City Commissioner Lynch has been
busy in the resurfacing and repairing
of the asphalt streets, having already, j
with the aid of the municipal repair 1
plant, put down over 17,000 yards of
sheet asphalt. Other paving opera
tions are also under way and the sea- !
son will show considerable addition to i
the paved area of Harrisburg, already
one of the best paved cities In the
United States.
Commissioner Lynch is strongly of
the opinion that the policy of the city 1
should favor resurfacing of the paved
streets in some gradual way that will
not impose any heavy burden
the people. Cameron and Seventh
streets are in rather poor condition
and there are sections of other streets
which require attention, but the ap
propriation of this year will hardly
admit of any general resurfacing be
yond that which has already been
done.
There has been much complaint
growing out of the cutting of newly
paved highways by several of the pub
lic utility corporations and it Is
thought that some more drastic leg
islation will be required to discourage
thir sort of damage to the paving. Once j
opened it is practically impossible to I
restore any paved street to its original j
condition.
Commissioner Gross has also been j
observing the "watchful waiting" pol- 1
icy with respect to the weather, but
there is much to be done In his depart
ment and considerable activity will be
necessary to accomplish what mani- j
festly should be done, not only along
the river front, but In other parts of
the park system. Riprapping of the
bottom of the river park embankment,
and heavy planting of the rest of the
terrace is essential to the preservation
of the slope against future floods.
Much criticism has been heard of
the apparent indifference to the loca
tion of the Donato statuary and the
illness of Mayor Meals and Commis
sioner Bowman has been responsible
in some measure for a rather delayed
program for the summer. Unless a
lot of ginger is injected into the opera
tions from now on to the end of the
year the record will not be a remark
able one in the way of Improvement.
POLITICS IN SECOND PLACE
GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH HAS
much to engage his attention at
this time. He has never been
greatly in sympathy with the politi
cal maneuvering which has more or
less retarded the activities of his ad
ministration and the responsibilities
which have come with the calling out
of Pennsylvania troops will still fur
ther put into the background the pure
ly political matters which in time of
peace occupy the thought and energy
of many of those in official life.
It would be a good thing for Pennsyl
vania at the present time if all poli
tical activities should be subordinated
to the more important phases of pub
lic endeavor.
This State stands high in all con
structive effort ?xid Governor Brum
baugh is known to have some admir
able plans for a still further advance
In the making of a better and more
prosperous Commonwealth. In all this
he will have the sympathy and support
of citizens without regard to political
affiliations.
For Instance, the Governor, State
Treasurer Young and Auditor General
Powell comprise the Board of Public
Grounds and Buildings which has to
do with the great problem of final
treatment of the Capitol Park zone In
this city. This board has already con
sidered the matter In Its various as
pects and the fact that a force of en
gineers from the State College Is now
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
making a survey of the State property
in this city indicates a purpose to im
mediately proceed with the important
preliminaries of landscape treatment
which will also involve the widening
of the streets abutting on the Capitol
ground and the remaking of conslder
| able portions of me Capitol Park area,
j Fortunately for the Commonwealth,
the three men comprising this board
are v/hole-heartedly in earnest in the
undertaking which will mean so much
for the future of the Capitol and its
environment. What shall be done now
will involve the whole future design
with respect to the Capitol in its dig
nllied setting as the Commonwealth's
chief place of power and Influence in
the sisterhood of states.
There is no question about the de
sirability of widening Walnut, Third
and North streets so that they may be
in harmony with the larger and more
generous environment of the State
House, but in order that the State and
the city may work in harmony it is
the plan of the Board of Public
Grounds and Buildings to have a final
conference with the City Planning
Commission before any definite plan is
adopted.
Other constructive items of the
year's program are also being given
attention on Capitol Hill. These in
volve the working out of the welfare
legislation of the last session of the
General Assembly, increased attention
to welfare problems, the making of a
permanent system of roads and the
health and forestry activities.
Altogether there is so much outside
of the political arena to Invite the at
tention of the several officials that the
campaign promises to be rather quiet
and to take a second place in the
thought of the people, especially so
since Pennsylvania is admittedly over
whelmingly in the Republican column.
If the robberies and attempted rob
beries which have started in the west
ern section of the. city during the last
few days are the result of an inade
quate police force, then the City Coun
cil should lose no time in providing ad
ditional officers. It ought not to be
necessary for the people of a city like
Harrisburg to do their own night
watching,
THE COLONEL THEN AND NOW
COLONEL ROOSEVELT'S letter
condemning Wilson, endorsing
Hughes and urging all Progres
sives to vote the Republican ticket
this year is wormwood and gall to the
Democrats. Editors of Democratic
newspapers the length and breadth of
the land are dlv.ding their time be
tween berating the Colonel and as
suring their readers that "it really
doesn't matter any way."
One writer, comparing the Colonel
Roosevelt of four years ago with the
Colonel Roosevelt of to-day, makes
himself silly by asserting that "then
the Colonel was an American; now he
is a politician." The precise reverse
Is true. Four years ago Colonel
Roosevelt was playing politics with the
object of having himself elected Presi
dent. To-day he Is patriotically stand
ing aside to assure the election of a
man he knows will be able to rescue
the government from the slough Into
which it has fallen under a weak and
mistaken leadership.
The outstanding feature of the
Democratic newspaper criticism is Its
lack of strength and Its evident insin
cerity. President Wilson was elected
because the Republican party was di
vided and he is going to be defeated
because the Republican party is re
united, and that is the sole reason for
the outburst of Democratic feeling
over Roosevelt's declination to be the
catspaw to again pull the Wilsonian
chestnuts out of the fire.
WOMEN AND PREPAREDNESS
HARRISBURG women showed last
night that they are prepared to
do what they can to make as
light as possible the hard lot of the |
soldier going to the front. Hungry
troopers aboard the special trains that
are hurrying them to the border par- j
took of sandwiches and coffee and I
fruit at the hands of patriotic mem- '
bers of the Pennsylvania Women's
Division for National Preparedness, j
While a number of the members used \
the telephone to gather in supplies, j
others arranged for the distribution. |
The work was well handled. It is only :
one of many activities in which these ]
women will engage during the months I
to come when the troops are on the |
border or in Mexico and when all man
ner of needs will arise which those at |
home must meet.
Ol'R "ECONOMICAL" CONGRESS !
OUR "economical" Congress is giv- J
ing us a fine demonstration of that
popular indoor amusement of
straining at a gnat after having swal
lowed a camel. A few weeks ago, with
a great hurrah and much acclaim, Con- j
gress passed an appropriation of fifty
million dollars —fifty million, think of I
it—for "flood protection" work on the '
lower Mississippi. In other words, to
provide a campaign fund for Demo
cratic candidates in the South who
hope to help carry their districts by a
liberal expenditure of "pork" in the!
way of employment for their con
stituents.
And now this same Congress is dead- ,
locked over the proposal to pay mili
tiamen entering the United States ser- !
vice the paltry wage of SSO a month
for dependents.
Fifty million dollars for "pork" and ]
not one penny for soldiers' wives and
children.
THE NEW CHAIRMAN
THE selection of William R. Will
cox, of Ntw York, as chairman
of the Republican National Com
mittee brings to the service of the
party in the coming campaign a man
ideally fitted by natural qualifications
and by political alignments to render
the maximum of service. Mr. Willcox.
as postmaster of New York and later
as chairman of the New York State
Public Service Commission, demon
strated his honesty and his ability.
He is a man of energy, enterprise and
originality, clear-headed and cour
ageous. He is u close personal friend
of the candidate whose light he is to
lead and has been out of active politics
sufficiently of recent years to have es
caped making enemies of some whose
frlerdshlp may count for much in the
coming campaign. He Is a student of
public affairs, a close observer of na
tional politics and well known through
out the country. His choice is grati
fying and inspires the rank and file
with confidence in the conduct of the
campaign.
1 TELECRAPH PERISCOPE "
—All things comes to those who
wait—even the waiter.
—You don't always have to judge a
man by his deeds; his mortgages are
sometimes just as good.
. —Perhaps Bryan Is beginning to
discover that a million men are not a
million soldiers.
—The housewife Is now learning the
advantages of the Democratic tariff,
with sugar at nine cents a pound.
—When that German Üboat arrives
in New York why not treat It as the
Üboats treated the Lusltanla?
| EDITORIAL COMMENT"
—The Old Guard surrenders but
never dies.—Columbia State.
—After his somewhat energetic ex
perience Louis Brandeis is probably
glad that there is no immediate pros
pect of his being asked to leave the
dignified quietude of the Supreme
Court In order to participate in a
national campaign.—Washington Star.
—Russian bear Is through hiber
nating.—Wall Street Journal.
—Head-line writers and cartoonists
have no objection to Hughes.—Phila
delphia North American.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrlsburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza
tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."]
Has the city the power to contribute
money to defray expenses of amuse
ments. such as band concerts, etc.?
Prohibited by law.
Powerful Pennsylvania
[From New York Sun.]
When the Stars and Stripes were
run up on the Pennsylvania at Norfolk
one of the most formidable warships
in the world was added to the United
States navy. The naval experts de
clare that she has no equal in gun
power and ability to stand up under
punishment. In the Skagerak fight
the British battleship Warspite lived
through a terrible pounding by
the German dreadnaughts because her
vital parts were well armored. The
battle cruiser Queen Mary soon suc
cumbed because she was not well pro
tected. In her case there was a com
promise to give her great speed. Her
forte was attacking at long range with
her 13.5-lnch guns. As she had to
fight at a medium range, on account
of the atmosphere and the tactics
forced upon her, she was doomed.
The Warspite stood up, kept on fir
ing her 15-inch guns, and got out of
the trap. Within a few days of that
exhibition of battleship stanchness the
Pennsylvania goes into commission.
He who runs may read. We hope the
lesson will not be lost upon Congress.
Here is a ship of 31,400 tons normal
displacement, with a belt amidships
13% inches thick and turret protec
tion of from 9 to 18 Inches, built to
withstand the heaviest broadsides and
keep afloat. She carries a main bat
tery of 12 14-inch guns and a sec
ondary battery of 22 5-lnch guns, to
gether with four torpedo tubes. She
has a speed of 21 knots. Her fuel is
oil only, which Increases her radius of
action at least 40 per cent, for the
same weight of fuel and she can quick
ly replenish at sea from a tanker.
A leviathan Indeed is this American
superdreadnaught; a fortress that can
deal destruction and escape It herself
unless pitted against a ship as well
protected and of superior armament.
But there Is no such ship afloat in any
other navy at the present time. The
Pennsylvania is said to have a rival in
the Japanese dreadnaught Fuso of
31,300 tons. There is not much to
choose between their armaments, for
the Fuso has a main battery of 12
14-inch guns and a secondary battery
of 16 6-lnch guns. She can make 22.5
knots and Is therefore slightly faster.
Particulars of her protection are lack
ing, but It is doubtful whether her ar
mor Is as thick at vital points as the
Pennsylvania's.
The Queen Elizabeths of the British
navy carry 15-inch guns, but only
eight of them, and these ships have
an advantage of four knots over the
Pennsylvania in speed. A greater
range for the British 15-lnch guns Is
claimed, and this with higher speed
would give the Queen Elizabeths an
initial advantage over the Pennsylva
nia in very clear weather. But our
ordnance experts say that the range of
the American 14-inch naval gun is as
great. If that is the fact the Queen
Elizabeth with her eight big guns and
armor not as thick would be no match
for the Pennsylvania with her 12 big
guns in a fight to a finish.
Examples of Ship Purchase
[From Leslie's]
The Democratic Administration pro- j
poses to spend $50,000,000 for the pur
chase of ships, in the hope that this j
may lead to the eventual establishment
of an adequate merchant marine. The
future may be judged by the past. Dur- j
ing the Spanish-American war the I
United States government went into
the ship-purchase business. The early
experience resulted in the purchase of
a considerable number of naval auxili
aries and the later sale of these vessels
at a sacrifice. Some of the naval auxill- 1
aries, the prices paid for them by the
government and the prices at which !
the government sold them were as fol- \
lows: Alexander, purchase price $206,-
825.25, selling price. $17,400; Cheyenne,
purchase price $19,633.05, selling price
$1,690; Hector, purchase price $200,000, i
selling price $65,150; Hornet, purchase
price $117,500, selling price $5,100; Nia
gara, purchase price $200,000, selling
price $75,000; Restless, purchase price '
$29,000. selling price $1,008; Shearwater,
purchase price $24,000, selling price sl,-
536; Yankee, purchase price $575,000,
selling price $2,010; Yosemite, purchase
price $575,000, veiling price $11,522.04.
The purchase of ships at the present
time might temporarily relieve the con
gestion at various ports. It would not
solve the problem of a merchant ma
rine. The reason more Americans have
not gone into the shipping business is
because there has not been enough
money in it. In normal times it is hard
to make any profit. This is due to the
fact that the cost of operating an Amer
ican ship is a great deal higher than the
operating of a European ship. Amer
ican laws compel the payment of higher
wages, the employment of more men
and the purchase of more equipment.
; European ships can carry freight at
j lower rates, and thus drive the Amer
> lean ships off the seas. The American
I merchant marine was built up in the
early days by the application of the
protective tariff system in the form of
a preferential tariff on goods shipped
in American bottoms. That Is the
remedy that should be applied now.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
*^ > ejvKCi^ca>ua
%T the Ex-Commltteeman
Throughout Pennsylvania the en
dorsement of Hughes by Colonel
Roosevelt has been received with
gratification by Republicans and Pro
gressives alike. There is little left but
a skeleton of the old Progressive party
In this State and It is likely that, fol
lowing the hint of the Colonel, to
whose will they have always hastened
to bow, the leaders will not call an
other meeting of the State committee,
which tried to get together here earlier
in the Spring when the Democratic
committee met, but did not, owing to
no orders having been received from
Oyster Bay. It Is likely that some of
the big Moose who have not yet been
heard from in this State will follow
the lead of Hiram Johnson and come
out for the whole Republican ticket.
The Roosevelt declination means an
overwhelming Republican victory In
Pennsylvania next Fall.
The third party ticket is a dead
issue in Dauphin county. The Roose
velt fight here four years ago was engi
neered with money from Pittsburgh,
plus an overwhelming sentiment In
favor of the election of Roosevelt, but
even with that to combat the Repub
licans were able to elect a Congress
man and a majority of the candidates
on the local ticket. To-day the sit
uation Is vastly changed. The Pro
gressive registration has dwindled to a
shadow and Congressman Aaron S.
Krelder and Senator E. E. Beidleman,
who were up against hard fights in
1912. are as certain of re-election as
though the votes were already counted.
Across the river Senator Martin Is also
sure of another term and the legis
lative places arc generally believed to
be safe.
The campaign in Dauphin county
will not open until late. The Repub
lican leaders, feeling victory assured,
do not care to go through a strenuous
summer, and some ot' the candidates
will take vacations as usual during
July and August. The Democrats,
even under the spur of the new na
tional chairman, are not much con
cerned. To be sure, the Federal office
holders are anxious to make a show
ing, but in general it is realized that
the local fight is hopeless, and interest,
therefore, is lagging.
"Ad" Convention Echoes
The Church must advertise. It is
the only great institution in the world
which does not make use of this mod
ern method of reaching the public.
Banks, the most conservative insti
tution outside of the Church, have
learned to advertise with excellent re
sults. It is up to the Church to get
into line.
That, In a nutshell, was the keynote
of the first national conference on
church publicity, held yesterday in
connection with the Associated Adver
tising Clubs of the World at Philadel
phia. More than 30 ministers and
publicity experts, including many vis
itors from other cities, attended the
conference.
Co-operation between newspapers
and advertisers was one of the most
Interesting topics discussed by the
newspaper publishers at their confer
ences. A second address was made
there by W. A. Thomson, of New York
city, who gave a summary of what
newspaper co-operation should be, as
indicated by- the investigations he has
made in the Bureau of Advertising of
the American Newspaper Publishers'
Association.
That the newspaper, beyond all
question the best local medium for ad
vertising, Is rapidly becoming the best
means for national advertising, was the
assertion of William A. Tomson, a
director of the American Newspaper
Publishers' Association, at the Na
tional Advertisers' Conference yester
day afternoon. The value of the daily
newspaper to the general advertiser
who is anxious to aid the local dealer,
Mr. Thomson asserted, was becoming
more prominenl every year. The rea
son for the national advertiser's adopt
ing the newspaper as a medium for a
campaign was b€cause he realized that
a general campaign was but a number
of units put together, he added.
Seventy Years and Now
[Holyoke Transcript]
To-day the militia is a military
organization of trained citizen
soldiers. led by men who have
been obliged to know their job,
while the men of the rank and file
strike a very high average. The
community recognizes the sacri
fices they are now showing that
they have all along been willing
to make. It is no small public
service that each and every one
has to perform. Uncle Dudley in
Boston Globe.
The prompt response of the militia
all over the country to the president's
call is the test of our system. Federal
ization of the militia has been agitated
and legislation has been enacted to
make the system more coherent and
easier for handling in case of emer
gency. The quick responses from
e\ ery State in the Union since the or
der of Sunday proves that we have a
live militia. It's no dead letter. This
mobilizing of the militia recalls the
fact that it was 70 years ago that
United States declared war on Mex
ico before. War was declared by our
country April 26, 1846, and a few
weeks later Congress passed what was
known as the "War bill." By it the
president was authorized to employ
the military and naval forces of the
United States and to accept the ser
vices of 50,000 volunteers. The sum of
$10,000,000 was appropriated for the
war.
In one of the sections of the bill, it
wa:i provided that the militia might
bo compelled to serve a terms not ex
ceeding »lx months In any one year.
In another par\ It was stated that the
volunteers should furnish their own
clothes and, if they happened to be
cavalry, their own horses. They were
to be armed at the expense of the gov
ernment. Of course, an allowance was
made for clothes and each man who
furnished a horse was given 40 cents
a day pay for his animal.
The secretary of war requisitioned
troops from 10 of the States, from
Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana.
Ohio, Mississippi, Alabama. Georgia,
Arkansas and Missouri. Both Louisi
ana and Texas had already furnished
soldiers to General Taylor. The other
States were asked to raise troops and
hold them In readiness to respond to
the call of the President.
The transportation In those days
■war slow and ineffective. The regi
ments recruited along the Atlantic
coast went South by boat. Adequate
transport service was almost nil at
that time and the care of troops on
shipboard was as bad as it could be.
The result was that the soldiers were
landed Illy prepared for sen-ice. Many
dt' * at sea and quite as many more
wt _ burled on the beaches. It was a
»orry spectacle—the first conquest of
Mexico. Not more than 40,000 men
were engaged in service In the first
year and of this number only g,OOO
were effective troops. Still with all
the haphazard transportation of troops
and the inadequate equipment and
organization we won the war. If his
tory repeats itself in Mexico our
military federalization is showing
splendid efficiency tor a starter
1 THE CARTOON OP THE DAY
MOBILIZING
—From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger?
t
IN MEXICO 70 YEARS AGO
The Story of a War in Which Every Battle Was a Victory For
the Stars and Stripes.
By J. HOWARD WERT
Author of "'Twas 50 Years Ago," published in the Harrlsburg Tele
graph, June and July, 1913. in connection with the Great Celebration of
the Semicentennial of the Battle of Gettysburg.
HISTORY repeats itself!" I do not
wish to make a chestnut of thai
well-worn phrase, but, since it
wafi used in a former number of this
scries, developments in regard to the
massacre at Carrizal show that It was
a repetition In almost every particular
of the ambushment and slaughter of
Colonel Thornton's reconnoitering
party of 63 dragoons which was the
opening chapter of the Mexican war
of 70 years ago, and which was men
tioned most briefly in the beginning
of this series. On that occasion, 16
Americans were killed and wounded,
and the remainder taken into cap
tivity. This, and the brutal murder of
Colonel Gross a few days later, were
terribly avenged by Taylor and his
troop on the fields of Palo Alto,
Resaca de la Palma, Monterey and
Buena Vista. But the heaviest meas
ure of the retribution was still to fall
on the Mexican nation.
The Beginning of TV infield Scott's
Triumphal Campaign
General Winfield Scott, the hero of
Cliippewa and Lundy's Lane, of the
1812 war, had become commander-ln
cl.ief of the American army in 1841.
As the Mexican war developed in pro
portions, he felt that his duty de
manded that he should personally lead
the armies of our republic. Accord
ingly, November 24, 1846, he started
frcm Washington to take direction of
the conflict. By March 1847 Scott
had 12,000 men assembled at the
Island of Lobos for a descent upon
the important seaport of Vera Cruz.
Seme of the troops were fresh levies
forwarded from the States; some were
men drawn from General Taylor's
ai my.
Siege and Capture of Vera Cruz and
San Juan de Ulloa
The fleet bearing Scott's army ar
rived at Vera Cruz March 9, 1847. The
harbor of Vera Cruz was defended by
the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa con
sidered, at that time, one ot the
strongest fortifications in the world.
Three days after landing, the Amer
ican forces had completed lines of
circumvallation five miles in extent
around the doomed city. Day after
day the trenches were brought closer
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR"
WANTS MEN* TO DRII.L.
To the Editor of the Telegraph
You. are all no doubt well aware of
the position that our country is now
in, and it behooves us to always be
ready to serve at the first call for vol
unteers. I am, therefore, taking this
means of putting before you the neces
sity of being prepared, so as not to
prolong our going to the front, i. e.,
Ivy waiting for the call and then getting
in trim; in other words, drilling, etc.;
as you all know, delay means a great
deal in some cases, particularly in a
case of this kind.
Why not let us' get together, single
men between the aget- of 21 and 40.
say three or four evenings a week, for
drilling and instructions, so by the
timo the call for volunteers comes we
will be ready to entrain immediately?
What say you all?
I have not as yet consulted any of
our brave lads of our previous wars,
but I am safe in saying that they will
be willing, in tact anxious, to be our
leaders and instructors, and would
offer their services to us.
I am, therefore, asking if some of
our veterans will not call together the
young men as mentioned and have a
meeting, at the same time call on some
of our citizens for a brief talk on pre
paredness, after which we will ask the
men to sign who are willing to volun
teer their services when called for by
our great leader, Uncle Sam.
There is no doubt in my mind but
what we will have to have a very large
hall or theater, as a call of this kind Is
waited on by many a young man who
is anxious to serve his country. An
offer of a hall or theater for this won
derful meeting will he gladly accepted.
Very truly yours,
VOLUNTEER.
Needs of the Navy
[Trom the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.]
It is profitless to inquire into the
considerations which have moved the
President at this late date to take issue
with the majority of the House com
mittee on naval affairs and with the
majority of the House itself. His pre
sent position Is correct, and the country
will support him in it. The Senate has
usually recognized the needs of the
navy better than the House, and It may
provide for even seven capital ships.
I With the assistance of the President it
should be easy to get the House to do
duty.
JUNE 28, 1916.
11 to the works of the enemy, until on
l | March 22, General Scott summoned
tithe governor of Vera Cruz to sur
-5 render which was refused. Imme
; 1 diately Scott's batteries opened their
i destructive fire on the devoted city,
■ while the fleet, coming up to short
[ range, sent broadside after broadside
; ; into the castle.
;! During three days and nights heavy
r Paixhan guns sped their crushing
- : masses of metal upon the enemy. The
mortars and howitzers vomited forth
i j their desolating fury. An iron tempest
, j covered sea and land. Night heighten
■! Ed the scene. The darkness was
t illuminated by blazing shells filling the
j i air. The sea gleamed with the
3 broadsides of the ships. Fired with
, I the extraordinary skill of schooled
1 artillerists, the bombs converged upon
• the besieged city with a deadly ac
-1 curacy. The domes of the churches
| revererated beneath explosions that
shook the ground, and lighted up the
| heavens with a fierce glare. The full
t power of the military skill of that say
j was exerted to the utmost In a
- bombardment that had never yet been
. equaled in either the eastern or
- western world.
. j Human beings could not long en
-1 dure that devastating fire. March 26
. saw the surrender of the enemy. The
I Stars and Stripes waved from the
f bastions of Vera Cruz and the turrets
II of San Juan de Ulloa. As a result of
j J his victory, Scott had 5,000 prisoners
i | and 500 pieces of captured artillery,
. j all this triumph being obtained with
51 the loss of but six killed and sixty
5 i wcunded in the American army.
s Tlic Storming of Ccrro Gordo Among
the Clouds
I Immediately after the fall of Vera
I Cruz, General Soot*, with 8,000 picked
-, troops, started for the Mexican eap
»| ital. After passing over sixty miles
t ! of level country, he reached the as
- cending slopes, beyond which is the
• table land on which the city of Mex
. j ico stands at an elevation of 7,600 feet
-1 above the sea level.
r On the very crest of these moun
t j tainous activities, &,mid deep defiles,
r [Continued on Page 5]
; |THE STATE FROM DW TO M
One thing that the Chester Times
i says it likes about the Chester girls is
. jthat they have learned that artificial
j flowers adorn a hat Just as attractively
'\ as real bird feathers. It is to be hoped
! j that the girls will not carry the an
. alogy too far, however, and apply the
I I principle to their complexions as well.
• j Like father, like son, is true in the
> case of Brigadier-General W. G. Price
! and his son, J. P. E. Price, who re
sented an insult accprded the General
f by a soldier who did not know he was
: overheard in Broad Street station the
other day. A straight blow in the face
| was. the reply that Price Junior made
s i to the insult.
" ' The Pottsvllle Republican likewise
j brings up the matter of Price when it
; | tells of the reunion of that family on
I [ Broad Mountain for the first time in
i seven years. Prices came from north,
f east, south and west to attend the re
i I union.
| A poison fest. is on in Greenwood,
1 where all the dogs and cats available
I are being poisoned by some cruel
f | fiend who the owners say will be cor
s j dially received If they ever lay their
i hands on him.
John Tinko, a representative of the
Johnstown Ad-Press Club, attending
thd big convention in Philadelphia, has
invited the 1917 convention to meet in
Johnstown. The Tribune describes
John as "a funny man."
Well may Punxsutawney visitors
ask what's in a name, when they read
of the return of Louis Smelka, who
has been studying music under Ergll
do Martinouui and will teach the
methods of Lechtlzsky. (The composi
tor Is herewith absolved from all
.blame).
The advantages of Bradford are set
forth at length In an account by the
Evening Star of that community. We
note that it has vacuum cleaners, table
cutlery, table covers, and charcoal,
among other things. Bradford is
aptly interpreting the spirit of the
times—advertise!
Five generations of Smiths, the
present pride of which family lives In
Catasauqua. have fought for their
country. The first was In the Revolu
tion and the latest has Just joined the
militia.
lEbttttng (Etfal
There la a big demand for the bul
letin just issued by the Department of
the State Fire Marshal, advocating »
Safe and Sane celebration of th*.
Fourth of July, and particularly calling
attention to the fact that it is not gen
erally realized that the great loss of
life and property is caused by fire
works; that a few years ago two-thirds
of the city of Portland, Maine, was
burned, caused by the careless hand
ling of firecrackers. From the same
cause Pittsburgh lost $50,000 worth of
property in one day, and In eight years
the fire loss in the United States, as a
result of the careless handling of fir#
works amounted to over $2,500,000.
The bulletin also calls attention to
the fact that the Fourth of July is and
should be a day of patriotism and re
joicing instead of a day of apprehen
sion and terror. People should be
awakened to the significance of the
day in its highest and best sense.
Firecrackers when used in modera
tion and with great care are the least
.dangerous, but when used extensively
and recklessly, as of late years, it
makes our Fourth of July a national
calamity and a national nuisance in
stead of a day of gladness and rejoic
ing.
In connection with this warning the
fire marshal calls attention to an act
approved May 6, 1915, relating to bal
loons with which many are probably
not familiar, and the same is quoted
for the Information of the public:
Be it enacted, That on or after the
first day of January, 1916, it shall be
unlawful to sell or expose for sale, or
buy or exchange, or give away, or have
In possession, any balloon, made or in
tended to contain fire, for the pur
pose of ascension, or send up or cause
to ascend, any balloon containing in
or about it any fire. This section does
not apply to a balloon in which a hu
man being ascends.
"Any person who violates any of
the provisions of this act shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con
viction thereof shall be sentenced to
pay a fine not exceeding two hundred
dollars, or to undergo an imprison
ment not exceeding sixty days, or
both, in the discretion of the court."
Captain James B. Kemper, who has
been offered the office of lieutenant
colonel of the Eighth regiment, has
had a wide experience in the Regular
army. He was sent as a second lieu
tenant to the Philippines during the
Spanish-American war and served
with distinction in the strenuous cam
paigning on the islands. Returning
home he was in time to be sent to
Cuba tc help restore order on that is
lands and after service there was on
recruiting duty in Chicago for a time
ai.d served also on the Pacific coast
and Wyoming. He was ordered to
Texas City when the Mexican situation
first began to warm up some years ago
and after that was ordered to Harris
burg as regular army instructor for the
infantry branch of the National Guard.
When the order came to go to Mt.
Gretna the war office made him chief
mustering officer. He is an efficient
officer, and popular with the officers
of the Guard and a great admirer of
Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart,
who he regards as one of the most
efficient officers in the country. Kem
per comes from the Kemper family of
Virginia. The late Governor Kemper,
of Virginia, was an uncle. As a gen
eral in the Confederate army he made
history at Gettysburg and on other
fields. At present Captain Kemper re.
sides in Market street, near 19th.
• » »
Know anything about ball? Who?
Me? Why I don't know much more'n
a few letters of the alphabet!
That, as a rule was the modest wajta
in which John, or more
known as "Jack" McKalllp, a former
Hnrrisburg newspaperman, usually
depreciated his knowledge and ability
as a pitcher. McKallip's death oc
curred a few days ago in Pittsburgh
and hosts of friends in this city who
read of his passing recalled his almost,
amusing efforts to hide as it were, his
curves and inshoots and so on under a
bushel. And they always will remem
ber his alphabetical answer.
For "Jack" WAS some baseball
pitcher in his school days although
he still retained a good deal of arm
vigor while playing with amateur
teams in this city. Only during his
school and college days, his alma
maters proved their appreciation in
the usual way. McKallip had two
Bucknell 'varsity "B's" a Chambers
burg academy "C," a Mercersburg
academy "M" and a Kiskiminetas
preparatory school "K" from Pitts
burgh. Hence the alphabetical point
tc 'Jack's" explanation of his baseball
knowledge.
Local Patriotism
[From the New York Evening Post.]
"I felt positively ashamed to-day,
said a woman schoolteacher from an
other State on Flag Day, after a visit
to numerous Charlotte schools. "In
every room I saw a North Carolina flag,
and I must confess I haven't an idea
what my State flag looks like."
The number of things of which the
up-to-date person must be ashamed is
so large that only a strong memory
can hold them. There must l>e a
shockingly large number of people in
Philadelphia who do not so much as
know that that city has a flag, to say
nothing of being able to recognize it.
There are probably a million adults in
this city who do not know whether New
York has a flag or not. Parents rely
upon their children to keep them in
formed about such matters, and even
children sometimes forget. It is not
every schoolboy in Indiana who re
minds himself each morning that In
dianapolis Is the largest inland city in
the country. They do these things bet
ter in Boston, but with the eye turned
mainly upon past glories. No, It must
be admitted that with all our profes
sions of local patriotism we can recall
more separate items about Julius
Caesar than about the dignitarv after
whom the newest school building is
named. "Podunk first" is too nearly a
mere theory, acted upon onlv In "the
case of private pension and public
buildings bills. p
Down to Hard Pan
[From the Providence Journal.]
The end of vacation time is the usual
time to begin saving up for Christmas,
but the people of Kansas City, hav
ing Just got through with "Billy" Sun
day, probably feel like dispensing with
the vacation and beginning now.
OUR DAILY LAUGH
11 I! THE SUMMED
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