6 HMRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded it 31 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Prtt't and Editor-in-Chiff F. R. OYSTER, Butitws Manager. OUS M. BreiNMETZ, Managing Editor. « Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania AssoclM- Es3tern office, Has- Brook's, Fifth Ave nue Building, New York City; West ern office, Has brook. Story & Brooks. People's Gcs Building, CbS» Entered at the Post Office In Harrla burg. Pa, as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall, >3.00 a year In advance. Sworn dully average circulation for the three months ending June 30, 1010, -k 22.«6 if Thene figure* are net. All returned, unsold and damaged copies deducted. MONDAY EVENING, JULY 3. Take time to speak a loving word Where loving word* are seldom heard; And it will linger in the mind, And gather others of its kind. Till loving words will echo where Erstwhile the heart was poor and bare; And somewhere on thy heavenward track Their music will come echoing hack. THE FOURTH OF JULY IN recent years whenever the Ameri can eagle has raised his voice above a whisper somebody was at hand with a basin of cold water to dampen his enthusiasm. It was the habit to frown upon anything that sounded like a note of pride In the voice of the national bird. Even Fourth of July oratory were cautioned by "pussy footed" committees on arrangements to avoid anything like "spreadeagle ism." Not that we are less patriotic, but that we were bashful about dis playing our feelings. Recent events, however, have lifted the ban on popular enthusiasms. We sing the "Star-Spangled Banner" as harmoniously as our vocal talents will permit, but always loudly and with unction. We cheer when the flag goes by, and our neighbors with us. We believe that the United States Is the greatest and best nation on earth and w® daily give thanks in no unmis takable tones that we live 'neath the folds of Old Glory. It would delight our hearts to hear again one of the dear, old-fashioned Fourth of July orators make the eagle scream as he used to do and we arc In a mood to swallow without ques tion all that good old-time nonsense about "Uncle Sam being able to lick all creation with one hand tied behind his baok." It is a good thing that these things are so. We needed a national awak ening—needed it badly. We have dis covered that Americanism is not dead, that it had been only sleeping, while we had been attending to the thou sand and one prosaic duties of every day life with which in recent years we have been occupied. It is fine to know that the eagle has not lost his voice, but that he will scream to-morrow, the Fourth of July, all the way, as he used to do, from "Maine to the Gulf of Mexico, from the Atlantic to the Pa cific" —and, to bring the thought up to date, all the way over to Porto Rico and around home again by way of the Philippines and Hawaii It is characteristic of the Pennsyl vania, the greatest railroad corporation in the world, to. do the things which are unusual and constructive. Only such a corporation would have realized its aesthetic ideals in the placing of the ornate little buildings at Perdix and near Duncannon and elsewhere along the line. Some artistic mind has been responsible for many attractive spots on the division between Harris burg and Altoona. WAR REVIVED IRON TRADE THE United States Geological Sur vey Informs the public that the iron ore mined in the United States in 1915 "reached the great total* of 55,526,490 gross tons, the greatest output made in any year except 1910 and 1913," and an increase of 14,000,- 000 tons over the output of 1914. It is estimated that in the Lake Superior district alone the output for 1916 wllj be 60,000,000 tons, with an increase in price of 70 to 75 cents a ton. In the calendar year 1913, with a Republican tariff law on the statute books which guarded the home mar ket for American manufacturers, and permitted them to seek fresh fields of commercial conquest, we exported Iron and steel, and manufactures thereof to the value of $289,000,000. In 191S, nine months of which was under the Republican protective policy, our ex ports of iron and steel products reach ed *244,000,000. During all of 1914 the Democratic near-free-trade policy was in operation, and our exports of iron and steel products dropped to lesa than $200,000,000. During 1915 there was an insatiable demand from Europe for all sorts of steel products, including shell and shrapnel, to carry on the war, and our exports for that year mounted to nearly $388,000,000. Small wonder that thi> 1915 record for iron ore mined in the United States reached such proportions. The men who mined it, the stockholders in iron mining corporations and the rail roads and their employes who freight ed the ore to the mills, all shared in the benefits of this Increased produc tion. And the cause of this Increased MONDAY EVENING, production was not the Democratic party, but the European war. The iron and steel industries were in a sadly depressed state before the out break of the war, and when they lan guish the demand for the ore of course falls off. f If the recent speeches of the Presi dent mean anything, they mean that he sees the whole fabric of his theo retical administration crumbling under the strong light of public scrutiny: XEW HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER will be pleased to note the announcement of the executive department, accom panying the appointment of Frank B. Black, of Somerset, State Highway Commissioner, that he is to "follow absolutely the policy of his predeces sor." Mr. Black succeeds the late Robert J. Cunningham, who did a wonderful work In the State Highway Depart ment in the comparatively brief per iod of his incumbency. Under the Cunningham administration, the pub lic regained confidence In the depart ment and the roads were put in better condition than at any time In the his tory of the State, notwithstanding a niggardly appropriation by the Legis lature, and many economies were brought about Mr. Black will find the office well organized and free from politics in so far as effective admin istration is concerned. He has a great opportunity, and the success he has attained in his own business is a good indication of the energy and enter prise he may be expected to display in his new work. Mr. Black is not a professional road builder, but he is a good roads en thusiast and a businessman of un questioned talent. He has now in the department men who are well able to look after the administrative and technical ends of the office. It will be his duty to provide the initiative, to inspire seal within and confidence without —in short, to be the wise and businesslike executive and to stead fastly refuse to permit the State High way Department to become the po litical tool of any faction. If he does that he will make for himself a name and reputation equal to those of the late Mr. Cunningham, who, beyond question, was one of the best officials the State ever had in its service. There was only a slight error In the statement of Chairman McCombs at the Democratic national convention that the delegates had met to "place a mile stone upon the path of the future of the Democratic party." He should have said "tombstone." HUGHES' PREVISION THE plank In this year's Republi can platform which declares for a unified federal control of transportation is a formulation into party creed of a principle which the party's candidate has long espoused. In January, 1908, Governor Hughes, speaking at the Republican Club of New York, said: * I do not believe in Government ownership of railroads. But regu lation of Interstate commerce is es sential to protect the people from unjust discriminations and to se cure safe, adequate and impartial service upon reasonable terms and In accordance with the obligations of common carriers. I approve the recent extension of the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion by what Is known as the Rate bill, and I believe that the commis sion should have the most ample power for purposes of investiga tion and supervision, and for mak ing rules and orders which will en able it to deal to the fullest extent possible within constitutional lim its with interstate transportation in all its phases. This is a Just policy. The power of Congress to fix rates for interstate transpor tation so as to prevent improper discriminations and to compel car riage upon reasonable terms is un doubted. The sole question is how. It Is manifestly impossible for the legislative body to make that thor ough examination of specific cases which In justice must precede ac tion. The exigencies or particular cases can be met only by the pains taking consideration of an adminis trative board. The alternative to that policy Is either the abandon ment of legislation or the sporadic legislative intervention under the Influence of agitation. What Hughes stood for then, he and his party stand for now. His prevision now finds expression in the platform upon which he is a candidate for the Presidency. It is probably unwise to "swap horses while crossing a stream," but that is no reason why the American people should not exchange the weak, wavering, stumbling Democratic donkey for the strong, steady, surefooted G. O. P. elephant. And the exchange will be made, stream or no stream. PLATITUDINOUS PATRIOTISM I believe that, at whatever cost America should be Just to other peoples and treat other peoples as she demands that they should treat her. She has a right to demand that they treat her with Justice and respect, and she has a right to in sist that they treat her in that fashion; but she cannot, with dig nity or self-respect, insist upon that unless she is willing to act in the same fashion toward them. I am ready to fight for that at any cost to myself. This gem from the Philadelphia speech of President Wilson Is de scribed by Democratic newspaper* as the very quintessence of Americanism. Those Mexicans who recall that it was this same President Wilson who refused to recognize the de facto gov ernment of their country under Presi dent Huerta will not be greatly Im pressed by these pretty phrases. "She has a right to demand that they treat her with justice and re spect," says the President, but he says not a word regarding his refusal to recognize Huerta nor concerning his raising of the embargo on arras at the Mexican border, and the encourage ment of the unspeakable bandits headed by Villa in their revolutionary assaults upon the government at Mex ico City. It is little wonder that the world looks with suspicion upon a platitudinous patriotism which falls to respect the rights of others. Our Democratic brethren are going to find it extremely difficult to square the Wilson words with the Wilson acts during the last three years. Ameri cans are willing to stand back of th« present head of the government, of course, but they are not going to stand for It a day longer than March 4, 1917. LK IlViuvoifCtfcuua %j the Ex-Oommltt«*man Robert K. to«ng, State Treasurer, and one of the most prominent Pro gressives In Pennsylvania, has turned in for Hughes. In a strong statement issued to-day he says he follows Col. Roosevelt into the Republican party and urges all Progressives to do like wise. The statement follows: "The nomination of Mr. Hughes by the Republican Convention was a di rect result of the progressive move ment in all parties in the nation. The former bosses in the Republican Con vention are in fact no longer bosses, and they were forced to take Hughes to avoid taking Roosevelt. Upon re flection, I think they will find Httle comfort in the present situation. They have not increased the chances of defeating Wilson by the nomina tion of Hughes over Roosevelt, and if Hughes is elected they have, I hope and believe, no brighter prospects of governing by invisible means. Upon examination of the public records of Roosevelt and Hughes in their lola tlons to the Rapubllcan bossei, there is a striking similarity of conduct. The sphere of Mr. Hughes' activities was confined .o the State of New York while Mr. Roosevelt's was nation wide, but aside from this their meth ods were very much alike. The whole period of Mr. Hughes' term as Gov ernor was a struggle by him on behalf of the people of New York against a reactionary legislature controlled by corrupt bosses. And he won by direct and repeated appeals to the people of the State. This was the Roo3evelt method when dealing with a congress deaf and dumb to the public welfare. "My admiration for Roosevelt began when I was a school boy in New Hampshire and he was a mere boy in the New York Legislature. I have ac knowledged his leadership In my po litical conduct ever since and without interruption. Although my father was one of the founders of the Re publican Party and was a delegate in its first National Convention, and al though I had naturally followed in his footsteps, I did not hesitate to leave the party In 1912 under Roosevelt's leadership. I was convinced that the party had fallen so far below the ideals and purposes of its founders through the sodden stupidity of its leaders that it was no longer useful as an Instrument for the working out of national problems pressing for so lution. One of the facts which made possible the leading of the Republican Party for some years prior to 1912 into conditions so diametrically oppos ed to its best traditions was the error of mistaking "party loyalty" for pa triotism. This popular mistake was exploited by bosses and stump orators to the great advantage of the bosses and a corresponding injury to popular control of government both state and national. One of the encouraging signs of the times, however, Is a grow ing popular sense of the difference be tween love of party and love of coun try, I am willing to admit of a gTeat personal disappointment at the failure of the Republican Convention to nomi nate Roosevelt, and I am also willing to admit of a momentary disappoint ment at his declination of the Pro gressive nomination. But after hav ing had time for meditation and con sideration of post convention events his public statements and those of Mr Hughes, I am more than ever rejoiced at the heroic proportions of his pa triotism and statesmanship. I shall follow his leadership as unreservedly and whole-heartedly in support of the Republican nominee as I followed him in 1912, and before and since. And I want to state this publicly to all with whom I have been acting in politics during recent years, and es pecially to those who have honored me by seeking my views on public questions that I see no other course open to us If we are true to our pro testations of public welfare rather than political victory. And I cannot convey this idea in any other way so well as to paraphrase a single para graph of T. R.'s statement to the Pro gressive Convention. . "It would be unpatriotic to fail to do the best possible merely because the Republican Convention failed to put the people In a position to do what the people regard as the very best. It remains for us (Progressives) good humoredly and with common sense to face the situation and get out of it the best that It can be made to yield from the standpoint of the interests of the nation as a whole. • *•» "canting one Jot or title views held and expressed both by word and action as to maladministra tor of government, state and national er th ® Republican Party during feel th'.V y %f a ' 1 nevertheless reel that at this time these wronsrs sink into Insignificance in the light of the present national crisis, and that The national " to abollsh WUsonfsm! The national conscience has been lull ed to false standards by the hpanHfui diction uttered by a time serving op portunist and I appeal to all Pro gressives to join sincerely, cordially and enthusiastically in the common S2*t,Si MM electlon of Hughe™ t£ the end that we may hold together possible ties of^rothe^hood^and'wUh which has found Itself." uon "NINE-O-THREE" By Wing Dinger Hello, reader, seems a long while Since I've penned some verse to you. But I ve been in Philadelphia Doing all there was to do At the big Ad Club Convention, To which Father Penn was host Saw and heard a lot of people, But one cha* impressed me most. I can't tell you what his name is And to many more like me Guess he's known Just by the number On his cap—nine hundred three A conductor on the street car. On the lookout all the while To help folks who needed helping As they started down the aisle. If a woman with a bundle Or a grrip arose to go. Up the aisle "nlne-o-three" met her. Grabbed the bag or bundle, bo, And relieved her of her burden "Till she stepped down to the street' Old or young, it made no difference Each one "nlne-o-three" did meet. And a chap, quite badly crippled, Needed help: did "nlne-o-three" Let him struggle by his lonesome To get off? No, sir, not he. He Just put his arm around him. Helped hl«a to the street, and, bo. Spoke some cheerful words, that with smiles Set the cripple's face aplow. Square by square I watched him, reader. Helping others on their way, Smiles bestowing, and thus helping Each with cheer to start the day. Was he happy? I should say so. And this thought occurred to me— How much happier we'd all be If we'd be like "nln«-o-thr«e." -v HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH — __ -v When a Feller N By BRIGGS -Sr C LITTLE MILITARY ' TALKS By Capt. Geo. F. Lumb UNITS OF FORMATION HISTORY is replete with accounts of brigades sweeping on to vic tory and divisions turning the tide of battle, but little Is said of the SQUADS that compose; the division. If the makers of history could write history, many an unknown squad leader would have his place in the Hall of Fame. It was night at Angeles, P. I.; we were holding the lino against heavy odds. Ammunition was low and the deadly fire of Remingtons,and Mausers was ever increasing. We wavered. A corporal cri*pt away from the left of the line witff his loyal squad. We did not know he had gone until a deadly magazine fire swept the right flank of the enemy. Soms of the bul lets from the squad's accurate Krags went through three and four human targets in secession. Their apparent victory turned Into an Insurrecto panic. A lean Kentucky corporal had saved the day. Form a squad with seven determined, hard-musclcdfriends and learn to march and drill by each taking turn as corporal. Out in the park with a 30-cent copy of the Infan try Drill Regulations you will have more real enjoyment in an hour than can be had in the alleged places of amusement in a month. Incidentally you will be hardening the tissues for your trip to Mexico, where the squad leader will loom big in the mountain war game. Napoleon changed the map of Europe, but his proudest title was "The Little Corporal.'" Adna R. Chaffee began a corporal in the Sixth United State# Cavalry. He finished with our highest military honor, a major-general. TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE ] —And now for the BIG holiday! —Do you remember when a part of the Fourth of July program was always a slab of ginger bread and a bottle of lemon beer? —Advice to Carranza: Read a chap ter of American history to-morrow, say along about 1846. - —We'd feel worse about the passing of the strawberry season if we hadn't seen roasting ears at the grocer's this morning. "War brides" are no longer mere Wall street speculations—but the new kind are Just as uncertain. EDITORIAL COMMENT 1 Aftar all. It was the Colonel who rose to heroic mood.—Boston Herald. Carranza loudly demands justice at the hands of the Washington Govern ment. We're for giving him exactly that.—El Paso Times. What we can't understand Is why that enormous excess of Austrian pris oners doesn't capture the entire Rus sian Army.—Washington Post. "There are several great obstacles to peace," begins a writer upon a much discust topic. There are. One of them is war.—Louisville Courier-Journal. It is Interesting to note that Car ranza released those prisoners just after the news leaked out that Roos«> velt was raising a division.—New York Sun. July Disbursements A total of $292,372,540 will be dis bursed to investors In the form of divi dend and interest by railroad, traction and industrial companies, banks and trust companies, the United States Gov ernment and the City of New York dur ing the month of July, according to figures compiled by the Journal of Com merce. This Is a new high record total for this period and compares with $270,270,869 disbursed during the same month in I9IS. Of this amount )107, 762,540 •will be disbursed among stock holders. against $94,210864 In July, 1915, while Interest payments will total 91(4,600,000, against |i7«,ooo,ooo. 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 tlie Great Celebration of the Semicentennial of the Battle of Gettysburg. > THERE has always been for me a I wondrous fascination in the story of the Mexican war. Never did enthusiastic baseball fan of the present day wait more impatiently for the daily score than did I, as a youth, for the time when, in my humble rural home, would come the village weekly with the latest from the scene of conflict in the far away land of the Montezumas. With what avidity I poured over the meager details of Taylor's battlefields; of Scott's gallant campaign from Vera Cruz to the beautiful mountain city v.here once rose the shrines of Ten ochtitlan; and the wonderful heroism of the handful under Stockton, Tre mont, Kearney, Doniphan and Price that carried the conquering Stars and Stripes over vast expanses bordered on the Pacific. It is surprising how little the pres ent generation knows of a war that was an uninterrupted series of victories, unsullied by a single defeat. How ever, the present crisis and consequent What Does He Mean? "Without orphaning a single Am erican child, without widowing a sin gle American mother, without firing a single gun, without the shedding of a drop of blood, President Wilson wrung from the most militant spirit that ever brooded above a battlefield an ac knowledgment of American rights and an agreement to American demands." —Senator James. Does Senator James refer to the full reparation which we received for the murder of Americans on the Lusl t&nla? Or does he refer to the salute to the flag wrung from Huerta? Or does he refer to the capture and punishment of Villa after the mur derous raid on American territory?— Springflleld Union. No Minority President We must win. Let every Democrat go to work.—W. J. B. in the Com moner. There will have to be more, many more Democrats than there were four years ago if "we must win." The next tenant of the White House will not be a minority President.—New York Sun. Democracy in the Army [From the Omaha Bee.] One of the "feature" stories com ing up from the camp at Lincoln is to the effect that a recruit asked Gover nor Morehead to mail a letter for him, and the Governor did an he requested. Why shouldn't he? They are both citizens of the same country, and equal under the law. Official position makes only an artificial and temporary dis tinction, while an act of courtesy is always in order. This is the quality that has distinguished service in the American army at all times. It has been extensively commented upon by military critics of all countries. Dur ing the war of 1898 the European ex perts attached to the United States army were especially struck as to what to them seemed lack of discipline manifest around the camps. One Brit ish officer expressed astonishment that a group of troopers did not spring to their feet and come to attention when an officer passed, but admitted that the men were the most magnificent soldiers he had ever seen. This qual ity of democracy la at once the pride and despair of the ■oientifie warrior, but it is the thing that makes the American soldier the most efficient and dependable the world has ever known. Enough to Anger Them [From the Washington Herald.] Since we have found out what kind of creature Carranza Is it is easy to understand why so many Mexicans are angry with us for making a ruler of him. WHAT THE ROTARY CLTTB 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 Quia."] What tax la paid by nonproparty holder for City Purposes? None, , JULY 3, 1916. awakened American Interest In all that pertains to things Mexican, will have a tendency to correct that defect. It has been, therefore, to me a labor of love and pleasure to trace briefly the high points In the Mexican war of 70 years ago. It woul