8 HARRISBDRG TELEGRAPH A KBWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph lliilldliiK, Federal Square. E. J. ST ACKPOLE, Pres't and liditor-in-Clr~f F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. S"DKINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American Newspaper Pub- J—nnry llshers' Associa jggßj* tion, The Audit Bureau* of Circu- EgEm latlon and Penn- Kgft W sylvanla AssoclfV jgji Eastern office, Has- I2f c 39 brook. Story & flfir FX Brooks, Fifth Ave am tiue Building, New gOg.Bf Tork City; West sjs|K ern office, Has- Brooks. People's _ - JJ, ~ Gcs Building, Ch'.' Entered at the Post Office in burr. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a WMweek; by mall, SS.OO a year in advance. (worn dally averaire rtronlatlnn fur the three months endlnK June 30, 1910, ■ff 22,456 f Tfceae figure* are net. All returned. ■n«old and damaged copiea deducted. THURSDAY EVENING. JULY 6 It may be proved with much cer tainty, that God intends no man to live in this world without working; but it teems no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work. It was written: "In the sweat of thy brow," but it was never written: "In the breaking of thy heart." — Ruskin. A CHANGE IS DEMANDED NOTHING Is so important for Har risburg at the present time as the maintaining of the public spirit which has been largely respon sible for the city's progress during the last fifteen years. Anything and everything tending to lessen the momentum of public energy and Initiative should be discouraged in all our public activities. It is not conceivable that our pres ent city administration has anything B<ive the interest and welfare of the community at heart, but It must not bo forgotten that when our officials fail to feel the impulse of an awakened public spirit back of all their activities they will almost certainly lose that en thusiasm which goes so far toward efficient and effective administration. As the Telegraph has frequently observed, and which conviction Is deep-seated with this newspaper, the breaking down of the active co operation -which resulted from the volunteer activities of the several auxiliary bodies, such as the Park Commission, the Board of Public Works and other collateral agencies, ▼.•ill certainly prove disastrous unless there is some change of attitude re garding the fixed and definite improve ment policies of Harrisburg. We are decidedly of the opinion that the best thing that could happen to this city and all other cities of the third class in Pennsylvania would be the repeal of the commission scheme of government for these cities and the substitution therefor of an optional form of municipal administration pro viding for a single council, to be com posed of citizens serving without pay find acting somewhat as a board of directors for the municipal corpora tion. Of course, such a change would contemplate the control of the differ ent departments through appointment of superintendents. Under present circumstances the disposition to in dulge In log-rolling to the detriment of the best interests of the city is ever manifest and this sort of temptation oufht to be eliminated by some such change as is here indicated. \ Nation-wide interest is manifested in the movement for a strong merchant marine that will meet every possible demand for the shippers of the United States. If the present world war has any good In it, It may be in the revival of Interest in American shipping and the encouragement of confidence In American opportunity and Initiative. A TIGHT ROPE EXPERIMENT CRYING over spilt milk is at best a fruitless performance. The wisest thing is to make sure the milk is not split a second time. Theodore Roosevelt has done his part to prevent a repetition of the spilling of 1912, and It is now up to the re mainder of his followers to emulate the example of their former chief and join hands with the Republican party In putting an effective stop to the policy of ineffectuality that, has characterized the present (mal) ad ministration at Washington. No sane man would think of breath ing or stirring during the progress of a timorous performer across a tight rope above a turbulent stream, lest he precipitate him into the water. Just so the country is being careful not to do anything that would embarrass President Wilson in his undeniably weak Mexican policy, the fruits 01 which have been showing themselves for the past few weeks. And yet the majority of right-thinking persons, on the safe arrival of the tight rope per former upon terra flrma, would take good care to prevent a recurrence of the dangerous experiment. The analogy is self-evident. Woodrow Wilson slipped Into the Presidency through dissension in tin previously closely-knit Republican ranks. The breach they made ho? now been healed and the party is more than ever fitted to present to the op position a solid front that yvill next THURSDAY EVENING, Fail be the Irresistible force meeting: and crushing the movable body, viz: the force now in power. Diplomatically a series of rhetorical masterpieces, the utterances of Wil son are already beginning to fade be fore* the clean-cut, strongly moulded, conviction-bearing words of Charles Evans Hughes. The cartoon printed in this paper during the Chicago con vention, a composite of the photo graphs of "Teddy and Charley" en titled "Hughesvelt," was not so far wrong in its suggestion of similarity in the beliefs and convictions of the two advocates of unadulterated Amer icanism. And T. R.'s share in the inevitable "come back" of Republican principles and Republican policies will be the final conclusive step in the Colonel's rehabilitation in the eyes and hearts of Americans. Americanism seems to be the domi nant note of a new publication issued by Walter Pulitzer in New York. Its platform is outlined in the following pleasantly alliterative way: Power through political purity, preparedness for peace, and prosperity through pro tection. What more thorough synopsis of the Republican-Progressive party's program could one desire? These words carry weight throughout the country. Based on the fundamental truths which the time of Washington and the Conti nental Congress established for this nation, Pulitzer's Review will take Its place unchallenged among the leading commentaries upon the current events and political developments of the day. HETTY GREEN'S RICHES. HETTY GREEN, who died recently, left all of her more than SIOO,- 000,000 to her two children. Not one penny of her vast estates goes to charity or for public benefit. Just what the two beneficiaries are going to do with $100,000,000 or more remains to be seen. It Is this sort of bequest that is giv ing rise to a demand for an Inherit ance tax that shall compel the Hetty Greens and the Jim Hills to give an accounting of their stewardships. Not so very long ago our "captains of industry" persisted in paying no at tention to the rights of the individual. Big business did as It pleased and un scrupulous capitalists feathered their own nests at the expense of the people. They paid no attention to growing dis satisfaction and when the lawmaking bodies of the land began the belated work of correcting existing evils thoy went too far with the result that hon est business suffered along with that whose management knew no law but its own selffish ambitions. So it happens with respect to dis position of "swollen fortunes." If their owners do not see to it that the public at large receives some benefit from their Immense accumulations of wealth, some day the public will, and when such a law is passed beyond question it will be far more radical than it should be. This may sound like a trend toward socialism, but it is not. It Is merely an interpretation of the hand-wrltinK on the wall. The opinion is becoming stronger that the makers of great fortunes are not their owners, but rather their stewards dur ing life and that they owe something to the community, the State and the country at large from which their wealth was wrung. Hetty Green will be remembered as a very rich woman of frugal tastes, with a vision no broader than the leaf of a ledger, and whose philosophy was bounded by the covers of a bank book. She might have left a memory that thousands would have cherished. She might have been a great promoter of public welfare. Perhaps those who inherit her; wealth will be wiser in its adminis tration. It is the hope of the Wilson adminis tration that a sop to the country in the way of a tariff commission will serVe to pacify great business interests and the working men in the impending cam- i paign. It doesn't appear to occur to these Democratic statesmen thai the appointment of a tariff commission by President Wilson will be about as satis factory as the tariff law passed under his tutelage with undue haste and ut ter disregard of the interests of the country. An alleged nonpartisan tariff commission appointed by a near free trade President will not satisfy the mil lions of people who believe in the pro tective system for this country. It would be about like placing the lamb In the custody of the wolf. \ GOOD WORK, MR. BLACK COMMISSIONER BLACK, of the State Highway Department, starts his administration with the state mept that he intends to follow strictly the lines laid down by the late Mr. Cunningham in maintaining the merit system in the employment and pro motion of men In the department. The public will applaud. It is the only way in which the efficiency of one of the most Important branches of the gov ernment can be maintained. Mr. Black is a business man of wide experience. He knows the evils of favoritism and the good results that follow the rec ognition of merit wherever It is found. The Highway Department can do much to make possible the passage of the proposed road loan —or it can ruin its chances of approval by the voters. Mr. Black knows this and his state ment is assurance that he means to do his part toward making Pennsylvania a State noted for its good roads. His appointment to-day of two county superintendents from among men who have worked their way up from the ranks is a guarantee that he means Just what he says. The announcement that new capital is going into the dye industry is con clusive evidence that American pro ducers are looking forward with confi dence to a Republican victory in No vember. War orders brought prosperity to miners in New Mexico to a marvelous degree. The entire population of the State is about 350,000. The value of the output of copper, zinc, and other metals for 1915 was $8,229,000 greater than in the' previous year and will be far greater in 1916. There is no deflnito Information as to the number of peo ple engaged In mining, but the Increase in val»ie of the output Is an average oi about s2l for every man, woman and child In the State, or about $l2O for every family. That is the increased wealth represented by the increase in one industry over the normal produc tion. "We are ready to join with the other nations of the world in seeing that the Hind of Justice prevails anywhere that we believe in," declares Mr. Wilson. Again words, always words: and empty words, if we are to compare them with the wavering, vacillating policy of Woodrow Wilson in handling foreign relations, in maintaining American rights, on the oceans and in Mexico. In this utterance we have either an apol ogy or a promise of reformation. Cer tainly we have nothing that exempli fies Woodrow Wilson in action. What is Harrisburg- going to do about relief for the families of Its soldiers? Doesn't it care what becomes of them? The ladies who are planning the relief, work can't do anything without money. Don't hold back your contributions. Mt. Gretna has taught us that we need a railroad department In the regu lar army. [ TELEORAPH PERISCOPE —-The Russian Duma Is reported to have enacted a law granting peasants equal rights with "other classes," but until wc learn which "other classes" we decline to cheer. —lf collars keep going up in price we warn our friends not to be surpris ed at eventualities so far as we are concerned. —Why not send In the taxicab drivers—no German could stand their charges. —The census bureau reports 21,- 000,000 men of military service age in the United States, but it neglects to mention that we have guns for only about 200,000. —With Ave Roosevelts at Plattsburg it cannot be denied that the Colonel has influence in his own family. —Bouck White says ho didn't burn the flag, he just melted It. Illustrating , one of the processes of the "melting pot" we presume. EDITORIAL COMMENT] And now it has become the bear that walks like an antelope.—Washington Post. The big-pay envelope Is fast over hauling that big train-load on which James J. Hill built modern railroading. —Boston Herald. Carranza evidently has decided not to seek re-election on the ground that he has kept his country out of war.— Philadelphia North American. And now I suppose there will be a rearrangement of consonants along the ! Galician front as town after town is captured.—New York Morning Tele graph. It looks as if Hughes, Roosevelt and Taft were to begin presently a great allied drive.—New York Sun. 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."] What is the purpose of quarantine, and does it accomplish its purpose? Not only for the purpose of pre venting disease, but insuring a su pervision over contagious diseases by the health authorities. Where observed it does accomplish its purpose. Republican Chairman [From the Baltimore American.] A man wnose executive and adminis trative abilities are well known to the people of New York and indeed of the country, William R. Willcox, who has been selected by Mr. Hughes to con | duct his campaign, meets with approval of every section of the Republican • party. His election Is looked upon generally as one of the initial decisions which mark the high tone and capabil ! ity that will characterize the entire Hughes campaign. Mr. Willcox finds no objectors from I cither the Republican or the Progres | sive sides of the party, inasmuch as he | has not been close enough to the con duct of either to become an object of suspicion. His activities as postmas- I ter, park commissioner and public ser j viro commissioner ip New York, all en j title him to the admiration and respect I of all persons who admire efliciency. 1 The Republican party is fortunate in I I having this trained lawyer, this close ! | personal friend of Mr. Hughes to con | duct a campaign that will be hightoned 1 and intensive. Is Life Held Sacred? [From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.] i One of the melancholy by-products of the war is the diminished valuation of human life to which it leads. We ! are so sated with the horrors of the wholesale destruction of men that the I sinking of a ship with all on board creates a ripple of comment where four years ago, as when the Titanic i went down, our minds would have been I paralyzed by the anguish our sympa thetic imaginations compelled us to share. War that has been the making of man has brought home his minute ness as an Individual. In the millions what does It signify whether he plavs the man or proves the slacker? That Is the shameful mood of the pessimist. ! We must forever be on guard against an attitude of mind that thinks of bat talions. regiments, companies, platoons and not of mothers' sons or the hus bands of wives. The vast toll of hu man life taken by the war makes every man who is left to carry on the world's work of greater value than he was. The wholesale destruction magnifies in stead of minimizes the individual. Fa miliarity with the easy thing it is to take a life—a simpler feat than to chop down a tree—must not breed con tempt for its value. They Suspect Us (Hartford Courant.) Buenos Ayres sends us word that the groat mars of people In South Am erica are hostile toward the sudden military activity In the United States. They look with distrust upon the action of the president. Much has been done in recent years by our statesmen to remove the distrust of our neigh bors and to promote in them a belief in our sincere interest In their wel fare. We have been making progress, but much of the old suspicion remains and the South Ameiljcans have been particularly hostile to any disposition on our part to invade Mexico. They are unable to see in such an invasion anything but the indulgence of an am bition to extend our territory to the south. The Democratic Way (Kansas City Journal.) "St. Louis has a feeling," says the Roston Herald, "that it isn't getting all it paid for." Oh, well, for that mat i ter, so has the country. The feeling !is inescapable when the Democrats are running things. £ Where Are They? [Memphis Commercial Appeal.] Has the Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Boston mobilized; and if not, why not? HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH TolCUct LK By the Ei-Committeeman A tentative agreement upon six names to be submitted to Presidential Candidate Charles Evans Hughes for electors-at-large from Pennsylvania was made up yesterday at a meeting of delegates-at-large to the Republi can National convention. The meeting took place in Philadel phia, following a conference held by some of the potential men in the Re publican party organization with Sen ator Penrose. The senior Senator, who was one of the delegates-at-large to the Chicago convention, was unable to leave his home on account of a throat affliction. A number of the delegates-at-large were unable to be present at the form al meeting, but it Is declared that they will all concur in the recommenda tions of those who were present and who are seeking to work out plans to bring about the election of electors that will emphasize the predictions that the Republicans of Pennsylvania will go to the polls next November with a reunited party and determined to bring about the election of the full Republican ticket, local. State and na tional. The delegates-at-large represented at yesterday's meeting were John Wanamaker and Alba B. Johnson, of Philadelphia; George T. Oliver and E. V. Babcock, of Allegheny; W. Harry Baker, of Harrisburg, and Guy \V. Moore, ol' Wllkes-Barre. Senator Pen rose sent word that he would concur In the action of the majority. W. Harry Baker, secretary of the State committee, was directed to com municate with Colonel James Elver son, jj., of Philadelphia; D. L. Gilles pie and Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong, of Pittsburgh; William A. Aaron, of Altoona, and Governor Brumbaugh, who was in Maine, in relation to an in dorsement of the proposed list. These are the six men whose selec tion as electors-at-large was recom mended: Rodman Wanamaker, merchant and financier, Philadelphia. Nathan T. Folwell, manufacturer and president of the Manufacturers' Club of Philadelphia. David B. Oliver, financier and manu facturer, Pittsburgh. Simon F. Pauxtls, lawyer and form er football coach of University of Pennsylvania, Edwardsvllle, Luzerne county. William Fllnn, former State Senator, contractor and financier, of Pitts burgh. Charles T. Alkens, president of Sus quehanna University, Sellnsgrove, Sny der county. All elements of the party are repre sented In this list. The four first named were suggested by stalwart Republicans. Former Senator Flinn has been rec ommended as the representative of the Bull Moose or Roosevelt element among the Progressives. He was the leader of the Progressive Party in this State in the last Presidential campaign and has recently dc lared in favor of former Justice Hughes for the Presi dency. The other name in the above list, that of Professor Alkens, was suggest ed by Governor Brumbaugh and ap proved by Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown and the Vare leadership. The presidential nominee, under the provisions of a recent enacted statute of Pennsylvania, is called upon the candidate of the Republican Party to name the presidential electors to be balloted for in November. Under the advice of the Republican National chairman, the national dele gates from the various districts In Pennsylvania are endeavoring to agree upon district presidential electors. Each Congressional district is en titled to name one candidate for elec tor. There Is also one elector allowed to each Congressman-at-largc, and each United States Senator, giving six electors-at-large to Pennsylvania. The State law requires that t)ie presidential candidate shall, within thirty days following his selection, nominate the presidential electors. Throughout the State the delegates to the national convention from the several Congressional districts are en deavoring to agree upon the candi dates for electors to be recommended to the presidential candidate. Senator James P. McNlchol, who with President Judge Charles L. Brown, of the Philadelphia Municipal Court, represented the Second Con gressional district at the Chicago con vention, said yesterday that Thomas Robins, of Philadelphia, who was one of the most ardent supporters of Roosevelt in the Progressive Party movement four years ago, was being considered for elector In that Con gressional district. LITTLE MILITARY TALKS By Capt. Geo. F. Lumb THE MAN AND THE GUN IT has been demonstrated daily at Verdun for several months that three men with a machine gun well placed are equal to two hundred infantrymen. This is not due to the efficiency of the machine gun so much as the Inefficiency of the infantry. For more than eighteen months the armies of Europe have been swelling their ranks with- old men and boys J who never tired a gun until they were lon the firing line. A vital principle of warfare is this: The more accurate the fire on one side the less effective It is on the other. There is no mystery in the marks man's art. A good eye, steady nerves and a resolute will are the first requi sites. Any rifle will do for sighting drill. Rest the rifle in a horizontal position, sights up, on a box or two forked sticks about the heighth of the chin. Set up a blank sheet of paper with a stiff background about twenty yards away. Fasten a black cardboard disk as large as a sliver dollar to a twelve-inch wooden handle. Make a hole in the center of the disk large enough to admit a pencil point. Have a friend move the disk about the white paper. As you look along the sights you direct him by say ing: "Right!" "Down!" "Left!" "Up!" until the black disk is on a line with your eye and the two sights of the gun. Then say: "Mark!" Without moving the disk he makes a pencil dot through the center on the white pa per. Without disturbing the rifle start again trying to get three dots in the same place. They won't be there. Af ter the third dot connect the three with lines, write your name in the tri angle and give the other fellow a chance. A Plain Case of Guilt (From the Indianapolis News.) Evidence introduced at the treason trials shows that the Irish rebellion was planned at a time when Ireland hoped to profit by British embarrass ments. It was planned, too, at a time when the enemy of England would have profited by It. This made Sir Roger's treason of the worst sort. It is hard to see how any Jury, under the circumstances, could have acquitted blm. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY THE TIRED BUSINESSMAN —From the New York Sun. 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 '"Twai 60 Tears Ago," published in the Harrisburg Tele graph, June and July, 1913, in connection with the Great Celebration of the Semicentennial of the Battle of Gettysburg. V. J PALO ALTO, Resaca de la Palma, Monterey, Buena Vista. Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, Chapul tepec, what a brilliant string of vic tories for brave American soldiers, to say nothing of the lesser fields of glory won by Lane, Kearney, Doniphan and other subordinate commanders. I have told you very briefly the story of these. Ten thousand deeds of glory remain untold, for 1 was not writing a history, but a series of short sketches Intended to bring vividly before the generation of to-day the high points of a war in which the arms of our country did not meet with a single de feat. But there was a black side to the Mexican conflict. At every point our brave soldiers in the field were ham» pered by a total lack of national pre paredness for even the most insigni ficant conflict, and by inefficiency of civilians in authority. The treatment accorded to those two great leaders, Taylor and Scott, was far from creditable to the ad ministration at Washington. Again and again they were halted for months in their victorious careers by want of men. lack of supplies and peremptory orders to cease hostilities until Nicholas Trist, a clerk in the State department at Washington, had dis cussed matters with the Mexican of ficials. The small regular army of that day was a magnificent body of men.un der a rigid discipline and grandly of ficered. The volunteers who went from the States were as brave and excel lent troops as ever marched beneath the starry flag. But, despite all the vic tories in the field, they were subjected to a perpetual handicap so that a war, that should have been terminated in a very few months, was drawn out over almost two years of time. The Treatment of General Scott About the grossest pleco of injus- A Patriotic Boycott (Philadelphia Public Ledger.) Musicians of Boston who failed to go to the front as bandsmen with the Fifth, Eighth and Ninth regiments of the Massachusetts National Guard would have done well to take a leaf the score of the earlier exper ience of the mutinous band of the First Regiment in Philadelphia. The Metropolitan Park Commission has visited a dire penalty on the heads of the recalcitrant musicians by can celing their contracts to play at forty seven summer concerts. There is little public sympathy with the men who re fused to go to the front because they could make more money at home. Of almost every soldier who serves in the militia the same thing is true. It is a roster of patriotic sacrifice. Philadel phia men of affairs have left all sorts of business to their partners or to no one and have lost large sums of mon ey in order to answer their country's call. Men have left sick wives and families that needed their presence be cause they had taken the oath of alleg iance to a duty higher than bread-win ning or money-getting. In proportion as their countrymen understand and appreciate the renouncement of those who go, tho action tof the pusillani mous deserter in the crisis is despised. Those who have refused to take the Foderal oath in the mobilization of the militia have virtually laid down their arms in the fact of the enemy and left their comrades to fight their battle for them. They deserve the general execration and the obloquy that is their portion. Hyphenates in Congress (From Leslie's.) Hyphenates! There is loud complaint at hyphenates, men who link the coun try of their adoption to the country of birth instead of standing under one flag. An appeal is made by these to put patriotism before pride of birth. It is an entirely proper appeal. Every good citizen is a citizen of only one country, giving It his first and last al legiance. But what about Congress men who represent not the national spirit, but only localities, who ignore legislation intended for the public good and seek only to advance the in terest of the districts which they rep resent—ln other words, the Congress men of the "pork-barrel" variety? Are these more patriotic than hyphen ates? Let the neglect of public busi ness, tho failure to huld up an'ade quate navy and to provide an army and coast defense answer the Question, JULY 6, 1916. tice was that accorded to Gen. Scott after leading his brave little band from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico in a series of victorious conflicts which thrilled the world. As he and Gen. Taylor loomed up large as presiden tial possibilities they were subjected to a series of snubs and indignities very different from the treatment due to those who had won added glories for their country's flag. Early in 1848, Scott was notified that he had been suspended In his command of the army by the authori ties in Washington. This piece of black ingratitude to a gallant soldier was done by the Polk administration on the most frivolous grounds. A court of inquiry was called and sat in Mexico to investigate any complaints that any sorehead might have to bring. It af terwards adjourned to Washington, and, after a brief session there, com pleted its Inglorious labors and passed into oblivion. Nothing was developed in the inquiry to sustain In the least the premature and Inexcusable action of the cabinet in suspending Scott from command. It was an exhibition of petty malice against a brave officer that offended the spirit of justice of the American people. General Scott was less fortunate than General Taylor in reaching the presidential chair. He was made the candidate, in 1852, of the Whig party then in the death throes of Its disso lution. Monster mass meetings were held and miles of parading men shout ed for Scott, but, when the votes were counted, Scott had carried but four of the thirty-one States then in the North and Kentucky and Tennessee in the South. And it was the irony of fate that Scott was defeated by a man, al most unknown outside his own State, who had been under him in Mexico for a short time as a brigadier-general (Continued on Pago 11) THESMTEFROM DA/TODwl The explosion of a battery of tooth brushes lined up in a Philadelphia drug store, when the celluloid was heated to the point of combustion by the electric globes, leads one to "the conclusion that, it were best to keep cool when performing one's ablutions, Reading kids will all be labeled with tags when they have acquired the whooping cough, is the decision reach ed by city council. Ostracism is fhus to be the temporary lot of the unfor tunate youths and girls. A "harmless" sparkler proved to be the death of a little 7-year-old Johns town girl on the Fourth, one of the tew fatalities in that city. "Andy Carnegie's double" is dead as the result of injuries received when he was struck by an automobile in Pittsburgh yesterday. George Thomp son, aged 85, was the oldest active printer in the country and a wearer of a silk hat since the age of 20, and "Andy's double" philanthropized Just as does Andy himself, in equal propor tion. The formation of the "Engaged Girls' Contribution Club" in Philadel phia for the purpose of helping the families of soldiers in need is at the same time a worthy and an interesting organization. All girls in love, wher ever they happen to live, are invited to save a penny a day for the "Cupid's Fund." It ought to be worth a penny a day to be in love, they opine. From Lycoming county comes the story that a profane bolt of lightning struck the Disciple Church at Canton and shattered the steeple without in juring anyone. An hour later the church was filled. "Another reason for going late to church" writes the correspondent. "Somewhere in France" There are plenty of examples of the English phlegmatic temperament. A gunner, lifted into the air by the con cussion of a shell, said after he came down: 'I wish they had provided cushions." A corps commander, after all plans were complete for the attack at 7.30 in the morning, said before lying down to sleep: "Wake me at 7.45; the first reports will be in by thftn." Bmtittg (Eljal Among the resorts that attracted hundreds of Harrisburgers on the Fourth there were none, perhaps, that drew larger crowds than did the nat ural recreation places furnished by the Susquehanna. From early morning until—well somewhat after dark—canoes, motor boats, steam boats, barges, row boats and 'most any other craft that would float were busy carrying pleasure seek ers from the shore at Hardscrabble to the various islands opposite the city and to the smaller streams along the West Shore. If there was any island between Clark's Ferry and Middletown that didn't have its quota of picnickers, it was small, indeed. There were many who preferred the cool breezes and shade of the islands to the dust, heat and general annoyances of any park or. other recreation place. A day on river left the pleasure-seeker refreshed and rested while a few hours at a park, the subsequent fight for a seat in any kind of a vehicle, the heat, dust and noise, left them—well you who were there know how! • » • "Came through with flying colors," announced Chief of Police Zeil and Fire Chief Kindler on the morning after the Fourth. Chief Zeil said that there had been no calls for the police patrol during the entire day, and only a few arrests made for drunkenness. Fire Chief Kindler reported that there had been no fire alarms or telephone calls over the Fourth, an unusual thing for the city on a holiday. • • » Officers of the police force in dis cussing the need of more men as voiced by their superiors are doing a little complaining about the big terri tories they are assigned to cover. As one of them explained, "There are so many men, and so many miles, and each man has to cover a certain part of the whole city. The size of the dis trict sometimes means that we are to cover territories embracing almost two square miles." Traffic officers think that by provid ing for men at Fourth and Chestnut streets, to control the traffic from the Mulberry street viaduct, would save some of the congestion at rush hours in Market street. Two Harrisburg boys, college stud ents in Maryland, have enlisted in the "University Troop" of the District of Columbia. They are Ira Kellberg, who lives near Camp Hill, and William Kishpaugh, son of the late C. M. Kish paugh, living with his mother at 409 South Sixteenth street. Mr. Kellberg is a junior in George Washington University and graduated in the class of 1909, from the Techni cal High school. He is a brother of J. H. Kellberg, the photographer. Mr. Kishpaugh is a senior In Mary land State college, and a prominent athlete. His father was a retired army officer. The troop which is part of the Dis trict militia is composed entirely of university graduates and students and among those well known here is Ed ward Sawtelle, the famous Lehigh wrestler. The troop at present is sta tioned at Fort Meyer, Va., having been mustered into Federal service. • * * Having a railroad crew bulletin board at a baseball game, is not new in Harrisburg. It is a long time, how ever, since the plan was oarried out by baseball promoters. The idea originat ed with Frank Seiss, the secretary of the local club, when he was in the game twenty-five years ago. He sug gested the plan to Manager James Farrlngton, who had a team of "Ponies" that cleaned up everything in the old State League. The games were played in North Sixth street. Railroaders were liberal patrons. One day a trainman asked if he could go to a nearby store and tele phone to the roundhouse to see if was called to go out on a run. "You may do it now," said Mr. Seiss, but the next time we will bring the infor mation to you." True to his word, Seiss had a call board on the grounds the next day. Callers were admitted free and they chalked up the crews every hour. Trainmen never worried about missing a call after that. They con sulted the board between innings. • * * "Middletown knows how to handle a celebration," remarked a local busi ness man yesterday. "Especially when the firemen are back of it," he added. While all the companies did not turn up as promised, it was a creditable demonstration. The calling out of the troops put a crimp in the representa tives from Cumberland Valley towns. Hagerstown. Chambersburg and Car lisle were hit hard. Tuesday's celebra tion was a life-saver for the Cumber land Valley Volunteer Firemen's Asso ciation. The number of towns between Harrisburg and Winchester capable of taking care of a. firemen's parade and convention Is limited. Middletown fire men extended the glad hand and they gave the Valley volunteers a reception that will not soon be forgotten. 1 OUR DAILY LAUGH Most man fortuno hunters hut few are good A •hoto, £V5j NOTHING (yix " H What was the I •'[, result of your pe /.nFf /jjwA WW tltlon to the land <Jmn \ Je«\ l&dy for fewer II Negligible. It simply got us more rhubarb. PREPAREDNESS By Wing Dinger I ain't goln* to worry 'Bout these burglars, bo. Who. around the city. Nights a-prowlln' go. Bought a big revolver, And, bo, what is more Wired up each window? And likewise each door. If a burglar monkeys Long 'round either one The alarm will wake me. And I'll grab my gun. I'm not goin' to warn him, A But, just let me state, I'll do all my talkin' With that thirty-eight. Church Publicity Just before the final adjournment ol the General Assembly of the Presby terian church in the United States of America, at Atlantic City, N. J., the committee on bills and overtures sug gested the establishment of a depart ment which might obtain "helpful and official publicity of the Assembly's activities," and the Assembly will have a press agent hereafter.
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