14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded 1131 Published evepings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. 15. J. STACKPOLE, Prts't and F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. a Member American _j£irrTi2El Ushers' Associa tion, The Audit HSESESmW Bureau of Clrcu jKMcChiiM latlon and Penn jElH KSf KT sylvania Assocl'-V Esstern office, Has- I Sfij fi fag rfSf Brook's, Fifth Ave- UltiLiSi» nue Bulldlns ' Brooks, " People's Gas Building, Chi* Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. -ggSfifev By carriers, six cents a week: by mall, $3.00 a year in advance. Sworn dally nvcrage rlreulntlon for (he three months ending June 30, 1010, •k 22,456 -fr These figures are net. Ail returned, unsold and damaged copies deducted. FRIDAY EVENING, JUDY 7 How men undervalue the power of simplicity, but it is the real hey to the heart. — WORDSWORTH. CAPITOL COMMISSION'S WORK THE Capitol Park Extension Com mission has done remarkably well in the acquirement of all the land within the extension zone, ex cept those of ten owners who demur red at the price offered and who pre fer to let the courts fix the amounts to be paid. The commission faced a difficult task. It Is always hard to buy real estate reasonably for public purposes. The prevailing opinion appears to be that as the State is rich it ought to pay more than the owner would expect from a private purchaser. Then, too, the commission had to think of the business places blotted out and to be as generous in such cases as the law would permit. That the prices were fair to the property owners is shown by the fact that only ten have appealed from the figures offered by the commission, and that the State was safeguarded In the transaction is indicated by the fact that all the ground was bought within $300,000 of the first estimate. Now comes the great problem of developing the tract. In a few months the newly-purchased ground will be swept clean of buildings and In prep aration for the parking plans students of State college are busy plotting the extension area. The enlargement of the Capitol is another matter that must be considered in this respect and recently there has been made the sug gestion that Instead of adding to the present massive pile, two large office buildings be erected for State pur poses, one at Fourth and North streets and the other at Fourth and Walnut streets. These matters will require careful thought and expert advice. The Com monwealth is planning not for a year or a brief period of years, but for cen turies and every care must be taken to make the setting of the Capitol com mensurate both with the dignity of the building and the importance of the State. SUBURBAN HIGHWAYS PENBROOK has at last determined to pull itself out of the mud and dust which has enveloped the town for years. There was general disappointment among the people and all who traveled Penbrook way over the unfortunate decision of the • law department of the Commonwealth making it impossible for the State Highway Department to help in the reconstruction of the main road through the borough; but the people of the town are now determined to build their own highway, and it Is understood that work will be started In the near future. There is an interesting and pros perous development all along the Linglestown road from Harrisburg eastward and the placing of this high vay in first-class condition is going to be responsible for a still further Increase in attractive suburban homes. OUR TOURIST VISITORS THIRTEEN large touring cars stood in front of the Capitol the other day while the travelers in spected the many beautiful features of the unusual structure. These tourists came from remote parts of the State and quite a number from beyond the borders of the Commonwealth. Superintendent Rambo is authority for the statement that tourist travel has enormously Increased during the present summer. Thus it appears that Harrisburg and Its places of interest are becoming known far and wide and the Influx of motor parties is beginning to attract general attention. With the gradual improvement of the highways leading to this city a Btlll greater number of overland travelers may be expected to spend Borne time here. It should not be forgotten that the ; *fatne of the city has spread hundreds of miles in all directions and one may easily see by observing the license tags upon the various cars how greatly the tourist traffic has increased within the past year or two. ©f course, we are still deficient in the matter of hotel facilities, but this ■ubject is receiving attention and it la hoped that before another summer (hall be happy In the poweulon FRIDAY EVENING, i I of a modern hotel that will be a credit to Harrlsburg and attractive as a magnet for all who find their pleasure In this era of travel touring through the hills and valleys and along the water courses of this imperial Com monwealth. With the further improvement of the William Penn Highway from 1 Philadelphia to Pittsburgh a still i greater number of tourists will be at tracted to this pivotal city of the State. The late Robert J. Cunningham de clared a few months ago that his one personal ambition as State Highway Commissioner was to construct a splendid boulevard between Harris burg and Gettysburg. He believed the famous battlefield should be easily accessible to all tourists as a mecca for the patriotic citizens of the entire country. Doubtless his successor, Mr. Black, will likewise see the force of constructing such a highway between the capital of the Commonwealth and the field where the sons of the North and the South settled for all time the great issue of a united country. It Is also pleasing to note that hundreds of tourists have spread at road the fame of Harrlsburg as a beautiful city. These have seen our unsurpassed river front, have ridden over our well-paved streets, have ad mired our flower-decked business and dwelling houses and have enjoyed the loveliness of our parks and scenery. Harrisburgers are proud of their city and with good reason. Those who have lived elsewhere for a little time and return now and then to the old home town are more loyal, if pos sible, than ever before. We should therefore see to It that there is no falling back In the matter of civic spirit and attention to those things which make for higher ideals of ad ministration and all that constitutes a wholesome and healthful and prosper ous community. PRESIDENT'S MENTAL STATE UNFORTUNATELY for President Wilson, his mental genuflections are likely to be mistaken for po litical expediency and as a result he will lose the support of his countrymen at a time when the natural disposition of the people is to sustain the Govern- | ment. A prominent New England phy sician has just diagnosed his mental 1 processes and reached the conclusion i that he is "mentally and tempera mentally unfit for the place of re sponsibility into which he has been put by freakish circumstance." This same medical expert In his further hygienic analysis says: Perhaps a fair picture of Mr. Wilson's mental processes mav be gained by a study of his attitudes upon the question of preparedness. -«t first he thought as a nation we were safe; we needed no military provision for the future other than that we possesses and those urg ing preparedness measures were unduly nervous and excited. More that a year later he advocated among other m<w.sures for our pro tection the largest navy in the world. What had happened? Mr. Wilson' 6 mind, notwithstanding his knowledge of history and econom ics. was not sufficiently alert to grasp at the outset the possibilities and significance of the great con flict across the Atlantic. While he possessed a mental mechanism of considerable merit he could not with precision and dispatch co ordinate its parts. Ail of his be lated declarations favoring pre paredness and associated problems, commendable though thev be, offer cumulative evidence of his mental innrmity and are both interesting and pathetic. Thus it will be seen that President Wilson is not regarded in any hostile or merely partisan sense as incapaci tated for the high duties of his office, but rather because his administration has been characterized by vacillation and lack of firmness, destructive of that public confidence necessary to a successful conduct of public affairs. ADVICE AS TO HIGH SCHOOIi THE School Board will not regTet having employed an expert to advise It concerning the erection of the proposed new high school in Harrisburg. This city has earned enor mous dividends on its investments in the services of experts. Without ex pert assistance the great public im provement campaign never could have been handled. The same may be said of the new high school proposition. Just now the whole matter hinges on getting tha public to approve the proposed loan. It might not be well to begin a wide-open discussion of possible sites or types of buildings just now, for differences are bound to arise that may again delay the much needed structure, but certain it is that the School Board shouljl be posted thor oughly on the problem -with which it is confronted. It will not do to make another such error as was committed by those who were responsible for the Forster street purchase and the build ing erected thereon. Any money ex pended now for expert advice will be amply repaid in the saving* that will be affected thereby. "SAVE THE SENATE" THE solidifying and the getting to gether of Republicans all over the country is very alarming to the Democrats. They are tremend ously surprised and deeply chagrined at the happy outcome of the Chicago convention. Daily they are growing more apprehensive and they are dis playing less and less and less con fidence. Their latest sign of panic is the cry that has gone up to "Save the Senate." REPUBLICANS AND PENSIONS THE Democrats have been trying to make a little political capital In Congress over the fact that the old soldiers were not mentioned In the Republican platform at Chicago. Practically every line of pension legis lation in this country was placed upon the statute books by Republican votes. Every act of importance was signed and became a law through the In strumentality of a Republican Presi dent. The votes in Congress against all pension legislation have been by Democrats. It was not necessary for the Republican party to parade Its loyalty to the old veteran. Its record on pensions and pension matters speaks for Itself. Veterans might ask the Democrats how many Grand Army men were dis missed at Washington or demoted since President Wilson'* Inauguration. POCKET BILLIARDS VS. KELLY : : : : , . j By BRIGGS^ - l 'OO Feu*.AS \ vwmoS 7 is THESE: TWO GVYSXjZ A»*f <3 0T AMY \ BUTTIK)' »U- \ J I LICENSE To j MO BODY'S 'BOTJlkj' \ JAKt -A FUN RAL AS> vtLLA AklD F# Del/yd \C OME BUTT is}' J - (Taw'T Ya tOR SOMM - LETS Carramza SAKe! AH MM To OCR 6AME-] TaKE A JOKe. f \ STAGjT A KELL.Y/ \ osE | uT . _ ACL In VnOMirr/ 1 ....... | let at uw the Ex-Commlttecman Virtually all of the suggestions for candidates for the Republican presi dential electoral ticket, requested from Philadelphia district delegates to the national convention, were made yes terday. Though suggested by these Philadelphians for the approval of the presidential nominee, the voters of the whole State will pass upon them in the November election. Five of the six so named were de scribed as friends of the Vares; that Is, all those named except one, Thom as Robins, who was Indorsed by the delegates from the 2d Congressional District, Senator McNichol and Presi dent Judge Brown. Furthermore. It was pointed out, Mr. Robins is a pro gressive, unlike McNichol and Judge Brown, who are regular Republicans. The McNichol point of view, of course, was that he was helping to win pro gressives back to the party. The assertions as to w"hether or not the candidates for electors are friends of the Vares or of the Penrose ele ment confirms statements that fac tionalism is breaking out in the elec toral situation. Each side wants to loom large before the presidential nominee who, under the law, has the power to name the candidates on the electoral ticket. Already the delegates at large have made suggestions for six members of the ticket, though it is possible that changes may yet be made in their se lection. The ticket is to consist of 38 men. Philadelphia's district delegates will contribute six candidates. Their end of the ticket, as announced, follows: First District—Either Ellis A. Gimbel or General E. V. Morrell. Second District—Thomas Robins. Third District—Virtually certain that agreement will be reached on Dr. James Van Buskirk. City Solicitor John P. Connelly, as one of the dele gates, a friend of Senator McNlchol, along with John Bromley, fniend of David Martin, has a voice in this se lection. Fourth District —Mayor Thomas B. Smith. The Penrose support was thrown to the Mayor in this instance. Fifth District—N. C. Broadhead. Sixth District—Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith, provost of the University of Pennsylvania. This selection was made by William Potter, ex-Minister to Italy, and Harry D. Beaston. Mr. Potter confirmed the announcement last night. The type of the Philadelphians named yesterday to appear on the electoral ticket for Justice Hughes drew much favorable comment. Par ticular praise was accorded to the se lection of Provost Smith who, as is also the case with others on the ticket, is in no case a politician. Senator Sproul, of Delaware County, announced that he and his colleague. Horace Beale, of Chester County, had agreed to suggest to the Presidential nominee William Wayne, of Paoli. Mr. Wayne is a former member of the House from Chester County, and is a great-great-grandson of the famous Anthony Wayne, a fact which called special attention to tlie point that one of the chief issues of the campaign will be "100 per cent. Americanism." Similarly, throughout the State yes terday, district delesates were making selections, so that'the list of 38 might be completed as soon as possible. The question of selecting Washing ton Party electors will be discussed at a meeting of the Washington Party Committee, and of the delegates and alternates to the Progressive national convention to be held at the call of the State chairman, Mr. Detrich, at Har risburg next Tuesday. The Flinn leaders in the party favor Hughes, who has been indorsed by the Progressive National Committee. But the party is without a Presidential nominee, Col onel Roosevelt having withdrawn. Now, the difficulty is that the Penn sylvania law requires that the Presi dential nominee shall select the can didates for electors. As the party has no Presidential nominee, the law pro vides that the Presidential nominee failing to select, the selections shall be made by the Vice-Presidential nom inee who, in this case, is John M. Par ker, of Louisiana. lie is opposed to reunic n with the Republican party. Therefore, unless the Progressive Na tional Committee nominates Hughes in place of Colonel Roosevelt by July 10, Parker may make selections antag onistic to Hughes. As the Harrisburg meeting has been called for July 11, Is most likely the plan of the Klinn leaders to issue a statement appealing; to Progressives to vote for Hughes electors through the medium of the Republican ballot, thus Insuring a vote for the Republican nominee and dissolving the Washing ton party. From a technical point of HARRISBURG t£StS& TELEGRAPH view, the Washington party is con-1 fronted by a political puzzle. TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE ] —The fact that Captain Morey is pictured as wearing a wrist-watch ought to remove the suspicion with which that article of nsefulness and ornament has been long regarded in some quarters. —The chief occupation of Demo cratic editors at present is hunting up stray Progressives who are going to vote for Wilson. P. S. —lt's a hard job, but they've already found three. —There is a suspicion that Ambassa dor Candldo is not what his name sounds like. —We don't blame Berlin for calling it an offensive. —The Houston Post says that "100,- 000,000 pairs of hosiery are wasted in the United States yearly." We guess the'short skirts aren't so popular down there as here. EDITORIAL, COMMENT To add to their troubles, the news papers of Germany now have on their hands a United States Presidential cam paign.—Philadelphia North American. The Allies are meeting to plan an economic war on Germany. The latter will hardly appreciate this compliment of Imitation in efficiency. Baltimore American. Unless we misread the signs, this campaign is going to be unique in United States history. Both sides seem to be deeply concerned about the Ameri can vote.—Kansas City Star. Won't it be hard luck for those Con gressmen who supported the Hay Army Bill because of the National Guard vote if all militia men are down in Mexico on November 7?— Philade lphia North American. [ OUR DAILY LAUGH MORE IMPOR ft Has your son ?il im ail \[~/ p' c,ced ° ut a ca 'JI JJr JJ I p reer for himself '*l Heaven», no! It wL Bk takes all that k boy's time plck 'ngr out socks an d ' ,J !r>r neckties. I ANOTHER BAT- > What is that JjKkjxL mob doing around These are bleacher fans. /p And they're fight | ing for their place in the J shade. WHO PAYS? By Wing DinKcr When Mexican greasers Did our flag abuse, Wilson sent a gunboat Down to Vera Cruz. Served a notice on them That they must salvte Our flag—instead, bo. They our men did shoot. Some of our best soldiers Had to pay the freight With their lives, while Wilson Practiced "watch and wait." Nothing was accomplished Of which we could brag— Nor did greasers honor Or salute the flag. Then a lot of bandits Crossed from Mexico, Killed a lot of people, All of which you know— Our troops were ordered Into Mexico To pursue the bandits, Which likewise you know. Then, as from a clear sky, Comes a thunderclap, We got word th*t two troops Were caught in a trap, And were almost wiped out By Carranza troops. Ones more our good soldiers Played the part of dupes. • Wilson then got busy, I Ultimatums wrote. Back from smooth Carranza Comes a little note. Which, we're told, is very Satisfactory— ' More Uvea lost and no on* Pays a penalty. FEDERAL INSURA NCE By Frederic J. Haskin L J ONE of the most interesting of the war developments in a business way is the fact that it induced the United States government to go into the insurance business. Uncle Sam has been underwriting policies for eighteen months now—time enough to give his abilities in this line a fair try-out, and to Justify the people of the country in asking how he is getting along. Uncle Sam's record bears investiga tion very well. As an insurance man he has been almost successful enough to have his biography printed among those of the poor but daring captains of industry who saw their chances and made their fortunes. The federal in surance bureau has a balance on the right side of its ledger of almost two million dollars. Of course, that balance may not last long. All insurance is more or less an uncertain business, and the govern ment's insurance business is the most uncertain of all.. Its very uncertainty is the reason that the government is in it. It was too uncertain for anybody else; too uncertain for all the private companies to handle together. The official name of the new bureau is the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. Like the rest of the federal depart ments and bureaus, the War Risk In surance Bureau was never intended for a profit-maker. It was established lis an emergency measure, to relieve an acute and critical situation. It did its work so quietly and well that few people realize now how critical that situation really was. When the war broke out, American business was faced by the problem of protection for American shipping. There was a brisk demand for Amer ican goods abroad, there were Ameri can goods in plenty to be shipped, but in between lay the broad Atlantic, re presenting a whole list of new mari- LITTLE MILITARY TALKS By Capt. Geo. F. Lumb v__— / DISCIPLINE DISCIPLINE is more than blind obedience to orders. It is the force behind every victory and the hidden spring of every promotion. Like many other virtues it may be carried to extremes that nullify its ob ject. It was reported during the Boer war that a company of British infan try, firing from the kneeling position and themselves under a withering Are, were given the commands: Load! Aim! and before the word to Fire! was given, their officers, standing be hind the firing line, had all been picked off by Boer sharpshooters. The men, unaccustomed to taking the initiative, remained several minutes in their places without pulling a trigger until an officer of another company discov ering their plight gave the necessary commands to the over-disciplined company. True discipline is prompt obedience to orders plus the effort of every sub ordinate to catch the spirit and pur pose of those In authority, so that the end In view may be attained regard less of conditions. One who has learned to control and direct his thoughts has a disciplined, mind, and is then fit to think for oth ers. One who has learned to obey is fit to command. Our regular army stands high in discipline. An English officer observing the capture of San Juan Hill reported to his war office: "They went ahead, two yards apart crouching and gliding like panthers; every man his own general, absorbed in his work; they fired at will. With American soldiers and British officers I could defy the world." He underestimated our officers be cause he overlooked the principle that the best disciplined army is the one in which no cause for discipline ap pears. Governor Brumbaugh's View Governor Brumbaugh made a strong plea for newspaper advertising and de nounced billboards, at the recent con vention of the Ad. Clubs of the World. He said: "If in your counsels you find it pru dent and proper to place advertising upon a scientific basis, eliminating the sensational In language and In state ment, you will do well. "Why not set yourself solidly against that form of advertising that is a blot on landscape and makes a trip to the country a veritable procession by sign boards and other devlce.s that attract few and repel many? "Are not the magazines, the news papers and other regularly-constituted channels of communication the lcgitl l mate field of publicity? JULY 7, 1916. time perils whose gravity and very nature were only a matter of guess work. No merchants were willing to risk large shipments on these waters without having them adequately pro tected by insurance. American in surance companies were confronted by a situation that was rather beyond them to handle. There were factors complicating that situation. In the first place, the hazards of voyage had increased im mensely. In the second place, the volume of shipping increased rapidly as Europe began to buy. In the third place, in the financial disturbance that swept the whole world, the expedient of reinsurance in England, by which risks may be reinsured in the London market, was seriously limited. Owing to the coincidence of the August Bank holiday, the reinsurance markets were entirely closed for the first three days of this critical period, and American companies had to carry the total in surance risk themselves. As a result, they cut down on the amount of In surance they would accept on any one vessel or its cargo. Small companies limited themselves to small amounts, while the maximum for the biggest companies stood at SIOO,OOO or $150,000. From this it followed that the shippers could not get anything like the amount of insurance they wanted, and were forced to carry a large proportion of the risk themsel ves. What insurance was obtainable came high. It was perhaps not too high fiom the standpoint of the is suing companies who were facing an unprecedented set of circumstances, but it was high enough to put a ser ious obstacle in the way of foreign trade, had nothing been done to alle viate the situation. Premiums on ves [ Continued on Page 20] THE SWE FROM DAT TO DOT Close to a half million dollars in beer taxes alone were paid in Schuyl kill county during the fiscal year that closed June 30. A tax of over two dollars a person for beer In one year would indicate a prevalence of individ uals of Germanic tendencies in that county. Scranton's Board of Recreation is considering the advisability of con structing a swimming pool in Connell Park, for which $3,000 was set aside In a recently passed bond issue. Go to it, Scranton, have your "splash week." Every other city without a pool will weep tears of regret that it isn't quite so fortunate. One of the negro prisoners released from the Carrizal prison in Mexico at Carranza's order is a Carlisle boy. Pri vate William Gibson. Gibson's mother is now living in that town. With the passing of Robert E. Mor ris, of Punxsutawney, who for the past 28 years has been an engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad, goes a name that is heavily written on the pages of American history. If we are to judge from the appreeiatory statement of the Spirit, this Mr. Morris brought honor to the name that, meant so much in Revolutionary days. The police in Erie are said to have found "but few gun-toters on the Fourth," Guess they couldn't have looked very hard, or else Erie is a most unusual town. The completion of the William Penn Highway will be a boon to housewives, in the opinion of the women all along the line who are boosters. It would mean cheaper vegetables and other farm produce, in their estimation, be cause the hauling would be easier and quicker. •WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] What system Is in use for the imme diate summoning of a patrolman on duty in the outlying districts of city? What city was the pioneer in the use of this system? Red lights are placed at the most i conspicuous corners, controlled j from headquarters. Officers re port by telephone to office as soon ! as observed. Harrisburg was the pioneer in the use of this system. which lias now been adopted by I some of the largest cities. Ebening (Eljat Just eighteen years ago to-day the Governor's Troop of Pennsylvania cavalry entrained at the mobilization camp at Mount Gretna for Camp Alger, Virginia, preparatory to sailing from Newport News for Porto Rico. That's why tho entraining of the troop, now Troop B of the First Pennsylva nia Cavalry contingent of the regular army, for the Border takes on added significance. It was on July 7, 1898, that the local cavalrymen left for the front. With them at that time, too, was Dr. E. A. Nicodemus, first lieuten ant, and Captain George C. Jack, then a sergeant, both of whom are now with the troojj en route to the Border. Benjamin W. Kline, Williamsport, a brother of First Sergeant Charles A. Kline, was one of the eager volunteers who enlisted with the troop shortly after the cavalry command reached Mount Gretna, and Trooper Kline was among those who went to Porto Rico in 1898 with thu local troop. » • • Scores of people were attracted to the river bank at Front and Walnut streets the other day at noon by the activities of a veritable water nymph who was splashing about above the Walnut street bridge. The young woman was master of practically e\ery stroke known to the science of swimming and she varied the over hand, fade-away, crawl and breast movements in rigid succession. Every now and then she would climb in over the end of a canoe and then —flip— out she would dive over the side with the grace of a professional. "That's one of our girls," explained a department store manager who was pmong the crowd on the bank. "She get an hour and a half for dinner to day and that's the way she pleases to put In the time." • » » "It takes a holiday like the Fourth of July," opined the confirmed bachelor who spends his idle moments in the cigar store at Third and Walnut streets, "to bring out the beautiful girls. "I was down at Hershey Tuesday," he explained, "and it was marvelous the collection of beauty that came a strolllng into the park between sun rise and sunset. Blue-eyed blond beauties, dark-eyed brunettes, straw berry blondes, semi-this and seml that., little petite misses just heart high, tall, queenly girls with a tread like Diana, sunburned athletic types, demure bits of femininity, laughing eyed lassies with gaze that now and then wandered waywardly, cold and haughty maidens with never a look thisward or thatward. And all dolled up in their niftiest sport coats and other glad rags. Yep, yes-siree-Bob it was worth the carfare Just to seo 'em. "What? Whom did I bring ba£k to town? Nobody! She lived in Lebanon." • » » The river and creeks have been be having in anything but an encouraging way since the opening of the bass fishing season, but the suburbanite tha* brings the fish stories into the office from Dauphin says things will soon be right if this weather keeps up. Sporting goods men are doing a good business in tackle and it's about time for that annual story about the seven-pounder being caught at the Cove to come across the news desk. As a rule the applicant for a mar riage license is very, very «hy and the timidity with which many a couple approaches the marital bureau in the ccunty recorder's office is often the cause for quiet mirth on the part of old <and generally speaking, long married) attaches. The other day there was an un usual rush of business at the deeds and mortgage counter and quite a number of lawyers and real estate men hat? formed a little line before the desk to await their turn. Outside a pretty girl and a rather diffident young man, both quite apparently dressed in their "Sunday best" waited patiently. Then James E. Lentz, the county re corder spied them. 'lf you folks wish to obtain a mar riage license," ho suggested kindly, "come in." "We will," returned the youth gravely as he nodded to the waiting lint before the deeds' desk, "but we thought We'd wait until the rush of applicants ahead of us had been waited on!" • • « A new wrinkle in ways and means of celebrating the Fourth of July was rubbed on the page of patriotic his tory in Harrisburg this year. Hun dreds of people throughout the city brought their victrolas out on the front porch a few minutes before midnight, July 3, and when the blowing of whistles and ringing of bells an nounced the beginning of the nation's 140 th birthday, the talking machines rang out "The Star Spangled Banner" by the best military bands in the country. * * • "Don't you think it would be fine if the city should obtain possession of a few of the islands opposite the city and fit them out as park places?" This is the suggestion of a canoeist. He backs up his argument by pointing out the excellent facilities wnich have been provided by the city ror golfists, tennis players, track or baseball en thusiasts and contends that the finest recreation place of all, the river, is left practically undeveloped. "Some day." he avers, "tne people will wake up to the fact tnat the river opposite Harrisburg vs one of the finest natural recreation places in the world, and Its scenery is unsur passed. "But then," he adds, "I suppose every island will be gobbled up by private enterprises and about every other twenty feet of the fine promen ade along the city shore will be taken up with a gangplank from some float ing boathouse, the owner of which will be reaping a harvest of coin which might well go to the city Tor river basin development." But then this canoeist is a pessimist! What? Advertising News In case of a death in the family, would you print the obituary on a billboard? If your wife entertained would you send an account of it to the theater program man? If you were to enlarge your business would you ad vertise on a hotel blotter? If you were going to have a wedding among your relations would you get out a handbill? Some people look upon the news paper as a convenience, self-sustain ing. and resorted to only after all other forms of advertising have failed. The obituaries, the business changes, the entertainment, the 'weddings, are the things that give your newspaper its widespread circulation. They are the things that cause people to pay for the privilege of reading your advertise ment. In advertising, the newspaper )s pre-eminent. The newspaper is ad vertising. Advertising is news.—Leb anon (Ind.) Reporter.
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