8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NBWSPAPBR FOR TUB H/OMB Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRIXTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E, J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-CMff #*. R. OYSTER, Busiujss Manager. GUS M. SHEINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American M Newspaper Pub- I llshers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania AssoclM- Eastern office, Haa brook, Story & Brooks, Fifth Ave nue Building, New York City; West, em office, Has brook. Story A Brooks, People's Gas Building, Ch?W Entered at the Post Office In Harrll>= burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall, $3.00 a year In advance. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JtTLY 12 Let us examine sacredly tchether there is any wrong entrusted to us to set right. — DICKENS. Tin-: KEYSTONE EXPOSITION FOR some months the people of Harrisburg and the thousands who travel over tho main lines of the Pennsylvania railroad have watched with interest the growth of the Keystone State Fair and Indus trial Exposition undertaking on the Young farms near Middletown. This proposition has been in process of de velopment for a year or more and has been brought to the attention of many citizens of the State and throughout the country. In order that the Chamber of Com merce of this city might be advised of the progress of the organization a conference of the officers and direc tors waf held at the Harrisburg Club yesterday. At this informal meeting the whole matter was discussed at | length and it was the consensus of opinion of those present that the 10-1 caton of such an exposition near Har risburg would attract the attention of all Interested in automobile racing, horse racing, agriculture, horticulture and incidental features of the great fair and exposition. Among those present was a distinguished citizen of Ohio, who is the leader in the Corn- Growing Contest among the boys of the Buckeye State. He quoted Presi dent McKinley as having uttered this sentiment in the remarkable speech at the Buffalo Exposition on the day he was assassinated: "Fairs and expositions are the time pieces which mark the progress of nations." It was the Judgment of the speaker that nothing contributes so much to the expansion of scientific farming, fruit growing, the raising of fine stock and the general uplift of the farming and industrial interests of the State as a great exposition such as is pro posed In the outskirts of this city. Those who are supporting the en terprise in the formative period are confident that it will bo a success ■when the people have learned the full scope of the undertaking. There is no thought of asking a State appropria tion; it is to be purely a business prop osition and the discussion of the mat ter at the conference developed much of interest. In addition to the propos ed State fair features there is provid ed a great automobile speedway, which Is now in course of preparation, a mile and a half mile track for horse racing, a pool for hydroplanes and a field for aeronautical exhibitions. There is also included in the plan a great coliseum for the holding of large conventions. If the projects can be carried out In all its comprehensive details it will be easily the most attractive fair and in dustrial exposition in the country. Those who are already interested ex press confidence in the ultimate out come and are only desirous of present ing to the Chamber of Commerce and its officials the exact status of the en terprise and a full showing of what had already been achieved. President Bowman will appoint a committee to co-operate with the management so as to keep the city and our business community fully in touch with the development of the ex position. It is estimated that many thousands of people will be attracted to such an exposition here and it is believed the farming interests of Pennsylvania, es pecially the stock fruit growers, will support the undertaking. CITY PLANNING HOW firmly the comparatively new branch of municipal govern ment created in Pennsylvania by the passage of a city planning commission act has become establish ed in the few years of its operation was demonstrated yesterday by the formation in this city of a State asso ciation of city planning commissions, and the position among the cities of the Commonwealth held by Harris burg with respect to city planning was illustrated by the election of Ed. S. Herman as vice-president and J. Her man Knisely as secretary, both being residents of this city. It is not too much to predict that the new association will have an ex tensive and constantly growing In fluence for good, not only in the larger cities but in the smaller town as well. Ordinarily city planning is regarded aa being an activity for large cities clone, but It is Just as important for the small city, as speakers at yester days sessions pointed out. and en gaging more completely the attention WEDNESDAY EVENING, of all the citizens it becomes for the small city an even more vital con cern. The fault that keeps cities from be ing properly planned is lack of civic imagination. The citizens of a small town seldom act as though they ex pected their town to become a large city. They may individually at times dream of a great city spreading out around the nucles in which they live, and they very frequently boast of the progress of the town during the pre vious decade, but the time- when their town is to be a great city seems so far distant that as a whole they do not imagine that It will ever occur. The few enthusiastic souls who in dividually believe it are patronized or laughed at, and the citizens as a body do not have the assurance to walk out Into unoccupied fields and lay out sites for streets, parks and public structures which may not come into existence until a century later, if ever. In a country growing as ours is sites for great Improvements which once might have been laid out and reserved become impossible to secure save at enormous expense. It thus happens that many cities have plans originally determined by the fancy of the home wardly meandering cow, and great volumes of traffic must indefinitely fol low the paths thus marked out unless expensive changes be made. Pennsylvania is bound to grow vast ly in the next century, and many vil lages of to-day will become big cities of the future. Yet few, if any, of such towns have plans as yet laid out, and many a patient cow is still contribut ing her humble share to the city plan ning of the future, while worthy citi zens are lees usefully employed. Thanks, however, to the generous contributions of time, thought and energy of such men as make up the planning commissions of Pennsylva nia, this Is being rapidly changed. The future is being quietly but effec tively safeguarded. The city of to morrow will bloom harmonious and beautiful because these men have lived and served. The planning commission law is one of tho best ever enacted by the Stat© Legislature for the cities of the Commonwealth. WILSON ON BUTTING-IN PRESIDENT WILSON evidently goes upon the theory that tho people soon forget. In his De troit speech this week he gave expres sion to this sentiment regarding Mex ico: The way to establish our sover eignty is to respect her's. The President explained that he be lieves in the old Virginia bill of rights which declared that a country may do as it pleases with its own government. This Information, the President said, was for those gentlemen who would "butt in." This from the lips of one who de liberately set about In assuming the duties of his high office to interfere with the government of a frlejjdly country! On this point the New York Sun says: We wonder how many millions of American citizens have forgotten a certain line passage in Mr. Wilson's first annual communication to Con gress. We refer to that part of the message of 1913 wherein the Presi dent announced his intention to rest not and sleep not and r-slent not until he had overthrown the de facto Government in Mexico and driven into exile the hated Huerta ftogether with his exasperatingly sarcastic and irritating Secretary for Foreign Affairs) and rear ranged the internal affairs of the neighboring republic according to his own ideas of what was good for Mexico. If the President imagines that he can deceive the people with fine words he Is greatly mistaken. Whatever the conditions on the Mexican border now it must be remembered that the President deliberately sot about and fi nally accomplished the overthrow of the Huerta government and then ad dressed Congress on the subject in an effort to Justify his course. He didn't believe that Huerta could estab lish a stable government, that even If he succeeded his power would be short lived, that he had forfeited the respect and moral support of those who were at one time willing to see him succeed, etc., etc. "This was the apology for butting in," observes the Sun. "President Wilson Intervened in the internal af fairs of Mexico, not to protect the lives and property of Americans there, as was his duty, but to aid one faction in civil strife against another faction headed by a man whom he perhaps hated because he thought that man had Insulted him and derided him. It was not the duty of the President of the United States to do this thing. The power of the United States was employed by Mr. Wilson to drive Huerta out, to destroy the only power in Mexico which was able to protect either our own citizens or the citizens and subjects of European nations. The President of the United States un dertook to pass upon the validity of General Huerta's title under Mexi can law. He butted-in with his own judgments, with his own private no tions of his duty to humanity, with his own diplomatic emissaries uncon firmed by the Senate, with the armed forces of this country, with the sol diers and sailors of the United States who lost their lives under the flag that was thus misused by their Com mander-in-Chief. Huerta was de stroyed, and the personal hatred that appears in the foregoing paragraphs from the message of 1913 was grati fied; and the results of that butting-in are known to everybody." Some butter-in is our President and some sllnger of inconsistent English. Words and words and —nerve. "BLOW YOUR HORN" BLOW Your Horn; Save the Child!" Yesterday the Telegraph pub lished the letter of a Harrisburg man begging this newspaper to head a movement with that as its slogan. It ought never to have been neces sary to write such a letter. The motor vehicle driver who, as this correspondent puts it, will "take a chance," is not fit to be at the wheel of car or truck. But If he is permttted to be, and accidents continue with such frequency as recently, all F.utomoblllsts must ex pect to pay penalty for the reckless ness of the few. Radical legislation will follow persistent carelessness and the Innocent will suffer with the guilty. The roads are highways—not speed ways—as Highway Commissioner Black very properly held when he declined to permit State roadways to be used for automobile racing and hill climb ing tests. Mr. Black is moving in the right direction. The roads are for all , the people, the pedestrian as well as the automobile driver, and the Com missioner will have the support of the people in his stand for their safety. We wonder if it Is too much to hope that a vigorous and uniform law may be enacted someday regulating auto mobile speed and operation all over the State? uv "8y the Ex-Committeeman Representatives of the Progressives of Pennsylvania made political his tory late yesterday afternoon when they determined that the Washington party state committee, the official or ganization of the party in Pennsyl vania, had served its purpose and de cided not to organize it. This action was followed by the endorsement of Charles Evans Hughes, Republican candidate for President, and by a resolution approving of the course of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in declin ing the Progressive nomination. The conference yesterday consisted of men elected to the Stato committee In May, delegates and alternates to the Chicago convention and was of the free and easy kind. It lasted for three hours and there was not a moment without Its thrill. William Fllnn, Gtftord Pinchot, Robert K. Young and other leaders In the fight j of 1912 who consider that the Wash- j ington party has fulfilled Its mission ! and who are for Hughes, dominated i the meeting and resisted the constant j taunts of W. P. Boiand and others \ who endeavored to make trouble. The ! radical element of the party even J went so far as to abuse tho Colonel ■ and did not even take kindly to the proposod Progressive League which was suggested to form a rallying point for those who were for Hughes, but j who would not join with the Republi cans Just yet. There havo been political meetings in Harrisburg which have been stormy, but not many more lively than that of yesterday. Boiand was on his feet most of the time and as sailed Fllnn as a usurper of authority, called Stato Chairman Detrich a steam roller operator and accusad him of party treason and charged that Pinchot had eat Idly by and allowed | the party organization to be dissolved, j He had a lot of support among the radical element, Including a couple of the Dauphin delegation which used i to be hand In glove with Fllnn, but | which now appears to be as zealous for a third party as are certain Demo crats who wish to prevent reunion of the men who went different ways four years ugo. Several times the action of Detrich was challenged, but he came • back with the rules and despite l charges of "steam roller," "gang rule" and other things he had the rules on his side. William Fllnn was the same old Fllnn, quick at repartee and al ways ready with his answers. In spite of tho patent fact that he did not , have a majority of tho men present I with him ho got what he thought was 1 best and he never lost his temper. Probably the most thrilling scene ! of the meeting was when the propo- \ sltion to establish the league was j under consideration. Boiand got on his feet to make another attack on Detrich, who had Just made his vale dictory, and In the course of his re marks reflected on Pinchot. The tall ! ex-forester left tho chair and walk- j ing straight up to the angry Scranton man said "For heaven's sake, give us a chance to do something here. I'm I willing to talk this over with you until ! hell freezes over, but not now. For I heaven's sake, man, give us a chance." ! Boiand vented his wrath and subsided, j When It was all over ho went up and j shook hands with Flinn and Pinchot, ! However, it was a much divided I crowd that filed out of the meeting. ! They were all for Hughes, but they ! did not like the way the third party j had disbanded. They pinned their hopes to the proposed Progressive League as a place about which to gather. William Fllnn, however, said plainly that he was going to vote the Republican ticket and so did others. Messrs: Pinchot, Young and others are not yet ready to become full fledged Republicans again, but will wait tho course of events. Candidates for State offices, United State senator and congress-at-large on the Washington party ticket are to-day without any party organization behind them as a result of the failure of the progressive conference yester day to take any action on the sub ject. The row which occurred in the meeting over the dissolution of the State committee caused the subject to be overlooked ana the suggestion of Robert C. Bair, of York, one of the candidates for congreas-at-large, that something be done was lost sight of when the clash occurred over the proposal to concur in the action of the Progressive national committee. Just what will bo done men Identified with the late party organization said to day that they did not know. The matter is really up to the candidates themselves. If they chooso to run they may do so, but they will not get much support from the proposed Progres sive league aiad the men who have paid the "freight" in past campaigns have turned in for Hughes. At the Capitol to-day it was said that none of the Washington party candidates had withdrawn. Candi dates who were here yesterday said that they did not know what they would do, It is likely that most of them will withdraw. Gifford Pinchot is expected to make announcement in Philadelphia to-day of the committee to draft the outline for the Progressive League which it is intended to form shortly to bring the progressives together, Whether the league wiU decide to encourage any candidates to stay in the field is not known, but the general impres sion here to-day was that the Repub lican state candidates would be ac cepted and congressional and legisla tive district leaders Jeft to work out their own plans. The third party as such is practically off the map, al though those who are never reconciled will probably flock together. The great bulk of the progressive voters will vote Republican. William Flinn said yesterday that he estimated that over ninety per cent, would follow the lead of the Colonel, who is for Hughes. —Much attention was attracted at the Capitol to-day by the following in the Philadelphia Inquirer which in dicate some coming party harmony: Mayor Thomas B. Smith, yesterday made formal announcement or a policy be has determined upon in the recognition of representatives of the Republican party organization in the several wards of this city. This declaration followed conferences with Senator James P. McNlchol, who not HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH • THE CARTOON OF THE DAY SHAKE! only represented Ms own following, but that of United Slates Senator Boies Penrose, and State Senator Ed win H. Vare, who with his brother. Congressman William S. Vare, speaks for a majority of the members of the new Republican City Committee. The Mayor Indicated an intention to harmonize the conflicting elements. In some isolated cases, local and fac tional differences prompted the Mayor to either refrain from making known his choice for ward leader or led him to intimate that he is undetermined as to who shall be recognized. —Chairman Edgar W. Lank and : members of the Philadelphia Demo- I cratic City Committee held a confer- I ence yesterday for the purpose of making up the list of Presidential electors, at which time it was stated the electors from five of the six dis tricts within that city had been de cided upon and that the representa tion for the other district would be determined to-day. State Chairman McLean will be In Philadelphia on Friday, and it is desired to have the list completed so that the entire State representation may be compiled and officially approved for filing at the Capitol on or before July 14. Though the Washington Party to all Intents and purposes went out of existence with the meeting of the State Com mittee at Harrlsburg yesterday mem bers of the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee said they had received Information that more applications for the appointment of Washington Party registrars had been filed with the Board of Registration Commission ers than when it was In its prime. TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE —"Blow your horn; save the child!" —lf Commissioner Bowman don't get those Donato statues out of their damp storehouse they may contract infantile paralysis. % —We hate to be disagreeable, fellows, but school vacation is just one-third over. —Say, Mr. Demaln, you got a spite at these Christian Endeavor folks, or what? —The Bull Moosers may be far fewer than the Endeavorers, but they can make more noise. —President Wilson says Democrats are just as anxious to please business men as Republicans. For the moment businessmen in Washington have ceased to be "nefarious lobbyists." Armor-Platf Fiction Naturally the movement for the building of a Government armor plate plant has brought keen bidding for the location. As with other fea tures of the program for Government entrance upon this or that industrial activity, there has been a good deal of exaggeration in argument. About as ridiculous an example of such exag geration is one of the statements put out on behalf of a Southern site. We are told that as 95 per cent (sic) of the steel products of the country come from the ore of the Lake Su perior region, all of which "passes through a short canal that could at any moment be blocked by the ex plosion of a few sticks of dynamite," such dynamiting would cause "an in stant collapse" of the iron and steel industry of the North. The fearful j blunder of locating a Government armor-plate plant anywhere In the North would then be apparent, but | all too late. Even allowing for every happening ;in thiß hysterical program for the blowing up of all the locks at Sault Ste. Mario (there are now three, with a fourth building), it would take only j about ten good train loads of ore from ! Lake Superior mines to provide for j the wants of the proposed armor-plate ] factory for an entire year, to say noth ing of the millions of tons of ore that iare carried In reserve in furnace yards and on Lake Erie docks. But, of course, while the hysteria is on one must think of the possibility of all the railroads leading from Lake Superior to Central Western furnaces being blown up by bombs from enemy aero planes, and of every railroad and blast furnace and steel plant in the South being entirely exempt from any such visitation. There are some rea sons for building an armor-plate plant in the South and for the establish ment of munitions manufacture there, but those who ask serious considera tion for them will want to separate them from this rubbish of putting the [rest of the country's steel works out |of business by dynamltiAg the Soo canals.—From the Iron Age. Another Soloqion The wife of an Arab went to her father- with the complaint that her husband had boxed her ears. The wise old sheik reflected for a few mo ments. then did to her aB her husband had done. "Now thou art aveng ed." he said. "Thy husband has box ed the ears of my daughter and I have boxed the earß of his wife."—London Opinion. CHANGES IN POSTAL By Frederic J. Haskin L IT is just a month since the bill pro-1 viding for certain fundamental j changes in the Postal Savings act j was made into law. Already results j show that the scope of usefulness of the postotfice as a savings bank will be greatly extended. The time elapsed since the passage of the new act is so short that any but big changes would pass unnoticed. The bill was approved on the eigh teenth of May, and Information about the new rules spread slowly among the 600,000 depositors, most of them for eign-born, who bank with the local postoffices in every corner of the land. At the other end of this one month period, must be deducted the time it takes for reports to come in and be tabulated; so that the results shown have been accomplished in a period of nearer two weeks than four. The gains in deposits have been re markable. The new bill as stated was approved on the eighteenth of May. It took at least a week for news of the change to reach the class of people who make up the postal savings de positors. Yet in the month of May deposits in the Pittsburgh office show ed an increase of SBI,OOO, as compar ed to an increase of only $16,000 in May 1915. In Cleveland the gain was $50,000, compared to $16,000 for the previous May. In Buffalo it was $2 4,- 000 against $3,000 for May, 1915; St. Louis showed a gain of $25,000 as compared to a loss of $2,000 for the same month a year ago. Such figures are coming in from ail sides, and the new regime was only in effect and gen erally known for about a week in May. It is no wonder that some of the more sanguine prophets look for the $85,000,000 on deposit in Postal Sav ings banks to be doubled In the near I future. Whether or not the expan- In Pittsburgh, Too [From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times] The smug attitude of Robert Swan, Director of the Department of Public Works, and John F. O'Toole, Superin tendent of the Bureau of Highway and Sewers, in reference to a request of Dr. R. G. Burns, Acting Director of the Department of Health Is unbe coming in responsible employes of the city of Pittsburgh. Dr. Burns asked | that the city streets be flushed fre quently, as a precautionary measure I against the possible spread of infan tile paralysis to Pittsburgh, scientists : believing the disease is communicated | through street dust. Directors Swan and Superintendent O'Toole replied that Pittsburgh streets are clean, that those downtown are flushed at least once a week, most of them oftener. How about the streets In the resldsnce districts, where the children are? : Not many kiddies under 7 are to be found downtown. They are the ones ; whom infantile paralysis attacks. The streets in which they abide are the ones to be cleaned now. There is mighty little street cleaning done in the home centres. Rum's Obituary It is really being acknowledged, at last, that high souls, and not alcohol dulled sensibilities, are factors of highest importance in making the best fighters. In this connection the un pretentious services rendered by the Y. M. C. A. huts are admittedly more real influences for victory than the fighting man was once willing to ad mit, and the attitude of the R. A. M. C. (Royal Army. Medical Corps) toward intoxicants is of the greatest import ance. A large obituary notice of the "Rum Ration," with a heavy black edging, hangs prominently In the gen eral headquarters office.—W. T. Gren fell in the Atlantic Monthly. A Patriotic Duty Judge James A. Allen, speaking of the present Jury system, criticises the lack of patriotism which is revealed in the majority of cases where juries are paneled nowadays: "The jury system, which Is the bulwark of our liberties is limited in Its full operation because of the many exemptions which have grown into the statute and because thp class of men who are now serving on our juries Is not the most representative of business and intelligence. Serving on a jury should be thought of as a patriotic duty by all citizens, not as something to be dodged. At present we do not get a balanced jury, nor one ready for service in a branch of the public service which is as important as that of the judge." A German Humorist It was Paul Koenig, skipper of the world's first deep diving merchant man, telling the reporters how his Deutschland played her pretty game 01 hide and seek with a navy which does not appreciate German humor. "And we sat down upon the floor of the British Channel," he chuckled, "because the roof was orowded with nosy destroyers and we drank good French champagne while wo sang 'We've Rings on Our ,Fingers, and Bells on Our Toes,' and presently the destroyers gave us room on the roof and we came up and went on to Am erica. It was all just as simple as that, I tell you," s JULY 12, 1916. —From the Baltimore American. slon will reach such a figure as that, there is little room for doubt that it will be a large one. The sudden gains are universally ascribed to the changes made in the law. These changes are both simple and fundamental. Under the old law, no Individual depositor could have more than SSOO standing to his credit at any one time, and no single deposit could be made for an amount exceeding SIOO. Under the new plan, the limit of the individual depositor's account is raised to SI,OOO, and the restric tion upon the amount to be deposit ed at one time is entirely done away with. He may deposit it all at one time If he likes. These changes, these removals of restrictions, have been made after a careful study of the situation, In re sponse to a demand coming from all parts of the country. The files of the central office of the system are full of letters from postmasters telling of the obstacles that the low limits place in the path of expansion. A typical report came from a post master in Milwaukee. He came down to the postoffice one morning and was informed that a man and wife had tried to deposit S3OO. When told that they could only deposit SIOO at a time, and not over SSOO altogether, they took the whole sum away. Later a man showed up with S3OO, but when he found that It would take him three months to get into the bank he took It all away with him again. A farmer came in next, with S«SO, but declined to deposit anything under the con ditions that were necessary. Finally appeared a broad-minded individual with S2OO, who when he found that only SIOO could be accepted, philoso [ContJnued on Pag© 11] Fascination of Mexico Edith O'Shaughnessy, author of the Just-published book, "A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico," which is creating much discussion at this moment, de clares that "the history of Mexico is without, exception the most, fascinat ing, the most romantic, and the most improbable in the world; and the seed of Spanish civilization implanted in this marvelous land has produced a florescence so magnetic, so magical, that the dullest feel its charm. All that has been done for Mexico the Spaniards did, despite their cruelties, their greeds, and their passions. We, of the north, have used it only as a quarry, leaving no monuments to God nor testaments to man in place of the treasure that we have piled on depart ing ship or train." Hughes Comes to Town [From the New York Sun.] Mr. Hughes is represented as hur rying from his Long Island home to this city, intent upon the rectification of certain of his supporters whose in terest in the national campaign of 1916 Is too strongly tinged with ran cors surviving from the bitter days of 1912. We incline to the opinion that the situation now engaging his attention is less complicated than the adher ents of Woodrow Wilson would like to have it. We are convinced that the yearning for revenge has not sup planted in the breast of any support ers of the Republican candidate the ambition to release the nation from the incompetent leadership that now controls it. No evidence of such an irrational manifestation has so far been presented to the public, or seri ously discussed in private. But were the case sufficiently bad to rejoice Mr. Hughes's political ene mies there would be solace and com fort in the thought that Charles Evans Hughes possesses exactly the qualifi cations necessary for the composition of such difficulties, and the unques tioned authority and disposition to ad just them amicably. I OUR DAILY LAUGH *-■ —————I A TERRIBLE __ HANDICAP. I don't like th« y<\ iikJSHi way Miss Kal« \ K&lfi sits her mount. lb ESTIII B° UNOES 80 Tes, I've no tlced that—y o u ' HUwgHn see her father la in the rubbei —n ■■ business. IN RETRO- SPECT. Mabel: Right in ~-i— ~— this spot is where George proposed . to me last sum- \I . Ethel: Ah, I /TV /fxL suppose that Is a I \ rS&s''. 7 " pleasant memory. Mabel: Not ex- 'v actly; you see I accepted him. !■ - Batting (Etjal Charles M. Schwab's announcement that he proposes to manufacture plates at Steelton for construction of submarines and ships to be construct ed at his tidewater plants is good news not only because of the new industry which he proposes for Steelton, but because it means the further expan sion of the borough. This will affect Harrisburg as well as Steelton, be cause the steelworks extends into the city at Lochiel and the construc tion will eventually use up much of the space between the two municipali ties. Whether the Lochiel furnace will be blown in is problematical, but the ground will probably be utilized In regard to the plates this will be a new departure for Steelton and the mills recently put up will doubtless be e% larged. For years Steelton has made steel for ship plates, the Central Iron and Steel works having rolled them for battleships and destroyers as well as for merchant ships. The Harris burg Foundry and Machine works has made parts of engines for ships, the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending company tubes for vessels and other works parts which go into the con struction of watercraft. So that making of materials for ship building is not new here. The important thing is the continued recognition of this railroad and manufacturing center, which is far enough inland to be safe from what may befall the seacoast and which with its abundant labor and unsurpassed railroad facilities can supply what is needed for almost anything. Probably Mr. Schwab has been anticipating the activity in ship building which is sure to follow the appearance of the German merchant submarine at Baltimore. He has made parts for many submarines which are doing duty in European waters and new lines are certain to be added to the variety of Steelton prod ucts, while this community will ben efit in many ways. Among visitors here yesterday was Elisha Kent Kane, son of the famous commander of the "Bucktalls" in the Civil war and prominent in manufac turing and railroad affairs in North western Pennsylvania. Mr. Kane has taken a prominent part in the Pro hibition party affairs and is taking a keen interest in this year's political developments. One little toy dog with a crushed head is an ornament on the top of th' show case of the News Company at the Pennsylvania Railroad Station. This little dog has attracted much at tention, in fact Wendall Fackler says it was an expensive attraction, as he now has a damaged dog on his hands. "Old and young must be amused," saici Mr. Fackler. "Everybody wanted to hear the dog bark, and it was necessary to touch the top of the head to get results. Some pressed too hard ancl the skull was crushed in. "It is quite interesting to watch the men and women play with the toys on the show case. They spin tops, run glass engines up and down the case, work the automatic dolls, and seem to enjoy It. About seven out of every ten persons tiuy, so we lose nothing If a toy is put out of com mission." "Big Bill" Adams is oft to the warn again. The author legislator from Luzerne county, the man who waded the Susquehanna and who kept a pig in a legislative parlor among other antics, has hearkened to the call of the bugle and word has come here that he enlisted In the First New York cavalry without having to pass an examination on the constitution. The Luzerne man says that he expects to be down along the border very soon and that he desires to know if his set vice for the nation while a legisla tor Is dual office holding. If it is, his friends are invited to make the moM of it. Service In Mexico will give him Mx medals for military service as he went through the Spanish, Boxer and Philippine wars. This is the time of the year to get rid of the "blue devils." These things are not temperamental conditions, but weeds, beautiful weeds, having flowers which attract attention and even make good table decorations. But they arc- as pernicious as the burdock or Canadian thistle ever were and worse than dodder. The other name is chicory and the plant grows about two feet high, bearing flowers of a bright hue, which in turn give way to seed pcds that can cover a field better, or worse, than a dandelion. The way to get rid of the plant is to root it out. Cutting it down only encourages it to grow more. The country round about T-iarrisburg is filled with the blue flower and the wise farmers get rid of It early. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —William Flinn says he expects to spend a good bit of his summer in New York looking after contracts. —George A. Todd, Braddock bank er. is home from a trip to Germany and does not see much danger of the nation being starved out. —Judge Joseph Rogers, who is get ting after reckless autoists in Phila delphia, was for years an assistant district attorney. —Senator Charles A. Snyder, can didate for auditor general, has been in public life for twenty-four years. DO YOU KNOW DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg manufactures shoes that are sold In gulf ports? • * * HISTORIC HARRISBTJRO John Harris used to sit as arbitrator in Indian disputes at his ferry. Appalling Alphabetical Ad Waldemar Young, the president of the Newspaper Men's Club of San Francisco, who is rewrite man on the San Francisco Chronicle, conducts in that paper a column headed "Bits of Color Round the Town," In which he recently sprung this: "One of the afternoon papers car ried a headline, during the Republican Convention in Chicago, that caused an Australian, just arrived in port and not used to our lingo, to ponder over it until, out of sheer curiosity, he ac costed a stranger and asked what 'all these blawsted alphabetical things' could possibly mean. "The headline, in heavy black, wa*»» 'G. O. P. Turns Down T. R.' "What would he have thought if, apropos the hot weather in New York, a paper had spread, for instance, this headline—an entirely intelligibly grouping of letters to any American: v. " 'B. V. D'S. O. K. in N. Y.' tor and Publisher. ~ 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."] Does it pay the water consumer to install a meter? Cost? Yes. The rate charged houses not metered must be high to cover an unknown usage. About 98 per cent, of domestic meters are of %- inch size and are sold by the Water Department for $8.50. Meters are installed by plumbers at tiui aicenae of the consumer.
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