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FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 14
Stand upright, speak thy thought,
declare
The truth thou hast that all may share;
Be bold, proclaim it everywhere,
They only live %oho dare.
— LEWIS MORRIS.
BETTER HOUSING CONDITIONS
HOUSING conditions are always
important as a municipal
study. There has come to the
Telegraph some literature of the Cam
bridge Dwelling House Company, j
"which has been organized to co-oper- ■
ate in providing better houses for the
working people of Cambridge. Its
main object is to prevent congestion
of population by erecting structures
that will provide light and air and be
Banitary in every feature.
As a result of this need the Massa
chusetts Homestead Coqjmission has
urged the formation of improvement
housing companies, whose first inter- j
est shall be that of the tenants. It Is j
pointed out that such companies else
where in the United States have hous- !
ed some 6,500 families in sanitary. t
comfortable, durable dwellings at rent
als of from eight to fifteen dollars
per month according to accommoda- 1
tions, ranging from three to eight !
Tooms. The total value of these prop- j
•rtles to-day is over $15,000,000, and
represents conservative, sound invest
ments.
With this Incentive the Cambridge
Association Is being incorporated to
build one or mo. -) groups or improved
types of dwellings to rent from twelve
tp twenty-one dollars per month. Div
idends on the capital invested will be
limited to five per cent, in order to
safeguard the interests of the tenants.
Theee dividends will be cumulative
and one per cent, will be carried an
nually to a surplus fund.
As outlined, the dwellings will be
cottage flats, semi-detached two-fam
ily type —durably built and attract
ively grouped around open courts, thus
assuring harmonious development in
the community. Each apartment will
be entirely separate, with separate
front and rear entrances, porches and
yards. Each will contain living room,
small kitchen, bath room, one to three
bed rooms, and cellar storage, and
will be fitted with all the necessary
conveniences of modern city homes.
The shares of stock on this proposed
corporation will be ten dollars each,
payable in full or in four monthly In
stalments.
The Planning Commission of Har
risburg has already done much for
and In the interest of better housing
conditions through a careful super-
Vision of development plans for the
city. Instead of permitting houses to
be built on every inch of ground
ppace available the commission is in
sisting upon more light and air and in
eo doing is really providing for a
larger return upon the investment.
THE SOLDIER VOTE
OTHER States may be in doubt as
to the right of their soldiers at
the border to vote at the coming
elections —but not so Pennsylvania.
The State Constitution makes that very
clear. Our soldiers are entitled to cast
their ballots at the border the same
as though they were at home. This
is as it should be. No time should be
lost in making the proper preparations.
It -would be shameful if by any chance
these men, hundreds of milqg from
home on public duty, should lose the
right of franchise.
IF GTRL IX MOON COULD TALK
OPPORTUNITY win thump with a
loud bang next Monday evening
on the door of every water sport
enthusiast in Harrisburg who believes
in the permanent development of the
Susquehanna "basin." All that im
provement may meaji depends on the
organization of the canoeists, motor
boat men and other river lovers; so It
behooves every member of the city's
ever-growing "navy" to be waiting at
the gangway to welcome the fleeting
guest. The time for organizing the
patrons of river sports was never so
propitious as now.
The aciuatic sports committee, ap
pointed by George TV. Reilyof the City
Planning Commission, and V. Gra/it
Forrer, assistant park superintendent,
has called a meeting of interested river
folks to be held at Dintaman's pavilion
at 7.30 o'clock.
The importance of such an organ
ization as is proposed needs no dis
cussion. In the foreground of the pic
ture of the future river basin are the
carnivals, the pageants and the re
gattas, of courpe; but the permanent
high lights of the picture are the
municipal boathouses, the bathing
FRIDAY EVENING,
beaches, the properly buoyed and sur
veyed channels; police boats and regu
lations, the development of pretty
Islands. Publls sentiment In time will
demand recognition of the picture by
City Council. Just how soon depends
upon the fellow who. stirs up the in
terest. That "voice of the people"
phrase isn't entirely a Joke, despite the
fun the political jokesmiths get out of
it. The sentiment of the people, es
pecially th« portion of It that Is over
twenty-one, regularly registered and
equipped with a poll tax receipt, has
done wonders In the way of hustling
along the wheels of officialdom's ma
chinery. And Opportunity, Mr. Boat
man, is going to hesitate long enough
Monday evenng to hand you the lever
—to press the button, aa it were. It's
for you to start something. The finish
Is the final development of the Sus
quehanna "basin "
If you would try to grasp the won
derful possibilities for a city's recre
ation and entertainment that rolls
grandly past its "front steps" you
might stroll along the park 'most any
midsummer evening. Possibly you can
see ahead more attractively if you time
your promenade to the early evening—
when the canoe fleets begin to dot the
stream.
Perchance, if the lady in the moon
be the companion of your promenade,
she may help to broaden your per
spective. For a great many years She
has been in a position to look back
ward or forward across the hills that
guard the Susquehanna. And If She
could talk, what would She say? What
would the tiny fleets of canoes and
motorboats suggest? Would they re
call the silent birch craft that slipped
along the black-shadowed shores of
yesterday? And when the "lower
lights" along the wall flash the mes
sage of the night, would that suggest
a great brilliant expanse of Susque
hanna, dotted here and there with a
myriad of colored canoe lights, islands
Jeweled with festoons of colored lights,
big municipal boathouses and bathing
beaches, band concerts along the wall,
an orchestra playing * somewhere on
a boathouse, while visiting canoeists
dropped off to dance awhile? She's
a very, very wise person, is that Lady
of the Moon.
It is for you, Mr. River Enthusiast,
to follow the example of the mythical
sleeping shepherd of the hills who fin
ally heard that voice from the skies,
Wake up!
DEMOCRATS AYD MOOSE
THE efforts of Democrats to line up
the Progressives for Wilson" are
as obvious as they are futile.
The Democrats are qaite content to
have the poor old Bull Moose burn his
feet dragging the Wilsonian chestnuts
out of the fire, and beyond that there
Is no interest of Democrats in the Pro
gressives. Prom the national chair
man down they are shedding tears
over the endorsement of Hughes by
Roosevelt and his friends. Wilson Is
the result of a split in the Repub
lican party. If that spilt had been
continued Wilson might have been re
elected this year. It is the conviction
that the Democratic national ticket has
no hope in the face of a united Repub
lican party that is causing Democrats
to do all In their power to win Pro
gressives over to their free trade,
un-American program.
DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN' PT.ANS
REPUBLICAN'S may take increas
ed courage from the campaign
plans of the Democrats. These
may be outlined in three phrases—rec
ognition of the merits of the foreign
policies of President Wilson; political
reforms, with special reference to the
popular election of Senators; an ap
peal to the business interests of the
country by reference to the currency
measure, proposed anti-dumping leg
islation, and, over and above all, our
"unexampled prosperity." They will
soft pedal on the tariff.
Mr. Hughes can see little to fear in
a Democratic appeal based on Presi
dent Wilson's "foreign policies." First,
because the country as a whole has
been against war, and second, because
Wilson's vacillations have tended more
than anything else to draw us into the
European maelstrom, while his Mexi
can muddle has put a stain on this
country which will require years to
erase.
Republicans are confident that; an
appeal by the Democrats to the busi
ness interests of the country will avail
little. businessman knows that
business was depressed before the war,
and that a $2,610,000,000 favorable
trade balance secured to us during
twenty months of European wat has
done everything to pull business out of
the hole and give us "unexampled
prosperity" of a transitory kind. He
knows that the currency law was bas
ed on investigations made by a Re
publican commission, and that Repub
lican amendments made its operation
practicable.
As for the anti-dumping clause, it is
pointed out that any such clause would
be utterly valueless working in con
junction with a near free-trade tariff
law such as we now have. There would
be no necessity whatever for Germany,
for instance, to unload goods on the
American market at prices cheaper
than those prevailing in Germany, for
the reason that with her extremely
low labor cost. Germany could pay the
insignificant duties assessed on her
exports to us under the present law,
and then capture the American mar
ket, after which the prices would be
raised. No anti-dumping law could
be framed without provoking reprisals
absolutely destructive of our foneign
trade, which could be applied to a
country selling goods here as cheaply
a# in the country of origin.
Nor can the Democratic party make
much capital out of its so-called politi
cal reforms. Republicans call atten
tion to the fact that the popular elec
tion of Senators was provided for in
1912, the House of Representatives at
that time having a Democratic ma
jority, while the Senate was Republi
can. The Rucker joint resolution sub
mitting this proposition to the states,
provided that: "The times, places
and manner of holding elections for
Senators shall be as prescribed in each
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State by the legislature thereof."
Against* this proposition the Republi
can Senate firmly held. As Senator
Clark (Rep.), of Wyoming, expressed
it:
In the opinion of many of the
best constitutional authorities the
amendment of the House would ab
solutely leave the Congress of the
United States helpless to make in
quiry into the election of a Senator
in any manner whatever. The last
Congress passed a publicity bill in
which the amount that might be
expended by or for a candidate for
the Senate of the United States was
expressly limited to a sum definite
and certain. It would seem pos
sible that under the proposed
amendment as presented by the
House no bill of that sort could be
passed and Congress would have
no authority to inquire into or to
limit the amount of money that
might be expended in an election.
To deprive the Congress of the
United States of the power to say
whether or not a member of either
body of its Congress had been cor
ruptly elected is striking at the
very root of the legislative branch
of our Government.
Here was a Democratic House try
ing to evade the publicity bill passed
in a Republican Congress, and a Re
publican Senate preventing them from
so doing.
All told the Democratic campaign
plans are by no means such as to wor
ry the Republican leaders.
%y the Ex-Committeeman
Democratic State Chairman McLean
will file the last of Democratic elec
tors here on Monday, according to
present plans, and from all accounts
considerable difficulty is being found
in reconciling the conflicting ambitions
of patriots. McLean has been giving
personal attention to the matter and
has managed to avert some troubles by
his tact.
The Philadelphia list has been com
pleted and It is understood that Alle
gheny is also ready, but that some of
the central districts have not been
shaped up. In all probability the fin
ishing touches will be put to the list
to-day or to-morrow by National
Chairman McCormick, State Chairman
McLean and National Committeeman
Palmer. Ex-State Chairman Roland
S. Morris, who was defeated for dele
gate-at-large, may be made one of the
electors-at-large. »
The Democrats are having as much
trouble harmonizing as the Republi
cans have had in the last year.
The Philadelphia Inquirer to-day
says the prospects are that Hughes
will roll up a great vote in Pennsyl
vania. It says "All elements of Re
publican politics in Pennsylvania are
now lined up for Hughes and Fair
banks at the coming national election.
Congressman William S. Vare and
Francis Shunk Brown, Attorney Gen
eral of the Brumbaugh administra
tion; William Flinn, head of the Bull
Moose organization, and George D.
Porter, late independent nominee for
mayor of this city, and Powell Evans,
who has been conspicuous in local and
State independent movements, were in
New York yesterday and they all met
Presidential Candidate Hughes. Sen
ator Penrose had met former Justice
Hughes the day before and assured
him of the support of his following.
Congressman Vare, as spokesman for
himself and Attorney General Brown,
upon returning to this city last even
ing said the candidate declared that
he was delighted with the reports from
Pennsylvania that every element of
the Republican Party, Old Guard and
Progressive, had gone upon record for
the whole Republican ticket."
—Ex-Judge Theodore F. Jenkins
has been named as an elector in one
of the Philadelphia districts.
—At Wilkes-Barre yesterday County
Controller Hendersbot lost his fight to
prevent nine Democrats from holding
courthouse jobs because their services,
he asserts, are not needed and that
paying them salaries is a waste of tap
pers' money. The jobholders started
work for the county on January 1.
They have not drawn a cent from Lu
zerne county in salary, for the control
ler has held up , their pay. Judge
Woodward directed that the salaries
be paid and that the men be permitted
to continue at their labor.
—J. W. Leaman, the chairman of
the moribund city committee of the
late Washington party State organiza
tion appears to feel very badly over
the demise of the hopes of the third
party men and he proposes to
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
make himself heard at the wake called
for to-morrow night. It is understood
that the men who have lately taken
control of the third party organization
; through the return of the Roosevelt
' men in this vicinity to the Republican
I party intend to fight for "principles"
although what they are In view of the
| Colonel's endorsement of Hughes is
I probably understood better in Market
! Square than anywhere else,
i —Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia,
I yesterday recognized a couple of Mc
| Nichol men in appointments and it
would seem that there is something
.like real harmony looming up. The
| mayor is off on a vacation and it is
said that he and Senator McNichol are
j on very good terms.
i —William Flinn is spending consid
erable time in New York these days
| and it is understood that he is highly
J gratified at the recognition given to
the progressives in the make-up of
the electoral ticket.
—The boom of Congressman J. R.
K. Scott for governor, which has been
started in Philadelphia, Is believed to
be a reason why Scott's partner, W. A.
Conner, was not named as counsel to
the Public Service Commission. For
a time it was believed that Conner
! had the place cinched, but when Scott
j loomed up there was nothing more
doing.
—Gifford Pinchot has not yet named
j the oommittee to launch the Pro
gressive League. It is said that Mr.
Pinchot was not much impressed with
!.the manner in which the colonel was
attacked by W. P. Boland and the ap
plause given to the remarks on the
subject.
i
TELE6RAPH PERISCOPE*")
—We are glad we are not a Chinese
newspaper reporter; they've invented
a typewriter over there with 4,000
keys.
—After a week under the electric
fan we artse to ask what in thunder
the Kaiser wants with "a place in the
sun."
—The Russians are the fellows who
are taking the A out of Hungary.
—We knew there were sharks at the
shore, but we thought they always
held forth on the land side of the
| ooardwalk.
! —Anyway, the high price of gaso
line gives us poor fellows a good ex
cuse.
Our Foreign Loans
[From Philadelphia Ledger.]
France comes to America for an
other $100,000,000. This new loan will
make the total borrowings by the bel
ligerent nations in this country since
the war began more than a billion. It
| is a greater sum than any other neu
tral people ever loaned to warring
| people. Only the French loans to
Russia in times of peace and over a
| long term of years can surpass in mag
nitude these American loans to Eu
i rope and Canada. We are in a pecu
| liar position, because we are a store
| house and factory for the allies, as
;well as a banker.
In the nearly two years since the
; war began United States exports have
exceeded United States imports by
i about $3,000,000,000, which is fully
three times the normal amount. So it
j seems that in making these great loans
to the allies this country is merely
lending them their own money, which
was sent here to purchase supplies.
Our farmers and manufacturers and
| other producers were paid record high
prices for what they have sold, BO
that, considered, the United
i States is making a first-class bargain
! when it lends the allies money at a
fair rate with which to go on buying.
It is an interesting fact, however, "that
the American people now own as large
an amount of foreign obligations as
they possess of United States govern
ment bonds.
A New Serum
Scientists in the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity are now experimenting with a
newly discovered serum which they
believe will eventually be able to re
store a person to life after asphyxia
tion or drowning. The experiments
performed upon animals have in a
number of instances restored them to
life after they have been to all ap
pearances dead for several hours. A
few days ago an animal was brought
back to life four hours after its ap
parent death by the injection of this
serum. In this case, however, the
animal died shortly afterwards from
blood pressure. It is believed that
this tendency can be overcome and the
new serum utilized in the resuscita
tion of human beings, who would oth
erwise "die" permanently. j
( N
THE TERROR OF SONORA
By Frederic J. Haskin
I j
LATEST dispatches from Mexico
tel us that the Yaquis have risen
again. They are not threatening
American life and property this time
so far as is known because all Ameri
cans are supposed to have left the dis
trict. But only a few months ago two
American warships, one of them a first
class cruiser, were sent to the west
coast of Mexico to defend American in
terests against Yaqui depredations. The
present rising Is leaving its usual trail
of destruction over the Mexican settle
ments of Southern Sonora.
The story of the Yaquis is one of the
most remarkable narratives in history.
It has never been told in English ex
cept in more or less fragmentary fash
ion, and the English-speaking world
has missed thereby a romance worth
reading. The tale is liberally blotted
with blood and stained with incidents
of savage torture and treachery, for
the Yaquis are a savage people, but
running through from beginning to
end is a fanatic love of country, an in
domitable courage and hardihood that
have never been excelled.
In certain parts of Mexico the name
of Yaqui has acquired terrors almost
legendary among the ignorant classes.
It has become a term with which to
frighten children. Even on the Ameri
side of the border the Yaqui often gets
credit for being a more terrible per
son that he really is. In point of fact,
the Yaquis are the Apaches of Mexico,
with rather more than Apaches' abili
ties for organization and stubborn re
sistance. Aided by the fact that the
Government opposed to them has al
ways been considerably weaker than
that of the United States, and by the
inaccessible nature of the country that
they love so devotedly, they have the
distinction of being the only Indian
tribe that has never been thoroughly
and completely conquered by the
whites. There have always been a few
defiant Yaqui outlaws in the hills.
The story of the Yaquis is the story
of their wars. Almost a century before
the landing of the Pilgrims in New
England, an arm'- of Spaniards with
their Indian allies moved northward
-om Mexico City, conquering every
thing in their path. When they reach
ed the bank of the Yaqui river they
were met by a large band of Indian
whose leader drew a line in the soft
earth. That line he forbade the Span
iards to cross. The white men opened
fire with their cannon, but after a brief
engagement the Yaquis routed them. The
old Spanish chronicler states that he
had fought with most of the Mexican
Indian tribes, but, he savs, "I have
never seen Indians fight like these."
That was almost 400 years ago, and
since then the Yariuis have fought al
most without cessation. In 1900 there
were 160 engagements in the Yaqul
war. The Mexicans estimate that there
have been almost 300 years of actual
fighting between Mexicans and Yaquis,
and to-day the cable tells us that the
Yaquis are out again. The present
state of disturbance in Mexico nas, of
course, been favorable to the Indians.
Their fighting abilities are in strong
demand among the various factions,
and one of the most formidable troops
in the field is a band of Yaquis esti
mated at 2,000 in number, led by a
Yaqul general.
The revolutionary disturbances were
probably the salvation of the Yaqul
race. Of late years the Mexican Gov
ernment had been adootir.g the only
policy against the tribe which gave
Cutting Out the Kilts
[From Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.]
"Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled"
are going to do their future bleeding
In trousers if the Lady of the Snows
has her way. No more kilts are being
Issued to Scottish regiments in the
Canadian overseas forces, the Domin
ion government having decided the
kilt is out of place in a trench "any
where in France." Exception is made
in the case of the pipers; the govern
ment knows that making bricks with
out straw would be child's play com
pared to making a Scotch piper pipe
in anything but a kilt. A pibroch
without a kilt is like the Yankee's ap
ple pie without cheese. The report
says nothing about the flowing ribbons
usually (seen streaming from the!
masts of a bagpipe, so the supposi
tion is that they will continue to flow
in spite of a campaign for economy;
but it does state that to appease the
wrath of loyal Scots who are being
forced into trousies the balmoral will
be permitted in place of the military
cap. Doubtless the knitted bicycle
stockings always associated with the
region directly south of the kilt will
be discarded for leather leggings so
that nothing save the balmoral will
be left of the true Rob Roy.
War is the great leveler; it reduces
all to standard. The Russian Infan
tryman now has only the blouse left
of his one-time fearful regalia and he
will lose that as soon as his superior
find the jacket is better.
Alone in His Grandeur
Mr. Parker, of the Bull Moose ticket,
hasn't any running mate and hasn't
any party back of him. but otherwise
his candidacy seems to be all right.—
, Kansas City Journal.
JULY 14, 1916.
promise of eventual success in quelling
their fighting spirit. This was the plan
of deportation, by which the Indians
were sent from Sonora to far-away
Yucatan as laborers on the planta
tions. This is said to be the only fate
tnat frightens the Yaquis. In the first
place tbey have been accustomed, bv
untold centuries of life in their hills,
to an environment of mountain and
desert, and they seem to have died rap
idly in the moist tropical climate of
Yucatan. Moreover, the Yaqui is pas
sionately attached to his own country.
He has fought through all these years
to keep his territory absolutely free
from the encroachment of white men,
and to govern himself by his own laws
and customs.
It was in connection with the depor
tation of the Yaquis that mjnv of the
charges of slavery on the plantations
were brought up in recent years. The
old Government undertook to furnish
Yaqnj laborers to the planters on the
Fiayment of their railroad fare, stipu
ating that such laborers should re
ceive fair wages and treatment, but
apparently not troubling itself greatly
to see that such stipulations were al
ways carried out. Moreover, there were
instances where certain individuals
would contract for laborers whom they
did not need and then sell them to
planters at a premium. A great many
unpleasant charges were brought for
ward in this connection, but the whole
matter of the Yaqui wars of late years
has been an unpleasant one on both
sides.
It is easy to idealize the Yaquis at a
distajice for their courage, their hardi
hod and their love of country, just as
it is easy to paint them as impossible
demons for their cruelty and treach
ery. They have undoubtedly practiced
savage tortures on their captives in
the past, just as they have undoubtedly
broken, treaties with the Mexican Gov
ernment; but it is just as true that
they are guided by a savage code of
ethics, and are fighting for land that in
the last analysis belongs to them, for
they held it before Columbus was born.
In flesh and blood, the Y'aqul is not a
particularly romantic figure. He is the
common laborer of Sonora. the peon,
the herder of cattle and the tiller of
the soil. In the Mexican towns of the
district many of the servants are
Yaquis. One of the chief difficulties
in subduing them has been the highly
developed clan spirit that prevails
among them. The outlaw from the
hills, hard pressed, slips his rifle into
a mesquite bush and enters r-ome peace
ful village of his people, where every
body will swear that he has lived there
for years.
The Yaqui is a medium-sized indi
vidual as a rule, rather stockily built,
with a face broader and browner than
that of the North American Indian
whom the tourist sees in the West and
who adorns our buffalo nickels. His
ordinary garb is prosaically like that of
the Mexican section hand who works
on the western railroads, which as a
matter of fact he will sometimes flee.
His wiry endurance, however, is truly
remarkable. Four centuries of almost
continual warfare, interspersed with
the hardest of hard work on the
ranches have made him tough as
leather. He will travel for days at high
speed through desert and mountain with
little or no food; he will work all day
in the fields under a sun-glare that
reaches 150 degrees heat In the direct
rays.
| OUR DAILY LAUGH
A MONEY
LOGUE. "?
"If money talks," lj*J lojyCk. r—<
as hath been 7; |fi|
said, j Ht
Quoth Patey, Yf'n \ ~
with a sigh, \
"It's conversa- yXjf
tion's limited
To Y iiiiil»»»'
and GOOD
BYE."
MELODY AND
„ , . FOOD.
.TTr ] It seems neces
ll'l sary nowac *ay ß to
wi have music with
k isKjtlk Absolutely. In
11 j order to get serv
ants to stay, we
Wm* • » had to put a mu-
W* » # «* sic machine in
the kitchen.
Paper Inquiry Starts
The Federal Trade Commission has
already started its examination of the
news print paper situation with the
intention of developing all the essen
tial facts relating to news print paper
manufacture arid consumption.
It is expected that the American
Newspaper Publishers' Association will
in its own interest supplement the
work of the Federal Trade Commis
sion by making an independent in
vestigation of its own along such lines
as would seem to best suit its Interests.
It is reported that as much as
8 cents per pound was recently paid
in London, England, for news prtnt
paper by a prominent publisher.
iEimtittg (Etjal
The old Ice dam at Paxtang which
the city proposes to enlarge and clean
and turn into a lake for bathing and
skating, according to season, is one of
the oldest dams in this part of the
courtty. It is said to have been first
used for harvesting ice over 120 years
ago and it is a question in the minds
of many whether it was not used as
far back as the dam on the old Colonel
John Elder farm, now occupied by
John Elder and known as Ellerslie.
The dam is part of Spring creek and
tradition has it that it was built by
one of the ancestors ot the Rutherford
family, who have had, until a few
months ag6, title to Ul6 adjacent farm
for over 150 years. In any event tha
dam has furnished ice for Harrisburg
for generations and has been skated
over by the great-grandfathers and
great-grandmothers of many citizens
of to-day. It has been years since ice
was harvested from it, but the remains
of the dam are massive and it can bo
repaired with comparatively little cost.
Long ago there were mills and ice
dams on most of the streams which
crossed the turnpike to Reading and
Lebanon and this old dam, soon to bo
a pleasure lake, has seen a good bit
of business go by.
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During the argument yesterday
afternoon in the Wilkes-Barre mayor
alty contest ex-Congressman John T.
Lenahan was arguing very vigorously
regarding the nonpartisan law pro
vision to make a man a sale nominee.
He referred to a couple of cases and
quoted extensively from findings.
"Never mind quoting so much," said
Deputy Attorney General Hargest, who
was sitting in the case.
"But I Want you to hear about' tho
cases," said Mr. Lenahan.
"Yes, but I prepared the opinion in
one caje and argued the other," re
plied the Deputy Attorney General.
El Paso, Texas, where so many
Pennsylvania guardsmen have takeii
up their temporary abode, is no mean
city. It has an elevation of 3,760 feet
above the sea le\'el, and while the days
are hot, the nights are cool. It is tha
center of vast mining, agricultural and
stock-raising activities and has de
veloped a railroad center that is one
of the best in the Southwest. It has
a population of about 60,000, or had
before the influx started, and is tho
location of Fort Bliss. A few years
ago a party of Kotarians from Harris
burg on their way from the inter
national convention, stopped at El Paso,
and they say that if the hospitality
they met was anything like that with
which the soldiers were received wo
at home need have little fear for the
welfare of the troops.
There were as many lightning bugs
in Third street between Walnut and
Market streets last night as in an equal
distance of the riverside parks and tho
question asked was where did they
come from and where did they go .'
The bugs appeared about dark, twink
ling along the curbs and very much
alive. The parks were also filled with
the insects. Two hours after the night
fell there was not a bug to be seen in
Third street.
The golfers of the York Country
Club who are coming here to-morrow
to play the golfers of the Country Club
of Harrisburg have been making these
pilgrimages for a dozen years. Har
risburg and York have been playing
golf and tennu matches for a long
time and the visits are made occasions
by each club.
Older members of the Christian En
deavor are recalling the convention
held here back in the late nineties.
This convention, which was the first
of the kind to take place in Harris
burg, waS held right after the Span
ish war and the Rev. Dr. George B.
Stewart, then pastor of Market Square
Presbyterian church, was an active
spirit in the preparations.
An out-of-town motorist stopped in
tli? city yesterday for a short time
and while in one of the downtown
hotels made a few criticisms of the
traffic in the city. Here are some of
them: "I don't know whether you
have one-way traffic on any of the
streets in the business section or not,
but some of them are too narrow for
traffic in both directions, and one of
these days after a serious accident,
your officials will hurry things along
and get the one-way system working.
■ I heard that it was talked about but
Iso far I am told nothing has boon
done. There should be a traffic officer,
too, at the approach of your big
bridge at Fourth and Chestnut streets.
I havj been in the city a number of
times, and on several occasions nar
rowly missed colliding with another
machine at this point. A traffic officer
there will increase the safety tor tha
autos and pedestrians."
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Among visitors to the city yesterday
was Thomas H. Greevy, prominent Al
toona lawyer and candidate for Lieu
tenant-Governor in 1910. Mr. Greevy
is one of the best-known Democrats in
the central section of the State. He
was here on legal business.
W&L KNOWN PEOPLE""
—Mayor J. V. Kosek, of Wilkes-
Barre, whose tenure of office has been
attacked, is an attorney. He pre
pared his own answer.
—George W. Norris, prominent, in
financial circles, is the head of the
finance committee of Montgomery
county Democrats.
—Professor Henry Gordon Thunder,
well known to musicians here, assem
bled a chorus of 200 for a recital a few
days ago.
—James Matthews, head of the
Schuylkill miners' union, who has lieen
disciplining some locals, worked for
years in the anthracite mines.
—Colonel Sheldon Potter, former
Philadelphia councilman, is taking an
active interest in the solution of Phila
delphia transit problems.
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburs machinery is
used in Panama looks?
HISTORIC HARRISRURG
Harrisburg's water works served as
a model for cities of the central part
of the State when built in 1841.
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."]
Who is the Building Inspector?
James H. Grove.
Don't Rail at the Sun
Don't rail at the bright sun! He is
doing what nothing else "under the
sun" could do.
He is yanking out of the earth a new
corp crop. It takes about one hundred
days for corn to grow up and ripen.
Sixty days ,have passed since plant
ing time, but they have been cold, wet
days, unliked by maize. Indian corn
dotes on hot nights, and if you must
spend a cent or fwo to keep an elec
tric fan going while you sleep, re
member that this same heat is raising
a three-billion-bushel crop of corn.
Anyhow, Philadelphia is not the
warmest place in Pennsylvania. Fore
caster Bliss Informs me that Hanover
has the highest average temperature
of any place in our State.—"Girard,"
in Publia Ledger.