10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A KBWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded lift Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph UuildluK, Federal Square. E. J. STACK POLE. Pre.t't jtd Editor in-ChiTt 9. R. OYSTER, Business VoHlpr. Ot'S M. STAEINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American Newspaper Pub- I Ushers' Associa tion. The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assoclf-V Eastern efflee, Has- Brook's. Fifth Ave rue Building. New ern office. Haa- Brooks. People's Gas Building. ClA* Entered at the Post Office in Harris* burg:. Pa., as second class matter. B>* carriers, six cents a week: by mail. 13.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY EVENING, JI LY 15 Nothing <■>/ worth or weight can be OcAteptM irith fial? a mind, tritfi a faint heart, an/1 urith a lame endeavor. — Barbow. ONE GREAT PICNIC DAY TWO of the big: department stores of Harrisburg yesterday enter tained their employes at store picnics. To say that the outing* were enjoyed by those fortunate enough to participate would be putting it mildly. Good fellowship, wholesome amuse ments and a day in the open made the occasion well worth while. It has been suggested that if two can lay aside business for the purpose of giving their clerks a picnic, all storee call. It would be indeed a happy occasion if one day in the year should be set aside as "picnic day" ir. Harrisburg. on which all Harrisburg firms would close their doors and, with bands playing and flags flying, pro prietors and their employes should hie themselves away to the woods for a period of Jollification and social en- Jovmerrt. Businessmen have learned that they ate the better for an occasional break In work-a-day routine and the same applies to their employes. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." We used to think any businessman who closed his doors before 10 in the eve ning a sluggard. Now we know that his methods were all wrong. A week ly half-holiday was once looked upon ■with disfavor. Now wise businessmen are urging not only a half-holiday but are heading a movement for the clos ing of stores on Saturday evenings as! well. Work is good for us. We need plenty of it to thrive well. But the love of recreation is inherent and the perfectly balanced life is that in which the joy of work is tinctured with the Innocent and health-giving pleasures of play. A city-wide picnic day not only could be well spared by all business men, but it would actually tend to Improve business conditions. Vox popull. vox Dei. So ran the old j iagejid. The campaign manager for ' Woodrcw Wilson phrases it thus: "The voice of Mr Wilson is the voice of the ration." We doubt it. The voice of this nation is a robust and virile voice —not a tremulous falsetto. PRESIDENT AND PROGRESSIVES PRESIDENT WILSON Is writing letters to a few Progressives who have showed some signs of being out of sorts with Colonel Roosevelt. The President sympathizes with them and insinuates that he is the only real. Simon pure Progressive candidate ir. thr country and that the Democratic party is the only honest-to-goodness Progressive party in existence. The picture of President Wilson in Rough Rider costume, wielding the big stick from the hurricane deck or a bucking Democratic donkey is an lmpersona-: tion of Roosevelt that would win a laugh from the most hardened vaude- 1 vllle audience In the land. After pound irg hot foot down the pike In the wake of the Colonel for four years, with a cheer at every jump and a warwhoop In between, the "hot trail" of the Democratic pussy-footers in the pres ent campaign will have little perman ent attraction. We extend our sympathy to the stage director who prepares the scenario for the movies with which Vance McCor mick purposes to enliven the Wilson campaign. What a successful film re quires Is action—and how that can be procured in anything which truthfully represents the Wilson regime ia beyond our comprehension. WAR ORDER PROSPERITY TT is strange that any Democratic * spellbinder would muster courage : to mention closed factories and open soup houses, even at this distance, from the hard times that followed the enactment of the Democratic tariff law. but Senator Ollie M. James, who was selected by President Wilson as chairman of the St. Louis convention. Is one who can forget 1913-14 while enjoying a temporary war order pros perity. He said in his keynote speech: Our Republican friends told us when we enacted this tariff bill into law that It would close the fac tories. fill the streets with Idle men. produce a panic, create soup houses, and distress would reign everywhere; but we rejoice to-day to point to an unexampled prosper ity In the nation, with labor more generally employed, at higher rates, shorter hours and better condi tions than ever before. The depression was on long before the war began. From three to five million willing workers were out of Jobs. The Fleishman bread line was at work In New York and the soup kitchens were open In all large cities. SATURDAY EVENING, The monthly balance of trade was run- | ning against us. The steel Industry, | the great index to business conditions 'in this country, fell off over 25 per j cent. Five months after the European 1 war began, business began to pick up. I Our favorable trade balance for the fiscal year 1916 was about 12,000.000,- | 000. Over 50 per cent, of our exports | to-day are made up of SI articles nec | essary to modern warfare. The coun tries of South America. Oceanlca. and other neutral zones, must look to the United States for a large share of their necessities whilst the war progresses. Ours Is a war order prosperity; Neith er the Democracy nor its crack brained legislation has had anything to do with it. FAIR PLAY THE Law and Order Society formed somtf time ago by well-known colored men of Harrisburg. after j a comprehensive investigation, finds ! there is no evidence that a negro was involved In »the alleged assault on a . white girl in the Tenth ward last night. The society says, if it is shown that a oclored man was guilty It is anxious Ito assist In the prosecution, but it ; protests against an unjustified ac cusation. The society is right. No doubt there have been many cases in the past where black men have been : unjustly charged. Fair play demands that care be exercised In this respect. Negroes who are working for the up lift of their race are laboring under a handicap They should be en couraged rather than discouraged. WILSON AND INTERVENTION IF Woodrow Wilson decides on armed Intervention in Mexico it will be a confession that his entire policy with respsct to that unhappy land, since his Vera Cruz fiasco, has been a lamentable blunder. If he decides to ■ yield to Carranza's demands and re tire the troops from Mexico. Uncle Sam will have a three-ply charge of cowardice pasted between his shoul ders. That is precisely what happens to any man. or any country led by a man who Is unable to make up his mind. Oh. what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive. And for over three years Mr. Wil son has deceived himself and the pub i lie. WOOI. PRICES THE British Government plans to buy the entire wool clip of Great Britain for 1916. This will undoubtedly cause another rise in the price of wool In this country, but not on account of Democratic poli cies. CONGRESS PROCRASTINATES THE Democrats have a clear work- . Ing majority in both branches i of Congress and they alone have j responsibility for the legislation and: appropriations of the session. It is now seven months since the session 1 opened, the fiscal year has come to an ] end and a new one begun—and yet it was necessary to pass continuing res- ; olutions to provide for the conduct of the government In eight Important particulars. In other words, the Democratic Congress for seveji months so neglect ed the necessary business of the gov- j ernment that they failed to provide i the money to continue the government activities and were compelled to pass a stop-gap resolution to furnish a month's supply of funds for each of these branches. If they do not dis play any more zeal In the next month 1 than they have in the past seven, it will be necessary to pass another con tinuing resolution —and yet Claude Kitchin talks about a final adjourn-! ment of the session in July. The St. Louis platform challenges; comparison of the Democratic record since 1913 with that of any party at. any time. To meet this test Republi cans can turn back to any Congress which they controlled without finding such a record of slipshod methods of conducting the great affairs of the gov ernment as is found in the long list of belated appropriation bills which this Congress had on hand at the end of the fiscal year. Republicans not only made provision for the departments of the government, but they also made provision to get the money to meet the appropriations. The Republican mot to w-as to do the day's work when it was due and to pay as you go. The Democratic motto seems to be to put ! everything off until "watchful wait ' ing" is no longer possible and then ! turn to the wrong expedient. THOSE HORNED GIANTS WE await with impatience, tinc tured with a trace of anxiety, official reports of the rumor from up-State that the historical banks of the Susquehanna river have yielded to the pickaxes of scientific searchers bound in canoes this way the bones of a lot of giant aborigines seven feet tall and whose skulls still showed plain traces of well-developed horns. A few years ago some Juniata valley adventurers swore they saw a shark in the river opposite Bailey's Sta tion. The summer following another party of explorers discovered a fam ily of "hoop snakes" and during last heated season they capped the cli max by seeing bears in Wildwood Park. But giants with horns! Wow! We know the weather had been pretty warm lately, but we didn't realize just how hot it really was. THE STRIKE VOTE THERE is an increasing hope that a possible strike of the em ployes of the railroads of the country may be averted. Gradually the third party to the dispute—the Innocent bystander, the great public— is beginning to manifest country-wide discontent over the possible interrup tion of a service which is essential to the comfort and well-being of all the people. Furthermore, a strike on the railroads will affect not alone busi nessmen and employes, but also the vast army of wage-earners through out the United States whose Industry 'and pay would be interrupted. For | this reason there is an Increasing do mand for some sort of settlement which will prevent a disaster so far-' reaching in its effects. While the strike vote which is now-1 being circulated among the engineers, firemen, conductors and other train men does not in effect order a strike ;it gives power to the chief executives and general chairmen of the brother hoods, if they are unable to otherwise i effect a settlement satisfactory to them, to order a strike. This places ; a tremendous power and responsibility in the hands of these officials in the further negotiations, and the country over will fervently hope that tWs pow j er will be wisely used in reaching an ; adjustment that will prevent a great I national calamity. 'YollUct Ik S; the Ex-Otmmitteesnaa Democratic state leaders have made j a rare effort to harmonise the factions into which the party has split under the present management In the mak ing up of the list of presidential elect ors sent to President Wilson for his i blessing and consent. The task of , making up the list has been a big one j and In a number of instances various ■ patriots were so insistent that National | Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer ; and others hid to take matters into , their own hands. j The selection ot Webster Grim, who 1 was reviled by Palmer and his pals a few years ago. Is Included in an effort ! to get the Old Guard lined up, while friends of Donnelley, Brennen and other leaders appear among the names. The names as given out last night at Stroudsburg by Palmer axe as fol lows: At large—Samuel S. Fels. Philadel phia Simon P. Light, Lebanon: Isaiah Sheeline, Altoona: Webster Grim. Doylestown: Joseph H. Reily, Philadel j phia; John A. McKinney, Clarion. By congressional districts—First. Jo seph L. Galen; Second. William Han cock; Third. John E. Hagan: Fourth. Henry C. Kline: Filth, Emanuel R. Clinton, and Sixth. Theodore Jenkins, all of Philadelphia; Seventh. Frank B. Rhodes, Media; Eighth, Nelson M. ! Trout. Pottstown: Ninth, Jacob Pontz. • Lancaster; Tenth. Edward Merrifield, i Scranton: Eleventh, John J. Shigo, Freeland; Twelfth, James A. Moecker. Schuylkill Haven: Thirteenth. William M. Zechman, Reading; Fourteenth. A. H. Kingsbury. Towanda; Fifteenth. N. Edward. Williamsport; Sixteenth. Lloyd B. Skeer, Bloomsburg; Seventeenth, John R. Dielil, Marion; Eighteenth, , Samuel Kunke!. Harrisburg: Nine- j teenth, Harry S. Bender, Johnstown; j Twentieth. Allen C. Wiest, York; ! Twenty-first. Henry Meyer. Rebers- ' burg; Twenty-second, James S. Moore- ! head. Greensburg; Twenty-third. Daniel 1 W. McDonald. Union town; Twenty fourth. Charles H. Ruhe, Beaver Falls; Twenty-fifth, Fred L. Woods. Erie; Twenty-sixth, Wesley M. Heiberger. Easton: Twenty-seventh, Don C. Cor bett. Clarion: Twenty-eighth. Frank D. McCue, Oil City: Twenty-ninth, John Voelker, Pittsburgh; Thirtieth. A. P. Burgwin, Pittsburgh; Thirty-fifth, Her mann Obernauer. Pittsburgh; Thirty- | second, Thomas H. Flynn, Pittsburgh. Democrats here appeared to be very 1 much pleased over the selection of, Samuel Kunkel, who has for years j been treasurer of the State committee | and who is acceptable to everyone. Lebanon county, which did not get any national delegate? and whose can didate, S. P. Light, withdrew when the primaries camo around, is recognized in the selection of Mr. Light as an elector-at-large. John R. Diehl, Ma- i rlon. is the elector from the "shoe- j string" district. —While Senator E. H. Vane was making a statement as hot as the weather yesterday about Senator Pen rose's absence from a certain meeting at Washington at which Philadelphia was not included in the list of navy yards to be equipped for building big ships, the Senator was having the matter corrected. The Senator's state ment was an arraignment of the Pen rose course in i.nmeasured terms, but he seems to have picked the wrong time to make it. A Washington dis patch says: "Senator Penrose yester day secured the reinsertion in the navy appropriation bill of the provision re quiring the equipment of the Philadel phia navy yard for the construction of dreacinaughts. Senator Penrose, seiz ing a favorable opportunity during the debate on the bill to-day. explained to the Senate that through a typo graphical error Philadelphia had been omitted from the list of yards for which the sum ot 86,000,000 had been provided for necessary equipment for battleship construction. Senator Swan son. who has taken charge of the bill for the administration during the ill ness of Senator Tillman, agreed with Senator Penrose that there had been an oversight. He immediately placed the question brfore the Senate and Philadelphia was restored to the list without objection." —Luzerne county has another po litical blow-up. Yesterday the school directors of Hanover township were surcharged $12,528.54 in a decision by Judge Strauss, who declared their of ficial acts were either dishonest or the result of incompetency or imbecility. He declared that the school officials showed "absolute indifference to pub lic welfare." The court shows disgust over the purchase of what it terms an antiquated library for school purposes. The board hired an agent and paid him a liberal commission for buying a school library and he furnished novels that were old and of no use for school purposes. Fault is found with the directors for taking junketing trips in looking for manual training equip ment. Announcement was made yesterday by President Fred W. Willard of plans to have the Republican campaign in Pensvlvania opened at a convention of the State League of Republican Clubs to be'held early in September. Candi dates Hughes and Fairbanks will both be invited to be present. President Willard stated that he is about to send out a call for a meeting of the'execu tive committee of the State league of Clubs to be held at the headquarters of the Republican city committee in Philadelphia within the next ten dayj, at which the time and meeting for the jconvention will be determined and arrangements will be made for the entertainment of the delegates. Healing Simon's Mother-in-Law And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they en tered into the house of Simon and An drew. with James and John. But Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a. fever, and anon they tell him of her. And he came and took her by the hand, and lifted her up; and imme diately the fever left her. and she min istered unto them.—Mark, 1:29-31. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrlsburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] What are the duties of the Building Inspector? To make inspections of buildings to see that provisions of the build- Ins l&w are carried out. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH When a Feller N By BRi££S TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE —The picnic industry seems to be an out and out success. —The scapegoat is a domestic animal that seems to thrive in any climate. —lt's a good thing they didn't dump Jonah overboard along the Atlantic coast. —Maybe those sharks were turned loose by the mountain resort hotel man agers. —Anyway, the Democrats are will ing to concede that a protective tariff is not so bad as they used to think it was. —Just to show that we hold no grudge against Carranza at Carrizal, the President would loan the Mexican dictator $100,000,000. Next time Carranza should try It on a whole regiment. EDITORIAL COMMENT" The Bethlehem Steel Company keeps at it. Their advertisements, setting forth the facts of the armor plate sit uation, are logical, hard-hitting and winning. If the campaign had been started a few months earlier there would be no doubt whatever of the re sult upon Congress.—Fourth Estate. Mexico is foolish to take us on at a time when we rtem to need some one fairly easy t 1888 in Marietta, Ohio, where a hiß [Continued on Pag*> 8] OUR DAILY LAUGH THE PROOF. Did the widow wV -aJic marry well? rj£nr&[ I Why, certainly. Her new husband ifflffiel 1 wears tortoise » shell spectacles •, , and spats. AND CALL IT yj[ 1 • iKfcr f Jfj" Fido howls nSnggjHjwhen a piano is Some women rnT A do that, too. An Object Lesson [From the Boston Advertiser.] If the visit of the Deutschland and the promise of a Zeppelin service soon to follow did nothing else, it is in evitable that it must attract the seri ous attention of most Americans to the record of the present Administration, which has shown such criminal indif ference to the possible threat of such new weapons of war to any possible plan of national defense for this coun try. For two years every other leading power of the civilized world has been straining all possible resources to pre pare to meet the changed conditions of modern warfare. And, meanwhile, the only occasion on which the Ameri can submarine and air service have been obtruded on public attention has been on the sacrifice of some new vic tims of the death traps which this Ad ministration has considered "good enough" for our army or navy, it will be good fortune indeed if the nation does not have to pay the cost of such indifference with a terrible penaltv if this country ever becomes Involved In war. Curley's Graceful Act [From the Boston Transcript] The conferring of a pearl-studded medal upon Captain Koenig by Mayor Curley will resound through the pages of history as the most gracious act of royalty since the Kaiser decorated the murderer of the unavenged Americans who went to their death on the Lusi- UAia. lEtanmg (Eljat Contrary to all precedents moro books are being taken out at the Har risbur;-; Public Library in July than in June. Ordinarily circulation drops oft in the hot months, but this year, prob ably due to the interest being taken in the business and industrial books at the Library the circulation is holding up better than known in summer time. The record for June went over tho 10,000 mark and it is likely that July will run away up. The librarian in charge making arrangements to meet this unusual summer demand by add ing more fiction to the shelves, a con siderable number of summer recrea tional fiction being on the way. One of the rather unusual facts regarding the demand for books is that there are numerous dequests for books on Mex ico and the "Travel Table" at the Li brary contains some of the best books on the tempestuous republic. Many inquiries are also being made for in formation on Mexico which indicates the extent of the popular interest. Tho business books, which wore bought from lists supplied by a number of specialists here and elsewhere, have proved a big success. • • « That the food provided for the Penn sylvania regiments sent across tho country was all right and met the de mands of the men when handled prop erly is evidenced by cards received here the last few days. All of tho cards were posted from Missouri or other western States and tell of met* being in good condition and well fed. Major Henry A. Renninger, adjutant of the Fourth brigade, which contains the Eighth regiment, wrote to Colonel H. C. Trexler, the chief quartermaster who handled all the rations: "Every one well and everything fine. Mess officers received highest praiso and men pleased with rations. All have plenty of food. - ♦ • « No one would have believed six months ago that in front of a long famous beer garden in Walnut street Christian Endeavor emblems would bo hanging to-day. But so rapid has been the onward march of the "make tho map all white" movement that this very thing obtains. It seems that so few people like to drink in the garden so popular of old that it has been con verted into an Ice cream parlor. And the owner of the ice cream parlor fol lowed out the suggestion of tho Cham ber of Commerceand decorated in honor of the Christian Endeavor convention which brought temperance workers here this week from every part of tho Commonwealth. The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin calls attention to the interesting fact that 350 Pennsylvanians are officers in the United States regulars and that some of those most eminent are Penn sylvanians. For instance General Tasker H. Bliss comes from Lewis burg and has been 41 years in tho army. The Bulletin says: "The Chief signal officer of the army is Brigadier General George P. Scriven. who was born in Philadelphia in 1854 and has been in the service for 38 years. A Reading boy, Hunter Liggett, is the brigadier general in charge of tho i forces in the Philippines, while tho | Schuylkill Valley has contributed an ; other general officer in Brigadier Gen j eral Charles Z. Bailey, who was born ; in Tamaqua, and is now in charge of : the coast dfenses at Corregidor Island in the Philippines. Brigadier General William M. Black, the chief of engi neers, was born in Lancaster; Colonel Henry H. Ludlow, the second In com mand of the Coast Artillery, was bora in Easton and by marriage is relator! to the Armistead family of Philadel phia: Colonel Brechemin, the second in command In the Army Medical Corps, is a Pennsylvanian; Brigadier General William A. Mann, in charge of the Second Brigade of regulars at Laredo, Texas, is another son of tho Commonwealth, and Lieutenant Colo nel William P. Burnham. also a Penn sylvanian, is in command of the Porto Rican Infantry. Pennsylvania's com missioned officers are scattered around the globe. Major James A. Logan, a Philadelphian, who served throughout the Spanish-American war as a private in Battery A, is now attached to tho American Embassy in Paris. Colonel James A. Irons, another Pennsylvan ! Jan, Is the military attache at Tokio. iln addition to the general officers named, the Keystone State can claim Colonel Frederick S. Foltz, of the First Cavalry; Colonel Joseph A. Gaston, of the Sixth Cavalry; Colonel Horatio G. Sickel. of the Twelfth Cavalry and Colonel George A. Dodd, the hero of the now famous "Dodd's Ride," all these officers now being at the "scone of action." Three colonels of infantry represent the State's leadership in that arm of the service, one of whom. Colo nel James S. Rogers, is now with tho Eighteenth Infantry at the border, while Colonel Samuel W. Miller is at the head of the Tenth Infantry, pa trolling the Panama Canal." Officials of the State Highway de partment have had photographed as a horrible example the river road be tween Division street and Lucknow. A traction engine, supplied with big cleats, passed over the road one of the recent warm afternoons and In tha language of the poets, "left its mark." WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ""] —Col, H. L. Haldeman and Col. H. C. Trexler, on duty outfitting the Guardsmen at Mt. Gretna, are the two oldest men in the National Guard. —William S. Brown, prominent Philadelphia Shriner, has again been elected secretary of the Imperial body. He has long been an officer. —Major H. W. Coulter, who com mands the men of the Tenth in the Big Bend, is a son of a noted soldier and a prominent Greensburg man. —Lee Stewart Smith, new head of thQ Templars and well known here, was given a parade when he returned from the encampment. —Bishop Designate McDevitt, is one of the few Catholic prelates In the country to wear a beard. | DO YOU KNOW That Ilarrisburg is the center of twelve State highways? HISTORIC HARRISBURG This city was headquarters of an army department in the critical days of the Civil war. Keeping Out Cats An amateur electrician has devel oped a plan to protect his property from the alley cat by nailing to the top of his fence a strip of metal and connecting it with a small induction coil. This coil can be regulated by clock work so that the electricity is only turned on during certain hours. When the current Is turned on any cat Jumping upon the fence receives a shock which promptly precipitates him into the alley below and he usual ly rushes away from that locality. The originator of the device claims that It has entirely overcome the an noyance of the noisy cat concerts which had disturbed his nightly ttlum bora, -