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TUESDAY EVENING, JTLY 18.
A. good many people are waiting for
their ships to come in. when the fact
is the ships were never launched.
—An 05.
WE MUST HAVE ORDER
WHATEVER the developments of
the street car strike we must
have order. The police author
ities owe it to the safety of the people
and the good name of Harrisburg and
the striking trolleymen themselves to
arrest and throw into Jal! hoodlums j
like those who caused disturbances
last night.
The striking street car men for the
most part have lived in Harrlsburg for
years. They are known among their
neighbors and to thousands of Harris
burg people as good citizens. Such
men a.-e not transformed into an
archists over night and it is highly
creditable to them that none of them
•••was involved in last evening's attacks;
on street cars. The whole thing ap- J
pears to have been brought about by \
Irresponsibles who seized upon the I
opportunity to let their criminal !
tendencies have play. They acted as
"strike sympathizers" but in reality'
they injured the cause of the strikers <
fsr more than they helped.
Life and property must be safe- j
guarded at all costs. If the police>
cannot or will not act as vigorously as
the occasion demands then the sheriff j
will be justified in swearing in a suffi
cient number of deputies to arrest!
these who are responsible for disorder
of any kind. No mercy should be
shown the man who carries a brick
or hurls a stone that may take the
life of some innocent pedestrian.
Quick and vigorous punishment will
do more to quell mob spirit in its ln
cipiency than anything else.
Mexico must realize now what a wise
old ruler was Porfirio Diaz. He ruled
with an iron hand, of course, but he
knew the people and got the results
which he thought best for his country.
Diaz died an exile, but he was a true
lover of his country, and those who
drove him away must bear the responsi
bility of the present terrible conditions
south of the Rio Grande.
LAYD BANK FOR HARRISBURG
PROMPT steps should be taken to
have one of the twelve new Fed
eral land banks, to be established
under the provisions of the rural credit
bill signed yesterday, located in Har
rlsburg. As usual. Philadelphia bank
ers are first in line with claims for that
city, but the government is said to
favor an inland city more closely iden
tified with the agricultural life of the
country. Lancaster. WiHiamsport and
Harrbburg are mentioned as likely
locations. As between these Harris
burg is the logical site. It is almost
central between the two towns men
tioned and so far as railroads are con
cerned it is better situated than any
town in the whole State or any of the
other States affected. We are only a
few hours' ride from almost any part
of the Commonwealth and we are
within main line striking distance of
New Tork. New Jersey and Delaware,
the other States in the district. Har
rlsburg is more easily reached from a
majority of the agricultural centers
mentioned than any other city avail
•ble.
Further than that, Harrisburg lies
at the upper end of the famous Lan
caster county farm tract and at the
doors of the Cumberland and the
Lebanon Valley*, three of the richest
agricultural, districts in the whole
country, as the records at Washington
show. •
The new act, while not all that
farmers desire, Is the best that could
be hoped for under the circumstances,
and will have sweeping effects. It pro
vides for Federal land banks which
make loans for the first twelve months
exclusively through local national farm
loan associations composed of borrow,
ers. These associations shall be share
holders in the banks and in that way
the members, who arc the borrowers,
will share in the profits of the bank.
The money for the loans is to come
partly from the capital of the banks
and partly from the sale by the banks
of bonds secured by first mortgage on
farm lands. The act defines conditions
under which loans are to be made and
requires that the rate of Interest «>") i
not exceed 6 per cent.
The United States Is to be divided
Into twelve farm loan districts, of
which Pennsylvania, New York. New-
Jersey and Delaware are to form No. 2,
and a Federal land bank with a sub
scribed capital stock of not less than
1750.000 —each share ss— is to be es
tablished In each district. Each Fed
eral land bank may establish branches
P> Jts district Within thirty days after
the -capital stock Is offered for sale It
TUESDAY EVENING,
may be purchased at par by anyone.
Thereafter the stock remaining unsold
shall be bought by the Secretary of
the Treasury for the United States.
It Is provided, however, that the gov.
ernment shall not receive any divi
dends on Its stock.
The act provides for the creation of
local national farm loan associations
through which it is contemplated that
the banks shall make their loans. In
the event that a local loan association
Is not formed In any locality within a
year, the Federal Farm Loan Board
may authorize a Federal land bank to
make loans on farm land through ap
proved agents. Ten or more persons
who own and cultivate farm land
qualified as security for a mortgage
loan under the act. or who are about
to own and cultivate such land, may
form an association, provided the ag
gregate of the loans desired by the
membership Is not less than $20,000.
Each member must take stock in his
association to an amount equivalent
to 5 per cent, of the amount he wishes
to borrow.
This stock the association holds in
trust as security for the members' in
dividual loan. The association in turn,
when applying for money from the
bank, must subscribe for stock in the
bank to an amount equivalent to 5 per
cent, of the sum it wants to obtain for
Its members.
From this It may be seen that the
land banks will have important func
tions and that the location of one of
them here is highly desirable from
many standpoints. Other cities beside
Philadelphia will lose no time in press
ing their claims. Harrlsburg's Cham
ber of Commerce and bankers should
lose no time. We must have vigorous
and rapid action if we hope to win.
State Health Commissioner Dixon
has issued a bulletin advising plenty of
sleep for children and warning against
keeping youngsters up late at night.
He heads the bullettn "Robbing the
Children." and points out the benefits
of lots of sleep for the little folks. Dr.
Dixon is doing so much good in so many
different ways that it is hardly neces
sary to pick out a particular thing for
special mention, but these weekly talks
on practical health subjects will un
doubtedly do great good.
WASH THE STREETS
IN his annual report the Street
Cleaning Commissioner of New
Tork City emphasizes the extent
to which the streets are being flushed
both as a permanent cleanliness meas
ure and as an aid to fighting the in
fantile paralysis epidemic. At present
all streets in congested sections are
flushed night and day. and the in
crease in the area flushed daily is 30
per cent.
How employes of the department
act as "housekeepers" of the city is
shown by a calculation that each one
cleans house for 1.505 persons, thirty
seven horses and twenty-three auto
mobiles several times a day. The re
port also shows that there was an in
crease of 15,613. or 33 per cent., in
the number of automobiles la Man
hattan. The Bronx and Brooklyn, and
no Increase at all In the number of
horses over the previous year. There
are 9,362 more buildings than last
year in the three boroughs.
The report tells of the department's
publicity work to get the public to do
more of its own cleaning up. This
publicity is done by a citizens' com
mittee, through addresses and dis
tributing literature. There is also a
juvenile league in 400 of the public
schoois.
During 1916 there were 918 fewer
complaints by citizens against 6treet
cleaning employes than in 1915. For
the same period the report shows
5,951 arrests for street littering and
general untidiness. Of these, 4.759
were fined and received short sen
tences. The fines totaled $5,025, and
in addition 38.520 warnings were
given.
These figures show the Importance
of flushing and cleaning the streets
of any city. Harrisburg has had a
reputation for several years of keep
ing its streets remarkably clean, but
in view of the epidemics prevailing
elsewhere It would seem to be wise
for our Department of Highways, in
co-opexation with the Department of
Public Safety, to flush the streets and
keep them as clean as possible. We
have abundant water here and there
should be no hesitation in washing
the streets and keeping them so clean
that disease would be practically abol
ished.
The unprecedented activity on the re.
modeling of the Federal Building here
almost suggests the idea that the cam
paign is even extending to the Govern
ment contractors. Harrisburg had al
most come to the conclusion that the
rebuilding of the Federal Square struc
ture was to continue indefinitely like
the excavations of Pompeii.
THE SUSQUEHANNA "NAVY"
NOTHING more stimulating with
regard to the permanent im
provement of the Susquehanna
Basin has occurred than the organi
zation of an association which will
have charge of the September river
carnival and the several improvements
which are contemplated along the
river in front of the city. This asso
ciation is composed largely of young
men who have any amount of ginger
and a broad vision of the future pos
sibilities of the Basin.
It is just some such development
that was bound to follow the wide
spread appreciation of the value of
the Susquehanna as a water play
ground. These young men and the
older citizens who are acting with
them will be able to work out some
concrete plan that will give those
who indulge aquatic sports real oppor
tunities for enjoyment not only this
year, but In all the years to come.
With the passing of "Hardscrabble"
and the permanent Improvement of
that gap In the River Front treatment
will come attractive and practical
boathouses, bathing facilities along
the islands, and elsewhere general
provisions for the use of the river in
such a way as has not been possible
heretofore.
When distinguished landscape de
signers and prominent visitors from
all over the country stop in Harris
[ burg to admire what has already been
done along the river In. this city, we j
may properly consider further what
may be achieved through such asso
ciations as that which Is now under
taking the real work of preserving the
islands, opening up the channels and
doing the other things necessary to a
proper treatment of the Susquehanna
Basin.
Here's to the success of the second
annual September carnival and the
future welfare of the Susquehanna
Navy!
President William Jennings and the
governing board of the Wiliam Penn
Highway Association will meet with
the Philadelphlans next week to further
the interests of the great highway.
Everybody is getting into line.
1 TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE ~1
—The trouble is with the submarine
operations of those Atlantic coast
sharks, there's nobody to whom the
President can write a note of protest.
—The House has passed another
dam bill. Yes, we spelled it d-a-m.
—Even the anti-French feelings of
the Deutschland's crew ought not make
them resent our wishes for a bon
voyage.
—The difference between a drinking
man and a camera is that the man
takes something and gets loaded,
whereas the camera gets loaded and
then takes something.
—"Villa Is not able to read or write."
says a magazine writer. How for
tunate! He can't get mad reading
what we have said about him and he
can't get up a note-writing controversy
with the President
—"Bull Moose" Parker says he'll
fight to the "bitter end." Parker acts
as though he didn't know he had a
hopeless job wished on him by Hi
Johnson.
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Woman suffrage can now sue either
political party that doesn't support it
for breach of promise, separate mainte
nance and alimony —Chicago Herald.
How many rainy Sundays have come
in succession we fail to remember, but
this we know; there can be no such
calamity during a Republican adminis
tration.—New York Tribune.
It is to be hoped that the American
manufacturers of rifles and ammuni
tion will serve our soldiers as efficient
ly as they have prepared the Mexicans.
—Nashville Southern Lumberman.
Let us hope that those 4.7-inch guns
that are trained on Juarez are not cov
ering the old church of Guadaloupe. the
famous old unknown Reims Cathedral
of the North American continent.
Boston Transcript.
War's War On Drink
[Literary Digest.]
One of the important results of the
war, it is predicted, will be that "the
drink evil will come to be universally
regarded as a rational problem which
must be given more serious attention."
Since it has been found that a sense of
national danger carv enforce drastic
prohibition, wc fee that legislation can
do more than many people suppose in j
the suppression of evils flowing from j
the use of liquor. More important,
than laws, however, are seen to be the
preventive measures that have sprung
into force, such as the " 'individual
canteen,' not mere 'substitutes' for the
raloon, but places where wholesome
food may be bought and where the
social instincts of the average man
may find an open field of innocent ac- j
tivity; not so high as to break contact
with everyday life, but high enough to |
provide something more than mere
animal gratification—simple comforts
that make, if indirectly, for the better
things of heart and mind." Such con
clusions, formulated by Dr. Joseph H.
Crooker in The Christian Register,
Boston, are derived from an exami
nation of the parliamentary "White
Paper" issued by the British govern
ment, giving the results of its investi
gation, through its representatives at
foreign courts. Into the new regu
lations respecting the use of liquor
since the Great War began.
France to Buy Direct
[Newspaperdom.]
A suggestion of the large foreign
trade which will come to the United
States as soon as the war is ended
comes through the announcements of
the French Society for Commercial
Development, whose agent, Dr. Arnaud
Rosenthal, has just completed an
American tour. This is a $100,000,000
company, organized to buy*at first hand
in the United States eliminating all
middlemen and brokers, and selling
direct to French merchants, guaran
teeing the goods and carrying those
business men who cannot pay cash.
The society will build a line of steam
ships that will sail direct from United
States ports to those of France. There
will no longer be the stop in England
with the English commission to pay.
Plans for these vessels are already
under way and before the end of the
war the first of them will probably
arrive in New Tork.
Dr. Rosenthal said: "I have made
arrangements for the products of the
great natural resources of the United
States In every city I visited. In New
Orleans I arranged for cotton and oil
and other products of the southern
portion of the country. In Pittsburgh
I arranged for iron and steel, and here
I have made arrangements for the
products that look to this port for
their natural outlet. I have been very
pleased with my treatment all over the
United States, and found that every
where manufacturers were looking for
-1 ward, as we in France do. to the re
f stablishment of permanent trade after
, the war."
A Paying Partner
Edwin A. Walton, advertising manager
| of a large Detroit manufacturing com
; pany, speaking on "The Correct Attl-
I tude Toward Advertising," told the
J traveling salesmen that too many of
them have regarded "advertising as
highly mysterious and of a very doubt
ful value." He declared that effective
advertising was the silent partner in
the successful business career of every
salesman.
"Advertising is a poor closer, but &
mighty good opener." he said. "Let us
use It to open men's minds In prepa
ration for our calls. Advertising can
influence a million minds at once, at the
cost of from a few cents down to the
decimal part of 1 cent each. The mis
sion of advertising is to take the bur
den of educational work off the shoul
ders of the salesman and enable him
to start In nearer to the order,"
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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Jj thr Ex-Committeeman
Names of the Democrats selected for
presidential electors In Pennsylvania
chosen by the Democratic leaders and
approved by president Wilson were
tiled at the Capitol to-day and will be
placed on the ballot. The list is as
outlined by National Committeeman
Paimer at Stroudsburg. The Re
publican list was died a wees or A>
ago.
The Democratic list is as follows:
At Large: Samuel S. Fels. Phila
delphia; Simon P. Light, Lebanon;
Isaiah Sheeline. Altoona; Webster
Grim, Doylestown; Joseph H. Rellly,
Philadelphia; John A. McKiuney,
Clarion.
By Congressional Districts: 1, Joseph
L. Galen. Philadelphia; 8, William
Hancock. Philadelphia; 3. John E.
Ij'iigtn, Philadelphia; 4. Henry C.
Kline. Philadelphia; 5, Emanuel R.
Clinton. Philadelphia; 6, Theodore F.
Jenkins, Philadelphia; 7, Frank B.
Rhodes. Media; 8, Nelson M. Trout,
Pottstown; 9, Jacob Pontz, Lan
caster; 10, Edward Merrifleld, Scran
ton, 11, John J. Shigov Freeland; 12,
James A. Moecker. Schuylkill Haven;
18. William M. Zechman. Reading;
14, A. H. Kingsbury, Towanda; 15, N.
M. Edwards. Willlamsport; 16, Lloyd
B. Skeer. Bloomsburg; 17, John A.
Diehl. Marion; IS, Samuel Kunkel,
Karrisburg; 19, Harry S. Bender,
Johnstown; 20, Allen C. Wiest. York;
21. Henry Meyer, Rebersburg; 22,
James S. Moorhead, Greensburg; 23,
Daniel W. McDonald. Uniontown; 24,
Charles H. Ruhe, Beaver Falls; 25,
Fred L. Weede, Erie; 26, Wesley M.
Heiberger, Easton; 27, Don C. Corbett,
Clarion; 28, Frank D. McCue, Oil
City; 29, John Voelker. Pittsburgh;
30, A. P. Burgwln, Pittsburgh; 31,
Hermann Obernaueur. Pittsburgh; 32,
Thomas H. Flynn, Pittsburgh.
—Democratic National Committee,
mar. A. Mitchell Palmer and Charles
P. Donnelly, former Democratic State
Chairman, who have been at swords'
points since the Palmer ractions got
control of the Democratic State ma
chine by means of the ax in 1911,
made nice speeches about each other
last night at the meeting of the
Democratic city committee in Phila
delphia, but fooled no one, not
even their hearers. The meeting
was the midsummer rally of the
Democratic city committee and Pal
mer took advantage of the opportunity
to tell the people of the State what
a great mistake they made when they
did not elect him United States Sena
tor. He also assailed the Governor.
—The Democratic machine leaders
throughout the State are making a
hip effort to keep Washington party
local organizations alive and some are
e-ven urging third party men to insist
that the State committee members
elected in May be recalled. As a mat
ter of fact the Democrats, for very
obvious reasons, are taking more lp
teiest in the third party than the men
who have formed its rank and file in
the last four years.
—Withdrawals of the Washington
party State ticket are expected to be
made before September 1. Friends of
the candidates have been canvassing
the State and have found so little
sentiment for a third party that they
have advised candidates to quit and
avoid trouble.
—Vare men are grooming Harry A.
Mackey for the district attorney nomi
nation in Philadelphia to succeed
Samuel P. Rotan. The Vares are also
grooming John R. K. Scott for Gov
ernor. Mayor Smith for Senator and
Congressman Vare for mayor.
—Senator Penrose announced yes
terday that the Republicans will knock
out the proposed armor plate plant
appropriation if the Democrats insert
ed it.
Finances of American Cities
In all but three of the 204 cities in
the United States with populations ot
over 30.0C0 the receipts from revenue
during the fiscal year 1915 exceeded tne
payments for current governmental
expenses and interest and in forty-eight
cities the revenues exceeded the total
expenditures for governmental costs,
including interest and outlays, accord
ing to a report on Financial Statistics
of Cities which will soon be issued by
the Bureau of Census. This report con
tains detailed data concerning the
revenues and expenditures, the assess
ments, taxes, indebtedness and assets
of the cities in this country which had
a population of more than 30,000 on
July 1, 1916. The report estimates that
the aggregate population of these
cities at that time exceeded 31,000,000;
nine of the cities having more than 500,-
1 "00 inhabitants, and over sixty cities
having a population exceeding 100.noo
The aKgresate revenues of all the cities
were $940,000,000, expenditures for cur
rent governmental costs, including in
terest, were $750,000,000, and aggregate
outlays $330,000,000. Of the total reve
nues $640,000,000 or more than two
thirds was derived from taxes. $570.-
000,000 coming from assessments upon
property. Public service enterprises
during this period yielded nearly SIOO.-
000,000 or more than double the amount
of the expenses connected with the
management of such enterprises. The
average per capita expenditures for all
governmental costs were $34.65. while
the net indebtedness for the entire 704
cities amounted to $2,350,000,000. or
$75.50 per capita. The net indebtedness
of New York City is $920,000,000.
A Water Playground
[From the Kansas City Star.]
With the SIOO,OOO voted for the Blue
river improvement now available it is
not too soon to hope that the engineer
ing department has some plan of what
is proposed to be done ready for public
inspection. It is not expected that the
sum to be expended will transform the
Blue into all that the public imagina
! tion has pictured. But whatever Is
done now ought to be done with that
picture in mind and in the expectation
that it will some day be a reality.
If the Blue river wasn't already here
It would pay Kansas City to dig it. It
would then be made what it now ought
to be—a locked, dammed and parked
pleasure stream from Swope Park to
the Missouri river. It seems incredible
1 that the opportunity to add this pic-
I turesque water course to Kansas City's
park system—which, of all things, needs
water—should have been so long neg
lected. It is Kansas City's one chance
to provide this much needed detail in
its out of doors attractions. The whole
stretch of the Blue for something like
ten miles could be made the city's play
ground. affording boating, batning,
shaded drives, space for tennis ana
other sports, and skating in winter.
Whatever is now done should be the
beginning of a continuing work with
this final result in view. The stream
and its banks should be under the juris
diction of the park board, and action
should be taken that will prevent the
use ot them for other than these public
purposes. That ought to be a first step
Unless it is taken the development of
the stream may at any time take a di
rection that will defer and make im
measurably more costly the realization
of this cherished dream By voting
bonds to make a start on the work the
public has shown its desire to utilize
the Blue as something more than an
op'in sewer. There is a great opportu
nity now to make a beginning on a com
prehensive plan.
Sweeping Liquor Ad Clause
Washington, July 14.—Senator Jones,
of Washington, has offered an amend
ment to the post office appropriation
bill, prohibiting the post office to han
dle newspapers or publications of any
kind containing any advertising of in
toxicating liquors of any kind.
The Nation Scattered
I scattered them with a whirlwind
among all the nations whom they knew
not. Thus the land was desolate after
them, that no man passed through nor
returned: for they laid the pleasant
land desolate,—ZfechftrUOi, 7:14« ,
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
THAT SENSATION!
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•-From the Philadelphia Evening; Ledger.
SETTING THE CLOCK AHEAD
By Frederic J. Haskin a
EVER since the war In Europe, the
need of thrift in America has
been Impressed upon us. We
have been told how Europe saves Its
money, how It conserves its natural
resources and how it keeps the record
of Its expenses, In order that our ex
travagant insUncts may be curbed by
Its example. Now. the latest innova
tion thrust upon us by the thrifty ones
is the economizing of daylight during
the summer months by setting all the
clocks ahead by one hour.
This plan, which bears the trade
mark, "Made in Germany," has now
been adopted by Holland. Switzerland.
England and Canada, where it is al
leged great saving has been effected
In kerosene, gas and electric light.
In reality, all Americans know that
the idea originated with the first Am
erican economist, Benjamin Franklin,
years ago, when it was embodied in a
two-line jingle -which has been sung by
American school children ever since.
According to Franklin, he was the first
man to discover that the sun rose as
early as six o'clock In the morning
and diffused light as soon as it rose.
In a letter he wrote to a Parisian
journal he explained the phenomenon,
which it is to be regretted was doubt
ed by a prominent American astrono
mer, and claimed the honor of the
discovery, although complaining bit
terly that he supposed some one
would endeavor to show that the
thing had been known to the ancients.
It was then suggested in the letter
that in order that people might have
the benefit of this extra amount of
newly discovered daylight, cannon,
drums and bells should proclaim the
rising of the sun every morning.
There is no evidence, however, that
the plan was ever accepted with any
great enthusiasm by the colonists,
who continued to sleep placidly
through the early summer mornings
and to retire at the accustomed hour.
But changing the standard time of
an entire nation so as to get the peo
ple up an hour earlier in the morning
is something new. Cleveland has
been getting up an hour earlier than
the rest of the country for the past
two years, and Detroit and several
Canadian cities have recently follow
ed suit, while it is reported New York
is considering adopting the policy, but
in Europe the changing of the clocks
is provided by national law. As early
as 1908, a daylight saving bill was in
troduced into the House of Commons
in England and created a tremendous
furore, but failed of passage. To-day.
the clocks are moved up an hour on
the third Sunday in April and back
an hour on the third Sunday of Sep
tember. The standard time of Green
wich remains the same for the pur
pose of astronomical computations
and navigation.
As far as the extra daylight is con
cerned, there is no doubt but what
such economy would prove a benefit.
While many will miss the picturesque
moonlight of the nights and all the
Interesting night noises of the frogs,
katydids and crickets, the sunlight is
much more healthful. Anyway, that
last hour of sleep which is causing all
the fuss is apt to be something of a
weary pretense. In the suburbs the
chickens have long since had their
own clock system with no considera
tion for the established sleeping cus
toms of the country, and In the city
the clatter of the milk bottles on the
six o'clock delivery is conducive to
Two-Cent Papers
[Editor and Publisher.]
Slowly but surely the movement
toward the two-cent paper grows.
Only in the largest cities Is the penny
paper feasible, under present con
ditions. It has long been recognized
that publishers of daily newspapers
are slow to act as a body, and that Is
the reason for the halUng of this per
fectly sound economic movement. Fear
of the other fellow often holds the
publisher of a penny newspaper to a
losing policy. On this one thing, at
least, competing publishers should be
able to reach an understanding.
SEEMS RATHER STRANGE
By "Wing Dinger
Headlines in the papers tell me
Woodrow Wilson and Charles Hughes
Shortly will have carried to them
The important bit of news '
That some weeks back, each was named
by
A convention in the West
To head his respective party
In the Presidential quest.
Seems to me a wee bit funny—
' Cause I thought most everyone
Knew that at the next election
These two candidates would run.
But I guess in politics, bo.
There's so much uncertainty
That one must have formal notice
, Ere one satisfied can b«. _ ■->
JULY 18, 1916.
insomnia. There is always the tear
ful awakening of the six-months old
infant next door, the man who plays
the cornet across the street and the
annoying attentions of the one fly
that managed to force its way through
the screen to prevent that last hour's
sleep ih the morning.
If one got up an hour earlier, he
might avoid the chickens "and the
awakening infant, but there would al
ways be the milk bottles, the cornet
and the fly that were still earlier,
Besides working a hardship on the
electric light and gas light compan
ies, it would probably be distasteful
to the milkmen who are already
ahead of the daylight, to the farmer
who must beat the opening: of the
market and to the grocers and res
taurant keepers whose business be
t gins before most people get up in the
I morning.
However, it is the psychology of
| the thing which is the most internet
:ing issue. By setting the clock an
hour ahead it is hoped to convince us
| that it is seven o'clock when it is real
!ly only six. It might seem to some
people that the changing of the clock
! were a trifle unnecessary, since it is
perfectly possible to get up at. six
I o'clock whether the clock says it is
i six or seven, but the daylight savers
are counting upon the power of sug
gestion. One man has suggested that
the same idea be carried out .with re
gard to the thermometer; namely, that
in the summer it beforced down a few
degrees and in the winter up a few
degrees, thus convincing people that
it was cooler or warmer than it ac
tually was. Many American cities
start the day an hour earlier in the
summer, but the practice is not uni
versal which, of course, will be the
case if a law Is passed providing
changing the time.
The only people seriously inconven
ienced by thedaylight-savingr plan are
the telegraph and railroad companies.
I The railroads would have some con
j fusion' with trains on the line at the
I moment the clock was changed; and
j the telegraph companies are apt to
I become a trifle confused at first in
their time schedules.
Standard time around the world has
always produced many curious phe
nomena, such as the receipt of the
news of the Empress of China's death
in Xew York almost a day before it
happened. A telegram sent from
Greenwich at noon will arrive in New
j York at seven o'clock in the morning,
j five hours before it was sent, provid
ing, of course, the transmission be in
. stantaneous. San Francisco, which is
; much further west, would receive it
; four hours earlier. On the other
hand, a cablegram sent from Green-
Iwich to India, although instantly com
municated, would arrive several hours
later. Thus in keeping therecords of
all telegrams sent, the companies
must bear in mind the local changes
in time of the various countries, in
addition to the fluctuations in world
time.
|\ To tamper with the time standard
has always been considered by the
! mass of people an extremely daring
and dangerous thing to do. Changes
in the calendar in the past have only
been accomplished after much argu
ment, persuasion and some bloodshed,
and the standard time adjustment is
always regarded with a certain stead
fast attachment and awe. It was
many years before we har standard
time in America.
i [ OUR DAILY LAUGH
A SURE SIGN.
Father: I don'l
j night
me how much
money you had.
AN EXPLANA- '
TION FOR BAD ... . . -
Dealer: This
canvas is not up uHm'
to your standard. IrVwW
There is an emp- jf JflHj W'Jft
tiness in It which ,1 TjMI aE jH
Alas, you are
eaten for three
days when I did
Hut.
Stoning Qlljal
/
Notwithstanding the hot weather
through which this section of the State
has passed in the last three weeks
there are a good many complaints be
ing heard about the effect of rains
upon the crops and gardens, to say
nothing of the spoiling of sport of
almost every kind except on the water.
Some of the gardens about the city in
whose blooms the owners take great
pride have been so affected by weeds
that those who have lavished money
and time on them do not talk about
gardening. Tho weeds have also be
gun to annoy truck gardeners more
than did the Philistines the Israelites
of old. Even the bee industry has
been hard hit by the weather and there
are reports that the bees found it so •
wet in June and in parts of this month
that they lived on the honey they had
stored uyp in May. Farmers in the
Cumberland Valley say that they had
to hustle to get their hay dried and
stored up in May. Farmers in the
have been held back by weather as
much as tho labor shortage. The
Spring was unusually rainy and now
when there should be dry, hot weather
there has been an excess of humidity,
which may do the corn good, but
which is interfering with other lines.
Wonder how many people know any
thing of the beauty and picturesque
nees of the Stony Creek Valley. The
stream, the hills, the fields and all the
panorama appeal strongly to lovers of
nature.
• • •
A little boy, the son of a promi
nent lawyer and banker of this city,
lives- during the summer months on
his father's country place along the
Yellow Breeches creek. A bright and
active little chap, he has made friends
with most of the rabbits and birds and
other feathered and furred and creep
ing things in the neighborhood of his
home. The other day he was telling
his father about some of the birds he
knew and in order to test his knowl
edge his father told him to name the
birds with which he is familiar and
the count was over forty. With the in
crease of knowledge of our feathered
friends will come an increase of the
birds that have • been driven away
through indifference and without re
gard to their usefulness. And the chil
dren are going to help a lot.
How eagerly the older ex-membera
of the National Guard and the Spanish-
American War veterans welcome the
slightest opportunity to get back into
service—even though it be no more
exciting than recruiting service—was
pretty well demonstrated the other day
when some of the "old guard" learned
of the appointment of County Com
missioner Henry M. Stine as an infan
try captain for "rookie" duty.
One of tho first men to whom tho
beaming commissioner and ex-officer
of the Spanish-American War showed
his orders was Jury Commissioner Ed
ward Dapp. an ex-trumpeter in the
service of Uncle Sam.
"Gee. that sounds good, Harry."
grinned the Jury commissioner.. "Now
do me a favor, will you?"
"If I can. Ed. What is it?"
"Why," answered the ex-bugler a
wee bit wistfully, "give me a chance
to help."
• • •
There were a good many late break,
fasts and some unoccupied washlines
in Harrisburg yesterday morning as a
result of the trollevmen's strike. Many
persons employed in Harrisburg homes
live in the suburbs and could not get
to the city homes in time to get break,
fasts, and as for the washwomen, to
all intents and purposes they were also
on a strike. They called up on tele,
phones and said there was nothing
doing in the wa> of work because they
could not walk and work afterward.
Consequently there were .washlines
which will be filled later in the week
and the shirts and other things will be
flying in the winds days later thao
ueual.
* * *
A couple of automobile tourists
stood in Market Square yesterday
afternoon watching things and ap
peared to be so much interested in
what was going on that they were
finally asked by a man who had an
swered fifteen auestions why they were
there.
"We're coming east on a trip and
we read that you've got a trolley strike
on. We never saw how a strike works
out our way and we cut in here to
watch things," ready reply.
William V. Hughes, the Blair county
man selected to be candidate for presi
dential elector in the Nineteenth dis
trict, is said to be a cousin of the
presidential candidate. He has never
figured in politics before.
1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~
—Ex-Senator P. C. Knox is spend
ing the month golfing at Delaware
river resorts.
—John Shipley, candidate for elector
in York, is a prominent manufacturer.
—Mayor C. H- Rhodes, of Altoona,
appears to be getting results in his
crusade against Sunday sales in the
Mountain City.
—Edgar T. Collins, of Williamsport,
brother of the Deputy Attorney Gen
eral, has been promoted from captain
to malor in the army
—Bishop W. P. Eveland, of the
Philippines, ifs spending the summer
at Eaglesmere.
| DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg engines are fur
nishing power for West Virginia
mines?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
John Harris' fort at this place was
one of the very first erected on the
Susquehanna.
Still Talking of Big Picnic
[Editor and Publisher.]
The Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph re
cently entertained the schools of Har
risburg and vicinity with an outing at
Paxtang Park, near the city. Seven
thousand children and their parents
and friends enjoyed games, contests
and spelling bees for prizes. The Gov
ernor spoke, and there was a free
vaudeville performance and singing of
patriotic songs. Little Marjorle Ster
rett, the battleship girl, came from
Brooklyn at the Telegraph's request to
mingle with the girls and boys, and
altogether the kiddies had Just about
'as good a time as it was possible to
have during the whole of a summer
day. The outing will be repeated ia
1917.
Wickedness Grieveth God
And God saw that the wickedness of
man was great in the eaxth, and that
every imagination of the thoughts of
his heart was only evil continually. J
And It repented the Lord that he ha 4
made man on eurth. and It grieved him
at his heart. —Genesis. 6:5-6.
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 License Tax Officer, and how
are license taxes levied?
William D. Block. Ordinances of
Council fix rates for different busi
ness. which are levied by the li
cense tax officer and placed In the
hands of the City Treasurer for col-.
~ lection, ■ -
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