8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A A'BWSPAPER FOR TUB HOME Founded iSji Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Ttlecrifh Bulldtne, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Prtt'I and Ed\tor-i»-ChiSf P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS >l. ST»EINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania ed Dailies. Ea3te n <jff.ee. Has- Brooks, Fifth Ave nue Building. New York City; West ern office, hw>- brook. Story St Brooks. Peoplo't Gcs Building, Cb&i cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harrlß* burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mail, 43.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 22. To him that wills, the way is seldom wanting. —OLD PROVERB. LAW AND ORDER MUST PREVAIL BUSINESSMEN can hardly be ex pected to be overjoyed as a re sult at the practical suspension of business consequent upon the inter ruption of the street car service in this city and to many suburban towns. Not only the business men who are direct ly Injured by the blockade, but domes tic service and the comfort of thou sands of people are involved In the unfortunate dispute. More and more the public is becom • lng impatient over the situation and regardless of the merits of the break between the street railway manage ment and its employes the, people are insisting upon some sort of a conclu sion of the whole njatter. First of all they demand that there shall be ob servance of law and order. As both sides to the controversy are likewise insisting upon the reign of law as against the rule of the mob, there ought"to be no difficulty on this point. Prompt arrest of every violator of the public peace will go far toward main tenance of order in this city. Sherift Caldwell Is keeping a close watch on developments and between the city and county officials there ought to be no serious difficulty In preserving the peace. This is the wish of the public and the expressed desire of the rail way officials and their striking em ployes. Under the circumstances and with public support of this attitude it would appear to be a comparatively easy proposition to prevent disorder during the unhappy plight into which the city has been catapulted this week. CTT OUT THE CI T-OI T! AUTOMOBILE and motorcycle cut outs are an abomination in the] land. They are a relic of times past, when every ounce of power an engine could generate was required to get the machine over the-'road. To-day the use of the cut-out is an evidence of a weak motor. Xo first class machine need throw open the cut-out to get the car across a hill, and the driver who uses a cut-out for the mere pleasure of hearing the en gine exhaust should do it only on in frequented country roads. The ap proach to a city and the city itself should be free from this unnecessary noise. Especially is the open cut-out a nuisance at night. If you want to label yourself as the driver of an in ferior car or mark yourself as in considerate of the comfort of others, "run with your out-out open. Jf not, cut out the cut-out. Do It now. for it is only a question of time until the Legislature will do it for you. BATTRDAY CLOSING HARRISBURG merchants have shown a commendable spirit of co-operation and a keen interest In the welfare of their employes in deciding to join In a movement hav ing for its object the closing of all stores Saturday afternoons and even ings during August, Instead of Friday afternoons, as heretofore. The people of the city no doubt will co-operate fully by patronizing the stores as gen erously on Friday afternoons and evenings as they do now on Saturdays. Thus the working forces of the stores will have Saturday afternoon and night for recreation and Sunday for a day of rest and church attendance. The merchants doubtless did not think of it In that light, but they have done much to encourage a proper observ ance of the Sabbath by closing Satur day nights, for the man and woman who formerly found leisure for pleas ures only on Sundays will now have time for both recreation and devo tions. Once 4t was thought that business to be successful must be conducted six days and six nights a week. Then we % came to understand that business could be run just as profitably by keeping the stores open only one night a week, with a Friday half holiday in summer, and we are about to find that Friday night will be quite as acceptable to buyers as Saturday night for shopping. Eventually we may come to the place where even one night a week of open shop may not be necessary, except on special occasions. The new order has not been ob tained without much effort and some sacrifice. The merchants have been willing to try the experiment for the sake of their clerks and other em ployes. They have relied upon the publio to see the move in the humani tarian light In which it waa conceived. SATURDAY EVENING, The merchants have done their part and it remains for the shoppers now ! to do theirs. AX APPEAL AN appeal has come to the Tele gt-aph from the mother of one of the Harrisburg soldleri on j the Mexican border for assistance. She was referred to the headquarters of the Associated Charities for relief. It is remarkable, indeed, that an ap peal which should arouse every atom j of generosity in aid of those who are j dependent upon the men who have gone out in the service of their coun try should have stirred up so little ln j terest In this community. , Harrisburg has never fallen short when called upon for any public help ! and we can only believe that the sud -1 den disappearance of the Mexican war cloud is responsible for the apparent lack of interest. That it is only ap : parent is evidenced, however, in the fact that on no other occasion has the community failed to respond to all legitimate appeals for euccor. That this situation prevails elsewhere is manifest from the following editor ial comment in a Philadelphia news paper on the subject: It cannot be that Philadelphia's apparent lack of interest in and sympathy for the dependent fami lies of soldiers at the front is due to a want of patriotism or to any failure to realize that the Guards men have responded to the call of duty, and that the honor of the community is involved for the pro tection of the personal Interests they have left behind them. The only explanation must be sought in a widespread misunderstanding as to the attitude of employers and the continuation of wages to the men in the militia. While it is true that most of the large employing firms and corporations have guar anteed to the men in the Guard the continuance of their pay and the assurance of positions after their return, these guarantees do not by any means meet all the conditions which arise. There are many of the men without the protection of regular employment, and these are bound to suffer through their sud den, enforced absence. The com mittee has made a thorough invesi gration of the cases applying for and needing relief, and the gener ous people of Philadelphia need have no doubt as to the genuineness of the need for help or the urgency of the appeals for money. It would be an Ineradicable disgrace to the city were the appeals to be unan swered. We do not believe they will fall on deaf ears. Money is needed at once for the four hun dred families for whose care the committee has assumed responsi bility. The call of this aged woman at the Telegraph office is unmistakable evi dence of the need of this fund and we i trust that some plan will be worked out for relief in such cases. LAFOI-LETTE'S LAMENTATIONS ANOTHER outburst from Senator' LaFollette at Washington has once more called attention to this erratic statesman. Since LaFol lette's support of a measure which practically put the merchant marine out of business he has ceased to have the confidence of a large majority of his countrymen. His radical views upon most questions and his hysteri cal appeals to the thoughtless have conspired to destroy in a large meas ure his usefulness In the United States Senate. His attempt this week t6 still fur ther cripple the naval strength of the country and the naval program now on its way through Congress have further alienated those who were dis posed to regard with some toleration his peculiar attitude'toward the poli cies which are believed to be vital to the welfare of the United States. Among Republicans especially his ap proval of the "watchful waiting" pol icy of the administration in Mexico has aroused widespread dissent and condemnation. Lake most of the pacifists of the extreme type, LaFollette protests against the enlarged expenditure for military purposes and charges that these- have been actuated by selfish interotj instead of patriotism. He as serts th.it '>iere Was not a military, economical or political reason to war rant the p: >oosed appropriations, and ' upon the teels of this declaration makes the following incredible state ment: The logic of the whole world sit uation Is against necessity for these proposed increases. The great nations of the world, with their devastation and exhaustion of resources in rtie past year, have made It impossible for them to be come a menace to America. Any intelligent citizen of the United States who realizes the conditions which confront this country will take LaFollette's measure through the fore going paragraph. Like all reformers of his type he intimates that his fel low members of the Senate and House are the representatives of makers of . munitions of war and the great business : interests. But when called to account for his reflection upon his colleagues I the Wisconsin theorist declared that ihe had not intended to convey the j idea that those whom he had accus jed by Implication of outside interests t were receiving double compensation. O, for strong men at Washington! THAT WEST SHORE SCHOOL' THE school directors of the West Shore towns that have made pos sible the erection of a central high school for all the towns concerned are to be congratulated. They are men of vision and enterprise. The people of the towns which will support the new high school will profit immensely thereby. Nothing has held the West Shore back so much as Its school facilities, or lack of them. The schools have been good, so far as they have gone, but they havo not gone far enough. Large sums have been spent under the new school code to bring West Shore students to Harrlsburg. With a high school on the West Shore equal In Its grading with the Harris burg schools there will be no longer need for this, and all concerned will be benefited. Doubtless the towns and townships that have not come in will now see the light and join the movement. If they do not, the burden will be on their own shoulders, for there will be no more sending of pupils to Harrisburg and the towns supporting the new school doubtless will see to it that the com munities that have been too lax to comt in on the building enterprise shall pay their full for the tuition of students sent to the new high school from the nonsupporting districts. A central West Shore high school such as is proposed will do more than any one other thing for the upbuilding of the whole West Shore and the school directors that stand apart from the movement are taking an entirely wrong view of the matter. 1 TELEORAPH PERISCOPE ~ —Villa has been able to lay aside his crutches, according to the press dispatch, which gives rise to the thought that if he was able to travel so fast on crutches how. do they ex pect to catch him now that he is on horseback. —Many an automobile blow-out has been spoiled by a tire blow-out. —Any Harrlsburger will be able to vouch for the truth of the assertion that two-thirds of the 200,000 automo biles in Pennsylvania use Market street every evening between 5 and 6 o'clock. —There are moments when a man hesitates between another piece of watermelon and a stomachache, but not many. —The Kaiser has not made any an nouncements as to where he expects to eat his Thanksgiving dinner. | EDITORIAL COMMENT" If Mr. Hughes and Colonel Roosevelt tour the country together, as it is said they may, Mr. Hughes max as well make up his mind to get used to the upper berth.—Ohio State Journal. We look to that redoubtable enemy of nature-fakers, Colonel Roosevelt, to come out of retirement and denounce the writer of the head line, "Bull Moose Sings Swan Song."—Chicago Daily News. "Unprepared"—Perkins (From Phila. Public Ledger) Gtorge W. Perkins, financier and business man of N«w York city, said in reply to the Public Ledger's tele gram as to his views: "I think I can best answer your in quiry by referring you to an address I made October 12. 1915, before the Indiana Bankers' Association. The views I expressed then I now hold, only I am more than ever convinced of their accuracy." The title of the paper he referred to was "We Are Unprepared for Peace as We Are for War." Among the things he said were: "We may not have to face a war at arms with foreign nations, but we are certain to face war in industry with foreign nations. War may not come, but peace will surely come, and, after peace, Industrial conflict. "W r e may not be invaded with long range suns, but we actually are being and will continue to be invaded with long-range methods of intercommuni cation. The long-ranse gun, the sub marine and the airship are the most deadly nstruments or modern war at arms. The long-distance telephone, the Atlantic cable and the wireless are the most deadly instruments of war in industry. We may not have to face the former; we are already obliged to face the latter. "Some day the war will cease— probably as suddenly as it began— and our men will no longer have this work. At approximately the same moment that Europe's demand on us for war supplies largely ceases, her men will be put to work manufac turing the things that she was selling to us so successfully under the Wil son tariff when the war broke out. In short, the end of this frightful war will automatically put many of our men out of work anil many of Europe's men at worn. "It will not do to lull ourselves to sleep with the argument that when ♦his war is over Europe will he so exhausted in men ana monev that she cannot compete with us in the manu facturing lines. Emergencies and dif ficulties quicken the faculties of a re sourceful people, and no country on the civilized globe to-day is more re sourceful than Germany. "It is a great mistake to expect Eu rope to be hopelessly crippled, in dustrially speaking, when this war is over. The thing Europe will be crip pled for will be gola. We shall have it, and her only way to get it will be by sending us manufactured goods at prices low enough to get back that gold; and this she will unquestionably do. As matters stand to-day we are wholly unprepared to repel her at tempt to do this." Gulf Stream Scapegoat [New York World.] Ten years ago tarpon, belonging, as e\er>body knows, to thfe semltropical waters of Florida, were found swim ming oft Canadian shores. At the same time Sunday newspaper artists were drawing pictures of Xew York as a city of palm trees and jungle. Why' The Gulf stream had changed its course. To-day sharks infest the bavs and beach waters of New York and Xew Jersey, and white bathers are bewaring and seaside landlords are berating wise skippers sail into port to tell us why. The Gulf stream is shifting its course. It has been ever thus. The Gulf stream has been the scapegoat of the Atlantic coast perhaps ever since it was discovered. Certainly ever since the living generations began to have memories. In vain official Washing ton tells us that the warm-water streak to the deep-water east flows now where it has flown for ages. Captain Pillsbury, sturdy navigator of the bat tleship Maine, carried to heedless ears within recent years the assurance that the stream is "as fixed as the Hudson." The skippers and some of the rest of us know better. Is the December grass fresh and green in Central Park? Does a Xew York Spring push January off the cal endar? Does August linger in the solden lap of October? Does the peach crop fail in Delaware? Is Great Britain shivering, perhaps snow-flur ried. in June? There is a single answer. The Gulf stream has changed its course. Taking Advantage [From the Washington Star.] Bishop Wilberforce, of Omaha, said recently in Y. M. C. A. address: "Too rrftiny of the stories about the boyhood of our multi-millionaires are just stories of selfishness and mean ness, taking advantage of others' gen erosity—the sandwich yarn, in fact "A hungry traveler put his head out of a car window as his train pulled up at a small station, and said to a boy " 'Here, boy. take this dime and get me a sandwich, will you? And, by the way, here's another dime. Get a sand wich for yourself, too.' " 'Thanks, boss—and the boy darted away. ' "He returned, munching a big fine sandwich, just as the train was starting off He ran to the traveler, handed him a dime, and said: " 'Here's yer dime back. boss. They only had one sandwich left.' " Silly Season Is Here [From the Detroit Free Press.] A wag presented a Florida town with a snow plow. The next thing he'll be doing,is sending a talking machine to Bryan. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH foUUct LK f > Muvoijfctfa)iZa >T the Ex-CommiUceman One hundred and two Republican member* of the 1915 HOUB© of Repre sentatives are candidates for re-elec tion according to the returns of the primaries flled at the State Capitol, this being the highest number of Re publicans to seek re-election in recent years. Twenty-six of the Democratic members are also candidates for re election. The last House contained 164 Republicans and 41 Democrats. One Washington and one Socialist member of the last House also appear as candidates. Of the candidates for the 1917 House twenty-two are men who serv ed In the legislature of-1918, but not in 1915, while three were members in 1911, but not in the two following sessions. None of the legislative candidates named at the May primary has flled withdrawal papers. The time for filing nomination pu pers by Independent bQdles of citizens will expire on October 3. Papers involving the tenure of office of mayor of two third class cities are to be laid before Attorney General Brown when he returns to the State Capitol next week. He will decide whether to permit the use of the name of the State for an inquiry into the right of Mayor John V. Kosek, of Wllkes-Barre, to succeed himself as mayor and will set a date for a hear ing of the proceeding to Inquire into the eligibility of Mayor Jonas Fisch er, of Williamsport. In the latter case it is declared in a petition filed here that there is a question of the citizenship of the mayor. —District Attorney Rotan has taken hold of things In the Philadelphia vice crusade and there are signs that the probe will be pushed and some In quiries made as to how long the con ditions disclosed by the activity of the police had existed. —Congressman Vare says that he will try to win the armor plate plant for Leugue Island. He appears to favor the plant because he says it would give increased capacity, al though admitting that government re quirements have not kept the thr#e Pennsylvania plants busy. Vare ap pears to be for the plant because Pen rose Is against it. —Congressman D. F. Lafean, of York, has declined to run on the vari ous tickets on which he was nomi nated. He says that he will not take a vote from a single Republican candi date for Congress. —Lancaster county is now about to put into effect the plan of making prisoners work at occupations which can be useful to the public* Mont gomery has the same plan under way. —The Investigation into the removal of Postmaster McXell. of Pittsburgh, will start next week. Allegheny Demo crats are afraid of an explosion when it starts. —Chairman William S. McLean, of the State organization, is expected to be at the Stats headquarters in Phila delphia to-day. when he will probably confer with Chairman Lank, of the city committee, and other members of the city organization. Secretary Keenan. who has bfeen in charge of the State office here, has been trans ferred to the headquarters of National Chairman Vance C. McCormick in New York, but no steps have been taken as yet to organize a force in the State headquarters tc look after campaign details. Chairman McLean expects to develop an organization during his week-end visits in Philadelphia during August, after which he will make Philadelphia his regular stamping ground until the campaign ends. Women Work For Hughes The executive committee of the Women's National Committee of the Hughes Alliance, at a meeting at the Hotel Astor, July 12, formally started the campaign to unite the women throughout' the country of all parties in both suffrage and nonsuffrage States in support of Mr. Hughes. The committer has started to secure in the shortest possible time a central committee of one thousand, an enroll ment of one hundred thousand, and a preliminary budget of SIOO,OOO. The constitution of the Women's Na tional Committee of the Hughes Alli ance declares the sole- object, of the alliance to be to aid in the election of Charles E. Hughes to the presidency. Any woman in the country may be come a member upon the approval of her signed enrollment blank by the executive committee. There are to be no dues or membership fees required for enrollment, but all members are invited to contribute. The executive committee is empow ered to authorize the information of auxiliary, state, local, trade or other branch organizations in the alliance in such places and In such ways as the executive committee may determine. An interesting provision of the con stitution Is that no local branch or auxiliary organization of the alliance shall be known or designated as repre senting citizens of any particular for eign extraction. This is in line with the policy of Americanism, which is to be a direct and dominant issue of the campaign. Military Training Universal obligatory physical and .-lilitary training of the country's youth Tiould give the nation three distinct benefits that are needed: 1. Thorough preparedness—a great reserve of citizen soldiers which would tend powerfully to restrain foreign ag grpssion and attack. 2. Its disciplinary influence alone would b& worth the cost and effort. Morally trie nation would be uplifted, for young men receiving the training would become better sons, better heads of families, better citizens. 3. The physical betterment of the race alone would be worth many times the cost. Consider the value to the individual youth of 18 or 20 of the searching physical examination now given recruits for the regular army. Newspaper Ads Get Action Charles T. Jeffery, president of the Thomas B. Jeffery Company, said about advertising a few days ago: "The newspapers are in a class by themselves. I advertise in them be cause they are flexible mediums, capa ble of giving the quickest action. That Is, they provide the means for us to concentrate our forces on a certain city or community. They make possible a fine art of advertising strategy. And they get quick action when it comes to sales. "The newspaper Is undoubtedly the most personal medium one may use. I mean by that that they get nearer to the people. The newspaper Is the greatest purveyor of facts In existence. And since advertising Is nothing more than one process of conveying racts— attractively arranged lt follows that no advertising campaign is complete without including certain newspapers." THE CARTOON OF THE DAY CHESA--PEEK"! WILL HE SEE THAT SUBMARINE)* —From the Baltimore American. MAKING YOUR WILL By Frederic J. Haskin HAVE you made your will? This is the latest phase of the thrift propaganda sweeping the coun try. Having learned how to save money and accumulate property, we are now being taught how to dispose of them. Banks are Issuing booklets to their depositors advising them to make wills; papers on the subject are read before business men's meetings, and everywhere the importance of making an adequate legal will is be ing emphasized. And, according to legal authorities, there is great need for such instruction. A man's will, in a sense, is a sum mary of his success or failure In life, not only in the conquest of material things but In the development of him self. It represents his gift to poster ity, and by the maimer in which the gift is made is judged the character of the man. All the small quantities of a person's nature, such as malice, envy, Jealousy, revenge and spite, are at once apparent in his will. As Wil liam Hazlitt said: "All that we seem to think of is to manage matters so (in settling accounts with those who are so unmannerly as to survive us) as to do as little good and to' plague and disappoint as many people as pos sible." But aside from any vagaries of the disposition, the economic question of wills is highly important. It is es timated that nearly ninety-eight per cent of the American population leaves no wills at all, and mat fifty per cent of those made arc for some legal rea son impotent. A man will carefully divide his million collar estate into ten parts and then forget to mention one of the parts. Another will make a will in the- state of Michigan, dis posing of property in Michigan, Mis souri and South Carolina, and have it witnessed by two persons. He has failed to look into the laws of South I Carolina, which require three wit nesses, thereby making the will void iso far as the property is concerned in that state, A will does not necessarily have to be technically worded, so long as the intention of the testator is clear, but certain technicalities should be ob served in order to prevent any friction in the courts. For much precious time is wasted in the attempt to fathom such problems as what Mr. Jones ! meant in bequeathing to his daughter his property lying south of a certain road when the road itself runs north I and south. In the first place, all former wills 1 should be revoked in a special clause in the document; otherwise, they will still be valid before the court. Sug- Just What Was Foreseen [Boston Advertiser] This whole question was threshed out when the House first began to consider the Chamberlain bill. The House leaders were told exactly what would happen and -exactly what has happened. Secretary Garrison, who „v/as the strongest man in the Wilson cabinet, publicly told the country I how dangerous the blunder was, and he broke with the President and got out of the cabinet rather than bear the blame for what he saw was certain to happen if that bill became a law. E l * cry prominent officer of the army warned the President and Congress beforehand against the outrageous j folly of the Chamberlain plan. But j neither the President nor Congress i would listen. Now the country is see j injr and will continue to see the exact | fulflllmen of those warnings. The whele basis of our new army law is wrong, and Congress knew it was wrong when it adopted the plan. But no other plan that was offered showed sveh tempting chances for political "pork." The Expected Pun [Washington Post] In attempting to run down some of | these shark stories it seems to resolve ; it&elf into a question of voracity. SATURDAY CLOSING By Wing Dinger A lot of business places Have signified that they In August will cease business At one on Saturday, And thus give clerks a respite Of one day and a half To overcome fatigue of The daily business gaff. It's been no easy matter To change their business ways To suit long hours on Fridays And short on Saturdays, i But, Just the same, they've figured i That if humanity I Will profit during hot days ! It's well worth while, you see. So. If some Inconvenience Is caused you for a while In doing week-end shopping Don't growl, but with a smile Go to it, and remember You're going to load with Joye The lives alike of women • And men and girls and, boys. JULY 22, 1916. gestions as to funeral arrange ments should be made, such as the de sired place of burial, the kind of monument, and so on; and there should also be a specific provision for the payment of debts giving the exec utor authority to sell a portion of tho estate for the purpose, if necessary. Bequests to wives, children and rela tives should be stated in clear lan guage and so described that the court will have no difficulty in locating the property. If a man is unmarried he should state it solemnly and emphatically in his will; there are often numerous im pecunious females willing to insist that they were married to him in or der to claim a share of the estate. It is useless for a married man to try to cut off his wife completely; under the law she is entitled to her share of the property. It'is a curious fact that in spite of this well-known statute many men seek to make the entire income of their widows conditional on their remaining single. A will should not be made in tthe last rally l of a fatal sickness when the mind is apt to be confused and the usual perspective befuddled. Instead, every person who has anything to be queath at all should make a will dis posing of it when he is in good health and sound mental condition. If only one or two persons ure mentioned as beneficiaries, the task is an easy one, but if the will contains endowments, trusts, life interests, etc., the most ex pert legal advice should be obtained in drawing up the document. The signature should be witnessed by at least two persons, not nrfmed as bene ficiaries of the will. While unfair and incompetent wills often cause great hardship to the per sons for whom they should be most designed to benefit and protect, there is nothing quite so unjust as the ab sence of any will at all. In this event the court settles the estate in accord ance with the laws of the state, with no regard for certain personal claims that deserve reward. For example in I Pennsylvania a family of five children was turned out from home when the father married again. The oldest child, a boy of twenty, took the others to the hbuse of his married sister and himself went to work in a large fac tory to support them. Three years later, the boy was killed in an acci dent, leaving over a thousand dollars in his savings account. There was no will. But under the law, the father was entitled to a share in the money* which claim he immediately took ad vantage of, the married sister and the other children getting practically noth ing. — * L_ Hungary and the War [From the Phila. Public Ledger.] While the Central Empires have agreed to make no separate peace, as have also the Allies, the movement In Hungary for a separate settlement of the war is of high significance. For lone thing it again advertises to the world that while Germany in the war ; acts as a unit, no such state of things except in a narrow military sense, ex ists in Austro-Hungary. where the sev ii! " ationalitles and hostile races are , held in a loose dynastic bond that the , war is putting to a great strain. And of all the separate political entries Hungary, by reason of is racial and historical importance, is the or*e sec i tion to which the enrorced identity of I its interests with those of Austria has proved the most galling and most dis astrous. Largely held in relationship through the Hapsburg family's claims as rulers of Hungary, it is inconceiv able that the two sections of the em pire will survive the war with any I desire to continue the present hap hazard union. Karolyi and the peace I party he is forming in Hungary, thera ! tore ' ar ® historically right in view ing the interests of Hungary as wholly ' different from those of German Aus tria and Germany proper, for both of 'whom there is neither liking nor re spect nor reverence among the Magy ars. Under the circumstances the Hun jgarian peace party is not likely to ac complish much now, but after the war they will be found undoubtedly acting for an independent Hyngary, which is surely on the card if anything is certain when the grand break-up comes. Always Time For Looker-on [Cleveland Plain-Dealer] There is no doubt that prosperity is with us, and yet a man can't change a tlrn in the street without attracting the serious attention of a dozen able bodied idlers. 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 Qui*."] How is County Tax collected? What abatements are allowed? What penal ties are charged? County tax is collected by Ward Tax Collectors, appointed bv the • County Commissioners, one from each ward. An abatement of 5 per cent, is allowed until September 1. after September 1 tax Is payable at flat assessment, no penalties. ) lEbmng (Eljal The Bethlehem Steel Company, m V?. building a giant bridge over the Mississippi, has in its service the;- a former Harrisburger. who in diffieu.. times of a flood gained flattering rec ognition and saved his company heavy loss by using his head and having t'y* courage to carry our a well-concelvo* plan. "Tom" Baldwin, formerly o( bteelton, who was married severrei months ago to Miss Montandon Norrlv\ a niece of Mrs. H. M. Stine. of th:t city, was the hero of the occasion, jv the story is told by Coyie Kennedy. Chanibersburg, son of .Moorehead a Kennedy president of the Cumberland Valley railroad. Young Kennedy,who isw working on the same job, is spending his vaction at the Plattsburg camp. It seems one whole pier of the new bridge was in danger of being washed ] sy the flood. Baldwin called for volunteers among the men tu follow him out and tie up the loose piece and make it safe. Each man was offered soo to do the job, for there was an element of danger which Baldwin reckoned with when he offered the men the special pay as individuals ai*S without holding the company respon sible for any accidents. To make a long story short the Job was ably ac complished. fortunately without ser ious consequences, and it is the quiet belief of his friends that "Tom" will receive official recognition of his act if he has not already uone so • » « V° u mind teling me Just what is jitney etiquette?" asked a young man of a worldly wise woman yesterday. am in a car and when I sit down all seats are taken. Two women stana on the sidewalk and beckon to the driver. He stops and looks right at me. What ought I to do?" he con tinued. "Get out," l'esponded the worldly wise one. Well, then. I am in a car again and there Is one vacant seat. A col ored woman of very stout build gets jin and complains that she is crowd led. s>he does not consider me. What iought I to do there? Get out again," was the verdict. • • • Speaking about Jitneys which have grown numerous over night as a result of the conditions caused by the strike some of them have started to operate from caprice. A young man who had a new car started out to plav jitney the other evening about 9. At 11 he had $6.30. He got leave from his job and has been jitneying ever since. One ot his friends who bough; a car on an instalment plan cleaned up $S in one day and is thinking about taking a vacation from his regular job as long as his boss does not spot him in his new enterprise. Some of the motor trucks, which are hired at $lO to sls a day when anyone \iants one real badly have been coining money. As for accommodations in jitneys j they are apt to be luxurious. \ One big tru<?k is run full of camp chairs of the nice kind that allow you to sit I back and some of them have arms to them. Another automobile built for Ave has two small stools for excess traffic. One of the meanest carriers is a truck which has boards placed across the sides. It was evidently built before springs were invented. . However, when a person is face to face with a walk and temperature at 95 or a taxi at $1 it does not pay to be choicy. • • • Among those who are unacquainted with conditions in the rural dlstricta there is no appreciation of the diffi culties which farmers arc now under going in the matter of the labor short age. So serious is the situation that In many cases the wives and daugh ters of the farmers are running mow-* Ing machines and doing other field work which has heretofore been per formed by men. As a result of these conditions the farm work has been | much delayed, tut it is not believed the crop losses will be serious in the final showdown. There is likely to be some definite movement set on foot to protect the river front between Fort Hunter and the city limits. Already some com plaint has been heard regarding the use of the embankment as a dump ing place for ashes and all sorts of de bris. It is also suggested that there should be a general clearing up eith er by the present owners or through some arrangement with the Depart ment of Parks of this city. The growth is becoming so heavy that in some places a view of the river is shut out by the tangled masses of wild under growth. Thero is also needed a gen eral planting of trees to take the place of the old giants which are dying. • » * Through the kindness of Edward Bailey, the banker, the Harrisburg Public Library has received copies of the publications of the American Iron and Steel Institute, for which there has been a big demand at the library because of the valuable papers on the Iron and steel industry they contain. The books will be on the shelves in a few days. Mr. Bailey was one of the charter "members of »he Institute which includes the big men of the in dustry, on thi3 continent. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —Judge O. B. Dickinson, of Chester, used to be an enthusiastic oarsman and still likes to row. —District Attorney S. P. Rotan, of Philadelphia, is taking a rest by the waves at Atlantic City. —Judge Joseph Rogers, who is starting the grand Jury moving in Philadelphia's vice matters, used to be an assistant district attorney. —Edward d'lnvilliers, of Philadel phia, well known here, will give a golf tournament to friends at Eaglesmere, where he is spending the summer. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg has been noted for over a century for its foundry products? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Steps were taken to make the river navigable in 1810. | OUR DAILY LAUSH Jir [ Every main^ XMfcy ItA credit is. toot jY when it comes to 'borrowing #fffl trouble. Exercise your rights but don't work them to ( SLJsS I /
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