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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.
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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 /