8 fIARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HfiMK Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Tdegiifk Building, Federal Square. E. J. 6TACKPOLE. Prtx't and Editor-in-Ck& P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OT6 M. BHEINMETZ, Managing Editor. A Member American Newspaper Pub- I Ushers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associ&S- Eaatern «ffice, Has brook. Story A. Brooks, Fifth Ave nue Brooks. People'a Gcs Building, Cb&» Entered at the Post Office In Harrl§» burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall. $3.00 a year in advance. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 26 Behold us. the rich and the poor. Dear Lord, in Thy service draw near; One consecrateth a precious coin. One droppeth only a tmr? Look, Master, the love is here! —HARRIET MCEWEN KIMBALL. ============ SERIOUS PAPER FAMINE AN enormous demand for paper abroad is making the paper situation in this country even more serious than it has been hereto fore. Pulp mills in Canada are shut down while thousands of employes are at war and all the Swedish pulp con cerns have cancelled their contracts with American firms, sending their j product into Germany instead. Experts are giving close attention to I the paper conditions, but these hold out little hope of any immediate im provement. Not only is the newspaper 1 industry threatened, but also the gen- ! eral printing trades and other indus tries which are more or less dependent upon the various grades of paper. The other day one of the important New England papers was compelled to sus pend publication for three days in suc cession owing to failure to receive its supply of print paper. Many newspapers have already in creased their subscription price and it is generally predicted by those familiar with conditions that the one-cent paper is rapidly passing. Tl»e Federal Trade Commission is making an investigation regarding the print paper industry especially, in order to determine whether or not there has been an undue increase in the prices of news print paper. Makers of paper declare the high point in cost of paper has not yet been reached. SMOKE LOSSES THE Louisville Times estimates that the annual losses and dam ages due to smoke in Louisville are nearly $2,000,000. Were those statistics collected during a normal period under the Republican regime, or during the 1915 war period? There are no losses from the smoke nuisance during a normally Democratic period for the reason that/the mills are not running and the smoke is not fuming. THE WILLIAM PENN HIGHWAY ANOTHER important conference with respect to the permanent routing of the William Penn Highway -was held at Philadelphia yesterday. When this famous 'cross- State road shall have been finally fixed as to location, the various towns and cities along the way, as well as those rural communities through which the road will pass, will unite in a general plan for the pushing of the work of 'the association. It is fortunate that ! there is at the head of this association such a live wire as William Jennings, of Harrisburg, who has associated with him some of the most prominent citizens of the State. These include bankers and manufacturers and busi nessmen and farmers and men in every walk of life, all interested in the working out of a great highway that will be a credit to the State and provide easy access to some millions of population. We have long since passed the point where there is any doubt about the necessity for convenient communica tion between the rural and urban communities. So much depends upon prompt and cheap transportation that discussion of the necessity of these main trunk lines has ceased entirely. All that we hear now is how best to perfect the system that it may prove beneficial to the State. Some amendment of the highway system will be made at the next ses sion of the Legislature and then direct action can be taken by those com munities which are in sympathy with the William Penn highway proposi tion. For instance, nothing is more im portant to Harrisburg than the building of a permanent and L afe road from Dauphin westward. Already the Northern Central Railway has agreed to provide a safe and passable high way between Speeceville and the Clark's Ferry bridge, but it will be up to the State and the county in co operation to continue the road west ward from Dauphin, thus avoiding at least two railroad grade crossings and the climb over Red Hill. Already some thousands of tourists have passed through Harrisburg this summer from many States and when the roads shall have been still further improved Harrisburg is bound to be a central point toward which all tourist travel will converge. Of course, the inevitable hotel which all Harrisburg has been expecting for several years WEDNESDAY EVENING, must be provided and this of itself will prove a magnet that •will attract thousands of tourists who have heard of Harrisburg, but who have not al ways found it a desirable detour owing to the condition of the highways lead ing from this city. 1 As was suggested some time ago, |.he late Highway Commissioner Cun ningham was pledged to the building of a boulevard between Harrisburg and Gettysburg and it will doubtless be the pleasure of his successor. Com missioner Black, to pu( that thought i Into concrete form in the building of a substantial and safe highway from the 'Capital to the greatest battlefield In the world. HOUSES FOR WORKMEN THERE is interest for Harrisburg in the assertion that Pittsburgh is threatened with loss of pres tige as an important industrial center, land will retain her place as a proml nent factor in the world's iron and steel trade against competition by Cleveland, Ohio, Gary, Ind., Chicago, 111., and Duluth, Minn., only by the adoption of a building code that will provide for proper housing conditions for hundreds of thousands of workers. This statement was made by Charles B. Ball, chief sanitation inspector of the Department, of Health of the city of Chicago. Mr. Ball, who is a sani tary engineer of national reputation, and who drafted the provisions of the Chicagc building code regarding hous ing conditions, spoke vigorously in Pittsburgh recently on the subject of housing. The building code of a city, he said, has come to be recognized as the barometer of its progress. A poor building code, he said, means poor housing conditions. Poor housing con ditions mean poor workmen. Poor workmen mean poor products. "No corporation can afford to manu facture poor products and none will employ workmen who cannot make good products," Mr. Ball said. All corporations have come to appreciate that only good housing conditions at tract efficient workers and, therefore, great industries that make great com munities will be built in cities where housing conditions are best. If, he said, housing conditions in Cleveland, Gary, Chicago and Duluth are better than in Pittsburgh, then such cor porations as the United States Steel Corporation will make these cities the places of future operations. He added: The proposition for proper hous ing conditions has become a mat ter of industrial competition. The Vnited 'States Steel Corporation owns an option on twenty miles of Lake Michigan frontage between Gary and Michigan City, Ind. It seems certain that future develop ments by this corporation will be on the same immense frontage un less some other sections can offer a more Ideal location for the erec tion of great mills. The State of Indiana has the best building laws that I know of. If it is apparent to the United States Steel Corporation that the laws of Indiana insure the best housing conditions for work men, that State will be preferred in plans for future development. What applies to Pittsburgh and i Pennsylvania at large applies also to j Harrisburg. The. demolition of the old houses in the Capitol Park extension district is a double blessing. It will give us a breathing place in heart of the city and removes at the same time hundreds of buildings unfit for residence purposes. But more Is needed. Scores and- scores of other houses are equally bad from a sanitary standpoint and new buildings are going up that are not much better. Strive as we may for the location of new in- ; dustries here, Harrisburg will not grow much until we can offer working people better houses at reasonable rentals. FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM THE Federal Reserve Bank System is by no means over-popular among those who have to do with it. A recent questionaire by a New York trust company addressed to each of the banks In the country drew out more than 5,000 answers, of i which more than 3,500 4-ere either distinctly unfavorable to the system or noncommittal. The New York World regards this investigation as presaging an attempt to upset the Federal Reserve system in case the next Congress is Re publican. This fear is probably un-! , founded. There are some good things about the system being chiefly those features which were taken over without change from the measure ad vocated by the Aldrlch monetary com mission. There are other things about the system which are far from desirable. These are chiefly those features which were added at the behest of McAdoo jor for the benefit of the South. These j things should be changed and they will be as soon as the Republican party is given the power to do so. , The Reserve Bank system to-day is mainly beneficial to the Southern ' States. It furnishes some jobs for | "deserving" Democrats. But It does not make it any easier for the average ! businessman to do business. BRITISH BLACKLIST NOTHING has so Stirred American resentment as the British black list recently promulgated and which places almost one hundred firms i in the United States out of touch with | the business of Great Britain, j This appears to be another case of ' embargo against the interests of this | country. Whenever ,Great Britain feels like punishing the business men of the United States it Is usually done through some such scheme as the blacklist. It would seem to be about time for another vigorous note of protest. International law is being construed nowadays purely in the interest and for the benefit of the fighting nations of Europe. SECURITY FOR A LOAN THE panhandlers, the yeggmen, the gold-brick artists and all the rest of the easy-money fraternity must take off their hats to Carranza. He has shown them a new way to get the coin in large wads. By killing American soldiers he was tble to se cure administration support for a loan of a hundred millions. r^ > atitLc& Lk 'PTIIYVOIFTTFUUA Sj the Ex-Committeeman —' —— ■ ■ ■■—— i Radical third party men, who de cline to go along with anything; that the Republican conventions do, and the Democrats who are urging them on for reasons obvious to everyone but the aforesaid third party men, are having a hard time getting an organ ization started in Pennsylvania. The men who were leaders in the Roose velt movement have come out for Hughes and the rank and file of the progressives have followed the Col onel. Only a small number of lr reconciables and some men who are mad even at Roosevelt are whirling about trying to make a fuss in Penn sylvania. Practically all the support they are getting is coming from Democrats. The effort to recall the men elected to the Washington party State com mittee has gone to pieces and the men who insisted upon forming local committees have found very little en couragement anywhere. In Philadel phia Washington party officeholders have decided to keep a skeleton or ganization alive for business purposes next year, but in the anthracite regions there is nothing doing and in western counties the Bull Moosers of four years ago are Republicans now. It is expected that some of the bunch which made the recent confer ence here a tempestuous gathering will try to make trouble at the na tional progressive meeting next mooth. —Democrats of the State organiza tion trend of mind, who are already much disturbed by the fuss which has been caused by the dismissal of Post master G. W. McNeil, of Pittsburgh, are further ruffled by Ryerson W. Jennings, Philadelphia Democratic leader for years, who now says that he is a "former Democrat." The Phila delphia Ledger says of the matter: "These points developed when a note, addressed to the editor of the Public Ledger, was received last night in ] which Mr. Jennings referred to him- I self as a 'former Democrat.' This note was as follows: 'As a former Demo crat. I was very much interested in the performance at the Democratic City Committee, Tenth and Walnut streets, the other night, when A. Mitchell j Palmer and Charles P. Donnelly were ! the principal speakers. This thought | occurs to me: Which was the lion and ! which was the lamb?' Of course Mr. j Jennings had reference to the fact I that Mr. Donnelly in his speech ] pledged verbal support to the Palmer leadership for the coming campaign, ! and that Mr. Palmer, in his speech, I pointed out the rosy future should the i city committee roll up an old-time j vote. And, of course, Mr. Jennings was touching upon the one-time and | bitter factional enmity between the j two. Commenting further Mr. Jen- j nings said: 'Politics makes strange bedfellows.' When it was suggested to , Mr. Jennings that he was popularly l known as a Democrat, he replied: "I haven't talked about it much, but I have parted company with President Wilson. Not enough Americanism. He I is a little hyphenated. He was not stiff enough in his demands. I have I a son on the Mexican border. If there j had been real Americanism it would not have been necessary for him to have gone there. If Roosevelt were i President it would • not be necessary.' | He was asked if he would have voted j for Roosevelt had he been nominated.! 'Yes.' he replied. 'I would have votedl for him. worked for him and con- j tributed to his campaign. But Per kins and the others in their confer- j ences at Chicago with Old Guard Re- j publican leaders laid a trap for him and the result was Hughes. Of course j Hughes was a good Governor. But then Wilson also was a good Gover nor. Wilson has not sized up.' " "Was Hell, But It Was Grand" IFrom the London Telegraph.) A thrilling story of the "big push" I was related by a wounded Scot, who has j reached London. "Eh. mon. it was hell, but it was I grand." he declared. "We've got a mow | on at last, and are paying the Huns out. I For over a week our guns have been | letting rip at them. Talk about | 1 the German guns in the early days of i the war. they are not in it now. I was I in the retreat from Mons. so I reckon i i I've seen some of the fighting." "I got my packet Friday night," ht j added, referring to his wounds. "We were pushed up to our front line ' trenches early Friday morning. Long before daybreak the guns were at it : worse than ever. The noise fair drove i ! some fellows daft, but the worst of all , was waiting in the trenches for the , j order to charge. When that came we were over the top like a lot of dogs let loose. The crround was churned up for miles, and the front of the German ! [ trenches simply smashed to bits. We got there under cover of smoke, and fairly rolled in. I shall never forget the sight. The Germans were lying heaped , up in all directions, and those who were alive showed no fight, but appeared to i have eone 'clean potty.' "Further on we got into the sup- | j ports, which had received a terrific 1 smashing about, and it was there we had the scrap. At the last moment it i seemed the Germans had rushed a crowd of chaps in. and they had hidden themselves in shell holes and were tak ing pot shots at us. We rushed them with the bayonet and bombs, and some of them put up aj good fight. T had one fellow in front of me. and felt myself a 'goner,' for I tumbled over some wire. • when one of oilr chaps got his bayonet into him. The next second a German 'outed' my chum. 'STever fear. Jock,' he said, 'you did the some trick for m«, once.' That chap's left a wife and six | bairns away up North." added the Scot Asked how he received his wounds, the Scot became somewhat bashful. "Oh. one of the Huns got in at me," jhe renlied. Another wounded hero, ! however, took up the narrative. "He fair tumbled into a hole where there was half a dozen of iem hiding.' said the second man "Jock comes of a fight ing race, and he gave the Huns a bit for hiding." Advertising Necessary John Wanamaker In a message to the Associated Ad Clubs when they met at Philadelphia, last month, said among other things: "Stores could not exist as they exist to-day without advertising. "Merchandise could not exist as it exists to-day without advertising. "We shoud go back to the haggle and barter of trade, to the dark and murky byways of buying and selling as they still exist in the uncivilized countries of the world—lf ADVERTIS ING stopped. "Without advertising men would be suspicious of one another, would dou blecross one another In their dealings, would substitute inferior qualities, would ask as high prices as they could get, regardless the value of an article, would waylay and rob and steal a thousand times more than they do to-day—because there would be no standards of business, no stand ards of interchange of money for products, no standards of distribu tion. no standards of manufacture, no .standards of living. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ' THE CARTOON OF THE DAY —Front tkf Baltimore American. TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE 1 —When a wife's eyes are opened her mouth usually follows suit. —"The President has done nothing well,' observes an exchange. Well, i neighbor, you'll have to admit he's been rather efficient at changing his mind. —The Kaiser regrets that he cannot go into the trenches, but we haven't heard of anybody finding it necessary to hold him. —After witnessing the difficulty of settling a mere street car strike we are prone to wonder how anybody is going to stop the European war. —You don't have' to enlist for three years to join the Navy—of Greater Harrisburg. | EDITORIAL COMMENT Spare the rod and spoil the Mexican. —Boston Transcript. What Mexico needs is the little rift within the loot.-.—Wall Street Journal. Whenever President Wilson gets in fighting mood his recoil is terrific. — Brooklyn Times. Trenches should give Europe a won derful subway system aftfer the war.— |Wall Street Journal. Those at Armageddon, without re turn tickets, can not be blamed for feeling grouchy.—lndianapolis Star. The G. O. P., having had his broken leg set, is now attending strictly to I his knitting—Boston Transcript. Business Fighting Alcohol [New York Sun.] Let us imagine Benjamin Franklin, ] who in his day wrote of the liquor j problem, after a lapse of nearly two ! centuries, visttir.g the plant of the i Illinois Steel Company, at Joliet, 111. j He would find tliat in this, as in so many other reforms, he had merely been ahead of Wis time. Posted ail over the establishment this sign would delight his soul: NOTICE To the employes of the Joliet Works, Illinois Steel Company: For the promotion of safety and wel fare, It is hoped that all employes, will avoid the use of intoxicating liquors. Under the rules of the Joliet Works, any employe who uses intoxicating liquor while on duty will be discharged. In making promotions iri any depart ment of the plant. Superintendents of Departments and Foremen will select for promotion only those who do not use intoxicating liquors. If Franklin snould stroll into Gary at night, he would find electric signs over the entrance prate to the Illinois Steel plant asking him these pointed questions: Did booze ever do you any good? Did booze ever get you a better job? Did booze ever contribute anything to the happiness of your family? These flaming signs indicate an en tirely new aspect of \he prohibition crusade. The antialcohol movement in the United States has had three dis tinct phases. First, the Church de clared war against the saloon. Then science and mf dicine began to demon strate its evils. Now American in dustry, in its search for mental and physical efficiency, has decided to abolish alcohol.— Burton J. Hendrlck, in Harper's Magazine for August. No Park Music? [From the Kansas City Star.l The summer is passing, and without the park music that has been promiseo. It vould be a great pity if the city shoald fall to provide the little money necessary to bring this form of enjoy ment to its people. There are tens of thousands of women and children who cannot test away to the ordinary amuse ment places. The expense of taking the children to the movies is more than a very large number of families can af ford. The citv could brighten a lot of l its corners if it would get busy at once Ito provide the proposed band concerts. "AN OLD OF MINE" AMERICA LEARNS TO SHOOT CAN you shoot? Could you pick up a modern high-power army rifle and put 20 bullets Into a target 200 yards away in two minutes? The American civilian who could do that in 1914 was almost rare enough to put into a museum, but if things keep moving in the direction they are headed to-day, the feat will soon be a inere commonplace incidentally, the country will have taken a loog step along what is perhaps the most im portant of the paths that lead to citi zen preparedness. America is learning to shoot. The tremendous growth of popular inter est in the use of the rifle in this coun try since the outbreak of the Euro pean war is a striking instance of the way the conflict has affected popular sentiment. We are turning back to ward the days of Daniel Boone, when every man was a sharpshooter, and a call to arms found a citizenry that not only heard the call Dut knew how to use the arm*. It was 11 years ago that Congress authorized the issuance of army rifles of the Krag model, with ball cartridge, for the use of civilian rifle clubs in target practice. After five years of the operation of this provision, there were less than a hundred civilian rifle clubs in thj United States. To-day th«SVe are over 1,100. While their total membership is a matter of esti mate, it !s probably not far from a hundred thousand men. It might be more accurate tc- say men and women, for at least one woman, Mrs. William Strong of Helena, Montana, has quali fied as a marksman. While the total club membership is a matter of estimate, the number of OUR DAILY LAUGH A BURG CUBE. recommend for lightheadedness? j # & UNFORTUNATE. in II He ' s an un " _J| ?ML 4 lucky fellow. M Yes, he is a.l - , ways Johnny on the wrong spot Church Advertising The churches finally decided that it was not Rood policy to "allow the devil to have a monopoly of the good music"; and they are, nowadays, com ing to the same view about advertis ing. If a church should have as good music as a place of amusement, why should ft not have as good advertis ing?—Kdltor and Publisher. Balked at Forgiving Enemies A British army chaplain returned from France has told of stopping at a waytide shrine in Flanders, where Jel gian soldiers, in prayer, were following the chant of their priest un til the father started the Paternoster. At the words, "As we forgive those who trespass against us." these was silence. Not a man replied. The priest hesitated and started again. Suddenly a steady voice ran out from the back, clearly Intoning the words that pledge one to forgive his enemies. It was the voice of Albert, King of the Belgians. His soldiers then repeated after him, word tor word. JULY 26. 1916. By Frederic J. Haskin qualifications as marksman, sharp shooter or expert are a matter of rec ord. There were more qualifica tions on the range at Winthrop, Mary land, where the clubs from Washing ton, D. C., shoot, in the first two weeks of April 1916 than the entire United , States showed for the whole year of 1914. Winthrop is only a sample of j what is going on to a greater or less degree over the whole country. A consideration of rifle club figures | for the period of the European war ■ shows facts even more striking than ; those touching a ten-year period. At' the beginning of the war there were ; 270 clubs in the United States. A 1 single year saw the number more than ' doubled, leaping by the end of 1915 to a total of 639, a gain of 363-. In the six months of 1916 that have pass- ! ed almost 500 additlunal civilian clubs have joined the ranks, so that the total to-day shows well over 1100 with ! the rate of increase higher than ever. April 1916 the last month for which complete returns are available, broke ! all records with 140 new clubs for: the month. , The rifle clubs are under the joint I administration and supervision of the [ National Rifle Association and the War Department. The National Ri fle Association is an institution 4 5 years old, which w»:s organized with the idea of developing target shooting as a sport, long before the prepared ness problem? arose. Government | recognition of the movement also | came in the days when the sporting angle of the program was still upper -1 most in the minds of most of the af -1 [Continued on Page 11] WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB i LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of j the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their . answers as presented at. the organlza j tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] What time is allowed for paying a paving and curbing assessment? When Is the lien filed? What are the costs of a lien? Paving and curbing assessments are due and payable sixty davs after completion of work. The whole amount may be paid, or it may be paid in ten equal instal ments, with interest. If advantage JB taken of the instalment pay lhents lien is filed about four .months after acceptance of the work. Courtesy Paid a Dividend The winner of the contest on "Why I Think It Pays to be Courteous" in the August American Magazine tells the following instance where courtesy paid a big dividend. "A woman came into the bank quite early, 8:30, an hour and a half before the opening hour, 10 o'clock. She said that she was in great trouble, and had to get some money from her account immediately, as she was obliged to leave for the South at once. She showed me a telegram announcing the death ot her son by a gunshot wound received in Texas. I condoled with her, had her waited upon immediately, accompanied her to the station, secured her tickets, etc. As the railroad station was oni> a block from the bank I had a/nple time to attend to these details. She thanked me with tears in her eyes. I returned to the bank and dismissed the matter from my mind. "About six weeks afterward, , a lady garbed in mourning approached my desk, wished me a pleasant good morn, ing and said. 'You don't remember me, do you?' I replied in the negative. She explained that it was she whom 1 had accompanied to fhe train. She told nu she had realised on the accident and 1 if« insurance policies of her late son, and though she was offered by a bank tn Texas one and one-half per cent, more interest on her funds than we paid, she preferred to deposit them In thc» bank in Chicago where the employes were cour teous to her in her hour of bereave ment and trouble." Abetting <£ljal It's odd how the old names of Streets stick in spite of the years and how incidents will bring: them back and send them into constant use again. A case in point is furnished by Cam eron street. For years this highway, which is one of the few which run from end to end of the city unbroken, has been officially Cameron street, having been changed from Eleventh out ot compliment to the distinguished statesman Horn this city. Vet for con venience sake the street railway coij*, pany called it Eleventh and put a bi> 11 on the signs for the cars operaticV in the North section. Straightawn* the street begins to be called by i>-. numeral and one newspaper in t:.sv« City habitually refers to it as such though the official designation »• Cameron. And an odd feature aboitf it in the popular use is that whiii the section north of Market is otloA called Eleventh, that below the divid ing street is Cameron. North Seventh street is occasionally called Pennsyl vania avenue, that colloquial name of the sixties and seventies, when it was named for the railroad more than anything else, being heard among old" timers. Of late, it has been called ••The Avenue" a good bit. Verbeke street is called Broad street four times to being given its proper name once and yet it was named in honor of a man whose name was a household word for years and who gave notable service. Short street, soon doomed to be forgotten in the extension of the Capitol Park, .is officially Fifth as is Spruce, which is now called by that term very infrequently. And who ever thinks of calling tne en