8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ■A NEWSPAPER FOR TUB HOME Pounded IBJI Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRI.XTIXG CO., Telegraph Uuildlnfc, Federal Square. K. J. STACK POLE, Prcs't and Editor-in-Chirf H. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. SDEINMETZ, Managing Editor. J Member American Newspaper Pub yyfll Ushers' Assocla tlon, The Audit SSm Bureau of Circu gjpfa latlon and Penn ffS "9 sylvanla AssoclfrV gjs M ed Dailies. {§*, M Es3tern office, Has brook. Story & EE nr Brooks, Fifth Ave — VSt m,e Building, New ■UKbIE York City; West. Mil em office, hu«- brook. Story & SHflf Brooks, People'* Gcs Building, ChS» cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harrlfl* burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a Week; by mall, »3.00 a year In advance. MONDAY EVENING, JULY 31 Beauty and Truth and all that these contain Drop not like ripened fruit about our feet; We ctimb to them through years of sweat and pain. —JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. WE NEED BATIDXG POOLS. NOW that the "Greater Harrisburg Navy," the new association which will give particular attention to the development of the Susquehanna basin and the incidental features of pleasure on the river, has indicated some important phases of Its Inter esting program, we may now call at tention to the desirability of arranging for numerous bathing places which will be safe and comfortable as pos sible. A Kansas City contemporary, discussing this matter of bathing pools, says: In competing with other cities Kansas City needs to make itself as attractive a place to live in as possible. One of Its duties is to provide a substitute for the lake and ocean bathing which so many other cities have to offest the ef fect of summer heat. The city can't import one of the-great lakes, but as "M. D." suggested in the Public Mind yesterday, it can fur nish plenty of bathing pools. All it has to do is to scoop out a hole In the ground and turn the Mis souri river into it. A few more fiools about town and a big birth ng beach at Swope Park would add immensely to the comfort of people during the hot months. The cost would be small, the benefits great. What is true of Kansas City is like wise -true of Harrisburg. " We" Have a wonderful river and the islands which stud the basin in front of the city will provide many suitable bathing beaches which ought to toe put under municipal control during the summer months. Some day either the City Council or some generous citizens will provide a fund for two or three large motor boats which will toe available for transporting the people to and from the various bathing pools. No money of the city could be better expended. Time was when bathing places was a matter of indifference to the com munity at large, but as civilization progresses the demand for facilities for swimming and all that the use of a fine river means becomes more Insistent. It's a fortunate thing for this city that the Greater Harrisburg Navy has been organized. Its appeal is strong already and the young men especially who are getting behind this move ment, in the vigor of youth, are demonstrating an initiative which means great success in the working out of plans that have already been announced. Bathing pools would mean much for the pleasure of the whole city. Thousands of our people are beginning to realize that they have not been taking advantage of the Susquehanna basin in the past, and there is on every side a disposition to help along the various projects of a promising Navy. The membership of tho new asso ciation ought to be away up in the hundreds and we are glad to oDserve that the former members of tho Har risburg Boat Club are exhibiting a lively appreciation of the revival of Interest in aquatic sports here. When Schwab and Grace come to town in October, as the guests of the Chamber of Commerce, they will have the pleasure of meeting a body of the livest wires of this community. And when one live wire meets another live wire the sparks fly, which suggests that the occasion ought to be one that •will electrify the industrial and com mercial atmosphere of this community. ENTERING THE THIRD YEAR THE completion of tho second year of the European war has brought forth a flood of comment from writers, observers and interested par ties. This comment varies with tho ,viowpoint of thj writer, but there is a marked similarity In ono vital par ticular. With tho exception of tho re view of the war by members of the German general staff, one and nil the ■writers agree in this —that the war is absolutely certain to end in a decisive Victory for tho Allies. This is in marked contrast with the views of a year ago. when all through even the tho most optimistic utterances of the French and English writers could be read the doubts and fears of the suc cess of any offensive that might be launched with the purpose of driving the Germans back to their own soil. Strange to observe, Bt. Petersburg twelve months ago, with her armies in confusion and retreat, was the only j war center of Europe that insisted, as r MONDAY EVENING, the Allies are doing now, that Germany had reached the high tide of her power. Few of those In position to speak care to forecast the period necessary for the Allies to break down the Ger man opposition to the point of submis sion, but one and all of them insist that the coming year will see the end of the war. That Is the observation even of some of the German com mentators, but they base their conten tions upon tho idea that Germany cannot be beaten and that France is nearing the end of her resources, two very doubtful premises. Hundreds of thousands of men must be killed before the German army shall have been brought to its knees. The Allies are In about the same po sition as was the Union after the Battle of Gettysburg, when began the long battering process that ended at Appo mattox. But the big thing is that pub lic opinion and expert conclusion is that the end of the insanity is in sight, that democracy is to triumph over im perialism, that free peoples can and will go Into the trenches when opposed by the trained hordes of militarism, and that no ons man or group of men can foist the ideas of the few willy nilly upon the many. The end of the German dream of world dominion is not surprising to the student of history. Alexander tried the same thing, as did Caesar; so did Napoleon, so did many others, and some of them approached more nearly to success than has Emperor William, but all of them failed as he is doomed to fail. The destiny of mankind is never to be dictated by one man or one nation. Government ownership of' the rail roads of the United States would give the administration more political jobs for the squandering of the people's money; but when hard pressed for a pie counter that will satisfy the un satisfied, Government control of all public utilities looks good to our dis tracted Democratic brethren. FARM LIFE IX PENNSYLVANIA DOUBTLESS the Department of Agriculture will be able to show some interesting things to those 300 farmers of Augusta county, Va.. who will arrive in Harrisburg next Tuesday for a tour of inspection of Pennsylvania farms. The Virginians want to know how we in Pennsylvania raise such large crops and th© methods our farmers use, how they live and their views as to the future of farm ing. These Virginians will learn many things in this State. They will find farming reduced to an exact science in Lancaster county and fruit growing on a scale that is the envy of the Pa cific coast apple States, in the Adams county fruit belt. And, whisper it softly, for we don't boast much about this —they will find many barns where cattle are kept larger and finer than the houses in which the farmers' wives and children reside. Fortunately, this condition is on the wane. The Pennsylvania farm er is driving his own auto now, en larging his. JYisiDJi .and learning that there is more in life than woi>.' from sun to sun, and that the "wo men folks" are deserving of the best that income can afford. Our merchant marine is growing in spite of the theoretical administration at Washington, and notwithstanding the visionary schemes of a Congress that is utterly incapable of grasping the great opportunities now presented to this country. "BRANCH" CAPITOI.S LANCASTER, scranton, wiiiiams port, Pittsburgh and other cities all want "branch" capitols if Philadelphia is to have one. They are Just as much entitled to State Build ings as is Philadelphia. The whole project is preposterous. It originated in the brain of an irresponsible news paperman bent upon registering a "scoop" on a fellow reporter, and his practical Joke was taken seriously. Pennsylvania needs no branch Cap itols anywhere. To establisn one in Philadelphia would be to invite further attempts to remove the seat of govern ment from the ideally situated central point where it is now located. The State has expended immense sums for its capitol here and is planning to spend more. It needs all of the money it can raise for good roads in the in terior, rather than for needless build ings in the big cities. But there is virtue in the roquests that are pouring in from many cities. The more applications the more diffi cult it will be for the Philadelphia politicians interested to "put across" their scheme now hatching. Doesn't require a prophet to foretell the expansion and development of the West Shore. But that great growth will be accelerated by community ef fort and co-operation as, for instance, the new high school. TRADE PACTS AND THE FUTURE MUCH importance is given to the trade pact of the Allies for tho period which will follow the war. Manifestly England and those countries working with John Bull are determined to get the full benefit of whatever co-operation may be pos sible on the conclusion of hostilities. Meanwhile It is going to be the busi ness of your Uncle Samuel to protect himself and his big family of 100,- 000,000 by such measures as are reas onable and obviously necessary. The first step in this direction will be the changing of the theoretical ad ministration at Washington and the placing ;n control of Charles Evans Hughes and the big men who will be associated with him in working out the difficult problems which are cer tain to confront this country when the belligerents In Europe shall have laid down their arms and undertaken the task of beating their instruments of war into plowshares and pruning hooks. BAILEY AND THE TARIFF THE inconsistency of the position of the Democratic party on the tariff commission proposition cannot better be Illustrated than by quoting from the open letter of Con gressman Warren Worth Bailey of Pennsylvania, a Democratic member, to Floor Leader Kitchin, which was written os late as February last. Mr. Bailey said: As I view It. the tariff commis sion measure is distinctly mislead ing in character as a whole, and In certain provisions it is a conces sion to ideas utterly at war with Democratic principles. Personally, I cannot become a party to such a betrayal of the Underwood tariff, to such a disregard of Democratic prlclples and pledges, to such a brazen appropriation of a Republi can plan. 1 TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE [ —The Russians appear to have lost the check Von Hindenburg gave them last summer. —Probably they are giving Alfonso that peace medal due to Spain's sagacity in knowing when to cry "enough" in 1898. President Wilson is hesitating about putting through a child labor bill not nearly so drastic as the Republicans of Pennsylvania wrote on the statute books last winter. But then, Pennsyl vania Republicans had no "Solid South" in danger of being burs'tea wide open. —Can there be any relation between the scarcity of dogs in Germany and the German army's insistent demand for more sausages? —A little "war order" prosperity would be welcome at the State Treas ury Just now. —Congress may not adjourn until October, says a Washington dispatch. Let 'er rip. The longer the session the bigger the Republican majority in No vember. | EDITORIAL COMMENT | Those German soldiers who sur rendered on the Western front because they would be more valuable to Ger many alive than dead seem to have forgotten all about the interests of the Hohenzollern dynasty.—New York World. Among this week's real estat® transactions do not forget the little 25 million dollar sale in tho West Indies. Kansas City Star. One of tho inspiring sights along the New York water front for the last week or two has been the steamship Korea, once of the Pacific Mail fleet, flying the Japanese riag. For further particulars ask Senator La Follette and his friend Andrew Furuseth. Philadelphia Public Ledger. If Uncle Sam keeps on offering such good prices for islands our national hymn should be "The Sweet Buy and Buy."—N. Y". Sun. If This Be Treason! [Philadelphia Public Ledger.] Woodrow Wilson, President of the United Slates, cannot claim immunity i from criticism by his political oppo- j nents at any time, but much less when he is a candidate for re-election. If the position taken by his campaign j manager, Vance McCormick, that it "borders close on treason" to intimate that the military forces of the nation may be used for political purposes be correct, then it follows that everything j the President does is sacrosanct and above critism or adverse comment! This is so manifestly absurd that it is | only necessary to stato the position to I refute it President Wilson would be the rer-td seek such immunity for I himself or his office, nor would the people concede it to him under conceivable circumstances. If the na tion were at war there might be occa- I sion to talk of "treason," but there can I be none in questioning the motives of [ an act of domestic policy like the send ing of raw, untrained and unseasoned I militia to do the work of regulars on i the border. Mr. McCormick objects especially to the statement attributed to certain Re publicans that" "the President intends to keep the national guardsmen at the border unil after election, because he knew all their votes would be cast against him." It it indeed be "very near treasonable" even to hint at such a motive on the part of the President and his party, how can Mr. McCormick explain the fact that the Democrats in the United States Senate, even while he was voicing his charge of near treason, deliberately eliminated from the army appropriation bill a clause that would have given the guardsmen the right to vota in camps while away from home? If the President himself has no fear of the votes of the guards men from the North, now in Texas camps, his party followers in the Sen ate do not apparently share his indif ference. And in this connection it may be pertinent, if not treasonable, to point out that mcst of the militia from the solid South, upon the votes of which Mr. McCormick will most surely depend, are not on the Mexican bor der, while troops from Republican States like Pennsylvania and Massa chusetts, and from possibly doubtful States like New York, New Jersey and Illinois, are on duty there. A Song of France [New York Tribune.] Out of the mist comes the bugle call — rouse ye up from ypur dreaming; Leap to the drum's roll, one and all up where the heights are gleaming; Now is the moment to do and dare— peasant or prince or rover— On to the wall«, ye stalwarts there—on to the walls and over. What care ye if the path is steep! What if the maxims rattle? There's never a time to wait or weep in the whirl of the gory battle; There's never s time for one to quail or dream of life in the clover; On to the walls through the morrring pale—on to the walls and over. Grimly the black-mouthed cannon stand—grimlythegunsare aiming; One more rush and it's hand to hand— killing and cutting and maiming; Such is life till the tale is done, mon arch or priest or drover— On to the walls through the noonday sun—on to the walls and over! Deep the trenches, but now the flash— on through the shrapnel's raining; On and upin a mad,wild dash—quick for the day is waning; Up where the red glare shows the way—out from the fields of clover— On to the walls through tho twilight gray—on to the walls and over! Thinner and thinner the long line grows; think ofthis onthe morrow; Death alone is tho red, red rose—life but a thorn of sorrow; Look ye neither to left or right—peas ant or prince or drover— On to the walls through the depths of night—on to the walls and over! On, where the mangled clog the way; on, where the dead are lying; There's never a time in the gory fray to stop for the merely dying; On to the line till our final hosts sleep in the crimson clover; On to the walls, though we charge with ghosts—on to the walls and over! —Grantland Rice. Being Dead Yet Speak LFrom the New York Sun.] American victims of Mexican bru tality will tuko the stump for Hughes. Are there not Luaitania survivors who will also do some campaigning? HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH r f>otitic& Lk ""P^h,n.o^^a>vta Sr the Ex-Commlttecmui The first withdrawal of a Washing ton party district candidate since the conference held in this city at which it was decided not to organize the State committee was filed at the State Capitol to-day oy Frank N. Moore, of Rome, bradford county. He was Washington paity candidate for a legislative seat fiom that county. Mr. Moore served in the legislature sev eral years ago. Congressman-at-Large P. F. Lafean, of YorK, to-day withdrew as candidate for Congress at large from the .Roose velt Progressive, Keystone and Per sonal Liberty party tickets, on which he had been nominated by a small number of scattering votes without knowing it. —The final act in the controversy between the new sstate Commission of Agriculture and the State Zoologist will likely be staged to-night at the Capitol. Dr. Surtace has refused to resign and has appealed to the public, pointing out that no reasons have ever been given why he should resign. The commission chairman, H. V. White, said last night at iiloomsburg, accord ing to a news dispatch, that the com mission would a statement giving reasons. Tha course of the contro versy has been followed with keen in terest in many parts of the State, as the commission's way of handling it is new to Capitol Hill, where the sum mary dismissal tystem has long been recognized. —it is expected that when Attorney General Brown gets back from his va cation the lirst he has had in nearly three years, that counsel will be named for the Public Service Commission. The name of Emerson Collins, one of the deputy attorneys general, is still being mentioned in connection with the place ,and Richard E. Cochran, of York, former Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth, is also talked about. —Congressman Warren Worth Bai ley has been wandering about in his district looking up what is the trouble with his campaign. Bailey comes from an industrial district and his stand on preparedness ard other things has de tracted much from his popularity as a tribune of tho people. Incidentally John M. Hose, the Republican candi date, "has a very strong personal fol lowing. —The whole State is watching with the closest interest the developments in the Philadelphia vice probe and it is predicted that pome men in high places will be forced out as a result. Mayor Smith is Quoted by some newspapers as saying that policemen who tell what they know will be protected and that 11' there are conditions in the police department which need correcting he will correct. —Director Wilson has declared that there is no truth in statements at tributed to some of the police officers that not more than three vice arrests were to be made at night. —Very few of the Pennsylvania Bull Moosers are oxpected to attend the national conference in the next week or so. Those who want a third party are in such a minority that they do not want to make a showing or to spend much money in traveling. —Senator Penrose's attack upon the administration revenue bill at Wash ington attracted much attention here to-day because of the manner in which the Senator stood up for State indus tries. He points out how the burden would fall largely on Pennsylvania be cause of its manufactures. —Letters t>y the bushel arc arriving at the State Capitol over the consti tutional amendment advertising. The papers receiving the advertising this year are considerably different from those which got it a year ago. —The formation of the Hughes Alli ance organizations throughout the State is being pushed and it is prob able that there will be a number of new ones brought into being in the next month. One will be established at Lancaster. —The slowness with which the Democratic campaign in the State is getting under way leads to suspicions in some quarters that the machine leaders are having their own troubles to get some of the post office squabbles settled. —Senator William C. Sproul's re election is being claimed by his friends in his district by one of the largest majorities ever polled by him. Boy and Girl Tragedies [Kansas City Star.] A great many fathers and mothers, and some young women, too, ought to read the little lay sermon that Sher man Crawford delivered in San Fran cisco when he was arrested there re cently for bigamy. He married a pret ty and refined girl, and afterward, when it was discovered that he waa already married, he said: "How many mothers know the ori gin of their daughters' friendship? How many fathers investigate the young men who become guests in their homes? Not many, X can tell you. I never met with any questions any where. You can travel a long way on your manners and a little ready money. Give almost any fellow a clean collar, one decent suit of clothes, shine his shoes and lead him to the barber. Put him in any kind of a gas oline-driven, 4-wheeled vehicle, and ho can make young women friends so fast that he will be dizzy." Up in Wisconsin last February the body of a young girl was found in the snow. Last week a young man was acquitted cf her murder. But the coi 1 - respondence between them revealed a situation that must have astounded their parents. That sort of thing gets publicity every now and then through some re sulting tragedy, as in the Orpet case, and in lesser degree the Crawford case. The number of cases that never are heard of, but which nevertheless are just as tragic in their effects, must be large. And so often they might have been prevented if fathers and mothers had given the time and trou ble necessary to make themselves real companions for their children! All Must Help [Editor and Publisher.] In view of the print paper situation, it behooves every publisher to give serious consideration to every feature of his business where posslbie econo mies in consumption may be effected. If the nation's business this coming Fall approximates what our best in formed men believe, and we have in creased advertising and increased cir culation, publishers will be confronted with a situation never before known. The Fourth Estate, as our readers wel! know, if they recall its attitude in the past, has never been an alarm ist, but it believes it to be its dutv to its clientele to give them the very best information which can bo assembled. 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 QuU."] Who Is Superintendent of Accounts and Finance? His term? His salarv? What departments are under hla direct supervision? William L. Gorgas. Term, two years. Salary, $2,500.00. Depart ments over which he has direct su pervision: Finance, City Treas urer, City Assessor and miscellane ous. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY CAN JOHNNY STOP HIM? —From tbe Columbus Dlsputcb. MA YOR SPEERGIVES NEW IDEALS TO THE COLORADO (Rocky Mountain News) MAYOR ROBERT W. SPEER'6 speech at the opening session of the Colorado State Bankers' As sociation yesterday will live longer in the memory of each man present than anything he ever before heard about himself or his neighbors. The Mayor was greeted with applause when he arose to welcome the delegates, who convened at the Brown Palace Hotel, and he was applauded when he had finished. During his talk he was fre quently interrupted by applause, but in the main his auditors sat very still, amazed and- admiring, while the Mayor, in short, pithy sentences, "raked them over the coals" in a fashion to which bankers not ac customed. There were many delegates present who declared, after the session had adjourned, that they had learned a lesson not put down in the convention curriculum; that they were going home to lower their interest rates on "heart money"—going home, in fact, to follow Mayor Speer's advice and be better bankers. Among other things. Mayor Speer told the bankers they had been freer of criticism than any other class of men, too free for their own good, and then continued: "Few men can handle money for a lifetime without becoming more or less a slave to it. There are two kinds of money. Hand money and heart money. One based upon gold and sil ver and the other on kind acts and good deeds. Many are rich in the one kind of currency, but are paupers in the other. Hand money will buy ma terial things of life and pass at par to the grave, but from that time on it is valueless. Heart money is inde structible and when mixed with a lim ited amount of hand money will pro duce more true joy and happiness in this life than anything else and then LETTERS TO THE EDITOR" EVENTING ON THE RIVER To the Editor of tne Telegraph: Of our population of "5,000 to 100,000 men, women and children, how many on these hot, sultry evenings take advantage of the opportunity offered them to spend a most delight ful evening cooling off on the river in a canoe or rowboat? Indeed, last even ing, if that is a criterion, there were exceedingly few. There were many on the river bank and some of the strollers on the con crete walk, som'3 bathers at the foot of Independence Irland. but exceedingly few in boats, and there are numerous boathouses where canoes, rowboats or motorboats can be rented at low rates. We do not want our mile-wide river used only on carniva. nights; it ought to be crowded with boats every even ing, Saturday afternoon and Sunday, just as is the Charles river near Bos ton. The opportunity it affords to cool off and obtain health as well as fun should be availed of by just as many people as possible. The more the beauties, pleasures and healthfulness of boating on the river are placed be fore the public, the more it is going to be used by the people of Harris burg. There has recently been built a float ing boathouse, anchored at the foot of State street, which is an ideal addition to the comfort and pleasures of boat ing. It is an attractive hou&eboat-likQ structure, with arrangements for stor ing cancres and with canoes for rent on the first floor and an open deck, cov ered with a ship's awning above, where ice cream and soft drinks are sold. Little tables and comfortable chairs are scattered about oi> this deck and music plays constantly. This Is the Kind of thing that is go ing to help develop the popular use of the river. It adds much to the fun of canoeing, if. when you come in. you can sit on this cool upper deck a few minutes over a plate of Ice cream, a sundae or a glass of soda. Yours very truly, CANOEIST. SAFETY OF AUTOMOBILES • To tht Editor of the Telegraph: Referring to the accident described in the Telegraph, some days since, in which an automobile broke down the railing of the Mulberry Street Bridge and came within an ace of going over board and killing all the occupants of the car, I would offer the following suggestions: The curbs on that bridge are altogether too low. They are now about three inches high. They should be at least six. and preferably eight inches high. In that case there would be much less danger of a similar acci dent. Another dangerous point on the bridge is the curve near the west end. An accident to the steering gear or carelessness on the part of the driver could easily cause a car to jump the curb on that curve and strike the rail ing, and, perhaps, go overboard. Higher curbs would prevent this. The railing posts on this should and could easily be anchored down much better than they are. It Is hardly practical to raise the curbs now, at least not over the whole bridge, but it would be quite easy to raise that section of the sidewalk op posite the head of the Cameron street incline sufficiently to prevent a car from jumping the curb. This would hot be beautiful, but would bo fairly effective. I am inclined to think that a frequent cause of autoists striking small chil dren ia that while they are close to the .side of the road an approaching auto Steers very close to them, and, wben JULY 31,1916. pass at a premium beyond the border. You all publish statements of your hand money, but some of you would not want to make public your heart money transactions. These moneys are not interchangeable and some peo ple are continually m&king the mis take of trying to pay the debts of one with the money of the other. "I do not intend to say that all bankers are cold, exacting and hard hearted, for there are brilliant ex ceptions, but the current in whcich you live runs in a certain direction and you are unconsciously carried along with it. "I have some friends who receive interest on their bank balances, while I have others who do not. A banker must be satisfied that a loan is good before he will make it, but then he has a way of making the borrower feel, that in addition to paying back the loan with interest, he is under lasting obligations for the accommo dation. Other institutions thank a customer for his business. You have an advantage in life over other men because you make money on your debts, or on the amount you owe de positors. You decide the credit you give a man upon his ability to grasp hand money and often force into bankruptcy a person who is a mil lionaire in heart money. "The bankers of Colorado should keep away from the little things which they seem to have inherited from their fathers in the East; because little things make little men. Our surround ings have much to do with our lives and methods of business. A limited sky lino is said to make a limited brain line. Men grow large in the West because they live in a land of big things. Our pure air gives a great vision. Big views make big thoughts and big thoughts make big men. This land of superlatives should help to les sen a banker's faults and to enlarge his virtues." but a short distance from them the driver blows his horn and the children, thinking the car is bearing down on them, start to run across the road out of the way and are struck. I think it is well for drivers to give little chil dren as wide a berth as practicable, or or. if they must run close to them slow up. The horn should be blown in ample time, otherwise it is more likely to frighten and confuse the children than to warn them away. W. W. W. UNSIGNED LETTERS During the past week the Telegraph has been in receipt of a number of un signed lettters which the writers asked to have published. It is a standing rule among newspaper publishers, for their self protection, that all letters submitted for publication must be signed with the names and addresses of the writers. It is not always neces sary to publish the real names, but they must be on file in the newspaper office in case the facts set forth are questioned in a legal way. If those who have written to the editor will send their names these letters will be published; otherwise not. OUR DAILY LAUGH EXACT. £-) Are you In pain, little man? AjTMff No, the pain's j-, PREPARED. ~ In case of war many of mvm S ° u r rolaUvoß Well, there are ' \k iK seventeen men to ■I V whom I have promised to be a NEVER A WORD By Winn; Uingrr A »ailor. with a parrot. Into a pawn shop went. He said unto the broker: "I do not have a cent And need some money badly. Hence, much against my will, I'll let you have this bird if To me five bones you'll spill. "He surely is a wonder. Five languages he knows." The broker looked htm over. Then reached down in his clothes And came up with five dollars, With which he bought the bird. Then sent it home to Rachael Without one blessed word. That\evening when he went home His wife said; 'Dear, I got The bird and killed and cooked him." And Isaac bellowed: "What? Whv he could talk In five tongues," And Rachael answered, "Gee, Why didn't he say In ono qf them to me?»' Ebptting Oltjat Harrisburg is declared to be th» center of one of tho» most unlcpiw branches of mining activity in th© country by Howard E. Moses, of this city, in an interesting study of the river coal industry which appears in the last number of the Journal of tho Engineers Society of Pennsylvania. Mr. Moses has put together the results of extended observation and careful inquiry and what he says about tho work that goes on under our eyes, and about which the average Harrisburge>* knows so little, would surprise busi nessmen, manufacturers and mining men. Ten illustrations, made from photographs taken opposite this city, include typical dredges, hoists, includ ing the plant of the Harrisburg Light and Power Company, and apparatus. Mr. Moses comments upon the fact that for ninety miles along the Sus quehanna river coal is dredged, but that the center of the business is about Harrisburg, nearly 100 miles below the center of anthracite mining. Approxi mately 100,000 tons of coal are taken from the bed of the Susquehanna in this vicinity, he estimates. Of this tho electric company gets considerably over a third at a cost, which well pays the effort. The "fleet" engaged in the industry in what might, be called the Harrisburg zone of navigation consists of no less than 25 steam dredges and 150 or more flats. The type of dredgo used here is known as the suction dredge, which has been found to bo more adapted to tho peculiarities of the Susquehanna than the bucket dredge used along the Schuylkill. The Susquehanna, or Harrisburg, type of dredges arc good for 100 tons of river coal a day if conditions are favorable and "a good bar" struck. The article considers the river coal one of the advantages of location here, as well it is, because the coal dug from tho river bed has been found well suited to power plants of all kinds, not the least being that in the Pennsylvania State Capitol, which gets possibly 10,000 tons a year from the waters of the Susquehanna. Hugh Hastings, former State his torian of New York, who died a few days ago in New York city, was well known to a number of Harrlsburgers, as he had frequently visited here. He was for years identified with jour nalism New York State and was noted for his researches in New York history. After several years in this office under Levi P. Morton he became New York city tax commissioner un der George B. McClellan and then re turned to newspaper work, keeping up correspondence with friends here. Ho was head of the Cohoes Republican when he died. I-larrisburg is about to have its first school of Spanish, under the direction of Mrs. Melvin Menges, and the study of the language of Latin America is apparently to ba taken up by a good many, judging from the number of inquiries being made for works on Spanish and Spanish textbooks at the Harrisburg Public Library. Governor Brumbaugh, who is an ardent advocate of Spanish, says that it should be made a part of the course in language in the schools, because in his opinion the day is not far distant when it will be of more importance to American business men than any except our own tongue. The State Library has also had numer ous inquiries for Spanish works and State officials who have traveled in the last few years say that many of tho other commonwealths are reporting marked interest in the language. It is also significant that in the last few years several of the largest cor porations in this State, notably those engaged in export, have been requiring their salesmen to have a knowledge of Spanish, and at Pittsburgh and Phila delphia there are commercial houses which give a place readily to anyone with a business training who knows the language of Latin America. Some of the best examples of Pennsylvania businessmen trained to the modern requirements are in the service of tho Bethlehem Steel Corporation and many of them speak Spanish where a few years ago it was unknown. "Now that w<» are to have Virginia farmers come here to 6ee what we raise in this part of Pennsylvania, why would it not be a good idea for the folks in some parts of our own State to come to the district within fifty miler. of Harrisburg and note the ex cellence of the farms and the variety of the products," said a man who comes from near this city. "Take Lancaster, Reading, York, Chambers burg or West Chester. Each one lies in a farming district which can hold its own against western agricultural c'ommunities much more advertised. Lower Dauphin and parts of York, Lebanon, Berks and Chester really be long to the 'garden county" district and I would like to have some of the people from Easton, Scranton, Wil liamsport, Erie, Johnstown, Newcastle, Greensburg, Washington and most of all Pittsburgh travel through the 'south central counties,' as they have been called. It would do them good. Maybe they would buy here direct in stead of through New York or Balti more or Philadelphia and thereby save money." ] WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —George W. Norris, named to the Farm Credit Board, will resign from the Federal Reserve Board of Phila delphia. —E. T. Stotesbury, the banker, is at Watkins Glen, N. Y. for a brief rest. —Arch Mackrell, prominent in Pitta burgh affairs, is on a fishing trip to Canada. —A. C. Baugh a University of Penn sylvania instructor, was in the first, car carrying a Pennsylvania automobile license to ascend Pike's Peak. —Dr. F. W. Hinitt. new president of Washington and Jefferson College, is stirring up the alumni to provide endowment fund. DO YOU KNOW That Hiirrisburir is making stock* injrs for Western States? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Trading with Indians was the first industry here;-timber was the second and agriculture third. Paper Suits For Aviators new use for paper has been founal in the manufacture of clothing f«r aviators. Paper is better than most fabrics for keeping out the cold en countered at high altitude. Special kind of paper, thin and light in weight has been made for tl)is purpose. It is so tough that it can be washed and dried. The full suit includes coat, trousers, socks, cap with ear lapa, and gloves which can be worn inside of cloth gloves if desired. It is Baid that these paper suits are being used exten sively by the aviators of the German army. BIT THEY DOX'T GO ! "We go! We go!" sings the captain of the Deutschland. as snng the police men of Penzance. Recalling, also, what Ben Greet once remarked, in an aside, about Robert Mantoll, that he never knew another actor who ao hated to quit the stage.—Rocky Mountain New*.
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