8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A KSWSPAPER FOR THE HAMS • zSjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE XELEGR.triI I'IUNTIXG CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE. Prts't end EJitjr-in-ChiTf F. R. OTSTER, Busi'.jis Manjgtr. GUS M. SHEIXMETZ, Eiitcr. A Member American Newspaper Pub f Ushers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocl«>V ed Dailies. Eastern «fflce. Has brook.. Story & Brooks, Fifth Ave nue Building. New York City; West ern office. Hits brook. Story A Brooks. People'® Gcs Building, Cls&» cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harrio* burg, Pa, as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mail. 13.00 & year in advance. SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5 -• I JLU great things are born of silence. —J. Mabtineau. I THE PAPER FAMINE. IT will have been observed by those who are following the serious situ ation that confronts the newspaper Industry of the United States that one of the important factors in the paper famine is the Democratic tariff which Interferes with the Canadian pulp eupply. One of the effects of this measure is pointed out by the head of the International Paper Company, ■which concern is now arranging to build a large paper mill in Canada. This same official is authority for the statement that most of the other paper mills in the United States will probably be compelled to iransfer their plants to Canada. This is a fine situation, but it is cf a piece with many other phases of the Democratic tariff tinkering. Manufacturers of other products de clared before the outbreak of war in Europe that it would be necessary for them to establish their plants and factories in Europe to compete with the cheaj) products of the country beyond the seas as a result of the free trade policy. Too lata to avert the calamity that lias come upon many important in dustries the Wilson Administration now practically admits that there will have to be soaie revision of the tariff along protective lines. Tet when the ■Underwood bill was under considera tion in Congress manufacturers who •went to Washington to protect their own interests and the interests of the country were given the cold shoulder and made to understand that they represented an obnoxious lobby which could have no hearing before the high-minded a nil altruistic represen tatives of an accidental adminis tration. Every day demonstrates more clearly the necessity for cleaning house at Washington in such a way as to eliminate the theoretical poli cies which have caused widespread dissatisfaction and unrest. Twenty-flve or thirty Harrisburg boys are participating' in the interest ing military maneuvers at Plattsburg. Opposing forces are marching and man euvering in the foothills of the Adiron dacks and the experts who are direct ing the fighting- have expressed sur prise and satisfaction over the remark able progress of the recruits. All of which goes to show that compulsory military service would be a good thing for the United States. HAItKISBURG CHURCH CENTER. SELECTION" of Harrisburg as the headquarters for a high official of the Lutheran Church in competi tion with many other cities is another evidence of the central position this city hoids with relation to the State at large. N"ot only the Lutheran Church has recognized this advantage in Har risburg, but many others. This is the see city for the Episcopal and Roman Catholic dioceses of Harrisburg. Here also are locate*} the publishing houses and offices of many of the heads of the United Evangelical Church and the Church of God, and for many years the district superintendents of the Methodist Church have had their homes here. The State Y. M. C. A. aiso has headquarters in Harrisburg: several denominations maintain offices here. The city's religious activities match up very well with its industrial enterprises, and it is well that this is so, for the two should go always hand in hand for the development of a happy, prosperous, peaceful and God fearing community. There are many who recall vividly the unfortunate occurrences during the 3 is railroad strike of 1577 and these nd all others interested in peace and harmony and prosperity are hoping that the impending strike on the great railroad trunk lines will be averted. MEAN S MUCH TO CITY THE new freight station of the Pennsylvania railroad, contract in the sum of $350,000 for which was let yesterday, means much to Har risburg. The station should have been built years ago. It would have been built had it not been for the petty objections of selfish interests which were placed in its way. But it will be ready for use soon, so by-gones may be forgotten while the shippers of the city rejoice in their good fortune. More and more Harrisburg is be coming, to use the phrase adopted by the Chamber of Commerce, a "Heart of Distribution," and through its freight depots flows the life-blood of a thousand industries. The-Reading long ago modernized its freight yards here and the big improvements to be SATURDAY EVENING, mode by the Pennsylvania will give Harrisburg freight handling facilities commensurate with Its growing Im portance as a distributing center. The headless Bull Moose party, com posed largely of ex-Democrats and a few malcontents who are allied with no party very long, has determined to keep itself in the limelight somehow, although 95 per cent, of the original Progressive party has lined up behind Mr. Hughes. PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE. ANT study «»r the topography of the landscape of which Harrls- burg is the central feature must convince lovers of scenic beauty of the superior location of this city. Hun dreds of automobile tourists from every part of the country already have visited the city this year and these are telling the story of the Cum berland Valley, the Susquehanna river, the hills and the wonderful features of the Pennsylvania tours which are now attracting so many this way. i W. H. Manning, the distinguished j Boston architect, who was here the I other day, said to one with whom he was discussing the, unsurpassed scen ! ery of this section: You should bear in mind that the 1 time is coming when the hnest viewpoint from the summit of the . range toward the north and north west of Harrlsburg will be sought out and made accessible to the pub lic. possibly by an electric railway. I want you to recognize, as I recognize, that Harrlsburg people will soon begin to breaK away from the crowded little lots of the City and get out on the big lots on the mountains where conditions are so attractive and so favorable within fifteen to thirty minutes' ride by automobile to the city. There are some men with a broad vision, but others whose vision is not vet broad enough to stimulate the enthusiasm and active self-sac rifice that is essential if they are to leave the monument of an or derly city plan established. Too many citizens have an idea that a plan can be made and that is the end of it. They have not yet come to realize that the only way to es tablish a plan is to hold persist ently to the one general plan which best takes advantage of the natural | conditions; and then retain the man who is responsible for it. whoever he may be. for enougix years to per- | mi* it to be accomplished. They do not yet realize that the i man who made the plan should have the ability and the opportunity to in duce owners to recognize the de- I sirability of giving for streets or other purposes that portion cf their • land called for by the plan, first be- I cause it is to their own interest to do so. and secondly for the sake of the community as a whole. You know how much has been accomplished in this direction in ! Harrisburg. 1 have found in de- ! signing many places that the men j who are leaders in business and professional life have an inclination I to serve the city in this way. Mr. Manning's comments were the outcome of a discussion upon the fur therance of the Harrisburg plaj. which is familiar to most of our people and which has been generally com-1 mended throughout the country. Much of the future planning will be under the eye of Mr. Manning him self and the members of the City Plan ning Commission, who are giving careful thought and consideration to. the opening of wider avenues, better building regulations and other fea tures of a well-made city. Those who are watching the pro gress of Harrisburg must be impressed with the disinterested and intelligent service of the City Planning Commis sion. The Ave public-spirited citizens who compose the commission are watching with an eye single to the wel fare of the community the development of the newer sections, and through careful supervision are preventing many unfortunate schemes of expan sion which would give the city serious trouble hereafter. HAY FEVER WHAT," asks a correspondent, "shall I do to avoid hay fever? What is hay fever?" We never had hay fever, so we can't answer authoritatively, but so far as our observations go we believe it to be a series of sneezes used as an ex cuse for going away to the mountains. FOOLISH FEAR MUCH foolish fear has been aroused over the epidemic of infantile paralysis now prevail ing in New York and New Jersey. Physicians admit they do not know whether or not it is either infectious or contagious. There is no reason for any parent to become panic-stricken. Cleanliness, fresh air and wholesome food are the three proofs against this disease, just as they are asainst all other maladies. Keep thfe little ones clean as possible, outdoors as much as possible and see to it that they eat lightly and properly. The rest is not in mortal hands. * All admirers of a brave man will hope that Captain Koenig and his gal lant crew are having a pleasant sail on the Deutschland homeward bound. THE MEXICAN' FIASCO. DEMOCRATIC newspapers an nounce with great glee to-day that war with Mexico is to be avoided by the President's acceptance of the terms of Carranza. In other words, President Wilson set out to compel Carranza to do something, and has ended by doing what Carranza wants him to do. Pulitzer's Review sums up the Mexican fiasco to date briefly and pertinently as follows: National Guard and Pershing's force, cost a month, $11,000,000. Initial equipment, i 5,000,000. Total money cost for s;x months, estimated, <77,000.000 to 1100,000,- 000. Losses in wages of Guardsmen, millions. American soldiers treacherously slain. 40. Three hundred-mile withdrawal of Pershing's forces. Many deaths from tropical dis eases. Coming generation bonded by Congress. Result: Situation unchanged. Are we headed for Government and municipal ownership of all public utili ties? It begins to look that way. ALL WORK AND XO PLAY. MORE and more we are coming to a full understanding of the old adage that "All work and n6 play makes Jack a dull boy." Mod ern business competition has no place for the "dull boys," and so the Sat urday half-holiday, especially in the warm weather when excessive work is enervating and when outdoors has an almost irresistible call, has come to be popular with employers as well ias employes. The half-holiday move : mcnt is to an extent altruistic, but |lt has its practical side as well. Em ployes will do in five and one-half ! days what they formerly did in six, j and will do it better. 1 TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE*"! —lf there was a chance of going to Maine and getting some fun out of it | we believe we'd call our present cold j hay fever. —The Dutch have made Colonfl ! Roosevelt a member of their society of neutrals. What are they trying to do? j Stir up a scrap with Germany? —Again Uncle Sam doffs his hat to | the doughty captain of the Deutschland and invites h«m to "call again.'* —Honey bees are said to be suffering from a kind of paralysis, but it is not announced that their stingers are af fected. —Bryan complains that Hughes' speech was "too Judicial." and a while back they wer£ complaining that the Republican candidate was too judicial. —Something has happened in Ger many. At the beginning of the war the ; Emoeror called them "my soldiers;" i now he hails them as "my comrades." ~ EDITORIAL COMMENT! Maybe those smart sharks followed the German submarine over in the ex pectation of another Lusitanla incident. —Boston Transcript. Events have so shaped themselves as to reduce Mr. Perkins" checkbook to the status of a private institution.—Wash ington Star. It .s likely that Thomas Mott Os borne is the only man who has had cause to regard a second term at Sing Sing with satisfaction.—New York V orld. It s difficult to believe that a person brave enough to visit Coney Island on a Sunday would be ktpt out of the surf by fear of a mere shark.—Boston Tran script. Farmers are patriotic, but sending their boys as militiamen on a wild goose chase to Mexico right in harvest ing time is not likely to make manv farm votes for Mr. Wilson.—Kansas City Journal. Dear Sir, We Demand to Know" [Kansas City Star ] The open letter season is now on. The open letter differs from the closed lettof in that it is addressed to a per son the writer does not know, and. further, is sent to the newspapers in stead of to the person to whom it is addressed. The season was formally opened with an open letter to Mr. Hushes from a committee of "distinguished American writers ' who did not like Mr. Hughes's speech accepting the Re publican nomination for President. Others will follow. Mr. Wilson will get some—that is, he will learn from the papers that letters have been ad dressed TO him. AVlvrever men gather who find that they aeree approximated on being for Mr. Hughes they will ad dress an open letter to Mr. Wilson ask ing a number of questions in the form of an argument and inclosing no re turn address for a reply. And wher ever men gather who find they agree approximately on being for Mr. Wilson they will address an open letter to Mr. Hughes demanding to know what he means. Just as a matter of curiosity It would be interesting to know if these open letters really are mailed. Do the writers put a 1-cent stamp on them and drop them in the letter box at the same time they forward a copy to the press? When distinguished writers or distinguished bakers, or potters, or tin smiths, or boilermakers, in convention assembled, decide, when all other busi ness is over, to write an open letter to a candidate for the presidency, and do write it and pass it around for signatures, and it is read by the secre tary amid applause and it is voted to send it to the press, and everybody reaches for his hat to go home, does anybody ever ftop them as they are making for the door and say: "Wait a minute, boys, ought we to send this letter to the candidate or just let him find out from the newspapers that we are demanding, a reply to forty-seve* questions?" It would be interesting to know if anybody ever thought of that little detail, and if so what Information on the ethics of the case the meeting was possessed cf. There is something prankish about an open letter, as. of a small boy who rings a door bell and runs. In the case of the distinguished American writers there is something more than prankishness, there is something of calculation—when they ring the bell and run they wait around the comer, too, not too much concealed from the neighbors who stick their heads out the windows. -Distinguished Ameri can writers" know the value of adver tising space and of being seen and identified at their open letter writing. It Fires Him The small man attempts to walk from success to success upon the shoulders of his friends. The big, broad, aggressive man selects his suc cess from a route that leads him past criticism and antagonism. It fires him to find opposition.—The Silent Part ner. Seeing Pennsylvania First We motored on the hill road Where sky and tree-tops gTeet, The sun was never brighter. And, O. the air was sweet! The earliest breath of frost-time Had touched the tenderest trees, And just a tings of autumn chill Was in the west-born breeze. Below us in the valley A hundred farms joined hands; A hundred homesteads mothered The fenced and brook-bound lands. And many a fresh-plowed acre Was white with new-spread lime. It looked as if the snow-man Had come before his time! The cutters in the cornfields They made a swishing sound. And where the shocks were tented The punkins spread around Were thick as stars up in the sky And rich as tunset glow— I never saw a finer sight Than one field down below. It was a grand encampment Of tall and yellowed corn And every veteran punkin there Was like the san at morn! And two strong horses plowing Across a nearby field Were thinkint,', I am certain. Of the food these tents would yield: Along the ridge we sail'd through dust And past a lighthouse tall— An old and white and pointed spire Topped by a polden ball! And through a clean-swept, sleepy town And past a tavern door We coasted to a covered bridge • Close by a country store. Now, Summer 's a girl I love. She charms me with her blaze Of Cowers and fruit-fill'd bowers—l own I like her generous ways: But if you let me choose from all I think I'd take for mine gwert Autumn with her tented fields And air like snarkling wine: —Leigh ilitchell Hodges. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Ov I'ptKKO^tcanXa >T the Ei-Cammincemiin Between Governor Brumbaugh's po litical conferences in Philadelphia yes terday and the announcement of the Penrose favor for the State woman suffrage constitutional amendment resolution men and women, Interested in politics had much to talk about to day. The position of the Senator Is said to be announced as applying only to the Pennsylvania State amendment, nothing being said about the federal amendment. Governor Brumbaugh, Attorney General Brown and others in the State administration counsels yester day went over the "beheading list" prepared for the State government and weighed the objections voiced by some heads of departments against whole sale removal before election and also the pleas for some specially qualified mm. The Governor is said to have yielded to those who demand "a gen eral Autumn housecleaning." The Governor has definitely decided not to interfere with the removal of Dr. H. A. Surface and to take what ever criticism may come of it. The Governor said while here that he had declined to get drawn Into the matter, but within twenty-four hours was In the middle of it because he to ap prove the selection of Prof. J. G. San ders as the Surface successor. In all probability the appointment of the manager of the State Insurance Fund will come along in a month and the Governor will also clean up a num ber of pending appointments, includ ing those outlined yesterday. It is expected that the anti-Penrose people will take advantage of the dec laration on suffrage to go after the Senator. It is Intimated that the Vares have been waiting to hear from the Senator. They have doubtless heard by this time. —A complete set of electoral candi dates was filed at the State Capitol to day by the Socialist party. The can didates will be certified to the counties in the Fall with those of other parties. —J. V. Clark of Washington to-day withdrew as a candidate for State Treasurer on the Roosevelt Progressive ticket, having withdrawn as Washing ton party candidate some days ago. —Numerous inquiries for information as to the method to be followed In withdrawing from tickets have been made at the Capitol the last few days. —Appointment of counsel for the Pub lic Service Commission is expected to be made in a short time by Attorney General Brown and in all probability additional assistant counsel will be named to handle the rush of business which Is expected to occur in the Fall. William X. Trinkle, of Philadelphia, who retired some tine ago as counsel, has been giving assistance in hold over cases. It is said that addition to Deputy Attorney General Emerson Collins and Richard E. Cochran, of York, a Philadelphian. is being consid ered for a place on the legal staff of the commission. —Selection of the officers of the Sec ond and Third artillery regiments, formerly the Ninth and Thirteenth in fantry regiments, which must be made by Governor Brumbaugh in the next month, is causing more or less specu lation about the Capitol as it is inti mated that some men not in entire sympathy with the Governor's politi cal ambitions last Fall are in the or ganization. The guess at the Capitol is there will be some surprises. —The Philadelphia grand jury is said to be getting evidence for a report which it is claimed will "startle the city." The probe is going in pretty deep and it is said that conditions for two years are being inquired into. George D. Porter, director of safety under Blankenburg, was on the stand yesterday. —City Chairman David H. Lane yes terday recognized both factions of the Philadelphia Republican organization in the appointment of committees. —Representative C. J. Roney, Jr., withdrew in his fight to get registrars named in the Third ward of Philadel phia against the Trainer slate. The registrars are to be named by August 15. —Much interest was shown here to day by the report of the organization of the Hughes alliance in York. A dispatch says: "A branch of the Hughes Alliance was organized at a luncheon held at the Lafayette Club to promote the candidacy of Charles Evans Hughes for election as President of the United States. Regulars and Progressives hobnobbed together in a manner which several years ago would not have been supposed possible !n this county. Paul Littlefield. of Philadelphia, organizer of the Alliance, made an address predicting an over whelming victory for Hughes. Other speakers were John E. Baker, Samuel K. McCall. Grier Hersh, Thomas Ship ley, County Chairman McClean Stock. Samuel S. Lewis, W. L. Taylor, Edward S. Brooks, D. Guy Hollinger, Hano ver; Harry Raub, Dallastown, and Mayor E. S. Hugentugler, of York. John E. Baker was elected president; Dr. Fayette Beard, of Hanover, vice president; S. S. Lewis, secretary, and William Lichtenberger, Red Lion, as treasurer. The chairman was author ized to appoint an executive commit tee and call meetings at such time as he sees fit." Summer Rules (Kansas City Star) Nearly every newspaper in the coun try has been giving advice on how to get on in the hot weather. Summed up and boiled down it amounts to this: "Wear thin, loose clothing. Don't eat too much meat, but eat substantial, strengthening food; it is unwise to get weak from lack of nourishment. Drink plenty of pure water, not iced, but cooled. Bathe morning and night so the effects of perspiration will be re moved, and the pores cleansed. Don't hurry. Don't worry. Keep interested in other things so you needn't center your attention on the heat. Smoke less than usual. Don't drink any alcoholic stim ulant. Get plenty of sleep—out of doors if possible." A score or two of the best doctors in the country, expressing themselves in as many different newspapers in the last week, agree that an observance of these simple directions will carry any person of ordinary sound body safely through the warmest summer. Goliath's Brother Slain And there w-as war again with the Philistines and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Gol iath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam.—l Chronicles, xx, 5. 1 MIZPAH By Wing Dinger There comes a time each year, good friend. When one starts on his way To have the fun he's planned for months— My summer holiday Begins to-day, and I am oft. But ere we part, to you, I send this message, from the heart, "Mizpah, good friend and true." THE CARTOON OF THE DAY WHAT WILL POOR WOODROW DO NOW? —From Ihc Ilajfluiorc Anirrlritn, HOW SHALL WE FLY? By Frederic J. Haskin THE naval battle in the North Sea seems to have revived something of the old controversy over the relative merits of the Zeppelin and the aeroplane. The Germans claim that their lighter-than-air machines rendered them service of the first im portance in scouting-, while the English deny that the Zeppelin's actions had anything to do with the engagement or its results. If the German conten tion is correct, the Zeppelin has scored a point to balance some of the many achievements of the aeroplane in the hands of each of the belligerents. The whole question is of interest to Ameri cans because the next decade will un questionably see a great expansion in the art—or industry—of flying in this country, and the character of that ex pansion will be based on the lessons taughts by the war. There is small chance, however, that our progress in aviation will turn aside from the path it has already chosen. The' American aviator is fol lowing in the footsteps of his French and English brethren and turning his attention to th 6 aeroplane, the heavier - than-air machine. This may,, of course, be due in large part to the fact that the aeroplane is an Ameri can invention, the product of American brains and enterprise, while the dirigi ble balloon got its development In Germany, but our national preference in the matter is probably due rather to an appreciation of the greater all around usefulness and practicability of the aeroplane than to any sentiment. The last few weeks have seen some notable achievements in American aviation, in the shape of record-break ing flights along the Atlantic coast, and now comes the announcement of a transcontinental flight contest for a trophy and big money prizes to start from New York early in September. Some of our more enthusiastic sup porters of aviation, including Ralph Pulitzer, who offers the leading prize, are beginning to get uneasy about our standing in the game. They say that the war pressure Is pushing Europe rapidly ahead until we, who invented the aeroplane, are in danger of losing all place in the rank of nations who make effective use of it. Of course the tendency in the United States to-day is to "lie low." Europe is rapidly getting a great deal of ex perience in flying, but she is paying dearly for much of it. All sorts of innovations are being tested out across the water, some to be eventually adopted, others to be discarded. In the meantime we can sUck to a policy of passive observation and profit by European failures. Our factories are building some of the machines for the belligerents, but on the whole avi ational development in this country is biding its time until Europe shall have produced the most successful types of machine, which we can then imitate and snare ourselves the Intermediate steps of experiment and failure. But the aviation student tells us that Europe Is not only working out the most practicable types of the aero planes, but also rapidly developing men to fly them. No one has any criticism to of the American aviators as a class except that there are too few of them. The American temperament soems to be particularly well fitted to flight work. Some of the most daring and skillful feats accom plished in France :-.re to the credit of the little corps of American fliers, and here in the United States our aviators are daily proving themselves as ef ficient as any on the battlefields. But while we have two or three hundred skilled pilots, England, France and Germany, even Russia, are turning them out literally in thousands. It is to stimulate public Interest in this country in aviation and to show what can be done with an aeroplane properly handled that the transconti nental contest will bo held. Once such a feat has been achieved by several machines, it is hoped that distance flying will become more and more of a commonplace in the United States. This will require the co-operation of the man on the ground with the man in the air, for the aeroplane cannot make a practice of fiylne across coun try in the absence of adequate land- WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] What precautions such as tests, etc., are taken to insure purity of water? Samples are taken hourly from the river water before it enters the sedimentation basin to ascertain the amount of coagulant and hypo chlorite of lime necessary to treat same. Samples are taken and an alyses are made of the filtered water three times every twenty four hours. Samples an< analyses of tap -water are taken once every twenty-four hours. These samples are taken to ascertain the turbidity, color and alkalinity. A complete sanitary analysis is taken once a week. Just a Thought If a big man can get from a small man a thought that helps, what an opportunity there is for the small man i to grow if he'll study the ways of big i men:—Elliott-Kisher Ginger: AUGUST 5, 1916. ing and gasoline stations at frequent intervals. Several such stations will have to be arranged for to meet the needs of the aviators'- who fly in the contest, and doubtless there will he competition among the cities on the route for the honor of being way sta tions on this historic journey. When the aerop't. ne which made the record-breaking Uight from New York to Washington recently was presented to the New Mexico National Guard for use in border scouting: the pilots offered to fly it overland and turn it over to the guardsmen in person. After some consideration the scheme had to be given up because of the lack of land ing stations along the way. The aero enthusiasts hope to see the time when an inland town will have to provide a level plain suitable for landing pur poses, with shelter ior machines, just as it has to provide good auto roads to-day to keep its,clf on the tourist map. All this progress and all these plans, it may be noted, arc based on the use of the heavier-than-air machines. Ger many is, in fact, the only nation which continues to pin any great portion of its reliance in air work on the dirigible balloon, the motor-driven machine lighter than air, In her case the Zeppe lin. All the belligerents are using bal loons for observation purposes. But even Germany has a big and effective aeroplane fleet on each of her fronts, particularly the western. What ex perience the war has brought seems to Justify the course of those nations which stick to the aeroplane. When the war began the relative efficiency of the various types of craft built to navigate the atmosphere was pretty much a matter of theory. Some people believed that one aeroplane could dash another to the earth sim ply by swooping over and in front of it so that the air gust from the pro peller of the attacking machine could catch the enemy and hurl him down. Nobody believed that an aeroplane would stand much shell or shrapnel fire. It was pointed out particularly that the propeller of an aeroplane, made of wood and revolving as it does at such a tremendous speed as to ap pear like nothing but a tremulous haze, was a particularly vulnerable point. It was predicted that a rifle or shrapnel ball striking the flying pro peller would cause it to fly to pieces. The aeroplane has proved stable be yond all expectations. A rifle ball striking the propeller does nothing but make a hole in one of the blades. The machine can weather almost any num ber of hits in the wings and body so long as no "vital" spot is struck—such as the motor, the gas tank or the aviator himself. Moreover, even when the engine stops as a result of some shot that finds its mark the pilot can often succeed in volplaning back into his own lines. The high speed of the aeroplane, the erratic course it can take, the rapid shifts of altitude thai are possible when necessary, combine to make it a poor mark for shell Are. Some of the light scouting planes make 120 and 130 miles an hour. None of the belligerents has succeeded in hampering the enemy's air reconais sance ser%'ice seriously. All this is to the credit of the heavier-than-air machine. The dirig ible has certain virtues of its own however. In a fight with aeroplanes it would not stand much chance. It is much bigger and hence an easier target, not so easily maneuvered, ex cept that it can rise more quickly for a time, and quite defenseless against at tack from above. It is much more at the mercy of the wind than the aero plane. But it has immensely more carrying capacity. It can be loaded with great weights of fuel and ammu nition, In addition to large crews. Hence it has a greater cruising radius The aeroplane slays in the atr bv virtue of its speed alone. Stop the engine and it must descend. The dirigible on the contrary, floats by virtue of buoyancy, and hence can stay aloft for days. Moreover, it can by virtue of these qualities fly by night as well as by day. Night flying is dangerous to the point of impracticability for an aeroplane, because In case of emer gency the pilot cannot see where he is landing. OUR DAILY LAUGH GOING OVER eS3> SEASON. What happens S(vb 1 r when you go on a vacation? f 4 \ MM&iEk Tour firm goes (4; W ~ over your books \sjto and your wife <r~ Jf * V goes over every- \ | thing else. 1 I vfc » HI § IMAGINATION DEFINED. Harold, can you tell me what imagination is? Imagination is what makes a fel low think a beo'» stinger is three feet long after he gets stung. lEbPttmg €t|at Judging from photographs being received here some of the organiza tions of the Pennsylvania National Guard, now in camp along the border, are trying to make conditions pleas ant about their cantonments and while sword grass, cactus and the coarse vegetation of El Paso regions is somewhat difficult to work with they are having fair success. Some of the soldiers have cut paths through the grass und have transplanted the cactus and other plants to places where they will not be in the way and will add to the appearance of things Instead of detracting. Others have dec orated tent poles and other places* about the camps making conditions a bit more pleasant. Another thing which seems to bo general among the men at the camp is the maintenance of a mascot. There are goats, dogs and other animals which are well tak en carc of and which seem to have stood the transfer to a different clim ate as well as the men. The Guards men are evidently making up their minds to a prolonged stay and are talking about the program of duty which has been worked out up to the middle of October. Because of the likelihood that the Guardsmen will be in camp a long time a number of fami lies of officers are arranging to visit them when the weather becomes more pleasant and it is possible that a number from this section of the State will go. Speaking of National Guard mat ters it is said in Washington that ef forts are being made to take care of the ordnance officers and others who lose not only rank but place because of the terms of the defense act. Just how they will be taken care of is not known, but the fact is that the army authorities are just as anxious to keep the services of the experienced of ficers as the officers are to stay in the service. Officers of lon# standing in the National Guard have been mus tered out under the new law and they are making every effort to have a change worked out before they incur the expense of trips home." Incident ally, the ruling of the war department that officers are not to be paid until date of muster into federal service if they did not leave with troops when they started for Mt. Gretna is being condemned as rank injustice and is bothering Washington a good deal. Prof. Franklin Menges, of Tork, who was at the State Capitol yester day, is one of the foremost authori ties in the State service on the soils and rotation of crops. He has been making a study of the subjects for twenty years and has visited every county. Adherence to time honored customs of rotation of crops and care for the soil will do many things, he says. "The suggestion in the Telegraph the other night that people ought to know their own agricultural districts and do their best to get the folks in the cities to do the same strikes home and ought to be followed," said a prominent business man and native of this section yesterday. "You said that it would be a good thing to have some of the people in the eastern counties tour the central counties to see what they make or raise. The same is true of us. We ought to go to the northern counties to note the big dairying farms and interests and the western people ought to come to the garden counties to see where the vegetables of the State are raised. If people were more familiar with what is raised in this State they would not be so apt to pay fancy prices for inferior stuff." The old Poorhouse lane bridge, as the structure spanning the Reading railroad at Twenty-ninth street has been known to a couple of generations disappeared yesterday before the march of improvement. The old bridge Is to be replaced with a new structure and yesterday the bridge over which thousands of vehicles have passed was torn down. The lanes were boarded up and people who have been accus tomed to seeing the bridge for years wondered what was the matter with the landscape. • • • A good bit of excitement and hy steria is being manifested over infan tile paralysis. As a matter of fact there have been numerous cases of this disease in Pennsylvania the last few years and in one year, about half a decade ago, over 1,100 cases were re ported. The percentage of deaths has been small. There have been few cases in this section. • » • s Speaking of paralysis a good story is being told of a doctor in a nearby town. He was called to see a child which everyone was sure had the dreaded disease. The youngster was lying inert and to be frank, not show ing much interest in anything. The doctor was informed by an old family nurse that there was no doubt of it. What he found was an old-fashioned summer cold which had "gotten all through" the "kid." When asked why they thought the child had paralysis, members of the family assured the doctor that the child had been trou bled by a "running nose" and did not seem to take much interest in things. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —Captain L. M. Phelps, who In stalled telephone lines in the camp at El Paso, comes from Erie. —W. C. George, prominent Alle gheny merchant, has been elected president of tire Allegheny Valley Chamber of Commerce. —Richard Gilbert, Central Pennsyl vania miners' leader, predicts a short age of miners next winter. —Major C. C. MehaTd, of Pitts burgh, has been acting as training officer for the Pittsburgh recruits for Plattsburg. —Major J. F. Edwards, one of the medical officers who took up work at Mt. Gretna when sent back from El Paso, is a prominent Pittsburgh medi cal man. 1 DO YOU KNOW f That Harrigburg engines are la government buildings in WaslUng* ton? HISTORIC HARRISBCRG John Adams visited Harrisburg and spoke to the people from the court house when he was president. Silent Partner's Sayings If you want to locate an ambltioisr young man, some chap whom yo# would make foreman or manager, glf over to the poolroom about two o'clock in the afternoon, and And him— not. You may have your Packard, your painted lily, your gilded gold; but give me a two-mile drive with an old fashioned girl on top of a load of new. mown hay. One pound of pi eparedness, one ounce of getting ready, one grain of good, sound thinking, are worth a ton of correcting mistakes. Think ahead of your work. When I waste time or thought on my enemies, I find tho exercise costs me more than one would think. The plan keeps me from dwelling on some one who might help. In other words, my prospect* for progress are being stalled while "mulling" over my ene» mies.
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