8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A SEWS PAPER FOR TUB HO MB Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Iclegraph Buildlac, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOUE, Prts't and Editornm-CKiSj V. R. OYSTER, Bnjinjss Manager. GUS M. STtEIXMETZ, Managing Editor. A Member American Newspaper Pub- Jfishers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania ed Dailies. Eastern office. Has broofc. Story & Brooks. Fifth Ave nue Building. New York City: West ern office. Hits brook. Story 4 Brooks. People's Gas Building, Ch<*» cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harris* burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a Vweek; by mail. $3.00 a year in advance. TUESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 8 , Write it on your heart that every day 1 is tho best day in the year.— EMEBSOX. , STEELTON PREPARING DECISION of Steelton Council to j extend sewer and water lines be-, yond the borough limits in order 1 to increase the building area is an in- j dication that the councilmen foresee 1 the rapid development of Steelton as a result of the immense improve-' xnents to the steel works now under j way or contemplated by the Bethlehem , ■Steel Company. Council has taken a wise step. Even now Steelton is congested and desirable houses are difficult to rent. Not only that, but the !ron town of the future is to be a far different place from the iron town of the past, or even of the present. The old-time hovels, the narrow streets, the lack of sanitary precautions, the grime and the filth are being rapidly relegated to their proper place in the scrap heap of history. They were of an age when employers thought only of working people as chattels—as so many work ing units, and not as human beings. The newer understanding of the duties of the employer, as exemplified in the model town cf Gary and in other in dustrial communities built along the lines of that model municipality, is working wonders in the making over of such towns as Steelton. Not long ago a noted city authority 'told the officials of Pittsburgh that unless they wanted to see their in dustrial supremacy swept away, they would do well to improve living con ditions there, to see to it that the slums be rooted out, that a new and stringent building code be enacted and that attractive houses be built for occupancy at low rentals. Other in dustrial communities are doing this, he pointed out, and the working man lias reached a place where he will live in the city or town that offers him not only work and wages but a pleas ant and healthful place in which to live. Steelton is at the beginning of what promises to be a new and glorious era of prosperity. The magic hand of Schwab has waved the wand of in dustrial expansion over the town and from the steel king's horn of plenty millions in gold are to be poured out there for the development of the great furnaces ajid mills that already have carried the name of Steelton around the world. The borough means to keep pace with the new order of things. To do so it realizes that it must improve its living conditions. The time -will come, and at no far distant date, when Steelton will not only extend far out into what is now farming territory, but when it will blot out the relics of former days that now go by the name of houses in some of the poorer quarters. Steelton is just glimpsing the light of a bright new day. THE PUBLIC THE "GOAT" IN" Harrisburg the unions are com plaining because the trolley com pany refuses to arbitrate. In the controversy now in progress between the railroad unions and the companies the railroads complain because the unions will not arbitrate. But we haven't heard any of them talking very loudly about the rights of the public which supports the railroads, the trolley lines and the unions as well. ISLAND BATHING BEACHES SOME thousands of people are now using the island bathing beaches and the number is Increasing every day. But the facilities for bath ing are far from satisfactory. Either through municipal or private expendi ture we must have .proper bath houses and comfortable and safe bathing pools. This Is also a matter for the "Great er Harrlsburg Navy" and ltg commit tee on tho permanent improvement of tho Susquehanna Baeln. Now Is the heat time of all to give attention to this particular subject. What sort of bath houses will bo most available and praotlcal may be determined after a full survey of the situation, but it is not necessary to wait until the sum mer is over before giving full consid eration to the subject, Tho very fact that so many thou sands of men, women and children are seeking the comfort of the river In boating and bathing and otherwise should fee sufficient Justification for immediate action, It la probably tou much to t>*peet private capital to pro vide the facilities that are needed, but the municipal obligation is obvious TUESDAY EVENING, and there is no occasion to postpone until another year what should be undertaken right now. Those who are familiar with the river and its currents tell us that fine bathing pools may be established at several points. If we cannot do other - 1 wise than provide canvas bathing | bouses for the summer, let these be i established with proper showers and other conveniences. I But let us do it NOW. HUGHES' LABOR VIEWS DEMOCRATS who have been un able to find flaws in the character or views of Charles E. Hughes have been hinting darkly at his "labor record." "They have been unable to ; find anything in his whole career that i has marked him as unfriendly either to organized or unorganized labor, so they have confined themselves to innuendo. This notwithstanding that i Hughes as Governor of New York | never had a single dispute with labor. ; while all of his important fights were | waged against certain doubtful prac tices of "big business." In the Supreme (Court he passed upon labor cases im i partially and only in accord with the I provisions of law. Nevertheless, these 'seeds of doubt, so skillfully sown, had begun to take root. Here and there a workingman was asking himself: "What about Hughes and labor?" But Mr. Hughes, whether he sensed the insidious efforts of his enemies in this direction or merely .felt that he should make himself clear concerning his attitude toward both capital and labor, has left nobody long in doubt. Yesterday in his speech at Detroit— one of the real Industrial centers of the country—he said: It is an awful mistake to think of the men through whose activity production is possible as mere economic units. They are human beings. We are all working men in this country. We are in different spheres of activity, but we ought to have a sense of co-operation so that every man takes pride io what he is doing and in doing it to the best of his ability because he is working alongside of every other man for the good of the country. The human factor is after all the important factor. You may de velop your physical plants, your physical instrumentalities, distri bution and everything that goes to make up the material side of pros perity. but you are absolutely hopeless without the human factor, and in America, the land of free men. the man who is at work for a living must feel that the country is doinj? the right thing by him. He is entitled to be safe in his work, to have every precaution taken against every sort of acci dent that can be prevented. A man is put at work. How can he refuse the job which stands be tween him and starvation? It is perfectly idle to say ia our indus trial conditions that he can take or refuse the work, according to his idea of the safety appliances which ; may be provided to protect him. ! Tou have got to protect him. No I man can work in any position where his life, his limb or his ] health are subject to any unneces- I sary risk. That is good American- ; ism and that is good business. That is where Mr. Hughes stands with relation to labor. The working- i man must fee! that the "country is doing the right thing by him." A ( square deal for labor, skilled or un skilled, healthful living conditions, safe surroundings, a chance for pro motion fair share of profits in the form of wages. It sounds like the pronouncement of a social idealist. And so it is. but It Is also the platform of the Republi can candidate for President. GLARE AND BLARE WE are fast coming to the point in Harrisburg where it will be ab solutely necessary to take official ac tion with respect to the glare and blare 1 of automobiles and motorcycles. The j use of brilliant search lights on auto- 1 mobiles in the city and the squawking ! of innumerable noise devices on these j machines, plus the racket of motor- j cycle cut-outs and horns, will compel some restrictive measures. Many cit-j les have already limited the use of the search lights on automobiles to a cer-1 tain height and distance and the same 1 thing also applies to horns and other instruments of torture which are sup posed to be necessary for signal pur poses. With the increasing number of mo tor vehicles of all sorts some plan must be devised for lessening the danger from the glare of these strong head lights on city streets and much-travel ed highways. Numerous serious acci dents have already followed the blind ing of drivers of automobiles by the searchlights of cars running in the op posite direction. Not only are these searchlights dangerous from the standpoint of the operation of cars, but they are a serious nuisance to pe destrians walking along residence streets. It would seem to be an easy matter for the Motor Club of Harrisburg to devise some ordinance that will meet the situation and this organization is the proper one to prepare such regu lations as shall be reasonable and effective. The Rov. Dr. Parkhurst, discussing the noise and racket of the city, recently made this statement: One can hardly be in the coun try for twenty-tour hours, in the midst of its charms and quietude, without realizing the pandemonium from which oner.as escaped in set ting out of New York City. Its peo ple are, with some necessary ex ception, nice people, but the town Itself, in its material and mechani cal make-up, has a personality of its own which is coarse, turbulent and noisy. There are noises which are necessary, and there are noises which are absolutely unnecessary, and it would reduce very much the unlnterestlngness of the city if tho unnecessary noises were dispensed with. Moreover, dispensing with them would prove not only a matter of comfort, but also of sanitation. It is not generally understood that noise itself consumes vitality. Every sound that reaches us cre ates in us a physical response. We physically react upon the attack which it makes upon us- Consci ously or unconsciou»ly, we strike back when it Btrlkes us. We ex press the truth of that fact when we say: "I am tired of all this noise:" which means that it draws upon our vital resources. And in New York City noise never stops. Thirty years ago in the two hours from 2 o'clock in the morning till 4 there was silence; at least the approach to silence was so close that it could with comparative ac curacy be called such. At present, however, there le not a moment during the twenty-four hou: - # when there is any let-up of the everlast ing racket and rumble. An that racket and rumble are taxing the vitality of every man, woman ana child, whether awake or asleep. Dr. Parkhurst has given voice to the growing murmur of protest which Is heard in every city, Harrlsburg is no exception and it would seem to be a proper time now to take proper ac-. tion to reduce the unnecessary noises which afflict not only the sick and nervous element of the population, but destroy the rest of those whose toil demands repose apd who deserve the consideration of the municipal au thorities. There is no excuse for the glare and blare. The ofTonders are confined to a comparatively small numbor of noise-making: individuals -who can at tract public attention in no other way. | TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE"! —Somebody's always taking the Joy out of life. This morning we heard a fellow say: "When the wind blows over the oat stubble summer is on the wane." —Col. Bogey's squad doesn't seem to mind the campaign just started by old General Humidity. —Fathers who recall the virtues of the boys of their youths and who con demn the doings of their own offspring should pause a moment and compare the fathers of then and now. —Now that the speaking tour is well under way it remains for some para grapher to remark that he Hughes to the line. —The more we tMink about it the more we are of the 'opinion that Vic tor Murdock displayed keen wisdom in the selection of the date for that China trip. EDITORIAL COMMENT The prediction is now made that if the war in Europe continues much longer, Americans may have to use brown sugar In their coffee. The deprivation, If it comes, will be par- j ticularly hard on those of us who were ■ brought up on sorghum.—Kansas City Star. Secretary McAdoo is a great humor ist. He has issued drastic orders that none of the employes of the Treasury Department shall engage in pernicious political activity during the campaign, while all over the country from the postmasters up the great cohort of grateful Democrats are working tooth and nail to keep themselves and their chief in office.—Public Ledger, Phila delphia, Naturally the price of paper has risen by leaps and bounds. Some newspapers have been compelled to meet this heavy additional expense by increasing subscription rates. If the situation does r.ot improve, all news papers will be obliged to adopt the same course.—Altoona Mirror. Of course a boat of any kind bringing • so tons of dyestuffs would put a slight ly different color on the situation.— Omaha World-Herald. Country boardinghousekeepers are wondering now if those city boarders are going to try to enforce this new rural-credits law.—Boston Transcript. It is a dull day in England when there is not found some new way in which David Lloyd-George mav save the British Empire.—Cincinnati Times ctar. It is said that the Moros have "laid down the sword, and taken up the base ball bat." Going to forget old scores in an ertqefrt to make new ones.—Arkan sas Gazette. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES'] About "Miss Mnttir MnrnlnKglory"— By Lilian Bell. This is one of the sweetest love stories ever told, fairiv teeming with humor and pathos. Miss Bell has woven a charming narrative about little "Miss Mattie Morning glory," a warm-hearted, impulsive di minutive milliner, whose first affec tions are centered on a worthless scamp, who has deceived and robbed her. The arrest and exposure of her sweetheart open Miss Mattie's eyes to his perfidy and the subsequent shock sends her to a hospital. 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Little Phil plays an Important part in bring ing to successful issue a love affnii-, but it is through two serious accidents to the child that the lovers are closely bound together. He has an uncanny way of delving to the secret recesses of man's innocent misunderstandings. His delusions concerning the most everyday happenings, his absolute loy alty to his big friend and sublime con fidence in the omnipotence of God to make all things right and Just as his little mind had conceived them, furnish Irresistibly comical and enticing read ing. The story has great literary merit .and Is built around an enthrlll lng little Actional character. Frontis piece and Jacket In color by Glen C. Rheffer. Band McNally and Company. Chicago, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ""pofctccd. in Sr the Ex-Committeeman "I Intend to m<lKO the opinion in the matter of the voting of the Penn sylvania soldiers now on the border as comprehensive as possible. X am having the law looked up on half a dozen points, including tuxes, registra tion, commissioners and other details and we will likely have an opinion in a week or so," said Attorney General Brown to-day. Mr. Brown was asked by the gov ernor last week to lntorm him of what had to be done to enable the soldiers to vote and he came back from .Lake Placid to study the question. Mr. Brown was in consultation with Deputy Attorney General Keller on the subject last night and he intends to go over the whole field. While the attorney general believes that there will be no registration or enrollment difficulties Interposed he is pondering over the tax payment pro visions. It is his idea that some way must be devised to enable payment of taxes by soldiers through power of attorney. "Don't worry, the soldiers will get the right to vote and will vote" re marked Mr. Brown. —The Lancaster county Republican committee at its reorganization yes terday paid a splendid tribute to Con gressman W. W. Griest as the original Hughes man. It called attention in resolutions to the fact that the Con gressman had voted for him In 1912 and that he was the first man to come out for him in the State, a statement rather interesting in view of some claims being made just now. The committee also passed resolutions ap proving the votes of the Congressman and W. H. Keller, first deputy at torney general, in 1912 and the votes of the Congressman and Delegate Sherts this year. t The election of officers was by ac clamation and the following were chosen: Chairman, Samuel W. Dilier; vice-chaiman, E. K. Saylor; treasurer, C. C. Seitz; secretaries, C. G. Strickler, Milton S. Falck, J. J. Kauffman, Geo. L. Schlegel, Chester E. AViley, H. Wal ter Jones, Samuel A. Keen. Dr. A. E. Leaman offered the following and it was adopted: "Whereas, The Republican Nation al Convention, prompted by the high est ideals of patriotism, has selected Charles E. Hughes as Its candidate lor President of the United States, and "Whereas, The unsolicited nomina tion and patriotic response of the nominee have been received with gen eral approval, not only on the part of Republicans, but also those who four years ago allied themselves with the Progressive party; and realizing that the national welfare necessitates tne presentation of a united front to a common enemy, whose administration has been unsatisfactory to the country, the National Progressive party has been disbanded and its leaders are actively and enthusiastically support ing the candidates of the Republican party; and as the Progressive or Washington party in Pennsylvania has ceased to exist as an organization, its followers almost unanimously an nouncing their intention of returning to their former Republican allegiance, therefore, be it "Resolved. That the Republican County Committee of Lancaster coun ty gives hearty endorsement to the Republican ticket; that it commends efforts to secure both national and local party unity: that it welcomes the return to the party ranks of all voters who followed into the third party movement a leadership which has this year indicated the way to a reunited party and victory; that we join In for getting past animosities and give un divided support to the Republican ticket; and that we urge the unity of all elements that oppose the policies of the present Democratic administra tion." —The Philadelphia North American to-day indulges In criticism of Direc tor of Works Datesman for failing to provide for payment of increased wages to city laborers. It says he was blissfully ignorant of some matters. —Wisconsin dispatcncs arc to the effect that the State economic zoologist designate, Prof. J. G. Sanders, is an expert on san jose scale and that he has succeeded in confining the white pine blister to a single county. —The Anti-Saloon League is re ported to be preparing to meet the attack started by the liquor interests and the big fund raised this year. Over 100 orators will be sent out into the State in the interest of local option legislative candidates. —There is now some excitement among politicians in Philadelphia because of the reinstatement in one of the city offices of Joseph D. Davies, well known to a number of Harris burgers and a man who is rated as a friend of the element in Philadelphia which the dominant faction has re fused to recognize —Robert D. Dripps, former director of safety in Philadelphia, says that conditions in Philadelphia, notably vice and gambling, were at their worst after the May primaries. —Chester is now undergoing a vice crusade and there win tie some strenuous times in the river" city. The Progressive Party [Kansas City Star.] The handful of men who met at In dianapolis Wednesday for the purpose of "perpetuating" and "reorganizing" the Progressive party didn't do it. They went home, after making a few earnest, red-hot speeches, leaving the Progressive party exactly where the party voted that it wished to be. The men who met at Indianapolis In no -nay represented the Progressive partv. That party has deliberately, legally and finally taken its course. It voted in national convention to com mit its policy to its national committee and the national committee voted to indorse Hughes for President. No doubt many of the Indianapolis visitors yesterday were former mem bers of the Progressive party. But they no more represented the Progres sive party in their Indianapolis meet ing than those misguided Kansas City citizens, formerly Progressives, repre sented the Bull Moose partv of Kansas City when they gave Joe Shannon au thority to appoint rabbit judges at the election Tuesday and call them "Pro gressives." The Progressive party has appointed its own way in this campaign and is pursuing it, wholly unmindful of the Indianapolis meeting. More Prices Go Up The Milwaukee Leader has raised its price to subscribers receiving it by mail from *3 to $4 a year. Among Wisconsin dailies which have announced Increases in subscription prices are the Sheboygan Press. Wau sau Record-Herald and Marinette Eagle. A score of country weeklies have advanced from $1 to $1.50 a year. The fourteen publishers of news papers in Allegany county, N. Y.. have advanced the subscription prices to $1.50 a year, beginning October 1. The Whitesville (N. T.) News' price was advanced several months ago. Sioux City News Suspends Sioux City. la., Aug. 8. The Daily News, which w-as purchased a week ago by Governor Capper of Kansas, suspended publication last Friday. The newspaper was started jjlne years ago. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME ; "> «W noW —Front the Columbu* Dispatch. THIRD PARTIES By Frederic J. Haskin THE spectacular part which the Progressive party has now play ed during two Presidential years recalls the stories of other third parties which have had an Important place in the American political drama. Nearly always their activities have been striking and picturesque, accom panied by a great deal of noise and en thusiasm. Nearly always, after a few years, they have completely, quietly and forever disappeared, and their prophets have either been forgotten or have mounted new hobbiess. This ephemeral and disturbing char acter has given third parties rather a doubtful standing in the minds of many persons who are more conservative than discerning; and it is certain that tha significance 6f these political movements has never been generally understood. As a matter of fact, third parties, despite the excess of zeal and doctrine that have characterized many of them, have been real instruments of eccnomic and social reform in the Cnl etl States. Invariably, they have weak ened the more reactionary of the two stronger parties, and have thus brought about the success of the more liberal. Always, too, they have brought forth a large brood of political creeds and dogmas, uome of which would not stand the test of logic and common sense, and others that became planks of other party platforms and were enacted into law. By far the most interesting of these third parties was the Populist party, of Kansas, which polled a formidable vote for President In two elections, was rep resented in both houses of Congress, and controlled several State govern monts. To its splitting of the vote was largel'- due Cleveland's defeat of Har rison by a narrow margin. It fathered the notorious "free silver" doctrine, which died a natural death after hav ing helped to defeat the Democratic party. On the other hand, the income tax was a Populist doctrine, and to the prestige attained by that party is largely due the adoption of the income tax as a plant in the Democratic plat lorm. and its final enactment into law. The story of the Populist party is so typical of third party movements that it is worth a detailed account. It had its origin in the eighteen-eighties, and in the discontent of Western farm ers. At that time the American mar ket for foodstuffs was in a condition almost incredible in this day of high living expense. Farmers got only forty cents a bushel for wheat, and ten to thirteen cents for corn, while fat cat tle sold at one and one-half to three cents a pound. The farmer could live off his own acres, but he sought in vain to get any cash. In some States, corn was actually burned because It was cheaper than coal. This condition was probably due, in considerable measure, to overproduc tion. Our urban population was a great deal smaller then; the country could not eat what It raised. The farmers, however, encouraged by ambitious po litical leaders, laid the blame upon monometallism (the gold standard), protective tariffs, exorbitant freight rates, and many other things that might be remedied by legislation. The immediate outcome of this situa tion was the formation of a large num ber of farmer's organizations, among tHe strongest of which was the Na tional Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, which ultimately attained a membership of millions. This and other similar organizations met and discuss ed at length their grievances against the politicians and the railroads, and sought a measure that would bring re lief. The silver miners of the Western States suggested one. They pointed out that a scarcity of the circulating medium, especially at crop-moving timt>. was at the root of the farmers' trouble, 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 cost is paid for weight and measure Inspection? Appropriation for the year 1916, $2,106.00 The Big Game [The Silent Partner] Baseball is one game you can enjoy even without being able to play. It is an adjunct to anything that is pro gressive, profitable. It is school, a business. It is more fun to the square inch than any game I know of. Golf Is popular because It Is every body's game—at least the eight hun dred thousand players In this coun try would make it appear so. Tennis is exercise and recreation combined. Motor boating is some sensation. It's the thrill of thrills to shoot through the water a mile a minute. Polo is the race track brought to the diamond. Football demands brains and brawn. It's a man's game, and it kills selfish ness, teaches self-control. Horse racing will bring any kind of a crowd, any time. Boxing compels the champion to live a clean life. Business is the biggest game of all, i and calls for every big element that 1 you find In the other games. Don'ts For Autoists Don't overcrowd your ear. Don't load up with supplies you will not need. Don't start with a car that is not in first-class running condition. Dcn't try to do the impossible. Don't race with locomotives. Don't fall to take an extra Ure or two along. \ Don't disregard local regulations, even if they seem unreasonable. Don't neglect to prepare for rain and cold. Don't forget safety first, last and always. .... .. ._ 'AUGUST 8, 1916. and that unlimited coinage of silver was the remedy. This idea took swift and vigorous hold. It seemed logical, it offered quick and complete solution of the difficulty by the passage of on» measure of legislation. Trained econom ists, who had studied the history of currency, knew that bi-metallism was an antiquated doctrine, which had been tried and found wanting; but anything they had to say was drowned out by the noise of perfervid oratory. The growth of its oplitical activity one national organization ufter another, and soon became a formidable political influence. In the campaign of 1890 it elected some thirty Congressmen, a Senator and three Governors by its in fluence. and that in spite of desperate efforts on the part of both the old par ties to ridicule, abuse and orate it out of existence. The growth of its polticial activity gradually brought about the organiza tion of the membership of the Farm ers' Alliance Into a political party. "People's Parties" were organized in one State after another, and finally, in 1892 a national nominating conven tion was held at Omaha. It was a stormy one. Fervid leaders hotlv de nounced both the old parties: the'dele gates went wild with excitement, climbed on the chairs and tables, pa raded all over the hall, and generally Intereferd with the proceedings. Suf ficient order was finally obtained to nominate "General Jumping Jim" Weaver for President, and James G. !• leld for Vice-President. A vigorous campaign was carried on, in the face of all sorts of difficulties. In the South the. rural population was largely Popu list, but the cities were controlled by the Democrats, and the Populist candi dates encountered such vociferous op position that they had to give up some parts of their speaking tours. Never theless. the Populist party polled over 1,000,000 votes for President, was the first "third party" to obtain a place in the electoral college, and elected a number of Senators and Congressmen. In 1894 th.e country was torn by labor troubles which reacted strongly in favor of the Populists. They polled nearly 1.500,000 votes, and elected six Senators and seven Congressmen. After that the party gradually ceased to func tion. largely because the Democrats had taken up many of its chief dogmas, largely ridiculed, it had nevertheless administered a rebuke to the partv in power, and initiated principles that were to become a part of the na tional law. The forerunner of the Populist partv was the Greenback party. The basic principle of this organization was that the Government should issue paper money directly, and that It should be used in the payment of Government bonds: but this partv did not attain anv real power until it united with the Reform party. Amonsr its prin ciples were that srrants of Government land to corporations should be discon tinued. and that Oriental labor should be excluded from this country. The Greenback party first nominated Peter Cooper, famous New York capi talist, and founder of Cooper Institute, for President. He was 85 years old. and of course, made no active canvass. There were about SO.ooo votes cast for him. Later, in a non Presidential year, tlie party polled over 1,000,000 votes. Then General Weaver was nominated for the 'Presidency in 1880, He receiv ed onlv 300.000 votes. Nevertheless his campaign was memorable and signifi cant. He traveled 20.000 miles and made over 100 speeches. He was the first leader to thus go direetlv before the people with his cause, and the first one successfully to crystallize and use that body of radical reform sentiment which has come to play such an im portant part as the balance of power in American politics. I OUR DAILY LAUGH I CRITICISM. (« What did you J* think of Rante's Kl' 1 I rendition of Ham- CragSg/ I let last night? Well, if Hamlet Til ] wasn't mad be- i! fore I'll bet he is J \l\f by this time. fy L( M JUST HIS WAY. firf] She sent her hus * I % band out to -V He had some SfTi'l crackers list be brought J] W V pretzels back. \ Poor pop, N. He always gets things twist- I «d- Stewardship and Publicity [From Editor and Publisher] The New York Railways Company, In an effort to prevent the city-wide strike of street railway employes, has adopted the nef/ plan of using dis play advertisements in the news papers In which to present the case of the corporation to the public. Thus the example of the Bethlehem Steel Company bears fruit. The Editor and Publisher has applauded this policy on the part of big corporations, not merely because It is a good thing for the newspapers, but because It Is a good thing for the corporations and for the publld. It is the effective method through which the managers of great corporations may account to the people for their trusteeship of grants and privileges placed in their hands by the people themselves. Ibenmg (ttljat It Is estimated that about 1,400 men who were either rejected on physical examination, or who failed to enlist, will receive checks from the adjutant general for their service from the time they left the home stations for the mobilization camp until their connec tion with the organized militia ended. The men in the service are being paid by the federal authorities. It is a mat ter of regret at the Capitol that some provision could not be made for ear lier payment of these men, many of whom left Rood paying Jobs to go to camp at a dollar and a half a day and who have to wait weeks and weeks for their money. The governmental system of paying men is a mystery to Uie average man anyway and the NatiCi-i al Guard officers have been ready for some time to go ahead. The low con dition of the State's finances is also to blame for the delay in payment of the men of the Third brigade for theiri service at camp. Twenty-seven thou, sand dollars is not a big sum for th< commonwealth of Pennsylvania, but i has not paid that to its soldiers fo their term in camp. The Third bri gade men are many of them earnln good salaries and they cheerfully gav them up for the good of the servic and the fairness of compelling them t wait days and days for pay is n< creditable to the Keystone State. Th adjutant general's department com pleted the rolls on July 28 and the re quisitions for the funds, along, witl many others, are awaiting accumula I tlon of cash. In regard to pay there Is a dlspatcß In the morning papers from El Pafl which bears out the above to aT. fl is stated in a dispatch to the Philaß delphia Inquirer that the entire FirJ artillery regiment, the only one in thj Pennsylvania or Seventh division, haa been without pay from the day in mobilized at Mt. Gretna. Its men ara down in the hot sun at El Paso withJ out having been paid even for Juna at Mt. Gretna or for July on the train! and in camp on the border. No won der there is a demand for some radical improvement on the part of the pub lic. The recruiting officers are com mencing to run up against dissatisfac tion with the service conditions among men who would make excellent re cruits. Speaking ot soldiers It has been suggested by many people that Penn sylvanians might make some effort to send magazines to the men on the border. Reading matter is pretty hard to get. Almost as hard to obtain as to bacco, and if some of the tons of mag azines and other literature which ac cumulate about every town in the hot months or which abound at summer resorts could be baled up and sent to the camp of the Eighth Infantry or the First Cavalry it would be doing a real service. The average man who goes camping knows what a boon a maga zine Is when the camp is a week old. Some of the troops have been on the border almost a month. It Is a month since our own infantry regiment pass ed through this city on its way to El Paso. Letters from the men at the holder tell of the rapidity with which the militiamen from this State are being gotten into fine physical shape and to the perfection of the organizations within regiments which the National government demands and which have with very few instances been formed by regiments when at home. The ma chine gun companies, which were not encouraged by State authorities, and the supply companies which were also classed as bric-a-brac by some people are now being formed with all serious ness, while aviation instead of being ignored is getting much attention. It is to the everlasting credit of the roen who left offices, mills and factories' in June that they.have turned in to tackle the new tasks with the same ardor that they displayed when they an swered the call. No more splendid spirit has been shown than by the officers and men of the Pennsylvania militia and they should be encour aged in every possible way and poli tics kept out of the higher places. » » • Captain E. H. Schell, quartermaster of the Eighth regiment, now station ed at Camp Stewart, on the Mexican border, sends the Telegraph a post card of the handsome new million dollar hotel at El Paso—the paso Del Norte—and adds: "I hope we will be able to duplicate this very soon. We are all well and getting alone fine. With kindest regards to all." Sergeant Charles W. Thomas sends a post card showing a a typical adobe ormudhouse such as are used by the poorer classes of Mexicans. Sun-dried brick laid in mud mortar and a dirt roof serve to house this class whose contentment seems complete. One of the notable things about the Harrisburg commands at the border is the excellent health they have main tained. The whole Pennsylvania di vision has been showing good reports, the climate being all right after the men once become used to It. The Eighth regiment has been down to only one man in the hospital on some days. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —George W. Childs Drexel has con tributed generously from his home in Maine to families of soldiers now In the service. —General E. DeV. Morrell, promi nent Philadelphian, was congratulated by many friends yesterday on his birthday. —The Rev. Dr. W. H. Roberts, stat ed clerk of the Presbyterian General Assembly, is at the seashore for a rest. —Dr. Joseph Leidy, of Philadel phia, is spending the month In Rhoda Island. —Philander C. Knox is at Atlantlo City for the hot weather. DO YOU KNOW |j That Pennsylvania's vital sta tistics system, lias been copied In a number of states? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harrisburg's first sanitary campaign! was when it abolished the mill dams in the Paxton creek in 1790. 'What Would He Have Done. 4 * [Philadelphia Ledger.] The parrot-like insistence of th» newspaper defenders of President Wil son's foreign policy that Mr. Hughes should tell thorn what he would hava done and what lie means to do is<t&o much like an appeal for guidance, a cry for help ir. extricating the ad. ministration and the country from tha mess into which they have been drawn by Democratic mismanagement. It is a not unnatural position, but they ara expecting too much of the opponents of the administration to ask them to defend as well es attack! Their im mediate and most urgent task is to ex pose the errors and Ineptitudes of tha President and his parly; and to expect Mr. Hughes and the Republicans to allow themselves to be diverted from that duty Is a trifle silly. They will have enough to do after March 4 next undoing Dcmocxatlc blunders of diplo macy and of domestic management without being turned from their coursa now to tell President Wilson what ha can do in the meantime to retrieve hi* position and to icg&la lost ground*
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