HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A KBWSPAPER FOR TUB WOMB Founded IS3I V Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Tclesraph Building, Federal Square. B. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-ChHf V. R. OYSTER. Business Managtr. GUS M. 6HEINMETZ, Managing Editor. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assocl6&- ed Dallies. EB3tern office, Has brook.. Story & Brooks. Fifth Ave nue Building. New York City; West., ern office, H&b brook. Story St Brooks, People'! Gcs Bunding. Chi- Entered at the Post Office in Harr!l>» burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall, $3.00 > a year In advance. WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9 Hitherto have ye psfced nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full. —JOHN 16:24. PUBLIC UTILITIES THERE is always an outbreak fav orable to governmental owner ship of public utilities when strikes are impending or a political campaign is in sight. The threaten ed paralysis of traffic due to the rail way controversy is now the chief ar gument of all advocates of govern ment ownership of railroads in this country, but when the United States shall have adopted as a policy the ownership of its public utilities by the goverament at Washington, the states and the municipalities, we may ex pect a gradual disappearance of that energy and initiative which have been responsible for the enormous devel opment of America. 'When this Ini tiative ceases to have any incentive then we must drop back into the old world idea of paternalism and gov ernmental contrdl in every direction. Great railroad builders have blazed the way for the opening of the West particularly and it can hardly be con ceived that any government would have undertaken such enterprises as have opened the way to the settlement and development of the groat areas west of the Mississippi river. These railroad projects demanded courage j and vision and practical common sense, qualities seldom known in the organization of governmental activi ties. It is probable that government own ership of the railroads and utilities of the United States is still far in the distance, notwithstanding the present demoralization resulting from theoreti cal administration at Washington and ! incompetency in every department of the government. We can readily understand that the great railroad corporations would prefer surrendering absolutely to gov ernment control in preference to sub mitting to the everlasting nagging that has characterized the attitude of the j government under the present admin- ; istration, but the genius of American progress is not yet dead. C POLITICAL PIFFLE IT would appear from certain out givings of those who are manag- j ing President Wilson's campaign for re-election that any criticism of j the administration or its policy must necessarily be in the nature of treas on. This sort of thing is hardly worth serious comment, but it is in line with the whole attitude of those who have set out to establish a kind of sanctity of person and thought for the Presi dent which nothing in the situation justifies. The American people are not disposed to place halos upon the heads of their public servants and Woodrow Wilson is not a whit differ ent In this respect from the big men who have preceded him in the White House. He must stand or fall upon his record as a public official, which, unfortunately for him, is a record of incompetence, theoretical experiment and sectional favoritism. We have about passed through a period of hysteria in our national ex istence during which the upllfters and theorists aad reformers have man aged to engulf the country in the most serious plight that any free peo ple could suffer. We are now emerg ing from this atmosphere and there is just ahead solid ground upon which all classes of our population may stand firm and secure. All the piffle about treason involved in criticism of the President will sim ply call attention to the fear of his managers that they are already upon thin ice and are likely to break through at any minute. When ex-Jus tice Hughes shall have appeared be fore the people in the different sections Of the courftry they will understand how wisely the Chicago convention acted in placing tise standard of the party in his hands. Also the thousands of Progressives who have rallied un der this same banner will help cinch the campaign of 1916 in favor of "Am erica first and America efficient." A BUSY LIFE ENDED TTTILSON R. BLOUGH'S life in t y Y this community was a fine ex ample of what the poor boy may accomplish through perseverance, energy and thrift. But he was more than merely a successful business man. "Wilse" Biough was a public-spirited live wire who believed in doing the things that make for the welfare of his fellow men and women and chil dren. He was at the forefront of WEDNESDAY EVENING, every movement In Harrlsburg which helped in the building of the city. No one who was present at the big meeting at Fahnestock Hall which placed the William Penn Highway As sociation on its feet as an organization will fail to recall the inspiring and encouraging remarks of Mr. Biough' on that occasion. He was always ready to do his part and he never the hard work. He has left lis too soon; but he has given all who knew him real testimony of the value of community service. His bigness of heart, his generosity and his willingness at all times to aid those In distress constitute the brightest page in the story of a busy life. DISTINCTION", NO DIFFERENCE THE White House ponderously cor rects a statement made by candi date Hughes in a speech at Detroit. "Dr." E. Lester Jones, who was ap pointed chief of the coast and geodetic survey ser%'lce by President Wilson, Is not a veterinary surgeon, it is announced, but a stock breeder. Here is a distinction without much of a difference. In other words the White House ad mits t.iat "Dr." Jones is not entitled even to the title of doctor. He is not even a professional surgeon. He is merely a stock raiser. Doubtless Mr. Hughes will be ready enough to admit the error. But some of us may be excused for won dering, with so many scientists in the country well trained and fitted for this exacting and painstaking work of coast and sea bottom survey, why the President should have chosen a man for the place whose highest qualifica tion appears to be that he knows an Alderney from a Jersey and a York shire from a Virginia razorback. HIS PLACE IS IX JAIL THE man who throws a stone at a street car should be in jail. It is to be hoped that Mayor Meals will put vigorously into force his threat of drastic punishment for dis orders of this kind. The Mayor says that property must be protected. But more than mere property loss, serious though that be,' is involved. He who throws a stone or other missile at a street car en dangers the lives of entirely inAocent persons. In almost every public dis turbance it is the disinterested pedes trian who is injured or killed. The stone-thrower is entirely indif ferent to anything but his own pas sions. He is not a safe man to have at large and ho should be put where his temper would have ample time to cool between stone walls and where he may reflect at leisure on the folly of breaking the law. No good was ever accomplished by attacks on private property. Unques tionably, large numbers of people have been sincerely sympathetic with the objects of the street car strikers. But tnat sympathy will be soon dissi pated by a continuance of such prac tices as those of the past few nights, when cowardly ruffians, under the cover of darkness, have jeopardized the lives of all those who came within range of their missiles. Strikers themselves have begged for the maintenance of order, well know ing that every brick thrown hits their cause far harder than It hits the com pany. THE GROCERS' PICNIC HARRISBURG grocers are going to Hershey to-morrow for their annual picnic. We wish they had asked us to go along. Think of a picnic dinner spread from the un limited stock of substantials and dainties stowed away on the miles of shelves of all the grocery stores in the city. Appetite gloats over its possibilities and the digestive Juices flow In vain contemplation. There was a time when the Sunday school picnic of our youth stood next to Thanksgiving or Christmas as a feast day in the bright calendar of boyhood's happy year. Then it was that mother baked and roasted and spiced and pickled for days in order to have a "better table" than that stuck-up Mrs. Jones, who always wanted to show oft in public. And then it was that there was no parental restriction on the quantity or the combination of good things that went Into our yearning and youthful stomach. Encouraged by an early breakfast and violent exercise incident to getting to the grove, carrying water, climbing trees, playing ball and "kissing games," we responded with alacrity to the merry tocsin of the call to dinner. And what a dinner it was! Cold fried chicken mountain high, cold boiled ham,' eggs pickled In red vinegar, new apple sauce, pickles and spices enough to make your head swim, pie, cake and lemonade in unlimited quantities. We have been wont to look back upon those annual occasions as the par excellence of picnic repasts. But we take our hat off to the grocers. With fifty-seven times fifty-seven varieties to draw upon, with the will to spread the feast and the appetites to partake theerof, it is not difficult to foresee that the Central Pennsylvania record for "eats" is going to be smashed all to pieces very early in the game to-morrow. KEEP YOUR HAN'D4 CLEAN THE United States Public Health Service, in a recent health bul letin, facetiously observes that "disease germs lead a hand to mouth existence." v There Is sense as well as humor In this. If the human race would learn to keep the unwashed hand away from the mouth many human diseases would be greatly diminished. We handle infectious matter more or less constantly and we continually carry the hands to the mouth. If the hand has recently been In contact with in fectious matter the germs of disease may in this way be introduced into the body. Many persons wet their fingers with saliva before counting money, turn— j ing the pages of a book or perform i ing similar acta. 1b this case the pro cess is reversed, the Infection being carried to the object handled, there to await carriage to the mouth of some other careless person. Wash your hands. 1 TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE | —"America must be first," says Hughes, and we wonder what fault Democrats will find with that. —"Germans make paper from cot ton stalks"—newspaper headline. About time for the "Solid South" to change its mind on the paper tariff. —Five sharks were captured in Oyster Bay. They might have known better than to venture in there. —The English workmen who de mand that Emperor William be hanged might assist the government a little by helping catch him. —"God fights with the faithful," says a correspondent to the New York Sun; yes, but the faithful usually have the guns with them, too. | EDITORIAL COMMENT" Mexico and Mr. Wilson having for mally considered the dispute settled, that leaves only 90,000,000 Americans still to pass upon the matter. Boston Transcript. "There are hundreds of men lr» America walking around the streets who are dead, but have not yet been buried."—Vice-President Marshall. Oh, well, they can't all be Vice-Presidents. —Wall Street Journal. The nation's liquor bill last year was certainly a staggering total.—Boston Transcript. Exchange of inhabitants by Russia and Germany is proceeding merrily.— Wall Street Journal. Included in the cargo of the Deutsch land is a goat once the property of J. Bull. —Baltimore American. General Gregg at Gettysburg I have heard officers who knew him on the battlefield say that Gregg—the last Union general of Gettysburg— was the handsomest soldier in the Northern armies. Surely there was no better one. At Gettysburg this Pennsylvania youth of only thirty years, tall, straight and a superb horseman, com manded a division of cavalry of thir teen regiments. I have Gregg's own word for it that out of the two hun dred and sixty cavalry regiments in the Union forces during the war one of the thirteen regiments of his divis ion lost the most men in battle. That glory belongs to the First Maine Cavalry. At Gettysburg General Lee sent that boldest of Southern raiders. General "Jeb" Stuart, with six hundred cavalry to ride around behind Meade's army and smash his great wagon trains and munition supplies. It was while Pick ett, with eighteen thousand infantry, was making that gallant assault which swept into the center of Meade's army at the point which is now called the "High Tide." But Stuart, who planned a surprise, was himself surprised when Gregg's cavalry barred his path. It was a bloody fight of horsemen, and who won it is sufficiently shown in the fact that Stuart's weary men didn't get behind Meade's army. I also have General Gregg's own word for it that when the fight began Custer, who had been ordered to an other point of the field, asked to re main and help. So Custer stayed, and where that yellow-haired son of Michi gan was,the enemy always found plenty to do.- Gregg saicr that the fact of the North making such a poor cavalry showing in the vrst two years of the war was due to a policy laid down by old General Winfield Scott. He thought cavalry couldn't operate in such a rough theater of war. The Southern horsemen soon prov ed that policy nonsense, but the war was just half over before the Union cavalry corps began to equal in effec tiveness its gray-clad antagonists. Gregg's fight with Stuart at Gettys burg was probably the most important single cavalry- battle ever l'ought in the Western Hemisphere.—Girard, in Philadelphia Ledger. The Cost of Gasoline According to the Government report just issued more crude petroleum was marketed in this country in 1915 tlmn ever before in the history of the in dustry. A great quantity was sent abroad, a good percentage of the re mainder was used in the production of gasoline for which the motor car and gas engine owners paid the highest prices on record. This is a gasoline age, and what the users wish to know is will the present prices be continued? The oil pro duction of the first six months of 1916, according to an estimate just made, is about half of last year's. There seems nothing to indicate that the year's yield will not equal that of 1915. A hopeful feature of the report is that the great activity in the industry has led to the exploration of new fields and the development of recently dis covered sources of supply. The fields in the East, from which once came almost the entire produc tion, have decreased in output. But in place of them there have been de veloped the great wells of the Okla homa-Kansas, the California and the Gulf sections. The Oklahoma-Kansas fields are now the greatest centers in the United States for the production of crude petroleum. They are produc ing more than one-third of the coun try's supply. Explorations are under way in Montana and Wyoming, with promise of valuable discoveries. The indications, then, are that the supply for 1916 will equal that of last year. The end of the war will open up the supply in Russia and Rumania. By that time, too, the newly discov ered fields in South America may be come important factors in the oil in dustry. We have borne much from the war, and apparently the gasoline user must still exercise patience. But if there is no relief when peace comes he will have a right to insist upon knowing why high prices continue.— New York Sun. Out of Mouths of Babies "What is the meaning of 'false doc trine,' Willie?" asked the Sunday school teacher. "It's when the doctor gives the wrong stuff to a sick man." replied Willie. One day little Bert said something about his knuckles and his 4-year-old sister asked him what knuckles were. "Why," replied the youngster, "they are little elbows on my fingers. One morning Uncle Fred was en gaged in shaving himself and his small nephew was an interested spec tator. "Well, George," said his uncle, "don't you want me to shave you, too?" "No, uncle." replied the little fel low. "I don't think my whiskers are ripe yet." HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH OV UUvO if IOCUVLQ, Sjr the Ez-Commltteeman Major Isaac B. Brown, of Corry, former secretary of Internal affairs and nominee of the Washington party for Auditor General, to-day filed his withdrawal at the State Capitol, fol lowing the example of J. Verner Clark, of Washington, who withdrew some time ago as Washington party candi date for State Treasurer. The withdrawal of Major Brown leaves only one State candidate aside from a few candidates for Congress at-large on the Washington party ticket and it is expected that they will withdraw this month. Mahlon H. Meyers, the candidate for United States Senator, is expected to with draw in ten days or so. Speaker Charles A. Ambler, who was nominated for Auditor General on the Roosevelt Progressive ticket by a few votes, to-day filed a' withdrawal. —lt is likely that the meeting of the Republican State committee to plan for the campaign WJII be held about the same time as last year, the early part of September. The time and place will be designated by State Chairman William E. Crow in a short time. Two years ago the committee held its Fall meeting in Pittsburgh, but It may meet In Philadelphia this year. —The Philadelphia North American to-day says: "Brumbaugh leaders have not as yet decided whether any at tempt will be made to Induce the Re publican State committee to endorse a legislative program or whether the administration will make known the lines along which it will conduct its fight after the committee adjourns. A number of Republican committeemen have already received the Inquiries re garding their stand on the local option issue, and several have indicated their willingness to "enter into negotiations" on the matter. One committeeman called In person at the capitol to In quire as to whether his support was considered "worth while." Penrose State leaders are already wrestling with the proposition of how to deal with the Brumbaugh administration In the platform to be adopted." —The city of Altoona has decided to extend Its water supply and ar rangements are being made to buy up another creek. The improvement will take care of the city supply for years to come. —The city of Philadelphia, police authorities and the mayor are at odds over automobiles. They will cost $5,- 000 and the mayor thinks the money should be saved. —The annual row over people who eat at the Berks county almshouse Is on again. They are now threatening to print the names of persons who take meals at county expense. The Real Pacifism Probably most of our readers regard President Wilson as a pacifist, but some critics much doubt his right to that title. As the Washington cor respondent of an orthodox pacifist newspaper, the New York "Evening Post," very aptly puts it: "The real pacifist is as interested In preventing dangerous issues from arising between nations as he is in settling them amic ably' when they do arise. Foresight in Mexico might ha.ve saved many troub les there. Calm and painstaking ef forts to get at the fundamentals of our relations with Japan admittedly will do much toward averting the al leged inevitablcness of war between Japan and the United States. So It is with the European War." We are liv ing in a period when neutrality with honor must depend upon prevlsion ary, preparative, and preventive statesmanship—not upon an applica tion of the philosophy of Mr. Micaw ber. The neutral policy must be based upon reason, not upon mere distaste for danger. Now the administration's brand of neutrality has, unfortunately, expressed nothing but the will to be nationally comfortable from day to day. This hand-to-mouth statesman ship failed to grasp the fundamentals of the German march through Bel gium; for true statesmanship would have dictated a protest against an in vasion of Belgium, since that cynical violation of international law and morality has Indirectly affected the en tire conduct of the war and neutral rights. Such a protest might not have been of any assistance to the Belgians themselves. Our protest would at laast have expressed any crystallized Amer ican opinion, and it is to express and crystallize national sentiment that leadership is given to those men who are set over nations. But American duty would not have ended with the utterance of such a protest any more than it has actually ended with our nonotficial succor of suffering Bel gians. Many of us share Mr. Hughes' view that the enormous tragedy of the Lusitania might have been avoided but for the procrastination of the Bryan- Wilson state policy, which has, In every instance, waited for the crisis to develop Instead of occasionally fore seeing and forestalling an event. We do not lay. the moral responsibility for the sinking of the Lusitania upon Mr. Bryan and Mr. Wilson—that guilt Is far too heavy for any but the Kaiser and his friends to bear—but we can not forget the failure of American diplomacy In that case too: a failure both before and after the event.— Collier's Weekly. Armenian Massacres in 1916 The Turks came on January fourth and left on May twentieth, the Rus sians returning on May twenty-fourth. During this period there was never real safety for the Christians, and the responsibility for their protection, shelter and feeding fell on the Amer ican missionaries. As soon as the Turk ish troops came we were assured by the officers in command that the Chris tian population would be protected and need have no fear. Similar assurances were given by Turkish consular offi cials. What they were worth was shown by four separate massacres per petrated by the Turks directly. One was of men seized in the F.ench mis sion and kept as prisoners at the Turk ish headquarters. Forty-five men were tied together, lined up, and shot down. The next victims were fifty men seized is a village which the Turks, at our request, had promised to protect, and which was under guard by Turkish soldiers. Here the women and girls were outraged by the perpetrators of the massacre—soldiers and volunteers under Turkish command. Next, eight or ten Armenian soldiers in the Turk ish army were shot down; and, lastly, seventy Armenians were brought over from an adjoining region in Turkey and butchered. In every case, from one to four survivors crawled out, bloody and wounded, from the heaps of dying and dead, and found their way to us.—An American Missionary in the Southern Workman. Whom God Correcteth Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: for he maketh sore and blndeth up.— Job v, 17 and 18. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY —From the Philadelphia Public Ledger, THE MEXICAN PEOPLE By Frederic J. Haskin THE really uncertain element in our dealings with Mexico lies in the Mexican people and their attitude towards the United States. It is possible to estimate with some accuracy the course of the bandit, the soldier, the politician or the land owner, as is shown by the fact that our writers and experts on Mexican matters are pretty well agreed in their conclusions on these classes. But when we consider that vague and im portant body known as the Mexican people the greatest diversity of opin ion seems to prevail. The most contradictory assertions are made as to how this Mexican peo ple regard the simplest issues. Accord ing to one authority, any American interference with the internal affairs of Mexico will be impossible until the last Mexican has been killed or dis armed. According to another, anti- Americanism is partly a figment of the pro-interventionists, and partly a flame fanned by bandits and politi cal leaders for their own ends, that would die out, given a fair chance. Since this Is the most Important point In the whole Mexican muddle, it Is a pity that there is not more unanimity of opinion as to the true state of af fairs. A consideration of a few facts about the common people of Mexico helps to clear matters up. There is no doubt of the presence of a violent anti-Americanism below the border just now; unfortunately there have been only too many proofs of it of late. There is some doubt, however, as to how deeply this sentiment is with the people at large. If the Mexican people have united in a hot and holy hatred of the Unit ed States, It Is the first time that they have united on any abstract principle with any degree of warmth. It is a fact apparently prone to be forgotten, on the American side of the line, that in dealing with Mexico we are dealing with a great primitive people in the hands Of a few energetic and domi nating men, and that primitive peo ples rarely cherish and fight for ab stract principles. The exact constitution of the Mexi can population has never been ascer tained definitely. Between the official census returns of one decade and the next wide and incompatible differ ences have appeared. Different ob servers and students have arrived at widely differing conclusions. The main facts, however, are obvious. The people are divided Into three classes. It is with regard to the relative num bers of these classes that there Is dis pute. These three classes are the pure white, the mixed blood or mestizo, and the Indian. Probably only ten or twelve per cent, of the total popula tion is of pure white blood. Some of the official estimates put the propor tion as high as nineteen per cent., but this is probably an overestimate, aris ing, of course, from pride in the pos session of an unmixed ancestry, and a tendency to deny any admixture of Indiap stock. The second class is that of the mes tizos or mixed bloods. These people shade off Into the Indian on the one hand, and rise on the other to a type closely approximating that of the pure white, according to the proportions of the different stocks In their ancestry. Most of the mestizos, however, have the Indian characteristics strongly predominating over the Spanish. It Is this fact that has led some among even the most careful observers to state that the Indians make up sev- The People and Diplomacy There is going to be a change in the methods by which nations treat with each other. As far as England is concerned her destiny will not be handed over to diplomats. Whatever else happens, the people of England are determined they will not be tied up by secret treaties kny more. The common people of England are going to know exactly what they are fighting for. It seems to me we are on the way to seeing the end of diplomacy. The age of diplomats Is going, If It is not already gone. We no faith in diplomats. We do not intend to go to war when we do not know what we are fighting for. If the Constitu tion of the United States has to be changed so that the people can decide whether they will fight or not, and not put that question in the hands of diplomats, then I am in favor of changing the Constitution. The time has arrived in the history of the world when international matters will be required to be referred to the people themselves. At present our diplo macy policy is conductd by the com mercial agencies all over the world. — i J. W. Slaughter at Chautauqua. AUGUST 9, 1916. OPEN SESAME! enty-flve to eighty per cent, of the Mexican population. As a matter of fact, about forty per cent, of the pop ulation is of mixed blood, and this class Is continually increasing. In fact, the ultimate Mexican type which will be evolved after the various ele ments have finally adjusted their re lations to each other, according to the ethnologists, must be an individ ual of mixed blood with Indian stock predominating. The remaining division of the peo ple Includes the pure Indians. Placed by some authorities as high in num bers as thirteen million out of a to tal of sixteen million, they constitute at least from forty per cent to a half of the people. Among themselves they include a great diversity of types and tribes. One hundred and eighty-two Idioms have been identi fied and classified in the dialects spok en in Mexico to-day. There are fifty three distinct languages in use. The persistence of these different dialects in a singlo republic is probably due to the poor state of the means of communication. Their presence shows at any rate the diversity of the Indian stock. This diversity runs through all the characteristics of the tribes, whose members show all the range of mental ability from a Benito Juarez, the national hero who was a pure-blooded Indian, down to the stupid and savage Apaches of Sonora. By far the greater part of the Indian peoples, however, are of a type not distinguished for ability or intelli gence. These are the three great divisions of the Mexican people. Another striking fact that stands out Is the conspicuous absence of any cpnsiderable foreign element. For the last five years of course, Mexico has offered few at tractions to Immigrants, but even be fore the revolutionary period there were only fifty or sixty thousand for eigners in the whole country—a num ber utterly insignificant compared to its great size and large population. Herein consists perhaps the real weak ness of Mexico; for all the progres sive and successful republics of the American continent have drawn con tinually on Europe for new blood. The lack of immigration was due to two causes—the land situation and the state of industry. The land ques tion, of course, is the one over which all the revolutions ostensibly at least, are being fought. Nowhere else on earth did so few men hold so much land as in Mexico. The whole coun try was in the hands of a few hun dred owners. One man owned an es tate of twenty million acres—half the size of England. And on this ac count, there was no possibility of homesteadlng, no chance for the im migrant to acquire a farm. It has been proved again and again that the cream of emigration goes where there is a chance to get land. There is an other type of emigrant, not quite so desirable perhaps—the man who is looking for work. He too had no chance in Mexico, for there are no manufactures to speak of, and the agricultural work was done by peon labor In a condition of semiserfdom. So Mexico to-day faces the world with one of the most homogeneous populations on record, so far as for eign elements are concerned. The great bulk of that population con sists of the lower-class mestizo and the puro Indian, who really mingle to form one class, as opposed to the Spanish aristocracy. That class is in overwhelming preponderance In point of numbers. It forms the real Mexi can people. OUR DAILY LAUGH ~~ IN A CLASS BY tlvely the worst that Will you marry J\ MB j®|a mo, my pretty How many cylinders has your automobile, Ebettmg &i|al Score another for the quail. Well established reports are reaching the State Capitol that the great game bird is the greatest destroyer of po tato bugs known in a generation and instances have been made known wherein whole potato patches have been cleared of the pests and many dollars saved to the owners of the plants. One Blair "county farmer has been so delighted with what happen ed that he has written about it to the State Department of Agriculture so - that his experience can be made ™ known for the benefit of every one. For years people were told that quail, beside affording fine hunting and fin er eating in the Fall, were the best friends the farmers had, but many were slow to believe it. Since the State Game Commission began spending some of the money paid in for hunt ers' licenses for quail which were lib erated farmers have been jealously guarding the birds and not permitting people to hunt on their lands in many cases. The fact then became known that the farmers were not hunting themselves. The reason was that the birds had been so useful that "Bob White" had friends who would look after him. feed him in winter and keep hunters away in the Fall all because of the appetite of the partridge for the natural enemies of agriculture. » • » State Fire Marshal G. Chal Port, who spent a considerable part of his early years as a detective, looks over the reports of the fires which pour into his office with the eye of an offi cer bent on finding out the "crooked" fires. It happened that for some days no reports carae in from the big fire underwriters' headquarters in New York. Some clerk forgot the Penn sylvania State mail and an alarm was sounded. A few mornings later when Mr. Port asked for the fire reports he got about 1,500 in a bunch. • * » Two Harrisburg boys, who were in the High school at the same time, and who are making good live In Youngstown, Ohio. They are Frank Wert, head of the publicity bureau of the Mahoning and Shenango system's railway and light interests, and for merly connected with the Telegraph, and John Reese, formerly with the Pennsylvania Steel company, who is superintendent of the blast furnaces of the Republic Iron and Steel com pany. Mr. Reese Is a charter member of the Rotary club of Youngstown. e » • "Capitol Park squirrels do not ap pear to be affected by the weather no matter how hot it grows. On days when the air is so hot. that the pig eons sit in the shade of the trees the squirrels are out racing about and are as keen for donations as in midwin ter, when there is a foot of snow on the ground," remarked a lover of the Capitol Park menagerie. This man re marked that the summer coats of fur appeared to be adapted to whatever section of the Pennsylvania climate they happened to strike. * • » These are the days when the visiting automobiles line up on the Capitol plaza and when there are solid rows for hours at a time. Ordinarily the guides keep machines moving on the plaza, but the summer visitors start to come around there is nothing doing In the policing line. The State Capitol rotunda and the legislative halls oddly enough have about the same drawing power as the State mu seum, which is becoming more popu lar every week. < * * * An interesting story is told among tho older.officers of the National Guard about how General D. McM. Gregg failed to get Into the regular army at the close of the Civil war. He was a West Point graduate and an officer of the regular army when the war broke out and his record in the struggle is part of the history of the State. When the struggle ended certain officers were recommended for high rank In the regular army. There happened to be two Greggs in the regular army at the time and in some way or other the famous cavalry leader was not rec ommended, although it was fully In tended that he should be. His modesty and retiring disposition led him not to press his claims, but friends took it up and the best that could be done was the rank of captain. The general preferred private life. • • » Two men connected with the State government will go to the Plattsburg training camp next month. They are Lew R. Palmer, chief Inspector, who will go into the camp early in Sep tember, and Dr. B. F. Royer, chief medical Inspector of the department of Health, who will be with the medi cal men. * * • The warm weather appeared to bump the circulation at the Harris burg Public Library last month. The circulation, however, was almost a thousand ahead of the same month last year. In July this year there were 9,480 books circulated, seventy-five per cent, being fiction, while last July there were 8,565, eighty per cent, be ing fiction. • » • The Rev. Dr. T. C. Billheimer, who was taken 111 here a few days ago, is one of the distinguished men of the Lutheran church. Ho has been con nected with the Gettysburg seminary for many years and many prominent clergymen have taken his lectures. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Col. J. Warner Hutchlns, of Phil adelphia. Is with a party of friends on a motor tour of the White Moun tains. —Walton Clark, of the United Gas Improvement company, Is at El Paso, where his son, who is In a Philadel phia regiment. Is very 111. —George K. Johnson, Philadel phia insurance man. is protesting strongly against the federal insurance tax. —E. E. Robbins, prominent Greens burg lawyer. Is at Atlantic City. —John T. Lenahan, the WUkes- Barre lawyer, is taking one of his rar* vacations at tlie seashore. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg manufactures dozens of varieties of candy for national trade? HISTOKIC HARRISBCRG Indian stotkades were built on the York hills In sight of Harris' ferry. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members ot the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] Of what advantage to the property owner and tenant Is plumbing Inspec tion? Plumbing inspection Insures that all plumbing is installed according to set standards, under the super l vlplon of the Plumbing Inspector. Ventilation properly cared for and health protected against foul gases, I etc. ■
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