6 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE H/iME Founded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Ttltfttfh Building, Federal Square. \ B. J. STACK POLE. Pres't and Editor-in~Chi!f fT. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. QUE M. S'BEINMETZ, Managing Editor. « Member American llshers' Assocla- Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania AssocifeV Eaatern office. Haa- Brooks, Fifth Ave nue Building, New Brooks, People'* Gas Building, Ch&» Entered at the Post Office in Harrlo* burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, alx cents a week; by mail, ?3.(U> a year in advance. FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11 Nothing is achieved without solitude. — LACORDAIRE. AN ADMIRABLE PLAN LABOR DAY is going to ba SOME day in Harrisburg. With the Typographical Union preparing for & real demonstration and the re gatta and carnival of the Greater Harrisburg Navy, Harrisburg will have something approaching a three ring circus in the way of attractions. City Commissioner Gross has done an admirable thing in submitting to the Water Supply Commission, which has approved his scheme of treatment, a definite and final plan for the pro tection of the river embankment throughout the length of the city. Those who are familiar with the substantial construction of the "Front Steps" and the granolithic walk which protect the shore line have realized, during the last year or two, how neces sary Is some permanent form of pro tection for the slope from the broad ■walk to the line of the average flood etage of the river. The plan of the Department of Parks, which has been promptly approved by the State au thorities, contemplates a riprapping of several feet along the bottom of the slope and the planting of the em bankment between the riprapping and the upper walk at the street level. There is still a balance of the last park loan sufficient to complete this work and in view of the damage from the floods of last Spring, Commis» sioner Gross is entirely Justified in protecting the embankment without further delay. Unless and until this riprapping shall have been done the city will be constantly at the expense of repairing the annual damage from flood, which is inexcusable waste. Harrisburg is proud of the Susque hanna Basin and our river frontage; It has reason to feel good over this splendid treatment, but nothing must be left undone that will make per manent what has already been started so admirably. Engineers of the State have con tended from the beginning that the embankment should be rlprapped to conform with the plan which has now been finally approved. Stone for this work is available and we have no doubt the undertaking can be pushed to completion before cold weather. There is no influence in anv com munity more potent and powerful lor the accomplishment of good than that of the business and pro fessional men unselfishly handed together for the purpose of promot ing the general welfare of the en tire citizenship.—James Bryce. Mr. Bryce has given us in this para graph a whole sermon. Right here in Harrisburg we have learned to appre ciate the value of co-operation and the community get-together spirit. And now more than ever before do we need the touch of the shoulders of our citi zens in accomplishing much that is yet to be done—the improvement of the Susquehanna Basin, the permanent treatment of the river embankment, the planting? of trees along the city streets, better bousing and the opening up of wider spaces 'for light and air in all building operations. These are the things which should appeal to even ted citizen and to every municipal body. SEE THE HANDWRITING EVEN before he becomes President, which seems about as certain as that day follows night, Charles Evans Hughes has performed a dis tinct service in forcing an adjourn ment of the present Congress some months before that event had been anticipated by the statesmen who have been fiddling with the government for a period that now seems to run back Into the dim and distant past. His speeches and his Incisive thrusts at the weaknesses of the Wilson adminis tration have already placed the cham pions of the party now in power on the defensive, so much so that Congress Is anxious to adjourn that the dis credited representatives of Wilsonla may get back to their constituents and continue the futile explanations of their shortcomings started this week by the President and his Cabinet. But it is doubtful whether the ad journment will come soon enough to prevent another egregious blunder in the enactment of a shipping bill which will still further hamstring and em barrass this country in Its trade rela tions with tho nations beyond the seas. However, even Uncle Sam has become accustomed to the mistake of an acci dental administration and nothing yet to happen need surprise or shock Americans anywhere. One even be comes familiar with blunders when these blunders are consistent and per sistent, as in the case of the Washing ton administration. Of course, we shall be told that It Is lese majeste to Bay anything in criti FRIDAY EVENING, cism of the President. Mr. Hughes has already been accused of near trea son because of his observations upon the failures of the Washington authori ties. The American people, however, are not disposed to allow incompe tency to wrap thO' cloak of sanctity about Itself and pass as inscrutable wisdom. Already the handwriting is upon the wall, and the wayfaring man, though a fool, must see the finish of the present campaign even in the dog days. William Jennings, president of the William Penn Highway Association, is right in his determination to place be fore all tourists such information as will enable them to reach the new State highway with the least possible inconvenience. This great trunk line from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh should be made accessible to all motorists and the various motor clubs and associa tions along the way are co-operating with the association in placing signs and otherwise instructing the public. The scenic features of .the State are attracting thousands of tourists and the association of which Mr. Jennings Is head has accomplished a great deal In this first year of Its existence. ICE CREAM VS. BEER SENATOR BEIDLEMAN is being made the subject of newspaper attack because during his trips about the county this summer he has chosen to buy ice cream and candy for children. In Just what manner he has offended is not clear. If it is that he has invited boys and girls into candy stores and ice cream par lors instead of lining a crowd of men up before a bar and asking them to "have a drink on me," as was the wont of campaigners in years agone and as is still the custom of some office seekers, then the Senator's cam paign methods are in full accord with the new order of things and with his own well known habit of total absti nence. Campaigning with candy and ice cream as a means of introducng a candidate leaves no bad taste in the mouth and no odor of liquor on the breath. The boys and girls who enjoy the bounty of the Senator will not be able to vote for him, but doubt less he will stand in higher favor in the household than the candidate who sends his prospective supporter reel ing home under the Influence of drink. If the Senator's opponents can find no more potent argument against him than this they may as well quit and let the election be unanimous. We herald it as a sign of the times that the beer keg has been abandon ed in favor of the ice cream freezer and we hope that other candidates may adopt the custom of candy treat ing in which Senator Beldleman has delighted for many years during his trips about the county, whether en gaged in campaigning or in visiting among the hundreds of men and wo men who know him as their personal friend. Steelton is preparing to keep pace with Harrisburg in everything that makes for an attractive and wholesome and comfortable place in which to live. Charles M. Schwab and his associates of the Bethlehem Steel Company propose to make the Steelton plant modern in every way and while doing this they will not overlook any necessary im provement in the living conditions of their employes. So there seems to be a good future for the big industrial bor ough. XEED OF AX AMBULAXCE NEED of an ambulance for public use was demonstrated again yes terday when a citizen of Harris .hurg, injured along the River road north of the city, was refused trans portation to the Harrisburg hospital by the police department because the accident occurred outside the city limits and the combination ambulance and patrol wagon now disgracing the municipal government was being held in reserve for city use only. The sufferer was Jolted and bumped along in a spring wagon until at Front and Division streets a physician hap pened along and abandoned his pleas ure drive to see that the man re ceived first aid and was taken to the hospital in an automobile. If the patient had been bleeding at an artery he would have been dead before reaching the institution, while the po lice ambulance stood idling in its garage, waiting to «onvey the next drunk to Jail. Harrisburg citizens or others in jured within a reasonable distance of the city ought by all the rights of humanity to have as quick and com fortable transportation to the hospital as is possible. The old combination prison wagon and ambulance has long outlived - its usefulness. Harrisburg must have an ambulance and its use must not be confined strictly to the limits of the municipality. More power to the school directors of the city in their announced purpose to plant shrubbery about the school build ings and thus teach the aesthetic value of flowers to the thousands of children of Harrisburg. This object lesson will do much more to prevent the destruction of plants and shrubbery than rules and regulations. City Commissioner Lynch has prom ised to complete the placing of some large concrete slabs upon the face of the river dam as soon as the water has reached low level. It appears to be getting to that point rapidly and another summer should not go by without this work being done. President Judge Kunkel is clearing his table before taking a needed vaca tion. Those Hardscrabble citizens who have tagged homes elsewhere will re joice when their long period of uncer tainty is over and a wise and sensible Judge shall have cut the controversial knot. So the convention of county commis sioners doesn't favor a change in the present election laws for fear of get ting something worse. At least, we should be able to tell what happened in a primary before the voters have for gotten all about it. Charles Evans Hughes may be cold and unresponsive, as his enemies de clare, but he manages to make these same enemies pretty hot in the collar through his incisive speeches and com-. ments upon the incompetence of the Washington administration. There are signs here and there of a better atmosphere respecting the in dustrial difficulties of the country. Capital and labor are realizing that one cannot get along other. "po£c ttc* OW 'P&ntKOijttftuua the Ex-Committeeman According to gossip heard in the last few days, Governor Martin G. Brum baugh is disposed to listen to the coun sels of some of his friends who have suggested that it would be advisable to wait until after the election before undertaking the program for making changes on Capitol Hill. It is pointed out that Congressman John R. K. Scott, who is one of the Vare leaders, is urging forgetting of factional dis sensions and turning in for the ticket. As Scott is a candidate, he probably has a number of men of the same mind, and they may have succeeded in staying the ax which was whetted during the Governor's visit to this city. Another interesting story is to the effect that the Governor is desirous of getting some recognition from the Re publican State committee when it meets next month and that he realizes that if he starts to remove men "not friendly" at the recent primary he will not stand much chance of even a kind word. —ln view of the fact that so many suggestions are being made for planks in the Republican State platform, it is possible that the Governor's friends will advise him not to attempt to place a legislative program of his own be fore the State committee, but to let the commitee deai with State issues in its own way. and if it does not endorse what the Governor wants, let him put out his own program. —lt has also been pointed out to the Governor that there is no use start ing up the factional warfare again with the Legislature looming up in six months and the chances that it will contain a number of men who are not enthusiastic about the administration's couise. —The Scott declaration for harmony may have been 0 feeler, but it is re garded as a very significant document. —Democratic "regulars" in Phila delphia are up in arms over the re fusal of the new board of registration commissioners to recognize the Demo crats in appointment of registrars. It looks as though the Washington party had captured most of the plums and the Democratic organization is going to have rough sailing. —The Philadelphia grand jury re ports to-day to the courts on the vice conditions in the city and meanwhile there is a brisk interchange of remarks between former officials, Glbboney and present officials. —Senator Penrose's comments upon the manner in which the Democrats have used the Philadelphia post office and other offices in this State as po litical patronage have attracted much attention and the Democratic machine talkers will havo a hard time explain ing some of the statements which have been made. —The Philadelphia North American to-day says that 240 saloons in Phila delphia are for sale because of the movement for local option which is spreading and that at least 1,000 more in the State are on the market. —The State Grange has taken up the proposition to issue bonds for con struction of highways under a bond amendment to the Constitution which was voted down before. Master John A. MtSparran says that the farmers will oppose it and will make their in fluence felt before the Legislature gets done with it. —The Warren Mirror, the only daily newspaper in Warren county, has been bought by Floyd dinger ,of Tldioute. It will continue as Republican. Hughes' Epigrams Only started In his campaigning, Ex-Justice Hughes had developed an almost RQoseveltian vocabulary of de nunciation and of aphorism. Some of his epigrams coined so far ape: "The Democratic party is a party for votes only." "The Democratic party cama up to the protection tax like a skittish horse approaching a brass band." "We're entitled to a standing armv, without taking men out of civil life, as in the Mexican mobilization. Just as much as a city is entitled to proper police protection." "The military problem is a problem of good sense." "There's no danger of our going to war unless the other side knows that 'we're too proud to fight.' " "The best way of making for effic iency is by making for contentment." Hughes "Has 'Em on the Run!" (Philadelphia Ledger) That Mr. Hughes has struck hard and deep at the enemy's line is made plain by their present tactics. It is almost unprecedented in the history of American presidential politics that a session of the Cabinet was devoted to the consideration of and the at tempt to refute the statements in a campaign speech of the leader of the opposition. Yet this is what has al ready happened, and the haste with which the members of the Cabinet have rushed to the defense of their chief against the charge that he has permitted flagrant violations of the letter and spirit of the merit system, of which he was once an ardent up holder. shows how effective have been the initial assaults made by Mr Hughes upon the Wllsonlan intrench ments. Good News For Bathers and Babies (N. Y. Sun) Refreshed by the showers of Tues day, Mayor Mitchel vetoed the pro posed ordinance under which per sons clad in bathing suits would have been prohibited from riding or walk ing on the highways unless they wore overcoats; and Dr. Josephine Baker of the Bureau of Child Hygiene serv ed notice on certain overfastidtous souls that it was a good thing for infants to go naked on hot days. Thus good sense scored two points at a mo ment when the weather threatened to unseat the reason of all. The crusade against bathing suits is the annual care of numerous fas tidious men and women who are deep ly shocked if man or maiden clad for the water wanders out of sight of the waves. Accomplished psychologists who have studied this manifestation of perverted reasoning powers have been unable to find a sufficient explanation 52 r lt '^,^ ro the Probsts confined to the exhibition of their curves by stout gentlemen there would be no cause for Inquiry; a fat man in a bathing suit should keep all except his nose under water, and should drape his too ample proportions on emerging from the deep. But the objection com monly urged is that those who appear on .street and In shops clad for the water are not repulsive, but too at tractive. Jealousy, it may be, lies at the bottom of this demand for beach gowns. Perhaps the Mayor gave a public hearing and observed the DlO testants. As for the babies, the modern the ory is that the fewer clothes they wear the better off they will be; and unclothed children escape the menace of misdirected pins, one of the great est dangers of childhood. HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH When a Feller Needs a Friend By BRIGGS Wfgr r ——r m j — VI ■ 1 I OVER TO SEE ) • / ///, JMJ NO I DON'T ALLOW ) W/r if fou wooj.o let / '/// ryA Rupert to go in r $// <N RUPERT Go IN Swimming vjnILCSS I Wf > WITH MY 00VS - ThEV l* 4 • <3° WITH HIM - AN\) f : \ o<= Hiv, . / / jf( STW-. HE IS BEINO \ TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE 1 ' —Those White House corrections of Hughes' statements may be classed un der the head of "Important if true." —One item of importance was miss ing from yesterday's news— nobody discovered the Bremen. —The pork packing industry head quarters appears to have been trans ferred from Chicago to Washington, where the Democrats are putting up a tour years' supply. —No, Maude, it is not true that President Wilson's note-writing habits have anything to do with the paper shortage. —The Scotch are going to cut down their consumption of alcoholic liquors, but this doesn't necessarily mean the abandonment of the nineteenth hole at golf. EDITORIAL COMMENT"! "Paper from cotton stalks" Is an nounced as a discovery Just made in Europe. Paper was made from cotton stalks, and corn stalks, and weed stalks in this country long ago. Paper may be made from any kind of veg etable fiber, and corn stalks make a paper of a high grade of excellence. But the cost of assembling the corn and cotton stalks has so far prohibit ed their use in paper making.—Kan sas City Star. It having neen definitely established that handshaking spreads germs, we are all the more proud of our heroic politicians. Washington Post. Women, says a writer, are taking up the vices that men have discarded. If they only stop there they'll never do anything very wicked. Washington Post. A Western organization has recently adopted the slogan "The truth in poli tics." Every campaign develops its own humor. —Philadelphia Inquirer. This call of meetings in fifty Ger man cities to protest against annexing Belgium and Poland snows persistent lack of confidence in the Allies.—Bos ton Herald. Nothing to Arbitrate [New York World.] The officers of the four trainmen's brotherhoods have had a wonderful vote of confidence from the member ship of nearly 400,000. More than nine of every ten men who operate trains on 200,000 miles of railway authorized a strike. How the officials who have had this extraordinary power given them are to exercise it is now a ques tion almost as important as that of peace or war. Unhappily, some of them have said that they have nothing to arbitrate. Others are speaking of this or that de mand as fundamental. To all such ill-advised persons a word of caution seems to be necessary. The rocky road over which organized labor has traveled for many years is strewn with tha wrecks of enterprises of both labor and capital which had nothing to arbitrate and were devoted to finish fights. Wealth a thousand-fold greater than the amount now held In the treasuries of the brotherhoods has been defeated, and organizations controlling numbers larger than are arrayed In these unions have been disrupted by arrogance and folly. Two phrases the American people hate above all others. One is "The public be damned. The other is "Noth ing to arbitrate." They supplement each other. In tho long run, those who adopt them, whether rich and power ful or numerous and powerful, may depend upon one thing. They are headed straight toward disaster. The Meanest Devil The meanest devil on earth is the squaw man in society who attempts to betray a woman. The lowest living snake In the slimy, crawling society cad who would Has and tell. A Georgia editor advocates burying these slander-mongers alive, face downward, that their voices may never be heard again on earth.—The Silent 'Partner, IMMIGRATION By Frederic J. Haskin 1 J IMMIGRATION into the United States has been cut down to about seven per cent of what for several years, we have considered the normal annual addition to our population front that source. If the number of aliens who left the United States in 1914 be subtracted from those who came in, about 800,000 will remain as tlie net addition to our population from -overseas. In 1915, the net gain was a scant 50,000. For the United States, this Im mense falling oft in Immigration is one of the most Important present and future effects of the war. There has always been a strong, though minority, demand in this country for the rigid restriction of Immigration. America for Americans has been their motto. Now they have it. An experi ment in restricted immigration has been forced upon ns. Tho hordes of men from Europe who for years have beer, digging our coal, building our railroads, harvesting our crops, have ceased to move in this direction. Furthermore, in Europe they are dy ing like plague-smitten sheep; and when the war Is over, conditions will be altogether changed. How will those changed conditions affect immigration? Will the horde begin to stream through Ellis Island a.Kain, or will these men stay at home to rebuild their countries? Among experts-there are two opinions. Some boleve that immigration will not only remain at a low ebb after the war, but that it will be positively reversed, that many of our thirteen million foreign-born citizens will return to their native lands. These prophets foresee a new era of prosperity and power for labor, with Europe and America competing for its services, ana wages steadily rising. They also foresee a wonderful development of machinery, so that the power of each man may be multiplied a thousand times. Others believe that after the war there will bo a new rush of im migration toward this country, and that more rigid exclusion laws will be made necessary. If it is impossible to reconcile these two opinions, we can nevertheless shed a good deal of light on the subject by considering both present effects an<s future tendencies. There is no doubt at all but that the United States is already feeling the loss of its supply of cheap labor. Wages have risen; labor has won a scries of easy victories in its strikes; is already showing a sense of the quickening power which may work tremendous changes in the near future. Industry, however, is pretty well manned. It is always the less remunerative and less desirable classes of employment that feel the pinch of scarce labor first. These are espe cially domestic service and farm labor. For over a year there has existed in the United States a veritable dearth of servants. Not only are but lers and valets and French maids hart to obtain, but the girl of all work, who has a place In millions of families, is becoming far too rare for the demand. Many women are forced to do their own housework because they cannot find a servant to accept a place at good wages. Farm labor in many sections is al most unobtainable, and is nowhere abundant. The West is calling for an army of men to harvest its wheat crop, and they aro nowhere to be found. The federal employment 1 bureau has demands many times as great as it is able to fill. These, then, are the effects of the labor shortage In the United States so far; Higher wages and shorter hours, for labor, easy victories for strikers, a serious shortage of labor for domestic serv ice and the farm. To this might be added a constantly increasing use of labor-saving machinery; Steam shovels and electric cranes are working to-day with one or two men where a few years ago great gangs of laborers would have been seen. Ships are be ing loaded by great steel grabbers that pick up ten to fifteen tons at a time and place them in half a minute. ' Inventors and makers of machinery face a new prosperity. Xow. Ps to the course of events after the war. Will this scarcity of labor continue, or will the United States be overrun with Europeans sick of strife and poverty? In aupport of the latter opinion the AUGUST 11, 1916. most important facts to be cited are that the burden of taxation will be tremendously heavy in Europe after the war, and that there will be many restless souls, filled with a new sense of freedom by their life in camp and trench, who will be unwilling to settle down to the humdrum life of the Eu ropean peasant. Then, too, the United States will almost certainly be very prosperous, will offer high wages and abundant opportunity. Undoubtedly these causes will, bring a new Immi grant movement "across the Atlantic. But the offsetting causes are formid able. Foremost of these is the fact that the war is destroying men be tween the ages of twenty and forty at the rate of from three to five million a year. These are the men of strength ar.fi adventurous propensity, the men who would seek a new land. Their numbers will be terribly reduced, and the United States can not afford to admit a horde of aged, crippled, and women and children. Then, too, the European nations will doubtless do what they can to dis courage emigration. Some can do more in this line than others. At any rate, the necessity for keeping the people at home to pay the war debt will be a potent influence in restrict ing immigration to the United States. The really deciding factor, however, will be industrial conditions in Europe after the war. The tax burden will be very heavy, of course, Dut Europe will undoubtedly enter upon a great era of reconstruction. Lanor will be scarce and much in demand. Wages will almost certainly rise. The dearth of men will create opportunities in all directions. Another Important fact In this connection is that the land owning nobility in Austria, Poland and England has been terribly deci mated. Many ancient family names have passed out of existence. It is quite possible that many of these great estates will bo broken up into peasant farms and that the soldier will have an opportunity to become an independent land owner. Fate of the Wicked The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. iastes 8:11. Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest 1 tear you in pieces, and there is none to deliver.—Psalms 50:22, Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, there fore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.—Eccles iastes 8:11. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organlza tlon'3 annual "Municipal Quiz."] How are property valuations fixed for city and school taxes? Property valuations for city and school taxes are made by the City Assessor. Values are fixed in the triennial year for three years, un less property is Improved or an er ror has been made In assessment. Our Daily Laugh A STICKE *- Friend: D 1 d her father follow Jin r fIL /js?® you when you clopccl witl * the i/f Toting man: I JMj_——should say so. He is living ,wlth us GLOOM. r Ho seems to • njoy being &$L gloomy. JA Yes. Seems to *y[ 2k mo like a fellow flfckv W ' who would bo jln) JL perfectly con tented sitting alone In * sum mer cottage dur- J\ -rv« lng a three dues' rala* * 1 Abetting (Cfjal In these days of tense interest in ways and means to prevent the spread of infantile paralysis it is a mistake to suppose that children should not be allowed to play in the playgrounds and the parks or be brought together yvhere there is plenty of light and air. Too often, children come from homes where conditions are not as satisfac tory from the standpoint of the man who aims to prevent disease as they might be. In conversation yesterday with a medical man who has given years to tho study of diseases of a preventable character he said that children should be permitted to play at the playgrounds and in the parks where the conditions are good and where they can be kept clean. "Let the children be permitted to use public places if they are sanitary and where there is an abundance of light and air," said he. "Their home premises you will And in many cases are not what we would like to see. Confining the youngsters to their homes brings them right into adverse conditions and when we are dealing with anything like infantile paralysis that is a big thing to be reckoned with. The city can do nothing better than see that the children get all the fun out of the playgrounds and that they are kept clean and happy. It would pay the city in the end to spend a little more money with this object. Fresh air and sunshine are the best things to help doctors, who, after all, are working to keep disease away. Some of the foreign-born residents of Harrisburg and vicinity are taking a big interest in the preparedness movement which is under way in this State and they appear to Be watching the way the Americans take to being soldiers of their own free will. In the foreign lands every one must ba a soldier. The viewpoint of these men is interesting. One when asked how he regarded the military matters now engrossing our attention replied in rather broken English: "Soldiering is good for young men. They ought to take it up, everyone of them. In our country we had to, and learned all about it. Here we don't have to, but if fight comes we would turn in and show that we know something about it. Not many of us would stay out if needed to fight in this country's armies." • • • A story is told of a couple of drunks and disorderlies who ought to have been rounded up which shows that sometimes the way of the lawbreaker is rocky. The two men are said to have been in Derry street late one night a week or so ago. A car came along and they decided to stone it. One stood on one side and the other on the opposite track. The car crew had put the windows out of danger and ono man decided he would wait until the next time. The other fel low did not notice that the windows were out of sight and threw his stone. It went right through and hit the other man on the head. » * • The State Treasury is getting a good many checks for $5.83 these days. These checks are for what is called the "bookkeeping tax" at the Capitol. A year or so ago it was found that the number of wnat are some times called "paper" companies, be cause their assets are nominal, was increasing. So there was evolved a tax of $5 as a minimum on all cor porations coming under the Auditor General. This, it was figured out ' would amount to a cover for the cost i of bookkeeping, postage and the like. I Last year the tax was made $5 for jthe twelvemonth, but under the new law the tax is levied for fourteen months to make the year conform to the calendar so that $5.83 is now ono of the most popular brands of checks. There are hundreds being received weekly. • • • A couple of men of long experience in State affairs were talking yesterday about the late James Russ and one said: "I do not know of any one in Harrisburg who was better known throughout the State than "Jim" Huss. 1 have been meeting people inter ested in the State government and politics for forty years and wherever I go I find people who talk about Har risburg and the next thing they asked after the Capitol was about James i Russ. The Russ family and its hotel connections have been a sort of tradi- I tlon in Harrisburg and "Jim' was tho j best known of all. He was of the typo that was famous fifty years ago and I which in these days of automobile travel we miss sorely in many places." Samuel D. Foster, former chief en gineer of the State Highway Depart ment, who has had charge of the road building operations of the soldiers at El Paso, is a Washington and Jefferson graduate and has been engaged in building roads since he came out of college. It happens that in addition to being conversant with that much needed accomplishment in that section he knows Spanish because he built roads in Cuba and Panama and also traveled In Mexico and Central Am erica. • » » People here are much Interested in a report from El Paso that officials of the Carnegie Steel Company are going to give the Governor's Troop, or Troop C as it Is officially known, a motor truck. The troop did good service in the company's territory in the Allegheny county strike and its work seems to have been appreciated. However, Harrisburg might have done the same thing. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE EUsha Lee. active In the railroad discussions, is it Philadelphlan. General A. L. Mills, who has had direction of the militia from Wash ington for several years, has been continued in charge cf that bureau by an order Just Issued. —Archbishop Prendergast of Phila delphia, Is taking a brsef vacation at the soashore. —John Dickey, Jr., prominent Philadelphlan, Is spending the month In New Hampshire. —Ex-Judge R. S. Gawthrop. of West Chester, is preparing to proceed with the anthracite coal price Inquiry, | DO YOU KNOW 1 That Harrisburg Is the center of tin Important fruit and vege table distributing trade? HISTORIC HAKRISBtJRG The first church was built at Third and Cherry streetß. Starving Armenians Cannibals Rather than starve to death, Ar menians are oatlng human flesh, ac cording to a cable dispatch received by the American relief. Armenians who have been driven out upon the deserts have frequently pounced upon the bodies of exhausted comrades and have feasted upon them, says the dis patch. Lack of food has driven the people practically to animal life. Men and women have been seen crawling upon the ground In a desperate hunt ,for grasses and her^~
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