6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HO MB Pounded IS3I , Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chbt T. R. OYSTER, Businjss Manager. OUS St. SIVEINMETZ, Managing Editir. « Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assoc IM- Esatern gfflce, Has- Brooks. Fifth Ave - nue Building, New York City; West, ern office, hat brook.• Story & Brooks, People's Gcs Building, CbA« Entered st the Post Office in Harris® burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year In advance. WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth His handy work. — PSALM 19:1. DO IT NOW WITH the passing of summer the importance of protecting the river embankment from the ravages of the Susquehanna at flood stage is self-evident. There remains in the last park loan several thousand dollars which ought to be utilized in riprapping the river slope according to the plan of the Department of Parks and which was recently ap proved by tne State Water Supply Commission. Whether the balance can be utilized for this particular purpose is a question which City Commis sioner Gross is mulling over in his mind, but it would seem to be high time the question was determined one way or the other. It ought not to take long to learn frcm City Solicitor Seitz, the legal advisor of the city, whether this balance can be diverted to the very proper purpose which Commis sioner Gross has in mind. It is clear that the balance of the 1 loan is not sufficient to meet the cost of a proposed subway under the Read ing railroad near Paxtang or any other considerable undertaking. This being the case, it would seem to be the part of wisdom to utilize what is left of the appropriation, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in per manently protecting the river em bankment from the damage of the river at flood stage. It is unfortunately true that the work of the Department of Parks was greatly impeded during the late Spring agjd early summer by frequent rains, but the time has now arrived for forc ing the work that must be done this year unless the city is to pay another large bill for damages which can be avoided by prompt action now. The newly-organized river associa tion is preparing to give attention to tire opening of channels through the reefs and reasonable care of the islands In the river, but it is not part of the plan of the association to under take what is obviously the duty of the Department of Parks in the protec tion of the embankment. Some useful filling out of the slope between the Walnut and Mulberry street bridges was accomplished at ! little expense to the city and there j was also a considerable improvement of the slope immediately north of Hardscrabble, but unless and until the 1 riprapping authorized by the State commission shall have been done it is more or less a waste of money to con tinue throwing dirt over the em bankment. Wc belieye that ordinary common sense would dictate the use of the money which is now available for the protection of the river embankment, and we have no doubt that City Solici tor Seitz, unless some serious legal impediment intervenes, would soon decide once City Commissioner Gross submitted the question to him. No time is to be lost, however, in getting the matter squarely before the law officer of the municipality and he is not the sort of official to waste time in reaching a conclusion. t. Of course, you are going to help the river carnival fund and any of the local newspapers or members of the finance committee will be glad to receive your check. This is a city celebration and must not be regarded in any sense as an exclusive proposition. Those who are doing the real work should have your financial encouragement. HCGHES THE CAMPAIGNER WHAT," asks a correspondent who signs himself Old Line Democrat, "has become of the much boasted 'judicial temperament' of Mr. Hughes? And where is that quiet, dignified campaign he was go ing to conduct?" Why. bless your dear, mistaken heart. Old Line. Mr. Hughes has been so happy to have been able to put that Judicial temperament on Ice and his Judicial gown in mothballs that he is like a boy just out of school. When he stepped sedately down from the Supreme Court bench and passed his cloak to the nearest clerk he let out a whoop of Joy, turned a handspring that knocked the nearest Democrats fclear across the street and landed firmly on his feet with both his big fists in the air right in the midst of the Democratic camp. Hughes, the candidate, has no use for Judicial temperament. His busi ness Is to go after Democrats like a French machine gun after a regiment of Germans in the open. And he has been living right up to his Job. He started well and he Is getting stronger WEDNESDAY EVENING, as he goes along. He has been telling the people a lot of things they ought to know and he has been reflecting the popular thought In a manner that has roused President Wilson from his dream of popular approval in a most amazing fashion. And as for a "quiet dignified cam paign"—well, it may be dignified, but it isn't going to be very quiet; not, at least, so far as the Republican candi date is concerned. No pussy-footing In that quarter, dear Old Line, and there are indications that he isn't going to leave much opportunity for anything like that on the other side. Mr. Hughes intends to tell the people in no uncertain tones of the faults and shortcomings of the Wilson adminis tration, and the story is so long that from now until November is all too short for the purpose. His hat is in the ring and he is in with it. And he is fighting barefisted with no quarter asked or given. Judi ! cial temperaments and quiet cam ! paigns are not suited to , the occasion. "Are you going to the Kipona at Harrisburg in September?" will be about as common an inquiry hereafter as "Are you going to the Mardi Gras? or some famous festival or celebration in other parts of the country. Thanks to the students of Indian lore a euphonious and appropriate name has been chosen for the annual river car nival this year. "Kipona" is musical and ought to suggest some poetic flights in which the Susquehanna will figure. A MOVE TOWARD PEACE THE presence of William S. Shope, American ambassador to France, in Berlin the past week has stir red up rumors of a possible effort to end the war. The inauguration of such a move within the next month would not be surprising. A well known political writer in the Satur day Evening Post weeks ago predicted that President Wilson would make an effort in that direction as a part of his campaign for re-election, figuring that the success of such an undertaking would greatly strengthen him in the eyes of the voters. However that mav be, things are rapidly shaping themselves toward peace in Europe. The allies are pressing the Teutons on all fronts and the end ts only a matter 61 time. Peace is in the air. Within a few weeks both sides may be ready to lis ten to reason. It would be good poli tics, certainly, and good Americanism, too, for the President to lead the way toward an end of the awful slaughter now in progress. Pennsylvania has had two hay crops this year, and that is all very well, but what we're interested in is whether there is going to be two buckwheat crops. A MOTOR CLUB DUTY WITH the increase of x motor traf fic of every sort in the city some more specific and prac tical traffic regulations must be i adopted. Already the traffic officers are overworked in their efforts to keep the steady stream of automobiles and all other vehicular traffic moving in something like reasonable order and some limitations will have to be placed upon the use of purely resi dential streets. It is obvious that the driving of heavy stone wagons, auto- j mobile trucks laden with every con ceivable cargo, lumber -wagons and heavy drays must be barred from those highways which are In the na ture of the case residential in their character. It is a common remark that heav ily-laden wagons and trucks and drays and delivery outfits of every sort are driven several blocks to get upon Front street, which is purely a residential boulevard and ought to be set apart for that purpose. It is an accepted custom in other cities that one or more main highways shall be de voted to pleasure driving and Har risburg must recognize the necessity for some such regulation respecting its main drive, especially as the river highway is the main avenue for all tourist travel, east and west. Mayor Meals is taking a proper step in the ordinance he proposes for the regulation of strong searchlights on the city streets. It is almost impos sible to walk upon any highway which is used by automobiles under present conditions without being blinded by searchlights that might be available for a lighthouse or the crow's nest of a man-of-war, but which are certainly not needed for automobile traffic upon a city street. It would seem that the Motor Club of Harrisburg ought to back up the Mayor in this matter. It is no invasion of anybody's rights to bar heavy traffic from a driveway or to require all strong headlights upon motor vehicles to be dimmed within the city limits. BUSINESS AND CROP CONDITIONS THERE has just been issued by the United States Chamber of Commerce an important bulletin upon the general crop and business conditions of the United States. The basis of this bulletin is a special re port as of July 29. While the general conditions are fair and a considerable area is marked "good," there are some spots which are designated as "poor." It is gratifying to note, however, that whereas a considerable of Penn sylvania in the central section was marked "poor" under date of July 17, the whole of the State is now marked "good." Other sections which were fair on July 17 are now marked "poor," but the general area of good as compared with fair is now largoly increased. An improvement in the crop condition has followed numer ous showers in certain western States. The report states that manufactur ing practically everywhere is in excel lent condition, the only exception be ing where strikes prevail. Since the building industry is the best barometer of general business, it is interesting to note that this Industry Is generally In excellent shape throughout the coun try. Despite the high prices of mate rial, the building outlook continues good, | TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE —You won't be able to appreciate what a fine thing a Kipona can be un til after Labor Day. —From the rapidity with which the Kaiser is reported as moving from one : part of the war front to the other, one may be excused for believing that the allies have him running around in cir cles. —Line for the political tombstone of a prominent Democrat—"He kept us out of war." . 1 —"The difference between the House and Senate on the navy bill is not a party quarrel." says the New York World. Perhaps not, but it is certainly a quarrel among Democrats. —"Shoes to be lower next year," says i a fashion note, but not in price. EDITORIAL COMMENT"] j Austria has asked for more facts i concerning the attack on the Petrolite. Why not take Austria into our confi dence in this matter?— Philadelphia Inquirer. That judge who says that pedestrians have equal rights on the streets with automobiles propounds a theory insteaa qulrer tinE * t&Ct " ~ PhUadel P hla ln * There is said to be danger of an in- i surance agents' strike. Cannot some one induce the book agents to act upon 1 their manifold grievances?— New York Sun. The theory that the Deutschland is a potential warship is at least as sound as Air. Bryan's theory that we have a I potential army of a million men.—New York Sun. Working Through College (Indianapolis Star) The annual report of the sejf-help bureau of Yale University estimates that the students who are working their way through that institution earned last year a total of at least $250,000, though it can pronounce definitely only for $90,000 for work furnished through the bureau. The bureau found vacation work for 231, the total income of which will be $45,61 y, and 2,ITS other jobs for students during the college year, with a salary total of $44,808.- This is the most remarkable for I the reason that New Haven is not a I large city and does not afford the | opportunities for work supplied to students of Chicago and Columbia Universities. It is necessary of course for a student of one of the big universities to earn money than if he were working his way through a smaller college in a town with rural surroundings, for the living expenses are heavier. Yale students hesitated at no honest employment, their jobs ranging all the way from tutoring a Russian nobleman to making war on rats and mosquitoes. The important fact shown, however, is that so many students—the proportion is probably equally large in colleges of all classes—hold . education of such value that they are willing to toil for it. Mystery of Gasoline (New York World) After rising like a rocket to a fig ure nearly treble that of a year ago, the price of gasoline is now coming down, slowly, it is true, but under con ditions of equal mystery with those which marked its rise. But why does gasoline suddenly be come cheaper after as suddenly be coming dear? That is the prize puz zle of a system of price fixing of which the oil industry has furnished many examples. The present reduc tion is attributed to increased pro duction and a slackening of the de mand for the fuel for the military needs of Europe. But certainly the domestic demand both for industrial and pleasure uses have enormously in creased. The decline in the price of crude oil has been slight, and it is not assumed that the long-established and efficiently managed producing companies have only at this late day effected economies which make its production cheaper. Why, then, does gasoline cost less now than a month or a week ago? Gasoline is more than ever a pub lic necessity. The recent extreme fluctuations in its price have inspired Congressional Inquiries. The Federal Trade Commission has just -finished an investigation of methods of pro duction and conditions of cost. Yet the mystery remains at most half solved. A good way to clear it up might be to subject the entire oil industry to federal supervision. Have Another Complaint The politicians in Kansas and Missouri will have a new complaint against the primary law. The voters appear to have voted just as they pleased in both States.—Kansas City Times. LETTERTfo THE EDITOR] DEFENDS SURFACE To the Editor of the Telegraph: The dismissal of Dr. Surface from his office has aroused the people of this vicinity to a great extent. They are antagonistic toward the agricul tural commission because of its action. Dr. Surface has demanded reasons for this and none have appeared. The commission has not been fair to us. Surface was heard to state that there is a "nigger in the woodpile and he is afraid to show his head." Perhaps, Mr. Editor, Dr. Surface may set off some political gunpowder and we hope it will be soon. If he does, the funeral of the Agricultural Commission will be held the following day with fireworks and general re joicing. Since the Commission is unwilling to give reasons, let us see if we can't find some. It may be that thess are a few: The Commission has dismissed him. First, Because he has worked for the interest and benefit of the State instead of his own; Second, Because he has always been honest and straight and cannot be bribed; Third, Because he has exposed the rotten work of a certain dirty politician; Fourth, Be cause the Commission is afraid of Dr. Surface; Fifth, Because Dr. Surface is not afraid of the Commission; Sixth, Because he has always given the pub lic a square deal. It is suspected that the seventh rea son is the real one. It is: Because the Commission has not been a ripping, roaring success, or aven a little mild one, and Surface, foresaw the fact and informed the public of it. The only thing it has succeeded in doing is boosting Surface from his office and it is doubtful if the people of the State will allow him to stay out when the next election time arrives. It has been said that Sanders, the man who is to try to fill the present zoologist's place, claims, among other wonderful things, to have cleaned up the scale in Wisconsin. Let me make this statement: There has never been scale in Wisconsin except in a few places here and there, where it ha? been accidentally imported on nursery stock. I have studied the subject well and I know whereof I speak. May I ask Sanders why he ever left Wiscon sin? ■A. FRIEND OF DR. SURFACE, HARRISBUKG s££££& TELEGRAPH r ?dLtlce. U ' 'P t KKC tottKUX By the Ex-Commlttecman The executive committee of th« Pennsylvania League of Republican clubs will meet during the last week of August to tlx the date and nam* the place for the annual convention of the league this year. York will likely be selected although a number of oth er Pennsylvania cities are desirous of entertaining the clubs. The convention, which will mark the beginning of the Fall campaign in this State, will be the twenty-fifth an nual gathering of the organization. There will be two business sessions, presided over by President Frederick W. Willard, of Philadelphia, and a mass meeting which will he addressed according to the present plans, by either Charles Evans Hughes or Theo dore Roosevelt. The business ses sions will be attended by ten represen tatives from each club associated .with the league. Former Governor Edwin S. Stewart, of Philadelphia, was president of the organization at one time, as also were Isadore Sobel, of Erie, a Congressional candidate. Representative J. Hampton Moore, oi Philadelphia; Milton W. Lowery and Frederick \V. Fleitz. —Horace Geiger who yesterday re tired as Prohibition candidate for the Legislature in Philadelphia was an unsuccessful aspirant for the Republi can nomination at the May primaries. —Former Congressman George D. McCreary, who died last April, left an estate valued at $2,037,521, according to his will, probated in Philadelphia yesterday. —Pennsylvania Republicans do not take much stock in the expressed in tention of President Wilson not to do any stump speaking "except in re sponse to invitations," because he does not b«lieve stumping to be compatible with the dignity of the office. It is pointed out that every Presidential candidate is swamped with invitations j to speak during every campaign and that if the President does no more than respond to invitations he will not have a spare moment between now and election time. Also, if it chanced that the President desired to speak at any particular place to which he had not been invited it would not be difficult to procure a formal invitation. A Matter of Degree [New York Evening Post] Somebody with nothing better to do has been looking up the college de grees bestowed upon the two candi dates for the Presidency. From this point of view the contest is by no ! means one-sided. Mr. Wilson has gathered only one Ph. D., one Litt. D., but has nine LL.D.s. In the meantime Mr. Hughes who never was president of anything in particular, has quietly collected eleven LL.D.'s. Their run ning mates are almost neck and neck. At present writing. Mr. Marshall is a nose ahead, with five LL.D.'s: Mr. Fairbanks has only four, but may get another any day. Coming down to the managers, Mr. Willcox has one LL.D., while Mr. McCormick has to be con- , tent with a perfunctory M.A. Six men, with thirty LL.D.'s between them! All of which proves what many independ ents have maintained from the first— the differences between parties this year are a matter of degree. War Mothers By Ella Wheeler Wilcox (From the Cosmopolitan Magazine). In the old times of peace we went our ways. Through proper days i Of little joys and tasks. Lonely at times— When from the steeple sounded wed ding chimes Telling to all the world some maid was wife. But, taking patiently our part in life As it was portioned us, by church and state. Believing it our fate, Our thoughts all chaste, Held yet a secret wish to love and mate Ere yuuth and virtue should go quite to waste, But men we criticised for lack of strength And kept them at arm's length. Then the war came! The world- was all aflame! The men we had thought dull and void of power Were heroes in an hour. He who had seemed a slave to petty greed. Showed masterful in that great hour of need. He who had plotted for his neighbor's pelf, Now for his fellows offered up him self. And we were • only women, forced by war To sacrifice the things worth living for. Something within broke, Something within us woke. The wild cave woman spoke. When we heard the sound of drumming As our soldiers went to camp Heard them tramp, tramp, tramp. As we watched to see them coming, And they looked at us and smiled— (Yes, looked back at us and smiled) As they flied along by hillock and by hollow. Then our hearts were so beguiled That for many and many a day I We dreamed we heard them say, [ "Oh! Follow, follow, follow." ; And the distant rolling drum Called us. "Come. come, come." Till our virtue seemed a thing to give away. There is something in the sound of drum and fife That wakes all the savage instincts into life. War had swept ten thousand years away from earth— We were primal once again They were males, not modern men— We were females meant to bring their sons to birth, And we could not wait for any formal rife-a --| We could hear them calling to us, "Come to-night, For to-morrow at the dawn We move on!" And the drum Bellowed "Come, come, come!" And the fife Whistled "Life, life, life!" So they moved on and fought and bled and died. . Honored and mourned, they are the na tion's pride. We fought our battle, too. but with the tide Of our red blood we gave the world new lives. Because we were not wives We are dishonored. Is it noble, then. To break God's laws only by killing men To save one's country from destruc tion? We Took no man's life, but gave our chastity. And sinned the ancient sin To plant young trees and fill felled forests in. Oh, clergy of the land! Bible in hand. All reverently you stand. On holy thoughts intent, While barren wives receive the sacra ment. Had you the open vision you could see Phantoms of Infants murdered in the womb Who never knew a cradle or a tomb, Hovering about these wives accus ingly. Bestow the sacrament! Their sins are not well known: Ours to the four winds of the earth are * . . THE CARTOON OF THE DAY "YOU MADE ME WHAT I AM TO-DAY—" ' " ' THE WAR—I hope you're satisfied ! —From the Baltimore American. * f ) SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AT PALMYRA UNDER ST ATE CONTROL V ) ON the twelfth of last October, Governor Brumbaugh and Henry Houck attended the dedication of a new SIOO,OOO school building at Palmyra. The structure is equipped with every modern convenience and appliance which the art of modern school building can supply. It is lo cated in the center of one of the rich est agricultural valleys in the State. The school boavd responsible for the building readily grasped this fact" and realized that if the Lebanon Valley is to maintain its advanced agricultural standing, it must offer the boy who wishes to farm, the opportunity to better fit himself for farming. Accordingly, five rooms were set apart for a course in agricultural in struction. At the opening of the school term *in 1915, application was made to the State Department of Pub lic Instruction, Bureau of Vocational Education, for a High School Depart ment of Agriculture. L. H. Dennis, chief of the bureau, and under whose supervision the work is carried out, personally answered the call, and after an investigation, granted the petition. Seventeen Boys First Year Those ii) charge of the work were of the opinion that if twelve boys should respond to the opportunity for agricultural education the school would be highly beneficial to the boys and to the community at large. But the enrollment during that first year reached seventeen, thus showing that this kind of instruction has a real live place in the school organization, and is meeting a vital need that has long been recognized, but denied many boys who wish to follow farming as an occupation and who cannot avail themselves of the opportunities offered by State College. As a result of this large enrollment of the first year, the department has been busy all summer preparing to handle a greater number of boys ade quately. The school is now prepared to teach such subjects as dairying, animal husbandry, soils, forestry, farm crops, vegetable gardening, etc. As an example of the nature of the instruction we may cite the work done ill poultry raising. The school is pro vided with all kinds of good poultry feeds. These the boys are taught to use economically; to compound into rations that will give the greatest re turns for the money expended. In the incubator room there are three mod ern incubators which the boys them selves operated last year from Jan-* uary 5 to April 15. Following this, there Were similar practical instruc tions in handling brooders. The boy is first taught the principals of good incubation ard brooding and is then asked to do with his hands what he has learned in the classroom. There are several live and up-to-date poultry farms within walking distance of the school. Trips were taken to each of these and the boys were given the op portunity to study the location of the houses, the kinds of tiouses used for incubation, brooding, and laying; to study the different breeds and the pur pose of each: and to learn the meth ods of caring for and, marketing the products. There is also a farm wood shop provided in the school. Here the The Voice of the People Omaha Bee —Somo watchful friend evidently gave Carranza a hunch that Colonel Roosevelt and 12,000 men might head southwestward unless the first chief climbed down. Morning dispatches carried the hint. Before evening Carranza climbed down and released the captured troopers. An other vindication for the big stick. Clyde (Kan.) Farmer's Voice— Thero are times when one is inclined to the view that writing historv and making It are two different things. Such has been, more or less, the expe rience of Woodrow. New Brunswick (NT. J.) News— "America first," said President Wilson in his Philadelphia address, "means nothing until you translate it into what you do." Well, then, what does it mean when it is translated into three years of "watchful waiting?" Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-Eve Francis J. Heney of California will not support the candidacy of Hughes and has announced that he will vote for Wilson. Frankly speaking, the disaf fection of the Cftllfornian is mighty good news to the Republican party. Franklin (Pa.) News President Wilson is a great peacemaker; see how he got the Republicans and Pro gressives to agree. Investigating Birds (Chicago Journal) The federal government is investi gating birds with a view to discover ing whether they are harmful or help ful to mankind. Of 40 or 50 species, exclusive of hawks and owls, thus far put through this scientific third de gree, only one has been found harm ful —the English sparrow. All other AUGUST 16, 1916. boys were given practice in handling tools to construct poultryhouses and appliances that belong to the industry. The aim is to teach them to build good houses for the farm poultry and yet keep the cost of such houses low enough, so that the hen can easily pay for them and make a reasonable profit. Length of School Course The time required to complete the course is four years. This is the same as the time required to complete the regular academic high school tc-urso. If the boy completes the work suc cessfully, he is given a high school diploma whic.i hi>« the same stand ing, in every respect, as the regular diploma from the straight academic course. It will admit him to higher Institutions of learning 011 a par with any other high school diploma. During these i'our years not all of the time is spent on agricultural work. One-half of each day is spent in regu lar academic work in the high school. This gives the boy a good general aca demic education along with his spe cial agricultural training which is to fit him for his life's work. The course of study Is prescribed by the State Bureau of Vocational Education and is closely supervised by I the bureau week by week. Free Tuition A question that frequently con fronts one entering any school'is that of the expense involved. This school, however, is operated by the State through the local school board. Its advantages are offered to any boy ab solutely free of any cost to the parent, save that of transportation to the school. If one lives In a township not having a high school he is entitled to send pupils to another school out side of his township. In this case, the person sending the pupils to school does not pay the tuition, but the school district from which the pupils come, pay it. The same thing is true of the agricultural school with one exception. The State will refund to townships paying such tuition one half the tuition they pay. This ar rangement makes the cost to the parent sending a pupil to the agri cultural school nothing, and the cost of that pupil to the district from which he comes less than what it would cost to send him to the usual academic high school. Entrance Requirements To enter the agricultural school the boy must be at least fourteen years of age. He must have a natura'l desire and trend for agricultural work and must carry out a school project. The project may be carried on at his home or on the school grounds. The former is the preferable place for doing this part of the work. In this project he undertakes to do a piece of farm work—grow an acre of corn or pota toes, care for the home garden, rear some farm animals, etc. He must keep accurate accounts of all time and money expended on the project i s well as moneys received. All of this work must be done under the direc tion of the supervisor of agriculture whose duty it is to visit the boy and help him in any way possible. Three such projects must be carried out dur ing the. four years' course. The school reopens August 28. birds of the group mentioned are inocuous or helpful, and many of them are worth well nish their weight in gold to the farmer and fruit raiser. Of hawks and owls there are 1 3 species found in this country, onlv six of which are injurious. The rest either do no harm at all. or more than make up for occasional depredations by their services in keeping down ver min. Our Daily Laugh WHAT SHE § THOUGHT. Did the burg lars upset your home much? Terribly. When I entered and saw everything upside down my first thought was that Jim had como home unex pectedly and changed his clothes. YOU LOSE IF come out in the poker game last r w J I staked all \ "rffljP I! could got in. lEbentng (Etjat Bishop H. B. Hartzler, editor of tha Evangelical, has received word from Johnstown that one of the missions of the United Evangelical church there has suffered terribly as a result of tha trolley wreck last Saturday evening Ten of the members of the new gregation were killed outright and ni teen others are in the hospital, some of them seriously injured. Among those who were killed were a number ■Of the most prominent members of the church. The pastor of the con gregation had been invited to attend the outing as guest of honor, but ow ing to a slight injury received the previous he was unable to go and scr escaped. Never in the history of the United Evangelical Church has SUCH a catastrophe fallen upon any ono congregation. "Have you noted the renewed inter est in fireplaces!" asked a West Shoro builder the other day. "A few years back if I had put an open ~ fireplace into a house of moderate price I would have found that house on my hands at the end of the selling season. In those days open fireplaces were re garded by many people as relics of the past and few houses were built to include them, except by people who had money for luxuries. But times have changed. This year I built a large number of low priced bungalows and every one of them includes a hearth. So far as being a drawback these fireplaces are now one of tha drawing cards and help attract buyers to the houses. People have outlived the age when a house was regarded as four walls divided up into rooms." Harrisburgers who visited Wilkes- Barre recently are telling about tlio patriotism of the people of that city. In every store window placards are displayed calling for recruits. Wagons, automobiles and street cars carry banners on which are patriotic in scriptions. Every night there is a band concert, sometimes two. At these concerts patriotic selections are feat ured, and circulars are distributed, urging young men to enlist for their country's cause. As a result of this campaign, it is said, that Wilkes- Barre is sending a large number of rookies to the Southern camps, almost daily. There are some folks in Harrisburg who enjoy a real vacation at home. A well-known railroad clerk is given two weeks off each year. Having pass privileges he takes his family to tho seashore. This year, with "mother" and tho little ones, he spent one week at Atlantic City. That was enough. Tired and sunburnt he re turned home last Saturday. This week he is putting in the time tak ing his family to Independence Is land and on fishing trips along tho Conodoguinet creek. On his way across the river, he said, "I always get real enjoyment at home. There is more fun and real recreation in these daily trips than in a month at Atlantic City." There are others- just like him. All the steamers, "sand-suckers" and flats of the Harrisburg Light and Power company which remain any where in the Susquehanna "basin" at night anchorages are now equipped with red lanterns, fore and aft, for the protection of canoes, motorboats and other lighter craft. The move ment was started voluntarily by tho electric light company as a co-opera tive measure with the "Greater Har risburg Navy." The "Navy" recently advocated the lighting of the river ileets at night as a protection for the pleasure craft and the problem was left to a committee to be appointed 01% police regulations, etc. The electria company, however, which controls the largest fleet, inaugurated the move ment on its own hook with the idea that other fleet commanders might follow suit. And the idea is taking wonderfully. Four or five other river coal operators who at first were a wee bit mystified at the tiny twinkling "lower lights" gleaming redly along the water, are x already planning to follow suit. Whether or not the sun shines by day or the moon or stars by night is a matter of supreme indifference to the "Grayce Construction company, which is building the splendid con crete arch bridge across the Susque hanna for the Cumberland Valley railroad company. The work goes on a-pace by night as well as by day and huge electric "flood" lights swung from each pier-head turn darkness into daylight. In the flood of electric light that is poured down upon them the cranes, hoists, tiny concrete and sand trains, and scores of men work steadily on, long after the 6 o'clock whistle has signaled that for you a day's work is done. Sharing Profits [Charlton Bates Strayer, in Leslie's] Representative Keating of Colorado has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives "to drive the stop watch and bonus and premium sys tem from the government arsenals and workshops," but the hundreds of thousands of workmen in scores of companies who have received bonuses are making no protest against the system. The General Chemical Com pany has distributed by this method $3,000,000 among its 15,000 employes. The United States Steel corporation has recently set aside 35,000 shares of common stock for employes who may pay for it on the instalment plan. A bonus is paid annually on shares held by employes more than five years. The General Electric Company plans to distribute between $3,000,000 and $5,- 000,000 to its employes in two instal ments, the first instalment to be paid August 1 on the basis of 5 per cent, of individual earnings for a six montk " period of all those who have been Wie the company for five years or longeX Alexander Smith & Sons of Yonkers, N. Y„ gives employes who have been with the company 10 years 10 per cent, cf their salaries, and 5 per cent, to those with the company between five and ten years. The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company in its sixth annual distribution gave $250,000 to 5,000 employes, this being 5 per cent, of the wanes for 1915. The New Jer sey Zinz Company of Allentown, Pa., distributed the same amount among its employes as a New Year's gift. The Botany Worsted Mills at Passaic. N. J., distributed $37,000 to 1,400 of its employes and Forstmann & Huffman of the same place SBO,OOO among 3,- 000. The John B. Stetson Company celebrated its fiftieth anniversary hir giving $300,000 to its 4,400 employ**. Always in It 1 Secretary Daniels may not know much about salt water, but h&s had some experience with the hot variety.—Macon Telegraph. 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."] How are disbursements of public money made, and what safeguards aro provided for protection? All appropriations are made by Council to the different depart ments. Warrants are drawn by the superintendents of departments. All wai rants must be countersign ed by the Superintendent of Ac counts and Finance. Presented to L City Treasurer for payment.
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