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THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17.
The greatest evils are from within
lis; and from, ourselves also we must
look for our greatest good. —JEREMY
TAYLOR.
KITCHIN AND THE NAVAL BILL
CHAIRMAN KITCHIN, of the Naval
Affairs Committee, is already her-
aiding the passage of the big
navy bill as a Democratic triumph.
Before the campaign has crossed the
frost line of early October we may
expect to hear that the navy measure
■was fostered and passed by Demo
crats—that it is another feather in
the cap of Mr. Wilson.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth. President Wilson was driven
to endorsement of a large navy pro
gram by force of popular sentiment.
Mr. Kitchin himself was accused on
the floor of the House of having
turned from the policies of his own
party to those of the Republicans
•with respect to warship construction..
No: The big navy program is not a
matter of party preferences. A large
majority of the members of all parties
favor such a program as is proposed.
Republicans voted largely for It and
a few against. More Democrats, pro
portionately, voteil against it than did
Republicans. The naval bill can claim
no monopoly of support by any one
party.
Foolish question No. 6692, but inter
esting just the same: If gasoline sells
for 17 Va cents a gallon in Chit-ago. how
much ought we to pay in Harrisburg?
THE BOYS' CAMP
JOHN" YATES, of the Associated
Charities, and those active with
him, have done an excellent piece
of constructive work in establishing a
summer camp, where boys who could
not otherwise have a vacation in the
open may spend the hot months' ac
cumulating health and energy for a
"winter in town. Dr. James A. Black,
who lias given a portion of his farm
as a camp site, is also to be com
mended and those who have donated
financial support to the movement
should enloy their own vacations the
more for the pleasure and benefit their
money has been to the young campers.
Next year Mr. Yates wants to en
large the camp—and there should be
no question about funds.
It is a sad thing for any boy to
gTow to manhood without a knowl
edge of the woods and fields and
streams. He who does not know when
and where the first wild flowers bloom
in Spring and where the last hardy
blossoms linger latest in the Fall, who
has not mocked the Bob White call
ing to his mate,- who knows not one
tree from another—in short who has
none of the field and forest lore that
is the heritage of every country boy,
has missed something well worth
while. There is health, spiritual as
well as physical, ii> the open. Every
boy is a good boy, only conditions
.make some do the things we call
•wicked. They need freedom of action
and plenty of room. The country was
the first nurserv and its sons to this
day are rugged and hardy. Getting
back to nature is a fine thing. The
boys' camp is a step in that direction.
It should be encouraged.
Those stupid Russians keep right on
troing regardless of the German general
Staff's announcement that their offen
sive has lost its force.
THE JAMAICA HURRICANE
TIME was when a hurricane In
Jamaica meant little or nothing
to the United Slates. If news
of such an occurrence filtered through
at all it came by word of mouth from
some captain of a trading vessel and
caused little comment. Now such a
storm is noted on the first page of
the newspapers and the announce
ment that the banana crop has been
damaged means another addition to
living expenses. Life grows constant
ly more complicated and its adjust
ments more delicate. The earthquake
that rocks Italy is felt in the United
States, the war that shakes Europe
jars every continent on the globe; the
wind that lays waste the fruit groves
of Jamaica blows pennies out of
purses in far away America.
Bulgaria went into the war to get
something and seems to be getting
, more than she expected.
FIGHTING LOCAL OPTION*
.r I ~\HE Pennsylvania Liquor Dealers
! in convention at York have gone
on record as opposed to local
option. That was to be expected. The
: convention also endorsed the declar
ation of its president that the "people
THURSDAY EVENING,
j of the United States do not want the
| liquor traffic abolished; they want it
I regulated."
Just how the delegates found this
out is not apparent, since they have
been from time immemorial opposed
to anything like a popular test of pub
lic approval of the liquor traffic. If
.they are so confident of their ground
! there can be no harm in local option,
| which is no more or less than a pro
vision whereby the public may express
its opinion on the liquor question.
The convention will not make pub
lic its plans for combating the local
option campaign. Neither is that sur
prising. If they bear any semblance
to some of the methods that have
prevailed in former years they would
neither look well In print nor reflect
great credit upon the liquor trade.
The Kaiser admits he Is "partly" to
blame for the war. After a while he
may be convinced that he invaded Bel
gium. '
PERMANENT, TO BE SURE
MH. JAAIES, secretary of the Wil
liam Penn Highway, address
ing a convention at Sunbury
yesterday, said that the organization
he represents is opposed to the use of
a road loan in this State for the con
struction of anything but permanent
roads. That is right. It would be fol
ly to borrow money on thirty year
bonds to build a road the life of
which would be five years. That is not
the kind of highways we want In
Pennsylvania. When the road loan is
adopted It will be with the under
standing that not a penny shall be
spent except in permanent construc
tion. Other States have made this er
ror, but Pennsylvania will not.
It's down to the place when even the j
most stupid in arithmetic can figure '
out how many days until school opens, j
STRIKES
LESLIES WEEKLY, in an edi-1
torial evidently directed at the
ratlroad situation, has a few
wise words to say as to the results of
strikes. Here are some of them:
Every strike means empty places
In the factory, the canceling of the
pay roll and the emptying of the
dinner pail. This is the first result.
Every strike means suffering to
the worker first and to his em
ployer next, and it is harder on the
former than on the latter, because
the latter has resources in reserve.
Every strike brings suffering to
the unemployed, distress to inno
cent onlookers, the withdrawal of
children from school and savings
from the bank.
Every strike breaks a bond of
sympathy between the employer
and his employes—the bond that is
the strongest safeguard of capital
and labor.
Every strike gives the dema
gogue and selfish labor leader his
chance to lessen the opportunities
for labor and increase the opportu
nities for himself.
Every strike must finally be set
tled by concessions. Why not arbi
trate differences at the start ana
avoid the strike.
Every strike destroys the peace
and happiness of the home. Imposes
idleness on industry. discounts
thrift and gives opportunlt v for the
vicious to resort to violence and
crime.
Even the successful strike often re
sults in more loss than gain. Always
some very worthy workmen suffer for
years as a result. There may come a
time when between the laborer and
the employer tjiere is no means of set
tling differences save the strike, but
both sides should look well to the
future before resorting to such dras
tic course.
"Two more submarines coming." Bet
ter wait until the Bremen reports.
THE MATRIMONIAL "AD."
MARRIAGE," observed Max H.
Kling, in Philadelphia, the
other day when called on to
explain why he had advertised for a
wife, "is a funny proposition. You
never can tell how It will turn out.
It's just a toss-up. That being so and
I had heard so much of Southern girls,
I just advertised for a wife."
That is the code of the divorce court.
Marry in haste and repent at leisure.
The kind Kling used is one variety of
advertising that does not pay. Mar
riage may be a lottery, but there's no
use choosing your ticket blindfolded, j
The woman who answers a matrimon
ial "ad." is apt to be pretty careless of
the kind of husband she gets, and no
man wants that kind of wife. The
man who makes himself the subject of
a newspaper advertisement admits
that he is on the bargain counter and
that he is of a pattern that the girls
at home won't have. In sjjort, Its pret
ty cheap business and a cheap business
is seldom profitable.
RAVE OX, OSCAR
OSCAR UNDERWOOD is raving
mad because he believes Presi
dent Wilson—for political pur
poses—is about to cast overboard the
Underwood tariff law and go in for
the Republican policy of protection.
Rave on, Oscar! Up and at "em!
Tell 'em where to get off!
Wasn't the President so proud of
your free trade tariff bill that he took
two pens to sign it and sent a message
of rejoicing to the people? Didn't he
pat you on the back, Oscar, and tell
you what a great man you were?
To to sure he did. Well, If it was a
meritorious bill then it cannot be
meretricious now.
Up and at 'em, Oscar, make "em
explain.
ALTRUISM TO THE NTH POWER
WHEN the President expresses~a
wish it is virtually a command,"
says C. W. W. Hanger, of the
Federal Board of Mediation and Con
ciliation, in commenting upon the rail
road situation and the possibility of
strike prevention through executive
intervention. In a time of national
danger and in the face of the threat
of industrial ruin embodied in the im
pending railroad strike the nation
should have a man at ihe head who is
able to weigh both sides of the con
troversy and render a decision which
shall consider well the Interests of the
third party, in this case the general
public. There should be a Judge in
every dispute and one naturally turns,
in instances like the present, to the
nation's head as the final arbitrator.
Are the railroads Justified in refus
ing to accept the final decision whlcL
seems tj the only way to prevent
an industrial crash? Have they been
squeezed to the point where they must
either stand or fall on a single throw
of the dice? Or has the President ex
pressed "the wish that is virtually a
command" in vain? Altruism is a
splendid quality, but there is such a
thing as carrying it to extremes, and
It Is a question in the minds of many
as to whether it is fair to the railroads
to place them In a position of appear
ing entirely responsible for the strike,
If it does come. The outcome of the
attempt to arbitrate will mean much
to the immediate and future Industrial
expansion of the United States.
TELEdRAPH PERISCOPE
—Col. Parker hasn't as yet got
awake to the fact that HI Johnson
played a low-down trick on him.
—The New York woman who offers
$5 reward for the return of her miss
ing husband is over-rating the value
of a wife deserter.
—Von Hindenburg is proving that
not all of last year's German victories
were due to his genius alone.
—Rejoice, fellow slaves, the home
-1 mad© ice cream churning season is al
most over.
—Anyway, the new commission
will be able to string the Mexican sit
uation along until after election.
1 EDITORIAL COMMENT"
The visit of the Deutschland serves
to establish Uncle Sam's contention
that he is at all times ready to sell his
goods to anybody who will furnish his
own delivery wagon.—Nashville South
ern Lumberman.
Real sporting hazards are becoming
fewer every day. It is estimated that
by January X, 1917, there will be one
motor car to every twenty-five persons
in the United States. In a few years
there will be nothing left to run over
except dogs and chickens.—Kansas
City Star.
great art of war is artillery.—
Philadelphia Record.
It would seem sensible nowadays to
be willing to tight for a place in the
shade.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
Taking his talks into consideration,
a id the grief they cause President Wil
son, it is plain that a term on the bench
has had no effect on the splendid and
unerring aim Mr. Hughes is directing
against the administration.—Cincinnati
Tribune.
Finding $25,000 a Year Men
In the September American Maga
zine, Frank A. Vanderlip, president of
the National City Bank, tells how he
selects men for positions demanding
the salary of $25,000 a year. He savs:
"Several years ago 1 went to Texas,
studied conditions there, became con
vinced that prospects warranted our
special attention, and concluded we
wanted a man who knew that coun
try. a man from Texas. On the trip 1
met. 1 think, all the bankers of Im
portance. 1 crossed the State twice
and stopped at all principal towns.
"Of ali the bankers 1 came In con
tact with, two stood out prominently.
I had seen them only at luncheons,
dinners, or other i&therings of that
sort. But they had talked better than
their fellows. They showed breadth
of banking and financial knowledge
and information; this was several
years before the passage of the Fed
eral Reserve act, and we were all
very much Interested in that.
"Their grasp of fundamental prin- !
oiples told me they had done what I J
have often said a young man should !
do —one day's work at his desk and |
another day's study finding out what
his work means, what its relations!
are to the general scheme of things. '
"I followed up my first impression
with inquiries about them. After I
returned to New York, every time I
met a man from Texas or the South
west I asked about them. I got uni
versally favorable testimony. I pressed !
the thing closer, and finally engaged i
first one and, two years later, the*
other.
"Note that I picked them out sev
eral years before actually appointir ;
them. If their records had not bee 1
scrupuously clean, if I had heard OB
derogatory thing about them, my in
terest might have ceased.
"Then you might well wonder why
was chosen, a lawyer with no
banking experience. Sheer personality
did it.
"There, again, was the inspiring
career. He had dug it out for him
self. He had worked his way through
college, and very successfully. Enter
ing law, he worked and studied hard
—and saved money.
"His conversation revealed a trained
mind, wide reading, broad interests.
Tt was evident he had done his own I
thinking on many subjects. And he
had great physical force, which you
always look for in a man who has a
great work to do. You don't want a
weakling, because the pressure all the
time is severe, and at times of stress
or crisis it becomes pi>etty nearly un
bearable. A man must stand up under
it and not cave in at a crucial
moment."
Taking the Cue
(Philadelphia ledger)
At last Oarranza has taken the cue
from Washington and Is now charg-;
lng the American mining operators i
and other American concessionaires 1
with trying to bring about lnterven- |
tion by "refusing to come back to
Mexico and operate their plants" and !
so give employment, food and con
tentment to the peons. Really, if the
Mexican situation were not a great
tragedy this would road like opera
bouffe of the most humorous kind.
In other words, .because the Ameri
cans will not go back to Mexico to
have their houses and ranches, mines
and mills looted, their foremen
robbed, their wives attacked and even
their babies killed by bandits whom
!the Carran/.a government does not
suppress, and with whom it Is in
| friendly relations at times, they are
I being held accountable by the Car
i anzistas for the distress in the re
gions concerned. Invented so as "to
i bring about intervention." And then
j to cap the climax of absurdity these
j very men who are wanted in Mexico
; to start local prosperity are the ones
the ITnlted States government has or
dered out of Mexico on the ground
■that their stay was perilous and sus
! picious and spelled intervention, too.
' Moreover, their employment of the
; peons has been assailed as "exploita
| tion," which gave them no right to
ask protection for themselves or their
| property from their own country. So
they are now being damned if they
; stay out and damned if they go back.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
IQuestlons submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza
tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."]
Who are the officers of the Fire
Department?
Edward Z. Gross, superintendent
of parks and public property, un
der whose Jurisdiction the fire de
partment Is placed. John C. Klnd
ler, chief engineer fire department.
Marion \ erbeke. assistant chief en
gineer fire department.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
ITHESWE FROM DAf TO W
That " coming events cast their
shadows before" Is true in more senses
than one. Witness the preparations
now going on in one of the Pennsyl
vania regiments on the border for a
football team that bodes ill to the
Mexican warriors If ever there should
be a gringo-greaser set-to. Candi
dates for the team are practicing just
as hard as a college team two weeks
before the big game.
A number of noted officials from
this city, Washington, Philadelphia.
Pittsburgh and others are among the
guests at the annual convention of
postmasters of the third and fourth
classes of Pennsylvania now in session
I in Sunbury. The membership has In
creased 100 per cent, since the last
convention one year ago in Lancaster.
"Have a Son" is the cordial Invi
tation extended to the readers of a
Pennsylvania daily, but closer scru
tiny revealed the fact that it was a
statement and not in the imperative
mood.
The story from Pittsburgh that a
horse hitched to an express wagon
deliberately ran down a bank and
committed suicide by drowning offers
additional evidence to those scientists
who would like to discover the exact
degree of the horse's intelligence.
William Vail of Jermyn has an an
tipathy toward the bee family after
bis experience of a day or so ago
on his farm, when his horses drove
over a hive of bees just when they
were having their noon repast. The
activities of the bees were transmitted
to the horses, who in turn propelled
their master out upon his head, where
the little stinger? again got busy.
One of the strangest cases that
physicians have been called upon to
deal with has come up in Oil City,
where a little girl swallowed a red
ribbon and is slowly being dyed the
same color. Her back, breast and
arms are suffused with the dye and
the internal poisoning has been rap
idly spreading to other parts of her
body with the same effect.
The Trout family will gather
at Brookslde Park. appropriately
enough, the latter part of this month,
when all the Trouts of America, who
can get there, will reune for a season
and celebrate the 164 th anntversary
of the landing of their forefathers
in this country.
"Speeding Up" Doesn't Pay
[From the Boston Traveler.]
"Is your horse a good traveler?" ask
ed one man of another who had stopp
ed him on the highway to "swap"
horses.
"A good traveler? Why, stranger, I
can drive that horse so far In a day
that you couldn't get him back in
three!"
Naturally this ingenuous though not
ingenious argument did not effect a
trade. But it is the sort of argument
that in a disguised form is being used
effectively by individuals and people
all over the map.
"Efficiency" and "pep" are the two
most overworked words In the lan
guage these times. Wherever one goes
he can hear the mental motors buzz
ing and the wheels whirring. Every
man is so keyed up and densely charg
ed with his life purpose that you are
almost afraid to shake hands with him
for fear of getting an electric shock.
But, listen, you fellows not already
—because of overwork—headed for the
psychopathic hospital, the word has
gone forth that "Speeding Up" has
reached its limit and that it doesn't
pay.
"The inefficiency of 'efficiency' has
proved both costly and brutal." says a
man who has been a lifelong; student
of busy men. "A man should be his
best up to TO. If a man disappears at
65 he is inefficient, no matter what he
has done before that time—inefficient
because he has thrown away the ripe
fruit of all his life."
Don't drive yourself so far in a day
that you cannot get back in three—or j
perhaps ever. A good share of the
world believes that the efficiency of a |
certain European nation was the cause i
of ■ ,u. itself and the whole of civili- j
"• lion bt. k half a century. Remember j
f le story of the clever little boy who j
Ltole the arty ice cream and ate it all
himself a id died the next day?
"Moder »tion," Bishop Hall says, "Is I
the sil' string running through the
chain of all virtue."
And Now Gibby's Gone!
[Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.]
It's going to be pretty lonesome for
Hans Wagner at Forbes Field from
now on. It wasn't so bad when Brans
field and Beaumont drifted away; the
club moved away from Exposition
Park about that time and new sur
roundings took the edge off that
breaking up. But since they went to
the new park Tommy Leach, Camnitz,
Capt. Clarke and "Babe" Adams have
moved along and now Gibson's gone.
The old man's going to be pretty
lonesome.
It's going to be pretty lonesome for
the fellows out in the 25-cent bleach
ers, too. You never could get away
with a mean remark about "Gibby" or
"Babe" out there. "Hack"—that was
"Gibby's" other nickname, after Hack
enschmidt, the wrestler —might drop a
throw from the outfield or the enemy
batsman might drive Babe's famous
slow ball out to the flag pole, but you
wouldn't hear any roast out there in
the sun. ll was "All right. "Gibby' "
or "Never mind, 'Babe.'" it was dif
ferent out on the seats where the
splinters grow when they sent Phief
Wilson away; it's going to he lone
some to-morrow.
Well, they soon move along. It's
only yesterday "Watty" stood where
A 1 Mamaux stands now; only yester
day it was "from Tinker to Evers to
Chance; only yesterday the fans in
the street were talking of Eeever. of
Ritchey, or "Jimmy" Sebrlng. lionus
Is the only one left of the champion
ship team of seven years ago. Seven
years! It behooves the players to save
I heir money and make ready to go Into
business, when they are through, like
"Babe" Adams, at 33. The manage
ment wanted to make Gibson a free
agent and let him sign where he
could; they never would have "sold
him down the river." But the Giants
needed a catcher owing to Raridan's
injury so they claimed Gibson when
Pittsburgh asked the other clubs to
waice. He won't stay long in New
York; they don't catch much after 36.
But Pittsburgh will always miss "Gib
by" and the memory of those 140 con
secutive games in 1909 will linger long
after he has gone back to Canada to
stay.
But it's going to be pretty lonesome
for Honus.
Piratical Submarine Warfare
[The Outlook]
There is not a naval vessel or a
merchant vessel on the seas, whether
belonging to a belligerent or a neutral
power, whether British or Brazilian,
Japanese or American, that would not
be Justified In destroying a German
naval submarine on sight.» In execut
ing Captain Fryatt Germany has sanc
tioned anew this piratical submarine
warfare against which the . United
States, as the greatest of neutral na
tions, to her shame, has taken no
action, and from which the United
States herself, uttering only words of
protest, has suffered, ,
THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
DEALING WITH WILSON POLICIES
—From St. Louis Weekly Globe-Democrat.
HAVE YOU POTATO BERRIES IN
YOUR GARDEN? LOOK FOR THEM
v ,
CONSIDERABLE agitation has
been aroused recently concern
ing the disappearance of potato
balls, which are the fruit of the com
mon potato. The present varieties
of potatoes were developed from seeds
and after planting from cuttings for
many years are disposed to run out
or become subject to attacks by fungal
diseases so that only a few small tubes
are produced. Several years ago Pro
fessor GuU.v., horticulturist of the Con
necticut Agricultural College offered
twenty-five dollars for a single ball
grown In that State. After wide ad
vertisement two small balls were pro
duced. Luther Burbank, of Cali
fornia in answer to inquiries for seed
from his gardens replied that he had
none but that It was plentiful in
Maine. However the department of
agriculture of that State reports that
the balls are seldom found there now.
The origin of the potato plant has
been traced to the highlands in sev
eral parts of South America. In the
natural environment It was distribut
ed by the seeds and the variation in
characteristics of plants so developed
fitted it for changing conditions of
climate, soil and competition with
other plants. Since our agriculturists
have been selecting for propogation
tubers from stalks showing greatest
development in that part of the plant
and removing the competition from
other plants the potato has ceased to
produce the unnecessary seed,
i Finally when our best varieties of
HOW ABOUT JAPAN?
The Imminent Issue
By Frederic J. Haskin
HAS the European war, along
with the guerilla fighting in Mex
ico. served to turn American at
tention from the Issue most vital to
American well-being—vital, even, to
American safety? Have we become so
absorbed in the European drama that
we stand all unconscious while in the
Orient a stage is set for a drama where
we may no longer be spectators, but
leading players with a llfe-and-death
interest in the issue of the plot?
That such Is the case is the sober
opinion of some of the keenest and
most experienced students of the Far
Eastern situation. Their reiterated as
sertions as to the dangerous state of
our affairs in the East is causing Amer
icans to turn their eyes inquiringly
across the Pacific, in spite of many as
surances from Other authorities, who
ridicule any talk of serious trouble as
a hybrid creature of the jingo and the
yellow press.
If we are faced by the necessity of
action, to avert a situation where we
shall have to choose between war and
surrendering certain of our rights,
then such action will have to be moti
vated primarily by the attitude of the
American people. It follows that a
knowledge of the actual state of af
fairs is essential to every citizen; but
for a variety of reasons that knowledge
Is one of the hardest things In the
world to get.
It Is hardly possible for any Euro
pean country long to keep secret the
state of its public opinion toward the
United States. Take the case of Ger
many, for Instance, when from time to
time there arises the question of
strained relations over points of inter
national law. A score of correspond
ents keep us posted on every new
shade of feeling In the German national
mind. We know how the German people
receive our suggestions and offers al
most as soon as we know how the
American nation as a whole regards
them. It would be impossible for Ger
many, or any other European nation
to adopt a national attitude that would
take us by surprise. .With Japan the
case Is fundamentally and fatally dif
ferent.
Japan Is a nation that speaks a lan
guage so totally different from ours
that It Is an Immense task for an
American to learn it, and one that
comparatively few undertake Japan's
written word Is built on a system basic
ally opposed to our script; it is even
harder for an alien to master than the
language. As a result Americans who
speak Japanese are few and far be
tween. Americans who read it fewer
and farther. Add to this fact that
Japan has to-day the strictest and
most effective of press censorships, and
two facts become evident.
First, that behind the wall of an
alien tongue reinforced by the censor
ship, almost anything might be going
on In Japan without our knowledge,
and, second, that whatever does get
published in Japan, even In the "yel
lowest section of the press, has a cer
tain smack of the authoritative that a
similar utterance in this country would
lack, because every Japanese paper has
been passed by the official censor.
The significance of this state of af
fairs as applied to the United Statfis
lies in the fact that It obliges us to
give a different reception to news from
Japan, which at first glance seems al
most'lncredible, than we would give to
similar news from any other country.
AUGUST 17, 1916.
potatoes show a tendency to rest on
the reputation of former production
the scientific farmer begins to search
for new varieties. Then the neglected
and forgotten seed balls or berries de
mand serious consideration as only in
them is there possibility of producing
a new and better variety of potatoes.
We are in that stage now. Wide
spread attention has been called to the
scarcity of these seed balls and per
sons are urged to search their po
tato fields that the few seeds produc
ed may be preserved for planting in
the hope that a good variety may be
found.
Seed balls have been found in a
garden belonging to Prof. J. A. Smyser
of the Harrisburg High school. The
garden is located in a subdivision
known as Colonial acres, near Pro
gress on the Jonestown road. The
soil consisting of weathered shale has
been enriched by manurial and com
mercial fertilizers. The land slopes to
the north sufficient for good surface
drainage. The potatoes for planting
were carefully selected and the stalks
have been sprayed with arsenate of
lead and Bordeaux mixture for insect
and plant enemies and are strong and
healthy. The variety is Sir Walter
Raleigh which is an improvement on
the Rural New York. From a num
ber of flowers growing in a cluster
only one berry was found on a stalk.
Five berries have been found ranging
in size from a large pea to a half
inch in diameter. The berries will be
kept and an effort made to grow new
plants from the seeds another year.
If we were told that public sentiment
in Germany or Kussia had shifted in a
few years from a friendly attitude to
one violently hostile, that this change
was deliberately encouraged by at least
a section of the government, and with
sinister purpose, we would be justified
in laughing. When the same charges
are made by men of high standing, as
they are made, against Japan—then it
Is time for us to do some serious think
ing.
It is charged, and backed up by nu
merous quotations from Japanese ver
nacular and English papers, that there
is a deliberate campaign going for
ward in Japan to arouse anti-American
sentiment throughout the nation. It is
no news to Americans that there has
been an increasing lack of cordiality
in Japanese-American relations, but
that affairs have come to the point
where the United States is conceived In
the popular mind as Japan's active op
ponent and logical enemy does come as
news, and news of a somewhat start
ling character.
Side by side with this campaign to
plant hostility against America in
Japan, it is charged that a parallel
campaign Is being conducted in Amer
ica—a campaign whose object is to
spread abroad In the United States the
idea that Japan cherishes only the
friendliest Intentions toward us, a
campaign In other words, to lull our
suspicions, to discourage any tendency
Americans may have toward making
preparations for a possible emergency.
Thus should the clash come and neither
side give ground, a fiercely inimical
and heavily armed little empire would
have to deal with a big. unready repub
lic, whose national attitude toward her
antagonist could best have been de
scribed as one of complete indifference.
The issue of such a possible conflict
l« not pleasant to consider.
Our Daily Laugh
AN HONEST
MAN.
The Market
. I Man —What jrou
*7C y returnln' them
A eggs for? They're
(S& TJL i l h® choicest eggs
my ,tor# *
The Customer
M and didn't want
(riff you t0 cheat
yourself. I want
? VH P 77 only common
« 11/ eating earrs end
you've sold me a
dosen car io ■
laid by the great
auk.
EXPERT. .. , .
The landlord of I |
the Seltzer House I—
says he doesn't m* J
believe the day of
miracles is past.
bet that he
do that one
the five loaves
and two flsheß-««^p*^^^r
lEbpttUtg Cttljat
Lewis Buddy, feld commissioner of
the Boy Scouts <it America, who will
be the guest of tie Harrlsburgf Rotaty
Club at its luncheon next Moilday 1*
one of the molt successful worker*
among boys in America. He has put
the Scout movement on a financially
sound basis in many of the large cities
of the country and is In so much de
mand that. from the time he is
able to give to the Harrisburg cltb he
will be occuiied with engagement*
constantly for more than a year and
he is already outlining his work for
three years ahead.
The trouble; with the Scout move
ment has been that it has depended
too much up«n volunteers who havo
had neither the time nor the money
to get the mat good out of It for tVi
boys. Not a| of them have been ifc
the position of Scoutmaster Wootf;
of Lewistown, who has a wonderful
record as a Scout worker. Mr. Wood
comes from an old and wealthy fam
ily. He lives in a large mansion over
looking the Juniata river, but lie
doesn't caret much for society. He
finds his recreation in the open and he
is never so happy as when in com
pany with his Scout Troop he is off in
the mountains back of town "hiHing"
for wildflowirs, nuts or berries. This
summer he purchased a tract of land
In the Seven. Mountains, far from any
settlement and ideally situated with
fine, pure vater for drinking and
swimming, and there he built a camp
for the Boy Scouts of Lewistown. This
is Mr. Wood's contribution to the
home town. It is the hope of Presi
dent Howard C. Fry, of the Rotary
Clyb, whost invitation brings Mr.
Buddy to Hurrisburg, that something
like this may be done for the Scouts
of this city and that the organization
[ be placed on a permanent and active
basis here. Some very excellent troops
of Scouts claim Harrisburg as their
headquarters, but it is hoped to do far
more in thii direction than ever be
fore.
• » •
W. R. D. Hall, statistician of the
State Highway Department, who
caught a 4 50-pound shark on hook
and line from a motorboat near
Avalon during his recent vacation
trip, is some fisherman. Catching
sharks is not his only accomplish
ment. He is a skillful surf caster
and last season caught with a light rod
and line a 36-pound drum fish that
gave him a fight that lasted nearly an
hour. "At one time I thought he in
tended to go straight on across the At
lantic," said Mr. Hall in telling the
story, "and I was wondering whether
I ought to let him haul me Into the
ocean when the line ran out or give
him the rod as well as the line, when
he suddenly turned and headed In to
ward the shore, i think I was as tired
as the fish when I finally landed him."
The shark catch was made while Hall
and a party of friends were cruising in
a motorboat. They saw the fin of the
fish, halted, baited a big hook and be
gan to angle for the man-eater. The
shark darted (or it at once and then
ran out 500 feet of line before stop
ping. A forty-five minute battle, fol
lowed.
One of the largest hay crops ever
harvested in Pennsylvania is reported
by the State Department of Agricul
ture, which estimates the 1916 crop
at 5,300,000 tons. The production last
year averaged 1-18 tons to the acre
and 3,558,000 tons wore harvested.
This year, the acreage was increased
greatly and the yield prr acre was
much larger. The ten-year average is
1.33 tons to the acre. In some coun
ties, the present average is nearly two
tons and it is expected that final fig
ures will make an average per acre
close to 1.7 tons.
• • •
There is a young grocery clerk in
Harrisburg who has a large Dauphin
county snapping turtle on his hands.
His name is Allen Barbush. Yester
day was the young man's birthday an
niversary. Friends in Halifax did not
know what kind of present to send
him, 50 boxed up a big turtle. As he
is not fond of turtle soup he is at a
loss to know what to do with his pres
ent. With the turtle came a card on
which was inscribed, "Congratula
tions. May you live as long as this
fellow, and then some more. Thought
you would like to treat your friends
to a snapper luncheon." The turtle is
still at the Barbush home.
* • *
Speaking about turtles, local river -
men report an abundance of Susque
hanna Terrapin in the river. They are
not yet large enough to be caught, but
in the Fall, after there has b«en a
heavy frost, there will be a lively
search for this valuable river product.
Local terrapin hunters claim they
send from 200 to 500 terranfri to
Philadelphia and New York every sea
son and also keep the Harrisburg
restaurants well supplied.
* * »
Bang! chug-chug' bang! Must be
an artillery battery or at least a
machine gun company, though' the
Front street pedestrians betweenJSroad
and Herr streets the other evening,
as the sharp crack of what sounded
suspiciously like a gun was heard
drawing nearer and nearer the curve
at Front and Calder. But It wis only
an automobile, with two gay young
sters aboard, working the carhiretor
backfire for all It was worth. "Which
onlv goes to show," said a passer
by," that the spirit of the soldier takes
queer forms."
The Call Will Be Answered
In this hour of stress we hear the
people calling for James Hill, the
powerful railroad manager who com
manded the attention and respect of
railroad men and capitalists the world
over.
Be assured the call will not go unan
swered, for there is even a greater
than he somewhere about. These are
new times, and they have brought new
conditions such as Hill never had to
meet.
While his methods fitted conditions
of years ago they might not, they
could not reasonably be expected to
meet the present conditions, and he
had become too old. and too set in his
ways to readily adjust himself to
them.
No conditions have ever developed
in this country that there was not the
man, or were not the men, ready to
meet them.
This is true of every country that if
young and virile, whose men have s
distinct sense of right, and are no:
cowed and held in abeyance by age
old precedents.
Therefore fear not, dare to flo rigtt
as you are given to see the right, ard
yours shall be the reward of the right
eous.
In all the history of the world
men who strove to see the right, anci
who dared to do It, achieved great re
nown and brought blessings upok.
those faithfully supported tlem.
—Erasmus Wilson in Pittsburgh' Gt
zette-Times.
My Scheme
My scheme In life is to expect twd|
or more disappointments every
and then when these disappolntmecta
arrive, I'm not so much surprised.
But I do not accept the arrival ol a
disappointment as the end of all cp
portuntty. A disappointment to ms is
a tcsi of my ability to overcome a rtt
uatlon.
I always keep constantly before me
the encouraging thought that I have
survived so far, and that I am, per
haps, better equipped now to meet
disappointments than in the part.
-—The Silent Etetoea