6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded itjr Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE. Prts't and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American Newspaper Fub lishers' Associa- BBggHgtrSa. tion. The Audit Bureau of Clrcu latlon and Penn i*. m ,4 sylvania Associat wSw 3L Daiiies (SgliSl Sn Story, Brooks & SSI 2 {SB Isf Finley, Fifth Ave si. M nue Building. New £HftBJ|SKJe York City; West ern office, Story, BWB g[j| Pgfg Brooks & Fin ley. People's Gas —— Building, Chi — cago, 111. Entered at 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. SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19. We bear our own burdens more easily when we help others to bear theirs. —Mart A. Liveruoke. FINANCING THE KTPONA YOU are cordially invited, citizen of Harrisburg, to voluntarily dig down into the recesses of your money pocket and do your share toward making it possible for the Harrisburg Navy to place the Kipona on a basis which shall spread its fame far and wide as the big aquatic event of Central Pennsylvania. Collecting money is not a pleasur able occupation, some say, and unless there be spontaneous generosity on the part of those who are interested in the river carnival, and they may be counted in the thousands, it will be necessary for somebody to go dun ning for the wherewithal. One thou sand dollars is needed to give a car nival that will be of a nature com mensurate with Harrisburg's growing popularity as a center for surrounding towns and communities, and if all will remember and act upon the old adage, "every little-bit added to what you've got, makes just a little bit more," the newspapers will be glad to acknowl edge all contributions and the fund ■will soon be raised. Several hundred dollars has already been subscribed and acknowledged on another page of this paper. Every contribution, from 50 cents upward, will be appreciated and the people of Harrisburg will get out of the carnival Just what they put into it. Don't let a few men provide the entertainment for all. Keep the shekels rolling your- j self . This is a business proposition in 1 a sense, for when we as a city attract j to our midst by celebrations of this i sort visitors from other cities and towns, we may rest assured that Har risburg benefits. PEOPLE WITH DIXON" THE people of Pennsylvania are j solidly behind the State Commis- j sioner of Health, Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, in the quarantine he has es tablished to keep Pennsylvania free from infantile paralysis contagion from outside States. Dr. Dixon returned from a "confer ence" at Washington this week, called for the purpose of fighting the infan tile plague, but which turned out to be largely an effort on the part of Dr. Haven Emerson, Health Commissioner of New York City, to have Pennsylva nia lift its quarantine against New York. Dr. Emerson declared vehe mently against one State quarantining against another or one community against another. Dr. Dixon naturally did not agree. As he aptly put it: "New York and New Jersey are hotbeds of the disease and Pennsylvania must protect her self or nobody will protect her." Unquestionably, the strict quarantine : established has helped greatly. One cannot imagine what motive the New i York City officials have in taking such j a stand. That it will have no effect on the position Dr. Dixon has taken goes without saying. He is noted for his firmness and is not averse to tak ing radical steps when necessary. LET THE TRUTH COME OUT PRESIDENT WILSON vetoed the army appropriation bill yester day principally because it con tained the provision that retired army officers should not be subject to court martial. The inference is that he feared what some retired officers might say of conditions in the army and at Washington if not restrained by the fear of loss of rank and pay. This is unworthy of the President. If any officer knows anything detri mental to the service, let him tell it. If there is inefficiency, or extravagance or politics in the army the people should know of it and the President shoud encourage reUred officers to tell of it. Endeavoring to cover up such con-, ditions by holding over the heads of retired men the club of the pay en velope is shameful. STEfANSSOX'S DISCOVERY THE discovery of a vast field of native copper in the vicinity of Prince Albert Island by Stef ansson, the explorer, is by far the greatest achievement of this noted Arctic wanderer. Just now the effect of the discovery is minimized by the fact that it is'located in a very cold climate, not accessible by rail or steamer. But when the time comes to market the ore there will be found a way of bringing it to civilization. With the development of electricity for commercial purposes copper has come to be one of the most important metals known to civilization. We can- SATURDAY EVENING, not have too much of it. Coal may one day be exhausted. The slant oil wells may run dry. Even the Iron mines might fail and still with copper and aluminum the world could worry along- But without that admirable conductor of electricity we should be sore put to it for the wherewith to apply our electrical knowledge and to distribute the current that one day our great water courses will yield us. The find of copper in the Far North may be followed by discoveries of other minerals in equal quantities. In deed, there are now known to exist huge deposits of great value not now marketable because the minerals are found also in other places much easier to reach and much less expen sive to mine. But with the advance of science and the coming of the time when such treasures as that un earthed by Stefansson are needed for the life and comfort of mankind a way will be found to bring them from the frozen north to the temperate zone. That the copper will not be re quired for centuries, perhaps, does not detract from the interest or import ance of the discovery. Homer Commings, of Connecticut, who is one of Wilson's campaign man agers. says that neither the tariff nor the Mexican question can be made an issue of the campaign. On the first of these questions we leave Mr. Cum mings to the tender mercies of his Connecticut confrere, Congressman E. J. Hill. Regarding the second, we refer him to Mr. Hughes' speeches. THE FORTUNATE FARMER WHO would not be a Pennsylvania farmer, with wheat, oats and rye above the average yield in this State and below the aver age everywhere else, with prices for all three high and going higher? It often happens that prices are high when crops are short. That is a mat ter of supply and demand. But to have the granaries overflowing in a year when prints are at the highest in years, is good fortune indeed. The prosperity of the farmer means much for the prosperity of the State. When the farmer has money to spend he spends it in ways that reach all manner of trade channels. There will be more now houses and barns, more new threshers and automobiles in the country districts of Pennsylvania next year. The organization of the new rural credits board puts George Cooksey Into office as Assistant Secretary of the board. Mr. Cooksey has been secretary to Mr. McAdoo. His transfer to a post of permanence is additional evidence that the Democratic leaders do not ex pect to be continued in power. One of the first steps preceding the downfall of an administration is to take care of its favorites among whom the private secretaries have first place. We do not know whether it will be pos sible to take care of all the other private secretaries, from Tumulty iown. but the beginning has been made svith Cooksey. STILL MOBILIZING STILL the soldiers continue to mobilize at lit. Gretna. Two more regiments arrived this week. The work of recruiting the forces now in the field is being press ed. For what? For duty at the bor der we are told. But that phrase has been worn out. It means nothing. "Duty at the border" has come to mean nothing more than marching men up and down in the heat of the sun and maintaining them at public expense when all but a few of them at most could be back home where they are needed. The boys at the border have done their full duty. If there ever was a real "emergency" it has passed. It is time for them to come home. Their families and their jobs are calling loudly for them. But still the cry is for more men in Texas. Why? Echo answers. The list of Republican spellbinders as given out at the national headquar ters does not include the name of Sen ator Lewis, of Illinois. Yet the Sen ator's first contribution toward Hughes' election was a signal one. Arising in the Senate to "answer" Hughes' speech of acceptance, this Il linois Democrat furnished the one ad ditional bit of evidence necessary to condemn the administration's Mexican policy when he declared that Wilson at one time was preparing to recognize Villa as the best qualified Mexican to take charge of that unhappy land and its interests. An administration which would contemplate such a step as this is capable of anything. COMPENSATION RULINGS HARR\ E. MACKEY, chairman of the Workmen's Compensation Board, announces in two opin ions written by him to-day that the Board does not intend to allow tech nicalities to stand between the admin istration of the act and justice. Mere subterfuges are not countenanced and common sense is applied as the sovereign solution of all the prob lems that come before the compensa tion commissioners. Til© compensation Board's rulings have been from the very outstart framed along these lines. First it has been the object of the board to learn the exact truth so far as possible in every appeal from the findings of the referee. Then the rule of fair play and everyday common sense has been applied, with the result that there have been few errors and general com mendation of the decisions rendered. This is as it should be. Dodging the law by mere technicalities would rob many a family of the benefits Justly due under the law. Shrewd lawyers can twist almost any facts into shape suitable to their own purposes and no workman would be safe under the law were the testimony of the pro fessional witness and the doubt the legal adviser is always ready to cre ate permitted to weigh heavily in the considerations of the compensation board. Congress goes ponderously along, calm in the delusion that the public takes it.as seriously as it does itself. T>oOttc* u By the Ex-Committee mail Marking the opening of the cam paign in this State for the election of the Republican Presidential ticket, the State League of Republican Clubs will assemble for a two-day meeting at York the last week in September. President WJllard announced last night that he had received acceptances from virtually every organization in Pennsylvania affiliated with the State League. During the meeting it is ex pected that addresses will be made by Candidates Charles E. Hughes and Charles W. Fairbanks as well as by former President Roosevelt. Presi dents of the various State organiza tions will also speak, as will former Governor Stuart, Isadore Sobel, Fred erick W. Fleitz and John B. Robinson. Nothing but business having to do with the Republican Party in this State and plans for its restoration in national politics will be considered at the meeting in York. A definite pro pram for the campaign to be waged in this State will be mapped out with each sectional organization lending its hearty support. —With a meeting of the executive committee of the local option com mute of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia early next month, there will be 6et in motion the machinery of a vigorous campaign to give the State a county local option bill in 1917. In the Legis lature two years ago petitions and mass meetings were ignored. This year there will be less speechmaking and fewer petitions. The local option forces will work through organization and personal appeals to voters. To this end, the State has been organ ized as it never has been before. The local option committee has an organ ization in every county, legislative dis trict and senatorial district. Allegheny county has a committee of 1000. A similar organization in Philadelphia already has 1250 names enrolled. The Anti-Saloon League of Pennsylvania, the federation of churches, commit tees of physicians, lawyers and busi nessmen are working under one lead ership toward the same end. In for mer campaigns each organization worked as a unit. —Candidates for the Legislature who were nominated at the May pri maries have received the following letter from the local option committee: "You are a candidate for the Legis lature in the November election. Tlyis committee is interested in the attitude of legislative nominees on the question of local option. "Do you favor the local option prin ciple? "In the event of your election in November, will you vote for a county local option measure in the 19X7 ses sion of the Legislature? "Your answer to these questions will be apreciated, since it will determine whether you should have the support or the opposition in your campaign of the local optionists and all the voters who believe that such important ques tions should be submitted to a vote of the people in the district affected." —"While it is too early to form any opinion as to the situation, enough re plies favorable to local option have been received from candidates to indi cate that the uprising of the people during the legislative season of 1915 has had its effect. Planning For Future Chicago is spending $5,000,000 to widen Twelfth street, and this im provement is only a beginning on a vast plan of street betterments made necessary by modern traffic conditions. If Chicago could have foreseen twenty [ years ago the revolution which the I motorcar was to work it would not . have permitted the building of streets ' only forty-eight feet wide, as Twelfth street now is in some places. But Chicago did not foresee it any more than Kansas City foresaw, twenty yeJirs ago, the conditions of to-day, and Chicago must now pay the penalty in enormous widening costs. Kansas City, if it waits, must face the same penalty. Streets that were laid out here before the motor car was dreamed of are now building up as barriers rather than aids to' traffic. Nothing can be more certain than that they will have to be wid ened some time, and if the experience that older cities are now passing through is not observed, if improve ments are not begun now while their cost would be slight, Kansas City will pay roundly for its blindness. There is no use bewailing that the pioneers who started a city here didn't realize how big it was going to be. They were no more blind to the future than are the city builders of to-day if they refuse to anticipate the traffic requirements of twenty years hence. Will Kansas City pay for its wider streets now. or will it wait and pay the price Chicago is paying-? Kansas City Star. The Canny Scot They were getting up a charity con cert in the small provincial town, and the committee determined to work hard to make a great success of it. The local magnates and tradesmen were called on, and to one of the latter, a coal merchant, whose place was somewhere in the North, an ap peal was duly made. "Ah'm very sorry," was the coal merchant's reply to the committee's representative, "but Ah's stopped subscrlbin' tae a' these things." "Well, you'll give us an order for an advertisement on the program?" suggested the caller. The coal merchant shook his head. Then a sudden inspiration seized him. Ah'll tell ye what Ah'll dae, though," he said. "Ah'll get ma dochter tae sing for ye." "Right you are," said the other. "What will I put her down for?" " 'Keep the Home Fires Burning.' " "Can't be done," declared the con cert man emphatically, folding up his papers. "If you won't subscribe I'll take jolly good care you get no free advertisement on our program." -—-London Answers. Not Far From Right The day was hot, and the sleepy class found it difficult to concentrate its attention on its tasks, though the history mistress did her beet to make the lesson interesting. "Now, girls." said she at last, "can you tell me why the great man was buried in Westminster Abbey?" There was a long silence. At last a girl put up her hand. "Because." she answered,' solemnly and impressively, "he was dead!"- Tit-Bits. The Fate of Yuan I (Cleveland Plain Dealer) Yuan Shi Kai, according to popular belief in China, is not dead. He is thoroughly alive, but in a state of ex treme low visibility. Yuan saw his difficulties Increase till there was no way out. The revolution In the south seemed certain to bring his overthrow and a shameful death. The time was ripe for disappearing. So, according to this popular belief, which already seems likely to become established as an enduring legend, the dictator slip ped away incognito to some remote interior region or to somo foreign land, while a corpse or a sack of meal was left behind for obsequies which HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH - THE CARTOON OF THE DAY - -\'»♦ •; _jf\ •.;. \ Oy \ * * rt 4> " aj>x iJ behind with us I W| when they go I away for their W /Hi vacation. FAR GONE. She must b» * n ove w,th e| ft husband. , Unusually 80. if "",'rf WcSm Looks like It lit | wyyf She sits oui HOW ABOUT JAPAN? The Religion of Loyalty By Frederic J. Haskin I J THE statesmen of Japan have an nounced that the ambitious Japanese program for military and naval expansion is fixed and unal terable. It is beyond human power to change or amend, because the late Emperor sanctioned it, and now that the Emperor is dead, no man may modify a line, of it. The people of Japan take this for an adequate explanation of the gov ernment's course. The more intelli gent may see that the nation is al ready staggering under a bigger debt than she can carry, that the people are being taxed to the limit, and under the projected program will have to be taxed still more—but when the states men are called to account, they have only to fall back on the sanctity of the Imperial approval for their battle ships and battalions. The incident is significant. It is worth careful con sideration, because it brings out a condition running all through Japa nese society, that constitutes one of | the principal safeguards of the Jap i anese state in its present form, as well as one of the greatest menaces to any nation which willingly or unwillingly is forced to oppose Japan. No country whose relations with Japan promise to be as complex and delicate as those of the United States can afford to be ignorant of the im mense part played in Japanese life by the sentiment of loyalty to the Em peror. It is more than loyalty; it is worship—not the worship men pay to a hero, but the worship men given to a god. The Emperor is a direct descend ant from Heaven. He can not be said to rule by divine right, in the old Eu ropean sense of the term, for he him self is divine. Japanese loyalty to the Imperial line has all the combined force of patriotism and religion. The Japanese citizen exists for the greater glory of the Emperor. Service of the people is no program for a Japanese politician. Service of the Emperor must be the main plank in his plat form. It is possible to serve the people by lowering taxes, by introducing indus | EDITORIAL COMMENT] Evidence that the Germans are reach ing the end of their human resources is furnished by the news that the Crown Prince's 10-year-old son has been drafted as lieutenant, into the Prussian Guard.—New York Evening Post. England has at least the Lion's share of the war expenses.—Wall Street Jour nal. Establishing peace strikes me as the same kind of a job as establishing the weather.—New York Telegraph. Vance McCormick plans to help along Wilson's campaign for re-election by the aid of the movies. The slogan of this feature of the canvass will be "Film, flim and flam." Mt. Union Times. Mustache Means Brains [Boston Post.] The mustache, which generally means much in the young lives of most men, means brains at Harvard. Sta tistics gleaned from an inspection of 175 professors and instructors in Har vard show that 117 or two-thirds of them, carry something on their upper Hps besides a smile. Mustaches beat bald heads by more than a hair's breadth as an indication of brains. Among the same 175 professors and instructors there are only about 75 bald heads. Quite a few of the faculty members are In both Usta, with mus taches and bald heads. AUGUST 19, 1916. * trial reforms, by sticking to a policy ot peace and quietude. Such a pro- 1 gram makes a poor sort of glory for the Empire and the Mikado. To mag nify him before the nations of the earth, to carry his flag supreme over the Pacific, to make his arm and his navy invincible, to make him the won der and the master of the Orient— that is the sort of thing that makes an Emperor's glory, and a considera tion of Japan's history, ever since she grew big enough to fight shows that she has stuck to it closely. She has fought three wars in the last two decades; her arms have never met a serious reverse. Her place has been won by the sword. She has got ten great areas of new territory, she has taken a high place among the na tions that have to be reckoned with in world politics, she has annexed a three-thorsand-year-old kingdom, she has startled the world, in a way; and yet, the mass of the Japanese people might be better off to-day if she had stayed at home and attended to busi ness. The people were never consult ed. Their well-being never came into consideration. It was the glory of the Empire. This creed of loyalty to the Mikado Is not a pacific creeed. It is a creed of militarism, as it has proved again and again. The exaltaton of loyalty into the chief of the virtues has other signifi cant results. It explains a great many things about Japan. It throws light on the marvellously rapid way In which Japan took on all the trappings of Western civilization,and at the same time it casts a certain doubt on the old idea that her progress in Western ways entitles her to infinite credit. Japan took up the Industrial culture of the Occident because the little group of men who ruled her fifty years ago, as a little group of men rule her to-day, had the Intelligence to see that she must either join the proces sion or be tramped under foot by it. The people were never consulted. The ignorant and superstitious masses re- [Continued on Page 3] TELE6RAPH PERISCOPE [ —Somra« battle! —Where, we wonder, are the old time wooden Indian cigar store signs? They would be fine ornaments for the Kipona decorations. —Life is just one thing after another —Just as gasoline begins to go down Hour begins to go up. In either case it is a choice between eating and riding. A six-ccnt loaf will be about as popu lar as that six-cent carfare used to'be. —The proposal to keep the schools 6f Philadelphia closed as a result of the Infantile paralysis outbreak has doubt less aroused the childish belief that the epidemic is not as bad as it had been painted. —The Kaiser has said that the man who started the war has a lot on his conscience and It's our belief that the Kaiser knew what he was talking about. 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 many companies in the Fire Department? Fourteen. A new fire company has been formed in Pleasant View e.nd numbered 15. Two of a Kind Our notion of an optimist is John M. Parker. Our notion of another tone is Mr. Hanly.—Macon Telegraph. Ebening (Hljal Speaking: of the railways strikes la this city, a well-known Insurance mam here Is of the opinion that "it's an ill' wind that blows nobody good." Whea things were darkest, he said, he came to the conclusion that he had better purchase a machine, to assure himself of transportation. So he betook him-- self to a dealer and purchased a nlc» five-passenger car. As a result, he t* spending the best vacation of his life right here in Harrisburg; he has had | only one or two nightmares in which,4 machines by the thousand kaleido* scoped through the air of his imagina tion; and there is a happy salesman somewhere in town. Which is an op timistic way of looking at a somewhat unpleasant situation. * 0 * Since gasoline has been dropping in. price, slowly but surely as the addi tional wells increase the output, the pursuers of butterfles, usually small boys, are making use of gas instead of chloroform as a means of putting the little Insects (Isn't a butterfly an in sect?) permanently to sleep. Eagle eyed youngsters with homemade nets are to be seen daily flitting across the open lots of the city after the elusive butterfly, which may or may not be cruelty to animals, but certainly puts to good advantage the spare time of the growing boy whose mother, Pen rod-like, has her hands full with oth er things. * • • The last vacancy on the city police force was filled this week when the mayor appointed Elmer E. Fry to suc ceed Patrolman Lewis C. Hippie, who was murdered tome weeks ago. With the appointment came a busy day for Desk Officer Charles T. Fleck. When ever there is a new officer appointed, "Charlie," as he is known at the of fice, sets the job of shining up the new copper's revolver, badges, brass buttons, etc. In his desk can be found several kinds of polish which he keeps for the purpose and when he is through the shine is so good that "you can almost see yourself," as one of the officers put it. Desk Officer Fleck is always ready to "help out." Officer Hess had a birthday July 25. Of course, he wouldn't tell just ex actly how old he was and some of the fellow coppers decided that they would give him a little party. But fate decided otherwise and on July 16 the street car men went on strike with the result that all day officers were compelled to do night duty. The officer's friends were determined not to pass up the fun. so they held the party this week. Officer Hess said that he enjoyed it just the same. • • * The cool weather of the last few days has led Prof. C. R. Orton, of the botany department of the Pennsyl vania State College, who was in Har rlsburg yesterday, to warn potato growers that if a period of rainy weather should follow the present cool speli a repetition of last year's epidemic of late blight would likely follow., "In view of this possibility." he said, "the growers who are pre pared are advised to spray their po tatoes with Bordeaux mixture im mediately, as an insurance against the blight. A few dollars expended in this way may mean a considerable saving in the season's crop. If copper sul phate cannot be obtained to make the Bordeaux mixture some commercial mixture ct similar composition may be used to advantage as a substitute." Prof. Orton says the situation is real ly serious. • • • The Rev. Henry C. Cunningham* " formerly pastor of Bethany Presby terian Church, who paid a flying visit to Harrisburg this week, spent much ] of his time among members of his old congregation. "I missed the face of j Henry McCormick, Jr., at Bethany," said Mr. Cunningham. 'After 32 years of constant service in behalf of that congregation, during which he gave unstlntingly of his time and money for the upbuilding of the church, Mr. McCormick has found it necessary to leave the work to other and younger hands. I believe Bethany owes more to the zeal and business judgment of Mr. McCormick than to any one other man. There were times, I know, dur ing the earlier years of the organiza tion, when it would have been impos sible to continue the work without him. In recent years," Mr. Cunning ham continued, "Bethany has shown wonderful development and is now a thriving and prosperous congrega tion." Costly Efficiency (Christian Science Monitor) They are telling in Kansas, of a man who had the editor of the local paper write a description of his farm to be used in the form of a "For Sale" advertisement, who. after reading It, was so struck with the merits of his property that he decided not to sell it at any price. If this is so, it seems clear that editor lost an advertisement through mere efficiency. 0 ——————— |THESWEFRQM DWTOW' "Why, you big bum, I'm the tough est guy in Camden, nobody kin touch me," was the elderly talk handed out by a twelve-year-old down in Camden to an officer of the law the other day. Nothing apparently fazes the young terror, who, it Is whispered about, was found with a box of matches on his person. Scranton will shortly welcome back many men and women who formerly lived there and who will return for the Jubilee festivities of the town's semi centennial celebration. There will be many a "welcome on the mat" for the old timers. Th strike fever has spread to the principals of public schools in North Union township. They threaten to bolt unless an increase is given them of 4.8 per cent. This should be a shock to those who imagine teachers can live by bread alone. The Klttannlng Dally Times start led the public the other day with a front page display of three attractive girls demonstrating the late styles of shoes and stockings, with the some what embarrassing caption, "Stock ings come down; shoes go up." The death of a former millionaire of Stroudsburg, William Newman, was momentarily expected yesterday In, the Soldiers' Home at Wilkes, Milwau kee, Wis. All his money was given away for charity, so of late charity has been turning about and giving fair play In his case. "Try googlygaws, a new delicacy," Is the advice from Quakerstown to the bass fishermen of the State. The googlygaw, be It elucidated, is the larvae of the dragon fly and has vic iously sharp jaws and numerous legs.' It is no relation of the goop. Glancing backward thirty odd years, the Altoona Times discovers from Its files that "Railroad Officer Stem found 737 pairs of misses' hon In a box at Three Culverts," and "Someone emptied a bucket of water kn the head of a colored man from an up stairs window of a house on Seven teenth street." Nuthln' happens these days!