10 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., TelesrapH Calldln*, Federal Square. E. J.STACKPOLE. Prts't and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. ' GUS M. STEIXMETZ, Managing Editor. 1 Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa jpgsk tlon. The Audit IjjaW Bureau of Circu iSGSft latlon and Penn &sb W sylvania Associat ivaH ed Dailies. 188 Ba Eastern office. §55 Q| Story, Brooks & IS! fS Finley, Fifth Ave ■Ha m nue Building, New yfeit 3fj York City; West- Buildingf S 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. THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21 The Lord looks doicn contentedly upon a, willing mind. —T. Tatlob. THE SIXTEEXERS rTVHE Slxteeners, so called because I JL at the age of sixteen they wero graduated fiom soldiers' orphan schools throughout the State, are gath ered in Harrisburg to-day for their annual reunion. The organization is worthy of pass ing note. It is made up of men and •women who in their youth were handi capped by tho death of father or mother or both. The fathers of many of them went away to the Civil War : and lost their lives on hard-fought j fields or in the prison pens of the South. For them the soldiers' orphan school was a boon above price. Not j always was it conducted as well as it could be, but in the main it made for discipline, education and training along various lines. Hundreds of the graduates of these schools have made their way to high places in the affairs of their com munities and others are substantial citizens doing their part for the up building of their own towns and de voted to the country for which their fathers laid down their lives. For example of the prominence many of the Sixteeners have attained one need go no farther than C. Day Rudy, the famous art glass manufac turer of Harrisburg. There are scores and hundreds of others like him, and lt«is altogether to their credit that they annually pause a day in their busy lives to honor the Institutions •which laid the foundation for their success. A MCXICIPAL BEACH HARRISBURG needs a municipal beach. That scarcely need be repeated. Like an island spring ing into being from the ocean over night, the fondness for swimming in the Susquehanna has swept the city until it is rapidly becoming the chief topic of conversation. When 7,000 people of an afternoon crowd the shores and waters of the river, It Is a sign that ought to be heeded, and heeded promptly. The citizens of Harrisburg are interested in promoting the welfare and comfort of the citizens of Harrisburg, naturally. They want a bathing beach, and want It badly. There is not the least doubt of the practical benefits. The people are entitled to the consideration which would promote such a proposition and the problem is or.e to which their duly elected representatives in the govern ment of the city ought to give careful deliberation. An efficient organization, when con ditions arise that need attention, meets those conditions. Either the demand for proper and adequate bathing facili ties for the people of Harrisburg must be met or elso Harrisburg will have to admit that she is not efficiently organized. The establishment of the city's "front steps" was the initial move in making attractive and useful the beautiful river basin before our doors. The dam at Dock street, while inade quate, is yet of decided advantage to river craft and was the second step. The next move is obvious. The river la being used by swimmers and canoe ists this year more than ever before. More canoes are owned and more are rented. The Greater Harrisburg Navy is an organization pledged to promote stronger interest in aquatic sport on the Susquehanna and we are at last beginning to have brought home to us tho value of the river basin as a civic asset in a way that it has never before been presented. BAOOX ANOTHER KXOX ROBERT BACON, who has an nounced himself as a candidate for the Senate in New York State, subject to the Republican pri maries on September 19, is another Philander C. Knox in caliber. He Is not a lawyer, but he is a trained financier of excellent reputation and a man of vast experience and ability In affairs of the nation and interna tional diplomacy. It is good to see men like Knox and Bacon again aspiring to public life. We have been so much the vic tims of bunglers and experimentalists in Governmental matters during the past four years that the return of the Knoxes and the Bacons and the Hughes Is being hailed with Joy the country over. Mr. Bacon has had vast experience In big financial problems, and heaven knows the Democrats are leaving the National Government in a condition that will require the be6t efforts of jmany able financiers. Further than jthat, he served with distinction In Jptho Stats Department and tor, a time THURSDAY EVENING, was Acting Secretary of State, during his incumbency deciding satisfactorily j a number of difficult Questions aris ing between the United States and European nations. He knows Europe, too, having been Ambassador to Paris for more than three years, during which he became popular throughout the capitals of the Continent and rendered many helpful services. He is the kind of man who ought to be In the Senate and New Tork should do for him as Pennsylvania will do for Philander C. Knox—give him practically a unanimous vote. A LESSON" FOR OUR POLICE NEWS filters in from Canada that mounted Canadian police have arrested and are bringing back to civilization the three murderers who three years ago murdered two mis sionaries away up beyond the line of the Arctic Circle. Three policemen were assigned to the task of appre hending the Eskimos at the time of tho murder and they have been con tinually on the trail ever since. Through melting snowdrifts and over frozen streams, amid the blizzards of winter and the torturing heat of the brief Arctic summer, these three hardy policemen trailed their men. Now the track grow hot and they were almost at their goal. Again all trace of the fleeing natives was lost and the officers almost gave up their chase. But always in the end they persisted and to-day they are on their way back to civilization with their prisoners. I What an example for our own po j licemen, to whom three days' vain | search, instead of three years, is often j sufficient excuse for deciding that de- I tection and arrest are impossible. Would that we had a few officers like the Canadian mounted police in Har risburg. HARRIS BURG IN MOVIES HARRISBURG in the near future will- be given opportunity of reveling in the realization of the poetic wish of Robert Burns "to see ourselves as others see us.'' The city in its working clothes, the city at play, the city at devotional exercises, all will be noted down and faithfully re corded by the accurate eye of the moving picture camera. And the re sults -will be attached to the visualized activities of eleven other cities of Pennsylvania and scattered broadcast throughout the country. "Seeing Pennsylvania" will be the privilege of many a city and town on the circuit of the proposed Pennsyl vania film now in process of construc tion. It will be a splendid advertise ment for the city and will show other States that Pennsylvania is bowling merrily along the road marked "Prog ress" and that there aren't many rough spots along the way. Those men who witnessed the show ing of the Williamsport film the other morning are loud in their praise of the possibilities in the program out lined, and the historical and scerfic advantages of the Capital City furnish a fitting background for weaving on the screen the story of Harrisburg as it stands to-day, a hustling, thriving community that well merits the desig nation "the heart of distribution." THE RECRCTrEVG PROBLEM THE Omaha Bee takes the men of the nation to task for not recruit ing for duty along the border. It asserts that the volunteer system is on trial and is failing, and it accuses the men of the nation with being averse to military duty. The Bee is mistaken. The wonder is not that so few are recruited, but that any volunteer under the circum stances. If men knew why they are being asked to go into the military service in Texas the results would be different. If they knew they were to be held there until November for training purposes and would be sent home then, or at the end of any other stated period of reasonable length, doubtless hundreds of young men would hasten to enlist. The success of the Plattsburg camp this summer is proof enough that American boys and men are as keen for military train ing as ever and many who could not afford the fee and transportation ex penses required of those who went to Plattsburg would be on'.y too happy to avail themselves of the privilege of a three to six months' service under canvas if they knew at the end of that time they would be returned home. Or, if there was a real crisis or any apparent reason for the holding of thousands of soldiers in idleness along the Rio Grande—if, in short, there was a real duty to perform with a chance of active service—the recruit ing stations would not hold all who would want to Join the army. But men hesitate to plunge into a military service that may last six days or six years. They want to know why they are being asked to enlist. If the President can give any good reason beyond doubt, Americans will respond now to the call as they have in the past. It is not the volunteer system that is a failure, but the administration at Washington. THOSE AUTOMOBILE LIGHTS BRILLIANT automobile lights caused a man's death a few days ago near Canonsburg, Pa. Ho be came bewildered and blinded and drove his own machine oft the road. "What occurred in Canonsburg may happen any day in Harrisburg. Motor ists who care nothing for the safety of others should be required to equip their cars with lenses that light the road, but do not blind the pedestrian, the horse or the automobile driver In front. Tho time to do this is now not after some such tragedy as that reported from the western part of the State. City Forester Gipple will earn the lasting gratitude of many a pedestrian if he evolves a plan for the removal of projecting and low-hanging branches and foliage from trees along the side walks. There is real danger to the eyes where the branches stick out at heights from five to six feet, and they are very hard to see in the shadows. Co-opera tion on the part of property owners ought, with a little time and labor, to remove this unpleasant conditio? ■ ~ . : "fdZtic* CK By the lis - ttecman Inauguration of the campaign by the Lehigh county field meetings has started men Interested In politics to talking about the big gubernatorial campaign for which, after all, the present contest within Pennsylvania this year wll be only a preparation. The election of the Republican State ticket is assured. The Identity of that for 1918 is now being discussed. The Republicans have plenty of available men. The Democrats will not know whether they lia\e any men fit to run until after November. Continuation of the Wilson administration would mean dictating tho nominee for governor, as was done when the president pick ed C. McCormick in 1914. The Stale administration forces will naturally seel to nominate the Re publican candidate for governor, so as to continue pesitions. influence or glory as the cat-e may be. The op position will *eek to name one of its friends. This Fall's election and next winter's legislative session will shape the contest. The general be'lef is that the next Republican nominee will come from outside of the two big counties. Con gressman John R. K. Scott, of Phila delphia. is said to be very willing to run. Allegheny has E. V. Babcock, William A. Mayee. George E. Alter and Congressman S. G. Porter on its list of avaJlables. Congressman E. R. Kless, of the WilHamsport district, starts oft' with a strong boost from the Lycoming county Republican committee. State Treasurer Robert K. Young is preferred by many progres sives. Commissioner W. D. B. Alney, of Susquehanna, Is also a candidate, it is believed. L. A. Watres, the Scran ton banker, will be boomed by an in fluential number of men. Lieutenant Governor Frank B. McClain and Sec retary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods are both possibilities. Senator William C; Sproul is preferred by many. Ex-Auditor General A. E. Sis son, of Erie, and General Charles Mil ler, of Franklin, are talked of in the northwest, while ex-Governor John K. Tener Is mentioned by friends every where. One of the men much talked of is Col. H. C. Trexler, the Allentown guardsman and business genius. James Scarlet Is also talked of by Danville and Philadelphia people, while General C. M./ Clement, now commanding the State troops, at the border, has his friends. Secretary of Agriculture Patton is given mention by loving friends in the central sec tion, while John M. Rose, of Johns town. may loom up if he wins for Congress. Congressman D. F. Lafean, of York, had a boom, but whether he will inflate it again is not known. Jesse L. Hartman, of Blair county, has also been mentioned as available, while Frank B. Black suffering from the usual fate of men elevated to his office is being talked of for higher honors. Out In the Western section they are boosting John S. Fisher, while State Chairman William E. Crow, of Fayette, is being given bou quets by admirers. —Governor Brumbaugh has been much in demand as a speaker in the Maine campaign for the governorship, is the report brought by Dr. y. George Becht, secretary of the State Board of Education, who spent a week-end with the Governor at his summer home at Wayne, Me. Last Saturday the cam paign opened ati Island Park with the Republican candidate, Carl E. Milli ken, Governor Brumbaugh and Ralph I. Cole, chairman of the National Speak ers Bureau, as spellbinders. Governor Brumbaugh, except for an occasional trace of his illness of the Spring. Is in good health and hopes to be in perfect condition by the time he returns to take up the direct activities of the executive office. When not engaged in speaking or attending to State matters dally forwarded to him. the Gover nor enloys demonstrating his skill as a fisherman. His successes have been so marked In this direction that he is accounted one of the best anglers in the State of Maine. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR FEARS PAKALYSIS OUTBREAK To the Editor of the Telegraph: Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 23, 1916. Yesterday's Philadelphia papers stated that every section of Philadel phia had infantile paralysis and the disease was well distributed. May X call your attention to the fact that Harrisburg Is located directly in the current of travel west bound from New York and Philadelphia and that this city is Ihe first breaking or ex changing point west of Philadelphia and therefore this disease is more of a menace to Harrisburg than the aver age city. Aside from this there is a very great amount of business inter course between Philadelphia and New York and this city as well as travel. Harrisburg is a large railroad center and a great many persons working for the railroads are furnished with free transportation visit these cities frequently and Increase the risk above the average town, or contributes to a closer relation with the large cities where the disease prevails. We have had the disease in our city and the opening of the schools may start a spread of the disease. No one knows if there are lncipljent cases. It Is too late after the schools start to close them If the dread disease ap pears. The seeds have been sown and may lie dormant for another year. As It is a hot weather disease will you not be good enough to urge delay in open ing schools two weeks or more or un til frost comes which is usually about October 1. It should be remembered that September last year was our hot test month. There is not a mother of young children in the city who does not have fear In her heart. ANXIOUS. Haskin and Japan (St. Paul Pioneer-Press) Is confirmation of Frederic J. Has kln's article on "How About Japan?" that Nippon's ambitious rulers Intend to exercise a virtual suzerainty over China for trade exploitation, current dispatches state Chinese troops in Eastern Mongolia attacked a Japanese garrison, that Tokio views the inci dent as a possible forerunner of diffi culties between the two powers. That Japan would welcome an excuse for such a break is highly probable; and that China goaded from its pacifica tion by a long series of studied af fronts, may no longer submit to dicta tion and decide to resist to the limit of Its power is barely possible. Ori entalist* long have predicted the rul ers of the Island Kingdom eventually would endeavor to extend their em pire to the bordering mainland. They asserted Japan's assumption of the right to lay down a "Monroe doctrine for the Orient" was not for the altru istic purpose of guaranteeing China's sovereignty, but to cloak Japan's sel fish policy of fostering trade and ex cluding business rivals by fair means or foul. No [From the "Washington Star.] Do you believe in the saying thai language Is used for the concealment, of thoughts?" "No," Miss Cayenne; "In much of the language you hear you haven't ev«n the comforting suspicion that there guit dunning me for that suit. Do 1 you object to glv- ( T / tng me time? ,AX\ rfßt No, I don't, but Y^r I do object to V|\. fl J giving you the [i J | M suit. WISDOM OF SOLOMON. I Quoter The Ja&fc race 18 not to t k° swift nor the bat tle t0 tho "trong. Yffl Oldsport —You M \ |X-i/ said It. Them. L-.(-n eports is Jy framed.