8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A KBWSPAPER FOR THE HOME FjundtJ iSjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGR.4PH PRIXTIXG CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Prgs't and Editor-in-Chitf F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American ft. Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associat ed Dallies. Eastern office. Story. Brooks & Finley, Fifth Ave nue Building. New York City; West ern office, Story, 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 mall. $3.00 a year In advance. FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25 And whatsoever ye do, in word, or in deed, do all in the name o1 the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. —COL. 3:17. COUNCIL IN F.RROR f A SIDE from the discourteousness of the City Commissioners and the Mayor in completely ignoring the recommendation of the City Plan ning Commission in the matter of granting Swift & Co. a permit to erect an overhead bridge on Seventh street, the action reflects no credit on the judgment of the Commissioners. Whether it be class legislation or not, the fact remains that a dangerous precedent has been established, and unless the Commissioners come to a realization of the danger and revoke their action, Harrisburg will suffer in the future and to no small degree. The principle of permitting the whole of the public to be incon venienced for the sake of an indi- i vidual concern is bad, and from every standpoint, the practical, esthetic and that of example, the permission given was ill-advised. The five men on the Planning Commission have given of their time and energy, without re muneration, to safeguard to the best of their ability the present and future interests of the rapidly expanding city, i and their deliberations, made with careful attention to the probable con sequences. resulted in conclusions which are unquestionably sound, but which the Commissioners saw fit to ignore. The Planning Commission is ren dering the highest type of public service and it ill becomes the men who hold the reins of government to ride roughshod over the recommendations of a commission created by the very body that now ignores it for the very purpose of advising in such matters as that at issue. Council erred in judgment, but the mistake is not irrevocable. There is just one thing left for the Commis sioners to do —reconsider the vote whereby permission for the bridge was given and rescind the action. DR. JOHN" A. FRITCHEY THE death of Dr. John A. Fritchey in a Philadelphia hospital to day removes from tfte political life of Pennsylvania a man noted for his shrewdness and who maintained his personal popularity through all manner of vicissitudes and in the face of vicious attacks on the part of his enemies. As a practicing physician he treated hundreds of poor families in Harrisburg without thought or hope of financial reward. It is said of him that he left uncollected bills for ser vices far in excess of the fees he re ceived from those who could pay. Dr. Fritchey was a man of inex haustible energy and of many inter ests and activities. He was in the heyday of his power during a period of politics when individual shrewd ness and personality counted for more than ever before in the history of the country, and probably more than ever will be the case again. He was the storm center of countless political tempests and both as mayor and as county Democratic leader punished his enemies with a ruthless hand and rewarded his friends in lavish fashion. He was a man of his word and his pledge was as good as hfs bond. His faults were largely those of the period in which he wielded his greatest power and his virtues any of his numerous friends are happy to recite. That he was mayor of the city for three terms is evidence both of his political sa gacity and of his personal popular ity. Figures like that of Dr. Fritchey are few and far between in the country to-day. He was of a school of politics that has passed, never to return. He played the game strenuously while he was in it and In later years carried that same enthusiasm and energy into the quieter pursuits of farming and the practice of his profession up to the very hour when the long developing illness that finally carried him oft made active life impossible. "DESERVING DEMOCRATS" A "DESERVING Democrat," ac- XX cording to a captious Democratic critic (who probably failed to come through). Is one contributed according to his means to the Wilson campaign fund. He points out, at any rate, that those who did contribute liberally landed good government Jobs, notably in the diplomatic service. He com plains, however, that it takes a far I larger contribution from a Northerner FRIDAY EVENING, than from a Southerner to land a good place at the pie counter. For Instance. It cost General Pen field. Charley Crane. Morganthau. McCotnbs and Jones an average of $24,500 each for good jobs, whereas the Southern rate is only $350, as evi denced by the fact that that was the average contribution of Daniels. Burle son. Gregory and Mcßeynolds, all in the Cabinet. In this connection it is also main tained that while most of the taxes collected by this administration have come from the North, the lion's share of the expenditures have been made In the South. The bulk of the $42,000,000 "pork bar'l" goes to the South, in ad dition to $21,000,000 for a nitrate plant, big sums for navy yards, many of which are obsolete, $50,000,000 for river improvement and flood control. POSTPONING SCHOOL OPENING PARENTS everywhere in Pennsyl vania will be grateful to Dr. Sam uel G. Dixon. State Health Com missioner, for his order of last night postponing the opening of the schools of the State until September 18 on account of the danger of spreading infantile paralysis contagion. Had the schools been opened at the usual time, the law would have com pelled parents to enroll their children of school age, even though thousands of them would have done so with fear and trembling. Education is a very important factor in the development of the child, but health is funda mental. Schooling is more than use less if it makes an invalid of the pupil. Two or three weeks less in the school year will count for little in the long run as against the peril of dis ease that now prevails and which would be greatly Increased were chil dren permitted or forced to congregate as they do in school. Dr. Dixon's ruling Is a wise pre caution. VICE RAMPANT THAT Vice has again become ram pant during the administration of John P. Mitchel, Democratic Mayor of New York, is disclosed by the white slave Investigation now in progress. It has been developed that within a few years over 3,000 school girls have been lured from home and delivered to lives of infamy by an organized gang. The bathing beaches, moving pic ture theaters and dance halls have been the chief recruiting places of the "vice trust." This infamous trust, op erating under the protection of the police, actually maintained a number of moving picture houses itself for the sole purpose of luring young girls into the snares of its operatives. Free ad mission to "the movies," the first bait offered, was greedily accepted. Candy and soda water followed, and soon the children so tempted were completely within the power of their seducers, who then shipped them away from New York to be trained in vice, bringing them back only when their parents had ceased to search for them. Mayor Mitchel says he will not run again. REASONABLE EXCISES SENATOR GALLINGER, the Re publican floor leader, recently called attention in both plain and forceful language to the chaotic con dition of public business In that body and pointed out that in all his long career he never had witnessed any thing like it. The Senator said: The Democratic party seems in capable of conducting the legisla tive business of Congress. We are in a deplorable situation so far as the business of the session is con cerned. In my judgment there has never been a parallel. It now looks as though we were going to be here all summer. I do not recall during the long term of the Republican party in power that we had to pass resolutions extending the appropri tions of one session to another. We got our appropriations through be fore the fiscal year ended as a rule But the Senator should remember that the Republican appropriations were much smaller. The bigger the appropriation, the longer the session. That seems natural enough. And the Senator must remember, too, that most Democrats like Washington and do not expect to return next year. KITCHIN KNEW WEAK SPOT DEMOCRATIC Floor Leader Claude Kitchin of North Carolina, knew how to the administration to time on its proposition directing postmasters in small towns to collect checks without exchange charges from State banks not members of the reserve system. When Kitchin served notice on the Postmaster General that the continuance of this order would mean that North Carolina would go 25,000 Republican in November, there was a wild scramble to revoke it. Kitchin knew the weak spot with the administration just at this time and events demonstrated that he hit the bull's eye. Just at the present time votes, and where they are coming from, is the paramount Issue at the White House. SOFT DRINK CONTAINERS THE Maryland Board of Health has just promulgated, through the newspapers of the State, a ruling requiring that after September 1 all soft drinks and soda waters be served in containers that shall be im mediately thereafter destroyed. In short, the glass is to be succeeded by the paper cup. The ever-present germ, the growing popularity of the soft drink and the carelessness of many dealers in falling to clean glasses thoroughly are given as reasons. The germ idea is no doubt overworked, but there Is sense In this ruling. If the common drinking cup for public water stations is to be abol ished, it would appear a bit Incon gruous to permit the use of the com mon soda water glass. The ruling does not apply to alco holic beverages. Evidently the Board of Health feels that the man who lifts a whisky glass deserves all he gets. W r hales are reported just outside the surf at Atlantic City. We suspected also that? the usual number of suckers are to be found just Inside the board walk auction shops. ow By the Ex-Committceman Joseph F. Guffey of Pittsburgh was chosen temporary chairman of the Democratic State Committee at a meeting of the executive committee in Philadelphia yesterday to relieve Chairman William C. McLean of Wilkes-Barre, who is an officer in the newly organized Third Artillery regi ment, which is preparing to go to the Texas border. Warren Van Dyke, deputy internal revenue collector in the Lancaster district, was chosen sec retary of the committee and it was announced he will resign from his Federal position and open headquar ters for the committee in Harrisburg. Headquarters will also be established in Philadelphia under the direction of Charles D. McAvoy of Norristown, and in Pittsburgh, by Acting Chair man Gufley. A meeting of the com mittee will be held in Harrisburg. September 15. A. Palmer, addressing the executive committee, declared that the Democratic cam paign in this State will be centered on the congressional candidates and predicted that the Democratic con gressional representation from Penn sylvania will be Increased by the elec tion of members from the Laclia wanna, York-Adams, Fayette-Greene- Somerset, Bradford-Wyoming and the district now represented by Benjamin F. Focht. He stated that President Wilson will make only a few speeches but has promised to deliver one in Pennsylvania, B. F. Davis yesterday received no -1 tice from Washington that he had been confirmed by the Senate as Col • lector of the Ninth Internal Revenue District, including Harrisburg, on Au ! gust 18. He was appointed collector ; by the last Congress, but the appoint ment was hung up. He was again appointed last Spring. Mr. Davis was j appointed to succeed Fred C. Kirken ! dall of Wilkes-Barre, who was made | collector of the Twelfth Revenue District, when it was carved out of : the Ninth, of which he had been col lector. Warren Van Dyke, then sec retary of the Democratic State Com mittee, had been slated to succeed Klrkendall. but through Congressman Palmer. Davis got the place. His nomination was not confirmed and he was an ad-lnterim appointee. Last Spring Davis' name was again hung up when sent to the Senate and it was said that it was-through Senator Penrose's charge that Davis a Demo cratic county chairman had trans gressed by sending out a call for cam paign funds as county chairman. The Democratic faction In Lancaster op posed to the Davis faction made the most of the situation and it is said wires were pulled to stir up sentiment at Washington against Davis' confir mation as collector. In political cir cles it Is believed that the real cause of the failure of earlier confirmation is due to dissatisfaction in other counties of the Ninth district because! of Davis' appointing so many Lan-1 caster county men to positions. Senator Penrose declared last night that the confirmation of B. F. Davis, as Collector of Revenue for the Ninth District of Pennsylvania by the Senate on August 18, was aquiesced in by him. "J did not fight the confirmation of Davis," said Senator Penrose. "I merely asked that his confirmation be withheld until certain charges made against him were investigated. When it was found they were not sub stantiated I went to Senator Simmons chairman of the Finance Committee, and told him that I no longer opposed Mr. Davis' confirmation and that I acquiesced entirely in it." To An Unborn Child Dear Young Friend: We are taking the liberty of drop ping you a line, to caution you against certain families into which you might unwittingly introduce yourself. Re member, it is highly important just where you are born. Avoid New York if possible; a mis calculation of a few streets would cause you untold trouble all of your mundane life; you might either have to spend your early years in sewing on buttons in a horrid place sanct ioned by the authorities, called a sweatshop, or you might become the son of a millionaire and develop a case of ennui from which you would never recover. ' Even if you are born out in the country you are not safe; you are liable at any moment to be picked up by a canning factory or a cotton mill. Before being born, we suggest that you subscribe to some of our papers and periodicals. By reading them closely you will learn much to your possible disadvantage, in case you happen to be born wrong; you will learn what families to avoid. It is possible, however, that, after looking over the field in advance in this manner, you will decide not to be born at all. With an intelligent person like yourself we can easily con ceive the possibility of such a decision. In which case we beg leave to offer our congratulations in advance.—Life. Pompous Mush • [Duluth Xews-Tribune.] No public man has ever produced more meaningless epigrams than Woodrow Wilson. One of these more frequently quoted by those of his men tally insufficient admirers is "Force will not accomolish anything that is permanent." This has the resonant sound which most appeals to compla cent intellects. There is nothing known to the human mind which is changeless and so permanent in the full sense. Change is the one essential. Without change there could be no accomplish ment. and the most marked accom plishment comes in what seems to mortal contemporary view to be most permanent. Practically all the great events re corded as history have been accom plished by force. Without force, phys ical force, armed force, which is what Mr. Wilson means, mighty little of moment has been accomplished. Wreckage has systematically and quite invariably preceded all progress. All human liberty has been won by force. All democracy, all freedom, is the product of force. All advance ment has come through force. If there has been no permanency won through revolution, then, indeed, no man and no nation can find any consolation in the structure of any present govern ment. SAID HEi By Wing Dinger "Beg yo*ir pardon. Can you tell me How to get to Herald Square?" Asked the stranger in New York town— For a moment got a stare From the party whom he'd questioned. Then in tones, not sweet and low, Came this answer to the stranger In a manner very slow: "S-s-say, th-th-there's one thing I would mu-much like to know. In th-this b-big cl-clty Of fo-fo-four million, bo, T-t-tell me, s-s-stranger Wh-wh-why of all you see Yo-yo-you J-j-Just had to i P-p-pick out ra-m-mer , HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ' THE CARTOON OF THE DAY THE MAN AND THE ISSUE. jihwt — ; p 5 ri ll MEXICO M'lT IS A RECORD " ,f: r,{M] WHICH CANNOT fv Y'-Vj BE EXAMINED f* fift CAREFULLY WITHOUT { f,W A SENSE OF UkJf "i< ! PROFOUND luMjk. Ill;' humiliation: TELEORAPH PERISCOPE"! —Do you remember how you used to hope that all the schoolhouses in the country would burn down the day va cation ended? Well, Dr. Dixon's order is something like making that dream come true. , —Von Tirpitz calls for another ruth less U-boat war. Well, let them drown a few more Americans if they will; haven't we a President at Washington who can win a couple more "bloodless victories?" —Maybe Villa sold some of those wild horses to the American cavalry officers. —Bull dogs named Tige, Rover and Bowser are said to have voted at the recent primaries in Webster Springs, W. Va., and we suppose the liquor peo ple will find some way of blaming this corruption on the new prohibition law. —The sharks appear to have been the Jonahs of the seaside resorts this year. World Turning Protectionist [From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Anes.] The war is having the effect of turn ing all nations more distinctly toward the doctrine of protection, which has been a prominent tenet of the Repub lican party since its organization. There was a time when Great Britain was the world's banker, collecting toll from all nations for the use of her capital. She was chief among mercantile marine carriers and collected freight from all shippers. In a sense she became the world's warehouseman for certain com modities produced in various parts ot the globe by enterprises owned or con trolled by English capital. She was the great financial market for international securities. She was banker, broker and all-round middleman in world traf fic, taking commissions coming and going. Naturally, she was a free trader. Under changed conditions, she is just as naturally embracing the principle of protection. Dreams have been entertained that the United States would some day reach a position similar to that once held by Great Britain, but that day is still a long ways oft. It will not be realized until our annual income from surplus wealth invested all over the world ap proximates our income from current production of domestic products for ex port. Even under such conditions it would not be safe to surrender the Re publican principles of protection. Great Britain has found that her position is not impregnable. She found that under certain conditions even enorm ous wealth may become static, so to speak; that is, lacking in exchange ability. just as we sometimes refer to a man as being "land-poor." If free-trad« England, efficient Germany and frugai Krance find it necessary to adopt pro tective measures to revive and pre serve their commercial and industrial interests, what will become of like inter ests in the United States under the Democratic party of free trade? Toeing-out [Providence Journal.] Are United States foot soldiers still instructed to "toe out"? It has been said that toeing-out, at an angle of about 30 degrees, was an invention of military men to show that they know more than the Lord. Very likely it has passed out of fashion, with many another favored practice of the parade ground. A writer in the Journal of the American Medical Association declares that for soldiers, as other men, the toeing-out position is automatically and physiol ogically wrong and indefensible. Walk ing or marching, it makes for weak ness and hastens fatigue. All tramps know that, of course, if their style of walking is evidence. And most of us are familiar with the char acteristic toelng-ln, or straight foot, of the American Indian, child of na ture. He looks awkward by contrast to the striding soldiers, but he shuffles over the ground rapidly and tirelessly. Parents are largely responsible for perpetuating the Action that toeing-out is correct. Was there ever a child that ctood. or walked, that way, nat urally? The child that finds it difficult to avoid thoughtless toelng-ln is apt to be subjected to reprimand, or ridi cule, at home and at school. So tho artificial toeing-out is cultivated until it becomes a fixed habit. Something to Worry About The nominees for president and Wee-president on the Prohibition ticket having been duly notified, the campaign may now proceed.—New York World. No Guide Some men will look you straight in the eye and sell you a set of books. r —Judge, ( -N OFFICERS OF VOLUNTEERS By Frederic J. Haskin J WlTri the certainty of consider able increase in the regular army and the possibility of a general call for volunteers which has existed for many weeks, there is much public interest in the question of how these new troops will be officered. In the event of a call for a large number of men, commissioned officers as well as privates and non-coms must be drawn from the civilian population. There are several provisions al ready in operation bearing on the sub ject. Under the term "civilian" the regular army man groups every one who is not a regular army man. There are hence dierent classes of civilians, with dierent qualifications for the du ties 04 commissioned officers; and such qualifications will have great weight in the final selections. At present there are two possibili ties for the civilian to obtain an army commission. One of these is his chance for a commission in the vol unteers, should these be called for; the other is his chance for a second j lieutenancy in the regular army. Whether there will be any call for offi cers of volunteers depends of course in the first place on whether it will be finally necessary to raise a volunteer army; and also on how that army is raised. If the country decides to adopt a State volunteering system, then the appointment of officers will rest with the State governors; but if , the volunteer force is a federal body, raised by the nation at large, the ' qualifications of the applicant are passed on by a board composed of army officers. That the latter method is consider iTHE STATE. FROM W TODAY Bald-headed men and the owners of safety-raiors are the only men who •are happy in West Philadelphia, re ports a newspaper in that city, be cause the barbers have been practi cally unanimous in raising the price of a haircut to 25 cents and a shave to 15 cents. One tonsorial artist claimed he was justified in raising prices in order to combat the man who enters the barbershop only to get a haircut and then causes the poor barber to lose ten customers by mowing a bushel of hair off this one cranium. One barber in Allentown has gone cn titrlke, being the only union man whc failed to sign the agreement be twren the boss barbers and the Bar brs' Union. We wonder whether he will ha'-e a parade all by himself 011 Labor Day. A thermometer hanging in the dairy of A. M. Wade at Quarryville, ex ploded when the mercury reached the 120 mark. Perhaps in indignation at the heat it was required to record. The peach crop in the vicinity of Waynesboro will be way below nor mal is the report, and what few are grown are bringing in big prices. Thu "peach" crop in Harrisburg is on a par with other years, however, judg ing from the riot of color in sport sweaters and diaphanous hats that are seen ever and anon. Dr. Jones, Johnstown's city physi cian. furnished the amusement at police court the other morning when in response to the request for "a chew" from one of the "lady Inmates" the doctor produced a cigar and cut off a goodly portion. His only thanks were' the remark that "he too was a snipe-shooter." It isn't often that a fish invites capture and actually hangs himself on the hook with the appealing look In his eyes that begs you to pull him in. Such wat the experience of Fish erman John Danneker of Williams port several days ago, when he was almost pulled into the water by a 16-inch catfish that unceremoniously grabbed his hook. A Lost Chance (Boston Transcript) We fear the Quartermaster's De partment of the Army will never re cover the prestige it lost when it failed to equip the militia with Palm Beach uniforms and Panama campaign hats. AUGUST 25, 1916. ted probable, however, is shown by the fact that there are already many ap plications on file with the war depart ment for appointment as officers of volunteers. Tne applicants are divid ed into three classes—men from any walk of life who have successfully passed the examination for volunteer commission; graduates of schools to which officers of the army are detail ed as professors of military science, who have been recommended as es pecially qualified; and officers and en listed men of the militia, former offi cers or enlisten men of the regular army or the volunteers in previous wars, and others who have been rec ommended by the board of officers ap pointed to pass on the qualifications of the candidates. From these lists the volunteer officers will be selected i should the volunteer force be a feder al body. The applicants really divide them selves into the men with special mili tary qualifications and those whose civilian record goes to show that they will mke efficient officers. The officers and men of the Natonal Guard for whom provision is made are practical ly eliminated from the situation by the general mobilization of the guard be fore any call fcr volunteers. Men who have received special training in ac credited military schools under army ocers are classed separately, and with them are classed college men who have attenedd two camps of instruc tion for college students, and who have been recommended by the camp com [Contlnued on Page 10] Universal Training [From the Washington Post.7 Public opinion has gone forward with long strides since the outbreak of the European war. The discussion in Con gress over the continental army plan and the National Guard had an excel lent educational effect upon public opinion. For the first time the people reached an understanding of the dif ference between compulsory military service and universal military training. They found that the latter might be aa useful In times of peace as in times of war, giving all young men the benefits of military discipline and physical training. The ballot taken by the United States Chamber of Commerce show* SBi» votes in favor of. and only fifty-six opposed to a system of universal training. Forty-three States were represented in that ballot. The business men in twenty-four of these States—at least all the business men affiliated with the chambers of commerce and boards of trade, working In conjunction with tht, national chamber—voted unanimously in tavor of military training. In eigh teen others the vote ranged from more than 100 to 1 to 2 to 1. This overwhelming testimony from that section of opinion which is not only conservative, but is also closelv concerned with the actual cost and with the economic problems which go with any system of universal mili tary training, must, inevitably have its effect upon Congress. Newspapers For Publicity At the opening session of the National Fraternal Congress of America at Cleveland, yesterday afternoon. Miss Bina M. West, supreme commander, gave boundless credit to the news papers as media for reaching the homes of people the fraternal societies wish to reach. "If," said Miss West, "you wish to advertise in certain sections of the country you can concentrate your work better through the columns of the dally press than through publica tions of less frequent issue, ana so get quicker actloir than you could through other mediums. For these and many other reasons it is the opinion of the members of your committee that no better medium for carrying educational information relatlDg to these institu tions, and what they are undertaking to do for the homes of the land, can be secured than the public press." The Clever Bishop A bishop recently addressed a large assembly of Sunday school children, and wound up by asking, in a very paternal way, "And now. Is there any little boy or any little girl who would like to ask me a question?" A 'thin, shrill voice at the back of the room called out, "Please, sir, why did the angels walk up and down Ja cob's ladder when they had wings '" "Oh. ah. yes—l see." said the bish op. "And now. is there any little girl who would like to answer this Question?" —London Tit-Bits Ebening <2Hjat It's a pretty far cry from a soldiers' orphans' school to a superior court judgeship, a lieutenant-colonelcy and a prospective State treasurership, but the three Kephart boys made it. They were in Harrisburg yesterday and last night—Harmon M. Kephart of Con nellsville, next State Treasurer of Pennsylvania; Judge John W. Kep hart. of Ebensburg, superior court of Pennsylvania, and Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Kephart of the marine corps, United States army. The three harts are "Sixteeners," and years ag<» attended the Soldiers' Orphans'* School at McAlisterville, Juniata 1 county. They met many old class mates during yesterdays reunion. The Kepharts are native Cambria icountians. Their father died when they were very young and they were sent to McAllisterville. After they were graduated they went to work. Harmon Kephart went to work on the Pennsylvania railroad and was a fire man out of Conemaugh. Later he went to Connellsville and eventually became an engineman. John W. Kep hart was a telegraph operator a.t Wll more for a number of years, after wards studying law. His sensational campaign for the superior court judge ship in 1913 is still remembered. Out of a field of 16 he finished fourth in the primary election: and in the gen eral election led Judge Henderson in the State outside of Philadelphia. Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Kephart is stationed at a New England post. He came to Harrisburg with Judge Kep hart. at whose home In Ebensburg he is spending a few weeks. Harmon Kephart is well- known In Harrisburg, as he is in Pennsylvania at large. He received a tremendous vote in the primary election last May. * » • With Harrisburg's first Klpona only a few days away, the river in front of the city is slowly beginning to take on the appearance of a canoeists' training camp. From one end of the race course at the Market street bridge to Municipal Port, almost any time now you can see pairs of canoeists working up speed as they skim over the course. Last evening there were at least a half dozen canoes on the course at one time and quite a few spectators were attracted to watch a husky youth and pretty young miss in bath ing suit of the latest mode out run the other contestants In a trip over the full half-mile course. You'll see that couple on Labor Day! * * • "Five beans for a red-headed girl" doesn't sound particularly flattering to the Titian-haired beauty if one con siders the matter from the stand point of the intrinsic value of a bean, but as a matter of fact a red-headed girl in the schedule of the boy scout, figures way up at the top of the list. i A red-headed girl Is worth two-and one-half white horses and fully equiv alent to five broken windows. Just think of that! This is the way fhey figure. When the scouts are taken on on% of their accustomed hikes, a premium .s placed on the sharpness with which the boys use theln eyes. One of the scoutmasters carries a bag full of beans, which aro handed out to the boys one or two at a time as they discover things of Interest. For In stance, a bird's nest brings one bean, a broken-window the same, a white horse two and a red-headed girl five. And since most red-headed girls are of genial disposition, they do not mind having a young scout rush up to them and peep under their broad hats to find out the color of the concealed hair. , The strong influence that the scouts wield is strikingly illustrated bv the case of the "Red Rin s Gang" of New ark, an organization of young hood lums in that town who terrorized the neighborhood. The scout executive finally reached the conclusion that something ought to be done and that it was up to the scouts to do it. So he called his boys together and put the proposition up to them, stat ing that the gang would have to be broken up. To his surprise one of the newer member* of the scout troop got on his feet and explained that it was too late, that a short time before they had taken the gang, one and all, into the troop and that he himself had formally been the leader of the Red Ring Gang. The attractions of scout life had appealed to them more than their former method of living and they became the strongest scouts in the city of Newark. Got a Dusting Auntie was coming to tea! You know what that means. The best tea service brought out and a hurried rush to the confectioner's for the daintiest cakes. Also, the children carefully arrayed in best frocks, with strict in structions as to behavior and deport ment, on which subjects aunties are always strong. All went well until the end of the meal, when auntie became aware that little Maste had been staring hard at her for some time. "Why are you looking so closely at me. darling?" she simpered. "Looking for dust." was the reDly. "Dust, darling?" "Yes; and I can't see any. Daddy said you'd been on the shelf for years but you don't seem at all dusty any where." "And there was silence until auntie had gone, when a small voice was up lifted in pain.—London Answers. Our Daily Laugh DIFFERENT ANIMAL. Horse Dealer — • «^ This one is sound, kind and gentle. A woman can 1 drive him and 7 JH he's guaranteed ■j®'; • _ not to run away. Mrs. Strongarm But I'm .looking Mp* / mtjt for a horse with fl||\ IWBI some life in him. > vru Those qualities ' tn ero ly recom mend a husband. PROMISING. / I Introduced a ~W/ I Brass widow to » k| i \ I grass widower to (■ i U WIU an y thln * fHHfc IjZjy come of It? WTLs- Can't tell. They a exchanged refer- WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrlsburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organlza« tion's annual "Municipal Qulz."J What are the duties of the Food Inspectors? • To inspect sources of supply of milk and meat, and all places where meat, milk, oysters and Ice cream are sold, also restaurants and quick lunch places. Regular testa for purity of milk.
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