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MONDAY EVENING. AUGUST 28
Do good around you,; preach what
you believe to be the truth: and act
accordingly; then go through life look
ing foricard. —MAZZI.NI.
OFFICIAL SHORTCOMINGS '
WHEN the City Council granted
permission to a private cor
poration to construct an over
head bridge across a city street con
trary to the recommendation of the
Planning Commission it not only
violated those ethics of official courtesy
recognized everywhere, but manifestly
acted without serious regard for the
public welfare.
The incident will not down in the
public mind quite so readily as the
commissioners profess to believe. Their
careless attitude in a matter so im
portant as this invasion of the rights
of the general public indicates a
further weakening of that fabric of
civic betterment which has consti
tuted the best safeguard of the city's
welfare. Indifference and defiance
and arbitrary exercise of official
power usually precede an awakening
of the people and it can hardly be
imagined that the commissioners will
escape the condemnation of their
utter disregard of the interests of the
city in this case.
Furthermore, the granting of per
mission to span a main street with an
overhead bridge to connect sections
of a business plant is held to be illegal
and being indefensible from that
standpoint it is clearly the duty of
the Council to revoke its grant while
it may yet be done without hardship
to the corporation in question.
As to the Planning Commission, it
has increased in favor with the com
munity and in the confidence of the
people. Without compensation, directly
or indirectly, this body of five public
spirited citizens has labored to im
prove housing conditions and other
wise to plan in a broad and intelligent
way for the future of Harrisburg. In
protesting against this obstruction of
a public highway the board has again
manifested an admirable application
of the future needs of the city and a
fine grasp of all the points involved in
the controversy. Let the members be
assured that the public is not with
out insight and that what sometimes
looks like indifference of the people
most concerned is merely a long
suffering pawnee.
Out in Oregon, the Democrats organ
i»«d what they called the "Woodrow,
Wilson Nonpartisan League,'' but it was j
to completely under the control of
Democrats that it aroused the jeers or
people of all parties. The promoters
Anally became convinced of the failure
of their attempted deception and aban
doned the organization. Now they are
sailing under true colors as a Demo- \
cratic league. It is an example the i
pretended "Nonpartisan" Democrats
might well follow all over the country.
They are fooling no one but themselves.
TRIFLING WITH FACTS
SECRETARY M'ADOO refuses to
discuss the dismissal of Appraiser
Clapp from the New York custom
house In order to make a place for the
eon of 'Battery Dan" Finn.
Hughes is "merely pettifogging." ex
claims the Secretary, rather petulantly
Th is airy maner of dismissing matten« 1
of grave import is characteristic of
Mr. McAdoo. Some months ago when
ex-Senator Bourne charged that there
was no real "net available balance" in
tne Treasury and proceeded to prove \
it by the certified statement of the '
accountant who devised the original \
form of Treasury statement which Mr. :
McAdoo introduced, McAdoo waved ljis
hand and said: "The charge is too
ridiculous to discuss."
But matters of this sort are not so !
•aeily dirposed of. Charges of this
kind must be met —and refuted, if pos
sible. It is probably because they
cannot be refuted that Mr. McAdoo
steles to brush them aside without
discussion.
Bainbridge Colby, one of the few Pro
gressives who have embraced Wilson,
says that he favors the continuance of
this administration because of the
record it has made. Two years ago
Colby was lambasting this administra
tion for its record in the matter of the
Panama Canal tolls. However, politi
cians have short memories—though the
people have not.
FOR MISSOURI'S BENEFIT
THE proposal to make Wallace
Bassford, of Missouri, the suc
cessor to Daniel C. Roper, who
has resigned as Assistant Postmaster
General to help in the Wilson cam
paign, looks like a political deal of no
small magnitude.
B&asford Is Champ Clark's nephew
•nd now serves the Speaker as private
MONDAY EVENING,
secretary. His preferment may serve
to mollify Clark; it will show the
Democrats of Missouri that the ad
ministration is thinking of them once
more, and in the remote chance that
Wilson is re-elected Roper can take
back his old job and Bassford can re
turn to Champ Clark's payroll.
Friends of the President wax hot
with indignation when anyone Inti
mates that the President is givtns
thought to political matters while Con
gress is in session; but Wilson himself
is constantly furnishing evidence that
he is giving thought to nothing: but
pclltics.
Mount Etna is reported to be again
in full eruption—and Jim Ham Lewis
is about to take the stump. This is to
be a hard summer on both sides of the
water.
THE HIGH SCHOOL REPORT
THE recommendations of the new
. high school committee of the
school board represent the
careful consideration and mature
though of two outside experts and a
delegation of school officials thor
oughly familiar with local conditions
and needs. It merits the careful
reading of every voter.
We must have additional high
school facilities.
It remains only to decide whether
they are to be provided by bond issue
or from current revenue.
The school board assures the public
that It can float the $1,190,000 loan re
quired without increasing the tax rate
of the present year. If the loan is
not approved in November, it is ex
tremely likely that the board will
have to take other measures to pro
vide relief, and while the directors are
silent on that subject the probability Is
that even temporary facilities could
not be made without adding another
mill or a fraction thereof to the tax
rate.
Obviously the thing to do is to ap
prove the loan. Every child in the
city is being robbed of rightful ad
vantages by our present one-session
high school plan, -with its overworked
teachers and its overcrowded rooms.
That is a condition which any city
with proper regard for its future citi
zens or pride in itself cannot permit to
continue long.
Further than that, however, the
lack of proper school facilities in
Harrisburg is directly retarding the
growth of the city, and every new
comer who is turned away from our
doors by reason of dissatisfaction with
our educational system means a direct
loss to the real estate business and to
every other line of trade that supplies
the family or the individual. The
Telegraph has personal knowledge of
at least seven such losses and doubt
less that number could be multiplied
many times.
Beyond question there are many
not directly interested by reason of
having children at or near the high
school age who do not appreciate the
importance of this high school ques
tion. To bring these to a full and
complete understanding of the situ
tion the school board should lose no
time in beginning a campaign of pub
lic education on the subject. The full
est publicity should be given to every
point at issue. The period is brief at
best and no time should be lost in
getUng the matter before the people.
RUMANIA GOES IX
THE entrance of Rumania into Ihe
war against Germany, announced
in press dispatches of to-day. may
be. and very likely will prove to be,
the deciding factor in the great con
test at arms.
, In many ways Rumania is a great
asset to the allied governments. In
the first place, it has a well-trained
and equipped army of 320,000, which
can be increased without serious drain
on the empire to nearly a million men
able to bear arms, and all of them of
military experience. These troops un
questionably will be a great help to
the Allies in their Balkan campaign,
but far more important than this ad
dition to the arms of the opponents of
Germany and Austria is the door that
Rumania will open to the Russians
into Austria and the food supply that
will be turned from the central powers
to Russia. France and England.
Rumania is a land of fertile plains
and gently rolling fields, upon which
vast quantities of wheat, rye and corn
are raised. Millions of bushels of
these grains are exported every year
and crops are excellent in that rain
! favored countrv- this season.
Through Rumania into Austria-
Hur.garj, with a food supply ready
made and waiting along the way, the
Russian armies may be depended upon
to make a new strike that will have
: the double purpose of taking German
i and Austrian soldiers by hundreds of
' thousands from the present fronts and
j of attempting an invasion along a line
that promises better results than the
i attacks that have been made through
J Poland, especially so since the autumns
' in Rumania are long and pleasant, thus
| adding to the length of this year's
| campaign.
Further than that, the opening of
Rumania will result in large quantities
of grain finding their way to outside
markets.
Rumania may well be the last straw
on the back of the Teutonic camel.
PRICES GO IP
THE Louisiana Purchase, from
which we later formed an em
pire of sovereign States, cost us
$15,000,000. We paid only $7,000,000
for Alaska; for California and what
is now New Mexico we gave $15,-
000,000; for the Philippines we paid
$20,000,000. The Wilson administra
tion now proposes to give $25,000,000
1 for the Danish West Indies. What
has caused the boom in the interna
tional price of real estate? Is some
"deserving Democrat" getting a rake-
I off?
REDFTELD AXD DI'RAXD
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
REDFJELD denied that he forced
the resignation of E. Dana
Dursnd. Director of the Census, and
asserted that he recommended Durand
for the position he now occupies. Now
he a&&erts that Lf Durand had not
resigned he would have been put outj
for inefficiency. There you have an
example of inconsistency true to the
Wilson type.
If Durand was deemed inefficient,
how could Redfield honorably recom
mend him for the position he now
holds? If he were about to put him
out, why deny that he forced him to
resign? As a matter of fact, a letter
of recommendation from Redfield in
| favor of Durand would be a master
piece of humor.
There has nfet been a day since Red
field became known to the country in
1913 when Durand's reputation for
ability could be increased by any num
' ber of letters Redfield could write.
I Nor can Redfield hurt that reputation.
Trade Briefs
Half of last year's orange crop from
the Malaga district Spain, went to Lon
don. The crop amounted to 100,000
boxes.
Bolivian merchants are interested in
portable houses. school furniture,
barbed wire, wire mosquito netting and
wireless field installations.
There is a market for wheat, sugar,
coal and sulphate of copper in the Mal
aga district, Spain.
Finnish capitalists are financing a
new line of steamships to make direct
sailings from Finnish to South Ameri
can ports.
It is rumored that Germany has man
ufactured $1,500,000.00 worth of sup
plies since the beginning of the war.
and is only_waittng for the close of
hostilities to put them upon the mar
ket.
The Bureau of Fisheries has dis
covered a method for Increasing the
crop of mussel shells. The natural
beds In the Mississippi valley have been
badly depleted in the'last few years.
It has been discovered that Datura
alba a plant growing in abundance
throughout the Philippines, contains a
large amount of atrophine. The plant
is not cultivated on the islands, but
American drug manufacturers are or
dering large quantities of the leaves.
Copper ranked first in Alaska's ship
ments to this country in the fiscal year
1916 reaching a total of 117,000,000
pounds valued at $;6,500.0<M>.
Argentina's rice crop for 1916 prom
ises to be a record one. The Govern
ment has provided for its milling.
Gas plants in several of the smaller
Italian cities have been forced to shut
down because of the shortage of coal.
Norwegian dealers favor American
hardware and Consul Chaj-les Form an
suggests that American exporters es
tablish agencies in Bergen or Chris
tiania.
Greece Is in the market for type
writer supplies.
White pine suitable for making but
ter boxes, is needed in New Zealand.
The domestic supply of white pine is
rapidly becoming exhausted.
Purveyor to the World
[From the Providence Journal.]
Now loading at Montreal is the first
ship for the Norwegian merchant ma
rine built on the Great Lakes. She Is
the Nordal, of 3.000 tons burden. Witn
the report of her sailing from Chi
cago comes the interesting informa
tion that she is one of thirty vessels in
the course of construction in American
yards for Norwegian firms.
Once again the disturbing truth
forces itself forward. We do for others
the things that wo should be doing for
ourselves. We build ships for foreign
countries, and let our nag trail the
seas.
While our arsenals are empty, or
nearly so, we make tons on tons of ma- j
nitlons to supply all of the warring na
tions that can charter ships to carry
them away. • •
Our army aeroplanes make third- :
class nations snicker, and yet we build i
the biggest and most modern flying
machines for any countrv that has the i
money to pay for them.
We are like the woman who was al- 1
ways so busy 'nelpinc her neighbors
that she never had time to set hei
own house in order. We lead the world
in many things—where we could leaa
it in many, many more, we merely rol- •
low. We have everything to put ut
several miles ahead of the processlou,
but we are content to take the dust of
our rivals.
Birds and Mankind
[From the Chicago Journal.]
The federal government is investigat
ing birds with a view to discovering
whether they are harmful or helpful to
mankind. Of forty or fifty species, ex
clusive of hawks and owls, thus far
put through this scientific third de
gree. only one has been found harm
ful—the English sparrow. All other
birds of the group mentioned are
either innocuous or helpful, and many
of them are worth well nigh their
weight in gold to the farmer and fruit
raiser. Of hawks and owls there are
seventy-five species found in this coun
try, only six of which are injurious.
The rest either do no harm at all. or
more than make up for occasional de
predations by their services in keeping
down vermin.
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Precautions Against Heat
[From the New York Herald.]
In spite of the accustomedness to
heat which makes the feeling of op
pression less, more rather than fewer >
precautions against heat are headed to- i
ward the end of the summer. There ■
has been a gradual reduction of re
sistive vitality. Above all. care must ,
be exercised in the preservation of food
materials for young and old. Spoiled
foods start many a fatal decline. All
our readers need the warning iu the
matter, and those who are in a posi
tion to take the lesson should not for
get to be helpful to those less favor.
I able situated. The Herald Free Ice
Fund probably represents the simplest
and most direct method of offering
such help.
Dove From Missouri
Senator Efsn Tillman having been
convinced that the war is over, the
matter may be considered as finally
settled. —Washington Post.
Hard Knot to Untie
(Wheeling Intelligencer)
Tammany has said to the Demo
cratic campaign managers, "Show us,
or we will show vou." Either wav he
goes Mr. Wilson will get a pig 'in a
poke.
Too Bad, But We're Willing
(London Spectator)
The poor have so little sympathy for
the rich! They have never lived
among them, and they do not know
what they suffer.
EVERY YEAR
By Wins Dinger
Ma holds first place with the kiddies
Up at our home, but gee,
That's the way it is in most homes—
That's the way it ought to be.
But each year about this season.
Dad takes first place and his nights
For a time are given up to
Making many styles of kites.
Thin wood strips, one can't help split
ting.
Wh;n one tries to drive a tack
Through them to jonstruct the frame
work.
Paste that will not stick, alack;
Paper thin that tears to pieces
With the slightest handling, but
Dad sticks to it till successful
And winds up a hopeless nut.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
' THE CARTOON OF THE DAY
| .' ONLY
•*-v***iWjWs -V-'j t' *"
"I've had enough^oLit!"
TELEORAPH PERISCOPE "j
—Edison and Ford are spending their
vacations together and the outcome
may be a new peace plan or an improv
ed submarine, or both.
—"You can't buy a decent pair of
shoes now under 55," says a trades
journal. Then we plead-guilty to as
sociation with a very disreputable pair
of shoes.
—Says a fashion note: "Hips are soon
to emerge." Heavens, we didn't think
they'd make the skirts as short as that.
—According to the Ohio State Jour
nal. Colonel Roosevelt is at home
"thmkiner up spontaneous epigrams;"
yes, and we bet President Wilson
wishes he'd stop.
—Says an exchange: "Finer grades
of sugar have been reduced in price.'
Reduced to about three cents a pound
higher than they were before the phil
anthropic Mr. Underwood introduced
his high cost of living tariff.
Commission Cheaply Held
[From the, New- York Times.]
Never hab the advice of a tariff com
mission been effective. There is no
new way of making a tariff The pres
ent tariff proposals, whatever their
merit, have been reached in the old
bad way of closet negotiations, with
resultant benefit to producers in the
name of patriotism, but at the cost
of consumers, and without benefit to
wage-earners. It would be easy to
argue for or against a tariff commis
sion upon theory, but it is not possible
to sustain on the merits congress' treat
ment of the subject. Practically, notice
is given in advance that the commis
sion contemplated is held so cheap that
the investment in it is waste, except
for the incidental political benefits.
"EXCEPT A CORN' OF WHEAT—"
In the face of the many and fre
quent assertions that organic church
union is impossible comes the steady
stream of information from Canada that
up there an actual organic denomina
tional union is being effected. Three
great churches of Canada —the Metho
dist. the Congregational and the Pres
byterian—have taken positive steps to
bring this union to pass. The most
recent action was that of the Presby
terian General Assembly of Canada,
which voted 406 to 88 in favor of the
union.
The three denominations thus merg
ing their indentity have seven hundred
and fifty thousand members, more than
six thousand churches, t«n thousand
preaching stations, and live thousand
ministers. They claim a constituency
of more than two million adherents, and
disburse yearly, in addition to the funds
applied to the upkeep of the individual
churches, more than two million dol
lars for missions, Education and other
benevolences.
The new church is to be known as
the United Church of Canada. This
means, of course, that each of the three
denominations will, upon the consum
mation of the union, actually lose Its
Identity. Its very existence. In the
midst of the horrible spectacle of
world-wide selfishness and strife it is
a blissful thing to behold these great
Christian denominations demonstrat
ing that they are willing to die in or
der that a greater church may be
born. —The Christian Herald.
s -s
Prepare For This
When we contemplate Industrial
i and commercial conditions we see
i that we are living in a fool's para
i dise. The temporary prosperity to
1 which our opponents point has
been created by the abnormal con
ditions incident to the war. With
the end of the war there will be
the new conditions determined by
a new Eureope. Millions of men
In the trenches will then return to
work. The energies of each of the
now belligerent nations, highly
trained, will then be turned to pro
duction." —Charles E. Hughes.
HOW ABOUT JAPAN?
Our Lost Manchurian Trade
By Frederic J. Haskin
JAPAN'S course in Manchuria af
fords an excellent opportunity to
study Japanese business meth
ods. Those methods concern Ameri
cans because they have driven Ameri
can commerce from the position it had
built up in the Manchurian field, be
cause they are about to be turned
against American commerce in other
fields, and because they cast an illumi
nating sidelight on Japan's cry of a
"Monroe Doctrine for Asia."
In a recent annual report, the Am
erican Association of China reviewed
the situation. "Turning now from
trade in general to some particular
considerations." says the report in
part,"—what is the outlook? Under
Russian domination, every nation
stood on an equal footing in Man
churia. The same duties and charges
were assessed against all and facilities
for distributing goods and doing busi
ness in general were satisfactory. Now
it is all changed. Under Japanese ad
ministration, no chance to advance its
own trade is overlooked and to com
petitors the means taken appear to
jbe a departure from fair trading. In
i fact, they constitute a most serious
j violation of the open door principle
on which the diplomacy of the United
States in China is based.
| "J panese competition takes the
form of a system of rebates, not only
in freight and steamer rates, but in
! remission of duties and charges which
are assessed against all other nations,
i In addition to this, many forms of pet
ty annoyances have been worked out
for the non-Japanese trader, and the
imitation of established trade-marks is
j common.V
1 Japan began her commercial seizure
|of Manchuria even before the Russo
j Japanese war was over, just as the
'army of her traders moved on Shant
ung last year, on the very heels of the
; expedition against Kiao-Chao. Thou
sands of immigrants and commercial
agents followed the Japanese troops
i into Manchuria. So long as the mili
tary regime lasted, these traders were
; given many advantages by the military
authorities, but although European
and American merchants realized that
;the Japanese were gaining an advant
| age over them, they saw no help for it,
: and believed that the state of affairs
! was only temporary. Events proved.
EDITORIAL COMMENT"! j
Probably the highest explosive in Eu- j
rope in Harden.—New York
Sun.
Hughes should abandon trying to be j
"human." He should be just natural.— j
Buffalo Enquirer.
Too bad there Is no national conven- I
tion to stop the favorite-son movement ;
at Verdun.—Cleveland Leader.
Have primaries eliminated the wicked ■
bosses or are the wicked bosses elimi- j
nating the primaries?— New York Sun.
One advantage a baseball player has
over a railroad man is that it take*
three strikes to put him out.—Wash
ington Post.
' Taxing Munitions
[From the New York Sun.}
Senator Boies Penrose, who is ad
mitted even by his enemies to know a
good deal about matters of tariff and
taxation, has taken advantage of the
debate on the emergency revenue bill
to tell some plain truths about the
Democratic scheme to tax munition*.
He says that the tax is sectional, and
is not uniform; that as an evasion of
the Constitutional inhibition on export
taxes it is unlawful: that as a direct
tax it constitutes double taxation of
certain manufacturing corporations;
that it makes the Government a xharei
in munitions profits and so destroy*
neutrality.
Senator Penrose makes the mistake
| of thinkingthat the Democrats in Con
' Kress employ reason in matters of taxa-
I tlon. They do not. They simply seek
the easiest way of getting the money
jthey waste.
AUGUST 28, 1916.
however, that Japan was inaugurating
a policy in war that she intended to
follow in peace.
Directly after the war. the steam-!
ship lines from Japan to the mainland
found themselves running from Jap
an to Manchuria light. So long as the
wAr lasted, they had beon carrying
men and munitions to the army, but
with peace the tide of freight and
humanity turned the other away. Ad
vantage was taken of ths to give Jap
anese goods and Japanese immigrants
transportation to Manchuria at very
low rates, or entirely free. It is only
logical to assume that when a Japa
nese merchant and his stock were car
ried to Manchuria without charge to
him, the government must have com
pensated the steamship company.
Further to strengthen the Japanese
hold on the commerce of Manchuria,
what was known as the Manchuria
Export Guild was formed, including
the most powerful commercial guilds
in Japan. The intentions of the guild
and the government in Manchuria
were freely dscussed in the Japanese
press. They comprised a government
loan of six million yen at 4 % per cent,
for Japanese merchants doing business
in Manchuria, the carrying of Japa
nese goods over the South Manchurian
railway free, or at one-half the usual
rate fop one year, and the carrying of
Japanese goods in Japanese ships free,
or at one-half the usual rate for one
year.
Such a program was in direct viola
tion of the principle of equal oppor
tunity to all nations, which Japan
along with various European powers
had agreed to support in subscribing
to the American Hay doctrine of the
open door. Japan has a right to make
what regulations she sees tit for the
management of railways in Japan; she
has now the right to make such reg
ulations for the management of rail
waj« in Korea, though time was when
she guaranteed the principle of equal
opportunity in Korea also. The case
of Manchuria is fundamentally dif
ferent.
Manchuria is still supposed to be a
part of China. The open door policy
is still supposed to apply to all of
Chiaa. All the nations trading in
[Continued on Page B.]
(THE STATE FROM DWTODW
The Wilkes-Barre News says edi
torially that "the man who throws his
bread upon the waters expects a whole
bakery to come back." Evidently the
editor of this rarebit didn't spend his
vacation in a sailboat.
Three hundred members of the
Fourth infantry. Sons of Veterans.
Reserves of Pennsyl\ania, are in camp
at Ligonler.
President Sparks of State College,
makes the suggestion that Pennsyl
vania open up its million acres 'of
forest preserves with great highways
that will lure the motor tourist. Dr.
Sparks is a great enthusiast for the
good-road movement in this State.
Doesn't Talk Like It
(Detroit Free Press)
Colonel Roosevelt is said to be suf
fering from a weak throat, but if he
hadn't admitted it himself nobody
would ever have noticed it.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrlsbuig Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organisa
tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."]
What limit is placed by law on the
amount of indebtedness for a city?
Seven per cent, ot the assessed
valuation.
lEbetung (Wjat
"Harrisburg is one of the most
beautiful towns In the East," declared
a traveling man who gets all through
the eastern States from Maine to
r lorida the other day and who ought
to know whereof Ije speaks. "I know
of no city where so many flower and
porch boxes bloom or where the lawns
and parks are so well cared for. For
even in the poor sections where my
work sometimes takes me there is that
air of civic pride which does so much
to make or mar a city. I was in Har--
risburg last Spring when the Harris- *
burg Telegraph began its window box
campaign and I am here to tell tli«
world that it was well worth while."
♦ • *
While most folks are giving but little
thought to the cool days just ahead,
the tradesmen who have to think of
such things are already beginning to
show signs of preparation for the fall
and winter. In one of the large sport
ing goods stores the bathing suit, ten
nis racket and Ashing tackle so much
in demand during the hot months are
giving way to football togs, 'hunting
equipment and other fall sporting
goods. Football suits are piled high
where just a few weeks ago one found
bathing caps for women; in the corner
where the tennis goods were displayed
the togs used for basketball and even
pkating will be found; and it's prac
tically impossible to get "your size" in
a bathing suit anywhere in town.
Some charitable organization in the
city is the richer by ten dollars as a
result of the payment of a debt of
thirty years' standing, which brings
out a story full of human interest.
The creditor, by the way, is one of
Harrisburg's most prominent sons
and a man who instead of slipping it
into his pocket with a chuckle, does
just such things as handing over sur
plus income such as thirty year old
debts to charity.
The story of the ten dollar bill is a
unique one. Thirty years ago a cer
tain man borrowed from our frtend
the business man ten dollars. For
some years thereafter he needed every
cent he could scrape together. Then
he forgot it, but recently the memory
of that borrowed ten was in some way
stirred up. Ho continued to forget it,
but it kept coming up in his mind and
so one day lie put an end to his wor
ries, entered th§ office of his former
friend's son and planked a ten-spot on
the desk.
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Lewis Buddy, field commissioner of
the Boy Scouts of America, in an ad
dress before the Rotary Club at a re
cent noonday luncheon, brought home
in a forceful way the beneficial nature
of the scout movement insofar as it
sets a premium on manhood and man
liness among the boys of this country.
He expressed the hope that Harrisburg
would soon have a campaign put on
to organize this city as an effective
scout center and lis told of the ad
vantages that would inevitably accrue
to the community in future years
when these same boys approach voting
age and become the citizens who will
shoulder the responsibility of promot
ing the best interests of Harrisburg
along lines of service
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"One-tenth of one per cent, of the
citizens in the average community,"
Ihe said, "are the men upon whom
! that community can depend when they
jare needed to do something for the
city." The more men of this sort a
i city has, the better that city will be,
and it is for service to their own com
! munity that the Boy Scouts are receiv
iing their training. He also took occa
|sion to rap the commission form of
; government and-to express the heart
felt wish that Harrisburg may soon
be freed from the petty politics that
surround the. present form of govern,
jment and that.it may adopt the city
] manager method of government.
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Those who have made trips down
I the Susquehanna are familiar with the
peculiar bluish green streak of watei
J that threads its way down stream as
jfar as the eye can reach, and known
|to old rivermen as the raft channel
| This stream-within-a-stream marks
: the only really navigable parts of the
Susquehanna during low water and
J those who follow its devious windings
may feel sure they are in the best
I water to be found. For most of the
| way between here and Clarks Ferry,
the channel follows the eastern bank
but just opposite Seneca street, this
city, it shoots out toward midstream
and continues along in that course
down to near the dam. From Speece
ville to £>uncannon the channel is par
ticularly well marked and affords
I canoeists navigable water for many
i miles. Above the dam the green
stream shoots towards the western
shore and continues there for many
miles and it is back and forth in this
. manner, from east to west, banks, for
miles and miles towards the source of
the Susquehanna.
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The arrangements being made at
the Capitol for taking the votes of
, the soldiers call to mind how the State
got ready in 1902 to take the votes
of the soldiers who were on duty in
the big anthacite strike of that year
The State officials were all familial
; with the way to do it. having gon<
! through the business in the cases o:
the regiments in the Spanish an<
1 Philippine wars. It was d'ecided tha
; the men being in State service lia<!
just as much right to vote in the fielc
1 as those who had been in the servici
of your Uncle Sam. So Georg<
Thorn started things moving in th<
Capitol and prepared forms and booki
and cut a lot of red tape and worked
1 out a program which the secretary o:
the commonwealth approved and seni
to each sheriff in the State. An<!
each sheriff arranged his part and sent
\ men to the coal regions to post no.
tices and arrange other things. Georgs
1 W. McllHenny was then deputy sher
iff and he hustled around the anthra
cite field to every town where theri
was a Dauphin county soldier. H«
posted notices and got all arranged
And the troops were ordered liomt
about November 1 and voted in theii
home precincts, as usual. The two
Georges got a valuable amount of ex
perience.
Our Daily Laugh
THE IMME
DIATE PROB
(T vWI Hubby (who
ls fond of quot-
VrjT
Oc Where are ths
j| '■ Bj" snows of yestor«
jMMi / L I Wlfey Never
A I mind about that
i The Important
912/1 I Question is Wher<
- is the Ice thai
was due to arrlv*
.this morning?
NOT DANGER-
Young Uppish:
seems to think
that ho is des- j|»
tined to sot the
world on Are.
"Well I don't
see that the in- W
surance people Jf
are doing any
worry lot OTM tt, ~ "V*