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•WEDNESDAY EVENING. AVGVST 30
Education is the knowledge of how
to use the whole of one's self.
—BEECHES.
DR. DIXON'S DECISION
DR. SAMUEL G. DIXON. State
Coramislsoner of Health, has
wisely discriminated between the
Kipena. to be held next Monday, and
the Romper Day celebration, which
he has caused to be caJled off on ac
count of the infantile paralysis out
break.
Dr. Dixon explains that whereas the
Romper Day program would bring
thousands of children together from
all parts of the city, who would ride to
and from the park on overcrowded
streets cars and associate closely under
conditions that would tend to spread
di:-ease. the regatta is to be conducted
by as organization of adults. It Is not
a purely children's aCa.tr, and while
the Health Commissioner points out
that children would be better off at
home, there Is no way of preventing
them from mingling with the crowds
on a public thoroughfare in an un-
Quarantined district if their parents
care to take the risk.
Even with the best of intentions'
apparent injustices occur in all meas
ures of public safety such as Dr. Dixon
has been compelled to take during the
past week. The Sunday school order
Is one of these, and in all likelihood
It will be modified to meet conditions
and to place the adult Sunday school
classes on the same basis as the adult
.church service. But in all questions
that arise concerning the quarantine
the public should always hold in mind
that the State Health Commissioner
and the local health officers are acting '
for what they believe to be the best
interests of the people. They, get
neither pleasure nor profit from en
forced quarantine regulations. Such
measures mean only trouble and hard ,
work for the officials. Tlie people, :
who often resent the restrictions placed
on their movements ar.d liberties of '
action, are the beneficiaries. It is
their health the State and the city are
guarding, and they should act and ;
speak accordingly.
WHEN THE WAR IS OVER
WARNINGS have been issued by
both Senator Penrose and Presi
dent Wilson regarding the sit
uation which will arise in this country
after the war. Mr. Penrose foresees
&r. era of the keenest competition,
the European manufacturing centers
flooded with returned soldiers, the
of labor even lower than nor
mally and the European governments
working desperately to gain foreign ,
trade in order to win back the gold
they have had to send abroad, es- ,
pc-cially to this country.
President Wilson regards the com-'
ing of peace as "America's oppor
tunity," but he declares that "the
problem of disunion" will be "more
difficult to f.ght than that of the Civil
War." Mr. Wilson does not say that ■
this country is to be congratulated that
it has in himself one greater than Lin
coln to grasp and solve this tremen
dous problem. Far from it. He only
makes it clear that such is his personal ■
conviction, and if you do not see it, ;
alas for your intelligence.
All is not without hope, however,
even to the intelligence of the man in i
the street, for Mr. Wilson declares: "In
the third place. I think it is evident;
that the United States will understand
herself better than ever before. The
war and ail its attendant circum- j
etar.ee* have cried her wide awake to
both the dangers of her life and its
enormous possibilities and advan- i
tages. '
Perhaps only one who knows Wood
row Wilson by personal contact would
realize how firmly he is convinced that
his re-election is. in his estimation,
chief among these enormous possibili
ties and advantages.
SNAKE STORIES
ONE of the chief delights of the
farmer who "takes summer
boarders" has been to regale his
guests with snake stories. Everybody
on the farm, from the owner of the
place to the humble hired man. has
some fresh horror to add to the lurid
>tales that are made to fill in the brief
period between suppertime and bed
itiwe on the front lawn. Hair-raising
i«necdotes of babies playing with rat
tlers. of blacksnakes that milked cows,
of hoop-snakes that chased timid
dairymaids miles across country, up
hill end down, and finally died with the
horns in their tails stuck into the bark
of trees behind which the aforesaid
timid dairymaids had cunningly taken
refuge, are mingled with narratives of
personal encounters with "racers" and
copperheads and of the gallant services
of brave country lads in sucking snake
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
hlte poison from otherwise doomed
cor.rades. Some of them hav® been
repeated so often that their narrators
actually believe them.
It has been grand sport for the
rural brethren to make the blood of
tho city folks thus run cold and to send
them off to bed seeing snakes at even
step. But it's all wrong. 81. It's ail
wrong: take it from the State Depart
ment of Agriculture. It is.
In the weekly bulletin of the de
partment. which has succeeded the
proofsheet which our old friend and
erstwhile official bugologist. Professor
Surface, originated f<* the edification
and instruction of farmers, we read i
that snake stories are bad for the sum- j
mer boarder crop. They are reckoned 1
next to the San Jose scale and the I
boll weevil as a reducer of farm
revenue.
Says the bulletin:
The horrible big snake stories
that often originate in the minds of
persons who wish to tell something
tearful, or perhaps magnify their
own prowess or skill in combat, an a
whiA are sometimes published and
repirelished in the newspapers do
much more harm than good. In the
first place, big snake stories gener
ally are not true, and persons not
knowing this are frightened t>y
them so that they resolve they will
keep away from the country and
thus not be in danger of horrible
snakes. Nervous or timid women
and children, instead of going out
Into God's pure air on the breesy
hills and along wooded streams, be
come so afraid of the horrible deni
zens of such places that are so
vividly pictured that they decide to
go to the seashore and live in stuffy
rooms amid crowded humanity, or
to stay at home. This does a great
injustice to persons who lead the
most natural and enjoyable recrea
tion mankind can take.
Then the writer goes on to knock in
th« head the hoop-snake and other
reptilian traditions by pointing out
that there are only two kinds of
venomous snakes in Pennsylvania, and
they are to be found on few farms.
Finally, farmers are given this bit of
advice:
It is very important to the agri
cultural people that they induce
city visitors and country boarders
to come and dwell among them To
do this the first thing is to stop
snake stories, and show that the
country is far safer, more healthy
and more pleasant than the sea
shore or the city. The producer of
country produce can find much
more ready and profitable sale foi
his goods among campers, or per
sons on outings, or summer hotels
in his vicinity than by attempting
to ship it away to the city. Therr
should be a great demand in the
delightful rural communities rot
fresh butter, eggs. milk. meat,
ve-etables and fruits, and tnero
should be all inducement offered to
those oersons who take vacations
to do this in the country where
they can have a real outing and
get in touch with real nature. It
will do the city people good to be
come acquainted with the country
people and learn their problems
and method of living, and it will do
the countrv people good likewise to
see life from the viewpoint of the
burdened city people. Misleading
stfake stories should not be the
means of keeping them apart.
It will be a real hardship to rule the
snake story from the popular amuse
ments of the rural districts. It has
beer to the farm what the sea serpent
has been to the coast resorts. But in
the light of the facts set forth, and
with a somewhat intimate knowledge
of the average Pennsylvania farmer's
feelings where profits are in question,
it is not hard to imagine that the
snake story will shortly become almost
as scarce on summer boarder farms as
the snakes themselves —at least amgng
readers of the department bulletin.
Thus does the ruthless money god
trample roughshod over even our most
firmly founded traditions.
GOOI) WORK OF WOMEN
EXCELLENT work under most
discouraging circumstances has
been done by the branch of the
Women's Preparedness Division of
the Red Cross, which has had charge
of the relief of the needy families of
Harrisburg soldiers who are at the
border.
With only a few hundred dollars at
their command the women have
managed to keep the wolf from the
door of many little homes where ill
ness and misfortune added to the
hardship of having lost the bread
winner of the family. They have
paid grocery bills, made up back
rent, clothed children and nursed the
sick. Some of them have given up
their summer vacations, or postponed
them, in order to look after the work
undertaken.
But the duties of the Division in
this respect are not completed. In
deed. they are but •well begun. The
approach of cold weather will bring
increased distress and additional
funds must be raised to meet the de
mand.
THD WOMEN IN CAMP
THE military camp of women in
the woods of Wisconsin is a
travesty on preparedness. Not
until the last man worthy of the
name has fallen before a foreign foe
would American women be permit
ted to take part In a -war in the United
States.
That they should prepare to han
dle rifles and machine guns is a mere
waste of time and energy. Wqmen
have far better uses in war than
aping the soldiers in the trenches.
Theirs is the difficult duty of hos
pital work, of caring for the home
with the wage-earner absent, of
weeping and waiting, of helping in
countless ways, but seldom of fight
ing.
If Major General Mary Smith, Col
onel Cordelia Jones or Captain Sarah
Jenkins want to teach their "sol
diers" skill in the Red Cross service
or in other work of relief in time of
war, the Wisconsin camp will not
have been in vain. Otherwise it is
worse than useless.
GETTING IT QUICKLY
WHEN we read that Jess Willard
has accumulated (200,000 in
two years we are inclined to be
resentful. Mere prizefighting, we
have been taught, should not be so
rewarded while many another far
more worthy occupation languishes
neglected and underpaid. But Wil
• lard is no mere prizefighter. Therein
1 lies the difference. He is the greatest
i prizefighter in the world, and the
world always pours fortune at the
. feet of the man who is better than
j arjy other in his line. Take the cham
pionship title from Willard and he
could earn no more than any other
man of his strength and brain power.
If you would win fortune quickly be
RARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
RUMANIA ADDS ANOTHER SECTION TO IRON RING ABOUT CENTRAL POWERS
The entrance of Rumania into the I
war means that fifteen nations are
now in conflict. The iron ring of which
the Germans have complained is tight
ening. It now extends around the
central powers in this order: Russia
and Rumania on the east, Serbia on
the south. Montenegro and Albania on
the southwest. Italy on the east. The
oven space at Belgrade through Serbia
shows the road the Austrians have
kept open to Constantinople.
The only other points where terri
tory of the central powers is not
touched by war is Switzerland, on the
southwest, Holland, on the northwest,
and Denmark, on the north. The
Baltic is disputed.
come the best in the world and then
look out for the fellow who has an
eye on your title.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 1
PROVIDENTIAL DEALINGS
To the Editor of the TelegfUph:
History seems to be repeating itself 1
in regard to the ancient mode of God's
dealirgs with national -wickedness and
sin. Compare the plagues of Egypt. I
swarms of flies (on which war has;
been declared), grievous murrain on :
cattle (mouth and hoof disease), bugs
and lice on plants and vegetables ;
blights on trees, and last of all, in- j
fantile paralysis (first born slain). Yet!
is our beloved nation hardening its J
heart against God and hastening
toward the overwhelming sea of God's,
wruth. The wise man prayed (Kings, i
S:S7,3S). If there be famine, pesti-'
lence, plague or sickness, prayer and
supplication should be made, spread
in? forth hands toward the house of
God. How the devil must rejoice if i
he can get men to close up the meet- |
ing houses and switch us off from the .
main line of prayer to the side track of j
ln\ cntion. Our officers, advisory boards
and physicians are mostly men who
claim allegiance to the King of Kings.
A great many are overseers and teach
ers In Bible classes and can tell the
heights of the mountains, length of 1
river.!, distance between cities, atmos- i
pl-.erlc changes In the air around l
Palestine: but where is the spiritual j
discernment? In Deut., 2S. we read 1
tf we are disobedient, vexation, rebuke, (
consumption, fever, inflammation, etc.,'
shall come upon us; if we obey we'
shall be immune from these curses, j
and great blessings shall be upon us.
In Psalm 91 God promises to deliver
us from pestilence and cover us with j
his feathers. In Eph. 5 on account j
of disobedience and sin cometh the 1
wrath of God upon the children of
disobedience. In I Chron., 21, be- 1
cause of a great sin, God gave David
a choice of three things'—three years 1
famine, three months to flee before his
foes or three days pestilence. He did
not begin by mowing down weeds or
gathering up tin canS but said, Let me
fall now into the hands of the Lord,
for very great are His mercies, but let
me not fall into the hand of man. It 1
is an established fact that people who
turn to God and give Him their heartj
and life are ndted for their cleanliness
and purity around the places of their
abode and habitation. God himself i
has given us a splendid examole In
Jonah. 3. and Christ recommends It
in Matt. 12:41 to avoid a great calam
ity. They fasted, and were covered
with sackcloth and cried mightily unto
God. Shall we search for some cause
of God's disfavor now at this present
time? Space allows us to mention but
one principal one—the desecration of
the Sabbath Day; Neh.. 13:18, at
tributes this as the principal reason of
their calamities. Jer.. 17:21-27, gives
the great blessings to a city for keep
ing the Sabbath Day holy, and utter
destruction for desecrating it. Why
should we jail people for breaking the
Eighth Commandment and hang
people for breaking the Sixth, and be
so utterly speechless, so recklessly
compromising, so wretchedly indiffer
ent about the Fourth? Within three
nilles of Harrlsburg make a circle.
You will find several thousand men
working on the Sabbath. Many shops
arc open and thousands disobeying
God by doine- their pleasure on this
holy day. Shall we conclude that
men are so foolish now as to build an
other Tower of Babel to get to heaven
.bv some other route th-»n by renent
anoe, faith and a holy life, or will we
with an honest heart and teachable
spirit believe the earnest admonition
of Isa.. 28:9, Kor when thy Judgments
are In the earth, the inhabitants of the
world will learn righteousness?
JOHN S. WHITE.
Sox 6, Hlghsptre, Pa,
! Declarations of war by various na
tions have been as follows:
1914.
July 28—Austria yn Serbia.
August I—Germany on Russia.
August 3—Germany on Belgium and
Frutice.
August 4—France on Germany.
August 4—Great Britain on Ger
! many.
August s—Austria on Russia,
i August 6—Belgium on Germany.
August 6 —Serbia on Germany.
August«S—Montenegro on Austria.
August 12 —Great Britain on Austria.
August 12—France on Austria.
; August 12—Montenegro onGermany.
August 23—Japan on Germany.
TELECRAPH PERISCOPE "1
—Wouldn't it be a blessing if Con
, press would pass an eight-hour day!
• law applying to itself?
—Breakfast foods come under the j
heading of distinctions without dif- j
ference.
—lt is all'right to separate the chaff j
1 from the wheat, but so many folks let
the other fellow have the wheat.
—Dr. Dixon warns children against
; eating green apples. Somebody is al- 1
. ways taking the Joy out of life.
—Policewomen are being appointed
in all parts of Germany. It's getting
harder and harder for a man to take
i a night out.
1 —ln 1914 the United States manu
factured 513,154 talking machines,
and half of them were cheap tin horn
instruments located in houses within
! a block of where we live.
! | EDITORIAL COMMENT]
I Max Harden is unpopular in Ger
many. Shaw is unpopular in England.
Romain Holland is unpopular in franc*
—the offense of each other being that
he is unwilling to believe that the
present enemies of his country are al
together iniquitous, altogether deserv
ing: of complete destruction, root and
branch. A man pays for his ability to
be a citizen of the world by losing out
in his own voting precinct.—New York
Evening Star.
' Mr. Wilson now learns how it feels to
be held to strict accountability.—Bos
ion Transcript.
We are inclined to predict that the
j European struggle will end through lack
j of a quorum.—Washington Post.
I The allies' "big push" seems to hav„
deteriorated into a series of stiff
nudges.—Des Moines Register ana
Leader.
"Kiponay"
Harrisburg has escaped infantile pa
ralysis. but it is going to have
"Kiponay." Thus sings the poet, Dr.
Hu«h Hamilton:
"The rude Indian knew.
By the lapping, splashing spray
Bubbling past his canoe.
Ripples were not far away;
Ki-Po-Nay, Ki-Po-Nay!"
The Greater Harrisburg Navy has
arranged to present a water festival,
| but nobody at the State capital, which
is justly famed as a center of the finer
i! arts, wanted to call it by so plain a
r i term. So Doctor Hamilton summoned
■ from the shadows a combination of
' Indian words which, as I have his own
■ bond for it, put together, spell
i "Kiponay" and mean to be upon the
. sparkling water.
i The Susquehanna does sparkle, and
i I've seen it do it many a time. As for
r the beauties of the Indian tongue, old
' | John Harris, who was tied to a tree'by
t the redskins where Harrisburg stands
• I and was to be burned alive, mayhap
: fancied another language more. —
■ Girard, in the Philadelphia Public
*i Ledger.
Thanksgiving Comes
I The summer hastens to its end.
' But as it doth its Journey wend
A voice v/ithin us gayly sings—
' Twill soon be time for turkey wings!
—Baltimore Sun,
August 25—Austria on Japan.
August 28—Austria on Belgium.
November 2—Russia on Turkey.
November s—Great Britain and
France on Turkey.
November 7—Belgium and Serbia
on Turkey. 1915.
May 23 —Italy on Austral.
June 3—San Marino on Austria.
August 22—Italy on Turkey.
October 14—Bulgaria on Serbia.
October 15—Great Britain on Bul
garia.
October 16—France on Bulgaria.
October 18—Russia on Bulgaria.
October 19—Italy on Bulgaria.
1916.
March B—Germany on Portugal.
HOW ABOUT^
Our Turn to Play
By Frederic J. Haskin
WHT is Japan straining all her
resources in the building of!
battleships today? Why has
she increased her army by two divis
ions, with the prospect of further in- j
creases in the near future?
Long ago the European experts
pointed the impregnability of Japan's
domestic position. No nation on earth i
can even threaten her supremacy in i
Far Eastern waters, with the sole ex
ception of her ally, Great Britain. Her j
home territory is absolutely unassail
able, in the words of the experts, "by;
any power or combination of pow-1
ers." Yet she appropriates one hun-1
dred million dollars toward carrying
out her naval program. Yet she in- j
creases her army.
Of all first-class nations. Japan can <
afford such expenditures least. Her
taxes are already staggeringly heavy—}
they have been increased six times in
the last twenty years. She has no j
wealth of natural resources to draw j
on. Life for her congested population i
is a far sharper struggle than in the
Occident, even without the added bur
den of a great militarism. It is in- t
conceivable that a nation in such cir
cumstances would plunge into reckless
military expenditures without some
immediate and definite purpose in
view. In the case of Japan, that pur
pose cannot be home defense. She
has more than enough already.
A consideration of world affairs to
day has shown how Japan and Amer
ica stand out as the leading figures in i
the field of the Pacific. It has shown j
how America's interests and principles
force her to stand in the way of poli-1
cies to which Japan is driven by na-1
tional necessity.
Yet Japan's militarism does not
necessarily mean war. Militarism has
other uses. Japan is a believer in the
doctrine of force, in the principle that
a nation's position and influence are
dependent on its military strength.
Her beliefs are the natural fruit of her
own experience. When she was weak,
she was a toy in the hands of Eu
rope. Her very import duties were
set for her by foreign nations. The
spoils of the Chino-Japanese war were
snatched from her at the moment of
victory because she was powerless to
resist.
Then she became strong. As her own
statesmen point out, her real infiu-,
ence dates from the day of her j
strength. Backed by the prestige of
her victory over Russia, by the fact
that Europe knew the strength of her
army and navy and their efficiency,
she became a world-power, the domi
nant figure of the Orient. She allied
herself on equal terms with the world's
greatest naval power. Great Britain.
Unopposed, she annexed Kor«a. Un
opposed she dominates Manchuria.
Unopposed she has wrenched from de
! fenseless China a set of unjust con
cessions. It is no wonder she believes
in the value of a great army and navy.
! Now her policy is on the eve of run-
I nins? counter to the policies of the
! United States. Her probable course
in China is clearly indicated by her
past course In Korea and Manchuria.
Such a course will result in the cut
ting off of American commerce and
Industry from the immense Chinese
field, at a time when that field is more
valuable than ever before to our ex
panding Industrial development Japan
AUGUST 30, 1016.
March 10—Portugal on Germany.
March 13 —Austria on Portugal.
August 28—Italy on Germany.
August 28—Rumania on central
powers.
Rumania's entrance into the war
places a thoroughly drilled and
equipped army ot' nearly 600,000 men
alongside the Allies.
The organization and equipment of
the Rumanian army have been praised
by many experts. Rumania's military
service is obligatory on all able-bodied
men between 21 and 46 years of age.
This gives the country 50,000 new sol
diers a year and enable Rumania out
of a population of 7,000,000 to muster
an army of over half a million.
needs the Chinese market, and she
proposes to take it. More than that,
she proposes to use the United States
as her means of reaping its benefits.
Unable to cope with the task of de
veloping China alone, she wants to
do the work by employing the finan
cial strength of the United States.
American capital will be forced to ap
ply itself through Japanese channels
if it is to be applied at all. Japan is
compelling China to put the rights ot
entry and development into Japanese
hands. The open door is being turned
into a tollgate with Japan behind the
wicket.
The question is not only one of dol
lars. It is not primarily one of dollars.
It is primarily a question of principle,
and in that question, America stands
for the right. This country to-day is
passing through an acute revulsion
from a former weakness for self
flattery. The soul-searchings raised
by the great war have punctured a
good many bubbles of national egot
ism. Eut our Chinese record bears the
test. We stand in china for a square
deal—just treatment for Chinese, for
Japanese, for Europeans, for Ameri
cans; a fair Held and no favors. We
are asserting the fundamental princi*
pies of our republicanism and our
democracy. There is more than money
at stake in China.
Japan has also the problem of her
surplus population to deal with. Her
chosen outlet for that population is
across the« Pacific. Her stumbling
block is the Monroe Dostrine.
Her ends are not confined to ques
tions of expediency alone. She has
high ideals in the matter of her des
tiny. She believes that she is the chos
en mediator between East and West.
[Alone among Eastern nations she has
[assimilated Western culture and West
ern civilization without for a moment
i losing her Oriental indivlduality.aShe
was the first of Eastern nations to
vanquish a Western foe. Her blows at
Russia put a new complexion on the
relation of half the world to the other
half. They destroyed at one stroke
the old belief in the innate superior
ity of the occidental. Japan gained a
new status for every Oriental and for
herself the place of leader and repre
sentative of the Orient—and she gain
ed it by force.
There is the matter of Japan's na
tional pride to be considered. The
oretically at least, and to a very large
extent practically, the individual Jap
anese puts the glory of the empire and
the semidivine emperor above all
personal considerations of profit or
well-being, even above his life. Such
a people can ill swallow arbitrary dis
;tlnctions drawn against them by oth
;er nations, especially distinctions
I which cast an imputation of inferior.
I ity. The Japanese are keenly aliv® to
j this aspect of the situation. They
have begun to tell us that the time has
; come for us to stop declaring how
much we admire them, and do some
thing to prove it. They have given
form to their dissatisfaction with our
attitude in a violent press campaign
directed against us that has filled the
nution with hostility to America.
Japanese statesmen have never for
I a moment lost sight of the opposition
1 they may meet from the United States
! in dominting China and in emigrating
i across the Pacific. They are prepar
ing to meet that opposition. No other
possible object can be found for Jap
an's great military and naval pro
gram.
Ebentng (Slljat
The athletic ability of the average
squirrel Is beyond question, but there
are few animals who would care to
drop unexpectedly about thirty or
more feet to a hard sidewalk and hope
to be very active immediately after
wards.
One of the Capitol Hill variety the
other day was curiously investigating
the cross-piece which projects from
the poles holding the overhanging
lights along the broad path leading
up from Third and Walnut to the
Capitol. In some inexplicable way
Mr. Squirrel managed to insert him
self in the glohe. which rather rudely
opened and dropped the surprised lit
tle animal with a heavy thud to the
earth.
The victim crawled rather deject
edly to the foot of a large tree and
for some time lay in a comatose con
dition. evidently thinking over the
sins of his past life. Then, seeing
that no bones were broken and life
still worth living, he bestirred himself
and disappeared gingerly up the
tree.
« » •
Two thousand three hundred miles
in the last year is the total mileage
covered by A. J. Slmms, an active
merchant of the city and an enthu
siastic and ardent supporter of all
water sports. He has a little daugh
ter. by the way, who, if anybody
should ask you. is "some swimmer,"
and when it comes to the "crawl,"
or the "trudgeon," or any of those
fancy strokes, her father will match
her against all comers. In a few
years, he says, she will be old enough
to enter the lists in the annual Kip
ona, and then some of Harri»burg's
best will have to look to their laur
els. Mr. Simms carries a pedometer
with him always, and records every
bit of exercise which lie takes, be It
walking, running, or tennis. Next
year he expects to better his present
record of 2,300 miles.
» • «
Veteran officers and enlisted men of
the cavalry service of the National
Guard heard with sincere regret and
sorrow the news yesterday of the death
of Lieutenant John M. Major, for
many years an officer of the Gover
nor's Troop and a first lieutenant of
the troop during the Spanish-Ameri
can war. Many a story of the con
geniality of the troop's "second in
command'' was recalled. One of them
was related by Captain Charles P.
j Meek, a former lieutenant of the troop
i and squadron adjutant of the cavalry
I regiment. It's about Lieutenant Ma
| jor's pipe. The officer was mighty
I fond of his pipe and treated it figura
tively—and literally—as an old tried
and true companion. So tried and old
did it become fit times that fellow offi
cers often remarked about these char
acteristics. "One time—we were in
Tamaqua on strike duty at the time,"
said Captain Meek, "that pipe got
so strong that we thought we'd remedy
the trouble if possible. So we chip
ped in and presented Lieutenant Ma
jor with a handsome pipe.. And it so
happened," concluded the captain
smilingly, "that on that day, some
| fourteen years ago. Lieutenant Major
| was just 66 years old."
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It was amusing to many folks Satur
day night, to see how quickly young
people become older. Both girls and
boys under 16 years applied for ad
• mission at local theaters, and not
thinking about the order from the
State Health Department would give
their correct age. Of course being
undei* 16 years they were refused ad
mission. They were not long in catch
ing on, and when turned down at one •
playhouse would go to another and
when asked. "How old are you," would
say "16." Some of those who were
small in stature were not able to make
the riffle, but not a few boys and
girls under age got in. In front of
| all local theaters crowds watched
with much interest the efforts of the
younger generation to overcome
health orders.
• • •
"Loud cries for old-fashioned dou
ble canoe paddle!"
E. V. Leeds who has charge of the
standing double paddle canoe race
for the specialty part of the Kipona
program sent up that cry yesterday.
Only enough paddles are available to
man one canoe and Mr. Leeds desires
to borrow at least six to equip two
more canoes. Anyone who wishes to
help out can readily do so by getting
in touch with him at his home. 1524
Derry street. "The scarcity of the
double paddles." said an old riverman
in discussing the situation yesterday,"
is the best example of the passing of
Father Time on the Susquehanna. In
i my day you saw but the double pad
dles; a single paddle was a rarity, an
oddity. And now," he concluded
whimsically, "an 'S. O. S." call has to
be sent for old-fashioned double pad
dles!"
» » •
There was a time when York sent a*
trainload of baseball rooters to Har
risburg. Now York enthusiasts come
at intervals. Yesterday a distinguish
ed visitor witnessed the game. It was
Dan Hake of the York Daily, known
to every newspaper man in Harris
burg. He is having a vacation, and
] putting in the time visiting friesds in
Harrisburg and other towns. Dan
Hake was at one time located in Har
risburg. He went to York and landed
a political job. Then he got back into
the newspaper game and is making
good. He is an authority on sports,
and can tell you the history of every
baseball player who has been in the
game since baseball started. He is still
a young man, and at present is keep
ing in touch with municipal doings in
his home town.
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY
[Questions submitted to members ol
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza
tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."]
What medical attendance is furnish
ed to the poor of the city and under
whose jurisdiction?
A physician is appointed for each
ward, and the expense is borne by
the Poor Directors of Dauphin
County.
Our Daily Laugh
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wishes she could
r tee herself as
excuse for spend
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