6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSjt Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Prts't and Editor-in-Chief F. R, OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M, STEINMETZ, Managing Editor i Member American Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associat nue Building, New cago, Illf' Ch ' Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a <E®?}MrajP> week; by mail. $3.00 a year In advance. SATURDAY EVENING, SEPT. 9. Correction that is prayed for becomes r means of grace; it is received in the right spirit because asked for in the right spirit; but to accept it dumbly, sullenly, or in the spirit of fatefulness, is to lose the advantage of chastise ment.—JOSEPH PARKER. THE EYES OF THE PEOPLE WITH the development of new residential districts the im portance of planning for the future is becoming more evident every day in this city. Fortunately for Harrisburg, the public-spirited men composing the City Planning Commis sion are devoted to their task and the study which they have made already Justifies the prediction that thousands of dollars will be saved to the taxpay ers hereafter through a proper con sideration of street lines and grades and other matters which enter into cost in the making of a city. The recent controversy between the City Planning Commission and City Council over the construction of an overhead bridge on Seventh street has served a good purpose in drawing the Attention of the community to the splendid work which the official plan ners have been doing in a modest yet effective and permanent way. This commission is not obsessed with any vain-glorloua Idea, of its own superior Judgment, but with clear-sighted vi sion It Is looking forward to the city of the futnre in comprehensive plan ning for the present. "What Is everybody's business Is no body's business" is an old axiom. It is this very situation which demands the careful study of planning problems embracing housing and grading and sewer conditions, so that the errors of the past may not be repeated at the cost of the people. Harrisburg has paid a big bill for the things which might have been pre vented had there been some such body of broad-minded and public-spirited men to guard against the very things which this commission is now earn estly endeavoring to avoid. There was no personal feeling In the action of the Planning Commis sion with respect to the overhead bridge on Seventh street; it' was simply the performance of a duty to the com munity and there can be no doubt now that the people are having their eyes opened to the necessity of some such safeguarding of the public rights. Some hundreds of Democratic states men left Washington yesterday to re construct their political fences at home. Their little day has ended and the coun try breathes a sigh of relief that one menace to its prosperity and peace has been for a time removed. CONGRESS THE Congress which adjourned yesterday is reckoned by Presi dent Wilson as "one of the most important in the history of the coun ty —yes. and one of the most extravagant and disastrous. As ex- Speaker Cannon said, "It did those things which it should not have done and left undone those things which It should have done." Without going into a long review of its acts of commission and omission, it is difficult to understand why Demo crats are Inclined to be boastful over the program enacted. They violated pledge after pledge, from economy to the tariff, and they accomplished al mort nothing of great benefit to the people the initiative of which rested with them. Most of the important measures enacted may be traced to Republican agitation in previous ses sions and in nearly every instance when the administration did father a really meritorious measure It had to depend upon Republican votes to get It through. The Democrats pledged themselves to economy and passed appropriation bills of the most extravagant nature. They promised to lower the high cost of living and it has gone steadily up. They denounced the protective tariff principle and then sidestepped in an effort to meet public opinion and voted to recreate a tariff commission such as the President threw out when he took office and adopted protective , tariff provisions where they thought protection would help them win votes. They denounced excessive taxes and passed laws that will take $200,000,000 a year from the taxpayers for the next two years. They boast of their navy and army bills, but It will not be forgotten that the President persisted in declaring our defenses adequate until the voice of the nation compelled him to back track or lose the support of thousands oX voters of his own party. Even then SATURDAY EVENING, tt was Republican congressmen who came to his rescue when the big pre paredness measures were at stake and Democrats stood back when their votes were needed. To be sure, worthy bills were en acted, but not by Democratic votes alone, and where teeth were extracted from dangerous measures—as the ship purchase bill, for example—the den tistry was performed by Republicans. The whole record of the Democratic Conress has been one of extravagance and expediency. The President and his party have swung like weather vanes In the gale of public opinion. Their convictions have been subordi nated to their political necessities. They have played to the galleries and now with their act concluded and the curtain down they find the gallerlss silent and the applause mainly coming from the darkened stage. The Demo crats in Congress have heartily im proved their own record. The voters will register their verdict at the polls In November. That man Frank H. Buhl has again aroused the admiration of the people of Sharon, where he resides. Not conteni with giving the town a fine country club and grounds, the children modern playgrounds and equipment, a rfana some club building for the people on Y. M. C. A. lines, and doing a lot of other big-hearted things without fuss Or feathers, Mr. Buhl has Just sent a letter to the independent military com pany, of Sharon, wiping out a mort gage fo? $6,000 which he held against the company's armory. Bully for Buhl, and may his tribe Increase! INSINCERE, AS USUAL THE Wilson administration can not play fair even with its most loyal and devoted friends. Newspaper reports from New York city, backed up by unmistakable evi dence, show conclusively that National Chairman McCormick, who has been one of Wilson's slncerest friends since the New Jerseyite loomed above the horizon of national politics, was fooled Into accepting the national chairman ship. He was led to believe that the President wanted him to plan and conduct his campaign for re-election and he accepted the high honor be yond doubt at no little personal sac rifice and undertook to lead the fight along the same vigorous lines that marked his own lively, if unsuccessful, contest for the governorship of Penn sylvania. But instead of support from the President and his advisors he finds himself checkmated at every turn, while McAdoo, the President's son-in-law, and the mysterious Colonel House are given full swing. They make the orders and McCormick is placed In the humiliating position of having to hand them out—of posing as the mere mouthpiece of a politician ambitious to build up his own per sonal machine under the guise of friendship for Wilson and of the masked marvel from Texas whose in fluence over the President has never been satisfactorily explained. All too late Chairman McCJormlck awakes to the fact that he was used as a bait for progressive votes, and it is little wonder if he ;s angry and dis gusted. But he might have known what was coming to him. Wilson. McAdoo et al. did the same with Chairman McCoombs. McCoombs did more for the nomination of Wilson than any other one man. He was the national chairmanship and permitted to do the drudgery of the campaign—but It was McAdoo who was the power behind the scenes and it was McAdoo who was given the credit for the victory after it was won., The President tossed a few crumbs to McCoombs as a sop to his future friendship, which McCoombs subse quently tossed back and came as near galloping off the party reservation as was possible for a Democrat of his dyed-in-the-wool stamp. Now Chairman McCormick is getting a big dose of the McCoombs medicine. His friends are wondering how long a man of his spirit will continue to ac cept without protest the embarrass ments heaped upon him. It is pointed out that 45 per cent, of the exports of this country go to Greai Britain. Once commercial retaliation is begun there is certain to be a counter retaliation, and that it will cost Ameri can interests very dearly'is not doubted. The ir.ipression is growing that Presi dent Wilson will be subjected to strong pressure from various interests to use the retaliation as a club on behalf ot their grievances against Great Britain. Secretary Lansing served warning thai the retaliatory measures were loosely drawn and would likely cause no ena of trouble. But what is trouble for millions of people compared with tn b personal ambitions of the present occu pant of the White House. The splendid success of the Kipona this year has encouraged the people ot the city to believe that New Orleans, with its Mardi Gras, and other cities with their popular celebrations, will Wave nothing upon little old Harrisburg hereafter. When the Greater Harris burg Navy meets next Monday night definite steps will be taken to maku permanent the Kipona, and to carry forward the work of preparation dur ing the winter to the end that the burden may not rest upon the few at the eleventh hour. Every loyal citizen must be interested in the perpetuation of the Kipona on broad and increas ingly constructive and artistic lines. * Those thousands of taxpayers, upon whom the Demorats at Washington have just laid new burdens, will not be ready to accept the superficial explana tions of the administration, but will delve deeper into the causes which brought about enormous appropriations on the pretense of national peparea ness. Millions for defense, but not one cent for the pork barrel and the enter prises which are hidden behind the de fense program. If anybody imagines that the Susque hanna Basin is-not to be made usable by the people, he may just as well get that thought out of hie mind. After several generations of indifference to a noble river and a wonderful com munity asset, the people of Harrisburg are at last awake and they are going to Insist on their bath houses and beaches and boating facilities. More power to them. Meanwhile, we trust the dust is being brushed occasionally from the Donato statuary in the warehouse where It re- poses as a silent rebuke to the official niggardliness which prevented the set ting up of this remarkable group on ut River Front. Also English working men are de manding a protective tariff. English labor would likewise restrict cheap goods produced at low wages and under poor conditions. MW | <r | > &Knoi{Co'CUu& By the Ex- Committeeman I =============J According to dispatches from New York, Vance C. McCormick, Demo cratic national chairman, has started j out to make Pennsylvania Democratic. | A good bit of news matter has been j coming out of New York lately, but: this is the first fiction In some time. Tho pleasantry, which reminds one I of the reorganization Democrats' slo gan at Baltimore. "Give us Wilson and we will give you Pennsylvania," is credited to Warren Van Dyke, secre tary of the State committee. It hap pens that the reorganlzers got Wilson, but they could not keep their end of the bargain. They did not get Penn sylvania to give and they failed again with everything in their favor In 1914. , What started the Issuance of this light fall reading was that the national chairman left New York yesterday to have a coherence with the State bosses at StroudsEurg. the official center of Pennsylvania Democratic activity and the habitat of National Committee man A. Mitchell Palmer. Mr. McCor mick plans to attend the Monroe county powwow to-day and may make a speech on the progress of the na tional campaign. He is expected to visit this city next week to attend the Democratic State committee surprise party. Mr. Van Dyke is quoted by the Philadelphia North American in a New York dispatch in this way: "Democratic enrollment In our cities exceeds all records. Reports from other districts, are that more voters registered as Democrats In a single day than voted for Wilson in 1912. The thing that makes me believe the President will carry our state is the Republican factional fight—Vare and Governor Brumbaugh on the one hand and Republican National Committee man Penrose on the other, are at one another's throats. The Vare-Brum baugh faction has everything to lose and nothing to gain through Hughes' election." —Republican State leaders will meet in Philadelphia Monday and Tuesday to talk over the campaign and decide upon a date for the State committee. The Democratic State leaders are very : indignant that the Republicans have j not yet called their committee. —Congressman John R. K. Scott j has offered his services to the Com- j mil tec of Seventy in cleaning up Phlla- | delphia fraudulent voting. The Vares J are backing him and it looks like a j drive to detach Winston and his ; friends from the Penrose side. It will : be recalled that the independents lined ! up analnst the Vare slate in the recent primary. -—Chester county Republicans are having a great time to-day with Philander C. Knox, Senators Penrose and Borah, State Treasurer Young and others as speakers. It is the annual picnic. —The vacancy caused by W. H. H. Davis quitting the Democratic sena torial nomination In Chester county has been filled by John R. Thomas, of j Downlngtown. The Chester Demo- J crats did not fight over It. It was not worth while. There Is no disposition to begin the political campaign early in Dau phin county. The signs all point to- i ward a big Republican victory. Most of the candidates have been over the I district during the summer and the j Democrats are very much discourag- J ed by what they have found. Hughes j Is very popular here and the Repub- I Mean's ticket as a whole will receive >' more than ordinary attention even In j strongly Democratic precincts. The: present campaign is tn marked con- ; trast with that of four years ago, i when even in early September the, fight was in full swing, with Progress ives, Republicans and Democrats at | it tooth and nail. Even in that year, j with the Republicans split wide open, i the Democrats could not carry the ! county and a Republican Senator and a majority of Republican candidates | were elected. Republicans point out I how hopeless it is for Democtats to attempt a serious campaign now with the Republican party united. —Thomas O'Connor, Patrick Far rell, Thomas Rouse, James Murphy, John Bobble and John Wesner, Coun cllmen of Gllberton borough, Schuyl kill county, were Indicted yesterday for illegally increasing the debt of Gilberton. It is alleged the debt is considerably over the limit which the Councilmen had the right to borrow without the consent of the people. Ten supervisors from Tamaqua, West Penn, Rush township and West Brunswick were also before Judge Brumm, charged with the failure to repair public roads, but were given another opportunity to make good. The supervisors said a recent cloud burst ruined their roads. • —A total first .day's registration in Pittsburgh of 22\215, with a consid erable Republican falling off from the registration the first day two years ago, was indicated to-night in com pilations on reports rrom 292 of the 414 city districts. There were slight gains in many districts in the Demo cratic enrollment. For the 292 dis tricts the total registration was 15,- 678, and the enrollment by parties was: Republican, 12,607; Democratic, 2232; Washington, 165; Socialist, 292; Prohibition, 48; scattering, 5; not enrolled, 329. Try It Again I admire the chap With the smile on his map, Though Fortune has dealt him a thunderous rap And knocked him clean down on the rear of his lap Whoso only remark Is, "Gee whiz! what a slapl I'll try it again." I'm there with the guy With the gleam in his eye, Though Fate has let loose a stiff kick near the thigh, And has scattered his pride all over the sky, Whose only retort is, "Doggonlt if I Don't go ye agin." I'm strong for the brick With the courage to stick, Though Failure has hounded him like the Old Nick, And has camped on his trail through thin and through thick, Whose happy comeback is, "I'm on to the trick; Let's do it agin."—Phlla. Ledger. EVERYTHING GLOOMY! By Wins Dinger 'Taint no use for me to try to Write about a bloomin' thing, 'Cause a chap in my position Nothing has 'bout which to sing. Life to me Is sad and gloomy; All joy has been put to rout Since doc told me that I had to Cut all of my smoking out. HARRISBURG I TELEGRAPHS - THE CARTOON OF THE DAY PRESIDENT WORDY WILSON PLANS TO STAND ON HIS RECORD—New. Item MO KG Mi. la fftiMcfpfe/a /fairer -Omnt+t. im& <rr n. niuhi*. umim TELEdRAPH PERISCOPE \ —lt is about time for the Kaiser to decide to eat his Christmas dinner some place or other. Paris and Pet rograd being impossible, we suggest Berlin. —Eut then, it must be recalled when Henry Ford said he'd have the "boys out of the trenches by Christ mas.'' he didn't say what Christmas. —Marconi believes the United States could not be Invaded, but with big 60-ton capacity Zeppelins pointed this way we are inclined to believe that Marconi Is a better Inventor than he Is a prophet. —New Yorkers will take little consolation in their street car strike worries from the fact that walking is wholesome exercise. —Why all this mystery about the blonde Eskimos? It Is perfectly evi dent that they are nothing more nor less than the ancestors of our chorus girls. Deer Season Canceled For two years, beginning December 1, there will be a closed season for deer in Columbia county, with a likelihood that the season will also be closed in Sullivan and Wyoming coun ties. Deer in the three counties are numerous this year, and it is to al low the number to greatly increase that the season has been closed. A number of Columbia county men petitioned the State Game Commis sion to close the season here, and no exceptions to the petition were filed. The hearing was set for Friday, and when no exceptions appeared, the season was ordered closed. It is likely the season will also be closed in Sullivan and Wyoming coun ties as the sentiment generally in those counties is against an open sea son until the deer placed on the big game preserve on the North Mountain increase sufficiently to permit hunting. The deer placed on the preserve are thriving and many of them have made their way out of the preserve, s*nd are roaming the woods in Sulli van, Wyoming and Northern Colum bia counties.—Montour American. Slogans Past Hughes has raised the standard of "America first and; America efficient." "Thank God For Wilson" is the answer of the Democrats. But compare these keynotes with the campaign slogans of yesterday. "At the approach of every national campaign," writes "Zim." in Cartoons Magazine, "the cartoonist casts about [for a symbol or some suitable mode of attacking the political fqe or uplifting his own candidate. Thus Bernhard Gil lam's famous 'Tattooed Man' defeated James G. Blaine. It was a cartoon like wise that returned William McKlnley to the White House. This was Grant E. Hamilton's 'Full Dinner Pail' car toon. and the 'Full Dinner Pall' was taken up as a campaign slogan. "So popular> in fact, was this novelty that both Mark Hanna and William Mc- Kinley, after election, complimented Hamilton for his great work in the campaign and declared that the dinner pall Idea, more than Mark Hanna's campaign management, secured for Mr. McKlnley the Presidency of the United States. The public at large is not al ways aware of what happens behind the scenes in a newspaper office, for if it were, it might have seen a novel pre sentation of a mammoth tin dinner pail ! filled witb tobacco, wines and cigars to one Hamilton, a* a token of love and in I recognition of his ingenuity. The 'Full I Dinner Pail' will go dowij in political cartoon history as one of the greatest hits because It spoke the truth and added a clean and inoffensive element to the campaign." Chameleon or Weasel? Correspondent of the New York Sun i makes these extracts from the earlier writings and speeches of President Wil son; The first Is from his speech at a din ner In the Waldorf Hotel on March IS. 1907: "We speak too exclusively of the capitalistic class. There Is another UJ formidable an enemy to equality and freedom of opportunity as It is, and that is the class formed by the labor organizations and leaders of the coun> try." The second is from his letter of January 12, 1909, replying to an invita tion to speak at a banquet of antlstrlke and antlboycOtt advocates: "I am a fierce partisan of the open shop and of everything that makes for individual liberty, and I should like to contribute anything that it might be possible for me to contribute to the clarification of thinking and the forma tion of right purposes in matters of this kind." So much for our worthy chameleon! MEN'S CONVENTION HERE HAS.GREAT POSSIBILITIES By the REV. DR. EDWIN A. PYLES Pastor of the Fifth Street Methodist Episcopal Church THE possibilities of the Pennsyl vania Convention of Methodist Men to be held in the Capital City next November 20-23 are bound less. The great Indianapolis conven tion in 1913 was to many a Pentecost in power and inspiration. The Boston convention held in 1914 was to all New England a radiating center of light, information and knowledge. The Columbus convention held in 1915 gave a mighty impetus to the work of the church in all the great State of Ohio. And now the Harrisburg convention will do for Pennsylvania Methodist men what Columbus did for Ohio; Boston for New England; Indianapolis for the nation. Think of the personnel of this great gathering. Methodism has always produced great leaders, and the best the church now possesses will be here, to be vehicles through whom the Spirit of God will And access to \he heart of our great church in this fair State. The delegates will be men who love the Church of God, who will come here because of their consecration to the kingdoni, to learn as they sit at the feet of our leaders, how to solve every- question that confronts every church, great or small, in this mighty Commonwealth. Three thousand strong, the Pentecostal number, wait ing together for power to help win the old Keystone State for righteousness and God. It stirs the powers of the imagination as we think of the flower of Pennsylvania. Methodism in her membership mingling with the great leaders of the church leaders as bish ops, missionary workers, editors of our great rteligious periodicals, min isters and laymen brought here with their fund of information to wield their influence upon those who seek the best for the church—and all for the salvation of men and the exulta tion of Jesus Christ. Think of the possibilities that flow EDITORIAL COMMENT! (From Beliefonte Republican.) President Wilson's speech of ac ceptance was a beautiful piece of reading. So were his frequent and nu merous notes to Germany. —Correspondent in an exchange has suggested the "Wilson Waltz." It is "one step forward, two steps backward, side step and hesitate." It can be danced to the tune of "He walked right in and turned around and walked right out again."—Philadelphia Inquirer. Blakelock Out of Asylum Ralph Albert Blakelock, the land scape artist, who for seventeen years has been in an insane asylum, at 'last has six months in which to prove his sanity, and told his liberators this week that he would speedily paint his way back to freedom despite his seventy years. It is believed by those inter ested in his liberation that Blakelock is sane and that his art, forsaken in the long years he was in the asylum, will convince the world that he is not demented. While he will be under ob servation at the sanatorfum to which he has been transferred, he will have every facility for work, Blakelock hopes to paint such a pic ture as he believed is expected of him because of his election to the National Academy of Design last year. It is probably that landscape along the Hud son will be his subject. | Our Daily Laugh HARDLY THE V/Oft THING. Why did she vi-c A break the en- M gagement ?" Seems he mailed f;, R) her a love letter *** In one of these envelopes with a Class front fy MOBBIN<3 1110 What's the tru- SEPTEMBER 9, 1916. from such a gathering: when the pent up powers of truth are set free. We know that single facts have trans formed lives, given birth to great and mighty movements in the church and nation, and from the platform of this convention will be presented the truth, the truth as to our condition,our needs, our possibilities. This with the up lifting of the Christ, who will draw all men unto Himself if uplifted, will send men forth emancipated by the truth, girded by the Nazarene, to live 1 and to serve. Then I love to think of this con vention as a convention of the Metho dist Ken of Pennsylvania. The men who have had part In the building of our church in every city, town, vil lage, hamlet, country crossroad in this fair State. The men who have assisted in building our membership into nearly half a million in Pennsylvania: who contribute for local support and benevolent work throughout the world hundreds of thousands of dollars an nually; who work for the Master and humanity in stately cathedral, college center, noble church, humble meeting house and mission station, Methodist Men of Pennsylvania. The fair State smiled upon by our Creator as He gave us fertile valleys, mountains of coal and ore—the home of noble men and women—within whose borders nearly every language is spoken—and nearly every problem confronting the church in home mission work .must be solved. Is it too much to think of this convention in its possibilities help ing to save the Keystone State and helping thus because of her problems to save the world? One thins more. This convention, born in prayer, prayer that will arise from honest hearts all over the State, dominated by men who have access to the throne of grace; irresistible forces of the kingdom will be poured out upon delegates and through them upon all the Methodist churches, until the mind staggers under the conception of the possibilities of this gathering i for our State and Church. (THE STATE FROM M TO W] Gum chewing: teachers in the coun ty schools were called down by Super* intendent Taylor of Scranton for talk ing and otherwise working their jaws during institute. Corporal punishment '■ is not permitted, and anyway the , superintendent would have a big ' order on his hands. The Mexicans which the Pennsyl vania railroad imported and transport ed to Reading are proving to be excel lent laborers. The P. R. R. pays in real money, while Villa currency is rated at three cents a pound. Q. E. D. Mary Jerke, housekeeper for Far mer John Deuehe, of Dayton, Pa., de clined to be put off on the buggy ride which had been promised her, so just to show that she hated postponements she shot the farmer in the head. A contemporary soliloquizes that girls seldom tell the truth, while boys nearly always do. The girl is likewise credited with being more clever than the boy. And you will never find a boy who would rather be a girl and a girl is too proud to admit that she would rather be a boy.,So there you are. ? It costs *9.69 to throw a bottle on the streets of Tarentum, judging from the fine "Bill" Simonski had to pay the other day. Bottles should only be thrown at ball games anyhow. "If folks in the neighborhood have anything to say about the noise we make as a drum corps in practicing, why don't they come to us instead of scolding about the matter?" Thus the famous Doylestown corps makes known its complaint. Who was it that said, "A drum by any other name would sound as stentorian??? A Reading man's divorce from his wife on the grounds of her belief in witchcraft brings to light the fact that the wife had everything marked with an X. Looks more like a matter for algebraic solution. Perhaps the wife was forgetful and wanted to keep track of the "unknown quantity." WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] What provision Is made lor teachers' retirement? How is fund raised? A pension fund has been created for this purpose. One-half is con tributed tiy the teachers and one half by the School Board. Estab lished in 1908. Twenty-two teach •rs ax* now on Lha retired list, j I**" 1 "' 8 **ll "While this has been the greatest year f<jr automobile travel to and from Har risburg, Jt has also been marked by some of the severest criticism of the condition of roads leading to the gates of the State Capitol. Many people from other states, especially those from the West and South, have (one through this State Instead of follow, lng what was getting to be the beaten automobile path through New York Btate to the New England coast and have stopped here. This has been largely due to the manner In which 'Seeing Pennsylvania First" has been preached, the dissemination of fact* about the splendid 6cenery In thw commonwealth and statements about the millions the State has been spend lng on roads. Unfortunately and un fairly, the State government has been blamed for the condition of all the roads. Tourists In going about Penn sylvania are apj to strike many sec tions of township or borough roads. There are over 90,000 miles of road in Pennsylvania, the State being respon sible for about 12,000 miles. The State highways are in fair shape. Not withstanding what people say, this State's roads are comparable to state roads in some other eastern common wealths, not all, of course, being in that class, but enough to show that this State can build and maintain good roads. However, in touring a great area like Pennsylvania persons are apt to get on township roads, where the responsibility is on the rural super visor, who, when he is interested, is only backed by the scanty tax levy from a frequently sparse population. And the State gets the blame for noi,'leet. Some townships are taking a prido in their roads and as a whole the standard is higher. x But there are also roads lying within bbroughs which are a shame. It Is said by some auto mobile travelers that they can tell when they strike a borough by the bad roads, a statement which may be jocular, but too often has elements of truth. One of the worst of such roads Is right at the city's eastern Una, where the transition from a paved street at one end or a well kept State road at the other is not pleasant for Harris burgers to experience and which often brings out from unfortunate travelers comments which would jolt less hard ened men than the average borough official. However. It Is the same In other part® of the State, but the truth Is, most of the township and borough roads on main highways or entering this city are not what they should be when one considers what attractions Ilarrlsburg has to offer within Its limits and the fine quality of its mu nicipal highways. In this connection it iftay be said that there are some roads right close to the city where aut.omobilists are forced to use one side of the road. One part is in such shape that everyone is using the other, turning out when necessary, and naturally bringing about the deterioration of the used portion very rapidly. The result will be either a ruined highway or some damage suits. In Paxtang borough, for in stance, the road which is a con tinuation of Derry street is being worn down and is getting worse every day. although half a dozen projects to pave have been discussed in the last three months. When the Governor's party starts out on the first tour of the farmin?! regions next Tuesday it will go over some of the very first highways taken over by the State when it inaugurated the "State main system. These roads have been gone over a good many times In the last three years and are In fair condition when It is considered that only In a few portions have they been rebuilt. There will also be traversed roads which were so good when taken that they have only needc# watching and patching, others which had to be partially rebuilt, others of new construction and some which are an argument for a liberal allowance for the immediate Improvement of difficult sections, such as along the river between Dauphin and Sunbury. AU the state highway problems are not construction and maintenance. It is likely that when the next Legis lature meets there will be a recurrence of I he demand for linking up of county towns. .Some of the county seats in Pennsylvania lie close to each other and are in regions which are justly noted for scenic features, but the roads connecting them will have to be re built. The State's road superintend ents have accomplished much, but what is the matter is that they are nlain dirt roads with precious little foundation. Some of the roads con ned ing county seats in the picturesque Susouchanna basin are in startling contract, to the excellent highways be iween Harrisburg and Carlisle and Ive wist own and Mifflin, for Instance. New Bloomfield, which is not far from Harrisburg. is unknown to many resi dents of this city, although Perry county has some of the finest scenery in the central section. All It needs Is better roads to bring it to notice. • * People who have been over the State say that opposition to a big bond issue for construction of roads is nothing like what it was when the election was held a few years ago and sentiment Is now In fa,vor of an amendment to the Constitution to enable the State to bor row fifty millions in quarters where there was strong feeling against It In 1913. In short, people are beginning to understand that no State can build roads out of current revenue, still lesa when it has a proposition like that which confronts Pennsylvania. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "] —Judge David Cameron, of Wells boro. who retired from the bench last Spring, is again practicing law. He is aged 78, but is nevertheless one of Ihe most active men in the county. —Congressman Krelder returned home last evening from Washington. . Ex-Governor WllliaJti A. Stone has spent most of his summer at his cottage on Pine creek, in Tioga county. Harry Thaw was his guest for a.few days. DO YOU KNOW H That the Harrisbuic silk mill slto has been used for the manufac ture of textiles since 1850? . HISTORIC HARRISBURG Ir, 1825-6-7 there were five military companies in Harrisburg, the Dauphin Cavalry, the Harrisburg Guards, the Pennsylvania Guards, the Harrisburg Junior Guards and the Harrlsburf Union Infantry. ~ Japan and China [Kansas City Star.] It is too badi about China, of course., But as Kipling says: It )s always a temptation for a strong and agile nation To call upon a neighbor and to say. "We invaded you last night and are quite prepared to fight Unless you pay us well to go away." Nations than <lo not want callers of that sort must also be prepared to fight, and China is not. So probably her caller will stay awhile.
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