6 OARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 'A NBWSPAPER FOR THB HOME Pounded IS3I Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. XL J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief W ■ R. OYSTER, Business Manager. QUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor, 1 Member American njj llshers' Assocla |jk tlon. The Audit |H Bureau of Clrcu -11 latlon and Penn i 3 sylvanla Assoclat jl HU Eastern office, jjf nue Building, New Mw em office, Story, SEJF ley, People's Gas ~ cago. 111.' Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. I ~ MONDAY EVENING, SEPT. 25 The way to heaven —turn to the right and keep straight on.—Supr geon. THE "HARDSCRABBLE" DECISION HARD common sense characterizes the opinion of the Dauphin county court In the "Hard ecrabble" case. Judge McCarrell has clearly and convincingly upheld the contention of the city In all Important particulars. Whatever else is in volved in the litigation over the con demnation of this strip along the river may be determined, as the court sug gests, on appeals from the awards of the board of reviewers. Many of the property owners in the "Hardscrabble" district long ago In dicated their satisfaction with the amounts awarded by the viewers and It is expected that City Solicitor Seitz, who has ably represented the city in the dispute, will at once tender the necessary bonds and proceed to take over the properties. Much time has already been lost and as the one ques tion remaining is one of compensatory damages the work of demolishing the buildings and clearing the ground may proceed .without delay. It should be possible tp make considerable progress before cold weather. Meanwhile City Council will doubt less give full consideration to the pub lic demand for bathing and boating facilities. These are not matters for private initiative and the municipal authorities need wait no longer for public sentiment to justify provision for these things. "With the elimination of the build ings In the "Hardscrabble" section the placing of the slope in proper condi tion for park uses will follow as a matter of course. Another great step forward in the Improvement of the city's matchless river front will then have been taken and the charm of the Susquehanna basin will be greatly enhanced. Another swing through the farming country will give the Governor a still better conception of the State's agri cultural resources. PRESIDENTS OPENING SPEECH PRESIDENT WILSON opened his porch campaign at Shadow Lawn on Saturday with a speech that must have been a great disappoint ment to those Democrats who had ex pected he would strike vigorously some keynote that would attract to his drooping standard thtse voters who are trying earnestly to decide the question of national leadership for the next four years on a basis of sound and constructive statesmanship. In stead of outlining in clear-cut and un mistakable language his views and policies regarding the grave questions now confronting the nation, instead of displaying the great qualities of states manship to which he pretends, the President gave himself over wholly to a weak and inadequate "explanation" as to why he forced upon the country a so-called eight-hour law that Is nothing of the sort and which promises not only to be a gold brick for those whom it waa supposed to benefit, but a •tumbling block for the government for years to come. President "Wilson is an extremely plausible gentleman and none -will deny the English language is most ably and delightfully handled in this as .in his other speeches and notes. But there comes a time when even the most complacent people demand more action and fewer words. The voters this Fall are not being fooled by the long-winded "explanations" of the man who can explain only half the things that the people of the United States wish to have explained. Vera Cruz was never explained; the Lusitania disaster is another un answered puzzle. The hasty rush of our untrained troops to the border at the President's command has never been satisfactorily elucidated—and for the Piesldent to come forward now with a long explanation supporting his arbitrary nullification of the principle of arbitration In the recent railroad controversy is nothing short of insult ing to the Intelligence of the voter. "While arbitration was being dis cussed," said the President in his speech of Saturday, relating in detail the history of his negotiations with the two sideti to the railway wage dis pute, "I had this sad thought: arbi tration is a word associated with the dealings of hostile Interests. It is an alternative of war." But that Is Just what the railroads and the brotherhoods threatened—in dustrial war. Can there be any atronger proof, therefore, that the President, dealt the principle of arbi tration—a fundamental natiopal prin ciple—a fearful blow by his much MONDAY EVENING, criticised course, and is it riot a pretty clear reading of the President's mind as that of a man obsessed with the fear of war of any sort? The phrase on many Hps, "He kept us out of war," sounds sweet in the President's ears, but he underestimates In his zealous appeal for votes on that scoro the patriotic willingness of Americans to defend their rights and the funda mentals of their government at all coat. All the President's "explaining" will not wipe out the fact that he yielded to the demands of an Infinitesimal per centage of the country's population without regard for the 100,000,000 whose Interests were Interrelated. When he told his audience that "the business of government is to see that no other organization is as strong as itself, to see that no body or group of men, whatever their private Interest Is, may come Into competition with the authority of' society," he convicted himself of being guilty of a gross vio lation of that very principle. It Is the old, old story of fine words and deeds exactly the opposite. "What shall we say of a man who tenders the white flag with one hand while with the other he passes out to reporters In waiting a high-sounding speech the text of which Is "Die, But Never Sur render"? Governor Brumbaugh has an eye for the beautiful and he has frequently re marked: "Tour river front is the city's greatest asset." He will be more than gratified to learn that the Hardscrab ble obstruction is now to go. .• THE OLD SUSQUEHANNA TRAIL HARRISBURG is to be made the radial point of another series of distinctly marked automobile tour routes if the Snyder County Historical Society's movement to bring tho his toric lore of the Susquehanna Valley into Its own so that It may be properly appreciated by motorists Is successful. No stream so teems with Indian legend as tho Susquehanna; none Is more closely associated with the early settle ment of the State, and none Is more picturesque. The route, or routes, for there would be of necessity several, It Is proposed to call the Susquehanna Trail. In a little circular published by the society it is set forth that the route would start at Harrlsburg and follow the west bank of the Susquehanna river through Marysville and Duncan non, using the William Penn Highway to Clark's Perry bridge, a distance of about two miles. The course would be thence north through Liverpool, McKee's Half Falls, Port Trevorton, Selinsgrove, Shamo kin Dam, Northumberland. Danville, Bloomsburg, Berwick, Shickshinny, Nanticoke, Wilkes-Barre and on to the headwaters of the Susquehanna at Lake Ostego, N. T. It is pointed out that the trail could be divided into three sections. The north trail would be along the North Branch, the west trail along the West Branch and the main trail along the river south of the confluence of the branches at Northumberland. The society suggests that as a dis tinctive mark characterizes all the highways and trails In the Common wealth, It would be appropriate to in dicate the proposed thoroughfare by an Indian arrowhead, placed vertically on a white background and surrounded by a circle of red. which would be visible at great distances and very significant of the vanished race that formerly inhabited the picturesque Susquehanna Valley. The West Branch trail would nat urally begin at Northumberland, ex tending through Milton, Watsontown, Muncy, Montoursvllle, Williamsport, Jersey Shore, Lock Haven and through the northern tier counties, but would, of course, have its southern terminus in Harrlsburg. The Selinsgrove News, which is heartily back of the movement, calls attention to the fact that New York and New England States have become famous in the automobile tourist world in large measure by reason of the identification of routes. "The scenery, roads and public accommodations in this valley compare favorably with those of the famed sections, and it is therefore believed by the community historians the situation presents one worthy of development," says the News. "By appealingto the historic and perpetuating the names of the red men and their linos of travel the nearby state people have to-day the Mohawk Trail, the Seneca Trail, the Tuscarora Trail, the Adirondack Trail and sev eral others, and the circumstances are no more worthy of recognition than those the Snyder County Historical So ciety proposes to put on the map." Along the old Susquehanna Trail flowed the traffic of the Indians and the early settlers fringed its banks with their cabins. Later the Conestoga wagon and the stagecoach followed its easy grades and touched upon its cen ters o i population. When the canal period arrived the ditch diggers of necessity could not venture far from its source of water supply and its levels, and Anally the railroads came and paralleled the line of the old canal. Now we have reverted—or progressed —to the public highway again and the old Susquehanna Trail comes Into its own at a bidder for automobile travel. Sister counties should go to the aid of the Snyder county historians In their effort to mark and advertise this famous road. An enthusiastic Democrat has writ ten a magazine article dn "Why Busi nessmen Will Vote For Wilson." But they won't, and they have their own good reasons. CIIVIL AND SNIVEL. SERVICE PRESIDENT WILSON has the dis tinction of being the head of the only administration since 1883 that has not extended the merit sys tem in the civil service. Wa have the explanation in Vice-President Mar shall's recent speech as reported by the Indianapolis News, when he said: Did I say "civil service" or "snivel service?" They both mean the same. We found the offices well guarded by snivel service, and our only regret was that we couldn't ury more of the appointees loose and fill their places with Democrats. If there la any office under the Government that a Dem ocrat can't fill 1 believe that office should be abolished. II T>oOt lc* U I'PtKKQlftauua By the Ex-Committeeman Men who have accompanied Gov ernor Martin Q. Brumbaugh on his two tours of the agricultural regions ] of the Stato have been so much Im pressed by the crowds which have turned out to see the State's chief ex ecutive that they are urging the Gov ernor to assume the leadership of the party in the state and to submit to the voters at the November election the question whether they will support legislative candidates committed to his program. It is considered ex tremely likely that the Governor will do so and go before the voters of Penn sylvania for the second time In a year for their endorsement. His friends say that the conditions will be entirely different In May the Governor sought a political preference which would carry with It the leadership of the Re publican party In the Keystone State. In November he will go to the people after nearly two years of tenure of office and ask endorsement of his ad ministration. If a majority of legis lators committed to his policies, from social and Industrial legislation to local option, are elected, he will be elected, they hold. The Governor plans to stop at York to-morrow soon after the convention of the State League of Republican Clubs begins its convention and his friends from Philadelphia and eastern counties arc planning to raise the roof f6r him. Ho will be strongly endorsed in the resolutions. That the Governor intends to make a keynote speech Is Indicated by re marks in the course of an interview given by him to the Philadelphia Led ger last night when he outlined his speech to be made at York. He said: "I shall outline as nearly as possible the manner in which I think the Re publican party of Pennsylvania should face the future. It will be a program which, if followed, should make the party impregnable in the next twenty years, and may require all of that time to be translated into law. Not all of these recommendations can be carried out at once, but if we keep steadily hammering away at them they will arrive in time. All of my recom mendations will be constructive, a pro vision of the Republican party's des tiny, perhaps for a generation, as I behold It now. I shall deal with none of the small, petty questions regarding leadership, but will declare that the leadership must be progressive, must be in touch with the people and must have a stimulating influence on the future of the party. The next twenty vears may be required to put all these Into effect, but we want to start at once, and it is high time that the at tention of the Republican party in Pennsylvania was called to their essen tial bearing on the future success of the party, not to speak of the greater matter, of prosperity and welfare of the people of Pennsylvania." Suffragists of the state have re quested a hearing before the Repub lican State committee, which will meet In the near future in Philadelphia. In a letter to State Chairman William E. Crow, Mrs. George B. Orlady, president of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association, writing on September 22, announces that the committee will be a.sked to give a hearing to a suffrage delegation and pass a strong resolution favoring woman suffrage in Pennsyl vania which will pledge the support of all Republican organizations in the effort to secure a second woman suf frage referendum in 1920. Mrs. Orlady In announcing the request says that it will be demonstrated conclusively whether or not national Republican party platforms are binding upon Re publicans in the various states. Mrs. Orlady declares that if the national party platforms are what they profess to be, Republicans of Pennsylvania, who will have seats In the next Legis lature, will vote unanimously for the woman suffrage bill to be introduced, and in accordance wfth the woman suffrage plank in the national Repub lican party platform will favor suffrage for women in Pennsylvania in 1920. —While, the League of Clubs Is In session at York to-morrow and Wednes day Candidate Charles Evans Hughes will bo meeting the Republicans of Western Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh. The Governor will enter Pennsylvania after his Ohio tour on Tuesday night and will be in Pittsburgh for a rousing big meeting on Wednesday. Senator Boies Penrose and Senator George T. Oliver will be with him In Pittsburgh. —State Chairman William E. Crow and other officials of the Republican state committee will be guests of the Republican League of Clubs at York this week. Senator Crow will probably make a brief address. —-Philander C. Knox plans to make half a dozen visits this week and has a pretty'stiff schedule if he expects to keep all of his engagements. —Northern tier men are trying to work up some enthusiasm for W. P. I-iongrstreet \or senator against ex-Sen ator FrankV E. Baldwin. Baldwin, from all accounts, has a good start in the race. '—Tho Central Democratic Club is to visit Shadow Lawn on October 14 along with some 2,500 other Democrats. It will be a great day for the machine Democrats and the Federal officehold ers. They will pay their own fare. —Senator E. E. Beidleman seems to have opened the campaign pretty well in his Middletown speech. His discus sion of Dauphin county matters was heard with interest. —Kate Richards O'Hare. a noted Socialist speaker, is to visit this sec tion. She will speak hero on Octo ber 14. —Plans to stimulate registration are reported from a number of the smaller cities. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh appear to have the best of it. —The Philadelphia ledger in a Washington dispatch yesterday lam basted the Democrats who talk about Wilson carrying Pennsylvania. The article seems to think that National Chairman McCormick is just, amusing the party during the early days of the campaign by intimating possibility of the state being debatable. —Pinchot's latest attack says WiJ son has ignored conservation. Brother Amos If. about due to be heard from on thai score. —Edwin O. Lewis, prominent In Democratic and reform circles In Philadelphia for years, is out for Hughes. —The platform committee of the Republican state committee will meet this week. So will the revision of the rules committee. —Socialists are reported to have lost heavily in registration In New Castle and Reading, two of their strongholds. Let George Do It This is the essay of a Filipino sailor who was told to write about George Washington: "George Wassingham was sore foe cnuse America! persons is not free. He sale to England on (naming his own battleship) ship and say to king, 'I express declaraclon of indypenpen dence for American persons." King he say "Nothin* doin" ' and Mr. Wassing ham tell Admiral Dewey to shoot tur ret guns at him. Blme-by king, he fay he will not rule Americal persons again. 'Let George do it' say king and to-day Americal persons is free." —Th® Pathfinder. BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ' THE CARTOON OF THE DAY TEACHER'S PET ~~ DEBAEL. In Chicago Ei TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE 1 • —For a talkative man. William Jen nings Bryan is keeping uncommonly quiet. —The Lewlstown woman who gave up a pension of SSO a month to marry is going to have something to hand her husband in any family debates that may arise. —"What did Ben Bolt?" asks an ex change. It's not what did Ben Bolt, but why did Ben Bolt, If Sweet Alice was such a fine girl? —Rice having gone up in price may not be a misfortune: perhaps now they'll stop putting rice soup on the menu so often. —Skirts are to be longer this Fall, and hosiery at once shows signs of running to more subdued colors. | EDITORIAL COMMENT] Germany has distributed 430,000 iron crosses and some millions of wooden ones.—Wall Street Journal. Carranza wants to hear a jingle in his treasury. Rut if it's loud enough it will start another revolution.—At lanta Constitution. Why all this talk about the Russians taking Musn? Why don't they tackle something hard?— Nashville Southern Lumberman. Much of the fugitive verse that Is cluttering up magazine-columns these days apparently is fugitive from justice. —Newark News. Unfortunately, the public has no way to compel United States Senators to work eight hours a day.—Philadelphia North American. Courting Parlors Many have deplored the tendency of the boys and girls to leave the old farm for the allurements of city life. Sometimes, as our melodrama tells us, they come back disillusioned, some times with money to pay the mort gage. In any case they would do bet ter to stay at home. Governor Brum baugh makes the timely suggestion that the lack of courting facilities is one reason for their restlessness. He would have a "courting parlor," if necessary, in every farmhouse in Pennsylvania. It should be sacred from little Willie, or even from moth er. The rustic lover is traditionally shy and easily scared off. He no longer conducts his love affairs with the pastoral simplicity of the "Georgics." He would not adventure to sport with Amaryllis in the shade. "Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'ith no one nigh to hender." Huldy must be alone Jf Zekle is to summon up his courage and go In. If he has no chance to confess his passion, he will go to town, as the Governor says, "to spark some woman there." And then the lure of the city, which the Governor somewhat unfair ly sums up as "the five-cent movies," gets him. Pity the sorrows of the country lad! But pity those too of the lad who lives in town. Has the "steady" a court ing parlor? Not often. She is bound by the heavy laws of the res angustae doml. Father sits in the sole room available for company reading the evening paper. Mother comes in from the kitchen to tell Willie It is time to go to bed. There is no opportunity for the tender nothings that make up the sum of courtship. When the weather is too cold to sit in the pnrk there is no other resource. Some of the homes for girls who have none of their own wisely provide for this em ergency. May their number increase like the tribe of Ben Adhem! Earnest students of sociology have paid too scant attention to the courting par lor. The Governor gives good advice which they should eagerly follow.— Philadelphia Public Ledger. Priests Fight For France (Abbe Oaell, In L/Iliustration.) When the history of the great war Is written, one of the finest chapters will be dedicated to the heroism of "France's soldier priests." Berving as private or military chaplains to the troops, they have shed fresh lu3tre on the glory of France. • MRS. JANE DEETER RIPPIN MENDER OF BROKEN HEARTS STANLEY JOHNSON, writing in the October American Magazine under the caption, "A Mender of Broken Hearts," has this to say of Mrs. Jane Deeter Rlppin, who before her marriage was Miss Jane Deeter, of this city, where she is very well known: Mrs. Jane Deeter Rippin might well be called "The Mender of Broken Hearts." But Philadelphia's judicial stamping machine has fciven her the less direct and less euphonious title of Supervisor of the Probation De partments of Domestic Relations, Criminal and Misdemeanor Branches of the Municipal Court. This name seems altogether too much of an extra load to be carried by a woman who in 1915 —she has shown me the advance type proofs of the story of her work for the last year—accomplished these splendid re sults: One thousand warring couples restored to harmonious family life. Three thousand children saved from the blighting effects of be ing reared by strangers. Three hundred and ninety seven indigent parents relieved from want and the possibility of institutional care. Three thousand eight hundred and thirty-two husbands forced to recognize their rosponsibllties to their wives and children. Mrs. Rlppin is smoothing out do mestic wrangles in the City of Broth erly Love with always increasing suc cess —to the utter dismay of those le gal sharks who supply divorces at a fixed rate. She is an interpretive physchologlst, revealing to married men and women the folly of their quarrels. Before she began her work, two years ago. Mrs. Rippin studied the manner of the divorce courts. Since then she has built up a wonder ful organization for healing hearts. There are sc\ienty-soven persons working under Mrs. Rlppin's direc tions, day and night. The number of nonsupporting and deserting husband cases average one hundred and elghty flve a day. When an afflicted wife appears at room 578 in Philadelphia's twenty-flve-milion-dollar City Hall, she meets an officer of the court, then files a statement of the grievance, and receives an identification number. Then comes an interview in which the applicant is given the fullest free dom and sympathy. She is made to realize that she is going to be helped. When the story is finished, it is fully recorded on a second form. The woman is told to return in a week. A letter is then sent to the offending husband, and he is asked to call for a friendly talk in five days. Nine times out of ten he comes. Another interviewer listens to his side of the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR WANTS MOKE OF MAGGIE To the Editor of the Telegraph: Dear Sir: Jerry's punk—so say all of us. Give us more of—Days of Real Sport and Maggie. A Southern Reader. Pet Whale Killed .No more will travelers on the liners be greeted with the spout of "Faral lone Charley," the mammoth gray back whale which has for years greeted vessels off the Golden Gate. Cy WUmarth, chief steward on the steamer Matsonia, from Honolulu, brought the news that on the outgo ing trip "Farrallone Charley" was sighted in a death duel with another and larger whale. Passengers on the liner witnessed the uneven contest for half an hour. When the Matsonia arrived here and it was learned that a dead whale had floated on the beach below Point Sur, an 4 as their pet whale did not greet them on the way into port the officers aboard the liner have con cluded that "Farralone Charley" had been vanquished. San Francisco Chronicle. SEPTEMBER 25, 1916. , case, and he is given the same sym pathetic attention accorded to his wife. The data obtained from the two in terviews is carefully studied for the next step, a face-to-face meeting of husband and wife. The stories of each have been carefully analyzed, and at this stage in the proceedings Mrs. Rip pin's real work of mending begins. "We have a few tignts here every day," she says. "I believe in bringing a man and woman together in this of fice and letting them scrap it out. We frequently have fist tights, and have to separate the fighters. But are not a few blows worth It, when the dis cussion involves the bringing up of five or six children? Whatever it is that has been boiling inside the mail and woman boils out of them." But the wife-husband conference is always informal —and generally peace ful. The cases of first complaints to the Probation Department in 1915 numbered 4,287, and the restorations to a happy and married existence numbered 1,004. Four events may happen at this conference; a recon ciliation; further investigation and visits to people who know the belliger ents; a voluntary agreement for the payment of money lor support, and the last desperate step of a warrant to appear before the formal court. Every effort is made to avoid the fourth move. Last year Mrs. Rippln's assistants paid 19,293 visits and talked with 27,224 people before the erring husband was submitted to the com pelling power of the law. When love cannot be revived, and It becomes a dollar-and-cents proposi tion, Mrs. Rippln's workers look sharply after collections. While de partment stores make an allowance of ten per cent, for collecting from un willing debtors, Mrs. Rippin's collec tions cost only three and one-half per cent.; and she took, last year, $409,- 329 from husbands who had pre viously ceased to give anything! "Marry in haste and repent at leis ure' is a belief not borne out here. "In a thousand typical cases," says Mrs. Rippin, "most of them were found to be those men and women who had known each other from one to two years. "Another theory upset," she con tinued, "is the one that furnished rooms and tenements breed domestic trouble. More than half of all the trouble in the thousand cases analyzed was in families living in rented houses, not small three-room houses either, but comfortable five-room dwellings." Another finding from Mrs. Rippin's interesting data is the destructive agency of religious differences. There is more trouble arising from those married by religious rites than by [Continued on Page 3] Our Daily Laugh OUT OP BUSI- NESS. You've got no Kir [From the Yuba County (Cal.) Ex change.] The man who got the contract for feeding the county prisoners here at 25 ceiits the meal has closed up shop and given up his contract. There hasn't been a single prisoner in the county Jail for more than half a year. County Clerk Alvln Wels has not Issued a marriage license for three months, and the city marshal has only had one official duty to perform in a year. He killed a sick dog. All the undertaking establishments have closed up and if the Yuba City people die they have to call in the Msrysville undertakers. The postofllce still keeps open every day. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrlsburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Qulz."l What other revenue except taxes are received by School Board? State appropriation, t46.000.00, i and a small amount from tuition I and interest.