12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NBWSPAPBR BOR TUB HOMS Poun&td iSjl Published evenlaga except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO, Tvlesraph Building. Federal Sqaare. J.STACKPO!E,Pr*x* & Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Butiness Manager. QUB Si. BTEINMETZ. Managing Editor. * Member American Ushers' Assocla- East era office, Building^ Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as a scond class matter. By carriers, ten cents a week; by mail, {5.00 a year in advance. FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 29 There are the same nu-mber of let ters in success and service (the magic seven), and the man that gives service gets success. —Tnos. DREIEB. A Worthy Cause To the Editor of the Telegraph: The Pure Milk Society has again begun its summer work, sincerely endeavoring to help the poor babies of our cjty. One important and nec essary article for this purpose for! the next two months at least is ice J and we are compelled to ask our; friends for donations for the pur-1 pose of procuring the same. We will I greatly appreciate any contribution j in money, ice or otherwise to this end. Please send your contribution to Miss Mary Miller, Visiting Nurse Association, corner Front and Boas; streets. Truly yours, MRS. JOHN E. FOX, Sec. Pure Milk Society. BARUCH AGAIN THE President seems determined to lodge the centralized pur chasing power of a wartime government in the hands of "Bar ney" Baruch. It will require Congressional ac tion, in the first place, to create the office of purchasing agent, and then to define the duties of the position, before Mr. Baruch can be named; | and the chances are that the inter-J vening debate will be Interesting. Mr. I Baruch first came into national no-1 tice at the time of the "leak" last j December. He testified before the Congressional committee of inves- j tigation with cynical frankness and j his disclosures showed that he made ; several hundred thousand dollars by! going "short of the market" Just | prior to the President's appearance j before Congress to appeal far peace j In Europe. Mr. Baru mously on the rollcall were Insur- J ante Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil; j Dr. John Price Jackson, Commis- I s-ioner of Labor and Industry; Pub | lie Service Commissioners William I '">. B, Ainey, James Alcorn and Mich- I nel J. Ryan; Frank B. Black, High i way; Paul W. Houck, to fill the un : expired term of his father, the late Dr. Henry W. Houck, as Secretary of Internal Affairs: Fire Marshall G. ! Chal Port: James E. Roderick. Chief ! of the Department of Mines; Nathan | C. Schaeffer, Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction; George A. Shreiner, of Harrisburg, Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings, and j Robert C. Conklin, Commissioner of I Forestry. —William B. McCaleb, of Harris i burg, was confirmed a member of it he State Board of Fish and Game j '■ Commissioners; Charles F. Kramer, of Harrisburg, a member of the Pharmaceutical Examine Board for a term of five years; Robert J. Wal ton. Hummelstown. and Clovd B. Ewing, of Mt. Union, members of Nthe State Board of Agriculture; F. jB. Kann. member of the Board of i Osteopathic Examiners for three ! : cars; Edward Bailey, Daniel C. Herr and Captain Henry M. Stine, | trustees of the Pennsylvania State i Lunatic Hospital, for three years. —Back of the rejections of the ! men who went down are some inter esting stories of political animosi j ties, some dating back for years, and i there should be some equally inter- I esting reasons for the approval of ! other men who were booked for ! slaughter. Fear of something worse caused some confirmations by the 1 Penrose people. —From all accounts the Govern ] or told Paul W. Houck that he was | going to name him as Secretary of Internal Affairs about noon of the day he sent in his name. Mr. Houck is getting ready to take office. —The promotion of Mr. Houck will mean a vacancy in the office of ref eree in compensation for the Schuyl kill-Berks district. Ira W. Stratton, former mayor of Reading, and some Schuylkill countians, have up light s ning rods already. The place will probably so to Schuylkill. —The members of the House pa raded with national and State flags! last night, singing "The Stars and j Stripes Will Soon Be in Germany," and the parade went into the Gov-1 ernor's office. According to custom , the Governor was in his office until! I the Legislature quit and the parade j marched in, around his desk and out i again. The Governor joined in the ! singing. i —Mrs. Brumbaugh and a number lof friends attended the closing I scenes in the Legislature. —The committee which waited on the Senate on the part of the House I to close up business was composed of | Messrs. Scott, Center; Smith, Bed ! ford, and Bechtold, Dauphin. The i last speech in the House, after mem bers of the lower branch had jollied | the Rural League and Representa tive Max Aron, the transit bill ex j pert, was by Representative Swartz, j Harrisburg, who extended the free dom of the city. —Reports that Governor Brum baugh and his advisers were inclined to make a test of thfe Governor's au thority to continue a man In office I after adverse action by the State I Senate agitated the Capitol to-day, but the Governor would say nothing. It is said that the Governor, who is j feeling somewhat elated over the I way he came through the Legisla i ture, would like to have some tests 1 made on the much-discussed ques j tion of his authority on appoint i ments. One of the reports was that D. Edward Long. State Superintend i ent of Public Printing and Binding, i whose appointment was not confirm ed, might be continued for a while because of the importance of the! work of the department at this June- I ture. In addition to closing up the 1 legislative printing the department! has to deal with a new set of con-! tractors, whose contracts become ef fective for four years, on Monday.! Under ordinary circumstances Mr. \ Long would retire at once, but hej will likely be here for some time! because of conditions, the Governor! deeming it to the best interests of the state to have an experienced man available for the present at least. —Secretary of Agriculture Charles E. Patton. Commissioner of Fisheries N. R. Buller and other men not con firmed were busy to-day getting their affairs together. They will retire to morrow, which is the end of the month. In the Department of Ag riculture Deputy Secretary of Agri culture C. E. Carothers will auto matically take charge. Just what i will be done in the Fisheries Depart ment. which has no deputy, will be for the Attorney General to decide. Prosperity Bulletin "We see no reason to anticipate anything but good business. Our advertising and selling effort will be increased In the usual ratio this year."—W. A. McDermld, Gerhard Mnnn Chemical Co.. Newark, N. J. r * I KELLY—EIGHT DOLLARS AND FORTY CENTS IN THE POT By BRIGGS V , MAN FAX ING DT&D" <*TT"HE A VAWN TO CONCEAL '/////////. AMD HIS FEELINGS. IT ,2> // OYY///// '/• QUITE RE -IHS MAM IS H,S NEXT SHOT AND A U£K TAKING A BUND ISHL H ' S SAL - L ,S N F^ Y , R ACCIDENTALLY HIS - TOUGH IVC COUNT OF HIS SS^ )^ OC,v A>o / BIT STARTLETJ. A NTNI£ OBT / "HS MAM IS ?')ALI. UJASIJ t oni / I AT H,,s p / /x2/\S W\Y is J. W, v THE. TABLE BUT / J JU-ST To BE / /YC~C/ Y AJ Y ,£ £>*£,? -£. MOUI TO HIS REUEF / 1/ .SURE HE / R PREPARATORY TO HE SEES 'T / MAKES NO LETTERS TO THE EDITOR For Noiseless City To the Editor of the Telegraph: Am interested in reading your articles for city improvement and betterment. Harrisburg has first class newspapers, splendid schools and churches, fine paved streets, beautiful parks and River Front, but the damnable din of its fiat-wheeled cars is a disgrace to civilization, and when they strike a crossing it sounds like the world coming to an end, but the open "cutout" nuisance of auto mobiles, motorcycles, etc., and con stant sounding of horns Is worse yet. No other town in the United States would tolerate it. Why not protest against these things. JOHN HALL. Labor Notes Wire Weavers' International has a membership of 303. Journeymen Tailors are trying to abolish piece and tlmework. Women run lathes in the Erie Rail road shops. Lancashire, England, has a woman's police department. Low wages and poor working condi tions have forced teamsters in Knox ville, Tenn., to organize. On July 9, at Toledo, Ohio, Inter national Longshoremen's Association will convene. On the Bakerloo Railway to Wat ford, England, the staff are all women with the exception of the engineers. Women street cleaners in London have proved so efficient that it is pro. posed to employ more of them. In England the war exemptions to the factory laws have not included a lowering of the age limits for factory work. Governor Cox will appoint four trade unionists members of the Ohio branch. Council of National Defense. German iron founders are trying to increase the use of furnace slag in place of gravel and crushed stone in concrete. Organized labor in Canada stands opposed to conscription, and demands a referendum be submitted to the people. Three thousand tailors and drapers' assistants of Petrograd recently de manded a 100 per cent, increase in wages. The proposed employment of wom en as conductors on the streets cars is being opposed by the Carmen's Un ion. The C. N. R. has granted wage in creases of 4 to 6 cents per hour to its shopmen from Winnipeg district west. In Russia, a year before the revolu tion. a movement was under way to raise the age limit for children in industry. A committee of the Illinois House of Representatives has reported favor ably on a sanitary bill urged by or ganized painters. Women teachers of all the Belle ville, England public schools have pe- J titloned the board of education for an increase in salary. CROP PEST LETTER ' By Prof. J. G. Sanders, State Economic Zoologist POTATO APHIS MANY complaints of "green lice"on potato foliage have been received. When un controlled by sprayinfe or by the tiny spotted lady bird beetles, these aphids multiply rapidly and curl and retard growth of the vines. These pests suck out the juices of the plants tnrough a tiay sharp beak, and cannot be con trolled by arsenate of lead, pirrox or bordeaux mixture which kill or repel only shewing insects. The nicotine sprays discussed i in the next letter are most ef fective and safest to use without injury to the plants. Always ap ply spray materials by means of a spray pump and never by a common sprinkling can for It is wasteful of spray and does not cover foliage well. THE RAILROAD SITUATION TRANSPORTATION enters into the life of all. The railroads enable the wheat fields of the Far West to answer the daily prayer for bread of the cities of the East. Fully half the people of the Unit ed States are directly interested in the prosperity of the railroads. They furnish a livelihood for one person out of every ten. Industries depend ent upon railroad business employ one person out of every twenty. Ev ery phase of our national life is de pendent in some degree upon the railroads. Their value and impor tance to the entire country, in war or peace, make their welfare at all times a matter of the greatest neces sity. Each era in the development of the American railroads has been marked by problems that were pe culiar to the period. The first was construction. Next, after a period of railway expansion such as the world had never seen before, came the problem of competition. In more recent years it has been regulation. This is one of the problems not yet solved, for regulation has thus l'ar failed to protect equally the inter ests of the investor, of the shipper, and of the public. A new era for rail roads, however, seems to be at hand. It is a period of co-operation and co-ordination in which the interests of all will be considered. The establishment of a better un derstanding and a spirit of helpful co-operation among all the interests involved Is a long step toward the solution of any big problem. In this belief the Guaranty Trust Company, of New York, has just issued a book let, "The Railroad Situation," which presents the facts, states with un usual clearness the problems which now'confront the railroads, and sug gests how they may lie solved. American railroads to-day serve ninety-five different masters. These are the ninety-five independent un co-ordinated legislative and regulat ing bodies, representing the Federal government and the forty-eight States. They are attempting to reg ulate the railroads down to the minutest details of their operation. The general effect is to increase the railroad's burdens and expenses, without providing means to meet them. This, briefly, is the problem of regulation. America Evens Score fFrom the New York Evening Post] Time always brings its own re venge. Now it is Pershing which evens up the score in our favor. For almost three years the inelastic American tongue has been strug gling with impossible European names. Reims, Lvov, that bagful of baleful consonants, Przemysl, Brzez any, and a host of other insuperable combinations, have been breaking up families and widening rifts in the lute of friendship. We have not the easy, masterful way of the English with strange nomenclature. They reduce Ypres to Wipers, Foch to Fush, and ap proximate Sarrail to Cyril. Being a younger and more modest people, we assume a rather defensive atti tude. Only recently our enthuslam was struggling with Joffre, whereas the English long ago made the victor of the Marne a British citizen under the name of Joffer. Now, however, Pershing has gone across the sea to give up our in nings. The French are already rent by strife between the parties who wish to rhyme our commander's name respectively with marine and meringue. It will be useless to ex plain that Frenchmen can never hope to pronounce his name. If we once start to explaining, where can we ever stop? There are Sims, and Hoover, and Houston —upon this last even aver age Americans can't agree—and I finally there is Woodrow Wilson, which the French will never pro nounce correctly, although their fail | urc will not be for want of prac tice. "Skidding Jane" [From the London Chronicle] A certain distinguished and noble member of the cabinet applied for the use of a government motor car the other day to use on "business of national Importance," as the phrase goes. He was sent a car driven by a verv smart and attractive looking chauffeuse. About four or five hours later his lordship appeared In a towering rage and asked what they meant by sending him a woman who drove In a most reckless man ner, endangering his life from the moment he got into the car. "Oh! they must have sent you 'Skidding Jane,' " said the officer In charge, nonchalantly. Nearly everything except railroad transportation has doubled in price. The railroad is still carrying freight and passengers at the old rates but it is paying twice as much for every thing it buys. That is the essence of another phase of the railroad prob lem. Still other questions concern wages, car shortage, and the valu ation of railroad property. Ail these problems are handicaps to the transportation system. The Guaranty Trust Company's booklet points out that these quotations de mand the attention and understand ing of the public so that the rail roads of this country may be brought to the point of highest usefulness and service to the nation. Despite the most exacting and em barrassing conditions, the railroads of this country have accomplished surprising results. American rail road freight charges are the lowest in the world; the wages paid are the highest, and the operating efficiency is the greatest. Constructive suggestions which may be offered to relieve the rail road situation immediately, and which, if adopted, promise a better day for the railroads than they have seen within a decade, are thus briefly summed up in this booklet: "In creased rates. The Federal regula tion of rates and security issues. A larger Intarstate Commerce Com mission with regional and functional divisions. Co-operation on the part oi legislative, regulating and ship ping interests to protect railroad credit and to further railroad ex pansion. The co-operation of invest ors to protect and maintain railroad credit. The recognition of our na tional unity of interest in a funda mental economic problem." All these suggestions are obviously practicable. If they were carried out, great impetus would be given cot only to railroads but to business generally. "The keyn'ote of the hour is na tional unity," says the concluding paragraph in this booklet. "In unity of interest and spirit the railroad situation must be approached by representatives of all classes and sec tions in order that this fundamental economic problem, in which the prosperity of all is involved, may be solved along right lines, in fairness to all, for the common good." The Solitary Breakfast At first blush breakfast seems a sociable meal; at that hour a man is best satisfied, or least discontent ed, with himself, and in a mood to make the most of the world. Hu man vitality is at its maximum, mere existence lugs exhilaration along with it; good humor mantles everything. But there is an uncer tainty In company, even when you may choose it; for temperament is never to be wholly trusted (artists are dangerous people to meet at breakfast), and there are a thou sand happenings—troubled sleep, early awakening, mosquitoes, a sur mised mouse, no hot water, button-, ed boots, putting studs in a shirt—. that may occur between going to bed at night and coming down to breakfast in the morning, and ill ad justed feelings 'ln even one member of the company may dampen the spirits of all. Company is no doubt the better state, and brings out the full capacities for pleasure that lie in breakfast, but a solitary break fast is safer; solitary, pleasantness is more tempered but it is more cer tain.—Henry Dwlght Sedgwick in the Yale Review. Driving a Car in France Nobodv knows the risks we run, NobodV eifes a damn! We might as well be at home (but we ain't) A-pushing a blooming pram. Then hold on tight when the old '"bus" Jibs, And gives 'er plenty of 'ead When she tries to taxi across the field With half of the blinking shed. Nobody knows the stuff we eat, Nobody'd like to know, But it's nothing as bad as the ra- tions at home, And the stuff they're trying to grow. So keep 'er well-oiled and 'old your tongue When she fetches you one on the 'ead. And think of the risks they are run- nlng at 'ome A-having to eat war-bread! —N. Mardel, in Westminster Ga zette. London. Thousand Years Hence I who am dead a thousand years, And wrote this sweet archaic song. Send you my words for messengers The way X shall not pass along. I care not if you bridge the seas, Or ride secure the cruel sky. Or build consummate palaces Of metal or of masonry. But have you wine and music still And statues and a bright-eyed love, And foolish thoughts of good pid ill, And prayers to them that sit above? How shall we conquer? Like a wind That falls at eve our fancies blow, And old Maeonides the blind Said it three thousand years ago. O friend unseen, unborn, unknown. Student of our sweet English tongue. Read out my words at night, alone; I was a poet, I was young. Since I can never see your fa?e, And never shake you by the hand, X send my soul through time and space To greet you. Tou will understand. —James Elroy Flecker. "Collected Poems." (Doubleday, Page & Co.) The Measure of Grace But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.—Ephesians :v, 7. OUR DAILY LAUGH SPRING. Optimist—Spring is a delightful season, isn't it? Pessimist—lt used to be. SURE SIGN. "Mrs. O'Neil has your son a lean ing toward any particular calling?" "Sure, he'll bo a poet, ho hate* work ao." WAR TI7/E ECONOMY. "Are you economizing at your house?" 'TCo. We're simply rating less for the same money." POOR BUGS. Mr. Bug—Just look, wifey; some ine has put a fine new street lam] n front of our door. Ebpttittg QMpit! Fifty-four years ago yesterday the Columbia bridge was burned by the Federal militia to prevent the Confederate troops from crossing o\er the Susquehanna river Into Lancaster county. It was on Sun day, June 28, 1863, that General John B. Gordon's brigade, of Gen eral Jubal A. Early's division, of the Confederate Army, had reached thq. west bank of the Susquehanna rtvw and was encamped In Wrightsvlri*. The Union militia on the Columbia side were commanded by Colonci Frick. When it became definitely : known that the Confederates were approaching the opposite side, It was deemed best to prevent their further inroads by burning the bridge and thus prevent an invas ion of the eastern side. It was not known at that time how rapidly events were transpiring in the vicin ity of Gettysburg, but the hasty de parture of the Confederates from Wrightsville the next day convinced the people that their services were commanded in another section. The people of Lancaster county, and es pecially those in Columbia and vi cinity were greatly relieved at see ing the enemy leave the western shore of the river. Residents who recall those excit ing scenes still tell of the commo tion that existed, as for days before the appearance of the Confederate troops in Wrightsville, refugees pass ed over the bridge by hundreds in all manner and form of vehicles, and many were on foot, carrying their effects with them. The burning of the bridge is described by eyewit nesses as a wonderful sight, and the names and embers lighted up the heavens so that it could be seen for miles around. To insure the destruction of a part of the old wooden bridge, oil was poured over the floor and frame work, and, it is said, the match which started the fire was struck and applied by one John Rich, a resident of Columbia. Span after span, as the flames increased, top pled over, fell into the water, which was then low, and the burning debris floated down stream still &Dlaze. • • • General Gordon, commanding the was at Wiightsville when the bridge burned and wit nessed its destruction. His soldiers, it is said, helped to put out the fire u towu which had spread from the burning bridge to some of the buildings on the river front. Some residents of the neighboring town say that the work of the Confede rate soldiers saved their village from destruction. General Gordon's bri gade took part in the batt!e of Get tysburg where many of his soldiers were killed. The burning of the bridge prevented Columbia being the farthest eastern point reached by the Confederates and a tablet in Wrightsville Is now pointed out as the mark commemorating that event, and tells that Wrightsville has that distinction. The bridge destroyed was the sec ond one erected across the Susque hanna, the first one having been lift ed off its piers in the great freshet of 1832, and carried down stream. It was not the intention of the Lnion militia, in 1863, to destroy the whole bridge, the plan having been to burn a span or two and later to restore the same, but the fire gain*. Ed headway, and after a sufficient length had been burned to prevent its use, a fire engine was sent to the scene to put out the blaze and check the spread of the flames. The fire however, had gained so much head way that efforts to prevent the de struction of the entire structure fail ed and the bridge was consumed • • * More than one house building op eration in Harrisburg is dragging because of difficulties attending the deliveries of material, according to builders. One man who has a large operation under way is straining every nerve to get his houses under roof so that if he is held up any longer the damage will not be great. His men have been at work since tha season opened in spring and have had half a dozen interruptions be cause they could not get materials. This condition will prevent quite a few houses being occupied this fall, although •in several cases they have been sold. * • • The Senate rule forbidding smok ing in the upper chamber of the Leg islature is a mystery to a good many people. The House threw the anti smoking rule out of the window tha first week of the'session, but until a week or so ago the rule was in force in the upper house. The ser geants-at-arms are under the im pression that it is still working, al though Senators smoke at will. When any visitor comes in he is told not to smoke, and when House members appear they get the same treatment, which they can not understand when they see clouds hovering over Sena tors. • * • Joseph Pyne, who officiated yester day as the official clock reverser in the House of Representatives, and his assistant in the Senate, worked ! fifteen hours blocking the flight ol | time because of the vagaries of the Legislature. Mr. Pyne has performed this service for years, but yesterday he had his longest siege. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Ex-Auditor General W. P. Sny* der is spending his time farming in Chester county. —Judge J. N. Langham, of India na county, who was here yesterday, used to be corporation clerk in the Auditor Oeneral's Department. —B. M. Clark, Jefferson county lawyer here yesterday, says that the close of the session was one of the most unusual he had over witnessed —General W. G. Price, commander of the State artillery brigade, has long been a student of that arm of the service, although commanding infantry. —Chairman W. D. B. Alney, of the Public Service Commission, serv ed for years in the National Guard. | DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg has furnish ed large quantities of wheat this year? HISTORIC HARRISBUBG The big island used aa a city athletic park and Alter plant was the place where they celebrated Jufy 4, 125 years ago. Military Progress [From the Youth's Companion.] Before the Battle of the Wilder ness General Sheridan spent three weeks and used up npany thousand men and horses In making raids, the sole purpose of which was to get Information about Les's left. "All \ that he accomplished," says & mod- em commentator, "one aviator could have done in a morning's flight,"