14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. Telegraph Building, Federal Igaare E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager GUS. M. STKINMETZ. Managing Editor A. R. MICHENER, Circulation Manager Executive Board J. P. McCULLOUGH, BOYD M. • OGLESBY, F. R. OYSTER, GUS. M. STEINMETZ. Members of the Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this fiaper and also the local news pub isbed herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. t Member American Newspaper Pub lishers' Associa- Bur'eau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associa ated Dailies. Eastern office, Story. Brooks & Finley. Fifth Avenue Building, Western office', Story, Brooks & Finley, People's Gas Building, I Chicago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carrier, ten cents a week: by mail. 13.00 a -ksiacii®' year in advance. FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1919 He that is dotm needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride. —BUN-tan. A GREATER HARRISBURG THE Chamber of Commerce slo gan "One hundred thousand residents of Harrisburg by 1920" sounds good to all those who have been working for the growth and development of the city since the days vhen our first public im provement campaign was under taken nearly twenty years ago. And why not? We have the population at this moment in every thing but name. There is Rockville, and Progress, and Penbrook, and Paxtang and Steelton, not to mention West Shore communities that might come in under the arrangement, all lying at our doors, with their boundaries and the city limits almost over lapping, and yet each under a sep arate local government. Aside from the advertisement and advantages that would accrue to Harrisburg as a second class city of 125,000 or more population, there are the benefits that would come to the smaller communities to be annexed in the way of pure water, paved streets, fire protection, schools and all those other things which the large resources of the big town en able it to have, but which smaller places cannot, by the limitation of their revenues, enjoy. The movement has been inaugu rated at the right time. Penbrook and Paxtang at least already are talking seriously of annexation and a vigorous campaign, pushed to a vote at the November election, doubtless would result in the realiz ation of the Chamber's ambition be fore the end of the year. General Pershir.g will be home next month. Wonder whether the Mexican situation beckons him. BATHING BEACHES DENVER has found it worth while to install two municipal bathing beaches and at the close of the season pronounces them a profitable investment. Crowds have swarmed to both during the hot months and they will be op erated on a larger scale next year. Denver is a progressive city. The municipal authorities never hesitate to spend money when it is for a civic improvement or for the betterment of living conditions. Harrisburg is coming right along. Its enlarged Capitol Park is like that of Denver, only larger; it is to have, like Denver, a civic center; Zembo temple is planning an audi torium which will match up pretty well with that of Denver, and like Denver we have gone outside the municipal boundaries for miles to extend our park system so as to be abreast with the development of the city. And now, to match Denver, City Commissioner Lynch proposes to set aside $40,000 by popular loan for bathing beach purposes. Mr. Lynch never did anything more popular than to take the lead in this matter. He will have back of his project the support and votes of every swimmer in the city, and of thousands of others who -whnt to swim but have no place to enjoy the sport. Harrisburg can do-nothing better than follow Denver's lead, for Denver is one of the leading cities of the world. Every property owner should parti cipate in the big October tree-plant ing campaign. Get in touch with your nursery expert now. OUR NATIONAL HONOR. THE daring rescue of an Amer ican aviator held for ransom by Mexican bandits by an Americai) Army captain is an aton ing feature of a disgraceful incident. Nothing could be finer than the dash and courage of the soldier who rode off under the very guns of the Mexi cans with both the ransom money and the nrtgeij— whose release he FRIDAY EVENING. had been sent to buy. But It ts a sad commentary upon our National Administration and a standing dis grace to this great country that our Government should have found it necessary to pay for the life of one of its representatives. How different this cringing atti tude as compared with the famous Roosevelt manifesto, when John Hay was Secretary of State: "Pericardia alive or Raisuli dead." And the Moroccan authorities knew he meant just that, as they viewed the magnificent display of American armed force at their front door when a great fleet of battleships and cruisers filed into the harbor one morning to enforce the threat. Or how we should hang our heads in shame over this incident when we think of the little republic that declared once upon a time that it had "millions for defense but not one cent for tribute." Not that the life of one American should be need lessly sacrified, but that it should be necessary to offer bribes when deal ing with people of a neighbor ing government This incident never would have occurred had President Wilson long ago assumed a firm hand with Car ranza and the rest of the Mexican robbers and blackmailers in office and out THEY WILL GET IT YOU may be certain the Rotary Club and the Kiwanis Club will get the money with which to finance the Kipona cele bration. Along comes the War Camp Com munity Service and offers to finance j the larger part of the pageant. We in Harrisburg are asked to meet the expense of the smaller half. Will we do it? Ask the members of the clubs who have never had a failure scored against them when appealed to to perform a public duty. There will be no difficulty in rais ing the money. The men who have pledged themselves to do the work may be depended upon for that. They have pride in their city and service is their watchword. When one of the campaigners ap proaches you give him a broad smile and dig down deep. Harrisburg needs your contribu tion and you cannot afford to hold back. BEATING THE H. C. L. ARE you interested in beating old H. C. L., Mrs. Harrisburg housewife? Well, there is a way; a very old way, but a very good one. Lean over ve will whisper it into your shelllike ear. Its this. Do your canning now, and do a lot of it Fruits and vegetables are plenti ful and cheaper than they have been before or will be later in the sea son. A Harrisburg woman sends the Telegraph this letter: Last year I did little or no can ning or preserving. I paid for my folly in grocery bills last win ter. 1 thought prices of vegetables and fruits too high. This year I am buying basket lots. The other day I bought a basket of green plums delivered to my door. From that basket I got eight cans of plums, nine glasses of jelly and two glasses of preserves. The sugar I bought and the plums I paid for at the rate of $1.25 for the basket. The whole cost me a little over $2. plus my work and a little oil for fuel. Plums are sell ing at 45 cents the quart can in the stores, and the cheapest jelly is 20 cents a glass. My canned product would cost me at least $5.70 if I bought it in the store. I wonder how many other women would do as I am now doing— canning to the extent of my pock etbook—lf they realized how much they can save in that way. Well worth printing, we should say, and worth following, too. We shall not get back to cheaper living in the household until we get over buying in quarter-pound, pound and quarter-peck lots. Wo must beat the market the way the businessman does; by buying whea the market is glutted and prices low and holding our purchases against the rising market that is bound to come with changing seasons. We can live better and more cheaply that way. COAL SUBSTITUTE EVERY increase of wages at the mines is used as an excuse for even a larger increase in the price of coal, tp. the consprper.. The miners are asking for more wages and fewer hours. Already coal prices are beyond the reach of even families of fair in come and there will be cold' in the United States next winter be cause the wage-earner cannot afford fuel. Necessity ,is the mother of inven- | tion. We are nearing the breaking point on coal. Of course, there al ways will be a market for this form of fuel, bu,t if somebody should sud denly come along with a coal sub stitute for household use the whole structure on which the coal indus try is built would go to pieces, and we may not be so far from that substitute as might appear. . We used to think that the solu tion to coal scarcity—we had no vision then of high prices as a bar to its use—lay in cheap electricity and very likely that will be the eventual outcome of man's age-long search for economical artificial heat"' and light. But Just now crude pe troieum and a burner designed to turn it into heat for cooking and heating the home are the product and invention to which we must look, for the oil we have in im mense quantities and ail that is needed is an ingenious devise for its consumption to make us independent of the coal fields. Somebody Is bound to come forward with such an invention—and soon. It always has been so, and It alwayß will con tinue to happen that the urgent need of the hour is met. 'tyziZtZco- IK By the Ex-Committeeman | Joseph S. MacLaughlin, ' Direct ,or of Supplies in the cabinet -of I Mayor Smith, last night withdrew as a Mayoralty candidate for the I primaries on the Republican ticket tin Philadelphia. J He announced that he would be |an independent candidate aA the i general election in November no , matter who won the Republican | nomination. His Swan Song in the Republican primaries was an attack upon both | Congressman J. Hampton Moore and Judge John M. Patterson as men, who, no matter which was elected, "would be true and grateful to the boss responsible for his election. Congressman Moore is leaving the halls of Congress "at the behest of Senator Penrose," Mr. MacLaughlin said, and Judge Patterson is leav ing the bench "at the behest of Sen ator Vare." —Cause why they believed they should not be ousted from office "for gross negligence" was filed with tho Snyder County Court by the sur charged Monroe Township Board of School Directors through their at torneys, Ulrich and Potter. —The principal bone of contention is that their former secretary, Ira J. Heiser, is the real culprit, and that the other members o.f the board are being surcharged $5,296.24 be cause they trusted Heiser too far. In the one item of $2,500, which they are surcharged, the Board of Directors consisting of Frank Fisher, ,W. O. Kochran, William Frymire ' and George Jarrett take consolation. I because they believe they have made out a clear case againts Ira J. Heiser that he took the amount. —The York county good roads loan was carried by a vote of 6,845 to 4.204, a majority of 2.641. The city people voted 1.60S for the loan ■ and 1,111 against it, while the I boroughs voted 2,830 for the loan 'and 1,005 against it, and the boroughs 2,709 for the loan and 2,088 against it. The vote was light Of the thirty-five boroughs in the county there were but eight which voted against the loan. —C. Grove Enders, clerk to Mayor Hugentugler, of York, has re signed. effective September 1. Mr. Grove, it is understood, has been of fered a position on the Capitol police force at Harrisburg. A Plaint For Father It is not his plaint. He rarely ad mits that he has cause for complaint. So someone must do it for him. Imagine, if you please, a success ful man of 50. Besides his prosper ous business or profession, he has laid up an independence. He has fine character, unblemished ideal family relations. Yet he is not happy. Possibly he knows what is the matter; more likely he doesn't; but we do. It is those seemingly ideal domes tic relations. Of his three children, his son, a fine young man of 19, promises, after the subsidence of youth's effervesence, to follow worth ily in his father's foot-steps. But there is no comradeship between them. The boy greatly respects his father, and his love might be a stay in the crises of life, but is small comfort in its dead levels. He would as likely think of chumming with Abraham. His elder daughter is "out," his younger still a schoolgirl. He has given them every advantage of edu cation, pays their bills, keeps open house for their company, sometimes boarding visiting girl friends for weeks. He has been driven from the parlor to the library by the force of that deep rooted American delusion that social pleasure is strictly for young people. To be sure, his girls sometimes take fits of petting him. but the unfortunate coincidence of these spells with calls for some fresh indulgence will force itself on his attention, despite his loyal efforts to be fondly blind. And his wife, the one member of his family of his own generation, she who has with him a common past, common interests and a com mon remembrance of "Love's Young Dreajn," surely she is in per fect accord with him? Surely she sits in the library with him? No, she doesn't. A successful man's wife often mistakes the de ference paid to her for tribute to her own charm, when in fact it is paid solely to her husband's wife. Occasionally death and misfortune rob her of both husband and money and then she is made to realize how little court is paid to her person ality. But the mistake is §uite na tural, and she really believes her husband fortunate to possess her. Therefore, when she has given the time and thought necessary to the smooth running of the domestic ma chinery she fancies she has done her full duty by him. The rest of her ervesgy she gives to her clubs, her limousine, the dressing of her daugh ters and herself; in fine, to all that pertains to the social standing of the family; never questioning the real happiness of the talented man who is steadily working for the means to give her and her children these advantages. She takes it for granted that he is completely satisfied with that vocation. But he isn't. He is human and often love hungry. It is high time his family call their dormant love into active life and give smiles to him now, instead of tears to his casket. E. U. Vr- Daylight Saving Law Re pealed [From the New York Times.] If daylight saving were submitted to the popular vote, it would be car ried by a great majority. Even sup posing that the farmers were solidly opposed to it, the Congressmen who voted to override the veto have simply favored a class against the majority, have approved a measure virtually of class government. "Daylight saving, during the two years it has been in effect," says Senator Calder, "has saved count less millions of dollars, and has given the workers many extra hours of pleasure. It has been a blessing to us, but the majority of our peo ple have not recognized it." The majority of the people have recog nized It. It is Congress that has not recognized the majority. Mr. Wilson's two vetoes recognized and represented _ that majority. Next summer tlie'country will miss what has been a source of health, recrea tion. outdoor work and play to many millions of people, and has saved many millions of people, and has saved many millions of money. The friends of daylight saving will not put up meekly with this defeat. Work should begin at once to collect, consolidate, and strengthen public opinion in favor of this sensible and salutary practice. The daylight saving law should be restored to the statute books. It can be, and will be. if the majority will make even a tenth the effort that has been! made by a clever and loud minority. HAItRISBURG TELEGRXPH AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? By BRIGGS - j - _ - 1 WHEN VOO K6ACH HOME ~ AMD PUT OM Youß SLIPPERS 'AND SUDDENLY VoU REMCMBeft , TIRED AnD WET AFTER. A AMD PULL Th£ COUCH UP Tc That You LEFT THE. BOX OF ward DAY down towm - A njD ihe lamp Tc. flattpn ouT " EaC6ll6mtfs" That Vou You Take a bath amT> get So You cam finish The last ordered ow Your office DESK INT® Y OU R BATH; Rose r<S!L That well as YOUR Pipe- AnD ~FCKD TUEM— * Oh You —And You Find IT IS STIU ""AMD You light it /\no Decide Think of The ciGar That "&iIL in The "Pocket of your old IT 1,3 The most DE-licious WISHED ON YOU A Fgw DAYS 6RAY SUIT J CI&AR YOU HAUE euer SMOKED' AGO AMD that You HaD PLANNED BOY * ' Ain T iT zsr&zs? T Ju 1 • IT really n V®// FEEUm r s>\z N-t look hwyr .yL vm \\ yrr m EDITORIAL COMMENT It is a queer world in which a man can't drink booze and hold the approval of decent folk, but can sgll a legal opinion favoring the booze crowd and remain an important citizen. Greenville (S. C.) Pied mont. Chairman Manly of the War tab or Board warns that "food is going to be very scarce and high in the United States during the next twelve months." But consumers 'will con tinue plentiful and cheap. New York World. If the law of supply and demand is responsible for existing prices it ought to be amended. —Little Rock Arkansas Gazette. Gage readings show that the Mis sissippi is still standing up well un der the drain that came as a result of prohibition in St. Louis.—-Little Rock Arkansas Gazette. Lloyd George's enemies should be careful not to win too many by elections. They may provoke him into calling another general elec tion.—New York Evening Post. President Wilson says the world to-day leans on America, and Jack- Harrison, of the Belo'it Gazette, is instantly reminded of "Fainting Bertha," the celebrated police court character who use to faint on the street, and after some kind hearted gentleman had caught her in his arms, helped .her. tp a place of safety, and started away in the proud consciousness of having done a kind act, he usually discov. ered that Bertha had lifted his watch.—Kansas City Star. Praise For Americans [Correspondence of Associated Press.] London The provisional regi ment of American soldiers who fol lowed General Pershing in the Peace Day procession was the first unit of American combat troops to march in London. Other United States sol diers seen here had been on their way to the battlefields. "Here were the Americans in steel helmets, marching in companies eight abreast with bayonets fixed," said the Daily Epress. "They were as jovial as any when the procession halted, for a time, but while they marched their faces were as serious and as immobile as the gravest of graven images. They made a pro found impression on the onlookers. Their marching was Roman in its iron sternness and precision." "A magnificent regiment it was," said the Daily Telegraph, "young men, all of them, and the quintes sence of the alert and lithe. Kliaki clad, in brown steel helmets, they looked mo?t workmanlike." "How magnificently they marched, swinging past in perfect alignment, with a long, easy stride, heads held high and shoulders squared," said the Daily News. "They were .greeted voiciferously with, as good cheering as I ever remembered ha\*ing heard in London." "There was a grim, indomitable look about Pershing's men," said the Daily Sketch, "an effect greatly heightened by their shell helmets, and it made all the more wonder ful the burst of .clear color which followed as their massed banners came by, Old Glory along with the rest, held American fashion, so that the fabric flew freely and no shred of color was lost. The cheering of the crowd turned at the sight to a great 'Ah!' of delight. Ecept for the passing of the massed colors of the Guards, with their laureled staffs, it was the most picturesque moment of the procession." " 'Good old Yanks,' thus are the American affectionately if some what familiarly greeted," said the Morning Post in its story of the procession. * Poison in the Schools [Harvey's Weekly.] Investigation into 1. W. W. Bol shevism in New York has disclosed some interesting facts. A woman school teacher, in a private school where she was free from restric tions —that is, enjoyed entire "free dom of teaching"—wrote to head quarters for Bolshevist literature against "capitalism" for distribution among her pupils while their minds were still plastic and impressible; and she shrewdly said. "Please do not select things that are so ve nomous as to antagonize at the out set." Not too venomous, you know; but just venomous enough. After the boys' minds have become habit uated to a moderate degree of ve nom. a higher degree may be ap plied, until they are taught the beauty of repudiation of debts, the confiscation of property, and the murder of all who disagree with you. It would be interesting to know how numerous these peda gogical purveyors of graded "ve nom" are in our public and private schools. Germany Plans a Big Surprise LIEUTENANT CONINGSBY DAWSON, whose graphic word pictures of the war, have had wide appreciation, writes of his visit to Germany since the fighting end ed for the' New York Times and among other things, says: "I was anxious to renew my ac quaintance with the Hun. The last time I had any dealings with him he had sent me back to Blighty with a hole in my head. During the past few years all my dealings with him had been of this violent order, so that I had come to regard him not so much as an individual as an impersonal, devastating force. That was how he had appeared when we had spied on him from our ob servation posts across No Man's Land. "One resents the smug, smiling face of Germany. Its plumpness is an insult. One knows how it has been achieved—by world-wide can nibalism. She sucked the blood of the peoples against whom she was the aggressor. She transfused their health as well as their possessions. While she has scarred and famish ed beyond recognition the bodies o.* the nations whom she wilfully at tacked, her own body is vigorous and full of resources. "This assertion will be and has been disputed. That she may evade the payment of the Allies' bill for damages, her government propa gandists have represented her as shell-shocked and bankrupt. Their eloquence has come near to con vincing the . super-humanitarians among her adversaries. But men who have visited her during the sitting of the Peace Conference know for a fact that her vitality has suffered less proportionately than that of any of her major enemies, with the exception of America. All her cities, railroads, rolling stock, mines, machinery, industrial insti tutions are intact. They are not only intact, but they have been add ed to by pillage and their efficiency has been increased by trade secrets wrung from the captured cities or the occupied territories. Moreover, competition has been to a large ex tent wiped out, for it was the min ing districts and great industrial centers of her Belgian and French trade rivals that she struck at and destroyed so completely. Even be fore peace was signed, she had or ganized her factories to make the most of this advantage, that she might set out on an uncontested pirate expedition around the world. She is sailing, and will sail while the prejudice lasts against her, un der neutral flags. "So, while France and Belgium are deploring their stolen tools and awaiting the first payments of the indemnity to rebuild their plants. Germany, camouflaged afi a neutral, is racing full steam ahead to fore stall them in the markets which were theirs. Germany launched the war that she might expand her commerce; she has lost the war, hut she plans to make reparation to the Allies out of their own pockets by creating a handicap in her own favor out of their crippled state. How far they will allow her to suc ceed remains to he seen now that peace has become a fact. "The Hun's psychology is readily explained when one recalls his ex periences with German waiters. The German waiter of pre-war days, whom w encountered in the best hotels wherever we traveled, was usually a spy and an undeclared enemy. Sometimes he overwhelm ed us with solicitous attentions; at others he treated us with super lative haughtiness. His change of demeanor depended entirely on his estimate of the state of our pocket book. If he scented a handsome tip in the offing he was the most con siderate and kind of mortals. If our appearance did not assure him of a large reward, he bullied us with thinly veiled insolence. There you have the true German as he was, is and will be. Defeat has not refined his harshness; it has only made him friendly while friendship seems the shortcut to personal gain. There is no friendship in his heart, only a desire for profit and domin ance. As it was with my head port er with the limping leg and the Iron Cross, it pays to smile at pres ent; but he would far more willingly stab you. "One cannot help but believe that these reports of Germany's econom ic collapse were first of all mere optimisms of the Allies, fostered by theip to , bolster UD their own morale, and that afterward they were accredited by Hun statesmen In order to reduce the amount of the indemnity. When the substantial vigor of Germany's resources begins to make itself felt in competitive commerce the Allies will get a shock. i "The Germans themselves are well aware of the surprise that they have in store. They believe that the war is not yet lost. They fought to get control of the markets of the world. They have not succeeded in their object; but they have succeed ed in doing more damage to most of their trade rivals than they themselves have suffered. They know that, despite the Indemnity, they can recover their legs fefore France or Belgium. For one thing they have insured themselves against a failing population; their streets swarm with children. For another they have cunningly concealed their true wealth by investing it in in dustries in neutral countries and in shipping, camouflaged as neutral, which they control. They have failed to win the war by force or arms, but they still plan to win it by sharp practice and the bankbook, while the nations they have wrong ed are struggling back to solvency. They do not wish to fight with the cannon and gas any longer; they have learned how to asphyxiate their enemies with the cloud-gas of Bol shevism and its attendant social dis cord. While countries engage in class warfare within their own borders, maddened by poisonous thoughts of Germany's sowing, the Germans plan to collar the world's commerce, which was their objec tive at the outset when they first violated Belgium. Ads Built Big Business A young man started a small 1 men's clothing store in a middle western city. He had a capital of $12,000 and borrowed s9,ooti more. He also had ideas and nerve. Be fore he opened his door he had in vested $5,000 in newspaper adver tising. To-day, thir'v-two years later, he is reputed to >lo the largest ictail men's clothing business cf the. world, and his rtore has a Nation wide reputation as a leader. In those thirty-two years he has spent $5,000,000 in newspaper advertis ing. Speaking of the part newspaper advertising played in his success, the other day, this man said: "It may seem strange, but the people believe what they read in the newspapers. That's what makes advertising in the newspapers so valuable. "I have always made it a point to state the truth exactly, never to exaggerate. I would rather have the customer a little surprised when he looked at the goods than a little disappointed. "I've tried advertising on bill boards, in street cars, in magazines, and pamphlets, in novelties. I once sent up a flock of balloons with let ters tied to them, and prizes—$500, SIOO and other awards—to the finders. "I stuck up sign posts all over the city. Well, some of them went for kindling wood; some were torn down by the city. I tried many other ways of advertising—but the newspapers proved by all means the best and kept everlastingly at it. "Advertising is to the building vp of a business what steam is to com merce." Law and Profiteering [From the Philadelphia Press.] Pennsylvania has no law to pun ish profiteers and Congress has not yet enacted such a law. This is the unsatisfactory sum and sub stance of a conference between How ard Heinz, the State Food Adminis trator; Attorney General Palmer and other officials and lawyers in this city on Tuesday. In other jurisdictions enough law has been found to pun ish price gougers. But in Pennsyl vania the profiteer who extorts un reasonable prices for the necessities of life has nothing to fear but pub lic opprobrium until Congress takes the needed action. One remedy lies open to the De partment of Justice. The law against the hoarding of food remains in full force. Under it the Federal Government has power to seize and throw on the market enormous stocks of food which are held in storage. This is being done and some amelioration has resulted. But it is incumbent on Congress to act promptly to prevent the continued Boaring of prices for food at the .period of the year when the supplies fresh from the farms are most plentiful AUGUST 22, 1919. No Wonder Germany Quit By MAJOR FRANK C. MAHLN Of tlie Army Recruiting Station "Bangalore Torpedo!" for the love of Mike what is that?' was the question I fired at an engineer one afternoon in June up in the Vosges. This engineer then Informed me that he had been directed to come up to my sector and blow some holes in the Boche barb wire with the new torpedoes they were experi menting with. I told him. I was willing as the more Hell we raised with our Teutonic friends the soon er the job would be finished and we could go home. But said I, 'what is this blamed Bengal torpedo or whatever you call it?' He said he had one outside if I would take a look at it. I found he had a num ber of lengths of ordinary tftA'vfc pipe stuck together to form a tube sixteen feet long. From each end issued what appeared to be a length of heavy silver wire. It seems that this tube contained twenty-five pounds of Cheddite, and knowing something about Cheddite. I hastily backed off when I heard those glad tidings. The silver wire was really a piece of melenite fuse which was passed completely through the cent er of the Cheddite and to make absolutely certain that combustion should be instantaneous and com plete there was a whole block of gelatinous dynamite about an inch square every four inches on that fuse. Now since melenite burns at the rate of seven thous and feet per second, nearly a mile and a half, it doesn't take very long for it to burn through the sixteen foot length of torpedo. The burn ing fuse explodes the lumps of gelatinous dynamite which in turn set off those twenty-five pounds of Cheddite. Anyone who has ever seen Cheddite explode can thoroughly appreciate what happens. But it has several very peculiar properties and those are that it creates a frightful heat and that the force of the explosion is en tirly up and o'ut instead of down as with dynamite. What they do is stick the Bangelore Torpedo under the Boche barb wire, attach an electric wire to the end of the fuse and get off about a hundred yards and push a button. Instantly there is quite some little explosion and when it is over you find that that there isn't a sign of barb wire, for a strip twenty-two feet long by eight wide: the wire has just evap orated. In case the barb wire is too wide for one torpedo they hitch two together which will clear about forty-four feet. The engineer ask ed me where I wanted to use this pretty little weapon and I told him He said he had another coming up and we would make a good job by hitching them together. Along about the witching hour of mid night he started out across No Man's Land with two of his own men each carrying a twenty-five pound tube of Cheddite, and accompanied by a detachment of nine of my best ! c ° ut ®' When the party got about fifty feet from the Boche wire they were fired on by a machine gun. I was down then in our trenches believe me to see what was going to happen, and when that machine gun cut loose it sounded as though a stampede of cattle had taken place in No Man's Land. In a few minutes the engineer and his two men came back with their tor pedoes, but the nine scouts had disappeared. Finally towards morning we rounded them up one by one. I asked them why they had beat it from one machine gun when that was an old game to them and the invariable answer was that fifty pounds of Cheddite might go off if a bullet hit it and that none of them were going to wait and see if it would. Can you blame them' I can't Two Scoops At a recent convention of the editors of California papers a dele gate told about the first editor he worked under. Right or wrong, he was always right. I recall on one occasion where the paper announced the death of William R. Jones, who, it turned out, was not dead. Accord ingly next day the paper printed the following note: "Yesterday we were the first newspaper to publish the death of William. R, Jones. To-day we are the first to deny the report. ' The Morning Star is always in the lead." faiwttttg Qlljat A student of nature on Capitol Hill remarked to the Telegraph rep resentative that while it was im possible for him to tell definitely how many fancy or ornamental va rieties of fish swam in the water, . he recognized very fully that the ' three dozen or more largo specimens of gold fish placed in the large cir cular basin surrounding the fountain on the South side of the main walk leading from State street to the Capitol were fish of exceptional large size and brilliant red coloring. Su perintendent Templeton is responsi ble for their advent here, and the children who have already discov ered these new attractions of the park are loud in their praise of his good judgment. As these gold-fish are members of the carp family and more hardy than Japanese fantails, telescopes and,* other fancy and more high priced species, it is believed that they will J be able to live in the filtered water of the Susquehanna, and thus con-y tinue to be a pleasure for the visiting children as well as for many per sons of a larger growth. Ponds in the city parks of Reading contain thousands of gold fish. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh have aquarium societies with a large membership, and as Harrisburg has numerous families who possess well filled aquariums, such an organiza | tion here would afford pleasure and aid in developing a most interesting and pleasing "fad". These societies hold monthly meetings and exhibi tions and valuable cups and other > prizes are awarded to those the finest display of beautifully col ored and wonderfully formed and marked specimens of the finny tribe. Among the extremely rare fish kept as pets and curiosities are butterfly fish imported from Africa; bubble fish, fantail fish, chiclid, a variety of fish which lays its eggs on a rock and sits on them like a bird, live bearing fish and mouth bearing fish, etc. The tropical waters produce fish whose coloring is only equaled and reflected by all of the richest and brightest colors of the rainbow upon a magnified scale; and as for forms, the human mind could not conceive anything more curious, old and interesting than these many and varied varieties. The great aquarium in New York is the largest in Amer ica, and its exhibits include many I specimens and objects of never-ceas ing interest, in fact, it is one of the; leading places of interest in that metropolis. One of the most expert accom panists in Harrisburg is Alfred C. Kushwa, organist of St. Stephen's Episcopal church. The other day he played before the Rotary Club. "Reminds me very much of the ac companiments David E. Crozler used to play; I have not heard the equal in Harrisburg since Crozier left the city," observed one of the older members of the club. And that is high praise indeed, for David Crozf" ier, for years organist for the Marl ket Square Presbyterian church, was during his stay in Harrisburg the rpost popular of all the city's organ ists. He left here to take charge of one of the large organs of Ger mantown. He will be remembered as accompanist for the Harrisburg Choral Society when that famous organization was in its prime. To be compared to him by an old resi dent of this city who knows music is about the highest compliment one may receive. • • • "There is every likelihood of a big crop of sweet potatoes throughout this section," said Harry Carl, of York county, one of the experts in that line, who was in Harrisburg to day. The plants got a good start immediately after being set out, the necessary rains having come just at the right time, and they have been favored all through the season. Whenever they have needed water the showers have come and I look not only for a big crop but for some of the very largest potatoes ever grown in this section." • 1 • • Edson ■J. Hockenbury, the well known campaign system manager, is home from the seashore, having* enjoyed several weeks at Wildwood Crest with his family. He is secre tary of the Wildwood Crest Fishing Club, which has a pier there, but fishing was not up to the usual high standard this summer, due to the presence of many sharks off the coast. He is enthusiastic over his fly fishing for salmon in New Found land, where he conducted several big campaigns the past spring, and intends to give the bass of this vi cinity a chance to inspect a choice lot of flies during the coming month or six weeks. Many fishermen found the bass hungry and eager for flieq„ just before the rain of the past few days came up to spqll the fishing and • after the water clears many sports men will be out with fly rod, while others are laying in a stock of plugs ' supposed to be popular with tha black beauties during the fall months. The Dislocated Dollar [The Nation's Business for Sep tember.! A rough inventory of the Ameri can credit situation . show® . some thing like this: The United States Government has less than S9OO - 000,000 of the $IO,000;000;000 au thorized for loans for allies remain ing to pay out, and- more, than half of this is already pledged. Small loans have been made by privara banking interests to ' European ~ banks or governments, but these are insignificant, when weighed against the great quantities of credit needed. Europe cannot send gold to pay for goods, Os she did in the days of American neutrality and, futhermore, American bankers do not want it. They believe too much gold is here already. In addition to needs for currenl export transactions, Europe re quires about $750,000 to meet ma turing obligations in the United States during the last six months of this year. Even the pre-war offset of payments to European shipping interests for ocean trans portation is now reduced by the fact that American bottoms carry. American goods to a larger extent' An inevitable result of these con ditions is found in dislocation of ex change rates which makes Euro pean buyers pay as much as sl.6® for every dollar's worth of goods bought in the United States. High Political Machinery [Charleston Evening Post] Philadelphia Is preparing for its quadrennial election, which ii to, say that the people will once agaia*' struggle to free themselves from th fetters of a machine -that has no equal in this country. I Broken Cisterns '' "For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, 1 cisterns, that can hold no water,— Jeremiah 2:13, j
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