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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-03-16
REINFORCEMENT IN FAVOR.

NNE gratifying evidences of awakening interest
~ IN the unanimous retrencmen noted on the
tax eyes Monday of March compliance with the
orders of the Commission On side there
disposition and bring each and every
county into parity normal charged everywhere
The greatest difficulty for the State which compe
session of the Legislature business man administration it
better Nevada by cooperating economy aud efficiency and insist
ing paid unless they earned There are too
the State OF whom do not
take appear their supposed OF labor except
ON payday when they draw their checks.
ronopah list making record by cutting the levy
from "a $500 including this would have been
growth the calling for add
tiona necessang the construction of the finest
and building the State owercos capita
pupils accommodated than anywhere else Esmerada county
found ways living by making the tax levy
Godfed 56 reduction of ~ cents Faon
expense maintaining municipal electric telephone and
plants levy $2S5 to $3.50 Wnnemucca will
pay at with 5 and Reno
SO against years levy of $3 while Sparks in the
county, % cents
This is an excellent beginning and that should be carried
through There why Nevada should riot with
rate than any the twentieth century Efforts
having public officers give their trusts
more personal idea of doing with honorary
elected for job his fitness should be mrs
should that he does the wor
asking hire help to take care oil nj
office
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
THE MUNICIPAL "MovIE"

THE proposed installation of a
municipal moving picture ma
\ chine in n of the public parks
of Steelton is an idea that has
worked out quite successfully in many
cities of the West and Middle West.
Undoubtedly, in steelton a moving
picture screen could do much to in
struct the foreign element of the Dor
ough in safety methods, sanitation,
and the customs of their adopted
country. In Pittsburgh moving pic
lures were shown on several of the
city Fairgrounds. At once the munich
pal recreation spots of that city were
frequented by hundreds of grown ups
who never before visited the play
grounds. In this way the city makes
these open air places of benefit to
thousands of its tax-paying citizens,
as well as to the children of the COM
munity.
The movie is one of the most
popular forms of amusement we have
to-day and Harrisburg would do well
to consider the idea now before the
Steelton Council.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09

dren of the more prosperous or those
of more than ordinary ambition. To-
day the high school is the goal of
over so per cent. of those who enter
the primary grades.
But the schools nave not only in
creased in size. New buildings have
lot been the only thought of those In
charge of the city's educational sys-
tenn. Since the days of which Pro-
fessor Vert writes in such an inter-
esting manner the high school has been
improved until 1t is now like a small
college. the technical school has been
established, open-air schools have
come into being, a commercial depart.
ment is turning out well-equipped
graduates, medical inspection has been
enforced and girls who desire to be-
come school teachers need no longer
go to the expense of a course at nor
NAL school-our own training class
provides for that.
There are faults in our educational
system, to be sure, but there can be
no comparison between u schools of
to-day and those with which Harris
burgers of 1874 were not only content,
but of the excellence of which they
boosted.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
THE ROCKS MUST GO

HOATMEN in this city are insisting
X hat the river be cleaned up
H. and hundreds of citizens interest
ed in the River Front improve
ments are joining in this just demand.
Now that the work on the dam has
reached the stage where it is only
a matter of a few months until it is
completed it is time hat immediate
consideration be given to eliminating
the dangerous rocks and reefs between
Iron alley and Seneca street. The
most dangerous part of the river and
the place where most accidents occur
is at Maclay street. Here a reef OF
rock runs across the stream from
shore to shore and only a narrow
channel twenty feet from the Harris.
burg shore permits the passage OF
water craft at low stages. But only
the most skilled canoeists and river.
men are able to take craft up this
channel and it must be widened before
it will be of general use.
Once the dam is completed and the
"Maclay street rifles" are eradicate6
there will be a clear stretch of water
from Iron alley to McCormick's Island
and beyond, making a lake-like sur.
face nearly four miles long. Concert.
ed action should be taken at once by
all interested citizens to effect the
necessary cleaning up"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
GOING TO PIECES


IT isn't SO very long ago that we
were assured by the local organ OF
! the Democratic machine that al
was perfect peace and harmony
within the ranks of the organization
that the party was being conducted
for the sole benefit of the dear people;
that all the wickedness of the Com
monwealth was to be eradicated
through and by the regenerated
Democracy, and that everything in the
way of political crookedness and cor
ruption was to be eliminated.
This sounded well and for a time
many independent voters were dis
posed to accept at par the statements
of the group of little men who had
assumed the leadership of the party.
But now a great change has come
about and many of those who were
applauding the Palmer-McCormick
movement are busy denouncing the
leaders of the reorganization faction.
Dispatches from Washington indicate
beyond n question that Palmer's
ISdueTSIlp mas Deen given a DOuy dow
and that his Democratic associates in
Congress are ready to pull him down
from the pedestal upon which he has
been placed by President Wilson. 1t
is manifestly the beginning of the end
of the selfish little machine that rode
into power through the broken Re-
publican lines. These lines have now
been closed up and what was division
two years g is again a formidable
fighting force.
None recognizes the situation bet
ter than Palmer himself. He a risk
ed his whole political future on the
turn of a card and the support of
the President. Palmer and McCor-
mick, the White House twins, have
cast in their lot with that of the Pro-
fessor of Psychology at Washington
and they are doubtless wondering
what's the benefit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09

under certain circumstances, may go
as high as rs, "a and Is per cent,
respectively, and so on.
The popular prejudice in favor OF
distributing one's means ere the tax
collector claims a large or small frac-
tor in behalf of the State leads the
public to view with favor the action of
millionaires determined to die poor;
and the next best thing to win esteem
is to make a liberal provision for pub
lie purposes in a will. That of Mrs.
Norris K. Jesup is an exemplary docu-
ment. She ~bequeaths over $S,00O,000
to public institutions in a carefully
proportioned distribution, and leaves
several millions more to her next of
kin. The remembrance of the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History with
5000, 900 inspires the devout wish
that certain of our own institutions
might enjoy the lavish benefactions
they deserve. The consciousness of
wisdom in ~well-doing hat UGH a
thoughtful disposal of a large estate
brings TO the testator must assure a
personal satisfaction hat the mere
pride of possession cannot give.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09

license fees" Those fiscal officials
should pray to be delivered from their
fool friends.
The ears of the Dauphin county
faithful are still strained for an an
nouncement of the revenue jobs.
For a man who was. rolled out
fiat Judge Bonniwell managed to re-
ceive much consideration from the
machinists.
The Democratic bosses of the 4th
division will meet mex Thursday at
the country home OF Division Boss
Mccormick where no one will bother
them.
Elmer E. Shuey has been APP
pointed postmaster at Ono, Lebanon
county, but he will say Dyes when
the fiscal agent comes around.
Congressman Palmer will have a
nice time in Washington these days.
Jim Blakslee, who left the job al
Washington yesterday to help run
the steam roller, says Palmer's lead
ership Is the greatest ever.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
EDITORIAL COMMENT

The Huerta opinion seems to be that
there isn't so much power in Niagara
Falls after all-Atlanta Constitution.
Henry Clews says what Mexico needs
Is "a wise despot." But the world rs
Just out of Wis despots.-Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
The men in England could get even
with the window-smashers by starting
a campaign of smashing mirrors.-Sait
Lake Tribune.
After all the publicity Kermit Roose-
Welt has had 1t must be a relief to drop
into obscurity las !, June bridegroom
Oswego Times.
A Philadelphia paper says the best
preventive against heat prostration is
an hours mar every afternoon. But we
can't all live in Philadelphia.-Pitts-
burgh Gazette-Times.
That Amos Pinchot, though rejecting
Mr.. Perkins. is still faithful to the
Roosevelt tradition is shown by the fact
that his letter is seven thousand words
long.-New York Evening Post.
A New Jersey minister complains that
the women are taking up the vices
which the men are discarding, but
neglects to specify just which Vices the
men are Notwithstanding South
ern Lumberman,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
CUTTLEFTSH TACTICS

~ONGRESSMAN A. MITCHELL
PALMER chooses a time when
Senator Penrose is at sea to
make an attack upon him in an
effort to throw dust in the eyes of the
voters. So serious has been the public
criticism of the use of money in the
Democratic primary for Palmer and
Mccormick that they are anxious to
divert attention from themselves by
raising a similar issue against Senator
Penrose.
But the ghost will not down. The
inordinate use of money, which has
been denounced by these self-righteous
leaders of a Democratic faction, is one
of the rocks upon which the machine
that has been built up by the same
means that have been roundly criti-
cised by h Palmer-McCormick or
ganization is certain to go to smash.
Both Palmer and Mccormick con-
tinue to pirate about bossism and ma
chine rule and all the rest of it, while
guilty themselves of the most out
rageous bossism any party has ever
been cursed with. But the average
voter is not deceived. Men who ordi-
narily take little account of political
charge and counter-charge are awake
to the fact that the Palmer-McCor-
mick machine is nothing more than a
personal organization for the promo
ton of the ambitions of two men. And
these two men now realize that their
little day is about over and that the
twilight of November will find them
in the obscurity which they have in
Vited by a course of political action
that has arrayed against them thou
sand of Democrats who will not stand
Tor hypocrisy or four-fushing such
as has characterized the whole Pal
mer-McCormick movement.
Whistling to keep up their courage.
statements were issued yesterday after
the meeting of the Democratic execu-
tive committee which were designed
to brace up the faltering and dis
rupted Democratic ranks. State Chair
man Morris declared that the Issue Is
this year" There can be no
doubt on that score. 1t is the issue
against incompetency and demagogy
n h voters will never again in the
present generation be deceived by the
empty promises of the Wilson's and
the underwoods and the Palmers, who
have demonstrated their unitness to
administer the affairs of the people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
AFRAID OF THE GOVERNMENT

NIX hundred hands nave been
thrown out of work at Bridge
~ port in this State by the shut
down of the wooden mills of an
important company. Many of the
knitting mills and shirt factories in
Norristown and throughout that ser
ton of the State are already closed
down or running on half time. "Our
shut down." said a member of the
big wooden firm, lis due to two things
the operation of the tariff and the
threatening of industries by proposed
new laws at Washington. In other
words. the business interests of the
country are afraid of the Government
at Washington
Yet the newspapers which print the
truth about the Wilson tariff and its
disastrous effects upon business are
accused of calamity bowling. What
shall be said of a class of
rapidly becoming less in number from
day to day, that uphold the Wilson
vagaries and ridicule the protests of
the embarrassed business men of the
country?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
THE NEW PATRIOTISM
1From the New York Sun. +

Jtrom the New YORK SUM-
1t is the originality and the charm
of Mr.. Wilson's commemorative dis
courses that they commemorate him
self. Whatever the occasion. Memorial
Day, eulogy of the marines and sailors
who died In Mexico, the Fourth of July,
the orator translates 1t into terms OF
himself. Thus at Philadelphia Satur-
day he made patriotism concrete and
personal:
There are some gentlemen in wash
ington.. for example, who are showing
themselves to be patriotic In a way that
does not attract very much attention.
The members of the House and Senate,
who stay in hot Washington and trans
act public business. are performing an
act of patriotism. I honor them for ii.
and I am nightly glad to stay there
and stick by them until II is over"
With respect. the patriotism" of
of attention. 1t consists in obedience
to Mr.. Wilson's will and orders. The
patriotism of Congress lies in being a
docile pupil. the echo and cuckoo of the
EXECUTIVE, sole and supreme;
ut is patriotic also" said Mr.. will
son, ito know the facts. His opinions
or psychological excursions are the
only facts. Persons who accept them
as proofs of Holy Writ are patriots.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
THE RICH MAN AND HIS MONEY
Philadelphia Public LEDGER

philadelphia Public Ledger.1
When q rich man dies and leaves
no part of his fortune for any public
benefit, his neglect often provokes adj
verse comment due to the popular
sense of a failure to acknowledge an
obligation. In the case of one who,
for example has amassed a fortune
through public utilities it is felt that
liberal public requests are merely a
fair recognition of the source from
which the wealth was drawn. This
thought has found frequent utterance
of late in this city following the publ
cation of the -1ills of several million
aires in which no public requests
whatever appear.
The desire to enjoy in ones life
time the esteem that is the portion of
the phflanthropist has led certain rich
men to give of their means literally to
communal ends. ere there is any ques-
tlon or litigation over an inheritance,
or the amount accruing to the State
through an inheritance tax.
There is likely to be increasingly
general sympathy with legislation that
provides for the sequestration by the
State of a considerable portion of
large accumulations of wealth through
the inheritance AK. At present Ala
bama, the District of Columbia, Flor
ida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, New
Mexico, Rhode Island, South Carolina
have no such law. Here in Pennsyl-
vania estates less than $3.50 are ex-
empt, but there is a 5 per cent. tax
on all requests beyond this amount to
heirs outside the immediate family
circles This is moderate. North Da-
kota above $500. 600, in the last-named
conditions, takes 15 per cent; Illinois,
above 100000, takes 10 per cent.
Nevada, Arkansas and West Virginia,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

E. T. S~totesbury, president of the
Reading company, has started home
from England.
Mayor Joseph Armstrong, of Pitts
burgh, will go to Europe for a vaca-
ton.
Charles A. Mum, prominent Phila-
delphian' has leased a shooting box In
Scotland.
"A. e. Jones. who welcomed the
Endeavorers to Uniontown, is city So
licitor of tina place and a prominent
lawyer.
James M. Wuchter has been re-
elected head of the Allentown school
board, which he has long served.
Ellis A. Gimbel entertained at
Philadelphia members of the class
with which he graduated thirty-four
years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
GROWTH OF OUR sCHoo1s

THE growth of the public schools
of Harrisburg since 1874 is
shown by Professor J.. Howard
Vert in his Harrisburg School
Sketches" now appearing in the Tele-
graph. In the year mentioned the
buildings of the city had a seating
capacity of only 1895. To-day there
are enrolled more than 1850 pupils,
and several more school buildings are
needed to accommodate those who are
demanding admission.
These figures are not only an indi-
cation of the growth of the city In
population, but of the increased school
attendance as we'll. Boys and girls
continue longer at study nov than for.
merly. The high school was in the
early days for the very few-the chill
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
POLITICAL SIDElCHTS
THE $4,000 Kitty stalked arou.

The $4,000 kitty stalked around
the machine headquarters last night
and every member OF the inside COM
mittee went home wondering where
1t was going to turn up next.
-Palmer's attempt to turn atten-
ton from the "kampaign kitties" by
attacking Penrose's friends was taken
seriously only by the Patriot.
The remarks of the Patriot place
the blame for the dilapidated high
ways On Young and Powell after
months of sidestepping.
The new Democratic postmaster
of Ashland has gone in, d~isplacing
a widow.
The Patriot says to-day: Pow
ell and Young have fought Attorney
General Bell for months in an effort
to keep Bigelow from getting hold the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
- BOOKS and a.
MAGAZINESG I

The Mexican Laredo lies on a plain
under he heights of the American
city; almost every movement of the at
tack and defense could be Witnessed as
plainly as IL on a stage in the amphi-
theater below. The Rio Grande is not
deep. and many soldiers would swim
across to get something to eat and
drink. and her go back to fight There
have been no regular pay days for the
Constitutional army. and the strength
button of the loot among his men and
that means they must fight for 1t IL the
ghost is to walk" and the excursion
party is to continue.-"Across the Bor-
der in Mexico" Joe Mitchell Chapple;
in National Magazine for une.
A Cleveland bookstore writes that
''The Transformers" by Max Alley
(~Scribner's) ais one of the best books
written for children within the last few
years, and we cannot but feel that this
will rank with such books as Alcott.
Coolridge and Lucas"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09

Up in the Goa regions. yesterday,
clifford Pinchot had another tremendous
ovation. Here is the story from the
Public Ledger: "At the station Mr..
Pinchot shook hands with two miners,
in their working toys. and also met the
Rev. p. ]. Murphy, a militant Olyphant
priest. Mr.. Pinchot posed with the
miners and with Father Murphy for a
number Of campaign pictures"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
JUST A LITTLE MISTAKE

By Wing Dinger
Did you feel that shock this morning;
No, it wasn't an earthquake
Twas The Patriot admitting
That it made a slight mistake.
Seems they printed in a story
T'other day, the cost would be
For a bandstand down in Steelton,
Bout $4,000, seer
This stirred UP a little rumpus,
Cause the figures should have been
Not six thousand. but six hundred
One too many naughts got in.
I'll concede that it's quite easy
Such an error oft to make,
But, ye gods. to think The Patriot
Would confess to a mistake!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09

Commissioner Harry F. Bowman, of
the department of public safety, is pre-
pairing for an important change in the
pipe lines of the central part of the city
with a view to increasing the water
and diminishing the fire risk.
New water mains of larger capacity
will be laid in Front street, from North
to Paxton, and in Market from Front
street to the subway
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
Proclamation by President

President Lincoln has fixed the first
Thursday in August as a day of fasting
and prayer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
NEWGS{ FRA5lfRETSFEENS AR

[From the Telegraph of July Q, 1851
Repulse at Frederick .
Advance of the rebels on Frederick,
ND, has been successfully repulsed by
General Lew Wallace.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09

Thursday a clerk in a store watched
a man, who said he was going across
the river. He was seized on suspicion
and confessed he was a member of the
rebel army.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
OUR DAILY LAUGH

A Misunderstand-
Ing
First Boarder-
VIII you pass the
cheese?
Second Boarder
How fast Is it
travelling?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
One WaY

One Way
I wish ! could
prevent our big
rooster from crow
ing at 2 a. m.
a easy;
have roast rooster
for dinner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09

Talcott Williams. the Director of the
School of journalism in Columbia Uni
versity, has become one of the editors
of the Revision of the New Interna-
tional Encyclopedia now in course of
publication
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
IN %HARRTsBURG HEY
YEARS AGO TODAY
[From the Telegraph of July Q. 1854
BIackberries High
CAPTURE n Rebel

Blackberries and whortleberries ar
peared in market this morning, Blu
were high.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
SIGNIFICANT PSYCHOLOGY

At the end of May there were 240. 900
IDLE freight cars, the largest number in
years. The Steel Corporation had or
ders on its books for less than 1000, 900
tons, against 5000, 900 at the beginning
of last year. Quite as significant,
money may be borrowed in New York
on three and -four months time at from
21s to 3 per cent.-From a Saturday
Evening Post editorial.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-09
PURLIEHEU BY

Published every evening Except sun
day., at the Telegraph Building zle
Federal Square.
, 1914-10-08

pleted and gone on, but rather of
something which is ahead; they
might be considered as heralding
the mightier growth of the West
offers.
Europe today is plunged in the
greatest wal of all time, and in
1915 will not receive the 100000
American tourists who have gone
there each year. Since these tour
lists cannot go to Europe they are
coming beyond a doubt to the
West, and here they will see
sights beside which those of Eur
ope, Asia, and Africa amount to
little. No other country in the
, 1914-10-08

world has the majestic harmony
of sea and canyons and mountains
and forests and valleys beneath
the clear blue sky of the Ameri-
can West.
But it is more than a scenic
tour. 1t is a voyage of discovery
for the men of the East who know
nothing of the opportunity that is
waiting them ON the coast. They
know vaguely that the Canal will
bring the West coast much nearer
the older cities of the East and
across the Atlantic. They do not
realize that the hinterland of the
west is going to be opened
, 1914-10-08
Tourists Will Come West.

Three months from today the
San Diego Exposition will open
to the world. On this day occurs
the formal opening of the Panama
canal which completion is to he
celebrated by the two expositions
at San Francisco and San Diego.
Nc other event has been marked
by two celebrations of this sort,
and no other event has been of
such prime Importance to the
country which is celebrating The
striking feature of the expositions
is that they are celebrations not
alone of something which is COM