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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-03

planting accordingly and then run the chances of
having guessed correctly or incorrectly.
Much of last years cotton crop is, of course still
in storage, since the war has interfered with the
great export business, closing many foreign mar
kets With continuance of the war, large crops
this coming season might not be profitable. In case
hostilities end, however before the season s har
vest, the worlds revived demand for cotton would
probably be great enough to guarantee the market
ing of the largest Of crops at very profitable figures
The Southern planters cannot be certain whether
to increase or to reduce the usual acreage devoted
to cotton growing, any more than the wheat sewers
are sure about giving over larger smaller areas
to grain production. That the farmers, if they aim
high, will lose, is altogether likely that they
will lose if they aim low. They can do no more
than gamble on the wars duration and then await
the consequences If they plant large areas, and
the war ends by harvest time, they win. The stake
seems large enough to be worth striving for.
Although the cotton industry in bad way
last autumn there has been in the business of the
season a partial recovery of lost ground and the
expected financial disaster has luckily been avoided
When the war broke out it closed the markets in
which two-thirds Of the season s record yield of
cotton was to have been disposed of. That there
should have been a scare in this country was to
have been expected. While the cost of producing
and marketing was placed at nine cents pound
the selling price six cents less, if there
be said to have been selling price at all. The
price of cotton now, however, averages ten cents
pound figure even larger than that of some nor
NAL years.
The cotton trade, as regards this country alone,
is safe despite the The present domestic con-
sumption is reported to be greater than the con-
sumption at this time last year. With the approach
of the planting season for new crop, last autumn's
wild scheme to prevent the planting this year of
more than half the customary acreage, will hardly
get great deal of attention, war or no war.
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other men who were working in the
Vicmity. In some cases careless man
IN hosting material has not used a safe
nlteh, but, in order to save time, has
nfted very heavy material by means Of
an improper hitch. AS this material
was being carried along the shot the
load slipped and in falling injured sew.
eral persons. In other cases men chip
ping and filing have not been mindful
OF workmen in their vicinity and have
caused slight or serious injury to these
men because of flying chips. Another
careless workman may have left un.
covered or unprotected a dangerous
place, and his fellow employees, unmind.
ful OF his carelessness, have stepped
into this place and suffered injury.
Tools and various implements of any
kind are often thrown carelessly on
the floor, and workmen coming along in
a hurry have unfortunately tripped over
these and been hurt. Many instances
might be cited where the careessness
of one employee has caused injury and
sometimes death to others.
The Department of Labor and In
dustry accordingly urges that each
workman constitute himself safety
committee of one to see that safe
practices are carried on in his partic-
ular plant, and also to see that not
only he, himself, but also those men
who are working nearest to him, do
things in a safe manner. If this were
universally done, it would be only a
short time until the preventable acci-
dents would be eliminated, and the
great loss which is now occasioned by
industrial accidents would be reduced
to minimum.
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HINTS TO VACATIONISTS
Little Talks on Health and Hygiene
By Samuel e. Dixon, M. D., LII.
D., Commissioner of Health

Nature s siren song is calling the city
dweller. 1t lures to mountain, meadow.
lake or camp. The call is universal
and all who are free hasten to answer.
In selecting a place for a summer
home or brief vacation it is we'll to
observe few basic precautions and so
avoid incurring illness which may re-
suit seriously.
There are thousands of resorts, cot
tages and camps where the defects in
sanitation present genuine menace.
Certain things should be carefully OBJ
served:
The water supply.
The disposal of sewage and garbage.
The milk supply, particularly if there
are infants or young children
II the water supply comes from a
well, be sure that it is not located
where it will receive underground or
surface drainage from a barnyard or
clubhouse. 1t is essential to boil water
taken from surface streams. Clearness
is no guarantee of purity.
If springs are the source of supply,
care should be taken that they are not
surrounded by habitations or other
oopiNSo VI PoIiuliOh' III NllldStS
or shore places, if the water supplies
are public, diligent inquiry should be
made as to whether the source is free
from sewage contamination. If the dis
posal of sewage and garbage is care
less, flies are certain tosbreed, and un-
less kitchens and dining rooms are care
fully screened there is the possibility
of typhoid or diarrheal infection from
this source.
With young children, particularly in
fants, the question of a clean milk sup.
ply is one of vital Importance. Fresh
milk is of little or no advantage unless
it be clean milk.
Mosquitoes also may prove pestifer.
Gus nuisance. There is the possibility
of malarial infection in regions where
they abound.
Failure to give attention to these es.
sential points of sanitation may result
in poignant regrets instead of delight.
full holiday memories.
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CARELESSN ESS---THE CAUSE OF
MOST ACCIDENTS

Investigations of industrial acci-
dents recently undertaken by the Penn
sylvania Department of Labor & In
dustry show that by far the greater
number of these accidents are the re-
suit of the carelessness of some one
person. A great majority of people be-
lieve that if machinery is safeguarded
it will not be necessary for any further
attention to be paid in preventing ac.
eidents. 1t is a well-admitted fact,
however, that safeguarding alone will
not prevent the great proportion of ac'
cidents. Some authorities claim that
it is only possible to prevent one
fourth of the accidents by safeguard
ing, and that the greater number of
preventable accidents can be eliminated
only by the education of workmen up
to the point that they will be careful
of their methods and of their actions
Numerous instances have been
brought to the attention of the inspec-
tors of the Department where employees
have deliberately disregarded direct or
ders given by the officials in charge of
the plants. In fact, most persons who
are in charge of accident prevention
work claim that if employees would be
more careful, and would give particu-
lar attention to all danger points, one,
half of the accidents which do occur
would be eliminated.
As result of this belief that safe
guards alone cannot prevent accidents,
all safety campaigns not only involve
the safeguarding of machinery, but the
employees are carefully taught safe and
sane methods, and are also urged to
practice these teachings, and to en-
courage their fellow employees to be
equally careful. Bulletin boards are
usually located in various places in the
plants, and upon these, posters and
other information which would call the
attention of employees to dangerous
practices are displayed. From time to
time the employees are called together
in social meetings, and are given lee.
lures by various persons, either by
men brought from distance, who are
recognized authorities in their partcu.
lar fields, or by local representatives
Motion pictures and lantern slides are
uioo iOuhu W bt III lHlS IlHt
of training. Some companies have also
made up safety buttons, which, while
they are not of intrinsic value, are well
worth having These buttons are Civ,
EN- only as a reward for some suggestion
or deed or notable achievement in ac
cident prevention in that particular
plant.
The main thought underlying this
teaching, however, is to inculcate in
the minds of all the necessity of being
careful. 1t is manifestly impossible to
secure reduction of accidents in any
plant unless this idea of carefulness is
instilled into the mind of each employe
One careless man in a plant not only
endangers his own life, but also the
lives of his fellow employees. 1t mat
ters not what the nature of the industry
may be, since in most cases his action:
will be associated with those of his
fellow workers. Numerous instances
have come to the attention of the in
spectors of the department where &
careless employee has not only brought
injury to himself, but has also beer
the cause of inhicting injury on severa
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PEOPLES COLUMN
Tho Star-lndependent does not
make itself responsible for opinions
expressed in this column.
Defends the Poplar Tree
Editor, the Star-Independent:

Editor, the Star-Independent:
Dear Sir:-As citizen of Harris.
burg fifty years, all this time tax,
payer, L am interested in the high cost
OF tree trimming, also removing trees
and all other work charged up to our
city. The work already charged up,
5000, could have been done for $3.50.
The $4,000 asked for would be three,
fourths waste.
The thousands of poplar trees the
Forester outlines to remove at $5 to
$S each, | would do for one-half his
proposed charge. However, it is alb,
surd to think of such removals. There
are eight poplar on the corner of Third
and Boas streets, planted by me about
twenty-five years ago. See the pro-
prietor of the Fifth Ward Hotel. See
If he would take $500 for them
The poplar is much more worthy of
place on our streets than beech For
low house or house set in from the
line of street the maple is prefer
able. For a lofty house poplar of fast
growing maple; but under no circum.
stances an old beech. 1t also has long
roots. [ planted about forty years
oSoJ iot SidycE oH DOdS anu lnlTu
streets; also about thirty years ago on
opposite side, filling three corners. See
all these and you will find the Carolina
poplar as good in all respects as the
Norway and Sugar naples.
On April 20, 1915, at my nursery,
man bought two trees. He also re-
quested me to tag four Carolina poplars
for him for fall planting. The same
day another person priced poplar and
ordered it planted. Mr.. Mueller says the
trees lack beauty and asks money to
remove them and replace with much
more undesirable tree. To give out all
the money asked for is like mother
giving the market basket to her five.
year.old boy with IS to buy the family
supplies at market. He would spend
the money but get a small supply. The
mother had better leave 81 at home
and with 81 buy better supplies.
L. A. Woods.
Harrisburg, Pa, May 1.
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War Buildings Deface Park

Along the peaceful green slopes of
st. James Park, which marks the
center of fashionable life in London,
there have sprung up almost over night
a host of temporary buildings, to be
used as an emergency extension of the
war Office. They will house staff of a
thousand clerks, representing the ac-
counting department. So rapidly has
the work of this section of the gov
ernment grown that the huge war
building in Whitehall is badly over
crowded. Early in the war an extra
story was built up on the roof to house
part of the emergency staff. The new
buildings in the park are not jerry
built, although they have the appear
ance of mere shaeks. They are solidly
constructed, with foundation walls Of
brick four feet high, concrete floors
and walls of carefully selected timber,
asbestos lined. The buildings are only
temporary, of course, but provision
was made when they were planned, for
a war that might last several years.
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WORK FOR MANY MEN
Wilkes-Barre Firm Receives 100000
Order for Sugarmaking Machinery

Wilkes-Barre, Pa, May 9.-Return-
ing from Cuba with orders aggregating
100000 worth of gar-manufactur-
ing machinery, S. T. Nicholson, presi-
dent and general manager of the Vul-
can Iron Works, yesterday announced
that the concern, which has heretofore
devoted its large plant mainly to the
manufacture of engines, will at once ar
range to manufacture sugar machinery
on a large scale. The order will mean
the employment of many men.
For several months past the Vulcan
Company has been unable to keep many
men at work. The plant is one of the
largest in the city and 1000 men were
EN- mployed until the business depression
made it necessary to cut down this
force.
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SENATOR GYGER's GOOD EXAMPLE

Senator John Gyger of Kimberton who repre-
tents Chester county in the upper branch of the
Legislature, is establishing record Capitol Hill
|vhich other makers might with profit try to
Equal in future sessions. We informed that SEN
|tor Gyger has not yet offered any new legislation
b the present session and that he intends to strive
10 maintain this rather remarkable record during
|he few remaining days that the lawmakers will
|e together. We hope he will succeed.
We do not believe that Senator Gyger can be ac-
used of neglecting his duties as member of the
Senate simply because he has not tried to have any
bore laws put on the statute books. Presumably
le has been at the desk with reasonable amount
II regularity while his branch has been transactng
business and has been using his best judgment in
Ioting for against bills that other legislators have
Introduced. If so there should be no complaint for
lis failure to have fathered any bills. Indeed the
|ery fact that Senator Gyger has not introduced any
heasures of his indicates at least on the sur
ace, that he is serving his immediate constituents
md the taxpayers of the state as whole, in very
'cceptable manner-far better than any of the 9th
Legislators who have been glutting the calendars
kithmore or less useless legislation.
While it is admitted that changing conditions in
he Commonwealth call for certain amount of new
legislation each session, it has, on the otherhand
pme to be recognized fact that in almost every
tate there are too many laws There are measures
the statute books of Pennsylvania right now that
pnfer powers commissioners which the Constitu-
on of the state never intended should be so con-
Prred. There are many others that place unneces-
Ary restrictions and eXactions on business, in one
brm another, in way that tends to hurt busi-
ess,-and consequently the people who do busi-
ess,-rather than to benefit it. 1t is generally
Fcognized that this is of too much legisa-
on and it is refreshing to at least one law
aker taking definite stand, as Senator Gyger is
ping, in opposition to this injurious law-makng
id.
1t is true that the present Legislature has seen
great reduction of the number of bills offered.
has cut down the number by about 1000 we
e told, as compared with the number offered in
e 1913 session; but the most of the members of
e present Legislature have still to learn to re-
rain themselves to far greater extent in this
after of Offering useless defective measures.
ow many of these there have been this year may
judged in part by the large number of bills that
ready have been vetoed by Governor Brumbaugh,
no also appears to have taken the right attitude
kainst too many statutes
We trust Senator Gyger's constituents will rec
tnize the service he is performing in their behalf
setting an example to other legislators in refrain
from offering needless bills, and that they will
lar this in mind when it comes time to elect the
xt senator from Chester.
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A PROFESSOR ON THE STUDENTS SIDE

A traitor in the ranks of college professors of
English has revealed himself He comes out openly
in the current number of "The Forum with the
declaration that college freshmen know good deal
more than their professors give them credit for
knowing, and that this knowledge consists largely
of the understanding of current questions is ''su
perior in value to the dead, stale and improbable
information which is the principal stock in trade
of about three-fourths of our teachers
The shameless traitor in his avowed purpose to
defend the lack of literary knowledge on the part
of freshmen goes far to ask his fellow teachers
of English whether they honestly harbored the
knowledge when they were college freshmen which
they are looking to find in present day members of
that abused class, and which they are failing to
find
The query is well put. College freshmen have
often wanted to ask about that very thing them
selves, but they cannot phrase the inquiry as can
college professor, and they would hesitate to come
out openly with it even if they could frame it ac-
ceptably. They will be content, those of them who
see the current Forum" to voice delightfully."-
within themselves the opinions Of the traitor pro-
fessor, and to hope that copy of the publication
will get in the way of their own instructors
The author of the Forum" article proceeds to
point out what every sane person knows but what
few college professors ever emphasize in their
class-rooms by words or by methods, that card
indexes and reference books are the places for stor
ing facts He suggests that eff one wishes to live
a dead life, as many college teachers do, then one
ought to remember everything he has been taught -
college professor who says a thing like that
furnishes unmistakable evidence that he is fortu-
nate enough to have still in him much of the college
student
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peachable authority" says the journal,
"that Lord Fisher makes habit of
going to certain church practically
every day for prayer and meditation
before commencing his responsible
duties. We understand also that Lord
Kitchener follows out similar rule
whenever he is in London.'
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Statesmen Feel Offended

The appointment by the Home Sec
retary of committee in London to
work up recruiting among the shop
statesmen has caused the secretary of
the Statesmen s Union 60 protest
against what he terms an unwarrant-
ed insinuation. To show that the sales
men have not been backward in an
swering the call to arms, he mentions
dry goods firm with 43 per cent. of
it's 300 men in the army and a grocery
with 30 per cent. of 4S0 men serving.
Most of those remaining, he says, have
shown good reason for it.
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COTTON PLANTERS RUNNING RISKS

Opportunities for making or losing large amounts
money through agricultural pursuits were never
eater in this country than at present. Farmers
ho raise cotton and grain must make wild guesses
to the probable duration Of the war, do their
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Lord Kitchener's Daily Prayer

Lord Curzon's statement in the
House Of Lords that Lord Roberts had
conducted family prayers for his house
hold for more than fifty years is sup
plemented by data collected by the
"Church Family Newspaper regard
ing Lord Fisher, First Sea Lord and
Lord Kitchener. "We learn on unim-
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wAYsIDE CHAT

There's good deal in this Southern hospitality"
rs that sol"
''Yes they gimme eight months for vagrancy in New
Orleans. got than 60 days in the North"
Exchange.
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A MATTER OF WATER

The with which some loans foated may account
for the amount of water subsequently found stock
Washington Post.
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The New York, New Haven & Hartford is beginning to
report surpluses. spanking in while is good
thing for a railroad
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With the approach of circus day the Office boy who
looking forward to afternoon off is becoming especially
attentive to the wants of his employer
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INSPIRATION

What inspired this dainty spring poemf babbled the
romantic girl
"Daffods and volets, ween"
NO." said the matter of fact poet when I'm going
good all I want it chew of tobacco Exchange.
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TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN
SAW Is THE TERM

81 opera last evening
my dear, you play, but you hear an opera"
"Not when society is out in full e."-Exchange.
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wARLIKE VEGETATION
Mt life in Mexico?"

How is plant life in Mexico"
Mostly prcky pear cactus and Spanish bayonet Even
the Vegetation is prepared for war"Pittsburgh Post
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The Legislature has yet to demonstrate where all the
money it is approprating is to from.
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good law to pass would be to pass any more
laws
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Why not stop killing people until they decide whether
there is to be peaces
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WEATHER FORECASTS

/ Harrisburg and vicinity: Unsettled
Feather, probably showers tonight and
tuesday. Not much change in tenn
erature.
Eastern Pennsylvania: Unsettled to-
light and Tuesday, probably showers.
|entle to moderate northeast winds.
YESTERDAYS TEMPERATURE IN ]
Highest, 65; lowest, As; s a. M, So;
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Iongue-End Topics
Picks New Flaw In Censorship

The London "Globeo expresses
alarm and regret at the freedom with
which British statesmen and leaders
are granting interviews to American
and French newspapers.
"We have already commented"
urges the "Globe,' son the extent
to which foreign journalists are favor
ed at the expense of the British press,
by our soldiers and politicians. The
question is not merely of interest In
newspaper offices, but has a certain
national Importance. If the policy of
the press bureau stiles frankness
where it is called for, it might at least
be expected that such a prohibition
would lbe uniform, and that an article
which the censor imagines helpful to
the enemy if it appears in an English
paper will have no less sinister infu-
ence if printed in Paris or New York.
1t appears, however, that counsels of
reticence which are binding when
dealing with the English press may be
relaxed when the speaker is talking
for publication abroad, with the result
they are cabled back again to this
country. This is at best an illogical and
undignified state of affairs"
So
Greek shipowners Profit by War
Several large English shipowners
are piling up profits at the rate of
100000 or more a month, and one
firm at least is reported to have aver
aged practically a million dollars a
month since the beginning of the war.
1t is, of course, only those who have
had their ships free who have been
able to make money. Some owners had
their vessels tied up by charters at
normal figures and others had their
ships taken by the government. Then
all the shipowners have had to bear
increased expenditures for wages, fuel,
insurance and delays in port. The peo-
pie who are really making the money,
according to a London shipping jour
nal, are the Greek shipowners. "For
the last few years." it explains, "the
Greeks have been steadily buying
ships, and they now have very con-
siderable merchant marine. They can
take full advantage of the high rates,
and do not have to face the risks Brit
ish shippers do, nor pay the extra
wages"