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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
SATURDAY EVENING, MAY s.
LUNACY
TIME torpedoing of the Lusitania
II yesterday brings home to Amer

TIME torpedoing of the Lusitania
yesterday brings home to Amer
leans the utter futility, the
wanton waste, the savagery and the
Insanity of the present war as the loss
of a whole fleet of lesser craft has not
served to do.
This great steamship we. in the
United States. looked upon almost as
our own. The Lusitania was more
than mere steamer; she was an
international institution. There at
tached to her not alone the attrac-
ton of size and magnificence of ap-
pointments, but the romance as well
of having set new speed record for
transatlantic voyages. Thousands of
Americans knew every nook and cram
ny of the big boat. millions knew her
by sight as she lay at her slip in New
York and everybody in the country
knew her by name.
Only a few years ago the Lusitania
cost her builders S7.OOO,OOO. She was
worth more than that, exclusive of
cargo, when she dropped down the
New York harbor on her ill-fated voy-
age last Saturday, and she carried hun
dreds of American passengers. To-
day the vessel and her contents lie, so
much worthless junk, at the bottom
of the ocean, and many of those who
sailed with her are dead.
And to what end? Has anybody
been benefited thereby? Has the war
been brought nearer a conclusion
UnquestionabIy not. The loss to Eng
land is insignificant. but those who are
responsible for such wholesale de-
struction of lives and property are pill
ing up an enormous bill of costs not
alone for themselves. but for all of
us. The whole thing is insane. When
an individual displays destructive ten
dencies we say he is demented. Yet
here is a whole continent devoting it
self with all its energies to practices
that would not be tolerated for a mo-
ment in the straight-jacket ward of a
lunatic asylum. 1t is a situation past
all human comprehension.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
TIME TO GET BUSY

InENNSYLvANIANS have been
i slow to realize it. but good
roads benefit no individuals
more than those engaged in agricul-
tural pursuits. The most important
requisite for a farmer is the ability
to market the products he raises.
Whether he be engaged in market
gardening or whether his billowy acres
swell with the wheat harvest, it mat
be his crops II he cannot get them
to a place where he can exchange
them for money or in barter; there
fore, good roads are of vital interest
to the farmer.
When Pennsylvania laid out her
elaborate system of State highways
whereby the more thickly populated
centers were connected. 1t was inn
possible to pass the front gate of
every farmer; necessarily some had
to be left on the county roads Now
unless these roads are in good condi-
tion the farmer is the loser. The
State Highway Department cannot do
more than endeavor to maintain the
State Highway system. In many
cases the counties and townships have
not given proper attention to their
roads.
Governor Brumbaugh's proclama-
tion for Statewide Good Roads
Day, on Wednesday. May 26," should
arouse an answering echo from every
farmer. When all is said and done,
he will be the greatest gamer. If he
does his share in contributing his
labor and that of his employees, his
wagons, his horses, his automobiles
and his tools. he will gain not only the
thanks of his community but also the
satisfaction of knowing that he has
benefited himself as we'll as his neigh
bors.
Let every farmer in the State pitch
in and help to make the Statewide
Good Roads Day" a success.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
ALCOHOL AND BUSINESS

PENNSYLVANIA railroad men who
helped to handle the several trains
of the Barnum circus when it was
in Harrisburg on Thursday were as
tonished to learn that the show man
agement has put the ban on drunken
ness. Last year drunken drivers and
canvasmen cost the circus some ten
thousand dollars needless accident loss.
This year the show employe, high or
low. found under the influence of
liquor is discharged forthwith.
As was recently pointed out in the
case OF the Pennsylvania Railroad IT.
self. when a similar order was issued
applying to employees of the road, mod
ern business efficiency is doing more
to drive old John Barleycorn to the
wall than all of the moral suasion that
ever has been brought to bear against
the use of alcohol. Slowly the effect
is being felt. Excessive use of intoxi-
cants is far less prevalent among large
classes of the community to-day than
cause men have been convinced that
alcohol is detrimental to health, or be-
cause their consciences have been
touched by the appeals of temperance
workers; nor is IT even due to the
awakened civic conscience of the null
titude. 1t is mainly because the great
corporations no longer find drinking
men desirable as employees. It is un-
profitable to be known as an habitual
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
mTNEY REGULATION

TAPTAIN JOSEPH B. THOMPSON,
u acting Chief of Police, gives eX-
preston to public sentiment when
he urges immediate action on rules
and regulations for the jitney service
in Harrisburg. There is no occasion
to wait for tragedy before provid-
ing suitable regulations for this new
automobile outbreak. Captain Thomp-
son is quoted as having expressed the
opinion that the jitneys obey traffic
rules only when patrolmen are in
sight. This is the general observa-
ton of those who watch the reckless
driving of many of these machines. on
circus day. this week, it was almost
a miracle that lives were not lost as a
consequence of the absolutely indif-
ferent way in which many of these ma
chimes were driven about the city.
It is clearly the duty of the police
department and the City Council to at
once take precautions against accident
and also to provide, without delay,
strict regulations for the running of
these cars. Unfortunately, many of the
drivers are inexperienced and their
whole object seems to be to dash about
the streets without regard for life or
limb of those who may get in the
way.
Pending the adoption of any for
NAL rules by the City Council, the
police officials will be justified in en-
forcing the strictest regulations to
avoid casualties that are almost GER
tain to occur unless such precautions
are taken.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Bishop Earl Cranston is to pre-
side at the Methodist conference in
Pittsburgh.
j. i. Replegle, formerly of
Johnstown, now a New York manu-
facturer, is visiting his old home In
Cambria county.
w. S. Oliver. of Washington, has
returned from three months spent in
California.
-EX-Sheriff d. NJ. Howard, of War
rem, has been spending some time in
the Southwest
Justice J. P. Elkin and family
have returned to their home in In
diana after some time spent at the
seashore.
Charles Seger, Philadelphia Coun-
Gilman. is chairman of the committee
in charge of the Liberty Bell trip.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
PIRE PUEELE

DEFORE the Commission on In
D dustrial Relations the other day
Representative Maurer, the So
cialist member of the Pennsylvania
Legislature from Berks. said,
I have on previous occasions
urged that trade union men learn
how to shoot and to protect them
selves. We are tired of having our
defenseless people shot down by
officers of the State, and II ii is
going to continue it is necessary
that labor men be prepared to-pro-
tect themselves.
At the State Federation of Labor
convention, next week. l am going
to advocate that union men learn
the military arts in order to pro-
tect themselves against these
agents of the Commonwealth, who
are used against them.
Mr.. Maurer knows that this is pure
piffie. Pennsylvania workingmen at
tending to their own affairs are we'll
protected by the law. Strikers who
are not bent on disorder and who are
not interfering with the rights or
property of others never have stood
in fear of police interference in Penn
sylvania. The State Police. whom
Mr.. Maurer and others who make ex-
celIent livings by labor agitation love
to call the American Cossacks," never
have been known to attempt the arrest
of anybody not guilty of violating some
law. And any man who breaks law,
be he high or low, rich or poor, ought
to be arrested. and this State Is not
going to permit anybody to stop officers
in the performance of such duty.
Maurer we'll knows he is merely
playing to the galleries. Instead of
endeavoring to raise class feeling and
array capital and labor against each
other by such anarchistic utterances as
that quoted. Maurer might have told
the commission the other side of the
story. He might have sown harmony
rather than discord. Instead of maxi
ing it appear that those in official life
in Pennsylvania are conspiring against
the rights of the workingman. he
might have pointed out that the best
efforts of the Legislature this session
| have been toward improving the con-
dition of labor in this State. The force
of the Department of Labor and In
dustry has been increased for the pro-
lection of laboring men and women, a
drastic child labor bill has been passed
and workmen's compensation is in the
process of enactment. while mine and
factory laws are being strengthened
all along the line.
On the other hand. Mr.. Maurer's
sincerity and courage may be Judged
by his "straddle" on the local option
bill-when he declined to vote because
he thought his socialistic friends
wanted him to be wet" while his
home district is undoubtedly dry"
Talk is not only cheap, but. unfortu-
nately 1t is sometimes misleading and
dangerous. The less of the Maurer
kind the better.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
A PSALM OF THE HELPERS

He that turneth from the road to res.
cue another,
Turneth toward his goal
He shall arrive in due time by the foot.
path of mercy,
God will be his guide.
He that taketh up the burden of the
fainting,
Lighteneth his own load:
The Almighty will put His arms under.
meath him,
He shall lean upon the Lord.
He that speaketh comfortable words tc
mourners,
Healeth his own heart:
In his time of grief they will return tc
remembrance.
GOD Will use them for balm.
He that, careth for the sick and wound,
ed,
Watcheth not alone:
There are three in the darkness to.
gether
And the third is the Lord.
Henry Van Dyke.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
Editorial COMMENT

villa Reforming Troops For Bat
tle."-Headline. Now If somebody
would only reform Villa!-PhiladeI-
phia North American.
The best war news yet received is
the statement that General Prosperity
is about to advance all along the line.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat
They want General Gorgas, of PAN
anna fame, to clean up Serbia It's
an easy guess that he will have better
luck at it than Austria has had thus
far.-Zion's Herald.
How can any one doubt that peace
may be near in Europe when Mr..
Taft and Mr.. Roosevelt actually shook
hands with each other a day or so
ago Chicago Herald
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
,ermanent moisture. the conductor

permanent moisture. the conductor
will protect the surrounding objects
This is the theory OF the lightning rod,
which, when proPpsriy installed, is a
ally attract the lightning. it may be
struck any number of times without
damage to things nearby. The Eiffel
Tower, in Paris, France. steel tower
1000 feet high. has often been struck,
six times during the passage of one
particularly severe storm. AS ample
provision is made to conduct the elec-
tricity to the earth, no serious destruc-
tion has resulted. The tradition
lightning never strikes twice In the
same place" is therefore more nearly
correct when the word never" is omit
ted.-Andrew II. Palmer, in The Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
LIGHTNING IN THE SAME PLACE

Tradition has it that "lightning never
dea Is no onW IN 9he same bass
but the opposite may be nearer the
truth for If the conditions which at
tracted a lightning discharge are not
great probability that they may at
tract the lightning second time. In
general, any good electrical conductor
projecting above material which offers
resistance to the passage of electricity
will tend to attract lightning. If this
projecting conductor is insulated from
surrounding material and Is anchored
deep in the soil. down in the level OF
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
IN HARRI SBURc Fifty
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
IFrom the Telegraph of May s, i

tFrom the Telegraph of May s, 1861
Officers to Report
Members of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association will hold a meeting
tonight in their rooms, In Market
Square. Several of the officers will
present reports.
ShOplifterS Arrested
Four women. all from York accus-
ed of shoplifting, were arrested to-day.
They were released upon payment Of
the stolen goods.
Dedicate Synagogue
The dedication of the Ohev Sholem
congregation will take place May 12 at
$3.50 O'Clock. The building is located
at Second and South streets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08

or even an occasional user of liquor,
and the result is that in many lines of
employment tlppling has been ban
ished. Here is at least one corporate
influence that is distinctly uplifting.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
Help! Police! +!
Burglars!

This is the season when one
must plan for the storage of
valuables over the summer.
Furs, rugs and woolens must
be, preserved from moths: valu.
thieves.
Storage has been made an ex-
act science in these days of eff
ficiency.
Many concerns specialize on
this branch of industry and
readers seeking the best of these
places are urged to consult the
advertising columns OF the Tele-
graph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
NEWS WGf PIE RssTSHtSAR
From the Telegraph of MAY
Hr0kera Warned

Nashville, May s. = Brokers and
bankers have been cautioned against
buying vouchers audited by Captain
Charles F. Wing. because of the recent
raid made by guerrillas on the Ohio
and Mississippi Railroad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
rmirfice Declared

Cairo. May g. = An armistice has
been declared between General Dana
and Rebel General Hoge, according to
NicksburR dispatches.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
Montgomery and selma Taken

NEW Orleans. May S. General
Smith reports the capture of Montgom-
cry recently. and General Steele the
capture of Selma.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
YOU KNOW;

That Harrisburg can be made n
still greater distributing point for
farm machinery and supplies?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08

Steps to secure adequate provis-
ion for the insane are to be taken by
people active in the affairs of the Pub
lie Charities association in Philadel-
phia and they plan to descend on the
State Capitol on Monday when the leg
islators reassemble.
Fire Marshal Baldwin has direct
ed Charles II. Rhein, of Reading, to
take up the work of w. w. Wunder,
former deputy State fire marshal. Mr..
Rhein is a son-in-law of Representa-
tive M. H. Shaaber, of Reading, who
voted for the local option bill.
Speaking at Wilmington last night
Congressman w. s. Ware warmly
praised Governor Brumbaugh's work.
Friends of Senator Charles A.
Snyder, of Pottsville, say that he will
be candidate for auditor general and
will be strongly supported. Repre-
sentative James F. Woodward, of AL
legheny. is also in line for the place
and a lively contest is expected.
in Philadelphia it is denied that
the Governor will take a hand in the
mayoralty contest.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
FORTY VETOES IS
GOVERNOR RECORD
DR.. Brumbaugh Has Piled Up More
Vetoes Than Known at This
Period of a Session
HAS SIGNED 172 BILLS
Friends of Governor Deny He Will
Enter Mayoralty Fight; Snyder
Starts Work

Governor Brumbaugh has approved
172 acts of the present general assem-
bly, and vetoed forty, in addition to
making some reductions in appropria-
tions CARED in bills presented to him.
AS result of the activity of the
Legislature this week nearly 100 bills
are in the Governors hands on which
he will act in the next week or so and
the coming week will see the number
largely increased although appropria-
ton bills for hospitals and other insti-
tutions will not be sent to him until
within ten days of the date of final
adjournment
The workmen's compensation bills
will occupy considerable attention dur
Ing the coming week and there will be
strenuous work in each branch to
clear calendars.
A plan is being considered to con-
solidate all of the amendments propos-
ed to the public service company law
when they reach the Senate. Several
measures making changes have been
passed by the House and q number
are pending.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
[QUR DAILY LAUGH

dRREsrsTIBLn
TEMPTATION.
You with the
glossy hat OF
silk
Unto my warm
ing hark-
Don't tempt the
boys In snow-
ball time
With such q
shining mark.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08

Some of the members of the Legis-
lature who had leased apartments un-
til the first of May have taken leases
until June 1. a few thought about
renting to May Is, but they are maxi
ing safe against any slip-ups and ar
ranging to stay Several men who
have had experience with May in Har-
risburg are hoping that the weather
will be good for a while.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08
FILL UP. HE

FILL UP, he
DID.
Judge: What's
your name?
z ri S o n e r:
(Charged with
In t o Z ication)
"Philup."
Judge: /: I didn't
ask your occu-
patton, I asked
your name.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-08

DEFORB the Commission on In
D dustrial Relations the other day
Representative Maurer, the So
cialist member of the Pennsylvania
Legislature from Berks. said,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18
Spirit of Creator In Artist
by MADEII NE kIlIPP
Gin Art in Life"J

Il we should enjoy with intense plea sure
the soul side of life, the appreciation of
the highest and best in the ideal life
This esthetc culture is especially needed
In the art of music, which has nothing
in the external world to which it NAV
be compared
Music is the most subjective of all the
arts: unlike the initiative arts. architec-
ture. sculpture and painting, or the de-
scriptive art of poetry its primary cause
is a desire to express or communicate
an emotional state of consciousness. 1t
j. the language of the inner life and
finds a response in every listener In
every form of social life, as we'll as in
that of the individual music fills so i'm
portant place that we must realize it's
power as a means of ethical development
II touches so directly and powerfully
the whole of mans emotional life that
used as a means of culture. it may be-
come an integral part of the character
Britain in a recent essay, has said: "A1l
music worth the name demands from
the hearer an intelligent response to the
stimulus of Its sounds, if it be to him
anything more than a mere enjoyable
sensucus perception. Just what the mem
tai response of the listener shall be is
determined by the character of the music
and the character of the individual. Music
of the higher, better kind makes the mind
and has great possibilities for promoting
broader culture, and for enriching life
which today is all too practical, too
scientific ard commercial
The man engaged exclusively in com
mercial pursuits loses all appreciation
CT the beauty of the world and the
esthetic suggestiveness of art In all
works or art if we find the artist S
thought and see the beauty of his con-
cepton, his object is attained and we
have received that for which his work
was created; but a musical work of art
tc be thoroughly enjoyed must have the
preparatory education of the mind as
well as the ear. While all may enjoy
its melody and harmony there is a sub
tier intellectual content appreciated only
by the musically cultured. We might
say of Beethoven's compositions what
Browning said of his own poems when
someone complained to him that they
were hard to understand. He replied,
they are not intended to take the place
of an after-dinner cigar" In other words
Beethoven. like Browning and Shake
speare. must be studied to be appre-
ciated.
How often have you heard someone
say: II went to the concert, but I didn't
really enjoy a single number" saying
1t in a most resentful tone of voice. How
unjust tfis is to the artist, the composer
and to that portion of the audience VIII ,
have spent years of study in order that
they might know how to appreciate the
best in music. IF you do not enjoy tho
great works of the great masters, then
surely the trouble is with you, and not
with them. Someone has aptly said
you should go to concerts, art museums
| or picture galleries to be acted upon, and
| net to express or try to form your own
perfectly futile opinion. 1t makes no diff
tGranHa world xub
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

In recently discovered manuscript, ac-
cording to Gerald Stanley Lee, -Four
men stood before God at the end of the
first week, watching Him whirl His lit
tie globe. The first man said to Him.
Tell me how You did it?' The second
man said, Let me have it The third
man said What is it for? The fourth
man said nothing, and fell down and
Norshipped Having worshipped, he rose
To his feet and made world himself ="
These four men have been known in
history the Scientist, the Man of At
fairs, the Philosopher, and the Artist.
The Spirit of the Greater is i'm the
Artist. 70 take his point of view is to
take one that sums up all the others.
He combines what the others do and
say about things into things themselves;
all works of art are created in order
to transfer feeling or emotion Through
the arts of architecture sculpture, paint
Ing, poetry and music we seek to express
what is beautiful, true and consequently
good in human life and experience The
Artist lives in the realm of the creative
imagination, and as the same organs
are needed for recreation or interpreta-
ton of the work of art, be it in stone
sound or color, it is necessary that we
should educate our creative imaginations
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18
Stirring Price Reductions at Louis Pitts

Known haea thousands
dsrth ndyk
fedy flor saving % reen a IoP
O value offering hes a sharp e price for
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18

IT.. It's the corn cure of the century
the new way, the sure, painless, simple
way. 1t makes fellow really feel fool
tsh after he's used toe-eating salves
CORN biting ointments, toe-bundline
bandagcs. blood bringing razors, files
scissors, iabbers and what-nots, wher
he uses just drops of "GETS-IT" and
sees his corn vanish. The difference Is
divine. Just try it. You won't vince
when you put on your shoes in the
morning. "GETS-IT' is sure gets
any corn, callus. wart OF bunion.
"GETS-IT is sold by druggists every
where, 25c bottle, or sent direct by e
Lawrence & Co., Chicago. Sold in Bir-
mingham and recommended as the
worlds only real corn cure by Eugene
Jacobs Drug Store, Gale Drug Co. G.
stores 307 First Ave. and Pratt Station
Pratt City. Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18
Race Course Paved With Salt

tTB
What is undoubtedly the most novel
automobile race course in the world is
found at Salduro, Utah, where natural
salt beds furnish the roadway. The beds
are on IN cline of the Western Pacific
railroad. and are 65 miles in length and
80 miles in width. furnishing smooth,
unbroken surface, level as table. and are
from two to 20 feet in deptA The salt
is crystallized, 9S per cent pure, and white
A snow.