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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
HELP AMATEUR ATHLETICS
Kansas CITY Star.1


One hundred thousand persons saw
the last game of the intercity baseball
championship in Cleveland a few days
ago. One hundred thousand Think
of it. What an interest in amateur
sport there must be when so many
persons will turn out to see game.
For such an attendance indicates an
enthusiasm which can come only from
hundreds of corner lot baseball clubs.
A widespread interest in amateur
athletics is what every city must aim
at. There is nothing like participation
in such athletics to keep young fellows
wholesome and fit. The Greeks knew
what they were about when they put
the Olympian games on a par with
literature and art and philosophy.
But in this country the tendency
generally has been to make athletics
too expensive for anybody to take
part In except rich men and rich mems
sons. The great mass of young fellows
who are making their way in the
world are barred, in the cities at least,
from most kinds of sport.
The admission fee to professional
baseball games makes attendance a
good deal of luxury. The reduction
in Federal League admission fees is to
be noted as in the direction of popu-
larizing the game. But there never
was an athletic club which did not sue
cunb to the tendency to elaborateness
of equipment, with a consequent in
crease in expense. Os a conseuuence
such clubs tend to become institutions
of middle-aged gentlemen, too expen-
sive for the average young man to be-
long to. That tendency is illustrated
in Kansas City, where the Athletic
club has just voted to start on the
usual course of expansion The golf
and other athletic activities of the
country clubs, of course, fall in the
same class. They are too costly for
young men.
The obligation of the city is the
clearer, then, to see to 1t that ample
sport grounds are available for
its young men. Kansas City is
making a beginning in the public ten
mis- courts and ball grounds. But the
facilities are far from sufficient to en-
courage the athletics that a town like
this should have. It would be worth
while for the city to undertake to
arouse the sport enthusiasm that has
been stirred up in Cleveland.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
PARKS FOR USE

.ToVE NOR BRUMBAUGHs
NJ strong declaration in favor OF
parks and Fairgrounds at the re-
cent municipal celebration meet
ing here has aroused much interest
throughout the country. From the
American Civic headquarters al
Washington has gone out a statement
of the Governors views and some
facts regarding the development OF
park land in this city.
Governor Brumbaugh believes with
all other advocates of the park as a
distinct asset of the city, that much
of crime, unhappiness and discomfort
may be prevented through a proper
appreciation of the economical values
of parks and recreational areas in the
congested centers of population. The
Governor believes, as do all practical
park advocates now, that these public
resorts should be for service rather
than ornament; that they should be
accessible to all the people and that
street railway lines and other means
of ingress and egress ought to be pro-
vided so that the parks may he large
ly utilized.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
OUR CIVIC CENTER
HARTFORD is city much like
Harrisburg in all that constl-

HARTFORD is a city much like
n Harrisburg in all that constl-
tutes civic activity and municipal
progress. Among other things Hart
ford is interested now In the creation
of civic center such as this city
hopes to have in cooperation with
the State through the development Of
the Capitol Park Extension zone. And
this city is peculiarly fortunate in
having on Capitol Hill at this time an
administration which is interested in
its various departments in construc-
tive work.
Governor Tener had the vision
which made possible the purchase of
the necessary property east of the
Capitol as an adequate setting for the
magnificent building that represents
the dignity and power of the Com
monwealth. Governor Brumbaugh
has the imagination and the vision
and the esthetic taste which will in
spire a comprehensive treatment Of
the entire zone bounded by Walnut,
Third and North streets and the Penn
sylvania railroad
1t will be the pleasure of the City
Planning Commission to cooperate
with the State Board of Public
Grounds and Buildings in such a way
as to create civic center that will not
only be credit to Pennsylvania, but
also an impressive object lesson for
the millions of people who pass
through Harrisburg over the main line
of the Pennsylvania railroad every
year.
Harrisburg is going on its way re-
1oicing, the recent municipal cele-
bration having given even greater
momentum than ever before, to the
civic impulse OF the people and the
several projects which are under con-
sideration for the further improve
ment of the city and the welfare of its
people.
There is general interest in the pro-
posed civic center and all must LOOK
with pleasure toward the DEVELOPMENT
of a central feature which will be an
object of pride for the entire com
munity and credit to city which is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
THE SHORTCOMINGS OF FAIRS
NJ SHILE the retiring administra.
wv ton of the State Department
af ;po,tor,,r

M SHILE the retiring administra-
wv ton of the State Department
of Agriculture has inaugur-
hted some important movements in
behalf of the advancement of agricul-
ture in Pennsylvania, notably the es-
Eablishment of the farm advisers SER
vice, the supervision of feeding stuffs,
Eeeds, fertilizers and materials and the
taking of orchard instruction to the
people, there has been one thing done
which may prove to be the salvation of
the county fairs, from the farming
point of view. This has been the in
stallation at a couple of fairs of an
Exhibit purely agricultural.
The Pennsylvania Farmer, one of
the best edited journals in the coun-
try, declares in an editorial that
Hmany fairs are little better than
street carnivals; with the carnival fea-
lures always in the foreground" In
The course of its keen analysis of the
situation it remarks that fairs are rec
pgnized as agricultural institutions
and as such receive a State subsidy
are almost entirely local in character.
the agricultural exhibits are minor
features"
In other words, the county fairs and
agricultural exhibitions of the State
Rre in danger of being conducted for
gate receipts and not for agricultural
advancement. There are a few fairs,
stock shows and exhibitions which are
agricultural and where the amusement
feature is minimized, but they are
really few in number and it is high
time that cogni2ance be taken of the
fact. The State exhibit may serve to
inform the people of the purpose of
the fairs and II managements are wise
they will take the cue and revise their
attractions so that State support can
be assured in the future.
Our new Secretary of Agriculture is
practical farmer and knows how to
turn a furrow. He is also a business
man and we believe that he intends to
promote agriculture.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
UNITED STATES REAPS
WHERE WILSON SOWED

Within two weeks the seamen's law.
statute of the United States by the
affirmative act of Woodrow Wilson,
will have done its complete work on
the Pacific 1t will have transferred
the commerce of that mighty ocean to
the Japanese. American merchants,
American farmers. the American gov
ernmept itself. Will be at the mercy of
their natural rivals.
On the Great Lakes the incidence
Of the act is beginning to be felt. AL
ready it takes its place in the causes
of bankruptcy and heartens all the
owners of Canadian ships in their
struggle for supremacy on their south
ern water boundary. When, next year.
all its provisions are effective, the full
measure of its contribution to alien
prosperity will begin to be apparent,
although its whole mission cannot be
accomplished until peace in Europe
restores normal competition on the
Atlantic
President Wilson knew when he
signed the seamen's law what its en-
forcement would mean. 1t lay within
bis power to avert the catastrophe
Instead, he put the law on the books.
VIII he now urge the inevita BILE con-
sequences of that deed as a reason for
supporting the folly of a government
owned merchant marine?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
IS 1T RIGHT?

John WANAMAKER. founder of
one of the really great business
houses in this country, declares
that the foundation of his success is
based on these three words
rs It Right"
The very success of this man makes
those who would succeed pause and
ponder over the three little homely
Anglo-Saxon words by which he sets
such store. In and around them is
grouped everything that counts for
truth, righteousness and progress in
business or in individual life.
1t is an adaptation of the old in
junction to "be sure you're right; then
go ahead" and it ought to be fac
tor in every mans life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19

In rooms six dollars a day There is
an extra charge for operations but
not for nursing or the attendance of
a physician.
You may do many things to help q
man and still make him your enemy,
but when you find him sick and make
him we'll he must become your friend,
and that is just what Uncle Sam s
hospitals on the isthmus are doing
Patients are coming to them from all
the countries of South America, and
from as far north as Mexico. The
promising son of an aristocratic Co.
lombian family, for example, is strick-
en- by some mysterious disease which
no one in that land understands. He
is sinking and may die in a week.
But few days now bring him to
medical skill and facilities as fine az
the world contains. At Ancon hospital
his disease is quickly diagnosed and
treated, he is sent home a we'll man
and friend of Uncle Sam for life
His family will forever be promoters
OF the feeling that is steadily bring
ing all the Americas closer together
in trade and friendship.
Not less inspiring is the thought OF
what hfgh-class medical skill on the
isthmus means to the poorer classes,
for whom disease was formerly with
out hope. For a time the West IN
dian blacks who came to dig the
canal distrusted the hos-itals and
threw away the quinine given them
by the sanitary inspectors, but they
have learned that the white men effect
wonderful cures and have come to
trust them.
Had Chronic Malaria
This work of the hospitals among
the native peoples is of importance to
the health of the isthmus as we'll, for
in the interior of Panama sanitary
conditions are extremely bad. a
sanitary inspector for the government
of Panama recently made a trip
through the interior and found every
where lack of sewage. combined
with the use of shallow wells, which
was certain to breed disease. Many
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19

always doing things and doing then
we'll.
And while we are on the subject
nothing better in the way of com
munity cooperation has ever beer
written than the following:
If you want to live in the kind of
a town
Like the kind of town you like,
You needn't slip your clothes in a
grip
And start on long. long hike.
you'll only find what you left be-
hind,
For there's nothing that's really
new,
It's a knock at yourself when you
knock your town.
1t isn't the townE-it's you.
Real towns. are not made by men
afraid
Lest somebody else gets ahead.
When every one works and nobody
shirks
You can raise a town from the
And IT, while you make your per-
sonal stake,
Your neighbors can make one.
Your town will be what you want
to see
1t isn't the town-it's you.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
"THE GREAT WAR"

"The Great War;" by George H. Allen
Ph. D., of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, History Department, and Henry
C. Whitehead, captain in the United
States Army, with an introduction by
eX-President William II. Taft. This first
OF a series of nonpartisan volumes on
the causes of and motives for the great
European conflict is printed and pub
lished by George Barrie's Sons. of
Philadelphia, and is easily one of the
most important contributions to the
literature of the war.
Governor Brumbaugh, who is a great
reader and a student Of history. has
been much impressed with the work,
as have others who have had opportu-
nifty to read the opening chapters Com
menting upon this remarkable publica-
tlon, the New York Evening Post says:i
~ would be difficult to name another
volume that attempts to do iust what
this one does and does it so well. IFS
lmpartialtty is evident upon every page.
as is its authors knowledge Of the
tangled skein Of events that at last
tiightened into the present knot. The
Illustrations, some of which are in
folors' foIors' are of persons and places of in
drama; reproductions of famous paint
ings of historic events. as the impress
sly, siye one by Carl Wagner OF Bismarck
parts Of the Treaty Of 1888 guar
anteeing the neutrality. of Bel
GUM and OF cartoons, including Ten
nieIs MEL Dropping the Pilot In addi-
and comprehensive chronological
table, The type is delightfully."- large
and clear. Mr.. Taft is well within the
truth when he says: If the other VOL
umes, l., e., second on the military
try. third on the diplomatic prelimi-
naries, the mobilization. the attacks on
Serbia and the invasion of Belgium,
are as clear. concise. and helpful as the
one now published, they will consN-
tute real addition to the literature of
this great world disaster"
Mr.. Taft gives a most illuminating
presents in his Introduction to the first
volume such clear and forceful review
OF its. salient features that the reader
Immediately finds himself immersed in
the, very moving causes of the extraor-
binary international convulsion that is
now threatening dynasties and nations,
AS DR., Allen was in Russia at the out
break of the war on his fourth visit to
that country and has lived much of his
time in Europe, he is unusually quail
fed to discuss the questions which have
arisen and which have now been re-
ferred to the arbitrament of arms Fx-
President Taft says that ION the whole.
the volume is a most useful one for q
practical survey of the European situa-
tion leading to the war and bears on
every page evidence of the impartial
spirit In which Ii is written"
The text. the Illustrations and everv-
thing counected with the work are
worthy OF the enterprise of the pub
fishers. and IL is doubtful whether any
thing hereafter VIII be more illuminat-
ticular work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
THE PANAMA CANAL AT WORK
VIII.-Popular Hospitals
BY Frederic ]. Haskin

TINE Hospital Service is one de-
partment of the Panama Canal
Government which is doing a
great work in the promotion of Pan
American spirit.
This is not to say that other depart
ments of the canal government are
not doing their share in building up
the friendship between Uncle Sam and
Latin America, but it cannot be over
looked or denied that there has been
much friction and sorne bad feeling.
This was inevitable. The Panama
mans, people of traditions centuries
old, who had lived their lives in the
same way ever since the Spaniards
crossed the ocean, suddenly found the
greatest industrial project in the world
pitched down among them. 1t could
not be expected that they would in
stantly appreciate the blessings and
opportunities 1t brought that will
fall to future generations. For the
present, change and confusion and
competition are what the canal has
meant to many of the isthmian peo-
pie.
Many of them have not even ap-
preciated the determination of the
tropical diseases. They assert that
they were immune to these, and that
sanitation to them has meant moth
ing but immigration, which they do
not desire.
Toward the hospitals their attitude
is different, as indeed it must be-
Formerly, the aristocrats of all Latin
America journeyed to Europe when
in need of surgical skill Both the
trip and the treatment were fearfully
expensive. while the delay often meant
death. AS for the poorer classes,
when the swift diseases of the tropics
fell upon them, they simply lay down
in their huts and waited.
Splendid Hospital
Now in the beautifully situated hos
pital at Ancon. which has every equip.
ment known to modern surgery and
medicine. and the highest skill that
money can buy, anyone may secure
treatment at the most reasonable
rates. For patients in the wards four
dollars a day is charged, and for those
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
EDITORIAL COfr1ENT

Maybe the allies are trying to lure
the Austro- Germans into the Balkans
the way the Russians "lured" them
into Russia,-Kansas City Times.
What will the State of Missouri do
to prevent lynchings when the Hon.
Champ Clark's duties as a statesman
require his presence in Washington p
New York Sun.
The Gear no doubt consoles himself
for certain failures along the main
battle line by the striking success of
the operations against the Duma.-
Chicago Herald.
Since he learned that the billion
dollar loan is to remain in this country,
Mr.. Bryan somehow has seemed less
eager about his European trip.-Boston
Transcript.
The Panama Pacific Exposition at
San Francisco has repaid the money
borrowed. How many of the folk who
lmuch?-Los Angeles Times.
Poking fun at Henry Ford's sugges-
tion for miniature submarine is now
in order. II history is due to repeat.
this means the unqualified success of
On top of what the war has done to
the map of Europe the poor school
kids of the next generation will have
to bound Vilhialmur Stefansson Land.
Boston Transcript
New York pastor calls the war "the
greatest blessing since the Reforma-
ton" He talks like an army con-
tractor-Chicago Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Charles Hayden, prominent Phila-
delphia financier, has been elected to
the directorate of the Pittsburgh Rail-
ways Company.
Morgan Bovan, we'll known to
many here, has been made superin-
tendent of the Ashland division of the
Readings mining operations.
The Rev. Dr. Henry T. Drum
goole, head of st. Charles Seminary,
has been made a domestic prelate by
the pope.
A. ]. BihEer. of Pittsburgh, has
been reelected president of the Ma
tional Hardware Association.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
GENTLE GERMANY

TAN you picture American soldiers
~ leading a woman out to be- shot?
Can you picture the poor
creature falling fainting to the earth
as the firing squad prepares to shoot
and can you picture an American Off
Ger calmly kneeling by her side, draw
ing his pistol and blowing out her
brains? And then can you imagine
that officer and the firing squad going
quietly off about their daily duties?
You cannot, because, in the first
place, American soldiers do not lead
women out to be shot and in the sec
ond place an American officer who
killed a woman would himself fall be-
fore the righteous wrath of his own
men. Thank Heaven the process of
demoralizing military discipline has
not gone far enough in this country
where men will become brutes and
murderers at the behest of command
erican manhood is still supreme over
all things.
Cultured, humanitarian Germany!
Gentle Germany, forsooth!, The ap-
pellation is a mockery. The recent
murder of an English nurse under the
circumstances set forth above is on
a par with the blowing up of pass
enger ships and the assassination of
babies and their mothers by Zeppelins
in London. And yet we are asked to
give our sympathies and lend our
moral support to cause whose watch
word is murder and whose badge is
the blood Of women slain.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
THE SOUTH IN THE SADDLE

TINE South is exulting because one
/ of its sons is found as acting
head OF the State Department.
Frank L. Polk, the new counsellor of
the department, is a grandson of that
Leonidas Polk who was both a bishop
and a colonel in the Confederate army
and Southern newspapers are roll
ing as sweet morsel over their
tongues the phrase, Acting Secretary
of State Polk"
The South has reason to exult.
When Mr.. Polk heads the State De-
partment, the South can show almost
a clear majority of the Cabinet. At
any rate, an even half of the group
are Southern men: Polk, of Tennes-
see; McAdoo, of Georgia; Gregory
and Burleson, of Texas; Daniels, of
North Carolina.
The South is in the saddle.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19

call theirs a Sandwich" rally, thus
encouraging Democrats to attend and
at the same time giving that newspa-
per an excuse for advertising the rail-
ly, 1t being we'll known that pass
key" rallies are reserved for Republi-
can criticisms. All the same no Cen
trail Club member who doesn't have
his pass key" will be admitted.
The East End Republican Club
members are wondering what excuse
the Democratic publicity department
will find for criticising their rally on
wednesday evening. The club has no
buffet and any Republican who desires
may attend. There will be no pass
keYSu
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
FACTS AND FANCIEs

LACTS have cruel way of sub
l. stituting themselves for fancies." :"
said Secretary of Commerce Redfield
in an address delivered before the
Case School of Applied Science.
Ever since the Democratic tariff
law was enacted the Republican party
has been unearthing the facts, while
Mr.. Redfeld and his press agent bu-
reau have entertained the public with
fancies.
To-day the substitution is complete.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
The State From Day to Day

The chestnut crop in Carbon coun-
ty this year is far below the average,
and the nuts are of an inferior quail
ity. They are selling at $12 per
bushel, the highest price in many
years
Mayor Stern has been asked to ex-
tend the time on the removal of ships
aground in the Erie harbor. If they
are flying the American flag, Mayor
Stern should be lenient.
South Bethlehem is also making a
strenuous fight for pure milk. Dealers
must come clean.
The annual reunion of the Forty
seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Vol
the anniversary of the Battle of Po-
cotaligo, with dinner at the Lafay-
cite Hotel, at Allentown.
Bethlehem Firemen's Relief Asso-
citation, Thursday night elected seven
candidates to membership. 1t was de-
cided to apply to the court at the
organization changed to The Beth
lehem Volunteer Firemen's Relief
Association.
Because the employment bureau
has worked out so successfully in the
evening high school at Lancaster 1t is
understood that similar bureau will
be started in the Lancaster and
Stevens High schools. Professor A. F.
English started the work in the
evening school.
There has been an increase of g.
100000 in the city assessment of
Reading, this increase being almost
entirely due to the new buildings
erected during the year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EsI
BY Wing Dinger

1t beats the dickens how a kid
Will put up to his dad
Some puzzling questions-I've in mind
One asked by my wee lad.
This morning, at the table. he
Asked: Has an egg an eyer"
why, no, It's not an animal"
To him did reply.
But ere the meal was finished, he
Asked, Us a potato
An animal?" to which, of course.
quickly answered, mo"
II just was wondering" he said.
Because IL has an eye
tried to think an answer out,
But wound up with sigh.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-19
The South is in. the saddle.

With his well known enthusiasm for
all constructive work in the city and the
State. the Governor is preparing to CO.
operate with Harrisburg in the har-
monious development of the Capitol
Park extension zone. This is an i'm
portant matter and, fortunately for the
city and the State. Governor Brum-
baugh realizes what must lie done to
obtain the best possible results in maxi
ing over the section of the city now
embraced in the States park area