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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY Z.
THE HIGH SCHOOL PROBLEM
MYTH true public spirit the Ro-
/ wv tary Club is now giving

MYTH true public spirit the Ro-
wv tary Club is now giving
thought to the Central High
School problem. This organization of
live wires can find in that avenue of
activity abundant material for earnest
thought. There is a growing impress
sion that our present high schools are
trenching too much upon the pre-
serves of the college preparatory in
stitutions; that the curriculum is
framed to suit those who contemplate
entering the higher institutions of
learning and that there is not suffl-
cient attention given to completeness
of the education of the large percent
age of the boys and girls who finish
with the high school.
The public school system was de-
signed primarily to help the youth
who could not hope to get into col
lege and any change that tends to de-
prive the girl or boy who must grad
uate into his or her life work from the
high school of the best possible equip
ment for his or her future activities
Is serious defect.
More and more the attention of
educators is being given to the training
of the youth of the country for the
practical activities of life. If only a
small percentage of those who enter
the high school can go into the col
lege or university. then it is not fair to
lessen the opportunities of the larger
percentage of students who can go no
farther.
1t is. therefore, well that the Rotary
Club and the public generally give at
tention to the Central High School
problem to the end that the building
which must come in the near future
shall be the home of the best possible
system for the larger number of stu
dents.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
CHINA AND JAPAN

Japan doubtless will win imme-
diate advantages from China.N The
wasp of the east has the helpless
giant at its mercy. For the present,
Japan may do pretty much as she
likes with China, if the United States
sits as supine as President Wilson ap-
parently intends, but the time will
come when conditions will be vastly
changed.
China is just beginning to get awake
to her powers and resources. BY and
by, when European civilization and
European methods have been adopt
ed generally by China, when her mines
are turning out coal and iron, her
rivers are teeming with commerce
and her people more closely united
and better educated than they are at
present, Japan may want to let go and
find herself unable to do so without
paying a proportionately far greater
price than she is now attempting to
exact from her over-grown but help
less neighbor.
Japan can no more hope to subju-
gate China than England could to
maintain permanent domination over
Germany. In the end China will be-
come aroused by the indignities heap
ed upon her and when the propitious
moment arrives, as it is bound to do
in the natural course of events, Japan
will find that she has been fooling
with buzz saw of gigantic proper
tions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
JUSTICE HUGHES, pEoLINATIoN

TIME announcement of Justice
Hughes that he will not be a
candidate for the Presidency
opens the way for political discussion
that will follow as a result of the
grooming of other favorite sons for
the Republican nomination. The self
elimination of Judge Hughes takes a
good man from the race, but there
is so much strong timber in the party
that his withdrawal is causing no ex-
element.
1t is early for any man to make
such a decision, but Justice Hughes
feels most probably that 1t is better
not to permit his name to be drawn
into a contest from which later
withdrawal might be misunderstood
with possible loss of prestige to him
self No Supreme Court justice ever
has been elected to the Presidency,
although a number have sought the
honor and Justice Hughes is apparent
ly not to be drawn from station he
occupies with distinction, and for
which he is admirably fitted, to seek
a bright bauble of political preferment
that may suddenly develop all the elu-
sive qualities of a will O. the wisp.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
THE SMOKY CITY" NO MORE

ITO, you who have been calling
Pittsburgh the Smoky City,"
hearken to this. DR.. Schlesigner,
of the Allegheny University. at a re-
cent luncheon of the Pittsburgh Cham
ber of Commerce, pronounced Pitts
burgh to be one of the best spots in
the world for an observatory because
of the steadiness of the atmosphere.
With his big telescopes, he says, he is
enabled to get almost perfect read
ings from the heavens.
A little smoke, says the observer, is
good for astronomical observations,
and he adds, Pittsburgh has very little
smoke now.
This is interesting. But what we
would like to know is this-is the pres
ent clarity of Pittsburgh's atmosphere
due to smoke prevention devices or to
the operations of the Underwood law?
We have been looking for some bene-
fit to be derived from the factories
closed by this new tariff. Perhaps we
have discovered one. If so, the DEM
ocratic campaign orators are at per-
feet liberty to use it. We shall not
seek to copyright the idea.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
THE PRESIDENTIAL OUTLOOK

With his withdrawal from any pos
sible future mention for 1916. Justice
Hughes has eliminated the only out
standing name in the entire list. for
it is known definitely that former
President Taft distinctly refuses to
encourage the growing sentiment in
this country for his denomination
and that he regrets any suggestion
for his political future, Indeed it is
generally believed that Mr.. Taft re-
garded Mr.. Hughes as the strongest
candidate whom the Republicans
could select. There remain many
other gentlemen who have not yet
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
HABITS OF A LIFE TIME

CPEAKING to the members of the
y Associated Press, at its recent
meet in New York, the President
said that no nation is competent to sit
in judgment upon another. He was
referring, of course, to the European
war; but probably every man in the
company thought at once of Mexico.
The judgment which Mr.. Wilson
says no nation is competent to exer-
wise is one which he has persistently
attempted to impose upon Mexico.
He has declared that Mexico must
,have not only the kind of government
which he prefers, but that such gov
ernment must be composed, not only
of the kind of men, but of the very
men whom he favors. The judgment
which he denies to a nation he re-
serves for himself. The habits of a
life time are not easily overcome.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
TIPPING No Joke

ME public Will look in the future
upon anti-tipping bills in the
Legislature less humorously than
heretofore. These perennial measures
that seldom get farther than commit
tee have been legislative jokes for
many years. The Pullman company,
through its head, Robert t. Lincoln,
has been responsible for this change
of view.
The other day Mr. Lincoln told the
commission on industrial relations
that the company does not pay it's
porters a living wage because it ex-
poets them to collect tips sufficient
from the passengers to make up the
difference. This is a frank acknowl-
edgement that has brought withering
comment from the newspapers of the
country, and very properly so.
There is a vast difference between
tipping a porter or any other servant
for service Well rendered, or for some
labor or favor over and above what
might be reasonably expected, and in
being taxed an excess fee for Pullman
fares in order that the company op-
Grating the monopoly may keep down
wages and keep up dividends.
The wages of porters ought to be
such that they would not have to
exact tips from passengers in order to
live. The passenger ought not to be
taxed additionally in tips for service
for which many are quite convinced
they are paying enough when they
buy their Pullman reservations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
AN EXPERT.
THE JITNEY RIDE
by Wing Dinger

My folks were waiting at the house
For me.
I was to take them to the show.
You see.
And 1 was in a nervous state,
AS on the corner l did wait.
Because 1 was ten minutes late,
oh. gee.
I thought the car would never come,
BY heck;
A Jitney came along and speed
Did check.
I gave one look and then jumped in.
My golly, how the thing did spin,
And all the while my heart was in
My neck.
1t looked quite innocent to me
Said 1:
'"Tis safe-it couldn't speed II 1t
Did try"
I thought the trip home would be fur
But e'er the distance had been run
To jitney l bade more than one
Good-by.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
PROSPERITY THAT AWAITS US

Jacob H. Schiff. the New York banker.
on his way to California, in an inter-
view at Colorado Springs on April 25,
as to the future of business in this
country, declared that he looked for
ward to return of days of prosper
ity the like of which has seldom been
seen in America, especially by this gem =
Grafton" Already he noted that our
exports were increasing rapidly" the
business of railroads and steel COM
panies was Improving" activities on
ly fine" manufacturing was ION the in
crease" and farmers were preparing
to handle big crops" His general opin-
ters from many bankers all over the
country printed in The Journal of Com
merce.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. J. George Becht is to be one
of the speakers at State College sum-
mer school.
Carl n. Martin, of Philadelphia,
has been elected president of the Tren-
ton. Bristol and Philadelphia rail-
road.
Archbishop Prendergast will cele-
brate mass at the opening of the ses-
zion of the Knights of Columbus.
Addison Candor, Williamsport
lawyer, is spending the week at the
seashore.
Craig Biddle, of Philadelphia, has
returned from Europe.
"A II. S. Cantlin, Allentown trac-
tion man, has been delivering a series
of addresses on electrical develop
ment to students
&C. S. Foos, the Reading school
superintendent, is out for new girls
high school.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
A NEW APPLICATION

TRANs s. ATLANTIC steamship
/ owners figure that the European
war will save $275, 100000 to the
American people by shutting off tour
ist travel. The tourist will enjoy su-
perior scenery and get the benefit of
more healthful outings without carry
ing to foreign countries a quarter of
a billion dollars of money needed by
American enterprise.
In effect, it is an application of the
principle laid. down by Abraham Lin
coin in his discussion of the tariff
that if we buy goods abroad, we get
the goods and the foreigner gets the
money, while if we buy at home, we
have both the goods and the money.
American tourists will get both health
and pleasure, and America will keep
the s275, 100000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
RESULTS. NOT EXCUSES

TN private enterprise, explanations
and excuses don't go. The en-
ployer of a travelling salesman
doesn't want explanations he wants
orders. The manufactures doesn't
want excuses; he wants buyers: The
employe who comes back with ex-
cuses instead of orders, soon loses his
job.
The Democratic administration has
had many explanations for the busi-
ness depression that followed its ac-
cession to power. First 1t was "psy-
Geological" then a state of mind" Z"
then finally the European war furnish
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
Editorial COMMENT

England is thinking of taking over
the brewing industry, remembering
that many of its most illustrious fam
lilies made their money that way
Chicago Daily News.
Edison is said to have perfected an
invention for keeping the air in sub
marines pure. We wish he would do
as much for offices, hotels. city halls
prisons, and other air-tight compart-
ments above water-level.-New York
Evening Sun.
What Germany needs is couple
of allies that do not require SO much
help.-Indianapol Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07

shown any indication of restraining
their friends.
At the head of the list stands Sena-
tor Cummins. of Iowa, who in 1912
believed that he would be the only
logical compromise between the war
ring Roosevelt and Taft forces at
Chicago. Senator Cummins. If he
can succeed in obtaining the loyal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
PoTATo-FED HOGS IN GERMANY
Farm and Fireside says:

Farm and Fireside says:
Potatoes have been successfully
used in Germany in large quantities
in fattening hogs. The lack of pro-
tein was made up by meat meal and
fish meal, and small amount of bar
ley meal. The potato-fed hogs were
quite as good as barley-fed or corn
fed hogs"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07

and unfailing support of his own
delegation, will undoubtedly develop
some strength at the next Republican
convention, for advanced Progress
sives in the Republican ranks like
Senators. Borah, of Idaho; Works OF
California, and Bristow, of Kansas,
have announced their adherence to
Mr.. Cummins.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
Funeral Train Returns
Peace SoOT
IN HARRI sBURG FlFN
YEARS AGO TO-DAY

tFrom the Telegraph of May Z, 1861
Fire Destroys Lumber
Fire in a saw mill. above the city,
destroyed a large amount of valuable
lumber owned by DR.. Heck.
Soldier Shot
A .colored man named Bradley shot
a soldier in the thigh.
Firemen Meet
A special meeting of all the fremen
Will be held on May is. to elect dele
gates for the convention.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
MATRIMONIAL ARITHMETIC

JGdge - You admit that you mar
ried these three women?
Prisoner-Yes, Your Honor; they
are my better three-fourths.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07

ed a plausible excuse. But the Amer
ican people. like all good business
men, want public servants who deliver
results, not explanations and excuses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07

Penbrook is preparing to place its
streets in first class shape. This is
well. Every borough. town and ham
let within sight of Harrisburg should
be spic and span in everything that
makes for attractiveness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07

The publishers of Gertrude Atherton's
recent success Perch of the Devil"
have received the following letter from
a reader of this novel:
II am now ruminating on Ida Comp
tons life as 1t must have been after
ward-unless she had children certain
ly there would be more ructions. The
stronger magnet with the average man
is always physical where life with a
woman is concerned, whether he knows
or acknowledges it or not. The pity
is that our girls are not taught to
know that real side of the husband to-
be and to train and accustom them
selves to pay the price and avoid a
rude awakening"
Here is an interesting question. 1t
also goes to show that some of our
modern best sellers" are really stimu-
lating and productive of thought.
The publishers of Honore Willsie's
new. novel, Still. Jim" are sending an
electric lamp device with a revolving H.
luminated shade to the, retail book
an innovation in book display advertis-
ing and a large number are now turn
ing slowly round displaying a richly
colored picture of the novel that is
announced as one of the best of the
season.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07

The Post Office Department started
free employment bureau and then
discharged hundreds of its own en-
ployes Think of the irony of it!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
NHWSf 81 fH2f fR42RSSIISSFfE SSIISSFfE Var

[From the Telegraph of Nav Z 1865 ]
GuerriIlas Steal Bonds
Cincinnati, May Z. - Guerrillas yes
terday stole bonds valued at about SIS
900 from safes on Ohio and Mississip-
pi train.
Funeral Train Returns
Washington May Z. The funeral
train returned here to-day from SPRING
field.
Peace Soon
Raleigh, May T. = The State Govern
ment will be reorganized here and it
is believed that the State will return
to the Union soon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07

Several millions of people have
learned that the Democratic party can
reduce the standard of living whether
it reduces the cost or not
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07

Secretary McAdoo is out of the hos
pital but the Democratic party's case
has been diagnosed as incurable.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
- BOOKS and A
hfa n MAGAZINES A MM
aa xaHRap AS85A0=REk8S

Royal Dixon. author of THE Human
Side of Plants" win deliver a series of
lectures on "The Renaissance Point of
View in Plant Life" under the auspices
of the Society of the American Renais-
sance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
Do YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg's park system
has been still further pOpularized
by jitneys?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07
FROM HERE TO THERE-5c

The display of horse chestnut blooms
that makes Capitol Park a pleasant
place to visit every Spring is on and
some of the older trees are filled with
an unusual number of the conical
blossoms. The horse chestnut trees
IN the park are all fine specimens and
being we'll taken care of their bloom
ing time is watched by lovers of trees
who find them as attractive as the
magnoliaS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07

The automobile touring season ap-
pears to be on. In front of hotels this
morning there were to be seen cars
bearing New York, Virginia. Iowa.
Illinois, Maryland and Massachusetts
licenses. Most of the parties were on
their way to gettysburg
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-07

They tell a good story about Uncle
Heinrich Houck-again. 1t seems
that Uncle Heinrich was invited to
make an address at the Harrisburg
Academy and accepted. Ono day he
was reminded of the date and told that
the people in charge wanted to keep
the address on the same high plane
as they had started, mentioning casu-
ally that eX-President Taft, Governor
Brumbaugh and other prominent men
mad spoken. oh" said the veteran
secretary. I'll not keep on the plane.
Ill make it ascend.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-02-05
PIONEER PASSES AWAY

John Anderson, a we'll known ranch
er and farmer in this part of the
state died at his home in Glasgow
early Tuesday morning. He had been
ill for some time and his death Tues
day was the elimination of a long
illness.
John Anderson was born in Mime
sofa and came to Montana twenty-five
years ago. He resided in various
parts of the state, and before COM
ing to Glasgow eight years ago lived
in Great Falls. He was a respected
and valued member of the community
and his friends and relatives mourn
his loss. Two daughters, Clara and
Emma, of this city survive him. The
funeral was held on Thursday from
the Congregational church.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-02-05
WHEAT JUMPED TO $l.65

Chicago, February 2.-Wheat raced
upward in price today, first sales
showing a jump of as much as 3A
cents a bushel. The May delivery
touched $1.60, the top price in the his
tory of the country.
Extraordinary rises in quotations at
Liverpool excited wheat dealers in this
country, particularly this market, and
was the direct cause Of the spectacu-
lar rise.
On a second strong swell, the mar
ket swept upward in the last hour
to $1.65 for May, a gain of z 3-8 cents
a bushel, compared with last night.
Transactions in the May option be-
came so hazardous that the bulk OF
trading shifted to the July delivery
Urgency of export demand over
ruled every other influence. 1t was
said that sales to the Italian gov
ernment alone in the last "a hours
amounted to 100000 bushels.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-02-05
BURNED BY GASOLINE

j. w. Algeo, well known home
steader living north of Malta, was the
victim of painful accident, which
may prove very serious. In attempting
to light a fire in the stove Friday
morning he used gasoline by mistake,
instead OF kerosene; and in the re-
sulting explosion, he was severely
burned about the upper portion of the
body, and his home was badly wreck
ed After rolling in the snow until the
flames about himself were out he put
out the flames in the house, which
threatened entire destruction.
AS there was no one else to help
him, he was forced to walk nearly
a mile through the snow and biting
cold, barefooted, to the nearest neigh
boris. Most Of his clothes had been
burned. Friends brought him to town
at once for medical attention and at
persent he is in very serious condi-
ton.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-02-05
COMMISSIONERS MEET
Much Business Transacted. Gran
Two Saloon Licenses.

The board of county commissioners
met Monday to go through the large
amount of work before them. A
large number of bills were audited
and the salaries of the employees in
the court house were set at certain
figures.
Two retail liquor licenses a. Baylor
were granted to A. P. Mcintyre and
C. Prentice of Glasgow. The resigna-
ton of G. D. Borton as Clerk OF
Court was accepted and vote of
thanks was extended to him. @. S
Cutting was appointed to fill the posi-
ton of Deputy Clerk of Court. The
resignation of James H. Atwood as a
member of the Board of Education of
Valley county was accepted.
On Thursday the board met to can
vass the vote Of the Phillips County
election.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-02-05
SHAW COUNTY CONTROVERSY

Fort Benton, Jan. 20.-Judge Tattan
yesterday heard argument in the Shaw
county controversy, the new county
which it was proposed to take out of
Sheridan county. Some weeks ago E.
R. Maxam of Culbertson obtained an
order of mandate from the district
court requiring the county commits
sioners of Sheridan county to recon-
slider the petitions that had been pre-
sented to them asking for an election
on the Shaw county proposition, and
which petitions the commissioners had
denied. The hearing today was on the
motion of the county commissioners
to quash the order heretofore made.
Ex-Governor Norris made the princip-
al argument on the melton and Attor-
neys Babcock of Plentywood and
Conner of Medicine Lake were also
counsel for the commissioners. John
L. Slattery of Glasgow, represented
the relator, Maxam. The matter was
taken under advisement by Judge Tat
tan. Among other eastern Montana
taxpayers present at the hearing were
X. O. Slette of Culbertson and A. R.
Chapman of Plentywood.
One of the grounds urged by the
relator why the commissioners should
reconsider the action, was their failure
to consider supplemental petitions for
election filed with the board before
the day of hearing. These supple
mental petitions having been rejected
there were not sufficient names on
the original petitions to warrant the
calling of the election. There were also
errors of the commissioners alleged
in regard to consideration of with
drawals from petitions. After these
eliminations were made the matter
was brought down to a fine point
there being 808 registered voters in
the proposed new county, and 401
names on the petitions, lacking sew.
en- of enough for the calling of the
election.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-02-05
LIBRARY REPORT

The following is the report of the
Carnegie Public Library and Reading
Rooms for the month of January,
1915:
Number of persons in to read or
write, 1850.
Largest daily attendance, 40.
Smallest daily attendance, 21.
Average daily attendance, 40.
Number of Magazines loaned, go
Number of books loaned, 932.
New members enrolled. 81.
Library was closed four days for
repairs.
Frances Macdonald, Librarian.