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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-12
You Want 1t Because
1t Is So Low in Price
You Want 1t Because
1t Will Last a Lifetime

You can't measure the value of an ar
ticle that will save you miles OF steps
every day, but the present low price of
the Hoosier measured against any stand
ard known, makes it the greatest furni-
turc bargain ever sold.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
Boosting Courage.
(New London Day.)

s Whenever woman interjects herself into such situations as the European war in any other capacity than as an angel she is very liable to get in wrong. Jane Addams. who has been in Europe and as close to the sources of the rouble as possible, appears to have been rather moro strongly inn pressed by the fact that, as she al- leges, the soldiers are given liquor be- before bayonet charge than by con- alterations that would appeal to the masculine mind even the mind of masculine teetotalism, as being rather more important
 What especial difference it makes to the worlds civilization whether European division goes into action with stiff hooker under the belt of each soldier, or whether the soldierr is asked to make his charge under the Inspiration of water or grape juice, is not clear. Tn either case he will go in and do his best, and his state of
 mind will doubtless be very little diff ferent, by the time he gets within bayonet thrust of the other fellow W neither he has had drIng or dozen or none at all. He will be just as much of a frenzied lunac1c under the toxnc influence of wars mad passion
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
America Slows Up.
(Waterbury American. }

An effect of the European war will be- Of course, a retardation in the growth of our population, due beth to the decreased in1migrat ton end the increased emigration Never fheless, one is surprised to see it set forth already in figures. The New York Evening Post notes the enorm- ouh falling off in New York city's growth, as shown in the preliminary figures published by the sun. These figures make the growth or the city's population only 1o.4 per cent in the last five years, as against sS.7 per cent in the 10 years from 1900 to 1910 and 37.1 per cent in the ten years from 1890 to 1900
 Granting that the increases cited were phenomenal end could not be r1aintained, yet the decrease is sur prising. The Post continues While the population of New Ycrk increased Gin round nunbcrs) 1,33o,oo0 from 1900 to 1910, the increase from 91o to 1915 was only 480, ,o0o which falls short of the half of 1.5oo. GOO by the great sum of 185.o0p..
 Of course, the decline in irngnigra- ton began before the war and was due to hard times in his country. but the war has accelerated it.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
RELIEF FOR JEWS.

New York, July 1.-The American Jewish Relief committee announced today that it has received despatch from the Jewish colonization associa- ton of Petrograd, stating that the las- scciation can guarantee only such re- mittances from residents of the United States to friends or relatives in Russia to reach the association through the Jewish relief committee. The colonization association. accord- ling to the announcement declined tc be responsible for money sent through any other agency.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
Home-owning and Tenantry.
(W esterly Sun.)

! a
 During his campaign of 1912 Theo- dore Roosevelt suddenly became inter ested in the home-owning proposition, nomentarily m ceased belaboring the wicked Dem ocrats and the equally dis reputable Taft Republicans, and an rounced that "tenantry must be stop ped at once"
 Yet recently published figures taken from the census of 1910-figures avail able in 1912 if Mir Roosevelt had car ed to look at them-showed that out 0. about twenty million homes little over nine million were owned and nearly eleven million rented. Out of the more than six million farm homes, two and one half million were owned free and one and quarter million were mortgaged. How MT. Roosevelt proposed to stop tenanty on this vast scale "at once" or even in a century, he omitted to say.
 The figures show that the percent age of home ownership is greater in rural than in urban districts and that if is smallest in the largest cities, de- scending from 47.9 per cent. in Grand Rapids, for example, to 12 per cent in New York. This is inevitable, owing to the greast cost of land and the great cost of houses it would pay to build on such land in the larger cities. Moreover, even people of wealth in New York and other great cities in many instances prefer to .ent in order to be freer from care. The fact that the census of 1910 shows 55 per cent. of American homes as rent l cd would not be necessarily discour- aging, even if it were not true that | thousands of people live in apartments | or rented houses who have large ac- cumulations otherwise invested.
 If nearly half of our heads of fam flies own their own homes, there must | De a large amount of error in the f1g- Ures of the socialist writers. One of | these has estimated that seven-eighths Of American, families hold but one- eighth of the national wealth. while but one per scent .efr the sfanmlieshhold | more than the remaining s9+per cent figures that nine per cent of the families of this country hold z per cent of the total wealth. Accord ing to third, one per cent of Ameri- cans hold more than 54 per cent of the wealth, while fully 50 per cent of Americans hold no wealth at all Even the possibility of absolute accuracy in estimates of this score it perhaps doubtful. and such figures suggest a large degree of mere guesswork on the part of possimists who unconsciously attribute the conditions in great cities to the country as a whole.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
Detroit Knows How. (New Haven Register.)

The leading cities of the United States, which showed a gain in popu- lation averaging more than fifty per cent. in the decade from 1900 to 1910 art likely to show a still greater gain in population and business when the comparison of the present decade is made This means, if the conditions of traffic in this decade were alike those of the last, a tremendous in- crease in street traffic. But there has been a notable vehicle development since the beginning ofl the century, which intensifies beyond the concep- tion of any except those who have studied it most carefully. The sup planting of the horse in large meas ure by the machine means ar in. tensified use of the streets, at swift CT pace, and means that the same vehicle passes a given point more times in day or week. This is a part of the problem involved.
 It is but the inevitable. therefore, that the cities should be studying their traffic problems, and only neces- sity that they should be developins improved systems of tra.f1ic regulation to meet their needs. In this matter
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
YrIlo7vstone Hold-Tps.
fSouth Norwalk Sentinel.


 The only wonder about Yellowstone Park hold-ups is that there are not more of them. It is certainly tempt- itg field fer any enterprising bandit Through the park pours continuous stream of tenderfeet. all with money in their pocket and all guaranteed to be without means of self defense own ing to the fact that the government takes away their guns before they are allowed to enter the reservation More over, the place is so wild and unfre- quented, even near the main travelled roads, that it's easy for a. robber to get away,
 The soldiers on duty as park police are, of course, always far from the point chosen for 9 hold-up and, sometimes are not notified for hours afterward,
 The ordinary park visitor can't help wondering why the drivers of the bus ses and coaches are not permitted to carry arms to protect their passeng- CTS It is the idea nf the authorities that an occasional hold-up is a good thing, because it advertises the park and adds an attractive bit of "wi1d west color for the benefit of adven- turous eastern tourists?
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
School Vacations.
(Meriden Journal )


 Some of our educational theorists are endeavoring now to cut down the long summer vacation or else do away with it entirely for they think that the boys and girls grow stale in so iong an idle period and that studies would be the more effective with the sustained interests if the school ses- sions were more continuous. That is a plausible argument in many ways ued through the summer we are cer- tain that it would lead to stagnation.
 School routine nowadays is a pretty severe grind for the majority of pu- pills have to work ct home in order to keep up and in fact homework is pro- vided so that the young people may be kept busy. There must be large amount of playtime if our youth re- tain their health and elasticity and this can best be secured in the long vacation.
 Of course there is problem in all cities to keep tn young people off the streets. Tn boys especially seem to find the highways to be best base ball grounds despite th~ rfact that there are real playgrounds for them
 Another thing to be considered is that many boys earn their own way during the summer and not only pay for their clothes but otherwise help their parents. These things must be considered before there is any talk about shortening the vacation period.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
STEAMER AGENORIA
 STRIKES ICEBERG -I sAAeN- .A4-Mt a.tlN M-I
Vessel Crawls Into Port At MontreaI With Bows Crushed In--Ninety
 Bergs Sighted.

Montreal, July 17.--with bows crushed in, the steamer Agenoria crawled into this port today Sunday morning she crashed into an iceberg while running through the Straits of Belle Isle.
 Ninety bergs were sighted in the narrow passage. but the one that the Sessel struck, although 100 feet high. was not seen through the fog until 1t loomed up thirty feet dead ahead. Then it was too late.
 The steamer is a vessel of 2.977. tons gross register, is 330 feet long and was built in 1902, flies the Brit ish flag and is owned by Dickinson and Sons of West Harlepool, Eng.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
Repeal of La Toilette Act.
Bridgeport Standard.)

!. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States is going to institute a referendum to get the opinion of busi- ness bodies all over the country on the La Toilette law and the deslra- bility of it's repeal. Sh1poWners and shippers have already expressed them selves very generally against it, but a consensus of opinion from the com nercial bodies of the country would have great weight, and it is thought that such an expression can be se-. cured before the opening of the next Congress.
 One of the worst features of the unfortunate measure of marine des- truction is that it operates against our entire merchant shipping on the great lakes as we'll as the ocean and will clear the fresh water inland SC as of our great trading vessels, as it will the oceans.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
Who We Don't Know.
Bridgeport Farmer.)

bridgeport Farmef1
 II it shall be a fact that Great Brit am has transported but 440,09 men eo France. doubt will be thrown up- en everything that has been printed about the war.
 repeatedly the news has been prlnted. upon the faith of statements aieged to have been made by Lloyd george and other responsible states ,Een, that more than 100000 men hao been sent to join the French and the Belgians.
 1T the statements about tho num- pers sent abroad are untrue. so may statements about the numbers re- crulted be unture. The whole mat Ter Is in doubt. It cannot be said that any body on this side of the water hnows anything about the war The V hole situation may be more desper- ate than anybody has supposed
 It will be found that the secrecy compelled by a limited number of persons, of the ruling classes of the warning nations, has been injurious to all concerned.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
Change Tn Foreign Trade. Harrington Ec1igterl.

One of the many good results like- ly to flow from the Panama canal and the cornmon-sense waterway through Illinois is the decentraliza- ton of this country's foreign trade.
 Last year, New York handled 4e per cent. of the exports of the entire nation. and still larger proportion of imports. Tn spite of the natural and artificial advantages centering at Manhattan, this is an unwholesomc congestion. The Isthmian Canal should. help considerably in redistri- outing this commerce. since it enables Pacific ports to ship direct to Europe. The opening of the common-sense waterway and the development of our gulf ports,-particularly that of New Orleans,-should do even more.
 With the lakes and the gulf united by a practicable channel large part of the slow freight of the Mississippi valley will find it's way to the sea by this cheap and handy water route.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
The Term of Life. Chicago Daily Journal. J

A rule which holds fairly true among the higher mamals is that an animal lives five times as long as it requires for his muscular system to reach it's full strength. The dog is fully developed at between two and five years; the horse reaches his prime not later than five, and if. he escapes overwork and i'll usuage, lives tc be twenty five and even thirty. Tn fact, the rule seems to be an under statement of animal expectation of life rather than an overstatement
 The one conspicuous exception is man, who seldom reaches his full m uscular strength before he is twen- ty-f1ve. and counts himself living on borrowed time if he passes the age of seventy. If man were as we'll cir cumstanced in this matter as the horse, dog or cat his average term of life would vary from Ito to 125 years.
 To state the case thus bodily makes It sound fantastic, yet if there is any reason why human beings should not be as tenacious of life as other higher nam als, science has failed to dis cover that reason. Only. the other day the retiring president of the sAmericans Medical association said < that the adoption of a few simple < rules of community hygiene would raise the average expectation of life from forty-two years, as at present. to sixty-fiye years, and his tra afneo and critical audience agreed witt, him. What then, may we expect when science turns it's attention to building up individual vitality as wei. as to checking the spread of conta- gious disease?
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
as under that of absinth. schnapps or

as under that of absinth. schnapps or vodka
 Even if the allegation is true, Miss Addams should not imagine that there is anything new about the boosting Of troops courage with strong water. It has been done quite number of times in this country The Yankee tars who saved our reputation in the War of 1872 didn't do it on bilge water, by long chalk; nor did Jack sons Joyous collection of gulf pirates ara horse runners hold those cotton naies without the encouraging stimu- rus pr many a nip In the civil war mere Were several occasions when an important part of the ammunition e@me in barrels and was measured in 1in cups instead of cartridge paper.
 Miss Addams has fallen into the eommon error of her sex when .fousht face to face with tremendous questions and tremendous effects sne has lost her sense of proportion kln tne shadow of magnitudes too great for her.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
Political straws.
{ Bridgeport Post ]

An extremely interesting political straw stands up in Massachusetts to show which waysthe wind is blowing one of the strongholds of the Pro- gressive party, Charles S. Bird one of the angels as we'll as one of the strong leaders of the Progressive par ty in Massac husetts, has just written a letter in which he says he will suD- port the Republican ticket this FaiI if that party nonlihates either former Congressnlan Mccall or Iieutenailt Governor Gushing as the candidate for governor.
 The importance of this announce. bered that MT. Bird ran for governor twice up on the Progressive ticket and upon both occasions boiled more votes than the republican. candidate.
 It is further announced that an other former Progressives of great influence, former state Senator Bur bank, stands an excellent chance Of being nominated for Lieutenant Gov ernor upon the republican ticket
 The announcement of the political situation in Massachusetts, where the Progressives cut the republican vote squarely iG two in 1912 and conti1l- ued to divide the party in 1913 and 1914, are straWs which forecast the elimination of the Progr essives in New England this year and next pro- yided the republicans meet them fair V
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
How to Live Long.
(Tcledo Blade.)

Centenarfans all know why they
 have been blessed with long years. It
 is because they never drank, or be-
 cause they did drink, because they
 never smoked, swore, quarrelled, wor-
 ried, sat up late nights, or because
 they did all these things, yet count
 eracted the evil effects with diets of milk, mush corn bread or an apple a day. Neighbors and relatives and doctors may wonder why the tooth of time has proved incapable But the subjects of their wonder have ever any doubts. They know exactly why they and death keep apart
 An intimate study of the character of centenarians might reveal the true formula for long life. These tenac- ious old folks all have one thing in common, and that is perfect confi- dence. They are never troubled with misgivings, never afflicted with self questioning. If person is absolute. 1y certain that he is going to defeat time, perhaps that is as effectual as it is with the man who is absolutely certain that he is going to defeat a case of typhoid. Confidence may be a good anodyne for sleeplessness, a worthy aid to digestion, a protector against accident.
 The records indicate that it does not matter so greatly that the candi- date for a hundred be abstemious or indulgent, careful with his food or reckless, as that he feel sure that he has the secret of longe- witty. So, it would seem, the first duty Of aspirants is to cultivate dogmatic set of opinions.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17

Y
 one should hardly expect to find the best results in those largest citiei whose traffic problem has got aheae of them. but in those of medium size which have been able to keep pace with it.
 One of these is Detroit More than any American city it has won its pros. perity from the evolution of the high. way machine, It is quite natural as a writer to the New York Times puts it. that the automobile center of the world should have at the same time the highest efficiency in directing their use" He points out some oi the features of this efficiency, which it is unnecessary to the present pur- pose to mention. The greatest i'm. provement that Detroit has, probably, is the semaphore. showing red and green arms of the policeman. De. troit, also, makes use of the zone ot safety, within lines painted on tho pavement, more than does any other city.
 Detroit is more than three times the size of New Haven. Its traffic needs are more extensive than ours though it may not have any conges- tion point to equal that around ou, Green. It is probable that the com inittce presently to be appointed to cope with the New Haven situation can with profit, study Detroit.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
Beyond Comprehension.
Pueblo (Col.0 Chieftain. }

Beside the colossal losses of war howtrivial appear the catastrophes of other days. Twenty persons killed anywhere in the United States is first page display news story. A hundred killed is a three-day wonder A thousand dead marks great dis aster that will finger in mems mem ories year after year
 Tn one year of war the total loss in killed, wounded and missing is esti- mated at more than 5000. 900 human beings, or an average daily loss of more than 10000 men for an entire year.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
sand immigrant citizens just what

sand immigrant citizens just what America nism means.
 Finally we as a nation have come to partial realization that the gov ernment which welcomes the alien must do something more than pass him through Ellis Island.
 He not only must be allowed to, put should be placed where he may. develop and become informed as tos what citizenship impliesai he cares to. assume it. Having decided voluntarily tt become naturalizedwt Y the aimmlgran neS hereafter will be able to call on lne bureaus of the department Of iaooi Tor any education in civcs when he may need. < Tn government proposee to teach him that citizenship m 'hs republic is something to be desireo and earned, and not to be galneo os the automatic working or laws.
 If we are to have loyal Am mericaIis CT lls citizens of alien birth who will put America first, we must educate them in our ideals and institutions. Al least the government is going to take hand
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
Framing Citizc,1sI
(New Haven Union. }

Realization of the tremendous prob lem and the importance of training immigrants for citizenship is com irg to Americans slowly and late in our history There should have been a systenized government plan for the work fifty years ago William c. Redfeld, the secretary of labor 1t to be credited with a statesman like purpose back of his decision, to uuse the bureau of Immigration and the bureau of naturaIirat to ac- complish the desired end That he has the president back of him in his policy was shown by the presence of the chief executive Ar the famous Philadelphia meeting at which he. de-. fined for the benefit of several thou-
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
BARS APPROPRIATION OF COLD
Switzerland Takes Steps 70 Conserve
 Its Supply.

Paris. July 1s. 11:s5 p. n.-rne Swiss federal council has decided to rrohibit the exportation of gold in any form, says Havas despatch from Rerne.
 Another Havas despatch from Berne states that the editor Of a newspaper st Neufchatel, France, now occupied by the Germans, has been ordered be- fore a court martial for publishing an article in which he violently at- tackled Germany.
New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come so, Herald offlCC4
The Lusitania Case.
(New York Evening Post. )

Take the Lusitania issue. The sink ing of that ship, with the consequent loss of American lives, was plainly stated by President Wilson to be an act in direct violation of international law and in fragrant disergard of American rights. He called upon the German government to disavow it. to make reparation, "so far as repara- tion Is possible for injuries which are without measure," and to prevent the recurrence of anything so ob- viously subversive' of the laws of war To all this, what does Von sJagow re- ply? He does not, indeed, venture again to set up the defense which he attempted in his note of May 28, namely, that the Lusitania was armed" That she was, our govern ment categorically denied, and called for the German evidence, if there was any It is now produced? Not at all. The. German foreign office has not a scintilla of proof for it's former as- sertion. It merely indulges in gen. eral charges about all British mer- chantmen, and coolly lays all the blame for the killing of the Lusitan- ia's passengers upon "the manner of
 
 versaries!'' There is also a kind of intimation that the Lusitania ought, in decency, to have remained above water long after being torpedoed as if this in any way freed the German submarine commander from the re- sponsibility for the direct conse- quences of his lawless act. In all this, evidently, there is no word of disavowal, no offer of reparation, no guarantee for the future. The re- ply, in this matter, is no reply at all. It is nothing but an evasion.
 The German reply will require ac- ton by our government. This need not be hasty, but it should be definite. That the president can retreat from his position that certain acts of the German government are the acts of an international outlaw, is inconceiv- able. How best to maintain that po- sition is now the grave duty laid up- on him.