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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
CAMP HILL ENTERPRISE

%AMP HILL is to be congratulated
~ upon the splendid public spirit
that resulted in the approval of
it's paving loan on Saturday by n vote
of four to one in favor of the improve
ment. The Valley Railways Company
has displayed proper consideration for
the West Shore suburb by promising
to do its part and the State will share
in the expense.
The paving of Camp Hills main
street will add the finishing touch to
that very pretty and otherwise at
tractive town. The men who were in
strumental in working up sentiment
for the loan will see to it that no time
is lost in getting the work under way
and Chief Burgess James Milhouse
may be relied upon to keep watchful
eye on the expenditure of the money.
1t is right that the State should help,
as the main highway through Camp
Hill is really no more than a section
of State highway. The State owes also
to the voters of East Pennsboro town
ship a debt that it has failed to pay.
The people of that district, with State
aid, rebuilt the road from Camp Hill
to the river and put it into splendid
condition. Then the road was taken
over by the State. Since then little or
no repair have been made on it. The
result is that the road is worse thar
1t was in the beginning and the people
are still paying taxes incurred in the
rebuilding.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
TEMPERANCE GAINS

TT is not likely that the offer of a
wealthy citizen of West Virginia
to assume liability for the payment
of the State debt Of more than s12,-
100000 in ten years IL he is given a
monopoly on the sale of liquor in that
Commonwealth will be taken serious
ly. West Virginia is in the Prohibition
column and shows no sign of desiring
to be recorded otherwise.
The sale of liquor is beyond question
a social evil and popular government
having once shaken off the iniquitous
association will be slow to resume 1t.
The temperance sentiment is grow
ing. During the last legislative year
four States have been added to the
fifteen States of the Union already
that have prohibited the sale of
alcoholic liquors and in three other
States and the Territory of Alaska the
way has been cleared for Prohibition
If the people so decide at the polls.
This will mark one-half the country
dry" according to the estimates of
the Associated Press after a careful
, canvass OF the legislative activities of
the various States. The canvass shows
that Prohibition was the principal
subject considered in most of the
States and that more time was given
to it than to any other question by
the lawmakers.
The legislatures of two States en-
acted statutory Prohibition to become
effective this year, and eight voted to
submit the question of Statewide Pro-
hibition to a referendum of the peo-
pie. or the latter, two established
statutory Prohibition to become cffec-
tive in the meantime. Four States
where Prohibition is already effective
passed additional restrictive laws and
! two Of the five States, where, under
constitutional amendment, Prohibition
is to go into effect next year, enacted
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
BIRDS AS SENTRIEs

Birds have become useful in Europe
as sentrles to warn men of the ap-
proach of the enemy before the hos
tile force is percepible to the human
eye. The French have found that
parrots are acutely sensitive to the
presence OF aircraft, and therefore
they have stationed a number of these
birds on the top of the Eiffel Tower in
Paris in order to warn the sentries of
the approach of German taubes. Be
fore the craft is visible to the human
eyes the birds bristle with excitement
and then begin to screech Their
acuteness is due not to their eyesight,
as one might suppose, but to an unus-
ual acuteness OF hearing which en-
ables them thus to give a valua bic
warning.
The service is not restricted to
Gagged birds. however, or even to those
of the land. At sea, the gulls are of
almost as great service, as they are
quick to betray the presence of any
submarine, which rises to the surface.
AS soon as the periscope appears
above the water the gulls rise from
the water in fiocks, circling around il
and calling shrilly. thus indicating
its whereabouts to the lookout of any
ship which happens to be in the vi
clnity.-The American Boy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
CHURCH ADVERTISING

TN Chicago on Sunday the pulpits of
thirty churches were occupied dur
ing some period of the day by an
advertising man of national reputation
who spoke on church advertising. The
talks were a part Of the program OF
the convention of the Associated Ad-
vertising Clubs of the World.
Church advertising is one of the big
things in the religious world of the
future. Wherever it has been tried it
has been pronounced a success. The
Telegraph is proud to have been one
of three newspapers in the United
States that were pioneers in this field.
For many years there have been
sporadic efforts at church advertising,
but not until about the time the Tele-
graph entered this new realm of pub
licity with a carefully planned cam
paign to cover a full year was there
much attempt to conduct church ad-
vertising by the same systematic efforts
that all of the big commercial adver-
tisers employ.
The fact that the Associated Adver-
tising Clubs of the World, comprising
every advertising agency and writer
in the country and many from else
where, have taken up the matter seri-
ously is proof of the growth the move
ment has attained.
Politicians and businessmen have
long recognized the power of the
printed word and they have spent
untold millions to get their messages
10 the public in that form. The church
has been slow to follow, but, having
proved the efficacy of the method,
there is every indication that it will
make up for lost time The news
paper goes where no gospel message
can otherwise be carried. It's in
fluences are a millionfold and it can
be made the servant of the church just
as 1t has been for years the mouth
piece Of business and of politics.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
MATRIMONY AFTER THE WAR

HTHEN the war is over a great
w problem is facing the men and
women of England, and that is
the matrimonial one. 1t has
been estimated that at the end of the
European struggle Britain will lose
manently disabled. The problem of
the odd women who can never find a
mate will then be accentuated a hun
dredfold!
Lady Troubridge; a prominent fig-
ure in London society and well-known
novelist, can only see one solution of
the riddle, and that lies in the stand
which the women of England must
take. women must become self
supporting" she declares, land they
must strain every nerve not to take
work from the heroes who return,
but to step into the places of those
who have fallen,
They must acquire-it is a case of
must - that technical training, that
thoroughness of application that is
supposed to belong principally to men
workers.
Work is the panacea for every evil
under the sun, and whatever women
may lose of life's deepest joys and
sorrows, no woman who is economi-
cally Independent or earning her own
living honestly need be unhappy. For
her the sun shines and the flowers
bloom just as for her married sister.
The world of art is hers, and the
solace of religion. She must learn
how to be happy though not married.
And there is a silver lining to this
cloud. matrimonially speaking. Many
men we're bachelors from choice and
not necessity, and from want of seri-
BUSINESS they avoided the responsible
ties of married life. The war will
change all this - it has already
changed it, as announcements of ap-
preaching marriages alone show.
when death has to be faced,
man knows who it is he really cares
for. There is an end to nonsense and
self-deception. AS in a great picture
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22

Photograph of Mrs. Selma Lewis
who was named in the charge that
DR.. Meyer-Gerhard who was given a
safe conduct from this country to
Germany, was in reality, DIR. Alfred
Meyer. Chief of the Department of
Army Supplies for the Imperial Ger
man Ministry Of War" Mrs. Lewis
was supposed to have acted as the
"go between" in the. conspiracy. The
trouble seems to have cleared up.
Herman Metz, former New York Con-
gresham, said that Mrs. Lewis had
come to him and showed him an
agreement alleged to have been sign
ed by DR.. A. Meyer, and suggested
that she introduce the "Privy Coun-
cilor" to Mr.. Bryan, and aid her in
her plan for buying up this country's
old Krag rifles and selling them to
Germany. Metz alleges that falling
to carry through her plan, after he re-
fused to have anything to do with 1t,
she sold the story. He said:
"She fell into the hands of a lot of
bunco artists and they worked her for
all she was worth"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
A VEIL-WEARING ARMY

The patriotic activity of the wo-
men of South Africa Ct hear from a
correspondent) takes the form of
making wells for the soldiers of Bo-
tha's army. All over the union the
women are as busy veilmaking as the
Englishwoman are at knitting socks
or making respirators. The chief
enemies of the army now steadily
pushing into the Southwest Africa
are the swarms of deadly disease
carrying insects mosquitoes, sand
flies and so on. The women are MAX
ing wells which cover the soldiers's
head and neck and are tucked into
the tunic. There is great difficulty
in getting sufficient supplies of veil
ing from England, and appeals are be-
ing made for motor wells, chiffons and
thin silks and any kind of gauze ma
terial which can be used. Yeilmak-
ing is now the only occupation at af-
ternoon tea parties in South Africa
much more useful, If less exciting, thar
the diamond hunting which used to
be the entertainment at Kimberley
women's gatherings. The thing to
do was to hire a katfir to fetch half
crown bucket of mud from the mine,
and then after tea to grub patiently
In the mud in the hope of finding a
little diamond or two. - Manchester
Guardian.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

Willford l.. Kings The Wealth and
Income of the People of the United
States is the next volume scheduled for
publication in the Citizens Library pro-
duced under the editorship of Richard
Il Ely The book Will be issued about
sent many new facts derived from a
study of statistics bearing on such
questions as Why are some OF the peo-
pie very rich, others very poor?, II
wealth and income were more equally
distributed could everyone live in lux
ury?. Are we coming more and more
under the domination of private cor
porattons?, What are the signs of the
future?.
The results of Professor II. A Mills
prolonged investigation of the Japan
ese situation in this country are to be
made public June 9 through the ap-
pearance on that day of The Japanese
Problem in the United States. This is
volume of some three hundred pages
embodying .concisely the conclusions at
illustrated with eleven half-tone plates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
PENNsYLVANIA's HIGHEST
HONOR

(From Philadelphia North American }
Ten years ago Pennsylvania awoke
to the fact that State as we'll as a
family should rank health as the first
consideration. To advance and guard
the physical well-being of the people.
the legislature created a department
of health, financed it with an appro-
priation of millions and provided for
its administration by one endowed
with almost plenary police powers.
To inaugurate the work. DIR. Sam
mel G. Dixon, of this city, was chosen
commissioner position he still
holds. And last week, when the eX-
hibit of his department was awarded
the grand prize at San Francisco. the
fruitage Of long and notable public
service was rewarded with an honor
we do not hesitate to rank as second
to none that might come to this Com
monwealth.
For not only is health the first
wealth." as Emerson said, but prog
ress undreamt in the days of the Con-
cord philosopher has proved it the
basic element in moral and social as
well as economic development. So
the winning of this distinction in a
contest open to the world, and in
which many States and nations were
entered, should arouse the pride of
every Pennsylvania.
Especially creditable is this per-
formance when the circumstances un-
favorable to its successful elimination
are known. At first the Pennsylva-
mia exposition commission decided to
make no health exhibit. But when
the federal government requested at
least q review of the remarkable work
done in our fight against tuberculo-
sis DR.. Dixon was asked to prepare as
comprehensive a display as could be
made for $4,000.
This was four months before the
opening of the great fair. Meantime,
New York had appropriated $4,000
for a similar exhibit and given its
health officials two years for prepara-
ton, and Massachusetts had set aside
a sum almost as large for like pur-
pose. Also, 1t was known that Ger
many and other governments would
in no mean way.
Yet, so fine were the results ac-
on the comparatively mea-
ger appreciation, and so eloquently
did the charts, models and figures
speak of the health progress of Penn
sylvania within the last decade. that
when the jury finished its work this
State had been proclaimed the leader
in the battle with preventable diseases
and death. especially in the fight
against the white plague.
And in this connection we regard 1t
as one of the most important an
that could be made to
state that to-day tuberculosis is not
the death-leader In Pepnsylvania-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
THE FEARLESS ARMY MULE

The fact that a mule is stubborn
may lessen his value to the average
user-but the soldier is inclined to
value this trait. The mule is be-
ing rated above the horse for actual
use under fire on the battIefields Of
Europe and is much used by the ar
tillery. An unframed horse, being
nervous and high-strung, is likely to
dash about madly under fire. but the
mule stubbornly holds his place re-
gardless of the din. The British are
now planning to mount part of their
cavalry on American mules. A ia
vorite story of the British artillery is
told of the artillerymen who tried to
retreat with their gun under a warm
attack. The gun team of mules stub
bornly refused to bulge. so in des-
peration the gunners returned to the
gun and succeeded in beating back
the attack. They were warmly COM
mended for their valor-but admit
ted that the praise was properly due
the mules.-The American Boy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22

The Presidents speech to the Pan
Americans made 1t clear that the ship
purchase bill remains in his program. 1t
is equally clear that the country is no
better disposed toward the measure
than when 1t hailed the defeat of the
bill with JOY. Regular and efficient
lines of communication with the South
Americans are, of course, desirable,
and there are various means of accom-
plishing this end Postal subventions
or out-and-out subsidies are the de-
vices most in favor with other mari
time nations. They involve less risk
and produce better results than Govern
ment ownership can. The country
would prefer to give aid to shipping
along safe. familiar lines.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Paul Bedford, former member of
the legislature. is again taking an
active part in Luzerne politics.
The Rev. George Borneman cele-
brated fifty years as a priest at Read
ing Sunday. He spent 4S years in
Reading.
DR.. George Woodward, of Phila-
delphia, will spend the summer in
Maine.
Judge John B. Steel, of Green's
burg, has returned from a visit to
Indiana.
p. o. Johnson, of Philadelphia,
has been elected as head of the State
Association OF Stationery Engineers.
Arthur F. Young, of williams
port, has gone to California for a six
weeks tour.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
TRUTH IN ADVERTISING
BY Wing Dlnger

Out in Chicago they're meeting
Ten thousand men who believe
Honesty stands above all things.
And that tits wrong to deceive.
Truth is the thing that they stand 70
Down to the very last man,
And upon fake advertising
Swiftly they're putting the ban.
Daily they're writing their stories
Here and there over the land.
And as they write to the millions,
Truth guides tho pen in each hand.
Hail to these fellows who follow
That first big lesson OF youth
Heed the example they're setting
And every day stick to the truth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
STRAIGHT AMERICAN
(From the New York Sum-

(trom the New York Sum-
On June II, the day of the publica-
ton of the note to Germany which
had been made the pretext of the Ig-
nominious Skedaddle of the Chautau-
qua Secretary of State, appeared this
patriotic American utterance of Sam
uel Gompers, president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor:
The influence of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, the workers of the
country, will be exerted for the main
tenance of peace. and yet we cannot
permit to be challenged the insstency
that the lives of Americans shall not
be unnecessarily and unwarrantabIy
jeopardized"
On June 20, the day after the hor-
tations, preferred and extempore, OF
the Ignominous Skedaddler to a local
coterie of alien sympathizers and un-
neutral foreigners, appeared a letter
OF Mr.. Gompers in which he reiter-
ated the broad American patriotism of
his great organization, lovers of
peace, but resolute not to sacrifice for
1t the essentials of national honor and
self-respect:
'I am not willing to have either
the labor movement or our men and
women placed in a false position. The
United States will not voluntarily en-
ter into the present European war.
OF that am confident We shall keep
out of it If we possibly can with any
degree of faithfulness to the funda-
mental principles of justice, freedom
and safety.
IF despite our reserve and self-con-
troll we shall be dragged into it,
whether we like 1t or not, there will
be but one position for us to take,
and that is to be true to ourselves,
true to our fellows, true to the highest
ideals of humanity for which our
movement stands"
Mr.. Gompers speaks and nobly
speaks the American sentiments OF
the American Federation of Labor;
and not of that alone. He speaks the
sentiments OF American in general.
Bitter reading to the runagate Chau-
tauquan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
TELEGRAPH PERIScOPE

Since IL had to be war with some
body. We are thankful that 1T is with
the Yaqui Indians.
War is an international nuisance.
says Mr.. Bryan. True. However. men
tioning no names. we pause long enough
to remark that there are others.
The Sunday school superintendent
who can pick 3 clear day for the an
nual picnic is an officer worthy of his
job.
Tee cream freezers so cheap any
body can buy one." says an advertise
ment. Yes. but the purchase price
is the cheapest thing about an ice cream
freezer.
Times change. People used to
boast IL they owned a parlor organ.
Now they are ashamed II they do not
have an automobile.
Slang advice to young men-If she
can't can, "can" her.
1t has been some time since we
heard Connie Mack referred to as the
Wizard of Shibe Park"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
BosToN,s NEW FIELD OF RICHES
[From the New York worldl

FTOm the Now forK World.
New England has the reputation of
being able to see 10 per cent. further
try can see II. When, therefore, Boston
reports that investors thereabouts are
beginning to buy stock in Atlantic
shipbuilding yards, II may be time for
other Americans to conclude that the
war is forcing upon us an unparalleled
opportunity to get back into the ocean
carrying trade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
GERMANY AND LUxEMBURG

%ERMANY has assured the world,
N with mock solemnity and pre-
tended sorrow. that had the Bel
gians only permitted, they would have
gone through Belgium without raising
a hand against soldier or civilian.
Few people have taken much stock in
these protestations and have suspected
them of being merely an effort to
strengthen the German cause in
America.
In contradiction of these German
explanations for a horror that cannot
be explained away, is the manner in
which the Kaiser has behaved to-
ward Luxembourg. Says the Grand
Dutchess, Marie Adelaide, of the Ger
man INVASION:
Had we suspected the. treaty
breaking intentions of the Prus-
slams We ws saoSd Ssd haze bad GGfRed
hours notice, we should have put
at least $4,000 men on our eastern
SFOntisr we and aTs aT1 caSntr1 oS big as as
mountainous, but we had implicit
faith in the International law; and
we thought We were immune.
They thought they were immune!
They didn't know their neighbor was
a burglar - worse. indeed, for a
burglar comes as a thief in the night
and makes off with what he can carry,
but the Germans came and took the
whole house and remained. Perhaps
by refraining from attempting defense
the Belgians might have escaped
wholesale butchery, but they would
most certainly have lost their inde-
pendence and their respect for them
selves
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
Our Daily Laugh
ACROBATIC>


FEAT.
r . g sy g Q t :
along all right at
t h Q s 0 afternoon
teas.
Does chr
Yes, he can
hold a plate OF
salad in one hand.
a cup of coffee in
the other. and
balance a dish of
ice cream on hia
left shoulder.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22

enforce the notion of twelve months
OF continuous study. There is much
truth In the old adage that "all work
and no play makes Jack dull boy"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg Fairgrounds
have attracted much attention
from officials of other PennsyI-
vanla cities?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
selves.

Judge Lands. who fined the Standard
Oil Company s25,O00.000. fined an Illi-
nois man two cents the other day. At
all events the Judge displays a proper
sense of proportions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
THE SUMNER VACATION
THE Philadelphia Evening Ledger

THE Philadelphia Evening Ledger,
commenting on the closing Of
public schools in the summer,
implies that children might better be
kept at study during hot weather and
says
After all, the old notion that
summer vacation is a necessary
and valuable thing is pretty much
the product OF our youthful dislike
for schooling at any time.
The observation is not original.
The thought has been cropping out in
educational circles periodically for
years. All the same, the schoolhouse
is no place for children during the
sweltering days Of midsummer. 1t is
true that the vacation problem is diff
ficult in crowded quarters. Neverthe-
less the solution does not lie in twelve
months of. school. The playground
and the municipal camp-like that at
McCornlick's island, for instance
must be made to provide the answer.
Grown men and women find it i'm
possible to keep up winter pressure
during the heat OF summer. That is
the reason for the vacation period.
Efficiency experts like those in charge
of the Elliott-Fisher Typewriter
Company. for instance. recognize this
condition and require their working
forces to take a holiday of two weeks
yearly, at a time when the thermom-
eter is naturally expected to be high
est. The summer vacation idea is
growing, and it would be flying in the
face of popular opinion to attempt to
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22

The German Crown Prince has be-
come as silent as the heretofore noisy
forty-two- o-centimeter guns.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22
EDITORIAL COMMENT
KIND OF SIILTTARIsM

Pittsburgh Dispath.l
The sort of army Europe needs mos
now is the Salvation Army.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-22

Wed feel worse about the passing
of strawberry shortcake IL 1t were not
for the advent of the cherry pie.