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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
HARRIsBuRG,s EXAMPLE

Among the most progressive cities in
the country to-day is Harrisburg, the
capital of Pennsylvania and what 1t has
been doing the past fourteen or fifteen
years should serve as an object lesson
to Allentown, and its citizens and par
ticularly the men who have to do with
its advancement along physical lines.
In less than a decade and a half Har
risburg has constructed. among other
improvements, a sewerage system. fill
tration plant and paved practically
every street in the city with asphalt.
In al these projects, Involving the ex-
penditure of millions of dollars, City
Councils had the backing of every civic
body in the capital, and all these i'm
provements have been completed with
tax rate of mills and a gross i'm
provement debt of S1,762, 500
1t is, as the Harrisburg Telegraph
suggests, splendid story of municipal
achievements and one which the Coun-
ell of Allentown can profit by in read
ing.
If Harrisburg has sundered the
shackles of conservatism and has ex-
panded and improved and built up, why
should not Allentown, in many respects
a weather and thriftier community.
do the same? - Allentown Chronicle
and News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
MONDAY EVENING, SEPT. 20
SEEING PENNSYLVANIA

nURING the week beginning the
IL fourth of October Governor
Brumbaugh and a round hundred
men, prominently identified with the
State and representative of their sew
eral communities will start from Har-
risburg on a Seeing Pennsylvania"
automobile tour. This trip was con-
ceived by the Governor as the most
practical way in which to bring to the
attention of the people of the State
the splendid resources of the Com
monwealth, its many fine roads and its
scenic grandeur.
More and more the people are be-
ginning to understand the futility of
attempting to bring into Pennsylvania
the thousands of tourists who would
fbe delighted to come so long as the
local authorities hesitate to cooperate
with the Commonwealth itself in the
improvement of our great outreaching
road system.
Governor Brumbaugh has chosen a
plan which ought to produce salts
factory results. When this party
shall have returned from the tour of
the State the missionary effort doubt
less will result in greater enthusiasm
and higher appreciation of all that
we have in natural resources and in
attractive river and mountain scenery.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
AID FOR NEGRO SCHOOLS
Jeanes Fund Used to Advance Work
in Rural Districts.

The Jeanes Fund for the improve
ment of negro rural schools cooper
ated during the session ending June
80, 1915, with public school superin-
tendents in 1873 counties in IA States.
The supervising industrial teachers,
paid partly by the counties and partly
by the Jeanes Fund, visited regularly
in these counties 1868 country schools,
making in all 1872 visits and rails
ing for purposes of school improve
ment $73.43S.
The business of these travelling
teachers, working under the direction
of the county superintendents, is to
introduce into the small country
school simple home industries: to
give talks and lessons on sanitation
and personal cleanliness, to encour-
age the improvement of schoolhouse
and school grounds, and to conduct
gardening clubs and other kinds of
clubs for the betterment of the school
and the neighborhood. - Public
Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
The State From Day to Day

Master Frank Tragic, Jr., of Read
ing, aged nine, celebrated his birth
day in very unique manner by build
ing fire in the middle of the street
and extinguishing it with a real toy
chemical engine, presented to him by
Tragic, Sr.
little baby in Newry deserves the
credit for saving the lives of its
mother and four children. The house
was on fire and violent fit of cough
ing on the part of the baby awakened
the mother just in time for the five
to escape from the flames, which
dragged the home to ruins soon after
they had reached safety.
The game of football lost a player of
unusual ability when Elmer Sener, of
Lancaster decided to be a bricklayer.
During his work on the top of a
twenty-foot ladder with its foot on
the second story of a house, Sener's
handhold slipped and he dropped to
the second story whence he bounced
gaily off to the ground. Nothing
daunted, he rose and walked away.
We cant accuse the Lancaster New
Era of being q second Baron Mum
chausen, but we can put the follow
ing story in that category: Howard
Beech, of Lee, Mass, shot a deer in
his garden the other day. The bullet
passed completely through its body.
Next day the body of a fawn was
found with Howard's bullet in its
body" This is something like the
Baron's tale of the row of ducks sit
ting on the limb of a tree; he merely
split the limb with his trusty bullet
and imprisoned all the ducks by the
feet, after which he sawed off the
limb and carried home the prize.
To give stranger a ten-dollar bill
and ask him to please get change is
our idea of nothing at all. This was
just what Sara Cubbage, of Chester
did and was rewarded for her implicit
trust in human nature by the natural
sequence of events, namely a quick
disappearing act on the part of the
man she trusted, altho' never having
seen him before.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20

beginning to question the wisdom of
that policy and argue that 1t would
injury Germany more If she were per-
mitted to spend money abroad, thus
depicting her own monetary re-
sources.
So far as the relative interests of
Great Britain and Germany are con-
cerned, the discussion is of no conse-
quence to US, but it serves to empha-
size the soundness of the principle of
protection. Shutting out foreign
goods and keeping money at home to
pay home labor, is the secret of Ma
tonal prosperity. A protective wall
aecomplishes that end whether the
wall be established by war or by a
protective tariff. Any ten year old
boy ought to be able to understand
an economic principle as clear as this.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
ANOTHER WILSON TRIUMPH

DESPAIRING of any merchant
u marine relief from the Demo
cratic party, and with the evils
of the seamen's bill in contemplation,
several American bankers have Joined
with Chinese banks in the financing of
the s5,o0O,000 Chinese American
Trans Pacific Steampship Company,
and negotiations for the purchase of
ships are now under way, according to
DR.. " K. Koo. China's first Minister
to Mexico.
DR.. Koo says that these steamships
will fly the Chinese flag and that this
is the first fruit of the visit of the
Chinese industrial commissioners to
this country several months ago.
Thus, due to the seamen's law, the
Chinese dragon chases the Stars and
Stripes from the high seas.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
ENGLISH LABOR AND THE WAR

TN their essence there would not be
any difference between the indus
trial revolt which British railway
employees say will follow conscriptlon
and the graft which was the cause of
the virtual collapse of Russia as a mill
tary power of the first class.
There is this distinction. however,
and all who would be we'll informed
as to what is going on in Europe will
bear it we'll in mind; the Russian
trouble was due to moral rottenness
in the upper classes, while the un-
sound spot in English society. should
the threatened revolt actually occur.
will be the industrial class-the back
bone of the nation.
The real people of Russia have
never had chance. Evidence is ac-
eumulating, however, which indicates
that the war is going to have the effect
OF q great awakening in that country
and already there are signs that only
those of the governing body who can
prove freedom from the latest con-
spiracy against the nation will be able
TO survive the story that will break as
soon as the Empire is safe from the
invader.
But what hope is there for a nation
that is rotten at the core? Complete
ruin may not be a matter Sf the i'm
mediate future, but it is inevitable.
To be sure, the British workman has
not yet spoken for himself. The lead
,ers who have acted for him in bis
negotiations with employers for years
have been permitted to say what the
attitude of the organized workman
shall be In regard to defense measures.
It is possible that when the workn1en
realize what the leaders have been
saying and doing, ostensibly in the
name of British organized labor. there
will be an abrupt and complete change
of front.
If there is not there will be no
further need to search for the answer
to the question, what is the matter
with England? And in the event that
the English wage-earner does show
that his heart is in the right place.
and that, instead of being the sodden
and selfish individual the rest of the
world is beginning to suspect him TO
be, he Is the same loyal fellow who
made for the English yeoman the
name of being the best fighting man
in the world, 1t would be a good thing.
especially on this side of the Atlantic.
TO try to find out what is the matter
with English labor organizations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20

! TN the course of an excellent sermon
! on The city Beautiful" in Harris
Street United Evangelical church
last evening. the pastor. the Rev.
George F. Shaun said:
II there is anything I can say
mem ment t or the S betterment 2r rte of PrE harris
inurg, 81 ! want to say IT. fo- i H. there ,r,
provement or betterment of Har-
risburs l want TO do that thing.
In that brief paragraph is summed
up all of the spirit that has made
Harrisburg what it is to-day. The Rev.
Mr.. Shaun has very proper concep-
ton of the Improvement celebration
about to be inaugurated. 1t is not
merely that we shall gather together
to boast of past accomplishments or
take vain glory in the beauties and
advantages of this splendid city of
ours. Rather it is that we are this
week to dedicate ourselves anew to
the duties of citizenship which con-
front us. We must not pause now. We
have completed a great work. but it
is to be merely the stepping stone to
future accomplishments. We must
build better city, as we'll as a bigger
city. Nothing must be permitted to
stand in the way.
1t was the public spirit of the in
dividual citizen that, in the last
analysis, must be held responsible for
the success of the several improve
ment campaigns just now being
brought to a most suspicious con-
clusion. It will be the public spirit of
the individual expressed enmasse that
will carry the city on to the realiza-
tion of that bright prospect which lies
pleasant to the minds eye just ahead.
And we can think of no better senti-
ment for each of us to adopt on this,
the week of the great celebration, than
that so we'll expressed by the Rev.
Mr.. Shaun:
If there is anything I can say
that. will make for the improve
ment or the betterment of Harris
burg, want to say it. If there
is anything 1 can do for the i'm
provement OF betterment of Har-
risburg l want to do that thing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20

Advocates of pure socialism can make
capital out of the information which
Longacre of New York has compiled;
He says that thirteen of 100000
families in Greater New York own real
estate in Manhattan assessed al S205,-
404.S75. or one-ffteenth of the +otal
value of the island. These are the AS
tor, Vanderbilt, Morgan, Van Ingen,
Wendell, Goelet, Ehret. Gerry. Charles
F Hoffman, Martin, Eugene Hoffman,
Potter. and Rhinelander families.
TIE cost of living which in Septem-
ber. 1914. reached the highest point 1t
had touched for years, now shows an
appreciable decline according to statis-
tics. The heavy crop of fruits and GER
eals raised in the United States this
year have proved the chief factor in
bringing about a more reasonable scale
of prices. Flour and sugar have fallen
most in price, the former having de-
clined one ard a half cents and the lat
ter two cents a pound
More than $4,000 automobiles have
been registered in New York State al
ready and there are still fve months
of the registry year to 60 This num-
Der is $4,000 more than were on the list
at the same time last year Seventy
three thousand chauffeurs have been
commissioned. 10000 more than last
year.-Bongacre
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

"A. ]. D. Deveraux, Philadelphia
sportsman, was badly hurt by a fall
from his horse.
Maxwell Moorhead, the new coun-
sell at Swansea, is a Pittsburgher.
George Welsh, q Wilkes-Barre
architect. is preparing plans for a
model village to be built in the an
thracite region.
The Rev. w. T. Ware, of Wind
Der, is the new president of the West
ern Pennsylvania United Evangelical
ministers
Charles S. Wells. Jr.. is the head
of the Pittsburgh Oil, Paint and VAR
nish mems organization.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20

The nepotism practiced by the Fed
eral Administration seems to be con-
tagious so far as Democratic State ad-
ministrations are concerned. In Mis-
souri, careful census is being prepar-
ed of the number of relatives of State
officers that have been put on the pay
roll. The Governor has named his son.
his brother, his cousin and a niece of
his wife to public positions. The Sec
retary of State has taken care of two
daughters and sister-in-lew. The au-
ditor has decided that the public good
imperatively requires that his wife, his
son. his daughter-in-law and brother
in-law of his son be given official posi-
tions. The list is still in its infancy.
with other departments to be investi-
gated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20

torn down. The pieces of wood were
carefully smoothed and fitted and the
floors are especially pleasing from the
soft polish caused by centuries of use,
which could not be duplicated.
While the word, apartment" sug-
gests closely packed rooms, this con-
dition is not found in the garden
apartments which are being built
now in certain cities in California.
These apartments are simply a group
of connected cottages grouped around
a central pergola. Each has its one
little garden and every window looks
out upon an attractive view
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
EDITORIAL CO11ENT

The gist of Senator La Follette's de-
fense of the seamen's act is that ship
owners have engaged in a conspiracy
to ruin their own business in order to
injure him. This is as plausible as
the theory that the British blow up
their own ships in order to get the
United States into trouble with Ger
many.-Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20

With charming naivete the Treasury
Department confesses that the income
tax from individuals was but SAC,
900 below that estimated by the fram-
ers of the income tax law The franz
ers estimated ss3.O0O0OO for 1915, from
this source. and Sal, 100000 was collect
ed. A difference of only fifty per cent.
between estimate and return lis pretty
close figuring for financiers of the
Democratic brand. and of course the
loss is blamed upon the war in Europe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
THE FARMERS PENALTY

BECAUSE of decreased traffic, the
i railroads were compelled to cut
expenses to the amount of
7,921,0o0 during the last fiscal
year This reduction meant nearly
s13s, 100000 less paid out for labor
and material produced by labor Cen
eral business depression forced the re-
duced expenditure. Every farmer
who has butter, eggs, meat, vegeta-
bles and other food products to sell,
suffered his share of the loss because
workmen had S13s.000,O00 less money
with which to buy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
TELEORAPH'S PERIScOPE

If Secretary Daniels wants some
points on how to build a battleship in
few days he might visit Mayor" Ber-
rier's wharf in the "Hardscrabble" dis
trict.
If this thing only holds out we'll
take back everything we have recently
said about the weather man.
Once more the Russians are Just
about to be crushed by the German
forces. This is the eighth time within
the year
We suspect that what the newly
appointed experts will decide first of all
is that bigger navy is the greatest
need.
If 1t were not for the prospect of
pumpkin pie we'd feel worse about
passing of the watermelon.
American soldiers at Brownsville
demonstrated to the President that the
army is not too proud to fight.'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20

Secretary Redheld urged restraint
of speech and soberness of thought" at
the recent Governors conference In
Boston. The disciplining he received
for his outburst following the East
land disaster evidently had some ef-
feet.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20

There is no country on the globe
more able TO pay more taxes than the
United States" says Secretary McAdoo,
and by the time the Democrats are re-
tired from control perhaps no other
country in the world will pay as much.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
GAN ART PHILOSOPHERS cABJNET,

BY George Lansing Raymond. author
Of a Poets Cabinet" Essentials of
aesthetics, etc. Published by G. p
the works on comparative aesthetics Of
George Lansing Raymond, L. H D.. Sc
lected and arranged according to sub
book is not designed for those INTEREST
ed exclusively in any one phase of art
or it's influence. 1t is a general book
of great interest to the general reader.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
PRINCIPLE OF pRoTECrroN

lDY maintaining a blockade, Great
ID Britain has compelled Germany
to supply her own needs and has
prevented her from spending money
abroad. Now British statesmen are
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20

Mr.. Bryan may soon have to ponder
over the fact that nothing succeeds
like a uccessor.-Philadel North
A=@Azioaz
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
STORM CENTERs
BY Jane Mclean.

A wide sea waste, with lowering clouds
Sweeping. above the roll of foam
Pale rain clouds clad in misty shroulds;
And rain, wind maddened shiverinR by'
TIL westward CLEANS the first clear
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
Our Daily Laugh
JUST SO.

Mr.. B u g g: ]
Iope you never
Use powder or
iaint.
Miss Insect: ]
Inly use insect
lowder.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
Count Your Change

Well ordered people do not
rush into a store and rush out
again without stopping to count
their change.
Neither do frugal people buy
without a fair knowledge of their
needs and the prices they ought
to pay.
One is no more absurd or more
harmful to the pocketbook than
the other.
Knowledge of men, merchan-
disc and markets is open to every
reader of this newspaper.
The advertising is a buyers in
dex to be used to your profit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
THE sADDEsT BLOW

TIL, with the tears that quickly dry
Eyes misty still, the storm sweeps b.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20

Long lashes cast discreetly low:
The quiverins of a tender chin:
Rose-color in a wavering glow
GlfmpSing the tide that sWelIs with.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20
THE HARRISBURG SPIRIT

TN the course of an excellent sermon
Street United Evangelical church
last evening, the pastor. the Rev.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-20

Published every evening (except Sum
day. at the Telegraph Building, ais
| Federal Square. Both phones.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-12

(Conti.led On page sixteen-)
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-12

CONTINUED on Paea Two,
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[ EdOardO Giretti, Member OF the
Italian Chamber Of Deputies, IN the
New York Times
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-08-21
SELDOM LIKE THIS IN LIFE
To Most Married Men the story VIII
Seem to Have an Impossible
Ending.


House cleaning. like the measles, is
disagreeable, but 1t is necessary
evil which 1t seems every domestic
organization must go through. And
the Comely household was no excep-
tion. In the course of spring renova-
tion, Mrs. Comely's attention was
drawn to the proverbial old clothes
man.
Got any old suits of your husbands
to sell?" inquired the O. c. M.
oh, the voice OF the tempter!
Sure" replied Mrs. Comely, hes
got closet fuif"--
Whereupon the lady went upstairs
and dug up three suits of clothes, two
pair of shoes and two old hats. for
all of which o. c. M. segregated him
self from six bits.
That night, OF course, the housewife
told her husband what she had done,
for Mrs Comely kept no secrets from
her husband-that is, no secrets that
she thought he ought to know-and
she took him up to the clothes closet
to show him what she had disposed
Of
Sure" remarked Mr.. Comely. 'I'm
mighty glad you got rid Of 'em. You
didn't sell a thing that I could use
again. Exchange.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-08-21
BIpllcs, rrumperu.

First spoken of in the Bible the
bugle is beaten instrument of silver
for sounding trumpet calls. The Is
raelites used the primitive rams horn
(shofar) from choice, 1t having a GER
tain significance in the ritual. At the
siege of Jericho the military calls were
sounded by the Hebrews on a cows
horn. The Egyptians used the trum
pet OF silver. But the bugle was va
riously built of gold. silver, brass and
bronze. and one Of terra cotta--Roman
OF the fourth century-and recently
added to the collection of the British
museum.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-08-21
Mo Fear Of Error.

Rev. Alfred Noon. patriarch of the
Sons of Temperance, said in Lunen-
burg:
I'm glad to see that England. as re-
CARDS her beer, has followed the ex-
ample OF Russia with her vodka and
France with her absinthe.
English beer--over here we call it
porter. stout or ale-is very strong
ahd insidious. Il makes men slaves.
There's story on this head story
about young man who used to take
his beer out Of his own pewter mug
He said to the barmaid one day:
Always give me my beer in my
own mug. Never any other. Make no
mistake
"Oh, no fear Of making any mis-
take about your mug. sir said the
barmaid.
No? said the young man.
NO said she. The handles al
ways warm"