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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29
TIME TO SAVE

IF our people all work harder and
save more money the United States
could soon become the worlds
banker. That is the opinion of the
Bankers Magazine and other authori-
ties on finance.
Even if the European war speedily
closes it will leave in it's train vast
burden of debt to be provided for, so
that London, Paris and Berlin will
have on their hands all they can han
die for a good while to come. The
United States should be in a position
to take its place as international pur-
veyor of capital.
1t must not be forgotten that We
shall require a large amount of money
to finance our own enterprises which
hitherto have been accustomed to go
abroad for loans. To meet this de-
mand, to take back our securities from
Europe and to provide for the inter-
national financing already coming to
us as a result of the war, and which
is bound to come in an ever-increasing
volume, we must bring about a
prompt and material addition to the
saving capacity of our population.
The idea that prevailed in Europe
previous to this disastrous war was to
use everything that was available and
to throw away nothing that could be
used to great or small advantage. On
account of the scarcity of land in the
producing sections, intensive farming
had been brought down to an exact
science, with the result that in these
times of stress there can be enough,
produced upon limited acreage to
keep the people from starvation. If
this habit of saving were practiced
more in this country our people would
be in a far better condition to take
care of themselves should some dan
gerous emergency arise in the future.
We repeat, there never was time
when so much of individual benefit
of national welfare, and of public pro-
fit, could be derived from the general
adoption of the saving habit by the
people of the United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29
CAMPING INFORMATION

( a WESTERN exchange calls the
IA attention of prospective excur-
sionists to the fact that the
United States government maintains a
bureau to give information to tourists
about the attractions of our national
parks and forest reserves. Our gov
ernment owns 200, 900 acres of
those national Fairgrounds, and the
most wonderful scenic attractions of
this country are included in them.
The man who lives in the East has
only short distance to travel to reach
the quarter of a million acres in the
national forest reserve recently set apart
in the White Mountains. For those of
the Middle West the Hot Springs
Reservation in Arkansas, the forest
reserves of Colorado and the charms
of Yellowstone Park may be quickly
reached; while for those of the Far
West who do not wish to travel far
there are the Yosemite, Mount Ra-
nier. Crater Lake, Mesa Verde, Sequoia
and Glacier Parks.
A letter addressed to the Chief For
ester. Forest Service, Washington,
D. c.. will bring free information about
any of the national forest reserves and
anyone wishing to learn of any of the
foregoing national parks may get a
bulletin about it simply by writing and
asking for the particular one wanted.
Those bulletins give information about
how to get to the parks by rail from
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29
PROFITS IN LIQUOR SALES

TINE KANSAS CITY STAR draws
attention to the enormous profits
in the whisky business as indi-
Gated by the proposition made to the
State of West Virginia by Samuel C.
Walker, a wealthy liquor dealer of
that State. He offered, If he is given
the sole right for ten years to sell
liquors within the State. to pay the
State debt of s12,3s3. $3.50. with in
terest, and at the same time set aside
a half million dollars each year to be
used by the State in permanent i'm
provements. He agreed to file a bond
of two million dollars as a guarantee
that he will carry out his part of the
contract.
In these figures, one may find the
sole reason for organized opposition to
the prohibition movement. Liquor
men collect profits that would bring
down the wrath of the government
on the Standard Oil Company or any
other form of big business" Take
away these gigantic profits and the
liquor question would cease to be a
question. Personal liberty is merely
another definition of personal profits" Z"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29
BOYS AT PLAY
IOhio State Journal. ]

IOhio state Journal
The training of the youth these
days seems to be carried on upon the
idea that the boy and girl have no
inventive genius of their own, and
even the opportunity to play must
be provided or there won't be any
PLAYING. Thus self-reliance is being
discouraged and dependence upon
others is made a part of the outfit In
life. The right training of youth
must put self-reliance as the very
first consideration. Those boys of a
former generation, who used to con-
trive all their playthings and orlgi-
mated their own devices for having
exercise and fun, are to-day the cap
tains of industry and the great lead
ers in the worlds trade. VIII the
bows of to-day be the leaders OF en-
terprise in the next generation? There
are some reasons for doubling it.
A boys play is the best thing in
his life, and nothing should stand in
its way. but where older hands are
supervising 1t and telling him how 1t
is to be done and providing the ways
and means the very soul is taken out
of 1t. A few years ago the boys
used to do all the stunts that the coll
leges have appropriated and changed
to somber art or classic tricks In
those days the boys jumped bars,
skinned cats. threw big boulders, ran
races, turned handsprings, just for
the fun of 1t and never thought OF
getting their names in the papers or
displaying their athletic shins.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29
PEssINfIsM THAT HELPS

is a distinctly pessimistic
note in dispatches from Great
Britain relative to the great war.
Last winter English writers were talk
Ing glibly about the Spring movement
forward" and the "early end of the
war" But the Spring movement" has
failed to materialize and midsummer
is approaching. British journalists are
now talking of the failure of the cam
paign'' and have been blaming con-
ditions on everybody from Lord
Kitchener down. But the war lord
foresaw this state of affairs at the
very outstart. His viewpoint was re-
sarded as ''pessimistic to a degree by
one London writer of note last sum-
mer, but it has proved to be the kind
of pessimism that the empire has
needed.
So long as England felt sure of VIC
tory at comparatively early date, so
long were the people complacent. This
new note of pessimism, which is merely
a late realization Of the truth as
Kitchener saw it at the beginning, is
apt to prove a blessing in disguise.
The Englishman aroused is a different
person by far from the Englishman
sluggishly pursuing his home life calm
in his faith on the thin red line OF
heroes" battling for him on a foreign
shore. There are signs that England
has at last come to her senses. which
is the most significant development of
recent months in the European sit
uation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29
MISS GERTRUDE BARNUM

New York, June 29.--Miss Gertrude
Barnum, after a years work with the
Federal Commission on Industrial Re-
lations, is back in this city ready to
organize the huge strike of $4,000
garment workers, which now seems
imminent. Miss Barnum is one of the
chief organizers in the various gar
ment workers unions, and in the past
several years has engineered some SER
ious strikes. in every case the unions
being successful. Interviewed re-
garding the threatened strike she said
that the manufacturers themselves
were to blame for the conditions which
brought about a desire for the strike
on the part of the workers. She
charges that the manufacturers are
not living up to a protocol signed
some five years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29
IN THE WARS VAST ARENA
Dixnude, Medieval City, Now Wreck, Was Noted
For It's Blind Finches

guild and corporation halls and the
chateau at DiXmude. Its walls and
the palaces of its merchant princes
were destroyed long before the pres
ent war.
When Dixmude became one of the
key positions in the Flanders cam
paign 1t was a substantial, quiet viii
lage. The martial and mercantile
fame of the town had sped. Its chief
ter and eggs, and that of the sing
ing-or. better, trilling-competitio
of it's blind finches. The natives
shared these shy birds, and, that they
might sing undisturbed by the pres
erce of onlookers, they were blinded
by the soaring of their eyes with hot
irons. These singing competitions be-
days, and money prizes were distrib-
uted for the sweetest trilling. Ac-
complished birds often brought their
owners large sums. More than l 900
trills in one hour by one of these
sightless little finches was g Dix
nude record, and as proud a one to
the burghers there as is a baseball
pennant in an American city.
The town was medieval in appear
ance. Many of the houses had win
dows screened by heavy, rust-eaten
iron bars, and heavy, one-piece wood
en- shutters. Some of them were very
ancient, and thus valuable memories
of Europe's struggles. st. Nicholas
Church, an imposing structure with a
Gothic tower, was the towns princi-
pal boast, and its interior contained
some exquisite ornamentation work
patterns carved in stone as delicate
as rare handmade lace. The altar
screen was priced as one of Europe's
marvels.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29
VXTAsHINGToN, June 2s.-Among

TXTAsHINGToN, June 2s.-Among
wv the European towns that were
before the war, but when
ong-continued hail of shells ana eX-
plosives have swept away, is Dixmuoe,
a months long center of the FLANDERS
battle theater. This city, as 1t was
in 1914, is described in National GEO.
graphic Society statement:
DiXmude, the melancholy little vii
lage of yesterday and the ruins OF
to-day, was once a brave, wealthy
merchant city. with more than 10000
inha bitants. In the days of its pros
perity it was a port for large SHIPS,
and the products of many countries
filled it's warehouses. In those days
it was a strongly walled and bas-
toned city, and its well-trained citi-
zen soldiery knew how to uphold the
honor of their thriving port upon the
sluggish User. The German invaders,
however, found no evidences of the
old time walls and fortifications, nor
of any User quays.
Dixmude. just before the war has
tened the final process of its oblitera-
ton, was a decaying village of 1,100
people, with grass and weeds growing
in it's sleepy streets and in its large
Grand Square-that square roomy
enough to hold in comfort a mass
meeting of twice the towns popula-
ton. This large square, the splendid
Church of st. Nicholas that stood
upon it, and some solid old stone
houses lining the crooked streets, re-
manned to bear testimony to DIX
nudes earlier importance.
Much of the city's splendor was
wiped out by the soldiers of Client
and Bruges in the middle of the six
teenth century. During 1858 enemy
troops burned 800 homes, the palatial
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29
Letter List

LIST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN
the Post ofhee, at Harggiisb,unrg, Pa, for
the week ending June 2S, 1915: po,,.,
Sarah Barefoot, Miss Dora Base, Mrs.
Ed Bowman, Miss Lydia Brightbill,
Miss Garry Cosnlan. Mrs. Z. c; Dprbei.
Mrs. Alfred Ferrandon. Mrs: D. ]. Fer
rec, Mrs. Frudy, Miss c; GRACE, Mrs.
Henry. Miss Helen B. Humells. Miss
Charles King, Mrs. Knouse. Mrs. Rush
Little. Miss Elizabeth McKibbin, Mrs.
], L. Meloy, Miss Anna Miller. Mrs. Er-
Margaret Myers, Mrs. NJ: A. Peterson,
Rieger. Mrs Lillian Eobinson, Mrs.
Mrs. Jacob Slack, Elma e.; Smith. Ka-
darina Sneider, Miss Marie Stanley, Miss
Laura Stephens. Miss Ellen e. STROBE,
nitss mer' Miss Florence Wiier. Mrs. Jack
Gentlemen's List - NJ. D. Allen. G. P.
oaeph RassGh ssePss sreasS Erago GoSn
Cosby. Mr.. Cott. Alfred Cramer. F. A,
Crosby, George W. Dietrich. J. w. Dole,
es9rss edTra e pqSshsptSd % psdard G2 + j. NJ Goo Ga
lin, George Graham, Herman Greason
(2J, DR.. James. E, Harold, Frank Bar
rett SAMUEL f. Ha5yeY pT Yosan Mr dsi1ss
Johnson. John Jimmy Jones %. L.. Willie
Eddie Jones. samuel F. IKellr' IKeller' Or.
Rayks, Rayld n Williams hee Mstchett sf e MaugaS
r. w. Mcconnell, l. T. Mckay. William
McKeehan, F. Morkowski,. George w.
Morris, F. r. Meyer. Charles F. North,
Fedelo Pelle, Jacob Reinhart, E. w.
Roberts. Mr. and Mrs. Charles e. Rob
son, George S. Rosenberger. G.. H.
Schwartz. A. Sharpe. Cyrus Shenk, War
Venyke, Arnold vittoria,. c. N. .Walborn
John West. Edward WILLIAMS. ]. +. VIII
liams, Lester F. Williams. w. c. Will
Firms-Casino Theater. w. G. Haehn-
len & Co.
Foreign M Penenruky. Mrs. j.
Smith, Antonio Magmone, Zeno Lanese
Persons should invariably have their
mail matter addressed to their street
and number, thereby insuring prompt
FRANK C. SITES,
Postmaster.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Stewart c. Mcfarland has been
elected president of the Pittsburgh
Rotary Club.
Charles H. Wolford, we'll known
to many here, has been elected head
of the Braddock schools.
Leroy S. Wolfe, of Greensburg, is
on a western trip.
Bishop McCort, of Philadelphia.
laid the cornerstone of the new Cath
olic church at Easton.
Frank Samuel. of Philadelphia,
will spend the summer in Rhode
Island.
The Rev. w. NJ. Woodfin, of
Swarthmore, has resigned to tour the
western states.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29
REGULATE THEM

TINE inevitable has happened in
Il this city; jitney has run down
and killed a woman.
Setting aside all question of the
drivers guilt or innocence in this par
ticular case, there can be but one les
son in this tragedy and. that is regu-
lation Of the jitney business in this
city.
Far be it from the Telegraph to sug-
gest regulations so stringent that it
would mean the driving out of busi-
ness of the nearly 800 jitneys now
operating in the city's streets. But
one thing is certain. Such regulation
should be adopted. and that imme-
diately, as will give the public assur-
ance of safety and of the possibility
of collecting damages when it is
shown that the jitney driver is at
fault.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29
DO YOU KNOW
That the recent conference of the
Brethren brought men and womea
here from forty-seven states?
DECENTRALIzING TRADE
go Journal.l

tChicago Journal
One of the many good results likely
to flow from the Panama canal and
the common-sense waterway through
Illinois Is the decentralization of thi6
country's foreign trade.
Last year, New York handled 46 peNy
cent. of the exports of the entire ns.-
ton. and a still larger proportion OF
imports. In spite OF the natural ana
artificial advantages centering at Man
haitian, this is an unwholesone con-
gestion. The isthmian canal should
help considerably in redistributing this
commerce. since 1t enables Pacific
ports to ship direct to Europe. The
opening of the common-sense water
way and the development of our gulf
ports-particularly that of New Or
leans-should do even more.
With the lakes and the gulf united
by a practicable channel, a 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.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
REPLY TO PRo-GERMAN LETTER
the Editor of the Telegraph:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Yesterdays Telegraph contains
communication signed by Steelton
minister of the gospel of so remark
able a character and so scurrilous in
the epithets it applies to the Italian
people that it certainly deserves a
reply from the people he has maligned.
After disposing, to his own satisfac-
ticn, of Russia, France and England,
with a few contemptuous words, this
man who claims to be herald of the
Prince of Peace pours out the Vtals or
his wrath upon the Italians in the fol-
lowing vituperation: ITALY is no good.
1t always played the black handed
game. Beggars thieves, organ-grlnd-
ers and blackhanders."
When a man thus denounces the
land from which came millions or
honest, honorable, industrious citizens
gentleman would use, much less one
who occupies the sacred desk, and rea-
sen, perhaps, is lost on him.
Is the reverend gentleman so igno-
rant of history or so blinded by his
partisanship that he does not know
that the armies of Rome had borne
the golden eagles over the known
forest inhabited only by savage tribes?
And the bravery and triumphs in army
OF the land of Garibaldi have cared for
Italy of to-day a fame as great as was
that of ancient Rome.
Time would fail to tell of the poets,
the painters, the sculptors, the mu-
sicians who have given to literature
and art unnumbered gems that have
placed on Italy a wreath of glory that
can never wither whilst civilization en-
dures. The land which has produced
Dante, a Petrarch, a Michael Angelo,
a Raphael and thousands of others of
almost equal celebrity in every depart
ment of the liberal arts deserves better
treatment than the unqualified con-
domination of this reverend gentleman
who has doffed the mantle of his holy
calling to engage in a mud-slinging
tournament that would be disgraceful
to the most ignorant inhabitant of the
slUms.
His sneer because some Italians have
made an honest living as organ grind
ers is the World-old sneer of would be
arlstocrats against poverty. 1t is so
supremely silly and malicious that it
will simply excite scorn for the person
so blinded by his partisanship as to
use it. But. when he characterizes the
Italians as a nation of blackhanders,
he reaches a depth of scrutiny that
dlSgusts. Again ana again men VINO
have come to the United States from
Germany have gone to the gallows for
atrocious and brutal murders. Would
it be fair to brand the whole German
citizenship of America with the stigma
of their crimes?
The writer. IN common with all the
peaceful and laW-abiding citizens of
Harrisburg who claim Italy as the land
of their birth. fail to see what right
any man of any nationality, even if he
claims the designation reverend, has
to incite class hatred against his fell
low-citizens of America who are loyal
to the land of their adoption and to
the Stars and Stripes to which they
have pledged their allegiance.
JOSEPH ]. PARIALO,
Notary Public,
302 South Second street.
June 29, 1915.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29
TRUSTING OURSELVES

GAYS Lindley NJ. Garrison, secre-
- tary of War, in the North Amer
ican Review:
If we cannot trust our own
strength and our control Of our
strength, If we cannot trust our
selves not to misuse our strength,
how much reliance should we as
sensible men, place upon the con-
duct Of other nations which are
strong?
Here, in a single question the an
swer to which is apparent, is outlined
the principle objection that is heard
to the popular cry for national pre-
paredness." If we cannot trust our
selves with a gun, how can we trust
our liberties to our neighbors who
possess weapons and who have
shown an alarming disposition to raid
the adjoining habitations of those un-
able to resist? The burglar is in
clined to pass by the house where
the watch dog is big and pow
erful or where the head of the house
is known to possess an automatic and
to know how to use it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29

various points, stage routes. hotels and
boarding camps. with rates. and lot
of general information valuable to
tourists.
But even easier of access for the
Harrisburg man are the vast State
forestry reserves of Pennsylvania.
These great areas of virgin woods and
overgrown mountain land abound in
fishing and in everything that makes
camping the delight Of summer life
for thousands of people. A card to
the State Forestry Department will
bring the necessary details and in
formation
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

Perhaps the first book for boys in
spired by the European war has been
written by an already famous author,
and is announced by the Longmans for
Immediate publication. Sir Henry New
bolt, the author is well known in this
country for his "Admirals Al. I1lis and,
Sea-" and the present volume elabo,
rately illustrated with eight colored
plates and many other illustrations in
black and white. relates the adventures
of six boys in the American Civil war,
the Peninsular War, Waterloo, and in
North and South America.
Another book of present interest is, a
study of the race problem in the
United States from a South African
point of view, by Maurice $. Evans,
author OF BLACK and White in South
east Africa" Longmans. Green & CO.
will bring 1t out under the title BLACK
and White in the Southern states
THE Sources and Literature of Eng.
lish History" by DR.. Charles Gross. OF
Harvard, has been out of print for sew
eral years, but its publishers, Long
mans Green & Co., announce that the
continued demand for 1t has necessi-
tated revised and enlarged edition
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29

To the Editor of the telegraph:
Replying to the letter of c. F. Tie
man, of 206 South Third street, in last
evenings Issued of the Telegraph, in
which he claims that Germany will
win in the war now in progress in
Europe, we, the Italian residents of
Harrisburg, are not interested in Ger
many's campaigns in any way whatso-
ever, but we are interested in the well
fare of our country.
You say in your letter: ITALY is no
good, it always played the black
handed game. Beggars, thieves, or
gan grinders and blackIfanders'
We demand that you retract this
statement. We demand an apology of
you for these. unjustiiable charges
Italy is, we firmly believe, the most
highly civilized nation in Europe.
When Germany was a bowling wilder
ness, inhabited by uncouth savages,
Italy was enjoying all of the advan-
tages of a stable form of civilized gov
ernment and had a worldwide repu-
tation for skill in the arts and sciences.
Columbus, an Italian, was the discov-
er of America, and Italians have been
world leaders in discovery and diplo-
macy for generations uncounted.
We remember the days of 1912 and
1S4S and 1865 when Austria took un-
fair advantage of the weakness of
Italy, when the Italian government
was in no position to defend itself.
Now we are but paying back with in
terest the debt incurred then. We
are not taking anything that does not
belong to US. We are merely assert
ing our rights and demanding back
that which was taken away from us
when we could not help ourselves.
challenge you in open debate at
any time or place you suggest to dis
cuss these matters in a public way,
and will leave the decision with the
audience.
C. GAETA,
212 Locust street
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29

What dye mean, Dark ges?"-Bos-
ton Transcript.
1t isn't the initial cost of a war-it S
the upkeep.-New York Tribune.
Juice is neutrality-suspicious. City
Star.
Why worry? Tom Marshall has not
resigned the Vice Presidency. Chi
cago Daily News.
The well-known war-babies, 1t seems,
have no Pars-only Mars-New York
Evening Sun.
China is now in a position to appre-
ciate the high cost of living at any
price.-Boston Transcript.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29
CURIOUS INCIDENT ON TRAIN

A fretful baby on a train between
Spartanburg and Columbia the other
night so enlisted the sympathy of a
number of passengers that a lady sug-
gested that perhaps 'toddy" would
bring it relief. 1t developed that the
only man on the train who could fur
nish the principal ingredient was a
staunch prohibitionist. - Gaffney, N.
c., Ledger
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE

Complaint is made that the At
lantic City Boardwalk is too narrow.
We reserve judgment until ascertain
ing the habits of the complainant.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29

An argument is the result of two
trains of thought in head-on collision.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-29

"A college professor tells us that
man reaches the height of his men
tai powers at 21. Judging everybody
by himself, evidently.