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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
ALWAYS A HARRIsBURGER
an EdiLor "a the Telegrafh:

To the Editor of the Telegraph
Germantown. Phila., Sept. %, 1913.
You will pardon this intrusion. 1t Is
a word from one who knows that once
Harrisburger always Harrlsburger.
1t is almost twelve years since iett
the good old town. My love for the
Canifal CITY is the same as during the
days that my name was upon its regis
ters That means a lot of love.
The entire city was beautifui TO me;
Its location is one of the most beautltul
know. It's main streets were beautl,, !,
full so were its avenues. Its splendlo
people frightened everything. Harrls-
burg was always very kind to me!
With many others who are away
wish it could be my privilege to be with
Won all in the midst of your rejoicing
this week. You have my most sincere
CONGRATULATE upon the improvements
you have accomplished. Generations
and generations will rejoice because OF
that which you have so well done. YOU
have made the great River Front gem.
There is nothing of the kind to equal 1t
in this country. 1t is fine to think that
the improvements belong to you all
alike, rich and poor, young and old.
When you made the River Front park
/ think of 1t all, / am happy as though
YOU had done it all just for me and my
folks. Harrisburg seems like my
folks. You must pardon this note, but
when / saw that you were about to
celebrate because of the good work 1
wanted to speak and say that here in
Philadelphia l am glad with you.
Very, Very Sincerely
LUTHER DEYOE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24

and has prosecuted the work of public
improvements so vigorously and with
so much success that we are to-day
celebrating the completion of the great
improvement schemes he took over
when he was elected commissioner.
Mr.. Taylor, in charge of the Park
Department. has done much better
than his friends could have hoped. He,
too. has carried along the work of
won him the commentator of those
closest attention and all over the park
system there are marks of his improv-
ing hand. Mr.. Taylor has been too
modest to call the attention of the
public to the fact that what he has
done along this line has been at a
cost much lower than heretofore.
Surely these things commend them
selves to the man who places his city
above any thought of party or per-
sonality in politics. The two commits
sioners named have served we'll and
honestly. They have mastered the de-
tails of these departments. To re-elect
them would be to continue their ad-
ministration. To defeat them would
be to place in charge of their depart
ments men who are utter strangers to
city affairs as operated under the new
Clark act and inexperienced as to
details.
There remains Mayor Royal. Prob
ably the least said about him the bet
ter. AS Mayor he has had small oppor-
tunity to display any great constructive
abilities and he has neglected the
small chance presented. He has
blocked improvements wherever pos
sible. He has stood between the city
end progress. He has been a bad in
fuence in Council. He is the one men,
Der of the old commission who should
not be reelected. He has made office
holding yield him a livelihood for
years. He has grown fat at the public
crib. His interest, is purely personal
and not patriotic and he has no par
ticular qualifications to recommend
him as head of any of the city depart
ments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
nNnTHTNG IMPORTANT

"Paris-The inventory of the pockets
of German soldiers taken, prisoners is
as thorough as at the beginning OF the
thing important Tobacco in some form
is always to be found mixed with
broken pieces of chocolate, and the last
thing that is generally produced, hesi-
tatingly, from some inside pocket, Is a
New York World"
Kaiser are human. it seems. From the
terrible effectiveness of the German
campaign, from the methods adopted.
soldier as a ferocious fellow. You re-
call that their enemies have called
them Huns
thing like the paragraph about what
they find in German soldiers pockets
and the humanity of 1t gives you a lit
tie thrill Tobacco, broken chocolate
last of all, '"hesitatingly, from some IN
side pocket photograph OF woman
or child" These men, the rank an.t anq
worry about women and children-not
such of the home letters of soldiers
as have appeared in American news.
papers have shown the humanity of
these men. You hear of their lighting
little Christmas trees in the trenches
and somehow 1t brings a catch to your
throat. 1t isn't the. proper way for
Huns to act-it really isn't. or sud
den you find yourself feeling. immense
sympathy for these simple minded SOL
dier folk who go through hardship un-
in NJ a serene belief that they are per-
ishing for the worlds good.
tidy fields, working in their excellent
factories which turn out honest goods
they ought to be taking care of the
they keep to the last and give up re-
luctantly.-Kansas City Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
EDUCATING THE GIFTED CHILD
By Frederick ]. Haskin.

A ST. LOUIS boy of ten was rest
~ less and troublesome in school
4 n He scraped his feet over the
floor, scratched his desk, scribbled IN
his books and annoyed his classmates.
He seemed to spend little time In
study, yet he never failed to answer
a question in class and his written
exercises were the best in the room.
Week after week he was sent to the
principals room for correction. one
day she took time to talk to the boy
at length. She found that for two
years he had had practically no work
to do in the school room for tully
half the time because of super
normal brightness which enabled him
to absorb knowledge in a fraction OIL
the time spent by the other children
This boy mastered many lessons by
hearing the class above him recite.
He could easily have kept pace with
that class or outstripped it, but he
was permitted to advance but one
grade a year, his surplus time was
spent in annoying his teacher and de-
veloping a mischievous spirit which
threatened to cut short his school
term. 80
The principal was a versatile
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Judge Bushong, of Berks, who
was renominated Tuesday, used to be
in the legislature.
i. Carpenter city engineer of Lam
caster, is an enthusiastic golfer.
John A. Brashear, of Pittsburgh,
designated as the most eminent Penn
sylvanian, is visiting San Francisco.
Henry c. Frick has been making
a tour of inspection of his properties
in Pittsburgh and visiting Western
Pennsylvania towns.
S. l.. Tone, former public service
commissioner, is working out some
improvements for the Pittsburgh Rail-
ways service.
Edward B. Smith, the Philadel-
phia banker is being congratulated on
his birthday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24

woman. "Will you behave better if
put you into the higher class next
WeekF she asked. The boy prom
ised in some surprise. He was accus-
toned to being held back by the other
chlldren. He was promoted the next
week. The next year by special ar
rangement he was permitted to make
TWO grades The next year he en-
tered high school three years in ad-
vance of the class he had started with.
He was large and strong and easily
passed for boy of fourteen, and the
age question was not pressed
In Philadelphia, an ambitious girl,
aided by a similarly progressive prin-
cipal, was ready for high school at
the age of twelve. but was refused ad-
mission because fourteen was the re-
quired high school age. She entered
private school and at seventeen. in
addition to some acad emic work, had
completed course of library train
ing which for most people required
SIX full years. Her application did
not affect her physical health She
was sufficiently athletic to win a ten
mis- championship cup and was fond
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
PANORAMIC PERISCOPE MADE
FOR FRENCH SUBMARINES

France has at last developed pano-
ramic periscope which is capable of
providing a commander of a sub
marine a constant and clear view of
the horizon in all directions. The in
strument, which is the subject of the
cover design for the October Popular
Mechanics Magazine, represents one
of the most important inventions re-
Gently made for facilitating the op-
Grafton of submersible vessels. OF late
wears much effort has been expended
in perfecting a periscope of this char
acter, but until now the results have
been unsatisfactory. Describing the
device, Popular Mechanics Magazine
says:
"At the top of the new instrument is
an annular lens. the exterior of which
has q spherical curvature. while the
interior is ellipsoidal. Images of
everything discernible about the whole
horizon are first refracted and then
reflected down the tube. They are
collected in horizontal plane by 9
condenser set midway in the tube and
thrown upon five-sided prism at the
bottom, which reflects the rays twice
and projects them through binoculars
The view given the observer Is circu.
lar much the same in appearance as
/. he were looking at one side of 8
globe.
This describes one-half of the in.
strument, which in reality is a double
periscope. Immediately below the len.
at the top of the tube is a second eye
and this may be turned in any direc
tion and focused on specific object
Just as an ordinary periscope may
The rays entering it pass down the
tube in the same manner as the others
but without interfering with them
The image appears in the center o
! the panoramic picture and is great.
| magnified in comparison with indi
vidu.ll objects shown in the latter"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
RURAL DELIVERY

TOHN A. MeSPARRAN, Master of
the State Grange of Pennsylvania.
does not approve of the attempts
of Postmaster General Burleson to
economze at the expense of efficiency
in the rural delivery service.
McSparran has personal knowledge
of the needs of farmers in the way of
mail service and also knows a few
things about the distance a horse can
travel. In both respects he has the
advantage OF the Postmaster General,
whose experience for fourteen years
was in Congress, where he never
served on the postofice committee,
and for eleven years prior thereto, in
legal offices in Texas.
In signed article discussing recent
orders for the extension of rural
routes, McSparran points out that
longer routes will mean that carriers
will reach town late in the evening, toe
late for outgoing trains. and as a re.
suit the letter written by the farmer
the night before must lie over unit
the following day before it is put or
the train.
The Pennsylvania Grange also as
serts that, judging by experience, &
horse cannot stand a thirty-mile triI
every other day unless he makes tn,
trip at too slow pace to suit tn,
| farmer who wants and is entitled t.
reasonable good mail service.
Mr.. McSparran does not alway
speak as one with authority, but farm
ers in general will agree in this in
stance, at least, he has fairly well rep
resented their case.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
THE CITY COMMISSIONERS

TIME careful voter will study we'll
the local municipal situation be-
fore casting his ballot for City
Council in November. He will not be
led away by the INSCRIPTIONS attacks
of personal or selfishly ambitious ene-
mics of any of the candidates in the
field. He will be governed by reason
and his belief in what is best for his
city.
In this respect the Telegraph calls
the attention of the public to the rec
ords in office OF Commissioners Will
liam H. Lynch and NJ. Harvey Taylor.
Commissioners Gorgas and Bowman
are safely elected by the fact that they
received more than the 81 per cent.
required by law at the primaries to
place them on the ticket as unopposed
candidates at the November elections.
II is not necessary, therefore, to go
into the merits or demerits of their
candidates.. but 1t is extremely impor-
tant that the voter should inspect
carefully the records in Office of Messrs
Lynch and Taylor, not to mention
Mayor Royal. who is a candidate for
commissioner
Mr.. Lynch has been entrusted with
the affairs of the Highway Department
and those duties formerly in charge OF
the Board of Public Works. Under
his direction the formerly dirty streets
have been made clean and the awful
patchwork of holes and depressions
left in the asphalt by the carelessnes:
of a former repair contractor and the
mismanagement of Mayor Royal!
Highway Commissioner are being
smoothed out and the paving put intc
frst-class condition. He has procured
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
TELEORAPH'S PERIScOPE

Popular song of the visiting nm
anciers-"A Loan, All A-Loan."
Before deciding that It's time to
change underwear we await the ARRIVAL
of the roast chestnut man.
First thing you know those Eng
llsh bankers will be calling America
the Shylock of the world.
The man who invented the uniform
primary ought to be sentenced to tab
ulate the returns the day after
Emperor William is said to have
been determined to go down in history
as William the Great. If he isn't care
full some compositor is going to set 1t up
Goat.
-"There'll be Hot Time in the Old
Town Tonight"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24

TINE interest formerly taken in
hell-racing in this city was so
u keen that 1t is a reasonable con-
clusion, with the increased facilities
which the river basin now has TO offer,
that this popular and beneficial sport
will be taken up again in the near
future and that the river events to-
day will eliminate eventually in the
organization of q Harrisburg rowing
association.
Scarcely ha;f the people witnessing
the races on the river to-day realize
that thirty years ago Harrisburg had
boat club ranking among the best
in the country club that sent its
representatives to row in the largest
regattas. at Philadelphia, Newark,
Seneca Lake, Columbia, Sunbury, and
other places, where races for the Ma
tional Championship were staged.
The Harrisburg Boat Club in 1883
had in course of construction on the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
Calling Cigars by
Name

"When I ask for cigar I
like to call for one by name,
said a businessman
1T may be vanity - but like
to choose that way.
"And strangely enough the
names that come to my lips are
the advertised brands.
Maybe there are better cigars,
but l don't know them. VIII
stick to the names | know.
Men are newspaper readers
and the place for cigar makers
to educate them is in the adver-
tising columns.
Any cigar manufacturer inter-
ested in this subject can obtain
information from the Bureau Of
Advertising, American Newspa-
per Publishers Association,
World Building. New York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24

very matter We use his words: "T
have been consulted by several young
men of athletic tastes as to the prob
able course to take in organizing a
new boat club. We would suggest that
club be formed and the first at
tempt at crew rowing be in a gig or
a four-oared barge, until the men ac-
quire proficiency enough to sit in a
shell. The construction of the dam
has made the river fifty per cent. bet
ter for shell rowing than it was dur
ing the existence of the Harrisburg
Boat Club"
Among the members of the old club
were such as Thomas #. Weirman,
Luther Gorgas, L. c. Kepple, Theodore
G. Calder, DIR. E. Westbrook, c. L.
Etter, E. c. Rauch, O. M. Copelin,
Chas Covert, w. r. Denehey, f. r.
Sites, Herman Knisely, Domer Harris,
VIM. Myers, Chas. Schriver, John d.
Lemer and E. Bergstresser.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24

, island, Immediately above the Market
street bridge, new and elaborate
boathouse of tastefully designed brown
stone. Smith and Warner, who were
than the leading architects of the city,
were the designers of the beautiful
structure, cut of which is herewith
given.
Charles F. Etter and Ed. c.. Rauch
were the racing members of the old
association, which disappeared with
the flood of 1882 The boathouse, not
quite completed, was swept away and
the entire equipment, consisting of
two four-oared shells, three double
SOULS, and four singles, worth $4,000
was carried with it. Since then the
association has been allowed to die Il
natural death, but there are some who
are reviving the old taste for the
water and a new club will be the in
evitable result. Mr.. Rauch said to-
day that he had been consulted on this
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24

Arthur D. Shelley. member of a
prominent family of Vineland, n. j.,
as rumor hath 1t, has been arrested
in Reading for burglary. This Raffies
is specialist and is called the liter
ary burglar" His most recent ven-
ture was to leave a note in the apart
ment of Reading society woman
criticising some of the literary works
in her library and complaining be-
bons to eat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
HOW WELL DO WE REMEMBER

1.-The wooden shingle is crime"
say the fire preventioners. And many
a small boy agrees with them.-Allen-
town Chronicle and News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. "a

Something each dGy,-d deed
OF kindness and of good,
To link in closer bonds
An human brotherhood,
oh, thus the hea0enly 1oill'
We all may do 7ohilc here;
For good decd cvery day
Makes blessed all the year.
George Cooper.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24

The Great Unwashed, Mr.. Owen
Tracy, who hasn't taken a bath in 26
years and prefers to spend his time,
waking and sleeping. in the cellar next
to the coal bin, rather than in the
company of his wife. is causing great
comment in the newspapers of the
State. He is from Baltimore. but that
is not the fault of Baltimore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
SOME HOPE

France is calling her boys of is to
the colors. Well. boys of about that
average age won the war for the
| lUnion.-Erie Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Having appointed plenty of talent
to show him how all that Secretary
Daniels now needs is a navy.-Phila-
delphia Press.
All the States were slated at the pri-
maries. The voters now have 40 days
in which to make up their November
minds as to what states they will
smash.-Philadelphi Record.
With the primaries over 1t is pretty
that it will not be long until you will
be advised to do your Christmas shop
ping early. - Pottsville Republican.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
DO YOU KNOW

That HaIrisburg's treatment OF
Paxton creek attracted State at
tention?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
John Harris, Jr., founder OF
Harrisburg, is supposed to have
been the first white child born on
the banks of the Susquchanna.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24

The popular belief of cheap actors
that constant repetition of the words
damn" and he'll" is the safest way
to get laugh is paralleled by the
use to which Conrad He'll, of Farrell;
Pa, puts his name In advertising his
product. He'll is in the ice-cream bust
ness and his sign reads GO to He'll for
ice-cream." Not only is Mr.. He'll TAX
ing an unfair advantage of the lower
regions but he is, moreover, entirely
inconsistent in thinking that the
maxim about opposites being true can
apply to hell and ice-cream.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24

THE TOWNS BIGGEST EVENT
T>HE Telegraph is in receipt of an
unsigned letter. part of which
is as follows:
l note with interest that your
town starts almost every one of its
celebrations and its improvement
campaigns with services in the
churches. Does it not seem odd to
you the to ask K0%f and tGe seGar
and are there not things in your
public celebrations and your loan
schemes that the church should not
be asked to countenance? Person,
ally l believe the church should
confine itself to things purely re-
ligious.
TO begin with, it may be said that
the biggest event of each week, judged
from the standpoint of attendance, is
the Sunday church service. More
people attend church in Harrisburg
than gather together, week in and
week out for any other purpose. The
church, therefore, must be regarded
as the one great institution in which
& large majority of our people are in
terested. 1t would seem only proper,
therefore, that the church should par
llClpdIe III our CeleDTdIlOIS anu sup
port our public improvement enter
rrises. Harrisburg has never encour-
aged an improvement or planned a
public jubilee with which any church
could take exception.
The Telegraph is quite aware that
there are those who criticise the
church for entering into the life of
the community, going into the byways
to do social welfare work, giving at
tention to public phianthropies and
striving for better living conditions.
To these the church should be thing
apart, a precinct sacred to worship,
and separated entirely from all forms
of earthly activities. But on the other
hand there are critics who take a view
diametrically opposed to this and who
are sure that the church would be the
stronger to-day had it's membership
begun earlier to participate in the
affairs of the community along the
lines indicated.
Surely there can be no harm in the
church giving of it's dignity and char
acter to anything that its members
may undertake for the betterment of
their town-which, after all, means
also their fellow-residents.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
Our Daily Laugh
EASY.

I hear WHtt
married we'll.
I should say so.
His bride lived in
a cheese factory.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
A FAILURE.

Ma, is marriage
q failure?
I guess so my
dear. 1 married
your father to re-
form him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24

UP around Wilkes-Ba they seem
to have had considerable trouble dur
ing the primaries. The papers saw
there was great deal of personal
animosity shown in that section of
the State and that physical encount-
ers were frequent. The enthusiasts
there must have believed in having "a
hot time in the old town while there
was some excuse for 1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
The State From Day to Day

The novel story of criminal who
sawed the bars of his cell and made
getaway is not always confined to
books, for that very event happened
in the Lehigh county Jail just a few
days ago and is graphically told in the
Allentown Chronicle and News. The
prisoner, Richard Kruger was be-
lieVed to have been secret agent of
the German government. but was ar
rested for highway robbery. He is
still at large.
Residents of the Swedenborgian
settlement of Bryn Athyn, Montgomery
county, have applied for a charter to
have the section in which they live
created into borough" Those who
oppose the granting of the charter do
SO on the ground that the attempt on
the part of the followers of Sweden
borg, who was a Swedish scientific and
religious author living in the early
part of the eighteenth century, is an
effort to form Il close religious cor
poration to the exclusion of every one
else.
Up around Wilkes Barre they seem
/ 20 haNH l. ~
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Sworn daily average circulation for tn Q
three months ending Aug. 81, 1918