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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 81.
Shall not the Judge of all the earth
do right3-GeneSiS 1925.
LITTLE HOPE OF RELIEF

TIME New Orleans Picayune writes
hopefully of the prospect of the
repeal of the free sugar clause in
tho Underwood tariff law before the
clause becomes effective. May /, 1916.
1t is possible that a canvass of the
vote of the next House of Representa-
tives would show a decided majority
in favor of repeating this clause, or
even in favor of restoring the Repub-
lican rates on sugar, but the question
is, will the next chairman of the ways
and means committee and the floor
leader, Mr.. Kitchin. dare to put it to
the test by opening up the whole tariff
law to amendment? With a majority
of but twenty-nine in the House, it
would be ticklish situation at best.
In an attempt to put a Republican
President in the hole, and in order to
play politics. the Democrats in the
sixty-second Congress brought in sew
eral tariff bills to amend certain sched-
ules of existing law-"popgun" bills,
as they were called. One of these
schedules passed the House with little
difficulty but when it got to the Senate
all amendment reducing duties on an
additional schedule of the law was tied
to the House bill and carried through.
Like the rest of the tariff tomfoolery
of that session, it received the presi-
Dental veto.
1t is hardly possible that with the
small Democratic majority in the
House an attempt would be made to
limit consideration to the sugar sched-
uie alone, and especially would this be
true should the request come from the
President. The Tammany contingent
will have the balance of power in the
sixty-fourth Congress and any bouquet
which they may present to the Presi-
dent within the next two years is more
than likely to secrete a poniard. The
Pleayune is rather too optimistic. The
Democrats will consider it easier to
issue bonds to meet public expendi-
lures than to repeal the free sugar
clause.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
OUR PROSPEROUS COUNTRY
Pittsburgh Dispatch ]

DlSpdlCU.J
The federal crop estimates for 1919
and ESQ bushels of corn for every
man, woman and child in the United
States. This, along with the barley,
rice, potatoes apples, peaches, plums,
cabbage, oranges, lemons, onions,
beets, turnips, peas, watermelons,
muskmellons, cherries, eggs, chickens,
steaks, chuck roasts, ham, bacon,
fitch, pigs feet, souse, butter, milk,
cream, fish, sardines, deer, squirrels,
pheasants, partridges, dew, buckle,
rasp, straw, alder, goose and other
berries. currants, cheese, nuts and a
vast lot more eatbles of various kinds,
all of which Mother Nature lavishly
provides for our national table-these
will enable Americans to worry
through the coming hard winter with
good deal of comfort and satisfac-
ton, and leave something besides for
the Belgians and other half-starved
and suffering peoples on the far side
of the Atlantic.
The people of the United States
should be very thankful for and happy
over the more than plenty which they
enjoy, and they ought to feel the
same way about their preservation
thus far from the awful war that is
rending the nations of Europe and
laying upon their shoulders burden
that will continue for generations.
When one thinks of the blessed con-
dition of Americans to-day under the
rule of peace, and how all this could
be transformed by war into terrible
misfortune, it should strengthen many
times. over their determination not ia
engage in a bloody conflict, If posi-
BILE to avoid it with honor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
AN AGON IDlNU
THOUGHT.
THE DUMP
BY Wing Dinser

on Third street, north of Seneca,
There is a great big dump
That rises bove the level of
The street like a big hump.
With pumpkin vines and other growths
It's dotted here and there
It has a scent that's all its own
A goats is not more fair
And many things of interest, friend,
Are found about the place,
Some bed springs, shoes, couch quite
old,
That's given up life's race.
And spread o'er all the ashes that
Last winter landed there
Are tin cans. bottles. paper, too,
And things beyond repair.
And here it is that little pest
We hate so much, the fly,
May raise big families undisturbed,
with none to question why.
In thousands they go forth each day.
And we may strike them dumb
BY swatter, but there'll always be
a million more to come.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
SOUVENIRS of AMERICA

[From the New York Sun.1
When Columbus returned triumph
antly from his initial voyage of dis
covery he. appeared before Ferdinand
and Isabella
what have you brought u.s." they
asked from this far country"
Whereupon Columbus opened his
suitcase and made them the following
presents:
A sweetgrass workbasket.
A sweetgrass handkerchief case
A sweetgrass scissors sheath.
A toy birch bark canoe.
A collapsible drinking cup and case.
polished wood paper cutter.
An Indian head pipe.
A birch bark photograph frame.
And a set of picture postcards.
Columbus placed the outfit at the
foot of the throne. and their Majesties
regarded him with much amazement
"What," finally spluttered King Fer
dinand, "is this bunch of junk?''
These are souvenirs of America,
your Majesties," explained Columbus
they are all could get"
Herein lies the true inward reason
why Christopher Columbus died in
chains.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
NEUTRAL RED CROSS ON SEA
TProvidence Journal. |


What has been remarked as the un-
common ugliness of the belligerents
toward one another in this war is illus
trated in the fate of benevolent pro-
ject initiated by the Dutch for saving
life in the sporadic naval actions in the
Many OF the 1900 men and officers
lost when the British cruisers Aboukir,
Hogue and Cressy were torpedoed by
the German submarine U-9 might have
been saved had a rescuing ship with
plenty of small boats been nearby.
Lieutenant Weddigen. who performed
that brilliant, but merciless, exploit
was said to have deplored the great
sacrifice of life. The incident prompted
philanthropic citizens of Holland to Of
fer an interned Austrian liner, fully
manned and equipped for saving life.
and hospital service. to patrol the war
zone, serving all the belligerents i'm
partially.
At the Hague Conference the prin-
succoring the wounded in land warfare
were adopted for the sea. But a pro-
vision is that hospital or Red Cross
ships must be under the direction of a
belligerent. Neutral services are ac-
ceptable, but not under a neutral flag
These Dutch citizens. having raised the
money for their project, urged that
the Allies and the Teutons arrange to
suspend this prohibition. But no agree
ment could be brought about, and the
offer has now been definitely rejected
the project reluctantly abandoned.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31

hill on which the second green lies up
to their approach shots. Then a mis-
understanding about the lies of the
different balls occurred and DR.. Moore
and Mr.. Lakenan played out ahead,
leaving Mr.. Atha to shoot his approach
as they walked down their balls.
Mr.. Atha's ball lay at the extreme
root of the hill, for mashie approach
OF from ninety to one hundred yards to
the green. He waited until his two
companions were we'll over the hill
and until DR.. Moores head could just
be seen from where he was standing.
Then he called Fore" and drove. The
ball rose with a whir. carried beauti-
fully over the hill and dropped out of
sight.
Into His Pocket
Starting to follow his shot down, as
he took his first few steps up the hill
Mr.. Atha was surprised by hearing a
shout from the two players ahead
Thinking something was wrong, he ran
up to where they stood and found
DR.. Moore rubbing his side painfully
and trying to laugh. Atha's shot
driven with full force not fifty yards
away, had grazed DIR. Moore's hin and
deposited itself in his trousers pocket
Though golf etiquette demanded it,
the four men were playing only a
friendly match, and DR.. Moore OBJ
Jected to the idea of Mr.. Atha's playing
his lie with a niblick. Instead he
tossed the ball on the green, about
where he thought Atha's unimpeded
shot would have carried and gave him
an easy putt for the second cup and
the hole.
1t Was Real Control
Lefty" George, when he pitched for
the Kansas City Blues, needed control.
He could groove the ball, or he could
throw 1t a mile wide. but he couldn't
cut the corners. Don't you suppose
he'd have given a little bit for Mr.,
Atha's recipe for hitting a 6-inch
pocket fifty yards away?
Or take the average golf "duffer",
He's the man who gets confident
blows an easy 3-foot putt and then
says SS&$-??-&-ell! What do YOU
think he'd do to learn this little trick
in Mr.. Atha's trade?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
THE COST OF DEFENSE
rNew York World.

The National Security League shows
that it has cost the United States a
billion dollars in ten years to MAINTAIN
an army of 10000. while for S65.OO0.0OO
Switzerland has had for ten years a
citizen army of 100000 always ready If
needed. More startling still are the
facts If we total our military bills for
army, navy and pensions. When the
great war began they were nearly
S4S7, ,000, 900 a year. not including some
$40, ,000, 900 paid by the states for militia
more than any other nation on earth
then spent for military purposes.
Great Britain in 1914 was spending
S23O, 600, 900 for navy, $120,000,000 for
army and $50. 900, 900 for army pensions;
Russia S2s5, 700, 900 for army. $122. 2.000,-
900 for navy; Germany S300,00O,OO0 for
army, S114000.00 for navy. France,
Italy and Austria Hungary were well
Our 1s13-1914 army cost of s173, 3,OO0.-
600 equalled that of Germany before
the Imperial War Act of 1913 in prep
aration for the present war. Our naval
cost of nearly $4,000, 900 was second
only to Britain's. Our pension bill of
S173, 100000 admitted of no comparisons
whatever. There was nothing like it.
Ex-President Taft computes that our
active army costs $1,000 for each man.
The league figures a ten-year total
cost of $4,000 a man. A large stand
ing army on such terms is out of the
question. For years we have been
spending more than any other country
for war purposes. past and future,
without getting the worth of our
money 1t is time for a change.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31

Members of the Colonial Country
/ Club will be particularly interested in
| the story herewith, and especially as
! the picture is almost fac simile of
| on the Linglestown road. The Incl
dents mentioned in this story from
the Kansas City Star are not more re-
markable than the killing of a bird by
| a golf ball driven by an expert of the
Harrisburg Country Club a few months
| ago.
Says the Star:
You've all heard of freak plays in
! golf. There's the Scotchman who
| pUtted seventy-fve feet for the hole
| and then had a black beetle on the
cups edge turn him away from the
| shot and victory. And there's the New
Jersey player who drove his ball 175
yards away from the tee into the mid
| ole of birds nest in tree sixty feet
above the ground.
And there's Jim Dalgleish out at
Evanston who'll tell you how he sank
a hcle in Scotland by driving through
the top of spectators derby and hav-
ing the ball play perfect billiard shot
into the cup.
But what was probably the best
freak" play ever made on a Kan
sas City course was pulled on the Blue
| Hills links one Wednesday late in last
June. No. 2" was the hole on which
the fish" shot was made. and Frank
+. Atha, vice-president of the ]. A.
Folger Coffee and Tea Company, was
the originator of the wonder" play.
And as Mr.. Atha has five witnesses
who saw the shot in question, there's
| nothing left for the incredulous spec
tator to do but believe it.
They Wanted Excitement
With the Rev. Charles w. Moore,
Robert F. Lakenan and George H.
| Scmbart, Mr.. Atha was playing a
| friendly foursome around the Blue
| Hills links. The first hole had been
played uneventfully, and as the players
approached the second tee they wished
| fer something to occur which would
give them at least food for a little con-
| versation. It did.
| All four men drove we'll from Tee
Two" and played to the bottom of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31

sihilities in the future for the young
est of republics, and it hardly COM
ports with the high and mighty atti-
outbreak of the European war as the
standard bearer of civilization among
the nations to put a bar to progress
in the way of China such as the curse
OF opium is for the mere monetary
return her people. can make the
despica BILE trade yield.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Theodore Voorhees,, president of
the Reading, is spending his vacation
in Maine.
&C. c. Harrison, Jr.. of Philadel-
phia, will spend August in Wyoming.
--Alvan Markle. the Hazleton coal
operator. is the new head of the Con-
solidated Telephone Company.
David A. Reed, the Pittsburgh
lawyer. will motor to one of the busi-
nessmen's training camps next week.
w. S. Ellis, of Philadelphia, has
gone to Cape Cod.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE COMMISSION FORM
, The Editor of The Telegraph:

To The Editor of The Telegraph
There has been a good deal of
quibbling concerning our "Commis-
sion" Council, but in walking about
town 1 do see that plain signs have
been placed at the intersections of the
streets.
That the river esplanade has been
completed with its useful dam for
beauty and pleasure.
That our streets are methodically
and mechanically repaired
The parks are a source of unlimited
benefit to the community.
The active superintendency mem
bers of our Commission" Council are
to be congratulated-whil contagra-
tions and crime do not manifest them
selves in calamitous outbreaks. TAX
ing it all in all the city is we'll ad-
rninistered so far by our Commission
body polite; if only five good men
are there.
TAXPAYER.
Illlv Al 1915.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
THOSE IDLE CARS

DEMoCRATIC newspapers hav
- been citing a reduction in tn
number of idle freight cars as al
evidence of business revival, but nov
comes prominent railroad operate
who is quoted by the New York Time
as saying that the statistics are mis-
leading. Says he:
The idle cars of the country rep
resent a reserve on which we are
expected to draw as business in
creases in volume. 1t is true that
the railroads have from month to
month used more of the idle cars.
1t should not be forgotten, however,
ing out cars from month to month
and discarding them. In normal
times these worn-out cars would
be Immediately replaced by new
cars. But the railroads are not
buying their normal supplies of
equipment now and the discarded
freight cars are not being replaced
are drawing on the reserve supply
of idle cars and this has reduced
the surplus of idle cars.
1t is wrong to assume that busi-
ness is booming. The railroads are
standing still, at best, and that
means going backward in the rail-
road business. There are isolated
cases, of course, in which business
is picking up, but the roads as a
ment. If the boom does come, we
will not be ready to handle a rush.
There will not be enough cars to
carry the freight.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
OUR MARES ABRoAp

WEARS ago the Harrisburg Boot
and Shoe Companys products
were worn by women and chill
dren in the tropical zone and it was
not long after that that the Harrisburg
Pipe and Pipe Bending Works shipped
pipe to Spain for the laying of water
mains in the interior or that country.
Meanwhile the Central Iron and Steel
Company was turning out plates for
the nations big battleships and lighter
defensive craft, the Pennsylvania Steel
Company was erecting huge viaducts
in India and elsewhere, the Harris
burg Boiler and Manufacturing. Com
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31

While we have no great enterprise
now before US, we, like Kansas City,
stand at the parting of the ways. We
are nearing the close of the great i'm
'provement campaign to which we set
ourselves fifteen years ago, in the face
of the "Little-Visioners" who have
been discounted or converted by the
success and utility of the improve
ments which they opposed with their
utmost vigor. We, like Kansas City,
must decide now if the work is to be
halted or if we are to go on, and on,
building for the future the city of our
dreams, or to rest on our oars content
with what we have accomplished and
willing to let the future take care of
itself
There are still "Little-Visioners" here
as we'll as in Kansas City They will
argue that the city has reached the
zenith of its career, that we have all
in the way of public improvements we
need, that further expenditures would
only increase the tax rate, and they
will repeat all of the other frayed- out
old arguments that have done service
in the years agone and have been so
Thoroughly disproved time after time.
But the great mass of the people
scarcely will be induced to give ear to
these false prophets. They can we'll
pin their faith on the past as a guar
entee for the future, for the Little
Visioners' arguments OF to-day are
tomorrow "as tale that is told"
The great force of public improvement
rolls over them and they are forgot
ten. But the work of the construc-
zionist stands for all time as a monu-
ment to his foresight and up-standing
as loyal citizen of the city he calls
home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
..HoME IS WHERE THE HUSBAND Isy

[From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.1
Women are quick to seize the main
point of the Indiana judge who decided
that "home Is where the husband is,''
and Mrs. Alice Duer Miller has there
fore created and set the following lines
to suffrage music:
Join your husband near or far
At the club or corner bar,
For the court has taught us this
Home is where the husband is"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
TN THE ELDER DAYS OF ART"

John L. Sullivan insists that "all
men are equal" May be now, but
years ago when John was there with
the punch no man living was equal to
.-Greensburg Daily Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
PLAIN SHOES THIS FALL

Boot and shoe manufacturers at a
meeting held recently decided that
women this coming season would wear
the plain, sensible, black shoe instead
of the fancy footwear that has been
so popular.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
Dull Days in Business

An advertiser asks: Does it
pay to advertise in dull sea-
sons?'
And this causes the inquiry:
What are dull seasons?'
Would they be dull If you
really went after business or
are they dull because they have
always been that way?"
February and August used to
be dull furniture months-now
they are the brightest in the
year.
Similar examples are to be
found all through the merchan-
disc calendar.
Very often advertising and
merchandising mixed with the
right proportion of brains will
eliminate the dull days.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
ENGLAND's RESPONSIBILITY

CNOME interesting Sldenghts are
y thrown upon social and moral
conditions in China by the re-
Gently delivered address of Kee Owyang
of Tientsin. formerly consul general al
Purity Conference in that city. Re-
ferring to the opium evil, the speaker
charged that this, vice, which was
forced on US by England, and encour-
aged by her." was still being per-
petuated by British exports of opium
to China, although China herself had
awakened to such a point of deter
mination to stamp out the opium evil
that she even imposed capital punish
ment for opium crimes. He con-
tinued:
China cannot stamp out this
evil unless she has the help of
England, whose consent we have
ton. of the poppy in China, the
British Government has gained
Of opium into China, because the
value of this blood-sucking drug
has risen from 9 to 500 per cent.
Inmates that China has so far made
a sacrifice OF $l19.225, 600 in order to
get rid of this drug, while Great
Britain. as shown by the receipts
from the Indian treasury, has made
sale of opium to China amount
ing to $1,000, 900 within the same
period. Therefore, we appeal to
the world, and most particularly to
the nation who has forced this ter
rible curse on our people, for as
sistance and support in our efforts
to eliminate this greatest of all
evils that. have undermined the
social and moral conditions in
China.
1t is true, as the speaker said, thai
China has accomplished great reforms
during the last decade. Slavery has
been abolished in many parts of the
country. Foot-binding is no longer
practiced. Laws have been recently
passed to prohibit the practice Of
polygamy. The people have now de.
veloped among themselves a nationa
unity and consciousness for the vel
fare of the country. Such a nationa
sentiment China has never cherished
before. Behind it there is an eager.
ness for uplift and a new interest II
the moral attitude of the people as {
whole toward public problems. wha
China has accomplished. socially anc
politically, within the last few year.
has aroused the wonder and ad
miration of the world. What she il
capable of doing will be more mar
velous. as she is full of hope and vigor
There are great opportunities and pos
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
Our Daily Laugh
SWEET
INNOCENCE.

Why are you
taking up botany?
B e C a u S e my
hance is interest
ed in a plant of
some kind, and l
want to be able
to converse intel
ligently with him
about his busi-
ness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31

There has been a typhoon II
Shanghai, China, never misses any
thing in the disaster line. If the Chi
nese want to get even with the Jap'
they couldn't do anything worse thar
wish the whole country on them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
NOT GOOD FOR PALM BEACHES

From the Houston Post.1
Lots OF things could happen to a
Palm Beach suit. but raspberry jam
would be about the worst-roledo
Blade.
Sitting down on a slice of water
melon is to be avoided when possible.
and filling a fountain pen has its dark
side.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31

1t will be quite some little time be-
fore another police lieutenant presumes
on the efficacy of the system to
save him from the evil effects of Jug
Cling with human life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31

"The Federal income tax has come
to stay" declares the Springfield Re-
publican. Yes. And If Democratic ex-
travagance continues, while tariff duties
are reduced. the Federal income tax
will have to be increased.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE

Our respects to old Doc Cook.
About every other ex-limelighter that
hasn't intruded his presence on the
first page this summer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
GETTING INTO PRACTICE

BY the time we get through making
munitions for the Europeans we shall
have a good working knowledge of
how to make them for ourselves
Lock Haven Express,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31

Just now the United States is
playing the part of innocent specta-
tor" to the European scrap. But let's
hope we escape the usual fate of the
man who pauses to watch the bricks
fly in a neighborhood row.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
CAN'T AFFORD TO RUN THEM
[Rnstnn Advertisnr1

Now that the La Toilette law is
working Germany seems to have no
fear that Americans will seize those
interned ships.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31

Having attained to Warsaw the
Kaiser is likely to find that it is still
a long, long way to Petrograd.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-31
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is not using the
Susquehanna for bathing like
some other cities use their rivers?