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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
NO MORE RED LIGHTS

TOLoNEL HUTCHINSON is to be
~ commended for the energetic
campaign he has waged to put
the disorderly house out of business in
Harrisburg.
1t was to be no more than expected
that the people who depend upon COM
mercialized vice and its associated evils
for a livelihood should look for some
leniency in the period Immediately
preceding and during a municipal
campaign such as that on which the
city is about to enter. But they CAL
culated without taking the temper of
Colonel Hutchison into consideration.
His announced intention to raid every
place of the kind against which he can
collect sufficient evidence will receive
popular approval.
Harrisburg has enjoyed a period of
freedom from the open operation of
these vile resorts and the people are
ready to hold UP the hands of chief
of police courageous enough to live up
to the law providing for prosecutions
in such cases.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
THE CoLUNrRIA,s END

T<O what base uses we may return!
Why may not imagination trace
the noble dust of Alexander till
he find it stopping bunghole?"
Thus Shakespeare marvels at the
transmutation of the atoms. that to-
day constitute the earthly vesture of
an immortal soul and tomorrow are
as the dust in the street. Imperial
Caesar dead and turned to clay may
stop crack to keep the wind away"
So it is with things inanimate as
well. The English monument at
Waterloo has been melted into Ger
man bullets. the forty-ton metal statue
OF Bismarck has been carted off bodily
from German soil to Moscow as food
for Russian cannon, and now our
own international champion, the CO.
lumbia, the yacht that twice defeated
the fastest craft of her kind in the
world. is to be broken up to serve as
charges for the allies guns. The old
yacht long since has been junk, but
even when they relegated her glorious
hulk TO the scrap heap it is scarcely
likely that her owners could have
ina agined its ultimate fate. Nor is it
likely that Sir Thomas Upton dreamed, /,
when from the deck of the defeated
Shamrock he saw the Columbia hull
down in the distance cross the line a
winner, that one day her hulk would
be hurled piecemeal at a foe des-
perately assailing his island home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
VANDALS

TN the first half of the fifth century
J. there descended upon the more
highly civilized races of Southern
Europe the Vandals of lower and
middle Germany, a rude, ferocious,
barbaric, destructive people who
ravaged Gaul. Spain. Northern Africa
and finally Rome itself. With con-
tempt for art and with no eye for
beauty they smashed and hacked their
way through the beautiful cities, the
gardens. the palaces, the libraries and
the galleries of their industrious and
cultured neighbors. Millions of dol
lars worth of costly buildings, noble
works of the sculptors hand, the
masterpieces of some of the worlds
greatest painters and literary gems
without number went down beneath
the AK and the flames that followed.
We look with horror on such whole
sale destruction and with loathing
upon the people that perpetrated the
outrage.
But we have Vandals to-day. Har-
risburg has 1abored for years, as
city, to make it's parks beautiful for
its people. the State has given US
wonderful capitol and private citizens
.are doing their part to make the city
a desirable place in which to live
Yet everywhere we find the destruc-
tive work of the Vandal. Flowers are
ripped up by the roots in the parks.
Playground paraphernalia is stolen or
broken. Every public building in
town bears the marks of marring
hands. The river steps are broken by
men and boys who throw heavy stones
on them.
1t is about time for Colonel Hutch
ison to add a clause against vandal-
ism to the admirable rules he has laid
down for his police officers. Jail is
the place for the Vandals, where they
can exercise their destructive tend
encies practicing upon the iron bars
of a cell.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09

they deserve their share. But the
European war--which once threatened
to ruin the exposition-has been its
greatest benefactor from an attend
ance standpoint this summer
The New York World estimates
Europe's monetary loss as a result
of no American travel on the cont
nent this year at not less than $25,-
100000. The steamship companies
alone, it is asserted. lost more than
$1,000.000 in fares from this source.
1t is evident that thousands of those
accustomed to spending their sum-
mers in Europe went instead to the
coast and that while the exposition
missed the attendance of many Eu-
ropeans, the balance is far more than
made up by American visitors who,
but for the war, would have been
in Europe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09

was strongly recommended to women
py experts in physical culture as one of
Soise 9n5f eerg aSd pest est means Of improving the
Put Whdt lt is an excellent exercise
tor that purpose. Since the days of the
1a.a, atisIohs, there have been many skilled
women archers, and there are a number
St the sex making nigh scores in the
Nd deIondl Archery Association to-day
e Ernest thompson Seton. the natural
also greatly promoted interest in arch.
cry among the boys by devising a game
d,r IA rW. wnicn i target was painted upon a
woods, hunted for and shot by the tov
archers. Although the sport has been
greatly stimulated in these and other
Ways, IL seems still to remain a diver
Where Archery Told
The first weapon of primitive man in
bow reached the zenith of its greatest
use curing the fourteenth century when
Eooinhood and his bowmen ruled in
long -bowmen who won for their coun-
try the decisive battles Of Crecy and
Poietires against the, French. The ar
selves in vain against the long lines of
English bowmen, who shot their ar
rows into the air so that they raineo
down upon the helmets of the horse-
men, often entering the eye holes. This
was one of the first demonstr strations OF
the superiority of infantry over cav
airy. During the fifteenth century the
long-bow seems to have been the de-
e1slve FACTOR in many battles. Then
began a decline of its dominance'
hastened by the introduction Of gun
So deep a hold had archery in the
national life. and story of Britain, how
ever, that the Government sought in
every way to encourage its practice
Archery associations were formed and
meets were held. These were affairs of
great splendor and social Importance.
Sliken canopies were erected on the
fields, and the archers strolled about in
elaborate and brightly-colored cos
tunes: The shooting, however, became
subordinated to the social phase of the
amusement with the result that 1t rap
idly declined.
Later revival took place. and the
sport was much more scientifically prac-
ticed, and has enjoyed an uninterrupted
popularity in England to this day 1t
hrst came to the United States about
1879 when an archery club was formed
IN Philadelphia. and remained active
OF small clubs had grown up in various
parts OF the United States. but especi-
ally in the West and Middle West In
1879, these were gathered together un-
der the name of the National Archery
association of the United States, which
mas ably supported and systematized
the sport ever since.
Haverford Pa, and that the year be-
always been the center of American
archery interests. and the return of the
annual meet to that city will doubtless
insure an unusual success.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09

too fine a point on it. Down Boston
way they like 'em slender and with
sold and intellectual mien. Cute ones.
a trifie under size, continue to win the
beauty contests in the southland, while
Amazonian girls seem to make the
strongest appeal in the free and un-
trammeled west. But In art circles
and in the suit and cloak trade, the
same girl Pradteles immortalized
continues to hold the palm.
AS for the future-well If the kind
Doc Read describes has managed to
please from way back before old
Herodotus discussed the prevailing
styles in girls down to the present it
is a pretty safe guess that it will be
the artistic ideal of the eugenic future.
Likewise the ideal probably will run
about as strong to the hundred as 1t
now does. So cheer up. An ideal is
a state of mind. and nature, which has
never failed yet, will continue to sup
ply enough of all kinds 10 satisfy all
tastes-even in the eugenic age.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
THE FUTHITY OF IT

T<HERE are spasmodic indications
of life in the Progressive party
Now it is Colonel Roosevelt sug-
gesting Hiram Johnson for President.
Again it is Hiram himself dwelling
upon the necessity of keeping the
machinery of the Progressive party
intact" Heaven only knows what
would be left of the Progressive party
II its machinery" were permitted to
get entirely out of running order.
That's about all there is left of it, save
in a few isolated communities where
local conditions have given it a longer
lease of life
To talk Of a Progressive movement
for 1916 strong enough to count for
anything save a reduction of the Re-
publican majority is nonsensical.
There is neither rhyme nor reason to
such talk. The Republican party holds
the key to the situation, and it is not
likely to make any move that will take
from ii the advantage 1t now has
Leaders who disregard the trend of
the times will not be tolerated. Men
who are trusted by the rank and file
and who will merely carry out the
wishes of the majority will be at the
helm Of the next Republican conven-
ton. There will be absolutely no
chance for such objections as Colonel
Roosevelt raised in 1912, when he re-
belled against conditions that he would
have been happy enough to accept, as
he had before, had he been in the
saddle. The next Republican nominee
is unquestionably going to be the choice
of the rank and file. And being such,
he is going to be elected despite any
Progressive or other opposition that
may be developed, for the people are
unquestionably of the opinion that
prosperity for the country lies only
with the restoration of the Republican
party to power in the White House,
the House of Representatives and the
Senate.
How futile is the Progressive hope.
II in the heydey of his popularity,
with the voters wrought UP as never
before, Colonel Roosevelt was unable
to do more than defeat his old party
and plunge the country into a quag-
mire of debt and depression, how do
the Progressives expect to cut any
figure in 1916, with the nation alive
to the mistake il made and bent upon
restoring to power the party that has
always led it in the ways of pros
perity and with the people convinced
beyond doubt that they owe their pres
ent deplorable conditions to the cleo
ton of minority President and Con-
gress in 1912?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
WOMAN AND HER FUTURE

NUR compliments to Dr. A. J. Read,
" whose address before the Inter
national Conference on race
betterment at the Panama-Pacific Ex-
position last week made that gather
ing famous. He was down on the
program as a professor of hygiene.
For all we know he may be a dis
tinguished authority upon that very
interesting and highly important SUB
ject, but. there is not the slightest
doubt in our mind that he is past
master in the gentle art Of putting
one over" on the alert gentlemen who
preside at news desks in American
newspaper offices. A hurried glance
through the exchanges connrms the
suspicion that the best of them fell
for" Doc Read. He got top positions
under big heads on the best news
pages of papers that would feel they
were conferring a favor on a regular
advertiser il they let him occupy an
obscure corner at the trifling charge
of six dollars line.
Doc Reads method is as simple as it
was effective. He talked about that
universally. and eternally interesting
subject, woman, and INDUCED in a bit
of prophecy. He said that the ideal
woman of the eugenic age will be
plump, well rounded. but not fat. Just
so. If the statuary that has been dug
up from time to time is any criterion
that is a fairly accurate description
of the ideal when Greece was in its
glory. Travellers tell us thai the pres
ent day ideal in Persia is bit better
than plump; downright fat, not to put
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. Robert Russell, president of
Westminster College, is one of the
speakers at conferences this summer
throughout the State.
Ralph Peters, president of the
Long Island Railroad, is in Califor-
MIA.
Daniel Printz, Reading manufac-
turer, is enjoying his annual outing at
the seashore.
Frank Rooster, landscape archi-
tect, has been engaged by the Allen
town City Planning Commission.
Edward Rowland, Philadelphia
manufacturer. is in Maine.
John c. Groome, head of the State
Police, has been drawn as a Philadel-
phia grand juror.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
TELEGRAPH PERIScOPE

The current issue of The Father
land is typical. 1t starts off with a
criticism of American policies and
winds up with a picture designed to
make one believe that George Wash
ington signed the Declaration of Inde-
pendenee with one hand while he drain
ed bottle of st. Louis beer with the
other.
First thing we know Austria and
Germany will be at loggerheads over
the possession of Poland.
English statesmen should read a
little history before contesting the
freedom of the seas with the United
States.
"A wife with $4,000. 0OO," says an
upstate exchange. commenting on the
recent marriage of a poor man to the
richest girl in the country. would tend
to make a husband cowardly in her
presence" The writer evidently meant
more cowardly.
Down Philadelphia way men are
prominently mentioned for mayor
only between rumors. as it were.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
IN 1880
By Wing Dinger


There's chap. my son, worth millions
I remember well the day
When he had to work like blazes
For a trifiing bit of pay.
No one ever gave him credit
For possessing any BRAIN
No place in the hall of fortune
Did they think he would attain,
But he set his noodle working
Back in nineteen fifteen, lad
One tin roof. two wagon axles
And four wheels was all he had
From the tin he made a body,
Nailed it to the axles. son.
Mortgaged all to get an engine
Just to make the blamed thing run
Every evening in his back yard
At the thing he'd work and fuss,
Finally he got 1T running,
And called 1t "Jitney Bus"
Night and day folks kept him busy,
And though trihing was the fare,
Jit by jit he saved his jitneys--
Now he is a millionaire. .-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
WAR AND WHY

The First Wars were fought for
Food.
The Second Wars were fought for
Revenge.
The Third Wars were fought for
Women. =
The Fourth Wars We're fought for
Religion.
The Fifth Wars were fought for
Conquest.
The Sixth Wars were fought for
Acknowledgement.
The Seventh Wars were fought for
Liberty. -
The Eighth Wars were fought for
all or mosts of these things save the
last.
-Johnstown Daily Leader.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
EXPOSITION ATTENDANCE

TIME Panama-Pacific Exposition
with the exception OF some of
the inside amusement attractions.
doomed from the first to failure
appears to be paying its way This
in dull year, with the dismal ex-
periences of Charleston and the
none too glowing financial results of
the Chicago, Buffalo and st. Louis
expositions, is regarded as remark
able by some observers Pacific en-
terprise and get there" are given the
credit by many who comment on the
success of the San Francisco fair, and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
A Race of Athletes

Surely we are becoming an
athletic people.
Look at the tennis courts. the
golf links, the ball grounds on
every side and consider how few
there were ten years ago.
It is a healthy sign of the
times. 1t means greater things
ahead - with stronger men and
women to do the worlds work.
These sports have. of course,
developed specialized needs in
dress and equipment, but they
are needs easily supplied.
A glance. through the adver-
tising columns of the Telegraph
will nine times out of ten ans
wer the questions OF the athletic
man or woman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
WHO STARTED THE WARP

Now that the Kaiser says that his
conscience is clear and that he did
not will the war. it is in order to
wonder who the guilty party was
Certainly Great Britain, still unpre-
pared after a years hostilities, can
hardly be accused, and France and
Russia, who are not much better off,
can make the same plea. Probably
Servia started it in order to conquer
Austria Hungary and get a place in
the sun and a window on the Adri.
attic. After the Kaiser's lucid state.
ment no one. of course. would ever
think of accusing Germany.L-Phila.
Record.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
Poeit;c4 &.
<Pe~~oqeSo~io
By the Ex-Committeeman

One of the interesting matters in
connection with the disintegration OF
the Bull Moose organization in Penn
sylvania is the way men who enrolled
as Washington party men are asking
whether their party will have tickets
IN cities and counties. In most of the
counties the enrolment of Washing
tonlans is only a shadow of former
strength and in several counties the
committees have taken no interest and
erstwhile rampant Bull Moosers are
taking more or less hand in Republi-
can primary contests. Just what will
become of the men who enrolled as
Washingtonians if there are no pri-
mary tickets to speak of is one of the
warm weather questions
Another funny thing connected with
the Washington party is that the
democrats seem to have utterly failed
TO gobble up the former Republicans.
Early this year the Democratic lead
ers in this State stopped fighting over
patronage long enough to pass out in
terviews that their party stood for
everything that Roosevelt wanted, al
though he has said 1t did not, and in
vited the Washingtonians to enter
their corral. In hardly a district in
any county in this part of the State
have the Democrats gained any Bull
Moosers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
EDITORIAL COMMENT
BY BRIGGS

If things continue this way along the
Eastern front the Czar will soon have
to call out the 1915 reserves of grand
dukes.-Grand Rapids Press.
In the drowning of 10000 Chinese by
those kwang- floods Japan de-
plores the loss of 10000 valued compul-
sorry customers.-Clevelan Leader.
Edison. in a recent interview, says
mans wife inspiring him to invent a
talking g-machine.-New York Morning
Telegraph
It's about time for Germany to re-
taliate for England's reprisal for Ger
mans revenge for England's reply to
Germany's air raid.-Philadelphia
North American
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
POPULAR ENGLISH DIVERSION

Again says a London newspaper,
England faces the supreme test"
Isn't 1t about time she tackled it?-
Worcester Evening Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
SHOCKING. IF TRUE

Boston boasts baseball enthusiast
who every time he gets excited at a
game gives off electric shocks. A reg
ular electric fan.-Hagerstown Daily
Mail.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09

Discretion of speech is more than
eloquence; and to speak agreeably to
him with whom we deal is more than
to speak in good words and good
,order.-Francis Bacon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
Our Daily Laugh

BoBBIE KNEW.
Teacher said ]
must bring an ex-
cuse from you
when I'm late.
And what did
you say7
I told her your
excuses for bein'
late were no good.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST o

think toe all knoto toeH lohGt courage
Is:
Not theioS, not blood, not bulk. not
bravery
It's highest title, patience.
John Davidson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
LUCKY TT WASN'T IT. r..

Those smart Vermont deer that
flushed a President should congratu-
late themselves that it was Professor,
not Nimrod.--Boston Transcript.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
SOME WIFE.

SOME WIFE.
Hubby: Smith
struck his wife
last night.
Wifey : Dt d
they take the bull
ly to Jail?
Hubby: No-to
. hospital.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
DO YOU KNOW
DISCRETION OF sPEECH

That Harrisburg has had fewer
than usual this year?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09

w C. Fownes, Sr., of Pittsburgh.
who has been visiting here, has played
on most of the golf courses in the
State. Mr.. Fownes, although a keen
businessman and interested in many
lines in his home county, is very fond
of golf and has travelled about the
State trying the various courses on
which, by the way he generally man.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-02-18
pRAMArls PERSONAL.

A.on Gordon DAYTON the Northern District OF west
Gained prominence by accldeal
Representatives over
Of Wilson BILL IN RepuDnan lanl
bench by President 10
coed John Jackson Iron Judge who was forced 70
has been so na
Wheeling IN 1914 and peuon
presented President Wilson, asAns Ao
Congressional investigation of his judicial conduct
Albert M Beeter of exceptional AFFINITY cea
the
celebrated Cabin and RANT creek
national prominence as the
where the Constitution cou1G e Se % ~
With courage MT bcner
Dayton knowing full wei nat ne
and that there would De no future or
a IN courts that he had dared 10 atacK
Van Rttne District United Mine workers Of
district IN
and having been elected VICE
president he IS
the breaking OF the VFannca rue VI
from organizing IN Judge
his injunctors and for SIX years
An iniunon against organization had been pending IN
Wh1ch IL mao
famous "Hichman case against JONI
Mitchell the Coler
of Organization deliberately carried the battle into the reared
of The Golfers struck
supported them Two other mines
really belonged to the ONO
Btners organization gave them the Support N
killed twenty-five
President months and offered his e
refused and given his liberty WIN
did not intend making martyr OF
compelled up
strikers jailed by Judge Dayton
expense 100000 in fl hting> the battle
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-02-18
Death Of Mis-. Caroline Dummre

Miss Carolin Dumme,r daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Dummer, occur
red Friday afternoon, after an illness
SO brief that the end came with a
distrinct shock to her family and
friends. She had been in her usual
health, seemingly, until the previous
day, and two hours before her death
was up and about. This sudden going
out of her life added to the grief Of
her family and friends which is soft
ened only by the memory of her kind
ways and the sunshine of her spirit.
She was an active worker in the SCI.
ond Presbyterian church, and always
engaged in bringing the gospel of good
cheer and helpfulness into the lives OF
all she met. The funeral service, con-
Quoted by Rev. Kunze, took place at
the family home in Center Dheeling,
Monday afternoon, the interment be-
ing at Greenwood.
The family Is native Welsh, but for
many years have been residents here.
the father, Edward Dummer, being
prominent, as tin mill roller in this
section for third of century, and
her brothers, Edward, Jr., Thomas and
David following in his footsteps. A
room filled with flowers and a house
filled with sympathizing friends, testi-
fed to the esteem in which the family
and the dead girl are held.