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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30
GREATER MEAT SUPPLY
pittsburgh Dispatch.l

lPlttSburgh Dispatch.
When Congress assemblies Repre-
sentative Kent, of California, intends
to press his bill for regulated leasing
of the Government-owned range as a
practical step toward a solution of
the high cost of living problem. The
number of cattle and sheep on the
Western ranges has been decreasing
rapidly, nearly one-fourth in five
years in II Western States. Reckless
misuse OF the grazing lands has been
largely responsible, much of the
range having been overfed and re-
duced to almost desert conditions.
On the contrary, the range in the
forest reserves, where care has been
exercised in grazing. is supporting an
increased number of cattle Expe-
rience has convinced even the cattle
men who bitterly opposed regulated
grazing that it was a short-sighted
and disastrous policy to exhaust the
range without thought for the fu-
ture. They are now, it is said, ready
to accept such a system of regulated
grazing on the 100000 900 acres of
Government land If the Kent bill or
one of that sort is passed.
The destruction of cattle in the war
zones of Europe and the world scar
city for meat leather and wool likely
TO result, holds out announcement to
the American stock raiser. It is call
culated that the Western ranges
properly regulated could support dou-
BILE the stock now there and that
within a few years the production
could be increased from 25 to so per
cent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30

Ing so. and many an untimely death
OF baby and adult may be traced to
that mistaken notion.
The dealer who permits dirt, and
therefore harmful germs. to get into
his milk becomes q spreader of typhoid
fever. cholera infantum and even OF
tuberculosis. If he knows he is vio-
lating the laws of health, then he
makes himself criminally responsible
for the illness or death of any of his
patrons who contract disease through
use of the milk he sells. No dairyman
wants to charge himself with RESPONSE
bility for the death of a human being.
The only sure prevention lies in abso-
lutte cleanliness from start to finish in
the milk business.
Furthermore. it is not fair to the
conscientious dairyman who lives up to
the rules of the health board to permit
his careless neighbor to sell milk either
below the standard for butterfats or
unclean. The milk supply of Harris
burg must be made as pure as the
city's water supply and the public will
support DR.. Raunick heartily in what
ever he may do to improve conditions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30
TEE MILK INSPECTION

T%VERY day brings developments
T. to prove that DR.. Raunick Is
more than justified in conducting
the rigid investigation of the milk
supply of Harrisburg. "Pasteurized"
milk that is not pasteurized. milk sold
as pure for use in infant feeding that
contains not only germs which have
no business there but filth of the most
vile kind, milk that is advertised as
above reproach in which flies have
been drowned and which is alive with
harmful bacteria. dairies that are dirty
and unsanitary in unspeakable ways,
stables that are unit for habitation,
water supplies that are contaminated
and cows that have not been examined
for tuberculosis In years-all these
have been brought to light. and more.
Not all milk is bad, however and
not all dairymen are careless. Many
of them are as careful of the product
they sell as though they designed to
use 1t themselves. Not all of those
who have been offending have done SO
maliciously or recklessly. Some of
them have not understood. They were
conducting their dairies as their grand
fathers did before them, with the idea,
as one milk producer told the in
spectors, that what was good enough
for my father is good enough for me-"
But that is not true. We understand
things about milk now that our grand
fathers did not know In those days.
before the discovery Of the germ
carrying possibilities of milk. IL milk
looked all right it was regarded as be-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30
LATE, TOO LATEs

tFrom the New York SUM-
We reprint from the news dispatches
from Washington the subjoined sem
tence:
president Wilson is having the new
seamen's law closely reviewed to deter
mine whether its effect on American
shipping or it's relation to other laws
on the same subject makes amendments
The law to which Mr. Wilson is di-
recting the attention of presumably
qualified authorities is the La Folletts
statute which was passed by the Sixty
third Congress in its last session, and
signed by, the President, who now seeks
light on the effect of it's provisions. not
yet operative 1t has already com
PEELED the abandonment of the Pacific
by one of the few survivors of our
trade The enforcement of it's require
score of treaties with foreign nations
The ruinous consequences this statute
would inevitably have on American
shipping were not hidden during the
time il, was before the House, the Sem
Executive alike were warned. solemnly
and repeatedly. of the suffocatinE re-
strictions IT would impose on our
merchant marine. Again and again
1T would effectually suppress the poor
remnant of our Foreign Carrying trade
Despite these admonitions, despite
the necessity it created for negotiatine
new treaties. despite. the pleas of men
who longed to see the American flag
flying from merchantmen on the high
seas, the Congress and the President
put II on the books, and now the
President is having 1t examined by
experts "to determine whether its eff
tion to other laws on the same subject
makes amendments necessary"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30
INTERFERING WITH FIREMEN

[From the Providence Journal
After a verdict of 51,60S.4S in favor
of a manufacturing company and
twenty-one fire insurance companies 1t
is not likely that hereafter the rail-
road companies in New York State will
interfere with the activities of a mu-
nicipal fire department. According to
the testimony In the case just decided
the crew of a freight train refused to
break cars at a Syracuse street cross
ing for the purpose of allowing the
passage of the fire apparatus over the
tracks. The delay thus caused it was
asserted, was largely responsible for
the fire losses, and parties directly con-
cerned looked to the railroad for re-
endorsement. The returning of ver-
dict in three minutes showed that the
jury was not in doubt as to the cause
of the excessive damage.
Probably 1T is understood in rail-
road offices that highway crossings
shall not be obstructed when the flre-
men need every second of time and
that trains shall not run over hose laid
upon the tracks. But this unusual suit
indicates the necessity of impressing
on employees the importance of giving
fremen the right of way. The substan-
tial New York verdict will be lesson
to all concerned. 1t is cheaper to break
a train than to fight suit for dam
ages.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30
Poeit;ca iM
Pe~~oqGsaio
By the Ex-Committeennan

Ex-Representative A. Mitchell Pal
mer' mentioned as a possible successor
to Robert Lansing as counselor of the
state Department, was in Washington
yesterday and conferred with Chief
Justice Covington. of the District Su-
preme Court, and a number of other
associates and political friends. No an
nouncement was made whether Justice
Palmer was an active candidate for the
place. 1t is believed that Palmer went
70 Washington chiefly to learn just
What progress had been made by those
VINO had advocated him to the Presi-
dent He declined to discuss the mat
ter but the belief is that he is en-
tlrely in the hands of his friends who
are urging his appointment. Mr..
E,a!mer called upon Secretary of the
Navy Daniels. The latter is believed
to be favorable to the appointment of
Mr.. Palmer as counselor.
Pennsylvania Democrats are inter-
ested in the story from Washington
70 tne erect that political advisers of
PRESIDENT Wilson have learned de-
hnitely that William ]. Bryan will op-
pose the Presidents nomination on
the ground that Mr.. Wilson is bound
by the one term plank of the Balti-
more platform. The Presidents
friends have learned that Mr.. Bryan
Will take the stand that Mr. Wilson as
the candidate of the convention which
adopted the one term plank, is bound
by this in principle and that regard
less OF the fact that no legislative act
limiting the Presidency to one term
has been passed by Congress, Mr.. Will
son may not seek to become the stand
ard bearer of his party in the next
national campaign. All of the Bryan
influence which has survived his rup-
ture with the President, officials expect
will be eXerted to defeat the efforts of
Mr. Wilson's managers to secure for
him the nomination for a second term.
1t became known that before his de-
parture for the Pacific Coast last week
MI, Bryan sounded some of his closest
political associates regarding his con-
templated stand and that as a result
the news reached the Presidents ad-
visers. There are reasons for believing
that the President knew of Mr.. Bryan's
plans before he (the President) de-
parted for Cornish, N. H., last Thurs
day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30
THE SITUATION OF PALMER

ME polltlcal future of A. Mitchell
Palmer, who last November
achieved a distinction which
some one summed up in the expression.
the worst licked Democrat in the his
tory of the State" continues to be a
matter of interest to all Democrats.
and of anxiety to some
We violate no confidence when we
declare that there was a general sigh
of relief in the ranks of the Unterrified
after President Wilson appointed Pal
mer to vacancy on the Court of
Claims. The position is a desirable
one and the appointment promised to
take the appointee out of politics for
the rest of his life. And that would be
condition of affairs much to be de-
sired from their viewpoint in the case
of man whose distribution of federal
patronage split the party wide open
and made a farce of the pious pro-
testations of party virtue upon which
the Reorganization rested.
But Palmer is ambitious. He also
has pretty good opinion of his own
talents, and while he has not refused
the rendered judicial appointment his
name by some mysterious influence is
mentioned with significant regularity
in connection with every promising
opening in the federal service. If Presi-
dent Wilson continues to ignore the
hint, why there is the judgship to fall
back upon. A regular pay day. even
when acceptance of it involves closing
the door of political hope, is much to
be preferred to the cherries status of
a lame duck.
In the meantime the Democracy is
very much in doubt as to its internal
economy. The leaders cannot be in
ignorance of the fact that Palmer is
''in bad" with the rank and file, and it
is probable that they would be glad to
be rid of his dead weight But on the
other hand. If he goes, IL he takes a
job that will involve his resignation
from the national committee. which
position for many years has carried
with it titular leadership of the Penn
sylvania Democracy, 1t will be neces-
sary to call the State committee to-
gether. And 1t is evident that the
prospect of this call is associated in
their minds with thoughts of the wrath
to come.
And this explains why there has
been so little open resentment with the
cavalier course Palmer has been pur-
suing with respect to the appointment
which he has been holding under con-
sideration for so many weeks. Both
sides Of the factional squabble are
anxious to avoid a showdown as long
as 1t is possible-the ins because they
are afraid and the outs because they
have been unable to get together on a
program and candidate for the party
post Palmer now holds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30
WHEEL.CHAIRs FOE RIvER WALK

TT7HEEL-CHAIRS for the River
wv Front promenade would be not
only a novel, but a very prac-
teal and desirable innovation. Super
intendent Taylor has hit upon a good
idea. No doubt the chair concession
for the walk at the top of the Front
Steps" would be profitable, as well as
pleasurable for the thousands who
unquestionably would use them.
With the closing of the gap at Mar
ket street wheel-chairs could make the
trip from the lower end of the city,
or any convenient point. to Hard
scrabble" and back again. With
''Hardscrabble" removed there will be
an unbroken stretch of concrete walk
from Paxton street to Maclay. No
other city has anything like our river
walk. Wheel-chairs operating on 1t as
they do on the Boardwalk at Atlantic
City would attract the thousands of
visitors who annually come to Harris
burg as we'll as many of our own
people. The city stands in need of
Just some such novel recreation as this
and it would be hard to conceive of a
better way of advertising Harrisburg
abroad than as the inland city with the
Atlantic City boardwalk.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30
AGAINST GOVERNMENT SHIPS


[From the New York Press.1
No part of our people have a greater
interest in an American merchant ma
rine than the businessmen of the Unit
ed States. nor so great Manufacturers
and merchants are now suffering severe
hardship and loss because of our lack
of shipping; but they have felt this lack
for years.
What the business interests of the
United States think of President VIII
sons plan for a merchant marine
owned and operated, either in part or
in whole, by the Government may be
judged by a canvass which has been
made Of the Chambers of Commerce OF
the United States
The vote on Government OWNERSHIP,
of merchant marine was only 81 in
favor of but 69S against. Government
ownership with private operation got
a vote of 54 in favor of but I'll against.
But ships subsidies sufficient to offset
the difference in the cost of operation
of vessels under the American Flag as
compared with deep-sea ships under
foreign flags was approved by a vote or
55S to 1856. For a postal subvention the
vote was 71S in favor of to As against.
Mr.. Wilson is understood to put the
United States Government into the
shipping business; but from this vote OF
the United States Chamber of Com
merce 1t is evident that he cannot do
anything of the kind with the approval
or assistance of the business interests
of the country
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30

their trunks, say good-by before the
train pulls out, glance hurriedly at
our watches and rush back to our
offices begrudglng the lost time"
The loafer in America exists, but he
is rarity. The seven-day man, on
the other hand. is too much the rule.
AN old man at forty!" None of us
wants to be that, but all work and
no play will produce the result inev-
itably. Perhaps not at forty. exactly.
but at all events much sooner than
need be, and of all pitiable objects the
man old before his time is the most
wretched.
But the signs of the times are hap
PLY pointing in the other direction.
The automobile, the golf club, the ten
mis- club and a hundred other influ-
ences are tempting men to play and
physicians are forsaking medicine to
preach the gospel of good health
through recreation.
Employers are coming to under
stand that a half-holiday each week
is beneficial to their employees and that
five and one-half day week than they
do from six days. The movement has
gone to such an extent in Harrisburg
that some of the big business houses
are understood to be considering a
movement for the closing of stores
on Saturday afternoon and evening, in
place of the present Friday half holi-
day This would add an evening of
liberty each week to leisure time of
all employees.
OF course, it is understood that store
keepers cannot move more rapidly in
this direction than the public desires,
but as Harrisburg is rapidly becom-
ing a Saturday half holiday city, the
way is prepared for the move now
under consideration. If all the stores
join in the movement none will lose
and the time of everybody will be con-
served.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30
GOOD NEWS FROM BERLIN

NEWS that filters through devious
IN channels from Berlin relative to
the attitude the Imperial Govern
ment will take in reply to the latest
Wilson note is distinctly encouraging.
Every indication is that Germany will
agree to measures that will insure the
proper protection of American lives.
That is all this country can ask in
fairness. Germany has a perfect right
to continue its warfare on the mer-
chant marine of her enemies so long
as it is conducted with due regard for
the rights of humanity and the regu-
lations prescribed by international law.
The most effective means of war
fare that Germany has been able to
bring to bear against the Allies has
been the activities of her submarines
against contraband shipping. 1t would
be almost equivalent to asking Berlin
to lay down the sword, for the United
States to demand that the submarine
be ruled out of the European war as
weapon against the uninterrupted
commerce of the allied nations on the
SNeo' ~ - AAcN VIC AoOB DeN SAAS AA4AST
use, of the submarine to which this
country has objected
Every American worthy of the name
will rejoice that the warclouds which
darkened the skies are passing. We
do not want to fight Germany any
more than, we suspect Germany wants
to fight us. German-Americans have
complained that we are selling NUM-
tions of war to the Allies. We would
do the same for Germany, if Germany
could find way to import them. We
in America do not hate the German
people. If our sympathies have been
aroused in behalf of the Allies it has
been because We have stood always for
fair play. decency and the rights of
humanity, and therefore have found
ourselves at variance with the methods
and practices of the German war ma
chine as it has been operated in this
war. Doubtless, many of the loyal
Germans, down in their own hearts,
nurse the same grievances. We would
not like to think otherwise.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30
LIGHT-FINGERED

At a dinner given by the prime
minister of a little kingdom in Ruri-
tania a diplomat complained to his
host that the minister of justice, who
had been sitting on his left, had
stolen his watch.
"Ah, he shouldn't have done that"
said the prime minister, in tones of
annoyance. Il will get 1t back for
you"
Sure enough, toward the end of the
evening, the watch was returned to
its owner.
And what did he say?" asked the
diplomat.
"Sh-h" cautioned the host, glancing
anxiously about him. He doesn't
know that have got 1t back Pitts
burgh Chronicle Telegraph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30

soil, and planted a neat little garden.
Each evening they row out to it,
weed, water and cultivate 1t. And
later on they are going to row out
each evening to reap their harvest of
fresh vegetables.
They wanted a garden and so they
found place to plant one. In the
slums of all the big cities vegetables
and flowers are grown on many roofs
and window sills. The poor who de-
sire things are satisfied with a simple
means of having them. So to them
soap box on a window sill or a bit
of filled-in land under the pier of a
bridge makes an acceptable field for
their agricultural experiments.
II you want a garden, plant one
now. A box in your office or bed
room window can be filled with mar
guerites and geraniums, pansies or
migonette. A jar on the kitchen
window sill can be turned into a lit
tie farm to produce chives, parsley,
and mint to give enviable flavor to
roasts and soup. .
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30
SOMETHING NEW
BY Wing Dinger

Every year. it seems to me.
Brings forth some new i'll
Helping those who. profit by
Sales of drugs, until
I am thinking that ere long
Every month there'll be
Some peculiar i'll to bring
Pain and misery.
Hay fever and asthma, too,
Rose cold, with Its sneeze,
Dread pneumonia, too. I lodged,
Then bo, If you please,
Just as I thought was safe
For the summer, zip,
Some new tangled i'll hit me,
Known as summer grippe"
You may talk of aches and pains
That you've had before.
You may mention ills you've had
In the days of yore--
But for making one feel mean
This new tangled i'll
Better far than all the rest
Brother. 1lls the bill
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30
so,n of the deeb. daily need of no

Born of the deep, daily need of nG-
tio,t--I am the Voice of No7t-tts tteGr-
nate spirit of the TimeS-lMO1IGyeh of
things that Are.
NV cold TYPE" burns aOith the fire
blood of human action. am fed by
arteries of acire that girdls the earth. /
drink from the cup of e0ery ll0fHg Joy
aid soyyow / sleep Not-reSt not. ]
kholu not night, nor day, nor season. !
k,tozo no death, yet dm born again auth
evsrv morn - 1Oith eVery noon - GOitlI
every tlCiight leap into fresh being
EOitk eyery ne1U zUoyld'S event.
Those aUho created ME cease to be
the brains and hedyPS-blood that HonyiSh
ME 90 the aVGy of human dissolution.
Yet I li0e oti-dHd on.
ant Majestic in my Streugth-SRb-
Ene in nv Poaer-T errible in my Po-
teHtialities-yet as democratic as the
Yaqqed boy 5Dho sells me for a penny.
I am the consort of Kings-tiie partner
of ecbitdl-the brother of toll. The in
Sbiration of the hobeleSs-the right arm
of the needy-fhe champion of the op-
bressed-the conscience of the criminal.
I AM the sbitome of the aVoyld's Comedy
and Tragedy.
Nv responsibility is Infinite I speak,
and the 50orld stops to listen. I say the
s0ord, and battle flames the horizon. !
counsel peace, and the aUdr-lordS obey
! an greater than any iNdf0iduai-niore
boUerfm than any group am the
dynamic force of Public Opinion.
Rightly directed, I an a Creator of Con-
fdsnce. 4 builder of happiness nt la
ing. I an the Backbone of Commerce.
The Trai!blaSer of Prosperity. ant the
Teacher of Patriotism.
ant the hands of the clock Of Time
the clarion Voice of Civilization
ant the Newspaper.
Address of Joseph H. Finn at the con-
vention of the Advertising Clubs of
the World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30
WITH WHOM WOULD WE GO TO
WAR?

IFrom the Omaha Bee.1
Our militarists are busy again, show
ing how unready we are for war. Our
culpable neglect in failing to provide
for arms and ammunition and fortresses
and the like is again being reviewed,
and the administration of the nation s
affairs is seriously criticized because
nowhere in its program for many years
has appeared detailed plans for a large
army and a larger navy.
-, All these charges are well founded.
The United States is unprepared to
engage in war. on the stupendous scale
now being exhibited in Europe. We
have 10,000.000 young men who would
make splendid soldiers and who
would, die like heroes in the trenches
and elsewhere, but we haven't the
100000 rifles to put into their hands.
Wherefore we. should go to making
Why not determine with which ma
tion we are to go to war, and then
make our plans accordingly. A ceb-
tury of peace with Great Britain may
well be followed by another. The ira
ditional friendship with the other great
powers is not likely to be broken
soon. We have no really good reason
to look for war anywhere.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-30
BUYING BACK OUR SECURITIES
FROM EUROPE
[From the New York Press. !

[From the New York Press.l
If the leading financial author
ity Of the government" who estimates
that since the beginning of the war
Europe has sold back to us $4,000
100000 of American securities really
calculated, or as much as guessed at,
that financial and economic result,
we wonder how many hundred mil
lion tons of green cheese he COM
putes the belligerents have sliced out
of the moon for army rations. How
can any man who ever heard of the
rule of three imagine that our finan-
cial market could have taken from
abroad since the first day of August
50, 100000 of our securities, or of
any securities and have an interna-
tional position, financially and econo-
mically, what It IL to-day2