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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05
ANECDOTES OF CHAS. FROHMAN
DROWNED ON LUSITANIA

.DELAsCo and Frohman were sepa-
n rated a number of years before
they made the joint production
of "A Celebrated Case" this Spring
AT the opening they sat in the same
seats from which they had watched
''The Girl I Left Behind Me-" which
Mr.. Belasco wrote for the opening OF
audience called for them.
You take the CALL" said &C. F.
shrinking back.
Not without you," was Belasco's
reply.
But I have never gone before the
curtain in my life"
But l can't without you"
Il am the proprietor of this the
ater," returned Mr.. Frohman, land
you must do as 1 tell you"
Mr.. Hayman said to his "chief'
one day:
DO you know you are not doing
right in sending money to all the
people who write and tell you they
are in hard luck? They may be i'm
posing on you"
There may be some that are i'm.
posing" Frohman answered, but
know that there are others in want
so can't afford to make mistake"
On one OF the rare occasions wher
Frohman granted an interview he was
asked:
What is the difference between
metropolitan and out-of-town audi
ences?"
Fifty cents" he said.
Mr.. Frohman was not fond of lux
uries. When he brought an automo-
bile several years ago it browe down
in Fifth avenue, and when the chal-
feur was cranking it the car lurchsd
forward with a severe shock. Mr.
Frohman made no comment unit
sometime afterward, when he said to
his companion:
II guess automobiles are for aris-
tocrats"
He sold the machine within a very
few days and never bought another
One of the managers most precious
souvenirs was an unframed pane
photograph of, Clyde Fitch. 1t always
stood on a marble mantel near the
mahogany table where Mr.. Frohmar
worked. The particular reason for his
regard for it was a clever compliment
embodied in this autograph: "Tc
c. f. from C. f."
Six years ago there was a rumol
that Mr.. Frohman would retire. He
denied 1t in these words:
I'm actual funds L am not rich
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05
PREPARING ron PREPAREDNESS
[From the Kansas city star.l

From the Kansas City Star.I
Senator Hoke Smith told the visiting
Chinese commission in Washington that
the next Congress will probably make
large naval and military approprf-
ations. IF you should see us preparing
this (comingl winter for more battle-
ships than ever before. don't he alarm
ed" Senator Smith told the Chinese.
Indeed the Chinese would not need to
be alarmed at that forecast, even If
they thought we were going to war
with them. Preparedness takes time.
Congress will not meet lin the ordin-
ary course of events) until next De-
cember. Naval preparedness" which
is going to begin to prepare nine or
ten months in the future will he COM
pleted about three years off. The
quickest a battleship has ever been
built in the United States is two years
and two months.
Preparedness is the shield and buck
Ter OF a peaceful but strong nation.
Preparedness cannot be prepared for
too quickly nor kept too constantly
at the 100 per cent. standard.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05
GERNIANY,S OEEER
THE offer of Germany to pay for
the loss of the Gulflight is no
more than an unduly deferred

~ NHE ofer OF Germany 10 pay LOT
the loss of the Gulfight is no
more than an unduly deferred
recognition of a perfectly apparent
obligation. 1t seems to be nothing
more than an effort to justify the
home government with the German
people and to confine as much as pos
sible the demands of President Will
sons note to the Lusitania incident.
So long as the German foreign Office
thought it could ignore or delay ac-
tion on the Gulfiight incident and get
away with it" no move was made
There would have been none at this
time had not Germany become sud-
denly awake to the understanding that
the United States is in no mood for
trifing.
The Gulfight was torpedoed in the
English channel five weeks ago while
bound from Port Arthur, Texas, for
Rouen, France, with oil. Fortunately
rhe was able to make shore, but two of
the crew were drowned and the cap
tain died next day. The incident oc-
CURED in broad daylight while the
Gufight was displaying the American
flag at mast-top.
Germany pronounces it an "unfor-
tunate accident" and offers ito fur
nish full recompense for the damage
thereby sustained by American citi-
zens." That is all very we'll, but 1t
does not give back the lives that Ger
man recklessness blotted out and it
convicts the German government of
the very crimes of which President
Wilson complains in the case of the
Lusitania. Furthermore. who will be-
lieve that the German submarine crew
did not see the American flag until the
very moment of firing the shot?'
And how are we to know that there
will not be many more such "unfor-
tunate accidents?"
The whole course of Germany on
the seas in this war has been as out
rageous as her behavior in Belgium
and the Gulfiight admissions merely
serve to strengthen the case civiliza-
tion has made out against her. There
must he no international pardon board
for this convicted criminal among the
nations. The full penalty must be ex-
ected in one way or another and the
whole country will rejoice that Presi-
dent Wilson has concluded not to re-
cede one inch from the position he at
first took
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05
DO YOU KNOW
That Harrisburg used to ship
many tons of iron to Pittsburgh?
HIS MISTAKE

He moved up to the city,
When he'd made his little pile
Built house and had garden,
Dressed his girls in city style
He read the city papers,
And he ate the city food.
His wife Joined half a dozen clubs,
His boy became a dude;
But he left his religion in the country
He took a dab in politics,
The city kind, of course;
He bought high powered auto
1t was faster than the horse.
He had a box at opera
And lot of gilt-edged stock
Built the bank right in the center
OF the citys finest block;
But he left his religion in the country.
The church just round the corner
Was of other brand than his;
So he visited the movies
Or spent Sunday at his biz
He knocked the city preachers
And he laughed at Sunday laws,
While his boy went to the mischief
And his girls were lost-because
He had left his religion in the coups -
And when he took his journey = Y
To the place where all men staiNA
He walked up to the Golden Gate
AS though he owned the land.
81 know you're from the CITY,,
Said st. Peter, with sigh;
"And I'm sorry l must tell you
This is once you can't get by.
For you've left your religion In the
country"
Rev. George S. Fulcher. in Christian
Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05
EARNINGS FALL OFF
GFrom Philadelphia Record

LFrom Philadelphia RecordI
Interest and dividend payments
next month will be $4,000, 900 less
than a year ago. is the computation
of The New York Journal of Com
merce. The dividend payments will
be about 100000 less, chiefly due
to the passing of the Steel Corpora
ton common dividend, and the in
terest payments will be nearly $4,000
600 more, on account of new bond
and note issues. 1t is an interesting
detail that the railroad dividends will
fall off less than $1,000,000. Street
proportion of the total. The steam
railway and traction dividends COM
bined for the six months will be
about Ss,000,000 behind last year. q
reduction of little more than 4 pei
cent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05
THE STEEL CORPORATION
New York Sun.1

New York Sun1
The United States Steel Corporation
is the greatest of our great industrial
units, the foremost example of that
Capitalization and aggrandizement Of
functions which has inevitably attend
ed the development of modern business
methods. So also the Government suit
to dissolve this great concern. the suit
begun by the Taft Administration near
ly FIVE years ago in the United States
District Court at Trenton, is the SUI
preme and perhaps the final repressive
effort of that period of legislative
vagueness and economic mistakes and
political folly during which the Sher-
man anti trust act has been employed
in attempts to eradicate the acknoyvI-
edged evils of big business by eliminat-
ing the bigness itself of business.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05
SAVING
TTERE are a few brief stories for
you, young man, who are Won
daring hnu sn MANY ofhnrn nrn

TTERE are a few brief stories for
II you, young man, who are won
dering how so many others are
saving money while you are putting
nothing aside from your weekly
salary.
"Give me the young man with $50
saved and I will show you a young
man who is started on the road to
success. I cannot impress on en-
ployers too strongly the wisdom of
encouraging their employees to econo-
Ynize and to save in little as we'll as in
big things" said a great merchant
prince who began life as an errand
boy and climbed to the presidency of
the same business.
BE prepared" the motto of the
Boy Scouts, is a good motto for any
body who would get ahead in the
world.
Few men can achieve wealth on a
salary alone, but the habit of thrift,
II persisted in, will make even the
small-salaried man we'll off in the
end.
Innumerable instances might be
cited. Nearly every great man has
been an economist. Every rich man
has had to be one In the beginning
of his career and habits acquired
early in life usually continue to the
end.
Frederick Weyerhauser, the lum-
herman, whose fortune was estimated
as greater even than Rockefeller's de-
clared that the surest way to make
money is to save money.
Marshall Field, the great merchant,
said, If you want to succeed, save.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05
EDITORIAL CONTENT

Americans who contemplate a tour of
Europe might find ii safer to pass the
summer in MeXico-Chicago Daily
News.
In a nutshell, the proposal is to
change the freedom of the seas from
the vertical to the horizontal.-Wash-
ington Post.
1t looks as IL Won Tirpitz might sue
ceed General Weyler in American af-
fection.-Columbus Dispatch
On account of possible slides and for
other reasons the fleets trip through
the Canal may be postponed.-Wash-
ington Post.
You see. Germany, it isn't as If you
wouldn't still have the British Navy
for your submarines to practice on
Boston Transcript.
If the Kaiser wants to treat the
the United States SS win SaP be- right 81 pahPsT there
with the scrap.-Philadelphi North
American.
In discussing the sale OF munitions it
should be borne in mind that Uncle
Sans shop is open to all comers, but
he maintains no delivery service - In
dianapolis Star.
To say that the Lusitania had ample
warning" is misuse of language; what
1t had was a threat that IL would be
sunk without warning. The two things
are as different as can well be.-Spring-
field Republican.
The sinking of the liner is equiva-
lent to a naval defeat, and perhaps one
result of the or,oo incident VII be the col;
and greater regard for the German
Empire.-Vienna Neue Freie Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05
THE OPEN MIND

nRESIDENT NICHOLAS MURRAY
BUTLER, of Columbia Univer-
sity, in his address to this years
graduating class, urged the young
men and women to be at great pains
to maintain open minds. He eau
toned them especially against the
closed mind; the mind "for which all
the great issues of life are settled
once for ALL" and which is known in
familiar speech as the Bourbon mind.
Then he said:
There is. another type of mind
equally to be summed To be sure.
both ends. This is the type that
remembers nothing I'm thH and which W,n IN
no historic family haI yet been
given. There is every. prospect.
however. that some contemporary
name may, through contant asSocia-
tion with this type of mind, yet
become as distinguished and as fa-
miiar in the speech of our grand
children as the name of the House
of Bourbon is distinguished and ia
miliar to us.
DR.. Butler may not have had a
particular name in view when he said
this, but the description he gives
suits to nicely the word Progressive.
Progressiveness itself is a fine thing.
No mind can be open, fair, optimistic
and healthy without a generous
amount of it. But that movement in
American politics which is known by
the name Progressive, and of which
Roosevelt is the prophet, is quite
another thing. Some few of these
Progressives-the hard-headed poll
ticians with axes to grind-are not
handicapped by minds which, to bor-
row another phrase from DR.. Butler,
consist wholly of openings" but
those who take seriously the plat
forms and campaign utterances are.
These people welcome with open
arms any proposition that promises a
change from existing, conditions. They
never stop to be sure that 1t is not
inherently absurd or dangerous. "Give
us something new" is the constant
cry of the typical open both ends
minds, and the saddest feature about
the whole thing is that they never
learn that many of the new" things
are but the repudiated nostrums of
earlier ages, while others are the IL
logical and impracticable schemes of
dreamers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05
SUPPLY AND DEMAND
By Wing Dinger

It's funny how the prices soar
On things much in demand.
And once demand falls off. how they
VIII drop to beat the band.
Last Saturday I went to buy
For Decoration Day
Some peonies. and ten cents each
Is what 1 had to pay.
To-day we have in our yard
OF flowers a good supply.
So none in market this A. M
Was 1 compelled to buy.
Curious to know what peonies
Were selling for to-day.
l asked their price of one woman,
And to me she did say:
well. 1 was asking three cents each,
But mercy. sakes alive,
No one will buy them, SO you may
Have them at three for hve."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05
A VOICE CRYING IN
THE WILDERNESS

And this is the record of John, when
the Jews sent priests and Levites from
Jerusalem to ask him. Who art thou
And he confessed. and denied not; but
confessed, 1 am not the Christ. And
they asked, What then? Art thou Elias ?
And he said. / am. not. Art thou that
prophet? And he answered. No. Then
said they unto him, Who art thou
that we may give an answer to them
that sent us. What sayest thou of
thyself? He said, I am the voice of one
crying in the wilderness. Make straight
the way of the Lord. as said the prophet
Esaias.-John !, 10 to 23.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05

Cutting up asphalt streets to put
down pipes that should have been laid
previous to paving is not only wasteful
from the citys standpoint. but 1t shows
q woeful lack of management on the
part of the company. which is thereby
put to the expense of repaving as well
as of excavating for the pipes
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05
WHAT is ENGLAND DOINGr

From the Kansas City Times.1
Sir William Van Horne sneeringly
says that President Wilson probably
in the end will apologize to Germany"
This Briton with the Dutch name is
like many of his kind who keep thous-
ands of miles from the seat of war and
strive to goad the United States into
lighting Great Britain's battles An
English newspaper asks, Now what
will America do?' Germans are killing
a thousand Englishmen every day. The
real question is, what is Great Britain
doing?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05

"Tt becomes prudent men to remain
quiet so long as they are not injured,
but courageous men ought to exchange
peace for war as soon as they have
been wronged; when they have brought
the war to a successful Issue, peace
may be made with the enemy; but no
one ought to be uplifted unduly by sue
cess in war. nor should any submit to
injustice because they are unwilling to
sacrifice the calm delights of peace
Thucydides.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05

Something must soon be done by the
municipal authorities in the matter of
regulating the size and use of heavy
motor trucks on the paved streets of
the city. II the destruction of the
asphalt highways is to follow, as seems
now quite probable. then it will be
necessary to specify the weight of
trucks and the size of load that will be
permitted. Much damage has already
been done and 1t is said still larger
trucks are about to be put into service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05

General Zupelli will have control of
the war department of the Italian gov
ernment during the war with Austria
and Germany The king has taken an
active part in the management and it
is not known how much authority he
and Premier Salandra will leave to the
head of the department.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

Frederick w. Taylor, though dead
may be eXerttng an appreciable inhu-
ence on the present European war. Mr.;
Taylors publishers have just received
by cable from London a large order
for principles of Scientific Manage
ment" A recent review in the London
Spectator of principles of Scientific
Management emphasized the value of
Mr.. Taylor's discovery of the proper re-
lations between the intervals of rest
and work, and this and the action of
the British Government in pressing in
dustries and labor for the supply of
munitions of war has created de-
the managers of a factory in Switzer-
land wrote a short time ago for infor-
nation concerning the theories put
forth in this book, as they desired to
install the Taylor system.
Margaret Cameron. author of "The
rp Rue te ts S od boms
at Oakland. AS she acknowledges that
she spends from six to ten hours a
day" at her desk, week in and week out
1t would seem that a vacation were
about due.
Nine. L. de Hegerm ann -Lindencrone
whose recentlf-published book. "rhe
Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life" told OF
the varied experiences of this observing
American at various European courts
will spend the Spring in Copenhagen
where she has been for some time. In
THE Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life she
tells of arranging and staging in Ber-
lin the new opera of young American.
and securing the patronage of the
Kaiser for 1t. Recently she has re-
peted the experience to a certain ex-
tent, for she has rehearsed another
opera. this time to raise money for the
war charities.
Hamlin Garland. whose latest novel,
THE Forester's Daughter" was recent
ly published was the guest of honor at
a luncheon in Chicago. given by the
Cliff Dwellers Club. He was its first
president. continuing for six years, and
at the luncheon was given a loving-cup
by his associates. Mr.. Garland has now
begun his residence in the East, his first
work being the filming of one of his
novels in New York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05

The news that one woman stood off
a whole company OF Mexican troops for
half day will give more confidence to
those who have been fearsome of what
might happen to American troops in
case of intervention.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05

THE renegade Piutes have hit the
trail again." says the Baltimore
American. The same issue notes that
Billy Sunday is spending his summer
on a western ranch.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 5

The reason some men do NOT succeed is be-.
cause their lpishboHc is aehsrc their backbone
ought to be.-4HOn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05

The German capture of Przemysl is
something like fighting for and getting
an empty pork barrel with half the
slaves gone.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05

This fickle June weather" is the way
an exchange defines 1t. Fickle, moth
ing. Faithless is the word.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05

Just to add variety to the news, it is
announced that an English Snbma-
rine has torpedoed a German transport.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05
MIR. sHAW's VISION

TT F. SHAH, Chinese Ambassador
N to the United States, speaking
before the New York Chamber
of Commerce the other day, gave more
than a hint of what is passing in the
minds of Chinese statesmen regarding
the future of that great country. Mr..
Shah evidently has vision of the time
when China shall be the leader of the
East, relatively as powerful in that
quarter of the globe as is the United
States in this.
He foresees a strong rivalry between
London and New York for supremacy
as the money market of the world and
with the Panama Canal in operation
and exchange possible on a liberal
basis in New York he urges the estab-
lishment of regular steamship lines
between Atlantic coast ports and
China. Best of all, he pleads for a
continuance of the open door" policy
in China, and the perfect good will
and friendliness of the Chinese to-
ward the United States is we'll set
forth in this rather remarkable por-
tion of an exceptionally strong ad-
dress:
II we wish to open our door to
any country or any people in in
dustry or commerce at ALL we
should like to open our door to the
American people first and best. We
would like to open this door, but
the doorway may be blocked by
some extraneous forces which we
may not be able to conquer for the
time being, We hope that since we
you, If you desire at all to have
any communication with us, let us
join hands and maintain the open
door to you. Furthermore, We are
trying to pursue another policy
which is better than the open door
policy, and that is the open heart
policy. We mean that we want to
have our heart open to you in busi-
ness transactions, in developing in
dustry and commerce and in the
establishment of intimate and cor
dial relationship and friendship be-
tween your great country and ours.
This open heart policy. cannot be
be always thorough .pasageway
through which the friendly feelings
and the cordial relationship will
flow from your country to our coun-
try and from our people to your
people. We sincerely hope that
through this visit of ours we
will not only see tremendous possi-
bilities of trade and commerce be-
tween your great republic and ours,
but VIC shall also see tremendous
| opportunities for the two greatest
republics of the world to Join hands
to stand. for liberty, equality and
! universal peace
Here we have more than an intima-
tion of what Chinese leaders have in
mind, and who shall say the vision is
beyond fulfillment. DIR. C. Newton
Dubs, of this city, who has spent more
than ten years among the Chinese and
who is one of the best versed men in
the world on China and its possibili-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05
Our Daily Laugh
DANCING MEN

IN DEMAND.
We never knew
what to do with
grandpa before.
And now?
He'll oe a big
help to us So
cially. We're hav-
ing him taught
a III t h e n Q W
dance steps
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05

Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building,
New York City, Hasbrook. story 6
Brooks.
Western Office. Advertising Building.
Chicago. ILL.,. Allen & Ward.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05

Published every evening Except Sum-
day) at the Telegraph Building. 216
Federal Square. Both phones.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05

Among visitors to Harrisburg yes
terday was Superior Court Judge
George r. Orlady, of Huntingdon
county. The judge, who is as we'll
known to people here as though he
was born a Harrisburger, will be re-
elected this Fall. He was one of the
original judges named to the bench.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05

Americans who contemplate a tour of
Europe might find IL safer TO pass the
summer in Mexico.-Chicago Daily
News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05

You see. Germany, it isn't as If you
wouldn't still have the British Navy
for your submarines to practice on
Boston Transcript.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05

Member American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association. Audit Bureau of
Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ-
ated Dailies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-05

1t looks as IL Won Tirpitz might sue
ceed General Weyler in American af-
fection.-Columbu Dispatch.