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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04

autocrat to carry an unjust war against
a helpless Belgium. for the simple
reason that the government of the
such an eventuality would be impos-
sible without the consent of the peo-
pie, who are peace-loving and disposed
to deal honestly in their international
relations even to the point of their
own detriment. In training our young
men we are simply doing for the coun-
try what the householder does when
he purchases a revolver to protect his
valuables from burglars. A military
reserve in this country is our insur-
ance against international burglary.
and like all forms of insurance it will
cost something.
But it will pay for itself. Any able
the discipline and exercises of mill
tary education. They tend to moral
recutude and physical well being, for
no man can excel as soldier unless
he is mentally alert and bodily able to
do his share of work.
thought that whatever may be said
of the mind-training the pupil receives
in our public schools, his physical
training has been neglected most Woe
fully. Some years ago this newspa-
per was instrumental in the organiza-
ton of cadet corps in the Central
high school. Partly by reason OF a
careless instructor and partly because
the idea appears to. have been in ad-
vance of the times, the organization
was discontinued. Conditions have
changed, however, and it is probable
that revival of the military feature
of high school life now would be met
with an enthusiastic response on the
part of the student body. No possible
harm could come from such instruc-
tion and doubtless it would be produc-
tive of much good. Harrisburg has
set an example to cities throughout
the country in many other respects.
Why not in this?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
POLITICS IN COUNCIL

DARTY politics should have no
place in City Council. The fool
ishness of injecting petty feel
ings and selfish ambitions into the
affairs of the city was never better
demonstrated than yesterday, when.
after long delay and bitter wrangling
over the completion of the River
Front the two minority councilmen
were compelled to yield the untenable
position they had been striving in vain
for weeks to hold and to agree to the
appropriation of money with which
TO finish the work.
Everybody realized rrom the very
start what the end would be. Even
the minority members knew their
stand was hopeless. They played
cheap party politics in the hope of
strengthening their candidates. for re-
election by holding up public work on
the plea Of economy and regard for
law. Nobody would for a moment
urge a public official 20 do anything
irregular much less juggle public
monies. But If there was a doubt in
intendent of finance as to whether or
not there was sufficient in the regular
funds to complete Improvements that
they knew in the end would have to
be completed, certainly then 1t was the
duty of his honor, as the presiding
officer of council, and of the superin-
tendent of finance to look into the
financial condition of the city and to
suggest ways and means of procuring
the necessary sum from other sources.
Instead, they continued to place
obstacles in the way of the three
majority councilmen at every turn and
it is to the efforts of Commissioners
Bowman, Taylor and Lynch that the
balances were found with which to
complete the work.
What splendid city government we
should have if such petty differences
as these could be eliminated; If public
officials could forget their own per-
sonal feelings and ambitions to con-
duct the affairs of the city purely on
business basis, as they are sworn to
do. In the end littleness never pays
and finally common sense and tN
right prevail, just as they did yester-
day, but in the interval much precious
time is lost and no good whatever is
accomplished. 1t is to be hoped that
the results of yesterdays meeting will
be a lesson as to the futility of such
petty scheming and. that we shall have
no more of il.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
THE ANNIVERSARY OF WAR
rrrom the New York sun.1

IFrom the New York Sun.1
The end of the first year finds the
major belligersnts variously and per-
haps characteristically engaged in pro-
cess of reminiscence and prospective
reflection:
The Teutons. who seem-we speak
without intent of irreverence-to have
least need of Divine support of their
arms, thank God for special direction
in their defensive war"
The British. who have not scored
the most brilliant successes in the
field, are not proclaimins their share
in the Divine patronage, but, no less
confident than their foes. are taking
vows to yield only in death or utter
destruction.
Brave little Belgium, symbolist by
nature, expresses herself in the wear
ing of badge: scrap OF paper"
France sends a message of courage
to the firing line. The Pope appeals,
to ears that are deaf. Russia giorifies
her patriots. redeclares her innocence,
and. in Duma assembled. prepares to
supply her guns with shells afresh,
while the Czar sends an anniversary
message to the troops: We shall sue
ceed. for we have the blessing of the
Almighty.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
REAL PATRoLNIEN

FINDER orders just issued by
Police Chief Joseph B. Hutchi-
son. Harrisburg will have police
men on the beats who are real patrol
men.
The Chief has issued strict orders
that the officers keep close tabs on all
law violations, that special attention
be given houses wherein vice of any
sort is. suspected. and that all such
violations, together with petty thievery
reported, shall be turned in to head
quarters when the men go off duty.
The order has been issued. Colonel
Hutchison explains, because "the pa
trolmen frequently tell persons MAX
ing complaints to come to the Office
Naturally many people are 10th to
make a trip to headquarters when
the losses involved are einconsequential.
The result is that many offenders es-
cape and many live outside the pale of
the law in comparative safety. To end
this the Police Chief says of his men:
'1n the future they must take the
complaint. report it to the Office, and
get busy inquiring into complaints. In
the future, where a prosecution is
made on information received, the
petrolman who has failed to do his
duty will be punished accordingly"
In every up-to-date city of the coun-
try the patrolmen make daily reports
on the many minor details of police
duty. The aiding of child to find its
home, the breaking of an electric light
globe on the city streets, accidents
which on the face of things are trivial.
are all reported in black and white to
the officer in charge. The wisdom of
this procedure has been shown time
and time again.
No one knows when child is struck
by a bicycle. for instance. and suffers
slight abrasion of the skin on hand or
face. whether serious consequences
from blood poisoning will result or not.
The instant reporting Of child found
to headquarters may save a worrying
mother hours of anguish. There are
dozens of other similar duties which
every patrolman is expected to per-
form in cities like Phitadelphia and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
WHERE HOG RAISING is PROFIT,
ABLE
To the Editor Of the Telegraph:

To the Editor Of the Telegraph:
Hog raising in Pennsylvania, If
carried on in the right way, can be
made profitable business. 1 learn
ed this recently during visit to Astola
Ranch, fourteen miles southwest of
Johnstown, in Somerset county.
Hearing much about this money
making project, l was curious to
know how hogs were raised for a
profit. Having arranged with the
manager and treasurer of the National
Hog Company, owner of this ranch,
was given every opportunity to see
each department, and have it ex-
planned to me. Mr.. Wehn gave me
every courtesy possible. He is a very
busy man, but not too busy to take
care of visitors who manifest inter
est in this enterprise.
Just before we reached the ranch
In an automobile, Mr.. Wehn stopped
few minutes to show me a beautiful
stretch of land, covering $4,000 acres.
This land is in control of the Ma
tional Hog Company, owners of the
Astola Hog Ranch. There is ample
room for extension of this business.
Arriving at the ranch 1 found lit
tie hogs, big hogs, white and red
hogs, enough almost to feed a Euro
pean army. Contrary to expectation,
l found the ranch a clean odorless
place. The land occupied was for
merly owned by a lumber company.
The big timber had been cleaned off
and small trees were growing all over
the place. These young trees offered
many shady places for the hogs
About the place are a number of
buildings, and around the ranch are
dwellinghouses, barn and everything
necessary for a busy little town.
There is also a schoolhouse not far
away.
The barn is used for taking care
of the sows and their litter. 1 found
hundreds of little pigs being cared
for by their mothers. The litters
numbered from six to twelve. At pres
ent there are $50 breeders on the
ranch. All the very best stock. The
National Hog Company has been Of
fered from So to $500 for some of
their male hogs
On the ranch there is a total of
1000 head, including LOO shoats and
pigs. This is a remarkable showing
as the raising of hogs at this place
started in October 1914. There are
buildings for sheltering the hogs,
pool for dipping. At times this pool
is diluted with ingredients to pre-
vent vermin from attacking the hogs.
A State veterinary surgeon inspects
the ranch four and five times each
year, vaccinates the hogs and sees
that 1t is up to sanitary regulations.
A mountain stream runs through
the place furnishing fresh water daily.
This is an important feature of this
ranch. The hogs are supplied with
the best feed that can be purchased.
Each department has its special feed,
the little ones receiving special at
tention in food. The hogs are all in
good healthy condition and never get
too fat. Ny visit impressed me with
the belief that hog raising is a good
investment for one that wishes to
make money in an honorable way.
SAMUEL PLOUGH.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
PROPER PREPARATION

TIME whole country is aroused as
never before over the subject
of national preparedness
against the attack of some covetous
and unscrupulous foreign power. We
as a people have come to a sudden
realizationthat we are as a sheep
among wolves, rich man
among thieves Hudson Maxim sized
up the situation very well before the
Chamber of Commerce a few days ago
when he likened the United States
among the nations to New Jersey
countryman alone on the Bowery at
midnight with both hands full of
hundred dollar bills. 1T is not a. oues-
ton of whether that countryman will
keep his money or lose it; it is simply
a question of which gunman sees him
first, is the way he put it,
Hundreds of college students. realiz-
Ing the seriousness of our position
and the necessity of a military re-
serve, have been attending the sum-
mer military school at Plattsburg.
and they will be followed by a train
ing camp for business men, the total
enrolment for which to date has
reached LOIS. The last day for en-
rolling is Thursday, and by that time
the army officers in charge of the
camp believe they will have 1900 men
enrolled from all parts of the country.
There will be bank presidents, doc
toEs, lawyers, brokers, engineers and
many others, mostly college gradu-
ates, who will shoulder a gun and be
instructed in all branches of the land
service so that they might some day
become commissioned officers if an
emergency required the raising of a
large volunteer army in this country
There is nothing war-like in this
preparation. The military reserve so
created will never be used by an un-
Principled, ambitious or bloodthirsty
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
JOHNNY APPLESEED

a BOUT a century ago Jonathan
~ chatham left his orchard and
little farm at Pittsburgh and
started on his mission of service to his
fellow men. He determined as a re-
suit of the yearning of the emigrants,
who stopped at his place on this way
over the trail westward to enjoy his
apple orchard, to give his life to the
planting and nursery OF orchards
among the settlements of the Middle
West He was then a young man and
for fifty years he continued this work,
establishing small nurseries and set
ting out orchards all over Ohio, In
diana, Michigan and Illinois.
He gathered seeds from the pomace
at the cider mills every year and with
his bag of seeds he tramped the for
ests and endured the privations and
perils of the early pioneer days on his
remarkable mission. Says one writ
ing of him:
Half mystic. half poet lover OF
nature and of his fellow men, his
long life of solitary and perilous
wandering always in the, van of
migrat, IN was consecrated to the
blossoming of the wilderness.
Some of his trees are believed to be
standing to-day and the lesson of his
life is the lesson of service TO our fell
low men. 1t is likewise a suggestion
for the thousands of automobile tour
lists travelling up and down the high
ways of Central Pennsylvania Let the
life of Johnny Appleseed," as Chat
man came to be known among the In
dians and settlers, be an inspiration.
Let every tourist as he passes in and
out among the hills and valleys of this
part of Pennsylvania make it a rule
to carry with him packets of flower
and fruit seeds, scattering these where
they will grow and beautify the land
scape.
We have been a destructive people
long enough. Waste for a century has
characterized our development as a
nation. Let us follow the example of
Johnny Appleseed" and do our part
in making beautiful not only with the
blossom of the apple trees, but flowers
and plants, the highways and byways
of this imperial Commonwealth.
Harrisburg is a good place to start
the movement and may we not hope
that our automobile tourists and all
Others will take fire from the life of
the inspired orchardist and frontiers
man of one hundred years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
YES, THEY ASKED HIM

When William H. Crane was
younger and less discreet he had a
vaulting ambition to- play Hamlet" "
So with his first profits he organized
his own company and he went to an
inland Western town to give vent to
his ambition and "try 1t on"
When he came back to New York a
group of friends noticed that the
actor appeared to be much downcast.
Whats the matter, Crane? Didn't
friends.
They didn't seem to-" laconically
answered the actor.
Well, didn't they give any encour-
agement? Didn't they ask you to come
before the curtain?" persisted the
friend.
ASK me?" answered Crane. Man,
they dared mel"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
EDITORIAL COMf1ENT

Ty Cobb says he never drinks. but
II is thought he does not object to see
ing the bases full.-Columbia State.
Thaw is sane, in. which respect n.
has tremendous advantage over some
millions OF his admirers.-Boston Tran
script.
Caruso is the last man we Imagined
Italy would exempt, considering hfs
unequaled experience in charging.VCo-
lumbia State.
The stork has brought a 1usty baby
boy to Mrs. Walter johnson. It Is un-
derstood that he has q very swift bawl
Boston Transcript.
Count Okuma's apprehension for
India in case Germany wins will be
appreciated in China.-Washingto
Post.
Just because the President works his
own typewriter, Won Jagow mustn't
think he takes dictation.-Columbia
6AeAbee
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

William A. Law. the Philadelphia
banker. is president of the American
Bankers Association, which will meet
in Seattle this month.
"A. e. Turner, prominent Philadel-
phlan, has been spending the summer
in the Poconos.
Israel NJ. Bertolet, of Berks coun-
ty' has been elected president of the
Bertolet Family Association.
Edward McIlvain. of the Beth
lehem Steel Company, is giving assist
ance in establishment OF dye works in
this country.
Thomas H. Greer. the Butler law
yer. has returned from a visit to the
northwestern states.
John Williams, prominent in the
organization of iron workers, is a can
didate for Pittsburgh council.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
BY Wing DinEer

Everybody's worried.
Cause they want to go
To tomorrow circus.
But they do not know
Where they're going to find IL
Since the grounds of old.
In the form of home-sites,
Now are being sold.
Everyone's been asking
Where the show will be-
Here's the information
That will bring much glee
To the hearts of parents
Who with kids would go.
Seneca and Fourth Streets
Is the place twill show.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
DONE PROPERLY

How is it you were SO long over
your work to-day
Sure, ma'am," replied the servant.
you were watching me most of the
time. Judge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
Furs in Summer Time

Summer furs are the rage this
summer.
Though the jokesmiths have
poked fun at the idea the wo-
men have retorted that 1t Is lust
as sensible for them to wear
fluffy boas as it Is for men to
keep thick coats on"
And there are styles" and
styles in the summer furs as a
matter of course.
You will find them described
from time to time in the index
OF fashion" the advertising
columns of the Telegraph.
In summer or winter it pays Ia
read the Advertising in the rele-
graph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE

Well, yesterday you were begging
for little wind, weren't your
After this war is over there will be
quite few munition manufacturers
turning their shrapnel case mills into
plowshare factories.
The Russian Bear certainly has
been hugging Warsaw.
Before going on vacation 1t might
be wen to figure out how you are going
to finance next winters coal pile.
At all events fishermen may take
consolation in the fact that there will
be more fish in the river this Fall than
would have been the case If summer
fishing had been as good as usual.
Cupid may not be an expert tennis
player. but he does know how to serve
a love game
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg still has some
idle furnace capacity, but that It
viii probably bo going before
long?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
A HORRIBLE
THOEGHT.

4 1hOCS SI1 l.
The Germans
have q gun that
will 8 h o OF 27
miles.
Terrible. Just
imagine what Is
liable to happen
II some fool who
doesn't know It's
loaded S I art s
monkeying with
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04

TIME announcement by Secretary
of the Navy Daniels of the ap-
pointment of a Naval Advisory
Beard, composed Of men who have
done things in the world of inven-
ton, has once more centered attention
upon the fact that the United States
is the leading nation of the world with
respect to inventive ingenuity.
1t is not an empty boast that
Yankee skill" leads the world, but a
fact easily proven, as a glance at the
records of the Patent Office of this and
other countries will soon show. The
United States, with a patent system
less than a century old, issued it's one
millionth patent on August 8, 1911.
France, our nearest competitor, has
issued only little more than half this
number. while Great Britain. Germany
and the other European countries have
still fewer patented inventions.
The war abroad has, of course, seri-
ously impaired the business of creating
and patenting new devices in prac-
tically all the countries of Europe,
while it has only stimulated Americans
to greater efforts. The average num-
Der of patents issued daily at the pres
ent time is larger than ever before,
and there are apparently no bounds
to be placed upon the creative genius
VI tilt lOE no
sooner is one device finished, patented
and placed on the market than some
one devises something Just little
better and new patent is issued.
In this connection it is rather anus
ing to note that there is on file at the
Patent Office in Washington the letter
of the superintendent of the Patent
Office, written in 1894, resigning his
position because there was nothing
left to patent" This man, who had
never dreamed of the telephone or
telegraph, the automobile or aero
plane, the electric light or moving pic
lures, this man who would have con-
sidered that a person who spoke of
sending messages through the air was
a hopeless lunatic, and that he who
imagined that gun could shoot
dozen miles with accuracy sufficient to
hit target only a few feet square
should be incarcerated lest he harm
his neighbors. voluntarily gave up his
lucrative post rather than defraud the
government. One has only to glance
at the epochal inventions of the last
century to see how much the world
can and probably will change before
2015.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4

IdleneSS Is only the refuge Of tCedk
minds. the holiday of foolS.-Lord
Chesterfield.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04

Well, yesterday you were begging
for little wind, weren't your
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
Our Daily Laugh

NEWS FROM
THE TRENCHES
Are your wife
and that woman
next door still
fighting.
Intermittently.
They exchanged
gossip today un-
der a hag OF
truce.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
American Creative Abillty

And it is because American genius
and American creative ability have
always been in the forefront OF these
changes that the Secretary of the Navy
decided to form his Advisory Board,
appointing thereto men whose names
are household words and whose inven-
tions are familiar to everyone.
Thomas A. Edison, admittedly the
foremost inventor in the world, will
head the board. and it is assuredly
within the bounds of modest imagin,
alton that his brain will evolve some
machinery of warfare which will be
comparable in destructive energy to
the constructive force exercised by the
incandescent lamp. the moving picture
camera and the many other inventions
which bear the name of the American
wizard. The word Edison has been
one to conjure with in times of peace;
1t is the opinion of Secretary Daniels
that 1t will be no less powerful in time
of war.
Alexander Graham Bell, the in
vcntor of the telephone, is another in
ventor slated for position upon the
Naval Advisory Board and it is neces-
sary only to consider of what tremen-
dous advantage the control of wireless
telephones would be to a nation at
war to realize the probable sphere of
Bells activities. Wireless telegraphy
has practically relegated the old
fashioned system of signaling between
warships to the scrap heap. The per-
fection of the wireless telephone would
entirely do away with signal flags, save
for decorative purposes, and the com
mander of fleet would have all the
units of his armada directly under his
control and subject to his slightest
wish. Wireless telegraphy is rapid,
but wireless telephony would be in
stantaneous
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04

The Russian Bear certainly has
been hugging Warsaw.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04
Others Mentioned

Others who have been mentioned
fol places upon the Advisory Board
are Wilbur Wright, the man who is
credited with having brought the aero
plane to its present state of excellence
and ease of control, and Simon Lake,
whose work with submarines has
placed him at the head of the list
with respect to the under-sea craft.
At present the American navy is
rather deficient with respect to sub
marines and its aero fleet is smaller
than that of any frst-class power in
the world. But this condition will
probably not maintain long after the
Naval Advisory Board gets under way
and it is almost certain that the gov
eminent will have the exclusive use Of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-04

John W. Dougherty former general
of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company, is one of the high
officers of the Crucible Steel Company.
the Western Pennsylvania concern
which is much in the public eye at
present. Mr.. Dougherty has been
with the company for several years
and contributed materially to bringing
it up.