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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11

trinsic values counted for little. The
tendency of everything was downward.
Had there been a revival of the
stock market on the constructive side
in 1914. in the absence of the Euro
pean war as a factor, Bethlehem Steel
common on its record of 20 per cent
for two consecutive years on the stock
market, might have sold at par, per-
haps at $3.50.
Now Europe virtually turns a
stream of gold into the treasury of the
company, which is expected to reach
value equal to $500 a share on the
common in two years on orders al
ready booked. Steel manufacturers
say Schwab is the best sales agent in
the United States. He is not taking
business that can be wiped off the
books at moments notice. His con-
tracts with the allies are firm, and
deliveries on the s25O,O00.o0o of or
ders now on hand are assured.
What the business of the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation will amount to af-
ter the war is another question. The
career of this young captain of the
steel industry surpasses even that OF
Carnegie. Like Carnegie he is great
individual figure in the iron world, but
ne is solitary, whereas Carnegie con-
tinually surrounded himself with men
some of whom were scarcely second
to himself in popular estimation
And Schwab's future is even more in
teresting than his past.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
NEW INSURANCE FUND

TIME whole State is vitally inter
ested in plans for the permanent
organization of the Workmen' s
Compensation Board. published at
some length by the Telegraph yester-
day.
The new law. which will be put into
operation on January l, applies di-
rectly or indirectly to practically
everybody in Pennsylvania, young or
old, rich or poor, male or female.
Every wage Garner and every en-
ployer is affected frsthand, and
every wage-earner's beneficiary or de-
pendents and every person with money
invested come indirectly under the
operations of this new law.
In a measure it may be said to be
experimental and is therefore of all
the more interest. In a general way
the operations of the law are pro-
vided for by the statute itself, but to
q large degree 1t must be worked out
with respect to its application TO in
dividual instances. Every move that
lthe new board makes will be watched
with keen interest. More and more
Hhe Government and the individual are
lbeing drawn together in those init
mate relations of life with which gov
sernment in the early years of the
Commonwealth had very little to do,
THE new compensation act is another
step in this direction.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
URGES SHIP PURCHASE BILL

T<HE President has ordered the
Interstate Commerce Commits
sion to investigate the transpor-
tation facilities and rates between this
country and foreign nations. He ex-
poets to use the information in his re-
newed fight for a government owned
merchant marine. There is a strong
legal question as to whether the In
terstate Commerce Commission has a
right to inquire into the necessity for
the governmental purchase, financing
or operation of merchant marine.
But, whether the action is legal or
not, it goes to show the dogged per-
sistence of the President. The ship
purchase bill was never demanded by
the favor OF any considerable group
of people, it was brought forward as
a personal scheme of the President
and McAdoo, and by Presidential
pressure 1t was forced through one
branch of Congress, only to meet de-
feat in the Senate through the cour-
ageous resistance of the Republican
minority, aided by a few rational
minded Democrats Since then tho
businessmen of the country-in whose
interests the President assumes to be
acting-have declared emphatically in
opposition to the scheme.
Yet the President persists; and he
ATTENDS to employ the power and in
rfiuence and activities of any govern
mental agency in his attempt to force
this obnoxious measure through Con-
gress.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
TAFT ON PREPARATION
[Cincinnati Tribune.I


Ex-President Taft is to be congrat-
ulated upon the stand he took in his
speech at San Francisco Thursday.
While a tense situation existed be-
tween the United States and the I'm
perial German Government it was not
at all difficult to arouse interest in the
discussion of proper preparedness for
any emergencies which might arise
in connection with the adjustment of
future international problems. With
the solution of the dispute with the
Teutonic government many persons
with mercurial temperaments and
lacking in continuity of thought will
forget the pressing danger and flip
PANTY will say: "Oh, well, it didn't
happen! We should worry"
No one of ordinary intelligence ever
has considered Mr.. Taft a radical or
an alarmist. A great big man, both
mentally and physically, he has OBJ
served, with judicial calm, the trend
of events AS Secretary Of War and
President he is in position to know the
strength and the appalling weaknesses
of every branch of the defense system
of the United States. When he speaks
his views carry the backing of abso-
lutte knowledge of the conditions dis
cussed and his recommendation GER
tainly should be received with respect
full consideration.
Certainly there is nothing outstand-
Iingly iconoclastic in the very modest
increases he suggests. For instance
the 10000 additional sailors simply
would make effective the navy which
would stand between this nation and
a foreign invader. Fifty thousand
more regulars, which would give the
country a mobile army of something
like $4,000 men, certainly would not
threaten to place the curse of militar-
ism upon 100,000,000 freeborn men
women. More to the point is his idea
concerning the training of civilian Of
ficers and the popularizing of enlist
ments with the view of building up a
strong reserve force ready always to
defend their home land.
Even in our present condition none
of the great powers of the earth seem
desirous to tackle conclusions with I'm
Gle Sam. With a symmetrical and eff
ficient navy and q second line of de-
fense, consisting of well-trained cit
izen soldiery, not a single one of them
would needlessly provoke fight. The
cost of such system would be cheap
insurance against the horrors and
4leSsNs even of victorious war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
WEED-CUTTING TIME

1 had a brother whom thought a
He seemed to think I never needed rest.
When wheat was stacked and ready to
The crop laid by and I, all unabashed,
Would take book or magazine and
with wondrous tales before my hungry
Beneath a tree, to cultivate my mind.
That ruthless brother would steal up
And say: Come .on-you've done that
long enough.
Wed bette better mosey out an cut some
With inward groans I'd put the book
The meanwhile praying for rainy
day!
And we. with hoes or briar-scythes.
On some hot hillside where we'd put to
rout
The hostile hosts of thistles. mulleins-
And white-topped yarrow-could never
Just why these weeds in such profusion
When surely they. possessed of malice,
knew
That was my only chance to read and
Instead OF whacking round some hot
hills crest.
jerked
And see the sort of hills on which
worked,
My memory -sharpened eyes are always
peeled
To see IT, in some catte-dotted field,
The mullen, yarrow, thistle and their
mates
Are growing, all unconscious of their
fates.
And then / chuckle, back inside of me
To think it's past, and I don't have to
be
Out there to whack around as once I
did
When was Just a book-starved. lazy
kid
Strickland Gillian in Farm Life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
EXPLODED SALOON THEORIES



There was an old theory that saloons
could do anything in cities and still be
safe. The saloon politicians who force
licenses for beer gardens near schools
and churches seem to believe in that
theory still
But
There was an old theory that South
ern States would never go dry.
|. Many of them have.
There was a theory, not so very old,
that only the country neighborhoods
and very small towns of Missouri were
against the saloons. On that theory the
brewers beat the County Unit bill and
Kept separate the city and country
votes on local option.
Nearly every Missouri town and city
that has voted since that time has voted
dry
Just the other day Alderman "Hinky
Dink" McKenna, of Chicago, walled
sharply that those Dry-Chicago- i'm
1915 boys will win If we don't step
lively"
The remarkable growth of the SEN
timent against the liquor trade has been
promoted by nothing so much as by the
stupid bullheadedness of the liquor
trade itself. 1t is especially stupid and
bullheaded in the big cities
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
PeettcA In
Pe'e'soqeSa"ia
By the Ex-Committeeman

Returns already received from var.
lous cities of the State to-day indi.
cate that the registration of voter.
will be something immense as com
pared with other registration days
This is the last registration day in
the three classes of cities and as there
are local contests in every count the
interest among party workers is at a
high pitch and officials and candidates
and prominent men are urging the
voters to go out and list their names
SO that they can take part in the pri-
mary battle
Generally speaking. the return to
the party movement is on in full force
all over Pennsylvania and the Repub-
lican registration is so great in most
cities that Democrats and soreheads
are trying to excuse it by saying that
the people who register Republican
now are only doing it to perpetrate va
rious nefarious things at the primary.
The primary election is just ten
days off and it will be the place where
the family differences will be fought
out and the party lines drawn imme-
olately after for a notable campaign.
Thomas B. Smith appears to be CIV
ing considerable pain to the indepen-
or the manner in which his candidacy
Is being received in the Southern dis
trlct of Philadelphia. The Ware men
are lining up for him and gave him a
great demonstration last night
w. c. Thomas has been appointed
burgess of Weatherly to fill a va
cancy.
Representative Walter s. Young, Of
Lykens, is a candidate for his old
place of 1nETiHn nf the
EX-Congressman \. Mitchell Pal
mer will be candidate for delegate
at large to the Baltimore convention
next year according to reports which
are going the rounds.
Representative William Luxem-
burger, who is a candidate for county
controller in Lackawanna county is
the center of a storm just now Some
democrats want him out and others
demand that he stay in.
The Cumberland county judicial
contest is commencing to attract at
tention throughout the State and a
number of. men prominent in State
politics are watching the outcome. 1t
is an open secret that the Democratic
State bosses failed signally in an eff
fort to get the Democrats to agree
upon a candidate.
Director Porter appears to be get
ting icto trouble in Philadelphia
They now charge that a messenger in
his department has been circulating
petitions right at his Office door,
EX-Mayor John Won Bergen, of
Scranton, is a candidate for county
commissioner and there is a lively
fight being made upon him.
The Schuylkill county enrolment in
vestigation appears to be demonstrat-
ing the strength of the return to the
party movement. The Republican list
is standing up.
The contest for judge in Tioga
county is on the home stretch and it
is predicted that at least four of the
candidates will be closely punched.
Friends of Thomas A. Crichton say
that his campaign is in good shape.
On the outcome of the judicial pri-
mary in Erie county may hang the
appointment of Judge to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of Judge
Paul A. Benson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
SCHWAB
TXTHEN Charles NJ. schwab broke
wv away from the United States

TXTHEN Charles NJ. schwab broke
wv away from the United States
Steel Corporation and an
lnounced his intention of ''going into
business for himself there were many
in the steel business and out of 1t
who predicted failure. "Bucking the
trust" they said, ''Schwab would find
very similar to bucking ones head
against a stone wall"
In the light of recent developments
st would be interesting to know wheth-
er Schwab foresaw the future of Beth
lehem Steel or whether he has sim
ply taken advantage of opportunities
Eas they offered. In this connection
1T is to be remembered that Schwab
remarked two years ago, when he did
not dream the great nations Of Flu
rope would all be engaged in war,
that Bethlehem Steel common some
day would sell at 5000 a share Beth
lehem Steel at that time was not
sought for. In fact, the condition of
the stock market was such in the
greater part Of 1913 and 1914 that in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

John H. Thompson, who was here
a day or so ago, is prominent in Pitts
burgh banking affairs
Mayor Jermyn, of Scranton, has
returned from a visit to Canada.
Judge Raymond MacNeille. of
Philadelphia, is agitating opening a.
school for parents.
DIR. Fl. l. Klopp, head of the Rit-
tersVille State Hospital, has almost l.
600 persons under his care now.
Isaac R. Pennypacker, the Phila
delphia historian, has been visiting
Eaglesmere. Is
j. C. Norris, of New Castle. is the
new head of the States retail mer-
chants.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11

have been better to remain just dumb.
Looks as though Mayor Royal
might have his eye on his Meals ticket.
NO, Maude dear, there is no truth
in the rumor that next years calen-
dars will have it labelled as Automo-
bile Day for FORMS sake 1t will stand
as Sunday.
The Red Men are going to prove
to John Harris. if perchance, he in
spirit pay a visit to his old haunts dur
ing the celebration, that there are still
many good Indians in and about Har-
risburg.
About this season the vacation in
fatuat ation begins to feel the effects of
the Fall frosts.
If the publicity representatives of
the warning powers know the temper
of the American people they'll not at
tempt any first page stunts during the
worlds series. We are a long suffer-
ing nation but we have our limits; we
have our limits; yes sir, and this is
them. ..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
SATURDAY EVENING, SEPT. II.

CtutNty may be truly said to cost
nothing: If it does not meet tOith a
the most creditdb!e poSit;on.-Bedu
Brumntel.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
seTHE DAYo

tFrom the Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.l
The day to choose your wife is
Chooseday. "Wednesday is the day to
get married, of course.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
SOUNDS RATHER HYsTERIcAL

[From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.l
Premier Asquith says John Bull can
lau~' at the fear of invasion, but some
how the laugh sounds rather hysterical.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
AND ARE NOT PARTICULAR

charleston News and Courier
Mr. Bryan's tough luck began when
he wasn't born a Mexican. Mexico has
had nine Presidents in two years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
BLISS AND BLISTER

ECincinnati Commercial Tribune.l
"Courtship is bliss said the ardent
young man. Yes. and matrimony Is
blister" snarled the old bachelor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
Tell the Right Story at
the Right Time

Conditions vary in different
parts of the country - and the
manufacturer who uses news
paper c.dvertising is able to give
his message the value of timeli-
ness.
He is able to take advantage of
opportunities.
He can make his appeal along
local lines of thought.
He can eliminate waste energy
and waste money.
He can sell where the selling
is Eood.
Manufacturers will find much
of interest in the booklet The
Newspapers" issued by the
Bureau of Advertising. Ameri-
can Newspaper. Publishers Asso-
citation. World Building, New
York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
EDITORIAL COr1r1ENT

It may be natural for Americans to
grin when they run across such names
as Przemsyl, Przhedborzh, Lipsk and
Pskof in the daily news. but the peo-
pie who receive no jar when they
tawney, Youghiogheny, Yreka and
Hohokus don't appear to have any
license to laugh at nomenclature of
looks to the eye. anyhow.-Erie Her
aid.
The Czar has put himself at the head
his Uncle Nick, because of alleged i'll
health. stand back and watch me
pitch" says the one Nick to the other.
Well, let's see!-Williamsport Sun.
1t takes a Georgia mob to push the
initiative, referendum, and recall to
their logical limit-Pittsburgh Gazette
Times
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
The State From Day to Day

All roads will lead to Allentown to
the big fair on September 21, %, %
and "a, except those that lead to Har-
risburg for the great celebration and
river carnival on the last two days of
the fair.
"Climaxing a week of maniacal vio-
lence, Adam Snyder. murderer of Mrs.
Plummer Port, awaiting the date OF his
execution. attempted suicide in the
improvised a rope from his undershirt
and towel, fastened 1T to cell bar.
and swung out into space, dangling by
his neck. His convulsive death strug-
giles broke the rope and released him,
but he was revived with great diff
culty.-Lancasterr Daily Examiner
Another example of the extreme
danger of allowing typhoid carriers"
at large was brought to light in Dan
willie, Pa, when 1t was discovered that
one Of the assistant chefs at the State
Hospital for the Insane had been i'll
and on duty with walking typhoid for
three weeks before he took to his bed.
AS result there are now eighty cases
in the hospital.
The Bristol Courier tells of a Lang
horne scientist who has converted the
innocent tomato into an implement of
onous nightshade. and the tomato to-
gether The result is food on one side
and poison on the other. Rather safe
bit of the vegetable kingdom to keep
away FROM it would seem,
York. Pa. Sept. 1o-A former Phil
adelphian; James Henessey having
tism, tried 1t out with the assistance
of n friend. The bees were unused to
this method of procedure. and a large
number of them devoted their atten-
tion to the friend and to the portions
of Mr. Henessey where they did the
least good. He was convinced, how
ever, that at least sixty of the stings
Coincident with the marriage of
Robert Haslett and Mrs Mary Mac
Laren at the home of the brides son,
DR.. MacLaren, in Towanda. it came
about that the bridegroom. being the
father of the doctors wife. becomes
his own daughters father-in-law, and
his bride becomes her sons mother-i in
law. This recalls the old story of how
a man, by just the same, although more
so, mixed relationships due to vari-
GUS marriages. actually became his own
grandfather.
Philadelphia, Sept. 10.-A prominent,
well-to-do Philadelphia woman is ad :
vertising in the newspapers for a baby
boy whom she will adopt as the twin
of her own, which is expected to be
born in q few days. No one In the
family except the nurse, family ply
sician, and herself is TO know the sec
ret Even the poor father is to be
fooled. The mother wants the adopted
the one who died In infancy,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS
AGO TODAY

[From the Telegraph of Sept. II. 1861
Another Regiment Here
The Seventy fifth Pennsylvania Regi-
ment arrived here last night and is now
In camp awaiting payment and dis
charge.
Special Meeting at Hope
A special meeting will be held this
evening in the Hope Fire Company
house. Every member has been asked
to be present as an important business
item will be voted on at the session.
COpperheads Meet
The Copperheads held a convention
to-day in the Courthouse and chose
several persons for various offices on
their party ticket
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
UNTIL
by Wing Dinger

There comes time each year. dear
friend,
When everyone would fain
Go way for fun; 1 leave to-day
For nine-Auf Weidersehn-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
Our Daily Laugh
KIDLIRE-

You seem to
have become re-
signed to Wi1lie's
going in swim
ming
You see, dear.
it's about the
only way I can
get him to wash
his face.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
DO YOU KNOW

hosiery for South America?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
This city was known as Harris
Ferry for fifty years or more be-
fore the Revolution.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

-Dumba has found that 1t would
have been better to remain just dumb.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11

Looks as though Mayor Royal
might have his eye on his Meals ticket.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11

About this season the vacation in
fatuation begins to feel the effects of
the Fall frosts.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-11

= TNDER the existing political sys-
" tenn there is always more or less
pla.y to the galleries, particularly
The Washington times., 1915-12-06
DECISION IS REVERSED
IN HOPKINS CASE
Court Returns Verdict for De.
PENDANTS in Suit Against Fl
deity Storage Company.

Contending that the lower court was
in error in not instructing the jury to
return a verdict for the defendant in
the suit for damages against the Fidelity
Storage Company against whom a jury
returned a verdict for Sl.5oo for Mary f.
Hopkins. Administrative OF the estate OF
Frank Hopkins. Chief Justice Shepard.
Of the Court Of Appeals. today reversed
the Judgment and remanded the case
for further proceedings. Associate JUS
tice Robb dissented.
The company asked for a directed ver-
dict on the grounds that no negligence
in construction was apparent in the
scaffold and ladder from which Hopkins
fell and sustained injuries resulting In
his death. In his opinion Chief Justice
Shepard held that "if an employe has
knowledge OF the circumstances under
which the employer carries on his busi-
ness and accepts the employment. he
assumes such risks as are open and OBJ
vious." and declared the lower court
should have given the refused instruc-
ton to the jury.
The Washington times., 1915-12-06
This Weeks S
Photoplays
CRANDALL'S.

Aside from the second appearance
In Washington Of Robert Mantell as a
photoplayer. the most interesting
feature of "The Unfaithful Wife," in
which Mr.. Mantell appears at Gran
dalrs today, is the series of scenes
made at Shadow Lawn" the Elber-
on, N. j.. estate which has recently
been secured by President Wilson to
be used as a summer residence.
The pictures show some of the
beauties of the great estate, which
are used as settings for the various
scenes Of the play. Genevieye Hamp-
er appears as Mr.. Mantelrs leading
woman. The Unfaithful Wife" will
be shown again tomorrow and Wed
nesday.
Thursday and Friday Edwin Arden.
we'll known in Washington through
his connection with stock companies
and lately a leading figure in Broad
way theatrical productions as well
as important photoplays. will be seeh
in an adaptation of The Grey
Mask" a detective story published il
Golfers Weekly. Saturday GLADYS
Hanson will be seen in the Universe
company's production of The Prim-
rose PATH" by Bayard WELLER. author
of within the Law"