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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13
IN THE WARS VAST ARENA
Radon, Through Which the Germans Swept in Their
Drive Through Russian Poland

country capital approaches by way of
the fortress Ivangorod, making the
distance by railway more than 100
miles.
Radon is situated on the Mleczna
in a sweep of country which breaks
into a low, fiat reach toward the
north. 1t is one of the best, most
solidly built towns of Poland, and,
unlike Lodz, 1t has taken the trouble
to reflect the growing wealth of it's
business in a neat, well-planned, sub
stantial outward appearance The
Industry OF Radon has been ham
pered by insufficient means for trans
portation.
THE population OF the city exceeds
10000, nearly one-half of which is
Jewish. The factories turn out agri-
cultural machinery, leather goods,
other machinery and iron products.
Radon is of importance in Polish
history, for here several diets were
held. Jadwiga, most famous Queen
of Poland, was chosen by electors as
sembled here in 1892. Here, in 1401,
the union between Poland and Lithu-
ania was brought about. At the third
partition of Poland, Radon fell to the
lAustrians' share: It was annexed to
Russia In 1914"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13
SCHOOL FOR DasooNrENTs

A School for Discontents" has late
ly been opened in Kansas City, Mo.
and is receiving the approval of the
educators of other cities who have
been noticing its work 1t is based
upon the principle that children are
likely to be contented In school IL
they are given work that interests
them. The ordinary course of study
sometimes fails to do this.
Any child in Kansas City who has
passed the fifth grade in the regular
school and is discontented can be
transferred to the Lathrop School,
where he will have his energies en-
gagged in some practical manner by
pre-vocatlonal work of the kind which
he himself prefers.
Boys are taught shop work, pat
tern making and carpentry. Girls
are taught cooking, sewing, millinery
and embroidery, with special provf-
sions to meet individual need and de-
sires. The boys receive instruction in
mathematics as shop arithmetic -
They learn correct English as com
mercial expression" and geography by
the evident need in their work of Sc
curing some knowledge of the source
of the supply for their different mate
rtals.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13
RADIUM DEVELOPMENTS
By Frederic J. Haskin

d ADIUM is the one important COM
N modify in the world which has
dropped in price since the war.
1t was listed in London last month at
$1,000 per gram less than last year.
The depreciation was not caused by
any decrease in the demand for it or
by any excess in the supply. The de-
mand for years is likely to greatly
exceed the available supply. The re-
duced price was due to the fact that
certain private parties, who held limit
ed quantities, needed the money and
were compelled to sell at sacrifice.
The radium was eagerly bought. An
important demand is from the medi-
cal department of the British army
which is anxious to secure a sufficient
supply for its hospitals to supplement
the uses to which 1t has already been
applied by the Radium Institute of
London. Radium is being used sue
cessfully in treating rheumatism de-
Veloped among soldiers from exposure
in the trenches. The small supply
available prevents an extensive use of
it as is desired for this purpose.
Production Increases
The production of radium in the
United States has been tremendously
increased within the past year by the
new methods devised by the Bureau
of Mines. Those methods have made
it possible to produce radium at q
much reduced expense. A full gram
of high grade radium, in the form of
bromide, was produced in this coun-
try during the months of April, May
and June at a cost of less than $780,
050. This sum included the value of
the ore, the insurance, the allowance
ha ~ Yn1o NJ
equipment, the cost of the co-opera-
ton of the Bureau of Mines and all
other expense. The lowest selling
price for radium for several years past
has been $4,000 per gram. Only
about thirty grams are in existence in
the entire world and the United States
has had less than her share because
of her tardy entrance into the radium
refining field.
ductioH' of the cost of production
will be readily recognized although,
for the present at least, 1t is not like
ly to materially lower the selling price.
That is fixed by the demand which is
constantly increasing. The radium
reduction plants in Germany have
been closed by the war. That nation
is making a valiant attempt to corner
every stray atom of radium, while
Russia France and England are equal
ly anxious to acquire it.
Increasing Resources
Because of the great European de-
mand, the American hospitals and the
physicians who desire to test the
curative properties of radium must
look to its refinement in their own
country. The National Radium In
stitute was organized last year for the
purpose of increasing the radium re-
sources of this nation. It's president is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13
THE TLL-NoURIsHED Pupil

nOVERTY of parents of school
children is the subject of bull
letin just issued by the health
authorities of Philadelphia. The bull
Ietin says there are thousands of chill
dren in that city suffering from lack
of food and that about three per cent.
of the school population goes to school
without breakfast.
Only fifty or sixty per cent. have an
inadequate morning meal, and ten per
cent. eat a scanty breakfast before
six o'clock.
Coupled with bad housing condi-
tions among the poor and the indiffer-
ence of the parents, the child cannot
be physically normal under such con-
ditions. The poorly-nourished child
cannot compete with his we'll fed
school companion in any of the
activities or tasks assigned him. He
J is easily the subject of diease and he
is the spreader of germs that sweer
in epidemic form through the ranks
of all classes of pupilS
The condition in Philadelphia IL
serious. If by law children are forced
to attend school, then the law ought
to be responsible for their well-being
They must be fitted for study and safe.
guarded against disease. An educa.
tion is of small value If its possessor
has not the physical stamina to put 81
to use. We must get over the notion
that the school is for mental training
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13

Washington, d. c., Sept. 13. - In
their drive through Southern Russian
Poland, the Germans recently swept
over the city of Radon. capital of the
government of Radon, and the last
important city in the south between
their legions and the metropolis,
Warsaw. A description of this city
was given out to-day by the National
Geographic Society:
Radon was one of the numerous
thriving industrial towns of Russian
Poland which have sprung into being
during the last score Of years with
the percolation of Western manufac-
turing technique into the Slav COM
munities nearest to Western Europe.
Cheap and abundant labor has at
tracted many enterprises across the
Russian borders. and convenience to
the larger markets and the vast
stores of raw materials have held
most of these these enterprises in
Russian Poland and in the Baltic pro-
vinces Radon was one of the pros
perous progressive Slav towns brought
forth by this Western invasion of in
dustry.
Warsaw lies about so miles almost
due north of Radon, while the only
railway running through the southern
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13
BY BRIGGS

DR.. Howard Kelly of Baltimore, one
OF the two American surgeons who
have been treating large numbers of
cancers successfully with radium. The
institute has secured the right to
take out one on ten different carnatite
claims, averaging ten acres each, be-
longing to a steel company. 1t has
agreed to supply the sum of $780,
900 toward the technical supervision
and control of radium- producing ores
in cooperation with the Bureau cf
Mines, the bureau to supply the expert
scientific work.
All of the radium produced by the
efforts OF the National Institute will
be utilized for scientific work in
America. Despite some effort to pre-
vent it, several shipments of Amer
lean radium have gone to Europe
since the beginning of the war. Two
commercial companies in this country
are now producing 1t.
Important Use
The most important use of radium
yet developed is that of curing cancer.
In the opinion of many experts, It is
the only genuine cancer cure in exist
ence. At the meeting of the Amer
lean Medical Association held last
month, in San Francisco, considerable
time was given to the therapeutic
qualities of radium, which are as yet
in the beginning of their develop
ment. Cancer is disease of fright
full malignance which has increased
with such rapidity within the last ten
years that physicians are searching
desperately for some definite cure.
While many failures have resulted
from the use of radium 1t has effected
some seemingly miraculous cures.
It's value in treating cancer has be-
come so we'll established that two
years ago in Germany the Kaiser con-
ceived the idea of driving all cancer
out of that country by establishing
radium treatments in all hospitals. He
ordered different municipalities to ap-
propriate sums varying from $4,000
to 100000 for the purchaes of radium
for hospital use.
This action of the Kaiser is re-
sponsible for the large number OF
German hospitals which own small
quantities of radium and the num-
Der of cases treated with 1t even in
small hospitals. The best results pub
| lished have been those of the Samari-
tan Hospital of Heidelburg where SO
per cent OF the 100 cancer cases treat
ed were cured. Only 10 per cent. OF
cures according to medical ethics are
required to establish the merit of a
treatment.
What Cancer Will Do
A resume Of the cures effected in
different European countries establish
es the belief that radium will abso-
lutely heal all skin cancers and may
frequently be used successfully upon
certain forms of interior growths
though few go SO far as to insist upon
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Judge G. Y. Audenreid, of Phila-
delphia, is home from a motor trip to
the New England coast
&C. Specht, Johnstown coal man.
has so many contracts for foreign
shipment that he did not have time to
run for mayor and withdrew.
p. j. Ahern. who rounded up the
western counterfeiters. is head of the
secret service at Pittsburgh.
Robert Fleming, of Beaver, came
home from a western trip and then
entertained forty friends at a corn
roast.
DIR. W. M. Davidson, superintend-
ent of the Pittsburgh schools, is MAX
ing series of addresses in Pittsburgh
schools. e-A
DIR. H. A. Hare, the Philadelphia
physician, has been spending some
time in Rhode Island.
Colonel F. o. Johnson, United
States Army, well known here, is TO
take charge of recruiting in the CO.
lumbus district.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13
Peettc4 i~
Pe~"e4esasia

A new third class city is in the
to have the names of the boroughs of
Turtle Creek, Wilmerding and East
Pittsburgh changed to Westinghouse
were referred to the grand jury, to be
heard on October IL, at Pittsburgh. On
Saturday Judge Brown paid tribute
to the name of George Westinghouse
by stating that he was one of Pitts
burgh's foremost men and deserving of
the honor with which the citizens of
the several petitioning boroughs desir-
ed to remember him. Each of the
boroughs petitioned the court sep
arately
In Westmoreland county, where
three candidates are running for the
nomination to the Common Pleas
bench, now occupied by Judge A. D.
Mcconnell, the liquor license question
has jostled aside almost every other
consideration. The incumbent is a
candidate to succeed himself and his
opponents are Curtis H. Gregg, for
mer member of Congress from the
Twenty-second Congressional District.
and George B. Shaw. Judge McCon-
nell is Republican and both his op-
ponents are Democrats. Mr.. Shaw rep
resents the leadership of the reorgan-
lied Democracy in Westmoreland
county, while Mr.. Gregg has stood in
most instances by the old guard, al
though he bolted the Guffey crowd at
Denver eight years ago, as delegate
in the national convention, and sup
ported Mr.. Bryan.
The Philadelphia Inquirer In re-
view of the Chester county judgeship
says: Comparatively no change exists
in the judgeship contest. Supported
by the organization that is we'll organ
lied and backed by a faultless record,
Judge Gawthrop will be returned with
flying colors. Extravagant claims of
the Frank e. Hause, or Democratic
clan, have no existence in fact. The
third candidate, Arthur T. Parke,
champion of the drys, is making no
gains, his total primary vote is esti-
mated at from 5000 to 4000."
The Schuylkill county grand jury
having failed to make the investiga-
ton wanted by Judge Brumm into the
enrolment in parts of the county was
summoned back to the job to-day.
George F. Holmes, Philadelphia
newspaperman we'll known here, has
withdrawn his petition to run as a
Democratic candidate for county COM
missioner in Philadelphia He is run
ming very much Bull Moose however
County Commissioner j. Denny
O'Neil, who is being attacked by circu-
lars in his county, is out with speeches
telling why he should be renominated
and many of his friends are sanguine
that he will run far ahead.
Pittsburgh people will vote on q
proposition to issue bonds for S4,-
$1,000 for improvemen
Montgomery county Republicans
say that there will be no doubt about
a balanced ticket that will win at
the general election.
The insurgent movement against
the Lancaster Republicans seems to
exist chiefly in Sunday political re-
views published in Philadelphia.
Perry county's associate judge
ship contest is attracting considerable
attention through the Juniata valley
because of the prominence of the drink
issue.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13
EDITORIAL cO1r1ENT

What the people of Galveston can't
understand is why those italian peas
ants persist In living on the slopes OF
Vesuvius.-Boston Transcript.
In Alabama they lynched three
negroes accused of poisoning mules.
The honor of mules must be protected
as they'd say in Georgia-Philade1ph
North American.
The twenty hve-cent increase in the
price of coal indicates that the dealers
have just heard about that seventy
hve-cent cut ordered by the Inter State
script.
Take" was the advice of Mrs Jean
Portable age Of los, "a drink of beer in
the middle of the night and you will
live to be as old as l am" and many
up till small hours to do it..New York
Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13
SEPTEMBER

Among the stubbled corn
The blithe quail pipes at morn,
The merry partridge drums in hidden
places.
And glittering insects CLEAN
Above the reedy stream,
Where busy spiders spin their filmy
laces.
At eve, cool shadows fall
Across the garden wall
And on the clustered grapes to yellow
turning;
And pearly vapors lie
Along the eastern sky, .
Where the broad harvest moon is redly
burning.
The cricket chirps all day.
20 fairest summer, stay!
The squirrel eyes askance the chest-
nuts browning;
The wild fowl fly afar
Above the foamy bar,
And hasten southwark ere the skies are
frowning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13
MONDAY EVENING, SEPT. IS.
Heard melodies are Sioeet, but thoS'
nnhedrd are sDeeter.-KeGts.
BACKYARD GARDENS
TIME Telegraph for years has urged
the planting of backyards to
Vegetables and flowers on the

TIME Telegraph for years has urged
the planting of backyards to
vegetables and flowers, on the
ground that the family garden adds
to the pleasure of life in or out of
I the city and materially reduces the
jcost of living. AS an instance of what
can be done in just a common back
yard, the case of a foundry foreman,
one James Young, of an Ohio city,
may be cited. Tomatoes were his chief
item. He used hot beds and common
sense. He raised besides, sweet peas,
grapes, beans and other vegetables.
He also raised puppies and chickens.
He made over $500 out of his venture
last summer, added few years to his
life, and besides got lots of fun out
of it all.
Men like this foundry man are not
usually failures. They provide for
the day when age, or business de-
preston might leave them with no
visible means of support They find
that the hour each morning spent in
the garden, or in the evening in learn
ing the rudiments of thrift, adds a
sense of scrutiny that sustains them
through the laborious working hours.
Thomas A. Edison in discussing
Failures" said: Failure is matter
pof self-conceit. Men don't work hard
because, in their self-conceit, they
think they are so clever that they'll
lsucceed without working hard.
Most men believe that they'll wake
up some day and find themselves rich
or famous-and. eventually. they
wake up"
These Failures" who never learned
in youth the value of thrifty habits
are in the vanguard of the increasing
host of dependents in the country,
which now numbers in its pitiful list
81 per cent of the men and women
over 65 years of age who are totally
dependent on relatives, the state or
county, for their food, their clothing
and shelter.
Why not begin to-day to encourage
your children to make gardens in the
yards If you live in the city, or give
them a piece of land to cultivate If
you live in the country? Plan it now
for next summer. 1t will be a de-
lightful anticipation for them during
the long winter months. Let them
understand that they are to have the
proceeds. Impress upon them the de-
STABILITY of saving the money thus
acquired to be used toward their fu-
ture education-a course in music
engineering, medicine, law, farming
forestry or whatever appeals to
them. You, your children, your neigh
hors and Harrisburg as a whole will
be the better for a host of back
yard gardens next summer. Soon
the Civic Club will make it's final In
spections of the gardens planted this
summer and the club and the Tele-
graph prizes will be awarded. Are
you going to be on the list or will
you be among those who let thelr
backyards grow to weeds2
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13
RECOMING UNEASY

"HAT the tariff is going to be the
great issue before the voters OF
the United States next year is
becoming more and more appar-
ent. Even Democratic newspapers ad-
nit that the Underwood law, so far
from solving the tariff problem, has
merely aggravated it. Slowly but
surely they are getting around to the
view that permanent tariff COM
mission, like that appointed by Presi-
dent Taft and discredited and thrown
out of office by Democrats, is the only
means of taking the tariff out OF
politics. This right-about-face is the
first open admission of Democratic
newspapers that the Underwood tariff
law is the rank failure the general
public knows it is.
After going at some length into the
merits of such Il commission, one oi
the Wilson publicity organs has this
to say:
The first step toward n perna-
nent tariff commission is a constitu-
whatever tariff commission there is
will merely represent the predomi-
mating thought of the congress
upon whom the constitution i'm
poses the duty of regulating Gus
toms.
This is nonsensical. The opinion o.
an independent tariff commission
might bear absolutely no relation t.
the "predominating thought of Con
gress" But even though it shouIt
happen that the two coincide, wouldn'
it be better to have the ''predomi
mating thought of Congress" writer
into tariff law than the absolut,
dictation of an occupant of the Whit,
House? Democratic newspapers havt
become so accustomed to being bosset
by the President that they have los
all interest in the rule of the majority
Nevertheless. it is a good sign whei
they become uneasy over his tariff
blunderss
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13
DOESN'T THIS WAR BORE your

lDoh MaiduiS III ehO
l met a young MINOR poet the other
day-perhaps you know the type, he Is
Revolutionary and "virile" in his
verses, but lisps when he talks about
the Blond Beatht and the Thuperman--
who said to me, Don't you think this
war is getting to be a frightful bore?'
1t takes something more than merely
fifteen or eighteen million men under
arms, with the fate Of democracy in the
in these young geniuses who are COM
rades of the cosmic urge and under
writer's of the oversoul.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS
AGO TO-DAY

[From the Telegraph Sept 13, 1861
Three Ordinances Passed
City Council passed three ordinances
ordering several streets to be graded
and cNrbed in the west end of the city.
To Hold Fair
The congregation of the Vine Street
Methodist Church has decided to hold
fair on September Is in the court
house to continue during the following
week.
Retailers Close saloons
Owing to the big demand for lager
beer the supply from local brewers has
been exhausted. Several retailers have
closed their places of business tempo
rarily.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13

IF the 100000, 900 of sugar duties
be Topped off by the Democrats next
year, as proposed, the Republican
party will have to face even larger
deficit when 1t comes into power
March 4. 1917.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13

Sometimes pretty woman culti-
Yates the friendship of a homely
woman for the purposes of contrast.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13
EsToPPrNG THE PREsIDENT


TINE Boston Herald says that from
! the advocacy of some issues
President Wilson is estopped by
party history or tradition.
1t will be news to the American peo-
pie that party history or tradition, OF
party pledges or personal promises
can estop President Wilson from any
thing. During his campaign did he
not personally promise support of free
tolls for American coastwise shipping
through the Canal and also assure the
people of the country that "pitiless
publicity" would be his policy in ad-
ministration?
Did those promises estop him from
pursuing a directly opposite course7
Did not his party platform promise
economy and maintenance OF the merit
system in the civil service?
Were not both of these pledges
broken with his approval7
When personal and party pledges
on which the ink is scarcely dry do
not estop President Wilson, what
peculiar power can there be in party
history and tradition to bar him from
changing his attitude over night on
any and all subjects according to his
varying moods or the shifting of the
weather vane?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-13
FI,oCKuNG TO PLATTsBURG

ITHERE seems to be no end to the
Plattsburg camp. AS one body of
volunteers departs another ar
rives. The men of Plattsburg know
they would. be the first to be called in
time of need. They would be called
upon to officer the companies and the
regiments that would spring up in a
moment, willing but untaught, from
every city and countryside. Most of
them are Office men, which would ap-
pear to disprove the timeworn notion
that Americans are not made now
adays of the rugged, fighting fibre OF
their ancestors.
The people are awake to the neces-
sity of national defense. They now
know, with General Wood, that:
The system of volunteers has al
ways been a failure. Washington
warned us earnestly even In his day
for our national defense. The dis
trict in which we manufacture our
munitions of war and our gunpow-
our Eastern seaboard. You can
| very readily imagine what a force
of, say 10000 trained soldiers,
once landed on our snoIeS, COulu 40
to us under the circumstances. You
know as we'll as that II you stran-
gle hold a mans throat 1t doesn't
make much difference how much he
kicks and hits out wildly at you"
We employ policemen to defend us
from the lawless element at home and
we have come to understand that we
must have a national police force to
save us from brigands abroad who
regard their international treaties as
mere scraps of paper"