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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13
THAT UNDERWRITERS REPORT
TIME chief function of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters, 1t
would appear is to criticise.


would appear, is to criticise.
There is a suspicion in the minds
of many premium payers that the
board is much more interested In
keeping rates up than in putting them
down.
Harrisburg's fire loss is about as
small as that of any city of its size in
the country, we are assured, yet the
board never once commends and never
loses an opportunity to spread broad
cast the idea that Harrisburg is one
vast fire trap and that our people are
bent on making the fire hazard here
as grave as possible.
The fire department is given
absolutely no credit for stopping the
big fire at Fourth and Chestnut streets
in a really professional manner; the
only hint of efficiency we get is the
wonder of the board that the damage
was not greater.
We buy motor driven apparatus OF
the most approved pattern. but the
board comes along and finds fault
with the type. Did the board make
any recommendation to council be-
fore the purchase? No indeed; that
is not the way of the board.
The board recommends new build
ing code. Good! We should have It..
The board suggests fireproof garages
in the heart of town. Fine! The idea
is practical and doubtless will meet
with approval. The board outlines
many other things that may or may
not be vital to the safety of the city
from fire.
But after Harrisburg has spent it's
hundreds of thousands to bring about
these changes does the board offer
anything in the way of reduced fire
insurance rates? Indirectly, perhaps,
we are led to believe that the under
writers have something like that in
mind, but we have no out and out
promise. We must live in hope, that
is all, and there are those who, view
ing the future in the light of the past,
will be ready to believe that the i'm
provements recommended having been
made the board will find some new
and plausible excuse for keeping the
rates up to their present high sched-
ule.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13
WELL KNOWN PEOHF

judicial Candidate J. N. Lang
nam. OF Indiana, was congratulated bv
nomination. $50 0ii MS
Colonel John P. Nicholson of
Philadelphia, who attended fhe WahIl
monument dedication, is one of tbe
authorities on Gettysburg. '"e
"A. j. Pfaff, one of the Franklin
earty candidates in Philadelphia, is n
John G.. Carruth. of PHILADELPHIA
mas returned from Canada.
John r. Fell has returpad +o III
nome near Philadelphia after snand
ing the summer at Newport. 'e'u
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13
The State From Day to Day

An Easton boy, with wisdom beyond
his years, has written to President VIII
son a congratulatory note and as an
dent issue an edict omitting schools on
the day of the wedding. An answer in
"any spare time" would be appreciated,
he adds.
Little Arne Olson, says the Allen
town Chronicle and News, caught three
fine bass with a safety pin, the other
day and Arne always has been truth
full lad.
physician as saying that mosquitoes
viii not light on anything that is yell
low in color. Had the merchants known
this last summer, there would certain :
and hosiery.
terys SXhnseb the bones S of Twenty-Five dead
Cinnamon have been scraped and poll
ished with a huge, two-edged oriental
knife and are to be sent back to China.
pecially he of the Orient.
Armstrong has stirred up hornets
nest among the Topeka Young Wom-
ems Christian Association maidens. who
are eStremely %roth Favs Orders 5ee to
abolish Cupid's parlor. coy little
room in the Young Womens Christian
Association, ana pldCe Iull OI lEdOi-
tions and memories.
The suffrage Liberty Bell spent the
day in Reading and expressed itself as
having had a delightful time.
"The Harvard geological museum
contains the largest frog In the world" ="
Weighing six pounds and stretching
twenty one inches in length. News
item in the Sunbury Daily. We'd like
to see 1t jump.
Watch for the markers OF the Lin
coin Highway feeders IL you are mo-
toring to Lancaster, York, Gettysburg
or Chambersburg.
Although only seven motorcycles
were left in the big endurance run
when they passed through Harrisburg,
Monday, on their way from Dayton to
New York, Norristown reporters, stat
ed on that day that sixty were due to
pass through their town. Maybe they
expected them to travel like sixty"
but the best type-mixer cannot make
sixty out of seven.
John Craig. of Hazleton. who is a
little hard of hearing, was consider
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

Now we know why he objected
when the sporting writers called him
Miracle Man Moran.
Henry Ford Is having an excellent
opportunity just now of exercising his
powers as a peace-maker right in his
own factory.
Ham Lewis would like to be elect
ed Tce-president next year. Dear
Ham: Run on the Republican ticket.
No, Maude, the report that Gen
eral Villa is planning to send a we'd
ding present to the White House has
not been confirmed.
-Vassar is celebrating its 50th an
niversary. 1t being a woman's college
there is no report of any of the
original students being in attendance.
"A Tennessee man 10S years old
boasts that he never paid a doctor BILL
The old rascal!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13
From the New York World.
MILLION Armenians are to-day

n MILLION Arm enians are to-day
~ being driven into the desert by
- - the Turks, there to meet almost
certain death. A whole race of people
is being turned out of its homes, and
forced to make a 600-mile march into
a strange and inhospitable land. Wild
mountain tribes are being unleashed in
| their rear and allowed to kill and
ravish them. Food is scarce and the
march is through a hot country in
the summer time.
This incident that is taking place at
the back door of Europe is a horror
obscured by that which is greater and
nearer at hand. The powers that rule
Turkey have come to a decision,
fraught with dire possibilities if that
nation retains sufficient power to
execute ii. They have determined that
Turkey shall exist for the Turks alone.
All other races, all religions but that
of the Moslems are to be driven out
or eXterminated.
The Armenian tragedy is the first.
In May the initial orders of removal
went forth. Into a given region would
come the command. All Armenians
were to arise and walk-men, women,
children, young and old. At Tarsus
on the Mediterranean, at Bergama by
the Aegean, at Unieh across the
peninsula on the Black Sea, the order
has been received and the population
is moving.
Two Streams Wind Their Way
Two streams of Armenians are
winding into the semidesert of Meso-
potamia-one toward the wild, arid
regions at the headwaters of the
Tigris; the other into the valley of
the upper Euphrates. These are in
hospitable regions inhabited only by
wild and nomadic tribes. Few of the
refugees can survive.
Not always are there opportunities
for flight. There are regions in which
the men and the old are given to the
sword of the Turk and the women
thrust into the harems. This has hap
pened at Van and at Mardin. But
there is q limit to the need of harem
slaves and the masses are on the
move.
Last month, cavalcade of hurry
ing fugitives paused for the night in
the outskirts of Tarsus American
missionaries the next morning found
that fifteen babies had been left be-
hind by mothers who could no longer
carry them. At another point the
fugitives had to climb into the high
mountains and, being almost without
clothes. the missionaries gave certain
of them quilts to protect them from
the cold. One mother received quilt,
but asked whether, after she had
passed the mountain, she should dis
card the cover or her babe, as she had
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13
EFFECTS OF AUTUMN WEATHER

tFrom the Pittsburgh Gazette Times. ]
To many people the advent of au-
tumn months is fraught with much de-
preston. Poets sing of "the melan-
choly days, the saddest of the year"
and it is pretty generally asserted that
autumn, with the falling leaves and
brown grasses, produces a psychologl-
cal effect Involving much gloom of
mind. The truth of the matter is, the
sense Of lowered spirits is physical
rather than mental. The somnolent
habits of hot weather are hard to shake
off; and the blood ceases to receive the
aid of heated atmosphere. This slow
ing up the circulation is aided and
abetted by the indisposition to take
exercise and provide sufficient cloth
ing to make up for the deficiency of
outside temperature.
Some people emerge. from the ex-
treme heat at summer into the sudden
coldness of early Fall under the vain
delusion that they need no change
either of habits or clothing. Only the
especially robust. young -blooded peo-
Pile can successfully get away with this
fallacy. 1t is far more sensible Just
now to give your circulation little
friendly boost and by exercise and SEN
sible clothing guard against the "bad
cold" that is so often the forerunner of
something more serious.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13
WILLIAM PENN HIGHWAY

TXTHILE the great Lincoln High
w way extending from New York
to San Francisco is bound to
become famous among the highways
of the world, the people of Pennsyl-
vania are primarily interested in that
section of the road extending through
Pennsylvania. Harrisburg is already
upon the feeder lines reaching out
from this city to Gettysburg and Ian
caster. touching the Lincoln Highway
at both points and thus putting the
Capital of the Commonwealth in inti-
mate relation to the national road.
But Pennsylvanians are not going
to be satisfied with one main highway
through this imperial Commonwealth
They want to make 1t easy for those
within and without our borders to
move about over our splendid hills
and valleys and along the picturesque
streams that make this State
marvellous picture for all who love
natural scenery.
1t is now proposed to construct the
William Penn Highway between
Greensburg and Lancaster, through the
Juniata Valley and over the Allegheny
mountains, touching Harrisburg,
Lewistown, McVeytown, Mt. Union,
Huntingdon, Holidaysburg, Cresson,
Johnstown, Greensburg and inter-
mediate points. This highway, ac-
cording to some of the western Penn
sylvania boosters, 'is to be to Pennsyl-
vania what the Appian way was to the
travellers of ancient Rome In grade,
in surface, in ample accommodations,
in its scenic splendors, the William
Penn Highway has no equal, and can
have no equal, in Pennsylvania"
Already fine stretches extending
many miles have been constructed and
the only thing yet to be done is the
connecting of the detached portions
of the proposed highway so that there
may be a continuous route from Har-
risburg westward through the most
picturesque region in the whole State.
Perhaps the most conspicuous sections
of the route already completed in
permanent way are those from Mifflin-
town to Lewistown through the famous
Narrows and from Huntingdon to
Hollidaysburg. There is also under
construction most inviting section
between Huntingdon and Mill Creek,
along the Juniata River.
1t is little wonder that Governor
Brumbaugh grows eloquent in his
word pictures of the State and its
glories. Those who rode with him last
week through the valleys and over the
hills and mountains and along the
rivers of the Commonwealth have
caught his spirit and everywhere are
sounding the praises of Pennsylvania.
We may expect during the next year
thousands upon thousands of tourists
to come into this State and go out
singing the song of an imperial and
beautiful Commonwealth with its
millions of happy and prosperous peo-
pie, its scenic grandeur and its
baugh has sounded the key and all
the people should join in the mighty
chorus.
See Pennsylvania First"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13
WORLD SERIES PossIBILITIEs

ENRoM tho strictly technical stand
point the ball games of the
world series, taking them as
thay come fEom year to year, do not
touch a Very high standard, but they
are simply loaded to the gunwales
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13

The Philadelphia Brigade had made
itself immortal.
All honor to Webb. brave and able
commander that he was; but honor
also to the veterans of the Philadel-
phia Brigade who matched his fight
ing skill and courage with their own
en- that memorable day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13
WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCT. is.

'Tis not zuhdt man does (Which efdtS
him. but fvHat man Would do.-BroIVn-
ing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13
New Wants Mean
Progress

AS we go forward our visions
enlarge. our tastes advance, we
have more wants to fill.
The cave man, and the Indian
were content with primitive
means of locomotion.
Modern man asks for an au-
tomobile. The luxuries of yes
terday are the necessities of to-
day.
Advertising has followed de-
sire and established markets
where none existed.
Advertising Will be making
products known a year from now
that are unknown to-day. e
Just look through the adver
tising columns of this newspaper
and see the names of products
sold to-day that were unknown
ten years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13

ably inconvenienced the other day
when load of bricks fell on him and
completely covered him from head to
feet.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13
Our Daily Laugh
CAUTIOUS.

Say, old man,
lend me a flyer
till pay day, will
you?
Which? Your
pay day or the
day you'll pay
me.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13
WHAT HE WAS
DOING.

1st Bug: Hey,
what's the idea?
end Bug: Just
making a little
trip around the
horn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13
DO YOU KNOW
Ihat Harrisburg cereal products
are being sold in Europe?

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
This city had one of the first ma
MORALS me to the soldiers of the Civil
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13

Joseph s. Alexander, prominent
pittsburgh insurance man, was here
yesterday on business at the Capitoi
lie was member of the leeisIatiya
commission which looked
INTO the insurance business of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13

Little Arne Olson, says the Allen
town Chronicle and News, caught three
fine bass with a safety pin, the other
day. and Arne always has been a truth
full lad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-13

Watch for the markers OF the Lin
coin Highway feeders IL you are mo-
toring to Lancaster, York, Gettysburg
or Chambersburg.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-04-05
AS 70 Railroad Rate Experts.

According to the press account Of the rate
hearing in progress over in Chicago, the Stats
tcai expert OF the Nebraska Railway commission
was, in technical parlance ''floored," when after
testifying that he had always tried to get at the
facts the question was popped at him. "As an
expert of the Nebraska commission. haven't You
always opposed increase in freight rates?" The
unacceptable answer was, OF course, in the affir-
NATIVE, for there would be no occasion for
publicly employed expert to lend his assistance
to the railroads to secure rate increases.
But II the tables we're turned. and the high
priced lawyers whose talents are retained By
the railroads were asked the same question In
reverse. they would be still worse stampeded
Did anyone ever hear OF a railroad repre-
sentative coming over to the side OF the shippers
or the public in any contest over rate reductions7
Did anyone ever hear Of railroad-employed ex-
pert ever opposing rate increases? No, It Is
Obvious that Is not what they are hired for. de-
spite the constant protestations OF the railroads
that they want only TO deal fairly with all
patrons. At that, the railroads with their
unlimited resources to hire talent to uphold and
press their demands can be in no danger OF
getting the worst OF IL.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-04-05
MR.. sTAYLATE.

J saw him a-sittin' up there on lin.
Most a-bustin' his throat TO get rid OF a
The sun was not out and the earth was
all gray,
And old Winter was maxim his farewell
too long:
But that robin he sang like he surely
His loud hint for Winter to git up and
git"
I saw him a-sittin' up there on a wire
A-spilln' his notes on the sunshiny air.
Tho the north wind was keen in my face
where ! stood,
And small promise of green could see
anywhere:
Yet those bird notes that rippled down
out of the blue
Seemed to coax Mr.. Winter to make his
adieu.
! heard him a-bubblin' up there on the
hill
Where the stubble was brown 'twixt the
patches of snow,
The earth was all sodden and shaokies OF
ice
Their hold on the stream refused to
let go;
But that bubble of song seemed to say. II
should worry
Here's yer hat, Mr. Winter. but what Is
yer hurry?"
Omaha. BAYOBL NE TREBLE.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-04-05
A Triumph for Organization.

report from washington that the foot and
mouth plague has again been stamped out sig
nalizes another triumph for effective organiza-
tion. The Bureau of Animal Industry was
charged with very grave responsibility in this
matter. and six months ago faced most serious
situation. The forces Of the federal government
we're supplemented by the state authorities. and
every effort was intelligently employed to eradi-
cate the disease. II was one time when no quea
ton Of states rights was seriously raised, and
the outcome is that a terrible menace has been
removed from the live stock industry. What
might have happened may be understood by re.
calling that on the occasion of the last outbreak
OF the disease In France more than hair the cat
tie Of the country were destroyed before the
plague was under control.
Intelligent cooperation on part of private
interests with the government aided very ma
terially in making the result certain as well as
expeditions. Cattle raisers. stoclyards and rail-
roads ali realized the seriousness OF the situa-
ton. and each gave full and ready acquiescenCe
to the enforcement Of quarantine and other sani-
tary regulations The loss that fell on the cat
tie industry IL negligible when compared to the
amount OF property that was placed in jeopardy.
and another valuable lesson in the efficacy OF
proper organization is gained from the unpleas-
ant experience.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-04-05
Rebukinr an Art Critic.

The state senate honors itself and vindicates
the highest ideals Of frescoed art by Indignantly
repeliing the attack on the artistic decorations
Of the chamber As body the senate repre-
sents the last thought OF the commonwealth.
What Il lacks in numbers is more than balanced
by higher ideals OF statecraft. 1t thinks lofty
thoughts and acts in harmony with human pull
sings for the better life. II is fitting and
sary that it's surroundings should possess the
mute inspiration without which statesmanship
too often drifts on the rocks OF mediocracy. For
tunatey the lovers Of art in former senates safe
guarded the honor OF successors by giving the
chamber melody OF color unmatched by the
sunset tints that give Dundee its twilight sleeps.
In style and tone and subject treatment the sen
ate frescoes are above the crude reflections of
amateur critics. As the state house symbolizes
the architectural and constructive arts Of former
times. the senate frescoes likewise embody the
finished work OF a master brush. In rebuklnE
an unmerited assault the senate upholds It's
artistic traditions and preserves for posterity an
unfailins fount OF Inspiration and holy slee.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-04-05
Up to the Voters.


The so-called primary election, which is to
eliminate all but fourteen candidates for later
selection Of seven 20 manage the city govern
ment Of Omaha for three years. takes place to-
morrow.
IL is up to the voters, therefore, to see to It
that the fourteen names topping the list belong
to men who are entitled TO be considered for
the final choice.
Omaha soon to be Greater Omaha, is cor
poration with nearly 100000 shareholders, apd
around 5000, 900 900 OF assets. The corporation
managers will have 20 disburse more than a
million and half dollars year, not counting
special funds raised by bond issues. The con-
missioners to be chosen, corresponding with the
directors OF the corporation, therefore, should at
least be men OF responsibility and trustworthl-
ness and a fair promise OF creditable service.
II is up TO the voters to say what kind OF
city government Omaha shall have for the next
three years.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-04-05
Twice Told Tales
nritain,n unknonn lITerocs.

Some men. dressed In civilian clothes gathered
together in the smoking OF the hotel discussing
the joys and sorrows OF life at the front
swell. I've bssn with the army and had a very
interesting tirne,~ said one.
'Rver got really alone with the enemy asked
another.
''Rathsrl I once took two OF their officers"
"Unaided?
"of cerssi And the very next day took eight
meal"
"An wounded. 1 expect" sneerod listener.
"You didn't got hurt, did your
Just slight scratch. that's ALL And two days
after took transport wagon. and followed up that
by taking a big gun"
esr" said dsagreeable auditor. II have seen
some of the finest specimens OF anything you can
cali 20 mind. but wish 70 state that you the
biggest rosnancer that ever trod this earth"
"oh. no am not that" replied the hero. but
am a photographer London Globe.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-04-05

fortune becomes known. In such cases
the father relinquishes. II possible. all
claim to the child. and It's entire custody
devolves upon the unmarried mother.
The average suffrsgist OF calm iudg-
ment makes no claim &c perfection in
every detail Of this film. II is promoted
for what It Is. a great plot with
tremendous motive, which aims to in
struct as well as to entertain. In the
days Of negro slavery not all slave own
ers were Simon Legrees. vet the incidents
depicted in "Uncle Toms Cabin" stirred
the nation TO the utmost. Slavery was
abolished. SO with ''Your Girl and
Mine injustice must give way before
knowledge OF the facts, until all women
are granted their political freedom.
HESTER BRONSON COPPER.
Omaha daily bee., 1915-04-05
eMz;ll...1l&1sse.Aw'


rho Sunday school scholars OF the 81 Mary's Ave
Congregational church began the second year OF
attending church each sunday. keeping tho
text A plaze given Tor the one attending the
most sunday and prize given for the text
book most neatly kept
The DAY was resi- May day IN April. Spring bon
nets Were plenty upon the streets.
Mrs A. ~ Wasserlran. OF OGnaha's pioneers
home here.
Chief Butler teiis q reporter that ne mas made ar.
ransements that The immediate termination q
General Granfs ilneas. the fire bells win Instantly
Gise slxty.tUo strokes.
The choir for Temple Israel mas hen oreaniEet
follows. soprano. Miss Lille Chamberlain: alto
Miss p n. Eiehhorn; tenor. Mr. Wolff bass n Il
Francs
Aias Carrie Cole Is visiting The residence OF Mr.
~ G Cole o. s. Mary's avenue
Three eages containlng sea lions shipped iron
California went Through on the Rock Island foday
TheY pere naterea ana fed while az me depot herr
Omaha daily bee., 1915-04-05
Editorial Viewpoint

Washington Star II win be hard to
separate the sultan or Turkey from the
idea that as an individual he is having
about the hardest luck OF any innocent
bystander on record
Brooklyn Eagle: The wife OF wealthy
Ohio farmer, who has had only two new
dresses In thirty-two years. demands
separation. Ants and suffragists will
join in the hope for her success. There
are some points on which femininism is
unit in America.
Pittsburgh Dispatch: In the lapse of
time we find little reason to believe that
the thrush Of Argentine beef would over
whelm the American market But all
the beef we can get from that country
win increase the supply and prevent the
burdened ultimate consumer from being
subjected to further squeezes.