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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
The Importance of Good Manners

ladder of success because of what u
forefathers called address" and so
cial bearing" Many a nan of ability
has failed to get ahead in the world
because of the boorishness of his
name
Too many young men of to-day
think that a free-and-easy name
denotes cleverness and manliness.
They need to learn that a mans char
acter is indicated by his manner of
accosting another and by his bearing
in the presence of others. To wear
ones hat in an Office, or in the pres
ence of ladies; to accost anyone except
a personal friend by the first name,
and especially by a nickname; to in
terrupt a conversations; all of those
habits stamps a man as ill bred and
lacking in consideration and respect
for others.
big business, talking recently about
the growing lack of good manners in
young men, said hat fully one-half of
the boys who apply to him for work
enter the office with their hats on.
mot one in ten shows any indi-
cation of having been trained in the
simplest elements of good deport-
ment." this man said. And" he con-
tinued. II believe it is largely the fault
of u public schools. L am strongly
in favor of adding to the things taught
in our schools a series of lessons for
boys and girls on good manners"
And then he said a significant thing
that it would be we'll for every boy to
remember: Il never like to hire a
young mar whose are bad. I
have noticed that loose and
looseness of character are pretty apt to
go together"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
TRAFFIC REGULATIONS

THE marked reductions in prices
| of automobiles that have been
announced by manufacturers dur
ing the past few days indicates that a
much larger number of machines will
be in use within the next few years
than at present. The fact that a new
car, equipped with all of the comforts
and luXuries carried by only the most
expensive machines of q year or two
back. can now be had at a price less
than was formerly asked for a second
hand motor points to very low prices
for so-called used" or rebuilt" auto
mobiles in the very neal future. Many
a man who has felt that he could not
afford to spend $1,000 or more on a
machine will not miss the opportunity.
IAN automobile for everybody is said
TO be the ambition of Henry Ford, and
1t bids fair almost to be realized at an
early date.
This heavy increase in the number
of ears in operation will necessitate
the adoption of further traffic regu-
lations in Harrisburg. Already Third
street between Walnut and Market is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
NOISE ELIMINATED

Elimination of the greater part of
the noise that now accompanies the
operation of street cars and elevated
and subway trains is a prospect of the
immediate future as the result of n
new noiseless wheel which is described,
with illustration, in the June Popular
equipped with wheels of this kind and
recently subjected to test runs at
Portland, Maine, is reported to have
The wheel is made of two sections,
and is in effect a wheel within n wheel
The inner section is fixed to the axle
while the outer section takes the bear
ing on the track. Between the two
sections Is a cushion of rubber of spe-
cial composition which absorb the vi
hrations caused by the grind of the
tire on the rail and by Irregularities
in the track, and 1t is this tina gives the
wheel its nolseless qualities,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
[From the Kansas City Star.1
n FAC, shake hands with Tom Nor
lVl gan. Tom, this is Bill McIn-

-
tosh."
In that way a man introduced to
each other two of his friends the other
day, accompanying the introduction
with such a resounding thump upon
hats loose.
The man who did the introducing
had an idea, no doubt, that he was a
jolly fellow. 1t was that kind of a
mar the poet Cowper had in mind
when he wrote his stanZas on friend
ship:
The man who halls you Tom or Jack,
And proves by thumps upon your back
How he esteems your merit,
Is such a friend that n had need
Be very much his friend indeed (
To pardon or to bear it,
A great writer once said there was
no greater error than to mistake vul-
gar familiarity for gentlemanlike ease
In the old days, before the age of
free schools. when boys and girls were
taught mostly in private schools or by
tutors. much attention was given to
the requirement of a good address"
How to sit, to stand, to enter and leave
a drawing room, to carry on a CONVEX
sation, to make and receive an intro
duction. to bow with ease and grace:
all of those things were as much a
part of the schooling of boys and girls
as was the teaching of reading, writing
and arithmetic.
And let no one think il was not an
important part of a boys training.
Many a man has climbed high on the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
0 AMI MAGAZINES

Amelia Josephine Burr, whose new
novel, "A Dealer in Empire" tells the
story of the ambitions of the great
Spanish statesman Oltvarez, said re-
Gently that she was sure an historical
novel was much easier to write than
one dealing with the complex conditions
of ones own time. For the latter Miss
Burr modestly believes she is not yet
big enough.
Mariana Wheeler. author of The
Young Mothers Handbook" expects to
spend her summer at Conway, Mass.
ter home is an old farmhouse which
she bought and has nae made over. A
portion of each day Is spent in writing
to the anxious mothers who
ever since the publication of her earlier
book, 1.-The Baby. His Care and Train
ing" have urned to her for informa-
ton.
nex Beach has just returned north
from a six weeks trip in Cuba. He
chartered a yacht and cruised all along
the coast and succeeded in catching a
large number of huge tarpon. And all
the time that he was enjoying his Holt
day. he was also busy filing his pallet
with local color for a new novel. The
Auction Block" it will be remembered,
Mr.. Beach's latest book. is a story OF
New York. though most of Mr.. Beach's
readers seem to look upon him as an
outdoor artist.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
TALKING HIMSELF TO DEATH

TADkING IO n
n TR. BRYAN is talking himself to
lVl death. Every new note costs
him another regiment or two of
friends. From the proud position of
Secretary of State he has descended
in a few days to the unenviable posi-
ton of a misunderstanding, self-seek-
ing politician who seeks to mas
querade his own selfish ambitions I'M
der the guise of patriotism. His
Haunting of the President was a
enough, but his presumption in ad-
dressing a needless and insulting note
to Americans of German birth is even
worse. His whole course has been de-
signed to arouse friends of the ad-
ministratlon to that point where they
will make it possible for him to take
sides openly against them politically
and so inject himself into the situa-
ton as the logical candidate to lead
the dissatisfied elements within the
Democratic party against the renomi-
of Wilson.
At any other time Republicans
might view the development of a row
within the Democratic party with in
difference or, at the most, an interest
bred of political possibilities. Just
now, however, they must frown upon
activity of Bryan as tending to
annoy and disturb the national adj
ministration at a time when it should
be free of all internal disputes to face
a critical situation ohrOod
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12

and IL the child does not see thrift
practiced at home, the benefits which
he may derive through the teaching
of the rudiments of thrift learned
in the public schools will, in a great
measure. be offset by his lack of train
ing at home.
Parents. therefore. should coop
crate with the schools in teaching
girls and boys to appreciate the value
of money, the wisdom of thrift and
economy. Germany, France and Bel
GUM have been educating their young
for years how to save and conserve
their u and have found that
1t has meant great additions to the ma
tional wealth.
1t should be kept in mind that thrift
does not mean tight-fstedness nor
misery habits. 1t does mean the con-
servation of our every resource.
Money saved by thrift does not go out
of circulation-but simply is diverted
into more constructive channels.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12

so badly crowded that 1t is a question
whether or not it is advisable to make
it a 'one way ~thoroughfare. Market
street. too. is filed constantly with cars
parked along the curbs. often for hours
at a time. and in many ways the traffic
regulations that up to this time have
proved very satisfactory are reaching
the limits of their usefulness. The
more automobiles. the more super
vision; in this way only can the in
terests of all be conserved. The Motor
Club of Harrisburg is awake to these
conditions and it is a pleasure to note
the Interest displayed by its officials in
making the streets safe for all con-
cerned.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
THE APPEAL FROM THE PEOPLE

[From the New York Times.1
Among the singular things regard
ing the Steel Trust decision is that it's
Courts decision to the contrary effect
a few years ago. If there is any dis
sent from the decision that the Steel
Trust is a good trust. and that all
good trusts are lawful, ii is not of the
sort which strikes the aye. The proof
of popularity is as strong on Wall
Street as off it, and among the COM
its officers. The shares of the COM
petitor of the Steel Trust which leads
all the rest in its growth are even
stronger in the market thar those of
the trust itself. The opponents of that
public opinion which is most savage
against trusts in general. and against
the worst enemy of labor" in particu-
lar, are silent, courage in opposing
popular opinion not being a strong
trait of those claiming to be the true
friends of the people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
CHANGING WAR METHODS
(Ohio State Journal.)


According to Secretary of the Navy
Daniels, in the wars to come, If there
are to be any. there will be no navy
and no army. The contending hosts
will be ~aeroplanes and submarines,
and the battlefields will be up in the
skies and down under the sea. How
romantic! Nc marching ranks, no
dreadnaughts.
1t will be interesting, and II we are
to have war, we hope 1t will all come
about that way. Somehow this change
seems to portend the world peace. 1t
will surely bring about results. The
war has been going on in Europe for
nearly a year and little progress has
been made, one way or the other.
Thousands have been killed, but no
battle has been won. If the war is
transferred from the trenches to the
blue skies or the unseen seas, there
will be the crack of doom sooner or
later. 1t is trending that way, and the
battle of the Cirrus or of the Green
Grotto will some day end the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12

NUoNDAf' June IA VIII be Flag
lVl Day and as such will be OBJ
served by the Elks of this city
with exercises at Reservoir Park. The
lodgemen nave asked that citizens in
general join to make the celebration
q success by displaying flags from
every residence. The program as out
lined bids fair to be the most elaborate
Harrisburg has ever had on any Flag
Day and those who do not find it pos
sible to participate otherwise certainly
ought to cooperate by displaying at
least one flag from window or house
top.
1t is a good thing to pay tribute to
the national ensign. 1t stands for "all
cur hopes for future years. and it has
an ancient and honorable history. The
present flag dates from June IA, 1777,
when the Continental Congress passed
&. resolution That the flag of the
thirteen United States be thirteen
stripes alternate red and white; that
the Union be thirteen stars, white in
a blue field, representing a new con-
stellation." This was the first official
designation of a national emblem. 1t
has grown until now 1t embraces all
our territory. except Alaska and our
insular possessions.
The origin of the design has been
much discussed. Simplest and most
probable is the story that it came
from the Washington family arms.
Already. at Cambridge, Mass, on jan
uary 2, 1776. General Washington had
displayed a flag designed by three men
Franklin. Lynch and Harrison-con-
sisting Of thirteen stripes, red and
white, with the Union Jack in place of
the stars, the stripes being emblematic
OF the union of the thirteen colonies
against British oppression. What more
natural than that the designers should
compliment the General by embodying
his family arms in the design? What
more natural than that Congress
should perpetuate both design and
compliment?
In the village church at Brighton,
England, are the tombs of the father
and uncle of George Washington.
Both stones bear the Washington arms
"a simple shield crossed by three
horizontal stripes, above which are
three five-pointed stars. The stripes
of the Washington arms are recorded
in the herald's Office as alternate
gules (red) and white. On both arms
and flag the stars are five pointed,
although the form is six
pointed.
All of which is interesting, but not
so very important. The important
thing Is that we of this generation
bring to the flag ali of the full-hearted
devotion, unsullied patriotism and
readiness to sacrifice self for the bene-
fit of the whole that marked the. lives
of those who won undying fame be-
meath the banner when. it's stars were
few and it's colors yet to be tried on
desperate fields and billowing seas
when those who fought meath its new
flung folds staked their lives freely and
fearlessly in the great cause Of liberty
and freedom.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Senator George T. oliver is in
Thomas K. Donnally, reelected
keeper of records of the States Red
Men. has held the office for over a
quarter of a century.
Mayor Armstrong, OF Pittsburgh.
is anxious to have the Liberty Bell
visit his city in daylight hours.
w. H. c. Ramsey, long con-
nected with Johnstown water affairs,
will take charge of the plant at York.
B. F. F~ackenthal, Jr., new presl-
dent of Franklin and Marshall trus-
tees, is prominent in iron and steel
affairs.
George Brooke. of Philadelphia,
has gone to Newport.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12

In furtherance of the cause of suf-
frage a group of attractive looking coll
lege women went to the federal build
ing in New York and gave the honor
able United States District Court a
silence" protest as the court makes
citizens. The young women repre-
scented the College Equal Franchise
League, which decided upon the novel
expedient OF a speeches. campaign
against the discrimination which would
give citizenship to foreign-born men
and withhold it from American
women.
The delegation, headed by Mrs.
Charles L. Tiffany, president of the
College Equal Suffrage League, at
tended the naturalization proceedings.
Not a word did they say.
They sat in silent protest. Their
attitude said; Compare these foreign
born specimens with us; honest to
goodness, how can you do it?"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
PROVIDING ADEQUATE LIGHT

Heavy glass partitions which are
translucent, substantial. and freproof
are being introduced as a means of
business buildings without iessening
the privacy of the various Offices. The
walls are sound-proof and nontrans-
parent, which gives them essentially the
not the disadvantages. They are built
of clear glass units two inches thinck
and either six or eight inches square.
which are reduced to t~ranslucency by
Impressed designs.-From the June
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
RIGHT FROM RELIGIOUS POINT
(Kansas city Times.)

Quieting rumors that he was a
member of a specified religious de-
nomination, a Webb City candidate for
police judge announces, according to
the Register, that If anyone can find
that he, the candidate, "is now or has
been at any time affiliated with any
church. he will resign from the race
From this angle 1t would appear that
the candidate has made himself per-
fectly clear.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
THE CHUNKY GOVERNORS

LFrom the Ohio State Journal.l
Governor Brumbaugh of Pennsylva-
mia made a requisition on Governor
Willis for a horse thief and thus he
worded it:
MY Dear Frank-You in Ohio have
all the horse thieves you want; We
want one and would like to have one
of yours. We will be glad to recipro-
cate when occasion demands"
Martin and Frank were chums in
the educational field before they be-
came governors. They are both big,
hearty fellows and when n tells the
other a joke, the laugh that follows
sounds like the reverberations of a
howitzer. So in their official COM
m~unications they are altogether to
human to tumble into t~echnicalitieS.
That requisition sounds just like
Martin and II Frank can find him q
horse thief he will do It sure.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12

If there are any objections to closing
up the stores and factories and cele-
brating the Fourth of July on Monday.
the 9Th, as Mayor Royal has recon-
mended, they have not been made pub
lie. A double-holiday is a welcome
break in a w~ork-a-day world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
MOST UNNECESSARY NOISE

pittsburgh Gazette-Times.)
The local suppressors of unnecessary
noise should begin on the man who
wants to argue about the war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12

About the time the Germans get
ready to celebrate a victory in Galicia
the Bear That Walks Like A Man butts
in and breaks up the performance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
THE BACHB-
JUST MISSED ME
BY Wing Dinger

The other morn. when I got up,
l learned hat in the night
| had a blamed close call which filled
My soul, somewhat. with fright.
A stork, with bundle. few our way
Quite late the night before
And missed me by one dwelling, DO,
When he stopped just next door.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12

The bass season coming in. early
Tuesday morning most likely will find
a large number of fishermen going out.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12

One of the pleasant features of the
present summer is that the primary
elections will not be held until Septem-
Der.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12

The Russian army could give Colonel
Roosevelt cards and spades oil the
gentle art of being able to come back"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
SATURDAY. EVENING, JUNE IL

The gain sVhieh is made at the expense of
reputation should rather be set dOrUn as loss.
Latin Provcrb.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
SOME FOREST FIRE .DoN,Ts"

WITH thousands of persons al
w ready in the woods and thou
sands more prepared to go, the
usual number of easily ~preventable
summer forest fires may be expected.
Every summer camper or fisherman
not skilled in forest craft should pin
in his outing hat the following list
of "Dont's" just issued by the United
States Forest Service:
l.. Don't throw your match away
until you are sure 1t is out.
2. Don't drop cigaret or cigar
butts until the glow is extin-
3. Don't knock out your pipe
ashes while hot or where they will
fall into dry leaves or other infiam-
mable material.
4. Don't build a camp fire any
larger than is absolutely necessary.
8. Don't build a fire against a
tree, a log. or a stump, anywhere
but on bare soil.
6. Don't leave a fire until you are
sure 1t is out; II necessary smother
1t with earth or water.
z. Don't burn brush or refuse in
or near the woods if there is any
chance that the fire may spread be-
yond your control, or that the wind
may carry sparks where they would
start a new hre.
s. Don't be any more careless with
fire in the woods than you are with
fire in your own home.
3. Don't be idle when YOU dis
cover a fire in the woods; If you
cam put it out yourself, get help.
Where r forest guard, ranger. or
State fire warden can be reached.
call him up on the nearest telephone
: you can find.
Thousands Of acres of forest and
suburban woodland in Pennsylvania
have been burned over already this
Spring by fires that started for the
most part from preventable causes,
The State has placed new fire protec-
ton laws on it's statute books, but
they will be of small avail if indi-
vidual cooperation is lacking. If city
people continue to be as reckless with
fire in the woods as they have been
the time will come when they will be
barred from thousands of acres of
privately owned lands now open to
them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12

DR.. D~ernburG's %eloquence hes reached
Its highest point since ne stopped talk
ing.-Philadelphia North American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12

The American women arrested in Ger
many for insulting an officer probably
wouldn't get Off tine sidewalk for KIM
Boston Transcript.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
AVOIDING n

"Cook must have been impressed with
this scientific talk she hears"
why SOP"
"I Just heard her refuse to kiss her
beau except through the screen door.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12

Why doesn't DIR. Dixon issue an Of
fetal warning against the dangers OF
the picnic lunch?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg engines r
shown at the San Francisco exc
position.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12

Havings decided that the Lusitania
was a warship, the German Govern
ment ought to insist that the murdered
babies were the gun crews.-New York
World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
EDITORIAL cOFr1ENT

Mexico continues in unwavering sup
port of a policy of unpreparedness for
peace.-Washington Star.
1t seems very difficult at times for
some naturalized citizens to become
noUtraiized citizens. - Birmingham
News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12

Italy at least will have the d~istinc-
ton of being the only nation in the
war that hasn't been accused of start
ing the whole thing.-Philadelphia
North American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12

Member American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association. Audit Bureau of
Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ-
ated Dailies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12

Published every evening Except Sun
day. at the Telegraph Building. 21s
Federal Square. Both phones.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
FLAG DAY

n HONDAY, June IA. will be Flag
lVl Day and as sue will be OBJ
served by the Elks of his city
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-12
Our Daily Laugh
"A BLUE JAY"

"A BLUE JAZZ
THE BACHB-
LoR.
He used to send
a Valentine
When he was
young n d
sentimental,
B nlw
picked some
maid divine
W b o didn't
care a con-
tinental.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-04-29

eager to participate in any distribution
Of coin, was gathering around him. He
found two gold pieces which he put
into the hand of the sailor.
Thank you for taking care of him.
l am at the Royal Hotel" He nodded,
and with Pitchoune under his arm
pushed his way through the crowd and
out Of the bazaar.
He could not interview the dog him
self, although he listened, amused, to
Pitchoune's own manner of speech. He
spent the latter part of the evening
composing a letter to the minister of
war, and although it was short, it must
have possessed certain evident and
telling qualities, for before he left AL
giers proper for the desert, Sabron
received telegram much to the point;
You may keep your dog. congratulate
you on such a faithful companion.
(TO BE CONTINUED)