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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
LITTLE MILITARY
TALKS
By Capt. Geo. F. Lurnb
UNITS OF FORMATION

UNITS OF FORMATION
HISTORY is replete with accounts
i i of bigades sweeping on to vic
tory and divisions turning the
tide of battle. but little is said of the
SQUADS that compose the division.
If the makers of history could write
history, many an unknown squad
leader would have his place in the
Hall of Fame.
1t was night at Angeles, P. l.; we
were holding the line against heavy
odds. Ammunition was low and the
deadly fire of Remingtons and Mausers
was ever increasing. We wavered.
A corporal crept away from the left
of the line with his loyal squad. We
did not know he had gone until a
deadly magazine fire swept the right
flank of the enemy. Some of the bull
lets from the squads accurate Krags
went through three and four human
targets in succession. Their apparent
victory turned into an Ipsurrecto
panic. A lean Kentucky corporal had
saved the day. Form squad with
seven determined. hard-muscledf friends
and learn to march and drill by each
taking turn as corporal. Out in the
park with a 30-cent copy of the Infan-
try Drill Regulations you will have
more real enjoyment in an hour than
can be had in the alleged places of
amusement in a month. Incidentally
you will be hardening the tissues for
your trip to Mexico, where the squad
leader will loom big in the mountain
war game.
Napoleon changed the map of
Europe, but his proudest title was
the Little Corporal"
Adna r. Chaffee began a corporal
in the Sixth United States Cavalry. He
finished with our highest military
honor, a ma1or-general.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
NEW HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER
DENNsYLvANIANs will be pleased
~ nofa fba anp pnaroanf ~ fha

hENNSYLVANIA will be pleased
L to note the announcement of the
executive department, accom-
panying the appointment of Frank B.
Black, of Somerset, State Highway
Commissioner, that he is to follow
absolutely the policy of his predeces-
sor."
Mr.. Black succeeds the late Robert
]. Cunningham, who did a wonderful
work in the State Highway Depart
ment in the comparatively brief per-
iod of his incumbency. Under the
Cunningham administration, the pub
lie regained confidence in the depart
ment and the roads were put in better
condition than at any time in the his
tory of the State. notwithstanding a
niggardly appropriation by the Legis-
lature. and many economies were
brought about Mr.. Black will find
the office well organized and free from
politics in so far as effective admin
istration is concerned. He has a great
opportunity, and the success he has
attained in his own business is a good
indication of the energy and enter
prise he may be expected to display in
his new work
Mr.. Black is not professional road
builder, but he is a good roads en-
thusiast and a businessman of un-
questioned talent. He has now in the
department men who are we'll able to
look after the administrative and
technical ends of the office. 1t will
be his duty to provide the initiative,
to inspire zeal within and confidence
without-in short, to be the wise and
businesslike executive and to stead
fastly refuse to permit the State High
way Department to become the po-
litical tool of any faction. If he does
that he will make for himself name
and reputation equal to those of the
late Mr.. Cunningham, who, beyond
question, was one of the best officials
the State ever had in it's service.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03

awakened American interest in all
that pertains to things Mexican, will
have a tendency to correct that defect
1t has been, therefore, to me a labor
of love and pleasure to trace briefly
the high points in the Mexican war of
70 years ago.
II would be unfair, however, to end
this series without telling something
of the Harrisburg soldiers who fought
in Mexico. Our city and county has
been abundantly and ably represent
ed on the field in every war the nation
has waged. But they came very near
being without any distinctively Dau-
phin county organization in the Mex
can war. In fact that would probably
have been their unhappy position, had
it not been for one distinguished man,
Simon Cameron. 1 propose therefore
to tell, as briefly as may be, of the
months of blundering, under the old
militia system, in getting two Penn
sylvania regiments into the field; and
then to trace the services and suffer-
CONTINUED on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
WAR REVIVED IRON TRADE
TINE United States Geological Sur


vey informs the public that the
iron ore mined in the United
States in 1915 reached the great total,
of 55,526, 400 gross tons, the greatest
output made in any year except 1910
and 1913." and an increase of 14,00O,-
600 tons over the output of 1914. It is
estimated that in the Lake Superior
district alone the output for 1916 will
be 60,O00,000 tons, with an increase
in price of 70 to rs cents ton.
In the calendar year 1912, with a
Republican tariff law on the statute
books which guarded the home mar
ket for American manufacturers, and
permitted them to seek fresh fields of
commercial conquest, we exported iron
and steel, and manufactures thereof
to the value of $3.50, 100000. In 1918,
nine months of which was under the
Republican protective policy, our ex-
ports OF iron and steel products reach
ed. S244.000,0 900. During all of 1914
the Democratic near-free- trade policy
was In operation, and our exports of
iron and steel products dropped to
less than s200,000.00 During 1918
there was an Unsuitable demand from
Europe for all sorts of steel products
including shell and shrapnel. to carry
on the war. and our exports for that
year mounted to nearly sSSs, 200. 900.
Small wonder that the 1915 record
for iron ore mined in the United
States reached such proportions. The
men who mined it. the stockholders in
iron mining corporations and the rail-
roads and their employees who freight
ed the ore to the mills. all shared in
the benefits of this increased produc-
ton And the cause Of this increased
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
Roosevelt to Progressives

Colonel Roosevelt's letter to the
Progressive national committee abates
no jot or title of his devotion to the
principles for which the Progressive
party stood in the campaign of 1912,
but it is none the less Enthusiastically
the swan song of the third party Gre
ated in that year to further Progress
sive ideas. And the creator and chosen
leader of that party pleads with his
followers as q patriotic duty to join
him in the ungrudging support of Mr..
Hughes as the only means of saving
the nation from another four years of
an administration which, as Colonel
Roosevelt expresses it, has been guilty
of shortcomings more signal than
those Of any administration since the
days of Buchanan"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
July Disbursements

A total of S2s2.372,540 will be dis
dend and interest by railroad, traction
and industrial companies. banks and
trust companies, the United States Gov
s. ernment and the City Of New York dur
figures compiled by the Journal of Com
merce. This is a new high record total
sST ths eFGdb dsburssS sns dump tSs with
month in 1915. OF this amount S107,
762,B40 will be diabursed among stock
holders, against sez. .210s64 in July,
$1el,60o, 600, against S17s, 900.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
THERE has always been for me |

TNHERE has always been for me a
wondrous fascination in the
- story of the Mexican war. Never
did enthusiastic baseball fan of the
present day wait more impatiently for
the daily score than did I, as a youth,
for the time when, in my hum BILE
rural home, would come the village
weekly with the latest from the scene
Of conflict in the far away land of the
MonteZumas.
With what avidity poured over the
rneager details of Taylor's battlefields;
of Scott's gallant campaign from Vera
Cruz to the beautiful mountain city
where once rose the shrines of Ten
ochtitlan; and the wonderful heroism
of the handful under Stockton, Tre-
mont, Kearney, Doniphan and Price
that carried the conquering Stars and
Stripes over vast expanses bordered on
the Pacific.
1t is surprising how. little the pres
ent generation knows of war that was
ali uninterrupted series of victories,
unsullied by single defeat. How
ever, the present crisis and consequent
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
Song

Oh, red is the English rose,
And the lilies of France are pale,
And the poppies grow in the golden
wheat
For the men whose eyes are heavy
with sleep
Where the ground is red as the Eng
hsh rose
And the lips as the lilies of France
are pale
And the ebbing pulses beat fainter and
fainter
And fail.
II
Oh red is the English rose,
And the lilies of France are pale.
And the poppies lie in the level corn
For the men who sleep and never re-
turn.
But wherever they lie. an English rose
So red and lily of France so pale
VIII grow for love that never and
never
Can fail.
Charles Alexander Richmond in
Soribners
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03

1t is Characteristic OF the Pennsyl-
vania. the greatest railroad corporation
in the world, to. do the things which
are unusual and constructive. Only
such corporation would have realized
it's aesthetic ideals in the placing of
the ornate little buildings at Perdix
and near Duncannon and elsewhere
along the line. Some artistic mind has
been responsible for many attractive
spots on the division between Harris
burg and Altoona
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03

It is probably unwise to swap
horses while crossing a stream" but
that is no reason why the American
people should not exchange the weak,
wavering. stumbling Democratic donkey
for the strong, steady, surefooted G. o.
P. elephant. And the exchange will be
made, stream or no stream.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03

production was not the Democratic
party, but the European war. The
iron and steel industries were in a
sadly depressed state before the out
break of the war. and when they Ian
guish the demand for the ore of course
falls off,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
HUGHES Provision

TNHE plank in this years Republi-
can platform which declares for
unified federal control OF
transportation is a formulation into
party creed of a principle which the
party's candidate has long espoused
In January, 1908, Governor Hughes
speaking at the Republican Club oi
New York, said:
I do not believe in Government
ownership of railroads. But regu-
lation of Interstate commerce is es-
sential to protect the people from
unjust Determinations and to Sc
cure safe, adequate and impartial
service upon reasonable terms and
in accordance with the obligations
of common carriers. I approve the
recent extension of the authority of
the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion by what is known as the Rate
bill, and I believe that the commits
sion should have the most ample
power for purposes of investiga-
tion and supervision, and for max
ing rules and orders which will en-
able It to deal to the fullest extent
its with interstate transportation
in all its phases. This is just
policy The power of Congress to
fix rates for interstate transpor-
tation so as to prevent improper
determinations and to compel car
riage upon reasonable terms is un-
doubted The sole question is how.
1t is manifestly impossible for the
legislative body to make that thor
ough examination of specific cases
which in Justice must precede ac-
tion. The exigencies of particular
cases can be met only by the pains
taking consideration of an adminis-
trative board. The alternative to
that policy is either the abandon
ment of legislation or the sporadic
legislative Intervention under the
influence of agitation.
What Hughes stood for then, he and
his party stand for now. His provision
now finds expression in the platform
upon which he is a candidate for the
Presidency.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03

There was only a slight error in the
statement of Chairman McCombs at the
Democratic national convention that
the delegates had met to place a mile
stone upon the path OF the future of
the Democratic party" He should have
said tombstone"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
MONDAY EVENING, JULY 8.

Take time to speak Iouing toord
Where loUing tOords are seldom heard; !;
And 1t 10iH linger IL, the mind,
And gather others of its kind.
Till Touing ioordS tOiH echo tohere
Erstt0htle the heart tCdS poor and bare
And Somewhere on thy hedUen1odrd
track
Their music t1iTI come echoing back.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03

This gem from the Philadelphia
speech of President Wilson is de-
scribed by Democratic newspapers as
the very quintessence of Americanisn.
Those Mexicans who recall that 1t
was this same President Wilson who
refused to recognize the de facto gov
ernment of their country under Presi-
dent Huerta will not be greatly i'm
pressed by these pretty phrases.
''She has a right to demand that
they treat her with justice and re-
spect." says the President, but he says
not a word regarding his refusal to
recognize Huerta nor concerning his
raising of the embargo on arms at the
Mexican border, and the encourage
ment of the unspeakable bandits
headed by Villa in their revolutionary
assaults upon the government at Mex
leo City. It is little wonder that
the world looks with suspicion upon
a platitudinous patriotism which falls
to respect the rights of others
Our Democratic brethren are going
to find it extremely difficult to square
the Wilson words with the Wilson acts
during the last three years. Ameri-
cans are willing to stand back of the
present. head of the government, of
course, but they are not going to stand
for 1t day longer than March 4, 1917.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03

WAR brides are no longer mere
Wall street speculations-but the new
kind are Just as uncertain.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
No Minority President

We must win. Let every Democrat
go to work.--W. J. 3. in the Com
moner.
There will have to be more, many
more Democrats than there were four
years ago If I'VE must win" The next
tenant of the White House will not be
q minority President-NeM York Sun
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03

II the recent speeches of the Presi-
dent mean anything, they mean that
he sees the whole fabric OF his theo-
retica1 administration crumbling under
the strong light of public scrutiny
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
OUR DAILY LAUGH

IT SURE WAS.
How did you
like that singing
trapeze artist at
the show last
night?
To ten t b . ,
truth, it seemed /
to me that her
music was . bit
over the heads OF
the audience.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03

Advice to Carranza: Read a chap
say along about 1846.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03

What we can't understand is why
that enormous excess of Austrian pris-
oners doesn't capture the entire Rus
sian Army.-Washfngto Post.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03

Wed feel worse about the passing
of the strawberry season IL we hadn't
seen roasting ears at the grocer's this
morning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
Enough to Anger Them

lFrom the Washington Herald
Since we have found out what Kind
Of creature Carranza is It is easy to
understand why so many Mexicans are
angry with us for making a ruler of
him.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE
now for the BIG holiday!

DO you remember when a part of
the Fourth of July program was
always a slab of ginger bread and
bottle Of lemon beer?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03

It is interesting to note that Car
ranza released those prisoners just
after the news leaked out that Roose-
velt was raising q division.--New York
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

IQuestions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
tion's annual Municipal ouiz."1
What tax is paid by nonproparty
holder for City Purposes3
None
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
FEMININE AR
CHITECTURE.


My wife h a S
planned a gem of
4 place.
w h a t's t h Q
idea7
An eight-room
house with 1Ss
closets
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
IN MEXICO 20 YEARS AGO
The Story of War in Which Every Battle Was
the Stars and Stripes
By BRIGGS
By ]. HOWARD VERT

Author "'Twas
the Semcentennial
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
PLAr1rUDINoUs PATRIOTISM

I believe that, at whatever cost
America should be just to other
peoples and treat other peoples as
She demands that they should treat
her. She has right to demand
respect, and she has a right to in
sist that they treat her in that
fashion: but she cannot, with dig
nifty or self-respect, insist upon
that unless she is willing to act in
the same fashion toward them. 1
am ready to fight for that at any
cost RI TnVse1f
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03

There are several great obstacles to
peace" begins a writer upon a much
DISGUST topic. There are. One of them
is war.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03
EDITORIAL COMMENT
After all. 1T was the Colonel who rose
10 heroic mood.-Boston Herald.

Carranza loudly demands justice at
the hands of the Washington Govern
ment. We're for giving him exactly
that.-El Paso Times. \
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03

e. J. sTACKPoLE. Pycst and Editor-in-CIS-f
T. r. OYSTER. Basinsss Mdnagsr.
GUS N. SDEINMETZ, Mdndging Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-03

Another bit of Telegraph verse is
also going the rounds. It is the poem
written for this newspaper by Mrs.
Anna H. Wood last Saturday on the
occasion of the going away OF Com
panies D and I of the Eighth Regi-
ment and the Governors Troop. It
was not only clever, but it touched
the popular chord and recorded the
sentiment of the hour to such degree
that 1t has been pasted in hundreds of
scrapbooks and some of the soldiers at
Mount Gretna have 1t in their pocket
books. President Howard c. Fry, of
the Rotary Club, thought so well of 1t
that he read 1t to the Rotary Club at
its luncheon last week.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-06-07

TTSHE Republican national convention is formally
opened. Informally, but the less surely, the
Republican and Progressive conventions have been
in session for several days past and through their
courses we have been treated TO very interesting eff
fort on each side amalgamatiOn, but amalgamaton
on terms advantageous to The contenders.
That is to say the PrOgressives have been bending
every effort to bring about fusion based the nom
nation Of Col Roosevelt Apparently the best organized
faction the Republican party IS seeking fusion based
on the elimination of Col Roosevelt and the nomina-
ton of Justice Hughes. Tuesday third de-
velopment an attempt at the coalition of "favoTite
sons" Burton Brumbaugh, and others, to eliminate
both Roosevelt and Hughes in favor Of almost any othe
compromise candidate.
As compromise candidates, Of these Republ-
cans suggested Burton LaFOllette, senator Lodge
None of the three met the approval Of the Progresves
and they were not slow to say So The PTogresSives
have insisted on the selection Of candidate who per-
sonifes the very positive and advanced views AmeT
cansm and preparedness which Col Roosevelt himself
best advocates They have been much opposed to any
man as candidate whom they consider negative per
sonaity And they have refused to consider the address
of Justice Hughes Monday before the National Cathe-
dral school as a declaration Of principles
Some light was shed the situation by Col ROose-
welt Monday night when he allowed himself to be
quoted to the effect he would support the candidacy
of Mai Gen Leonard Wood If Gen Woods name should
meet approval in the nomination. This served dis
tinctly clarity the situation from the Progressive
standpoint but left it mudded before from the Re-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-06-07
GOT TO FIND A MIGHTY STRONG MAN IF TT

publican for leaders of the latter party did not view
The possible choice of Gen Wood with such enthusiasm
as to rush into print endorsing him
And now we come to the convention itself. What
will be its result? viii Hughes be nominated,
Roosevelt? Or neither? There is determined oppOsi-
+o1 to Roosevelt and also a strong feeling against
Hughes though this seems to be confined to wing Of
the Republicans the PTogessves have been careful not
TO voice opposition to the supreme court member Then
cards call for Roosevelt and they are playing the cards
for all thew are worth For all that is known now, the
Progressives might very well turn in and support
Hughes If Roosevelt could not be nominated. Or
other NAV be nominated, a compromise candidate as
previously suggested ex-governor Harding of Ohio has
been thought Of as possibility.
Leaving aside consideration OF the Mexican border
sentiment which is generally pretty much against the
administration Though not to the point of voting
against it, he will be a mighty big man who defeats
Nj Wilson in the presidential campaign While the
president has perhaps lost votes by the way he
has handled the Mexican situation, he has gained
through his having so far "kept out of war" And
while he has alienated the vociferous portion of
the GeTman-AmeTican vote by his negotiations with
Germany, those negotiations have given him
strength in other quarters probably as influential
Only the very best man the Republicans and Pro
gressives can unite to find can defeat Mr.. Wilson.
make the contest one of clearly defined issues 1t IS to
be hoped that the Republicans and Progressives will
unite a personifying definite principles;
who embOdies, from the Republican standpoint the very
best in national thought; of great courage
energy, and force Of character, tempered by the
straints of patience and prudence.