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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
Nothing is achieved 1otthout solitude.
-LAcoRDAIRE.
AN ADMIRABLE PLAN

r ABOR DAY is going to be SOME
l. day in Harrisburg. With the
Typographical Union preparing
for q real demonstration and the re-
gatta and carnival of the Greater
Harrisburg Navy, Harrisburg will
have something approaching a three
ring circus in the way of attractions.
City Commissioner Gross has done
an admirable thing in submitting to
the Water Supply Commission, which
has approved his scheme of treatment,
a definite and final plan for the pro-
lection of the river embankment
throughout the length of the city.
Those who are familiar with the
substantial construction of the Front
Steps and the granolithic walk which
protect the shore line have realized,
during the last year or two, how neces-
sary is some permanent form of pro-
lection for the slope from the broad
walk to the line of the average flood
stage of the river. The plan of the
Department of Parks, which has been
promptly approved by the State au-
thorities, contemplates a riprapping
of several feet along the bottom of
the slope and the planting of the en-
bankment between the riprapping and
the upper walk at the street level.
There is still a balance of the last
park loan sufficient to complete this
work and in view of the damage from
the floods of last Spring, Commits
sioner Gross is entirely justified in
protecting the embankment without
further delay Unless and until this
riprapping shall have been done the
city will be constantly at the expense
of repairing the annual damage from
flood, which is inexcusable waste.
Harrisburg is proud Of the Susoue-
hanna Basin and our river frontage;
it has reason to feel good over this
splendid treatment, but nothing must
be left undone that will make per-
manent what has already been started
30 admirably.
Engineers of the State have con-
tended from the beginning that the
embankment should be riprapped to
conform with the plan which has now
been finally approved. Stone for this
work is available and we have no
doubt the undertaking can be pushed
to completion before cold weather.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
Nothing to Arbitrate
New York World. |

The officers OF the four. trainmen's
brotherhoods have had wonderful
vote of confidence from the member
ship of nearly 400, 900. More than nine
of every ten men who operate trains
on 200,0 miles of railway authorized
strike. How the officials who have
had this extraordinary power given
them are to exercise 1t is now a ques-
ton almost as important as that of
peace or war.
that they have nothing to arbitrate.
Others are speaking of this or that de-
mand as fundamental.
To all such ill-advised persons a
word of caution seems to be necessary.
The rocky road over which organized
labor has travelled for many years is
strewn with the wrecks of enterprises
of both labor and capital which had
nothing to arbitrate and were devoted
to finish fights.
Wealth a thousand-fold greater than
the amount now held in the treasures
Of the brotherhoods has been defeated,
and organizations controlling mum bers
larger than are arrayed in these unions
have been disrupted by arrogance and
folly.
Two phrases the American people
hate above all others. One is THE
public be damned. The other is Moth
ing to arbitrate" They supplement
each other. In tho long run, those who
adopt them, whether rich and power
full or numerous and powerful, may
depend upon one thing. They are
headed straight toward disaster
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
Good News For Bathers and
Babies
IN. Y. SUM

Refreshed by the showers of Tues
day, Mayor Mitchell vetoed the pro
posed ordinance under which per-
sons clad in bathing suits would have
been prohibited from riding or walk
ing on the highways unless they wore
overcoats; and DIR. Josephine Baker
OF the Bureau of Child Hygiene serv-
eo notlce on certain overfastidious
souls that 1t was a good thing for
infants to go naked on hot days. Thus
good sense scored two points at mo-
'ment when the weather Threatened 70
unseat the reason of all.
The crusade against bathing suits
is the annual care of numerous fas-
tidious men and women who are deem
~ shocked If man or maiden clad for
the water wanders out of sight of III
waves. Accomplished psy1cboIoeists q
who have studied this manifestation of
perverted reasoning powers have been
unable to find sufficient explanation
for 1t. Were the protests confined To
the exhibition Of their curves by stout
gentlemen there would be no cause
Tor inquiryi fat man in a bathing
suit should keep all except his nose
under water, and should drape his too
ample proportions on emerging from
the deep. But the objection com
monty urged is that those who appear
on street and in shops clad for the
water are not repuIsive. but too at
tractiVe. Jealousy it may be. lies AZ
the bottom of this demand for beach
gowns. Perhaps the Mayor gave n
public hearing and observed the pro-
testants.
AS for the babies. the modern the.
ory is that the fewer clothes thew
wear the better off they will be. and
unclothed children escape the menace
or misdfrected pins, one of the great
est dangers of childhood.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
ICE CREAM VS.. BEER

CENATOR BEIDLEMAN is being
made the subject of newspaper
attack because during his trips
about the county this summer he has
chosen to buy ice cream and candy
for children. In just what manner
he has offended is not clear. If it is
that he has invited boys and girls
into candy stores and ice cream par
lors instead of lining a crowd of men
up before bar and asking them to
have a drink on me-" as was the
wont of campaigners in years agone
and as is still the custom of some
office seekers, then the Senator's cam
paign methods are in full accord with
the new order of things and with his
own we'll known habit of total absti-
nence.
Campaigning with candy and ice
cream as a means of INTRODUCING a
candidate leaves no bad taste in the
mouth and no odor of liquor on the
breath. The boys and girls who enjoy
the bounty of the Senator will not
be able to vote for him, but doubt
less he will stand in higher favor in
the household than the candidate who
sends his prospective supporter reel
ing home under the influence of drink.
If the Senator's opponents can find no
more potent argument against him
than this they may as we'll quit and
let the election be unanimous.
We herald it as a sign of the times
that the beer keg has been abandon
ed in favor of the ice cream freezer
and we hope that other candidates
may adopt the custom of candy treat
ing in which Senator Beidleman has
delighted for many years during his
trips about the county, whether en-
gagged in campaigning or in visiting
among the hundreds Of men and wo-
men who know him as their personal
friend.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

William Jennings. president Of the
William Penn Highway Association, is
right in his determination to place be-
fore all tourists such information as
will enable them to reach the new
State highway with the least possible
inconvenience. This great trunk line
from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh should
be made accessible to all motorists and
the various motor clubs and associa-
tions along the way are cooperating
with the association in placing signs
and otherwise instructing the public.
The scenic features of the State are
attracting thousands of tourists and
the association of which Mr.. Jennings
is head has accomplished a great deal
in this first year of it's existence.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Paper from cotton stalks" is an
nounced as a discovery just made in
Europe. Paper was made from cotton
stalks and corn stalks, and weed
stalks in this country long ago. Paper
may be made from any kind of veg
etable fiber and corn stalks make a
paper of a high grade of excellence.
But the cost of assembling the corn
and cotton stalks has so far prohibit
ed their use in paper making.-Kan-
sas City Star.
1t having peen definitely established
that handshaking spreads germs, we
are all the more proud of our heroic
politicians. - Washington Post.
Women, says a writer, are taking up
the vices that men have discarded. If
they only stop there they'll never do
anything very wicked. - Washington
Post
A Western organization has recently
adopted the slogan The truth in poll
tics" Every campaign develops its
own humor.-Philadelph Inquirer.
This call of meetings in fifty Ger
man cities to protest against annexing
Belgium and Poland shows persistent
lack of confidence in the Allies.-Bos-
ton Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
NEED OF AN AMBULANCE

NEED of an ambulance for public
IN use was demonstrated again yes
terday when a citizen of Harris
burg, injured along the River road
north of the city, was refused trans
portation to the Harrisburg hospital
by the police department because the
accident occurred outside the city
limits and the combination ambulance
and patrol wagon now disgracing the
municipal government was being held
in reserve for city use only.
The sufferer was jolted and bumped
along in spring wagon until at Front
and Division streets a physician hap
pened along and abandoned his pleas
ure drive to see that the man re-
ceived first aid and was taken to the
hospital in an automobile. If the
patient had been bleeding at an artery
he would have been dead before
reaching the institution, while the po-
lice ambulance stood idling in its
garage, waiting to convey the next
drunk to Jail
Harrisburg citizens or others in
jured within reasonable distance of
the city ought by all the rights of
humanity to have as quick and COM
Portable transportation to the hospital
as is possible. The old combination
prison wagon and ambulance has long
outlived its usefulness. Harrisburg
must have an ambulance and it's use
must not be confined strictly to the
limits of the municipality.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
Hughes Epigrams

Only. started in his campaigning.
EX-Justice Hughes had developed an
almost Rooseveltian vocabulary of de-
nunciation and of aphorism. Some of
his epigrams coined so far are:
The Democratic party is a party
for votes only"
The Democratic party came up to
the protection tax like a skittish horse
approaching brass band"
We're entitled to a standing army,
without taking mon out of civil life,
as in the Mexican mobilization, Just
as much as city is entitled to proper
police protection"
THE military problem is a problem
of good sense"
There's no danger OF our going
to war unless the other side knows
that we're too proud to fight"
The best way of making for effic-
iency is by making for contentment." "
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
By BRIGGS

most important facts to be cited are
that the burden of taxation will be
tremendously heavy in Europe after
the war, and that there will be many
restless souls, filled with a new sense
OF freedom by their life in camp and
trench, who will be unwilling to settle
down to the bumdrum life of the Eu-
ropean peasant. Then, too the United
States will almost certainly be very
prosperous, will offer high wages and
abundant opportunity. Undoubtedly
these causes will bring a new 1mmi-
grant movement across the Atlantic.
But the offsetting causes are formid-
able. Foremost of these is the fact
that the war is destroying men be-
tween the ages of twenty and forty
at the rate of from three to five million
year These are the men of strength
ana adventurous propensity, the men
who would seek a new land. Their
the United States can not afford to
admit a horde of aged, crippled, and
women and children.
Then, too, the European nations will
doubtless do what they can to dis
courage emigration. Some can do
more in this line than others. At any
rate, the necessity for Keeping the
will be a potent influence in restrict
ing immigration to the United States.
The really deciding factor, however,
will be industrial conditions in Europe
after the war. The tax burden will
be very heavy, of course, put Europe
will undoubtedly enter upon a great
era of reconstruction. Lapor will be
scarce and much in demand. Wages
will almost certainly rise. The dearth
of men will create opportunities IN
all directions. Another important
fact in this connection is that the land
owning nobility in Austria, Poland
and England has been terribly deci-
mated. Many ancient family names
have passed out of existence. 1t is
quite possible that many of these
great estates will be broken up into
peasant farms and that the soldier
will have an opportunity to become an
independent land owner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

cism of the President. Mr.. Hughes
has already been accused of near trea-
son because of his observations upon
the failures of the Washington authori-
ties. The American people, however.
are not disposed to allow incompe-
tency to wrap tho cloak of sanctity
about itself and pass as inscrutable
wisdom.
Already the handwriting is upon the
wall. and the wayfaring man, though a
fool, must see the finish of the present
campaign even in the dog days.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Elisha Lee, active in the railroad
discussions, is a Philadelphian.
General A. L. Mills, who has had
direction of the militia from WASH
ington for several years, has been
continued in charge CT that bureau by
an order just issued.
Archbishop Prendergast of Phila-
delphia, is taking brief vacation at
the seashore.
John Dickey, Jr., prominent
Philadelphian, is spending the month
in New Hampshire.
-Ex-Judge r. s. Gawthrop, OF
West Chester, is preparing to proceed
with the anthracite coal price inquiry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

Steelton is preparing to keep pace
with Harrisburg in everything that
makes for an attractive and wholesome
and comfortable place in which to live.
Charles NJ. Schwab and his associates of
the Bethlehem Steel Company propose
to make the Steelton plant modern in
every way and while doing this they
will not overlook any necessary i'm
provement in the living conditions of
their employees. So there seems to be a
good future for the big industrial bor-
ough.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
The Meanest Devil

The meanest devil on earth is the
squaw man in society who attempts to
betray woman. The lowest living
snake 10 the Shiny crawling society
cad who would Kiss and tell.
A Georgia editor advocates burying
these SANDER -mongers alive, face
downward. that their voices may never
be heard again on earth.-The Silent
Partner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
Hughes HAS EN- on the Run ?'
philadelphia Ledger

That Mr.. Hughes has struck hard
and deep at the enemy's line is made
plain by their present tactics. 1t is
almost unprecedented in the history
of American presidential politics that
a session of the Cabinet was devoted
to the consideration of and the at
tempt to refute the statements in a.
campaign speech of the leader of the
opposition. Yet this is what has al
ready happened, and the haste with
which the members of the Cabinet
nave rushed to the defense of their
chief against the charge that he has
permitted flagrant violations of the
letter and spirit of the merit system,
of which he was once an ardent up
holder, shows how effective have been
the initial assaults made by Mr.
Hughes upon the Wilsonian intrench-
ments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

Questions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza-
tIon's annual Municipal Quiz"l
How are property valuations fixed for
city and school taxes?
Property valuations for city and
school taxes are made by the City
Assessor. Values are fixed in the
triennial year for three years un-
less property is improved or an err
ror has been made in assessment
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
HISTORIC HARRIsBUR
Starving Armenians Cannibals

Rather than starve to death, Ar
menians are eating human flesh, ac-
cording to a cable dispatch received
by the American relief Armenians
who have been driven out upon the
deserts have frequently pounced upon
the bodies of exhausted comrades and
have feasted upon them, says the dis
patch. Lack of food has driven the
people practically to animal life. Men
and women have been seen crawling
upon the ground in desperate hunt
for grasses and herr
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

So the convention OF county commits
sioners doesn't favor a change in the
present election laws for fear Of get
ting something worse. At least, we
should be able to tell what happened in
a primary before the voters have for
gotten all about 1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

More power to the school directors Of
the city in their announced purpose to
plant shrubbery about the school builo-
ings and thus teach the aesthetic value
of flowers to the thousands of children
ofHarrisburg. of This object lesson will do
much more to prevent the destruction
of plants and shrubbery than rules and
regulations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

President Judge Kunkel is clearing
his table before taking needed vaca-
tion. Those Hardscrabble citizens who
have tagged homes elsewhere will re-
joice when their long period of uncer-
tainty is over and a wise and sensible
Judge shall have cut the controversial
knot.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

He seems TO
. n toy b o / n &
gloomy.
Yes. Seems to
mo like a fellow
who would be
perfectly c o n =
tented sittin g
alone In O sum-
mer cottage dur
ing a three daxs'
gain
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

City Commissioner Lynch has prom
ised to complete the placing of some
large concrete slabs upon the face of
the river dam as soon as the water
has reached low level 1t appears to
be getting to that point rapidly and
another summer should not go by
without this work being done.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

Charles Evans Hughes may be cold
and unresponsive, as his enemies de-
clare, but he manages to make these
same enemies pretty hot in the collar
through his incisive speeches and COM
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
Our Daily Laugh
A sTIcKER.

Friend: Did
her father follow
you when you
eloped with the
girl?
Young man: I
should say so. He
is living with US
yet.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

There are signs here and there of
better atmosphere respecting the in
dustrial difficulties OF the country.
Capital and labor are realizing that
one cannot get along without the other.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

The Scotch are going to cut down
their consumption of alcoholic liquors,
but this doesn't necessarily mean the
abandonment of the nineteenth hole at
golf.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

ments upon the incompetence of the
Washington administration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
Fate of the Wicked

The wicked shall be turned into hell,
and all the nations that forget God.
tastes S:11.
Now consider this, We that forget
God, lest tear you in pieces, and there
is none to deliver-Psalms 50:22
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

Because sentence against an evil
work is not executed speedily, there
fully set in them to do evil.-Eccles-
tastes S:11.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
SEE THE HANDWRITING

EvEN before he becomes President,
u which seems about as certain as
that day follows night, Charles
Evans Hughes has performed a dis
tinct service in forcing an adjourn
ment of the present Congress some
months before that event had been
anticipated by the statesmen who have
been fiddling with the government for
a period that now seems to run back
into the dim and distant past. His
speeches and his incisive thrusts at the
weaknesses of the Wilson admins
tration have already placed the cham
pions of the party now in power on the
defensive. so much so that Congress
is anxious to adjourn that the dis
credited representatives of wilsonia
may get back 20 their constituents and
continue the futile explanations of
their shortcomings started this week
by the President and his >Cabinet.
But 1t is doubtful whether the ad-
1ournment will come soon enough to
prevent another egregious blunder in
the enactment of shipping bill which
will still furthcr hamstring and en-
barrass this country in its trade rela-
tons with the nations beyond the seas.
However, even Uncle Sam has become
accustomed to the mistake of an acct
dental administration and nothing yet
to happen need surprise or shock
Americans anywhere. One even be-
comes familiar with blunders when
these blunders are consistent and per-
sistent, as in the case of the Washing
ton administration.
OF course, we shall be told that 1t is
1ese majestic to say anything in criti-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg is the center
of an important fruit and vege-
table distributing trade?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
The first church was built at Third
and Cherry streets.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
TELEGRAPH PERIScOPE

Those White House corrections of
Hughes statements may be classed un-
der the head of Important If true"
One item Of importance was miss
ing from yesterdays news-nobody
discovered the Bremen.
The pork packing industry head
quarters appears to have been trans
ferred from Chicago to Washington,
where the Democrats are putting up a
tour years supply.
No, Maude. it is not true that
President Wilson'S underwriting habits
have anything to do with the paper
shortage.
The Scotch are going to cut down
their consllr1 ntior1 of alcoholic HdIors
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

H. J.sTACKPoLE.P Pres't and Editor-in- Chi.f
n. r. OYSTER, BEsinssJ Mondger
GUS NJ. SpEINMETz, MGndging Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

There is no influence in any COM
munity more potent and powerful
for the accomplishment of good
than that of the business and nro-
fessional men unselfshly banded
together for the purpose of promot-
ing the general welfare of the en-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

-HR' D4 , &C TdS 5INVI US IN thls para
graph a whole sermon. Right here in
Harrisburg we have learned to appre-
ciate the value Of cooperation and the
community get-together spirit And
now moro than ever before do we need
the touch of the shoulders of our citi-
zens in accomplishing much that is yet
to be done-the Improvement of the
susquehanna Basin. the permanent
treatment Of the river embankment. the
planting Of trees along the city streets.
better housing and the opening up Of
wider spaces for light and air in all
building operations. These are the
things which should appeal to every
good citizen and to every municipal
body
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11

People here are much interested in
a report from Ell Paso that officials of
the Carnegie Steel Company are going
to give the Governors Troop, or
Troop as it is officially known, a
motor truck. The troop did good
service in the company's territory in
the Allegheny county strike and its
work seems to have been appreciated.
However, Harrisburg might have done
the same thing.