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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-06-30

Hooks Arranged Beneath the Pilot Of
Locomotive to Prevent Derailments.
on the underside Of pilot. 1t con-
sists of row of large hooks the
points Of which face forward in such
a position as to grapple things which
the. pilot might not strike.-Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
Steel
New York Snnl

The statement by the United States
Steel Corporation exceeds by many mil
lions the high expectations previously
entertained concerning this quarters S
earnings. 1t strengthens a general
market just now subject to many ad-
verse influences. 1t registers in as
founding figures a new maximum mark
in the prosperity of the basic industry
of this country. An extra dividend of
one per cent. goes now to the multitu-
dinous holders of the common stock.
The record is unexampled, but it's
significance will be wrongly estimated
unless 1t is duly regarded as an Incl
dent of the great war. AS the activi-
ity of steel is the index of the activ-
tiles of countless other American in
terests, so the relation of steel to tenn
porary conditions in the world outside
denotes the dependence of the present
prosperity Of those other interests up
on conditions beyond our domestic
power to mar or make.
The steel showing, therefore, is a
warning to shortsighted or sluggish
legislators at the American Capitol,
instead of an assurance of the sue
cess of their experimenting, and wise
citizens will so consider 1t; for our
prosperity must be made permanent
and not ephemeral.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27

owners of property in the central sec
tions which are available for i'm
provement with sky scrapers have
overwhelmed the Bureau of Buildings
with plans for monumental structures,
some of them comparable to the great
est piles of stone, steel and masonry
in the city.
During the last two or three days
plans have been filed calling for an
expenditure of approximately $35,000,-
600 for thirty-eight buildings fyom IL
to 80 stories high. These permits en-
brace about everything in office, apart
ment, loft and hotel construction. It
is believed, however, that the Bureau
of Buildings will find sufficient objec-
ton to most of these eleventh-hour
plans to have them withdrawn.
1t is the opinion of the real estate
men that this action will preserve
property values throughout Greater
New York and make for the conserva-
ton of real estate. 1t marks an epoch
in the history of New York City.
Long ago the European cities began
the restriction of buildings so as to
conserve light and air and prevent the
destruction of values of surrounding
property. The sky scrapers of New
York City have been the wonders of
the world and foreigners upon their
arrival in the harbor of the metropolis
have always been amazed with the un-
usual sky line of that city.
But New York is not the only Of
fender in this direction. Other cities
have projected great buildings into the
atmosphere at the expense of the
contiguous property values. Here in
Harrisburg the City Planning Com
mission is doing what it can to bring
about better attitude of the public
mind toward neighborhood values.
detached buildings, especially in the
residential section, and the erection of
factories and industrial plants in the
midst of residences will be prevented
hereafter.
New York has set in motion a
movement which will likely extend
throughout the country and this
change of front has not come a day
too soon. Property values will un-
doubtedly increase wherever reason
able restrictions of the sort indicated
are adopted by the municipality. Real
estate values will rapidly improve
wherever sane conditions are estab-
lished. The time has passed in the
matter of building and planning when
the rights of the neighpor or the
neighborhood could be disregarded
with impunity. We are living in diff
ferent day and the owner of property
here and elsewhere must be made to
understand that he cannot do anything
which will adversely affect his neigh
Dor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
THE TURN OF THE TIDE

a POLL of all the counties or
IA Pennsylvania shows that the
number of retail liquor licenses
has been reduced this year from 10,S S92
in 1918 to 10,619, and wholesale liquor
licenses have fallen from 1904 in 1918
to 1,514 in the present year.
This is one of the marks of the turn
ing of the tide. Heretofore unusual
prosperity has been accompanied by
Increased drinking. Now the opposite
is true. On every hand is to be found
evidence that old King Alcohol is in
as sad plight as are some of the Euro
pean monarchs who have played fast
and loose with their subjects.
Liquor dealers and the makers of
liquor who see the handwriting on the
wall are not all, however, doing as
many in Pennsylvania did last year,
go out of business entirely. They are
preparing for the time when the bar
shall be placed on the sale of alcoholic
beverages by going into other lines of
trade. For instance. one of the great
est brewing houses in the world has
just begun an extensive advertising
campaign for the sale of temperance
drink to take the place of beer. 1t is
not to be known as a near beer" or a
beer substitute" 1t is something en-
tirely new. perfected after numerous
experiments and said to be both whole
some and palarable. That the new
drink will find a national market is
indicated by tho announcement of the
firm that it mus curtail it's advertising
for the present due to the fact that it
cannot Immediately fill all orders that
have been placed.
Another new industry of the same
kind has been developed by far west
ern brewers and distillers who have
found their trade dwindling This is
the Juice of the Logan berry that
promises to find as great a sale as
grapejuice does at present.
The liquor dealer or maker may as
well leave off fighting the inevitable
and spend his time and energy setting
up some new line of trade. The end
of the liquor business in America is in
sight.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING
"HAT the business man of tho


United States, as represented by
the commercial organizations of
the country, are almost unanimously in
favor of universal training is shown
by the referendum vote taken by the
National Chamber of Commerce in
every State of the Union and recently
announced.
This indicates not only remarkable
reversal of public sentiment as it ex-
listed previous to the war in Europe,
but shows very plainly that public
opinion, at least so far as it is repre-
sented by the business men of the
nation. is in advance OF Congress, since
our lawmakers have not as yet given
much consideration to the idea of uni
versal service.
The ballot shows $50 votes of or
carnations in favor and only 56
against system of universal training
which shall be enforced by law to fur
nish men for defense in war as we'll as
in peace. Forty-three States were rep
resented. A responsible and intelli-
gent element of the citizens in twenty
four Of these States voted unanimously.
In eighteen others, the vote ranged
from more than 100 to to 2 to l. In
only one State, Alabama, was the vote
opposed.
The Nations Business, which gives
considerable space to this remarkable
vote, expresses the belief. that the
change of sentiment is not wholly the
result of desire to protect the coun-
try against attack, but that 1t is in
part due as well to the belief of busi-
ness men. as result of observation
since the war began, that universal
service will develop a better-balanced
and more self-desciplined youth from
which to build succeeding generations
of American citizens. They have regis
tered their opinion that 1t will not only
prepare citizens for wars which all
hope to avoid, but will fit them better
for virile, substantial peace which all
hope to enjoy They do not fear the
obligation Of military training any
more than that of taxes or of edu-
cation" according to the same au-
thoI1ty, which sums up the sentiment
expressed in these words: Few be-
lieve that II the collection of taxes
were left to the compulsion of the
spirit of America, very much revenue
would accrue. There is no less reason
to believe in obligatory taxes than in
obligatory defense. Long enough the
patriotic and self-sacriicing volunteer
has shouldered the rife. and with it
the duty of his neighbor. Long
enough has he been the victim of the
loosely knit and slow-moving military
machine which, in our own history
invariably results from such a system
The beginning of compulsory edu-
cation was regarded by a famous
English philosopher Herbert Spencer
as the doom of progress; it has proved
to be one of its mainstays. The ac-
ceptance by the American people OF
an equal obligation for military duty
on the part of all citizens should, it is
believed, prove of equal value. 1t i:
now urged EN- phatically by a respon.
sible and conservative element of the
public and in this movement the Cham.
Der of Commerce of the United State:
WILL therefore. be led, necessarily, tc
play large part"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
OUR HIGHEST PEAK
BY BRIGGS
By Frederic J. Haskin

Although this tundra country on the
north side of the mountain is a veri-
table garden in the summer it is so
near the arctic circle that at midnight
one can read newspaper without the
aid of artificial light.
The setting aside Of this wonderful
region as a protected park was urged
upon Congress by representatives of
the Boone and Crockett Club and the
Camp Fire Club of America-two ma
tional organizations of big game hunt
ers. These lovers of the wilderness
were motivated primarily by the de-
sire to save a bit of the Alaskan wild
from the desecration that civilization
is sure to bring. They were also able
to cite some very practical reasons
for the creation of the park, however.
The most important of these was that
the new government railroad which
is now being built from Seward to the
interior of Alaska will pass within
twenty miles of the boundary of the
proposed reservation. This will bring
Mt. Mckinley within three weeks OF
New York by the comfortable means
of modern travel. Any tourist will be
able to hire a pony and a guide at
Broad Pass and ride 10 the foot of this
mountain of granite and ice through
the Towering tundra country. This
would not only add a splendid trip to
Il
but it would give the government rail-
road an assured tourist business from
the start. 1t has been estimated that
, an automobile road could be built
across the tundra to the foot of the
mountain at an expense of about
$4,000 a mile.
Belmore Brown of the Camp
Fire Club of America also pointed out
to the Senate Committee that the park
would be sort of game reservoir
from which the surrounding country
would be restocked; and he asserted
that the wild game had been an in
dispensable factor in the opening up of
the Alaskan interior. In that coun-
try there is no agriculture, and trans
portation presents tremendous diff
cultes. But almost everywhere splen-
did game animals abound These
have been almost the sole support OF
the hardy prospectors who opened the
resources of Alaska to industry. A
provision is to be included in the bill
making it possible to issue permits to
prospectors to kill what game thew
need for food
The prospector knows the value of
the game. and does not waste it: hui
the coming of the railroad Is sure ia
bring class of men who will kill for
the pleasure of killing. This has been
the history of every railroad in a new
country. The railroad was the doom
OF bison and elk in the West. It is be.
lleved that by the creation of this park
Alaskan game, which is one of the
country's most valuable assets, NAV be
saved for many generations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
MEASURE creating in Alaska !

n MEASURE creating in Alaska
n the Mt. Mckinley National Park
has been favorably reported by
the Senate Committee on territories
1t was introduced in the House by
delegate Wickersham of Alaska. AS
the bill calls for no large appropria-
tions and is favored by the Alaskan
representative, IL will probably be-
come a law. This means that the
great Alaskan peak and the region
surrounding it will be placed under
government control, the game protect
ed, roads and trails and hotels built,
and everything else done to make the
place accessible and preserve its prim-
tive character.
Mt. Mckinley rises to the height of
20,30 feet above sea-level, is the high
est peak in North America, and is
accounted by experienced travellers
the most striking bit of natural seem
cry on the continent. Although there
are mountains in the world the crests
of which are higher above sea-level,
there is none that lifts so high above
the surrounding terrain. For Mt Nc
Kinley is huge dome of granite and
ice presenting on the southern side
10000 feet of sheer rise above the
gradual slope at it's foot. 1t is flank
ed on either side by peaks of the
Alaskan range rising fifteen to sixteen
thousand feet above sea-level, and it
dwarfs them into significance.
Swept by the humid Pacific winds,
the southern side OF Mt. Mckinley is
one of the most terrible and inaccess-
ible wildernesses in the world. Snow
sometimes falls to a depth Of sixty
feet on the level and the whole noun
tain side is sheathed in ice and snow
all the year round. A number of
great glaciers creep down its flanks,
and in the summer there are numerous
flashing mountain torrents.
From this side the mountain is al
together inaccessible, but it's northern
slope is protected from the Pacific
wind and moisture by the Alaskan
range. Although it's upper sixteen
thousand feet are here, too, covered
with snow and ice, the mountain may
be ascended. Its lower slopes range
into a beautiful arctic tundra, which
is in summer great lawn starred
with wild flowers in remarkable abun-
dance and variety, while the swift
streams are lined with forests of
spruce and willow Upon these plains
great herds of caribou wheel about
the pack train of the prospector in
guileless curiosity, suggesting in their
primitive abundance the bison herds
of the early west. Bears of several
kinds are also numerous, while sable
and fox make the region a rich one
for the trapper. On the upper slopes
the big-horn or mountain sheep exists
in great numbers, one observer hav-
Ing counted five hundred of them in
a day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

George Wharton Pepper, the Phil
adelphia lawyer, is in Maine.
General A. J. Logan, of Pitts
burgh, who was taken i'll in Texas. is
improving.
Director George S. Webster, of the
Philadelphia department of docks and
ferries, spent yesterday inspecting
canals leading to Philadelphia.
-Isador Sobel, of Erie, has been
elected president of the B'Nai Birth
State organization.
r. r. Harrison. of Pittsburgh, has
been elected president of the associa-
ton of descendants of Benjamin Har-
rison, one of the signers of the Dec
laration of independence.
Col. T. ]. keenan,, prominent
Pittsburgh man, is one of the men who
headed movement to acquire the
Danish Indies long ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27

The Greater Harrisburg Navy" has
launched with eclat its movement for
the big September carnival and the i'm
provement of the Susquehanna Basin.
It's good thing when the young folks
combine their efforts for any improve
ment. This organization will embrace
within its membership hundreds of
young men who will have associated
with them as an auxiliary body the
bright girls and energetic women of
the city. The movement starts well
and the success of the Labor Day car
nival will indicate the hustling abili-
ties of the Navy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
INFANTILE PARALYSIS
70 the Editor of the Telegraph:

- ''N -S'tSf ~ Fte AettSfuPHs
In reading. the article in the Tele-
graph of July %, in regard to "how
mothers could help prevent the spread
OF lnfantile Paralysis" or words to that
effect, would like to suggest that If
the city would watch and keep clean
the districts that the poorer classes in
habit. there probably would not be an
epidemic, because it seems that is lust
What New York City neglected to do.
and in those districts the disease is at
its worst.
OF course that alone would not pre-
vent it,, but If every person would keep
their homes and yards scrupulously
clean. being most careful not to leave
garbage or any like lying around or
uncovered, and not be afraid, l am sure
we would be free of 1t.
Quoting from a morning paper this
sentence is most practical and sensible,
"A study of the different epidemics of
the disease does not justify this public
panic"
Trusting you may find room in your
valuable paper for this communication,
and thanking you for your attention to
same, / am,
Yours very truly.
/. q L.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
TOO BLAMED HOT
By Wing Dlnger

It's too hot to do much stirring,
It's so hot, one can't keep still,
It's too hot to go a hshin'
In the dam beside the mill.
It's too hot to go to woodlands
And meath shade trees there to roam
Yet one really must do something
It's too hot to stay at home
It's too hot to go a-golhng.
And when it's too hot, by jing,
To go goifing, it's too hot, bo.
To do any bloomin' thing.
It's too hot to work in day time,
It's too hot to sleep at night,
It's too hot to read much poetry
, Which, it's too blamed hot to write.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
Repudiating Americans
[From the Philadelphia Ledger.

TUT tIIO IIIIAuSIPIIId LtuBeI.I
OF course, the administration is
shouting as loudly as anyone else,
through Messrs. McAdoo and Hurley
about the pots of gold that lie at the
foot of the South anG Central Ameri-
can trade rainbow: but what is to pre-
vent 1t when trouble arises and dis
putes occur between the honest Ameri
can business men who may be engaged
in trade in Central and South America.
and the several governments of Latin
America from repudiating them all,
and, as has been done in Mexico
putting the stigma of moral turpitlIde
on all who had the efficiency, the fore
sight, the engineering experience and
the hardihood and enterprise to go
into Latin America and help to develop
its resources?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Thomas Mott Osborne gets a second
term at Sing Sing, but he will not take
an appeal.-Pittsburgh Times.
AS we understand it, pork" is the
money expended on public improve
ments in some other town.-Nashville
Southern Lumberman.
If our peeHsh militiamen have to
come back without their war we ad-
wise Mr.. Wilson to postpone the recall
until after the November elections
Boston Transcript.
The extent of the Colonel's opposi-
ton to Mr.. Wilson was not realized
until it developed that it was on that
account that he declined to run again.
Nashville Southern Lumberman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
Hughes and the People
[From the New york Herald

IFrom the New 7 York Herald
That Mr.. Hughes showed a pretty
fine knowledge of the political game"
when governor of this state persons
who opposed him learned to their sor-
row. He had the faculty of reaching
the people-wherein lies political sue
cess. And unless the six years expert
ence in the nonuolitical atmosphere of
the Supreme Court of the United States
has dulled that faculty it may be safely
predicted that Mr.. Hughes will before
long take the voters Of the United
States into his confidence with respect
to his Cabinet intentions, indicating
that If elected he will draw around
him men of the caliber of Mr.. Root,
Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Choate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
NO MORE SKY sCRAPERs

I<HAT citizen OF Hungary who de-
clared to friend from America
that he desired to see two things
IN the United States - the Niagara
Falls and the sky scrapers of New
hears that there will be no more sky
scrapers in New York. No more
Woolworth, Singer or Metropolitan
towers. No more Equitable buildings
or anything approaching that struc-
ture in height or area of lot covered.
Under an edict sent out by the
Board of Estimate, which adopted
unanimously the plan of the Commits
sion on Building District and Restric-
ton, moderately low buildings will be
the rule hereafter, so constructed that
one owner cannot rob his neighbor of
light or air. No more garages will
Invade splendid home locations and no
more factories will be permitted to in
trude in the city's finest shopping
zones. Nor will the monstrous apart
ments overshadow and destroy the at
tractiveness of purely residential dis
tricts.
This radical departure from the New
York building regulations has for its
object the prevention Of indiscriminate
building of structures without relation
to neighborhood, rights of property
owners or existing values No struc-
ture can be erected hereafter above a
certain comparatively low height
unless above the legal height II coyars
comparatively small portion of the
site.
This official action has started an
avalanche of applications for building
permits under the old regulations
| Fearing the effect of the new order
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 81
I .otsh you not te.o cares, but ca

toish you not teto cares, but ca
pdcity for many; not easy tasks, out
strength to master all of them; not
freedom from temptations, but grace
SUFFICIENT to wrestle toith them; not
absence of Sorroto, but faith t0heretoith
to see beyond it,; not exemption from,
perplerttieS, but confidence in God to
1oork them out.-ANoN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
Women Where Needed
[From the New York world. !

= O111 t11O &NNW 7 UIh w UIIU'
Commissioner of Health Emerson
confers higher honors upon woman
mood than are contemplated by any
suffrage eamendment. Hereafter, women
nurses are to take the places of police
men on all health department ambu-
lances Recent unhappy experiences
should not have been necessary to sug-
gest the change here ordered. On gem
eral principles 81 nurse is naturally
except in cases of riot, a police officer
is not. More important than this, how
is recognition of the fact that
on ezra nds of mercy a good woman
is often Of more service than many
men.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27

Those unlucky spectators who hesi-
tated to purchase the common stock of
the United States Steel Corporation, a
few years ago. at the low price of ten
dollars, will probably have an uncom-
Portable period of self-communion
when they read that the company has
just declared an extra dividend of per
cent on the common stock beside the
regular l u per cent. quarterly distribu-
ton. Certainly steel is either prince or
pauper.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
Papers Raise Their Rates

The Atlanta Journal and the At
lanta Georgian have raised their prices
from 2 to 3 cents copy; the Reading
(Pa.) News-Times and the Allentown
(Pa.) Morning Call from to 2 cents.
It is reported that the Reading Herald
will increase it's delivery rate from 6
to cents.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-27
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE

We just dare any German sub
marine to try TO do anything to that
Greater Harrisburg Navy.
Harrisburg guardsmen at the Bor-
der are not among those who complain
of not hearing often from home-they
get the Telegraph.
-"Cyclone" Davis apparently did
not get into the cellar in time.
The Kaiser and the British agree
on at least one point-both would like
to see the Kaiser get into the trenches.
When a man talks of the good
old days." nine times out of ten he
means his good young days.
THAT President Wilson is ready to
pay 5000, 900 for islands that Roose-
velt could have purchased but for
Congress for $4,000, 900 is only another
evidence of the remarkable business
administration that is the boast of
Democratic editors.