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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05

ham is primarily concerned with ways
and means of utilizing this water
way, which is one of the few in the
world that actually reaches from the
mountains to the sea, and one of the
few in the United States that main
tains uniform navigable depth, free
from ice, all the year round. Birm-
ingham has resolved that the first
step shall be to bring the city and the
river together, both to facilitate ship
ping and to prevent private capital
from gaining control of water 'front.'
age which should belong to the city
as a whole.
To accomplish this. the people of
Birmingham plan to extend their cor
porate limits in a long narrow strip
clear TO the banks of the river 1t
is not a project without precedent.
Los Angeles brought itself within
touch of the Pacific coast by exactly
the same measure, and has enjoyed
many practical benefits therefrom.
The Birmingham people have made
careful study of the Los Angeles
method, and will probably succeed in
a similar manner. A strip of land
about two hundred yards wide reach
ing from the city to the river will be-
come part of the incorporation. Up
on this will be built a fine macadam-
lied boulevard and a passenger and
freight electric line owned and run
by the city. This line will carry both
passengers and freight during the day,
but will handle the bulk of its freight
at night. At the end of the strip
will be the municipal terminals.
This, at least seems to be the plan
most generally agreed upon. There
is abundant difference of opinion,
wherefore this is not offered as au-
thoritative. The project has already
gone so far as a preliminary survey
of two routes by the county engineer,
and a hot battle of words has been
waged as to which route ought to be
accepted. There are bound to be
delays, but the people have fully made
up their minds to the project. and
there is little doubt but what it will
ultimately be carried out. 1t is esti-
mated that it will cost the city a mil
lion dollars to finish the project,
The completion of this great gov
ernment work has opened to Birm-
ingham a wealth of opportunity at
single stroke. The industrial
strength of the city lies in the fact
that 1T has immense quantities of iron,
coal and limestone so located in the
mountains surrounding it that the
force of gravity literally carries them
to the doors of the furnaces, making
Birmingham a natural center of steel
and iron manufacture. Her weak
ness has been the lack of cheap trans
portation. The Black Warrior pro-
Ject has supplied the opportunity to
make up that deficiency. For eX
ample, by the river freight may be
shipped to New Orleans for less than
half of what it costs by rail.
The most immediate and obvious
opportunity the river affords is to
ship coal to Mobile by water; and
this already is being done by several
companies.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
BETHLEHENrS OFEER

TIME absurd position in which the
nation has been placed by fail
ure of Secretary Daniels to Of
fer encouragement to private ship
building plants is made evident by an
nouncement in press dispatches from
Washington that even though Con-
gress appropriates money for the naval
program now in contemplation-tw
battleships, one battle cruiser and two
scout ships-the work cannot be COM
pleted in less than three years unless
an emergency arises demanding that
private work be laid aside in favor of
government contracts. At this juno
ture comes the Bethlehem Steel COM
pany with the statement that it can
deliver two battleships or two battle
cruisers in 3S months four scout cruis-
ers in 80 months, eight destroyers in
"a months, ten auxiliary vessels in
"a months and submarines, any num-
Der, the first in sixteen months and
one each month thereafter in dupli-
cate. I'm the event OF an emergency"
the letter of President Grace con-
tinues, 'our facilities can be dou-
bled and we could deliver one battle
ship in "a months"
I'm conclusion" says Mr.. Grace.
permit us to assure you that we rec
ognfze, as citizens, our first obliga-
tion is to serve the United States. We
are willing to cooperate in the most
effective manner to assist the de-
mands of the government"
And yet this is the company, the
vast armor plate equipment of which
Secretary Daniels would scrap" for
the doubtful experiment of a govern
ment owned armor plate plant, which
has not yet even reached the blue
print stage.
1--WE offer" says the Bethlehem
company, ito place all the cards on
the table-to open our books to the
Federal Trade Commission, and to put
our experience, our facilities and our
economies at the service of the ma
ton upon such terms as the Govern
ment itself shall name as fair"
What the people of this country
want is a navy. We are not interest
ed in the fanciful savings of a govern
ment-owned plant, to be built and op-
Grated as an experiment some time
in the future. The Board of Naval
Officers, headed by Captain Kossuth
Niles, is on record as saying that the
establishment and operation of an ar
NOR plant unconnected with other
works would without doubt involve
additional costs not included in the
development of existing plants" and
the whole Daniels idea is built upon a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
DIXTE GOES AHEAD
Birmingham's New River
By Frederic J. Haskin

ALA.-By building
ID seventeen locks and dams across
Black Warrior River, Uncle Sam
has presented the people of
this city with fine navigable river.
The work cost the government $17,-
100000 and required twelve years to
finish, and the Birmingham people
are deeply appreciative of the boon
that the nation as n whole has con-
ferred upon them.
THE Black Warrior River and
What We are Going to do With It."
would make a good headline for most
of the conversation and a large part
of the news in Birmingham right now.
The city is going to extend its linn
its to the banks of the river. 1t is
already shipping coal to Mobile by
boat and it expects to bring back
ores and fertilizers. The wholesal-
ers see a new chance to reach sea-
ward, and to force lower rates out
of the railroads. The iron and steel
makers assert that they will now sup
ply Texas with nails and wire, and
reach the Cuban market in single
shipment from their own home term
inals. In a word, the possibilities
seem almost unlimited and the city
is making good progress toward their
realization.
of the most striking engineering feats
that the government has ever accom-
plished. Lock seventeen, the recent
completion of which brought navi-
gable water within twelve miles of
Birmingham, a mountain city, is said
to be the highest lock in the world,
for it holds back head of water
63 feet deep.
Since very early times, the Black
Warrior has been a navigable stream
below Demopolis, a little city half
way to the sea; and as long ago as
1856, steamers came up to Tuscaloosa
during high water. But that did not
do Birmingham much good. The city
is only twelve miles from the river;
but at that point it was only big
mountain stream a couple of hundred
yards wide, full of rifles and shoals,
and often as low in the summer that
a man could wade across it,
Now that same stream has been
converted by modern engineering in
to a river half a mile wide on an
average, thirty to fifty feet deep in
many places, and navigable for large
barges all the way to the sea. The
narrow mountain creeks that once
came tumblng into the Black War
rior have been converted into deep,
navigable bayous reaching back in
to the the heart of the mountains
where the iron and coal are mined.
incidentally, Birmingham has now
one of the most attractive water
ways in the South for pleasure boat
ing. Running between steep wooded
mountains, and reaching its arms far
up among them, the Black Warrior
is beautiful stretch of cruising
water; and to add to the delight of
sportsmen, both fish and wild ducks
have appeared i'm great numbers.
Just at present, however, Birming-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
EXAMPLE FOR PA.
kansas City Star. ]

All of Wyandotte county's seventy
six miles of macadamized road is to be
repaired this spring and summer. The
commissioners estimate that no new
roads can be paved, since all the avail
able funds will be necessary for repair
work.
The situation in Wyandotte county
is very much like that in other coun-
ties where the importance of main
tanning a paved road after il is built
is not appreciated. Abroad they keep
men inspecting the roads and repair
ing small holes all through the year.
The consequence is the roads always
are in good shape. The American
practice has been to build the roads
and then neglect them until they are
in such shape that they have to be
rebuilt.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
LURE OF SPRING
(By Helen Richardsnnn

(By Helen Richardson)
Lo, Spring is coming! how the cattle
sniff
The balmy air!
List the impatient stamping of their
feet,
The mute despair
With which they watch the close shut
stable door
That bars the min;
Noicing their disapproval by low moo
And gentle whin.
Then note the robins ju5ilant re-
frain.
The bluebird's call;
The blackbirdss whistle from tho
marshes, and
Above them all,
The song sparrow a-quiver with the
JOY
That thrills II when
1t hears Springs rustling garments
trailing through
The field and glen.
'Tis not humanity alone sends forth
It's note of praise
For unlocked streams, for fields in
verdure clad.
For lengthning days.
From sanctioned stalls hoof- beats de-
mand release;
For Natures thrall
That lures to field and wood and linn
pid stream,
Is felt by all
Our Dumb Animals.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
PLAY DAY
XTTHEN Allen d. Albert, president
wv of the International Asso-

XTTHEN Allen d. Albert, president
wv of the International Asso-
citation of Rotary Clubs, was in
Harrisburg recently as the guest of the
Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary
Club he made q strong plea for the
encouragement of wholesome play. He
said that the average American does
not know how TO play properly and he
asked his hearers to get out with their
sons and learn to be young again.
The Harrisburg Rotary Club has
taken up the idea on big scale in
it's customary energetic and progress
sive manner. At its meeting last even
ing it adopted the Albert sugges-
ton by deciding to have one great
PLAY Day" for all Harrisburg. The
club plans to have everybody join the
movement. At q certain hour on the
day to be selected all work, so far as
possible, is TO cease and everybody, old
and young, rich and poor, is to give
himself or herself over to play. The
idea is a good one, and the Rotary Club
may be relied upon to make q success
of il.
Governor Brumbaugh, in his excel
lent address before the Greater Har-
risburg celebration last Fall, voiced
the thought that cities in the future
must think of the pleasure and
recreation of their people as we'll as
of their material well-being, and he
suggested that the next big step in
legislation will be along this line. Per-
haps the Rotary Club is making the
first move toward an annual appro-
priation for amusement purposes out
of the general revenues of the city.
This is no radical thought, as might
appear at a glance. We are now
spending money for Fairgrounds, for
parks and for the encouragement of
sports. Why not a step forward to
provide entertainment for the masses
as whole?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
MAKE THEM WORK

1 MUSE SOClul WORKERS. VINO InG
other day recommended that the
school buildings of the city be
made to work fourteen hours a day,
six days a week, instead of six hours
for five days, as at present, are on the
right track.
School buildings are costly and not
nearly so productive as they might be-
What manufacturer, do you suppose,
would put from S70 900 to 500, 900
Into q plant and then work it only six
hours a day for five days in the week,
not more than nine and a half months
i'm the year? The proposal would be
regarded as absurd. Manufacturers
who get the most out of their plants
work them as steadily as possible. The
same thing should apply to the schools.
our investment in them is too great to
permit them to stand idle when they
might be working.
To be sure, there are problems in
connection with the opening of school
houses that do not appear on the sur
face. but they can be overcome. They
must be overcome. There is no reason
whatsoever why the school house
should not be the community house
the social center-of its own district.
Those back of the movement should
not be discouraged by the "It can't be
done" element. The time is coming
when the school house will work its
fourteen-hour day, but a good deal OF
educational work will be necessary to
bring it about.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
THE MILLERsBURG IDEA

TIME Millersburg good roads idea
is to have everyone join in the
movement. That was demon
strated very well last evening at the
annual dinner of the Motor Club of
that town. The guests were by no
means all owners of automobiles. But
they were to a man strong and enthusi-
astic advocates of good roads, and so
they Joined forces for the betterment
of conditions in that district.
When Governor Brumbaugh ad-
dressed meeting in Millersburg dur
ing his campaign he made very dis
tinct promises to do what he could for
the improvement of the highways of
that vicinity and Commissioner Cum
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 3.

When I see about me, in the fields
Of intellectual attainment and culture,
in the t0GlkS Of business and in family
life, so mdny disasters and tragedies
long draaCn out, Of failing health and
collapse Of nerUe, brain and muscle
feel that health is the only buliCdrE
upon 1Chich everything tCe prize in in
fellectudE culture and religious perfec-
ton can eUer be redred.-G. STANLEY
HALL.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
Your Questions

What are you?
What have you?
Where can people get what you
want to sell?
Let the public know these
things. and they will buy your
goods.
People are anxious to learn,
trouble to find you out.
They expect you to tell them.
And the place they look for
your business message la in the
advertising columns OF the Tele-
graph.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Mayor T.. B. Jermyn, of Scranton,
who was elected after a strenuous
campaign, believes in visiting every
public improvement that is made in
his city.
Senator Hackett, of Easton, do
mated a park TO that city several years
ago and takes an interest i'm seeing
that it is kept up
d. E. Long, Franklin county law
yer. who will run for the State Senate,
also conducts newspaper.
C. A. Sensinger, prominent in Car
bon county educational affairs, has re-
signed from school work and will de-
vote his time TO raising strawberries.
Councilman w. A. Whitman, Of
Reading, well known here. presented
an organ to one of the Reading
churches.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
BY Wing Dinger

How old is Ann?" that question old
A puzzle still remains
For years, 1T has, day in day out,
oertaxed a lot of brains.
No longer does the public care
To ferret out some clue
To this old threadbare mystery
1t longs for something new.
So let II rack its brains a bit
And help out Uncle Sam
BY solving where in Mexico
That scoundrel Villa am.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05

ningham has gone a long way toward
the fulfllment of that pledge by taking
the preliminary steps toward what will
be a broad and well-constructed high
way between Harrisburg and the me-
tropolis of the upper end.
The Millersburg Motor Club is a
live-wire organization. 1t would be a
happy thing for the good roads move
ment if there were more like it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05

heartily to the sentiment. for ba ra-
Gently found large quantity of Ger
man dyes in an abandoned warehouse
owned by his uncle. The dyes are
now worth 1000 per cent. increa sc
over their former value.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
OUR DAILY LAUGH
LANDED.

Mr.. Pupp: I
hear that you are
engaged to Miss
Eatt.
M r. w r a I [:
Yes, she's been
running after me
for years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
DEFENSE OF OUR MARKETS


FINANCIAL problems are almost
as engrossing in England as
military problems are. Taxes
are piling up and prudent John Bull
is trying to look to the future. The
"Statist," one of the leading financial
journals of Great Britain, contributes
an interesting suggestion to the dis
cussion. The "Statist" says:
If additional taxes are imposed,
the country will be under the nee
essity, first, of making savings
needed to meet the instalments on
loans payable by investors, and,
secondly, of making the savings
needed to meet the demands of the
tax collector. The combined effect
of these two operations may be an
appreciable increase in economy, di-
minished imports, increased exports
and much more favorable condi-
tion of the trade balance and of the
foreign exchange.
Here is English evidence in sup
port of the position which the Re-
publican party has been urging upon
Americans. The diminished imports"
and the increased exports" which the
"Statist" foresees for England as a re-
suit of wars financial operations have
direct meaning for America.
Diminished imports" mean in the
first place the cessation of war
order" shipments from this country;
and in the second place that the added
efficiency which war conditions are
giving to British producers will be
continued in the arts of peace when
the war is at an end. Great Britain,
in other words, will seek to supply
herself from her own factories. She
will do more. Through the speeding
up of her production she will have u
larger supply of goods with which to
so after the Increased exports" to
which the "Statist" refers.
Now the only considerable. market
for these increased exports" for
Great Britain is in the United States.
Thanks to the low tariff which Mr..
Wilson and his party have imposed
upon the country, we are open to an
invasion of British goods whenever
the British producer chooses to send
them to u.s. For the moment he can
not do this, for he is busy with war
orders at home. But the day will
come, as the "Statist" foresees, when
Great Britain will show diminished
imports" and increased exports"
When that day comes, will 1t find the
United States with its tariff defenses
broken down?
That will be a determining ques-
ton in the campaign for the presi-
dency. Another term of Democracy
would mean continued low tariffs and
the inundation of our markets with
the Increased exports" from Great
Britain. A return of Republican rule
means a higher tariff and a defense
against the dumping" process which
England is preparing for us.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
IAMENTATION

Therefore the Lord. the God of hosts.
the Lord saith thus: Wailing shall be
i'm the streets; and they shall say in all
the highways Alas! alas and they
shall call the husbandman to mourning
and such as are skilful of lamentation
to wailing.-Amos V, 16.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
SURE

philadelphia Inquirer.1
Personality is something a young
man always gets from his mothers
side of the family.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
GROUND.

Mr.. Hare: Are
you the ground
hog 1 hear SO
much about?
Mr.. Hog: No,
but I would be If
I was made into
sausage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
EDITORIAL COMMENT
THIS NEVER FAILS
Toledo Blade.1

Anybody who wants an equal divi-
sion of wealth can always get an ar
gument out of the fellow who has
more money than he.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
ADVANTAGE OF HOME LIFE
Houston Post.1

Some young men apparently marry
and set up a home just to have some
place to remain away from at night.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05

The Buffalo baseball club might get
their arms in trim by rowing over the
island baseball diamond There's moth
ing like making full use of lease
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05

Indications point to an early settle
ment of the painters strike which has
been going on in Erie since Saturday.
The mind the paint" artists are ask
ing forty-two and one-half cents an
hour.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05

Acres of Diamonds lie all about
u.s. said DIR. Russell II. Conwell, who
has lately been called the Baptist
Napoleon" Melvin Bamford,
Schuylkill Haven boy, will subscribe
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05

Despite his wound, Villa seems to be
able to limp along about as fast as a
horse can trot.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
DO YOU KNOW
That when the river was hiGk
years ago huge RATS and strings
of logs were hoatcd to this city?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

The first State Treasury after the
Capitol was removed to this city was
located in Market Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05

mutilated nickel found on the
person of Reading man has led to
the recovery of a large sum of money
which had been stolen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
ON BEING REPUBLICAN
(Ohio State jour-

someone told us we were not
Republican. We are, too. But not
the sort that breaks every faith for
party success. The poet Holland.
wrote our party platform as follows:
Strong minds, great hearts, true
faith, and willing hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not
kill;
Men whom the spoils of Office can
not buy;
Men who possess opinions and a willi
Men who have honor; men who will
not lie;
Men who can stand before a demago-
que
And dam his treacherous batteries
without winlling;
Tall men, sun-croWned, who live above
the fog
In public duty and in private think
ing.
Anyone who says that is not Re
publicanism wants an office so bad he
can't think. That was the sort of Re
publican Lincoln was. One cannot
embody the idea in a policy, but in
aspiration, in prayer and in hope he
can see real Republicanism all through
it. That is the kind of Republicanism
that founded this republic, and the
kind that, at a perilous moment,
saved it..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05

Vincent Patrick Ignatius McGrath
played a mean trick on his bride-to be
at Camden the other day when he
changed his mind at the license
bureau and refused to carry out his
promise to marry her.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05

Reading that Fighting Scott" Near
ing is heading peace movement is
like hearing that Jess Willard has
started out to stop prize lighting.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

The paper famine is before Con-
gress. but If that body is no more sue
cessful in finding a remedy than it has
been in other problems recently, kind
heaven help the poor printer.
Mr.. o. B. Gipple is the new city
forester. Now Mr.. Gipple, o. B. rea-
sonable.
Roosevelt and Hughes" says
New York news item, "are passive can
didates." No doubt the Colonel wants
the nomination, but not badly enough
to be passive.
Henry Ford tells the voters not to
take him seriously as candidate for
President. Hen will have his little
joke.
Webster Grim is candidate
again, thereby demonstrating that
there really is such an animal as an
unterrified, unterrifiable Democrat.
Russia is to use vodka in the
manufacture of automobile tires-es-
pecially designed. we suppose, for joy
rides.
About now the grim question
arises. will our winter shoes last until
time TO put on oXfords?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-05

E. ]. .STACKPoLE. Pres't and Editor-in- Chief
E. r. OYSTER, Business Manager
GUS NJ. STS1INMETZ, Managing Editor.