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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

TINE Federal Reserve Bank System
is by no means over-popular
among those who have to do
with it. A recent QUESTIONABLE by a
New York trust company addressed
to each Of the banks in the country
drew out more than 5000 answers, of
which more than $500 We're either
distinctly unfavorable to the system
or noncommittal.
The New York World regards this
investigation as presaging an attempt
to upset the Federal Reserve system
in case the next Congress is Re-
publican. This fear is probably un-
founded. There are some good things
about the system - being chiefly
those features which were taken over
without change from the measure ad-
vocated by the Aldrich monetary COM
mission.
There are other things about the
system which are far from desirable
These are chiefly those features which
were added at the behest of McAdoo
or for the benefit of the South. These
things should be changed - and they
will be as soon as the Republican
party is given the power to do so.
The Reserve Bank system to-da,
is mainly beneficial to the Southern
States. 1t furnishes some Jobs fol
deserving" Democrats. But it doe.
not make it any easier for the average
businessman to do business.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26

qualifications as marksman, sharp
shooter or expert are matter of rec
ord. There were more qualifica-
tions on the range at Winthrop, Mary
land, where the clubs from Washing
ton, D. c., shoot, in the first two weeks
of April 1916 than the entire United
States showed for the whole year of
1914. Winthrop is only a sample of
what is going on to a greater or less
degree over the whole country
A consideration or rife club figures
for the period of the European war
shows facts even more striking than
those touching ten-year period. At
the beginning of the war there were
270 clubs in the United States A
single year saw the number more than
doubled, leaping by the end of 1915
to total of $50, a gain of 1868. In
the six months of 1916 that have pass
ed almost 500 additional civilian clubs
have joined the ranks, so that the
total to-day shows we'll over 100 with
the rate of increase higher than ever.
April 1916 the last month for which
complete returns are available, broke
all records with lao new clubs for
the month.
The rifle clubs are under the joint
administration and supervision of the
National Rife Association and the
War Department. The National Ri
fie Association is an institution as
years old, which was organized with
the idea of developing target shooting
as sport, long before the prepared
ness problems arose. Government
recognition of the movement also
came in the days when the sporting
angle of the program was still upper
most in the minds of most of the af-
CONTINUED on Page i'll
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SERIOUS PAPER FAMINE

n n enormous demand for paper
"A abroad is making the paper
situation in this country even
more serious than it has been hereto
fore. Pulp mills in. Canada are shut
down while thousands of employees are
at war and all the Swedish pulp con-
Germs have cancelled their contracts
with American firms. sending their
product into Germany instead.
Experts are giving close attention to
the paper conditions, but these hold
out little hope of any immediate i'm
provement. Not only is the newspaper
industry threatened, but also the gen.
eral printing trades and other indus
tries which are more or less dependent
upon the various grades of paper. The
other day one of the important New
England papers was compelled to sus-
pend publication for three days in sue
cession owing tc failure TO receive its
supply of print paper
Many newspapers have already in
creased their subscription price and it
is generally predicted by those familiar
NAN4A NO44A4NAO44o N4le1A NiAt O44C-NSlll paper
is rapidly passing.
The Federal Trade Commission is
making an investigation regarding the
print paper industry especially. in order
TO determine whether or not there has
been an undue increase in the prices
of news print paper. Makers of paper
declare the high point in cost of paper
has not yet been reached.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
AMERICA LEARNS TO SHOOT
BY Frederic ]. Haskin

NAN you shoot? Could you pick
up a modern high power army
rifle and put 20 bullets into a
target 200 yards away IN two minutes?
The American civilian who could do
that in 1914 was almost rare enough
TO put into a museum, but if things
keep moving in the direction they are
headed to-day, the feat will soon be a
mere commonplace incidentally, the
country will have taken a long step
along what is perhaps the most i'm
portant of the paths that lead to citi-
zen preparedness.
America is learning to shoot. The
tremendous growth of popular inter-
est in the use of the rifle in this coun-
try since the outbreak of the Euro
pean war is striking instance of the
way the conflict has affected popular
sentiment We are turning back to-
ward the days of Daniel Boone, when
every man was a sharpshooter, and a
call to arms found a citizenry that not
only heard the call but knew how to
use the arms.
1t was II years ago that Congress
authorized the issuance of army rifles
of the krag model, with ball cartridge,
Tor the use of civilian rifle clubs in
| target practice. After five years of
the operation of this provision, there
were less than a hundred civilian rife
clubs in tho United States. To-day
| there are over 1,1O0 While their
total membership is a matter of esti-
mate, II is probably not far from a
hundred thousand men. 1t might be
more accurate tC say men and women,
Tor at least one woman, Mrs. William
Strong of Helena, Montana, has quali-
fed as marksman.
While the total club membership is
matter OF estimate, the number of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
THE WILLIAM PENN HIGHWAY
A MOTHER important conference
"A with respect to the permanent

A MOTHER important conference
IA with respect to the permanent
routing of the William Penn
Highway was held at Philadelphia
yesterday. When this famous cross
State road shall have been finally fixed
as to location, the various towns and
cities along the way, as we'll as those
rural communities through which the
road will pass, will unite in a general
plan for the pushing of the work of
the association. 1t is fortunate that
there is at the head of this association
such live wire as William Jennings.
of Harrisburg, who has associated
with him some of the most prominent
citizens of the State. These include
bankers and manufacturers and busi-
nessmen and farmers and men in
every walk of life, all interested in
the working out of a great highway
that will be credit to the State and
provide easy access to some millions
of population.
We have long since passed the point
where there is any doubt about the
necessity for convenient communica-
ton between the rural and urban
communities. So much depends upon
prompt and cheap transportation that
discussion of the necessity of these
main trunk lines has ceased entirely.
All that we hear now is how best to
perfect the system that it may prove
beneficial to the State.
Some amendment of the highway
system will be made at the next ses-
sion of the Legislature and then direct
action can be taken by those COM
munities which are in sympathy with
the William Penn highway PROPOSE
ton.
For instance, nothing is more i'm
portant to Harrisburg than the
building of a, permanent and aafe road
from Dauphin westward. Already the
Northern Central Railway has agreed
to provide a safe and passable high
way between Speeceville and the
Clark's Ferry bridge, but it will be IN
to the State and the county in CO.
operation to continue the road west
ward from Dauphin, thus avoiding al
least two railroad grade crossings and
the climb over Red H..I.
Already some thousands of tourists
have passed through Harrisburg this
summer from many States and when
the roads shall have been still further
improved Harrisburg is bound to be a
central point toward which all tourist
travel will converge. OF course. the
hnfo Ill
has been expecting for several years
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
Baked at Forgiving Enemies

A British army chaplain returned
from France has told of stopping at a
wayside shrine in Flanders. where Bel
gian soldiers. kneeling in prayer were
following the chant of their priest un-
At the words, LAS we forgive those who
trespass against u.s." these was silence.
Not a man replied.
The priest hesitated and started
again. Suddenly a steady voice ran
out from the back. clearly intoning the
words that pledge one to forgive his
enemies. 1t was the voice of Albert,
King of the Belgians. His soldiers then
repeated after him. word for word.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
BRITISH BLACKLIST

NOTHING has so stirred American
IN resentment as the British black
list recently promulgated and
which places almost one hundred firms
in the United States out of touch with
the business of Great Britain.
This appears to be another case of
embargo against the interests of this
country Whenever Great Britain
feels like Furnishing the business men
of the United States it is usually done
through some such scheme as the
blacklist.
1t would seem to be about time for
another vigorous note of protest
International law is being construed
nowadays purely in the interest and
for the benefit of the fighting nations
of Europe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
"Was He'll, But It Was Grand
IFrom the London TelegraI

IFrom the London Telegraph ..
thrilling story of the "big push"
was related by a wounded Scot, who has
"Eh, mon. it was hell, but it was
grand" he declared. We've got a movE
For oer Week Pay haTe bee5
letting rip at them. Talk about
the German guns in the early days of
the war. they. are not in it now. I was
I've seen some of the lighting"
II got my packet Friday night" he
added. referring to his wounds. I'VE
trenches early Friday morning. Long
worse than ever. The noise fair drove
was waiting in the trenches for the
order to charge. When that came we
were over the top like lot of dogs let
miles, and. the front of the. German
trenches simply smashed to bits. We
got there under cover of smoke, and
fairly rolled in. I shall never forget the
up in all directions, and those who were
alive showed no fight, but appeared to
have gone clean potty.'
ports, which had received a terrific
smashing about, and 1t was there we
had the scrap. At the last moment it
crowd of chaps in. and they had hidden
themselves in shell holes and were TAX
ing pot shots at us. We rushed them
of them put up a good fight. I had one
fellow in front of me. and felt myself
'goner,' for I tumbled over some wire
when one of our chaps got his bayonet
into him. The next second a German
'outed' my chum: Never fear. Jock he
said you did the some trick for me
BARNS away up North added the Scot
Asked how he received his wounds
the Scot became somewhat bashful.
"Oh. one of the Huns got in at me-
he replied. Another wounded hero
however. took up the narrative "He
fair tumbled into hole where there
the second man Jock comes of a fight.
ing race. and he gave the Huns a Bit
for hiding"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Gilbert Murray, the English
scholar who has been visiting Ex-
Senator Bayard Henry, thinks the war
will end next year.
Henry Budd, who has the dis
posal of the Richmond case before him
in Philadelphia, was a Dem ocratic
senatorial candidate in 1914.
Bishop ]. ]. McCort, who has de-
clined the appointment to Los Angeles,
was a schoolmate of the late Bishop
Shanahan.
Arthur L. Bates, one of the Re-
publican electors, is a former Con-
gressman from the Erie-Crawford dis
trict.
james I. Blakslee. fourth assist
ant postmaster general, is head of a
fire company at Lehighton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
When the Mercury Sizzles

IFrom Answers, London.1
There's an art in keeping cool and
comfortable in hot weather, and the
first rule is to keep cool!
Those who are by nature of a calm,
placid temperament are those who on
the hottest days remain cool and COM
Portable. Cultivate placidity, theni
Don't get excited, don't hurry, dom
fuss mentally or physically
You may lose a few minutes. but the
compensation in GOODNESS is worth an
hour. Do you know that the effect on
the body and its temperature of Just
one shout. one spasm of anger. one min
ute's excitement over a missing stud
or the like. is to send the temperature
up two or three degrees?
A hasty dinner. a hurried meal, a
quick walk to catch tram or train.
means that you get hot and uncom-
Portable. Take things quietly and
You'll be cool.
Remember that it's far easier to keeh
cool than to get cool
Drink but little. Summer drinking is
4 habit. and IL all your drinks. were
seed they wouldn't make you cool
Drink cold. unsweetened tea with a
lash of lemon juice. That's astringent
and 3 thirst ender-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26

must be provided and this of itself will
prove a magnet that will attract
thousands of tourists who have heard
of Harrisburg, but who have not al
ways found it a desirable detour owing
to the condition of the highways lead
ing from this city.
AS was suggested some time ago,
the late Highway Commissioner Cum
ningham was pledged to the building
of a boulevard between Harrisburg
and Gettysburg and it will doubtless
be the pleasure of his successor. Com
missioner Black, to put that thought
into concrete form in the building of
a substantial and safe highway from
the Capital to the greatest battlefield
in the world.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
HOUSES FOR woRKNrEN

III MERE is interest for Harrisburg
in the assertion that Pittsburgh
is threatened with loss of pres
tige as an important industrial center,
and will retain her place as a promi-
nent factor in the worlds iron and
steel trade against competition by
| Cleveland, Ohio, Gary, Ind. Chicago,
Ill, and Duluth, Mimi. only by the
adoption of a building code that will
provide for proper housing conditions
for hundreds of thousands of workers.
This statement was made by Charles
B. Ball. chief sanitation inspector OF
the Department OF Health of the city
of Chicago. Mr. Ball. who is a sani-
tary engineer of national reputation.
and who drafted the provisions of the
| Chicago building code regarding hous-
ing conditions, spoke vigorously in
Pittsburgh recently on the subject of
housing.
The building code of a city, he said,
barometer of its progress. A poor
building code. he, said, means poor
housing conditions. Poor housing con-
ditions mean poor workmen. Poor
workmen mean poor products.
No corporation can afford to manu-
facture poor products and none will
employ workmen who cannot make
good products" Mr.. Ball said. All
corporations have come to appreciate
that only good housing conditions at
tract efficient workers and, therefore,
great industries that make great COM
munities will be built in cities where
housing conditions are best. If, he
| said, housing conditions in Cleveland,
Gary, Chicago and Duluth are better
than in Pittsburgh, then such cor
porations as the United States Steel
Corporation will make these cities the
places of future operations.
He added:
The proposition for proper hous-
ing conditions has become a mat
ter OF industrial competition. The
United States Steel Corporation
owns an option on twenty miles of
Lake Michigan frontage between
Gary and Michigan City. Ind. 1t
seems certain that future develop
ments by this corporation will be
on the same immense frontage un-
less some other sections can offer
more ideal location for the erec-
tion of great mills. The State of
Indiana has the best building laws
that know Of. If il is apparent TO
the United States Steel Corporation
that the laws of Indiana insure the
best housing conditions for work
men, that State will be preferred
in plans for future development.
What applies to Pittsburgh and
Pennsylvania at large applies also to
Harrisburg. The demolition of the old
houses in the Capitol Park, extension
district is. a double blessing. It will
give us a breathing place in the heart
of the city and removes at the same
| time hundreds of buildings unfit for
residence purposes. But more is
needed. Scores and. scores of other
houses are equally bad from a sanitary
standpoint and new buildings are goins
up that are not much better. Strive
as we may for the location of new in
dustries here, Harrisburg will not grow
much until we can offer working people
/ better houses at reasonable rentals.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
SMOKE LOSSES
THE Louisville Times estil

TINE Louisville Times estimates
that the annual losses and dam
ages due to smoke in Louisville
are nearly s2.OOO,O00. Were those
statistics collected during a normal
period under the Republican regime,
or during the 1915 war period? There
are no losses from the smoke nuisance
during a normally Democratic period
for the reason, that}the mills are not
running and the smoke Is not fuming.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
UNFORTUNATE
He's a n U n
lucky fellow.
Yes he Is all
ways Johnny on
the wrong spot.
Church Advertising

The churches finally decided that it
was not good policy to ALLOW the
devil to have a monopoly of the good
music; and they are. nowadays, COM
ing to the same view about advertis-
ing. If a church should have as good
music as a place of amusement, why
should It not have as good advertis-
ing?-Editor and Publisher.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
No Park Music

LFrom the Kansas City Star.
The summer is passing, and without
the park music that has been promised.
II would be a great pity IL the city
sho lid fail to provide the little money
necessary to bring this form of enjoy
ment to its people. There are tens of
thousands of women and children who
cannot get away to the ordinary amuse-
ment places. The expense of taking the
children to the movies is more than a
very large number of families can af-
ford. The city could brighten a lot OF
its corners IL 1t would get busy at once
to provide the proposed band concerts,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
TELEGRAPH PERIScOPE

When a wifes eyes are opened her
mouth usually follows suit.
THE President has done nothing
WELL observes an exchange. Well.
neighbor, you'll have to admit he's
been rather efficient at changing his
mind.
The Kaiser regrets that he cannot
go into the trenches, but we haven't
heard of anybody finding it necessary
to hold him.
After witnessing the difficulty of
settling a mere street car strike we are
prone to wonder how anybody is going
to stop the European war.
You don't have to enlist for three
years to join the Navy-of Greater
Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
SECURITY FOR A LOAN

T>HE panhandlers, the yeggmen, the
gold-brick artists and all the
rest of the easy-money fraternity
must take off their hats to Carranza.
He has shown them new way to get
the coin in large wads. BY killing
American soldiers he was able to Sc
cure administration support for a loan
of a hundred millions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
Business Fighting Alcohol
New York Sun.1

Let us imagine Benjamin Franklin,
who in his day wrote of the liquor
problem, after a lapse of nearly two
centuries, visiting the plant of the
Illinois Steel Company, at Joliet, Ill.
He would find that il this, as in so
many other reforms. he had merely
been ahead of his time Posted all
delight his soul:
NOTICE
To the employees of the Joliet Works,
Illinois Steel Company:
For the promotion of safety and well
fare, 1T is hoped that all employees, will
Under the rules of the Joliet Works
any employe who uses intoxicating
liquor while on duty will be discharged
In making promotions in any depart
Departments and Foremen will select
for promotion only those who do not
use intoxicating liquors.
If Franklin should stroll into Gary
at night, he would find electric signs
over the entrance gate to the Illinois
Steel plant asking him these pointed
questions:
Did booze ever get you a better job -?
Did booze ever contribute anything
to the happiness of your family?
These flaming signs indicate an en-
tirely new aspect of the prohibition
crusade. The antialcohol movement in
the United States has had three dis
tinct phases. First. the Church de-
clared war against the saloon. Then
science and medicine began to demon
strate it's evils. Now American in
dustry, in it's search for mental and
physical efficiency. has decided to
abolish alcohol.-Burton j. Hendrick,
in Harper's Magazine for August.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26

The G. o. P, having had his broker
leg set, is now attending strictly Il
his knitting-Boston Transcript.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26

Trenches should give Europe a won
derful subway system after the war
Wall Street Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26

Those at Armageddon, without re-
turn tickets, can not be blamed fol-
feeling rouchy.-Indianap Star
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
OUR DAILY LAUGH

A SURE CURE.
Miss c.: Cap
tain, what do you
recommend for
light -headedness? =?
Captain: Keep
It dark
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg color printing
is famous over the country for its
excellence?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

[ouestions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented. at the organlza-
tion's annual Municipal ouiz"1
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26

Is. the lien filed? What are the cost
of a lien?
Paving and curbing assessments
are due and payable sixty days
whole amount may be paid, or it
may be paid in ten equal install
ments, with interest. If advantage
ifrents lien is filed about four
months after acceptance of the
work
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Spare the rod and spoil the Mexican.
Boston Transcript
What Mexico needs is the little rift
within the loot.-Wall Street Journal.
Whenever President Wilson gets in
fighting mood his recoil is terrific
Brooklyn Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26

HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Soldiers slept in the old State Cap
itol during Lees invasions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26

When a wife's eyes are opened her
mouth usually follows suit.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26

e. E.J.STACKPoLE. Pres't and ESisor-in-Cki=f
f. r. OYSTER, BEsinsss M6HogeT.
GUS NJ. SpEINMETZ. M6sogiag Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-26

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