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The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-07

Roy r. Kelly and his sister, Miss
May, We're called to Los Angeles on
Wednesday by the sudden death of
their mother.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-07

Stolen-Ladies watch attached to
black silk fob with gold mounting.
Person seen wearing it about two
weeks ago. return to owner and no
questions will be asked.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-07

Miss Ethel Chappelka, from the
Tempe Normal School entertained
three of her friends during the holi-
day week, Misses Merle Wilcox and
Lorrain Cain of the Normal School
and Miss Margaret Pincton, a popu-
lar young teacher of Tempe. The
girls spent pleasant week at the
Chappelka home returning to school
duties on Sundays stage.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-07

Mr.. N. H. Prist has gone to Aqua
Caliente to spend week or two.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-07

DR.. E. Crawford. L. A. Blackner
and E. Travers Green left Thursday
at noon to attend the Charity Ball to
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-07

Mrs G.. F. Schilling entertained on
Wednesday. afternoon in honor of her
sister, Mrs. A. F. Barber, who is vis-
iting her from Los Angeles.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-07

Miss verna Hopkins was home for
the holidays.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-07

The Methodist and the Episcopal
churches are to join hands In Sunday
school work. The Rev. Archdeacon
Jenkins has kindly offered the use of
the Guild to the Rev. Fitch, whose
church is not large e.reush to take care
Of the crowds that are desirous Of
attending, and in doing this work the
Rev. Jenkins and the Rev. Fitch are
to be congratulated upon being broad
minded enough to assist each other in
pushing forward the Sunday school
work. This is just as important as the
church work. and we hope, now that
there is plenty Of room, those who
have been desirous of coming and
could not be seated, will come and
take some part in the splendid exer-
cises. Part of the Sunday school will
meet at the Methodist church and
part at the Episcopal church. Just
what the final arrangements are is
not known at the time of going to
press. Suffice to say the Episcopal
and the Methodist have joined hands
in the good work; there will be plenty
OF room for all, and the work is being
done for your benefit and that of your
children. Everybody come and bring
the children.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-07

Miss Martha Houck spent the holi-
days with her mother, Mrs. Beatrice
Houck.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-07
LOCAL NOTES


Miss verna Hopkins was home for
the holidays.
Mr.. N. H. Prist has gone to Aqua
Caliente to spend week or two.
Miss Martha Houck spent the holi-
days with her mother, Mrs. Beatrice
Houck.
They say nothing on earth could
have induced L. P. Jones to quit his
job last Sunday.
Mrs. C. P. -Arbogast, who is at
tending the Tempe Normal School,
spent a week in Ray.
They say that unless you kick in
for 1916 you will be minus copper
camp next week.
The big auto stage was crowded
with pretty girls last Sunday, most
of them returning to the Normal to
resume school duties.
Glenn Mcclure. Robert Romo, Jake
Stiger and Hamilton Miller We're
home for the holidays. Welcome
home, boys. we were glad to see
you.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-07

At the Methodist church the Rev.
Fitch will conduct his regular services.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-07

There will be conference Of Sun
day school workers In the Guild Hall
next Monday, January 10. at 1880 p. m.
Rev. E. D. Raley, general secretary of
the Arizona Sunday School Associa-
ton, will preside and will be assisted
by Rev. w. d. Himebaugh of the Pres
byterian church, and Archdeacon Jen-
kins of the Episcopal church, members
of the executive board Of the associa-
tion. All persons in any way inter-
ested in Sunday school work are in
vited to be present. All sorts of
problems will be discussed and an in
teresting and profitable session is
looked for. An offering will be taken
for the work of the association.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-07

Prof. R. N. Lewis. of the mining de-
partment of the University of Utah.
has been Ray visitor for several
days. He is here on a tour of in
spection, after having visited Globe.
Miami and other sections of the min
ing industry He is very much inn
pressed with Ray.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-07

They say nothing on earth could
have induced L. P. Jones to quit his
job last Sunday.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-07

Mrs. C. p. ,Arbogast, who is at
tending the Tempe Normal School,
spent a week in Ray.
The Arizona copper camp., 1916-01-07

They say that unless you "kick in
for 1916 you will be minus copper
camp next week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
Legally in State of War
[Providence Journall

Brigadier General Enoch II. Crow
der, judge advocate general of the
Army, holds that the United States
Is legally in state of war with
Mexico. He says in rendering his
decision that the invasion of Mexico
is condition and not theory.
This decision is from the highest
legal source on matters pertaining to
military operations, and has been
rendered by General Crowder to keep
the records straight, and to cover the
legal procedure involved in all incl
dents growing out of the so-called
Mexican campaign. The Judge Adj
vocate Generals office found that the
refusal to admit that a state of war
exists led to such legal absurdities
that light on the real status was es-
sential.
According TO Washington dis
patch, President Wilson and Secre-
tary Baker are much annoyed over
the giving out of the Judge Advocate
Generals decision. Naturally. 1t is
said to have been carefully suppressed
for days and not intended to be pub
lished at all. 1t weakens the plea of
the Wilson supporters that "he kept
us out of war" and State Depart
ment officials say that it's effect will
be to strengthen CarranZa's demand
that the state of war be eliminated
by the withdrawal of the American
troops in Mexico.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
THAT MEXICAN RUMTOR

# 1t be true that Americans are
L paying Villa forces to make an at
tack on American soldiers the act
is treason. In that case no time should
be lost in searching out those guilty
of the law AS well plot murder as
plan such raid.
Secretary Baker says he has proof
positive that money has changed
hands and that Americans were the
bribers. If he has such information it
would follow that he knows who paid
this money and who is back of the
proposed attack. In that case it is
his duty not to talk about it but to
go out and make few arrests. Until
he does so those who do not hold q
very high opinion of the Secretary of
War; following his outrageous attack
upon the good name of the American
Revolutionary army, may be excused
for suspecting that the story of the
proposed attack was cooked up" in
the Secretary's office to save the face
of the administration enc to provide
an excuse in case Villa, who is now
getting uncomfortably close to the
border makes another dash across the
line.
The American army's situation in
Mexico at the present moment is
laughable. The only excuse it has
for remaining there is that it was sent
into Mexico to take Villa dead or
alive" and its mission must be full
filled. Yet the Pershing column is
within 10 miles of the place where
Villa is now openly operating and can
not make move toward him because
Washington refuses to give permis-
sion. The Army Is Instructed to catch
Villa and has expended something like
100000 day since last Spring for
that purpose and it now knows pre-
cisely where Villa is, but it is not per-
mitted to go and get him.
Instead of putting the soldiers in
motion and rounding up the bandit
leader, our Secretary of War sits in
his office at home and complains that
somebody is paying Villa to attack
Americans on American soil. 1t is
a pretty situation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
STATE STREET vIADUCT
be Editor of ne Telegrabh:

He EdHor or fHe IefegroPH:
Every citizen of Harrisburg, and
particularly those who live on Allison
Hill, ought to rise and say amen" to
your editorial in Wednesdays issue,
respecting the Capitol Park develop
ment.
A letter on the same page might
well have been incorporated in the
editorial, for it states only too truly
the unpleasant conditions that are
but q few rods outside of the Park
zone.
A viaduct at State street Ga sub
way never) would seem to solve the
problem far better than the proposed
Walnut street bridge. State street
is the main thoroughfare, the logical
outlet for the traffic that flows from
the eastern and northeastern parts OF
the city.
Architecturally such q viaduct can
be made to harmonize with the plans
for the park; it can be beautiful and
useful; 1t will afford convenience to all
who enter the city from the east; to
pedestrians it will offer a large de-
gree of protection, while subway
would be the open door to personal
dangers.
believe that both the Walnut street
bridge and the undesirable subway
plan should be abandoned in favor OF
a viaduct at State street
Very truly,
e. FRED ROWE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
MIR. KNOX AND LABOR

DHILANDER C. KNOX, in the
course of his speech at Chestnut
street hall Tuesday night, made
a sharp attack upon the sincerity of
those who were responsible for the
passage of the Adamson so-called
eight-hour law. He pointed out that
it applies only, to trainmen actually
operating trains running between
States and that it is very doubtful il
it can be made to apply to yard men
or to men running between points
within a State--from Harrisburg to
Altoona, for instance, or Harrisburg
to Philadelphia. He said that at all
events 1t has but nine months to
operate and that not even the Brother
hood officials themselves know what
the law means.
Mr.. Knox was well qualified to
speak. In the first place, he is ad-
mittedly one of the greatest lawyers
in the world. In the second place.
as Attorney General of the United
States, he took up the fight of the
Brotherhood men when the safety ap-
pliance law-r-which was passed by the
influence of the Brotherhoods and has
resulted in saving the lives of thou
sands of trainmen-was declared I'M
constitutional by the circuit court of
California. Ordinarily there could
have been no appeal to the United
States Supreme Court in this case, but
Mr.. Knox established a precedent and
the Supreme Court upheld the law.
Not content with-this, however, Mr..
Knox, when later he became a mem
Der of the United States Senate, caused
to have passed a law which made the
victory of the BrotherhooJls secure for
all time. There is no doubt what this
Knox law means. 1t stands on the
books of the nation to-day, a safe
guard to the laboring men of the
country in all similar contests and a
proof of the -friendliness of Mr.. Knox
and of his honesty of purpose.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
PROTECTING THE SLOPE

n FTER much urging and months
n of waiting Park Commissioner
Gross has at long last de-
termined to proceed with the work
of protecting the river slope. but he
announces that it will first be neces-
sary to learn from City Solicitor Seitz
whether advertising for proposals for
the work is q legal requirement 1t
would seem that any official of the
city should know without an opinion
that such advertising is necessary, but
when the natural propensity is to
postpone instead of act the excuse of
submitting the matter to the law off,
Ger of the municipality is as good as
any other. Notwithstanding that cold
weather is rapidly approaching, week
or ten days will be wasted in waiting
for an opinion which is not needed and
then ten days or two weeks more will
be consumed in asking bids for the
work which ought to have been done
weeks ago.
1t is little wonder that the people
are losing patience with public officials
who treat their offices as private
snaps. as side-issues which do not re-
quire any particular thought or en-
ergy.
Perhaps the commission form of
government is q success in some cities
and perhaps it does tend to eentralize
responsibility. but the working out of
the scheme in Harrisburg has been
for from satisfactory, notwithstand-
ing occasional attempts at defense by
those who were responsible for impos-
ing it upon the city. Every failure of
any official under this system to per-
form his duties efficiently and with an
eye single to the welfare of the COM
munity Is serious indictment against
the whole commission plan.
Harrisburg voters will be ready
when the time comes to do their share
in bringing about change.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
A Bugbear
[Rochester Democrat and {

dorchester Democrat and Chronicle ]
The last desperate device of the
Democratic campaign Is the thinly
yelled threat that If Mr.. Hughes were
elected president the government
would be in a condition of chaos be-
tween election day and the 4th of
March, so far as international af-
fairs were concerned. The public is
left to draw the inference that dire
consequences would follow, in the
way of the United States becoming
involved in the European war.
What the Democratic campaign
managers do not seem to realize is
that in trying to frighten the voters
into supporting their candidates they
are making q serious charge against
the President. The country will not be
in any greater danger of becoming
involved in war after election than
it has been before. The European
war has been in progress more than
two years, and the United States has
kept out of it. What has been done
since August, 1914, can be done be-
tween November and March 4, un-
less the President deliberately seeks
for an excuse for urging the United
States into the conflict.
So the Democratic campaign man
ayers, in raising bugbear of this
kind, are really attacking the Presi-
dents good faith
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
RIVERSIDE COMING IN

NOV that the Riverside residents
IN have won over a large major
ity of the citizens of that de-
lightful suburb to the plan of annex
alton to the city, there ought to be
little trouble in bringing about the en-
largement of Harrisburg toward the
Rockville hills. Tho City Planning
Commission recently made a survey of
the district between the river and the
Pennsylvania railroad with a view to
locating streets and open spaces, and
now would appear to be the proper
time to complete comprehensive sub
urban plan for the whole territory be-
tween Division street and Rockville
and the river and the railroad.
In other years many grave mistakes
have been made with respect to sub
urban development and these errors
have cost Harrisburg q pretty penny
when the time came for annexation.
Intelligent action now will do much
to prevent repetitions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
ENGLISH SPARROW HAS
OUTLINED ALL ITS ENEMIES

and writer. These hate the sparrow
because it drives away other more
useful birds.
But, whether hated or loved, the
sparrow is not in much Canger of eX-
termination; he is too prolific. Even
IL all the sparrows in America except
one pair should be killed the progeny
of that pair would soon resparrow the
country again. The first English spar
rows were brought to this country by
Nicholas Pike of Brooklyn, who
liberated eight in 1850. In the next
twenty years they We're brought from
England and coloniZed elsewhere
Philadelphia imported and let loose
one thousand pairs in 1869. 1t was
thought they would free the shade
trees of caterpillars, and the poet
Bryant wrote an ode of welcome to
The Old World Sparrow" in which
he said:
And the army worm and the Hessian
fly,
And the dreaded canker worm shall
die;
And fairer harvest shall crown the
year,
For the Old World Sparrow at last is
here.
We call it English sparrow, but il
might as we'll be named German, OF
Bulgarian or French sparrow, for il
is common over all Europe. The same
little sparrow was q pest in ancient
Egypt in the time of Rameses. II
has outlfved nations. tribes and dynas-
ties. Laws have been passed against
1t in Germany, Austria and France
declared war on it; the British Parlia-
ment made it the subject of an in
vestigation. 1t was imported into
Australia and has become such a
nuisance there that laws have been
enacted against it.; but, through 1t all
the little gray-coated sparrow has
twittered gaily on, busily Matching
and rearing it's five or six broods q
year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
DAMAGING PAVED STREETS

NITY COMMISSIONER LYNCH
~ will have the approval of the
people in his attitude toward
public utility corporations and all
others who rip open the paved streets
without let or hindrance and with
utter indifference to consequences.
Having penalized one of the larger
companies for cutting a city highway
for installation of pipes immediately
after the street had been paved
Commissioner Lynch has established
precedent which should deter all
others from like offenses.
The Telegraph has frequently called
attention to the proneness of indi-
viduals and corporations to damage
the expensively paved highways of the
city without regard for the interests
of the taxpayer or thought for vehic-
ular travel. Some months ago in
Derry street. which had Just been
paved after years of agitation, a cer-
tain corporation cut into the asphalt
twenty or thirty times for lateral pine
connections which just as easily might
have been installed before the high
way was improved. In another in
stance a large trench was dug in
Front street for two or three blocks
Immediately after the paving had
feeu completed and Notwithstanding
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Ex-senator Francis s. McIlhenny.
of Philadelphia, has been elected presi-
dent of the University of Pennsylvania
Alumni Society.
Daniel Willard, president of the
Baltimore and Ohio, has completed q
tour Of southern counties and has
promised some new stations.
Senator w. j. Burke. of Pitts
burgh, will not be able to leave the
Baltimore hospital until November Is.
Thomas II. Powers. of Philadel-
phia, has gone to White Sulphur
Springs to remain until Christmas.
George Burnham, Jr, head of the
state Civil Service Reform Association.
says that there should be a special
fund provided to pay party expenses
instead of assessing those who are "in."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27

CWAT the sparrow" says one set
y of scientists and sportsmen.
Spare the sparrow" cries an
other group of scientists and senti-
mental persons. THE sparrow Is the
rat of the bird kingdom, kill him, )"
says the Agricultural Department of
our government. Protect the spar
row for he is one of our most use
full birds" asserts C. d. Bunker, orni-
thologist at the University of Kansas.
In the midst of this dispute comes
the League of American Sportsmen
with a proclamation it is preparing to
issue declaring war against the Eng
lish sparrow and asking the COVER
nors of each State to set aside a week
next Spring in which everyone will
shoot. trap, poison and otherwise ex-
terminate sparrows, and destroy their
nests.
The Indictment against the sparrow
Is set out in a bulletin issued by the
Department of Agriculture. Briefly,
1t is that the sparrow, while 1t eats
weed seeds in winter, and in eXcep-
tional cases has been found very use
full as a destroyer of insect pests, yet
its food generally is useful grains.
fruit, buds and flowers of cultivated
trees, shrubs and vines. 1t eats gar
den seeds as they ripen, and 1t rips off
tender young vegetables. A flock of
fifty sparrows will eat a quart of wheat
a day if they can get it. They drive
off our most useful and attractive
birds, such as bluebirds, house wrens,
purple martins. swallows, robins, cat
birds. mockingbirds, by destroying
their eggs. usurping their nests and
continuously fighting them. They are
filthy and spread diseases by nesting
in caves from where their filth is
washed into cisterns. The sparrow
has no song, but is noisy and vitupera-
tive.
Ernest Harold Baynes. the bird
lover of New Hampshire, favors a
general slaughter of sparrows. So
does John Burroughs, the naturalist
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
Cause and Effect

Hardly had the news of the opera
tions soff Nantucket been received
when the uncounted thousands of
crossroads international law experts
resumed the emission of opinions
Chicago Herald. :
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
EDITORIAL. COMMENT

throughout his campaign Mr.. Hughes
mas had fixed and unswerving pur-
pose, the purpose that animated Abra-
ham Lincoln. to preserve a united coun-
try.-New York Sun.
Secretary Baker ought to have
known that the Wilson administration
had wars enough on it's hands without
taking on the American Revolution =
Kansas City Times.
With Jeremiah OLeary taunting the
President with impending defeat on ac-
count of his pro-British attitude and
George sylvester Viereck predicting the
defeat of Hughes because Roosevelt has
endorsed him and Frederic Franklin
Schrader asserting that neither Wilson
nor Hughes can be elected without the
support of the German-Americans the
Presidential prospects of Governor
Hanly are improving every day.-Des
Moines Register
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27

"They told us four years ago in elo-
quent phrase of the new freedom. but
in recent weeks, in yielding to the de-
mand for legislation without inquiry as
to it's justice, they have introduced us
to the new slavery."-Hughes, at Balti-
more, October 10.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
Also Ran Contest

Speaking by and large, John NJ.
Parker, of Louisiana, the Progressive
nominee for vice-president, on a
ticket that has no head, is probably
the alsoest ran candidate ever known.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
Financial Dementia

The newest form of financial de-
mentia is the fear that gold will be
demonetized Now let the jewelers.
worry lest their diamonds have to vie
in the market with broken beer bot
tles.-Rochester Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

IQuestions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their,
answers as presented at the organiza-
tion's annual Municipal Quiz."1
How are contracts with the city en-
tered into?
Usually awarded by Superlnten-
dents of Departments and always
approved by Council.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
FRIDAY EVENING,

notice given. by City Engineer Cow
den that all pipe connections be made
previous to paving.
Simply because corporations and
others can take out permits for this
sort of thing and pay the bills is no
reason why highways should be thus
abused. In addition to the cost of
any necessary opening of the streets
there should be heavy penalty for
neglect to install all pipes and con-
nections outside the curb line before
the street is paved
Harrisburg is proud of its paved
highways and 1t is the duty of the
city Council to adopt such regulations
as will put an effective quietus to the
practice of chopping them up at will.
Once opened an asphalt street is never
as good as before. Either there is q
depression or the beginning of de-
terioration along the edges of the cut.
1t Is not always pleasant for an ofii-
cial TO enforce stringent regulations
against powerful corporations and in
huential individuals, but there is an
obligation resting upon all officials to
safeguard the rights of the COM
munity and in making an example of
one of the larger utility companies
Commissioner Lynch has won the de-
served commendation of the people
And now that he has made start in
the right direction it would be we'll
for him to provide by ordinance for
prevention rather than remedy of
similar offenses in the future,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
The Campaign Cry

Every time critical brickbat is
thrown through the Shadow Lawn
windows the President rushes to the
front porch and yells, I'm going to
tell mother OH, YOU Wheeling Intel
ligencer.