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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
If This Be Treason!
[Philadelphia Public Ledger.

lHhllduelpnla FuDllc Ledger.
Woodrow Wilson. President of the
United States, cannot claim immunity
from criticism by his political oppo-
nents at any time, but much less when
he is candidate for reelection. If
the position taken by his campaign
manager, Vance Mccormick, that it
borders close on treason" to intimate
that the military forces of the nation
may be used for political purposes be
correct, then it follows that everything
the President Goes is sacroSanct and
above critism or adverse comment!
This is so manifestly absurd that it is
only necessary to state the position to
refute it. President Wilson would be
The Iast-to Seek such immunity for
himself or his office, nor would the
people concede it to him under any
conceivable circumstances. If the ma
tion were at war there might be occa-
sion to talk of treason" but there can
be none in questioning the motives of
an act of domestic policy like the send
ing of raw, unframed and unseasoned
militia to do the work of regulars on
the border.
Mr.. Mccormick objects especially to
the statement attributed to certain Re-
publicans that the President intends
to keep the national guardsmen at the
border unil after election, because he
knew all their votes would be cast
against him." II it indeed be very
near reasonable" even TO hint at such
a motive on the part of the President
and his party, how caH Mr. Mccormick
explain the fact that the Democrats in
the United States Senate. even while
he was VoicinS his charge of near
treason, deliberately eliminated from
the army appropriation bill a clause
that would have given the guardsmen
the right to vote in camps while away
from home? If the President himself
has no fear Of the votes of the guards
men from the North. now in Texas
camps, his party followers in the Sem
ate do not apparently share his indif-
ference. And in this connection it may
be pertinent, il not reasonable, to
point out that mcst of the militia from
the solid South, upon the votes of
which Mr. Mccormick will most surely
depend, are not on the Mexican bor-
der, while troops from Republican
States like Pennsylvania and MassaS
chusetts, and from possibly doubtful
States like New York. New Jersey and
Illinois, are on duty there.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
FARM LIFE IN Pennsylvania

the Department of
- Agriculture will be able to show
some interesting things to those
800 farmers of Augusta county, Va,
who will arrive in Harrisburg next
Tuesday for a tour of inspection of
Pennsylvania farms. The Virginians
want to know how we in Pennsylvania
raise such large crops and the methods
our farmers use, how they live and
their views as to the future of farm
ing.
These Virginians will learn many
things in this State. They will find
farming reduced to an exact science
in Lancaster county and fruit growing
on scale that is the envy of the Pa
cific coast apple States, in the Adams
county fruit belt.
And, whisper it softly, for we don't
boast much about this-they will find
many barns where cattle are kept
larger and finer than the houses in
which the farmers wives and children
reside. Fortunately, this condition is
on the wane. The Pennsylvania farm
er is driving his own auto now, en-
larging his vision and learning that
there is more in life than wolbI
from sun to sun, and that the "wo-
men folks" are deserving of the best
that income can afford.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
A Song of France
INew York Trihnne I

lNGW j OIh
Out of the mist comes the bugle call
rouse ye up from your dreaming;
Leap to the drums roll, one and all
up where the heights are cleaning;
Now is the moment to do and dare
peasant or prince or rover
On to the walls, ye stalwarts thereon
to the walls and over.
What care ye if the path is steep!
What if the maxims rattle?
There's never a time to wait or weep
in the whirl of the CORY battle;
ThereS never time for one to quail
or dream of life in the clover:
On to the walls through the morning
pale-on to the walls and over.
Grimly the black-mouthed cannon
stand-grimlyth the guns are aiming:
One more rush and it's hand to hand
killing and cutting and manning;
Such is life till the tale is done, mon
arch or priest or drover--
On to the walls through the MONDAY
sun--on to the walls and over!
Deep the trenches, but now the flash
on through the shrapnel's raining;
On and pin a mad wild dash--quick-
for the day is waning;
Up where the red glare shows the
way-out from the fields of clover
On to the walls through the twilight
gray--on to the walls and over!
Thinner and thinner the long line
grows; think ofthis on the morrow;
Death alone is the red, red rose-life
but a thorn of sorrow;
Look ye neither to left or right--peas-
ant or prince or drover--
On to the walls through the depths of
night-on to the walls and over!
On, where the mangled clog the way;
on, where the dead are lying;
There's never q time in the CORY fray
to stop for the merely dying;
On to the line till our final hosts sleep
in the crimson clover;
On to the walls. though we charge
with ghosts--on to the walls and
oVeri -Grantland Rice
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
Boy and Girl Tragedies
kansas CITY Star1


a great many fathers and mothers,
and some young women, too, ought to
read the little lay sermon that Sher-
man Crawford delivered in San Fran
cisco when he was arrested there re-
Gently for bigamy. He married a pret-
ty and refined girl. and afterward,
when it was discovered that he was
already married, he said:
How many mothers know the ORR
gin of their daughters friendship? =?
How many fathers investigate the
young men who become guests in their
homes? Not many, I can tell you I
never met with any questions any
where. You can travel a long way
on your manners and a little ready
money. Give almost any fellow a
clean collar, one decent suit of clothes.
shine his shoes and lead him to the
barber. Put him in any kind of a gas
oline-driven, 4-wheeled vehicle, and he
can make young women friends so fast
that he will be dizzy"
Up in Wisconsin last February the
body Of young girl was found in the
snow. Last week young man was
acquitted CT her murder. But the cor
respondence between them revealed a
situation that must have astounded
their parents.
That sort of thing gets publicity
every now and then through some re-
sulting tragedy, as in the Orpet case,
and in lesser degree the Crawford
case. The number of cases that never
are heard of, but which nevertheless
are just as tragic in their effects, must
be large. And so often they might
have been prevented If fathers and
mothers had given the time and trou-
bic necessary to make themselves real
companions for their children!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
ENTERING THE THIRD YEAR

TINE completion of the second year
of the European war has brought
forth a flocd of comment from
writer's, observers and interested par
ties. This comment varies with tho
viewpoint of the writer, but there is a
marked similarity in one vital par
ticular. With the exception of the re-
view of the war by members of the
German general staff. one and all the
writer's agree in this-that the war is
absolutely certain to end in a decisive
victory for the Allies. This is in
marked contrast with the views of a.
year ago. when all through even the
the most optimistic utteraHces of the
French and English writer's could be
read the doubts and fears of the sue
cess of any offensive that might be
launched with the purpose of driving
the Germans back to their own soil.
Strange to observe, st. Petersburg
twelve months ago. with her armies in
confusion and retreat. was the only
wareoenter of Europe that insisted. as
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
(Rocky Mountain News)
n TAYOR ROBERT w. sPEER's
Vl speech at the opening session of

Nl speech at the opening session of
the Colorado State Bankers AS
sociation yesterday will live longer in
the memory of each man present than
anything he ever before heard about
himself or his neighbors. The Mayor
was greeted with applause when he
arose to welcome the delegates, who
convened at the Brown Palace Hotel,
and he was applauded when he had
finished. During his talk he was fre-
quently interrupted by applause, but
in the main his auditors sat very still,
amazed and. admiring, while the
Mayor, in short, pithy sentences,
fashion to which bankers are not ac-
customed.
There were many delegates present
who declared, after the session had
adjourned, that they had learned a
lesson not put down in the convention
curriculum; that they were going
home to lower their interest rates on
heart money"-going home, in fact.
to follow Mayor Speer's advice and
be better bankers.
Among other things, Mayor Speer
told the bankers they had been freer of
criticism than any other class of men,
too free for their own good, and then
continued:
Few men can handle money for a
lifetime without becoming more or
less a slave to it. There are two kinds
of money. Hand money and heart
money One based upon gold and sill
yer and the other on kind acts and
good deeds. Many are rich in the one
kind of currency, but are paupers in
the other. Hand money will buy ma
terial things of life and pass at par
to the grave, but from that time on it
is Valueless. Heart money is inde-
structible and when mixed with a lin
tied amount of hand money will pro-
duce more true joy and happiness in
this life than anything else and then
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
SAFETY OF AUTOMOBILES

To the Editor Of the Telegraph:
Referring to the accident described
in the Telegraph, some days since, in
which an automobile broke down the
railing of the Mulberry Street Bridge
and came within an ace OF going over
board and killing all the occupants of
the car, I would offer the following
suggestio The curbs on that bridge
are altogether too low. They are now
about three inches high. They should
be at least six, and preferably eight
inches high. In that case there would
be much less danger of a similar acct
dent. Another dangerous point on the
bridge is the curve near the west end.
An accident to the steering gear or
carelessness on the part OF the driver
could easily cause a car to jump the
curb on that curve and strike the rail-
ing, and, perhaps, go overheard, Higher
curbs would prevent this. The railing
posts on this should and could easily be
anchored down much better than they
are. 1t is hardly practical to raise the
curbs now, at least not over the whole
bridge, but it would be quite easy to
raise that section of the sidewalk OBJ
posite the head of the Cameron street
Incline sufficiently to prevent a car
from jumping the curb. This would
not be beautiful, but would be fairly
effective
! am inclined to think that a FREQUENT
cause of autotsts striking small chill
dren is that while they are close to the
side of the road an approaching auto
steers very close to them. and, when
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31

the Allies are doing now. that Germany
had reached the high tide of her
power.
Few of those in position to speak
care to forecast the period necessary
for the Allies to break down the Ger
man opposition to the point of submis-
sion. but one and all Of them insist
that the coming year will see the end
of the war. That is the observation
even of some of the German COM
mentators, but they base their conten-
tons upon the idea that Germany
cannot be beaten and that France is
nearing the end of her resources, two
very doubtful premises.
Hundreds OF thousands of men must
be killed before the German army
shall have been brought to it's knees.
The Allies are in about the same po-
sition as was the Union after the Battle
Of Gettysburg, when began the long
battering process that ended at Apo
mattox. But the big thing is that pub
lie opinion and expert conclusion is
that the end of the insanity is in sight,
that democracy is to triumph over i'm
perialism, that free peoples can and
will go into the trenches when opposed
by the trained hordes of militarism,
and that no one man or group of men
can foist the IDEAS of the few willy
nilly upon the many.
The end of the German dream Of
world dominion is not surprising to
the student of history. Alexander tried
the same thing, as did Caesar; so did
Napoleon, so did many others, and
some of them approached more nearly
to success than has Emperor William,
but all of them failed as he is doomed
to fail. The destiny of mankind is
never to be dictated by one man or
one nation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

George w. Norris. named to the
Farm Credit Board, will resign from
the Federal Reserve Board of Phila-
delphia
IF. 7. Stotesbury, the banker, is at
Watkins Glen, n. Y. for brief rest.
Arch Mackrell, prominent in Pitts
burgh affairs, is on a fishing trip to
Canada.
"A. c. Baugh, a University of Penn
sylvania instructor, was in the first car
carrying a Pennsylvania automobile
license to ascend Pixies Peak.
DR.. F. w. Hinitt. new president of
Washington and Jefferson College, is
stirring up the alumni to provide -"
endowment fund.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
"BRANCHn CAPITOLs

7 ANCASTER, Scranton, Williams
Il port, Pittsburgh and other cities
all want branch" capitols if
Philadelphia is to have one. They are
just as much entitled to State Build
ings as is Philadelphia. The whole
project is preposterous. 1t originated
in the brain of an irresponsible news
paperman bent upon registering a
scoop" on a fellow reporter, and his
practical joke was taken seriously.
Pennsylvania needs no branch cap
itols anywhere. To establish one in
Philadelphia would be to invite further
attempts to remove the seat of govern
ment from the ideally situated central
point where it is now located. The
State has expended immense sums for
its capitol here and is planning to
spend more. 1t needs all of the money
it can raise for good roads in the in
terror, rather than for needless build
ings in the big cities.
But there is virtue in the requests
that are pouring in from many cities.
The more applications the more diff
cult it will be for the philadelphia
politicians interested to put across
their scheme now Matching.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
EVENING ON THE RIVER

! U FHe E0H0F OF Efe ICIGsTGPHs
OF our population Of $4,000 to
100000 men, women and children, how
many on these hot, sultry evenings
offered them to spend a most delight
full evening cooling off on the river in
o canoe or rowbodt? Indeed, last even
ing, If that is criterion, there were
exceedingly few.
There were many on the river bank
and some of the strollers on the con-
crete walk, soma bathers at the foot of
independence Island, but exceedingly
few in boats, and there are numerous
lighthouses where canoes, rowboats or
motorboats can be rented at low rates.
We do not want our mile-wide river
used only on carnival nights; it ought
to be crowded with boats every even
ing, Saturday afternoon and Sunday,
just as is the Charles river near Bos-
ton. The opportunity it affords to cool
off and obtain health as we'll as fun
should be availed of by just as many
people as possible. The more the
beauties, pleasures and healthfulness
of boating on the river are placed be-
fore the public, the more it is going
to be used by the people of Harris
burg.
There has recently been built float
ing boathouse, anchored at the foot of
State street which is an ideal addition
to the comfort and pleasures of boat
ing. 1t is an attractive houseboat-like
structure, with arrangements for stor-
ing canoes and with canoes for rent on
the first floor and an open deck, COW
cred with ships awning above, where
ice cream and soft drinks are sold.
Little tables and comfortable chairs
are scattered about or this deck and
music plays constantly.
This is the kind of thing that is go
ing to help develop the popular use of
the river. 1t adds much to the fun of
canoeing. if, when you come in, you
can sit on this cool upper deck a few
minutes over plate of ice cream. a
sundae or glass of soda.
Yours very truly,
CANOEIST.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
Paper Suits For Aviators

new use for paper has been found
in the manufacture of clothing for
aviators. Paper is better than most
fabrics for keeping out the cold en-
countered at high altitude. Special
kind of paper, thin and light in weight
has been made for this purpose. 1t is
trousers. socks, cap with ear laps, and
gloves which can be worn inside of
cloth gloves if desired. 1t is said that
these paper suits are being used extern
sively by the aviators of the German
army
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
MA YOR SPEER GIVESNEWIDEALS
TO THE COLORADO BANKERS

pass at a premium beyond the border.
You all publish statements of your
nand money, but some of you would
not want to make public your heart
money transactions. These moneys
are not interchangeable and some peo-
PIE are continually making the mis-
take OF trying to pay the debts of one
with the money of the other.
do not intend to say that all
oankers are cold, exacting and hard
hearted, Tor there are brilliant eX-
ceptions. but the current in whcich
you live runs in a certain direction
and you are unconsciously carried
along with it.
II have some friends who receive
interest on their bank balances, while
l have others who do not. A banker
must be satisfied that a loan is good
before he will make it, but then he
mas a way of making the borrower
feel that in addition to paying back
the loan with interest, he is under
lasting obligations for the accommo-
dation. Other institutions thank a
customer for his business. You have
an advantage in life over other men
because you make money on your
debts, or on the amount you owe de-
positors. You decide the credit you
give a man upon his ability to grasp
hand money and often force into
bankruptcy a person who is a mil
lionaire in heart money.
The bankers of Colorado should
keep away from the little things which
they seem to have inherited from their
Fathers in the East; because little
things make little men. Our surround
ings have much to do with our lives
and methods OF business. A limited
sky limo is said to make a limited
brain line. Men grow large in the
West because they live in a land of
big things. Our pure air gives a great
vision Big views make big thoughts
and big thoughts make big men. This
land of superlatives should help to les
sen bankers faults and to enlarge
his virtues"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
UNSIGNED LETTERs

During the past week the telegraph
has been in receipt of a number of un-
signed letters which the writers asked
TO have published. 1t is a standing
rule among newspaper publishers. for
their self protection, that all letters
submitted for publication must be
signed with the names and addresses
OF the writers. 1t is not always neces-
sary to publish the real names. but
they Must be on file in the newspaper
once In case the facts set forth are
questioned in a legal way. If those
who have written to the editor will
send their names these letters will be
published; otherwise not.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE

The Russians appear to have lost
the check Won Hindenburg gave them
last summer.
Probably they are giving Alfonso
that peace medal due to Spains sagacity
in knowing when to cry enough" in
1898.
President Wilson is hesitating about
putting through a child labor bill not
nearly so drastic as the Republicans of
Pennsylvania wrote on the statute
books last winter. But then, Pennsyl-
vania Republicans had no solid South"
in danger of being bursJed wide open.
Can there be any relation between
the scarcity OF dogs in Germany and
the German army's insistent demand
for more sausages?
"A little war order prosperity
would be welcome at the state Treas
ury just now.
Congress may not adjourn until
October. says a Washington dispatch.
Let 'er rip. The longer the session the
bigger the Republican majority in No
yember.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
TRADE PACTs AND THE FUTURE

n n UGH importance is given to the
lVl trade pact of the Allies for the
period which will follow the
war Manifestly England and those
countries working with John Bull are
determined to get the full benefit of
whatever cooperation may be pos
sible on the conclusion of hostilities.
Meanwhile it is going to be the busi-
ness of your Uncle Samuel to protect
himself and his big family of 100,-
00000 by such measures as are reas-
enable and obviously necessary.
The first step in this direction will
be the changing of the theoretical ad-
ministration at Washington and the
placing in control of Charles Evans
Hughes and the big men who will be
associated with him in working out
the difficult problems which are GER
tain to confront this country when
the belligerents in Europe shall have
laid down their arms and undertaken
the task of beating their Instruments
Of war into plowshares and pruning
hooks.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
All Must Help
Editor and Publisher. |

In view of the print paper situation,
1t behooVes every publisher to give
serious consideration to every feature
of his business where possible econo-
mics in consumption may be effected,
II the nations business this coming
Fall approXimates what our best in
formed men believe. and we have in
creased advertising and increased cir
culation, publishers will be confronted
with a situation never before known.
The Fourth Estate, as our readers
well know, If they recall its attitude
in the past, has never been an alarm
list, but it believes it to be its duty to
its clientele to give them the very best
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31

Pennsylvania, a Democratic member,
to Floor Leader Kitchin, which was
written as late as February last. Mr..
Bailey said:
AS I view it, the tariff commits
sion measure is distinctly mislead-
ing in character as a whole, and in
certain provisions 1t is a conces-
sion to ideas utterly at war with
Democratic principles. Personally.
| cannot become a party to such a
betrayal of the Underwood tariff,
to such a disregard of Democratic
principles and pledges, to such a
brazen appropriation of a Republi-
can plan.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31

Government ownership of the rail-
roads of the United States would give
the administration more political jobs
for the squandering of the peoples
money; but when hard pressed for a
pie counter that will satisfy the un-
satisfied. Government control of all
public utilities looks good to our dis
tracted Democratic brethren.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers IS presented at the organiza-
tion's annual Municipal Quiz."I
Who is Superintendent of Accounts
and Finance? His term? His salary?
What departments are under his direct
supervision?
william l. Gorgas. Term two
years. Salary, s2,500.00. Depart
ments over which he has direct su-
pervision: Finance, City Treas
urer, City Assessor and miscellane-
Gus.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-31
BUT THEY DON'T CO .

I'VE go! We gor sings the captain
of the Deutschland as sang the police
men or Penzance. Recalling, also. what
Ben Greet once remarked in an aside.
about Robert Mantell. that he never
knew another actor who so hated to
quit the stage.-Rocky Mountain News.