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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
THAT JEWS SPEECH

TIME chief trouble with Senator
Lewis, of Illinois, is that he
has absolutely no sense of hu-
NOR. In opening his address in the
Senate purporting to be a reply to
Hughes acceptance speech, Mr.. Lewis
said: II wish it known that 1 alone
am responsible for my utterances of
this day."
Thus he left the inference that on
other occasions and on other days, he
is not alone responsible for his utter
ances. Most men who have the ability
to get to the United States Senate
take pride in being responsible for
their utterances at all times and on
all subjects.
But the assurance given by Lewis
was entirely unnecessary in Wash
ington. No senator who knows Lewis
would ever suspect that either the
President or any other person with
political ambition would consent un-
der any circumstances to be held
even partly responsible for anything
Lewis might say.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
PoeikcA it
Pe@aSqeeo~io
By the Ex-Committeeman

The local option campaign in east
ern Pennsylvania will be launched
September 20 at a popular priced din
ner to be held in Philadelphia. An
nouncement of this plan was made
yesterday by an executive committee
of 1000 for local option in Philadel-
phia. Election of members to the
State Legislature who will support
county local option measure will be
the object of the campaign. All the
State leaders in the local option fight
Will be present at the dinner.
A sensation was created in Lancas-
ter Democratic circles yesterday by the
announcement that D. F. Davis. in
ternal revenue collector in the ninth
district, had decided to resign as chair
man of the Democratic county COM
mittee. Following closely his con-
firmation by the United States Senate
to the appointment of collector, there
is suspicion that his confirmation
came on promise to ease up on his
political activities. Davis has been
the Democratic political manager here
for many years, and during the last
mayoralty campaign the charge was
made that as county chairman he had
solicited campaign funds, a violation
of a Federal statute The charges, it
is understood. had considerable to do
with the holding UP of his appoint
ment. He will call a meeting of the
committee shortly. when his resig-
nation will be rendered and successor
elected. E. ]. Schneitman. of Eliz-
abethtown, it is believed, will be Mr..
Davis successor.
State Senator Horace w. Schantz.
who is the county chairman as we'll as
the candidate for Congress in the
Berks- Lehigh district, is presiding at
the annual Republican county meet
ing near Allentown this afternoon. 1t
is being held at Levan's. on the Slat-
ington trolley line. two miles nearer to
Allentown than Schnecksville, where
the the Democratic county meeting
was held last Saturday.
The principal speaker will be
Philander c. Knox. candidate for
United States Senator, who will make
his first trip to Lehigh county.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26

spruce woods. Their work of de-
struction is not confined to America.
A recent dispatch tells how the King
of Greece was driven from his summer
home and almost lost his life in a for
est fire.
But the problem of forest fire pre-
vention on a large scale is peculiarly
an American problem. In Europe the
woods are smaller. they are hand
tended" so to speak, and the tinder-
dry underground that feeds and car
ries fire is rarely present Very few
of these European forests, moreover,
are ''primeval." Most of them are the
result of planting. and the trees are
carefully spaced. A third safeguard
that the European forest enjoys is the
high price of wood. When they cut
down and trim tree there, they gath
er up the chips and the trimmed
branches.
In the United States and Canada,
the problem is so different that Am
erican forestry amounts to a separate
science. Here we have immense
stretches of virgin timber, much of it
miles from any human habitation.
with dense underground choking the
earth in many places. and with the
chips and trimmings from numbering
operations in. the old unregenerate
days littering the ground like a pow
der-train in the dry season.
The furnace of destruction that
ragged in Ontario until the rains
quenched it is a significant example
of what fire unleashed in such a for
est can do. Here in the United States
we have 1853 national forests covering
156. 100000 acres. 1t is interesting to
consider the system by which the Ma
tional Forest Service guards against
the catastrophe of a big fire.
There will be forest fires. appar-
emily, as long as there are forests.
This fire season there have been 1900
fires in the western forest reserves.
None of them took on formidable pro-
portions because they were up against
a system that was too much for them,
as it would be too much for any but
the most exceptional fires.
Fire fighting is really fire preven-
ton. 1t is a well-worn maxim that
when a fire is fifteen minutes old, one
man can put 1t out with his boots.
Give it an hours start and he will need
a spade and another man to help
him. Give it a day and the country
side will have to turn out with dyna-
mite. Give it two or three days and
there may be nothing left to do but
what some of the Canadian farmers
were forced to. They deserted every
thing they owned and took to the
lakes.
Pennsylvania has never had an ade-
quate forest fire fighting force, but it
is educating a group of boys in its
academy who will do for the woods of
this State what the men of the forest
service are doing for the national
preserves.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
OUR FOREST PROBLEM

TEN boys are about to be gradu-
! ated from the States Forestry
Academy. The number ought
to be fifty. so far as the needs of the
State are concerned. That being i'm
possible under the circumstances the
next best thing is Governor Brum-
baugh's plan to consolidate the police
forces of the game, fish and forestry
departments, so that the fire fighting
fish and game protection forces may
all be multiplied by three.
Forest protection is a world prob
lem, growing in importance as the
price Of lumber increases with the
shrinking areas of woodland. From
Canada comes the news of the greatest
loss In decades from forest fires.
Thousands of acres have been burned
over, Millions Of dollars worth of
timber destroyed, and worse still. en-
tire villages have been, wiped out by
the flames. with the loss of several
hundred human lives. 1t is the sea-
son of forest fires in the pine and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
Use For Veteran Workman
IOn1aha Bee I

lOmaha Bee.
In the current number of the Rail-
way Review is an interesting article
by a pennsylvania shop superintendent
on what to do with the veteran en1-
ploye, the man who is no longer ac-
tive, but is still capable of some SER
vice. This man suggests a variety of
employment in which the old employe
may be we'll engaged, but his chief ar
gument rests on the fact that his ac-
cumulated experience and consequent
wisdom is worth much, and some
times offsets his loss of agility.
throughout the article is a suggestion
OF comfort for the men on whom time
has placed its mark. The writer ar
CUES that so long as the workman is
actuated by desire to do something.
he should be given something to do
and not retired or dumped" into a
place where he has little or nothing to
occupy his time. The principal plea
is for the extension of reclamation ac-
tivity. to men as we'll as to material,
and is supported by numerous cita-
tions from shops of different railroads
to show that the old men still possess
much of ability that can be we'll utiliz-
ed for profitable service. AS an answer
TO the "Oslerization" theory, the ar
ticle is quite effective. Great Concerns
Will yet find that retirement, even or
liberal pension allowances, is not the
very best way of disposing of OPERA
tives whose hair is getllng white.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
Electrical Roll Calls For CONGRESS-
NTo the more or less dignifed, at
BY Frederic J. Haskin

INTO the more or less dignified, at
times orderly, and always slow
procedure of the House of Rep
resentatives of the United States is
about to be injected an element of
modern mechanical efficiency. Quite
literally a jump spark is to be applied
to the deliberations of the lower
House. 1t will be in the form of an
electrical voting device, which will be
capable of recording and adding the
vote of the members present in about
thirty-four seconds.
The average time occupied in call
ing the roll as done at present by the
House reading clerks is about forty
minutes, for the name of every MEM
Der must be read twice. A congress
man with a head for mathematics es-
timated that flfty-six days were spent
calling the roll during the sessions of
one Congress 1t seems quite within
the probabilities that this machine, if
installed and successful, will save the
House about one month out of every
year. Senator Underwood believes
that it would save $4,000 a year in
light, heat and telegraph service.
AS for the machine, it is the inven-
ton of B. L. Broboff, a native of Rus
sia, citizen of the United States, and
a resident of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It
has already been installed and success
fully demonstrated in the hall of the
Wisconsin State Legislature at Madi-
son, Wisconsin, and Mr.. Broboff has
also demonstrated it on a small scale
in Washington. Many members of
Congress have already expressed
themselves as favorable to it's installa-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
Pretty Good

NV Uncle jim, he said one day,
You'll find, as time slips on the way,
That lots O. things you try to do
Don't seem so much when you get
through,
An mebbe you'll get glum an say
That luck has failed to come your
way.
But if you've done the best you
could
Well, you've been doin' purity good.
You may not wake the trump O.
fame,
But friends may still fespect your
name.
You may not rise to high command,
Yet you kin lend a helpin' hand.
You may not in great things excel,
But you kin do your little we'll,
And If you've done the best you
could
Well, you've been doin' purity good"
Washington Star
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
Country Must Not Suffer
TPhiIadelphia Ledger1

philadelphia Ledger
If the deadlock between the railways
and their employees cannot be broken,
If in spite of the efforts of the Presi-
dent to reach some kind of settlement
a strike is declared, the public will
justly place the ultimate blame upon
the party to the dispute which finally
refuses to assent to any compromise.
The situation at present appears to be
that both parties are sticking stub
bornly to an irreducible minimum of
concession. The railways say that they
are fighting for the principle of arbi-
tration; the brotherhoods say that they
are fighting for an eight-hour day
What the President proposes, appar-
emily, is that the railways grant the
eight-hour day and withdraw all
counter suggestions, that the brother
hoods yield their demand for time
and half pay for overtime. and that
a federal commission investigate the
results and report without prejudice
to either side. 1t is not difficult to
understand how, from the point of
view of the railways, this seems to be
surrender to the brotherhoods.
They have declared that to grant an
eight-hour day woud put too great a
burden upon them, and that they can
not do it without some assurance of
permission to raise rates accordingly.
This may be true in a sense; yet it
should not be forgotten that they have
been heading straight toward such an
impasse by their method of dealing
with the mems demands.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
When the Wife's Away
[Philadelphia Ledger. ]

A man who tried on his long-suffer-
ing wife the time-worn wheeze about
the bread that mother used to make
met with the tart rejoinder: "Well,you
don't make the dough that father used
to make" Four Pennsvlvanians who
canped on an island in the Susuehan-
ma near Sunbury are no longer in
clined to disparage the prowess of wo-
mankind in the gentle art of cookery,
1t seems that while the women of the
party were absent they decided they
knew how to fry fish more deftly and
delectably than their fair comrades.
Unfortunately, they used plaster of
paris instead of -four, with direful re-
suits. Hereafter they will refrain
from interference with the benevolent
despotism of the kitchen, and will re-
ceive with IAN humble and a contrite
heart" the soda-biscuit. pies and cof-
fee of a feminine dispensation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
Hughes and Wilson
(Kansas City JournaD

The difference between what Mr..
Hughes would have done and what
Mr.. Wilson has done lies deeper than
the payment; of political debts by at
tractive foreign appointments. Even
the presence of Mr.. Bryan in the
State Department was discounted by
the notorious fact that Wilson domi-
mated his own administration and that
Bryan was only messenger and a
straw man. Mr.. Bryan need not be
blamed for giving the impression that
the protests against German aggres-
sions were "for home consumption"
for Wilson was the State Department,
and only after Bryan became impos-
sible did he dispense with his services.
Mr.. Hughes would not have clustered
one day about "strict accounta bility"
and the next prated about being too
proud to fight"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. PICNIC
BY Wing Dinger

o, there's goin' to be some doin's
Up at Inglenook to-day
For our business men are going
There this afternoon to play
There1l be lawyers. merchants, bank
ers,
Manufacturers, ct Get,
Who'll forget about their business
When they all together get
Therell be games of ball (quite rotten)
ouoits and other sports galore.
And tomorrow joints and muscles
Will, no doubt, be mighty sore.
But it's fine when men together
Get, to fun and make a noise,
Losing sight of age and mien.
And be once again, just boys.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
THE THIN LITTLE TWINS


The thin little twins went out to play
In the pasture lot on a sunny day;
Their legs were stiff and their faces
Were filled with fear of the world
and all
They did was run to their mothers
side.
AS If they would like to go and hide.
The thin little twins spoke soft and
low
I'm the horses way. that we do not
know);
The world is big; is 1T kind9" they
said,
With puzzled shakes of each little head
will It smile at us as we grow up
high?"
Said the little twins with a worried
sigh.
The thin little twins stood waiting
there,
In the crystal cool of the morning
And their mother said. ALL the world
is kind,
And faith and trust you will surely
find.
If to evil deeds you will whisper
'Neighv"
And she smiled at them Gin the horses
way)
Moral.
And do you know, though you're not
horse
(You only are with a cold of courseD
1t isn't bad If you keep this rule,
To help you out in life's rigid school.
Margaret e. Sangster, Jr.. in The
Christian Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
WHERE THE DIFFERENCE LIES

DURING the last fiscal year under
- the Republican protective pol
icy, 1913, our exportE totaled
$2,465,SS4,0 900. During the first fis-
cal year under the Democratic tariff
policy of near-free-trade, 1914 (the
Democratic law was in operation nine
months of that year, our exports to-
tailed $2,s64,579,oo0, or a loss of
S1O1, 100000
During the fiscal year 1915 we ex-
ported goods to the value of S4,333,-
659,000, an increase of almost ST.
10000, 900 over 1914, and the Dem
ocratic party attributes this to its poll
cies, but has no explanation for the
1914 loss of export trade.
Can any man call to mind a single
thing the Democrats have done to
bring about this huge increase in our
exports.
The increase in expectation, 1916
over 1914, of Al classes of articles
coming under the head of munitions
of war just about accounts for the
increase in our total exports, 1916
over 1914.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
DOUBLE HAPPINESS

n WRITER in current magazine
IA says the late James Whitcomb
Riley made himself one of the
happiest of men by making happiness
Tor others. 1t is an old thought, but
one worth more attention than most
or us are accustomed to give it. In
our pursuit of happiness we are all
too apt to think of ourselves only and
to lay plans for our own selfish enjoy
ment, falling to take into account what
we all know-that the surest way to
be happy is to make others so.
What better thing could we wish for
ourselves than that the eyes of those
who know us should grow tender or
sparkle with good humor at the
thought Of some personal service of
ours or some pleasant association or
incident for which we are responsible {?
In a quiet chamber in his old home
In Harrisburg to-day lies the body of
a well-known physician. He is re-
membered for the notable political tri-
umphs he won and for his accomplish
ments in many activities of life. but
the real tribute to his memory is being
paid in hundreds of little homes
throughout the city where he gave.
without thought of reward, his profess
sional skill to bring back from the
door of death to life and health some
dear one of the family. If in his clos
ing hours he was happy. this was the
reason.
Happiness lies not in wealth or
leisure or freedom from care, but in
making other happy. in little kindly
acts, in spreading good cheer. True
happiness is double happiness, yours
and the other fellows.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
REALLY NOT MUCH DANGER

n MOTHER case of infantile pa
n ralysis having been reported in
Harrisburg, parents naturally
feel return of the fear that the dis
ease may become epidemic here. There
is really little danger of that if proper
precautions are taken. Children should
be kept clean and in the open air as
much as possible. They should be
kept out of crowds, given plenty of
exercise, good foods and watched care
fully for any signs of indisposition.
The well-nourished, healthy child is
not apt to contract the disease. The
infantile paralysis germs finds its most
ready victim in the weak, sickly or
neglected body.
The degree of susceptibility of chill
dren and other members of the COM
munity to infantile paralysis is rela-
lively small, and is definitely lower
than to such communicable diseases as
measles, scarlet fever and diphtheria.
This fact in itself constitutes a meas.
ure of control; and while it does not
justify the abatement of any prac-
dcable means which may be employed
TO limit and suppress the epidemic, it
should tend to prevent state of over
anxiety and panic from taking hold of
the community.
Fortunately, only very small num-
Der of the attacked are left severely
and helplessly crippled. Lamentable
as it is that even one should be so
affected. it is nevertheless a reassur-
ance to know that so many recover
altogether. that the ratio of deaths is
low, and SO much of. what appears to
be permanent paralysis disappears in
time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

[Questions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the orEaniza. |.
tion's annual Municipal QUIT
Who is the City Forester, and what
are his duties? Has the property owner
Jurisdiction over his own trees?
o. B. Gipple, City Forester. The
forester has charge of and super
vision over the selection, planting.
trimming. maintenance and re-
moval of shade trees in the high
ways and parks of the city. Prop
erty owner has no jurisdiction ex-
cept upon permit from forester.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
CAMPAIGN FAIRY TALES

Mr.. Wilson's notifi-
cation is delayed, the advance
sheets of the Democratic cam
paign textbook are coming off the
press regularly and the public is be-
ing regaled with a resume of their
contents. They deal with the great
prosperity which Wilson has
vouchsafed to the country and with
the 'kept-us-out-o of-war" legend.
Fairy tales are not yet out of fash
ion in Democratic headquarters. it
would appear.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
EDITORIAL COMMENT
DEAR LIVING

The way in which the necessaries
OF life are advancing is simply out
raseous. It's got so it takes nearly
three bushels of alfalfa seed to buy
a new tire.-Manhattan (Kan) Mer-
curry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26

No doubt the beautiful Salunga. the
Chippewa maiden who has beep sug-
gested to loan her name to the Queen
of the Kipona contest, would in modern
times be known as the Chippewa
Chicken.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26

After looking back over the files to
refresh our memories as to what Nor-
man Angel said when in this country,
we feel like cabling London to make
the sentence eighteen years instead of
only eighteen months.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26

The President, i. having proposed
to buy the Danish West Indies for
$25,ooo,0O0 after an offer had been
made to let us have them for $5,OOO.-
900, is about to deliver an address in
st. Louis on salesmanship.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26

Barring children under sixteen
from the movies isn't a hardship that
will cause any of them to suffer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
Daniels Still on the lob

Those who say the Democratic
party never does the right thing owe
that party an apology. 1t has re-
tired Cyclone" Davis and Alfalfa
Bill' Murray.-Kansas City Journal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
THE GREATER PATRIOTISM

We shall have more confidence in
100 per cent. patriotism when we find
a preparedness shouter welcoming
an increase in his income tax. = New
York World.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
Worth the Money
washington Herald)

7
The Army and Navy Appropriation
Bills cover the largest amount ever
given for adequate defense, and few
will say that it is not money well
spent.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26

Some New York restaurantkeepers
have been compelled by the shortage of
paper to reduce the size of menu cards,
but there is no change in the bills.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
sIlnhnrne

Some sunburned 'bathers lose
their skin after they return from the
seashore; others are skinned while
there.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
which Is Another Matter
(Florida Times-Union)

(Florida Times Union)
General Carranza insists that he has
settled all his difficulties with the
United States. Now, will he kindly
settle our difficulties with him?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26

They say that the infantile paralysis
germ can't stand up against doses Of
hexsmethylenarnin-n frightens EN-
to death. we suppose
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26

What happy world it would be
for fishermen IL the fish bit as fast
and as hard as the mosquitoes do.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26

Noiseless mosquitoes have been found
in Washington. Now let somebody find
an itchless variety.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26

WORRIED.
That dog at
Blacks will be
the death Of me,
barking at me ev-
cry time I pass.
B u t barking
dogs don't bite.
I know. but T6
rather be bittenA
at once than ba
kept in suspense.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE

The Bulgars appear to have the
bulge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26

AS usual about this time of year, the
Democrats have carried Maine. The
trouble is it seldom stays carried.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-26

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