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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
.HE experiment Of irving to make g

ME experiment OF trying TO make
a plant grow "a hours a day by
exposing 1t. to electrical light at
night was tried not long ago by scien-
lists of the Department of Agriculture.
Had it been a success, wonders might
have been accomplished in the rapid
production of food crops. A nation
at war, for example, would have been
able to double the productivity of its
soil.
All of these large possibilities were
nipped in the bud. The plant grew
with abnormal rapidity for a time, and
then it got sick. Even though the
same amount of light and heat were
supplied by electricity at night as the
sun afforded during the day, the plant
could not grow healtnily without sun
light.
This experiment SHOWS that solar
radiation-quite apart from the tenn
perature 1t produces-is an essential
to plant life; yet it is the one element
in climate which has not been closely
studied until recently. Temperature,
wind, rainfall and all of the other
things that go to make up weather
have been carefully observed and
Charted. You can write to the wealth
er bureau and ask them about the cli-
mate of almost any township in the
United States, and they will give it to
you for every season of the year in
exact figures. The only thing they
can not tell you is the amount of solar
radiation received by that particular
township, unless you live in one of four
places where investigations of solar
radiation are being carried on.
When these Investigations have been
made in all parts of the United States,
one more element in climate, one more
factor in agriculture, will have been
charted and put to intelligent USE A
real step forward in the control of
man over nature will have been taken
1t is known, for example, that in
countries where solar radiation is
strong, sugar beets yield far higher
percentage of sugar in proportion to
/ their bulk. This suggests that solar
radiation is an essential element in the
conversion of starch into sugar within
the plant.
This study of the suns energy also
opens another fascinating possibility
that of putting the sun to work. The
construction of a practicable motor
which would use the heat of the sun
would solve the power question for
ever. The price of gasoline would
worry us no longer. Power would be
free and inexhaustib1e.
The problem is particularly tempt
ing because it can easily be solved on
small scale. Anyone can build a
sun motor that will turn a little wheel.
and in Southern California one was
constructed with concave mirror sur
face which focused the rays of the
sun so as to develop a considerable
power. 1t was not, however, com
mercially practicable. The secret CT
how to capture and concentrate the
heat OF the suns rays remains un-
solved. Scientific observation. how
ever, may show the way. DR.. Kim
bell, who is conducting the investiga-
tions at Washington, recently discov-
cred quite by accident that when an
electric light bulb is exposed to sun
light the filament quickly attains a
temperature above boiling. This sug-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
A LOST ISSUE
nRESIDENT WILSON Gle,


DRESIDENT WILSON cleverly
side-stepped the effort of his
foolish Democratic associates
who would have criticised at st.
Louis the resignation of Charles E.
Hughes as a justice of the United
States Supreme Court to accept the
Republican nomination for President
An attempt to make a campaign issue
of this circumstance would have prov
ed boomerang Tor those would have
launched it. Those purblind partisans
failed to recall that they had furnished
all sorts of precedents for the Repub-
lican course in the nomination of the
next President, among these being the
selection of Alton b. Parker, chief
justice of the New York State Board
of Appeals, and by voting on Federal
Judge George Gray in the same con-
vention. Nor has it been forgotten
that the late Mayor Gaynor, of New
York, was lifted from the bench to the
mayoralty by the Democrats.
As matter of fact, our Democratic
brethren are in a state of demoraliza-
ton over the tremendous favor with
which the nomination of Justice
Hughes has been received throughout
the country. They had hoped that the
division in the Republican ranks
would continue so that President Will
son might prolong his tenure as a min
ority head of the nation. These hopes
having been blasted through the con-
nd
Chicago convention, the st. Louis mass
meeting resolved itself into a mutual
admiration society under the direct
control and management of the Wash
ington administration.
1t becomes more and more evident
each day that the selection of Justice
Hughes as the nominee of the Repub-
lican party means prompt conclu-
sion of the incompetent management
of the affairs of the country and the
restoration to power of the party
which has invariably guaranteed pros
perity and respect at home and
abroad.
Perhaps nothing so clearly indicates
the absence of campaign material in
the counsels of the Democratic leaders
as the futile effort to create public in
terest in a suggestion that a great
wrong had been perpetrated in nomi-
mating for the presidency a member of
the highest judicial tribunal in the
country. Manifestly, the esteemed
enemy assumes that the people are
prone to forget inasmuch as it's
pledges and promises have been
broken time after time with utter dis
regard of consistency and fair-dealing
with the people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
Dad

When you were kid how very, very
old your Dad" seemed to be! And
when you did some kid caper and got
caught, how well your Dad" seemed
to understand even the most minute
details of your little game!
And now that you are man grown,
your Dad" seems to be younger than
years ago-seems to be the boy of
the family-even younger than you
used to be.
Dads are funny fellows; fathers are
not the same.
When boys father has money he
is called Father" When he teaches
Sunday school, we call him Papa. ("
II he shops with mother and wheels
baby carriage, we call him PA"
But If he goes to the ball game and
stands on his hind legs and yells
slide, you suckers, slide!" and then
quietly slips back on the bleacher
boards and smothers a groan, we
honor him with the title Dad. The
Silent Partner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

oELAeN INsS SOEtNlASSlON
IN a communication to the Philadel-
L phia Public Ledger a correspondent
gives expression to arthought which
is in the minds of more than a few
people in Pennsylvania. He declares
that ''the Public Service Commission
is the most effectual obstruction to live
business all over the State that could
have been contrived." In his iude-
ment, the only reason that it survives
is because the ordinary citizen does not
realize fully that it is against his in
terests.
This is a rather drastic criticism of
an important branch of the activities
of the Commonwealth, but unless some
radical changes are made in the law
creating the commission the complaint
of this correspondent will take more
active and general form in the next
session of the Legislature. 1t was
never contemplated that the rights of
municipalities should be so utterly sub
ordinated as has been the case in the
organization of the Public Service
~ 10 pOSSlblG ludI lle
working out of the problems of this
important body will correct the evils
of which complaint is so frequently
made, but it cannot be denied that
there is a growing feeling of unrest
oyer the scope and character of the
commissions activities.
Especially aggravating to the vari-
Gus communities throughout the State
is the requirement that forces them TO
submit to the Public Service Commits
sion so many trifllng details of local
control and management. For a time
natural development of a new system
of supervision, but instead Of a more
reasonable attitude toward the COM
mission there is evidence on every
hand of an increasing unrest and
opposition to the new scheme of State
regulation.
Governor Brumbaugh has his ear to
the ground and it is known that he is
in favor of wider measure of home
rule for cities and boroughs so that
they may work out their own salvation
under proper general laws. 1t is not
fair to assume that the work of the
Public Service Commission is without
important results; nor is it reasonable
to charge this body with the improper
exercise of arbitrary and dangerous
powers. Perhaps the commissioners
themselves will be the first to admit
that too much in the way of regulation
has been imposed upon that body.
But unless the Public Service Com
mission is to lose much of it's strength
and real usefulness, there must be
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
EDITORIAL COMMENT

The Presidents business is sure no
ooHahza: Attending to politics, war. and
Carranza.-Chicago Herald.
10 any alliance of nations to enforce
peace we suppose that the United States
Would contribute the moral force.-New
York Evening Sun.
Lincoin was acclaimed as the rail
sumter out no enthusiasm is aroused
oS relerrlng to modern candidate as
renee ce-hXer.-Ptttsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph.
me Canadian troops in Belgium and
france should do we'll under their new
commander, if there is anything in a
name. General Byng sounds like what
needed on the Western 'front.'
Springfield Republican.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
I'M so HAPPY
BY Wing Dinger

I'm glad to see 1t clear o-day
Cause merchants of the town
Have had too many Saturdays
With rain a-fallin' down.
1t is their big day, and it seems
A shame when on that day
The clouds pour forth their heavy
showers
And keep the trade away.
So with the merchants I rejoice,
And hope the public will
Rush forth to-day and with their coin
The stores cash drawers well fill.
1 think I'd help the cause myself,
But must be away
On more important business
A game of golf to play.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
THAT ANTI-DUMPING GROUND

nEMOCRATS are trying to distract
IL the attention of the millions of
voters who are demanding a
return to protective tariff policies by
holding up the hope of an anti-dump-
ing law. The only kind of an anti
dumping law that will work out in
practice is protective tariff measure
that will enable the American en-
ployer to pay adequate wages to his
employees and at the same time COM
pete with cheaply made foreign pro-
ducts. In their hearts the Democrats
know this. but they are afraid for po-
litical reasons to admit it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

The unprecedented situation of a
board of school directors having to
pass a resolution ordering the teach
ers to cash their checks for the past
four or five months salaries has
brought the town of Hazleton vividly
before the public eye. Can business
be so far divorced from teaching as
that?
The fy-by-night marriage of the
Scranton heiress to the streetcar
conductor suggests the likelihood of
premiums being placed upon the posi-
ton of fare-collector by the railways
companies.
A check, three feet by 1S inches in
size, drawn to the order of the Bur-
CESS of Warren for one dollar, will be
used to pay a series of debts of one
dollar, each person who owes endors-
ing the check and turning it over to a
creditor. Quite novel scheme.
The organizing committee of the Boy
Scouts of Wyoming Valley are adver-
tising 10000 boys for $4,000 in an
effort to raise funds for the Scout
movement. A boy and fifth for
every dollar seems like a pretty fair
return on ones money.
A f1ve-foot long blacksnake caus-
ed considerable CONSERVATION in the
business district of Pottsville the 9TH
er day. Mr.. Reptile was willing to
be friendly, but showed fight If his au
dience showed fright. In other
words, he reacted on public opinion.
Fudge as the only sustenance for
thirty seniors of a certain well-known
college in the State, stranded on an
island in the Susquehanna while re-
hearsing for Hamlet, would scarcely
satisfy the normal appetite. Even
the art of portraying Hamlet demands
more than that in order to subsist.
Joseph Kiewisky, of Pottsvlle, re-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

City Solicitor T. K. Savior. of
Johnstown, is making up a building
code from those of twenty cities.
Morris Knowles, who was here
yesterday with the Pittsburgh Flood
Commission, has been active in that
project for a decade or more
DR.. Leroy Weller, president of
Beaver College. received the degree of
doctor of letters from Waynesburg
College.
w. B. Kay, new corporation clerk
in the Auditor Generals department,
used to be a newspaper man.
Thomas K. Donnally. secretary of
the State Red Men, has held that of
flee for over 20 years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17

chairmen have led the Republican
forces to victory in years past and
both are thoroughly familiar with the
details of committee work.
Mr.. Horner knows every nook and
corner of the county. he has a wide
acquaintanceship and the rank and file
of the party workers have confidence
in him. Mr.. Owes has been city chair
man during many years of strenuous
campaigning and knows the city quite
as we'll as Mr.. Horner does the county.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17

There is general protest throughout
the country over the proposed increase
of dollar upon each pair of shoes be-
fore the end of this year. 1t is pointed
out that the importation of hides and
skins for the nine months ending with
March were 50sO00,OO0 pounds, as
against $4,000, 900 pounds for the same
period in 1915 and 395. 1000, 900 pounds in
1914. This would seem to destroy the
argument of the shoe manufacturers
that the war had cut off the supply of
hides, making necessary a great in
crease in the price of shoes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17

ceived $4,000 for having been kicked
In the face by a mule. MANY there
are who would be glad to turn the
other cheek to the muliest mule ex-
tanc Tor the sum mentioned.
The Kane Republican scarcelv
merits classification with our great
est prophets when it foresees a great
frequency of rains during the next few
days; The coming of the sun will he
heralded. with the gusto that accom-
panied the return of the prodigal
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
Happiness

Happiness is more a mental attitude
than a material achievement.
Money more often adds RESPONSE
bility, influences the imagination and
creates unnatural ambitions.
Adam and Eve lived in what was
called a Paradise. They had no great
amount of money. In fact, they lived
before money was invented, and they
lived in Paradise.-The Silent Partner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
WHAT THE ROTARY CLuR
LEARNED OF THE CTTv

tQuestions submitted to mamhar. -.
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza-
tons annual Municipal Qulz."I
What was the death rate for the
year 1915? ava the
Eighteenth and sixteenth per l.
ooO' based on population of 72,575'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17

THE ACID TEST.
SO you think
8 h g is broad
minded?
/ know she is.
Why. 8 h e is
broad : m I n d Q d
enough to admit
that she Is mar
row-mindeda
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17

some amendment of the law so as to
relieve the municipalities of the con-
slant annoyance to which they are
now subjected through the red tape
provisions of the act creating the
commission.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
IN EXPERIENCED HANDS

I<HE reelection of County Chair
man William H. Horner by the
Republican county committee
to-day and the choice some time ago
of Harry F. Owes to again lead the
city committee place the active work
of campaign management in the
hands of experienced men. Both
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
OUR GOOD NAME

CPEAKING before the Chamber of
NJ Commerce the other day Thomas
W. Shelton said that Pennsyl-
vania had stood from the very
foundation of the United States for
the integrity of the courts and the
protection of the bench from inter
ference by the legislative branch of
the government, and this unsought
assertion by a stranger of Mr. Shell
tons standing in the country fell like
music on the ears of those who have
been accustomed to hear the good old
Keystone State maligned and SANDER
ed by every lecturer and writer who
happens to lack a topic, but who feels
called upon to reel off few thousand
words, at so much per column. These
speakers and writers have mistaken
political lies for facts and the name
Of Pennsylvania has suffered. 1t
therefore gives loyal citizens of this
State more than ordinary pleasure to
hear the facts stated as Mr.. Shelton
did in his address at the Harrisburg
Club.
The Saturday Evening Post, dis
'cussing the Pennsylvania probation
law, not only praises the statute in
question but has this to say as well:
This is an intelligent law, and we
are glad to note il in the keystone
State, which, by and large, probably
has as many civic virtues as any
other member of the Union-al-
though current political criticism,
with its powerful inclination to
slapdash generaliza tions, has care
fully picked out the vices that
Pennsylvania shares in greater or
less degree with the remainder of
the sisterhood, and so made her a
perennial horrible example.
The Telegraph is happy to note this
change of attitude. The facts amply
warrant the Posts assertions. Pennsyl-
vania is distinctly a progressive State.
Her people as a whole are honest and
patriotic-but she has within her
borders also those who are happiest
when throwing mud, who take pleas
ure in besmirching their own State
and who are rapidly being unmasked
for the political blackmailers and
traducers they are.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE

The Democratic platform calls
for peace in Mexico-and the Demo-
Gratis say they mean to fulfill all of it's
pledges. Some promise!
indications are that Carranza
Will be weeping in sympathy on the
shoulder of Villa shortly-that is if
Villa will stand for it.
What grand June weather we
nave had this week - for raincoat
merchants and umbrella members.
In claiming that the Democratic
party had fulfilled all it's platform
pledges, the st. Louis convention very
properly overlooked that embarrassing
one-term plank.
From the speed and ferocity he Is
showing the Russian bear must have
Jack-rabbit and grizzly somewhere
in his ancestry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
"1 beg leave to announce that I am q

Il beg leave to announce that am a
woman OF 30. married, fairly rich, NOV
that I have read only one half Of one
OF Shakespeere's plays: that I know
nothing but the faintest smattering of
history. science or art; that I support
the name of being a French scholar on
the strength of few glib phrases; that
| am entirely unacquainted with cur
enjoyed for years, the reputation of be-
ing a cultured and educated woman"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE II.

The Worldly Hope men set their hearts
upon
Turns ASheS-or its proSpers; and
anon,
Like Snow upon the Deserts dusty
Face,
Lighting little hour or ta0o is gone.
Fitzgerald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17

IT think .you'H find that insurance
policy all right. sir No matter what
happens, there's an unintelligible clause
inserted which. when properly inter
preted by the authorities, let's us out OF
payin~ anything" -
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
OUR DAILY LAUGH
THAT BALKY

THAT BALKY
TIE.
His face is red,
his breath is
short
And viii d1 y
CLEANS his
w o n d e ring
eye.
H Q s a n & ry7
Nothing Q (
the sortl
He's struggling
with g balky
tie.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17

I want you to understand sir. that
my newspaper is run in the interests
or the advertisers and controlled by the
ception, either" "a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17

published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17

z. ]. J.STACKPOLE. Pves't and Editor.in- Chi:f
T. r. OYSTER. Business Manager.
GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg tin is used in
dairy buckets i'm Wisconsin?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
This city had one of the early
nail factories in this part of the state
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17

Yes. sir. If you are fond OF second
class class meals. fishless trout stream. fine
View Of livery stable, and a lake full Of
muddy water and leaky boats. vou
should pass the summer at my resort !"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17
IT They Told the Truth
Frn,,o 7 ;Fa

/, What spoiled children you havel Rut
Lhen, little else is to be expected from
people so weak minded and irrespon-
sible as you are"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17

two cigars a day." eii''
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17

Joseph Kiewisky. of PottsHlle. re-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-17

When an umbrella takes fire on the
street something happens. The other
evening a man dropped a match into
an umbrella and it started to burn.
He did not know 1t until he felt it.
Then he forsook the article in hurry
But it took fifteen minutes for the fire
to burn out and about 100 people got
interested.
Nord stern. [volume] (La Crosse, Wis.) 1856-1921, 1916-03-17
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