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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
Finding $4,000 a Year Men

In the September American Maya
zine, Frank A. Nanderhp, president of
the National City Bank. tells how he
selects men for positions demanding
the salary of $4,000 a year. He says:
Several years ago | went to Texas
studied conditions there, became con-
Nlnced that prospects warranted our
special attention, and concluded we
wanted man who knew that coun-
try. man from Texas On the trip |
met, / think, all the bankers of i'm
portance. / crossed the State twice
and stopped at all principal towns.
OF all the bankers l came in con-
tact with. two stood out prominently.
| had seen them only at luncheons
dinners, or other gatherings of that
sort. But they had talked better than
their fellows They showed breadth
of banking and financial knowledge
and information; this was several
years before the passage of the Fed
eral Reserve act, and we were all
very much interested in that.
Their grasp of fundamental prin-
ciples told me they had done what 1
have often said 4 young man should
do-one days work at his desk and
another days study finding out what
his work means, what its relations
are to the general scheme of things.
II followed up my first impression
with inquiries about them. After l
lSNuInSu 10 New Ofk, every time
met a man from Texas or the South
west l asked about them. l got uni
versally favorable testimony. I pressed
the thing closer, and finally engaged
first one and, two years later, the
other.
Note that I picked them out sey
eral years before actually appointir :
them. If their records had not bee |
scrupuously clean. if l had heard on
derogatory thing about them, my in
terest might have ceased.
Then you might we'll wonder why
was chosen. a lawyer with no
banking experience. Sheer personality
did it.
There, again. was the inspiring
career. He had dug it out for him
self. He had worked his way through
college. and very successfully. Enter
ing law, he worked and studied hard
and saved money.
His conversation revealed a trained
mind, wide reading. broad interests.
1t was evident he had done his own
thinking on many subjects. And he
had great physical force, which you
always look for in a man who has a
great work to do. You don't want a
weakling. because the pressure all the
time is severe, and at times of stress
or crisis 1t becomes pretty nearly un-
bearable. A man must stand up under
it and not cave in at crucial
moment"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
And Now Gibby's Gone!
IPittsburgh Gazette-Times. ]

It's going to be pretty lonesome for
Hans Wagner at Forbes Field from
now on. 1t wasn't so bad when Brans-
field and Beaumont drifted away; the
club moved away from Exposition
Park about that time and new sur
roundings took the edge off that
breaking up. But since they went to
the new park Tommy Leach. Camnitz,
Capt. Clarke and Babe" Adams have
moved along and now Gibson's gone.
The old mans going to be pretty
lonesome.
It's going to be pretty lonesome for
the fellows out in the 25-cent bleach
ers, too. You never could get away
with mean remark about "Gibby' or
Babe" out there. "Hack'-that was
"Gibby's" other nickname, after Hack
enschmidt. the wrestler-might drop q
throw from the outfield or the enemy
batsman might drive Babes famous
slow ball out to the flag pole, but you
wouldn't hear any roast out there in
the sun. 1t was 'All right, 'Gibby'
or Never mind. Babe" 1t was diff
ferent out on the seats where the
splinters grow when they sent Chief
Wilson away; it's going to be lone
some tomorrow.
Well, they soon move along. It's
only yesterday "Matty' stood where
Al Mamaux stands now; only yester-
day it was from Tinker to Evers to
Chance; only yesterday the fans in
the street were talking of LeeVer. OF
Ritchey or Jimmy" Sebring. Honus
is the only one left of the champion
ship team of seven years ago. Sever
years. 1t behooves the players to save
their money and make ready to go into
business. when they are through, like
Babe" Adams. at 33. The manage.
ment wanted to make Gibson a free
agent and let him sign where he
could; they never would have "solc
him down the river" But the Giants
needed catcher owing to Rarldan!
injury so they claimed Gibson wher
Pittsburgh asked the other clubs tc
waice. He won't stay long in New
York; they don't catch much after SO
But Pittsburgh will always miss Glib
| by" and the memory of those 140 con
| secutive games in 1909 will linger lon,
after he has gone back to Canada L
| stay.
But it's going to be pretty lonesom,
| for Honus.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
Speeding Up" Doesn't Pay
From the Boston Traveller.

"Is your horse a good traveler?" ask
ed one man of another who had stopp-
ed him on the highway to swap"
horses.
"A good traveller? why, stranger,
can drive that horse so far in day
that you couldn't get him back in
three"
Naturally this ingenious though not
ingenious argument did not effect a
trade. But it is the sort of argument
that in a disguised form is being used
effectively by individuals and people
all over the map.
Efficiency" and pep" are the two
most overworked words in the lam
guage these times. Wherever one goes
he can hear the mental motors buzz
Ing and the wheels whirring. Every
man is so keyed up and densely charg-
ed with his life purpose that you are
almost afraid to shake hands with him
for fear of getting an electric shock,
But, listen, you fellows not already
because of overwork-headed for the
psychopathic hospital, the word has
gone forth that Speeding Up" has
reached its limit and that it doesn't
pay.
THE ineficiency of efficiency has
proved both costly and brutal" says a
man who has been a lifelong student
of busy men. "A man should be his
best up to 20. If a man disappears at
65 he is inefficient. no matter what he
has done before that time-ineficient
because he has thrown away the ripe
fruit of all his life"
Don't drive yourself so far in a day
that you cannot get back in three--or
perhaps ever. A good share of the
world believes that the efficiency of a
certain European nation was the cause
of -. itself and the whole of civili-
= lion ba * half a century. Remember
lie story of the clever little boy who
Ltole the arty ice cream and ate it all
himself a i'd died the next day?
"Moder .tion." Bishop Hall says, 'is
the sill m string running through the
''ao" chain of all virtue"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
HAVE YOU POTATO BERRIES IN
YOUR GARDEN? LOOK FOR THEM

potatoes show a tendency to rest on
the reputation of former production
the scientific farmer begins to search
for new varieties, Then the neglected
and forgotten seed balls or berries de-
mand serious consideration as only in
them is there possibility of producing
new and better variety of potatoes
We are in that stage now. Wide
spread attention has been called to the
scarcity of these seed balls and per-
sons are urged to search their po-
! tato fields that the few seeds produc-
ed may be preserved for planting in
the hope that good variety may be
| found.
Seed balls have been found in a
garden belonging to Prof. j. A. Smyser
of the Harrisburg High school The
garden is located in subdivision
known as Colonial acres, near Pro-
gress on the Jamestown road. The
soil consisting of weathered shale has
been enriched by manurial and COM
mercial fertilizers. The land slopes to
the north sufficient for good surface
drainage. The potatoes for planting
were carefully selected and the stalks
have been sprayed with arsenate of
lead and Bordeaux mixture for insect
and plant enemies and are strong and
healthy. The variety is Sir Walter
Raleigh which is an Improvement on
the Rural New York. From a num-
Der of flowers growing in a cluster
only one berry was found on a stalk.
rive berries have been found ranging
IN size from a large pea to a half
inch in diameter. The berries will be
kept and an effort made to grow new
plants from the seeds another year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
THE MATRIMONIAL "AD."

MARRIAGE" observed Max H.
V Killing, in Philadelphia, the
other day when called on TO
explain why he had advertised for a
wife. rs a funny proposition. You
never can tell how it will turn out.
It's just a toss-up. That being so and
1 had heard so much of Southern girls
l just advertised for a wife"
That is the code of the divorce court
Marry in haste and repent at leisure,
The kind Killing used is one variety OF
advertising that does not pay. Mar
riage may be a lottery, but there's no
use choosing your ticket blindfolded
The woman who answers a matrimon-
ial "ad." is apt to be pretty careless OF
the kind of husband she gets. and nc
man wants that kind of wife. The
man who makes himself the subject OF
a newspaper advertisement admits
that he is on the bargain counter and
that he is of a pattern that the girls
at home won't have. In short, its pret-
ty cheap business and a cheap business
is seldom profitable.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
THE JAMAICA HURRICANE

TIME was when a hurricane in
i Jamaica meant little or nothing
to the United States. If news
of such an occurrence filtered through
at all it came by word of mouth from
some captain of a trading vessel and
caused little comment. Now such a
storm is noted on the first page of
the newspapers and the announce
ment that the banana crop has been
damaged means another addition to
living expenses. Life grows constant
ly more complicated and it's adjust
ments more delicate. The earthquake
that rocks Italy is felt in the United
States. the war that shakes Europe
jars every continent on the globe; the
wind that lays waste the fruit groves
of Jamaica blows pennies out of
purses in far away America.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
The Call Will Be Answered

In this hour of stress we hear the
people calling for James HILL the
powerful railroad manager who COM
mande0 the attention and respect of
railroad men and capitalists the world
over.
Be assured the call will not go unan-
swered, for there is even a greater
than he somewhere about. These are
conditions such as Hill never had to
meet.
While his methods fitted conditions
of years ago they might not, they
could not reasonably be expected to
meet the present conditions, and he
had become too old. and too set in his
ways to readily adjust himself to
them.
No conditions have ever developed
in this country that there was not the
man, or were not the men, ready to
meet them.
This is true of every country that is
young and virile whose men have
distinct sense of right, and are no;
cowed and held in allegiance by age
old precedents.
Therefore fear not dare to do right
as you are given to see the right, ard
yours shall be the reward of the righ-
eous.
In all the history of the world t7S
men who strove to see the right. ano
who dared to do 1t, achieved great re-
nown and brought blessings upoh
those who faithfully supported item.
Erasmus Wilson in Pittsburgh Ga
zette-Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17

II we were told that public sentiment
IN germany or Russia had shifted in a
rev years from a friendly attitude to
one violently hostile, that this change
was deliberately encouraged by at least
section of the government, and with
SINISTER purpose, we would be justified
| IN laughing. When the same charges
are made by men of high standing, as
they are made, against Japan-then il
is time for us to do some serious think
| ing.
1t is charged, and backed up by nu-
merous quotations from Japanese YER
nacuiar and English papers, that there
! Is deliberate campaign going for
ward in Japan to arouse anti-American
sentiment throughout the nation. 1t is
| no news to Americans that there has
been an, increasing. lack of cordiality
| In Japanese-American relations, but
that affairs have come to the point
where the United States is conceived in
/ the popular mind as Japan's active on
ponent and logical enemy does come as
news, and news of a somewhat start
/ ling character.
Side by side with this campaign to
plant hostility against America in
Japan, 1t is charged that a parallel
campaign is being conducted in Amer
lca-a campaign whose object is to
spread abroad in the United States the
idea that Japan cherishes only the
friendliest intentions toward us, a
campaign in other words, to lulI our
suspicious, to discourage any tendency
Americans may have toward making
preparations for a possible emergency.
Thus should the clash come and neither
side give ground, a fiercely inimical
and heavily armed little empire would
have to deal with a big. unready repub-
lie, whose national attitude toward her
antagonist could best have been de-
scribed as one of complete Indifference.
The issue of such a possible conflict
is not pleasant to consider.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17

of the United States do not want the
liquor traffic abolished; they want it
regulated"
Just how the delegates found this
out is not apparent. since they have
been from time immemorial opposed
to anything like a popular test of pub
lie approval of the liquor traffic. If
they are so confident of their ground
there can be no harm in local option,
which is no more or less than a pro-
vision whereby the public may express
its opinion on the liquor question.
The convention will not make pub
lie its plans for combating the local
option campaign. Neither is that sur
prising. If they bear any semblance
to some OF the methods that have
prevailed in former years they would
neither look well in print nor reflect
great credit upon the liquor trade.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
THE BOYS CAMP

ITOHN YATES, of the Associated
Charities, and those active with
him. have done an excellent piece
of constructive work in establishing a
summer camp, where boys who could
not otherwise have q vacation in the
open may spend the hot months ac-
cumulating health and energy for a
winter in town. DIR. James A. Black
who has given a portion of his farm
as a camp site, is also to be com
mended and those who have donated
financial support to the movement
should enjoy their own vacations the
more for the pleasure and benefit their
money has been 10 the young campers.
Next year Mr.. Yates wants to en-
large the camp-and there should be
no question about funds.
1t is a sad thing for any boy to
grow to manhood without a knowl-
edge of the woods and fields and
streams. He who does not know when
and where the first wild flowers bloom
in Spring and where the last hardy
blossoms linger latest in the Fall, who
has not mocked the Bob White call
ing 10 his mate;- who knows not one
tree from another-in short who has
none of the field and forest lore that
is the heritage of every country boy.
has missed something we'll worth
while. There is health, spiritual as
well as physical, in the open. Every
hoy is a good boy, only conditions
make some do the things we call
wicked. They need freedom of action
and plenty of room. The country was
the first nursery and its sons to this
day are rugged and hardy. Getting
back to nature is a fine thing. The
boys camp is a step in that direction.
1t should be encouraged.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
EDITORIAL COMMENT

The visit OF the Deutschland serves
to establish Uncle Sans contention
that he is at all times ready to sell his
goods to anybody who will furnish his
own delivery wagon.-NashvilIe South
'ern Lumberman.
Real sporting hazards are becoming
fewer every day. 1t is estimated that
by January l, 1917, there will be one
motor car to every twenty-five persons
IN the United States. In a few years
there will be nothing left to run over
except dogs and chickens.-Kansas
City Star
The, great art of war is artillery
Philadelphia Record.
IL would seem sensible nowadays to
be willing to fight for a place in the
shade.-Louisville Courier-Journal
Taking his talks into consideration,
ana the grief they cause President Will
son. II is plain that a term on the bench
mas had no effect on the splendid and
unerring aim Mr.. Hughes is directing
against the administration-Cin Il
Tribune.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
Taking the Cue
(PhiladeIphia I,edger)

NEnllduGlpUld IeuBSfJ
AT last Carranza has taken the cue
from Washington and is now charg-
ing the American mining operators
and other American concessionaires
with trying to bring about interVen-
ton by refusing to come back to
Mexico and operate their plants" and
so give employment, food and con-
tentment TO the poems. Really, If the
Mexican situation were not great
tragedy this would read like opera
bouffe of the most humorous kind.
In other words, because the Ameri-
cans will not go back to Mexico TO
have their houses and ranches, mines
and mills looted, their foremen
robbed, their wives attacked and even
their babies killed by bandits whom
the CarranZa government does not
suppress, and with whom II Is in
friendly relations at times, they are
being held accountable by the Car
ranzistas for the distress in the re-
gions concerned, invented so as Ito
bring about intervention" And then
to cap the climax of absurdity these
very men who are wanted in Mexico
to start local prosperity are the ones
the United States government has or
dered out of Mexico on the ground
that their stay was perilous and sus-
picious and spelled Intervention, too.
Moreover, their employment of the
poems has been assailed as "eXploita-
tion," which gave them no right ia
ask protection for themselves or their
property from their own country. So
they are now being damned If they
stay out and damned If they go back.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
@oNSIDERABLE

CONSIDERABLE agitation has
" been aroused recently concern
ing the disappearance of potato
balls which are the fruit of the COM
mon potato. The present varieties
of potatoes were developed from seeds
and after planting from cuttings for
many years are disposed to run out
or become subject to attacks by fungal
diseases so that only a few small tubes
are produced. Several years ago Pro-
fessor Gully, horticulturist of the Con-
necticut Agricultural College offered
twenty-five dollars for a single ball
grown in that State. After wide ad-
vertisement two small balls were pro-
duced. Luther Burbank, of Cali
fornia in answer to inquiries for seed
from his gardens replied that he had
none but that it was plentiful in
Maine. However the department of
agriculture of that State reports that
the balls are seldom found there now.
The origin of the potato plant has
been traced to the highlands in sew
eral parts of South America. In the
natural environment It was distribut-
ed by the seeds and the variation in
characteristics of plants so developed
fitted it for changing conditions OF
climate, soil and competition with
other plants. Since our agriculturists
have been selecting for propagation
tubers from stalks showing greatest
development in that part of the plant
and removing the competition from
other plants the potato has ceased to
produce the unnecessary seed.
Finally when our best varieties of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
KITcHIN AND THE NAVAL BILL
.HAIRMAN KITCHIN, of the Naval
Affairs Committed is already her

A NL1<11LN-h<A-N N11SI11.Nt VI TIE Naval
~ Affairs Committee, is already her
aiding the passage of the big
navy bill as a Democratic triumph.
Before the campaign has crossed the
frost line of early October we may
expect to hear that the navy measure
was fostered and passed by Demo
crats-that it is another feather in
the cap of Mr.. Wilson.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth. President Wilson was driven
to endorsement OF a large navy pro-
gram by force of popular sentiment.
Mr.. Kitchin himself was accused on
the floor of the House of having
turned from the policies of his own
party to those of the Republicans
with respect to warship construction. ,
No. The big navy program is not a
matter of party preferences. A large
majority of the members of all parties
favor such a program as is proposed.
Republicans voted largely for it and
a few against. More Democrats, pro-
portionately. voted against it than did
Republicans. The naval bill can claim
no monopoly of support by any one
party.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17

seems Ii - the only way to prevent
an industrial crash? Have they been
squeezed to the point where they must
either stand or fall on single throw
Of the dice? Or has the President ex-
pressed ''the wish that is virtually a
command" in vain? Altruism is a
splendid quality, but there is such a
1t is question in the minds of many
as to whether 1t is fair to the railroads
to place them in a position of appear
ing entirely responsible for the strike,
II 1t does come. The outcome of the
attempt to arbitrate will mean much
to the immediate and future industrial
expansion of the United States.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
Piratical Submarine Warfare

There is not a naval vessel or a
merchant vessel on the seas, whether
belonging to a belligerent or a neutral
power, whether British or Brazilian
Japanese or American, that would not
be justified in destroying a German
naval submarine on sight. In execut-
ing Captain Fryatt Germany has sane
toned anew this piratical submarine
warfare against which the United
States. as the greatest of neutral ma
tions, to her shame, has taken no
action, ana from which the United
States herself, uttering only words OF
protest. has suffered.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
NV Scheme

My scheme in life is to expect two
or more disappointments every day.,
and then when these disappolntmerts
arrive, I'm not so much surprised.
But do not accept the arrival Ola
disappointment as the end of all cp-
portunity. A disappointment to meis
a test of my ability to overcome a lit
uation.
1 always keep constantly before me
the encouraging thought that have
survived so far, and that I am, per-
haps, better equipped now to meet
disappointments than in the pa@t
The Silent Partner
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
ALTRUIsM TO THE NTH POWER

VXTHEN the President expresses a
w wish 1t is virtually a command, ,"
says C. w. w. Hanger, of the
Federal Board of Mediation and Con-
ciliation. in commenting upon the rail-
road situation and the possibility of
strike prevention through executive
Intervention. In a time of national
danger and in the face of the threat
of industrial ruin embodied in the i'm
pending railroad strike the nation
should have a man at the head who is
able to weigh both sides of the con-
troversy and render a decision which
shall consider well the interests of the
third party, in this case the general
public. There should be Judge in
every dispute and one naturally turns,
in instances like the present, to the
nations head as the final arbitrator.
Are the railroads justified in refus-
ing to accept the final decision which
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
RAVE ON OSCAR

OSCAR UNDERWOOD is raving
~ mad because he believes Presi-
dent Wilson-for political pur-
poses-is about to cast overheard the
Underwood tariff law and go in for
the Republican policy of protection.
Rave on, Oscar! Up and at 'em!
Tell 'em where to get off!
Wasn't the President so proud ot
your free trade tariff bill that he took
two pens to sign it and sent a message
of rejoicing to the people? Didn't he
pat you on the back, oscar, and tel
you what a great man you were?
To he sure he did. Well, If it was g
meritorious bill then it cannot be
meretricious now.
Up and at 'em. Oscar make 'en
explain.