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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
POLITICAL PIFFLE

TT would appear from certain out
givings Of those who are manag-
ing President Wilson's campaign
for reelection that any criticism of
the administration or it's policy must
necessarily be in the nature of treas
on. This sort of thing is hardly worth
serious comment, but it is in line with
the whole attitude of those who have
set out to establish kind of sanctity
of person and thought for the Presi-
dent which nothing in the situation
justifies. The American people are
not disposed to place halos upon the
heads of their public servants and
Woodrow Wilson is not a whit differ
ent in this respect from the big men
House. He must stand or fall upon
his record as a public official, which,
unfortunately for him, is a record OF
incompetence, theoretical experiment
and sectional favoritism.
We have about passed through a
period of hysteria in our national ex-
istence during which the uplifters and
theorists and reformers have man
aged to engulf the country in the
most serious plight that any free peo-
pie could suffer. We are now emerg-
ing from this atmosphere and there is
just ahead solid ground upon which all
classes of our population may stand
firm and secure.
All the piffie about treason involved
in criticism of the President will SIM
ply call attention to the fear of his
managers that they are already upon
thin ice and are likely to break
through at any minute. When ex-Jus-
tice Hughes shall have appeared be-
fore the people in the different sections
of the country they will understand
how wisely the Chicago convention
acted IN placing tAe standard of the
party in his hands. Also the thousands
of Progressives who have rallied un-
der this same banner will help cinch
the campaign of 1916 in favor of Am
erica first and America Efficient"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
The Real Pacihsm

Probably most of our readers regard
President Wilson as a pacifist, but
some critics much doubt his right to
that title. AS the Washington cor
respondent of an orthodox pacifist
newspaper, the New York Evening
Post" very aptly puts it: THE real
pacifist is as interested in preventing
dangerous issues from arising between
nations as he is in settling them amic-
ably when they do arise. Foresight in
Mexico might have saved many troub-
les there. Calm and painstaking ef-
forts to get at the fundamentals of
our relations with Japan admittedly
will do much toward averting the al
legged inevitableness of war between
Japan and the United States. So it is
with the European War" We are liv-
ing in a period when neutrality with
honor must depend upon provision
ary, preparative, and preventive
tatesmanship-not upon an applica-
ton of the philosophy of Mr. Micaw-
Der. The neutral policy must be based
upon reason, not upon mere distaste
for danger. Now the administration S
brand of neutrality has, unfortunately
expressed nothing but the will to be
nationally comfortable from day to
day. This hand-to-m mouth statesman
ship failed to grasp the fundamentals Is
of the German march through Bel
GUM; for true craftsmanship would
have dictated a protest against an in
Vasion Of Belgium, since that cynical
violation of international law and
morality has indirectly affected the en-
tire conduct of the war and neutral
rights. Such a protest might not have
been of any assistance to the Belgians
themselves. Our protest would at least
have expressed any crystallized Amer
lean opinion, and it is to express and
crystalline national sentiment that
leadership is given to those men who
are set over nations. But American
duty would not have ended with the
utterance of such protest any more
than it has actually ended with our
nonotticial succor of suffering Bel
gians. Many of US share Mr.. Hughes
view that the enormous tragedy of the
Lusitania might have been avoided but
for the procrastination of the Bryan
Wilson state policy, which has, in
every instance, waited for the crisis
to develop instead of occasionally fore
seeing and forestalling an event We
do not lay. the moral responsibility for
the sinking of the Lusitania upon Mr.
Bryan and Mr.. Wilson-that guilt is
far too heavy for any but the Kaiser
and his friends to bear-but we can
not forget the failure of American
diplomacy in that case too: a failure
both before and after the event.
Golfers Weekly
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
DISTINCTION, NO DIFFERENCE

TINE White House ponderously cor
rects a statement made by candi-
date Hughes in a speech at
Detroit.
DR." z. Lester Jones, who was ap-
pointed chief of the coast and geodetic
survey service by President Wilson,
is not a veterinary surgeon, it is
announced, but stock breeder.
Here is distinction without much
of a difference.
In other words the White House ad-
mits that DR." Jones is not entitled
even to the title of doctor. He is not
even a professional surgeon. He is
merely stock raiser.
Doubtless Mr.. Hughes will be ready
enough to admit the error. But
some of us may be excused for Won
dering, with so many scientists in the
country we'll trained and fitted for this
exacting and painstaking work of
coast and sea bottom survey, why the
President should have chosen a man
for the place whose highest qualifica-
ton appears to be that he knows an
Alderney from a Jersey and a York
shire from a Virginia razorback.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
THE GROCERs, PICNIC

HARRISBURG grocers are going
/ / to Hershey tomorrow for their
annual picnic. We wish they
had asked us to go along. Think of a
picnic dinner spread from the un-
limited stock of substantials and
dainties slowed away on the miles of
shelves of all the grocery stores in
the city. Appetite gloats over it's
possibilities and the digestive juices
flow in vain contemplation.
There was time when the Sunday
school picnic of our youth stood next
to Thanksgiving or Christmas as a
feast day in the bright calendar of
boyhood's happy year. Then it was
that mother baked and roasted and
spiced and picked for days in order
to have a better table" than that
stuck-up Mrs. Jones, who always
wanted to show off in public. And then
it was that there was no parental
restriction on the quantity or the
combination of good things that went
into our yearning and youthful
stomach.
encouraged by an early breakfast
and violent exercise incident to getting
to the grove, carrying water, climbing
trees, playing ball and kissing
games" we responded with alacrity to
the merry tocsin of the call to dinner.
And what a dinner it was! Cold fried
chicken mountain high, cold boiled
ham, eggs picked in red vinegar, new
apple sauce, pickles and spices enough
to make your head swim, pie, cake
and lemonade in unlimited quantities.
We have been wont to look back
upon those annual occasions as the
par excellence of picnic repasts. But
we take our hat off to the grocers.
With fifty-seven times fifty-seven
varieties to draw upon, with the will
to spread the feast and the appetites
to partake theerof, it is not difficult to
foresee that the Central PENNSYLVANIA
record for "eats" is going to be
smashed all to pieces very early in
the game tomorrow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
The People and Diplomacy

There is going to be a change in
the methods by which nations treat
With each other AS far as England
is concerned her destiny will not be
handed over to diplomats. Whatever
else happens, the people of England
are determined they will not be tied
up by secret treaties any more. The
common people of England are going
to know exactly what they are hghting
for 1t seems to me we are on the
way to seeing the end. of diplomacy.
The age of diplomats is going, If 1t is
not already gone. We have no faith
in diplomats. We do not intend to
go to war when we do not know what
we are fighting for. If the Constitu-
ton of the United States has to be
changed so that the people can decide
whether they will fight or not. and
not put that question in the hands of
diplomats then L am in favor of
Changing the Constitution. The time
has arrived in the history of the world
when international matters will be
required to be referred to the people
themselves. At present our diplo-
macy policy is conductd by the COM
mercial agencies all over the world
J. w. Slaughter at Chautauqua
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6
PUBLIC UTILITIES
THERE is always an outbreak fav-
! orable to governmental owner

THERE is always an outbreak fav-
orable to governmental owner
ship of public utilities when
strikes are impending or a political
campaign is in sight. The threaten
ed paralysis of traffic due to the rail-
way controversy is now the chief ar
gument Of all advocates of govern
ment ownership of railroads in this
country, but when the United States
shall have adopted as a policy the
ownership of its public utilities by the
government at Washington, the states
and the municipalities, we may ex-
pect a gradual disappearance of that
energy and initiative which have been
responsible for the enormous devel-
opment of America. When this ini-
tiative ceases to have any incentive
then we must drop back into the old
world idea of paternalism and gov
ernmental control in every direction.
Great railroad builders have blazed
the way for the opening of the West
particularly and it can hardly be con-
ceived that any government would
have undertaken such enterprises as
have opened the way to the settlement
and development of the great areas
west of the Mississippi river. These
railroad projects demanded courage
and vision and practical common
sense, qualities seldom known in the
organization of governmental activi-
ties.
1t is probable that government own
ership of the railroads and utilities of
the United States is still far in the
distance, notwithstanding the present
Generalization resulting from theoreti-
cal administration at Washington and
incompetency in every department of
the government.
We can readily understand that the
great railroad corporations would
prefer surrendering absolutely to gov
ernment control in preference to sub
mitting to the everlasting nagging that
has characterized the attitude of the
government under the present admin
istration, but the genius of American
progress is not yet dead.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09

every movement in Harrisburg which
helped IN the building of the city.
No one who was present at the big
meeting at Fahnestock Hall which
placed the William Penn Highway AS
sociation on its feet as an organization
will fail to recall the inspiring and
encouraging remarks of Mr. Blough
on that occasion. He was always ready
to do his part and he never shirked
the hard work
He has left us too soon; but he has
given all who knew him real testimony
of the value of community service. His
bigness of heart. his generosity and
his Willingness at all times to aid those
in distress constitute the brightest
page in the story of busy life.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
The Cost of Gasoline

According to the Government report
just issued more crude petroleum was
marketed in this country in 1915 than
ever before in the history of the in
dustry. A great quantity was sent
abroad, good percentage of the re-
mainder was used in the production of
gasoline for which the motor car and
gas engine owners paid the highest
prices on record.
This is a gasoline age, and what the
users wish to know is will the present
prices be continued? The oil pro-
duction of the first six months of 1916,
according to an estimate just made, is
about half of last years. There seems
nothing to indicate that the years
yield will not equal that of 1915. A
hopeful feature of the report is that
the great activity in the industry has
led to the exploration of new fields
and the development of recently dis
covered sources of supply.
The fields in the East, from which
once came almost the entire produc-
ton, have decreased in output. But
in place of them there have been de-
veloped the great wells of the Okla
homa-Kansas, the California and the
Gulf sections. The Oklahoma Kansas
fields are now the greatest centers in
the United States for the production
of crude petroleum. They are produc-
ing more than one-third of the coun-
try's supply. Explorations are under
way in Montana and Wyoming, with
promise of valuable discoveries.
The indications, then, are that the
supply for 1916 will equal that of last
year. The end of the war will open
up the supply in Russia and Rumania.
BY that time, too, the newly discov-
cred fields in South America may be-
come important factors in the oil in
dustry. We have borne much from
the war, and apparently the gasoline
user must still exercise patience. But
If there is no relief when peace comes
he will have a right to insist upon
knowing why high prices continue
New York Sun
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
KEEP YOUR HANDS CLEAN

TINE United States Public Health
Service, in a recent health bull
letin, facetiously observes that
disease germs lead hand to mouth
existence"
There is sense as we'll as humor in
this. If the human race would learn
to keep the unwashed hand away from
the mouth many human diseases
would be greatly diminished. We
handle infectious matter more or less
constantly and we continually carry
the hands to the mouth. If the hand
has recently been in contact with in
fectious matter the germs of disease
may in this way be introduced into
the body.
Many persons wet their fingers with
saliva before counting money, turn
ing the pages of a book or perform.
ing similar acts. In this case the pro-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Col. ]. Warner Hutchins, of Phil
adelphia, is with a party of friends
on a motor tour of the White Noun
tains.
Walton Clark, of the United Gas
Improvement company, is at Ell Paso
where his son, who is in Philadel-
phia regiment, is very i'll.
George X. Johnson, Philadel-
phia insurance man, is protesting
strongly against the federal insurance
tax.
e. E. Robbins, prominent Green's
burg lawyer, is at Atlantic City.
John T. Lenahan, the Wilkes
Barre lawyer, is taking one of his rars
vacations at the seashore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Mexico and Mr.. Wilson having for
mally considered the dispute settled,
that leaves only 9OO00.OOO Americans
still to pass upon the matter. - Boston
Transcript.
There are hundreds of men In
America walking around the streets
who are dead, but have not yet been
buried. Vice Pre- sident Marshall. Oh,
well, they can't all be Presidents.
Wall Street Journal.
The nations liquor bill last year was
certainly a staggering total.-Boston
Transcript.
Exchange of inhabitants by Russia
and Germany is proceeding merrily.-
Wall Street Journal.
Included in the cargo of the Deutsch-
land is a goat once the property of j.
Bull.-Baltimore American.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
HIS PLACE is IN JAIL

TINE man who throws a stone at a
street car should be in Jail. 1t is
to be hoped that Mayor Meals
will put vigorously into force his
threat of drastic punishment for dis
orders of this kind.
The Mayor says that property must
be protected. But more than mere
property loss, serious though that be,
is involved. He who throws a stone
or other missile at a street car en-
dangers the lives of entirely innocent
persons. In almost every public dis
turbance it is the disinterested pedes-
trian who is injured or killed.
The stone-thrower is entirely indif-
ferent to anything but his own pas
sions. He is not a safe man to have
at large and he should be put where
his temper would have ample time
to cool between stone walls and where
he may reflect at leisure on the folly
of breaking the law.
No good was ever accomplished by
attacks on private property. Unques-
tionably, large numbers of people
have been sincerely sympathetic with
the objects of the street car strikers.
But that sympathy will be soon dissi-
pated by continuance of such prac-
tices as those of the past few nights,
when cowardly ruffians, under the
cover of darkness, have jeopardized
the lives of all those who came within
range of their missiles.
Strikers themselves have begged for
the maintenance of order, we'll know
ing that every brick thrown hits their
cause far harder than it hits the com
pany.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
A BUSY LIVE ENpEn

TTTILsoN R. BLoUGH'S life in
Wv this community was a fine ex-
ample of what the poor boy
may accomplish through perseverance,
energy and thrift. But he was more
than merely a successful business man.
''Wilse" Blough was public-spirited
live wire who believed in doing the
things that make for the welfare of
his fellow men and women and chill
dren. He was at the forefront of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
LEARNED OF THE CITY

IQuestions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their
answers as presented at the organiza-
tion's annual Municipal Quiz."1
OF what advantage to the property
owner and tenant is plumbing inspec-
tion?
Plumbing inspection insures that
all plumbing is installed according
to set standards, under the super
vision OF the Plumbing Inspector
Ventilation properly cared for and
health protected against foul gases,
etc.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE

America must be first" says
Hughes, and we wonder what fault
Democrats will find with that.
-"Germans make paper from cot
ton stalks'-newspaper headline.
About time for the Solid South" to
change its mind on the paper tariff.
Five sharks were captured in
Oyster Bay They might have known
better than to venture in there.
The English workmen who de-
mand that Emperor William be
hanged might assist the government
little by helping catch him.
God fights with the faithful" q"
says correspondent to the New York
Sun; yes, but the faithful usually
have the guns with them, too.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09

cess is reversed. the infection being
carried to the object handled, there to
await carriage to the mouth of some
other careless person.
Wash your hands.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
Whom God Correcteth

Behold, happy is the man whom
God correcteth; therefore despise not
thou the Christening of the Almighty:
for he maketh sore and bindeth up
Job V. II and Is.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg manufactures
dozens of varieties of candy for
national trade?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09

One morning Uncle Fred was en-
gagged in shaving himself and his
small nephew was an interested spec
tator
We'll, George" said his uncle,
don't you want me to shave you,
too?''
mo, uncle replied the little fell
low. II don't think my whiskers are
ripe yet"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
Out of Mouths of Babies

What is the meaning of false doc
trine,' Willie?" asked the Sunday
school teacher.
Its when the doctor gives the
wrong stuff to a sick man." replied
Willie.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09

One day little Bert said something
about his knuckles and his 4-year-old
sister asked him what knuckles were.
why" replied the youngster, they
are little elbows on my fingers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

Indian stockades were built on the
York hills in sight of Harris ferry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
OUR DAILY LAUGH

IN A CLASS BY
ONESELF.
You are posi-
lively the worst
dancer I ever
saw.
Well, it is con-
soling to know
that I excel in
that respect at
least
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09

FL. sTACKPOLE.P PreS't and Editor-in-CII.t
3. r. OYSTER, BHsihSSs Manager.
GUS NJ. STEINMETZ, MGnGgiHg Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
MODERN
ROMANCE.

VIII you marry
me, my pretty
maid?
H o w m a II y
cylinders h a S
your automobile,
sir2
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09

The Rev DR.. T. C. Billheimer, who
was taken i'll here a few days ago, is
one of the distinguished men of the
Lutheran church. He has been con-
nected with the Gettysburg seminary
for many years and many prominent
clergymen have taken his lectures.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09

Two men connected with the State
government will go to the Plattsburg
training camp next month. They are
Lew r. Palmer, chief inspector, who
will go into the camp early in Sep
tember, and DR.. B. F. Roger, chief
medical inspector of the department
of Health, who will be with the medi-
cal men,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09

The warm weather appeared to
bump the circulation at the Harris
burg Public Library last month. The
circulation, however, was almost a
thousand ahead of the same month
last year. In July this year there were
$3.50 books circulated, seventy-five
per cent. being fiction, while last July
there were 1866. eighty per cent. be-
ing fiction.
Der taÌˆgliche Demokrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 186?-1918, 1916-04-01

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Re Ganbe 81. crbaltcn, bebiene man
1th fyl9enoer Salbe: 8 l1n5en abges
tGdlte bittere W}oabeln, 1 2i3 ln3en
Mae5., Die 9ptte. BIN pier gierrr, elm
Jiin!te(zsluart peiber Mein. Sies
miro Bel geli1oem Seller unter be-
ltaHoi5em 3ii6ren sefo@t uno na6z
Der In cine 5Aale 9etan. Morsens
uno beS Mbenbs reibe man bic 6dnbe
batn!1 ein.
@egen rou6e 6Gnoe. gor
ieosgmaligem MaIden Der !SdnDe
1DrE:ere mont oieielbeu gut nit
&dfSDI (Gii6DD Elm uno heitdltbe Iie
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fnan Tie etlpas trpden, nimmt banr
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mil9artise 5Iiifiisfeit biloet. Damn
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AaAss sp asai szassses s4asiso sic ssaeat
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Der taÌˆgliche Demokrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 186?-1918, 1916-04-01
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lpprben b%arlluter cin ldoner. straltE
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liden &crla1f batte. Sea, nod Elm
SSabr mebr. - SSH boffen, iu-ndditeu
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Der taÌˆgliche Demokrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 186?-1918, 1916-04-01
&ofaleS.
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Company I'M 9urtis S%pernbalis
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Slltpre uIbe Girl Of Mp Dreams"
geieben laben, iollten allf feil,en SaIl
pcrfeblen, iid Dos bon oerlelben Sc
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Oas belrte Nahmittag nl,o
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Often, pom 1pober Die @eieuldoit mad
Davenport folnmt, crfldrten, BOB oas
Stiif ales friiber bon Ser @eielidaft
Groon5irte 6ei @eitem iibertrifft 1ttb
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ben Sdatten itelt. Die @eielldaft
fitbrt ibr eigcnes Srdeiter nit iid,
nllo oesbalb fallt fir cine taoelloie
Wlllif, Die 20 2ieoer bes b~cfanntel1
&%omponiiten 2ouis M. &irid ein=
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