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The Washington herald., 1916-04-19
HAITI BREAKS LOOSE AGAIN,
Another Revolution Threatens, Fol.
lowing Dissolution of Senate.

Port au Prince Haiti, April Is.-Anoth-
er revolution in Haiti is imminent. The
crisis has been developed by the action
of President Dartiguenave in dlssolving
the senate and creating a council of the
government to draft a new constitution
In conformity with the latest treaty be-
tween the United States and Haiti
Strong opposition has developed, the
president refusing to compromise.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-19
Kaiser Demands Aid From Greece

London, April lS-FolIowtnE the allies
demands for further concessions from
Greece, Germany has aoded 70 the trou-
hles Of that country by putting demand
that submarines be permitted 70 enter
Greek ports for tventy-four hours every
three months and revictual, according "a
The Washington herald., 1916-04-19
Democrats Win in Louisiana.

New Orleans, La, April S-The effort
of John NJ Parker and the National Pro-
gressiye party TO break the solid South
by electing John NJ. Harper. Of New
Orleans. governor Of Louisiana, failed at
the polls today. and Rnfing Pleasant, of
Shreveport. Democrat. was elected BY
probably z, 900 majority.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-19

MRS. GEORGE THATCHER
GUERNSEY. State regent Of the
Kansas D. A. R. and candidate for
president-seneraI.
The Washington herald., 1916-04-19

There are several kinds Of warts. some
contagious. The scientific name Of the
most common is verruca vUlgaris.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-03
In compliance with the peremptory
ANOTHER COUNTY DRY
[Pittsburgh Gazette Times.

The drying up of Mercer county is
notable because, like Crawford, it was
not brought about as the direct result
of an election based upon the liquor
issue. Judge McLaughry had given
no pledges and made no promises.
His sweeping decision may therefore
be taken simply as his carefully con-
sidered conclusion that, in view of
all existing conditions, the county of
Mercer would be better off without sa-
looms. 1t cannot but be regarded as
a manifestation of the spirit of the
times and a reflection of the general
trend in the direction of temperance
worthy that the judge had reached
the position which made him the ar
bitter of the county's destinies in the
matter of drink in such manner as to
leave him entirely unhampered in
consideration of the subject. He stood
upon his own feet. His campaign for
the judgeship was made at his own
expense and he neither asked nor re-
ceived the organized backing of either
side on the license question. Conse-
quently when license court fell due
he was able to approach the subject
with no personal feeling in the prem
ises except to arrive at such decision
upon the merits of the matter as
would best conserve the interests and
welfare of his county. That he has
ruled wisely and we'll is no more to
be doubted than that the results ac-
cruing from his ruling will rebound to
the lasting benefit and we'll being of
those within reach of his Jurisdiction.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-03
MARJoRIEs BA1TLEsHIP

TINE Honorable Josephus Daniels
doesn't take kindly to the idea
of a battleship built by popular
subscription, but don't let little thing
like that prevent you from sending in
your contributions. The Honorable
Josephus will be back running his
little old newspaper long before the
battleship is ready for the launching.
Beside, there is current rumor to the
effect that on many other things the
Honorable Josephus is given to the
entertainment of ideas that make
naval officers laugh in their handker-
chiefs when they are not behind the
door "cussing."
Just why the Honorable Josephus
ten million dollars is not known.
Heaven knows his democratic friends
are searching desperately enough for
money with which to carry out their
preparedness program, at the same
time not cutting too deeply into the
regular ration of pork, and one might
imagine they would be willing to go
even to the limit of giving their own
personally picked President a vote of
confidence in return for a tidy little
sum like ten millions; so we will VEN
ture the guess that the Honorable
Josephus doesn't have even the sup
port of his colleagues at Washington
in his objections to the fund.
And who knows what tide of battle
Marjorie's battleship may turn? Who
knows at what critical juncture she
may be thrown into the balance to
decide whether or not this country of
ours is to be invaded by foreign foe :?
No. there can be no good argument
against the battleship fund. The
United States is fortunate to have
boys and girls ready and willing to
help in it's work of defense, and good
ness knows we need the ship.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-03
PRAISE OF RED HEADS
kansas City Times. ]

"To be red headed is signal
honor" said Bishop w. A. Quayle in
a speech last week. The good bishop
is red headed himself, and he was ad-
dressing the Hamline University Red
heads Club. He pointed out that all
the angels painted by the old masters
had red hair.
The list of red heads who did great
things is a long one. julius Caesar,
world genius, was red headed. So
was Robert Bruce, and so was Queen
Elizabeth. 1t is reputed that Helen of
Troy. Dido, Cleopatra and Alexander
the Great were red headed 1t was
said of Thomas jefferson that he had
the reddest head in Albemarle coun-
ty"
Swinburne the poet, John Bunyan,
author of "Pilgrim's Progress" Schil-
Ter the poet. all had polls of blazing
red and in our own day we have. to
keep Bishop Quayle company, Ber-
nard Shaw, Victor Murdock, Cover
nor Stubbs, ]. Ham Lewis, yes and
Bob" Fitzsimmons.
Judge Wofford, for many years
judge of the criminal court of this
city, used to say that he never knew
a red headed criminal. DR.. Il. l.. Ma
thias, chief probationary officer of our
Juvenile court, asserted in a speech
recently that he never knew a boy
Will Ieu udlI ~ pe lllIleItIllly Dau ;
and it is an old saying that there are
no red headed men in the. peniten-
tiary. OF course, this may be merely
coincidence, but it is here offered
to the red heads for what it is worth.
Red headed persons have always
been reputed to be quick tempered
and ready to fight at the slightest
provocation. Red haired people be
folke that are to drede,'' runs a pre-
cept of the Fifteenth Century; and an
old French proverb says: Salute nc
red haired man nearer than thirty
| feet off, and even so, hold three stones
in thy fist wherewith to defend thy
self"
| Arthur S. Hoffman, editor of Ad-
venture Magazine, may have this
adage in mind in his attempt to re-
cruit a regiment of red haired men
to be ready to defend this country il
attacked. Already enough red heads
have applied to make it certain the
regiment will be recruited.
1t will be safe to wager that If this
red headed regiment ever goes to wal
1t will be beard from, whether Bishop
Quayle goes with it or not.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-03
TEUTONIC DIPLOMACY
philadelphia Public Ledger. ]

Austria makes a characteristic re-
ply to the protest of the United States
against the attack on the American
steamship Petrolite. According to the
summary given out at Washington
the contention is that the commander
of the submarine thought the Petro-
lite was going to attack him. that he
feared she was an enemy ship flying
the American flag and that her skip
per furnished the supplies ''voluntar-
ily." There is no occasion to comment
at length upon the absurdity of all
this. The significant point is the
revelation of the methods of Teutonic
diplomacy. The Lusitania was attack
ed because she carried mythical guns,
the Arabic because she was trying to
ram with her stern a submarine her
officers did not even see, and so on
down the whole list of outrages. If
the policy of frightfulness is resumed.
1t will make no difference whether a
merchantmen is armed or not; there
will be guns visible to the imagin-
alton, if not to the eye. Entirely
apart from questions of international
law, that is a sufficient reason for re-
fusing to recognize any distinction be-
tween armed and unarmed merchant
men. The only safe ground, in short,
for the Administration to take is the
ground it originally took-that the
whole business is an offense against
civilization which is not to be toler-
ated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-03

charge of the government of the
islands, one of the surest tests of
their spirit and their ability will be
the way they carry on the education
OF the lfugaos and the Mangyans.
The Filipino himself often displays
a Keen appetite for knowledge. There
are two higher schools at Manila with
a combined enrolment of over twelve
hundred, as well as the University of
the Philippines. The latter institu-
ton is very popular, but most of the
young Filipino college men take
courses in letters and the fine arts.
In the present stage of development
OF the country, it would be much bet
ter If they cared more for the sciences
and engineering.
In the lower schools, a very sue
cessful feature is the work in manual
training. 1t is no mere side line,
more or less of a mere novelty, as it
is In the United States. An old Span
ish friar many years ago said that
the brains of the Filipinos are in their
fingers. They are deXterous in the
most delicate operations to a high
degree. Hence the manual training
work produces some fine results, with
true professional finish unlike the
patiently amateurish products usually
turned out by such departments In
these manual training rooms may be
lOullutu new INDUSTRIES iOT the lSldDuS.
The lace-making work has been
greatly stimulated
One of the most important works of
the Bureau of Education has been
the way it spread the propaganda of
the Bureau of Health. The Health
Bureau work in the Philippines is as
fundamentally important as the same
work in the Canal Zone, and the re-
suits achieved have been as great.
We found the islands in a state of
almost unbelievable uncleanliness,
swept periodically by all the plaques
of Egypt, and every step forward was
made against forces of ignorance and
superstition. There were n few edu-
Gated and intelligent natives who real
lied that conditions needed bettering
but that was about as far as they got
The Health Service fought the
cholera until instead of sweeping away
a third of a city, the plague took
only a few hundred victims. On one
occasion the people of Manila would
not believe that the cholera was
among them because the deaths were
so few. There are still outbreaks at
intervals, but the machinery for fight
ing the disease is so we'll organized
that the old panics at its approach
are thing of the past. The bubonic
plague has been put down by cam
paigns of rigorous sanitation, and a
strict quarantine system. All this
work is being done among a people
who used to close every window
tightly at highland still do, very
often-because they believe in an evil
spirit that wanders around in the
darkness.
The work against smallpox has
been carried on by means of extern
sive vaccination, with results even bet
ter than were hoped for. Some of the
nj HHri1J f,.{l
won over by means of cures that
seemed to them miraculous. The
whole record of sanitary work is one
for the United States to be proud of
but it cannot be regarded as fin
ished. 1t has not reached the stage
where it will run along on it's own
momentum.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-03
sTEELToNs PARK PLANS

N COMMITTEE from the Munich
IA pal League of Steelton will re-
quest the borough council, at
sts meeting Monday evening, to create
the once Of superintendent of parks
and Fairgrounds.
This is another move in the right
direction and the Municipal League
has the proper idea of how to go about
obtaining an adequate system of play
grounds for the borough and extern
Eions to its park system.
Steelton, with a population well
above 10000, is large enough to have
a man employed regularly in direct
Eng activities on its athletic field and
looking after the establishment and
upkeep of Fairgrounds.
Although the borough, at the pres
ent time. despite it's cosmopolitan
population and peculiar Industrial
conditions which make recreation
facilities for its youth especially
desirable, has no Fairgrounds, it is
making rapid strides toward solving
this big problem.
Through the generosity of the
Pennsylvania Steel Company a large
field on Cottage Hill is available for
use as an athletic field. Football and
baseball grounds are laid out there,
but its use as a playground is ham
pered by the lack of equipment. The
borough, however, has no public ten
mis- courts, nor are there any places
In the thiclkly populated foreign sec
tions where youth may play un-
restricted.
To remedy these conditions the
Municipal League has been conducting
q campaign of education and making
comprehensive plans. In "A full-page
feature in the Telegraph last Fall
members of the League outlined the
possibilities of the borough along
these lines and it is now doing its
utmost to induce council to cooperate
In making these plans a reality.
Already much has been done with
Luther r. Kelker Park. Council has
shown itself very willing to do its
share. 1t has ordered the grading of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-03
PHILIPPINE PROBLEMS
Teaching and Cleaning Up
By Frederic ]. Haskin
a FFAIRs in the Philippines are

A FFAIRS in the Philippines are
n going through a critical period.
The complex system of educa-
tion and administration that we built
up is getting its final test. We know
that the organization is efficient, that
it will work. We have still to find
out what effect it's workings have on
the mass Of the Philippine people;
in how far they are willing or cap
able of receiving it's benefits.
There is the question of the Eng
lish language, for instance. The
whole school system of the islands has
been making every effort since it's in
ception to teach it's little brown pu-
pills the tongue of their new country.
English to-day is more generally un-
derstood than Spanish ever was,
though Spain held the Philippines for
centuries. You can get about the
islands more easily speaking English
than with any one of the Filipino
dialects. 1t would seem that the Eng
lish-teaching campaign has been a
great success, and this is undoubtedly
the case to a great extent Yet there
are intelligent Americans who believe
that the lower-grade school work
should be carried on in the native
dialects.
They say that the many thousands
classes only go to school for a few
years They spend most of that time
learning the new language. Then
they go home, take up their native
dialect again, and forget what English
they knew. According to this theory
it would be better to take them for
the limited time at the teachers dis
general instruction as possible in
their own tongue. Thus they could
get something out of the school that
they would retain.
The weight Of opinion in the islands
is against such q course. There is no
literature worth mentioning in any
Filipino dialect. There are none of
the works of information, or books on
how to do things, that English is rich
in. In a word, the English language
as a tool is incomparably superior to
any native dialect, and even if the
majority never make use of it, any
step forward establishing it is a step
in the right direction. But the mere
fact that such a dispute exists, shows
that the school question is not solved.
Admitting this, there is no doubt
as to the remarkable work done by
the Bureau of Education. 1t is the
bureau nearest the people. Many OF
the other bureaus have to work
through it. 1t teaches over half a mill
lion pupils, and employs nine thousand
Filipino teachers. 1t has done more,
perhaps, to establish friendship and
confidence between the people and the
government than any other single in
fluence. Yet we cannot regard it's
work as done, its future as a mere
matter of routine development. The
permanence of its results has yet to be
established. The present school sys-
tenn cannot accommodate more than
half Of all the children nf school apa
in the islands.
The education of the hill tribes Is
just beginning. They present n prob
lem much more difficult than the civ
ilized Filipino. Shy, savage, super
stitious, they have to be humored and
coaXed, with infinite patience and toll
erance. If the Filipinos are given
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-03
DEFINING THRIFT

THOSE in charge of the High
School and Technical High school
essay contests conducted recently
under the auspices of the Harrisburg
Rotary Club say that some of the
boys and girls who were required to
write confessed that. they did not
know even the definition. of Thrift -
the topic in. question. But they know
now. and if 1850 of them, the number
that prepared essays, have been
brought to think only temporarily of
the Importance of saving, much good
has been accomplished.
Chancellor David Starr Jordan, de-
hned thrift as "a determination to live
with a margin for future advance
ment; to earn little more than one
spends or to spend a little less than
one earns, getting meanwhile the
value in strength, in satisfaction or
in other worthy return for the money
one feels free to spend"
"The spirit of thrift" he said, 'fs
opposed to waste on the one hand
and to recklessness on the other. II
does not involve stinginess, which
is an abuse of thrift. nor does it re-
quire that each item of savings
should be a financial investment.
The money that is spent in the .edu-
cation of ones self or of ones fam
lily, in travel, in music, in art. or In
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-03
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

George Wharton Pepper has been
elected chairman of the Philadelphia
branch of the Security League.
james A. McLaughrey, the Mer-
Ger Judge, who made that county dry,
was elected last Fall after a hot fight.
Director George L. Datesman, or
Philadelphia Public Works. was
among the speakers at the road con-
gress in Pittsburgh yesterday.
p. n. Morton, head of the State
Library Association, is presiding at
the meeting of Librarians at the sea-
shore.
DIR. e. S. Deubler, of Narberth,
has been elected president of tho
Pennsylvania Berkshire Association.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-03
CORES CHARGES

! CENATOR GORE not only did the
- President of the United States
grave injustice in the Senate yes
terday. but ne lowered the dignity of
the whole country and endangered our
friendly relations with Germany when
he gave an unverified and unbeliev-
able rumor as reason for the intro
duction Of his resolution warning
Americans off armed merchantmen.
The senator said he based his action
on the rumor that President Wilson
have the country go to war with Ger
many at this time We in the United
States know this to be false. However
much he has erred in his methods, it
cannot be said that President Wilson
has been desirous of plunging America
into the European slaughter. If he
had been looking for an excuse for
taking up the cudgels with the inn
perial government he would have
found 1t long ago. for Germany has
provoked this nation almost TO the
point of desperation.
So the senator's speech, which was
followed by an immediate and en-
phatic denial by the President, will
have little effect here at home, but
with feeling infiamed against us in
Germany. it may do unlimited harm
there. Senator Cores speech is mex
cusable on any grounds. 1t has no
precedent in the history of the Senate.
1t was worse than a blunder. It was
wicked as we'll as stupid. 1t is the
pinnacle of Democratic folly as exem-
plfied at Washington during the three
years of the present administration
disastrous course.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-03
WHY NOT HERE?

a CCoRDING to an official an
n nouncement made at Altoona
yesterday, the P nnsy V ania
Railroad Company will build a new
station for that city and to replace
the venerable Logan House, famous
as hostelry since Civil War days,
The railroad company will give
its moral support to erect a modern
hotel.
If in Altoona, why not in Harris
burg, which is far more in need of
a large hotel than is Altoona? We
rejoice with the Mountain City in its
good fortune, for the Pennsylvania
Railroad never speaks without first
having assured itself of its ability to
perform, but won't some generous
citizen or corporation please come for
ward with a similar offer for Harris
burg?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-03

a new street into the park tract to
make it accessible from all parts of
the borough and has repeatedly sent
borough employees into the park to
help clear away bushes and make the
tract real beauty spot.
Council should now. go one step
further and adopt the Leagues recon-
mendations TO appoint a competent
man to direct the plans for establish
ing Fairgrounds and to handle the
mass of detail that will be necessary
to get the proposed recreation places
we'll developed.
Money spent in this manner will be
well invested and will help as much
as anything else to attract people to
take up their residence in the
borough.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-03
THE SEARCHLIGHT
BEAVERS HOLD UP TRAINS

Trains We're held up a number of
times this winter on a Wisconsin rail
road by heavy floods. Investigation
showed that the floods are due to large
dams constructed by the beavers in
habiting one of the smaller rivers. 1t
took ten blasts of dynamite to destroy
one of their dams and it was rebuilt
within three weeks. 1t was necessary
to secure special permission from the
Conservation commission of the State
before using the dynamite. One of the
dams destroyed was over a mile in
length. The solidity of its masonry
surpassed that of many man-made
structures. A petition is now being
circulated asking the State authorities
to capture the beavers and remove
them to some locality where they can
be confined
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-03
IN MEXICO

TIME announcement that Felix
Daz has left the United States
for Mexico recalls his prediction
that the recognition of Carranza would
not bring peace to Mexico and that
Carranza would be powerless to re-
store order in the country Whether
or not Diaz means TO organize a
revolution against the present govern
ment is not known, but If he does it
Mexico as no other one man knows
it and the power of his name would
draw many to his standard should he
decide to take up arms.
At all events, the prospect of early
peace in Mexico is most discouraging.
The Wilson administration policy, or
lack of it, in respect to that country
has left it in worse condition than
1t was when Madero was slain.
Neither we nor the Mexicans have
profited by the sacrifice of American
lives at Vera Cruz and the record of
events in that country during the past
three years is written on the blood
slaughtered by the hundred to make
Carranza holiday. Failure has
marked the efforts of our Statesmen"
at every turn.
Our sympathies go out to that
sturdy and able Pennsylvania, Henry
Prather Fletcher, who succeeds to the
United States Enthusiastically in that
troubled country. In the language
of the street he is going to have
Ssome Job"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-03
YOUNG AMERICANS

[Theodore Roosevelt IN Scribner's1
The two boys were untiring; nothing
impaired their energy. and no chance
of fatigue and eXertion, at any time
of the day or night, appealed to them
save as an eXhilarating piece of good
fortune. At a time when so large a
section of our people, including es-
pecially those who claim in a special
sense to be the guardians of cultiva-
ton, philanthropy and religion, delib-
erately make a cult of pacifism, pol
troonery, sentimentality and neu-
rotic emotionalism, it was refreshing
to see the fine. healthy, manly young
fellows who were emphatically neither
too proud to fight" nor too proud to
work, and with whom hard work
and gentle regard for the rights of
others, and the Joy of life, all went
hand in hand.