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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-15

Dark were the clouds that hung over the Hungarian parliament when it reconvened, and red gleamed the anger of the people against the gov ernment.' as reflected by a large DOT ton of the house. A constant chorus and refrain, "Abdicate! Resign! Get out. You have betrayed the father land!" greeted Premier Tisza in what was one of the widest and most tumultuous sessions in years, even in the most uncommonly tempestuous Hungarian parliament. The Karoly1, Apponyi, Justh and Andrassy parties but more especially Karolyi and Justh, hurled accusation after accusation at Tisza that the Hungarian nation had been deceived and misled as to the imminence of the Roumanian entrance into the war and charged that the gov- ernment and it's diplomacy had been the dupe of Roumanian cunning, which had brought so much misery, suffering and loss to the people of the richest sections of Hungary, where thousands of refugees were suddenly compelled to flee before the unex- pected invasion when resting secure under Tisza' S, assurances of Aug. "A. Count Czerin, the Austro-Hungarian minister at Blkharest, was. called a traitor Count 6Tisza, for his part. frankly admitted that every branch in the government, diplomatic and mili- tary, had been misled and deceived by Roumanian. He fell back upon the reliance placed in a kings word" and expressed the hope that with Gods help Roumania would not es- cape its fate" Count Tisza appealed for unity on the part of the Hungarian people in this grave hour and in that was seconded by Counts Apponyi and Andrassy despite their scathing criti- 'ciSm.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-15
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL L

Mrs. Thomas Hood Macdonald of Fairfield avenue, will give a dance this evening in the Brooklawn Country club in honor of Miss Margaret Mac dona1d's house guests, the Misses Marion Brown of Denver. Col, Louise Smith of Pittsburgh, Asahel Hotch- kiss of New York and Doane Anderson of Springfield, Mass. The guest list includes the younger members of so- ciety and @ number of out of town young persons have been invited. The ball room will be decorated in dark green and a New Haven orchestra will furnish the music
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-15
BRIEF NEWS NOTES


 An ammonia tank being tested in the plant of the interstate MIX & Cream Co.,. at Newark. exploded, caus- ing the death of six men.
 Charles E. Hughes will leave Mon- day for a speaking tour of Illinois. Michigan. Wisconson, Indianc. Ohio, New Jersey and New York. Republican politicians in Troy have made up a pool of s100,000 to bet at odds of 10 to that Gov Whitman will be reelected.
 For the first time since the begin ming of the war German soldiers at the front have been allowed to cast their ballots on affairs at home
 ADVERTISR IN THE FARMER
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-15
PERSONAL MENTION

J. J. Meyer, the Fairfield avenue ton-
 sorial artist. has invaded New York state on fishing expedition. He ex- poets to spend a week, motoring to the most inviting streams and lakes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-15

Gold to the amount of $10,0O0,000 has been received from Canada and depos
 ited at the Assay Office for the &C., count of J. P. Morgan & Co.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-15

About oneaf Hospital Main Street
 clear through Madison Avenue ridge of land overlooking Long Island Sound Burnsford Avenue has been constructed here.
 paved of highest engineering skill and artistic ceptOn The biggest best highway north North
  RestriciOns-on and " piece. Warrantee Deed given first payment of $2O0. Not low lot-most of them arranged for terracing: fully graded fifty Corner lots Eight Hundred and Fifty Dollars Send for saesman-or both On the ground OF at Street
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-15

ed to their soundness of mind and nerve"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-15

ADVERTISE IN THE FARMER
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-29
DON'T QUIT, MIR. PERKINS

NEORGB w. PERKINS has writ
IT ten letter to Samuel A. Per-
kins, in which he lays undue
emphasis upon the fact that they are
not connected by blood and in which
he says that he would not seek to be-
come Secretary of the Treasury in
case Colonel Roosevelt should be made
President through a Republican nomi-
nation. He goes even further, and
says that he would be willing to re-
tire altogether from political activity
if that would ensure the Coloners
election.
All this does Mr.. Perkins great
credit; and, having gone thus far, he
should find it by no means difficult to
take another step. 1t should now be
easy for Mr.. Perkins to write another
letter saying that he intends to con-
tinue in politics and that he intends
to do everything in his power to aid
in the election of the nominee of the
Republican convention, whether that
man be Colonel Roosevelt or some
body else. Mr.. Perkins has repeat
edly declared that he is in politics
only for the benefit which he may be
able to render to the country. He
. can do no higher good for these
United States than by following the
course we have outlined.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-29
HONOR AMONG CRIMINALS
BY Frederic J. Haskin

is paroled a short time before his SEN
tence expires, the case has a different
complexion. He is put on his honor.
The law is making him a gift of his
freedom; he leaves the prison under a
certain obligation to society. If he
has any sense of duty or fairness-as
plenty of such men have-such a
course is likely to touch it. And So
ciety does this at comparatively little
risk to itself, at an Investment prac-
tically negligible. The man is due to
be freed in a short time anyway. If
he comes out on the first of May or
the first of August is a minor consid-
GRAFTON. The important thing is his
attitude toward the law and the COM
munity when he does come out.
Such a system, of course, requires
an organization of some sort to keep
track of the paroled men. and here
Mr.. Reid's Office of secretary enters
the game. The Prisoners Aid Asso-
citation has a small but efficient squad
of probation otficers-three, to be eX-
act-and when one OF their charges
does not report himself one of the Of
tcers OF the secretary goes and looks
him up.
Quite different type of the paroled
convict is the one which Mr.. Reid
speaks of as the exceptional" man.
He is the sort that is not a criminal
type at all, but who has been forced
across the line of the law by some
kink of circumstance. Keeping him
In prison is a double loss to the COM
lmunity, because he probably has the
making of a useful citizen, on the one
hand, and he certainly has the making
of dangerous one if the wrong influ-
ences work too long.
Such a case was that of a trained
technical man, who forged a So check
while he was exceedingly hard up,
against the account of a man who
owed him money. The act, of course,
was criminal, and the prison sentence
perfectly just; but that the man him
self was not "A criminal Mr. Reid has
proved by getting him paroled. He
is now earning $1,000 a year in a COM
munity where his record is not known,
and leading a model life. Meanwhile,
the Association keeps an eye on him
to see that he does not abuse his priv
ileges.
| Such cases are of course in the mi
nority. Mr.. Reid is highly practical
person, and does not expect to make
silk purses out of sow's ears. A good
many of the people with whom he has
to deal are detectives, weaklings, mis-
fits generally. If they can succeed in
scraping up an honest living. however
humble, the Association is more than
repaid for occasional backsliders.
The paroled men do not belong to
the most tractable class of society,
and occasionally show savage rebellion
against the system of supervision. The
association keeps track of them as
gently as possible, for there is nothing
they resent so much as the feeling that
they are only free on the end of a
string, liable to be Jerked up at any
moment. Regular reports, however,
are absolutely necessary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-29
Thoughts On Male Attire
TGa1IinoIio Tribnpa1

A problem of conduct confronted us
the other day when a proud father
related to us one of his exploits. 1t
carried us back to our boyhood when
! we were eXtravagantly delighted be-
cause our feet had grown to proper
tions which enabled us to wear fathers
castoff boots. We remembered also
the pleasure that was ours when
mother by shipping off about four
inches from the tails of one of fathers
frock coats, made it suitable for our
uses. 1t had two pockets in the tails,
two inside breast pockets, and an out
side pocket; and we were interested
in pockets in those days. So were our
envious companions.
But to return to our subject: This
| father had a suit of clothes which
irritated him. 1t scratched his skin
through his B. V. DIS, and with grin
ming generosity he presented 1t to his
ness, and with it the itch that it starts
up. What do you think of that? Was
/ ii treating the boy right? Or should
the father have said this?-
MY son: Here is an expensive and
glad suit of clothes. I cannot wear it
because of the penetrating quality of
the wool from which it is woven. It
sets me crazy with itching. l give it to
you. along with dollar to buy you a
bottle of shellac, with which I advise
you to paint your body whenever you
wear 1t. Bless you, my SOM"
While we are on the subject of
clothing, we wonder how many peo-
pie in Gallipolis remember when a
prominent citizen, then a youngster
came home from college in tall silk
hat, a bobtail coat and a pair of the
noisiest trousers that ever happened ?
This man, who is the same father who
gave his son the scratchy suit. had no
way to carry his dress hat but on his
head, and there 1t perched the most
conspicuous thing on the train except
his trousers. which were a startling
black and white check, visible 900
yards away. They were the talk of
the town during vacation. Later they
were used to renew O checker board.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-29
THE WAITE VERDICT

TIME verdict finding DIR. Arthur w.
Waite guilty OF murder in the
first degree will meet with gen.
eral approval. The elaborate defense
prepared and the introduction of "ex-
pert" testimony on behalf of the de-
fendant led to the popular fear that
there might be an effort to create a
second Thaw hasco. That the verdict
was extreme and prompt, as the evil
dence warranted, is due in large part
to the preparedness of the prosecution
and the readiness with which 1t met
every contention raised by the oppo-
sition.
Insanity has become such a COM
mon court plea that it cannot be toll
Grated unless the conditions are such
as to convince the lay mind without
the laid" of expert" testimony. In
deed the expert" has come into dis
repute in the courts as a witness in
murder cases. 1t has been shown that
this sort of assistance can be pur-
chased for any prisoner who has the
money and that upscrupulous physi-
clans will aid in building up any kind
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-29
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Chicago social workers demand ST.
100000 for a new Jail. The idea is a
good one, although it must be confessed
that the present establishment shows
no falling off in patronage.-Chicago
Herald.
Considering what the Crown Prince
has done to the Germans at Verdun,
the Turks should receive with appre-
hension the news that one of the Kais-
ers sons will join their forces shortly
New York Evening Sun.
A health and beauty expert was
among the speakers at the ladies' mill
tary- service camp at Washington. The
members evidently have no intention of
abandoning the old method of making
conquests for the new.-Chicago Her
aid.
What's one Congressman's pork is
another Congressman pie.-Boston
Transcript.
John Bull still seems to be paying
more attention to our letters than to
our notes.-Columbus State.
The Kaiser asks too much of the
President in confidently" expecting
him to make "all' the belligerents obey
the rules of humanity IN war. There is
the Kaiser's ally. the Turk; how can
the President control him?-Richmond
Times-DispatCh.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-29
THE CHURCH BEIL

VTTHY has the church bell gone
w out of fashion? Has the close
ly-built city relegated it to the
realm of unnecessary things, that so
few new churches are so equipped?
The old church bell was-and is
an influence for good in the commun-
ity within the sound-radius of its
brazen throat. II is the final note of
peace and simple. sweet content in
the small town or countryside on a
sunlit, blueskied, smiling Sabbath
morning; it's mellow tones floating out
on the gentle breeze, summoning the
devout to worship and haunting the
.consciences of the laggards and the in
different with the conviction that they
have ignored a duty and a service.
No man is beyond the influence of a
church bell. 1t is the voice of God in
the land-soothing and sweet to those
who obey its summons; a melancholy
reminder a stirring challenge or a
strong, condemning voice to those out
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-29
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
FREE BAND CONCERTS

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Will You kindly give space in your
paper TO the following:
| notice that the Sons of Italy band
has volunteered to give band con-
cert on Memorial Day in Reservoir
Park. This is encouraging to the park
going and music loving public of Har-
risburg and Professor Cirillo and the
mem bers of his organization deserve
the thanks of the community for their
generous offer of entertaining the pub
! lie who will lay aside all daily cares
on this day to do honor to the heroes
of the civil war.
But we must not forget that we
have other bands in the city who will
also give their services for the enter
tainment of the public on similar oc-
casions. but we cannot expect the
members of these bands, who toll all
day and attend rehearsals at least
twice a week, to give their services
free for the entire summer season. AS
in the cases of business and profess
ional men, it costs a large amount of
money and consumes a great deal of
time in preparation for their various
callings. so it is with the members of
1.-THE bands and the citizens cannot
expect too much of them.
without a question we should have
free band concerts for Harrisburg.
Last year fourteen concerts were given
at Reservoir Park and it is estimated
that forty thousand persons were in
attendance. These were made pos
sble by the generosity of about one
hundred public spirited citizens who
contributed $1,067.54. Our citizens
are willing to contribute the necessary
funds and we have the bands in Har-
lrisburg who can produce the music
without engaging bands from other
cities. Let the merchants know you
are spending their money at home and
they will gladly contribute.
In years gone by our faithful public
servant, Mr.. V. Grant Forrer, was in
strumental in providing these concerts
and now that he has returned to his
former place in the Park Department
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-29
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

District Attorney r. II. Jackson,
of Allegheny county, has taken per-
sonaI charge of the prosecution of the
men arrested for the rioting which
caused the National Guard to be called
out.
DIR. w. A. Granville, president of
Gettysburg. was one of the Pennsyl-
vanians at the League for Peace meet
ing in Washington.
w. f. Bittenbender. of Scranton,
was elected one of the directors of the
State association of men who deal in
iron and steel and heavy hardware.
Milo G. Conlin has been selected
for postmaster at Duquesne. He is
well known to Allegheny countians.
Col. John Gribbel, president of the
Philadelphia Union League, will ad-
dress the Baptist Social Union in Phil
adelphia To-day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-29

we see no reason why he should not
revive his activities along this line.
Who can remember the good old days
when the school children had for their
yell I'VE Want Forrer." These same
children are now yelling I'VE Want
Free Band Concerts"
Mr. j. II. Troup, when approached
last year on the subject, said: IT don't
know anything that would be more
popular with the masses and the class
es and anything that could be more
beneficial to the Harrisburg people
than just few thousand dollars spent
each summer for these entertain
ments."
To provide these concerts it is nec-
essary that an organized effort be
made to collect the funds and see to It
that they are spent judiciously. If
this is done the citizens will cheerfully
contribute.
CLARENCE o. BACKENsTOSS.
May 27th, 1915.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-29
TTOW would you like to have two
n thousand assorted law breakers Il

TTOW would you like to have two
II thousand assorted law breakers
- - and criminals running at large
under your general supervision?
That is the job that belongs to
Charles d. Reid, secretary of the Pris-
oner's Aid Association of the State of
Maryland. This is a peculiar Prison
er's Aid Association. 1t handles the
problem of the convict in its own way,
which is by giving MIN his freedom
and taking his word of honor for his
good behavior.
Like most organizations that have a
clean-cut policy and a personality of
their own, the Prisoners Aid Associa-
ton centers around one man. That
man is Charles ID. Reid, who is not on
ly secretary of the association, but also
president of the advisory board of pa
role of the State of Maryland.
Mr.. Reid's two offices give an idea of
the way his work is regarded by the
authorities, and the way he can go
about it. The Prisoners Aid organi-
cation grew out of an old society whose
original purpose was simply to do what
| it could for discharged prisoners. 1t
started out by Offering them a tempor-
larry home and assistance in finding
work. AS its influence and its efficiency
became apparent, the authorities be-
gan to give it the task of keeping an
pended sentence on parole or on pro-
baton, thus giving it a chance to work
on man before he was a discharged
prisoner instead of aTterward To-
day the association is keeping track of
two thousand men who are on their
honor and their good behavior. Prac-
tiCally all of them keep their promises.
As president of the parole board, Mr..
Reid can select the men whom he
thinks will make good if they have a
chance, and recommends them for a
parole. Then in his other capacity
as very active secretary of the Prison
ers' Aid organization, he keeps a watch
on his selections and sees that they
stay in the right road. The secret of
his success is now obvious. There is
no cooperation so smooth and COM
plete as that of man who in one ca
pacity co-operates with himself in an
other.
Most of the men thus paroled make
good. The parole system properly APP
piled can be a great thing not only Tor
the convict but for society. Mr.. Reid
points out a feature of it that is prone
to be overlooked. That is the great
difference in attitude between the man
paroled and the man discharged. lie
| is serving his first term perhaps, and
| is within a few weeks or months OF
the end of it. If he serves it out to
! the last day, he leaves prison feeling
that he owes nothing to society. He
has paid the price for his wrong-do-
ing, paid it in fun, and, he probably
thinks, a little bit over. The books
are balanced, and the only thing that
operates to keep him straight is the
! fear of another sentence-neVer a very
potent influence, as our full prisons
prove.
On the other hand, If that same man
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-29
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE

If Justice Hughes should decide to
speak, he'd make a louder noise just
now than the guns at verdun.
"A man likes to be thought well
on" but omit the well and it is another
matter.
The average candidate doesn't
dare call his soul his own" says the
Ohio State Journal The average can
didate knows 1t is dangerous to admit
he owns anything.
We suppose the Ford boomers in
Chicago care nothing for the high cost
of convention gas"
Every man ridicules the idea that
he is fond of dress. and then goes out
and buys suit with the hope that 1t
looks as well on him as it did on the
model in the newspaper advertisement.
If they keep 1t up long enough
Verdun may after all be decisive; 1t
appears to be a perfectly good place
for getting rid of the reserve troops of
both sides.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-29
MONDAY EVENING, MAY %
The habit Of anxiety has for its con-
trGry the habit Of prdyer.-
JOHN A. HUTTON.
STRAIGHT TIP FROM BRYAN

TN a recent interview Mr.. Bryan ex-
pressed his confidence that Wilson
will be renominated, but his re-
election is contingent, Bryan thinks,
upon a repetition of the Repblican
division of four years ago. If there
are two Republican candidates, Bryan
says, Wilson will get a second term.
This is a straight tip. Every dele
gate who goes to Chicago the first
week in June, whether he be .ac-
credited to the Coliseum or the
Auditorium, should take Bryan's
words to heart. If two candidates
emerge from that week of delibera-
tion at Chicago, Wilson's chance for
another term will be materially en-
hanced. if not made certain.
So far as we are concerned, we can
not believe that such a result is pos
sible. 1t is already clear that the
conditions which maddened the
Roosevelt following at the convention
of 1912 will not be duplicated this
year. They cannot put a third ticket
in the field on any basis of wrong
done to them or to their candidate.
If they intend to repeat the folly of
1912, they must do so in cold blood,
and not in the heat of passionate
resentment.
We look for wise counsels to pre-
vail in Chicago this year-both in the
Coliseum and in the Auditorium. We
look to see result in the Republican
convention which will be satisfactory
in the progressive convention. We
look to see only one candidate who
will seriously contest with Mr.. Wilson
this year. Bryan has given us a
straight tip that any other course is
next door to political suicide.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-29

| CTICK a feather in the hat of
- Pennsylvania and another, just
as large, in the hat of Harris
burg!
The National Geographic Magazine
has just issued number devoted
largely to an illustrated article en-
titled The Land of the Best" being a
tribute to the scenic gradeur and un-
surpassed natural resources of our
own country.
And first and foremost of all the
scores of Photographic reproductions
covering the show places of America,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and
from Maine to the Gulf. is an etching
of the Rockville gorge, just north OF
this city, the Susquehanna river and
the Rockville bridge. Beneath the
Ipage-length picture is this inscription:
Stone bridge over the Susque-
hanna at Rockville, Pa. One might
travel all over Europe without see
ing a more picturesque landscape
than this, or more successful
combination of art and nature in
single scene.
This is not mere tourist catalog
fiub-dub. 1t is the judgment of the
National Geographical Society, than
which there is no better qualified au-
thority on scenery and natural re-
sources in the whole world.
Continuing, the writer says of Penn
sylvania scenery:
As you make your pilgrimage
to the sacred field (Gettysburg)
through Maryland and Pennsylva-
mia, you see a landscape that paint
ers love-undulating hills, rolling
fields, watered with winding
streams and ornamented by groves
of oak and hickory, picturesque
farm houses. and huge barns packed
to the rafters with Natures gifts.
We in Harrisburg and Pennsylvania
at large have long known these things;
nevertheless it is pleasant to hear
them from the mouth of a stranger
and to find our local beauties of seen
cry fit for association in picture form
with the choicest views culled from the
thousands of wonderful spots in this
great Land of the Best"