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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24

ed IN a fair way to be Chrtstianized.
While there are missionaries of all ma
lions in Korea, the bulk of the work
was done by Americans.
After solemnly guaranteeing the in
dependence and autonomy of Korea
IN the preambles to several different
International agreements, Japan pres
entity established a p~rotectorate. 1t
was obvious from the first that annex
alton would follow sooner or later, but
American interests were not particu-
larly disturbed by the prospect. It
was expected that Japan would elm
mate any foreign enterprise in Korea
which had been founded with political
intention-founded, that is by the ma
tionals of some European power with
the idea of giving that power a foot
hold on the coast of Asia. AS Ameri-
can interests had nothing whatever of
the political about them, as the Unit
ed States obviously never dreamed of
establishing herself in Korea as a ma
ton, it was taken for granted that
Americans would be unmolested. Their
work, while undertaken in a purely
business attitude, with no philan-
thropic motives, was none the less of
immense value to the development and
enrichment of the kingdom.
However, it o became apparent
that there was a fallacy in this reas-
oning somewhere. Japan set systemat-
ically to work to drive foreigners
from Korean commerce and industry.
She wished, apparently, to secure Jap
anese dominance in the field, and here
as elsewhere she had to deal with the
sad fact that Japanese could not DOM
mate while western enterprise had an
equal chance. 1t was necessary to
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24

In Mondays issue of this paper no
less than eight robberies or attempted
robberies were reported. In most
cases the offense amounted only to
petty theft, although several of the
robberies were not trifing and all of
them indicated that thieves were oper
ating with little fear of the local po-
lice.
And yet Lancaster has a very con-
siderable police force for a city of its
size including bicycle policemen and
other traffic officers. 1t is supplied.
also, both with a police telephone sys-
tenn and a red light" signal or trouble
alarm system, besides the patrol out
mt. In fact no expense has been
spared to provide an entirely ADEQUATE
police force.
In fairness it must be said that this
force is conspicuously in evidence in
its. traffic regulating activities, al
though these are often absurdly dis
proportionate to the volume of traf-
nc; but it's a long. long time between
the recording of other notable services
rendered by our half hundred or so of
policemen. The record Of robberies
seems to show that the thieves and
other evil-doers operate without the
slightest consideration for our police
men.-Lancaster Daily Intelligencer,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
Haskin and Japan
est. Paul Pioneer-Press)

Is confirmation of Frederic ]. Has
kin's article on How About Japan?"
that Nippon's ambitious rulers intend
to exercise a virtual suzerainty over
China for trade exploitation, current
dispatches state Chinese troops in
Eastern Mongolia attacked a Japanese
garrison, that Toxic views the Incl
dent as a possible forerunner of diff
culties between the two powers. That
japan would welcome an excuse for
a break is highly probable; and
that China goaded from it's pacifca-
ton by a long series of studied af-
fronts, may nc longer submit to dicta-
ton and decide to resist to the limit
of its power is barely possible. ORR
entalists long have predicted the rul-
ers of the Island Kingdom eventually
would endeavor to extend their en-
pire to the bordering mainland. They
asserted Japan's assumption of the
right to lay down a Monroe doctrine
for the Orient" was not for the altru-
istic purpose Of guaranteeing China's
sovereignty, but to cloak Japan's sell
fish policy of fostering trade and ex-
Guiding business rivals by fair means
or foul.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
4 a

t HARRISBURG needs a municipal
IL beach. That scarcely need be
repeated. Like an island spring.
ing into being from the ocean over
night, the fondness for swimming in
the -Susquehanna has swept the city
until it is rapidly becoming the chief
topic of conversation.
When 1000 people of an afternoon
crowd the shores and waters Of he
river, 1t is a sign that ought to be
needed, and needed promptly. The
citizens of Harrisburg are interested in
promoting the welfare and comfort Of
the citizens of Harrisburg, naturally.
They want a bathing beach, and want
1t badly. There is not the least doubt
of the practical benefits. The people
are entitled to the consideration which
would promote such q proposition and
the problem is ore to which their duly
elected representatives in the govern
ment Of the city ought to give careful
elaboration.
An efficient organization, when con-
ditions arise that need attention. meets
those conditions Either the demand
for proper and adequate bathing facili-
ties for the people of Harrisburg must
be met or else Harrisburg will have
to admit that she is not efficiently
organized.
The establishment of the city's
front steps" was the initial move in
making attractive and useful the
beautiful river basin before our doors.
The dam at Dock street, while made
quate, is yet Of decided advantage to
river craft and was the second step.
The next move is obvious. The river
is being used by swimmers and canoe
lists this rel mor than ever before.
More canoes are owned and more are
rented. The Greater Harrisburg Navy
is an organization pledged to promote
stronger interest in aquatic sport on
the Susquehanna and we are at last
beginning to have brought home to us
the value Of the river basin as a civic
asset in a way hat it has never before
been presented.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
THOSE AUTOMOBILE LIGHTS

brilliant automobile lights
D caused a mans death a few days
ago near Canonsburg. Pa He be-
came bewildered and blinded and
drove his WI machine off the road.
What occurred in Canonsburg may
happen any day in Harrisburg. Motor
lists who care nothing for the safety
Of others should be required to equip
their cars with lenses that light the
road, but do not blind the pedestrian,
the horse or the automobile driver in
front. Tho time to do this is now
not after some such tragedy as that
reported from the western part of the
State.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2t
The Lord looks dozen contentedIy
Upon q NtEling n1tnd.-T. TAYLOR.
THE SIXTEENERS
THE sixteeners, sd called bee!

Me oIAleSuSTS, SO CdllSO because
at the age of sixteen they were
graduated from soldiers orphan
schools throughout the State. are gath
cred in Harrisburg to-day for their
annual reunion.
The organization is worthy of pass
ing note. 1t is made up of men and
women who in their youth were handi-
capped by the death of father or
mother or both. The fathers of many
of them went away to the Civil War
and lost their lives on hard-fought
fields or in the prison pens Of the
South. For them the soldiers orphan
school was a boon above price. Not
always was it conducted as we'll as 1t
could be, but in the main it made for
discipline, education and training
along various lines.
Hundreds of the graduates Of these
schools have made their way TO high
places in the affairs Of their COM
munities and others are substantial
citizens doing their part for the up
building Of their own towns and de-
voted to the country for which their
fathers laid Down their lives.
For example of the prominence
many OF the ~Sixteeners have attained
one need go no farther than c. Day
Rudy, the famous art glass manufac-
turer of Harrisburg. There are scores
and hundreds Of Others like him, and
its is altogether to their credit that
they annually pause a day in their
busy lives to honor the institutions
which laid the foundation for their
success.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
LETTERS TO THE 7
FEARS PARALYSIS OUTBREAK
Harrisburg, Pa. Aug. 90, 1911

I1dI1lSDuiS L. aug Gos 154os
Yesterdays Philadelphia papers
stated hat every section of Philadel-
phia had ~infantile paralysis and the
disease was we'll distributed.
May l call your attention to the fact
that Harrisburg is located directly in
the current of travel west bound from
New York and Philadelphia and that
this city is the first breaking or ex-
changing point west of Philadelphia
and therefore this disease is more of
a menace to Harrisburg than the aver
age city. Aside from this there is a
very great amount of business inter-
course between Philadelphia and New
York and this city as we'll as travel.
Harrisburg is a large railroad center
and a great many persons working
for the railroads are furnished with
free transportation visit these cities
the average town. or contributes to a
closer relation with the large cities
where the disease prevails.
We have had the disease in our city
and the opening of the schools may
start a spread of the disease. No one
knows If there are incipient cases. It
is too late after the schools start to
close them If the dread disease ap-
pears. The seeds nave been sown and
may lie dormant for another year. AS
it is a hot weather disease will you not
be good enough to urge delay in open
ing schools two weeks or more or I'M
til frost comes which is usually about
October /. 1t should be remembered
that September last year was our hot
test month. There is not a mother of
young children in the city who does
not have fear in her heart.
ANXIOUS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24

was Acting Secretary of State, during
his incumbency deciding satisfactorily
a number of difficult Questions arss-
ing between the United States and
European nations. He knows Europe.
too, having been Ambassador to Paris
for moro than three years. during
which he became popular throughout
the capitals of the Continent and
rendered many helpful services.
He is the kind of man who ought
to be in the Senate and New York
should do for him as Pennsylvania
will do for Philander c. Knox-give
him practically a unanimous vote.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
THE RECRUITING PROBLEM

TIME Omaha Bee takes the men of
the nation to task for not recruit
ing for duty along the border.
1t asserts that the volunteer system
is on trial and is falling, and it accuses
the men of the nation with being
averse to military duty.
The Bee is mistaken. The wonder
is not that so few are recruited, but
that any volunteer under the circum-
stances. If men knew why they are
being asked to go into the military
service in Texas the results would be
different. If they knew they were to
be held there until November for
training purposes and would be sent
home then, or at the end of any other
stated period Of reasonable length,
doubtless hundreds of young men
would hasten to enlist. The success
Of the Plattsburg camp this summer
is proof enough that American boys
and men are as keen for military train
ing as ever and many who could not
afford the fee and transportation ex-
penses required of those who went to
P~lattsburg would be only too happy to
avail themselves of the privilege of a
three to six months service under
n V if they knew at the end of that
time they would be returned home.
Or, If there was a real crisis or any
apparent reason for the holding Of
thousands of soldiers in idleness along
the Rio Grande-if, in short, there
was a real duty to perform with a
chance of active service-the recruit
ing stations would not hold all who
would want to join the army.
But men hesitate to plunge into a
military service that may last SIX days
or six years. They want to know why
they are being asked to enlist. If the
President can give any good reason
beyond doubt, Americans will espond
now to the call as they have in the
past. 1t is not the volunteer system
hat is a failure. but the administration
at Washington.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
THE STATE FROM DAY to- DAY

Our definition of hlial devotion is
scarcely that of the Allentown boy
who got into a dispute with his
mother and hurled a dish Of sauer-
krau at the dear old lady. Person
ally we should prefer to take it
internally.
Edward johnson, a Mansfield man,
lost his life by going over the bank
at dead mans curve" on the bound
airy line between Pennsylvania and
New York. The coroner thinks it I'M
necessary to hold an inquest because
the victim was driving his own car,
which is not the most f1attering way
of looking at it.
Here's az excellent fish story, dug
out of Ridgway. Patrick Deering
and friends were swimming in the
mill pond. Pat was diving and a large
trout measuring "a inches was lazily
swimming about below. Pat and he
fish collided violently and were both
taken home in the ambulance. Tut!
tut!
The residents Of Sunnyside and tho
patrons of the Rocky Springs amuse-
ment park near Lancaster do not
agree with Ellis Parker Butler that
pigs is pigs" They claim that pigs
is awful" for they are fighting hard
for the removal of a pigsty along
the traction company's tracks that un-
pleasantly assails the nostrils of
passersby.
The Lebanon merchants are planning
a Prosperity Day" when they will
offer special bargains to buyers from
other parts of Lebanon county and
outside territory. Nor is Lebanon he
town to apply to it's merchandising
the well-known Biblical verse. she
was a stranger and they took him Id"
Two lonesome sailor boys on the
steamship Memphis at San Domingo
have written to the Lancaster post
office pleading for some of the local
maidens to write to them. Letters
have been dispatched.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
War and Humanity
rhe Christian Science Monitor,

(The Christian Science Monitor)
To say that the war is revealing to
many people unsupported capacities
for helping their neighbors is, of
course, to utter a platitude. The re-
Gently formed Ilford Home Fires
League is the latest notable instance.
The object of the league is to give
practical rather than financial aid to
the families of British soldiers at the
front. Business and professional men
of all descriptions have Joined the
league, and are ready with advice and
help on all matters that a father
would naturally look to. 1t is, of
course, another effort, like that inau-
gurated some time ago for looking
after a soldiers allotment garden, to
keep the soldiers home" intact, and
as such is certainly deserving of all
support
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
HOW ABOUT JAPAN?
The Swallowing of Korea
By Frederic ]. Haskin

Swallowing of Korea-Sun., July B..
TINE fate of Korea has a double in
terest for America. In the first
place, the tragic irony OF the
whole Korean incident gives a hint of
what may be expected from Japan in
other quarters. In the second place,
Korea was the scene of Americas
greatest Asiatic achievement, both in
commercial development and in the
work of missionaries.
In all the Orient, Korea was the
one field where American trade ex-
ceeded that of any other nation. Amer
leans were opening the mines, hand
ling municipal improvement prospects
such as electric lighting, waterwarks
and street railways-getting the lions
share of trade. They did these things
in open competition with anybody
who cared to compete, winning their
advantage solely by superior enter
prise and management. Many of their
projects were undertaken with the
outcome seriously in doubt; they put
their money and their energy into a
new and untried field. They built, for
instance, the first railroad in Korea.
They were the pioneers of industry in
the Hermit Kingdom. They look long
chances, and they were beginning to
the reward when a shift in the
far eastern balance of power threw
Korea into the hands of Japan.
No less conspicuous than the u C
cess of American industry in Korea
was the success of American mission
airy work. The Christian religion took
a frmer hold in the kingdom than in
any country where it has been spread
among people of a different creed in
recent times. Almost half a million
Koreans were converted. Close to two
thousand schools and churches were
established. The whole nation SEEM
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Richard Y. Cook. Philadelphia
banker, is home from an automobile
tour of the northwest.
w. G. Holman. we'll known here,
will marshal the big parade in Pitts
burgh on September 2.
William A. Dunlap, of Philadel-
phia, the grand master of the Orange
men. in an address at Pittsburgh
praised their loyalty to America at all
Captain z. B. Cassatt is spending
part of the month at Saratoga where
he has entered his horses.
Senator Charles A. Snyder is
home from a visit to Atlantic City.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
Floating Gardens of Mexico

The Lake of Xochimilco, near the
City of Mexico, is nearly covered with
floating gardens called chlnampas, on
which are cultivated vegetables and
flowers for the city markets. They
are formed of floating masses of water
plants covered with soil and secured
by poplar stakes. The latter take
root and surround the islands with
living hedges. which are useful as
we'll as ornamental.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24

City Forester Gipple will earn the
lasting gratitude of many a pedestrian
if he evolves a plan for the removal of
projecting n low-hanging branches
and foliage from trees along the side
walks. There is real danger to the eyes
where the branches stick out at heights
from FIVE to six feet, and they are very
hard to see in the shadows. Co-opera-
ton on the part of property owners
ought. with a little time and labor, to
remove this unpleasant condition
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
Getting Familiar

tFrom the Musical America.l
Prof. Fuge - What do you mean.
Mr.. Jones. by speaking of Dick Wagner,
Ludie Beethoven. Charlie Gounod and
Jones-You told me to get familiar
with the~great COMPOSERS
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
So It Always Is

tFrom the Boston Transcript
1t takes some gray-whiskered old
country editor with one foot in The
grave to remark optimistically that de-
spite his billions John D. Rockefeller
can't buy youth.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
The Cause

tFrom the Detroit Free Press.1
Going away on your vacation?'
NO"
Then why the radiant expression? %
Just learned hat the wife's re!a-
ives aren't coming hero for theirs"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
EGGS ARE UP AGAIN

The dodo remains extinct. but the
eggs of the great aux now and then
ONE to light. The one they found
recently in San Francisco is valued at
$4,000 a dozen. - Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
No

TFrom the Washington Start
DO you believe in the saying that
language is used for the conceaIment
of thoughts?"
NO" Miss Cayenne; in much of the
language you hear you haven't even
the comforting suspicion that there
may be q thought in hiding"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
Trouble Coming

[From the Boston Transcript
When Secretary Daniels hears about
that naval dance at Newport he'll be
ordering b sale at auction OF every
phonoGraph-o on the deets, -
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB
r. OF THE CTTv

tQuestions submitted to members of
the Harrisburg Rotary Club and theJr
answers as presented at the organiza-
tion's annual Municipal Quiz"
Who are the Food Inspectors?
DR.. William v. Hughes and 7 TT
parlF
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
Not Expensive

lFrom the Cincinnati Enquirer.1
my wife and I are thinking OF char
tering a yacht for the summer"
Won't that be pretty expensive?"
Not as long as we conf1ne ourselves
to thinking about it"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
TELEGRAPH PERIScOPE

The rainstorm which brought
early darkness also brought GOODNESS,
so who cares for a little extra o
spent for electric light?
The Deutschland has again landed
safely at a German port. This is he
third time the Deutschland has COM
pleted the Atlantic voyage since leav-
ing Baltimore.
Hint to Congress-English Par
Lament adjouras.
Judging from the menu an
nounced. that Chamber Of Commerce
outing is going to continue for about
a week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg makes wo-
mems clothing that is sold all over
the country?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24

German naval Victories" always
sound best before the government be-
gins to admit the number of ships
damaged.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24

Some of the archives of the pro-
vince were sent here when the Brit
ish chased the State officials from
Philadelphia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24

E.J.STACKPoLE. Press and EGi.oy-in-c hicf
f. R OYSTER, Business Manager.
GUS n. STEINMETz, MdnGging Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24

published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.,
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
Our Daily Laugh
THAT'S DIFF.

X i.
I wish you'd
quit dunning me
for that suit. Do
you object to CIV
Ing me time?
No, I don't, but
I do object to
giving you the
suit
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
WISDOM OF
SOLOMON.

Quoter Tho
race is not to tho
swift nor the bat
tie to the strong.
OldSport You
said II. Them
sports Is ~generala
w. framed /
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
In Lancaster, Too

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Hint to Congress-English Par
adjourns.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-12-28
RUSH TROOPS TO BLOCK VILLAS
ADVANCE ON TAMPICO


FL Paso, Tex, Dec. 28.-Every en-
ergy of the Carranza government to-
day is directed toward rushing
troops to SaltiIlo and Monterey to
head off the advance of Villas bandit
army upon these cities and Tampico,
according to reports reaching United
States authorities here. Gen. Ben
jamin Hill, commander in the federal
district around Mexico City, is re-
ported preparing to start north with
troop trains to take charge of the
campaign against Villa.
Meantime small Carranzista gar
Eisons in different parts of the states
Of Durango and Coahuila are revolt
ing, declaring themselves Villistas
and starting out as outlaw bands.
Fighting at Montezuma, short
distance below Juarez, was reported
late yesterday.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-12-28
one fare" is the ideal. Nothing but
subways will solve the downtown
crowding, in Arnold's view.
FILIBUSTERS ENTER MEXICO
FROM AMERICAN SIDE

Laredo, Texas, Dec. 2S.-Two par
ties of filibusters crossed the border
into Mexico near this city early
Tuesday morning, it became known
here today. One of the parties en-
gagged in a running fight with Car
rama soldiers from the Nuevo La
redo garrison, resulting in wound
ing Of six filibusters and one soldier.
The wounded are in the military hos
pital at NuevO Laredo.
One fibustering party crossed the
Rio Grande about 20 miles below La
redo. The other crossed about II
miles above the city. They were well
mounted and equipped with supplies
and ammunition.
Two attachments of Carranza
troops, numbering about 200 each,
were sent in pursuit early yesterday.
The smaller group was. encountered
about 20 miles inland and the run
ming fight ensued,
One American is reported to have
been with the larger party of flibust-
ers. The others were Mexicans liV-
ing in U. S. territory.