Harrisburg Telegraph from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Page 6

ALLEXTOW.V IIARRISBURG TTARRISEURG likes to think her fl self as among the progresslv cities of Pennsylvania and in many respects is entitled to that rank, But at least in the way of schools Allentown, which wo have been in cllned to consider aa more or leca be hind us in many things, can smile in a superior manner and tell us to "Go Thou and Do Likewise." For Allen town ia just about to dedicate a new high school for which tha people hav paid $700,000. This ought to be a lesson for Har rlsburg. The people of Allentown did not debate the needs of a high school until the children of the city were at tending half session, instead of the full time to which they are entitled They saw the necessity and 1m mediately and with little debate voted a bond Issue of $700,000 for the pur pose. Harrisburg is not going to be called uron to expend that huge sum but there should be no question of the passage of such a loan in November as the school board in its wisdom shall decide is necessary for the purpose of giving the city adequate high school facilities for years to come. FALL IX WAR STOCK VALUES THE fall in the value of war stocks which is being recorded on the New York Stock Exchange gives rise to some interesting speculation as to what explanation the Democrats will give for the depressed condition of the market on these stocks.

It is generally believed, and with good reason, that the high tide in our war or der prosperity has been reached The monthly records of exports for the future will hardly touch the heights which have been recorded during the past twelve months. Already there is a marked decrease in our exports of grains, cotton, cottonseed, steel and leather products, etc. The all absorbing question before the business world at the present time is whether the war will terminate in the Fall or will continue through an other winter. If it should end this Fall there will undoubtedly be a terrific slump in war stocks; if it should be prolonged throughout the winter, the decline will be more gradual. Probably the President wilrtnake some move toward peace, but a sudden cessation of the war prior to election would tear from the Democratic party its last and only hope.

Stocks would come tumbling; mills would be scrambling back to the terra flrma of normal business; Iabo forces would be cut down and the wage rate revert to a normal standard; and huge surpluses of foreign goods which have been accumulating in Europe for the past two years would be let loose on the American market like a Spring freshet For three years years the Democrats have been attempting to explain the shortcomings of their administration. Naturally they do not relish trying to explain the condition which would follow a sudden termination of the war. The party now has explanitis. But to what would they attribute the demor. alization which would ensue? Would they ascribe the panic to the fall in war stocks? They have categorically denied that war orders had anything to do with our temporary prosperity.

W6uld they blame it on busi ness?" They boast that they have destroyed "big business." As a last re sort they may say that the confidence of the country by the prospect of a return to power of the Republican party, which will be a confession that they anticipate defeat and an encouragement to in istrial America to stand by its guns until the supporters of Charles Evans Hughes can unanarl the thread of government which the party of incompetency has reduced to such an exasperating tangle. A NEW FARMING DAY TT's a pity more people do not ap preciate tne excellent work that is being done by our State Depart ment of Agriculture," said a promi 'nent citizen of Harrisburg who has been interested to some extent in tanning and fruit growing. Before purchasing a farm near the city he consulted the experts on Capitol Hill. It ls his sincere Judgment that Penn sylvania has a much more competent torce of expert advisors than the people generally understand. Brumbaugh has a distinct conviction that the time is here when the State should utilize Its force of trained and scientific experts in advising the farming interests throughout the Commonwealth.

He believes that in the building of barns, the erection of outbuildings, the construction th planting of fruit n4 ta general working out of th problems confronting th rural coiuut unity tht men who hav been brought Into tht sarvtco of ih lute should caJiad upon by in farmers nd all Alfc.r Inl.raiKi1 la lk rulltvatlan Of ih. ,,11 tv, farm. Pennsylvania' rampaifft was th Ml. Tha day of lntsn.no Urm' pr.cn. mn4 on laturdar.

Tht Ing la at hand and old maWM ui Democrat of Uhish count and cin lite way to tha newer and mor ln nr. wbo aro uil voiint for Jackson. i.tii.oK, vtm. m. will increase followed traditions and held their A A.

reduction and help In tha solution or WmWni of srel Vhou. tb clfh cost of lt1nf. (sand man Inrludina mora than a don Tha Oovarnor'a announcad rurtos h0 ara or santy.no yrars of ag to ntka thrta tours of tha farming r. w.a cisirtcts thla ysar is in una win nis Nel, fh publicans of mougm or incrtamnx imarasr, in iniur.iin county open tncir cam. that makts for mora successful farm, naijn.

which will ha acrord ng anurprlsss. JUrrlsburg Is tha rln, tht rm0fratic vary csnttr of rich farmlnf sactlon maMn Into tha shadows, rhilander and all that tends to improvement C. Knox, candidate for senator, wM In methods Is orthy of consideration. 'h ff'' senso that is making even men favor SAVE VOIR PEXXIES PENNY saved Is a penny earned, That is an old adage. Every candidate for auditor general, and roiJCV Harmon M.

Ktphart. canrtldata lor re lonal nominees, Tha Ilepubliean a para: axciusivesy tor women meetinir will bo notabla for the nrst on tha plea of tha business women guns win ea r.rea on tna uemocrauc of that city. TV hat a fool Idea! It Is such move. nicr.t as this that have kept the vote from women for years. It Is such non fortiftcations whoso ordinance Is el.

ready shooting wildly and at random. Tha Lehlth Democrats were much disappointed on Saturday when National Chairman il'orrulck and able to the granting of tha franchise un oni of th Euu sumetimea doubtful as to its wisdom, candidates appeared. Although the The greatest mistake women can Democratic opening In thta county Is make is that of using their Influence the oldest Democratic function in the to ret themselves apart either polltl or oclally. eighteenth century, the big Democrats gnored It. Not even State cnairman McClcan was present and James 1 Blakslee.

although In a neighboring county, was not among tha speakers. The result was that tha errand open ing waa a local affair with Congress body knows it and few heed it. man Arthur O. Dewalt and Henry It is homely and It Is familiar. We Steele, neither of whom brims witn are not ton of homely LTOft.TOtat u.v uu region will probably bear the sngni in But see how engagingly a certain mind when the time comes to do some leading authority on economics puts rooting in tha State committee stamp it ing ground.

A man who saves a dollar is a benefactor; one who teaches another to save a dollar la a public benefactor and should be knighted by the State. A dollar invested takes root instsntly: it is not parched or burned by droughts, nor killed by frost or sleet. It cannot be injured by heat or cold, by famine or pestilence, by fire or flood. It wilt not be lost by a hole in the pocket, nor borrowed by om pestilential friend or boon companion. It is beyond tha reach of earthquake or lightning, accident, sneak thief, thug or murderer.

it is saia mat me jLcnign min gers had assurances that the top lin ers would forego a Saturday's fun to attend the meeting. Now other Dem ocrats are wonderlne what will hap pen at places where the big bosses ara aatea. Republican State leaders have won a strategic victory over the Democratic machine and Chairman McLean and the bosses are floundering about trying to get a place to rest. It seems that the Democrats decided at their meeting here to have a formal If vou would be a benefactor of I sunburst about Labor day. The time yourself and humanity worthy of na place were iert to tne Dosses, iney knighthood by the State, with some Sgf thing laid away for the inevitable the Republican State committee has "rainy day." begin right now to save not shown a disposition to oblige the your pennies.

The Telegraph Fam yemocrais ana ine ume oi xne meei r. inK ls ln the future. It is likely that tly started its annual savings last De wlll be h.ld Iat. SeDtember or cember and when the end of the year early In October. 'The Democrats are rolls around wlll have something like now trying to get out of holding a $10,000 to divide among its members.

ef un Dut are rrala cc iuew Candidate Hughes. It is probable, in Now. that Governor Hughes has retired from politics and ascended to a place on the highest judicial tribunal in the world, the fac'; can be acknowledged without hurting anybody's political corns that he was tne greatest friend of labor laws that ever occupied the Governor's chair at Albany. During his two terms he has signed fifty six labor laws, including among them the best labor laws ever enacted in this or any other State. He has also urged the enactment of labor laws in his messages to the Legislature, even going so far as to place the demand for a labor law in one of his messages to an extra session of the Legislature.

Only 162 labor laws have been enacted in this State since its erection in 1777 in 133 years. One third of these, exceeding in quality all of th others, have been enacted and signed during Governor Hughes' term of three years and nine months. HEALTH INSPECTION TN view of the outbreak of infan the Republicans have not set a HITCHES AXT LABOR date. The Job of running the Pcnnsyl TT develops that Secretary of Labor Vanla Democracy is as thankless as Wilson's mysterious trip to New 'It la Bald that the debt of the Re lork was for the purpose of trying publican city committee of Philadel to find a flaw in the labor record of Phla which is now controlled by the vares, is aoout szo.uuu. Hence tne the course" of his investigation, that clear ud the matter est kind of grafters.

contributions to Secretary Wilson unearthed the fol George F. Holmes, the new chair lowing, published in the editorial col man of the Philadelphia city commis umns of the Legislative Labor News, JTJli me otnciai organ or tne isew york rested and their names Dublished if Federation of Labor, upon the ap he has to give out the names himself pointment of Mr. Hughes as Supreme t0 Protect the public from the mean Court Justice: People at the Capitol, who have noted the occasional outbursts between State College and the State Depart ment of Agriculture, are wondering what is behind the name of E. H. Had ley, formerly of Cornell, to be entomologist.

This is a job which calls for the same qualifications as those of I Prof. J. G. Sanders, the new zoologist. Robert E.

Lee, former Schuylkill congressman, has decided to stay in the race. He is Democratic candidate against, nis oia rival, congressman Heaton, and will make another try. incidentally, it is expected that P. J. Graham, who is Democratic candidate for senator in Schuylkill, will become postmaster of Shenandoah.

This means that he will have to be replaced with some deserving Democrat. In an interesting interview in the Philadelphia Ledger yesterdav Harry McDevitt, solicitor of the new econ omy and efficiency commission, an nounces that the well known State Tax Commission bill is to he tile paralysis in Harrisburg and to the Legislature next year. This is iae ueuei ot poysicians mat its "4 liUll'C01' uicimaiB auu l. germs are bred in dirt would it not be well for the school authorities to none the less well known propositions exercise a more careful supervision of which the commission will reintroduce the pupils when they enter school 10 a surtenng general assembly, and a thi. Ton t.

jSn.ii wearied public, according to Mr. Mc this Fall than is ordinarily considered Devitt's review of an expensive year's niidren should not be work. permitted in school who are not clean Coatesville is now said to be seek and free from disease. Too often in lne cunly eL jester county. ea It is a citv and West Chester is a tv a uttve porougn.

uoatesvine is aggressive Deen irouDiea oy careless parents per ana west Chester contented, mitting children to come to school in lt has been a lon tlme since Penn condition to contaminate ftas bee.n regaled by a fight Detween towns tor a county seat and a.iiiB jaw couiatt wnn mem. This it win be wen worth watchinsr. should not be tolerated, especially un der the present circujnstances past records. What did they ever do for progress in government? By what right do they claim leadership in pro gressive movements? However, perhaps it. does not matter much, ror tne extent of their leadership will be inconsiderable.

It matters little who is general of an army that consist of no more than a corporal's guard. The European has brought prosperity to the" sugar producers of Cuba as well as to those of the United States. From an annual average production of $165,000,000, the first year of war raised the value of the sugar crop to $204, 000,000, and it is expected that thu total will be $275,000,000 this year. Only Way to Be Different About the only way left for a rising young mayor obtain fame is to be photographed without a top hat Washington Post. We Want the American Flag Unsullied "Now, my friends, we want not only American einciency in business, in efficiency in the organization of business, in the protection of the factors of human industry and commerce, we want the American flag unsullied and the American name honored throughout the world." From Charles E.

Hughes' speech at Chicago. The Mayor of York appears to be coming through the rye in rather dis mal fashion. He welcomed the liquor The new managers of the Progressive ln party should get out a book on "Who gome of the thousands' have protested Who in the Progressive Party." Most and in strong terms. or me men now ai tne nead of that Our old friend. Dr.

H. A. Surface, party's affairs are unknown outside late zoologist, says that they will find their own precincts, and it would nothing that will worry anvone. least interesting to know something of thei: of al1. himself, in the thorough house cleaning which is under way in his iormer omce.

xne big owls and the plaster of paris apples have been left to oe an inspiration to his successor. who will also find some choice varie ties or nawKS to contemplate. BACK TO THE By Wins Dinger My vacation time has ended; To my desk I went to day To resume my duties, And I wish you'd see the way They've stacked up the correspondence That's arrived since I've been gone. And I know it's up to me, bo. To reply to each anon.

So with steadfast resolution I have started at the work. Not until it's all been cleaned up Will I one wee duty shirk. And I know it's going to take me Three full weeks to clean "Up then I'll be all in, and feel Just like Going on a trip again. Real Optimism When is Mr. John M.

Parker going to be officially notified of his nomination for vice president? 4He might make an Interesting speech. Boston Globe. Seems Rather Strange It is strange to And that pork bar rel still under discussion. For decades both national parties have been strusr gli. for the privilege of demolishing it Washington Star.

nAiuusBuno telegraph 6 MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1916. IIARRISBURG TELEGRAPH a hgwsrAnx re vox ii rublUbed evenings en apt Sunday by TUB TtLr.OM.il II tlmu CO, Tatagraali ttatMiag, federal ft a oar. TACKPOLE.frail eJ U.imki,( r. It. OlaTER.

Iuum rH Li Membr American Nwtpptr Pub. Itinera' Aatevi. lion, The Audit Bureau ef Circu Jetton and Pan ayivanle Astoclat. Delli. Eaatarn office.

Mary, proka FiiiUy. Fifth Av. nu Building. Nam Yrk City; West. rn office.

ir, brooks A Fio Jy. People' Gas Building, Chu C4g0. Ill Entered at th Post Office In Hrrl. burg. second i iau matter.

Br carriers, six cants a ek: by mall. $3.00 year In advance. MONDAY AUGUST 21 An ounce of mirth ia worth a pound of iorroK. RjCHasD Baxnn. of drelaeg tma, th testing, el r.f tho Ei CoennUttremas) THE CARTOON OF THE DAY Carter, tn new york EVENIN6 sum Somebody has asked what does Kipona meaa, and we hasten to reply a Mardi Gras on the water, an old home week, a picnic and a general good time all rolled into pnt.

Atlantic City had nothing, absolutely nothing on Harrisburg, yesterdayeven to the maid who wore a bathing suit and' did not go near the water. Edison says there will be very little poverty 100 years from now, which is about as comforting as the assurance that there will be no sin in. the millenium. Vacations would be much pleas anter if it were not for the first day at work after getting home. A literary exchange gives the names of what it terms the year's six most popular books, but it has strangely failed to include the checkbook.

The hay crop being large, we need fear no breakfast food famine the coming winter. Funston wants to withdraw from Mexico, but the President, his superior wisdom, sets himself up as knowing more about the situation than the man on the Job. Maybe he wants to add a few more millions to that Mexican "war" bond issue. The New York World having pub lished "The Tragedy of Re publican newspapers may come back at it by getting off something about the farce comedy of Wilson. "Twilight sleep has been discon tinued in New York," says an exchange.

My goodness, we didn't know anybody ever went to bed before midnight over there. The Great Lincoln Highway" in moving pictures is advertised in Wil liamsport. But wait until the William Penn Higrhway pictures are shown if you are looking for real scenery. EDITORIAL COMMENT England's War Office probably ordered McClure back to America because it was afraid he would monkey with the magazines. Chicago Evening Post.

That strike of life insurance solicitors is one hardship which the average busy man will endeavor to beat with fortitude. Nashville Southern Lumberman. The French aviator who dropped handbills on Berlin missed a trick. He should have created a riot by dropping a tenderloin steak. Philadelphia North American.

Those editors inclined to make sport of Mr. Parker's efforts to rehabilitate the Progressive party evidently don't realize the serious predicament of a nominee without a party. Nashville Southern Lumberman. Abe Lincoln seemingly made a lot of amazing rulings In 1864 that John Bull didn't begin to appreciate until 1916. Washington Post.

His Last Words A detective was praising the truth fulness of women. "If war bulletins were as truthful as women, he said, "we'd nave a bet ter idea of how this world struggle is really going. "I remember a case tne other day it's interesting in its revelation of womato's truthfulness the case of a husband who Mad disappeared. "Questioning the wife, I said to her: "And now, madam, tell me this is very important tell me what your husband's very last words were when he 'His last word, the truthful creature answered with a blush, 'were, "For heaven's sake, shut, Washington Star. Can't Please Democrats It Is not seen that they are any more pleased with Hughes' talk than they ware with the silence.

Knoxvllle Journal and Tribune, When WiJi Johnny Come Murifiing Home? TELE6RAPH PERISCOPE HOW ABOUT JAPAN? Japan and the World War By Frederic J. Haskin THE news that Japan had declared war on Germany in August 1914 attracted comparatively little attention when it reached the United States. In the shower of ultimatums flying Japan's seamed far away and unimportant. To day it begins to look as though that ultimatum would be fraught with more consequences for this country than any of those exchanged between European capitals. Japan's step declaring war certainly did not arouse any appreciable opposition in the United States.

Americans took it for granted that she went in under the Anglo Japanese al liance. Such Americans as took an interest in Far Eastern politics remem bered that the Anglo Japanese am ance provided only for defensive war fare when the Oriental territories or interests of either power should be threatened by a third power. Germany was not threatening England's Far Eastern interests, except in a very general and secondary way; but the terms of alliances have been stretched before, and Japan's action seemed to most neutral observers, justifiable enough. Germany held in Kiao Chao, her Chinese port, a possible base for naval operations against the Allies. Japan pointed to to this fact as reason for her own move.

A base for naval warfare in the East might be regarded as a point nostiie to ar Eastern interests, and hence as open to attack under the terms of the An glo Japanese alliance. At the. time that this point was raised, those who saw the possible consequences of Jap anese action to tne united states ana China, suggested that Germany would be glad to refrain, voluntarily, from using Kiao Chao as a naval base, rather than lose it, as she certainly must before Japan's attack. China actually brought the expedient formally to the attention of the United states and Jaoan. as the two powers I most interested, after herself.

Thel choice was never offered AN ANCIEXT MADE TO OR15ER TOWN Tiberias, on the Sea of Galilee, was a new city in the time of Jesus. Herod Antlpas, governor of Galilee, began, according to Josephus, to build the city some time between IS and 19 A. finishing it in A. D. 22.

And to. the new town of Tiberias he moved his capital, transferring it from Sepphorls. In the buijding of the city a burial place was disturbed, and as a consequence very few Jews could be induced to reside there. The town was chiefly peopled with foreigners and advenr turers. and its atmosphere was largely Roman.

It was handsomely con structed; the palace ornamented with figures of animals. This also tended to make the town unattractive to Jews, to whom images were an abomination. Tiberias is mentioned but once in the New Testament John 6:23, though the Sea of Galilee is twice called the Sea of Tiberias (John 6:1 and To other Galilean cities, particularly Beth saida and Capernaum, Jesus went fre quently, but since his special mission and message were to the Jews he seems to have seldom or never visited Tiberias. But the lovely Lake of Galilee and its green shores were familiar and beioved to the saviour. The present town of Tiberias or Tabariya, as it is now called, numbers 8,600 Mnhabi tants, of whom 7,000 are Jews, 1,000 Mohammedans and 200 Christians.

The Christian Herald. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY Questions submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their anewers as presentea at the organization's annual "Municipal Quiz." What character of apparatus is in the Fire Department? One aerial motor truck, 2 motor propelled engines, 6 horse engines, 4 motor combination chemicals, 9 horse combination chemicals, 1 horse aerial truck and 1 other truck. however. Japan sent an ultimatum instead. England's attitude toward Japan's course is particularly interesting.

Officially, Japan was received into the list of belligerents with open arms. Popular sentiment in England took the same stand. A declaration of war on Germany was a sure bid for popularity in the British Empire. But there is little doubt that English statesmen and diplomats would much prefer to see Japan a neutral power rather than a belligerent. Her greatest help to the Allies has been her manufacture of munitions for Russia.

She could do that without declaring war. As it is, her course has upset that carefully piled apple cart officially known as the Balance of Power in the Far East. At any rate, Japan went into the war. She dispatched an expedition against Kiao Chao. Kiao Chao is a port on the southern coast of the Shantung peninsula, which forms a part of one of the.

most thickly pop ulated provinces in North China. Jap an, however, cna not iana ner troops on the southern coast of the peninsula. She adopted the somewhat remarkable and inexplicable procedure of landing on the north coast, one hundred and eighty miles from the port she had set out to attack. China had declared a war zone, but she naturally did not make it large enough to include the whole peninsula. As Japan marched overland, she seized whole railways, running hundreds of miles out of the war zone.

She violated China's neutrality on a large scale. England went into the greatest war in history over a violation of Belgium's neutrality. Nobody went to war to defend China's. Japan worked southward through Shantung and took Kiao Chao, as it was obvious from the first that she would take it. The one feature of the campaign that came somewhat unex pectedly was England's action in send.

Continued on Pago 9 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR MAKES FALSE STATEMENT To the Editor of the Telegraph: It is only to remove the injustice done me by the "New York Call" and the writer of an article appearing awhile ago in one of their papers, in regard to certain "Officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad" discriminat ing against me, P. L. Smith, on the basis of the present eight hour movement, and of which I have asked the editor of the "New York Call" to counteract, as the majority of their article was false, and discriminating against me. And while they claim their paper to be devoted to the work ingman's interest, and since they have not up until tne present time coun teracted tha. false statement appearing in their paper against me; why I am compelled to come back to my home papers tor tne justipe that which the "New York Call' has not given me.

And while I am a reader of this paper, and one who has placed much confidence in what was going through its columns, I dare say they have done me a great wrong, and as for me to continue to their support as a workingman as I see it, I would be foolish. And to all those concerned I announce the article appearing in the "Call" to the fact my union did not touch on my case whatever, and as to the present eight hour movement. did not enter in the least with any of my urnciais, ana jet it do understood the article appearing in the "New York Call" is detrimental to me and cannot be relied upon. P. L.

SMITH. 2149 Logan street Harrisburg, Pa. 21. 1916. Loses Bryan's Vote Charles E.

Hughes' announcement of the kind of men he proposes to ap point ls blasting any hope w. J. Bryan might have had of getting baek into the Secretary or States omce. In dian spoils Star. Tha growing popularity ef finer fUatn la aiounjipg all tha old rir dug" who hata Mn Uomg around on tha 8uquehnn for year.

mw tha Jt commented one old boat owner, the oihsr day. 'Time waa whan you could go out ef an afternoon and never toe a soul escept an occasional bunch of oun reeceia swimming erf a aand flat But nowaday when ihare aro too men and woman swimming btn Mac lay street and the dam, a mtbiy alow afternoon and (here la mora nearly always a thousand pUshin. about" Now that tha river has become quite low there la no dan and scores are taking advantage of tha opportunity to, learn tha art of swimming. It is mora than surprising how many girls have become really expert since the popularising ef tha river front There ia mora than ona pretty little sun burned mtaa who can make the aver ate man hustle on tha trudfeon, tha overhand, or tha craw). a a a To tha open.motULaJ atuinier.t of long exparini4.

weather and water tried mermen. tamer, sand auckar and fiat traveled through tha race like runway of tha river dam at Dock stret Saturday. The Harrlsburr Llrht and Power Company keeps us sand and coal fleet in winter anchorage in a small cover below th Central Iron and Steel Company plant and the boats ara not brought up above tha dam for summer operations until th river reachea such a ttana In early Spring as to permit safe, if laborious passage, across th obstruction. In low water especially at tha present stage no steamer or fiat nas aver attempted to get above or below the dam. On of th fleet cap tains of th light company wanted to get below th dam in a hurry and he lashed steamer, sand sucker and flat together, maneuvered carefully for position a coupl of hundred feet above th opening, shut off steam, warned his pilot to take an extra steady hold on th rudder wheel, and th boata raced directly for the open lng in th dam.

There a drop of a few feet in a very short distance and the boata went through at a clip that highest steam pressure couldn't hav per mltted. a a Two weeks more and then country sausage and scrapple. This, in th opinion of many who attended Chestnut street market Saturday, is a rather early announcement. Xot to be outdone by his fellow farmers, one country butcher gave the information to his patrons. He said "Yes, I am going to have sausage, pudding and scrapple two weeks from to day.

It will be genuine country make. I do not think lt is too early. You have been eating cold storage pork all summer. Why can't you have country pork and all that goes with it two weeks from now?" Low water in th Susquehanna river basin ls giving grave concern to the scores of river enthusiasts who are eagerly awaiting the first annual Ki pona to be held Labor Day, by the Greater Harrisburg Navy. The stage of the river now is exceptional and in many places the passage over old routes is pretty nearly impossible.

V. Grant Forrer, assistant park superin tendent, and G. M. Oves, of the State Highway Department, who have been mapping out the courses for the various races, hav found the condition serious in some places. Whether or not the completion of the dam will help any is questionable, although it is hoped that this will increase the general height a trifle.

"At certain points, for instance, close in to the River Front steps," said Mr. Oves, "the water is so low that it is pretty nearly impossible for two men in a canoe to get through without grounding." Have you ever been in the Pennsylvania. TlaUrrari vara i nnlrf night and daylight of a Monday morning? It is worth while to see the preparations being made for the traffic of the week because as far as possible the freight known as "slow is stopped over Sunday and the yard work is suspended. While the men who work in daylight are sleeping a force of men is moving in the yards, on the sidings, at the roundhouses, about the towers and all over the great network of tracks getting things in readiness for the moving of thousands of wheels. They pop into sight under the glare of an electric lamp only to J.

1 Al disappear a moment, jaier in me shadows of mighty coal trains standing in line after line on the tracks. Among visitors to the Capitol was Dr. W. S. Blaisdell, one of the prominent coal operators of Jefferson county.

He was here on business. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE Public Service Commissioner Mai gee has been on an automobile tour oi the State. Senator George T. Oliver has had to forego his vacation in Canada for the first time in years. Judge Harvey W.

Whitehead, of Lycoming, is an ardent hunter. Congressman Vare is interested in several of the big development projects in Atlantic City. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg building regulations are being copied in other cities? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The city's big island used to be the great gathering place for town picnics in the olden days. Our Daily Laugh NEWLY MARRIED. What is tho reason for Paynes sudden pseudo pompous, dignified manner? Ho recently married, and he's trying to live up to his wife's opinion of him.

INOPPORTUNE. When father comes ln tell him you lov me. Let's wait I feel so at peace with the world, tonight Have a Familiar Sound A war message in a bottle was pick ed up in the Skaggerak the other day. Some of the reports ciroulated on land sound as if tatey came out of bottles, too. New York Evening Sun.

Fame For Darnels Secretary Daniels." however, has the" distinction of being one of the greatest araruments the Republicans have' aver. Jhad. Detroit Free Press, i.