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8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HS)MB Pounded rtji Published evenings except Sunday by THE TGLEtiIIAPH PRI>TIXG CO., Telegraph Hulldlnn, Federal Square. E.J. STACK POL.E.Prwf and Editor in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American lishers' Assocla tlon, The Audit Bureau of clrcu lation and Penn llClSpsl "Stjf eylvanla Associat es *5 ijriS m] EB3tern office. Has ; fljfij gjj Sgji w\ Brooks, Fifth Ave i CSS S BB" nue Building, New hlflUH-iigß W< York City; West ern office, Has- Brooks, People's - ~ Gts Building. Chi- Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. Sworn dnlly nverage circulation for the three muntha ending May 31, 1016, if 22,189 it Theae flsurea are net. All returned, unsold and damaged coplea deducted. THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 1 But only to discover and to do With cheerful heart the work that Qod appoints. —Jean INGEI.OW. THAT ARMOR PLANT THE Bethlehem Steel Company is manufacturing armor plate for the United States government at a price lower than that paid by any other country In the world. The Bethlehem Steel Company of fers to make armor plate for the United States Government at any price which the government Itself decides is reasonable. Does our Democratic Congress pledged by its platform to an ad ministration of economy—rush to ac cept this very businesslike proposal? It does not. It votes to spend sll,- 000,000 of the people's money on the doubtful experiment of a government armor plant. Why? Because it is oil her blind to the best 1 interests of the country from a busi- j r.ess standpoint—or worse. In either case, this government I armor plate plant is another reason i why the voters are determined to put j an end to Democratic mal-administra tion at Washington. "No form of Government can long j survive that does not give security to j life and property,"" says Darwin F. I Kingsbury, president of the New York I Life Insurance Company. A large por- I tion of the property of the United States is the fruit of industry, and se- j curity to that property lies in a protec- j tive tariff law. A fuller realization of life to the American laborer lies in his opportunity to be continuously em- j ployed at the American standard of j wages during normal business years, ■ and a protective tariff law gives him ! that opportunity. WEST SHORE'S OPPORTUNITY WEST SHORE communities which are just now interested j in obtaining more, efficient j local government should not permit present economies to blind them to pos sible future needs. Indeed, the present j is far less an important consideration [ than the future in the development of j any municipality. The West Shore j in time will become one great residen- j tial city and it should begin now to lay Its plans toward that end. That would incur no expense upon the tax payers. The Harrisburg City Planning Commission is at the disposal of the West Shore. This is not a philan thropic offer of this city. The Plan- \ ning Commission is by law required to aid in such cases. But, on the other hand, Harrisburg j does not begrudge any money it may j spend in that direction. The expense of preparing a plan for a community while the community Is still small is so insignificant compared with the bene fits to be derived that it does not en ter into consideration. The cost of such a plan is the best possible invest ment that a city can make, not only in the saving of future expense, but for its psychological value, for when the future of a city is planned that of it self supplies an Incentive to growth, as there Is something definite to be ac complished, and the town Is more like ly to increase in size and Importance through having such a plan than where its growth is purely haphazard. At the' same time its enterprising citi zens are more likely to remain and help build up the town than to go to other places, while, besides retaining its own population, it draws from less enterprising cities, and its growth is accordingly still further stimulated. "The small town should begin at an early period to accustom itself to prop er regulations of different kinds. Only by suitable regulation may the plans, once adopted, be carried out," says Frank Koester, one of the municipal exports of the country. It has sometimes happened In Amer ica that towns have been laid out along certain lines, but have grown oft at one side in a manner not intended by their designers. Such towns are often cited as examples of the futility of attempting to forecast the future of civic developments. The absurdity of laying out a plan and then expecting a city to develop along such lines of its own accord, and when it does not the added absurdity of pointing out Its failure to do so as an argument against city planning, are an adding of Insult to Injury. It would be as sensible to erect a grape arbor and expect the THURSDAY EVENING, vines to train themselves without ties as to expect a city to follow its plan without the ties oil suitable regulations. Indeed, such regulations are an abso lute necessity in training a city's growth, and colncidently with the lay ing out of its plans the regulations which are to carry It into effect should be formulated and put Into operation. Proper provision should, of course, be made for such modifications of the original plan as may be required by future conditions impossible to fore cast, while at the same time not per mitting private interests to block the carrying out of the plan for merely selfish ends. The West Shore has a big oppor tunity before it just now, if it will only lay hold of It. DEMOCRATIC RESOLUTIONS THE King can do no wrong," might be paraphrased to read "The Democratic party can do no wrong," in the eyes of the State Democratic Committee, which in ses sion here yesterday lauded the Wilson administration _ to the skies, magni fying its accomplishments and prais ing as virtues even its most glaring faults. Without going at length into the absurdities of the resolutions adopted by the committee It. may be , pointed out even to the satisfaction of a dyed-ln-the-wool Democrat that the administration has had some failures. For instance, more than nine months ago Democratic officials ad-_ mitted in express terms the need for some action that would insure the establishment of a permanent dye in dustry in this country that would make us industrially independent of Europe, but not one step has been taken to supply the needed "pre paredness." On the contrary, the Democrats in Congress voted down ail amendment which would have given American manufacturers protec tion enough to induce them to build dye factories. Another instance was seen in the delay in repealing the free sugar clause, which was to go into effect May 1. The Democrats knew they must eventually repeal that clause, but put it off as long as they dared. Appropriation bills are dragging aiong in Congress, notwithstanding these bills provide for the ordinary expenses of the government ex penses which the committees should be able to determine with a reason able amount of consultation with ad ministrative officers. The preparedness program is chiefly characterized by the slowness in i reaching a definite conclusion. "Watch ful waiting" had its origin in the Mexican difficulty, and apparently the administration has adopted the well known Mexican motto, "manana," which, in English, means "to-mor row." American businessmen who have made a success did not pursue a "to-morrow" policy, and they don't like it in their governmental repre sentatives. But, apparently, .the Stale Committee knows little and cares less what the businessmen think. THE STORY -TELLERS' CLUB THE Story Tellers' Club will bring to Harrisburg Saturday evening a noted authority on story-telling ; with the idea of starting a permanent' lecture fund to give Harrisburg dur ing the entertainment season the best j speakers on "story-telling" in the country. Every one of us who re | members how as children we used to j lieg for a story must realize the vast good that can be accomplished in this I direction. The Story-Tellers' Club has done much for Harrisburg along j this line under very adverse condi- j i tions. It has both entertained and i | instructed. The story-telling hour at I the Public Library is an illustration of the popularity of the custom of i educating children by this pleasant 1 method and the need grows with the j city. The club should be patronized j and encouraged. WISE REGULATION CHIEF OK POLICE ZEIL has ruled wisely in forbidding the asphalt streets to children riding push mobiles or coaster wagons. Two fatalities have occurred In this city !as a result of boys riding on space j especially set aside for vehicular I traffic and if the practice is not stop ped other accidents are bound to oc cur. The officers should have the hearty co-operation of parents In carrying out the new order. Human life. Is too precious to be placed in jeopardy for the mere sake of an hour's fun that may be had under con ditions far less hazardous it not quite so exciting. NO HYPHENS AMONG THEM THE resolutions adopted by the Sons of Italy in America during their convention here this week have the right ring. One, addressed to the President of the United States, expresses their loyalty to the land of their adoption and their devotion to Itu welfare. Another, messaged to | the Italian ambassador at Washing ton, extends greetings and assures hini of continued affection for their native country. There is no hyphen in either. Italians who are loyal to America and who love the nation of their birth make good Americans. Tariff for revenue only is a fal lacy. as you cannot worship at its shrine without withdrawing the support and foundation of Ameri can Institutions, and it needs no argument to establish the fact that a low tariff which operates in suf ficient volume to afford adequate revenue to meet the expenses of governmental administration, must of necessity flood the countiv with commodltits to the point of utter stagnation in American productive energy. Under the present tariff It would be necessary for our Imports to increase more than a billion dol lars over what they were last year in order to produce sufficient reve nue to meet the expenses of the Government. Such tremendous in crease would close our mills and factories and plunge us into a con dition of poverty and wretchedness beyond our Imagination. Theodore S. Todd to the Manufac turing Perfumers' Association of the 1 United States, twenty-second annual 1 convention. May 10. 1910. 1 TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE We wonder what Correspondent j Bryan is going to write for the news papers he represents about the de- ; fense planks of the Republican plat- | form at Chicago. The controversy still rages, but most of us believe that Shakespeare has brought home the bacon. "Estabrooke out of Presidential race," says a newspaper headline. This is especially lively news for the rea son that few of us realized he was ever in the race. The Springfield Republican express es the opinion that Knox will go back to the Senate "if the Democrats don't upset Penna." We would advise the Republican that Pennsylvania is quite a big State and that the Republicans have it pretty well nailed down. Straw votes are about as reliable as straw hats in a hurricane. When a girl loses her heart she sometimes also loses her head. EDITORIAL COMMENT If Justice Hughes is ever forced to eat His words, he won't need any di gestion-tablets.—Columbia State. Possibly the worst thing that could befall the Goethals boom would be a landslide.—Washington Post. The U-boat commander who sank the Sussex will be punished, says Berlin. Pencil sketch, please.—Philadelphia North American. The Republican party doesn't seem to be making half as much fuss over fa vorite sons as over a certain prodigal son.—Chattanooga News. How like those efficient Germans to put the entire question of food supply in the hands of the Minister of the In terior.—Boston Transcript. After this it is highly probable that the commander of the submarine that sank the Sussex will show his bits of sketches to only a few very intimate and partial friends.—Chicago Herald. Champion Wasters In addressing the Senate recently. Senator Smoot. of Utah, said: "The American garbage can is the fattest in all the world." He took the ground that military readiness is not the sole necessary consideration, but that the development of home economics is a vital phase of perparedness both for peace and war. It is claimed that America is paying a quarter of a mil lion yearly for the support of de pendent wage earners; that of 3,000,- 000 widows over 65 years of age one third lack the necessities of life and 50 per cent, the comforts. Our garbage can is said actually to contain enough nourishing food to feed all of France, andl besides what we thus throw away, the amount that we spend uselessly and foolishly runs to even larger totals. America's fields have been prodigal with her sons, but with her increasing population, condensing as it is In cities and in the manufacturing centers, the lesson of real thrift Is the one lesson that will save us from serious famine and distress in coming years.—The Christian Herald. "Camping Out" There came before my eyes an al most forgotten picture of the woods back home where we boys used to "camp out" for a day at a time and fish for bull-heads in Black Pond. On Saturday morning you hurried through your paper route and your breakfast, and then out Into the backyard to dig a can of worms under the grape-vine, near where the last batch of kittens had been buried. You hunted up your fish-line and hooks atrd the rusty and liors de-combat revolver you swapped a pair of wheels for. Then you got a pin box full of salt and pepper, made sure you had your jack-knife, filled your pockets with potatoes, got a card of matches (the old-fashioned sulphur kind that came in the form of a picket ! fence) out of the tin box in Dhe j kitchen, jumped off the piazza, and started on a run up the street. The fellers were waiting at the corner of Autumn street, and you went off to gether in a hunch, walking out of step like a crowd of Chinamen.—Waltor A. Dyer in The Countryside Magazine for June. French Confident A correspondent writing to the New York Post front Paris says, in an ar ticle Telating to the manner in which the French are paying their war debts: "The public is now bringing to the treasury an average of 50,000,000 frances daily in exchange for short term obligations at five per cent., which shows sufficiently that the cau tious French public is not alarmed by the financial requirements of the French effort. "The deductions drawn by French financial experts generally is not only that French confidence is undismayed by the multiplication of the govern ment's debts, but that it is not money but credit that is keeping the war go ing primarily. On the other hand, they point out it is the war that keeps money in general circulation, handing it to new creditors as fast as it is brought in by old ones in exchange for bonds. In this way the French public debt has gone from about 32,000,000.- 000 francs to about 52,000,000.000, an increase of nearly 62 per cent, but nothing in proportion to the increase in the public debt of Germany, which is about 515 per cent, and Great Bri tain which is about 165 per cent." Funston "Lucky Dog" Major General Frederick Funston, in charge of the expedition of the United States army into Mexico, is called (he "lucky dog of the serv ice." He is always on the scene, ready to greet trouble when it arrives, says Thomas, F. Logan in Leslie's Weekly. He was the one chosen to lake Aguin aldo in the Philippines. He was on hand at San Francisco when earth quake and fire visited the coast. He was the one officer handy and the one selected when President Wilson or dered Vera Cruz taken. And he was the one chosen to capture Villa. When he went after Aguinaldo. the fighting general displayed qualities which demonstrated that he is pecu liarly fitted for his latest task. In the Philippines he had conceived a plan for the capture of Aguinaldo whicli met with approval. On March 6, 1901, he left Manila on the gunboat Vicks burg with two lieutenants, two cap tains. three insurgent officers and 80 Macabebe scouts for Casiguran bay, which he reached at 1 o'clock on the morning of March 15. Funston and his party inarched 90 miles over rough mountain trails to the little town of Palanan, the head quarters of Aguinaldo, arriving eight days later. He sent scouts to Aguin aldo, and the latter, thinking that they were insurgent reinforceme.its, re ceived them, and then found himself surrounded. Funston took Aguinaldo singlehanded. Curiously enough, among Aguinal do's officers was one named Villa. Not a single member of Funston's little command was even wounded. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LK "~P «->vKO^tca>vta the Ex-Commit tec man The interesting thing about the meetings of the official party organi zations of the Republicans and Demo crats yesterday was the decisive char acter of the deliberation. As pointed out by the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh newspapers this morning there is now no lpnger any question of the leader ship of Senator Penrose in the Repub lican party and the unanimous action of the Democratic State committee in carrying through the program of A. Mitchell Palmer shows that the re organization wing is lirmly in power. The only speculation about yester day is what the anti Penrose people Intend to do. They have not given any signs as yet and the Governor and his advisers have refused to talk about the matter. In any event, the scene is now shifted to Chicago where the clans will begin to gather to morrow. —The Prohibition State committee yesterday named Chairman B. E. P. Prugh to take charge of its affairs again. He has been chairman for three years and got an increase of sal ary. David B. McCalmont and Dr. Prugh were elected members of the national committee; Charles L,. Rum mel, of Shippensburg, was elected sec retary, and Thomas H. Hamilton, this city, was re-elected treasurer. The following were elected members of the State executive committee: George W. Haine, Evans City; J. G. Hosick, Springdale; Isaac Mondereau, Mead ville: Harry W. Brown, Osceola Mills; F. E. Whittlesey, Corry; Albert Gad dis, Uniontown; William Repp, Old Forge: D. S. Von Nieda, Eplirata; D. B. McCalmont, Franklin; George L. Pennock, Lansdowne; Elisha K. Kane, Kushequa, and E. B. T>acey, Warren. Elisha K. Kane was chairman of the meeting and Charles U Rummel, Cumberland county, secretary. The treasurer's report showed receipts of $7,071,23, and expenditures of $6,- 607.71, leavirur a balance of $463.23. The floating" indebtedness of the committee amounting to $10,427.25, had been reduced by $1,400. The remainder, it was announced, will be wiped out soon. —Just what became of the Bull | Moosers yesterday no one seems to know. State Chairman Detrich was In the city, but no one knew whether he had forgotten to call a meeting of his committee or whether he was the I whole committee himself. Detrich was noncommittal and the impression gained ground that there would be nothing doing until after Chicago. —The meeting of the Republican State committee, held at Philadelphia yesterday morning, was attended by 110 of the 113 members. Other than the election of Senator Penrose as the national committeeman, the principal business was the unanimous re-elec tion of Senator Crow as chairman, of Charles Johnson as treasurer and of W. Harry Baker as secretary. Senator Crow then reappointed W. P. Gal lagher .of Wilkes-Barre, as director of publicity. Harmony speeches were de livered by Senator Oliver, Senator Snyder, nominee for Auditor General, and Joseph McLaughlin, nominee for Congressman-at-Large. The commit tee will meet later in the summer, pos sibly in Pittsburgh. —Several belated expense accounts were filed at the Capitol to-day, J. V. Clark, candidate for the State Treas urer nomination on the Republican and Washington tickets entering his napers. His Republican account shows $458. Others filing to-day were Eu ffene C. Bonniwell, S. J. Adams, Jr., William Repp and R. A. Phillips, all under SSO and D. M. Wertz, $117.38. —Delaware county was the onlv county which had not filed its official returns to-day. The only official pa pers from Delaware are the returns on one representative district and on district delegates. WHAT THE ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of 1 the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at tlie organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] How are sidewalks constructed, and 1 who must keep same in repair? Constructed by property owner and repaired by property owner. Society and Man It is an error to suppose that man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or | his relations, or his creditors, or to society in some form or other. It is for their especial good and behalf that he lives and works, and they kindly allow him to retain a certain percentage of his gains to administer to his own pleasures or wants. Society is the master, and man is the servant, i —Sala. Cold Just as of old, I know. The seasons come and go; There is no change—yet changed is everything! Oh something now is missing from the Spring, j Summer is poor, and oven Autumn's gold j No more is rich for me! I Alas, the beauty that I cannot see, ; And love that died and left the whole world cold! 1 know, just as of old, | The tale of days is told; Still glad through golden gyres the warm stars climb! Only my heart feels Winter all the time— Alas for all my bright world used to hold, The harmony complete, The miracle of joy the wonder sweet! Awake. O love, for every wind blows cold! By Stokley S. Fisher, in Out West Magazine. THE STATE FROM m TO DW Estella Claire Judy, an attractive young girl of McKee.sport, is the win ner of the Beauty and Brains Contest that the Photoplay Magazine has been running for the selection of eleven girls in this country and Canada out of whom It Is proposed to make mo tion-picture stars. The little istar-to be is at present chief operator of the telephone exchange In McKeesport, has perfect teeth and an attractive smile, to say nothing of being 23 years of age and 5 feet 5 inches tall. The movies are lucky. A snake thief startled a couple of Izaak Waltons who were fishing along the Codorus Creek, York, the other day when Mr. Reptile sneaked Into their fishing net and made Inroads upon the fattest fish of the day's catch. One of the captured carp was released after having been bitten, se unless it dies of snake bite, carpy owes its life to the attacking party. "Bill" Taft told a crowd at the sta tion at Bridgeville, through which he passed on his way to "Washington, Pa., on Decoration day, that he was an op timist, and that our country, in his opinion, can on occasion show a patri otism more intense than that across THE CARTOON OF THE DAY t ■■ WHO'S GOING TO GET IT? A CITIZEN By Frederic J. Haskin PHILADELPHIA is mobilizing. | While most of the nation is dis cussing preparedness, Philadel phia has ten thousand men ready, in theory at. least, to take the field.': When the recent Sussex crisis arose wit:. Germany, the leaders of the local army wired Secretary Baker that their ten thousand stood behind him. The organization is formally known as Philadelphia's Citizen Army, and intends eventually to recruit up to a strength of 48,000. Moreover, in the large plans which inspire the foun ders, Philadelphia's corps is to be only the nucleus of a National Citizen Army of a million men. Locally people speak of the corps as "Drexel Biddle's Citizen Army," or more familiarly as "Biddle's Army." Therein lies the whole story. For this is a unique army, a paradoxical army. It is one man's army, yet it gets more men than the National Guard. It is a rich man's army, yet In some ways It is an ideal army for a poor man to join. > The army had its birth In A. J. Drexel Biddle's brain. He is a figure pretty well known to American news paper readers, his exploits as an ama teur boxer combined with his sudden determination to found a world-wide chain of Bible classes having given material for much picturesque "copy." Less well known, perhaps, is the fact that his Bible classes have been pushed along until they number 150,- 000 members. Now he is pushing his army in something the same way. The original idea of the corps, and the idea that still animates its lead ers, was simply to "show Congress that it can be done." Several months ago it became apparent that the coun try wanted preparedness, but the pow ers that be seemed unable to decide just where to begin and what to do. Philadelphia's Citizen Army is in the nature of a concrete suggestion, a laboratory demonstration of how citi zen armies are built. Being well endowed with this world's goods and in close touch with men of wealth, Mr. Biddle was in a position to put his ideas into practice. He wanted to get the rank and file of Philadelphia out and give them mili tary training, somewhat after the Swiss or the Australian fashion, with out Interfering with their regular work. If the citizens of Philadelphia really wanted an army corps, was the Implication, let them come out and form one, without waiting for instruc tions from authority. At first it looked as if they didn't want one. After lengthy negotiations, a number of officers were loaned by the government to act as drillmasters. Thousands of recruiting circulars were sentr around explaining the scheme, and setting the first meeting at Lans downe, a country place near Philadel phia. Thousands of dollars were spent to get publicity. Front-page adver tisements were inserted in the news papers. When the day arrived, it found Mr. Biddle at with ten officers. The recruits were there too—as many as sixteen of them. The new army was apparently a fiasco. It looked like failure. But Mr. Biddie remembered his Bible class experience, when he had started with four men. lie looked over the six teen recruits, and they were a hetero geneous collection, especially from the religious point of view. There were three Jews, four Roman Catholics, nn atheist or two, and members of sev eral Protestant denominations. Never theless, the aggregation were called on to start the army by saying the lord's prayer. This they did, and the llrst drill was postponed while the recruiting campaign went on. Before long the tide began to turn, and enough men came out to start the drilling. After two weeks, names were pouring in, until now, as stated before, the corps numbers ten thou sand, with a fair prospect of getting the 48,000 set for a goal. The work consists in bi-weekly drills with a strenuous week-end drill ing at Lansdowne. Saturday and Sun day are devoted to the latter, and into these two days the men in charge are contriving to cram twenty-eight hours of military practice of one kind or an other. Tents, food and equipment are furnished. In the matter of meeting expenses, the corps is calling on the wealthy men of Philadelphia. A campaign has just been launched to raise $500,- 000 to cover the cost of prospective expansion. The theory is that each recruit shall pay for as much as he the water. Chambersburg is to have its free library after all. The gift is made in the will of Mr». Blanche Coyle, who bequeathed about $25,000 pro vided the town appropriates SI,OOO a year. Miss Katharine Stinson, the girl avi ator, raced a motorcycle manned by Leslie Magee over the space of one mile at New Brighton against a gale of a wind and beat him out by a frac tion of a second, thus proving that the female of the species is more speedy than the male. Enough union suits for wotyen to last his family for a long time com prised the booty of a thief who looted the factory of the Hazleton Knitting company. The inference is that the thief belonged to the burglars' union, and was laying in the year's supply. The Butler Citizen relays to us the death of Capt. Abner Martin, of East Liverpool, 0., "the river boatman who taught Mark Twain to navigate the Mississippi river." Wasn't it through this same Captain Martin's influence that Mr. Clemens selected his nom de plume? By the marK, twain, is a term employed in sounding depths, if we mistake not. A Haddonfield man took up the game of golf recently and one of his JUNE 1, 1916. can, or will. If he is in Rood circum stances, he can take care of all his own expenses, get his military train ing, and do his duty as a citizen. If he is some one equally willing hut too poor to go to any extra expense, the corps will do it for him. It is claimed for such a system that it is based on real justice. Men of wealth have most at stake in case of war. They have most to lose in dis aster, most to protect under any cir cumstances. It is no more than their duty that they should come forward with the money to equip defenders, if the defenders are willing to give their time, which is all they have, to ward making themselves efficient. Moreover, wealth comes to most men late In life, when they are past the fighting age. They can do their share by helping some youth with a smaller bank account to learn to handle a rifle. Many large employers of labor have been won ovei 4 . There is one detach ment of the corps which consists of 1,200 bakers. All these bakers come from a single big bakery, and their uniforms are furnished them by their employer. Several of the department stores have uniformed as many of their employes as cared to join. One Jewelry store has sixty-four uniformed men in the field. Recruiting is still going on actively. Sometimes as many as a hundred men join in a day. To stimulate interest, a.unique exhibit has been set up on the ground floor of one of the big downtown office buildings. It includes all sorts of souvenirs of the European war, In the shape of helmets, rifles, big ugly-looking shells, a model camp, an aeroplane, even the somewhat dis couraging figure of a wounded soldier attended by a pretty Red Cross nurse. This last, however, is a part of the contribution of the Pennsylvania Women's Division for National Pre paredness. which Is co-operating in the exhibition as are half a dozen other organizations of kindred pur pose, such as the State division of the Navy League. In spite of the fact that it is by way of being a protege of wealth and so ciety, the Citizen Army is democratic. The men who are backing it are in dead earnest, and efficiency is the only yardstick. Some young scions of Philadelphia's first families are serv ing in the ranks, under the command of men who work at a trade. One of the best captains in the organization spends his working hours laying bricks. The obligations incurred by the man who signs his name as a recruit are of course less definite thai) those he undertakes to fulfill when joining the National Guard. He Is not pledged to any course of action except that he promises to defend his coun try, and to work faithfully at acquir ing a military training. Nevertheless, the leaders of the corps believe firmly that their men can be counted on in any contingency that may arise, as witness their telegram to the Secre tary of War. The unique feature of the Citizen Army is the use it has made of the resources of men of wealth. By pay ing all expenses for those who can not pay their own, even down to making good a loss of salary when an em ployer will not give time off without taking it out of the pay envelope, the system puts military training within reach of anybody who wants it. It has put the question of preparedness squarely up to the citizen himself, leaving him to answer it in an un mistakable way by his own actions. The Citizen Army hopes to grow until it is a national organization. Plans are already made for starting corps in many other cities, among them Baltimore, Washington and Pittsburgh. In rftch new city the same double problem will have to be faced that was solved in Philadelphia —first to how to arouse the people and second how to secure the co-op eration of men of means. The ulti mate goal is an organization a mil il0" strong, covering the country. The men who want that corps have no particular desire to keep it in their own hands. They want preparedness. They are willing to work with any body who is working for prepared ness, ready to affiliate with anything that promises to further the end. They ask nothing better than to have their The P v : r".°lf r , by " 1e government thattt ?an bldon*™ t>rlng to show Ihi J V ? s smote 1,18 ,ovln * w lfe on the head instead of resting against hnt B t'E 1 sphere : " believed that there is no rule to cover the mis game ad r vUe°Tt. the eU<,UCtte ° f ,he OUR DAILY LAUGH f L E otT?iufa case of an irresis tible force and an unmovable body. What's up? Our star' sales man seems to have run up against a man •who won't buj ALL SETTLED. o£<r\ Made any plans vvfcO/i tor your vaca- /\Ji I dont need to. JrLl \ My boss tells me jf.S when rm to go, jtjf /l 1 and my wife »*"■ me where, _ V rmS>r iEtaning (Eljal Democratic meetings of character have been held in Harris burg for years, but it is doubtful i? in the experience of observers of the Democracy, here and gone, there has been a meeting which has been as much of the love feast variety as that held yesterday in the Board of Trade. It was the largest gathering of a State committee held by the Democrats since the crucial meeting at which the pres ent leaders ousted Cot. James Madison Guffey and his friends from control and if the silent manner In which some of the Old Guardsmen acquiesced in the doings of the day was a bit omni- I ous, it nevertheless (remonst rated the strength of the A. Mitchell Palmer regime. Of course. Palmer was back ed by numerous federal officeholders, some able leaders on the tioor, pros pects of patronage yet to be divided and the potential favor of the presi dent, but the fact remains that only once did anyone endeavor to object to the routine laid out and the result was conclusive proof that the objector did not have any friends willing to mount the altar of sacrifice. It was totally unlike what one has come to expect from Democratic meetings. It was more like what Republican meet ings used to be. Another interesting thing about the meeting was that Wil liam 1,. McLean, Jr., the young Lu- I zerne leader, who was made chairman, iis the first Luzerne man since the I Bryan days to be State chairman. His I predecessor from that county of hard coal and strenuous politics, was John M. Garman. now a judge and known because of his activity for Bryan and free silver as "Moonbeam" Garman. Garman gave way to Creasy and was followed by Hall, Driscoll, Donnelly, Dewalt and others who were noted in old days and they in turn gave way to George W. Guthrie now ambassa dor to Japan and to Roland S. Mor ris. The Democracy, it would seem, has become permeated with organiza tion. • * • Newspaper reporters find a funny side in life now and then and a mem ber of the Telegraph staff had an oc casion to laugh this week. lie was assigned to look after the convention of the Sons of Italy and at the open ing session was given a warm welcome and told to make himself comfortable. He was also informed that news would ,be gladly furnished him. The con vention was called to order. .Ml . doors wore closed and each officer put on his regalia. Then came the re ' quest from the presiding officer to sea , I that everybody present had a rigflt to . be there. The reporter became un > easy and started to leave. "Never , mind," said one of the delegates and I acquaintance of the newspaper man. . "You stay where you are, you will not . understand anything we say." This ! news of the meeting came later . through an interpreter. * * • Relating this story to a friend brought another about a convention [ that was held in the House of Ilep resentatives several years ago. The | annual meeting of the State Assoe'a , tion of deaf mutes was in progress in , the hall of the House of Representa , lives. In adjoining rooms electricians and carpenters were busy making v | j pairs and improvements. It wai l rather noisy on the outside. A prom f inent State official looking in on 'h" convention and hearing the nois" on , tlie outside, went to the men in charge t of the work and said "you fellows ar • . interrupting a big convention. Why ( don't you quit for the day." The fore , man in charge of the working force . looked in on the convention, and re -3 marked to the State official: "Wo can't interrupt that convention unless r we hurt the fingers of the delegates. . Noise does not worry those people." * • • i Congressman Ben Focht is saying » thinks about "Uncle Henry" Houck f again. This is his latest remark . J about the venerable secretary of inter -1 I nal affairs: Prof. Henry Houclt was in Washing ton over Sunday and gave out some [interesting interviews to the newspa per reporters. We nad the pleasure of meeting our octagenarian friend "ii the avenue and complimented him on his fine appearance and real rohu:-:t health. He acquiesced but remark' I something about a rlttle indignation, having just had a big supper from ii Washington menu of lobster flake, Maryland fried chicken, Alabama sweet potatoes, livers brouchet, lettuce salad with roquefort cheese dressing, and some strawberries and ice cream with coffee to finish the sleepless dose. Indigestion is a wonderful stopping of the machinery of the stomach, but more wonderful is the ingenuity of man in devising crazy dishes to hasten young men away and shorten the span of old ones. There are chefs who can get up meals which arc more rav aging to the system than a broken leg or a broken collarbone. . » » • Among Democrats here yesterday for the meeting was Col. J. L. Spang ler, of Bellefonte. Col. Spangler is best known to many residents of this city as "Jack" Spangler. For years he has been a visitor here and was one of the men who was a personal friend of Governor Hastings. He Is one of the oldest members of the committee in point of service, being exceeded on ly in that, respect by Dennis J. Dris coll, the sage of Elk. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~] Commissioner Winey will speak at Selinsgrove to-morrow, being sched uled to address Susquehanna univer sity students. Cyrus H. K. Curtis, the publisher, is said to be considering presenting a stadium to Philadelphia. Congressman Temple was the Me morial day speaker at Ellwood City. James Francis Burke appears to be still the official welromer for Pitts burgh. He made the speech to the educators on Tuesday. A. U Humphrey, vice-president of Westlngnouse Air Brake Company, is an enthusiastic advocate of industrial preparedness. DO YOU KNOW Thnt Western railroads use Har risburg billing machines? HISTORIC HARKISBURG John Harris gave his- ferry receipts to found the Harrisburg Academy. ' Be Identified, Mr. 3 Storekeeper National advertisers have made their goods favorably known in this city by continuously em ploying that powerful educational force—newspaper advertising. A share in the benefits of this publicity belong to you, Mr. Dealer. Its like a check wait ing to be cashed. But to realize on It, you must first be identified —ldentified 111 the readers' minds with the goods they have learned through the newspaper advertis ing to favor and want. To be properly Identified, it is necessary to remind your cus tomers constantly that you carry the advertised brands on your shelves. Use your windows and the columns of tho Tele graph.