THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURd, VA. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BXUOMSnURC, PA. THE OLDEST AND STRONGEST. Capita! 8100,000 Surplus 8150,000. With the Largest Capital and Surplus in the County, a ' Strong Directorate, Competent Officers and Every Mod ern Facility, wc solicit Accounts, Large or Small, and Collections on the Most Liberal Terms Consistent with Sound Banking, and Invite YOU to inspect our NEW QUARTERS. Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. OFFICERS: K. W. M. Low, President. James M.Htaver, Vice President. DIRECTORS: James M. Staver, Fred Ikeler, H. C. Creasy. Clinton Herrinjr, B. W.M.Low, F. O. Yorks, Lnuls Gross, M. E 8tM'khouse. THE COLUMBIAN. ESTABLISHED 1866. THECOLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, Established 1837. Consolidated 1869 urlhmf.d Every Thursday Mornino, At Bio jmsburg, the County Seat ot . Columt)iaCounty .Pennsylvania. GEO. E. EI.WELL, Editor. GEO. C. ROAN. Foreman. IVkms: Inside the county 1.00 a year In ndvance; $ 1 . 5 0 i f not paid in aivance. t.ntside thecounty, $1.25 a year, strictly in - mi ce. A 1. communications should beaJdressed 1 ME COLUMBIAN, lUoomsl.urR, Ta 'IIIURKDAY. FEBRUARY 4, IfiOii. Economy: Not More Taxes. An increase in taxation is not "needed in Pennsylvania. Already the revenues are enormous and they must continue to grow. What we need is a bit of honest economy in public expenditures and less thieving in connection with public works. The $9,000,000 graft in the capitol job should not be forgotten.' With that sum a magnificent boule yard from Philadelphia to Pitts burg might be built. With $9,000, 000 the schools might be relieved as to all present needs. With $9, "'0,000 the state institutions which crippled for want of funds ;ht be placed on a thoroughly .. . cient footing. ;lut that $9,000,000 has gone 1 gone for good. It will never i..id its way back into the looted treasury. Just where it went and who got it, can only be inferred. But the salient fact is that it is not available for public use. Its loss should exercise a chastening effect on the party responsible for the tremendous robbery. It should im pel that party to a course of severe economy until a balance has been restored and instead of planning new taxes and larger extravagances it should devote its energies to the lopping off of every sinecure and the saving of every dollar that now hints of gratuity. Unfortunately Pennsylvania has become more and more lavish in the expenditure of taxes. These are almost wholly indirect and in consequence the people do not feel them as they would if they were taken out of their pockets as city and county taxes are taken. But the people have to pay the indirect taxes nevertheless. They do not come out of the corporations. They do not fall upon privileges and monopolies. They are taxes that are passed alor.g with added profits from the apparent payer to the consumer. And he is hurt without knowing precisely what hurts him It is therefore important that the mass of the people cf this state should protest against any proposed increass of state taxes. They snouia insist ratner on genuine economy. They should insist on prudent expenditure. They should aemana ana entorce a rigid ac counting for all money appropria' ted. And they should make it clear that they will not stand for a riot of extravagance in the disburse ment of public funds. Johnstown Democrat. Legislative Standing Committees. The Senator from this district and our county Representative have both been placed on lmport- .ant committees or the Legislature Senator Cochran has been assigned to the Committees on Appropria tions, iJanksand Building and Loan Associations, City Passenger Rail ways, Corporations, Finance, Game and Fish, Judiciary Special, Mines and Mining, Public Roads and Highways and Railroads. On Fi nance, Appropriations aud Banks and Building and Loan Associa tions ne is tne ranking minority member. Mr. Creasy has been as signed to the Committees on Ways and Means, Agriculture, 1 Public Health and Sanitary, Law and Or der, Public Roads and Education. Low, Vice President. Frank Ikeler, Cashier Myron T. Low, H. V . Hower Frank Ikeler, New School Law lor the State. Meaturo Presented to the Legislature Wakes Sweeping Changes in Present Methods. Radical changes in the school system of the entire State are con templated in the bill submitted to both houses of the legislature by the Kducational Commission ap pointed by Governor Stuart two years ago. The bill prepared by this commission, of which Dr. Nathan C. SchaefTer, State Super intendent, was chairman, is ap proved by the leading educators and dominant politicians. The bill was reported out of com mittee and the joint Senate and House Committee will graut a pub lic hearing on the measure in the House cf Representatives chamber on February 9. It is the most drastic bill ever presented on the educational ques tion. No more sweeping statute has been proposed in the history of the State. It is modeled after the schcol laws of New York State and Massachusetts. It takes the entire control of the schools out of the hands of cities and towns and places them under the coutrol of the State. A commission of seven is to head the educational system, of which the superintendent of the schools will be the chief officer. These will be appointed by the governor. The most prominent items in the new bill, which in all likelihood will become a law, are: All schools to be under direct State supervision. Commission appointed by gover nor to control all the schools. Boards of education have the power to levy taxes to pay school expenses. Lvery male citizen more than 21 years of age must pay Si tax to support schools. Exclusion from the public schools of all pupils, teachers or employes who have tuberculosis in any form. Extension of the compulsory ed ucation laws to include all blind, deaf and mentally deficient child ren who are capable of receiving partial education. Two colleges of education, one at the University of Pennsylvania, the other at the University of Pittsburg. Compulsory education. Unvaccinated children to be ad mitted on a three-fourths vote of a district board. Unpunished Murderers. Nowhere except perhaps in Cor sica or Sicily are murderers so len lently treated as in America. Hu man life has become an exceeding ly cheap commodity in this count ry, which in so many other respects is a leader in enlightenment aud civilization. And upon all sides the peopl here realize more and more that this is so. In clubs, hotel corri dors, offices aud wherever men and worn; 1 may meet in groups, and whenever this topic conies up, the verdict is always the same. Too few murderers are punished Kill and go free has come to be most unfortunate rule. Takeahu man lite on any thmsy pretext, set up a still more flimsy wall of insan ity or self-defense, get expert testi fnony on brain storms, confuse the jury, and the murderer is atjiberty. Just where the fault lies is diffi cult to say. But as things go now the American jury system is a fail ure in this one respect at least. The same evidence that would inev itably hang a man in England, and hang him quickly, would not con vince an American jury in nine out of ten cases. Whenever and whatever the weak spot is in the United States it exists, and the grim sequel is ap parent to all: Too few murderers are punished. Ex. Bears Uw You Haw Alwayw Bought Myron I. WASHINGTON From our Kegutar Corretfondent. . Washington, D. C, Feb. 2, 1909. There was a one time unwritten law in Senate that new members of that body should be like children, seen but not heard, but the prece- j ueiu nas oeen so snaiierea oy a tew rearing youngsters like La Follette an J Beveridge and others that there was only a mild sensation this week when Senator Cummins of Iowa de livered his maiden speech on the subject of postals savings banks. The new Senator was not hazed as he would have been in the old days by speaking to empty seats or hav ing to endure irrelevant interrup tions, but held a fairly large num ber of his colleagues in their places and was declared by them later to have acquitted himself like a vet erau. Representative Rainey of Illinois introduced a little sensationalism into the proceedings of the House Tuesday by a peech in which he accused the President of a miss tatement of facts in his special mes sage to Congress coiKertiitig the Panama canal iti 1906 and an at tack 011 Mr. Cromwell for his con nection with affairs in Panama as General Counsel for the Panama Canal Company. He closed his speech with a promise or a threat to finish Mr. Cromwell up at some later date and said, "when I am through with this man Cromwell the President and the President e- lect are welcome to all that is left of him." Mr. Rainey went back four hundred years into the history of Panama, brought it up to date aud concluded with a prediction for the future in which the United States is to wreck itself on the same rocks which foundered the French Canal scheme. Mr. Crom well was characterized as the "Na tion's despoiler" and he insinuated that the President elect has been a party to schemes on the Isthmus which have been of profit to Mr. Cromwell, his personal friends and Charles P. Taft, his brother. Sen sations have become so common in Congress of late that they have lost their edge and so many have had a hand in the pastime of spank ing the President that a charge gainst the President elect is re- gar.led as a mild affair. An elderly white haired man who has spent the most productive part of his life on a sheep ranch in Montana, the benign Senator Car ter of Montana is responsible for the proposition to have a road about two hundred feet wide from the front door of the White House to the battle field of Gettysburg with spaces along it allotted to ach state which will be called up on to erect groups of statuary or monuments suitable as a Lincoln Memorial. The proposition sounds well. A national memorail to the great president is desirable and such a highway might well embedy the artistic aud patriotic sentiment of the people but carried out it might result in such another group of statuary horrors as may be seen in the rotunda of the Capital or in some of the Squares of Washing ton. Nothing short of physical vio lence it seems can eradicate from the American mind the love of equestrian statues and the thought ot nfty miles of war heroes career ing a ad cavorting on impossible horses is one to make the most stoical apprehensive. Of course the automobiles of New York, Phila delphia, Baltimore and Washington are charmed at the idea of a road surpassing that at Daytona for mo tor racing but artists and architects are flooding their members in Con gress with appeals to leave the de cision about the . adornmeut of the road to those who know something about art. Three propositions are before Congress for tne construc tion of a proper memorial to Lin coln. One provides for the road to Gettysburg, another for a monu ment upon a locatiou south of the Washington monument and the third for a memorial arch or peri style between the new Union sta tion and th; Capitol. It has also been suggested that the Capitol grounds be extended and suitable monument be placed in them as a memorial. D. H. Burnham the distinguished architect has cabled from Europe that a peristyle and a monumental architectural treat Dt May Be "A hard chill, pain through the chest, difficult breathing. Then fever, with great prostration." If this should be your experience, send for your doctor. You may have pneumonia! If your doctor cannot come at once, give Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. When lie comes, tell him exacuy wnai you nave done. No alcohol in this cough medicine Kee YnA SL in coT,,on- une Ayer's at bedtime will cause increased flow of bile, and nroduce a cent i-.v:.iu ,.fc.f .i. n-...i.. an ment of the entrauce way to the Capitol in no mattet whose name it is erected is demanded by artistic requirements and it would certain ly seem tc the lay mind a better solution of tin disturbing problem than a half buried statue on the river front or even an imitation of flU Appun way to Gettysburg V The President who is not oflly the advocate of laige families but also the friend of children has ap peared twice this Meek at the con vention which has for its object the betterment of the condition of de pendent and orphan children in this country. In his speech or welcome to the delegates among whom were such widely known philanthropists as Theodore Dreiser of New York, Judge Ben Lindsay of the Juvenile Court in Denver, Judge Julian Mack of Chicago, Miss Jane Ad dams of Hull House and many others taking an active part in so cial betterment, the President ex pressed his deep interest in the work of looking out for the child ren and urged that "there can be no more important subject from the standpoint of the nation than that of taking care of the children". Life in a Great State. Industrial Bureau to Investigate Habits and Conditions ol People. An investigation into industrial conditions of the State on a more extended scale than ever under taken before, which will embrace not only laboring but sociological conditions, has been inaugurated by John L. Rockey, chief of the State Bureau of Industrial Statis tics, in cities of southeastern Penn sylvania, with the ultimate inten tion of extending it to all counties of the State. The questions will go into the general industrial characteristics of the various communities, the na tionality of the employes and whether foreigners predominate. The manner of living, the kind of homes, the number of owners aud renters, the rents paid, cost of fuel and light and the sanitary condi tions will receive close attention. In addition to home utilities, the food question will be taken up to ascertain what is readily obtainable, the quality and the price prevail ing in summer and winter. One of the chief matters of mo ment at this time will lie the inqui ry into the educational systems, to what extent they are used, wheth er night, manual training, domes tic science and other schools are provided. The conditions are to be contras ted with ten years ago, and in ad dition religion and charities will be touched upon. The organization of labor will be gone into in a gen eral way, the relations between em ployer and employe, proportion of population employed studied, aud information secured to aid the State in procuring labor for those need ing it. The bureau will endeavor to ob tain data which will enable it to benefit the foreign population, the inspectors being specially charged to suggest from their observations some method whereby the standard of the foreigner may be raised or influences brought to bear which would develop sense of citizenship and responsibility toward the rest of the community. Extras In Road Making. In some of the counties the au thorities are taking a stand against any more road building under the present system. The chief dissat isfaction is with extras, which have to be paid for. The Harrisburg Patriot gives figures showing the cost of some roads in Dauphin and York counties which are signifi cant, un tnree pieces ot road in Dauphin, the contract price of which was S41.673.43, the extras amounted to s12.202.02, and on five pieces of road in York, the con tract price fot which was $34,800.39 the extras were $5,602.45. As the counties and townships have to pay their proportion of the extras as well as of the original contract price, it is not very surprising that .1 1 1 1 1 Ml . mey suuuiu compiain. mere is snch uniformity in these charges for extras aj to have aroused very general criticism, and uuless there is some cnange in the system, roud improvement will hardly go on well in the future. P QTKetaavaoBiaai men cio as lie says. J.C.Ayjr Co.,Lowell,Mass. The February Sale of FURNITURE AND LINENS Began at Pursel's Monday, February ist. In this Sale we have "buzz-sawed" Furniture prices! aud "torn" a good bit off Linen prices ! But ihen you expected that, and we only mention it to emphasize the importance of this Sale to every person having a home to furnish. Your main interest will center 'round the values. You already know that Pursel Fur niture, like Pursel Linens, is of "first" quality that goes without saying. Linens of all Kinds BLEACHED TABLE LINENS. 56 in. bleached table linen Reduced to 22c, was 28c 56 in. bleached table linen reduced to 49c, was 59c 72 in. bleached table linen reduced to 60c, was 75c 72 in, bleached table linen reduced to 72JC, was 85c 72 in. bleached table linen reduced to 85c, was $1 72 in. bleached table linen reduced to 90c, was $1.15 72 in. bleached double dam ask reduced to $1.15, was $1.39. 72 in. bleached double dam ask reduced to $1.25, was $1.75. 72 in. bleached double dam ask reduced ,to $2.00, was $2.50. 72 in, bleached double dam ask reduced to $2.19, was $2.75. UNBLEACHED TABLE LINEN. 56 in. unbleached table lin en reduced to 20c, was 28c 62 in. unbleached table lin en reduced to 35c, was 45c 72 in. unbleached table lin en reduced to 39c, was 50c 62 in. unbleached table lin en reduced to 49c. was 60c 66 in. unbleached table lin en reduced to 85c, was $1. F, P. BLOOMSBURG, We Have Ten Styles of Envelopes and Paper to Match Invitations, Acceptances, RegretsJ Announcements, &c. Full .size Wedding with two Envelopes, down tc Billet-doux size with Card to Fit. Twenty-Four Styles of Type FOR CARDS AND INVITATIONS. We Do All Kinds of Printing Columbian Printing House, BLOOMSBURG, PA. at Big Reductions. MERCERIZED TABLE DAMASK. 58 inch mercerized table damask Reduced to 39c was 50c. 58 inch mercerized table damask reduced to 49c was 59c. 70 inch mercerized table damask reduce! to 59c was 75c. TOWELINGS. These prices are merest hints of the prices, but should suffice to convince you that now is the time for buying all the towel ings you will need for months to come. Best Cot ton Toweling 4jc yd. Brown linen crash reduced to 8Jc, was 10c Stevens' 22 inch crash reduced to 12JC, was 15c Stevens' 20 inch crash reduced to nc, was 14c Bleached Russian crash reduced to 11c, was I2ic Unbleached Russian crash reduced to 10c, was I2jc Red border bleached crash reduced to 10c, was 12c READY MADE TOWEL BARGAINS. Plain all linen Hucka back Towels, 18 x 40 inch es, (very heavy) reduced to 22c; regular value I2c PURSEL. PENN'A, FOR . o ' vi.vn tiiw way tuiumiiijf.
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