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MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13
PtTHITY ON THE STAGE
BACK goes tho pendulum and with
a whack public opinion serves
notice on owners and managers
of theaters that tho end of tho
prurient on the stage Is at hand. Wil
liam Winter, the dean of American
dramatic critics, discussing tho 111 th
of the present-day theater—from the
3s T ew York standpoint—says:
Bijt, for tho greater part, the
play going multitude Is made up of
tho decadent faddist, the raucous
vulgarian, and the idle curiosity
seeker. This element dominates
the New York Theater and largely
dictates the character of theatrical
entertainment throughout tho
whole country. Apprise that mob
that a play "teaches a good moral
lesson" by a startling, or Indecent,'
or, In its own argot, a "raw" ex
ploitation of any network of vicious
circumstances, encircling sexual re
lations, and tt will throng to seo
that play, month after month, and
revel in its vulgarity and Its pre
tended splendid audacity. Such are
the facts as to this great day of
theatrical "emancipation" and
"progress."
It is a hideous disgrace that, in
the most populous city of the world,
the head and front of that society
which vaunts itself "the heir of all
the ages, in the foremost files of
time," the institution of the Thea
. _ ter—intrinsically beneficent and
capable of exercising a beautiful in
fluence —should, under an impudent
pretense of "moral purpose and
"educational influence," a pretense
at once irrational and speciously
mischievous—be perverted into a
medium for disgusting clinical lec
tures and degraded to tho illustra
tion of life in brothels!
Newspapers ail over the country aro
awaking to tho danger, the Philadel
phia Public L,edger concluding some
editorial comment on Winter's con
clusions thus:
We have too many of the plavs
that are as a stench in tho nostrils
of light-thinking, decent men and
women.
Tho pendulum of public sentiment
must ere long decisively swing the
other way. The American public,
whlcli at heart approves the stern
and sound morality of tho Ten
Commandments, will not long con
tinue to bestow Its patronage upon
Immoral and demoralizing drama,
"The Front Steps of Harrisburg" will
make this city quite as famous as "The
Balcony of Europo" has inado Dresden,
"whose water front on the Elbo has
nothing On our Susquehanna river.
THE ATTACK ON MB. MOOIIE
ONE finds It hard to be'patlent
with the political heckling of
Congressman J. Hampton
Moore by aspiring young Dem
ocratic representatives who seek to
■wrest his laurals from him and place
them on their own unworthy brows.
The charges brought against Mr.
Moore by Representative Robert E.
X/ee, of Pottsville, in connection with
the dry dock controversy would be
ridiculous were it not for the evident
•willingness of certain newspapers in
Philadelphia, which have never quite
forgiven "Hampy" for his success in
Washington, to attach sensational im
portance to a trifling political inci
dent.
It Is only necessary to open the
Congressional Directory and com
pare the offioial* record of Congress
man Moore with that of Congressman
O-ee to determine which of the two is
the better friend of Philadelphia and
the abler exponent of maritime im
provement projects.
When the Philadelphia delegation
■went to Washington for the purpose
of protesting against the location of
the proposed new dry dock at Nor
folk, Congressman Moore co-operated,
enthusiastically. It is a significant
fact that one of the newspapers which
la now berating him and seizing eager
ly upon each new statement from the
Pottsvllle Democrat, wr.s so preju
diced against Mr. Moore as to refuse
to print his name in connection with
the group picture of the delegates
taken on the steps of the Capitol. Mr.
Moore was in the very center of the
front row of the group. The figures
of all the other congressmen wore
conspicuously marked and their
names given In the caption, but Mr.
Moore was passed over, unnoticed. His
name was mentioned only when there
■was an opportunity to say something
unpleasant about him.
It is tj/ue that Mr. Moore has urged
the fallacy of deliberately antagoniz
ing the jiaval department. He be
lieves that it Is better to get some
thing for Philadelphia than to get
nothing and he if convinced that Sec
retary Daniels will be supported by the
Administration in his to put
the new dry dock nt T.ongun island.
This fact Is as regrettable to Mr. Moore
tts it is to every other loyal Pennsyl-
MONDAY EVENING,
vanian, but he has had sufficient ex
perience at the National Capital to
know that it does not pay to tight for
the impossible at the expense of the
possible.
It seems incredible that it should be
necessary for a Harrisburg newspa
per to defend a representative from
Philadelphia who has done more for
his district, his city and his State in
Congress than any of the city's five
other representatives, If not more
than all of them put together.
J. Hampton Moore has earned bet
ter treatment from the press of the
Quaker City.
That curfew proposition of tho Civic
Club is in line with other moves in the
direction of a cleaner and better city.
WHAT'S WRONG WITH PORTLAND?
IGNACE JAN PADEREWSKI re
cently cancelled an engagement In
Portland in order that the women
guarantors of his concert might not
be obliged to pay out of their own
pockets tho ?2,500 which was guaran
teed to him.
Only a third of the hous°; was sold
in advance and the greatest living
pianist, although too magnanimous to
take advantage of tho music-lovers
who had engaged him, very properly
refused to play.
When we think of the difficulty one
experiences in getting' a seat at a Pad
erewskl concert anywhere in tho East
or Middle West, we wonder what is
tho matter with Portland. If this
celebrated artist were to come to Har
risburg he could fill the Majestic The
ater several times over. In Philadel
phia, he could probably play to the
capacity of the Academy of Music for
a week at a time.
Yet the city of Portland, one of the
wealthiest and most populous and most
influential municipalities along the Pa
cific slope could not scrape together
an audience sufficient to cover half the
guarantee for a single performance.
Not even Portland thinks that the
failure was derogatory to Paderowski.
The humiliation Is Portland's.
WASTING TEACHING MATERIAL
THE hidden wealth in government
publications, especially as It
affects teachers, is described by
Frederick K. Noyes in a bulle
tin just Issued by the United States
Bureau of Education. Mr. Noyes has
delved into the vast stores of teaching
material that lie embedded in gov
ernment documents, many of which
give no indications, from their titles,
of their value for educational pur
poses, and has furnished a guide to a
small portion of that part of this ma
terial which has special significance
for teachers or others interested In
education.
Tons and tons of reports, bulletins
and miscellaneous documents are
turned out dally by the Immense print
ing plant of the government. Con
gress and the congressional commit
tees are constantly having documents
of various kinds printed for general
distribution. Every department and
every bureau in the departments has
its own publications, frequently
amounting to millions of copies an
nually for each office. The bulletin
just published by the Bureau of Edu
cation aims to list a small part of the
large amount of this material which
may be of direct use to teachers and
students, especially material from un
expected sources, the special value of
which would otherwise remain un
known.
One of the greatest needs of our
elementary schools is suitable material
to supplement tho meager outlines and
brief statements of the textbooks. If
tho Bureau of Education had the time,
it could do a notable service by re
printing much of the material, either
free of charge or at a price sufficient
to cover the printing. The school work
in geography, history, hygiene, nature
study and other subjects might then
bo made far more interesting, thor
ough and practical than it now is.
Those corporations which have not
yet arranged for the removal of over
head poles and wires ought to be made
to show cause by the Big Five—the
Councllmen. An expert wire chief
might profitably be employed a few
days In dlscox-erlng the real use of a lot
of big and unsightly poles all over the
city. Harrisburg is making large ex
penditures every year for tho improve
ment of the city and the holders of
public franchises ought to keep pace
with the municipality.
County Treasurer Arthur H. Bailey
is a regular watch-dog of the treasury,
all right. His report for the year
makes the averago taxpayer feel like
throwing bouquets In tho direction of
tho keeper of the county funds. lie
lias made and saved some thousands of
dollars by good financial methods, and
the people are tho beneficiaries. Mr.
Bailey has already achieved even more
than was anticipated when he assumed
office, and still there's more to follow.
Fire Marshal Baldwin Is entirely cor
rect in his view of the effect of firebug
moving picture exhibitions, and the
time has come when the display of im
morality and crime on the stage or in
the moving picture places for the al
leged Improvement of morals or educa
tional purposes should be stopped.
There has been enough talk. Action is
now In order.
District Attorney Stroup and Chief of
Police Hutchison, working together,
ought to be able to do considerable
housecleaning within the next few days.
Their activities will make the speak
easy proprietors, 'the gambling frater
nity, the bawdy house people and the
denizens of the underworld generally
seek a rnoro congenial atmosphere.
With a reduction in the tax rate the
county began the present fiscal year
with a balance of $142,562.02, some
thouiiands more than a year ago, when
the tax rate was a mill higher.
Three hundred Mexican Federals shot
without trial by Villa's order. Now wo
know what "watchful waiting" means.
Watching Mexico being turned into a
slaughter house, and waiting for each
side to annihilate the other.
"Women are capable of competing
with men In any walk of life," asserts
an equal suffrage publication. How
about baseball pitching?
When the cyclone Approaches
Hueita retreats to ills wine cellar.
leonine* chari
People of Harrisburg, accustomed
all of their lives or throughout their
residence here to the long stretch of
River Front, which the city has Im
proved, have little Idea of the admira
tion "The Front Steps of Harrlsburg"
awakes In the visitors to the State's
capital city. The wonder of folks who
came here a dozen years ago was that
the municipality took so little Interest
In a river front unspoiled by traffic
and unencroached upon by building
except for a distance of a few blocks.
It used to be called the "Bank" in
those days and its improvement de
pended upon the generosity of resi
dents of Front street, some of whom
went to considerable pains to save the
grass, but whose ability, because of the
city's ownership of the slope, did not
permit them to take means to change
it from a dumping place for ashes, old
building material and rubbish, to an
embankment worthy the name, and to
make the earth-binding and attractive
shrubbery have it for its home instead
of the tin can and the section of
broken stovepipe. Fortunately the city
awakened to its opportunity a decade
ago and now we have something that
Is almost unequaled in this country and
which, if the city was a little wealthier,
could bo made to vie with famed river
banks in the Old AVorld.
It is not necessary to set down hero
the beauties of the Cruhl Terrace at
Dresden, the combination ofXsplanade
and commercial wharves of Dussel
dorf, and Rhine cities where they
make utility go hand in hand with the
aesthetic, the treatment of river banks
by Glasgow, Vienna or any other cities,
or to refer to the manner in which
Hamburg mde a wonderful pleasure
place out of a swamp and at the same
time held its tremendous tonnage of
commerce. There Is one other city in
Pennsylvania that has preserved its
water front unspoiled, and that is
Wilkes-Barre,- but it has nothing like
the three miles that is possessed by
this city. Easton is perched up on tho
Delaware, but it lias not been able to
afford the means to park the bank,
and as l'or Wllllamsport, Reading, Al
lentown, Johnstown and some of the
cities in the northwestern section, they
have been too busy using their streams
to clear away the structures along the
banks and make parks out of them.
When you come to think of It, the cap
itals of two neighboring States, Tren
ton and Albany, arc shining exam
ples of how not to make water front
age attractive. People from those
cities have within the last few months
strolled In delight along "The Front
Steps of Harrisburg" and made re
marks that showed they thought about
it In connection with the "Balcony of
Europo" and the pleasant frontages of
the cities on the Elbe, the Rhine and
the Thames.
When you think what the River
Front really is, and how people swarm
along it in summer, it seems all the
more remarkable that the city has not
lavished hundreds of thousands of dol
lars on it and not cleared out the
houses along the bank between Herr
and Calder streets. Just think of the
beauty of the river hero and that there
is a driveway, improved with the very
best pavement, from Vino street to the
Rockvllle bridge, six miles of the fin
est roadway in the country. And con
necting with the street at Vine there
are highways, which, if indifferently
improved, nevertheless, link the river
side with Cameron street, paved from
State to the city line, with the stretch
of highway between Harrisburg and
Steelton, also improved, and then the
long stretch of improved Front street
in Steelton. You can go almost from
Higlispiro to Rockville on paved road
way. Added to this is the riverside
park system, which the city has de
veloped so well and which it will ulti
mately extend beside the waters of the
Susquehanna to the First Mountain. It
is small wonder that "The Front Steps
of Harrisburg" have aroused the com
pliments of its visitors.
Speaking- of the river front, one of j
the best known men in politics in j
Pennsylvania, whose name is almost a
household word, said on a recent visit j
to tho city: "T do not know of any
city so fortunate in its river front and
the manner in which the authorities
havo taken trouble to preserve and
beautify it is most commendable. I j
never lose the opportunity to take a
walk along the riverside when I come
to Harrisburg and I enjoy that view I
lip the river from your water works
Immensely."
No less a traveler than Colonel
Roosevelt once told a llarrisburger
that ho thought the Susquehanna at
Harrisburg a thing of beauly and he
always closed his book when he hap
pened to be passing the river in this
vicinity. He remarked while here to
help dedicate the Capitol that the city
was lucky not to have its river front
full of wharves. When William H.
Taft was here to address the railroad
men a couple of years ago he said
while a guest at the home of the late
Congressman M. E. Olmsted that a
prettier situation for a city and a
finer opportunity for an ornate river
front he had never seen. Woodrow
Wilson, when here years ago to ad
dress Princeton alumni and during his
visit in 1911 for the organization of
the Democratic Federation of Clubs,
took walks along the river front,
which he much admired.
OH. YOU GKRMB!
By Wing Dinger
From those watchful germ detectives,
There should soon be some relief.
Now they say there's gravest danger
In the fluttering handkerchief.
'Nother says "In your hand bathing,
Soap and water, alcohol.
Will not kill the typhoid germlets,
You must scrape them off," that's all.
What a sad blow to Bill Bryan,
11 aster of Chautauqua toots.
Bobbed of all his crowning glory
When they stop the grand salutes.
For, you know, you wouldn't dare to
Clap your hands, oh, no, you goose,
For in striking them together
You might jar typhoid germs loose.
I
Guess when all these brainy scientists
Finish with their many pranks
Folks like Bill must be contented
With a rising vote of thanks.
But their work will be unfinished.
So, at least, 'twould seem to me,
'Til they catch the bloomin' rascal
That put germ In Germany.
| WELL-KNOWN PEOPUTI
—Edgar S. Cook, the Pottstown
ironmaster, and Mrs. Cook have sailed
for Persia to visit their son, a med
ical missionary in Teheran.
—Joseph M. Fox, tho veteran Fox
burg banker, has retired after serving
thirty-two years as president of a
bank.
—W. H. Ball, clitef of city property
In Philadelphia, thinks a municipal
market would cut down the cost of
living.
—Count Aymon Lucongo, of Paris,
who married a daughter of the late
Joseph Stickney, is visiting in Wllkes-
Barre with the countess.
■ —Perry Shaner, of Pittsburgh, is
making a series of addresses in east
ern towns.
—Major S. D. Butler, of the Marine
Corps, sent to Vers Cruz, comes from
West Chester,
—Dr. Waller Dnthrop, head of the
Stati' Ijospltal at liazlet.on, has been
chosen head of the Hazleton board of
health.
BXKKBSBunG S6BS TELEGRAPH
BULL MOOSERS TO
SWAT FUSION PLAN
Will Have Nothing to Do With the
Democratic Schemes
During 1914
I
KREMP LANDS A FAT JOBLET
I
Central Democratic Club Members
Inclined to Resent the
Bosship Now
Reservations for about one hundred
persons havo already been made for
the conference of the Washington
party people to be held In Harrisburg
Wednesday and Thursday and it is
expected that probably twice as many
will come in without giving notice.
Stale Chnirman A. Nevin Detrlch de
clared in the course of flitting through
the city that he looked for 800.
The Bull Moosers who are coming
here to fix up their slates for the
State Congressional and Legislative
nominations are against any fusion
with the Democrats on State nomina
tions because they are noi sure how
many Democrats would go along on
a fusion proposition and because some
of them regard the Republicans as
standing closer to their prlnoiples than
the Democracy in Pennsylvania. A
scheme was being hatched up where
by Progressives would support who
ever was picked by Palmer In return
for support for Pinchot for senator,
but it did not get far.
It Is said in dispatches from Pitts
burgh that Ellnn would bo willing to
bo a candidate for governor if he had
to bo. However Robert K. Young, H.
D. W. English and William Draper
Lewis are still talked of. Ex-Judge
Galbreath, of Butler, will likely be
pitched upon for Supreme Court.
Fred Kirkendall, viceroy of the
Democratic bosses, will have about
sixty nice l'at jobs to give out after a
certain hour this aft
ernoon when he will
Sixty Jobs take hold of the reve-
Reariy For nue office at Lancas-
Falthful ter. Collector H. L.
Hershey went to Lan
caster to-day to turn
over the office and the 100 employes
throughout the district are wondering
to what extent the civil service rules
will be trampled upon to jobs
to hungry Democrats. The deputyshlps
are very attractive.
Representative E. G. Jtf. Kuhns,
the "little Dutchman" from Lehigh,
who entertained everyone so much in
the last House, will have
to fight If he desires to
return to the next legls- Kuhns
laturo. A. E. Rlnn. Will He
brother of the mayor of Fought
of Allentown and a for
mer county official and
well-known farmer, is out for the
nomination with a platform as long
as the moral law. Mr. Kuhns has not
announced whether ho will run again.
The people here will miss his oratori
cal outbursts If he is not returned.
"Doc" Kremp, the Reading Demo
crat, who Is divisional boss of a largo
section of the State Democratic ma
chine, has landed a job
according to the official
Horray! court gazette of the ma-
Kreni]>'s chine published in Mar-
Placed Uet Square to-day. The
"Doc" was turned down
for postmaster of Read
ing and all Palmer's arguments and
all the reorganizers' threats could not
make Congressman Rothermel change
his mind. Kremp felt badly about it
as he believed his services to the
bosses deserved more honor than per
mission to carry a flag. So the court
gazette announces to-day that ho has
been selected as "second assistant
United States district attorney of the
eastern district." The length of the
title ought to satisfy Kremp if noth
ing else.
Dispatches from various counties of
the State printed in the Philadelphia
Iledger yesterday indicate pretty con
clusively that the Demo
crats are all up in the
Democracy air over the management
Kent by of the party and that re-
Factions sentnient of the arbitrary
course of Congressman
Palmer and his associate
bosses is general. In some counties
there Is pronounced opposition to Pal
mer and In others it Is stated that
Secretary "Wilson, while recognized as
a strong candidate, would be fought
because of the part he took in guilo
tinlng Guffey and Dewalt. The boom
of Michael J. Ryan for the Democratic
nomination appears to have a goodly
number of friends in many sections.
The resume appears to confirm the
statements printed in many quarters
that a bitter factional fight is im
pending among the Democrats and
that they are farther apart than they
have been since 1893.
Condltlpns in the Central Demo
cratic Club, in spite of tho careful
avoidance of the subject by men con
nected with the McCormlck
faction of the club, are
rapidly getting to a point Central
where a break is certain. Club Is
Many of tho men active in Hard Hit
the club have been ardent
followers of the reorgan
ization cause and the reward of pepolc
who have not been active in party
work has stirred up a considerable sen
timent for the revival of the Young
Men's Democratic Club project. This
was started a year or so before the
.presidential election, but the forma
tion of the West End Democratic Club
gave a chance for the anti-McCormick
men to get out of the Central. Now
thero is a new split and resignations
are expected. President Jones is mak
ing an efTort to secure harmonj', but
he has some wild horses to deal with,
as was shown by outbreaks Friday
when he tried to avoid any reference
to recent developments.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph, Jan. 12, 1864.]
Battalion Mustered Out
The First Provost Battalion (six
months volunteers) have arrived here,
preparatory to being mustered out of
service. A large proportion of the
men have re-enllsted for three years.
Receive Bids For Hour
Proposals for one thousand barrels
of Hour, will be received by Captain
Oilman, Chief Commissary of Sub
sistence, in this city, until Friday
next, at 12 o'clock, noon.
I A LITTLE
Stranger—What is the population' of
New York?
Chumlelgh—Four Hundred, plus the
people one doein't know.—Judge.
"T suppose you're glad 1913 In pant?"
"T don't know," replied tho man who
is frankly superstitious. "Now I'll have
to shoulder mv own responsibilities. In
stead of blaming all tho hard lock on
i thu 'l9.' " —Washington .S<ar.
I NEWS DISPATCHES
OF THE CIVIL WAR
[From the Telegraph, Jan. 12, 1864.J
Forrest Reinforced
.1 , ' an * 11 - —lt Is rumored here
that the rebel guerrilla, Forrest, has
been reinforced and contemplates an
attack on the city of Memphis.
Rebels Lose JFew \
Newbern, Jan. 7. —The Second
Regiment of North Carolina Volun
teers is rapidly organizing at the
headquarters at Beaufort. While the
various rebel commands near our lines
are fast becoming depleted by desert
ion, it is a remarkable fact, that the
]' lrst North Carolina Regiment, so far,
has lot but one man by desertion, nnd
the Second Regimer\t not one.
AS TO THE LATE GEN, JACKSON
(New York Sun)
The late Andrew Jackson served
out the pie with a prodigal hand, but
always to Mr. Jackson's supporters.
He was not the founder of a civil serv
ice reform association. He knew
nothing of the Chinese system. He
passed the jobs around among his
friends with a flno liberality.
Mr. Jackson has been dead a great
many years, but his spirit is still with
us. Secretary Bryan, for example,
preserves the Jaeksonian test for
suitability in all its splendid simplic
ity. It is true that Jackson was more
of a soldier than the present Secretary
of State Is. or ever was, but as a pie
dispenser Secretary Bryan, hampered
by morcrn prejudices, does as well as
Old Hickory himself.
Two great men. General Jackson
and Colonel Bryan; but General Jack
son never heard of the Chautauqua.
WHAT IS A TAXABfiE INCOME?
Benjamin S. Orcutt, in American
Review of Reviews: To summarize
the general features of the law as it
concerns the individual taxpayer, the
method of arriving at a taxable in
come is as follows:
The normal tax is to be ascertained
by deducting from the gross Income of
the individual the following items:
1. Expenses of carrying on busi
ness (not including living expenses).
2. Interest paid on indebtedness.
3. Taxes (except assessments for lo
cal improvements).
1 4. Losses in trade.
5. Bad debts.
C. Depreciation of tangible prop
• erty.
' 7. Dividends on stocks.
8. Income, the tax upon which has
been withheld at the source.
There is exempt:
9. $3,000 plus SI,OOO additional If
' the taxpayer is a married man.
J There is Excluded from consldera
: tlon as income, interest on bonds of a
' State or political subdivision thereof,
1 bonds of the United States or its pus
' sessions, compensation of judges of
the United States courts now in office,
compensation of officers and employes
• of a State or any political subdivision
1 thereof.
. | PQUfjCAL SI
i —Now if tho President would only
say he needs Palmer in Congress the
Stroudsburg man could get out of the
' gubernatorial nomination tangle easily.
; —But it would be greater to see
: Palmer and Ryan hook up.
—The Wells boom for county com
missioner promises to be heard from
a good bit in the next twelvemonth.
The sheriff Is some politician, too.
—A. E. Rlnn, who wants to be
i member from the Third Ijehigh, has
been a justice and county officer.
—Norrlstown may have another
election on the subject of becoming a
■ thi'-U class city.
—Senator Penrose will make a key
i note speech in his campaign at Pitts
burgh on the 19th.
—The Garman faction is getting be
hind Congressman Casey in Luzerne.
—The perennial boom for Charle
i magne Tower has been sprung again.
—Ex-Audtior General Slsson is now
i being suggested for Lieutenant-Gov
ernor.
—York Democrats are badly split
i between Palmer and Ryan.
-—Wcrnersvllle has been incorpo
rated as a borough.
—Attorney General Bell is said not
to cherish gubernatorial ambitions.
—-Ex-Mayor J. B. Dlmniick is being
boomed as a candidate for tha Re
publican nomination for senator and
Major Everett Warren for Supreme
Court Judgo and Joe O'Brien for a
Democratic honor. Scrantou'a going
some.
—B. J. Clark, tho original Berry
man ttnd Blair Democrat, says Ryan
will wipo up the field with Palmer.
—Think of anyone trying to sup
plant "Elly" Kuhns in the House.
—Representative Spangler, of York,
Will be a candidate for re-election.
—Senator Henry Cooper, of Alle
gheny county, wants another term.
—Who would hßve thought that
AicNalr would ever pitch into Palmer
like that?
—Ex-Governor Watres is being
boomed for governor again.
—When men like McNalr jump the
reorganlzers cause, something must
be getting wrong.
■ —There is silence in Market Square
about McNair and other men who will
not take orders.
—Congressman W. D. B. Alney is
being talked of as a possible candi
■ 'late for senator. He comes frem
1 Susquehanna.
—Ex-Judge Ormerod, of Potter, has
sued M. T. Stokes, the Coudersport
editor, for heavy damages.
I —"Doc" Kremp landed a Job at
i last. But some worthier Democrats"
S in this county appear to be still on the
waiting list.
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CLEARANCE SALE I I
f//) /)/) for Suits and Overalls,
<pIU.UU former prices up to snso
(f/9 C/l for Snit< «nd Orercou,
*pl f ormer pri ces „p t 0 J2,
C//? f/) for Suits and Overcoats/
V* "•*'l/ former prices up to $25
(f9/) flfi f° r a "d Overcoats,
*'• "1/ f onner prices up to S3O
SHIRTS REDUCED $5 Sweaters. $3.50
Any Shirt i„ .tock e* $8.50
ccpting Full Drew. Forme, $ 5 DreSS Pants,s 3.5 O
prices to $2 $lO Mackina^
at 95c Coats $7.60
Furs Greatly Reduced
Including Muffs and Scarfs f«r Ladies, and Fur Trim
med or Fur Lined Coats for Men.
SPECIALS—S 16.50 Red Fox Sets at $lO
$55 Fur Limd Overcoats, $35
Many Other Big Bargains
NOW IS YOUR TIME TO SAVE MONEY
H. MARKS % SON
Fourth & Market Streets
Overcrowding in
"Movies" Means Arrests
Managers of moving' picture shows
who permit overcrowding of their the
aters will bo prosecuted to the limit
of the law by Commissioner of JJabor
and Industry John Price Jackson, act
ing- with chiefs of police and burgesses
in a number of the cities and bor
oughs of the State. Reports which
have been sent to the Capitol show
that the ordinary rules of safety have
been ignored in many instances and
Commissioner Jackson has secured
the names and addresses of managers
of about 80 per cent, of the moving
picture shows in the State to send
them letters calling attention to State
laws and regulations, but says ho does
not intend to wait until they receive
them to act in case of overcrowding.
"In spite of the warning I gave just
before Christinas I am commencing to
receive reports that moving picture
show theaters have been grossly over
crowded in some places and I hav«>
asked burgesseß and police authorities
to proceed against people who will not
regard the law," said the commis
sioner to-day. "I am not going to
wait nutil a Are or panic occurs in
some small theater and lives are lost
for a horrible example, but wherever
I can get local authorities to co
operate with my men 1 will have ar
rests made. In fact, the local officers
do not need any authorization from
me to begin a suit if they find the law
violated and a place overcrowded. I
have just received word of the arrest
of a manager at Barnesboro who
would not comply with regulations
about overcrowding and I'm going to
stand behind that case and push it.
And I will do so with others."
SHATTERING ONE'S FAITH
[From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.]
Just about tho time the average well
meaning but reactionary Republican is
preparing to believe that, after all, the
Underwood tariff law may not be as
bad as had been feared, along 1 comes
good Democratic authority and shat
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All winter yroolens are being offered in
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Prices were S3O to SSO. This week,
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rn'n fnr l' th- , Th ? NOVVr Y <» * Amcri
hfnntiv V» npl e. tolling the public
Mrvirn ,\ a , t foreigners—in Europe,
X Argentina—are finding
this I tarl " . legislation. Ours,
! i Jtpocratlc critic, "Is a Gov
rnSrfnn nii®i'' olei i t t0 all th ® world ex
new ll ri# 111 } vho llvo un<l er It." Tho
th 7 rnJt nfl. 1 ? W '? B lmVe «"edUCOd
POSHM P s ', lll!,t ead proves "to
reduce verjmaterially the opportunl-
The uny llvill K whatsoever."
The America* assert* that wo havo
heard notliln. about the ncrease of
uages In thc\ n lted States a conse
hUt "much x cr^ tlc v. tarlfr legislation,
but much *out the reduction of
ronean labor il' 1 ? U au P eri ani of Eu
lopean laboi libeing corrected "at the
expense of tlie j, lor i ca „ worklngman."
Here Is a seio Uß Indictment, and it
nstance ° But \ K«P«»'"enns In this
ttSrtw ote party"
of o tht b faots thom!sd lnfonu the *nselves
EDITORIALS < <*"-
CONTEMIORAIfIfS
More Ilemocrm l) e mnii(lril
[From the St. Press.]
Congi ess made a wye blunder by
not providing for 67f e gional reserve
banks There are aU aa t that many
cities in the United S teß which feel
themselves important noug-li for the
honor.
Currency Heforr.
[From the Wash Star 1
Any benefits arising -om Huerta's
peculiar Ideas of banklp an( j currenc"
have at no time been a laren t to the
Mexican public.
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