6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH M*tabli»k*4 itji k ir PUBLISHED BY HI TELEORAPH PRIHTWB CO. RJ. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Treas'r. JL OYSTER, Seoretary. •OB M. STEINMBTZ, Managing Editor. Vobltehed every evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, 114 Federal Square. Sutira Office, Fifth Avenue Building, Sew York City, Haebrook. Story * Brooks. "Western Office. 11l West Madison atreet, Chicago, 111., Allen St Ward. Delivered by carrier! at -TTgrtrrWr six cents a week. Mailed to subscrlberi at IJ.M a year in advanoe. Entered at the Poet Offloe In Harris burg ae second class matter. @The Association of Amer- ( 1 icao Advortiaera bae ex- / amined and certified to i' tboeircnlationof tbla pnb- i' ■ I Beatieo. The figure, of circulation I I > oontalaed la Ike Association's re- i I I port only are guaranteed. < | i; Assiciatioa of American AdvtfUsers i i No. 2333 Whitehall BM|. N. T. City |[ ■worn dally average for the naoath o< December, 1913 * 22,210 * Average for the year 1913—21.877 Average for the year 1812—>1,173 Average for the year 1811—18,851 Average for the year 1910—17,498 » 1 TELEPHONES! Bell "Private Branch Exchange No. 2040. United Business Office, 303. Editorial Room (85. Job Dept. 101. THURSDAY EVENING, JAN. 2». AX ENDORSEMENT OF STUART THE announcement by Senator Crow, chairman of the Repub lican State committee, that "there is a strong sentiment throughout the State in favor of the nomination of ex-Governor Stuart for Governor at the primary election In May," would seem to be very signifi cant. Indeed, it is difficult to see how the Republican organization could come closer to an open endorsement of any candidate before the primaries. It appears to be a frank recognition of availability. In the old days, the con vention leaders decided who should be chosen as candidate and gave out news to an expectant public, but the whole object of the primary law is to do away with just this cut-and-dried feature of making nominations. It is very doubtful if the State com mittee would care to go any farther than Senator Crow has already gone in favoring one candidate before the voters of the party to the exclusion of other candidates. While the Republicans of Pennsyl vania are not suffering for the lack of timber of gubernatorial size, there can be no doubt that the Stuart sen timent, at this writing at least, is de cidedly the predominant sentiment as regards the head of the State ticket. Some effort has been made by news papers unfriendly to the Republican party to make it appear that his nomi nation is opposed by the interior coun ties for geographical reasons, but it has been our observation that quite the reverse is true. The demand for Stuart may be said to have originated in the interior counties and to have made its way from the interior to Philadelphia and to Pittsburgh. There is no section of Pennsylvania which would have a word of fault to find with the choice of Edwin S. Stuart. The Heading Eagle celebrates its forty-sixth anniversary with a special issue of 100 pages. The edition is not only the largest in the history of the Eagle, but it is the largest ever issued by a newspaper in Berks county. It is replete with interesting matter about Reading and Berks county in general, and should have a place in the archives of every historical society in the State. It is more than a mere newspaper. It is a picture of past and present in Reading and a forecast of the future. . As an example of journalistic enter prise it is to be commended. IMMIGRANTS AND SCHOOLS DR- P- P- CLAXTON, United States Commissioner of Educa tion, notes in a bullein just issued what Harrisburg educa tors have long observed and com mented upon—namely, that Immi grants are keenly interested in school ing for their children, or at least con spicuously obedient to school-attend ance laws. He makes the surprising declaration in this respect that the least illiterate of our population are the native-born childreii of foreign parents. The illiteracy among the children ot native-born parents is three times an great as that among native-born children of foreign par ents." Dr. Claxton reviews the whole problem of education for immigrants, in and out of school. To the people of no other country is the problem of so much Importance as to the people of the United States. No other country has so many men, women and chil dren -coming to its shores every year from all parts of the world. Many of those who have come to us In recent years. Dr. Claxton says, are from countries having very meager provisions for public education. Ac cording to the Federal census of 1910, more than 25 per cent, of the foreign born population of three States was Illiterate; from 15 to 25 per cent, of five States, from 10 to 15 per cent, of eleven States, and from 5 to 10 per cent, of twenty-one States. In only one State was the percentage of illiter acy of the foreign-horn population less than 5. Most of the inimigrants in recent years have little kinship with the older stocks of our population, the hull«tln says, either in blood, 'language, meth ods of thought, traditions, manners, or customs: they know little of our political and civic life and are unused THURSDAY EVENING, to our social ideals. Their environ ment here is wholly different from that to which they have been accus tomed. 'Strangers to each other, fre quently from countries hostile to each other by tradition, of different speech and creeds, they are thrown together, strangers among strangers, in a strange country, and are thought of by us only as a conglomerate mass of foreigners. With little attention to their specific needs, they aro crowded into factories, mines and dirty tene ment quarters, too often the prey of the exploiter in business and the dem agogue in politics. Dr. Clayton holds that "immigrant education is not alone the question of the school education of children. The millions of adult men and women, and of children older than the upper limit of the compulsory school-attendance age, must be looked after." They must be prepared for American citizenship and for participation in our demo cratic industrial, social and religious life. They must b® given sympathetic | help In finding themselves in their new environment and in adjusting them selves to their new opportunities and responsibilities. The readiness with which they grasp the opportunities of fered them and their children, their aptitude for learning should engender sympathy and our respect for an alien people striving to become good Amer ican citizens. It is time that we dropped the all too familiar phrase "only a foreigner," remembering that It has not been so many years since even they who "came over In tho May flower" were "only foreigners." Times change. Tou can tell a farmer these days by his 1914 model and the cut of his new roll-collar overcoat TIIE STATE AGRICULTURISTS THE members of the State Board of Agriculture, in annual ses sion here this week, are dis- cussing big problems in a broad way. Of all the matters before the body there is none more important than that of State roads. The com mittee entrusted to outline a plan to be suggested to the next Legislature is to make its report to-morrow. It has but a brief space in which to' con sider a matter that has puzzled road experts for years. The committee is seeking informa tion from the right sources when It consults the State Highway Depart ment and the experts of the good roads associations of the State. What ever the committee reports will be of interest, no matter whether or not it is accepted in all its details by the Legislature. The recommendations of the State Board will come as the concrete opin ion of unbiased farmers represent ing the most advanced agricultural thought of the Commonwealth, and it will be interesting to compare them with the politically dictated views of Creasy and others leaders of the State Grange. The suffragists are divided concern ing methods of campaigning, thus vary ing the> old-time division of woman kind whic,h was said to have been based on weight, one half trying to get fat, the other trying to get lean. RAILROADING A LIFE WORK SAYS the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in a recently published pamphlet relating to a reunion of veteran eirployes in Philadelphia: It is the design of the Pennsylva nia Railroad to make its service so attractive that men who enter it will make it their life work. The general public long ago con cluded that "once a Pennsylvania Rail road man always a Pennsylvania Railroad man," but evidently the com pany is not entirely satisfied with re sults along that line and is bent on striving to improve conditions to the extent of making a position on the railroad more desirable than any other the employe might hope to obtain elsewhere. Very early in the history of the system the policy of paying men more for their services than they could get for similar work elsewhere was adopted, with the result that the com pany attracted to it a very desirable lot of men. Some other big public service corporations not so wise have yet to learn that a constant, faithful working force is the first step in busi ness efficiency, and many others are just beginning to learn it. The Bell Telephone Company, act ing along this line, has lately Inaugu rated a pension plan very similar to that of the Pennsylvania Railroad and a health and death insurance for em ployes which costs them nothing to maintain. This is equivalent to a raise of salary, in that it enables the em ploye to provide for the days of illness, his old age or for those dependent upon him without cost to himself. Blanket Insurance is now a favorite form of reward with many companies, which present yearly policies varying from $2,000 to $3,000 to each of their men. The whole trend of the period is toward better working conditions; toward "making the service so attrac tive that men entering It will make It their life work." Thus are both employer and em ploye well served. THE REAL TEST J4'l 1 0 win all the time," said | ex-President Taft to the Yale X graduates of Albany at a din ner given In his honor this week, "does not make for develop ment of character. The real test comes in defeat. Then if a man can come back he shows his true worth." That Mr. Taft has real worth he has shown to the country in the way he took defeat In 1912. Instead of rant ing about conditions as a certain other defeated candidate has done ever since the bolting Bull Moosers lost out, Mr. Taft has been busily engaged In performing real tasks, In holding down a real job ns a Yale Instructor, in de veloping character. And who knows but the time may come when the people of the United States will "bring Mr. Taft back" be-, cause they know his real worth. Grover Cleveland's career was not un marked by defeat. levemne- char Harrisburg people are naturally much Interested In the annua] meet ings of the State Board of Agriculture, which brings to the city representa tive men from the rural districts of every county in the State and es pecially in view of the fact that the State Capitol was the place where the board was organized and where it has held a meeting at least once a year since It was created. The first meet ing of the board was held in the old State Mouse in 1877 and according to statements made by people about the Capitol the sessions were held in the old Supreme Court chamber, which was on the second floor.of the Inter nal Affairs building, the southern building of the group of three on Capitol HIIL Some of the meetings have been lfeld in the city's halls and even churches, but most of the ses sions were held in early days In the legislative or court chambers at the Capitol. Since the completion of the new Capitol the meetings have been held in the'blue and gold House cau cus room, where other agricultural meetings have been held from time to time. It is said that , only two men who took an active part in the first meeting In 1877 are alive. They are Thomas J. Edge, who was the first secretary of the board, according to recollections of men active in its ser vice, and who was the first Secretary of Agriculture, serving from March 21, 1895, to April 24. 1899; and John Hamilton, who succeeded him as Sec retary of Agriculture and who served until February 18, 1903. Both of these former secretaries are much in terested 1q the board. Mr. Edge lives in North Sixth street in this city and Professor Hamilton is connected with the Federal Department of Agricul ture. Incidentally, it might be men tioned that yesterday Secretary Critch field called to the platform Samuel R. Downing, of Chester county, who was a member of the board when the sec retary became a member twenty-four years ago. The board has had a long and Interesting career and the Gov ernor's suggestion that it do some thing about the road problem opens a broad field of usefulness for it. Cities which want squirrels for their public parks will have to get them by some other means than trapping, and if they do obtain them they are liable to have some of their own officials arrested for violation of the confused game laws which now prevail in Penn sylvania. This is the situation that exists as a result of an efTort of Wil liamsport and other cities to get squir rels for their parks. Tears ago Har rlsburg got squirrels from the State House Park in Richmond for Capitol Park and now the furred denizens of the Commonwealth's domain are one of the great attractions of the place. This has caused other cities to take steps to get squirrels as an attraction and recently advertisement was made that good prices would be paid for grey squirrels. Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the State Game Commis sion, has called a halt on the trapping and says that under the law he will arrest anyone trapping a squirrel. His reason is that the game laws permit squirrels to be taken only with a gun and that in a particular season. He offers no solution for the situation, saying that the law is plain and that he cannot allow even cities to trap or pay people to trap squirrels for public purposes. Even the Game Commis sion in its recent report rapped the game laws and it is probable that some steps to straighten out the ab surd propositions will be made when the Legislature assembles next Jan uary. One of the oddest payments that gets into Father Penn's hands was made at the State Treasury to-day. It was a SIO,OOO annuity from the' Erie Railroad Company for a right of way through Susquehanna and Pike coun ties. The company has been paying this since 1849 and has paid enough to build the line in this State several times over. The money goes to those two counties, the State not getting any of it. The Erie is one of the few rail roads which are foreign corporations and yet hold lines in this State. The Delaware and Hudson has a right dating from 1828 and the Baltimore and Ohio has another. The late Clarence E. Seitz, who died suddenly in Philadelphia a few days ago. was well known here and was one of the experts in the income tax end of the internal revenue service. He was skilled as an accountant and his death will be severely felt in the Philadelphia office. John P. Connelly, who was here yesterday as counsel for Philadelphia cold storage warehouse people and who appeared before Judge Kunkel, is none other than the chairman of the finance committee of the Phila delphia councils, who is much in the limelight. He is a comparatively young man. slender, but alert, and with a mind that is working all the time. He took little part in the case, but when he did speak people listened. kWfetL-Known-peQPLe^n —Mr. and Mrs. George W. Childa Drexel are in London. —Grier Hersh, the York banker, is an enthusiastic golfer. —J. J. Turner, the hew Pennsyl vania Railroad official, is a graduate of the Panhandle system. —Chief Lincoln E. Slater, of the Chester fire department, wants new apparatus. —Frank K. Kelly, president of the Pennsylvania Master House Painters, is well known here, as he has fre quently appeared at the Capitol. —William D. Grange, prominent broker, is unopposed for president of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. —Robert Swan, Pittsburgh director of works, showed council how to cut his predecessor's estimates $595,000. ppot iricAi —Of course, the prospective firing of Republican officeholders in York to make room for Democrats is all right from the Market Square view point. —D. L. Kaufman has already start ed his campaign for the Democratic nomination for Congress. —lt appears that Thomas Raeburn White, Philadelphia reforrrier, secured $2,000 in fees as counsel for the Audi tor General's Department. —Judge Dougherty took his seat on the bench at Philadelphia yesterday. —City Solicitor Ryan has returned from Cuba and the gubernatorial fight will commence to be heard of again. —Let's see, wasn't Palmer asked by Congressmen to be a candidate for Governor? —ln Philadelphia they say that the bosses have already slated Carr for the Federal judgeship not yet created. —Moeslein for member would be a popular target among Democrats Just now. —Democratic rows have enabled Democrats to get control of Bethle hem council. —Representative Charles A. Am bler, of Montgomery, will be i. candi date for re-election. —Ex-Senator Dewalt appears to be stirring up things In the Berks Con gressional District. AN EVENING THOUGHT Be strong and of good cour age. fear not. nor be affrighted fit them: or Jehovah thy God. He it is that doth go with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.—Deut. 31:6. HARRISfiURG TELEGRAPH lEH CIRCLE OF BOSSES WILL MEET Democratic Affairs Will Be Talked Over if McNair Does Not Boil Over PALMER IS WORRIED OVER IT Casey Said to Have Developed Ambitions to Be a Candi date For Governor The Democratic State executive committee, or inner circle, as it is known among the Democrats of the State, will meet here the second week in February, according to reports in circulation. The meeting Is ostensibly to act upon the report of the com mittee on rules, which was furnished to the rulemakers for ratification, but is really to hear how the situation s' "nds. The ineetlDg is also lilcely to develop something in the nature of a row, as William N. McNair, who has defied the reo-bosses, is chairman of the Pittsburgh division and is said to have some allies on the committee who are not in sympathy with the ruling clique. Mayor William Ward, Jr., of Ches ter, well known here because of his service as a member of the House, Is a candidate for the Re publican nomination for Congress in the Ward Will Delaware-Chester dis- Run For trlct and will make an Oongrest) earnest campaign. Con gressman Butler Is not yet sure whether he tfill run again and Captain Isaac Johnson, of Media, haß a boom. Butler has been Con gressman for a long time and is one of the longest in point of service In Congress. Indications are that there will be a fight to the finish at the polls In order to settle the situation in the district. Glfford Plnchot went to Philadel phia yesterday for a conference with the Washington party chiefs about hie senatorial candidacy and appeared to be a little Plnchot miffed when It was sug- Pained at gested that everything Prospects was cut and dried for him for Senator. He said that in his party slates were unknown, although everyone ap pears to think that it will be Young for Governor, Plnchot for Senator and Galbreath for Supreme Court justice. Plnchot had a talk with State Chair man Detrlch, who is winging his way about the State trying to calm down the Insurgents who fear that there will be no warchest opened. Detrlch's great trouble is to find party men who are willing to contribute. They all seem to think that Flinn should do it. United States Marshal Jim Magee and Revenue Collector Fritz Klrken dall are expected to announce the names of compara tively few lucky ones for jobs In their offices Appointees before the primaries. to Be Held They have been told Until May by the bosses that things are risky and that It will not do to antagonize too many men who may be useful at the primaries. The slates have all been made up and the slatees will be told so as to keep them in a good humor, but they will be told to keep quiet. The ruction over the slating of Voll mer in this city and the disturbances in the Central Democratic Club have annoyed the local bosses very much and they do not want any more trou ble than necessary. Congressman John J. Casey, the auburn-haired, who was candidate for Secretary of Internal Affairs once and who is now Congress man from Luzerne Casey Xow county, is the latest listed For man to be put forward Governor as a possible Demo- cratic nominee for Governor. Casey is being urged because of his labor af filiations and because he had charge of the employers' liability bill of 1907. Casey is a candidate for re-election in his district, but things are always un certain In Luzerne and he may take a notion to be a candidate for a State office, too. The announcement about him is interesting, because Judge John M. Garman, of the same county, is said to harbor senatorial nomination aspirations against State Boss Palmer. Senator Boles Penrose, who went to Pittsburgh yesterday for a conference to-day with Republican leaders and to make a speech at the Tariff Club dinner, found the southwestern Sentiment part of the State very For Stuart keen about the candi- Is Strong dacy of ex-Governor Edwin S. Btuart for Governor. This is all the more significant because this is the home section of ex-Secretary Philadender C. Knox. Senator Pen rose plans to visit, a number of towns in that part of the State. He has found the Stuart sentiment strong everywhere. Meanwhile, the ex-Gov ernor is sitting tight and saying noth ing. •in-hARRIBSUR&-f-lf i y- ye-Ans Afro-Tppay [From the Telegraph, Jan. 29, 1864J Zouaves to Attend Funeral The First City Zouaves are request-1 ed to meet at Brant's Hall this (Frl-| day) evening, to make arrangemenst to attend the funeral of their late member, Henry M. Manus. The Whisky Cure It is said that the doctors are rec ommending whisky as a cure for diph theria. We know some people who will be led by this presclptlon to think very highly of the doctors and who will get a slight attack of the dis ease about ten times a day. neYPß*oißPATcr>es~ CIVIL* vgAi* [From the Telegraph, Jan. 29, 1864] Cavalry Makes Big Haul Fortress Monroe, Jan. 28.—Advices from the front are encouraging. Our cavalry were within four miles of Knoxville, having captured 800 cattle, 100 wagons and a large amount of other property. Many Deserters Army of the Potomac, Jan. 28.—1t is reported that 130 deserters came into our lives yesterday in onj squad, the pickets leaving their posts and coming with them. STIIjI't THERE'S THE PORCH SWING [From the Chlllicothe (Mo.) Constltu t ion.l The good old days when a man drove a horse with one aim and supported a dainty hit of calico with tho other are only memories of middle-aged oouples. Tlje present generation only imagines It is enjoying itself The Courage of Our Convictions is manifested again by the announcement that we uphold our policy established two years ago to discontinue "Special Sales." We are not at odds with other stores but have proven to the satisfaction of ourselves and patrons that the so called "Special Sales" are not only a menace to the legiti mate dealer but to the public as well. Many of our friends have asked—"Haven't you made a mistake or don t you think you're ahead of the times?" The liberal support ac corded our methods in the past year proves that we are on the right track and to substantiate our claim that we can and do sell better fur niture the wholeyear 'r jund at prices that are as low and lower in some instances than sale goods are offered. We propose the following: To run a series of advertisements during the month of February, depicting some representative article in each ad and quoting the regular price of same, together with other pieces of its class. Look for these GOLDSMITH advertisements—they're for jour edification and incidentally our mutual benefit. We invite inspection and comparisons any time, but particularly at this season, when many so-called "bargains" are offered. We can pro/e that our day in and day out prices are better value than most advertised sales—and besides you can buy when you please, with the best stock> from which to select. Joseph (Kolbsmtth Walnut Street and 209 Locnst Street I A-urrLe- permease I Her father told her every one ought to be above board, but she didn't see why any one should consider them selves too good to eat at a boarding house. HATS OFF TO THE FARMERS By Wing Dinger. Hats oft to the State farmers. Who are here with us again; They're people to be proud of, For they're really Class A men. They work the same old farm land That others worked years back. But they do It in a way that Puts more cornmeal in the sack. They have met the situation Of a much increased demand. By devising ways and methods To get more out of the land. So whene'er you feel disposed to Kick on market prices—pause— For the efforts of the farmers Of to-day should win applause. If they didn't make the land grow More in crops than heretofore— With an increased population, Gee, but wouldn't prices soar. So it's hats off to the farmers, They're a noble type of men; Wo are glad to have them with us, And we hope they'll come again. "Did you come back on an all-steel train ?" "When the waiters and porters fin ished plucking me I felt sure that it was."— Birmingham Ago-Herald. Mistress (finding visitor in tlie kitchen) —Who is this, Mary? Marv (confused) —My brother, m'm. Mistress (suspiciously)— You're not The commercial credit of a firm is enhanced by in surance on the Ufa of each member for the benefit of the survivors. Is your credit thus buttressed? PENN MUTUAL LIFE 103 IV. Secoad St. Isaac Miller. 1 l.ocal F. O. Donaldson, J Agents. f HHAJDQUARTKR* FOR SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES I JANUARY 20. 1914.' much alike. Mary (stammering 1 apologetically)— We were, m'm, but he's Just had his beard shaved oft, and that makes him look different.—lxmdon Opinion. EUGENICS AS A PREVENTIVE [From the Kansas City Times.] Another man has murdered his wife "because he loved her so." The Carth age Evening Press points out that this may be a point in favor of eugenic mm is the most economical, and posi tively the most convenient and V : You can have it at minimum cost \AJ Edison Mazda Lamps ttHjj U| HIV These lamps give three times as much w]||||||| ■lf light as the old carbon lamps, for tho Their light is whiter and superior In HI every way to that of any other form of jmP Our Lamp Man will gladly demonstrate the jfIVH many advantages of Edison Mazda Lamps. |E — * '■■■■■ ■■■ HV. i„J JIJM I 1-1 SST3B——I k\ A SESSION with MO J A All- Havana quality is worth more to the smoke critic than a \ dime's worth of nickel cigars. NO JA lOc CIGAR.S . are worth the dime every time. They get right down to "brass tacks" at the first puff and keep on the job of sat isfying right through to the end. Made by John C. Herman & Co. marriages, which are not supposed •> pay tho slightest attention to such [ thing as love. Always Some Paramount Issue [Prom the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.] Just as we get the tariff question settled, the currency needs of the coun try provided for and the trust prob lem solved, along comes this tango dance to disturb the national equili brlum.
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