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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.