12 FRIDAY EVENING, KARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 6, 1914. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established itjJ PUBLISHED* BT THE TELEGRAPH PRIJfTIIfQ 00. X. J. STACKPOLE, Prai't and Trsas'r. JT. R. OTBTER. Secretary. OUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun flay), at the Telegraph Building, ll« Federal Square. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building. New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. ■Western Office, 123 West Madison street. Chicago, 111., Allen & TV ard. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at IS.OO a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg as second class matter. ®The Association of Amec- ( ' lean Advertisers has ex- i a mined and certified to i the oircalatioa of this pab- i 1 1 lication. Tho figures of circvlatioa i I eontained in the Association's re , I port only are guaranteed. i| Association «f American Advertisers , No. 2333 Whitehall BM|. ET. City i| Iwsrs dally average for the month of January, 1914 * 22,342 * Average for the year 1913— 21,611 Averse* fer the year 1812—*t,175 Average for the year 1911—18,861 Average fer the year 1910—1T.495 TKLBPHONBII Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 104*. Halted Business Office, SOS. SAltertal Boom 685. Job Dept. 101. FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6 THE BATTLEGROUND PENNSYLVANIA Is to be the battleground for the 1914 cam paign. Penrose, Palmer and Pinchot will contend for po litical supremacy under the most un usual conditions that have ever con fronted party leaders In this State. Not since the period Immediately pre ceding the Civil War has there been euoh widespread interest as Is now manifested In the party alignments from one end of tho Commonwealth to the other. It is obvious that the real contest is between Penrose and Palmer and It may reasonably be expected that President Wilson will do everything within the power of his administra tion to help the Palmer faction. Meanwhile Pinchot, as the representa tive of the Roosevelt element of the Republican party, will endeavor to check the back-to-the-party move ment among Republicans. How well he will succeed in this effort remains to be seen, but judging from the re markable reversal of the attitude of the Progressives in California, where thousands upon thousands of Roose velt men have registered as straight Republicans this year, the outlook for a continuance of the third party move ment in Pennsylvania is not as en couraging as some of the most active propagandists would like to think. Not only In California is this active reorganization of the Republican party under way, but throughout the country. Many good Republicans who voted for Colonel Roosevelt by way of pro test against what they honestly be lieved to be arbitrary party manage ment are now returning to the colors in such numbers as to confirm the conservative opinion of all students of political movements—that the divi sion of the Republican ranks is not nearly so serious as the opposition to the party would have it appear for their own purposes. It must be remembered that in the 1912 campaign more than 23,000 Re publicans in Pennsylvania did not vote at *ll and adding these to the regular Republican vote this year plus fifty per cent, of the Republicans who vot«d for Colonel Roosevelt two years at and the Republican ticket will have over 500,000 votes, making the situation far more interesting for Re publicans than the statisticians of the Democracy care to admit. In 1908, the Republican vote for Taft was 746,777 and that for Bryan 448,782. Two years ago President Wilson's vote was 63,163 less than that cast for Bryan in 1908 and It is hardly conceivable that with the differences •which now threaten a split In the Democratic party the vote for the Palmer ticket this year will approach the vote cast under the conditions which prevailed two years ago. A close analysis of the situation shows that the normal Republican vote will be so large this year as to swamp the Democracy and the other parties that are struggling for su premacy in this State. "Southern Man Named" is a news paper headline covering an appoint ment by President Wilson. The same heading would apply to most of the important Federal donations under the present administration. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP PRESIDENT WILSON shows no disposition to hurry the an nouncement as to whether or not he favors the public owner ship of telegraph and telephone lines, as recommended by his Postmaster General. If he Is wise he will with hold his approval entirely. To en dorse the proposal would be the first step toward government acquirement of the railroads and an invitation to socialism to come on and do its worst. If there are abuses to be corrected they can be reached by government regulation. There is no reason for the taking over of the phone and tele •graph lines that has for Its basis either economy or efficiency. It is a well known fact that the goyernment owned lines of Europe cost quite as much to use as those of the United States, and that tfie service is much •lower and far less comprehensive. Having no competition, and being con trolled absolutely by the government, | there is not the disposition to oblige j patrons or to extend lines or introduce j new appliances or new departures that ; is so manifest in the United States. ' Here it Is a matter in many cases of the best service getting the business, ; but it is also remarkable that in the face of what has amounted to prac tically a monopoly in somo parts of the country, the cost of telephone ser j vice has been steadily going down, while the service itself is 500 per cent, more efficient and farreaching than it was when the cost to the user was higher. The same may be said of the telegraph. What more could the gov ernment, as owner, hope to offer? i President Wilson is an astute poli tician. Perhaps he was well content to let his Postmaster General test out public sentiment on public ownership. If it proved popular doubtless he would have Btood ready to father It, for the annexation of all the em : ployes of the telegraph and telephone I companies of the United States would make a grand addition to the party ' spoils system so much in evidence since the advent of the new administration. | If that was his idea he must by this 1 time have determined that It will be much more profitable for him to dis miss the subject in favor of anti-trust legislation or some other subject of the moment that has the people's ear. There is much to bo done by the City Council this year and it may be just as well to complete the reorganization of the several departments without further delay. THE TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT THE interesting announcement is made that the Rodman Wana maker millions and the Glenn 11. Curtiss brain are to be i hitched together to produce an j "ocean-going" airship of sufficient | power to cross the broad Atlantic at a single flight. When Walter Wellman made ready for his doubtful experi ment the scientific world with one voice predicted failure. The Wana maker-Curtiss enterprise Is received with quite a different tone. "It Is all a matter of the motor," men skilled in aircraft say. and many of them fore see the successful conclusion of the great adventure. The possibility of crossing the broad Atlantic in fifteen hours would un questionably set the world to thinking along new lines concerning Inter national warfare. With a fleet of such airships—or the much more powerful aeroplanes that are bound to succeed it—any nation might put an army into motion and land it on the shores of an unsuspecting neighbor over night. It would revolutionize warfare and set England a-shiver with every mention of Germany, and put the teeth of every European ruler on edge. Even California would have nightmares in which it would see flocks of flying Japs in. every dark cloud that ob scured the Pacific horizon. Mr. Wanamaker believes, however, that this very possibility would hasten the day of world-wide peace, and per haps he is right. At all events, his remarkable enterprise is worthy the widespread attention it is receiving. While Mr. Curtlss goes confidently about his work of constructing the new flyer it Is interesting to note that he is building it along lines that will permit him to drop gracefully to the surface of the sea and float there should anything happen to the motor on which he places so much depend ence. WHERE DIXON* IS RIGHT WHILE opinion regarding the wisdom of teachingsexhygiene in the public schools, under certain restrictions, as advised yesterday by Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, State Commissioner of Health, in an address before the school directors' department of the State Educational Association, may and doubtless will differ, there can be no question in any one's mind of the soundness of Dr. Dixon's statement that an educational system which lacks the teaching of domestic science is deficient in the training of # the* wives and mothers of the future. One of the places where there is just this deficiency in the educational system is Harrisburg. It is high time that the city directors make suitable provision for the teach ins of domestic science In the schools. A committee recently appointed with a view to deciding the advisability of teaching this branch in the grades will likely report favorably at a meeting of the directors this evening. This report should be acted upon at once that the girls ot Harrlsburg may be trained in the far too often lost art of home making. With relation to the question of sex hygiene instruction in the school Dr. Dixon may or may not be right. He is, however, most certainly absolutely correct when he declares the public theater and the movie are not the cor rect disseminators of sexual knowl edge. According to an Associated Press dis patch from Washington. President Wil son "let it be known that he had not selected any ticket" for Pennsylvania. We presume the conference at the White House with Mr. Palmer and his associates had to do entirely with the Mexican situation. Owners of property In Front street who gave their frontage on the river to the city for park purposes are now wondering whether there is to be a splitting of legal hairs over the kind of deed they gave the city in the dis pute over the paving liability. It's about time the whole question of River Front ownership should be definitely determined so that improvements now going on may be continuous and free of the squabbling that has character ized the whole matter for several years. About the only time we see Wilkes- Barre's name in print is when the hard coal miners threaten to take the war path or when "Butch" McDevitt has another spasm. Couldn't Wllkes-Barre vary the monotony by doping out a lit tle fresh press agent stuff? The real estate agent naturally be lieves thoroughly In the old adage to , the effect that "by their deeds ye shall know them." evening GMS In spite of the fact that snow has been trying to make u« forget the re cent warm period, the average Har rlsburg kid refuses to believe that the thaw did not mean tho coming of Spring and he has started in with his preliminary basetall work. It is a lit tle too early for scrub games, but the boys are showing their delight at the coming of milder weather than usually occurs at this season of the year by engaging: in limbering up exercises such as -passing" and practicing so that their arms will not be put out of gear, in one street on Wednesday afternoon after school hours six groups of boys were playing ball and yesterday afternoon in spite of the remnants of the morning's snow there were youths out throwing curves or "flies." Baseball will start off with a bang just as soon as the weather opens up and the number of boys out look ing over level lots with the idea of lay ing out diamonds is rather suggestive of some strong amateur teams when the flowers begin to bloom. Speaking about warm weather a couple of robins were noticed in Capi tol Park the other day and some one from the country reported having seen a bluebird. The appearance of these birds, however, was not followed by prolonged stays and the robins seemed to be more on a scouting expedition than anything else. The robins gen erally do not even scout until later in the winter and the pair observed near the Mexican monument evidently con cluded that the time was hardly ripe for fitting up their house for the Spring. Except for the wheat there are not ntanv signs that the thaw has caused vegetation to start and the weather prophets, wito went wrong on goose bones, sausage skins, squirrel fur and habits of rabbits, are now as serting that we may have some weeks of harsh weather. "This month's a perfect square in the calendar line," remarked a fireside philosopher last evening as he gazed meditatively at the calendar and speculated whether he would have to buy any more coal this month. "Per fect square means that it begins on Sunday and ends on Saturday. Just look. The first day of the month is Sunday and the last day, twenty eighth day, is on Saturday. Thus you have four perfect weeks and one per fect month. However, I'm not re ferring to the weather." In the notice of Smull's Handbook last evening It might have been added that the man who did the work of col lecting the material for the first issue was W. L. Cooper, for years resident clerk of the House of Representatives and who filled other places in the legislative halls. Mr. Cooper was the right hancl man of John A. Smull, who gave his name to the book, and his ideas are still preserved in the in valuable publication." Once in a while checks go across the counters at the Capitol that make the clerks feel poor and they are won dering what they would do with the money. This is the season of the year when big fat ones go by because just now the insurance companies are pay ing in their taxes. On one day checks for SIO,OOO, $25,000 and $40,000 were handled within a few minutes of each other. The Muzzle Club of this city, which is composed of the members of the staffs of the three daily newspapers, is planning to have a real old-time live ly stunt next month. This will be the ninth anniversary of the club, which exists only for social purposes, being modelled on the plan of the famous Gridiron Club of Washington, with some local trimmings. Its next stunt will have some original ideas on the passing show in Harrisburg and will be attended by some of the prominent newspapermen of the State. William Fink, a life-long resident of New Cumberland, tells some interest ing facts about the building of Mar ket Square Presbyterian Church back In the late fifties. This church was erected after the destruction of the old building of the Presbyterian Church at Second and Cherry streets by fire and when built was one of the sights in this part of the State. Mr. Fink hauled the stone from the Cross Roads school house in upper York county, Daniel Ruther, since deceased, being the contractor. Mr. Fink says that he had a six-horse team to draw his wagon, but that when he reached the old camelback bridge he had to take off a pair as only four horse teams were permitted on the structure at a. time. THE WHITE HOI'SE PRIMARY [From the New York Sun.] The Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer pro poses but the President disposes. On Tuesday there were two conferences a*, the White House between thetn. They discussed the political situation in Pennsylvania and the prospects of the Democratic party in that Common wealth. At the first meeting, to which Chairman Roland Morris, of the State Democratic committee, was Invited, the President was informed that Represen tative Palmer would be a Democratic candidate for Governor at the next pri mary. After the second conference, which did not include the Democratic State chairman, Mr. Palmer made this announcement: "I expected to be a candidate for Gov ernor, and so announced to many of my friends. We hoped that Secretary Wil son would be a candidate for Senator, but, having sought the President's counsel we find that lie is averse to Mr. Wilson's leaving the Cabinet. It is the President's Judgment that I should make the race for Senator and I have decided to do so." The definition of a Democratic pri mary seems to be the mental process by which the President of the United States makes }hARM«SUR&-fHf-Ty- y& AR 3 • Afr otod ay [From the. Telegraph of Feb. 6, 1814.] Sixty I'rlHonern Washington, Feb. 6, 9 A . M.—Sixty prisoners were transferred on Friday from Forrest Hall to Camp Distribu tion, where they will be sent to their respective regiment* Yankees Retreated Mobile, Jan 30. A special dispatch from Okalona, Miss., says the Twelfth Mississippi entered Corinth this even ing, and captured a quantity of arms, etc. The Yankees left as they entered. newß'DißP&TCf>es~ -Of CIVIL* WAW [From the Telegraph of Feb. S, 1814.1 A Reel of the "Sixties" The marketmaster confiscated a lot of butter that wao "weighed in the bal ance and found wanting," tills morn . Prayer Meeting; There will be divine services in the loctur- room of the Baptist Church, cor evenfn*°at &f eetß ' to-morrow r" —v HBAD«UARTER9 POR SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES —■► MILLER AND KADES*— "THE BIG FURNITURE STORE" 7 NORTH MARKET SQUARE Here Are the Features of Our February Furniture Sale The most interesting assortment of High Grade Furniture ever brought into Harrisburg to be sold at special prices. The lowest prices for which brand new Furniture, of latest and best pattern, ever sold in Harrisburg. ——————————————v V A Special Price on This Dining Room Tables are Rocker For To-morrow Greatly Reduced Slf you need a new extension table, jump at the chance afforded by the Feb ruary Furniture Sale Bargains. This large solid oak table with claw feet; will sell to-morrow only for Exactly like cut. One to a customer. 98c I $8.75 February Furniture Sale Required 2-inch continuous post; 5 fillers. To-mor- £IA 7C Goods purchased row only ip lU«# «J during this sale will be 2-inch straight post; 5 1-inch fillers. To- d»Q «7P delivered when want morrow only Guaranteed lacquer. H. Marks & Son Suits & Overcoats Made By Hart, Schaffner & Marx were $25 to $35 NOW $1 5.22 The suits are Blue Serges, Dark Worsteds, Scotch Tweeds and Blacks; medium weights that can be worn all year 'round. The overcoats are Chinchillas, Lama Cloth, Shetlands, Meltons and other mate rials. Balmacaan and black silk-faced coats included. Clothcraft Suits and Overcoats That Were sls to $25 Are now slo.^ Men's Fur Lined Overcoats, Persian Lamb djQA Collar Were S6O Now „ v Ladies' Furs at Big Reductions, Coats, Muffs, and Scarfs. H. Marks & Son 4th. and Market Sts, Try Telegraph Want Ads. Try Telegraph Want Ads.