8 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH &ttabliih*d IS3I PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. B. J. BTACKPOLE. Pre»'t and Treas'r. T. R. OYSTER, Secretary. OUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, 111 Federal Square. Bastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City. Hasbrook, Story * Brooks. Western Office, 123 West Madison street, Chicago. 111., Allen & ard. , Delivered by carriers at dgrojrtyintifc, six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers *t $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harrla burg as second class matter. < 1 /ft\ The Association of Amer- ( 1 ' UUV a mined and certified to 1 'l tho circulation pf this pub- 1 ' 1 lication. Tho figures of circulation 1 1 I contained in tho Association's re- 1 1 . I port only are guaranteed. 1 f 1 Association of American Advertisers j1 j, No. 2333 Whitehall Bid). K. T. City | Iwtn dally average for the month el January, 1914 Average for the year 1918—21,577 Average for the year 1912—21.176 Average for the year 1911—18,851 Average for the year 1910—17,405 TELEPHONES I Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 7049. United Business Office, 20J. Editorial Room 586. Job Dept. lOS. WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEB. 11 DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATION ALREADY the armies of the un employed in New York and other great cities are appealing to the authorities for relief — for work, not charity. Writing to the New York Tribune, a correspondent calls attention to the message of Presi dent Buchanan regarding the distress ful conditions which followed the free-trade legislation of 1846 and 1857, In which he said: With unsurpassed plenty in all the productions and all the ele ments of natural wealth, our manu facturers have suspended, our pub lic works are retarded, our private enterprises of different kinds are abandoned and thousands of useful laborers are thrown out of employ ment and reduced to want. Democratic tariff tinkering has al ready unsettled business and the conditions described by president Buchanan (a Democrat) are manifest ing themselves in ways which cannot be misunderstood in these opening ■weeks of 1914. In these days of political hysteria It is not a popular thing to dwell upon the effects of radical legislation nor is public approval likely to follow calam ity howling for political purposes, but the facts are self-evident, and the opening of American markets to the cheap-labor products of Europe is cer tain to bring about conditions which will need no publicity to establish their existence. Many strange and gratifying things are happening in politics In these halevon days.—The Harris burg Patriot. Yes! Yes! SUNDAY AND HIS METHODS ONE may frown on the efforts of William A. Sunday, the whirl wind evangelist, for one or for many reasons. He may jar our tender sensibilities. His rough-and ready methods may not comport with bur ideas of religious service. Or we may profess to believe that he is not sincere. But we cannot honestly shut our eyes to the vast good that he is doing wherever he goes. The Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele graph, In commenting on Sunday's campaign In that city, says that "Pitts burgh Is experiencing the greatest moral awakening that it has ever known and the influence producing this cannot be regarded as otherwise than providential." Those who are opposing Sunday might do well to let him go his cy clonic way and turn their own atten tion to the uplift of the community Instead of the villification of a co worker for the spread of the Gospel. They are all working toward one end, so why cavil over methods. Our idea of the most depraved crea ture In the world is the designer of the "comic valentine." REAL OBSTACLE TO MARRIAGE THE St. Paul Dispatch sees, in the wholesale plunge into matri mony of the employes of Henry Ford, the automobile manufac turer, following the announcement that he would share $10,000,000 with them and raise their wages, an answer to the question why such a percentage of people nowadays refuse to marry. "They are not marrying because they cannot afford it," says the Dis patch, which points out that they have, counted the cost in dollars and cents and the reckoning appals them. The writer admits that this is only cne factor in the problem, but he es timates it as the most potent of all. The young man does not marry be cause he cannot afford to, is the con clusion. In this he is wrong. Young men and young women are receiving higher wages to-day than ever before. It is true that prices are high, but there Is not one young man out of a hundred who could not marry and provide a better home than that to which his father took his mother, and have more money at the end of each month with which to support it. May be you will smile at this, but pause a moment for a backward look over the years before you pass judgment. The decrease In the number of mar riages— or rather the postponement —ls not due to low wages or WEDNESDAY EVENING high cost of living, but to a desire to start in where father left off; to an J unwillingness to pay the price; to a I selfish disinclination to sacrifice per sonal comforts and little luxuries for I the joys and responsibilities of mar . ried life. Let us not fool ourselves ! into pity for these self-centered young ' folks. What they need is a readjust ment of their views on life; a glimpse through the spectacles of their sturdy fathers and mothers—one not obtain able, by the way, through the medium of the monacle or the lorgnette. I The Romans hesitated to permit ; American baseball teams to play in the ; city because the "game was too brutal." Ghost of Nero and the ancients, smile | if you dare! EUGENICS iHE study of eugenics is the I study of race improvement," A declared Dr. McCuaig in his address to the women of jHarrisburg, in Zion Lutheran Churcli I yesterday. j In defining the practical import of I this study to the women before him he asserted it involved "how to x touch the lives of the children of to-day that they might grow up to be better fathers and mothers than their par ents had been; they in turn to bring up better children from the start and so a progressive betterment." Kroin the hazy conception that lurks in the mind of the average man that eugenics has primarily to do with feeblc-mindedness and insanity and loathsome disease, it is refreshing to come to the clean, sweet practical issue of dealing with these conditions by touching aright the unfolding life of the child. That the child is the seed-force of society; that the great force welling up in him is a love possibility and that the life of the child may be so trained to the full expression of love through every avenue of mind and body that when he is old he will not be untrue to that training seems to lead back to a true foundation. That by right training the functions of procreation may be brought into subjection to the will and affection seems to simplify a problem that amid the chaos of spiritual and physical overthrow looked almost hopeless. "Women should be placed in the same level with men," says a suffrage publi cation. Up or down? ROYAL'S RECORD THOSE critics of the Republican members of the City Council who are striving to make a martyr of Mayor John K. Royal are manifestly proceeding on the theory that a majority of the people are so indifferent to what goes on in any city that they have overlooked the partisan record of the present holdover Mayor. His weekly exhi bition of virtuous indignation over the dismissal of some of his police force wit! deceive only those who have given no attention to the partisanship of the recent city .administration. However, without regard to the mo tive that is back of the reorganization of the several departments, the mem bers of Council must not forget that their first duty is to the city and real efficiency must control in all appoint ments. It matters little whether the individual be a Democrat or Repub lican or member of some other party so long as his service is what ought to be expected in a city like Harris burg. Politics is bound to play some part in any form of government and we assume that Harrisburg will be no exception, but in the playing of the political game, whether by one side or the other, the interests of the city must be given first consideration and all appointees should be selected on the score of fitness. There are many important things demanding the im mediate attention of the new city rulers, and It is to be hoped the mere reorganization of the departments will not interfere with the greater work which will require the close attention of the several heads of departments. Mitchell Palmer protests that Gilford Pinchot is a Pennsyivanian. As Dickens would have put it, in the Pickwickian sense. HORRORS! AFTER the tight-skirt, what? has been a question that has given even the most sedate of mankind cause for thought. And now, behold, the answer is at hand, and it has possibilities sufficient to hold the attention of 'most anybody for a shud derful moment or two. From a gathering of fashion experts at Chicago conies the decree that "the bustle is again to be worn this sea son, of a size to be graded by indi vidual taste." Right on the heels of this interesting bit of news comes an other to the effect that "the tight skirt is to remain for another season." Is your imagination equal to the task of conjuring up a pretty girl garbed in an eel-skirt draped artisti cally over one of those wire bird cages that used to masquerade under the name of bustle? Don't say they won't do it. A woman would take 'em off altogether if fashion so decreed. Mayor Royal finds that he has made a mistake. When he took office he be lieved the old adage to read "To the victors belong the spoils." He has since discovered that it should be "to the vicious belong the spoils." We confess that the "men's styles" items now appearing In the newspapers do not interest us much. So long as ours are not patched where we sit we are content. "The idea of making a woman a policeman originated In comic opera," says Ed. Howe. But it's no longer a joke. We arise to ask if It may be consid ered proper to designate the cackle of a hen as a tuneful lay. The shrewd politician is a man who thinks several years In advance of the general populace. HARRISBUHG fftjftj TELEGRAPH evening cr ?at Contrary to the belief of some peo ple who have been talking about con stitutional conventions and amend ments, the people of this State have never had an opportunity to vote on tho question of woman suffrage, and a curious error prevails in regard to proposed amendments on the subject suftra Ke. Some people have the idea because one of the amendments voted upon at the special election of June 18, 1889, was called the suffrage amendment that it was a woman suf frage proposition to amend the Con stitution of the State so that women would have the right of franchise. Ihe use of the term suffrage was purely technical and the amendment really related to abolition of poll tax and not to women at all. This elec tion, by the way, was the last special State-wide election held and is mem orable because it was at this time that tho people voted on a prohibition amendment. Prior to 1889 there had been a tremendous temperance wave and State after State voted on the question of wet or dry. The Legis latures of 1887 and 1889 voted to sub mit the amendment and there was so much popular clamor that a special election was ordained for the pro hibition and suffrage or poll tax amendments. The prohibition amend ment was defeated by 188,000, in round numbers, and the other amend ment by 2 36.000. Dauphin voted wet by 3,000 and Cumberland went dry by 4,000. These figures are approximate. And while we are on the subject of constitutional amendments it is inter esting to note, in view of the demand tor a constitutional convention, that in November. 1891, the regular No vember election, the people of the State voted overwhelmingly against a constitutional convention, the vote be ing only 173,813 In favor to 420,598 against. Dauphin county went against tho proposed convention by a big ma jority. In this case the names of men to sit in the convention were sub mitted to the people rft the same time that they were called upon to vote on the main proposition, a plan similar to that proposed in the last Legis laturo and which is likely to be sub mitted to the next General Assembly, ihe people of the State have been rather slow about changing consti tutions in the last 100 years. The State has had only four, or, rather, three, because the first was more or less preJiminary. These constitutions were dated 1776. when the State fol lowed the example of the Union and set up a government; 1790, when it got down to business after the Revo lution and began to find out what it wanted; 183 8, when experience showed that it needed a new palladium of liberties, and 1873, when the progress in life had become so advanced that the earlier document was found anti quated. The State's bee keepere will come here for their annual convention next week and it is rather remarkable that one-tenth of the farmers of the whole State are eligible to membership in the association. The honey bee Is bet ter known in jest, poetry and accident reports than in agriculture, yet this State's output has been growing and growing rapidly. Oddly enough, it is estimated in tons, although we com monly associate it with a pound or a comb. The meeting next week will bring to the city men who have In vested tens of thousands of dollars in apiariee. Among visitors here yesterday for trie editorial association meetings were Dietrich Lamade, the head of the State's great weekly, Williamsport Grit, and Frederic E. Manson, man aging editor of the paper. Both make it a business to attend the meetings here every year and their interest in the association is often referred to bv the publishers. kW6UrKhown^P6QPl&T| —Senator John O. hSeatz, of Phila delphia, is making a series of ad dresses in the western end of the State on mothers' pension. —William H. Wylie, Jr., prominent Carnegie councilman, will be a candi date for the Legislature. —Caleb Powers, the Kentucky con gressman, is speaking in Pittsburgh on his experiences. —S. P. Ker, Sharon steel manufac turer, says the steel corporation, big as it is, cannot put the independents out of business. —George P. Steel, well known in the steel trade, is the head of the new Darlington Steel Casting Company. —Patrick Gilday.the Central Penn sylvania miners' leader, is seriously ill with stomach trouble. —G. H. Mosser is organizing the Altoona Chamber of Commerce into bureaus with a number of prominent men in charge of them. —C. W. Bowden is the new presi dent of the Philadelphia Traffic Club. —Ex-Governor Pennypacker takes exception to some of Franklin's writ ings in a recently delivered address. -HVbARRW&URft-fMF-Ty- ye ARS - Aft-O* TO-DAY" [From the Telegraph of Feb. 11, 1864.] C'ornNtnrch For IOKKK Eggs are now retailing) at from 30 to 35 cents a dozen, and are not to be ob tained at that. As a matter of general interest, we will state that cornstarch is an excellent substitute for eggs for culinary purposes, one spoonful of cornstarch being reckoned as equal to a single egg. Say Invanlon \Vn* Connivance A resolution charging that the rebel invasion of Pennsylvania and the bat tle of Gettysburg was brought "through the connivance and encour agement of disloyal citizens in our State," was Introduced in the House by Representative Kelley to-day. A sharp debate ensued between Representative Kelley and Sharp on one side, and Rep resentative Boyer on the other. Bitter personalities were indulged In. TO JACKSON'S CREDIT (Philadelphia Bulletin) Set down one more mark to the credit of thu new State Department of Labor and Industry for its good offices in bringing about the settle ment of the local hosiery mill strike through arbitration. It only goes to show that the board of mediation is valuable even though it has no power to enforce its services on employers and their employes. AN EVENING THOUGHT Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.—Colton. Men! Read Doutrich's Big Sale Announcement on Page 7 ram WON'T COMMIT HIMSELF Declines to Say Whether He Would Support Ryan If He Should Win Nomination PALMER COMES RIGHT OUT Prohibitionists Have Lively Meet ing—Mestrezat to Be Pla cated by Wilson According to the Philadelphia Record and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Vance C. McCormlck, as pirant for the Democratic nomination for Governor, refused in Philadelphia yesterday to make a definite promise to abide by the decision of the Demo cratic voters at the primaries, al though Congressman A. Mitchell Pal mer did so unhesitatingly. and the other leaders of the Demo cratic reorganization faction were in Philadelphia yesterday discussing the slate, the platform and the campaign and it came out that Palmer thought that there should be no platform until after the candidates had been nomi nated. The senatorial candidate said that he was personally for local op tion, and it was intimated pretty broadly that McCormick will declare for local option in the course of the statement of his position, which is promised within a few days. The Philadelphia Record of to-day says: "Both Congressman Palmer and Mr. McCormick were asked if they would support City Solicitor Michael J. Ryan should lie win the b'uuernatoriai nomination in the pri maries. Mr. Palmer said he would abide by the decision of the Demo cratic voters of the State, but Mr. Mc- Cormick indicated that he might bolt the Democratic ticket. He said: "if 1 were convinced that Mr. Ryan's nomination was the result of a bi partisan machine deal, as i. was satis lied the nomination of Grim was in 1»I0, my course would be similar to that which 1 took at that time." The Philadelphia Bulletin, in its ac count oi the interviews, has this to say: "Asked if he would support City Solicitor Michael J. Kyau, in the event oi 1-aimer Very tne latter defeating j/iouipi iii Mr. McCormick tor ilia Support the gubernatorial nomiuatiou, uon - gressman Palmer said: "I shall aouie Dy the decision ot the Democratic voters of the Slate, i believe ihat iur. McCorimck win win and 1 shall certainly asK tne voters in my pre-primary tour to support nim. x'ne big issue of tne campaign bexore me primaries will be: Do tne Demo cratic voters ol the State want tc en uoisc the party reorganization anu cleansing policy or uo they wish to stand by the old bipartisan machine policy'.' "1 am not a candidate lor a State office," observed the Congressman vvnen asked what position the Demo cratic party would take on the liquor quesiton. "Personally, 1 am a local optionlst. 1 believe mat is good Dem ocratic doctrine. It is home rule. Ido not believe, however, that a party piat iorm should be draited before its candidates are nominated." Mr. McCormick was hardly as ex plicit as fo what his course would be in the event of City Solicitor Ryan capturing the Democratic nomination lor Governor. "If 1 were convinced that Mr. Ryan's nomination were the result of a bipartisan machine deal,' he said, "as 1 was satisfied following the Al lentown convention that the nomina tion of Grim was, then my course would be similar to the position X took at ttiat time." Republican leaders conferred yes terday In Philadelphia and con- "watchful waiting." Republican State Chairman Wil liam E. Crow, who spent some time yes- Crow Talks terday with Senator About tliu Penrose and Senators Situution MoNichol and Vare, when interviewed last night, said: "As chairman of the Re publican State committee 1 will not take any part in the canvass for the gubernatorial nomination. I shall have no favorite. It is tru'e that within the last twenty-four hours I have heard considerable talk of Superintendent of Public Schools Brumbaugh for Gov ernor, but former Governor Stuart, former Secretary Knox, Senator Sproul and others have each many ardent champions, and so far as I can learn there has been no concen trated sentiment upon any candidate for the governorship. It is still an open field and I do not believe any j one Is in a position to name the winner." Professor Charles Scanlon, of Pitts burgh, secretary of the Presbyterian temperance committee, in tendering his resignation at Pittsburgh yesterday Cold Water as a member of the Folks Stand State executive cota by Policy inittee of the Prohibi tion party, followed up a refusal made pri vately to members of the executive committee to be the Prohibition can didate for Governor in the coming State campaign. Isaac Mondereau, of Meadvllle, was elected to fill the va cancy. There was little talk of other possi ble candidates, and Chairman J. E. P. Prugh, of Jeannette; Secretary Henry S. Gill, of Greensburg, and David B. McCalmont were named a committee to suggest names for a full State ticket. A resolution was adopted, designed to curb those seeking a place on the Prohibition ticket, but unwilling to subscribe to its principles. It com mits all candidates on the Prohibition ticket for Congress or legislative of fices, to the policy that, regardless of whether prohibition of the liquor traf- flc becomes a part of the law of the nation by statute or by constitutional amendment, a political party commit ted to prohibition is absolutely neces sary for its effective enactment and enforcement. { The Dauphin county Washington party men have started the educa | tional end of their campaign and to morrow night will have a lecture on "Better Citizenship" at the headquar ters in Market street. Later In the month a smoker will be given. Wal ter L. VanAman is the chairman of the social committee in charge. Justice Mestrezat was at Washing ton yesterday and had a talk with President Wilson on Pennsylvania pol itics, and it Is said in the capital that an ambassadorship is being dangled In front of him. Friends of the Jus tice are mad clean through at the way his name was used by the State bosses and how he was dumped with out a word of explanation, and efforts aro being made to placate them. The Justice is also said to be miffed, and the fact that he lias not come out for the ticket of the reorganization crowd is much commented upon. The man ner in which Bruce Sterling is nailed to the reorganization slate for Con gress-at-large indicates that Sterling Is from Payette. The names of General C. M. Clem ent, of Sunbury, and Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, • of Philadelphia, have I been put to the front for the Repub lican nomination for Governor pretty strongly In the last forty-eight hours. Ex-Governor Stuart has as yet de clined to make any statement whether he will run or not. Revenue Collector William H. Berry is quoted in Philadelphia in high praise of Congressman M. Clyde Kelly and some people are wondering why this Democratic officeholder is doing so. Some think that he is rank ling over his failure to be picked for Governor by the reorganization bosses, and others divine a sceheme of the re organizers to aid ICelly against Lewis. IMPOLITIC Ab-81DeU6.h VIR —Palmer makes a bid for Pro gressive friendship in saying he does not regard the charges against Pin chot as a squatter to be very serious. —York Democrats are split over the rival candidates for the guberna torial nomination. Both may be in vited to the Jefferson dinner. —H. B. Dandon and H. E. Chase are out for the Legislature In Bradford county on the Washington ticket. —Prohibitionists evidently intend to stay in the middle of the road. —Just supposing the Democrats had managed to control Council, how long would Mayor Royal have delayed the "ripping" of Republican office holders? —The new doctrine of Jersey inter ference in Pennsylvania Democratic affairs does not seem to go as well as was hoped. —And they may even put 11. D. Westcott, a Jerseyman, into that new Federal judgeship for Eastern Penn sylvania. —ln days gone by New Jersey used to march behind Pennsylvania. Un der the New Freedom it bosses Penn sylvania Democratic politics. —Maybe the new regional bank for this district will be put In Camden. —lncidentally, Wenonah, N. J., voted against the commission form of government yesterday. —And now they are talking of run ning Theodore Roosevelt for Governor of New York as a means of uniting the party. —Democrats seem inclined to local option. Western Pennsylvania Re publicans are demanding a prohibi tion amendment. —Representative C. A. Shaffer, of Columbia, will be a candidate for re election. —Congressman Warren Worth Bailey's thoughts on John Matt's can didacy for the Senate would be inter esting. ■—Robert S. Bright seems to be on the Democratic slate again. —Congressman Ainey is to speak to-morrow at Williamsport and his boom will be exhibited. —W. H. Hart will be a legislative candidate in Hazleton. —The Progressive Republican name was added to the list of those pre empted yesterday for Philadelphia. —Senator Penrose speaks at Al toona to-night and at Bethlehem to morrow. —While the Democratic bosses met in Philadelphia yesterday to make a slate, 40,000 unemployed walked the streets. The figures are from the I Public Ledger. —Collector Berry's praise of Clyde Kelly has a jarring note in these days of alleged harmony in the reorganiza tion camp. "Farm products cost more than they used to." "Yes," replied Mr. Corntassel. "When a farmer is supposed to know the botanical name of what he's raisin' an' the zoological name of the insect that 1 eats it and the chemical name of what will kill it, somebody's got to pay."— i Washington Star. news - d isPATCfc e 3 - -OF'The-CIVIL'waR [From the Telegraph of Feb. 11, 18G4.] Curtis Well Received ! St. Louis, Feb. 10. dispatch from I Fort Smith (Ark.) says that a large meeting of loyal citizens and soldiers | was held there last night to welcome I General Curtis. Mysterious Humors Baltimore, Feb. 11. Rumors of an | evacuation at Richmond are gaining i credit. There is a movement on foot I which will create more consternation j at Richmond than anything that has oc- i curred during the war. A Feather* CjJ The fact that most of our customers have sent us other patrons is indeed a "feather in our cap," as it demon strates without doubt that our work is as good as it's pos sible to make it 3 to your home. 8 ■l! ■' P 1 * || Harrisburg j I I 3; ; leOlTOßlALtCOMMftftf] "Militants to see the King." Not If he sees them first.—Louisville Courier- Journal. What a promise for the future when some Legislature repeals more laws than It passes!— Wall Street Journal. A judge has declared that Wisconsin's eugenic marriage law is Invalid. That's pretty rough on a law which aimed at News 8 the lnval,d - —Charleston New York State should call It the Department of Highways and Buyways —Columbia State. * -oL f the Government is going to build ISJ « y «' X 1" twelve reserve banks bo enough?— Philadelphia Public Ledger. nn?nnn rnment officials have seized 10,- r.?«i pesos of Mexican revolutionary money, or about s6.7s.—Columbia State. T.i has itß th °rn. 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