6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established 11)1 m ■ a PUBLISHED 1 BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. S3. STACK POLE, Pres't and Treea'r. R. OYSTER, Secretary. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, Jl6 Federal Square. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story A Brooks. •Western Office. 13J West Madison street, Chicago, 111.. Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at *B.OO a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg as second class matter. S /fitN The Anocletion of Amec \ (■Ft I*| ican Advertisers has ex- / ' VimV amaned and certified to i 'l the etrcalatioe of this pub- | 1 1 licatien. The figures of circalatioa l contained in the Association's re , i port only are guaranteed. , i; Association of American Advertisers i i No. 2333 Whitehall Blrfg. N. T. City i[ >wei» daily mrtnm* the month o< January, 1914 if 22,342 A Teres* for tbe year 1M5—21,577 Average to r the year 1U12—21,178 A Terrace for the year 1011—18,851 ATeraae far the year 191*—17,498 TELEPHONES I Bell Private Branch Exchange No. United Business Office, ?P3. Room 886. Job Dept. 101. WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEB. 18 NOW FOR REAL WORK WHATEVER may be said for or against the changes made by Council in tho municipal work ing forces, the new governing "body of the city has at least now gotten down to a practical working basis. It lias reorganised the city ser •vloe along lines laid down by itself according to its own views of effi ciency. Its own appointees will take •their places in every department on March 1. Councilmen will no longer And themselves besieged by Job liunters. That phase of the new gov ernment was settled finally when they passed tho Lynch resolution yesterday. The people of Harrisburg ore much more deeply interested in how their lity government is to be administered than as to who administers it. What they want is results, and they will look to the commission to produce them. The councilmen have all the opportunity in the world to make such improvements in the municipal ser vice as they may deem desirable. They are bound by no precedents and they are to a very large degree a law unto themselves. By their accomplish ments they must be willing to be judged, so it behooves them to bestir themselves in undertaking the serious work that confronts them. It is true that considerable has been done along this line, but the new form of government is still very much in its experimental stage, and while a majority of Harrisburg people ac cepted it under protest they are atix lous that it shall be given a fair trial under the most favorable circum stances. Harrisburg bore a good repu tation as a well-governed city under tho old two-council system and the cities of the State have their eyes on us now. Big tasks loom up before the now Council. Thcro are streets to pave, the river bank wall and parking to complete, the Hardscrabblo problem to solve, the Paxton creek Improvement to complete, sewers to be constructed to the amount of SIOO,OOO, parks and playgrounds to be extended by the ex penditure of a similar amount, an Isle of safety and public comfort sta tion to be erected in Market Square, $25 ,000 worth of new fire apparatus to be purchased and a number of bridges to be erected. A city planning com mission Is to be created, the work of the Health Department extended and Improved, a new building code adopted and scores of other things to be done Incident to the change of government that will require the careful and con stant consideration of the commission ers if they are to be done as tht, people expect them to be done. It was natural that there should be changes in the city's working force under the new commission form of government. The councilmen have settled that question and there should he no more occasion for bickering oi controversy over the matter. It has been settled according to the views ot a majority of the councilmen and it should now be forgotten. The time is here for real action and not a moment should be lost in taking up the im portant work of the year. The Electrical World is discussing the "possibilities" of a servantless home. Evidently the printer made an error. It should have been probabili ties. GOOD ROADS; GOOD SCHOOLS THE United Status Department of Agriculture is engaged in an effort to illustrate the relation between bad roads and poor schools. In a voluminous report just issued it Is shown that the rural popu lation Is more willing to support bet ter schools to-day than at any pre vious time. It is being realized that all educational activities or agencies must be more or less correlated, and, more than all else, that they must bo made accessible to the children. In many counties where bad roads prevail, most of the schools are of the antiquated one-room variety. are usually located along bad roads which, during ihc winter, when the schools arc usually in session. become BO nearjv impassably a.i t<> make il difficult for the children tu reach WEDNESDAY EVENING them. This condition causes irregu lar attendance and restricts the edu cational opportunities of the child. Not only this, but it often impedes the economic consolidation of these smaller schools Into larger, stronger graded schools, with high school ! courses, directed by a competent prin cipal arid corps of teachers, according |to tho Oflice of Public Roads, United States Department of Agriculture. On the other hand, in counties which have improved their roads, tho (schools are easily reached, the aver age attendance RTeator, the efficiency largely increased and economic con ! solidation made possible. Regular attendance at school means consistent and regular growth of both school and pupil, and consolida tion of schools means a maximum of efficiency at a minimum of cost. It is also noteworthy that there is a marked tendency for the consoli dated school to become tho social and intellectual center of the community. Most modern rural school houses are so constructed as to serve the com munity as gathering places l'or various kinds of public meetings, and whero vans are used to convey tho children to school during the day they are frequently pressed into service to haul the farmers and their wives to insti tute work, lectures, or entertainments at the schoolhouse. The consolidated school beeomes a sort of community center where all educational and social activities con verge, and in order that it may prop erly perform that function all of the highways leading to it should be so Improved as to render it readily ac cessible throughout the year. Oh, come on out, Mr. Groundhog. We're satisfied. You're vindicated.' We were only joking about It. Honest we were. THE UITERACY TEST ALL good Americans will approve the reported intention of Presi dent Wilson to veto the new immigration bill if it comes to him with the literacy test clause at tached. In all Washington there Is possibly no greater or more sincere advocate of education for the masses than the President himself. His long identifi cation with college life would natur ally lead to the supposition that he would place educational qualifications on a very high scale, and doubtless he does. But evidently tho President is not quite ready to take the position that they are all in all; that they off set good character, a strong body and a determination to "get there"—quali ties that a very large number of our illiterate immigrants unquestionably possess. Such a test as those v?ho are back of the clause in question propose might bar from our shores the father of a Lincoln. It would certainly keep out hundreds upon hundreds who are looking to this country as the haven of their hopes, as the one spot in all tho world where their children may have the education and the opportuni ties for advancement which they them selves have never known. The United States is not in need of clerks or bookkeepers from abroad. We have an overstocked market of this kind at home. But we do need sturdy men to till our soil and strong muscles to take up the manual labor that our own people decline to do, and we ought to stand ready to ex change for these the advantages of our country to the individual and the edu cational facilities of our schools to his children. It begins to look as though a certain eminent forester will have to take to the woods. CAKE OF HORSES THE Anti-Cruelty Society of Phil adelphia has caused to be widely published a list of "Dont's" for those who care for or drive horses during cold weather. Here they are: Don't use cold bits in cold weather. Heat the bit before put ting it in the horse's mouth. Don't clip the horse when weather is at the freezing point. Don't fail to put a blanket on your horse when he stands In cold weather. Don't force horse to back a heavy load over a snow bank. A shovel and a little energy will make it easy for your horse and your con science. Don't try to convince your horse that he Is on skates when his feet strike the slippery asphalt. They apply quite as well to Harris burg as to Philadelphia. Too often we forget that dumb animals, like our selves, are extremely susceptible to hardships of the weather. The dog is leftyfo sleep in a cold place or the cat is allowed to face the snow and gale of a winter's night, not because we would have them suffer, but because we do not think of them at all. In the case of horses thtre is a pure ly selfish reason why they should be cared for to the best of their owner's ability. If they are cold, or sick, or beaten, or poorly fed they are Ineffi cient and the owner loses thereby. The best cared for horse Is the horse that will bo able to work longest and hardest and for which there is always a ready market at a price no half famished or ill-cared for beast would bring. If this growing use of concrete fences continues, what will the rail-splitting candidates of the future do for ma terial? "Railroads require large quantities of sand," says the Electric Railway Jour nal. In which they differ In no wise from men. A NEW BUILDING CODE BUILDING INSPECTOR GROVE Is unquestionably right In his opinion that the building cod« of the city is In serious need of | revision. The rules governing architects and builders are so voluminous as to be cumbersome. Their very number mili tates against their usefulness. They are so minute in detail HB to be prac tically impossible lo follow. N T o build | ins Inspector could bo expected to master thera in their entirety. The builder or architect who consulted tliem in ever} point of construction &AF.RISBURG cfijiflg TELEGRAPH would find llttlo time for anything else. The result has been that Instead of being- generally obeyed, they have been generally violated, except possi bly in their essentials. There is no reason why a code of building rules for Harrisburg should be other than very simple in form. The building Inspector should be given wide powers of discretion. The de signer and contractor should be per mitted scope in which to work out their own details, always subject to the approval of the Inspector. The underwriters have had a good deal to say recently concerning fire and building conditions in Harrisburg. The National Hoard of Fire Under writers has devised a code of its own for cities the size of Harrisburg. In view of this, might it not be well to have this set of rules at hand when the work of revision Is undertaken'.' evening CPAI Thomas H. Ilarter, publisher of the Beliel'onle Keystone Gazette, the lirst man in Pennsylvania to bring Penn sylvania Herman into the modern newspaper's columns and whose Botii steol letters have furnished delight to thousands, has condensed his knowl edge of the vernacular into a paper recently presented .before the Belle fonte Study Club. • I-ike every other man versed in the study of languages, he calls attention to the confusion in tho popular mind between the German and Dutch elements in Pennsylvania and, remarking that while the excel lent Germans we know came from the Palatinate, their dialect came from northern Germany, says: "Had Luther translated the Bible into the dialect of lower (or northecn) Germany, the Pennsylvania German would have been classical, or, putting it better, the dialect of lower Germany, instead of southern Germany, would have been tho literary language of the great Gfr luun-speaking people." The. literature of tho Pennsylvania German, hence, has been "scant and altogether local, confined mostly to newspaper and periodical publications." Air. 1 Tarter pays a high tribute to the Pennsyl vania German in the Keystone State, to his characteristics and his four squareness. "Take the Pennsylvania German out of the history of tho State a/id you remove Hamlet from the play," says he . And then following out this idea he takes the words of Polonious, one of the greatest char acters of "Hamlet," and shows how the Pennsylvania German measures up. In tho course of his remarks the Bellefonte editor says: "He has never proclaimed hiS deeds from the house tops. and perhaps, until very recently, has regarded tho record of his ances tors as not calling for particular men tion. While the Puritan, the Cavalier, the Knickerbocker, the Huguenots and the Scotch-Irish have each had their praises sung by their writers, the field is still open for a no less Interest ing story: that of the "Pennsylvania German." miscalled the "Pennsylvania Dutch." The meetings of Harrisburg's new City Council, although it has been in existence for almost three months, continue to attract popular attention, far more so than in the days of the old councils. Jn those times no one appeared to have much interest in the doings of the lawmakers except when some big proposition came up. The meetings of the new Council, aside from the political features, attract a number of people to every session. Harrisburg people will be interested to learn that T. Larry Eyre, the Ches ter county Republican leader and for mer superintendent of public grounds and buildings, is going to have a pub lic sale of all of his properties in tht vicinity of West Chester, valued at over SIOO,OOO. The sale will include Mr. Eyre's handsome home, the Vil lage Record property, the farm which has been Mr. Eyre's hobby and its stock and machinery. No reason is given for the prospective sale, but friends of Mr. Eyre say that he is away from home a good bit and wants to reduce his holdings. State Zoologist H. A. Surface ex pects a unique convention to be held at the Capitol within the next few days when tho State bee keepers gather. He says that the ordinary person does not have much idea about the size of the bee industry in the State and that instead of it being a side line it is a business in which farmers have invested thousands of dollars and they are building up a trade with the largo cities that is not to be despised. The zoologist is the originator of the investigation to show that stings are good for rheumatism, and while that has not been heard of much lately the honey Industry is com ing to the front. Memphis, Tenn., the largest city governed under tho commission sys tem in the United States, issues an official magazine every month that is unique among publications of its kind. Literally speaking, the paper is the city's official organ. It is attractively bound and profusely Illustrated with cuts of the city commissioners, the police and fire stations and other pub lic buildings and views of the parks. Official city government news that is of particular interest in municipal circles is reprinted in tabloid form, re ports are tabulated and condensed, and there are some helpful hints and suggestions as to future operation of various branches of the city govern ment. I —George Wharton Pepper, the Philadelphia lawyer, has been honored by Yale by appointment to a lecturer in the divinity school. —Mayor John P. Longenecker, of Lebanon, has warned all merchants in his city to do away with slot machines. —Congressman William S. Vare has gone to Florida. —James M. Swank, the iron and steel historian, has offered his fine library to the Johnstown Public Library. —Mayor Blankenburg was seventy one on Monday. —George A. Huhn, the Philadelphia banker, is ill at his home. —W. L. Council, the Scran tun capi- ! tallst, is head of a company which has been formed to handle SO,OOO acres of coal land in West Virginia. —William G. Hower, Bryn Mawr newspaper man. has been appointed sealer of weights and measures for Montgomery county. Bookstand d?I Of especial Interest is the announce ment of early publication of Nat C. Goodwin's recollections. Trobably there Is no more popular actor on the Ameri can stage to-duy and the story of his life should rival In popularity even that of the late Joseph Jefferson. In fact It will be the book of the year. It is surprising to note the wide spread interest in comparatively mod , ren warfare as shown by the large sale of Rear-Admiral Bradley A. Fiske's thrilling account of our Spanish War published under the title of "War Time In Munlla." The Government has re cently recommended the hook for pur chase for all crews' libraries. \\ EVKMNfi IHOK.H I' Be thou faithful unto death. rind 1 ■will che tlice the crown <>f life. Kev. 2:10, i FLU NOT LIKELY TO VISIT CONFERENCE Will Stay in Florida and Let 801 l Mooters Fight It Out Next Week RYAN IS THUMPING PALMER Says Sharp Things About the Veracity of the National Committee Member William Flinn, chairman of the ex ecutive committee of the Washington party, will not attend the second con ference of the State committeemen and county lenders 1o he held here on February 26 for the purpose of mak ing a State ticket and there is a possi bility that a big- light may be made by the advocates of an open field instead of an agreement upon any candidates. The men mentioned for Governor at. the conference, with the exception of Congressman M. Clyde Kelly, who has quit, and posHibly Judge Charles N. Brumm, of Pottsville, who won't run, are expected to meet in Philadelphia within a few days to discuss the sit uation as they were directed to do by the resolution of the conference. This meeting is for elimination purposes and things will narrow down to three candidates, Young and Eng lish. While Young says emphatically that he never has sjought and will not seek the nomination, his friends are ■nighty active in the central portion of the State. English is regarded here as a compromise candidato in the event of the rivalry between the parti sans of Young and Lewis getting 100 hot and he has Fllnn's blessing. Kelly has been "persuaded" by Fllnn to run for Congress again. Flinn is at Palm Beach, where he plans to stay until March. Michael J. Ryan, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor in his own right, as his friends put It, Intensified the row in the ""lurratic camp yester day by going to Hjust Uyan I fits Stroudsburg, Palmer's Palmer Oil homo community, and Car Fare making a speech. lie had the good taste not to talk politics, but he did some tall mixing among the Democrats in that district where Palmer failed to get across his candidate for judge last year. Mr. Ryan also challenged Pal mer's veracity, saying that in spite of the national committeeman the Demo cratic textbook of 1912 showed him a member of the advisory committee, that his name was used widely and that he did what he could do to carry Pennsylvania for Wilson, which Pal mer, in spite of speeches, failed to do. Mr. Ryan also said he considered it improper for the national adminis tration to butt, into Pennsylvania Democratic affairs and added: "I con tributed to the Democratic committee for the election of Woodrow Wilson S3OO, but X never collected from a Democratic national committee, a Democratic State committee or a Democratic city committee railroad fares or telephone bills and if I were j intrusted with the leadership of my! party I would not further deplete a bankrupt State committee by so do ing." Miles B. Kitts, who aroused tho ire of the ringmasters committee of the Democratic State machine last year because of his refusal to to take orders, has an lvltts in nounced that ho will be I'lglit in a candidate for renomi- Kiie City nation to the House from tho Second Erie district, comprising a part of the city of Erie. Kitts says that ho is a Democrat and proposes to run on a Democratic platform. He has started on his campaign and thus far the re organization gangsters have not put up anyone against him. The Erie campaign bids fair to be hot as the Republicans are united and the Democrats are split between Ryan and McCormlck. Ryan's backers have gotten busy and formed a committee. Lebanon county people without re gard to politics appear to be encour aging the candidacy of Grant W. Nitrauer, the Lebanon attorney, for the Leg islature and he is said Legislators to be assured of con- in Sight in slderable support in Old Lebanon advance of the pri maries as everyone concedes that he will be nominated. Mr. Nitrauer, who is a member of the Panama Pacific Exposition Com mission, comes of an old Lebanon family and is widely known through out the county by reason of his law practice and ability. E. E. McCurdy, former district attorney, who an nounced himself as a candidate some time ago, and Dr. X. K. Urich, of Ann ville, are making a campaign for the other nomination. The county is en titled to two members. The Democrats are up in the air as their strongest man, Henry C. Snavely, member for two terms, is ill. The Bull Moosers have Harvey K. Bomberger, livestock man; C. A. Bowman, college profes sor, and F. S. Kaufman, physician, as their candidates thus far. Kaufman is a former member and wants to come back. Up in Clearfield county, where the Democrats would like to take each other out and run a ducking stool, steps are being taken by men active in the Re publican and Washing- ('lcai-Hcld ton parties to get to- Democrats gether. For years the Wide Apart county has been de batable and last Fall the Democrats profiting by the con IF YOU PAY INCOME TAX YOU WILL WANT THIS BOOK tf]f We are distributing, free of cost, a little book that will save its user much confusion and an noyance when the next income tax becomes due. tf]T Separate pages provided for the various dis bursements make possible at all times an accu rate classified record of income to date, while ex planatory notes aid in determining the taxable frcJhi the exempt portions of one's income. ill If you pay an income tax, you will find this book invaluable. It's yours for the asking. May we send you one? Write, j>hone or make your re quest in person as is most convenient. Commonwealth Trust Company IT£ MARKET STREET tentions among the Republicans elected some officers. This has caused men active in the other two parties to seek some ground of combination and meetings have been held at Clear ileld and Dußols with that end in view. With the Dimeling faction in control of the county organization and tho boy scout Democracy trying to pry it loose tho chances are that there will be few Democrats on speak ing terms with each other this year. IPOLITICAL'SID6bI6f)tSI —Candidly, how would the Demo crats have acted had they secured control of Council'.' —Mr. Ryan seems to ha\ e turned the tables on Mr. Palmer. —Ex-Governor Stuart continues In the role of sphynx. —P. C. Evans is after Congressman Palmer's seat in Congress. —The new issue of presidential In terference promises to loom large in the Democratic primaries. —Ansel Ulntari. mfcmber from WIL liamsport, is out for rcnomination. —Plnchot went to Waynesboro to speak yesterday, the snow having pre vented Waynesboro men from going to hear him. —Palmer's Democratic friends are worried over the Ryan sentiment in his district. —Jefferson Democrats are in a light over control of tho county machine. —Dlmniick continues to put out a fresh statement every day. —State Chairman Prugh Is address ing Prohibition meetings up tho State. —But for Henry Houck's age he would be In the thick of the running for Governor. —Grover C. Dadner is a candidate for senator In one of the Philadel phia districts. —Threo Democratic clubs In Phila delphia have endorsed Ryan. —One M. F. Doylo is about to form what he calls a "Commoners" rlub in Philadelphia for Vance C. McCormlck. —The Pottsville Journal does not think Dlmmick is much of an im provement over Penrose. —Reading Democrats are Inclined to Ryan, according to late reports. I frLiTTLe-noraease i Sho saw by the paper that Washing ton had started the Social Whirl and wasn't it shocking how these new dunces were ever invading the capital. "ORANTY" FORItER By Wine Dinger Council aims to cut expenses. For the city's good, I know, But in wiping out his office Seems too bad Forrer must go. Granty's been an earnest hustler, Building up the city's parks. And providing lots of things that Help the kiddies have their larks. Scarce a day, in good old summer, That he didn't get around, Just to see that everything TO Going right on each playground. Friends he's won by many thousands, Youngsters, youths and grown-ups, too. For their pleasure was the keynote Of the things that ho would do. So I say it seems a pity That in wiping out the post That he held. It carries with it Ono whose friends would make a host. But, Granty, you're a lucky fellow, For you've but to look around To see happy faces wreathed in Smiles, with which your work is crowned. "My efforts to keep a diary convinced me of one thing." "What's that?" . . "That there are mighty few days in the year on which a man does anything really worth recording."—Detroit Free Press. |newß>DißParcr>es civil-ma [From the Telegraph of Feb. 18. 1864.1 Many Deserters Cumberland Gap, Tenn., Feb. 17. ■ —- Captain J. B. Watkins, provost marshal at this post, says the average number of deserters from Longatreet's army, who report to him, is five per day. All complain of being heartily sick of the war. Their accounts corroborate the officer's account. Plan llald Into Oblo Headquarters Department of West ern Virginia, Wednesday, February 17. —lt was whispered among military men that there would soon be a raid made into Ohio, and that tho pontoons re ferred to would bo drawn overland to either the Now Kanawha river, and worked and floated down the Ohio, and that the point would bo crossed at two points, one column going by way of Harbouravlllo and Guyandotte. FEBRUARY 18, 1914. 'irVhARRWBUR&fIPty [From the Telegraph of Fob. 18, 1164.] 300 Men 'Wanted The highest cash bounties paid as soon as mustered into tlio service. Men can enlist In any arm of the service. For particulars Inquiro of Eugone Snyder, Attorncy-at-I,aw, Third street, near Market. Hennrd For Inrcudlartea One hundred dollars reward is of fered by Messrs. Price and Hancock for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who set fire to the oil office of the Harrlsburg furnace, yesterday. I EDITORIAL COMMENT! Against All Party Precedent [From the Houston Post.] The Lieutenant Governor of New Tork declares he will retire from poli tics at the end of his term because he i? J' r ®d °f holding' offico. We must be living in n. mollycoddle age, indeed, when a man professing to be a Demo crat confesses to weariness of the job. It Is perfectly absurd. Paint Reminder of Old Times [B'rom the Washington Star.] Now and then Kansas turns out a lit tle hard luck story, merely to show it lias not forgotten Its old-time skill. No creditor can touch the proceeds of a life in surance policy. The wife and family have a prior attachment; that Is, it Issued by the PENN MUTUAL LIFE 103 N. Second St. I Local F. O. Donaldson, / Agrent*. r — * Mr. Merchant Your business success shows that you must know how to buy goods. Apply the same discrimination in buying light. 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