6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Btiabliikti itjl PUBLISHED BT Tm TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. k. J. STACK POLE, Preat and Trtmfr. 9. R- OYSTER. Secretary. OOS It STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. ?übllshod every evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, tit Federal Square. Xaatern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New Tori City, Uaabrook. Story A Brooke. ,"Western Office, Its West Madison •treet, Chicago, 111., Allan Jk Ward. • Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. " Mailed to ■ubacriberi •t 9>.M a year In advance. ■tttered at the Poat Office In Harris burg as second class matter. @Tlm Association of Antr- ! 1 •can Advertiser* has ax- {' amintd and certified to i' the circulation of this pub- / !> Mention. The figure* of circulation i 1 1 nootainod in the Association's re- i 1 1 part only nr* guaranteed. ; AsMditiM if Americas Advertisers ; New 3333 WUMull BM|. N. T. City . 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MARCH 28 THE KREIDER HILT, THE unqualified endorsement by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Assistant Postmaster Gen eral and Postmaster Sites of the Kreider bill for the further enlarge ment of the Harrisburg Post Office chows how well Congressman Kreider estimated the postal needs of this city when he presented his measure for the appropriation of $75,000 additional for the work of remodeling the local Federal bulling. • Congressman Kreider made a per sonal Inspection of the plans drawn for the improvement of the Post Office and at once came to the conclusion that even with the Increase of floor space for which they provided the postal forces here would be crippled for room, the parcel post having added greatly to the burden of mail matter handled in Harrisburg. Taking up the question with Postmaster Sites he confirmed his own estimates and the bill for an additional appropriation i.s the result. It is altogether likely that the Kreider bill will be passed at an early date. It Is hard to see how Congress could do otherwise, with the proof of the necessity of the appropriation so apparent and endorsement at hand from such authoritative sources. It would be wasteful to spend $125,000 of government money for a mere makeshift, when an additional $75,000 will give the city a Federal building adequate for Its needs for many years. A Pittsburgh thief stole a whole wagonload of eggs. Talk about your get-rlch-quick schemes! THE PRESIDENT AND "GAG" RULE STUBBORN to the point of bull headedness at home, spineless as an oyster abroad, President Wilson has assumed the peculiar position of autocratic dictator at Washington and of a truckling, boot licking Uriah Heap in his dealings with foreign nations. He makes the Democratic platform his fetish when it suits him and rides roughshod over it when England cracks the whip. "I was elected on the Democratic platform,'' he told the suffragists when they asked him to support their cause In Washington, "and I cannot recommend such a law because there is no mention of it in that platform." A few weeks later we find him, at the behest of England and for reasons which he will not make public, at tempting to "boss" Congress into re pudiating a Democratic platform pledge. What, we ask, may we not expect from such a man, and how far Is he to be trusted? As a candidate we'heard him crying from the housetops against what he chose to term "Cannonism" In Con gress, and yesterday we saw him force on the House a "gag" rule of the very kind he condemned so loudly when he ■was an officeseeker; a "gag" rule that not even such teretofore subservient I followers as Underwood and Clark could support. Bearing in mind the united front of the Democratic party following the Inauguration of President Wilson and the readiness of Underwood and Clark to carry - out White House orders, the revolt of these two men and their fol lowers is all the more remarkable. Very politely and indirectly both Clark and Underwood took the President severely to task yesterday whpn he •et to work to "gag'' Representatives against the utterance of things not pleasant to presidential ears. The "gag" rule was purely a Wilson rule, and here Is what Speaker Clark said of It: "You are making a serious mistake if you adopt this rule, and I would not be worthy of the commis sion you have given me as leader if 1 did not have the courage to stand here and say so." Anybody familiar with the manner In which the Wilson Administration treats those who oppose its pet poli cies will agree with the Speaker that It did require some courage for him to stand "up In the House and attack the President. And this from L'ndenvood. first lieu tenant to the President and leader on the door of the House. "Our whole difficulty arises from the un-American . spirit of surrender that some of OUR. SATURDAY EVENING, OWN people have exhibited." Plainly referring to the President as un | American. By the small majority of thirty-one voteß the President won the opening round and forced his "gag" rule on the House. Already he is preparing to punish those who hdd the temerity to oppose him. Administration men are saying that he will depose Under* I wood as leader and will have his own ; candidate for Speaker if the next House i 3 Democratic. IF—that is the big question just i now. Are we through with constant i truckling and shin-scraping to for eign governments? Have we had ! enough of seeing our own business and working people kicked In the face every time they appeal in Washing ton with a protest against some un- American law? Is there going to be another Democratic House? We think not. Underwood and Clark have little to fear at the hands of the President-. He will be shorn of considerable of his power to retaliate before another session op'na, unless all signs fail. DR. DIXON'S TALKS ONE of the least spectacular but most useful of the many goo! works of the State Health De partment Is the weekly health talk Dr. Dixon has been issuing re cently for newspaper publication. For years past the pages of daily papers have been crowded with ad vertisements offering cures for dis ease. Physicians have made fortunes bringing patients back to health. Spe cialists spend years in the study of obscure ailments. All this is vitally necessary lor the relief of the suffer ing, but in the eyes of the most ad vanced thinkers along medical lines, the great mission of the physician is to prevent disease. Dr. Dixon is put ting this idea into very effective prac- using the great prestige of hts office to procure the publication of the articles he so carefully prepares. How to keep well, not how to get well, is the theme of his "talks" and every one of them ought to be in the scrapbook of the man who gives ser ious thought to his physical condition. HIGH TARIFF AND HIGH PRICKS WE very much fear that what our Democratic friends love to term the "pernicious in fluences of the protective tariff," in some mysterious manner, must have been transferred from the United States to Great Britain. At all events the "high cost of living" is not the least of the troubles now confront ing the very much harassed English government, and since what corres ponds to the Democratic party in Britain has no high tariff of its own on which to lay the blame, we must conclude that somehow or other our own burden of tariff taxation must have been tossed clear across the At lantic when President Wilson played football with our long-established business policies. We are impelled to these ob servations by the following news item appearing in a recent issue of the London Times: A conference was held at Toyn beo Hall, on Saturday, to consider the increased cost of living and the question of a legal standard of quality for food. The meeting was convened by the National Women's Council of the British Socialist Party and the Women's Industrial Council, and eighteen societies and organizations were represented. Will Thome, M. P., presided in the morning. Miss Margaretta Hicks, secretary of the conference committee, moved a resolution ad vocating the establishment of a maximum price for the necessaries of life and a minimum wa«e for all workers, and said that the retail price in London of twentj'-three of the principal foodstuffs. Including bread, meat, bacon, butter and eggs, had advanced 17.9 per cent, between 1896 and 1910. Since then the necessities of life had risen considerably more. The latest figures also showed a fall of five shillings in the purchasing power of £1 during the last seventeen years. She advocated an organiza tion of women as buyers, with agents to call at their houses on the lines of the provident clubs. If this were done working women. Instead of trusts, would control the mar kets. The resolution was carried. We leave It to you. President Wil son has assured us that the protective tariff was the cause of high prices in America. Free trade, he has told us, is the remedy. England has free trade and we no longer have a pro tective tariff. Doesn't it strike you that there is something fiendishly mysterious about all this? Wouldn't it be awful if it were found that a Democratic tariff plot had been hatched to "wish on England" the devil of high prices so recently cast out of the United States? The only thing that troubles us In these logical conclusions is that we have failed to note any decrease in the cost of living at home. Anyway, we feel sure our Democratic friends will be able to find some connection between high prices and a high tariff in England. THE IMMIGRANT THE current issue of a widely-read magazine complains becannc the people of the United States rtrn the newly-arrived Immigrant toward the tasks the native-born does not like to do—the hard manual labor of our big enterprises and Industries. And why not? Isn't It right that the newcomer should do the kind of work for which he Is best fitted? Isn't It about time we cease to pity the for eigner among us and learn to admire him for his willingness to work and his thrifty ways? Granted the hard work and the low wages, he Is still superior to th* native-born In more than one respect. For Instance, he knows how to live within his income. The American people owe a great deal to the aliens, or those who quite recently have be come naturalized, for lessons in thrift. The average foreign-born citizen and the average alien Is not a spendthrift, in a single year the foreign-born people of Massachusetts have sent abroad, via one route, over $9,000,000. In addition these same foreign-born people have saved —deposited in banks or elsewhere at home—other millions. In this respect the old-time American can afford to take off his hat to most of the foreign-born, who are among our most frugal people It would bn hard lo say which are the most thrifty. French and Italians stand high in this matter. Thrift is likewise characteristic of the Germans, the Scandinavians and the Scotch, and in countless instances It has rewarded its possessors a thousand fold. Thesfc people have learned that the tlrst essential la acquiring the art of mak ing money is to learn to save. Can not native-born Americans leurn. tills lesson from them? In these days of electric motors and gasoline engines wo don't very often see a treadmill, but most persons know pretty well what it Is—a moving in clined platform geared up so that the weight of the horses walking on it turns the machinery. The point about It is that the horses never get anywhere, for all their hard work. How many persons are occupied in Just the same way! They work hard and they accomplish things for some body else, but they never get any where themselves. There are fow for eigners in this class. Let's stop pity ing our neighbors from abroad and see if we cannot learn a few lessons from them. EVENING CHAT 1 Two hundred and fifty of the 550 buildings in the forty-one blocks of the area to be added to Capitol Park have been demolished or are prac tically out of the way and within a week the demolition of fifty-seven more will be started. The State Is selling the buildings for the material they contain, the buyers being re quired to remove everything above ground and to take away three feet of cellar walls. Only such buildings as can serve the State for offices, storage, garages and similar uses are being re tained. It is the belief that by the end of the year all of the buildings on the 340 properties to which the State has title, except, of course, those in use, will be removed. Properties are being acquired by the State almost daily and two churches have lately been taken over. It is probable that the next Legislature will be asked to take some steps to provide for a study of the park and the extension from a landscape standpoint so that when the properties are acquired in 1916 the State will be in shape to go ahead with development. The park as It stands at present Is unfinished, the stoppage of work on the grounds in 1905, when it was found that the Capi tol was costing far more than ex pected, having caused some parts of it to remain unfinished. Plans for driveways and walks and for a new entrance at State street in place of the unimposing sandstone steps have been prepared for some time, but it has been deemed best to await the time when the planning of the whole park can be undertaken and the best results obtained. Pennsylvania is now going to buy its roadmaking materials in bulk and get the advantage of large purchases at a fixed price and arrange for de livery afterward. Bids have been aslced for as much asphalt as the State will need and the same plan is to be followed with other materials. It is expected that a considerable sav ing will be made. The State did that when it bought machinery a few years ago. Mayor Joseph Cauffiel, of Johns town, who was here recently and who has upon several occasions mado in quiries about matters in this city, has started a move to have the Flood City own its own water works. He has studied water plans in several cities, including Harrisburg. and is convinced that the city plan is fhe best. He faces a big light In his city, as the plant In that section is a big affair and will cost a lot of money. The area way between the Court house anil the Commonwealth Trust Company building, which has been re ferred to upon several occasions as a canyon because the sun shines Into it only a couple of hours a day. Is hold ing up its reputation. The pavep>nt in the section closest to the Post Ofiice has several piles of snow, which havo been there for weeks. Thev are cov ered with dirt, but it is snow all right. The south side of Derry street neai Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets also has snow piles as reminders of the blizzard. "Get your sassafras. This is the time to make tea and to drink It," sung out a farmer in the Chestnut street market this morning. "I'm sell ing a lot of the bark. This bark Is the real biting kind, the kind that makes the tea that clears your sys tem. You'd be surprised at the num ber of people who take sassafras tea every year. There's lots of 'em and It's a great thing for the liver." These tine days have caused a reg ular rush on the Public Library and It is expected that the March book service report will make a fine show ing. The attendance of children has been very large and the juvenile book department looks as though a raid had been made upon it. The library Is reallv suffering from too much pat ronage. Its stock of books has been worked and worked hard. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —William Smith, son of the former mayor of Philadelphia, may become a candidate for senator. —M. L. Van Baman, prominent York resident, is head of the firemen's relief association of that city, which has 700 members. —Bishop Thomas Bowman, of Al lentown, Is planning a trip to the Dakotas. —Ellsht Lee, new general superin tendent of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, started in life as a rodman on the Tyrone division of the Pennsylvania. —Joseph R. Grundy, the Bristol manufacturer, addressed the business men of Schuylkill Haven. —A. R. Hunt, superintendent of the Homestead steel mills, will terminate thirty years of service with the Car negie company on April 1. f' NLW WM» I [From the Telegraph of March 28, 1864] Forrest Klren City Cairo, March 26. Forrest, with an estimated force of 5,000 men. captured Paducah at 2 o'clock yesterday after noon, and sacked and fired the city. Colonel Hicks, commanding the post, occupied the fort below the city w'th about 800 men. Lee In Hot Fight New York, March 26. General Lee's forces had a fight at New Iberia, and pursued the enemy across Vermillion Prairie to Vermillion Bayou, a distance of nineteen miles. No particulars have been received. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph of March 28, 1864J Count-ll OrKanlzr* The City Council has organized for the ensuing year, by the re-election of William O. Hlckok as president, and David Harris as clerk. Church Incorporated The Second German Reformed Church, of this city, has applied to the Com mon FWs Court for an act of Incor poration. "f>«in* Is believing." quoted the sag* "C'h. I don t know. I see men ev»r<-