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FHIDAY EVENING, APRIL 10
PRESIDENTIAL ENDORSEMENT
S ENATORS JAMES AND LEWIS, |
who were sent into New Jersey
on the eve of the special election I
in the Seventh Congressional
District as the particular envoys of
President Wilson in behalf of tho
White House favorite, for whom they
made speeches and in whose interest
they declared a defeat would be taken
its a personal Insult to President Wil
son, and that New Jersey would be
dishonored before the whole country,
should be invited to come to Pennsyl
vania to h'elp along the cause of the
White House slate in this State. Of
course, the fact that the New Jersey
candidate for whom they spoke was
defeated by the Republican standard
bearer more than two to one is some
what discouraging, but they did their
best and what more should be ex
pected?
In a few days three or-four of the
members of the Wilson cabinet will
come to Harrisburg' to tell Pennsylva
nia's how to vote and we trust they
-will 'be given a cordial reception. Re
publicans ought to be particularly hos
pitable, as every speech, under the cir
cumstances, is certain to Increase the
Republican majority next November.
"The eyes of the country just now
arc upon the voters of the Seventh
New Jersey district," declared Senator
James In his appeal to the Jersey men
to stand by the President, and tho
eyes of the country are still on the
same district, and others.
Mayor John K. Royai says he .is
not pleased with the commission form
of government. We don't blame him.
Most of the citizens of Harrisburg are
In the same boat, but we can't help
wondering whether Mayor Royal
would criticize the new system so
severely if his partisans were in con
trol.
With the bright Spring sunshine
and the bursting of the buds and the
singing of the birds ought to come
Immediately- thfc resumption of out
door activities of the several city de
partments, and it is a gratification to
learn that the programs of the sev
eral heads of departments are about
ready to be started.
A. J. DULL
HE lived beyond the limit of
three score years and ten
and his life was a quiet,
unostentatious one, but when
one reads of the strenuous activities
of A. J. Dull, he cannot help being
Impressed with the Strength of his
character and the force and genius of
his mind. Mr. Dull was one of those
kindly-disposed and sympathetic men
who conceal from the right hand what
the left is doing constantly as they go
through life. They leave an impress
upon any community which cannot
be gauged by a mere recital of their
activities. There is an atmosphere of!
helpfulness and interest in their fel
low men which is not tangible, but
which permeates the whole commu
nity.
Mr. Dull was a man of great'
achievement and his persistent indus
try continued until the last hour of
his life. All along the way are lit
tle monuments of kindness and char
ity which are not visible to the eyes
of those who did not know, but which
mark the highway of a useful and
kindly man.
City Electrician Diehl is pushing
the city's share of the improvement
of the streets in the installation of
cluster lighting. We trust that the
few private corporations which have
not yet done so will follow in his
wake.
CONVICT LABOR ON ROADS
GOVERNOR OLYNN, of New
York, suggests that New York
State solve its road problem by
having its convict labor make
bricks and lay them. The Governor
points out that by the State making
Rs own bricks roads can be construct,
'ed at a cost of $15,000 a mile. On
tliis basis he figures that the total cost
of a mile of brick road tor twenty
years would be $16,000, Including
$15,000 for building and twenty years
of maintenance at $5O a year. The
total cost of a macadam road for the
same period, be ls s>ff,ooo a
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mile. There are 7,800 miles of high- I
way yet to be built In the State and J
the total sarins by adopting the brick
road system would amount to $140,-
000,000 in the twenty years jifter com
pletion, "or more than the total cost
of constructing the entire system df
highways."
This is a novel suggestion, but not
entirely new. The Legislature of
Pennsylvania in 1907 took a step in
the direction of road building along
scientific lines by convict labor. It
passed a law permitting counties to
employ prisoners under sentence In >
Jails and workhouses to be worked
eight hours daily on highway con
struction and repairs over plans an<l
specifications made by the State High
way Department. It would be but 'a
step farther to add brlckmaking.
It will be interesting to note what
disposition the New York Legislature
makes of Governor Glynn's sugges
tion.
"Eddie" Cumberland is just a boy,
one of those active, gingery lads who
plays well and sleeps well, but he was
wide awake the other night when ,the
fire broke out in the old State, Print
ery. It was this boy who nevei* lost
a moment iu clothing himself, but In
his pajamas rushed to the tire alarm
box. The boys of to-day are the men
of to-morrow and their quality is
often shown when the opportunity
comes.
While Mr. Palmer is going up and
down the State explaining why a slate
isn't a slate, he is pleading for sup
port for President Wilson just as the
same blind admirers of the President
appealed for votes in New Jersey this
week. He will probably explain after
election, just as he. endeavored to
minimize the effects of the New Jersey
test, that the crushing defeat was not
in any sense a repudiation of the
President
CASE OF THE RAILROADS
FRANK A. MUNSEY sums up the
situation of fair rates for the
railroads'in a nutshell when he
says in an article In the current
issue of the magazine that bears his
name: "Starve the railroads and we
starve ourselves."
How true this is we of Harrisburg
are beginning to understand in a very
disagreeable way. Thousands of our
people are idle or are working on half
time, and the outlook Is not bright.
Not only are the local railroads suffer
ing, but the great new freight station
and yards planned for Harrisburg
by the Pennsylvania will not be
constructed this year, because decreas
ing proiits and increasing expenses
leave the company without funds for
the work.
The situation, as summed up by Mr.
Munsey, is this:
If the Government would get
back of the railroads and give them
a lift, the railroads would get back
of business from one end of this
country to the other and give it a
lift—would get its great broad
shoulder under business and heave
it into action. Assure investors
that our railroads have back of
them the great American people,
the good feeling and spirit of co
operation of the American people,
and have back of them as well the
strong, helpful hand of the Govern
ment, untold money would flow into
this country from abroad and vast
sums of sleepy money tucked away
In odd places here at home would
straightway come out of its hiding
ana go into railway securities.
And what wouldn't this money
mean to us—all this vast aggre
gate of new money in the coffers
of the railroads to be spent for
labor, for betterment, and for new
undertakings? Tbe railroads' must
have new rails, new cars, new en
gines, new ties, new bridges, new
stations, better roadbeds and a
thousand other things. They must
add to their sidings, double their
trackage, and extend their roads
into new territory. All this means
work for idle men and full enve
lopes on Saturday nights.
Indeed, the railroads would be
gin buying on so tremendous a
scale that our steel mills and other
concerns having to do directly and
indirectly with railroad supplies
■ would be taxed to their capacity
: and beyond their capacity. And the
I high pressure activity in these lines
would electrify the whole country
and set every spindle spinning and
every wheel of industry bounding
into action. And there would be no
Idle men, no Idle cars, no shuttered
factories, no depression, no blues.
Activity and enterprise and
achievement would grip the coun
try from ocean to ocean and from
the Gulf to tho northern border.
This Is a practical view of the
freight rate controversy. The govern
ment has forced the railroads to spend
millions on safety devices and the im
provement of traffic handling facilities
—very properly so. Its arbitration
boards have decided that wages must
j bo increased—again very properly, for
this is a country of high wages for
workmen. Its legislatures have en
acted all manner of restrictive legis
lation and so-called "full crew" laws—
which the courts have sustained. In
other words, the government has
forced up to the extent of millions of
dollars the expenses of the railroads
of the country. Now come the rail
roads seeking the privilege of increas
ing their revenues to meet the growth
of government-imposed expenses. It
would seem, therefore, that there is
some reason in their request.
All attempts of Wilson spokesmen
and newspapers to relieve the Presi
dent of a suspicion of favoritism to
| England in the matter of the Panama
j Canal tolls are futile. This country
jis not going to be the tail for any
| English kite, nor is it going to be pos
| sible for the Wilson administration to
| escape the censure of an indignant
nation. Democrats and Republicans
and men of all parties are only wait
ing an opportunity to register their
protest against the attitude of the
l administration in the Panama tolls
: matter and also the "watchful wait
[ ing" policy of the administration In
i Mexico.
SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS
NOW comes an Illinois teacher
who would abolish entirely
school examinations because
they decide the rating of a
pupil on "a fraction of one per cent."
It is true that the school examina
tion may fall of Its full object. It
doubtless does not prove anything ex
cept that tho pupil has given thought
and attention to the subjects assigned
him. But It does prove that and it
proves It pretty conclusively.
The fear of falling in school exami
nations spurs many a pupil to indus
try that becomes habitual with him
In after life. Examinations are whole
some If for that reason alone.
I EVENING CHAT I
Presence *oi many owners of trac
tion engines und threshers in the city
this week caused much discussion of
methods of maintenance ol highways
and it appears that the owners of such
apparatus and many of the local au- ,
tnorities in their districts are at odds
over what should be done. Some of
the machines are so heavy that their I
passage over a township road is detri
mental and the State authorities have
taken steps to regulate the manner of
traveling. Only the other day a permit
was asked for a traction engine weigh
ing 46,000 pounds and it was turned
down because of the law, which lim
ited the weight of machines that may !
be allowed on State highways to 26,000
pounds. There is a constant tendency .
to enlarge and the next Legislature
will have troubles of its own between
the owners of machines and the high- j
way people. State and local. Inciden
tally, the wearing of roads into ruts is
coming to the front, as it does every
Spring, and some of the officials say
that it is up t6 the people of the State
to take such means as will stop the
practice. One of the stories brought
to the city t. .-i week told of the man
ner in which the Germans sought to
break up the practice of continuing In
the same ruts day after day. The
German empire has some splendid .
roads, but the experience has been
the same as in America in regard to
•traveling In one line. Finally some
Prussian hit upon the plan of placing
big stones, regular rocks, in the roads.
This makes the drivers, horse and mo
tor. go around them. The roadmaster
changes the position of the rocks
every day or so and there is even
wearing on the metal or surface of the
road. Furthermore, it Is an offense
to move one of the rocks. However,
we can just imagine anyone trying
that plan In Pennsylvania.
The late Andrew Jackson Dull was
at one time part owner with his
brother, the late James J. Dull, in one
of tho largest ranch properties in
Texas. The Dull ranches, as they
were known, attracted much attention
because of their large extent and the
business-like way in which they were
conducted. These ranches were vis
ted by Harrisburgers from time to
time and were a matter of local pride
that the ownership was held in Har
risburg. One of the largest properties,
which was thirty-three miles long, was
in LaSalle and McCullen counties.
There was another in Pecos and Starr
counties. These properties were bought
by the Messrs. Dull in the seventies
and were held until ten years ago,
when they were sold. The day of the
great ranch in Texas is passing and
these great properties are now being
sold off in farms. In their day they
were known far and wide as among
the largest fenced-in properties.
Members of the Public Service Com
mission are having troubles of their
own these daj-o rf'ith the tremendous
amount of accumulated business.
There are many new l<nes of activity
for the commission and comparison
with the old commission is impossible
because the new body covers fifty
times as much. In fact, there is
enough work for ten commissioners
nd people who think that the com
missioners have much time for any
thing else are mistaken, and badly.
This week the commissioners have
been in session three times a day and
until almost midnight on three nights.
State Zoologist H. A. Surface says
that if people in this section of the
State give attention to apple culture
there will be no difficulty about hav
'ng apple shows hereabouts. In fact,
the soil here is well adapted to fruit
growing and all that is needed is sys
tematic care and attention to the
trees and cultivation.
Baseball appears to have started up
with a great deal of vigor all over the
city, especially among the younger
generation. This was evidenced yes
terday by the fact that a red-hot scrub
srame was played on one of the uptown
diamonds with a chill wind blowing
and the mercury down around 40.
1 WELL KNOWN" PEOPLE I
—Colonel J. B. Finley, prominent
Pittsburgher, will be chairman of the
reorganized First-Second National
Bank.
—John T. Kennedy, Sharon's new
postmaster, is the youngest man to
hold that office.
—Congressman W. D. B. Ainey, of
Montrose, says that favorites were
played in nicking regional bank cities.
—A. M. Imbrie is the new president
of the Allegheny County Bar Asso
ciation.
—John R. Mott and Samuel M.
Zwemer. noted missionary workers,
are speaking in the western part of
the State.
I A-LirrLe-nofMervse i
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A GOOD SON
"Why, Mrs. Murphy, you look quite
festive to-day. Anything going on?"
"Yes, my son Bill conies home to
day."
"But I thought he got seven years?"
"He did, but they're letting him oft
two years sooner because he's behaved
so well."
"What a comfort it must be to you
to have such a good son!"
THI! FLOWERS
By Wing Dinner
Gee, isn't life worth the living
I Of all times at this time of year.
With myriads and myriads of flowers,
As glorious Easter draws near?
; The tulips In all their rich colorings,
The hyacinths' delicate shades,
The bright yellow Jonquils, and vio
lets.
The choice of the winsome young
maidß.
Azaleas, hydrangeas and others,
! In numbers quite large I could name,
All rich In their colors and perfumes,
No two are exactly the same.
There's no good excuse for the
grouches
Existing these Eastertime hours;
They have none to blame but them
selves—for
They ought to get out with the
flowers.
Dame Nature puts forth all her efforts,
The beautiful flowers to rear,
Enjoy them—you'll And life worth liv
ing
Of all times at this time of year. j
FREE TICKETS IN
LIMELIGHT AGAIN
Ryanites Charge That Old-time
Methods Are Being Used
by Morris
Men who made the use of free
tickets to meetings of the Democratic
State committee and State convention
meetings an issue against Colonel
James Madison Guftey when they
sought his scalp in tho '•cleansing''
of the party, are charged with using
the>same means in a statement put out
In Philadelphia last night. It is fur
thermore charged that fr6o tickets to
the dinner 01 the Central Democratic
Club next .Monday night are abroad in
the land and that other practices sup
posed to be abhorrent to the present
leaders are being practiced.
These charges were made by John
J. Green, campaign manager of the
Ryan forces in Philadelphia, about the
same time that the L.ee people In
Schuylkill county were making an at
tack on the bosses because ol the ac
tivities of Wilson Bailey, the collector
of funds for the State machine.
All of these charges are indicative
of the Joyous state of the Democracy
in Pennsylvania.
Boiled down the charges by Green
are that Palmer and his satellite's
liav6 borrowed some of the methods
of Guffey, and that
Vanoe C. McCormick
Morris Is Is suspected of "chip-
CUurgcd by ping in to pay the
Jonn Green freight to carry Demo
crats from all parts of
the State to the capi
tal, with the hope of putting some life
into his fight." It Is also charged that
the State committee, instead of being
a neutral body, is working in the in
terest of a faction and that its "integ
rity has been badly violated by the
present leadership." The direct
charges are made as follows: "Over
the signature of State Chairman Ro
land S. Morris, of this city, and on
paper of the State committee, mem
bers of that body, as well as other
Democrats of this city, have been ten
dered their transportation to Harrls
burg to attend the meeting of the cen
tral body of the party in Pennsylvania
next week. A ticket on the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, stamped with the ini
tials, D. S. C., supposably Intended to
show that tlie Slate committee has
received credit from the corporation,
is.attached to the communications
from the chairman. It is a well-known
fact that complimentary tickets are
being freely distributed for the dinner
of the Central Democratic Club, of
Harrisburg, which is to be given on
the night before the committee meet
ing. and It is to be presumed that the
Palmer leaders are using the free
transportation scheme and the free
admission to the dinner plan as a gen
eral game to bolster up enthusiasm
for Vance C. McCormick in his home
city."
Senator Ponrose made caustic com
ment yesterday upon the challenge of
Congressman Palmer to debate with
him and Gilford Pinchot.
"1 ain in receipt of nu
merous invitations from Penrose
clubs, societies, fraterni- Answers
ties and commercial Palmer
bodies In all parts of the
State," stated the Sena
tor. "It Is impossible for me to accept
all of them. I hope to discuss fully t
with Mr. Palmer the issues of the'
campaign from time to time, but sug
gest that he and Mr. Pinchot begin
proceedings by appearing on the
stump together, or, perhaps, it might
be better for Mr. Palmer to wait and
see If he will be nominated and be a
real factor In the campaign. Perhaps
Mr: Budd and Mr. Ryan may lead the
Democratic farces, and I may have
to consider some proposition from
them. 1 shall go to Washington next
week and begin my investigation of
post office appointments under this
administration. I will be glad to dis
cuss at any time with Mr. Palmer and
the Democratic leaders the issue of
free tolls and the attitude of the ad
ministration on this question, and also
the policy of watchful waiting in Mex
ico. I would also like to include the
matter of the rapidly-increasing army
of the unemployed in Pennsylvania
and the steadily-Increasing high cost
of living."
The Dauphin county Bull Moosers
to the number of about thirty gath
ered at the headquarters in Market
street last night and lis
tened to phonographic
Moosers speeches by Roosevelt in-
Listen stead of to the Demo-
Eagerly cratic overtures for fu
sion on legislative tickets,
and then had a round of
stand firm speeches. The news from
Maine had not arrived, but instead
there was an invitation from Repre
sentative J. B. Martin to visit Middle
town on April 23. Speeches were
made by Mr. Martin and George L.
Reed, who is being boomed for one
of the nominations for the House from
the city district. "
rPOUTICAL SIDELIGHTS n
—Charles D. Stucker, who Is a can
didate for Democratic committeeman
in the Second Precinct of the Sixth
Ward, has ready his nomination paper
and it is one of the most remarkable
In the e.ty. It contains the names of
all but two Democrats in the district,
and those two were ill and could not
sign the papers. Mr. Stucker, by the
way, is treasurer of the new Demo
cratic League.
—Representative Joseph DeFries,
of Warren, will be a candidate for the
Washington nomination for Senator In
the Venango-Warren district.
—Strange how handy are the wea
pons of old-time fighters in periods of
need. The used of free tickets, for in
stance.
—Colonel Guffey must have a good
many smiles as he watches the Palmer
machine take up one after the other
the means they formerly decried.
—Apd the ne*t thing the Ryanites
will be charging that there will be an
effort to load the State committee for
McCormick.
—Neutrality does not appear to be
figuring In the present Democratic
leadership.
—Over 700 are expected at the Jef
ferson Day dlnn'er.
—Reorganizers say that Green's
claim of 30,000 majority for Ryan in
Philadelphia is rot.
—George H. Rowley, of Greenville,
is a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Secretary of Internal
Affairs.
—Blankenburg says there Is noth
ing to the story that Frank Rlter Is
to be forced out.
—The Palmer party toured West
moreland yesterday and will be in
Cambria to-day. To-morrow It will
light In Altoona.
—Dlmmlck men are busy working
up an organization In northeastern
counties.
—Creasy seems to have caught up
with the Jersey tlcketholders yester
day.
—Congressman Temple will run
again on the Bull Moose ticket.
—Penrose will speak on April 28 In
Steelton.
—Ex-Congressman Lafean is being
t boomed for Congress again.
CONFIDENCEI''
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NEWS DISPATCHES 1 IN HARR'SRiiRP FIFTY I trend throughout the country has es
OF THE CI VI L WAR j YEARS \GO TO-DAY tabllshed the school house as a socia
I— ■— and community center, so should th<
[From the 10 ' 1864 [From the Telegraph of April 10, 1864.] school yard be set aside for a recrea
The river has been gradually rising _ Forrest to Attack Memphisf tion center and playground for tin
until it has reached a high pitch. Ix>gs, Cairo, April 7. The latest Memphis children of the neighborhood in whicl
etc., are floating down in profusion. advices report nothing later from For- " u 8 , , , wmci
rest or Grierson. It was rumored that the school building Is located.
Swatara On Rampage the former was preparing to attack
The Swatara creek, at Middletown, Memphis. ,
rose at the rate of seven inches an
hour yesterday, and was then higher Ready For ISnemy
than It has been for several years. Cairo, April 10. One day's later < 1
advices have been received from HKAUUUAHTKIH roa
OUR NEEDS Memphis. The alarm recently experi-
eneeii in that city was subsiding. ifl TIT
[Ohio State Journal.] Preparations, however, have been made i>iw H ft' ■mW §B *
~ . to receive the enemy would he venture ■ Ml ■ Bm Efl
These cold April nights are a serious to make an attack. k/jS H J|, H jS, m, Ji l/jw
menace to pur peaches, our cherries, '
our self-starters and many of the oth- RECREATION CENTERS CinVG X, cinrin
er crops so essential to the content- [Wilkes-Barre News.] <X aliJfcS
m£>nt and happiness of a few people. Just as the popular educational
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