6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH HltObluhld 1831 PUBLISHED BT THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. fe. 3. STACK POLE, Prea't and Treas'r. R. OYSTER. Secretary. OUS M. STEXNMETZ, Managing Editor. Fobllahed every evening (except Sun ' dajr), at the Telegraph Building, Sl6 Federal Square. BJUtern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Haabrook. Story A Brooks. .Western Offloe, IJS Weat Madlaon street, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week Mailed to subscribers at 13.00 a year in advance. Xntered at the Post Office In Harris burs as second class matter. ®Tha Association of Amer- , 1 !«nn Advertisers baa ex- / am/nod and certified to 1' the eircalalion of this pnb- 1' ' 1 lication. The figures of circulation . 1 contained ia the Association's re- 1 11 port only are guaranteed. | 11 Association of American Advertisers ; > j, No. 2333 Whitehall Blrfg. N. Y. City i| •mviu dally average (or the month oi March, 1914 if 22,470 if Average for the year 11113—21.077 Average for the year 11)13—2t.1715 Average for the year 1911—15,831 Average for the year 1810—17,495 TELEPHONES i Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 2040. j United Business Office, 203. SAltorial Room 685. Job Dent. 20| WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 13 CITY PLANNING COMMISSION IN the selection of B. F. Umberger, Edwin S. Herman, George A. Shrelner, George W. Reily and Francis J. Hall for the new City Planning Commission the Superinten dent of Parks and City Property, Mr. Taylor, and his colleagues of the City JCotincU have done admirably. Each j of tho live chosen for tills department is qualified for the important work of the commission and without ex ception all have been active in the various movements for the upbuilding and betterment of Harrisburg. Mani festly the choosing of those who will organize this new department and out line its policies has been done with painstaking care. There can be no reasonable criticism and tho tentative announcement of tho names yesterday pending formal action by the City Council this afternoon was followed by instant public approval. Men of high character, acquainted with the needs of the city, possessed of fine public spirit and of broad and liberal views, this quintet of planners will have tho confidence and support of the entire community. They are certain to give the City Council in valuable assistance and in co-opera tion with the municipal officials the fundamental features of a great city will be developed harmoniously. Harrisburg has been singularly for tunate in the character of the men who have given so unstintedly of their time, energy and ability to the mak ing of an attractive and healthy city as members of the several boards and commissions. For this reason there will be general satisfaction through out;; the city over the fact that same high-class service is to be main tained. Under the act of Assembly ap- 1 proved by Governor Tener lust July the new commission serves without compensation, but may employ engi neers and other persons, whose neces sary expense shall be provided for through a proper appropriation by Council. Perhaps its most useful func tion will be the control that shall here after be exercised over the territory adjacent to the city for three miles beyond the boundary line, and which | .iu-'sdictlon will prevent hodge-podge! development and plotting of building I lots out of harmony with the city j plan. Maps will be prepared show- \ ing street lines and grades so that the suburban districts may be built on the right lines. All plots of ground laid out in building lots and the streets intended to be dedicated to public use shall first be submitted to the com mission and approved by it before be ing recorded. There has been no more important step since the first public improvement campaign ol" lOOi than the creation of this planning department and the City Council is deserving of great credit for the discriminating and intelligent judgment shown in the choice of the five persons who will have charge. With a progressive and public-spirited planning commission, Harrisburg should enter upon another era of its development. We have now reached that stage of growth where there must be a broad vision of the future, em bracing the proper location of public buildings, the planning of streets, boulevards and parks, and a definite scheme of expansion which will make the Harrisburg of the coming years an even more beautiful and inviting city. DEMOCRATIC TROUBLES TROUBLES for the Democratic party are coming thick and fast. Not satisfied with the over turn of business and the de struction of confidence throughout the country, President Wilson is now in sisting in his arbitrary fashion upon going ahead with more theoretical trust legislation which can have no other effect than the breaking down of what little hope was left of a re habilitation of tho elements which go to make up the prosperity of the na tion. Then comes the awful blow between tin fcyes from the Democratic chair man of the House committee on ap propriations. who declares that the extravagance and waste ol' the Demo cratic Congress is sickening and must result in driving his parly from power. WEDNESDAY EVENING Air. Fitzgerald is said to bo the most, painstaking and industrious man who has ever served us chairman of the most important committee of Congress and has a wonderful mastery of the facts and figures which are associated with the preparation of the great ap propriation measures. His statement regarding Democratic profligacy, the breaking down of platform pledges and the utter indifference insofar as keeping good faith with the people has made a tremendous impression throughout the country. In the face of these things it is go ing to be a mighty difficult proposi tion for the Palmer-McCormick junta in this State to convince any consider able number of voters that they—the slated favorites of the President— should have control of the State ad ministration and a voice in the United States Senate. Bepublicans of whatever name, stal warts and progressives, are determined as they have not been determined for almost a generation to restore the government to the hands of men who are sufficiently experienced and suffi ciently broad to establish upon Arm foundations once more the prosperity of the people. Perhaps nothing has so seriously in jured the prospects of further Demo cratic success as the flagrant viola tion of solemn pledges and the ap parent disregard of the ordinary ob ligations of the party in power to ful fill the promises of a campaign. Mr. Palmer and his satellites in Pennsylvania are going to discover before many weeks that comparatively few men after all are interested in the patronage of the administration, but that thousands upon thousands nre deeply concerned about their own welfare and the comfyrt and happiness of their families. Those multi-millionaire silk-stock ing bosses of the Democratic machine in this State are finding that the men in blouses are more concerned about full dinner pails than they are over; theories of government and reforms that do not reform. DRESS AND THE MAX NEW YORK women are the most beautiful and the best dressed in the world, but their husbands look like rag-pickers," according to Madame Suzanne Joire, premier dressmaker of Paris as she shook the dust of New York from her sandals on her way back to Europe, whither she goes to spend the "dust" of another sort ac cumulated in America. Further, the Madame says she wouldn't kiss an American man be cause he doesn't wear a beard and-be cause he does wear trousers that bag at the knees and coats that do not lit. She says the American man is her idea of a nightmare come true. Wo don't know whei wo felt so pleased with American men as after reading Madame Joire's farewell inter view. Aside from the fact that we suspect certain American husbands must have vetoed some of the Ma dame's dress-making proposals, we are tickled half to death to learn that American men are not half so well dressed as we feared. We had been trouble ' in the belief that some of our young men have been thinking too much of clothes and too little of business. We confess a provincial, not to say vulgar, admiration for the man who is too busy with big things to trouble himself about the crease of his trous ers or the cut of his coat. We blush to admit it, but we love to picture in our mind's eye the splendid spectacle of a male fashion-plate coming into sudden and violent contact with a to boggan slide at the bottom of which rests in patient repose a lovely puddle of thick, yellow mud. It's shameful, we know, but wo fancy there are oth ers who entertain some such unholy thoughts at times. And beards! What are they but germ catchers and disguisers of weak and effeminate chins? "The day of packing conventions and hand picking legislators to do tho will of the boss has ended," is a gem from Josephus Daniels. How about the band-picked candi dates for United States Senator and Governor, Josephus? THE TIME TO SWAT. IF we are to believe our scientific friends, now, and not next summer, is the appointed time for swatting the fly. The torpid, lazy moving insects are beginning to emerge from their winter quarters. They are to be the progenitors of trillions of epi demic makers. Tho menace which annually faces mankind through the activity of these distributers of germs and disease may be reduced, but only through the striking of a telling blow at the insects before they have had a chance to develop. The wonderful reproductive capa city of this breeder of pestilence is tho reason advanced why house holders should begin an immediate fly swatting campaign. A solitary fly in April may seem a harmless thing, but if left undisturbed it may cause an entire community to be gripped by pestilence. Health experts are beginning to realize that if flies are to be destroyed they must be attacked when they are least able to combat their natural ene mies, and this is in the early spring, when food is scarce. The close relation of cleanup cam paign to the fly exterminating propa ganda has begun to be appreciated, and for this reason many municipali ties already have commenced or are preparing for sanitary crusades. It has been demonstrated that the more filth that is removed irom a city the greater difficulty Is placed in the way of the development of the insect dis ease spreaders. It would seem, in view of these facts, that it might be better for the Civic Club to offer prizes of fivo cents each for flics now than five cents a pint later in the year alter the "hold overs" have raised large families to wing their disease-laden way into our food and drink. 1 EVENING CHAD If Harrisburg had enjoyed the serv ices of a city planning commission twenty years ago there would have been prettier outlying sections and some of the suburban communities would have had their street lines and names in accord with what they should be. It was in 18U9 that the city had its last real city planning commission. That was the year when the boun daries were enlarged and the city plotted for a mile on the north, south and east. Some of the old maps show ing this plotting on the old rectangular system, the Philadelphia plan, are still to be seen. The men in charge thought that they were doing the right thing, but they did not know that the day was coming when the streets would follow the contour of the ground and that the plan of building*block after block of houses on the same scalo would be done away with and local beauty spots created. Incidentally, this commission suggested the acqui sition of the "Hardscrabble" district, some of its members unofficially mak ing efforts to obtain prices on tho houses on the river bank side with a view of placing an estimate before the council. Had the city enjoyed the advice of a planning commission in the l.*st generation there would have been fewer haphazard building op erations conducted and some of tne streets would have been fun on proper lines and named with some system. Commissioner of Fisheries N. R. Buller paid tribute to the anglers of the State this morning when he said that he believed more men would be out at daybreak with rods and' lines than in any other year. "I have never known fishermen to be as interested in propagating lish as they have been for the last year," said he. "In a dozen or more counties men have given up their time and work to see that, tish were properly planted and to make observations. I hope the sport will be good because they deserve it." Professor Emory R. Johnson, who has been testifying before the sena torial committee in charge .of the hearings on the tolls repeal bill, is the State Public Service Commissioner. Dr. Johnson, who was a member of the faculty of the University of Penn sylvania, worked out tho calculations for the tolls for the canal. During tho lire at the Aughinbaugh Press the other night big pails of hot coffee were supplied to the firemen b. the Telegraph and the Elks, whose clubhouse is in Second street, half a block from the scene of the lire. Not only did the Elks supply coffee; they also kept their clubhouse open and three or four physicians who are members of the fraternity gave med ical attention to the firemen who had been almost overcome by the intense smoke. James Scarlet, the Danville lawyer, stood in front of a fishing tackle store yesterday afternoon and looked long ingly at the trout fishing equipment. "Here is the opening day of the trout season to-morrow and I'm tied up in a case in court," he said. Mr. Scarlet has not missed the first day of the trout season for a long, long time and he has a collection of trout flies that is hardly equaled in the State. Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer, the Democratic national committee man, who was hero yesterday, played football on a gridiron in Harrisburg years ago. The Congressman was then a member of the Swarthmoro College eleven and came here. with his team to play a game on neutral ground, the contest being held in North Sixth street. In his football days the Congresman had us a team mate Senator William C. Sproul. The reference bureau of the now public library is working overtime these days. It is because there are many high school and grammar school students preparing essays and they are commencing to use the library to an extent that is surprising everyone con nected with it. The library for tunately has secured some of the best encyclopedias to be found, in cluding the Catholic and Jewish edi tions, which were donated. These books have been much used by tho students, many of whom have found historical matters not treated in other editions. The number of reference questions answered, that is questions involving search and not those to be taken care of right away, has more than doubled in the last month. ! WELL KNOWN PEOPLE "1 —Arch Mackrcll, who is connected with the Pittsburgh city government, is shutting down on some of the fancy shows in that city. —Josiah D. Hicks, former Congress man, is to run again for Republican State committeeman from Blair. —Col. Carson W. Masters, of Al lentown, is on the way to Europe, his first vacation in ten years. —E. Lowry Humes, United State 3 attorney for Western Pennsylvania, says the man who takes a job under Uncle Sam has rio cinch. —The Rev. W. W. McCauley, of Mc- Keesport, has been elected president of the Allegheny county Presbyterian Ministers' Association. "LOOTERS OP THE TIIEASL'ItV" [From the Philadelphia Press.] This is the first session of Congress, Democratic in botli branches, that has I appropriations to dispose of. The Demo- I cratic chairman of the appropriations committee, Fitzgerald, of New York, is stirred to indignant wrath at the ra pacity of his Democratic colleagues, whom he spoke of as "looters of the Treasury." His official position makes hiin In a measure responsible for the extravagant appropriations which this Congress insists on making and last Friday ho thus delivered judgment up on it: | "in a few months I shall be called upon in the discharge of my official duties Ito review the record that the Demo cratic House shall have made in its au | thorization of the expenditure of the public moneys. Whenever I think of ! the horrible mess that I shall be called , upon to present to the country on be half of the Democratic party 1 am tempted to quit my place. lam looking 1 now at Democrats, who seem to tal, 18G4.J Shelby ltepnM Little Rock, Ark.. April 11.—On the 2d Shelby attacked General Steele's rear guard, under General nice, with 1,200 cavalry and two pieces of artil lerp. He was repulsed with a loss of 10U killed and wounded. Our loss was 44 killed and wounded and 13 pri soners. Dana Steps Down Washington. April 15. — New Orleans advices from Texas slate that General Dana has been relieved from the com mand of the troops at Pass Cavallo. at his own request, and been succeeded by General Warren. lIKLPING BUSINESS [New York Sun. J Pathetic reports from Washington ! paint the administration anil the rest of our Democratic friends at that navel of sapience as yearning to fly away and be at rest after the canal tolls war is.over. But duty lays an Iron compulsion on their souls. Will the representatives in Congress dare face their constituents until a few more hooks have been put into the jaw of the business leviathan? So the judiciary committee of the House is | tinkering the Sherman act, there is. 1 deep revolving conference between the resident and that body, the trade com mission bill is warm from the incu bator. Procrastination about or post ponement of anti-trust bills would never be forgiven by the people. Cer tain sages of the Senate committee on interstate commerce say "that if the session adjourned without passing the trust bills it would appear to the coun- J try as a surrender on the eve of the Congress campaign and it might make an unfavorable impression on the country." Mr. Wilson agrees with | them. To let persecuted, lean and hungry business alone for a little, to give it a respite to recover In, not to roar and rage against it—by way of restoring confidence, of course—not to pursue it to the last moment of the session, that, the sanhedrim of sages holds, would ! not bo forgiven by '"the country." I Naturally the country wuld refuse any invitations to prosperity. Americans | are not to make money, not to make | a living, not to have work, but to i praise and bless and vote for the poli- I ticians who clog those base desires j and energies of self-preservation. | Well, there'll be a referendum on ' the state of business the first Tuesday after the lirst Monday of November; an opportunity to thank the bene j factors at Washington. No wonder the great creative minds at Washing- ton want to hammer still deeper into the heads of voters those services lot' which the Seventh New Jersey district was so grateful. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph. April 15, 1564.J Kenioilel Cliurcli We are requested to announce that there will be no public services in the Locust Street Methodist Church oil Sunday next. The interior of the building is undergoing a thorough renovation. Hurts Go Adrift Some eighteen rafts of lumber broke loose near Clearfield on Friday last and went adrift upon the Susquehanna, causing quite a loss to the owners. There's A Difference In Building Lumber not alone in price, but also quality and durability, while sonic woods arc tough and strong they arc not suited to exposure to the elements. Other woods that will stand exposure probably could not be used throughout a house be cause of the price. We've a wood for every purpose and the price is right. Let us quote you before you go ahead. United Ice & Coal Co. MAI.V OFFICE: Former nnil Cnwilrn Sta, HEADQUARTERS rOB SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES *