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WKDNEST>.AY EVENING. APRIL 22
\ DISTRIBUTION* CENTER
AS might, be. expected from an
organisation of the live wires
of this community, the Cham
ber of Commerce has issued an
Slustrsted booklet which gives the high
points of Harrisburg as a center of
distribution. There has been a grad
ual Increase of the distributing houses
In this city during the lost two or three
I'ears. In addition to its many other
desirable features, no city along the
Pastern seaboard has such facilities
for distribution as Harrisburg.
This fact has been impressed upon
nil the big manufacturers nnd supply
concerns of the country and one after
another has located hero, several of
them having established general of
fices at. this point. There is also a fine
showing of the distribution features
tf the city and the booklet discusses
the general location, the industrial
facilities, the convention features, at
tractions for visitors and the munici
pal advantages.
Even our own people do not realise
adequately the great progress that has
been made here during the last, few
years, and these occasional publica
tions of the men who are on the firing
line of the city's advance are useful
not only as guide posts for the visitor,
but as encouragement for our own
people.
Most of our wars have started in
April. April always was a fool month.
RETAIN MR. MANNING
NOW that the City Planning Com
mission is about ready to un
dertake its important work, we
have no doubt that one of the
first moves will be the engagement
of Warren H. Manning, the landscape
architect, who has done so much in
the development of our splendid park
system. As one familiar with the local
conditions and who has made a study
of Harrisburg for several years, Mr.
Manning is the one expert above all
others who should be invited to con
tinue his work here. With the ac
tive citizens who compose the new
commission we have no doubt the im
portance of securing Mr. Manning for
consultation will be immediately ap
parent. No argument 011 this propo
sition is necessary.
The President has raised a row by,
appointing to the postmastershlp of
Erie John T. Brew. It's natural that a
man with a name like that should cause
a stew.
PRESIDENT WILSON S PLIGHT
UNFORTUNATELY for President
Wilson In the Mexican situation
the opinion will not down that
the spineless policy of the ad
ministration with respect to condi
tions south of the Rio Grande has been
Jn large measure responsible for the
serious problem which now confronts
the United States. While the people
will support the President in every
proper way since actual steps have
been taken to suppress Huerta, there
Is an ill-concealed public sentiment
adverse to the whole business. It is
hard to arouse enthusiasm over mili
tary operations which are based upon
an alleged slight to the American Hag
when for months pillage and rapine
and bloodshed have devastated the un
fortunate neighboring republic without
any effort upon the part of the ad
ministration to prevent the outrages.
It appears to be the deliberate
judgment of men familiar with condi
tions in Mexico that a prompt recog
nition of the only constituted authority
in that country a year ago would have
prevented much of the bloodshed and
property destruction which have char
acterized the unhindered course of the
bandits who are masquerading as
"constitutional" patriots. Not only
did President Wilson refuse to recog
nize Huerta; he placed within reach
of the marauding bandits in the north
abundant munitions of war that the
rebels might pursue their infamous
and bloody campaign.
There Is no such enthusiasm among
our own people as might be expected
under the circumstances. Instead,
there is widespread criticism of the
course of the President, who was
Anally forced to find some reasonable
offense to justify a move against
Huerta. Nor is there a very, clear
WEDNESDAY EVENING HARRISBURG TELEGRAPtf " APRIL 22, 1914
conception of just what the President
means in his repeated statement that
he does not wish to "individualize Hu
erta bocause of any personal resent
ment, but merely to differentiate from
the remainder of the Mexican people
with whom the United States has no
quarrel."
The opinion is very general that
there has been too much splitting of
hairs in the whole Mexican contro
versy; that it would have been in
finitely better in the beginning to rec
ognize the defacto government and
give Huerta an opportunity to restore
something like order throughout the
country.
There is no less patriotism In the
United Stales to-day than at any time ,
in the history of the country. Nor is i
the attitude of the public mind on the ]
bungling in Mexico a political or parti- ]
san attitude. There is, however, a <
feeling among many loyal citizens that '
this country has been placed in an
embarrassing position by reason of
the President's apparent willingness
to aid one assassin while declining to
recognize in any way the other who
happens to be iri control of the or
ganized functions of the distracted re
public.
Postmaster of Shamokin reports re
ceipts of $37,000. This, of course, does
not include the usual campaign contri
bution.
CLEAN-UP WEEK
DK. MARTIN G. BRUMBAUGH,
who will be the next Governor
of Pennsylvania, is strong for
the clean-up week movements
throughout the State, saying, "Self
respect is essential to all spiritual
progress. No city that neglects Its
streets and public buildings can ex
pect to compete with a rival wh'ose
civic pride will not permit such neg
lect. Cleanliness and neatness in body
tend toward clean and orderly think
ing and acting. This is a fundamental
thought in education, and this is why
T believe in clean-up week."
Mayor Royal having indicated two
weeks in May as the period in which
the people of Harrisburg shall give
special attention to renovation, every
householder should begin the cleaning
up process by getting rid of every
atom of rubbish around his place.
The worst, of this Mexican affair is
that we will bo, In all probability, de
luged with a lot of fool Mexican fash
ions before it is all over.
HARRISBURG GUARDSMEN
HARRISBURG has always had
reason to be proud of its
National Guardsmen, but never
more so than now. The state
ment of Lieutenant Hunt, of the Regu
lar Army, who last evening inspected
Companies D and I, to the effect, that
these organizations are ready for in
stant service in the field only served
to bring to public notice what every
body familiar with local Guard condi
tions well knew. And the ready re
sponse of "I will" on the part of every
soldier to the question of the Army
officer as to whether or not they would
volunteer for service in Mexico shows
that the splendid training they have
received has not been in vain.
The National Guard of Pennsylvania
is always ready and its equipment is
as near the standard of the Regular
Army as It is possible to get it. It is
earnestly to be hoped that there will
arise no necessity for calling the mili
tia into active service, but there is no
question as to Its preparedness and if
the call to arms should como Pennsyl
vania's guardsmen will do honor to
their State no matter in what situation
they may find themselves.
HUERTA'S DEFIANCE
STATESMEN and writers both
here and abroad are at a loss to
account, for the defiance by
Huerta of the United States Gov
ernment. Assuredly, it is argued, he
must realize that his attitude is cer
tain to result in his elimination as a
factor in the Mexican situation.
It is possible that he has figured
on exactly this outcome. Huerta has
been steadily declining in power and
influence during the past tliree months.
He lias lost battle after battle in the
North and even now General Villa is
marching toward his capital over ex
actly the same route followed by
General Taylor during the first inva
sion of Mexico. His treasury is al
most empty and his European bank
ers have been so niggardly in recent
weeks that he has been compelled to
pass payment on large issues of Mex
ican bonds. Slowly but surely he has
been drifting toward the rocks, with
the prospect of eventually falling into
the hands of the merciless Villa, who
would doubtless be only too happy to
see Huerta sleeping beside Madero.
Possibly the difctator has felt that
it would be better to yield to a great
! power like the United States than to
: go down to ignominious defeat and
death before the arms of a mere
! bandit. Unless he is a very much
over-rated man that is the only con
-1 struction that may be put on his pres
ent action. Only a fool or a maniac
! would place himself in the position
that Huerta has assumed unless he
t courted certain destruction. For we
may say what we will of our present
• Intentions, but we cannot leave Mex
! ico until the Huertas and the Villas
■ have been rendered powerless to do
that country any more harm.
> LOCAL OPTION PROSPECTS
MORE and more it becomes evi
dent that the next Legislature
will adopt a local option law.
> There will be unquestionably a
' discussion of its provisions, but it is
■ certain that such a law will be passed
i in one form or another.
i It is interesting to note in this re
! spect that whereas local option ten
i dcncies used to be regarded as weak
points in the prospects of any legisla
r tlve candidate, now it is generally
I conceded that any man who dares run
, for the Legislature this year on any
i other platform will jeopardize his
s chances of election.
' Temperance sentiment is strong and
t growing in Pennsylvania and it is but
r fair that the Legislature give com
munities opportunity of saying
whether or not they want liquor sold
within their borders. Ours is a gov
ernment of majorities and nobody
should object to a majority of voters
expressing their wishes as to local
governmental regulations of the dis
trict in which they reside.
EVENING CHAT I
If State Commissioner of Fisheries
N. R. Buller realizes his hopes the
fishermen of this section of the Sus
quehanna will be able to re-establish
their shad batteries in a year or so.
The commissioner is arranging to
"plant" young shad in the Susque
hanna later in the year and the taking
of roe shad will be under way within
a short time. The shad propagation
work in the Delaware last year was
very successful and it iu believed that
the shad fishing of the Susquehanna
can be made worth while with some
care. The catching of shad was a
great institution hereabouts forty
years ago, there having been batteries
at McCormick's island and Spayd's
wharf and smaller affairs at other
points, while gill nets were extensively
used. The fishing was spoiled for a
time, but ten years ago was revived,
being shortlived, however, because the
McCall's Ferry dam put it out of busi
ness. The construction of the tlshway
at the dam is completed and tests nre
now being made to see if the iish can
get through it. If it works, and there
are hopes, there will lie shad taken
opposite this city. The "planting" ol'
the fish will be in various parts of the
river and Mr. Buller figures out that If
his hopes work out there will be good
shad in the Juniata as far as Newport
and still farther up the Susquehanna.
It all depends, say fishermen, on the
fishway. If it does not work, other
changes will be made. Many shad are
reported about Port Deposit and they
are going into the smaller streams
around the Maryland line, but not
coming up because of the cold water.
The "planting" will be done at points
to be selected later in the year. The
State will have its new shad hatchery
at Torresdale working within a few
months.
Flowering shrubs are already figur
ing 'considerably tn the color scheme
of the river front. While the new
grass and tiny shoots of leaves are just
about giving a bare suggestion of
green to the river park, the yellow
"golden bell" is adding a brighter spot,
of color. From the pumping station
to Paxton street the trailing shrubs
arc blooming and the appearance of
this, one of the first of the Spring
blossoir;s, has been more Ihan a wel
come sight to the thousands of prome
naders.
One of the interesting papers read
before the snow cleaners' convention
at Philadelphia last week was a dis
cussion by a Scranton man on the
advisability of washing the accumu
lated snow of the streets into tho sewer
inlets. Commissioner W. H. Lynch,
of the. streets and public improvement
department, commented on this plan,
but questioned its feasibility so far as
Harrisburg is concerned. "Possibly
the sewers in Scranton are differently
constructed," said the commissioner,
"but what they do there we certainly
couldn't, do here. Our sewers are
trapped in such a way as would pro
hibit following out this scheme."
John S. Musser, who presided as
toastmaster at the Rotary Club dinner
at the Colonial Club last evening,
didn't look like himself. The fact, of
the matter Is. Mr. Musser had been
stung; not in the figurative sense ol
the word, but literally, tie motored
to his old home in Columbia on Sun
day and indulged his curiosity as a
bee fancier by visiting tho hives of a
friend near that town. One of the
bees behaved as though he thought.
Mr. Musser was a Mexican Invader
and attacked,with vigor, the shot tak
ing effect directly between the eyes.
The general effect 011 the features was
to lead club members to believe that
their president had suddenly devel
oped a tendency toward taking on
flesh.
Reginald Kearns, who is one of tho
former Harrisburgers in Mexico, is in
the midst of the territory disturbed,
but it is hoped by his relatives here
that he has started out of the country.
Mr. Kearns is a nephew of James
Brady, president of the First National
Bank, and Is connected with a large
mining company and has been in Me\*-
ico for several years. He left here
about fifteen years ago after attending
the Harrisburg Academy.
National Guard officers are busv
these days telling men that the militia
men have not started for Mexico —yet.
Yesterday several officers received a
number of applications from men who
wanted to enlist. The offices at the
Capitol have been receiving many in
quiries about the way to get into the
service and the advice is given to
people to apply to United States re
cruiting officers for the present.
CONGRESS AND THE RAILROADS
1 Fro 111 the Philadelphia Ledger]
It was inevitable that the railroads
should be accused of attempting to
prejudice the public in favor of the
rate increase, but nothing more than
a statement of facts was necessary to
convince reasonable people of the de
sirability of the new rates. The idea
of some of the politicians seems to be
that if the railroads are not earning
a living they ought to be confiscated
and that if they are earning a living
they ought to be confiscated anyhow.
THAT "WATCHFUL WAITING"
I From the Philadelphia Ledger]
Jf the same spirit and firmness in
dealing with the Mexican revolution
ary leaders had been shown at the
beginning and consistently maintained
all danger of war with Mexico or-any
portion of the Mexicans would have
been averted. On the other hand the
I weak policy of watchful waiting has
brought the United States and Mexico
I to the point of armed collision which
has all the appearance of the begin
ning of actual war.
CLEAN UP! CLEAN UP!
If there's ruobish in your home,
Clean up!
Scrub the place from "pit to dome,"
Clean up!
Throw your heart into tho plan.
Make tiie place look spick and span—
Throw all refuse in a can;
Clean up!
If there's cobwebs on your heart,
Clean up!
"Clean Up Week" is here,-so start.
Clean up!
Deeds of mercy shown to-day.
Give your better self fair play;
Dig the gold out of your clay—
Clean up!
Wash the vile schemes from vour
brains.
Clean up!
Losses oft. beget real gains,
Clean up!
If you should be "up and in,"
Help the "down and outer" win,
Be not passive-sloth in sin.
Clean up!
If there's venom in your breast,
Clean up!
Give your enemies a rest,
Clean up!
Scale llatea rust and free the nrind
Cut Love's kernel from Spite's mind;
Win your, foes by being kind—
Clean up!
There is One who seeth all;
Clean up!
Does He think you great or small?
Clean up!
Throw ofT pride and play the man;
Join the Clean Up Caravan:
All must die and life's a span—
Clean up!
—Franklin lu tho Public Ledger.
MANY ADDITIONS
TO PETITION LIST
Penrose's Monster Papers Stirs
Machine Democrats to
Imitate
WAR BEGINS ON LAKE SHORE
John T. Brew Gets Erie Post Office
and Liebel Will Run For
Defeat For Congress
Democratic machine candidates
woke up to the significance of the
monster petitions being llled for the
Republican candidates for nomina
tions at the May primary yesterday
and made frantic half-past-the-elev
enth-hour eltorts to make a showing.
Senator Penrose is backed by over
200,000 persons on petitions filed at
the Capitol. His first petition coir'-
tained 100,000 names from Philadel
phia and 65,000 from the rest of the
State. Yesterday he added about
50,000 more names. Dr. Martin G.
Brumbaugh late last night added his
second instalment of petitions to the
large number already on file, making
about 72,000 sponsors on his papers.
In the number tiled Lancaster county
takes a high place, filing 97. Chester,
Dauphin, Blair, Schuylkill, Erie and
Allegheny have vied with the great
petitions tiled for him from Philadel
phia. If all the Brumbaugh petitions
could be extended they would reach a
quarter of a mile.
Friends of Judges Trexler and End
lich filed additional papers for them
last evening.
When the news of the huge Repub
lican petitions being put 011 record
reached the Democratic windmill there
was great excitement and
a box said to contain
Democrats over 1,000 petitions, ul-
Mntlo tlic leged to contain over
Last Car 50,000 names, was toted
to the "Hill" and labeled
McCormick. The Palmer
people also got 011 the last car, filing
50,000 in addition to those now on
file. The congressman's secretary
stated that, he had 50.000 to 55,000
additional at Washington, which will
probably be kept as mementoes. Al
together Palmer is said to have 150,000
signers. McCormick put all on record,
it is understood. Ryan supporters
also filed a big bunch of additional
names, as did other candidates of the
war-torn Democracy.
The Philadelphia. Record of to-day
prints the following: "Repeating
again and again his attack on the
so-called bipartisan ma
chine, Vance C. McCor-
Mick, Palmer's candi- Philadelphia
date for the Democratic Account of
gubernatorial nomina- the Meetings
tio n , addressed four
small meetings in Phila-
delphia last night after speaking at
eighteen gatherings in Montgomery
county through the day. Refraining
from direct attack upon his opponent.
City Solicitor Michael ,1. Ryan, he
based his objection to the can
didacy niainiy upon the men who are
backing Ryan. lie drew applause
everywhere by referring to the accom
plishments of the Wilson adminis
tration. In his tour of the city McCor
mick was assisted by the federal office
holders, Collector of the Port William
H .Berry speaking in his behalf, while
Collector of Internal Revenue Ephraim
Lederer was conspicuous at one of
the meetings. In Montgomery county
he was accompanied on his hurried
trip by William T. Creasy, candidate
for Lieutenant-Governor. In the city
Robert. S. Bright, candidate for con
gressnian-at-large, traveled with hirn.
The factional war in Erie city has
been intensified by the appointment
of John T. Brew as postmaster of
Erie. Brew was opposed
by Michael Liebel, Jr.,
former mayor, and the Brew Lands
announcement of the Post Office
selection is expected to at Erie
increase the ranks of
the anti-machine Demo
crats in the lake city. Liebel will run
for Congress and expects to have no
opposition, but as Congressman Shreve
is a candidate for re-election it is
believed that the Republican will be
returned. Brew is said to have been
backed by Palmer. He is well known
to many llarrisburgers.
Samuel 1. Stoner, the Altoona law
yer, who filed a petition to be candi
date for Republican nomination for
Congress-at-large, is well
known in this city. He
Congress filed petitions from six
at Large counties, of which Dau
in Demand phin contributed two.
Which were numerously
signed. The other pe
titions were filed from Blair, Perry,
Juniata, Mifflin and Huntingdon. Mr.
Stoner will make an active campaign.
There are now nine Republican candi
dates for the four nominations for
Congress-at-large to be made and
about the same number on the Demo
cratic side. Each faction has its own
set.
I EDITORIAL COMMENT]
Aunt I'etunlH'N Obaerva'tlon..
[From the Baltimore Sun.]
Aunt Petunia says she never heard
a feller cry war yet that wasn't found
hidin' under the woodpile when it
come time to enlist.
All Saved For the ParaßTfiplii
IFrom the Boston Post. 1
The cleverest things are never said—
they are thought of too late.
t'««t of I.lvlnit Very Bnrdenaome
[From the Chattanooga Times.]
Nothing has escaped the rise in
prices. A California woman demands
*1,500,000 for breach of promise.
Naturalists to Hear
Out-door Life Lecture
Professor Charles Lose, of Wiiliams
port, Pa., to-morrow evening at 8
o'clock, in the Technical High School
auditorium, will give a lecture before
the Harrisburg Natural History So
ciety on '"The Outdoor Life."
Professor Lose will illustrate his
talk and will tell how a trip into the
great outdors should be planned.
RECKLESS DRIVER ARRESTFjI)
Hagerstown, Md„ April 22.—Frank
L. Middlekauff. of Waynesboro, Pa.,
was held by Justice D. W. Doub. of
this city, in S2OO bail for a hearing on
the charge of reckless driving as the
result of a collision between Mr. Mld
dlekauff's automobile and an automo
bile owned by .Tudal Gerber in Poto
mac street, about 8 o'clock at night.
r auattMrnaM r*a 1
SHIRTS
SIDES & SIDES
iJfMl&r]
[Prom the Telegraph, April 22, 18C4.]
ENEMY QUIET
Ringgold, Ga., April 20—The enemy
are quiet. There is a tacit understand
ing between the pickets 011 both sides
to keep quiet. The pickets of Pat
terson's brigade, in front of this place,
got drunk at Tunnell Hill a few days
since, and were placed under arrest.
ATTACK PLYMOUTH
Washington, April 20, 18U4.—-The
following account of the recent attack
on Plymouth, N. C„ may be relied on:
"On Sunday last a large body of
rebels moved down the Roanoke river
upon Plymouth, accompanied by a
flotilla consisting of a ram and four
other gunboats. Of these, two wore
river boats, which escaped our forces
when Plymouth was taken.''
I A-LiTTLft-nonsetvse 1
"ENI.ISTISG"
By \Vln« Dluscer
It's mighty queer how ages
Will change with men and boys,
As soon as real gun powder
Like war does make a noise.
The boy who's under eighteen.
About his age will lie,
111 order to enlist and
Go forth to fight and die.
The man who's somewhat older—
Wlio's always full of tricks,
And tries to make himself look young,
Now says he's forty-six.
I guess the latter tigure
They'd rather not be spooks— •
"He's cowardly" Is better
Than "How natural he looks."
But just the same, if there should
Be calls for volunteers.
You'll find 'em all enlisting,
Regardless of their years.
For they're the kind of people
Who ready are to die
In keeping dear Old Glory
Forever waving high.
LvJliiMl Ml ||
I The big fact behind every sale at the E
When we take your money for a Suit it's only after you S
|| have satisfied yourself that it is the best in every way that fl
gsg you could find. If there s any doubt in your mind we don't want you to *,■
i| We want you to be sure that whatever you purchase, ||
jf exactly meets your requirements, furthermore that it will m
continue to do so day after day as long as you demand service from it. ijjp
R In the first place we've insured the widest possib'e choice
I range as to fabric and style; the highest possible quality 1
I The House of 1
I VfKuppenheimer I
|| | then we go the limit and guarantee |
iliu iV m I fund of the' purchase price, without i|
0 '• quibble or question if everything ||
1
I ill »3EI $25.00 $30.00 I
■ 304 Market Street Harrisburg Pa. I
I IN HARRISBURG FIFTY j
I YEARS AGO TO-DAY I
i— |
[From the Telegraph, April 22, 1864.] |
FIREMEN WANT INSURANCE
The members of the different lire!
companies of this city lire requested [
to assemble in'mass meeting, at the i
Friendship Hose house, this (Friday) !
evening at'7.3o o'clock, for the pur-]
pose of taking proper steps for the
organization of a firemen's insurance!
company.
ESCAPE FROM PRISON j
Un Sunday last, two men named!
Eckenrode escaped from the Cam-'
bria county prison, while the jailer |
and family were at church.
BRYAN STRONG FOR PEACE
(New York Sun)
The Commoner, out to-day, contains ;
a signed article by its proprietor, the i
Secretary of State of the United States |
of America, ending with the three as
tounding paragraphs here .subjoined: ;
"If our nation desires to be meas- '
ured by intellectual and ethical stand- j
ards, how unworthy to brag of our I
strength and threaten to use that j
strength. 'We are ready to fight' does j
not arouse the enthusiasm that it did a I
few centuries ago. Brute force is not!
the level upon which this nation set- I
ties controversies to-day; the question
is not what we can do, but what we
ought to do.
"The path of history is strewn with
the wreck of nations that boasted that 1
they were all powerful; they went i
jown under Jehovah's inexorable law I
and the 'God who ruled over Baby- |
lon is the God who is .ruling yet.' j
This question must be decided on
moral principles and not by the count
ing of our regiments and battleships. |
"What shall it profit a nation if it!
conquers the whole world and loses
its faith in the doctrine that 'right- |
eousness exalteth a nation'?
"W. J. BRYAN." I
Think of it! This mess of apocalyp- ]
tic rhetoric and ecstatic exhortation'
was put forth unofficially from the)
Department of State by the Secretary
of State on the very day when the
Administration of which lie, next to
the President, is the principal figure
was counting its battleships and mak
ing an unprecedented demonstration
of naval strength and threatening to
use that strength; declaring that it is
"ready to tight"; ans actually appeal
ing to Congress for full war powers
wherewith to settle an international 1
controversy by brute force.
And Secretary Bryan indignantly!
denies that he thinks of resigning.
f OUR DAILY LAUGH I
I NOT Gun/TY
! Everything she Who helped you
had went at auc- make such a fool
i tion. out of that poor
j Public sale? young man?
j No, bridge. He did.
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WAY Is Bobbins a
I "What n sctrong bluffer?
; face that man 1 should say so.
i has." He is willing to
"He ought to Pay an income tax
' hnve. He lias gone t° make folks
through the world think he has an
on his cheek." income.
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WORSE A QUESTION
I The children How much dr>
| need something- you think he's
I new every week. worth?
I You have no ehil- Are you asking
dren, hence you about his effiei
can't understand. ency or his flnan-
I understand, cial condition?
old chap, I have
an automobile.
IHH BLE INCOME TAX
I From the New York World]
j Is war so popular that a doubled
I income tax will be accepted as a bless
ing In disguise?