8 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH kjlabluktd jljl PUBLISHED BY THUS TEI,EGRAPH PRINTING CO. X. J. STACK POLE, Pres't and Treas'r. F. R. OYSTER, Secretary. OUS M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building. 81# Federal Square. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building. New York City, Hasbrook. Story ft Brook*. Western Office. 128 West Madison street, Chicago. 111.. Allen ft Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week, iftl"' Mailed to subscribers at SB.OO a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg as second class matter. 1 1 /fK The Association of Amer- , 1 'l lslil&|ican Advertisers baa u ji maw amiued and certified to 1 i the circulation ef this pob (I lication. The figures of circulation < ( I contained in tha Association's re- l 1 1 port only are guaranteed. i[ Association of American Advertisers ; i < Ne - 2333 Whitthsll T.City j ■worn dally average for the month of March, <914 # 22,470 * Average for the year 1913—21,377 Average for the year 1012—31.170 Awisge for the year 1911—18,851 Average for the year 1910—17.495 TELEPHONES I Bell Private Branch Exchange No. 8440. United Business Office. 208. Editorial Room 585. Job Dept. 808. WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL. 29 EFFECTS! THE United States Steel Corpora tion's first quarter shows a de ficit of $6,289,644. The first three months of 1914 show net earnings $16,500,000 less than the first quarter of last year. For the six months ending March 31, 1914, the corporation showed a to tal deficit of $7,291,948. These are probably some of the "beneficial effects" we were told would follow the enactment of the Demo cratic tariff law and the business tin kering of the Wilson administration. We hope the Government's fight to reduce butter prices by eliminating the Elgin board will be more successful than Its effort to cut gasoline costs by disbanding the Standard Oil Company. DEATH OF GEORGE F. BAER WITH modest services, as he would have desired, George F. Baer, president of the Reading railroad system, was laid at rest in his beloved Reading to-day. One of the great pillars of Ameri can railroad development has fallen and the life work of Mr. Baer will be more largely appreciated as his achievements are better understood. His courage and high sense of duty were prominent characteristics of the man. He never hesitated to do the thing which he believed to be right and all the scoffing and of his critics never once swerved him from the path of duty which he had marked out for himself. His death is n distinct loss to the creative and con structive activities of Pennsylvania. The Wilson administration alone lias discovered that Villa is a statesman and a patriot. It must be grand to have such unusual powers of discernment. AX INTERPRETED SPEECH THE speeches Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer has been mak ing throughout the State re cently are quite in keeping with his reputation as a friend of business and industry. Mr. Palmer's only fault is that he is inclined at times to be a bit involved and for that reason we supply here a lib eral translation of the recondite and pleasing advice he is handing out to the voters. "Friends and fellow citizens, I am' here to urge you to rise above a sor did regard for the pay envelope. Wo have higher and nobler duties to per form. We have a President in Wash ington who has decreed that I shall lie United States Senator and that Vance McCormick shall be (lie people's choice as Governor. Arc we in this hour of peril going to refuse to sup port the chief of our army and navy? I hear the eagle screaming, 'No!' I scream, 'No!' Mr. McCormick screams, •No!' Down with the traitors and knaves who would trample the Stars Rnd Stripes under foot by violating the express order of President Wilson that Mr. McCormick and I shall be elected! "We hear an awful lot about the tariff nowadays and some of you fel lows are kicking because the cost of living is higher than you think it ought to be. What do you expect anyway? Can't you allow anything for political license? Did you think we were simply reciting cold facts when we told you that the Underwood law would bring down prices and put fillet mignon and automobiles within the reach of every pocketbook? Surely, you must understand that when a politician is advocating any given measure, he has to lay it on thick. Personally, I think that prices have been reduced in many instances. Take eggs and butter for example. Why since the cows have been turned out to pasture and the snows have dis appeared from the chicken yards, these staples of food are a great deal cheaper than they were last January. But are you grateful to the Under wood tariff for this? No! You af fect a profound skepticism, declaring that 'eggs and butter would have been cheaper anyway.' I ask you to prove it. Prove it, I say! "Now as to business. You have been very unjust with the Democratic party in this respect. A year ago when we were advocating the passage of the Underwood tariff law, you made us prove that it would result In WEDNESDAY EVENING heavy importations of foreign goods which would bring down the prices of local manufactured products. No sooner does that prophecy come true, than you force us to turn around and run the other way, merely because these importations, by taking the place of goods made at home, throw a few people out of work. Very well, we accept your challenge. If you want us to prove that the tariff isn't bring ing in any foreign-made goods, we'll do that, too. "Somebody has complained to me because I said that I would support the Underwood law even though I knew it would Injure the Industries of my own district more seriously than those of some other districts in the State. Do these people think 1 am in Congress for my health, I won der? Do they suppose that I could now bo the divinely-inspired candi date for United States Senator if I had had the gall to oppose the Underwood law? Have m.v constituents no pride in the glory reflected upon them by my advanced and advancing position in national politics? "And why are those fellows at Bethlehem hollering simply because they are getting sls in their pay en velopes, whereas they used to get $25? Isn't butter cheaper? Aren't eggs cheaper? Haven't the railroads prof ited immensely by steel brought into this country much cheaper than we can make it at Bethlehem? "I regret more than I can tell you the public's lack of conception of the true situation in American politics. What we want to do is to forget our pay envelopes and back up that splen did ruler in Washington who is en deavoring to rid this country of po litical bosses. We want to wipe out the last vestiges of 'Penrose and Pen roseism' by rising up in our might against the gang that is trying to de lude the voters of the Republican party by giving them two Senatorial candidates to vote for. This two can didate business makes me tired. The popular primaries are a snare and a delusion. Don't I know —I mean— you ought to know. "And now, ladies and gentlemen, I close with the assurance that I would rather see my little friend, Vance Mc- Cormick, elected Governor than be elected myself. I say that, not be cause I mean it, but because it sounds well. Also, I feel sure that you won't dare to go against Wilson. If I can make Vance king in Harrisburg and keep my hold in Washington, we'll raise—well, we'll create a heavenly condition in Pennsylvania such as never prevailed there before. Down with the bosses! 1 thank you." There is much perturbation in the camp of a certain Democratic candidate for Governor over an expose of his record respecting the compensation of the working man by a State Senator of his own party. This statement is char acterized as a "contemptible falsehood" and threadbare political trick. If it be misrepresentation and abuse and a political trick, then the candidate in question must realize how other can didates feel when they are likewise misrepresented and lied about. It mat ters a great deal whose ox is gored. AXENT THE "SPRING TOXIC" F the present trend keeps up the I drug store may have to go out of business. l,ast week Harrisburg physicians were told by Dr. J. Madison Taylor, of Temple University, that medicine Is not necessary for the cure of many diseases, and that he accomplishes marvels by manipula tion and mechanical devices. Now comes that conservative publication, the Journal of the American Medical Association, hitting in knockout fash ion at our old friend, the "Spring tonic." "The best Spring tonics," says the Journal, "are the gifts of a beneficent Nature, A full breath of fresh Spring air, a brisk walk along a grass-grown road, a plunge into the cool water of the old swimming-hole—if the water is pure and cold—or the morning shower If in the city, fresh green food, or the pursuit after a bounding golf ball over a springy course —those are real invigorators, true tonics." But what's a fellow to do after he has pulled the tacks and hammered 'em in again, carried -1,000 pounds of carpet downstairs and up again, beaten out 100 pounds of dust, and swallowed most of it, dined off the kitchen sink for a week on odds and ends at which the family cat would sniff in disdain, and tried to keep his peace with a wife entertaining a housecleaning temper? What, we re peat, would the Journal proscribe in a case like this? A quick reply would be appreciated. We are personally interested. Villa is a man without an office try ing to get one. May be that's the rea son Bryan sympathizes with him. THAT VACATION FUXD ABOUT the middle of July the annual vacation epidemic will be in full swing in its most vio- lent form. About that time the call of the mountain or the seaside becomes well nigh Irresistible. Sp strong will be the desire that many of us will be willing to Btake the price of next Fall's coal supply against the risk of being able to pay back a loan of sufficient size to meet the very real need of the moment. This call from work to play is not to be discouraged. It is only nature voicing her demand for that change of occupation which for most of us constitutes all the rest we really need. The evil lies not in "cutting work" but in mortgaging our income to pro vide the funds without which "vaca tion" is small fun. There Is a way to avoid this. Sys tematic saving, a trifle every day, will accomplish the end. Nothing grows so rapidly as money at interest and a savings bank account from now until the middle of July, added to at the end of every week, will be surprisingly large. With such a foundation vaca tioning is real fun. But a trip to for pst or beach made on borrowed money Is apt to leave a very bad taste in the mouth and there is small amusement In "paying for a dead horse," 1 EVENING CHAT I Susquehanna rivermen and people interested in fishing are awaiting eagerly the reports from the McCall's Kerry dam about shad. The late Spring, the heavy snows and the gen eral weather conditions have caused the water In the wide branching river to be so cold that people familiar with the habits of the great food lish say that they will never attempt to come up the stream until the sun's rays warm up the waters. The shnd we have been getting come from around Ptrryvillo and Havre de Grace, where the Susquehanna enters the Chesa peake Hay, and while they are styled Susquehanna and have that delicious flavor wljich everyone appreciates they are not yet, strictly speaking, Sus quehanna shad. In the language of one of the men who has followed the river and its tiny denizens for years, "a Susquehanna ain't a Susquehanna until it gets up between York and Lancaster counties an' takes creek water 'tween its gills." Down at the great dam at McCall's Kerry, where thousands of dollars have been ex ponded on a fishway which It is fondly hoped will enable lish to get up as well as down, they are keeping daily tab on the lish going through, and while there is plenty of water reported it is de clared to be so cold that no self- I respecting shad will attempt it. A I good many people are skeptical about the fishway and the people who built ii admit that it is an experiment, but they think that they have solved the problem and that we will yet catch the shad off McCorinick's Island and iSpayd's wharf. "I've spent more pleasant hours in Harrisburg than on this visit," said Senator Boies Penrose to-day. The Senator came here late yesterday aft ernoon and was suffering with a severe toothache when he arrived. He went to a dentist's office at once and was back again this morning. The Sena tor's trouble was a cavity at the base of a tooth. George F. Baer, the Reading presi dent, who was burled to-day, was the man responsible for the development of the Heading in this city. When he took charge oif the company this city was a sort of way station, and realizing the traffic to be handled, Mr. Baer promptly started to get a new station and simultaneously worked out the system of handling trains so that the great and growing freight traffic could be handled easily. In fact, every de velopment of the Reading worth while here came while he was president, and in each case he personally passed upon it, using his knowledge of Harrisburg in disposing of it. The campaign button season is on and the number and variety of buttons being displayed is rather startling. Some of the candidates appear to have the idea that a name is all that Is needed, but there are others who are using their photographs. Some of the buttons are very attractively gotten up and display their wearer's political affiliations to a nicety. But the funny thing about it is that most of those worn are shown on the coat lapels of children. The clearing out of the ruins of the Aughinbaugh Press is a thing of joy to the youngsters living in the neigh borhood and even to school children. They attack the big pile of papers every day on the way to and from school and quantities of the paper are carted off for "scribbling." Most of the papers are of no earthly use and if a kid can find a piece which has been charred in the lire the value of It. goes up Immensely. A good bit of school work has been done on paper retrieved from the lire. ( WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Ex-Attorney General W. U. Hen sel is home from a trip to Europe. —Alfred Webber, well known here, has been elected president of the Al lentown Firemen's Union. —Mrs. Samuel Sample, president of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, visited Philadelphia bakeshops to see how they are run. —Professor R. F. Fernauld, of the University of Pennsylvania, and who has handled work for the Public Ser vice Commission, has been appointed a consulting engineer by Secretary Lane. ATTKNTIOIV, HUSBANDS By Wing Dinger A married couple asked me To dine with them last week, When hub got off a good one, 'Bout which I'd like to speak. Housecleaning was in order. In the corner rugs were piled, And hubby seeing them, to wife Thus spoke in manner mild; "Those rugs were there this morning, When to work I went away. Please tell me why you women Didn't clean them up to-day?" And wifey answered sharply, "Why what is wrong with you, Why don't you go and beat them? It's work that you should do." Then hubby said: "Dear wifey, i think that J-ou're quite right, But I work day-time and a rug Should not be beat at night." "J don't see why," said wifey, (Anil now's the time to rlapi "Because, my dear," said hubby, "You see it spoils the nap." POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS I —lt may be the Palmer-McCormick League, but McCormlck's name is first on that banner hung in Market street. —There was not so much said about the State government needing a clean ing in Lancaster county by the ma chine candidate yesterday. s Folks in that county know about the York- Adams post, offices. —State Chairman Morris does not appear to think Capitol Hill is as full of crooks as Congressman Palmer. Perhaps he takes more care of the truth. —Speaking of banners, that affair in Market street is not only a work of art, but notable for its display of local pride in putting McCormlck's name ahead of Palmer. —No, anxious Inquirer, we are in formed the portraits on the Pa-Mc League banner were not made with a hose. —The McCormlck-Palmer caravan will invade Allentown Friday to over come the Ryan meeting last night. —According to some the counting machine for attendance at the Pa-Mc League rings three each time one per son enters. —Dimmick s In Schuylkill county again to-day. —Montgomery Democrats have a cheerful war for control under way. —Lewis and Pinchot are speaking from the same platform in Philadel phia. Brumm will start a series of his own meetings In that city on Monday night. —Joe Mowiey has heen confirmed as marshal for Pittsburgh and C. S. Duncan as postmaster of Gettysburg. —The Lancaster county Democrats apparently were too busy with plough ing and Internal warfare to pay much attention to the automobile caravan yesterday. —Jim Biakslee is said to be threat ening another speech. —Palmer will join the McCormlek caravan at Lancaster, to-nijeht. —Not much about that enrollment is said In the court gazette this morning. HAfUUBBURG tifSjjft) TELEGRAPH lEGISTRITII IS MK SLIGHT Not Many Names Were Entered in the Early Houri, Said the Registrars Today BANNER CAUSES MIRTH The Pa-Mc Leaguers Make a Dis play in Market. Street to Offset the Ryanites Judging from the returns made by registrars in the precincts of the city, registration will be as light as is usual in the Spring. In some of the districts very few had reported as registering up to noon, and it is the general opin ion that most of the entering of names will take place this evening. However, it was reported from sev eral districts, especially from Allison Hill and uptown, that a number of men had changed their enrollment to Republican and that the number of Democrats putting down names was small. The Democratic committee members sjaid that tliey expected a jump owing to the interest in the party's contests and especially the bat tle between the factions in this county. The Dauphin county enrollment in the Second district, published last night, put an awful damper on the machinists at the Democratic State windmill and at the Pa-Mc League Last evening word came to the city that the Second Blair district, which is Blair county outside of Altoona, had shown an enrollment of 7,218 Re publicans and but 2,601 Democrats, the Washington strength beinc only 885. This caused many of the leaguers to go home to bed. The warring Democrats throughout the State are commencing to turn from the orators to the tights between the factions for control of the State machine. In Democrats almost evcrv county in Warring; the State fight* have All Over developed for election of members of the county and city commit tees among the Democrats in addition to the struggles being waged for the election of State committeemen. The machlnsts at the Windmill say it is a good sign, although they admit that the tights will leave scars. Last night Ryan scored his rivals' bitterly at Al lentown, receiving a notable greeting. McCormick toured lower Lancaster county's agricultural districts, encoun tering slight frosts, but getting good views of men working in the fields. The Schuylkill County Court yester day ruled against the Washington party in the mandamus proceedings brought to compel the County Com missioners to give Bull Moosers the Progressives Lose Out In registrars in Potts- Schuylkill ville. Although the Washington party carried Pottsviile in 191 a, the court stateed that the registrars are to be appointed in June of every presiden tial year. If this had been done in 1912 the registrars would have been Republi cans and Democrats, and it is held that the present appointments are onlv to fill vacancies until 1916. Court ruled that the Progressives will be en titled to appointments in June, 1916. Pottsviile became a city last Decem ber. Immediately after the decision was made the commissioners appointed ten registrars. The banner displayed in Market street by the Palmer-McCormick League late yesterday afternoon ex cited mingled feel ings among the Democrats. Those I'a-Mc Leaguers' connected with the Manner Causes Ryan faction asked Smiles and Woo who was portrayed on the banner and if tho men whose likenesses were shown were not feeling well on the days when they were painted. The Pa-Mc leaguers were dismayed at the list made of it by the New York firm which was given the job. The banner hangs in such position that it can be seen in all its pristine beauty from the entrance to the Harrisburg bridge or the Central Democratic Club, but ono looking at it from the railroads oi coming up Market street sees an nouncement of the name of the league and the pictures. The rest of the banner is blotted out by the canvas hung at Market and Court streets which announces: "For Governor, Michael J. Ryan." According to accounts, some of th« members of the Central Democratic Club are not very well pleased at the suggestion that the Pa-Mc League should Permanent be made a permanent l.eague is organization. In the Not Favored irst place they say they are not so sure that there will be any earthly reason why the league should exist after May lit and that after the pri maries everyone should unite and make the clubrooms so attractive that men who did not pay much attention to them prior to this campaign will bo regular visitors. The Pn-Mc I.eaguo has been given quarters at Market street and the Square and the enter tainments have been so well attended that some people are wondering why the sessions could not have been held in the clubrooms. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY .From the Telegraph. April 29, 1864.] TO REPLANK BRIDGES The Market street canal bridge will be replanked on Monday next. Tho public are therefore notified, that aforesaid bridge cannot be used on that day. TO SELL HORSES Sales of condemned government horses will be held at various points in this State, commencing with New port, Thursday, May 5. HOOT AND LODGE [From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.] If it be a crime for a Senator to evince In the performance of his duties statesmanship of a high order together with a comprehensive grasp of the situation, shorn of its more trivial details, then Senators Lodge and Root Indeed deserve condemnation. The strange thing Is that their sentiments are endorsed by thousands of Ameri cans who feel that they can heartily support the administration without shutting their eyes. UUMtvAimnu wmm 1 SHIRTS SIDES * SIDES , » - L. I OUR DAILY LAUGH Ij LEM The question comes, there'.s little doubt, To ev'ry young and pretty miss: "Which can I get along without The best the onion or the kiss?" ALL PENNANT . WINNERS This is the season of the year W hen hope does bright er gleam; And every league must go, we fear Without a tail marry us. A NICE POINT A plain and simple an wer for This question's what we wish: Does fishing make a man a liar or Do only liars fish? GOWN 'Tls well to wear a new-style gown, Of Paris rut and latest make; But wear it when the sun goes down If you've any regard for pr oprlety's sake. THUS \\ title other blows we learn to parry. Old Pate steps in to cause a fuss, It makes the girl we'd like to marry The one who . will not j GROUCH Why looks the man so pale and thin? Why does he sneeze and cough? To Spring he thought Ills faith he'd pin— He took his flannels off. AN EVENING THOUGHT Fortune befriends the bold.— Virgil. tYou are one I of the steadily j|J| increasing majority in Harris burg to whom the remarkable growth V*"" •of st °r e is of vast importance. Our success is not to be measured by any in crease in dollars and cents made, nor from the standpoint of added financial strength. The winning of first place in our particular field through carrying out the ideas of fair dealing—the ideals of quality and service which you would put into this business ' were it in your hands, is the big thing that merits your interest. We feel confident that the loyal patronage which you have and are giving is but a dem onstration of your approval, an urgent invitation to us to keep steadily on along our present path—And we're going to do it by giving you better values in cloth ing then ever before. sls S2O $25 S3O 1- MMMMI = MI ■? Always Reliable 304 Market Street Harrisburg, Pa. APRIL 29, 1914. DR. BRUMBAUGH The Journal of Education, published at. Boston and one of the big educa tional Journals of the country, pub lishes the following editorial in re gard to the conspicuous fitness of Dr. Brumbaugh for the gubernatorial chair. The Journal says: "Doctor Martin G. Brumbaugh is one of the most conspicuous figures who has entered a civic and political contest in the United States In a quar ter of a century. "Prom Maine to California no man is a candidate for any office this year, except in cases of re-election as with Johnson of California and Ferris of Michigan, who is in the same class with Doctor Brumbaugh, and no one thought of in Pennsylvania is to be mentioned in the s&me breath. N'o other man who will be thought of as a candidate, has addressed so many of the citizens of Pensyivania, no oth er has spoken upon so wide a range of social, civic and economic prob lems, and no one knows these prob lems more intelligently, thinks upon them more clearly, deals with them more masterly, or feels their import ance more sympathetically. "Dr. Brumbaugh's leadership is of all classes of people as is that of no purely political, commercial, reli gious, or professional man. , EVery-J where and by everyone who knows him, or knows of him, he is esteemed for his personal character, scholarly attainments, platform power, devotion to principle, activity in all movements looking toward human betterment in Industrial, social and civic relations, In serenity of poise, in falrnes of judgment, and in loyalty without sub serviency. "In education Doctor Brumbaugh has been conspicuous as a leader for a quarter of a century, not alone in Pennsylvania but in national councils. He has long held one of the three most responsible educational administrative positions in the country, one of the most complex, offering Innumerable opportunities for tactual blunders, and while dodging no responsibilities he lias made 110 blunder professionally, politically, or administratively. "As governor of the second State In the union in size and importance, in one of the most critical periods for the State and nation, no man has given clearer demonstration of the pois", and power needed in the next four years than has Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh." WHAT XEWSPAPEH AIIS 11111 DnllnN llrlek Co. Snnmpril With Orders 'When I'lnut Oprneil J. H. Payne, secretary and sales man ager of the Frazer Brick Company, of Dallas, Tex., has just had an experi ence which convinces him that news-/ paper advertising' pays. About four months ago his concern decided to put in a plant to manufacture interlocking tile under the Denison patent. A sys tematic. campaign of advertising was immediately begun in the local news papers. The result was that when the plant was ready for business more orders were on hand than could be filled, and the plant has been operated night and day in an effort to catch up. "If you have a commodity which people want, and let them know thwt you have it through newspapers, the rest Is easy. I am a convert, anil 11 k£ all con verts, an enthusiast. Our ex perience has made me so," is the way Mr. Payne puts It. I I [From the Telegraph, April 29, ISC4.J REBELS on tile march St. Louis, April 29.—N0 more flght ing had occurred up to the 20th bu the rebels were reported to be march ing on Grand Ecord. Our troops wen going out to meat them. ATTACK PICKKTS Chattanooga. April 26.—0n th< morning of the 23rd of April the rafc els made an attack upon our plcwl| on Nickajack Trace, near Leefs farn with both infantry and artillery. Superior Quality Hosiery Does this war in weather suggest that you change from Win ter weight to Summer weight hosiery? Our hosiery depart ment offers superior quality in the celebrat ed Onyx brand. Buying your hose here means getting a greater variety of the newest and most ex clusive things to select from. Socks and stockings for the whole family. Silk, lisle and silk— lisle. Prices range from VZ'/jf, 25-0, .■»(><*, 7 "><• to Jerauld Shoe Co. 310 Market St. Harrisburg