8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established rßj[i PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGHAPH PIII.VTIWO CO. B. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and TreaVr. j V. R. OYSTER. Secretary. OUS M. BTEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening (except Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, 116 Federal Square. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue BOUdlng, New York City, Hasbrook. Story A Brooks. Western Office, 12S West Madison atreet, Chicago, Til., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers •t $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrfa burg as second class matter. ' I /fK The Association of Amor- ( > 11 (||j[l|| ion Advertisers has ex- ( 1 1 HUr a mined and certified to 1 I the circulation of this pub- 1 1 ( 1 lication. The figures of circulation 1' 11 contained in the Association's re- 1 1 1 port onljr are guaranteed. 11 Association of American Advertisers ]! ■worn dally average for tbe month of March, 1914 Average for the year 1913—21.5"" Average for the year 1913—31.175 Average for tbe year 11(11—IS.H01 Average for tbe year 1910—17.49P TELEPHONES! Bell Private Branch Exchange No. JO4O. United Business Office, 203. Kdltorlal Room 588. Job Dept. JOS. THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 30 A FRAGRANT MEMORY SOME years have elapsed since the late Sara J. Haldeman-Haly passed out of this life, but her memory grows greener and more fragrant. If possible, with the passing of time. This by reason of the fact that she tnade possible the fine public library that is doing a service in this com munity the extent of which even this good woman could not have foreseen. Thousands of- people, many of them girls and boys, are using the library from day to day and its value as a public institution is becoming more and more apparent. Such a legacy as that which Mrs. Ilaly left to Itarrisburg is a more conspicuous and enduring monument than any shaft of granite or sculp tured bronze. Her memory is on shrined in the hearts of children and R.s these grow to manhood and woman hood their children will also learn to respect the memory of the one who looked beyond her own day and gen rration into the future years, provid ing out of her abundant means for the education and happiness of thousands yet unborn and making it possible for scores and hundreds of poor girls and boys to enrich their minds with the best in literature. We of the present day owe a debt of gratitude to those of the past and we fall short of our obligations to the future when we fail to provide for those to come after lis the means for b betterment of the race through edu cation. attractive environment and the other features of modern civilization. Well, anyway, that little affair down nt Vera Cruz has not disturbed the well-established custom of "watchful waiting." GERMANY ANI) UNITED STATES GERMAN economic progress and national wealth have been the subjects of discussion dur ing the last year in practically every society having to do with the | Industrial and commercial develop ment of our own country. The Ger inanistic Society of America, in fur therance of its purpose to promote in' this country a wider and more accu rate knowledge of the German people, lias taken the opportunity of making accessible to American readers in an English version a work by Dr. Karl Jlelfferich on the development that has taken place in the economic con ditions of Germany ill the last twenty live years. It is the complementary part of a larger work issued at the time j of the celebration held by Germans throughout the world to commemorate I the peaceful and prosperous reign of the present German Emperor. Even a glance through this impor tant treatise shows the great under lying principles of Germany's prosper ity and progress. They are so radically different In many respects from our pwn country's attitude with relation to business that it is difficult to un derstand how a practical people like those of the United States should have gone so far afield in the working out of theories that are so contrary to the proved policies of a nation like Ger many, which has developed along all lines. Perhaps the most striking sentence In the Introduction of the work, es pecially In view of the present position of the Administration at Washington on the enlargement of the navy, is this statement: The imposing bulwark of our army, to which our Emperor has added a mighty navy, lias insured for us more than fnrtv years of peace, and has given protection and encouragement lo the German, not only at home, but wherever he might settle In any part of the world. Thus enjoying the protec tion of peace and working with un resting. unflagging energy of head and hand, the German people have made up for the centuries lost In impotence and self-destruction; they have broadened all the condi tions of their life from a con tracted narrowness to an undreamt of expansion, and all things consid ered, they have achieved an ad vancement such as, compressed within so brief a time, the historV of nations can hardly parallel. Those who are at all familiar with the tremendous development of Ger many understand that political evolu tion has been followed by a period or economic achievement and social progress. It is held by Dr. Helfferich THURSDAY EVENING, that the politicttl regeneration 06 Ger many and the re-estahllshnient of its military power, which guaranteed liberty and freedom, laid the founda tions for the unfolding of the nation's economic power. Perhaps the most striking feature of this study of Germany's prosperity and growth is that which deals with the organization of business and the. freedom that has been secured for all classes of commercial and Industrial undertakings. While the government of the United States has been hamper ing and retarding by a system of in quisitorial laws and restrictions the harassed business of this country, the business interests of Germany have been encouraged by governmental friendliness instead of governmental antagonism. Every form of economic waste is guarded against as a fundamental policy of the German people, and "they aim at removing, so far as possible, conflicts and losses which must necessarily result from an unplanned and disordered working of one against another." They seek to unite all interests and intelligently se cure for them the maximum of eco nomic success. In Germany, as in the United States, there has been a gradual shifting of the population from agriculture to manufacturing and commerce—from the country to the cities. It is impossible to read this careful analytical study of the progress of the German people without being deeply impressed with the fact that we have much to learn with respect to a proper appreciation of the development in our own country that has come about through the genius and energy and vision of the giants of llnance, industry and commerce who are now being bound hand and foot by the little men who happen to have climbed into high places. In the code of political morals adopted by the reorganization element of the Democracy it is offensive parti sanship only when the offensive parti san is identified with another party or faction. For instance. William 11. Berry, United States Collector of Cus toms, now on the stump for the White House ticket and neglecting his im portant official duties, is a patriot. Ills predecessor, a Republican with a fine record, was removed because he was not "In sympathy with the administra tion." Consistency is not In the vo cabulary of the reorganizes. THE TREE BUTCHER THE TELEGRAPH is in receipt of n comnuinlcation from one who evidently feels that his work as a "tree trimmer" l i.'ht not be appreciated by the pro posed city shade tree commission. The letter is unsigned, but in it appears this striking sentence: What right has anybody to say that a property owner shall not trim a tree down to its trunk if lie wants to. I would like to know, since It is his property even though it does grow in the street. This is an argument that has been raised repeatedly during the periodical discussion of the advisability of a shade tree commission for Harris burg. The answer is plain. Nobody has any right to do anything that will damage his own property when by so doing lie mars the beauty of the city or interferes with the enjoy ment of others. And that is exactly what any property owner does who permits the "tree butcher" to perform major surgical operations on the trees that by their location along the curb belong in a measure to everybody. "What is a tree butcher, anyhow'.'" asks the same correspondent. As a rule he is a day laborer equipped with a saw and a trimmer. He knows noth ing about trees or their growth and does his mangling thoroughly In or der to put in time and give his patron the impression that he lias sot the worth of his money. The more he saws off a tree the longer he takes and the more money ho makes. He can undo in two hours the steady growth of a dozen years. He can leave more mangled trees in his course of n day's | ranging about the city streets than [nature in her most industrious mood could restore in a hundred years. His butchery is apparent in every part of Uarrisburg and something ought to be done to stop him. As well let a carpenter with ham mer and saw set to work tuning the piano as to turn an inexperienced "trimmer" to work on your tree. "Don't brush your hair," advises a beauty expert, evidently going on the assumption that a hair on the head is worth two on the brush. i Most young men prefer to sow their wild oats in a peach orchard. BKKHY AM) THE I'ATRIOT WE respectfully call the atten tion of the esteemed Patriot to the fact that William H. Berry-—Collector of the Port of Philadelphia by favor of the Palmer-McCormick machine —is not attending to the duties of his office. We remind the Patriot that Mr. Berry was appointed to succeed an efficient and experienced Republican "for the good of the service." That being the case, isn't our virtuous neighbor missing a chance to do some thing for the good of the government try calling Mr. Berry sharply to task? Best our contemporary may not be acquainted with the facts we shall recite them. Mr. Berry as State Treas urer established a record for "ab senteeism" never approached by any other official. As Collector of the Port of Philadelphia he is up to his old tricks of "playing hookey" from his job. Regardless of the fact that the law provides against Federal office holders engaging in partisan politics, Berry is spending most of his time touring the State, berating his former warm friends, Ryan and Bonniwell, and begging the voters to vote for the nomination of the White House favor ites, Palmer and McConnick. Of course the mere fact that Berry Is neglecting his duty to the govern ment In order to help McOormlck into the Governor's chair will not prevent the virtuous, high-minded Patriot from publicly censuring him for shirk ing his work us a. servant of the people. Oh, of course not! I EVENING CHAT I There is'much of interest to every one in a bulletin just issued by the State Board of Education on the sub ject of corn clubs and similar organ izations among the young folks and it is doubtful If the average man has much idea of the great benefits con ferred upon the lives of the younger generation in the rural districts. For years there have been objections froni the countryside because of the lack of means of enjoying the social relation ships that belong to the urban com munity. Even the advent of the rural mall service, extension of trolley lines and establishment of "farmers' " tele phone lines have failed to overcome many of the complaints. In the last few years the school authorities have taken hold of things in a practical manner nnd by booming the move ment to make schoolhouses social cen ters by the holding of frequent meet ings and by urging the movement for concentration of school children have worked up a feeling among people in the country that they are really more in touch than before. And right here is where the school officials are "get ting in their work," so to speak, among the younger generation. They have encouraged the formation in this section of the State of corn-growing clubs among the boys, cooking clubs among the girls, and by means of con tests and exhibitions have stimulated Interest. No less than twenty counties have corn clubs which are directly un der the school superintendents and one county has so many boys inter ested that it has halt' a dozen clubs, while in others the girls are chasing the boys. In Mercer, for instance, it is stated that a girl of eleven raised over ninety-seven bushels of corn to an acre. Dauphin and Cumberland have some high steppers in the corn-raising line and it is up to them to show what they can do. The meeting of the anti-suffrage people in the city to-day has attracted not only the attention of many of the people who believe in suffrage and those who do not. but is being watched with a jealous eye by those who are members of the organizations pledged to the advancement of the cause. As a matter of fact, several of the active spirits in the State organization, who have lately been visiting various parts of the State, are in itarrisburg to-day, and the meetings are being watched very closely. The good ladies are en gaged in a campaign of great earnest ness and can even give the Democratic factions a few points on zeal. More flowers are being displayed in the offices on Capitol Hill now than ever and many of them are splendid branches of blossoms from fruit trees, which are now in bloom. Capitol Hill is always more or less noted for the way in which people adorn their desks with flowers, but the preponderance of fruit blossoms to-day attracted at tention. This is explained by the fact that many of the people who are daily employed at the State House live in the country or suburbs. Some wags have been having fun with acquaintances in the residential sections of the city in these war scare days. They have heen sending word to their friends, taking care that they arc not at home when the message, is given, that the National Guard officials would be glad to have them join new commands about to be formed in this city. Some of the men have come around to explain that they could not enlist and were informed that they were not wanted. In one or two in stances men arranged to proffer serv ices and made all preparations only to be informed that there was nothing doing in the federal service except possibly driving a mail wagon. Formation of National Guard organ izations is always active in time of war scares and the transfer of companies of the Twelfth Infantry to the cavalry service yesterday caused people here to discuss the often-mentioned third company of infantry for this city. The Eighth Regiment is short one com pany and it is thought that one could be established here or at Steelton without loss of time. The proposition to form a battery here has also been mooted again. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Major Wallace Fetzer, named to command the Third Squadron of cav alry, is active in educational affairs in Sunbury. —George R. Mcllvaine, of Pitts burgh. has been elected secretary of the National Pipe Association. —Andrew Carnegie has recovered from the illness which prevented him from attending the Americus Club din ner in Pittsburgh. —Clyde R. Parkinson, of Monessen, well known here, has been elected county road engineer of Westmore land. —Thomas Sampson, the Washington county fruit grower, says all of the fruit crops are going to be big. —Ex-Senator O. C. Allen, of War ren. is ill in Raltimore. —General Charles Miller, of Frank lin, lias been spending some time in New York. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph, April 30, 1864.] Plymouth Captured Xewbern, April 2 4.—The capture of Plymouth, Including General Wessels and his command, is confirmed. Noth ing is known here of the. movements of the rebels, but it is reported that they have gone to Virginia. Rille Pits On the Rapidan Washington, April 2.9 —The enemy are again busily engaged in throwing up more earthworks and digging rifle pits covering the various fords along the line of the Rapidan. NEWS DISPATCHES OF THE CIVIL WAR [From the Telegraph. April 30, 1864.] Rafts Go Down the Susquehanna A large number of raftsmen can be seen passing through here daily on their return from the lumber market. Rev. Mr. Hays to Preach The Rev. J. K. Hays, of Middle Springs, will preach in the Old School Presbyterian Church to-morrow morn ing and evening. THK ART OF LIVING [From the Lancaster Examiner.] Ex-Senator Depew, of Now York, has just celebrated his 80th birthday anni versary. If he has not cut a very wide swath in human affairs or made a very lasting name, he certainly has taught all men the art of living. For manv year he was the great diner-out and the most famous of our after-dinner speakers. But he always enjoyed his chop before going to a banquet and ate nothing at it and drank in proportion. IIK SALUTED [From the Scranton Truth. I A smart Alee at Cannonsburg, who called the American flag a "rag." was given the choice by -some workmen of saluting the banner, or taking a duck ing in a creek nearby. He saluted. People who have no respect • for Old Glory generally dislike water, too. THK AL'I'OOMA MKTHOI) TFroin the Altoona Mirror.J To-night the first of the ward meet ings in the Interests of clean-up week will be held. A number have been scheduled. Other meetings will be hel.J each evening until Saturdav. ft j s fit ting thai the citizens are asked to as semble at the various public schools. We know of no better places to dis cuss. Just such a campaign as is to bo inaugurated, next week. HXHrisburg fjfgfefta telegraph! EMOCMTG WIN j NEXRBV COUNTIES' McCormick Traverses Lancaster and Ryan Holds Forth in Lebanon PERSONALITIES ARE FLUNG Registration and Enrollment Fails to Bring Cheer to the Democ racy Anywhere The warring factionists of the Dem ocracy campaigned within a few miles of each other yesterday. The Ryan people went through Lebanon county and the McCormick caravan dragged its way across upper .Lancaster. Con gressman A. Mitchell Palmer Joined the caravan, heartening the little crowd so much with stories that ba ttle time l>ancaster was reached at night the attendance register for the meetings was once more marking three for one. The caravan had a fine opportunity to see the garden county of the country and the "farmer" racket was worked hard by the candidates. Men connected with all factions in Lancaster quit fighting long enough last night to attend a meeting. The Ryan people had a bunch of automo biles and toured Lebanon county, stir ring up the strife which has existed in that county ever since its was "re organized" by McCormick methods. A big meeting was held at Lebanon with George D. Krause presiding and many people present. The Philadelphia Record says of the Lebanon situation: "As explained by Chairman llersh, this county was originally attached to le reorganizers, but it has broken away completely from Palmer. It is known that the distribution of postmasterships in Lebanon, Itichland, Annville and Jonestown has played havoc within the ranks of the former reorganizers. Every man who was passed by. to gether with his friends, are out to nail Palmer's hide 011 the barnyard door, together with that of McCormick." The Republican enrollment and reg istration in Pittsburgh and many of the counties which were strongholds of Roosevelt senti ment in 1912 have caused Democrats to Lamentations bite themselves in In Democracy wrath. Instead of Ar© General going over to the faction-ridden Dem ocracy, men who went out of the Re publican party two years ago have gone back and rebuker th