8 BARRISBURG TELEGRAPH iittablithtd it SI FtTBLtSHEtt BT *'■ l TELEGRAPH PRINTING 00. ffl. J. STACKPOLE. Prea't and Trees'* P. R. OYSTER, Secretary. QU3 M. BTEINMKTZ, Managing Editor. Published every evening (exoept Sun day), at the Telegraph Building, IH Federal Square. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook. Story A Brooks. -Western Office. 128 Welt Madison street, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers a S No. 2333 Wbitßbill Bldg. N. T. City i| ■worn dally STtrace for the month of April, 1914 * 23,606 & Average tor the year 1815—21,577 Average for the year 1912—21.175 Average for the year 1911—18,851 Average for the year 10T.0—17,488 TELEPHONES! Bell Frhste Branch Exchange No. 8046. United Business Office, 203. ■Editorial Room 686. Job ML TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 12 CAN'T EAT CAKE AND HAVE IT THAT you cannot eat your cake and have it, too, is very well Illustrated by an article In the Wall Street Journal of to-day, setting forth the conditions of our foreign trade under the new tariff regulations. The Journal reports that aocordlng to government statistics, in the first six months of the new Demo cratic tariff law, the import of manu factured products into the United States has Increased, the export of our own manufactured articles has de creased and the import of raw ma terials for manufacturing purposes in this country has also decreased. A careful analysis of the figures shows that the Democratic adminis tration is in grave danger of facing a tremendous deficit in. the national treasury. Presumably this falling off In duties on imports is to be met by the income tax, as the Journal ex plains, but nobody knows how much money this will bring, and Instead of curtailing expenses in order- to meet the possible reduction of revenues the Democratic Congress is appropriating more money than ever before. Having opened our market to the Invasion of the cheap-labor products of Europe one might have thought it would have been clever politics to have so shaped the legislative program at Washington as to stimulate pro duction in other ways and to encour age those industries not seriously in jured by the tariff to operate to their maximum capacity. Instead, every conceivable obstacle is being placed in the pathway of harassed industry. Un tried experiments of legislation are on the calendars of Congress, fads of ex tremists are to be enacted into law, the Interstate Commerce Commission Is taking its own leisurely course with the railroads and the Department of Justice pursues Its disturbing but fruit less search for trust law violations. The Democratic administration is trying to eat its cake and have it, too. It is determined to carry through its program of radical business experi mentation and hopes regardless of re sults to be sustained at the polls in November. The people who have money to invest are about tired of hearing from Secretary Redfield that the "country is in a highly prosperous condition" and the wage-earner knows better than anybody that this con dition of flourishing prosperity exists only in the minds of those who are engaged in the gentle art of trying to fool the people into continuing them In office. The Wilson administration places itself in the position of opening the. American market to the raids of low paid foreign labor, harassing American business at every turn and then ex pecting to be commended for causing industrial companies to pass their divi dends and for taking millions of dol lars from the pockets of workmen. PROHIBITION* AMKXDMKNT ONE of the most interesting pieces of legislation now before Con gress is the bill for a prohibition constitutional amendment. It is row before the House and will con tinue constantly so until passed or during the entire life of this Congress, which dies March 4, 1915. Advocates of the measure say it will be voted on at an early date and Republican, Pro gressive and Democratic leaders are quoted as saying that it will be passed by the necessary two-thirds vote. Some ardejjt Prohibitionists frankly express their pleasure that the bills were reported without recommen dation, as this prevents its being con sidered in any sense a party measure; and as the President has no power of veto over such a bill, and Mr. Hobson, spokesman for the Prohibitionists, haa declared that it will be made strictly a question of submitting prohibition to the people ami not of subscribing to that policy, the division will not be along party lines. It is the first time in history that the question of national prohibition has seriously confronted either body of Congress. Many members are de bating whether or not a constitutional amendment bill Is privileged business which can be called up at any time. The question of whether or not Chair man Henry, of the rules committee, is willing to bring in a rule favoring »&rIX CjOu*idexa.tiun ia also much dis-vj TUESDAY EVENING, cussed, It Is certain, however, that only parliamentary Juggling can pre vent a vote, and the publicity which suoh Juggling would receive does not eonduoa to Its being safely attempted. The bill requires a two-thirds vote, and when It Is pnsaed by this majority in both the House and the Senate and Is ratified by three-fourths of the State legislatures It becomes constitutional law. If a State refuses to ratify, It ean later reverse its attitude, but when it is nnae ratified the step cannot be retraeed, There Is no time limit for ratification. If the last State necessary te put the law In force ratifies It a hundred years from now It will be just as effective then as Immediately after tho submission of the resolution. The wide Import of the measure thus may bo readily seen. you remember what happened In h recent New Jersey campaign after William J. Bryan went into that State for the purpose of helping a candidate win his fight? THE PRKSI DENT'S KIXOfIY WHILE all of us may not agree with President Wilson's no doubt personal reference when he "imagines it quite as hard to do your duty when mpn are sneer ing at you as when they are shooting at you," the President hit one true note of sound truth when, in eulogizing the men who died at Vera Cruz, he said: All of these men were of our blood and all of them were of our stock. They were not Irish, not Germans, not Hebrews. They were not when they went to Vera Cruz. They were Americans. They were of our blood. They proved that they were of our spirit. When men become citizens of the United States they become Americans. They come here in large measure with that thought in mind and because our form of government more nearly ap proaches their Ideals than does that of any of the European States that have contributed so extensively to our cosmopolitan population. Nowhere else on earth are there such opportunities for individual betterment as in the United States, where the llve-and-let- Ilve principle Is the keystone of our common life. As some one has said, "our country is the haven of the oppressed, the school of the unlearned, the one big chance to get ahead on our own Initiative, and be something." Even though our ancestors may have crossed with the Mayflower, they were all "foreigners" at one time or an other. We hold no grudge against the newcomer drawn hither by the same impulse that prompted the early set tlers to chance the perils of the wild for the opportunity of bettering their condition. So we hold dear all those who die beneath the folds of the flag, and we know them not as Russian, Italian, Irish or German, but as Americans in the highest sense that the word implies. Farmers say the fruit yield will be enormous. We presume the prices will remain the same. PROTECTING WIMWOOD PARK M HARVEY TAYLOR, superin tendent of parks, has issued . a warning to pedestrians against starting fires in Wild wood Park. The superintendent would bo justified in causing the arrest of any person violating this order. There can be no good reason for the starting of fires in the park, and scattering sparks or ashes blown into flame might cause damage in a few minutes that could not be repaired by a quarter of a century of growth. Harrisburgers should take sufficient pride in Wildwood not only to protect it from fires but from the vandal hand of the flower gatherer as well. Wild wood is the one piece of uncut forest within miles of Harrisburg and it is rich in the flora of this locality—a larger variety of plants and flowers growing there than can be found in almost any area of like size in Central Pennsylvania—and if properly cared for the park should remain always a treasure trove for nature lovers and a garden of wild growth of which the city In years to come will be intensely proud. Flowers bloom so abundantly there that it may seem foolish not to permit them to be carried away, but few people realize that several varieties which used to flourish there have be come almost if not quite extinct be cause of the careless manner in which their blooms were "picked." The only sure way of preserving plant life in the park is to leave it strictly alone. The Harrisburg Republican Club din ner promises to be a real old-fashioned Republican get-together affair. TWINKLING THE latest dance is the "Pitts burgh Twinkle." Laying aside all controversy as to whether or not anything in the Smoky City remains brilliant long enough to twinkle, we are ready to express the opinion that the "twinkle" will not be come universally popular. It lias too many limitations. The new dance is devoid of hugs, shrugs and shuffles and will be demon, strated by its inventor, Professor Thomas McDougall, secretary of the American Association of Masters of Dancing, at the annual convention of that organization in Cleveland, Ohio, June 8 to 20. To dance the "twinkle" the couple start in the position of the old waltz. They waltz for eight measures of mu sic, then they hesitate—there Is just the faintest suggestion of the "hesi tation" waltz. Then the man steps forward on his right foot, then on his left, back on his right and then the twain "twinkle." Carranza is complaining of counter felt constltutionialist money being smuggled in from the United States. Isn't tills a case of the bad being us good as the good? AX EVENING THOUGHT" Few persons have courage enough to appear as goud as they really are.—Hara, . | EVENING CHAT It's odd the way some streets get to be more used during repairs to others when if people figured it out they could make shorter trips. Take the work under way in Derry street, where the Harrtsburg Railways Company has been replacing its double track. This operation has restricted travel to one side of the street and as the company has been forced to use one track the available space has been more or less congested. Consequently people going over the Mulberry street bridge have been turning down Thirteenth to Berryhill and going out Berryhill to Nineteenth and Derry. Some who have been heading for the East End from Market street have also gone down Thirteenth to Berryhill when they could continue out Market to Eighteenth and then drop down, while the ones turning off at Thirteenth could go to Swatara and then cut in at Seventeenth, saving a couple of blocks. But Berryhill street is coming into its own and is now a much traveled high way. The extension of the double tracking has caused Derry between Nineteenth and Twenty-first to be jammed up the last few days and people have taken to going down Nineteenth to Brookwood or to Green wood and then going across to Twenty first or Twenty-third streets. Owing to the fact that neither of those streets are paved, they are not popular for rides, alhough as time savers, under the circumstances, they are not to be despised. AVildwood Park could have hundreds more visitors if tho trolley line was only extended up Cameron street. The way It is now people desiring to visit the park either go up Cameron to Muclay and then plod over a road that has no reputation to sustain or else leave cars at Sixth or Seventh and Maclay and foot it over the bridge and up the commons into the park. An other way is to go to the upper end and walk down, but that means a trol ley ride to Binglestown lane. Tho ap proach to the park from tho southern side is not tho pleasant way that it might be made. The garbage plant is too near and some of the fields and lands are not any too attractive. Par ties of children have to go a distance of many blocks in hot sun before they get to tho shades of the park and com ing out it is the same thing. A trolley extension into the park would make accessible one of the finest parks in many miles around. One week from to-dav the voters of Pennsylvania will have their first real primary, the first election at which every candidate for a state-wide or district nomination, exclusive of county and municipal nominations, must go before the people. The election will include United States senators under thep rimary law for the first time as well as candidates for Governor, these being the big offices affected by tho legislation passed last year. The elec tion will be an election before the gen eral election on a scale never before encountered in Pennsylvania and the manner of working out will be watched not only by people of the state who are ready to argue that the state-wide primary law is a panacea or a failure, but by the residents of other States. Pennsylvania has gone ahead of most of the other eastern States in its election laws and the other States will await the outcome. The manner in which the river sand and coal fleets have been working the last week or ten days shows that the Susquehanna is still good for a good many tons of both commodities after the Spring floods and from all ac counts there are some immense de posits of sand to he found this year. In half a dozen places sand deposits greater than ever known before have been struck and it has also happened that in several spots rather well known for sand there has been comparatively little. This is all the more strange be cause the coal has been found at about the same places. The way corn is being planted these days is a caution and in spite of the weather there has been some active work done by farmers in this section of Dauphin and in eastern Cumber land. Ploughing has been late owing to the cool and wet weather, but the last ten days have noted much activity, and farmers who intended to raise corn have been getting it in as fast as possible. Some very funny straw hat combi nations were seen last evening. One man came into town on an open car, wearing a straw hat and a raincoat. Another man sported "an ice cream" suit and a last year's straw hat. Bright new hats were worn with win ter suits t and several .automobile parties came into the city with straw hats instead of caps. There was a battle at the courthouse yesterday which did not have any thing to do with the automobile li cense suit. Half a dozen martens swooped down on the pigeons which live in the capitals of the pillars of the portico and proceeded to look up housekeeping apartments. The pig eons were excited and a couple of males were named as a committee to investigate. The martens made h dive in a body at the commi**- - and chased them off. However there was so much chattering that a courthouse attache chased the whole feathered party away. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —John W. Beatty, head of the Car negie art galleries in Pittsburgh, has arranged for an exhibit of art from Bohemia and Hungary. —F. W. Wood, president of the Maryland Steel Company and well known here, has been visiting steel works in the western part of the State. —H. C. Fownes, well known here, is the president of the Oakmont Coun try Cl.ub of Pittsburgh for this year. —The Rev. John Watson, of Ba. trobe, will spend the summer in Eng. land. —A. S. Moulthrop, of Dußois, chair man of the law and order committee last session in the House, is a sena torial candidate this year. —Edgar J. Bumley, president of the Allentown Chamber of Commerce, is an enthusiastic Shriner. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph, May 12, 1864.] Lamp* Out A number of persons who are com pelled to go home va Third street late at night have requested us to call the attention of the city authorities to the fact that there are no lamps along the above street between North and Walnut streets. Best We Forget The Harrisburg branch of the Chris tian Commission urgently calls for contributions in view of the fearful distribution of the past, few days in the Army of the Potomac, not our wounded heroes be forgotten. A ItHiHT TO RETIRE [From the Erie Dispatch.] Richard Olney lias declined the posi tion of president of the Federal Reserve Board. At his age he does not feel in clined to assume so heavy a responsi bilty. Mr. Olney has served his coun try well. The offer that came to him was a tribute to the vigor of a man in his 80th year. His declination is rea sonable, for the work of the new board will be trying. Mr. Olney is entitled to the enjoyment of personal case In re tirement for whatever years oil life may be left to iiim. j HARRISBURG 3SS& TELEGRAPH BBYIW DRIFTED TO SIVE THE MICHINE Desperate Reorganizers Summon Secretary of State to Leave Washington in Crisis PARTISAN POLITICS FIRST Penrose Visits Northampton Cou nty—McCormick Stumps in Lebanon County William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State, has agreed to cast aside the foreign affairs of the United States at this critical period and come into Pennsylvania to make speeches in re sponse to desperate calls for aid from the candidates on the machine ticket. Tt was announced in Washington last evening and later on at the Demo cratic State windmill that Bryan was coming Into this State to help out the slate made by President Wilson and two of the men on the slate. Bryan will not speak here. Instead he will go into counties where it is admitted by the gangsters that Ryan has Mc- Cormick beaten and an attempt will be made to turn the tide. The flag will be waved and appeals made to stand by the President in his meddling in the factional quarrels of the Penn sylvairia Democracy. | A Washington dispatch says: "Bryan lis scheduled to speak at Wilkes-Barre i Wednesday evening; Bloomsburg and Berwick, Thursday evoning; Williams port, Friday evening, and Mahanoy City, Saturday. William B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor, and W. C. Red- Held, Secretary of Commerce, have ap peared in the State within the last few weeks in an effort to arouse Democrats to support the Palmer-Mo- Cormick ticket favored by the admin istration. Secretary Bryan in his in itial appearance in the primary cam paign, which ends May 19, is expected to appeal for the nomination of Pal mer on the ground that Palmer draft ed the metal schedule of the Under wood tariff bill, which has closed numberless mills and factories in Pennsylvania and has thrown thou sands of workingmon out of employ ment. That the administration is alarmed and wants to defeat Ryan for the gubernatorial nomination has been rumored for some days." Senator Boies Penrose learned of political conditions in the Congres sional district of his Democratic op ponent for the United States Senatorship, A. Penrose Mitchell Palmer yester- Vlsits day. He stopped for two Nazareth hours at Bethlehem and then came to Nazareth, j He talked politics with some of his supporters in Bethlehem and went over the political situation with party workers from Easton, Ban gor, Bath and other towns. They as sured him that he would carry every county in that congressional district at the primaries and that he would receive a larger vote throughout the district in November. Senator Penrose went to Nazareth at the invitation of the trustees of the Nazareth Hall Military Academy. The fighting wings of the Democ racy held forth in two widely sepa rated counties yesterday, following up trails of each other. Mc- Cormick was in Lebanon county where he found Warring S. P. Light and A. X. Democrats Hartman had worked up Are Busy things for him and that the drumming up of crowds is not a lost art among reor ganizes. Also he seems to have found that the post office scandals and administration tariff policies are not popular and that Bryan stock is not quoted high. The presence of C. S. Prizer, candidate for congressional nomination, did not help either. In Westmoreland Ryan was greeted oy many prominent men and Judge Cope land issued a statement praising him. The Ryan aggregation spoke to many men. In Philadelphia numerous meet ings were held by Ryanites. Members of the Harrisburg Repub lican club expect to have a tine fam ily party next Monday night when the twelfth anniver sary of the ineorpora- Fumily Party tion of the club will Planned by be celebrated by a din- Republ leans ner in Chestnut street hall. The celebration is to be a strictly club affair and the attendance will be lim ited to club members and a few guests. The committee on arrange ments has received an acceptance from Senator Penrose and Mayor McClain writes that he will surely be here. I TAKE NOTICE! WAUL PAPER For 7 days only, we will have a special sale of Wall Paper SALE STARTS TO-MORROW, MAY 9th \ OATMEAL PAPER IC -30 Inches Wide For, Per Piece, JLt/C Wall papers for bed-rooms, dining-rooms, and kitchen-rooms 12 by 12 paper for entire rooms for 90 cents. WWMWWWMWWWMIWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW Peerless Wall Paper Store 418 N. Third St. R. A. White Prop. —I Senator Beidleman will preside during the speeches. Candidates for legislative honors are pretty busy In the city and county these days. In the second district Messrs. Young and Nissley are cam paignlng Vigorously among Republi cans and In the city district the Demo crats are pulling each other's hair. POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS —Ryan men say it will take more than Bryan to save the day for the Little Boss. —Big Boss Palmer was thanked by Pinchot last night for defending Pinchot against the charge that he is a squatter. —The huge Republican enrollment appears to have alarmed some peo ple at Washington who were believing all the reorganizers told them. —Allegheny Democrats are admit ting that Ryan will carry that county. —Dlmmick says that stories that he would bolt if not nominated are I absurd. I —Palmer and Mutchler appear to lie saying things about each other again. The Democratic war has many ramifications. —Pinchot is making speeches In districts where the Washington en rollment does not amount to anything worth speaking of. —Democratic campaigners kind of miss the support of such names as Mestrezat and Cresswell. —Northumberland Ryanltes say Ryan will get 3,800 and McCormick 2,300. —Just one week and the agony will be over. —McCormick's caravan will be in Schuylkill county to-day. —Palmer manages to get. to Wash ington for the week-ends, but when the Philadelphia shipway appropria ti n is up, he's out campaigning. f OUR DAILY LAUGH ) im.( Main Thln« How Scandal Mother lCitly, Grown what are the in- Wnat s this? I tentions of that bear you had your young man you face smashed in a are permitting to barber shop." call on you so "You heard it often? Vrong. The bar- D a u g h t er— ber merely broke Never mind that. my mug." mother; I know what my Inten tions are. On Some Teanu» "I reail some- Plenty of Time where that base- Ethel Papa, ball was invented I want an lct» by the Indians." cream sundae. "Guess that's Her Pa All right; and we've right, dear, re got a lot of mind me of it wooden ones again; this Is only Tuesday. Supernatural Economic Defrnite M o th e c—~ "Why don't you Ethel, how could women dress sen you knock your sibly?" brother down. I "If they did, am shocked. half the industries Ethel (proudly)— of the world The Lord gave me would go to strength. smash." PENSIOHS FOR PBEACHERS ]Krom the Chambersburg Public Opin ion.] Announcement by the board of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church that the plan to raise $u,000,000 for the support of superannuated clergy men has been approved and will carry Joy to the hearts of thousands of faith ful servants of the gospel throughout I the country, including not only those now receiving small pensions and who may shortly expect substantial in creases in compensation, but the many who are nearing the border line of age when retirement from active duties will be necessary. MAY 12,1914. 'i' In a booklet, cover reproduced above, as wonderful as Cali fornia itself. The word paintings rival the work of the old masters' brush and do justice to the subject. Send for it today —it s free —"California Calls You." It also tells you in a practical way how to see the entire West at the cost of a single trip the marvels of Colorado. The Rockies, Salt Lake City, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, coast resorts •nd many side trips, when you travel over the Union Pacific Southern Pacific i DIRECT ROUTE TO PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION ,h ® t . j nde * the West with fingers of steel. Seven f° m < r hic "K° the Pacific Coast, and they're all fine. I itfu wL a„ i? "Y . Jul ? e 1,t ' b,,t make vur Plans now. Get this book. Apply for handsomely Illustrated exposition literature. S. C. MILBOURNE, G. A., 8-11 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. i === 4sx ; | I l-ETTERSTO-THE-EDITOR I STRANAHAN To the Editor of The Telegraph: Sir:—Will you kindly tell me if I James A. Stranahan, who made a J speech last night, is not the same Stranahan who was deputy attorney general under Pattison during his last term and who was a target for the Patriot when no bigger game was around? Is he not the same Strana han who made speeches for Berry on the Keystone ticket in 1910? Is he not the man who drew about SIO,OOO from the State Treasury as "counsel" for the Capitol investigation commis sion, when James Scarlet did most of the work? Also did he ever appear in the Capitol trials or do anything except draw princely pay? RYAN DEMOCRAT. "PUTTING IT ACROSS" H.v Wliik Ulnijfer When the press agent for the big show Came around here just one month ago, And the editor's hand Filled with comps marked "Grand Stand," For me I knew there was no show. For the managing ed. ia a dub, Every morning he gives me a rub. He says, "Wing, your stuff's punk, And I think you're all bunk, As a poet you're worse than - cub." So I said to myself, "listen. Wing, Why don't you a little song sing Of the circus to-day, And maybe next May A ticket to you it will bring." I did It and when yesterday The chap with the comps came this way, I showed him the verse, Which he said might be worse, And my hopes flickered down to a ray. But he soon brought them back when he gave Me a card, and my life he did save. It says give Wing Ding A seat near the big ring. When the ed. hears it, gee, but he'll rave. CHILDREN'S DAY SERVICES The annual Children's Day services will be held in the Stoverdale Church on Sunday evening, Juno 21. Fish burn's Church will observe tho day on Sunday evening, June 14. Special programs are being prepared for the I occasion. NEWS DISPATChES OF THE CIVIL WAR [From the Telegraph, May 12, 1864.; Rebels Attack Pits Battlefield. Tuesday Mornng, Ma: 10.—Last night about 11 o'clock thi rebels in front of General Warren'i corps made an assault on a line o. rifle pits hastily constructed. Grant Drives Back Ijee New York, May 11.—The Times hai a special dispatch from Washingtoi which says: "A terrible battle oc curred yesterday. Leo was drivei across the North Anna river and Gran is still in pursuit. The State Press Perhaps [From the Lebanon News.] Some sweet day the railroad men o this country will run the railroads) business men business, and banker; the banks. This will be quite an inno vation on the present syles affected b; the Wilson administration. •Don't Worry" [From the Lancaster News.] Sound advice is given to everyone bj Irving T. Bush, of New York, presiden of the Bush Terminal Company, wliei he says, as Interviewed by the Wal Street Journal: "Get to work and stop worrying." The Dog and (lie Deer [From the Williamsport Sun.] John Derr, of near Allenwood, is au thority for the statement that twent] deer were killed by dofrs in the Texal region, above Elimsport, a fact whlcl is corroborated by tho experiences o the winter In contiguous territory Numbers of these animals were chasec into the haunts of men through thei fear of the dogs. Tho sportsmen, am perhaps tho game wardens, should tak< up the subject and ascertain whethe an end cannot be made to the regrett able conditions. Raising the Roy [From the Uniontown Record.] Statistical experts have figured tha it takes SI,OOO to raise a boy. Well may-be. Our own expense is that tin worth of a boy when raised is fre quently in inverse ratio to the amoun spent in raising him. 1 > ■BAD4VAKTBU roi 1 SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES a i 1