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MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 1
THE PRESIDENT'S PSYCHOLOGY
BUSINESS men of tho United States
will not be surprised at anything
President Wilson may say or do
after his remarkable speech In
response to the appeals of a repre
sentative delegation of manufacturers
and business heads to cease further
legislation against the commercial and
industrial interests of tho country at
this time. His suggestion that the
present trade depression, which has
closed mills and factories and thrown
thousands of workingmen into idle
ness. is "merely psychological" is re
sented everywhere and the conviction
la forced upon the worried and ha
rassed employer and employe that a
President with such a conception of
actual conditions, who has eyes and
cars, but who neither sees nor hears,
cannot be brought to .a safe and sane
attitude toward the business of the
country.
With biting irony the New York
Sun says:
The President's explanation that
the present depression of business
is merely psychological has
brought unbounded relief to all tho
thinkers and theorists. Of course,
a psychological depression is a
much more comforting sort than a
materialistic or realistic one. You
have only to correct the thought
and the depression becomes a hump.
We have here a charming applica
tion to economics of the near sci
ence of mental healing. The sick
ness of the commercial body Is
really in the commercial mind.
Business only imagines that its
supply of nutrition is reduced, that
its circulation is weak, that its
nerves are shaken and that it is
unable to develop its accustomed
healthy energy. The effects of tho
tariff are an illusion; the paralysis
of the railroads is a distorted men
tal perception; stagnant industry
is hypochohdria and unemployment
hallucination.
If the President is so sure that
the malady of business to-day is
psychological, would it not be a
good idea to try the rest cure. Most
likely he would find astounding im
provement if he should promptly
remove the causes of psychological
disturbance and give his patient a
chance to recover mental and nerv
ous tone.
Business men are protesting loudly
against the President's absurd posi
tion, his phrasemaking and his utter
indifference to results. Nor are they
any less indignant over the position
assumed by the claquers of the Presi
dent in this State, who persist in their
demands that he be endorsed by the
people for the benefit of the White
House twins—Palmer and McCormlck.
Hear the conservative Public Ledger:
Can an extra dose of psychology
give back to 2,000,000 railroad own
ers that $98,000,000 which their
properties have lost in eight months
this fiscal year compared with the
year before the Wilson regime
started?
Is it only a dream or a concrete
fact that 1,000,000 workmen are
now out of a job?
Can a mental state acount for the
\ amazing reversal in America's in
ternational trade figures, where a
monthly excess of exports ranging
up to $50,000,000 has turned into a
balance against us of $10,000,000 for
April?
Does mere sentiment reduce our
steel mill output to 60 per cent, of
Its capacity? Was it hysteria that
blew out 15,000 Pennsylvania coke
ovens?
No, it was not a "merely psycho
logical" notion that unloaded
American-made traffic from 230,000
freight cars and put them out of
commission. Baldwin's didn't dis
charge more than half their em
ployes out of pique.
Building operations in the United
States have not fallen greatly
simply to create political sentiment
Our bankers are not sending ship
loads of gold to Europe to spite
somebody.
When securities have been liqui
dated in eighteen months to a level
$2,000,000,000 below their former
value the country is not suffering
psychologically but concretely
It is an outrageous mockery for
those whose excessive legislative
meddling is largely responsible for
our present trade Ills to pretend
that the people who have suffered
the loss and who are out of work
are themselves to blame.
The President says there is
'nothing more dangerous for busi
ness than uncertainty." But his
party has left business In no un
certainty whatever, except ns to
the extent of the calamity which it
may Inflict.
Is It "merely psychological" that
the Pennsylvania Steel Company is
operating Its big plant at Steelton at
little more than 50 per cent. <bf its
capacity; that factories and mills are
running on half and quarter time; that
business of all sorts is slack, and that
confidence is almost destroyed? Henry
Pierce Davis writes the New York
Sun:
I am & shingle manufacturer in
northern New Jersey. In normal
times all the male citizens of the
village are in my employ—about 300
all told. To-day I rmplov eleven
Just to keep the machinery moving
the others sit around waiting for
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work, and every day they ask me
what is the matter with business.
When the papers arrived this
morning: containing 1 the President's
remarks to tliose 36,000 Illinois
manufacturers I went out in front
of the factory and read to the crowd
of unemployed that their troubles
were purely psychological. My
former superintendent said ho
couldn't feed his family on psycho
logical bread.
You wouldn't dare print what the
others said, nor what I think.
From ioast to coast the protest
against the President's course is in
creasing in volume and Colonel Roose
velt fired this broadside as he sailed
away for Spain:
There is widespread apprehen
sion among our people. The pinch
of poverty Is felt in many a house
hold. We cannot ignore the condi
tions which have brought about this
| state of things. The cost of living
has not been reduced. Not the
slightest progress has been made in
solving the trust question. It has
been shown that the reduction of
the tariff in no shape or way helps
toward this solution.
The economic conditions are such
that business is in jeopardy; the
small busines man, the farmer and
the industrial wage worker arc all
suffering because of these condi
tions.
Workingmcn, businessmen, profes
sional men. all classes and conditions
of men, are fast learning the truth—
that Woodrow Wilson is not equipped
by experience or temperament for the
big job of directing the affairs of the
United States.
Colonel Roosevelt's attack upon the
Democratic administration as hia last
word before leaving for Spain has given
the Democrats plenty to think about.
He speaks of the widespread appre
hension among the people, the pinch
of poverty in many households, the
continued high cost of living, and the
unsatisfactory conditions which have
been brought about through Demo
cratic blundering at Washington and
indicates pretty clearly that the Wilson
administration has been a colossal
failure. Tills will not be pleasant read
ing for the reorganization element in
Pennsylvania, which had hoped to
climb into power with the aid and sup
port of the Colonel.
SAVING AND SPENDING
WE condemn the failure of the
Democratic administration to
fulfill its promise to "lower
the high cost of living," and
the blame is well placed. But there
is abroad in the land a spirit that no
tariff or anti-trust laws can affect and
which has its effect on our household
expenses—the spirit of domestic ex
travagance.
Some time ago a prominent house
hold magazine asked 500 bachelors
why they did not marry and settle
down. Most of these men replied thai
the average marriageable young woman
nowadays is too expensive a luxury.
Many asserted that young women of
to-day arc money squanderers rather
than the material out of which thrifty
helpmeets are made.
"Why "can't we have bills? Then
we could put all the people off," ar
gued a bride of a few months with her
young husband, a professional man,
stri\ ing to make his way on an income
of $1,500 a year. She was the product
of a first-rate boarding school and the
child of a family high in social po
sition. But she was utterly uneducated
in the morals of handling money.
The word morals is used advisedly
because a true view of economic life
requires that every expenditure be re
garded as an act that involves a moral
question, for an unnecessary and un
wise expenditure is a rrfisuse of the
power of money.
The girl of to-day participates very
little in household work and she does
practically nothing to reduce expendi
tures.
Whose fault is it?
Very little of the blame can be put
upon the girl herself. Her parents
must shoulder it, and they In turn will
say that the times are responsible.
But there are signs that people are
becoming more sensible. Perhaps the
undoubted halting of business activity
at present has something to do with
it. At any rate, the organization of
the Parents League among rich people
in New York is significant.
"We hope to make tt fashionable to
be sensible and unfashionable to be
foolish," Mrs. John Hays Hammond
said in outlining the plans of the or
ganization which has been formed for
the purpose of uniting parents and
teachers in establishing wholesome,
common sense standards for the edu
cation, amusement and home life of
children.
Parents of working girls also cannot
escape responsibility. Suppose your
daughter is employed in an office ol
factory at fair wages. She will be
proud to be able to pay her share
of the cost of living at home. If you
will supervise her spending you will
find that she can dress as well as the
neighbor girls of the right type out of
what is left after paying her share at
homo. If she starts to work at sixteen
years you will find that in two years'
time she can not only be entirely self
supporting but can put aside in the
bank a small sum every week. If
fathers would all do their duty every
bright working girl whose parents
have met with no pecuniary •misfor
tune may have SSOO in bank by the
time she reaches her twenty-first
birthday.
That will be a splendid thing for
her, whether she marries then or con
tinues her employment.
Girls and boys who learn lessons of
thrift do not forget them when they
become men and women. Healthful
employment for young people is a
moral protection, to say nothing of the
capacity it creates for successful bat
tling with the problems of adult life.
Would it not be wholesome for the
nation if there were more admiration
fbr the savers and less for the
spenders?
THE ARLINGTON EPISODE
DRIVEN by the indignation of a
patriotic people, President Wil
son at the last minute appeared
at Arlington on Saturday and
made a brief speech at the memorial
exercises of the Grand Army of the
Republic. His apologists are still en
deavoring to explain that his only
purpose in going to the national ceme
tery was to prevent any misconstruc
tion of his previous refusal to partici
pate in the ceremonies. Lake the Pres
ident himself, these apologists may
jUnagiiie that the people do not un
derßtand why he went to Arlington
after declining to do so, 1 t in view
of his declinaton of the Invitation a
year ago and his similar performance
at Gettysburg last year, any attempt
to excuse the President is apt to ag
gravate tho situation.
Those few minutes at Arlington
were probably the most uncomfortablo
minutes within the recent experienue
of the President. He was compelled
to listen to the continuous cheers
which greeted the Introduction of
Champ Clark, the principal orator of
the day, who accepted the invitation
after the President had declined.
There seems to be no doubt that the
decision of the President to go to
Arlington, after refusing until the
eleventh hour, was the result of pres
sure from political sources. It is stat
ed in a Washington dispatch that the
decision was made after a visit to the
White House by Thomas J. Pence,
publicity chief of the Democratic
national committee, who reported the
indignation that he had observed in a
Bcout trip throughout tho country.
After the President's continued re
fusal to address them the veterans
were surprised to hear him say in his
opening paragraph: "I will not deny
myself the privilege of joining with
you in an expression of gratitude."
I EVENING CHAT 1
This week for the ilrst time the
State will have meetings of the po
litical State committees, which the
framers, and agitators, of the primary
and general party act of 1913 contem
plated should replace in Pennsylvania
the State conventions which have
played such a large part in the affairs
of the country, and whose incidents
form such a fascinating portion of
the political history of the Keystone
State. There are people who doubt
whether the State-wide primary act
is as much of an improvement over
the old system as was hoped and
whether the promises made in the urg
ing of tho new method will ever be
fulfil led. The tests of two primaries
have shown conclusively that there
are two things which nowadays will
bring a man closer to a nomination
than anything else —money and a
name commencing with one of the
Ilrst half dozen letters of the alphabet,
A preferred, B worth while and C
advantageous. In some cities thinking
men have already stigmatized the law
as "only for rich men," and experi
ences in the primaries of 1913 and
1914 rather bear out tho idea. The
rich man or the man who can com
mand wealth sufficient to get an or
ganization, whether he takes it out of
his own pocket or It is produced in
his behalf, has just as much in his
favor as the old-time political boss,
whom tho new law was designed to
cast into oblivion. One has only to
look at the returns of May 19 to see
that the men backed by organizations
or whose names were far up in the
alphabet got the bulk of the votes
every time. The old convention sys
tem used to enable men to get to the
front and the stories of those of merit
and ability "breaking in" at such gath
ering are known to thousands of Penn
sylvanians. Now, no matter how able
a man may be, he stands little show
unless he has money or it Is raised in
his behalf, and only men of excep
tional talents and in a nonpartisan
campaign can expect much sponta
neous support.
The State committee meetings are
restricted to organization and the
adoption of resolutions with possible
speeches by the men who won nomi
nations at the polls. They are as devoid
of opportunity for men to get to the
front as any person ruling an organ
ization with a rod of iron could desire.
The men who sit in such committees
have the same title to seats as did the
men who sat in the last State conven
tions. Both were elected by popular
vote. The resolutions, which will con
stitute the platforms, will be the work
of a few men, just as before, and the
men who will run on the tickets will
approve of them, Just as they did of
platforms years ago. Perhaps things
will work out better than many hope
now, but if there is not a Hock of pro
posed amendments to the primary law
next session the present criticisms are
being made as pastimes.
In this connection it is interesting
to note the remarks of a man of State
wide prominence made while on a visit
to this city a few days ago. "Pennsyl
vania is floundering with a system of
primary laws that have been working
in the Southern States for some time,
and if you can show me common
wealths more maqhlne-ridden than
those from which we borrowed our
primary idea, bring them on. The
control of States south of Mason and
Dixon's line, where Democrats are in
the ascendant, is the theme of novels.
We are also verging on borrowing the
liquor regulation systems of the South.
In short, we are trying ideas from a
part of the country where conditions
are vastly different from our own and
which we regarded with amusement
a dozen years ago."
Saturday seemed to open the auto
mobile touring season for Harriburg,
as there were numerous parties here
to see the city and the State buildings,
and everyone of the hotels entertained
people who stopped here on their way
to or from Gettysburg and other
points of interest. The number of
parties, incidentally, is reported to
have been larger than at this time last
year, probably due to the fact that
the late Spring has kept many people
from getting as early starts as usual.
The general complaint of everyone
was the conditions of the roads, the
local authorities having eased up on
care of their highways when they saw
that the controversy over use of the
income from automobile licenses was
tying up the State's work.
What a remarkable difference the
few storms of last week made in con
ditions about the farms near the city
and indeed in many lots and gardens
in Harrisburg. Where there was noth
ing but parched earth a week ago
there are now to be seen plenty of
rows of corn and other plants push
ing their way through the soil. The
small fruits are also perking up and
there is an improvement among the
flowers and ornamental patches that
is well worth noting. If only a few
more rains fall there will be a boun
tiful summer, as vegetation, while
late, is now getting good hot weather.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Major M. A. Gherst, the Reading
banker, spoke at Darby before an or
ganization named for him.
—A. B. Johnson, of the Baldwin
Locomotive Works, says that the ex
port business must be built up.
—Dr. Brumbaugh said in Philadel
phia on Saturday that the nation
which neglects its heroes is beginning
to decay.
—Dr. E. E. Sparks, of State College,
spoke at the Johnstown Y. M. C. A.
dedication.
—Joseph B. McCall. of the Phila
delphia Electric, is host to mapv vis
iting electrical men this week.
CAMPAIGN LULL
MUCH FAVORED
Disposition to Let Pinchot Go on
His Way and to Start Real
Activities in Fall
COMMITTEES WILL MEET
Republicans Will Probably Not
Adopt Their Platform Until
Next September
Unless all signs fail, the State and
congressional campaign will not start
until September. All over the State
there are heard expressions of desire
that things shall be allowed to djift
for a while and people ordinarily In
terested in politics are demanding a
rest.
It is probable that when the State
committees meet here this week .the
sentiment in favor of deferring the
start of the campaign will lead to a
sort of understanding to let things
slide until September. Many men who
are candidates say that after the
gruelling primary-campaign they need
rest for business and personal welfare
and this idea seems to be accepted by
the public.
The month of June will be quiet
from the time the State committees
finish their work until the Progressives
have their conference in Pittsburgh
In this part of the State everyone
wants a rest.
Tho general impression is that there
will be no excitement at the meetings
of tho State committees hero this
week. Everyone knows
the results and there
Committees are no contests in sight.
Will Have The Prohibitionists will
Quiet Time have their nominees
here and have a sort of
ratification on Wednes
day morning. The Republicans will
meet about noon on that day and
probably mark time. Whether reso
lutions will be adopted or not Is un
certain. The Democrats will meet at
2 o'clock and re-elect Morris chairman
after throwing out men elected to
State committee seats on a Ryan plat
form. Resolutions will be adopted and
the candidates will speechify. Thurs
day the Bull Moosers will have a talk
fest.
Seven counties have not filed re
turns of the primary election held on
May 19 and efforts are being made at
the department of the Sec
retary of the Common-
wealth to hurry them Seven
along. The counties not Counties
heard from are Philadel- Are Out
pnia, Allegheny, Greene,
Butler, Venango. Lancaster
and litizerno. Erie and Payette filed
their official returns to-day.
It is expected that when the State
commltees begin their meetings on
Wednesday sufficient official returns
will be in hand to enable certification
to be made of more than a quorum of
each committee. The lists are being
made tip as rapidly as the figures are
tabulated.
Friday, June 5, has been fixed for
the drawing of lots to determine the
votes. Thus far not many have been
encountered and most of those noted
are for State committee places.
John E. Jenkins, of Wilkes-Barre,
candidate for Democratic nomination
for Lieutenant-Governor, to-day filed
his expense account,
showing that he had ex-
Expenses pended $258.59. Prank
Were Not B. McClain, of Lancaster,
Very Big: Republican nominee for
Lieu tenant-Governor, filed
a return showing ex
penditures of less than SSO. The same
return was made by W. T. Mechling,
of Butler, candidate for Democratic
nomination for Secretary of Internal
Affairs; \V. K. Meyers, Harrisburg; M.
J. Caton, Pittsburgh, and L. B. Seibert,
Coudersport, candidates for Demo
cratic nomination for congressmen-at
large.
S. M. Daugherty, treasurer of the
Caufflel campaign fund, certified to
spending $3,109.15 of $3,200 con
tributed by the Johnstown mayor. Re
turns of funds furnished by the Pal
mer-McCormick campaign committee
were filed as follows: A. M. Van Zile,
Tioga, $209.29 expended; J. J. Gerry,
York. $403; Robert Gillmore, Lvconi
ing, $250; John T. Matt, Bedford,
$30.41 out of SIOO contributed; C. A.
Shunkweiler, Mifflin, $112.44; J. H.
Maust, Columbia, $204.04; G. A. Har
ris, Pulton. $98.40.
The Philadelphia Inquirer of to-day
says regarding the Republican State
committee meeting here on Wednes
day: "There is a feel
ing among members of
the committee that the May Not
party platform should Adopt a
not be finally framed un- Platform
til September, when
there will be an oppor-
tunity to make declarations, especially
upon national issues, which shall be
up to date, particularly on the Mexi
can and the Panama Canal tolls situa
tion and the effect of the Democratic
tariff upon commercial, industrial and
agricultural conditions of the country.
Those who favor this plan propose
that, a strong committee of the mem
bers of the State committee be ap
pointed. which shall draft a platform
to be submitted to a reconvened meet
ing of the State committee early in
September, when the issues as then
presented can be squarely met with
pronouncements that will clearlv and
forcibly express the sentiments of the
Republicans of Pennsylvania."
POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS
• —Everyone wants a rest after the
primary.
—John J. Murphy, a Philadelphia
legislative candidate, is being called
a trl-partisan. He is on three tickets.
—Plnchot has resumed his tour-of
counties.
—Philadelphia Republican candi
dates appear to be bagging Washing
ton legislative nominations.
—John Matt was not extravagant
with the campaign funds anyway.
—The time for filing expense ac
counts is on the home-stretch.
—Some Interesting expense ac
counts are yet to come.
—One of these days the Democratic
county committee will meet to re-elect
Herr Moesleln.
—C. H. Tyson Is a candidate for
Orphans Court Judge in Berks.
—Senator Crow will be re-elected
Republican State chairman if he
wants it.
—The Roosevelt blast did not have
as much to say about Pennsylvania as
some Bull Moosers desired.
—Dan Hart may find there is a
good bit of difference between get
ting a majority and getting a State
committee seat.
—Judge Trexler got 8.651 votes in
t.ehi*h county and hardly any other
candidate for Superior Court figured
at all.
[ OUR DAILY LAUGH )
UviUtaßMt
What a lot of ~ _
style the Browns Can she keep a
are putting on. secret.
Yes, and what a n *
lot of creditors greeable thing;,
they are putting
off.
*o«r IMN It*-
M* re ,. Poor Mrs. O.
\\ hy don t you Lost her husband,
f;o to your doctor thov «nv
0r . U Yes The cook
. i, "the told i' )er that she
use. He always would not stay on
tells me to do a the place with Mr.
lot of thingrs he G.. so she fired her
knows I won't do. husband.
SWAT! SWAT! SWAT!
By Wing; Dinger
What is that banging, cracking sound
That falls upon my ear,
It's surely not the rifles of
The Mexicans I hear?
In office, home and elsewhere
I hear it cn all sides;
I'm sure that something awful
To something now betides.
Aha, at last I have it. \
Someone has raised the cry,
"The season's on, begin now
To swat the deadly fly."
Get out your little swatter
And open keep your eye,
Miss not an opportunity
To swat the deadly fly.
Forget not that this pest is
By far your deadliest foe.
Be always on the lookout
To deal a deadly blow.
So swat the fly in morning.
And swat him, too, at night,
Between times also swat him
Whene'er he comes in sight.
A UNITED DEMOCRACY
[From the Bellefonte Watchman
(Dem.)J.
"Probably Mf. McCormick might now
find it convenient to prove an alibi con
cerning that meeting that determined
that all old-line Democrats should be
eliminated from the party as 'bi-parti
sans.' "
"If the foresight of some of our lead
ers had only been as good as their hind
sight now seems to be, that Demo
cratic mediation committee wouldn't
have what promises to be a whole sum
mer's Job cn its hands."
"Anyway, we don't hear nearly so
much shoutln' in the front pews now
about the 'elimination' of us untrusty
'bi-partisans,' as we did a few weeks
ago. Have we grown better, or have
some people grown more sense?"
"If the question as to who stole that
Mitch Palmer expense account state
ment from the Stroudsburg prothono
tary's office keeps growing in import
ance, it will soon rival those sixteenth
century conundrums as to 'who struck
Billy Patterson?' or 'who knocked the
bull off the bridge?' "
"Had 'elimination' eliminated every
time it was called upon to do so by
some of our self-constituted leaders, It
would be a very straggly looking party
that we would now have to muster
against the bosses, the machines and
the gangs that are rallying to the sup
port of Penrose and Penroseism."
"If some of these fellows who are up
toward the front of the procession,
waving their arms and helloing so
vociferously for everybody to 'lay hold
and all pull together,' would try to do a
little pulling themselves, the Demo
cratic bandwagon might be got out of
the ruts they have run It into."
VERIFYING THE "MUCIiRAKER"
[From the Altoona Gazette.]
For some reason Mr. Mellen has be
come very talkative. He continues, to
pose as the scapegoat for the sins of
others, but he no longer hides behind
a pall of impenetrable reticence. He
is making revelations. Incidentally,
Mr. Mellen tells about the money spent
in subsidizing newspapers and legis
latures and other folks. On the whole
he is confirming many of the hardest
accusations of the probers of other
days. And he is also showing that the
downfall of men of the class he repre
sents cannot come too soon.
"THEY ALSO SERVE"
[From the Plttston Gazette.]
That the honors of war do not fall
alone to those who serve on' the field
of battle is attested by the unveiling of
a memorial in St. Louis to Carl Schurz.
Dr. Emil Preetorious and Carl Daer.-
zer, German-American newspaper ed
itors, who, in St. Louis, during the
Civil War, directed their Influence both
to save Missouri to the Union and to
uphold the Union cause generally.
Those familiar with the patriotic rec
ord of these war-time editors will
readily agree that the hoinr to thejr
memory is worthily bestowed.
"PSYCHOLOGY" IN BUSINESS
[From the Philadelphia Evening Bulle-
President Wilson is largely right
when he says that the present depres
sion of business is "psychological."
Business conditions in the United
States properly may be described as a
"state of mind." Many a panic is noth
ing more than that, but the fact does
not render the situation any less seri
ous. Fear may be a wholly psychologi
cal phenomenon, but Its consequences
may be as disastrous as If the dan
gers were actual and accomplished.
The President also Is right in his
judgment that nothing is more danger
ous for business than uncertainty, but
it does not appear to be evident to his
mind that the policy for which his ad
ministration has been sponsor and on
which he is insisting at the present
moment, Is contributing to the present
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fearful state of mind which chains
business enterprise throughout the
cov --y and to the uncertainty which '
n business in fear and trembling. !
liie tariff law. the new currency law,
the Sherman anti-trust law defined and
muue effective by the courts, are cer
tainties with which business must con
cern itself, but these are not feared.
The psychological influence which U re
sponsible for the hesitation of business
enterprise and the consequent depres
«o» ls .tne uncertainty as to President
♦ i„L B .°, n 8 .Program of experimental antl
trust legislation, the undefined power to
In a yet unnamed Inter-state
rrade Commission, the ambiguity of a
bill which proposes to endow the labor
wit, J. special privilege In exemp
tion from the anti-trust laws, the terror
v . of muck-raking staged for
paigns ° n ' lend,n * political cam- •
n,l^r," s 1 lde , nt ,' ,oldß the kev to the -
K ' cal K '<-uation in the industry
c?n VoV? merc .l of the Un 'ted States. He
can relie\e the state of mind or ln
nn C aril (I ,ion ' as ,le shall call a halt
£5. tatlon a nd legislation at Wash
agalna't 1L" h " J? sIst on his policies
and trade un 'ted prayer of industry
NLW o S rPM^RI
I From the Telegraph of June 1, 1864.]
Grant Hepulaen Enemy
f ashington, May 31. A dispatch
from General Grant, dated 6 o'clock this
morning, at Harris' Store, has just
been received. It is as follows: "The
enemy came over on our left, last even
ing, and attacked us. They were easily
repulsed and with considerable loss."
Fourteen Mile* From nichiuoml
Washington. May 31. The following
dispatch has been received from Gen
eral Butler: "Yesterday all day heavv
firing was heard in the direction of
Mechanicsville; six refuges from Rich
!"?"m TO SP, rt i hat Grant Is on Mechan
icsville Pike, fourteen miles from Rich
| mond.
IN HARRISBURG FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph of June 1, 1861.]
To Hold Picnic
A picnic and a cotillion are announc
ed to take place on Friday and Saturday
of this week.
Cavalry to I.eave
The Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry
Regiment was expected to leave for the
army in the Southwest to-day.
MEMORIAL DAY EMBLEM
[From the Lancaster News.]
Representative W. W. Griest's sug
gestion, embodied in a resolution which
lie introduced in the House last week,
that a Memorial Day emblem consist
ing of a sprig of evergreen and a bow
of tri-color be generally adopted, ought
to strike a responsive chord. Memorial
Day takes on additional significance
with each year and it probably will not
require much urging to get the remain
ing veterans of the Civil War and their
sons to wear the emblem. And with
these to set the pace the rest of the
men and even the women can be per
suaded to adopt the custom.
A TEMPERANCE MOVE
[From the Lebanon News.]
The "movie show" as a popular Insti
tution is not a passing craze. It has
come to stay. One of the most notable
features of the century is the increase
of motion picture theaters. They have
been educational as well as entertaining,
and if sometimes thev have featured
harmful and objectionable phases of life
the fault has been with the censorship
and not with the show people. More
than the imposition of any prohibitive
ordinance could effect, they have struck
at the drinking habit and attracted tens
of thousands of dimes and nickels from
the bar to the box office.
PHOTOPLAY TO-DAV"
"The Unlit on the Will," (Fourth \
atory of "The Man Who Dlnap
peareil."
"Johanna, the narbarian," - rerla. r
"The Man Who Came llack."
5-10 c I COLONIAL 15-10 c
Mont rlaborttr and costly production ever staged by any moving pic
ture mnnufacturer.
More Than 1000 Scenes---People
A thrilling and realistic photo drama from Victor Hugo's classic
LES MISERABLES S
This Is positively the first time that this picture has been shown for
less than 50 cents. Monday. Tuesday nnd Wednesday at the t'olonlul. 5e
and 10c.
It takes two hours to show this fllm which will be run Ave times
dally, beginning at
11-1-3.30-6-8 O'CLOCK
Slatko & Girlee Grant & Delmar
Tango Specialties Songs and Talk.
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Palace Theatre I larket St. I
MONDAY AND TUESDAY
"TRAFFIC I SOULS" i
By Universal Film Manufacturing Company.
A PHOTO DRAMA IN 6 REELS
700 SCENES 600 PEOPLE
featuring Ethel Grandon, Jane Gail, Mott Moore and
Wm. Welsh.
A powerful, dramatic, full-blooded sermon, in which human
emotions and adventures blend stirringly. Based on actual re
ports of the Rockefeller Investigating Committee and District !
Attorney Whitman's Report for the suppression of White !
Slavery.
AND THREE OTHER UNIVERSAL REELS.
ADMISSION - (.£&) - 10 CENTS!
Coming Tomorrow—"LUClLLE LOVE"—Series 5
V
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Paxtang
Park
TO-NIGHT
FLOSSIE DeVERE
and her
Seminary Girls
A Musical Surprise
ED. ESTUS
Equilibrist
FLOSSIE GAYLOR
Some Girl
FISKE& MCDONOUGH
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The Ladies' Interference
Society
Cowan's Posing Dogs
No Other Dog Act Like It
Ladies free this evening.
Matinees Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
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