6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH, Established 1831 PUBLISHED BY THE TRLBUHAI'Ii PlilM'lNfi CO. E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief P. R. OYSTER Secretary OUS M PTKINMKTZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 216 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York Ctty, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at •CTjgEThjA.six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers mt 13.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. fwora dally avrraire for the month of ★ OCTOBER, 1914 24,426 ™ Average for the year 1013—21,377 Awtgf for the year 1913—21,175 Average for tUo year 1011—lfvSfll Averagr for the year 1010—17,405 HARRISBURG, NOVEMBER 9, 1914. HELP THE BELGIAN'S NEARLY a million Belgians, old men, women, children and babes in arms, are homeless, hungry and on the verge of starvation as a result of the war that has devas tated their country. Philadelphia people have joined hands to send a shipload of food to them. The Telegraph believes that Harris burg would like to help In this noblo charity and it has joined the Philadel phia newspapers in this work. Harris burg has never shirked in times like this. Always our people have given generously when called upon. The need was never greater than now. Con ditions in Belgium are beyond descrip tion. Wherever the ruthless hand of war has fallen towns have been laid waste, fields have been robbed of their harvests and hundreds of thousands of helpless people have been cast adrift, with scarcely enough to cover their backs —homeless, penniless and hungry. England is feeding every day 400,000 Belgian refugees and thousands more are facing starvation. Their cry for succor has crossed the ocean. Babies In Belgium are sick, cold and hungry for a share of our plenty. Little boys 1 and girls go supperless to the poor beds in public buildings that charity j has provided for them because wo in America have not responded to their ! needs quickly as we might. Thou sands upon thousands more must ac tually die of starvation as we eat our bounteous Thanksgiving feast unless we help and help NOW. So grave is the situation that Phila delphia's shipload of provisions must bo forwarded at once. The steamer must sail on Wednesday, or, at the very latest, Thursday. The response of Harrisburg must therefore be prompt. There is no time to forward supplies. We must send money. The Telegraph will act as the agent of the relief committee in Harrisburg. Send your dimes and your dollars TO-DAY. To-morrow may be too late. Tht money you can so easily spare may actually save a life in Belgium. If these people were themselves cry ing at our doors there is scarce a house in Harrisburg that would not be open to them. If they stood starving in our streets the stock of every grocery in the city would be exhausted that they might have food. That they are some thousands of miles away does not make the need one whit less urgent. Try to put yourself in the place of one of these poor Belgians, homeless, helpless, moneyless and hungry, with your wife and your little ones facing death by starvation. In such desperate straits, how would you feel toward a people living amid all the blessings of peace and prosperity who would not turn a hand toward the relief of your loved ones? Let us give, and give generously, re membering always the words of the Master: "Verily, I say unto you, Inas much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." NOW is the accepted time. To-inor row the opportunity may have passed never to return, and for your neglect an innocent life in far-off Belgium may have been snuffed out. It is predicted now In quarters which are usually well informed that the Interstate Commerce Commission will shortly authorize an advance in railroad freight rates. Such an order would probably start much activity through out the country and reach farther in encouraging industry than any one move that could be made at this time. EMPLOYES AND EFFICIENCY SLOWLY but surely business is refusing to put up with the vices of its employes. Time was when a workman on the job could with impunity "liquor-up" und go on V, week's spree without being greatly condemned by his employer. But as the years went by and efficiency en tered largely into the question of profit and loss, business learned that It did not pay to keep men on its hands who were intemperate. And so the ban on all drinking was finally placed by the railroads and other big corporations of the country. And now the efficiency committees of the Pennsylvania Railroad are dis cussing the dethronement of the god of Nicotine even as they long since put the bomb under the throne of old King Barleycorn. The efficiency experts have figured that the men in the many offices of the company annually waste many months of time in the aggregate by "lighting MONDAYVEVENINC?, HARRISBURG 1&3&S& TELEGRAPH NOVEMBER 9, 1914. up" and "filling up" their hods — cigars and clgareta. As the men are paid by the company to use their time for the railroad's benetit, the experts claim that- there is no good reason why smoking should not be prohibited during working hours. Much of the public work of the city can ba pushed before the severely cold weather stops outdoor operations. As has been suggested by the Telegraph more than once, it is important that the public undertakings be kept moving as long as possible in order that idle men shall have employment- We be lieve that the gentlemen of the City Council understand this and are pro ceeding accordingly. Every day of em ployment means just that much less suffering- on account of Idleness during the stress of the later winter months. KTTXKEL'S BIG VOTE THERE is widespread regret among his friends throughout the State over the fact that Judge George Kunkel fell short of an election, but his splendid show ing in a majority of the counties dem onstrates the good opinion held of him by a great host of men who appreciate .the worth of the distinguished local Jurist. It is also a compliment to him that Governor Tener does not hesitate to say that he would immediately ap point Judge Kunkel to the higher court "if the opportunity came during the present administration. While the official vote has not yet been computed and there may still be hope for Judge Kunkel in the final re vision of the figures it is plainly evi dent that the peculiar form of the ballot is distinctly a hindrance to the nonpartisan nominees. There can be little doubt that thousands of voters failed to express any preference for the candidates of the judiciary and it is quite probable the total for the nonpartisan ticket will be many thou sands below the total for party tickets. Another sign of the gradual return of the people to sanity Is the protest against the continued calamitv howling over eugenics. Little by little the flighty men and women who have had the center of the stage are being pushed into the wings. HAHKISBVKG BANKS READING over the statements of the several national and State banks in this city one must be impressed with the stability and conservative character of these finan cial institutions. Harrisburg has been peculiarly fortunate in the handling of its banking interests and at this particular time these statements are full of encouragement for the future. While conservatism has been abso lutely necessary in the conduct of the several banks they have not in a single instance taken advantage of an unfor tunate situation to profit themselves or menace the business interests of the community by unfair tactics in the withholding of fiinds or charging ex- Icessive interest rates. These institutions demonstrate in Uheir official statements under oath ®he stable character of the business community of Harrisburg. Nothing at this time could have been more im pressive of the solid character of Har risburg than these reports, and when we speak of the city there is in cluded, of course, the several banks and trust companies of Steelton, Hershey, New Cumberland and the surrounding towns. Park Commissioner Harvey Taylor must have Irritated a certain candidate who failed to arrive at a certain office In a recent election. In looking over the figures we find that the First Ward was strong for the Governor-elect. GOOD TEAM WORK WH. HORNER, chairman of the Republican County Com a mittee, has sent a letter of thanks and appreciation to the various active spirits in the recent conflict. He says: Our success was due in large measure to the faithful service rendered by our friends, and we want you to feel that your work is greatly appreciated. In such a magnificent victory there is some glory for all and we should be proud of the fact that good old Dauphin county made such an ex cellent showing t • This Is the sort of letteV which does quite as much good as the letter which is sent out before an election. Party workers have a right to know that their efforts are appreciated and Chairman Horner, who has modestly accepted the congratulations of his friends all over the county, manifestly realizes that team work is all im portant in a political campaign. Governor-elect Brumbaugh will have the support of a Republican Senate and House and the prospects are favorable for a straightforward business session of tlie General Assembly. NEXT SUMMER'S CARNIVAL iIT is stated that the Chamber of Commerce directors will meet this evening and among other things will consider the proposed river . I carnival and historic pageant for the Isummer of 1915. This celebration is 1 exciting great interest already ' throughout the city and it is under stood that the Mummers' Association \ will continue that organization after the first of January in order to co-op erate In the arrangements for the big carnival. 9 Harrisburg is some city and these 4 great civic and historic affairs tend to 1 attract the attention of thousands else- I where who have already acquired an 1 appreciative knowledge of this city >' and its progress. » We believe that the live wires of - the Chamber of Commerce may be f safely trusted to start the carnival t well on Its way during the winter » months so that there may be all kinds 5 of co-operating organizations helping f in the important preliminary work. i It is an inspiration to see the peo ple of any city pulling together for s the benefit of the whole community. - Harrisburg has done admirably for a I considerable period of years and will t do even better in the years to come. The effect of the recent election up on the business of the country may be purely psychological, but it is the kind of psychology that is producing the most beneficial results in starting the wheels golni. EVENING CHAT 1 It only takes a trip through any one of Harrlsburg's markets on a Wednes day or a Saturday to impress one how applicable to Pennsylvania's garden district, the Susquehanna Valley, are those two lines of the psalmist: "He maketh peace in thy borders and tllleth thee with the finest of the wheat." Not in years has there been such an abundance of the good things of the earth displayed upon the stalls of the markets in Chestnut, Market, Kelker and Verbeke streets. Every product of tile farm appears to have yielded Its increase and the thought is borne in on one that Harrisburg is certainly fortunate even among the thousands of cities of a country blessed with record-breaking crops to have such a supply at its doors. It is true that with the horn of plenty running over prices for some things are abnormally high. While many mills and factories are still suffering from industrial de pression. no increase In the purchasing power of money, which, economists say. should be the accompaniment, has struck anyone with force. Meat con tinues high jn price and war bids fair to send it higher, and wheat, already selling at war figures, may rise again. Hut the fact remains that the yields of the orchards, the fields and the gar dens are something wonderful and fortunate. Prices for these things are not as proportionately high as for the two great staples and the supply on Saturday, for instance, was something which attracted the attention of even passers-by and rejoiced the heart of the housekeeper. This part of the State has always been an object of interest to the dwellers in the two large cities Of Pennsylvania and Indeed many people from industrial com munities have congratulated Harris burg with its neighbors of Lancaster, York, Reading, Lebanon and other places in this district upon the food supply. It is to be regretted that this same district should be the happy hunting ground of the commission buyers and that much that is raised here should not yield the profit to the man who grows it. but .it has always been the case that the district raises more than it needs and there is a variety of food offered in Harrisburg twice a week that is scarcely equaled anywhere. Speaking of country life, not only was this year so favorable to all crops, but it seems that Providence, in view of the war which is devastating the grain bearing lands of Europe, has given an unusual brand of weather to our country in order to enable as large an area of land as possible to be ploughed and seeded for wheat. High prices stimulate wheat growing as they do everything else and there has been a tremendous acreage put into wheat in this region. The weather has been very favorable to this work and indeed has been of such a variety as to enable much work to be done about farms which will Inure to advantage In the Spring. Perhaps the greatest trouble has been with fertilizer, which lias been upset to a certain extent by the war. but this is being overcome with some aid on the part of the State authorities. Prices demanded for eggs in the last, few years have caused more chicken cdops to be erected in Dauphin and Cumberland counties than the average man realizes. It does not take much to grow chickens. Judging from some of the flocks now living the con tented life in Harrisburg back yards, the average hen does not even need room. The henhouse has replaced the doghouse and Biddy is almost as much of a favorite as Tom or Maria. More people are interested in chickens than ever anil folks who talked politics and real estate in cars are now apt to be talking about Rhode Island Reds or Black Minorcas. Yards of rhapsodies have been written about the hen and her traits, her virtues and her values, but It is a safe bet that she occupies a goodly share of the "around the house'' thoughts of the average Har risburger. especially 110 who dwells In a home with a yard about it. It's flnt to go and gather half a dozen eggs from the henhouse when eggs are bringing down 40 cents at the grocer's. This all brings up the fact that Har risburg. the center of a web of rail ways and right in one of the richest agricultural regions on this globe, does not have a cold storage warehouse where its fruits, its vegetables and other foods may be stored. It has facilities for its grain and they are being enlarged, but it does seem funnv that the choicest apples of the eastern states, the fine vegetables, the various other things raised at our doors, are shipped through this city to some other place and stored. We not only lose what profit there may be in that business, but we often buy them and pay profits to other people. I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Professor Eric Doollttle, the Unl verslty of Pennsylvania astronomer, made some very fine photographs of the transit of Mercury. —Mrs. George F. Baer, widow of the. Reading's president, will make her home in Reading. —Senator C. 11. Kline, of Pittsburgh, president pro tem. of the Senate, is a member of the bar of both Philadel phia and Allegheny. —E. L. Rapp, the Berks school superintendent, is one of the speakers for the Delaware teachers' Institutes. —Major B. H. Whlttaker, well known Philadelphia guardsman, has been appointed adjutant of the First Brigade staff. I DO YOU KNOW 1 That Harrisburg makes a large tonnage of rubber collars every year? ———_ A HELPLESS ADMINISTRATION [Philadelphia Inquirer.] President AVilson is said to be pleas ed over the result, holding that since the Democrats will retain possession of the House of Representatives his administration has been indorsed. If he can llnd any com Tort in the situa tion by all means let him enjoy it. But the fact is that from a majority of nearly ISO in the House the Demo crats, counting in the solid South, will have but a slight grasp upon that slight for the President to force his own views upon men who may be unwilling listeners. Add to this fact that present Democratic States have been swept from their moorings; that nearly everywhere ex cept In the South and far West the Republican tide has swamped Demo crats and Progressives alike, and the outlook for a continuance of Demo cratic rule beyond two years Is any thing but cheering. The Present Congress with its huge Democratic majority in the House will expire by limitation on March 4. The time Intervening is too short to put through any more legislation of an experimental and doubtful nature. The dozens of Democratic members who have been led to defeat bv blind ly following their Presidential leader will be in no humor to obey caucus dictation. As for the new Congress, the Democratic majority will be so small as to make anything like dicta tion at the White Ilouse impossible. Hence the administration will be help less to do further damage, especially since, as a leader, the President Is done for. REIPPOmiMENT WILL BE EIUCTED Changes in Congressional and Leg islative Districts Will Be Effected Next Year SHORT SESSION IS FAVORED Governor Has Another Judge to Name; Local Option's Strength Is Problematical Congressional, senatorial and legis lative reapportionment will be added to the list of things to be done by the next General Assembly -when the pro gram is made up. In 1911 the reap portionment could not be worked out because the census flgures were not available, according to statements made at the time and last session there was so much to be talked about that reapportionment was forced to play a very minor role. This coming session there is little doubt of passage of the bills. Some studies of districts are already being made, especially where defeats have been blamed on the way districts were made up. Judging from what is being heard in j Philadelphia and Pittsburgh the days of committees on committees, such as made up the organization of the last House, are ended and there will be the return to the caucus system which the Telegraph and other news papers predicts after the General As sembly of 1913 had gone home. The calls for the caucus meetings will be issued by the Republicans next month and the meetings will be held the night of January 4. The idea of a short session, ad journing April 15 or 22, appeals to everyone and the legislative program will include the compensation act, commonsense amendments to ballot laws, sensible labor laws and other things. Just what will happen to local op tion ia being much discussed. The ac tivities of the Anti-Saloon League bosses caused loss' of members and it is doubtful If local option will poll as many votes In the House us last time. The death of Judge H. W. Scott at Easton on Saturday makes another judicial place for the Governor to fill. He will name the men for the various vacancies in due season, he says. Herman P. Miller, Senate librarian, said to-day that while accurate figures on the results in two senatorial dis tricts had not been received and might result in the defeat of Candidates Howard and Emerson, yet there would be a Republican majority in the Sen ate greater than last session. The Republican majority in the House is something great. The Republicans of Philadelphia are already organizing for the in augural parades and half a dozen clubs will be in line. Congressman W. S. Vare will head the South Phila delphia contingent as in the Tener pa rade. Monroe county newspapers opposed to Congressman Palmer are calling at tention to the way his pluralities have been declining. In his senatorial con test he received a plurality of only 45 3 in his congressional district, while H. J. Steele, elected to Congress, received 8,863. In 1910 Palmer liad a plurality of over TOO and of over 3,700 two years ago. —The usual presidential talk Is fol lowing the election. The Scranton Tribune-Republican voices what a number of speakers in the last cam paign hinted at by booming: Dr. Brum baugh for President. Senator Ollie James, ot' Kentucky, says that the vic tory of Penrose makes him the logical Republican choice for the presidency. When the Senator heard it he just laughed. —Senator Penrose will return from his gunning trip to-day and will have a talk with State Chairman Crow and other leaders. —The Democratic papers are trying very hard to get up a factional row among Republicans in Philadelphia. The only thing is that he row won't row. —Senator W. C. Sproul, of Chester, lis being boomed for head of the Union League ill Philadelphia. —Some of the replies received by the Philadelphia Ledger show strong support among men of all parties for the Brumbaugh platform. V. S. SENATOR PENROSE LOOKING AHEAD TO 11)1(1 In a letter to the Telegraph express ing appreciation of this newspaper's "earnest and effective support during the campaign," United States Senator Penrose says: "The victory throughout the State and nation is an unqualified endorse ment of the Republican policy of pro tection and presages the election of a Republican President and both branches of Congress In 1916." THE VERIOT OF HIS NEIGHBORS [From the New York Herald] Boies Penrose has been "copy" for magazine muckrakers and target for attack by all stripes of reformers ever since he fell heir to the leadership so long held by Matthew Stanley Quay. Every sin against the moral code ot politics, if there is such a code, has been laid at his door. During this year's campaign the attacks upon him have been especially virulent and vi triolic. Mr. Roosevelt contributed his full share. President Wilson contrib uted to the support of Mr. Penrose's Democratic opponent all the power of the national administration. Yet Pen rose won by a plurality that under any conditions would be regarded stu pendous. . Isn't it rather difficult to believe that an overwhelming majority of Re publicans in the primary, and a large plurality of Pennsylvania's voters in the election, would have given their support to Penrose if they thought the things charged against him were true? BRUMBAUGH FOB PBBSII)E\T [From the Scranton Tribune-Republi can.) We place in nomination, as the next Republican candidate for President of the United States, Dr. Martin &. Brum baugh, of Pennsylvania. • • • There is not a man living who can place ills finger on an action by Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh that Is to his discredit. He is a man about whom the independent voters of the country can rally enthusiastically. Kven Demo crats, dissatisfied with the course of of their own leaders in inviting dls- I aster, could give their support, without | loss of self-respect, to the brilliant i Peunsylvanlan. i He is the one man in all the nation, fitted for the place, who has emerged I from the campaign of 1914 without hav | ing committed a single blunder upon i which to hang an attack in a Presiden tial election, who is above suspicion and whose personal and poltical views are such that he makes a powerful ap peal to the best, most wholesome senti ment of the American people. There fore. he would make an ideal standard bearer. ( OUR DAILY LAUGH ) Ilia Viewpoint Homealek f The styles and He: I was In the girls who two places at the wear 'em are same time onco. very much alike. She: lutpos- How so? slble. They're both so He: Yes, I was easily ruffled. in Europe, and homesick. Not That A)t thr Play V say your wife The usher, lofty is rusticating? be | n(5 . he> Hardly that, I Amid the crush •?? rUß tlcate 011 Does everything, I1F«.00 a week it seems to easy but it costs me, her $75.00. Excepting ush. PICKING THE! WINNRR By Win*; Dinger I used to think that baseball, When it came to a bet. Was just about the worst thing On which to try to get A line as to the winner— And then I changed my mind- No more uncertain grame than Election could I find. And now once more I'm turncoat, There's something much worse still For one to risk his coin on. And If you want your fill _ Of trying to pick the winner, Get busy on football— This week just make some mind bets — I'll bet you lose them all. I EDITORIAL COMMENT] Philadelphia Press. lf Governor elect Brumbaugh should not care to make the various appointments which he Is authorized by law to make, and for which he will be responsible, there are plenty who would be glad to take the job off his hands. Aharon Herald. No longer is there any doubt as to the River of Doubt. It's Salt River. Pottavlllr Journal. One of the won ders of the election Is the remarkably close vote which was cast for Supreme Court judge. No matter which candi date Is defeated there will be no sting of defeat accompanying it. Defeat is bad enough, but to be overwhelmingly repudiated is a bitter pill to swallow. BUNK A hermit there was, and he lived in a grotto.; Both learning and wisdom had ho; I And every one wondered what could be the motto , That guided existance care-free. Just why he was wise or learned or clever Because he kept house in a grot The world never knew. Though it questioned him ever. The hoar hermit answered them not. And because this old world Is accus tomed to getting Whatever it wants for the price, A hundred —a thousand —rich tourists came fretting And bribing with chicken and rice. As they kowtowed and begged the graybeard to have pity, He grabbled up his staff with a roar And sent them all scampering back to the city— But they left all their gifts at his door! The hermit, obese —for digestion abused him— Confided at last at death's door: "I've lived without labor! Man wants what's refused him. Rebuffs make him pay for it more!" —Llppincott's "God the All-Terrible." (Russian National Hymn.) God the All Terrible! Thou Who or dalnest Thunder Thy clarion and lightning Thy sword; Show forth Thy pity on high where Thou reignest. Give to us peace In our time, O Lord! God the All Merciful, earth hath for saken Thy holy ways, and hath sighted Thy word; Let not Thy wrath in Its terror awaken! Give to us peace in our time, O Lord! God the Omnipotent, mighty Avenger, Watching Invisible, judging un heard; Save us in mercy, and save us in dan ger— Give to us peace in our time. O Lord! NEURALGIC PAINS Among the causes of neumlgla the most important is the general physical condition of the patient. Neuralgia is most common In persons reduced in strength by overwork or some form of overexertion, physical or mental, or by loss of sleep. Anaemia, or lack of good, red blood. Is a common cause of neuralgia. The reason ?s I Wholesale Distributors of Certain ly teed Hooting "to horse." Are there not better themes in this great age For pen of poet, or for voice of sage. Than those old tales of killing? Song is dumb Only that greater song hi time may come. "When comes the bard, he whom tha world waits for. Ho will not sing of War.