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HARRISBURG, NOVEMBER 14, 1914.
WAKING UP TOO LATE
PRESIDENT WILSON, in letting
It be known that he will not
advocate the enactment of fur
ther radical legislation by Con
gress during the remaining two years
of his administration, puts himself in
the position of the man who locks
liis stable door after his horse is stolen
or the reckless engineer who an
nounces that henceforth he will be
careful after he has run his train
into a ditch.
President Wilson and his advisers
bre "of the same mind still." But
they are playing politics. They have
taken stock of the returns and have
found that, except in hide-bound
Democratic districts, the radicals of
their party were defeated on Novem
ber 3. They have concluded that the
public is tired of their theories and
experiments.
'I .» President lets it be known that
ho believes the railroads require more
liberal treatment at the hands of the
lawmakers than they have been ac
corded recently. He has indicated
that he will favor action that will
tend to relieve the pressure on them.
The public will not bo deceived. All
that the Democratic party is seeking
now is retention of power. Its re
duced majorit. in Congress has fright
ened it into a conciliatory attitude.
It hopes to hide its wolf's hide under
e. sheepskin.
That this is So is evident from the
announcement that the railroad se
curities bill, by the direction of the
President, has been laid aside with
no thought of its enactment during
the next two years, although its ulti
mate revival should the Democrats be
returned to power In 1916 is not hard
to foresee. This bill, which would
have added greatly to the burdens of
the railroads, was framed at the sug
gestion of President Wilson and he
and his supporters in Congress were
fully determined on putting it through
up to the third day of November last,
the Republican landslide caused
them to attempt a hasty sidestep.
We haven't heard Mr. Kipling saying
much lately of the "bear that walks
like a man."
DON'T STOP
<4* I trouble with most young
fellows," said a successful
A business man the other day,
"Is that after they are
through their school days, they stop
studying—stop dead."
, In that there lies food for thought
for every man, young or old —and yes,
for every woman, too. Just take your
own case, for instance. How much
time, actual time in minutes and sec
onds, are YOU putting Into study?
Not in idle puttering at this or that,
but in actual studying along lines that
will help you most to be a success in
your particular field? Then com
pare that time with the hours you
are spending in frivolities, in gadding
hither and thither, in getting the re
ward of the proverbial moth that flut
ters uselessly and foolishly about the
flame. Now, aren't you ashamed of
• yourself?
It is a good thing for every man
ito sit down on.-e or twice a week and
think about !• JIV much he has learned:
about how it; ueh more he knows about
life, people, lis business than he did
last week or last month. Do this to
night and if you find yourself In a rut,
standing still on the treacherous shoal
of self complacency, draw a deep
breath and then—think it over some
more. And when you are through
you will know you can not afford
to Stop. You MUST progress. If
you don't feel that way about It, you
are not a man; you are a stick.
If you want to be somebody—
Don't stop!
Uncle Sam is a thoughtless father.
I lie moves his troops to Vera Cruz at
the opening of the heated season and
back North at the first signs of snow
fall.
FEWER CHANGES THE BETTER
THERE is much talk of amending
in many ways the Clark third
class city government law en
acted by the last Legislature
f and under which Harrisburg and
j other municipalities of its size are
I now operating. The Clark act was so
badly drawn that lt"~is absolutely nec
essary to straighten out some of its
tangles and contradictions and to
patch tip its general raggedness, but
the time is not here for general
' changes.
The law, unsatisfactory as it has
shown itself to be in some respects,
has not been on the statute books suf
jflciently long for anybody to pass In-1
SATURDAY EVENING,
telligently upon It. Its effects upon
city government are still to be dem
onstrated. It is yet in the purely ex
perimental stage. At least two more
years, and probably three, should be
permitted to pass before any attempt
is made to change the statute in any
of its fundamentals.
Then if it is deemed necessary to
revise or reject it for something bet
ter we shall be in a position to act In
telligently. The third class cities of
Pennsylvania have been subjected to
sufficient experiment and expense at
the hands of raw theorists. The time
is here to study effects and arrive at
some sane, sensible and business-like
conclusion before going farther.
That battle In Flanders seems to be
approaching the stage of the Kilkenny
cats. •
A COLLEGE IX ITSELF
THE Wharton School branch of
the University of Pennsylvania,
recently established in Harris
burg, shows steady and healthy
growth. The number of students en
rolled is nearly double the minimum
fixed by the university to Insure the
location of the school in this city and
the enthusiastic beneficiaries are do
ing missionary work throughout the
business establishments with which
they are connected.
Soon we shall expect to see the
Harrisburg public school district arise
to the duty of preparing students for
this university branch by night ses
sions, evqn as it is proposed to give
boys who desire it the benefit of even
ing sessions at the Technical High
School.
Next year, it is believed, the In
coming class will be larger than that
of this season. If the increase keeps
up it will not be long before the Har
risburg branch of the Wharton School
will be a college in itself, larger in
enrollment than many of the minor
colleges throughout the country. We
look forward to the day when the
State shall recognize this earnest ef
fort to "carry the university to the
people" by erecting for it a home
along one of the two streets that will
face the Capitol Park Extension.
Bryan says business is better. Tes,
but no thanks to him.
A SHORT SESSION
SENATOR WILLIAM E. CROW,
chairman of the Republican
State committee, in a recent
statement regarding the party
organization, declared that the Re
publican party "should be conserva
tively progressive; mark me, conserva
tively progressive."
In this conclusion Chairman Crow
was absolutely correct. There is no
occasion for hysterical or fad legisla
tion nor for those radical measures
which have lumbered the statute
books to the point of public exaspera
tion. All progress should be along
conservative lines, and it is manifestly
the desire of all classes of our people
to get back to solid ground and to get
away as far as possible from the purely
theoretical proposals which have ha
rassed the business community and
thrown thousands of honest workers
into idleness.
It is for this reason the Telegraph
recently suggested that the approach
ing session of the Legislature should
be a business session, passing only
such laws as are absolutely required
to make good the pledges of the Re
publican party or manifestly desired
by the people, and to remedy existing
laws which are out of joint with the
time or which may have imposed
hardships upon the taxpayers contrary
to their purpose and intent. We still
believe that the whole business of the
Legislature of 1915, including the
passage of the necessary appropriation
bills could be disposed of in less than
two months. There is no occasion for
turning the Legislature into a debat
ing society or a free-for-all mud
slinglng contest between parties, fac
tions or individuals.
The Governor-elect is believed to
be in sympathy with prompt and effi
cient legislation, looking to the wel
fare of the people, and there can be
little doubt that he will wield his in
fluence in such a way as to make pos
sible a short session, alike creditable
to the Republican party and the new
administration.
QUARANTINE JUSTIFIED
THE report from Michigan that a
mother and child are ill at Niles
with foot and mouth disease
shows how well justified the
State and national authorities have
been in the precautionary measures
they have taken to halt the spread of
the epidemic. At the same time there
need be little fear on the part of Har
risburg people that either our milk
or meat supply is contaminated. A
very close and effective system of cat
tle inspection is in operation and the
infected premises have been thor
oughly quarantined.
Commencing with a sudden fever,
the foot and mouth disease soon re
veals Itself through the formation of
blisters on the tongue and in the
mouth and nostrils, and on other parts
of the body where the skin is thin,
especially on the tender parts of the
feet. The Immediate effect is that the
animal has difficulty in feeding and
develops lameness. The disease can
be transmitted to most domestic ani
mals, horses seeming to be the least
susceptible, whije sheep, goats or
swine are its chief victims.
Not many of our stock-growers had
knowledge of the nature of the foot
and mouth disease when its existence
at the Chlca?o Stock Yards was first
reported by agents of tho Federal
Government. No trace of it appar
ently has been noted in the United
States since 1870, except a sporadic
outbreak some years ago, when it was
introduced from Canada, where it had
been brought by cattle from England.
Over twenty years ago the farms of
Germany were swept by the plague
and the losses were put at nearly
$40,000,000.
A mystery of this cattle plague Is
that, while in Europe it has been
traced back for over 2,000 years,
periodically it breaks out with extra
ordinary virulence and spreads like
wildfire. That the disease was con
veycd to the United States this year
from some part of Europe Is the opin
ion of experts, but no one is able to
say when or how it arrived.
EVENING CHATI
A sight of a ballot used at Long
Beach, Cal., last week and just given
to me by Major E. W. Pearce, of the
Auditor General's Department, is
enough to make the most ardent advo
cate of the initiative and referendum
stop and take' stock account of him
self. In this State we have been so
busy listening to the arguments of
people who Insist that the referendum
and its accompanying means of ascer
taining the will of the people are the
cures for all ills that we do not realize
that Pennsylvanians have exercised
the referendum half a dozen times or
so In the last fifteen years. We have
a most excellent means of obtaining
the sentiment of the people or vox
populi, as Judge McCarrell puts it, in
the present constitution. It is true
that the constitution does not furnish
a way for a problem to be submitted
to the people in three Weeks, but it
provides means of lecording the free
man's will in an eminently safe and
sane manner, as was demonstrated a
year or so ago. As to the size of the
ballot the specimen from the Golden
Gate State is about as wide as ours is
long in a heavy year.
This year the Harrisburg voter had
a chance to vote any on© of ten
straight tickets and there were ten
blocks of offices to be voted for, the
number of candidates in the list for
Congress-at-large being forty, but
there were some on three tickets, so
that the list is not so appalling as
one would think. California elected a
governor, lieutenant-governor, secre
tary of state, controller, treasurer, at
torney general, surveyor general and
member of tax equalization board, the
Socialist nominees heading the lists.
Incidentally Ethel Lynn was the So
cialist candidate for secretary of state.
The Progressives spilt their honors
among Republicans and Democrats ex
cept for governor and Hiram W. John
son won. There were congressional,
legislative, judicial and local tickets.
There were three elections for su
preme court, two for court of appeals
and two for the superior court, one of
the latter having twenty candidates,
ten to be voted for so that the man
who had to pick out four from forty
nominees for congress-at-large in the
Keystone State had it easy.
Now as to the referendum. Last
year we had five constitutional amend
ments to vote for at a referendum, a
referendum, mind you, in Pennsyl
vania. And now the people protested
at the size of the ballot and the labor
attending the recording of a vote on
each of the propositions, while the
official returns at the Capitol show
that mighty few people, comparatively
speaking, took the trouble to vote on
all the amendments and there was
reason for doubting whether they read
them. In 5 909 there were ten amend
ments and a schedule and more
trouble. At Long Beach the people
were called upon to vote on forty
eight separate and distinct questions,
more than nine times as many prob
lems as the people of this State had In
1913 and almost Jive times as many as
the people of Pennsylvania struggled
with in 1909. The California balldt
probably took a man five minutes to
vote intelligently and it would be in
teresting to see the difference between
the total of the votes cast for gover
nor or United States Senator and for
the questions referred, to say nothing
of the exceedingly valuable compari
son that could be made between the
vote on the first question and the for
ty-eighth. Just imagine the voters of
one of those First, Fourth, Eighth or
Twelfth ward precincts where they
have 300 or 400 votes to poll voting
on such a list. The complaints of the
people about time spent in booths for
marking such a ballot would ascend
to high heaven.
The California questions Included, of
course, a proposition to call a consti
tutional convention; prohibition, one
day's re3t in seven, minimum wage, an
eight hour law, abolition of poll tax
and some other big problems .but then
there were a lot of such things as
creating a State board for examining
drugless healers; prohibiting prize
fights; whether San Francisco should
improve its harbor; exempting vessels
from taxation; relative to charters of
counties; whether the State should
erect a building in San Francisco;
whether Alameda county could bor
row money to have a show at the
Panama exposition; incorporating
cities; land title law and a whole lot
of others which would afford topics
for debates"7or~slx months. And all to
be settled by a voter in a few minutes
given him to mark his ballot. No
doubt, the Callfornians were so thor
oughly well posted on all of these
problems that all they had to do was
to go through the marking of a bad
lot.
Just to see how forig it would take
a man of average Intelligence to vote
the Pennsylvania ballot of last week
and to vote the California ballot a
couple of men were called in and given
the sheets. They were told to vote on
every office and on every question.
With the Pennsylvania ballot the men
wero familiar. They had voted it.
One minute was the tlmo taken and
even then the man was voting a ticket
which he had marked ten days ago.
Then, the man who was given the Cali
fornia ballot was allowed to read it
over. He did so and started out to
mark it as though he were voting. It
took nine and a half minutes. And all
he had time to do was to vote by head
ings. He did not have time to read
the details.
And the California ballot did not
contain any place for a straight
ticket!
I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1
—Colonel T. J. Keenan, the Pitts
burg business man, gave a talk to in
surance men on the risks attending
business through the war in Europe.
—M. F. Larkin, for a long time
overseer of the city of Pittsburgh farm
at Marshalsea, has retired to become
a country hotel keeper.
—Frank P. Croft, the new Mont
gomery senator, has closod his sum
mer home at Port Kennedy.
—Mayor Jermyn, of Scranton, will
welcome the woman suffrage conven
tion.
—Judge Josiah Cohen, Pittsburgh,
gave a surprise when he refused
twenty-six transfers of licenses.
I DO YOU KNOW—")
That Harrisburg Is one of the
great automobile sales centers of
the State?
AN EVENING THOUGHT
Right conduct and humble wor
ship are the only ways of becoming
acquainted with God, and until men
become acquainted with God, they
cannot write creeds which state ex
actly what his nature is.—Franklin
Spencer Spalding.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
fIPPOINTMENTS TO
BE PUT INTO A LIST
Terms of Prominent State Offi
cials Will Expire During the
Coming Year, Too
REORGANIZERS ARE BUSY
Northampton and Butler Finally
Get Their Returns Made Up
For the Election
The list of the appointments made
by Governor John K. Tener since the
adjournment of the last Legislature,
and which must be sent to the Senate
of 1915 for approval, is being com
piled at the Capitol and show compar
atively few Important officers as com
pared with the list sent to the last
Senate. There will be the Public Ser
vice Commissioners, who were named
about the first of August, 19J.3; Com
missioner of Labor and Industry John
Price Jackson, who headed a new de
partment, and Commissioner of Bank
ing William H. Smith, Philadelphia;
Commissioner of Forestry Robert S.
Conklin, Lancaster; Superintendent of
State Police John C. Groome, Phila
delphia; State Librarian Thomas
Lynch Montgomery, Chester, and
Water Supply Commissioner John
Blrklnbine, Philadelphia, who were
reappointed since June 30 of last year.
The terms of Lieutenant-Governor
John M. Reynolds, Secretary of the
Commonwealth Robert McAfee, Attor
ney General John C. Bell and Adju
tant General Thomas J. Stewart will
expire with Governor Tener's admin
istration at noon of January 19, but
General Stewart is regarded as sure
to be reappointed. The officials whose
terms expire in 1915 are Commissioner
of Health Samuel G. Dixon, Insurance
Commissioner Charles Johnson, Secre
tary of Agriculture N. B. Critchlleld,
Dairy and Food Commissioner James
Foust, State Zoologist H. A. Surface,
Chief James N. Moore, of the Legis
lative Reference Bureau; State Vet
erinarian C. J. Marshall, Highway
Commissioner E. M* Bigelow, Super
intendent S. B. Rambo, of the Public
Grounds ond Buildings, State Chief of
Mines James E. Roderick and a few
others. Numerous appointments of
trustees and similar officers will go
to the Senate for confirmation.
Two counties have filed official re
turns at last. Following is the North
ampton county official vote: United
States Senator —Palmer, D., 6,471;
Pinchot, W. 2,164. B. M. 412, R. P. 266,
total 2,842; Penrose, R. 6,378, P. L.
1,069, total 7,447; Whiteside, Soc., 388;
Larkin, Prohib., 183; Landis, Indus.,
10. Governor —McCormick, D. 6,928,
W. 1,092, total, 8,520; Brumbaugh, R.
6,461, K. 429, P. L. 1,035, total 7,925.
v This is the official vote of Butler
county for United States Senator;
Palmer, 2,886; Pinchot, 2,689; Pen
rose, 3,056. Governor—McCormick,
4,772; Brumbaugh, 3,660.
The Philadelphia Record of to-day
says: "The executive committee of
the late Palmer and McCormick
League met at the local headquarters
of the Democratic State committee
yesterday afternoon to arrange pre
liminary plans for continuing its or
ganization under some new name.
While the active spirits of this 'reor
ganization' movement have abandoned
all of the proposed schemes for rip
ping out the Tenth and Walnut streets
organization, they stated yesterday
that they regarded it necessary that
the State leaders should have some
body distinctly in sympathy with them
in this city. It is regarded as assured
that the late Palmer and McCormick
League city committee will be revived
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under a new name to be selected at a
subsequent meeting and that efforts
will be made to perfect ward organi
zations In various sections. The move
of the Palmer men is regarded as an
initial step to aid tlio candidacies of
Magistrates Belcher, Grelis and Boyle
for renomination next Kail and to ar
range for lights for delegates to the
national convention and for members
of the State committee in 1916."
An Easton dispatch says: "Edward
J. Fox, a Democratic attorney of Eas
ton, about whom centered a practi
cally unanimous desire that he should
permit his name to be sent to Governor
Tener for appointment to fill the va
cancy on the Northampton county
bench caused by the death of Judge
Henry W. Scott, to-day issued a letter
in which he declined the nomination,
and thanked those who had pledged
him their support and urged him to
accept. Instead of clearing the situa
tion, Mr. Fox's declination has only
complicated matters, and It now looks
very much as though there would be a
wild scramble for the office. Mr. Fox's
appointment was favored by Harry G.
Seip, the Republican leader in North
ampton county, and others influential
in that party."
The Philadelphia Ledger Is of the
opinion that Judge Orlady may be
Attorney General after all. His name
has been frequently mentioned by
everyone but Dr. Brumbaugh. The
rumor that A. E. Slsson, ex-Auditor
General, will go on the Water Supply
Commission has been revived.
David H. Lane was last night select
ed as marshal of the Boles Penrose
Club which will march in the Brum
baugh Inaugural. The Vares will have
their own club.
f OUR DAILY LAUGH \
«■ J
A*Jiew Mouth IJi»-
I thought you en*e
said lie was a man He's got the
of means? foot and mouth
Excuse me. I disease,
left off the adjec- Never heard of
tlve. it; what's it like?
What adjective? Whenever he
Limited. opens his mouth,
he puts his foot in
More Equipment
"Why don't your Going Her One
daughters take Better
their vacations to- I can only be a
getlier?" sister to you,
"They prefer to Jack. I hope you
pool the false hair won't take it too
and the clothes, much to heart?
and each girl has Oh, no; in fact,
the use of the on- I've got your sis
tire outfit for two ter-in-law all
weeks." picked out.
OH. GEE
By Wing Dinger
I {tot beneath my sliowerbatli,
AVd as the tepid stream
Delightfully poured o'er 'me.
With glee my face did beam.
But 'way down in the kitchen
Unconsciously the maid
Was party to a mean trick
That was upon mo played.
Down' there she ope'd the faucet
From which hot water flows.
And up there 'neath the shower
An awful yell arose.
For suddenly the water.
That was so warm and nice
In temperature, changed quickly
To that of frozen ice.
NOVEMBER 14, 1914.
[NO ALUM]
IN
ROYAL BAKING POWDER
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I NEWS DISPATCHES
] OF THE CIVIL WAR
[From the Telegraph, Nov. 14, 1864]
Rebels Sad
Richmond, Nov. 14.—The rebels are
despondent over Lincoln's re-electiop.
Sharp Fighting
Headquarters Sixth Army Corps, Nov.
12.—General Sheridan reports sharp
cavalry ZgiiTa Friday and Saturday,
last, In which the rebels were defeated.
British For Rebels
Montreal, Nov. 14. The British
here still sympathize with the rebels.
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IN HARRISBURG FIFTY J
YEARS AGO TO-DAY I
[From the Telegraph, Nov. 14, 1864]
Salute For Lincoln
A salute of 100 guns was fired at
noon to-day in honor of the election
of Abraham Lincoln.
Catch Picki>ocket
A pickpocket who was in this city
was caught In East New York city.
Sell Captured Cattle
The sale of captured cattle began
in this city to-day.