6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established lßjl PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-m-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS jr. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published. every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 216 Federal Square. Both phones. Uember American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Sttory & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising BulHllng, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Snon dally nvrraic** for the three ★ months ending: >"ov. 30.1014. 23,180 IT AYprnse for the year 191A—21..">77 Average for the year 1912—21,1TS Average for the Average far the year 1010—17.485 SATURDAY EVENING, DEC. 5 THE RATI.ROADS FEW who have given any thought to tho matter will disagree with Samuel Rea. president of the j Pennsylvania Railroad, in his as- j sertioii before the New York Chamber | of Commerce that more than a mere : increase in traffic will be necessary to 1 put the railroads of the country on J their feet. It is apparent to everybody that something is radically wrong with the I railroads, and the intimation of the Interstate Commerce Commission thatj ■watered stock and wasteful admlnls-1 tration are largely to blame does not j apply in all cases. The Pennsylvania j railroad, for instance, has not one j drop of water in its stock—never has j had —and in recent years, at least. | economy along all possible lines has j been one of the watchwords of the! system. The time has come when we must j treat the railroads for what they are, instead of what politicians have told us they arc. The railroads are not altogether the grabbing, grasping, get all, give-nothing corporations they were in the early days of the Goulds and Vanderbilts, but are in a broad I sense publically owned Institutions' managed by men whose jobs depend! on the efficiency of the service and the j dividends they can earn for stockhold-: ers. The roads are owned in large • part by an army of individuals, actual- j ly holding their stocks and bonds, and in part by institutions such as savings hanks, insurance companies, universi ties, hospitals and other philanthropic enterprises, in the welfare of which many more millions of individuals are' vitally concerned. These are largely! dependent upon income derived from I the money they have invested in the service of the public, and rightfully j they hold railroad managers respon- 1 sible for this income. If.dividends are I not forthcoming, thousands of small j shareholders are injured. If service is; sacrificed to earnings, the pubic and j the government step in with protests! and regulations. It Is obvious that the i men who are responsible should have 1 some leaway in which to insure both ) proper dividends and the service to' which patrons justly believe them- j selves entitled. The advance in freight rates asked for by the roads must come. If the Interstate Commerce Commission had been practical instead of theoretical every person in the country would now have been feeling the benefit of the Impetus the increase would have given to railroad buying of needed supplies, and we would not now be facing a raise in passenger rates that will be saddled largely on a class of passen gers that can ill afford to pay it. "Only America can save Belgium," says Herbert Clark Hoover, after a tour of that country. And the crisis finds Harrisburg right on the job and ready to work until the need is no more. <>UR IMPRACTICAL SYSTEM THE officers of the Public Health Service engaged in the medical examination of arriving aliens are confronted with difficulties in making their diagnoses of physical and mental conditions, which seldom obtain in any other line of medical work, these difficulties being dependent upon the various nationalities of the aliens and the languages and dialects spoken by them. The majority of us are apt to con sider ourselves linguists when we are able to say "ja," and in traveling in Europe, the American can get along very well with that one word in his vocabulary. It will pass in nearly all countries and the majority of things he is asked to do by guides and the places to which he is asked to go call for an answer with the use of that one word. In addition to this the one idea of the guide in foreign countries is to separate the American from his money, and the American in foreign countries is waiting to have this operation performed, so that the use of the happy word "ja" Is satisfac tory and sufficient to all persons con cerned. This, however, is not the case at our immigration stations. The immi grants do not want to'be separated from their money, and they do want to get into the United States. Some times their inability to understand the efforts of the medical officers in using their language must be met by one of two recourses. Either the medical officers of the Public Health Service must study a number of languages, or else the government must supply these officers with interpreters. It has been SATURDAY EVENING. found that to facilitate the passage of immigrants and to make certain of the answers given to the questions asked by the doctors, interpreters in the above mentioned languages must be provided. These Interpreters, while they are not medical men, soon be come familiar with the methods of medical examination and are of very great assistance in expediting the medical work and in quieting the fears of many of the immigrants as to the intent of the necessary medical.exami nation. There are good places open with plenty of chance for advancement in this service, and yet we go on teach ing our boys and girls languages that can serve in most cases only a super ficial use when out of school and leave them in ignorance of tongues a knowl edge of which might earn for them a good livelihood. | " A man named James Van Pelt has | been arrested in Chicago for working I a "skin game." And yet they say there's nothing in a name. THE WAR CORRESPONDENT ANYBODY who read Irvin s. Cobb's letter from the war zone, published by the Telegraph yes terday, will agree with the New ' York Evening Post In Its assertion I that the war correspondent is not only not a thing of the past, but very much of the present. Mr. Cobb writes from personal ob servation. He tells in straightforward language what the cabled dispatches have merely hinted. Tho censors have managed their game so cleverly that it is a question every evening of "pay ing your money and taking your choice" of the contradictory items is sued from each of the seats of the belligerent governments; of winnow ing the wheat from the chaff to find the grain of truth with which most of the writers have invested their exag gerations and misstatements. The fact of the matter is that the only absolutely accurate information we are getting from Europe is coming over the signatures of the correspond ents In the'field—American writers of fair reputation sent by representative publications to get the truth for Amer ican readers. The censors have pro longed the life of the war correspond ent indefinitely, although at the start of hostilities no less an authority than Frederick Palmer told us that the day of the news writer at the front was long since past. But Mr. Cobb's story of yesterday illustrates another fact—that the aid we in the United States have extended to the sufferers of all the countries in the war zone is only a beginning. Our generosity has been nothing more, figuratively, than the gift of a crust to a starving man. These inno cent men, women and children must be fed and clothed indefinitely. Kitchener says the war will last three years. What is to become of these | homeless ones in the interim and what afterward? The answer is not apparent. All that we can see ahead of us is give. give. give, as the good God has prospered us. and as He no doubt means that we should, remem bering that if we do it even unto the least of these we do It also unto Him. The spectacle of "bandits" Villa and Zapata saving Mexico City from loot is one of the passing wonders of a very wonderful year. A MtMCli'.Xl, BOATHOUSE NOW that plans are well under way for the removal of the boat house in the Hardscrabble dis trict, it is the duty of Council to take action as soon as possible lead ing to the erection of a municipal boathouse. The several hundred canoeists in the city who have boats in the various houses near Herr and Front streets are beginning to worry lest they be compelled to move their boats before any suitable place of storage is pro vided. As one canoeist put it in dis cussing the mater, "Unless the city does something before we are ordered to move out our boats, I guess I'll have to carry my canoe around in my hip pocket or hang it on a tree some where along the river." Now that the dam is almost com pleted and the river is rapidly being put into that shape where aquatic sports can be really enjoyed. Council should see to it that boat owners are not forced to forego the pleasures of boating next summer for lack of stor age accommodations. The hoist engineers at the Bangor slate quarry have asked for a raise of wages, doubtless believing it a part of their duty to see that things go up. NO MORE HANGINGS NOBODY will regret the passing of the galiows in Pennsylvania. The last murderer ever to be hanged In Philadelphia was exe cuted yesterday. The last hanging in Dauphin county took place some time ago. There never was any excuse for the barbarous affairs that disgraced I our laws and our cities in times past. The killing of men in public never did any good and some of the bungling | butcheries have been shocking and brutalizing in the extreme. In the future murderers will be exe | cuted by electricity in a quiet little j cell of the new Western Penitentiary now being erected in Centro 'county. There will be no more congregating of the morbidly curious and degenerate at the jail yard to see a fellow being yanked into eternity at the end of a rope. The mandates of the law will be complied with in a sane and orderly manner and the only knowledge the public will receive of the execution will be the mere announcement that it has taken place. There never was ex cuse for the Jail yard hanging and it Is strange that it was not abolished long ago. s An optimist is a fellow who loans another one money, hoping to get it back. 1 Nearly SIOO,OOO, it is said, will be turned loose In Harrisburg In the way of various Christmas funds the coming week. That ought to liven the shop ping district up a bit. The man who "puts up a good front" [usually has some backbone as well. EVENING CHAT I The certificate of election of Boies Penrose as Senator from Pennsylva nia, which was drawn up and signed this week, contains exactly sixty words without the formal phrases showing that it is an official document. The certificate is one of the shortest issued at the Capitol and is contained on an ordinary sized sheet of letter paper. It will be in Washington on Monday. No war tax stamp was af fixed to the certificate, as It was held at the State Capitol that it was busi ness of the State government with the national government and that the tax required on certificates would not ap ply to it. State officials have been puzzled this week by the rush to file statements of expenses by county committees, and four times as many statements of that kind have been entered than ever known before. At first the county committee statements were sent back because the law requires that such statements shall be filed in the proper county seat, but the statements were returned with the remark that some of the. money was expended for State candidates and that the senders thought the Capitol was the place. More accounts have been filed this year than ever before, as numerous organizations which handled certain branches of the campaign have been sending in statements. No less than a dozen leagues or organizations of various kinds were active outside of the party committees in the State, and thes* have filed statements. If there is any salmon fisherman in this part of the Susquehanna valley who has not been out angling the last week or so, because of the mild weather, he is a rare one. The weather has been of the kind that permits good fishing when the. fish are lively and when they will give the best sport. Ordinarily at this sea son of the year the salmon fishing Is apt to l»e attended by more or less discomfort because of the cold and winds, and yet no fisherman likes to have December go by without making an attempt to reduce the number of salmon that swarm in some sections of the wide branching river. Tn the last week or so men have been seen strolling about the Rockville Tails, the riffles at Mac lay street and all tho way down from Steelton to Hill Island. Some splendid specimens of the real big lighters have been brought back and there are tall tales told about battles to land the lisli. Up to date no one around here seems to have taken the legal limit of twenty-five in a day. but there is a chance be tween now and the twenty-first day of December, when the season for taking the salmon closes. Some fish ermen say that they think the build ing of the dam in the river south of the i»rivl«:es will bring back salmon to the waters closer to the city, and they think that the dam wiil add much to the pleasure of angling. The bridge fishermen say the increase of the water is going to be a great thing. People who have colds and who are employed in the Capitol went to the east wing a day or so ago to "get their cleaned out." as one suf ferer put it. It happened that some work was being done in the basement which required the use of ammonia, and the fumes got into the elevator shafts and permeated the whole wing. In the elevators the smell was so strong it made one's eyes water. One of the men who sells river caught lisli in this city said yesterday that notwithstanding tho prognosti cations of the Berks county goosebone prophets he is willing to lay a wager that this will be a mild winter. He bases his calculations on the fact that worms and snails are still to be found near the surface of the ground. De spite the tact that the temperature for a few days ranged about 20 degrees fish worms may be found In almost any sheltered spot within six Inches of the surface of the ground, which is very unusual for this time of year. State Highway Commissioner E. M. Bigelow is smiling over the way things turn around in life. While strolling through the Capitol corridors the other day a friend asked him why he was so chipper. "Oh. I'm just thinking" he replied. "Three months ago I was a target for brickbats and all kinds of things were said about me. 1 admit it was depressing. Lately I have been showered with compliments for the way roads have been fixed up and have to decline invitations to speak at din ners. I'm on the go more than ever with invitations to do things now." Some interesting exhibits in natural history are being shown in front of hotels these days and the other day half a dozen kids came along and stopped to gaze at the carcass of a big bear. "Wonder if he's really dead?" "Maybe he is." "Don't be too sure." "Pull his hair and see." With the last remark one of the venturesome kids pulled the ear of the bear. As he did so a dog which had been napping nearby woke up and started to growl. The kids are prob ably running yet. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE'I —T. Truxton Hare, the old Uni versity guard, may coach the team next year. —Judge Robert Ralston, of Phila delphia, is at Atlantic City. —C. E. Brinser is the new engineer of the Pennsylvania lines about Wil llamsport. —The Rev. I. Moyer Hershey, ot Lancaster, well known here, has as sumed a charge at Shamokin. —W. P. Stevenson, McVeytown banker, was a Harrisburg visitor. [ DO VOU KNOW-^1 That Harrisburg is tho point of manufacture and distribution of Immense quantities of summer drinks? AN EVENING THOUGHT God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers. And thrusts the things we ask for in our faces; A gauntlet with a gift ln't. —Anon. Imitation Imitation Is a most expensive form of flattery. This Is especially true when It takes the form of "substitutes" for well-known brands. Reputable makers suffer but the buying public sufferers more. The Imitation is never as good ns the real thing. The man who sells It knows It Is not—knows he is trading on another man's reputation. When you desire some article advertised In this newspaper GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH TEH IS NEITHER GLAD NOR SORRY Governor Chats About the End of His Administration and Smiles Over Some Things LIKES THE COMMISSIONERS Will Leave Legislation to His Suc cessor ; Gossip His Fu ture Place in State "1 am neither glad nor sorry thai 1 am about to leave office," said Gov ernor John K. Tener in commenting upon his term. The Governor smil ingly declined to say whether his ex pectations on taking office had been realized, but would leave that to the people to decide. He has a little over five weeks to serve in his office and is working out his farewell message to the legislature. The message will not be long. It will be a characteristic Tener docu ment. very much to the point on what has been done and refer briefly to a couple of tnlngs which the Governo\ regards as unfinished but which he hopes to see enacted into law, the workmen's compensation legislation being the chief. In the message the Governor will refer with considerable pride to the work of the State Assets Commission, which has been at work for months listing and appraising everything owned by the state, from penholders to a. million acres of forest reserves, the state hospitals and the State Capi tol. No one knows exactly what the inventory will show, but it will be around $60,000,000. The Governor originated this idea, having tried to find out when he took office what the State owned, and he found property and articles continually turning up. So he just named a commission, which has served without pay, and made a list of rare interest and much value. IJkcs the Commission The Governor considers the creation of the Public Service Commission the crowning achievement of his term. He said that the commission was filling a big place in the state and instanced the offer of the Philadelphia Electric Company to furnish an inventory for use in rate fixing as a way in which the commission was serving as a chan nel to adjust disputes. When the Gov ernor was asked whether he expected to name a commissioner to fill the vacancy he laughed and said there were six good men at work. The be lief about the city is that Walter H. Gaither, private secretary to the Gov ernor, stands an excellent show of be ing named for the place. "The State has done more for the cause of good roads in the last four years than had been accomplished in 125 years," declared the Governor in speaking about highways. "Four years ago the people were passive. Now they are taking a keen interest, and a puddle of water in the roadway is soon brought to the attention of the authori ties." The Governor showed so much knowledge of the details of the High way Department and of the. state road system that it was remarked that he would make a good highway commis sioner. / "I'm not an engineer," he replied, "but that job would suit me. 1 think I'd like to be highway commissions a while." The Governor appeared to be verj much pleased over the praise given to the State highways by Thomas A. Edi son at Bedford three weeks ago, re marking in passing that there was not as much adverse criticism of the roads as there had been some months ago. Senators in Town The presence of both Senators Boies Penrose and George T. Oliver and Mayor J. G. Armstrong, of Pittsburgh, at the Executive Mansion at dinner last night set gossip flying. The Gov ernor said that they had just come to talk over Western Pennsylvania poli tics. "No, we did not discuss the Alle gheny county judgeship or appoint ments to the Public Service Commis sion or any ideas to give to Dr. Brum baugh about his appointments. We just talked Western Pennsylvania poli tics and had a nice sociable time," said he. When it was suggested that possibly legislation caused the conference, the Governor smiled and said that was a subject for his successor. It is believed about the city that the United States senatorship from which Senator Oliver will retire at the end of his term was discussed and not withstanding no confirmation could be had it is thought that the Governor may become a candidate. The Governor was asked pointblank last night whether he was a candidate for anything. "I'm not a candidate for anything, but I don't intend to drop my interest in politics," replied the Governor. IN STATE POLITICS —The annual meeting of the Central Democratic Club will be unusually in teresting because the contests will show the feeling now that the election is over. Herr Moeslein is not opposed for president, but A. C. Young, Sam uel M. Taylor and Henry Opperman are fighting for vice-president. There are thirteen candidates for house com mittee and nine to be elected. —Allegheny county legislators will be given a dinner by E. V. Babcock, one of the Pittsburgh councilmen, next week, and it is said that the speaker ship will be talked over. Mr. Babcock. State Chairman William E. Crow and P. C. Knox have' been talked of from time to time for senator. —Congressman M.Clyde Kelley, who was relegated to the rear, is said tt contemplate joining the Democrats. —Representative Richard J. Bald win has been in Pittsburgh and west ern counties in the interest of his campaign for Speaker. teal BOOKS and fllJ v THE TIOXAIi PEACE. That Pope Benedict XV. intends to raise the question of the independence of the Holy See when peace Is nego tiated at the termination of the pres ent war is the rumor in political and ecclesiastical circles. During the Italian Renaissance as to-day, the sovereignty of the Church was closely related to state, national and pacific j interests. To harmonize these con flicting issues is no simple matter. In her fascinating study of the Kenals- Isance, "Isabella d'Este" (new edition, itwo volumes, Dutton. Julia Cartwright describes the methods adopted by I'ope Julis 11. to reinstate the tem poral power of the Church. By play ing off the different parties against each other, he hoped to weaken all. The power of this greatest patroness of Italy over Popes, princes, poets, artists and sculptors is shown on every page of this delightful bio graphy. Would Abolish Schoolhouses BR. WOOD HUTCHINSON. who sprang: a surprise at the forty second annual convention ot the |American Public Health Association, now In session at Jacksonville, Fla., by advocating 1 the abolition of practi cally all the schoolhouses in this country. He said that three quarters jof all necessary things taught in pub lic schools could better be taught out of doors. [ OUR DAILY LAUGH j wM <f> 4 *T,VI fjr JyiT P<H>" ,< ' I *SoVl'bbs! Is the doctor He lms <* ult the taking: the proper literary interest In your *t itig l h!s "best? d °l M; Ito hi Mm ' there estimates of I was nobody to l,is | unless 1 got " '4ft Krcklrss „Vrrr , Willie—Ma's go \\ liicli Is Dltler- j n(f ( Q i,uy y oll a .. en * , , couple of neckties He says he Is f or Christmas. always outspoken Pan Tint's In his wife's pres- reckless and len liard times, too, He means out- she usually only talked. gives me one. HEI.P THK CAUSE By \\ II»K UluK^r They're coming to the city. Three hundred thousand strong; They'll reach the 'burg on Monday. | But can't be with us long. j Their object's one of mercy; They'll need us in their work, | For each one there's a duty That none of us should shirk. So let's get busy early. And work with all our zeal, Bv buying them in numbers, "The Red Cross Christmas Seal." IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the TeleTaph of Dec. 5, 1864.] Mrs. Atkinson Dies Mrs. Penelope Atkinson, aged 78 years, died to-day at the home of her son, W. W. Boyer. I.ny Sen I'avrmrnt New pavement is being laid at the Reservoir. Skating tinod Ice thick enough for skating is good news for many youths. I 1 [From the Telegraph of Dec. 5, 1864.] Sherman Passes Mlllen Washington, Dec. s.—Sherman has passed Millen and is sweeping away all opposition on Ills march to the sea. llrisk (auounnillui; St. Petersburg. Dec. —Brisk can nonading Is being kept up all along the lines. Xn Change In Positions Nashville. Dec. s.—No change is re ported in positions of armies here. NEW YORK WORLD AND BRYAN [From the New York World] The New York World, Democratic, says of William Jennings Bryan: "As Secretary of State he is ignor ant and he will not learn. He would rather argue than work. Much of the official labor of his otfice is dry and dull and exacting. He has no stomach for it. "A great Secretary of State in these time would be as his desk twelve hours a day. Mr. Bryan would lather be in State Prison. He does not know what is going on in the State Depart ment. He does not know what ought to be going on there. He has no grasp of his duties because he has lost the taste for drudgery, and no man who is unwilling to be a drudge can be a satisfactory Secretary of State. Neither Jefferson nor John Quincy Ad ams nor Elihu Hoot learned his trade by intuition. They worked, and work is one of the things that Air. Bryan will not do unless by chanco he do It on a platform with the cheers of the crpwd ringing in his ears. An honorable man. an upright man. a man with noble ideals of inter national service and a noble faith In democratic institutions, he is a hope less failure as Secretary of State be cause he has made himself incapable of sustained and systematic intellec tual exertion." DECEMBER 5, 1914 C. R. BOAS Moderately Priced Jeweler & Silversmith Christmas Gifts - * For Women we can suggest nothing better than a Watch Bracelet; useful and at the same time ornamental, and growing more popular every year. For Men our Sterling Silver Belt Buckles, with genuine leather belts, solve the gift problem right off. 214-216 Market Street Established 1850 MANAGEMENT COUNTS The management ol" a liniiiiHul Institution is an important factor in determining its strength and soundness. This company Is managed hy men of the highest Integrity and ability. 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