8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established 1831 PUBLISHED BY THE TKI.BGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK PQLB Prtsidtnt and Editor-in-Chitf ' F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ 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 City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at <ESEMwiijUlv> six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers At J3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa,, as second class matter. j Sworn dallr avenge for the three ★ months ending Nov. 30,1014, 23,180 W Average (or the year 1018—21,577 Average for the Tear 1912—21,175 Average for the year 1811—18,851 Average for the year 1010—17,405 MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7 I THE SHOPPING SEASON ON NEARLY $750,000 in wages and Christmas club savings will be put Into the purses of the peoplt of Harrisburg this week and next, it is estimated. That ought to boost business. Merchants have been complaining that trade has not been up to former years, but with nearly three-quarters of a million dollars turned loose in two weeks there should be no more ground for worry on ths(f score. Many persona have been -waiting, very likely, the arrival of their Christmas checks be fore beginning to play Santa Claus. The stores were well filled Saturday night and there were indications thac the shopping season is on in earnest. Doubtless from this out it will be a question only of attracting trade to In dividual places of business, for most of our stores are well stocked with at tractive goods purchased with especial thoiiffht for the holiday shopper's needs and whims. THE WORK OF RELIEF THE steamer Thelma, which car ried a cargo of food purchased in part with contributions of cash made by generous readers of the Telegraph, has arrived t.t Rot terdam, from which port the sup plies it carried are being rushed to the relief committee in Belgium. B> the time this is in type, hungry little Belgian boys and girls, old men and homeless women will be supping com fortably on the good things provided by the people of this city and Phila delphia. The system of food distribution in Belgium has been systematized by a well-organized commission of men and women who have devoted them selves to the gigantic task of relief. Tickets are issued entitling holders to two meals a day. Those who have money must pay for their food; to the destitute the tickets arc given without charge. By taxing those who can pay, the money for food is indefinitely multiplied, -so that the relief work is greatly broadened and extended. That the need is great and growing is evident from the following nara graph of a statement issued on Fri day by Herbert Clark Hoover, chair man of the American Commission for Relief in Belgium: I do not know that history pre sents any parallel of a population of 7,000,000 people surrounded by a ring of steel and utterly unable by any conceivable effort of their own to save themselves. Seventy per cent, of these 7,000.000 people are idle and destitute. In Brussels 31,- 000 babies are dependent for their daily nourishment on public charity. We must continue to give until the demand has been fully met and it is gratifying to note that the haphazard generosity of the early days of the war is giving way to organized effort. At a meeting to-day a Harrisburg committee will be formed to look after emergency relief both in Bel gium and in this city. Contributions may be given for any purpose the donor prefers and the committee will see that they reach their destination without delay. A splendid feature of this relief work will be that Harris burg women who need work will be permitted to make garments for the war sufferers and will thus be able to earn money to meet their own needs. DEATHBED HEPENTENCE INDICATIONS aro that a desire for continued power' at Washington is prompting President Wilson and i his Democratic supporters to a rather late consideration of the prac tical as well as the theoretical side of the government entrusted to them, and as a result we are witnessing strange reversals of some supposedly fundamental policies of the adminis tration. To-morrow President Wilson will go before Congress with a brief mes sage urging feconomy in expenditure, and bare of recommendations for the enactment of experimental legislation. This sharp command to "right about face" is nothing more than a Bop thrown to the voters with the vain hope of staying the rising indigna tion that will reach its climax with the dethronement of the Wilson dic tatorship in 1916. The Democratic party cannot "swap horses in the mid dle of the stream" no matter how much it may desire a change of mounts. It is already In too deep water for that. Had the President and Congress been as conservative two years ago as they promise to bo now, the case would be different. The un called for tariff slashing would not MONDAY EVENING, then have taken place and the mis named "war tax" would not have as a result aroused the public to the lighting pitch now so apparent on every hand. The country would have been prosperous and able to meet the European crisis without much of the tremendous strain under which It is now laboring. And —the President and his party would have been de servedly popular. Too late the President admits that he was mistaken and he is trying to back-track. He has been hinting at a reversal of policies ever since the November elections and now comes his close friend, Congressman Charles C. Carlln, Democrat, of Virginia, with this statement, sounding very much as though it might have been in spired: When the European war is over there will need to be a revision of the tartlY, so that the millions of men who are now in the armies and who will then be released for em ployment at any wage they can get, may not dump cheap productß on the American market in competition with American manufactures. This is not only strange doctrine from the lips of a Democrat, but it Indicates a desire on the part* of the administration to "square Itself" with the voters by enunciating good, sound Republican principles under the guise of emergency measures de vised to meet unlooked for contin gencies. That there will be a revision of the tariff within the next three years is certain. But that it will be more needful after the war than before is difficult to understand. Certainly there was more danger of an inva sion of cheap European products when the Underwood law w.as passed than there will be with half of Eu rope's factories in ruins and half of her best workmen dead or incapaci tated. The policy of protection is the same now as ever. If it was wrong when President Wilson was Inaugurated, it is wrong now. The deathbed repent ence of the Democratic administration may be sincere, or it may be merely the vote-catching subterfuge it seems to be, but at all events it will be futile. The voting public has had enough of its vagaries and uncertainties. Demo cratic prospects in national affairs are as dead as the party's abandoned no tions concerning "free silver." THE BASEBALL GAMBLE THE merits of the case aside, it cannot be denied that the Fed eral baseball league is building on firm ground when it takes over such stars of the diamond as "Eddie" Plank, "Chief" Bender, "Rube" Marquard and Walter John son. Four of the "big fellows" have signed with the new organization with in the past week. Sentiment plays little part in the organization of leagues and the build ing of teams. The baseball magnates sign the men they believe will help swell the gate receipts. The players go where the salary Is largest and the prospects seem brightest. That is what is now taking place in the three big I leagues and among the players whose labilities and reputations are sufficient !to enable them to dictate terms to managers. It is a purely business pro position on both sides. But with the "fan" it is different. He is a sentimentalist of strong feel ings and prejudices. All concerned are engaged in a big gamble with the patronage of the "fan" as the stake. The developments will be worth watching. BOTH GUILTY LITTLE sympathy should be wast ed on either the Rhode Island millionaire who has been prose cuted under the Mann "white slave" act by a girl who accuses him of ill-treating her, or on the girl her self, who in turn has been indicted on a charge of attempting to bribe a federal official with a share of the $50,000 she hoped to wring from her erstwhile admirer. The suit and counter-suit illustrate a laxity of morals on both sides. One appears to have been as guilty as the other. Jus tice will be well served if both receive the limit of the law provided for such offenses. While there would appear to be no good ground for the "white slavery" charge, both man and woman are evi dently guilty of violations of State statutes that If proven would send them to prison, and it Is to be. hoped that the cases will be vigorously prose cuted. THE COUNTRY IS SAVED THE dressmakers are a clever lot. They know that the average woman would sooner be bank rupt than out of fashion. They well understand that a complete r» versal of fashion in skirts, from skin tight to very full, will necessitate an entire new wardrobe for milady of current styles next Spring; hence the : announcement from Chicago that in 1914 the "hobble" and the "serpen tine" will give way to a dress that will require yards and yards more goods. The dressmakers are more powerrul than the reformers. Moralists have preached and wept over the delinquen cies of the slit skirt and its revelations; and fair woman has tossed her pretty head disdainfully and taken In an other reef. Preachers have deplored the "debasing tendencies of dress." Judges have frowned, humorists have tittered, men have stared and editors have railed. Nothing doing! Nothing whatever, except that the shrinking Rkirt continued to shrink. Then came the dressmakers, at the critical moment when the subtraction of another Inch would have meant tights, and in a moment all is changed. The morals of the country are saved, modesty Is restored and the hejul of the house gratefully digs up the neces. sary coin to make the reform effective. ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY THE Department of Agriculture has Issued a warning to farmerb in Pennsylvania against the pur- chasing of seed potatoes from Maine unless they bear the govern ment certificate showing them to be free from "powdery scab." Seed pota toes will be scarce next Spring for the reason that the German supply will be cut off, says the department. Why should there be necessity for German importation of aeed potatoes? Why cannot the soil of Pennsylvania produce better potatoes than the long cultivated ground of Europe? We are persuaded that it can. Here, wo believe, is a new and profitable field for the scientific farmer of the Keystone State. We can grow all we need here, and of first class quality, too, if we set ourselves to the task. EVENING CHAT I ! "Academy Boys" who went to schools or colleges or into the wide, I wide world years ago will be invited Ito gather at the new home of the Harrisburg Academy the latter part "f this month at an. alumni smoker, which has been planned by Headmas ter Arthur B. Brown for the alumni of years gone by as well as fOr those who have been presented with their certifi cates since the present building was occupied. The idea of having a gath ering for the alumni was worked out for the first time last year when the younger alumni, those who have grad uated since the ancient institution took on its new lease of life up the river, were the guests during Christ mas week. It was such a success that Mr. Brown has been tempted to try a gathering of all of the alumni and has Ilxed Monday, December 28, a$ the time for holding it. An effort will be made to reach those who studied in the old plaster and frame building on Front street near State back in the days when Dr. Joseph F. Seller was the beloved principal and those still older ones who attended school in the old Maclay mansion and possibly some who attended the Academy when it was farther downtown. There are a few families in the city whose at tendance at the Academy dates back three generations or so, for it should be remembered that the Academy came into being in 1786, the year af ter the founding of Harrisburg and that its charter was issued 105 years ago. There art few institutions in this part of the State which have had such a continuous history and few whose alumni comprise the Important men of the community as the old Academy, which is now on a fair way to become an educational institution of note throughout the country. It is prob able that the reunion of alumni will be as interesting as was that held dur ing Old Home week in 1905 when al most 100 former students gathered at a dinner at the Harrisburg club and paid tribute to Dr. Seiler, tnose pres ent heing surprised at the number of men who appeared and at the interest shown. In all probability the propos ed smoker jtvlll be an affair of more than ordinary moment to the former students and men interested in the educational affairs of the city. An interesting fact in connection with the certificate of election just sent to Washington setting forth that Boies Penrose had been elected to a seat in the Senate, is that he goes with a plu rality of his next highest rival of a quarter of a million votes, a rather remarkable circumstance when one considers what almost everyone thought a year ago. Another fact is that Congressman A. Mitchey Palmer his Democratic rival polled a smaller vote than cast for a Democratic candi date for a big State office, with the ex ception of the 1910 fight, than any Democratic candidate in almost half a century. When George T. Oliver was commis sioned as United States senator in 1909 his commission was signed by two men who had been Intimately con nected with him. They were Gover nor John K. Tener at whose father's home in Ireland the senator was born during a visit of his parents and for whose father Mr. Oliver was named, and Robert McAfee, who wlls born near where the Governor and Senator lirst saw the light and who had known all of them for many years. Mr. Mc- Afee was connected with Oliver enter prises in Pittsburgh almost from the time he came to America and until he became a city official of Allegheny- City. It is seldom that three men Who have been so closely connected appear together on such a notable document. The meeting of the Pennsylvania State Street Railway Association, which is scheduled to be held in this city during the week, will bring to gether probably the largest assemblage of men interested in traction affairs in the history of the State. This asso ciation, has its offices here with Dr. Henry M. Stine as secretary and treasurer, has been holding meetings every Suring and winter at which the electric railway interests of Pennsyl vania has been discussed and l,mport-j ant action taken regarding common propositions before the Public Service Commission. The organization has also rendered considerable service to the State authorities in working out a uniform system of reporting on tariffs and rates. When the street railway men are meeting representatives of more than 100 branches of union labor will be holding a session in the city at which proposed legislation will be discussed and the ideas of men connected with practically every line will be submitted to a committee which will look after legislation this coming winter. This labor conference, which has become a biennial affair, is o'ne of the most im portant in the country for the reason that it represents a greater diversity of industries than any other. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Colonel John Biddle Porter, of the general staff, is in Europe to observe the war. He Is a former National Guardsman. —Senator W. C. Sproul Is one of the directors of the Delaware county na tional bank, which celebrated its cen tennial Saturday. Dr. C. B. Pancoast, formerly in the Second Pennsylvania regiment, has gone to join the Austrian army. —Governor-elect Brumbaugh is to address the Central high school alum ni at its annual dinner. —A. B. Johnson, vice-president of the Bethlehem Steel Company, has gone to Europe. I DO V6U KNOW 1 That Harrisburg Is now a stop over place fop tourists from all lines in the State? t \ Christmas "Dos" STOP AT ONCE—NOW! Buy gifts only because you WANT TO. Buy gifts only, for those for whom you care. Buy conscientiously. Buy conservatively. Buy carefully. Buy APPROPHIATE gifts! AND Consult the advertising col umns of the Telegraph for daily hints and suggestions. * HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH" BILLOT UW WILL UNDERGO CHANGE Belief That Will Be Pronounced Al teration in the Nominating Features MAY FIX UP EXPENSES' ACT Newville People "Scrapping" Over; the Appointment to the Postmastership Republican leaders, who have been coming to Harrlsburg the last week or so say that they are commencing to hear from people about' the annoy ances and perplexities attending the present nomination and election sys tem, and some go so far as to pre dict that the State conventions will be restored and that some old methods may replace the schemes put Into effect In the last half dozen years. It is also admitted by these visitors that there is dissatisfaction with the non partisan act both in judicial and mu nicipal affairs, and say It would cause no surprise to see bills to repeal the system presented. While it may be weeks before anything Is done by Republican leaders to get up a pro gram, It is said to be tolerably cer tain that the primary will be made to end the nominating of candidates and that a man will not be able to get his name on the ballot piore than once. It is said to be the idea to make the primary as wide open as possible, allowing nominations by par ties and by papers, but that once the primary is held no more names can be put up, thus ending the pulling and hauling to secure several nominations. The proposition to return to the State convention system on the same lines as the national convention Is likely to appear in the form of a bill whether leaders want It or not. Regarding the corrupt practices act men who come here say that about all it does is to show what big sums are spent in politics. It makes no check, they con tend, and lately there seems to have been a rivalry to see who can pile up the largest amount spent. If anything is done it may be In the form of re strictions. —Democratic politicians in the New ville end of Cumberland county are whirling around over the situation created by the approaching expiration' of the term of Postmaster H. C. Sny der. For months some of the New ville Democrats have been scheming in the hope of landing the plum and assiduous court has been paid to bosses. The aspirants are D. H. Hel ler, who, by the way, was a Champ Clark candidatp for national delegate and did not get anywhere, but whom it Is said they want to placate; Kd. Shullenberger, T. A. Derrick and Dr. M. M. Wltmer. Some one is going to get fooled. Other Cumberland coun ty postmasterships are due to fall soon. —Burgess George D. Jacobs and members of his council in Danville are at odds over things connected with borough administration. —R. M. Matson, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Twenty seventh district, is said not to have tiled any expense account. He was defeated by S. Taylor North. —Governor-elect Brumbaugh will attend a dinner to be given in his honor at Washington to-night, at which Pennsylvania Congressmen will be guests. —The Chester County Republican Club will come from West Chester 400 strong to attend the inauguration of Governor-elect Brumbaugh. This club is setting a pace in the county, as the uniforms will cost $26 each. —Congressman M. Clyde Kelley, who was defeated for re-election, is said to have his eye on a Federal job and hopes that the Democrats will recog nize him. —The latest dope handed out about the new county movement is that it should be called Penrose county. The Senator has not been heard from. —Speaking In Philadelphia yester day, Senator Boies Penrose remarked that he thought the Republicans in the Legislature could settle the speak ership contest in caucus and without any outside assistance. Friends of Richard J. Baldwin, who are active all over f.he State, are saying that his chances are growing brighter every day. The partisans of other candi dates are keeping at it, too. —Country legislators, who have been asked by friends of Baldwin to be for him, are said to be lining up, and it is the hope of the Delaware county man to have enough without the votes he may draw from the dele gations of Philadelphia and Alle gheny. The Philadelphia Ledger to-day "Senator Penrose, who left yes terday for Washington to attend the short session of Congress, has indi [ cated to friends in the past week that he is putting off for about a year any serious consideration of the question of Senator Oliver's successor. This, it was learned. Is part of his plan for the rebuilding of the Republican State organization. He desires, first of all. to strengthen the county organiza tions. He believes, it was asserted, that he can best do so by seeing that the several colunty elections through out the State, to be held In the coming year, shall be successful from a Re publican point of view." —Frank B. McClain, lieutenant governor-elect, was the guest of honor of the Terrapin Club at Philadelphia Saturday, and made a speech in which he. declared that he was not in favor of reforming the world. He said bluntly that the people did not want It done and that lately they had shown a disposition to get safety first against the hobbies of the experimenters who are abroad in the land and wjio in the late election sought to get into office to try them out. —Chief Justice D. Newlin Fell, of Philadelphia, who Vill retire from the Supreme court In January, is being mentioned for mayor of Philadelphia. —Members of the Central Demo cratic Club are having a flne time with the fights for places on the House committee and a real old-time fuss is looked forward to. There does not seem to be much friendly contest about it. FISHING CONTEST PRIZES Special to The Telegraph Annvllle, Pa., Dec. 7.—Prizes in the hook and line f)shlng contest have been awarded by Eugene Herr, ol Annvllle, to the five fishermen catch ing the largest fish In the season of 1914. The following received th<- awards: Largest bass, 5 pounds 7 ounces. Rubin Tobias; second largest bass, 4 pounds 5% ounces, Daniel Spangler; longest pike, 19% inches, Charles Pfanmiller; longest vellow perch, 10% inches, Charles Pfanmil ler; longest sucker. 16% inches, John Boyer. The contest is open to all resi dents of Lebanon county and la held annually by Mr. Herr, ' here not alone bee-auae prlcea are lower, bat because quailtle. are be(ter.BH|^mßP^ Every Day of the Year Isl Fare-Saving Day Here PEOPLE FROM OTHER TOWNS WHO WILL GET ACQUAINTED WITH THIS STORE WILL JOIN WITH ALL HARRISBURG SHOPPERS IN PRONOUNCING THIS STORE THE GREATEST MONEY-SAVING STORE IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. 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DOLLS, GAMES, BOOKS, ETC., ALL THIS SEASON S NOVELTIES AT NEW ITOMAN STRIPE AND NOVELTY SILK* AT SPECLNL PRICE*. F"* TO O P WHITE LINLIUTAL SILK NT SPECIAL ■■RICE*. A BLOCK WATERPROOF SILK AT SPECLNL ™ /, J PRICE*. «■ I A lc to 25c Dept. Store I (p?0?y Where Every Day Is Bargain Day I 215 Market St. Opp. Courthouse i OUR DAILY LAUGH H Never Wo« An Ideal Husband Does your hus- What your band play cards ideal of a. hus- for money? band? I don't think so; One who lets but those who me have the last p i ay with him do. word in clothes Won't (iet the Auction Birder Chance » ow d 'd V 0" t' e *- You are wanted alone at the auc termhoneso Not we'll. Pa The hoarse 1 cant wife insisted^ You won't need than she ought to to talk It's your Just because they wife = alled U auction. THOSE KIDS By WI»R Dinner I wonder, brother, if your kids Are quite the same as mine, When they are put to bed each night At seven, eight or nine. No matter how much noise is made, With sounds both loud and queer. Throughout it all in peaceful sleep Each one will pound his ear. But when my bed time comes around To my bedroom I go And move around, while I disrobe Quite softly on tiptoe. But. gee. despite my quietness. Each night to my dismay Both kids wake up the moment I'm About to hit the hay. If they would only stay asleep Some night, it would be flne— But meanwhile I am wondering if Your kids are just like mine. AN EVENING THOUGHT Through all the years of all this life v Be with me, Lord! So shall the days 'and weeks and years Be threaded on a golden cord, And all drawn on with sweet accord Unto Thy fullness, Lord; That so, when time is past, By fc|ace, X may at last Be with Thee, Lord! —John Oxenham. DECEMBER 7, 1914. i From the Telegraph of Dec. 7, 1861.] Seven Hour Battle Port Royal, via New York. Dee. 7. — seven-hour battle was wased here. Jo change In positions of troops. l)rlvln«c II nek Rebel* Louisville, Dec. 7. —The rebels near here are being slowly driven back. , Rebels Ret rent Nashville. Dec. 7.—Rebel troops have retreated to the river—their old posi tion. FORESTRY FOR CHILDREN. The State of Pennsylvania has cut and marketed millions of dpllars worth of pine, spruce, hemlock, maple, oak, chestnut, etc., and has wasted her resources as 6ther States have. Our tanneries have used hundreds of thousands of cords of hemlock tan bark to make leather for the soles of millions of people. We and our forefathers have used the trees which covered a thousand hills and required centuries to grow. Billions of feet of good lumber which once grew on our mountains have been destroyed by (ires, most of which have been caused by such care lessness and heedlessness as we usu ally call accident. We have disre garded the conservation of our forests and the purity of our water supply. The problem of our supply of lum ber is a vital one to the prosperity of the State and Nation. The Commercial Museum, always interested in spreading helpful know ledge, has prepared a lecture on the Lumber Industry, which describes one of our State's greatest resources. There are beautiful colored lantern slides which show lumbering opera tions in great detail. In this lecture one may see the felling of trees, the carrying of logs to the milis, the saw ing into boards and all the details of the lumber business. Then there are pictures of forest fires and of refores tation. Part of the lecturo deals with the lumber camps of the South and West and with the forests of other parts of the world. This series of beautiful slides with descriptive reading matter, may be borrowed, without cost, from the Commercial Museum, Philadelphia, by any public school teacher. A sterop ticon and screen are also loaned by the Museum if desired. BOOKS and dg The twenty Boston school-girls who have taken to carrying sofa cushions to school with them as a protest against the removal of upholstery from the car seats of the Boston and Middlesex Railway, are very far re moved from their hardy, courageous and luxury-despiring Puritan ances tors, and far from attaining the ideal pictured by Henry Bordeaux in his powerful novel, "The Fear of Living" (Dutton). Perhaps the most remark able part of this notable book (which has been through 74 printings in the French original) is the preface, in which M. Bordeaux points out some of the more flagrant phobias that in fest modern society. "If endeavor should stimulate us," says M. Bor deaux, "pain ought not to crush us. But do we not resist it legs well now a-days? Physical pain, more espe cially, has become unbearable to us. We need < sedatives for the smallest ailments We insure ourselves against accidenta;against risks; against death—indeed, a farsighted wisdom! Whv should we not be insured also against fear?" Even the Friends' meeting-houses, the last stronghold of the olden time contempt for ease, have taken to padding their wooden seats with comfortable cushions. The Boston school-girls are not the only weaklings of their, generation! IN HARRISBURG FIFTY I YEARS AGO TO-DAY I [From the Telegraph of Dec. 7, 1864.] llnNonn to Kleet The Grand Lodge of Free Masons met Saturday evening and elected officers. llornc HUM Away A horse ran off this morning neat Second and Chestnut street. No injur ies or damages reported. Kern Weather Kxpeetril Mild weather is gone now. Zero weather is expected. Every number an All Star number, or it can't go to press. That is the Hearst's Maga zine idea. It offers the biggest kind of maga zine value. k V Buy It Now and read Churchill's great novel, "A Far Country." It's typical ly an American story —a sidelight on poli tics and finance. Then there is "Mr. Dooley", George Randolph Chester. Gouverneur Morris, Chamb ers, Gibson, A. B. Wenzell, Penrhyn Stanlaws, Bruno Leasing, Elbert Hubbard and others — AN ALL STAR NUMBER All Newsttands, 15m "S 1 TT December If J® Hearsts MJLjßuy It NOW
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