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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
UXXXIII— No. 292
ALCOHOL ID VICE
CHIEF CAUSES FOR
DEFECTIVE CHILDREN
Study of Special Schools Shows
"Innocent Suffer For
the Guilty"
WORK BEING WELL DONE
Instructors Helping Backward Boys
and Girls Overcome Their
Handicaps
By A.ina H. Wood
I Thin I* thr llrnt of two article* writ
ten fur tbi* Tflfgritph on llnrriabaru
aehool* for defective children by >lm.
IntiH H. Wood. The HUOBII will H|>-
liear In n aubiirqaeal l»«ue. |
Few sights are more pathetic to the
lover of childhood than that of the
feeble-minded little ones striving to
pierce through the mental mists to
ward the land of knowledge.
Up to a few years ago these chil
dren were classed in the regular grade
work of the public schools. They
were regarded as types of that de
scriptive word, "dumb." They were
the source of irritation to the teachers
and of amusement to the other pupils.
In this way the super-sensitiveness
born of ridicule was added to the bur
den of a deficient bruin. What chance
had such a child for a fair start?
Then it was that medical examina
tion of the schools showed the wis
dom of segregating the mentally back
ward. To-day Harrisburg boasts of
two such places—one in the Hamilton
building at Sixth and Hamilton and
one in the Melrose building at Twen
tieth and Derry streets. Here under
the supervision of wise women of won
derful patience, tact and training all
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non CLUB MM
AT ORPHEUNI THEATER
rail House Is Indicated by Early
Sales; Benefit For
Belgians
MANY BOXES ARE SOLD
President Essick Will Tell of Club's
Purposes; Ladies Co-
Ope rate
To-night will be "Rotary night" at
tie Orpheum. Already there are indi
cations that every seat will be sold
before the performance begins.
During the entire week the Or
pheum will be operated under the aus
pices of the Rotary Club for the
benefit of the Belgian relief fund. The
club has taken over the Orpheum. will
pay all expenses and turn all of the
profits into the Belgian fund. The
Harrisburg Emergency Home and For
eign Relief Committee is lending its
hearty co-operation and many of the
members will occupy boxes during the
wwk.
Manager Hopkins has booked what
promises to be the best bill of the win
ter, headed by Bessie Wynn, who made
a tremendous hit when she was here
some years ago. The house lias been
beautifully decorated and Junior Ro
tarifins will sell candy, flowers and
lemonade as a means of collecting
funds for the American Red Cross
division of the Home and Foreign Re
lief Committee.
President. William S. Essick, of the
Ro'ary Club, will make an address, at
the conclusion of which the audience
will sing "America." During the even
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THE WEATHER
For Harrlnhurg; nnd vicinityi Fitlr
nnil much colder to-nlftht. with
lowcnt tcmpcrnture about 10 ilc
grccNf Tuenday fair, continued
cold.
For Eatrifrn IVnnnyl vnnln i Fair
nnd much colder to-night nnd
Tnendays ntronir went wind* dl
mlntfthlni?.
River
No material chanRCN will occur In
river ntafccN to-night or Tnenday,
except local rlnen are likely to
occur due to Ice. A atOKc of nhout
3.1 feet IN Indicated for lIarrIM
IMITR TucNdny morning;. The
He»t Branch In frozen at Clear
field. C'onMldernhle Ice will form
In the vtreama to-nlffht and nomc
will become Icebound In place*.
(ieneral < ondltlonn
The nnaettled condition* In the
Saturday, devel
oped Into a ntrenin which moved
rapidly XortheaNtward nnd IN now
central over Northern New ICUR
land. It canned rain In
Moirthern and rain and «now
In central and northern
dlntrlcta cant of the MlaslMalppl
river In the laat twenty-four
hour* with atronar wlnda alony
the Atlantic coaat. The atorm la
followed by an area of moder
ately high preaaure, now central
over the Plalna State*. It In
warmer than on Saturday morn
ing generally In the Atlantic and
Ka t Gnlf Statea. It la 2 to 2H
degxeen colder over the rent of
the country, except In the Weat
ern Canadian province* and In
Waahlngton State.
Temperature: 8 a. m.. 26.
Snnt Rlaea, 7:10 a. m.f acta, 4:40
p. m.
Moon i \ew moon, December IH,
a. m.
ltlver Stage: 3.1 feet above low
water mark.
Veaterday*a Weather
lllghent temperature, :i2.
I.oweat temperature, 2(1.
Mean temperature. 2l>.
Normal temperature, 33,
PRETTY "RED CROSS NURSES" TO SELL CHRISTMAS SEALS ON BIG
NIGHT OF CAMPAIGN WHEN "ZEMBO" PROGRAM WILL BE PRESENTED
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DO YOF THINK THEY'LL SELL EM?
To morrow niirht'B to be the "bis night" in the 1914 Ue«l Cross Christmas seal campaign. Zembo Hand and Patrol of the Mystic Shrine and some
two dozen women? capped and gowned as Red Cross nurses, will be the features of the Zetnbo program at Chestnut Street Auditorium to be ob
served for the
lain Frank H.'Hoy. Jr"commander, and the forty-six members of his patrol will demonstrate how well that famous prize-winning body ran drill. And
To-morrow \iV(> S "MerehanVs' 1 Day"* series begins, when "Haberdashers' and Clothiers' Day" will be observed. The merchants w I loh a v caR r oedt o
paste the so ils or every package that goes out of their places of business include: Haberdashers, Shearer A: Son, J. N. Klnnard. clothiers, DoutrU h At
ro The Hub The Globe, Sides & Rides: hatters. C. W. Poulton: special, Harrisburg Hag and Box Factory.
" Ti,p "i>ed I'row nurses" will be: Top row. left to right. Misses Ksther Hutman, Katherine Thorn. Esther Adams, Marie MeHille. Mat\ Trances
Kbel Eleanor Copelin, Fannie Hoy, Maudallne Slioaf, Kathryn MeCloske.v; middle row. Emma Morrow. Helen Roberts, Ann Fogarty. IRinH> \anderloo
Ruth Kirkup, Margaret Hacon, Emily Morrow; lower row, Ann Fissel, Mary Koons, Marie McCalley, Laura Miller, Jrene McCalley, Hilda I-ohl and Mary
Roth.
SIRE HIT TIL
OVER THE WEEK-END
90 Go Down Sawdust Lane at
Big Men's Anti-Booze
Meeting
ANOTHER CRACK NEXT WEEK
108 Converts When Evangelist
Tells How Men Know They
Are Converted
j i
A total of 25G trail hitters over Sat- i
i urdav and Sunday, together with the j
' stormiest period of tne campaign, re- j
| suiting in the poorest attendance since j
the beginning, marked the end of the i
I sixth week of the revival.
Dr. Stough has confidence that the-
I days between this and Sunday, the final
I day, will show the greatest results of'
the series and amply justify the con- I
tinuation of the work.
At last night's service he highly
complimented Harrisburg on its gen
erosity in paying so promptly and so
easily the largest budget ever met in
j his evangelistic experience. He said
! such a response proves that the cam-
I paign has put into the hearts of Har
' risburgers an unprecedented love of
i Christ, of others, of themselves and
for the city that will make the finest
Christmastide ever known here.
He repeated his former announce
ments in favor of taking a tabernacle
collection some light this week for the
Belgians and he declared he hoped it
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Mile and 3-Quarters of
Pennies Dropped Into Pans
at Tabernacle Collections
Pennies dropped in the collection
j baskets at the Stough tabernacle since
' the campaign opened if placed in one
j straight iine would reach a distance
of one mile and three-quarters, an
nounced E. A. Heffelfinger. treasurer,
I this afternoon. In all 147,630 pennies
! were collected at the Stough meetings.
Contribution totals in other denomi
nations were: Nickels. $6,06t.; dimes,
| $2.,'48.50; quarters, $2,044.75; halves,
i $570: one and two dollar bills, $1,082;
j five-dollar notes, $475; ten-dollar notes,
'slso; twenty-dollar notes. S4O. The
i collections yesterday amounted to
s*>39.l 8.
j BAIJIJ CARTRIDGES I*SKT> IX SHAM
Soldiers Fire on 800 Silhouette Figures
in Texas
j Washington. D. C„ Dec. 14. A
'sham battle with real ball cartridges
! 1 n place of the usual blanks was staged
|by Brigadier General Pershing down
| in Texas last month with remarkably
j instructive and satisfactory results.
Eight hundred silhouette figures,
j representing soldiers and electrically
I controlled, which received the impact
of about 100,000 ball cartridges, were
I used. ,
WIIjIJ RACE 500 MII/KS
By Associated Press
! Chicago, 111., Dec. 14.—Five hundred
(miles will be the length of the initial
; automobile race over the new Chicago
; speedway, it was decided at a meet
! lng here last night of the executive
1 board of the Speedway Parle Associa
tion and Clifford Ireland, representing
the American Automobile Association.
SKHKNO K. PAYXK BVRIER
| Auburn, X. Y., Dec. 14. —The
I funeral of Sereno E.Payne,veteran lle
| publican leader In the House of Rep
! resentatlve, was held this afternoon
! with simple services In the First Hap
jtlsi Church. Hundreds from Cayuga
|and adjoining counties united with the
congressional delegation of sixty to
till the church.
HARRISBURG, PA.,
Many Harrisburg Folks Will Get
Christinas Dinner by Parcel Post
30 Substitute Clerks and Carriers Will Be Kept Busy Until
After the Rush
In the opinion of Postmaster Frank
c. Sites, the general public Is awaken
ing to tins of the parcel post as
a means for rutting down the high cost
of living. This year, he says, many
Christmas dinners will come to Har
risburg families by parcel post, as
Harrlsburgers, on discovery of the
small cost of shipping turkeys and
other holiday delicacies, are buying
direct from the farmer.
Postmaster Sites finds shipments of
produce direct from the farm coming
to Hatrrisburg on the increase. Con
sumers save because the middleman's
I profit is cut off. A letter with a two
cent stamp takes the order to the
SHOOTS HIS WIFE IN
QUARREL OVER DOG
Puts Bullet Through His Own Heart
After Wounding Boarding
Mistress
MRS. THRONE,
Victim of Husband's Furious Brutality
As a result of a quarrel over a pet
poodle dog. George Edward Throne,
aged 28, yesterday shot his wife, injur
ing her so badly that little hopes are
entertained for her recovery; wounded
his boarding mistress, Mrs. George
Fortney, 106 Linden street, who got in
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Til IKK HEADY KOIt CHRISTMAS
Special to The Telegraph
Hagerstown, Md. t Dec. 14. A thief,
who Is believed to have been prepar
ing for the Christmas dinner of him
self and friends, made a raid on the
farm of Grover C. Cline. near this city,
I Friday night, and stole three turkeys
| and ten fine chickens. The door of
I the hennery was broken open and the
I fowls carried away without arousing
j the family.
MAHYSVIIXK WEDDED
Special to The Telegraph
Hagerstown, Md., Dec. 14. Miss
Harali F. Hippie, of Marysville, Pa., and
iMvde S. Erb, of Hockersvllle. PH., were
united In marriage here on Saturday
by the Rev. Dr. Conrad Clever, pastor
of Christ's Refortneil Church. Miss
Ruth A. Uingaman and Victor C. Pro
i vard, both of Mason and Dixon, Pa.,
I were married here at the parsonage of
the First ttaptlst Church by the Rev.
JS. K. Thomas.
MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1914.
farmer, anil he does the rent.
The Postmaster also notices that
many Harrisburgers are having store
orders filled by parcel post.
The Christmas rush is on at the
local Post Office and substations, and
from now until Christmas clerks, car
riages and parcel post men will be
busy. Postmaster Sites announced to
day that it will not be necessary to
employ extra men, as the substitute
list numbers fifteen clerks and fifteen
carriers and these men will be kept at
work until the rush is over.
The parcel post substation in the
Donaldson Building is now open for
business.
STORM FORERUNNER
OF 810 COLD WAVE
Mercury Expected to Tumble to
10 Above Zero by Midnight;
Cold Area Covers Map
Yesterday's storm was a forerunner
of a cold wave which is expected to
send the mercury down to ten degrees
or below before midnight.
Warnings issued this morning by
E. K. Domain, weather observer, fore
casts the arrival of a cold wave from
Canada which will cause a general
freeze-up about llarrisburg and vicin
ity. Still colder weather can be look
ed for to-morrow night and Wednes
day, when the cold wave area will be
central in the Ohio valley and the
Eastern States.
The heaviest snowfall of the season
was recorded yesterday. Nearly five
inches of snow fell In eight hours.
Trolley cars traveled under difficulties
last night when the snow turned to
rain and crystalized on the overhead
wires. Railroaders were called out
shortly after 5 o'clock to shovel snow,
but they returned to their homes at
midnight.
Commissioner Lynch, of the High
way Department, reports that 150 men
with thirty carts are on the job sweep
ing snow in Market Square, Market
street and the business district. Work
will soon start on the cleaning of street
intersections and crossings in the out
lying districts. Work has been tem
porarily stopped on the subway job at
Second and Mulberry streets and on
the Paxton creek job as a result of the
storm.
Cold weather now covers a greater
part of northern United States and
Southern Canada. In the t dally
weather map issued by E. R. Oemaln
this morning, the temperature record
ed at Winnipeg, Canada, at 8 o'olock
this morning was 2 2 degrees below
zero, while three official observing of
fices In Minnesota registered 16 de
gres blow. Chicago. 111., registers a
zero temperature. Cold weather warn
ings were, sent out from the official
weather bureau at Washington, D. C.,
this morning.
CARLHLB I,AD 1M LOCATED
Special to The Telegraph
Hagnrstown, Md„ Dec. 14. Missing
from Ills home in Carlisle for three
days and causing his parents consid
erable anxiety as to his whereabouts.
Hoy Wolf. a"ed 16 years, son of Her
man K. Wolf, was located In Hagers
town by means of n letter sent to a girl
fr'end at home. The letter was dated
December !t «nd Wolf stated that lie
would remain here If he "got a Job." Jt
not, lie expected to go to some other
place to seek employment. Wolf left
home on his birthday, being given a
nickel to attend a movie show. He was
not seen afterward and no word came
from him until the letter revealed his
whereabout!.
GOVERNOR-ELECT TO
ADDRESS EIBS
Sixty-fifth Annual Convention ofj
Educational Association to
Meet Here Dec. 29
TO DISCUSS CODE CHANGES
Leaders in College, Normal and Dis
trict School Fields Will Be
Among Speakers
State, county, city, township and
borough educators from all over Penn
sylvania, including representatives of
the State Board of Education, college
and normal school instructors, direc
tors. superintendents and teachers, will
meet In the Technical high school aud
itorium December 29, 20 and 31 at the
sixty-fifth annual convention of the
Pennsylvania State Educational Asso
ciation.
Possible, changes in the school code
will be discussed and the sentiment of
the great army which gets closest to
the youthful mind of the Common
wealth will be expressed in resolutions
to be presented later to the Legisla
ture.
Besides Pennsylvania's quota, some
men and women of national repute
educationally, will be among the
speakers. Practically every line of
thought dealing with the development
01 tin- youthful mind will be taken up
during the three-day session.
In addition to the general sessions
there will be departmental meetings
on city and borough superintendence,
college and normal school, high
schools, graded schools, township
schools, county superintendence, child
study, nature study, manual training,
music, mathematics and science, com
mercial work, history and civics, mod
ern and ancient languages and Eng
lish.
Governor-elect Brumbaugh a Speaker
A feature of the opening session will
be an address by Dr. Martin G. Brum
baugh, governor-elect of Pennsylvania
who now Is a member of the State
association and who will have to fill
the vacancy when he resigns to take
the gubernatorial chair. The address
of welcome will be delivered by Addi
tional Law Judge S. J. M. McCarrell
of the Dauphin county court, and the
devotional exercises on the opening
day will be conducted by the Rev.
liewis S. Mudge, pastor of Pine Street
Presbyterian Church.
Among the well-known educators
from all over the country who will par
ticipate In the speaking program dur
ing the sessions will he the following:
Dr. W. C. Hagley, University of Illi
nois; Dr. W. E. Halbrook, Choctaw,
Arkansas: Dr. Lewis W. Rapeer. Penn
sylvania State College: Dr. William M.
Davidson, Pittsburgh; Dr. Edward
Howard Griggs, New York city; Dr.
O. T. Corson, Columbus, Ohio; Dr. Na
than C. Schaeffer, State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, and Dr. W.
Grant Chambers, dean of the school of
pedagogy, University of Pittsburgh.
NIGHTSHIRTS FOB PRISONERS
By Associated Press
Boston, Dec. 14.—Nightshirts are
to be worn to-night by inmates of the
State Prison In Charlestown for the
first time, it is said, in the history of
penal institutions. Sixteen hundred
of them are ready for distribution
j among the prisoners, each of whom
| will be supplied with two.
I FRENCH STEAMER MISSING
By Associated Press
New York, Dec. 14.—The French ]
line steamer Florida, six days overdue:
on her trip from Havre for New York,'
has not been heard of since she sailed I
on November 22. The Florida has;
aboard twenty-four cabin passengers'
and fifteen in the steerage. .
14 PAGES
REVERSES FOR TURKEY
IN FIGHTING ON LAND
AND SEA; LOSSES HEAVY
Dardanelles Penetrated by British Submarine and Messu
dieh With 600 on Board Is Sunk; Turks Are Re
treating Under Heavy Fire of Russians; Germany
Prepared to Carry on War For Years, According to
Military Authority
Vigorous thrusts at tlie tJcrnian line
in France were made again yesterday
by allies hut reports of successes in to
day's otticlal statement from Paris an
no! liorne out by tlic Berlin communi
cation. The French war Office states
that German positions along tlie Alsnc
were demolished, that in the Wovre
district a Hue of trenches 500 yards
long were captured, ami that further
progress wns made in the Argonne
ami ir; Alsace. The tierman annotuicc
m< nt says that nothing of importance
has occurred in the West, with the cx
ccptlou of a few French attacks along
the Mcuse and in the Vosges, which
were repulsed easily.
There have l>ceii no important
changes in the east, according to the
German statement. Dispatches from
Pctrograd however, assert that the
Russians have thrown hack the Ger
man column which was attempting to
strike at Warsaw I'rom the north and
that as a result the position of the
Russians all along their front has TKVII
Improved.
The French war office announces
that In Scry la further successes have
lieen won ngainst the Austrian*, and |
that in the Montenegrin campaign,
which lias Ix-cn almost lost sight of re- j
cently, tlie Austrlans have suffered a"
reverse.
Dresden Is Uninjured
The <>erman cruiser Dresden, sole
survlvcr of the light in the South At
lantic on December 8 ill which fourl
German vessels were sunk. Is re|K>rt-]
i'(l to have reached I'unla Arenas on
the Strait of Magellan without in
jury.
Reverses for Turkey at the hands of
Russia on land and of England on the
sea were chronicled in to-dav's official
war dispatches. Russian army head
quarters in the Caucasus reports that
the Turks, whose strong resistance to
the invaders from the north compelled
them to retreat, have now been re
pulsed everywhere and are being pur
sued beyond the Euphrates river, suf
fering heavy losses. The British ad
miralty announces that the old Turk
ish battleship Messndteh, which car
ried 600 men. has been destroyed by a
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REFUSE SULLIVAN TRANSFER
W'th l c jiMrr.em A Witi'-nal Law Jud«c S. J. M. Mc-
Cart'.'ll .d'terno< a refused the application of Patrick T. • 1
Sullivan lor a transfer of the liquor license now held at 507-09 ' '
State street, to 1819 North THiid street. Church people and 1
other citizens in the West End vigorously remonstrated
against the location of a hotel in that neighborhood and the
court heard testimony pro and con, December 8.
Washington, Dec, 14. -Thomas Francis and another
American whose name has not been determined, have been , 1
killed in Sonoro, Mexico, according to a report to-day from
the American consular agent at Cananea. Secretary Bryan
directed an investigation. No details were given in to-day's
dispatch except that the killing took place between Agua
Prieta and Nacozari.
Paris, Dec. 14.—Reports, reaching here to-day from |
Berne state that a son of the German Chancellor, Dr. Von '
Bethmann-Hollweg, has been injured seriously at Piotkrov;, I
Russian Poland, and that 5".: has beta captured by the Rus
sians.
OPEN MARKET FOR ALL STOCKS
New York, Dec. 14.—An open market for all stocks on !
the floor o the New York Exchange will be created to
morrow. This action was decided on this afternoon. It was ,
voted to eliminate, beginning to-morrow, the so-called clear- r
ing house list, and to place the stocks on the same basis of
trading as the 182 issues already approved. I |j
SMALL FIRE ON HILL ,
Fire at the home of John H. Shook, 1119 Christian
street, this afternoon, resulted in damage amounting to S3OO. i
The lire, it is believed, started from an overheated furnace.
TO OPERATE ON KAISER
London, Dec. 14, 6.25 P. M.—Telegraphing from Berne,
Switzerland, a correspondent of the Central News, says: "A
telegram received here from Munich states it has been de
cided to operate on Emperor William's throat, but the oper
ation is bting deferred owirtg to the feverish condition of
the limperor.
~ MARRIAGE LICENSES
I tuWln Arthur Wlilte and Gertrude Maude Howard, Maryavtlle.
' William I'. Connor*, clt}-, aptl Clara Eapenahade, I nlon Deposit.
* POSTSCRIPT
British submarine. To accomplish tha
feat the submarine penetrated the sup
posedly Impregnable Dardanelles.
The recent successes of the Servians,
partly confirmed from Berlin, are said
at Xlsh to have been extended. It is
asserted that the Auatrlans have been
unable to check their retreat befora
the advancing Servians, who ara
sweeping them out of their country.
A statement attributed to Field Mar
shal von dor Goltz, who was sent by
the German government to Constanti
nople to direct the Turkish forces, in
dicates that In the opinion of this man,
one of the leading German military
authorities, the war may drag on for
a long time. Ho is quoted as saying
that Germany is prepared to carry on
the war for years, but is certain to tri
j umph eventually.
[ 170,000 .JEWS ityiEE FROM
WAR THEATER TO VIENNA
By Associated Press
New York, Dec. 14.—One hundred
and seventy thousand Jews have tied
for refuge from Galicia to Vienna,
according to a letter received here to
day from the Austrian Israelite Alli
ance in Vienna by the American Jew
ish Belief Committee.
I "Galicia as the field of military op
j eration has been cleared of almost the
I entire civil population," reads the let
j ter. "At the present time there ara
170,000 Jewish fugitives from Galicia.
here, of whom 70,000 are absolutely
penniless. Furthermore, 25,000 desti
tute Jewish fugitives have been placed
in barracks in Moravia and 70,000
in Bohemia, where barracks are also
being built. These 165,000 poor Jews
are in pressing need."
WAR INCREASES ARMY BILI.S
Washington, D. C., Dec. 14.—Tho
cost of tho American army ration has
increased to such an extent on account,
of the European war that it will cost
$130,000 more to feed tho soldiers dur
ing the coming year than during the
present year. Even the price of hors<i
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