6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established ISJI PUBLISHED BT TBI TELEGRAPH PRIXTIKO CO. E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEDJMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun. day) at the Telegraph Building, ;i< IVderal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau ot Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building; lew Tork City, Hasbrook, Story ft Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at .six cents a week. -■rsjS-nsP- Mailed to subscribers at ts oo a year in advance. F-atered at the Post OlTlce In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. • M»orn dally average for the three ★ month* ending SJec. 31,1911 22,692 W Average for the year 1tH—23.103 j ATrnm for the year 1913—21.'77 Average for the year 1813—SI, 17.1 Average for the year 1911—15.551 Average for the year 1910—17,495 r-' ■ ■ WEDNESDAY EVENING. JAN. 13 THE HEART OF DISTRIBUTION THE Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce could not have conceived a more appropriate "trademark for this city than "Harrisbure, the Heart of Distribution. - ' It tells the story in a nutshell. That is exactly what this city is—a heart of distribution. This becomes more tutd more evident every day. Manu factories are all very well and need more of them and shall continue our efforts to increase the number that call Harrisburg home, but our future is distinctly and pre-eminently that of a transfer and distribution center. This city is the hub of the Penn sylvania Railroad east, west, north and south; the Cumberland Valley south at still another angle, the Reading system to the hard coal regions, east «ind south to tap Virginia, West Vir ginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania. According to the United States Census Bureau, within a radius of fifty miles roundabout Harrisburg, 981,000 peo ple reside; within 100 miles, 6.234,000; 200 miles. 20.100.000; 300 miles, 27.- P54.400: 400 miles, 36,505,000, and 500 miles 43.592.000. Thus, it may be seen that Harris burg has not only the central location, but it has the railroads and the popu lation. These together afford the big shipper opportunities for quick de liveries to distant points possible at ■ inly a very few points in the entire county.'. }t has been a realization of these facts that has brought to this city all of the big warehouses and dis tributing agencies that employ so many hundred men and which will make the Harrisburg of the future, double the population of the city of to day. But we must continue to advertise. Not all of the big manufacturers are so keenly alive to the advantages of Harrisburg as are those who have lo cated here. They must be informed and we must be the agencies whereby that information is kept before them. The Chamber of Commerce suggestion that the "Heart of Distribution" label bo placed on all business stationery is a good one. ACCOUNTS IN ORDER THERE ought not to be any great delay in auditing the accounts of Dauphin county this year. Coun ty Controller Henry W. Gough's annual report to the court to-day is so comprehensive, concise and clear in all of its details that there would seem to be very little left for the auditors to do. Mr. Gough's report is made in ac cordance with State law. It embraces the receipts and expenditures in detail and classified. together with a full statement of the financial condition of the county for the year ending Janu ary 4, 191 S. It shows just how much money the county had to spend last year and where every penny of it went. The report brings out the very inter esting fact if the county just now wished to wipe out its entire net bond ed debt it could pay off all but about 130.000 of it from the balance in the treasury alone. The net bonded in debtedness is $167,977.48; the cash amounts to 5137.456.35. Other interesting items are the fact that the county has a thousand dol lars more of a cash balance this year than last year, that it has redeemed 424,000 worth or its bonds; set aside more than $17,000 In its sinking funds; paid $9,000 for the construction of its share of the State road in South Hanover township; nearly $7,000 for the erection of a new bridge at Mil lersburg and more than $17,000 for a concrete viaduct across the Swatara at Middletown. Mr. Gough would appear to be right in his belief that the county was never in better shape financially than now. Incidentally, this condition Is in large part due, no doubt, to the careful sup ervision of all expenditures through ithe office of the controller. This new x>fllce seems to have amply justified ita creation. THAT SECOND TERM PRESIDENT WILSON says that he was not thinking of an nouncing his candidacy for 1916 when he made the state ment in his Indianapolis speech re cently that the people of the United States might have a chance to judge of his acts. Doubtless not. The President does not need to announce his second term aspirations. Every body knows ha has them and every body likewise knows that dfcspita the WEDNESDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG (6686 TELEGRAPH JANUARY 13.1915. one term plank in the Baltimore plat form on which Dr. Wilson stood when he was elected, the Democratic party will renominate him. It Is all very simple. There la not another man In tha Democracy who could be nominated. To reject Wilson would be tantamount to confessing; tration had been a failure in the eyes of the party leaders, which In turn would be tantlmount to confessing that the Democratic party is not capa ble of successfully governing, even un der the most favorable conditions. Republicans will continue to hope that nothing will interfere with Wil son's renomination program. The President and Democracy are one and the same. Democracy is on the down grade In public opinion and there Is more and more evidence thatthe voters believe the President to be Incapable of measuring up to the practical require ments of the White House Job. No body questions his sincerity, but there is general distrust of hts policies and lack of faith in his theories. The re nomination of Wilson will spell cer tain defeat of the Democratic party. The Democrats are in a distressing ly painful position. They cannot swap horses in the middle of the stream and stand no show of reach ing dry land with their present steed. ENOLA TEX YEARS OLD ENOLA is to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the opening of the big railroad yards at that point on Friday of this week. The town has much over which to re joice on such an occasion. Little more than a decade ago where Enola now stands the peaceful farmhouse was the only siprn of habitation and only an occasional freight train broke the silence that brooded over the country side. There was no sign nor thought of the great, bustling railroad yards of to-day nor of the thriving, prosperous, progressive town that adds so mater ially to the population and the com mercial importance of Cumberland county. But while young in years. Knola is old in accomplishment. Few com munities anywhere in the State can boast of so much done in so short a space of time. It has up-to-dute stores, enterprising churches, first class schools, a water, sewer and street lighting system, an active Y. M. C. A. and all of the accessories and embel ishments of an up-to-date town. When it is considered that all thi3 has been brought about in the short space of a decade it must be admitted that Enola is not without ample rea son for celebrating its tenth anniver sary. PI J OPE II ACKNOW LEDGMEXT THE proposal to invite ex-Presi dents Taft and Roosevelt to be the special guests of the United Slates government at the cere monies attendant upon the official opening of the Panama canal and to place a battleship at the disposal of each for the trip to and from the Isthmus, if carried out, would constitute a very proper and gracious acknowl edgment of the services of these two men in the construction of the great waterway. Both rendered invaluable aid in solving the problems that arose and in putting the work through in record-breaking time. The nation can wcll ati'ord to show its gratitude in the way Suggested. Possibly it is just as well, however, that a ship apiece be provided, and we suppose the Navy Department will keep them far enough apart to insure against any chance violations of neu trality. NEW YORK'S BACCHANALIAN ONE of the larger New York ho tels reports that thousands of dollars' worth of jewels and cash were found on the floor and tables of the dining and grill rooms on New Year's morning after the annual revel. What must have been the condition of the women who dropped the dia monds? About the same, we sup pose. as that of the men who left their money on the tables. As a nation, we should be especially thankful for cities like "slow old Philadelphia" and slower Harrisburg, where the greeting to the new year does not sink to the low level of a Bacchanalian orgy. Here the crowds, full of jollity and goodfellowship, greet the year in that old-fashioned manner where the. ringing of bells and the blowing of horns is the accepted methods rather than the clinking of champagne glasses and the swilling of wine. Just why New York believes it is necessary to end one year and begin a new to the vile hilarity of the ordinary Metropolitan cabaret is more than any sane "provincial" can grasp. TRADE EXTENSION TRIP THE Chamber of Commerce could devise no better way to adver tise Harrisburg in the cities and towns of the surrounding terri tory than by the trade extension and get-acquainted trip proposed for next month. Those who were fortunate enough to participate in last year's little journey of the kind will testify to the benefits and enjoyments they de rived therefrom. We suspect that Lancaster, York, Lebanon and Columbia people think just a little better of Harrisburg as a result of last summer's visitation and. it is certain that the Harrisburg party acquired information about those towns and their people they could not have learned In any other way. Per sonal acquaintanceship is at the very foundation of trade extension and there is no better way of making new friends than during such a trip. Two hundred rabbits have been turned loose near Hazleton in an ef fort to increase the game supply there. According to scientific calculations. ,there should be In the woods near that place next year 9.364 rabbits. Governor Bleasc has dismissed the National Guard. Probably afraid some body would order it out to stop a riot in the Executive Department. Dunkirk has a distinctly Scottish sound, but we suppose the peopl« of Scotland are juat as well content that It ia loc'ated on the coast of France. I EVENING CHAT I Under the automobile law In Penn sylvania at the present time when an autolst Is notified to appear before a justice of the peace, alderman or magistrate and, on appearing. Is fined for a violation of the statute, he has no means of knowing whether or not the money thus collected ever reaches the State Treasury, as provided by law. It Is a warranted assumption that jus tices of the peace, aldermen and magistrates In Pennsylvania are, aJ moet without exception, honest and able officials, but in cases where dis honesty does prevail and where, on ac count of rush of business, lack of time, forgetfulness and other reasons, re turns are not made there is each year a sum of no mean proportion which is not turned In. To prevent the possibility of such fines being withheld from the State E. A. Jones, Second Deputy, State Highway Commissioner, in charge of the Automobile Division, has suggested a plan to check up the fines imposed. The plan outlined by Mr. Jones Is as follows: "In conjunction with section 22 of the automobile law, headed 'Dis position of Fines,' etc., I believe there should be some way by which fines paid by automobile owners to justices of the peace, aldermen and magis trates should be checked up in order to prevent any moneys from being di verted from the object for which they were intended, or. perhaps, in some coses to guard against dishonesty In making returns for same. "T would suggest that every autoist fined take a receipt in duplicate for the payment of the same and forward the duplicate to the secretary of his automobile club. or. if not a member of a club, then to a person designated by the State Highway Department, so that a record may be kept of all such fines and the State Highway Depart ment will be in a position to check them when the official report is made to the department by the officers who imposed the fine. This will keep a check of the honest returns on all fines collected for the violation of the law. thereby giving this department, as well as the parties paying the fine, the sat isfaction of knowing that moneys paid by them had gone to the place desig nated by the law. "I believe by the co-operation of the secretaries of automobile clubs and their members a complete check-up system can be established and a cor rect accounting for all fines thus be made a matter of State record, thereby preventing any chance of dishonesty and removing the possibility of un called for or unjust arrests." Friends or Professor H. A. Surface, who some time ago suggested him for Secretary of Agriculture under Gov ernor Brumbaugh, are astounded by the flood of newspaper comment since Professor Surface announced he would permit his name to be used in that connection. Not a single objection has been raised in the press and scores of Democratic as well as Republican edi tors have heartily endorsed his candi dacy. The work of Surface is well and favorably known in every county and not a few of the writers add testimon ials of their own observations concern ing its effectiveness. More attention has been given to the Surface candi dacy by the newspapers than that of any other man whose name has been mentioned in connection with a cabi net place. The coming celebration of the tenth anniversary of Enola recalls the fact that the Initial account of the estab lishment there of the largest classifica tion yards in the world was printed in the Harrisburg Telegraph. When the story was handed to the editor by a reporter, who is still a member of the Telegraph statT, some of the facts were questioned. The re porter stuck to his assertions, how ever, and the story was printed. In less than twenty-four hours, letters came from Pennsylvania railroad offi cials in Philadelphia and Harrisburg denouncing the story as a fake and severely criticising the Telegraph for publishing it. But the paper made no denial. Several months later work was started when surveys were made and negotiations begun for the pur chase of the property needed for the new yards. The unauthorized an nouncement proved to be one of the biggest "beats" in the newspaper his tory of Harrisburg. The Telegraph is also responsible for the present name. Long after the Enola yards were opened railroad offi cials referred to the new yards as the "West Falrview yards." The Tele graph continued to use the shorter term and subsequently railroad offi cials changed their order and it has been Enola ever since. There is still considerable gossip and controversy as to how the little flag station that was the original Enola was named. Frederick William Leis man, Harrisburg's veteran German newspaper editor, now residing at Camp Hill, is credited by many with the honor. The story is that Mr. Lels man at one time owned property where the yards are now located. There was no station nearer than West Fairview or Marysville, and Mr. Lels man had one established for his ac commodation. When asked for a name he studied for a few minutes, and then remarked, "Well we arc all alone here, so let's spell 'Alone' back ward and call it 'Enola.'" Another story is that Wesley Miller, who owned a large part of the land taken over by the railroad company included in his terms of sale that the new station and yards and future town, if there be one, should be called after his daughter, Enola. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —James Finletter. a brother of the late Judge Finletter. was severely in jured by a fall In Philadelphia yester day. 4 —Harry J. Shoemaker, * familiar figure during legislative sessions, sec retary of the Pennsylvania Manufac turers' Association, has taken up his headquarters in Harrisburg and will be here a large part of the coming ses sion. I BO TOU KN6W —I That Harrlshurir consumers get the largest flve-eent loaf of bread ■old now in any city of Its alae In tbe I'nlted States? f 1^ Battleship Gray The Newest Color Fashion has already picked "battleship gray" as one of the popular colors for Spring showing, of course, that fash lon believes in keeping time to the news. The war's influence will doubtless be apparent in many of the new styles. It will be Interesting to watch them as they develop—and, of course the first authentic news of their I'omlng will be found In the advertising columns of the Tele graph. So Industriously and ;io Inter estingly does the advertising keep step with the progress of the times that many people re gard it as the most important hart of their neiinpaper. WEST END CLUB TO PHE Oil n Plans For Inaugural Will Be Made at Pigroast This Evening LAUDERMILCH A CANDIDATE James F. Woodward Warmly Ap proves of Governor-elect Brumbaugh The West End Republican Club Is preparing to parade 350 strong at the inaugural next week. The members will be garbed in handsome overcoats, high hats, light gloves and will carry canes. Plans for the parade will be announced this evening at the club house when a pigroast will be served to the members. A large turnout Is I expected. The final meeting previous to inauguration will be held next Mon day evening when an oyster supper will be served. Last evening six new members were received into the club, which is growing and in a flourishing condition. —Ferdinand Laudermileh, of Flsh ervllle, is being urged by hts friends as a candidate for poor director on the Republican ticket next Fall. It is said that Mr. Laudermileh is certain to have the solid support of the upper end for the office. He has been for some years a Republican committee man in his district and Is well known all over the county. He is the pro prietor of a shirt factory in Ellzabeth ville and was so enthusiastic over Dr. Brumbaugh's candidacy last Fall that when the Republican campaigners passed through Fishervillc on their way to the Gratz fair he dismissed his working force for an hour in order to permit them to attend the reception in the public square. —The purpose of Governor-elect Brumbaugh to give his inaugural ad dress the form of a plain statement to the people of the Commonwealth as well as to the legislators setting forth exactly what he proposes to accom plish through legislation and the an nouncement by Speaker Ambler that Brumbaugh legislation is to have tlie right of way in the session which opens Tuesday were warmly approved yes terday by Representative James F. Woodward of Allegheny county. Mr. Woodward had an interview with Dr. Brumbaugh. . His candidacy for tHe chairmanship of the House committee on appropriations—a position he filled in the Legislature of 1911 makes his views of importance. —"As a member of the House and if I am appointed as chairman of the committee," said Mr. Woodward, "I propose to exert myself to the utmost to see that campaign pledges to the people are enacted into laws. Before the election we went through the State telling the electors what we stood for and what we sought to accomplish. Now that the election is over our promises are just as binding as they were before." —"Does that apply to the planks of the Republican platform or to the platform which Dr. Brumbaugh wrote?" /■ —"It applies to both. There are more things perhaps in the Brum baugh platform than are In the Re publican platform." THE REEI, OF f.IFE By Berton Braley Time was a man had need to go And travel far and patiently To glimpse strange scenes in Borneo Or Syria or Araby. T'pon the spot he had to be Where foreign lands their sight reveal. But now—they're brought for him to see He'll find them on the movie reel. The book that used to make you glow With fear and doubt and hone and glee. The fairy tales you used to know And listen to at Mother's knee. The tales of old hythologv Of gods and men. of woe and weal. They live again for you and me, We'll find them on the movie reel. The whole world furnishes our show A swift and throbblnsr history Of folk that hurry to and fro Of comedy and tragedy. Love, hate and war—the pictures flee They make their quick and sure ap peal. Life, life itself, keen, vibrant, free— Tou'll find it on the movie reel. Envoy Orlv the future has no key, Xo glimmer of it ma- we steal And yet. in time, who knows but we Shall find It—on the movie reel? —Photoplay Masrazlne for February. lEPITORIAL COMMENT] INCLUDING NEIGHBORS' PHONO GRAPHS [New York World.] The professor of music in the Uni versity of Wisconsin advocates the creaUon of "the office of official musi cian in nation. State and municipal ity." To make the plan completo it should provide for federal regulation of music. THEORY AXD PRACTICE [Atchison Globe.] Short Jenlss, who has been writing a hook entitled "Our Government's Relation to Finance," was sent to the poor farm to-day. XO MERCENARY MOTIVES [Dallas News.] Russian soldiers get a salary of 6 cents a week each and work 12 or 14 hours a day. Those who survive the war at least have the consolation of knowing that they were not in It for the money. SH-H-II—A GERMA.V SPY [From the Photoplay Magazine.] A few weeks ago. the manager of an English moving picture theater had occasion to send Ills operator a tele gram. It Instructed the operator to substitute I.ubln's "When the Earth Trembled." for an airship film. The wire was phrased as follows: "Keep airship off arriving seven twenty when the earth trembled." A few minutes after the telegram was received, the operator was placed under arrest as a German spy, and the manager was detained until the tele gram was explained. WHERE: COU it AGE WO.V r From the Christian Herald.] Gideon made a good beginning by breaking down the heathen altar on his own father's estate. He had ten 'men with him for that exploit. He [ had a great work to do in the future; lie began with a small task in the f resent: It took courage. To deliver srael from their enemies he would want the co-ooeratlon of Ills fellow countrymen. Vet lie began bv alienat ing them. He Insisted at the begin ning on making his work rl«*ht: he would have no compromises, even in his own household. Ills father stood by him splendidlv. | "It Is up to Baal," he said. "If he cannot defend himself we need not worry about ottendln* him. J | OUR DAILY LAUGH | \ J DSCIIVBD WITH THANKS. Joyce, the editor, jt&K' is getting very ab- uff js&M'; sent minded." 1 !k A' "I should say V . 'i/l . *£ he Is. Why, tha other day he re- s '—_jJ ll|!|f J" - " turned his tall or s bill with a JkH rejection slip en- S* , closed." Jr&SEZSP*: IN A BAD WAT. * W hit's tha old man, broke? broke. I'm over ■ drawn with all tha people 1 know K _ll who have money to lend. FORTUNATE. I "Don't you | know your hus- Vr * band la walking \M^& the floor because of his debta." %VwHr "Isn't it for tun at e ! You know the doctor 3V ■ays John simply must lake more exercise." " / . HIS DAD'S S • FAULT. "v - *"*V l * Tou've been N. «i4p-~(/}\ fighting again. } J fault Pop for .fcj naming me Al- fggsi I gernon. A feller wit dat name, iiaater fi sht. HER REASON. He: But why J/j\ prolong the en- She: Tou still ' have |2OO «left, '/4 haven't you? AT THE MOVIES By Wing; Oln rr If it were not for heart weakness. By jove. the scribe who writes The moving picture plays would sit Up very late at nights To find a way to get rid of A character or two. But with the weak-heart stuff he does Just as he wants to do. As Alms speed onward it would seem As though the author had Installed too many characters And put him. elf in had. Sometimes he lias two lovers for Y. J Stees. present auperlntendent or public buildings and grounds, was renominated and then unanimously elected by the Senate committee. A HUMAN ISLAND [From the Christian Herald. l trace their origin to 1 itui? M °m? B marrle.l - Midian las trort«™ an ' i h ' V G<*nesis on , m Sy" ,K ftbout "> companies T t ev H,,> " n doselv eon rortnln w ). I'Jj l * I *bmaelltes that at Leoi*r" Periods it I* Impossible to , . them. I otrether with &2S , they »r* » part of that l ',? r ' i " n of \vnv»« n? m 1" n aml " K unstable the !i 116 ,lu> sands of forward -; " hif » n K hack and wane In !h„V' '„" llnß powers wax ami ally penetrate*" wMvh they " aU "" AH SUITS AIIOVERCOATS All in the same boat, so far as price reductions are concerned. Everything—no matter how new, or how choice, or how much in demand—is in cluded in these JANUARY REDUCTIONS Today is a good day to come—or tomorrow, or any day that suits you best—for a stock so large and well assorted as ours can't be shot to pieces in one week, nor in two, even under such a heavy bombardment as is taking place here now. Lower prices than ours are plentiful enough, but a low price alone never made a real bargain. Price is only half the attraction here—the mer chandise is the other half. All SUITS AND /Vll tpJLO OVERCOATS $12.50 A 11 SUITS AND /\ll OVERCOATS $16.50 All SUITS AND /\ll OVERCOATS $21.50 304 Market St. Harrisburg Pa. i Ntw o s rfrar L q [Prom the Telegraph, Jan. 13, 1865J (.rorgln No Backslider Washington, Jnn. 11.—A rumor that Georgia wishes to rejoin tho I'nion, is denied here. Illinois Murders Cairo, 111., Jan. 12.—The guerrillas are becoming active again and have murdered several people. General Moseby, one of the big leaders, is re covering from his Illness and will soon be in service again. I UTTERSTOTHEEDITOR I UN l.ll\ KS Till? TKLBURAFU To the Editor of the Telegraph: Uy Dear Sir—Enclosed llnd my check for two ($2) dollars, for which pleas» send me your paper eight months. I have been taking It for two years anil like It better every time It comes. It i is just iHte getting a big. fat letter : from home telling all the things that are worth knowing. Very truly yours. N'KWTON W. SPEECE. Bridgewater. S. D., Jan. 8, 1915. Friend —This is a nice studio you have, is the rent high? Artist—l don't remember—Cleve land I,eader.