10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Establish** llji I PUBLISHED BT TBI TUXOIUPH PRlirnifO CO. E. J. STACK POL'S Prtnient —d BiitrrmChnf T. R. OYSTBIt Secretary GUS N STEINMETZ Mtmagirt Editor j Published every evening (except Sun- j day) at the Telegraph Building, 214 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau oi Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, i New Tork City, Hasbrook, Story A ! Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building,) Chicago. 111., Allen A Ward. Delivered by carriers st six cents a week. Mulled to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Kntered at the Post Office In Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. ■TTsra dally average for tke three ★ months eadtac Dec. 31.1914. 22,692 Hr Average for the year 19U—X1.213 1 Average for the year 11ia—21,577 Average for the year 1912—21.1TS I ' Average for the year 1811—18.851 j 1 Average for the year 1910—17.495 ] ' FRIDAY EVENING. JANUARY 23 J TIIK PEOPLE'S MARTIN GOVE K xon BRUMBAUGH'S public request that people who have Ideas that are practical, sound anil sane, on the syste matic improvement of the roads of Pennsylvania send them to him, is ex actly what was expected of him. lie said in his speeches that he was going to be governor of.the people in the broadest sense and he told folks he met in his campaign that he would be «lad to hear from them. lie lias fol lowed this up by a call for suggestions on the vitally important highway prob lem. I Nothing could be more manly and in line with his announced policy than his statement yesterday afternoon thai he would welcome ideas that would help in the solution of the questions of how to construct and maintain the highways. He said in his inaugural address that the State might have to start anew, confessing that it had made a mistake, and now he calls on t4ie people to help him work out the proposition. It is to be hoped that the Governor will get the help he asks and that he will not be bothered with cranks, but be given gootl ideas, because that is what lie wants and which everyone can be assured he will consider with the hard comnionsense that is one of his great characteristics. .NEIGHBOR IVY SYMPATHY EVERY' resident of Harrlsburg ought to read what William Perrine, editor-in-chief of the Philadelphia Bulletin, has writ ten for that bright and interesting newspaper concerning his impressions of this city. Mr. Perrine's daily col pmn in the Bulletin is always enter taining and instructive. In this in stance, it is more than ordinarily so for those of us who have sometimes wondered how the visitor viewed us as a city. We are proud in no small degree of some of our accomplishments and just as heartily ashamed of our fail ures and shortcoming. For instance, we know very well that we are lack ing in hotel facilities and that we sorely need an auditorium of sufficient sb.e to properly accommodate the great gatherings so frequently held here. On the other hand we feel that few cities anywhere have done more in the way of public Improvement work than lias Uarrisburg. Of our strivings and attainments and our needs Mr. Perrine writes in a kindly and helpful manner. His praise is pleasant to the ear and his criticisms touched so politely that, it* the words of Frank Daniels' old song, "we cannot be other than charmed." We are glad to learn that our efforts at civic betterment and municipal im provement have the approval of our visitor*. Mr. Perrine sees a bright future in store for Uarrisburg. In that we all agree, but we would like him to know that we are not sitting at ease awaiting tho coming of that future —we arc, so to speak, going to meet it half way. What we have •lone is only a beginning. Harrisburg is awake to her neods and her oppor tunities. Her people appreciate neighborly sympathy and they will respond to it with renewod efforts to make their city all that the capital of Pennsylvania should be. Thanks very much. Brother Per rine, we. wish there were more like you. RETURNING PROSPERITY STEET..TOX added another open hearth furnace to its operating department yesterday. New or ders, some of them large, are be ing received constantly. Every day brings cheering news of business im provement with signs certain that optimism is to be the keynote of 1915 in the business world. Frank Trumbull, chairman of the advisory committee of railroad presi dents. told President Wilson this week that the transportation companies of the country are on the upward trend, with general improvement in sight for tho next few months at least. An other sure indication of business re vival Is the statement made in New Y'ork by Judge Gary, chairman of tho United States Steel Corporation, in which he says that "the year 1915 seems certain to be much better for business than was 1914." Following the same line of thought, Dr. Edward E. Pratt., chief of the Federal Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, in * speech at Chicago Wednesday ■ - ■la^^qpMffmQppiNpPlig! ' FRIDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH? JANUARY 22, 1915 night, said for tho first time In hlatut) the Up t ted Htatea la "experiencing the sensation of a real trade balance," pre dicting a new era of commercial pros parity and with practically no limit to our market. Thore would Mum to b« every rea son for these optimistic forecasts. In the first place, the steel trad* beyond question lias felt the stimulus of the 5 per cant. Increase granted to the railroad companies, and the railroad | companies In their turn will begin at once to respond to the Increase In traffic produced In large part by their own orders for material and supplies placed with the steel companies. like wise. the business world la feeling the effect of the war In Europe, not only adversely, as In the tlrst few months of tho conflict, but beneficially, now | that w© have begun to "find ourselvea" ! with relation to new world conditions. Whether or not the Underwood tariff j is modified Immediately following the 191 C election, its disastrous effects on American industry will be offset to a very great degree by the fact that when the war is over European manu facturers will find themselves short of men, wages will necessarily be in creased and the output of before the war necessarily lower. Therefore, we in America will not have to face an influx of cheaply manufactured ar ticles and in addition to being able to supply our own home markets for the time under conditions that approach those which prevailed when the high tariff policy was in force we shall find ourseveS selling immense quantities of goods abroad in successful competition with (the European producers. All that is needed ifc a continuance of the confident, optimistic policy that now seems to be prevailinsr. Natural conditions and business needs will do the rest. CHAOS IX MEXICO ' ' 1 iHE elimination of both t'arranza ' I and Villa has been proposed by ~ a new movement in Mexico hav ing for 4ts stated purpose the "j permanent peace of that chaotic re- j public. The movement is headed by ■" I General Alvaro Abregon, formerly L> | military chief to General Carranza, ''jand If one is to judge from the past, he is hardly likely to be more success- ! " ful than were the leaders of the nine or ten preceding attempts to place in the chair of Diaz a man sufficiently strong to. curb the revolutionary ten -1 dencies of the various district chiefs. 1 Since Diaz was ousted front the presidency no less than eight men have attempted to fill it. Some of them have done so for a brief period, ' a few of them have escaped with their lives, others are under the sod and ' still others who have been deposed are contending for the supremacy 1 which they have lost. One doubts ; whether there is a real patriot in all Mexico. So far as can be judged every one of the numerous chieftains, from arranza to Zapata, are inter ested only in promoting their own sel -1 fish ambitions. The establishment of ! peace and the creation of a stable form 1 of government are secondary only to f their own desires. The end of the lighting and bloodshed in Mexico is no more in sight than it was two years ago. ; President Wilson has said that so i far as he is concerned, which meand ' the United Slates government, as long ■ as he is in the executive chair, Mexi cans may go on with their blood i letting and pillaging to their hearts' content. With absolutely no restric tion and no fear of interference upon ■ them one wonders where the unscru ' pulous bandits who are posing as the : saviors of the republic to the south ; will end. THE SHOPPING BIIjI, PRESIDENT WILSON seems de termined to push for the passage of his ship-purchase bill at all cost. The President has con , vinced himself that it is a great piece of constructive legislation and that the country will benefit immensely there by. He refuses to heed the advice of experts who have made a careful study of the measure and its probable conse quences. Many of those who have given the matter much thought have come to the conclusion that it would ! be a great economic mistake for Con gress to >vrite on the statute books : such a law as the President advises. ' Not only would it not fulfill the pur- j pose for which it is designed—the up- 1 building of an American merchant 1 marine, but it would merely put t}ie government into competition with pri vate steamship companies, many of which would soon have to go out of business, thus destroying forever any J hope of an American merchant marine | unless the government were willing to spend millions of dollars of its money ' to that end. We are witnessing now in the Dacla ] incident some of the consequences of < rushing foolishly into ill-studied at tempts to increase the shipping flying , the American flag. The President was ; just as sure of his ground when such transfers were proposed as he Is now ' with respect to the ship-purchase bill and there is no more reason to be lieve he is right now than at that time. Experts say that there is no present need for government ownership of " shipping as regards Central and South America. The allurement of trade with those countries is especially attractive to those who know little or nothing about it and white it is unquestionably an important field our exports thereto are being pretty well carried now by privately owned boats. Further than that, there are often serious objections to the United States government em ploying ships" as is proposed and it is unquestionably true that in the end the proposed legislation will not fur nish a desirable method of building up an American merchant marine, and as this is Its only excuse for existence there can be no excuse for enacting the Wilson measure Into larw. AX EVENING THOUGHT O that I could a sin once see! YVe paint the devil foul yet he Hath some good in hl.n, all agree. Sin IK flat opposite to th' Al mighty, seeing It wants the good of virtue and ol being. —Georgre Herbert. EVENING CHAT 1 Fully forty members of the legis lature plan to spend nil of their time In Harrlsburtr during the sesalon and probably more will atay here moat of the tlmo and slip home for an occa sional week end. Last session more metnbera remained here through the long weeks of tho Legislature than ever known before tun I n few of them went home but two or three times dur ing the six month* the lawmakers spent at work. Tho stay-here mem bers have alt gone to private houses or boarding houses and a few have taken light housekeeping apartments. One of the. Interesting things about the mem ber* here la they expect to get away before the end of April. Home tire said to have taken their leases to April 1 with privilege of remaining a month or so more. Few of the legislators anticipate a session beyond Mav 6. The employes of the House and He'nate who are paid by the day are looking back with feeling upon the last ses sion. during which they were paid by the day and the days were long drawn out in number. It's a funny thing that speculation about the length of a ses sion Is the thing most heard just after it gets under way. This year with the example of last session and the urging of the Governor that work be done expeditiously the chances are that it will not be long. Tho dally digest of news from the various European fighting fronts is a real man-sized job these davs and sometimes it is difficult in the extreme to come to any intelligent conclusion even after the reader has waded through the various "official communi cations" the rumors and the things "your correspndent hears." A reader of the Telegraph after an evening of analyzing and guessing and estimating submits, as an example of what the London censors might substitute for the lengthy dispatches with which they clutter the cables, saying that in his estimation it is just a.s readable and quite as informative as anything he has read along the lines of the war's progress for some weeks, the following paragraph: "The allies' left is trying to move around the German's light, but the German's right is also moving around the allies' left. Now, if the left of the German's right moves around the right of the allies' left, then what is left of the German's right must be right where the- allies left. But if the German right's left is left right where the allies' left's right was right before the allies' left, then the left is left right where the right was right before the left's right left the right's left." Frank J. Byrne, who was the cor respondent of the Philadelphia Even ing Times at the last legislative ses sion. has entered a new field of en deavor. Mr. Byrne, who is an accom plished linguist, has recently opened offices in the Bulletin building, Phila delphia, where he is devoting his at tention to the translation of advertis ing and pamphlets extolling the vir tues of American products, principally manufactured products. I'p to the present Mr. Byrne has given the bulk of his attention to South American trade and has several large contracts for advertising in the South American newspapers .Mr. Byrne speuks Span ish fluently and is also a student of Italian, possessing the ability to read, write, speak and translate both tongues without hesitation. Mr. Byrne was one of the few correspondents to bring their families to Uarrisburg for the session of 1913. lie left the Evening Times to become general publicity manager for Gilford Pinchot.-who had the Washington party nomination for 1 nited States senator. After the cam paign he took up the work of trans lation combined with advertising. AYilliam Draper Eewis. the former dean of the University of Pennsylva nia law department, lias been here for a couple of days attending the hearing in the Philadelphia Electric case at the Capitol. He is now practicing law in Philadelphia and leaving politics alone, although not out of it. The village wit was in a crowded ear on a suburban line the other evening. There were 91 fares rung up and everyone was jammed into the least available space. A big bunch of men began to board the car at a corner and the conductor shouted: "Move un front." "Yes," said the wag. "Go on right out the door; you can't go through the roof. The Rev. Dr. M. D. Liehleiter. who has just been elected president of the State Federation of Historical socle ties, is an active member of the Western Historical Society, and is well known to many Harrisburgers He is chief clerk of the Department of Agriculture and commander of Pil grim commandery. Knights Templar. Dr. Liehleiter lias long been a close student of Western Pennsylvania his tory and has also been connected with the National Geographical Society at Washington. He has in manuscript a volume relating to history of the west ern section of the State entitled "Foot prints of Patriots and Landmarks of Western Pennsylvania." Dr. Mch leiter has been one of the national of ficers of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, whose history lie wrote. Another volume from his petf was the lives of eminent West ern Pennsylvania clergymen. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —George Wharton Pepper, the at torney defending the national commis sion in the baseball suit, is one of the biggest lawyers in Philadelphia. —General A. J. Logan, of Pitts burgh, is planning a group of model cottages for workmen. —Sheriff W r illiam Tate, of Warren had to levy on the tabernacle in which evangelistic services were being held —The Rev. J. H. Prugh resigned his pastorate of Grace Reformed Church in Pittsburgh after thirty-five years. —R. V. Hays has been named as postmaster at Hurgettstown. Tliat Harrifehurg used to be the center of the rafting Indus try on the lower Susquehanna? \ Helping the Manufacturers In our advertising talks we often speak of the Bureau of Advertising. i The Bureau of Advertising. American Newspaper Publishers Association, is the link between the dally newspapers of North America and all national adver tisers. its purpose is to promote na tional advertising for newspa pers. and to make general news paper campaigns as nearly 100 per cent, profitable for the ad * vertiser as possible. The Bureau Is maintained by the subscriptions of three hun dred and forty newspapers. Its counsel is constructive and without prejudice. Inquiries ore promptly and cheerfully ans wered. Representatives of the Bureau will keep appointments with re sponsible manufacturers or dis tributors anywhere. Its address Is SO6 World Build ing, New York. GOVERNOR WANTS SOME ROAD IDEAS Says He Would Like to Receive Good Suggestions About the State Highway System OUTLINES SOME POLICIES; Proposes to See That Farmers Are Reimbursed For Cattle Killled Because of Disease -—Governor Brumbaugh said jester day afternoon tlia't he would be glad to receive good, sound suggestions, es pecially about highway matters. The Governor said that In the course of his late afternoon talks with newspaper men who called to ask hiin how he was enjoying his office. In talking about legislation he said that Attorney General Brown was drafting Mils and that a lot of attention would be given to highway matters. "This is an Important matter and we. want to work out the best possible solution as promptly as possible. There are a lot of people with different ideas about it and I would be glad to learn all 1 can. 1 really want suggestions, you might put it that way," said he. "1 want suggestions from people of ex perience and brains, ideas that are sound, but 1 do not want to hear from cranks." —The new Governor said that the details of the compensation bills, child labor and agricultural conservation were being worked out by the Attor ney General and that other mutters would be taken up in order just as rapidly as he could familiarize himself with the state government. Jn reply to questions he said that there were many matters on which he desired in formation. but that the bills in which he was interested would be worked out as rapidly as possible. On local op tion he said he thought a bill could be worked out without much trouble and did not uppear to be particular where it came from as long as it met his views. The deficiency appropriation bill, which always appears early, will be ready soon. It will care for a num ber of odds and ends. —The Governor said emphatically that he favored reimbursing cattle owners who lost animals because of foot and mouth disease quarantine measures. This will be cared for in a separate hill. This statement was made after a conference with Dr. O. J. \larshall. executive officer of the live stock Sanitary Board, who impressed the Governor with the necessity of re lieving the hundreds of farmers who have lofst cattle. The Governor was much interested and said a separate appropriation bill would be drafted. Representative C. J. Rone.v. of Philadelphia, says the proposed bill for a constitutional convention is his own idea and that he has' neither the new governor cr the Vares behind him on it. « —The developments in the New Jerauld; Shoe Co.'s AIMMK SEMI-ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE Begins January 23rd, 1915 Shoes are advancing rapidly and while we cannot replace our stock at anywhere near the price we paid for it we feel that your valued patronage all these years entitles you to the same consideration this year you have enjoyed in the past. Therefore we are going to give you an opportunity to buy practically any style shoe in the store at the same reduction we have always allowed at these special sales. Note the Reductions $9.00 Grades Now $7.98 $5.00 Grades Now $3.98 SB.OO Grades Now $6.98 $4.50 Grades Now $3.69 $7.00 Grades Now ....... $5.98 $4.00 Grades Now $3.29 $6.50 Grades Now $5.48 $3.50 Grades Now $2.89 $6.00 Grades Now $4.98 $3.00 Grades Now $2.39 $5.50 Grades Now 1 . . $4.48 $2.50 Grades Now $1.89 $2.00 Grades Now $1.69 These reductions apply to all departments, Men's, Women's, Boys' and Girls'. Banisters for Men and Laird Schober for Women are included in this sale, ti j]W The same guarantee and privilege of exchange So WillilJlM B' or refund of money as when sold at full price holds j'ißl^ fore you will have an opportunity to buy shoes of these J B jl! I| fijj I |B Inlp grades at these prices. May we suggest an early call vjM l| H| Mi |B| jjfl Iwi ft Jerauld Shoe Co. 31 0 Market Street Get This Idea Clearly: We need rjom for Spring Goods. We are willing to pay you in clothes Yalue for taking the Winter Goods away. Our stock is not "enormous," just broken sizes and patterns. Hart Schaffner <fc Marx Suits and Overcoats sls and $16.50 Former Values S2O to S3O Any Shirt in the House QC f Tango Plaids, Soisette and Doucetine Cloths Ladies' Fur Sets and Men's Fur Lined Overcoats at Cost A number of odds and ends in SUITS and OVERCOATS that | sold at sls, $lB, S2O. To close out at Many Patterns But Not All Sizes. H. MARKS & SON Fourth and Market Streets (The name a stamp of quality ) Jersey State highway department are, being watched with a good bit of in-1 terest here. —Harry K. Dougherty, ex-represen tative front Mercer and one of the; early Roosevelt men in the State, is l reported as having left the Washing- | ton party for good and all. lie is a j candidate for Republican county j chairman. —Senator Penrose will personally I examine J. P. McMahon. the Susque hanna county postmaster, whose ap pointment has been criticised. The examination will take place before a| senate committee next week. Frederick W. Fleitz, former State j Water Supply Commissioner, and onej of the best "known lawyers in the| State, was last night initiated as at member of the famous Clover Club of' Philadelphia. It was some ceremony, j too, but the quick-witted and affable j Scranton lawyer got away with it. Lieutenant Governor Frank B. Xlc- Clain was one of those who were call-, ed upon by the club for a declaration.] DOUTRICH'S Big Shirt Sale Ends Tomorrow Read Their Ad. on Page 9
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