8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established it it PUBLISHED BY TBI TILECiItAPU PHIXTI.nG CO. _» JE. J. STACK POLB President *nd EJtlerinCnief F. R. OrSTKR Secretary GUS M. STEIXMETZ J/o>W£i! f ESiitr Published svery svening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, IU Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers" Association. Audit Bureau ol Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Kastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building. New Tork City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. KPestern Office. Advertising Building. Chicago. 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week, j Mailed to subscribers M 13.00 a year In advance. Batered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. dally average for tke thrca ★ asontlia eadtag Dee. 31, Utl 22,692 Average for the year 1014—23.213 Average for the year 1913—21,377 Average for the year ISIS—SI.I7S Average for the year 1011—18.SS1 Average for the year l#lf —IT.4S6 SATCRDAY EVENING, JAN. SO A STATE BITLDIXG CODE IT is said that some members of the Motion Picture Exhibitors' League of Pennsylvania will set them selves up in opposition to ex-Gov ernor Tcner's recommendation that the Legislature adopt a building code lor Pennsylvania. It is difficult to understand why any body in any line of business should object to building regulations of a sen sible character and It is doubtful if any objection that the moving picture league or any other body may take at this time will halt the Legislature in nny plans it may be considering along this line. A statc-w ide building code ought to be welcomed by everybody in the Amusement business. Nobody conduct ins a theater used for exhibition pur pcscs can object to making that con gregating place as safe as architectural design and building art can make it. The lives of thousands of people are at stake and dollars cannot be considered when this is so. Rather it should be «xpected that theatrical and amuse ment people in general would welcome a common standard of construction for everybody engaged in their line of business. Such a law would place them all on the same footing. The conscientious and careful manager who has built his house with duo regard for the safety of his patrons would not then be thrown into competition with the un scrupulous owner down tho street who crowded those who came to witness his chow into an unsanitary tiretrap. Of course, the moving picture people #>nd tho theater managers of the State as a whole have a right to demand that this new building code shall be designed along practical and comnion eense lines, with due regard for the amount of money that may he reason ably put into a playhouse designed to be operated at what have coine to be known as "popular prices." In this they will have the support of the Legislature and the Governor, too. no doubt. But they cannot hope to hold popular favor and maintain the con fidence of their patrons if they put themselves into a position that may be regarded as prejudicial to the safety and welfare of those who make their business profitable. A GOOD EXAMPLE WITHOUT any desire to be boastful or to pat ourselves on the back without due oc casion. we desire to call at tention to the fact that the good ex ample set by Telegraph employes in saving for themselves a portion of their weekly salaries has been fol lowed by another representative busi ness organization in Harrisburg. The first association of this kind to be formed locally was that organized seven years ago by the men and women connected with the Telegraph Printing Company. it is operated entirely apart from the affairs of the company and is managed by the em ployes themselves. So successful has it been that mutual societies modeled along its lines and patterned over its design have been formed in connec tion with many business firms and companies, not only in Harrisburg, but elsewhere. Incidentally, it may be remarked that the Telegraph Family proposer to put aside this year for division among its members next December wore than SIO,OOO. THE FATHER'S DUTY FATHERS who do not teach their boys the dangers of the social evil and the sin of the double I standard are not fit to be fathers, j declared O. P. Beckley, a prominent layman of this city, in a recent address before a men's Bible class on Allison Hill. What do you think about this? Are t you letting your son learn the vital! truths of life and procreation in the' streets? Or are you instructing him yourself in a simple straightforward way ? Time was when parents, generally, allowed feelings of mock modesty to keep them from acquamtlng their children with sex truths. But customs kave changed until now the man who ceglecta this important duty Is being condemned by pulpit, platform and press. Bee to It that you are not de serving of such condemnation. Unfortunately there is a restraint between fathers and their sons which prevents them from talking about mat ters so Intensely personal. The only *••>• to prevent «uch a restraint grow SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH JANUARY 30, 1015. '• itig up is for you to chuin -with your boy from the time he is "knee-high to-a-grasshopper." EXAGGERATING CHARLES DICKENS once said, in replying to a critic who com plained that the characters of many of his novels were over drawn and that the situtlons described in his books were exaggerated, that this was necessary to emphasise the points he desired to make. Possible Billy Sunday will claim the same license for some of his re cent utterances in Philadelphia. With all duo regard for the great work of reform in which Sunday is engaged and with no thought of reflecting upon the good intentions of the noted evan gelist. it must be said that Sunday at times so seriously overstates his case as to make one wonder whether the impressions he creates in the ininds of his hearers are always in accord with those principles of justness and truth on which Christian faith is founded. For instance, Sunday said the other I day: "The Clay and Webster and Cal houn and Douglas and Lincoln types of American history have been sup planted by the good-for-nothing, God forsaken, lick-spittle, peanut-headed, weaxel-eyed, whisky-soaked. rum guzzling politicians of our day." If "Billy" Sunday means by the term "politicians.'' tne leaders of political affairs in Pennsylvania, he owes many worthy men of all parties an apology-. To those who have been observers of the trend of political affairs in Penn sylvania during recent years it has been long apparent that the type of individuals actively intcresttu in the politics of the Commonwealth has been steadily improving. For instance, the legislature Is composed to-day for the most part of serious men of high minded purposes and temperate ha bits. The day of the old time "ward heeler" is passing and few of these retain influence sufficient to procure for themselves places of preference wtihin the gift of the people- As for ruin-guszling, there are few men in Pennsylvania politics to-day who could sit at a table in a drinking bout with some of the elder states men whom Mr. Sunday holds In such high regard. A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT PROFIT-SHARING evidently has been eminently successful at the plant of the. Ilershey Cho- eolate Company. Yesterday the corporation notified its employes that 1.050 of the more than 1.500 persons at work in this factory had qualified for participation in the co-operative plan. The list includes everybody from office boy to President Hershey. The plan in vogue at this plant is worked out with the idea of increas ing the efficiency of the working force and maintaining the integrity of the organization. To that end a scheme has been devised whereby the em ployes, according to their own length of service and usefulness to the com pany, would share in th profits ac cruing from their efforts. That the employes have responded cordially to this invitation of the management is shown by the growth of the plant and the steady increase in the amount of profits set aside each year to be di vided among those entitled to partici pate in them. In other words, the men and women who make the Hershey plant the suc cess it is work better when they know that every dollar of additional profits for the company means an increase in the amount of their own earnings. This is a commonscnse proposition worked out to a business-like logical conclusion and is worthy of study by manufacturers who arc interested in increasing the profits of their plan and at the same time the improving of the conditions of their working forces. A BUSINESS CHAUTAUQUA ▼ r\"DER the direction of the Cham- I ber of Commerce Harrisburg is to have what somebody has aptly termed a "business Chau tauqua." Experts in various lines of trades are to be brought here to lecture be fore the members of the Chamber. This is an educational work of more than ordinary importance. It is de signed to e-.eet the needs of those who attend, but it will fjave this other value as well—that it will bring to gether leaders of the various lines of business in Harrisburg at a time when business cares are laid aside and when associations and acquaintanceships can be formed or cultivated as is possi | i)le in no other way. Whatever may be said to the con | trarv, it is nevertheless true that one | of the best features of the Chamber "f Commerce is the opportunity it of | fers for on© businessman to rub ' shoulders with another and to meet 'one with another at frequent inter- I vals on a basis of social and friendly [equality. If the Chautauqua were to do no more than this it would be well worth all the time and money expend ed on it. CAR JUMPERS AN ordinance is now before tho Brooklyn Board of Aldermen making it a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of JlO or a jail sentence of ten days, for any person to alight or board a street car in motion. Wise, indeed, would be the enforce-! ,:nent of such a law by any city, for lit is a well-known fact that most of 'the accidents occurring to street car ! passengers are the result of effort# to board or leave a car while it is In motion. Right here in Harrisburg far too many people daily break all the rules of "safety first;' by taking their lives In their hands in this foolhardy way. Without regard for the consequences men—and women, too—will run after a car and make a flying leap for the rear end. Or In a hurry to get some | where patrons jump off a car often | directly in the path of other traffic. Fortunately, the "pay-as-you-enter" car. with its closed doors, is putting an end to tne dangers of car jumping here. i EVENING CHAT I Bills providing for the designation or Slate flowers and State songs will not get anywhere this session. Thev occupied considerable attention dur ins the last General Assembly, but this year the.v will be put into the very minor class, and if thev got out of the committers to which thev are referred they wilt be lucky. Accord ing to gossip that is going the rounds ot the Capitol corridors, the legisla tors have taken to their hearts the very manifest desire of the people of the State at large that few additional laws be enacted, and while many of them have asked the Legislative Inf erence Bureau to draft bills, it is said that some of them will be merely pre sented and not pressed. The legis lators who stay here over the week end are sitting up and taking notice of the time and care being devoted by Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh on the drafting of the compensation act and do not see much chance for freak legislation. Some of the legis lators have voiced the idea that when the people of the State take up one song and sing with manifest nest then it will be time to designate a song, and they think that State flower bills are more apt to stir up time consum ing debate than anything else. The State flower bill was amended and changed and reprinted three limes last session and then died, after hav ing cost the State about SIOO for printing, to say nothing of the expense of reporting and printing the debates in the Legislative Journal. Prospects are that there will be a "hands off" policy in regard to the school code and that bills of small importance will occupy a very minor place. Everybody can tell a story, but every person who tells a story docs not ulways get away with it. There are stories old and new. Some folks can tell an old story over and over again and make a hit. Others are a dead failure unless it is a new story, lrvin S. Cobb told a rather old story to the Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce on Thursday and got the laughs. It was about the tindlng of a body of a colored man along the gutter, stiff and unconscious from the cold. Fail ure to revive the colored man brought the verdict that he was dead. The ground was frozen too hard to bury the man. so they decided to cremate the body. The "511(1"." as Cobb refer red to it, was placed in the oven. The next morning when the attendant opened the door ;o collect the ashes a voice from the oven called out, "Who opened that door and let In the draft." "That is an awful old story," said one of Cobb's hearers, a businessman, after the luncheon. He remarked. "1 told it at a dinner last week and was asked to tell something new." The Harrisburg Rotary Club is one of the liveliest organizations in the city. Recently the club (lined na tional officers at the Harrisburg Club, while wives of members entertained a number of visiting ladies elsewhere. Now it is proposed that they get to gether for an evening and a "ladies' night." to include dinner and a recep tion. has been announced for Tues day, March 2. A similar affair last year was one of the most successful entertainments in the history of the club. In addition there will be a meeting of the club next Tuesday evening at the store of George W. Bogar. 14 North Market Square, and on February 23 many of the Ro tarians will go to Philadelphia to at tend the decennial of Rotary by the clubs of the eastern division of the international body. John C. Orr, chairman of the entertainment com mittee, is in charge of arrangements and it is expected that the enrollment will be large enough to warrant a special car. Employes of the Harrisburg Rail ways Company are laughing these days at a story told by a conductor running on the Hill lines. "I never was able to find any pie or cake in my bucket," the story-teller explained, "and in due time I took the matter up with my better seven eights." " "Why, John, certainly I put pie in your bucket!" insisted the Missus." "So we made a joint investigation and found that my 5-year-old heir who brought my lunch box to my car each day. was opening the bucket and helping himself to those things which he particularly relished and which he probably thought would make his daddy sick. 'I hated to thrash the youngster, so I bought a lock for the bucket, kept one key and gave a second to my wife. But I neglected to tell her I had one of the keys in my pocket. "Next day my box came down, with the lock tight shut, but no pie'. This time I decided to raise tho deuce and did. " 'Why I locked the l>ox.' explained my wife, 'and gave the key to Johnny to give to you."" Johnny had used the key. I used the stick. Enos H. Porter, former United States marshal of the Western district of Pennsylvania, was among visitors here this week. He came to attend the Panama-Pacific exposition com mission meeting. Henry Gransback, Sr.. is the oldest man in point of age in the present Legislature. He has served in both Senate and House. T WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —George S. Patterson, the Philadel phia lawyer, will be one of the speak ers at the Philadelphia bankers' ban quet next week. —State Treasurer Young who has been ill. is improving at his home in Wellsboro. —L. H. Bartley, well-known Pitts burgh police official, will retire after long service. —F. M. Towl, of Oil City, has been re-elected president of the Eureka Pipe lines. —G. E. Reynolds, of Waynesburg. is head of the new Greene county trol ley lines. f—M YOU KN6W —1 Tliat Harrisburg can still be made a great fruit distributing center. / \ Trade Follows Value Here is an axiom that evsry manufacturer knows. But do they ever think of ap plying it to their advertising problems? The drift of all advertising is to-day towards the daily news- j paper for exactly this reason TRADE FOLLOWS VALUE. The newspaper gives more I Immediate, more definite, more profitable returns than any other medium. To the national manufactur er. newspaper advertising has really a double value, for it not only influences consumers but I It encourages local dealers to | push the advertised product. Manufacturers with advertis ing problems are invited to ad dress the Bureau of Advertising, American Newspaper Publishers Association, World Building, New York, SCHOOL COOE IS \ TO BE TRIED OUT Sentiment of Educators Against Making Radical Changes For Some Time to Come PREPARING ELECTION BILL •! It Will Make Its Appearance Soon; Crow Asks For Contributions For Deficit Indications are that the policy of ' allowing the school code to be thor oughly tried out before any changes [ of radical character are made to it, I which marked the last session of the ' legislature, will be followed this ses sion, one of the most significant ac , tlons in this direction being taken here | yesterday by the Association of Penn sylvania College Presidents. This or ganisation, which comprises the ex ecutive of every institution of learning in the State, held its annual meeting j here and expression of opinion was ' unanimous that no changes of mo i ment should be made. Coming so j soon after Governor Martin U. Brum j baugh's remark that he hoped all • bills proposing changes to the code • would be referred to the State Hoard | of Education for investigation, this is I taken to mean that the leaders in edu j cational matters have concluded that sufficient test of the Tener code has not been had. Members of the State Board were present at the meeting of the college i presidents and participated in the dis j cussion of the propositions made to the State Educational Association that the county unit be adopted for admin istration purposes and that the 200 hours of study required for a profes sional certificate to teach should be changed, it was decided by the presi dents that the township unit should be recommended for retention and the county idea laid aside for the present and that the 200 hours be continued. The matter of appropriations for educational purposes will not be taken tip until the tinal estimates on the re\ onues available for appropriation are furnished to the Governor and the chairmen of the appropriations commitecs by the fiscal officers. The questions asked regarding the income have been sent to Auditor General A. W. Powell and State Treasurer 11. K. Young. —Senator William E. Crow, as chair man of the Republican State commit tee, yesterday sent out an appeal to representative Republicans throughout Pennsylvania for subscriptions to meet the unpaid bills of the State organ ization. Chairman Crow's letter reads: "In order to achieve a victory of such magnitude as would Impress upon the people of the entire country the fact that Pennsylvania is in favor of the protective tariff policy so Impor tant to the business, financial, manu facturing and farming interests, the Republican State committee, during the campaign last Fall, spared no ex pense to awaken enthusiasm and edu cate the voters to their duty. Though the committee received many generous contributions, we find there is an in i debtedness against us of $92,471.62. 1 This debt represents legitimate ex- Ipenses, and. in my opinion, should be a general appeal. A voluntary con tribution from you to assist in liqui dating this Indebtedness would, there fore, be thankfully received and greatly appreciated. If this matter appeals to you prompt action is desirable, and your • heck, addressed to the order of Charles Johnson, treasurer of the Re : publican State committee, will be promptly and gratefully acknowl edged." —The Democrats also have a deficit which is drawing interest and which, It is said, is commencing to bother some of the leaders. No one has shown any disposition to bear burdens and "angels" of past campaigns have become very "tight" on contributions. —Democratic State Chairman Mor ris was at Washington yesterday ar ranging with Congressman Palmer about some new slices of patronage pie for the faithful. —Secretary Bryan is said to he In sisting on the appointment of George W. Ackltn. of Pittsburgh, to a federal place, although the machine leaders want another man to help patch up their battered organization. —Announcement was made yester day that Richard J. Baldwin had agreed not to present a bill to repeal the suburban metropolitan planning commission act, passed by the lust legislature, and that Speaker Ambler would present an amendment to the present law to straighten out the pres ent mix-up over the authority granted to assess upon the township and other local governments in Its jurisdiction for its expenses. The commission is thus spared from a flght In the legis lature. —The gossip in Philadelphia is that the bills to amend the election laws t» put "fly-by-night" parties and rump affairs on a rational basis and to carry out other changes as already outlined in the Telegraph will appear next week. notiS AND MEN The same heart beats in every human breast.—Matthew Arnold. 3t.i' • of Ohio. City of Toledo. Lucas County, as. Frank J. Thenar makes oath that ho 1 < g»n! partner of the firm of V. 3. Cheney & Co.. do ing business in the City of Toledo, Count)- anrl State aforesaid, anu that said Urm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and erery case of Catarrh that eannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CnENEY. fiworn to before me and subscribed In my presence, this Bth day of December, A. D., ISS4 Seal. A. W. GLEASON, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally and acts directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Scud for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 73c. Tat# Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Your Wife Your Mother Your Sister YOU! Must See the Great Money Problem Play Runaway June By George Randolph Chester First Episode at V cloria Theater Monday, February Ist Our Semi-Annual F] 7/J . Sale of Rugs ijT Begins Monday Morning, Feb, Ist k During the entire month of February we will offer yj our stock of superior quality Rugs at reductions that range from 10 per cent, to 40 per cent. All this season's stock —none bought for sale pur poses. All the newest designs in rich and beautiful col orings wonderfully blended. Every rug perfect and guaranteed in every respect. L One Lot of 9x12 Wilton Rugs, $37.50 values, at $29.90 One Lot of 8.3x10.6 Wilton Rugs, $35.00 values, at $26.50 One Lot of 9x12 Body Brussels Rugs, $27.50 values, at.. . .$18.98 One Lot of 8.3x10.6 Body Brussels Rugs, $25.00 values, at $ 17.95 One Lot of 9x12 Axminster Rugs, $25.00 values, at $17.75 One Lot of 8.3x10.6 Axminster Rugs, $22.50 values, at.. . .$16.75 One Lot of 9x12 Tapestry Rugs, $15.00 values, at $10.98 One Lot of 8.3x10.6 Tapestry Rugs, $13.50 values, at $9.98 L. W. COOK \ OUR DAILY LAUGH ) i j BAFE RULK. When a fellow. I ' J!f™L P°<"" or rich, I' '_Minds his bis. There's lots of trouble into He Isn't apt to HIS MISTAKE * VPf Wifey: Before TO^TL-iA^F^' )W we were married S|-f*f you told me that V\J j should never ! It m * *' a nt t*>r any- | Hubby: Thit' ull r\v shows how little I knew of you then. NOT A GIFT By Wing Dinger There is a chap in Harrisburg Who's on the job, all right. He called me on the telephone At 8 o'clock last night. He said he noticed, from the poe-' Which I wrote yesterday. That my supply of coal would seem To be ebbing away. And then he said he'd gladly send Enough coal up to me To last until hot weather comes— My soul was filled with glee. I said. "Good friend, what is your; name." He told it—but gee. whiz. It was a man who sells the stuff I And simr>i~ out for biz. The State Capital Savings and Loan Association 108 NORTH SECOND ST. HARRISBURG, PA. The Largest Building and Loan Association in Pennsylvania EIGHTEENTH YEAR RESOURCES, $3,008,702.47 Officers and Directors GEO. W. CREIGHTON, President. • E. R. PIERCE, First Vice-President and JOSEPH SAVIDGE, Second Vice-President. Secretary. EDWARD Z. GROSS, Treasurer. j. W. SWARTZ, Counsel. Statement of Condition as of December 31, 1914 ASSETS , LIABILITIES Loans on Bonds and Mortgages, $2,835,426.16 Instalment Stock Dues, $694,652.48 T •. . ... , c . , lomnsn Profits for Instalment Stock Loans on the Association s Stock, 12,190.:>0 Dues 149 531 97 Real Estate, 48,492.04 ' Real Estate sold under Contract, 98,530.00 $844,184.45 Cash on Hand and in Banks, ... 7,381.04 „ „ 4 Pa,d Stock, $1,042,500.00 Interest, Premium and Rents Ac- Instalment Payments on Interest crued and Dividends Ad- _ Reduction Loans 599.800.37 vanced, 5,682.73 Balance held to Complete Loans, 10,275.00 Safes, Furniture and Supplies, .. 1,000.00 Contingent Fund, 11,942.65 $3,008,702.47 -ft53,008,702.47 WE CERTIFY that the above Statement of Condition is a true Exhibit of the accounts and that, in our opinion, it correctly sets forth the financial condition of the State Capital Savings and Loan Association as of December 31, 1914. THE AUDIT COMPANY OF NEW YORK A. W. DUNNING, H. I. LUNDQUIST, NE\V YORK President. Secretary. January 20, 1915. I [From the Telegraph. Jan 30, 1865] Rumors Spread Richmond, Jan. 29.—This city Is full of rumors about a 90-day armis tice between the two armies. Kill Xcfcrors in Raid Louisville, Jan. 28.—1n a guerrilla raid near here, 30 negroes were killed. (General Uprising Panama, Jan. 28.—A general up rising has started in several of the colonies of Central America. IDLE WONDER We wonder what the Parisian gen ! tleman is doing just now—the one who i had the reputation of being the world's I best dresser? , i I A. WISEMAN, M. D. m / # GORGAS DRUG STORES, 16 N. Third St. and Penna. Station. '( IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph, Jan. 30, 1865] To Preach Here The Rev. F. I. Clere, D. D., of Car lisle, will preach in the St. Paul's Episcopal Church to-morrow. Transfer Company Co. E. 201 st Pa. Vols., has been sent to Pittsburgh. Ask For Fifty Companies Fifty new companies of volunteers have been called for. HOW POETRY IS WRITTEN "This is a pretty poem of yours. Something tossed off to gratify a whimsical fancy?" "No: something ground out to pay a I wash bill."
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