8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Establishid llji PUBLISHED BT THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. X. J. F TACK POL® Pruidt*! and EditeritiCkitf F. R. OYSTBIt / Stcntary C'JS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 311 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. ■— Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New Tork City, Haabrook, Stery St Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen 4. Ward. Delivered by carriers at <SP&tMQnE> six cents a week. Mailed to subscriber* at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls burg. Pa., as aecond class matter. .sworn dally nverage for the three ★ months ending Jan.31,1915. a 21,757 W Average for the year 19t«—23,213 Average for the year 1013—21,577 Average for the year 1012—21,175 Average for the year 1911—18,851 Average for the year 19ir *>17,495 SATURDAY EVENING, FEB. «. DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION IF, as intimated iri the gossip that travels up and down the corridors of the State Capitol, Governor Brum baugh has been asking questions indicating that ho has in mind an ef fort to work out the suggestion for a ilepartment of conservation and should be able to bring about, together with his ptan for agricultural prog ress, no will have done more than the conservationists have asked of liim. Some people In Pennsylvania will not ngree to the idea that the Department of Forestry which lias built up the million-acre reserve and established the plans for systematic reforesta tion should smk its identity in any other department and the men fam iliar with tne work of the State Game, .Water Supply and Fisheries Commis sion:: will probably feel the same way about those energetic branches of the State government. Looking at the matter in a business like way, however, there is some merit in the proposition to consolidate. It would certainly reduce expense. The merging of the tield forces of the de partments would make the patrol work more effective and if the State police could be called upon by rangers and wardens to aid in times of emergency, so much the better. Whether it will be practicable now, when a couple of the departments have on hand some great projects re quiring special skill to handle, is a matter for thorough consideration and study. Governor Brumbaugh is not without high qualifications as an ad ministrator and will doubtless arrive at his conclusions after he has had time to make his survey and to prose cute inquiries as to the details of de partmental business. The Governor is not going to turn the whole State gov ernment upside down or to curtail in ny way the notable conservation work of the State. Instead, he means to further it all he can. CAMP HILL'S CIVIC CLUB WHEREVER you find a live, energetic Civic club there also will you find a lively, progressive town. In this respect our little neighbor, Camp Hill, is indeed fortunate. The Civic Club of that pretty and growing suburb has gotten so far along with its plans for borough improvement as to be think ing of a public library and a reading room. Its committees are already preparing to make Camp Hill a flyless town next summer and while the resi dence character of the borough is such as to make unnecessary any large contributions to charity, the club is not asleep in this respect and has appointed a standing committee of three to see to it that nobody in Camp l fill suffers for lack of food or cloth ing. The club called upon a very well versed and .enthusiastic speaker when it asked Miss Alico R. Eaton to address it on the subject of public libraries. Miss Eaton has done a good work for Ilarrisbu'rg and we pre dict success for Camp Hill if ahe is interested In the enterprise.' THE BUREAU OF STANDARDS LEGISLATORS havo very proper ly advanced without opposition a bill presented early in the session designed to place the State Bureau of Standards on a Arm and permanent footing. W r hen this Bureau was created Pennsylvania had no standards of commodities to speak of and the law prlviding sealers of weights and measures for cities and counties was purely optional. Under 'he administration of James Sweeney the Eureau has been developed until to-day there arc about thirty inspec tors of weights and measures operat ing in the State and interest is grow ing in the work continually. At the instigation of Mr. Sweeney a net container law has been passed re quiring that all goods sold in pack ages be distinctly marked with the net quantity contained therein. The pavings thus affected alone would jus tify the maintenance of the depart ment. Wherever communities have established the office of sealer it has l>cen found that hundreds of dealers intentionally or unintentionally were giving their patrons light weight or •«hort measure, or both. Right here iln Harrisburg and Dauphin county Ihundreds of sets of scales and scores K>f measures either have been con- SATURDAY EVENING, demned outright or corrected to bring them up to standard. It has been estimated by those familiar with conditions that the loss to the consu mer in these ways has been far in excess during the average year of the amount paid In school or road tax. The dishonest dealer had been tak ing out of the pockets of his patrons from a fraction of a cent to as much as two and three cents on every sale. The total of such shortages when ap plied to any household grocery, butch er or produce bill may readily be es timated. The honest dealer has no complaint to make. He realizes the importanoe of co-operating with the State In this respect. With a vigilant sealer on the job, he is no longer placed on un fair competition with the man who has been cutting prices and quanti ties at the same time. Anything that the Legislature may do to promote the efficiency of the Bureau of Standards will be felt di rectly in a beneficial way by the con sumers of the State. A USEFUL ORGANIZATION THE Chamber of Commerce of the United States in session at Washington this week has set before the counyy some very decided views concerning the govern ment's relations to business. The only trouble is that we have at the national capital an administration not at all responsible to public opinion so ex pressed. The purposes of the National Cham ber of Commerce were very well set forth some time since by John H. Fahey, its president, in an address at Dayton, in which he defined the or ganization as a clearing house for the hundreds of local business organiza tions throughout the country. As vari ous cities and towns developed trade organizations which became more and more useful, the need of a controlling body became more and more apparent. The National Chamber was formed through the efforts of President Taft when he called a conference in Wash ington, in April, 1912, of the represen tatives of all local commercial organl tions to give voice to the needs and desires of the commercial organiza tions in all parts of the nation. This Chamber is mado up of men who know the needs of the business world through daily personal contact with them. They are not given over to the promotion of pet theories. They are Interested only in fair play for the "little merchant as well as the big manufacturer, for the Chamber em braces all classes of commercial en terprise. The broad and comprehensive scale upon which those at the head of the organization think and operate is evi denced from the comprehensive, hut at the same time progressive and sane, program outlined by the speakers at Washington this week. How much bet ter if the President and those who are at his elbow would give ear intelli gently to the needs of our people thus expressed, rather than to the follow ing of will-of-the-wisps that lead but to the mires of business depression in stead of those Utopian heights which are in the vision of the theorists now in charge of our national affairs. THE FIVE CENT LOAF ONE simple John Tomkins once said when the price of meat made it impossible for him to dine sumptuously as was his wont on a juicy steak or a prime roast of beef—"For why should I grumble and murmur he said; if I cannot get meat I can surely get bread." One wonders what the optimistic Mr. Tomkins would add under present conditions with meat high and still soaring and the bakers threatening to advance the price of bread. One must pity the small baker, who has been unable to take advantage of the market and lay in a sufficient quantity of flour to insure him against sharp and sudden increases in the price of grain. He is, indeed, between "the devil and the deep blue sea." He has seen flour go up $2 a barrel in the past few months and he has not been able to increase his earnings by one penny. Just what is going to become of him in the present melee neither he nor anybody else can at present guess. But one thing is certain, the Amer ican people ought not to be taxed the threatened additional one cent per loaf in order that grain speculators may send vast quantities of our foodstuffs abroad. If Europe is willing to have her men destroying each other in war fare instead of planting and sowing and grinding and baking, why should the United States enoourage that sort of thing by feeding the worse than idle millions in camp and the trenches The thing to do now is what we will unquestionably come to at a later period. We must lock the door before the horse is stolen—if the animal Is not already on Its way across the ocean. The government must declare an embargo on wheat. European gov ernments are absolutely indifferent to the interests of the United States, ex cept insofar as they balance with what the rulers of the warring nations deem to be for their own good. We owo England nothing. We owe Germany nothing. But we do owe our people the reward of their own thrift and enterprise, and we should see to it that nothing stands between them and the enjoyment of the bounty that na ture has given in the record-breaking grain crops of last year. It is the height of folly to starve our hard working, peace-loving men and wo men at home in order that the soldiers of Europe shall live on the fat of the land and that speculators shall grow rich with ill-gotten gains. EVENING THOUGHT The best way to keep good acts in memeory is to refresh them with new.—Cato. 1 EVENING CHAT I "Jf the people who are thinking of setting out acres in fruit trees would t .w elr thoughts to raising live y would not only be embgrk m™ i» a ?u enterprise that promises more in the way of early returns, but would add to the wealth of the State , sa ! d l J ? r - H - A - Surface, the J in talking about num erous applications that have come to j?! 1 ," 1 -* ~r2, dvl f° "bout planting or chards. The trouble is that this State is being overstocked with orchards. Everyone seems to be wanting to set out orchards. Last year was an un usually good one for fruit but the re turns were small. What the people want to do is to plant fewer trees and to cultivate those they have and then to keep the trees low so that they can bo thinned out. If the fruit grow lers of this State will thin out their crops they will be surprised at the fine fruit that can be raised. We raise now in our apple belt as fine looking and as finely formed fruit as anywhere in the West and the flavor * er t',, have enough new trees for a while. Because of the war there is a demand for livestock, horses cattle and everything that fur nishes food and animal products. The war will not only create a demand for the food products, but think of the leather that will be required and of the draught animals that will be needed. Turn some of the land on which it is planned to set out fruit trees into clover or grass and feed it to livestock. The returns will be as certain on the products as they will be on wheat for a while. This State has a wonderful agricultural oppor tunity now if it takes advantage of The demand for the State's book on the Gettysburg reunion has proved a source of embarrassment to many people at the Capitol because the sup ply has run out and people in every State in the Union are writing to Har risburg asking for copies. One of the surprises lias been the number of re quests from Pacific States where former Pennsylvanlans are living and they have offered to pay whatever price the State demands for it. Many requests have also come from the southern veterans who participated in the reunion. The bill now pending in the Senate will provide for the further publication of the book. ' In the office mail the other day Miss Maude Miller, clerk and stenographer to City Commissioner Harry F. Bow man, superintendent of streets and public improvements, found a deli cately tinted letter addressed to her self, "very personal and important." Miss Miller promptly applied a hair pin to the usual service and slit open the note. The missive was signed with some sort of a nom de plume and was postmarked Middletown. This is what it contained: Dear Miss Miller: Here is a very important ques tion which I think you could an swer better than anyone else I know. Please answer sooji be cause. I am very anxious to know. Here's the question: Under the present conditions and all things being equal, how long will it take Jeff to grow as tall as Mutt? Do answer soon. Lew R. Palmer, chief inspector ot the Department of Labor and Industry and an old Princeton football player, has been in Pittsburgh preaching the gospel of clean pavements. Mr. Pal mer is one of the foremost workers for safety llrs", «nd his ideas have been told all over the State. Out in Pittsburgh he said that the greatest menace to the public !s an icy pave ment in a much traveled street. The meetings of the various agricul tural organizations held in this city last, week have attracted national at tention. Men identified with the na tional government and a number of State governments have asked for in formation on the proceedings and the topics discussed. For an industrial State, Pennsylvania seems to be at tracting much attention in an agri cultural way. "Talk about Lochlnvars comin' out o' the west?" said an Allison Hill man the other day, "there's a cat out our way that lias anything beaten I ever saw in the feline realm. We have a pretty maltese cat," he ex plained, "and she has a host of ad mirers, but there's only one yowler in the lot she seems to care a meow about. He's a great big black fellow and he pays our back yard a visit as regularly as clock work every after noon at 4. Sort of an afternoon tea, as it were. And do you know where that cat lives? Kxactly four squares away from our house." 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Robert Swan, a director of public works in Pittsburgh, is inspecting Cleveland operations. —The Rev. R. M. Russell will leave the presidency of Westminster Col lege*to go to Chicago. —Judge M. B. Stephens, of Camfcria county, is in favor of reducing li censes. —Park Snodgrass, of Canonsburg, has gone to Florida. —Senator Theodore C. Burton de nounced the ship bill as full of trou ble, in a speech to Philadelphia hard ware men. —Bayard Henry has been elected president of the Princeton club of Philadelphia. That Harrishurg is on« of the big distributing centers of the grocery trade in Pennsylvania? SONG She's somewhere in the sunlight stron 6, Her tears are in the falling rain, She calls me In the wind's soft song, And with the flowers she comes again. Yon bird is but her messenger. The moon is but her silver car; Yea! Sun and moon are sent by her, And every wistful, waiting star. —Richard Le Gallienne. Do Business In a Daylight Way The storekeeper who makes a practice of offering his patrons "something just as good" instead of the advertised articles asked for is doing business in the dark. He Is trying by subterfuge to take advantage of the good will created by some one else. Nine cases out of ten the ar ticles he offers to substitute is inferior in quality. It does a positive injury to the reputable manufacturer who was building a reputable business in a reputable way. It is bad for the consumer and in the end bad for the store keeper. Deal with the storekeeper who does business In an open and above board way. When you ask for an article you saw advertised in the paper. "GET WHAT YOU ASK FOR." | HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH PA-MC LEAGUE MAY BE INVESTIGATED Anti-Penroie Resolution Turns Out to Have Prongs on Many Sides Nowadays PALMER BADLY TRIMMED Election of Casey as His Successor Was Against His Wishes and His Candidate —Democratic machine adherents who have been shouting for an inves tigation of the nomination and elec tion of Senator Boles Penrose who was chosei. ffenator by a pluralitv of some thing like a quarter million votes, were mighty quiet to-day when they learned that there was provision in the Senate resolution for the "probe" which would include their own party's gilden campaign. Some of the Demo crats who had read the way the Sen ate committee on elections had amended the resolution saw a chance for Mr. Penrose and his friends to use the artillery planned against the Sen ator to shell the Democratic camps in Clinton and other counties where there have been charges made regard ing the expenditures and methods of the adherents of A. Mitchell Palmer and Vance C. McCormick. It will be recalled that the State rang with charges made against the primary methods of the Democratic machine and therfe should be some "good hunt ing" uncter the Penrose resolution. —A Washington dispatch says: "The Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections to-day voted to report fa vorably to the Senate the resolution of Senator George W. Norrls, of Ne braska, calling for an investigation of the primary and general elections in Pennsylvania and other States. Senator John W. Kern, of Indiana, chairman of the committee, said he would make the report to the Senate at its next meeting Monday. If an investigation is ordered a probe of the election In Indiana, Alabama, South Dakota and California, in addi tion to Pennsylvania and Illinois, will be asked when the resolution is con sidered. At to-day's meeting of the committee the resolution was amended to read as follows: " 'Resolved, that the Committee on Privileges and Flections of the Senate be, and hereby is authorized, empow ered and directed to make an investi gation for the purpose of ascertaining the expenditure of money made by candidates and other persons, commit tees, organizations, corporations and associations in the nomination of can didates for the United States Senate at the primary elections recently held in the State of Pennsylvania and Il linois, and such other States, and in any other States where such evidence is presented to said committee, as in their judgment will warrant such an investigation.' The resolution further directs that the same investigation and ; recommendations be made in regard to the collection and expenditure of funds in behalf of the 'election of the candidates who were nominated at the primaries.' —Senator Penrose said in discussing the resolution last night: "The state ments originally submitted to the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections were intended solely for campaign purposes. This object was so apparent that members of tho com mittee refused to consider them un til after election. There is no foun dation in these statements and, so far as I am concerned, it makes not tTse slightest difference whether or not there is an investigation. From the beginning I have held this position and I shall be satisfied with e.ny action the Senate may take The election in Pennsylvania resulted in such an overwhelming Republican victory that the irresponsible utter ances of defeated candidates are hardly worthy of consideration. Ac cording to well-defined reports there were flagrant abuses in the elections in several States and I understand the attention of the Senate will be called to these reputed violations of the law. In this way the investigation may be extended to all the States where Senatorial elections were held." Jsext to the unexpected development in the probe which was planned to unhorse Penrose, but which may cause many anxious weeks to Demo cratic bosses instead, the adherents of the discredited Palmer-McCormlck machine in this section were talking about the defeat administered to Palmer in Congress, where he was hailed by certain newspapers as the personal representative of the Presi dent a while ago. Reference was made yesterday to the election of John J. Casey, of Wilkes-Barre, to the ways and means committee to suc ceed Palmer over the Monroe coun tian's personal choice, John V. Lesher, of Sunbury. It is believed in Wash ington that this election marks the real downfall of Palmer, McCormick, Morris, Blakslee and their ilk in Penn sylvania Democracy. A Washington dispatch says: "To the so-called 'Old Guard' of Pennsylvania Democracy belongs the chief credit of Casey's victory and in achieving it the Wilkes- Barre man added a new page to Ways and Means Committee history. Casey is the first union labor leader ever to gain a seat in this ail-powerful com mittee and he is the third Pennsylva nia Democrat thus honored. The first Pennsylvania Democrat ever chosen on the Ways ana Means Committee was the late William L. Scott, of Erie, and a rather peculiar coincidence is remarked because of the fact that Michael Liebel, Jr.. an 'Old Guard' Democrat of the most stalwart type, who will represent the old Scott dis trict in the next Congress, is one of the most potent leaders in the move ment to bring about the election of Casey. Mr. Liebel, despite the fact that he is a Wilson Democrat, was openly opposed at the laat election by Mr. Palmer and other reorganiza tion leaders, through their friends and lieutenants in his district. Mr. Liebel has been here since Monday working in Casey's behalf. Still another pecu liar 'Old Guard' coincidence is the fact that in the caucus last night Casey was placed in nomination by Arthur G. Dewalt, of the Lehigh- Berks district, who was one of the numerous Democratic leaders slated for the political scrap heap by Mr. Palmer and the reorganizcr leaders." —William Flinn left Philadelphia yesterday on his way to Florida and the plan of forming a new progres sive party to catch the kickers at municipal elections is under way in earnest, but ajso under cover. Men in several counties where there are chronic insurgent movements have been sounded out as to whether they would care to align themselves with a party of protest again. —Organization was effected by the Seventh Ward Progressive ciub at a meeting at 1320 Cowden street. These officers were elected: President. John Jackson; vice-president, Edward Bur ris: secretary. George Johnson: treas urer, Nole Brown. Addresses were given by Mr. Dunlap, William Bur goon, William S. Moser, John Johnson and Edward Burris. I OUR DAILY LAUGH I gT J WHATS TBM ° h ' Ethel > P M don,t you UM your finger bowl? What's the u«» —' o' wastin' tbia rood Jam, moth- EP>| er, when I can \ lick my ting era. j Johnnie: M a had that red noae {\ l' I J ever sine* the S— f Uncleßob: Tea, I wai- half shot. »rBN TTT-PTN. elzes everything I do except when I , , give her money. ——ißim xltß elzes me even ( KSbSwA MB* then for not glv her enough. EVER TROUBLED THUS t By Wlnj Dlnctr A friend of mine, who fixes eyes, Told me to-day that he Hears lots of funny things from folks Who And it hard to see. But probably the funniest He's heard for quite a while Is that which I'll pass on to you I'm sure will bring a smile. It seems a chap went In to him And said, "Say, Doc, you're wise, Pray tell me why I often see Black spots before my eyes?" Doc asked: "When do you notice them The most?" there was a hush And then the answer came, "When I Draw to a diamond flush." I WLHfW*I3BURC fifty I YEARS AGO TO-DAV [From the Telegraph, Feb. 6. 1865] Chief Justice Here ♦ i Casey, chief justice of the United States Court of Claims, was in the city to-day. Planting Shade Trees A large number of shade trees have been ordered for planting by some of the citizens. Beggars in Evidence TK„T, ot be » ar » are again working. J he Major nag given warnings. f nMM [From the Telegraph, Feb. 6. 18651 Big Artillery Duel "Washington. Feb. 6.—A heavy ar tillery duel took place near the An pomatox, Sherman Moving Charleston, Feb. 4.—-Sherman is moving against Branchville. Capture Guerrilla Cltier Cumberland. Feb. 6.—General Harry Gilmore. another Guerrilla chief, was captured to-day. t N STORY RITEN' BMhcJViesscuger Boy Our boss is a good bit of a humor isk and I often wondered how he ken so, with everyone botherin him every two minutes with telefone calls or rekwests for raises, or someone jump in him because somethin wasnt done right the week before last. He dont chew tobacca nor drink beer, and only swears occasional, and I couldnt flgger out how he was so good-natur till tho other day I hear him t&lkln over the telefone. "Hello, is that you?" he Red, "what is it?—what I want for dinner to night?—well I dunno, I aint had time to diges my brekfust this mornin, and I havent considered the kwestun of dinner yet—what you say?— How would I like a stuffed rib roast?— Hully-gee, that sounds good—Haw haw-haw-hooray.—You're all right to think of that—Yes, and bo sure to put the potates in the pan so they get good and brown and—well you know how." After he hung up he was laffin and chucklin lo hlsuelf all day about that stuffed rib roast he was to get at dinner, till I wondered what there was in the cookin of it that could make a man think all day about it. r \ A Vietrola Thi • Style For $50.00 A Vietrola in your home will not alone be a source of en tertainment, but of education as well. Nothing to-day so complete ly embraces everything that is worth while in music. Victrolas are sold at a va riety of prices, starting at $15.00 and ranging upward to #200.00. We'll be glad to demonstrate the styles to you, and ex plain our convenient terms of payment. C.AV.Sl4le.r,lnc. Pianos Vietrola* .30 N. Cnd.SU 3 / FEBRUARY 6, 1915. 1 | ' ■■■ ii ■ ■■ A. WISBMAN, M. D. ft C^ )a/zc fai&t drcJJ*. ■ 6U, a£uc&'cL p** , Ij G ORG AS DKI'G STORKS, 16 X. Third St. and Pciina. Station. , r .. „ - , -- - - -g Facts of Interest which (lid not appear in our published financial statement called for by the State Banking Commissioner at the close of business January 25, include: 2,553 Checking Accounts. 3,098 holders of Certificates of Deposit. Our stocks and bonds have an actual market value of $46,000 over the amount held on the books. 213 MARKET STREET Capital, 9300,00U Surplus, C3OO.UUO Q 1 Open for IJcpualta Saturday Evcalat J From (I lo 8. Ho was in such a extra good humer that he give me a couple of messages to a place where they always give a tip to the messenger boy. There is lots of women dont bother to call up their husbens in the middle of the mornin to ast what they want for dinner in the evenin, but they jist hash up any old thing that's easy to get. Lots of men dont care whether they gets home on time for dinner or not. It must be pretty nice to have What You Expect—and Receive In transacting business of any kind, whether in a financial institution or a store you have a right to expect good service. When transacting business with this institution you get good service. Although your account may not be large, your patronage will be valued and your affairs handled promptly and carefully. Our offices are conveniently located in the center of the business district—S. E. Corner Third and Market streets. || START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT 1 Post yourself so that you can keep up with the times, and be able to converse intelligently with your friends. 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