6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established Itji PUBLISHED BT TIC TEI.EGRAPH PRINTING CO. K. J. F TACK POLK Ftisiimt and kdUtr in-Clutf V. R. pTSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published •very evening (except Sun. 4*3") at the Telegraph Building, JJ| Federal Square. Both phones. tlember American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau ol Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ* ated Dailies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building; -Vew York City. Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. P'estern Office. Advertising Building; Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. . Delivered by carriers at • Ifl.fnAciiiik • stx cents n week. Mailed to subscribers »'c 53.00 a year in advance. £*t«rad at the Post Office in Harris fcurgr. Pa., as second class matter. !> worn dally for the three ★ SSOUtka ruillnc .lna.3l.l!lU>. 21,757 W Average for the year 1011—33.213 Average for the year 1012— 21,577 Averagre for the year 1P12—21,1711 Average for the year ]>il—lß,S6t Average for the year 101 V*-17,405 WEDNESDAY EVENING. FEB. 10 THE BOWMAN ORDINANCE MR. BOWMAN'S ordinance, hav ing for its object the removal of coal wharves from the River Front to Hardest Island, is a measure of very commendable char scter. If passed by Councils, as it no doubt will be, the River Front will be freed from much of the clutter snd dirt that would otherwise mar the new promenade along the river wall in the very heart of the city. The Harrisburg Light and Power Company, the biggest river coal oper ator in the city, also has been gener ous and considerate in the matter, it having agreed, for certain reasonable considerations, not only to remove its wharves from the river wall, but to pay to the city in coal every year the equivalent of about $1,140 for the privilege of using the island landing places. Thus Mr. Bowman has devised a plan which at one and the same time will remove what threatened to be come a nuisance along F'ront street nnd will contribute materially toward the payment of the city's fuel bill at ■the filter plant. It Is seldom that such an absolutely worthy piece of legislation has come before City Coun cil and no time should be lost in put ting it through. The wooly worm having made his an nual Spring appearance, the early robin may be expected at any moment. MOTOR CLUB OF HARRISBURG THE MOTOR CLUB OF HAR RISBURG. with a dinner that was one of the pleasantest af fairs in the history of that or ganization, lias rounded out another year of its activities. The club is more than a mere social organization, as is shown by the constructive work in which it has been engaged. It will be remembered that this organization did much toward procuring the im provement of the river road between Division street and Fort Hunter and some of its loss important campaigns have been designed for the protection of local highways from broken glass, to break up the practice of reckless driving and the proper observance of road rules. Those at the head of it have done a great deal to place motoring on a higher plane in Harrisburg and to improve the relations between pedes trians and drivers of the automobiles. Much of the hardships which certain communities have placed in the way of the unoffending automobilist have been due primarily to careless disre gard of public rights by the class of automobile owners that the Harris burg club has been endeavoring to discourage. Because of these efforts many so-called road traps have been abolished and a kindlier feeling has been engendered toward motorists in general. This is about as good a service as the club could hope to ren der. both from the standpoint of the public and its own members. Dear Mr. Groundhog: Please do bet ter. or we will .take sides with the AVeather Man. who says you are a Signed. Suffering Public. I ARRELL OPTIMISTIC JAMES A. FARRELL, president of the United States Steel Corpora tion, is not one of those who be lives that the country is to be held ! back long from that prosperity of j which for some months now we have seemed to be almost upon the thres- j hold. Indeed. Mr. Farrell is distinctly ! optimistic as to the outlook for the, coming year. Before a banquet of j the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania the other night he said ' that the tide has turned and each day ! records a marked improvement in the i general situation. Mr. Farrell hit the nail right on the head when he said that future pros perity depends largely upon the co operation of businessmen, who have it in their power to bring about con ations which will result In a larger employment of labor. He is no theo rist, and, instead of reading a little fssay on experimental economics, as , is now the popular practice, he told his hearers that, to his mind, the best way to solve the industrial unrest about which we have been hearing .so much recently is by creating work, by oiling and spinning, and bringing about a normal circulation in the ar teries of commerce. This is true. The problems of capital and labor are not so widely separated but that they t depend for mutual profit upon the WEDNESDAY EVENING, | employment of the workingman. Mr. Karrell sees in the business world of to-day possibilities for Amer ica of a wider scope than ever he or any other enthusiastic believer in the future of this country ever dared hope. He points out that not only has America become the banker of the world, but that it is now the world's granary as well, and that when the great war in Europe shall have been ended, America, of all the na tions of the earth, will stand with mills and working forces unimpaired to take up the great work of recon struction that must follow this tem porary period of international mad ness. The president of the Steel Corpora tion is in a position to read the future as few men in the world are to-day. Especially is he conversant with the present state of business. He is not given to idle forecasts, so that when he pronounces judgment his utter ances are to be given more than or dinary consideration. The Mayor's thought for the unem ployed is praiseworthy, but it would have been much more practical if he had gone to Council with some definite pian whereby work might be provided. As usual, he was chasing the spotlight so furiously and trying so hard to get somebody else into a false position politically, that he failed entirely to r.iake any recommendations upon which action could be taken. 'l'm: BINNER INCIDENT THE suicide of Alvin Binner, cashier of the SchacfCerstown First National Bank, points again the old, old lesson of the folly of faithlessness to trust. Indications are that Binner, without a thought of dishonesty in his mind, placed himself in a position where friends were permitted to use the funds placed in his care for their own purposes. Of course, at the outstart, the understanding was that the money all should be returned and that no body would be the wiser. That is the way nine out of every ten of our bank discrepancies occur. Tt is so easy to take money from the cash drawer and so difficult to put it back, l'ossibly there are those who have done so and escaped the penalties that so often follow acts of this kind, but the pro portion is so small as to be negligible. "Be sure your sin will find you out" Is just as true to-day as when first it was written, and the man who trifles with the trust placed upon him, or who borrows from the money of others in his care, is face to face with disgrace, a prison cell or a suicide's grave. The Natural History Soeietv is to be heartily congratulated upon giving Ilarrisburg people opportunity to hear Sir Douglas Mawson, the noted ant arctic explorer, tell of his thrilling ex perience in the land of the eternal snows and to see the even more won derful moving pictures he and his com rades brought with them from the re gions never before traversed by the foot of man. It was like being transported for an evening over the towering Southern seas and across the great ice barrier to the frozen continent of the antarctic, there to live the life of the explorers, see what they saw and ex perience everything that they experi enced save the terrible cold and the privations of the long marches over the vast stretches of ice and snow. We in Harrisburg have never had a lecture to equal It in interest and we owe a debt of gratitude to the Natural His tory Society for its part in affording the opportunity, which, it is gratifying to note, the public was not slow to grc-sp. THE I/AFOLLETTE resolution IT is a peculiar fact that while every body in America has been praying for peace and hoping for the early j cessation of hostilities in Europe, nearly six months were allowed to pass following the .declaration of hos tilities before a single move was made in this direction by anybody. It re mained for Senator LaFollette to pre sent to Congress a resolution that embodies what is unquestionably the sentiment of every right-minded man in the nation. Whatever may be the fate of this measure, and its author promises to test the feelings of his colleagues in that respect at a very early date, the LaKollette resolution must go down in history as the first concrete effort in America toward peace in Europe r.nd perpetual peace on an international basis through the good offices and in strumentality of a "congress of neu trals." Mr. LaFollette's measure is so gen eral in its application and so wide in its scope that It cannot be accepted in any but a friendly spirit by even the most pugnaciously inclined of the European powers. More and more it becomes apparent that it is the duty of the United States to step into the breach as peacemaker. Whether or not the warring governments are ready as yet to accept our proffers in this respect, our own national in terests demand that we shall lose no time in letting them know exactly where we stand, and that we are ready and anxious to do what we may in restoring Europe to a sane and civilized condition. All of the neutral nations are in precisely the same po sition as ourselves and they ought to enter willingly into such an arrange ment as Senator LaFollette proposes. Such a gathering would have plenty of work to do if it did no more than deal "with the rights of neutrals un der existing conditions" with the idea of working out a "policy for the pre servation of their own peace." There can be no chance of any harm resulting from such an assem blage and all of the powers that be in Europe could not but feel the pressure for peate that such a con ference of peace advocates represent ing all the neutral nations would bring to bear upon them. Whether or not the time is ripe for the consideration of international dis armament, and whether or not ihc warring nations are ready to quit 'fighting, we in America ought to make ourselves absolutely clear on this point—that we stand ready to co operate now. and at all times with any nation or nations in any effort to make] | International warfare very difficult, If , not altogether impossible, and to that end the LaFollette resolution ought j to be passed without delay and the I machinery put in motion for an early convention of the kind it proposes. I EVENING CHAT I North Tenth street north of Mar ket resembles a line of coke ovens these evenings because of the build ing operations on the big warehouse of the Emerson-B ran tingham com pany which is being pushed in spite lof the winter weather. In order to keep the material soft and workable big fires arc built in the sand and earth and other stuff entering into the construction. These tires arc built in cylinders of tin, old boilers, stove pipes and other things and when dark ness comes there is a line of flaming mounds for a block or more. The workmen keep the fires going until after 10 when operations are suspend ed and their activities and the fires attract much attention. The fires also have a great attraction for crowds of boys who gather round and have lots iof fun helping the men keep them go ling. The builders are protected by (large sheets of canvass and have lots lof electric lights strung along to fur !nish the illumination for night, the j effect of the glow lieing seen far off. During the dav time there are screens .erected to save the men from the wind and the snow. The progress on the building has been rapid and has at tracted general notice from people passing in trolley cars. This building operation has established something like a record in the city as it has gone ahead, rain or shine, and the men in charge have been pushing things at a rate, that has heen noted by visitors and by local builders. "It would liave been better for the groundhog had he seen liis shadow," said a man in market this morning as lie looked over u stand on which were the carcasses of three plump, fat groundhogs all trussed up for the roasting pan. They are the first to be seen on sale here for some time. Nearby, on another stall, were several opossutus. The man who brought them in said that "possums" and groundhogs are unusually plentiful this winter and that for some reason they aro unusually fat for this season of the year. Congressman W. D. B. Ainey. of Montrose, who spoke in the hall of the Mouse last night, was formerly a cap tain in the National Guard, and it hap pened that when he was getting out of Siberia the Russian mobilization was beginning. He was much impressed with the enthusiasm of the Russian soldiers and of the populace when it became known that England was go ing' t> join in the war against Ger many. Mr. Ainey had a narrow es cape in crossing the Baltic and got out of Europe through Sweden. Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh was last night elected to membership in the Country Club of Harrisburg and when the robins nest again he will take some more lessons in golf from "Tim" Dinan. the club profes sional. "Tim" taught the governor the rudiments of the game on the Aronomlnk links at Philadelphia and the Governor will probably be one of his pui.ils again. Secretary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods will also be a member of the Country Club's golf playing squadron. "The presence of the dam will, X be lieve, mean a more productive river coal area in the immediate vicinity of the city than ever before," said City Commissioner Harry F. Bowman, su perintendent of public safety, yester day in discussing the possibilities for obtaining the fuel from the stream for the next fifteen or twenty years. "■While the coal lias a tendency to float —it is more bouyant than sand by far—much of it will become lodged among the rooks above the darn in stead of being washed over the breast. That means that the coal area from the obstruction northward will na turally be much greater and contain infinitely larger possibilities in this respect than the area immediately be low the dam. Each year the volume of water will deposit more of it and so," continued the commissioner, "I don't think there is any liklihood of a lack of the supply—not at least, within the fifteen year contract period which the ordinance relative to the construction of the electric light com pany's landing wharf and hoist on the island provides." Congressman-elect L. T. McFadden, who was a visitor here yesterday, is a baker in Canton up on the northern tier and a farmer on the side. He has been chairman of the committee on agriculture of the State Bankers' Association and has made the com mitee something worth while. He was elected to Congress in a district that has gone Democratic every now and then and now feels that it is Re publican once more. Commissioner Hans Wasncr, of the State Fisheries commission, was drawn as a juror in Allegheny county but got off because he said his duties would prevent him serving. Wagner is a famous short stop and angler. f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —The Rev. Dr. Ethelbert Warfleld, former president of Lafayette, has re moved to Atlantic City. —E. P. Kibros has been elected president of the Wayne County Society of Pennsylvanians in New York. —R. M. K. Lewis, elected to one of the grand offices in the Knights of the Golden Eagle, lives at North Wales. —Archbishop Prendergast, of Phila delphia. sent a gift of $21,000 to Pope Benedict from Philadelphia people. —Sumner E. Ely was toastmaster at tho banquet of the Western Penn sylvania Engineers Society. —William Shaffer, prominent Frank lin resident, is in Florida. —William Connor, register of wills of Allegheny county, admires a good horse. —The Rev. Henry D. White, a mis sionary to Slam, has been visiting his home in Beaver. —Dr. H. M. Goehring went from Pittsburgh to Phiadelphia to examine Billy Sunday's throat. I DO VOU KNOW—I That Harrlsburg could be made a great produce distributing cen ter? It lias tile country around uhout and the railroads. A Prosperity Bulletin If you want to do your share towards bringing about a busi ness boom, start here at home. Read the advertising in this ft paper. If you want some business yourself put your own advertise ment here. Patronize the advrrtlsers or at least do them the honor to ; read what they have to say. Jf goods are needed "buy now." i Prosperity is .oniing; full I ■wing and each citizen can do bis or her share right at home. This is going to be a busy year for those who get busy. 0 . " HARRISBURG t£36B& TELEGRAPH WILLIAMS READY TO TAKE UP BILLS Law and Order Committee Chair man Will Re Prepared With Local Option Measure CONGRESSMAN TO MEMBERS Mr. Ainey Discusses Foreign Rela tions in the Hall of the Representatives George W. Williams, of Tioga, chairman of the House law and order committee, will take up a program for the local option bill next week with members of his committee and the bill will be taken good care of. Mr. Williams is ojie of the most respected members of the Mouse, and everyone has confidence in his fairness. The committee organized yesterday afternoon and has arranged to serious ly consider the prohibition amend ment and the other bijls dealing with the liquor problem, but the local op tion bill will not be programmed un til Mr. Williams has had a chance to confer with the governor and with men active in temperance work. That It will be. reported out is a foregone conclusion. The boxing commission bill is alf.) ih the hands of this committee ami its disposal is problematical Sam Perry, author of the bill, is said to de sire action. The various third class city bills will be taken up actively by the muni cipal corporations committee next week. Practically all of the third class cities are represented on the committee. Mr. Wildman being the llarrisburg member. Some interest ing hearings are expected on the bills. The third judge bill is attracting much attention among 'he members of the House. It. is now on the calendar and a statement of what is done in the Dauphin county court will be pre sented when the time comes. —Congressman W. D. H. Ainey. of Montrose, who addressed a public meeting in tUe House last night on America's problems in the Pacific was most interesting in his remarks on | Japan, where he spent several weeks. He said that the time was coming when some settlement of the ques tions between the countries was neces sary. He gave descriptions of Ameri can possessions and pointed out their relation to Japan and then discussed the Japanese power. Part of liis talk M as a plea for better relations. —The State Grange legislative and executive committee at its meeting here yesterday named John A. Mc- Sparran, William T. Creasy and Allan D. Miller as a committee to draft a highway program. The committee promised early action. A statement j was issued heartily endorsing the Wil jliams local option bill as an eminently j fair measure and predicting that it would pass. —Ex-Mayor William A. Magee was here yesterday discussing Pittsburgh legislation. He is chairman of the Ship Canal board and is working out plans. —The House municipal affairs com mittee had a lively hearing on the trading stamp bill yesterday after noon and it was stated that the com panies which take millions from the State do not pay a cent in return. Wilmer Crow, for the state merchants made a strong speech against the stamps. :>nd E. B. Smith, Pittsburgh, also spoke. The committee will give the companies a chance later on. —The Payette county mothers' pepsion board filed its report yester day with the House. Its conclusions show the necessity for additional money. —Superintendents and officers of county insane hospitals liad a meet ing yesterday in the Senate caucus room and decided that some institu tions needed to be brought up to the standard set by others. The resolu tions adopted favored an increase of 25 cents per week per capita for main tenance for those that make an effort to give good service to their unfor tunate charges. I —The deficiency bill was signed yesterday and sent to the Governor, the first to reach him. —People connected with the State government were recalling to-day that a few years ago the pemocratie news papers were very eager to obtain the advertising of the constitutional amendments and that on one occasion the chairman of the Democratic State committee sent a list of names of newspapers to receive the advertising. The Harrisburg Patriot was on the list of the Democratic State chair man. Since that time some newspa pers linve frothed every time consti tutional amendment advertising is mentioned. —The suggestion was made last night that the officials of the State De partment of Labor and Industry should act as a board in the operation of workmen's compensation, much as the industrial board operates. —Senator McNichol thinks Phila delphia should go slow in bonding it self for $100,000,000 for transit and be ready to meet the fixed charges when they arise. FROTH, THIS IS THE WAY llj Winn Dinger Doar Froth, the Scribe of Market Square, Did publish yesterday In his colyum a bit of verse To demonstrate the way That I would write the words to fit The Tipperary tune. But he is wrong, 'tis thus I'd write The chorus of my rune: It's a long way from the primary. It's a long way to go To be crowned during January As the Governor, don't you know. Good-by dear Kampaign Kitty, Farewell Governor's Chair. If the voters hadn't been contrary Why, I'd been right there. lEPITORIAL COMMENT | j CLEAR NOTE FROM THE SOUTH LAND [Columbia State.] Corn pone ueber alles. HERE'S REAL STATESMANSHIP [Baltimore Sun.] West Virginia proposes to banish hay fever by law. [l'roiu the Telegraph of Feb. 10, IS»5.] Hie. In 'lfbrl l'rl»on I'red 1 longer. Middletown. dieil in the rebel prison at Salisbury. N. C. Heavy Snows Heavy snow in the West is delaying arrival of trains in this city. Brine Dead Home Coffins containing bodies of dead sol diers being shipped home pass through the Union Station daily. PEX N'SY liV VNIA TO lOKGRKSft [From Tiie l?rie Dispatch.) The Dispatch believes that no act of * lie present legislature would do more good or carry such a far-reaching con sequence as to send a memorial to Congress in substance as follows: Whereas, Tlie great industrial Com monwealth of Pennsylvania has suf *< red more than any other State in the l ; nion because of the present 'tatiff, und Whereas. Under its operation our. Im portant steel plants, our textile mills I This Half-Yearly I MARK-DOWN CAT T? Of Our j Entire Stock I Is a straightforward business-like propo sition. We've learned from observation and ex perience that it's best in the long run to dispose of | every dollar's worth of merchandise during the season for which it was made—even though we have to lose money to do it—rather than let any thing grow old on our hands. I THAT'S why no choice lots are reserved, but | everything included in our immense stock of Good Clothes, Furnishings and Boys* Clothes in selling at such sweeping ■ reductions from our former low prices. It's a stiff dose of medicine, to be sure but it keeps this Live Store a live one ALL the time, and gives you the opportunity to get Kuppen- I heimer and other such high-grade clothes—all brand new this season and fully guaranteed at the actual savings of good, hard cash indicated below. We Quote Former 1 work "Values'' |j I $15.00 Suits (IJIA JC 1 I and Overcoats| | $20.00 $25.00 $30.00 | Suits and Suits | Overcoats Overcoats I $14.75 $18.75 $21.75 I> ' f $5.00 & $6.50 Suits and Now $3.69 & $4.95 DOyS j $7.50 & SIO.OO Overcoats Now $5.75 & $7.75 1 304 Market St. Harrisburg Pa I FEBRUARY 10. 1915. end other industries have been operat- | lug only about one-half capacity, and j Whereas. The army of unemployed I In our cities and towns has brought I inorial were sent and If the great In dustrial States of New York. Ohio, New , Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, Connec ticut and Rhode Island should follow our example the moral effect would be Inestimable. The suggestion Is sub mitted with the hope that favorable ac- I tion may follow. ' i NEW o s f [l-'roni Ihe TrlVgriiih of Kfli. 10, 1 Hor>. I tumranlliler Killed Philadelphia. Feb. 10. Genera) Peg ram. rebel commander, was killed in the light yesterday at Matcher's Hun. Olivia Refuse* I .1 e(Y Davis announced to-day that un | I'i.nditional submission to the law were j the only terms offered at the recent | peace conference. Kxehmisina Prisoners j Washington, Feb. 10. - A general ex l change of prisoners is taking place. KQI'AL JUSTICE I'Olt Al l. [Grand Hapids Press.] If the loaf of broad for the house wife must have a label showing the I weight, why not protect the bachelor with a like pastor on his ham sand 'wlch and slab of apple pieV