8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established iSjt PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. * E. J. e TACK POLE Pfisiittit and Editorin-Chief T. R. OYSTER Secretary OUS*M. STEINMETZ Manaiing Editor Published every evening (except Sun. day) at the Telegraph Building, 211 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish* era" Association. Audit Bureau ol Circulation and Pennsylvania Assocl. ated Dallies. ■astern Office. Fifth Avenue Bulldlnr, New York City, Hasbroolc, Story & Brooks. .Western Offlee, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers «t Six cents a week. MKihu*- 5 Mailed to subscribers Et |B.OO a year in advance. « Bntered at the Post Office in Harris, burr. Pa., as second class matter. Swora lallj nverage for "the three ★ month* ending Jnn.31,11)15. 21,757 ★ Average for the year 1814—2:1.21.1 Average for the year 1013—21,577 Average for the year 1812—21,175 Average for the year 1911—18,851 Average for the year 19l(V-17,lpr. I SATURDAY EVENING, FEB. 20 TIIE SHIPPING BILL APPARENTLY the obnoxious shipping bill has been sidetrack ed for this session of Congress, at least. The country owes to the Republican Senators and the few Democrats who stood courageously by them, notwithstanding attempted co ercion from the White House, a debt of gratitude for their successful ef- j lorts ill blocking the President's plan j to put this pernicious piece of legis lation on the statute books of the I country. President Wilson may yet attempt 1o push the measure through in the final moments of the present session of Congress, but It does not seem likely, lie may as well admit that lie has met his first defeat and that strong as he is in Congress his influence cannot be made to outweigh the convictions of a majority of legislators elected to do the will of the people rather than to accept wifhout debate the dictations of an autocratic executive. The President may still have some idea of calling an extra session of * 'ongress to take up his pet measure, hut if he has any such thing in mind it might be well for him to consider that he will not have as much weight In the next Congress as he has in this and that if he failed at this time to force Congress to do his will it may be presumed he will be no more success ful in an appeal to a special session. Reports from Russia indicate that notwithstanding all that has been said to the contrary prohibition does pro hibit. TIIE RAYMOND LECTURES FRANK JEWEL RAYMOND, who very properly calls himself a "business evangelist," spoke to 1,200 men and women in the Technical high school auditorium last night in the lirst of a series of lectures °n business efficiency arranged by the llarrisburg Chamber of. Commerce. That the Chamber is meeting a popular demand in bringing Mr. Ray mond to llarrisburg needs no other illustration than the size of the audi ence that turned out to hear him. Many of the city's most progressive business firms paid the way of their entire forces of employes to hear Mr. Raymond. The need of education in business was. never more keenly felt than to day. The wise employer no longer wants the cheap man or woman, lie realizes that the employe capable of earning three dollars a day is in the end a better investment for himself than he who is content to earn but one or two dollars. Personal efficiency in sales and clerical forces adds tremen dously to the profits of any concern. It is a pleasure to note that Harris burg Is fully abreast of the times in this respect and there can be no doubt that Mr. Raymond's lectures will re pay many times over the money ex pended to bring him here. Every public improvement is preceded and accompanied by objections, but that ought not discourage Councilman in their elTorts to rid the River Front j at Market street of the unsightly coal wharves. News dispatches indicate that the. office boy will have quite a lot of mail for Secretary Bryan when he gets back from his present Chautauqua trip. THRIFT IX HARD TIMES {"VI'KANGE as it may seem, the greatest amount of saving does not take place in most prosperous times. Conditions such as have arisen in some parts of this country as a result of the war in Europe are often the signal for a return to a simpler scale of living and an increas ed proportion of saving. It will not take a very large increase ! of savings per capita to make a radical' increase in the amount of capital avail able yearly and that increase will be | necessary to keep the factories, the railroads and the mines going. "With the great European nations out of the market as lenders of money, there is greater need in America for the cultivation of the saving habit among the people to accumulate capi tal with which to finance.not only the growing demands of this nation, but also of those portions of the world that remain at peace. If Americans re spond to this new duty there will be no lack of capital for all the needs that are likely to bo felt. But will they? The trouble is that, as the prosperity SATURDAY EVENING, of the country has grown, most people have taken on more costly liabits of living. It is easy to let the dimes and dollars slip away into new ways of spending, and triply hard to return to former frugal habits. This is a time for persons in mode rate circumstances to cast away all false pride. They should feel no shaine, even if they do cook their own dinners, shine their own shoes, shovel their own snow and carry their own suitcases when traveling. The life insurance companies ad vertise that only five per cent, of those who die leave an estate. Ninety-five men make money, only five adequately save; only five per cent, provide for the future. Out of this five per cent, who leave estates, much more than one half are found among the poorer class of people. *Many who live in fine houses and ride about in limousines are constantly in debt and have a very hard time to make both ends meet. They leave no estates. It is noticed that the habit of saving has increased among the com mon people in the last few years, while among those who are often deemed rich it has decreased. Those Academv Greeks got even with the Romans for all the wrongs that history records. TEN YEARS AGO THE Patriot continues to love Mitchell Palmer and all his works, but manifestly It. is not as familiar as it ought to be with the history of the uplift move ment to which Mitchell is now de- I voted. Yesterday morning that newspaper, with that fine air of finality which is characteristic of its more serious edi torial utterances, speaking of the Pal mer child labor resolutions recently passed by the National House of Rep resentatives, said: Ten years ago such a resolution as that carried through successfully by Mr. Palmer would have died in committee if it had been presented. Now. in 1905, or just ten years ago, [the Fifty-ninth Congress began and in that Congress Senator Albert J. Beve ridge, ol" Indiana, introduced a bill for the regulation of child labor which, if it had become a law, would have prohibited any railroad engaged in interstate commerce from carrying as freight any article upon which chil dren loss than fourteen years of age had performed labor. There was not the slightest attempt to smother this measure. Indeed, it was the subject of a great deal of dis cussion in Congress and out at the time, and ever since it has been an important part of the program of those Interested in the improvement of conditions surrounding children who are engaged in gainful occupations. At no stage has the matter been an Issue of party politics, which makes the Patriot's comment seem odd. At the time he introduced this bill Mr. Beveridge was a Republican, but that fact was not responsible for the sup port of the Republicans in Congress who were in sympathy with the move ment. Shortly after the introduction of the bill, in a debate which was con ducted in the pages of The Reader, a magazine, between Mr. Beveridge and William J. Bryan, the latter, then the most prominent as well as the most influential member of the Democratic party, and now Secretary of State in President Wilson's cabinet, said: 1 have given to Senator liev eridge's bill [the proposed Child Ijibor bill] whatever support I could. It is right in principle, it is necessary and It does not interfere with the several rights of States. As to the probable effect upon the reserved rights of the States of such a statute there is room for pronounced difference of opinion, but there cannot be two opinions upon the point that, in view of all the circumstances of the case, the Patriot in lauding Palmer as It did for "his strong and masterly ef fort" indulged in piffle and displayed ignorance for which it ought to be ashamed. School to close June 18, says Profes sor Downes. But "it's a long, long way to Tlpperary," as any boy will tell you. ALL DEPENDS ON NEUTRALITY THE wisdom of the people of the United States and of those in charge of governmental affairs in desiring to maintain strict neutrality throughout the war in Eu rope is well set forth by Elbert H., Gary, head of the United States Steel Corporation, In the following brief but comprehensive statement: The pecuniary advantages to this country resulting from the war are equal to the disadvantages. We have before us promise of an era of prosperity. If we remain strictly neutral, refraining from interfer ence with the rights and Interests of any of the belligerent nations, so that we shall not in any way be come involved in controversy, we may expect to receive an increas ing measure of trade and influ ence. The extreme optimist of to day, if the people of this country take advantage of their opportuni ties. will ten years hence be con sidered to have been very conserva tive in Ills estimate of future pros perity. The total wealth of the United States Is at least double that of France or Germany and 65 per cent, greater than that of England. The amount of money In the United States is three and a half times as much as that of the United Kingdom and two and a half times as much as that of Ger many. * The money we have we want to keep. We have better uses for it than Europe is finding for its wealth. At all coats our neutrality must be pre served. It would require a grave of fense indeed to bring our people to a belief that any other course Is to be for a moment considered. The various warring nations are all intent on furthering their own selfish ambitions. The United States must take broader ground than that. Our interests arc the interests of humanity at large and we must conduct ourselves ac cordingly, regardless of the ravings of blood-mad governments abroad. It Is hard to say whether the navy Is prepared or not until it is learned If the ships are all equipped with those silver table services. "Trust Wilson," says The Patriot. Sure! That's just what he is. □EVENING CHAT I llarrisburg youngsters are taking the greatest advantage of the com bination of fine weather and the splendid stretch of paved streets be cause there were thousands of boys and girls out roller skating, riding ] express wagons, rolling hoops and playing everything from marbles to hop-scotch." The kids woke up to the fact that the weather was im proving bright and early on Thurs day, and after enjoj'lng the after noon, started in yesterday. It was noticed that it was hard work getting the kids Into school when the hours arrived and when the bells rung for the close of recess. Yesterday after noon the residential streets were crowded with boys and girls and the diners of automobiles and wagons appeared to feel a kindred spirit, be cause they went slowly and some re turned the greetings called to them by the boys and girls. Some young sters went so far as to lay out dia monds on vacant lots as though the worst blizzards known had not been dated in the latter part of February or in March. Builders also took trips about the city to look over sites for building purposes, and there was a general air throughout the citv of rejoicing that Spring was in the air, although it may be cha3ed away be fore night. The mild period that comes in February is a little early, and there is always a chance that the city may be favored with one of those rattling storms that Old Boreas sends down the Susquehanna occasionally to let people know that he is still on the job. However, the boys and girls and some of the older folks were out enjoying the day to the limit. The proposed electric line that is to break the Fulton county record and give it a transportation system will be watched with interest by a good many llarrisburgers who have visited the hills and dales and mountains and valleys of thai county. The line will go around Cove mountain through a country that has been famous for over 150 years, and which llgured in Indian warfare when John Harris was trading in South Front street. Those who enjoyed the Chamber of Commerce trip this week were im pressed by the signs of prosperity throughout the anthracite coal re gions and in Heading. With the ex ception of the Berwick car factory, every big industry was in active op eration and Northumberland, Dan ville, Bloonisburg, Sunbury, Millers burg and llerndon all reported good times with plenty of employment and business good. In Heading many tine new homes are being built, especially in the Wyomissing district, where the visitors were inipressed with the sight of a new trust company set right down in the midst of an almost open field, and astounded to find that it is prospering. The new Berkshire Hotel in Head ing was far and away the best hotel the Commerce Chamber party struck 011 its rounds. They had heard much of the Sterling in Wilkes-Barre. and while that is a handsome structure, with first-rate diningroom service and many things to recommend it, the members would have felt more kindly toward it had they been able to get covers enough to keep them warm and a little water for washstand pur poses. At the Berkshire, however, every effort was made to take care of the visitors in surroundings that made their stay there the pleasantest feature of a very pleasant trip. The llarrisburgers were impressed with the need of just such a hotel for llarrisburg and came back deter mined to take that subject up anew. Girard, writing in the Philadelphia Ledger, has this to say about a man well-known to many residents of Dau phin and Cumberland counties: "Did Pennsylvania confer titles upon its sons who had performed some distinct service to the Commonwealth, Cyrus T. Fox would surely be knighted. For fifty years fruits and flowers, trees and vegetables have been this Read ing veteran's work as well as joy. He began before there was such a thing as an American Beauty rose. He was an expert when the ilrst real carna tion, as we know it to-day, was born. When Mr. Fox started his career in horticulture, there was no hothouse chrysanthemum—only the small out door variety known as 'Fall flowers.' But I'm glad to learn from Mr: Fox himself that he regards as 'the best thing of my life,' the introduction into Pennsylvania of the 'Early Itose' potato. He brought it here. His first seed cost him $lO a pound, and he raised three crops in his hothouse in one year. Pennsylvania farmers know that this? was perhaps the most fa mous potato ever grown in the State. Knighthood? Yes, Pennsylvania has had enough joy out of that potato alone to make Mr. Fox a peer—say the Duke of Early Rose." George W. Norris, the director of wharves, docks and ferries, of Phila delphia, who was here yesterday, was formerly a banker in Philadelphia. He is a member of a noted Philadel phia family and is one of the best posted men on financial affairs in the State. T WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —George W. Aeklin, the new col lector at Pittsburgh, is a collegemate of William J. Bryan. —Captain M. Churchill, U. S. A., who has been on duty in this State, has been ordered to his home station. —Dr. E. D. Warfield, ex-president of Lafayette, will take up his resi dence in Los Angeles. —Richard Harding Davis is at Atlantic City, where his new play is coming out. —Mayor Ward has established the curfew law in force at Chester. —George N. Glass, of Pittsburgh, now heads the Retail Lumbermen of the State. —Joslah V. Thompson, the Union town coal land man, says he is going to get out of his troubles. —David Jameson, a banker, has given a public comfort station to New Castle. r _ 00 YOU KNOW —I That llarrisburg is increasing Its hosiery output every year? "\ Making Them Walk Into Your Store "All I ask of my advertising," said a woll-known storekeeper, "Is that it will make a certain number ol' people walk through my store. "The rest is up to ine." When the national manufac turer advertises his product in this newspaper he is starting people towards many stores. If your store carries these goods and shows them properly customers will come your way. If you neglect your oppor tunity your neighbors will get the business. The live merchant nowadays keeps In close touch with the national advertising in the news paper and trims his windows and jountcrs In line with the news. HARRISBURG frfSjftl TELEGRAPH POST OFFICES ARE ABOUT DUE 10 FALL Disputes Over Availability of Men in Half a Dozen Counties Are Growing Bitter The almost daily announcement of selections of postmasters for towns in this section of the State has put the politicians in this county and in Cum berland on edge for the next appoint ments. It is believed that somi of them cannot be lons delayed. Among those to be named are Wil liamstown and Mlllersburg, in both of which towns there are contests of a real lively character. In Cumberland county the inability of the bosses to agree upon the men has set various factions to fighting just as has oc curred in Perry and Lebanon counties. There are also several selections to be made in Lancaster soon. The selection ol a revenue collector for Ihe Ninth district is to be put up to Vance OV McCormick, according to a story afloat in political circles to day, and it is said that he is inclined to drop both the Van Dykfcs and to go outside of this county. This caused a revival of the boom for George Harris, of Fulton county. —Judge H. A. Fuller, of the Luzerne county courts, said yesterday he would not enter any free-for-all campaign for Superior Court arid that unless Luzerne and Lackawanna counties united to support him he would not permit, his name to go before the peo ple Judge Fuller declared that he would much prefer a second term as common pleas judge to a term on the Superior Court bench, so far as the work and salary are concerned, but made it piain that if the people of his •section of the State wanted him as a candidate and the bar associations would act he would make the fight. The associates of Judge Fuller on the county bench declared that they be lieved him to lie the proper candidate for the oflice. Judges O'Boyle, Strauss, Woodward and Garman each made this statement. The Luzerne County Bar Association has not yet taken any action in the way of indorsing Judge Fuller, as the bar leaders wanted to ascertain whether or not he would be a candidate. —At a meeting of the Lackawanna Bar Association in Scranton yesterday President Judge Charles E. Rice and Judges Orlady and Head, of the Su perior Court, were unanimously in dorsed for re-election next November. The action of the association in indors ing Judge Hice. after he had an nounced he would not be a candidate, was a mark of respect to the retiring jurist. It is thought the bar will later indorse Judge Fuller. —M. M. Naginey, the new post master at Milroy, received word of his appointment while he was lying sick in a hospital in Philadelphia. He ex pects to assume his office soon. —Conrcssman-elect M. Llebel, of Erie, expects to bo a prominent figure in Democratic state councils hereafter. He was five times mayor of Erie and is no lover of Palmer. —Vance C. McCormick last night denied the statement alleged to have beeivtnade in Congress that he had covered up campaign expenses. —Judge R. N. Willson. a member of the Philadelphia bench for thirty years, last night sent his resignation to the Governor. He was advised to re tire by his physicians, as he is about 75 years of age. He will retire under the state act of 1911. —The retirement of Judge Willson leaves two vacancies on the Philadel phia bench for Governor Brumbaugh to fill. One Was caused by the death or Judge Kinsey and has not yet been filled. Geors* Henderson and W. H. Shoemaker are much considered for the first place. —Up to date the people who are interested in reviving the Progressive league have not attracted much at tention. State Chairman A. Nevin Detrieh is watching the coming of spring up the Cumberland Valley and enjoying life after the strenuous cam paign of last year. He is allowing some of the other fellows to steam around. IN STORY RITEN' • By the Messenger Boy v * Yesterday bein a fine day, was a very line day, and it made lots of grass blades think about startin next summer's crop. Messenger boys was slow gettin back to the office and liked to loaf along on their bikes up the river-road and watch the sunbeams twinklin on the rushin waters of the Susquehanna river, which is now demonstrating that it's on the map-. The day was warm and bamy and the baby-coach brigade was out full force, and thp babies was too bisy glub-glubbin at the bright sunshine and goo-gooin through the clear air to cuss at the nurse-girls or their mothers that was wheelin them. Everyone was happy and wished that spring was here for good, and that the sun would lteep on shinin bright every day and ' exterminate all the grip germs and start the onions and the turnip vines in the back-yard gar dens; and bring the robins and Easter hats and silk socks and violets and apple blossoms, with rhubarb pies and dandelion sass. fresh tomatoes, love letters and Spring fever. Last night I seen my big brother slobberin over a pack of blue envi lups done up in pink ribbins that he keeps locked up in the bottom of his trunk. They was from a gurl that turned him down two years ago, but he still wishes he had her, and when days like yestiday conies along, he gets all sentementel and moomey with a far-off look in his eyes. Such is the eft'eek of springtime in the air; which I hope I'll never get that part of it. Yesterday the easy breexes from across the Cuinberlan Valley blowed the air as clear as could be. und drove all the smoke away down the Leb anon wally, wtiich would be nice if it always liaopined that way. The Pen silvunia railroad and the steel mills is very nice affairs and needfull to Harrisburgers but they makes so much smoke the wind cant always blow it away. If some of the amacher genuses of the city would try to invent some kind of a smoke-eater for on chimbleys, instead of rlggin up wirelesi telegraf apparratuses on the roofs, they would get a silver medal or a trip to Atlantic city or something from our generus big pilnntropesls and then we'd have clear air like we had yesterday most of the time, Instead of Jist occasional. ■—— rnmm ——^ Get a 25-cent bottle of Dandorlne at any drug store, pour a little into your hand and rub well into the scalp with the finger tips. By morning most, if not all, of this awful scurf will have disappeared. Two or three applica tions will destroy every bit of dand ruff; stop scalp itching and falling hair. i OVR DAILY LAUGH \ v 1 VERY EFFECT- I remember your wife used to |\\\ make you go U O ■ • ■hopping with -\l her. How did you jl manage to get 1 I C-~ I made a point \ I to flirt with the J pretty salesgirls. PETTING HIM ILiLgLJ-J RIGHT. /f'jL 1 Jail Visitor— You have been / 4 tried by adversity Prisoner— Tou ■' I^7^ are wrong in the •' FOP name, mister. It was Judge Brown. roOLBD. iAy Jflßm Appearance* f are deceitful. ~7-Jx V-iX Ic «, Indeed. u /if V\ Once I met a / youth who ' iffVj. one of those cute IK PV VsVil/ little mustaches v| I 1\ f ■ml he really Jl j / V\l amounted to m\t * VvR something. JJ 1 * IT'S COMING Br Wing Dinger Saw some plants a shootin' From the ll kinds and itylea of Rubber Footweax for Men, Women, Boyt and Girl*. Note thi* : You can rely on anything you buy from dealer* who aeil Hub-Mark Rubber Footwear. They are dependable merchant!. Boiton Rubber Shoe Company hUkUm. Hw. FEBRUARY 20, 1915. SscaaaKi Bareanrmsfeoeibagl Fire In Your Home < WHAT safeguards have you in your home against fire? Especially with regard- to papers and valuables hard to replace—your will, deed, lease, mortgage, insurance, jewels, etc. See our steel safe deposit vault—it's burglar proof and fire-proof. We have valuables worth over $2,500,000 in it. That's how confident we are of its security. No home affords such safety. Smallest boxes are 22x2x5 inches and rent for $2.00 a year. 213 MARKET STREET . Capital, 9300,000 Surpluft, $300,000 : ~ Open For Dcpoalti Saturday Evfnlng I From 0 to 8. 1 I FTTERSTOTHE: LDil 0 K I i THAT COAI. WHARF To the Editor of the Telegraph: I have been much Interested in read ing about the proposed coal wharf which the Patriot says would be an "eye sore" on the island, and a tiling much to be desired and one of beauty at Paxton street. The cry is "there is no hardship in volved in tho hauling of coal and sand from the Paxton street situation." "Abate the present nuisance at Mar ket street, center it all at Paxton street, put all the blots there" so when a resi dent of Front street, near Market, looks out his front window, he won't Bee them, and everything will be lovely. How does moving a "blot" down tho river make it a garden? Are there no "aesthetics" down there, and might not those living further up. have their roflned natures hopelessly shattered should they stroll down to Paxton street, say on .Sundays, and take a single look at- the "blot" located there? Then what about DeWitt Fry and Brother Metzger. have they not an equal right to have their feelings protected, as any one living opposite the island? Or should this town and its best in terests be dominated by a narrow minded personality? That is easily answered. If you don't believe me read the election returns from Harrisburg and iJauphin county on governor, at the last November election! This question ought to be settled on its merits, and without any reference to the narrow whims of individuals. Respectfully, •FA lU PLAYER. * THE LAUREL [Philadelphia Ledger.] Mountain l&urel is beautiful and it makes an appropriate State flower. In Pennsylvania it reaches perfection unit grows in profusion. As an emblem of patriotism it is fine, for it grows deep, climbs high and stands the storms. Help for Hoarse Throats TVhen you're mo hoarse It hurts t.' talk or swallow; when your throat i all "filled up," Golf's Cough Syr.;p wl have an almost Instant effect; rcmovlt the congestion, opening the clogged n passages; and overcoming the danger < Bronchitis and I»neuinonia. Get n | or 50 cent bottle at your Grocer's i Druggist's and stop that lnjurio' hoarseness. Guaranteed satisfactory, money bnolr r '»intcrv"A#