6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Eslablishtd \lSjl PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. K. J. F TACK POLE Priiiitnt and Edilor-in-Chitf F. R. OYSTER Secrttary CJS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 21| Federal Square. Both phones. tfember American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau ol Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern OfTlce. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City. Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. ITestern Office, Advertising Building'. Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers It $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris- Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dally average for the three months ending Jnn.31,11)15. W 21,757 w | Average for the year 1914—23.213 Average for the year 1913—21,577 Average for the year 1912—21,175 Average for the year 191t—18,851 Average for the year 19t0«-17,495 WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEB. 21 SIMPLICITY REPORTS AS long as Pennsylvania clings to its present system of collect ing its millions and millions of State taxes it ought at least to facilitate the procedure for the 24,000 corporations which furnish it the bulk of its revenue. Some one has said that the Auditor General's Depart ment was like a certain famous char acter in a noted novel, it jes' grew. It has been going along administering law, deciding law and occasionally ini tiating law. Once in a while the courts have to be invoked to stop it or to find out how far it can go. It is a branch Df the government that audits all ac counts and pays all bills and collects tremendous amounts of money with no one to review its own transactions except upon appeal to the courts, which Is expensive and involved. For some years gone by there have been efforts toward making the Audi tor General a purely disbursing officer and to place his tax collecting duties tn the hands of a State tax board. Nothing lias come of it and all the while the corporations have been filing (heir millions under a system of re porting that belongs to the middle Bges. Corporations now have to file reports for taxation on the value of their capital stock fbr a year ending the first Monday of November. Prac tically all corporations run business on the calendar year basis and a bill Is In the House to make the capita! stock tax report year the same as the ordi nary year. It would do away with ne cessity for a special report for a period that moves around according to the first Monday of the eleventh month. And why the bill should not pass no one can say. NEW SCHOOL NEEDED THE Harrisburg school district has been extremely unfortunate in recent years with some of its new building contracts. In its very laudible effort to save money for the tax payers it has on several occa sions let contracts to men financially unable to complete the work. This has occurred at the new Shim niel building on Allison Hill, where the builder has turned over his business to a bondsman who will be required to complete the work. This school house Is badly needed and It Is to be regret ted that there will be delay in finishing it. The board will, therefore, be fully justified in taking whatever steps necessary to hasten the work. If possible, it ought to be opened and ready for use so that when the time comes for the annual transfer of pupils it can be put into service with out the delay and subsequent confusion of retransfers. A TRADE OPPORTUNITY EE. PRATT, chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com a merce, in a report just sub mitted by Commission Agent J. A. Schriver on the canned goods trade of the Far East, expresses the belief that one of the principle indus tries of the United States in the future will be the sale of canned food pro ducts to China, Japan, Korea and other eastern countries. His conclusions are doubtless found ed on facts but before our canners reach too far into the foreign field it might be well for them to give some further consideration to that at home. Canning has been reduced to an exact science. We no longer have a haunt ing fear of potmaine when we eat canned goods. In many cases the pro ducts so preserved are actually super ior to those which we buy fresh on the market, for the reason that they are prepared in factories adjacent to the very fields where they are grown, are harvested in their prime and are often of a better quality than those offered for sale by local growers. There Is a great and uncultivated field in the United States for the use of canned products of all kinds. Many of our fruit and vegetable growing districts are located so disadvantageously from a transpor tation standpoint that it is impossible to get their products promptly to the cities where they are needed. Thou sands of bushels of apples and great quantities of other fruits and vege tables go to waste annually in the fields because there is no demand for them at home and no opportunity to sell them abroad. « Here Is where the canner steps In. He takes the product when It may be had in great quantities and preserves it for >ale during winter months when WEtfITESPXT'EV mtwn, fruit and vegetables are scarce and high in price. It is all a matter of education. Let the people once understand that they are helping to keep down the high cost of living by using freely of canned products and let the canner impress sufficiently upon the public mind that his wares are entirely above suspi cion, and the canned goods trade at home will go forwand by such leaps and bounds that we sVall not be com pelled to think seriously about the dis position of our surplus products abroad. THE ISLAND COAIi WHARF THE passage by city council yes terday afternoon of the ordi nance providing for the estab lishment on the island near the filter plant of a coal wharf for the j Harrisburg Light and Power Company can be regarded in no other way than as a step for the ultimate abolition of the coal wharf along Front street between Walnut and Market streets. Aside from the item of rental that will accrue to the city as a result of this change the only point of advan tage from a municipal standpoint to result from the removal of the light company's wharf to the new location Is that it will free a section of the city's most used park system from the litter, noise and confusion of a constant and growing coal traffic. If the pres ent wharves are allowed to remain for the use of excavators other than the light company the nuisance at that point will have been only in part abated. Therefore, it becomes the duty of council to take up immediately the matter of concentrating all of the remaining traffic at Paxton street, and this promises not to be very difficult, for the reason that the light company is the largest river coal operator using the Market street landing place. Warren 11. Manning, the city park architect, has promised that the pro posed wharf on the.island shall be con structed in such a manner as not to mar the beauty of the river view from the Front street shore. Mr. Manning appreciates as much as anybody and more than most of us the value of our beautiful river scenery and he may be relied upon to work out an effect on the island that will be in perfect har mony with the landscape at that point and which will be an ornament rather than an evesore. Doubtless when the whole improve ment is completed and the nuisance at Walnut street has been abated even those who have conscientiously op posed the Island wharf will see the er ror of their position. PENNSYLVANIA FRUIT EV'EX those conversant with the growth of the fruit growing in dustry of the Adams county belt must hate been amazed by the report of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad company freight department, made public yesterday, showing that a total of more than 26,000,000 pounds of apples, pears, peaches and preserved products were shipped from that territory or in storage there during the year 1914. The best part of this report Is that officials who have been over the dis trict express the belief that the fruit growing industry is only in its In fancy, notwithstanding that in the past ten years it has increased more than fivefold. There has been some talk recently among people who should know bet ter of an overproduction of apples in the Pennsylvania district. It is true that more apples are being grown now than ever before, but for all that prices arc higher now per barrel than they were ten years ago and the popu larity of the apple as an article of w inter diet is unquestionably growing. Just why anybody should fear a glut of' the Pennsylvania apple market when Adams county growers have been able to invade such noted apple States as New York and Ohio with carload shipments and have been able to sell successfully even as far west as California, is difficult to understand. The field for the sale of Pennsylva nia apples in times of peace is almost as wide as the world itself, fruit from Adams county having been sold in box lots in England, Scotland, Argen tine Republic, France, Germany, Den mark and Russia. Another big oppor tunity that the Adams county growern have faeen not slow to grasp is the demand for dried, evaporated and can ner apples. A vast quantity of fruit that could not be sold otherwise is thus turned into valuable food prod ucts for use during the season when fresh apples cannot be had. Apples so prepared are both nutritious and delicious and are sold with almost as much profit to the producer as are the fresh apples themselves. With these prospects in view the Adams county growers are no doubt wise in their decision to go on developing orchards like those that already have made large fortunes for their owners. HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT NEWS THE third issue of the Pennsyl vania Highway News, the official bulletin of the State Highway Department, indicates more than ever the wisdom of such a publication. Many of the criticisms that have been directed at the Highway Department have been due to an ignorance on the part of the public as to conditions and the difficulties the department has en countered in the tremendous task set for it by legislators who understood better what they wanted to do than how it should be done. The Highway News sets forth in an attractive manner the activities, the plans and the problems of the High way Department. It brings the pub lic into intimate relation with.this im portant part of the State government and will give the general reader a bet ter understanding of what has been done, is being done and is in prospect. One of its most valuable features is that It is rapidly welding the vast but widely separated forces of the depart •ment into a harmonious whole. An instance ,of this is the rapidity with which the supervisors of the State are being organized into a highly efficient force supplementary to the department proper. Instead of being a fifth wheel to the highway wagon the supervisors are fast becoming one of the most important branches of the road service. I EVENING CHAT I Mepibers of the Legislature and many llarrisbtirg business inen will be much Interested in the meeting to be held here the latter part of next week by the Commercial Secretaries of Pennsylvania. This will bring the active spirits in the business of prac tically every city in the State into touch with the State capital during the legislative session and the in fluence of the business men on pend ing bills will be strong. As a matter of fact there are many bills in the ■ Cieneral Assembly that interest busi ness men nnd the representatives of the score or more of organizations can give the lawmakers considerable in formation on how people feel. This organization was formed here severnl years ago and its meetings are gen erally attended by prominent business men who take the opportunity of talk ing over things pertaining to com mercial organizations. Speaking of the proposed meeting, it is of interest to know that two of the men active in the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce have been identified with Harrisburg business and may be here. H. S. Williamson, the president, was head of Williamson & Foster, who had a store in Market street ten or twelve years ago, and John J. Bair, the vice-president, is a member of the firm of Witmer. Bair & Witmer, of this city. Charles Newbold, the sec retary of the Lancaster chamber, is a brother of Willis Geist Newbold. a well-known newspaperman of this city. The intercity business being done by the large motor trucks that have be come so common is well illustrated by the observer of street traffic. Yester day three trucks that had come from other cities were seen here, one from Philadelphia, one from Baltimore and one from Allentown. They came here with cargoes and it shows the way the truck is being used to avoid the re handling necessitated by the railroads. Incidentally, cross-country trips with a motor truck at this season show that some of the roads must be in good shape. A good many Harrisburgers are asking about the derivation of the word "jitney," which figures in the proposed lines of auto buses which are coming Into use about the country, largely because of the arbitrary man ner in which street car companies are operated. The word comes from the far southwest. It is a combination of Mexican and Indian and is the name commonly given to the least respect able coin, the nickel, in the southern states.* Originally the term was used for years in Texas and New Mexico without any one transplanting it, but. then it spread to the south nnd has been working north. Sometimes it is shortened to "jit." The city of Harrisburg will keep out of some annoying tangles if an ordi nance presented by Commissioner Lynch is enacted. It will require that all contractors give corporate security for contracts, certified checks being accepted with bids. This is the plan adopted on all state contracts and for all state deposits. Experience has shown that settlements are far easier with corporate security than with in dividuals and personal bonds are be coming rare. After this ordinance passes they will be unknown in mu nicipal contract affairs. Ihe State Beekeepers' Association, which is holding its annual convention here to-day. is eleven years old and when it was started the wits of the press had all kinds of fun over it, but it soon turned out that it was not a joke but an organization of very seri ous men. and In due time it was rec ognized by the Legislature to the ex tent of allowing it representation on the State Board of Agriculture. When it is considered that the production of honey in this state is worth over a million dollars a year and that it is largely profit, the Importance of the buzzing bee cp.n be understood. The number of trolley cars sent through Market Square an hour Is something that impresses a good many of the traveling men coming to this city and they declare that they get a line on a town through Its cars. "WBen I first struck Harrisburg it was snowing like the dickens and I pa raded up Market street until I got to the Square. I saw the cars going in and out and I went over to the place where the people were standing and watched* and counted. I saw the cars piling from all over the neighborhood and a lot of local cars .too. Then I knew I was in a live town." said one veteran in the sales business. j WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"I —A. J. Drexel, the former Philadel phia banker, says that the Germans will be unable to make their blockade of the British Isles effective. —C. S. Knapp. burgess of Warren, well-known here, has started a crusade against "punch boards." -—Joseph S. Myers, former managing editor of the Pittsburgh Post, is now connected with the school of journal ism of Ohio State University. —Major C. J. S. Miller, of Frank lin, serving with the allies, is a son of the former commander of the National Guard. —Thomas D. Shea, Wilkes-Barre lawyer, and S. D. Warriner, the coal magnate, have been named as arbitra tors for trie Wilkes-Barre trolley dis pute. —Dr. W. M. Davidson, superinten dent of Pittsburgh schools, makes it his business to visit all sites for new. schools and to study neighborhoods. —W. T. Ramsey, Chester legislator, who is fighting the coal tax, is in the coal business and knows how his peo ple feel. —Dr. H. S. Drinker, president of Uehlgh, will speak at the big gather ing of educators at Pittsburgh Fri day. 1 DQ V6U KN6W—I That Harrlsburg is one of the big distributing points for the State's coal trade? Sail With the Wind, Mr. Retailer Tt is easy to sail a straight, safe course when the wind is fair. When the manufacturer of a standard article advertises in the newspapers lie is starting a trade wind for local merchants. He is making .1 definite de mand for his goods which will center at tbe stores which sell them. Wise retailers take advantage of the opportunity to sail to the Port of Profit. They proceed to get the bene fit of the manufacturer's news paper advertising by letting the public know rvhero to get the goods. 'They put them In their win dows and on their counters and they add their "push" to the "pull" of the manufacturer's ad vertising. ——_____^ HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH BEN DAVIS WILL BE NINTH'S COLLECTOR Lancaster County Reorganizer Will Be Selected as a Compromise Candidate —According; to word received here to-day from Washington, Ben Davis, of Lancaster, is slated to become the collector of internal revenue, with headquarters at Lancaster. Davis is a noisy Democratic leader who has been lined up with, the reorganization fac tion ever since it started to reach for control of the machine. Ho was one of tho guillotine committee and also chairman of his county committee. —The belief was general that the collectorship would go to Warren Van Dyke, secretary ol the machine State committer, or to George Harris, the Fulton banker, but the efforts of T. K. VanDyke, of this city, and other prominent Democrats to get tho plum caused a snarl which the leaders have tried to settled by picking Davis, who has been very willing. The district will be as it was live years ago. Fred C. Klrkendall, tho former collector, is now boss of the old Twelfth district, with headquarters at Scranton. —John B. Evans, of Pottstown, is said to be sure of the place of sub treasurer at Philadelphia. This is the place which Congressman Robert E. Lee had picked out and which anti- Palmer men wanted him to get. —These selections will only serve to intensify the dissatisfaction of the Democrats with the Paltner-McCor mick control of the party. —The Dauphin, county Democrats who have celebrated Jackson and Jef ferson days with national headllners appears to be doing nothing this year. Few people can understand why the Central club is so tame. For the last four years it has been in the front rank as a celebrator. —Five congressmen and about 150 other Democrats attended the Jeft'er- dinner given at York last night by the Young Men's Democratic Society of York. The congressmen were C. O. Lobeck, Nebraska; William Collier, Mississippi; Daniel E. Garnett, Texas; J. Washington Logue and A. K. Brodbeck, Pennsylvania. In addition there was Benjamin F. Davis, Lan caster, who is spoken of as the next internal revenue collector for this dis trict. A number of prominent Demo crats failed to attend, presumably on account of factional differences. —Declaring that he had committed himself to a campaign of reformation, District Attorney David R. Huss, of Greene county, tiled with the county auditors a petition for an investi gation of alleged extravagance and mis use of fumis by the county commis sioners and their employes. In his petition he makes astonishing and sen sational charges of "grafting," or a course of procedure that at least shows gross negligence and misman agement. He specifically states that two county employes who resigned their offices in 1913 drew salaries all last year, that exorbitant and exces sive salaries are paid incompetent clerks and other employes, and that in spite of protests by grand jury which charged irregularity certain contracts were let without proper legal procedure. —Ex-Judge. Horace Heydt, of Car bon county, is being boomed for suc cessor to Judge Rice, of Wilkes-Barre, Superior Court judge, who has an nounced his retirement with the com pletion of his present term. Mr. Heydt served twelve years on the Carbon bench ana met with few reverses from the higher courts. —The Philadelphia Record says: "in local Democratic circles the re port has been revived that National Committeeman A. Mitchell Palmer may open law offices in this city upon his retirement from Congress next week. Mr. Palmer is stated by re organization leaders to be considering this move, but to have reached no con clusion as yet. It is understood that. In any event, he will continue also his present offices and voting residence in Stroudsburg." —Upon learning that it has been the practice in Luzerne county for the last twenty years to convert barrooms into polling places on election days. President Judge H. A. Fuller directed that the practice must stop and de clares that it was not only a violation of the law but against common de cency. Judge Fuller's attention was called to the practice during a session of liquor license court and the other members of the bench expressed sur prise when he announced that he knew nothing of the practice. —A Washington dispatch says: "A strong protest against the obolishing of the bonus wage system at the Frankford arsenal, in Philadelphia, was made on the floor of the Senate by Senator George T. Oliver, of Pennsyl vania. Mr. Oliver earnestly urged the Senate to retain the present system of paying workers at Frankford, pointing out that the bonus system has enabled many diligent men and women of Frankford to pay for their homes. The House bill prohibited the giving of bonuses and the Senate committee eliminated the prohibition. As a re sult of the fight made on the floor of the Senate in favor of the bonus sys tem the bill as finally passed last night was free from the prohibition. The bonus system at Frankford arsenal, therefore, is restored." —Governor Brumbaugh. It was re ported yesterday in Philadelphia, has decided that all of his appointments to carry out the provisions of the pro posed new workmen's compensation act will be made upon a strictly non political basis. The Governor will name men on the basis of ability and cut out political considerations en tirely. As at present planned by the Governor, there will be three commis sioners to administer the act, the chairman of the board to receive $7,500 and the other two niepibers $7,000 each. There are also to be ten adjusters at $2,500 each, while there will likewise be an office staff of clerks rind stenographers. HAVE YOU HAD the GRIP? The debility and depression follow ing an attack of the grip Is not a fan cied disorder. "Post-grippal neuras thenia" is the medical name for this condition and its seriousness is recog nized by all medical writers. One authority says: "Broadly speaking, every victim of the grip will suffer from post-grippal neurasthenia also, lowering of nervous tone, with increased irritability is the most striking effect of the disease, with lan guor of mind, and body, disturbed sleep and vague pains in the head and elsewhere." Every sufferer will recognize *he symptoms. What is the remedy? After the fever has passed and the influenza has subsided the diet should lie more liberal but be limited to ar ticles easily digested; rest and suffi cient sleep are essential and Dr. Wil liams' Pink Pills are the only medicine required in most cases. This treat ment should be continued until ihe patient is completely restored to nor mal health and spirits. Jt is a spe cific treatment and rarely if ever fails. Send to-day for the booklet "Build ing Up the Blood." It is free If you mention this paper. Address the Dr Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady IN. Y. Your own druggist soils Dr Williams Pink Pllla.—Advertisement. I OUR DAILY LAUGH I NO DANGER. \T * Jf Jtld: Yesslr, I IS 'spects to be .► ffl much easier in » my mind in 1915 Old Gent: Why no leap J**r! UNCLE HATCH |-S1 ES SOME "Pa, I heard Uncle Henry 'My that he had agar hatched out A | scheme. How ft could he da "He probabl) had his mtnd set " on it." aIS RESOLU- •■fl ~ TION. |l^gJ Here's my New fear resolution: ' t ain't goin' to ttave no more kid bruddera an' sis- lers. Dat goes. I'LL GET HIM YET By Wiiiß Dingrr There is a mouse up at my home. He's been there quite a while. I've set a lot of traps for him Of every different style; I've baited them with meat and cheese And other tidbits, too, I've even spread some poison 'round The' hole that he comes through. But don't you know that pesky thing .lust ducks them all: why, say, He seems to relish wood the most, You ought to see the way He eats holes in the doors—aha', A light shines through the fog, I'm going to buy another trap And bait it with a log. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY I YEARS AGO TO-DAY I [From the Telegraph, Feb. 24, 1865.] High Price l'or Horses Four draught horses brought $1,140 yesterday at a public sale. Pastor to Speak The Rev. John Walker Jackson will speak on "Andrew Jackson" at Mid dlctown to-night. Indians (ioinc to Washington Fifteen Indian chiefs passed through here yesterday en route to Washing ton. i nlw £ [From the Telegraph, Feb. 24, 1865.] Wilmington Taken Washington, Feb. 24. Rear Ad miral Porter reports the capture of Wilmington on the morning of Wash ington's Birthday. Salute Fired Washington, Feb. 2 4.—Grant's army fired a salute all along the front in honor of the capture of Charleston. Mobile .May Be Seized New Orleans. Feb. 23.—The capture of Mobile is expected at any hour. \ STORY RITEN' By the Messenger Boy v ' Jhe horspistol- is where you go after your automobile goes in the ditch. If Quit Sneezing!' A little Kondon's Catarrhal Jelly placed In the nostrils will bring relief. Your druggist guarantees it. Money back if it fails. A 25c or 50c tube of KONDON'S Original and Genuine CATARRHAL JELLY Don't delay. Use it at once. Its cooling,' soothing, healing effects are wonderful. Best thing you can use for chronic nasal catarrh, colds in head, sneezing dry catarrh, sore nose, nose bleed, etc. 16.000.01)0 tubes have been sold. Write us for generous free cample. 35,000 druggists sell this splendid remedy. Avoid dangerous substitutes. KONDON MFC. CO., Minneapolis, Minn. Saturday, February Semi-Annual Sale Ends It has been the most successful sale we have ever held and as a matter of course, while some styles are all sold out—others have a few pairs remaining. We have taken these small lots, about 1,000 pairs, in Men's and Women's, values up to $5.00, put them into a section for quick selling and you may have your choice OQ C of any pair in the lot at- t Ads what gives the atmospero to the plac (whatever that is) and they are at til back of most of the cures, althoug the dockters takes the glory, and ai very strong on pay-day. The nurses in the little pink an white caps and tho aprens are the tlri things a fello sees when he wakes u after heat-in his bones crack in accident, and they look like the ange he used to hear about in the Sunda School lesson but never expected t see. When the times comes to take th big all-round-the-year exkurslon, th horspistol is a nice place to start fron with everything business-like, and th sheets tucked in at the side of the bei and plenty of winders to let the ligl in, and the nurses goin around qui< and easy, and nobody makln muc fuss. Corns Go ! You Bet ! 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