6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPh Established Its' PUBLISHED BT TBI TKLEGRAPH PRINTING CO. K. J. F TACICPOLD ffUUtnt mnd Edifr-in-Chitt W. R. OTSTBR Stertiary Gl'S M. STEINMETZ itanosing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, Jl| Federal Square. Both phonea. Member American Nowspaper Publish, era* Association. Audit Bureau ol Circulation and Pennsylvania Assoc!- ated Dailies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building New Tork City. Hasbrook, Story * Brooks. Western Offioe, Advertising Building Chicago. 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at <i/S© Jr „.Ailk> six rents a week. Mailed to subscriber* Ht $2.00 a year in advance. Bntered at the Post Office in Harris, Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dnllx average for the three - BioathH fixiiaK Feb. lUIS. m W 21,745 ★ Average for the year 1014—SU13 Average tor the year 1t11—21,577 Average far tie year 1812—<21,175 Averaee for the year 1911—15,851 Average for the year Mir —17.495 ' ' '■■■■' r TTBSDAY EVENING, MARCH 2. *- " • ON THE: FIRING LINE GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH went out on the firing line last night. He took the people's commis sion and sounded a call for the men elected to do the people's will to rally and make the charge for local option. There was not much doubt about where the Governor stood on local op tion In the recent campaign, and he reiterated it when he learned of his election by a majority over his rivals — a majority gained from the State out side of the two big counties. Around inauguration time there were sounds that indicated he was testing his guns and his deliverances at Reading and at Philadelphia last week were notices that he was getting ready to light to carry out his pledge. Last night ho issued the call to duty and lie expects the members of the Legis lature to give him their aid. AVhile the Governor showed con siderable reluctance as to an alterna tive. he let it be known pretty plainly that the members who vote against the local option bill can expect to have the fight of their lives on the local option issue at home in the next pri mary campaign. The Governor is supported by many of the home folks, too, and the wise legislator will stop and consider his future, if his present inclinations should be to vote against the Williams bill. The Governor Is out on the flrins line and there is going to be action. RIVER BANK PLANTING WARREN H. MANNING, the city landscape architect, is nothing if not practical. His greatest valu6 to Harrisburg has been his ability to combine the decorative with the utilitarian. His plan to cover the newly-filled river bank above "Hardscrabble"' with the hardy, rapidly growing matrimony vine will not only turn that bare slope of earth into a beautiful green bed of matted plant life within a year, but will give the bank a permanency that it could not have if It were planted with grass or sodded. The matrimony vine is modestly beautiful at all seasons of the year. It blossoms very prettily in spring time, is green during the summer and most of the winter, and during the autumn and winter is covered with a brilliant scarlet berry that renders it very effective as a landscape deco ration. particularly so when the ground is covered with snow, against which it stands out in strong contrast. Self-appointed critics of City Coun cil have been censuring the Park Com missioner for having purchased the earth with which this fill was made because a rise in the river has carried away some small sections of the newly dumped earth. This criticism is un just. The fill was made not only be cause it was necessary for the im provement of that very important stretch of parkway, but because it was insistently demanded by the people of the uptown district, who find in the River Park their only convenient breathing space during warm months. Mr. Taylor would have been oen sured severely, and very properly so, if he had neglected the opportunity which the excavation at the new Penn sylvania freight station in the lower end of the city afforded him. It will be years before so much good, solid •fill" will be again at the disposal of 'he city. Had not Mr. Taylor taken advantage of the chance tc purchase this largo quantity of earth, the people <>f the entire upper end would have been left without any park develop ment along tho river and this very im portant stretch of parkway would l ave remained the unsightly dumping • round for oshes and what-not that it has been Inr tho past ten years. It was to "oo supposed that a freshet such as has been experienced during the past week would carry away some of the filled-in ground. That must necessarily continue until tho fill has been properly anchored by such treat ment as Mr. Manning proposes, and until the efficacy of this planting is demonstrated adverse criticism of the city authorities with respect to this development is unjustified and unfair. A FIRST RESERVE CORPS THERE is good sense and' practial judgment behind the announce ment from New York that Cap tain Gordon Johnson, aid-de .camp to Major General Leonard Wood, has undertaken the organization of an American Legion of 250,000 men formerly connected with the army and navy and the militia of the various TUESDAY EVENING, States to net as an emergency corps in case tlic United States should be come embroiled in the European mix up or bo suddenly attacked by some foreign nation. The fact that Major General Wood has given the plan his endorsement and that such a recog nized authority as ex-President Roose velt has written a letter approving the proposal, gives the movement a weight that It would not have were It put forward as the thought of some less prominent personages. As Colonel Roosevelt well put it. It is to bo hoped that there will be no war, but the surest way to avert war is to be prepared for it and the only way to avert disaster is by preparation, both naval and military, in advance of the possible need. Every day It be comes more and more apparent that certain European influences are striv ing to bring this country into the world conflict now in progress and the best way to discourage such efforts is to let everybody know that we are not as helpless in a military way as it may appear or that, realizing our helpless ness, we are providing a remedy for sthe defect. Nobody in America, desires to build up n large standing army. EuforceU military service is abhorent to the very principles on which our government is founded. The maintenance of a very large National Guard also might meet with much objection, but surely no body would stand in the way of organ izing a reserve force of 350,000 men experienced in land and naval warfare to stand between the regularly con stituted miltlary forces of the land and the private citizen with no knowl edge of the rules of the war game. CHURCHES RESPOND LIBERALLY THE churches of Harrisburg re sponded liberally to the call of the Home and Foreign War Relief Committee for money to provide much needed aid for the un employed of Harrisburg. A large ma jority of the Sunday schools took up special collections, many of them ex ceeding $25 in amounts. If every one of the 100 churches had done as well as those who reached the high water mark, the treasury of the committee would have been enriched by more than $2,500. As it is the probabilities are that enough will have been realized by these church contri butions to keep the committee's work going until warm weather shall have made it possible to give employment to a large number of men who have been idle since outdoor improvements were halted by freezing temperatures last December. The Sunday schools have set a very good example. It is to be hoped that the fraternal and social organizations will respond as generously. SUNDAY "MOVIES" IT is announced that a bill is now being prepared to authorize the operation of moving picture shows on Sunday and it is said that this legislation will not be presented unless those back of it feel assured it will receive serious consideration. It is to be imagined that if such a measure is introduced it will receive serious consideration, but possibly not of the kind its sponsors anticipate. There could be just one reason for the enactment of such a piece of legis lation —additional profits for {he mov ing picture operators. There is no public demand for this form of enter tainment on Sundays. Anybody who cannot find opportunity to gratify his taste for the "movies" during six days of the week, with at least a half-dozen theaters In full blast in every town of auy size in the State, is indeed in a pitiful state of mind. Every Legislature for the past ten years or more has been annoyed by bills of this kind. Once or twice it has been the legitimate theaters that have asked for permission to open their doors on the Sabbath and almost every session has witnessed renewed argu ment on the question of Sunday base ball. Harrisburg at least has no inclina tion toward the so-called continental Sabbath. If the Legislature were to permit the exhibition of moving pic tures on Sundays, there could be no reasonable excuse for not including the theatrical and vaudeville houses, and with that breach made in th© laws regulating Sabbath observance there would be no end to further demands for concessions and our one day of rest In seven would soon be a thing of the past. POSTING PRIMARY RETURNS POPULAR support will be found all over Pennsylvania for a bill presented in the House last night by Representative Powell, of Lu zerne county, requiring the posting of primary election returns. Through some oversight, tho primary bills have not provided for posting of tins im portant information, and as a result where an election board was in a hurry or wanted to be disobliging, through some kink of human nature, or wanted to hide what had happened, it Just "forgot" to post the vote results and let folks guess. Tho trouble such practices have caused is well known to people in this county and prob ably to a greater extent in the anthra cite region whence Mr. Powell hails. Under the bill, the posting of pri mar returns is made mandatory, just like the posting of general election figures. It becomes the duty of the election board to post. While the bill lacks a penalty clause, it will doubt less correct an annoying omission of the primary acts. STATE MUST GO SLOW A GENERAL appropriation bill carrying J40.955.722.42 at tho go-off is steep even for wealthy Pennsylvania. It does not fol low that the draft presented to the Legislature last night by Mr. Wood ward to provide for the expenses of government for two yefcrs will be passed that way or approved that way if it should pass. The bill represents the estimates of the heads of depart ments and some of theni conceived their requests with more zeal than modesty. The truth is that Pennsylvania has something like $60,000,000 to spend in two years. It must care for its roads and its schools, establish work men's compensation administration and maintain its great work for hu manity through its Health depart ment; it is required to keep up vari ous departments which deal with the people, their lives, their business and their utilities. It is obligated to town ships for $5,000,000 for aid for roads and the demands of the wards of the State are greater than ever before. It is a time for careful figuring and local charities may have to call more on the people they serve than in years gone by. The State has many new de mands and some which have grown in the last few years. Toning chat i Two dozen big rabbits from the northern part of the State have come to pay visits to the mountains between jC umberland and Perry counties and in a short time some of their cousins from \ irglnia will be turned loose in the upper part of Dauphin county. These rabbits have been bought by the State [for propagation purposes and are turned loose by the game wardens. This is the closed season on rabbits and it is believed that by the time next Pall rolls around there will have been an increase In the rabbit population and good sport will be afforded to the hunters. The rabbits turned loose in Cumberland county are big strong fel lows that appeared to be very active and willing to make homes and grow up with the country when liberated. -ui -'kely that any of the deer v men the State and sportsmen have been securing will be turned loose here because the country is not very well suited to them, although Perrv iountv hits lirnv localities for the animals. In all probability efforts to propagate i ins necked pheasants may be made In the country near here as it is well suited for them and at the same time reports can be made on the way they take to their surroundings. In'addi tion to this planting of game there are & number of trout being prepared for shipment to streams in this section. Some of them are among the finest at Belletonte and as they are all yearl '"*»s they will survive and help restore the fame of some of the upper end creeks as trout streams. Mobilization of the street sweeping brigades in some parts of the city is a ceremony and attracts much atten tion. The men are all armed with big brooms and when they start work in the morning and assemble after their dinner they gather and then form in line and go right down street like a regiment. A couple of kids saw the force mobilize in North Sixth street and when they started off their sweeping march the kids began to call "Hep, hep, shoot No. 3 if he don't keep step. ' The boss broommaster had to chase the kids away. The transformation of the old Bethel church in State street near Fourth in to an armory for the Governor s Troop has been started and if the necessary fittings can be secured the building will be ready for occupancy within a short time. The building has been turned over for the use of the cavalry men without windows or anything else, but it is believed that with ex penditure of comparatively little money that it can be made well suited for the uses of the troop until the State has to tear it down tor park extension. The lower rooms will be used for stor age purposes and the upper part for the drilling. The building is strong enough for the work of the troop in its evolutions. Attendance at the farmers' institutes held last week in Dauphin county was the best in recent years and it "is at tributed to the tine weather and the improved condition of the roads. The farmers went long distances to attend the meetings and the questions asked indicated a big interest in intensive farming and soil conservation. There is also much interest being shown in silos and a number have been built in this section. One can always tell when there have been out-of-town visitors to the Capi tol and it is not always by the stuffed condition of the squirrels and the lazi ness and well fed air of~4lie pigeons, says one of the men connected with the park. It is the number of papers used for wrapping lilins. The other morning he says he counted six of the black papers scattered along the old "boardwalk." Governor Brumbaugh and Secre tary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Wood will be speakers at the dinner of the Lafayette College alumni in Philadelphia on Saturday night. Last Saturday the Governor spoke to Swarthmore men. Among visitors to the city yesterday was James S. Benn. city editor of the Philadelphia Xorth American and well known to many people in this part of the State. He went to the Capi tol to see the Legislature work. I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Thomas Martin, prominent in llazleton and vicinity, .has been named a director of the Middle Coal Field poor district. —Senator W. S. Kenyon. o? lowa, is to speak in Pittsburgh on Friday night. —Dr. W. B. Ewinr. of Pittsburgh. Is in charge of arrangements for the semicentennial of the Allegheny County Medical Society. —Thomas Mellon, of Jeanette, is on a trip to California. —Dr. A. S. Stayer, well-ltnown Al loona physician, has been appointed surgeon of one of the national homes in the South. —The Rev. Dr. Edwin H. Rice has retired from religious editorial work after almost 45 y ears' service. That HarrHhurg is one of the big centers of the corn trade In this part of the State? ' \ "Hello Send Me " Shopping by telephone Is on the increase. Telephone companies encourage It by good service and by newspaper advertising. With phone shopping the de mand for standard advertised products also increases. People like to call for definite things by name when they shop via the wire. It insures quality and value and their getting exactly what they want. This Is one of the reasons why newspaper advertising Is so ef fective for the national adver tiser. Telephone nuil newspaper are dally companion* In nenrly every home. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH DEMOCRATS FEAR BIG PARTY REVOLT j Morris Worried Lest the Dissatis faction Culminate in Attack on Leadership BOSSES HUNTING SOME CASH Do Not Want to Saddle Debt on Themselves; Governor Names Philadelphia Judge Democratic State bosses fear an out break of the plain people among the Democrats because of the arbitrary manner in which they have been doling out post offices and turning down men of years of service In the party ranks. Stories arc afloat that the visit of Morris and McCormlck to Western Pennsylvania was to head off a revolt which may come after the legislative session, and that they are considering getting active to give some excuse for running the machine. As a result it is said' that the ringmaster's committee may be recon stituted and efforts made to create a noise by presenting bills to be knocked down. This would furnish opportun ity for loud outcries and give the pub licity committee something to talk about later on. The bosses are also said to desire to arouse some party sentiment in the hope oij getting cash to pay off the debts. The party workers are ad verse to contributing, feeling that the men who stood a chance of profiting by the election should pay the bills for the recent rout. The machine is in a bad way and no one seems to love the bosses, who are also said to be in disfavor at Washington because of their failure to get results and to be due for some sharp turndowns. —Governor Brumbaugh last night named William H. • Shoemaker, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer, to be judge of Philadelphia courts, to suc ceed the late Judge Kinsey. He was endorsed by many prominent men. The Senate will act upon it next week. The successor to Judge Wilsson who is about to retire, will not be named until April. The Governor also named 1. J. Hortsman to be an Inspector of the Eastern Penitentiary to succeed the late R. A. Balfour. —E. Lowry Humes, former member from Crawford and now United States district attorney for Western Penn sylvania, was at the Capitol. —A hearing on the Spangler county officers' salary bill Is being given this afternoon. —Morris Knowles, prominent in water projects in the western end of the State, was at the Capitol to-day. —Representative Garner last night took steps to have the bill regulating aeid lubricating oil sent to the mines and mining committee. "The chair man and members of the labor and industry committee do not know any thing about oil." said he. —Local appropriation bills were presented last night as follows: Mr. Wildman. Nursery Home, 517.000. in cluding SIO,OOO for a building, and Children's Industrial Home, SB,OOO, and by Mr. Xissley, Messiah Home, $3,000. —-Representative James A. Dunn, ot Philadelphia, says that if the Hood of letters on the full crew repeal keeps up. he favors a bill to allow each member a secretary. —Ex-Representative C. E. Caroth ers. of Washington, was at the Capitol to look after Panama Exposition mat ters. —The general appropriation bill went book to committee very promptly last night. —T. B. Foley, inspector of the AVest em Penitentiary, and J. Denny O'Neil, Allegheny county commissioner, were Capitol visitors. r \ STORY RITEN' There is a gink what is a good bit of a nut, says he would give a SI,OOO for ! a gurl, so I thought i'd advertize him a little, and mebby the gurl ud <rlve me sevril purcent of it for commishun j when she gets the money. This here fello ses he has the money ' in the Dauphin deposit lock-up, and I sez he means bisness, but I don't think there's much chanst for him gettin the ; gurl even if he does offer SI,OOO for her, ] i because he's more or less a nut, as I j ■«ed before. He sez he'll give the money | to the gurl herself and not to no agent. I but I'm figgerin that the gurl might, give me some of it for this ad, which is the reason I'm settln it up. This guy is a natral-born grouch but I he sez he wants a good-natchured gurl | who must be abel to cook ham-ar.d- : eggs and smile on all ockashun3. for I which he sez he'll turn over his pay- | envillp rcglcr every week to hor to do the marketir. with and buyin Spring 1 hats, etc. All he wants is i. quarter a week to got tobacca w'th; and he never makes a fool of hisself on this amount, he sez. The qualiflclcashuns is as follows: she must be ither a brulnett or a kemi krl blonde; blue eyes or brown or j green: not over Ave foot ten, not tinder i four foot-seven; must be corn-fed but not too much of a chicken; also ought to be capaijel to boss things and main tain peace In tho family. Anywhere between 1$ and 3r> will do, i he sez, and she must be abel to talk i a streak, but with sotno sense in her conversashun, oven if it is about stiles and wlmen's topicks of talk, I which can be made artistick if wanted I to be made so. I 1 aint been awtherized to do thin I adevrtisin and mebbe tho fello will ' kick me a kupple times for doin it, but I'm tellin the truth and hope somothln'U come of it so as I get a few dollars, which T need very muchly, Sprlne comin on and my old soot gettin shiny. Ap plickants for the SI.OOO can rite me I through the mail and I'll get it to the fello allrite. If the gtirl wants to she car. send her foto and address so's the l | guy can coir.e round and look at her. 1 nXBEI. CAUSE I I'HI I.D HY y. J. Trenton, March 1. Tho antislavery j amendment was defeated to-day in the New Jersey Legislature by a 30 to 30 j vote. I>over. March I.—Governor Cannon died this morning after a short illness. CAM'S STATE CONVENTION Washington, March 2. —Rebel presi dent Jefferson Davis has called a con vention of the Southern States. The rebel army at Petersburg expects an attack from Grant. AN EVENING THOUGHT Time is endlessly long, and every day is vessel into which much may he poured. If one will readily fill it up.—Goethe. Far be it from us to doubt the Ger man Chancellor's statement that his people love the Belgians hut we shud der to think of their fate should the Teutons ever get mad at them. Nashville Southern Lumberman. I OUR DAILY LAUGH I COME IN HANDY. ir.l 1 I * The husbands IJ ll I who walk In 1 i, LI their sleep ■Mfcyll P". 9 Make happy |jj? the women they marry, For then if the ~ babies should I They're passed Lj Xl.-^ to their fa- 7^ th e r s to carry. ART OF ORA- i tort. Senator 3. I j ■'-ffii l suppose you hav« I i-Y"/V H' b<?en » lvin £ your 1 *i ■! W people out home i ftA v -' M M somet hing to -iw,' i 4 U think about. | Senator B.— No j I have been tell ■_ 1 fi» I ing them funny *** M stories to keep ~ 1 — them from think ing. THE HALL MARKS OF STATION. *7^^ 1e c t neighbor- \ S\. mjjtop! I should say it k Kaffly jj ' black we've six lw! M limousines, four fjmjjt*-* jjjßT | Pekinese pups Irak i and one baby I IIIVK TWICE Hy Wins; lHnerer 'Twas in the middle of the night That wifey said to me, "I think a burglar's In the house; Go right down stairs and see." Of course. I thought that she was wrong. And started 'cross the floor To play the part of hero bold, But stopped short at the door. For suddenly'there came to me A little chill of fright As there pojiped in my head the thought "By jove. she may be right." Did I go down the stairs? Oh, yes. On that 'tis safe to bet. But not before some noise was made By chair or two upset. I 1 IXAI Ut HATION I*l. AN S Many of the citizens of this city will attend the Inauguration cere monies at Washington. Business will be suspended in the large cities and big celebrations are being planned. FIKKMEX AIMtIVB Eighty members of the Good Will Fir" Company, of Philadelphia, arrived here at noon. COMMANDER OX BUSINESS TI«1P Major John T. Morgan is in this cltyi on military business. root !l] They GoJf Regardless of cost and Mlly profits, but they won't v IP|l;g I hold out much longer un- '|l|| der the pressure of such If ||| low prices. Thus do we pay the penalty—while forehand ed men reap the benefit—of our Complete Clearance Policy. d|l A 7 C For sls and $lB <|)ll/«f«s Suits and Overcoats $20.00 1 $25.00 1 Suits and Overcoats Suits and Overcoats $14.75 $18.75 v— 1 304 Market Street Harrisburg, Pa. MARCH 2, 1915. i Our Children's Department Is Demanding More Room ——. The buyer says she must have it—that settles it. That means tearing out brick walls and a general re arrangement of space for cashier, bookkeeper and office which spells dirt and dust galore. The fewer shoes we have in the stock room the less trouble to us, so We Have Decided to Clear Out a Lot of Shoes at a Price That Ought to Be Interesting to You Ladies' low shoes and pumps in russet, suede, vel vets and satins ONLY, in regular $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00 grades. Your choice of any pair in £ f t\o the lot 1 .yO The styles are all right for the coming season. Just a few pairs left of those high shoes we are offering ! At $1.50 fe If your size is here you can get a great big bargain, i The former price was $3.00 to $5.00. I Jerauld Shoe Co. 304 Market Street ! I ROUND ABOUT II The Southwest Greensburg police can stand for some tilings, hut by cracky! when a speakeasy begins to charge a dollar a bottle for ten-cent beer just because !t happens to be I Sunday, the law in that peaceful vil lage can't help but get Its dander up. The officers in Squire J. Q. Truxal's office had long been watching the house kept by John A. Meyers, ami so when they heard of the insult which the pro prietor was adding to injury, they up and raided the place. • * • John Morgan, an Englishman, of Ells worth, a mining community near Char loroi. is said to be in a critical condi tion as a result of slapping Miss Sadie Bytheway, a buxom young maiden of those parts, at a party the other night. It is related that the young man was 1 attending a dansant with Sadie, and that because she hesitated with a hated rival, he slapped her right out in front 1 of everybody. Sadie got busy with her strong right. John has taken a turn for the worse, which may give the grim , reaper another sheaf. Is our neutrality calculated to stand wear and tear? —Wall Street Journal. : I LETTERSTOThEEDITOR j ! FULL CHEW LAW REPEAL , To the Editor of the Telegraph: There can be no question as to the advisability of repealing the full crew law, being a law that was enacted 011 the initiative of certain politicians In an attempt to satisfy a certain element, and a small element at that, whose de mands are becoming insistent, and of which they are many members, who, In private conversation, freely admit that it works an unnecessary hardship on the railroads, and is of no benefit to the public. As to the matter of properly manning trains, there can be no doubt as to where the railroad managers stand. It is to the interest of every railroad to have its trains fully manned, aside from satutory requirements. Common sense should tell people that railroads will not care, nor dare, to take a chance with an undermanned train, that they demand quickness in all their movements and must avoid ac cidents. AN OBSERVER.
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