8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established jSji PUBLISHED BY TBS TKLEORiFH FRINTtKG CO. ». J. FTACKPOLE TruUtnt and Edittr-iet-Chiif T. R. OTSTEIt Secretary GITS M. STEINMETS Malta tint Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, lit Federal Square. Both phone*. iCember American Newspaper Publish er*' Association. Audit Bureau o| Circulation and Pennsylvania Aisoel ated Dallies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story * Brooks. Western Office. Advertising Building, Chicago. HI.. Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers et <SSBK*>DJIXE> *lx cents a week. Mailed to subscribers tt $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris- Pa., as second clsss matter. Sworn dally average for the three ★ months endlnic Feb. 28,1815. m 21,745 * Average for the jemr 1914—23.113 Average for the year 1912—31,577 Arerage for the year 181X—31,1TB Average for the year 1811—1*,»51 Arera*e for the year 19tC.-17,49S 1 - ■ . ■ FRIDAY EVENING, MAKOH 6. ABSURD ACCUSATIONS CITY COMMISSIONER LYNCH announces the good news that the spring Improvement work is under way—which means that outdoor operations will give work soon to many of thoso who have sought employment In vain the past winter. A week or so ago Mr. Lynch and his two Republican colleagues in council were accused of holding up contracts for the deliberate purpose of keeping men out, of work. Yet with the frost still in the ground public improve ments have been begun in no small way. The fact 1s that Mr. Lynch and all the counellmen, regardless of party, are anxious to do what they can toward providing employment for as many men as the funds at their dis- posal Trill permit. To think other wise would he to believe them as self ish and wicked as some of their critics are silly - and untruthful. HEROICS on MARTYRS SEVEN" men left the halls of Con gress yesterday who ought to have a vote of thanks from the country at large. They are the •even Democratic senators who hero ically resisted the order from the White House to pass the obnoxious ship bill regardless of anything but :he President's wishes'. So absolutely dominant has been President Wilson at Washington dur 'ng his brief reign as the dictator of Ihe Democratic majority that this one particular Instance of resistance to his will stands out above every other oc .-urrence at the national capital during !he past two years. Congress regular ly up to the time of the defeat of the shipping bill had existed merely to register the edicts emanating from the Whit© House. President Wilson, not withstanding his wordy opposition tol so-called "Cannonism," had wielded up to that time a control over Con fess that must have made the vener nble "tnclc Joe" blush for shame and envy. The seven who stood by the safe and sane Republican minority did! *o at the expense of Presidential pres- 1 tlge. The President is no longer to be looked upon as invulnerable. His will is no longer law. Those who have taught the country this lesson have naturally incurred the enmity of the executive. Time only will tell whether they are to be "martyrs as well as heroes. TAKE YOUR CHOICE RIGHT in the face of the Pennsyl vania Railroad's report showing January to have been the poor est month in twenty-eight years from a traffic standpoint comes the optimistic assertion of the Iron Age that things are looking up in the steel trade and that railroad orders are especially encouraging. Rails are be ing purchased in particularly large iiuantitles. In tho classic language of the mid way barker. "You pays your money and you takes your choice;" which is to say, if you ar© of a pessimistic turn of mind, your penny's worth of evening newspaper may be made to yield whatever dose of gloom your perverted system demands, while if you axo looking for something to put heart into you for the morrow's busi ness you will be able to lind cheer-up tonics on almost every page. "Seek and ye shall find" is advice applicable to material as well as spiritual things. BANK FAILURE ANOTHER big bank failed yester day largely because it violated two of the principles underly ing all safe and conservative •ystems of banking—it held too much of the paper of one concern and its credit system was defective. It ought to be one of the require ments of the national banking law that bank inspectors see to it that no na tional bank is permitted to put a dan gerously large sum of Its funds into any investment that carries with it ihe least possibility of depreciation. With respect to the credit side of the railure, that is more difficult to con trol. During the past fifteen years there lias been unprecedented development In the credit departments of banks, large and small. As late as 1892 President Cannon, of tho Fourth Na tional Bank of New York City, com mented on the fact that but six banlffe In the entire United States maintained credit departments. To-day it would bo difficult to find among the larger banks that number not having such a / . ; ' FRIDAY EVENING, H&RIUBBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 5, 1915. department. Modern banks )n healthy condition compete for the profit to be had in handling loans, and unless their credit officers are thoroughly effi cient men hacked by -well organized offices, the bank Is not only not pre pared to handle applications promptly and effectively, but are in a position to endanger the whole banking struc ture. More banks go to the wall because they have failed In their credit de partments than because bank officials have been dishonest. It is the bank that looks most carefully to its credits that is safest for its depositors and in the long run moßt profitable to its stockholders. TRIPIJNG GASOLINE OITPCT THE announcement of Frank K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, that the United States Bureau of Mines has approved discover ies of two chemical processes that will 1 triple the gasoline output of the United States, will quiet the fears of those who have been looking forward to the • possibility of a gasoline famine. The 1 secondary announcement of SecretarV Lane that methods for the production of coal tar dies and high explosives have been developed, which, when put into operation, will eliminate for -1 eign competition in tho sale of these articles in this country is scarcely less Important. Anything that will give the United States an advantage in the markets of the world at the present time is worthy of consideration. Neither Germany nor England Is going to stand idly by after the war is over and see American manufacturers taking away from them the trade they have long regarded as theirs. Jt would not bo surprising to find these two countries, now so in tensely striving each to throttle the other, entering into a trade agreement for their own protection against the aggression of the United States. Now is the time to intrench ourselves, and it is to be hoped that the several lines of Industrial development announced by Secretary Lano will hare been *o enlarged by the close of hostilities in Kurope as to give this country a big advantage in the foreign trade they represent. The falling off of $50,000 In street car revenues for the year is a tribute to the importance of busy factory to the trolley line. FRIEND OF OLD SOLDIERS WITH the closing of the Sixty third Congress it is pleasing to note that Congressman A. 8. Kreider has done excellent work for the old soldiers. He has proven himself their friend and has been exceptionally successful in ob- | taining pension legislation in their behalf. For Instance, the President recently signed a bill granting an increase of pension to Martin P. Schaffner, of Gratz, and one for "William Reigle, of Palmyra, increasing his pension to S4O a month, Mr. Reigle heing totally blind. A third bill for the relief of William Hewitt, an invalid soldier of Lebanon, will go to the President and receive his signature and incidentally an Increase to S3O per month. Another bill, the passage of which Mr. Krelder secured after many diffi culties, provides a pensionable status for Francis Tomlinson, who has never drawn any pension heretofore, but will now be entitled to S3O a month. It is commendable to note that Mr. Kreider obtained relief for this worthy veteran, who recently passed his eightieth mile stone and is past helping himself. HER LIMIT A WELL-KNOWN member of the New York Legislature, who may be suspected of being even a greater humorist than a eonservationalist, has put this ques tion to his fellow members—"How many lobsters should the law permit a lady to eat?" Not very long ago a newspaper paragraph set forth that a lady from the Bronx had eaten twenty-one crustaceans at a single meal in com petition with a Harlem man who found seventeen to be the extreme limit of his stomach, it not of his appetite. This has led the legislator mentioned to introduce a bill making such wholesale consumption of lor>- sters a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and imprisonment. "How many lobsters should a lady eat?" Why just as many as a perfect lady would deem it ladylike to eat, taking into consideration always the size of the lady and the proportions of her escort's bank account. The New York Journal wonders edi torially why any sane and intelligent legislator should take up his time and the time of the lawmaking body with such matters. The answer is easy. The rural member is accused of play ing to the farmer vote every time he introduces an agricultural bill, and that being so it is only reasonable to conclude that the member who pre sents a lobster conservation measure is playing for the lobster vote. THE VISITING 'SECRET A HIES HARRISBURG has as its guests to-day the secretaries of Cham bers of Commerce throughout Pennsylvania. These young men —all of them are young, if not in years, at least in spirit—make a busi ness of town-boosting. To each of them the city he represents is the most enterprising, the busiest and the best in the State. He would not be a secretary worthy of the name did he not think so. But with loyalty they combine common sense. They know that no ono town has a monop oly on all the good things and they have heard that Hanisburg has been able by persistent and conscientious effort to corrall not a few or them. Consequently, they have congregated here to-day, not solely for the pur pose of exchanging ideas relating to their own work, but to see what it is that makes every Haijisburger as great a booster for his home city as may be met anywhere. It is to be hoped that they will be duly impressed and be able to find here sufficient to I pay them for their visit. iTVENING CHAT I Just now, when everyone is talking about compensation acts, it is Inter esting to note that twenty-three of the States have adopted such statutes, and. according to information reach ing Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown, most of the others are con siderlng the proposition. The vari ous States are exchanging acts and \ icws on tho subject and most of the leaders of legislation in other Com monwealths are watching with inter est what the great industrial State of Pennsylvania will do. Air. Brown is of the opinion that the act presented is the best suited for us and he has given much time and thought to it, obtaining the views of people in every walk of life. In drafting the law Pennsylvania has had to follow out its own lines, as the conditions here are radically different from those in Mas sachusetts or Michigan. It is inter esting to note that while workmen's compensation has existed in Germany in one form or another for over a century, and in other old world lands, yet it was first established in New York State only five years ago. A Federal statute antedated the adop tion of fhe law at Albany. Thus it will be seen that the lirst State ad ministration of compensation is less than half a decade old, and naturally the States are asking for experiences and changing and altering the provis ions. One of the most interesting re ports on the subject came from New York, where a committee summarized three years of the compensation law in New Jersey. Ohio and Massachu setts have made thorough reports, but it is apparent that the system is only commencing to work out in a way to suit their peculiar needs. The pro posed act may not be exactly what this State wants, but the Governor and people who have given the sub ject attention are inclined to believe with Attorney General Brown, that it is the best that can be prepared for the try-out here. It can be improved later on if It Is deemed advisable. "Do you know," queried the meek aldermanic court reporter, "that the first name of every alderman from tho Ninth Ward to the Thirteenth be gins with George? They are George A. Hoverter, of the Ninth: George W. MacWilllams. Tenth: George D. Herbert, of the Eleventh; George V. Bolton, of the Twelfth, and George B. Sprout, of the Thirteenth." Apparently the city was not a suf ferer by the recent high water, and when it comes down to dots no one lost so very much after all. The greatest loser was the firm of con tractors for the Cumberland Valley bridge at Mulberry street and they took a chance. These contractors, who wbrlc by business rules, piled their clay antl loam and sand on the ground just behind the "steps." They stood to escape trouble and they stood to get it. They got it. The water went in and took away tons of the material which the contractors had piled for use this summer. Forest Leaves, the interesting pub lication of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association, contains in its recent issue an unpublished photograph of Governor Brumbaugh taken many years ago in the woods. It shows the Governor leaning against a tree and in an attitude very carefree. Appar ently local option bills were not on his mind those days. Dr. Thomas Edward Munce, assist ant State veterinarian and secretary of the State Livestock Sanitary Board, has just been honored by elec tion to the presidency of the State Veterinary Medical Society, the largest and most progressive organ ization of its kind in the country. Dr. Munce, who r.omes from Washington county and who has a residence here, is well known to many Harrlsburgers as one of the most advanced men in his profession. For years he has been the mainstay of Stale Veterinarian Marshall in the important work *the board has had to handle this year. Dr. Marshall is a former president of the society and is now a member of its executive committee. A couple of lone robins and one solitary blackbird have been reported as the advance guards of Spring in Reservoir Park. The robins were no ticed flying about Cherry Hill and looking over residential sites. The blackbird was evidently a spy to get notes on the land and he did rot linger long. It is believed that the next warm wave will bring the birds from Virginia. Just where the black birds go in winter time is not known, but they have been reported about Richmond in January. The robins go farther .south, although 'they have ibeen known to appear in force earlier than the "blackies." Frank Feeney, the Philadelphia labor leader, and Francis Feehan, the Pittsburgh labor leader, were among | visitors here this week. They were at the Capitol on legislation. —Judge Marshall Brown, of Pitts burgh, in admitting eleven young lawyers to the bar, counselled them to keep a stiff upper lip. —Miss Jane Ad dams is making a series of addresses in the western part of the State. Henry Cochran, former legisla tor, ift active in behalf of the old fashioned fair it is proposed to or ganize for Fayette county. —Otto Becker, prominent resident of Erie, will visit Japan this Spring. —S. K. McGill. of Xew Castle, is spending a short time in the South. — : G. E. tJlines. of Franklin, has been elected a director of the Atlantic Refining Company. —S. M. Vauclain, of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, is home from a visit to Copenhagen. r— BO YOU KNOW—=I Tliat Harrisburg is one of the venters of the scrap iron industry in the Slate? AX EVENING THOUGHT Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.—Bulwer-Lytton. N Buying Public Confidence One of the largest construc tion companies iii the world is a constant newspaper adver tiser. Not one person in r.0,000 who reads its advertising is a possi ble customer. Tot it has made it pay big. It has made its name stand for eontldence. it has put itself in a posi tion where every one likely to embark In a building enterprise is going to give it consider ation. To reach the one man in (iO,- 000 the company is arter. Is a task readily performed by news paper advertising. II0NT« ACT FOR JUDGES DOOMED It Will Be Repealed to Take Effect on the Fir»t Day of the Coming Year, They Say NOT TO AFFECT THE CITIES Fusion Schemes After Primaries Will Be Made Impossible— Prohibition Bill Ready Abolition of the nonpartisan system of electing judges on January 1, 191 C, and a return to the old convention system may result from changes In the election laws which are being con sidered by Republican legislative lead ers. The bills will be finally passed on soon and may be presented within a fortnight. —Senator Penrose was credited with opposing the repeal. It Is now said that ho was misunderstood. He favors the repeal, but dors not want It to become effective until after January 1, 1916. There is to be r conference In Phila delphia on Saturday at which tho pro posed changes in the election laws will be taken up. It may be that Senators McNichol, Varc and Crow will have returned from Florida by that time. If they are not back in Pennsylvania by Saturday they will arrive Monday. Philadelphia lawyers have about com pleted the preparation of tho election laws and the conference Saturday is flfcr the purpose of looking over the drafts. —The present system of primary election laws was advocated by the in dependents in the hope they would re sult in the defeat of Senator Penrose. The laws having failed in their purpose, the promoters have lost interest in them. There is now a good deal of discussion of returning to the old sys tem of state conventions. The idea is to make the party responsible for the nominations. If the law is changed to make the nominations of state candi dates in state conventions it would not become operative until 1916, when the Auditor General and State Treasurer are to be nominated. It Is also prob able that if state conventions are re vived. these bodies will be given au thority to elect all of the national dele gates. —The Republican leaders are agreed that fusion after the primaries is to be prevented, it is not likely that any attempt will be made to prevent, a can didate from running in the primaries of as many parties as he desires. The position is taken that if a Republican is strong enough to win a Democratic I nomination, or vice versa, he should he allowed to bring home the bacon. After the primaries death is the only cause for a man to withdraw from a ticket. This provision is now the law in so far as the nonpartisan nomi nations are concerned. The extension of this plan to all nominations will practically prevent fusion. Tn addition to this preventive the new laws will provide, that independents desiring to have tickets in the November election must organize prior to the primaries and make their nominations in the primaries. There, is no intention of changing the party enrollment law. —lt became known here to-day that the bill providing for local prohibition of the sale of litiuor, to be voted upon at each municipal election, has been completed by the State Prohibition committee, of which Dr. P. E. P. Prugh is chairman, and that it will be introduced next week by Don Gingery, Clearfield. The bill provides that each ballot at municipal elections shall have the line "Against, the beverage liquor traffic." If the elector places his mark opposite the line, he votes for pro hibition in the district. If he does not vote, It is taken he is against pro hibition. The units are cities, coun ties. townships or boroughs. It was thought that the bill would make the ward the unit for cities. -—The sudden interest taken by the Democratic state bosses in their ma chine has been reflected on the Cen tral Democratic Club and steps are now being taken to have a Jefferson day dinner according to the ideas of members in the days when Harrlsburg cut some ice with the national ad ministration. A committee has been named to invite the President to be the speaker. —Congressman Arthur G. Dewalt, of Allentown, was here a day or so ago. He will be a power in the Pennsylva nia delegation and it is a rather odd coincidence that he goes in when A. Mitchell Palmer goes out. —Armstrong county Democrats are up in the air because W. A. McAdoo, who served as county chairman, has taken the Kittanning post office. Mc- Adoo is said to have a. very lucrative practice in license court in his county. —Senator K. H. Vare is expected to meet a number of liis lieutenants In Philadelphia to-morrow. He will see Governor Brumbaugh here on Tues day. —Judge Gorman, of Philadelphia, is planning to have assistant judges and means to have women nil the places because they can better handle*the juvenile cases. —Speaker Ambler is quoted in Philadelphia as saying that he be lieves the Legislature will adjourn be fore the end of May. —Secretary Bryan may make some speeches in Western Pennsylvania towns. —The Dauphin County Progress! -e League got on its feet again last night and heard some speeches on the cause. No, policemen were required to hold back the crowd. —Friends of ex-Congressman R. E. Lee are pushing him for subtreasurer at Philadelphia despite Palmer's oppo sition. —Tammany Hall, an Alburtis or ganization. has quit. The Union Re publican Club has taken over mem bers and hall. OPEMTTOH ! every cell and fibre of the body demands pure blood* ' but drugs, extracts and alco holic mixtures are useless. Nourishment and nnnshine are nature's blood makers and the rick medicinal oil-food in Soott'm Emulsion enlivens the blood to [?~ arrest the decline. It aids the fm appetite, strengthen! the 0 nerves and fortifies the A\ lungs and entire system. jS* * Kg Fra* faa Alcckoi «r Opiate. ; Refw»« SabftitatM far kv SCOTT S 1- "Hart Schaffner & Marx" HIGH GRADE Winter Suits and Overcoats $12.50 Some worth $25.00, most of them worth SIB.OO, $20.00 "CLOTHCRAFT" ALL WOOL Winter Suits and Overcoats $9.00 i Some worth $lB, moat of them worth $12.50 and sls FLANNEL SPORT SHIRTS Only 10 Dozen to Sell. $1.50 Quality /WV H. MARKS & SON Fourth and Market Streets I OUR DAILY LAUGH I A SOCIAL NE CESSITY. Vlsttor Why ~ U»j I* your daughter j Lucia taking les- ~*3' T'JjSefiyT sons on the vlo- J lln? Has she j | » shown a special aptitude for the Mrs. De Rake— No; but every girl has to take lea sons on some- , thing, doesn't shx ? A SftOT AT SPKING Ily Whig l)lns»r I've sat around the shop to-day And thought, a lot, but gee. There's nothing - to be rhymed about. As far as I can see. But then there must be something In The paper by Wing Ding, And so I have decided to Take one good shot at Spring. For Spring is sure a fickle maid. She sends her sunny smile Upon us for a day or two And makes life well worth while. Then Icy frowns replace the smiles She sends a chilly breeze. We catch a cold, and for two weeks We hack and cough and sneeze. But then. I will say this for her, ■She's always ready to Make recompense for all her faults That may bring ills to you. She sends the birds, the flowers, too, And puts the trees in bud, Which helps us overlook her showers And slimy, knee-deep mud. AMUSEMENTS "Whatcha Laffin at?" IBE9B -ffirargirff '' j w Hi Billie Ritchie in special return engagement of "After Her Millions" Palace Theater, Tomorrow. e m " 1 •" \ Free Moving Pictures every evening 7 to 11 P. M., Palace Confectionery, 225 Market street. - SOME] [From the Telegraph, March 5, 1865] Prepare For Election Nominations are being made in the j wards of the city prior to the pri- I m&ries on March 17. Hydrophobia Causes Recruit's Death | Henry C. Thompson, of this city, who enlisted recently, died in Ohio of I hydrophobia. New Assistant on Railroad Samuel A. Black, superintendent of the Oil ('reek railroad, has been ap pointed assistant superintendent of the j middle division of the Pennsylvania [ railroad. [From the Telegraph, March 5, 1865] Slieridan Defeats Early Washington, March 5. —Reports here are that General Slieridan has captured Charlottesville, Va„ and the whole of General Karly's army. Porter Visits Stanton Washington, March 5. —Rear Ad miral Porter arrived here to confer with Secretary Stanton concerning re cent. captures of arms. Rebels Fortify Towns Newbern, X. C\, March 5. —Rebels are busy fortifying Goldsboro and Kinston. They expect an attack by Sherman. AMUSEMENTS /l/f A HTCT#/ 01 RETURN ENGAGEMENTSame Mlv Cast Seen Here January 9th Tuesday, Matinee mnd Night, March 9th | SEI.WVK * CO. PHKSEM' THE LAUGH FESTIV.tI. !]§)(§ k aJ l« j This Life! Price*, Muflnce, 25c, ."»Oc, 75c, 91. Evening 25c to SI.OO. Sent* To-morrun, ' .... The Fashion Shop VACATION DAYS WITH LIVING lIODEI/S A MUSICAL COMEDY SCHOOL ACT AND SIX OTHER KEITH HITS. AMD I TRIXIE FRIGANZA | r 1 ■■ t 1 — ■ To-day Only—Lllllaa* lluxnrll In WILDFIRE By G«ar«* Hroadliurat and Geo. V. Ilohart. \ slmhrrt Fralnrt with nn all-atar support In five reels. Sllonlag n< 12.30, f.SO, 11.30, 8.15 111 on With our uaual dally VIIHIIKC. nliniaii Kate," < Coined vI. Vilaarniilii "Getting Father'* Goat." M'omedvl, Kalem. To-morrow Mis* I'lorencc Naah la "Springtime," a romance of the South before the war ADMISSION, 10c. < HILDIIKX. se. Ambassadors of foreign nations *r«t hereby warned that they must avoid 'V?' s >' discussions in thr vlcinitv of the hlil,. ~,O USP' They might wake tin baby.—Chicago News. AMUSEMENTS /" Maie«tir N VIXCENT ITldjeSllC & AI'PELL, Mgrs. To-morrow, Matinee and Nifh SEATS XOW SEI.I.IXG RICHARD BENNETT'S Co-Workers in I'IUCF.Si Hat., 25e, BOe, 75e, fl.OOi F. VP., 2Sc to SI. r>o. *■ » >" \ Photoplay To-day "Twice Rescued" Two-part Yitngrnpli (Irßiim featur ing; Dorothy lielley and Jlnuulr Our flrftiilar Friday llallroari Story "The Engineer's Peril" "BRONCHO Bll.liY 4\D TIIK VIGI liAXTE," Pen tu ring Anderson n» Brvneho Hilly.
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