8 HARRISBURG TELECRAPfi Established lSjt PUBL.ISIIKD BY TUB TULGORAPH PRINTING CO. JC. J. F TACK POLK P'tsiitnt and Eiitor-in-Chiif F. R. OYSTER Stcrtlary C'JS M. STEINMKTZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun. dsy) at the Telegraph Building, 211 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau ef Circulation and Pennsylvania AasocU • ted Dailies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building 1 , Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at Six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers »t $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris. Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dully average for the tkrt* months ending Feb. as, 11U5. m W 21,745 w Average fur the Tear 1914—98.213 Average tar the year 1515—21,677 Areragra far the year 1012—U1.175 Average for the year Mil—lß,B3l Average for the year 1»10>-17,<4»K SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 20 ''WE TOLD YOU SO" / »K told you so," is not a \X/ pleasant phrase, but it is VV some times not to be over looked. Republican news papers the country over are in that po sition at this moment. More than two years ago they asserted as vehemently as they knew how that a Democratic victory in 1912 would result in disas ter to the business interests of Amer ica and involve the financial affairs of the country in as nasty a snarl as that from which a Republican president end a Republican congress extricated them at the close of the Cleveland ad ministration. To-day, with the Wil son regime little more than two years old, all of the evils anticipated have come to pass in a form aggravated far beyond the wildest fears of Republi can prophets. The Congress that has just ad journed authorized the expenditure of two billion dollars. It has created n deficit that will amount to $]33,- 000.000 by July 1, with no hope In sight and a bond issue to meet current expenses as the only way out of the difficulty. Added to this, the Demo cratic Congress enacted an irksome Income tax law and attempted to gloss «>ver its own tremendous extravagance by the passage and operation of a so called "war stamp tax" which touches the pocketbook of every man, women and child in the country. And all this with business depressed and con-1 etantly nagged by more and more ex- j jierimental legislation. No one knows where the country stands financially to-day and 110 one knows to what lengths the President proposes to go. In the language of one critic of the administration, the policy of the party in power is that of the spendthrift and the wasteral; the irresponsible conduct of a child vho has learned neither foresight nor prudence. Tt is entirely in keeping with the I.'story of the Democratic party, which has never been entrusted with power that it did not blunder into national disaster and its own defeat. It has proved its incapacity and the one blessing the country now enjoys in that Congress has never seri ously considered the proposed legisla tion increasing the term of the Presi dent from four to six years. Thanks, Mr. Weatherman, and may you hand out many more like to-day. CIVIC CLUB'S GOOD WORK THE Harrisburg Civic Club is fol lowing a constructive policy of highly commendable nature in deciding to continue the home garden contests that transformed so many of the back yards or Harris burg from ash heaps to beauty spots last year. There is none so poor that lie may not enter this contest, for the t'ivic club provides the seeds free and gives instructions to those who seek for them. This bcautification of yards is not confined only to those who enter into the contest, but families in houses ad joining these little oases in the rear yard deserts are encouraged to fol low the example of their enterprising neighbors. Then, too, there is to be considered the benefit to be derived by the little gardeners. As Dr. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education, recently said in an address before the Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild in New York City, this work of encour aging each child to have his own garden plot is valuable In .every way. "Gardening," said Dr. Claxton, teaches a child more practical knowl edge than any amount of dry text books, takes him out in the open air and easily can be made remunerative. If one or two little boys can raise SIOO worth of vegetables during the summer months it makes a great dif ference to their families, and the cul ture of flowers results in the develop ment of a wholesome love for beauti ful growing things." r.et the children work! It is the best thing in the world for them, pro vided the work is congenial and brings into play their creative faculties. The first object of education is to make the child useful, and the second to make him happy. Any child is happy if ho Is accomplishing something, so set him to work at his little garden which gives him more accurate knowl edge than mathematics, and where he learns the plain facts of life first hand. In summer this work is most important of all, for it is then that the little city child suffers most and SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG fifjjftfl TELEGRAPV MARCH 20, 1915 pines for the country. . A few flowers will keep him interested through the hottest months and almost as ready for the winter again aj though he had had a real vacation. i Italy seems to be occupying a posi tion somewhat as relatively uncom fortablo as that of the gentleman who found himself between the devil and the deep blue sea; only more so. tiIVK TIIEM FAIR PLAY U\T/H RX the devil was sick, \X/ the devil a monk would VV be; when the devil was well, the devil a monk *ai he," we are told, and this seems to apply pretty well to the express com panies who are asking the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to advance their rates. It is unquestionably true that be fore the days of the parcel post, the express companies charged rates that were, to say the very least, far from reasonable. Indeed, it was the con stant complaint of shippers that the express companies were "holding them up" that caused the government to enact the parcel post law. The result | has been the sharp slashing of ex press charges, until now it looks as though they had not only reached ! rockbottom, but a foot or two below, j Regardless of the fact that the ex | press companies never gave the pub lic. much consideration in its pleas fol lower rktes, it becomes the duty of tha, Interstate Commerce Commission to hear this case on its merits and to de cide without feeling the application made by the companies for higher charges. While their past is none to savory, the express companies are a necessity. They perform work that the parcel post is not fitted to per form and are preferable for the carry ing of certain lines of goods. It would be next to impossible for the govern ment to serve the public in some' re spects as well as the express companies can and do. They are, therefore, on titled to a living charge. Because they did not play fair with the public in days agone is no reason why the pub lic should not play fair with them now. The country is too big to har bor spite. Give the express companies a fair deal and pCTmit them to make such charges as will yield them a fair return on the money invested. The President must stay in Wash ington, he says. Probably because he is afraid to let his Secretary of State there alone. THE LOAN LAW APPARENTLY the decision of the Superior Court tn declar ing unconstitutional the money lendders act of June 3, 1913. is not an unmixed blessing. Under this law of 1913 rates in ex cess of six per cent, were permitted; in other words a brokerage charge was allowed in addition to the regu lar rate of interest. These additional charges which at first glance seem to be excessive, nevertheless were so much less than were permitted under the law upon which the money lend ers will now fall back that hundreds of so-called "loan sharks" were driven out of Pennsylvania thereby. These men could not do business under the new law and they preferred to close their offices and go to states where the regulations were less re strictive and profits larger. This left the field open in this State only to those who were willing to confine themselves to the requirements of the act that has just been declared ille gal. The way is now open, therefore, for the return of those unscrupulous money lenders who left Pennsylvania because they could not wring the last penny from their patrons. There are two sides to this money lending question. In the first place, the company or individual loaning money to applicants that have not sufficient collateral or endorsement to enable them to get credit at a bank assume risks that very frequently cause them Severe losses. It is also true that they do not have the op portunity of using money on deposit in profit-making enterprises, as do the banks, and that they therefore can not operate successfully upon as low a rate of loan interest as do the banks. It must also be considered that there are few legitimate businesses that can hope to prosper on a gross profit of six per cent. It is apparent from these facts that if the loan companies are to operate at all it must be at a rate of inter est in excess of the so-called legal rate in Pennsylvania, unless they ad minister funds upon which no profit is to be sought. Hard as this seems to be upon the small borrower, it is difficult to see how It can be other wise unless philanthropiesUy inclined citizens can be induced to Invest money in institutions modeled some thing after the type of remedial loan companies that have been organized to overcome the "loan shark" evil in some of the large cities. There comes a time in the life of almost every man when he is in ur gent need of reads - cash to tide him over some temporary emergency. The poor man needs this as well as the I rich, but he has no security to be thrown into bank as has his more fortunate neighbor. Nevertheless the poor man's need is as acute and sometimes far more urgent than that of the man with securities at hand or j friends to endorse, anh the community must recognizo his necessity and pro vide for it. It is to be hoped that conditions in Pennsylvania will not be permitted to drift back into the old deplorable state that preceded the enactment of the law that just lias . been declared unconstitutional. Spring may not be a season of pre varication. but by some strange coinci dence It is the time that produces the golf liar, the flsli story man, the chicken fancier whose hens lay two ecg* apiece dally, and the man who doesn't want a Spring suit because his old one isn't worn out. When Mr. Marshall Roes a-saillng he is to have a special flag to denote Ills office, and some critics are objecting. The man has to have some way of let tinu people know he Is Vice-President, harn't h«T I EVENING CHAT 1 Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh lias taken to the Executive Mansion when he wants to write vetoes or draft big bills. The run of visitors to the offices of the executive at the Capitol ha 3 been something unjyccedented and the mere knowledge that he is in the building is enough to start a regular parade of people to see him. The rush on the first three days of the week has been greater than ever known in the first six months of a gov ernor's term and not even at night has the Governor been free from callers at tho Executive Mansion. He has to take a bale of letters and communica tions home at night to get through his correspondence as his time at tlio t'apitol Is chiefly taken up In seeing visitors. Yesterday he fell back up on the methods of his predecessors and remained at the Executive Mansion al ter lunch where he occupied himself in working on vetoes and in studying bills on his desk.. Callers at his offices were told that he was engaged at tho mansion and took the hint and did not disturb him, The Governor has been so pressed by callers and the rush of work attending his local option cam paign and his official duties that he has decided to stay here over the week-end and not go to Philadelphia for his customary Saturday levee. Dr. Brumbaugh Is eager for Spring to come so that he can go out and play golf. Me has gotten very little exer cise since he came here and the strain of the work of his office is heavier than anticipated, lie hopes to get through the rush soon and to get things down to a normal basis. The plan of hav ing heads of departments keep tabs on legislation and advise the Gover nor and Attorney General is said to be proving very advantageous as every day the Governor receives word from some chief as to the effect a bill would have. Practically every depart ment is affected by bills in the legis lature and (he Governor is hearing about them. According to word received here to day the pupils of the Franklin high schoo' will stop here early in April on their way to Washington to visit the Capitol. They also plan to get here when the legislature is in ses sion. A man who gets about the hotels a good bit was chatting with a well posted clerk yesterday afternoon when the man behind the desk said: "Do you know, i think that there has been someone in Harrisburg from every county in the state the last week. I do not mean the legislators or the officials, but 1 mean people who have come here because of legislative or business matters. I.ook over the regis ters and you'll find the names of people from towns you do not often hear of." People in Harrisburg are becoming real metropolitan. They do not kick as much over blockades due to condi tions in the Market street subway as much as they did. Some bow or other V*g trucks and wagons always pick the subway as the place in which to lie down and rest and the rush hour in the evening is a favorite time for such diversions, yesterday afternoon a big truck suffered an epileptic fit in the subway and by the time it had been given attention about a dozen cars were stacked up. The truck, of course, interfered with both tracks for a time, and the homeward bound people shook their heads, began to read newspapers and started in to dis cuss the weather, the legislature, the movies and other topics of interest in addition to revivals. Some resolved that if jitneys come tliey should be required to go by the State street or Mulberry street bridges unless equip ped with wings. The subway has fur nished half a dozen entertainments lately and every blockade and ensuing lateness for supper has made the Wal nut street bridge proposition stronger. The Harrisburg Railways company yesterday took the bull by the horns and punching holes in schedules sent cars out on time that would relieve the conjestion. This may have helped the kicking. One of the remarkable things about the exceptionally early Spring and the mild weather experienced the last few weeks has been the clear atmosphere and freedom from mist and fog from the river often noticed at this time of year. Mild breezes from the north west coming down across the forest and mountain counties of the central part of the state have kept clear the usually hazy and smoke-laden air of the city. Another noticeable feature of the present month is the absence of sudden changes in temperature. An indication of the great popu larity of the ten-foot walk along the top of the new "'front steps" of ilar rlsburg will have when completed is seen in the number of persons who already use the narrow walk as a promenade. Although the present top step Is only about twenty inches wide, it is frequently used by persons walk ing up town in the evening, and on some mild, cleflr days half a dozen people can be seen within the space of several blocks. On windy days it is a protected stretch, free from the strong air felt at the top of the bank and along the asphalt driveway; and with out a doubt the completed walk will be more frequently used than the street pavement by persons traveling up town any distance. I WELL KNOWN VLOPIt I —J. 1,. McGee, appointed a special inspector in Philadelphia city govern ment. is the old Princeton cross country runner. —Senator E. 11. Vare owns one of the handsomest country places in the vicinity of Philadelohia. —A. Tveo Weil, the Pittsburgh law yer, is having a hot time with news papers in "West Virginia. —James Scarlot, the Danville law yer was here during the week to meet friends in the legislature. —David O. Mack. Pittsburgh banker, surprised Ms friends by mar rying his stenographer. I M WKNCW=I That Harrisbtii'g manufactures slices that are extensively used all | through the South? S The Artist's Name When an artist signs his pic ture he does so because he is proud of his work. The fact that It Is to hand his name down to posterity is an in centive for lilin to do his best. It is with this same feeling of pride that a merchant advertises ills name or a manufacturer makes known his trade mark. The very advertisement testi fies not only to faith hut to the fact that the advertisers are not afraid to put that faith to the test. Their only reward can come I through their ability to make good. The man or business that ad vertises Is the safe business to trade with. MORRIS WANTS OWN COMMISSIONER Democratic State Chairman Is Seeking to Select Man For Registration Board Now PALMER WILL QUIT SOON Says That the Machine Will Select His Successor at a State Committee Meeting Roland S. Morris, the Democratic State chairman, and men identified with the faction of the Democracy which does not see any good in Mor ris and hia allies, arc making an ef fort to name the next Democratic reg istration commissioner in Philadelphia and a pretty tight is on. John J. Green, long a commissioner, lias re signed from the office. The vacancy is an important one for the Demo crats of Philadelphia and it would be a feather for Morris if he should land the man. —Morris came here yesterday to present the claims of his own man for registration commissioner in Phil adelphia and gave out that lie was for the Governor on local option. He de clined to make any statement when asked if he had not talked to the Governor about registration commis sioner. —The statement the.; Morris and McCormlck arc with the Governor on local option came at a nice time, but it is doubtful whether any appoint ment as registration commissioner will be Iliads for some time. —The Philadelphia Record to-day says: "Chairman Morris, of the Dem - ocratic State committee, called upon Governor Brumbaugh at Harrisburg yesterday, and announced later that ho had pledged him his support in his local option light. Chairman Morris in a recent public statement gave the Governor a sharp thrust in a remind er that he had been the Personal Lib erty candidate last Fall. In political circles, it is understood that the activi ties of Morris and other reorganiza tion leaders will not aid the Governor materially in his fight. The reorganis ers control only a small minority of the Democratic delegation in the House, and these men are counted in the 'dry' columns, irrespective of the wishes of Chairman Morris or anyone else." —"I expect to take the place of Judge of the United States Court of Claims, which lias been tendered me by the President," said .ex-Representa tive A. Mitchell Palmer at Strouds burg yesterday. "My present plan," the ex-Congressman went on. "is to take the oath of office about the first of June and take my seat on the bench at the opening of the Fall term in October. While there is no law to prevent my continuing, I do not think it right for a judge to engage actively in political alVairs, and 1 ex pect, therefore, to resign the place of national committeeman before 1 take my seat. I shall, of course, retain my interest in politics, and to the extent that I am able 1 shall continue to help our friends in Pennsylvania. My suc cessor will be elected by the Demo cratic State Central committee, un der the rule fixed by the Denver con vention in 1908, and 1 know the com plexion of that committee so well that 1 am satisfied whoever may be elected will be in entire sympathy with the present State organization and with the National Administration. If this were not so I doubt if I should be willing to retire from the position in which my party has placed me." —The Democratic machine is hav ing sorrowful times over the proba bility of impeachment of Judge Umbel rind it is said that if it is ordered the reorganlzers who are friends with Umbel will turn away from him. The judge and his accuser will appear be fore the judiciary general committee of the House here next week. —The Central Democratic club will send its committee to Washington soon to ask the President to make a speech at the Jefferson day dinner. Some of the members of tile club feel confi dent that he will accept. [From the Telegraph of March 20. 18651 Owner* Oppone Unllntmeiit Richmond. March 20. Owners of slaves are said to be opposed to the en listment of negroes in the rebel army. lllnlnterM Tnlk On Wnr Philadelphia, March 20. The Phila delphia Methodist Conference, now in sesion in this city, is the largest con ference of ministers in the world. The pastors are discussing the war. Negroe* Follow Slirrldnll Citv Point. March 20. Hundreds of negroes are following Sheridan on his march toward Richmond. i wwa-Mri [From the Telegraph of March 20. 1865] l.arKr Shipment* The Pennsylvania Railroad hauled 1 388,714 pounds of Government sup plies and war material in February be tween Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. < onimuuleatlon* Repaired numbers of men are employed repairing telegraph and railroad con nections which were damaged by the flood. Incorporate lVllllnmsport Both branches of the Legislature pased a 1)111 to incorporate the city of Wllliamsport. AN EVENING THOUGHT Practice in life what you pray for, and God will give it to you more abundantly.—Pusey. | OUR DAILY LAUGH I t THAT'S SO. Hubby: It aayt here that for every three man rlages there'* a Wifey: And for every divorce there's usualf two marriages. ADVICE. Fq Percy: By ft **"* Ar Jove! I've got an Betty: Be j j BS to the llttla '—' ger. -fry W 5 - VERY GOOD M ° f courß *' Jack ' I>m very fond of l\ you. Why, haven't I just danced six times with you? 'it I don't see any l) proof in that. L You would If J1 you only realised how you dance. THAT NEW nniUtiK By Wing Dinger The railroad tracks are being bridged Up at Division Street, The bridge, though, 'round the town does not With much approval meet. It's -'ust a little thing, quite light, For folks to walk across. There is no path for auto, or Vehicle pulled by "hoss." The folks uptown are pretty sore, They say the thing's a joke— A mere excuse—and at it do All manner of fun poke. But if they want to get square with The Railroad Company, Why don't they steal the things some night And hide it 'hind a tree? "PEACE OX EAKTII" "Peace on earth, good will toward men!" Sang the angels long ago. Over Bethlehem hovering when One in manger lay below. V. "Peace on earth" was then his will, "Peace on earth, good will toward men!" So he sees the picture still Even as lie saw it then. When will men in their mad way View it as he viewed it then? When will dawn a brighter day— "Peace on earth, good will toward men" ? —George Taggart in the Christian Herald. GUN MOIXTED o\ MOTORCYCLE A motorcycle with sidecar chassis on which Is mounted a machine gun of rifle caliber for riot service is described, with illustration, in the Popular Me chanics Magazine. The machine has a two-speed gear. Is capable of making a speed of forty miles an hour, and can cover a distance of about sevi nty-flve miles on one tankful of gasoline. It is made for carrying two passengers, so that the gun can be operated while the machine is in operation. The gun, which has a filing capacity of 430 shots a minute, is carried on a special mount ing and can be operated on the ma chine or detached and mounted on a collapsible tripod. BLACKBOARDS MADE OF GI.ASS Blackboards made of an especially ground plate glass have been installed in the classrooms of a Portland, Ore., school, in preparing glass for this pur pose, the face is given a three-process sand-blast finish, and the back side is painted black. It provides a good writing surface on which ordinary chalk and felt erasers may be used, and also one which may be readily washed, so that it can be kept fresh, jet-black, and free from an accumulation of dust A picture in the Popular Mechanics Magazine shows how the glass black boards may be adapted for use in store windows to carry advertising announce ments. STORY RITEN' BY THE MESSENGER BOY Mister Brumbaugh, who lives at Front and Barbara ave., appears to be a full-grown man as well as Governor of the state of Pennsilvany—which is more than can he sed of all which have held the job in years gone by. lie calls himself a Dutchman with a con science. but he also seems to have eoni mon-sense, with the nerve and chest to put it into practise. Such things are very nice to have, wether a fello is a governor or jist a messenger or a hod carrier. Mister Brumbaugh is a skool teecher, so they say. but he is different from some of em who are mostly sikololojists, like the skool-man at Wash. D. C. who is mostly bull-headed, acordin to the newspapers. He is also quite a skoler and stays up half the nlte studyin up new skemes to make Pennsylvania a greater and better state and a model among the/nations. lie is a real reform /artist and has started so many new/ Improvements through the legsl mill /of the legislate!' that he lias to have a with an in dex to keep track of ieni all, and the members of the legislater are beginnin to ~et jelous of him doin too much thinkin for them, they havin the notion they are paid for thinkin, and wishln to do their dooty by the constltuants at home. Accordingly, they would like to buck him a little and upset some of his recommendashuns and show him who's-who. Mister Brumbaugh looks ' kam and cool and colleckted, and very father like. as if you could tell him vour seckrets without bein laffed at. lie also looks solid and well ballasted, so he cant be upset very easy—which ought to be a tip to the leglslaters not to an- Woolens and flannels come from the wash soft, white " work is better done, quicker done, and easier done if done in the Fels-Naptha way. Every user of Fels-Naptha Soap will want to try the new Fells-Soap Powder. y Small Funds to Deposit ( \A7E are favored with the banking busi * ' ness of many prominent merchants, firms and corporations whose balances are in the thousands. That which makes our banking service appeal to large interests surely should make it interesting to the person who has small funds to deposit, and whose busi ness will be as cordially welcomed and as efficiently served as the very largest ac counts on our books. Court en ,v IN imrt of every t rniiNiictlon. Q213 MARKET STREET Capital, $300,000 Surplus, $300,000 tagenize him too much. some; and such things is possible, corn- He has a chance to become a ramus parin the way it are done by the farm man' the next 4 years because there ors in forign nashuns in plenty of room for improvements in When these things happen, Harris- Pennsvlvanin which is a state of lome burg will be more of a village than at size and noticed frequently in the present, and more buildings will be papers II he can do as he says ho needed to keep the taxes in and to w&nts'to and get the farms of Pensll- keep the rain oft the clerks and gov vanv proilucin twice as much ham and ernor's helpers, etc No dout thft city egjrs and butter and potatoes and has a grate futur in time to come and wheat, etc., inside the next ten years, nobody ought to get skared and sell out as they are doin now, he will be goin and move away EL<' .-?*ffpilL' 3 Do Not Think j that because you may be able to deposit only small sums at a time that an account in our Savings Depart ment will be of no value to you—men of great wealth accumulated their money by saving small amounts and depositing them at interest. 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