10 HARRISBIRG TELEGRAPH F.stobluhtd ifjr PUBLISHED BT Tirr TKLEORAPH PBISTHTO CO. E. J. STACKPOLB Pruiitnt and Edit*r-i*-Chief F. R. OTSTER Stcrrtary GVS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Bun day) at the Telegraph Building. Jtl Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building. New York City, Hasbrook, Stery & Brooks, Western Office, Advertising Building. Chicago, 111.. Allen Sc Ward. Delivered hy carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to aubseribera at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Hirora dally average (or the three A months ending Feb. 28, 1915. ★ 21,745 * Average fop the year 1014—33.213 Average for the year 1913—31,577 Average for the year 1912—21,17(1 Average for the year 1811—18,851 Average for tha year 191 A—17,495 FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 3# WORK FOR HUNDREDS THE gratifying announcement, made by the Telegraph yester day, that the work of building the new Cumberland Valley river bridge is to be started within the coming month and that concrete work for the great new Pennsylvania railroad yards and depots In South Harrisburg is to be pushed with vigor indicates tliat there will be plenty of work tor labor in this city during the coming summer. The further announcement that sev eral large private enterprises are to increase their working forces on April 1 and that the Emerson-Brantingham company's big new warehouse building will be thrown open on that date, giv ing employment to several hundred, is an indication that businessmen ex pect improvement is trade conditions during the coming Spring and sum mer. The railroad building operations will involve the expenditure here of nearly $1,500,000, the Cumberland Val ley bridge alone necessitating an outlay of considerably more than $700,000. At least thirty per cent, of this money, it is safe to say, will go for labor. That means some hundreds of thousands of dollars will be placed directly in the pockets of Harrisburg workingmen during the months intervening be tween April 1 and freezing weather next Fall. Added to these public util- Ity enterprises are the prospects of ex tensive operations on municipal im- J work, also giving employ ment to a large number of laborers. All things considered, the outlook for the coming summer is bright. While some of the mills may not be a« busy as usual, the men who have ordinarily found work in them will be able to occupy tlieir time temporarily at least on the bridges, freight ware houses and other undertakings of the kind that will be in full blast by the time warm weather comes to stay. A leader of men is often the fellow who happens to be in front when the crowd begins to push. RACE SUICIDE AGAIN* THE assertions of Robert J. Sprague, Professor of Economics and Sociology in the Massachu setts Agricultural College at Am hurst, to the effect that women's col leges are one of the most dangerous factors in hastening race suicide in the t'nited States, will probably be receiv ed by a storm of protest and a re newal of all the race suicide nonsense that marked the newspaper and maga zine issues in the days when Colonel Roosevelt was at the helm of national affairs. Professor Sprague in yesterday's issue of the Journal of Heredity de-j clares that the old American stock is rapidly dying out and is being replaced by immigrants and their progeny. To prevent this he says every married woman in the nation should bring to maturity at least three children, unless the race is to go backward. The tfollege girls, who represent a valuable class, do much less than this. For Instance, in the early dais of Mount Holyoke, the oldest great wo men's college, 83 per cent, of the graduates married, but now only two fifths of them do so. These bear less than two children apiece on the ave rage. The graduates of Mount Holyoke as a whole do not reproduce their own number at least, less than one child being born to each graduate. Only one-third of the Bryn Mawr graduates have married and they, on an average, have borne one-third of a child each. More than one-half of Vassar graduates are unmarried and those who do, bear less than two chil dren. Only a third of the girls who have been graduated at Wellesley dur ing the last quarter century have taken" unto themselves husbands and they have borne only one child apiece. In such figures as these Professor Sprague sees the fate of the old white race in America plainly written. To make the women's colleges help in saving the race, instead of hastening its death, he suggests changes in pub lic sentiment, legislation and taxation, and particularly a change In the kind of education given the college women. Vntil public sentiment reforms the women's colleges. Professor Sprague thinks that "our race suicide statistics will be portentous," and he sorrows greatly thereat. Doubtless the learned professor's criticisms will bring down upon his head the ire of the old maid and old bachelor professors and Instructors of ! the aforesaid women's institutions of FRIDAY EVENING, " HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 26, 1915 learning', but that la about aa far as it will go. Many girls go to college who have the home as their Ideal, out a large proportion of those who go through the women's colleges and uni versities do so with the set purpose of devoting their lives to pursuits other than those confined to the family circle and limited by matrimony. This is doubtless responsible for the college girl race Suicide Professor Sprague notes, but it does not indi cate that American girls as a whole do not make good mothers, and that they are not their part in maintaining the old white race In America. At all events, the United States has been and is a nation of continuous change. There never has been a time when our people have been a constant quantity. Neither has there ever been a time when the change In radical character istics has endangered the perpetuity of the nation. Professor Sprague's statis tics are interesting, but they are not vital. Orvllle Wright is advertising aero planes "as safe as rocking chairs." .However, we do not imagine this Is at present causing the furniture manu facturers any degree of alarm. TWO EXTREMES PRESIDENT WILSON in forbid ding moving picture operators to make films of the White House and Its surrounding! displays an amazing disregard for the educational value of the "movies." There have been so many slap-dash comedies, wild west tragedies and hair-breadth adventures depicted upon the moving pidture screen that one must wonder that a man of the Pres ident's inclinations and temperament would not welcome the introduction of such staid, sane and educational fea tures as scenes about the White House must be. President Wilson ought to remem ber that there are millions of Ameri cans who will never get nearer the White House than the moving picture theaters In their home towns and vil lages. Certainly these are as much en titled to witness the daily life about Washington as the President himself and the "movie" affords their only op portunity. The Pope at Rome recog nized the right of Catholic Church members the world over to become ac quainted with the interior scenes and the rights and ceremonies of the Vati can by freely admitting to the sacred precincts of that ancient edifice an enterprising American film photog rapher. In thus denying his fellow country men. President Wilson reveals the amazing fact that while in some re spects he is more radical than Roose velt, in others he is more conservative than the Pope. ' Germany has a fine new way of get ting rid of Socialistic votes in the Reichstag. Dr. Diebnecht, who voted against the war loan, has been mus tered into the army and hastened to the front rank in Alsace. GERM CARRIERS DR. J. M. J. RAUNICK, City! Health Officer, is author of the' cheering news that every fourth man in llarrishurg is a carrier !of some kind of obnoxious germs. He adds the equally pleasant opinion that our street cars carry more disease [breeding bacilli than they do passen gers. All this may be true. The doctor has science and expert knowledge on his side and there is no proof to the contrary; hut when he says that he would prefer to ride in a jitney bus to taking passage in a trolley car, one | must wonder why. Is it that a jitney bus is immune from carrying germs, or does Dr. [ Raunick believe that the jitney riders will be confined to the three people out of four who he says are free from contaminating influences? The jitney bus in every city where it is operated is patronized by the same classes of people as ride on the street 'cars and there is no reason to suppose that it is cleaned any oftener or any more carefully than the trolley. In deed, where the jitneys are privately owned vehicles it is doubtful if as great care is exercised in this respect as where they are controlled by large and well organized public service cor porations. Unquestionably, thousands upon thousands of cases of contagious and I communicable diseases are caused by contact in public places, but for the man who lives right, who takes suffi cient exercise in the open air, who bathes regularly and eats the things I best suited to him. the germ has little j terror. The best way to avoid diseases j j of the sort is to make, so far as pos- j sible, the body immune to them or at least able to resist their attacks. Japan is at war with Germany, and now England is questioning her mo tives in China. The outcome may pro- j duce a new complication. Imagine England and Japan allied to fight Ger- j many, while at the same time Germany j and England are allied to fight Japan. The Tri-State being dead, Harrisburg has transferred its representation to the National Eeague. It's not every city can number in the major league an ex- Governor and the last year's manager of a winning championship team. But then, Harrisburg isn't an ordinary city. Every time the allies knock a corner off the Turkish forts they chip a frac tion oft the American wheat specula tor's profits. Turkey is making things red at pres ent. but that will not prevent a grand scramble for the white meat after the affair is over. "Turkey has been a mole on the face of Europe." says the Philadelphia In quirer. Didn't the writer mean car buncle? Is It possible this pesky war news has crowded out of the newspapers that annual story about the whole peach crop being frozen? llarrisburg's first jitney 'bus is very disappointing. Why the thing looks to lis just like a Ford with a sign painted on it. If the price of flour continues to soar, a "baker's doien'' may come to mean nine. ["EVENING CHAfI Governor Brumbaugh's veto of the bill to make the mountain laurel the State flower of Pennsylvania recalls the fact that Governor Tener two years ago vetoed a bill designating: the daisy as the flower, the Tener message hold ing that there was no widespread de mand for the selection of a state flower. This is tho chief reason for the veto of Governor Brumbaugh, who adds that it would hardly be in keep ing with Pennsylvania to tag after Connecticut and pick the same official posey as the Nutmeg State. As a mat ter of fact, there is more Interest in the official tlower of a State outside of the State than in. according to people who have looked into the matter. Folks in other states are constantly writing to the State Capitol asking what is the State flower of Pennsylva nia. but as Governor Brumbaugh pointed out some time after the laurel bill appeared, there have been no reso lutions passed by any organizations demanding a state flower and no wide spread sentiment In favor of tho laurel or any other flower has been mani fested except in probably one or two counties of the commonwealth. The Governor privately thinks the Legis lature could do better in a legislative way than by passing bills on state flowers and his ideas on tho subject were conveyed to some legislators re cently in an informal talk. Strange to say, the flower hill had an easy time this session until it hit the clovernor. Last session the tlower bill started off with tha daisy and got amended to the arbutus. Someone tried to tag the lilac and when the bill went to the upper house it boro the modest shrink ing violet as the subject. The Senate did not agree with the House and a conference committee evolved a solu tion by making the original selection th© official flower. John K. Tener did not see it and vetoed the bill. The laurel bill was not even attacked in committee this session. Jones Wister. who has invented what is called a periscope gun, to enable a man to sit in a trench and hit an ad vancing enemy without exposing him self through an ingenious arrangement of a curved barrel and a. telescope, is well known to ninny of the older Har risburgers. Mr. Wister was n member of the firm of J. & J. Wister, who operated the Wister furnace, along the old canal south of the Mulberry street bridge and the furnace at Duncannon. I-Ie lived here for a time and took an active part in the social life of the city and vicinity. He is an ardent sportsman and. although growing wealthy in years, likes to go into the woods with a gun. His invention has attracted some attention from Phila delphia people, who declare it prac ticable. The construction of the Cumberland Valley's new bridge here is attracting so much attention that it is believed it will be as notable as tho Rockvllle structure, which drew visitingengineers from all parts of the country. Tho Rockville bridge was not considered as good business by some men when it was projected, but they changed their minds when they saw how it worked in actual construction. Harrisburg friends of James R. Kinsloe, who was active in commer cial organizations here for several years, will be interested to know that lie is preaching civic progress through northwestern states and that he is at tracting attention. The La Crosse Press, published at Ea Crosse, Wis., contains an editorial in a recent issue in which Mr. Kinsloe is given high praise. Mr. Kinsloe is now secretary of the Winona Chamber of Commerce and has been telling the need of fac tories and small industries for growing towns. The Wisconsin editor says of his talk: "Mr. Kinsloe did not at tempt to instruct us. He talked so little of the successful association in which' he is the active and directing spirit that we should hardly have in ferred that community organization was his profession. He gave us no figures except such as were occasion ally incidental to the text of his re marks. He offered no technical advice —which lias been the stock-in-trade of some expert community promoters who have visited us and talked to us in the pa-st upon the mediocre present and the wonderful future of our town. He neglected to predict when our population would double and when it would reach six figures. He didn't appear, indeed, to regard it as im portant whether these conditions ever prevailed here. He was about as far from enacting the role of the ordinary spread-eagle "booster' as It would be possible for a man to get whose busi ness actually is the business of 'boost ing'." I OUR DAILY LAUGH) Is Jack a eare- A( f Not exactly /njearaful, but «x« ••adingly fort* |?ords of tongue •r pen, the glad- ~3T>V - dest are these, -, MB HO MRIICY B.r Wli| Dinger Sterns to me there is no mercy Shown by those who try to cure Someone's cold, and make recovery Speedy, safe, complete and sure. I-ast night, when at home I landed, Onions raw I had to eat. "Fine for curing colds," they told me. In a manner very sweet. Mealtime o'er, I hustled upstairs To a cozy spot to rest. Up there came a mustard plaster, Which was placed upon my chest. Then they rubbed me down with camphor. Mixed with lard and other grease. And I wondered when the torture, If at all, would finally cease. 'Dong about nine or nine-thirty I passed Into peaceful sleep. Good thing, too. because my patience CASTORIA For Infants and Children . In Use For Over 30 Years .uways bears | Uignaturc of RESENT SUITING OF PALMER'S SUCCESSOR Democrats Want Say in Selection of National Committeeman From Penna. Democrats in the Legislature are showing a dispostion to join with with other-Democrats throughout the J Stat© in resenting the arrogant slating of Vance C. McCormlck, defeated can didate for Governor, for Democratic national committeeman from Pennsyl vania, to succeed A. Mitchell Palmer when ho becomes a claims court judge through gift of the President. The slating was as raw a piece of business as the slating of McCormick j for the Democratic nomination for Governor eight months before the election, an action which tho people of Pennsylvania resented by a tre mendous majority in November Ap parently no one but the direct benefi ciaries of the reorganization was con sulted and the word goes out with all the solemnity of a Market Square edi torial on the opportunity to save Pennsylvania again. Just what will be done remains to be seen. There are some Democrats who would like to hop in and tight the selection of McCormick when State ChairinoHi Morris gets up enough nerve to call the State committee to gether. Others think that men repre senting all factions and fractions of the Pennsylvania Democracy should select a man. while some suggest a conference of Democratic congress men and legislators, pointing out that as the reorganlr.ers got into power through a scheme of congressmen what was sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander. However, there are some who look beyond. The latter class comprises those «Tio feel long as Morris and Mc- Cormtck plunged the Democratic par ty in Pennsylvania into debt and the prospects are that the Democracy will get a thorough beating at the next national election that. Morris should be ii Mowed to continue as chairman and McCorpilck to be elected national committeeman on condition that they agree to clear up all of the debts be fore the next national campaign. Mc- Cormick and Morris are both wealthy and could afford to wipe out the debts as the price of their continuing to amuse themselves as Democratic boss es in Pennsylvania, especially when the federal pie is nearly all oft" the counter. McCormick's slating in 'Washington will have to be ratified at a meeting of the State commit - ee which would afford opportunity for men disgusted with the party management to say what they thought about Morris and to reiterate for McCormick some of the things which the people evidently believed about him last November. It would clear the air for the big battle which will come next year. In 1916 the Democrats of the State will have a chance to express their opinion of their badly matched lead ers as State committeemen will be elected who will select a State chair man and national committeeman. By that time the way will be open for the national campaign to start with a whole new list. Hence, it is figured out that Morris and McCormick might well be given opportunity to play with the organization and to pay off the bills thev piled up before the time comes to face the Republicans in the national fight. In all probability some of the big Democrats not identified with the lit tle coterie of bosses will meet and talk over things. The advice of James Gay Gordon will be sought as he is one of the big figures in Pennsylvania Democracy now and Michael J. Ryan, now In Bermuda for his health, will probably be asked for his views. Ryan is now recognized by many Democrats who were cuught by McCormick in the primaries as a man who would have been a far more formidable candidate than McCormick even with his Flinn alliance. Many Democrats throughout the State who were somewhat skeptical about the "rule of the people" when McCormick and Palmer were slated in Washington over a year ago are now wondering what the people whom the Democratic bosses profess to champion will think about this latest slating by less than half a dozen men who did not even meet in Pennsylvania AX EVEMXG THOUGHT The men the world calls "lucky" Will tell you. every one. That success comes, not by wish ing. But by hard work, bravely done. —Anon. The social problem in Mexico is be ing solved. Public unrest will surely end when every citizen has served a term as Provisional President.—New York Evening Post. Don't Neglect THROAT Troubles because the swollen glands and inflamed membranes often ' affect other tissues and impair their healthy action. M SCOTT'S EMULSION affords M great «Bef because its cod / V lirer oil is speedily eon- / Jf Terted in to germ-resisting tisane—the glycerine is onnynai curative and h?sling, '-"TV while the combined emul ■ion strengthens the lungs to arert lung trouble. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES *ad j Efficiency INCREASE the profits * of your business by aiding your skilled lieli»- ers to make the beet use of their time. Use the proper blanks, blank books, stationery and ad vertising matter. Get the right kind of designing, engraving, printing and binding at the right prices from The Telegraph Printing Co. Federal Square Personal Pride §= All people pride them selves on having a new suit for Easter—that's only natural. But-isn't it just a mite . better to pride yourself on hav ing purchased a suit that's different—and on your excel lent judgment, evidenced by the fact that the suit you chose outwore even your own expectations? We take a similar pride in our merchandise, because / it has proved satisfactory to the greatest extent—let us serve you to the best—."Hart, Copyright Hart Schiffner 4 M»« Schaffner& Marx" & "Society ••Eari & wu«on" shirts, $1.50 u P Brand" Suits, $lB to $35. "Truly Warner" Hats, $2.00 "™" H. Marks & Son 4th and Market Streets IN HARRISBURG FIFTY I YEARS AGO TO-DAY 1 [From the Telegraph. March 26, 1865.] Mayor Orders Dog* >lu/./ted The Mayor has ordered that all dogs in the city be muzzled. A number of persons have died recently, caused by hydrophobia resulting from mad dog bites. j Organize New Company * I A new company, consisting of eighty-six men. was organized at the ; barracks in Second street. M. H. Winebrenner was elected captain. Many Companies from Tills Post Forty-five new companies have been mustered into service at this post since the last call for 300,000 more troops. If you want to find a comfortable, homelike room in the city or suburbs, in a private family, look over the Tele graph "Room for Rent" column on the classified page NOW. You'll find just the room you are looking for. NELWS DISPATCHES OF THE C VI L WAR [From the Telegraph. March 26. 1865.] Praise llartranft'H Division Washington, March 25.—Much credit was Riven General Hartranft's divison for the repulse of the rebel attack on Fort Stead man this morning. Other Pennsylvania divisions were praised for their aid in holding the fort. Goldshoro Captured Baltimore. March 26. General Schofield's forces captured Goldsboro, taking forty railroad cars and two locomotives. Schofleld, Sherman and Terry are arranging an attack on Raleigh. HORLICK'S The Original MALTED MILK Unloss you may "HORLIOK'S" you may got a Substitute, SPECIAL ONE DAY SALE Saturday Only ■ \ / • ■» > Card Table Brass C«stumer Bath Room SUol Mission Finish with Art Satin Finish White Enamel; Leather Covering, 30x30 6 feet high good construction 98c 98c 98c .——— Vl —— / > Ml/ f \ \ \ Axminster Rug Brass Bed Chiffonier 5 large roomy drawers, 9x12 worth $27.50, Sat- Special for Saturday highly polished oak, : urday only only, worth $18.50 worth $7.50, Saturday $22.50 $12.50 ■ — v MILLER & KADES 7 North Market Square Judge Is Told School Boy Could Give Decision on Ball Fight in 3 Days By Atsociatid Press Chicago, 111., March 2t>. "Any schoolboy could decide that baseball suit In three days." a patron of base ball in Danville, 111., wrote to Federal Judge ICenesaw 51. l-andls yesterday. The judge was amused on receiving i a postal on which this sentiment was expressed. The writer asked for In formation as to when the followers of baseball may expect the decision in the suit filed by the Federal League against organized baseball. VOX DKH GOI.TZ GOES TO SOFIA: VOX SAXDERS DEPARTS | By Associated Press London. March 2fi. 12.12 P. M.—The ! Exchange Telegraph Company has re- J ceived a, dispatch from Athens saying I that I'leld Marshal von der Goltz, who , has been in Constantinople for some I Every man will be interested in what DOUTRICHS «• have to say on page 9. Read it. months past representing German military interests, has left the Turkish capital for Solia, Bulgaria. At tlie same time General lonian von Sanders, the commander of the Turkish forces in Europe, has left Constantinople for Adrianople. all in E'ttine tliTn itnrtrj ||jj the cbickt thrifty aid itroß|r. < »et a I'ailor * V" / CONKEY S STARTING FOOD r '|/ HARRISBTJRG AXI> EVERYWHERE
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