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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
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| 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.
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§= 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
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the fact that the suit you
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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.
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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.
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