8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established igji I'I'BUSIIKD BV THK TBLEURAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor in-Cluef V. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMF.TZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 218 Federal Square. Moth phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office, Fifth Aveflue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Allen .* Ward. Delivered by carriers at six rents a week. 'IsS® 5 Mailed to subscribers st lu.oo a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa„ as second class matter. Sworn dally average for the three ★ months ending Fell. 2S, 1915. k 21,745 Average for the year 1011— Average for the ve«r 1013—21,577 *vrritg<- for the year 11112—1it.17.1 Average for the year 191t—1H.HS1 tvrrntr for Ihe year 1910—17.49,1 TIESDAY EVENING. MARCH »<» PASS THE BILL ON another page of the Telegraph to-day there is published a map of the Capitol park extension zone, showing the properties acquired by the State and those yet to be bought. The Extension Commis sion announces that $300,000 will be necessary to complete the purchases. This should be forthcoming, and no doubt it will be. The commission has done an excel lent work. It has dealt with the prop erty owners fairly. They have re ceived prices as high as they could have expected from a private pur chaser. But not one of them has re ceived more than should have been paid under the circumstances, as a careful examination of the records will reveal. Everything has been open and above board. The figures of each transaction have been published. Critics have not been above prying beneath the surface of every transfer, but in no instance have they been able to tind anything but a praiseworthy ! eiYort on the part of the commission to ileal fairly both by the State and the property owner. The commission's task has been dilTlcult. Mistakes might have occurred even with the best of intentions. It would have been easy for the commis sion to have involved itself in a maze uf controversy that would have aroused hot., the antagonism of the land own ers with which they were dealing and tile people of the State at large. In complications, that some such mis understanding did not arise. But that it did not and that the commission has been able to conduct its duties to the satisfaction of alj concerned and with out a whisper of adverse criticism even from those who make it their business to criticise is high praise indeed. The act authorizing the extension of the Capitol grounds requires that all the land in the zone be purchased by June 1, 1917. That makes it neces sary for additional funds to be placed at the disposal of the commission at 'an early date. The $300,000 must be appropriated this year if the provisions of the law are to be met. Xo doubt the legislators will view the matter in that light and put through the neces sary appropriations without delay. By doing so they will not only meet the emergency with which the commis sion is confronted, but will promote the progress of an improvement in which the whole State is interested. AMERICAN SUBMARINES THE country is mourning its first submarine disaster and there is a marked absence of criticism of the kind that usually follows accidents in the navy. This, doubt less, is because the United States sub marine service has been in the past exceptionally efficient or exceptionally fortunate. This country was the first to make use of the under-water fighting ma chine. A very gTeat deal of the ex perimenting necessary to bring the submarine to its present high state of efficiency has been performed by American scientists and American naval officers. Nevertheless, up to the time the ill-fated F-4 went to its doom off the harbor of Honolulu, not a man had met with serious accident aboard a United States submarine. The loss of life incident to the devel opment of the aeroplane affords an interesting comparison. But other navies have not been so fortunate. Sixteen foreign undcrseas vessels have been lost and more than 200 lives sacrificed. Either the Amer ican type of boat is superior to that used abroad or the American sea man excels his European fellow un der waWr as he has so often demon strated he doc'S on its surface. • SANE REGULATIONS HOW the type of business regula tion prescribed by the Pennsyl vania Legislature does differ from that, enacted by the Con gress just recently adjourned! The approval of the. partnership code by Governor Brumbaugh last week places on the statute books of the State a law qf a distinctively constructive na ture. While protecting the public, it is at the same time beneficial to busi ness. The law is generally helpful and injures nobody. It is to be noted that business made no effort to block this legislation. In deed, its progress In the Legislature was remarkable for Its smoothness. Not a ripple marked Its course. Rather, it was encouraged by busl- TUESDAY EVENING, HARFUSBURG TELEGRAPH nessmen familiar with its contents and intent. All this by way of pointing out the fallacy of the theory held at Wash- j ington that businessmen are averse: to anything smacking of govern-! mental regulation. Quite the reverse ! is true. Business does not object to proper restrictions. It stands ready to assist in the enactment of construc tive legislation of that kind. What it does object to is the attitude of the j Wilson administration, which appar-, ; entiy has assumed that It is e.verlast- j j ingly right and that every business j man disagreeing with any of its poli- ! I cles does so from dishonest motives. HIDING TO A FALL SAID Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corpor- . ation, discussing business eon- | ditions the other day; | The reason for these adverse eon- , dttlons lias been partly the fan it of j ' the businessmen. Wi* had become j ] more or less careless in manage- I ment. indifferent to the rights and | Interests of others, regardless of j our responsibilities toward those | for whom we hail become trustees, as directors, officials or otherwise, and unmindful of the general pub- ; lie welfare. I make no personal ref erence and have no individual or corporation in mind. Alt of. us faile.d to measure fully up to our obligations. That is true. The old-time spirit of "the public be damned" is back of ull the troubles that business faces to-day. j j insofar as unfavorable legislation is j 'concerned. With a firm hand on th; | bridle business rode hard and fast to | a fall. AVTrfn the people did finally j get the upper hand they went too far. They elected radicals because they were radicals, and for the reason that they wanted to make sure of putting i a check upon unscrupulous capital. The result has been that all business, good and bad, has been made to suf fer unnecessarily and the people them selves have felt the retlex of the blows they dealt. The liquor interests are in precisely the same position to-day. They have been and are as reckless of public in terest and public sentiment as the great "captains of industry" were a few years back—and they are riding to the same hard fall. When the peo ple are once firmly in the saddle they write on the statute books laws that will be far more drastic than had been the case if their demands for reason able regulations had been early recog nized. And make no mistake about the peo ple getting the whip hand—they will do that right enough: only the longer the delay the more strength will be back of their blows. John Barleycorn is laying up an awful beating for him- . self. There is a fine rod in pickle for < him and it is becoming more supple I and pliable every day. As yet those seaside pictures of j people romping in the surf have no attractions for us. SAFE INVESTMENTS TDK report that Emperor William and others of the Hohenzollern family recently have invested extensively in New York mu nicipal Four's is a compliment to the stability of American bonds. Looking over the entire world, these securities have seemed most desirable to a king l and his relatives who are determined ! to take no chances on the future of their income at tho close of a war the outcome of which nobody now can foresee. The judgment of the agents of this royal family is. however, nothing new. Bankers of reputation and ability have been known to put more nnfeney into municipal bonds than into any other form of permanent investment, unless i it be the securities of the nation itself. It is true they bear less interest than many others, but they in the long run are safer even than first-class mort gages and they are as good as gold on the market or in the banks. Emperor William and his family may feel perfectly safe whate'er betide if it is true, as has been stated, that they have stowed away in safety de posit vaults in this country some mil lions of dollars' w r orth of Xew York city improvement bonds. How different European securities look here at the present time. If the figures of banking authorities may be accepted as accurate, the United States now has a credit abroad of nearly $500,000,000; but there are very few investors in this country who are showing any disposition to put a part of that surplus into bonds of the warring nations. Mr. Morgan has gone abroad with some such thought in his mind, it is said, but it is by no means certain that he will invest heavily in any of the securities now being issued by Germany or the allies. If the war should come to an end within the com ins six months, some of these Euro pean bonds may look like good invest ments. but If hostilities continue over a period of years there is no estimating the amount of depreciation that may result. At all events, the fact that shrewd European investors prefer American securities to their own war loans ought to give American capitalists food for thought. PUPILS NOT ALL TO BLAME SUPERINTENDENT SHARP, of the Columbus schools, made public the other day the fol lowing. which were among the answers of eighth grade pupils to a re cent examination: The four largest cities in Indi ana are London, Chicago, Singapore and Paris. Woodrow Wilson Is Governor of Indiana. Milk should be kept clean and in spected at leant once a year. Morse discovered artificial breath ing. Dixon Is Governor of Indiana. He Is also Congressman. The wind makes health by giving people bad colds. We cook food to make It more pilotable. When the teeth are gone the stomach must digest the food. Superintendent Sharp may think these answers funny. In a sense they are. But they reflect a serious condi tion In Columbus schools. If eighth grade pupils in Harrisburg- schools were guilty of them the Telegraph would recommend a new city superin tendent or the removal of the teachers responsible for such Inefficient meth ods as those displayed In the examin ation papers quoted. f EVENING CHAT 1 People who have "wondered why Harrlsburg did not take some steps to perpetuate the historic localities that 'are about in the city will be interested to note that Philadelphia is planning to mark historic sites and buildings in Chestnut street with permanent tablets and that eventually the marking will j be extended to other parts of the city, j Pennsylvania's Capital City is rich in 'spots that excite the attention of visi-i |tor- from other places and if some j body could lie created to make studies j and select those which should be marked the average resident of Ilar- Irlsburg would be surprised at what j would bo turned up. As pointed out 'in this column beforo the location of j Harris' ferry and his storehouse exist I i by tradition and the average man does; j not know where Washington lodged • when he came here on his way to sup press the Whisky Rebellion, where the I llrst legislature met in Hurrlsburg, the i home of the tirst governor, where the (troops of the War of 18XS were sworn j in. where the Mexican War company I j was mustered in, the many points of j I interest concerning the Civil War days | (and where the first church, school and | charity was established. It would not I cost much and a movement with the object of marking the places would command general and popular sup port. Up ifnti! Saturday afternoon friends of City Commissioner Harry F. Bow man—and even the superintendent of i public safety himself—had more than I a sneaking suspicion that Mr. Bow-! j man was marksman of class with a j shotgun. Saturday, however, -Mr. Bow man, his fellow-commissioner, Wil liam H. Lynch, and a scote or more of other members of llarrisburg lodge of Elks went to Reading to be guests of the Berks capital lodge and inci dentally to compare the respective ! abilities of Harrlsburg and Heading Elka at the targets, at bowls and at billiards. City Commissioner Bow man. it appears, was one of the gun team. He didn't do so well; this he admits. ll» only killed four out of ten birds. Trie deciding bird was lost by Fred W. Dinger, a well-known expert. Ho hit the bird and 'lllled it with enough shot to kill most any ordinary pigeon but this one in par ticular was unusually husky. Despite its load of shot it managed to get across the wire fence and out of bounds before it fell. So the local Elks lost in the shooting contest in the afternoon; and in the evening they went down to ignominious defeat in both the bowling and the billiard con tests. Commissioner Lynch neither shot, nor bowled nor played billiards. But he had a good time. Sunday was a great day for stroll ing, but not on the Reservoir Park lawns. The park workmen during the last week have covered the grassy slopes with powdered lime for fertiliz ing purposes arid the west winds blew the white powder over everybody. Those who took to the lawns soon re turned to the walks, as the lime play ed the deuce with shoes and cloth ing. Reservoir is attracting hundreds of people every day since the warmer weather and the robins have come, tennis enthusiasts can he seen most any time looking wistfully at the tin lined courts; golfers are out swinging their clubs; and the benches arc be coming favorite lolling spots for folks with that tired feeling. Unseasonable March weather, with freezing temperature on the days when baseball practice used to be in vogue, does not seem to have daunted the snowdrop, crocus and other early Spring flowers in gardens along Front street and there are some who live on the Hill and in the upper end of the city who insist that the more favor able sunshine that falls on the Front street blooms does not give them any advantage as regards size or color. Hundreds of people in this city take a big pride in their early Spring tiowers and if one only knew it, there are as many arguments over flowers that bloom early as there are over the war. Speaking of war it has been a mat ter of comment that most of the Ital ian residents of the city have been predicting that their native land would enter into the conflict against Austria as soon as the weather was considered right. As long ago as last December several well versed Italian residents said that they expected Italy to invade Austria about the middle of April. None of them seemed to be very much disposed to go back to take a hand, but they seemed to be well posted on conditions in their home land to re gard entrance of Italy upon a cam paign to recover "the lost provinces" when Austria was in bad shape a some thing not only justified, but entirely proper. An architect of this city who has been in business more than fifteen years, said the other day he has more inquiries from prospective builders this Spring than at any season during the last four years. The requests for information, he says arc mostly from those who contemplate building high class residences or business buildings in Harrisburgr, Steelton or neighboring districts. In his opinion the fact that so many are consulting an architect is a sure indication of the tide of return ing prosperity. Most of the people seem to have the money in sight to go ahead. I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"! —Arthur X. Swatison. civil service expert, quit because councils would not grant an increase of salary asked for him by Chairman Riter. —William Hollenback, State College football expert, lias become coach of the Chester Military Academy teams. —J. D. Callery, head of the Pitts burgh Railways, and George Wharton Pepper, Philadelphia lawyer, are working on a plan to improve Pitts burg's transit company. —Harry L. Mitchell, Johnstown's sealer, says that it is the peddler who is giving most trouble in short weight, not the merchant. I DO YOU KNOW 1 That llarrisliiirg's /lrc loss last year was very low compared to some oilier Pennsylvania cities? Knowing the Small Boy The small boy has some very definite ideas about lii-J own wearing apparel. Frequently he nntl his parents have their pointa of difference, but in the main the boy's ideas are sound. Do you know that there are clothiers who have studied ho.v nature so that they know a hoy almost as well as he does him self. They have built boys' clothing 1 founded on such knowledge. They make and soil what might be termed scientifically correct i clothing for .boys. Where to find such places? Consult the advertising eol- I ' umns of the Telegraph. COX TAKES CHARGE 1 OF BRUMBAUGH BILL Philadelphia Member Is a Legisla tor of Considerable Experi ence in the House RONEY ON THE WING NOW ; Philadelpluan Has to Attend a j Murder Trial and Be a Legisla tor at the Same Time M EDWIN R. COX Representative Edwin R. Cox, the man who presented the administration child labor bill in the House, will have charge of this important piece of platform pledge legislation in tho lower branch of the Legislature. Mr. Cox is chairman of the committee on manufactures of the House and is a legislator of experience as well as one of the most popular of the men in the Legislature. Mr. Cox is a Philadelpliian, born j and bred. lie was educated in the public schools of tho city and soon after becoming of age was elected a member of the school board of his section of the city, serving six years as secretary. He was elected to the Legislature of 1909 and has been sys tematically re-elected. The last' two sessions Mr. Cox has been a member of the committee on manufactures and this year succeeded Daniel ,T. Sliern as chairman. He has studied tho child labor problem as it is presented to the Legislature and will look alter the Brumbaugh bill on tho Iloor of the House and steer it into the Senate. Representative W. M. Benningcr of Northampton, has one of the finest herds of bulls in tho State. He in uerited a farm from his father and comes of a family that has lived in that section of the State for years. Hie cattle have taken prizes at many shows in Pennsylvania and in neighbor ing States and ho is planning to enter them at a number of exhibitions this year. In addition to being owner of noted stock Mr. Benninger is engaged in slate quarrying and if he wanted to, could tell a lot about serving in tho National Guard in his younger days. Representative Samuel ,T. Barenett, of Delta, is one of the newspaper pub lishers of the House. He has long been engaged in newspaper publish ing and the printing business and local option ul'e his two hobbies this ses sion. Tony Ray Lynch, member from Fayette county, was formerly in the United States Geological Survey and spent some years surveying in North Dakota. —The Philadelphia Housing bill went to the Governor to-day. It is ; likely that hearings will be asked. | —Representative J. Ronev, ot Philadelphia, is on the busy schedule this week. He is acting as legislator and also taking a hand in a murder trial in Philadelphia. He left for Philadelphia last night on a late train after the session ended. —Drs. Steedle and Hamilton, the Allegheny doctors, took a hand in speech making last night. Steedle asked W. H. Wilson some learned questions about the drugless healer bill and the Philadelpliian got back by saying frankly "That's over my head." —J. Denny O'Xeil, the McKecsport Republican leader, was here to attend the Robert Burns banquet and to look offer some local option matters. He has just opened a new store to replace that burned out. THE ItKSIDtK Though we boaßt of our civilization And prate of the marvelous plan By which ev'ry foe in creation Is harnessed in service of man. Yet the force we are slowest to mas ter. In savage or civilized state. Breeding misery, death ami disaster. Is tlie force of our primitive hate. For peoples still war upon peoples, Anil worship the militant plan, In spite of our churches and steeples. There still is the savage man. AN EVENING THOUGHT Time is eternity, Pregnant with all eternity can give. —Young. 1 I I KESU xju?Y II i Candies si V for (k s |j!j| M Easter j! j'.!! '! ijijl -will \ convey your if |' ! ! j!ji||: greetings most j :j| appropriately. 111!: :j§ : Our Sales Agents In Harrlaburc are J. H. BOHKR | F. J. ALTHOUfSR ' CUNNINGHAM'S : j' 1 ;; Hityicr a < .ocoa, one r ij' : Hurler's Candy, •: u Supreme :|||, j : 1 I OUR DAILY LMI6HI HIS BEST j&k /* PHRAfiE mjpi 7//' • Tom la a vr«at i 4§V t '// '1 talk*r. Says ft - ''UK "rf 1 * Jot of nice things. j !Mm % Ye* I remem- ! I Wjl bsr one sajrlnj o< AIT ">TT" his that pl«m*d lltf fi »j m# //I 1 Si What Til ItT Good night. IT DEPKNDa ' I J Bobbie: Wbaf» Vj \V/ • failure, Pop? Pop: Depends ■T V on whether it's » j I ■ana— er not. 1 I * • VHKRE CAN HE MKf By \V)bb Dinger Where is the Crown Prince? someone | asks. Of him we've little heard Theso past few weeks, whereas at first He surely was a bird. Und eomovun says: "Why, doncha know. He laughed at Papa Bill Und criticised mit ridicule Der Vater's fighting skill?" Und Pop he get so doggone mad lie say: "Come, Princie, Come, What is da matter that you try r ro put Pop on der bum? "We've left you hide behind a rock, Der men have fought like sin, Und ven your army von der day Ve vent und brought you In "Und showed you vhat a victory You'd vun, now listen, Prince, You've talked unkind of Pop, und Pop No, vurds Is going to mince. "Here is a pretty iron cross, A nice new brush and comb, Dress up und pose for movie men Und vait for me at home." terfl BOOKS and dia Ml The remark attributed to .Lord Kitchener, "1 do not know when the war is going to end, but I know when it is going to begin," gains authority front the characterization by Harold Begbie in his recj-nt biography, pub lished by Houghton Mifflin Company. The great leader, Mr. Begbie says, "is an entirely different person from the legendary Kitchener, and at the pres ent day, he is no longer the real Kitchener who laid a railway across the dessert and broke the savage pow er of the Dervishes. But he is still an obstinate, slow-thinking, and tenacious organizer, still a man who knows the right person for a particular under taking, still a man who yields to no I social pressure in the sphere of pat ronage, and still a man who is an abso lute terror to the grafter and the fool. | He has set himself to raise immense armies in England, and he is determin ed that nothing shall make him dis patch these new troops to the l'ront un til they have acquired something of the discipline and smartness which are such distinguishing marks of the regular British Army. A weaker man, or let us say, a man less obstinate, might have been tempted to send these green armies to France and to Bel gium in the first nerve-trying months of the war. Kitchener was like a rock in this matter * 5 *. It remains to be seen whether these new armies will not surprise Lord Kitchener's crit ics when they take the lield. Slow and laborious as the War Secretary's ad ministration may be, it is nevertheless inspired by his dogged and unswerving passion for absolute efficiency. Sooner or later the uniforms and boots will appear, the rifles and bayonets be handed out. and the troops, which at the time of writing are drilling in mufti with obsolete rifles, will make their appearance as a marching army. Supple at Sixty Age and ripe experience mean hap piness and usefulness when mental and bodily powers are preserved , by keeping rich blood in the veins. Nature'* rare nourishment In Scoff'# A . EmuUioa create* rich blood, warms the body and alleviate* rheumatic tendencies It* oil-food Imparts Nr7)[ (trength to both body and brain. A 111 It it A r ou rithmmnt—not Alcohol. jL hmms'WMiiMMisaM,,., |i{g| UNRIVALED SHOWING Superb assortments of thrifty potted flowering plants at very moderate prices. Every one guaranteed free from disease. Azaleas in all colors, Spireas, Acacias, Gardenias, Lilacs, Gen- ' 0\( )«ll estas > Rhododendrons, Hyacinths, Lillies, Tulips, Narcissus, Etc. \y*j New French Hydrangeas in blue, pink and white. Is T Baby Roses, which will bloom all summer. IS ►LJ Tausendschons in all colors, —and the newest floral novelty, lJllwl<ill Metrosideros, or bottle brush, one of the oddest varieties known— and many others. Last year many of our customers came late and were disappointed. If RKSiw TTS >ou ' a " n<,t ' ator than Thursday we can assure you the finest selection in tftj] -gjS'ithe city of any of the above plants. fMj HOLMES SEED COMPANY § 106-108 S. Second door* i>how <iu->inut The Remarkable Success of Our Young Men's Suits ' JM ' iiltlWto dress well, have already '/If ' l earnc d to know that Worthy —tnClothes have no equals at their I lift i Young Me ' s ti cnn "fVV|f ltl !JB| Suits at ipID.UU Wmm — t^l^s P r * ce our Suits are Mf ji) kmMMlm strictly hand tailored, and are /IIP );Mm 'MI ma^e of the most pleasing If B||f W 111 Spring fabrics. The models are I W wl fM °f youthful designs, the Eng- I! alilililHl mI It st y les predominating, and I Mi I'll! H I 111 y° u have a wide range of pat-. I 111 11 ffi'l terns to se^ect from lyJL-^.jmoo (I II Iff 111 i 111 f j Style, Character and Ele /I II '' I 111 I!' | gance are combined in these I I'l? f l|! [jj HI I Suits, selling at S2O, and II li tf I! I|i 111 !|j . jj, every Suit we sell is an ad- Ii"I MI 11 vi vertisement for us. Perfec jj jj,] J!| 'I '1 tion in every detail of the gar- H I'' S 111 i'ji Sri •'ments is'assured; and we in- II t"I -iffTlS v^te y° u to see t^le beautiful V I' Suits we sell at this price. '' j Our Store Is 14 N. Third Street iPUft '' ) |j| 11J ||.! Next Door to Gorgas, Druggist NEWS DISPATCHES IN IS BURG FIFTY OF THE CIVIL WAR YEARS AGO TO-DAY (From the Telegraph March 80, 1863.) (From the Telegraph March 30, 1865.) Rcl)el Pirate Captured Order Xw locomotives Galveston, Texas, March 24.—The The Heading: has ordered ten new Rebel pirate "Anna Dale" was cap- locomotives for use on the Ijebanon tured by the gunboat Pinola, and the Valley branch. crow made prisoners. " Petition Street Cleaning Communications HroUen Suggestions have been offered to Washington, March 30.—Sherielan petition council to clean the streets, has started a campaign to break all which are covered with mud. communications with Richmond. Cut Off Retreat Remove Printing Office St. liouis, March 30.—Plans have Ambrose Taylor, job printer, has re been completed to cut off a Rebel re- 1 moved his printing office to North treat from Mobile. Third street. (r ... , \ t April Ist see us about new i nvestments. Union Trust Co. of Pcnna. Union Trust Building
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