6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Establitlud its' ■■■ ■ • - PUBLISHED BT TH* TELEGRAPH TOUTING CO. E. J. 6TACKPOLU Prrsiitut and EJitcr-in-Ckitf r. B. OYSTHR Secretary GU3 M. BTEIXMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building. 518 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Esstern Office, Fifth Avenue Building. New Tork City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building. Chicago, 111.. Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $".00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Simrn dally average for n the splendid traditions of German t istory, has obliterated the noble traits for wbloli her people have been noted, and In sheer Insanity of blood- WEDNESDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 31, 1915. letting is running amuck. There is an old Latin saying to the effect thai "Whom the gods would destroy they first ma?ce mad." That, perhaps, ts the most charitable view one may take of the present situation. In the death of Bishop Dubs the United Kvangelical Church loses one of its most eloquent and scholarly chnrchmen and Harrtsburg one of its most distinguished cltlsens. Bishop Dubs was not only a devoted church man. a learned theologian, a polished writer and a man of exceptionally wide experience, but he was first, last and always an American citizen of the stamp that puts country next to Qod. Born in Germany and a student of the great universities of that country, he was, however, an enthusiastic exponent of the American form of government, and as devoted to what he believed its best Interests as was Carl Schur* and others of that type who claimed Ger man birth, but who found congenial surroundings only in democratic America, with its wonderful opportuni ties for liberal thought and construc tive work. COMPLETING THE PARKWAY EVER since the passage of the first city Improvement loan Harris burg has been working toward the completion of a parkway around the entire cityj The old Park Commission did much in the way of acquiring the necessary land and in the completion of long stretches of roadway over the lines laid down by Landscape Architect Warren H. Man ning. Now City Commissioner M. Har vey Taylor plans to complete the project by acquiring title to the one remaining link and the construction of the necessary three-mile stretch of driveway. All that stands in the way of the immediate consummation of this long drawn out improvement is a subway beneath the tracks of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway near Paxtang. This can be constructed at compara tively small cost and the railway com pany owes it to the city to lose no time in performing its part of the work. Harrisburg has spent many thousands of dollars in the building of this long line of parkway and public spirited citizens have donated land in the sum of many more thousands. Doubtless these facts are well known to the railway management, which In the past has shown a very friendly spirit toward Harrisburg's public Im provement campaign. The Pennsylvania Railroad has co operated wherever It has been possible for the Improvement and extension of the municipal park system, and only recently donated to the city sufficient cinder for extensive road developments throughout the Wildwood district. The Reading now has opportunity to display equal generosity in the prompt building of the Paxtang subway. A WORTHY HILL THE House yesterday killed a worthy bill when it voted down the measure requiring the carry- ing of lights by all vehicles using: the highways of the State after night fall. The bill has been before several sessions of the legislature and has failed each time it has been presented, largely because some of the farmers of the State are opposed to it. Apparently, rural dwellers would rather run the risk of accident than go to the small expense and trouble of earning lanterns on their carriages and wagons. The. farmer who de tected an automobilist using the roads at night without proper lights on his car would very properly consider him a reckless and dangerous person. The same applies to anybody who uses the highways after dark without protect ing himself and others on the roads by the use of warning lights. The automobilist who crashes into the unlighted farm wagon or carriage is not nearly so much to blame as is the driver of that vehicle. For the proper protection of everybody con cerned, every wagon, carriage or other vehicle ought to be required by State law to carry lights, and it is a ques tion if the pedestrian on the country road does not also owe It to himself and others to arm himself with a lan tern before venturing forth after nightfall. MOVING PICTURE CENSORSHIP THE Knights of St. George of llarrisburg voiced a popular sen timent when on Sunday they adopted resolutions opposing the repeal of the State moving picture censorship law. There can be no question that a censorship law of soino sort is neces ! s&ry in Pennsylvania. As has been pointed out in these columns, there has been a marked improvement in the quality of the moving picture shows in Ilarrisburg since the passage j of the censorship law, and what applies to this city applies to the State at large as well, for the same films that aro shown here are exhibited in the aters throughout the entire Common wealth. Unquestionably this improve ment has been wrought by the op erations of the censorship. Salacious ness and suggestiveness have been i eliminated entirely and the tone of the pictures generally has been raised. "tf'ith regard to the charges of the moving picture operators against the present State censor, the Telegraph knows nothing. But even if they are all true in a form aggravated far be yond the allegations of those who bring them there would still be no excuse for the repeal of the law. So far an they have gone, the operators have done nothing more than attack the ability of the censor. Nothing has been brought out to show that the law is not as necessary now as it was when it was put into operation. STATE FLOWER BILLS GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH was right when he said that there Is no apparent public senti ment for the adoption of any one plant as the official State Flower. A State Flower can no more be cre ated br legislative enactment than can a national anthem be decreed by act of Congress. The shamrock of Ireland and the thistle, of Scotland are the results of tradition and sentiment. Neither could be replaced by act of the British Parliament. Flowers and songs and folklore peculiar to the people who love them and with whom they are associated, and whom in many cases they repre sent in a very intimate and personal way, come to their places in popular favor not suddenly, but through the years by means far dissociated from such staid and stilted things as legis lative enactments. Some day. doubtless, Pennsylvania will have a State Flower, but not be cause a Legislature has thoughtlessly decreed that It be such. f EVENING CHAT I I When the fire alarm sounds, don't I call the police department if you ;want to tind out where the fire is. The i attaches at the police department | don't know any more than you. They lean only tell you the number of the box sent In. The best way to tind out i where the tire is, would bo to go to the | tire. For a long time, every fire alarm lis followed by from ten to one hun dred requests over the telephone for [information as to where the fire Is rag iing. These inquiries are a big annoy ance to the police department. If the information was at hand, there would jbe no objections. No one reports where the fire is until it's all over. The other day Colonel Joseph B. Hutchison was busy getting some valu able information as to the location of a crook who was wanted. Along comes a fire alarm, and the conversa tion about the crook was all off. That was not the first time that important business was interrupted by telephone requests regarding fires. If there was a way to tell who was calling, an or der would be to not answer any tele phone calls during a fire alarm. The trouble Is that someone might be calling for help, so it is up to the peo ple to be decent and not annoy the police department with foolish ques tions, according to the belief of those who have to answer the calls. Legislation pending at the Capitol indicates that there is a general de slro for improvement of facilities for crossing the Susquehanna between Miilersburg and Sunbury, no less than two bills for construction at State ex pense of bridges being in hand. For generations practically the only means of crossing the river in this section has been by forties. The very name of some of the stations indicate the lo cation of this means of crossing and while some of the ferries have V>een profitable In years gone by, it is noted that receipts have been falling off. Probably a line of "jitney" motor boats would come in handy for the folks of Perry and upper Dauphin. It is rather notable that the motor boat is being used on the Delaware and on the Allegheny county for ferry pur poses, but that the Susquehanna still clings to the old ferry or the slight draught steamboat. "I was just figuring things up." said a voung nun married about two years, "and I've discovered that my wife gets about seventy per cent, of my surplus money after I've paid the general run ning expenses of the household, and that I get the remaining thirty." "This set me to thinking, iuid I suggested that she let me give her a regular allowance instead of letting her help herself out of the joint purse. When I told her how much I'd be glad to give lier, she was all smiles and murmured, 'Thanks, awfully, dear. Why I don't spen 1 nearly that much now." " "Tlie truth of the matter is," chuckled the young benedict, "I've based her allowance on a fifty-fifty basis, and now I can get a new Spring suit with what I gained." An eight-year-old youngster who lives on the Hill had just heard his first natural science talk from the teacher at school and was full of curiosity about the mysteries of astronomy and physical geography. "Maw." he said, when he reached home, "the teacher says that It's gravity from the earth that makes you fall down to the ground. Now tell me how far you would go if the earth was suddenly taken away and there was nothing to hold you up." "I don't know." answered his moth er In a puzzled manner, "I never thought about that: I don't see how the earth can be taken away without us going with it." "Well, didn't you tell me the other Sunday that the world's coming to an end some day and there won't be any thing left of it?" persisted the curious youngster. "Among the many compensations of living up the river," said the Dauphin commuter, speaking of his ride to and from work in the city every day. "are the three sunsets I see each even ing on my way home on the train. First is the view just outside the city limits; then the low-lying sun is cut off by the first mountain across the river: beyond RoclCVtUe the sunlight bursts forth again through the gap back of Marysvllle. it is soon cut off by the second range of mountains as the train proceeds, and just before arriving at Dauphin station it appears again in unsurpassed beauty, clear from all the interference of smoke that sometimes blurs it nearer the clty.V 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE I —Noah H. Swayne, 11, well-known in the iron trade, is president of the Main Line Choral Society, in suburban Philadelphia. —A. F. Huston, the Coatesville iron man. will build a new cottage at Palm Reach. —Archibald Harrison, of Philadel phia, has won the Aiken cup, the big gest shooting trophy in the Southern resorts. • —John J. Smith, Sunbury council man, has been president of No. 1 fire company for thirty-six years. —Reginald Wright Kauffman, au thor and newspaperman, is delivering lectures on his experiences In Eelgium. —Supreme Court Justice John P. Elkin in an address at Philadelphia, strongly urged a large navy. I DO YOU~ K NOW ——l That Harrisburg publishes IhhiUs for use by Chinese mis sionaries? What Does Your Neighbor Read? ———————— • Mr. Retailer, your neighbors are your customers and like you are readers of this newspaper. When they see the manufac turer's advertisement of a prod uct in the newspaper their curi osity is aroused. Curiosity and desire are near companions. Many will want to buy. Why not show the goods where these friends and neigh bors can see them? This is only making the man ufacturer's newspaper advertis ing build business for you. CROMER DEMANDS CHANCE TO WORK Allegheny County Member Objects to So Many Bills and to the "Entertainments" LETTER SHOWER IS ON One Member Got 4,000 Letters in a Day; Joe Mackrell Compli mented on His Bill Representative Horace W. Cromer, of Pittsburgh, last night enlivened the session of the House by an emphatic protest against the flood of bills pre sented to the House and the numerous "entertainments" and speeches which are being offered at times when he thinks the lawmakers should be work ing. Mr. Cromer rose soon after the House began its session and asking to make a statement on the ground of personal privilege announced that ho did not intend to present another bill. Ho argued that there were enough in hand to keep the members busy and that as far as he is concerned he wants to work. He also announced that he was tired of the continuous diversions in the way of speeches and shows of various kinds, as he phrased it and that ne felt that he had not been elect ed to be entertained. It is probable that the memltfrs of the House rules committee will fix April 8 as the date for stopping tin presentation of bills in the House. The subject is to be taken up next week. —Representative E. E. Jones, chair man of the House roads committee, received 4,000 letters on Monday. Rep resentative Showalter got almost as many. Some of the members say that the full crew and local option bills have resulted in receipt of as high as 5,000 letters in one day. —Among visitors to the Capitol last night were Harry Witting, secretary of the Philadelphia Republican city committee, and Frank J. Gorman, Philadelphia city commissioner, who heads the Keystone wing. —Representative E. R. Cox was called to the chair in the House lasc night. —The bill to regulate operation of jitney buses and to require owners to give bonds to cover possible damages and to pay 10 per cent, of gross earn ings was negatively reported by the committee on roads of the House. The bill to increase the magistrates in sec ond class cities was also negatived. —All bills relating to the Public Ser vice Commission were referred to a subcommittee by the House judiciary general committee after their sponsors had briefly outlined them. —Joseph N. Mackrell. legislative correspondent of the PittsburghChron Encouraging J I ARHKw see so man y familiar faces— I v men whom wc fitted out in seasons past— * 'frral l&KtrA among those who are coming to this Live Store for new Spring a 111 lH rci *Lp/]jb wear ' * s a source of much encouragement. 1 In * s Peasant to know that the I I 111 I IK principles first adopted for the guidance of I'' lumSi al l! 1 our business have never required changing in any essential detail, i WlaVl 1111/ ' but, amplified by time, growth and experience, still serve to maintain mB/jji and increase our prestige in this community. m\ If I Kuppenheimer Clothes || 1 Jjf for Spring HI I They're wide-awake in style and // I I! 11l I genuine in every stitch—in short they're 111 (|| jlllfß/ clothes good enough to bear the unreserved guarantee which backs / / II HI U P ever y purchase made here. // I Ifil if Prices run from 11 sls, S2O $25 I anc * cver y onc a 100-cents-on-the-dollar value. (j Simply a question of whether you want fine, finer or finest weaves. COPYRIGHT 1918 Boy S ' Suits, $3.50 to SIO.OO 304 Market St, Harrisburg Pa. icle Telegraph. Is being complimented upon the manner in which lie got through the legislature the bill for the two platoon system for the fire men in second chiss cities. This bill was Mr. Maekrell's hobby and he not only had It drawn, but he attended the hearings, spoke for the bill and then made it his business to see that It got through. His final task was to urge the Governor to sign it. The Governor signed it last night. —Governor Itruinhaugh entertained a number of the Philadelphia dele gation at dinner last nidht and It is said that local option was discussed. The Governor has been having mem bers in to dinner and has presented some strong arguments around the tuble. —William Conner, former member from Allegheny, was at the Capitol last evening. ■ —W. A. Way, judge of Allegheny county court, was a Capitol visitor. —A large coille dog attended two legislative hearings yesterday. He came with Dr. Zook, of Philadelphia, as an exhibit in the antlvivisection bills and was much admired. I OUR DAILY LAUGH I NOT AN OWN- Do they twn I don't thinkj to. His hand seem to be fMrly THE TIX WEDDING * Ily IVinc Dinger Our wedding anniversary The tenth one. too, by heck, ! Within a few days will occur. And now I'm trying to check I The good things that I have in tin So I can tell each friend What things I need and would prefer As gift to have him send. i Of course I need a lot of things In kettles, pans and pots, Those that 1 liavo are springing leaks And showing rusty spots. But what I'd MOST prefer to have Some kindly friends send in Are two rain sponts accompanied by I A nice new roof of tin. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY (From the Telegraph March 31, 18G5.) General Visits in City Brig. Gen. E. MeCook, of Ohio, is visiting friends in this city. Draw Jurors Jurors were drawn to-day for the j April term of court. Temperance Sermon The Rev. Thomas H. Robinson will deliver a temperance sermon in the Market Square Presbyterian Church. ■PnvfHH w-i-siRffB:»■KSER MANY OF US | who have never sa\'ed look back over the past five or ten years and wonder why we did not lay aside part of our earnings, realizing that we might readily have done so. Yet when looking forward and trying to see what the future has in store we continue to think as we did ten years ago—that we will begin saving some day, but not this year. The wise plan is to make your beginning now. SI.OO open* a savings account with us and we will pay you 15 per cent. , i interest, credited to ydur account every four months. 11, llenry Sjdnor Harrison's latest novel. "Angela's Business," will be published by Houghton Mifflin Co., March 27. It will be some time, how ever, before Mr. Harrison sees a copy, for at present he is in France helping with relief work. Ferris Greenslet, of the publishing house of Houghton Milllin Co., has just returned from six weeks in Lon don. Mr. Greenlct's visit was in the interests of his firm, and he reports that he found business conditions in English publishing circles suprisingly normal. Samuel Hopkins Adams, author of "The Clarion" and "The Health -Mas ter." was married March 12 to Jane Peyton, the actress. Air. and Mrs. Adams sailed for the West Indies a few hours after the wedding. "Katy Gaumer," lilsie Singmaster's novel of Pennsylvania German life, is in its second printing. Nearly one hundred years ago. the Rev. George Robert Gleig wrote a book i which was one of the most charming and instructive books eorncernings tlie Bible ever published. It has been out of print for many years, and the Vir Publishing company, Philadelphia, is now reissuing it in attractive l'orm un- I tier the title of "A Wonderful Hook Concerning the Most Wonderful Book in the World." NEWS DISPATCHES OF THE CIVIL WAR (From the Telegraph March 31, ISGS.) Sherman Takes Rcntonsville Pentonsville, N. C., March 29. — Sherman reported the capture of this town and a decisive defeat of the ene my on the same day that ScholieTd took Goldsboro. Hold Council of War 1 Washington, March 81.—President Lincoln and Generals Grant, Sherman, Meade, Ord and Sheridan held a coun cil of war yesterday on the "River Queen." It is rumored that peace ne gotiations will be resumed again. Raise Old 1 lag Washington, March 31.—Orders were given to-day to have the old flag raised on Fort Sumpter.