8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established lt.W PUBLISHED BY THE TGLEQHAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. BTACKPOLO President and Bditor-in-Chttf F. R. OYSTER Secretary OUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 216 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish-' era' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Building, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building; Chicago, 111., Allen & Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at 13.00 a year In advanoe. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. ■iron dully average for the three ★ month* ending April 90.1815. a 21,844 ★ Average for the year 1914—38,313 Average for the year 1913—31,577 Average for the year 1913—31,175 Average for the year 1911—18,851 Average for the year 1910—17,495 SATURDAY EVENING, MAY* 1 TAXING THE "JITNEY" OBVIOUSLY the "jitney" must be made to pay its share of tax ation. Vice-President Musscr, of the Harrisburg Railways company, is correct in his views in this respect. The "jitney" is nothing more or less than a modified form of street car, a"nd we require the street car lines to yield the city revenue amounting to thousands of dollars each year. As this revenue is based on the earnings of the trolley lines and as every "jit ney" passenger reduces the revenues of the company by five cents, the ef fect will be to cut Into the money the city receives from traction operations. * The "jitney" no doubt has come to stay, in one form or another, but Just now it is in its experimental stage. "Jitney" operators are "going it blind." Men who have machines are turning them to account by collecting nickels from all who care to ride. The whole movement is feverish and frenzied. Few who have entered the business know how much they are actually making or losing. They see the ready cash at the end of the day and reckon It as profit, but they have not calcu lated running expenses, wages of driver. Insurance, tire costs, wear and tear, yearly license and sinking fund. Six or eight dollars a day looks big enough to attract many people into the business, but the profits shrink tre mendously when the items of expense are taken into consideration. More than one automobile owner is destined to be "stung" most painfully before the "jitney" works itself down to a legitimate business proposition. In the meantime the city should be studying the situation, prepared at the proper time to tax this form of trans portation as it does all others. THE USE OF PUBLICITY PUBLICITY properly presented pos sesses virtues untold, when the ~ truth is in It. Rightly used, its power is beyond computation, hut when It is prostituted, when facts are misrepresented or distorted to in fluence opinion toward false con clusions, it possesses boomerang pos sibilities of staggering proportions. This is well Illustrated by a letter issued to the public a day or two ago from the pen of Thomas A. Edison in defense of his views on reinforced con crete construction work. Mr. Edison points out that the fire at his factory in West Orange has been made the subject of pictures and articles dis crediting the use of concrete and steel In factory buildings. The intent was to show that Mr. Edison's contentions In behalf of concrete as the building material of the future were set at naught by the fire and the aged in ventor says distorted photographs were used to emphasize the arguments. The effect has been Just the oppo site of that for which the promoters strove. Whereas their articles and photographs appeared only in a very few privately circulated catalogs, Mr. Edison's letter in reply has been pub lished by almost every newspaper In the land. Advertisers and those fho attempt to use the newspapers and other pub lications for "publicity" purposes should see a lesson in this. No adver tising and no publicity is worth the paper upon which It Is printed that does not rest Its arguments and con clusions truth. A ZONE OF PEACE SPEAKERS before the" American Academy of Political and Social Science in Philadelphia yesterday voiced the thought that instead of es tablishing war zones America should be interested In the maintenance of a great zone of peace which should con stitute all of North and South America. The people of both continents, the speakers held, ought to get together to preserve law and order at home and to unite against Invasion from across the ocean. This voices the sentiments of mil lions of Americans. The European war has given to the United States an opportunity that ought not to be neg lected to formulate new bonds of friendship and amity between this country and every nation embraced by the two Americas. The war has given us a temporary advantage in this re spect. If we do not avail ourselves of the chance that is offered it will pass with the declaration of peace and the resumption of European relations now sundered. If the nation is to act at all. It must act quickly. This is not alone a matter for governmental ac tivity, although much caij be done SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBITRG rfSKft* TELEGRAPH MAY 1, 1915. through the diplomatic service, but It should have the attention and effort of every progressive business man in !. this country- Opportunity often knocks but once. It is Rt our front door to day. Denied admission, It may never return. THE RIGG9 BANK CASE PRESIDENT WILSON declares that the Riggs Bank controversy Is r not an affair of the administra tion. President Taft took the same view of the Balllnger charges when ■ they were brought to his attention, but 1 the people would not view them In that light and It Is extremely probable they 1 will not accept so lightly President i Wilson's dismissal of the accusations . brought against his comptroller and secretary of the treasury. The case Is pureU' a departmental matter, the Presldem asserts, and the ! administration will be content to lay the facts before the courts calm in ' the assurance that the officials under fire will be justified thereby. This sounds very well, but if the ot ■ ficials so seriously charged by the ' management of the Riggs Bank feel that way about it why have they, through the Department of Justice, found it necessary to call to the as sistance of the government's legal rep ' resentatives engaged for their defense . such well-known attorneys as Bran dels and Untermyer, with the possibil ity of adding a no less personage than Pam, of Chicago? Certainly, "the plain facts in the case" could have been laid before the court by almost any attorney In the employ of the government, but the sus picion must arise in the mind of any body who has given the matter any consideration that the administration is very much alarmed, indeed, and that it expects to win, if win it can, by sharp legal practice and Is preparing to have its case formulated and sub mitted by some of the best financial minds in the legal profession. Just as the Ballinger case, whether justly or iinjustly, had its effect on the election of 1912, so these Riggs charges will be very much an administration affair when President Wilson comes before the people for endorsement In 1916. MEDICAL FREEDOM MANY will agree with Senator Works, of California, who is making a tight against a bill to be reintroduced when Congress con venes again having for its object the creation of a national department of health designed to turn the health control of the nation over to one school of medicine. Senator Works, in a recent address, summed up his views thus: I would not abolish or overthrow the Public Health Service if I could. I would make it broader, more tol erant. more humane. I would have it presided over by a man of broad, tolerant and humanitarian views, who could look beyond the dead line of the so-called regular school of medicine and seek for, and find, and apply for the common welfare all that is good in every school of medicine, old and new, and all other methods of healing, saving none, favoring none. There 1s no profession that ought ! to be more liberal in its views than that of medicine. Any science that is not fixed must be progressive, and there is no indication that medical men have reached perfection. Far as they have gone and remarkable as their accomplishments have been, phy sicians have merely begun to see the light in some directions and are grop ing in absolute darkness in others. Yet there are many otherwise admirable men in the medical profession who can see no virtue outside the limita tions of their own particular school.! But the man seeking health is ready to accept that which offers him relief from suffering and a cure for disease. He is not interested in "schools" and theories, some of them none too well established. What he wants is effi ciency and the physician who is ren dering full service to his patient is ready to admit virtue wherever he meets it and to search for it wherever it may be found. No school of health promotion yet devised possesses a monopoly of curative agencies. SIGNS OF THE TIMES IS business improving? It is, and we submit the following as a bit of direct evidence: Mt. Union. Pa.. April 29, 1915. Circulation Manager the Telegraph: I'lease send me thirty-six more papers. Work is getting more plen tiful and I can sell more. Yours truly, HERBERT MOSSER. Herbert is one of the hustling young lads who sells the Telegraph along the main' line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. When he says business is improving he backs his assertions by an order for more papers. Herbert's views are held by other newsboys and agents throughout the Central Penn sylvania field who are beginning to increase their orders, but who have not been thoughtful enough to give the circulation manager their reasons therefor. There is a hint in this for hold-back advertisers that need not be pointed out. PROTECT THE LOBSTER THE lobster is not' a domestic animal. Therefore he may have his claws pegged, may be boiled while still kicking or broiled to a turn over a red-hot fire like a red Indian being burned at the stake. Thus have . the learned courts of Philadelphia de , elded. Tender-hearted women who , carried the case to the tribunals of the , people are tearfully preparing to have a law passed to save the lobster from . the ignominious and awful fate that , constantly impends. , This is a grand and glorious work. Having saved all the babies from death f from Impure milk, having cleared up , all the slums, having provided Jobs for , all the Jobless, having removed ail the , evils of the cities and established so . clety upon a plane beyond the wildest > Utopian dreams —in short, having solv s ed all the problems for the betterment . of nmnklnd —lt Is mote that we turn ■ our attention to the lobster. Poor : downtrodden, lowly creature, who can t conceive a nobler work than the en actment of a law to protect him from > the heartless cook. But having eman- clpated his claws from the cruel peg, might we suggest that those In charge of the movement Include a clause In the proposed statute providing muzzles for lobsters of sour-disposition, at least during that season of the year which is to the lobster as the dogdays are to the dogs? We would not be put into a position of suggesting* anything that might in the least limit the liberties of the lobster, but we must insist that the minnows, or the sardines, or what ever it is that live about the lobster beds, receive some consideration, too. EVENING CHAT A curious sidelight on the legisla ture Is thrown by some of the letters received by Harrisburg businessmen, especially lawyers and ihose interest ed in finances from people who want to get "straight tips" on the way legis lation is going through. When It is considered that there is scarcely a line of business in the State that is not touched in some way. or other by a bill in the general assembly or Its committees, it can readily be under stood why so many eyes ara upon Harrisburg. In one day a man active in affairs In this city received letters from friends asking about bills rela tive to physicians, capital stock tax, foot and mouth disease, trust com panies and building and loan associa tions. Another man spent a couple of hours trying to find out a proposed regulation of railroads and struck a dozen bills through which he had to plough. Some of the third class city officials here during the week declar ed that the flood of legislation on that subject was worse than it had been for years and that half a dozen bills amending the Clark act were pending in addition to one general hill. One farmer who likes to be called progres sive came to get a list of all bills re lating to agriculture and it took him a day. Some of the letters hint at business enterprises held up pending disposition of bills, but that is not taken very seriously. The public util ity companies have to maintain regu lar information bureaus because of the ramification of hills affecting their interests. And yet the total number of bills in hand is 1,500 short of what it was two years ago. People on Capitol Hill found out yesterday afternoon that "Chiefy" Gil ner is not in the joke class, but that he is a real live proposition. It seems that some furniture was being moved out of one of the offices and the self appointed guardian of the Capitol strolled along. "Wha's that goin'?" he demanded. One of the men said it was going out of the building. "Where? Where?" demanded the chief again. They gave him the name of a State official somewhat noted for his holding down of expenses and care for State furniture. "All right take it. I'll not look," said "Chiefy." Later on he found the furniture go ing to a storeroom and wanted to know why it had not been delivered. "What's the wotat job you have to handle?" was asked of one of the cleaning force at the Capitol. "Getting chewing gum out of the carpet in the rear of the hall of the House," answered the disgusted man. "You would he surprised to see how many pieces of gum are dropped. They get tramped in and its about the only thing that a vaccum cleaner will not remove. We have to cut It oft." Reservoir Park with Its crown of green rising at the eastern end of the city is commencing to show what it amounts to. Tt can be seen for miles around and an excellent idea of what the park means to Harrisburg can be gained from a train coming up the Susquehanna from York. The Capitol stands out prominently above the city, but beyond the Reservoir hill rises with its wealth of green and its line of trees. Despair reigned In a good many gardens yesterday morning when the results of the hard rain and of the hail storm Thursday afternoon were noted. In some gardens there were regular cascades of water from roofs and wa ter flowed over many a new-made bed. Flowers were washed out and in the central part of the city hail cut tulips, hyacinths and Spring blooms to pieces. Beaver closed its school for the sea son yesterday and tho occasion was marked by a celebration that will go down in the history of Dauphin coun ty's schools. All the children who attend the little schoolhouse for miles around dressed in best bib and tucker and their fathers and mothers and other members of tho family who could attend, gathered there for the day and enjoyed an interesting little program. The feature of the day per haps was the luncheon. Professor F. j E. Shambaugli, county superintendent, who was guest of honor, smacked his lips in retrospection some six hours a.fterwird when he thought of the things that came from the bounteous lunch baskets. Some of the farmers in the town ships of Dauphin and Cumberland counties are not waiting for "Good roads day," but have taken off their coats and gone to work on the repair of roads near their homes. In several instances supervisors. have had volun teers and have given papers to show that men worked of their own will. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE 1 —Mayor F. W. Brown, of Franklin, has given notice that city employes who drink regularly will be dropped from the pay roll. -»-The Rev. W. W. Sniff, a New Cas tle minister, went out in a pair of overalls and worked on the roads in his county to give an example. —Mayor Blankenburg says he is yearning for the days when he can go to the Poconos. —Judge A. W. Johnson, of Union county, has been holding court in Philadelphia. —Major Everett W. Warren, of Scranton, one of the lawyers in the coal tax case, in our courts, will take a prominent part in the appeal. I DO YOU KNOW—| That Harrisburg is one of the big distribution centers ,for an thracite coal? HIS SUCCESS The brand his name Mands for is known from ocean to ocean. It Is a food product of high character. The man who made It was ask ed the secret of his success. He answered: "First, quality. "Second, newspaper advertln , lug. "I liave tried all kinds of ad vertising there ever was and still say I owe most of my success to newspaper advertising." WILL DISCUSS THE COMPENSATION ACT Important Meeting to Be Held in the Office of the Governor Next Tuesday AMENDMENTS PROPOSED Removal of Common Law De fenses Has Stirred Up Consider able Objection Lately Capitol Hill is awaiting with con siderable interest the conference to be held next Tuesday between Gov ernor Brumbaugh and twenty-six senators on the compensation acts now pending in the upper house. The members of the lower house are watching what the senators do as the action of the Senate must be approved by the House. One of the points said to be disturb ing some of the senators is the provi sion of the bill which deprives the employer of his common law defense in case he does not choose to "volun tarilyv accept the provisions of the workmen's compensation acts. The common law defense includes the "contributory negligence,' "fellow ser vant" and similar pleas. It appears some apprehension has been mani fested among manufacturers in regard to this| provision, and the senators have been hearing from employers in their districts. A number of other points will be brought up in the con ference. It is said the Senate may not under take to act finally on the compensation bills next week. Some amendments are almost certain to be made follow ing the conference with the Governor, and this would necessitate reprinting one or more of the bills, which would defer the possibility of action until Wednesday or later. It is ev.en re ported that a public hearing may be held on the bill week after next, which would accord with the report that the Senate leaders are in favor of holding off the final adjournment until after May 13. —ln regard to the conference the Governor said: "The twenty-six sen ators have asked for a conference on the compensation bills to take up cer tain provisions. They said they were not in with the leaders of the Senate and, therefore, were not familiar with the situation regarding the compensa tion legislation. The Attorney General will be, present to explain any provi sions / the senators desire. If the senators can show us that amendments should be made, we will be glad to grant the concessions. It is to be a friendly discussion of the bills with a view of giving the senators more light on the subject." —Anxiety of the teachers in the Philadelphia schools that the Tomp kins teachers' pension bill would wipe out the pension system now in opera tion in the school system there will be relieved by the announcement made by Governor Brumbaugh yesterday that he would not sign the measure if it passes the Legislature unless school districts of the first class, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, are exempted from its provisions. A delegation from Pitts burgh, made up of members of the Board of Education of that city, called upon the Governor. The measure has passed the Senate and is now in the House committee. —The Hackett bill amending the woman labor law of last session, so as to permit longer working hours for women in hotels and restaurants, and which passed the Senate sometime ago, has been amended by the judiciary general committee of the House, so that the age limit for night work, be tween 9 p. m. and 6 a. m., shall be twenty-one years instead of eighteen. Otherwise the committee approves the bill as it passed the Senate. —Some Democratic machine men have come Into their own this week. These Pennsylvania postmasters were appointed Friday: John A. Miller. Ar nold: Roscoe H. Brunstetter, Clairton; Levi A. Moore, East Downington; Pat rick Bernard Egan, Emporium; Charles H. Lapsley, Glassport; John J. Gorman, Houtzdale; J. P. Owens. Scottdale. FIREMEN LET PLANT BURN Department Refuses to Use Apparatus Because of Quarrel With Council Washington. N. J.. May I.—Because firemen and the local council are in a row over the proposed purchase of a chemical engine, the firemen refused to use the apparatus when a fire broke out last night, with the result that flames which the chemical engine might have »extinguished" spread through and destroyed the entire plant of the Bowers Krooni Company, caus ing a. loss of $12,000, with SB,OOO in surance. The counciimen refused to make an appropriation to purchase the engine and firemen have started to dismantle the apparatus and declare they will sell It to another city. Owners of the Bowers plant may sue the city for damages. WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT Wrlghtsville, Pa., May I.—An nouncement has been made of the marriage of Miss Anna E. Ziegler, of this place,, and Charles E. Landis. of York, the ceremony being perform ed April 24, at York, by the Rev. M. R. Hamsher, pastor of the St. Matthew's Lutheran Church. i Impressions Verified rjUR bank building is unpretentious in architecture but it impresses one with the solid character of its construction. For many years it has been a Market Street landmark, with its clean \vhite exterior and its four massive columns proving a fa miliar picture to all. This feeling of strength and enduring service imparted, really typifies the char acter of the banking business within. "83 Yeart of Continuous Banking" Q / 213 MARKET STREET r jX, Capital. *300,000 Bur»lna, *300,000 \ kC pa^es of Wfm pleasant Household history^* And a Lot of Harrisburg housewives ave g j n^Q «j Q y R an^s " this week I by installing a Gas Range. "Gas Range Week" <spt\ Js\ ends Saturday night. Have you lifted \ \\f&\ your home out of the rut? This is a vl3k good time to make the stroke that counts M&k for better living, better cooking. Close up your kitchen early to-day or to-morrow. See the Gas Range demon -sS&** strations at our store. You will learn • how to close up early I ]/ est Display of Ranges / y We Have Ever Shown Cabinet Gas Range / HARRISBURG GAS CO. \S 14 S. Second St. ■OUR DAILY LAUGH 1 IMPRESSION* When to fix an rJ 1 im pr • ssloa ' Mjffy you're led. iJpW&W Impression is surer to \jffi /jp /) II you don't hit W "\fe.. . the nail oa the head But instead, Mt the nail on the finger. jrou're planning to get married She: Yes, I plan \ to every spring. WORK AND PI.AY By Wing Dinger We're coming to the season When it's too hot to work: The lawn grass will need cutting And our duty we will shirk. But for two solid hours. Out in the broiling sun. We'll play a game of baseball And credit it to fun. And In the downtown office You'll hear the high-desk clerk Complain that It's too nice to Stay ln-doors and do work, But at a little table, In a room that's closed up tight, He'll smoke and play at ®oker For more than half the night. 1 V HEADQUARTERS FOR SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES I Ntw o s rfMlFU] [From the Telegraph of May 1, 1860.] Halar Rebel Run Fortress Monroe, May 1. The rebel ram Albemarle, was raised here by con tractors and will be taken to the navy yard at Gosport. Secretary Surrender* New Orleans, May I. Secretary Mallery, of the rebel Navy Department, surrendered himselif to-day to Captain Gibson, of the U. S. Navy. Dcatroy- Rebel Floating Battery Washington, May X. A rebel float ing battery was destroyed off the North Carolina coast recently by Commander W. H. McComb. I Make Yourself Worth Mi * * (. more money by opening an account in our Savings [__ Departmeht. Every dollar saved earns more money i for you—without effort on your part. Leave your money here, earning more year after year. Add to it regularly. Soon it will pay you a sum that will pleasantly surprise you. I ' We credit savings deposits with 3% interest every four months. •y i 1 Z':Z DAHLIAS FROM THE PEACOCK DAHLIA FARMS, PRODUCERS of THE WORLD'S Best Dahlias. One hundred—loo—of the latest varieties TO SELECT FROM. Remember we do not sell little bits of roots —but large clumps having two to five tubers. Everyone who has had our DAHLIAS say "they are), the finest they ever saw." All kinds and varieties of the following: NEW PAEONY, NEW CHRYSANTHEMUM SHAPED, CACTUS. DECORATIVE, SHOW, FANCY. POMPON, CENTURY, COLLARETTE AND QUILLED. The Dahlia is the coming flower and very few have the least conception of the beauty of this late summer and fall flower. Large clumps, 10c to 25c each. This is the flower that will capture some of the prizes offered for fine yards. Every thing at Holmes' for the Garden. HOLMES SEED fOMPANY * * AVE SATISFIED USTOMERS 106-108 South Second St., Near Chestnut, Harrisburg. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph of May 1, 1865.] Frost I.awl Xlght The city and vicinity was visited by a heavy frost last night. It is thought that the fruit crop has been in jured. Captain Fenn Alive Captain Fenn, of this city, who .was reported dead, has returned home. _ Special Election May 17 has been set as the dav for .1 special election in the Second V\'ard tn select a Councilman to All the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel E. Wilt.
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