6 HARRISBURO TELEGRAPh Etfbhthtd ltv PUBLISHED BY THE TELEGRAPH PRIKTIKO CO. E. J. STACKPOLE Prttidtnt and Editor-m-Chitf F. R. OYSTER Stcrttary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sua day) at the Telegraph Building, lit Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau ef Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dallies. Eastern Office, Fifth Arenue Building-, New York City, Hasbrook, Story db Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Building; Chicago, 111., Allen ft Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harrl«« burg. Pa., as second claas matter. 8-norn dally average circulation (or the tbree months ending Sept. 30, 1910 ★ 21,307 ★ Average for the year 1914—>1.858 Average for the year IBIS—H.MI Average for the year 1812—19,848 average for the year 1811—1T,B®8 Average for the year 111»—1U*1 The above flgarea are aet. All re tamed, snoot* sad daanaged eeplee de ducted. MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11. Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.—Car lyle. REPUBLICAN SUPREMACY REPUBLICAN supremacy at the polls in November is indicated at every turn of the campaign in Dauphin county. The party Is not only united for the ticket, but the ticket is strong enough to appeal even to Democrats, sickened as many of them are by the deals of the bosses of that party who set up and pushed through at the primary a so-called "fusion" slate which will have the effect of eliminating entirely the Washington party in this county this year. Even with this "slate" nominated there is no apparent disposition to support it as a whole. Officers of the Democratic county committee, who i might be expected to stand for the whole ticket are divided on it. Each is playing his own little game, hoping by such trades as may be possible to make sure of his own job for another four years. Party loyalty means nothing to them and old-line Demo crats are openly repudiating their methods wherever two or three of them get together. The Democratic campaign differs entirely from that of the Republicans. Confident both of success at the polls and of the excellence of their ticket as a whole, the Republican candidates and the county committee officials and committeemen are standing together as one man. It is one for all and all for one with them. There will be no reason whatever for trading within the ranks of the Republicans, for every one of the nominees who has been up and down the county knows that the tendency is all toward a big Republican victory this Fall. Secretary Redfield Is not to resign. He says so himself. Furthermore, he is reported to have received the un qualified commendation of the-President for his conduct of the "Eastland" in vestigation. So Mr. Redfield, his whiskers and his other idiosyncracies will remain with us for another year and a half. On the whole, this is well. The President lias shown repeatedly that he has no liking to have a pos sible rival near him, and Mr. Redtield is so impossible that he quite tills the bill for a Cabinet oflicer on these terms. DOES IT PAY? ATTENDANCE figures read at the rally day services of the Derry Street United Brethren Church yesterday afternoon show most conclu sively that church advertising pays. The big men's class of the school and the publicity committee chairman of the church decided to try out dis play advertising for the rally day event and placed a two-column, ten inch advertisement in the Telegraph and another of the city papers. We quote the results from a report of the meeting sent to the Telegraph office this morning by H. O. Miller, publicity chairman of Derry Street Church: . to be th ® most success ful Rally Day ever held bv any church on the Hill. All records for attendance were broken when the secretary announced a total of 1,1237 present. According to the officials of the church the results were far greater lhan anyone had imagined. Of course, the display advertising was not wholly responsible. A great deal of personal work was done by the members of the school and other forms of advertising were employed beside newspaper pub licity. But to quote the officials of the church: "It helped!" TAKING BREAD FKOM US IN the latest Issue of Its monthly magazine, the Chamber of Com merce of the United States pub lishes some pertinent facts and fig ures regarding the commercial de velopment of Germany. Among other things. It Is recorded that In May, 1914, before war was even dreamed of, Germany shipped to the United States goods valued'at more than $14,500,000. In May, 1915. the exports from Germany to this coun try amounted to only $3,172,000. Tn other words, the war saved the producing classes of this country more than $11,000,000 in expenditures in, MONDAY EVENING, ' one country in one month. It Is dtffl icult to comprehend how any wage earner or any other man interested In the industrial prosperity of this country con read those figures and still advocate a tariff law that invites Ger many and other nations to supply our markets with the products of their workmen -while American workmen are idle. The balance In the general fund of the Federal Treasury September 27 was $41,870,422. On the same date in 1913, when revenue laws and appro priations enacted by Republicans were still in effect, the balance was $127,- 091,178. Since July 1, 1916, the adminis tration has spent $27,914,719 more than its revenues. GIVE THEM THE LABORATORY THE) civilian advisory board has asked the government for a laboratory in which a battleship may be docked. The laboratory is to be surrounded by a high wall and will cost $5,000,000. The operations for a year will cost $3,500,000 more. No body but members of the board, their assistants and certain officers of the navy who are to act with the board arc to be admitted. The outlay may seem like a large one, but If the government is to profit by the brains of this inventive body It must supply the tools, and in this case the tools are expensive. However, the ls-boratory should be provided at the earliest possible moment. It will be remembered that the steel-clad battleship is the product of American genius, and most of its equipment originated in the United States. The American inventor has more to his credit along- this line than have fhose of all the other nations of the world combined. But what he has developed has been freely appropriated by other countries. Now it is proposed to let this inventive genius of ours loose upon our naval problems and to keep what we work out for ourselves as much as possible. The naval board should have Its laboratory. Beyond question the practical ideas that will be developed there will far more than repay the nation for the outlay. The problems presented are big and they must be solved In a big way. It remains to be seen whether the Democrats are going into next year's canvass with the war cry, "He kept us out of war." But It is very certain that the Republicans will assert: "He kept us out of work." It's a contest between the food values of Boston beans and Philadel phia scrappel. THE WINTER STORMS TIME was, and not so far back, either, when every household about this season of the year began to lay In its winter stores of vegetables, fruits, meats and every thing that could be preserved for use during the season when the earth is nonproductive. The corner grocery and the city market house have made this old-fashioned thrift unnecessary now, but it is a wise housekeeper who keeps up the practice. Foodstuffs bought In quantities at this season are far lower in price than they will be in the middle of next winter or early next spring, and not a little saving may be thus effected. But aside from that there is a satis faction in a well-stored cellar or but tery beside which even the thrift it exemplifies is a small thing. There are few more pleasurable experiences than to stand in one's "cold room" amid a plentitude of hams, shoulders, bacons, pumpkins, potatoes, apples and foodstuffs put away against the rigors of the winter months. "What matter how the night behave; what matter how the north wind rave; blow high. How low, not all its snow can quench our hearth fire's ruddy glow" nor de stroy our sense of comfort and security if the food supply is stacked high in storage and the cellar is filled with wood and coal. These speedway contests are becom ing almost as bloodless as a French duel. And now we have another reason for preferring America to Bulgaria as a place of residence. THAT HALL OF FAME it were not for the fact that the New York University's Hall of Fame has been very much a joke ever since its foundation, one might be excused for waxing indignant over the refusal of the electors to grant a place therein to the name of John Paul Jones. As it is, American sense of humor -will prevent any such bit terness as might otherwise arise. Paul Jones needs no niche in any man-made Hall of Fame to enshrine him in the hearts or his countrymen. So long as American blood runs red and Americans love to read of the brilliant achievements of their naval and military heroes John Paul Jones will stand pre-eminent as the per sonification of American dash, re sourcefulness, skill and courage. He is one of our great national figures and nothing any man or group of men may do or may not do will affect his standing. The University electors have not hurt Paul Jones by their stupid vote. If anybody has suffered in popular respect it has been the elec tors themselves. By the way, who are they? When John Skelton Williams loses his job as Comptroller of the Cur rency—the date being somewhere in the first six months of 1917—he ought to be able to get elected Mayor of Richmond, Va., without the slightest difficulty. John Skelton came up to Washington with the idea of doing something for Richmond, and he did it. First of all he made Richmond a Federal Reserve City, for which, geo graphically and In every other man ner of speaking—except socially— Richmond Is about as well fitted as Medicine Hat is. And now Richmond leads all the other Federal Reserve cities in the amount of its rediscount business. In July, out of thirteen mil lions of Federal Reserve rediscounts. Richmond bagged 32.9 per cent.—or more than twelve times as much as New York and more than six times as much as Chicago. John Skelton Is The Days of Real Sport *. . . . b 7 briggs /S A?*!! ' HIT lT D,O\ } H £ certainly doing something for Rich mond and If the folks back home don't do something for him when he finds himself out of a government job—as he soon will—they will be mighty un grateful. ■■aMsaaMnMßKK=3=assaß | Ry the Kx-Oospaaltteemaa The developments in Allegheny county appear to have attracted more attention throughout the state than anything else the last few days. The Philadelphia contest has long been set tied and the Superior Court nomi nations are practically determined, so that interest naturally has gone to the place whore the row is the fiercest. 1! now seems probable that there will be an independent movement in the county. Such things have happened before and this year it looks as though G'Neil, Flinn and others who have not been pulling together will make com mon cause. The names of a couple of new parties have been pre-empted and a full-fledged fusion movement is threatened. However, it is not re garded as probable that it will extend outside of the county and it will have nothing to do with any independent movements started preliminary to next year. Lancaster Democrats are having their troubles again. It is all because one of the candidates takes the bosses of the Democracy at their word and says that there are no orders out. Amos S. Hess, of Gap, one of the two candidates for county commissioner nominated at the late primary election, has declared that he will not withdraw from the ticket. Democratic leaders have always contended that F. P. D. Miller, the present Democratic repre sentative on the board of county com missioners, was elected through Re publican votes, and to prevent a re currence of the tactics which elected him the Democratic county committee in July adopted a resolution decreeing that only the name of'the party can didate having the highest vote at the primary should so on the ballot. Mr. Hess declares he was not bound by that agreement. The Democratic lead ers fear that Mr. Hess' action may result in splitting the party and also injure the chances of Dr. M. L. Chad man. the Democratic candidate for mayor. Trouble over Montgomery's judicial ticket was averted Saturday when an agreement was entered. Into whereby the name of William D. Dannehower, of Norrlstown. secretary of the Mont gomery County Bar Association, will appear on the ballot at the November election with that of Judge John Faber Miller, of Springfield township. The parties to the agreement were the attorneys for the two candidates and the solicitor for the county commis sioners. The agreement, which is the outcome of mandamus proceedings brought agalnat the county commis sioners to compel them to put Mr. Dannehower's name upon the ballot, was made at the opening of the court, with Judge Endlich, of Berks county, sitting. —lt is regarded as unlikely that any election will be held this year for a successor to Senator John P. Moore. His term as senator would have ex pired next year in any event. —The will of Justice John P. Elkin, just probated, leaves everything to his widow. The justice was not a wealthy man, but had accumulated a fair estate in his home county. —Ex-Governor Samuel W. Penny packer is now being proclaimed in favor of woman suffrage. He is said to have stated that he will vote for it. —The Franklin party is starting to make a noise in Philadelphia very much like what has been heard for the last half century. —Chester county people believe that Judge R. S. Gawthrop will be elected for the full term in November. In a review of conditions in the contest a West Chester dispatch says: "J. Frank Hause, about whom the Democrats are chanting their war songs, is a lawyer, pure and simple, skilled In all the in tricacies and ambiguities of the law. As attorney for numerous license ap plicants and for the Liquor Dealers' Association, he will have the solid saloon vote and that affiliated. This, rather than a pillar of strength, will prove a sunken mine in that It will antagonize the 2,700 Arthur T. Parke dry votes that fell at the primary and which will naturally be thrown to Judge Gawthrop, insuring his election. Some Democrats have the temerity to claim these, but it is utterly impossible to conceive of a dry vote aroint to a w«t Judsa." . HARRISBURG TELEURAPH 1 TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —The President would have a fine time making his neutrality Ideas apply to the baseball situation. —lf this thing keeps up they'll have to build a bridal chamber in the White House. —As yet none of the Allies has sug gested that the eruption of Vesuvius is the result of a German plot. —The" things we have been discov ering in many of the roast chestnuts in the street leads us to the suggestion that the men who roast them might be Investigated by the S. P. C. A. —We may not all believe in letting women vote, but we are all willing to let her do the housecleaning. EDITORIAL COMMENT The government has ordered sixteen rew coast defense submarines and iiine different concerns are bidding for their construction. Uncle Sam isn't go ing to have any difficulty in getting "prepared."—Erie Evening Herald. Secretary Josephus urges the build ing of forty-eight battleships at an average cost of $18,000,000 each. Eighteen million dollars multiplied by forty-eight equals $864,000,000. Bil lion-dollar Congress, eh? And then some! Cincinnati Commercial Tri bune. If the United States financiers can lend a half-billion dollars to the allies for the military defense of the allies, the United States government cer tainly cannot afford not to "negotiate" whatever sum is requisite to put its own nation in a fit condition of mili tary defense.—Easton Daily Free Press. "President Wilson's Victory," cap tions a Herald editorial. German, Suffrage or Gait?— Erie Dispatch. A newly discovered planet in the constellation of Pisces is reported to have a "rapid retrograde movement." Possibly It is "retiring for strategic reasons to a more advantageous po sition."—New York Sun. Our Daily Laugh NO BIGAMIST. She: You're going to support us suffragettes, aren't you? TPwgj He: 3*aybe one I jf'j THE DRAW- George saya af ter we re married * can have every t< thing money can That would be r if j, # had HOPES BLASTED By Win* Dlicer 'Along some baseball fr.ends I wan dered Some authentic dope to get, After which upon the Phillies I did place a little bet. When they won the first game Friday, By a number of good plays, I was glad to hear on all sides Naught for them but words of praise. I could almost fee 1 the winnings Stored away down in my jeana— But on Saturday, dad blame It, They fell down and apllt the beana. All day yesterday crepe hangers 'Round about me seemed to bloom. And with dope on how the Red Sox Would win out, filled me with gloom. All those things I'd thought of buying After I had won my bel. Distant, though they seemed before, friend. Now seem much too far to get. Fact Is. when the Phillies came out FYlday, with a winning score, I went out and got those things, but . Mow thor *o back u> tb* aituuv f Electricity For the National Capital By Frederic J. Haskin L PLANS are under way to build for the city of Washington what will probably be the most elaborate water and power plant that has ever furnished these utilities to a city. To accomplish this, It will be neces sary to build a great dam across the Potomac at the point where it enters the District of Columbia, forming a picturesque lake among the palisades of the upper river. A dozen miles above Washington the Potomac cascades over a series of rock ledges and produces Great Falls, a point of wonder and scenic beauty that delighted George Washington and L'Enfant, his engineer, who laid out the capital in the wilderness. Even earlier. Captain John Smith explored the Potomac to this point, and wrote in his diary that the fish were accumu lated below the falls in such numbers that it was impossible for him to push his canoe through them. For many years the possibility of harnessing these falls and thus gen erating sufficient power to operate the public utilities of Washington has been advocated. Here, it was argued, was sufficient "white coal" to provide for all the needs of the capital city. Finally Congress was sufficiently impressed to make an appropriation to cover the expense of drawing plans for the sort of plant that the govern ment engineers should deem advisable. These plans have now been completed and Congress will be asked to provide the money to carry the great work to completion. To Erect Great Da in The engineers do not recommend the harnessing of the natural falls of the river. They wotild go ten miles further down stream, and there erect a great dam which would raise the level of the water 115 feet. This would form a lake that would wind among the bluffs and back the water up al most to the falls. The waters of the Potomac would tumble over the cliffs into the upper reaches of the lake, and would enhance the beauty of Wash ington's show place rather than disfig ure it. The dam, as it is planned, would resemble the great Gatun Spillway at Panama. Likewise would it resemble In other particulars the dam that creates the Roosevelt Reservoir in Arizona. This latter structure, in the Far West, has had a good deal to do with the decision of the government to erect the great plant at Waahing- f The State From Day to Day - Gertrude Fischer, who is said by the convention of the nation's pho tographers to be "the prettiest girl in America," lives in Philadelphia, is 19 years of age, with a short nose, mis chievous mouth and a voice like an angel's with a slight cold. She wants tc be a concert singer and have lots of children and her ideal man is 35 and fcas gray eyes and iron-gray hair. The picture appeals to us. Anita King, the Paramount picture girl, who is touring alone in her car from New York to San Francisco in order to prove that a woman can take care of herself and incidentally to -get a few thrills from motor traveling, passed through Pennsylvania the latter part of last week. • • « Put away the low shoes and summer underwear and get out the fur-lined gloves, because the weather man has predicted snow in the vicinity of Greensburg. The expected flakes haven't appeared as yet, but it doesn't do any harm to look for them. • • * Woman suffrage is certainly gaining the support of men high in the service of state and nation. The movement has been gathering force and momen tum like a snowball rolling down a gradually sloping hill. • * • The New Castle News suggests that the North Braddock man who had his legs run over while he was repairing hiß car from beneath would do well to hang red lights on his toes the next time he crawls under his car at night • • * The colors adopted for Bristol's Hal lowe'en demonstration were orange and green, says the Dally Courier. It Is easy to guess the green, but what we want to know Is, In whose honor i was the orange selected ? Even the encyclopedia falls us In this momen tous research. « • • Battery E, Third United States Field Artillery, is back at Gettysburg after a few days spent at the York Fair, where several exhibitions of their drill ing pleased thousands tracks and visions of broken glass anil wreckage rose before their eyes. Now, however, the most nervous have be come thoroughly inured to the change, and although the conductor occasionally forgets to transfer the trolley to the other wire, things are running smoothly. The tracks are completely torn up from a point a little below the monument at State street to a point several yards above North street on the east side of the street and the genial foreman in charge of the work states that it will probably remain in that condition for four weeks or more, provided they can keep enough men on the job. The new rails along that stretch were badly needed and the correction will make traveling on the Second street line considerably more pleasant. • • * Steelton is commencing to look pros perous again. The smoky pall that was so characteristic of the borough half a dozen years ago is to be seen hanging over the valley in which the big works are located and it is visible for a long way to trains coming up and down the Susquehanna and even from the Cumberland valley. Steelton has long been known as one of tlia smokiest places in Central Pennsyl vania. but all seem glad to see tha smoke. • * » Ex-Governor Samuel TV. Penny, packer sat all through the meetings of the Public Service Commission last week in spite of his broken arm. lie took his usual keen interest in every thing going on and his injury did not interfere with his habit of firing numerous questions. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Judge Charles L. Brown, of Phila delphia, has a building and loan as sociation named for him. —General Wood reiterated his senti ments on military preparedness at Haverford on Saturday. —A. Hayes Jordan, Easton news paperman, has bought a Dansdale paper. —George W. Elklns has announced some big additional donations to Abington hospital. —General J. W. I,atta, former secretary of Internal afTalrs, is at tending the monument dedication at Gettysburg this week. | DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg has largo .slag banks that have not been utilized? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The lirst Methodist services were held In Harris burg In 1802. A "National" Point of View Mr. Manufacturer, when you figure out the profits of your sales force, do you take the force as a wi.oie, or by indi viduals? Don't you want to know whether Bill Jones is as good a salesman as Tom Brown? Don't you eliminate the sales men who do not hold up sales. Why not consider your national advertising with the same point in view? The minute you do you will be convinced that newspapers are the logical media. And once you realize this you will get dovn to a business basis and know wi.at pays and whut does not. Informatljn helpful to man ufacturers -vlll be given on re quest to tie Bureau of Adver tising, American Newspaper Publlsherf Association, World Building, New York. *