8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established iSjt PUBLISHED BY THE TEI.ECRAPII PRINTING CO. K. J. STACK POLE /'resident aid Editor-in-Cliief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GU9 M. STEINMETZ Manatiitt Editor Published every evening (except Sun flay) at the Tlegrapli Building, 116 Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building. New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brook*. Wet, ton Office. Advertising Buildinr. Chicago, 111., Robert E. Ward. . Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at 13.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. ft IT nrn dally average circulation for tilt three month* ending Oct. 31, 1915. ★ 21,357 ★ Average for the year 191-1 -I.WW Average for the year 11M3—10,962 Average for the year 1012—- lit.MO Average for the year 11t 11 17..W Average for the year 1»10—10.201 The above figures are net. All re turned. untold and damaged copies de ll acted. WEDNESDAY EVENING NOV. 3. Honest error is to be pitied, not rid iculed.—Lord Chesterfield. REIHBIJCANS REUNITED RETURNS from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts and else where indicate beyond the shadow of a doubt that Republicans have reunited in preparation for the gieat national contest next year. Presi dent Wilson's own State has repudiated him twice in almost as many weeks, and elsewhere Republicans of all views have come together on the common ground of opposition to Democracy as exemplified by the administration at Washington. Iti Dauphiu county the full Demo cratic strength, bolstered up by the •mall remaining remnant of the Wash ington party, was able to accomplish nothing against the reunited Repub lican rank and file. The re-election of Banner, as register, was not In any sense a Democratic victory. Danner Is n cripple, and a sympathetic public returned him to office on that ground and upon no other. Men of all parties voted for him because of his physical Infirmities. With this one exception the whole Republican ticket was triumphantly elected. All manner of combinations and every political trick known to the opposition were brought to bear against the Republican candidates, but to no avail. Dauphin county is normally a Re publican district. When the voters are content with the party management, when they feel that the rank and file of the party is in the saddle, and when good men are nominated, there is never any question of the result. All or these factors were apparent in the election of yesterday and the great Republican victory that resulted, and added to these is the growing discon tent of the people with the Democratic administration at Washington. The total wreck of the Washington party is also one of the salient features of the election locally and this vote has returned where it belongs, to the Re publican column. THE MUNICIPAL, ELECTION HARRISBURG is to be congratu lated upon its return to city council of Harry F Bowman and William H. Lynch, but it is very much to be regretted that the cam paign of wilful misrepresentation and malicious falsehood directed against M. Harvey Taylor, the efficient super intendent of parks, resulted in his de feat. On the other hand, the defeat of Mayor Royal removes from city affairs a man who has nothing of a construc tive nature to his credit and whose whole course since the Clark act be came operative has been petty, vin dictive and obstructive. The re-elec tion of Mr. Gorgas was not unexpect ed, following his heavy vote at the primaries, and the fortunes of polities have given him as his colleague in council Ex-Mayor Gross, formerly a Republican, but lately lined up with ♦he Democratic machine in his contest for council. With Mayor Meals as presiding of ficer, the complexion of council still remains Republican by the three-to two vote of the past two years. To that extent the Democratic city bosses have failed in their effort to control the local municipal legislature. Mayor Meals will find in Messrs. Lynch and Bowman two men who have rendered splendid sen-ice. Their records are clean and the conduct of their offices has been distinctly econo mical and constructive. He can hope for little co-operation in constructive policies on the other side of the house, If the past two years may be accepted as a criterion. He has a big oppor tunity before him if he will accept it, and there have been distinct signs re cently, if he has been correctly quoted .in his public addresses, that he has outlined for himself a very definite and positive course as mayor. Mayor Meals has possibilities for good before him seldom presented to any city exe cutive. It remains for him only to accept them, and to do what all good citizens hope he will do. The dofcat of Mr. Taylor was ac complished by methods that ought to bring the blush of shame to the WEDNESDAY EVENING. cheeks of those responsible. In him the city had a faithful and efficient public servant. Yet, because a little band of selfishly ambitious bosses de sired for their own ends to sain con trol of the city government, he was made the target of undeserved abuse and villlflcation. He was libeled and lied about as few city officials ever have been, and the result was his de feat. Those who besmirched them selves to tliis end have not accom plished the real purpose they had In mind—the domination of the city gov ernment. and they have turned the well-organized department over to some inexperienced newcomer. They have undone much of the constructive work of two whole years, and the only result has been the defeat of a man better qualified for the place he va cates than any man In city council. They have also weakened that confi dence of our people in the present form of government, which is vitally necessary to a proper working out of the problems which confront this city in its future development. Returning prosperity Is declared by those who are in close touch with in dustrial activities to be independent of war orders. Reports of the reserve banks all over the country indicate a swelling tide of prosperity as a result of the enormous crops and the general return of confidence, much of which is based upon the belief that the Repub lican party is returning to power and that the era of theoretical legisla tion and regulation is rapidly nearing an end. MOTOR FIRE APPARATUS HARRISBURG has approved the loan for the purchase of fire ap paratus. Some time ago, after certain types of motor apparatus had been bought by the city, the National Board of Underwriters gave us the discouraging news that we had bought the wrong kind. The board did nol give reasons. It merely announced after the tractors had been bought, that the designs were not in accord with its specifications. If the board desires to allay the sus picion entertained by many Harris burg people, that it is more interested in explaining afterward than before, it will give the city some idea now as to what its views are concerning the kind of apparatus we ought to buy. Harrisburg is spending money to pro cure protection from fire and inciden tally to obtain lower insurance rates and we are tired of hearing that we have done the wrong thing when our Intentions were good. Let the board send on its specifications for motor apparatus. lave you seen the Roberson pictures ; heard tile Roberson talks? It not, - are missing a great treat. THE JONES MEMORIAL DID you notice In last evening's Telegraph a picture of the beau tiful new entrance and fountain erected by the colored people of Har risburg to the memory of Dr. William Harrison Jones at the Twelfth street playgrounds? If not, hunt up your copy and take a look at it. There is a lesson in it for you, who ever you arc. Good citizenship is carved into every stone of it. Dr. Jones himself was a worthy citi zen. He left his impress upon the community. The good deeds he did [live after him. I His close friends—and they were not, for the most part, the wealthy men of town—desired to perpetuate his memory. So they put their heads —and their dollars—together, and the beautiful fountain and park entrance is the result. In this these leaders of the colored people of the community have set an example that ought to bring the blush of shame to the cheeks of their white brethren. With one exception, this Jones fountain is the only memorial of its kind in the city parks. There ought to be many such. Who will be the next to recognize the need and go and do likewise? It may be true that the fluctuation in the industrial stocks, especially those based upon iron and steel, is due to an undercurrent of opinion that peace Is not so far away in Europe as appears upon the surface. This Is the optimis tic view of the situation, but it is con trary to the opinion of those who are close observers and who feel that the reaction is rather the result of going too fast in the stock markets than any promise of an early conclusion of the war. THE SUFFRAGE VOTE RETURNS from all over the State on the Woman's Suffrage amend ment indicate that the greatest ; factor in its defeat was the apathy of the women themselves. "Mr. Dooley," In his homely phil osophy, some years ago voiced the opinion that "wimin'll git the vote jist as soon as enough of them want it." In Pennsylvania, as well as In Massachusetts and New York, evi dently not enough women wanted the ballot to carry the movement to suc cess. The suffragist campaign managers, if they were aware of this apathy on the part of women in the campaign waged In their behalf, either under estimated its extent or its effect. In stead of pushing the suffrage resolu tion through the Legislature and con centrating their energies upon edu cating men to their viewpoint the suf frage leaders, might have gained time in the end by taking two or four years more in which to gain the undivided support of the women, in an unanimous demand for the ballot. To be sure other factors entered into yesterday's vote, but it looks as though the suf frage issue was pushed to conclusion a little ahead of time. Throughout the district to be covered by the William Penn Highway, which will traverse the State from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh through the famous Juni ata Valley region, there is widespread interest in the proposed parallel of the Lincoln Highway that has been given such an impetus since Governor Brum baugh's swing through the State. One cannot hear Mr. Roberson talk of the famous highways elsewhere without feeling that the magnificent scenery of Pennsylvania must be opened up to the tourists of the world by the making of tile best roads possible throughout this Imperial Commonwealth. HOW ABOUT THE CONSUMER ? SINCE the Supreme Court has de clared unconstitutional and void the State anthracite coal tax un der which the Commonwealth hoped to reap some millions of revenue, it will be interesting to observe how soon the coal barons, who have been collecting the tax from the consum ers for two years on the basis of twenty-five cents per ton, will make restitution. It would appear that they should for two years at least make a re duction of fifty cents a ton on all the grades upon which the price was in creased to meet the additional State assessment. Here in Harrisburg and elsewhere throughout the State the innocent consumer, as usual, has been paying the freight—in this case more for coal—and the coal operators will hardly have the face to persist in ask ing more for their products, even If they do not make restitution by re ducing the price for a period which would put back Into the pockets of consumers the excess that has been extracted from them. TUITIC* IK By th« Ka-Committeeman | Judging; from the remarks of men from various counties of the State who have returned here after attending the close of the campaign In their home communities there will be a de mand all over Pennsylvania within a short time for a revision of the ballot laws which will simplify matters and do away with the troubles which have beset people irom the day of the primary and which are responsible for the uncertainties existing to-day. To day there are scores of districts throughout Pennsylvania where the election hoards did not finish their work until after daylight due to the size of the ballot and the svstem for recording votes. It is nearly as bad, comparatively speaking, us the slow system in recording official counts. In Philadelphia yesterday the voters were confronted with the largest ballot ever known and Governor Brumbaugh and other prominent men voiced their dis approval of it. In Pittsburgh the bal lot had to contain so much that it was printed on both sides. In many coun ties the blankets resembled the sheets of a child's crib. The prevailing opinion appears to be that the referen dum is being carried to extremes and that the day of experimental work on the ballot should close. —The principal causes of dissatis faction with the present election sys tem are to be summed up this way: T>ack of definite provisions on en rollment and registration to which might be added that there would he an advantage in some central place where the results of enrollment and personal registration could be re corded. Unworkable features of the non partisan nomination act with regard to sole nominee privileges, together with pronounced opposition to the whole nonpartisan system. No method for obtaining speedv official counts either for nomination's or elections. Cumbersome ballots, some of which require an expert to mark. —Under tlie provisions of the con stitution governing amendments the amendments defeated cannot be voted upon for five years. This means that the resolution for woman suffrage will have to be started again in the Legis lature of 1917, passed by the Legisla ture of 1919 and be voted upon at the presidential election in 1920. The suffragists will start the ball a rolling again. The next Legislature will have the new State highway loan and other matters to wrestle with and they will likely come up In 1917. —People at the Capitol were jubil ant to-day over the ratification of the amendment relative to workmen's compensation. It will permit the Legislature to enact laws making workmen's compensation compulsory and carry out the system contemplated by the Industrial Accidents commis sion appointed by Governor John K. Tener and embodied In the bills pre pared under the direction of Gover nor Martin G. Brumbaugh. The Gov ernor pointed out recently what the amendment meant and people of all ranks rallied to It. —One effect of the election will bo to bring out numerous announcements of candidacies for the legislature. The strenuous contests in judicial districts over the election of judges favoring or opposing license have caused a num ber of men to sniff the legislative bat tle from afar and the lines will be drawn in a month for the primary nominations for the general assembly. —Announcement Is expected very soon of the candidacy of ex-Secretary P. C. Knox for United States Senator. He has been visiting many parts of the State and his friends are organiz ing for him. E. V. Babcock. the Pittsburgh man also talked of for Senator, may decide to wait and run for Governor. Ex-Governor John IC. Tener is being boomed both for sena tor and for Governor again. Senator William E. Crow's friends also men tion him for senator to succeed Sena jtor George T. Oliver. —Tn addition to choosing presiden tial electors and members of State committees the voters of Pennsvl vania will next June nominate candi dates for State treasurer and auditor general to succeed the present incum bents, nominate candidates for con gress. for half the seats in the State senate and for the whole lower house, together with such candidates as may be needed to till vacancies on the appellate court benches. For State Treasurer it is expected that James r. Woodward and R. J. Baldwin, promi nent in the last Legislature, mav be candidates with Senators C. H. Kline and Charles A. Snyder looming up for auditor general. There will be more. — i "LOVK YOUR ENEMIES" Matthew, 5:43-48. Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which deapitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father, which is in heaven, for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you. what reward have ye? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore per fect. even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. HARRISBURG When a Feller Nee By BRIGGS EDITORIAL COMMENT It certainly would be a fit token of Japan to erect a statue of Lr money with out spending it. TRY IT OCT! By Wing Dinger Well, election day is o'er Some lose, others gain. Winners say "I told you so." Losers do explain In a hundred different ways How they lost the fight That began some months ago And wound up last night. One would think 'twould hurt so much To put up a scrap And lose out would one want To get off the map. But when next eloction day Comes around, you'll see That the losers, once aga'n, In the scrap will be. I And we folks in daily life Can be taught some tricks By this yearly contest called "Game of Politics." .( we only would forget Life's scraps lost to-day And determined to win out Fight to-morrow's fray. , MAKING Cm LI AN SAILORS By Frederic J. Haskin k. THE Navy Department lias just given examinations to 250 men of the navat militia who were ap plicants for commissions in the fleet in case of war. This was the laßt of a series of events which have federalized the na val militia, and put. it in a position where it will automatically become a part of the navy if an emergency should arise. Thus the Navy Department has se cured the nationalization of the or ganization which is to it what the Na tional Guard is to the army. The War Department has not yet !>een able to set the legislation it wants to pro duce the same result with the Na tional Guard If it had it would worry less about its ability to raise an effective tfrmy on short notice, and would not be resorting to 30 many ex pedients to interest citizens in military training. It was in February, 1914, that Con gress passed the law which placed the I naval militia under federal direction, i and gave the Navy Department the i authority to directly co-ordinate It : with the fighting licet. Nearly two j years have elnpsed. The needed au thority came in advance of a troub lous year, and every effort has been put forth to get results. There are now 606 officers and 7,706 men of the naval militia, all with a certain degree of training and pro ficiency, who might be called upon to-morrow to fill that number of f The State From Day to Day j A million dollar order from the Rus sian Government is expected for the Century Manufacturing Company of Bo.vnton, and it is certain to give the little town a big boost. The Johns lown Leader says Iliat it will be the foundation for a wonderful develop ment in time. The body of littlss John Lucicca, aged four, of New York City, has been found in the woods near Maueh Chunk. The disappearance of the. lad on August 4 has been a mystery which was unsolved until the recent dis covery of the body, in very bad con dition. The Pennsylvania State College Glee Club lias been admitted to the Inter collegiate Glee Club Council, which now includes Harvard, Dartmouth. Columbia, and the University of Penn sylvania. Twc thousand five hundred mum mers, fifty automobile floats and four brass bands featured the Hallowe'en celebration at McKeesport, which seems to take the hefid of the class as far as a cursory examination of other celebrations reveals any comparison. The barroom of the old Commercial Hotel In Altoona has been dedicated as a mission by the Volunteers of America. The Volunteers have leased the entire hotel and wil conduct an industrial home. With every purchase of sl3 worth of merchandise, a Punxsutawney mer chant will present as bonus a good fat turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. The offer is very luring, but regarded ask ance by Mr. Turkey and his boys. J. Horace McFarland, of this city, president of the American Civic As sociation, will talk before the Johns town Chamber of Commerce to-mor row 011 the subject, "Play and Pros perity," dealing with the civic im provement problem. Three thousand women worked at j ihe polls In Pittsburgh yesterday, in jthe Interest of woman suffrase, hut In I \ atn. for the State yesterday troved itself unwilling: to concede that any NOVEMBER 3, 1915. ' places in the fleet if they were needed for fighting. They would not be asked to volunteer; they would be or dered into the service and would be court-martialed if they did not report. Means Much to Navy Eight thousand men mean vastly more to the navy than to the army. A navy of 100,000 men would come nearer matching the forces of a war like enemy than an army of a million. So the navy feels itself somewhat bol stered up and is not going in for citi zen camps and eyperlmental cavalry troops. It is depending entirely upon its militia. Until the militia act of 1914 was passed, the Navy Department was on a basis as unsatisfactory as that in which the army now finds itself. The naval militia was a Stab, organization over which the federal government had no authority. It had no power to (standardize in different States nor to I enforce its rules of efficiency and I training. Massachusetts organized the first State militia in 1890. A year later New York created a similar organiza tion, and was quickly followed by Cali fornia. < >ne State after another had aligned itself until to-day there are naval militias in twenty-two States, while new organizations are being formed in " exas and Hawaii. By the time of the Spanish Ameri can War the naval militias of the va- CContinued on Page 2] thing will be gained by granting the ballot to the fair sex. The award by the court at Reading of damages to the amount of $2,050 for the loss to a little girl of her leg, when she was struck by a street car, gives us a new respect for the value of our lower appendages. KEEPING YOUNG [Kansas City Star.] Here is Colonel Roosevelt, 07 yester day, bull of interest and energy, find ing life as full of zest as when lie was a youngster rowing four miles, taking a walk with Mrs. Roosevelt, eating luncheon in the woods; his whole atti tude that of the whole souled young fellow with the great adventure of life before him. It's great to be able to live that way. Most of us get slowed down as we ma ture, We find the world hard to make a den So we accept our place with out a struggle and give up trying. If we have had some great experience early in the struggle our eyes turn back to It, and we live more or less in the past. There were thousands of promising young men who fought in the Civil War on both sides who bad that experience. You know the sort. By all odds the most exciting and interesting episodes of their existence came In the fighting when they were in the early 20s, and they constantly go back to that time. Their politics and their view of life de pend largely on things that happened a half century ago. We all suffer under that temptation. But here Is Roosevelt who was cowbov, civil service commissioner, assistant secretary of the navy, police commis sioner, colonel of a regiment, governor of New York and president of the United States, yet who has always found tho Interesting thing ahead in stead of behind. He has been busy and active and making himself count ever since he left the presidential of fice. There is no shelving such a man. He is always going to be a factor In af fairs simply because he deserves to be. The example is an inspiration. It brings home the fact that a man doesn't need to grow old, and lose his Interests and enthusiasms, and ossify in a shell that is Impervious to ideas. It takes some exertion on the part of the mtuule aged man to keep fit physically. It takes some care on his Part to keep young in spirit. But It can be done. KNfiI.ISHMICX HEAD OUR PAI'ER* Ix>rd Northellrte, proprietor of the I*ondon Times »nd ually Mall, cables to the New York World that Kngland "knows practically nothing about the course of its own "war. Many people here are buying American newspapers to read the war news." | Irfamng Ctjat The serious damage to Sylva* Heights Orphanage by yesterday's fire almost removed from this city one of its most picturesque buildings and one which has attracted the attention of many visitors to the city. The build ins was a landmark before it became the episcopal residence for the Cath olic diocese of Harrisburg and there was much popular Interest ln« tlj£> orphanage into which It was converted. The Fourth of July celebrations at the orphanage were among its notable features and attracted wide interest and the work done for the children was much commented upon without icgard to denomination. It is not gen erally known that one of the members of the board of managers Is Spencer of " lis clt >'. who accepted the election a number of years ago. A number of other prominent men throughout this section of the State were managers. The disastrous fire yesterday recalled many anecdotes re garding its construction and occu pancy prior to its acquisition in 1870 when the diocese of Harrisburg was established. John H. Brant, the builder, is well recalled by many of the older citizens and tradition says that it was the longest job of construc tion ever known in the city. Brant "bossed'' the job himself and ran it 011 a weekly basis. When he finished it lie did not like it and resided for a time in the hotel which he built where the Commonwealth Trust Company building stands. A severe storm un roofed it once and it was allowed to deteriorate for a time. The period of its use by the orphanage attracted to it much notice and the steps to rebuild it will have the sympathy of many people. The paper written by James S. Hiatt, private secretary to the Governor, on the truant problem and the parental school while bo was secretary of the Public Education Association of Phila delphia. has been issued in pamphlet form by the National Bureau of Edu - cation as a guide for people interested in the questions. The work is the result of years of study of the truant problem in Philadelphia and of ob servations on parental schools in thir teen cities. P. p. Olaxton, the national Commissioner of Education, com mends the booklet in high terms. It. is Mr. Hiatt's life work and will be most valuable for school men and em ployers in dealing with these phases of juvenile life. Hunters are not taking many chances in the woods these days, as is shown by the number of red caps be ing worn by men passing through this city or starting out from Harrisburg for hunting places. Half a dozen wero seen yesterday at the station and some of the men wore red mufflers. The "Safety First" idea appears to be prevalent in hunting as well as in in dustry. traffic a,nd business. A dog's bark is worse than bis bile, in the majority of cases, and this par ticular dog which the writer has in mind is no exception. He makes his headquarters in the front yard of ono of the houses in the upper pari of town and lives, simply lives, until some pedestrian comes along and gives him an opportunity to exercise his lungs. A panel fence keeps him in the yard and the passer-by is startlol out of his reverie by a hurricanej-usli and a loud barking such as one think only Cerberus capable of. If the gate is open and Sir Canine is without, he immediately retires to the yard on the approach of a newcomer, in order that he may be prepared for his rush and bark, which is always checked upon his arrival at the open, ing in the fence through which onlv his head has room to pass. The dog is sometimes annoying, but then wo must remember that every dog hu.s his day and not be too hard on our criti cism of his hobby. ♦ » • One of the men who runs a tem porary, morp or less, photographic establishment on one of the streets down town said yesterday that he was sorry the Hallowe'en celebration did not run longer. "I have taken dozens of tintypes every night. The maskers seemed to want to have their get-ups for preservation." | WELL KNQVN PEOPLE ] —Caleb Milne has been elected president of the St. Andrew's Kocietv in Philadelphia. Jle has been active in its affairs for years. —H. J. Gideon, the chief of the i Bureau of Compulsory Education, has been active in Philadelphia educa tional affairs for many years. —General G. G. Bell, United States Arnt.v, well known here, has been or dered to Texas to take charge of tho Fifth Brigade. 1 DO YOU KNOW That 'Harrisburg has been one or the most successful cities in trying out the commission form of gov ernment ? HTSTOUIC UARItTSBITIWJ The first town council met in ona of the hotels in Market street. SHORT GKOI/OGTCATj T.\I,KS" CARLISLE —All the way from Har risburg to Carlisle. Trenton limestone, sometimes skirting the Hudson river slates on the north. One-half mile west of Kingston cross a narrow trap dyke, ingneous rock pushed up through the limestone, and extending in a narrow line nearly the whole width of the county. Trap rock makes best railroad ballast—hard, tough an