10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established 1831 PUBLISHED BY THE TKI.EGIt APII PRINTING CO. E. J. STACKPOLE PrcridfHt end Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary QUS M. STETNMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Tlegraph Building, 216 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 & Brooks. Western Office. Advertising- Building, Chicago. 111., Robert E. Ward. Delivered by carriers »t six cents a week. .Mailed to subscribers at IS.OO a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg. Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dull y avtraur rirrulntlon foi tki th ree months cmllnx Oct. 31, 101 K. 21,357 ★ Average for the year AvfrnfC for ihr rc.ir IBIS— Aver aire for the >rnr HI 15—10.649 Average for ll»e year 11» 11—1T.562 Average for tlir year 1J110—16,261 The above figure* are net. All re turned, üßHold and damaged coplea de ducted. WEDNESDAY EVEMXG, NOV. 10 Simplicity is an e.vact medium be tween too little and too much. —Sir Jostltifi Reynolds. THEY WANT A CHANGE THE glimmering hope of some manufacturers that the Wilson administration would consent lo a revision upward of the Underwood tariff in the interest of American capital and labor is likely to be rudely shattered. All thought of any tariff changes save those which will be of benefit to the South may as well be abandoned. Tf a few millions of revenue can be raised by protecting Southern plant ers and sugar growers, then the I President and his Southern advisors will probably go along with a revision to that extent, but any thought of a general swinging back toward a pro tective tariff is visionary and absolute ly without the slightest encourage ment under present conditions at! ■Washington. Counting upon the patriotic attitude of the people toward the President to •ave his bacon in 1916. the Southern ers now in the saddle will never con st nt to any modification of the free trade heresies and the impractical theories which have dominated all the policies of the present national ad ministration. These men are obsessed ■with fhe idea that the manufacturing Interests of the country are outside the pale of Democratic consideration. Kor will they surrender one iota of their power or forego any opportunity to administer a blow to the industrial community when that community happens to be outside the South. It Is unfortunate that this condition exists, but it is useless to close our eyes to the facts or to pretend not to sco the things which are so plain that he who runs may read. Even the Democratic apologists of the free trade policy of the adminis tration must soon cease to claim that the conditions in this country are the result of the war in Europe so far as the revenues are concerned. The war in Europe did not start until the first of August, 1914, yet the decrease cf revenues for the month of July last, compared with the July before the war, ■was $4,818,189. Surely the war had nothing to do with that falling oft. In January, 1914; more than six months before the outbreak of the war, the customs revenue showed a decrease of 55,806,04 4 as compared with the satne month the year before and in February of that year the loss in revenue was $9,995,512 as compared ■with the same month In 1913. Six months before the war, and yet we are told that the war in Europe has caused nil the economic troubles in the United States. Not even the great war will save the Wilson administration or prevent the people of the United States pro tecting themselves against a con tinuance of the policies of one sort and another which have caused wide spread dissatisfaction. JUGGLING ACCOUNTS BY the magical method of chang ing its system of bookkeeping the Treasury Department on Octo ber 1 made the net balance in the general fund jump from less than $41,000,000 to $128,000,000. This startling announcement came at a time when the net balance has been dropping at the rate of nearly half a million dollars a day for three months. The principal change made was the transfer of $61,089,225.97, which would ordinarily be carried on the liability side of the ledger, to the asset side. This amount has been car ried under the item of "disbursing offi cers' balances." Another change that has been made transfers the national bank note retirement fund from the liability to the asset side of the ledger. This is the second time the Treasury Department has made important changes in methods of bookkeeping, with the result that Immensely larger net balances arc shown. On September 30, 1915, the net bal ance in the general fund was $*0,898,894.97, as compared with $123.41(5,613 on the same date two years ago, when Republican revenue laws and appropriations were in effect. WEDNESDAY EVENING, j Hereafter it will be impossible to I compare the Treasury balance with I ho balance that existed two years pre viously. While the change in book keeping does not take a dollar out of the Treasury, or add a dollar thereto, II does make a better looking balance, and prevents comparisons with con ditions as they existed under Repub lican administration. LIFE INSURANCE SPEAKING before a gathering of manufacturers the other day. a Phlladelphlan expressed the opinion that the operations of the new workmen's compensation law will have a tendency to make employes careless about life insurance, and thereby mav have an effect quite as bad as though no compensation were provided by the State. Such an assumption is foolish. In the first place, the compensation law does not apply to death except as caused by accident or otherwise di rectly in connection with employ ment. In the second place, the State has emphasized the need of life in surance by providing for it within the limited provisions of the compensa tion law. thereby drawing the atten tion of the wage-earner, and the man of business or professional life, as well, to his own individual duties in the matter. Not a large percentage of men leave estates when they die. but most men leave somebody more or less depend ent upon them. Lite insurance is the one form of absolute guarantee against the uncertainties of a future none can foresee. Banks may fail, gilt edge securities may depreciate, dividends may be passed and bonds may be de faulted, but any one of the big, es tablished insurance companies offers a guarantee as good as gold. The State has provided one form of insurance whereby the employe and his depend ents are safeguarded; it remains for the individual to do the rest and it will be surprising, indeed, if the new compensation law, instead of retard ing. does not stimulate life insurance business in Pennsylvania entirely apart from the operations of the act itself. THK "HOI'XDED STAG" MAYOR ROYAL told his fellow councilmen yesterday afternoon that for the past several months ho "has felt like a hounded stag." This is surprising news. Long observance of the activities of council had led us to suppose that when the Mayor peered occasionally into his mental mirror he saw himself as a roaring lion, as a tiger couehant for the spring, or at least as a watchdog faithfully guarding the well-being of the city. We have heard of those who felt like a scared rabbit, or a treetl 'possum, or a holed squirrel, and any one of these seemed bad enough, goodness knows, but to feel like a bounded stag, ah. that must be the supreme agony. What a heroic figure is here pre sented —the stag, that is to say, the Mayor, surrounded by the yapping pack of bloodthirsty hounds, as rep resented by his fellow councilmen, we presume, and the grewsome tragedy about to ensue. Or, in the light of re cent election returns, perhaps we should have said, has ensued. Pic ture it for yourself, and by all means don't laugli. The historic incident of Eliza on the ice has nothing on this. PI T n> THE BARS THERE is still, however, one seri ous obstacle in the way of the confident and determined de velopment of the coal tar dyestufC in dustry on American soil, and that difficulty is the possibility, no, rather the certainty, that upon the resump tion of normal international condi tions European manufacturers will en deavor by boycott, underselling and other methods of competition to win back thia profitable market and put out of business a new and struggling dyestuff industry." That statement was made by Dr. Edward Kwing Pratt, of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, In an address made before the Society of Chemical Industry recently. And (jet it was but a short time ago that the Democrats were decrying protec tion to American infant industries as class legislation of the most vicious sort. Has Mr. Pratt turned Repub lican, or does the approach of cam j paign year account for bis present atti tude? Put the tariff bars up high enough and the dyestuff industry will get along all right, and that is good Republican doctrine. DEMOCRATIC PLEDGES ' IT seems a matterof little conse quence to remind the Democrats of the declarations In their platform of 1912. So far every plank has been' split to kindling wood, except the single-term plank, for which Presi dent Wilson is now sharpening his axe. But here is a patagraph from their plank on the merchant marine: We believe in fostering, by con stitutional regulation of com merce, the growth of a merchant marine, which shall develop and strengthen the commercial tics which bind us to our sister Repub lics of the South, but without im posing additional burdens upon the people and without bounties or subsidies from the public treasury. The Democratic party has always been against ship subsidies, a method of government encouragement which has been adopted by every other mari time nation in the world. At present we have the disgusting spectacle of a member of the Cabinet, the Secretary of the Treasury, grassliopping over the country at government expense in the interest of the Wilson-McAdoo govern ment-owned merchant marine, unlim ited. scheme —a proposition which, on a referendum held by the National Chamber of Commerce, was turned down by 95 per cent, of the business organizations of the country. At San Francisco, October 23, Mr. McAdoo said: Suppose they cannot be main tained except at a loss. Must we then do without these facilities? 1 say no. If private capital cannot afford to provide it because it Involves a loss, then the Uovcrnment should firovlde the service and take the one for the general welfare of all the people and for the protection of our trade prosperity. The proposition advanced b.v Re publican* to appropriate money for j subsidies to encourage the growth of i our merchant marine has been cried I down, time and again, by the Demo crats with all the power of their lungs. But this socialistic scheme of Presl j dent Wilson and his son-in-law, in j volvlng the expenditure of from $40,000,000 to $50,000,000. which re ! cent reports suy Mr. McAdoo is going |to attempt to sneak into th? "pre i paredness" program if he falls other ! wise to put it across. Is received by j certain Democratic leaders much as jtlir pupils nt Dotheboys Hall received j their matutinal dose of sulphur and I molasses, but swallowed, nevertheless, i Poor old Democratic party! which | created Its Frankenstein when itnomi jnated Woodrow Wilson at Baltimore. i i R ■ ■ Ck I^tKKQlflc&KUl My the F,t-()omtultteemii Events in the last twenty-four hours at both ends of the State have tended I toward inauguration of the municipal investigation or "lexow" authorized by the last legislature being started soon after the first of the year. This inquiry was authorized by a resolution presented in the House by William H. Wilson, chairman of the committees on rules and the House floor leader, within a day of the final adjournment It autliori7.es the president pro tem and the speaker to name the commit tees, which are given wide powers to inquire into the way municipal gov ernment is conducted not only in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh or Scran ton. but in any of the third-class municipalities. In Philadelphia Mayor Blankenburg and other reform officials, stung by the attacks made upon them as a re sult of their activity on election day and ly the awful defeat administered to their ticket, are demanding that the probe be started. Jn Pittsburgh there are mutterlngs against Mayor Armstrong and some talk that council men may got after him. The committer would be required to report to the . -xt legislature. -—The name of Judge J. M. Woods, of Lewistown. who was defeated for re-election last week, is now being mentioned as a possible aspirant for the vacancy on the supreme bench caused by the death of Justice Elkin. Opinion seems to incline that Judge J. Willis Martin, of Philadelphia, may get it. There have been forty men mentioned, including Judge Kunkel. although any mention of the Dauphin judge has been without his sanction. —State Chairman Morris' letter is being variously' received by Demo crats in the State. In Philadelphia it is regarded as a swan song, in the western counties as a pitiable effort to keep up a front and in this cannv neck of the woods as a prelude to a request for contributions. In any event Morris comes near joining a certain mourning newspaper in the ranks of humorists. —Warren Worth Bailey, the Johns town congressman who is almost as entertaining as Morris when he gets started, is now out against the presi dent and strongly for Bryan including his ludicrous position against national defense. Bailey is a conspicuous re organizer. an ardent backer of Pal mer, Morris and the other reorgani zation bosses. —Prof. John P. Garber was last night unanimously elected superin tendent of the schools of Philadelphia to succeed the late Dr. W. C. Jacobs, who took the place of Governor Brum baugh. —Luzerne county court has ignored charges of fraud in some districts of the county. The Democrats have elected two commissioners. —ln Northampton W. W. McKean was elected judge by 2099 over Judge Brodliead. —W. H. Fegley has been appointed postmaster at Maxatawney by some accident. He is a Republican. —Willlamsport's city treasurership pays SI,BOO. Twelve men want It. —G. H. Roth has been elected prothonotary of Adams county by two votes. He won over G. A. Yohe. David B. Johns who was defeated for the nomination of prothonotary in Allegheny, will be given a place on the county tax revision board. —lt is said that John P, Ancona, who assisted in handling the winning Democratic campaign, will receive the $2,500 city treasurership, which is one of the most desirable plums to be given out, and thai Joseph R. Dickin son, well-known attorney, will be the next city solicitor at $3,000 a year. It is also said that Charles Miller, a well-known volunteer fireman and former president of Mayor-elect Fll bert's Liberty Company will be the next chief of police. Ollt "ELEVATOR" METHOD OF CULTURE rFrom the Literary Digest. 1 With all the music that is furnished us in opera and concert, with tho ma jority of Europe's highest priced musi cians making: us annual visits and KolnK over the length and breadth of the land, we can not even yet, it ap pears, justly claim to be a musical people. "Music In America suffers, as so many other thine* do, from the de sire to attain swiftly a superficial in terest In many kinds of yimisementH," says Mr. Josef Stransky, the conductor of the New York Philh;> rmonlc Orches tra. He sees our attitude to mus'c typified by our habit of uslnß elevators Instead of sta-irc-ases. We seem to him to prefer to "use elevators to reach all spiritual and artistic enjoyment" He would have us lather walk up stairs and pause on each step, which he typi fies further as "a separate phase of the development which is essential for full education." In The Craftsman (October) he tells how it may be done: "The way to love music, to increase its production, is to know it when you are yountf, yountf Individually and young: as a nation. It is much more difficult to prepare people to enjoy music after they are Brown up and their minds have become crowded with various interests In life. The American : nation should not let Its youth slip by I without filling: the souls of the chil i dren with music. There Is no reason why you should not have many (p-eat I composers here, many creators of won derful sound, new kinds of music fresh i out of the heart of a new kind of civill | zation. 'Natnre has a sound for every 'emotion:' so that in a world filled with ! new emotion the music of the people i should be full of extraordinary new l sounds and harmonies. A new York judste has just sentenced a man convicted of driving a motor car while intoxicated to a year In the peni tentiary and a fine of S3OO. Good! That's the stuff: I.*t every drunken driver of any vehicle, conveyance or transport he Riven the game done. Don't confine the honor solely to chauffeurs. There arc others souled, uneducated, who studied human nature and of the com mon people at the dictates of his emotions and not in mechanical fashion; and many others he tells about. The Civil War was a fresh be ginning in the history of the Amer ican mind —it was then that a really national literature began with the consolidation of national sentiment which the war brought, and it was not until after the seventies that the new romantic school sprang up, south ern in its atmosphere and spirit, northern in its truth to life and condi tions. This book is the first full length account of our literature dur ing the period that can fairly be call ed contemporary. Hopsoy Burke, by F. N. Westcott. Hepsey Burke is "A sister to David Harum, by the brother of the man who wrote the original." The possibilities that are suggested by the title are fully realized in the treatment, of the character by the author. This is Mr. Westcott's first novel, just as "David Harum" was his brother's first ap pearance in the realm of books. (H. K. Fly Co., Publishers, $1.35 net.) Hepsey Burke is a story of life in a small town, told in the mannerisms and with the convicting truth that only a man who has lived with the type of people in the story can impart to such a work. The characters are largely drawn from life. Hepsey her self "carried with her an air of in domitable conviction that things worked themselves out in the long run," a bit of the philosophy of her life, which was a source of inspira tion and sympathy for those all about her. She is the motherly kind whose presence smooths down the wrinkles and brings a feeling of peace and fel low-feeling that adds years to life. Hepsey is sure to please you with Its unfailing humor and good nature. There is a man in the city of New York who has inside Information con cerning the fairy world. His name— so far as can be learned —is Gilly Bear, and the books which he has just published through the medium of Samuel Gabriel Sons and Co., publishers, are books which must by their very nature appeal to the little folks who have not yet, as someone has so aptly put It, "mislaid the key to their Imagination." There are three of particular interest, all of which once appeared in story form In the New York Sun, but are now In book form. They are Tom-Tit Tales. Fun In tlic Forest, and The Green Tulip. They have sometimes been called bed time stories, but they lose none of the charm of rending nor of their attrac tive color illustrations by being perused in the daytime. "Just before the Sandman comes" is the time to read them, however, and it is then that the life, action and adventure which they portray are best appreciated. The Marvelous Organ Grinder, the Pollywoodle Family, Dingo the Dragon and T,ady Lightning are all characters in the first of the three books, while in the second we are fully informed regarding man»v scions of the animal kingdom that will enable us to under stand their whims and fancies a little more clearly than before: and the third. The Green Tulip, is-a fairy tale of Holland in which the little Gre°n Fairy has lost his darling green tulip nnd the heartbroken little fellow gnlns the sympathy of Katrina and Jan, the little heroine and hero, as you must have guessed, and after many , adventures thf£ - find the tulip and (restore It to the little Green Fairy [ and they all live happily ever after. iEbenittg GUjat As a matter of fact, old Paxton Presbyterian Church, which will hold services on Sunday in commemoration of the one hundred and seventy-fifth year of its religious activity, goes back still farther into the dim past and it might be said that it is closer to the two hundredth anniversary than tho one hundred and seventy-tifth. Well authenticated records are that oUI Derry Church, which is just east of the model town of Hershey, was es tablished in 1724 and it is generally accepted as the pioneer church In Dauphin county. The belief is that the building in which Derry congre gation was organized wan built in 1720. Now as to old Paxton. no one seems to know just when Its still beautiful grove of oak trees was tirst used for wor ship. The sturdy Scotch and Irish Presbyterians who founded the churcli held services in the woods in summer time and it is of record that when the Presbytery of Donegal, the ancestor of the Presbytery of Carlisle, was organ wed in 1732 there was standing in Paxton grove a log house of worship showing signs of age and having near by graves of pioneers. A gravestone marked 17lti was found in the grave yard about the time ot tho Civil War and another which bore in almost obliterated figures what looked like 1702 or 1712 was also discovered later. Who these stones were placed to keep in mind no one knows to-day, but it is tolerably certain that not long after William Penn had made his visit to the Susquehanna and tho Swatara, supposed to have been in the neigh borhood of Middletown, that white men were pushing to the West. Pos sibly the tirst worshipers at Paxton were companions or retainers of John Harris, who came this way 200 year:; ago and who is supposed to have been the first settler In the present county, although Frenchmen were known to have traded along the western shores of the Susquehanna. While poking through a desk drawer just, prior to his departure for Vir ginia the other evening Mayor-elect Kzra S. Meals found a pack of election advertisement cards. He chuckled us he opened the package. "The caril game at election time is a great game," he observed gravely. "This pack of unused cards, for instance, might mean much—or little. In this package, for instance, is a lot of live hundred. When 1 first started this campaign I ordered 6,000. During the campaign just 5,500 were given out, and this lot. is what remains. When the official count is compiled one may or may not be able to judge whether it pays to ask your fellow-citizen to vote for you, via such a card." The ollicial count completed yesterday showed that Mayor-elect Meals, the unopposed can didate for the office of chief executive of llarrisburg for the second time, had received 8,523 votes. Announcement of the proposed re sumption of operations at Marshall furnace, at Newport, will be received with interest here, as the furnace is the only one left in Perry county, which fifty or sixty years ago was one of the big iron producers. The Mar shall furnace was formerly called Juniata furnace and was built in 1871. It is the sole survivor of a number of noted furnaces of which Duncannon, Montebello. Oak Grove, Daura and Caroline are best remembered. The stack of the latter furnace at Bailey's is still standing. The weather this week has caused a big Jump in the wheat sown by people in this section of the State the last month or so and by the time King- Winter comes along the grain will be well under way and strong enough to stand any blasts. From upper win dows of the Capitol wheat fields can be seen showing bright green in four counties. Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown is not having a nice time this week. He has to sit in court at the trial of a hi* case in which he was interonted before he became Attorney General. As a result he is looking: after State business at night, and his office is a lively place after dark, the deputies being busy with the tele phones. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Cyrus E. Woods, Secretary of the Commonwealth, plays golf every week, rain or shine. —J. E. Tliropp, Jr., son of the Bed ford ironmaster, is furnace superin tendent for the Thomas Iron Company. —Robert A. Taft, son of the former President, is conducting cases before courts in Pittsburgh this week. —Judd 11. Bruff. former sheriff of Allegheny, is to become a member of the county tax revision board. —Judge Aaron S. Swartz, of Norris town, conducted services in church when his pastor was taken ill. DO YOU KNOW 1 That the new Cumberland Valley bridge will enable Harrisburg to Increase its freight capacity? •HISTORIC HARRISBURG A Masonic lodge was formed in Har risburg not long after the city was laid out. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph, Nov. 10, 1865] Old Physician Dies Dr. E. W. Roberts, one of the old est physicians in this city, died at 3 o'clock this morning at his home. The funeral will be held to-morrow after noon. Congressmen Pass Through City A number of Congressmen from western States passed through this city to-day enroute to Washington for the opening of the sessions on De cember 4. To Store Truck A committee was appointed last night at a meeting of the Mt. Ver non Hook and Ladder Company, to obtain a place to store the truck un til proper quarters are provided. Dur ing the summer the apparatus had been kept in the Hope house. -< The School of Experience Many successful manufactur ers hold diplomas In the advertis ing school of experience. They have tried out th-i best ways of pushing their goods and learned for themselves. They know exactly what they are doing wh»n they spend a dol lar for advertising. The experiences of these grad uates are told of In a booklet, "The Newspapers." This will be sent to any ad vertiser on request by th<» Bureau of Advertising, American Newspaper Publishers Associ ation, World Building. New York.