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INVESTIGATORS ARE
L ,, NOT ENDORSED
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!t maintains itself mainly by mixing in ;
police controversies and capitalizing
Mich matters; also by keeping in the ;
Held such men as Mr. White who by!
Kivtng talks to small suburban church- 1
es upon morbid subjects and subse
quently "parsing the plate" live upon l
the donations from simple well mean-,
ing people.
In Cleveland and elsewhere the
methods of the Unfon are highly sen
sational and no investigation has i
demonstrated that it was a religious
institution of any great moral value-
Several years ago a chler of police
in Cleveland was removed because of
Sis personal Immorality. The body j
which Mr. White represents claims ;
that it was more or less responsible j
for this chief's removal. No one ofj
standing in Cleveland has been found j
■who will attribute the chiefs removal j
to the American Civic Reform Union,
although Mr. White goes about col
lecting money and capitalizing this
episode.
The fact that Mr. White's outfit is
not highly thought of in its home city
ehowß what credence should be given
its abuse of Harrisburg.
Prominent Names Without Consent
Some time ago it was discovered J
that Mr. White was soliciting funds;
in Harrisburg by handing out folders
with the names of several prominent
Harrisburg men printed on them with
the implication that they endorsed the
»ody Mr. White represents. On In
terviewing the Harrisburg men whose
names were on the folders they in
dignantly denied they endorsed Mr.
White or his organization and that
their names were used without their
consent- One of the men said he had
jtlven White money merely to get rid
of him several years ago and pre
sumed he had used his name because
of his prominence in Harrisburg.
Reason For the Morbid Talks
Al] Investigations of Mr. W liite and
ills organizations indicate the prin
cipal reason Mr. White gives his mor
bid talks to small churches and gives
Oot wildly exaggerated press state
ments defaming the good name of
Harrisburg Ls to stimulate the collec
tion of money with which to support
himself. He probably means well- to
a. certain extent but the continued ef
forts to solicit money front buslness
tnen and the collections taken up at
.small churches that are not able to
pay their own expenses shows the
commercial side of Mr. White's or
ganization is a leading feature. It
looks like commercialized muck rak
ing of cities.
The record of Mr. White and his
organization in other cities shows that
muck raking police departments and
defiling the good name of a city to
swell the size of his collections from
meaning people ls a strong mo
live for his work.
The foregoing facts are gleaned
from letters on file from the Rocke
feller Institute and the Organized
Charities of Cleveland, O. Copies of
these letters can be seen at the Tele
graph office.
The Telegraph has no quarrel with
anyone, honestly desiring to better
moral conditions in Harrisburg, and
lays these facts before, its readers
merely for their information.
White's Statements
Mr. White's statement of to-day is
fis follows:
"The Investigations made hy the
American Civic Reform Union in Har
risburg have been in accord with those
conducted of late in nearly all the
cities of the nation and the treatment
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WSKm FACKLER'S 1312 Derry St.,
accorded by certain officials, newspa
pers and citizens is the same as we
meet from certain classes everywhere.
We work along the most advanced
lines of civic betterment, obtaining the
truth, placing it before the public and
demanding that the citizens unite with
us in requiring that the officials do the
work for which they are paid.
"We are not a police power: we are
not an adjunct of any department of
public service. Our work Is to serve
by introducing and securing the pass
age of reform measures and to aid
in obtaining the execution of such
laws. That which we have secured in
the way of knowledge of the flagrant,
violations of laws and of conditions
making for vice could easily be secured
any time by others.
"A. H. White, the state manager,
though 'bewhiskered' with a beard
which lias grown gray in the service
of public morals, is far from being
desirous of giving the city a black eye,
but does declare that to hide and pro
tect and disclaim the existence of vice
is not the method to accomplish Its
abatement, but with President Charles
W. ICiliott. who says "The policy of
silence has failed disastrously." be
lieves that when officials are remiss
in duty and protecting vice, even by
not prosecuting. It is duty to give the
public the truth, and then, if they so
require, to aid in securing enforce
ment. He declares that the worst
enemy of the flag is the official who
takes a solemn oath to defend the
Constitution, enforce the laws, then by
indifference permits great vice pre
serve to exist, and he affirms that
aiding the expert who was brought
here to take charge of the survey have
been different men of highest standing
and of irreproachable character who
live in the city and Its environs and
who are ready to verify every state
ment that has issued. He states:
'There are winerooms in which during
the last month has been found not
"conditions as bad as in Pittsburgh or
Chicago." for Chicago has closed her
saloons to women, as all cities taking
an advanced stand in morals have
done, but as they were there and in
other cities before their moral awak
enings. That in these drinking rooms
attached to licensed bars were found
nightly, in all stages of drunkenness,
both, men and women, the women
there soliciting men, and going in
quite steady train therefrom to assig
nation houses, soon to go back to wine
rooms for more victims. That assig
nation houses have until this week ex
isted in different parts of the city,
largely supported by the business ema
nating from the drinking rooms at
tached to saloons. That many houses
of ill-repute have existed where the
women sit all day and far into the
night, one next to a school, and so
licit, even when police officers are in
sight: not only have our inen been
so apnroaebed. but an 18-vear-old
boy who passes of necessity through
♦ his vice preserve to his daily work
has. he states to us. been invited in by
immoral woman practically every day
for weeks. Beer has been purchased
an paid for In immoral houses within
a short time, bought from the madam
by reputable men. some of them citi
zens of Harrisburg.
"Mr. White did not state that Mr.
Wiard had closed a house on North
Third sireet by 'pulling out a copy of
point J
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the law," but did state the house was
closed by the Joint work of our in
vestigators and the neighbors of the
place. He did state that Mr. Wiard
did, in his presence, quote the law to
the proprietress of a place yesterday
where beer had been bought by our
representatives and where they were
solicited for immoral purposes and
prices given, and that the keeper
promised to close. The law read was
act 852, page 1369, also act 382, sec
tion 43. of 1860.
"Mr. White is a permanent resident
of Harrisburg and in charge of the
state work of the Cnion with Russell
H. Conwell, Hishop Kephart and many
more nationally known men as officers.
Mr. Wiard, a -born Pennsylvanian, a
citizen of the state and a taxpayer
here the most of his life; known inti
mately as has been his work for more
than a quarter of a century by leading
men of Harrisburg and its suburbs.
"In perfect accord with the estab
lished principles of each foundation
and organization doing survey work,
we do not advertise vice resorts by giv
ing their locations. When police or-
accord support and invite
confidence we gladly co-operate: when
they do not and defend vice, denying
its existence, we then have our most
powerful recourse, the use of the pul
pit, the press and our own reports,
1 5,000 copies of which issue quarterly,
through which to arouse a sentiment
which will support such men as Mayor
Royal in an honest effort to obtain a
city that will be a clean moral com
munity and a safe place for our boys
and girls."
Senator Crow Will
Not Be a Candidate
State Senator William F. Crow,
chairman of the Republican State
Committee, last evening declared him
self out of the race for United States
Senator. This leaves the field to for
mer Secretary of State Philander
Chas. Knox and E. V. Babcock, the
Pittsburgh- lumberman, for the suc
cession of Senator George T. Oliver.
Senator Oliver some time ago an
nounced that he would not be a can
didate for re-election.
Pittsburgh leaders, who are off on
a trip on Senator Penrose's yacht, the
"Bettle." with Atlantic City as their
rendezvous, are divided in their alle
giance of thees two favorite sons of
Allegheny county. There is no reason
to believe that either of them has the
backing of PenrosS leadership up to
date, and it would seem that the race
Is still an open one.
While Senator Crow has taken him
self out of the running, there ls no
doubt that he has jnore personal
friends and supporters among the
rank and tile of the active Republicans
of the State than any other man who
has been mentioned for succession to
Senator Oliver.
When asked last evening regarding
the use of his name in connection with
the contest for the United States Sen
atorship, State Chairman Crow said:
"I am not a candidate for United
States Senator. While J appreciate the
expressions of pood will that have
come to me from friends in various
parts of the State in this connection I
am in no sense an aspirant for this or
any other office.''
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
BEETHOVEN PRIZE
ESSAY WINNERS
S. Carlton Stubbs and S. S
Hoppes Win Prizes; Fifty
Essays Received
In conjunction with the appearance
in this city of The New York Sym
phony Orchestra and Mischa Elman,
the Harrisburg Telegraph last Friday
night announced that it would con
duct an essay contest, on "The Life
and Works of Beethoven." A most
gratifying Interest was manifested in
the contest, the music eiditor having
received fifty essays from which to
pick the two winners. The prizes
offered were, first, SIO.OO and two
seats to the concert; second, $5.00
and two seats to the concert. Judg
ing the essays was in every sense a
difficult task. For the great majority
were splendid, but a breaking' of
the rule that the essay should be
limited to 300 words eliminated many
which otherwise would have had an
excellent opportunity of being prize
winners.
The judges of the contest after
fliminating all but four essays decided
that to S. Carlton Stubbs, 531 Muench
street should be given the first prize.
To J. S. Hoppes, 49 North Eighteenth
street is given the second prize.
The prizes may be had in the Tele
graph office on Thursday morning.
Honorable mention might be made
of the essays of Anna 11. Wood, 1517
Allison street, Sara M. Bacon, 1109
Green street: Newell Albright, 1833
North Fifth street; Florence Rinken
bach, 216 Forster street, and William
Wanbaugh, 2117 Green street.
The two prize essays follow:
Essay on the life and works of
IvUdwlg van Beethoven by S. Carlton
Stubbs. 531 Muench street, Harris
burg, Pa. —
I.udwig van Beethoven was born at
Bonn, Germany, December 16, 1770.
His father was attached to the
orchestra of the Elector at Bonn and
was Lud wig's first teacher. He was
further instructed by Pfieffer, Von den
Eden and Neefe. At the age of twelve
years Beethoven became attached to
the musical household of the Elector.
While visiting in Vienna in 1787 he
met Mozart who prophesied a bril
liant career for Beethoven. In his
twenty-second year Beethoven was
sent by the Elector to Vienna to study
with Haydn. Beethoven and Haydn
however, were not altogether in sym
pathy and Beethoven took the op
portunity of breaking with him when
the later went to England and studied
with Aibrechtsburger. When the
funds from Bonn ceased his friends
came to his assistance and enabled
him to devote himself to composition.
In 1820 a disease manifested Itself
which afterwards developed into deaf
ness*
He died In Vienna. March 26, 1827.
His compositions included nine sym
phonies for orchestra which depict
all the joys and sorrows of life and
the beauties of nature. For the piano
he wrote, besides shorter pieces,
thirty-eight sonatas of which the
Op. 27, No. 2 (C sharp
minor) is perhaps the best known to
| everyone at least through the name
and the story connected with it. Ho
has written much other chamber and
orchestral music. For the violin he
■ lias written a beautiful concerto,
| sonatas, and two romances. His con
certo is perhaps the most beautiful
written for this instrument and to
gether with the famous Chaconne of
Hach It is the highest test of a violin
ist's musicianship. Ho is considered
by many the greatest composer who
ever lived.
Ludwig van Beethoven, by J. S.
t IToppes, 49 North Eighteenth street,
Harrisburg.
As the greatness and extent of the
mighty mountain can be comprehend
ed only when our viewpoint is some
distance off, so It is with the genii of
cur world. Indeed it is not long since
we have come to an appreciative view
point of Beethoven, the musical moun
tain, and his most excellent contribu
tion to the musical world.
The famous composer was born at
Bonn, Germany, in 1770. His mother
was a ptient loving soul. The father
was a drunkard and seltish. Ludwig
was devoted to his mother and grieved
much because of her unhappy life and
disagreeable surroundings. He, how
ever, owed much to his father and his
father's family for his early instruc
tion and opportunities for advance
ment.
Through disappointments and griefs
and a struggle for the very necessities
of life, he climbed to the very zenith as
a composer and shines as one of the
brightest stars in the constellation of
musical genii. He studied and as
sociated in Vienna with Mozart.
Haydn, Schenk, Albrechtsburger and
others.
Beethoven never married, but had
love affairs. Undoubtedly he had a
great deal of the musical tempera
ment and at times was abrupt in his
manner, but, judging from his host or
friends, among whom were many of
the nobility, the royalty and the
notables of the period such as Goethe.
Anton Schindler, Dr. Malfattl and
others, and also considering his many
dedications, we are led to Delleve that
he had a more lovable side.
HIB later life was a social triumph.
Kings, princes and ambassadors, when
In Vienna, did hini honor.
In 1797 a serious illness overtook
Beethoven and left his hearing im
paired and at the time of his death
he was totally deaf.
Through ill-placed faith in un
worthy relatives, he was reduced to
poverty. He died on March 26, 1827.
MAY PROBE MAYOR
ROYAL'S CONDUCT
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results by leaving the Inference that
Deen's release had been sought in or
der to permit him to vote November 2.
Mayor Forgot His l)atos
"What a foolish thing It was for
the Mavor to convey that inference,"
said the official, "If that is what he
meant to do. Why, Deen was ar
rested on September 24, three days
after the primaries. He couldn't do
any good at the primaries then, could
lie? Now. then, suppose he had served
his full term of thirty days. That
would leave him out on October 24 oi
25. wouldn't it? Thus Deen would
have his fredeom a whole week before
the general election. To my mind
(heroin lies the fallacy of the Mayor's
action."
Another development ip the Deen
NOVEMBER 10, 1915.
case is the possibility that the prisoner
may have a chance to bring an action
lor damages against the city lor de
taining him beyond his term limit.
Deen is still in jail and Acting Chief
Thompson says he hesitates to issue a
release without instructions from the
Mayor.
Only Followed Precedent
"I was not aware that I made a
mistake until the Mayor called m>
attention to Deen's release as being
unusual," remarked Joseph P. Thomp
son, acting chief of police. "I cannot
recall the names at present, but to my
knowledge it has been customary to
release prisoners when they had work
to do to earn a livelihood for their
families. It has been done many times
without the Mayor's knowledge.
"The Mayor criticised my action
Friday one week ago. I explained
that. I evidently was in error, but acted
with the belief that X was doing a
favor for his friends. Stucker Broth
ers, contractors, asked for Deen's re
lease. They wanted him to work. The
Mayor blamed me for favoring Com
missioner Lynch. That is not the case.
"I immediately sent for Deen after
the Mayor spoke to me. He came to
the office and I recommitted him. He
has now been in jail two days over
time. I shall not issue an order foi
his discharge until ordered to do so.
He was committed for safe keeping.
"The Mayor never signs an order for
the discharge of prisoners. His name
is attached to the discharge papers,
but it has always been the custom for
the chief of police to make out the
order for release of prisoners, with
the 'Per' added. Commitments are
not always signed by the Mayor.
Everybody around here has made out
commitments. Clerk Backenstoss does
it after the hearings. I do it when a
prisoner is brought in. It is an old
custom and has been followed under
previous administrations."
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Henderson Gilbert, retiring president
of the Chamber of Commerce, spoke
last night to the employes of the com
mercial department of the Harrisburg
Gas Company, giving an address on
"What Makes Success in Business." He
explained that courtesy, concentration,
and co-operation are necessary fop
business success. Other speakers 'were:
Arthur E. Burlew, of the bookkeeping
department; George T. Eldridge, com
mercial agent, and W. H. German, chief
clerk.
The addresses followed a regular
business meeting and smoker. About*
forty were present.
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