8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH ~ Estabjished it}l PUBLISHED BY THE TEI.EGItAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Tlegraph Uuilding. 216 Federal Squave. livth 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 at six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Swoni dally average circulation foi the three nioiths ending Oct. SI, 1915. ★ ' 21,357 ★ Average for the year 11U4— -I.SRB Average for the year 15113—10.802 Average for tlie year IlltJ—ttl.HW Average for the year lIM t — f.582 Average for the year IOWV—I6JIII The above tlgurr* are net. All re turned, unsold and damaged copies de ducted. SATURDAY EVENING, NOV, IS If atij/ one speak ill of thei, con sider whether he hath truth on his tide: and if so. reform thyself, that his censures may not affect thee. — Epictetus. CONDITIONS AT HO>IE THE Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast States are not dancing around with "war brides," and the fictitious prosperity which these lively ladles create hus not penetrated the fastnesses of the western country. This is shown by the recently pub lished results of the third study in the series of investigations being made Into the question of unemployment by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor. This study was undertaken by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for the department in view, it is an nounced in a recent bulletin, of the accuracy of a previous service of this sort performed by the company in New York City. Such an announcement, it may be remarked in passing, is a curious com mentary upon the efficiency of the Department of Labor; but' more inter esting are the facts which are dis closed. Portland, Oregon, is credited with the largest percentage of unem ployment, no less than twenty per cent, of the workers in that city be ing out' of work wholly. The part time workers for the entire region un der Investigation ran slightly higher, while in some of the cities studied nearly thirty per cent, of the workers were without steady employment. The lowest percentage of complete unem ployment' was at Ogden, Utah, where 4.J per cent, of the laborers were out of work. Twelve large cities only were cov ered by the investigation, these being: Butte, Los Angeles, Oakland, Ogden, Port land, Salt Lake City, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Spokane and Taeoina. The cities showing the largest per centages of part-time workers were: San Diego. 29.2 per cent.; Oakland. 26.9 per cent.; San Francisco, 25.4 per cent.; Los Angeles, 24.1 per cent, and Sacramento, 23.7 per cent. The average for all twelve cities combined was 20.2 per cent. These are the fruits—the usual fruits, wo may say—of Democratic rule. From five* to twenty per cent, of the people with no work at all; and an average of one-fifth of all the people without steady employment. Is it any wonder that Democrats want to focus the gaze of the country upon unhappy Europe? Speaker Clark lias written President Wilson congratulating him on his na tional defense speech. Thus he pats "Wilson on the back and kicks Bryan in the face at one and the same 'fitne. WHEN THE WAR IS OVER WAR brings Its reward. The list less clod of to-day under the mysterious influence of mortal combat, of nation pitted against na tion. becomes the hero of to-morrow. Failures in civil life win undying fame on the field of battle. Place and po sition and wealth are for the con queror; cherished niche In the hall of fame for the soldier of lesser rank ■who distinguishes himselfln warfare. Every man who has been under fire - and has stood the test as a brave man should, ever after stands a little higher in the estimation of his fellows and in his own respect for himself. Bands play and an enthusiastic public greets him with huzzas when he comes marching home. s But there is another side. War pro duces also Its Benedict Arnolds; its shame as well as its glory. When someone shall ask, at the end of the great European conflict, "And what did you do?" with what degree of pride will the poor wretch reply: "Oh. X was in command of the firing squad that shot to death a little girl outside her father's home at Liege." Or. "I am the officer who presided at ♦he court, which .ondemncd a young nurse to death at sunrise before an open grave." Or, "I am the man T'ho gave the order that sent the LusU%nta to the "bottom. Or, "I am the captain of the sub marine who stood by and jeered at SATURDAY EVENING, women and babies struggling in the' water after I had torpedoed the An cona." Think you that even in the countries whose uniforms these men wear bands will play and people will shout in glad acclaim on their coming home? Senator Penrose is boosting the j propaganda of a great navy in his ; speeches out West, and everywhere I there is approval of his vlsws. - IN STATE AND NATION IN 1910 the Democratic party se-1 cured control of the State Gov ernment of _ New Jersey, with Woodrow Wilson In the Governor's chair. The Republicans turned the offices over to the Democrats with a surplus of $2,000,000 in the treasury. In 1915, when the Democrats yielded control of the Legislature back to the Republicans, there was a de ficit of about $1,000,000. Woodrow Wilson gave up his office In 1913 to become head of a national administration which took control at a time when there was a balance In the treasury amounting lo over $149,- 000,000. That balance diminished so rapidly that the Treasury Department twice made changes in the method of computing balances, so that large In creases were made In the apparent balance and comparisons were ren dered practically impossible. If the facts could be ascertained, the books would undoubtedly show that the Wilson administration changed a credit balance into a de flciency. The Democratic record in New Jersey has its counterpart in national administration. Twenty-seven Americans sent to the bottom of the Mediterranean because they were passengers on an Italian ship sailing for a neutral port. Women and children sacrificed to the god of War! THE EARLY MORNING GROUCH OF course, you are not of that des picable species—the early morn ing grouch. But so you'll know him when you meet him —and have no gun—here are a few of the habits and characteristics of the animal: Inevitably makes his wife get out of bed and turn off the alarm clock. Refuses to get up for break fast until called three times. Bawls lustily for someone to bring him a shoe buttoner. Growls because the water isn't hot in the bathroom. Kicks the cat the lirst thing on reaching the kitchen. "Cusses" every clinker in the blankety-blank-blank furnace. Insists that it's dishwater and not coffee in the cup. Poo-poohs the kind of biscuits his wife turns out and assures her they are far from being the kind his mother used to bake. Scowls at little Johnny for ask ing for the fourth piece of mush. Complains that he has only eight minutes to get to work on time and wonders why his wife didn't call him earlier. Rushes out without kissing his wife or the baby. Ever meet him? Indeed, he is far from extinct in most parts of the State. Unfortunately the game laws provide no open season for him. THE PREFER ABLE PL ACE SAID Mme. Teyte, speaking while she awaited a rehearsal call with the Boston Grand Opera company in Philadelphia, yesterday, when a cablegram announcing her divorce In France was delivered to her: It's the old. old story: art and domesticity never were meant to travel hand in hand. To succeed in my art I had to forsake my hus band. He understood this as well I did. The same message brought the in formation that her erstwhile husband is on the tiring line "somewhere in France." As between being the husband of an ambitious and discontented opera singer and a member of the British expeditionary force operating against the Germans, the choice may be diffi cult. but we imagine the gentleman in question is quite content with the lot to which fate has assigned hiift. ROOT \o REACTIONARY THERE is a disposition in some quarters, in commenting upon the rejection of the New York constitution at the November election, to class Elihu Root as a reactionary. Once upon a time Ihe term possibly in a sense might have applied. But Elihu Root has grown and broadened. We do not classify men by what they were, but by what we know they are. His attitude toward the so-called pop ular planks in the proposed consti tution was scarcely conservative, let alone reactionary. No man who fought as he did for the short ballot, for in stance, isj reactionary. Whether or not Roofs chances for the presidency were ruined by the de feat of the constitution he cham pioned. at least he has pointed the way for his party in the coining years. Republicanism to be successful must be conservative enough to suit the great mass of men who voted for William Howard Taft and progressive enough to meet the views ot the thousands who followed the banmer of Roosevelt in Root is the great, outstand ing exponent of these harmonizing principles. Wonder if May Irwin's husband Is Jealous of her professed love for Presi dent Wilson. By the way, who is May Irwtfn's husband ? Real estate reports indicate that not even cold weather will stop the new building the coming winter. Governor Brumbaugh planting trees at Derry Church demonstrates that he makes his conservation practices con form with his theories, which is not always the case with statesmen. The hunter who carelessly causes a forest fire ought to have his license away from him. Presently Carranza will learn how difficult It Is to remain In favor with the Democratic administration. President Wilson has applied to the Republican members to help him pass his defense bills. Thereby demon strating tl.at he knows where to look for patriotic, practical service. ( TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE [ j —The height of folly Is within j stone's throw of the depths of des pair." —Does a nickel look as biff to your son as a penny used to you when you were a lad? —Says Germany to Austria: "Th»y have made us stop: now you do it." —Many of the old families are com mitting race suicide, says a Philadel phia scientist. Well, even that beats the way they are getting rid of 'em in Europe. —At all events It is gratifying to learn that the Japanese Sacred Mir ror has been again enshrined without being cracked. One shudders to think what would happen to the witless I wight .who might have let it fall. —"We are in for a cold winter," says a Berks county weather prophet. In the technical language of the in aor sportsman, this is known as "playing it safe." All winters are cold. That's what makes 'em winter. EDITORIAL COMMENT "j The European war is proving a hell that would baffle Sherman or even Dante to portray.—Worcester Gazette. England thinks that note was harsh. Germany thinks it was "too mild." However, these contrary opinions will not prevent the writer from penning another if necessary.—Trenton State Gafcette. v. Just bear in mind that in three eastern States on Tuesday one million voters favored suffrage for women. And the voters were all men.—Hart ford Times. Ezekiel • bids fail* to become as prominent as Ananias in .American national politics.—New York Sun. PENROSE AND THE NATIONAL GUARD [From the Philadelphia Inquirer.] Friends of the National Guard will be delighted with Senator Penrose's public declaration in favor of the Guard Pay bill and his assertion that he will not favor any military measure which does not adequately recognize the value and the services of the Na tional Guard. This is right and fair and sensible. The members of the State Militia have borne the heat and burden of the day, and now that the time has come when we are about to place the army on a half-decent footing it is only just that these volunteer soldiers should receive the consideration to which they are undoubtedly entitled. It should be very easy to do this, for the Guardsmen are so organized that they could easily be made to fit in with any reasonable plan for the national defense.- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR] COMMENDS EDITORIAL, To the Editor of the Telegraph: I wish to express my appreciation of the editorial in last evening's Tele graph, "Support the Ministers." The sentiment expressed is right. We pas tors appreciate such a word in season. GEO. F. SCHAUM. NOVEMBER MUSINGS The autumn glow has faded from the leaves. Gray clouds hang low across a wintry sky: We gather close around the blazing hearth— And cheer our hearts with thoughts of pumpkin pie. Cold blows the wind thro' branches gaunt and bare That writhe and shiver 'neath the cloud's dark frown. And, listening to its mournful song, we dream— Of buckwheat cakes and sausage crisp and brown. Up through the meadows wide the tur keys I'onte. In stately single tile they march, while each Bronze feather on their leader gleams— when that bird's roasted he will be a peach! ( Oh! sad November, garbed In wan gray robes. Your tears aro falling 011 the with ered grass: But deep within our souls wo know 'tis time— For good, old-fashioned cider apple sass. And, though svv«-et Princess Summer now lias lied. And Sir North Wind her klndgom fair now takes. We hail with glee the happy dav that brings Thanksgiving's festive joys and tummy-aches. —By Harriet R. Owen In Farm and Home. A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS Every week-day at noon, the chimes of Grace Church in New York send down into the clatter of Broadway the strains of old, familiar hymns. Some times if one is not paying attention, or when a new tune is taken up, the clangor of the bells seems only to add to the confusion. Then, grad ually, the theme of the old-time mel ody steals upon the senses through the tumult. The other day the chimes had just finished Pleyel's Hymn. Then began a new melody, which, in the midst of the city's roar, was not at first distinguishable. Then the tangle of notes unwound itself and through the noises e elected he will be the local option leader in the Senate. George D. Porter, late Independent candidate fpr Mayor of Philadelphia, made known his future political policy yesterday in a statement as to the plans for the Franklin Party campaigners. Mr. Porter said: •'All the workers in the Independent movement should be kept togvther. The organization in the late campaign was the best the Inde pendents ever had. I am not out of the Independent light by any means, but I believe the next big tight will be made within the Republican party at the coming; Presidential primaries." Frank P. Slattery, successful candi date for district attorney in Luzerne, yesterday handed out plums by nam ing assistants and detectives. Slattery i» a Carmun Democrat, and he was liberal in the distribution of his pat ronage among Garmanites. The fol lowing received appointments: Arthur L. Turner. Wilkes-Barre: Edwin Shorts, Jr., Wilkes-Barre: A. T. Walsh, I'lttston; John S. Lopatto, Wllkee- Barre. and Leo Schwartzkopf, Pittston, assistants. William Moyles, Laurel Run: P. J. Conley, Courtdale:, Bernard McCabe. East End; Thomas' Arnold, Hazleton, county detectives. Frank M. Black, of Nanticoke,"private secre tary. —The Allegheny county Republican leaders are having a hard time be tween Knox and Babcock for United States Senator and do not seem to be able to make up their minds whom to support. Meanwhile friends of both men are getting busy with their organizations and intend to make things ready. —Mayor Ira W. Stratton, of Read ing, who was here yesterday to sec the Governor, is believed to be in line for a State appointment of some kind. —Tho Lackawanna county grand jury has issued this finding on tho frauds occurring in that county: "We lind that the above fraudulent and criminal alterations of the primary re turns were made while said were in the legal custody of the coun ty commissioners of Lackawanna county and that these alterations were made either by some one offi cially connected with the commission er's office or were probably, as rumor has it, by persons who were permitted by some one connected with the said office to have access to these returns so that they might effectuate their dis honest designs." Next May the first primary election at which presidential' delegates at large will be elected by the voters of the State will be held in Pennsylvania and the election is already attracting attention. It is likely that there will be plenty of contests for the honors in all parties. The first work will be done on the ninth Tuesday preceding the primary, which will be on the third Tuesday of next May, when tho notices of the places to be filled will be issued.—The election of presiden tial electors at largo will be for the same number as in 1912, being gov erned by the size of the congressional delegation. The usual gossip as to delegates is heard and the names of the Governor and Lieutenant-Csovernor are heard as two of the members of the delegation. At the primary there will also be nominated a candidate for Supreme Court to succeed the late Jus tice John P. Elkin. Slowness in the filing of official re turns of the recent election baa lieen more marked than in years when bigger elections have lieen held 'and efforts have been made by telephone and telegraph to speed up the officials in late counties. The election is ten days gone and hardly three-fourths of the counties have filed their returns. Some of the late counties have very small votes and none of those held tip have tlie cause of Philadelphia. Alle gheny or Luzerne. Schuylkill county, which is among the first ten in votes, tiled a week ago. and big counties, Lackawanna. Westmoreland. Tjincas ter. Washington, Erie and Montgom ery have been in several days. A I.ONG-NKEDED ACT fProm the Saturday Evening Post.] We wonder why no Legislature has passed a. law against the passing of fool laws. It is really amazing that tin legislator seems ever to have thought of that. Confessedly the country suffers much from fool laws. The statute book of every State Is cumbered with all sorts of half-baked legislation, which is not enforced, or enforced only spasmodic ally. Every year adds to the accumu lation. Every student of American mvernment knows what an affliction this Is. Now, it is a well-settled principle of American government that the remedy for anV affliction whatever is to pass a law iigalnst it. If you think your wife Is injuring her feet by wearing blgh- Iteeled shoes do not attempt to argue lier out of the habit. Just get in touch with a number of similarly minded neighbors and have a law passed against it. Therefore, the remedy for the afflic tion of fool legislation is to pass a law against it. "Be it enacted"—and so on—"that hereafter no legislature of this State shall enact any boneheaded law.-" Just that, with the Governor's signature, and the trick is done. We hand the idea along in a pious hope that many States will hasten to adopt It. MAX. NOT GOT), ON TniAl. TFrom the New York Sun.] | Oscar S. Straus, in a striking address delivered on Sunday morning at the Mount Morris Baptist Church in this i city, said: "This most barbaric and colossal war has not put God on trial, but man on trial." These words go to the very root of a problem seemingly Insolvahie to many devout minds that have found the tragic events of the past year de structive in their effects upon their former religious convictions, subver sive of old faiths, conducive to ag nostic. even atheistical tendencies of thought. » • • But we are herewith confronted by a paradox. The scarlet tragedv that has overthrown European civilization hes caused a spiritual awakening in all parts of the world. The cataclysm that should have furnished the ma terialists with the most crushing ar gument vouchsafed to them in all the bloody history of the race has intensi fied the religious fervor of mankind to an unprecedented degree. The modern worlrt" Is prostrate be fore Its altars, offering nrayers to the f'nknowable. Never before have our churches been so crowded, never be fore have the exponents of religious teachings found such willing ears, such anxious, eager hearts. What should have happened logically If Corsica has really conquered Galilee in the world of to-dav has by no means taken place. On the contrary. the materialism that led Professor Pramb to make his sweeping srenerallzation hns heen wide ly replaced of late bv,n spiritual nulck cning. a renewed conviction on the part of countless thousands that there ex ists a domain bevond and above the material, a domain necessary to ex nlaln the phenomena exhibited bv the soul of man under s the stress of the i world's moat auuallins calamltv. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY 1 "WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND THEY ARE OURS" \ - OKnjSj Baraga - XmV/J —From the I'llilndelpliin Public l.edgrr. i : VISITING THE WAR BRIDES \ Vlll.—Pittsburgh's New Factories By Frederic J. Haskin t IN this district within the last three months has sprung up an industry of more national importance and interest than the making of guns and shells. If it survives, it means for America permanent independence of Europe in a. line that is the basis of many manufacturers, and the saving of a waste that has cost billions. This new American industry consists of a dozen factories, some just finish ed, some still building, the largest only projected, for the conversion of the by-products of coke manufacture into oils, acids and other chemicals. The two immediate objects of the venture arc to supply Europe with acids for making high explosives, and Ameri can manufacturers with the dyestuffs which they can no longer obtain abroad. To appreciate the full import of this movement, and the way the war brought It about, you must know the difference between the Iron and steel Industries in this country and in Eu rope. Some years ago a Pittsburgh iron man went to Europe for a vaca tion, and incidentally visited the great mines and mills of Germany. He saw those long-worked mines which pierce hundreds of feet straight down Into the earth; he counted the revolutions of the powerful steam drum which lifted coal to the surface, and calcu lated the immense expenditure which was necessary to obtain the mere raw materials of Industry, lie compared the German methods with coal mining on the Monongahela, where It' con sists in digging a hole in the moun tain and shoveling the coal into a wait ing car. Not for a couple of centur ies at least, he reflected, need Amerl Our Daily Laugh f ' G R E A T itV TRIUMPH. I " Well, how did Mpfk you come through VJMI a, that afternoon n Come through *ll right. *pili anything onT anybody hut my-1 \O% THE TROUBLE, / \ There seems t« I s 'T»i Hfc be a cooineßS ' be " U/T'' Ni tween them. f_%y (» \J es The lrou " I —l\\ (\ ble is they're both 1 |v too hot tempered. NEUTRALITY, ?y lunder stand J * \ that his matrl j tnonial difficulties jKJ> | have been set- ' 'T|B Yes; wife's rel- J® / /1 (j at Ives have y I I agreed to main tain strict neu- W\ trality | CONSIDERATE. / yV Mrs- W - : There *' MBl ./I I goes a man I inlght have mar j *4Mr. W.: How /' fij/ grateful he must ' v be t0 me ' THE WAY OK THE GAME By WiOK Dinger Last week while I was out of town A friend, by using force. Persuaded me to go with Him And play a nine-hole course. I started In to show him up By making one In four While he, who's often played the course. Chalked six down on his score. The second hole he made in eight, I got it in Ave. With chest 'way out tipon tee tlyee t set myself to drive. I dubbed the drive and other strokes, Anen for Hillery. Wa were going gunning up back of New Germantown in my car and Just as we got on the outskirts of that vil lage the gasoline ran out and the en gine died one of those slow, choking deaths that makes the man at tho wheel feel like passing out the same way. Well, the car stopped and t didn't know what to do. But Ed. was equal to the emergency. 'Easy,' said he, and he hopped out, put his shoul der to the rear and pushed us right into New Qermant'own. If you're go ing Into strange country with long distances between gasoline tanks be sure to take Hillery along, lie may come in handy." Hlllery is division freight agent for the Heading at this point and is as charming in his dis position as he is big and strong in body. He dotes on a day in tho woods, having learned to shoot and hunt during his boyhood days in Maryland. He is spending this week in the northern part of the State gunning for pheasants. Kenneth C. Grant, formerly con nected with the State Water Supply Commission, has written for the cur rent number of the Journal of the Engineers' Society an interesting arti cle on the conservancy law of Ohio. This is work which is being done to alleviate Hood conditions throughout the valleys of that State and import ant tests In court have upheld the acts. The number also contains an article by Howard 15. Moses, of this city, on the old stone viaduct at Dan ville, which was built in 1840 and is still In excellent condition. * • • People at the State Capitol are awaiting with considerable interest a speech which J. W. Leech, of the State Workmen's Compensation board, is to deliver at Johnstown on Monday. John A. Scott, of Indiana, a member of the board, is also to speak. W* Leech is expected to make some com* ments upon the criticisms of the com pensation law and the declaration that preference will be given to slnglo men. • « • C. S. Krlck, the superintendent of the New York division of the Penn sylvania railroad, is well known to many here as for years he was sta tioned at Millersburg and then along the main line. He used to win prizes for his work as a supervisor. • • • Among visitors to the city yester day was Edmund C. Taylor, legisla tive correspondent of the Philadelphia Evening Ledger, who was here while on a hunting trip through central j counties., [ VELL KNOVN PEOPLE ~] —H. B. French, prominent Phila delphia, is urging repeal of the sea men's law, to which he has given much study. —Highway Commissioner Cunning ham used to be a musical critic on a Pittsburgh paper in his younger days. -Ex-Mayor John Von Bergen is one or the new county commissioners in Lackawanna. —President McCracken, the new executive of Lafayette, is in demand for speeches. He sceros to enjoy It. Lieutenant-Governor McClain ex pects to make a number of speeches on his way east, from til© coast. DO YOU KNOW """ That Harrlsburg is growing in importance as a meat distribut ing center? HISTORIC HAHKIBBVRG Paxton creek used to have several mill dams many years ago. IN HARRISBURG FIFTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY [From the Telegraph, Nov. 13, 1865] Fair Post|>oued The fair of the Hood Templars has been postponed and will be held No vember 22. Major General Hancock Pa«se« Through City Major General Hancock passed through the city to-day, enroute for | Baltimore from the West. Tribute of Respect For Fireman Members of the Friendship Fire Company met last night and drew up a tribute of respect in honor of George Loy, who was killed this week. - f -» Fur Trimmed Shoe Tops' J . * In summer it was fur trimmed y necks. Now It Is fur trimmed skirts and fur trimmed shoe tops. Thus fashion flits back and forth or perhaps up and down would be a better way of say ing it. The modern woman must read every day If she. Is to keep up with the procession. And above oil else she must read the advertising in her news paper, which keeps her posted on the new styles. It Is fashion news tersely written and with good merchan dising behind it.