10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH BstaHifhtd itjl PUBLISHED BT THE TEI.EGItAFH PRINTING CO. K. J. STACK POLK Prtsidrnt and Bditor-in-Chitf F. R. OYSTER Stcntary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Tlegraph 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 & Brooks. Western Office. Advertising Building. Chicago, 111.. Robert E. Ward. Delivered by carriers at e morrow, stripped of all the blessings that sur round and embellish your life, you could be grateful for a few crusts eaten from a paper on a park bench j and smilingly share your crumbs with ! the sparrows? No? Then this poor old failure of the artist s fancy has something that you in your plenty cannot know, something that you. with all your money cannot buy; something akin to the love of Him who lived but to serve; who gained all by giving all, and took joy in the j giving. James R. Mann, of Illinois, the Re publican leader In Congress. has de clared that he will not take orders from anybody. He will confer with the President upon the national defense, but he does not propose to sneeze when the President takes snuff. President Wilson now realizes that he must have patriotic Republicans to pull throußrh his defense controversy against the recalcitrants of his own party. These Republican leaders are perfectly will ing to consult with him. but not to l>e dominated by him. THEORIES AS REMEDIES WHEN President Grover Cleveland declared that "A condition, not a theory, confronts us," he placed in epigrammatic form a truth .lust as applicable to the present ad ministration. but which this adminis tration absolutely refuses to recognize. ■When Democratic tariff legislation had aimost destroyed American industry. President Wilson refused to recognize it as a condition, but insisted that It was merely "a state of mind." Despite his threats to hang someone "higher than Haman," business continued to decline and no one was sent to the callows, either literally or figuratively. Having caused the had conditions which existed, the Democratic party had no power to improve them, be cause its one remedy was the pursuit of theories which had been demon strated to be unsound. The same persistent refusal to act in accordance with conditions prevails to-day. Wo have an illustration of it in the policy which the administration indicates its purpose to pursue in pre venting the extermination of new in dustries by foreign competition after the war in Europe has ended. Dr. E. E. Pratt, chief of the Bureau of For eign and Domestic Commerce, ac knowledges that Germany has the power to resume its control of the dye stuff industry in this country, but says nothing of the same condition which confronts practically all other Amer ican industries which come into com petition with European enterprise. The same attitude of mind is maintained by Secretary Redfield of the Depart ment of Commerce, the immediate superior of Dr. Pratt. Instead of frankly recognizing the condition which confronts American industry and the certain effects of a protective tariff he adopts the theory that this foreicn competition could be shut out through changes in the 4 Clayton anti trust act. He went so far as to out line a law which would make it un lawful for any person engaged in foreign commerce or industry to sell or purchase foreign products at such prices as would substantially eliminate competition on the part of American producers. The marvelous thing about this sug gestion is that it comes at a time when the United States Treasury is admit, tedly lacking in revenue. Instead of suggesting the obvious remedy, that of protective tariff, which would pro vide revenue for the United States Treasury at the same time that it pro vided protection for American in dustry, Mr. Redfield suggests the theoretical remedy of legislation which would be difficult of enforcement be cause each particular offense would require a criminal trial to determine whether or not the price at which the goods were being sold was, in fact, such as to create unfair competition with American producers. ' An adequate protective tariff would : Insure against unfair competition be fore the foreign goods are entered at American ports. A remedy which consisted only of criminal law forbld [ ding unfair competition would Invite the foreigner to invade our markets, because the dealer would be free from penalty unless it could be proven be yond a reasonable doubt that he had knowingly and deliberately violated the law. The presumption of In nocence, as In the case of all criminal statutes, would De on the side of thci defendant. Instead of establishing a presumption in favor of the American producer a law attempting to control unfair competition through criminal statutes would give the foreign pro ducer a decided advantage. American industries were built up under a protective tariff system. In two instances within the memory of this generation American industries have been practically ruined by the enactment of tariff-for-revenue-only laws. These are conditions. President Wilson would treat them as "a state of mind." The Secretary of Commerce has no remedy except theories. ■ —>j U By the Ex-Committeeman Despite remarks to the contrary, the meeting of A. Mitchell Palmer. James I. Blakslee and Warren Van Dyke with Vance C. McCormick in this city yes terday was filled with political sig nificance. and, if all reports are cor rect, was also somewhat impregnated with gloom. The four men who are the bulk of the Democratic inner coun cil needed only State Chairman Koland S. Morris, now out of the country, and Joe GufCoy. the Pittsburgh Democratic boss, to make the whole works of the Democratic machine. Blakslee has been running uj> and down the state lately getting a line on conditions, and some of the lines are mournful. There is plenty of resent ment against the manner in which the President has doled out patron age, dissatisfaction with party man agement and an earnest desire for a change of leadership. Many Demo cratic workers will light any effort of the bosses to seek vindication at the hands of the voters of the party or to "come back" as national delegates. The general feeling is said to be that the man now at the head of the party's affairs in this State, having failed anen everything was in their favor, should get out and make way for new leaders. The conditions are much as they were six years ago. —The general belief Is that the conference was to settle appointments of postmasters to be put up to the President and to scan the field for election of national delegates. The postmaster appointments will be made gradually and the national delegate fuss started in February. Palmer said yesterday that Wilson would be re nominated without opposition. He did not don the robe of prophet in speaking about the election. Whether Palmer and McCormick will have the nerve to run for national delegates, district or at large, is not stated. They are believed to desire to "come back." —Senator Penrose said yesterday at Pittsburgh that he had not made any announcement about presidential am bitions and is reported to have said: "There are numerous men being men tioned for the Republican nomination If I am honored with that nomination I shall accept it." —J. Lee Plummer, former member of the House from Ulair and a re ceptive candidate for the Republican nomination for State Treausy, was here yesterday. He will be strongly backed in central counties, his friends say. —The Democratic Philadelphia Record has this to say on a topic that Is interesting many Pennsylvanians: "Mayor-elect Thomas B. Smith con tinued to remain mum yesterday con cerning the make-up of his Cabinet. When he talked of the subject at all it was merely for the purpose of deny ing that certain men whose names had been mentioned prominently for posts under the new Administration would be appointed. His persistent silence on the subject, coupled with the de clarations he has made at various public functions that only big men would be picked for directorships, has worried Organization lieutenants. Tho impression is gaining credence that Mr. Smith may carry out his an nounced intention and pick for his Cabinet men who. while they have been affiliated with the Organization, have not been among its active politi cal workers." —Harry A. Mackey. chairman of the Workmen's Compensation Board, is rushing to the defense of one of the Varc men who got into trouble with the Blankenburg administration and he Is denying insubordination. —Paul W. Houck, of Schuylkill county, is said to be one of the men in line for a refereeship. Paul Eich horn. Erie labor leader. is being boosted in his section of the State. —Steps to collect the money for the Philadelphia convention hall are go ing along. —Prospective retirement of Senator E. M. Herbst.' the veteran senator from Berks, has caused a number of candidates to bob up In the Demo cratic camp and the Indications are for r lively contest. Representative H. W. Body, the Democratic county chairman, Ex-Representatives H. G. McGowan, G. W. Sassaman and F. W. Balthaser are all mentioned as candi dates. —Democrats in the Juniata Valley are said to be Indignant over the man ner in which post offices have been passed out and there are signs that this stronghold of the reorganizers will elect anti-machine committee men. —Lock Haven businessmen are said to be behind a boom of E. F. Heffner, of that city, for public service com missioner. Mr. Heffner has been en dorsed by tha State Merchants As sociation and Is a former secretary of the State Pharmaceutical association. He was also secretary of the Lock Haven board of trade and president of the Businessmen's Association. The fact that Senator John W. Kern close personal friend of Bryan, has been advocating preparedness in speeches in Pittsburgh and vicinity is not being lost on many Democrats. The Bryan and Bailey combination is not getting much attention. —John T. Windrim. the engineer, is said to be doubtful about going into Mayor-elect Smith's cabinet. He can have the place if he wants It. —Pittsburgh city officials appear ro be falling out over some of the ad ministrative problems. Meanwhile the investigation into the ballot frauds is goinc on In the city and county. —Philadelphia's election count is still dragging along. Judges of elec tion are being called into court to explain. —Mayor Jermyn, of Seranton, says he will allow Sunday football until something better is found as a substi tute. BETTY'S THANKSGIVING WISH She held the wishbone tight with me. And pulled, and won. exultlngly, "Now. Betty, wish." I snid, "for when You get the biggest half, why then The wish you wish will all co me true. Now wish, dear, as we told to." Then Betty looked, with longing eyes, At all the dishes, nuts, and pies. And. holding up the bit of bone. She said, with triumph in her tone, "All right. I wish to-morrow, then. Would be Thanksgiving day again!" —Mary Carolyn Da vies in Ilarper's Magazine for November. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH THE AMERICAN THANKSGIVING r ' [TEEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —The Democratic leaders who met yesterday say they "didn't talk poli tics;" being a gentle way of implying that the post offices are no longer In politics, we suppose. —Says Palmer: "Wilson will have no opposition next year." Ves, gentle reader, thai low, gurgling sound you hear is William Jennings Bryan choking. —The idea that the sun will begin to get cold In about ten million years is not nearly so disturbing as the fear that the furnace may be cold to-mor row morning. —An insane chauffeur talked with fche Governor yesterday. The only unusual part of this item is that lie talked with the Governor. —Yes, Maude, we know that mince pie is hard to digest, but it doesn't make a particle of difference. —Our idea of the best item in the paper to-night is that which is headed —"No Telegraph To-morrow." I EDITORIAL COMMENT ~ Greece Is like the fellow who pre fers being called a coward to having it said of him, "Doesn't he look nat ural?"— Albany Journal. It is with some wistfulness that the Colonol remarks that the greatest role in the world Is that of a mother. Honolulu Star Bulletin. A man who fell off an elephant in the New York zoo is bringing suit for damages. . Has the Colonel thought of that? —Cleveland Plain Dealer. • Greece is more Interested in finding out who is the hardest hitter than in discovering who is the highest bidder. —Charleston News and Courier. Maybe the King of Kumanla and the King of Greece are bidding against each other fur the Nobel peace-prize.— New York Morning Telegraph. Another blow to the king-business is that the Czar or some other ruler is al ways leaving for the front, and then nothing happens.—Kansas City Star. UN* PACK OP DISCOURAGEMENT [Kansas City-Star.] Booker T. Washington made a con spicuous success of life in the face of overwhelming discouragements. As a boy he might have said to himself: "With my black skin, a former slave, what's the use of my trying to amount to anything?" Instead he refused to recognize any handicaps. 1-Ie was never discouraged, never dwelt on the gloomy side of things, worked hard and intelligently toward a practical goal, and became Incidentally one of the Nation's most useful citizens. There are plenty of young fellows, white as well as black, who will find a path to success In the life of Doctor i Washington, provided they have the courage and persistence to follow It out. THANKSGIVING II;- Wlnic Dinger I don't care how tough your lot la— Other people by the score Have a tougher lot than you have— You've much to be thankful for. It's Thanksgiving time—give thanks for Blessings—that's the thing to do If, perchance, you can't find any. Maybe the fault lies with you. Cut out looking through smoked glasses At the sun, black spots to see; Take 'em oft and let the sun shine— i Black spots will forgotten b«. > k THE MEXICAN MUDDLE 1$ i «-T> - By Frederic J. Haskir V> J THE other night there was a band concert on the parade ground at Brownsville. Soldiers and civili ans, Americans and Mexicans, strolled and spooned and smoked as they lis tened to the music. Suddenly someone shouted an alarm. The bandits were out and a call for re-enforcements had been flashed to Fort Brown from an out post of troops. The gathering was scattered like a puddle hit with a brick. The Mexicans were first to go. With amazing slngle-mindedness they took the low wall of the parade ground in a running high jump and melted into the night. They knew that when bandits were around, all Mexicans looked a good deal alike. Meanwhile soldiers were loaded in to every available automobile and rushed to the scene of the fighting. As the cars roared through the streets, they met crowds of troopers running to the fort from the town. Except for the big, buzzing cars, it was just like an Indian alarm in frontier days. The fighting in this case turned out to be a mere skirmish, but in Browns ville they have learned to be ready for anything. Such is life in the zone of the ban dit war. The most everyday occupa tions have become fraught with pos sibilities of excitement. The Texas deer season opened on November first, and a party of three young men went out on the prospect of a venison steak. They had no more than made a start when a squad of troops over took them. Someone, noting their rifles, had reported them for bandit suspects. Now all hunters have been requested to stay at home until con ditions are a little rtore settled. A party of twenty young men and girls out for a horseback ride were nearly fired on in consequence of a similar mistake. Automobllists have been asked to go over the more iso lated roads only when absolutely nec essary. The position of the peaceful Texas Mexican is particularly unenviable. | Border people are agreed that under I ordinary circumstances the lower class | Mexican is a particularly docile and | inoffensive neighbor. He outnumbers ] the American In this district about I two to one, and the American has al- I ways treated him distinctly as an in- J ferlor. Yet he has never made tt-ou- ' ble of any sort. Now he Is caught A THANKSGIVING HYMN (By Louella C. Poole) For well filled rivers, teeming lakes. Vast forests where the wlldbird wakes The silences with song. For bounteous crops, for gushin? springs. For all of earth's fair goodly things. To Thee all thanks belong! From perils of the smiting sword. The smoking cannon, plundering horde. From all grim War's dismay, Its every hitter circumstance. We thank Thee for deliverance — We thank Thee, Lord, to-day! That not unmarked is Sorrow's wail, That love and mercy stll prevail. We offer grateful praise,— That Hope and Faith have not yet died. Though Mercy oft seems crucified, So wicked are men's ways. O may we. Lord, be undismayed Though heavy is the burden laid Upon the heart of man; Though mighty grows the vast world grave No ignominious peace we crave As part of our life's plan. For faith that. War shall sometime' cease. For hope of Universal Peace, For every blessing pour«d With lavish hand upon the earth. Unmindful of man's little worth. Once more we thank Thee, Lord! NOVEMBER 24. 1915. | between the devil and the deep sea, i afraid of the bandits on one hand, and j likely to be roughly handled by the ! Americans in the wave of public indig i nation following some fresh bandit j atrocity. Under such circumstances it is I natural that the Mexican should not Ibe as docile as he once was. At the i recent funeral of three soldiers hold jin Brownsville certain Mexicans did | not uncover as the colors went by. I Before the next funeral, someone, no ' body knows who, made quiet prepara tions. This time when the coflln with . its flags was carried through the I streets, such Mexicans as did not re l move their hats found them suddenly 1 removed by other hands. A few were | unwise enough to pick up their hats | and put them on again. They did not I do this twice. On their side the Mexicans claim j several grounds for complaint. After : the flght at Las Norias, when four j bandits were killed and live Americans wounded, someone snapped a picture | showing three cowboys with the ropes from their saddles about the bodies |of the dead. The group was merely posed a« a curiosity, but it was wide ly circulated and gave the Mexicans the impression that the Americans were dragging the corpses. Even though they were the corpses of ban dits, the Mexicans resented the inci dent. 1 They say too that at the bottom of all the trouble is an element forced | upon the country by the disturbances I in Mexico, and with which they have no concern. When Carranza troops i drove the Huertistas from Matamoras i hundreds of the latter lied across the i border, introducing a savage and law i less element. That these men are i among the bandits seems probable I from the fact that they flght with j some discipline as though experienc ed in irregular warfare. Villa's un successful assaults on Matamoras have also sent old Mexican guerrillas into the district. Many of Villa's wounded were at one time nursed in Browns ville. When" the outbreak first began a gang of bandits led three Ameri cans into the brush to shoot them, i Two were deliberately killed, but the I third was spared because one of the I murderers recognized him as the man I Whose automobile had carried him to I the emergency hospital when ho had been a Villa soldier. Our Daily Laugh | ' ISTI DOMESTIC PLEASANTRY. Wlfey: The - . "ffir road to a man's ft JR. heart is through his stomach. Svili ~ ' Hubby: And a EjaP lot of you seem / to think it should I f be laid with . i 7 r J bricks. TOU CAN'T PHASE 'EM. Literary Editor J i (Indignantly):) /" You can't expect] - ( us to accept stuff VMI tike this. It isn't poetry at all— •Imply gao. Poet I fled): I s e B something wrong I with the meter! 49 : OPTIMISM My old colored mammy use to say: "Don't borrow trouble. Every cloud don't rain!" May it encourage others as it did me. I —Albert Morris Bagby. ' ! lEbmttg Cdttat ■ » " ■" i ■— ■ 1 i li ——y* Governor Martin O. Rrumbaugh has probably had more applications for appointments since he came into offlc# than any Governor in the history of the State. The number of applications has not been counted, but it was great er than the number that clattered the mail of Daniel H. Hastings when he succeeded Uobert E. Pattison amKtlio administration from Democratic * to Republican. For the ten appointments as referee it is believed the Governor had from 350 to 400 applications, while at least 150 names have been suggest ed for water supply commissioner ami for factory inspectorships it is believed fully 1,000 names were listed. The Governor's own estimate on Public service Commission is now 75, and a score of names have been suggested to him for Supreme court judge. The other applications cover most of the places in the State service and the ap plicants conio from every county. One of the things that is workinsr to bring about the early organization ot machine gun companies for the regiments of the National Guard ac cording to reports which are coming to this city is the fact that many men who are machinists are taking an in terest in preparedness nnd applying tor admission. The same is true in towns where it is proposed to organ ize Held batteries, of which the State needs six in addition to the two new ones being recruited in Pittsburgh. In many cases former members of the Guard who are machinists have come back to enter the service as members of the machine gun companies. • * • Capitol Park is getting its annual treatment of lime and it looks as though a snowstorm had passed over it and the flakes had been glued to the park. The fertilizer is applied every year at this time and assists materially in starting the grass well in the Spring, which, considering the fact that Capi tol Hill is slate, is no mean job. It takes a couple of tons to tlx up the park. James C. Watson, former assistant counsel ol' the Railroad Commission, now Republican county chairman of Lycoming, was here yesterday looking after some matters at the Capitol. He was warmly greeted by his friends, who congratulated him on looking so natural and playing golf so well. » » • "Tie a jitney to tli« front and we'll go." said the motorman on the Sec ond street line last evening when the power was shut off for a brief period and the passengers sat in darkness waiting for the light that failed to be resumed. The motorman came back with the statement that he had heard a sermon the night before with refer ence to keeping the trolley on the wire, an apt simile that he of all others could appreciate. The dialogue con tinued for several minutes, while im patient travelers crumpled papers and spoke together in audible tones that were doubly clear in the darkness. An other car coasted up in the darkness and stopped just in time to quiet the nervous tremors of those who feared a collision, and after a few more pleas ant sallies from the men in whose hands the destinies of the passengers was temporarily placed, the lights were switched on and all was as be fore. State Zoologist H. A. Surface, who surprised the State last week by"say ing: that rats cause over $5,000,000 worth of damage in Pennsylvania every year and that it could he pre vented, is out with a plea for the gar den snake. He says it is a mistake to kill the small green snakes oitj sees about a garden and that many farmers lose a valuable friend by carrying out man's natural feelings to ward a snake in Spring time by kill ing everyone In sight. Incidentally, T>r. Surface says that snakes are not of a quarrelsome nature and that they will go away If not disturbed. In fact many of them scuttle away fit. the sight of a human being and do not show fight unless cornered. "They have a place in nature." says the State Zoologist in talking about wholesale killing of snakes, "the little green gar den snake feeds mostly on slugs, snails and insects such as are destructive in gardens. There is no justification in their destruction simply because they are serpents." Isaac R. Pennypacker, who was here yesterday to attend the meeting of tho Meade Memorial commission, is a his torian of note, having written several works on the State and on the fam ous commanders, lie was named to the commission a short time ago. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~j —Arch Maekrell, the civilian aid in Pittsburgh's city administration, told Council he had no work to do. —P. 1.,. Carpenter, of Johnstown, has given a tract of forest land to Johnstown, which may turn it over to the State. S. \v. Dana. New Castle attorney. Is the oldest lawyer in the county and practiced before every judge in the county. —ll. R. Young, of Duquesne. has been appointed a consular expert by the government and assigned to Vienna. . —W. W. Atterbury, who may be the next president of the Pennsylvania, started his career In Altoona shops. —Major Moses Veale, aged Phila delphian, is calling on people to put an end to the outbreaks in munitions works. —Thomas J. Price, head of the new Danville works, is one of the big manufacturers of the north branch country. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg is one of tile centers of the river coal indus try? HISTORIC HARRISBIRG State conventions began to be held here about 1820. Lost, $600,000 a Day« Fire destroys $600,000 worth of property each day in the United States and Canada. Much of this is caused by care lessness —because pleople do not think. Would it not pay to spend a few hundred thousand a year "advertising safety" telling people what "not to do?" Would it not pay every city— this city—to run newspaper ad vertising warning people against carelessness? Such advertising would yield great returns In property and lives saved. It would pay for itself In low ered Insurance rates before many years. Why not?