14 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established IS3I PUBLISHED BY THE TDLCORAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACKPOLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ 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 oarrlers at <59SP®SsK£> six cents a week. ' Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg, Pa., as second class matter. Sworn Unity average circulation for the three month* ending Oct. 31. 1918. ★ 21,357 ★ Average for the year 1914—21.51W Average for the year 1913—10.963 Average for the year 1912—19.649 Average for the year 1911—17,562 Average for the year 191<^—16,2111 The above figures are net. All re turned, uaaold and damaged copies de ducted. FRIDAY EVENING, NOV. 26. And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees. —Win. Cowper. POLITICAL CLAPTRAP They also state it as their belief that Governor Brumbaugh is clearly bound to rid his party of the leadership of Penrose. Thev say they are willing to give him ail the help they can in this work.— Philadelphia Dispatch. THTS is the sort of political guff which is being put out by mis chief-makers in the Republican party. "They" In this case refers to an alleged group of leaders in Phila delphia and elsewhere who want to involve Governor Brumbaugh in a factional mixup that will get him no where and simply embroil his adminis tration in endless political controversy to the detriment of things worth while. Governor Brumbaugh is not "bound to rid his party of the leadership of Penrose," or anybody else. He was elected to administer a great office and there is nothing in the situation 10 Justify political turmoil Instead of constructive and substantial achieve ment. As for Senator Penrose, he was elected in the same year and on the same day as the Governor after an appeal to the people through the open primary. How, then, do these malcontents who are urging Governor Brumbaugh to endeavor to unhorse Senator Penrose reach the conclusion that it is any part of the Governor's duty to undo what the Republican party and the people have done? We have no patience with the sort of clap-trap political propaganda that would injure and destroy the useful ness of Governor Brumbaugh, whose vision and heart and mind are bound up with the betterment of Pennsyl vania and the development of really great policies affecting all the people. BR VAN-WILSON BREACH THE long-expected break between Wilson and Bryan took final shape along lines which Had been easily discernible. The President's belated espousal of some policy of national preparedness was expressed in such terms of chal lenge that Bryan was quick to pick up the gauntlet. The day following the President's speech at the Man hattan Club in New York, Bryan, in Washington, denounced the President's plan as involving a false philosophy, as reversing traditions and policies, as un-Chrlstian. and plainly intimating that the plan had been forced upon the executive by plutocratic pressure. Nobody here believes that the breach between the two men can be healed. On the contrary, everyone thinks thnt Bryan will find other sources of dif ferences with his former chief and that the single-term pledge of the Baltimore platform will soon be hurled at the President's head. Thus far the fighting is all on the side of Bryan. From the White Mouse has come an inspired state ment that Wilson will not reply to the Bryan onslaught and that what ever he has to say on the subject of national defense will be "impersonal." Tet in the Manhattan Club speech Mr. Wilson said: "If men differ with me in this vital matter I shall ask them to make It clear how far and in what they are interested in making the per manent interests of the country safe against disturbance." His purpose not to answer Bryan hardly runs upon all fours with these brave words —but there are those here who recall that his pft rases in the German notes did not correspond with his actions. In other words, the sus,yieion here is that the President hopes that hla duel with Bryan may be one of words only. Tn the controversy which is now sure to come, Bryan will certainly not la«.k for words, which he can handle as well as Mr. Wilson can. Nor will he hesitate to employ stouter weapons. He will attempt, first of all, to hold to the cause of pacifism > as many memberp of Congress as he may be able to influence. , In some quarters there is a disposi tion to regard the Bryan influence as negligible. Whether this opinion is real or feigned, it is difficult to say. FRIDAY EVENING, HARHISBORO 'tELEGRAPH NOVEMBER 26, 1315. But It must be remembered that Bryan will not fight alone in this mat ter. There is a considerable group of Democratic Congressmen, of whom the spokesman is Bailey, of Pennsyl vania, who are not in favor of in creased armament.. These men take their cue from the President's mes sage of a year ago, wherein, they de clare, is to be found the real Wilson, the Wilson whom they, will follow. This group is lnrge enough to destroy Democratic party solidarity on the de fense program and to wipe out nil ! hope of carrying the President's plan | through by Democratic votes alone, i However, a defense program will i not fall, because patriotic Republicans ! will furnish the votes to put it | through'. When this is accomplished and j Bryan has suffered a reverse, what J will his policy be ? This is a problem j which the friends of the Administra | tion approach with consternation, j The defense question will be taken up early ip Congress and it will be dis posed of some time before the nominating conventions assemble. There will be plenty of time for Bryan to organize an opposition to Wilson's renominatlon if he desires to do so. Democrats say Bryan supported Parker in 1904 and he has much more reason to support Wilson at this time. To all of which it is adequate an swer to say that if Bryan supports Wilson in 1916 as he supported Parker In 1904, no one would ensure Wilson's chances at a thousand per cent, premium. In 1904 Bryan gave Parker a lip service only. He made some speeches for the ticket, but he could not carry his friends to polls to vote for Parker; ! and in Kansas alone, that year, there were 60,000 men who had voted for Bryan in 1900, who were too busy on election day to go to the polls for Parker. In Nebraska there were 63,- 000 Democratic stay-at-homes in 1904; In Indiana. 35,000; in lowa, 60,- 000; in Illinois. "6,000, and ,the list might be extended to all the States. So Bryan and his friends will have the last blow, however the preliminary bouts in Congress and in the national convention may result. That the Bryan men In the Middle West where the defense program is not set ting the prairies afire, to say the least —are meditating a repetition of 1904, is becoming evident, both from bits of information that are dribbling in here and from letters which they are writing to their local newspapers. The tenor of these communications is that Bryan has committed only one error in all his political career and that was when he nominated Wood row Wilson. HER 1.1 MIT GERMAN women are patriotic. They have given of their time, j their money and of their most j dearly beloved men folks to the service I of the Fatherland in its present crisis —but they have their limit of sacri fice, and that limit is plain dress. In Berlin last week a well attended meeting called by women reformers of fashion was held under the patronage lof the crown princess. The purpose of the meeting was to appeal to the patriotic women of Germany to cast off French and other foreign fashions and to wear hereafter only a truly German style of dress, which, it was stated, should at the same time be beautiful and dignified, but free from fripperies. The speakers at the meeting illus trated the proposed fashions and con demned high-heeled shoes and pumps, gauzy stockings, foreign fabrics and cosmetics. Space had been reserved in the program of the evening for an opposition speaker, who produced a number of the latest models of gowns, which ran counter to most of the patriotic theories the reformers had expounded. The dismayed reformers soon found a majority of the audience ha(d de serted them and were applauding en thusiastically each new gown and drowning out the disapproval of the little minority who favored the truly I German modes. "Disguise our bondage as we will; 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still." And apparently even the kaiser is no exception. WIDENING THE SUBWAY WHATEVER else may be done in in the matter of providing bet ter crossing facilities between the Hill and tlie center of the city, no time must be lost In widening the Market street subway. The City Plan ning Commission in urging this Im provement has taken a step that everybody has long realized must be taken. The subway never was ade quate, but it was the best that could be procured when it was constructed. Now the time has arrived when the makeshift that it always has been must be transformed into a permanent utility. In t/he past, when the project of widening the passage to the full width of the street has been discussed, oppo nents waved aloft the awful bugaboo of consequential damage?. But in the light of recent developments on South Second street, where a full width sub way has actually benefited the prop erty owners, this consideration need give the city but small concern. A street-wide subway at Market street would put all of the owners of prop erty there directly on a broad thor oughfare. through which thousands more people would pass than at pres ent, and would give to almost all of the properties affected an additional story. The wider subway must come and the sooner the better. FORD'S FOLLY OF all the Idiotic performances of multi-millionaires who have mis taken ability to make money for universal genius, the folly of Henry Ford in dispatching a steamer to Europe to induce the warring govern ments to make peace at his behest is I the worst. Somebody, commenting on the pro posal, has attributed to Ford the ob ject of publicity back of the enter prise, and another writer the hope of personal aggrandizement. In all like- \ lihood it is neither. Ford, apparently, ' is merely suffering from the American brand of exaggerated ego, resulting from the common belief that to be able to make millions In money a man must be possessed of a genius that lifts him above his fellows in whatsoever activity of life he chooses to engage. Edison has displayed it, Carnegie is a line example of a patient in the advanced stages of the disease and even John Wanainaker has not. been immune. Mr. Ford will awaken to the fact shortly that it is one thing to make an automobile that thousands of peopje will buy and quite another to dominate the politics of Europe. Nor is his proposed propaganda against prepnredness in this country likely to be more successful. There are indications that some thing of an extremely embarrassing nature is about to happen to a per fectly good millionaire. | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE" —And now they are talking of put ting up the price of coal because of | the Wilkes-Barre trolley strike, evi dently on the ground that a poor ex cuse is better than none. —You may roast, slice it cold or make hash, us you will, .but the flavor of turkey remains with it still. —Why can't the day after Thanks giving be Sunday? —German scientists are studying ways and means of increasing the birth rate. We suggest that the sim plest way would be to let the soldiers go back home. —lt has been almost a week since we have heard anything from William Jennings Bryan. Can it-be that some thing has happened to.his voice? —The Presidential candidate who shies his hat into the ring at this time runs the risk of losing it under the pile. I EDITORIAL COMMENT"] At this safe distance we now can see just how the railroads, tyack in the nineties, were playing cat's cradle with New England.—Brooklyn Eagle. Lord Northcliffe observes that "the war-sltuatlon is particularly interest ing." Even the English are beginning to take notice.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The one big outstanding objection to woman suffrage seems to be that if women are given the ballot they will vote the men into a state of decency.— Toledo Blade. A Berlin editor says that the allies ara "defeated, but not aware of It." uangerous people, these fellows who don't know when they're licked.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Now the Turks protest against viola- I tion of the rules of war by their ene mies. The difference between war and' massacre is that the latter has no rules. —New York Evening Post. Mrs. Pankhurst says it is the German strain in Englishmen that makes them so obstinate. We don't know which this will make the madder—the Eng lishmen or the Germans.—Manchester Union. BUNCOMBE FROM KITCHIN [From New York Sun.] _ Representative Claude Kitchin of North Caroline is talking wildly when he says that the expansion of the navy extending over a period of five years as proposed by Secretary. Daniels "will force the world again into an armed camp." and that the "militar ists" of other nations "will point to our conduct as a reason why they should renew war preparations on a larger scale than ever before." In fact, it is difficult to believe that Mr. Kitchin is sincere. American aggres sion upon any great European Power is inconceivable. Nor would any Asia tic Power have cause to suspect the United States of planning a war of conquest. Such being the case, the whole world would regard American naval expansion as defensive, which it would be. Furthermore, if the Teutonic allies were to prevail in the great war their combined fleets, which are now stronger than the battle line and re serves of the United States, would be rapidly expanded by enforced addi tions from the British and French na vies and by new construction to an ef fectiveness, in gun power beyond the attainment of the United States; and if Great Britain and her allies were to triumph, the fleet of Great Britain alone would have a lead over the United States navy that could never be closed. It is pure buncombe for Mr. Kitchin to talk about the horrible example of the United States if this nation were to strengthen the line of battle as Mr. Daniels proposes and as the General Board has urged over and over again. How much more persuasive we should be in the Lusitania controversy if Congress had heeded the General Board! Our Daily Laugh j EFFECTIVE. Do you believe surgery can ward oft old age? Oh. yes. Fre quently the pa- kj/ 1 tlent dies under \J' Jjk an operation. you think of my WHEN NONE APPEARS By Wing Dinger Every day when clock hands point to Forty minutes after ten To produce that d-"'- brief poem I take up my fountain pen. I have twenty minutes, brother, To jot down my verses, for At eleven comes the dead line, 'Gainst my work they bar the door. Gentle reader, this will tell you Why some days my written bunc May seem worse than poor—approach ing ' A condition known as "punk." And on days when none are printed Please don't disappointed be— I'll have spared you—what I'd written Seemed too poor to even me. ot By the Ex-Con^mltteemaa Public Service Commissioner Wil liam A. Magee, one of the po litical factors in Pennsylvania and one of the men who backed Roosevelt In the historic primary campaign of 1912, but who stayed regular after the nomi nations were made, last night raised the banner of Brumbaugh leadership for the Republican party in Pennsyl vania. About the same time Senator Penrose declared in Philadelphia that he was not a candidate for the presi dential nomination, but intimated pretty broadly that he proposed to take a hand In political matters. It is intimated in Philadelphia that Mayor elect Thomas B. Smith, who was here to see the Governor at the Governor's request on Wednesday, will recognize Senator Penrose as leader, although he does not expect any contest. In other cities of the State friends of the senator are said to be quietly prepar ing lines for nomination of legislators and candidates for national delegate. These were the developments of Thanksgiving Day In politics. The Governor, the most talked about man In the state political situation, re mained here, ate turkey and read and listened. He did not say anything. I —Commissioner Magee's statement is an arraignment of "Pennsylvania statesmanship of a generation," to use his own words. He attacks conditions and reviews the movements for twenty years. He says that the leaders of the Roosevelt movement ran it "into a blind alley" and criticises some of the leaders indirectly. He also whacks the legislatures. Mr. Magee does not pay much attention to the Democrats, but this is what he says about the Washington party: "The ftoosevett leadership in the state in the mean time, not adapting itself to practical conditions as they arose, finally found itself deserted, its following dissi pated." Regarding the Governor, Mr. Magee says: "The session of 1915 dis closed and developed new Republican leadership in the person of the present Governor. As stout a champion of the Republican policy of protection as there is in the country, imbued with the traditions that are the inspiration of tlte party, at the same time not'so radical as Roosevelt, La Follette and Cummings, and not an opportunist en deavoring to obtain power from every popular wave of sentiment, he seems to be the best hope now of the en lightened Republicans of Pennsylva nia through whom they can express that political ideal which they hold, which is hard to give a name to but which is well understood as being an intermediate ground between radical ism and socialism on one side and con servatism on the other. This is a ground difficult to define because the mention of it suggests trimming be tween two extremes. The conception is something far different from that. It is a positive position connecting bold social and political advance, but at the same time advance along those well defined paths upon which this country has been progressing throughout its entire history, namely, a constant en largement of the political rights of the I individual and a constant expansion of the social conception of the State toward its subjects. "1 do not pretend to know whether Governor Brumbaugh intends to be come a candidate fqr the Republican nomination for President, and. answer ing a question that has been fre quently asked me, I have no present intention of becoming a candidate for senator, particularly while I am a member of the Public Service Commis sion, because, while belonging to this body 1 intend to give practically all of my time to the performance of the duties belonging to it, but I do not hesitate to say that there should be someone at Washington representing the masses of the people of Pennsyl \anla. I do not mean to deny tne right of vested interests to representa tion. Vested wealth has rights that need protection and therefore that should have representation. I am rather opposing the continuance of the policy in vogue now and which has been in existence time out of mind of deputizing all the interests of Penn sylvania into hands which are by tem perament and training, as well as selec tion. taken out of the ultra-conserv ative class, who view all questions from the one angle exclusively. I am raising my voice not for the ex clusion of the ruling class, but the ifivtsion of representation among all classes." In commenting upon the national situation, Senator Penrose said: My name has been mentioned in connection with the Presidency. I appreciate the compliment. At the same time I'm not a candidate and I do not know of any persons who la a candidate tit this time for the Republican nomination. A number of prominent Repub licans have been mentioned in this connection, and some of them ■will be indorsed as favorite sons; and theirlnames will doubtless be presented at the Republican Con vention, and other names will be developed later, and will likewise be presented. The Republican party is har monious and the discussion over candidates is entirely amicable. It would not be desirable at this time, and under existing circumstances to have any final commitment on any particular candidate, even if such were possible. "A number of prominent Repub licans have been mentioned and it is not unlikely that others may develop during the approaching session of Congress. It must not be forgotten that many of our na tional conventions have not deter mined on a nomination until after the convention met and until after repeated balloting. I am just completing a circuit of the length and breadth of the country and-have met many per sons including political leaders of many States and I am convinced that Republican success is assured next year. Already signs are at hand of a betterment of business conditions, based on the general assumption that President Wilson will be de feated next Fall and that protec tion and prosperity under Repub lican rule will be restored to the country. ' Neither Governor Brumbaugh nor Mayor-elect Thomas B. Smith would discuss the visit of the new Mayor to the Governor on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Smith declared In Philadelphia Wednesday night that It was a per sonal matter and had nothing to do with national delegates, as generally believed. However, the visit started all sorts of speculat.on and. added to [the growing Interest In affairs. Concerning Smith the Phila delphia Innulrer In an authorized In terview with him yesterday had this to say: "It was pointed out to the Mayor that certain influences, not en tirely favorable, or sympathetic with. Republican success, had been predict ing that a possible split between the various leader* of tfce Republican party hinged largely. If not entirely, upon his Cabinet appointments, dem onstrating, as they might, a leaning toward one side or another. The Mayor-elect's reply was frank, honest and to the point. 'Such speculation seems to me to be utter nonsense,' he said. 'And I may add without qualifi cation (hat no leader bus asked me to 1 THE CARTOON OF THE DAY METROPOLITAN MOVIES • ••Hennery! Henuerj'! where you golnT ♦•By slunk*. I'm kolo' to obey the police regulation!*!*' —From the New York World. r > % THE MEXICAN MUDDLE I.—War in the United States By Frederic J. Haskin v J Texas rangers are fighting again. As in the days of their organization, they are bringing peace and order at the muzzle of a six-shooter. The war against the bandits in Southern Texas has lasted four months. Bands of armed and lawless Mexicans from both sides of the in ternational boundary have wrecked trains, murdered civilians, fought pitched battles with posses of citizens and rangers, and with troops of the United Slates army. They are acting under the Plan of San Diego, an in sane project to conqueV half the Western United States and set up a republic for Mexicans, Japanese and negroes. When the bandit army threw the lower Rio Grande valley into terror and confusion, the Texans' thought was of their rangers. In years of quiet the force had been allowed to run down far below the maximum in point of numbers. One of the first moves in the campaign wan to in crease it by twenty men. A few weeks later another twenty were added. As the situation grew more serious, a committee of prominent citizens con ferring with the governor recom mended that five hundred special rangers be appointed. The force is now recruited up to eighty veteran officers, the maximum 1 permissible under the constitution of Texas. The national government has five thousand regular troops In the valley. A third branch of the forces of law and order consists of the offi cers of the various counties, with their posses of civilians. Composed of ex perienced frontiersmen, the latter are no. less efficient than the troops and the rangers. make any particular appointment, or even admitted a name, with the excep tion of a single Instance in which one man presented me with several peti tions he had received in indorsement of a certain candidate for a director ship. As I said before, my success or failure will depend upon me and my judgment, and I do not Intend to di vide my party into factions or to en courage factionalism, if any now ex ists, I intend, rather, to use the power of my ottice and all my influence to perpetuate harmony within the Repub lican party, not only In this city, but in the State as well.' In view of the fact that the Mayor-elect had but a few moments before he arrived at his home after a trip to Harrisburg and a con ference with Governor Brumbaugh, his statement was regarded as of possi ble deep significance, but when ques tioned upon the subject he declined to say what he and the Chief Executive of the State had discussed during their two-and-a-half hours' conference. 'I feel confident that State and city harmony will prevail within the Re publican party,' was all Mayor-elect Smith cared to say on the subject." —Speaking at Philadelphia Senator Penrose highly praised the State Po lice and intimated that if a man who developed the police could be named as director of public safety in Phila delphia It would be good. This is taken to mean that Major John C. Groome, a personal friend of the Senator, will be named. It Is said that Senator S. W. Salus will not become a member of the Smith cabinet. —Altoona city fathers are discussing the reorganization of their affairs and some interesting developments are ex pected. —Allentown's new council held a caucus yesterday and picked these to be the heads of departments after January 1: Superintendent Depart ment of Public Affairs, Mayor A. JJ. Reichenbach; Accounts and Finance, John T. Schelrer; Public Safety, J. Herbert Kohler; Highways, William B. Bartholomew; Parks and Public! Property, Thomas J. Roth. The Mayor j will receive a salary of $3,000 a year and the Councilmen $2,500 each. | Barauel A. Knauss, a prominent union • man, was elected City Treasurer, to' succeed Mayor-elect Reichenbach, and , a woman, Miss C. E. Hopkins, was I chosen Assistant Treasurer. Former 1 City Solicitor Francis G. Lewis was j elected City Assessor, at $2,000, and City Solicitor Malcolm W. Gross and City Engineer Charles D. Welrbach were re-elected. OUR PRESIDENT* The uncertainty quality of some of our Presidents (present company ex cepted) would lead to the belief that a school of Presidents would not be a bad thing. Here are some of the ob vious requirements: He should be able to read, write and talk. He should have served In Congress for four years. He should have been Mayor of New York. Governor of Ohio, or the head of some large department store. After he has ceased to be President ho should be bound over to keep the peace.—Current issue of Life. The problem to be faced is both formidable and complicated. The bandits are well armed with modern high-power rifles, chiefly Mausers. They seem to have plenty of ammuni tion. After one skirmish soldiers cap tured a mule, laden with Cartridges. Mile after mile of dense thicket and undergrowth along the river affords them a ready means of escape. It is impossible to see a man twenty feet away In broad daylight in this tangle. Here and there are broad, shallow lakes, locally known as "resacas." which make trailing by dogs impos sible. When hard pressed the ban dits slip across the Rio Grande where American territory ends, and all pur suit must halt. The Mexicans have many devices for crossing the treacherous river. A prisoner on one occasion divulged the hiding place of a sunken raft, con cealed near the American bank in six | feet of water. A twitch on a rope displaced the weights that held it down, and it rose to the surface. It was large enough to carry twenty men. Nearby he pointed out one of the graves that are common In this section—a low mound marked by a rude cross. He told the soldiers to dog. They found a dozen rifles and a store of cartridges. In this campaign the work of the soldiers is almost purely defensive. Their powers are so defined by the na |tional constitution, that unless martial | law is declared they can do little but .repel attack and defend life and prop erty. County officers are called to the pcene of any particular crime or outbreak, organize posses and attempt Ito run down the offenders. The brunt ! of the organized offensive against the l andits, however, is borne by the I rangers. 1 THE STATE FROM m TO DW' A special election will be held in Stewartstown December 18, to decide .whether or not the Indebtedness of the town can be Increased $6,000. The debt was incurred by the building of the State road through the borough. It is estimated that fully 1,500 hunt ers will be in camps along the South Mountain, Cumberland county, with the opening of the deer season a week from to-day. Now the deer are very friendly and will almost eat out of your gasoline tank, but not for long, • an they be wise. A man out In Indiana, Pa., hanged his two beloved dogs simply to escape payment of the dog tax. The assessor believed Tony, who is a great Jester, and departed after a thorough search, satisfied. Then Tony slyly took down two sacks which were hanfing to the ceiling of his coalhouse, ana out rolled two very live canines. The joke was too good to keep, but Tony thinks the fun was worth the cost of revealing it. With only four more days to serve, Harry Gangewer, an auto thief, who was regarded as a trusty, escaped from the Allentown jail, and If caught will have to serve the nine months that had been taken off for good behavior. ! A Columbia College student, says the I New Castle News, was compelled while being hazed to roll a pebble down the street for a block with his nose. It might have been interesting to note whether the stone slid smoothly or was lifted &t each successive bump, and then perhaps the jokee might have been spotted and his ancestry discov ered. Bernard Shaw is the "My hero" of Bryn Mawr, according to the librarian of the Denbigh Fiction library, from which the college girls extract books and then forget to return them. Next in popularity is Thomas Hardy, with Galsworthy a poor third. CONGRESSMAN GRIEST WANTS LOWER I.ETTER MAIL POSTAGE I "Congress will be justified in enact- I ing legislation reducing the first-class , postage rate on local delivery, or j 'drop," letters from two tb one cent per ounce or fraction thereof, beC&use the Post Office Department to-day makes a ! profit of several hundred per cent, on ! the handling of local letters." This Is the answer Representative W. W. , Grlest, a former newspaper proprietor | of Lancaster, an Important member of i the postal committee In the House, ; made when asked what he thought of I the tight being made to have the rate I of postage on local delivery letters re duced. Further than this Mr. Grlest said: "It is impossible to justify the Govern ment In collecting an excessive postage rate on local letters. A dpcrea.se of the drop letter rate from two cents to one cent per ounce or fraction thereof would hardly affect mora than one per cent, of the postal revenues, as the reduced rate would result in a great Increase In mall mattir and the normal annual Increase In the postal ,evenues would offset a reduction In receipts." Mr. Griest's statement Is considered significant because he Is regarded as one of the authorities of the House on the subject of local delivery letters. During his term of office he has mnde an exhaustive study of postal condi tions. He has a bill pending in the house to reduce the rate on "drop" I letters and has mude important] i speeches ou the subject. Stoning (Elfat An interesting commentary upoi the manner In which the War De« partment acting through the Natlbnal 1 S assisting in putting the mill, amen into a state of still greater effl. nMd at th « same time point ng the way to tho citizen who bellevel in being prepared for defense is fur the 1 order Just issued finm J. Stewart °«»eral Thor*. the men rl! de "' S Wlth th<? feot °> is a reprint f f,l or der. which ders H«v« »h » }u Hr Department or "with f'i lifi ,° ord,rs ire given , . * i©w to increasing th« Mcts that eo^ Clty ° f tro °P«" di- Somllv nn« ? ofllcers shall 'per fitting of ♦ ltl » measuring and or the feet of the men Thi< put out ßt and U it B T h ? rder hus be< ' n with the eaa "rements''to "be^mada fill"! mUSt ° arry whcn in the order. ™ ° f th * paragraphs in though th« make U seem «« were tn commanders vet th, ? a knowletl eeofchiropodv, men i ance i? f Beel,, S that tlia ,.„n p thelr nililß trimmed, corns calluses pared and bunions roller. that men t wh ® n " <» understood that men must be kept in propel edTh, f°^ ma I C,li,lg U iB evon order that if serious cases are found tlia surgeons should be notified. °. rder further says: "Before a march is undertaken by foot troops ins^eet ny th C o° n . ,mUnC l OrS wl " |iers °nally inspect the bare feet of their men. While on the march t'<ey will per. wash the.r r (i<ly ,hut ,he,r nu,n after rl= K< US SOOn M Possible after reaching camp. etc.. and put on clean socks." Another note is that "" due . amount of foot injury and disability from shoes will be regarded as evidence of Inefficiency on the part or the officers concerned and as ctuisa for investigation." The order sounds unusual, almost freakish and certainly giving officers duties to perform which are probably not pleasant, but when the end sought is realized it is certainly the most sensible talk on physical preparedness that could be desired. And the lesson for the soldiers might be applied to the ordinary citizen who wants to keep himself fit. * • • The recent visit to Miss llragg to this city to give a lecture on story telling haH had the effect of caus ing a run on the story books at the Harrisburg Public Library. Few peo ple realize that the Story Tellers' Club of this city has stimulated .in terest in that branch of education, as it may possibly be called because valu able instruction may be given by that means. Folklore, tradition and other branches are now being given atten tion by teachers and the books at tlia library are being worked over time. • * * Not only has the Library furnished the Outdoor school and some of the children's organizations with books which it can not use any longer, but it has just been the means of estab lishing a messenger hoys' library in the Western Union building. This was arranged by the librarian. Miss Eaton, and Gus Catherman, manager of the Western Union. A collection of books of interest and value to boys was made and was placed on shelves pro vided by the company in tho mes sengers' rest and c-oatroom. ,\7id the books have been read from cover to cover a good many times, judging from what has been reported. • • • Thomas B. Smith, mayor-elect ol Philadelphia, who was here a day or so ago, was formerly a member of the House. He served back in tlia nineties and says that he enjoyed it. Later on he became postmaster of Philadelphia. » • • Frederic A. Godoharles. deputy sec retary of the Commonwealth, ata Thanksgiving turkey at home yester day for the first time in twenty-one years. Not that the editor-deputy is not a home, loving man. But l£ hap pens that lie is one of the great au thorities on football rules in this country and is in demand for referee in many big matches. Every Thanks giving day he has been called into service at some collegiate game, gen erally far off from Milton. This year he refereed a match at Lewlsburg, which is next door and he ate turkey at home. • • • One would scarcely expect the round red disks placed about Market street and the Square to serve as reading places for foreigners, but on Satur day afternoon they appeared to in terest a couple of Slavs immensely. The men were here doing some Satur day buying and when they struck the front of the courthouse, where park ing is forbidden in white letters on a very red background the two men halted and painfully spelled out letter. Just what they made out of the word parking is uncertain. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —J. Bernard Walker, who Is mak ing speeches in behalf of a great navy, is editor of the Scientific Amer ican. —Charles S. Calwell, Philadelphia banker, is urging developing of farms near Philadelphia. —Secretary of Agriculture Patton spent the day in Philadelphia. —Representative M. A. Mllliron, of Kittannlng, went hunting for a wild cat and was badly clawed. —Lieutenant-Governor McC 1 s 111 came home from California with the Liberty Bell. DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg Is a big shipper of steel to seaboard plants? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Salem Reformed Church stands on the oldest church property In the city. if "Hello! Information" What a great convenience It Is when you want to know some thing to be able to take up the telephone and call:—"Hello in formation." Within a minute or so you get the facts you are seeking. Every time you pick up this newspaper you are in touch with "Information." You want to buy something! Tou are not sure just what or where to get it! Turn right over to the adver tising columns and there yon arc. , Could anything be more effi cient? j
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