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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
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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.
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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.
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% 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