8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established iSjl 1 PUBLISHED BT THE TELEGRAPH 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 Telegraph Building, l!l« 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 <uifihwifclLjl»ti> gix cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at a year In advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Sworn dally •vrrair circulation fur the three month* millng Nor. 30, 1015. 21,794 ★ Ayernge for the year 1014—!1.J®J Average for the year IMS—lO.O*ll Average for the year 1012— Average for the year 1811 Average for the year 1010 above flgurea are net. AH re turned, unsold and damaged coplea de ducted. WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. 15 A man that studieth revenge keeps ftts otep wounds green. —Francis Bacon. THE NATIONAL, CONVENTION REPUBLICANS everywhere will ap prove the course of the National committee In choosing an early date for the presidential convention next year. To have fixed a time that might have been construed to reflect a desire on the part of leading Re publicans to await the action of the Democratic convention would ho> - e been heralded at once far and wide as a sign of weakness. The Republican party has been most successful when most aggressive and progressive, and when It mapped out its own course acording to the needs of the country, instead of trim ming its sails to suit the varying winds of the opposition. It has been only when the party hesitated or was not wholly responsive to the wishes of Its own rank and file, when It backed and filled in an effort to gain the favor of this or that class of voters, instead of courageously lead ing the way to new attainments in popular government, that It has lacked the confidence and the support of a great majority of American voters. So it is encouraging, indeed, to the Btaunch believer in the tried and proved principles of Republicanism to find the national committee striking out fearlessly for itself, outlining the Issues on which the next campaign shall be fought and letting the Demo crats worry along with the lame ex planations for failures in administra tion that must be their chief stock in trade next year. In assuming the Initiative at the outstart the national committee has taken a long step to ward the sweeping Republican victory in 1916 which will mean so much for the prosperity and general welfare of the nation. Secretary Daniels wants $500,000,000 to cover a period of five years of naval reconstruction. All over the country the people are awakening to the fact «hat we must be ready with the oig stick, not for aggression, but for self protection. RETURXIINU CONFIDENCE WHEN the building statistics of November a year ago are com pared with the permits of last month the figures are a significant showing of the recovery of public confidence. These permits represent an increase of 70 per cent., showing a gradual revival in building since last March. It was not until August, however, that the trade began to perk tip In a way to call attention to the enormous volume of business as com pared with a year ago. Here In Harrisburg there is a dis tinct revival In building operations and the coming year promises to ehow a remarkable forward move ment In cohstructlon of all classes. Railroads and the building trades are favorable indices of business condi tions. Real estate is the first to feel depression and the last to recover. Signs now point to substantial re coveries in both the railroad and building activities. Money is abundant and after the large distribution period following the turn of the year. It is certain that matters will begin to move with un usual celerity in every direction. In this city and throughout Central Pennsylvania there Is a broadening demand for practically everything that Is manufactured. It may be a questiort, as Spring approaches, whether the factories and mills and Mhops will be able to produce enough to meet the increasing requirements In all branches of business. Already bonuses are offered for prompt de liveries. While there is still an undercurrent of doubt regarding the conditions which may follow any abrupt cessa tion of the unusual demands from abroad in the event of the war end ing suddenly, this doubt is not suffi cient to cripple the energy and en thusiasm which now characterize the commercial and manufacturing de velopments. President Wilsons recommenda tions as to the railroads has strength ened public confidence to some extent *nd there is a general Impression throughout the country that the era WEDNESDAY EVENING, of hectoring; and interference with legitimate industry and transportation is at an end. This may be due in some measure to the approach of the presidential campaign and the national tendency of political leaders to defer to public sentiment, but most persons prefer to believe that It Is a symptom of returning sanity In high places. Whatever the moving causes or motives, however, there Is undoubted ly a better l'eellng and everywhere confidence Is taking the place of doubt in the public mind, especially in all matters affecting business. It is not too much to say that this feel ing is in part due to an increasing belief that the protective tariff system is to be upheld in the United States through the return of the Republican party to power next year. Public sentiment rather favors the conclusion of the sculptor that the Donato statuary should bo placed on the River Front, where it may be seen by a large part of the city's population and the visitors to Harrisburg. If this statuary Is as meritorious as has been represented by the critics, then it would be most unwise to place it in an out of-the-way part of the park system. We trust that the City Council will make no mistake on this score. WHO HAS A REMEDY? THE shameful fact is set forth very forcibly in the series of articles from the pen of Mrs. Anna H. Wood, now appearing in the Tele graph, that scores of boys and girls go to school in Harrisburg ill-nour ished and hungry every day in the school year. We force these children into school and compel them to compete in their studies with pupils who are well fed and well cared for. We Ignore the fact that nobody can work well when the stomach is crying for food and when the brain is dull for lack of nourishment, and require just as much at the hands and minds of these un fortunate little ones as we do from those physically and mentally equip ped to respond to the spur of the teacher. The human body is an engine. It must have fuel if it is to operate ef ficiently. We do not expect a loco motive fired with slate and slag to haul the load that is small burden to the engine burning coal rich in gas and carbon. We would not expect an automobile to respond at all to a mix ture of water and gasoline. Yet we try to force the ill-fed, hungry child to pull the load that is sometimes bur densome even for the most favored pupil. Mrs. Wood's articles are not fanci ful tales of the imagination. They are not even overdrawn. They are writ ten after a careful and painstaking in vestigation of conditions as the writer found them, and after Interviews with many teachers and social workers. They set forth the bald, ugly fact that while we have been preening our selves over the material accomplish ments and achievements of Harris burg in recent years, and have been reading with comfortable self-satisfac tion the complimentary things that have been written of us and our city by observant visitors, we have been neglecting woefully some of our little ones—some of the future citiaens to whom we are to entrust the welfare of the city we love so well when we shall have passed along. You who have boys and girls of your own —how would you like to think of them plodding hungry and listless to school each day, instead of skipping off to study well-fed, rosy cheeked and abounding In health and good spirits? In these poorly-cared-for, ill-nour ished children Mrs. Wood writes about, we find the potential criminals of to-morrow. We owe It to society as well as to them to remedy their un called-for condition. We MUST find a remedy. The Telegraph does not pretend to know just how the problem is to be solved. It only knows that there must be a way. It Invites the people of Harrisburg to discuss the matter through its columns. Certainly, there is a way to correct the evil. The thing to do Is to find It. • THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY THE organization of a Pennsyl vania Society, made up of heads of departments and com missions in the service of the State, is a step in the right direction. At the suggestion of Governor Brumbaugh, the Commonwealth is do ing what most large corporations have found it very beneficial to do. The purpose of the society Is to bring the department chiefs and other officials Included in the membership together once a month In a social way for the purpose of "talking shop." Large in dustrial establishments with many de partment heads who do not meet in the ordinary work of the day have discovered that many of the differ ences between officials, many of the problems of administration and many wasteful practices have been elimi nated by bringing together in a social way, for discussion of the work in which all are engaged, men who are working toward a common end, but often by divergent means. Economy and efficiency are promoted thereby and the personal relations of those who thus rub elbows are Improved and made closer, to the end that the whole service is bettered. Of course, Harrlsburg Is proud that it Is to be the place of such dlstin gushed monthly gatherings, but it .blushes for the hint thrown out that ! the yearly banquet, which is to bo a , feature of the society, may be held i elsewhere for the reason that this city has no hotel adequate for the purpose. 1 TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE" —Yuan, it is said, at first refused to accept the throne of China. At that Julius Caosar had him beaten. —Russians are fighting desperately for passes in Persia. Almost as bad I over there as circus day in a news paper office. —Our idea of perfectly useless labor is thinking up New Year's resolutions. —An unknown man shot a Steu bensvlllo woman as she was playing the piano. If the police really want to find the fellow who did it let them arrest the tenant of the floor above. —Sidney Brooks says Americans are "blind, staggering, drunk with money." Sid must have been watch ing a Harrisburg Christmas club cashing its checks. —England's idea about the free dom of the seas seems to correspond pretty well with Germany's notions about the freedom of the land. j EDITORIAL COMMENT" The President's railroad program is to be pushed in Congress. Incidentally, does anybody know what the program is?.—Kansas City Times. Firmness based on justice always vin dicates itself. It would have done so in the Lusitania case.—New York Sun. Russians Falling Back Again."— Newspaper headline. Again or yet?— Brooklyn Daily Times. "Single men -first" is the cry of the recruiters ot the British army. "Wo men and children tirst' when a ship sinks. Well, "married men tirst" will ring from the lips of St. Peter when the meek and the lowly are to be let into the Kingdom of Heaven to get their everlasting reward. l*ouisvllle Cour ier-Journal. MR. WILSON AT t'OLl Mill S [New York Sun.] President Wilson in his address to the businessmen of Columbus, Ohio, last week summed up his advice to tut: commercial community of the United States in this sentence: "Apply your minds to your business as if you were 1 milling for all the world a Constitution of the United States." It would be easy to point out that a businessman who followed his occu pation with an appreciable portion of his mental energy directed to the con structive political task of providing a world constitution might suffer in his credit through the distractions incident to the process, but the essential mes sage of the President is so admirable that such quibbling would be out of place. In effect lie counsels his fel low countrymen to mind their own business, and to that urging none can take exception. We do not doubt that American mer chants and manufacturers, triders »>vl transportation men will profit by Mr. Wilson's instruction. They have ever shown a disposition to follow the course he advocates. But would not some of them, whose experience lias taught them how expensive is the in termeddling of politicians, rejoice at an opportunity to ask Congress and the Executive Departments to restrain their activities to legitimate public concerns, and let businessmen devote all their time to their own affairs? SOI'ND AMERICANISM {New York Sun.] T6 emphasize its admirable senti ment. The Sun reprints from the news papers of yesterday the subjoined pass age from an address delivered on Sat urday evening at u dinner held in this town: "To me neither British nor German Americans nor Irish, Scotch, French, Italian or Russian Americans, as politi cal entitles, appeal. "The notion of a small but clamorous section of Americans, who blazon forth their fancied claim to superiority over the rest of their countrymon by calling themselves the Anglo-Saxon race, is as absurd as it is unsound. "An overwhelming majority of our white population is a mixture of all the white races of Europe—Teutonic, Latin and Slav. "And where would you place the 10 - 000,000 colored people who live among us? Let U! therefore abolish all distinc tion that may load to ill feeling and let us call ourselves, before the whole world, Americans first, last and all the time. * The author of these sentences is a naturalized citizen of the United States He was born seventy-two years ano' and his Americanism is the arrowth of half a century spent in tills country in the course of which lie has diligently improved his abundant opportunities to weight the creditable and discreditable <iU .2, , of lts complex population. This sound and philosophic appeal £ y Jl? c { tlze nship was uttered by Rudolph Blankenburg, Mayor of Phil adelphia, who was born in Lippe-Det mold. Germany, educated in German schools, and who came to the United states in his twenty-second year not to cherish a hyphen, but to contribute his best to the works of real American ism. NEWSPAPER MEN IN CONGRESS Senator George T. Oliver, of Pennsyl vania, has been engaged in the news paper business since 1900. He is the principal owner of the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times and Pittsburgh Chron cle-Telegraoh. J. Humptcn Moore, of the Third Pennsylvania district, was i' ,an fifteen years employed on Philadelphia newspapers, being the first editor of the labor department of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. John R £arr. of the Tenth District, mentions Newsboy, printer and publisher" as part of his career. Benjamin K. Focht of the Seventeenth District, has been editor of the Saturday News, publish ed at Lewisburg, since 18 years of age" and Is now the editor of the Saturday News Publishing Company. Warren Worth Bailey, of the Nineteenth Dis trict, at the age of 20, entered the office of the Kansas (111.) News to Ir-arn the printing trade. In 1877 he engaged in the publishing business at Carlisle Indiana, In partnership with his brother, later purchasing a newspaper at Vlncennes. Removing to Chicago. Mr. Bailey served on the staff of the Chicago Dally News for nearly six years and then removed to Johnstown P , a " .*? £ ver . the na "y Democrat! of which he has since been the owner editor and publisher. Our Daily Laugh If I ever catch you kissing an- other girl our en- fgl?', jf. gagement la off. , gggg jUk I'll see you I don't catch me. A - 9 HEttM VIEWPOINT. / You shouldn't * I' yMW 'lk k® Bissau sited. ~ k°° k at all you W / £« A have. lil LN! Yea * but loolc at C all I haven't. HARRISBURG TEU2GRAPH LK 'puucOifttfanla By the Ex-Oommitteemaa While Governor Brumbaugh at tracted considerable attention at Washington yesterday because of the mention of his name as a possible candidate for president he adhered to his policy of declining to talk about that subject, although he did take oc casion to tell correspondents of Phila delphia and Pittsburgh newspapers that he would keep up the local option fight. The Governor appeared before the Republican national committee in ad vocacy of the selection of Philadelphia, being given the privilege of a special hearing at which he said: "I believe the interests of the Republican party I will best be served If She next Nation al Republican convention is held In the State where the Republican party was born. We hope for the reunion of the Republican party, which was so disastrously split in 1912, and hope that this will be accomplished in such a way as to be folt throughout the. United States. The presence of the next convention in Philadelphia will not only help Republicanism in Penn sylvania. but will stimulate the party in all the Eastern States. Other speak ers will tell you why Philadelphia should be selected and will explain to you how well that city can handle the next gathering of the Republican hosts." The Philadelphia North, American has some fun over the Governor's ap pearance at ths special hearing. It has the following in its story of the meet .ng: "Comment in the delegation was that the Yare influence had prompted the Governor to demand a special and a separate hearing and that Penrose had then stolen the Vare thunder by getting the hearing for him. something the Vares certainly could not have done." The Record says that Con gressman Vare took a fling at Penrose >n his speech and the Public Ledger says that "on the surface" Senator Penrose worked for Philadelphia. The r'ress says that it took the Governor two minutes to make his speech. —Coatesville's mayoralty contest hearing is developing some interest ing things. Stories about frauds in tax receipts and holding of polls open after the hour were told yesterday be fore the master in the proceedings. The hearing is in a hall used us a mission and hung with religious signs. —Considerable speculation is being heard about the State as to what will develop in the way of contests for national delegates in behalf of the Governor. The impression in some of the cities is that the friends of the Governor will make a fight. The fact that Emerson Collins, deputy attorney general, is a candidate in Williams port, is taken to mean v that the battle is on despite the Smith and Arm strong statements. —ln Pittsburgh yesterday J. Denny O'Neii came out with an interview declaring that local option would be an issue and that Mayor-elect Smith has put the Governor and Commis sioner Magee "up in the air" by his statements for Penrose, after having named a Vare cabinet. He also as sails Mayor Armstrong. —Governor Brumbaugh said yes terday in Washington when asked about local option: "I am most serious in support of local option, and will do my best to have a Legislature elected that will bring about the pas sage of such a law. When I enter a fight such as the local option issue I never quit, and it is my purpose to continue to advocate It and work for its passage." The Philadelphia In quirer In a Washington dispatch says: "Governor Brumbaugh refused to dis cuss his chances for the Republican presidential nomination and would not say whether or not he would seek to be one of Pennsylvania's twelve delegates-at-large to the national convention in Chicago. Friends of the Governor who accompanied him from Harrisburg predicted that he would be a candidate.'" INGHATITI DK TOWARDS MINISTERS [Wllkes-Barre Record.] The chief statistician of the Ohio State Industrial Commission finds that the average salary for all of the preachers of one of the largest denom inations in Ohio is $24.12 a week. One third receive an average of $lB a week, on-half receive an average of S2O; and in the entire State only thirty-five re ceive more than $2,600 a year. The Commission on Church and Country Life has been looking Into this subject. The result of the investiga tions leads to certain deductions taut give a clear answer to certain phases of the query. "What is the matter with the church?" A salary standard like the one quoted certainly will not at tract the best talent and will not pro mote the best effort in the cause of the church. Commissions of Investigation have already hinted at the remedy. Large measure of fault lies in estab lishing churches of various denomin ations in communities incapable of giv ing them proper support, and the rem edy lies In associating the church with some form of business organization. Denominational rivalry may have ex cellent features but when it leads to the establishment of half a dozen churches in a town capable of giving adequate support to one or two, the whole cause is bound to suffer. German book laying bare intrigues between Belgium and England before the war shows that the scheming Britons enticed Germany Into laying Belgium waste, so that England would nave an excuse to enter the war.—Wall Street Journal. EVERY YEAR By Wing Dinger O, the trimmln' of the tree Will be shortly up to me. And I know what will take place on Christmas eve. Kids will go to bed at eight. 'Til they're sleeping I must wait. Then I'll be right up against it, get me, Steve? F. rst the tree upstairs I'll bring And brush every bloomln' thing Oft the walls, and chandeliers and tables, too. Then I'll search an hour In vain For the tree stand, then again, Like last year. I'll sit down and wonder what to do. And when once It's in its place Smiles again will wreathe my face. To the cellar for the ladder I will go. Then to attic I will chase And brin- from tlieir hiding place All the ornaments, et cetera, you know. On the ladder I will stand, / Tryin' hard to think it's grand. As for hours I try to make things uni form. But I know when I am through At the top there'll be too few. While below the ornamentß will fairly swarm. About one A. M. or two. With my duties I'll get through, Then to bed I'll hie me, tired, sore and lame. And I'll sing this short refrain: "Never, never, bo, again," But next Christmas I'll go to It Just ' the i&me. CHRISTMAS IS COMING "WHOA r Eastman Kodak Company.* r \ THE WAR AND PALESTINE By Frederic J. Haskin V. J ONE of the most acute problems brought up by the world-war is the precarious position of the 85,000 Jewish colonists in Palestine. With their exports entirely cut off, the price of imports tripled, donations from Europe greatly diminished, and the ravages of a plague of locusts to contend with, many of the colonists face hunger and want, staved off from day to day by energetic relief meas ures which are directed and princi pally financed in the United States. The entrance of Turkey into the war, too, brought a train of complications for the Russian Jews of the colony, of whom there are 30,000. The world has followed with Inter est the attempt of the Hebrew race to re-establish a center of national life in the land it held twenty cen turies ago. The peculiarly religious and racial character of the coloniza tion, however, made the new move ment less able to look after itself than is the case with most pioneering en terprises. Instead of men animated by restless ambition and the spirit of adventure, many of the colonists have gone to Palestine driven by persecu tion, or led by religious sentiment. It was hoped to make the new land self supporting, but the Je%vs of all na tions stood ready to. help if neces sary. Thus a combination of war, blockade, and locust plague finds Palestine with 30,000 Jews who are, according to Jewish authorities, ab solutely indigent and unable to work. They are old and infirm; their pres ence in the Holy Land is due to reli gious motives. The problem of their support devolves upon the charity of # the world at large, and at this mo THE STATE FROM m TO DW A young and good-looking dispenser of soda water in a West Chester phar macy is wanted by the local authori ties there for slight appropriations made from the till and other sections of the store. Many tender love letters to many a sentimental girl In the town were found in Beau Brummei's trunk, and now, they say, a chatter less, giggleless silence prevails in yon soda fountain, far away. Eight inches of snow covered the State with its white blanket yester day, and out came mittens, sleds, skates, skis and toboggan caps. Old Man Winter is here at last. "Praises!" say some. "Curses!" others. They arc eating horse meat out Hazleton way, to keep down the cost of living. It costs four cents a pound, but if you should ask me, I would tell you that bread and Jam would suit me perfectly, thank you. In the face of the criticism which we know will be heaped upon us for printing the following, we offer it for your consideration: A large hog, probably the largest ever raised in Lancaster county, is on exhibition in Marietta. It tips the scales at 900 pounds, is Htill growing, is being fed on the ordinary diet, and makes Just as much noise under a fence as any normal pig would make. "If you know of a better newspaper than the News," says the New Castle News, modestly, "we do not blame yotr for subscribing to it." We feel our selves forced to comment at this point, to the effect that the News is a very live and readable paper and we derive much pleasure from a perusal of its pages. ) ' "Extree! Wuxtree! Peace de clared!" was the cry that rang out all over the streetß of Collingdale, Sharon Hill, and other suburbs of Philadel phia yesterday. It was only two news boys, who thought business a little slack and decided that they might as well forestall Henry Ford and get the boys out of the trenches themselves before he had reached the other side. Prayer meetng was nearly turned Into a panic at Waynesboro this evening (we say this evening because it gives the impression that we are an active, up-to-the-minute newspaper) when a little, harmless mouse ran across the floor and got a rise out of the women of the congregation. Some brave brother captured the offending beast and order was restored with dif ficulty. An explosion which threw hun dreds from their feet and shattered • DECEMBER 15, 1915. meat of European confusion, mainly upon America. Remittance Men Cut Off Besides those who are unable to j work, Palestine holds five thousand Jews temporarily Indigent, because of it ho cutting oft' of remittances from i Europe, on which they were former ly dependent. These people are be j ing cared for by means of relief works which permit them to earn the bare I minimum sufficient to keep life in I themselves and their children. There is also a class of the new settlers who are under ordinary circumstanoes comparatively well-to-do, but who find themselves penniless for the mo ment because commuftlcatlon with their families In Europe is cut off. They are being supported by small loans which enable them to buy a few necessaries of life. Relief com mittees find that the amount essential j for monthly distribution among the 35,000 penniless is at least $14,000, or about 40 cents per capita per month. | There is little likelihood that any j one will accuse the relief experts of setting a high minimum. In addition to cash contributions, Jews in America provisioned a relief ship, the S. S. Vulcan, which was loaded with nine hundred tons of food and sent to Palestine some time ago. Food carried in the Vulcan was distributed to all the hungry without | regard to creed, but the Jewish colon- I ists received about 55 per cent, of the cargo. I Jews in Palestine are about equally I divided between the city of Jerusalem and the farm colonies. Before the (Continued on Pag© 12.) windows all over the town occurred at Punxsutawney early this week, when molten iron touched a pool of water In the cinder pit at the plant of the Punxsutawney Iron Company, forming carbon monoxide gas, which ignited. Ten thousand dollars' dam age resulted and towns eight miles distant had windows broken from the shock. Mil. SMITH, OF PHILADELPHIA [Philadelphia Ledger.] Mayor-elect Smith's declaration against contractor government must be judged by the event; his recognition of Senator Penrose's domination in the State implies a purpose not to allow j his Administration to be dragged into factional strife, and its political signi ficance does not obscure the wisdom of his Intended aloofness. It is well that he recognizes the danger of inter ference In State politics. Whatever the causes which have led to this wise de cision, his one hope of making Ills ad ministration a success and of securing that harmonious co-operation from City Councils which will he a vital fac tor in that success rests in his ability to adhere steadfastly to his present de termination. [Philadelphia Bulletin.l The statement In which Mayor-elect Smith announces his Intention to keep ills administration out of contractor politics and factionalism. Is a credit able outline of an independent policy In political matters. It relieves him of the imputation of having tied up his hands in a one sided surrender to the Vares, gives due recognition to Senator Penrose as na tional leader of —the Republicans in Pennsylvania, and upsets the calcu lations of politicians who were count ing on the early opening of a factional rupture between the bosses in both the city and the State. The Mayor-elect ought to be the master of his own His latest utterance Indicates that he is going to make, a determined oftort to bo so: and lie should be encouraged and upheld in that purpose by all citi zens who realize the mischief nnd dam age of factional politics to the broad Interests of the city. BITRUOMASTKR BLANKENBURO "If anybody thinks a Mayor's office Is a bed of roses he suffers from a delu sion." said Rurgomaster Blankenburg "A man in Canada asked me to find a wife for blm. A beautiful, magnificently gowned Woman came to my office and demanded that I keep other women from running after her husband. I was asked to make a wife and daughter be have more respectfully to the husband and father. I was requested by phone to hurry to a certain place and remove a dead cat. I was asked to stop roost ers from crowing at night. Thrt>e young women wanted me to adopt them A woman demanded that I run to her home and make the water stop flowing into the house." GOOB PLAN I Perhaps Mr. Ford plans to disrupt the armies by offering all the men jobs I In his factory.—Kansas City Times. | Stoning (Eijat The new Pennsylvania Society, which is about to be formed by mell connected with the State government, will be a great thing for Pennsylva nia because its dinners will attract national attention, ljut it is question able whether this city will get the biggest event of all that it is planned to bring about. This event will bo its annual dinner every fall. Tho speakers at the first of these dlnnenj will probably be the President of tip United States and some men of n;f tlonal note, as well as eminent Penn sylvanians, but in conversation with a man who has taken quite an in terest in the formation of the new society some doubt was expressed whether Harrisburg had the facili tes for a banquet such" as the officials have in mind. In other words, Har risburg has not a big, modern hotel such as has Heading, or Erie or Scranton or some of the other cities and which would naturally be the place where such an elaborate func tion would be staged. Harrisburg has had some notable dinners in years gone by and last winter during the legislative session there were enter tainments of a high order, but they had to be held in clubs or halls where the facilities are more or less limited. It would be rather irritating to Har risburg's pride to have the monthly luncheons of the State society, but' to have it go to Philadelphia or Pitts burgh for the big dinner, th<J event of its year. * * * Speaking of hotels, the men be hind the desks say that the dull period is approaching and that from | now until the new year is on there will Ibe slim registers. The traveling men ! are commencing to head toward home tor the holidays and the number of sample trunks unloaded for Harris burg is growing smaller every day. Along about Christmas and holiday week the hotels are not well filled and some of them sort of mark time awaiting the coming of the commer cial who start out in midVvinter to get orders for summer goods and: straw hats. Speaking of coincidences, as Irvln Cobb would say, although nobody had mentioned coincidences and it was simply a ruse to get started on the sub ject speaking of coincidences a mighty interesting event took place some weeks ago on the good ship "Mongolia," bound for a Chinese port, and containing several 1915 graduates of Yale University who were traveling to the recently transformed monarchy. The boys were on their way to take up work with the "Yall school," an educational institution originated and supported for Chinese boys by Yale men of all ages and classes. A friend in this city a few days ago received a letter from one of llie boys, written on October 31, which described the meetine in midocean of a classmate, who happened to be the son of President Truesdale, of tho D. L. and W. railroad. But to tho paragraph of the letter describing the meeting; "At about o'clock on Friday night we passed the steamship 'Si beria' in midocean. I wish you could have seen the tiny light grow larger and larger until she swung around and showed her whole broadside of lights. Then a tiny light put out from her side and we heard that stowaways were to be taken aboard. Suddenly the little boat was bouncing and sliding about on the swells right beside our boat. One by one the groveling stowaways, three and two Japs, were hauled bump* ing up our ship's side by ropes, and we then went slowly forward towing the small boat and passed not over a shlp's-length from the great 'Siberia.' It was a wonderful sight there in the middle of the Pacific ocean. I knew that Bud Truesdale and some other 1915 men were traveling in the Orient and so, just for fun, I took a chance and yelled with all my might, a la campus, 'Oh! Bud Tr-u-es-dale!" sev eral times. I was sure I heard an answer, but thought someone was kidding me. That night I sent a wire less and the next morning to my de light received the following reply— "Boys send their best. Great trip. Heard shout—Bud.' " AH of which goes to show that, tritely speaking, the world Isn't such a large place after all. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —Mrs. Horace Brock, president of the organization opposed to suffrage, says that it Is time to forget about votes and think of the poor. —Percy Grove, active in Philadel phia port development, has started a campaign to interest Philadelphia businessmen. —The Rev. Dr. J. D. Moffatt, promi nent Western Pennsylvania clergy man, is urging one general assembly for all Presbyterians. —C. R. Armstrong, prominent Look Haven man, is seriously 111. | DO YOU KNOW Tlmt Hnrrisburg steel Is used in mining appliances in the rar west? HISTORIC HARRISBCRG One of the first Republican State conventions in the country was held here. THH BUSINESS SITUATION [From Dun's Review.] There is no longer complaint of de ferred buvlng, but of difficulty in meet ing the steadily expanding require ments. Consumptive demand exceeds supply in some lines and distributing channels are obstructed by the conges tion of freight, rail and oversea ship ping facilities still being inadequate to cope witli the rush of traffic. This tends to act as a brake on commercial progress, yet the forward movement has not perceptibly slackened, either in domestic or foreign commerce. On the contrary, exports, in spite of the shortage of vessels and other obstacles, continue in notably heavy volume, while internal trade is further swelled as tho holiday season approaches. Develop ment of Christmas business fulfills the most optimistic expectations, and the greater spending power of the masses is demonstrated both by the magnitude of the purchases and the preference shown for the more costly grades of merchandise. This condition is gen eral, every Important center reporting a marked growth in retail dealings, but it is most apparent in the section, where the industrial boom has glvi* employment to thousand?, of men th"M were formerly Idle. Moreover, In mari# Instances increased wages operate P offset the enhanced cost of commodN ties, and it is of significance in this connection that the rise in foodstuffs has Ween less pronounced than in other articles. Go to See the Toys Age and grouchlness have cer tainlv laid a heavy hand on the individual who does not want to look at the toy shoys at Christ mas time. There the holiday spirit finds full vent. There childish laughter makes merry music for the heart. If the youth of your own fam ily has not yet dragged you to Toyland plan a trip yourself. Take this issue of the Tele grsph. I,ook at the advertising. Note where the toys are to be seen, and go and seo them.
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