10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH i Established IS3I PUBLISHED BT THB TKI.KGIIAFH PIIINTIKQ CO. E. J. STACKPOLE *resident and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 218 Federal Square. Both phonos. Momber American Newspaper Publish- I ors' Association. Audit Bureau of j Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ- I ated Dailies. Eastern OfTlce, Fifth Avenue Building, ; New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office, Advertising Buildlnp, Chicago, 111., Robert E. Ward. Delivered by carriers at six cents a week. ' Mailed to subscribers j at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg; Pa., as second class matter. Snnrn dally ivrraicr circulation for < lie three month* ending Nov. 30, 1015. Avernse for the year 1014—21.SWJ Averaice for the yrnr 101S—W.'™ Average for the year IBIi— IOJJJ Average for the year IRII—I7.SJ- Average for the year 1010—10.-01 The above figure* are net. All re turned. unsold and dAnaged copies de ducted. THURSDAY EBVNING, DEC. 16 Wherefore let him that thinketh he , standeth take heed lest he fall. —I Cor. 10:12. PROTECT THE GUARD GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH'S views on the continental army pro posed by President Wilson in his recent message to Congress will be read with deep interest by everybody who litis given thought, to the matter of national defense. The Governor's Keenly analytical mind picks out the one big tlaw in the administration's plan—which is the utter failure of those who framed it to take into con sideration the National Guards of the various States and what will happen to these well-organized forces in case the contemplated continental army Is created. Unless there is some dis position of these organizations in the thought of those who are urging the continental army upon the country not yet made public, the Governor is right In his conclusion that to adopt the Wil | ron-Garrison recommendations would be to throw the Guard into the discard in favor of an untried experiment. [, Pennsylvania has developed a Na -11 tonal Guard second to none in the country and built along regular army . lines to such extent that it could step out of its armories into the service of the United States almost without no ilce and with 111 tie or no change. There are hundreds of men within its | ranks trained and qualified for duty as I * officers in an army of defense should the occasion arise. Without thought | of pay and prompted by purely patri otic motives the thousands of men who go to make up the National Guard sacrifice their time and their money to attend drills and perfect themselves to step into the trenches at the word of command should the need arise for national defense. The folly and injus tice of discouraging and disorganizing such an efficient and devoted fighting l'orce needs no demonstration. Nyr can It be that the Guard has not developed military men of Ability. Citizens of Htrrisburg well recall our own Captain Thomas F. Maloney, whose City Grays were the pride of the whole State and whose manual of arms was for many years a standard military work. General Frank Magee, General Thomas J. Jordan, General Alexander Russell, to mention only a very few of the figures well known to Harrisburg,people who made reputations for themselves and the Guard In the State's service, are types of the soldierly qualities developed by Ihe National Guard of Pennsylvania. Amorjg the living there is Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart as a strik ing example of the caliber of men who have for years been giving of their brain and brawn to the forging of the State militia into the efficient second line of defense it is to-day. To dis courage them, as the Governor says, would be a grave mistake. There is food lor thought in the suggestion that the proper way in which to develop the armed force of citizen soldiery that the country ad mittedly needs is to enlarge and de velop the Guard. Advance worthy men ■ In the State's service to officcrships and increase the number of regiments and various branches of the service, Pift' them for their time and give them something to work for. Along this line it might be well to give each regi ment some insignia by which it would bo known everywhere. The famous Hlack Watch, for instance, is an ex ample of what name and a tradition will do for a military body. But that aside, the thing to do, as Governor Brumbaugh says, is to see to it that we do not sacrifice that which we know to be good for a very doubt ful experiment. HANK INTEREST RATES JOHN SKELTON WILLIAMS, the more or less controversial Comp troller of the Currency, Is again out with a broadside assertion that the National Banks are charging usurious rates of Interest. He has been called to task for his loose criti cism by the executive committee of t lie American Bankers' Association, which shows, in a public statement, Ihat the comptroller fustens on one | third or one-seventh of national banks the charge of assessing exces alve interest rates and points out tiial THURSDAY EVENING, consideration of the question numeri cally 1s likely to be misleading. In New York State, for instance, there are nine guilty national banks out of 478, and it is suggested that the nine offending banks are little institutions which have small part of the $165,000,000 of capttal and a still smaller proportion of the sl,- 580,000,000 of loans and discounts. In Massachusetts there are three offending banks out of 170. and in Virginia five out of 136. Most of the trouble seems to be In Georgia, where, according to the comptroller, sixty six bunks out of 113 are offenders and the capital stock of all the national banks in Georgia is only three-fourths of the capital stock otthe Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago, while the loans and dis counts of all the national banks in Georgia, $62,000,000, are approxi mately equal to the loans and dis counts of the Irving National Bank of New York. Alabama figures in about the same proportion, with Texas as a close second. It is the opinion of the banking as sociation, which has called Comp troller Williams to acount, that his statement Is absolutely misleading | and' unjustifiable so far as it relates Ito national banks in general. He is charged with doing an Injustice to the majority of national banks, and as the chief offenders seem to be in the Southern and Southwestern States the bankers believe they are warranted in the statement that the alleged practice of usurious Interest rates Is not general and is confined to particular sections. DON'T HIDE THE CANDLE MUCH credit must be given the Motor Club of Harrisburg for Its excellent work in marking the Lincoln Highway feeders between this city 'and Gettysburg and also along the other route to Lancaster, as well as the road between Harrisburg and Chambersburg. While the winter weather interfered with the comple tion of the undertaking, the club will see that the markers are all in posi tion with the opening of Spring and the tourist travel. The public generally, perhaps, does not appreciate the importance of the activities of this livewlre organization. Harrisburg Is becoming more and more a center of automobile travel, and with the opening of the William Penn Highway through the Juniata Valley between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, this city is bound to take its proper place in the highway sys tem of the country. It remains for the merchants and the businessmen of all classes to do their share toward the development of Harrisburg as the hub of the State. We have the great Capitol and its art treasures, in addition to an extremely picturesque and attractive city to draw the strangers from afar, and it only remains that these visitors may be familiarized with the features which ordinarily invite the stranger. Of course, we are still short on hotel facilities, but this glaring need should not militate in the slightest degree against proper effort in the bringing of the great throng of tour ists to this city. > Fortunately, we have the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club and an army of Intelligent ynd appreciative salesmen, every one.of whom i£ an enthusiastic missionary, and these agencies and instrumentalities are co operating with our citizenry in plac ing Harrisburg upon the map of the United States everywhere. It is generally believed that we are about to enter upon another period of remarkable development and it is the business, and ought to be the pleasure, of all the people to stand ' shoulder to shoulder In the advance-I ment of the best interests of the city, j We may safely leave to the Motor | Club an important part of this work, i It has demonstrated over and over ] again its ability to handle things well and nothing that it has achieved is more beneficial than the marking of the highways leading to Harrisburg; so that he who runs may read —with- j out stopping his machine. As a mat- I ter of fact, every highway, good and bad, one hundred miles in every di rection from Harrisburg should be conspicuously and intelligently mark ed so that the stranger cannot miss this city. We must-not hide our candle under a bushel; It should shine not only on Christmas eve, but throughout the year and wherever possible to display j the flame. CITY AND STATE ONE of the favorable signs of the general interest in the work of the City Planning Commission is | the widespread discussion of its sev- i eral projects for the improvement of I the traffic conditions, especially In a ! reconstruction of the Market street j subway and the proper treatment of ; communication between the Allison I Hill section and the Capitol Park i zone. All manner of suggestions have j been submitted by interested citizens' and these suggestions indicate an in- ] telligent study of the problem. It is ! by reason of this attitude on the part I of our citizens generally that the city planners are encouraged to go for ward in their comprehensive and fruitful work. Growing out of the Capitol Park problem is the decision to widen the streets on three sides of the Capitol grounds. This involves Walnut, Third and North streets and it is clearly the Intention of the State authorities to broaden these highways so that there may not be the congestion which has heretofore been the cause of so much criticism. With the develop ment of the Commonwealth, tire Capi itol and its surroundings are certain to grow In importance and for this reason, if for no other, the streets leading to the State House should be commensurate with the dignity of the structure and its environment, j The widening of North and Walnut streets Is a comparatively easy pro i position, as is ajso the increase of the I width of Third street between Wal jnut and, North. This is made pos sible through a suggestion of an crni . nent landscape designer who declares lit la not necessary to interfere with any of the trees along Third street; that all that need be done Is to dis pense with a sidewalk on the park side and provide instead a footway along the top of the short terrace from the entrance jtf Walnut street to the exit I at North street between the trees. This I would give fifteen to twenty feet ad ditional roadway and provide a much better setting for the Capitol, j It is conceded that in the revision of the park lines, in the old section as well as in the now, it will be neces sary to regrade portions of the park so as to make harmonious the treat ;, ment throughout. Owing to the unavoidable absence of Governor Brumbaugh on Tuesday, the conference arranged between the Board of Public Buildings and Grounds and the City Planning Com mission was postponed- It is under stood, however, that the Governor's interest in this subject is so great that he will arrange a special sitting for this conference to-day. It is a happy situation that the State authori ties are so ready and willing to co operate with the city planners in reaching a proper conclusion regard ing the development of the Capitol Park and its surroundings, so that when the work shall have been com pleted it will be dignified and credlta- I ble to all concerned. Long ago Harrtsburg realized the importance of expert counsel in all its public improvement undertakings, and Governor Brumbaugh's personal ■experience as a planner in Philadel phia, as well as the interest of Audi tor General Powell and State Treas urer Young in the development of the State property, insures broad and generous and intelligent consideration of all the problems involved. CK By the Ex-Commttrccmnn Considerable attention is being given throughout the State to re marks by Mayor-elect Thomas B. Smith, of Philadelphia, that he in tends to keep factionalism out of the Philadelphia city councils and the Republican city committee in Phila delphia. Following his statement that he would <iot countenance any factional fighting over national dele gates in the State this is taken as significant of the attitude of many prominent Republicans throughout Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia and Pittsburgh mayors have come out against any disruption of the Re publican party by a fight over na tional delegates and against "Senator Penrose and the remarks of the Phila delphia mayor-elect are taken as a reiteration of his stand. The Philadelphia Inquirer says, re garding the matter: "Neither element in the city leadership, it is rumored, will be permitted to conspire success fully against the men who have es tablished themselves in the several wards as representatives of the Re publican voters of their respective constituencies. The incoming ad ministration, it is predicted, will seek ti strengthen the hands of those who have been looking after the party management in the several wards' and who have by their election to the Republican City Committee demon strated their strength with the poten tial men in their respective Republi can Ward Executive Committees. —-Governor Brumbaugh reiterated his belief that next year was going to be a Republican year in an interview while in Washington on Tuasday. The Governor'also said that the Republi cans would welcome anyone back, not even making an exception of Roose velt. —J. Denny O'Neil is certainly on | the war path in Pittsburgh. He says l that the bosses in Pennsylvania are an expert lot of "double-crossers" and that they are shaking hands and waving dirks at the same time. Mr. O'Neil is saying things about Mayor elect Smith and others. —Mayor Blankenburg last night gave a farewell dinner to the mem bers of his cabinet. He said nice things about them. —Governor Brumbaugh last night said that he li&d never asked or authorized anyone to ask that he be | invited to attend or speak at the din ner of the Republican League of. Clubs in Washington. Dispatches were sent out last week that a request for an invitation had been made for him. —Montgomery county officials will continue deputies and clerks in office. —Goldstein, one of the men in volved in the Pittsburgh election cases, was acquitted yesterday, but the jury put the costs on him. —Up in Bradford county a dozen | justices refused to serve after being elected. They did not think it worth while. —According to the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times M. Clyde Kelly, former legislator and former congressman, i Bull Mooser and insurgent generally, ■ will be a candidate for Congress in j the McKeesport district against Con gressman W. H. Coleman. Kelly got j into Congress by defeating John Dal | zell in the 1!I12 wave, but when I things became normal he was signally j defeated. It is now said that Kelly is | I seeking the influence of J. Denny' ! O'Neil, who is a power in the district, I I all of which goes to show a funny i line-up in Allegheny. ' —State Fire Marshal Joseph L. | Baldwin is not in any hurry to resign. I His term as assistant director of | works in Philadelphia does not begin I until next month and he will retire I from the hill with the month and the I year. Mr. Baldwin will take with j him, incidentally, the best wishes of I everyone at the Capitol and of many I Harrisburg friends. —H. A. Beale, Parkesburg iron master, Is being boomed as a candi | date for Republican national delegate lin the Chester-Delaware district. | Beale is a great friend of Senator Penrose. | —The Unlontown Record, the pro ■ gressive party organ started in Fay -1 ette county by W. A. Stone, the coal | operator, has joined the Towne pub , lications in the journalistic spirit ! land. Stone made quite a noise as a ' progressive State committeeman a few years ago and his paper was .still noisier. One by one the roses fade. COST OP OUR DEFFNSE The United States has only 634 com plete field guns In existence, with 72 in the making. About 5.000 field guns are in the German army: at this writ ing the French command almost 7,000 guns. The Gerrnnn deserter who has been interned at Kills Island will not'he ad mitted to the I'tilted States, which. It neuirre, has no use for Teutonic citizens who lire traitors to Germany.—Boston Transcript. HARRISBURG fcSR&i TELEGRAPH - THE CARTOON OF THE DAY UNRIPE —From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE""] —Santa Claus is the man who put the ills in bills. —Kansas has been awarded first prize for chickens. Whether or not New York City will protest depends entirely on the kind of chickens meant. —Now what fool newspaperman started the story that coal is'selling in Italy at $lO a ton. Doesn't he have any conception of the Influence of sugges tion? —Money won't buy everything—take an automobile that will start promptly on cold mornings, for Instance. —"A cargo of nuts for Europe," is the headline over an item in an eastern exchange. No, you are mistaken, it does not refer to the Ford party. EDITORIAL COMMENT ~| The White Dove of Peace aboard the Oscar II was undoubtedly swallowed by the squirrels.—New York Sun. Gov. Walsh of Massachusetts in re j fusing a $15,000 movie offer flatly re pudiated the theory that governors should be seen and not heard.—Pitts burgh Gazette-Times. Christmas Is gaining rapidly on the peace pilgrims.—New York Sun. "BUTTING IN" Our compliments to Brother Perkins, with whom it is so often the Sun's felicity to disagree. We discover no matter for controversy in his able let ter to President Wilson commenting on the Chief Executive's declaration at Columbus tnat it Is "none of our busi ness what the Mexicans do with their Government," and Mr. Wilson's firm I announcement further that "so long as II have the power to prevent it nobody shall 'butt in' to alter It for them." Mr. Perkins does not address the President as a private citizen but as the chairman of the executive com mittee of the national Progressive party. The fact that his relation to this formerly portentlous but now quiescent organization gives a certain political flavor to the communication does not In the least impair the accuracy or the force of the document. Mr. Perkins tells Mr. Wilson plainly but respect fully what a great many other Ameri cans would like to have the chance to tell him. For example: "When you refused to recognize Huerta you certainly 'butted in in I Mexico," "In the manner in which you "butted in' in Mexico is found the root of all the trouble and humiliation to which our country has been subjected, not only with Mexico but other foreign countries as well." "When you 'butted in' in Mexico you demanded that our flag be saluted. You sent our troops to Vera Cruz. You brought out dead away and left our honor behind. You abandoned your de mand that our flag be saluted." "The result is that our prestige to day in every foreign capital is at a lower ebb than ever before reached, and I believe that ve.y many Americans join me in the feeling that all this is dlrectlv traceable to the fact that at the beginning of the Mexican situation you did not act as you now talk." We hope that the historian to whom it shall fall some day to recount in enduring prose the good and the bad deeds of the Administration of Wood row Wilson \vlll carefully preserve this fearless and veracious memorandum on "butting in" in Mexico now contributed by the Hon. George W. Perkins. | Indeed, it may even be said that in this remarkably direct and forcible let ter Mr. Perkins has furnished not only l material for future history but also evidence of his own capacity to be the historian in case the political and finan cial affairs of the national Progressive party should perchance cease by and by to engross his attention. | Our Daily Laugh ; DIFFERENT DRILL. , Veteran: When do you have set- « V Soldier: Don't , have setting up TRW % JHHp r drill any itaore. UM/ II Modern tactics W I) Im consist mainly of M I* M flattening yourself R end burrowing. THE MOST DEVOTED. 1 Who is the on# nil/' to stick to a fel- Jow to the very j| 'last, and who al ii iij'ways has a deep- Tj fjdown belief in Jij 'him, no matter if every one else —lll does think he is » Himself 1 CONSTANTINOPLE By Frederic J. Haskir. L _ > WITH the dllies striking at it by land and sea through the Dar danelles and the Germans hammering their way toward it across Serbia in order to effect a junction with the Turks, Constantinople is one of the greatest strategic points of the war. Built at the natural entrance to the Orient, standing between the Mos lem and Christian civilizations, Con stantinople has been an objective in every world war since Emperor Con stantine built it to be the Rome of the East. What will be the fate of Constanti nople in the present struggle is an es pecially interesting question because of the great changes that have taken place in that city as the center of the Turkish Empire during the last seven years. After centuries of Oriental somnolence, untouched by the mighty changes that swept over the West, Constantinople has at last awakened to the new spirit of liberty and, under I the leadership of the Young Turks, is I working out her own destiny along modern lines. That destiny may be greatly changed by the events of the European war, although at present both Constantinople and Bagdad are resisting invasion with a vitality and success that have astonished the world. % This new Oriental efficiency is im bued with the spirit the Young Turk, which has possessed Constanti nople since the revolution of 1908. Mystery and Dirt Prior to that time, Constantinople was the city of the Arabian Nights, a place of mystery and dirt, of beauty and squalor, the seat of a govern ment by stealth and oppression and extortion. Its ruler was the Sick Man of the East; its people lived still in the Middle Ages. At that time, Turkey was an abso lute monarchy, with the Sultan as its temporal head. Being recognized as the chief successor of the Prophet, he was also its spiritual head. In ef fect. Turkey was not a nation at all, but simply a region inhabited by many different races, held in check by the all-powerful Moslems. This rule of the Sultan was a thing most picturesque. Owing responsibil ity to no one, he gathered about him a large kitchen cabinet, composed of all sorts of upstarts who had managed to gain a hold upon the Sultan's favor. Some of them were ministers, some chamberlains, some secretaries.- One of them was an astrologer, who during the attempted revolution of 1897 gain ed great credit with the Sultan by prophesying the arrival of messages by telegraph. This he accomplished by the simple process of bribing oper ators and holding telegrams up. 1 THE STATE FROM DAT TO DAY [ "What are you doing with my safety-razor?" said the young man to his pretty sister out in the western part of the State. "I'm shaving my eye-brows, sir," she said, and .con tinued her task. The fad seems to have started out in Chicago, and is threatening the east, picking up devotees in its wild eastern rush to wards the Atlantic Ocean, where it wil probably plunge into the waves and die the death of so many of these peculiar fads. Courage is not a quality that is displayed only on the battlefield and in the trenches. There is a lad in Philadelphia by the name of Joseph Colodanto, only eight years old, who a few nights ago injured his hand and was forced to have three lingers amputated. He refused an anaesthetic, but begged the surgeon "not to cut them oft too close; I want to be a violin player." When the operation was performed, the little fellow j clamped his lipß, and although a tear 1 or two came voluntarily from his | eyes, he made no outcry. Police in the cities of Pennsylvania are requested to be on the lookout for Elizabeth Leasure, of Farrell, who left her home several days a£o and has not been seen since. The Driggs-Seabury Ordnance Company, of Sharon, has recapital ized to the of $10,000,000 by unanimous consent of stockholders. ' Six and one half millions will go to wards paying for the Savage Arms Co., of Utlca, N. Y., which plant was recently taken over. The Savage Company manufacturers sidearms and a new light machine gun. The Williamsport Gazette and Bulletin recently rejected a SSOO rum advertisement and announced that the future policy of the paper would be to accept no more advertising of DECEMBER 16, 1915. This "kitchen cabinet" was the real power back of the throne anil the real Turkish nobility. It derived its in comes in the most 'various and devious ways. One, for example, collected sev eral hundred pounds a month from the butchers for not inspecting the meat too carefully. Another got a dollar for every sack of flour import ed, while a third allowed a Kurdish chief to supply his kitchens with but ter in return for certain immunities. So these astute gentlemen lived upon the fat of the land and built splendid palaces upon the Bosphorus. Young Turks Organizers Meantime, great doings were under way, of which they had not an inkling. Leaders of the Toung Turks, banished to every capital of Europe, were spreading throughout the empire a constitutional propaganda. Men in all sorts of disguises were going among the peasants and the soldiers. The Sultan and his "kitchen cabinet/" al though they did not know it, now stood almost alone. The spirit of fear, which was their strength among I the people, was being slowly trans muted into the spirit of liberty. When the time for the revolution came there was none t_o resist. Save that a policeman was shot for tearing down the banner of revolution in one city and a dozen of the Sultan's spies were hanged in another, it was almost bloodless. Great crowds surged be fore the Sultan's palace and besought him with tears in their, eyes to take an oath of allegiance to the constitu tion. He and his forebears had tyr ranized over them for centuries, but. the spirit of loyalty was strong. Abdul Hamid, however, apparently unmoved by these great events and seeking only to conserve his own power, turned them away with some adroit words. Whereupon, the leaders of the Young Turks went to him and made him take an oath upon the Koran. Undoubtedly, this was one of the | most remarkable revolutions in the history of the world. This people had lived all their lives bound hand and foot by a tyranny which constrict ed even their private lives. They might not walk where they would, nor say what they thought, nor worship its they pleased. They paid their earn ings to thieves in high places and lived in a squalor which they could not es cape. Suddenly, this people awoke to the knowledge that it was free. Shout ing crowds ran through the streets of Constantinople and gathered about the orators of the Young Turks on every corner. Priests of different faiths, who had never looked upon each other, now saluted with a kiss. Greek and Jew and Turk frolicked together, with the fraternal freedom of religious tolerance. that nature. More and more papers all over the country are adopting this attitude, which 1s certain to help materially in strengthening the power of those who wish to diminish the wide influence of liquor. Spurgeon M. Keeny, class of 1914, Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, has been selected by the Pennsylvania Committee of selection as its unan imous choice for Rhodes Scholar to Oxford for 1916. Mr. Keeny 'was given the place over six other candi dates who were examined by the committee. "HOLD F.VST THAT THOU HAST" [Kansas City Times.] A writer In an Eastern newspaper said recently that the pulpit was not tlie place to treat the question of national preparedness. In a sermon last Sun day the Rev. David L.olnaz, assistant pastor of Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., took exception to this sentiment. His text was: "Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown." He outlined the history -of this coun try, a haven of refuge for the oppressed of all lands, its ideals a sacred trust committed to us from above, its leaders raised up to hold aloft the flaring torch, and, he said: "Be worthy of them and of your sa cred trust. The tools, the material re sources. the intelligence to use these are heaven's free gifts to you; yours is the responsibility to use them nobly, and to guard.thenh loyally against every foe. Expect no miracle to preserve them Intact, if you should prove negli gent. You have the power, the means and the ability, to defend and conserve them, if you so elect. God treats you as competent, responsible beings, and exnects you to do your duty; not as babes and weaklings who m«v not bo trusted to give a'good account of them selves in the hour of danger. Guard your trust; fulfill your high destiny; 'quit you like men. be strong.' 'Hold t»-* that thou hast.'" That is good common sense and good Christianity. The stockholders of the Du Pont Powder Company, who are to receive an i-xtrn dividend! of 2SH per cent., no i doubt feel that General Sherman in dulged In gross exaggeration when he [delined war.—lndianapolis News. j iEbgnittg €t)at "Shop early, watch your step and above all watch your change" is the advice given by one of the city's best known businessmen in the course of a talk yesterday afternoon on the gen eral characteristics of the Christmas rush In the city. This man has been an observer of people and their ways for many, many years and he says that one of the things about which most people are careless, and right here In thrifty Harrisburg, too, is change. "Count your change before leaving the ticket, bank or any other window where they hand out money. They count when you put It in. You count it when you get It out," said he. "Give that mesago to the readers of your newspaper. Why I could tell you of thousands of dollars lost, stray ed or stolen through failure to watch change." What the man says is right. During this busy holiday sea son many mistakes are made and once away from the window the business rule is not to make any alterations or refunds or gifts. This rule, which is as old as money, may work hardship, but it teaches persons to oe careful. One of the first things taught clerks who handle money in stores and banks, is Jo keep the bill to be changed In sight, or note it on the sale book, and count the cash before handing the change to tl)e customer. If there is a "kick," the clerk can tell at a glance whether there has been a inistaku. Sometimes a customer gets the worst of it, and has no "comeback." One of these cases came to the notice of the oolice department the other day. A man had a check cashed. He counted the money and walked away from the cashier's window. Then he counted his money again. As he was leafing over the bills, something dropped to the floor. He picked it up and found it was a figure "2." It had been pasted over the figure "1." on a ten-dollar note. Three persons had overlooked the defection on the note. The gentle man in question was out just ten dol lars. He could not prove the fact that the bank bill had been tampered with before he got it. • * * The story in last evening's Chat column about the ocean liners Siberia and Mongolia meeting in mldocean and transferring Chinese stowaways, has an interesting sequel that Is worth mentioning. The Siberia, of the At lantic Transport Line arrived in San Francisco on Monday by way of the Strait of Magellan and will hence forth ply between London and New York, in the service of the Interna tional Mercantile Marine, carrying only cargo. The Mongolia, which also figured in our story, will follow the 1 Siberia's lead and with the Manchuria and the Korea, will go into the mer cantile marine service. All four lin ers are American built and fly the ■ American flag. The New York Sun in the course of an editorial refers to the fact that these ships hitherto engaged in the Pacific trade appeared in New York harbor decked with their 1 names and the American flag such ships plying the Atlantic adopted some months ago as a precaution against submarines. A. B. Farqulinr, .the York manufac turer who was here yesterday, is one of the foremost men in the State in conservation matters and has given freely of his time and means to furth er projects for the good of coming generations. He came here to attend a meeting at the office of the Gover nor. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" —George G osser > assistant postmas ter of Pittsburgh, figures out a big increase in the population of that city. —Edward Wolf has been elected president of the Manufacturers' bank at Philadelphia. —Gordon Campbell, head of the York railways, read a paper at the State Street Railway Association meet ing in Scranton. —Congressman Butler, of West Chester, is the ranking member of the Pennsylvania delegation as to service. —William H. Wilson, the new direc tor of safety in Philadelphia, is mak ing a study of conditions in that city. DO YOU KNOW ~~~ —That Harrisburg engines are in use in New York skyscrapers? * HISTORIC HARRISBURG Conrad Weiser held his last meeting with the Indians near this city. THE THEORY AND \HE FACT [Philadelphia Ledger.] Confronted with a crisis the gravity of which It would bo futile to belittle, the President continues to indulge in vague generalizations regarding the national duty. America, he says In his latest speech, is to preserve her poise, to malntuin an attitude of friendliness toward all the world, to be a medi ating Influence for peace. "I do not believe," he adds, "that there is going to be any patched-up peace." Perhaps it is a recognition of this fact which leads him to disclaim the project of "governmental mediation." He must realize by this time that the attitude of all the belligerents is such that we are the last people whose Intervention would be gracefully received. So he now contents himself with a desire for "spiritual mediation." It is to be a kind of absent treatment. How It might work if America had no Immedi ate interest in the conflict there Is no occasion to inquire. When the Presi dent turns from theory to fact he will find much more important questions pressing for a decision. And the Issue which they raise is so serious that he can no longer befog it with words. THE PEACE SHII* By WliJfc Dinger There once was a fellow named Ford, Who disliked the way some countries . warred, So he chartered a ship For a special peace trip. Which got rid of a chunk of his hoard. Then to this and that peace advocate His plans he did promptly relate, And said: "If with me You will go 'cross the sea On my peace mission I'll pay the freight." Did they go? well, not all, but some went. More on pleasure than peace, no doubt, bent. For they surely must know That those nations won't whoa At the call of this peace-making gent. f \ Thrift Thrift is the art of making the best use of what we have. It is the genius for saving for buying wisely. And the basis of thrift Is knowledge. It means ability to rate a dollar at its true value, to buy the right thing at the right time and' pay the lowest price. People with the thrift sense get full value out of their news paper by making full use of the Information in the advertising. They know the market bo fore they shop. •
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