10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established lljl PUBLISHED BY VHU TGLEURAFH 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, 218 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 <union 4* if ° s ' x cents a week. ' Mailed to subscribers at 13.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Snorn dull; averase elrenlntlon for the three months ending Nov. 30, 1915. Average for the year lMt— Average fop the year Avfitcf for the yrar 1912—"-"JJ Averaae for the yenr lflll—lT.SJ- Average for the year 1910—1G.»«1 The nbnve figures are net. All re turned, unsold and damaged eoples de ducted. WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. i! 2. Brethren, even if a man be over taken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness: looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted. —Gal. 6:1. BOOST YOUR OWN TOWN DR. RUSSEL H. CONWELL never said a truer thing than in his lecture here the other night when he pointed out that Harrisburg was not a city of many thousands more j because of the too-prevalent disposi-1 tion to deprecate our own commun ity. Many a boy and many a girl has overlooked the opportunities at home because parents and guardians and friends have everlastingly described tlic rainbows elsewhere. Disappoint ments without number have resulted lrom this disposition to talk down the home town instead of talking it up upon every occasion. Harrisburg is a 1 tine city, a promis ing city in every way, and the girls and boys now living here should get into their innermost consciousness the fact that right here are opportunities which should be taken advantage of by the coming generation so that there •shall be no occasion for the scattering of families elsewhere to gather "dia monds" which may be found at their own doors. Dr. Conwell impressed upon his hearers the value of THINKING and suggested that many a good thing in the way of opportunity is discovered through proper concentration of the mind upon the conditions right here at home. The Telegraph has constantly urged upon the people of Harrisburg the peculiar advantages of this city and the suburban district and after years of boosting we have no apologies to of fer. Harrisburg has a large place in the sun and it remains for the old and young of our population to boost at every turn and to put into concrete action the confidence and optin/.sm and vision which ought to be the pos session of every citizen without re gard to class or age or distinction of any sort. Tf it he true that the Berlin Govern- j ment regards the German plotters in ' this country as enemies of the Father- j land. It would appear that a drastic , disavowal of all their activities would be in order, instead of requests for their safe conduct back to Germany. Nothing lias done so much to dissipate the friendly sentiment toward Germany as the outrageous conduct of the men re sponsible for the dynamite and incen diary outrages in the United States. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION Employers aii ov.- r the state are still wrestling with tho pro visions of the Workmen's Com pensation act. They want to comply in letter and spirit with the new law so complex In its character, but the more they delve into the various sec tions of the measure the more difficult is the interpretation of its various fea tures. There is no disposition anywhere to ignore the law or to evade its provi sions; all that perplexes the employer is the rather involved nature of the act, and it is a question whether for the first year or two the operation of the law will be entirely satisfactory to all concerned. A reasonable attitude toward the new act will be necessary for employer and employe alike. Its humanitarian character can easily be overturned by any effort to use it as a club and it is fortunate for the State that there is no tendency In any direction to so regard the law. Employers every where have shown a laudable purpose to interpret the measure according to its spirit and not haggle about the torm. It is intimated that many important amendments will be necessary after a year's experimental enforcement and the Legislature of 1917 will doubt less tlnd it necessary to perfect the measure so as to eliminate many of the perplexing features which now an noy both employer and employe. The act involves heavy expenditure upon the part of the employers of the State and a readjustment of this ex penditure is to be expected iu the course of business. Under the operation of the law greater J care will be given safety appliances i and the regulation of employment j generally. After a year of actual experience j with the measure, its good and bad ! features will be better understood and 1 the general situation will be more I satisfactory. York seems to have been fussing | about paving assessments while I-lar- i risburg people were clamoring for the opportunity to pay the assessments and get the paving. This city has about seventy-five miles of well-paved streets and nobody will doubt the substantial character of the investment from every standpoint. THE CITY'S FRONT STEPS PROPERTY owners of that sec tion oi Harrisburg between Miclay and Division streets are discussing the question of extending the "Front Steps of Harrisburg" along the river front in that section. They take the position that what is good for one part of the city is good for, another and that inasmuch as the river front is enjoyed by all the peo ple, the completion of the improve ment will be approved by everybody. It is the opinion of all who are fam iliar with the conditions that at least tlie section between Maclay and Sene ca streets should be improved during the coming year. Any why not? Republicans the country over are discussing the Presidency with a con fidence that indicates 110 doubt of the outcome of the campaign of 1916. It seems practically certain that the next occupant of the White House will be a Republican and the selection of the can didate can wait fuller discussion of the merits of those who are now appear ing above the political horizon. Till-: "WORTHY POOR" WE hear much at every season about the "worthy poor." All charity is supposed to be di rected toward the relief of this class of unfortunates. Just v '.iat the term means we have no means of knowing. An old friend, Noah Webster, con fining himself to single words alone, gives us no inkling. The organized charities have their own .notion of what it means and their definition does not harmonize with the con clusions of many who do not be lieve in making an exact science or their benefactions. Particularly at this season are we impressed by those who make a busi ness of such things with the thought that we must guard out; giving, so as to confine It exclusively to the "worthy poor." Now to our minds, wherever poverty exists there is some thing "worthy" at least of an effort to relieve, and no matter how evil or careless the parents, there are "worthy poor" In every needy family where there are children. Whenever a little one is sick, or hungry, or cold, there is charity worth while, no mat ter whose be the fault. So at this yulet.ide season, with your own little ones about you, look around for children in homes where drink, or crime, or idleness, or sick ness, or shiftlessness lias placed ob stacles in the way of a visit from Santa Claus: then go quickly and make a Christmas celebration for them, and don't let anybody persuade you that the family is "not worthy." All children are worthy. The master made no distinction of station or parentage or condition when he said: 'Suffer the little children to come unto me, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." Remember also that if you do it unto the least of them, you do it also unto Him, the Founder of Christmas. With the opening of the new year the West Shore towns will endeavor to get together for practical effort in the way of betterment. Most of the com- I reunifies have already discussed their I own needs and through joint action it i is believed the welfare of the entire i district will be promoted. Camp Hill I has taken the initial step, and it is j J reasonable to believe that New Cum -1 berland. West Fairview, Wormleys } burg, Enola and all the other communi i ties will cheerfully join hands in the i forward movement. GETTING TOGETHER TT is a happy condition of affairs I when the Taft element and the Roosevelt element of the Republi- I oan party at one and the same time • come to the place when each is pre j pared to go half way to meet the I other and to extend the right hand I of good fellowship in party reunion. | The most significant development jof the past week in national politics I has been the peace overtures of Col- I onel Roosevelt Next in importance j has been the readiness with which his | proffers have been accepted in con -1 servative circles. The result prom } ises to be a reunited and rejuvenated j Republican party that will sweep all I before it next November. Apparently Colonel Roosevelt # has come to the conclusion thai there are graver Issues confronting the country at this time than some of the ultra radical planks of the Progressive plat form upon which he laid such great stress in 1912. The defeat of Presi dent Wilson and the Democratic party Is looming bigger every day as the one thing upon which the Roosevelt and the Taft wings of the party must unite next year if they are to perform the part of true patriotism. No mere partisan or per sonal feelings can be allowed to stand In the way of this accomplishment and there are strong Indications that the leaders who followed Roosevelt as well as those who supported Taft see this very plainly and are willing and anxious to get together on a candidate and a platform that will at once draw to the Republican standard the full support of the 4,000,000 voters who conscientiously supported Roosevelt three years ago and the great body of loyal Republicans who went down with Taft. In that direction lies vic tory. Any oilier course would run perilously near the shoals of defeat. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 21, 1915. "~Pc.n,KOi{£tfa)vux Bj the Ex-OommltM«aM | State wide interest is being: niani- J fested In the visit of Senator Penrose |to New York to-day. It is frankly j stated that there is a possibility of the senator meeting; friends of Col. Roosevelt with a view to ascertaining the views of the Colonel on ex-Secre tary P. C. Knox as a presidential possibility. The Philadelphia Ledger sums up the matter in this way to-day: "Re publican leaders in this city acquaint ed with the thoughts of Senator Pen rose feel that there is nothing impos sible about the Colonel's position. It is declared specifically that Senator Penrose is favorably inclined to Mr. Knox as a candidate for the United States Senate as the successor to Sen ator Oliver. In fact, political leaders here now believe it virtually is settled that >lr. Knox is to have the support ,of both Senator Penrose and the Washington party leaders as a candi date for the Senate. The thing which appears to have swept aside all doubt as to that was the suggestion that the former Secretary of State would be ac ceptable to Colonel Roosevelt as a can didate for the Presidency " —The maddest Democrats in Penn sylvania just now, and that is saying a great deal, are the Allegheny county reorganizes. They counted on having one of their number put into the va cancy in the county commissioners' office caused by the death of John A. Martin, but the board of judges did not see it that way. They named a man not aligned with the reorganizers and the bosses are pawing the air. —The Coatesville mayoralty contest may drag on over the first Monday in January when the new mayor is to as sume office. Yesterday another post ponement was taken. —The election contest in Schuylkill county in which Judge Brumm threat ened to go out into the county and hold hearings has been dropped. The judge will not go out on the circuit. —People active in State politics are showing considerable interest in the naming of Henry A. James, of Doyles town as a referee in bankruptcy. James has been an influential member [of the Bucks county Democracy and it is intimated that there is a peace deal under way. He -will succeed Oscar O. Bean who has been a bankruptcy ref eree at Doylestown for eight years and relinquishes that office to become Reg ister of Wills of Bucks county, to which he was recently elected. Mr. James assumes his duties at once, tak ing over all bankruptcy cases not yet terminated that were assigned to Mr. Bean. Mr. James' appointment is for two years. —John J. Seip was yesterday ap pointed deputy county controller of Northampton. —lt is said that Old Gu&rd Demo crats in Philadelphia will have a meeting early in January to discuss naming of national delegates. State Chairman Roland S. Morris is regard ed as having made up the slate for the machine faction for that city. —Friends of C. D. Wolfe, former mayor of Williavnsport and now chief deputy (ire marshal, are urging him to succeed State Fire Marshal Joseph Li. Baldwin. It is said that there is also a Philadelphia man being boomed by the Vares and that Western Penn sylvania has a candidate, too. —Talk of Mayor Ira W. Stratton for Public Service commissioner was heard again on the Hill to-day. Mr. Strat ton has been here several times lately. —According to the Pittsburgh-Ga zette-Times there is a possibility of a contest over the county tax assessment board as well as over the county con troliership. The present county com missioners named <3. W. Simon, James M. McKee and C. B. Price for four years from December 1, but the new commissioners arc said to be scheming to upset it by going into court. Men said to be considered for the places are David B. Johns, Louis Alpern, A. V. Simon, R. J. McGrath and Judd H. Bruff. ll is also said that Ex-Senator Elliott Rodgers is slated for county solicitor and that E. M. Bigelow may be asked to succeed John S. Gillespie as county road engineer, although W. M. Donley is also mentioned. | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR" THANKS FIRKMEN To the Editor of the Telegraph: A good word for the firemen of Har rlsburg! When everyone is giving thanks it is not out of place to thank the firemen for the good work they did at the fire when J. E. Dare's coal elevator burned. They saved the frame row of houses on Eighteenth street. It was only by their good work our homes were saved. A RESIDENT. AND PRINTERS' INK DID IT [From the Chicago News.] "Young man, advertise yourself ajid your business." This is Nathan L. Amster's para phrase on Horace Greeley's famous epigram. He vouches for the efficacy of his advice from personal experience. Three years ago. he was a small stock holder in the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, who believed that the financial powers governing the system were looting it. To-day he is chairman of the executive commit tee of the road. Hov.- was the seeming miracle per formed? Advertising, newspaper ad vertising, coupled with proper pub licity. Is Mr. Amster's answer. "To what do you ascribe your mete oric rise?" he was asked. "To advertising, dally paper adver tising," was the reply. "I am a firm believer in advertising, both for your personal advancement as well as for your business success. "When I became convinced the Rock Island properties ought to be paying dividends instead of rapidly deteri orating toward a receivership, I was only a little stockholder with a few hundred dollars invested. The idea struck me of leaguing the small stock holders together. I asked the com pany for a list of stockholders, but was refused. I tried every way. but couldn't get the names. "Then the thought of advertising for them came t.o me. T started a cam paign in the newspapers in every large city in the country. "My success was instantaneous. Stories were published in all parts of the country telling of my fight. Grad ually these small stockholders rallied to the cause I was advocating. "With proxies from these people I opened my fight. Many times I was on the point of giving up. but printers' ink bridged the gap between my thou sands of dollars opposed to the mil lions of my opponents. "When the road was finally thrown into the hands of receivers my oppo nents were gradually eliminated. Then 1 was chosen to head the new execu tive committee and my advertising campaign was triumphant." Mr. Amster is mentioned as the probable next president of the road. Is not the Hon. Rill Klinn of Pitts burgh confusing himself with the Colo nel when he says "The rule of the sea applies to me. I must be the last man to leave the Progressive ship"?— New York Sua. , PRACTICAL CHRISTMAS WORK OF ONE CITY CHURCH I t Here is shown the result of a practical Christmas giving service held Sunday afternoon in Stevens Memorial Metho dist Church, of which the Rev. Dr. Clayton Albert Smucker Is pastor. More than 1,000 members of the Sunday School brought Rifts for needy families in the city. Each class brought a certain article. Eight barrels of flour, ten bushels of potatoes, canned fruit jellies, and other canned goods are only a few of the articles shown above, brought in by the Sunday School members. It took forty-five minutes to bring all of the supplies to the platform and assort them. A] K. Thomas, superintendent, had charge of the arrangements. The gifts will be distributed this week to needy families and to several charitable Institutions in the city. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —And now, just as we receive word that mistletoe Is plenty and cheap, comes the Health Board's warning against kissing. —Yuan says China is a consti tutional monarchy; with Yuan as mon arch and constitution, too. we suppose. —lf grovi have any doubts about the part you ought to play this Christmas season, take a couple of hours and read Dickens' Christmas Carol. —'Before becoming too much worked up we should be sure that some of the munition factory explosions are not duo to green hands instead of red hands. —Times change—few years ago the college student used to burn the mid night oil; now he burns gasoline. —Germany's submarine captainF are doubtless having pleasant visions of how the little children of the Lusi tania are celebrating the merry Christ mas season under the seas. EDITORIAL COMMENT Tlie New York physician who pre sented a $99,000 bill to the executors of a $130,000 estate was selfish. How about the poor lawyers?— New York World. Wonder whether Sir Thomas Lip ton will accuse Ford of sending a ship across the Atlantic Just for advertising purposes?— Philadelphia North Ameri can. In time some obscure American will gain world-wide notoriety by publicly confessing that he does not know how to make peace in Europe.—New York World. "BEST SPELLER" FAILED OX THESE; CAX YOU DO BETTER ? A 19-year-old boy has proved him- j self to be the best speller on record in Ohio, according to an article in the current issue of the American Maga zine. His name is Claude Gossett, and he won out over sixty-seven competi tors who lined up with pencil and paper in the Ohio House of Repre sentatives. Out of the hundred words given younc Gossett missed but thir teen. Just for fun, try them out your self and see how many you yourself will fall down on. Here they are: Connoisseur, pyre, punctilious, recon naissance, salable, prescience, referable, tertian, calliope, Richelieu, skyey, sacredotal, vassalage, minstrelsy, ado lescent, bassviol, passe, habitue, soiree, azalea, elysian. irascible, crochet, in carcerate, Pontchartrain, renaissance, debris, obeisance, liquefy, inveigle, thesaurus, vaudeville, igneous, dog gerel, equable, mirage, abattoir, desue tude, paulospore, patois, paucity, nai vete, nagana, incestuous, ineffable, doubloon, dytlscus, niccolite, Olen tangy, nonpareil, prophesy, pyrotech nics, capias, mesa, matador, sepul chral, vitreous, finale, attache, com mandant, sarcophagus, decollete, kaiser, consomme, erysipelas, resume, sucrose, legible, auxiliary, creosote, abscission, baptizable,contumely, cyno sure, prehensile, Yenisei, Monterery, melada, Schuylkill, Neuces. Pough keepsie, Caribbean, Bayonne, zoophyte, xyster, manacle, triglyph, rarefy, theine, roceme, onerous, isosceles, oleo margarine, suite, meningitis, Himalaya, Beirut, supersede, audible, Opelousas. SAIL OX! Henry Ford really did get off, and ! has not been turned back yet at this writing. It is a happiness to think of that wonderful yachting party bounding over the deep at the costs of the ad venturous Detroit Fortunatus! Andrew Carnegie never thought of anything as sporty as that. What one hates to think is that such a partv must arrive and break up! Why should it arrive? Why disband? The Flyinpr Dutchman never arrived: its company never dis banded. There is a precedent for Henry. Let him buy the Oscar XI and keep sailing that cargo of paci flcers around, putting individuals ashore only in response to calls by wireless. Thus when the Allies cap ture Berlin, if they want Ben Lindsay to be governor, put Ben ashore, but not until then. Sam McClure always needs a rest. He is years behind in repose. This is his chance to get It! O Navis! as Horace would say—O ship that carries Henry and all those living curiosities; do not occupy any port: keep sailing of them around ar.d have the newspapermen keep accurate logs of what happens. Meanwhile, perhaps the nations will stop lighting Xa laugh.—Life, OUR RADIO SERVICE TODAY By Frederic J. Haskin ONE profession that is not over crowded in the United States is that of radio operator. The United States is always in need of competent men for its increasing wireless service, and in case of war it would be a difficult matter to secure enough professional operators for all of the ships and stations. In that emergency the government's only re source would be the quarter of a mil lion amateur operators who are using their own instruments in all parts of the country with the permission and under the supervision of the govern ment service. Many of them are just bungling beginners, of course, but there are also a lot of competent op erators among them. The young man enlisting in the na tional radio service gets a thorough training with one of the largest and most varied equipments in the world. The first of the four years of his term THE STATE FROM m TO DW ( As nn aid to digestion, we offer this interesting bit of news. There are 22,975 newspapers in the United States, and about 60,000 in the world. Of the latter, one-half are printed in English. Dr. Conwell's lecture, "Acres of Diamonds," scjms to have inspired some Pittsburgh second-story men, if perchance they were privileged to hear the lecture, with the wrong kind of ambition. At any rate, an apart ment house out there was raided the other day and $12,000 worth of jew elry and silverware found, among the booty being more than a pint of dia monds. Ralph Rotolo, a New rastle charac ter, is up again to answer charges before the police of that town. Sev eral months ago this man escaped from jail by sliding down a hose which he attached to the bars of the prison, a la movie, also a la fireman, an#he gave a very convincing excuse, to wit: "I was afraid I hadn't done nothing so I got out. Two masked men, armed, made a mysterious visit to the Lancaster county prison night before last. When confronted by the guard, they flashed a light in his face, and one remarked: "He is not the man," after which thev silently and swiftly slid into the shadows. The belief is that they were going to attempt the life of the other guard, who was fortunately ab sent at the time. No clue to their identity has been found. To-day was the third day of the annual meeting of the State Grange, which was in session at State Col lege the first three days of this week. Patrons of husbandry from all parts of Pennsylvania gathered there for the annual session, and it is figured that approximately 1800 attended. "Alas, poor Yorick! —a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy," as Shakespeare would say. So also was McCarthy, a Mahanoy City man, who was yesterday about to be em balmed for burial when he suddenly If Jfc Burn a Candle on Christmas Eve You will want, to observe this city's latest custom for her alding the Coming of the King. Burn a candle in your front window on Christmas Eve. The custom that is centuries old, but it has lately been re vived and will be observed In this city this year. Be sure that your window has a burning candle. of enlistment are spent at one of the naval electrical schools which are lo cated at New York, Chicago and on Mare Island near San Francisco. Here he learns all that the experts can teach him about all the different varie ties of radio apparatus, including the Itelefunken, which is the type used by 'the German army, and by most of tlie large commercial services. In order to enlist in the government service, a man must be able to take dictation In the Morse code at a speed of twenty-five words a minute and must be able to receive twenty words a minute. This modest proficiency may be easily acquired in many tech nical high schools, where wireless telegraphy is a feature of the electri cal work. After his year In one of the govern ment schools, the recruit may be as [Continued on Page ».] rat up in bed and caused the hair of the undertaker to rise by calling for food. He was believed to be dead, having swooned away following a critical attack of pneumonia, and the "corpse's" resuscitation was extremely embarrassing for the undertaker, who was naturally a little put out about it. A CAP IN THE CRIMIN AL CODES [From the Philadelphia Bulletin.l If there is no law in Pennsylvania j defining the sale of a bogus college cer- I titicate, to be used as a warrant for the I Illegal practice of dentistry in the State, as indicated by Judge Bonniwell, the defect should be noted by the Dental ! Council of the State in order that the I deficiency may be supplied at the next session of the Legislature. | Incompetent practice of dentistry is hardly second. In its danger to the com- I mon health and welfare, to unskilled practice of medicine and surgery. Statute law wisely regulates the prac tice of each, requiring evidence of edu cation. training and fitness, and holding human health too valuable to be ex ploited by quacks and bogus practition ers. Violation of these laws for the restriction of practice is amply penal ized. and there should be like penalties for the fraudulent issuance of certificates which are antecedent to the scheme to defraud the State and the public, in ac tual practice. ! The production of such false certifl | cates cannot have any honest purpose deserving consideration, and possession or disposal of such a fraudulent paper might well be regarded as presumptive evidence of criminal Intent, and there fore penalized. ( Our Daily Laugh I used to tell my wife she was / a '}bear" before I sm\ wHal And now i suP jl|P&S® rJB pose she says • 'jmjja you're a regular " beßr * ,roull< * i SOME CHANGS. She: I'm afraid,• *■ .* lift . as your wife, I E«~-a I iQT | couldn't live as I've been accus- He: No—You'll i j have t<x cut out about a dozen beaux. " m «' CHRISTMAS TIME By Winn Dinger ! There's one thing works upon my nerves And often gets my goat. That's when from offlce to my home Some bundles I must tote. But when it happens to come 'round To Christmas time of year, No matter how I'm laden down It seems to give me cheer. Each night on crowded trolley car With packages galore I ride, some bundles holding tight. Put others on the floor. And In the morning others to The Post Office I bring. Instead cf groans and grumbles, why I whistle and I sing. I'll tell, you bo. there's nothing like This Christmas-spirit stuff When once It gets you. by Jove, You just can t do enough. We ought to render thanks that we At such a time may live And scatter joy and sunshine 'round ,AJ bei » tuiU tiier« e jfiveu iEbrmng (£hat Through an arrangement of Christ mas book shelves and holiday tables the Harrisburg Public Library has be come as lull of suggestions for pres ents as the average department store's series of windows. In fact, tha Library, which furnishes about one sixth of the 'Community with reading matter and answers f.om 40 to ui> questions a day is also doing a publio service In the way of suggesting books for Christ mas. The Library does not ♦ sell books as some of its visitors ap pear to have thought when the.V came around, bul it gives the idea names of the stores whera they can be bought are to be had for the asking. The Christmas book dis plays have been under way at tha Library for the last fortnight and | nave been changed frequently, some ot the latest books having been shown. Just whai this has meant to Ihe people of the city who were after some hints as to what books to buy and lo the stores of Harrisburg is well worth noting. Incidentally, it might be added that the new Library is going to close its second year of usefulness in the city and its vicinity on January 1 and tlio indications are that its circulation for the year will run up around 112,000 or 10,000 a month. This will be over 10,000 more lhan for the first year. The registration now amounts to over a fifth of the population of 1-larris burg, although people from Its en virons are given the privileges of tha Library as freely as residents ot this municipality. 'Lots of people are starling off to save for next year and the Christ mas and savings funds are going to lie as popular next year as tltey were this year," was the opinion voiced yesterday by a city banker. "Strange, as it may seem there were a good many hundreds of dollars put bade into savings funds as soon as they were broken up. These hundreds were nest eggs and the owners just took the earnings. Other dollars were put back by people who wanted to start off the new funds. The habit of saving for next summer's vacation, for next Christmas, for a rainy day and for the child's education has caught on in this city." The State Capitol's collection of battletlags and of the colors borne in three wars in which Pennsylvania participated never seems to lose its charm for visitors. This is a rather slack period for visitors on the Hill, but every morning or afternoon peo ple can be seen looking at the flags and nine out of every ten of the visitors for a day make a bee-lino for a case to look up the flag of a regiment in which a relative marched. There have been so many inquiries of this variety that the guides have regimental history and location oC flags down pat. If any Federal, State, county or city official is drawn for jury duty during the ensuing year it will be because his name happened in some way to slip past the vigilant eyes of the Dauphin county court and the jury commission ers when the wheel for 191ti was filled. Both Jury Commissioners XSdvvard Dapp and Samuel M. Taylor made an especial effort this Fall to keep the names of all public officials from their lists on the ground that the talesmen would invariably ask the court to ex cuse them. "What we wanted to avoid during the coming year, "said Jury Commissioner Dapp, "was tlm innumerable requests for excuse from.4 jury duty. The court certainly doe.<f not approve of them and the proce dure has a tendency to break up tlm court routine to some extent. So we thought it best to place in the wheel only the names of jurymen whom wa were certain could serve." » » • There was fun yesterday after noon when the full crew cases were being beard by the Public Service Commission. Charles If. Bergner, arguing for the Pennsylvania railroad, contended that the commission could set aside a State law if it conflicted with a federal law. "And so," observed Commissioner Pennypacker, "the ifcmmisslon cutu be authorized to commit suicide." "Oh, no," responded Mr. Bergner, "It always has that power." "And your people would be glad to see it exercise it," put in James Scarlet," who was lighting the rail roads. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —Senator C. W. Sones, of Williams port, has his lumbermen in the State insurance fund. —Chancellor S. M. McCormick, of the University of Pittsburgh, says practical men and not theorists are needed in the ministry. —J. L. Replogle, a big figure in the steel world, is visiting his old haunts in Johnstown. —Controller-elect J. P. Moore has taken the oath as controller of Alle gheny county. —Dr. Hichard H. Harte, of Phila delphia. will go to France to aid war sufferers. 1 1 DO YOU KNOW ~| That Ilarrl'.buig Is shipping' point for much produce for Phil adelphia and Xew York? HISTORIC IIARRISBURG John Tyler was the first president to speak at the Capitol. OH! I'OOK WHAT WAS FOUND (From the Kansas City Star.] The detention and search of the peace ship Oscar II has at least let one gleam of light into the dark murk of war. Prunes were found aboard but were not seized. It being announced they are not contraband. Thus is the nightmare of a pruneless Europe removed from the category of war's horrors. t i Advertising and Price Who pays the price of adver tising Is a much discussed ques tlon. , Listen to what Jules B. Schloss has to say In Newspaper dom. "Good advertising creates a passive expense which is over balanced bv the decreased cost of production or selling and it reduced the price of the com modity to the consumer. It low ers the cost of living. "Poor advertising remains an active expense, which must bo added to the price of the com modity because It does not pro portionately increase the sales— poor advertising increases, In stead of decreases, the cost of production and selling: Conse <iuentlv.lt raises the cost of living. When advertising is run In media to which it Is not suited, it is de cidedly poor advertising, and It will not bring the necessary re sults," ! And because they produce re sults at low cost the newspapers nre to-dav the most favored of all advertising mediums.
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