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TUT RSI) AY EVENING. DEC. »0
Life is a long lession in humility.
•—J. M. Barrie.
POTENTIAL TOWN HALLS
EVERY school building in the
United States was pictured as
a potential town hall at yester
day's session in Washington of the
American Civic Association at which
Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of J
President Wilson, presided.
Miss Wilson described the social]
center movement as a plan to make j
each school building now idle eigh
teen hours or more each day, the
meeting and voting places of citi
zens of its district, associated in one
nonpartisan, nonexclusive organi
zation to deliberate questions on
which they vote and to promote in
more direct ways the life and hap
piness of thfe neighborhood and
city or town. So far so good, but
Miss Wilson erred previously when
she pronounced against the idea "to
make the schools social centers for |
public amusement or to throw them
open free to whatever public organi
zation might for the moment interest
the board of education."
There is nothing new in the idea
of the schools as "potiential town I
halls" and social centers. Jt has been
endorsed by school authorities here
and elsewhere. There has been much
discussion of the subject. School
officials have nodded their heads
wisely and pronounced the plan most
excellent, but in all but a few
localities it. has gone no farther.
Right here in Harrisburg we have
schoolliouses that have cost the
voters of the district hundreds o£
thousands of dollars, and to what
end? Simply that they be used on
Hn averago of about, six hours a day
for not more than nine months out
of the year, all told. This is poor
business. What manufacturer, for
instance, would spend like sums on a
plant for similar service? The tax
payer is entitled to dividends 011 his
money expended in school facilities,
and in this case these dividends!
should take the form of increased
service.
There Is nothing needed In Har
risburg so much as amusement of a
wholesome nature for those who can
not afford the forms of entertainment
which ample means permit others to
purchase. The schoolhou.se is the
logical center of the community. Its
educational and up-lifting influence
should extend to all classes and all
ages. Sooner or later it will come
Into its own in this respect, but one
wonders how long it is going to re
quire for school officials to go about
putting into practice this social cen
ter idea which all admit to be good
but in which so few display an inter
est sufficient to prompt them to put
It into practice.
Miss Wilson has the "high brow"
viewpoint of most "up-lifters" whose
knowledge of the rank and file o?
society is confined to limited observa
tions and much theory. People who
need the schoolhouse most as a so
cial center don't want merely to dis
cuss politics—local or otherwise.
What they want and need most is a
social rendezvous. There should be
rooms in every school building for
the gathering of the clans. The
schoolhouse social center in short
club.
ENGLAND'S ANSWER
ENGLAND'S answer to Germany's
"peace feeler" is the announce
ment that she proposes to raisq
new armies to throw against the Teu
tonic allies. This was only to be ex
pected. To accept peace now would
be for the Allies to admit defeat. Ger
man arms have been in a large meas
ure victorious. German soil remains
uninvaded. The Allies have been pre
eminently successful on the seas and
Germany has lost'her colonies and her
commerce. That Is the status of the
war to-day. Hut there are other and
more important phases of it that must
be considered in the light of the Allies'
refusal to consider an end of hostilities.
The Allies have just begun to fight.
Daily the numerical strength of the
English, the French and the Russians
increases. Daily the numerical strength
of Germany goes backward. The flower
of the German ariny at the outset of
the war is no more. The raw recruits
THURSDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 30,1915
of the Allies are becoming trained sol
diers and bid fair to blossom into a
crushing: force against the thinning
German and Austrian ranks. The Ger
man Infantry has not been the in
vincible force its creators believed it to
be. To be sure, it is still fighting on
French soil, but farther from the
French capital than it was three weeks
after the war began. It holds Galicia
and Warsaw, too, but in both the
French and the Russian drives it failed
to reach its objective—Paris and the
destruction of the Russian army as a
fighting machine. All hope of taking
Paris is forsaken, and the armies of
the Czar are gathering to the colors in
ever-increasing numbers, better armed
and equipped than ever before. France
and England are piling up mountains
of munitions behind their lines in
Flanders and daily the difference be
j tween the ammunition and artillery
output of the Allies and Germany ap
proaches equality.
Germany started out to be an invad
ing force. In France and in Russia
she Is now entrenched and waging
largely a defensive warfare. When an
/offensive army becomes a defensive
i army, then St has failed of its purpose.
| So. while German arms have had splen
l did success in winning battles, not one j
j decisive action has been recorded in
i favor of Germany. Germany has failed
utterly to do the things she set out to
I do and the result of the war is as
plainly In sight an though already at
hand.
So one may readily understand the
willingness of the Kaiser to consider
peace while his armies are in Russia
and Serbia and France and while Ger
man arms on the surface appear to be
in the ascendant. On the other hand,
the attitude of the Allies in declining
to consider peace at this time may be
better understood by a consideration
of the fact that they have been up to
this time waging largely a war of
preparation. Kitchener at the out
start estimated three years and possibly
longer as the time required by the
Allies to bring Germany to her knees.
The end is not yet in sight, but there
are Indications that a break in German
ability to maintain the terrific strain
may come earlier than that, possibly
some time next summer.
THE "GRIP"
WE have no quarrel with the
man who called it "grip." He
knew whereof he spoke. "Grip"
is the word. When it lays hold on
you just quietly succumb, seek a se
cluded nook and ask to be left alone.
In the quiet of your chamber even
tually the malady will let loose, some
what like a bulldog from the seat of
a tramp's trousers after .somebody
has shot the dog. And you'll have just
about as much immediate relief and
be just about as comfortable as the
aforesaid tramp. Likewise you will
feel just about as kindly toward
"grip" as the tramp would toward the
dog.
We have been told forty-seven dif
ferent ways of avoiding the "grip"—
and none of 'em work. Wo are in
receipt of 156 cures for "grip —and
any one of them is just as good and
110 better than the receipts for avoid
ing the disease. Some of them are
worse than the malady—no, we take
that back, not worse, merely as bad.
Take Rocky Mountain sage, for In
stance. Rocky Mountain sage was
recommended by an erstwhile western
friend who sent us a bunch —we use
the word erstwhile advisedly. If you
have a spite at yourself we recom
mend that you contract "grip" or
drink Rocky Mountain sage, but don't
do both. Either one will be quite
enough.
Some folks think they have "grip"
When they have only a bad cold.
"Grip" differs from cold greatly. When
you get the "grip" you look back
fondly to the days when you had only
a bad cold and say, "some day when
I am feeling particularly fine and
have nothing more than a bad cough,
a stuffed up nose and a sore throat,
I'll do thus and so."
"Grip," we are told, originated in
France, where it is known as I>a
Grippe. We knew it couldn't have
come from Germany. It is too demo
cratic for that. It tackles the high
and mighty and the lame and the
halt with equal unconcern and it
doesi t care a hoot where it scatters
its aches and pains. The back of the
street sweeper and the chest of the
banker all look alike to Old Man
"Grip."
Just at present "grip" is at once
our most popular and most hated in
stitution. Physicians dote on it and
calmly consider next year's vacations
in the light of its daily statistics of
victims. Victims themseWes aljer-"
nately groan over it and "cuss" it. If
you have had it you don't need any
proof of the foregoing. If you haven't
had it there is something coming to
you and you don't need to pray for a
light attack, either. "There ain't no
sich thing."
DANIELS AGAIN
DISAPPOINTED at the bids sub
mitted to the Navy Department
for the construction of the two
tiattleships authorized by the last
Congress, Secretary Daniels is reported
to have suggested a startling innova
tion in the contractural relation which
the steel companies should bear to the
Federal Government. He believes that
the steel companies ought to have
made allowance for the contracts
which they knew as long ago as last
Spring were to be offered in the Fall.
In other words, that the steel com
panies should turn down business
actually in hand so as to be open for
prospective contracts from the United
States.
Due to the fact that steel products
are bringing far higher prices than a
year ago, on account of the huge de
mand from the warring powers, and
also on account of the increase of
wages through the stimulation of the
steel industries, the bids recently open
ed were higher than anticipated. For
a year the Administration has been
taking credit to Itself for the boom
in the steel Industry, and the increase
of wages, which, as everyone knows,
was occasioned by war orders. Now
that this inflated condition of busl
ness tugs at the purse-strings of the
Navy Department, Secretary Daniels
tries to evolve a retroactive under
standing between the steel companies
and the government, and there are
said to be indications that he may
appeal to Congress for some sort of
j Legislation which would compel them
to take contracts on more favorably
terms. Is Mr. Daniels cognizant of
the functions of the United States Su
preme Court?
1 TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE"
—Germany is willing to call It a draw
If the allies give the Kaiser the gate re
ceipts.
j —We don't wonder that "Doc" Cook
I has been ruled out of Germany—but
iwhat we would like to know is why he
I wanted to get In.
j —lf the Germans keep on capturing
I Russians and the Russians keep on cap
j turlng Germans It won't be long before
1 the Czar and the Kaiser will have to
exchange capitals.
—Denmark will not allow foreigners
to lecture on subjects akin to the war.
Now we understand why Bryan didn't
sail on the Oscar 11.
—Colonel House's mission is describ
ed as "atmospheric." Hot air?
j EDITORIAL COMMENT [
Another pathetic little feature of
every-day life is the way, the minute
the President announces that creatures
of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy
must be crushed out, a great many of
our citizens become violently angry at
liim for getting so personal.—Ohio State
Journal.
We'll have to admit this, Henry
r ord's project is not much more foolish
than the war is.—St. Louis Globe Demo
crat.
The Germans are said to be sur
prised that the allies have not asked
for peace already. The reason prob
ably Is that the allies don't read the
German newspapers.—Chicago Herald.
Baron Shibusawa, hailed as the "Pier
pont Morgan of Japan," appears to have
fallen heir to the many bouquets which
his namesake missed during an ardu
ous and otherwise successful career.—•
AVashington Post.
WINTER OF GRIP
[Pittsburgh Post.]
Varieties of weather, shifting from
heavy rain to equally heavy snowfall
in a night, stinging cold one day, un
comfortably mild the next, make this
a winter of grip for more people than
in any year since the 19.00 outbreak
of the watery-eyed and sneezing con
tagion. Pneumonia cases are numer
ous. The epidemic extends from the
East to the Middle West. Its effect is
seen in diminished school attendance,
in hospital records and reports of
health authorities.
Only by the individual exercise of
care can the disease be prevented.
Health experts may advise; it is up
to people themselves to take the nec
essary precautions. These sfmpTe
measures mean avoidance of soaked
shoes and clothing, of irregular hours,
of over-eating and loss of sleep, the
weakening effects of which expose the
system that much more to an attack
of grip.
These precautions are easy. Those
who disregard them endanger not only
their own health, but that of others.
NEW HIGHWAY TO PITTSBURGH
[From the Altoona Times.]
A call lias been issued by the Harris
burg Chamber of Commerce for a meet
ing at Harrisburg, some time in March,
for the purpose of boosting the new
William Penn highway from Philadel- .
phia to Pittsburgh. One of the most j
ardent boosters of this road will be the
Altoona Chamber of Commerce, owing
to the fact that the William Penn high
way route comes considerably closer to J
Altoona than does the present Lincoln I
highway, while there is a possibility
that the route may be decided upon
later to pass through this city.
The Harrisburg meeting is to be at
tended by representatives of ail com
mercial bodies and business men's or
ganizations in the territory adjoining
the route of the proposed highway,
while automobile clubs will also lend
their support. It Is understood that
the local motor club will have repre
sentatives at the body.
The William Penn route has already
been endorsed by Commissoner of
Highways Cunningham, while Governor
Martin <!. Brumbaugh has several times
declared his belief that the main high
way across Pennsylvania should pass
through the Juniata Valley, the course
taken by the William Penn route.
The Lincoln highway, at present the
main thoroughfare between Philadel
phia and Pittsburgh, has only one ad
vantage, and that is Its improvement.
The William Penn route, while a large
portion has not yet been improved, has
many advantages. The lirst Is the re
duced distance, an example of this be
ing the distance from Altoona to Pitts
burgh, which is ninety-eight miles via
the William Penn highway, as compar
ed with 131! miles via the Lincoln high
way. Tile new automobile road from
tliis city to Pittsburgh, it will be noted,
is sixteen miles shorter than the
Pennsy tracks.
Another big advantage of the William
Penn highway is the large number of
cities and large towns which are touch
ed, it being pointed out that the Lin
coln highway, which traverses the old
State highway of a century ago. touches
only a few of the smaller towns.
Perhaps the biggest advantage of the
William Penn routo is the easy grades,
the route from this city to Pittsburgh
having only three hills of any propor
tions, and none of these is either as
steep or as long as the McConnellsburg
hill, on the Lincoln highway.
The William Penn highway is planned
to follow the road from Ilarrlsburg
through the Lewistown narrows, along
the Juniata to Huntingdon, and from
Huntingdon to Williamsburg via the
State road already built. From Wil
liamsburg the road extends through
Hollidaysburg to Cresson, via the Foun
tain Inn road, although many Altoona
boosters of the road believe the natural
route Is through this city, and the
Buckhorn road, to either Ebensburg or
Loretto, from which the road extends
through Indiana.
Indications at present are that the
meeting at Harrlsburg will be well at
tended, a number of organizations of
business men and motorists along the
proposed route being now ardent boost
ers for the William Penn highway.
HOW PRESIDENT WII,SOJI HIDS
HIMSIOI.F OF VNWKLCOME VISI
TORS.
In the January American Magazine
is an unusually interesting article by
James Hay. Jr., on the working habits
of the President of the United States.
In it he gives the following description
of how Wilson rids himself of unwel
come visitors:
"When Mr. Wilson first came to
Washington, senators and members of
the House of Representatives tried to
follow their old system of taking up as
much of a President's time as possible.
They were astonished to find that the
thing could not be done. Unless the
matters on which they called and for
which they had made appointments
were of unusual importance, each con
ference was expected to last anywhere
from three to five minutes. At the end
of tlic allotted time, Mr. Tumulty would
walK into the President's private office,
and the President would rise to his feet
afld say:
" "Now you may be sure that this will
be looked into.'
"There was no way of refusing to ac
cept that polite dismissal. After each
one had departed, Mr. Wilson, who Is
himself an expert stenographer—so ex
pert that a page from his note book Is
as clear and clean-cut as a piece of en
graving—would make a shorthand note
of the caller's business. At the end of
each day he would go through the note
book and give directions or dictate let
ters, dismissing the day's work. These
rules he follows to-day."
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lVKKoi{t«rcuua
By Um Ex-CommlncemM
Philadelphia newspapers which have
been giving considerable space to the
efforts of Mayor-elect Thomas B.
Smith, of Philadelphia, to prevent a
factional fight for control of the Re
publican state organization between
Senator Boies Penrose and Governor
Brumbaugh are intimating that there
may yet be a tight, although Mr. Smith
Is said to have told friends that there
will not be a battle and that all will be
harmony. Rumors that the Vare con
tingent is planning warfare through
out the State are being given out and
prominent up-State Republicans have
been among the visitors to Senator
Penrose the last few days.
It is now stated to be part of the
accepted plan to have the Governor
and the mayors of Philadelphia and
Pittshurgh go as delegates at large.
The Philadelphia Press to-day says
that the slating of the Governor and
Mayor of Philadelphia for delegates
at large is according to precedent and
is not to be regarded as "a harmony
ticket" or as indicative of a contest.
The Philadelphia ledger, on the other
hand, says that events are tending so
that Senator Penrose will face the test
In the May primaries and that in spite
of harmony talk the Governor and the
Vares mean to fight. The Philadelphia
Bulletin says that the senator has held
out the peace branch to the Governor,
but that if it is refused will make the
contest. The Philadelphia Record,
which is Democratic, says that the
senator will be for the Governor for
delegate at large as a matter of course
and intimates that something impor
tant to Republicans will come out in a
day or so. Summing up, the Ledger
says: "The Penrose harmony plan, in
which Mr. Smith is interested, contem
plates sending both Mr. Smith and the
Governor to Chicago as delegates at
large. Senator Penrose hopes that in
this way a fight will be avoided. The
avoiding of a fight, however, is be
lieved, will lead to the granting of con
cessions, possibly as to the character
of the delegates to be slated, and al
most certainly as to the make-up of
the State ticket."
The Philadelphia Record to-day
says: "The Philadelphia branch of
the Workmen's Compensation Bureau
will be opened some time after the
first of the year. If present nego
tiations are carried out, the headquar
ters here will be located in the North
American building. Harry A. Maclcey,
Vare leader of the Forty-sixth ward,
who is chairman of the Workmen's
Compensation Board, will have charge
of the local office."
| —Things are getting strenuous in
I Philadelphia again. Mayor Blanken-
I burg is threatening some quarter to
I twelve vetoes and yesterday Oongress
| man Vare made an appeal to him not
|to veto salary raising: items in ordl-
I nances on which he will act.
I —Judge Kobert Ralston, of the
Philadelphia courts, was taken- 111
while attending a dinner In Pitts
burgh.
—Carlton E. Davis has been re
tained by Mayor Smith as chief of
water In Philadelphia. He is one of
the best known men in the Phila
delphia city service.
—The argument in the contest of
the election of W. S. McDowell as
mayor of Chester will be heard at
Media to-morrow. It may involve
other cities.
—Philadelphia politics got a whirl
last night at a dinner to Judge-elect
I Rogers and Director-designate W. H.
Wilson. Senator McNlchol said that
| while he did not favor Wilson's ap
; pointment yet he would give him
i hearty support and Judge-elect
\ Rogers said that he felt the Republl
! can organization owed him his elec
[ tion as a reward.
i —ln Pittsburgh council has passed
several ordinances over the veto of
Mayor Armstrong and it is now re
ported that a tight between the Arm
strong and Magee forces is certain.
I.LOYD (•GORGE, AND THE UNION
[From the Los Angeles Times.]
Jf David Lloyd George's statement be
fore the British Parliament is his ra
pacity of Minister of Munitions it is a
sorry spectacle he has- held up for the
world to see—a proud empire shackled
«nd begging for mercy! Not from a
foreign foe,' not from the gods of tribu
lation. but from the labor union agita
tors within her gates is Britain plead
ing for deliverance.
There have been traitors and to spare
in the history of the world, but never
before has a great empire been bound
and gagged by the organized conspir
acy of treachery bv her own sons as lias
Great Britain. While the bravest and
best of her sons have fought and died
ill bitter combat against the gneatest
odds soldier has ever been called upon
to face, labor- unionism has bargained
for hours and pence—bartered away
thousands upon thousands of lives of
young manhood that the union work
ingman might enjoy an additional
hour's leisure, a few additional pence
for the hours he worked, that certain
petty unionist restrictions . might be
enforced—exploiting the tragedy of
their country in its greatest crisis with
unbelievable selfishness and brutality.
When Lloyd George denounced the
agitator with all the emotional rhetoric
at his command, telling the nation how I
trade-unionism conceded 6,000 men
under their petty rules and restric
tions, when 300,000 were needed If
Britain's sons were to have a fighting
chance for their lives, and assuring the
country that he is revealing but half
the hindrances deliberately conjured by
the unionist officials, he raises the
gorge of every fair man. As Minister
of Munitions he has come to know the
unionist codes at llrst hand, to see ex
actly where tie utter selfish creed of
the few may wreck the fortunes, sap
the very life blood of the nation in its
hour of peril, and he lias done prodig
ious things In recalling them to some
sense of their responsibility.
HOPE FOR THE HAIRLESS
Dr. Robert B. Clark, of Monroe,
Wis., insanity expert, says hairless
domes indicate sanity. He said: "I
have examined several hundred
patients as to their sanity. I have
had the opportunity of studying many
hundreds of others, and in ail my ex
perience I have yet, with a single ex- 1
ception, to see an insane man who
was baldheaded."
| Our Daily Laugh
MAYBE? |
She: I used to '
think you were / '
one man in a
He: And now :
I you're disappoint- :
I ed because I'm ] |
| not the other 99>.
t LOCATED.
fis? U What do you
V.'i"/yfft) consider the chief
end of man?
■ I Well, In these
\ ij days of the tango,
1 should say that
'man'e chief end
I fll*l® was
THE CARTOON QF THE DAY
"GETTING THEM OUT OF THE TRENCHES"
—From tkr Philadelphia Public- i.riliccr.
(
SCIENCE BEGINS
Light and Heat
By Frederic J. Haskin
THE typical American household
proceeds on a hit-or-miss prin-
ciple that results in a measure
of efficiency only when it follows some
age-old rule, or else by pure chance.
Such is the only conclusion to be
drawn from the results of an inves
tigation just completed by the United
[States Bureau of Standards.
For instance, it is considered good
form in the best circles to keep the
various stoves in the household black.
Not one woman in ten knows why she
does it. A black stove is undoubtedly
more ornamental than one which is
rusty brown, but proceeding on esthe
tic principles solely, a pale yellow or
Nile green might be more decorative
than either. Heating stoves really
are blackened because a black stove
is the hottest kind of a stove there is.
It is no more than a cold scientific
fact that if you nickel-plate a stove
you cut its hest-giving capacity in
half.
This property of black things to
give and take heat readily means that
when you want to carry heat without
losing it, as in hot-water pipes, you
must sec that the pipes are bright and
shining. This is so true, that science
has shown that a bright hot-water
pipe loses less heat than one insulated
in a thin asbestos coating. For the
same reason, pots and pans kept bright
will stay hot longer. The ideal kettle
is black on the jjottom, to take heat
easily, and bright on the sides, to hold
it long.
The various kinds of fuels available
for kitchen and general household
heating are used too often without a
clear understanding of their fitness for
the particular purpose involved. On
a purely theoretical basis, soft coal
and wood are the most economical
fuels by far, in districts where their
price is anywhere near the average.
Wood llres do not last, however, and a
coal fire takes half an hour of prelim
inary maneuvering to get enthusiasm
enough to fry an egg. Gas is expen
sive, but quick and clean. The gas
(lame should hence be used in culinary
skirmishes, when heaT is needed for
a short time in a limited area; but for
major cooking campaigns and assaults
THESTATEFROM WTODOTI
"War-ridden Europe, especially
Russia, is the garden spot of the
world for pickpockets at the present
time," was the opinion delivered
gratuitously to police court in Pitts
burgh yesterday, as the police re
turned to Gus Goldenman several
thousands in bills and a couple dia
mond rings. He, with the costly
name had been arrested on the sus
picion that he was a* adept light
tingered artist, and although no
charge was brought, his statements
showed that he did not live by bread
alone.
A little six-year-old boy in Mapleton
Depot, acting as the tail in the excit
ing game of "crack the whip," was
thrown 40 feet at the turn in one of
the games and died as the result of
his injuries. His playmates pay him
the tribute of saying that "the kid
was always game and never told on
them," but that is not much solace
to the poor mother.
A few days ago. while hunting deer
in Clinton county, J. P. Winchester
brought down v.-hat looked very
much like a gray wolf. Later ex
amination proved this to be so, and
the skin will be mounted and placed
in the State Museum. It Is said to
be the first wolf killed in Pennsyl
vania In 20 years.
Shylock's "pound of flosh" story, re
ported by old "BUI" Shakespeare, has
been converted Into the modern Inter
pretation, and, somewhat battered and
worn, occupies space on the pages of
a daily contemporary. This story
tells of the modern man who went
into a modern grocery store and
grouchily insisted that the grocer
wrap up ajl his packages, Including
his (the grocer's) thumb, which he
had weighed with the butter, and also
the one that he weighed with the
meat. These he wanted wrapped up,
because he was going to use them
for dog meat.
A new method of making butter
milk has been discovered in Sharon,
and it is very simple. All you have
to do is to run your milk-wagon into
a streetcar and your product will soon
be transformed. With sufficient con
fusion It is possible to turn out a
couple pats of butter, but not so fre
quently. Of course this particular
wagon In Sharon was demolished, but
that has nothing to do with the case.
SHE GAVE BT UP
Heinle —"I've got a conundrum for
you, Jllss Hazel. WTiat's the differ
ence between me and a donkey?"
, Miss Hazel "l'm sure I don't
I know,"
on a whole dinner, soft coal is just
about ten times as economical. Such
an estimate, of course, does not consid
er the factor of convenience. To se
cure this latter in a high degree, some
people are even cooking with electric
ity, which is about twenty times as ex
pensive as gas.
Thfe gas flames can be rendered
more economical and effective by a
little understanding of its personal
peculiarities. What you burn is really
not gas, but an air-gas mixture, and
the amount of air should be carefully
regulated by means of the little dam
per at the base of the burner. If you
have too much air, or not enough, the
gas is only partially burned, a con
dition which is both wasteful and dan
gerous to health, because the partly
burned gases are poisonous. For this
reason, a flue over a gas stove to carry
away the invisible products of com
bustion is a good thing, but careful
regulation of the air supply will pre
vent the forming of the harmful va
pors, and give you a hundred cents'
worth of heat for every dollar on the
bill. A gas flame consists of two parts,
a central blue-green portion, sur
rounded by yellow flame. You will
know that your air-supply is right
when the blue-green portion is half
the height of the flame.
Actual cooking is only a small part
of the household heating problem.
The furnace eats several times as
much coal as the range, and it is worth
a little study to keep much of that
coal from Hying up the chimney to
heat the circumambient atmosphere.
Furnace coal is cheaper in the
smaller sizes,, and many furnaces
work better on small coal, so that to
feed your furnace with coal too larg£
for it is a double waste. The furnace
Hues and heating suurfaces should be
kept several times cleaner than ma
jority of them are. Whether the sys
tem works by hot water, or steam, or
air, it must heat its conducting mate
rial in some sort of reservoir. To let
that reservoir get plastered with soot
Is taking considerable pains to insulate
It effectively. The principle is the
same as though you put an asbestos
mat between your coffee pot and the
stove.
g| TKe Searchlight gj|Js
protf.i tim; soi.ihkhs' kaks
A new device called the "Kar De
fender," is being distributed among the
English and French forces. It consists
[of a small perforated metal tube
| which terminates In a ball and tits into
, the passage of the ear. A little metal
disc is attached to the outer end of the
I tube, and this disc is perforated by a
I hole in the center. The disc breaks the
tremendous and destructive sound
waves set up by big-gun explosions, but
through the little hole the soldier can
hear the ordinary conversation of men
around him.
The need of such a device is well
recognized, since after every big ar
tillery engaement hundreds of men are
temporarily deafened for days and
weeks, and some lose their hearing per
manently. The explosion of a big shell
nearby has the same effect, or even a
greater one. Yet in protecting the sol
dier's ears It Is essential that he be
able to hear his officer's, orders.
AS TO KXPEIMEIVCV
[From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.]
Some queer moves havo been made by
the present natlonul administration, but
if it carries out the reported plan of
I pushing the shipping bill ahead of other
legislation, almost anything can be be
lieved of it. But, far more serious,
1 there will be widespread Inclination to
give consideration to the hints heard
from time to time that the administra
tion was not sincere in advocacy of pre
paredness, but looked upon the ques-
I t'.on as one of expediency. The Presi
■ dent has been given credit for an honest
! change of opinion as to the need of na
! tional defense. If after devoting his
j first message to the new Congress to
the subject, he relegates It to the rear
in an attempt to force through a meas
ure which has once been lejected, he
will have himself to blame If his sin
cerity is called into question.
! Far more Important than the pet
! scheme of Secretary McAdoo are the
matters of defense and the raising of
the necessary revenues to run the Gov
ernment, important not only to the
country at large, but to the administra
tion. As a matter of fact, as the days
go by the importance of the shipping
bill for any reason other than glorify
ing the Secretary of the Treasury
dwindles. The President will have to
go before the country next Fall for an
endorsement of his four years of ser
vice and he Is politician enough to rea
lize that he will need to make the
best showing possible. He Is not deal
ing now with the Congress upon which
he forced his canal Idea. If that Con
gress couldn't stand for the shipping
plan. It Is difficult to see how this one
will, even though the plan may have
been changed in some respects.
Even If the administration were not
sincere in Its professions for prepared
ness and that opportunism Is Its watch
word, It would seem the part of expedi
ency to go ahead with the program It
has given the country to understand it
favored. The success or failure of the
program would then rest with Con
gress. In no other way does safety for
the White House lie, because safety
now means the good will of the people,
and that good will Is not at all assured
to any such extent that it can be trifled
•with,
iEtanmg Olfjat
Governor Brumbaugh's tour of til®
State to see the natural benutles o* l
Pennsylvania was so successful last
October that the Governor Is thinking
about a similar trip next Fall to loo*
over the splendid farms of the Key-
Rtone State. The Governor was Im
mensely pleased at the condition of the
roads of the State on his tour last
Fail and has worked out with Highway
onunissioner Cunningham some plana
, ,^. b t ett r^ nt of others. The other
day in talking about the line roads
[that have been established in Penn
sylvania ho said that next Fall lia
[hoped to get a number of friends about
him and to show them what tine farms
Pennsylvania could boast. The Gover
nor "ft'd that he had no plans for the
trip and did not know when he would
lake it, but that he would just like to
show some people who are not aware
of what Pennsylvania is doing in the
farming line what the Commonwealth
possesses what it raises and how it
handles it. Improvement of farming
conditions is one of the Governor's
nobbles and he believes that In spite
ot the growth of Pennsylvania's popu
lation the time is not far distant when
tnere will be so much more attention
paid to agriculture and its allied
branches that there will he enough
of the mainstays of a food supply
within the borders of the State for her
population. There are plenty of peo
pie v, ho would invest in farming and
who would get good returns, if they
knew more about it and conditions in
rural districts would profit from their
interest. The Governor says that
next year a good many people will bo
out to see tho beauties of scenery in
this State and that people will como
from other States when tliev find out
that Pennsylvania has fixed up her
roads. And while they are travelling
the Governor wants them to look over
the farms.
Edward H. Golil, the artist, who is
a native of this city where lie spent a
considerable portion of his younger
years, is preparing to write a book on
his discovery of the site of one of tlio
permanent camps of the Algonquins
near Auburn, X. Y. Mr. Gohl has
been making his home at Auburn and
last summer while exploring about
Lakeside Park, which is rich in Indian
traditions, he came across indisputable
remains of the Indians. He followed
them up and with the collaboration of
officials of the Xew York State division
of arclielogy, he uncovered the site of
a camp which it is believed antedates
the savage Iroquois by several hun
dreds of years. Valuable pottery, ar
rowheads, utensils and even fire places
were discovered and many of the ob
jects are now in the State museum at
Albany, while others have gone to en
hance Indian collections throughout
the State. The relics are now being
studied by Mr. Gohl who believes that
they will shed new light upon the lives
and customs of some of the earliest
Indians of the lake region of New
York, Indians who were possibly an
cestors of some who roamed in the
woods hereabouts in the days before
John Harris built his cabin at the
"Crossing," which later became Har
ris' Ferry and then Harrisburg.
Dr.D.Frank Garland,the head of the
municipal government of Dayton and
the man who originated the changes
in government which have worked so
well in Ohio cities, is to be here next
month to address the Chamber of
Commerce, Dr. Garland is a brother
of Thomas Garland, the North Sixtli
street druggist, an»' is a graduate of
Gettysburg College. He has made a
study of municipal government, for
years, covering half the U.iited States
and a number of countries of Europe.
One of our friends who "clerks" In
a drug store, had this to say to-day:
"When Willie gets a cold this winter,
the old quinine cure will have to be
used sparingly, unless pa and ma are
willing to use an expensive cure. That
drug has climbed up to about threo
times its price before the war. And
Sister Sue with her headache will have
a little trouble, too. Phenacitin, used
to fjive relief from this ailment Is soar
ing at sl2 and sl3 a pound and but
little of the product can be obtained at
that price. One good "tummy"acho
cure was 40 cents a pound before the
war, and now has touched the sl2
mark. Other drugs tised in prescrip
tions are soaring at high figures, and
many of them cannot be obtained at
I any price."
. . .
The steps for organization of the
State Workmen's Compensation sys
tem, which are now being taken in
this city, are bringing to Harrlsburg
many men prominent in business, fin
ancial and industrial affairs. Repre
sentatives of some of the State's larg
est employers of labor have been hero
this week.
1 WELL KNOWN 1
—A. E. Borie, the new president of
the Sav&ge Arms Company, belongs
to one of the old families of Philadel
phia.
—George S. Webster, retiring chief
engineer of Philadelphia, was given a
banquet by his staff in honor of his
appointment of director of docks,
wharves and ferries.
-—W. J. Priestly, one of the superin
tendents just advanced at the Bethle
hem Steel Works, is only thirty years
of age.
I —Kx-Governor William A. Stone has
! turned over his law business at Phila
delphia to his son. Stephen Stone.
—Justice A. Record, Bradford coun
ty's resident, celebrated his 100 th
birthdav with a family dinner, using
forks and plates 125 years old.
| DO YOU KNOW '~l
That Harrlsburg used to have a
big State fair held here?
HISTORIC HARRISBURO
One of the earliest churches of tile
Church of God denomination was es
tablished here.
FEW HAVE IT TO THIS EXTENT
"Pa, what is business tact?"
"Knowing the cash customer just
as well as you know the one that runs
up a bill every month."
'a
Old 1915
■ •
One of the most significant
things about the latter part of
1915 has been the trend of gen
eral advertising towards the
newspapers.
As one keen observer recently
put It:—
> "Manufacturers are beginning
to realize that they must have
the loval support of the local
dealers If their advertising cam
paigns are to win.
"They are learning that deal
ers are keenly alive to the ad
vantages of newspaper adver
tising should follow the line of
paper advertised goods.
"It Is logical that the adver
tising shold follow the line of
• greatest return."
Watch 1918 for larger devel
opments In the same direction.