8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established ISJI PUBLISHED BT THIS TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. E. J. STACKPOLB President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building, 21« Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Assocl ated Dailies. Eastern Office, Fifth Avenue Bulldlnr, New York City, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Western Office. Advertising Buildinp, Chicago, 111., Robert E. Ward, Delivered by carriers at <TnnaNflbftfxffr> six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. Inors dully nverHtr circulation for the three months ending Urc. 31, 1913. 22,412 ★ Avfrairo for the year 1914—21358 Avcragre for the year 1918—19.00. Averajce fop the year 1912—19,049 Average for the year 1011—17,502 Average for the year 1910—10,261 The above fluures are net. All re- j turned, unsold and damaged eoplea de ducted. THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY •- Prove and know within your hearts that all things lovely and righteous are possible for those who believe in their possibility, and who determine that, for their part, they will make every day's work contribute to them. — Ri skin. SMITH IS ON THE JOB MAYOR SMITH, of Philadelphia, who Is regarded by the press of that city as an official who has a mind of his own, has just de clared that he is a friend of Senator McNicliol and that certain appoint ments In his cabinet, which seemed to indicate a leaning toward the Vares, were "a mere circumstance." Mayor Smith further declares that he did not permit Senator McNlchol to dic tate his appointments any more than he allowed any one else to do it. We gather from the attitude of the Mayor of the metropolis of the State that he Is running the job to suit himself and the factional leaders can "go hang" so far as he Is concerned. In short, Mayor Smith proposes to give all the Republican leaders a square deal and he will demand, in return reasonable and fair support of the measures which he has in mind for the develop ment of Philadelphia. When public servants learn that politicians will play the game fairly only after they realize that the officials are not to be mere stool pigeons, these officials will have more peace of mind and will achieve more of the things which are closest to their hearts, j Constant political unrest is not helpful to the community and in Philadelphia, as elsewhere throughout the State, the less we have of clashing political interests which Interfere with effi cient administration of publi'- * (fairs the better it will be for ail the yr-ple. Mayor Smith has demonstrated in the few weeks since his election a balance of mind which Rugurs well for his administration. He neither takes himself too seriously nor does he per mit the potential political leaders to overwhelm him with their own self ielegated importance. He takes the position manifestly that he is the chosen servant of the people and that political influences are fo have only such consideration as they deserve in the general scheme of our system of government. With this conception of his responsibility to his city and his party Mayor Smith Is likely to have a more successful and a more comfort able administration than would other wise be the case. Henry Ford's expedition to Europe was bound to break down in one way or another, but on top of all his troubles comes a demand from the women dele gates of the party that they be fur nished gowns so that they may make a brave appearance at The Hague next week. The mere man who is the man ager of the party in the absence of Mr. Ford has brutally and with malice aforethought rejected the demands of the women and no gowns will be forth coming. Thus are the aspirations and hopes and expectations of the women pacifists destroyed on the very thresh liold of the peace conference. ROOSEVELT'S OPPORTUNITY SATS Theodore Roosevelt in the current Issue of the Metropolitan, discussing the "Sins of the Wilson Administration," and referring to our European misunderstanding: The administration can do noth ing even if it wishes; for its timid silence about Belgium, its cringing fear of acting In the interests of our own citizens when killed by Mexicans in Mexico or by German's and jiueffiens on the high seas, would render any wordy protest on its part a subject-matter for de rision—and every one knows that It would not venture beyond a wordy protest. In the light of this view one can belter understand Colonel Roosevelt's i recent friendly overtures toward the Republican party. If that Is the way the Colonel feels toward the present administration, it would be little less than traitorous on his part to do any thlns that might be as assistance to President Wilson in his campaign for re-election, and the Colonel well knows that the only possibility for Demo cratic success this year lies in the chance of a renewal of the Republican family row in which he took such a prominent part in 1912. It begins to THURSDAY EVENING, HARRISBtTRG SS|jftE TELEGRAPH JANUARY 6, 1916. look as though the ex-President is pre pared to sink self and selfish ambitions in a truly patriotic effort to replace the reins of American government In practical, reliable and experienced hands. If he sticks to that idea he will be a much bigger man next year in his own country and the world at large than he is to-day and also will have done much to restore himself as a popular idol in the' hearts of hundreds of thousands of his Those Ford pilgrims have seen a part of Europe under very unfavorable con ditions, but they should have given some consideration to the fact that the tourist season abroad has been some what upset by reason of the unnelgh borly attitude of the several nations now throwing stones into each other's back yards. Otir Government is not highly regarded in some parts of Eu rope for several reasons, and any more excursions of the Ford type will have a tendency to further deepen this ad verse impression. DEMOCRATIC VACILLATION PRESIDENT WILSON having changed his mind on every public question considered by him in the last five years, his change of direction in regard to a tariff commission should not surprise anyone who has watched the White House weather vane since his Inauguration. In 1912, addressing the Economic Club at New York city, Mr. Wilson said: It is hard for any man who has ever studied economics at all to restrain a cynical smile when he is told that an intelligent body of his fellow citizens are looking for the "cost of production" as a basis for tariff legislation. * * * It does not exist as a scientific, demonstrable datum fact. By 1915 he had changed his atti tude on this subject and In his In dianapolis speech, referring to the newly organized Federal Trade Com mission, he said, January 8: That commission Is authorized and empowered to inquire into and report to Congress not only upon all the conditions of trade in tills coXintry, but upon the conditions of trade, cost of manufacture, * * * in foreign countries as well as in the United States. Since that time the Federal Trade Commission, as well as the Depart ment of Commerce, has undertaken In vestigations as to the cost of produc tion in certain lines of industry—beet sugar, hosiery, pottery, muslin under wear, etc. The reports of the Com merce Department have been devoted mainly to accusing American manu facturers of not knowing their busi ness, while the results of the beet sugar Investigation by the commission have been pigeonholed because they refuted Democratic statements in re gard to tho cost of producing beet sugar, f-' Jealous of their spheres of influence, considerable anlmostty is said to have been engendered between the commis sion and the department. Despite the .statement of Mr. Wilson that trade In-1 vestigatlons come within the purview of the commission, Mr. Redfleld is clamoring loudly to Congress for addi tional appropriations which will en able his department to go into further Investigations of this sort. Mr. Red field and the chairman of the commis sion are also at odds as to how the ■ problem of "ditttiping" is to be met following the European war, while Dr. E. IC. Pratt, the statistical prodigy who presides over Mr. Redfield's. bureau of foreign and domestic com merce. and whose personal publicity campaign at government expense threatens to throw Mr. Redfleld Into a total eclipse, takes issue with his chief and declares that the fear of '■dumping" in the future is without foundation. Chairman Davles, Secretary Redfleld and Dr. Pratt having disagreed, that great business specialist, Dr. Wilson, is called in, although he once declared "I am not a business man." His letter to ex-Governor Cox, of Ohio, discour aged the use of a tariff commission as a remedy, but, mercy! that was three months ago, and his mind is never so agile as before a campaign. Why, therefore, should we wonder if he pre scribes for business a diet of tariff commission, especially in view of the fact that by so doing he might gain the support of the irreconcilable George W. Perkins, the Bull Moose remnant? There appears to be an atmosphere of suspicion and more or less resent ment In the precincts of the municipal government. Of course, it is all tho outcome of the usual effort to balance political conditions In a "nonpartisan" body, which is impossible. In the In terests of the city and for the welfare of the community it would be well at the very outstart of the new adminis tration to wipe from the slate all these petty things and start afresh with the constructive work of the year. THE PROPER COURSE OVER Allentown-way Mayor Relch cnbach, who assumed office on Monday, has declared against the swearing out of warrants and the sending of trivial cases to the magis trates so that they will eventually clutter up the criminal courts of the county. He says: I propose to take trivial offenders In hand personally, and instead of running them before the magis trates and through the courts, per haps to jail, will try to send them away better men. so they will work and provide for their families. That is the spirit which semes to radiate from the new order of things throughout the country. Instead of increasing the public expense in a drastic administration of Justice, effort is now being made to reform the offenders, instead of merely punishing them at the cost of the people. On Eastern railways for November the net revenues from operations in creased on 32,839' miles of roadway J23.415,100 when compared with this same mileage for November a year ago. There has been a general Increase of net revenue upon most of the railroad lines during the last few months, indi cating a general revival of business throughout the country. There are persistent rumors from Paris and Rome that Emperor William is suffering from an incurable malady of the nature of that which caused the death of his father soon after he as cended the throne. Every turn of the sun brings a fresh complication In the tragedy of Europe. All classes of peo ple have been drawh Into the whirl pool of death and suffering and now comes the Kaiser, who has be«n regarded by so many as the one person who coulH have prevented the awful slauglt- i ter that has devastated so many coun tries Surely the end cannot be far away. | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE"] —Dr. Dixon believes in sneezing with your muffler on. —We haven't heard any boasts ! from Washington over that Demo- ' crattc majority of 671 In Kentucky. 1 —All may be fair in love and war, ' as the old saw has It, but in the ter the President doesn't believe in "Watchful Waiting." —The worst thing about those Russians is that they don't know when they are licked. Don't imagine Congressman Byrnes is going to get far -with that suffrage lobby investigation. There are two many suffrage wives in Wash ington. Anybody can have our share of winter for three cents, payable In 50 years without interest. . , 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT | ..The principal mistake Greece made. [lke Belgium and Poland, seems to have been in her selection of a place on the map.—Kansas City Star. When Secretary Daniels got convert ed to preparedness he went right up to the front bench, opened the liymn-book, and began to take a leading part in the services.—Chicago Herald. "The Kaiser was overcome with emo tion. Sometimes the allies must feel that that's all that ever will overcome him.—Atlanta Constitution. We may be forced to terminate diplo matic relations with Austria. It is quite possible that our State Depart ment is facing a shortage of notepaper. —Brooklyn Eagle, China is perhaps the one country in the world which ran shift from a re public to a kingdom and vice versa, without the population being aware of the fact. —Chicago Herald. 1 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR] MARGARINE! LAWS To the Editor of the Telegraph: My attention has been called to the renewed activity on the part of manu facturers and speculators in butter with regard to the Haugen bill which was introduced in Congress last winter, and which contains stringent restric tions regulating the amount of color which margarine may contain. It equal izes the present tax of one-quarter cents per pound on natural colored mar garine and ten cents per pound on ar tificially colored margarine to a uni form tax of one cent per pound. Re member. no other country in the world taxes margarine. There are also a number of less important changes from the law now in force. However, the dealers and speculators In butter, while apparently relaxing on the color provision of the present law, I in fact are making a law more arbi trary than it has been, as the Haugen bill absolutely forbids the manufacture of margarine having a deeper shade of color than approximately that of cream in the winter time; regardless of whether color is obtained by natural or artificial means. In view of the fact that provision is also made for the af fixing of internal revenue stamps di rectly to each Individual package, thus sealing it, instead of on the outside of shipping case; which provision should effectively prevent the selling of mar garine for anything but what it Is. and which I am strongly In favor of, I can see no reasonable objection in allowing margarine churners the same rights as regards shade of color as the butter I makers; especially as It has been'proven conclusively that the average consumer much prefers his spread for bread of a yellow shade of color. I feel it is absolutely unjust and wrong to legislate and discriminate against a perfectly clean, pure food product such as margarine in favor of another manufactured product—butter. The Ist of November there were over 80.000,000 pounds of this manufactured artificially colored butter in cold stor age which the butter speculators wish to force the consumer to eat instead of allowing theni their choice of fresh made margarine. A USER OF MARGARINE. TO-DAY'S EDITORIALS From the Philadelphia ledger: Judge Gary predicts that the producers of this country. Including the wage earners, "will find themselves in com mercial antagonism with the most per sistent and difficult competition ever experienced unless this shall be pre vented by laws that are reasonable and sufficient." C'ertanly there is need of the most searching examination of! our tariff schedules and consequent ' action greatly resembling a measure of defensive warfare. Special reasons ex ist why the whole system of American tariffs should be overhauled by scien tific experts, by a commission intent upon establishing a "line of justice and fairness between the producer and the consumer," From the Philadelphia Record: The failure of a big irrigation company in Montnna, with liabilities running up into the millions, shows that western farming is not yet an unmistakable highway to wealth. There has been a good deal of speculation in irrigated lands, and success with them is not such a certainty as the glowing pros pectuses of promoters hold out. A fair living generally means a lot of hard work, just as it does in eastern States. From the Philadelphia Press: Now, as time's whirligig revolves. It is Wil liam himself who is alleged to be suf fering from cancer. If that be true, he is disqualified to reign as German emperor. He has a restless, ambitious and dominating son as crown prince. Unless the young man is basely mis represented, his is not a nature that would scruple to do what his father did before him and claim the imperial crown as his constitutional right, to the exclusion of his father. Hence arises an extraordinary crisis in the affairs of the German empire. These repeated statements that Emperor Wil liam has undergone a second operation for cancer of the throat are pregnant with tremendous possibilities. I OUR DAILY LAUGH PUBTO -b sr. jam üßn AL auipnnq 00411*1.1 sun j «red 01 •ytq j«nf I i •jCk :Sna Xpwr j -SSVHHVHWa IK By the Ex-Committeeman Efforts 'are being made to-day in Washington to compose the difference# of opinion among members of Penn sylvania's Republican delegation in Congress over the representative of the State on the Republican congressional campaign committee and it is possible that they may agree upon Congress man George S. Graham, of Philadel phia. Tho caucus yesterday adjourned until Wednesday after a couple of hours spent in discussion, which at times became heated, especially after Congressman Vare had made some re marks in which he said he could have been mayor and that Penrose people had been knocking at his door for peace. Congressman Focht took him to task and there was a general relief of feelings. The place on the committee has been held by Charles E. Patton, now Secretary of Agriculture. When Mr. Patton decided not to be a candidate last time Congressman Edgar R. Kiess, of Lycoming, started after the seat, which Is more or less honorary, and over a year ago secured some pledges, whose givers remained with him yes terday. Unfortunately, KiesS' boom was made to appear as an effort to destroy the Influence of Senator Pen rose, and the friends of the senator got busy and put to the front as a rival candidate Congressman Rowland, who succeeded Mr. Patton in the Clearfield dist i. t. After the discussion yester day the selection was postponed until next Wednesday by a vote of 16 to 13. —The newspapers of the State and of Washington give much attention to the contest, as it is taken as an indi cation of how things will go this year in the State. There has been every effort made for harmony this year, but some of the leaders appear to like to break it up over night. The Philadel phia Inquirer says that there is now prospect of harmony and remarks upon the fuss over a place which does not amount to so much. The Phila delphia Record, Democratic organ, says that Vare blocked the Penrose selection and gives much space to the South Philadelphia leader's story of his recent political life. The Phila delphia Ledger gives attention to Chairman Butler's declaration that to go on means a fight and intimates that all will be lovely next Wednesday. The Pittsburgh papers, as usual, scent a fight. Considerable attention is given to the fact that neither Senators Oliver nor Penrose attended the meeting, al though both were entitled to do so and could have voted. In his discussion of the meeting the Ledger's Washington correspondent, C. R. Michael, who is well known here, says: "Analysis of the vote shows that the Penrose faction was in the lead, had a vote been taken to-day, although many congressmen committed to Row land. the Penrose candidate for com mitteeman. might have refused to vote their convictions. The Penrose faction say that they had 17 votes to 11 for Kiess, the Vare candidate. After the caucus failed to elect, a number of the representatives of both sides held a conference and went over the political aspects of the conflict. Both Kiess and Rowland announced their inten tion to retire from the race to effect harmony. There seems to be a gen eral agreement that the delegation will ultimately agree upon Representative George S. Graham as a compromise. Mr. Graham became acceptable to both sides because of his desire for har mony." —lt is intimated that the appoint ment of a fire marshal may not go to Philadelphia after all. Incidentally, It is said that it may go to the west ern part of the State. —Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, has held up the big loan project in Philadelphia until he gets to know more about it. —Attorney General Francis Shunk Brown has been appointed private counsel to Mayor Smith of Phila delphia. —-The Allegheny county controller fuss is to be settled by the courts this month. Meanwhile business is going on with a strin#to it. —Williamsport council elected the wrong man policeman a day or so ago because initials were tangled up. The man elected seems to want to stay. —The Scranton Independent News, the latest morning paper venture in that city, has quit. It followed the Towne experiments in that city. The Scranton Republican, which absorbed the old News, is now the sole morn ing paper and is going onward and upward. —The Philadelphia civil service board still refuses to quit. City Solici tor Connelley, a Republican, has re tained two of Ryan's aids in his office. BABY YEAR [Pittsburgh Sun.] According to the children's bureau of the Department of Labor, this will be "baby year," for the nation's re sponsibility for its little ones will be emphasized as never before. Infant care is a subject upon which a great number of people who should be posted are woefully ignorant. Thou sands of women who become mothers have no idea of the seriousness of the obligations they have assumed, and in too many instances babies live despite maternal care rather than because of it. Many cities in the country followed Chicago's lead of two years ago in having a baby week, during which every intelligent effort -was made to impart needed education to parents and to emphasize the need for im proved conditions in infant rearing. The work in this city was instrumental in doing an immense amount of good, and it was not confined to any class or to parents of any one station in life. The great success of the baby week has induced the state health officials and organizations interested in child | welfare to take up the subject of a nation-wide baby week, and it will be held the first week of March. Already over 400 cities and towns have signified their intentions of participating in the work. This general observation will cer tainly afford parents everywhere—for it will be taken up in rural communi ties as well as in cities —opportunity to acquire needed Information as to scientific infant, care. According to the census, 300,000 babies under 12 months old die annually. Baby week campaigns will certainly reduce this number and they should be encour aged. WHY IS ITr By \V!n|[ Dinger Why is it that in summer, When we burn little coal, And there are not more ashes Than would fill a small bowl. The ash collector comes 'round Say, twice or thrice a week And in the great, big ash cans In vain, will give a peek? Yet in the <l<*ad of winter. When range and furnace, too, ■ At making ashes, brother, Do all that they can do— When cinders in the cellar And back yard do abound— It takes the ash-collector Three weeks to get around* THE CARTOON OF THE DAY | "HEY ! DO YOU THINK THIS IS A NON-SINKABLE CRAFT?"! i From the Philadelphia Record. —By De Mar. r —- • ANTHRAX By Frederic J. Haskin ONE serious effect of the recent alarm over the prevalence ot j anthrax, the mysterious animal j disease which has claimed several victims within the last few weeks, is a decided slump in the fur market. The fur dealers have been having a hard time ever since the European war broke out. The summer fur fad was carefully fostered to help them out of their difficulties, and this Fall the cloak and suit trade came to their rescue by making fur-trimmed gar ments the fashion. Then came the newspaper story that a young girl in New York had died of anthrax con-1 tracted from a cheap fur trimming. The market began to fall instantly,; and several bankruptcies were directly 1 traceable to that single incident. As a matter of fact, there Is little scientific ground for the fear that anthrax may be disseminated through fur garments. Doctor T. Graham Rogers of the New York Department of Labor, and Doctor Elchorn, the government expert who invented the serum used In the treatment of anth rax, both give It as their opinion that there is not much danger of contract ing the disease from fur. The dis ease Is almost unknown among fur bearing animals, and furthermore the processes used in preparing even the cheapest furs would be almost certain I to destroy Infection. The sudden appearance of several cases of anthrax under striking cir cumstances has given rise to the be lief that the disease is a new and mysterious one. As a matter of fact, it is one of the oldest of plagues among both men and the lower ani mals. Physicians identify It with the plague of bolls described in Exodus. It is mentioned by Homer, Livy, Pliny and Plutarch. In this country, it has long been known chiefly as a disease of domestic animals, but In former times It has been heavily fatal to human life. An epidemic of anthrax In the vicinity of Naples In 1617 killed sixty thousand people; one in Santo Domingo in 1770 took 15,000 iives, and in nearly every country In Europe there are records of anthrax scourges, Anthrax is a disease propagated by a spore which lives in the soil, and it is almost always contracted first by domestic animals. It is most fatal to sheep, but it also causes a regular annual mortality among cattle and horses. The anthrax spores may live In the soil for as much as twenty years, so" that they are very difficult to eradi cate. About the only successful method of disinfecting a. region where anthrax has gained a hold is to flood the land. The spores will float away and may be disposed of by this method, provided the drainage ulti mately reaches a large river and is carried to the sea: for they remain active a long time, and if allowed to settle and dry will become actively infectious again. Anthrax as an animal dissease has been carefully studied of recent years, but its occasional appearance among human beings has never attracted any attention until quite recently. Although it is described in most medical text books, many physicians are not familiar with its symptoms. This ignorance of the disease is the THE STATE FROM DWTODW , Tramp, tramp, tramp, the tramps are tramping,.ls the tune that must have been singing through the head of an Adamstown farmer by tho name of Henry Heft, who In the course of the year 1915 entertained 595 of the tribe of long walkers. This farmer has a warm room set apart In his barn for the wanderers and not once has his trust been betrayed, says he. "Gee, it must be bard to lose a wife," says the comedian, who forgets that this is the twentieth century and Columbus came over in 1492. "It is," replies the equally witty old-timer, almost impossible." But to llnd one is a different matter, and in Wllkes- Barre yesterday Alderman Ruddy was called upon to decide how much it is worth to find a wife for a bachelor. One Rosenthal promised to pay SIOO to Mrs. Levy to find him a wife, which she did, but never re ceived the money, and so brought suit. Her long hair proved to be the means of saving the life of Miss Helen Hoffa, a freshman at Buckneli Uni versity, who was skating wini a party on Buffalo Creek near Lewlsburg the other day. The ice broke and plunged her into ten feet of water, but her escort got hold of her hair and held her up until help arrived. If you are an American woman and marry an alien, do you lose your citizenship? Certainly you do, ac cording to Judge Barber, of Carbon county, who had to decide a case which came up under his jurisdiction along those lines. A big buck up in Altoona Is very friendly and has been living with the cattle in a barnyard nearby, nor would he be driven away. So they chased him into a corner, tied his legs together, loaded him onto an automobile and drove him gaily ithrough the town, to the surprise of oillof source of danger. With pre ventive measures and cures that have been perfected within the last few years, there is no reason why should be a menace 4o human life. Anthrax may occur in human be ings In three forms—external, intes tinal or pulmonary. The external form is caused by an abrasion of the skin coming in contact with a hide or other object infected with the dis ease. Intestinal anthrax may be caused by the eating of food contain ing the bacilli, and the pulmonary variety by breathing infected air. This latter disease has long been known as "wool-sorters' disease" in England where great quantities of sheep pelts are sorted and graded. The gisease has also long been well known in the wool and hide trades in this country, and especially on the sheep ranges of the Southwest. The intestinal and pulmonary forms were long regarded as fatal, but they are now successfully cured by the serum treatment. For many years a vaccine treat ment, based on the Pasteur method, was the only means of combating anthrax. Recent improvements In the treatment, however, seem to hold out the possibility of complete eradi cation of the disease. When the Na tional Live Stock Association held its convention in Chicago not long ago, veterinarians agreed upon a co-opera tive campaign for that purpose. Rigid inspection of animals, proper dis posal of infected carcasses and tne drainage of all infected' soil are the principal means to be employed. The trouble with the Pasteur serum was that it would not keep more than a year and sometimes became inert after three months. Recently a serum has been perfected in this country, however, which has remarkably keep ing qualities and is highly effective both as a curative and a preventive. This serum is made by infecting horses until they become tolerant to the disease and then drawing off their blood from which the seruni is made. In regions where anthrax is known to have gained a hold all animals must be vaccinated with this serum until they are immune or else the soil must be rid of the infection by drain age. The anthrax bacillus is extremely tenacious of life. He still lives after being boiled vigorously. About the only disinfectant which seems to de stroy him absolutely is corrosive sub limate. The treatment of hides with this powerful disinfectant is about tho only sure way of guarding the persons handling them against the disease. State health officers are strongly urging this treatment for all hides and pelts. The United States government takes elaborate precautions to pre vent the introduction of the disease by importations. Hides cannot be brought into this country without a certificate of the United States consul at the shipping point to the effect that they have been treated with corrosive sublimate. In view of this elaborate system of prevention and cure, it is not prob able that anthrax is to become « serious menace either to human life or the livestock industry. passersby. Outside the town released and "vamoosed." Allentown I? one of the growing cities of the State, and has but re cently launched two new hotel pro jects. A hotel being the most logical center of gravitation for strangers to a city, it Is natural that the stranger should remember the city by the place which he made his home when there. We aro glad to say, here in Harris burg, however, that there are excep tions to all rules. "Bertillon cocktails" nearly proved the death of thirty-one men In Pitts burgh. One of the lodgers In the cen tral police station, being hungry, wandered into the Bertillon room where stood many bottles on a shelf. Red liquor gleamed from within and it seemed to the wanderer as though It would look better within himself. Being unselfish, he told his fellow lodgers. Later a stomach pump re moved a developing fluid containing wood alcohol. GOOD WORDS fFrom the New York Sun.l After thirty-seven years in a New York pastorate the Rrv. Dr. Joseph R. Puryee is able to tell bis congregation, In a New Year's address: "There is more religion, and that of the zealous and sacrificing kind, in New York than there was thirty years ago. "There Is less public and private im morality. There is quicker response to relieve misfortune." Are the people of this town less given than formerly to church attendance? The veteran preacher thinks they are; but whether he is correct or not, the fact is, as he says, that any falling oft in formal observance is due not to loss of faith but to increased Interests In helpful enterprises, many of which are Instituted by the churches. Religion is not nowadays confined to the Sab bath. Neither the sincerity nor tl.j essen tial accuracy of i)r. Duryee's remarks Is questionable. This being so, they are the more welcome and cheerful because of their contrast with so many pessi mistic utterances of the day—too often from tha pulpit. Stoning (Eljat Titles of some of the films for whose display moving pictures theater owners paid tines to the State of Penn sylvania because of suits started by the State Board of Moving Picturo Censors, are almost enough to ha\«» caused their being banned. The list of prosecutions carried out. by tho State Board in Philadelphia an I Pittsburgh contains names of som<» thrillers. One of those which led 4<> an arrest was entitled "The Cruise of the Hell Ship." Another was "Little Buster's Game," while two of the very first to cause arrest were "John Bar leycorn" and "Drug Terror." "Smith s Marmalade" and "House With Nobody in It" also led to arrests because som« parts were not "pruned." Other titles which appear on the list of prosecu tions are interesting, being "Mabel's Busy Day," "Gertie's Joyride," "Waking Father," "And Percy Got Married," "The Bum Detective" and "A Woman's Resurrection." Others in a group were "The Master Hand," "Tho Stolen Voice" and "Bold, Bad Boys." The Johnson-Willard films cost a Philadelphia firm SSO and another called "The Snake" was the cause of a $25 fine. Among names of films which cost fines were "The Tramp," "The Ghost" and "The Champion.'" Another styled "Alone at Last" cost the producer SSO. Probably one of the funniest letters received by Governor Brumbaugh since he took the executive chair turn ed up yesterday afternoon from a mar; who evidently deals in inks. He ask ed if the Governor would please in form him of the man who sells ink to the State Capitol, the Harrisburg Post Office and the Capitol at Washing ton. The nirm gave no reason for de siring this information and thanked the Governor in advance. There is less State money now held by banks and trust companies of Pennsylvania than for over twenty years. In fact there have been days when the active depositories of tho State funds, against which checks aro drawn for daily business, have had almost half of the funds of the Com monwealth. It is not so m&ny months since there were 100 financial institu tions handling State money, being classed as inactive depositories ami having deposits subject to withdrawal upon notice. Now there are hardly forty. The State financial showing at the end of the year was the poorest in a long time and the heavy appro priations authorized do not promise much relief. The general fund of the State contains about two millions and there is a million dollars owing to the schools of the State, which under ordinary circumstances would have been paid before this time. • * • Judging from inquiries being made at the State Capitol there will be a scarcity of farmhands In Pennsylva nia next Spring. Some of the coun ties of the State have been report ing that men were being attracted from the country to the cities by the demands for hands for mills and fac tories and on the railroads. In some country districts there were inquiries made as to whether the State could reach some peasant labor from Eu rope, but it was found that all such men were engaged in industrial work of various kinds. An effort will be made by the State's new employment agencies to put farmers into touch with men hunting jobs and some city workers may get chances to go to the soil. • • • Some people have very hazy ideas of what compensation means. The gen eral impression in conversations over heard in trolleys cars and in streets is that it relates to benefits, while some have the idea that it will standardize wages in various lines. One lawyer told a story yesterday of a man who called on him and asked if he could deduct a certain sum from fne weekly wages paid to provide for the compen sation of men who got hurt In his gang and who had a hard time to realize that he would have to look to the pub lic to pay the extra cost. Some work ingmen have the compensation system and old age pensions rather twisted, as was evidenced by one man who in go ing home told a fellow-workman that he hoped to be able to work twenty years for his employer because then he would be under the compensation' act. In spite of all the miles of mat , ter that have been printed and the un told number of words spoken about compensation it would seem that there are many who do not yet understand what it means. * ♦ • Among visitors to the city is William 1 C. Fownes, art collector and golfer, of Pittsburgh, who is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Oaither. Mr. Fownes has been planning a little golf on Harrisburg courses this week if tho weatherman will be kind. ' I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ i — 1 —Charles E. Troxell, for years con nected with the Cambria county gov > ernment, has been appointed deputy . controller. —D. L. Starr, prominent in the , borough league, has been re-elected solicitor of Bellevue. —Mavor Armstrong, of Pittsburgh, was given a dinner by Pittsburgh city employes. ' Congressman M. M. Gardland was presented with a gavel by a friend in tho Hawaiian legislature. Professor O. L. Shinn will be head . of the University of Pennsylvania summer school. " —Wallace W. Fetzer, major of 1 cavalry, was commander of the Mil > ton pompany of the National Guard. ; DO YOU KNOW That steel for locomotive parts is made in this county? 1 __ HISTORIC HARRISBURG ! The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. '( met here for the first time In 1814. ! PRETENDERS . [From the Louisville Courier-Journal.l Being a pretender to the throne Of a - European country has certain disau - vantages In times of war. however con soling and socially elevating it bo in times of peace. The Puke, of Cl eans. who is the pi-eteiub-r t" the ex tinct throne of France, offered bis ser vices to several armies when the wai began, but was refused all around. l>on ' Jaime do Bournon. who has grown gray • pretending to tho throne of <; . under arrest in Austria as a result of his effort to visit his estates there. The Jury i Every reader of this newspaper ' is a niember of a daily I Each day the claims of rival ; manufacturers and merchants are set forth in tho advertising. And the great jury of readers passes on those ami gives its ver dict by purchasing: or leaving alone. By that verdict the various ad , vertisers must stand or fall. There is no appeal. . The advertising only succeeds as it is made helpful and appoal i lng to your needs.
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