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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.
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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?"!
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From the Philadelphia Record. —By De Mar.
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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.