6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Established iSjr PUBLISHKD BY THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO. K. J. STACK POLE President and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER Secretary GUS M. STEINMETZ Managing Editor Published every evening (except Sun day) at the Telegraph Building. 21t Federal Square. Both phones. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern Office. Fifth Avenue Building. New York City, Hasbrook, Story A ■ Brooks. Western Office. Advertising Building, Chicago, 111., Robert E. Ward. Delivered by carriers at vaijiiiwifb^six cents a week. Mailed to subscribers at $3.00 a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office In Hsrri.s burg. Pa., as second class matter. iimira dnlly average circulation for the three month* ending Dec. 31. 1015. Jf" 22,412 Average for the yenr 1011—21,88S Average for the ycitr 11M3—1IW]* Aremßf for the year 1912—19.040 Average for the year lltli—lT.sW Average for the year 1910— 10,2nl 'llmr figures are net. All retnrned, unsold and damaged copies deducted. MONDAY EVENING. J A WARY 10 .4s to the burden, be content to bear it. until thou come to the place of de- I iterance: for there it trill foil from tl:y back itself. —Bunyan. THE HIGH SCHOOL PROBLEM THE problem "is not merely a matter of going out and buying a lot and placing a building on it," said President Stamm on Satur day in discussing the attitude of the school board toward the early relief ■ f well-nigh intolerable conditions at the Central High School. Mr. Stamm also said that he is very desirous that i lie board shall "get a right start." His idea of a special committee of school directors acting in conjunction with a committee of bis, broad-minded busi nessmen is unquestionably better than a half-dozen special committees ap proaching the subject from as many angles. The high school in the end must be built by the school lioard. The direc tors were elected with that special thought in view. They were chosen deliberately, after full discussion of their merits and with a knowledge of the important duties to be entrusted to them. They are answerable to the public as no outside committee can possibly be and they are collectively well able to solve the difficult problem they are facing. Mr. Stamm quoted as his ideal of the public school the expression of a well known English school master. The public may well place its trust in a man who takes that as his educational creed. It is a fine thing to think that the future of the public schools of Harrisburg, and of the high school in particular, is in the hands of a board ">f control whose president holds be lore him as his conception of what the schools ought to be and do, this broad view: I look forward to a not far dis tant future when the public school boy shall be what we each of us in our inmost hearts, if we ever take the trouble to think, always meant ! him to be: upright, pure, honorable. I truthful, fttll of a divine, restless power, which will make for tiie amelioration of the lot of mankind over whom he will have swav. I look forward to a time when 'snob bery. the mad pursuit of wealth, the incessant search for transient pleasures, undue athletic promi nence, slackness of aim, brain lesscness. blindness to beautv, tacit i-onsent to pain, bullying—all these and a million other present-day vices shall be wholly eradicated from our system, and in their place be substituted generositv., esthetic appreciation for whatever things arc honorable, pure, and of good re port. indulgence and compassion toward the weak, tin- encourage ment of the intellectual, a real un derstanding for the things that matter, and a turning away from the things that matter not. Local banking institutions are show ing through their reports a stability that must be most reassuring to all who are interested in the growth of the city. Perhaps the most encouraging feature is the Interest of wage-earners in the savings departments of several banks and trust companies. Thrift is the basis of all prosperity and the Har risburg banks are doing much to en courage the individual to conserve his resources in the proper way. PHYSICIAN'S AND THE LAW THE recent meeting of the Medi cal Club of Harrisburg, address ed by Commissioner of Labor John Price Jackson and attended by physicians from all over this section of the State, was a step in the right direction. Physicians and the laws of Ihe State are coming yearly into closer relation and it behooves every doctor worthy of the name to ascer tain his own standing in the law and how the new statutes or pending leg islation may affect him. The Work men's Compensation law, which was the subject under discussion at the meeting in question, is an example of the complications which physicians are now facing. This act provides that the employer pay for services the first two weeks after an employe's in jury, and after that the workman is responsible for his own medical or sureical expenses. The misunder standings that might arise unless doc tots are fully conversant with the law and take the trouble to explain it to patients and their families need not be outlined. No barm can come and much good can he derived from such discussions as that in which the mcd MONDAY EVENING, leal club engaged at Its recent ses sion. Judge Baldrklge has "soaked" another Altoona speed fiend with a fine of SIOO and thirty days in .la.il for driving an automobile while intoxicated. This is the second example which this Blair county judge has given to reckless au toists within two weeks. There are still a few indifferent drivers in Har lisburg who should bo made to suffer in some such way. Heavy atltomoblle trucks and touring cars are driven through our streets without any regard whatever for the safety of life and limb. Let us hope that Mayor Meals will bring his strong list down upon these violators of the law. DESCRIBING IT DON'T worry because you can't es cape the "grip" by taking a Southern trip. "Grip," aside from being no respecter of persons, likewise cares nothing for locality, as the following editorial from the Foun tain Inn Tribune, of South Carolina, so eloquently demonstrates: I»ast week's Tribune was not quite up to the usual standard. The editor had, and has, a cold —the original old he cold. Russian cos si i ks and German cavalry charge j back and forth across his cerebel- I lum. The English and the French | forces are conducting extensive sapping operatic ns in ills chest, and at stated intervals a floating mine I explodes in his joints. He also suf- I fers from the malady peculiar to King Constantlne—cold feet. And Sophie isn't here to warm 'em. Now, you wlio have been "cussing" the winter climate of Pennsylvania and yearning for a month's visit to the "Sunny South." pause in your rav ings and cackle the cynical laugh of one rudely awakened from a fond dream to a grim realization that all is not sunny in the "Sunny South" and | that the human constitution is prone to "colds" even as far south as the equator. Colds, did we say? Why, this Fountain Inn editor has a real old-fashioned, hit-from-t he-shoulder, knock-down-and-drag-out. case of Pennsylvania grip and he doesn't know it. CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE THIS is addressed to the business man of the community who may have asked himself—and the question is by no means merely sup positious—what is the purpose and the use of the Chamber of Commerce? The Alexander Hamilton Institute, which gives itself largely to the con sideration of hard-headed business propositions, has found so many of its patrons uncertain as to the objects and utilities of the Chamber of Commerce as a national institution that it has just issued a bulletin devoted to the subject, in which it defines the term thus: It is an association of merchants for the purpose, through co-opera tion. of promoting the interests of commerce; and as commerce re quires, for Its advance, peace, pros perity, good government, sound currency, honest banking, quick, tellable and reasonable means of transportation, wide education, economy, both individual and gov ernmental. and righteousness of life, the Chamber of Commerce is necessarily working all the time for peace, for progressive prosper ity. for good government—Federal, State and local—for the best bank ing and currency laws and meth ods, for the extension and cheapen ing of systems of transportation, for the encouragement of education and for every means for increasing intelligence and right-living. If that be a fair summary of what the Chamber of Commerce Is nation ally. then our own local Chamber is a step or two in advance of the proces sion in that it embraces not only mer chants. but men of all walks of life, and it has its social as well as its business side. Casting down over this very comprehensive definition it is not possible to find any line of activity there suggested that the Harrisburg body is not following intelligently and energetically. This is an assurance that Harrisburg members are getting a full return for their membership fees. It is gratifying to have endorsement from such a high source. ADA BEHAX THE death of Ada Rehan in New York Saturday night, revives a world of memories for the the atergoer of twenty years ago, but it means all too little to those of the I younger generation. The stage has seen many greater artists than Miss Rehan, but has never known one more versatile or more charming. As for her beauty, it need only be recalled that when one of the great mining States of the West was looking for a model in which to cast a statue in solid silver for the Chicago World's Fair, Miss Rehan was selected. Miss Rehan was an actress of the "old school," in that she received her training in "stock," and therefore brought to her profession a wealth of experience and understanding denied to many rising young actresses of to day who fall into one or two lines of plays and devote their attention to spe cializing in them. Miss Rehan occu pied her own especial niche In the theatrical world. None took her place when she .retired. Like most of those whose names will be long remembered in connection with stage successes she was distinctly individual and there is none to-day with whom she might be compared in a way that would give those who never saw her, any concep tion of her charm or ability. DEMOCRATIC "EFFICIENCY" DR. E. E. PRATT, In charge of the Bureau of Foreign and Domes tic Commerce, is the understudy for Secretary Redfield. As a press agent for the Department of Com merce. Dr. Pratt needs no prompting from his chief. A speech made by him at Seattle has been circulated over the country, with the aid of a gov ernment frank. It contains this mod est statement: Probably no organization in the country is so admirably equipped to answer these (trade with Latin i America 1 questions as the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com merce. • • » Exporters are finding that to avait themselves of Its service and Its publications means increased sales and welcome profits. This discovery on the part of ex porters must be of very recent origin. Our exports to the Latin Americas for the fiscal year ending June .10, 191?., amounted to $133,000,000, which was $53,000,000 less than for the fiscal year 1913, most of which year was The Days of Real Sport .... By BRIGGS | tinder Republican administration. On the other hand, Imports front the Latin Americas amounted to nearly $49,000,000 more in 1915 than in 1913. No doubt Dr. Pratt and his "ad mirably equipped" organization can explain why the year 1915, with a Democratic tariff law in force, finds our trade with these countries $102,- 000,000 worse than it was in 1913. But can he explain it satisfactorily? "fotttu* LK t-KKO If a>VUi By the Ex-Connnltteeman The Philadelphia Public Ledger to day endeavors by means of statements sent by correspondents from most of the counties of the State to show that there is sentiment among Republicans lor a contest over national delegates. Most of the dispatches, however, deal more with the control of local organi zations than anything else. Both Sen ator Penrose and Governor Brum baugh are shown to be strong. As a matter of fact there is more or less talk about a contest for na tional delegates, but down deep most of the Republicans who remember 1912. and who realize the condition of tiie Democrats, who are at each other's throats over jobs, desire harmonv and expect that it will be brought notwith standing the efforts of some men to make trouble to satisfy "grouches." -—The question over the right of William 11. Wilson to become Director of Public Safety in Philadelphia dur ing his term as a legislator notwith standing his resignation as a member of the House, has been raised in Alle gheny county because Representa.- tive John C. Kaiser, of Pittsburgh, has | been appointed to the Allegheny county tax board. The question of what the constitution means in its pro hibition of legislators accepting civil appointments is being agitated In both ends of the State and ,i test case is likely if for nothing else than an ef fort to determine the matter which is always bobbing up somewhere or other. —Henry G. Wasson, the national committeeman from Pennsylvania whose .term will expire this year, has sent a letter to State Chairman Wil liam E. Crow, and the newspapers, in which he points out what the election laws of the State provide in the way of duties for voters. He notes that the voters are not to elect tha national committeeman and calls attention to registration and other laws. —W. D. Ard has been appointed de puty sheriff of Perry and has assumed his duties at the New Bloomfield courthouse. —Prominent Republicans from all over the State attended the dinner of the Terrapin club at Philadelphia on Saturday, but were rather cautious In remarks, according to the Philadel phia Record. Lieutenant Governor McClain who presided, made one of the best speeches he has made in a long time and counseled common sense. Governor Brumbaugh. Senator Penrose. Mayor Smith, Philander C. Knox, Senator Oliver, Senator Snyder! and others were speakers. —The appointment of Dr. C. C. Ms bane, the President's boyhood friend, as postmaster of Wilkes-Barre, has fanned the flames of trouble in the State Democracy and charges are be ing made that there was direct inter ference with appointments from with out the congressional district. It is said that charges against Mebane will be listened to by the President and that men opposed to the Palmer in tluenco will go after every appointment he has made in Washington. Palmer Is accused of having been behind Me bane, In cplte of the fact that Con gressman Casey had another candi date. —The Democratic Jackson day din ner at Philadelphia on Saturday was iittended mainly by reorganization men. Congressman Dewalt was the only speaker from the Old Guard. The harmony lasted throughout the dinner. —One E. P. Jones, or West Chester, Is a candidate for United States Sen ator. —No license campaigns are being opened in half a dozen counties and bid fair to have considerable effect on the election of legislators next Fall. In some districts the No-License peo ple are getting after prospective can didates. —Northampton is blessed with two I county controllers, both claiming the joffice and awaiting decision by the courts. I —it is expected that Representa | t.lves Weimer and I'rlch will have op position at the primaries for Republi can renominatlon. i —According to Washington dis- HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH VISITING THE WAR BRIDES The Plight of Penn's Grove By Frederic J. Haskin THIS is a town transformed. A year ago it was a peaceful coun try village, with about 2,500 in habitants, famed for its pretty cottage homes, its fine oyster shell roads, and its general air of bucolic restfulness. To-day it is the center of a roaring labor camp where about 8,000 people live and more than 15,000 work. Ugly frame structures to house foreign la borers are going up on every vacant iot. to the great disgust of the natives. The fine roads have been reduced to ruts and dust. Its only hotel, a fam ous historical landmark, took in nearly a thousand dollars over Its bar in one day; whereupon, Penn's Grove threw up its hands in righteous horror and sent for the sheriff. The village .sug gests a highly respectable maiden lady of advanced age trying to entertain a large and hilarious party of drum mers. But the change outside Penn's Grove Is more startling than within. As though besieged by a hostile army, the village is surrounded on ail sides by immense canfips that were built al most in a day. A year ago the powder mill employed about 200 men; now it lias 14.000 on its pay roll. There are hundreds and hundreds of acres cov ered wit It long, low mills, drying houses and towering blending plants. Some of are built of sheet iron, patches W. D. Nicholas, of Strouds-j burg, A. Mitchell Palmer's protege in the oftlee of the sergeant-at-arma of tho House at Washington, is to lose his job because Congressman Liebel, of Eric, wants it for Robert N. Brown, of Meadville. The Palmer influence appears to be waning among congress- j men. —Representative Harvey Christ man, of Montgomery, is out for Democratic renomination. •The civil service commissioners retired by Mayor Smith are back with hot statements, but they do not ap pear to be disturbing many people. 1 -—Senator Snyder soys he is a can didate for auditor general in every sense of the word. —Mayor McDowell, the new execu tive of Chester, yesterday personally conducted some raids on gamblers. —Miss Miriam Nutt, daughter of a Fayette county commissioner, has been appointed deputy coroner of Fayette by Coroner Baum. She is the only woman in the State to hold the olflee. —Five Schuylkill supervisors have been indicted for failing to keep up roads. Friends of Thomas H. Garvin, chief clerk of the House and Republican cjunty chairman of Dolaware, will be interested to know that he won his libel suit against J. Watts Mercur, the Delaware Bull Mooser. The ver dict, which was for $1,200 carries a complete vindication. 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT | | England is now mobilizing American stocks, which do not need six months' training to be made efficient. —Now York Evening Mail. Mr. Lansing was careful not to weaken the note to Austria by using the meaningless phrase, "strict ac countability." Philadelphia North American. Between Colonel Roosevelt and the diplomatic correspondence of this epoch the dictionary business is getting a look-in all right.—New York Morning Telegraph. It's easy to understand Mr. Roose velt's clamor for a greater army and navy. He can't live always, and doesn't wont to leave us entirely unprotected. —Nashville Southern Lumberman. HOW I HATE Hill lly Wing Dinger There is one fellow In this world Who surely has my goat— I wish that I were big enough To clutch him at the throat And shake him 'till he couldn't stand— By jova, 'twould serve lilm right. Because he said something unkind To me the other night. It happened in the station, where I stumbled o'er a bag '■ And in heap fell to the floor— When to my aid some wag Came quickly, and as to my feet He helped me. to some snip Who asked the trouble, he replied; "Just getting o'er the grip." some of wood, covered with paper. All iire painted a dull battleship gray. They are surrounded by woven wire fence ten feet high and topped with barbs. Two hundred special guards in khaki uniforms are on hand to ex plain what, the fences are for. An endless procession of trains brings in material and carries out fin ished powder to waiting ships. Out side the formidable fences are the swarming quarters of the employes. Some of their houses are built of paper and wood, and some of them are even portable. An army of about 500 car penters is building whole villages of flimsy shacks to house the growing horde of workers. Numerous thrifty foreigners, mostly Greeks and Italians, have conic and opened up fruit stands and grocery stores and restaurants, thereby causing the storekeepers of Penn's Grove much grief. Truly this village has tasted of the irony of fate. She did not invite all these uncouth people here, but they have come, and now she has to take care of them. They swarm through her streets at night like the crowds 011 Broadway, and her few policemen can do little but seek a place of safety and quiet. They create sanitary and hous ing problems such as she never ex [ Continued on Page ».] ! 1 TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE [ j —The latest, drink unearthed by the j revenue officers is composed of corn- I meal, sugar, lye, plug tobacco, lye, ! poke berries and soda, but no wit nesses could be found to testify to its j effects. Did the officers consult the coroner? —The kaiser's son will marry in February, which only strengthens our belief in Cupid's ability not only to laugh at locksmiths, but to dodge bul lets as well. —When a deputy warden at Sing Sing weeps as he discusses the death chair, capital punishment is indeed on the wane. 1 —"The water wagon is having tough pulling in the seven new dry States," says an exchange. Maybe that's the reason our own State Highway De partment. is so busy putting Pennsyl vania roads in order. The time is coin ing, you know. —Long engagements and long mar riages seem to have gone out of fashion about the same time. TO-DAY'S EDITORIALS The New York Times.—When Am-1 I erican rights upon the seas have been ! I repeatedly and brutally violated, j when Bryanized or alienized Senators j are eager to curtail them and meekly I accept the wrong, when some Anieri -1 can Senators forget America, when the | President of the United States, main taining its neutrality, maintaining un- i j diminished the right of Americans and of humanity, is assailed by men of li's own party for doing his duty in a difficult time, Mr. Lodge forgets that ho is a Republican. Tie is an Am erican whose politics cease "at the j water's edge." He Is not a partisan, { but a patriot. Nothing in his honorable and great career lias been greater or more hon-1 orable than Mr. Lodge's course in the Senate 011 Wednesday. The Philadelphia J/edgrr. lt is interesting to find the Premier of Newfoundland urging that the English speaking peoples of both hemispheres should unite in creating a new "Mon roe Doctrine" for peace as well as for territory. For in the same para graph in which the New Republic comments on the reasons for the ex clusion of Great Britain as a possible assailant of the United States it asks | the pertinent question whether it is I not the part of sanity for the United States to ask Great Britain to join i with us in the protection of this hemi • sphere. Canada is second only to the j United States as an American Power, 'and the British interests In South Am- I erica are to-day more Important than our own. There is every reason, therefore, why Pan - Americanism should be made to include all the Am erican States and the famous Doctrine "converted from a supreme liabllty a genuine international ay«Uiuu" : JANUARY 10, 1916. THE STATE FROM W TO DW Even the mules have grip in Hazlc ton, and they give It to the miners, is the complaint out that way. Quinine and wlilskj* lias in some cases proved an effective remedy for tlie animals, who are spreading the disease among the miners by sneezing, which the lat ter claim is against the rules. The strange case of Miss Edith Har ris. a Scranton gill, who died there on Friday, is still being discussed by phy sicians. Miss Harris was pronounced 'dead, in body" nearly two weeks ago, but a vital spark of life still glowed through the retention of a slight heart action, although to all appearances there was no life in her. Specialists say she had valvular heart diseases, and that complete paralysis must have developed at the time she was pro nounced "dead in body." Dr. John N. Jacobs, former county controller of .Montgomery county, who has stirred up so much excitement by his refusal to accept the $16,000 due him for his services, is daily receiving from thirty to fifty letters begging that lie give each the money which lie has refused, tine woman claims s S:IS store would do her a lot of good this winter. No men will be laid off by the Cambria Stee! Company, is the announcement made by General Superintendent Stack bouse. The rumor that men would be dismissed because oC physical defects, by reason of the going into effect of the Workmen's Compensation law, was unfounded. The Abington Memorial Hospital, in Philadelphia, has been endowed with an additk nal $ J .">O.OOO by George W. El kins. the Philadelphia banker and clubman, bringing the total of Mr. Elkins' benefactions to this institution to well over $700,000. Our neighbor, Carlisle, can well boast of being the modern Babel, in that eighty-four separate and distinct langu ages are spoken in Its environs. The range Is from classical Greek and mod ern English to Kiekapoo and Esqui maux. with Wasliee thrown in for good measure. Had it not been so serious, it might have been comical when Miss Percy Haswell, the Shakesperean actress who appeared in "Romeo and Juliet." in Allentown on Saturday, fell twelve feet In company with the balcony upon which she was kneeling in the bal cony-midnight scene. It does not say in the account what became of poor Romeo, who perchance was buried be neath the avalanche. f Searchlight I—in mi TELEGIIAPHING IIV TYPEWRITER In the central offices of telegraph companies in big cities, they are in stalling a device which makes much of the old special knowledge of the Morse operator useless, and increases the ef ficiency of the.telegraph system as well. The new machine lias a keyboard like a typewriter, and Is operated by a skilled stenographer instead of a teleg rapher. The message is written out on the keyboard as in ordinary type writing. and the machine puts it on the wire. Instead of letters which are re corded on paper, punching each letter produces a characteristic arrangement of perforations on a paper tape. The efficiency of the system lies in the high speed at which *it is possible to write out messages on the type writer keyboard. Forty or forty-five words a minute are easily written. Moreover, an auxiliary device has been perfected by which four operators can work each way 011 one wire. This is done by sending in turn, automatically, from each of the four keyboards, tlie change being made so rapidly that no one of the operators is hindered from writing as fast as she can. NOT DANGEROUS [From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.] Representative Byrnes, of South Carolina, who would investigate the suffragist lobby in 'Washington, does not intimate that it is of the malignant, ■•insidious" type. I OUR DAILY LAUGH OF COURSE. iffy Frog Lover: If C:' you refuse me, I ififH J l-* will have tO{ffj> tTHEY DID. one of those aero planes—l wonder if we can get ia jj Stoning (Ettat j Tlie farmers of Pennsylvania have money anil have been putting it into automobiles at a rate which it is be lieved will astonish people when the returns are counted up. The Stato Highway and Agricultural Depart ments have been quietly making efforts to get a line on the number of cars actually used by farmers and it is believed that it will be found that pretty fair percentage of the 215,00'w farmers in the State have motor ve hicles or the use of them. In somo counties it is said that estimates made by men who follow up such things show as high as 12 per cent, of the farmers own automobiles and that while the cheaper grades of cars are sold they last a long time. Ob servations made at county towns anil places where the farmers coine to market show that the automobile is rapidly taking the place of the old fashioned market wagon. At the Statu Highway Department's automohiUs licensing division it lias been found that the number of persons writing for licenses from rural delivery routes lias increased considerably over last. January. * * • Some odd actions in regard to the workmen's compensation act have been comine to light at the offices of the State board in this city. Under the law any employer may apply for exemption from necessity of insuring liability, but the State must be satis tied about ability to pay expenses. The other day one application was made by a man who just did not want to carry it. Several rejections have been received by persons who wanted to re lieve employers of the cost of insur ance and who have been entirely satis lied with their own arrangements, llowever, most of these have come from people in offices, including a. number of Philadelphia attorneys' offices, where the insurance cost would have been $5 a year. Very few, com paratively speaking, have come from men in hazardous occupations and not many from the ordinary walks of life. • 4 * According to what is heard in the larger cities, some moves for the strengthening of the naval militia of Pennsylvania will be considered during the coming Spring because this State's naval force is far less than that of New York and some oilier states and in the opinion of some observers is said not to be in accord with what it should have because of the growing maritime business of Philadelphia and the commerce on the lakes. It is likely that plans for the formation of additional artillery organizations will be announced soon and that the com plement of signal, engineer and sani tary troops will soon be outlined. One thing that is holding back the organ ization of such troops is the lack of State funds. The same thins is re sponsible for the fact that very little has been done regarding an aeroplano squadron. Tn spite of grip anil the demands of business and industry, attendance at tlie federal inspection of the National Guard, which began last week, has been styled very good. The Inspection is under way by four United States army officers and more will take up the work this week. The inspection is to determine efficiency for tield serv ice. the men being inspected on the basis of preparedness, and the results, which go direct to Washington, are the basis of the federal monetary assist, ance for th<> Guard* Special attention is being given by the regular artn