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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.
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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.
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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<tt
officers to the state of the rifles ano
bayonets and the shoes worn by the
men. Incidentally militia officers ar«
being asked the condition of the men' i
feet. Medical examination reports are
also closely scanned in this inspection,
which comes "lose to being what the
guardsmen call "real business."
William TT. Kreider. the newly ap
pointed secretary of the Philadelphia
city civil service board, is a native of
Annville and a relative of Congress
man Aaron S. Kreider. Me graduated
from Lebanon Valley College in IS9H
and has practiced law in Philadelphia
for years. He served on the hoard
under Mayor Reyburn.
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Medical men are giving the advice
thai once one starts wearing a muffler,
it should not be given up. The best,
way. say the doctors, is not to wear a
muffler at all, but if the neck be ten
der, then wear it and keep on wear
ing It.
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I,afayelte alumni all over the Slate
are sitting up and taking notice of the
dinner io be given here to-morrow
night by the alumni of the central see
lion. This will be the first dinner of
the sons of Lafayette in this part of
Pennsylvania and notable men will in
here. In addition to President
McCracken there will be (he Governor
and several Stale officials as speakers.
Herman T,. Collins, a brother of Emer
son Collins. Deputy Attorney General
and the man who writes the always
interesting "Girard" column in the
Public ledger, will be a guest.
' WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~~1
—Senator William E. Crow has been
invited to address the Tariff Club at its
dinner in Pittsburgh.
—G. W. Elkins has given a quarter
of a million dollars for the new hos
pital at Abington.
—D. M. Stackhouse, general super
intendent of the Cambria steel works,
denies that the company has dismissed
any men because of compensation
laws. . ,
—J. L. Lombar. good roads advo
cate of Pittsburgh, is to speak at the
West Virginia good roads meeting.
—A. R. Smart, of Oil City, was
given a dinner by Oil City people be
fore leaving for his winter home in
Florida.
—Rabbi William Roscnau, of Pnlti
more. was the speaker at Jewish serv
ices in Pittsburgh yesterday. He is
well known here.
DO YOU KNOW
Thai Jlarrisburg lias some of the
best equipped lamulrlcs in this
part of tlic State?
"HISTORIC IIARRISBURG
Harrisburg's first factory is said to
have been for the manufacture of
candles. *
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Then and Now
In January, /grandmother wsert
to lav in several bolts of muslin
and begin the long- task of malt
ing underclothes for the family.
Now, granddaughter puts on
her hat and trips forth to the
White Sales.
She lays In an entire stock of
very much liner articles of ap
parel than grandma ever dream
ed of.
She pays less than grandma
did and 'contributes nothing In
the way of labor.
And, being altogether an up
to-date younjr lady, granddaugh
ter thoroughly posts herself by
reading the advertising in the
Telegraph before she begins
I shopping.