6 A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSjI Published evenings except Sunday by THK TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Trlrsmpk Building, Federal Squrt. K. J. STACK POL.B:. Prcs t and Editor-in-Chief V. R. OYSTER, Business Manaser. Gl'S M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American Newspaper Publish ers' Association, The Audit Bureau of < Mrculation and Pennsylvania Associ ated Dailies. Eastern office, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks. Fifth Avenue Building. New J'ork City; Western office, Hasbrook, Story & Brooks, People's Gas Build ing. Chicago, 111. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall, $3.00 '^S®BsS v ' a year in advance. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. tinora dolly average circulation far the three months ending Dev. 31, 1915. 22,412 Thcw flgurcs are art. All returned, MHHold and il«aagr4 roplea deducted. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. 12 fT. - ■ Ignorance is not innocence, but sin. —Browninp. WILSON AND BRYAN POLITICIANS of experience rarely ever write letters on subjects which may rise to plague them thereafter. Woodrow Wilson and Wil liam Jennings Bryan are two excep tions to this rule. Both have written letters within the last two years which i hey probably wish they had not writ ten. The President's missive was on ihe question of the one-term plank of the Baltimore convention of his party ■•ind the letter which is now giving Mr. Bryan trouble is on the same sub ject. Bryan says the one-term plank was merely an expression of policy. Wilson says: A fixed Constitutional limitation to a single term of office is highly arbitrary and unsatisfactory from every point of view. Notwithstanding the straightforward declaration of the Baltimore conven tion on the question of one term for t he President, both these party leaders have repudiated the declaration and are now endeavoring to twist the lan guage to suit their present purposes. In the case of the President, he is do ing his utmost to have it appear that the plank was in no sense a personal declaration on his part; that he wrote Mr. Palmer a letter in 1913 repudiating ihe limitation of service and declaring that he would be guided in 1916 by! public opinion as to whether he should again be a candidate. With Mr. Bryan it is somewhat dif ferent. He is now confronted with his own interpretation of the Baltimore plank which he gave to a member of Congress back in 1913, declaring that the one-term plank was intended merely as a declaration of policy and should not be binding on any indi vidual until legislation had been passed. In 1913 Wilson and Bryan were sleeping in the same bed. To-day they are not even stopping at the same hotel. Both are construing the one term plank as best suits their present attitude on the question. As for the public, it must accept as the only possible conclusion the in ference that a declaration upon any important issue by a Democratic na tional convention is a mere sop to the voters and must not be taken literally. Manifestly, President Wilson deter mined early in his administration to repudiate the Baltimore pledge of his party. Just as manifestly Bryan in 1913 proposed to help the President in this act of repudiation. At that time t jjc Nebraskan hoped to continue as the premier of the Wilson adminis tration. but things are different now. The whole thing is characteristic of what has been transpiring at Wash ington under the present national ad ministration. Weather-vane policies have been the rule and ground and lofty tumbling the chief attribute. It remains to be seen to what extent the Ajnerican people will overlook these manifestations of White House back ng and Ailing on matters of party 4octrine and administrative principle. It Pennsylvania has too many states men within the Republican party for ontinuous harmony, the suggestion that the State be divided might have some force in certain quarters. EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS ANOTHER birthday has been cele brated by the Telegraph and as we look back through the long vi#ta of the years, especially in this community, what wonderful changes have been wrought. Eighty-five years ago this newspaper was founded and in all the time that has since elapsed it has been a steadfast exponent of the welfare of the people In the consid erable territory embraced within Its field. I larrisburg was little more than a village when the Telegraph was launched upon ihe uncertain sea of new spaperdom, but it has grown with the years ynui to-da*; it U known far WEDNESDAY EVENING, and wide as one of the progressive cities of the country and this news paper has sought In every way to re flect the spirit of the people, their hopes and aspirations, and to guide, so far as it Is possible for a newspaper to act as mentor, the destinies of the enlarging community. To-day—at thebeglnningof its eighty sixth year—the Telegraph pledges Its best efforts for the growth and pros perity and happiness of all the people. It has seen much of transition and transformation during the long period of Its existence and with optimism born of confidence in the people it looks forward to even greater things for Harrisburgthan were even dreamed of in its earlier days. Thrice during these eighty-five years the country has been at war, but out of these struggles the republic has emerged stronger than ever before, and the very dangers which now menace the United States from beyond the seas are likely to bind us together more closely than In the past. For generations many families have been receiving the Telegraph into their homes and the children's children con tinue to welcome this newspaper as a friend of the family. This good will is an inspiration to still greater effort and we want the ever-enlarging army of readers to realize how greatly is this friendly attitude toward the Telegraph appreciated in every department of the newspaper. We face the future with confidence —confidence in the character and in dustry and public spirit of our citi zenry; confidence in the Integrity of our Institutions and confidence in the ability of our people to work out the problems which must be solved -for the good of all. There can be only one conclusion as to the prosperity which Is involved in the statement that the United States Steel Corporation's unfilled orders ag gregated almost 8.000,000 tons on Decem ber 31. This prosperity in the steel business seems to be reaching out In every direction, the Pennsylvania Steel Company having given notice of an in crease in the wage scale. That brings the results of expansion close home. THE PEXNSY'S RECORD HARRISBURG has always been more or less an admirer of the Pennsylvania railroad, to which it' owes a large degree of its prosper ity, and while there have been times when the city and the company dif fered, old Father Harris stands to day with hat doffed to the railroad system which presents to the public a record of 361,572,114 passengers 'carried safely on 2,400,000 trains in the past two years without one death due to train accident. The world offers no feat in railroad management by way of comparison. Europe with all Its boasted efficiency knows noth ing like It. The officials deserve all of the congratulations that have been heaped upon them. But General Manager S. C. Long passes the credit for the remarkable achievement In "railroading" along to the met?, say ing to them in a special bulletin that "in this great honor every employe shares." This Is giving praise where praise is due and Harrisburg is proud that it is so, for our population is made up so largely of railroad men that we have been for years calling ourselves a "railroad town." Such results are only possible where men are careful, intelligent and conscientious in the performance of their duties. There is no class of men who give of these qualities more generously to their work than do railroaders and it is a pleasure to note that they are getting due credit for their devotion to duty and ability to handle the difficult work entrusted to them. Again Colonel Roosevelt has with drawn his name as a candidate for President, but notwithstanding his friends throughout the country are in sisting that he will be the Chicago nominee. THE COAL PRICE PROBE THE probe of anthracite coal prices in Pennsylvania should be deep and thorough. The commission appointed yesterday by Governor Brumbaugh for that purpose will have the sympathy and support of the pur chasing pub4ic In whatever it may do. There are many things concerning the hard coal trade that the people would like to know about. Much mys tery has surrounded many transactions and price-fixing understandings. The consumer Is entitled to have full In formation concerning the cost of pro duction, transportation and profits. Coal is a household necessity and is a very material item in the expenses of every family. The consumer does not object to a legitimate profit for op erator. wholesaler or retail dealer, hut he does object, and most strenuously, to paying from 10 to 25 cents addi tional on the price of anthracite he cause the State has placed a tax amounting to only a small fraction of that amount on each ton of coal mined. Also, he wants to know why, since this tax has been declared uncon stitutional, prices have not been corre spondingly lowered and why the money he contributed toward this tax is be ing withheld by the operators. Who is to get this money? Are the mine own ers to keep it? Shall the State acquire ilt by escheatment, or is It to come back to the consumer who paid It? These are only a few of the ques tions the commission appointed yes terday will be expected to answer. Governor Brumbaugh has chosen what appears to be a fair-minded, thorough going and disinterested commission. Beyond question he is just as anxious for results as Is the public, and the hearings of the probers and their re port will be awaited with keen Interest. That "working majority" which the Democrats have In the Senate seems to be of the opinion that each man in It has a different Job. Austrian statesmen dismiss the An cona note from serious consideration with the words: "It was written for po litical purposes." This is a sweeping Indictment of American diplomacy as practiced by a Democratic administra tion. but who can say It has no basis of truth! Blaine's notes, und Hay's! notes, and Root's notes were not so re-1 garded either at home or abroad. Re publican administrations were listened to with respect by all the world. This administration Is about to prac tice some real diplomacy. In Illinois the Roger Sullivan crowd are fighting for supremacy in the Democratic pa'rty. Each will have a slate of candidates for delegates to the St. Lioula conven tion, all pledged to Wilson. And Wilson will not disavow either slate, as the Illinois law permits him to do. Congress is to be asked to establish a civil service court, so that no servant of the Government can be removed without a hearing. The President, we suppose, will exhibit an "open mind" on it; but Mr. Burleson Is dead against It. *"~ Toltfici IK By the Ei-Ctmnltteeauui Ex-Congressman A. Mitchell Pal mer, who undertook what he termed "a siege of Penrose" during the senatorial campaign of 1914 and was routed horse, foot and supply train in a manner truly historic. Is now beleaguered by the leaders of his own party. Democratic county leaders from various parts of the State have started a campaign to capture the national commltteemanship, Palmer's only claim to recognition in the Demo cratic party and from all accounts the assaults upon the Monroe county lawyer's leadership are going to bo as vicious as those made by Palmer and his pals when they took the honors from the old Guftey organiza tion. The plan of campaign Is not only to make a fight for control of the delega tion to the Democratic national con vention. but to go after the State committee as well and at the same time demand the dismissal of every one of Palmer's appointees at Wash ington. The Wilkes-Barre postmas tership in which It is charged that Palmer interfered with a Congress man's right to name the postmasters in his district, thereby violating the Democratic decalogue, was the signal for the start of the fight. It is de manded that Palmer's man Nicholas in one of the congressional appoint ments be dismissed in favor of Rob ert X. Brown, of Meadville. who was a national delegate in 1912 and almost upset Palmer's control of the delega tion. —The two postmasterships in northwestern Pennsylvania announced yesterday are understood to be likely to make trouble for the Democratic machine. Another conference of lead ers may be expected to be held shortly to revise the list of postmasters so that men selected will not stir up the animals. The Philadelphia Old Guard and the Brennan organization in Allegheny county are showing signs of coming back and the State Chair man Morris is said to be worried over the reports front the Interior. —Announcement of the candidacy of Philander C. Knox for Senator will be followed by a number of announce ments for State nominations. Senator Charles A. Snyder of Pottsvllle. is re garded as already in the race for auditor general and last night the name of Speaker Charles A. Ambler, of Montgomery, was put into the race. The speaker's name had been heard before and the Philadelphia Press says he will be the candidate of the State administration and the Vares. intimating that others will sup port Snyder. The State treasurership is variously assigned to Senator C. H. Kline, Pittsburgh: H. M. Kephart, of Connellsville: J. Lee Plummer, of Hollidaysburg: James F. Woodward McKeesport, and R. J. Baldwin, of Chadd's Ford, according to the wish of the assigner with more candidates likely. —A movement has heen started in Pittsburgh for the formation of a committee to boom the general man ager plan, In other words to throw out the mayor and council and adopt the Dayton plan. Naturally, there is opposition. —The editorial of the Scranton Re publican declaring for harmony in the Republican party Is regarded here as very significant and is being closely read on Capitol Hill. The Republican reflects the views of the great body of Northeastern Pennsylvania Republi cans. —Mayor Smith is making Inspec tions In Philadelphia and meanwhile things are going smoothly in the new Philadelphia government. —The Northampton county con trollerslilp decision will govern In the whole State as far as counties of that class are concerned. It ends half a dozen incipient fights. —The Philadelphia Ledger appears to have dropped its campaign to arouse public Interest in the chances of a fight in the State organization. To-day it heralds the action of the Progressives at Chicago as opening the way for reunion. Even the Phila delphia Record sees no cause for trouble in the Republican party now. —The Republican members of Con gress from this Stale will select their member of the congressional cam paign committee to-dav. —Chester county officials have had their salaries raised. In some cases it was twenty per cent. —Thomas H. Garvin, chief clerk of the House, is being congratulated on winning the suit against J. Watts Mercur in Delaware county. The at tack was one of those gtven wide publicy and Mr. Garvin sought the vindication of the law. which he got. Mr. Garvin's friends all over the State have heen sending him word o' thetr pleasure at the signal manner In which the jury settled the matter. —Dr. D. C. Mebane, the new post master of Wilkes-Barre, now denies under oath that he insulted the flag. But the opposition seems to be work ing on something else. * niSIXFRCTIXG APPAH tTI'S A patent has been taken out on a new apparatus for disinfecting household premises after some member of the family has suffered from contagious disease. The new machine in action will look something like one of the big vacuum cleaners used for cleaning comnanies. in which the engine stands In the front yard and the vacuum hose Is led through a window. The disin fecting annsratus also has a pump out side in which Its Mtfectlve gases are generated, and thev are mimped through a host* Into the Infected room, where all openings have prevlouslv heen stooped. The combination of erases oroditced In the generator is deadly enough to seal the fate of any germ. It Is a mix ttm- of sulphur lUoxide, the gas given off bv the old sulphur candle: formal dehyde. which is well-known for its disinfecting finalities, and hydrocyanic acid cas. probably the deadliest poison In existence. Whf-n the room has been thorough' I" filled with these gases and the germs killed, the 'nventor claims that it is nosslble to suck the srases out again by simply reversing the pump. what! wk wonder? r Wlnfleld. Kan., Courier.! Edward Dunbar is moving on the instalment plan. Last week he brought the chickens and a high chair, and this mornine he brought n load of new stuff from the freight office, bl»t the haideat is yet to come. HARRISBURG'QSS£& TELEGRAPH ■ THE CARTOON OF THE DAY EUROPE:—'IF I HAD ONLY DONE THAT!" ) aZ/hI \ ( * LET us ondon editors lets us know that England will never permit Germany to capture America. Thanks, awfully.— Galveston News. China may not be ready for a repub lic. but it certainly has one first-class politician in the person of Yuan Shi Kai. —lndianapolis Star. Dr. Wellington Koo is said to be a great admirer of Mr. Bryan. They should naturally get along well to gether—Hill and the Koo.—Nashville Southern Lumberman. Isn't it asking a good deal, demand ing that Austria disavow the only naval feat she has accomplished since the war began?— Kansas City Star. TO-DAY'S EDITORIALS Philadelphia Press: Mr. Wilson as the Democratic nominee will have many things to answer for, among which is the prostration of American industry which his tariff law began and the European war interrupted. That he smashed and repudiated a portion of a Democratic platform is a matter on which the people generally will not be disposed to call him to severe account. Philadelphia Record: It does not matter greatly whether our navy is the second, third or fourth in rank among the world's naval powers. What is of importance is that our navy be strong enough to meet every emergency that could reasonably be anticipated. If a navy of the second rank will not an swer the purpose, then we shall have to outrank every other naval powgr on earth and stand first. If a smaller fleet would serve, however, it should not greatly distress us if two or three or even more navies should be bigger than that of the United States. What perils await us is a question to be answered by far-aighted statesmen. What naval power would be required to ward oft or meet these perils must be determined by naval experts. This concern over our rank as a naval power is childish. Xew York World: The arrival of the Adriatic with only twenty-eight passengers in the steerage brings to notice again the fact that the war has shut off New York's chief sources of household help. No more young girls of Germany or Britain come knock ing at the kitchen doors. They are I doing men's work for men's pay at Ihoai*. . . WHERE YOU BUY The Salespeople By Frederic J. Haskin THE salesman, meaning also the saleswoman, is more and more the deciding factor in success or failure of a retail store. He is no long er a mere automaton who hands out goods and makes change, but is the real personality of the business. His calling is-being hailed as the fourth profession; university courses in sales manship are being established, and theer is quite a mass of literature on the subject. This great importance of the mod ern salesman may seem a trifle illus ory to the clerk who is trying to live on $!• a week. It is true that the re wards of salesmanship are not high. They run from $3 to S4O a week; the great majority of the profession gets less than ?10, and few of them ever achieve a salary of more than $lB. But the conditions of their calling are steadily improving. By national ad vertising and the wide distribution and standardization of products, the prices and profits of the retail busi ness are rapidly becoming uniform. All of the stores have goods of about the same quality for the same price. Hence the service rendered a custo mer by the salesman has come to be the deciding factor in success. It. follows with logical certainty that the salesman must become a more efficient and better paid individual, and there is already a strong upward trend both in efficiency and salaries. Scientific management is just begin -1 OUR DAILY LAUGH I NOT TO BLAME. Q ; To u'r e charged with fighting I I ; The justice to the j laundryman. i IlKr ; When people give me cuffs, I try F— ' To "Petromortis" is again becoming rampant. A prominent citizen of Car bondale was asphyxiated yesterday by gas escaping from his automobile while he was recharging the batteries of his machine in his little garage. There is much danger attendant upon tinkering with machines in small and poorly ventilated garages. * • « Do you like a little "zip" in your cider? Well, all you have to do is to visit the "canny" Pennsylvania-Ger man farmers in the region about Read- Jng and Allentown. They have discov ered a method by which Jack Frost puts real "pep" Into Just plain cider, and they say it is tgood. The idea is to put the cider in a small tub and set it out In the cold on a very wintry night. In the morning the water in the cider is frozen. Crack it. throw the ice away and you have the un adulterated essence of pure cider, one sip of which Is said to have power to revive a dead man. two to make a church elder forget the Ten Command ments, and three makes it easy for htm to assassinate his grandmother. • « » This is the story of a man, John Degnan. dwelling In Wilkes-Bane, who had S3OO, but when he got home his wife had no trace of the money, it turns out that John met sundry friends who knew a few things about poker hands, and the friendly game that re lieved John of his money reckoned not upon Mrs. John. The c.ourt enters upon the scene. End of first act, ■ J | Ebrniug CCliat When the office-seeking "bug" be gins to buzz In the bonnet nil sense of individual fitness is immediately lost. There is many a cracker-box states man who feels himself better qualified for the Presidency than any man who lias ever occupied the* White House, and when it comes down to the lesser offices, why to so much as hint at unfitness is an Insult. Take for in stance the following letter addressed by an applicant for appointment as justice' of the peace to George D. > , Thorn, chief clerk in the department of the Secretary of the Common wealth: Dear-Sir:— George D. Thorn, Chief-Clerk, Commonwealth, llarrlsburg. Pa., We have elected of our Township for a Justice of Pease at the last election, but he dames now that he is not well a nuff to lift his comishion and has not lifted it. and makes us one waciontc of that office now wood It be wise for me to get the apoinmend by the goviner, and wod it be for the full term of No. 5-Years and what wood i have to due to get the apoint mend, er cut you get. it for me, hoping to hear of you ,as you now 1 hat spent some money at the Brimary Election, and lost out, Yours-Truley: For obvious reasons the name and address of the applicant have been omitted. Otherwise the epistle is as written. Yet the writer cannot un derstand why his application has not. been favorably considered. So it is with candidates for more important offices. • • » Activities of the State Department of Fisheries in sending out young fish and other water creatures for dis tribution throughout the streams of the State has led some forehanded in dividuals to write for early "supplies." One man asked to have a large num ber of young trout sent to him so that he could "plant" early and bo sure of some good catches when the. season opened. As the trout sent out are yearlings, not of a size that can be caught and are to be used for pro pagation, the breakfast liunter will bo disappointed. Another man wrote for a supply of sunfish as he heard they ate young mosquitoes and lie wanted to kill off the pests beforo summer came, while another re quested a supply of bullfrogs. Some Inquiries have also been made whether the State supplies young turtles. • • * Hundreds of Harrlsburg's amateur athletes will bo interested in the re turn of V. Grant Forrer to his old job as the working head of the city park department. Forrer was re sponsible for the organization of the water carnivals which have grown to mean so much to hundreds of canoe ists; he's a canoeist and a "tilter" of note himself. Incidentally he's a swimmer of no mean ability. The proudest playground youngster of a few years ago will tell you truthfully that there "never was a game on th« playgrounds that Mr. Forrer couldn't play"; as . to baseball, Mr. Forrer doesn't brag about his ability