8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NmWSPAPF.R POK THE HOMS hunmd jfjj Vubllahed evening* except Sunday bjr THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Tela«ra»h (Induing. Federal Square. M- J. STACK POLE, Prts t and liditor-in-Ckitf V. R. OYSTER, Busintss Mjnftr. OUB M. 3TEINMETZ, Bitfr. • Member American Ushers' Aaaocla aylvauia Ansoolat- Eastern office, Ilaa- Brook'a, Fifth"Ave- lias Building. Chl '-ago. 111. th * Po,t Office in Harris as second class matter. ®'" carriers, aix cents a week; by mall. $3.00 a year in advance. #worn daily average circulation for «"»ee months ending Her. 31, 11115. Tkeae flfforea are net. All returned, haaold and damaged ceplea deducted. TUESDAY EVENING, JAN. 18 Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough. Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our jay three-parts pain. Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare never grudge the tliroe.' —BROWNING. TARIFF AND POLITICS IX an article pointing out the desirability of dftorclng the tariff from politics by means of a non- 1 partisan tariff commission, the "Dry (roods Economist." shows that the present drystuff famine In the United States due to the war would not now exist had it not been for a grave error in tariff framing away back in 1883, when Congress pronounced dyestuffs as a raw material and reduced the duties accordingly at a time when our local dye manufacturing trade was nourishing and growing. The "Econo mist" points out that had the men who made our various tariffs during the last thirty years looked at the! matter from a broad standpoint, they would have realized the importance of providing this country with a dye stu It industry, as well as with a textile Industry, and would in all probability ] have given to the one the support j they furnished to the other. Jn addition, makers of the tariff on a scientific basis would have known something 1 of what German manu facturers, aided by their government and by laws enabling them to enter into price-agreements among them selves, were doing, and would have taken steps to prevent German dyes j from being sent to this country at prices disclosing "unfair competition." THEN AND NOW THE value of imports for Novem ber, 1915, was $ 164,319,1 C 9, on! which revenue was realized in the sum of $17,681,218, or an average] rate of duty of 10.7 per cent. Of those j imports 65.3 per cent, came in duty; free. In other words, $112,230,000 ! worth of imports were permitted to enter competition with American prod ucts without paying one cent of reve nue to the government. The Democrats saddled the country with a war revenue measure, which they recently extended for one year on the plea that the war had cut off im ports to such an extent that customs revenues were seriously curtailed. And so they are, but not because of de creased Importations. , . The Imports for November, 1915, were $11,000,000 greater than for No vember. 1012, under the Republican protective tariff law, but the revenues paid into the Federal Treasury were $8,000,000 less in the 1915 than in the 1912 month. Added to this, ihe cost of living in creases daily. The importers are sim ply putting into their pockets what, under Republican tariff policies, went into the coffers of the United States Treasury, paid the expenses of running the government, protected the Ameri can producer and made American labor independent of such catastrophes as the European war for its daily bread. FISCAL POLICY UNPOPULAR THE appearance of Secretary McAdoo's scheme for more taxes to atone for Democratic deficits and to furnish money for national de- i fense has been the signal for an im- ] mediate assault upon his figures and conclusions, in which Democrats as well as Republicans have joined. Rep-" resentative Kitcliin and Senator Gore, Democrats, and Senator Smoot, Re publican, were the first to be heard from, and we are still hearing the echoing volleys of other marksmen at Washington who are shooting the McAdoo statement full of holes. Staftlng out with an initial error of $28,000,000, the Secretary's financial "dopeislieet" is punctuated with the most grotesque of suggestions and con clusions. lie talks glibly about reve nues from sugar—which lie estimates on a basis of about ninety millions a year—when everyone knows that, even under full protective duties, not more than sixty millions were ever received from this source. He blithely slices away some thirty millions from the estimates for defense as approved by the President and says the money will not be needed. He concludes with a program of direct taxation, which some Repub lican politicians hope to see adopted— t toe It contains the essential elements. TUESDAY EVENING, HARRISBTJRG ttfjjftl TELEGRAPH JANUARY 18, 1916. of the constant purpose of Democratic financiers to concentrate the burdens of government upon thrift and enterprise. The new taxeß proposed to be laid upon crude oils nnil upon motor engines will do more to bring home to the American people the futility of Democratic ad ministration than anything else. They will tend to discourage development In many States where oil properties are now making progress: they will seri ! ously affect the activity of the large j i oinmunities whero automobile manu j facture centers: they will lay a. heavy j hand on a healthful amusement; they j will penalize thrift. | The millions of people who will be i thus affected will receive an acute and compelling anti-Democratic thrill. Every garage in the country will at once become an anti-Democratic cen ter unless President Wilson sees the handwriting, as recent reports might indicate. Politically, the Republicans regard Mr. McAdoo's proposals to be productive. From a fiscal standpoint they are already known to be futile. If they go through, nothing could more clearly show the contrast be tween Democratic and Republican methods of providing for the nation's needs. Republicans built the Panama canal practically out of the accumu lated loose change which the Treasury contained. The Democrats cannot build a battleship without piling on the taxes. THE MINE CONVENTION THERE appears to be abroad at Indianapolis, whore the mine workers are holding their con vention, a spirit of peace and compro mise. President White seems to be confident that there will be no shut down of the anthracite mines during the coming Spring. He favors a work ing agreement whereby the mines would continue to lie operative even though a settlement of the wage Ques tion is not reached by April 1. Per haps the miners have asked more than they hope to receive, in order to put themselves in better position when it comes to the compromise that must conclude the coming negotiations if a strike is to be avoided. So long as the miners maintain their present attitude they will have, in some measure at least, the sympathy of many coal consumers, and any other course would be disastrous to them. The public is the greatest sufferer in the end from the closing of the mines and the mine workers themselves lose more than they gain every lime the mines are closed. The operators, too, lose heavily in properly depreciation and in many other ways, so that peace at the price of compromise does not appear too costly for either side. The public will frown upon a strike. It is very emphatically up to the miners and the operators to do just what there is every indication they are go ing to do- I —get together for an early settlement of their differences. PUBLICITY GEORGE W. PERKINS, address ing the Poor Richard Club In Philadelphia, last night, pro nounced publicity one of the greatest forces In civilization. Mr. Perkins said nothing new in that, but he em phasized a point of Importance when he asserted the opinion that had "big j business" realized in time the value of publicity there never would have been need of the Sherman Anti-Trust law. Perhaps that was drawing it a trifle strong, but it is unquestionably true that had those who were the guiding forces of the financial and in dustrial life of the nation taken the public into their confidence ten or fif teen years earlier than they did many of the obnoxious and injurious laws since written on the statute books of the States and of the United States never would have been adopted. Publicity would have prevented many evils that grew up behind closed j doors and lack of publicity magnified j many molehills of fact Into mountains of popular belief. Every large cor-1 poration in the country is suffering; to-day from the failure of the "cap-i tains of industry" of the past genera-| tion to realize the importance of let ting the people know what they were doing and why, for after all the peo ple do rule and when they are finally aroused they act according to their beliefs, and if they believe what is not true or have a misunderstanding of the facts they will be guilty of grave in justice. where they intended to enact only fair and honest measures. "There is no wisdom like frank ness," sai.i Benjamin Disraeli, and the London Westminster Gazette, tjikins that ns a text, preaches an editorial 1 sermon somewhat along the lines of Mr. Perkins' address before the Poor Richard Club. Says the Gazette: No business enterprise of any size can exist without publicity as a means <>t getting Into touch with people's minds and needs and purses. No single idea can bear fruit, until by publicity It lias per meated the intelligence of vast numbers of thinking folk. No big fund can be raised unless its ob ject is cleverly and conscientiously "explained. No public man can win his country's confidence until pub licity has made him known to mul titudes, and so exalted him. Tho same force Is used to dis tribute ideas and great reputations a 'id every-day commodities. It is oiilv the method that varies. !t is publicity that has created a highly sensitized, receptive national ill til licence, and to thwart this by unwise censorship, whether of war news, books or plays, Is a weak and stupid policy. Business advertising proves re peatedly that straightforwardness is tiie only pollc- If a house ad vertises goods that are bad. or that do not come up to the standard pre dicted. this reacts upon itself. For. to use publicity with real effect is like turning a huge searchlight on | to outlines hitherto obscure: and if I those outlines are found to be crooked, people soon ignore them. L-'O iii the limelight of knowledge, falsity shrivels up—but the truth of things, however Indigestible, is always educative. Hard-headed businessmen are spend ing millions of dollars every day to place their wares before the public. Theirs is the best evidence in the world that honest publicity pays. The fake advertisement may pay for the moment, hut the dealer who adver tises persistently in publications that safeguard their columns does so for two reasons—first, because lie has something worth while to sell, and second, because he wants purchasers [to come again. > | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —A "sweetly solemn thought" for the sugar trust lies in the announce ment that Europe will import 2,500,000 tons of sugar this year. —Some men have such sour dis positions that they can't rejoice even in the downfall of their enemies. —There are those who may have smiled when they read that the peace party at The Hague met in the zoo logical garden. —The "smoke prevention" cam paign appears to have suffered a seri ous setback by the recent financial depression. —The time • may not be at hand when the "lion and the lamb shall lie down together." but the elephant and the bull moose will do so before long. —About this .season the average man of forty or more begins to won der how anybody ever induced him to go skating—but he won't admit, it. TO-DAY'S EDITORIALS | The Philadelphia Press. —The sug | gestion in President Wilson's last mes sage to Congress that the nation be I prepared to "mobilize economic re sources in any time of national neces sity" is being carried out by the Naval Consulting Board with the assistance of a committee composed of Ave tech nical experts from each State accord ing to a plan which seems admirably calculated to carry out its purpose. Virtually the entire lield of American industries is to be covered by this com mittee and its larger subcommittees in the various States. A working in ventory is to lie prepared of the pro ducing and manufacturing resources of (ho country that would become available in time of war, and from this inventory the proper authorities will form plans for the utilization of these resources when necessary. The l.ouls\ill<- Courier-Journal. "President Wilson looks to Carranza to avenge murders of Americans." Americans are looking to President Wilson, above the knob that sur mounts Genoral Carranza's unmatched flowering of whiskers. The Philadelphia I.edger. This is a nugget from Herbert Kauff man's business logic: "Stores and fac tories that do not advertise are like strangers in a strange town —they'd be far more careful if they were bet ter known." Very true. Not only would the stores and factories be more careful, but the consumers of their products would bo better protect ed. A thief avoids the lighlcd corner. An honest man doesn't have to walk in the dark. Moreover, the nonadver tiser is a stranger in liis own town, and ho is little known outside of it; where as judicious publicity gives a store or factory a good and clean introduction. Printer's'ink is a written guarantee, or can be made one, that the user of it is a reliable merchant. THE INCOME TAX Wall Street Journal: A young mar ried man's wife received her entire inheritance early last year of $16,000, and he speculated In powder stocks and made $74,000. Then he lost heav ily in Crucible Steel and finally'lost all the money in Kathodian Bronze except s3tir>. lie lias been working for several years at sl3 per week, which is a bare living, and they have no assets except the $305 and some household goods. Shall they make a return for taxation? And if so, what amount should they return? And if they are to make a return of the S»O,- 000 for taxation, what penalty do they incur in not being able to pay the tax?—R. F. H. The inheritance is not taxable: the profit on powder stocks is. On the other hand, the los 3in subsequent speculations is not deductible. There fore. return must he made of the $74.- 000 profit, plus the S7BO salary, or a total income of $74,780. From this should be deduc ted the SI,OOO exemp tion, leaving $70,780 as the taxable income. The tax works out as fol lows: Normal tax 1 c ' c on $70,780 $707.80 Supertax 1 on $54,780 being excess of $74,780 over $20,000 547.80 Supertax \ c i, on $24,780, being excess of $74,780 over $50,000 247.80 $1,503.40 Unless return is made of this tax liability, both husband and wife would lie subject to penalty. Return having been duly made, it would seem that the governmpnt was without recourse to collect the tax except insofar as it is one of the creditors of an in solvent. person. The law provides for a monetary penalty for nonpayment of income tax "except from the estates of insane, deceased, or insolvent, per sons." The income tax statute does not prescribe arrest and imprisonment as i a penalty for nonpayment of tax. Penalties are never extended by im plication, therefore it would not be [ allowable. Section L. makes the gen- S eral provisions for collection of in ternal revenue applicable to this law. > Collection, therefore, would be one iof two methods—suit in the federal courts, or by a distraint, which corre sponds to the old English law pro cedure for collection of past due rent. A warrant of distress could be Is sued by the Treasury Department, authorising the officer to seize and levy upon all the property and evi dences of debt of the delinquent. The State exemption laws are not applic able in such cases, but the federal law allows an exemption to married men of a small amount of household furniture, clothing, etc. Seizure and sale of property is apparently tho limit of the government's power to enforce collection under this statute. BETTER THINGS It is better to lose with a conscience clean Than to win by a trick unfair; It Is better to fall and to know you've been. Whatever the price was, square. Than to claim the joy of a far-off goal And the cheers of the standers-by. And to know deep down in your in most soul A cheat you must live and die. Who wins by trick can take the prize, And at first may think it sweet. But mapy a day in the future lies When he'll wish he had met defeat. For the man who lost shall be glad at heart And walk with his head up high, While his conqueror knows he must play the part ' Of a cheat and living lie. The prize seems fair when the fight is on, But save 11 is truly won You will hate the tiling when the crowds are gone. For it. stands a false deed done. And it's better you should never reach your goal Than ever success to buy At. the price of knowing down in your soul That your glory is all a lie. —Edward A. Guest, in Detroit Free i Press, Lk By the Ex-Canuaitteemu j George W. Perkins, national chair lrja" ot the Progressive party, last n fL n Philadelphia, expressed him self as confident the Republican and •Progressive parties would unite on one candidate to oppose President \V ilson at the elections next Fall, in °n the national political situ ation he indicated that the question of finding the one man who can bring together the two anti-Democratic national parties only is a question of negotiation. "The one thing that races both the Progressives and the Republicans," Mr. Perkins said, "is remove the incubus at Washington. « .VP Bn P°Hcy of the present ad ministration has caused the prestige or our country to drop like a meteor among the nations." '" i l i arm °ny between the regulars and Colonel Roosevelt in the selec ' j' on ° f a Presidential candidate for the Republican party is predicted by [men influential in the councils of the regulars. A brief statement from Senator Boies Penrose Is full of signifi cance. Asked for his opinion on the situation, Senator Penrose said: "I believe it is entirely feasible to agree upon a candidate for President who w j" command the respect and support oi Colonel Roosevelt and his follow ers. The Progressives are coming back to the Republican party, as is shown by recent elections. The bridge upon which they are crossing over is condemnation of tho utter ineffi ciency- of the Wilson Administration. That is a platform upon which ail Republicans of all shades can unite." Senator Penrose declined to name possibilities or predict the outcome ot the convention. It is known, how ever, that ho but recently returned from New York, where he was in conference with other chieftains of the Republican party, and lor that reason it Is assumed that he is speak ing by the book. It also is significant that Senator Penrose positively de clines to question the good faith of Colonel Roosevelt. —-A. Nevin Detrieh, chairman of the v\ ashington party State commit tee again declared last night that Pennsylvania Progressives were in accord with the proposal to merge the Republican and Progressive parties for the coming presidential contest. 'Pennsylvania Progressives," said Mr. Detrieh. "are in thorough accord with the action of the National Committee especially in the desire to unite the forces opposed to the Democratic ad ministration." -•-rhe Public .Ledger's Washington correspondent writes: "Senator Pen rose and Senator Oliver had an in formal talk here about the Republi can State ticket. The conference re sulted from the presence here ol' Rep resentative .Tames F. Woodward, of Allegheny county, chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the last State House of Representatives. Mr. Woodward desires to be a candidate for State Treasurer. Reports reaching here from Ilarrisburg to-dav are to the effect that Governor Brumbaugh will lend his influence to Charles A. Ambler, speaker of the House, for Auditor General. In that case ho will command the support of the Varcs Stale Senator Charles A. Snyder, of Pottsville, also is in the Held for Au '.ltor General. Harmon A. Kephart of Connellnville, chief clerk of the State Senate, is being mentioned as an aspirant to the Republican nomi nation for State Treasurer." —Mayor Smith of Philadelphia, yesterday designated Attorney Gen eral Francis Slutnk Brown as his per sonal legal adviser. He pronounced the appointment "entirety personal and private." GRIP PREVENTIVE How to keep from having the grip when everyone about you is suffering from this aggravating disease and you arc beginning to have the symptoms yourself—this is the question that has been uppermost in the minds of hun dreds of thousands during the present epidemic. In an attempt to answer it a repre sentative of the New York Tribune interviewed »large number of promi nent physicians and submitted to Health Commissioner Haven Kmerson a summary of their advice. The lat ter put his official O. K. on the fol lowing treatment: "Take a cathartic. "Then take a brief hot bath to warm up the body and start the blood running freely. I "Drink a large bowl of hot lemon lade and go to bed early. Cover one's iself thoroughly and warmly, even to | an extra pillow to protect the head and ears, and get nine hours' sleep. "Take the greatest care, by dress ing warmly, not to catch cold in the morning. "If the trouble seems to be chiefly in the throat, wrap the neck in a wet woolen cloth covered by a dry woolen cloth." The official qualified his recommen dation os far as the hot bath part of the treatment is concerned, saying that none should do this unless they were '.very sure that they would be able to keep themselves perfectly warm dur ing the night and the morning after ward. "But the hot lemonade, the cathar tic and the warm sleep stand as the official preventive for the dread dis ease which is adding from 10 per cent to 40 per cent.'of the weekly death rec cords in many parts of the country." WHITMAN AGREES [New York Sun.] I Governor Whitman agrees with the I author of the Palmer letter that nomi nating conventions are unnecessary. He would bo willing also to dispense with "the people," and so goes the White House one better. Whitman nominates Whitman unanimously. Can he elect him? OUR DAILY LAUGH j "T~"I INCONSID JSC It will cost him I gfj? at least $500.00 fly JBif ■ fL'jjj ioT my ' -he don't think i M i w^at "'• c°' n c to I [ I cost me after tHE WAS IN TERESTED. Say, pa, I see a lot in the papers about men stand ing in the bread I Well, my boy? Don't they ever have a cake line ■ h for small boys to ! 5® Btand in? j "Isn't It. distressing to think of all the poverty in the world ?" "I never do: I confine myself ex icluslvely to thinking of uiy own." — Life. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN —From th« New York World r ; WHERE YOU BUY Chain Stores By Frederic J. Haskin DO your shopping in person, pay cash and carry home your pur chases yourself. This is the advice frequently given the American woman as a means of reducing the high cost of living. It is pointed out that the elaborate credit systems and extensive delivery service which the American public demands is one of the most important causes of high j prices and a typical example of our national extravagance. . What the woman is thus advised to do by economists she is compelled to do by the management of a certain chain of drygoods stores. These stores sell only for spot ensh and de liver nothing. Yet they successfully compete with the single stores, offer ing credit and delivery service, be cause their economical methods and large buying power enable them to sell good at lower prices. This chain consists of seventy stores, mostly in small towns. Each of them has a manager and four assistants. None of them pays a rental of more than SIOO a month. These stores <lo business at a cost of from 10 to 12 per cent, of their total sales, which is extremely low, the usual cost for drygoods stores being about from 14 to 17 per cent. The manager of each of these stores is made the owner of one-third of its stock, and he also | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR] WHO WILD WHITE ? To the Editor of the Telegraph: Ours is a generous-hearted country, j and the sympathy of our people is easily aroused when causes of distress ! are made known to them, giving abun-l dantly of their dollars. There is a form of distress to which few give a thought and for which the writer asks something far more subtle than money. The writer appeals in the cause of friendless prisoners, to whom a word of sympathy and en couragement is more than oil the dol lars in the world. We all know how, the so-called friends depart at the first j sound of reverses and how quickly the world turns up its nose. Friends are good in prosperity, but who has not | known the far greater value of aj friend in adversity? I Who will be that agent of mercy and correspond with sonic, or with one. of these friendless fellow-creatures? Many to-day are earnestly asking for correspondents. Tlieir names maj be obtained from Dr. H. N. Stokes, the O. E. Library League, No. 1207 Q street N. W., Washington, D. C. This asso ciation is entirely nonsectarian and nonpolitical. devoted excluslvels to the educational advancement and welfare of prisoners. CHAS. A. SEIFERT. Harrlsburgf, Pa., Jan. 12, 1916. NEWPORT SEKKS PLACK Newport, Pa., Jan. 17, 1916. To tht Editor of the Telrgraph: In a recent discussion concerning the William Penn Highway there was advocated on© of tlic most useful find perpetual monuments of the people for the future of the State. The eco nomic value of this proposed highway is far beyond the realms of dispute, and as a means of bringing the people into closer communication and conta.ct with each other none better could pos sibly be devised. And as such its routing should be considered very carefully; population, distances, grades and scenery should be taken into ac count. while the good will of the people should not be slighted. It is noted that the present plans show that this highway will run from MUlerstown. Perry county, through Pfoutz Valley to Liverpool, Perry county: thence along the west bank of the Susouelianna river to Clark s Ferry. At present these two routes are a plan of the State highway sys tem, and as such are maintained by the State. In so routing this portion of the William Penn Highway there seems to be an utter lack of fore thought, in so far as population, dis tances, grades and scenery are con cerned. A more direct route between Millers town and Clark's Ferry which would reach more people, reduce the mileage between eight to ten miles, eliminate steep grades and traverse far more beautiful and picturesque country is possible. , Therefore, it should be brought to the attention of the public in general and to the inhabitants of Perry county in particular that the William Penn j Highway should of necessity be routed through' the beautiful Juniata Valley from Millerstown to Newport : thence I along the east bank of the Juniata to a point five miles distant where the j remains of the old Philadelphia-to- I Pittsburgh stagecoach route is reached. After the flood of 'B9 this highway was abandoned and since that time has not been open to general traffic. At a moderate expense t'..e three and one-half utiles of this old route could be opened, and by so doing a more direct line of travel rrom MUlerstown lo Clark's Kerry would be determined. After traversing these three and one half miles the distance is short to has the privilege of investing in other stores of the chain, some of the man agers being interested in as many as a dozen. The promising employes who wishes to make a small investment, may be advanced the money by the central office as a personal loan. In this way the element of personal in terest, the lack of which is the chief j disadvantage of chain stores, is in- I fused into the system. The buying for this concern is done by six committees, each consisting of a chief buyer and five assistants. These men go to New York once a year and I buy several million dollars worth of goods in a few days, always paying cash for it. Naturally, they get every discount given for cnsli and quantity. These stores spend very little money on window displays, and their news paper advertising is carefully plan nod and systematized. The chain has grown up from a single store founded in 1902. This chain is highly typi cal of the system which lias gained tremendous proportions in the last thirty years. The value of chain stores to a com munity is a matter of much contro versy. On tho one hand the best chain stores often give the consumer more efficient and economical service be [Continued oil Page 12.] Clark's Ferry. The distance from Mil lerstown to Clark's Ferry via Liverpool is an approximate one of twenty-five miles: Liverpool has a population of 800 and is directly routed to Harris . burg. The distance from Millerntown to Clark's Ferry via Newport is an approximate one of seventeen; New port lias a population of 2.500 and is not directly routed to Ilarrisburg. To follow the Blue Juniata would be to I avert grades, to meet beautiful, wind ing country, to supply an artery of communication to hundreds of people. It would therefore seem that the more advantageous and the more practicable routing of the William Penn Highway between Millerstown and Clark's Ferry is via Newport and the Juniata Valley. NEWPORT RESIDENT. NAVAL STRENGTH [From the Kansas City Star.] Germany, at the outbreak of the war, had the second navy of the world, far stronger than the American navy is to day. Being outclassed in strength bv the British navy, and still more so by the combined French and British navies, tne German fleet was of necessity placed on the defensive for the simple reason that to take the offensive would be suicide. Now, as a. result, the German navy is useless for all the purposes for wheh navies are built. It. can do noth ing except to defend harbors, which would be equally well defended bv the harbor guns, a few light cruisers and mino layers. Failing naval strength to take the of fensive upon the sea, Germany has been blockaded since, the beginning of the war. It is in tho inexorable grip of the British navy, a grip as tenacious, as pitiless as the hold of a bulldog. All of Germany's successes on land have never loosed it for an instant. It is a siant hand around Germany's throat tightening slowly, but tightening day by day. Not until that grip is loosed can Germany talk of victory. Until it is prepared to take to the seas and tight for their mastery no nation can talk of a navy for defense. Not until it has an army can It talk of vic tory. Sea power and land power are complementary, one futilo without the l other. What tho navy starts, the army must finish, and the army cannot finish until the navy has won the road and holds the road to the enemy's country. | THE STATE FROM DAT TO W Grip germs have been fleeing for their very lives during the past few days and particularly in McKean county, where the thermometer regis tered 16 below yesterday. Water pipes hadn't a chance of remaining open, and as for the skating—well, you know what zero weather will do. • * * As King Richard or some other notable whose character • creation helped to make one William Shake speare famous, said. "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!" so in reality did Miss Mary Cooper, of Narberth, do t when she died and left in her will a [ bequest of $2,500 for her favorite horse, that its remaining years might Ibe full of joyful rest. As far as the horse was concerned, it might just as well have been her whole kingdom, for no longer will he worry as to where the next batch of oats will come from. • • • "Any woman would do that for an other woman's child." said an un- I known woman after she had dragged Ijohn Pugh, 16 years old, from a hole lin Coon's pond at Kingston. The lad had been skating and fell into the hole, I and without the strange woman's pres- I ence of mind would probably have been drowned. I* * * The workings of the workmen's compensation act have extended even to the churches and now virtually all the Altoona ministers, organists and lanltors have been insured according to the provisions of the act. • • » Under tho rites of the Church of the Brethren, twenty-six persons were im mersed through a large hole cut in the ice of a. pond near Lititz. Those who underwent tho severe tests were con verts at a recent revival. lEiroiittg (Ebat That zero talk of the weatherman dn 't scare two men yesterday. About noon they had climbed to tlio !?f ° f the Capitol dome to get a close P J* nn ' And tlle cola weather and w4ntry breezes didn't make any difference. They stood " ,G '"f' 1 for some time looking 1 . the city and the surrounding country, apparently enjoying the view more than they dreaded the cold. . • • • Druggists in this city, although not. worrying about increases in the cost of some drugs, are watching closely the changes in the price list in the New York drug market. A number of pharmacists are receiving copies of daily market reports of the latest quo tations on practically every drug known and used in medicinal work. Lists of percentage increases in the cost of drugs according to local drug gists, are usually about right, but in some instances the price varies mora than 200 per cent, in a week. Much jof this is due to the changing con |oitions in this country. Some drugs and compounds which were not to be had except from foreign countries are now made by firms in the United States. The drugs hardest hit ut present, it is said, aro the headacho cures which in many cases contain substances not only scarce but very expensive. In this list is phenacetin and acetanilid. * • * A movie fan was talking the other day about directors who let certain slips "get by" on the films. This particular fan said that he was not. a crank, but pointed out a few puzzling situations caused by little slips on the part of some of tho big men In the motion picture world. In speaking of these incidents, he said: "Recently, In a picture with the scenes laid back in the early fifties every character wore the latest 1915 clothes. In another picture with the plot of the story laid in 1830 several scenes slipped through with tele graph and telephone poles in the background. Where the director was is the puzzle. How the poles and the modern costumes were included is another problem. These two slip ups were not in films produced by small companies, but in four and five reel features produced with star casts and directed by well-known men. In a railroad scene, supposed to have occurred in the nineties, a late type locomotive was used, and one of the newest set of signals in service help ed along the action in the story. The plot was good, the acting and climax excellent, hut the whole story was made laughable to any person who knew anything about railroading." * » * Colonel Henry W. Shoemaker, pro prietor of the Altoona Tribune, and other newspapers in this State, and a member of the Governor's staff, has presented a prize sword to tho Penn sylvania State College. The sword will be awarded annually to the best drilled military company of the fresh man class. The winner will be an nounced each year on Pennsylvania day. Colonel Shoemaker's gift will doubtless stimulate interest in mili tary drill among' the freshmen at Penn State. Another sword has been in competition for the last three years, and that one will be contested for by the sophomores only. • » * Have you ever played billiards? If you have, then yon know of that feel- < ins which makes your body twist over, far over, during that tense mo ment that the ball rolls towards tho mouth of a pocket, slows up and then poises on the very edge of the hole before dropping. Your "body Eng lish," as this peculiar motion is known, doesn't make the ball fall into 'the pocket—but it relieves your mind. It was this same feeling, perhaps, that recently caused a Steelton Ser bian, after reading a dispatch telling of an Austrian sweep through the land of his fathers, to spend sls in one long, despairing cable call upon the President of France to send hur ried aid to the despairing Serbs. This is the cablegram: "President Poincare —The war will be finished in the Balkans. Send aid as quickly as you can or you will lose what you have there." APPOINT TAFT [Philadelphia Press.] From all over the country comes the spontaneous suggestion to Prcsidcni Wilson thai, he appoint William How ard Taft to the vacancy just created on the Federal Supreme bench. Alton P.. Parker speaks as a great lawyer, a former judge and a one-time Demo cratic candidate for President of tin United States when, in expressing his appreciation of the late Justice ljamar, he adds: "The man best equipped to take his place is Judge Taft. and he should be drafted, if need be, to fill it. ' This same suggestion is made in all quarters and finds expression in news papers without regard to party affilia tion. Justice was appointed, as was also Justice I.urt on, by President Taft as Democrats, one of them suc ceeding a Republican judge. Presi dent Taft's disregard of party lines lit these appointments might well be fol lowed by President Wilson, who has already appointed two Democrats to the Supreme bench, one of them as successor to the .Republican, Justice Harlan. ~ _ ... .. The appointment of Mr. Tart to the Supreme bench by President. Wilson would be a gracious, just and every way an admirable act. It would snva the Supreme Court a great Jurist and a tried and excellent judge. pointment would honor President Wil son's administration and bo warmly approved by the people. THE BETTER WAY Charles M. Schwab, congratulated In Pittsburgh on a large war order contract which he had just received from one of the warring nations, said: "Some people call it luck, but they are mistaken. Whatever success I have is due to hard work and not to "I remember a New York business man who crossed the ocean with mc one winter when the whole country was suffering from hard times. "'And you, Mr. Schwab, the New Yorker said, 'are, like the rest of us. I suppose, hoping for better things. " "No, my friend,' I replied. So. I am not hoping for better things. 1 got my sleeves rolled up and 1 m working for them.' " Philadelphia Bulletin. « fi ——i—^ Making the Advertising Pay You! Every line of advertising in this paper is written with service in view. . . Every article advertised has some claim to some one's atten tion. . Each advertiser knows his suc cess must come through fining a human need. , , . You will not bo interested in all these messages—but In some you will be. To miss the one directed to you may cost you dear. It does not take long to glance through the advertising in the Telegraph and to do so Is well worth while.
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