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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
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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. «
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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.