6 ItARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 4 MBU SPAPER FOR THE HOME P»uh iti Hjt published evenings except Sunday by THK TKI/KGRAPH PRISTISO CO., Tflfirapk Building, Federal S«uar*. B.J. STACK POLK. Prist and Eiiitr-imCkitf I". R. OYSTER, Butinus Mana/tr. ©US M. BTEINMETZ, Hit or. A Member American 01 Newspaper Pub -0 Ushers' Aaaorla- Bureau of Clreu lation and Penn jS sylvanla Asieeiat- Eastern office, Hai- Ifi 1 gain Brooks. Fifth Ave- K a JSuUm nUC •* >ew Brooks. People'a "— — Gas Building. CbJ cago. 111. *ntered at the Post Office in Harrls ourg, Pa., a a second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall. 13.00 a year in advance. twera dally average circulation far the * '• ■"■tki ending Dec. 31, 1818. 22,412 These agurea are set. All retaraed, •nanld aad damaged copies deducted. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN*, A#. He who is continually changing his point o1 view icill see more, and that too more clearly, than one tcho, statue like. for ever stands upon the same pedestal however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be. — Sir Arthur HKLrs. >IR. MANN'S SPEECH IF President Wilson meant to go be fore the people with an appeal for support for the national defense program lmsed on the assumption that partisan politics enter into the oppo sition that has sprung up in Congress, he will have to change the tenor of his speech. The address of Congressman Mann, leader of the Uepublicans in the House, made on the floor of Congress yesterday, shows where the Republi can party stands on the matter of preparedness, for applause on the Re publican side of the chamber indi cated that a majority of the speaker's j colleagues heartily approved of what he said. Mr. Mann voiced the sentiments of I all good Americans, regardless of party,! when lie declared that partisan feel- | Jng must not be permitted to have! re part in the debate preceding the pas- ! t-ase of adequate preparedness meas- j nres. All that Republicans ask is that the program be well balanced, that it! be sufficient to meet our needs without being unnecessarily burdensome, that it be free from the suspicion of "pork," that the expenditures in other direc tions be pared to meet the new needs and that action be as prompt as the urgency of the situation demands. If President Wilson lacks support for such a program he lacks it in his own party and he should make that clear when he goes before the people. The war has started. Just previous to a preparedness luncheon at the Metropolitan Club in Washington, yes terday, at which ex-Postmaster-Gen eral George von L. Meyer was to be a guest of honor, he accepted the invita tion of Truxton Beale to settle a little argument on the sidewalk in front of the club house. Hostilities began promptly, and Dr. Carey T. Grayson, the President's physician, who happened to be at the club house, treated Mr. Meyer's eye. It is not stated who re placed the patch of skin removed from Mr. Beale's forehead. The ex-Postmas ter-General did not permit the litie af- | fair of the curb to Interfere with his luncheon engagement. After his clothes had been dusted and his eye cared for, he calmly entered and took his seat. Yet we have people who Insist that Americans have lost their fighting spirit. PHILIPPINE FKKF.nOM NOT satisfied with mixing things elsewhere throughout the world the Wilson administration now proposes to throw the Philippines in to the vortex of disaster by declaring the archipelago free not later than 1920. Tt is stated in dispatches from Washington that the President has given his approval to an amendment to the Philippine government bill, now pending in the Senate, which provides /or the independence of the islands in from two .to four years: this in spite of the warning of ex-President Taft and others who have an inti mate knowledge of the forces at work in the islands concerning the unpre paredness of the natives for inde pendent rule. The Allentown Morning Call has just Issued an industrial edition of fifty-six pages, setting forth very attractively the business activities, prospects and opportunities of that section of Penn sylvania. "Let us study our home town and boost," is the slogan suggested by Mayor A. I*. Reichenbach, and the Call appears to have done both to a superla tive degree. THE RECORD AXI) WILSON* THE Philadelphia Record has been making so much of a re cent speech of Jacob H. Schlfr. the banker, as a prop for its own as sertions that the tariff is not to be an issue in the coming national cam paign, that one wonders how it Is going to regard the declaration of President Wilson in favor of Ihe cre ation of a tariff commission. If the tariff question has been permanently settled by the Underwood law, as Mr. jgchift and Kecord would have us WEDNESDAY EVENING, 1 believe, why has the President deem ed It necessary to create an expensive board of tariff commissioners and in doing so incidentally admit that some of the schedules now in effect should be revised? The truth Is that the Record and other Democratic newspapers see In the tariff one of the great issues of the coming- campaign and they ore doing whatever lies In their power to dis count it in advance. A large major ity of the people of this country un questionably believe In the necessity of a protective tariff, but by a pro tective tariff they do not mean a law designed to favor capital at the ex pense of labor, but rather a regula tive measure that shall do no more than make possible the high wage scale of America as against the cheap competition of Europe and at the same time guarantee steady work for both capital and labor. That is what a protective tariff means and that is the kind of a law the Republicans mean to enact next year. The President, however, has com pletely reversed himself on and there is evidence that the Demo cratic party, which disregarded the re ports of the tariff board appointed by President Taft and refused to make appropriations to continue this board in existence, is preparing to follow suit. According to the President's plan, as authoritatively outlined at Washing ton. the functions of the tariff com mission, which is to be "nonpartisan," will be as follows: To investigate the administrative and fiscal effect of customs laws heretofore enacted or to be enacted in the future. To investigate the relation be tween rates on raw materials and those on finished or half-tlnlshed I products. To investigate the effects of ad valorem and specific duties and of those which are a combination of ad valorem and specific duties. To perfect the arrangement of schedules of duties and the classifi cation of articles In the several schedules. To study the provisions of law and the rules and regulations of the Treasury Department regarding entry, appraisement. Invoices and collections. In general, to Investigate the working of the customs and tariff laws in economic effect and admin istration methods. Finally, to inquire into the cost of production at home and abroad; collect facts and present to Con gress figures with reference to partisan theories, but on which a tariff law can be based. Here Is direct admission that the Underwood law Is not satisfactory even to Its framers: that a protective tariff may be, in some instances at least, necessary, and that the tariff Is still very much a political issue. Charles D. Hilles, chairman of the Republican National Committee, is not disturbed over the proposed swing around the circle by President Wilson. He believes that the European conflict is the only mainstay of the President, and that outside of the parrot-like state ment that "he lias kept us out of the war" there is no argument to offer for his re-election. Mr. Hilles and other leaders of the Republican party through out the country express the conviction that 1916 is to be a Republican year, and that the next President will repre sent the party of protection and pros perity. HI'KRAH FOR THE SI'NHSH HUNDREDS of fishermen who tire of sitting in a boat in the hot sun all day waiting for an in different bass to gobble the toothsome dainty so carefully prepared for him on the end of a long line will rejoice that Eish Commissioner Buller is going to devote tnuch of the attention of his department to the propagation of the blue gill sunfisli. This type of sunfisli varies from a quarter to a pound in weight nnd he is all appetite and fight. There never lived a black bass with the ferocity and pulling power of an adult blue gill scouting for his breakfast, and there never lived a bass that raised such large families as Papa and Mama Blue Gill take pride in producing for the amusement and edification of countless small boys and older anglers, too. Added to this, a half-pound blue gill well browned and hot from the pan can give even a trout cards and spades as an appetizing tid-bit. A blue gill may never have broken a tarpon line or pulled a fisherman into the water, but for all-around sport he fills the bill. He loves to linger be neath shady banks or rocks, or along sunken logs, where the water eddies, the long grass blades sway and the food floats right into his dining-room door. But he is not afraid of swift currents and frequently he may be taken quite freely where the fisherman wades knee deep in a stream abound ing in eddies and holes that tempt a lover of trout to try a fly. There is lots of fun fishing for blue gill sunflsh and Mr. Buller will add about 25 per cent, to the batting aver age of the Joy of Living for the average citizen if he succeeds in his purpose of making the streams abound with them as they once did, back in the pleasant days of bright sunshine and cooling breezes and blue skies | when we went whistling across the [ dewy meadow at sunrise, calm in the assurance of good sport in store and of a well-filled creel at evening time. SUPPORT THE HOSPITAL THE colored people of town very generously have appointed a committee to raise money to as sist in the support of the Harrlsburg Hospital. Their effort comes at a very opportune time. The calls upon the hospital during this winter of excessive sickness have been exceedingly heavy. The funds, however, are no greater than before and every care must be taken in order that the efficiency of the institution be not weakened by the great amount of new work it has been called upon to do. The forethought and helpfulness of our colored citi zenry ought to be a hint for others. ! It beat* all how State Highway Com i missloner Cunningham and his staff are | setting over the State and Into touch i with road conditions everywhere. U#v | ernor Brumbaugh is determined that the highways of Pennsylvania shall represent a substantial part of the con structive program of his administra tion. Jn this he will have the enthusi astic support of every good citizsn. | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE"! —Germany's proposals to Belgium and Austria's offer to Oermany lead to the belief that the Teutonic allies | prefer their peace in pieces. —lt begins to look as though the j Chicago road roller will be shipped to St. I^ouis. —Mars appears to be having almost as much trouble with its canals as we are having at Panama. —Time may be money, but the fel low who has most time on his hands is usually poor. Pennsylvania spent with Its laun dries last year more than *10.000,000. If cleanliness Is next to godliness, Pennsylvania must be next door to heaven. —Germany has offered Belgium a new "scrap of paper." 1 editqrialcqmment Pan-American unity Is a beautiful thought, but it must be remembered that peace-advocates are always of one mind until they get together.—Wash ington Post. International law is not very influ ential at present, but It must be borne in mind that enough scraps of paper carelessly treated may start a danger ous blase.—Washington Star. Summing things up in general, one may say that the two heroes of the year who have kept their following are I* ield Marshal von Hlndenburg and Charlie Chaplin.—Chicago Daily News. President Wilson is sure to go down in history as a man of international note.—Christian Home and School. TWO SIDES [Kansas Ctty Star.] The big feature of German pre paredness is likely to be overlooked in this country, where attention has been centered on the empire's military efficiency. Colonel Roosevelt is doing an important service in emphasizing the essential part in the war of Ger man industrial organization. America has been allowed Its enor mous natural resources and the com parative sparseness of population to take the place of efficient, organiza tion. But there are evidences of in creasing strain. The out-of-work problem that Kansas City—and every other city—faces every winter is. one of these. The growing revolt against injustices of industry, the demand for escape from sweatshop wages, the in sistence on decent working conditions, the pressure for workmen's compen sation acts, widows' pensions and the like, all indicate that the United States is beginning to face problems similar to those which have confronted the nations of Europe. Germany realized the necessity of solving these problems a generation ago. England put off facing them until the comparatively recent advent of Lloyd-George. The consequence is that the industrial organization of Germany has been far adapted to meet the strain imposed by war than that of England. Military preparation, as Colonel Roosevelt has pointed out. is only one side of the national problem of pre paredness. There must be a program for social and Industrial justice such as the Progressive party advocated in 1912 if.this nation is to be prepared to do its part in either peace or war. KNOWING A GIRL "* * * show me a mother ivho is kind of heart, decisive or will, Chris tian in character, a good housekeeper, whose daily orders are that 'dirt, debt and the devil' cannot enter her home, who can play as elegantly on the cookßtove as she can on the piano— in short, a mother given to industry, self-sacrifice and consecration and the reproduction of such a mother is easily seen in the daughter."—Some clergyman in Chicago. Show us a woman such as you de scribe, and nine times out of ten we will show you a woman who is trail ing the girls about eight hours a day, picking up after them, who takes turns with her silent partner in sit ting up watching the front door until the young ladies arrive about two a. m. from an evening of turkey-trotting and grizzly-bearing. Scientifically speaking, to tell whether a girl is going to make a good wife or not, requires something more than the knowledge of what her mother is. Strange as this may seem to our misguided Chicago brother, a knowledge of the girl's father is im portant. His very insignificance may have a great bearing upon the case. Her grandparents also enter into the calculation. The best rule by which to judge a girl's capacity is to take account of everything—of her father and mother, her grandfathers and grandmothers, her environment, her companions, her schooling. Write this all down carefully on paper, making due allowance for each influence. Then throw it out of the window, and you will know as much about wha< the girl will do under given circumstances as you did before. Life. ON THE COLOR LINE [From the Crisis.! , —As a result of a gift of $25,000 from Andrew Carnegie and an appro priation of SB,OOO by the city council, a Negro Public Library has been opened in New Orleans with 5,000 volumes. —Colored people at Detroit, Mich., have effected an organization which aims to < are for the homeless children in that city. —The colored branch of the St. Louis Young Men's Christian Association has just closed a very successful campaign led by Dr. J. K. Mooreland. The Cen tral Association promised $75,000 toward meeting Julius Rosenwald's gift of $25,000, provided the colored peo ple raised $50,000. Committees were organized, and the ten-day campaign closed with a result that more than $68,000 had been subscribed by the col ored people. —Mrs. S. R. Givens is speaking among colored clubs of the Southwest in the interest of a movement to en courage history and art among colored people. —At a mass meeting in Atlanta, Ga., colored people raised $8,900 for a Young Men's Christian Association building. The Governor of the State was present. The ground has already been purchased. —ln Miami, Fla.. negro voters helped to carry the prohibition ordinance. —St. Catherine's School and Convent, new Catholic institutions for negroes, at Germantown. Pa., were blessed by Archbishop Prendergast. —J. R. K. Lee. for sixteen years a teacher at Tuskegee Institute, has suc ceeded G. N. Grisham as principal of the Lincoln high school, Kansas City, Mo. EXCELLENTSELECTION [Philadelphia Record.] By the Governor's appointment of Michael J. Ryan as a member of the Public Service Commission Pennsyl vania secures the services of a faithful public official who can be relied upon to bring to his work the very best that is in him. Philadelphia neve" bud » better City Solicitor that Mr. Ryan, nnd if It had been properly appreciative lof his absolute Integrity and unflHsr ging zeal In protecting its interests il would have elected him unanimously for a second terni. That it failed to do so and also to elevate him to the ju dicial bench are reflections upon the uw telligence of Its voters, not upon the merits of Mr. Ryan. harrisburg telegraph fd!XUt By th« Ex-Oommltteemaa Democrats of the State do not seem to liave risen to the announcement of A. Mitchell Palmer that he will be a candidate for re-election as national committeeman any more than they have shown any indication of accept ing any "olive branches" from the Monroe county man and his col leagues. Palmer's announcement failed to interest many who have been boost ers of the reorganization among the Democrats and has brought what amounts to a defiance from Demo cratic congressmen at Washington. Now that Palmer's boom has been launched it is likely that some of the Old Guard chieftains will get together and arrange for opposition to Palmer. I The Democrats elect their national committeeman through the national | delegates and that Palmer will have rough sledding in a delegation which will be for Wilson Is conceded. —Seething Philadelphia was com paratively quiet yesterday except for ! some resentment by Democrats of Palmer's slurs about their small num ber. Some of these Democrats retort ed- that if the number was small In Philadelphia, State Chairman Morris, who lives in Philadelphia, should be held responsible. The Washington party standpatters who are trying to halt the return to the party move ment are now threatening to throw out the men who declare for return. If this is done it will leave only the front row of the progressive parquet occupied. —One E. R. Wood, who has been a candidate for Governor and various other offices, is now running for the Republican nomination for President. Air. Wood is a fine old Philadelpliian with a fondness for politics and is visiting various counties in the inter est of his aspirations. —Representative M. B. Rich, of Clinton, has announced his candidacy for renomlnation. —Congressman C. W. Beales, of Gettysburg, who was here yesterday declared that he would not run again. Maybe Congressman l.afeun will try for the district nomination if there is a fuss over congressmen-at-large. —Woman suffragists are getting ready to make a tight for election of Congressmen favorable to the suffrage amendment and last night the head quarters in this city Issued a state ment that a conference on the elec tion would be held in March and plans made for the launching of a campaign for Congressmen favorable to suffrage. —Congressman Arthur G. Dewalt is having an interesting time with his boom for re-election. There are some opponents in his own county. —Representative M. R. Kitts will be one of the candidates for mayor of Erie to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the mayor-elect. Kitts was one of the thorns In the side of the bosses of the reorganized Democracy. Ex-Mayor Stern, V. D. Eichenlaub. William Blosser and Grant Smith are also candidates. —The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times notes the interesting fact that the Armstrong administration in Pitts burgh has not yet made up its mind to support Senator Charles J. Magee for re-election as senator because Commissioner William A. Magee has not yet made up his mind about what he intends to do in the way of muni cipal legislation next winter. The same newspaper also contains this interesting bit of information: "Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong and his asso ciates in the management of the Re publican organization are giving a good deal of attention to the making of a slate of legislative candidates. In order to secure an indorsement a pros pective legislator must agree that he will oppose all anti-liquor legislation and follow the lead of the Mayor #n all bills affecting the government of the city. The liquor interests and the German-American Alliance are work ing with the Armstrong organization." —Judge J. N. l,angham, former corporation clerk in the auditor gen eral's department, is now holding his first license court in Indiana county. There are remonstrances against all applicants. —Captain Isaac E. Johnson, of Me dia, is said to be out against Congress man Thomas S. Butler, for the Repub lican nomination in the Chester-Dela ware district. —Our old friend, Col. P. ray Meek, does not see much use in the Demo cratic party trying to defeat P. C. Knox for senator and still less use of i trying to do it with Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson. In that bea con of old-time Democracy, the Belle fonte Watchman, Col. Meek adds this light to the real situation in the re organized Pennsylvania Democracy which has been disorganized by Pal mer and his pals: "The suggestion, [which comes from Washington that Secretary of Labor Wllliom B. Wilson be nominated for United States senator by the Democrats of Pennsylvania will hardly meet with popular favor. Mr. Wilson represents nothing that is his torical or traditionary in the Demo cratic party In this State. When he didn't know which party he belonged to and didn't care much, the Demo cratic organization of the State took him up and elected him to Congress. * • • With Mr. Knox as the Repub lican candidate for senator a Demo cratic nomination is a forlorn hope. But it is a high honor, nevertheless, and should be bestowed upon some gentleman of character and ability. There are plenty of such within the ranks of the Democrats of Pennsylva nia, and to suggest William B. Wilson for the office is a crime against the integrity of the party and an insult to the intelligence of the voters of that faith. The party can be rejuvenated and restored to its former hopeful place in political life, but that result can be. achieved only by repudiating the professional office seekers." TO-DAY'S EDITORIALS The Public I.edger, Philadelphia— If President Wilson's reported conver sion to the tariff commission idea has been based upon the belief that the adoption by the Democrats of a scien tific method of collecting industrial data for the guidance of Congress in the fixing of customs duties Is going to forestall the growing demand of the country for a revision of the tariff by its friends, he will soon find how utterly he is mistaken. On the other hand, if there are any pronounced protection ists who imagine that the President's decision to put tariff revision on a sci entific and nonpartisan basis ought to be opposed as inimical to their own <ause, they will place themselves in a false position before the country and run the risk of losing the support of many thousands of voters whose ad herence to the principle of protection is qualified by the condition that it shall no longer be controlled by solely partisan and selfish considerations. The Baltimore A mrrlrnn —Posi ti velv a last appeal to patriotism was that which the Belgian Burgomaster so pa thetically made to intending suicides when he asked them not to shoot, but to drown or hang themselves, since the I town was fined SSO by the Germans be cause a Belgian shot himself. The Bel gians are forbidden to possess fire arms, hence the anneal to shuftle oft | the mortal coil in a less entangling way. ! The Philadelphia PrrM—What the President wants is that Carranza shall hold Villa to a strict accountability, but it Is doubtful If Carranza has the ability to sling language the way some I people can. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY BETTER HEAVE THAT DECKLOAD OVERBOARD —Front thf Phlladrlphtn Record. APPRECIATING THE POTATO By Frederic J. Haskin V J The Irish potato, like the prophet, has been not without honor save in its own country. It Rets its name be cause it saved the Irish from famine. The French recently erected a monu ment to Antoine Augustin Parmen tier. the man who Introduced it into that country. It is most widely ap preciated in Germany where potato meal is just now an important factor in the empire's war economics. In America, where It originated, the potato is. of course, widely used, but almost as much is wasted as is eaten. Owing to its large'content of water, it is not profitable to ship raw pota toes far. Practically all of the other potato-eating countries have invented methods of converting it into meal which is used for bread-making and stock food. In Germany potato meal has been a staple for a century. Now this country is beginning to follow suit. The homely spud, long neglected, is being pushed into the spotlight of science. Ways to dry it and dessicate it and pulverize it. so that it may be preserved Indefinitely and shipped to the ends of the earth, are being devised. Its varieties are being multiplied so that there will be one suited to every section of the country. New ways of cooking it are constantly coming to the fore. We now have potato meal, potato bread, potato muffins and potato pudding. It looks as though the potato was deter mined to masquerade in every dish on the bill of fare. The climax of the potato's glory will be reached in a few weeks when the department of agriculture will hold an extensive potato show in one of its new buildings. Here will be placed on exhibition all the different varie ties of potatoes which the government experts have succeeded In producing, together with full data upon the con ditions of climate and soil to which they are adapted. If there is any sort of a potato which you can raise in your back yard or on your farm, go to the government potato show and you will find it there. The department of agriculture is now observing and studying the po tato from many angles. On its experi mental farm at Arlington it has erect ed a plant for drying potatoes and grinding them into meal for stock food. So far the experiment has not been a complete success. The ap paratus consists of a potato-washing machine which was purchased from Germany, and a traveling wire screen for drying the pulp by pressing it over steam-heated pipes. The perfection of a practicable ap paratus for doing this work will be worth many millions to American agriculture. From 10 to 20 per cent. \ of the American potato crop is wasted every year because it is not good enough for table uses and there is no means of preserving it for stock food or converting it into flour. The problem in this country is to produce the stock meal cheaply enough so that the farmer can sell it at a profit. The government ex perts believe that the producer would get about twenty cents a bushel for I OUR DAILY LAUGH I LOOKS THAT Advice U large- Myfil What do you sense don't need without unae ■ I won't take It. So what's the usaT ■lx months ago to —you're not HE KNEW! By WlnK Ulngtr I've one boy who's always ready- Information to Imparl— Ne'er confesses lack of knowledge. No. indeed, lie's far too smart He may not, of course, be posted. But an answer he will frame. Makes no difference what the subject Always, brother, 'tis the same. Of "The Magic Wheel," at present He is talking quite a bit. Has a boy friend who Is taking An Important part In It. So I asked, "What part does Bill play? 'Cross his face a smile did steal. Then he spoke up. "Biggest part, dad, In the show, why, lies the wheel. MUST BE CAREFUL [New York Sun.] If Judge Gary of the United States Steel Corporation isn't careful he urges support of the Administration's defence program next thing he knows he'll be getting a letter like the one that went to Colonel Harvey I when the Colonel was "hurting;" a dis tinguished candidacy. JANUARY 26, IQI6. potatoes which were ultimately used in that form. This price would not make it profitable to cultivate them in many sections of the country for use as stock food alone. It would, however, make it possible for the farmer to get something: for his culls, and by sorting them thoroughly, to put a higher grade of potato on the market for table use. There is one commercial organiza tion in this country which has for its object the manufacture of potato meal. This concern is experimenting with the various drying and grinding processes with a view to establishing a string of "community potato mills," in sections where the production is heaviest and hence the waste greatest. The idea seems to be a large one and ought to be worth a great deal both to the promoters and the farmers. At present, however, the experiments are rather at a standstill because Ger many is about the only source of po tato machines and the war lias put her out of the market. The German method of handling potatoes is more elaborate than any of those tried in America. In Ger many the potatoes are first washed, then cooked in a steam vat and crush ed between rollers. The resultant pulp is passed through heated steel cylind ers which are perforated so that they press the product into flat cakes. These cakes may be ground up fine and made into flour. Potato bread has been a staple in Germany for over a century. Experiments in the use of potatoes as a bread stuff are being carried on in this country by the Michigan State Agricultural College. The Michigan cooks have produced a sort of potato bun which is declared to be quite a delicacy. In this country ,of course, our bumper wheat crops make it unnec essary to use substitutes for bread stuff. The high cost of living in this country, however, is traceable largely to our national extravagance and wastefulness, of which allowing 20 per cent, of our potato crop to rot on the ground is a fair sample. If we ate more potato bread we might not have to pay so much for beefsteak. Germany produces about four times as many potatoes as the United States. This Immense crop is used for a wide variety of purposes. Not only is the vegetable eaten fresh and made into bread, but alcohol for industrial pur poses and in the form of brandy, and starch are manufactured from them. The Department of Agriculture is encouraging the farmer to grow spe cific varieties of potatoes which are suited for special purposes. In this way, a higher market price may be commanded. Thus the making of po tato chips requires a dry, hard potato which will absorb a minimum of grease. High-class hotels and restau rants soon find that in order to main tain the reputation of their cuisines they must always obtain the same sort of a high-class potato. Some potatoes, for example, will bake much better than others, while potato salad may require yet a different sort. THE STATE FROM D/^TODAY Lancasterltes will not have the pleasure of seeing the wonderful pro duction of David Griffith, "The Birth of a Nation," which has created such intense Interest all over the country where it has appeared. Mayor Trout has made the announcement that it will not be shown because of his be lief that the story libels the great commoner, Thaddeus Stevens, who is buried in Shreiner's cemetery, Lan caster. This production is booked for the Orpheum in Harrisburg in the near future. Northumberland county's youngest wife died yesterday in Sunbury of pneumonia. It was her birthday anni versary, and Mrs. William Kline, the 10-months-old bride, was only sixteen years of age. One hundred of the fairest daugh ters of Heading will participate in a "tag day'" which it is planned will bring in a large revenue that will be used for the aid of Hebrew sufferers in the war zone, following the recent proclamation of President Wilson and Governor Brumbaugh. "Tag day" has on every occasion proved successful when pretty girls were used as "tag gers," and this will not prove an ex ception. Says the Lancaster Intelligencer, the game of golf in the United States is so big that there are 1,064 listed clubs, scores of public links, dozens of private courses and countless unlisted clubs. Imagine if you can, all the golf balls required to keep these clubs ac tive for a year; imagine them piled up in one huge pyramid, and if you don't become light-headed, it isn't be cause the mound doesn't reach to the clouds. An iron furnace belonging to the Freeman estate at Cornwall, having been idle for fifteen years, is now to be operated again by the Lackawanna Iron end Steel Company. This makes the fifth stack which the Lackawanna company la now operating in Corn- I wall. Abetting (Eljat Serious consideration is being given by .State Game Commission officials to the suggestion that the next legis lature be asked to pass a law for a closed season on quail for at least two years In order to allow them to propagate now that the federal quar antine has cut o(T any hopes of im porting quail from Mexico or Culm for many months to come. The legislature forbade the hunting of wild turkeys for two years a couple of years ago and the result was that through the safety the birds enjoved and judicious distribution of turkeys I from other States Pennsylvania had the best wild turkey shooting it hail ever enjoyed last Fall. The federal action will stop importation of over 10,000 quail for the commission, which had appropriated the money for them and sent an agent to Mexico to buy them and will also prevent many dealers in live game from getting birds. The disease against which the quarantine is aimed is due to a para site which affects the digestive organs. It has killed off many valu able quail imported into this coun try. • • * State officials who have been ob serving the registration of automo biles believe that the number of cars owned by farmers and used in farm or market work will pass the 25,000 mark this year. Reports received from assessors and crop reporters by the State Department of Agriculture indicated that there were over 22,000 owned in the country In December and since then agents have been busy getting orders for cars for Spring delivery. • * • Organization of an additional en gineer company for the National Guard will soon he effected it Is be lieved about the Capitol, the interest taken In preparedness having caused a number of moves to get official countenance for such an organization. The State now has two engineer com panies, one in Philadelphia and one in Scranton. Altoona and Pittsburgh have been mentioned for the third, but nothing has been announced by the militia authorities. • • • Folk who know the Beckleys, who live near the Colonial Country Cluh, are smiling these days as they see in one of the seed catalog "ads" running in the magazines, a babyhood pic ture of O. P. Beckley's son, Park. Mr. Beckley is one of the horticultural experts of this country, taking a prominent part in that work at the Mount Pleasant Press where it. has become one of the most important ends of the business. When his boy Park was a youngster he was forever and anon taking pictures of the little rascal in beautiful floral poses. The one the seed company Is using in its ad is particularly artistic, showing the lad smelling of a beautiful flower. Intimate friends of the Beckleys have seen that same picture In the photo album on the living room table of their beautiful country home, for it Is one that "O. P." never fails to show his friends. By dint of industry more than fif teen tons of waste paper have been gathered by the Men's Bible Class of Derry Street United Brethren Church during the last several months and the men are now busy trying to gather fifteen tons more. When the thirty tons are collected It will be shipped in carload lots to waste paper jobbers and the proceeds will be turned into the church building fund for the bier Easter offering which is an annual event at Derry Street. This Men's Class, with 400 men, is the largest in the city and it is doing a remark able work on Allison Hill. It has one of the best orchestras In the city, which plays each Sunday under the direction of Earle E. Renn, one of the younger attorneys of the Dauphin [County Bar. It's got drums, too, despite the opposition of some of the old-time religion folk who imagine it's not quite the proper thing to make music In church on much other than an organ. Next, week bells are to be introduced, it is announced. One of the progressive steps recently taken by the class was the institution of a regular monthly class dinner, where the fellows all get together, fill them selves with good things of the earth and then settle down to well planned business meetings. The dinners are served at actual cost and just to show what can be done not long ago the menu was turkey and all the fixin's at a cost of twenty cents. • • • Major General C. M. Clement, of Sunbury, the commander of the Na tional Guard division, is one of the oldest officers in the Guard. Tie has served in it for over a quarter of a century and commanded the Twelfth Infantry in the Spanish war. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ~ —Howard B. French, the new president of the Philadelphia Cham ber of Commerce is a member of the State Board of Charities. —C. L. Huston, the Coatesville iron master, has given SI,OOO to the Jew ish relief fund. —H. C. Frick is playing golf in Florida these days. —E. J. Lynett, mentioned as Demo cratic candidate for United States Senator, is Scranton's biggest pub lisher. —H. E. Lewis, the new assistant to the Bethlehem Steel Company president, is a great athletic booster. —Theodore N. Ely has been elected vice president of the Philadelphia Museums. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Harrisburg makes parts for many traction machines? IHSTORIO HARHISBURG The first road laid out to tlds city came from Mlddletown. LOVE THE LORD Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.—Joshua xxll, 11. Plan Your Work Work Your Plan That la a good suggestion to the National Advertiser. Plan your advertising with a knowledge of the market and Its possibilities. Plan It so that your energy will be directed towards the spots of highest return don't just shoot money at the map. Planned with this in mind your advertising will inevitably go to the daily newspapers. And once your plan is made, W'OIIK IT. Manufacturers in the "plan ning stage" are Invited to write to the Bureau of Advertising. American Newspaper Publishers Association. 806-807 World Build ing, New York, i ——d
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