8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSu Published evenings except Sunday by THE TBLBtiHAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph lluililln;;, Federal Square. K.J. STACK POLE. Pret't and Editorin-Chitf F. R. OYSTI-K, 3ii.tir.fjs Mjr.oger. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American Newspaper Pub- Ushers' Assoc la w aylvanla Assoclat- Eostern office. Has brook. Story & Brooks. Fifth Ave nue Building. New em office. Has- Brooks, People's Gas Building, Chi- Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. " worn dally average circulation for the three month* ending: Dee. 31, 1015. ★ 22,412 * These figure* are net. All returned, bMold and damaged copies deducted. TUESDAY EVENING, FEB. I. The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the larger vision. —GtoRGK Euoi. A GREAT STATE HIGHWAY AS one who is greatly interested in the construction of the pro posed William Penn Highway across the State from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, Governor Brumbaugh will undoubtedly take a prominent part in the forthcoming conference of repre sentatives of the several cities and towns along the route which will be held under the Chamber of Commerce auspices in this city during the latter part of March. No movement has ever had such a prompt and enthusiastic response on the part of the people interested. Every community is wide awake and all are doing what they can to pro mote public interest in the under taking. Already miles of good road along the proposed route have been tonstructed and these stretches will be tied together in some cohesive way through the co-operation of the State Highway Department from time to time. It is expected that the confer once will result in the organization of the William Penn Highway Association and then will follow the necessary « o-ordinated work and publicity neces sary to a successful working out of the plans of the originators of the cross- I Jstate highway. One of the purposes of the confer ence under the direction of the Cham ber of Commerce in this city Is an agreement upon a definite route for the proposed highway so that there may be actual progress made during the earlv Spring. As a striking evidence of the in creasing interest in the proposed high- ' way there is already considerable com munity rivalry regarding the exact route to be followed. This rivalry shows how popular is the movement and the necessity for the highway | through the populous districts contem- j plated in the tentative route. Mem- | bers of Congress, political leaders and ; business representatives and organ- ! lzations of every sort are already en- ] listed in the preliminary work. This week a meeting of the Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway Asso ciation is being held at St. Joseph. Mo., and it is the plan to have the William Penn Highway incorporated as part of this national route. {Transcontinental \ travel last year demonstrated many [ logical advantages of the ocean-to- I ocean highway which is to-day rec- i ognized by national authorities as one ] of three main transcontinental routes. I ANTI-SALOOX t IIALXiEXGE IN many of the pulpits of Harris- j burg on Sunday the accredited rep- j resentatives of the Anti-Saloon j League presented the purposes and plans of the organization for the pres ent year. The most striking feature of the addresses was the open challenge of the anti-saloon army to the organ ized liquor forces. It was plainly stated that it is longer a mere local con- I test, but has attained the proportions : «>f a national war between two great j forces—one favoring the liquor traffic, j the other strenuously and unalterably < opposed to it. There lias been a gradual change of j the public attitude toward the liquor . traffic throughout the country and it is ! no longer regarded as only a moral ' Issue. While the churches and the , temperance organizations are doing i their utmost to curtail and abolish the j business, the instrumentalities which ; have largely contributed to the growth of the opposition are economic in their ; character. Great corporations and in- j dividual employers are almost solidly , arrayed against the traffic and these forces combined With the regular anti liquor associations are presenting a formidable front in the nation-w-ide movement. It was notable in the addresses from the Harrisburg pulpits Sunday that there was no bitterness toward the per sons engaged in the liquor business. It •was set forth that the contest was not directed against individuals, but against the organized and established liquor evil. Special attention was di rected to the increasing interest in t Congress on the question of national prohibition and it is thought not im probable that th» lawmakers at Wash ington will submit to the people the several states n referendum on this proposition. Of course, thirty-six irtates would have to ratify such a resolution before it became a part of [the orsauie law, but a considerable TUESDAY EVENING, HARRE3BURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 1. 19T<5. number of states have already adopted prohibition legislation and Pennsylva nia leaders of the anti-saloon cam paign declare their purpose to give the people at the ballot box the right to settle the license question and divorce the courts and the judiciary from the proposition. ONE CMM.MKK OP BRIGHTNESS THAXK heaven for one glimmer of brightness in the night of "unpreparedness" through which we are just now passing. After hearing that our army is as good as none and that generally speaking the navy is not up to the mark, comes the Army and Navy League with the an nouncement that the fourteen-inch gun in use in dreadnaughts in this country not only outranges the flfteen- Inch gun of the Queen Elizabeth type, but that the American weapon has a higher shell velocity, thus increasing its chance of hitting more than thirteen per cent. j The Pennsylvania, we are told, is I by no means inferior to the Queen Elizabeth, and other things being equal, the Pennsylvania ought to score a total of seventeen hits for every ten of the Queen Elizabeth. The guns of the Pennsylvania actually outrange those of the Queen Eliza beth more than 1,000 yards, so that under these conditions the Queen Elizabeth's slightly superior speed would be of no avail to her. The Pennsylvania is a type of the new fleet and with these facts as a basis it is not so clear, with a battle cruiser division of high speed such as will soon be in the course of con struction. why we are going to be in such a bad way from a naval stand point within the next two or three years. THE BOXES SYSTEM JS. BACHE, whose weekly financial letters are widely read, suggests | - the bonus system as a possible ! solution of the railroad wage problem, j He bases his idea on the demand of | employes for an eight-hour day, which j of course, if granted, would Indirectly increase wages. The only remedy then for the railroads would be in creased freight rates. In the past, however, a growth of railroad net earnings has been a signal for an other request for more wages. Mr. Bache's idea is that a system of bonuses be adopted whereby a cer tain percentage of the net profits in excess of certain amounts be paid to the men. and that the operation be made reactive, so that when the road's earnings fell below limits wages would be reduced accordingly, at least to a' certain minimum. Probably this would have to be much modified to make it acceptable to the railroad brotherhoods, but at least some such working plan would be more equitable and generally satis factory than the constant negotiations now going on over wage adjust ments. SUPPORTING THE PRESIDENT CONGRESSMAN MANN struck the keynote of the national pre paredness situation when he •aid that this Is no time for partisan debate or petty personal differences. Republicans and Democrats alike should join with the administration In working out an adequate defense pro gram. The President, whose swing around the circle, has developed into what appears to be far more than a mere pre-campaign oratorical junket, must be prepared to give and take. The defense program to be enacted by Con gress will not be the idea of one man. Legislation worthy the name has been always the result of compromise. The President, if he is as much in earnest as he appears to be, must not permit himself to haggle or quibble over de tails. The thing we want now is ac tion and the administration will have the support of all good Republicans to that end. President Wilson has not been as explicit in his speeches as the public might have desired, but when he says "let me tell you very solemnly I do not know what a day may bring forth" he is dealing wjth the possibilities of national peril the evidence of which lies all about us In our strained rela tions with England, the bitter enmity of Germany and Austria, the am bitions of Japan and the chaos South of the Rio Grande. The man who 1 preaches unpreparedness is an enemy | of the Republic beside whom the "hyphenated" citizen sinks into in significance. We all ought to stand ijy the ad | ministration in this crisis, but the administration must itself understand that it is by no means infallible and i that if it is to command the sup-' port of the rank and file It must be ; willing to yield as well as to demand, j What a line thing it would be if the ; President would go back to Washing- j ton, call the leaders of all parties, the . ; army and navy heads and his cabinet' 'together and endeavor to work out a program that would be, In a measure at least, satisfactory to everybody. THRIFT DAY THURSDAY will be "Thrift Day." "Thrift Day" is the idea of G. Y. j Clement, a Chicago banker, who. believes that the people of the United i States, swept along by the tide of war | 1 prosperity, are spending too much and saving too little. He would have ' "Thrift Day" a time for the making of good resolutions looking toward the starting of a savings bank account or the taking out of shares in a build ing association or the purchase of a little property—the beginning of any plan for systematic saving and the en couragement of habits of thrift. Bankers everywhere, who deplore the spendthrift tendency of people in gen eral, approve the idea and are en couraging it. Time was when the average banker scorned the small account and gave little attention to the man whose bal ance ran below three figures, but to day the banker worth the name bows' as obsequiously to the man who de posits his weekly salary as to the customer who sends his money to bank in a leather bag, and the reason i 3 not far to find. In the first place, many small deposits swell the grand total immeasurably and are not sub ject to such sweeping changes as Is the large deposits, and In the second place, the man who has the banking habit is always to be reckoned with. He may not have much to-day, but from the small depositors of the pres ent will be recruited the large de positors of to-morrow and It is wise banking policy to encourage the com ing capitalist. T>otitic Lk 'ptKKOifCtfanla By th« Fx-Committeem** Newspapers throughout the State are commencing to take the attitude more and more that the whole Repub lican organization in Pennsylvania should not become involved over a low - in Philadelphia and there is con siderable amusement manifested over the continual declarations for har mony, by men who are now In what is really a factional fight. Harmony is being sought with axes. Most of the Philadelphia newspapers take the position that there will be a tight and the North American in a double bar releu editorial says that in its opinion f 2. e ' ,on should be permitted to kill off the other and the people to destroy the one that's left. The same is also true of popular feeling in re gard to the fighting Democracy of Pennsylvania. -—The that Congressman Vare's declaration for Governor Brumbaugh for President contained reference to Hughes and Cummins, but did not mention P. C. Knox has not been lost on the State at large and there Is con siderable comment upon the omission. \ are s statement is generally consid ered among Democrats as an effort to stir up a fight when everyone had apparently agreed upon harmony. The South Philadelphia congressman's re cent utterances have had the effect of causing Republican leaders from va rious parts of the State to visit Senator Penrose and urge him to stand pat. —Thus far A Mitchell Palmer's effort to get the Old interested in plaits for a harmony delegation at large among the Democrats have not been very successful. Four years ago the reorganizes would not stand for any Old Guard men. Now they want them, disorganization and popular dis approval having made a virtue of ne-j cessity. —Senator Charles A. Snyder, who was here yesterday, declared that he was a candidate for auditor general to the finish. The Schuylkill senator said that his flag was nailed to the mast and that while he was not hunt ing a fight he was not going to run away from it. —Director Wilson will reorganize the whole Philadelphia detective bu reau. A number of men will walk the plank. —Lee Ellmaker. political writer of the Philadelphia Press and who rep resented the Press at the recent legis lative session, has resigned to become secretary to Congressman William S. \ are. He will have his headquarters in Washington. Mr. Ellmaker has many warm friends in this city. He comes from Lancaster. —Councilman Robert Garland has been making a series of speeches in Pittsburgh on the proposed changes in government which are being much agitated in that city. Pittsburgh wants a number of things, but it will have to be separated from Scranton to get them. —Powell Evans has been made chairman of the committee which Is to decide on a plan for the Indepen dents to follow in Philadelphia. —Judge Langham. of Indiana, reli censed only the Indiana Brewing Co., holding up all others. —Charles H. Stewart, clerk of Rad nor township, one of the best known officials in suburban Philadelphia dis tricts, quit because his salary was cut. —Dr. X. C. E. Guth, health officer of Allentown for years, quit his job yesterday after a clash with city coun cil. —Speaking in court at Wilkes-Barre Judge John M. Garman said that of all thieves the chicken thief was the meanest. Regarding the political situation the Pittsburgh Dispatch says: "It is now a settled conviction with the Gov ernor's intimates that in his recent in terviews urging harmony in the selec tion of delegates-at-large he was merely masking his batteries while he carries on a preparedness campaign throughout the State that is well known to be at its very height at this time. There have been evidences during the recent con ferences here that the principal ap pointees of Dr. Brumbaugh have been delegated as a strategy hoard or cam paign committee and reports from the interior of the State indicate the pres ence of the Governor's agents on or ganizing expeditions in many counties. Apparently all the forces he arrayed about himself during the legislative session of 1915 are being bound to gether into a political organization that will soon hear a call to arms for a conflict in which the make-up of the next Republican State committee will cut a big figure, in which the State leadership will be determined and in which a State ticket will be named." TOO BAD, BUT TRUE [From the Kansas City Times.] China didn't raise her boy to be a soldier. China didn't believe in pre paredness. China thought her vastness of territory and her 400,000,000 people were sufficient guaranty against the aggression of any possible enemy. All of which China can now tell to Japan. The Japanese being a p'olite people probably will allow China s statesmen to incorporate it in the pre amble of the treaty and China can take it home and frame it and hang it on the wall. The main drawback about the Chinese theory of the way the world is run is that it isn't true. Soldiers ought not to be. but are. War ought not to be. but is. Nations ought to mind their own business. bat don't The Chinese think their civilization is higher than the civilization of the West, and per haps it is. But the civilization of the West has the bigger guns. The Japanese once shared China's be lief, and not so very long ago. But be ing an observing people as weil as a polite they noticed that the nations of the West had reached their forward positions by gun play. The Japanese probably thought it a very rude and barbarous practice, but It was being done and its success was too apparent to make it worth while to look for a gentler or more refined way of geting ahead, and besides. Japan was in a hurry. Japan adopted the Western method and tried It on China. It worked. Greatly pleased with its success, she tried it on Russia and It worked again. A little while ago, Europe being busy with a gun play of its own, she tried it on Germany and it still worked. Now it is China's turn once more. It is all very shocking, of course. It can't he supported on any principle of ethics or morals. Xations ought not to do it. They ought to be ashamed of themselves. But It may be some years yet before the voice of reason is audible in a world shaken by cannon blasts and in the meantime the deplorable fact re mains that nations that would not bo in China's present position must carry a gun. SMALL GAME [From the Springfield Republican.] Nieuport's cathedral is gone, but it was only lifteenth century and ba roque. Its destruction was not a reully Important victory. - THE CARTOON OF THE DAY And He Was Invited to the House to Talk Business With Father —From the Chicago Evening Post. ["TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —The President may want lis to • be too proud to fight, but he doesn't want us to be too proud not to be ready to fight. —"War is a checkered game," re marks an exchange, but for our part we never did care for checkers. —Speaking of the activities of the S. P. C. A., has anybody considered the way the European dove of peace has been treated lately? —Spring seems to have beaten tha ground hog to it. —We suggest that those who ara hunting in vain for Vill§ wait until he issues his wedding announcements and then get hold of one of his "at home" cards. —The western man who put his name on a primary ticket for Vice- President "just as a Joke" must have been a close student of recent history. EDITORIAL COMMENT [ j Twenty-three languages were spoken! in Kast Youngstown. Then it happen- ■ ed.—Toledo Blade. j What unfortunate woman will be j blamed for the disaster in the Garden of Eden this time?— Kansas City Star. The man who wrote a book on "How to Live One Hundred Years" died re cently at the age for forty-six.—Mari nette Eagle-Star. "THICKER THAN WATER" "Blood is thicker than water." This proverb is so old that we say it unthinkingly, as we utter many an axiom or platitude. Some of these sayings do not deserve much thought or deliberation. The proverb just quoted does. For it contains a great truth. As the years pass we wonder that we did not know this in our youth as we know it now. There is a subtle something in the tie of family that holds one. When that is broken it hurts far down to the very roots of one's being. If I were giving counsel to the hus band and wife who would make each other happy and hold each other's love, I would suggest that neither call the attention of the other to the dis agreeable qualities of the family of either. "My husband loves my people as if they w£re his own," a. wife told me. "It makes me so happy!" I doubt if he did love her people very dearly, but be overlooked those characteristics which a more selfish man would have resented. If it was what a schoolboy would call "a bluff," it was a gloriously unselfish one. Most of us can stand the tempers and idiosyncrasies of our own when we alone have to bear them. It is when we see them through the eyes of a third person that they become un endurable. That is, perhaps, one rea son why so few roofs are large enough to cover two families. If each "in-law" exercised toward the members of the household into which he or she has married the same pardoning love that is exercised toward one's own. the aspersions cast upon the mother-in-law would die a natural death because they would have noth ing on which to feed.—Virginia Ter hune Van de Water, in the March Mother's Magazine. USE LOCAL PAPERS "Don't be afraid to spend money in your local newspapers for advertising the possibilities and municipal insti tutions of your community," was a statement made by Rufus R. Wilson, chairman of the publicity committee of the Seattle Commercial Club, in a talk to the Omaha Ad Club. Mr. Wil son went into detail to illustrate how latent possibilities of various com munities have been cultivated into strong life through earnest and in telligent community advertising. NO MORE LIQUOR ADS The South Carolina Senate has passed a I>III prohibiting liquor ad vertisements in newspapers and maga zines sold in the State. The bill is now before the committee on the House side, and it seems sure that it will pass and become a law. ONE-CENT By Frederic J, Haskin WILL, the familiar red two-cent stamp soon be a rarity, class ed with the one dollar stamp and other freaks that only collectors know? The signs begin to point that way. Twenty-one bills have been in troduced into the present congress, providing for one-cent postage in one form or another. If the innovation becomes law, it will be a change even more revolutionary than the introduc tion of the parcel-post system. The tfco-cent stamp will stay with us for awhile, however. Bills which have been introduced only propose the first step toward supplanting it. They pro vide for one-cent postage on ail let ters mailed at a post office foV deliv ery within the limits reached by car rier from that office. In other words, what are generally known as "city letters," will take only one-cent post age instead of two. Some of the bills provide for other radical changes in the rate on first-class mail. Perhaps the most comprehensive bill, and one that may be taken as both typical and inclusive, is the measure fathered by Representative Stafford of Wisconsin. The Stafford bill provides that letters mailed at a post oftice for delivery within the car rier limits of that office shall be charged a one-cent rate. The same rate shall apply to letters sent from a city to a rural or star route served by that city's post office, and to letters mailed on rural routes for city deliv ery. The local mail system, consisting of a central office, a carrier system, and a number of rural routes may be thought of as a great wheel, with the city for a hub, and the rural routes reaching out like spokes. A letter mailed at any part of the wheel will be delivered at any other point of the wheel for one cent, if the Stafford bUI becomes law. Another innovation no less basic and sweeping, which is provided for in the Stafford bill and also in several others, is the rate on first-class letters which go over the maximum weight of one ounce. The date on the first ounce for such letters will still be two cents, when their destination is out of the local district, but the charge for each additional ounce or fraction will be only one cent, Instead of two as heretofore. The over-weight letter will be carried for 3 cents Instead of 4. The difference grows more striking as the envelope in question gets heav ier. If papers weighing 10 ounces are mailed first-class to-day, they must carry 20 cents in stamps. Under the new system, the same papers can be mailed for 11 cents. The effect of the change will be tre mendous in cities of any size, where local mail forms a large percentage of the total letters handled. It will cut the cost of communication between people of the same city just in half. All the mass of monthly statements, announcements, fraternal notices, in vitations, everything that fills half the letter-boxes of a metropolis, will cost THE STATE FROM DW TO DW "The world will end at 11:30 a. m. on Tuesday, April 4th." II has been spoken, and all that can be done by those who are members of the newly arisen sect which "proves" their as sertion by quotations from the book of Daniel Is to gird up their loins and await the day. The new sect does seem to be very much in earnest and are seriously preparing for the trum pet blast which will in nine weeks find them ready in their home town of Hazleton, Pa. Frank Arndt, "the human squirrel" who has been languishing in the house of bondage known to the regular reader as the Lehigh county jail, on Sunday scaled the 30-foot wall of the prison yard, leaped to a nearby telegraph pole, swung himself across the street on the wire cable, scrambled down to the sidewalk, movie-fashion, and escaped. The question of federal control of the National Guard has again been brought up and is being discussed. Sentiment among the members of the guard seems to be largely in favor of the move, which has been tried twice before but always some sort of a mis understanding has arisen and flaws discovered in the proposed law. <"on grcssman Scott favors a constitutional amendment to give the Federal Gov- one dollar to mail where formerly it cost two. Incidentally and inevitably, the receipts of the post otticc depart ment will go down by several million dollars. This will doubtless be the chief ar gument of the opposition when the bills come up for debate. Nobody proposes that the department shall be run as a money-making concern, but when it is just managing to make ends meet, it might seem inadvisable to cut a rich slice out of its receipts. The men who are behind the one-cent postage movement, however, point out a number of illogical features in the present scheme. The first-class mail matter, the sealed envelope with a two-cent stamp, is the source of practically all profit in the post office service. The first class letter is easily handled, easily sorted, and its small weight makes it cheap to transport. If nothing' but tirst-class mail were handled, it would be possible to have universal one-cent postage in the United States, and still show a profit. Yet if such a universal one-cent rate were introduced, the present receipts would go down bv $60,000,000 or $70,000,0000. It is ob vious that there is a big profit made on first-class mail, and a consideration of the balance sheet of the post office department makes it equally obvious that this profit must be eaten up by some other branch of the service. The loss in transporting and deliv ering mail matter, according to some of the Congressmen in favor of tho one-cent idea, conies largely in carry ing the magazines. Then there is the I mall of the government itself, the official business of senators and repre sentatives, of the executive depart ments, and of tho federal courts, which travels free, under frank. When tho grand totals of receipts and expendi tures are balanced against each other, there is not much over on the profit side. The one-cent postage propagandists admit the small margin of profit, but they point out that the real issue is: Who pays the bill? There is no doubt that magazines are entitled to some thing in the way of special traveling privileges, in consideration of their large educational value. There is no doubt that the significant speeches of congressmen should be distributed by the government through the districts affected by the matter under consid eration. Even the traditional pack age of garden seeds fulfills a purpose important enough to entitlo it to a pass in the mail car. But— who pays the bill? Why, says the advocates of one cent postage, should John Brown, whose business is of such a nature that he has to mail a thousand sealed En velopes on the first of every month, be compelled to pay for the carrying of magazines and speeches and garden seeds? Yet the profit on John Brown's first-class mail is what en ables the government to carry the I seeds and speeches free. ernment control of the State's forces. Lancaster is planning to derive revenue from the granting of the privilege for removing the city's gar bage to the highest bidder, if their plans work out. New York is being paid $900,000 for the privilege of re moval for five years. The rouson for the demand is the war and the great need of nitro-glycerine which by a certain process can be extracted from garbage, it is said. "Snow may follow midwinter hot term" is the encouraging report from optimistic newspapers in the State. That is true. So also may "Butch" MeDevltt run for the presidency on his own ticket, a round-trip ticket. So could a famous Shakespearean charac ter "call spirits from the vasty deep." But Hotspur, Just as we, had to be shown. OUR DAILY LAUGH WAY TO HOLD like Jack's atten- Ebpntng CHljat Tho first two days of February arc associated in tho minds of Harris, burg people with fires in spite of the fact that the second day is groundhog day and is looked to for evidence o( the remainder of winter. Ground nogs have been seen in every spot about Harrisburg, including railroad yards and cemeteries regularly, but the quality of winters lias gone on just about the same, generally tho contrary from the prognostication:! based upon the little animal. Febru aty 1 is in the minds of a good mauv people because it marks the day oil Which the Grand Opera House was destroyed and the heart of tho city had one of the worst lires known in ;i generation and which might have been much worse had it not been for slush and snow which extinguished sharks and flying embers. This lire occurred February 1, 1907, nine years ago. On February 2, 1997, the old State Capitol, one of the classic Stale houses of tho land, was burned amid weather conditions much like thosu which prevailed the night of the llro at Third and Walnut. These two Hies are still talked about and will be for many days to come. This statement which concerns the gift of prophecy of tho weather is made by an observer of nature, it is somewhat unusual, but is interesting now when the goosebone, tho ground hog, the skins of sausage and other things are used to get pointers on the weather: "Winter is yet to come. The little woolly worm forecasts this. Its coat is yellow from the head to near the center, then black up to within a quarter inch of the end of the body. There is no denying the fact that tho winter to date has been of a mild variety. That is what the woolly worm predicted by the yellow part of its body. It will soon be cold. Tho black wool shows it. Those who pin their faith on the woolly worm say the cold weather will hit this section about the first week in February, and continue until the last week in March. This little worm late in tho Kail, digs down through the earth beyond the frost line. When there is a pro longed warm spell the woolly worm works its way to the surface. Dur ing the past week these worms have been quite numerous in gardens and about greenhouses." If Fritz Kreisler, the great, violinist, knew tliat when ho was in HarrUburfl last Wednesday, his baby grand Stein way piano had been used for a game of leap-frog, it is doubtful whether he would have that excellent control over his bow which long has distinguished the great artist. But that's exactly what happened. Kreisler appeared in the evening at the Orpheum theater and his piano was placed on the stage of the play house in the afternoon. The theater was used while the piano was on the stage for a rehearsal of "The Magic Wheel," the amateur opera given for the benelit of the Sunshine Society of tho city, in the chorus were a lot of high school boys. While a crowd of them were waiting their "turn" some bright youth spied the baby grand piano in a corner and immediatcfly be gan to use the instrument as a "buck" in a game of leap frog. Soon a score or more of the young fellows were taking turns at leaping over the piano. Despite the efforts of the trainers, the boys kept at it until they grew tired of their bit of amusement. Then finding that one of the women in charge of the production had set herself up as tho particular guardian of the piano, the boys took turns at leaning against the instrument Just to hoar her deliver the following little speech: "Pardon me. but you can't lean against this piano. It belongs to Kreisler, you know, and he wouldn't like it." After the little lady had repeated the speech about two dozen times, she "got wise." State Librarian Thomas Lynch Montgomery is being given the glad hapd by his friends on and off Capitol Hill in honor of the com pletion of his thirteenth year as liead of the State Li brary and Museum. Mr. Montgom ery, whose work has placed him in the forefront of American librarians, is the man who more than any other has developed the Museum and not only labored for the advance ment of the big interests committed lo his charge by the State government but has given valuable aid and advice to the Harrisburg Public Library anil to the local historical organizations. Indeed, although Chester county claims him, here in Harrisburg we consider that ho is one of us and hope that he will be here for many years to come. It was largely through Mr. Montgomery that valuable studies of our local history were made, collections of Harrisburg pictures assembled and the tablet marking the Harris Perry erected. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Prof. A. A. Osborne, who has suc ceeded Congressman Temple at Wash ington and Jefferson, is a former Uni versity of Pennsylvania professor. —Rabbi Krauskopf in an address at Philadelphia urged tho establishment of a governmental bureau of peace. —Senator Charles A. Snyder, candi date for auditor general, is a native of t Dauphin county. —Dr. John B. Deaver, noted Phila delphia surgeon, operated on his own son the other day. —J. D. Bumgardner, chief of po lice of Washington, is about to retire because of failing eyesight. —J. K. Love, president of the Johns town Hotel, is going to try his hand at running a big hotel. The manager re signed and he will operate it himself 1 DO YOU KNOW "1 That Harrisburg trucks are in use in England? HISTORIC HARRISBURG This community was a gathering point for provisions for Washington's army. i ———————— v Newspapers Did It Kor two years a certain cereal product struggled for a foot hold. Its owners spent SIOO,OOO in certain forms of promotion, but the business grew backwards. For two successive years the books closed with a loss. Then the policy was changed. An intensive newspaper cam paign was hooked up with definite dealer work. In three months the company was making money and sales were running way ahead. Manufacturers who would like more details are Invited to write to the Bureau of Advertising. American Newspaper Publishers Association, World Building, New York. The facts will show why the drift of Manufacturers' Adver tising is toward the Dally News papers.
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