10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XBIi'SPAPER FOR THE HOME Fvtmdti its' Published evenings except Sunday by THE TEI Et.H tPH PRINTING CO.. Trlesrapb Building, federal «quart, E. J. STACK POLE. Pre.t'l ar.d Ediicr-ir.-Cr.ief F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager. GCS M. STEIXMETZ, Manegitig Editer. a Member American Newspaper Pub mSmfl Eastern office. Has- Gas Building, Chl cago. 111. Entered at the Poat Office in Harris burg-, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week: by mail. $3.00 —a year In advance. iwtim dally tTeragf circulation for the three month* ending; Jan. 31. 1016. it 22,760 it These tljjurr* are net. All returned, na.old and dnraagrd copies deducted. THURSDAY EVENING, FEB. 3. Politeness and civility are the Best , capital ever invested in business. —P. T. Barxlm. AMERICAN EXTRAVAGANCE WITH concrete fact and the elo- j quent use of incontrovertible i figures Edward A. Woods forced home a vital truth in his im- ! pressive address before the Chamber. of Commerce and its guests at the noonday luncheon yesterday. His j theme was the extravagance of the American people as a national prob- Icm. Extravagance in our personal expenditures, extravagance in our; municipalities and government, ex-' tra\ a?ance everywhere was the basis of a talk so full of meat that all who crowded the room went away thinking. «"d thinking hard. Mr. Woods is the leading field gen- ■ er.il of the life insurance forces of the' United States and as president of the National Association of Life Underwriters is in personal and direct touch with the lives of the people. He has made a study of the habits of Americans and: liis direct thrusts at our extravagant ! customs—individual, corporate and governmental—which are undermining the structure of thrift Upon which the nation has been rear ed. left a most serious impression upon all present. Nothing more forceful ( has been heard in this series of lunch eon meetings and nothing more help ful. The speaker is a man of wide vision who has no mistaken notions of where v e are tending in this country. He showed in unmistakable language that unless we call a halt upon our indi vidual waste and our follies as a peo ple we must go the way of the Roman empire, where decay set in at the mo- I ment of its greatest materia! power. ] Throughout the address the domi nant thought was the building of char acter and energy and thrift of the peo ple. He drove home the lesson that the American boy is too prone to spend end not to save; too ready to regard expenditure and reckless extrava gance as an evidence of his ability rather than frugality and the habits of economy and thrift. Perhaps there was nothing more im pressive in his vital talk than the dec laration that the preparedness which we are now discussing in the United ' States is not confined to the enlarge ment of the army and the navy, but forces the realization that as a people we must be more thrifty, more care- i ful in our expenditures, conserving our physical well-being and our mental health, and doing what is manifestly necessary for the safeguarding of the interests of this country when we shall be confronted with the inevitable con flict for supremacy that must follow the close of the European war. It's a pity that there cannot be ab- < 6orbed into the Inner consciousness of • every citizen of Harrisburg and the whole country, for that matter, the facta. so plainly and con vincingly eet forth in this remarkable speech. It was a warning and an inspiration. Side by ! Hide with the President's appeal to the people to support a program of na tional defense should go forth the propaganda of thrift and character building and patriotism so well epito mized in the admirable address of the Pittsburgh insurance expert, whose vision extends far beyond the mere theory, important as that is, of pro tection for the family. City Commissioner Lynch seems to liave saved more than $5,000 in street repairs last year through the installa tion of the municipal asphalt repair plant. This Is a significant fact In comparison with the contract system •jkJ the deplorable results which were a constant source of disagreeable dis cussion for several years. COrRT BOISE AND CITY HALL SO we are not to have a com bination court house and city hall after all? At least, we gather from an interview with one of the Harrisburg members of the Board of County Commissioners that this is the policy of that body. Perhaps he Is right that a great expenditure should not be made at this time In the erection of a fine structure for the accommodation of the city and county officials, when for J50,000 — as he suggests—the present building .can be remodeled for the uses of the l#ountjr for half a century, but it will THURSDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 3, 1916. l sadly .iar the advocates of the larger I proposition to know that after all these years of watchful waiting we are not to have that ornamental and impressive structure which had been : held forth as the inevitable thing that was to follow should two citizens of Harrisburg ever become members of j the Board. But Commissioner Stine declares we ought to have a city hall and nobody will question the sanity of that suggestion. There may be, however, disagreement as to separate build ings. But if the present ancient court house can be reconstructed and remodeled for the uses of the county by the expulsion of the city officials from that building It may strike some j people as unnecessary to provide an : exclusive and expensive structure for' - j the city officials only. Tf the present county building.; ' which is now occupied jointly by the; county and some city officials, is sus- 1 ceptible of enlargement for a period : iof fifty years for the uses of the ; county only, then it ought to be pos j sible with a slightly larger expendi- J ture, perhaps, to make it a suitable j structure for all the officials—city and ; ; county. Only the other day a dis- 1 tingulshed speaker before the Cham ber of Commerce at one of its noon day luncheons complimented Harris burg upon its civic ideals and espe cially praised the court house as one of the finest types of Colonial architec ture he had ever seen. It Is therefore j worth while to consider whether there j lis any occasion to spend a million ' | dollars, or approximately that amount. | j on a city hall when the city and county i i officials co-operating in a neighborly i | way and representing largely the same ! ' tax payers can be comfortably housed j , for a generation or two without a j large expenditure of the public funds. Nobody with any civic pride in his ! system will question the necessity of j concentrating the officials of the city; In some building where the citizen can j get in touch with them without the necessity of a guide. Nor will any. ! body doubt that the present court house can stand a good deal of j renovation without seriously impair- ! ing the strength of the structure or' ' affecting the balance in the county i j treasury. The Telegraph admits a slight i weakness for those old columns and j the dignified front of the ancient structure while favoring a proper j housing of the city officials. We therefore submit for the con sideration of the members of the City ! Council and the Board of County i Commissioners—two of the three being citizens of Harrisburg the: proposition that now Is as good a : time as any to get together and do something besides exercising their j vocal chords. Mayhap Commissioner Stine has! performed a public service in throw- j ing out the hint that there Is to be 1 no large expenditure of the public j funds upon a combination court house and city hall. Assuming that to be the dictum of the Board of County Commissioners, there ought to ' be little time wasted in further pow- ! wowing when the need is so obvious, j jit should be an easy matter to elevate } ■ the present county building into the : j atmosphere and place the courts j ; nearer the sky for the comfort of the judges and all concerned in the ad- ! ministration of justice. A combination building is the thing whether it comes now or a half cen tury hence: whether it be a new build ing or an enlargement of the present structure. j I Steelton is preparing ror further ex- . panslon with the coming of Spring. Many more homes are needed in the in dustrial borough, and the facts are pointed out that there is not a single desirable building for rent; that many ' employes of the big steel plant are com pelled to reside elsewhere. Under the direction of the Municipal League of the borough it is proposed to form a co- i operative building association. What- i 1 ever is done, it is certain that the de- j I velopment of the town cannot be checked through any lack of proper housing facilities. THE LIFE UNDERWRITERS THE banquet of the Life Under- i writers last evening illustrates how keen competition and co- i ' operation may go hand in hand in business. These men work in the same field for rival organizations, yet they j consult together for their mutual good, and they advertise in conjunction In the newspapers. They are thus dis playing salesmanship and business I acumen of a high order. The "insurance agent" is no longer I the failure of some other line of work, i The life underwriter worthy the name j is shrewd, capable and trustworthy, j as he should be. for there is no finan- j cial institution in the world that is so strong as a properly managed life in- ; surance company. It cannot be wiped out, like a fire insurance company, by a great conflagration; it is immune against the constant danger to which banks and trust companies are ex posed, for its obligations, as repre- • sented by its maturing policies, are not ' affected by panics. On the contrary, it is during a finan :[clal disturbance that a life insurance company looms most largely as a tower jof strength. In the panic of 190" the ; life insurance companies enabled many men to save themselves from ruin by making loans (more than half of which were voluntary on the part of I the companies, as they were not pro vided for in the contract) on their poli cies at 5 per cent, when they could not borrow money elsewhere at any rate of interest. Life insurance eliminates all elements of chance, and is based on principles and statistics which make it an exact science, and It was inevitable " that the old-time, haphazard manner s of soliciting insurance should give way f to the present effective methods and 1 that bright young men with proper 3 conception of the Importance of the ! work should be attracted to the busl t: ness. * It Is hardly believable that City , Council will fail to install the Hershey statuary promptly. It was understood that City Commissioner Bowman had ? ! agreed to provide for the coat out of 6 ! , the funds of bis department, but as be 1, is in doubt ou this nutation, it would ! seem to be a pi-oper thing: to put the ' i matter squarely before Council, to the I ! end that we may not be forced to apolo- j Kize to all atranarers for the failure to j ; place the atatuary in a proper location. | THE NF.W PACKAKD RULE TI'RNIKO one of the greatest mo tor car factories in the world into a concrete embodiment of Israel , Zangwlll's conception. "The Melting Pot." the Packard Motor Car Company : will demand that among its employes ! i from now on American ideals, Ameri- ; oan patriotism and loyalty to America | shall be first in the minds and hearts of all Packard employes, and on their 1 stanch Americanism will depend all i ' hope of promotion. This is a step In the right direction. | Too often our industrial managers are j interested only in getting work out of , their employes. This is particularly; ! true in many of the large metal manu- j I facturing plants. Raw material is I dumped in from Europe, employed at ; wage.s which would not be attractive, j to say the least, to an American, hud- j died together in makeshift living quar ters and left to work out their salvation j l as best they may. Instead of trying ; : to lead these foreigners to a respect j for our flag and our institutions, we j have in large measure placed a pre- I mtum on the hyphen. The Packard company has hit upon j an excellent idea. It is to be hoped j that others will follow. If our foreign population is devoted to American ideals, it is to a large degree despite | what we in America have done rather j than because of any encouragement we i have offered. Lk By th« Ki-Commlttrenua ! The seriousness of the factional tight In the Pennsylvania Democracy is indicated in a somewhat remark- j able manner to-day by the Philadel- i phla Record, the organ of the Demo- 1 cratic party in Philadelphia for over hair a century. The Record reviews the situation and it is apparent that it is not unmindful of the intensity of the feeling against the domination of the party by Palmer and his pals. In this city It is expected that there ' will be an open break between the , factions when the time comes to elect members of the State committee be cause it is well known that Democrats all over the State opposed to the re organizers are lining up to wrest con trol of the committee from State Chairman Roland S. Morris, one of the inside ring. The Record says in its article: "In j an effort to show that there is har- . mony in the ranks of the Pennsylva nia Democracy after the bitter' war waged against the "regulars" by the Palmer-McCormlcU "reorganizers," | lines are being laid to bring about the election of what would appear to be an equal division of the 12 delegates-at large to the St. Louis convention. To perfect this arrangement the "Slate" ; committee selected by the conference held here last week at the call of ex- Congressman Palmer gathered in the Bellevue-Stratford yesterday for a se cret session, buat so far as could be learned made no material progress on i the much-desired harmony program, j This subcommittee was instructed , to first pick out a strong man to op pose ex-Senator Knox or any other I candidate selected by the Republican Organization to run for the succession j to United States Senator Oliver. Can didates tor State Treasurer and Auditor General were also to be picked, but • because it has as yet been found im possible to find suitable men willing to present themselves in the role of vi carious sacrifice the committee ad journed without having accomplished anything beyond a review of what ap- | pears to be an almost hopeless situa tion. The national delegate slate was discussed, but progress was not sat isfactory, as the "50-50" proposition does not appear to be working out as i smoothly as was hoped. The "Old Guard" men suggested, at least some of them, are not enthusiastic | over the Idea of being used as object lessons in the scheme to convince President Wilson that the "reorganlz ers" have driven them into his har mony exhibit. They claim to have been for Wilson before the Palmer I followers fell in behind the New Jer sey Governor four years ago after the i regular city committee had launched his candidacy for President and do not feel like bolstering up the cause of Palmer after having been completely ignored and sneered at when Federal , appointments were being considered."! —Men here to attend the meetings ; of the State school directors and var- j ious other organizations have brought [ to this city reports of efforts being i I made by men interested in preventing j a fight over the Republican nomina tions for State offices to have a com- 1 promise slate drawn up, but t'ne idea 1 is not popular at the Capitol. Friends; of both Senator Snyder and Speaker I Ambler declare that they would not agree to such propositions and Snyder sent word here to-day that he was in j the fight to a finish. In the absence j of the Governor the State administra i tion's end of the preparedness for a ' battle campaign is being handled by! | Attorney General Brown. -From ac- j j counts here Speaker Ambler will come to Harrisburg early next week to con-! suit with the Governor and his an- j . nouncement will follow. Friends of j Representative James F. Woodward,; of McKeesport, who aspires to be State j Treasurer, are looking around since i ino formal announcement has eome| ' from Harmon M. Kephart. Wood ; ward will make a trip east in a few j 1 days. —The Philadelphia Ledger in a : Washington dispatch to-day says:! "The reported decision of Senator Penrose to fight the slating of Charles] A. Ambler for Auditor General was re ceived with surprise by the antiPen-' ! rose forces here. They declared that a I i factional fight, if undertaken, would I be precipitated by the Penrose faction. ! and would be the signal for a concen trated opposition to Senator Penrose as the dominant force in the Chicago ■ convention as Pennsylvania's repre isentatlve. The antiPenrose forces, headed by Representative W. S. Vare, expect, if there is a factional fight, to I obtain the support of the Roosevelt faction In Pennsylvania. William ! Flinn is counted on to aid the anti | Penrose element. j —-People at the Capitol are disturb jed over the protests being made by | medical men against the Compensation system's provisions for attendance of physicians and efforts to allay the feel i ing are being made, although not with ; much success. The matter is to be j brought to the attention of the Gov ernor when he returns and it may i lead to some pronounced action in be ihalf of legislation next session. | —Luzerne county is about to ad vance its tax rate. I —John W. Slipp, of Birdsboro. may run for Republican national delegate lln Dci as. lie is a former progressive. -THE CARTOON OF THE DAY | THE ART OF SELF-DEFENSE. what i l Ai_ <JV *£> SAiomc* ? .WHO T*IN*WT;&" . XL Oir 6RCAT BR(TAtA | * - "•• Greece WE HMCn dPA. WHAT COUMT&Zb BOSDC*. V* ( 4DRJAT/C 6EA? ' I _ ) ® _J WHERE «t> MEIOCUAWD * —Front tin- Indianapolis »««. ("TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —What does the Groundhog know about it. anyhow? —"The president and Mr. Wilson are under Wall street influences" says I the Altoona Times, which might be a, sensational charge if we only knew which president and which Mr. Wil-1 son. —This is "Thrift Day"—have you j \ been thrifty? —Why is it that the hungry tramp never comes around on the day there is snow on the pavement? —The Rig Stick appears to have developed into a roost for the Dove of , Peace. —The new Pennsylvania freight ; station is to be four stories in height i instead of one—worth waiting for. —After all, our K boats appear to be OK. EDITORIAL COMMENT" Taken by and large this country has had but otic President who received the unqualified approval of Colonel Roose velt. —Baraboo News. "Declares Danger in Preparedness," says Herald head-line. That's better than preparedness being In danger just at present.—Chicago Herald. We are in favor of Pan-American unity. Also like to see a little more unity In Congress on United States I Americanism. New Tork Evening Telegram. Still, it may be modestly suggested that Mr. Brandeis' fitness for the Su preme Court doesn't depend on whether 1 he happens to be a Methodist, Baptist, I Presbyterian, Unitarian, or a worship per in a synagogue.—Kansas City Star, j WOULD enoTJGIT ENLIST? f Kansas City Times.] From statements made, by army offi- I cers before the committees of Congress now hearing testimony on the proposed 1 defense measures the conclusion has been drawn in some quarters that vol untary recruiting would not suffice to fill the ranks of the proposed reserve ! army. These statements were that fewer than fifty thousand men a year j now enlist in the regular army. 1 The statements were misleading, and j even if they had reflected conditions I i accurately they would not justify the application of the conclusion to the | reserve army. The number of enlist : ments in the regular army is by no | means a correct measure of the popu- j larity of the service. The report of the , adjutant general of the army for 1915 ' 'shows that 168,842 men applied for 1 enlistment that year, but of these only 39,245 were accepted. The figures i I show how exclusive the government 1 : can afford to be when the size of the | army is limited by law and four times 1 as many men as are needed want to I get Into the service. i The reserve force proposed by the ■ | President, giving opportunity for train jof the highest order to the young ! ! manhood of the country, would have. , i it seems fair to assume, a far wider ' appeal than the regular army service, | i which is more or less restricted to one i class. The success of the training j j camps at Plattsburg and elsewhere i last summer indicates how strong that j ! appeal would be. Until the oppor- | j tunity is offered and the result known, i j conclusions that are an Indictment, of i ' the patriotism of the young men of j America are certainly prematurely and i unjustly drawn. 1 OUR DAILY LAUGH 1 ONLY THING. cl \ Coisea! She apolns me love. jifpri All that keeps me from leapln' In the river is 'cause - w»» jy ■■ * I can't swim! VgQ - DOING AS SHE ajQ AGREED. X Want•: She /1 on her wed- ({V 1 day that she 1 i " would go through |J ||| Je ve r y thing for !/ n Bangs: Well, I ~t/J guess she has. I Ml loaned him a ten jgSt apot this mornlns. A NA TIONA L UNI VERSIT Y By Frederic J. Haskin THE project to make a great uni versity out of the men and la loratories and books which Uncle 1 Sam has gathered at Washington is one of the newest and one of the old est before the American people to ; day. It is new because a bill has just been introduced into Congress by Rep resentative Fess, of Ohio, (who re cently addressed the city teachers' Institute), which provides for tho founding of such a university; and it is old because George Washington rec ommended it in his first message to Congress. In fact, George Washington did more than recommend It. The most substantial bequest in his will was an appropriation of $25,000 to aid in the founding of this national university, which seems to have been a plan very close to his heart. Now, the advo ; rates of the project in Congress to day are asking what has become of jthat $25,000. It was evidently paid over to the treasury of the United ! States and all account of It in some i way lost. Yet It must be still among the national funds, and furthermore, it has been drawing interest for some thing over a century. Representative | Fess calculates that this little nest egg, bequeathed by George Washing ton to the American people, must j amount to about $4,000,000 to-day. j Trusting Mr. Fess for the mathema tics, it would seem that in a very real sense the Treasury Department owes the American people $4,000,000 to be used for a national university. There are few Americans who real ize what wonderful facilities for such an establishment they have at Wash | ington. Any university consists of men, books and laboratories. The gov i ernment has. in the first place, the Library of Congress and numerous , highly specialized libraries belonging ;to the various departments. In those | departments it has experts upon al j most every science and art. and ; laboratories worth millions of dol ' lars. Unless you have come to Wash ington and explored intimately among the government departments you have no conception of the interest and va riety of their activities. If you are an iron manufacturer, for example, and want to know the modulus of torsion of an iron bar of a certain di ameter, you can go out to the Bureau of Standards and find a man who is a leading authority on the subject and a laboratory which is as good as money can buy. If you are interested in raising fur-bearing animals, you can go to the Biological Survey and find a man who devotes all his time to studying the subject. He is a com petent zoologist of scientific standing, but he is also a practical fur-farmer. He will take you out to the zoologi cal gardens in Rock Creek Park, and show you a large collection of minks and martins which he is raising on corn bread and skimmed milk. If you are an astronomer or a meteorologist. Uncle Sam has some of the best ob servatories in the world for study ing the stars and the weather. But perhaps you are interested In none of these things. Perhaps you are Just a home-keeping person, in- THE STATE FROM DAfTOiyy Poor old groundhog! What chance would he have had yesterday? Had he had the courage to put in an ap pearance, he would undoubtedly have expired from disappointment, or would have been so chagrined that you couldn't dig him out again with an infinite pole- Beggars In Reading believe in bad pennies always turning up to such a degree that they insist on being jailed or else they threaten to return Im mediately. in spite of the gently-ex pressed wish of the judge that their presence is undesirable. "Do some thing with me or I'll be right back," Is the way one of the tribe recently expressed himself to the judicial holder-down of the bench. Incident ally there don't seem to be many beg gars extant. While the war lasts, and we hope thereafter, it will be the same. It is an occasion for mirth when a friend, unable to swim, makes wild volplane motions in a couple of inches of water and thinks himself a second Annette Kellerman, or at least her masculine counterpart. But when a man becomes intoxicated, falls into a ditch, his head forms a dam, the water rises over bis face, and he drowns, there is only one more inci dent chalked up opposite the curse , against which this country la waging terested in cooking and darning socks. Very well. Uncle Sam is still with you. The Department of Agriculture has an expert chemist who devotes all of his time to devising new receipts for jellies and jams. lie has learned how to make syrup out of cider and preserves out of orange peelings. It would he impossible in one short article to give you any idea of the wealth of Uncle Sam's educational resources. The medical library of the surgeon general is recognized all over the world as one of the most com plete collections of its kind in exis tence. European physicians come to the United States to consult it. Our department of justich has almost equal facilities for the study of legal problems. Our great western irriga tion projects and the Panama Canal are striking proof of what govern ment engineering can do. So Uncle Sam has all the constitu ents of a great university—the men, the books, the laboratories. Further more, he has in an unusual degree an opportunity for the application of everything practical that his students evolve. The criticism leveled against universities in general is that they are too theoretical and tend to make knowledge a pursuit in Itself quite apart from its value to men. But Uncle Sam's scientists and thinkers are in daily contact with the practi | cal problems of a great nation. The United States of America is their field of experiment. No student under them would have much chance to become a slave of theory. A very important provision of the Kess plan is that the national uni versity shall be entirely a post-grad uate institution. The United States has already a number of excellent uni versities, and it would be out of the question for the government to enter into competition with these. So it is provided in the measure now before Congress that a student must have a master's degree before he can enter the national university. Thus its work | would supplement rather than conflict j with that of the other universities. And this fact has been recognized by 1 educators throughout the country. The plan has been endorsed by the na ] tional association of State universities and a number of the larger endowed institutions, including John Hopkins, i Harvard, Chicago, Leland Stanford j and Cornell. Since Uncle Sam already possesses all of the facilities for his great uni versity, the one thing necessary to bring it into being is an act co ordinating these facilities for educa tional purposes. This is the plan of 1 the present measure. It provides only ! $500,000 for the establishment of the 1 university in 1916 in Washington. The | Institution will be controlled by a j board of trustees of which the Com ! missioner of Education would be | chairman. The twelve trustees would |be appointed by the President. The j measure also provides for an advisory (every State in the Union. Presidents iof State universities are to serve in | this capacity. I The work of the university is to con ! sist of lectures by the government ex ; perts and research work by the stu- I dents in government laboratories. a winning fight. The above really happened at Towanda on Tuesday. Mrs. Augustus Cordes didn't raise her husband to be a soldier In the array of the Kaiser, so she has left Quakertown, Pa., for Germany, where she hopes to have her husband re leased from duty. She is an American girl and her husband had lived 26 years in the United States and was detained In Germany while on a visit to that country recently. "The Ballet of Orlando." a 20th century version of a 14th century Italian comedy, was presented In the ballroom of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel by the Junior League of Phila delphia yesterday afternoon. Several young society women appeared In the silhouette dances that for the last few weeks have been charming New York. MOVIES fFrom the New York Sun.] , We congratulate the President upon ; the elimination from the Wilsonlan code ; of this article or aphorism: "There is such a thing as being too | proud to fight." Nothing has hurt him more, here and abroad. He now withdraws from the illuminated screen the foregoing le gend and in its place projects the sub joined sentiment: "The American people are ready at 'any time to fight for the vindication of 1 their character and honor." This film runs no risk of being mls- I understood. It is a vast improvement. ©mrauj (Etjat Its rather comforting; In view of the singular variety of weather with which the Lower Susquehanna and its subsidiary valleys nave been favored the last three months to be reminded that in other years it was worse. A friend sends the following data from a record of undoubted veracity and detail kept at Mt. Joy in 1860. It would appear that flfty-six years ago on i* ebruary 3 the bees were buzzing: and the shadflles sailing. Two days ago people were finding pansles and dandelions in their yards and pick ing out chickweed from walks. And the next day it snowed. But harken to the record of 1860. It says, and we have the word of the Rev. Daniel Engle, of Mt. Joy. for it, that on January at, 1860, it was two degrees below zero. On February 3 the bees were out as aforesaid, and on February 9 it was nine degrees below zero. On February 16 it was so warm that the bees were out again. It has not been that violent in the variations of mercury lately in this section, but in 1912, when the mercury went down around nine and twelve degrees below zero it was In February and the same month people went around without overcoats and took the usual colds. The number of hearings being held at the State Capitol lately Is almost as great as in a legislative session. There has not been a day this week in which one or more of the hearing rooms at the Capitol has not heen occupied by a hearing and on some days both of the caucus rooms were in use. As a matter of fact it will be somewhat of a serious problem next winter to take care of the legislative committees and the numerous other meetings that have come to be part of the daily business at the State Capitol. • * * State Librarian Thomas Lynch Montgomery, who completed his thir teenth year as chief of the Library to day, has equaled the record of tenure of that office made by William Mus grove, who served from 1819 to 1832. Mr. Musgrove was the second State Librarian and died in office. Prior to 1816 there were three or four libraries, but all except those of the Legislature were consolidated and the growth of the present one began. Mr. Montgomery's record exceeds those of the Rev. William R. DeWltt, long pastor of Market Square Presbyterian church in this city, who served nine Wears; Wein Forney, prominent in newspaper work in Philadelphia, and this city, eleven years, and the late Dr. W. H. Egle, Dauphin county his torian. who served twelve years. The library expended more In Mr. Mont gomery's time than in previous thirty two years. * * * Half a dozen lodge**. several churches, a creamery, a coal com pany and a tea store were among the number of applicants for insurance against employers liability in the State Workmen's Insurance Fund in a few days this week. The number of policies written will go over the 8,000 mark by the end of the week. This represents over three quarters of a million dollars according to esti mates made at the Capitol. Scores of lines of business and activity are represented in the fund because liability seems to hit in every direc tion. • * * In championing the current stage, the other day, Charles Burnham, president of the Association . of Theater Managers of Greater New York, who will be remembered us having announced iD 1909 tliat he would close tive theaters on Broad way If he had the power, names Mrs. Frederick C. Martin's play "Enstwhlle Susan" as one of those now on the boards to which no man need be ashamed to take his children. "There is one play," declares Mr. Buxnham, "which has no place on the New York [ stage—'Sadie Love.' But it is wrong I to say the Influence ot' the stage is un \ wholesome. It. is very much better i now than I have ever known it to be. ] Offhand I can point out a number of plays to which a man could take his I daughter without danger. "The Little | Minister." "Cock 'o the Walk," and i "Erstwhile Susan" can certainly not | be accused of being Indecent." • • * Representative Henry I. Wilson, of i Jefferson county, one of the candidates for speaker in the last House, was i here yesterday to attend the meeting of the State Compensation Board for discussion of the daily wage ruling. Mr. Wilson will likely be a candidate ! again. ♦ • * ! The Public Service Commission will I give considerable attention to Middle- I town crossings in the next few weeks, !it having approved the arrangements ! between the borough and the Pennsyl | vania railroad, but without apportion ! ing the cost and the damages. These i matters will be given study by experts jof the commission who will make a ! visit to Middletown and work out the | cost problems. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" I —Dr. M. R. Maltbie, who is taking part in the Philadelphia Electric case, ' is a former expert of the Inter-State i Commerce Commission. I —E. S. Stewart, the new advertising I chief of the Pennsylvania Railroad, has been with the company for twenty-three years. L. F. Nagle, long with Coatesville Iron Works. Is at the head of a new plant organized at Pottstown. Dr. L. F. Pattee, one 'of the State College professors, has been installed as superintendent of a Sunday school for the twenty-ninth time. County Treasurer Adamson, of Schuylkill county, took In a quarter of a million dollars in one day as liquor license money. ( DO YOU KNOW "1 That Harrisburg is a supply de pot for automobiles for many miles around? HISTORIC HARRISBURG Harrisburg began to grow above North street right after the Civil War. Standardizing Retailing Retailers, especially the small storekeepers, are becoming bet tor educated. They are learning how to count costs, compute profits and stop leaks. They are discerning the money making possibilities in smaller stocks and quicker turnovers. They are learning the power of newspaper advertising and the protit that comes from co-oper ation with their local newspaper. They are watching the national advertising in the newspapers and studying how to make it pay them. They are seeing to It that their windows show the adver tised goods at the time the news paper advertising Is running.
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