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SATURDAY EVENING, FEB. 5.
But ye arc not in the flesh, but in the
Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of Ood
dwelleth in you. —ROM. S:9.
THE PRESIDENT'S TOUR
AMONG those who are given to
analyzing political movements
and currents there is more or j
less questioning of the motives of
President Wilson in his swing around
the circle this week. Those who are;
his strong admirers and supporters!
insist that it was a purely patriotic j
move on his part to strengthen the
program of the administration in the
matter of an enlarged navy and army.
Those who arc not so ready to accept
this view of the matter declare that
the tour was largely a political move
iind had for its purpose the bringing
of the President into close touch with
i le people that he might have oppor- 1
t unity to talk preparedness while
t'linking of the Wilson propaganda
and tiie impending national cam
palgn.
It is pointed out by a close observer 1
of events that in one of his speeches
the President declared with emphatic
assurance that "the gallant men in
Washington who make our laws are
noing to deliver the goods." This is
Interpreted as an absolute conviction
on his part that there is no doubt
nbout his program on the national de
lense going through Congress, that it
■was therefore unnecessary to make
the speaking tour for that purpose
and that the political phases of the
situation were more considered than
preparedness when he planned it.
Following his swing through the
Middle West, it is now intimated that
be will repeat the performance in the
South and Southwest, in order to
anticipate whatever may be said or
done by William Jennings Bryan and
those associated with him in the
peace propaganda. It is further sug
gested that a study of the figures in
the election of 1912 demonstrates how
far below the combined vote of Taft
and Roosevelt was the total of the
Wilson vote. And this is suspected in
sonic quarters as the real reason for
the speaking tour, although there may
have been, according to these students
of affairs, a desire on the part of the
President to inject a little ginger into
Congress on the preparedness issue.
Meanwhile, there is .an insistence
upon some definite plan of prepared
ness to which the President is inviting
the support of the country. Well
turned phrases will not always satisfy
those who are practical in their atti
tude on national defense and who de
mand something more than words.
There was 110 evidence anywhere on
Ihe trip this week that the people are
lacking in patriotism or interest in
the cause which the President pre
sented in his series of speeches. Nor
•will he find in any other part of the
country any shortcoming of this sort.
Mis countrymen ore alive to the situa
tion and the job of Congress and the
President is to provide adequate (na
tional defense.
if the United States gets into a war
with the countries abroad it can estab
lish a merchant marine and a consider
able fleet of auxiliary cruisers by
taking over the hundreds of foreign
vessels now interned in our harbors.
SOMETHING TO BOAST ABOUT
OUR esteemed contemporary, the
Ohio State Journal —than which
there Is no more readable news
paper anywhere—takes such an over
weening pride In the city of Colum
bus that we rejoice to find something
in the way of civic progress that
Harrisburg has. of which the Journal
is not yet able to boast for Its home
town. We note in the news columns
of the publication named that Colum
bus city council has Just turned down
the Chamber of Commerce's request
lor the creation of a City Planning
Commission, the_ councilmen holding
that "such a body would result only
in a waste of the taxpayers' money."
We are not surprised, therefore, to
read in another column that this same
council is about to float bonds to
make up a deficit in running expenses
for the year. Tt is that kind of a
council that votes down city plunning
commission ordinances.
If the Stale Journal wants to give
its readers some Idea of the efficiency,
utility and economy of a planning
commission, it might send a staff cor
respondent to Harrisburg to "write us
up." Columbus is doubtless the grand
city it has been painted, but as for us,
SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 5, 1916.
little old Harrisburg Is quite good
enough, even If we don't have a mu
nicipal deficit for the year.
Now we are threatened with higher
coal prices should the anthracite barons
be forced to pay the scale adopted by
the United Mine Workers. It was ever
thus. Down beneath all such move
ments is the unfortunate consumer. He
| must pay the price and this may ac-
I count for the apparent change of front
| in the last few years on the part of the
general public, which formerly threw
up its hat and cheered every time a
big strike was declared.
DRESS REFORM
AMONG the thousand and one
"dress reforms" of recent years,
that proposed by the Federation
of Women's Clubs of America as a
protest against recent and present ex
tremes in feminine garb shines forth
alone as possible of accomplishing its
I end. "Most club women," we are told,
"want to establish a general rule
against indecent extremes In dress"
and a custom of making women's
gowns conform to the following four
regulations:
First, individuality, every woman
I trying to express her own ideas.
Second, modesty, not Puritanism,
but a decent regard for what is
proper. Third, good taste, a degree
of art in the expression of indi
vidualism. Fourth, appropriateness.
Toung girls should not he dressed
like matrons. Old women should
not dress like girls.
Certainly, there is here permitted
ample latitude and freedom for even
the most exacting. All that is barred
lis indecency. But one wonders, if so
many women feel that way about it,
why the reform lias not been accom
plished without the necessity of form
ulating rules of dress.
Thomas Carlyle, in Sax-tor Resartus,
tells us that "the first purpose of
clothes was not warmth or decency,
but ornament," and if this be true we
suspect that the club women may have
some difficulty in supplanting the idea 1
back of the adoption of the original
fig leaf if clever style-makers continue
to induce femininity to believe that a
split skirt, a sawed off bodice or a
peek-a-boo waist adds to charms and
enhances personal beauty. As the
philosopher observes, commenting on
the origin and development of clothes,
from the cave-man's necklace of
teeth to the present garb of our wo
men, "yon snow and rose-bloom
maiden has descended from that same
hair-mantled, tlint-hunting aboriginal
antlirapliagus," and she liasn'tchanged
much in ideas about dressing.
If there is to be any doubt about the j
setting up of the Herahey statuary at i
the place selected, this doubt should be
promptly removed by action of the City
Council. Having accepted the group of
nymphs we shall make the city a sub
ject of ridicule unless the statuary is
properly placed without delay.
Again It has been demonstrated that j
the boy who started With two dollars a |
week has ail equal chance in the busi- i
ness world with the chap who "accepts"
a position and always insists upon be- i
ing general manager at the end of the
first year. Every day stories come out
of the great cities showing the country
boy once more on top.
A COMBINATION* BUILDING
WE find that many citizens agree
with the Telegraph in its posi
tion 011 a combination court
house and city hall. Whether the
present structure is to be remodeled
for the joint use of the city and county
may be a question for discussion by
the municipal and county authorities,
but there can be little doubt that the
people favor one building and are op
posed to a separate city hall which
would require a double force of em
ployes and caretakers, when a com- j
bin at ion building could be more eco
nomically managed and maintained.
In these matters the convenience of
the taxpayers and those who have
business with the city and county offi
cials must have first consideration.
Of course, it is worth while that the
building shall reflect the progress and
the public spirit of our people, but
this goes without saying.
It is gratifying to know that this
newspaper is meeting so generally the
favor of the community as shown in
I recent letters and personal statements,
and it shall be the effort of all con
nected with the paper to continue to
deserve the good will of our people.
| First of all the Telegraph stands for
Harrisburg and we want the citizens
; of the city to make proper use of its
' columns in every way that will benefit
the entire community.
Ol'R ADVANTAGES
MORE and more manufacturers
are realizing the enormous ad
vantage of Harrisburg as a dis
tributing center. Tts near proximity
;to the seaboard during the present
embargo at the New York terminal
has demonstrated in the most con
vincing way the importahce of lo
cating distributing depots and indus
trial plants in this city. While the
New York terminals were blocked by
the congestion of freight, the manu
facturer and distributor here had out
lets to the sea at Philadelphia and
, Baltimore. This fact will doubtless
'be emphasized by the Chamber of
| Commerce pilgrims in their coming
; tour through the central part of the
I State.
Before we come to the opening of
Spring and the further care of the shade
trees of the city it would be well for
Council to follow out its thought of a
definite measure of regulation, especi
ally in the matter of trimming trees.
If the tree butcher is not suppressed,
we shall soon have no shade trees
worthy the name.
Dispatches from Annapolis state that
220, a fourth of the whole number, at
the Naval Academy have flunked In
their studies and must resign. It would
appear that some preparedness is nec
essary in this end of the naval estab-
I lishment of the United States.
It is reported that the City Council
will shortly place a tax on signs of
every character and iliat more specific
regulations will be adopted regarding
the overhead and swinging electrical
signs that are now regarded as a dis
tinct menace to pedestrians' along the
business streets. It is high time that
some regulation should be adopted re-
strictlng the harum-scarum sign de
velopment In this city. A few years
ago Denver found it necessary to re
move all such signs owing to frequent
serious accidents, and it might be bet
ter to begin the restricting of these
menaces to the pedestrians.
During the month of January eight
veterans of the Civil War died in Hunt
ingdon county. Rapidly, indeed, is the
thinning line of blue becoming thinner
and still thinner with the passing
months. Taps will soon be sounded for
the last survivor of the great struggle
which demonstrated the quality of the
American soldier.
Now Turkey is said to have tired of
the war and Insurrection is imminent.
The latest story is that the Turkish
heir apparent has committed suicide on
the order of Enver Pasha, who discov
ered a plot to open the Dardanelles to
the Allies as a peace move. Every day
adds a new horror to the world tragedy.
So many important changes are oc
curring daily In the central business
district as to lead to the conclusion that
Harrlsburg is upon the threshhold of
another great development in Its com
mercial and industrial expansion. Our
merchants are men of vision, and they
are not blind to the signs of the times.
Harrisburg real estate is attracting
attention in many new quarters and
with a proper .building code there is
bound to be great activity among the
builders and contractors during the
present year.
IK
By tli* Ex-Commltteemml
Over 150 blank nominating petitions
have been issued by the Department of
the Secretary of the Commonwealth
for circulation for signatures for the
May primary. Papers may not be cir
culated, however, until February IS,
which will be sixty days before the
primary.
The petitions sent out were to about
a score of aspirants for nominations
who had written to the Capitol for the
papers and the shipments were lim
ited to their needs, the department de
clining to send a number In excess of
requirements. One candidate, whose
name could be placed on the ballot by
two petitions, asked for 200. Another
asked for 100 when two would suffice.
It is likely that the state committees
of the various parties will supply pa
pers for their candidates for delegates
to national conventions if the plan is
made to secure more signatures than
needed fo comply with the law.
—Suggestions for changes in the j
workmen's compensation acts, which j
are commencing to be made now that j
the operation of the law is under way. |
will be carefully noted and studied at j
the Capitol by the attorneys for the |
Compensation Board and by the Attor- !
ney General. It is expected that nu- i
merous amendments will be heard of j
at hearings and meetings which will be
held this year, but as in the case of'
the school code, changes will be
weighed before being favored at the
Capitol. Efforts will be made to keep
the compensation discussion out of
politics as much as possible.
After the Philadelphia transit de
partment had been without a head for
a month Mayor Smith last evening an
nounced the appointment of Willian
Stanton Twining as the successor of
A. Merritt Taylor, who tendered his
resignation with the close of the
Blankenburg administration after liav- j
ing evolved a system of high-speed
subway and elevated lines and started
the construction work on both. The
appointment of Mr. Twining does not
come as a surprise, because his name
has been repeatedly mentioned for the
place since Mr. Taylor decided to re
tire.
NEEDLESS ADMONITION
[From the New York Sun.]
It is somewhat unnecessary upon the
part of President Wilson to urge this
country to keep cool at the present
threatening crisis. Under the hypnotic
influe.nce of the calmness that has pre
vailed apparently at the White Home
during the past three years the people
of the United States have contracted
the habit of remaining calm, even under
the most trying circumstances. As a
nation we have seen plainly how, as il
lustrated at Vera Cruz, it is possible
for an American administration to
make war that is not wholly war and
peace that is not wholly peace. We
have been taught to Indulge in watch
ful waiting until the process acted like
a sleep producing drug upon millions
of our countrymen.
When, since the present world con
j flagratlon began, have Americans as
a whole been anything but calm? Our
countrymen have been murdered at sea
and across the Mexican border, outrage
after outrage has been perpetrated
against our Hag and against our rights
[Under international law. but as a peo
ple we have displayed no signs of hys
teria, we have as individuals gone our
i respective ways with seemingly assur
; ed confidence that the honor of our na
tion was safe in the hands of those to
whom its maintenance lias been com
mitted.
Tills admirable coolness exhibited by
the people of the United States at re
current crises that would have tried
the patience of a nation of graven im
ages shows no signs of changing to
I feverish excitement even under, the ex
asperating international conditions that
j prevail at the moment. That this en
couraging fact is due to phlegmatic
Indifference to national obligations up
on the part of the people at large is not
j believable. It Is more satisfactory to
| cling to the conviction that our conn
i trymen, weary of watchful waiting
j though they may be and no longer un
i der a hypnotic influence that lasted
| too long, have never changed their
I minds regarding the basic issue Involv
| ed in the cumulative menaces of recent
I years, that American rights and ideals
I must be defended and conserved, no
j matter what, in the end, shall be the
sacrifice demanded.
This nation remains calm, remains
cool. But its eyes are now no longer
blinded to the truth, its ears are no
longer deaf to the warnings that come
to us from within and from without.
If the voice that should have called at
tention to our country's perils long ago
has been raised too late, if the ma
chinery of our guiding mind always
moves too slowly, the nation is to be
commiserated, not blamed. A people
i that has watched quietly and waited
patiently is not likely to go Into hys
| torlcs at the wrong time. But school
children get used, of course, to unneces
sary advice given by their teacher. The
teacher, If he is conscientious, must in
dulge now and then in superfluous ad
monitions.
JAPAN'S CHOCOI,ATE!I
j Japanese-made sweets, particularly
I chocolates, arc finding a good market
!in the Philippines, Malay States and
| .lava, where shipments are now being
| made regularly. The Australasian mar
ket in these goods was supplied before
the war almost exclusively By the local
manufacturers, supplemented by the
large factories in Britain, such as Cad
iiury's and Fry's. I.atcly, however, de
liveries have been most irregular, and
Japanese candy men are acting on the
Idea of a possibility of the higher class
j confectionery made in Toklo finding a
market there. The standard of all
i goods, however, In this line, it is ad-
Iniitted. must be high.
- THE CARTOON OF THE DAY |
THRIFT DAY
L
—From the rhllndclplilii Itrconl.
["TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE ,
—Bo you remember the time when !
you willingly gave up your last penny '
for the ugliest comic valentine in the l
corner store?
—After his swing around the circle
there is some disposition to ask if the
President was really on the square.
—Many a saloon that pays little at
tention to intricate bookkeeping has a j
system of double entry.
-—"Woman may not show it, but she
always nurses a slight," says a wom
an's page writer; also a compliment.
—Why is it that when a man's head
is baldest his whiskers become most
luxuriant?
—Germany won't admit that the
Lusitania sinking was illegal, but Is
willing to make reparation, which is I
equivalent to saying "We plead not
guilty, but if you'll let us off we'll pay
the costs."
EDITORIAL COMMENT |
The folks who believe in peace-at
any-price are willing, it seems, to pay
the bigffest price of all for It—the price
of national honor.—Kansas City Star.
A DEMOCRATIC POINTER
[From the Philadelphia Record.J
Governor Brumbaugh, according to
dispatches from Harrisburg, "is en
gaged in mapping a tentative route for
his proposed farm inspection tour early
this Fall." The tour will take about
four weeks, anil doubtless the Gover
nor will pay especial attention to the
condition of the fences, always a sub
ject of great interest to politicians.
Where he finds that these ar« in good
order he will take a look at the fields
of grain, and the fruit, dairy and to
bacco districts are also to receive his
attention. Altogether this seems an
excellent idea. We commend it to
Senator Penrose, who has shown a
disposition to cultivate blast furnaces,
hosiery factories and rolling mills
rather to the neglect ot the farmers.
Pennsylvania is an Important agricul
tural as well as a manufacturing and
mining State, a fact that is too often
i forgotten.
CHURCH BACK HOME
[Kansas City Star.]
In the little church back home they
are holding a revival of the old-fash
ioned kind. The last issue of the Old
Home paper tells about it. In imagina
tion we can sec it just as it is, for
there are no new fashions in religion
in the Old Home town, and the re
vival of twenty or thirty years ago.
We can see the crowd gathering and
'the church filling up "at early lamp
light," and hear the singing of the
: hymns, one of which is always:
Come to the church in the wlldwood,
Oh, come to the church in the date;
No spot is so Hear to my childhood
As tho little brown church in the
vale.
The sermon, with its sound Christian
j doctrine and fervent appeal, the in
j vitation to backsliders and the uncon
■ verted while the congregation sings
softly, "Almost Persuaded" and "Just
as I Am;" it is all an old story, of
which the Old Home paper makes
much.
It is good to get news of the revival
back home. It is good to know that
Deacon Zepheniah Wilson is yet alive
and taking an active part in the re
vival, although it must go a little
against his grain to have singing led
by an Imported soloist who gets paid
for it and makes'a business of it. For
many years in the long ago Deacon
Wilson led the singing in the little
church back home, and he fought bit
terly against the introduction of an
organ to the church, and, after the
organ came, he threatened to quit
going to church at all, looking upon
that innovation as a sacrilege; but
Elder Black silenced him and smooth
ed 11is ruffled feathers by pointing out
(that, if the angels in heaven praised
God with harps and trumpets, surely
I it was not a sin to praise him here on
1 earth with an organ.
Tt is good to know that the little
church is y<?t anchored firmly to the
Rock, that it brings its message of
salvation as of old. and that it gets
close to the problems of everyday
living. Call the roll of the great
preachers of the great cities of this
country; nearly all came out of little
country churche».
MANAGING THE CITY
How Ashtabula Elects
By Frederic J, Haskin
ASHTABULA, Ohio, Feb. 4.—Ash
tabula deserves a place in his
tory as the first town in this
country to violate the ancient Ameri
can principle that the majority rules.
It has added one more new flourish to
commission government by electing its
commissioners on the proportional rep
resentation plan, which Insures that
the minority shall be represented in
the city government. Incidentally the
Aslitabulans have shown a most pro
gressive civic spirit, and. a talent for
higher mathematics which is even
more amazing to the law observer.
This innovation was just put into
practice at the last election, so it has
.vet to stand the test of time; but the
way the problem has been worked out
in Ashtabula is interesting in • itself.
When you first hear about the pro
portional representation method of
voting and counting: ballots, you wish
that whoever brought up the subject
would talk about some simple little
thing like integral calculus, the pre
historic civilization of China, the
fourth dimension or esoteric Bhudd
ism. The exact age of Anne or a
scientific determination of why the
hen crosses the road is simplicity it
self compared to the proportional rep
resentation system, a process even
longer and more complicated than Its
name. ,
However, Ashtabula has passed a
successful examination, and what man
has done man can do, so here goes!
Don't mind the supposing, because
you've got to suppose a lot to under
stand it, and when the smoke is all
cleared it is found that the system
really does accomplish its theoretical
purpose.
In the first place, any citizen, who
can get two per cent, of the voters of
the last election to sign a petition for
him. can have his name printed on
the ballot along with the other can
didates. In Ashtabula a city commis
sion of seven members was being
elected and fourteen men happened to
be running for the jobs. The system
would have worked the same way if
; forty had been running. No nomina-
I OUR DAILY LAUGH I
| GOOD IDEA.
don't you go out i I
• > West and make a |
flgl jpjk He: Someone ]
iHjft might blow my
' jfpjylw on you have any,
THK CABAKET. t -Bib
Man From the
Country —• What
U a Cabaret?
aret Is a restau- jJgjlj
rant in which j
they have fired (+*r/ |Bj|
the cook and ' v •9KZ^KZZ
hired the dancing At
master.
WILSON'S INCONSISTENCY
(Kansas City Star)
Nothing about President Wilson's
speeches yesterday was more attrac
tive than his frank admission of In
consistency. A year ago, to be sure,
he decried preparedness. "But," he
said, "more than a year has gone by
since then and I would be ashamed
if I did not learn something in four
teen months."
Only a stupid man knows as much
j when he starts out as he after
I vears of experience. If a man's ex
i porience doesn't teach him something
| and broaden him ho must be pretty
1 poor stuff. ,
In the middle of the last century
: Charles G. Finney, a man with a na
: tlonal reputation as an evangelist and
progressive theologian, was president,
of Oberlin College. Occasionally a
student would think ho had caught
i the great man in an inconsistency.
! "Don't over tiuote Kinney to me," was
' his customary reply.
tions are made by any party or ar
ganizalion. Each ballot bears the
names of all the printed
in one column.
When Mr. Voter goes to the polls
on election day, he is given such a
ballot. In front of each name is a
blank square, and it is in this that he
does his voting. He votes for as many
men as there are jobs to fill. In Ash
tabula the number is seven.
System Slioots off
It is right here, however, that the
1 system gets up and walks off at right
angles from the ordinary system of
i voting in this country. Mr. Voter
1 looks over the names and picks out
s the man whom he Is most anxious
t shall be elected. In the square in
tront of this man's name he writes the
• figure "one." Then he picks out the
r man whom he would like to have
1 elected if number one doesn't get it,
t and in this square in front of his
> name he writes the figure "two." This
■ process is followed until he has ex
s pressed his choice, in the order of his
■ preference, for all seven offices.
1 All this is easy and simple enough,
i but at this point the trouble begins.
■ The voter's duty is done, and the
■ mathematical expert steps in to deter
-1 mine from the seven choices of each
i ballot, just which men shall be given
office In order to carry out the theory
Lof perfect representation. As inti
-1 mated before, the process is too Intri
cate to be traced in detail,, but its out
• lines are easily followed.
The experts throw out all ballots
I that are for any reason Invalid, and
1 count the ballots remaining. They
I then divide the total number of bal
lots by a number one greater than the
1 number of offices to be filled. In Asli
' tabula there were 2,9 72 valid ballots,
• and seven offices. So 2,972 was dlvid
-1 ed by eight, giving a result of 372.
This number, 372, is called the
■ "quota." Any candidate who was the
; first choice of 372 voters was forth
> with declared elected. But, obviously,
1 there would hardly be seven men, each
[Continued on Page 7, ]
THE STATE FROM DA/TO DAY
Preparedness in the schools Is be
coming more than a mere phantasy
and matter for discussion since the
general wave of preparedness has
swept over the country. The schools
in Wyoming are the example and
Pittsburgh and Klttannlng, In this
State, have both taken up the Idea
within a few days of each other and
will institute the plan in the schools
of their respective cities. Wonder
whether Harrisburg will be the last
to fall In line?
A well-organized gang Is operating
in Allentown and has recently stolen
many hundreds of dollars' worth of
copper.
Ten cases of mumps have been re
ported at Dickinson College, Carlisle.
Pa. Evidence is incontestable that a
number of the young men of the In
stitution are all puffed up—but not
with pride. It is nothing to jest about,
because wo have had the disease our
selves, but the very thought reminds
us of pouter pigeons.
There lives a woman in Johnstown
by the name of Mrs. John Hughes,
and lately she had been noticing pains
in the vicinity of her knee. She is 61
1 yenrs of age, but underwent the sub
. sequent operation very stoically, and
when It was over there appeared to
view a needle, more than 18 years of
' age, which had made Its abode In her
i kneecap all those years. "Water on
• the knee" is the only ailment which
1 might have counteracted the needle
. during that period, under which cir
cumstances the bit of steel could per
, haps have been washed out of sight,
• out of mind, out of knee.
; A Norristown boy yesterday wrap
• ped his face up ,in gauze bandages
until he looked as though he had just
■ emerged from a railroad wreck. When
■ they were removed after his appre-
I j hension, he declared that he had
I made plans to hold up some bank
I I officials almost anywhere outside of
II Norristown. and that ho had pur
. chased revolvers for the purpose. The
1 i swath of bandages was with the idea
iof a disguise.
©inring (Eijat
Considerable Interest is being mani
fested in hearings being held by thf
Public Service Commission on the afr
plication of the Cumberland Vall*<
Telephone Company to secure StatV
authority (or a connection with fir-
Perry County Telephone and Te*«~
graph Company at Newport. The
principle involved is the right to make
connections and the decision may ho
of State-wide importance. This is
practically the first time the commis
sion has been called to rule in a case
presenting the circumstances where a
company demands a connection.
Three of the small defendants who
were arraigned in January Juvenile
sessions the other day bore the same
surname.
"Here are the three little Harrys,
your Honor," remarked Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Wtckersham as the
three youngsters sidled up to the
judge's desk.
"The three Harrys, eh," observed
Additional Law Judge McCarrell. "Sure
the 'old HarVy' isn't there, too?"
"Not now, sir," gravely returned the
assistant district attorney, "but he may
have been when they committed the
mischief they're charged with!"
The "Fifth Sunday" meeting held
here Sunday by railroad men from
throughout the State for discussion of
various matters, is a continuation of
a series begun twenty or moro years
ngo. Months in which there is a fifth
Sunday have been picked out, Sunday
being a day when most men can be
free from work. The meetings are
: ow held all over the country and are
big factors in getting men to work to
gether.
The manner in which punch boards
which were to be found by those who
knew how a month ago have dis
appeared is worth noting. It Is no
secret that punch boards were to be
found around Christmas-time, but now
they are as hard to find as a "faro
layout" or a "stud game," which, ac
cording to rumor, were not unknown
here in years gone by.
Hundreds of schools have resumed
(Ire drills and taken up other panic
prevention work as the result of the
stirring up given to local authorities
throughout the State by various
■■branches of the State government last
Fall. Every school district was called
upon to make a report on fire escape
equipment and on maintenance of fire
drills. The result was a surprise be
cause in a good many districts' reporls
there were found grounds for changes.
In addition State factory inspectors
have been checking up on fire escapes.
Judging from the manner in which
requests for trout from State hatch
eries for "planting" are being received
at the State Department of Fisheries,
a good many people must be of the
idea there is going to be an early
Spring. Requests for thousands of
young fish have been received and the
places where it is proposed to plant
them have been looked up. Only
yearling fish will be sent out.
There was a man In our town, and
he was wondrous wise—in his own
estimation of the man who would ride
in one of these little electric machines
that one sees sneaking softly about.
It must be remembered that this man
was young and his ideas were fresh
and ofttimes hastily formed. He swore
that his idea of "nothing at ail" was
for a full-grown man to ride in a poor,
defenseless, inoffensive little Baker,
or Detroit, or any of the other electrics
that are on the market. Once upon a
time this young man was persuaded to
take a short trip with a friend who
was selling the car. Like a balky
mule, he resisted, but finally conde
scended to ride along. He was
charmed; he was delighted: he was
inspired by the smooth motion and
simple mechanism of the little car. He
began to talk business, he figured upon
his future possibilities, and—ho fell
for the line of talk and is now the
proud possessor of a little car all his
own. Moral: He who laughs last is
the automobile dealer.
« • •
Just what protects the average Har
risburg youngster who endeavors to go
through a revolving door while on a
pair of roller skates has not been dis
closed. Yesterday two youngsters
tried to get through the two revolving
doors of the post office while skating.
They got up the steps without break
ing their necks and without detaching
skates and when they got in the doors
they liked it so well that they kept
skating around. Finally one man
stopped a door as it sped by and
ended the joyriding.
• * •
William H. Bartman. former mem
ber of the Legislature from Montgom
ery county and who is well known to
many here, has been elected steward
of tlie Montgomery almshouse.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"
—C. L. Bryden, of Scranton, will
preside at the Lafayette alumni din
ner of Northeastern Pennsylvania at
Scranton.
—E. Lowry Humes, United States
district attorney for Western Pennsyl
vania, who is handling the probe of
the breweries, is a former legislator.
—Judge Corbet, who made Jefferson
countv dry, was elected in a fight
against his brother-in-law. ex-Judge
—R. L. Munce, of Canonsburg, has
been elected president of the Trl-State
Wool Growers Association.
■—Dr. B. W. Caldwell, who has been
In Europe, has been elected the new
chief of the Allegheny General Hos
pital at Pittsburgh.
| DO YOU KNOW
That Stcelton rails and switch
work nre In use in New York rail
ways? »
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
Catholic missions were established
here over 100 years ago.
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Make the Manufacturer *
Help J
Mr. Retailer, tell your manu- 4
facturers very plainly what kinj
of advertising helps you.
Tell them that advertising In
this newspaper is read by people
of this city and sends customers
to your store.
Tell them that it sells the
goods.
Tell them that you are glad to
co-operate with it by showing the
goods when the advertising Is
running.
Tell them you are not interest
ed In their national reputation,
but they are mightily interested
in the reputation their goods
have right here In your city.
That local reputation means
sales for you and for the manu
facturer.