10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THB HOME Founded iSjt Published evenings except Sunday by THK PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres'l and Bditor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER. Business Manager. ' GUS M. STEINMETZ. Manag-ng Editor. A Member American Newspaper Pub- Eastern office, hm- Ga * Building, Chi "—■— cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. .. By carriers, six cents a <BSISH{»T£JWI> week; by mall, $3.00 a year in advance. Sworn dally average circulation for the three inontba ending Jan. 31, IttlO. if 22,760 *1 Tlirwe figures lire net. All returned, unsold anil damaged copies deducted. TUESDAY EVENING, FEB. 8 It is a good and safe rule to so journ in every place as if you meant . to spend iot(r life there, never omit ting an opportunity of doing a kind ness. or speaking a true word, or mak- j ing a friend. —Ruskix. "S.VVE-THE-BOY SUNDAY" , CHICAGO Is to observe next Sun day ns "Save-the-Boy Sunday." It is a reflection on the fathers of any city when 3 step like that Is necessary, but "Save-the-Boy" Is an appeal that might be raised in any community, for the need is universal. Too many fathers are "too busy" j earning a living for their families, or getting on in the world, or following their own inclinations, or riding n hobby, to pay much attention to their j sons, and the sequel is nearly always j' trouble. The father who takes time j to make a friend of his boy, who i' cljuins with him and shares hisp amusements, who induces him to love good hooks and good sports and cleans ways of living is not only doing a j service to Society, but he is insuring himself against the heartaches of old age that come with the misdeeds i *>i wayward sons. I At the forthcoming annual meeting 1 of the Motor Club of Ilarrisburg an extremely Interesting report will be j submitted by the secretary-treasurer. J. ' I'lydo Myton, who has been on the firing line for the last year in every legiti mate movement for the Improvement : of motor conditions In and about Har rlsburg and this district. It would seem j to be. proper at the meeting to consider 1 the proposed Improvement of the high- : way from the present terminus of the j State road In the Dauphin Narrows to ' the Clark's Ferry bridge. This matter ! 1 Is now under consideration by the rail- i road officials, following an Important j conference with State Highway Coin- j missioner Cunningham. No road en- ' tering Harrlsburg is more urgently In heod of attention than this stretch and. j of course, the Motor Club will be found j in active co-operation with all the other I bodies in bringing about the Important ! changes necessary. A MODEL TOWN THE Telegraph Is in receipt of an 1 interesting booklet descriptive of Kaulton, a town near Tuscaloosa, \ Ala., built to provide housing, living conditions and physical environment j lor the employes of the Kaul dumber j Company, of Birmingham. When It came to creating Kaulton the company j found the housing problem to be more than I he scattering of some shacks, as the company, like many others, had done In the past; the problem was found to be one of town planning, and Ihnt. most of tho principles of city ! planning applied, although in a minia- | lure way. Therefore, just as the com- | pany would study various arrange- ! ments and details of ils -plant, employ j skilled designers to determine exactly what it wished accomplished, would j make plans and do all figuring on j paper before one cent would be actually expended on construction, so also with the housing it employed the 1 services of those who had made a life's study of the work, determined the ad vantages to be gained and how best to 1 gain them. In building its town the Kaul com- , pany was not restricted or directed by ■ law. There are as yet practically no , national or State laws regulating the planning of proprietary towns; it Is still a matter of individual license. The Kaul company approached its problem under the law that unselhsliness i» generally far-sightedness. It directed greatest energy in securing a scientific and beneficent physical town plan, realizing that a physical foundation was essential to an efficient system of social and financial town management. The employes are enjoying the benefits of wholesale co-operative methods, the prl*:e system and thoughtful super vision are stimulating best social life, and these are made possible and effect ive by the scientific and attracftve * physical foundation laid down. The result has been a tow nof pleasant and sanitary houses, good to look at, well planned streets, civic centers, play grounds and all else that goes to make life pleasant In a municipal way. The company responsible for this development has proceeded on the line ; that a city of homes Is a good and happy one. TJiere is a lesson here for all of us. The family circles of the country form the links iu the to twin that make up. the nation. A weakness In home life, ' TUESDAY EVENING, 1 is hound to show itself in the national life. No home life can thrive under poor housing conditions. The man who rents an unsanitary, ill-ventilated, badly-lighted house as a dwelling place Is an offender not only against the more or less helpless poor, but against the very life of the nation itself. The desire to make small investments yield big incomes is responsible for the slum district of every town that has one, and that It is responsible also for sick ness, high death rates and the breed ing of criminals we know; but it Is not generally understood that the slum, with its low assessment and liltfti rentals, is robbing the thrifty taxpayer, for the reason that the owner of the shanties that go by the name of dwell ings is not paying a share of taxes proportionate to the earnings he makes his "properties" yield him. A great peril due to improper hous ing conditions is the nomadic family life engendered by apartment house conditions. Less than 11 of every 100 city dwellers live in homes that are not encumbered by mortgages. Fam ilies are packed away in bandbox-like apartments; houses that, resemble dovecotes In size and with fresh air and sunlight in proportion. Every step that the City Planning Commission takes in the way of en couraging proper real estate develop ment is a step toward a better city. Every effort looking toward better ltv j ing conditions in Harrlsburg Is one for j the betterment, of family life, ano as family life is the strength or weakness ( of the nation, it is not too much to regard the work of our planning com mission and others like it as of far more than local Importance—in short, as a part in the program of national ''preparedness" on which so much j stress is being laid at this time. A proper staking of the width to be filled along the river front on the I west side of Front street would facili tate the parking of that section during ; the winter and early Spring. If the Department of Parks is to avoid some mistakes of the past, when dumping of ! earth was permitted at the'foot of aev- ! cral streets far beyond the width finally i adopted for the walk along the western | side, lines must be given now so that the city can have this filling done at , little or no expense when the dirt is available. r —■— I SPANISH IN THK SCHOOLS IT is to be hoped that the School Board will adopt the recommenda tion that Spanish be made an elec tive study in the Technical High school. Spanish is going to be of vast value to any young man who in tends to follow; a business calling in life, and the young engineer or tech nical graduate who has it at his com mand will have a big handicap over his fellowman who has not. More and more we of the United States will be brought into touch with South and Central America in a business and professional way, and Spanish is the ] language of those countries. The day is not far distant when the young man who can write a letter In Spanish will be much sought after and when i stenographers who can translate Eng lish dictation into understandable terms for South American readers will: be paid well for their services. PENSIONS FOR CLERGYMEN THE Protestant Episcopal church j has undertaken a great but very praiseworthy ta>sk in the creation of a fund for the pensioning of its aged and disabled clergymen. There is no professional class In the world so poorly paid as the ministry, yet there is none of whom so much is required. They must dress well, live well, entertain beyond their I means and educate their children. The calls upon their slender purse ' often keeps them in debt and it 'is the exception who is able to lay aside j anything for the rainy day that comes I too often to the devoted minister who ■ finds himself displaced by a younger and more vigorous man. The "laborer j is worthy of his hire" and the minister ' is deserving of better treatment than Ihe has received. The pension system | ought to be extended to include all denominations. j KISSING ON TROLLEY CARS A KANSAS CITY trolley car con ductor has just been sued by a pretty miss whom he kissed as she boarded his car. The company | paid SSOO fine for him and the suit j was dismissed. The conductor ex | plained that the girl was so pretty |he "just couldn't help it." But why the company found the kiss worth SSOO and what would become of that | conductor amid the pretty girls of of Harrlsburg are questions we would like to have answered. AVhat with | jitney competition and reduced revenues generally we advise the local traction company to keep a sharp ! look-out for applicants for work from ; Kansas City. CHURCH ADVERTISING UNDER the caption, "United Church Advertising,"- there ap peared the following last Sun day in the Messiah Lutheran Church" Bulletin: All members of Messiah Lutheran Church are urged to not only watch the united church advertise ments appearing every Saturdav evening on the church page of the Harrlsburg Telegraph, but that they recommend them to their friends, especially those whom they know are not affiliated with any church of the city. These adver tisements are in nature non-de nnmlnatlon.il and non-sectarian and have exerted a mighty Influence In the city. It Is one more verv defi nite instance of the forward work i of the church In winning more people. The Telegraph has long believed in church advertising. It is happy to have been medium through which the experiment has been tried out In Harrlsburg and It is pleased to have this acknowledgment from so high a source. • . Getting out of a warm bed these cold mornings one wonders whether It 1h better to die of consumption by sleeping with the windows closed or by freezing to death with them open. j War at any price appears to be the > motto in Pennsylvania politics, _ (""TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —After this we will be ready to ad mit that the Weather Man knows more about it than the Groundhog. —An English coroner's jury having charged the Kaiser with murder as a result of the Zeppelin raids, all that remains ip do is to catch the accused and punish him. —Panama is all excited over its na tional exposition, which is a much bet ter way of venting its feelings than by means of the national revolutions of pre-canal days. The favorite diversion of night watchmen just now Is seeing aero planes at midnight. —Singers are divided largely into two classes—those who decline to'sing because they have a cold and those who say tlicy have a cold every time they sing. " EDITORIAL COMMENT It will seriously complicate things if Colonel House forbids England to es tablish an actual blockade of Germany. —Boston Herald. Another reason why we believe the allies will do their big fighting on the Western front is because they have done so little elsewhere.—Galveston News. The more certain the prospect of Jus tice Hughes', refusal to run. the stronger the support he gets from Re publicans and Progressive would-be candldates.—Wall Street Journal. Five negroes were lynched In Georgia Friday. Now, if a negro were a hale of cotton Senator Hoke Smith might be expected to voice great indignation.— New York Morning Telegraph. THE WAR ON RUM Any confessedly well-informed op ponent of local option or prohibition will tell you that neither plan reduces drunkenness or decreases the consump tion of intoxicating beverages. Why the liquor men and brewers neverthe less persist In' lighting temperance leg islation would seem to be a mystery. When these dealers In wet goods g<;l together In convention the facts come out. For instance, the Retail Liquor Dealers' Association, meeting at Wash ington, has just had reports showing that in 1915 there was a falling off of 14,000,000 gallons in the consumption of whisky and of 6,000,000 barrels in beer. If the antisaloon movement can repeat these results for a few years by' extension of dry territory the business will be in a bad way. There is still much of it left, however, as the na tion's drink bill for 1913 is computed at $2,500,000,000. It is the current impression among oldtimer.s at the national capital that j Washington is likely to bo- voted dry before the present Congress expires, if i not during 1916. The pressure for a ' national prohibition amendment be comes stronger every year. Add to I those Senators and members who are | avowedly for prohibition others who would square themselves with their people at home «nd yet not go to the j whole length, • and then secure a vote on the bill to make the District of Co- I lumbia dry—and it will pass. The scheme is to have a try-out of the dry ! system as applied to a larger city than ' has yet fallen within the territory of a j prohibition State. Both the temperance people and the j liquor men realize that the strength of I the "wets" is in the cities and that if | big cities once get into the dry column and stay there for a considerable period j the victory over the saloon will have i been won. It is this feature of the j issue in Congress which gives zest to the battle being waged by the Antl- | Saloon League, and there are few sub- I .iects of legislation which possess a' more absorbing interest among resi dents and temporary sojourners at the I Capital. Senator Sheppard, of Texas, is determined to have a vote on his Dis trict of Columbia bill at this session, and it is possible that the straits of the Democratic party, with Mr. Bryan vig orously making war on rum. however peaceful otherwise, may conspire tp the consummation of the dry forces' cam paign in this respect at least. NEWARK'S"MORNING SONG At morn she rises early, as a busy city j should That spends the hours of daylight in i the game of "Malting Good." j Across te misty meadows she watches j for the sun. For worlds of work are waiting, and | there's wonders to be done. She takes a bit of breakfast, she dons . her gingham frock. Then sits before her keyboard, with! her eyes upon the clock; And when the hands point seven, then j loud and joyfully She plays her morning anthem on I her steam calliope. From Belleville down to Wavely, from Bloomfield to the Bay, She fills the tnorn with rhusic as her chimes and sirens play. The piping trebles start the song, the A tenors catch the air. The altos add their mellow notes, the brassy bassos blare; Their thousand voices blend at last in one great living chord Of toil and usefulness and -peace—a sound to please the Lord! Listen, O music lovers; was ever heard, think ye, A nobler tune than Newark's on her steam calltopf*".' I Now dawns a mighty era in the tale of her career, Now golden comes the sunrise of a new and glorious year; - : And, just, as in the old days, her morn ing sirens call, "Up! Konse you up, my children! There is happiness for all!" Yes, at this New Year's advent her whistles All the morn As sound of heralds' trumpets when a new world-king is born; And the magic of her music shall set the thousands free Who follow to the calling of her steam calliope! —L. H. ROBRTNS. WOODS A READER As betits a Phi Beta Kappa and a Doctor of Laws, Cyrus R. Woods is u reader as well as Secretary of the Commonwealth. I. met him one day this week, when he had come down from Harrisburg. He was on his way to a bookshop. "What is the best new book?" he inquired. Not having written one myself, I couldn't guarantee a correct answer. But did that discourage him? Oh, no! "I find," said he, "that rereading those favorite tales of one's boyhood —Scott, Cooper, Defoe, Irving—brings just about as many thrills as it used to do. That must be why they are really great books and good litera ture." Secretary Woods defies the canons of oculists and reads himself to sleep every night. "It is the acme of lux ury" is the reply to the eye man's protest.—Girard, Philadelphia Ledger. FACTIONAL FIGHT j [Philadelphia Evening Ledger.] I A factional fight, in the Republican party which is based on no higher mo itlve than a change of boss control is j not likely to do anything but harm both to the promoters of the schism and to the objects of the attack, to say j nothing of the party itself. A fight within the party, when a tight to clean ! the party, is wholly commendable, but I mere iacUonallsm has no merit. HARRISBURG tffijftl TELEGRAPH L* By tIM Strong protests are being registered by Republicans all over the State against the factional contest within the party that now appears to be pending. Not only is Senator Penrose In receipt of these letters, but Gov ernor Brumbaugh and others promi nent in the State political situation are also hearing the voice of county leaders who can see no good in a party row. The liquor people, while opposed to Ambler for auditor general and while admitting great Ititerest In the coming elections, are also said to be against a State-wide fight, owing to the big expenditures they feel would be the result. Also they are much alarmed over the State-wide probe iplo their political contributions just now pending at Pittsburgh. Business men who have formerly taken active interest in previous contests are now said to be letting hands off. The fight, if it develops, will be clearly between Senator Penrose and the Vare-Brumbatigh combine for control of the State. The Vares feel that they have the upper hand In Philadelphia and they look to the Governor and the State administration to bring up heavy reinforcements from the State at large. Congress man Gricst, It Is intimated, is expected to turn in against Senator Penrose. Mayor Smith of Philadelphia, is friendly to Ambler for auditor gen eral but he has told friends that he does not intend to let. his administra tion be drawn into the light oue way or another and that he has done all in his power to prevent a break. Both Ambler and Senator Snyder, of Schuylkill, who Is said to have the Penrose backing for auditor general, were in Philadelphia yesterday. Snyder said the "fight is on to the finish," but there were rumors that the Penrose forces might find it ex pedient to drop Snyder for some candidate who could command the support of the Progressives, many of whom have enrolled under the Pen rose banner. All that Senator Pen rose would say concerning this and other reports was: "There will be a contest over the State ticket." The day in Philadelphia was enlivened by the dismissal of three McNichol fol lowers from the office of Recorder of Deeds and the opening of the Ambler headquarters in one building and of the Citizens-Republican League, made up of independents and Progressives, with strong Penrose leanings, in an other. In Pittsburgh the Ambler candidacy was well received in some quarters but strongly opposed by the Railroad Men's Political Association of Pennsylvania, on account of his at titude on the Full Crew "bill. —Sunbury dispatches say that Gen eral Charles M. Clement has an nounced his candidacy for Republican national delegate-at-large. —James A. Clark, Sr., aged 55, widely-known Democrat, former county commissioner, died at Pitts burgh yesterday. ARCHITECTURAL SUCCESS [Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.] The Graliain-Burnham Company of Chicago, 111., which has constructed .such noted structures as the Henry W. Oliver, Prick, McCreery and the Pennsylvania Station buildings in Pittsburgh; the Equitable, Platiron, Maiden Eane and Wanamaker, in New' York; the Continental-Commer cial Bank, Marshal Field store, World's Fair and SpeedWay in Chi cago, and the general post office and Union Station in Washington, has been given the contract for the struc tures which will grace the Keystone State Fair and Industrial Exposition near Harrisburg, Pa. The selection of this firm assures not only absolute fidelity in point of expenditures but architectural beauty as well, the latter a most essential factor in an exhibition, such as the Keystone State Fair is certain to be. Although the Field Museum and the new Union Station in Chicago are tre mendous undertakings which the Gra ham-Burnham Company has on hand, their wonderful field and office forces arc easily able to handle the Pennsyl r vania contract. The men who compose the Gra ham-Burnham Company are Ernest R. Graham, D. H. Burnham, Edward Probt. Howard J. White, Pierce An derson and Hubert Burnham. The de ciding factor in the Harrisburg con tract-letting is the monumentß that these six men have erected in the form of the buildings mentioned in four of the world's largest cities. OUR DAILY LAUGH I HIS SYMPATHY. ! x Have you heart A/) of the terrible misfortune that JH Vlk has happened to KJ W '■ Percy? Wt- No; what'* lU i wrong? '1 I \ FC why ' p * re * || P 1 I poor chap, has M mr TEMPERA -1 , MENTAL. Rv jpy I took them to i 6e a theatrical wrap f Did they wear P No; but they jSi. certainly had If JBT * BjffiL plenty of them. J Q 'l—B GOOD PROG- I\ RESS. (vi I've had my son ' n office two I I» he making ' ll ' P progress? Brf i Jgp Oh, yea. I think ) lt\ 4 he '* M good aa if I/•] engaged to the - stenograp her WHAT 3 THE Sfe USE? Why don't you ffflj learn to dance? r J|yl What's the use? I can get tired \ without going to all that trouble. NOT FOR MINK By Win* DlnKrr These fresh air champions who sny It's tine In weather cold ; To bathe outdoors in icy streams Are heroes, brave and bold, j Rut I prefer, yea, muchly so, To jump Into a tub j Of water steaming hot. and like ' A coward take my rub. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN —From the Philadelphia Record. r ' " MANAGING THE CITY Enterprising Sumter By Frederic J. Haskin < IP you have never before been here j you probably think of this as a j sleepy little southern town where they still hang to the good old tradi tions of the days before the war. As a matter of fact, like many another southern town, Sumter is aggressively up-to-date. It was the first city in the United States to try the manager plan of government, and after a var ied experience it has evolved for it self an entirely original city admin istration, which is a combinations of the manager and commission plans. The city manager plan of municipal government, which originated in this town, has subsequently been adopted by twenty-five American cities. It consists in running a city just like any other corporation. Every American knows that the only way to run a bank or a railroad or a pickle factory or a chain system is to elect a board of directors and let themi choose a manager for the corpora tion. He knows that this manager must be a man of absolute integrity and great ability, that the fortunes of the concern depend largely upon him, and that he must be paid a large sal ary. The people who have adopted the city manager play of government have simply awakened to the fact that a city is also a corporation in which each citizen Is interested, and that it re quires the same expert direction as all other corporations. They realized that the old method was fundamen tally wrong. It you own stock in a railroad, it would cause you some alarm to see things placed in the hands of a committee of ten elected from among the stockholders on the strength of their promises of divi dends, and absolutely without regard to their knowledge of railroading* Yet that is the way most American cities are run. The commission plan of government makes one improve ment by electing tjiree or five men in stead of nine or ten, and fixing a share of the responsibility upon each of them. The city manager plan carries the analogy between the municipal corporation anil the business corpora tion to its logical conclusion by elect ing a commission which acts merely as a board of directors and chooses a single high-salaried manager to run the city just as a bank president runs a bank. By this plan the commission meets perhaps once a week to discuss the city's business with the manager. Thus the commissioners do no detail work and their positions do not interfere with their private business. This makes it possible for the highest type This Is the Birthday Anniversary of— ■ft ASHTOV D. PEACE Engineer of Tests for the Central Iron & Steel Company, Mr. Peace has been with the Central Company continuously for 33 years and has held his present position since October 19, 1892. He is a former president of common council and is secretary of the Harrisburg Republican Club. Con gratulations came with a rush to Mr. Peace to-day. AGAIN WANTING [New York Sun.] While President Wilson was telling his fellow citizens at St. Louis that the United States navy ought to be "incomparably the greatest navy in j the world" the House Committee on Naval Affairs obtained from near Admiral Joseph Strauss, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, on honest, but naturally a reluctant witness, the in formation that his estimates had been j cut $11,819,475 by Secretary Daniels, I including *7.8(10,475 for ammunition, I $1,274,000 lor anti-aircraft guns (a FEBRUARY 8, 1916. of businessman to be a director in the city government without neglect ing his own affairs. likewise, the purely nominal salary paid makes the office of commissioner unattractive to the professional politician. Of course, it is ciear that politics could creep into even this form of government. Suppose, for example, one of the commissioners who helped to select the city manager demands that the latter appoint a certain man corporation counsel. It is evident that the integrity of the city manager will at once be the test. However, a com missioner who is directly responsible for certain parts of the public busi ness, who has a recall hanging over his head, and who serves for only a nominal salary, is far less likely to play this sort of politics than the council man who is a professional politician and responsible to no one. Nothing more clearly reveals the changing conception of city govern ment in America than the way most city managers are chosen. In the typical American city under the old style of government nothing would outrage public sentiment more than the appointment of a man from some other town as chief of police or su perintendent of street cleaning. Yet most of the commissions that have had to choose city managers have sought all over the United States for the right man, and taken him where they found him. No one has felt out raged or surprised, for it is the only logical thing to do if efficiency is the object. The greatest difficulty which has been discovered in the working of commission government is the jeal ousy which springs up between com missioners in charge of different de partments. By putting one man in charge of all departments the city manager plan eliminates all friction. Besides Sumter, Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, has commission manager government. Five other States have one city each under the plan: Cali fornia, with Bakersfleld; Colorado, with Montrose; Oklahoma, with Col lln8ville; Oregon, with Le Grande, and West Virginia with Wheeling. Texas leads with five commission manager cities —Amarillo, Denton, Sherman, Taylor and Tyler. Ohio and Michigan comes next with four each —Ashta- bula, Davton, Sandusky, and Spring field in Ohio; Big Ilapids, Cadillac, Jackson and Manistee In Michigan. Florida has two, St. Augustine and Lakeland, as has New York with New burgh and Niagara Falls, and North Carolina with Hickory and Morgan town. clean sweep, in spite of the lessons of the European war) and $2,485,000 for torpedoes and appliances. Ad miral Strauss wanted $3,285,000 to equip the older armored ships with torpedoes of greater range and to fit. out new scout cruisers and certain armored cruisers. Mr. Daniels knock ed off 75 per cent, of the amount. • llow can the United States have the second, or the third, or the fourth navy in the world if ships are not to be provided with the guns, ammuni tion and torpedoes recommended by the Chief of Ordnance, an experi enced and responsible officer? THE STATE FROM WTO DW "If you don't favor preparedness, hunt up your family Bible and read what it says about a man named Noah," advises an official observer of events for the New Castle News. "Likewise absorb what the rabble said to him when he was building the ark," he concludes. This is "Anniversary week" for the boy scouts in America. A number of the organization branches are ob serving the occasion with special cere monies. The Methodist Episcopal congre gation of Rouzerville dedicated their line new $12,000 church on Sunday. During the services several thousand dollars were collected, which liquid ated the debt on the sanctuary. Young Walter J. Roberts, of Slat ington, who was arrested on the charge of having set fire to the barn of David Kramer of the samo place, has admitted his guilt and explained that it was merely his constant craving for excitement that caused him to play the firebug. To prevent his little daughter from getting bloodpoiaoning from the scratch of a dog's claws, a Wayne man the other day ripped out a big hand ful of hair from the dog's back, boiled it in olive oil, and applied the result ant mixture on the scratches. The animal is a valuable one and the owner did not exactly relish the man ner in which It had been treated. The Supreme Court, sitting at Philadelphia, yesterday heard an in teresting appeal of the Schuylkill county commissioners from what ,1s known !fs "the lazy husbands' act." The law authorized county courts four years ago to send to jail all husbands who refused to support their wives or families. Schuylkill has no stone pile, IJ iEtamng (Eljat The Harrisburg Rotary Club will entertain Harry Lauder at luncheon at the Senate Hotel to-morrow at noon. Lauder, who is a member of the Rotary Club of Edinborough, Scotland, is a grqat believer in "serv- Ice," which is the keynote of Rotary and he will tell his Harrisburg fellow Rotarians to-morrow some of the inci dents of his work in the hospitals of England among the war sufferers. Lauder comes from the same district in Scotland as Prof. Phillips, conduc tor of Grace Methodist church choir. But unlike louder, Prof. Phillips is no longer a citizen of the British Isles but is a very proud and loyal Amer ican. Those in charge of the box office at the Orpheum, where Lauder will sing to-morrow night, say It is, remarkable how many Scotch people' there are in Harrisburg and vicinity who hail from the same locality as Lauder. • • • One of the most remarkable evi dences of the wave of patriotic senti ment, which has been manifesting itself in all parts of the country, is a movement which started a few weeks ago for the erection of all-day and all-night American flags on fac tories and public buildings. The move ment probably had its beginning in a casual remark by Edward L. Frantz. of Cleveland. On the completion ol' his new factory, Mr. Frantz hit upon the idea of erecting a large electric lighted American flag on the roof. At an accidental meeting of a few elec trical men at a Cleveland Club, Mr. Frantz told of his plan. His friends were quick to see the value of the idea and soon it was nearly the sole topic of conversation among the electrical men of Ohio. During the six weeks after Mr. Frantz chanced to say that he believed every factory should have an all-day-all-night flag, over 1000 flags were either erected or ordered, Toledo being far in the lead, with over 300 electric flags. John Willys, employing 15,000 men, has erected 22 electric flags on his Toledo fac tories. Some are inside, being placed in important positions in each depart ment, and others are placed outside. The Toledo Courthouse was the flrst I public building to install a permanent electric-lighted flag. The leaders in the movement estimate that, there will be at least 25,000 electric-lighted 24- hour-a-day flags flying over factories and public buildings before the Fourth of July. An effort will be made to get the movement started in Har risburg. • • * A druggist in a nearby town has a young colored man as a clerk and de livery boy. "Eddie," as he Is known. Is exceedingly superstitious. Last evening there was a hurry call from a physician to send a prescrip tion for the wife of a man who had just died. "Eddie" knew the man had been ill, but didn't know of his death —neither did he know the medicine was for the wife. He was told to hurry. It was just a little after dark that he left the drug store. An hour later, + two hours later, he had not returned ' and several times the physician had telephoned to know why the medicine had not arrived. Finally, in exasperation, the druggist i sent another clerk out with a duplicate : prescription. Arriving at the home. Clerk No. 2 found "Eddie" standing just inside the front yard in a cold sweat. He had been standing there staring at the front door of the house for two hours. "Why don't you go in?" asked Clerk No. 2. "A-a-ah, m-m-ma-n. look at dat CREAP," said "Eddie." "Dead men don't have no business with medicine, and if I takes it back the boss'll fire me." • • * When the story of the suspected at tempt to break into the city treasury yesterday got 'round the courthouse, there was more or leas humorous and near-humorous conjecture and com ment as to what a burglar might have obtained had he been successful in an effort to rob the treasury safe. "What would he have gotten any way. Harry?" askod a friend. "Oh, not much," grinned Mr. Oves, "not very much." "Well, how much?" "Oh," retorted Mr. Oves. in a cas ual matter-of-fact way, "not more than a few thousands. Probably three or four thousands!" The conversation was overheard by one of the professional panhandlers who loaf about the city and county offices. That particular professional , quickly hailed an official who is a friend of Mr. Oves. The latter refused the request for a "little loan." "All right, then," said the would-be borrower cheerfully, "I'll put it up to Harry. Would he lend me—well, say —a dime, do you think? He don't have much regard for small sums." * * • The fine weather of the last few days has caused quite an itching of the arms of the golf fiends and some ■ of them have bene out trying the win ■ ter greens on the Reservoir, Colonial and Country Club links. The links at Lucknow are to be maintained this year and a committee will put the re mains of the clubhouse in shape for temporary use this summer while the new clubhouse Is being built. U. S. TO JOHN BULL John Bulliklns, my Jo. John, We've known each other long. I've sometimes thought you right. John, And often thought you wrong. We've had our little tiffa, John; Yet, whether friend or foe, 1 I've nursed a high regard for you, John Bulliklns, my Jo. J John Bulliklns, my Jo, John. When all Is said and done, A better friend than you, John, Is not beneath the sum You've planted noble realms, John, Where men may freely grow; ■ I wouldn't lose you for the world, John Bullikins, my Jo. 1 John Bulliklns, my Jo, John, What bunglers we have been! — For I'm a bungler, too, John, Which makes us closer kin. ' Will somehow blunder through, John, ! Then humbly we will go 1 To school together, hand in hand, ; John Bulliklns, my jo. I —Arthur fiulterman In Life. Lost and Found If you lose something of value I your first thought Is to adver tise. I Then why not when you LOSE > TRADR? . .. ... . Or, better yet, why wait until you have lOBt it? Advertising is business build- t n(r profit making for the 1 present and insurance for the future. • , I No need to lose trade If you l go after It. Do it now. Advertise. Advertise in this newspaper. us ndvlse you If you are 1 j not sure just how to begin. U :
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