6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A KBHSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded IS3I 11 II ' lll 11 === Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., i Telefnfk Building, Federal Square. f. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief . R, OTSTER, Business Manager. BUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. t Member American aylvania Assoclat- Esstern office, Has nue Building. New - Gas Building, Chi —. cago, 111. tentered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., a* second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mail, 11.00 a year in advance. Sworn dally average circulation for the three months ending Jan. 31, 1111, ★ 22,760 if These figures nre net. All returned, unsold and damaged copies deducted. MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 14. w: 111 ■ 1 1 1 ■ t Only Christ can influence the world; \tnit all that the world sees of Christ is \vihat it tees of Him in the life of His —HENBT DRU&IMOND. AN dNFALMBIiE SIGN fTTTITH the ice man slapping the 'iVV coal nlan gleefully on the back and both in high good humor, with the wintry winds howling about the chimney, with perspiring house keepers melting out frozen plumbing and the thermometer flirting with «ero, we take our trusty typewriter in Jiand to compose an editorial on Spring. Do we hear you laugh sardonically? We do. Very well then, laugh, but we know whereof we speak. We place no faith in the j Groundhog. We hold no brief for the Ooosebone Prophet, and the Weather man declines to prognosticate. Never theless, we know that under the snow the tulips and the iris are sprouting, that the blossoms of the pussywillows and the goldenbell are nearing the bursting point, that the sap is stirring In the grapevines and that Spring is just around the corner. There is no j doubt of this, despite the fact tliatj Dr. Fager has not yet found the first! heptica in Wildwood Park or that j Prof. J. Howard Wert lias not yet dis- j covered an onion of edible size in his ! famous kitchen garden. There is, I nevertheless, in the air an infallible j sign of approaching warm weather, even though the bluebirds and the rpbins may not yet have gotten the news. It is this —next week the base ball teams are going South for Spring training. OUR SMOKE NUISANCE TIME was when the great transpor tation systems and the public utilities generally didn't care a rap what the public thought about this, that or the other thing affecting their business. Now things are dif ferent. These important instrumen talities find it necessary to take the people into their confidence and mani fest a little more bf the human ele ment in the transaction of their af fairs. And this changed attitude is having e good effect upon the public, which is now showing a disposition to sympa thize to some extent with the prob lems and difficulties of the railroads and other public utilities. For instance, the publicity depart ment of the Pennsylvania Railroad system has just issued an interesting pamphlet on the smoke nuisance and the alleged responsibility of the rail roads therefor. This pamphlet is is sued in the interest of the truth about the smoke nuisance, it starts out 1 with the statement that the strongest j argument advanced in favor of the electrification of all railway terminals! in Chicago was that it would do much j to abolish the smoke difficulty, a Commission of experts, composed' largely of representatives of the city j of Chicago, has made a four-year study 1 of the whole subject of electrification and its report has just been made public. Commenting upon this report aj scientific magazine declares that two things are distinctly proven. First, j that the locomotives entering the city j ©f Chicago, remaining there and re-! turning from thence on their destined i journeys have little to do with the problem; that if these were en tirely eliminated the air would be no clearer, or, at least, the difference ■would not be visible to the naked eye. 3n the second place, it is pointed out! that the idea of electrifying the rail-! way terminals in Chicago is little short of an absurdity, on the score of cost, which is declared to be prohibitive. Jt is held that the elimination of the locomotives and the smoke from them will result in a scarcely perceptible diminution of the evil, while the bur den of debt would be insupportable. Resting upon these conclusions the point is emphasized that If the people of Chicago are determined to abolish smoke they must look elsewhere for the remedy. Then follows an assem bling of the real culprits—high-pres sure steam and slationary plants whence comes almost 48 per cent, of (lie smoke; low-pressure steam and other heating plants, with nearly 20 Per cent, of the trouble; furnaces for metallurgical manufacturing and other processes with nearly 18 per rent, of the smoke. This leaves about 13 cent, el all the trouble to MONDAY EVENING, I be dlv.-id between the steam locomo 'tives and the steam vessels. I With these facts before us it will naturally be concluded that the rail roads ajid their locomotives in Harris- I burg may not be our real trouble here. For years it has been held th»t the railway locomotives were responsible | for much of our annoyance In this re jspect, but the Chicago investigation may suggest that other sources are more responsible for.the difficulty than the railroad systems. Inasmuch as William M. F. Gloss, dean of the College of Engineering In the University of Illinois, was chief en gineer of the expert staff which con ducted the investigation, It must be as sumed that the exhaustive report is the result of a thorough probing of the whole matter, all of which makes us wonder whether the abolition of the smoke nuisance in Harrisburg is las near at hand as we once hoped I through the electrification of the rail- I road lines. WILSON'S VIEW OF WEBSTER WRITING recently of the political decline of Daniel Webster, President Wilson said: Sir. Webster had lost his hold upon his own people. They had deemed his advocacy of the com promise a base and cowardly re treat from the high place of doc trine and of statesmanship he had held so gallantly, etc. Doesn't it occur to Mr. Wilson that there are some millions of American citizens who in 1912 were "his own people" but upon whom he has now lost his hold because of retreat from the high place of doctrine and states manship enunciated in the Baltimore platform? Has he no recollection of his pledge to preserve the merit sys tem in the civil service, his promise of security to American citizens wherever they have a right to be, his pledge of economy, his free canal pledge, his presidential primary pledge, and, above all, his single-term pledge? How can he draw the picture of a dis appointed Webster without reading between the lines the story of his own downfall. MAKING LAW PIyAIN MORE power to the State's Legis lative Reference Bureau hi its •work of codifying the statutes of Pennsylvania so that an ordinary man can understand where he may go and what, he may expect others to do. It is good news that the Bureau is about completing its codification of the laws relative to the powers and duties of township officers and that it is progressing in its study of the acts relative to juvenile courts, public charges and other subjects which are much before the people. The Legislature made a good start in the Tener administration by enact ing the monumental school code and by codifying the laws relative to bituminous mining and the control of public service companies, while the adoption of the borough code in the first, year of the Brumbaugh adminis tration was an Immense service to hundreds of thousands of people who dwell in the smaller municipalities. Now let other codes come along and tlie law be simplified, made plain so j that all may understand it and it will i not be necessary to hire a lawyer) when one wants to build a house or go fishing. For years and years the general as sembly of Pennsylvania has been pil ing statutes on statutes until the sys tem of laws in this Commonwealth has become a wonderful thing. Similar and even contradictory laws have been enacted, while others nullified by new acts or the courts remain, on the books to confuse. The codification of laws is good business. The plain people of Penn sylvania, and there are many of them. | want the conflicting and dead statutes wiped off the books and plainly word ed laws, conceived in equity, to be i their guide. GIVE US A DEFINITE PLAN IN the last decade the National Guard of Pennsylvania, admittedly in the very front rank of American i militia, has undergone two "reorgan- \ izations" to make it conform to the decrees of the War Department. Its officers and men have worked hard to fit themselves for the service and have received the untiring attention of regular army officers detailed to inspect and instruct; the national treasury lias furnished many thou- j sands of dollars for equipment and! the Legislature of the Keystone State has voted millions for maintenance of the Guard and the construction of armories. The people of the Com monwealth have given substantial en couragement to the Guardsmen and local pride in organizations runs high in every community in which there is a company, a troop or a battery. When the Spanish War ended and the Pennsylvania soldiers came home, many of them went into the militia again and the Guard stood forth sea soned by service and splendidly equipped. Then the War Depart ment promulgated a new decree and changes were made in organizations to make the Guard conform. These were no sooner completed than an other scheme was evolved and it is now in progress of being worked out. Two old infantry regiments, with fine ! records and a devoted personnel, have been torn to shreds and there may |be more. There is a demand for ma 'chine gun companies, for auxiliary troops, for more artillery* but the equipment is not even in sight. It is to be hoped that when the congressional doctors and the War De partment experts, with the assistance of a certain eminent college professor in his odd moments, get a plan worked out this year that it will be con structed to endure so that the Na tional Guard of Pennsylvania may be expanded and encouraged, its men trained to uphold the traditions of i their organization and made to feel I that t hey are as permanent a part of Ihe national defense as the regular army or navy and not the practice material of highly placed men who | are not happy unless they are turn- J ing something upside down, i Give .us a definite plan for the ' militiamen. They have the people I beliind them. The Days of Real Sport By BRIGGS VALENTINE ' ' /$L 1 > ~ ?&»<***< -= UiVJ3 Lk By tht Ex-Committeeman " . ~ " 11 1 1 1 irie——B Reports of strife among the Demo crats of Pennsylvania and ill feeling against the men who are now bossing the party machine, which have ap peared in this column from time to time, are amply borne out bv a poll made of the State by the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The Ledger devotes two columns this morning to a review of conditions among the Democrats of the State, showing that while they are all for Wilson, they are fighting among themselves. This is the way the Philadelphia i newspaper summarizes it: "The pub lic Ledger's poll of eastern Pennsylva nia shows that the Democrats \ikr. have old-time contests in nearly all the. Congress districts for delegates to the National Convention. Of course. th» delegation will be solidly for the renomination of Woodrow Wilson for President. There is some Bryan sen timent, which would cut much more of a figure were not the President a candidate. In the Schuylkill district, where Robert E. Lee was defeated for Congress, his friends attributing his loss to the inaction of the President, the sentiment is for Chainp Clark lor President. The candidacy of A. Mit chell Palmer for National Committee mart is disputed in many counties, and his leadership will be put to a test in his home district, Carbon, Monroe and Northampton counties. The contest at the primaries will be for the con trol of the party machinery." —Chances of avoiding a State-wide tight for the Republican nomination for auditor general at the May pri mary are growing slim according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. The Phila delphia Record and North American take the same view. In Philadelphia yesterday it was stated that a declar ation of war by Senator Penrose against the Ambler candidacy was ex pected any time and the Senator will follow it up by touring the State. In Pittsburgh newspapers declare that the fight has been going 011 secretly against Penrose for a long time and that unless he wakes up he will have a still harder battle. —While Senator Snyder has been touring the State Speaker Ambler has been sending oyt letters in support of his candidacy. The Schuylkill sena tor was in Philadelphia on Saturday, and it is said urged Senator Penrose to declare for him as did many of the Penrose men in their interviews with the senator. It is expected that Gov ernor Brumbaugh will declare for Ambler. —Senator Snyder 011 Saturday took this shot at Attorney General Brown, who has been one of the original Am bler men: "I have no intention of stepping to one side for Mr. Ambler or any other candidate. If the roads of Pennsylvania are to be blocked against my candidacy, why I will have to take a Zeppelin into the various counties. Mr. Brown may have for his inspection information as to poli tical conditions not visible to the naked eye, but 1 have visited many counties of the State in person and have received reports from many county leaders and stalwart Republi can leaders from 'all sections of the State. I can assure the attorney gen eral that I am fully satisfied with the outlook as regards my prospects for winning the nomination for auditor general. My chief and only concern is as to the decisiveness of the vote by which I will win at the May pri maries, assuming, of course, that something of a sensational and un foreseeable political character does not occur between now and May." —A dispatch from Reading says that the brawl among the Democrats over the senatorial nomination has en couraged the Republicans and they will make an effort to get a strong candidate so that they can enter the campaign in the Gibraltar of Democ. racy in earnest. —Governor Brumbaugh and Sena tor Horace W. Schantz were the speakers at the Lincoln Day banquet at Bethlehem on Saturday night. The Governor paid a great tribute to Lin coln for his humanity. He was given a reception by the people of Bethle-> hem and vicinity. —Senator Penrose and Speaker Am bler will be the orators to-night at the meeting of Montgomery county fire men at Norristown, —Frank X. Moore, former legisla tor from Bradford, is a candidate for nomination for Iho House this year on the Republican ticket. Dr. J. P. Kerr, member of Pitts burgh city council. Is being boomed for Mayor of Pittsburgh. The nomin ation will be made in 1917. —Lebanon Democrats are not quite #ure whom to nominate for the House. / HAHRISBURG TELEGRAPH They are so badly divided that it does not matter who is named. —Ex-Representatives Earner and Burnett, of Cumberland are said to have their eyes on renomlnation if they can get the Democrats to stop lighting: among themselves long enough to agree upon any candidates! for anything. | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE 1 —"Toledo limits skirts to three inches above the ankle." Atlantic City papers please copy. —Are you married? Then don't forget that your wife still looks upon ■ herself as your sweetheart, and this i is Valentine Day. "So long as it is feminine gen- ; der who niinds hugging' a delusion?" asks Dan Carr in the Macon Times- Democrat. —The Paris theaters are sending their actors to the trenches, perhaps; on the assumption that they are more expert than others in dodging things. —What does the Colonel mean, go ing away at a critical time like this? —"Measles close Lykens Schools," is the sad news from the upper end that any pupil will tell you has its bright side. EDITORIAL COMMENT I Was ever a Quaker without good lighting blood in him? There's young | Tom Butler, beginning his twentieth i year as representative from Pennsyl i vania, battling as if he were a vet eran on the floor for a navy big enough to lick all creation. He's a Quaker; orthodox, too. So is his son, affectionately known in the Marine Corps as Battling Butler.—New York Sun. Mr, shout*' Kind lompl».Ter IFrom the Pittsburgh Dispatch.] Another idea of a pretty decent thing is to have a job like Theodore P. Shonts, president of the Interborougli Rapid Transit Company, of New York, and draw SIOO,OOO a year salary, with bonuses of $150,000 and "Christmas presents" of $300,000. Knough Trouble TFrom the Grand Rapids Press.] As to freeing the Philippines we al ways feel like lessening the white man's burden in the winter when there Is so much to do in the way of cleaning the walk and shaking the furnace. O Yc*. We're Still Here [From the Chicago I-lerald.] Every now and then, as in the case of Great Britain's action on the latest blockade proposal, there comes a be lated recognition of the fact that the neutral nations are still on the map. HOW TO LIVE LONGER Alß—Rule B —Breathe deeply, slowly, regularly, through the nose. Do not breathe through the mouth. If we do not occasionally breathe deeply, part of our lungs may become useless. About one-fifth of the air is "oxygen." This is needed by the blood to keep us healthy. When you breathe deeply, you take in more air each time, and, there fore, more "oxygen." Do not force yourself to breathe rap- Idly. This is harmful. Breathe slowly. CROWNING INSULT "What on earth are you bellowing so hard for, Freddie?" "Daddy whipped me." "Well, what If he did? You've been whipped before, and the occasion doesn't call for such heartrending grief."- "But he w-w-w-whipped me with I a s-s-switch cut from the Christmas I t-t-tree." —Tid Bits. I OUR DAILY LAUGH 1 j TUFF LUCK. fe sfc you found all your friends well. iraT He: Yes —even jrajjjuiuj. k my rich relations. DIFFERENT. ________ 1 Doctors who vl tongue bela-\ v But she will gos- ImL J sip all day long [■MA &HS An 4 virUact 11 lI 1— ' MM Ml£febei«h \ MANAGING THE CITY The Home of the New Idea By Frederic J. Haskin DAYTON, Ohio, might be called the most original city in Amer ica without starting an argu ment. Bright ideas in city adminis tration seem to sprout and grow in Dayton like crocuses in April. It was Dayton, for example, that originated the using of vacant lots for vegetable gardens; organized the housekeepers of the city into an inspection force to see that the city is kept clean; estab lished a free legal advice bureau, free medical service for babies, and a mu nicipal employment bureau to take care of vagrants. These are only a few of the inno vations that are making Dayton fa mous. The force back of its original and vigorous policy is a city-manager plan of government. The commission holds occasional meetings to decide upon the general policies of the city administration, and the manager car ries them out. The commissioners get only $1,200 a year, and the mayor $2,000, but the city manager, Henry N. Waite, gets $12,500. He was a railroad builder before he became a city manager, and he conducts the business of Dayton with the same dis patch and efficiency that made him successful in his former profession. Though Dayton is always ready to spend money upon municipal improve ments, there is probably not a city in the United States where funds are used with more care. Expenditures for each year are outlined in accord ance with estimated revenues, and the town pays cash as it goes, so that it cannot run into debt. Pay rolls are not honored unless accom panied by a certificate showing the number of hours that each employe worked. Each department and the newspa pers are given a monthly statement showing expenditures and balance for each appropriation in the budget. All of this has more than doubled the work of the accounting department; yet it has three fewer employes than formerly. They are not overworked either. Office hours have been re duced from ten to eight without any reduction in pay. This careful and systematic handling of funds is the principal reason why the taxpayer of Dayton gets so much service for his In Dayton, free legal advice is given to any person who cannot afford to hire a lawyer. This bureau has han dled hundreds of cases, most of which were claims for wages against un scrupulous employers and difficulties resulting from "loan shark" extor tion It also settled cases that mignt otherwise wind up in the police court —mostly fights about the payment of rent, and family quarrels. The total expense of this bureau to the city is Oll There is no joy-riding after work hours in automobiles owned by the THE STATE FROM DAT TODW | \fter Harry Lauder had entertain ed' a delightful Harrisburg audience one day last week, lie journeyed in his private car to AUentown. He is an enthusiastic member of the Inter national Rotary Club, as has been fre quently said. But It was the "Rosary Club, according to a newspaper yes terday, that entertained at luncheon for the merry Scotchman. Wonder if they had a string of pearls for a cen terpiece? The Berks Historical Society held a Lincoln anniversary banquet on Saturday afternoon in recognition of the fact that the famous emancipa tor's ancestors lived in Berks. John Lincoln, his direct ancestor, is said to have left that district over 159 years ago for Virginia and from there to Kentucky, where the President was born. State police are hunting for four unidentified men who passed through Kulpmont Saturday night in an auto mobile and ran over. George Elgavis, a Mt. Carmel miner, who will probably die. Discussion is rife as to whether the four men might be the same who escaped from the Lancaster county prison the same morning by cutting their way through the roof and drop ping 25 feet to the ground. Llewellyn Jones, a milkman, or Ardmore, received a shock yesterday when his wagon was overturned and his nrm sprained in the melee. To axld to the excitement, a young woman driving a racing car, smashed into the back of his wreck and then pro ceeded to "cuss" him in a manner that i left no room for doubt as to the ex cellence of her repertoire. The milk iaian tried to come back with some- FEBRUARY 14, 1916. city of Dayton. Under the commis sion manager a municipal garage has been established. All cars are num bered and labeled and kept in the garage. When an employe needs an automobile he signs a statement, showing how long he had it and what he used it for. All repairs and ad justments of the city's motor vehicles are made at the garage, at a saving of several thousand dollars a year. Perhaps the crowning success of Dayton's new government is the great ly reduced death rate among its babies. This is attributed to the fact that now the city has,, for the first time, a health otficer who gives all of his time to the service. He has repeatedly discovered threatened epi demics and stopped them. Under the supervision of the health department three baby clinics and four certified milk stations have been established. Mothers have made good use of these. Free clinics for the treatment of dis orders of eye, ear, throat and nose, and a free tuberculosis clinic have also been established. Observing that a large number of people in Dayton could not afford to buy fresh vegetables and that much vacant property in the city was not working, the government undertook to establish community truck gardens. In co-operation with the Dayton Play ground and Gardens Associations, six community gardens were created, on which seventy-five families are now raising vegetables. It also plowed and prepared twenty-two gardens for the cultivation of vegetables by hundreds of children, under the direction of an expert, gardener, and turned 339 more vacant lots into gardens from which as many families are now providing themselves with vegetables. The division of parks, which has charge of this garden work, also cleaned up, graded and prepared for the use of children a dozen additional playgrounds, so that Dayton, a town of J 50,000 people, now has twenty eight playgrounds, whereas the city of Washington, with a population of 350,000, has only thirteen. When Dayton children start out for a frolic on Sunday afternoon, the chances are that they will go to Island Park, in the Miami river, which flows through the town. For years and years the principal item of news In the Monday newspapers 'was a chronicle of the drownings at Island Park. The division of recreation of the new city government has made Island Parle as safe as a river front can be. A life-saving station has been established, with a fast gasoline launch, thoroughly equipped for sav ing life, and manned by a trained life saver. Live-saving stations and life saving equipment have also been pro vided along the river bank, and a life saving