10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH . A KBiySPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEURArH I'HINTIXi CO.. Telegraph Building. Federal Square. E. J. SYACKPOLE, frrs'l and Editor-in-Chief V. rt. OYSTER, Business Manager. [ GUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor. /Member American Newspaper Pub gj w Eastern office. Has t Gas Building, Chi - —- i ago, 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. .ggSWgt. By carriers, six cents a week: by mail. 13.00 . a year in advance. gtvorn dally average elrenlstlsn for Ike three months ending Jon. 31. 1916 ★ 22,760 These figures are ne«. All returned. Unsold aad damaged eoples dedueted. THURSDAY EVENING, FEB. IT. Life is not to live merely, but to live well. —SIB JOUN LUBBOCK. A STATE CLEARING HOUSE GOVERNOR BRUMBAUGH'S sug gestion to the men active in the ' new Pennsylvania State Society j at their first meeting yesterday has not only the merit of originality but of good, hard common sense. The meet ing yesterday was a round table gath- i ering of the executive committee of the society, the head of each depart ment or commission being a member, ' and it is the idea to have such a meet- | ing once a month for discussion of j problems of administration and to pro- j mote a spirit of State pride and socia bility among the men charged with j responsible duties on Capitol Hill. The, Governor, who has been keenly Interested in the society from the start, i yesterday pointed out how valuable it j could be to the Commonwealth if the | meetings be made the occasion of a j monthly Interchange of ideas about j Ihe government, the development of a > spirit of co-operation among the de partments and the elimination of •waste, lost motion and red tape. Pennsylvania's state government ! should become more and more like the I 1 business center of a great corporation. ' Men have written about that propo- | sition, have talked about It and dreamed about it. The Governor's, suggestion of discussing how adminis trative methods can be improved offers it way to bring about better things 1 because there is no government under the sun can not be changed to the , advantage of the governed. THE MOVIES J LOUIS BREITINGER, chairman of the State Board of Censors of Mov ing Pictures, is of the opinion that supervision of moving picture films in the future will depend upon the atti tude of the manufacturers and the 1 brokers. If they insist upon putting j out films which are objectionable, the law will close down upon them. If they fall in line with enlightened pub- ; lie opinion the law will surround the ' business with all the protection that | lias been extended to the drama. Mr. Breitinger is right. As he says in his report, there can be no excuse upon this earth for some of the stuff j heing sent out any more than there i an be any reason for the horrors dis played under the name of advertise ments in front of some of the theaters. This has been demonstrated in Harris- ! burg. One theater is showing moving I pictures to capacity houses, while an other is barely filled in the evenings. A glimpse at some of the canvases flut tering in the winds tells the story. Exhibitors who accept censorhip and give notice that they show only ap proved reels are the ones who will be successful in the end, for, as Mr. Breit- j Inger says, "The confidence of the people gained by an oversight of films will strengthen the industry. It will bring substantial advantages both to manufacturers and exhibitors." The State Board has been laboring to place the whole moving picture business on a decent plane and has been having some trouble doing it. It is up to the manufacturers, the brokers and the exhibitors to help because they have a business which is only com mencing to show its possibilities, if they do not, more stringent laws are a certainty. DR. RAUNIC'K'S REPORT DR. RAUNICK'S annual report as health officer of Harrisburg, pre sented to Council yesterday, is so voluminous and so replete with prac tical suggestions for improvements that it cannot be adequately reviewed in brief space. The paper is full of important recommendations, all of which should have the careful con- | sideration of Council. Especially practical is Dr. Raunick's ! suggestion that the city and county! join in the operation of the municipal , hospital near the poorhouse and that it be used for other purposes than the ! mere housing of an occasional small pox patient. There Is interest also in the suggest ! tion that better results might be at- | talned If Harrisburg collected its own garbage and ashes, instead of letting out the work by contract. The city operates its own water plant so eflfi- j ciently and cleans its own streets so well that there would seem to be little j chance of going wrong by adding a municipal ash and garbage plant to the city's official machinery, any *»te, the thought is worth discussion. j THURSDAY EVENING, It ought not to bo Impossible for the city to operate its own system and save enough money by the operation to run (he whole health department, especially since a privateiy-conmicted t*isiness can earn a handsome profit doing the work. As to miserable show ing in infant mortality, that Is a dls . grace and a shame. No time should be lost in giving Dr. Raunick the wherewithal to combat this condition, and the quicker the better. Not a baby should be permitted to be sick, ! needlessly, much less die for lack of care. In this respect, the department is undermanned; as it is, too, along other linos of its activities. Dr. Rau nick is a hard worker and devoted to his office, but he needs help and needs it badly. THE END OF DOMINATION TOO long have we submitted to execute encroachment. We have witnessed the executive appropriation of practically all our prerogatives, so that even the janitors and messengers of executives no longer have respect for the House of Representatives, but, instead, appear to have pitying contempt for what they regard as a harmless aggregation of executive mollycoddles. How long shall this condition continue? Shall we assert ourself and again become the virile, powerful legislative force which we once were, or shall we con tinue to drag out the miserable exist ence of a dwarfish, misshapen legis lative unit?" This superheated language eman ated from Washington synchronously j with the advent of the first cold snap j !of the winter at the capital. From a Republican rebellious against -the most recent demonstrations of "the' | New Freedom"? Not at all. It was 1 representative Clark, of Florida, who thus graphically described the thral- ] > dom which the White House had laid 1 upon Congress since President Wilson i set himself up as the sole source of • authority in all matters of both leg islative and executive importance. He was, to be sure, speaking in defense of an ignoble purpose, for he was ar guing for the superior merit of Vpork" ias compared with preparedness—but I that does not change the essential [truthfulness of his declaration. The | fact is that the representatives of the j ' people at Washington have been over- i ; lain, if that term is permissible, by j ! the dominating figure in the White | House. The fact is that individual en- ! | terprise and initiative on the part of' Senators and Representatives has been stifled by the hand of the President.! Sometimes pacifying with patron- j age, sometimes crushing with a club, ! he has by one means or another sue- ] ceeded in making good his claim to j the possession of all the brains which j his party can boast of. Legislation | has come ready-made from hi 3 hand and has been passed without question only to find that it was absolutely un- j workable or utterly disastrous. From Thomas Jefferson and the fathers to Woodrow Wilson and "the ! boys" has been a long journey—and | if self-respecting Democrats in Con- ( gress are now disposed to assert them selves we wish them more courage and more power to do so. MAKING A WILL A WHOLE eastern community is just now wrought up, a half 7 j dozen branches of a prominent I family are quarreling, several banks j are in doubt and a number of lawyers are earning fat fees because a certain wealthy man left no will when he died , suddenly and thereby tied up a fortune ! that ought to have been divided as he j no doubt fully intended that it should 1 : be. Unfortunately, however, he was j 1 one whose motto was "Never trouble ] ; trouble till trouble troubles you," and so his widow and his family are likely to lose much that he evidently in- j tended that they should have. There !is a universal lesson in this man's i tangled affairs. Did you ever stop to think, Mr. Man who doesn't believe in "troubling j trouble till trouble troubles you" and ; who therefore puts off making a will I until on life's last legs, and some- 1 times not then, that you are doinp a very selfish thing? Don't you realize j the suffering and annoyance that is ! caused by failure on the part of men to provide for their property and pos sessions after they are gone? It is as much a man's business to look to the future of his wife and children j as it is to provide for comfort and ; ease while he is alive. If you are interested in the subject j of wills, and there is no reason why J the subject should be any more dis agreeable than life insurance, you will | be benefited by reading the article in ' \ the current Good Housekeeping on the I subject by Samuel Seoville, Jr. The gist of the example which the author 1 uses is that there lived a man of prop- i erty and his wife. They had no chil- j < dren.. In addition there were two sis- ; tej\s who were not on friendly terms ; with him. At his death the widow, . instead of getting all of the real estate j1 of which her husband's property con- jl sisted. received only the income froni one-half of it for life and her widow's | exemption of some five thousand dol- 11 lars, as provided in the special law ' 1 passed by the Pennsylvania Legis- J lature in 1909. Except for that half life interest the proyerty went abso lutely to the man's elderly sisters; an | outcome which neither husband nor wife had anticipated and which the : making of a will would have prevented. It is true that had the woman had I children the law would not have given any of the property to the sisters, but there are so many twists and turns to the laws that the only safe thing is to j have a will properly and carefully i drawn. Then there will not be a lot I of unpleasant surprises in store when the will is executed. Just as a matter ofvinterest, the law of Pennsylvania statfes that in case j there be children, the widow receives I one-third of the real estate for life and all personal estate absolutely. If there be no children, she receives but half the real estate for life and all the per- | sonal property, as she did in the case j I cited above. _ i [""TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE j j With that brass band on the Job the Chamber of Commerce trade ex cursionists ought to be,making their j bit of noise by now. What Is a trade excursionist? He is one of the men who isn't satisfied to merely "watch Harrisburg grow." I He's helping to make It grow. Since the edict against permitting chickens" at League Island, the na tion will have only the navy heads to . blame if the country's warships are 1 undermanned. Since we've seen pictures of those new I'risco" bathing suits for wo | men, we understand why Greely urged young men to go West. But why con tine it to young men? Our idea of "nobody home" is the !; young fellow who goes bathing these • days just to get his name in the pa ■ per. EDITORIAL COMMENT^ „ hostilit- o» Japan toward the I nited Slates will not be lessened by the threat to give her the Philip pines.—\\ ashington Post. ."J". B*' 8 *' says the Republicans would lose i 1T.,. Roosevelt and the Democrats with W iison. But what would happen If tliev ' Secord* 16 tW '° tandidates? —Philadelphia A careful rtuily of my contemporaries convinces ue that some of thein are : i strong for a nonpartisan Supreme ? vr J' P rovi <led it is composed entirely or ultraconservatives who think one New York Moi-nir.g Telegraph. TO FREE TOLL ROADS [Philadelphia Press.]* The welcome news that the neces sary steps are being taken to rid the territory near Philadelphia of two of its most harassing toll roads will fill the dsers of those roads with rejoicing. The tax exacted is heavy. On the Spring House and Quakertown road i for a distance of sixteen miles seven- 1 i ty-seven cents one way is charged. ! The road is the shortest highway be tween Philadelphia and Allentown, yet its use is denied to many people because of the excessive and oppres sive tax which it levies in the form of tolls. The Lancaster Pike which parallels nv., Pennsylvania's main line out of Philadelphia is another cormorant in toll exactions, which State Highway I ommlssioner Cunningham desires to j make free. His present move in that direction is for the portion of the highway from City Line to Paoli. This ! is within the Philadelphia suburban district. The city some time ago set free all the toll roads in Philadelphia I . < ounty. This falls short of the mark unless the many toll roads in the 1 suburban areas around Philadelphia are set free, too. All the toll roads in the State should i be made free as quickly as it can be I done. The State Highway Commis- 1 sioner is right in seeding the roads with the greatest travel and the i heaviest tolls ,to be made free first. The Quakertow n road and the Lan-1 caster Pike fall within this descrip tion and their relief from tolls will i confer the greatest good on the greatest number. WARNING ENGLAND [H. G. Wells in the Saturdav Evening ... Post.] aPProaehing a crisis when ways, muddle and waste may utterly ruin us. This is the way things 1 hahft S en do ", e ,n England, this is our .» I procedure, and If they are done in this way after the war tile empire Is going to smash. y NEW VICEROY OF INDIA " *<OMO CH£L<-1 S-J oJ*JD London. Feb. 17. —lt is expected that the appointment of Lord Chelms ford as Viceroy of India, to succeed Baron Hardlngs will shortly be offi cially announced. Frederic John Napier Thesiger, third Baron Chelmsford, is 48 years old. He is an Oxford man (Magda len College) and aside from having held several positions in the local gov ernment of London member of ! school board, county councilor and alderman —has been, since 1905, suc cessively governor of Queensland and New South Wales. In politics he is a Unionist. He is a Knight of Grace of St. John, Jerusalem, in England, and Chancellor of the Order of St. Mi chael and St. George. I OUR DAILY LAUGHI WHAT NEXT? She sits and waits i I j I Who's dippy on l\ f the tango; j\— 'rf | And when J baseball sea- iP She sits and V jl II sees the fan ~ I* I I co. HIS RELATION KJnd Party: /v ' -^ nd * s that poor / man sitting in the I :3V' stairway your \7L| / r T-iV/ Frazzled Fred jfly : No sir > he's me atep»brudder. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 1 »—ll fMttct «v "PtKKOi^ranxa By tin Ei-ConmlUMmu James M. Beck'a attack upon the Wilson administration policies before ll ? e «A n '? n league in Philadelphia last niglit. following so closely upon the terrific assault made by Elihn Hoot in ew i ork, has had a notable effect upon Republicans in Pennsylvania for it has pointed out the weakness of the " el P° c racy and ihe opportunity for united Republicans to swing the State back into the coldmn. the least significant result of tne speeches has been the revival of Roosevelt sentiment. The progres sives are insisting that the Root speech accepted the Roosevelt doc. trines and the applaus« given to Roosevelt during the Beck speech has not been lost upon many people. Poli ticians throughout the State were to day looking: for an announcement of the candidacy of Governor Brum baugh for President, while there were rumors that more men might come out as candidates for delegate in the interest of P. c. Knox. The boosters of Senator Cummins, of lowa, who is a native of this State, are waiting to see what the Governor does before acting. ! Ever since his return to the city I the Governor lias been holding con- I ferences with heads of departments |and others in touch with the political situation and in Washington Congress man Vare has been throwing out hints j that there will be something doing in the Brumbaugh line. To-morrow is the first day for cir culating petitions for nominations to be placed on the primary ballot and [the blanks are going out from the 5 C apitol at a lively rate. Dozens* were sent out to-day and many men promi nent in politics got papers. The blanks for candidates for auditor gen eral and other State officers are ex pected to go out later in the day. To morrow there will be busy times in every district because papers will be started promptly. —Ex-Representative Eugene Bur nett, of Mechanicsburg, is out with an anouncement of intention to be a candidate for the Democratic nomin ation for the House this year. —Lex N. Mitchell, of Punxsutaw ney. a candidate for congress-at-large on the Washington ticket four years ago, will be a candidate for the House |on the Republican and Progressive tickets this year. —Jacob A. Leslier is a candidate for the House in Reading. —Senator Charles A. Snyder, of Pottsvlile, candidate for the Re publican nomination for auditor gen eral. is making hay in the western counties, while his rival. Speaker | Charles A. Ambler, is working along the Delaware and Schuylkill. A Pittsburgh dispatch says that yester -1 day the Senator spent the day in com ; pany with Mayor Armstrong, Coroner | Jamison and Robert McAfee, and dur ! ing the afternoon the Mayor's office | was used as a reception room for the I local Penrose workers to pjedge them- j selves to do their best for the ad ministration ticket. During the day Mr. Snyder met many Republican I leaders from Washington. Lawrence, .Beaver and Westmoreland counties i |and to-night, when seen at the Fort Pitt Hotel professed to be satisfied that he will be the choice of the Re- 1 publicans in the primaries. He said: j i "I came on here for a heart-to-heart I talk with the leaders in the party and ! personally to appeal for their support. : I have been doing this for three! weeks and have been wonderfully en- I ,couraged by expressions of good wishes, so much so that I am confident! of staying in the tight to the finish, i Of course, X hope everything is going to go along peacefully. If so. I will be peaceable; but if a fight is forced on me I will be in the thick of it. I simply cannot be pulled out of the running by any circumstances. I de serve the suppert of the Allegheny county delegation, for I voted for all the changes in your city charter which your citizens seemed to want, and I voted for a bill to let cities make their own charter, which Governor Tener vetoed. That ought to please the home rulers here. While I have no right to say where Senator Penrose stands on the Auditor General con test, I am confident that he will throw ! his support to me." Senator Snyder intends to stay in the western end of I the State a few days and fix up all the \ political fences ne9essary to assure his nomination at the primaries. —City Solicitor J. H. Blgelow, of Hazleton, has rendered an opinion that notes from parents giving their children permission to attend amuse ments or be in the streets after 9 o'clock at night would not save boys and girls from prosecution under the Curfew law, which is being rigidly en forced. Police are stationed every night at theaters and other places, arresting all unaccompanied minors under the age of sixteen. —ln Lehigh and Berks counties a majority of the Progressives have registered as Republicans, but in Lehigh Fred E. Lewis, former mayor of Allentown and former Congress man-at-large, has already announced his candidacy for Republican national delegates as a "Progressive Republi can." The Democratic horizon in the Berks-Lehigh district at present looks rosy for Congressman Arthur G. De walt and his forces. The only candi dates for Democratic national dele gates announced so far are County Chairman Jonathan E. Frederic, of Lehigh and J. Edgar "Wanner, of Reading. Dewalt is sure of renomina tion, say his friends. -—The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times to day says of the Allegheny county situ ation: "Two State senators are to be elected this year. Senator Charles J. Mugee has said he would be a can didate for the Republican nomina tion to succeed himself in the Forty third district. In the Forty-fifth dis trict the successor of Senator John P. Aloore, who resigned to become coun ty controller, is to be chosen. The Penrose leaders are looking for an opponent for Mr. Magee In the event of a State fight. Representative W. W. Mearkle of the Fourth Legislative district is endeavoring to have those who are framing the ticket agree up on him. In the Forty-fifth district there has not even been a tentative i selection but several men are under i consideration as likely timber." CRIPPLED PARIS fAnna Murray Vail in the Atlantic Monthly.] Rest and change, but no respite froi* the surrounding ever present shadow. Amputations, amputations, and ampu | tations! Three youngsters In front of the hotel yesterday with an orderly, all on crutches: it must have been their first walk out, from the way they went In the Rue de la Palx five In a row, each with the left leg gone, trotting along at a great rate and as gay as crickets, each evidently trying to out walk the others. Out of the Cafe de Paris came a splendid 6-foot youngster with his mother in deep mourning; he hopped into the front seat of a big limousine, declining help; three more, soldiers they, saluted him as he passed. He wore three medals. On the terrace of the Tullerles rows can be seen all flay In the sun; on the Champs Elysees everywhere, everywhere, till one is nearly suffocated. GREATGAIN But godliness with contentment is J.jrreat tain,—l Timothy vi, S. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY BOBS UP SERENELY. —From the Philadelphia Record. I \ MANAGING j _______ The Town That Went Back By Frederic J. Haskin < . !_ .. J SALEM, Maaa., has the distinc tion of being the only one, among the four hundred which have 1 adopted commission government, to revert to the old method. The reform [ had a stormy life of three years, end ing in failure. For it cannot be denied that com mission government has failed in Sa lem. If it failed in no other way, at least It failed to convince a majority of the people that it was an improve ment iH'er the old system. Inasmuch as commission government has seem ed good to the people of several hun dred other cities, it follows that there must be something peculiar in the Sa lem situation to account for its un favorable reception here. Salem is now a thriving manufac turing town of fifty thousand. It is proud of its prosperity, but also of the fact that it was founded in 1626. Fully alive to the value of its industries, it is also conscious that its story is almost an epitome of the nation's his tory; that it still contains the house where one of the witch judges lived in 1792; and the first Congregational church to be established in America. In a word, Salem Is rich in tradition; its ways are fixed by the habit and custom of centuries. In such place, anything which has the sanction of long usage Is sure to die hard, and any reform is sure to hit a rocky trail. It was tremendously encouraging to commission government boosters when Salem woke up and adopted the new method of city management three years ago. "We've broken into a good-sized town in New England," tlfey said. "Those folks aren't so slow as we thought they were." Of course, they are not as slow as the West thinks them, but neither are they as quick to accept a new idea as the westerners. Salem adopted commission government, but it did not LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the Editor of the Telegraph: Dear Sir: I notice in The Patriot of : February 13 that it states the railroad man almost. receives twice as much wages as the mechanic throughout the i United States. Now it appears that this paper is picking a scab. Almost every clay you pick up that paper it has some thing to say about the railroaders' strike or wages. It does not say any thing about the hours It puts in on the road away from home, or its hardships. I would like to have a committee from this paper come and ride one car down over the Hump, especially like Febru ary 13, when the cars were one sheet of ice, that the men going down over the hill had to crawl on hands and knees on top of the car to get to the brake. If he runs in or has an accident he gets two weeks to thirty days in the pie house without pay. I will forfeit on© month's pay if this committee rides one car without an accident. Now. if a brakeman fcas a mishap and runs in, no matter whose fault, his or the com pany's, he is not excused. He must serve his suspension and get a black mark. And there is other trouble of men who receive more money than the brakeman. It is the man the company ! has who made a mistake In railroading or had not the nerve, to stand back and try and get you into trouble and make it miserable. Now I think that this paper should ease up a little and not try and make the people believe there is going to be a strike and lots of trouble. If you think the railroad man has a banquet every day or night, come out and see us ride a cut, help to eat a cold supper and stop knocking about the money he receives. Yours, for fair play, G. B. HOW TO LIVE LONGER FOOD—Rule 7—Foods are of t\*o kinds—repair food and fuel food. The repair foods are called "proteins." The tuel foods are called "carbohydrates" and "fats." We must eat a certain amount of "protein," or repair food, each day to replace these parts of the body which are being used up. If we eat more of this "protein," or repair food, than we really need, the surplus food decays in the bowels and makes poisons. This works the liver and kid neys too hard) because they are the parts of the body which have to get rid of these poisons. There are two foods which we all use and which have this "protein," or re pair food, in large amounts. These foods are meat and eggs. If we eat too much of meat and eggs we get more "protein," or repair food, than the body needs. This makes poison. Eat little of meat and eggs. MIGHT BE WORSE [Kansas City Star.] The great war we think of as bad as bad ctfti be. But we aren't quite right. When civilized Rome went to war, the Rome of Cicero and Caesar and Augus tus, it expected large profits from the sale of prisoners as slaves. All armies that set out from Rome, we aro told, were accompanied by speculators who bought up the captives as they were put up at auction after & battle. Caesar writes in the "Gallic Wars" of selling fifty-three thousand prison ers after the capture of the Aduatuci. After the war with the Clmbrl ninety thousand captives are reported by Livy to have been sold, in the campaign df Pydna the communities of Eplrus Bided against Rome and one hundred and fifty thousand of the Inhabitants were sold Into slavery by the Roman general on orders from the senate. If no moral progress had been made In the last nineteen hundred years the Belgians and Poles would have been sold as slaves by the conquering Ger i mans FEBRUARY 17, 1916. forget its hundred and one traditions. It' accepted the change with a reser vation. "Maybe it's a good thing; we'll try it and see, but we're not sure, and if it isn't all that's claimed for it, we'll go back to the old form that we know and understand." That was about the attitude of the average Sa lemlte. Salem was never very enthusiastic about commission government, and the opponents of the change never for a minute gave up the idea of getting back to the old plan. In most cities the people have been so well satisfied that the interests that fought for the old order had to give up for lack of any following. They were more per sistent in Salem. They kept a follow ing by criticism of the commission, and before the new scheme had been going long enough to either make good or fail, along came a calamity that gave the opposition its chance. This Was the great Salem fire of two years ago. A conflagration that wipes out a huge chunk of the business and resi dence portion of a town is calculated to worry any set of city officials. Sup pose you were mayor of a town of 50,000, and you should wake up some morning and find that half your town had burned up. What would you do? You don't know. Nobody knows un til something like that happens to him. The new Salem commission did its best. It cared for the homeless, fed the starving, cleaned up the debris with which the city was litter ed, and in other ways tried to turn chaos into order. The commission did a pretty good job, but everything it did cost money. The municipality, as well as the mer chants, manufacturers and home own ers, had to bear an enormous expense. Paving had to be relaid. Sewers had to be reconstructed. Great numbers [Continued on Pa«c B.] ROOSEVELT'S SAYINGS "The man who loves other nations as much as he does his own stands on a par with the man who ' loves other women as much as he does his own wife. The United States can ac complish little for mankind save in so far as within Its borders It develops an intense spirit of Americanism. A flabby cosmopolitanism, especially if it expresses itself through a flabby pacifism, is not only silly, but degrad ing." "If a man deliberately takes the I view that lhe will not resent having his wife's face slapped, that he will not by force endeavor to save his daughter from outrage; and that he disapproves of the policeman who in terferes by force to save a child kid naped by a blackhander or a girl run oft by a white slaver, then he is logical in objecting to war." "During the last three years we have been technically at peace. But during those three years more of our citizens have been killed by Mexicans, Germans, Austrians and Haitians than were killed during the entire Spanish war." "The only proper attitude is that there shall be no preparedness at all that is not necessary, but that in so ! far as there Is need for preparedness the need shall be fully met. Years , ago I served as deputy sheriff in the I cattle country. Of course I prepared iin advance for my Job. I carried what ; was then the best type of revolver, a .45 self-cocker. I was Instructed never to use It unless it was absolute ly necessary to do so, and I obeyed the instruction. But if in the interest of 'peace' it had been proposed to arm ine only with a .22 revolver I would promptly have resigned my Job." "The United States has not a friend in the world. Its conduct under the leadership of Its official representatives for the last five years and, above all, for the last three years, has deprived It of the respect and has secured for it the contempt of. every one of the great civilized nations of mankind." "A nation which is 'too proud to fight' is a nation which Is sure to be kicked, for every fighting man or na tion knows that that particular kind of pride' is merely another name for abject cowardice." "The college boys who adopt the professional pacifist views, who make peace leagues and preach the doctrines of international cowardice are unfit ting themselves for any career more manly than that of a nursemaid. A grownup of the professional pacifist type Is not an impressive figure, but the college boy who deliberately elects to be a 'sissy' should be placed in the nursery and spanked." THE MILITARY SYSTEM [From the- Philadelphia Record.] The militia might be made as effec tive a reserve for the regular army as the proposed Continental army would have been. The objection of Judge Uarrlson, and of all, or very nearly all the military authorities Is to a force under State control, nnip not under Fed eral control till the emergency occurs To be an effective reserve the militia will not only have to be subject to na tional control, but it will have to be kept free from men with families, and men over-age and under-condltion if its regiments are to enter the Federal ser vice as units. At present a large part of the militia consists of men who would not, or ought not to go to the front except as a last resort. Hence the militia regiments can't he taken in to the United States army as units. The President must call for volunteers and a new force must be created out of in dividuals, from the militia und outside .of It. This takes time. jjßmmtg (Efrat The old, old question whether doer shed their horns every season lias turned up on Capitol Hill again and this tijne a number of Central Penn sylvania sportsmen have submitted it to Dr. H. A. Surface, the State Zoo logist, who has ruled that the deer do shed their liorns every year. This question comes to the State Depart ment of Agriculture and the State Game Commission in cycles. The last letter on the subject came from a hunter in Hollidaysburg who pro pounded a series of questions to which the zoologist replied that deer shed horns every year and they grow an entirely new set including the extra prong during the next summer. Dr. Surface also says that there is a time in this early part of Spring when the buck deer is without horns at all, but it is soon after the time when the old horns are dropped that the new appear. This is the season of the year when the deer do not tight Dr. Surface says, that these facts are well established from observation of deer in the wild and on the State preserves. This is the season of the year when Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh is ex periencing what beset his predeces sors In the way of Invitations. About every third caller at the office of tha Governor just now wants to invite him to some function or other and each time it means a speech. Tlio Gov ernor has let it be known that for the present he prefers not to be asked to so majiy things, his list of invita tions showing something for practi cally every night in the week, Sun days included, because he is wanted in churches, too. However, it is un derstood the Governor will not accept many invitations for a while. * * * Are you a member of the overshoo brigade? Do you have fat ones, skinny ones, round ones, pointed ones, none at all, or do you wear goloshes? If you don't care enough about your health, during this grip and pneumo nia weather that invariably follows a slight thawing out of the frozen at mosphere that has characterized Har risburg since Sunday, to place a more or less thin layer of the pro duct of the tropics under the' soles of your feet before venturing forth into the realms of ozone, then surely you. and Solomon are not members of the same fraternity. Vanity, vanity, all is foolishness, sayeth the preacher who rants against the girl or boy who declines the good office of the par ent whose interest is all for making the young one put on his or her rub bers. And we agree with him, even though we've been there ourselves. • • At one of the linotype machines in a Harrisburg news composing room the other afternoon, sat an operator holding his weary head with ono hand, eyes closed, and working away for dear life on the keyboard with his trusty right. £ "Sleepy?" the typo was asked. "Naw, sick," came the laconic ex planation. And still that quick right hand kept raining down the "mats." 'How the thunder do you know what to set with your eyes closed?" the questioner insisted. "Shucks, it's just one of 'em tariff editorials." grunted the operator, "and 1 know all the arguments pro and con by heart." The activity of the State authorities in enforcing the new law providing for the inspection of lime has resulted in numerous articles on how to get the worth of lime for farm purposes and it is surprising the imnienso amounts used in this part of the State. The Pennsylvania Parmer, one of the live agricultural journals, devotes pages to description of uses of lime with some hints on mixtures. It would appear from the publicity being given that the farmers may find in Pennsylvania lime, burned in the kilns that abound throughout the southern countries substitutes for the German potashes cut off by the war. Arguments in favor of paving ar» to bo found in a number of tlie streets on Allison Hill this weather when tlio dirt highways look like country roads after market travel. In some streets there are ruts half a foot deep and going over them reminds one of tak ing a trip over the ice. People living on unpaved streets say that they are apt to be "forgotten" every now and then by the milk man, the ice man and the bread wan and they are com mencing to wonder what is on the paving program for the coming sea son. • • • Col. Horace I* Haldeman, reap pointed commissary general of sub sistence of the National Guard yester day, is a Lancaster c-ountian, and a member of the Haldeman family which has been prominent in affairs in this part of the State for years. With Adjutant General Stewart, Sur geon General Weaver and a few others he is one of the small number of National Guardsmen now serving who were in the Civil War. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE | —Major W. .W. Inglis, the new gen eral manager of the Lackawanna coal interests, is one of the authorities on anthracite coal. ■—Francis H. Taylor, prominent Cheltenham man, is head of the new Montgomery County Law and Order Society. —Matt J. Lynett is the moving spirit in the committee to arrange for the State firemen's convention at Scranton. —Judge Thomson, who is sitting in the brewery cases in Pittsburgh, is the new federal judge for that dis trict. —John W. Pepper, of Philadelphia, has been re-elected president of the Huntingdon Valley Country Club. —Otto Luellen, the new chief of police of Washington, Pa., Is a vet eran of the Tenth Pennsylvania. [ DO YOU KNOW That Harrlsburg Is making steel for traction engines HISTORIC TIARRISIU RG It will soon l>c 100 years SIIMT the Legislature met in the first State Capitol building. The Counterfeit Lacks the Ring Throw a bogus coin on the table and it quickly betrays it self. ft may look Just as good, but the ring is lacking it won't pass. Just think of this simile when ' the dealer offers you "something just as good." Up-to-date merchants ban this practice and customers properly view it with distrust. When you see an article adver tised In this nowspaper, ask for It by-name and Insist on getting what you ask for.-
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