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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
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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
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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.-