8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded iSjr Published evenings except Sunday by THE! TKI.EIiRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. K J. STACK POLE, Prts't and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STVEINMKTZ, Managing Editor. I Member American lation and Penn sylvania Assoclat- EB3tern office, Has- Brooks. Fifth Ave nue Building. New Brooks, People's Gcs Building, Chi- Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall, $3.00 a year In advance. Snnrn dally average elrcnlatlon (or the three months ending February 20, 1010, it 22,785 it These figures net. All returned, unsold and damaged copies deducted. THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 80. We are workers together with Qod; do not let us forget God. — — Frances Muri>hy. TII AT PEN BROOK ROAD IT can't be possible that Penbrook is going to permit the time limit set by State Highway Commissioner Cunningham to pass without agreeing to accept the State aid offered for the paving of the main street through that town. In a recent speech before Congress Representative William P. Borland, of Missouri, said: Good loads arc the golden chain that binds the nation together for nrosperity or defense. They lighten the burden of transportation, re duce tile cost of living, raise the value «if farm land, increase the national efficiency, provide for the common defense, build up the church and school, banish the isola tion of rural life, and spread pros perity, intelligence, and social ad vantages throughout the length and breadth of the iand. Does Penbrook want to co-operate in such a movement ? That a majority of its people do seems certain, and the rest should be made to feel the weight of the majority. Of course, we shall hear the usual lamentations about the waste of energy and public funds in the Improvement of the River Front now that the river is at full tide and washing the bank, but these same critics will recall that year after year the river does about the same sort of stunts and without serious disturbance to the embankment once it has been firmly established. CENSORSHIP THE censorship which the War De partment established relating to the movements of our troops in Mexico cannot possibly exceed the severity of the censorship which the State Department has constantly exer cised over the publication of all in formation relating to our diplomatic movements in the Mexican case. For goodness sake, Mr. Demain, :lnn't you know the Spring openings nre on? RAILROAD EARNINGS DESPITE the great "prosperity" of which the administration boasts so loudly and which has been brought about by the European war, the railroads of the country are unable to show abounding satisfaction with (heir earnings for the year 1915. They did. indeed, have a better business than they had in 1914, but their aver age earnings amounted to only 3.09 per cent., which was less than those of 1912—the last year in which the railroads had anything like normal business. That year, it will be re marked, was the last year of Repub lican administration. To show the difference between rail- ! road earnings under Democratic times ! ami under Republican times there are some interesting comparisons to be ! drawn from the figures In which the ' above result for 1915 is derived. In 1915 the net operating income of! American railroads Increased almost 38 per cent, as compared with 1914, but only a little over 9 per cent, as compared with the last Republican year. It further appears that the rail roads profiting most by this increase— such as it is—were those which traverse territory wherein "war babies" are most abundant and most insistent for transportation. Under the former regime, when Republican policies were in force, railroad earnings were not only more generously, but more gen erally, distributed. And this brings up a question that has been causing considerable discus sion in financial circles. Railroad earnings for this year are larger than those of last—due to the rush of war business —and It Is asked why no loans are being made for much needed con struction purposes. In the first place, competition of the governments of Europe for capital and material has absorbed much of the idle money of a year ago and has run steel prices up to almost prohibitive figures, but far and away more Important than Ihls is the thought of a sudden decla ration of peace in Europe or a split in the Republican party that might result In a continuance of the present misfit administration at Washington. Just now the railroads are even more In need of emergency construction to increase capacity than the industrials. But. they cannot bargain as the others do for the sale of their services. They THURSDAY EVENING, are compelled to serve all comers equally to their utmost, at rates fixed by the slate. Conditions which are creating busi ness for the railroads are In large part extraordinary, as pointed out, and therefore uncertain as to duration. That. Is not. to deny that much of the existing railroad prosperity is founded on strictly domestic activity, or that the railroads can expect a good vol ume of traffic after the war. But the first effect, of peace woilld undoubtedly be a sharp decline in the best paying traffic, especially of the trunk lines. Such a decline, if it came Just when the carriers were beginning to feel the full weight of the general wago ad vance which will no doubt be made before midsummer, might'fully justify the conservative course which the rail roads are now following. But of even more lasting effect is the possibility of four more years of railroad baiting under Democratic rule and slump in traffic under a Democratic tariff. Now that Germany has disavowed the sinking of the Sussex, we can all be satisfied and wait patiently until—Ger many does It again. KICATJ AMERICAMISM NOT all the jewels of political wis dom are scattered on the floor of the Senate or House of Rep resentatives. Senator Wadsworth, of j New York, in an address to the Vaughn Class at the Calvary Baptist Church, recently, had this to say: We must have a system of edu cation in which the son of the rich will work elbow to elbow with the 50ii of the poor. We must learn to understand one another. The slow growth of poisonous class feeling only tends to destroy our democ racy. The East must know the West, the North the South, and the rich man the poor man, in a coun try that is certainly a wonderful one to work for. Just read that over again and com pare it with the fulminatlons of one Frank Walsh, late chairman of the Committee on Industrial Relations, a "deserving Democrat" who planted dynamite in every section of the country. SHOE PRICES AND now it Is shoes that are to take another advance in price. Scarcity of leather due to the war is the cause, given by the manu facturers. They say that shoe wearers must "pay the price" because this increased demand for leather made by European nations at a time when American shoe manufacturers are unable to get the high-grade materials which formerly came from Germany and Austria-Hungary. Millions of pairs of shoes for the European armies have been and slill are being made by American shoe j manufacturers, according to A. H. Geuting, secretary of the National, Shoe Retail Dealers' Association. Mr. Geuting points out that on the i average these shoes consume one and one-lialf times as much leather as the average American man's shoes. Knapsacks, saddles, harness and j other material for the armies at war j and a general increase in equipment: of the American army and State militia account for a still further de mand on the none too large supply of leather. Unquestionably, all these enter into the situation, but we are inclined to believe, with Congressman Kreider, who is a shoe manufacturer and stu dent of the leather market, that the most potent influence toward higher prices for shoes at this time li.es in the extreme styles demanded by women during the past year. All manner of odd and expensive shades have been worn and the changes in lasts and designs have been startllngly frequent. Every departure from standard colors and styles has its ac companying cost to the maker and the consumer must pay the bill. If milady finds her shoes more expensive this Spring than last let her share the blame equally between the war and her own sweet will to wear "some thing different." HOPE IV FUNSTON JUST now there is no immediate success in sight for the expedition sent into Mexico to r,un down Villa. It is like hunting for a needle in a haystack. But with Funston in command no such thing as ultimate failure need be feared. If ever there was a "darling of the gods" Funston fills the bill. To a few men, and to only a few, fate presents herself in so adventurous, picturesque and successful guise as she has to i Frederick Funston. lie has faced ! death a thousand times from the i arctic to the equator and has come ! off not only alive, but a conqueror. * After blazing the way for millions ' of gold-seekers in Alaska and travel ing thousands of miles across that frigid zone, with only Indians and wild animals for company, Funston thought to enter commercial life and became la coffee planter in Brazil, where he scored his only failure, Like Grant, lie could win battles but he could not ! make business profitable. Then fol | lowed his adventurous career as chief artillery officer for the Cuban rebels against Weyler; his campaign in the | Philippines in command of the , Eleventh Kansas, which culminated lin his capture of Aquinaldo and his I promotion to be brigadier-general. At | Vera Cruz he was to the front once | more, and now again in Mexico, i Wherever there has been adventure, j there has been Funston, and lie has never been more-brilliant or successful than when in the lead of some desperate enterprise. CHANCE FOR BRYAN THE need of trained soldiers for Mexico is keenly felt. The re cruiting stations are calling for t,hem, but the mills nnd factories are calling even more loudly. Recruiting Is on the Increase, but not to the ex tent desired by the Government. "The million trained men In a day," of which Bryan prated so recently, have not been forthcoming. But, then, of course, Bryan has not let loose his clarion cr,y to arms. Come on out from under the bed. Bill, and clarion a few notes for the army. By the Ex-Committecmnn Men active in Republican affairs have given up all hope of avoiding a contest over members of the Re publican State committee and the point of interest in the preliminaries of the battle is what figure Colonel Roosevelt is going to cut. The Colonel has intimated that he will keep out of the State but he is just as liable to come in, horse, foot and dragoons. Pittsburgh newspapers which have been giving much attention to the harmony stories are coming around to the belief that the issues will be fought out at the primaries and point to the interest being taken In the affair by the Democrats. Thoughtful men are watching the activity of the leaders who left the Republican party to be progressives in 1912 and who are now willing to jump back. These men are fomenting the trouble every where they can and apparently watching for a chance to put them selves right when the time arrives. —How Washington views the situa tion in this State, which is being watched closely all over the country, is summed up by the Public Ledger as follows: "The Penrose faction is satisfied that there will be no real fight. This assumption carries with it the conclusion that Governor Brum baugh will either withdraw or that there will be an agreement reached by both factions giving Brumbaugh a complimentary vote and the delegates left to the final disposition of Pen rose. Senator Penrose is confident that Roosevelt will not enter the Re publican primaries in Pennsylvania. Republicans say that Roosevelt does not wish to test his strength before the people, fearing- that the outcome would weaken him as a compromise candidate, and therefore he will not Interfere in the Republlcnn primaries in Pennsylvania or any other State. While the Brumbaugh leaders are not so much In evidence here as a week ago, yet they will not admit any change In Governor Brumbaugh's campaign plans. The situation as viewed by the Brumbaugh camp is: Governor Brumbaugh, if he retires, Will do so in order to cement the Re publicans and Progressive Republi cans. There is nothing certain that ho will retire. No compromise will be made with the Penrose faction, and no matter what attacks may be made the plans of the faction opposed to Penrose will be carried out." —Tlie Philadelphia Press In a re- I view of the Stale situation says the whole light i s for control of tlie He publican State committee, just as was the Democratic light a few years ago. The Press points out that Penrose wants to succeed Henry G. Wasson as national committeeman. AVasson was here this week "adding fuel to the flames" as lie said it. The Press re views the situation favorably to the Governor and Rives for the first time some of tlie Brumbaugh claims. It says: "The Brumbaugh claim of an 'irreducible minimum' of sixty-four members is made up in addition to 14 members from Philadelphia by solid delegations from the following dis tricts: Montgomery, Lancaster, Leb anon, Chester, Lackawanna, Bradford- Wyoming-Susquehanna, Tioga-Potter- McKean, York, Huntingdon-Blair, Mifllin - Juniata - Perry - Cumberland, Clearfield-t'enter, Fulton - Bedford- Somerset, Westmoreland, Armstrong- Butler, Washington-Greene, Beaver- Lawrence, Warren-Venango, and Crawford-Mercer, and parts of the delegations from these other districts: Carbon - Monroe-Pike-Wayne, Colum bia-Montour-Sulltvan-Lycoming, For est - Elk - Clinton - Cameron - Clarion, Northumberland - Snyder - Union and Jefferson-Indiana. Confidence is ex pressed, however, that from the six districts in Allegheny county and from the other districts not specilied there will be elected Brumbaugh State committeemen which will largely in crease the majority claimed already." —Adding to the joyousness of the occasion the Pittsburgh Gazette- Times gives the following ns what E. A. Van Valkenburg said at Oyster Bay after his talk with Ihe Colonel. • "If Governor Brumbaugh will see to It that he and his delegates to the con vention are pro-lioosevelt, although not pledged or instructed, however, then the Governor will And with him these Progressives who hold the balance of power. If Air. Brum baugh doesn't see his way clear to this inclination then Senator Pen rose will receive the Bull Moose support and Senator Penrose has al ready indicated that he has forgiven Colonel Koosevelt many things. Thus there are indications that Pennsyl vania will send a pro-Roosevelt dele gation to the O. O. P. convention, but uninstructed of course, thus car rying out the colonel's mandate issued in his Trinidad statement, when he said that he insisted that his name not be used in the pri maries of Massachusetts or any other State." —One of the most singular situa tions in the State growing out of the aspirations ot' the Governor for na tional delegates and the policy of bis advisers is in the Seventeenth con gressional district, composed ot' eight central counties. A short time ago a number of representative Republicans met in the offlco of A. Nevin Pomeroy, State superintendent or printing, and one of the leaders in Franklin county and agreed upon Calvin Green, Mifflin, and llarry Byron, Franklin, for na tional delegates. Mr. Pomeroy had a hand in making the agreement. Plans are now being made for the setting up of a rival slate in the interest of flie Governor. A. Nevin Detrlch. chair man of the Washington party Stale committee, is taking a hand in putting up the rival slate. —Signs of pretty close relationship between some of the Washington party leaders and the administration forces in up-State districts are to he seen about, the Capitol anil it is said that the final day for filing nominating petitions may bring some surprises. —The fact that J. Verner Clark, of Washington county, w lio was endorsed for the nomination for State Treasury by the Washington party conference here a week ago - , (lied a petition this morning to run for the Republican nomination for treasurer caused a stir hero to-day. Clark is said to be the Bull Moosers' offering for State Treasurer on a harmony basis. 11. M. Kephart, of Connellsville, an avowed candidate for State Treasurer, who was here last night, said that he had not considered withdrawing. —Democratic voters in the Fifth Congressional District have agreed upon Magistrate Edwin K. Borie and Henry J. Burns as delegates from the district to the Democratic National Convention. Joseph K. Fabian and Benjamin H. Green have been agreed upon. Slates have been prepared in the other four districts, but have not yet been ratified. -—lt was announced yesterday that D. Webster Grim, of Doylestown, who was the Democratic candidate for Governor in 1910 would be a candi date for delegate -at - large. Mr. Grimm's friends in the Eighth Con gressional District, which comprises Bucks and' Montgomery counties, are said to have started the circulation of petitions among the Democratic voters of the district in his behalf. —The Philadelphia revised transit HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 1 When a Feller Needs . % briggs I I! I) n f |H iv>«=. J I (OH PAAM ( p ), N^^n^r-Tr „ i| dear - ~' f^z ( N —■ —* \ A too n 'V* I M/<«e Those^ \\ HOME ? /I (®£3£\ I HORRID Boys J ■ - _r- / - >g£»y I STOP WHY DOM T You JSBSI S ain't Ym, she's a maiden ant ot Bacon —Has your wife a cook book? Egbert—Oh, yes. Bacon —Did you ever get anything out of It? Kgbert Sure! Indigestion.—Yonk trs Statesman. t lEtettUuj (Eljat People who have Jjeen following tha rise of the volume of water In thft Susquehanna river the Inst few dnya will be interested to know that al though the wide branching river has risen to from fifteen to eighteen feet above low water mark frequently, has only been eight times in the last seventy years that tho Susquehannft' has gone above the twenty-foot mark. According to well authenticated rec ords there were some floods prior to 184G which sent water all over tha lower end of the city, but the points of measurement were not the same as now owing to the fact that the banks were different and there were not so many islands. The first flood of which anyone around here knows anything wan the "pumpkin" flood of 1790. 11. is more or less traditional, too. it IH remembered largely because it was in the Fall and Jhe high water carried down the yellow pumpkins from In dioi villages and farms of settlers up I tho river. The town was then mainly between Paxton and what is now Wai nut streets and from all accounts there was not much in that. In any 1 event the Hood went over all of what | was then llarrisburg. Soon after the war of 1812 there was another flood. In 1846, when llarrisburg began to | have some lines and the river bank was raised, there was a flood which j had a record of 22 feet, 2 inches, j Under present conditions It might ) have been about 27 feet, say some who know what changes have taken place !in the river. In March, 18G5, just j before the end of the war the river I rose to 24.3 and menaced the two j bridges. That was the last flood of iinv account until 1886 when some thing over twenty-one feet was re corded. The big "June flood" of 1889, ! made the record of 27 feet, one inch, which has not been equaled since j and the water was up to Washington street on Second and Faxton creek ! backed up for many blocks. In 1894 | there was a 25-foot flood, which did much damage at Steelton. The 1901 j flood was only a little over 21 feet. | Next year, when the old "camelback" I bridge was destroyed the water went !to 23.9 and in 1904. the year of tho ! so-called "ice flood" it was 23.8. I.ow j water mark is now established by tho national State and city governments and the records are in excellent shape. The rapid rise of the Susquehanna, and the complete submerging of the city's "front .steps" causerl people to flock in large numbers (o Front street nil day yesterday in order to gel. a good look at the swiftly flowing stream with now and then a log shooting by with the speed of a miniature express train. An interested party up around tlie bend at Maclay street in order to estimate the rapidity of the rise, placed a stick in the bank and left it. there for a little less than an liour. On taking it out, the measurement of the portion which had been covered by the rising river in that was seven inches. A mathematician would soon have the water up over the top of the bank at that rate! That winter is over—at least for the present—was demonstrated yesterday when the river bridges began to be used again for afternoon walks. Dozens of people were out for prome nades over the Susquehanna in spite of a wind that blew rather cold at intervals across the ice that was piled about the islands. The bridges are a fine place for an afternoon walk ait>t are used by many people In the Spring and Fall. Feline felicity is an unknown term. Feline courage is scarcely more a char acteristic of the ordinary cat, and when a spirited little, squirrel puts to rout a full-grown and active descend ant of the wildcat species one is in clined to place one's faith henceforth in the little squirrel. An interesting tableau was enacted in a rear yard in Locust street the other day when a large sized cat sud denly spied a fat little squirrel seated upon the top of a fence and chewing diligently away upon a nut. Mutual hostility appeared on the faces of the two principals in the affair; then the feeling was transmitted to other por tions of their anatomy, and two tails, a bushy one and a furry one. began angrily to fan the breeze. Anon there was action, but it consisted mainly in the complete putting to rout of Madame Cat, and "little Billie," if we may borrow from "Trilby," went on bis way rejoicing with another scalp, figuratively speaking, hung to his belt. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE " —Dr. Edward Breck, who is noted as a big game hunter, is making pre paredness speeches in Western Penn sylvania. I —\V. H. Manbeck, one of the gov ernors of the William Penn Highway i is a former Senator. -T-Janies McLaughlin, chief of elec itrical affairs in Philadelphia, plans to ' place 30 electric reflectors about the i statute of Penn on city hall. —James M. Beck, former United States Attorney, established a prize for oratory at Moravian College. —James M. Archbald, formerly on the Governor's staff, has taken com mand of a company at. Pottsville. I DO YOU KJCT That llari'isbui'g iron is made up Into toys in other cities? HISTORIC HARRISBCRG In old times when water got high in Harrisburg. people moved out to what is now Allison Hill. MILITARY TRAINING (Philadelphia Press) The proposal to introduce a course in military training in the high schools of the city is rapidly gaining in popu larity. lis recent indorsement by the United Business Men's Association and by two hundred prominent gradu ates of the. Central High school should carry great weight with the Hoard of Kducation when Ihe question comes up for official consideration. Too many public-spirited citizens and or ganizations have pledged themselves to the project to leave any doubt as to how the general public stands in the matter. / J r - It is generally conceded that, apaW from the probable advantage to th, country In case of war, military train, ing in the schools has its benefits both physical and scholastic. In the first place it makes for bodily development only comparable with the effects ol talnod by the compulsory courses iii physical training now In force in most higher schools and colleges. Moreover, it teaches the student discipline, a spe cies of moral control and ability to concentrate that is useful to him not or.!;' in his student days but in after 1 ifc as well. It Is no exaggeration to attribute the remarkable industrial efficiency of the German people to the tact that virtually every ablebodled male is compelled to undergo a course of \ military training In his youth. What military training In the schools would mean toward national preparedness is too obvious for dis cussion. If every high school in the country were to inaugurate such a course under competent instructor* the nucleus of an efficient army would | within a very few years be available kfor any emergency. .