10 lARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A XEU'SPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded itji Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH I'IUXTIM. CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACK POLE, Prts t and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OrSTER, Business Manager. BUS M. SUEINMETZ, Moitagwz Editor. »+ Member American Newspaper Pub sylvania Associat- Esstern office. Has- Brooks. "" People's — Gcs Building, Chi — cago, 111. Entered at the Post Office In Harrls but-g, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a <Bffl£K3Mi3ME> week: by mall, $3.00 a year In advance. Sworn dully r.vcrnsre circulation for the three months ending April 1, lUI6, it 22,432 * Thear flicurca are net. All returned, unsold a nd damaged copies deducted. THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL B. March on, my soul, nor like a laggard stay. 3larch .swiftly on. yet err not from the way Where all the nobly wise of old have trod— The path of faith made by the sons of God. —HENRY VAN DYKE. BLOCKS, ARK ORGANIZING WHEN it comes to a matter of public enterprise depend upon the Allison Hill district to come forward quickly and enthusias tically. On Saturday the Telegraph asked for volunteers to lead move ments for the placing of window boxes along whole city squares. The first two responses came from the Hill. Two public-spirited women have agreed to interest their neighbors in the plan and the outlook is encourag ing for the beautification of at least two whole city squares in that part of town. And the work has only been begun. WIIV NOT TWO OF 'K>l IT has been suggested that the an nual Romper Day. with which the boys and girls of the public play grounds conclude the summer vacation season, be combined with Ed. S. Her man's idea, expressed through the Harrisburg Rotary club, that Harris burg have a "Play Day." This might be done, but Romper Day is a distinc tive and interesting occasion belonging by priority to the "kiddies." It is theirs and theirs alone and there is no reason why the "grown-ups" of the city should go to interfering with It. Harrisburg is big enough for two such days. "Play Day," as the Rotary club plans It, ought to be something new. There is not one of us who does not need more play than he now enjoys. J.et the Rotary plan stand. A "Play Day" for Harriaburg ought to be an annual event. We have shown the other cities of our size how we go about our public works; now let's get to gether and show 'em how to play. DAXIKI.S AM) KCONOMICS TREATING lightly the serious problems of government and business is characteristic of Democratic leaders. In this respect the leaders are not representative of the rank and file of the party, for most Democrats are sincerely desirous of meeting every issue frankly as it arises and solving the problems promptly for the best interests of the country. An illustration of the frame of mind of the Democratic "statesman" may be found in a recent issue of the Releigh, North Carolina, News and Oberver. edited by Josephus Daniels, a member of the Wilson Cabinet. When he became Secretary of the Navy, Daniels tried to treat his new office as a joke, and it was many months before he sobered down to the realization that the general super vision of the American Navy is a ser ious job. Dairiels al«o treats economic prob lems as a joke. For instance, he quotes a Republican editor's query "After the war—what?" and answers It by saying. "Book agents with sub scription books telling you all about it." The Republican editor had made a careful and intelligent presentation of the trade problems that will con front the businessmen of America ■when the war has closed, our abnor mal market has terminated and our own ports have been thrown open to free competition from aboard.- The most thoughtful men of Amer ica are Riving- that question serious ■tudy. Not so Josephus Daniels. The business situation after the war does not concern him. He spent no sleep less nlghtsworrying over the industrial depression that overwhelmed the en terprises of this country from the time the Democrats came into power until the war saved us from the effects of the free trade policy. He was drawing a fat salary in elegant offices with assistants and clerks to supply his every need and with naval officers bowing and saluting at his door. As he did not worry then, neither does he worry now, for he Is confident that this administration will be retained in power another four years on the plea that Wilson "kept us out of ■witr," and that he will enjoy another four years of unprecedented prosper ity. * Hut Mr. Daniels misjudges both the intelligence and the temper of the Democrats of his own State and of the United States, fiusinessmen in North Carolina and la «ver>; oilier male THURSDAY EVENING, know what brought on the hard times, what gave us a partial restoration of prosperity and what the condition will be when the war ends and free trade again has full sway. They are not satisfied with this administration's handling of domestic problems, nor of foreign problems, and. relative to the former, they want some definite as surance that provision has been made for an adequate economic prepared ness. The American businessman, even though a Democrat, does not like being made the goat to satisfy the theories or whims of men who know much more about politics than they do about business. If Mr. Daniels will scan the election returns In 1914 and since, he will see a pretty plain expres sion of dissatisfaction with his party's leaders and just as plain an Indication of what the country intends to do with those leaders in 1916. The doom of the Democratic ad ministration has already been deter mined. Nothing that Wilson and Dan iels and Burleson can now do will wipe out the record they have made or cause men to forget the hardships they endured in 1913-14. But. It would seem that on the eve of their depart ure from place of authority the Democratic leaders would at least make an end of buffoonery and get down for the remaining few months to the serious tasks with which they were entrusted as a result of a divi i slon In the ranks of that considerable i majority who are opposed to their theories and practices. BIRDHOUSES THE boys and girls of the Central high school, who yesterday went into Wildwood park to put up blrdhouses of their own design and making, did a work of which they may well be proud. Time was. and not so very far back, that "bird-nesting" of another sort was a Spring-time amusement among boys who-did not realize that by stealing bird nests they were not only inflicting a cruelty upon the parent birds, but were denuding the country side of Its songsters and robbing the farmer of his most valuable insect destroying agency. The Natural History Society i* lead ing the birdhouse movement in this city and. as in everything else tile or ganization attempts, it is going about the matter in a very practical way. To-morrow bird-lovers will hear a free illustrated lecture under the di rection of the society by William L. Bailey, of the Pennsylvania Audubon Society, on "Bird Study With the Camera." GERM \\ CI!ANCELI/OR'S SPEECH IN a remarkable address before the Reichstag yesterday Chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg denounced re ports that Germany contemplates any aggression against the United States after the war in Europe, that the Im perial Government has any designs on Canada or that the Kaiser is looking toward Brazil or any other South American country. This may be reassuring to those who care to take the chancellor at hts word. ( But it must not be forgot ten that even while the chancellor was in the midst of his speech the American Government was placing the good faith of Germany to a very severe test in the U-boat controversy. Even now it is very much to be fear ed that Germany has been playing fast and loose with American lives and property through the inability of the well-meaning but weak-kneed gentlemen who now constitute our na tional administration at Washington. Beside, there is Belgium. Germany has not so conducted her self during the past few years that her word should be taken at its face value. Rather, her diplomacy has been of a variety which requires that we look back of the spoken or the written word for its hidden meaning. Nothing would give the average American greater pleasure than to be able to believe unqualifiedly tha* what the chancellor says reflects the true attitude of the government he repre sents, but, in language not generally used In international conversations, "We are front Missouri." Likewise, actions speak louder than words, and if Germany cares naught for the lives l of American women and children or for American property on the high seas, why should we believe that she has any regard for American rights on land? The best safeguard against German or other European aggression in the \ United States is an army and a navy] , big enough to back up our position. Almost as interesting to Americans as the assertion that Germany has no thought of American conquest is that part of the chancellor's address hav ing to do with what he represented as i "Germany's wish for the future," j which he summed up in this language: This new Kurope, in many re i spects cannot resemble the past. The | blood which has been shed will | 1 never be repaid and the wealth I which has been destroyed can only slowly be replaced. But, liowso- ! ever, this Europe may be. it must be for the nations that inhabit It and land of peaceful labor. The peace which shall end this war shall be a lasting peaie. It must not bear the germ of new ware but must provide for all peaceful arrangements of Euro pean questions. But, the chancellor adds, almost in so many words, the terms of that i peace must rest with Germany. And ! right there the dream of millennium ends abruptly. For the action of ! England yesterday in planning her financial program for another year of war on a more extensive scale than ever is proof conclusive that the Allies are even more determined than previously to carry the war to the conclusion of a peace in which they shall have the major voice. Ger many's talk of peace can be based on one promise, and one promise alone, which is the abolition of the Prussian military policy, and at this time Ger many apparently has no such thought in mind. The chancellor's speech Is interest ing. but it is not convincing. The war will go on and America will not cease one lota to prepare for whatever , eventuality the future may disclose. TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —The censor apparently doesn't care how many stories of Villa's whereabouts come out Just so none of them are true. —lf all the tincharted rooks Ger many has discovered since the out break of the submarine hostilities really exist, the first thing after the war will be to make a few new maps. —We are inclined to believe maybe Warren Worth Bailey knows what he 1 is talking about when he tells the gov ernment to dig for oil, natural gas be | ling one of his specialties. ' —The great Northwest may be wife hungry. but has it reached the stage where It is willing to accept European widows "sight unseen"? —The Ford election system should have been extended to the peace party's operations. —Holland appears to be getting Its ! "Dutch up." EDrrORIAL~COMMENT GOOD MECHANICIAN NEEDED [ Boston Transcript. ] An army mule is better than an au tomobile if his chauffeur knows how to crank him up. SO HOW CAN IT HE RESPONSIBLE? [ Kansas City Times. ] Congress probably will be surprised and hurt at Senator Chamberlain's declaration that It Is responsible for the unpreparedness of the country for defense. Congress doesnj* see how It can be to blame—lt never did anything about it at all. YOUR BROOM READY? [Kansas City Star.] the spring clean-up. Kansas City will beat its carpets, wash its windows, sweep out the basement, let the sun and air into the attic, empty the closets, rub down the wails and ceilings, cart away the ashes, rake up the yard, dig out the gutters, pour lye in the sink, boil the germs out of the curtains, paint the screens, get out the hose, chase the cat out doors, burn the chest protectors, get out the sul phur and molasses, put new zinc In the refrigerator, plug up the rat holes, take In the door mat, have a bonfire of all the rubbish and hang a sign on the gate, "Nothing for Bums." Yes, to-morrow Is the spring elec tion. NOW SMOKES $50,000 CIGARS Publisher Scholz Found Lost Check and Soon Stop|R*d a I.ot of Worry I Editor and Publisher.] When old Diogenes meets Emil M. Scholz. publisher of the New York Evening Post, in that bright hereafter, to-ward which all newspaper men are scurrying, Di will probably put his hand fondly on Mr. Scholz's shoulder and say, "He's good enough for me." While Mr. Scholz was walking down Wall street one day last week, with head forward to protect his face from the driving snow, he saw on the side walk a piece of paper which he recog nized as a document of some sort and which he picked up and slipped into his pocket. At his office he examined the paper and found it was an en dorsed certified check for $50,022.22. Mr. Scholz immediately Informed the brokers whose name appeared on the check and learned that the young man who had been sent to the bank with it had not returned to the office and that there was great excitement as to what had happened to him. Later in the day the clerk was sent to Mr. Scholz's office with a letter of thanks from his firm and to convey in person his appreciation of the return of the check which he had lost. And Mr. Scholz and his friends are enjoy ing a box of the "King's Own" brand of cigars as a sequence, though pri marily most happy over the fact that the peace of mind of the clerk who lost the cheek was restored to him. KNOCKER VS. BOOSTER A big manufacturing concern in Springfield, Mass., had the follow ing: sign displayed on the side of its building. The punch is certainly there. Read it: "Knocker vs. Booster. Someone has said that when the Creator had made all the good things there still re mained some work to do. so He made beasts and reptiles and poisonous in sects, and when He had finished there were some scraps left, so He put these together, covered it with suspicion, wrapped it with jealousy, marked it with a yellow streak and called it a knocker. "This product was so fearful to con template that He had to make some thing to counter it, so He took a sun henm, put it in the heart of a child, the brain of a man, wrapped these In civic pride, covered it with brotherly love, gave it a mask of velvet and a grasp of steel and called it a Booster; made him a lover of fields and flow ers, and manly sports, a believer in equality and justice, and ever since these two were, mortal man has had the privilege of choosing his own asso ciates." SOCIALISM tFrom the Toledo Blade.] With one or two notable exceptions, the Socialists of the United States are rabidly opposed to universal military service, they denounce the system as "capitalistic" and "militaristic." There are not many other things they detest more. The aim of socialism, according to one of the foremost exponents, is "to convert one public service after an other from a chaotic profit-scramble or proprietors amidst a mass of sweated employes into a secure and disciplined service, in which every man will work for honor, promotion, achievement and the common weal." Nothing has so far been devised or suggested that will develop a "secure and disciplined service" so well as com pulsory military training affecting all classes, all men. It makes men work for the common weal and binds them to the commonwealth. In doctrine, socialism is the very op posite of individualism. But the Social ists of the United States are proving themselves Individualists of the most pronounced type. GOES MARCHING ON [Kansas City Times.] Consider the thrifty preparedness of the late David Graham Phillips. Mr. Phillips died four years ago, but his books go marching on. A current magazine is running a new Phillips story now. Tt brings tears to the eyes to think of Mr. Phillips busily grubbing away on posthumous manuscripts, cun ningly concealing them under the lino leum, hiding them in tobacco jars, sticking them away under the news paper on the pantry shelf. "All in good time." says he, "they'll be dug up—all In good time." Deftly he thrusts of 75.000-word manuscript into the recesses of a Pullman seat—a treasure trove for the honest porter in his old age. A man more commercially minded might have peddled these stories dur ing his life. And then they'd have been all read, and nothing left to carry us along. How much better the tnagple method of caching a little here, a little there, just the way Dilates do with sold and things. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH LK By the Ex-Committeemaa Indications that the Old Guard ele ment of the Pennsylvania Democracy intends to contest with the machine all along the line are appearing every day and the bitterness of the fight for control In 1911 bids fair to be sur passed during the coming primary campaign. For months the Old Guardsmen have been working to get lines laid and are pretty nearly ready to announce what they will do. It is possible that Ex-Judge A. O. Smith, of Clearfield, who was here to day on his way east in company with John F. Short, may be accepted for Senator, although that )s not settled. The machine candidates for the two hopeless State nominations and for the equally hopeless nominations for Congress-at-large may even be fought over. A whole slate for delegates and alternates-at-large in opposition to the machine slate is to be set up and ! district delegates will have to fight it ! out. But the big tight will be made on National Committeeman A. Mitchell i Palmer. Congressman M. Liebei, his | rival, will soon start a campaign in I eviery county. j —By a vote of 28 to 8, the Demo -1 cratic Executive Committee of Chester county yesterday made a bid for fu ! sion with the Progressive Party with the exception of Congress and State i Senate, which they regard as belong | ing to their party. On the other por | tion of the county ticket they are will ing to go halves, or better if they find such a condition possible. There were many expressions against the fusion I proposition, but relative to giving | President Wilson another term the i feeling was unanimous. A commit ! tee was named to confer with Chair man John J. Gheen of the Progressive i County Committee and later a con- I ference with him was sought without any result. He said he would see I them later on the matter. | —Speaker Ambler's friends say that , his name commencing with A means | 50,000 votes to him. —Pittsburgh politicians were all talking about prospects of Republican peace and Democratic war last night. —Mayor Smith took a hand in Philadelphia politics last night by en dorsing men opposed to Penrose and McNichol for State committeemen. —Montgomery county Local Option ists are organizing their contest. | —Congressman A. G. Dewalt, of Allentown, is ill in a Washington | hospital, the result of overwork. He has been handling the dye situation ! and giving much time and thought to investigations and conferences. —General E. I")eV Morrell, who was I marshal of the Brumbaugh inaugural parade, has resigned as a member of : the Philadelphia school board of which he was long a member. The resignation is the result of differences on the subject of military training, in which the general believes. —Papers for Col. H. L. Haldeman for the Republican nomination for i Senator in the Lebanon-Lancaster dis -1 trict are in circulation. —National Committeeman Wasson went home to Pittsburgh late yester day talking fight and declaring that I the battle in behalf of the Governor ' must go on. —Members of the State Agricultural Commission are not talking about re signing. They have refused to make any statements and from all accounts there was no storm at the Philadel phia meeting after tfll. —Speaker Ambler was in Allentown yesterday on his campaign for the Republican nomination for Auditor General. He professed to be well pleased with the way things are going. —West Philadelphians prominent i in Republican and Independent affairs last night backed up Senator Penrose j and declared for Snyder against ; Ambler. Howard M. Long, United States Commissioner, was endorsed for ' Legislature. —At the same time a meeting for the avowed purpose of unhorsing i Harry A. Mackey, chairman of the I Compensation Board, from his place as leader of the Forty-sixth ward and as a member of the city committee was held. —An Easton dispatch says: "A hot fight has been started in the Twenty sixth Congressional District, composed of Northampton, Carbon, Monroe and Pike counties, for delegates and alter nates to the Democratic National Con vention. A few days ago it was an nounced that a 'harmony' program had been agreed upon, with former Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer, of Stroudsburg, and Robert H. Taylor, of Bethlehem, as the candidates for na tional delegates. James P. Sharkey, of Mauch Chunk, and George 15. Bull, of Milford, alternates, bul Mr. Pal mer's entry into the list was not ac ceptable. D. J. Pearsall. of Carbon county, was to have been Taylor's run ning mate, and it is said Palmer in duced him to withdraw. This caused dissatisfaction, despite the 'harmony' announcement, and resulted in former District Attorney Asher Seip announc ing that he was a candidate opposed to Palmer. He is backed by the O'Hay-Mutcher-Hahn-Morgan crowd, the new 'big four' aspiring to con trol the Democratic party in North ampton county. It is probable an other man will be put up against Mr. Taylor." Col. Edward E. Robbins, a well known member of the Westmoreland county bar has announced as Re publican candidate for Congress In the Twenty-second District, composed of Westmoreland and Butler counties. Col. Robbins was a member of Con gress when the Spanish-American war broke out and resigned to go with his regiment to Porto Rico. IF NOT NOW. WHEN? (Philadelphia Public Ledger) If there be any lingering doubt that the Sussex was torpedoed by a Ger man submarine, it may be well for the Administration to seek to dissipate it before calling the German govern ment to account. But the testimony in the case is too explicit to be met by mere denials. Thus the positive statement of so practical an observer as Mr. Edward Marshall, a passenger on the vessel, carries conviction to every Impartial mind. Mr. Marshall in his dispatch to the New York Sun yesterday mentions various circum stances to which he did not refer in his lirst dispatch a week ago. "It lies in the power of the American govern ment," he says, "to get absolute proof of the falsity of Ambassador von Bern storff's contention that the Sussex struck a mine." Moreover, the proof that the rescuers of the imperiled pas sengers were also fired on appears to he quite as absolute. If there is any explanation, any apology which can break the force of this indictment of German methods of warfare on non combatants. its nature cannot even be imagined. None of the attempted ! pallitations hitherto ofTered for savag ■ ery of this kind is available. It can : not he said that the Sussex was an armed ship, or that she carried muni tions of war, or that there was the ; shadow of military necessity for her 1 destruction. It was as wanton an out rage, as sinking a Canadian ferryboat. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY THE ONLY ESCAPE —From the Ohio Stntc Jonrnal. DIXIE GOES AHE A D Remembering Flora Mac Donald By Frederic J. Haskin L. IF you say "Flora Mac Donald" to a Highland Scotchman, wherever you find him, he will offer you a smoke and may even try to lend you money. For Flora Mac Donald is to the High land Scotch what Joan of Arc is to the French —a name that summons stirring memories, a personality that embodies the deathless ideals of a race. And a vastly more human and sympathetic figure than the inspired French heroine is the Highland Flora, who loved as well as fought and used her charm to win her way. But if you press your Scotch friend for information about this immortal woman, you will probably not get much. He knows that she was one of the Scotch Jacobite sympathizers who tried to put Bonnie Prince Charlie back on the English throne, and failed; that she came to America and espoused the cause of King George, and lost again; and finally went back to Scotland to die. She was a cham pion of lost causes, a born leader, and a romantic personality—that is evi dent—but just exactly what she did, especially In America, has never been a matter of detailed record. Now there is a movement going for ward here In the North Carolina hills, where Flora Mac Donald lived and led her clansmen, to found a college In her memory, to piece out from coun tryside legend and local literature the whole of her story, and to make of this Institution a center of Scottish culture in America, an archive of Scottish tradition, and incidentally a first class woman's college. The nucleus of the Institution al ready exists at Red Springs, a few miles from here. It is called the Presbyterian Woman's College, and Is an up-to-date school with a fine loca tion and beautiful campus. The Rev. C. G. Vardell, president of this institu tion, is the sponsor of the movement THE STATE FROM W TO m "Bob" Seeds is going to explode at the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce," says the Johnstown Tribune. "Bob" is a born humorist, a born fighter, and a lecturer on the Chautauqua circuit, and is said to talk like Irvin Cobb writes, so he must be all right. The joys of being a presidential candidate are not to be Edward Gailaghan's. Ed, who is a Charleroi product, has been studying West Vir ginia's primary laws and sent his name to that State, but was rejected with the advice that he had not com plied with the law. Perhaps he will follow the example of other of our famous seekers after the highest position in the land. "Shorty the Porter" is visiting old friends in Allentown and is being given a royal reception. "Shorty" is a globe-trottirg hotel porter who acted in Allentown in that capacity for thirty years. The Chester county schools are "charged" with the education of more than 20,000 children, says a down- Stato Journal. Whadd'ye mean "charged?" Wanted—Two mothers; in the town of Hanover, to take charge of a cooing youngster and his "big" slsler. His name is Edward: hers is Enola. Per haps our good friends across the river might be interested by virtue of the association of names. The Bible says, "And the lion and the lamb shall lie down together." The town of Warren witnessed the ad vance fulfillment of the biblical idea the other day when a wildcat and a rabbit floated through the city, side by side on a cake of ice. The wildcat was paying strict attention to its own business. Punxsutawney Is anxious to raise the membership of its Chamber of Commerce to 250. GAVK SUGAR TO HARVARD And Yale Has Not Won a Game Since, Dr. Wiley Says Several years ago when the Harvard football team was losing every game Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the food special ist, told the coach to give each mem ber of the team a dozen lumps of sugar and Instruct each lo keep a lump In his mouth throughout the play. In telling of the incident al a lecture In Washington recently Dr. Wiley added: "The result was that Yale has not won a game since." Xlie subject of hU lectura was APRIL 6, 1016. to make this the Flora Mac Donald ' College, endowed by the Scotch In America, and devoted to the preser vation of their ideals and traditions. Already large sums have been sub scribed, and Scottish societies all over the country have endorsed the plan. Single contributions of SIO,OOO have been promised. The Flora Mac Donald ! College seems assured of a substan tial endowment and a brilliant future. Meantime Dr. Vardell has been de voting himself to the study of Flora Mac Donald's career, especially in America, and from the lips of her descendants he has learned many in teresting details of her life. He has located the site of her home, the graves of her children. Perhaps the least known and most 1 ; surprising historical fact brought out by his investigation is that the throne of America was offered by the Caro lina Scotchman to the deposed Prince ! Charlie. If the Prince had not been a mental and physical wreck, what Is now the United States might have \ been a kingdom ruled by an English : Stuart. The whole story of Flora Mac Donald outdoes the invention of Dumas in the quality of sheer romance. She was born on the island on South Uist in the Hebrides, her mother was ab ducted by a man of a hostile clan and | she was brought up by the chief of her own. When she was a young girl, in 1746. the battle of Culloden was fought, in which the Scotch received their most crushing defeat. Prince , Charles Edward Stuart, king of Scot ! land by di\ine right and a fugitive 1 with a price on his head by circum i stance, sought refuge In Benbecula, where Flora lived. The island was held by the government, but it was a hotbed of Jacobite sympathizers. All [Continued on Page 13.] "Scientific and Economic Diet," but before he left the hall he was pre scribing for bald heads, poor teeth and obesity, as well as praising the food value of sugar. The speaker told of the nutritious value of whole wheat and whole corn flours and how these could be substi tuted for breakfast foods, and not only build tissue in the human body, but fatten the family purse, whereas the more expensive foods, in the majority of varieties, fattened the body without building (issue and sickened the purse. Dr. Wiley was asked about the nu tritious merit, of buttermilk, lie re plied that it was a very good milk, but that it would not. make one live a hun dred years as some stated it would. Kroin a darkened corner of the ante room a feminine member of the audi ence asked what foods should be ab stained from to keep from getting fat, to which the speaker replied: "All of Ihem; stop eating." Another asked if three meals a day were necessary for health, and the distinguished "food specialist answered in the negative, saying tliath one or Ave would answer as well; that it was only a matter of custom. NEWSPAPERS [Chambers.] Newspapers were first invented by a French physician, who, finding his visits welcome whenever he brought any news or gossip, applied to Cardi nal Richelieu for a patent to publish the Paris Gazette, in 1622. OUR DAILY LAUGH A BAD MAMMA. gfijt Why, What's |( the matter? Haw - waw! frjßgar Here I got a new sled and Ma . Won't make It 'gS. -j-—. „ JUBT ONE BET -s** W V Women want I to wear thing* h \mJri! Just bet -use the /I. u other women are I ]| wearing them. I /Wk That may be »o but my wife j seems to be try ■A II BL ing to get along ■with just a UtU« Iwa. Stoning (Eljat Spencer C. Gilbert In his delight ful talk to the members of the Penn sylvania Stale Society at the Harris hurg Club yesterday told the assem bled heads of departments of the State government of some days and inci dents on Capitol Hill which furnished considerable material for talk to-day. In the course of his description of the old State House Mr. Gilbert told of the four clocks which told the hour by day and flashed forth the time at night over the city. These clocks, ns is well recalled by many Harrisburg i ers, had Iheir weaknesses. They lack er team work. They were never, well hardly ever, known to give the sams time. The application of this story struck home in these days when State offices are run on rather strict lines and people have to be on tima or tell the reason why. In the old days men who found it. difficult to be on time used to observe the faces of the clock. If the south side showed a few minutes after 9 or 1 or 2, for in stance, they would so to the old re liable friend of the tardy, the clock on the east side, which was generally several minutes late and would appear giving fhe east clock as their standby. The west clock was generally a swift proposition and not much in favor ex cept for quitting time. The old north had the best reputation and the rou tine fellows swore by it. * * * Dr. J. J. Mullowney's "Peace Cal endar" for 1911! is going into the schools of the State and will be utilized as an argument for peace. This cal endar contains a quotation against war or in favor of peace for each day of the year. Dr. Nathan C. Shaeffer says "it is a message knocking at tha door of reason every morning." The placing of the calendar in the schools is the result of the benevolence oi some public-spirited persons who be lieve that It may do great good. * * ♦ Harrisburg is not the only city that is getting publicity through the activ ity and intelligent Initiative of its offi cials. Mayor Iletrick, of Asbury Park, believes that the visitors to that resort should be able to aee the "leading and favorite newspaper of their own home town" and with that end in view he has directed the Telegraph to be mailed daily to the public library of that city. Mayor 1-letrick's idea is that the service of the library of the resort will be more valuable as a result ;of his arrangement to place on (lie j files the more important newspapers of the country. E. D. Hilleary, division freight agent of the Philadelphia and Read ing Railway company at. this point and one of the most popular officials of the Reading along the whole system, has removed from Camp hill to the old Ross Mansion near the creek below New Cumberland. Mr. Hilleary is a Southerner by birth, his family having resided for many years in the famous old Maryland Tract, near Frederick. He is a great lover of gardening and outdoor life and expects to have a very pleasant summer in his new home. Occasionally he wields a golf stick, but only when there Isn't a fish ing line handy to be cast or when the lure of the woods In autumn does nut take him out with dog and gun. Hil leary. by the way. Is one of the most successful pheasant shooters In this neighborhood. • • • Another man who Is looking coun* tr.vward these days is Harry G. Ross, whoso business is custom tailoring but whose financial activities extend into many other lines. Mr. Ross lias one of the finest farms in the eastern end of the county, commanding a broad sweep of hill and valley that is just beginning to show the first touches of green. Mr. Ross Is very fond of that farm, but he reserves its beau ties for his own especial friends, who not long since enjoyed some very fins pumpkir pies made from the Inst of the giant pumpkins produced unde» Ross methods of cultivation last sum mer. The Ross tailor shop is the con gregating place of a little band of congenial spirits who know Mr. Ross as the "Shepherd," when they don't forget and call him "Boss." It is about the only place of its kind left in the city, of all those where friends used to foregather for social enjoyment be fore the days of clubs and for those fortunate enough to find a welcome at the hands of the Ross "lambs" there Is no club In the city that has a mem bership half so attractive or nearly so prolific of good-fellowship and real sociability. But the membership is limited, oh, very limited. * » • Attorney General Brown, who hal had a case in court at Philadelphia this week has been handling State business here in the evenings. He comes in late in the day, clears up and then leaves early the next morning for Philadelphia. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE** —State Chairman W. E. Crow used to do newspaper work at TJniontown in his younger days. —Webster Grim, the Doylestow* Democrat who is figuring in politics again. Is also proud of newspaper ex* perience. , .. _ Carl W. Gerblg, well known in th* State Firemen's Association, has been! re-elected chief of the Archbald firo men. . . . —Dr. G. A. Dillinger, Pittsburgh councilman, is predicting that the will own ils trolley lines before long. —John H. Humphrey, well known in the coal region, has been made chief engineer of the Lehigh Valley Coal company. | DO YOU KNOV ~~ That Harrlsburjj is a big manu facturer of bedding? HISTORIC ITARRISBURG The old Stale House, burned in 1897, was opened about 1822 and wal long a point of pilgrimage for Penn sylvanians who had to travel by stage. Dealer Helps That Help Manufacturers are continually seeking "dealer helps" and not infrequently complaining that dealers don't make use of them. But there is one dealer help that always strikes twelve. And that !s newspaper adver tising by the manufacturer, i That is a dealer help that "really helps." When the manufacturer adver- I tlses his brand in the newspaper the dealer immediately feels the response at his counter. The storekeeper puts the news paper advertised goods in the windows and backs the help that helps him. Manufacturers interested In this form of dealer help are in vited to make Inquiries of the Bureau of Advertising, American Newspaper Publishers Associ ation, MS World Building, Now j York City. i I I ——l -. ..«
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