10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NBWSPAPER FOR TUB BOMB Founded lS.u Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTIXO CO., Tikcrapli Building, Federal Square. E. J. 6TACKPOLE, Pres'i and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. SDEINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American /I Newspaper Pub rr-il Ushers' ASBOClE gsigtlon. The Audit Bureau of Clrcu- I latlon and Penn -9 sylvan la Assoclat 68BBS H ed Dailies. fiC 3E3E -ai Eastern office, Has- SBISi gfl brook. Story & gjj J" Jjjjjg 'Hfjl Brooks, Fifth Ave- I bSBsSS S» nue Building. New a jURaPti v'T York City; West ern office, Has brook. Story S. ✓SHSjH isL'jiJb Brooks. People's - (} CB jiuiidlng, Chi- Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a, week; by mall, $3.00 a year In advance. Sworn dally r.verajce circulation for the three months ending April 1, 1910, it 22,432 it These figures are net. All returned, unsold and damaged copies deducted. • " I WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 19. One thing i» certain, the »Mp with Christ o?i board must at last reach the happy shore. — Princess Beatricb. ARE YOU HELPING? IN a recent publication of a dream of Heaven the writer, describing j the celestial city, says "one pleas ant fact was that every liomo has its j large door yard full of trees and | llowers and pleasant walks." liar- j risburg would be something like that | should all our people take an active part in the window and porch box J movement this year. It isn't what your neighbor is going | to do, but what you are going to do ( in this matter. Now is the time to arrange for your box and the planting of the flowers. llundreads of our citizens have al- , ready made preparations and the city] is going to be more beautiful this j summer than ever before in its his tory. Business houses as well as; residences are going to be decorated with blooming plants and flowers and those who want to help In the move ment should remember the several j institutions like the Y. W. C. A., the! Y. M. C. A., the hospitals and similar j buildings for which funds are not j available for this purpose. Flowers not only give pleasure to j ttiose who are immediately concerned j in their planting, but also sp rd joy i to thousands who pass by. Unless immediate steps are taken by j the Department of Parks to prevent | the vandalism that is constantly being 1 manifested along the River Front there is no use spending any more money In the effort to make the park strip and j the planting attractive. The attention j of this newspaper has been called to the j fact that yesterday girls and boys were j seen breaking the flowering plants in the section between the pumping sta- , tion and Walnut street and carrying away large bunches. Surely this can j be stopped by proper police arrange- | ment. I HOME RUG-MAKING TF the war and the resulting high j prices of raw materials have had their distressing effects they have brought about at least one thing for which we may be thankful. High prices of rugs and carpets have driven house wives to the economy of rag rugs, knit : by their own hands as their grand- j mothers used to do. Before the days of the department! i store cheap reproduction of oriental weaves, the rag carpet and the home- \ knit rag rug were standard floor cov- ! erlngs of the households of the coun- I try, rich and poor. Who of us, past i the middle milestone of life, does not remember the old rag bag and grand mother busy on cold or stormy days tearing the contents into strips to be sewed Into "pound balls" by the un willing hands of little folks who longed for more pleasurable pastimes and less exacting supervision. For grand- \ mother "boSsed the job" with a gentle but firm hand and she tested the strength and the smoothness of the sewing at embarrassingly frequent intervals. No shirking there! She knew exactly the size of a ball that woujd weigh a pound. She knew, also, just how long it ought to require to produce a "pound bail" and you never could fool her by wrapping the rags loosely. Oh, no! The way she could stick her thumb half-way through a mushy carpet rag ball gave you a sickening feeling that extended all the way down to your toes. Sewing carpet rags used to be the most dread ful form of punishment the family could Inflict on disobedient sons. It was simply awful. The Spanish inquisition was a mild form of holiday diversion by comparison. Burning at the stake was pleasant beside it. The Prisoner of Chilon knew something of the miseries attendant upon carpet rag sewing, but not. all. However, the result was well worth while. With what pride we beheld that new bedroom rug when grand mother had completed It to suit her exacting tastes. How cheerful it looked between the walnut bed and mahogany bureau with the. summer sunlight on It. and how grateful to youthful barefeet when winter winds blew and the night was wild without and cold within. Looking back over the years we know of no prettier picture than an old-fashioned room with lis quaint furniture and Its rag rugs upon the floor. All unconsciously our ancestors made necessity fit in with true art. Tliey took the contents of the humble WEDNESDAY EVENING, HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH 1 APRIL 19, 1916. rag bag and of It made something at once useful and beautiful. Of neces sary economies they made virtues. Over the worn and castoft family habiliments they waved the magic wand of good taste and industry and produced a work of art, and If the hardships If present high prices force us back Into that frame of mind they will have served a good purpose. "We And little comfort in election statistics," said a Southern Democratic Congressman, recently, as qcoted by a Washington correspondent. "X sat down in my office a few nights ago and looked over the vote of 1914 and found there are about forty districts In the United States where a change of 1,000 votes would shift the House to as strongly Republican as it Is to-day Democratic. I do not think we are as strong politically before the voters as we were two years ago. The Republi can party is again united in nearly all of the States, and I am frank to say that our chances of controlling the lower branch of Congress are not very promising." This is a frank acknowl edgment of a self-evident fact from a source not unusually given to admitting self-evident conditions of that nature. THE ARMOR-PLATE SITUATION SAYS President Grace, of the Beth lehem Steel Company, in an article on armor-plate making in yes terday's Issue of the Philadelphia Public Ledger: We are selling to the United States Government at prices lower than any Government in the world is buying armor for, even where the Government itself has embarked in the business. Drawing attention aKnin to the fact that our average selling price to the United States • Government has been $ 131!.G2 per ton for tlia last twenty-nine years, I submit the following figures, which show the prices which dif ferent Governments pay for armor plate as shown by the Naval Year book In the office of the naval af fairs committee of the Senate: Turret Krupp Country. armor, side nrmor, Japan ?t!H) $l9O Austria 729 511 Italy 444 405 Germany 4 90 France r.98 400 England 1191 50S Russia 610 368 England, Mr. Grace shows, has Ave armor-making concerns, all privately owned. The English government does not advertise for bids. They bring in to consultation their armor-plale manufacturers, go over the situation with tlicm, and agree upon what is a satisfactory price. There are two plants in Germany, ICrupps and one other, and their business Is nego tiated in the same way. They send for the manufacturer and adjust a fair price, on the basis of getting a rea sonable product and keeping them in business. France has three plants; Russia, two plants. Japan is the only country using armor that has its own government plant. There is no pri vate capital Invested in Japan in armor-plate works. The inference is that Japanese private capital would not Invest in the industry. It Is ap parent that nearly all other govern ments now engaged in the war have adopted a policy which the United States may abandon, and that five im portant naval powers—Japan, Aus tria, Germany, France and England— are all paying a substantially higher price for armor than the United States. And yet, in the face of these facts and figures, and the offer to permit United States government experts to set their own figure for armor-plate, after a careful exqmination of the company's books and methods, there are those at Washington who still in sist on spending millions of dollars on an experimental armor-plate plant that may or may not prove success ful. .lITXEY REGULATION'S CITY COUNCILi had another round on the jitney question yesterday and It would seem from the dis cission that the recent regulation or dinance is a mere "scrap of paper." Among other features of the debate was a proposition to permit jitney stands on Market street. This Is a matter in which the merchants of the central business district have a vital interest and doubtless all concerned will be given a fair hearing. However, whetj, the whole thing is sifted, the trouble is a weakness in handling the new transportation diffi culties. If there is any abuse of the jitney development, it is the business of the Police Department to get on the job without any seesawing or tem porizing. Those Jitney operators who have compiled with the ordinance have a right to the protection which their license contemplates and Mayor Meals and the Police Department will cer tainly see to it that those who are trifling with tile regulations are made j to understand that ordinances are en , acted for a purpose and not as a joke. NEW USES FOR ALCOHOL A WELL-KNOWN European cor respondent is authority for the statement that Germany is mak ing a substitute for gasoline out of potatoes; France at the close of the European war will use the absinthe once sipped by carefree boulevardiers to run her automobiles; anil Russia, I not to be outdone by her enemy or : her ally, has discovered a scientific process by which artificial rubber can bo made out of vodka, thus creating a material of which motor car tires can be made and disposing of the great quantity of alcohol that a year and a half ago came under the ban of the Czar. This sounds like some of the scien tific fiction Jules Verne used to spin, but after all it is not strange that the alcohol formerly consumed by the in temperate before the edicts of pro hibition should find Its way Into other uses. If all the money now spent by Americans in drink were put into auto mobiles, gas and tires, all of us would be riding. But even so, energies de voted to the manufacture of alcoholic beverages in this country are now be ing turned In other directions as the temperance sentiment grows. Wise brewers in many places are turning their breweries into bakeries, cold storage plants, ice and ice cream manu factories and candy factories. The old idea that prohibition would be fol lowed by tremendous financial loss and that prohibitory laws amounted to confiscation in the liquor business does not hold true In practice. Capital and energy dammed at one spot will find a new outlet. ___————inmzizzzzzzz^^________ l TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —A German newspaper calls the work of the "U-boats" "humane." What, we wonder, Is the editor's idea of savagery? —Says the New York Tribune: "Josephus Daniels is still Secretary of the Navy." Yep, still, so still that the Navy hopes he's going to remain quiet for a time. —The "Payroll Brigade" at Wash ington is showing signs of "prepared ness" —for the coming presidential campaign. —The nomination petitions having been filed, all that remains for the voter to do Is to take a day off to read the ticket, another day to choose his | candidates, a third day to mark the 'ticket and a minute or two to cast his ballot. These simple election laws cer tainly are convenient. —The real baseball season begins May 10, when the Senators start out to win the State League pennant. I EDITORIAL COMMENT ] About the only drawback to Russia in viewing the Dardanelles as a warm water outlet is that it's a bit too warm. Washington Post. T. R. and Root Bury the Hatchet.— Tribune headline. But the place where the hatchet is buried is carefully mark ed.—x\ew York World. The New York Herald reports that Democrats are proud of the tarifT com mission idea. Thpy ought to be-—it's one of the best the Republican party ever had.—Boston Transcript. Why Not a Businessman? The Business Men's Presidential League is a New York organization which has just issued an appeal from which we make these extracts: "Why can't we have a business man in the presidential chair next time? "Government is a business, and a big business. "Seagoing and overland commerce, taxation, tariffs, rate regulation, mo nopoly regulation, the mails and par cels posts, conservation of resources, development and maintenance of waterways, the huge payrolls of gov ernment employes, the courts of jus tice, the nalional revenue collectors and police, the army and navy—what are all these but pure business prob lems. demanding the same trained and capable business executive direction that any great business concern de mands? "What board of directors would think of hiring a professor of Sanskrit to be president of a great railroad? "What huge shipbuilding or engi neering concern would select a peri patetic stump orator or a lyceum lec turer to direct its activities? "Big business concerns seek big busi ness men with big business brains to be executive chiefs. "Big business concerns look about j for men who do things, not men who ! talk things. \ "Now, here is this big business cor portion in which every one of us, big and little, is a stockholder —the United I Slates of America. It does more busi- | ness. owns more wealth, collects more j revenues, produces more goods and ! expends more money than all the rail- I roads on earth, or all the corporations, public and private, in any country on earth. "Tt is the BIGGEST BUSINESS CONCERN the world ever saw. "And what do we do every four 1 'ears by way of selecting a head for I this wonderful, gigantic business con- ! ecru ? "Why, we always select a man who I has never shown enough business j ability to run a one-horse draying con- I cern. "Is It any wonder that our national ' business is one long serial story of; stupid hindrance of prosperity, stupid 1 depression of commerce and trade, stupid opposition to the forward Im pulses of business co-operation and consolidation and of wasteful and criminally extravagant expenditure of . the people's money to the tune of thousands of millions? "Suppose that just once, by way of experiment, we gently, but firmly and positively, set the whole lot of profes sional politicians, horn-blowing orators, briefless lawyers, pretty phrase-mak ers, theoretical schoolmasters and all that sort on a shelf in a back wood shed and put a big, brainy, capable, experienced business man, who has done big things well all his life, in the chair of the President of the United States." The Searchlight \ WATER LEAK INDICATOR Heavy annual losses are incurred in every city by undetected leaks in the water mains. These will be overcome in the future by the use of a newly invented instrument known as a leak indicator. It resembles a standard telephone receiver, made of hard rub ber and aluminum. A metal post is driven down into the ground near the water main. The point of the instru ment is placed on the end of this post. If there is a leak nearby, the sound of the escaping water can be distinctly hoard through the receiver. The in strument is light, and easily operated. Prosperity's Other Side [New York Sun.] On another page of The Sun to-day will bo found a comprehensive survey of the notable Increase in commodity prices that has occurred since the midsummer of 1914. The great, rise in wholesale prices has been reflected in the retail markets; no housekeeper needs to be told that articles of daily use and consumption have "gone up"; no business man has been fortunate enough lo remain in ignorance of the higher cost of everything that he uses in his calling. This is the other side of the prosperity that has solved the problem of nonemployment and put to work every man with the desire and capacity to labor. Tho heavy demand for our products, the transportation ditflcultles on sea and land, the dislocation and suppres sion of numerous European industries, have brought about tho situation that now exists, snd until normal conditions arc restored the cost schedules that prevailed two years ago cannot be ex pected to return. But when the extraordinary factors now In operation cease to affect the markets, will the readjustment of wages and prices be brought about without serious de rangement of the industrial com munity? The difficulties that must, be overcome are obvious, and it is not too early to give serious study to their solution. Can There Be a "Last"? [From the Boston Traveler.) The Administration Is assembling the evidence now at luind in support nf Its conviction that Germany has been tor pedoing and lying almost sinniltaiieoiis !ly and will embody that evidence in "Its last warning to Germany," For "last" we move to substitute "latest." I It Is Impossible, no matter how vivid j one's imagination, to visualize a "last" warning from Wilson and to Germany or any other offender acalnst I the rights of mankind and tliu dignity ■ of a great nation. C'YolLtLct. Lk "~P LKKQIjtc&IUJX By the Ex-CommitteemM If the nominating petitions tiled at the State Capitol are anything to go by factional contests are impending in both the Republican and Democratic parties which will not only be of in terest far beyond tho borders of the State, but attract national attention. Governor Brumbaugh's presidential aspirations and the intertwined effort to unhorse Senator Penrose make the prospects for a strenuous Republican contest, while the battle of the re habilitation faction of the Democracy against the reorganization faction will furnish amusement for people far and wide. , Governor Brumbaugh is the leading presidential candidate in this State. Allen L. Benson is the Socialist candi date. Behind the Governor are tho Vares and various antl-Penrose in fluences. With Senator Penrose are the Olivers and many men who are opposed to the Governor on various matters. As the matter stands the contest is around the Governor. One of the Interesting features is that but two of the delegates who are not known as distinctively Brumbaugh men have filed pledges to support the popular choice. The Penrose candi dates are all unpledged. But there are quite a number of men running in the Interest of the Governor who declined to file pledges either. So an other angle is added to an already many pointed proposition. —One of the surprises of the tremendous rush to Mile papers for nominations last night was that no papers were liled for Jesse L. Hart man, of Hollidaysburg, for the Re publican nomination for State Treas urer. Mr. Ilartman was groomed by personal friends and his papers were signed, but after the papers of Har mon M. Kepliart were liled with Senators Vare and McNlchol, Phila delphia leaders; David 11. Lane and other men aligned with the Brum baugh people on tho lists, the Hart man partisans quit and the big Con nellsville man was left with J. Vernon Clark, of Washington county, as his only rival. Clark is the Bull Moosers' candidate. Ho is on the Re publican and Washington tickets. Another interesting thing was that Frederic W. Fleitz. ex-deputy at torney general, did not file any petition to run for national delegate in Lacka wanna. Fleitz seemed to enjoy the uncertainty. —ln al! about fifty petitions were rejected. Some of these came in the last three hours of the filing period and the lateness destroyed all chance of the papers being put into proper form. One was from a wesrern county which could not be reached in ten hours. The bulk of the petitions re fused did not have enough signatures. There were also a number which lacked affidavits, this important fea ture being overlooked in probably a dozen cases. Shortage of signatures was Ihe most common error. One of the last half-hour callers presented a paper for a nomination in the anthra cite region and it was rejected be cause of defects. Half an hour after midnight he came tearing back to the Capitol with a paper which turned out to be perfect. The first paper he pre sented was intended to be a supple mental petition and he overlooked what was planned to be the ofilclal petition. Several requests were made to turn back the clock in the hopes of getting late papers here, but Chief Clerk Thorn, of the State Department refused and when tho post office re ported the last mail distributed the department doors were locked. —The most remarkable feature about the filing of the petitions was that about 1,000 came in during the last twenty-four hours. Tho holding back was greater than ever known, due, no doubt, to the political condi tions. This eleventh hour rush was complicated by the continued filing of supplemental petitions which trebled the work of the clerks in charge and delayed the entering of papers. Inci dentally, it brought out much com ment from those who were present about possibility of limiting the maximum of signatures as well as re quiring a minimum. Every paper would have been cleared up hours be fore the task was finished if supple mental and additional papers had not been brought In without explanation, necessitating scanning of form, count ing of names and checking up. The conditions attending the filing of petitions this year were observed by a number of people connected with the State government and it is pos sible that some suggested changes will be made in the form of legislation to simplify the preliminaries. —A lot of political accidents and old-timers have appeared on the lists tiled from the sixty-seven counties. It would seem from a scanning of some lists as though 1916 bids fair to bring to the surface again some of those who emerged from obscurity in the upheaval of 1912. Some men whose chances for being chosen dog catcher, should that position be subject to the direct primary and direct elec tion, would be remote, are running for offices which have been ornamented by the biggest men In Pennsylvania. —Dauphin county furnished some of the half-past, the eleventh hour ex citement as several men stood around with papers in their pockets awaiting what they deemed the strategic hour. Among the late candidates put on rec ord were the Rev. Dr. W. N. Ytites for Senator and Ira J. Mosey for mem ber of t he House. —The businesslike way in which Ihe Philadelphia organization Re publicans handled their papers was as striking as in years gone by. John Yoorhees filed for the McNicliol peo ple and William E. Finley for the Vare people. They came with every paper in form, tied up and accom panied by receipts which were given promptly. —The attaches of the State Depart ment were given many compliments for the manner in which they dis posed of the work and celerity with which lists of the candidates fifing were made available for the dozens of interested persons who thronged the third floor corridor. —Next to tho contests for control of the organizations of the two older parlies and the Governor's chances the big theme of discussion was whether there would be peace after all in Philadelphia. The conferences held yesterday between the Mayor and Senators McNlchol and Vare were re garded as significant. Public Serv ice Commissioner Magee filed as a candidate for national delegate in his district, being the only major State ofilclal to run. Senator Charles A. Snyder, candidate for Auditor General, put out an anchor to windward by filing for Senator, too. —Stalwart Democrats gave Alder man George D. Herbert, the glad hand when he filed his papers for Senator in this county. —lt would seem from papers filed that D. F. La fean and John R. K. Scott are up against a fight. So is "Uncle Dave" Lane, who asnires to be national delegate in Philadelphia with a pledge. Judge Charles IJ. Brown is running against him. But Philadelphia poli tics. on both sides of the house, are as muddled as Allegheny this year. And when you come to thinlc about It the whole State is more or less out of the uonual politically. 1 THE CARTOON OF THE DAY BUT THIS IS HOW HE DID IT / NO,<D&NES,I WrtotiT StffiSREP Wftf4 ntW BARKER VOU \ RECOMMENPED. SOU SEE, PORING TtC GOORSE Of A J 1 ARGUMENT HE FORGOT AU- ABOUT T&E SHWE I ASKED 1 V TOR W GPWE ME A FfICE MASSAGE B>UT THIS 16 HOW HE DIP IT ; j |J DIXIE GOES AHEAD Making Sand Hills 8100m —Southern Pines By Frederic J. Haskin THIS Is a country made of sand, rolled into long ridges, festooned with wiregrass which nothing will eat, and decorated here and there with a crooked pine tree not worth cutting down. It looks like the poor est farm land in the world, and for a long time it was taken at its face value. According to a saying current not many years ago, if a rabbit wanted to cross this county he had to carry his provisions with him. If Bre'r rabbit came this way now, he could camp beside some of the finest sweet potato and truck patches in the country; he could find vineyards of sweet grapes that covered hundreds of acres; and his bobbing tail would be multiplied a million times in the bursting bolls of the cotton fields. For the sand hills have been transformed. In ten years a waste has been made a productive farm country. There are still thousands of acres to be re claimed; but their productivity has been proved, and this is the story of the men that made the sand hills blossom. First of them was Dr. Seaman A. Knapp, government expert, and rural philospher. There arc probably poo- THE STATE FROM m TO DM "Wanted —Five hundred sets of old false teeth." This advertisement re cently appeared in valley newspapers, but it is a question if even tho most ze&lous of antique-hunters could con vince himself of the beauty and value of such an acquisition. Perhaps he was a second-hand dealer. As soon as the students of Bryn Mawr College lind out what constitutes "high fortitude and courage" in a girl, they will be able to decide upon the winner of the 1 lelena Ritchie prize, one of the annual commencement awards. It Is said that a great many of the girls fill the bill. The light on a certain street corner in Sheffield has insisted on being ex tinguished every evening to the an noyance of pedestrians who fear what the dark may bring forth. The au thorities have issued an ultimatum to spooning couples, upon whom they have placed the blame. A little head-work on the part of a forger in Corning who had just been sentenced to a long period of confine ment effected his release with the best wishes of the judge. It was tills way. In the same cell with him was a con tortionist charged with drunkenness, and the forger was taken into court by mistake for the contortionist. The judge asked for a proof of his twisting ability, and the forger, quick-witted as he was, turned a hand-spring, ac knowledged the applause of the court, and airily took his departure. "Thomas O'Rourke, of Middlefork, while out looking after his traps Wed nesday, had an encounter with a 200- pound bear. Round one—Tom put a few kicks to the bear and the bear tore Tom's overalls. Round two—Tom was getting the worst of it. and shot the bear." —Ridgway Record. Mrs. Guida de Nuccio. of Butler, goes the Philadelphia woman one bet ter who had preserved an apple half a century by sticking cloves in it. By a liberal use or cloves and a coat of paint, Mrs. de Nuccio has kept intact a beautiful red-checkcd apple for more than 03 years. The return to popularity of the con venient bicycle has brought along with it the apparently Inevitable bicycle thief. A 23-year-old has been caught in Pottstown with a long string of two-wheeled thefts to his discredit. Cobb Describes Kentucky In the May American Magazine Tr- Vin S. Cobb writes about his native State ns follows: "Of late, Kentucky has gone in less for pistol toting and more for beLter schools; for fewer homicides and a greater number of good roads. Yet in her essentials she is what she always has been. She leads the planet and the subdivisions thereof in the produc tion of chewing tobacco and Bourbon distillations, which age in the wood, or would do so were it not for the de mands of the New York clubs. Like wise, she leads in fine, fast horses; in hemp, although not so much hemp since the electric chair came into common use and the lynching* began to fall off; in corn bread, without any sugar in it: in hog jowl and turnip greens; in ancestors: in colonels who Inherited the title or had it wished on them; in poets—not all of our poets write poetry, but all of them think it; in silver-tongued orators; in the pro portionate number of latchstrlngs hanging on the outside; in the use of pie in the Carolina hills who never heard that Teddy went to Africa, and are still ignorant of Bryan's fondness for grapejuice, hut there, are none who do not remember and revere Seaman A. Knapp. He came to the sand hills to study the cotton boll weevil. lie found a community of Highland Scotchmen living in the valleys and bottoms, where they raised enough food for their own consumption. The vast rolling areas of the sand hills had never felt the bits of a plow. They were regarded as fit for nothing, after the timber had been out. Dr. Knapp knew that Boston got all its truck from a sand flat, and New York from a sand bar namely, Bong Island. The truck section back of Norfolk is made of sand, and so la Florida, which supplies a nation with winter vegetables. He knew that the sand hills had a future, not only in truck but in corn and cotton, both of which would grow in the sand if properly fertilized. But these people had never used fertilizer, and further more. they had no money with which to buy It, for they sold almost noth [ Continued on doormats with the word 'Welcome' on them; in pretty girls with soft voices and tiny feet and llirtutious souls; in men who believe that Kentucky has the fairest skies, the softest land scapes, the deepest waterways, the clearest rills, the finest people and the greatest undeveloped possibilities in natural wealth, and ull willing to tight, you to prove it. "Within her own borders she excels in the ritualistic mint julep and the high-church ham. It lakes three years to cure a Kentucky ham proper ly. The trouble is, that so few persons who have ever tasted one can wait that long." Nelson and the Star What he did for Kansas City is known to all men —his fight for city beautifieation, for parks, boulevards, attractive houses in settings of shrub bery, for wholesome living conditions, for good government, for the restraint of grasping interests, for social and industrial justice, for the fellow, as he was fond of putting it, who had less than his share. All this is history. The amazing resources of his rest less intelligence were constantly busy over the problems of the city and its people. The questions of traffic ways, of clean streets, of public health, of a decent building code, of rapid and cheap transit, of efficient administra tion, of a better chance for boys and girls, always concerned him.—Kansas City Star. OUR DAILY LAUGH I A MARTIAL a jflfc ATROCITY. Dobbs—What's f the trouble at ' V ifijniffl BT" Pec.kham's home ? JrLigJ m|||| MM Bobbs Peck- W.|||||r ham accuses his |l| j« wife of using •mß' dum-dum bullets In making bis- 4 ® cult*. V\"l HE KX'FW. '\ fTls: I wish yon would be nice to x||p|jb George, you s know I'm going to v K \ , n marry him soon. - Bobby: IMa nice to about a dozen feller* al ready dat you Ist was goin* to ■ fins'* marry. POOR FATHISIt: By Win* lllnicrr Gloom is all about me, Wlfey's Koing away With the kiddies for the Easter holiday. Shoes and hats and other Wearing needs galore For them have been coming Daily from the store. Sunday, while the others In the family roam Elsewhere, poor old fattier Will remain at home And among the masses— If it doesn't rain— He will mingle with his i.asl Spring's suit and cane. Stoning (tthat John T. Bretz, who was yesterday appointed a captain of infantry and assigned to command Company 1), Eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, the "City Grays," has been a member of the National Guard for Sixteen years und has worked up his way, showing how interest in military affairs and sticking to it bring reward. Hi« ap pointment will probably stimulate a good many men who are in the Guard for it is promotion by merit. Captain Bretz enlisted March 13, 1900, and was made a corporal next year and ser geant in 1903. In 1908 he was elected second lieutenant and became first lieutenant April 18, 1911. His ap pointment dates from April 17. Captain J. J. Hartman, whose commission ex pired on April 17, and whom Captain Bretz succeeds, has a long record in the Guard, lie enlisted in Company I), June 8, 1891, and advanced by grades from corporal to captain, be ing given the two bars April 18, 1911. He served as sergeant of Company D in the Spanish war. Jerry Hartman lis probably one of the best-known j Guardsmen In this part of the State. | Josiah P. Wilbar, who was advanced i from second to first lieutenant, has a i line record in tlie Guard, too. He is ! one of the younger men, enlisting in j 1903 and being made a second lieuten ant in 1911 after going through the various grades. Under the administration df Dr. Charles H, Crampton, the People's Forum during the past year has grown from a membership of about 75 to more than 700, all of them enthusias tic and active. The weekly Sunday afternoon meetings have increased from a handful to 800 and 900. Dur ing the year eleven of the best known negro speakers of the country hava addressed the Forum and as many white men of prominence. Dr. Cramp ton is a Harrisburg boy, educated in the Harrisburg hiprh school and after ward at medical college. He has very distinct ambitions toward the better ment of conditions in Harrisburg ami is rapidly making for himself a prom inent place in the community. The post office plaza, which just now is anything but. a beauty spot, is more appreciated by the birds than by pedestrians. The interior of the old federal building has been ripped oul in the rebuilding process and tons ot all manner of debris are piled up on the lawn. Thus come the nesting birds by the hundred for material with which to construct their summer homes. The piles of plaster are par ticularly popular. Here at any hour ot the day a dozen or more birds may ba seen with their beaks full of hair, looking enviously at that they hnva to leave behind and perhaps wishing that they had brought a bag or a basket along. • * • Pussy-willows are budding In minia ture forests in Wildwood park these days and the thousands of folks, old and young, who promenade through the wooded stretches of a Sunday, se riously and permanently damage the growths in their efforts to cut or break the prettily covered branches. With the exception of the bloodroot there are no wild flowers a-bloom in the park as yet but the bloodroot ami the pussy-willows appear to afford easy "picking" for the scores who go flower hunting. The damage that has already been wrought is a matter ot serious concern to the park officials. "Something should be done by tha people themselves to co-operate with us in trying to eliminate the practice," said V. Grant Forrer, park superin tendent. "It. is against the park regu lations to pull the flowers or break oft the branches of the trees but the park is so big that it is almost Impossible to protect the whole stretch. All wo can do is to urge the common sensa folks of the city to help by doing thcii little share. Whenever you see any body pulling up flowers or breaking ✓ 'branches from the trees, stop them; and see," added the assistant superin tendent smilingly, "that you don't da it yourself." » • • Among visitors to the city yesterday was William Dawson, of Scranton, who was for years chief clerk in the State Banking department. He came hera to file papers for his son Representa tive Hugh Dawson, who will run foi the Legislature again. 1 WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" —W. A. Glasgow, Jr., a Philadel phia lawyer here yesterday for a Pub. lie Cervice case, was temporary chair man of the last Democratic State con vention. —James S. Austin, Philadelphia mining man, has returned from a trip through the West. —A. E. Turner, of Philadelphia, well known here, has bought tin Sharpless property in the Poconos. —R. B. Scandrett, who is running for the House, is a Pittsburgh lawyei who was a law partner of ex-Stat« T easurer James E. Barnett. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Allen D. Albright says the Susquehanna basin is regarded as the most attractive tiling In the way of artistic development tlint any city possesses. HISTORIC IIAIIRISBURG Representatives of William Penn made the first arrest in Harrisburg, They captured a half-breed who waa making trouble about 200 years ago where Lochiel furnace now stands. Our Statesmen [New York Sun.] Senator Jones, of Washington, arosa in his place in the Senate chamber on Thursday, glanced compassionately upon his fellow-members and said: "Mr. President, I desire to say to Senators who are here that I shall j probably take the time of the Senate ; for an hour and a half, and Senators ] can govern themselves accordingly." No serious casualties are reported in the ensuing rush as Senators governed themselves accordingly, but they do say that some Senators started with such impetus they never stopped until they reached the Chevy Chase Golt Club house. SelHng For the Retailer Mr. Manufacturer, which IR the best way—to load up the dealer and let him worry out; or to -keep the goods moving from his shelves? There Is less selling cost In constant repeat orders is there not? A satisfied dealer doesn't worry you much, does he? The easy way to help your dealers and tn enthuse them Is through newspaper advertising. Information on this subject will be given by the Bureau of Advertising, American Newspa per Publishers Association, World Building, New York.
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