10 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 1 A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Pounded Itji t > Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building, Federal Square. == IS. J STACK POLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief 1, .■J". R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. S'ttEINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American Newspaper Pub- I Ushers' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assoclat- Eastern office, Hat- Brooks, Fifth Ave nue Building. New Gas°Bullding.°c'h!- 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. finorn dally cverage rlrrulatlon for (he three month* ending April 1, 1816, if 22,432 ★ These figures are net. All returned, ■nsold and damaged copies deducted, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 20. MAY 1 REACH That purest heaven; be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony: Enkindle generous ardor; feed pure love: • Beget the smiles that have no cruelty— Be the sweet presence of a good dif fused, > A.n'l in diffusion ever more intense. "Si —Anon. STRONG-ARM METHODS NEEDED MORE power to City Commis sioner Gross in his deter mination to stop the destruction of shrubbery and trees along the River Front. But he will find that only strong-arm methods will prevail against certain gangs of young hood lums who have been finding their chief joy in destroying city property from one end of the city to the other. While the American people will pa triotically and steadfastly support the President in every move for the na tional defense and the preservation of the lights of the Republic, there can not be concealed a strong undercurrent of dissatisfaction over the weakness that has seemed to mark the inter national and domestic policies of the administration. The Portland Oregonian notices that "there Is a growing demand for the resignation of Josephus Daniels." It is, however, most unlikely that Mr. Wil son will pay any attention to It. The Job of getting rid of Josephus will be left for the people to take care of on election day. CITY TREE PLANTING FRIDAY of next week will be the second Arbor Day under the proc lamation of Governor Brumbaugh and it ought to be observed through out llarrisburg in a general planting ' or' trees. There are many open spaces, for instance, in the River Park strip— in the old as well as the newer sec tions—and as there are abundant ; young trees in the city nursery there ought to lie no difficulty in placing a few hundred saplings where they are most needed. Many of the canoe birches along the river front have died and their places should be taken by fresh trees. Also the slopes should be planted thickly with the most hardy shrubbery. This will do more to prevent the destruc tion of the embankment than anything save actual riprapping with stone. As was to have been expected Enola, with all the energy and public spirit which have characterized that West Shore community since the founding of the town, has promptly determined to replace the burned school building' with a better and more commodious struc ture. Harrisburg extends Its best ' wishes to its neighbor across the river, with the assurance that tills city is al ways interested In the development and prosperity of its hustling neighbor. ADM INISTR ATION PROGRAM fTMIE program of legislation which Mr. Kitchin exposed to the Democrats of Congress in caucus assembled represents, we are told, the minimum of results which the Presi dent is willing to accept from this ses sion of Congress—which session, it is added, is expected to finish its task in the early summer. Inasmuch as the program is largely composed of items of highly contro verted business and since the appro priation bills are only at the beginning of their progress toward enactment, we are moved to conclude that it is the early summer of 1917 that the President has in mind. The gag rule in the House may serve to expedite consideration of the President's bills in the lower branch, but the Senate has no such convenient instrument for a schoolmaster-executive, and already there is evidence of a sharp division of opinion between the two houses re garding many important questions. For Instance, the sugar tariff bill, which the House passed amid so many Republican taunts, has been seriously modified by the Senate committee which dealt with it, and the debate is likely to be prolonged and to become acrimonious; while the conference committee which must inevitably re solve the differences of the two bodies will have neither a speedy nor an easy time in reaching a conclusion. The other items may and probably will en counter a like difficulty: and it is not easy to see how the President's pro gram can be carried out within the ■ time limit which Mr. Wilson has set for It. Three years at Washington ought to have taught the President that it Is one thing to make a program for Con- THURSDAY EVENING, KICS.S and that It Is quite another thing to put It through. If he has not yet learned this, or if he does not come to comprehend it by next March, he will And In it much food for reflection in the long years of retirement which await him. Colonel Roosevelt la not alone In the belief that many of the administration's troubles at the present time are due to a weak foreign policy and to the back ing and Ailing which has characterized the Government's attitude upon serious problems Involving the rights of Ameri can citizens since the outbreak of the war In Europe. It is the judgment of others that the affairs of the nation have been considered too much from the altruistic viewpoint and not suf ficiently from the practical side. A VIRTUAL ULTIMATUM THE President's message to Con gress and his note to Germany are before the country. The j note constitutes a virtual ultimatum to Germany and his message to Con gress is not so much a bid for sup port as a recital of the executive's position, assumed without regard to I the views of the legislative branches of the government on the subject. Both documents are couched in strong and unmistakable language— language that scarcely can be con strued as having more than one mean ing. That the views expressed therein should have been written at the every outset of the European war does not alter the fact that at this time un questionably they reflect the senti ments of a large majority of patriotic and red-blooded Americans. Doubt less had the President so spoken when all European nations at war were bidding for the favor of the United States, neither Germany with her "friglitfulness" on the seas nor Great Britain with her offensive methods of blockade and seizure would have dared to do other than comply with American demands. Many a human life and many a fair ship would have been saved by a prompt and vigorous definition of American rights at the very beginning of hostilities. But all that is done with and past recall. The President has done finally what he should have done at first. America is face to face with a break in diplomatic relations with Germany. The imperial government must do one of two things, and promptly. Either it must withdraw altogether from Its illegal warfare against merchant and passenger ships or it must be pre pared to have its ambassador to the United States sent home and all friendly relations severed. It is in conceivable that Germany will do the first, in view of the fact that the Kaiser has affixed the stamp of his imperial approval upon the torpedo ing of the Sussex by decorating with the order of the crossed swords the commander of the vessel that fired the shot. The next step, should Ger many decide to continue the sub marine campaign, would be toward war. The severing of friendly rela tions would not of itself bring on hostilities, but the torpedoing of an other vessel without warning virtually would constitute an act of war and no doubt would be so considered by Washington. It may be idle to speculate upon the part this nation would play in a conflict that may never materialize, but the topic is one that is engaging the minds of millions of Americans to-day. In the first place there would be a call to arms and the rais ing of a volunteer army that in all likelihood would never leave the United States and which would never see bloodshed. The declaration of war would be followed by an imme date alliance, doubtless, with the entente allies, in which the part of the United States would be to supply munitions and supplies and convoy the same across the Atlantic by means of our fleet. On the navy would fall the burden of the war, insofar as America is concerned. These sup plies would be carried in the German ships now in our harbors, $70,000,000 worth of which would fall into our hands at the moment hostilities be gan. Germany is not in position to invade England, much less the United States, and a joint peace would pre clude such a possibility in the future. But nobody in the United States wants war, however advantagous the moment may be for our getting into the European conflict, and while standing firmly with the government In any eventuality that may arise every true American will hope that the long-standing friendly relations between this country and Germany will not be broken. That, however, Is a matter that Germany and Ger many alone must decide. Paxtang knows how to observe Arbor Day. Drastic action is necessary if the garbage question Is not to become in tolerable. Ths health authorities are justified In their attitude. Garbage and ashes must be collected promptly. Governor Brumbaugh's friends regret his Illness, and will join In the hope of his early and complete recovery. The place of the Sussex In history now appears to be fixed along with the Dred Scott case and other matters that tr«*iKU nnVifiol hnva TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —What a grand day it is for Von Tlrpitz. —Oh, the demoralization of civiliza tion. They say the Apaches trailing Villa wear wrist watches. —Every time we see a man going home with a brand new hoe we realize that the poet knew whereof he spoke when he said, "Hope springs eternal in the human heart," and experience teaches us that he might have added— weeds in every garden. —Say, you. who used to give her American Beauties at Easter, don't forget that wives like flowers as well as sweethearts and that carnations are beautiful and not so very expensive. -—The German ambassador has cabled Berlin that we are in earnest at last, thereby giving us the hint that heretofore we have been regarded somewhat in the light of an inter national jester. EDITORIAL COMMENT Poor old Yuan: he didn't find the peo ple or t hina in a heroic mood.—Boston Transcript. There is now a suspicion that von tlrpitz was considered too tender hearted for the job.—Pittsburgh Ga zette-Times. It would probably cause less talk, too, If somebody would invent a tor pedo that didn't leave a wake.—ln dianapolis News. Sing: Sins has a prohibition club. They naturally want to set rid of the bars.— Columbia State. Success The first thing to realize Is that Suc cess Is positive, not negative. It con sists In doing, not In not doing; In creating, not in preserving; In attack, not defense. In the battle of life, as In any other kind of a tight, the main thing is to hit lire and hit hard. Suc cess is a resultant of force, not of protection. There are two kinds of forces, inner and outer. The inner forces are of the body, of the mind, and of the feelings. The bodv forces are included in the term health. Health is primarily not an affair of care, cleanliness, and abstentions. These things are of importance. But vastly more important is your vitality, steam, go. push, and. in general, your energy of self-expression. Look to your overcoming power, not your en durance capacity. "To him that over comet h will I give the crown." The feelings, also, which are posi tive and creative should be encour aged, as opposed to those which are merely resistive. The strongest positivity of the soul is love. The more you can love, the more you mean to the world. Fill your life with love. Feed on it daily. Livo in its atmosphere. Jt is the ozone of supermen. Love of woman characterizes force ful men. Love of children, of friends, of comrades, means you are vibrating with creative electric units. Add 1o these, love of your work, which is en thusiasm; love of play, which re juvenates potentiality; love of the beautiful which opens you up to Na ture's in-streaming forces: and love of the good and just, and right, which attaches you to the Infinite, and makes "the stars in their courses" fight for you. All this does not imply that you are to be careless, unclean, and undis ciplined. You must observe your proper pro hibitions. You must resist and sac rifice to a degree. But the point is that to address one's self mainly to not doing is the program of the weak. The successful are too busy doing to waste time wrestling with tempta tions. You are living in a world vibrant with superhuman energies. There is Gravitation—you can't fight against that: and the Atomic Energies, and Electricity. Heat, Cold, Wind, Steam and the like. Besides these potencies of matter, there are such forces as Public Opinion. Other Men, Prejudice, Ignorance, Organization, Institutions and so on. You can not beat these down with your puny might. You must learn to make them help you, not to crush you. And the word here is adjust ment. The sailor can not control the wind, but he can set his sails and make the adverse breezes aid him. The en gineer knows how to adjust the giant strength of steam to obey his liand. Study, therefore, the vast forces that sway men's minds. Find out how to utilize tliem. Man is supreme over a horse be cause he knows enough to put a bit in the horse's mouth and the horse doesn't know enough to spit, it out. ,A man becomes successful not by his inner force alone, but by his skiil in using, co-operating with, and ad justing himself to Nature, Mankind, and the Infinite. As to yourself then—Be Bold! As to God and His World—Be Teachable! And success is yours. Dr. Frank Crane in the May Pictorial Review. Receipt For Success "If I were obliged to pack a lot of advice into a few words," says United States Congressman Edward J. King of Illinois in the May American Maga zine. "for the benefit, of poor boys, I would tell them to decide as early in life as possible what they intend to do. There is nothing so helpful to a tired traveler as a destination. This thing of not knowing where you're going, but being merely on your way, is a delusion and a folly." Had It Occurred Sooner [From the New York Tribune] President Wilson owes the unknown German alibi maker operating the area in which the Sussex met with disaster the homage of a letter of thanks. How much higher our prestige as a nation would stand to-day, how much vain epistolary effort on Mr. Wilson's part would have been avoided, if (lie (irr tnan submarine commander who tn>-. pedoed the Lusltania had only thought of making a drawing showing that he sank an ocean liner of quite a different description near the place where the giant Cunarder met her fate! The Searchlight TESTING PAYING BRICK A simple means of testing the durability of paving brick lias been devised, and its efficiency demon strated in a number of cities. It con sists of a special steel barrel in which are placed a number of cast Iron spheres weighing 7% pounds each. Ten of the bricks to be tested are placed in the barrel which is turned by elec tric power at the rate of thirty revolutions per minute for an hour. The bricks are then taken out and weighed. The loss in weight front this operation is theoretically equival ent to that, caused by six months' traffic on a much used road. In first - quallty bricks, the loss should not amount to more than 18 per cent. HIS MEROIFT'Ii KINDNESS O Praise the Lord, all ye nations, praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us; and the truth of the Lord endureth forever. Praise ye the Lord. ,—Psalm 117:1.2. , HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH f tK By the Ex-Conimittecman Not withstanding the declaration of the Brumbaugh campaign headquar ters last night that Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh would vigorously prose cute his campaign for election of na tional delegates and the statements of Attorney General Brown that the con test would go to a finish, there was much comment all over the State to day upon the apparent failure of the e(Torts of Mayor Thomaa P. Smith, of Philadelphia, to secure a compromise with provision for his personal friend, Speaker Charles A. Ambler. The In terest aroused by these well authenti cated moves was increased this mbrn l", R by a declaration by Frederic W. Fleitz, tormer Deputy Attorney Gen eial. and influential in Lackawanna county politics, to the effect that after all Governor Brumbaugh stood for Theodore Roosevelt in Pennsylvania. The Fleitz statement was received in various ways. The Philadelphia North American says that a vote for Brura baugh is a vote for Roosevelt, and the Philadelphia Record says that the Gov ernor is what it terms "a mask for T. R." The Fleitz statement in part says: "After consulting with Governor Brumbaugh and Attorney General Brown. I decided not to file my petition as a candidate for district delegate to the national Republican convention from laokawanna county for the rea son that both former Lieutenant-Gov ernor Watres and Mayor Jermyn had tiled their nomination petitions for the same office, together with an affidavit, promising that, if elected, they will go to the Chicago convention to vote for and use every possible effort to nomi nate the person receiving the highest number of votes for President in the district. Governor Brumbaugh is be injr actively and earnestly supported by thi- true friends of Roosevelt in Penn sylvania, because they are convinced that if the national delegates are elected or controlled by those opposing Governor Brumbaugh they will be used in the Chicago convention against the nomination of Roosevelt. "Of course, there will be attempts made in many districts to elect unin structed delegates on their bare prom ises to support Colonel Roosevelt, and if these men are so elected, they will be only pawns in the game of his oppo nents to defeat the former President for the nomination; but the voters will not be deceived or hoodwinked by these clumsy tactics, nor fall into the trap thus cunningly set, but can rest satisfied that the best interests of Colonel Roosevelt will be promoted by supporting the declared Brumbaugh candidates." —-Henry Ford has reiterated that he is not a presidential candidate in Penn sylvania. —A New York dispatch to the Phila delphia Ledger to-day says: "The fac tional fight in Pennsylvania between the Penrose and Vare-Brumbaugh camps of the Republican organization Is causing deep concern among mem bers of the national Republican com mittee in so far as any possible effect it may have upon the success of the Republican party at the presidential election." The dispatch also said that Penrose was being urged to make peace, but the Senator emphatically denied these reports in Philadelphia last evening. —Senator Penrose is reported to have told friends that as far as he is concerned, it is a contest to the finish. —Among the men who filed elev enth-hour nominating petitions were V. K. Corbet, candidate for Republican state committeeman from Cameron: Hugh B. Eastburn. candidate for alter nate Washington party national dele gate from the Bucks-Montgomery dis trict, and E. V. Kennedy, candidate for alternate Democratic national dele gate from the Luzerne district. —A red-hot fight over national dele gates is brewing in the Nineteenth Congressional district. —Philadelphia newspapers are print ins a great deal about the Mayor and his bonding company, but the Mayor seems to be more disposed than ever to do business Just as he has been. He holds that he has done nothing indictable. —Brumbaugh campaign headquar- I ters last night issued a statement in | which it was stated that "upward of 70,000 electors signed petitions for the ! candidates on the Brumbaugh ticket | gave the Governor's lieutenants cause to rejoice to-day. Of these about 25.000 alone signed papers filed in behalf of the Governor's presidential candidacy: 10.000 signers were on the I petitions for candidates for delegates lat large, and 10,000 more on those | for alternate delegates at large. The | rest were on the district delegate and alternate district delegate petitions and those for State committeemen, altogether a most creditable showing." -—Governor Brumbaugh has been | booked to make a local option speech in Blair county and one in Huntingdon late this month. —The Philadelphia ledger says that, a citizens committee may be formed to get after Mayor Smith's bonding | company activities. Robert S. Bright, j a late Democratic candidate for Con i gress at large, called a meeting yes terday. —Fur is going to fly in Philadelphia I hetwecn John U. K. Scott and Joseph McClaughlin over Republican nomi nation for Congress at large. —The Democratic brick throwing I contest has started in earnest. Tn a I statement issued last night A. Mitchell i Palmer, national committeeman : charges that bis rival, Michael I-eibel, Jr., is an Old Guard Democrat, against Wilson and various other dreadful things. Concentrate The man who makes good to-day is he who can bunch all his best energies into one business and not spread and sprawl over a half dozen semlsuccess es. Concentrate. Specialize. Do. I When we divide our energies we multiply our chances to fail. I hear some one say, "Why put all of our eggs in one basket?" My answer to this is, "Why not make a success out of one thing, and then put in cold storage, in the sav ings bank, a few cases of hen fruit?" It's even safer than a basket."—The Silent Partner. Guard Well the Land Guard well the sweet land of liberty. Long may it shelter the brave and free, Ne'er let a foe tread its sacred soil Nor put in chains its brave sons of toil. Gird on an armor to guard the home From which no prodigal e'er would roam; Gird on an armor to guard the graves O'er which the Star-Spangled banner waves. Guard well the sweet land of liberty. Dot it with armories from sea to sea; Safeguard its coasts with a mighty fleet— One that no power on earth can de feat. Darken its heavens with birds of steel, Place a trained man on each mon strous teal. Then let our President's firm voice ring Clear to a Kaiser, h Tzar, a King. •—By J as. C. Bowermaster. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY BUT THIS IS HOW SHE DID IT f VES, OLVVfiL, \'M LEAW A HOgOS LIFE A6AU4 I \ COUUWY 6T&NP R>&. ALLIHE pISCdRP WE HOME —, [ WHY, WHENEVER MV OUP FRIENP THE ICEMAN CAME t) t»E / \HOUSEMY WIFE AUVWV6 Pip A UCTf OF BUT THIS IS L _ " 'f\ DIXIE GOES AHEAD The.Sand Hill Board of Trade By Frederic J. Haskin THE Sand Hill Board of Trade is a great deal more than a com mercial organization. It is the practical expression of an ideal of community life in the country. The members tell you this: then they lead you out in the sand hills and show you their schools and roads and scupper nong vineyards and peach orchards and cotton fields and tobacco patches. They show you a very mixed farming community that flourishes amazingly In a shallow and sandy soil, largely by reason of the fact that all of its mem bers pull one way. They make you believe in their ideal. The Sand Hill Board of Trade can't he classified; it is the only one of its kind. It is an independent and self constituted Democracy which has no regard whatever for county lines. This is the way it came into being. Among those who have moved into the Sand Hills within the last five years have been about forty men from New Tork, Boston and other big cities. Nearly all of them brought money, youth and brains. Most important of all. they brought a pretty definite ideal of what they wanted to do. Ralph W. Page, once a New York lawyer. Is the chief expounder of the Sand Hill philosophy. Rural life, he points out, should be the best | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR] WANTS SWIMMING POOL To the Editor of the Telegraph: In advocating and backing up plans for civic improvements I hope you will not overlook the need for a clean water outdoor swimming pool. We need one badly as the present facilities for a clean outdoor swim are nil. Our pres ent bathing places have dirty water, a swift current, inadequate bathhouses and restricted swimming area. Very truly, J. T. STONER. How to Attract the Birds In the May Woman's Home Com panion Franz Biehler gives direction as to building houses that birds will nest in and how to secure a garden that birds will come to. "A good many species, to be sure, build their own nests to suit them selves. They choose their own quar ters. and will have nothing to do with all those cute little houses and nesting boxes which we put up so insinuating ly about the garden—always In places where we can watch what is going on! "But the martins and the swallows, the wrens and the bluebirds, the chickadees, and even the flickers and the screech owls, can sometimes be enticed to adopt our human-made tenements. Indeed, some of them, like the martins, seem to be pecullar- I ly happy with the provisions which we I offer. There is no end of fun making ! these bird houses. They should always j have a projecting roof to keep out the : rain, and the front door should be I high off the floor." j Mr. Biehler also reminds all bird i lovers that water is an essential to any i bird garden and tells how It should be used to the best advantage. Discreetly Silent In conversation with a Republican Senator a few days ago, Senator Un derwood. father of the Democratic tariff monstrosity, is reported to have said that all the steel mills in his home town, Birmingham, Ala., were running at full capacity, and not a mill was en ! Kaned in making goods for the Euro pean belligerents. When asked If it ! were not true that these mills were working on orders turned over to them bv mills in the East and in New Eng land, because the latter were deriving greater profits from war orders, and were therefore subcontracting with the Alabama mills to handle their normal business. Senator Underwood main tained a discreet silence. Galena (Kan.) Republican. Man's Greatest Portrayer Three hundred years of such a per vasive and regnant personality as Shakespeare have brought the features of the human soul Into full portraiture. ' All the way from Caliban up to Pros-1 pero' who uses his dainty and intelli gent Ariel with such majesty and grace, Shakespeare has led our humanity to lenow itself. The greatest enterprise In the world, making Itself more plain upon the awful background ; of the world at war, is the Americ an ! government which had its mighty 1m- | pulse tn ShaUesneare's time when the j playwright and the preacher, the poet : and the Puritan, both urged upon! mankind the one lesson that man is great enough in his sorrows, sins and aspirations to invito heaven' 3 blessing on so mighty a task as the governing of himself. "Shakespeare and the American Spirit." Dr. Frank W. Gun- Auulus. Hi National Magazine for April. APRIL 20, 1916. kind in the world. It may have much of the culture ahd variety of city life together with the freedom and fresh air and health of the great outdoors. England, of course, is the classical example of this. But. in Eng land the wealthier people do ijot go to the country merely to have a good time. They live there and the best of them devote their time and energy to the development of their communities. That is what the Sand Hill men organized to do, and they are doing it. Furthermore, they take themselves and their jobs seriously. They do not merely come here to visit once a year; they live here. They wear soft shirts and khaki and scoot around in cheap autos. A presuming reporter from Philadelphia once wrote them up as "gilded youths," and they still frown when the name of this particular scribe Is mentioned. These men mad<> nlSoard of Trade but the natives rr.«%c it go. They are highland Scotchmen whose fore fathers came here in colonial times. They move slowly but certainly—and they are the bone and sinew of the Sand Hill Board of Trade. When the prime movers of the organization had made their plans, tbey called a big [Continued >»n Page 12] ' 1 THE STATE FROM m TO PflT" j "Hora Fugit," writing for the 'Johnstown Tribune, reviews Hudson I Maxim's "Defenseless America" and ] anathematizes American "peaee-pal | avering persons" as "Dubs of Peace." The hour has fled when these same j "war-breeders" as he terms the peace at-any-price brand of citizen, should be allowed to obstruct action in pre paring us for adequate protection. A North Scranton minister took sick a few mont hs ago, became seriously ill and was nursed back to health by his nurse. The banns have been pro claimed and little Cupid has folded up his pocketknife after cutting another notch in his trusty bow. The Washington, Pa., Playgrounds Association will stage a kite-flying contest on the old golf grounds Sat urday a week. Prizes are to be awarded In the different classes and girls will be eligible. That well-known mercantile axiom, "The higher the fewer," is applicable to this contest. The Mechanicsburg Daily Journal cites the case of a certain woman who is willing to give up her husband, property, automobile, et al., but rather than break faith with her pet dog she will endure her husband. It. is sug gested that the test first inaugurated by Solomon be applied to see which loves the dog more. The thirty-fourth annual reunion of tho Forty-ninth Regiment, Pennsyl vania Volunteers, will be held in Huntingdon May 10, the flftv-second anniversary of the battle of Spottsvl vania, Va.. in which 67 of the regi ment were killed and 171 wounded. Approximately $20,000 is the esti mated loss in Hallam township through the conflagration which swept a 200- acre timber tract belonging to Huber Smith, of Reading, Pa. The smoke could be seen twenty miles away. An old-time weather sage residing in Allegheny Forge, Blair county prophesies in the Johnstown Deader that 1916. like 1816, will be a sum merless summer and that ice will form every month. He points to the fact that vegetation is more than a month behind in its development now. OUR DAILY LAUGH] rm THE If B3 W ILn: METHOD. , Nurse Here your new little WjL 7* \/ § brother. W? Ui 11 I Johnny dee! W ul! 11l 1 "'poae he came —* M ||r by parcel post. MODERN WAR. Captain! Yes, sir. WEFI Throw out. a few skirmishers . In biplanes and A search those ciruds yonder for \jy Y&; ambushed a 1 r- jm fcbnttug CCliat Someone with a genius for figures on a speculative basis to-day figured out that the preparation, circulation and filing of the nominating petitions, on which the time limit closed on Tuesday night, cost over 1100.000. Ap proximately 2,450 petitions were filed for candidates, hut this was not the end by any means as in some cases a dozen of more papers were filed for a single candidate and in some cases a couple of scores were entered, to say nothing of the hundreds of papers circulated and not filed. Assuming that there were at least 15,000 peti-' tions circulated, and including the supplemental, those not filed by can didates and those which were prepared j and never heard of. that estimate is i not too high, the cost would run about $5 for circulating each paper. In some cases the cost was more. Then the (affidavits had to be taken and there were l the items of postage, expressage or I messenger service to get the papers on file. Tt is not hard to get at SIOO,- j 000 say the flgurers at the Capitol. According to the State's game offi cials they had to sit up at nights thinking ways to protect the new deer and other animals and the birds with which the Commonwealth has lately stocked a number of forest reserves. These reserves are more or less re mote, but they appear to be as attrac tive for dogs as for anything and com plaints have come in of dogs running down some of the deer for which the State recently paid good hard money. In a number of instances the doss were shot, but in some tliey ran deer for long distances. Several owners of such dogs have been arrested. * • « Mrs. Elizabeth Derby, the Philadel phia social worker, who appeared yes terday before the State Board of Par dons. and got away with the pardon, unconsciously helped out Senator S. VV. Salus in a case. Philadelphia Senator had a case immediately pre ceding that in which Mrs. Derby ap peared. The claim of mistake in iden tification was made in both cases. Mrs. Derby in opening showed that she knew something about the case of the Senator and gave some light on it in illustrating her own application in behalf of a Chester countian. Mrs. Derby, by the way, is one of the few women to win a case before the Board. ; Women attorneys appear every now | wid then, but they do not often win. Mrs. Derby appeared five times in the | case she finally won, causing Eieuten : ant-Governor McClain to say that she had persistence as well as logic on her side. , • ♦ » The Lebanon Report prints this comforting news for tennis and golf fiends, baseball cranks and others: "Some of the Pennsylvania German weather prophets who are guided by the Hunnert Yarisch Kalendar (Hun dred Year Calendar) say 1916 will l>e a year without a summer just, as was the case in 1816. At that lime crops were a failure because of the protract ed cold weather and snows. It is pointed out that already vegetation Is a month backward in development." Federal naturalization court is al ways productive of queer features of dress, speech or other characteristic of the foreigner who would swear allegiance to the flag of Uncle Sam. Yesterday's big session which was presided over by United States Judge Witmer, was unique in the queerest way of all; never was there such a variety of moustaches. Every style of that form of facial decoration was there, from the tiny "toothpick" that looks for all the world as if It set just under the wearer's nose, to the large, blond flowing brusli-likp effect of the Austrian of the lowland provinces. There were the up-turned military "kaiser" effects, the long drooping, walrus-like lives; scraggl.v "what's-the-use" attempts, hirsute and, of course, "sieves" for tobacco Juice. But it remained for a stalwart son of Italy from the upper end ol the county to produce the feature moustache of (he day—this was a long black silky twist with a perfect circle on each side. Frederic A. Godcharles, deputy sec retary of the commonwealth, is cer tainly not open totheimputation of be ing' a rubber stamp official. He Is one of the old-fashioned kind that does his own writing no matter if lie has to stay up until 2 in the morning to do it. "When the flood of nominating pe titions began it was suggested to Mr. Godcharles that he buy a rubber stamp so that he would not get writ ers' cramp or pen paralysis in signing his name as certificate that the papers had been found in form and had been tiled. Mr. Godcharles refused anil said he would sign every paper. And he did. He sat up until late at night but every paper was signed in his best Milton,ian style. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE" General C. M. Clement was the reviewing officer at the parade of the First Regiment in Philadelphia yes terday. , ~ —J. Purdy Cope, prominent roe hotel man, has bought the Kittan nlng hotel. His own place, the his toric Water Gap Hotel burned last year. . , . Henry C. Frlck lias returned from his annual southern visit. Mayor P. J. Sheehan. of South Bethlehem, wanted an island for the children of his city and went out ami raised the money for it. Governor Brumbaugh s illness prevented liim from being out to cast a fly at the opening of the trout sea son. | DO YOU KNOV That the new bridge now being constructed for tlic Cuml>erland Valley Railroad Is going to be a thing'of beauty as well as utility? HISTORIC HARRISBURG The ford which was used for Harris' ferry was known to trappers over 250 years ago. Does Newspaper Ad vertising Pay? A large paint manufacturer asked this question of retailers throughout the country: NO. ,4-iAID: "We believe rightly conducted newspaper advertising to be one of the very best forms of adver tising open to the retail dealed — perhsps to any dealer or manu facturer. We believe also that poorlv conducted newspaper ad vertising means money nearly wasted. . > "Bv .Ightly conducted we meaii well written advertise ments having the local flavor, written in view of local condi tions and needs, well displayed, appearing but once or not to ex ceed twice in the same paper that Is, In one or two Issues." (Continued to-morrow)
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