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Why Germany Thought
England Would Not Fight
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Inside Story of English-German Secret Treaties
WHEN it was known that England would enter the war,
a wave of astonishment and rage swept through
Germany and Austria-Hungary. From throne to
stable the people believed England would not tight.
Why?
Fifty days before England declared war on Germany Sir
Edward Grey and the German Ambassador in London
initialed a secret treaty in regard to the Bagdad Railroad;
prior to that the two nations had agreed on a secret treaty
partitioning between themselves the Portuguese Colonies in
Africa! German statesmen were actually planning to
cement a friendship with England and France!
In Sunday's Public Ledger W. C. Bullitt gives an outline
of the treaties and maps of the territory concerned. Llis
article is an epoch-making document. It reveals for the first
time inside news of secret treaties which might have pre
vented a world war. It is exclusive news stories of this
kind which distinguish the Public Ledger's news col
umns, and make it the most thoroughly read newspaper
in America.
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Accused by Fiancee of
* Robbing Stocking Bank
New Tork, Oct. 21. Charged with
stealing his fiancee's bank roll from j
her stocking savings bank, Joseph ;
Masserew was arrested to-day in
Vonkers. The complainant is Miss
Alary Kriden.
She asserts that Masserew asked 1
her for her money to furnish a homo 1
for them. Refusing, she charges her i
fiance drugged her coffee and robbed
the hosiery bank while she was in a I
stupor.
IRISH FIT TING REGIMENTS
Dublin, Ireland. Oct. 21. The
enlarge that the Irish regiments, and
particularly the Dublin Fusiliers are
•>eing filled up from reserves of Eng
lishmen and Scotsmen, is repudiated
by the Colonel lately commanding the
Dublin Fusiliers Battalion recruited
from the commercial young men.
There are. he says, not twenty men in
the battalion who are not Irish, and
these had come in because they had
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t been serving in English regiments
! have been recruited almost entirely
! from (lie Irish in England, notably the
Tyneside Irish which was officially
| called the Northumberland Fusiliers,
| in the lists ;v3 the Eighteenth l.ondon
i regiment. The casualty lists ot Bcot
i tish Highland regiments show a large
j proportion of Irish names.
Triplets Are Born
by Caesarian Method
Holyoke, Mass., Oct. 21. Mrs.
j Georgiana Bergeron, wife of John Ber
i geron, of Aldenville, has given birth
| to triplets in the Providence Hospital
by a Caesarian operation performed
by Dr. E. F. Sullivan.
The triplets consist of a boy and
two girls. The girls weigh six pounds
each and the boy tips the scales at
five and three-quarter pounds. It was
stated at the hospital that the mother
and children were doing well. The
children appear especially strong and
healthy.
Prisoners Ran Crap Game
in Jail With Noiseless Dice
| Reading, Pa., Oct. 21. Using dice
; made of white soap, on which spots
i were supplied by burnt match heads
j prisoners in the county jail were to-
I day found to be running a regulation
I crap game.
| The guards could het'.r no sound, yet
were suspicious, and found that three
i negroes had made the dice, which
I were noiseless when rolled. All the
j soap In the cells was confiscated.
I Slides Down 100-Foot
Rope For Dime; Killed
I Chicago. At 10 cents per slide,
; Joseph Schultz entertained hy-stand
ers by sliding down a rope which hung
from the tower of the new Fold
, Museum, under construction in Grant
i Park, 100 feet to the ground. Joe
had taken in $1.90 and was starting
j his twentieth slide when apparently
i he lost his grip and dropped fifty feet
j to the ground, killing himself.
Kissers Warned to
Beware of Microbes
I. os Angeles. Kissers beware of
I microbes!
j This warning was given bv Dr. R.
N. Culver, local dentist, in his lecture
before the meeting of the American
Dental Society here recently.
"Because of their craving for can-
I dy. sodas, sundaes and hot chocolate,
I women have mouths fifty per cent,
j more germ infected than men," lie
told the assembled dentists.
High Cost of Being Born
Hits an Illinois Town
I
Belleville, 111.—Belleville physicians
! are planning the adoption of a new
j fee scale, which will increase the cost
|of being born in Belleville from a
j minimum of sls to $25 and make a
i night call for a doctor cost $5 instead
|of $3, as now. The doctors also will
j raise the cost of day and office calls,
j The medical men say the scale of
fees prevailing in Belleville is twenty
five years old, and has not been ad
vanced In keeping with the advances
|in every other line. A committee is
framing the new scale.
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HAIUUSBURG &&£$ TELEGRAPH!
INDUSTRY TOLI
AS A WARNING
Commissioner Jackson Says
That There Is Too Much
Preventable Loss
Warning that Industrial accidents
are costing Pennsylvania millions of
dollars that could bo saved is given by
Commissioner of Labor and Industry
John Price Jackson In a statement is
sued here to-day In commenting upon
the fact that State reports show that
245 persons were killed and 21,499 so
| badly hurt that they were disabled for
j more than two days in the Industries
of Pennsylvania during September.
These figures were taken from re
ports of employers and the total list
for the first nine months of the year
shows 1,827 killed and 188,278 injured.
Dr. Jackson says they constitute "a
tremendous and preventable economic
drain on the people of Pennsylvania."
"Every step toward greater safety
iin the industries aids in preventing
j higher cost of living," said Commis
sioner Jackson, "and therefore indus-
I trial safety is of almost as vital im
| portance to the prosperity of the gen
[ eral public as it is to the employers
I and employes.
"Every injury received by a worker
I In Pennsylvania s industries, whether
| resulting indisability or death, creates
] a cost that must be paid by the people
lof Pennsylvania. This has always
j been true.
"Before the Workmen's Compensa
j Hon act became effective these costs, for
medical attention to the injured work
er. for the support of his family after
! his death or during his disability,
i were either paid financially through
charitable organizations, through cost
ly court litigations for damages, or by
the family of the injured worker in
hardship and perhaps even want. In
any event the cost was there ultimate
ly to be paid by the whole people,
"The Workmen's Compensation sys
tem now meets this cost by scientific
distribution of fixed financial benefits,
to the injured employe or his depen
dents, shortly after the injury when
the family most needs assistance and
without the waste and unequable dis
tribution which existed prior to the
Workmen's Compensation act.
Greater safety in industries means
fewer workers killed and injured. Re
duction in numbers of accidents, caus- |
ing death or injury to workers, means i
reduction in the aggregate amount of i
compensation to be paid victims of in- !
dustrial accidents. Fewer compensa
ble injuries means less outlay for
compensation payments by insurance
companies and self-insurers. Fire in
surance rates drop in communities
where the fire hazard is small. Simi
larly compensation insurance rates
drop in plants where the accident haz
ard is small.
"If every industrial plant in Penn
sylvania had a minimum accident haz
ard the saving in cost for injuries and
consequently in compensation rates
would be \er.v great, and in a few
years would far offset tlie cost of in
stalling proper safety appiiances-and
met hods.
' "Greater saiety means less suffering
and hardship as a result of injuries
and further than that splendid result,
j greater safety means less financial
I cost for injuries to workers. Work
' I men's compensation i.i destined, to a
! vers - great degree, to save expense to
;jthe people of the Commonwealth of
' Pennsylvania by eliminating tens of
1 thousands of costly industrial acci
dents.
"The price of injuries to workers
has always been paid financially by tlie
whole people of the <'ommonwealth.
Every activity and every campaign for
safety first is a potent influence against
increasing cost of commodities and an
increasing cost of living for the whole
people of this State."
Nephew of Noted Lawyer
Arresed as Swindler
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San Francisco, Oct. 21—A young man
who says he la D. M. Delmas, a nephew
of Delphln M. Delmas, the noted west
ern lawyer who once defended Barry K.
Thaw, is under arrest here, charged
with alleged swindling operations
amounting to <130.00.
It Is alleged that young Delmas has
a long record of swindling operations
amounting to 1130.00.
It Is alleged that young Delmas has
a long record of swindling merchants,
wrecking banks and jail breaking and
that he toured the world In a love ro
mance with a girl who Anally was the
means of Ills being arrested here. An
army of detectives had been following
his trail around the world.
Fined For Taking
Pictures on Sunday
Boston Joseph "Wojczak, a
photographer South Boston, was
found guilty In court to-day of taking
pictures on the Lord's Day and was
fined $lO. lie appealed. His counsel
argued it was a custom of the Polish
people to have their pictures taken
immediately after a wedding and he
could see no harm in taking a picture
of a wedding group on Suncay.
Judge Day replied that Polish peo
ple had no more rights than others in
this country, and that if they wished
to take pictures on Sunday they would
have to appeal to the Legislature for
special laws.
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PKI'I'—IWM I'MTED HARRISBURG, SATURDAY, OCTOBKR 21, 10l. FOUNDED 18T1
Introducing—
Miss May Flowers,
Beginning Monday, October 23, 1916, Miss Flowers will give in
structions in Knitting, Crocheting, Tatting, Embroidering and all kinds
of fancy work.
This service will be given free of charge to all patrons purchasing
the materials in Bowman's Art Department.
Miss Flowers will gladly follow up all pupils who may need in*
struction from time to time.—Second Floor.
MEMORIAL WILL
BE HELD TUESDAY
Governor Brumbaugh Urges
That Former Governor Be
Given Suitable Honor
A memorial meeting for the late
Samuel W. Pennypacker, former Gov
ernor and Public Service Commission
er, will be held in the hall of the
House of Representatives at the Capi
tol next Tuesday evening. Secretary
of the Commonwealth Cyrus E.
Woods, president of the State Society,
under whose auspices the memorial
will be held, will preside, and Gover
nor Brumbaugh will be one of the
speakers.
In speaking of the plans for the]
meeting Governor Brumbaugh said to- I
day: "This meeting ought to he at- !
tended by all the good people of the'
Commonwealth who can possibly ar- '
range to be present, both men and
women, because Governor Penny
packer performed such a high and un
selfish service to the people of Penn
sylvania that it is fitting and proper,
that the citizens of this Common-1
wealth should meet at this tkne and
pay tribute to his memory. J lis great
love, for the Commonwealth and his
profound knowledge of its history and
interests made him a unique, charac
ter in the leadership of the Common
wealth and it will be eminently fitting
that this memorial service should be
held and largely attended."
Maryland Trend Is
in Favor of Hughes
Baltimore. Md. —Nothing, it is be
lieved. shows more conclusively the
direction of (lie political winds than
the figures of the registration in Balti
more. The Democratic vole dropped
3.250, while the Republican registra-
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OCTOBER 21, 1916.
lion increased 1912 and the "drained"
[ vote, which is normally Republican
by a big majority and almost wholly
| Republican when the drift is in the
l direction of the party, increased to
| 1 1.799.
j Under these circumstances political
observers read in the figures a close
j fight in Maryland, with the chances
■ decidedly in favor of Hughes.
Militiamen Eager to
Go to Washington If
Hughes Is Winner
New York, Oct. 21.—At a meeting
of a National Guard unit of 60 men,
just, held in New York, the captain
took a vote upon whether the com
pany should go to Washington March
4, 1917, to march in the inauguration
parade, as it has. at previous inaugur
ations. The company is composed
largely of laboring men, and 50 per
cent, of them are union men, plum-
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bers, expressmen, motormen and
workers in other trades.
"If President Wilson is re-elected."
said the captain, "who wants to go to
Washington to march in the inaugural
parade?"
Not a man spoke.
"If Governor Hughes is elected,"
was the second question, "will every
man who wants to go to Washington
to march rise?"
Every man in the company sprang
to his feet.
J. M. SMITH
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