8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded Itjl Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Building, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. OUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. • Member American Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Assoclat- Finle'y, Fifth Ave nue Buildlug, New cago, 111?" 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. _ SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. 28 So, lest I be inclined ■ To render ill for ill, — Henceforth in me instill, O Ood, a sweet good will To all mankind. — Tilton. UNCLE SAM'S HUMILIATION PHILANDER C. KNOX has done more in a few speeches to illumi nate the Mexican situation than all that is contained in the statements and talks of the last two years. In his remarkable discussion of the issues of the present campaign at the Chestnut street auditorium in this city, he pointed out the impossible attitude of President Wilson from the very be ginning of the Mexican controversy. From direct and personal knowl edge, he made clear that notwith standing the de facto government of ' Mexico had signified its desire to make reparation for American lives and restitution for American property lost and that Huerta was the admitted constitutional head of the Mexican government, the Wilson administra tion still insisted that Huerta should go and that the dictum of Presi dent Wilson should be obeyed. All the long train of evils suc ceeding this arbitrary attitude at Washington has followed and while pretending that we have been "kept out of war" with Mexico, the United States has been expending millions In maintaining an army •on the Border and a punitive expedition into the In terior in an alleged hunt for Villa. It is inconceivable that any consid erable number of intelligent people will continue to listen with patience to the clamorous appeals of the Wilson supporters and to regard him as the "greatest statesman in the history of the country." A humiliated and disgusted people are only waiting the day when they can express at the polls their opinion of Wilson and his adminstration. All the great powers now look upon us with contempt and the positive harm which has been done the American people by the administration at Wash ington cannot be fully realized at this time. It is only as the attitude of formerly friendly nations is shown in an occasional remark or a published statement that we gather the real feel ing of the other nations toward us. What has happened with respect to • Mexico has characterized the interna tional diplomacy of a weak adminis tration from the outset. We are neither feared nor respected, not even by the distracted people south of the Rio Grande. One Jury has rendered a verdict against the Wilson administration. Some time ago Wilson appointed a cer tain "deserving Democrat" to an Im portant postmastership out West and the businessmen of the city filed a protest which questioned the integrity of the appointee. The objectors made their charges public and were sued for libel. The jury decided against the Wilson appointee. BROKEN PROMISES BROKEN promises mark the Wil son administration at every turn. Even its apologists are finding difficulty in squaring the Wilson pledges with tlie Wilson perform ances. Pretense and sham are char acteristics of the whole course of the administration. These apologists In sist that the present spotted prosper ity of the country is due to Demo cratic policies and the Underwood tariff bill, but those familiar with the operation of the Underwood act know that its immediate effect was to cause the balance of trade to run so heavily against us that business stagnation re sulted, bankruptcies Increased, em ployment of labor diminished and only because of the unusual demand for foodstuffs and munitions abroad was the most deplorable and depressing panic in the history of the country averted. War taxes were imposed to the ex tent of millions upon our people, in face of the contention of the Wilson defenders that "he has kept us out of war." The First Illinois Regiment was on* of the earlies to return from the Bor der. Its men had more than three months of "watchful waiting." Most of them gave up good jobs to respond to the "emergency" which called them out —an "emergency" which is now known to have heen only political and per sonally political to the President, at that. They returned, many of them, to find that not only had their time been sacrificed on the altar of Wilson's cam paign for re-election, but that they had lost their hold on the civilian employ ment which they formerly enjoyed. The Chicago Tribune canvassed the rcgi- mmi mm. l iwwiiwum - .1 SATURDAY EVENING, v > - SXHRISBT7HO ffjjgV TEI-EGRAPH OCTOBER 28, 1916. ment and found that at least 163 of the men admit that their jobs at home had been taken by others whIM they were down In Texas. These men know, as few others can, that they have/been kept out of the war, the imminence of which prompted them to enroll; and they also know that they are now kept out of a job. WILSON AND EIGHT-HOUR DAY WILSON Is now talking a great deal about the eight-hour day. He has said that it has received the sanction of society—but he does not tell when, member of so ciety, he concurred in thus sanction ing the eight-hour day. The date of his conversion can be fixed only nega tively. It must, however, we are sure, be subsequent to September, 1905. At that time Mr. Wilson was at Princeton and little concerned with the "rights of humanity" and still less with the outcome of elections. To him, at that period of his life, wrote Professor Frank Parsons, then an of ficer in the Bureau of Economic Re search. He invited Professor Wilson to join with other writers and teachers of economics in signing these declara tions: 1. We favor the eight-hour day. 2. Believing that the eight-hour day means a longer and richer life, a fairer diffusion of wealth and power, a better citizenship and a higher civilization through leisure for education, recreation, civic and social life, we welcome each step in the progress of the eight-hour movement and earnestly hope for the success of the typographical unions in their efforts to secure the eight-hour day. Professor Wilson refused to sign this, saying: It seems to me that nothing of this sort can be decided thus in the abstract and that no valuable con clusion can be arrived at except by a real discussion of specific cases. That study of that specific case he did not give; would not give, it is probable. Yet he rendered an eager ; assent to the demands of the railroad , brotherhoods, without study. Why? In 1905 he was not a candidate for of- , fice, he cared nothing for the votes of any set of men and still less for the conditions under which they work. ! Which is his real and true opinion— ! that of 1905 or that of 1916? Not in years have the colored men rallied to a cause in this city as have j the negro citizens united in the sup- ; port of Charles Evans Hughes. At the I big meeting in the Courthouse this week, the speeches were eloquent and forceful, and reference was made re- j peatedly to the changed conditions at j Washington and elsewhere dnder the Wilson regime. FARM IX)AN BANKS NOT only in the North, but also in j the Southland, the farm loan plan of the Wilson administra- 1 tion is severely criticised as imprac tical and not what was promised. Speaking at Memphis, the head of the Farm Mortgage Bankers' Association of America said: If my diagnosis is correct, it will I lead to a period of agricultural I speculation and expansion which will prove disastrous to the pro posed beneficiaries. This is precisely the opinion of the scheme which was voiced by the farmers who gathered on Capitol Hill the other day to consider the location of a Federal farm bank in the eastern section of the country. They did not hesitate to say that the proposed financial scheme in its present form would prove disappointing through out the East, especially in view of the fact that farmers are able to make better financial arrangements with their own local banking institutions than could be possible under the farm loan bank act as enacted by the last Congress. "I wouldn't take a million dollars apiece for them," said James Kearny, of Scranton, gazing fondly on his newly arrived quadruplets. And we violate no confidence in observing. Mr. Kearny, that even at a much lower figure bid ding would not he what you might term lively. PROUD OF HIS HOME TOWN THE Telegraph likes the way Edson J. Hockenbury goes about let- j ting folks of the various cities in which he conducts his Y. M. C. A. and other campaigns know where he lives when he is at home. Mr. Hock enbury Is a modest man, as anybody acquainted with him knows, but in the very nature of his work it is neces sary for his picture to appear in print with considerable frequency. And when it does, right underneath his name the reader will find the words —"Of Harrisburg, Pa." Mr. Hocken bury is a "citizen of no mean city" and by the same token he is no "mean citizen," so that credit is reflected both ways when the well-known cam- I palgner signs it "Edson J. Hbcken- I bury, of Harrisburg, Pa." | "Flour eleven dollars a barrel." Hur ; rah for the "worklngman's friend," who ; thus keeps his promises to "reduce the ; high cost of living caused by the I dreadful tariff." HINTS IX)R THE SUBURBS THE milk and ice cream regula tions adopted by Harrisburg should be extended to cover the | whole district surrounding. Harrls- I burg has come to mean so much more than the mer territory within its offi cial boundaries that the full force and benefit of local regulations are lost | it they are not adopted by the com munities roundabout which are parts of the city in all but name. To be a healthful, progressive city all of the little towns that have sprung up around Harrisburg on every side must bo healthful and progressive, too. The Legislature recognized this condition when it gave the city plan ning commission jurisdiction three miles out from the city limits, and the health boards could with profit folloV this example. Mr. Bsker has conveniently forgotten Just what he said about the Revolution ary heroes —but the voters have not. BLOCKING TRAFFIC ATTENTION has repeatedly been called to the Intolerable condi tions at the Federal building. For many months Locust street and the sidewalk •Joue the post office have been almost closed by the mate rials and machinery of the contractors on the never-ending renvedellng job. Unless the Department of Highways does something to improve the situa tion, legal action Is threatened to com pel a reasonable attitude by the con tractor. If these Mexican disturbances keep up it may be written & little later that I "he kept us out of war—until after 1 I election," I editorial comment"! I Thirty-one American authors have [ | come out for Hughes, after denounc-j ing Vance C. McCormlck's hyphenate! plot as unfit for the purposes of high •grade fiction. —New York Sun. i You have the right idea, Johanna. The ' silent vote will speak most effectively ;on election day.—Cincinnati Commer cial. This "drift to Wilson" Is a rather | cute Democratic device. Just ask the hopeful Democrat who sees the "drift" to name those who are drifting.— I Johnstown Tribune. j The news that several Americans were killed in a battle In Santo Do mingo will be the first Information ! most Americans have that this country is carrying on a little war In a country that the administration happened to de cide was not to determine Its own des tiny.—Kansas City Star. Why doesn't Vance McCormick claim Wilson'will carry the "State of War" that exists between the U. S. and Mexico? —Sharon Herald. LETTERS TO THE EDITOT) The Hughes College League To the Editor of the Telegraph: The Hughes National College League, with headquarters In New York City, has been formed for the purpose of securing concerted action on the part of a class of voters in be half of the Republican and Progres sive candidate, Charles Evans Hughes. Local branches of this league are formed throughout the country at the request of the national officers. No financial obligation accompanies mem bership in this league, but those be coming members are called upon and expected to get out on the firing line and lay before the voting public a clear and concise explanation of the many and extremely important issues of this campaign and to give concrete and unanswerable explanations and convincing arguments why the voters should case their ballots for Hughes. To aid them in his work, literature will be sent the members from the national headquarters. Too often those who are most quali fied and capable of taking an active part In politics and in political affairs, merely go, to the polls and vote, and in a great many instances, do not vote at all. Political conditions are what they are in most cases because the man who should vote and knows how to vote does not vote at all. No man 1 can claim himself a good citizen unless at every election he exercises his greatest duty, that of voting and vot ing right. Therefore, any effort to arouse the voting public to its duty should be met with the heartiest approbation. And that is what the Hughes College League is doing. Thousands of men who, heretofore, have never taken an Interest in politics are now devoting days and nights in giving their best efforts, realizing that it is their solemn duty not only to vote themselves but to instill others with the same idea and to explain to them the especial importance of this campaign. The success of the local branch has been little short of remarkable. It is already a force in this campaign lo cally in the same degree that the national branch is nationally, and all local members automatically become members of the National League. It is giving unbiased, unprejudiced and unselfish service in behalf of the next President, Charles Evans Hughes. SECRETARY of the Local Branch. REPLIES TO "UNKNOWN" To the Editor of the Tetesrapli: Permit me to reply to the letter in the Telegraph on Thursday, October 26th, signed "Unknown." The Associated Aid Societies receiv ed' approximately twenty-five (25) tele phone calls, requesting the name and address of the family to which the writer refers. Will any one say that It would be i well to have given the Information j asked in each Instance? v We respect the privacy of the fam- I lly just as much as any giver may de- j sire to respect his own privacy in the ' matter of. giving. The secretary desires to say to the ; writer that he does not believe at any time in giving names and addresses to "Unknowns." He has had sufficient ex perience on this point, especially when the inquiry concerns a woman and children. * It is easily possible for any person to send money to the office of the Asso ciated Aid Societies anonymously. A number of gifts have coqne for this particular family In this way and they reached' the family just as surely as if sent direct. The help that the Associated' Aid So cieties gives is never meager, but al ways adequate and supplies every need, beyond that would be waste. Organized charity is not making per sonal service Impossible. Many fami lies and many helpless children come to us with their needs. We are always gfkd to make use of personal service, as well as money, in supplying these needs and there Is always a need of both. "Unknown" will be welcome at any time at our office. We will be glad to make use of his service, and while do ing it, will respect the confidence of the "left hand." Very truly yours, JOHN YATES, General Secretary, the Associated Aid j Societies. Library Tabl&J_ minutki WITM TH BMU t HMAtlNfit^^Sea "The Toners of ilium." by Ethelyn Leslie Huston (George H. Doran Co.). More or leas dangerous for the young and unthinking in that it tears the con ventions to shreds and raises the com mon law to a high standard by sanc tioning an illegal marriage and crown ing It with happiness. June Kerriss, a popular college girl, frivolous and thoughtless, suffers be reavement and loss of fortune and is precipitated into loneliness. Enter problems of femlnlnism, of maternity, and the daring of a woman to choose the father of her child. A happy con clusion is reached in spite of the shock to society. The book is delightfully written. "The More Excellent \Vr," by Cvrus Townsend Brady (Putnams). A 'tale of m#dern society and the divorce question, with the scenes laid In New York, Sorrento, Bermuda, and Reno. Harely has an author, without <Rempt at preaching, written a storv so subtly influential, so provocative of thought, even while it seems to leave no time for thought in the swift succession of its dramatic development. WHAT THE.ROTARY CLUB LEARNED OF THE CITY [Questions submitted to members of the Harrisburg Rotary Club and their answers as presented at the organiza tion's annual "Municipal Quiz."] How many buildings are used for City Offices? Courthouse. Commonwealth Trust Building, Board of Trade, Telegraph Building and C'alder Building. / I By the Ex-Coramltteeman Southern Congressmen, assistant secretaries from 'the departments at Washington, Federal jobholders~from south of the Mason and Dixon line and men aligned with the old South ern Democracy which is running things at Washington are invading Pennsylvania and making a desperate effort to roll up a big vote for Wil son so that it can be used to bolster up ambitions of certain Democratic bosses for 1918 and 1920. The Wil son managers, despite the vaporlngs of State Chairman Guffey, have few hopes of increasing the Democratic Congressmen frorrt this State, still less of Carrying the State, but they are engaged in the furthering Of some well laid schemes which look ahead quite a few years. The Demo crats are counting upon a row among Republicans in Pennsylvania after election day and are prepared to take advantage of any friction which may occur in the Legislature. They are getting ready to make a tremendous campaign for the governorship in 1918 and the men who can make a dent in Pennsylvania's Republicanism is going to be the man who can com mand anything at the hands of the Democratic party. These are the reasons for the drive now being made. In addition the Democrats are making plays for elec tion of Congressmen in the southern tier counties where southern Con gressmen and assistant secretaries are making nightly speeches. To-night this county will also be Invaded by men from Washington as a part of the national observance of the last tithe paying Saturday. —Dismissal of M. J. Walsh, the vet eran pure food inspector in Luzerne county is understood at the State De partment of Agriculture to be the first of a series of changes to be in augurated by Secretary of Agriculture Charles E. Patton not only in the pure food bureau but in other branches of that department. Patton has been one of the Governor's ad visers in favor of warfare on men in office not in sympathy with the Gov ernor's ambitions to be State leader and he has had a list made of men who are under consideration for re placement by Varo adherents and anti-Penrose men in the State. Pat ton wanted to start beheading last summer, but was held back by the Governor. The dismissal of WalHh before the eelctlon was a surprise. The next changes are understood to be scheduled tor the eastern part of the State. —The statement of Dean William Draper Lewis, the Bull Moosers can didate for Governor two years ago until he withdrew in favor of Vance C. McCormick, the D<*Tnocratic na tional chairman, that all progressives should vote for Hughes, published In the Ledger yesterday, was a body blow to the Democratic machine. The dean says that Hughes is best suited to the people's needs. —President Wilson has gotten into Joe Guffey's class. He said yesterday that he was going to carry Philadel phia. —lsaac A. Pennypacker has been elected president of the Hughes' Al liance In Montgomery county and meetings are being arranged for next week. —John Wanamaker is taking an active part in behalf of the election of Hughes and urging his friends In Philadelphia and throughout the State to get busy. The veteran mer chant is one of the men who is giving much time to the campaign. —J. Henry Geer, of New Brighton, was dismissed from his place as a State road superintendent in Beaver county with one day's notice this week. He was "fired" on Thursday, October 26, for political activity. Geer is said to have been fighting a Re publican Senatorial candidate ii\ Beaver county who was a friend of the Governor and a dry candidate. —Republican county leaders are In conference with State Chairman Crow at Philadelphia to-day and reports are generally satisfactory regarding the prospects. Many meetings are being held. —Republican State candidates will go on to Fayette county to-night and will speak at Unlontown. Philander C. Knox will join them. The candi dates had a fine meeting at Altoona last night. —Philander C. Knox willispeak Fri day at the big Philadelphia rally to which Governor Brumbaugh and Mayor Smith liave been invited. —William Flinn in a battling speech at Pittsburgh said that the nation owed no progressive laws to Wilson. They were bound to come and Wilson only happened to be in, Fllnn has been making some strong speeches daily. —Governor Brumbaugh will finish up his speaking tour in New York to-day. He will be in Philadelphia to-night. —Declaring that President Wilson has proved himself an eliemy of or ganized labor and that, on the con trary. Mr. Hughes has shown himself the friend of labor throughout his whole career, a series of resolutions supporting the candidacy of Mr. Hughes was passed last night at a meeting of the Philadelphia Building Trades Council, representing in all about 60,000 men. —Congressman John R. K. Scott, who is personally directing the strik ing of "phantoms" from registration lists in his ward in Philadelphia, was complimented yesterday upon the zeal he has displayed this year in cleaning up the lists by registration commissioners. —The State's commissioners to take the votes of the soldiers will meet here on Wednesday afternoon. They will assemble at the Capitol. —Mayor Reichenbach of Allentown, fined himself for violutlng the traffic ordinance he had drafted and which is one of the most stringent in the State. —Dan L. Hart, former city treas urer of Wilkes-Barre and a figure in Democratic State politics, has been ousted as collector of school taxes in his city by a Supreme Court decision. Hart is the man who sounded the funeral note of the Democratic cam paign two years ago when he said that the Democracy under the reor ganization management was heading toward "a calm peaceful twilight." —ln naming the new county treas urer of Monroe. Governor Brumbaugh gave attention to the requests of folks of that county and refused to listen to some outside suggestions. The Gov ernor had been much importuned re garding the appointment and took ad vice of men living in the county. —Joseph N. .Shomo, former county, controller of Berks and one of the best known Republicans in that sec tion of the State, celebrated his eighty third birthday yesterday and was con gratulated by many friends. —lt was announced last night by the Philadelphia City Committee that a big Republican rally will be held in Town Hall, Oermantown, next Thurs day night, at which Senator Charles A. Snyder, candidate for Auditor General, will appear on the platform with Charles A. Ambler, who was Snyder's opponent for the nomination in the primaries. The other speak ers will include Congressmen Moore, Yare and Darrow and Committeeman ' THE CARTOON OF THE DAY UNPREPAREDNESS AND WATCHFUL WAITING Cblcaso ———. WELL KNOWN LABOR UNION • MAN TAKES GOMPERS TO TASK FOR TRYING TO DELIVER VOTE To the Members of Organized Labor: i THERE appeared in the public presto of last week an article sup- i posing to come from the pen of Samuel Gompers, president of the Amer- ' lean Federation of and concur- 1 red in by James O'Connell, vlce-presi- < dent, and Frank Morrison, secretary- : treasurer of the same organization, in i which they advise the members of or- i ganlzed labor to support Mr. Wilson for 1 President of the United States, upon the grounds that Mr. Wilson is a real 1 friend of lat?or. Being an organized labor man all my life, and having served as an official of one of the strongest labor organizations in the world, both numerically and . financially, (the United Mine Workers of America) I can not but protest against the stand taken by Mr. Gompers, et al., and I can not for the life of me understand what Mr. Gompers means in using the high office which has been in trusted him for thirty or more years, in the interest of any one political party, something that he has been do ing ever since I first knew him some fifteen years ago, and always for the one and the same party, notwithstand ing what any other party or parties might have done for the wage workers of whom he is so solicitous at the present time. The great labor movement of this country is composed of members of all political beliefs. Republican Democratic, Socialist, Independent, Prohibition and l God knows what not—everybody to his liking. You will find all creeds and nationalities joined together in the labor movement for ono purpose—the betterment and advancement of work ing conditions—without thought of creed, color, nationality or political be liefs, and for the head of the affiliated national, international and central unions to inject into that movement something which the constitution of all well-conducted labor unions forbid, is beyond my comprehension. Mr. Gompers, et al., in their offset, claim that in this campaign there has been develfcped a clear cut issue be tween the workers—the producers—and those who manipulate the products of the labor of others—the exploiters. i That may be true,' and I believe the American workman is intelligent enough to see for himself as to who lias been Ills friend, and after analyzing the whole issue 1 ajn sure he will not count Woodrow Wilson, with his man ager-in-chief, Vance McCorinick, with his- million per year Income, as his friend. Let us see where this friend (?) of labor was prior to his entering the White House and where he carefully laid his plans for re-election to the presidency. Let us take a statement of Mr. Wilson before he thought of evok ing the labor vote and what do we find his attitude to be toward organized labor. Wllxon'a Altitude The following extract, taken from his address before the graduating class of Princeton University in-1UO9. speaks for itself, which 1 herewith embody: "You know what the usual standard of the employe is"ln our day. it is to give as little as he may for Ills wages. Labor is standardized by the trades unions, and this is the standard to which it is made to conform. No one is suffered to do more than the aver age workman cafl do; In some trades and handicrafts no one Is suffered to do more than the least skillful of his fellows can do within the hours allot Harry A. Maekey. REPUBLICAN TICKET For President, Charles Evans Hughes, of New York For Vice-President, Charles Warren Fairbanks, of Indiana For Auditor General, Charles A. Snyder, of Pottsville For State Treasurer, Harmon M. Kephart, of Connellsville For Congress-at-Large, Thomas S. Crago, of Waynesburg M. M. Garland, of Pittsburgh Joseph McLaughlin, of Philadelphia John R. K. Scott, of Philadelphia For Congress—lßth District Aaron S. Krelder, of Annvilie For Senator, Edward E. Beidleman, of Harrisburg For Representative, First District Augustus Wildman and J. W. SwarU Second District, Ira E. Ulsh and David J. Bcchtold For Mine Inspector, Charles J. Price, of Lykens Nonpartisan Ticket, Supreme Court, Emory A. Walling, of Erie "Molasses to Catch Flies" "Was the Democratic platform here adopted in 1912 'molasses to catch flies' —otherwise known as American In vestors? I quote it: , " 'The constitutional rights of Ameri can citizens protect them on our bor ders and go with them throughout the world/ " —Hughes, at Baltimore, Oc tober 10. ted to a day's labor, and no one may work out of hours at all or volunteer anything beyond the minimum. "L need not point out how economi cally disastrous such a regulation of labor is. It is so unprofitable to the employer that In same trades it will presently not bo worth his while to attempt anything at all. He had better stop altogether than operate at an in evitable and invariable loss. "The labor of America is rapidly be coming unprofitable under its present regulation by those who have deter mined to reduce it to a minimum. "Our economic supremacy may be lost because the country grows more and more full of unprofitable servants." Again we find that on March IS, 1907, Mr. Wilson again expresses his kind (?. wishes for labor In the following state ment: "We speak too exclusively of the capitalistic class. There is another, as formidable an enemy to equality and betterment of Opportunity as It is. and that is the class formed by the labor organizations and leaders of the coun try." It was Woodrow Wflson also who said: "The usual standard of the laborer In our day is to give as little as he may for his wages." "The class formed by the labor or ganizations and leaders is a formidable enemy to equality and betterment of opportunity." , "I am a fierce partisan of the open shop." "Labor unions drag the highest man to tho level of the lowest." "The Chinese were more to be desired as workmen than most of the coarse crew that came crowding in at the eastern ports." Many Others Like These There are many other statements and' extracts from the writings of Mr. Wil son, but time and space will not per mit me to quote. However, the above statements compare favorably with the statement of a man who would be a friend of labor at a time when he had nothing at stake; are they statements which you would expect from a man claiming to be the friend of labor, which Mr. Wilson and his chief would have you now believe he is? Mr. Gompers, et al. in their next para graph would have you believe that labor has received through the Wilson Administration, recognition for the rights of human beings and opportunity for all to participate in the affairs of thernatlon in a degree that has never before been accomplished. In what way, -pray Mr. Gonipers? Was It by going In and taking Congress by the throat, choking it to death, and be coming the whole cheese, box and cloth himself; violating platform pledges throwing our Panama Canal open to the world in competition with our American shippers? Was it by the Underwood tariff law, whereby lie placed the American workman in com petition with the underpaid workman of the world? Was It by removing trainmen from the government service to make room for his political friends thereby building a political machine for himself, notwithstanding civil service laws? Or was it by neglecting those whom you have sworn to protect in your official capacity as president of the A. F. of L.? Mr. Gompers, et al., tell us that Mr Wilson kept us out of war. If this be [Continued on Page 13] | Our Daily Laugh ) JUST IN TIME. ' Here I Jynt ar i in rived with a trunk full of ab bathing suits and {'l find tha beach fashionable open* L for the winter and you'll be able to start a new fad. i:0 TIME TO , SPARE. Bur: Where f (.way Snalley? A # I A .A Snail: I'm gb- _J M/ iU. W /) =:. ; - "•liftlfe Bus: Why \\ (-fe) ,)'(_* '' Bummer's over, Snail: 1 know .1 ,i i It; I'm talking s- . about 19 17. stupid. Etetttttg (Eljat Thousands of bulbs. Including many new varieties"of tulips and hyacinths are being planted in Capitol park for the Spring flower display which will be on when the legislators are sitting in Harrisburg for the 1917 session. The bulbs are being set out in great beds which have been drawn by en gineers of the Department of Public Grounds and Buildings along the line of the famous "boardwalk" and it is expected to make blending of national and State colors. In front of the Stai* Capitol there will be two beds oaCTT over 225 feet long which will be filled with tulips. The flower display which is being planned will be one of the most elaborate in years. During the coming session the leg islature will also be called upon to provide for the permanent treatment or the Capitol Park extension zone, all of the properties in which will be vest ed in the Commonwealth as soon as court proceedings are ended. The Public Service Commission has been solemnly asked by a complainant in Lackawanna county to require a Telephone company to take its wires off trees. He claims that the com pany is using trees instead of poles and Interfering with the service. In another instance a man complained that a water company had refused to release liini from a contract which in nis opinion is burdensome. Com plaints about stations have become numerous again. Such complaints ap pear to run In series. L S . ® x l iect ed about the Capitol that State printing next year will be cut down a third owing to the heavy expense at which it has been running lately and because of the high cost ot paper. The State is protected by con tacts which will run over the next legislative sessions, but after that it faces a big increase in prices. Hence tlie preparations to reduce printing have started. An Interesting light is shown upon how the great problem of to-day—the high cost of living—bothered people in Pennsylvania back in the eighteenth century by an historical address upon the courts and bar of Cumberland county by ex-Judge E. W. Biddle, which was delivered at Carlisle a short time ago. The extract reads as fol lows: "Because of the high and ex travagant prices of the necessaries of life," the general assembly In March, 1778, directed that the fees of the various persons aforesaid should be double the sums at which they stood rated in 1752; and this Increase hav ing proved to be insufficient, the fees were in March, 1779, made three times what thoy had been before the act of 1778, and the "wages" of jurymen and witnesses were quadrupled. These ad vances werq brought about by a pro gressive depreciation in the value of paper currency, with a consequent rise in the price of commodities, and the pressing needs of the case Anally led to the following enactment on No vember 27, 1779, relating to the per sons who were included in the pre vious acts and to some others." One of the sights about Harrisburg these days is Steelton. It is always worth looking at but the present in dustrial activity makes it something more than attractive just now. Per sons who come up or down the Sus quehanna on the Northern Central railroad these evenings have a grea-t treat. The plant can be picked out for miles by the lights, the flamos from the stacks and the glow from furnaces and cinder banks. The sight is ona that attracts the attention of everyone passing the works and the brigh% lights of Harrisburg and the fantastic forms of the rows of lights in Enola yards add much to the night picture. * • • If the movement to make Sliamokin a third class city takes shape it 1.1 likely that similar steps will be taken before long in Norristown, Shenan doah, Wikinsburg, Homestead and other towns which are rapidly ap proaching city size and while boroughs are larger than some of third clasa cities. • It is interesting to note that the trackless trolley line which has been given the preliminary sanction of the State for operation is similar in idea to that which was planned for the Perkiomen valley and which was re fused a franchise because there was nothing in the law which gave a re turn to the districts having the roads. The growth of the jitneys, however, appears to have opened a way for the trackless trolley to get a start. ♦ # * Gilbert IT. Hassler, commission clerk of the department of the secre tary of the Commonwealth, ran up against something the other day. Mr. Hassler was asked to give some data about the laws relating to children who become public charges and the like. The New York concern which wrote the letter considered it a mere trifle. Mr. Hn.ssler found that there were twenty-eighth laws on the sub ject in three years and finally referred the inquiries to Purdon's digest. I WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ] —J. Howard Erevin, well known here, has been elected president of the Montgomery county school directors' organization. —General W. A. Mann, the new chief of militia affairs, is a Pennsyl vanian by birth. lie graduated from West Point in 1875. —Provost E. F. Smith, of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, addressed the Allegheny County Alumni last night, —The Rev. William Henry Cutler, Bellevue minister, has gone to Franca to join the American ambulance corps. —J. M. Murdock, of Johnstown, has been elected a member of the Camp Kire Club of America, to which only, ten Pennsylvanians belong. f DO YOU KNOW f That Harrisburg steel is used for smokestacks? HISTORIC HARRISBI'RG Soldiers of the War of 1812 encamp ed in tho Riverside parks. Pointed Paragraphs [From the Chicago News.] Of two evils choose neither; both will turn out bad. Being a yellow dog isn't as bad as be* ing called a cur. * It's a wise boy who knows enough to laugh at his father's jokes. It's well to investigate an oil well that won't bear looking Into. The act of forgiving doesn't always take away the power of memory. The rose soon fades, but the thorn continues in business at the old stand. is responsible for some hard frosts in summer and some hot wavii In winter. "Sealed I.lps" Is the title of a recent novel. Evidently there are no female characters in it. A woman seldom listens to a man's explanations, but It makes her angry if he refuses to offer one. However, few men are as black aa they are painted, and few are as whit* ias they are whitewashed.
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