8 3ARRISBURG TELEGRAPH' A SEWS PAPER FOR THE HO.'JE Founded i!>i Published evenings except Sunday by THS TELEGRAPH PHIXTIXQ CO„ Ti'lrgropli Building, Federal Square. T" 1 tJ.STACKPDLIS,Pr'( a*J Editor-in-Chief T. R. OYSTER, Business H week; by mall, $3.00 ' a year In advance. _ , SATTRDAY EVENING, NOV. It. ' . ■ 1 It does not take great men to do,' great things, it only takes consecrated .' men. — Phillips Brooks. ' 11 "GOODBYE, BOOZE!" |, THE only really decisive result of ; Tuesday's elections was the I frightful wallop the "drys"i ( Sanded on the solar plexus of old John 1 Barleycorn. Twenty-four States have j, Rone dry, and among them the in flustrial State of Michigan, while the [ big wet majorities of Missouri a few ' < years back were cut to pieces, with ■ the State almost ready to tumble into ! the prohibition column. The liquor element never fought t harder than it did in Michigan. It . poured a fund estimated at a million dollars into the campaign there, but i the people turned booze out by big 1 majorities. , ~ With half the States of the union \ "dry," the handwriting is plain on the wall national prohibition will be a big issue in the United States in the 1 next eight years, probably much soon er. It may even come about, as Governor Hanly recently predicted, ' that in 1920 both the Republican i and Democratic parties will have ■ *'dry" planks in their national plat forms—and "then, goodbye, booze." Eight of ten men you meet say "it's coming sure; liquor's day is almost ( over," and seven of the ten would vote tor national prohibiion, though they ' may be opposed to State prohibition 1 or local option on the ground that ( either, or both, are ineffective or com promising with evil. Take a national 1 vote on the question and the natton 1 would be dry to-morrow. Give a college boy a big chrysanthe- j' mum, a cane, the price of two football 1 tickets and a girl, and he doesn't care : : a hoot who's president. ! ' 1 JVST AS WE1.1,. PERHAPS PERHAPS it is just as well, from a ' Republican party standpoint. 11 if a Democratic House and Sen- , ate have been elected, that Justice Hughes lost to President Wilson. A President .it v x '~ han"'" 1 tied would have bean helpless, yet ] much of the odium that will fall upon the government during the readjust luent period at the end of the war ' would have been shouldered upon him - by Congress. He could have put into : operation none of the great construe- ; tive principles for which he and his j' party stand. At best he could have ! i been little more than a negative Presi- j dent —blocking the law-making bod- , ies when he could not agree with ! them, and accomplishing very little on | : his own account. The Presidency under such condi- j ttons could not have appealed to Jus- j tlce Hughes and it certainly would . have militated against the success of | the Republican party in 1920. '• Old King Alcohol doesn't seem any ' more popular than some of the present European monarcha. GERMANY WILLING THE League to Enforce Peace., fathered by former President Taft, vet may become a factor In settling up differences and preserv ing the equilibrium of the nations af- j ter the great war. England already has announced its ■willingness to enter into some such ! agreement with the United States, and tow comes this encouraging expres sion from the German Chancellor: Germany Is at all times ready to join a league of nations; ves. even I to place Itself at the head of such j a league, to keep In check the dis- ! turbera of the peace. If President Taft brings about any j such league of nations he will go' down in history as the foremost man of his time, even though no more than a tenth of the League's purposes are ever attained. Anyway, fellow Republicans, we had ' a mighty good time Tuesday night, > didn't we? THE D. A. R. CONTEST FOR the twentieth consecutive: year, yesterday, the Harrisburg j Chapter, Daughters of the Am erican Revolution, awarded two prizes in gold to girls of the Central High school, who wrote prize-winning es says on an assigned topic of historical interest. Pennsylvania Day ts ob served in the high school only because the Daughters of the Revolution pro vide the Incentive. It is a good work the chapter Is doing. This essay con test not only arouses the student to thoughts of patriotism, but induces 1 SATURDAY EVENING, historical research of a kind that leaves a lasting- impression upon the student. DO IT NOW ! i VERY Hnrrisburger should read JLj and think about Allen Sangree's article in Wednesday's issue of the Telegraph dealing with the de velopment of the Susquehanna river basin at this point. Mr. Sangree ! makes the suggestion that Harrisburg be made the Atlantic City of Pennsyl vania. and shows how it could be brought about. His plan is feasible and workable. We have the oppor tunity; all that remains is the will to do, and that lies largely with the Greater Harrisburg Navy and the business men who would be most benefited by the coming of largo num bers of excursionists to Harriburg. It is easily possible to build munici pal bathing beaches and bath houses ;on a scale that would encourage the Central Pennsylvania man or woman looking for recreation to And it in Har risburg, nor would the necessary in vestment be prohibitive. But before i we think of this outside patronage we must consider the immediate needs of our own people. As Mr. Sangree | points out, the city has at its disposal I McCormick's -Island, a large tract of | land ideally situated for municipal ' bathing purposes and easily capable of being turned into a camp 6ite suit able for the accommodation of hun dreds of families in Harrisburg hungry for a taste of outdoor life in summer i time. I It ought to be possible at no great expense to transform the shores of the Island into camp locations. Tents could be purchased of uniform size and rented at very small sums by the j week or the season. Strict regula | tions as to camp conduct and privi , leges would ba necessary, but as other | cities successfully conduct just such camping communities there ought to be little difficulty here. The possibili ; ties in this direction are big. First and foremost, however, -we must provide for the boy and the girl, the man and the woman, with a few hours a day or a half day each week who want to use the river for boating or bathing purposes. Bath houses and boat houses we must have, and have soon. The necessary appropria tions should be included In the budgets City Council is already beginning to consider. Here the Navy and the in dividual swimmers and boat owners who are not Identified with that or ganization must make themselves felt. 1 Councilmen must be made to under stand that the people not only want i these things, but that they intend to have them and that It will be the part of wisdom for councilmen to concur j gracefully in the wishes of the com munity. We are headinsr rapidly toward win ter r.; a*, out in three months we will be ready to think about Spring and unless we insist now upon the river improvements we want next summer we shall wake up with the coming of the warm season and find that nothing has been accomplished. The time is ripe for vigorous, concentrated action. I The Supreme Court has lost an emi nent Jurist, but we can't see that the Presidency has gained much, THE DIFFERENCE DAYTON is so enthusiastic over its commission-manager plan of government that its has pub i tished a book about it The title is : "Tangible Results at Dayton Under the Commission-manager Plan." or I "A Story of Three Years of Good Gov ernment on the Basis of a Model Municipal Charter." In Harrisburg I we are also inclined to write a book i telling what we think of our commis sion form of government plan—but it j wouldn't go through the malls. Anyway, we in Pennsylvania did our j part. PAJAMAS ARE SLIPPING WE read in the Philadelphia Bul letin that "pajamas are slip ping down in point of sales." | Evidently the reporter meant to be facetious. We read further that j "nighties" are coming into favor again. At all events, the department stores are having a big run on them. The Bulletin thinks that pajamas j are passing. May be so. and again j perhaps "nightie" is simply coming j into winter favor after the manner of ! that of the unknown "poet" who sang: ! "I wear my pink pajamas in the sum mer when it's hot; I wear my flannel 'nightie' in the winter when it's not." The days—or nights—when the flan ; nel "nightie" shall be a comfort to the ' body and a Joy to the soul are at hand. So maybe "pajamas" are merely go ing South for the winter—so to speak —but if ever they do go out entirely It will be because, as the Bulletin man says, they "slip down." If you, dear wearer, ever started from bed In a great hurry about 2 a. m. you know what we mean. Those Salt Itlver tickets were a couple of days lato this week. THE LOCKER ROOM ... ... By BRIGGS fU&fljf Her |?, *D A. J2y J F ° R Th - use \ rME some way fixed to stop the flooding of labor In our city. I re | main for the betterment of my saoe, REV. W. T. MARTIN. Cost of Living in Canada I Buffalo Express.] The contention of some Democratic newspapers that the restoration of the Republican tariff would have raised the cost of living in Northern States by cutting- off the importation of food stuffs from Canada is negatived by this fact: The cost of living Is as high In Canada as It Is In this country. It costs as much to live In Toronto as It does in Buffalo, as much In rural On tario as It does In .rural New York or rural New England. When the laurier government went to the people of Canada on the reel ■ proclty Issue In 1911 the principal argu ment in favor of a reciprocal trade agreement with the United States was that It would reduce the cost of living In Canada to the level then obtaining NOVEMBER 11, 1916. ize plant location, there would be little incentive for others in that State to take a similar step, involving large investments in new power plant equip ment. Several bonus methods have been worked out in Great liritain. prin cipally for gas companies. For ex ample, a standard price for gas and standard rate of return are establish ed, and us the price of gas is reduced there is allowed a corresponding in crease in rate of return to the stock holders. It has also been suggested that regulating bodies rate companies periodically according to merit, and then grant them higher or lower in comes, depending on the rates and service offered. Erfch property man ager is thus in competition with the records of previous years of his own property as well as the present and past records of other companies of the same character. Consumers and stockholders alike have a real inter est In the ability of the management to make good. Inefficiency means lower dividends to the stockholder and no benefits to the consumer. Efficiency means higher dividends and lower rates. Mr. Fleming: works out a hypotheti cal table for an electric company which shows that under a no-bonus system the average rate per kilowatt hour decreases from three cents at the start to 2.95 in the first six months and to 2.5 in the tenth year, while the returns on the investment remain at 6 per cent, over the entire period. Under the bonus system, on the other hand, the rates decrease from three to 2.25 cents in the same period of time and the returns increase from 6 to 7.5 per cent. on this side of the border! The I.iberal papers of Canada dally contained quo tations from markets on both sides which showed that living was cheaper In the United States than In Canada. That was five years ago. but there has been little change. The cost of living has advanced at least as rap idly in Canada as It has here. Let Us Be Good-Natured [From the New Haven Journal-Courier] The most of us feel a bit ashamed after the buttle of the ballots Is over, that we were led by political passion to feel toward our differing brethren that they were unworthy of our personal sympathy. In a way it Is the sort of hatred that we have seen so shockingly displayed In the great European war, hatred that has no real basis In mature reflection and is doomed to a short existence. German Submarines in Gulf [From the Detroit Free Press.] Let our government undertake to dis claim responsibility and her action will be equivalent to an extension of per mission to Great Britain to step in and discipline Mexico on lier own account. Then what of the Monroe Doctrine? Our Daily Laugh jm CAUSE AND '%> EFFECT. s&A There was a good deal of )y, mud throwing I yin the cam- 1 1,\\ That may re in j \ suit in its be- a land- PATIENT. I'm going to \ \ A \ ask the boss to raise my salary \ the first of the '< yv? But suppose v again next year. Ibettfttg (El}al| ga—aea i ■ ■ ■ ——— Governor Brumbaugh has svtten, th<> habit of visiting the State Capitol depnrtmentß of. odd times and ho has caused considerable perturbation upon more than ono occasion in the last few weeks. This was a favorite Idea with Samuel W. Pennypacker, when he was governor and ho disturbed the serenity of more than ono chief aneininger, who starts in a week ahead of the time he expects to have the grewsomo papers signed and who re minds the governor. There is no slip ping such things by the governor. He reads every paper and grasps its significance rapidly. This ability to take up a matter and speedily master it is one, of the distinguishing traits of the versatile governor. An educator must neces sarily be a well informed man, but the governor has the happy facultv , of getting into the core of a subject (about as fast as his attorney general, whose mental activity and tremendous industry are much commented upon! at the Capitol, can present an argu ment to a court. The governor has a fashion of wading Into contracts, charters and other things which make up the routine business like he used to tackle school reports in Vhiladelphia. Just to test him a friend asked him one day when ha had gone through a big mass of busiJ* ness whether he had heard about a certain matter. The caller had seen the rapid flre action on business as fast as presented and the governor replied, 'Oh, yes, I Just finished my end of that. It calls for so and so, Smith, Jones, Robinson and others are in it." The governor's ability to make a speech on anything at all and to make it well is proverbial. He strik ingly illustrated that on his cam paign and agricultural tours. He says that one of the reasons is because he has thoroughly studied the State and having lectured in many county seats knows lots of people. However, it is his ability to get the "feel" of an au dience that helps. Governor Brumbaugh has been tre j mendously interested in the project for improving the Capitol park. Just. | as Governor Tener brought about the | extension of the park as the notable local feature of his administration the governor plans to make its improve ment a monument to his administra tion here. The governor has visited ; the whole park extension and has I gone out on Allison Hill and high up in the Capitol to get an idea of its size. "This park is to be the center of the park system of a groat city which is going to use its natural ad vantages and I want to see the park something which people all over the the country can appreciate," was the way he put it. • • • The fact that Pennsylvania has fewer living ex-governors than most of the States has been much com mented upon. This State now has i three living former executives. One i of the reasons given by men who havo obsesved the matter is that the term is four years, longer than the tenure in most of the States and this State for years elected ony men who were in the prime of life. In fact John K. Tener was one of the young-est men called to the office since Robert E Pattison. [ WELL KNOWN PEOPLE"""] —Judge F. A. F.regy was dined by friends in Philadelphia, in honor of completing thirty years on the bench. —Bishop Ij. 1,. Klnsolving, of Bra zil, will visit in Philadelphia this rr onth. —F. P. Ijongmoro, prominent !n Milton affairs, Is the new head of Northumberland county Endeavorers. —John P. Garber, superintendent of Philadelphia schools, has started to probe the cost of school lunches in Philadelphia. —W. R. Nicholson. Philadelphia banker, will be given a dinner to right at the New city club in honor of his work for that organization. —Superintendent Davidson. of Pittsburgh schools, Is getting after pupils who do scrawling writing. [ DO YOU KNOW "J f That Harrlsburg ships parts or engines for New York sky scrapers? HISTORIC HARRISBCRG The site of the Commonwealth ho tel was Washington's headquarters on the way to the Whisky Insurrection. Settled [From the Baltimore American.l The dental of the British Admiralty that IT-boatl T -boat crews were deliberately allowed to drown by their British cap tors Is to be accepted as final. There is much to criticize In the British way of doing things, but wanton brutality In this way is not one of Its conspicu ous faults. /