8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO., Telegraph Ilulldlng, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres'l and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. GUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. Member American llshtfrs' Associa tion, The Audit Bureau of Circu lation and Penn sylvania Associat- Eastern offlc. Story, Brooks & Flnley, Fifth Ave nue Building, New ern Story, Entered at the Post Office in Harrls burg. Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents a week; by mail, $3.00 a year in advance. ■ WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOV. 29 The year's at the spring! And Day's at the morn I The lark's on the wing! The snail's on the thorn! God's in His heaven: All's right with the world. — BROWNING, THANKSGIVING! GIVE thanks unto the I.ord, call upon Ills name, make known His deedN among the people." "Sing unto the Lord, for He hath done excellent things) this lit known in all the earth."' "It Is n good thine: to give thank* unto the Lord) nnd to sing prnixes unto Thy name, O Most High. "To show forth Thy loving kindness In the morning; and Thy faithfulness every night." "Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, nnd mnkc n joyful noise nnto Him with psalms." "Dollar bills and new gold scarce," says a news item heading. We judge the writer meant scarcer. H A HI) SCRA BBLF. OWING to tho illness of City So licitor Seitz certain legal matters affecting tho Hardscrabble con demnation proceedings are in statu quo, but these are not of such a charac ter as to seriously delay the final clear ance of the district in question. There is nothing to prevent the filing of the bonds of the city to protect the in terests of property owners not satisfied with the awards and begin the removal of the properties on the river front between Herr and Calder streets. Thiy improvement is accepted throughout the city as one which Bhould have been made long ago, and while the rights of all the property owners must be conserved at every | step it does not follow that there is anything in the situation which would Justify unreasonable delay on the part of the city. Our unrivaled river front is an asset of which every citizen is proud and the stranger within our gates always goes away from Harrisburg with a feeling that there are few cities so blessed in the matter of picturesque environment. Everywhere there is the thought that the river frontage constitutes the best feature of the city's esthetic values. Landscape architects distinguished throughout tho world have been here and these have told of the splendid treatment of tho city's river line. All that is now needed to complete this work is the proper protection of the embankment on both sides of the Susquehanna basin. Especially must attention be given to tho slope In the newer sections of the city. This is one of the things that ought to have been looked after during the late sum mer, but whatever the excuse for • failure to so, it is certain to be demanded by the people with the opening of next Spring. We regret that the postal laws for bid publication of a letter from a reader who tells what he thinks of the farmer who tried to get fifty-five cents a pound for turkey to-day, but we con sole ourselves nnd our friend with the thought that we agree with him. and we're much obliged to him for saying it for us, as we hesitate about swear ing on tho eve of Thanksgiving Day. FOOTBALL THANKSGIVING will witness the ringing down of the curtain on the 1916 football season, and the sport-loving American populace will turn Its attention to other matters. It was a season in which the "dopesters" did not have it all their own way. A number of surprises upset calculations and overturned the betting contingent, and all the big teams suffered at least one decisive defeat, except Brown. Last Saturday marked the surging of the tide of interest in football to tho high water mark, when 120,000 people, more or less, crowded two separate stadiums within seventy miles of each other and either cheered themselves hoarse with delirious Joy, as In the case of tho Yale rooters, or accepted with equanimity the ap parent Inevitable as did the Ollphant harassed Navy supporters. The two football classics, the Army- Navy and the Yale-llarvard games, evidence the hold which football has on the American people. King Base ball glares with envy. The Roman . ' F r "^-—— WEDNESDAY EVENING, BAKUBBORO tfSßflll TELEGRAPH! NOVEMBER 29, 1916. gladiator stuff, which used to he such a favorite descriptive asset among football writers, is gone and football stands on a Arm basis of strong clean competition, where brains and muscle share equally In the outcome. Brown is undisputed champion of the season. Yale has redeemed her self. There remains but the Cornell- Pennsylvania struggle on Franklin Field Thanksgiving Day. Our best wishes for a hard-fought battle. We have not noticed any mention of the King of Rumania's Thanksgiving proclamation. CHRISTMAS IS COMING DO Your Christmas Shopping Early" is a slogan that has a few days to run before it becomes an achronistic, but how many of us are still in that old rut of indecision as to what our Christmas purchases shall be. Wo clench our fists and grit our teeth and say "To-day I will get some of these presents out of the way," but the hour comes and we heed it not. And the days pass and the Yuletide draws near and we shiver with apprehension as the night before Christmas with its nonstlrring mice is on us and we are unprepared. The man of business prides himself on his systems, his efficiency, his prompt decisions, etc., etc. But what becomes of all these boasted charac teristics when buying Christmas pres ents is the order of tho day, or night? What a pleasing conception of pure, unadulterated bliss it Is to Imagine the unheard-of event of a man going home and warming his toes on the fireplace or the radiator the night before Christ mas without being called from his solid comfort to go downtown and make the neglected purchases. And think how much it would contribute to the proper appreciation of tho sea son by tho hard-working and willing clerks and shopgirls who so many years wander wearily home after a gruelling week of caring for late shoppers. There are no two ways to It. Tie a ribbon around your finger or in your buttonhole. Do it now! Oh, stop complaining for a moment and be glad you're living. CANADA INCREASING SALES COMPARING the nine months ended September, 1916, .with the samo period for 1915, it is found that Canada increased her hold on the American makec in this brief period 35 per cent., or from $119,000,000 to $161,000,000. The 1916 period records an increase of $69,000,000 over a simi lar period in 1913, under the Repub lican tariff law, farm products and fish accounting for the bulk of the in crease. Naturally our exports to Canada have increased, but this is due mainly to the requisitions she has made on us for war supplies. No one expects them to keep up indefinitely, but the rapidity with which Canada is hurling her goods into our market shows the ne cessity for a speedy return to the policy of protection if we have any sympathy for the American farmer and fisherman. No Canadian, however blinded by his love for gain, could frame an effective argument as to why the United States should be obliged to pay the high Canadian tariff to get its goods into the Canadian market and at the samo time open wide the gates to the free distribution of Canadian products in the American market. SCIIWAR AND CIVIC SPIRIT IT is not often that there comes to the notice of the Telegraph a speech so greatly to its liking or so much in accord with its own con victions as the address of Charles M. Schwab before 800 residents of the two Bethlehems Monday night, urging the union of the two towns to make one city. At the risk of tiring its read ers with too many sermons from the same text, it presents herewith two paragraphs from Mr. Schwab's re marks that apply to Harrisburg as much as to the Bethlehems and em body tho true spirit of civic better ment ♦hMLv,f US set5 et together in our thoughts and purposes and let us work together until we can in fact and in law become so consolidated into one great civic center. Single purpose, common sympathy, united efforts and consolidated activities mean one city [Bethlehem]. " v,uea We—myself and associates—are not endeavoring to force our views upon you. I want to nee the real ization of this proposition worthy of your efforts. I foresee addi tional cost to our enterprises, as you probably see additional cost to yours, but we must sink selfish ,K we do have higher taxes we will have a better place to live. lou know that values h"rfl have Quadrupled, and therefore we can ? r, to '"ake some sacrifices in the interest of a greater com munity.—Charles M. Schwab, Study those last words: "We can afford to make some sacrifices in the interest of a greater community." They sum up the whole history of pub lic Improvements in Harrisburg. Be cause the people here, consciously or unconsciously, decided that way, Har risburg is what It Is. Unless there is in tho hearts of its people the will to sacrifice individual interests and profits for the good of the whole no city can become great; with that spirit predominant there is no enJl to its possibilities. Read again the paragraphs quoted. They are the very essence of public enterprise. THE PATROL WAGON AT FIRES SOME time ago Mayor Meals for bade the police patrol wagon and ambulance to respond to fire alarms—a service it had performed for years. On Monday evening a baby was burned in its cradle. Kind-hearted firemen rushed it to the hospital on a bumping, rattling hose wagon—the only vehicle at their command. The baby died on the way. Isn't it about time for the Mayor to reconsider that order? Or is wear and tear on the patrol wagon more to be considered than life? "Villa dead or alive"—Just now very much allvf When a Feller Needs • BRIGGS f~H f VJ- JiiwinY / /6 I You OOSHT TO 01? To 1 CHRI AKlb 6IRLS THAT \ kii iTH t f4' W//////M ///. ////////// |woulo Be. qlad "politico- Ik "~P t kko Ceanlo | By the Ex-Committeeman Representative Edwin R. Cox, of Philadelphia, sponser for the Brum baugh child labor bill last session and chairman of the committer on manu factures of the House in the last three sessions, was last night brought out by the Vare-Brumbaugh-Magee-O'Ncll forces as their candidate for speaker of the next House against RichaVd J. Baldwin, of Delaware county. The battle was Joined last night after Sen ator Penrose had come out with a statement in which he said that he was for Baldwin to the finish and that there would be no compromising as in the organization of the House in 1915 and after State Chairman Crow had failed to get the Vare brothers to agree to Baldwin for speaker. The fight is on. There are 170 members of the House; who are Republicans and the administration forces deny that they have attempted to induce any men to stay out of the caucus or that they are behind any contests to un seat Republican members not of their way of thinking. The selection of Cox is believed to have been agreed upon at the confer ence held at the Executive Mansion on Wednesday night by Governor Brum baugh Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, and Congressman Vare. All parties to the conference deilared that the speakership was only "Indirectly" dis cussed at Philadelphia last night and It was admitted that it was the theme. The Governor and the Vares have a personal antipathy for Baldwin, and it is believed that to get Mayor Smith In line they were forced to drop their idea of taking an up-State man like Williams of Tioga, or Walter of Franklin, and to take a Philadelphian. In order to get the support of the Phil adelphia Mayor it Is also understood that an agreement was made that no "ripper" legislation was to get past the Governor's desk. Smith has not made any announcement but the Penrose people are not counting on him. —Senator Penrose, who beat the Vares to their launch of Cox by a dec laration for Baldwin, said: "Without having any desire to interfere In any way with the actions of the Legisla ture, it is evident to me, from 'nfor majtion that I have received, that a large majority of the members favor Baldwin for speaker. "As far as I am personally concern ed, I am very friendly to him. He also Is the only candidate who up to this time has announced his candidacy or who seems to have any large following in the Legislature. "I believe that he will be elected speaker of the House of Representatives from all that I can learn by a sufficient number of Repub lican votes to constitute a majority of the whole Legislature." —The Philadelphia Inquirer says: "This statement was made after lie had been called upon by Republican State Chairman William E. Crow, who had previously met Senator Edwin H- Vare. The Penrose claim is from 110 to 120 Republicans for Baldwin out of a total of 169 Republican members of the House entitled to participate in the Republican caucus. They claim "at least seventeen" out of the forty one representatives from this city, con ceding the full force of the Smith ad ministration to be back of Representa tive Cox for speaker. They claim also nineteen and possibly twenty of the twenty-four representatives from Alle gheny county. Delaware and Chester counties have already gone on record solidly for Baldwin, and two votes each from Montgomery and Bucks are also signed up for "tho pride of Chadds Ford." While Mayor Smith yesterday took no stand publicly on the speakership, the Vare men expect him to come out for Mr. Cox." —Mr. Cox's announcement says: "I am a candidate for election as speaker of the House. To be the speak er is a great honor and one of which any member has the right to be proud. In the next few days I propose to make a canvass of every member elect and to submit for their consider ation my record in the last four ses sions of the Legislature during which I served and I shall ask for their sup port as speaker on this record. Upon it I have every confidence that I shall receive the support of a majority of the members." —The Philadelphia Press, which boosts Cox, says: "Representative Cox was one of the few Philadelphia mem bers, who. two years ago, voted for local option. He fathered the child labor law as It was placed in his hands by Governor Brumbaugh and fought for it until it was enacted. During all his terms he especially addressed him self to the enactment of legislation which would exterminate the money loan shark. The Cox law has been sustained by the local courts. He also supported the Wilson cold storage law, the workmen's compensation law and all other humane and progressive legislation offered during the four' sessions of which he was a member." —The outbreak of war over thfe speakership of the next House will probably result in the postponement of appointment of any one to the vacancy on the Public Service Commission and tho various other places which are in the gift of the Governor. It had been expetted that the eommissionership would be filled by Thanksgiving Day, but there has been another sudden change of plans and the places will be held open for a while. It is said that the managership of the State In surance Fund will also be held open. One of the men who would be willing to take it is Paul N. Furman, who is looking after details of the speaker ship fight on behalf of the State ad ministration. Mr. Furman was in charge of headquarters work for the Governor's presidential campaign and has been busy as a nailer for the last week on the speakership contest. —The administration forces are commencing to get busy on people in >he departments to line up members from their home districts and it is probable that there will be some lively times about the Capitol as the anti- Baldwin people are the same as those who went down to disaster in the Presidential primaries and since that time there have been a good many ex pressions of regret that they did not use the places In their gift to help in the fight. —Charles M. Schwab's appeal to the Bethlehems and the small bor oughs about them to unite in one big city is expected to be realized. It will stimulate enlargements in various parts of the country. —Congressman Barchfeld will con test his defeat in Pittsburgh. —News of the illness of Edward M. Bigelow was received with much sur prise here. A number of congratula tory telegrams on his appointment as director of public works went from here to him yesterday. —Representative E. R. Cox will start on an active campaign for the speakership immediately. He counts on up-State votes. —The Philadelphia North American to-day tears up the activities of the Philadelphia city committee to get its debts paid. Any such action on the part of the Democratic State machine does not seem to be noticed. —Tho Philadelphia Record says it is a fight between Republican factions that will have much influence on the Governorship. Ms of the Out o' Doors THANKS FROM ONE WHO LOVES THE WILD I thank Thee, Father, Thou hast made me not too blind To see Thy face in every flower that grows, Nor yet too deaf to hear Thy voice in every wind! I thank Thee Thou hast made my soul not quite so dead Nor dull, but I can hear Thy Great Heart's Presence in the twilight's lull or sun set's rod! I thank Thee Thou hast understood BO well and smiled So kind upon the hills, the woods, the streams, and made So many wondrous spots for those who love the Wild! Business Briefs With the extra dividend of 8 per cent, as declared by the Atlas Powder Company the company this year will pay a total of 25 per cent, to stock holders. The council board of the Pennsyl vania Bankers' Association has se lected June 7-8 as dates for next year's convention at Bedford Springs. D. S. Kloss, of Tyrone, was re-elected secre tary. The United Fruit Company for the year ended September 30 shows sur plus earnings available for dividends equal to 24.4 per cent, on the common stock, compared with 16.1 last year. Sumner L. Tone, now vice-president of the Duquesne Light Company and a former member of the Pennsylvania Public Service Commission, will suc ceed James D. Callery, of the Pitts burgh Railways Company, who has re signed to become associated with M. M. McMullen & Co. in the banking business. Effective Answer The 3,000,000 subscribers to the lat est French war loan offer the most effective answer to "France is dying!" Boston Herald. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OLD SIR JOHN BARLEYCORN By Rev. F. F. Holsopple, District Supt. Anti-Saloon League 304 Telegraph Building ON November 7, 1916, four States, containing a population of 5,400,166 and an area of 326,112 square miles, outlawed the saloon. These states contained one-twelfth of the area of the entire United States and equal to almost eight times the area of the state of Pennsylvania. There are 2,543 counties in the United States. Through local option or state-wide prohibition 2,047 of these counties were dry before November 7, 1916. On November 7 191 countios were added to this list, leaving only 355 wet counties in the entire nation. Tho liquor forces of the country are welcome to whatever comfort that may bring them. Michigan voted dry by 75,000 ma jority. Grand Rapids with a popu lation of 112,000 in 1910 voted dry with 3,000 majority. Detroit with nearly 1,000,000 inhabitants voted even. Montana went dry by 20,000 majority. Every city in the state ex cept Butte gave a majority In favor of prohibition. South Dakota went dry by 25,000. Not one city in the entire state voted wet. Nebraska closed her saloons with 25,000 majority. Utah elected a governor and legislature pledged to the immediate enactment of statutory prohibition a-s soon as the legislature convenes. Florida elected a governor and legislature committed to the same proposition. It Is more than a possibility that Wyoming will take similar steps as soon as the legis lature convenes. Two years ago Seattle voted wet by 15,000 majority. On No vember 7 it voted dry by 20,000 when an attempt was made to weaken the prohibition law. In Oregon an attempt to vitiate the prohibition law was de feated by over 90,000. In one single day 114 breweries were voted out of business; 6,528 saloons followed suit. The progress by years of the prohibition cause is indicated in the following table: Maine, 1851; Kansas, 1880; North Dakota, 1889; Georgia, 1907; Oklahoma, 1907; Mis sissippi, 1908; North Carolina, 1908; Tennessee, 1909; West Virginia, 1912; Virginia, 1914; Colorado, 1914; Ore gon, 1914; Washington, 1914; Arizona, 1914; Alabama, 1915; Arkansas, 1915; lowa, 1915; Idaho, 1915; South Caro lina, 1915; Michigan, 1916; Montana, 1916; Nebraska, 1916; South Dakota, 1916. To these should be added Florida, Utah and Wyoming. This will leave only ten states more to adopt state-Wide prohibition before three fourths, the number necessary to ratify the amendment to the Consti tution, of all of the states are dry. The situation in these ten states is as follows: Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Texas, New Mexico and Delaware are practically ready to adopt state-wide prohibition. In New Hampshire licenses can be granted only after an affirmative vote In each town is taken. This vote is taken every two years. In 1910 203 towns voted against licenses, 21 towns voted for licenses. The majority of tho state against licenses was 7.6C3. In Vermont a similar law prevails. Seventeen of the 246 towns have sa- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THANKSGIVING PERFORMANCE To the Editor of the Telegraph: Much comment Is being passed about In our city of the kind of show that is brought here for our apprecia tion, as is the one the local manage ment has procured for the National holiday, Thanksgiving. As wo realize that it is to our ad vantage to live in a city as we have, it is only a course of our duty to it, to remain here on the day of thanks, and be in a position to give thanks to all that are concerned in the manage ment of our public affairs; and like wise with all due respect to our man agers of public places of amusement, I do believe that it is a means of giv ing thanks by them to hook a show of such a caliber that will be ap preciated by the citizens of Harris burg that have been their loyal pat rons in the past, instead of making it necessary for them to go elsewhere. From the foregoing statement it is plainly seen that the objections to the show that is booked for the National holiday. Thanksgiving are in a large majority; I would humbly appeal to the local management to endeavor to make a change in the program in order that we may complete our day of "thani;s" with the viewing of the caliber of show that can be fully ap preciated as a Thanksgiving offering. A THEATERGOER. loons and 7 of the 17 towns have an aggregate of 12 saloons. Delaware has only 200 saloons in the entire state and state-wide prohibition is'a near possibility. Two years ago Cali fornia gave a wet majority of 170,000. This year that majority was reduced to 45,000. Seventeen of the 23 counties of Maryland havu voted dry and Mary land is approaching the state-wide pro hibition class. One hundred and six counties out of 120 in Kentucky are dry and more than 80 per cent, of her population live in dry territory. In Indiana the dry forces won a notable victory. Two United States senators who are wet have been re tired and dry men elected in their places. Ten wel congressmen were defeated and ten dry congressmen elected to replace them. A dry gov ernor was elected by a strong majority. Pennsylvania, the supposedly im pregnable Gibraltar of Diquordom, is feeling the effect of the temperance agitation. Five years ago 60,000 of her people lived in dry territory: to day 1,500,000 arc in no-license coun ties. In 1911 there were 700 square miles of dry territory; to-day there are 12,300 squares miles of dry terri tory. From 2 counties in 1911, 11 counties are dry in 1916. if a resolution to amend the Con stitution should pass Congress it seems almost certain that 41 states would ratify such an amendment within two years. In 1914 when the constitutional amendment resolution was before Con gress only 9 states had voted dry, and in a number of these the laws had not yet gone into effect. The measure will be presented to our present Congress with the pressure furnished by 27 states that are practically dry and 10 more that are on the verge of taking the step. More people have already petitioned "Congress for the passage of this resolution than for all other amendments combined. ,In 1914 the congrcssiortnl delegation from the state of Indiana voted solidly against the resolution. On November 7, 1916, this delegation was sent to the scrap heap and a delegation of 10 members committed to the support of the reso lution was elected in their places. Should this resolutl'on pass the pres ent session of Congress or the one fol lowing. a salonHoss nntton in 1920 bids fair to become a renliiy. , Bonfort's Wine and Spirit Circular for April 25, 191fi, refers