RAMBOLEAVESTHE STATE'S SERVICE Superintendent Turned Over Business Today; Smith Asked to Resign Samuel B. Rambo, y\ \ * /' J Superintendent of VvW Jtviy Public Grounds and XVsAXaa Buildings, retired ' n fe r f° r eight years Sh3®®i)v?JV?w fts custodian of the QCICj QK structure whose l JwlSwfSrif* erection he super : fflHOral vised. Mr. Rathbo ■ ISm*'™ resigned on Satur ■■ | ----- F ft day as requested by the Governor audi to-day turned over all of the business j to Deputy J. C. Patterson. An im mense amount of detailed work, in cluding buildings in several counties, was explained by Mr. Rambo to his bureau chiefs on Saturday. The retiring superintendent was given farewell by many friends who wished him success in any future un dertakings. Mr. Rambo said that he would take it easy for a couple of months and was considering two offers to take charge of large erection jobs which j had conie since his resignation was re ported. Governor Brumbaugh on Saturday' night asked the resignation of Hank- j ing Commissioner Smith who had been ' in ill health for some time and with j whom the Governor talked ten days j tigo. A Busy Holiday.—The State Capitol! transacted no business to-day but all of the departments were open unoffi- | cially. Political discussions and visits ; l>y legislators were the order oi the! day. To Study Heads.—State livestock j sanitary authorities ure studying heads i of dogs sent here from Franklin j county which are believed to have, gone mad. There are reports of out breaks of rabies in that county. Caldcrwood Coming Here.—J. P. j Calderwood, the new mechanical en- ; ginecr of the Department of Eabor > and Industry, will be here in a few I days to assume his duties. Spent Sunday Hero. —For the first! time in many months practically every j State official spent Sunday here and | the Capitol was showing more signs! >f life last night than on any Sun-1 clay since the Legislature adjourned. Xciv Auditor.—H. U. Monle, former! deputy treasurer of Cambria, has been appointed auditor of the State Insur ance Fund. Cases Dismissal. The Public Ser vice Commissiorefhos dismissed the late cases of tli4 Beaver Sand and Pittsburgh Brewing Companies against rahittmds in Western Pennsylvania. j After Dental Crooks. The State , Dental Board has started a series of pro? editions In "Western counties against men who have been practicing without licenses. Several arrests have been made. To Meet Wednesday. The State Supreme court will meet in Philadel phia on Wednesday after having sat in Pittsburgh. A number of State cases will come up. Honey to Take Hold. —W. J. Roney, the new manager of the State Insur ance Fund, will take charge of the administration of the fund to-day. Isig: Payment Made. The Penn sylvania Lines West paid the State Treasury $99,457 as State tax on loans. Borough Objects. The borough of Tainacjua has tiled complaint with the Public Service Commission against the l-aios of the Eastern Pennsylvania 3-ight, Jleat and Power Company. Flags at Capitol Fly in Honor of Return on Furlough of Maj. Zeigler Flags are flying in State street this ! morning, heralding the return of Major ] Frank E. Zeigler, of the Stli Pennsyl- | bis home. 106 State street, this morn ing on a thirty day furlough. A trifle tired from the long journey home, but looking lino and fit, Major Zeigler immediately brightened when asked about the life at the border. "Fine," he emphatically declared, "Everything is tine. The boys of Camp Stuart are in the best of condition. Why the health has been better and the death rate lower than if the boys had been at home," he continued. "We have had only two deaths, and only one of them came from disease con tracted at the border, and you must admit that's a good record." Asked as to reported trouble in the regiment. Major Zeigler said: "Those rumors are absolutely untrue. Col. Finney covered the whole situation in liis statement to the newspapers. PARDON BOARD MAY MEET Members of the State Board of Par dons may meet here to-morrow for consideration of cases argued on De cember 20, but no hearings will be held. It is not even certain that there will bo a conference. The Mottern and Haines applications for rehearing, and the Christy ease from Mercer county will be. considered along with others deferred from the recent meeting. The only important Philadelphia ease is the Armstrong plea for pardon which lias been argued. MRS. MARY A. BIRD Mechanlcsburg, Pa.. Jan. 1. Mrs. Mary A. Bird, aged "3, died yesterdav morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. A. Yost, in Springville, alter a short illness suffering from pneumonia. Mrs. Bird contracted tiie disease just before the death of another daughter, several days ago. She is a sister of Mrs. Fannie Zimmerman, East Main street, Mechanlcsburg. One daughter, Mrs. Yost, survives. Funeral services will be held at Springville to-morrow afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Burial will be made at Churchtown. Deaths and Funerals mrs. katiii-:rim<: iiamiiuiu-: Funeral services for Mrs. Katherlne Bashore, aged.7B, who died yesterday at the llome of the Friendless, Fifth and Muench streets, will be held Wednes day morning, at S o'clock. She is sur vived by one sister, Mis. I.aura Work lieiser. Burial will be made in the Kast Harrislnirg Cemetery, with tlio Rev. A. M. Stamets, pastor of the Augs burg l.utheran Church, assisted by the Rev. E. E. Curtis, pastor nf the West minster Presbyterian Church, officiat ing. MRS. MARY .F. RltE'l7 Funeral service for Mrs. Marv .1 Bietz, aged t>6. who died yesterday at her home, 4 Argyle street, will be held rhuraday afternoon at 1 o'clock Sic- is survived by her husband. Thomas J Bretz, and the following children- Mrs E. C. Hummer. Mrs. W. ti. Knnis, Mrs! Harry Sbreffler, Mrs. Charles K. Kin* Charles H. Bretz. John T. Hretz and' Miles O. Bretz, all of this cty. BuHai will be r.iade in the Mlddletown Ceme tery The Rev Dr. J. A. T.yter, pastor ,of the Deny Street United Brethren Church, will officiate. MISS MARY EMMA TAtSICJ Miss Mary Emma Tausig, aged 11 died early yeste.day morning at her home, State street, from heart dis ease. During her life, she had won foi herself, by her cheerful disposition, a host of friends In her hom>- life mm school life, to whom the news of her death will carry much sadness. sii- is survived by her parents. Mr. and Mrs Herman 1.. Tausig. Funeral service* will be held at her homo to-morrov afternoon, at 2 o'clock. Burial will b'e made in the Jewish Cemetery, near rr or St p ', wlt, l. Kab , bl M?' 1 ," >?■ ,Chsv ahoiom Temple, officiating. ' MONDAY EVENING, ~ HAG AN TELLS ALL SWEARING OFF DRINK AND OTHER i ; 1) 1 -hi&. -• \ VONTVOU LET J I M (jOIN TO 7 Al.- r ME IN ANYMORE r i ( LEAVE YOU ? • "• B ~XT HKj -MM \ I *- U # J By JAMES M. HAGEN So long, boys: I'm done!. I've had my fun! O. I don't care- I've hnd my share! Now get me, please— Distilleries Can work for you; I'm through! O, I don't care— I've had my share! —Rhymes of a Rummy. The Managing Editor wants a story of swear-off time, by Superstition, j tradition and common usage being | that time beginning with January 1 j each year and continuing indefinitely.! "Why do men swear off January 1'!" asked the M. E. "Get a story] about them." Men swear off January 1 because I tliey are disgusted with themselves for drinking; that's why they swear off. Right liere let me say—-and I know —that the man who says it is a physi cal impossibility for him to refrain from drinking is a liar. Hard to Quit? Tliat's Bosli! They talk about the will power re-j quired to quit. That's bosh. Anyone! who knows when l.e's sleepy has sense enough to know when It's time lo quit! lushing. And tuiyone who knows enough to go to bed knows enough to lay off booae. They talk about the miserable time! the ex-rummy bus. getting used to be ing human. That's more than bosh;| it's a joke. Docs a man l'eel better] when he's well than when he has] tonsilitis? Why should he feci worse when he's sober than when he's a| souse? Smoking and Drinking I knew a fellow once who headed straight for a barroom when he got down town each morning; anil his hand trembled as ho raised three fingers of hundred-proof liquor to his / HE TUMBLED A? HE RAISED HIS GLASS lips, lie imagined he had to have it. I He permitted his relatives to send him to a Nebraska ranch to get away from booze. There was a saloon three miles from the ranch. Did this fellow persist in refraining from booze until one day it became an absolute impossibility further to resist, and then dash madly to the saloon? lie did not. The booze never bothered him. And it hasn't bothered him since. It takes lots more "stuff" to quit [smoking than it does to quit liquoring. I know—l still smoke. When you hear some drinker ques tion the statement that it requires no will power to qtiit drinking you can put it down that the particular drinker who is doing the questioning doesn't have "guts" enough to quit: he's merely trying to complete an alibi for himself. Isn't it a g-r-rrand and glorious feeling—to wander home at 2 a. m., the five of you, singing "She Sleeps; t IjWfjWBaBHBECa 11 fcA PicTUPtTo-Mtam,^], BREWERY PAINTED WMITEj My Lady Sleeps?" That's harmony, isn't it—with the whisky-tenors work ing overtime? And the next morning —say! Isn't that the gr-r-rrand and g-lorlous feeling? That furred tongue !—that steam-heated stomach, that j head—the head that pounds and | jumps every time your lieel touches , the floor? No wonder tliey quit drink ing! And the night before you felt so very, very cocky, too! "Nothing I you drank seemed to affect you!" Tim j effect was slow coming, so you mixed | them- and wound up with three ! sOngers in a row. O, say! Ain't thai the life? Of course you were per fectly sober; and the only reason you | wanted to go to sleep on your front ! porch was because you were tired! Where do you get that stuff? V. M. C. A. or the It. I. V. K. R. Sullivan and I found that folks will •lie swearing off again this January— I same as always. We talked lo a fel- I low who has been swearing off for good every January since 1 897. lie says he never feels better than he does about January 5, and that the only reason lie drinks again is because there's nothing else to do. "What am 1 going to do at night?" ; he asked. "There's the Y. M. C. A.," suggested I Sullivan. I "yes,'' said the other, "and there's | the R-I-V-E-R. too. But neither ap peals to me. It's all very well for you |to lumping me silling al the round (able In an easy chair, reading Popular I Mechanics and improving my mind. j but tl.'it won't sailsfy me lomr. I j might no bowling, pooling or billiard inc. but they don't appeal to ine. l j don't mind pokering of an evening, j but I can't afford it." "Why. don't you find a nice quiet girl?" suggested Sullivan, i "All right," said the Sincere E>rinkj "there's two evenings taken care of; what about the other five." "Find three or four more nice, quiet girls," suggested the cartooner. "It can t be done." said the S. D. "Not one of them would stand for the other three." Nothing lOlsc to Bo It seemed from what this lad told us tl.at there are those who drink because there's nothing else to do. "Say," said Sullivan to the S. D., "why don't you go to the theater or the movies every evening?" "For the same reason that I don't take a walk to Dauphin every night after dinner: 1 don't want to. I want to do something that will interest me —something that 1 want to do. I don't particularly want to booze, but that's all there is to do." That case was hopeless. We moved on to the next. "Why don't you slay on the wagon when you climb it?" we asked a lad gazing pop-eyed at us over a bottle of imported (from Hoboken) beer. "Don't you call me that," he growl ed menacingly. "I don't know you." No use! "And why do you drink?" we asked a third young man, with a bottle of No. 3 4 in front of him. Why He Drinks "Well," said he, "you see. before I Sot married I quit drinking for a year. Then I got married. I'm married five years. That's why 1 drink." It seemed like Sullivan and I were doomed to meet nothing but helpless clippies. Outside, though, his head looked normal. "You say," we put at him, "that you once quit drinking for a year." "No," came the reply. "I quit drink ing for a year before I got married; and stayed on the wagon four years after l was married. Then I came down off the wagon." "Why?" "Say!" blurted the drinker, "don't you understand plain English. 1 was married four years before 1 took a drink." Again no use. All ot these men were men who didu t want to slay on the wagon. These days every one knows that the booze'll get hint in the long run. The two well-known old gentlemen, Cv Roses de Diver and Mr. Bright, are harvesting a great crop every year. The whisky sold is a magnet that draws them both; and so's the beer. The Three Reasons Sullivan and I discovered that there are three universal reasons why men drink. They are: ( 1 JM ] WE (rOT 1 7 \ ONE faOOO WASON] THE PRitE f APE TH&EE REASONS FOI? DI?INKm<j (1) Nothing else .to do. (2) Sociability. <3) None of your business. We failed to find a man who drinks because it benefits him. We'd like to , have a dollar a head for the stomachs we encountered that are wrecks to day because their owners made them stand for everything in years gone by. We wish we had a dollar a head for the stomach owers who start the day with piping-hot water and calomel and end it with more calomel and bicar bonate of soda, taking pills before and after meals. We found scores of men who don't drink to-day because they can't drink—their stomachs won't let them. In a certain private office in this town we found a new tally system for alcoholics who want to quit. This particular man hnd a calendar, each Monday of which was smeared with red ink. "When Monday comes along," he told us, "I paint it red —it's a red-let ter day for me; another week off the booze. Boy, I got nine years of red Mondays to my credit." The idea is hereby passed on. As a vi/.ualizer of successful effort we know of no better. That's all we're going to write [about the Swearers-off to-day. To , morrow we come back again. Raid Newspaper Office to Get Evidence For Use in Bomb Plotter's Trial San Francisco, Cat. Jan. 1. Officials I of the district attorney's office raided the editorial rooms of The Blast, a local ] anarchist organ, last Saturday, and seized the subscription list, letter and paper tiles, manuscripts, private cor respondence find cartoons, it was learn ed to-day. The raid was made. It wan > said, for the purpose of procuring evi dence to lie used ill the trial of Thorn - J. Mooney, alleged leader in the co.- i spiracy which bed its climax July 22 last, when ten persons were killed dur ing a preparedness parade. A OKU (OI I'I.E HKIJ'FJ) Worn and bent from lifetime of work in a factory in Hartford. Conn., where they left six years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cillery, aged 65 and fit. re i spectivel.v. stopped at police headquar ters. last night, and told Police Chief I Wetzel their story of a daily fight against starvation. According to Mr. Cillery, the couple left Hartford fori .'Colorado f-'prlngs. 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GOODRICH COMPANY, M LJ L Harrisburg Depot, 1412 No. Third St. Bell Phone 3714. r LJ Also maker of the wonder tires Silvertown CortKTires !|! "BEST IN THE !|! ill ili TRAIN MEN H AVE APPROPRIATE / / a 3li : ' i-ju^iP l !:*Mfli B p MM mP< iMslni Tniirmrin v'.i tin-<C1;;:. •oilliirtuc."the nupport of other labor organization*, held n.n "oißltt-hour" pttrutie this imr.-nlnß. Hundrorts of mon were In line anil ahavc arc vjmnrt pl twj) all -the iUiats; the upper one, a miniature engine; the lower one, a caboose. . t TANL'ARY], 1917.' The Rev. John R. Shipe Dies at Mechanicsburg Mechanicsburg, Pa., Jan. 1. The Rv. John R. Shipe, a retired Metho dist Episcopal minister, died at his home, 1G South Washington street, this morning, after several weeks' illness from a complication of diseases. lie. was 68 years old. The Rev. Mr. Shlpe spent his boyhood days at Sunbury and served thirty-eight years In tlio active ministry, retiring about four years ago. Ills last charge was Bollifg Springs. Sincft his retirement ho has lived here. Mr. Shlpe had a good voice, which re tained its strength even in his old IIBVM, and he was noted as a singer of the old-fashioned religious hymns. He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Mollle Bessor, of Fort Loudon, Frank lin county, and three brothers, Michael Shlpe, of Balaton, Va.: Moses Shlpe, of Sunbury, and Isaac Shipe, living near Sunbury. Short funeral service* will be held at the home- on Wednesday evening, at 7:30 o'clock, conducted by the Rev. .T. J. Resrh. On Thursday morning the body will be taken to Sun : bury, where further services will be hold In the ('atawism Avenue Metho- I (list KulfCopal Church, by the Rev. l)r, I A. t?. FasieK, district DANISH STEAM Kit RI'XK T/ondon, Jan. I.—l .loyds reports the sinking of the Danish steamship Dan mark, 2,050 tons gross. Twonty.fonr j members of her crow havo been I landed. 54 LYNCHINGS IN U. S. DURING 'l6 Fifty of Victims Negroes, Four Arc Whites and Three Are Women Tuskagee, Ala., Jan. 1. Fifty four persons were lynched In the United States during 1916, according to records of Tuskagee Institute here, mado public to-day. Fifty of the vic time were negroes and four white persons, and Included in the record are three women. Sixty-seven per sons were lynched In 1915, thirteen of whom were white men. In a statement presenting the re port, Robert R. Moton, president of |! he institute, eald: , "Fourteen, or more than one-fourth of the total lynclilngs occurred in.the State of deorgla. Of those put to death, forty-two, or 77 per cent, of the total, were charged with offenses other than assault. The charges for which whites were lynched were mur der, 3; suspected of cutting a woman, one (this u Mexican). "The charges for which negroes were put to death were: Attempted as sault, 9; killing officers of the law, 10; murder, 7; hog stealing and assist ing another person to escape, 6; wounding officers of the law, 4: as sault, 3; insult, 2. For each of the following offenses one person waa put to death: Slapping boy, robbing store, brushing against girl in street, assist ing his son accused of assault to es cape, entering a house for robbery or some other purpose, defending her son who in defense of his tnother kill ed a nisiv fatally wounding a man with whom he had quarreled, speaking against, mob In act of putting a man to death, attacking a man and wife with club, Xynchlngs ocurred in the following States: Alabamu, 1; Arkansas, 4; Florida, 8; Georgia, 14; Kansus, 1; Kentucky, 2; Louisiana, 2; Mississippi. 1; Missouri, 1: North Carolina, Jj Oklahoma, 4; South Carolina, S; Tennessee, 3; Texas, 7
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