12 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Founded JSJI Published evenings except Sunday by | THE TELEGKArn PRINTING CO., : Telegraph Dutldlas, Federal Square. E. J. STACICPOLE, Pres't ona Editor-in-Chief B'. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. 3US M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. t Member American Bureau of Circu lation *nd Penn sylvania Asvoclat nue Building, New Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as secpnd class matter. xgfftWßy carriers, six cents a week; by mall, $3.00 a year in advance. i FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5 You cannot by exercise of force make a man flunk as you do, though you may make him say that he does. —J. S. Mill. THE POOR BOARD'S WORK DAUPHIN county's Poor Board has just completed twelve months' application of the policy of business efficiency In caring lor the poor and indigent, and a visit to the almshouse and a survey of the books of the directorate offer ample evidence of the practicability of such a system. When the present Poor Board took charge the directors modestly an nounced that the office was to be run on lines similar to those any one of the businessmen constituting its mem bership would pursue were he handling his own money instead of the people's. As a result the wayfarers who are resting more or less briefly at the half-way house on the road from "bet ter days" to the only really Better Day they will ever know have been much more comfortable, much better fed, much better clad, during ihe past year than ever before. True enough, the cost of mainte nance during the coming year will be greater. But that's no fault of the Poor Board. The higher price of liv ing affects the county's home as it affects every private home, and the increased outlay will be balanced by the installation of a new cold stor age plant and the construction of new and more commodious pens for the swine. Ten thousand dollars addi tional is asked for the maintenance of the county's poor during 1917, but most of this will be expended in the installation of improvements which will eventually mean a big saving in cost of food for inmates and fodder for the livestock. During the past year an irrigating system was put in and it has worked wonders. New beds and new mat tresses, sanitary and modern, were purchased; attention to the beautifl iatlon of the grounds in the way of hedges was given. In the next year it is tlio director ate's desire to further improve the farm and home by the addition or greater facilities for maintaining the hundreds who have no other home. The taxpayers do not begrudge the county home money sufficient to run it properly. The old idea that the public owes its wards no more than enough to keep soul and body to gether is obsolete. They must be maintained in healthful and pleasant surroundings. President Edwin S. Herman of the City Planning Commission, hit the nail squarely upon the head in his talk be fore the Rotary Club this week, when lie pointed out the necessity of com munity co-operation and the touching of elbows of those who are interested in the betterment of the people. Mr. Herman's philosophy of life is that of good fellowship, consideration for others and consistent co-operation. PEACE SIGNS WE are pleased to see* here and there signs of sanity within the contending factions of the Republican party. Surely tl.o univer sal protest which has gone up from every section of the party in Penn sylvania must have its effect upon the pugnacious gentlemen who have been responsible for the deplorable con troversy. | Neither side has been blameless and it will not do for one to accuse the other of all the shortcomings ip the political decalogue. Each has been to some extent responsible for the unseemly row and a good deal of bad blood having been spilt, it ought to be possible to get all the belligerents out of the trenches before the reconven ing of the Legislature. There are signs here and there of harmony and the great body of Re publicans will sincerely hope that these signs are indicative of a dis position to stop fighting each other and perfect the party alignment for Ihe future struggle with the common political enemy. It ought to be plain to every factlonist engaged in the re cent unpleasantness over the speak ership that there is not room enough in Pennsylvania for two Republican parties. It ought also to be clearly evident that the Democrats are so tickled over the outlook that they are pounding each other on the back and chuckling where two or three happen to meet. " They are justified in their hilarity, but It is not too late for the Republicans to creat such a condition VFRipAY EVENING, of harmony as will give force and ef fect to the old saying, "that he laughs best who laughs last." This newspaper is still hopeful that the session of the Legislature will re sult in the enactment of such a sen sible program that the disagreeable incidents of the opening days will have been forgotten long before the final adjournment. Pennsylvania has had more than its share of political turmoil and the men of all parties would hail a sur cease from these disturbing factors In our public life. Mr. Marburg's discussion of the ob jects of the League to Enforce Peace before the Chamber of Commerce yes terday gave the large number of busi ness men present a very clear concep tion of the whole movement with which ex-President Taft and others har been so prominently Identified. Whatever may be thought of this particular plan to assure universal peace hereafter it is certain that the family of nations will never again permit such a slaugh ter as is now devastating Europe. SCHOOLHOUSE CENTERS PUBLIC sentiment„ in support of community centers to be estab lished in the school buildings of towns and cities is increasing every where. Long ago the question of utilizing the school buildings by the people to a larger extent than is now possible was discussed. It has been only recently, however, that the movement began to take form in the organization of associations with a distinct purpose of using the school buildings in this way as their main object. -- Harrisburg has some fine school buildings and the talk of social cen ters has reached the point of more or less crystallized public sentiment. It only remains now to put the move ment into force and effect througli some official action of the school di rectors. We believe that much good is to be accomplished by such asso ciations and greater community effort in this direction. There are thou sands of good people in every city who are willirtg and anxious to assist in solving the problems which are identi cal in every city the size of Harris burg. Already there is an organization in the Seventh ward, having a more or less defiinite plan for the Americani zation of the foreign children in that part of the city. These children are bright and their school teachers with one accord pronounce them unusually teachable. They respond quickly to the sympathy and interest of those who are concerned in promoting their welfare. Many pathetic stories are told of the appreciation of poor par ents of these alien children. It is, therefore, a work which should appeal strongly to all who believe in the future of Harrisburg and the country at large. At the conclusion of the awful struggle in Europe it is expected there will be a tremendous influx of those who are now living in the war-ridden countries. Many will bring their children and our own people must prepare to extend a real welcome to all who come, so long as they are worthy and desire to take their proper place among the people of the United States. It is perfectly obvious that the school property is owned by all the people and there is every reason in the world to make more general use of these buildings for the public wel fare. . Henry P. Fletcher, as the new Ameri can Ambassador to Mexico, will have a tine time explaining to our friends south of the Rio Grande how that lit tle expedition of General Pershing was simply a practice march without any purpose of hurting the feelings of Car ranza and his more or less hectic asso ciates. Even now it is understood President Wilson has decided to frame a note to Carranza which will yield all of his demands. LKXTZ MARKS GOOD RECORD COUNTY RECORDER JAMES E. LENTZ not only has turned back to the County Treasurer more fees than ever in the history of the office, but he has installed efficiency methods during the first year of his incumbency that not only save to the taxpayers the salaries of several tran scribers, but make for legibility and accuracy in the important books com piled under his direction. This is the day of the typewritten document and record. No businessman worth the name now conducts his correspond ence by pen and ink and most modern offices depend upon the typewriter for all kinds of written records. The three machines which Recorder Lentz has installed not only do the work of transcribing more quickly and ef ficiently, but there can bo no question ing either words or figures and the records are easy to read. The Pittsburgh man who says the "American small boy has respect for nothing under the sun," evidently never had heard of Buffalo Bill, Jess Willard and "Home Run" Baker. A Georgia newspaper talkß about "dirty politics in Pennsylvania," but makes no comment on the kind of a State government that shuts its eyes to a Leo Frank outrage. Montana having spent (20,000 to rid itself of the ljquor traffic will be able to make that up In one day's savings. At last Philadelphia has given New York something to talk about. The artist model murder has all the trap pings of a Great White Way tragedy. "Fashion approves a melon-shaped ■leave* for matrons." iavi • AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN' ? : : By BRIGGS | Y~ 1 • i ' —, ■ ■ —— AFTE"R VOU VE SFENT - AND Ybuve - AND Ibu v/e BUFFERED '* fecSotv s AMD THE LONG RIDE ■— ' whgn AT LAST Mqme increases __ You arriv/e at jj * MISERY 1 oujM cozY note. Yes, and we suppose water melon sized purees for husbands. Talk of Impeachment of Governor j Brumbaugh will not be taken seriously by those who know anything of the political game. Impeachment proceed ings have not been politically beneficial to any party and that sort of gossip is usually a bait for gudgeons. A Wish I'd like to be a boy again, a carefree prince of joy again, . I'd like to tread the hills and dales the way T used to do; I'd like the tattered shirt again, the knickers thick with dirt again, The ugly, dusty feet again that long ago I knew. I'd like to play first base again, and Sliver's curves to face again, I'd like to climb, the way I did, a friendly apple tree; For, knowing what I do to-day, could I but wander back and play, I'd get full measure of the joy that boyhood gave to me. I'd like to be a lad again, a youngster, wild and glad again, I'd like to sleep and eat again the way I used to do; I'd like to race and run again, and drain from life Its fun again. And start another round of Joy the moment one was through. But care and at rife have come to me, and often days are glum to me. And sleep is not the thing it was and food is not the same; And I have sighed, and known that 1 must journey on again to sigh. And I have stood at envy's point and heard the voice of shame. I've learned that joys are fleeting things; that parting pain each meeting brings; That gain and loss are partners here, and so are smiles and tears; That only boys from day to day can drain and fill the cup of j/lay; That age must mourn for what is lost throughout the coming years. But boys can not appreciate their priceless joy until too late. And those who own the charms I had will soon be changed to men: And then, they too will sit, as I, and backward turn to look and sigh And share my longing, vain, to be a carefree boy again. —Edgar A. Guest. Losses on the Sea [Cincinnati Times-Star] Sir Norman Hill, secretary of the Liverpool Steamship Owners' Associa tion, estimates Great Britain's war losses in mercantile marine at 433 steam vessels, or more than 1,600 tons, and with an aggregate registry I (gross) of 1,744,000 tons. •If these I figures are correct, and naturally they are as conservative as the facts will permit. Great Britain has lost more tonnage in 27 months than was con tained in the total American foreign going tonnage in 1916. Statistics In June, 1915, credited the United States with possessing 1,349,946 tons of over-seas shipping. In other words Great Britain up to the time the esti mate was made had lost 39 4,000 more tons of overseas shipping than the United States owned and still had about 14,000,000 tons left. These figures indicate wha the United States would be up against if she ever got into a real war on salt water. It would not be long before our rela tively insignificant merchant marine was swept off the seas. Opportunity For Worthy Boys At. the National Farm School, In Bucks county, Pennsylvania, worthy young men who desire to make agri culture their life's work, but have not the means to pay for an agricultural education, may realize their ambition. This school, which was opened a score of years ago and has a farm of almost 400 acres, situated in one of the richest agricultural districts of Pennsylvania, gives to poor, worthy boys a three years' training in prac tical and scientific agriculture free of all oost to them. The object of the school is to train young men In the practice and science of agriculture for agricultural callings and for leadership of agricultural colonies. The requirements for admission are briefly; The applicant must be be tween 16 and 20 years of age; he must have an education equivalent to that required for admission to the high schools of this country, ho must be In good physical, mental and moral health, and he must have a sincere purpose of making agriculture his life's work. Applications for admission to the new term, which begins In March, are being mado to Horrls A. Kaufman, 407 Mutual Life building, Phlladel- I rvkla. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH •potOcco. MC the Ex-Oomi^ltteemM^^ Senator Boies Penrose, who is going to Atlantic City to-day, will meet at the seashore during the next week the chieftains of his victorious wing of the Republican party in Pennsylvania and things will be settled as to a legislative program, the committee places and the apportionment of the offices in the two legislative chambers, with the county and municipal elections and the gubernatorial campaign of 1918 always in view. It is said not to be the intention of the senator or any of his friends to force any fighting, but they will be prepared for any emergencies which may arise through activities of the Vares, the Governor, Commissioner Magee and others. It is generally be lieved that the Vare brothers, who have been in numerous fights with the Penrose faction before, will assume a practical course and avoid trouble in the Legislature. This was intimated in the Public Ledger yesterday and by the interview which Senator Vare gave out last night in which he said he did not think there would be much In vestigating. The South Philadelphia senator is sued this statement: "As far as I am concerned, I do not think there will be any investigations. "This talk of investigating the Gov ernor is foolish. "There is nothing to investigate. Everybody knows that. "Now that the big interests made it possible for Baldwin to be elected, they feel their cause is safe in his hands and they will not be back to Harrisburg again this year and the Governor's friends will have a ma jority In the Senate and House for any legislation beneficial to the people." —Speaker Baldwin saw Senator Penrose yesterday and discusesd mat ters which arose as the result of the contest on the speakership. The Speaker is said to share the views of Senator Penrose that there should not be any fighting unless the Governor and his advisers precipitate it, but that the lines should be drawn to meet any attack or efforts to ruffle the session. —Republicans generally throughout the state are expressing regret that the speakership fuss went as far as it did and the Penrose people are noting the way the wind is blowing and will allow the Vares or anyone else con nected with the state administration to take the blame of an outbreak. —Vare men are following the lead of Senator Vare and declaring that the Penrose people do not have a work ing majority of House or Senate and that control of legislation is impossible. —Democrats appear to be desiring to rush into all the right places, as they are now talking of following up the resolution for an investigation by one to impeach the Governor. —Between the sessions of the Legis lature the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Republicans are having dinners. In Philadelphia a dinner will be given to Senator A. F. Daix, Jr., and later on one will be given in honor of Sen ator Penrose. —Considerable interest has been aroused by a proposition to form the Penrose league of South Philadelphia, which is believed to 'be a move aimed to consolidate some of the disaffection against the Vares. —The Philadelphia Press, which supported the Governor In the speak ership contest. Is out with an editorial in which the Governor is urged to con sider the matter of the Breitlnger resignation. The Press Intimates that Breitlnger got the work of his de partment into such shape that a new man might make trouble. —Scranton and Wilkes-Barre papers do not seem to think that there is much to the talk that Chief of Mines James E. Roderick will be disturbed. —William J. Morgan, whose promo tion was announced yesterday by Fire Marshal Port, was congratulated to day by people all over the state. Mr. Morgan is one of tho best known men at the Capitol and has numerous friends. —Governor Brumbaugh and Senator Sprotil met yesterday at a meeting and shook hands. But that was about all. —Politicians all over the state are awaiting the meeting between Mayor Smith and Senator McNichol at Phila delphia. as some of the Penrose men want to discipline the mayor for help ino* tha Voruu On wViot d*u*lAna mill. HERE'S A SYNTHETIC SOUP SCIENCE is hurrying to the rescue. Along sanitary and military and mechanical lines it has made marvelous progress. In the culinary field it leaves much to be desired. Now comes a Philadelphia chemist and of fers mankind a mineral soup that Is pronounced fully as nutritious as the finest beef extract. He told the Frank lin Institute the other night how the substitute is prepared. It is a de cidedly peculiar recipe and one that might well make the ordinary cook book shudder. You take portions of sodium phosphate and calcium car bonate and ammonium sulphate, add a little sugar and a small amount of yeast. These Ingredients are mixed and set away until reaction by auto lysis ensues, and a brown, sticky paste depend very much the legislation af fecting Philadelphia. —A move to clip the power of the Philadelphia county commissioners be cause of the activity of Chairman George F. Holmes, a Washington party man, in behalf of Cox, Is being con sidered. Holmes and Congressman John R. K. Scott are blamed for stirring up most of the trouble by Vare partisans. --W. C. Schultz has been named an assistant coroner of Philadelphia to succeed Representative John Mehring. • -Senator Penrose's latest attack on Attorney General Brown, in which ho charges that the chief legal ofllcer Is a lobbyist, is expected to be followed by presentation of a bill to shear the Attorney General of power to name all the lawyers in proceedings brought by the State and making the Attorney General legal adviser of all depart ments, (wo bills to which the Penrose people agreed during their fright of 1915. j EDITORIAL COMMENT] Mr. Bryan thinks the water wagon is the hand wagon.—Brooklyn Times. Germany would be invincible with a sense of humor.—Wall Street Journal. Why not give the Nobel peace prize I to the Kaiser?— Baltimore American. Wall Street is crying for help. The war brides are fainting—Baltimore American. The British censor who reads the let ters can have no illusions about him self.—Wall Street Journal. Chicago's pie-eating burro may have got his tip from the Democratic donkey. —Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. It Is reported from Juarez that Villa is not using crutches. People had be gun to suspect as much.—Kansas City Star. Japan has not done much fighting, but Japan will be heard before there is any status quo ante-bellum peace.—Syra cuse Post-Standa'-d. One can't help distrusting any offer that talks of "peace" and "settling the Balkan problem" at the same time. Philadelphia North American. Winter Bicycle [Popular Science Monthly] A Montreal, Canada, man wanted to use his bicycle in winter. He re moved the front wheel and attached a small sled to the forks. Thus he had a bicycle-sled, which enabled him to ride around at ease. The Gates of Paradise The gates of Paradise are double. And they are blue; Blue as the skies when no clouds trouble Their perfect hue: Blue as the calm face of the ocean When winds are still, And sunlight only Is In motion To work Its will. When skies are dull, the sea Is lonely And moans or sleeps; The quick winds or the warm sun only May stir Its deeps. The gates of Paradise are double, And they are blue; They ope to love, but cold, gray trouble Will clang them to. give me strength that I who ldve them May live aright, And spread no tristful clouds above them To dim their light. By other paths may other mortals Win Paradise, But keep for me Its clearest portals In her pure eyes. — T. A. Dal v. JANUARY 5, 1917. that has all the nutritive qualities of commercial beef extract is produced. According to the chemist it is the minerals into the pronounced organic meat substitute. The yeast contains fermentation agents called enzymes, which are responsible for the altera tion, and produce the food qualities from the chemicals. There were doubt ers about the table at the Franklin Institute. They insisted upon tasting the "stone soup," and pronounced it good. They even declared that it was fully equal in nutrition and appear ance to the market variety, and each of the samplers pronounced the odor remarkably beeflike. Incidentally, the chemist announced that the cost of "stone soup," which he called synthetic meat, is less than that from the ox or sheep. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Milk Price Protest To the Editor of the Telegraph One way to combat another increase in price of milk, Mr. Editor, i;i to go to the grocery store and get a can of evaporated milk (unsweetened), of which there are several brands, put it into a quart bottle, till it with water and you have a quart of milk for 6 cents, a saving of 2 cents per quart at present prices. Some years ago this scheme worked successfully in a neighboring town when milk dealers attempted to in crease price of milk. Consumers handed together and purchased their supplies of milk from grocers In cans instead of the milk man. who soon came around begging customers to buy at old prices. To-day farmers get 18 cents per gal lon from the man who delivers it to consumer. He in turn charges us 3% cents per quart for delivering it. These people could stand the proposed In crease of 2 cents per gallon to pro ducer and still have 3 cents per quart or three-eighths profit (37V4 cents on every dollar's worth sold) for deliver ing it. i Another thing, Mr. Elitor, too many milk dealers expect to make a week's wages off too small a business—one hundred quarts dally, for Instance. Now if he handled two or three times that much and could not get a living out of it, he would have a good kick. Now, let consumers follow my direc tions and see If we can't keep prices down. (Signed) CONSUMER. OUR DAILY LAUGH I wi, lr®%J NOT rN - H "i { y jl) Ifj CAREER. ' j J / \ ® he How U / \ long- have you been out of col- He —All my I THOUGHT IT WAS FOOT- Our college They did? S £ )f\ Rah! Rah! What did they tQ/ \ The debate. 1 (| I Oh, pshaw! f MARRIAGE. He told her she was queenly Results were Today he feels that keenly She's ruling Etottittg (Ehai When the Rotary Club commlttet went Into the mountains above Har risburg to select a community Christ inas tree some weeks ago It picked out what the members regarded as one of the finest specimens in the forest, A few days later Chairman Frank B. Musser took the foreman of his pole erecting gang to the tree and told him to cut it and bring It to town. "I expect you to have the tree at Market and Front streets and tn placa not later than 6 o'clock this evening," he told the foreman. "The time IsP growing short and there is none to waste. Don't fall me." At C o'clock that evening the fore man reported. "The tree is in place," he told Mr. Musser. i '"Good work," said the chairman, "Did you have any trouble?" "We sure did," replied the foreman, "We smashed the tree you picked all to pieces getting it out, so we went on the tract adjoining and cut another." "But great guns, man," exclaimed the chairman, "we hadn't permission to get that tree. 1 don't know even to whom it belongs." "That's your trouble," observed the foreman. "You told me the' tree had to be up by fi this evening, and up it is. Orders are orders." And now Mr. Musser is awaiting the first fair day to make a trip to the mountains to tlnd whoso tree graced the community ceremonies on Christ mas Kve and to pay for it. 1 ** * In medical circles there has been considerable comment regarding th number of deaths from pneumonia following operations for appendicitis. * F. W. Wliltridge, a prominent street railway official of New York, under went an operation for the removal < of his appendix and two days latei died from pneumonia. Another casa was that of Frank H. Roberson, th famous travelogist who gave a series of illustrated talks under the auspicea of The Telegraph last winter. II was stricken with appendicitis In Denver and following an operation suddenly succumbed from pneumonia. Mr. Roberson was making a success ful tour of Canada when he was stricken with appendicitis. There Is general regret over his death. A former Harrisburg favorite was in the city the other day. He cams here with the Baldwin forces. His name is "Tom" Connor, and he wai in Harrisburg but a few minutes when his friends found him out. Connor wm at one time an umpire in the Tri-Stata League and the best indicator man who ever wore a uniform. The play ers were his friends and while there were some kicks, they came at lons intervals. "Tom" Connor was also ai one time a Philadelphia police officer. He is now a contractor in that citj and a very busy man. He is a staunch Republican and will be in Harrisbura at intervals during the legislative ses sions. A new safety first rule adopted bj a Pennsylvania Railroad clerk is to avoid using tobacco from a box that has been opened before coming into his ownership. This clerk received two boxes of fine tobacco as a Christ mas gift. The one box was open and he took it to the office where he has a collection of briar pipes. Loading one of the pipes he started to enjoy a smoke. There were several puffs from the bowl of his pipe. The clerk made an investigation. Then came two more heavy puffs and the pipe crack ed. Opening the box he poured the tobacco out on a sheet of white paper. Yes, there were many little specks on the white paper. It w: powder. As the present came from several engineer friends he does not know who to blame for the joke. "Sounding the klaxon doesn't relieve the automobile driver of further re sponsibility to avoid a collision when he approaches a cross street." point edly observed President Judge Kunkel, the othpr day, in sentencing W. M. Hurst to pay a S2OO fine for crashing into a loaded car in Front street. Hurst's attorney had argued that he, Hurst, had carefully sounded a warn ing of his approach via his klaxon. "The purpose of sounding the klaxon is to help serve notice of the approach of the car and the intention in so do ing is to avoid a collision. But the mere tooting of the klaxon doesn't ful fill the driver's responsibility, al though some drivers think that when they do this, their work is done. But it isn't. They must do all they can further to avoid a collision." • • The following interesting account of the origin of the word "news" is given in a magazine by Calvin Holbrooke: "The word 'news' as applied to the happenings of the world has a curious and interesting origin. In the olden days, long before there were any news papers. events were collected from all parts of the world, and brought in by a messenger, very much as is done to day. For many years no name could be found which adequately fitted this material. At last someone suggested the initials of the quarters of the earth —north, east, west, south-—since the information came from there. The letters thus taken were N, E, W, S, and they formed the word "news." The word clung, and later when the day's happenings were brought to gether in the form of printed matter the name 'newsnaper' was applied." • • • The meeting of the electoral col lege to be held on Monday will take place in the Senate chamber, where such gatherings have been held since the new Capitol was built. Prior to that time the college met in the hall of the House of Representatives. It fol lows a procedure which is a century old. | WELL KNOWN PEOPLE " —Andrew Carnegie is planning a visit to Pittsburgh this month and will be guest of honor at institutions which he endowed. —Dr. R. H. Harte, well known here, has been elected president of the* Philadelphia College of Surgeons. —Thomas Devlin has been elected president of the Philadelphia Foun drymen's Association. —J. li. Cooper has been retired on a pension after thirty-three years as a clerk in Philadelphia county offices. —Colonel G. C. Rlchnrds, com mander of the Sixteenth Infantry, is to be guest of honor at Oil City when his regiment returns. | DO YOU KNOW %iiat Harrisburß makes parts of engines for automobiles? HISTORIC HAKKISBURG Harrisburg was one of the flrsl towns in the state to establish steam fire engine service. Strength and Weakness [Albany Times-Union] Man was never so mighty. In Eu rope he has involved himself and lili neighbors in a war in which he hai developed almost superhuman pow era. Man was never so weak. Hi has started a war so terrible that hi cannot stop it, he cannot even permi It to run down of itself.
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