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FRIDAY EVENING. JAN. 26
God will put up with a great mans/
things in the human heart, but there
is one thing that He trill not put up
with in it —a second place.—Rtukin.
AN EXPERT'S OPINION
' A YEAR or two ago the Municipal
League is understood to have
engaged the services of a dis
tinguished Chicago architect to make
•a study of the Market Square prob
lem. This traffic expert is said to have
thoroughly investigated conditions
and subsequently rendered a report
discussing the situation in detail.
This report never has been made pub
lic, but it has been frequently said
that it was adverse to an isle of safe
ty, owing to the need of all the space
available for traffic purposes.
Inasmuch as the Municipal League
has taken a conspicuous part in all
of the various public improvement
campaigns of the city and has to its
-credit a fine record of public spirited
endeavor, it would seem to be the part
of wisdom in a public discussion of
this character to give the people all
the light possible upon the proposed
changes in the main plaza of Harris
burg. If one expert advises against
• n isle of safety and another favors
that proposition, as might easily hap
pen, we beg to suggest it would be
only fair that the reasons upon which
are based the conclusions of the ex
perts should be given to the public
that there may follow an honest crys
tallization of public sentiment.
As the Municipal league is a body
composed of citizens having the inter
ests of Harrisburg at heart, its support
of any movement should be open and
above board so that whatever attitude
it assumes upon any public question
be clearly understood.
For this reason, whatever the report
©f the Chicago expert may have con
tained ought to be made public, so that
no criticism may follow any final
decision one way or the other. The
Telegraph has consistently opposed the
public comfort station suggestion, but
It is in hearty sympathy with the gen
erat proposition of an improvement of
traffic conditions in Market Square
and any changes which will add to
the esthetic features of this great
plaza.
i
"Is ball playing work?" asks the
Philadelphia Bulletin. We are not
*ure, but any middle-agod cave-dweller
of an office man who has he>n induc-ed
to take part in a "picked-nine" game
at an outing, will tell you that it is
derned hard work.
TIIK PKOPLE AM) RAILROADS
WASHINGTON at last seems to
have been aroused to the im
portance of giving the railroads
of the country some attention. Hav
ing battered their credit almost to the
.point of extinction the various govern
"fnenta! agencies and instrumentalities
are now being awakened to the fact
that unless the railroad corporations
are given some relief the prosperity
of the country must seriously suffer.
As stated in a recent address before
the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce,
there was less railroad building in this
country last year than at any time
since 1848, except the Civil War period.
Unless the railroad mileage is vast-
ly increased many sections of the
country will cease to develop and as a
result the cost of living must certain
ly go up and our resources lie dor
mant.
Under present conditions most of
the revenue of the railroad systems
goes for operating expenses and tax
es. Efforts to increase rates have been
squelched at Washington with great
regularity. Nothing has been done to
ameliorate conditions generally admit
ted to be more serious than the coun
try has ever known.
Time was when the outcry against
the railroads was to some extent justi
fied. They had become arrogant, in
tolerable in their attitude toward the
public and exorbitant in their charges
and traffic arrangements. But under
}he stress of public sentiment these
conditions largely have been corrected
find to-day the railroads are upon their
knees asking a respite from the Con
stant hectoring to which they have
been so long subjected.
As was pointed out by Sir. Thom in
his Chamber of Commerce address, the
national government is aided in its
regulation of the railroads by every
one of the forty-eight States. As a re
sult the public and the railroads are
the victims of discrimination in inter
state business. It wotfld seem to be
obvious that the railroad systems
wtiich run across the country from
one State Into another should be con
trolled and regulated only by a central
power, the States being permitted to
FRIDAY EVENING,
exercise control only over those things
which are peculiarly of concern to
each particular State.
There should be a letup of antag
onism to the railroad interests to the
end that the people themselves may
enjoy the results of a prosperity that
is bound to follow railroad expansion
and development all over the country.
I Let lis hope that the survey of the
; local police department will result in
. some definite reforms which have so
long been needed. As the Chamber of
i Commerce has taken the initiative in
' this matter the people of the city are
' hopeful that the results will be far
! reaching and satisfactory to the com
munity at large.
THE SURVEYS
ONE of the most encouraging fea
tures of the surveys to be made
of Harrisburg's school and po-
I lice systems by representatives of the
I Bureau of Municipal Research under
the auspices of the Harrisburg Cham
i ber of Commerce is that the investi
gations are to be made with the full
I consent and co-operation of the School
Board and Mayor Meals. There is to
be no muck raking and no mud sling
ing. The surveys are to be made with
no thought of "making a goat" of any
body, but with the sole purpose in
view of finding any defects that may
exist in the school and police systems
and correcting them. Nothing but
helpful and constructive results can
follow.
The surveys come at a peculiarly
opportune moment. The School Board
is about to enter upon new problems
incident to the building of new high
schools and the introduction of the
junior high school system. It is guided
by high-minded men of ability and
foresight, who will be only too happy
to have the assistance of experts i.n
solving the difficulties they face. The
Police Department has been severely
censured, but the honesty of those in
charge has not been questioned. What
it needs most is to be set right. This
the experts engaged by the Chamber
of Commerce propose to do. With the
co-operation the Mayor and Chief
Wetzel have promised much good may
be expected from the survey about to |
be made.
The beneficiaries in each instance
will be the taxpayers, and at no cost 1
to themselves. Just as the Municipal;
League brought to Harrisburg at its
own expense, through the contributions !
of public-spirited citizens, experts who
laid out our park system, devised the !
plan to protect Paxton creek from
flood, planned our filter and
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gave us the cheapest paved streets in
the country, so now the Chamber of i
Commerce by the same means plans
to bring experts to advise us as to
our needs with respect to schools and
police. Harrisburg owes much of its
progress and development in recent
years to its reliance upon expert ad
vice in working out its municipal
problems. We have never gone astray
when we have called in the expert; we
have erred almost without exception
when we have neglectd to avail our
selves of such aid. The Chamber of
Commerce is moving along lines of
which the people know and approve.
Some of the Republicans of Pennsyl
vania responsible for factional contro
versy and bitterness wilt realize that
they are playing the Democratic game
and no other. Thousands of stalwart
and fair-minded men who have been
standing solid as a wall in support of
Republican principles are getting more
than weary over the everlasting bick
ering of party leaders in this State.
WHY NOT A STRAW VOTE HERE?
ALL, over the country interest is
being aroused in military train
ing of school boys. It doesn't
follow that because these boys
are given military instruction
that the country is going to
be placed on a military basis. Such
training would mean lifelong benefit
to every boy who is put through ltis
paces during his school period. Dis
cipline, physical development and self
control are some of the benefits which
follow such military drill.
In a straw vote at Princeton the
other day only 92 of 595 students
were opposed to military training.
The same proposition prevailed at
Tale.
It might be interesting to know how
the boys now attending the high
schools, the Harriaburg Academy and
the parochial schools feel on the
question. Perhaps a straw vote at
these institutions would prove instruc
tive.
I'l'BUC OPINION
NEARLY every newspaper these
days contains from one to a half
dozen items relating to wallops
old "John Barleycorn" is receiving
here and there over the land. Time
was when "John" was a great cham
pion. Look back over the cartoons
of the newspapers a decade ago and
note his muscular build, his towering
strength; observe him delivering
knock-out blows right and left or re
posing peacefully in good humor with
himself and the world beside a table
; laden with glasses and bottles, ruddy
and rotund, the picture of vigor. But.
what a difference now! Everywhere 1
the cartoonist pictures him on wob-;
bling legs, feeble of limb, hanging'
over tl.e ropes and waiting for the
count, a veritable Jack Johnson be
fore his Jess Willard.
And the name of the youthful
champion?
It is public opinion.
fdLtUt IK
y 'PtKKOlfttfCUua
By the Ei-Oommitteenuta
Reports that an agreement to drop
the resolution to investigate the State
government has been made in Phila
delphia, spread over the State last
night but it all resulted from a con
i ference of leaders of rival factions
on the proposed change in the form
of the resolution, desired by the Vares
to prevent perjury. The Penrose peo
ple are said to be willing to concede
the point, but nothing else.
The Philadelphia Ledger says that
Mayor Smith is playing the role of
harmonizer and that Penrose is "try
ing to win over the Varcs for the sake
of a strong State organization." The
Philadelphia Record says that the
Penrose people are making some con
cessions "to test the Governor's sin
cerity.'' The Record says that the
Penrose people will put the matter up
to the Governor virtually challenging
him to veto the resolution, a view
which is shared by tl.e Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer which
speaks by the card when Republican
organization matters are to be talked
about says: "That the probe of the
Brumbaugh administration will be
carried out as originally planned was
the statement forthcoming from Pen
rose organization leaders last night in
answer to reports, circulated earlier
in the day, that efforts were being
made to bring about harmony in the
ranks of the two political factions.
Penrose leaders very promptly spiked
the report last night by declaring that
with assurance of overwhelming ma
jorities in both the Senate and House
in favor of the probe, which is ex
pected to show reckless expenditure
of public funds on the part of Gov
ernor Brumbaugh, it would be folly
for them to drop the investigation
now. On the contrary the Sproul
resolution authorizing the probe will
be pushed with renewed vigor when it
conies up for second reading next
Monday night, and they expect it to
be approved then in exactly the same
manner as it passed its first reading
last Monday night."
—The Philadelphia Record of to
day says: "Some of the up-State mem
bers of the House who supported Cox
for Speaker in the Republican caucus
are reported to be disgruntled over
the committee assignments given them
by Speaker Baldwin. Only the faith
ful were recognized when the chair
men of committees were selected and
as a result of that policy not one of
the members who supported Cox was
named to head any House committee.
The up-State members are reported
to have raised the contention that
they were deluded prior to the con
vening of the caucus as to the real
strength of the Vare-Brumbaugh can
didate."
—That a constable is not a county
employe is the conclusion reached by
Judge Baldridge, of Blair county in
a decision in a claim made in an ap
peal from the decision of the Work
man's Compensation Board, taken by
Mrs. Charles R. Shipe, of Juniata,
whose husband, a constable, was shot
to death while serving a warrant in
Greensburg last July on Blair Bill
heimer, who then committed suicide.
"A constable, elected by the citizens
of a certain ward of a municipality,
cannot be said to be an employe of
Blair county," said the court. "The
county has nothing to do with his elec
tion. nor can it remove him from
office. At most, if he performs any
services, they are casual in charac
ter."
—Democratic members of the Legis
lature will get together here next
week for some informal conferences in
regard to the investigation. The bulk
of the Democrats arc said to feel that
the probe shoutd be widened so as to
take in Penrose's campaign, but to
have made up their minds that they
are committed to an investigation and
will vote for the resolution.
—The Philadelphia city adminis
tration is planing to ask the legisla
ture to grant a greater measure of
home rule and plans for the bills are
being discussed by the city officials
and legislators.
—The death of Commissioner
George Sullivan, of Montgomery, has
resulted in numerous booms appear
ing for his place. J. M. Brooke and
Samuel Roberts are mentioned.
—The commission for Alderman P
11. Seltzer, of Lebanon, was sent out
to-day. He is the first magistrate to
■ be named in weeks.
—The Wilkes-Barre Chamber of
: Commerce will not join with Scranton
! in the "mine cave" legislative mat
. ter. The Wilkes-Barre people are in-
Iclined to let Lackawanna run its own
campaign in that matter.
county officials are
having a strenuous time with the an
nual accounts. The auditors are hold
ing hearings which is something new.
? —A Nevin Detrich, who was one of
the field marshals of the Cox boom
for the speakership and who aligned
■ the Washington party organization
•| with the State administration, is out
i in a statement in the North American
, to-day that Penroseism must come to
an end. Mr. Detrich has been saying
I that for some years.
t —Speaker Baldwin's committee as
, signments continue to offer fruitful
cause for discussion by newspapers
which failed to stop his election as
r Speaker. The committee lists are al
i ways good targets when there is
nothing else doing or when it is de
sired to raise a cloud of dust.
I I —The Pittsburgh Post seems to be
i 1 getting considerable amusement out
. of the Republican row. That is the
general attitude of Democratic news
papers which are looking eagerly for
campaign material.
, —The Philadelphia Ledger to-day
devotes considerable space to discus
-1 sion of the Governor's expenditures
: from his traveling and incidental ex
-1 pense fund and remarks that during
the Stuart administration the Gover
nor paid all of the bills and did not
use up all of his fund and that Gov
ernor Tener paid all of the food bills
for the mansion servants.
—H. W. Bergey, who turned things
j , upside down among Democrats in
f.j Montgomery county, is back at his old
I home and will run a new paper in
3 which he will whack the machine.
: —Antisaloon League leaders will
meet in Philadelphia next Tuesday to
plan their biennial campaign in "the
'! Legislature.
si
i Widely Heard Remark
[From the St. Louis Times.]
< The stomach of a bat will, in one
. night, absorb and digest three times
j the weight of the animal. That's win
men when they overload their systems \
; with liquids and foods in an all night
r session call it "batting around." , J
HARRISBURG TEUEGRAPH
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When a Feller Need By BRIGGS I
— J
Trade Briefs
In 1915 exports of wheat from
Chosen were >27,671.924, an increase
of 4 4 per cent, over those of the pre
vious year.
Leading exports from the United
States to Chosen in 1915 were flour,
herrii>g. kerosene, locomotives, con
struction materials and machinery.
Kxports of flour decreased, as tl.e
Manchurians are building up the flour
industry and consumers prefer the
domestic article.
Sixty delegates from South Amer
ican countries recently attended
American week" at Lyons,
France. Several plans for the estab
lishment of increased trade between
France and South America were dis
cussed. among which was the recom
mendation of a steamship line between
Bordeaux, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro and
Dakar.
Portugal presents a fair market for
American agricultural machinery, but
tact and patience must be exercised
in the introduction of modern ma
chinery.
Potatoes and afalfa grown on the
plateaus of Peru are to be studied by
a member of the faculty of the Uni
versity of Colorado, with the idea that
they mav be grown in the West.
Consul E. S. Cunningham at Han
kow, China, predicts that that city
will become an important manufac
turing center. Jlany small manufac
tories have ben established and show
promise of rapid growth.
The t'nited States has succeeded
Gret Britain as the chief supplier of
Hongkong's confectionery. The Am
erican method of packing is especially
commended by Chinese dealers.
Modern office equipment is in de
mand in Norway. American office
furniture is being imitated in that
country by local dealers, but the
is inferior to that of the im
ported product.
The pink boll worm has been dis
covered in Brazil. No damage to
crops has been reported to date, but
the Government is being urged to take
steps to destroy the pest.
A Norwegian firm is in the market
for electrical heating appliances.
French dealers have inquired about
cottonseed oil cakes and fertilizers.
Correspondence should be in Freuch.
Experiments in the cultivation of
the soya bean are being made by sev
eral cottonseed oil mills in Texas.
Ozokerite, a wax produced in Aus
tria, has become very scarce. There
are some ozokerite deposits in Utah,
but they have not been developed.
An Ideal of Peace
[Pittsburgh Gazette Times.!
j In addressing the Senate as he did
yesterday President Wilson spoke to
the warring governments of Europe in
a manner that ran give them no of
fenHe and to more effective purpose
than if he had gone directly to them.
He could not say to the Entente Allies
i or to the Central Powers what he said
to the Senate. But what he said was
'■ intended for their tars more than It
| was for those of the American people,
and though they will take no formal
notice of it, we may be sure they will
give careful thought to the principles
which the President so plainly stated.
And they must be impressed with his
I opinions, for they are sound sense, in
the main. The speech may be taken
as notice there will be no more notes
j from Washington, for which we can be
i thankful, until the belligerent coun
j tries give some sign that they are
! ready to listen to reason or invite the
mediation which the United States al
ways will be ready to undertake.
City Manager
One Head Best For a City.—Headline.
Certainly. One head Is best for a
city, a family, an army or an individual.
But it must be the right kind of a
head. Bucklly a city has ono advan
tage of an Individual, in that If Its
head turns out to oe no good It can
remove it and get a new one. If In
dividuals. Pr even families, could adopt
i tills feature of the manager form of
city government and knock off dunder
heads and substitute good ones as
often a? required, the world's average
of efficiency nd intelligence would
be raised considerably. Would—ah—
would your head be safe?— Kansas City
Times.
WHY NOT A STATE BUDGET?
THERE is very little use in creat
ing a Commission on Economy
and Efficiency to study the con
duct of the affairs of the State if no
attention going to be paid to its
findings and recommendations. The
solicitor of the commission, Mr. Mc-
Devitt, h'as pointed out how Pennsyl
vania can secure for itself all the ad
vantages of a State budget system at
once and that without any tinkering
with the Constitution. Of course, a
permanent system by which the State
finances and appropriations shall be
managed according to scientific busi
ness principles would have to be safe
guarded in some way against the va
garies and whims of politicians in the
Legislature, whose winge could be seri-
Our New Islands
[Philadelphia I.edger.]
By the formal exchange of ratifica
tions for the sale by Denmark t<o the
United States of the Danish Islands in
the West Indies the transfer of sover
eignty is brought appreciably nearer.
When the price shall have been paid
the actual transfer of title will take
place, and the islands will no longer
be the Danish West Indies. It is not
too soon, however, to begin to con
sider what the islands shall be called
when they become United States ter
ritory. though it is likely the name
Danish will stick for a long time to
come, and under what form of gov
ernment they shall be administered.
This is a problem that will call for a
high order of statesmanship on the
part of the administration and of the
Congress. It cannot truthfully be said
that our management of Porto Rico
has been wholly satisfactory, and leg
islation for the new possessions should
open the door for the correction of
any blunders that were made when
Porto Rico was given a government of
its own under tutelage from Washing
ton. We can afford to be just and
generous to these island peoples; but
whether we will or not unfortunately
depends upon whether the powers
that be in Washington at present can
rise to the level that calls for disin
terested and far-soeing statesmanship.
The Fine Day
President George C. Woodruff of the
Bald Head Club of America, said at
the recent annunl turkey dinner in
Hartford:
"The members of this club don't
buy hair-growers. There are lots of
millionaire hair-grower manufactur
ers, but we don't patronize them.
"The bald head who keeps on hoping
for a new hair seems to us as irra
tional as the Irishman who will never
say no.
"Some Irish, you know, will never
disagree with you—never say no. A
tourist couldn't believe this. He re
solved to put it to the test. So he
said to an Irishman one day when it
was raining cats and dogs:
" 'lt's a fine day, Pat.'
" 'Shure an' it is. yer honor, said
Pat, 'an' it would be finer still if it
wasn't rainin'.' " —Washington Star.
"Intelligence"
"Officially in Europe spying has
' ceased to exist. One speaks of "in
-1 telligence,' yet it doesn't make much
difference under what label a man
, faces a firing squad or feels the noose
1 tighten about his neck. For, as a
matter of fact, there are more spies
[ than ever, better spies, spies with a
lack of fear nearly superhuman. • •
"There is, of course, a good deal
that can't be publicly told, but It Isn't
all tragedy. Nor do these men per
petually work in the shadow of death.
You may not know that an Entente
intelligence offleer assigned to New
York informed London of the ap
proaching Irish excursion of Sir Roger
Casement, Imt you must have guessed
the presence of spies of both sides in
America; you may have suspected
that, often in a legitimate way, they
are not uninterested In you." From
"Intelligence," by Wadsworth Camp,
in January 20th Collier's.
JANUARY 26, 1917.
ously clipped by such a system. But the
fact remains that the Governor can if
he will prepare the materials for a
budget and put upon the legislature
the responsibility for ignoring them.
Existing methods are so slipshod and
unscientific that they are a biennially
recurring disgrace to the Common
wealth. Appropriations are made not
only far in excess of the available in
come, but no serious effort is made to
ascertain with any degree of accuracy
just what the available revenues are
going to be. Unless the State is con
tent to perpetuate an utterly indefensi
ble method of dealing with one of the
most important of the duties of ad
ministration and of legislation, it will
adopt the budget system and the time
to begin is now.—Public Ledger.
1 EDITORIAL COMMENT"!
—The Chicago wheat-pit is consider
ably more sympathetic to peace-iluc
tuations in Kurope than the corner
grocer is to the fluctuations of the Chi
cago wheat-pit.—Boston Transcript.
—The President's faith in the out-
I come of a conference between the war
i ing nations no doubt is based on the
noteworthy achievements of the Mexi
can-American conference.—Philadelphia
North American.
—Kven peace is made in Germany.
Atlanta Journal.
—What we want is a finish of war,
not war to the finish.—Atlanta Jour
nal.
| OUR DAILY LAUGH
I ——
tA PROMINENT
CITIZEN.
Bug: Who la
C a t e rplllar:
That's Mr. Fire
fly, one of our
| leading lights.
JUSTWED.
I the apple of C*-
your eye, Ed-
Edwin—Hard-
ly. TouYe more tt
Morose Young
1 M * n — They say
BR marriage is a
Mg Miss Sweet —
■J* It isn't. In a
P 4 lottery y° can
I j go on buying
Cold Comfort
"What is the trouble with your
husband. Mrs. Jims."
"The doctor thinks it is a harden
er of the arctics."
Stoning (Etjal
Discussion of a general plan for
construction of armories in Pennsyl
vania cities and boroughs to take caro
of the organizations which the Stato
is obligated to houso under the na
tional defense act brought out the in
teresting fact that the Guard officers
rather look to llarrisburg to help the
State establish armories In the State
Capital. The armories to be built hero
for the infantry and cavalry organ!-
nations and such units as headquart
ers. supply, machine gun and other
companies must be of a type bctlt
ting the standing of the city as a capi
tal and a municipality intimate these
men. In plain words they look l'or a
couple of SIOO,OOO propositions. Sug
gestions that the city and county buy
properties fronting on Capitol Park,
that the city emulate Wilkes-Barro
and give sites in parks, and of pur
chase of blocks in the built-up sec
tion have been made. However, it ap
pears that there are some men who
think that the end of the Capitol
park toward the railroad would be.
a good place for the structures. This
project has been mentioned several
times before and has not always met
with favor on the ground that it
would shut off the view of the park
from trains, one of the arguments
used when the park extension was
being urged. The impression seems to
prevail that the armory proposition
should be taken up by municipal au
thorities while the changes incident
to the extension and improvement to
Capitol park are being made and that
the city will be called upon to do its
part. In Greensburg and other towns
the county gave the lots and the
State built tile armories. In other
places the municipalities either gave
the property or contributed a share
of the cost. The present infantry ar
mory, called in honor of the old City
Grays will be too small in a year and
as for the Governor's Troop it must
vacate the building it now occupies
within two years at least.
Of all the cases that have been be
fore the State Board of Pardons in
recent years few have attracted the
attention among: lawyers and medical
men that the application of John
Nelson, of Wyoming county, has
aroused. Nelson was supposed to be
a voodoo doctor and no one has his
right name. He ran amuck and now
a doctor who attended his victim and
who did not testify at the trial has
been called to appear before the
board. It is a question of medical
ethics with a chance that a man's life
may be at stake. The hearing will
take place next month.
The corn and apple sliow held this
week at the Emerson-Brantlnßham
building as a part of the agricultural
meetings will probably be made an
annual affair. It was successful be
yond many hopes and succeeded in
getting assembled for the first time
in many years the prizewinners of
county fairs. Fifty years ago llarris
burg had a State fair that drew the
choice products of many counties,
but it was in summer. This exhibi
tion can be made a regular winter
event in Harrisburg with a little en
couragement from Harrisburg peo
ple.
Speaking of this week's gatherings
it is a matter of note the extent of
the comments heard upon the plans
for the new hotel. The people who
came here and who talked nbout it
appeared to have one question, "IsV
it a go?" As a matter of fact Tlar
risburg's new hotel has been a nioro
or less extensively used subject for
the jesters from other places and th
fact that it is a "go" has been the
I subject of some commendatory re
marks and some also indicative that
' the speakers thought it about time.
, Men who asked about the status of
the proposition predicted that it
would bring a dozen more conven
! tions to Harrisburg the first year it
! was opened.
• • •
M. lAither Mason, the Reading man
j selected as a deputy State (Ire mar
j staal, is well known to scores of fire
men here as he has been active in
State fire circles for twenty years. He
is a printer on the Reading Eagle
force and was backed by business
I men. legislators, firemen and many
! others for the place, indeed, it is sel
, dom that so many people unite to se
, cure an appointment. He took a prom
; inent part in the State Firemen's eon
! vention here a few years ago.
* • *
Just why people should call the Vine
: and Race street cars the "Vinegar
j Valley" no one seems to know. The
other evening a couple of young wo
men evidently working in another
part of the city made a bee line for
the car just as it was about to start
from Market Square, calling out
j "Hold old Vinegar Valley."
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
—Ex-Governor Tener Is having a
hard time to work in a winter vaca
tion during the present baseball out
break.
—W. G. l-.ee, president of the Train
men, will be one of the speakers be
fore the American Academy of Poli
tical Science in Philadelphia.
—Dr. Wilmer Krusen, Philadelphia
director of health, finds time to look
after his work as vice-president of
Temple University.
—Judge F. F. O'Connor, of the
Cambria courts, was figure caller at
an old-fashioned dance held at Ebens
burg.
—E. J. Cattell. the Philadelphia
city statistician. Is to make a series
of speeches in Western Pennsylvania
towns.
DO YOU KNOW |
Tliat Harrisburg lias almost as
many passenger trains a ilay ns
some cities of three and four
times its size?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
In old times the State had a large
stagecoach for the Governor when he
wanted to go traveling.'
Make Booze Seller Liable
[Kansas City Star.]
The Indiana judge who decided that a
inan who became drunk in a saloon bait
a right to lie down on the floor and go
to sleep has the right theory about the
saloonkeeper's liability.
"The next time you or anybody else
"gets drunk in a saloon I want you to
"understand you are to He down right
"there and not become a public ex
"pense," said the judge.
Now, let's have a ruling that If a man
spends for booze the money his family
ought to have the saloonkeeper must
support the family; and If a drunken
man murders, or commits any other
crime, the saloonkeeper who sold him
the booze shall be responsible.
Why should a saloonkeeper be allow
ed to sell to a man something that
erases him, and when that drink-crazed
man commits a crime, the expense of
keeping the man In jail, or trying him
In court, must be borne by the tax
payers? Let the saloon bear the ex
pense of the wrecks it makea