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THE~STARTKDEPENDENT The paper with the largest Home Circulation in Harrisburg ana Marby towns. Circulation Eiamlnco by THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVERTISERS. TELEPHONES; BELL Private Branoh Exohanfa, No. 3280 CUMBERLAND VALLEY Prlvata Branoh Exohanga, • No. 145-24 i V Thursday, December 3, 1914. DECEMBER Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ' 26 27 28 29 30 31 MOON'S PHASES— Full Moon, 2nd; Last Quarter, 10th; New Moon. 16th; First Quarter, 24th. WEATHER FORECASTS Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair to '* night and probably Friday. Colder. k° WeSt temperature to-uight about 40 Eastern Pennsylvania: Unsettled i yTy and colder to night and Friday. Fresh north and northeast winds. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest, 50; lowest, 44; 8 a. m., 44; 8 p. m., 50. PROGRESSIVES UNDISMAYED The Progressive party was not put down and ont by the somewhat discouraging results of last month's elections throughout the country. At least so its national executive committee said in effect yesterday when it met in Chicago to pick up the pieces and to lay the first plans for patching them together for 1916. Thirty-four of the states of' the union were represented and even Gifford Pinchot, who paid $49,275 out of his own pocket for the experience of making a losing light for the United States Senatorship in Pennsylvania; was on hand with flattened pocketbook but with a deter mination to stick to the ship. The committeemen seemed to see something to encourage them in the assertion that more than 1,750,000 votes were polled by the party in the United States in the recent election. That may not be regarded as very many by £hose who consider the aggregate number of votes cast for the other parties, but the number was sufficiently large to encourage the committee to make the an nouncement that it will make the fight to elect a Progressive president in 1916. Incidentally the committee hinted strongly that the main campaign pledge of the party will be to "take the tariff out of politics by the creation of a permanent non partisan tariff commission." The Bull Moosers never have been accused of being pessimists with regard to their own affairs. Their attitude as expressed by the Chicago meeting yesterday indicates their optimism increases even when the number of votes they poll decreases. How ever, whatever the unbiased observer may think of the possibility of the Bull Moose "coming back" to the extent of actually having a chance to elect its candidate for President in 1916, it must be said that the presence of the Progressive hat in the ring in the past has not done the country any harm. There are lots of Progressives who recognize that theiyp'arty can do the country a whole lot of good it never again elects a man to any office. Jinfluence unquestionably has resulted in very material gains for the people in the form of re forms and readjustments of policies it has com pelled in the old parties,—especially the Repub lican party. The Progressives may not again reach the point where they can wield the balance of power in a national campaign;— yet, who can tell? AN OLD MAN'S HOBBY There is an old man in a small town in this state, no matter where, who has a hobby. His life is wrapped up in old dishes, lie takes delight not in collecting of specimens, for his house is crowded now from top to bottom and he has not the means to add to his stock even if he would. His joy is merely in contemplating his treasures from day to day and in knowing that they are his, all his. It has taken him a lifetime to make his wonder ful collection,—for it is wonderful. He has picked up old plates here and old crockery there, and has classified them and gloried in them as does a nu mismatist in his coins or a philatelist in his stamps. Many of his specimens are of exceeding rarity; all have been increasing gneatly in value since he ob tained them. In the old man's humble home, where he leads a bachelor life, every room is a riot of gay-colored chinaware, earthenware and glassware. His treas ures fill shelves and mantel-pieces on the walls and HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY EVENmfI, DKCEAI BKK 3, 1914. overflow unto tables and unto floors. His collec tion has made his house his palace. His dishes are his family. This old man is to-day in straitened circum stances. Rumor in his little town has been busy, and it says that he pays his taxes and meets his othor bills with tardiness, and with pitiful de meanor. Gossip has branded him an old miser, and ponders and wonders why in the world he does not accept the many cash offers which have been made him for his dishes, and then live in comfort, even luxury, for the few remaining days of his life. But there would be 110 comfort, no luxury for him if he were to do as the public opinion in his town seeks to dictate. His dishes are his comfort and his hobby, his luxury. Without his treasures he would have nothing to live for. He is not a miser, for he refuses money. He only wants to die with his dishes as he has lived with them. The passion of possession has hold of him. Only those who have the hobbyist's love for in animate objects can hope fully to understand that old man whom his little town calls queer. GIRL WORKERS IN THE CITIES Young women of high character but no money, who have the ambition to go to the great cities to make their way in honorable occupation, often wonder why they are warned to stay at home. Such women can with profit read some of the testimony submitted 111 the present inquiry being conducted in New York City by the Factory Investigation Commission as to low wages paid to women work ers. Miss Esther Packard assistant secretary of the Consumers' League, said yesterday: One girl who earns $6 a week lives on one meal a day when she has to pay for shoes or a hat. Many girls frankly admitted that they counted on their male friends to buy their Sunday dinuers. A girl of 23 had taken no vacation for six years because she could not afford to lose her salary for a week. A woman of 40, without a vacation for 25 years, cannot think of stopping work for a month to take a rest which she needs. It is hard for good girls to understand why girls | who go to the cities to work find it difficult to con ! tinue good. Perhaps Miss Packard's testimony will | help to explain. EDUCATION AT HOME The new ijif>oo,(XX) graduate school for the Uni versity of Pennsylvania will be an additional in ducement to keep students in this country. Now that all industries abroad are crippled, including that of education, we are making efforts to estab lish our independence here at home, and to main tain it after the war. Not the least of the consid erations is that of keeping our students in American | universities. Not particularly because the University of Penn sylvania is in our own state but more generally be cause it is in tlie United States we should take an interest in the preparations it is making ,to accom modate graduate students, to encourage men to pursue their special studies in an institution in their own country. "Old Penn" has made its name famous abroad as well as in America, not only by its strictly aca demic activities, but by its investigations carried on in historic fields for purposes of enriching its museum and of adding to the world's knowledge of the past. Students from abroad have been attracted to the university, as they have of course been to other American institutions of higher earning, and while foreigners were coming here to study under our teachers, American students were leaving for uni versities abroad. This sort of an exchange of piaces has its ad vantages, but a more logical way of arriving at desired results seems to be the interchanging of professors between American and foreign univer sities. It is a comparatively new idea, but appears to be a good one. With a fair trial, after the end of hostilities, it may give higher education at home a place of almost equal importance and prestige with education abroad. We wonder if Gifford Pinchot's official residence still is in Pike county. Harrisburg's police department still is "bringing home the bacon" in the form of recovered loot. Carnegie says it is foolish to demand a larger United States Navy. Can it be that Andy has sold his Steel stock? Too bad that money the defeated candidates for office spent on their useless campaign could not have been turned over to the Belgians. ( olonel Roosevelt was not at the Chicago meeting of the Bull Moose national committee, nor did he even send a telegram. Perhaps the Colonel is economizing to make up for expenses of the Fall spin around the loop. TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN THE EDITOR Don't edit magazine or journal, Not even if they call you "colonel!" The editor is born for woe. (I've been the thing and hence I know.) With open ears to all advisers— Subscribers, owners, advertisers— He toils within his gloomy haunts A-guessing what the public, wants, Repelling lovely authoresses Who will not guess the way he guesses—• Yet has to read what every bore Has got to say about the war. —Arthur Guiterman in Life. CULTURE IN A PRISON ' I understand that this prison has been thoroughly re formed." "Yes," replied the gentlemanly convict. "The only fault we have to find nor. Surface intro duced the parasites of the San Jose scale into different parts of Pennsyl vania and also into certain other States of the union, and his discovery has robbe.l the destructive scale of its terrors. * o * Scale and Parasite Gone The Michigan fruit grower writes: "At spraying time early this spring I took the branches from the pear trees to which I had attached the small twigs you sent me, and placed them among some willows that were swarm ing with scale, that I might not kill them when spraying my pear trees. 1 have made careful search for scale parasites on my willows, and I am not able to find either the parasites or scale, excepting some mummies on dead branches. Certainly the parasites are here somewhere, and I hope to locate them, as several neighbors want to in troduce them into their orchards. This I know: The willows were badly in fested when I put the parasites among them. Now I cannot find a live bug. So I think there can be no doubt that the parasites did the work, and we also note the very small number of scales found on other trees and on those of a neig'hbor whose orchards comes close up to the willows mention ed.' ' • ».* Wants to Get the "Mummies" To this communication Professor j Surface replied as follows: "I have no | doubt whatever of the correctness of j your interpretation to the effect that i the parasites cleaned up the scale, | ©specially on the willow trees, which I you know were not sprayed. Your ac tion in transferring cuttings to the j willows before spraying your pears j shows how an intelligent person can j co operate with others to obtain the j results desired. Many persons would | not have thought of this, aaid might | have lost the beneficial results of the j parasites.. As it is, you certainly have started their dissemination in that re gion, amd they will continue to spread not only from farm to farm, but from towmslhip to township, and from county to county. I wish you would kindly send me by mail just a few cutting 3 from youir willow trees with the pld 'mummies' on tihem, if possible and also some cuttings from your infested orchards or neighboring orchards, in J order that I may photograph them to I show the holes in the scales through which the parasites came. These holes are invisible to the unaided eye, and the parasites are likewise invisible. It •is no wonder that persons cannot tell without ca/reful miscropic examination Whether the parasites were present or not, or whether their efforts ;?t intro duction were successful or not." READL FOR A WRECK The Careful Man Who Believed in Tak ing Every Precaution Two friends 'boarded a great trans atlantic liner and sett sail for Cher bourg. One was a good fellow. The other was a niggardly man. The first nighlt out they wenit to their state room. "sSay, Boh," said the niggardly man, "I wish you'd step otft on Lyl/ wee£ ® ' s represented. Eac.n one elegantly tailored-- 11 some, are beautifully lined throughout. Many of them jW' worth $25. / ; !' I \W Coats for Little 05rl§ / j I I \ W Warm, dressy coats -- Coats of the /|Er\ n lrW« Chinchillas, Cheviots and better sort -- \iJnL-* Tweeds -- some with de- Plush, Velvet, \\\ if' tachable capes--a superb Corduroy and Ugr \VX/ O „„ a n . . n . . Wool Plush in Ifiln llgi'lP V! Ct '°" ' f h ' ld,Bh very fetching liil ■ models, well worth $6.50 models, ||^P| (t| M to S7.SO, At § 7 J S amd At $5.95 $12.75 THE OLOBE Lad -Sco n °^?„f r ion STRATEGY OF LEADERS IMPORTANT PART IN WAR GENERAL VON FABECK GENERAL FOCH " "" Strategy plays Ibo most Important part in every bis war. The skilful manipulating of armies hns often won even where the victorious nation has been outnumbered in troops and munitions. In the present conflict the valiant work and splendid military discipline exercised by the leaders has won admiration all around. Generals Joffre. Kocli and von Fabeck are men of splendid typo and bearing wiio have done great work, as has Duke Albrecbt of Wurtem burg and the Crown Prince Itupprecht of Bavaria. THANKSGIVING DONATIONS Home For the Friendless Receives Large Number of Articles The following Thanksgiving dona-1 tions wore received ait the Home of the Friendless: Five doze® oranges, Mrs. George C. Zollinger; oysters, Augsburg Lutheran church; turkey, Mrs. Henry McCor nik'k; dozen cans of peas, Mrs. Anna Doehne; 50 pounds loaf sugar; Mrs. | A. J. l>ull; 8 quarts cranberries, Mrs. j Willard Young; 4 pounds butter, 2 doz en egg's, Mrs. 0. Lynch; 6 glasses jeMy,! 3' jars fruit, 5 baskets grapes, Miss j Mary M. Mitchell; box prunes Misses I Anna and (Sibyl Weir; basket sweet po- j tatocs, Mrs. 11. C. Damming; basket | bananas, Mrs. Jos'hua W. Gross; tur-j key, Mrs. E. C. Kunkel; one-half crate or am gee, Bates & Co.; ba«ket sweet potatoes, Miss Small; fruit cake,; Mr. Thorley; turkey, Mrs. Edward C.! Bailey; turkey, Mra. Charles Kunkel; | turkey, Mrs. Weiss; candy #nd dafes, Mrs. Koffer; Mrs. S. Cameron ; Young; small cakes, Mrs. John Rei'ly; | figs ujinauts, Mrs. Hammond; celerv,| Mrs. David Herr; 2 baskets apples, j Mrs. Thompson; 1 basket apples, Mrs. i C. S'igler; sjnall ginger cakes, Mrs. Ja- J cobs; 2 largo cakes, Mrs. King; onions, | Miisa Lydia A. Forney; ice cream, Miss j ■Clara ('ankle; titirkey, M.iss Jennie! Dull; mince meat, Mrs. Charles Stouf- j for; cranberries and sugar, Mrs. M«- Cauley. Messiah Lutheran Ohurch—Twenty- 1 four glasses jelly, 7 cans of tomatoes, i 3 cans corn, 2 cans peas, 3 jars fruit, cake soaip, 3 pounds of rice, 3 pounds beans, 1 pound dried peaches, 1 pound coffee, 2 pounds sugar,' 1 dozen apples, I 1 box cereal. Public Schools—Twenty-four heads i cabbage, 25 pounds sugar, 139 glasses j jelly, 2 sacks salt, 26 pounds rice, 4 2 I cans ftuit, 4 pounds prunes, 5 packs! noodles, 10 pounds beans, 25 boxes] cereal, 20 boxes Uneeda biscuits, 3 j packs com meal, 2 loaves bread, one- j half pound tea, 6 bushel apples, 27 | bushel potatoes, 131 cans corn, 51 [ cans peas, §9 cans tomatoes, 15 pitmp ! kins, ] 1 cans baked beans, -2 cans of j miscellaneous, 20 oranges, 1 peek of i onions, 1 peek turniips, 4 bunches eel ; orv, 1 pack of macaroni, 1 sack flour, j 3 cakes soap. Foreign Relations Can't Vote "What is your opinion of our for EVERY GIRL APPRECIATES A BRACELET And Watch Bracelets make ideal Christmas gifts, not alone because of their particular beauty hut because of their special usefulness. We've a profusion of Bracelets of every descrip tion—your choice can be made easily and at a surprisingly low price. 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