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Tuesday, December 8, 1914.
DECEMBER
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MOON'S PHASES— ,
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New Moon, 16th; First Quarter, 24th.
WEATHER FORECASTS
Hacrisburg and vicinity: Cloudy to
night and Wednesday; not much change X
in temperature.
Eastern Pennsylvania: Cloudy to- JT
night and Wednesday; not much change
in temperature; moderate north winds.
ACTIVITIES OF THE CENSORS
The statement whieh comes from New York that
women by the thousands are committing suicide in
European countries because the censors have pre
vented news concerning their husbands, sons and
brothers from reaching them, may be authentic or
it may be a great exaggeration. That it has some
foundation in fact, however, seems likely. At any
rate, it does not serve to increase our respect for
the censors.
The industrious English censors have been keep
ing ba&k news of importance from the entire world.
They have censored even messages of the King,
have sliced and slashed items of interest, Jn many
instances, without reason. The people of Great
Britain are in an uproar about it, and although our
concern is not so immediate on this side of the
Atlantic, we can find much to criticise in the way
in which the news is being handled.
Granted that secret moves of armies and of ves
sels are not events which should receive publicity,
because of the help such information would afford
the other side, yet things which have occurred and
cannot be changed need to be announced as a matter
of public record.
The censors have no right to stand, as it were,
between the events of the war and the public, and
hide the progress of affairs from view. The people
of England ought to be able to stand the news of
a calamity to their side, and they have asserted that
rather than do harm, such news would stir up in
creased zeal among them to serve their country,
and spur them on to greater efforts.
The French government is about to publish a
periodical giving news of the war and comments on
it from the French point of view. The Germans are
now seeking with great diligence to set the world
right from their viewpoint. Yet the American pub
lic, if its wishes were known, would doubtless prefer
more detailed statements of facts through the cen
sors, on which they might base independent con
clusions.
TO MAKE A LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR USEFUL
Mayor Frank B. McClain, of Lancaster, Lieuten
ant Governor-elect, is regarded by Laneasterians
as a rain-maker. There's a reason. About a month
ago, when everything in the vicinity of Lancaster
was parched by the drought and the city water
supply was scant, Mayor McClain issued a procla
mation calling on the citizens to refrain from using
the water extravagantly and to make use of it
only when necessary. Old Jupiter Pluvius must
have been reading the news in and about Lancaster.
He took pity on the community, and the next day it
rained sufficiently to relieve the drought.
A few weeks later the same dry conditions pre
vailed and things were worse than before. On
Saturday last Mayor McClain again issued a procla
mation to the Laneasterians warning them that the
water must be used sparingly, and he set a watch
to see that his warning was not disregarded. That
evening it rained and continued to rain all day
Sunday and all day Monday and it has been raining
ever since with a few variations in the form of
snow and sleet.
Now the people of Lancaster are wondering what
they are going to do for rain hereafter in times of
drought when Mr. McClain is not in the Mayor's
chair. However, as Mr. McClain goes into the chair
of the Lieutenant Governor the entire state might
utilize him when rain is needed and get him to issue
HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8. 1914.
a proclamation calling on the entire people to
refrain from using water unnecessarily. Then it
can be seen whether his influence in the matter of
rain-making is statewide.
The question often is asked: Of what use is a
Lieutenant Governor? Perhaps Mr. McClain, when
he enters upon the duties of that office, will be able
to answer the question satisfactorily.
BETTER MARKET FOR MUNICIPAL BONDS
The recent experience of the city of Philadelphia
in disposing of an issue of $1,125,000 bonds sold
"over the counter" at par, bears witness to an im
proved condition in the market for high class mu
nicipal securities and proves that such loans can
now be floated on a four per cent, basis, despite
the disturbing effect on finances of the world caused
by the European war. In discussing the success of
this "over the counter" sale, Cyrus D. Foss, secre
tary to the Mayor of Philadelphia, said:
With individual small investors eager to purchase these
bonds, neither hanks nor the Sinking Fund Commissioners
took a dollar of them, and it is the first time within the
memory of any city official that a loan has been floated
without any help from either of these soufces.
Philadelphia's ability now to sell four per cent,
bonds at par without any difficulty and without
the necessity of calling on hanking houses to under
write them, may be taken as an judication that con
ditions have improved materially since the start of
the war at which time it is doubtful if even such
gilt-edge bonds could have found a market except
at a considerably higher rate of interest. This may
be taken as proof that there is plenty of money to
put into safe securities once the psychological de
pression that has temporarily robbed investors of
confidence has been removed.
DOCTORS IN DEMAND
In Germany doctors are at present in urgent
demand. Civilians are realizing how great has
been their dependence upon the men of the medical
profession, now that a great number of these men
have been called to the front to care for the
soldiers.
To a request of the Leipsic Physicians' Assoeia- •
tion that licensed doctors and unlicensed medical
students be released from their obligations to serve j
at the front, the Prussian War Ministry has replied
that the physicians and surgeons are so badly
needed where the tiring is heavy, that none can be
dispensed with except for service in communities
which have been entirely stripped of medical men.
There is no telling what diseases may spread, or
what suffering may be undergone in towns which
the war has deprived of medical protection. While
the doctors are on the firing line endeavoring to
lessen fatalities among the nation's soldiers, the
women and children and weaker men who cannot
qualify as fighters, are left in the towns unguarded
against the insistent ills of human kind. As much
as the soldiers need the doctors, to such an extent
civilians miss them.
We may not appreciate our medical men in this
country as we ought by merely hearing of the
urgent need for doctors which is making itself felt
abroad. We would perhaps need to experience that
dire necessity ourselves before we could fully un
derstand what physicians mean to the great mass
of the people in any community.
Perhaps the success of one school master in the White
House is what has influenced the friends of Dr. Brumbaugh
to start a presidential boom for him.
Sleet on the wires is more effective in holding back the
news even than the war censors in Europe.
If you think you own a summer cottage along the Jersey
coast, better see if it still is anchored there when the storm
blows by!
The request for charity are many this season but the
good people of Harrisburg recognize that the need for their
aid is the greater and they are quick to respond.
Fashionable young women of America are not violating
the laws of neutrality simply by wearing their hair in
French rolls.
TOLD IN LIGIITERVEIN
POOR BURGLAR
"A burglar got into my house about 3 o'clock this morn
ing when I was on my way home from the club," said
Jones.
"Did he get anything?" aaked Brown.
"I should say he did get something," replied Jones.
"The poor devil is in the hospital. My wife thought it was
me."—Cincinnati Enquirer.
ONE BENEFIT OF WEALTH
The man who has a million dollars and feels poor may
be more unfortunate than the guy who has $7 and feels
rich, but the millionaire has a more intimate acquaintance
with that part of the anatomy of a steer from which the
porterhouse is cut. —Houston Post.
NO GENTLEMAN
Bervant—"What was the name of the gentleman that
had room 14 last week, mum—the gentleman that stole the
overcoat and bolted!"
Landlady—"Please don't refer to him as a gentleman,
Janet!"— Chicago News.
BUSINESS ONLY
As a general thing when the man at the table ties the
napkin around his neck he did not come there to indulge
in table talk. —Galveston News.
THE CONTRADICTIONS OF LAW
Ohio has a law which compels newspapers to tell the
truth. Texas has a law which compels them to suppress it.
—Waxahachie (Tex.) Light.
HELPLESS FATHER
Children are taught to be kind to dumb animals, and
something should be said about imposing on Father.
Atchison Globe.
TRANSPARENT
A volunteer soldier, who had gone with his regiment
to Cuba during the Spanish-American war and returned,
as most of the men did, extremely emaciated, got off the
train at his home town and was met at the station by one
of his fellow towusinen. The latter's greeting to the
returned patriot, who had lost flesh, but not his sense of
humor, was:
"Well, I see you're back from the front." v
"You do, eh!" exclaimed the militiaman. "I know I was
thin, but I didn't know it was as bad as that!"— Exchange.
PURE RICH BLOOD
MADE DY HOOD'S
Pure blood enables the stomach,
liver and other digestive organs to do
their work properly. Without it they
are sluggish, there is loss of appetite,
sometimes faintness, a deranged state
of the intestines, and, in general, all
the symptoms of dys|>epsia.
Hood's Sarsaparilla makes pure
blood, and this is why it is so very
successful in the treatment of so many
ailments. Oet it to-day. ' Adv.
[Tongue-End Top ics |
Mr. Barrett As a Poet
The memorial poejn read at the
Elks' memorial ceremony in the Ma
jestic theatre on Sunday last, is from
the pen of John E. Barrett, of Scnain
ton, at present postmaster of that city,
and like everything in the way of
verse that Mr. Barrett writes, it is a
gem. Mr. Barrett is the author of the
State song, "Pennsylvania," a sonor
ous and lofty hymn to the old Key
stone State that has met with much
favor and is 9img in the public schools.
All his life his pen has been turning
out prose and poetry, "'worth read
ing. '' When a youth he was a clerk iu
a Scranton store, but his contributions
to local newspapers attracted attention
and the late Congressman Joseph
Strati ton gave him a place as reporter
on the staff of the Scranton "Repub
lican,' at that time the greatest news
paper of the anthracite regions.
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Introduced to the Lord
When Scranton and "contagious
territory," as Barrett wouild say,- de
manded that a new county be made
with Scranton as the county seat, Mr.
Barrett was sent to Harrisburg to
work up sentiment iu fav6r of the new
county. Governor Hovt had just been
inaugurated and he was enlisted in fa
vor of the new county and it was es
tablished. Mr. Barrett was
sent to the State House nf Represen
tatives and he was instrumental in
having legislation passed that put the
new county on its feet. While here
during the legislative session Barrett
was correspondent of the Philadelphia
"Press" under the managing editor
ship of the late Moses P. Handy. He
was present on the day tho House or
ganized, when it is customary for the
chaplain to open the proceedings with
prayer. Barrett, in noting this fact,
in his story to the "Press," wrote:
j "The chaplain here introduced the new
members to the Lord."
Handy, who was a bit of a wag
himself, let the expression go, and
thereafter the new members were the
butt of the joke. «
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Starts the Scranton "Truth"
Barrett afterward established the
Scranton "Truth," an evening paper,
one otf the best that Scranton has ever
had. After years of hard toil in the
newspaper work he was made post
master in Scranton, and is now on
Easy street; but he beguiles his rest
hours with writing poetry, and the
beautiful memorial poem read at the
Harrisburg EJks' ceremony was one of
his latest etforts.
BRUMBAUGH US
BE ffILLGOVEM
Declares He Will "Go
It Alone" If Men of
Party Fail to Support
Platform Pledges
MENTIONED FOR
THE PRESIDENCY
Congressman Vare Tells Washington
Dinner Party That Governor-Elect
Is Pennsylvania's Candidate For
the White House in lUIO
(Special to the Star-Independent.)
Washington, D. C., Dec. B.—Govern
or-elect Brumbaugh asserted his inde
pendence of any persons who might in
terfere with him in the fulfillment of
his platform pledges to the people of
Pennsylvania in a speech last night at
a dinner at the Shoreham hotel given
by Representative William 8. Vare, at
which Dr. Brumibaugh was the guest of
honor. Almost all of the Pennsylvania
Coingressmen and those newly elected
in November were present.
The Governor-elect, who had been
introduced by Representative Vare as
Pennsylvania's candidate for the Re
publican Presidential nomination, de
clared that he desired the assistance of
adl who stood pledged with him to the
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THE GLOBE
accomplishment of certain legislative
acts, but that, if amy or all of these
men failed kini in the forthcoming con
tests, he would "go it alone."
The speech of the Governor-elect
was vigorously phrased and teemed
with a spirit of independence and self
assertiveness that had been almost en
tirely lacking in the typewritten ad
vance copies which had beein distrib
uted to the newspaper offices. He men
tioned no names in referring to the
men whose support he might or might
not have in attempting to carry out his
platform pledges, but the belief that
he immediately aroused in the minds
of the men who heard him was that
he was serving notice on Senator Pen
rose that Martin G. Brumbaugh was to
rule at Harrisburg, and to rule in such
aspired fashion that no other man in
the State Republican organization
might hope to deter him from carrying
out the promises he had made uipon the
hoistings of the last campaign.
Introduced by Vare
The dinner was interesting from the
outset to the sixty-odd members and
members-elect from Pennsylvania who
gathered around the circular table at
7 o'clock. Many guests had real
curiosity as to the significance of the
fact that Dr. Brumbaugh's first pub
lic appearance since his election should
be at a dinner at which the host was
an open critic of Senator Penrose as
Representative Vare had shown him
self to be in the closing days of the
last campaign.
In introducing Governor-elect Brum
'bauglh to tihe guests, Congressman Vare
said in part:
"There is no doubt that the political
and business fields have been thorough
ly plowed. The era of destruction is at
an end. The people ex-pressed them
selves at the last election as being in
favor of a constructive era. They w..nt
the country, with its new standards of
business and political ethics, to move
forward. Martin G. Brumbaugh is a
constructionist. He is a builder. Men
tally anil physically and temperamental
ly tie is equipped for the task of build
ing upon the ground which has been
made ready. His rugged honesty is not
only a Pennsylvania asset, but a na
tional asset. He typifies progress along
safe and thoughtful lines.
"While working for justice to the
people of Pennsylvania, the new Gov
ernor will work at the same time for the
general prosperity of tihe State, for
without that there cannot be prosperity,
employment and high wages to the
working people on any conditions. He
will solve the industrial and serial prob
lems of Pennsylvania. He may not be
able to restore prosperity, because that
depends almost entirely upon the tariff
policies of the national government, but
when the time comes the people of
Pennsylvania will offer Dr. Brumbaugh
to the people of the nation as a Pro
tection-and-Prosperity President. And
if he should be called to that high office
t'he American people will have reason
to 'be proud of Pennsylvania's gift to
the nation."
Brumbaugh's Remarks
"We meet to-night in the capital of
the nation to think of Pennsylvania anil
her great claim upon all of us. You are
her chosen representatives in the Na
tional Assembly. My own presence here
is due to the fact that our home folks
have chosen me to perform in another
office a like service. It is my hope that
the day may speedily come when mean
men, sordid men, selfish men will not
dare to seek, much leas hold, office in
Pennsylvania.
"Campaigns for position shoul rise
above all petty and personal considera
tions. The people are rightfully tired of
campaigns of aibuse and of slander.
They are beginning to understand thai
if one is not a geutleman in the heat
of a contest he will scarcely be a gen
tleman in office. In the recent cam
paign in our State, I am glad to say, I
did not in all my cauvass utter one
word of aibuse and never stooped to per
sonalities.
"The industrial policy of the Nation
becomes that of all the' people. What
ever in justice you can do to further
our industries, protect our toilers, con
serve our resources and improve our
market ways I konw you will do. Next
to this in importance, is the highway
problem. It is no credit to Pennsylva
nia to have poor roads. We must unite
to find a means of liuking the farms of
the State with the great markets and
market stations. We can do this. The
way must be found. We shall do it and
do it honestly and well "
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ROCKHILL CRITICALLY ILL
Former Ambassador to Russia Now in
Honolulu Hospital
Honolulu, Dee. S. —William W. Rock
hill, former Ambassador to Hussia, is
critically ill, it was reported at the
hospital here to which he was taken
Friday from the liner Chiyo Maru, en
route to China.
The Abyssinian wife is the head of
the house, says a writer. Well, what
is wonderful about that? Ask nine
out of ten qf our own happily married
men.
HARRISBURG WOMAN FINDS QUICK
RELIEF FROM STOMACH AILMENTS
Mary Wheeler Gains in Weight After
Taking Mayr's Wonderful
Remedy
Mary Wheeler, of 706 Green street,
Harrisburg, Penn., for a long time
was a victim of stomach disorders.
She tried many treatments and found
nothing that could help her.
At last she came upon Mayr's Won
derful Stomach Remedy and quickly
found herself ou the way to health.
She wrote:
"I received your wonderful stomach
remedy. I 'took it and it acted just as
you said it would. I had suffered with
my stomach for nearly a year and doc
tored all the time. The first dose of
your treatment gave me relief. I feel
like new. I had awful distress after
eating and suffered from bloating and
gas, but now I feel fine, am gaining in
weight and can oat anything."
U. S. Steel Divorces Ore Company
j Duluth, Minn., Dec B.—Relations
I between the Croat .Northern Ore Com
pany and the United States Steel Cor
poration will end January 1, 1915, it
was announced yesterday* The Great
Northern Company will operate its own
ore projiertie.s, which have estimated de
posits of 200,000.000 to 300,000,000
tons.
Thaw's Case Not Heard
Washington, Dec. B.—The United
States Supremo Court was unable to
hear the arguments in the case of Harry
K. Thaw yesterday because arguments
in other cases set for hearings before
yesterday had not been concluded.
This is a typical letter from the
thousauds received from those who
have taken Mayr's Wonderful Stom
ach Remedy. The first dose of this
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treatment.
It clears the digestive tract of
mucoid accretions and removes poison
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sufferers from ailments of the stomach,
liver and bowels. Many declare it has
saved them from dangerous operations
and many are sure it has saved their
lives.
We want all people who have chrouie
stomach trouble or constipation, no
matter of how long standing, to try one
doso of Mayr's Wonderful Stomach
Remedy—one dose will convince you.
This is the medicine so mauy of our
people havf been taking with surprising
results. The most thorough system
cleanser ever sold. Mayr's Wonderful
Stomach Remedy is now sold here by
Geo. A. Gorgas, 16 North Third street
and Pennsylvania Railroad Station, and
I druggists everywhere. Adv.