6 Sfy* Star-SnfopeniUtU ( £»tahlwhed m 1876) Published b * THK STAR PRINTING COMPANY, f Star-lndopo idant Building, - ••-*O-22 South Third Streat, Harris burg. ■-. Every Evening Enoapt Sunday Oftieert i Dirtctor*; U L. Wm W. Wallowir, ... , Vice President Wm k Mituu } Wm K MKYERS, Secretary and Treasurer. Wm. W Wallowm. Wm H Warner, V. Hi'mmki. Berohaus. Jr., Busmen Manager. Editor, All eomniunlca'ious should be addressed lo Star Independent, Business. Editorial. Job Printing or Circulation Department according to tlie subject matter Entered at the Post Office in Harrisburg as second class matter. Benjamin 45-246 Saturday, January Hi, 1015. x JANUARY 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, Ist, SOth; Last Quarter. Hth; New Moon, 15th; First Quarter, WEATHER FORECASTS Harrisburg and vicinity: Rain late /*v S. to night, warmer, lowest temperature f about ;iS degrees. Sunday rain and | Eastern Pennsylvania: Increasing \ cloudiness to-night, warmer in north | mid west portions. Sunday rain or I' snow, probably rain, and warmer. Mod- I yjß' orate to fresii northeast to southwest y-w winds. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest, >0; lowest, 34; 8 a. m., 35; 8 p. m., 43. ENOLA TEN YEARS OLD I lie important place that has been assumed by Enola ami its great freight classification yards oil the banks of the Susquehanna river, opposite Har risburg, was emphasized in the speeches last even ing when a large number of railroad men gathered in the I'. K. IJ. V. M. <_'. A. building there to cele brate the tenth anniversary of the opening of the yards which are the most important in the whole of the Pennsylvania system. As pointed out in the address by Judge 8. J. M. Jli l'atTell, ot' Ihe Dauphin county eourt, Enola, in ten years, has sprung up from what used to be larm and swamp land and has become a live, pul sating community where railroad men live and work and where the transfer of the freight for lliree important divisions of.the Pennsylvania rail road takes place. In normal times 3,400 men are employed in hnola. all of whom and their families live there, in the towns surrounding Enola or in Harrisburg. hnola s interests and Harrisburg's interests are in great measure identical and it therefore is nat ural that this city should take a keen interest in hnola s anniversary and extend to the hustling cross river railroad town its heartiest congratu lations on the occasion of its celebration. .May Enola grow and prosper in the future as it has done in the past and may the friendly spirit ol' co-operation between Harrisburg and its thriv ing neighbor continue to exist for mutual benefit! THE COST OF SWISS NEUTRALITY I hat the expenses of conducting the war are not being borne by the belligerent nations alone, but that a large part ol the cost is of necessity falling upon peacefid European countries, is well illus trated by the announcement of the President of •Switzerland that the Confederation already has spent $22,000,000 on mobilization for the defense of the frontier, in order to protect its neutrality. Besides the expense involved in guarding its bor ders. Switzerland has lost a great deal through in terference with its commerce. It has been import ing only goods for its own use, in compliance with Ihe attitude assumed by the belligerents in regard to contraband. \\ hat it needs, according to the President's statement, is more raw material to keep the factories open and to meet the demands of fight ing countries for manufactured articles. The little republic wants to be at work, and without discrim ination to give its warring neighbors what assist ance it can. In.arms to preserve its neutrality, Switzerland's sole purpose is to remain peaceful that it may pro reed uninterrupted in its humanitarian duties. As tlic birthplace of the Red Cross and still the central headquarters, it has a bi» part to play in the work of alleviating human suffering and is to-day doing much of that work nobly.. Through Switzerland prisoners of war will be exchanged, particularly civil prisoners,—the non-neutral aliens residing in opposing countries. Then too, the little republic may eventually be, as it was in 1871, the scene of the disarming of defeated troops, of whatever coun try those troops may be. The Swiss people, although a combination of Ger man ami Latin races, and divided perhaps in their prejudices with regard to the war, arc, so far as we STAR-INDEPENDENT, SATURDAY EVENING. JANUARY Ifi. 1915. know, making no open declarations one way or another, but are rather using every effort to remain, as a people, strictly neutral. They have been well characterized as first of all Swiss, and Latins or Germans afterward. It has cost the Swiss millions to preserve their neutrality and they will have to meet large deficits in their national funds, yet their credit is good and they arc in no immediate danger financially. Even though they must bear heavy taxes while the war lasts, they can in peace lose no armies nor acquire large numbers of starving widows and orphans. The Swiss are bearing great responsibilities now and will beau greater ones before the war is over, but when that time finally comes they will be alive and active, ready to enjoy the prosperity which will then await them. AERIAL MAIL SERVICE That a Postoffice Department aviation service in this country would be a reserve for the army and navy, and as such would be of much benefit to the country in every day activities while at the same time adding to the national defense, is an assorfion that has been made more than once of late, by aeronauts as well as by government officials, and it is a good argument for an auxiliary aviation service to carry the United States mails. Comparative safety in aviation has been well demonstrated by events in the war. When army aeronauts have lost their lives it has been because of shots of the enemy and not because of their own inefficiency or of the treachery of their airerafts An aviation service in this country for carrying mail would have none of the disadvantages of the flyers in the war zone and would have as much security in operation. Tests of aerial mail service in this country in which matter lias actually been carried and dis tributed and special cancellations used indeed, as souvenirs, have been declared highly successful, and it is believed by authorities that what can be done on a small scale, with crude equipment and iu a purely experimental way, might easily be accom plished in a much larger way in years not far distant. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CROWDED THEATRES An interesting study in psychology is presented through the fact that the Majestic theatre last even ing was crowded as it has not been crowded for many months, despite the fact that these are gen erall held to be "hard times" as a result of the financial drain upon this country caused by the European war, even despite this country's neu trality. The theory that has been advanced that persons, when they begin to feel the pinch of want, economize first by eliminating the unnecessary ex pense,—chiefly the cost of amusements, —either is being shattered to bits in Ilarrisburg, or there is less financial stress among the people of this city than is generally supposed to exist at this time. It may of course be said that the high artistic reputation of Miss Barrymore, who was the "star" of last night's play, was responsible for the facts that every seat in the house was sold and that many applicants for seats had to be turned away, but it must be remembered also that early in the present theatrical season there were other artists of equal or almost equal merit in the Majestic who failed to attract anything like as large a crowd as filled that playhouse to capacity last night. Moreover, it may be added, that quite recently,—notably since the new year arrived,—other good attractions at the Majestic have drawn crowds far larger than the average for that theatre in the last year or two. Perhaps, after all, the explanation of the recent big crowds in the Majestic lies in a process of mental reasoning by the people of Ilarrisburg that brings them to the conclusion that money spent for amusement is best spent when amusement is most needed, —that is when minds require most relief from anxieties about material things such as the sad plight of the war sufferers in Europe and the drain on our financial resources to provide the help that has so generously been given by Ilarris burg people to those just now needing succor to an extraordinary degree both abroad and at home. If this be true the theory that persons seek amusement only when they can best afford to pay for it is shattered to smithereens. And Governor-elect Brumbaugh still is sph vox like Governor Tener will leave a host of Harrisburg friends We will look to the Weather Man to do his duty next Tuesdav. Why not have ».»peoia! division in the inaugural parade for the job-hunters? Here's hoping Enola will be twice as large at the end of another ten vears! TOhD IN LIGHTER VEIN PERFECTION FAR OFF My boy, I must congratulate you on your consistency." "Thank you, sir, I—er—" es, sir, you ve worked here three weeks and you haven't done anything right yet."—Buffalo Express. NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH Gabe—"Jones is the most truthful man I know of." Steve —"Why do you say that J" Oabe—"He had a black eye last week and I asked him Low he got it and he told me that a man hit him."—Cin cinnati Enquirer. DIFFICULT TASK "What's the fuss over there in that corner!" "Lady sending a telegrajn." T know that. But why the facial contortions?" "She's trying to tell her husband what she thinks of him in ten words."—.Judge. "FIRED TOO HASTILY" From one of to-day's letters from the front The other day we noticed a German moving about among our dead and he was searching their pockets. We opened fire and killed him. Some of us rushed forward to see what he had been stealing. It was oijly chocolate and cigarettes. Money and other valuable things had been left untouched. After that we were sorry we had fired bo hastily."—Westminster Gazette. CLEANSE THE BLOOD AND AVOID DISEASE When your blood is impure, weak, thin and debilitated, your system becomes susceptible to any or all diseases. Put your blood in good condition. Hood's Sarsaparilla acts directly and peculiarly on the blood —it puri ties, enriches and revitalizes it and builds up the whole system. Hood's Sarsaparilla has stood the tost of forty years. Get it to-day. It is sure to help you. Adv. I Tongue-End Topics Neutral Mall Opened? The "Nieuwe Courant,'' of The Hague, lias been given a rather surpris ing and wholly unexpected reply to the challenge it made a few weeks ago to the "Frankfurter Zeitung" to pro duce proof of its assertion that Butch mails were being inspected by Knglisii agents. It was thought at the time the "Frankfurter Zeitung" would not be able to produce anything resembling proof of this serious charge, but in tJhe illustrated section of its edition of De cember 18 the German paper shows what it asserts is the reproduction of a letter, which, carrying t'he following address, "Frau Helene Colsman, Zeppe lin Works, Friedrichshafen, Bodensee," had been opened by the British censors, and had after that found its way to the addressee. That the letter was mailed in Holland is shown by the can cellation stamp. In addition, the back of the envelope carries in English legend: "Undeliveralble—L. P. 8." (Letter Post Service and across the edge cut open by t'he censor the cus tomary strip of paper with the inscrip tion, "Opened by ■Censor,'' had been pasted. « * <• Calls It " Remarkable Accident" Commenting upon the matter, the "Nieuwe Courant" gays: "We understand perfectly why this remarkable accident should have aroused the suspicions of the German newspaper, all the more when we con sider that tho words 'Zeppelin works' occur in the address. The German ver sion" of tho affair—wc gather from a communication we have received—is that, through the agency of bribed Dutch postal officials, 'suspicious' let ters reach English hands. But in that case it is impossible to understand how the letter, after a month, reached the addressee at Friedrichshafen. It is not likely that the English would be fool ish enough to ( again forward a letter so treated, no matter how harmless its contents. Rut our • orrespondent meets this argument by saying that finally the letter had reached its destination through mistake. ** * / Got in the Wrong Mail Bag? "It is more probable that the letter was sent to England by mistake—that it got in the wrong mail bag. But it is unfortunate that just this one had to bear the address, 'Zeppelin works.' That a similar case occurred in the Dutch mail proves in itself nothing. A Vienna professor wrote to the 'Frank furter Zeitung' that a letter he re ceived on Otcober 22 and which had been niaiied in Copenhagen on Septem ber 4 had been given the same treat ment. This letter, too, may have gotten into the hands of the English toy being put in the,wrong mail bag. We agree with the 'Frankfurter Zeitung' that an explanation ot the occurrence is 'urgently desired.' With this in view, we have informed the Director General of the postal service and have request ed him to investigate tho matter thor oughly. '' t * New York Letter Opened A newspaper correspondent in The Hague also reports the experience of having received from his wife in Xew York a letter which had been opened by English censors, although addressed to The Hague. Inquiry at the postof fice brought the reply that only regis tered mail was comparatively safe now adays. Cim TRAVELS WITH DR. BRUMBAUGH This Eevives Rumor That the Former Will Get a Cabinet Post—Former Senator Knox Also in Train With the Governor-elect Among the callers on Dr. Brum baugh in Philadelphia yesterday morn ing were Senators Kline and Crow. Sen ator Kline, as president pro tern, of the Senate, said he will have his commit tees ready to announce on Wednesday next, and assured the Uovernor-eloct that ail of his measures will receive fair consideration in the Senate commit tees. iSpea'ker Ambler is conferring with Dr. Brumbaugh to-day in Philadelphia. It is said that Samuel A. Whittaker, of Chester, will be the chairman of the ludieiarv Special committee, and that Thomas F, McNichol, of Philadelphia, will head the Klections committee. Rep resentative Adams, of Luzerne, known as "'Big Bill." will be the chairman of the Military committee, being familiar with military affairs by reason of long service in the army. In political circles, much significance is attached to the fact that Governor elect Brumbaugh, upon his return from Harrisburg last night, was accompanied upon his trip by Deputy Attorney Gen eral Jesse E. B. Cunningham and James S. Hiatt, the latter to be the new Gov ernor 's private secretary. Mr. Cunning ham has been prominently mentioned as Attorney General in the new cabinet. Governor-elect Brumbaugh, who went to the capital to lunch with Governor Tenor, was also accompanied as far as Paoli upon his return trip by former Senator Philander C. Knox. Dr. .Brum baugh plans to continue his home at No. 254 West Walnut lane, Germantown, during his term, and will vote, as usual, l'rom that address. Monday Will Be fgM MILLINERY w bargain day tone I'Ot of One l ot of Onr Lot of LAD TTWTTrS™^?m^ ILK CHILDREN'S TRIMMED FEATHER VELVET HATS HATS FANCIES tiood Mhniirx. ¥I.OO to 93.00 value*. HAl ® ... A«V/XXI» Monday prltv, Me to value. Monday prior. color*, BOc value. Monday ■* _ price, 10c 5c 5c Vv * * V J ——————— ■■———— mGH 4Hs ather I c to 25c Department Store ...»««.„ p„,,. WHEIIE EyERr MY „ Mt , , 215 Market Street Opp. Court House GOVERNOR MAY INTRODUCE SIR DOUGLAS MAWSON HERE Dr. Brumbaugh Will Be Requested by Natural History Society to Present Noted Explorer Who Lectures in City February 10 Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, one of the. nation's leading e