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THE STAR-IKDEPENDENT The paper with the largest Home Circulation in Harrlsburg and «earby towns. Circulation Examined by THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVERTISERS. TELEPHONES- BELL*" Private Branch Eichanie, No. 3280 CUMBERLAND VALLEY Private Branch Exchange. . - . , _ No. 345-246 ' Thursday, January 28, 1915. 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, 30th; Last Quarter, Bth; New Moon, 15th; First Quarter, 23d. WEATHER FORECASTS f ||PWOI Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair and much colder to-night with a cold wave, fTfe lowest temperature to-night about 8 de- s===?/^—' grees. Friday fair and colder. Eastern Pennsylvania: Unsettled , V-) (7>~^V and much colder to-night with a cold wave. Friday fair, colder. Moderate northwest to north winds. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest, 37; lowest, 27; 8 a. m., 30; 8 p. in., 35. SUSPENSION OF U. S. STEEL DIVIDEND The decision of the directors of the United States Steel Corporation, announced after the close of the Stock Market on Tuesday, to suspend dividend pay ments on the common stock, was something of a surprise to Wall Street speculators as evidenced by the slump taken not only by the Steel issues but by most of the other securities when the market re opened for business next day. At the opening of the Market yesterday Steel common was freely offered at 48, —a decline of more than three points from the last sale before the passing of the dividend was announced,— which represented the oft'ieial minimum quotation permitted for this issue on the Stock Exchange under the special regulations of t hat body adopted to prevent too precipitate declines during the pres ent disturbed financial conditions, due to the war. Later in the day, however, the stock sold as low as 44 on tlie unofficial New Street market where Stock Exchange rules have no bearing, and at'ter the close of the market hours the Stock Exchange authorities established a new minimum price for Steel common at 4:J. This latter move was apparently a wise one, designed to protect other securities tending to de cline under the influence of Steel. While the passing of the Steel dividend was a surprise to many investors and doubtless caught napping many of the more speculative class of traders, the directors of the Corporation took the sane, conservative course in ordering suspension of payments. It must be remeinbered that when a dividend is declared it is supposed to be based 011 the amount of net earnings of the Corporation in the quarter gone by and does not, as least in theory, have any bearing on the Corporation's future pros pects of earnings. Everybody knows that the steel business in gen eral has been very light in recent months. The Corporation might, as corporations often do, have taken a chance of better earnings in the coming quarter,—for which it is true the business outlook is considerably improved,— and have paid the divi dend for the last quarter out of accumulated sur plus; but to have done SQ would have resulted in the impairment, to just the amount of the dividend, of the Corporation's assets, and this would have tended to make dividends of the future less likely to be declared. The wise and conservative plan, in these times of disturbed financial conditions, undoubtedly is just the plan that the Steel Corporation's directors adopted on 1 uesday when they passed llie dividend. It was based on the sane principle that a Corpora tion's dividend payments from quarter to quarter should be based on the Corporation's business for the particular quarter under consideration and not on the possible amount of earnings that may come 1o a Corporation in a future period. DISCIPLINE IN SCHOOL STUDIES A symposium was recently conducted by a col lege professor 011 the disciplinary values of various college studies. The results were not especially startling. One would hardly expect them to have been. It is about as useful to figure out the relative merits of school subjects as to estimate the respect ive values of chessmen. Both calculations can be made, approximately, but when certain conditions vise, calculations become of no avail. A knight HABRTSBURO STAR-INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1915r may sometimes be worth more than a bishop; an algebra task more thau a Greek lesson. The teachers taking part iu the symposium ex pressed little preference, on the average, for any one subject or group of subjects as providing most discipline. It seems that many of them were par tial to branches which they happened to be teaching, and the total opinions therefore depended largely, on the proportions of teachers in different college I departments who expressed views. One striking fact about the symposium is that the teachers considered of such great importance the disciplinary value of work outside of college as compared with that of prescribed courses of book study. The general opinion of the instructors was that a student could be more thoroughly disciplined by actual contact with the world's every day activi ties than- by poring over most college text books. That opinion is rather a common one, but it is not often that teachers boldly acknowledge holding it. It must be remembered that merely disciplinary values were under consideration. Were the cultural values of college studies to be discussed, opinions would be very different. No earnest teacher would depreciate the worth of college work as a means of developing intellectual faculties, for instance, of encouraging originality. Different school studies have different disciplin ary, cultural and practical values, to be sure, and each has them in different proportions for different individuals. It does not seem that numerical values can well be fixed so long as students are as vari ously constituted as they are. It is doubtful if any student could tell just what subject in a college curriculum is doing him most good iu a disciplinary or any other sort of a way. As suggested by the self-made business man in his letters to his son, however, the student can tell if a subject is doing him harm, and perhaps that is all the discernment necessary so long as the other branches are bene fitting him to greater or less degrees WARFARE BESIDES THAT WITH GUNS It is of interest to note some of the many ways in whieh the belligerents are opposing each other aside from the actual firing of guns. The trade war between fen gland ar.d Germany has assumed large proportions. The Powers are fighting vigorously in the economic field. England has fairly well succeeded in driving from the seas German commerce to the value of five billions of dollars, and has forced German firms doing busi ness in its possessions, to liquidate. Strict measures have been taken to prevent Eng lish capital from being used in any way that might directly or indirectly be an aid to the Germans. Even in the smallest details, precautions are taken to keep money from reaching the Kaiser's land through channels of English trade. The war is being hotly fought, too, on paper. Different nations have been so eager to shift the blame for bringing on the conflict and to excuse themselves for their own participation in it that the battle of words has become a lively one and il might even be interesting if it were not getting so monot onous. It. is also on paper that the cartoonists have been making war. Caricatures of the warring sover eigns have been rather plentiful in European .jour nals. Ihe Kaiser, especially, seems to have come in for much ridicule in English newspapers, al though the latest accounts are that King George has ordered the suppression of all insulting ear toons of his kinsman. The fighting of armed men on European battle fields is the clash of merely the military forces of nations, and although it is commonly understood to constitute the war. it appears to be only one part of the great conflict which is in progress. King George was among the kinsmen not present at the Kaiser's birthday party. We believe Governor Brumbaugh will "make good," but if he doesn t it will not be because he talks too much. After all, will it be a case of making the coat fit the cloth or of making the taxpayers produce""enough cloth to fit the coat? John D. Rockefeller, ,Ir., got $6 for three days' service in testifying before the Federal Industrial Relations Com mission in New York. Don't spend it all in one store, John! How much influence the senior United States Senator from Pennsylvania has with the Pennsylvania Legislature may be determined when the state law makers vote on the plan to call the proposed new county "Penrose." TOLD IN LIGHTER~VEIN IN YORK York County Farmer (bursting into the village inn) "What d'ye think, Silas? The bones of a prehistoric man have been found in Jim White's farm!" Innkeeper—"Great gosh! I hope old Jim'll be able to clear himself at the coroner's inquest."—Exchange. LIGHTS OUT Assemblyman-elect George Dennis Donovan told this story of one of his constituents: The last moment had come. They stood at the open door. For 24 long hours they would not meet again. "Light of my life," she murmured. "Light—" "Matilda," said a gruff voice from above, "put out the light and go to bed."—New York Sun. REVENGE! • A contributor ta Pearson's "Weekly" tell 8 us that after Jimmy's tooth w*ds drawn, he rose from the chair, held out his little hand, and said: "Give it to me, please." With an accommodating smile, the dentist wrapped the tooth in paper, and extended it to Jimmy. "But what are you going to do with it?" he asked. "I am going to take it home," was the reply, "cram sugar into it, and watch it ache!" ONE OF US Unmistakably he was a Yankee, and the siail-like move ment of the train irritated him almost beyond endurance. Volubly he remonstrated with the guard. "Slow?" said that worthy, stung to retort. "Do you want the train to fly? If jou don't like the speed, then get out and walk." , "Walk?" drawled the Yankee. "Oh, I'm not in Buch a hurry as all that!"— London Tit-Bits. r \ IT ongue-End Topics | ■——— - -j St. Georges Is in Ruins St. Georgos, one of the points where the Germans and Allies hiave fought,— not for miles ol' territory but for feet, almost inches, is a ruin to-day. More than that, it is a heap of deibris. Other towns and villages in Flanders are marked' at least by standing walls. St. Georges is a wilderness of bricks, mor tar, charred roof timbers and tiles. 'There is no-body who knows exactly how many times the Allies and Germans have fought in the place, and hoiw often it has changed hands. The French anil English have it to-day, and the Ger mans to-morrow. * * * Village on Island To-day | St. Georges is located about two i miles southeast of Lombardzyxte, and j formerly marked the point where the ' Yser and Plasschon canals connected. I To-day the village is an island in the "inundation" district. A small cause nay gives access to the place. Over this German sailors and marines have again and again attacked the place to the accompaniment of German artillery tire and the rattle of tho machine guns of the Allies. On one occasion German and Allies heavy artillery bombarded the place simultaneously, anil machine guns sent hails of bullc>t» into it from three sides. Why—nobody knows. The Germans suspected that the Allied troops were in St. Georges, and the Al lies suspected that the Germans were in it, each side taking it for granted that the bombardment itself was a sham maneuvre. Machine Guns in Action For some days the English had tho place, keeping it practically by virtue of the many machine guns they had so pot'tod that the narrow causeway wai siwept by their fire. This machine gun fire in and about St. Georges never stopped. The slow "tack-jtaek" of the English guns, and the more rapid sput ter of the French "mitrailleuses" kept up day and night. Responsible for this were the German sailors and marines who continued in their efforts to retake the village. Unable to Reach the Wounded When the wind swept over St. Georges it carried with it the smell of decomposing bodies. In the stillness of the night one heard from there the groaning of wounded—of men who ven tured into or near the place, were s>hot down, and then were found to be be j yond the reach o't' these who would sue j cor them. To venture into the open | along the causeway meant either to die or be wounded. The very heaps of debris seemed animated by the desire to carry further the destruction of which they are the result. * 6 * Winter Hard on African Troops At night also one heard the inees- I sant coughing of the French African I and Anglo-Indian troops, who seemcJl J unable to stand the rigors of the cold ■ and damp climate of Flanders. On the ! outskirts of the village stood a little ! house, upon whose floor had been challk ed the words: "Franctireur—already | disposed of." Not l'ar from the d'eor ; lay the body of a man with the fingers I still about the handle of an open urn- I brella. 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