6 Ql|e &tar-3nbrp^ttfteitt. (J£*saNirhnt in 1576) Published b • THB STAR PRINTING COMPANY, " f Star-lndtot'idont Build in*. W 10-12 South Third Street. Hirrittwf. Pa. Every Evening Except Sunday Ofrietrs: Dint!*rs. BWJAJUK F. M STIRS, JOHN' U L KCH.N. President WM W. WAI!LOWIR, _ _ M Vtee President. w * K ' WW. K MITERS. Secretary and Treasnrer. *V«. W VTALLOWCR. WM IT WARNER. V. HI MMEL BEBOHAVS, JR , Business Manager. Editor Alt coiuniunlca'iouj should be %«idressed to STAR INDEPENDENT, 6.l. in., 28. COLLECTING STREET CAR FARES In at least two cities.—Cleveland and Detroit, — it new experiment is being tried in the collection of street car fares. Like all tests which may or may not resul. favorably, this one is of some inter est and worth watching.—especially so since the unsettled question of gathering in coins on street ears closely concerns the general public upon which the experiments are being tried. The latest plan, unless several others have been evolved over night, provides for the stationing of collector* .it important corners to whom prospect ive passengers pay their fares before entering cars. It is this plan that Cleveland and Detroit are try ing out. It' the new method saves time and carries with it 110 fresh difficulties, it seems likely to b« adopted in other cities. Although the pay-as-you-enter plan has been in successful operation in this city for several years and seems to be fully satisfactory both to the trac- Kun company and to the passengers it is evidently not so well thought of in larger cities. One ean readily understand how. during the rush hours in a large community where crowds are much more dense than in this city, there would be much incon venience experienced and much time lost by indi viduals paying they enter the cars. Street railway companies in the larger cities have been doing their best to solve the problems of fare collection, and it is perhaps not so much their i'ault as the fault of the passengers that their various plans do not give entire satisfaction. They have tried the pay-as-you-enter as well as the pay as-yoB-leave arrangements and have (jone their part to get the fares quickly and surely, but passengers have insisted on being without nickels at rush hours and have thus caused confusion. Then. too. companies have provided patrons with tickets to slip to the conductors that there might be no delay, but thoughtless persons have persisted in boarding cars without having any of the tickets with them, or without being able to find the pockets in which the pasteboards are reposing, thus making that method impracticable. A faction company and its patrons are not able to get together happily in the matter of fare col lection in any city unless the patrons are reasonable about complying with the necessary rules of any system which the company thinks best to establish for public convenience.* "HONORABLE BILL" ADAMS AND HIS PIG We do not believe that the "Honorable Bill" Adams. Representative from Luzerne county, will \>diave to pay a tine of SIOO for having violated a city ordinance by installing a live pig in the $13,000,000 capitol. Moreover we do not believe that the learned Luzerne lawmaker will have to flee to < anada. as he suggests, to avoid paying the tine, — tor as shown by the picture on another page the pig has not reached those proportions which could make its presence objectionable even within the sacred portals of the State House. Fact is the members of the House, when they reassemble next Monday evening, should give a vote of thanks to the "Honorable Bill" for having a sense of humor. Moreover the capitol hill cor respondents' association should get together and give Adams a medal for producing material for a space-making story that is somewhat less deadly IIARRISBtTRG STAR-INDEPENDENT. FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1915 dull than the constant succession of self-laudatory departmental reports. It is a relief to read something from Capitol Hill that has a little real human interest in it. Most of our law-makers in the present session appear to be very serious-minded individuals who are in need of just such fun-producing antidote as the wag from Luzerne has injected into their official lives. And as for the "Honorable Bill" himself, —the man who once offered to swim the Susquehanna river in mid-winter, has been tined by Mayor Royal for a disturbance he caused in Market street dur ing an argument as to the proper way to execute a military salute and who plans to introduce a law to name a county after Senator Penrose, —he is a born joker and doesn't care how much newspaper publicity comes to him through the pig incident or any other incident. Moreover, he is entitled to it. - COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE PARCEL POST A protest has been made by a committee of the New York Merchants* Association to the l'ostoffice Department concerning imperfections in the parcel j post. The assertion is made that during the trans-! port at ion of parcels government employes pile heavy and light packages together indiscriminately' and that much damage is thus done to mail matter. Attention also is called to the fact that places where parcels can be mailed are comparatively few and | that inconvenience is often experienced by patronsj in reaching parcel post stations. The conditions mentioned in the first complaint may or may not be largely prevalent. There are unquestionably times when fragile packages do not travel loug distances by parcel post without injury. In these instances the blame may perhaps, rest with government employes, but there is also a likelihood that the senders are at fault for not properly pro tecting the parcels, An uninsured package is mailed al the sender's risk and it is the sender's business properly to enclose an article rather than the mail men's busi ness tenderly to care for an improperly wrapped parcel. Even an insured package, it is sad but true, is likewise often damaged in transit and for this I nele Sam can hardlv be excused. The complaint about inconvenience in mailing: parcels, it must be admitted, is a well founded one. { I The parcel post has grown into so tremendous a business that better facilities need to be given to ; its patrons. The post lias become a great public | i convenience of which more and more is constantly I being expected. The Postoffice Department should feel eoinpli- j mented, at least, that demands arc urgently being made upon it to extend the usefulness of its parcel! post service from year to year, but it also should | meet the new demands as they arise. Evidently the war has not hit the Hershey chocolate plant. President Wilson may have a new Congress on his hands i all summer. The State Poultrvmen want a Chicken Bureau at State ! College. Does that mean State is to be co-ed f The State Legislator who proposes to loose a live porker in the House on Monday night should be better informed. There is no river and harbor bill before that body. The Colonel is willing to hand over SIO.UOO of his Nobel peace prize for the benefit of the sufferers through the war in Europe. Thus does pea«e benefit in divers ways. TOLD IN LIGHTERVEIN JOY? There was a young lady from Gopher, | Who went out to ride with her chauffeur. They found her remains scattered wide o'er the plains, But nothing to show for the chauffeur! —Life. RUSHED Crawford—"So you don't think this is the right time to speak about increasing our armaments?" Crabshaw—"No; we seem to have all we can do to supply war materials to the belligerents."—Life. THE WAITER WAS CORRECT A customer, after waiting several minutes for an oxtail soup, called the waiter to him and asked the reason why I it was behind. The waiter, who was Irish, gently answered: "Oxtails are always behind, sir."—Exchange. GETTING BACK AT THE JUDGE A Judge in remanding a criminal called him a scoundrel. The prisoner replied, as he was leaving the courtroom: "Sir. I am not as lug a scoundrel as your honor"—here the culprit stopped, but finally added —"takes me to be." "Put your words closer together," said the judge.— ■^rgonaut. UP AGAINST IT Weep and you're called a baby. Laugh and you're called a fool. Yield and you're called a coward. Stand and you're called a mule. Smile and they call you silly, / Frown and they'll call you gruff; Put on a front like a millionaire And some guy calls your bluff. —Stockton Review. GETTING BACK AT HIM An ostentatious member of a certain County Council ! whose father is well known as a retired omnibus driver was one day displaying a large seal he usually wears, represent ing St. George and the Dragon, and while several by standers were expressing their admiration of it, its owner remarked, in solemn toues: "Aw—one of my ancestors is—aw—supposed to have killed the dragon—a—don't you know?" "Dear me," inquired one of his hearers, who knew some thing about him, "did he run over it?"— London Tit-Bits. WHEN THE LAWS MEET The Laws sat about the long green table. All the funda mentals were there save one. Even the decrepit Salic Law was present, dozing between the Mosaic I.aws and the Law of Primogeniture. The Chairman, the Law of the Land, ; called - the meeting to order, i "Are we all present?" he asked. It was the Blue Law who responded. "I don't see nothin' of the law of Nations," he squeaked. "The Law of Nations has been abolished," the Chairman , sharply replied. "The business of the convention will now ' proceed."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Ready Help in tim« of physical twubl* caused by indigestion, biliousness resulting from torpid liver, inactive bowels, is al ways {riven, quickly, certainlv, safelv by the most famous of family remedies BEECHAM'S PILLS Lar*M« Sale of Any Medkine in the WarM. Seld everywhere, la boxes. 10c., 25c. (Tongue-End Topics] \ j The Auditors Not Talking N\ ith Kraneis \V. Hiegel ami ffVed W. j Huston on the job auditing the 1914 accounts of County Treasurer A. IH. j liailev—work that already has been ■lone by the County Controller —a ijuestion which is puzzling Court House j attaches is what John W. Cassel, presi i dent of the Board of Auditors, intends to do, He has j aid only brief visits ! to his colleagues since they went on the | job. Cassel ignores the reporters and. j for that matter, so ,)o his colleagues. He appears to be amused when asked about that lie has against the j county for his "services" incident to : the audit of the 1913 account, but he I iiasn t yet expressed himself on the sub | je.'t. There has been some talk about :;ie auditors retaining a lawyer for the ; purpose of fighting the County Com missioners on the question of "eight | hours constituting a working day," j but none of the auditors nor their at I tornev is doing the talking. The au | ditors evidently have decided to let j their friends sneeze and guess. * * * Seaman's Hidden Purpose W hen the former City Couuuilineu formed a social organization recently the question was raised whether it I would be proper to permit Couti ilmanic newspaper reporters to become members jof the society. No formal action was taken, but a hint wi s dropped that the | line should be drawn and only Council ! men admitted to membership. The ■ommittee on rules will decide the fate jot the newspapermen in so far as this j society is concerned. Ross K. Seaman I always has been regarded l>v the re ' porters as one of their best friends and j since lie has suggested that the "press ; should be barred'' the question natur- I ally arises whether he really.is favor j ing his friends of the pre«s. Seaman argues that if the reporters do not be come members they may get into the banquets "free." whereas if they be come members tfiev will be obliged to pay up along with the rest of the brethren. Si * Senator Has «» Oil Wells Senator Marshall Phipps, of Frank ! '' u - Venango county, is an oil producer and consequently is very much inter ; ested when the price of oil goes up or lown a few cents, Quite re entlv the price jumped up five cents a barrel and j , the Senator was correspondingly happy. One Senator who did not know the I Venango Senator's business, said to j ; him: "Why are you so interested in the J I price of oil?" "Because I am an oil producer," said Phipps. I "How much do yon produce in your | t little old \tellf" asked tie other man 1 I intending to be facetious. "In my little old well!'' repeated i Phipps. "In my little old well.' Why, j my Dear Senator, I iiav - sixty-one wells and they are all producing, not a dry ; hole or a gasser in the lot. Some of j them don't produce very much—often ] times only about half a barrel i>er day, ; but when I put the product of the sixty-one wells together for one day .there is a nice total. That's why I i look cheerful when the price of oil I goes up.'' * o * Senator Need Not Starve Just at present the pri e of oil at ! the well is $1.50 per barrel, so that if Senator Phip s' wells produce a eom ! biued average of sixty-one barrels per day he has an income of s6l per day, which is not doing so [>oorly for a State Senator, and will help to keep the wolf from the Senatorial door. After the well is drilled the cost of production is very small, as one engine can do the '■ work of pumping a large number of wells which are connected by the pump ing apparatus. • * * Imported Quail as Fighters The office of the State Game Com mission was the scene of a lively fight one day this week, but not so as to create a scandal. In a corner of the office is a oox cage containing a dozen ; Mexi an quail, recently brought from • the land of the Montezumas, to be dis | tributed in this State for breeding pur- I poses. Among the lot are two cock quail, Two very fiery little fellows who are great fighters. When they get with ! in striking distance of each other there j is sure to be a fight, and honors were | even until Thursday morning when one 1 of the birds made a rush for the other, ! grabbed him by the throat with his j beak ami jammed him up into a cor- I ner where he held his rival until chased ; oft' bv a eierk. The throttled bird was j almost down ami out. but like a game prize fighter, he soon recovered and perked up. The two fighters have been named Huerta and Villa, and if not soon released there is going- to be a •; bird tragedy in toe Capitol. To Buy an Auto Truck i Bils foi the new motor truck to be ; used in the City Highway Department will be received by Commissioner Wil ; liam H. Lynch up until noon of Feb ruary 10. An appropriation of $2,500 | has been provided for the truck. The [ machine is to be used principally iu the ' street repair department. "MOVIE" MEN TO MEET NEXT TIME IN READING Banquet Marks Close of Three-Day Con vention Here—Resolutions Adopted Calling for Public Support in Pro- j posed Fight on Legalized Censorship .lotan Price Jackson, Commissioner of 'Labor ami Industry, and J. W. Binder, of New York, a member of the National Board of Ousorship, were the guests of honor at a banquet given in the Plaza hotel last night by the Harrisburg mo tion picture exhibitors as the closing event of the three-day S*tate convention of the newlv-formed Motion Picture Kx . bibitors' League of Pennsylvania. Pred J. 'llerrington, of Pittsburgh, acted as i toastmaster, and among the speakers j was Peter IMagaro, of this city. The final business session was held in the Bolton house in the afternoon. It was decided to hold the next con- I vent-ion in Reading on .lune T, S and 9. J Frank A. Gould, of Reading, publicity ' manager of the league, said that Read ing is fast becoming a convention city and that seventy conventions of vari ous sorts are booked to be held there in the next few months. Before adjournment the league unani mously adopted the following resolu tion: Wliei i a.. it is currently reported that the legislature of this state will soon be asked to puss a new building; code; Whereas. The provisions of the pro posed measure are arbitrary and do In fart amount t» confiscation as far as the theatres of this state are concern ed. therefore be it Resolved. That we most emphatically protest against the enactment of any such drastic law ami take proper meas ures to defeat the said proposed build ing: code. Resolved further, Thai we respect fully submit to the legislative and ex ecutive branches of our state govern ment that such legislation would de prive many thousands of the citizens of this commonwealth of their business interests and their means of livelihood. The following resolutions also were adopted: The motion picture exhibitors of the state of Pennsylvania, in convention assembled, do hereby appeal to public opinion to relieve the motion picture industry of the injustice of legalised censorship as it is now embodied in the law of Pennsylvania. We believe that legalised censorship is a grave menace to that freedom of expression which is guaranteed to the citizens of this state by the constitution. The screen on which motion pictures are projected is as much a medium of expression as the spoken or printed word and is therefore entitled to the same immunity from pernicious legal restraint as the book and the news paper. An encroachment on the con stitutional guarantee of freedom of ex pression is not only an injury and an injustice to the motion picture business nit an entering wedge of political inter ference with the press and freedom of speech. We therefore appeal 1 the American press to unite with us in resisting to the utmost every attempt to abridge the liberty of the screen. We believe that no censorship is necessary because the motion picture as much as the press is under the constant influence of pub lic opinion and the laws now on the statute books are amply sufficient to deal with objectionable pictures as they are amply sufficient to deal with news papers offending against I le law. We urg all citi/.ciis of Pennsylvania, of whatever political creed, to protest against the legalised censorship and to write to their representatives in the Legislature askiug them to vote for a speedy repeal of the censorship law. We extend our congratulations to the organized exhibitors of our sister state of Ohio upon their efforts to repeal the censorship law in Hint state. We re cord with satisfaction that legalized censorship has only been accepted in two stati s out of 4S in spite of the fanatical crusades against the free dom of the screen. We record our abiding faith in the good si'nse and in the love of fair plav and justice of the American peo ple 'anil express our hope that legalized censorship will soon be a thing of the past. We desire to go on record as emnhatically opposed to any abuse of the freedom of the screen by irrespon sible persons and we pledge ourselves to prosecute or to aid in prosecuting any person or persons who are guilty of'showing pictures the exhibition of which constitutes an offense against the law. We invite the co-operation of the people of this commonwealth to ai l us in maintaining: ih# present high stanct .trii of HI »tit»n pi. tures by helping us io discover and renounce all persons who show pictures which violate the law. REPEATS STORY OF LOSS OF BRITiSH SHIP IN SEA FIGHT Berlin, via London, Jan. 29, 4.08 A. j M.—A letter written by an officer of one of the German cruisers describes the liaVal battle in the North .Sea, com menting on the long ranges, from eight to twelve miles, at which modern naval battles are fought. He repeats the re port that a British cruiser was sunk i and felling of the loss of the German cruiser Bluecher, says: "She was shot to pieces after sus taining engine trouble which crippled her. We could not assist the Bluecher, i as all our ships, in view of the triple or fonj-fold superiority of the British would have suffered the same fate. There was no possibility of helping her. A torpedo boat attack would only have resulted in greater losses. "The Bluecher continued to ftaht hereoieally long after the ship was com pletely veiled in smoke and steam, from ' fire and a boiler explosion. Plashes from the guns could be seen until 1.07 o'clock when she capsized and sank." Amsterdam, via London, Jan. 29, 3.40 A. M.—The "Handelsblad" says that news has reached Kiel to the effect that the admiral and nine officers of the German squadron were killed in the naval battle off the Falkland Islands ibetweei the British and German squad rons. The commanders of four cruisers also met death in the battle. The news papers says the commander of the Ger man cruiser Nurnberg, when leaving Honolulu, September 1, declared to the German Consul there: "The Nurnberg will be our coffin, but we will not sur render." PREPONDERANCE OF GERMAN TROOPS ON WESTERN FRONTIER London, Jan. 29, A. 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H J K tIA 7E For Coats of highest grade im- I ll\^B 1 1% * norted fabrics—exclusive mod- a jIB [ 'ls; were formerly values to H 'jla M ARTHUR CHATTERDON WHO HEADS STOCK COMPANY HERE NEXT WEEK The Arthur Ohatterdon Company, I which appears at the Majestic all of next neck, have selected a moat uu-1 usual play for Monday night. It is rarei indeed that a traveling; stjck organiza-j tion presents a drama that is being given throughout the country by sueli a famous actor as James K. llackett. Vet, that is the case with "A Grain of Dust." In other words, Mr. Chatter don will giv'e his admirers an oppor tunity of seeing a new and famous suc cess at popular prices, which otherwise would cost just three times as much to witness. "A Grain of Dust" is a dramatization of David Graham Phillips' widely (lis-1 "Times'" military correspondent, analyzing the present disposition of the j German forces, arrives at, the conclu sion that the preponderance of the tier-1 man troops still are on the western I frontier, where he estimates there are 94 divisions as against 4;l divisions in ] the east. "In other words," the correspond ent says, "their pride would not allow them to shorten and rectify their west ern line, which would alone have en See | 1 Una Clayton's Act j 1 "MILK" 1 sb m H At the Orpheum This Week and S U You Will Understand Why it Pays |j §! to Buy Milk From the Pennsylvania Milk | Products Company § Jj As All Their Milk Is Properly Pas- j§ H teurized and all Pathogenic Germs gp j§ Are Destroyed. PHONE YOUR ORDER TO THE Pennsylvania Milk Products Company | BOTH PHONES. | cussed novel by the same name. The book nnd the drama have created no eml ot' comment, as both deal with the adventures of a pretty New York stenographer in the office ot' a well known firm of corporation lawyers. It is a story of the present moment and consequently tilled with timely interest. The play is most excellently cast as Mr. Clmtterdon will be seen at his best as the young lawyer who sacrifices his career for the girl he loves. "A liirl in the Taxi," in which Arthur Clmtterdon and Adelyn Bushnell give an exhibition of tnnpo dancing, is the attractive an nouncement for Tuesday evening.— Adv.* abled them to detach sufficient forces to ibring about a decision in Poland and capture Warsaw. As a result the bulk of the active corps are in the west still, while in Russia the bulk of the troops are second and third line men. Jt may therefore be expected that Germany will make a last violent effort in the west to break the allied line before the allied armies are all assembled and the other neutral Powers come into the war.''