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Monday, February 8/ 1015.
FEBRUARY
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MOON'S PHASES—
Last Quarter. 7th; New Moon, 13th;
First Quarter, 21st.
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WEATHER FORECASTS f ' MfLgHB
Harrisburg and vicinity; Fair to
night and Tuesday. Lowest tempera-
ture to-night about 22 degrees.
Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair to night
and Tuesday. Not much change in tem
per*ture. Moderate west winds.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURO
Highest. 37; lowest, 30; 8 a. m., 34; 8 p. m., 30.
A DOCTOR S DEVOTION TO DUTY
Physicians as a elass are noted for their willing
ness to go almost anywhere at almost any time to
lend their services to the suffering. It is impressed
on the prospective doctor, when he still is in the
medical school, that a part of the doctor's duty4s
to sacritice his own comfort and even to brave great
dangers to serve his fellow-man in a professional
capacity, and the medical student who does not
indicate a disposition to accept this as a part of his
hounden duty is seldom encouraged to continue in
the training that will make hinra doctor.
Stories are common of the country doctors who
get out of their beds in the middle of the night to
drive miles through blizzards to minister to dying
patients or patients threatened with death, and
even the heroic roles in which they often are de
picted on the "movie" screens are seldom exagger
ations. We frequently read, too, of the bravery of
the city doctor and how he responds to the call of
the distressed, no matter how much of a hardship
it imposes on him, —the ambulance surgeon, for
* instance, who arrives at a big tire as soon as the
firemen get there and braves great dangers to
render professional service to those who have fallen
in smoke-filled cellars or who are in need of "first
aid" in tottering fire-swept ruins.
Such stories are more or less familiar to the news
paper reading public, but now comes the news of
what is perhaps a brand new role of danger to be
filled by a doctor. We refer to the dispatches from
Fire Island, X. Y„ telling how Dr. W. Franklin
Wood, of Bay Shore, rode through a storm in a
breeches buoy, half in and half out of the ice-eapped
waves, to reach the stranded bark Hougomont,
whose skipper was too ill to be brought to shore
in the rope-rigged apparatus in which his crew had
been removed.
The winds and the waves would have meant sure
death to the skipper had he been exposed to them
by a trip in the breeches buov and it would have
meant death, too, if hefcere deprived of the services
of a physician. So the plucky Dr. Wood, "land
lubber" though he was, without hesitation threw
off his overcoat, slipped into the buoy belt and was
shot out through the foam to the top of a mast
whence he made a perilous descent to the deck.
'I hen, dodging waves that were breaking across the
vessel, he made his way to the cabin below, gave
that the sick man needed and returned by
the perilous way he came.
Yet Dr. Wood's brave act is only what almost
any doctor would have undertaken if called upon
to do so. More is the credit to the good and true
fellows who make up the greater part of the ranks
of the medical men.
RELIGION'S PLACE IN COLLEGES
That college students in this country, with their
studies, their athletics and their social diversions,
have no time for religious activities is a mistaken
impression, judging from accounts which come at
times from institutions of higher learning regard
ing the growing interest being manifested by the
boys in devotional exercises and Bible study, con
ducted generally bv the college Young Men's Chris
tian Associations.
At the University of Pennsylvania, for instance,
the Y. M. C. A., which has become the Christian
organization of the school, has charge of chapel ex- ;
ereises, conducts Bible study classes which meet
regularly in dormitory rooms, directs the Philadel
phia university settlement, maintains a medical
school in China, and, iu short, is regarded as tile I
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HARRISBURO STAR-INDEPENDENT. MONDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 8, 1915.
Christian church iu action among the student*. The
1,422 members of the association are drawn from
a student body representing forty nations and
twenty-five religious denominations, and all are
working as one harmonious organization.
It has been pointed out that the college students
interested in religious activities are to a large ex
tent made up of the best athletes, the keenest stu
dents and the most popular fellows of the various
institutions. These boys, fai from excluding Bible
study and devotional exercises from among their
other activities, regard such work as a rare oppor
tunity to do good. '
When boys leave their homes for colleges and
universities they leave behind them any religious
influences which may have been operating upon
them, through their homes and their churches, but
in the institutions of higher learning these days
they invariably come into contact with good influ
ences which may be even more effective than the
old ones—influences arranged especially to act
upon young men of their own sort.
A college football game provides an example of
enthusiasm tlwt can be manifested by a crowd of
boys having a common interest, and it is not diffi
cult to understand how there can be developed
ardor for religious work among many of the same
boys when they gather in Christian organizations
specifically for that purpose.
IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHO IS KISSED
A Washington man has brought snit against a
theatrical company for $1,500 damages, charging
that during a performance in a playhouse "four
actresses committed assault upon him with intent
to kiss,"' and that one of the so-called "Rosebuds"
actually accomplished her purpose. He says that
his wife was sitting by his side and that the affair
caused him great mental pain and distress.
We can readily understand that a respectable
married man who, with altogether honorable inten
tions, attends a show in wthich there are "Rose
buds,* would not by any means welcome the piti
less publicity which must accompany»the bestowal
upon him of one of the kisses. Easier still is it to
realize that a man so situated would resent the
favor shown him if he felt himself penetrated
through and through by the empkatie disapproval
of the spouse at his side.
It was certainly not the nature of the sho\v girl's
kiss that caused the Washington man mental pain
and distress, since that is not what a pretty girl's
kiss is calculated to produce, but it must rather
have been the understanding that his wife was
manifesting disfavor and that the audience could
see it and was enjoying it. ,
Clearly the "Rosebuds" are to blame for having
selected as a victim of their assaults a well-trained
married man instead of some susceptible youth
nearby who was probably feeling inclined at the
time to sue the producing company because the
kissers had missed him.
Keeping us out of the war is not the least of President
Wilson's troubles.
It often is true that the older and prouder a family is
the less it actually has to be proud of.
Mosquitos already have appeared in Bayonne, New Jer
sey. which reminds us that even a much-longed-for early
spring has its drawbacks.
Perhaps the Allentown gravedigger who committed sui
cide because he found work slack for those of his*calling
was prompted by a desire to start a boom in the industry.
The church folk of Beading have become so bitterlv
divided on the subject of the location of the Stough tab
ernacle in that city that it must be concluded there is a
rare opportunity in the Bj-rks county metropolis for the
evangelist to teach the principles of brotherly love.
TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN
HOW TIMES CHANGE!
We city folk remember the former contempt of the
farmer for the passing automobile. And now the farmer,
when he comes to town, has his own opinion about the
pedestrian who gets in his way.—Cincinnati Times-Star.
HER RETIRING DISPOSITION
Borleigh (at 11.40) —"Do you know I always thought
you had a retiring disposition?" -
Miss Weereigh (stifling a yawn)—" Not exactly, Mr.
Borleigh; but I must confess to a disposition t'o retire."—
Boston Transcript.
HOW HE WON OUT
"So he won her by fighting with his rival. I shouldn't
think such a little shrimp of a fellow could put up much
of a battle."
"Oh, he got licked; that's what made him solid with
her—that'* just like a woman, you know."—Florida Times-
Union.
INDEBTED TO UNCLE SAM
A Boston tourist who was staying at Stratfor.l on-Avon
said to his landlord one morning:
"Who is this Shakespeare of whom one hears so much
in this town? Was he a very great mant"
"Lor, sir," was the reply, "he warn't thoughtinothing on
a few years ago. It's the Americans as has made 'itn what
'e is."—Pittsburgh Gazette Times.
THE BALLAD AUTOMOBILIOUS
The gas tank's full of gasoline,
The crank case full of oil;
Prom top to tire, the whole machine
Spring* eager to its toil.
The top and both are down,
In rush the sun and wind;
They smooth away my furrowed frown N
And drive care from my mind.
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The engine's purr, the hilm of gears
All blend and make me feel
A newer music of the spheres,
A symphony of steel.
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Before me lies the broad highway
Through village, wood and farm;
It lures me on, and I obey
Its overwhelming charm.
No more I sigh, like Mercury,
To fly on winged heel.
For Vuleart with new sorcery
Has forged me wings of steel.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
WHAT CONSTITUTES AN ELK?
BY COLONEL WILLIAM H. XIBTER
What constitutes an Elkt Pause
And ponder well the lofty cause
Of Klkdora and its aims of high)
Kndeavor, ere you make reply!
The ribald jest? The cynic sneer?
; The tongue-of malice and the ready ear*
The mind that grovels iu the mire \
Of sodden sense and low desire?
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Are these the makipg of a man?
Are these in keeping with the plan
Whereby the marvels grand are wrought
Of noble act and tender thought?
The purest and noblest, the highest and best.
Should e'er be the goal of a true brother's quest:
Great things that are the things to be earned.
And the things that degrade are the things to be spurned
Revere yourself, look aloft, persist,
And soon shall disappear the mist
Of doubt and cant, ignoble aim.
And virtue be fanned to golden flame.
Then opens the soul to humanity's need.
To tlie feet that falter and the hearts that bleed,
To the frail and the weak, to Poverty's call;
And sweet charity's hand is extended to all.
Alas! the many who dread the morrow
n Because to-day is weighted with sorrow;
So unlock the door of your heart, my brother,
For the deed that will lighten the loan of another.
Who can measure the limitless plan
Of the deeds we can do for our fellow man ?
Mankind's high tribute to B. P. O. E.
Shall endure through time and eternity.
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| Tongue-End Topics |
Making British Officers
The question of military training in
the schools is now a live one in all parts
of Britain, and the chief agitators are
not army men but teachers. Lack of
proper material for officers to take the
place of those killed anil injured at the
front and to supply Kitchener's hu'se
new army and the inadequately officer
ed territorial force, is one of the most
serious problems of the war. All of the
higlier schools have been called on for
subalterns, as the British "Tommy"'
objects to serving under any officer not
born a "gentleman." The teachers feel
that they were in a sense to b'ame for
not having given their students some
elemental preliminary training , further
than that of the small student officers'
Swiss Military Training
At a nOeeting of the Incorporated As
sociation of Headmasters in the Lon
don Guildhall, F. 11. Templar said in
regard to the New Zealand system of
universal military training in the
schools:
"While conscription produces mili
tarism. national training destroy? it.
The citizen soldier is a man whose
every interest is bound up with the
maintenance of peace."
Another speaker pointed out that
military drill and rille shooting are
compulsory in the Swiss schools, yet
lie asked who could accuse the Swiss ot'
militarism. A resolution declaring that
military training in the schools would
save the country from having to im
provise an army in war time by pro
viding a reservoir of partly' trained
men, was passed with only a few dis
senting vutes.
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v A "Self-Made" Clergyman
The Rev. H. S. McClelland, B. A.,
B. D.. who has been called from the
East Findhley Congregational church to
the leading church of that sect in Glas
gow, Scotland, began life as an office
boy in Fleet street on a salary of five
shillings a week. As men who have
worked up from $1.25 a week and paid
their way through the university are
less numerous in England than in the
I'nited States, his promotion has at-,
tracted considerable notice in the Lon
don press. McClelland was born in Bel
fast in ISB2. His father's goiwji 011 the
stage early caused an estrangement in
the family, and when his mother died
he and his brother were adopted by
grandfather, a Belfast linep man
ufacturer. The grandfather was sternly
religious and punished the future pastor
on one occasion for whistling on the
Sabbath. The boy was »ent to a Quaker
school. On his grandfather's death, he
went to London to make his own for
tune when 14 vears old.
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Got Wide Business Experience
As $1.25 a week was not'enough to
keep him. he found a family willing to
board him on credit. Soon he found a
job as salesman in a book store at 15
shillings a week, then with a big firm
of tea merchants, where he became a
secretary to one of the partners. This
suggested the tea business for himself.
He found he could make more as a
drummer for a wholesale perfumery
Omega
Oil
Sore Throat
and
Cold inchest
First rub the chest or throat with
Omega Oil; then soak a piece of flan
nel with the Oil and put it around the
neck or throat, and cover with a piece
of dry flannel. This simple treatment
usually civet relief. Trial bottle 10c.
house. Then it was. at the ago of 19,
that he determined to educate himself.
With a capital of SSOO which he had
saved, he entered Nottingham College,
where ho soon won a scholarship. After
taking his B. A. there, Jie entered New
College, London, where he was largely
supported by scholarships, taking an
essay prize for three years and the
jubilee medal at the- end. The engage
ment of the Rev. Mr. McClelland to
the daughter of Sir Andrew Torrenee,
formerly a member of Parliament, was
announced recently.
The Passing of the Chinese Queue
The Manchu Imperial Family, has
agreed to lay aside its official robes and
to assume instead the official dress of
the Chinese Republic—the frock coat
and silk hat. The present Buipress Dow
nier, who is to all intents regent for
the disposed Jjoy Emperor, has also
been pursuaded by the government of
President Yuan to permit any palace
servant who prefers short hair to dis
pense with his queue. The Manchus of
the palaee are as a class the only people
in Pekin who still wear the so-called
pig tail. Princes when serving at the
court always appear in their robes and
wearing a queue; but the queue in a
number of cases is false, and when the
princes appear elsewhere they are gen
erally in ordinary Chinese dress or in
foreign clothes with their hair cropped
short. The servants, however, have
been loathe to change without sanction
from the Empress Dowager.
PKIEON CROSSES OCEAN
Rears Message Presumably From Sol
dier in Eelgium to Wife
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.. Ffb. 8. —A ear
rier pigeon dropped from the roof of a
building here and Fred Ja<'t)ibs, wlio
found it, discovered n pff;>er tied about
the bird's neek, which evidently was a
message of a German soldier in the Bel
gium trenches to his wife. Tbo mes
sage read as follows:
"Dear wife, I aim alive anil wril in
the trenches of Belgium, buit your
brother ha.-, been killed." There was
no signature to iiheiwte the identity <*f
the man .wtlio wrote this little tragedy
of war.
The pigeon showed evidences of long
flight, and the injury Do the wing
seemed torhave been received shortly
before the bird was picked up. The mes
sage was written in English and wrap
ped in the heading of a German news
paiper, and the date line of the paper
was Saxony, December, —, the day of
month missing.
BANDITS ROB ONLY THE MEN
Four Mask Wearers Hold Up Palm
Beach Train in Florida ,
| West Palm Beach, Fla., Feb, 18.
The Palm Bench Limited train of the
Florida East Coasrt Railroad, bound
from Jacksonville to Miami, was board
ed by four masked men at Stuart, Fla.,
early last nig'ht and male passengers on
the observation platform were robbed
of money and jewelry.
No attempt was made to molest
women passengers. They were forced,
however, to enter the car.
After completing their search of the
men, the robbers made their, way
through the car, where they found that
a brakeman hati> locked the front door.
, Revolvers were turned on the brake
man and he was ordered to pull the bell
! cord to stop the train. When it was
| slewed down the band jumped to/* the
I ground and escaped.
It is not known how much mone.v
j and jewelry the robbers obtained, but
it is not believed the amount is large.
Posses are searching for the men.
BAN OX SUNDAY SKATING
Pittsburgh .Residents Arrested by
Mayor Armstrong's Order
Pittjibungh, Pa., Feb. 8. —By placing
a ban on Sunday skating in the city
parks, Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong has
stirred up a hornet's nest among the
open-Sunday advocates.
Carnegie Lake and Panther Hollow
Lake, crowded by skates on Sundays
heretofore, were deserted yesterday, al
though the ice was in excellent condi
tion for sport. The permission given
formerly was revoked Sat unlay by the
Mayor on representations made by the
Rev. Dr. George W. Shelton, pastor of
the Second Presbyterian church, and
oth«r ministers. Dr. Shelton said the
committee was setf-appointed, and its
action resulted from a resolution adopt
ed by the Ministerial Association. Dele
gations representing anti-Sabbatarians
will visit the Mayor.
IT PAYS TO USE STAR- -
INDEPENDENT WANT ADSH
THE GLOBE'S
FEBRUARY FINAL CLEARAWAY
This is our clean-up month. Every stitch of winter
goods in the store will be sold this month regardless
of former prices or values.
Men's and Young Men's Suits
)> and Overcoats, Values to sls
L a«*9.75
■ SUITS to please every individual taste and
B requirement—to tit men of every buud —Silk
I Mixed Worsteds, Fancy Cheviots and plain
H and fancy Serges,
|l ELEGANT OVERCOATS in fancy Mix
■ tures and Black—Double Breast Shawl Collar
5 Chinchillas and those Swagger Balmaeaan
* Overcoats in nobby effects.
EXTRA SPECIAL
22 Heavy Weight Fancy Mixed Overcoats, Of" nn
values to $lB. Special Monday and Tues- o*|'UU
day, : V
Men's $3.00 Trousers are Now $1.85
No limn can afford to "pass up" such a chance —the
saving is big—the trousers are our regular values.
THE GLOBE
SAFETY Tg7FIRST
(UNDER AN AHItA.WK.MKXT WITH
TllK DEPA ItTMKNT OK LA HO R AND
INDUSTRY THE STAR-INDKPENOENT
PRINTS EACH MONDAY A PRACTICAL
ARTICLK HEARING ON THE "SAI' KTY
FIRST" -MOVEMENT OR KINDRED
SUBJECTS, PREPARED BY THAT
BRANCH OF THE STATE GOVERN
MEN'T, OK WHICH COMMISSIONER
JOHN PRICE JACKSON IS THE
HEAD.)
During the past year, the Department
of LiObor and Industry has made a
study of immigrant conditions in tho
State, It has been found that in the
great majority of towns having a con
siderable number of immigrants, the
latter have practically neglected as a
component part of the town body. They
have only been noticed when on occa
sions tihey have interfered with the
safety and comfort of the American
group of residents.
If safety means anything, it means
safety for all, and especially safety for
those most in need of protection. There
is no group of people in our State in
greater need of protection than our im
migrants. Foreign workmen, newly ar
rived, settle in town according to the
possibilities for jobs. For lonlg periods
of time they live unnoticed by the rest
of the community until extreme condi
tions of-disorder or sanitation in their
homes arouse the other group to action
for self-defense.
At the first arrival of immigrants in
a town, it has been a temptation to real
estate owners to house them in build
ings in worst repair in the community.
The excuse is that the worst housing
here is better than that which the for
eigners of our present immigration have
at home; also that there is no need ot'
housing them better, because they abuse
the privileges of good housing, and,
therefore, it is a careless waste of
money to put them into houses that will
rapidly deteriorate because of their
presence.
When there is not the deliberate in
tention to give foreigners the leavings
of town properties, perhaps off cast
mansions, broken-down factory build
ings, or old mills, etc., there is found a
lack of preparedness that gives the
same results. Sometimes immigrants
come in large numbers to a town be
cause of a good industrial opportunity.
The employers do not provide in ad
vance for these workmen; so upon their
arrival, they must find accommodations
wherever possible. Their social disparity
from the majority of the residents of a
community forces them into its worst
quarters, usually into slum districts, if
the town is large.
There is no denying that the foreign
ers coming of recent years to this conn
try ai»d to our State, are of a type so
different from un, that they do, from our
standpoint, abuse the privilege of good
housing. However, because of their
What You Expect—and Receive
In transacting business of any kind, whether in a
financial institution or a store you have a right to
expect good service,
When transacting business with this institution you
get good service.
Although your account may not be large, your patron
age ' !1 be valued and your affairs handled promptly
and carefully.
Our offices are conveniently located in the center of
the business district—S. E. Corner Third and Market
streets.
groat economic value, we are glad to
have this type of immigrants. Thev
make splendid workmen; therefore, it
would seem that in return for their
value to us in our industry, we should
be of service to them in their homes.
It has been found from many ex
amples that, in towns where pood hous
ing has been supplied to the foroign
residents, together with—and this is
the more important matter—a program
, of social education, great satisfaction
I exists among the foreign groivp; they
I show great ambition to live up to
i American standards, and to keep their
homes in the good condition suggested
I by their American brothers.
In one town the houses occupied by
immigrants were cheaply built and in
t>ad repair. There was so much drunk
enness and disorder and consequent dis
comfort and sometimes even danger, to
the rest of the people, that an experi
enced social worker was called in from
another State to make a survey of con
ditions in order to ascertain how things
cotffd be remedied. The first condition
his experienced eye saw in need of cor
rection was the (houses. They had been
so cheaply built and so badly finished
th(it through the winter they were in
adequate protection from the weather.
According to his suggestion, the houses
were all relined with plaster board.
This one correction of conditions imme
diately raised Che standard of living
more than fifty per cent. The people
became at once more contented and
filled with a satisfying spirit that the
American people were trying to help
them.
Physicial comfort is at the basis of
contentment of spirit. Since the safety
of our own people depends to a growing
extent upon the contentment existing
among the great masses of foreigners
that are living in our country, we need
to see to it that they are made com
fortable. It has been found that the
expense occasioned by providing immi
grants with good housing has been
more than repaid by the gain in their
standard of livinig and the growth of
the spirit of confidence among them
that the American people are their
friends.
The investigations conducted by the
Department of Labor and Industry
show that in communities where for
eigners are made contented by com
fortable living conditions, instead of
beirog a menace in health and safety
to the rest of the town, they are up
holders of civic standards.
| WHY HAIR FALLS OUT \ }
Dandruff causes a feverish irritation
of the scalp, the hair roots shrink, loosen
and then the hair comes out fast. To
stop falling hair at once and rid the
scalp of every particle of dandruff, get
a 25-cent bottle of Danderine at any
drug store, pour n little in your hand
and rub well into the scalp. After a
few applications all dandruff disappears
anil the hair stops coming flit. — : Adv.