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MOON'S PHASES—
Last Quarter. 7th; New Moon, 13th;
First Quarter, 21st.
Harrisburg and vicinity: Cloudy and
" warmer to-night. Tuesday probably
s showers.
i Eastern Pennsylvania: Cloudy and
warmer to-night. Tuesday probably
I^2—ill—showers. Moderate variable winds.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG
Highest, 54; lowest, 30; 8 a. m., 32; 8 p. m., 46.
WASHINGTON, MAN AND HERO
There seems to be no question but that the teach
ings of public schools, of Sunday schools and of
homes of this country have presented George Wash
ington to American children as one of the greatest
of heroes, and with the youth of the nation holding
such a view there is no likelihood that the first
president will ever be removed from his well-de
served pedestal.
Portrait of Washington always are in their proper
environment when surrounded by the Ked, White
and Blue, while "America" and "The Stav-Span
gled Banner" are being sung, and patriotic ad
dresses are being given. We must honor national
heroes, to stimulate our patriotism, and what Amer
ican has a better right to have streets, cities, insti
tutions and even a state named after him, and to
have his birthday anniversary on February 22
widely observed, than the man whom Providence
left childless that his country might call him
"father?"
We can, of course, read about Washington, the
man, without detracting from our attachment to
Washington, the national hero, and it is well for
us sometimes to depart from the perusal of flowery
accounts of the hero's finalities and learn the uncol
ored facts of the man's life. Perhaps these can be
found as well in Washington Irving's biography of
the first president as anywhere else, and this ac
count by America's first man of letters and name
sake of the subject of his .notable work, surely has
the added merit of being written in a style not to
be surpassed. Irving wrote the biography before
the advent of the present day conception of the
hero Washington, and the work has none of the
coloring that sometimes becomes so tiresome.
We republicans in this country have not the same
sort of reverence for our great men of the past as
have the people of monarchies for their conquerors
and rulers. In making of Washington a national
hero, we are paying our profound respect to a man
among nuyi who fought for the freedom of his
nation and ours, and then for two terms filled the
newly created office of chief executive, not as a
despotic ruler but as a faithful servant of the coun
try which he had liberated.
THE TWILIGHT SLEEP
For centuries the cry of the new-born babe has
blended with the moans of the mother. Joy and
pride in the child just ushered into the world are
dimmed by the remembrance that the mother went
—either willingly or unwillingly—into the Valley
of the Shadow; that life was purchased only at the
price of terrible suffering and possible death.
For many decades physicians have been trying
to conquer the appalling diseases that threaten
humanity,—diphtheria, cancer, leprosy, sinall-pox,
tuberculosis. These and others have been studied
and their horrors are now mitigated to a very great
extent; but women have been told that anguish and
suffering were their appointed lot; that only
through their agony, through the treading of thf
wine-press of sorrow, could they people the earth
and fulfill the Biblical injunction.
It is only recently that he have asked if it is
really true that the mother's suffering is inevitable.
Is it possible that her child may be born without
the awfyl anguish which dims the joy of its birth?
Many women have suffered such agony that they
have never willingly faced motherhood the second
time. Those who have had it forced upon them—
like the poor fragile child-wives of India, —have
HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, MONDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 22. 1915.
endured months of such apprehension that the hor
rors of the Middle Ages pale by comparison.
Is a new era dawning ? Is science at last turning
its attention to women? Seneca salH, long, long ago,
that "women are born to suffer" and this dictum
has been accepted and repeated the world over.
The poets of all ages and of all climes have glorified
motherhood —ignoring, as poets do, the dark and
frightful tragedy and dwelling on the joy and
glory that motherhood brings any woman. The
words of Poe are repeated in many forms but with
the same meaning:
The angels whispering one to another
Can find a mid their burning terms of love
None so devotional as that of Mother]
Robert Browning, tenderly, sympathetically,—
declares that womanliness means only motherhood.
There are physicians and scientists to-day who
come with a new, inspiring message. They tell us
that the crown of motherhood may be one of pure
rejoicing; that the birth of a child is now robbed of
its terrors. If th'is be so, womanhood the world
over will hail the news with deep thanksgiving.
There are those with us to-day who say, that from
the depths of personal experience, they can vouch
for the truth of these statements. AVe are anxious
to hear their message; to know what real, practical
experience has taught.
(The above is quoted from the remarks of Mrs. Mabel
Cronise Jones in introducing Mrs. Mary Sumner Boyd
who, in the Majestic Theatre this afternoon, told of the
"Twilight Sleep" plan of sparing mothers pain.)
THE DENTIST 'S CHAIR MADE SAFER
The dedication to-day in Philadelphia of the
Thomas W. Evans Museum and Dental Institute in
the University of Pennsylvania, the best equipped
institution of its kind in the world, not only gives
Philadelphia a superior position as a center of
dental education, but gives dentistry a place of even
greater importance than in the past among the pro
fessions.
Time was, a University of Pennsylvania professor
tells us in a recently published treatise on dentistry
in bygone days, when the practice of caring for
aches in the teeth was identified with the other
branches of the healing art, and was a very crude |
practice indeed. There are records of the practice
of dentistry in the reign of King Hammurabi of
Babylonia, a contemporary of Abraham, and gold |
fillings seem to have been common in ancient Rome,
according to an exception stated in an old Romau
law against buying gold with the dead because of
its scarcity.
''But if any one," reads the translation, "shall
have teeth bound with gold, it shall be no offense
to bury or burn him with it."
Ancient as the practice of dental surgery is, how
ever, it appears that only within comparatively
recent times has it been rid of the superstitions
that had made it more of a witchcraft than a science
for many centuries. In a treatise on diseases of
the teeth, published in 1732, the author seriously
informs humble searchers for truth that for the
cure of toothache from unknown causes they should
apply a piece of wood from a tree struck by light
ning, or, in case there had been no lightning at work I
making charmed wood in the vicinity, they should
use a splinter taken from an ash tree at sunset.
In this year, 1&15, not so very far removed from
the time of lightning-struck and ash tree supersti
tions, a $1,000,000 building has been provided for
instruction in the science of dentistry, aijd students
from all parts of the world are gathered there to
learn of the latest methods of treating teeth, —
methods which are aided by all the modern kistru
ments that have been devised to scrape and drill i
and grind and jerk the aching molars of suffering!
humanity.
The dentist's chair to-day is not a place where
we are wont to spend pleasant hours, yet our experi
ences there must be exhilarating compared to the
tortures through which victims passed when den
tistry was in its crude stage.
We can thank Saint Appollonia, the patron of the |
profession, that our teeth are in the care of gradu
ates of such institutions as that at the University
of Pennsylvania rather than of the blacksmith sor
cerers of former times.
Some of the many foolish bills introduced in the Penn
sylvania Legislature doubtless will die in committee by the i
painless "Twilight Sleep" process.
Much obliged, General Washington! If it hadn't been
for you we might to-day be a part of one of the nations
most conspicuously involved in the great Kuropean war.
"I cannot tell a lie," said Governor Brumbaugh when
asked about the SIOO,OOO he chopped off th§ deficiency
appropriation bill. "I did it with my little veto hatchet."
The sinking of an American ship by a mine in the North
Sea should not be made the subject of precipitate excite
ment in this country. It is a matter that calls for thorough
and dispassionate inquiry and then sane deliberation as to
what this nation can do about it.
"Those who enjoyed the Chamber of Commerce trip this
week were impressed by the signs of prosperity throughout
the anthracite coal regions and in Beading. With the ex
ception of the Berwick car factory, every big industry was
in active operation and Northumberland, Danville, Blooms
burg, Sunbury, Millersburg and Herndon all reported good
times with plenty of employment and business good. In
Reading many fine new homes are being built, especially
in the Wyomissing district, where the visitors were im
pressed with the sight of a new trust company set right !
down in the midst of an almost open field, and astounded
to find that it is prospering."
This we quote from the Harrisburg "Telegraph" of last
Saturday. And to think that such conditions could exist
under a Democratic tariff and notwithstanding the adverse
effects on business of the war in Europe!
TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN
ALWAYS FULL MEASURE
A pecjt of trouble is one thing that is mighty seldom
short measure.—Columbia State.
DELUDED
The reason a man is not smarter than his wife is because
she lets him think he is.—Dallas News.
PROBLEM FOR STATISTICIANS
How much does the cost of continuous investigation of
the high cost of living add to the letter f—Albany Journal.
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The Lawmakers and Washington
Time was —and it was not so many
years ago—when tine State Legislature
paid honor to the memory of George
Washington in a marked manner. When
Scnato and Hou?e met in the morning
of February 22 a resolution was adopted
in the House inviting the Senate to
call upon it in a body and listen to the
reading of Washington's farewell ad
dress. This invitation was accepted,
and, headed by its sergeant-at-arms
bearing aloft his silver-topped mace, the
Senate proceeded to the House and took
seats assigned it in front of the clerks'
desks. Then some Senator or Member
with a particularly sonorous voice read
the celebrated address amidst the pro
foundest silence and with much solemn
ity, following which the Senate re
turned to its chamber. Then both
bodies, as a mark of respect to the
memory of "the immortal Washing
ton," adjourned for the day. The last
time this ceremony was observed was
in 1883, when George Pearson, of Mer-
I cer, now Prot-honotarv of the Supreme
Court for the Western district, was
| reading clerk of the Senate. Mr. Pear
son had a remarkable voice and was sc
| letted to' read the address. After that
I year the custom passed out and it is
now no longer observed.
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Fow's Method Less Dignified
Of later years Kepresentative John
11. Fow, of Philadelphia, familiarly
known as "Fog Horn," when Wash
ington's birthday came around, would
I interrupt House proceedings by de-
Imanding in a loud voice:
"Who was George Washington?"
I And this would be answered by a
I great chorus of members who shouted:
"First in war. first in peace, and
I tirst in the 'hearts of his countrymen."
This would be followed by loud
I thumping of fists ou the desks and
j stamping of feet. I t disturbed the
| equanimity of the House for a while,
j but the Speaker generally overlooked
| it because of the momentary diversion
it created from the monotony of 'House
proceedings. Fow is no longer a mem-
I ber and there is no one to take his
: lace in demanding this biennial tribute
to the Father of His Country. And, he
sides, the House is taking a long re
cess just now.
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Eurasians and British Army
A London correspondent of the As
sociated Press writes that the petition
of the Kurasians, or half-castes of In
dia, to raise some regiments of their
I own kind has cau-sed the war office much
I uneasiness because of the delicate social
I questions involved. Eurasians are in the
unfortunate position of being neither
whites nor natives. They are not admit
ted into white society as a rule, and
j are disliked or despised by the natives
| of unmixed parentage. At the same time
j they feel themselves superior to the
| natives because of their white blood.
The whites and Eurasians could get
along very well together at the front,
I but the imperial authorities fear the In-
I dia.n regiments would resent the forma
i tion of a distinctly Eurasian soldiery,
and would besides refuse to associate
with them in arms. The war office is
! now trying to put the damiper on the
j project without offending the loyalty
j and the sensibilities of an important
element of the Indian population.
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Wartime Reading in London
Confessions of well known literary
men that they have lost all appetite for
modern works during the war and turn
back to other times, hae led to an in
vestigation by some of the London
j paipers as to what the general public
J now reads. It was learned from the
libraries that there has been a great
! falling off in the reading of modern
fiction. What part of it the public
likes bears directly on the war, such as
"All For a Scrap of Paper." Kipling's
tales have been reprinted and take well
with the civilians, although the Kip
lingesque soldier has never been pop
ular in the British army. The books
j most'sought, however, are war books
I and those dealing with the principal
characters of the war, particularly the
Kaiser.
BOY BANDIT BANS NOVELS
Chicago, Feb. 22. —Walter Edward
Driunmond, a red-haired messenger boy,
fed on "Old Nick Carter" during his
trips from the Western Union office,
and he was so impressed with the stuff
he devoured that he quit the telegraph
business and turned "hold-up."
After "sticking up" a few unem
ployed and getting only pennies he re
solved to turn on the telegraph com
pany. He keld up six branch office in
succession.
Yesterday he was held up himself
and confessed to all the robberies. The
telegraph company loet about S3OO.
A new order will go out to messen
gers to-day that no more five or ten
cent novels are to be read while on
duty.
THE GLOBE THE GLOBE
THIS—THE LAST WEEK
Of the February Final Clearaway
Winter Suits and Overcoats that had been origin
ally priced up to $20.00 will be sold at
$1():00
No goods reserved—every Winter garment will be sold—
Alterations without charge—Any purchase will be sent C. O. D.
or on approval. See Our Windows.
Sale Positively Closes Saturday Night
A Final Clean-up of Boys' Winter Clothing
41 Boys' Overcoats & M A a 54 Boys' Overcoats jgsjk A A
of heavy mixed Chev- IS —Chinchillas,Meltons ¥®Jp
iots, sizes 3to 7 years |1 and Corduroys—sizes
—values to $4.00, are ra 3 to 10 years—values br!!!
now I to $6.50, are now
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49 Boys' Overcoats A A A 43 Boys' Cheviot 0 C A
of heavy mixed Cher- Suits in very good
iots, Kerseys and n
Chinchillas—sizes 3to (g styles sizes 9to lb W
8 years—values to $5, H years—values to $5.00, BBHB
are now special at
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DEFECTIVE FIRE FIGHTING
APPARATUS
The inspectors of the Department of
Labor and Industry have found
throughout the State too many estab
lishments wherein fire-fighting equip
ment is unfit for service. There seems
to be a feeling prevalent among a great
many persons that equipment of this
kind if cnco placed in position will not
need any attention whatever until a tire
occurs in the establishment. As a re
sult, in many eases when a fire does
occur and employes try to use the
equipment which is furnished they find
it is unserviceable.
For example, in a large number of
establishments hose connections have
been placed throughout the plants, at
tached to which are lines of/hose. In
spection has revealed the fact that
much of this hose has been in position
for such a long time, or has been used
for other purposes, that it has rotted,
and would be unserviceable if water
should be turned on into it. In some
cases the hose has been removed en
tirely, and its absence had not been
noted until the attention of the man
agement was directed to this fact. In
other cases the nozzle which is usually
attached to the line of hose was found
to have been removed and could not
be found.
Installations of this kind cost money,
and should 'be inspected at frequent and
regular intervals by the management
to see if they are in good service or
have not been removed and used for
purposes other than for which they
were purchased.
Fire extinguishers are also too oft
en found in an inoperative condition.
In one establishment which was visited
by an inspector of this department a
fire had occurred three weeks before
the time of his visit. He found half
a dozen of the chemical type of fire
extinguishers in the establishment and,
on examination, found that they hail
not been recharged since the former
fire. These extinguishers had been
used very effectively in fighting the
fire. But for them the fire might have
destroyed the establishment. Notwith
standing the great service they had
rendered, no attention had been" given
to them since the fire. They would
have been absolutely useless in the
case of a second fire.
Chemical fire extinguishers should be
examined frequently and recharged at
least once every year, preferably every
six months. During the first month
of this year one inspector of t'he De
partment of Labor and Industry found
more than one hundred fire extinguish
ers inoperative or useless in the vari
ous establishments which he visited
during that month.
The attention of proprietors of es
tablishments and of employes through
out this Commonwealth is accordingly
called to the necessity ftf regular in
spection of fire-fighting equipment.
Apparatus of this kind, to be of any
value, must be ready for instant use.
The original cost of this equipment is
very high and, if it is not properly
maintained, is a total loss to the own
er; not only that, but the factory itself
is at the mercy of auy fire through a
false sense of security.
Accordingly, the Department of La
bor and Industry would recommend
that all (ire-fighting equipment should
be placed in charge of some capable
person, and that person should be held
rigidly accountable to the management
for its maintenance and readiness for
instant use. If this is done, there will
be less chance of fire-fighting equip
ment being inoperative when most
needed.
PINE STREEIJCHOBL AHEAD
Had Largest Average Attendance in
City During Past Year
Report Shows
With an attendance of 1,555 the
fifty-seventh anniversary of the Pine
Street Presbyterian Sunday school was
observed yesterday with appropriate ex
ercises at the auditorium of t'ho Tech
nical Higth school. In his remarks Su
perintendent Henry B. IMjeCormick
pointed out that the Pine street school
leads in average attendance for the
year 1914 in this city.
The other speakers of the day were
John B. Corl, superintendent of the
Pine Street Mission Sunday school; the
Bev. James S. Armeutrout, assistant
pastor; K. Z. Gross, superintendent of
the junior department; Miss Edna
Sprenkel, head of the Kindergarten;
Are You Taking Advantage
of all the ways in which we can serve you?
Perhaps you are familiar with our service in handling
checking accounts —but remember also that we pay
3 per cent, interest on savings accounts; issue interest
bearing Certificates; rent Safe Deposit Boxes at $1.50
per annum and upwards, furnish investment securities,
as well as perform most faithfully the duties of Execu
tor, Guardian, Trustee, Etc.
We want to serve you in every possible way.
Mrs. William Bennett, superintendent
of t'he Cradle roll; D. W. Cox, secretary;
George P. Boss, assistant treasurer; Wil
liam S. Rutherford, missionary treas
urer, and J. Miley .lones, treasurer of
tlho junior department.
The roll call of members who died
during the past year with the dates of
t'heir death, follows:
John Y. Boyd, 'March 9; John W.
Bisfcline, May 7; E. W. Reed, June 20;
Mrs. Laura Kautz, August 13; Mrs.
Anna Steever, October 7; J. Albert
Reinhard, October 15; George V. Corl,
November 4; Joseph I). Pye, December
22; Elmer E. Miller, December IS.
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