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Circulation in Harrisburtf ana Marfay towns Ctrculatloa Bxaatlnrs by THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN APVERTIS3RS. "" TELEPHONES MILL Prtvata Branoh Exohanfa. No. 3280 CUMBERLAND VALLEY Wjwß Branoh Eacnanga. . No. 145-241 Monday, March 22. 1915. MARCH Son. Mem. 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— -0 Full Moon, let, Slat; Last Quarter, Bth; New Moon, 15th; First Quarter, 23d. M WEATHER FORECASTS | Harrisburg and vicinity: Cloudy and ' unsettled to-night and Tuesday with J \ uw,. probably light snow tonight; not much \\f];hange in temperature. Eastern Pennsylvania; Cloudy and unsettled to-night and Tuesday with | l Xj probably snow in north and west i>or tious; partly cloudy in southeast por tion. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest, 4oj lowest, 32; 8 a. in., 35; 8 p. m., 40. THE PICTURE CENSORSHIP FIGHT The light for the repeal by the present Legisla ture of the law under which the state board ot' cen sorship of motion pictures has been in operation since last June has been carried to the point where it is attracting a great deal of attention even from persons in no way interested tinancially in the motion picture business. The exhibitors and film salesmen have united in the effort to wipe out state censorship and also have made an attack on Mr. J. .Louis Breitinger, the chief censor, going so far as to have asked Governor Brumbaugh to suspend Mr. Breitinger pending a probe into his official con duct. The Governor has instructed Attorney Gen eral Brown to investigate both sides of the contro versy. and it is reasonable to assume that in this inquiry justice will be done to all concerned. The Governor has made it clear that whatever may be the outcome of the inquiry into the way Mr. Breitinger has conducted his office, the Governor believes in maintaining picture censorship, or in other words it is certain he will not favor the abso lute repeal of the present censorship law. Despite the Governor's attitude in the matter, however, the picture men are determined to con tinue their tight for the entire elimination of state censorship. Whether or not this is the wise and practical course for them to pursue there is a good deal that can be said in support of their position which apparently is little understood by the general public. One of their arguments is that the censor ing of motion pictures in un-American as it puts a ban on free expression. Another point they make is that under laws in existence before the one that established the censorship board the police of the various cities of the state had and still have all the legal authority needed to stop any improper show in a motion picture theatre or any other theatre, and that therefore state censorship is superfluous and serves merely to impose an additional expense on the film men and exhibitors. The state censorship board, under the law, charges $2.50 for each film submitted for its ap proval, whether the film is passed upon favorably or rejected. This expense, as well as certain other expenses incurred in conection with the examination of the films, falls on the shoulders of the film men and the exhibitors. When it is considered also that the exhibitors all have to pay a state tax, a federal war tax and. in most cases, a city mercantile tax, none of which is light, it can be well understood why many of them fear their business will be ruined if the costs of legalized state censorship continue to be imposed. It uiust be remembered, too, that the great ma jority of motion picture theatre exhibitors are men who have small theatres and that many of them are barely able to make their own living out of the business. Yet these exhibitors provide an immense amount of entertainment and instruction at a very low cost to the by-no-means-wealthy class of people who patronize the picture shows. Moreover it must be recalled that the exhibitors of this state as of other parts of the country volun tarily maintain the National Board of Censors, which is composed of men of intelligence and ex perience in their line who have done very effective work in eliminating objectionable films. Whether or not the Pennsylvania Legislature ab solutely repeals the censorship law, it seems evident that, in justice to the film men, upon whose ability to do business at a reasonable profit depends the HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 22. 1915. entertainment of hundreds of thousands of Pennsvl vanians, there should be at least some changes in the present statute to relieve the unnecessarily heavy financial burden of the exhibitors and ex change men. DEATH OF ANOTHER NOTABLE ADAMS The death of Charles Francis Adams in Washing ton, D. C., on Saturday, would have attracted na tion-wide attention even if nothiug more could have been said in accounts about him than that he was a great-grandson of President John Adan s, a grand son of President John Quiney Adams, and a son of Charles Adams, Minister to Great Hritain during the Civil War. Even in democratic America there are tendencies to consider a man great who comes of a prominent family, regardless of any lack in his own accomplishments. If Charles Francis Adams, however, had not had two ancestors in the presidency nor even a promi nent father, but had nevertheless been in posses sion of the inherited and acquired abilities which distinguished him throughout life, his death would attract attention no less, and would be no less a loss to the nation. He was not a man content merely to bear the name of a line of men notable in American history. He added to the fame of the family. He was an Adams not merely in his surname but in his quali ties. As a Union soldier he won distinction in the Civil War, rising to the rank of brevet brigadier general of volunteers; as a railroad executive lie exhibited his coolheaded business abilities and made his fortune, and as a historian he took his place as one of the foremost American men of letters of the day. As a politician he was not prominent, if the holding of public office is prominence in politics. He is remembered, however, for the active part he took at times, as an independent, in political dis cussions. especially for his dramatic declaration after the close of the Civil War that the method of reconstruction in the South was a blunder. It is as a historian that Charles Francis Adams will be best remembered. He was in a peculiarly fitting position to write pieces of history about a country which two of his forefathers hail served as President, his father as Minister to the Court of St. James, and he himself as a soldier during the whole extent of the Civil War. Because he was gifted as a writer, he has left behind him works by which he will be remembered when as a soldier and a railroad executive he will be forgotten. Spring began yesterday, and the next day it snowed. Gern>an bombs cause more disturbance in Paris than absinthe frappe. The country pastor, on S6OO a year, may be pardoned j for the sin of covetousness if he looks with envy on Phila-1 delphia's thank offering of $51,136.85 to the Rev. William! A. Sunday. Mrs. Roessing has called on the men to vote for women's j suffrage to show they are good sports. That is putting it in i a rather fetching way, but really a suffragist's husband who ; refuses to vote for suffrage is taking more of a sporting! chance. The magazine section of a Philadelphia Sunday paper] reproduces a photograph of Richard Harding Ilavis packing! socks for the war sufferers while wearing white, —or per haps they are champagne-colored,—kid gloves, which proves that even the proudest of Americans will conde scend to perform humble service for charity's sake when the camera man is near. TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN PRODUCES SLUMBER "This show is intended to benefit the tired business man," explained the manager. "It does the trick," replied Dustiu Stax. "It's the first two hours' sleep I've had in a long time."—Washington Star. UP-TO-DATE Mrs. Mvles—"ls she living in an up-to-date ne:ghbor hoodf" Mrs. Styles—"Oh. my, yes. Why, there are twenty lap dogs but not a baby carriage on the block."—Yonkers Statesman. HAD THE - SOUND, AT LEAST A teacher in the East street school was discussing the topography of the western states. "Some places there will be high mountains," she said, "and then there will be a great chasm—do you know what a chasm is, Johnny!" indicating one of the youngsters. The boy thought a moment, hesitated, and then said: I don t know what a chasm is but my brother some times has spasms."—New Castle News. EXPECTED AN OUTING Little Bessie, the daughter of a Neshannock avenue couple, was playing at dolls. Included in her equipment was a toy telephone. Her mother had heard her play at calling up a friend and paused a moment in her sweeping to hear Bessie say: "Hello, is that you, Sara? Well, this is Bessie. Come on over to my house to morrow. Tell all your friends to come too. One of my dolls died and we're going to have the picnic to-morrow."—New Castle News. SWIFT HORSES "Horses!" said the Yankee. "Guess you can't talk to me about the horses. I had an old mare, Maizypop, who once licked our best express by a couple of miles on a thirty-mile run to Chicago." "That's nothing," said the Canadian. "I was out on my farm one day, about fifty miles from the house, when a frightful storm came up. I turned the pony's head for home, and do you know, he raced the sjorm so close for the last ten miles that I didn't feel a drop, while my old dog, only ten yards behind, had to swim the whole dis tance."—Exchange. THE CZAR IN PROVERBS Near the Czar, near honor. The Czar is mighty, but not almighty. When the Czar takes snuflT, the people must sneeze. The crown of the Czar does not keep off a headache. The Czar can easily get rid of complaints, but not of cares. When the Czar dies, even the moujik would not change places with him. If the Czar makes you a present of an egg, he will ask a hen in return. —Boston Transcript. Tongue-End Top cs| Park's Squirrel Population Grow* Fewer squirrels are seeu in Capitol Park just now than during tie summer, and those in evidence are the old male animals who are scurrying about for something to jftt. The reason for tliis is that the female squirrels are mother- ! ing thefc- now families in the nests In i the trees. These little ouee ware born ! during the last two weeks and are be- J ing very tenderly cared for by their ! mothers who very seldom leave their nests anh then only because of hunger.! They crawl out very cautiously, get a ' nut and then hasten back to see if ev- ! erything is all right i »li their little | ones. During the last week in March j and the first week in April the very small bniby squirrels, timid and wary, will come out of the box nests and crawl down the tree trunks to have a look at the outer world and the strange creatures in it, but they will soon get accustomed to out-of-door life, and the children who play in the park will soon make pets of them. a • Grand Duchesses As Nurses Au interesting episode which oc curred in a street car ou the Nevsky i Prospekt in Petro>rnd a few days ago serves to illustrnte the charitable and industrious character of the Russian j grand duchesses, who, as is well known have devoted themselves to the work ' of nursing in the military hospitals of the capital. A wounded soldier in charge of a sister of charity boarded a crowded far. It was apparent that he was a convalescent who liad beeu permitted to go about for recreation and exercise in charge of a nurse. As soon as a seat wae vacated, the sister insisted upon her charge occupying it. A Russian officer occupying a Beat nearby protested against a common I soldier sitting in his presence. " Please let him remain," interpos I ed the sister, '"I commanded him to take the seat." "And who, pray, might you be," re torted the officer, '' that you presume to give orders!" "That I cannot tell you," came the reply. A civilian leaned over and whisper ed something in the ear of the officer. He arose, saluted and left the car at the next stop. 'A short distance further on the sieter and her charge alighted. A Russian woman seated beside an American woman long a resident of Petrograd, turned to her neighbor and whispered: "The sister is the Grand Duchess 1 Olga. 1 know her well, lioth she I and her sister, the Grand Duchess | Tatiana. often go about to various ; hospitals incognito, doing whatever j service falls to their lot. although they ■ pass most of their time in the hospital i at Tsarskoye-Selo." * * * Thorough German Camp Methods A glimpse of the thoroughness with which the Germans have established their encampment in the Yosges mouu ! tains is furnished by a correspondent of the " Yolkeszeitung," who has just , visited that snow-covered region. Ad jacent to the mountain headquarters he found a number of flourishing in dustries for turning out necessities of war, such as grenades, bombs, snow shoos and alpine stocks. The huge store house where were kept the gifts that had been sent to the soldiers was so large and orderly, with such a variety of things, that it reminded him of a | department store. The government's 1 careful system of "bookkeeping" con j cerning the movement of its troops makes it possible for gifts of all sorts jto be delivered with accuracy and j promptness. *•* Supplies Carried By Mules Such articles, along with the huge j supplies that are needed, are trans ' ported to the mountains by rail, and then, because of the icy roads, are transferred to mule teams. Horses, it has been found, are almost entirely un- I able to make the ascent over the ice i and snow covered paths, while the i small-footed donkeys do it without too | great trouble. The food supplies are J stored in block houses, which are con : stantlv replenished, and other mule j teams daily haul to the front trenches j provisions for each day. To prevent the muled from making any noise en route, j the Germans have adopted unique ! measures. Experience has taught them BREAKS TCOLD I IN A FEW HOURS WITHOUT QUININE X First Dose of "Pape's Cold Compound" Re lieves All Grippe Misery Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blowing and snuffling! A dose of "Pape's Cold Compound" taken every two hours until three doses are taken will end grippe misery and break up a severe cold either in the head, chest, body or limbs. It promptly opens clogged-up nos trils and air passages; stops nasty discharge or nose running; relieves sick headache, dullness, feverwhness, sore throat, sneezing, soreness and stifTness. "Pape's Cold Compound" is the quickest, surest relief known and costs only 25 cents at drug stores. It acts without assistance, tastes nice, and causes no inconvenience. Don't accept a substitute.—Adv. THE GLOBE THE GLOBE The "Rochester-Special" Is In— Arrived On Schedule Time fit, The "Rochester-Special"is not a "Pennsy ©s> Flyer" as may be implied, but — The greatest line of Young Men's Clothes ffMj W\ ave ever been offered at M $15.00 I —CLOTHES that fairly "speak out," in their distinctive \ t 1 ness —clothes that may well be considered worth S2O and U "look the part"—CLOTHES that will appeal to every Young an wants "something different." Every correct style—every popular fabric —every smart iX\ 4 7 model—see them in our windows. "THE "THE "THE "THE OXFORDYORK BR YA N"- WA VERL V"- One-lmk-button cost Two-button coat soft English model coat ( nnscrvntivc stv I e with graceful long .. ~ ... . with one or two but- with soft lapel lapels. English trous- ro " w 1 Wlde ln P els - tons, soft roll anil either two or three ers. English trousers. double breast vest. buttons. THE GLOBE " The Friendly Store' ' j I that the animals for some unknown reason invariably ttirt their tails in the nir while they "squeal." Therefore the donkeys' tails lire weighted down with stones, and the animate seem to be unaible to utter a sound. The general in command of the army in the Vosges, the correspondent found, makes daily trips from his headquarters to the foremost trenches, and because of this is frequently mistaken for a subordi nate officer by the soldiers. * . * School of Journaiism in Leipsic Supported by both private and pub lic finances, a "school of journalism" is to be inaugurated at the University of Leipsic with the coming semester, under the direction of the well known professor of economics, Dr. Beuchner. There is to be instructions in three branches—political, commercial anil literary reporting. SAFEIV^FIRSI (UNDER AN ARRANGEMENT WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY THE STAR-INDEPENDENT PRINTS EACH MONDAY A PRACTICAL ARTICLE BEARING ON THE "SAFETY FIRST" MOVEMENT OR KINDRED SUBJECTS, PREPARED BY THAT BRANCH OF THE STATE GOVERN MENT. OF WHICH COMMISSIONER JOHN PRICE JACKSON IS THE HEAD.) FATAL ACCIDENTS CAUSED BY FALLING MATERIAL Of 379 fatal accidents reported dur ing 1914, to the Department of Labor and Industry, 55 were caused by being struck by falling material. Such acci dents are mainly the result of careless ness. In doing work upon platforms or scaffolds or upon any elevated struc ture, workmen are careless with their tools and materials, and perhaps leave them lying too close to the edges, so that a* slight unconscious push would send them over the edge to the floor below, endangering the life of any one who happened to be passing under neath. The industrial board of the Depart ment of Labor and Industry, recogniz ing the danger from material being pushed over the edge of elevated plat forms in such manner as described, has issued safety regulations concerning toe boards. These regulation provide that a toe piece, 6 inches high, of wood or metal shall be provided at the edge of working platforms, balconies and galleries if six feet or more above floor level; fly wheel and pulley pits and all other openings in floors and plat forms where the safety of persons be low is involved. Another way in which accidents oc cur is shown from the following inci dent: A workman was struck ami kill ed by a piece of board thrown from a factory window to a rubbish pile locat ed outside. Employes made a habit of throwing things upon this pile from upper windows, without first looking to see that no one was beneath. Another danger often comes from material suspended from high places without bein.g properly fastened. Some times the slings become loose and the material slipe out. In this way lives are again endangered. In factories where there is a great deal of work going on overhead con stantly moving cranes and work in galleries above, workmen become ex ceedingly careless about passing under moving material of all kinds. They ' deliberately stand under loaded cranes or where there is material being hoist ed up and dow>n. Just this position may mean the loss of life, since the slipping or breaking of a rope or chain or the insecure fastening of a hook, may mean the falling of hundred or even thousands of pounds of material. There are two mental attitudes in which chances are taken, one, when the danger is known but recklessly ignor ed; the other when the danger is un known through laek of alertness. Both attitudes need correeting. The present safety movements in our industries are doing more thaa any other single fa*- tor to educate workmen to the proper j attitude toward the subject of safety and to their personal responsibility in the avoidance of accident. CLASS TO ERECT BUILDING Derry Street Men Must Have Lo£ House to Store Papers At the session id' the Men's Bible Class of Derry Street i'nited Brethren ' church, Fifteenth and Derry streets, yesterday afternoon a v eall was mad ' for volunteers to help build a '' log house" for the storing of old papers and magazines. Twenty men will meet this evening at the Derry and Mulberry streets tri angle at 7.15 o'clock, and under the direction of Ed. Sterling, Earl Snyder and S. 11. Albright, will carry logs from near the Reading railroad tracks below the Mulberry street bridge to the site of the proposed "log house," Thir teenth street, near Berryhill. The storage house will he built by the men of the class at an old-fashioned "barn raising," sonic time in the near future. Three hundred and four men at tended the session of the class yester j day afternoon. 11/ L. Carl addressed the men on the necessity of putting 011 | "the armor of Jesus Christ." J. K. (ripple, superintendent of the Sunday | school, greeted the men iu the behalf of 1 1lies chool. Don'ts | Don't attempt to punish all your |enemies at once. You can't do a large ! business with a small capital. Don't | say "I told you so." Two to one you never said a word about it. Don't wor ry about another man's business. A little selfishness is sometimes com mendable. Don't imagine that you can (correct all the evils in the world. A j grain of sand is not prominent in a desert. Don't mourn over fancied , grievances. Bide your time and real ! sorrow will come. Don't throw dust in lyour toucher's eyes. It will only inquire jthe pupil. Don't worry about the ice i crop. Keep eool and vou will have | enough. Don't borrow a coach to j pleaso your wife. Better make her a little sulky. Don't imagine that every thing is weakening. Butter is strong lin this market. Don't publish your acts of charity. The Lord will keep the account straight. Don't color meerschaums for a living. It is simply I dyeing bv inches. —Mark Twain. Do Not Think that because you may be able to deposit only small stuns at a time that an account in our Savings Depart ment will be of no value to you—men of great wealth accumulated their money by saving small amounts and depositing them at interest. Depositors with this institution, receive 3 per cent, interest, compounded every four months, the highest degree of safety for their money and prompt and cour teous service at all times. SI.OO opens an account. I The Daily Fashion Hint. i ♦ $ Fancy basket straw faced with fine straw This new hut model has black and white birds posed in the new out spread fashion on top of the hat. MEN OF REDEEMER CANVASS Services Will Be Held at Hill Church Three Nights This Week Men of the congregation of the Re deemer Lutheran church, Nineteenth and Kensington streets, yesterday aft ernoon visited the homes of practically all members of the church. They did the canvassing in pairs. By moans of question cards they collected informa tion which it is intended shall be of list* in increasing church efficiency. The pastor of Redeemer church, the Rev. K. Victor Roland, yesterday began a series of pre-Kustor sermons. The subject in the morning was "The Kx ample of Christ" and in the evening, "The Straight Gate." Services will be held at the church to-morrow, Wednc |day and Thursday nights, anil every | night next week except Saturday. The sermon subjects this week are: . To-morrow night, ''ls There Salvation ; Without the Church?" Wednesday i night. "The Right Way to Muter the Church," an I Thursday night, "Right , Living in the Church."
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