&tar-Hn&rt>enh*tu ( Etktbhthed in 1876) STAR PRINTING COMPANY. \ Star-lnd«peif those localities. They add tre ! attractiveness of the city. They the eye as well as a perpetual ildren in civic beauty and civic perhaps, tan add more to any e window boxes with their hardy l-clios< n perpetual bloomers, and ivid green and brilliant blossoms, ds have not felt able to appropriate n expenditure, although the initial ly considerable cpst, and perhaps B should not be rated too highly joints of a child's education are nany eastern cities, the children jontributed money for the window instances boys in manual training } done the entire work. The care 3orne either by the janitor or by he pupils, according to circum cities have undertaken this mat ust the same fashion, with the ex nunicipalities in which the school med the aesthetic quite as impor a child's development as the intel ave arranged to have the entire g the school premises come out of i cities, too, civic clubs and cham are undertaking this really valu nain point is that it is being done nited States to-day with wonder larrisburg prides itself tfn being be really abreast of the times it is subject. It must be admitted isburg does not have the extensive ts school buildings that either the can boast. We are sadly handi atter. Yet much perhaps might erstand that the Civic Club, aside beautifying of the back yards of mer and offering prizes as an in work, also is wishing to do what the attractiveness of the Fresh s. Harrisburg will welcome cor )rs in this direction. It is work d work that tells in the long run estimated. ildren of the public schools come :ultured homes, it must be remem other pupils find in the school ool-yard refining influences to a a in their homes. If the schoels I a love for trees and vines and HARRISBTTRG STAR-INDEPENDENT, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1935. nature, they will probably never gain it at all, and they will miss from their education something vital and something, which they have a right to claim from those in authority.' No reader of Myra Kelly's charming, realistic school stories—so charming in fact becaifce they were all drawn from actual life —can forget the zeal with which her pupils from the slums tended the flowers in the school windows; how eagerly they vied with each other for the privilege of look ing after them, how wild with delight they were over each new bud and blossom. The marvel of "green things growing" is a per petual, never-ending delight. While our opportuni ties here may be comparatively limited, let Harris burg follow so far as she can, the example of other cities.and beautify her school premises so that they be a source of civic pride, and an inspiration and aid in the forming of character. CAUSES OF INCREASED DESERTIONS A Baltimore judge, who has had some experience with desertion and non-support cases, attributes the increasing number of such cases principally to brief courtships. The encouragement of hasty marriages at present in European countries, so that an abund ant rising generation may quickly replace a dimin ished one, is a measure of war and can hardly be recommended for times of peace. Impatienee in marriage surely accomplishes much of the harm that the courts are called upon to remedy. This reason for desertion is a very common one, however, and too general. It is a pre-marriage rea son. More immediate causes need to be given, and these have been furnished by the National Deser tion Bureau. They are: A husband's affection for another woman, his desire to shake off all domestic worriments, or his tendency to carry on family quarrels. There is satisfaction in noting that the Desertion Bureau in addition to expressing more or less valu able opinions concerning unhappy marriages, has done much in a practical way to remedy conditions. It has in the past year located the majority of the deserters it has gone after, has reconciled the most repentant ones and has imprisoned the most un reasonable ones. The causes of desertion are not so very important after all except in so far as they indicate ways for making suitable adjustments of affairs of unhappily married couples. REPLY FROM MR. MAURER • The following letter was received yesterday by the editor of the Star-Independent: Editor, Star-Independent. Dear Sir: Your editorial in last evening's paper, on the bill introduced by me for a Graduated Income Tax, is somewhat amusing. You lead us to infer that you regard the welfare of the State as dependent on its capitalists and wealthy folk and that we should all move cautiously and "speak very easy," lest they (the capitalists) take up their kits and leave "us. To me,, this would seem to be the happiest of circum stances. As a Pennsylvanian, with a native pedigree of some generations, I do not think that the workers would suffer much through the loss of the "masters," whom they now pay so handsomely. As long as we have our moun tains and valleys, our coal and other greath wealth and an energetic working-class to plough and harrow and sow, dig and delve and weave and fashion, we can very well spare the kind of people whom you regard of great in dustrial consequence and I regard as mere flotsam on our social pool. With thousands of workers all around us, idle and suffer ing, with great accumulations of wealth in the hands of non-workers, it is possible that the day predicted by Macnuley is within reasonable distance, when the Huns and Vandals generated among us will rise and destroy our nation. We are aiming to prevent this. We asked that two mil lions of State money be devoted to public employment to give, at least, a part of the idle a chance to get through the panic without hunger. But, no! Our State has mil lions for Constabulary, but not a cent to relieve the hard ships of its impoverished workers. So, friend, don't lament, even though the capitalists do be forced to go. You and I have courage and ingenuity enough to get along without them. And please don't accuse me of insincerity of act in presenting the Income Tax bill. Never was more sincere in my life. If there be anything connected with the bill that I regret, it is that it has been made to pander somewhat to "upper-class" prejudice, by fixing the maximum income at ten instead of at two thousand dollars. If it don't pass this session, there's a good time a-coming. Very truly yours, JAMES H. MAURER, Socialist Representative. Harrisburg, Pa., April 9, 1915. We believe that a SALARY of SIO,OOO a year is enough remuneration for any man's services in any position—save perhaps in a few cases where the recipient of the salary is required to pay out of his own pocket certain expenses, other than those of maintenance of self and family, which his position imposes on him ; as, for instance, a United States ambassador abroad who must provide elaborate quarters for entertaining, etc. If Mr. Maurer could devise a practicable plan to limit SALARIES to that amount it might be a good thing. But SALARY by no means constitutes all of a man s income in all cases. A man might have $500,000 invested in an industry in Pennsylvania from which his income, at cent., would be $25,000 a year, exclusive of any salary considera tion. If a law, such as Mr. Maurer proposes, were enacted in this state, this man would be required to pay $15,000 of this $25,000 income back to the state, and whether or not this would be just to him, it is certain that he would make haste to take his $500,000 out of the Pennsylvania industrial field and put it to work in another state where he could get the whole of the $25,000 income. Such a withdrawal of a $500,000 industry from Pennsylvania would mean the throwing of a large nuinber-of Pennsylvania workmen out of jobs aftd would make the present conditions of unemploy ment, which Mr. Maurer most commendably seeks to improve, only that much more serious. We are entirely in sympathy with Mr. Maurer's ambition to help the unemployed of the state, but we cannot see how this income tax plan would serve to accomplish that end. The peace talk was not convincing enough to halt the rise in Bethlehem Steel stock. x The new law giving better protection to game is not intended to safeguard the Bull Moose from the shafts of the Republican huntsmen. Governor Brumbaugh vetoed that Philadelphia housing bill because the ohl bill had not been given a fair trial, but more for the reason that the warring factions in the City of Brotherly Love were threatening the health of its) people. LOSS OFJPPETITE Most Successfully Treated by Taking Hood's SarsapirUla v Loss of appetite is accompanied by loss of vitality, whieh is serious. It is common in the spring because at this time the blood is impure and impoverished and fails to give the di gestive organs what is absolutely neces sary for the proper performance of their functions. Hood's Saraaparilla, the old reliable all-the-year-round medicines, is especial ly useful in the spring. Get it from your druggist to-day. By purifying and enriching the blood and giving vitality, vigor and tone, it is wonderfully suc cessful in the treatment of loss of ap petite and the other ailments prevalent at this time. It is not simply a spring medicine—it is much more than that — but it is the best spring medicine. Hood's Sarsaparilla makes the rich red blood the digestive organs need. — Adv. [Tongue-End Top ics | Real Pictures of the War One of the most interesting series of pictures of battle scenes of the war now progressing in Europe has been on exhibition all week at the Majestic Theatre, and large crowds have seen the views. They were takon by some of the staff artists of a Philadelphia news paper who are on duty in the war zone, and they are the nearest to the ■ real thing that have thus far been seen in Harrisburg. When it is said that of the corps of photographers engaged in taking these pictures four have lost their lives, the difficulty and danger of the work is apparent. A photographer to have taken some of those pictures must necessarily have been right on firing line, close up among the men at the guns, and as the enemy is no re specter of persons their liability to get shot was just as great as that of the men actually participating in the fight ing. None the less interesting than the pictures was the intelligent description that accompanied them, given by a competent lecturer. In the course of his talk lje mentioned the fact that one of the films on exhibition had been smuggled through the German lines in the sole of the photographer's shoe, which goes to show how difficult it is to get by the censors. He alßo said that some of the photographers had ta ken pictures which they knew Would not pass the censor's rigid scrutiny, and to prevent them from being de stroyed they had hurried the films, and after the war is over will get them and develope them for exhibition. • * * Red Cross People Conspicuous All through tke pictures the Red Cross people were prominent, in the very front of the action, carrying off the wounded, ministering to them, placing them in ambulances, assisting in removing them from transports to hospital ships, and doing many things that come under the Red Cross duties. One picture showed the young volun teers for the Red Cross service getting their uniforms before going to the field, and the change from civil life to work on the field was wonderful. Most of these recruits were young men, full of life and activity, and they seemed to enter into the work with a zest. Father and Son Buried Together A picture of a fine battery of Bel gians going into action, horses on the gallop, the men waving flags in their enthusiasm, was accompanied by the remark that this battery was entirely swept out of existence, not a man be ing left to tell the tale of destruction. Another showed the graves of a father and son, French soldiers, in a little graveyard outside of Paris. Both had perished in the same fight, and on the top of the crosses over their graves were placed the helmets they wore in the fight as they fell. * * * Patriotism of the Germans The patriotism of the German people was seen in a remarkable picture taken in Berlin when some men wert about to entrain for the front. Thousands of civilians, men, women and children, marched through the streets with the troops to give them a good send-off, and the picture was one of the best in the series. The famous marchiug "goose-step" of the German soldiers was shown in a review of a corps by Emperor William, evoking much laugh ter. The Emperor himself was an in teresting figure as he stood watching his fighters go by, and it was noticed that he no longer wears the fierce up turned moustache jo familiar in his pic tures. In the last few months—some of the pictures are but a few weeks old—the Kaiser has trimmed the ends off his moustache and he has lost a gftod deal of that fierceness in his look that was so familiar to all. The camp barber must have had a job. Youthful Volunteers A sad sight, and yet not one in tended for sadness, was the departure of a German regiment for the frpnt. The great majority of the regiment were very,young men, hardly over twen ty, and some looked younger. History says that the Civil war in this country was fought by the soldiers between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three, and it seemed as if history is repeating it self in Germany, But, it was a sad sight, nevertheless, although there was not one of the young Germans but was laughing and cheering as if it were a great thing to bt going to the firing line. Occasional!* a grey-bearded sol dier was seen, bpt invariably they were officers. / / ( *» # Bed Orosjb Dogs In Action An interesting picture was that of the Bed Cross Jogs hunting the wound- ■■■■■■■■But Here Not Alone Because Prices Are Lower. Bat Became Qualities Are B«tt«rMMßHi BUY YOUR SPRING HAT IN THIS SPECIAL SALE Prices For Monday Only 75c and SI.OO Actual Values $1.50 and $2.00 Actual Values Coarse Straw, Chip Hats and Silk t/p Hemp Hats with French Edges, in liats, black and colors. Monday QQ*» large, small and medium shapes, rfCkg* P rice > black and colors. 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War is most interesting when seen from a comfortable seat in a theatre, but not one in the big audience but shivered when a scene was t(irown on the screen showing the soldiers in a veritable bliz zard, hustling from their dug-outs in the ground to go on sentry duty. "That looks familiar," said a vet eran of the Civil war, "and reminds me a g4ptl deal of the front at Petersburg in the winter of 1864-5." And a good many more veterans in the hall were reminded more than once of the tights they participated in fifty years ago. T. M. J. • NIELSEN^GANZRECITfIL Program Embraces Wide Range of Vo cal and Instrumental Se lections The program for the Nieisen-Ganz recital in Chestnut street auditorium on Monday evening was announced to day. It embraces a wide range of vo cal and instrumental selections and, in addition, Miss Nielsen will sing as en cores some of tht' old-time heart-throb songs, for which she is noted. '' Annie Laurie," "Kathleen Mavourneen," "The Last Rose of Summer" and some of her songs beloved by the owners of talking machines are to be included. The program follows: Variations on a Theme by Bach (Weinen-Klagen), Liszt, Mr. Ganz; (a) "The Day Is Done," Spross, (b) "The Weathercock," Lehmann, (c) "But Lately in Dance,'' Arensky, (d) "Love Has Wings," Rogers, Miss Niel sen; (a) "Three Etudes," (b) "Noc turne in F Sharp Major,'* (c) "Waltz in A Flat," Chopin, Mr. Ganz; (a) "Die Lorelei," Liszt, (b) "Verge blichcs Stamlchen," Brahms, (c) " Wie genlied," Brahms, (c) "Komm Lass Uns Spielen," Bleiihmann, Miss Niel sen; "Etude Caprice" from Op. 14, Ganz; (b) "Pensive Spinner," from Op .10, Ganz, (c) "The Elves" from Op. 3, Korngoid, (d) "Petrarea Son net in A Flat," Liszt, '(e) "Rakoczy March," Liszt, Mr. Ganz; (a) "The Spirit Flower," Campbell-Tipton, (b) "A. Burst of Melody " Seiler, (e) "I Came With a Song," LaForge, (d) "The Fairy Pipers," Brewer, Miss Nielsen. 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