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Saturday, April 10, 1913.
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MOON'S PHASES—
Last Quarter, <ith; New Moon, 14th;
First Quarter, £!nd; Full Moon, 20th.
WEATHER FOEECASTS
Harrisburg and vicinity: Partly j
! ft jy to-night and Sunday, probably
111l 11 ;ors. Not much chauge in tem-
Lowest temperature to-night
bout 55 degrees. VjPt -yJ
. Eastern Pennsylvania: Partly cloudy
a-night and Sunday, probably with
''owers. Not quite so warm Sunday. &td
resh southerly winds.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG
'Highest, 75; lowest, 43; 8 a. m., 51; 8 p. m., 64.
NATURE'S PART IN SCHOOL TRAINING
There was a day, and not a very remote day
ther, when educators considered merely, the iutel
ctual values of a school curriculum and failed to
ke into their calculations the environment of the
•pil. It did not occur to them that the school
on) and the school-yard should be made attraet
e. Happily those days are past, yet some locali
s are far ahead of others in the beautifying of
I nd school-premises,
estern cities school boards them
grass seed, have planted beautiful
bs in the yards;.have encouraged
e "ivy" days for the planting of
ind in many instances these school
appropriated money for window
placed at every window in each
>f 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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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. / /
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Bed Orosjb Dogs In Action
An interesting picture was that of
the Bed Cross Jogs hunting the wound-
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Ed on a battlefield. A great shaggy
animal was seen on tho scent for
humans, and presently it stopped and
began to bark, which was tho cue for
the Red Cross men to hurry up, pick
up the wounded soldier, place him on a
stretcher and carry him to au ambu
lance in tho rear, and thence to the
field hospitals. These dogs are highly
intelligent and are trained to do just
what was seen in the picture. 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.
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Program Embraces Wide Range of Vo
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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. William Reddick at the pi
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FARMER DRA(JGKI) TO DEATH
Fell Backward Off Mule and Pulled by
Foot Through Fields
Duneannon, April 10.— Edward
Spease, a Wheatfield township farmer,
was dragged to death over his farm
shortly after noon yesterday.
In attempting to jump on the back
of a mule he fell backward and his
foot became fastened in the harness.
The mule started off and he was dragged
around a field. Nearly all the clothing
was torn from his body and one shoe
from his foot. He lived but a fCw min
utes after the accident. He is survived
by a wife and three children. He was
38 years old.
Falls Dead Preparing Evening Meal
Hellam, April 10. —Mrs. Barbara
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