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Circulation Examine* by THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVERTISERS. "" TELEPHONES- BELU hUale Branch - No. 3280 CUMBERLAND VALLEY Mvato Branch Exohangp. - - • • No. I4S-246 Wednesday, April 21, 1915. APRIL Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat. 12 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 MOON S PHASES— Last Quarter, oth; New Moon, 14th; First Quarter, 22nd; Full Moon. 29th. WEATHER FORECASTS jßfjß ' 'N* Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair to t<© * night and Thursday. Not much change L«< in temperature. Eastern Pennsylvania: Fair to-night a and Thursday. Fresh northeast and east winds. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest, S5; lowest, 62; Sa. m., 65 j8 p. m., 64. WHAT HIGHER AUTO FEES WOULD MEAN It is well for the legislators, who will be ealled upon to vote for or agaiust the pending House Bill No. 1471 whieh proposes greatly to increase the registration fees on motor vehicles in the state, to consider well the wisdom of favoring such a meas ure. According to a statement of the Pennsylvania Motor Federation, whieh is making a vigorous light against this bill, its passage would amount practically to doubling the fees notwithstanding the fact that last year they totaled a good deal more than a million dollars and that there is every indication that they will total very much more in the aggregate by the end of the current year even at the present rate. The law-makers, it is admitted, are up'against a serious proposition in the matter of raising suf ficient revenue to meet the State's expenses, not the least of which is the maintenance of roads to which the auto fees now are devoted. It is a known fact that the revenues«froin existing sources this year will fall short by many millions of what they have been in years gone by and that it is necessary to meet the shortage through one of two plans or through a combination of both. One way is to find new sources of revenue and the other is to cut down appropriations through effecting econ omies wherever possible. Governor Brumbaugh, we believe, fully recog nizes the necessity of doing both these things. While he is honestly tryidg to reduce salaries and Dther appropriations he recognizes that with all his efforts in that direction it will be necessary to liud some new revenue from some new source. While fair-minded taxpayers share the belief of the Governor and the law-makers that there must be new sources of revenue, they, at the same time, iemand that the money be taken from places where it will hurt least. There was a time, perhaps, when >wnership of a motor vehicle was looked upon as a luxury and might justly be taxed as such, but that loes not apply now. A very small percentage of he motor vehicles owned in this state to-day an> jsed solely for purposes of pleasure. The great najoritv of them are used almost entirely for com nercial and business purposes, and an increased tax >u them would be an increased tax on business and ndustry. Take for instance the type Of motor vehicle that las so largely replaced the horse-drawn deliverv vagon. Tens of thousands of these machines are n use in the state of Pennsylvania. Their use has evolutionized delivery service of the stores, big md little, and has saved time and dollars for mer hants and # customers. The delivery auto, in fact, las become an absolute necessity in the commercial rorld. Moreover, the use of the runabout or the ouring car, on the farm or in the city, has in hese days come to be chiefly a business proposi ion, with the pleasure it affords being merely a econdarv consideration. It is therefore easy to understand that an in reased tax on alltos is not an increased tax on uxury but an increased tax on business and in lustry,—a fact that should be borne in mind by he members of the Legislature when they vote nally on House Bill No. 1471. CHESS COMING INTO ITS OWN Scenes at the Chess Masters' tournament in the lanhattan Chess (.Tub are to be shown in the reg ||ar news service of the movies. They will pro |de a decided novelty, and may serve to give the eueral public a better understanding than it now V7ARRTSBTTPO STAR-INDEPENDENT. WEDNESDAY EVENING. APRIL 21. 1915, has of the venerable and respectable game of chew. It is surely gratifying to chess players through out the country to have their favor if e recreation thns recognized by the film makers as the important game that it is. Men of letters have used the hm guage of chess in poetry and prose since the days of Chaucer. Thomas Middleton, in fact, composed a comedj', "A Game at Chess,'' in which the char acters represented chessmen. It is about time now That the game should get iuto the movies and have its importance further emphasized. The coutest on the checkered board, where op i posing armies of chessmen make their movemeuts guided by the alert intellects of skilful players, is not to be compared with any game of chance or any competition of physical powers. The advan tages it offers to combatants in the way of whole some recreation and thorough mental discipline are I not afforded by any other sort of a match. No j peculiar deftness of hand is required of the players j as in most other games of skill, but instead an 1 unusual quickness of perception which will enable i them properly to place their men in the alternate | moves. Chess has been gaining rapidly in popularity in | this country since the colonial days. The philo | sophic game was fittingly introduced into the new hemisphere by the philosophic Franklin, who wrote an essay on it for the benefit of posterity. In his "Autobiography" he makes mention of it, too, telling how it aided him in learning the Italian lan guage. lie and another student of the Romance tongue played successive games, and after each checkmate the victor imposed a task in Italian grammar on the vanquished. It was a novel way to mingle play with study, and is worthy to be imitated. A contest of chessmen, according to a player who poetically contrasts it with a conflict of armed, warriors, is "no bloody battle, with woe and horror fraught, but a joust "of a gentler kind, a meas uring of mind with mind, ajtonrnament of thought." Even the most provokingly careful motion pic ture censors will be . able to find nothing objec tionable in the films of the Chess Masters' games, for to all outward appearances they will surely be the most peaceful of contests. CAPITOL IS ANCHORED HERE beuator Farley, of Philadelphia, announces that in due time he will introduce in the Senate a reso lution for the creation of a commission to consider plans for the construction of an administration building in Philadelphia, the idea being to have a branch building of the state government in that city. In an endeavor to prove that a state admin i istration building is needed in Philadelphia Sen ator Farley lays that a number of state depart ments now have branch offices there and he con tends they should all be. housed under one roof. It is true there are some branch departmental offices in Philadelphia, but it is doubtful if there are enough to warrant having a separate building .constructed by the State for their accommodation. Some anp there that should be in Harrisburg and they probably will be in Harrisburg as soon as the necessary accommodations can be found. The Farley plan to have a State building placed in Philadelphia reads like the beginning of another scheme, so dear to the Philadelphia heart, to ac complish the ultimate removal of the state capitol to that city, a scheme blocked less than a scpre of years ago when construction of the new capitol to replace the burned one. wa<started. One of the most potent reasons for keeping down agitation for the removal of the capitol to Phila delphia is the fact that the new capitol, costing! millions, has been constructed, but the average Philadelphian never considers a few millions. w*hen the State is spending it. and does not permit a trifle of that character to stand in his way when he is! advocating something for his native city. Hut the main argument for keeping the capitol here, which Philadelphia never will be to offset, is the fact that Philadelphia is not centrally enough located for the convenience of the lavv makers—save those from Philadelphia. Whatever Roosevelt and Barnes once were they are not friends now. If the Senate passes the bill that has been approved by the House, stripping the members of the Public Service Board of most of their powers, perhaps the Commissioners would consent to serve for less than SIO,OOO a year. President Wilson announces his slogan is "America First!' Well, he has lived up to it so far. Italy may ultimately end the war either by going into it or by staying out of it. The acquisition of such a powerful ally by either side would go a long way toward making the other side feel like throwing up the sponge, while, on the other hand, convincing proof that Italy is to remain neutral might make either of the contending combinations feel like quitting for lack of her hoped-for assistance. The libel suit in Syracuse doesn't make the prospects for a reunited Republican party in 1916 any the brighter. TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN SOLOMON'S SOURCE OF WISDOM Solomon had no reason to get chesty because he was the wisest man. Who wouldn't have been if he had a thou sand wives to advise him! — Florida Times-Union. ALL DEPENDS "Papa, what do you call a man who runs an autof" "It depends upon how near he comes to hitting me." Houston Post. AN UNROMANTIC OPINION It often turns out in after years that the faint heart which failed to win the fair lady was something of a bless ing in disguise-—Birmingham Ledger. ALWAYS ON THE JOB He jiazed pityingy on the listless store clerk, lean ing against the soda counter. "Haven't you any ambition!" Jie queried, kindly, and all that. "No," he replied, with brightening intelligence, "but I have something as good." —St. Loui* Post Dispatch. 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Baser, Druggist and Chemist, Read. tafcFa.,. 7-^TZ For sale in Harrisbur* by Geo. A. Goryaa. [Tongue-End Topics | Foot ball Is ts Slow to Enlist Ouly 122 professional football play ers of England out of some 1,800 in the league teams have enlisted in the Football Battalion, which wns organ ized for the express purpose of bring ing this class of professional athletes to the colors and of breaking up a sport which is supposed to have a bad effect on the recruiting campaign. "The laxity of football profession als and their following has amounted almost to a public scandal,'' says Colo nel C. P. Grantham commanding the battalion. "I am aware and have proof that in many cases directors and managers of clubs have not only given no assistance iu getting these men to join, but have done their best by their actions to prevent it. 1 will no longer be a party to shielding the want of pa triotism of these men by allowing the public to think they have joined the Football Battalion. - ' * « * "Lonesomest Soldier's" Mail Rifleman A. O. White, who was de scribed by a sentimental fellow soldier in a letter to a London paper as the "lonesomest man in the British army," has become the bane of the British at my postal service. White was lying in a hospital near the front, with no one to write to him or to send him presents, but after the pathetic descrip tion appeared an extra force of men had to be employed to handle and car ry his mail. His letters have now passed the 3.000 mark and his parcels are numbered bv the hundreds. In every mail White draws a bigger bag than many companies. • . # Plans a "Hero Colony" Dr. Von Bethmann Hollweg, Ger man imperial chancellor, is considering the feasibility of a suggestion for the establishment of a "hero colony" near the famous old Pforta school in South Prussia of which he is an alumnus, where those maimed and crippled in the war may take up their life after* it is over. The originator of the idea is Paul Kersten, head of a big factory in Bad Koesen. He believes that there will be thousands of noble and patriot ic girls land widows of soldiers who. when peace is restored, will be glad Co marry the meu who have been in jured Snd who otherwise would gravi tate into soldie'rs' homes. To prevent this is one" of the principal objects of the proposed plan. Kersten feels that soldiers in such a situation soon come to feel that they are useless and in the wjv, whereas they ean continue a useful and happy existence if they have their own homes and wives to help care for them. Kersten believes that the loss of an eye or a b?g is not a defect that in any way affects future generations. If injured soldiers can marry and live in colonies instead of in homes by themselves, be Thinks that the birth rate will have some of the increase that is to be necessary after the war. • * * School For One-Anned Men A "School for One-Armed Men," with 35 pupils from the 19th army corps, offering instruction in writing, stenography, typewriting, bookkeep ing and drawing courses, and a pros pective curriculum of . vocational courses, has been opened in Heidel berg,- at the home of Associate Judge Leser. The latter has placed tys home at the disposal of the unique institu tion, and- has had it fitted out as a hospital. Thirty hours of instruction are 'given each week, which is to be supplemented by work under the aus pices of the local industrial school. Dr. Freiherr von Kuenssberg, of Heidel berg University, is in charge of in struction. The thirty-five pupils rep resent thirty-one occupations and trades, including cigar makers, railway employes, locksmiths and day laborers. All are eager to embrace the oppor tunity. It has been found that within only a days the man who has lost his right arm learns to write with his left hand with considerable facility. Because of the large number of ap plications for admission it is planned to enlarge the school very soon. * • * Caring For Blinded Soldiers There are already fifty blind soldiers including three officers,-at the home of Otto Kahn, tbe American' banker, at Regent's Park, St. Dunstan's. Mr. Kahn turned his residence over to the Red Cross Society some time ago for the use of soldiers who had lost their eyes. The Kahn estate includes about fifteen acres of grounds, with various small buildings which will be used for training rooms and workshops. There is also a small lake on which the blind men will be allowed to row. The sightless soldiers will receive pre liminary instruction in carpentry, boot repairing, mat making, basket weav ing, telephone operating, massage, 1 "You Pay Less For Better Quality at Miller & Kades" | ® I Spring Opening I ® The growth of the Miller & Kades store has been wonderful. It has grown to ® J be a great store; great in its ideals and policies; great in its purpose; great in its £ J service to the public; great in its system. The supplying of everything to furnish 1 $ the home and of giving better qualities for less money has been the success and de- ® ® velopment of the Miller & Kades store. ® | Oar New Line of Refrigerators Porch Rockers 1 Now Ready *At Summer Prices I ® $ Every One Smitaiy—Every One an Ice Saver _ f X Pri ces $4.85 Up ® We are displaying a line of high-grade re- B^^Hr «S* frigerators rnnging in price and terms to »uit. H ® The new model side ieer, illustrated, is typical B@ A of the values we offer. It is made of selected <;,t •g. materials throughout and built on scientific prin- •»> ciples. insuring a perfect circulation of cold, dry Here's the style, panel back, broad arms, *t w air, and a saving in your ice bills. Has ice cliam- vf ® ber of generous capacity, large provision com- oaue v «. v comfortable, b.g and roomy, only q ,gj partments, lined throughout with galvanized "1 Q {s} «g» steel, the doors are air tight and the outside case T is finished in a rich golden. Truly a remarkable 9 . value. AU Sizes and Prices (Only two to a customer.) W lm Miller & Kades ry-i s 7 North Market Square | LTvU »»»»»»»»»»»»♦»«•«»«♦<> poultry farming and market garden ing, an effort being made to find for each man the occupation to which he is best adapted. The cost of running the institution will be met by the Red Cross, the National Institute for the Blind and the Order of St.4ohu. FOREST FIRES RUINS DOZEJL STRUCTURES Continued From First l'age. E. M. Biddle and adjoining boat house; cottage of H. R. McCartney 9ml cot tage of Dr. Hunt, of New Cumber land. In addition to the several hundred acres of timber land over which the flames swept and the large ice house, the losses include three freight cars which were on the Philadelphia anfl Reading railroad tracks 111 the path of the flames. Dynamite, which had ibeeu stored in a small shed by workmen on the State road, exploded early in the even ing and not only caused the fire to spread more rapidly, but added to the confusion and the fear of the Laurel residents who were surrounded by the flames. H. R. McCartney telephoned to this place at 6 o'clock last night, telling of- the danger which threatened Laurel because of the advancing forest fire, which had started earlier in the after noon. The wires then went out of service and no additional messages could be transmitted. About a hundred volunteers fought the flames during the night, getting them under control early this morn in-g. A party of Carlisle men and their guests who had been camping at the McCartney cottage since* last Satur day, had great difficulty in making their way through the flames. They are Postmaster Pisk Goodyear, E. S. Kroneberg, M. Bhimenthal, Norton Goodyear, Harry McCartney, W. H. Goodyear and George C. Boose, of Philadelphia; and Milton I. Hezberg, of Brooklyn. FIKE AT VALLEY FORGE Timber Burned Where the Patriot Army Encamped Phocnixville, Pa., April 21. —The for est fire, which has been burning at Val ley Forge since Sunday crossed the Val ley Creek into the revolutionary camp grounds last evening and is burning at Washington Spring. Efforts were made by the force of guards at the park and residents of the village to save the Hairs Quickly Vanish After This Treatment (Helps to Beauty) Science has aided in simplifying the banishing of hairy growths from the face, and according to a beauty special ist, the most effective treatment yet de vised consists of applying a delatone pasto to the hairy surface for 2 or 3 minutes. The paste is made by mixing some water with a little powdered dela tone. When this paste is removed and the skin washed every trace of hair has vanished. Be sure to get real delatone. —Adv. splendid timber ou the historic hills, but the efforts of the firotighters failed. At the point where the lire has enter-1 ed the State park grounds there are no j buildings, except a few log huts, replicas of the shelters erected by the revolu- . tionarv soldiers during the winter of i 1777-1778. None of these have yet j been destroyed, The Washington head- ; quarters with its iriceless collection of relics of the famous camp ground is nearly a mile from ,the woods ablazo, and is still safe, from danger. Yesterday the fire reached tracts of woodland owned by former Secretary of State Knox and General B. F. Fisher. The home of the former Senator was menaced yesterday morning, but the flames shifted with the wind and leaped across the Valley Creek into thdtpark. FRENCH BOMB MAKES MEN VOffllT, IS GERMAN REPORT Berlin, April 21, via London, 3.12 P. M.—Headquarters of the German army to-day gave out a report of the progress of hostilities which reads: "In the western arena a battery of the enemy observed not far from the cathedral of Rheims was taken under our tire. In the Argonne the French employed a bomb, the effect of which was to cause men to vomit. An at tack of the enemy to the north of Four De Paris, resulted iu failure. "Between the Meuse and the Mo selle an attack extending over a large front was repulsed at Flirey yesterday with- heavy losses to the French. In the woods of Le Pretre we gained fur ther ground. Iu the Vosges the enemy unsuccessfully attacked our positions to the northwest and southwest of fIARRISBVRG LIGHT &pOWERQ). If Your Neighbor Has Electric Light and you have not, just step into his house some evening after dark and compare its light with your own. Study each point of convenience, cleanliness, clearness and beauty carefully and then figure out for yourself if it would not pay you well to have your house wired for electric light at once. Electric light is cheaper than ever before. Use 0. E. Mazda lamps and you will get an abundance of clean, clear and bright illumination. Price of Mazda Lamps has again been reduced. Let us quote you price for wiring your home Matneral and Sondernach. Hero tliij French suffered serious looses, . "Early yesterday an aviutor of the enemy dropped bombs on the town of Loerrach, in Baden, damaging a siik factory belonging to a Swiss, as well as two other houses and injuring sev eral civilian*. In the eastern arena there*has been uo change iu the situa tion. "In reply to the dropping of bombs by Kussians on Insterburg and Gum binnen, both open towns, situated out side the zone of operations, we drop ped 150 bombs yesterday in-the rail road junction at Blalyatok. John Kinter Fertig, 71, Dies (Special to the Star-Independent.) ' Dauphin, April 21.—lohn Kinter Fertig. age,l 71 years, died last night at 9.80 o clock of grip at his nonie, Red Hill. He is survived by a brother, Lewis Fertig, of Chicago. Funeral serv ices will be held on Saturday after noon at 1.30 o'clock at his late home. Interment will be iu the Dauphin cem etery. The Ostrich's Lags Although the ostrich has powerful leys and can kick like a mule, his limbs are very brittle and are easily broken. He has two toes on each foot, one be ing armed with a horny nail, which lie r.ses as his principal weapon of warfare. When an unarmed man is attacked by one of these birds the chances are verv much against tiie man unless he can climb a tree or jump over a five-foot wall. The Harrisburg Polyclinic Dispensary will be open daily except Sunday at p. in., at its new location, Front and Harris streets, for the free treatment of the worthy poor. IT PAYS TO tTSE STAR INDEPENDENT WANT ADS.
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