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Wednesday, April 21, 1915.
APRIL
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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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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. - '
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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