6 THE STAR-INDEPENDENT ( Established tn 1H76) Published by THE STAR PRINTING COMPANY. Star-Independent BuiMln*. ta-XO-aa South Third Street. Harrlsburg. P»- Evary Evening liotpl Sunday. Others : IHnctors.- Bwjamin F. METERS. * JOB!( L. L. KBHH, President. WM. W. WALLOW**, Vlee President. W * K W*. E. MirtM. Secretary and Treasurer. WM. W. WALLOW**. WX. H. WARN**. V. HUMMKL Bsbohacs. J* . Business Manager. Editor. AU communications should be addressed to STAR INDIPRNPtNT, Business, Editorial. Job Printing or Circulation Department, according te tbe subject matter. ' ' Entered at the Po»t Office in Harrlsburg as second clas* matter. Benjamin A Kentnor Company. New York and Chicago Representatives. New York Office, Brunswick Building, Fifth Avenue. Chicago Office. People's lias Building. Michigan Avenue. Delivered by carriers at • cent* a week. Mailed to subscribers ter Three Dollars a year in advance. ~ THE STAB-INDEPENDENT The paper with the largest Home Circulation In Harrlsburg and •earby towns. Circulation Examined by THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVERTISERS. ~~ TELEPHONES: BELL Private Branch Exchange, . - CUM „i LAND 'fo»«{° Private Branch Exchanga. - No. I45»I4I w| to-night and Sunday, slightly cooler to- A, a I night in south portion. Gentle to mod ijr erate winds becoming northwest. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG Highest, 68; lowest, 37; 8 a. m., 61; S p. in., 59. CHINA FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT Japan's negotiations with China and all other proceedings affecting the oriental republic are nat urally of interest to the United States. Although this country cannot look upon China with quite the same big-brother feeling with which it regards the Latin-American republics, it is nevertheless con c«rne>d about the welfare of that Asiatic country, partly because it is in sympathy with the demo cratic form of government there and partly be- \ cause Americans have interests in China that need to be guarded. It is with some degree of satisfaction then that we hear of improving financial conditions in China which give evidence of the confidence of the people in the stability of the republic, and of their ability to prosper independent of alien capitalists. No more than a year ago China was still borrow ing large amounts of money from ready foreign lenders, and the people were still skeptical about themselves making loans on security provided by their new government. Since the outbreak of the war, however, China has found that it can manage its finances very capably without assistance from outside its own boundaries. From a belief that the purchase of Chinese gov ernment bonds was the worst possible investment \hey could make with their money, the citizens.of China seem to have changed to the conviction that such investment is the best possible. The amount asked for by the new government in the prospectus of its domestic loan was $16,000,000. Within four months the total subscriptions received amounted to $24,000,000 and a supplementary loan of $8,000,- 000 had to be arranged to satisfy the eager in vestors. Another issue of $24,000,000 worth of gov ernment bonds has now been decided upon for next month. June. That is not the only encouraging sign in China. A very important one is the ability of the farmers of the laud to pay their taxes now for the first time since the 1911 revolution. Many of the provincial governments are self-supporting, and the rest are not only able to meet their own expenses, but to aid in supporting the central government at Pekin as well. There is a compliment in such a state of affairs to the management by its officials of the newly organized republic. HELP THE BAND CONCERT FUND! The popularity of public band concerts at Reser voir Park in the summer months has been so con vincingly demonstrated in other years that there can be no question that the people generally are in full sympathy with the plan of the recently form ed Band Concert Association to stage about a score of free concerts in the pavilion this season. The association can feel assured that the people want the concerts and the chief concern of all interested now is the raising of the $1,500 that will be re quired to hire the musicians. It was chiefly for the purpose of raising this money that the association was formed and we un derstand its authorized representatives are about to start a campaign for obtaining funds by means of popular subscription. The Chamber of Com merce, which makes a specialty of investigating plans for obtaining public subscriptions, has giv en its O. K. to the proposition, and a liberal re sponse on the part of those who can afford to give will assure the success of the undertaking. It is proposed to give at least 17 concerts at the park, all by bands of musicians from this com munity. It is the intention to give them every . __ ____ v HABMBBTTRG aTAB-INDEPEKDENT. SATURDAY EVENING. MAY 1. 1915. Friday evening in June, July and August, except July 2nd and 9th, and there will be concerts also on th« afternoons and evenings of three holi days, May 31, which will be observed as Memorial Day since the holiday falls on Sunday this year; July sth, as the 4th is a Sunday, and September 6, Labor Day. As the first of these concerts is scheduled for the last day of the present month, there is not any too much time remaining for the collection of these funds, and, therefore, those who can contribute should make prompt response to the appeal for money to provide this most healthful and inspiring form of entertainment for all the people of Harris burg. WHEN HAIR TURNS WHITE OVER NIGHT Novelists and poets have repeatedly testified that because of great fear or grief the hair of a hero or heroine has turned white over night. De spite this testimony men of science have recently declared that it is a physical impossibility for the hair of any person, be he real or fictitious, grief smitten or fear-stricken, to change color in one night. This is not the first time, of course, that fiction has collided with science. Generally the collision has been to the disadvantage of the fiction. It may be so in this case. The contention of medical men seems reasonable, that only with chemical assist ance can hair actually change color in so brief a period, since there are no provisions made by Nature for the controlling of the color of hair merely through the mind. The explanation has been advanced somewhere that gray hairs may be plentiful on a head, but may be covered by the brown or the black, and that the latter may be shed during times of mental torture, thus revealing tbe former and giving rise to the impression that the hair has changed color. That sounds very interesting, but there does not seem to be much difference between placing con fidence in such a statement and believing the de spised theory of "turning white over night." Both need proof. Investigators might do well to pick up a tramp some day, give him a good scare and see what happens. The chances are that there would be no white hair at all, but the experiment -would no doubt be a diverting one, especially to the tramp. The unkind suggestion has been made that in eases where women were locked in prisons and were reported to have acquired gray hair over night, the reason was that the women were deprived in their imprisonment of certain toilet articles which in their boudoirs had enabled them to subdue the tell-tale threads of silver. This brutal explanation may not be without some foundation on truth. Although it is of assistance to the scientists in their contention it certainly puts the "white over night'' heroines in an embarrassing position. Many speculators are profiting from "war stocks" who would be afraid to shoulder a gun. David Lloyd George's pledge "never to politically touch liquor again" leaves us still in doubt whether he is on the water wagon. Commissioner Jackson is confronted with the interesting problem of making 50 new jobs in the Department of Labor and Industry go around among 1,500 applicants. The Barnes-Roosevelt trial, we are told, will run through a third week of the court's time. We wonder if the libel suit of one ordinary person against another ordinary person would be so long drawn out. The Kolonial Kids band should not be forgotten when it comes to arranging the summer concerts. The way those youngsters inject "pep" into the playing of a Sousa march would make Sousa himself listen with envy. TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN MAN S HOPELESS LOT It is no pleasure for a man to do as he pleases until after he get* married—and then he can't.—Pittsburgh Chron icle-Telegraph. HOW IT WOULD WORK OUT A St. Louis Judge has ruled that a man has a right to find fault with his wife's clothes, but a man would be a fool for taking advantage of the ruling because as a remedy he would have to buy her more.—Florida Times-Union. THE DIFFERENCE Mrs. Bilton—"That Mrs. Jinks is always very well dressed, while her husband always looks shabby." Bilton—"Well, she dresses according to fashion, and he according to his means." —Judge. BEVENOE AT LAST Judge—"lt seems to me that I have seen you before." Prisoner—"You have, your Honor. It -was I who taught your daughter to play the piano." Judge—"Thirty years!"— Musical American. WHAT THE RESULT WOULD BE An authority on the subject says men should stop eating for a while and think. Some men, under the circumstances, would merely stop long enough to wonder whence the next meal was to come.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. POLITE WAY OF PUTTING IT "Here's a dealer advertises a sale of hereditary fur niture." "Just what does he mean by that!" "That's merely a polite way of saying second-hand."— Exchange. "Darling, lou know our romance started through a pair of socks which you knitted and sent to the front. I found a note inside, photos were exchanged, and now we are married." "Yes. yes." murmured the happy bride. "I have one request to make." "Name it." "Please never knit me any more socks."—Exchange. ALWAYS THAT DANGER "Honeaty," said the ready-made philosopher, "is the best policy." "Of is," replied Senator Borghum. "The only difficulty about that proverb is that a man who is honest merely from motives of policy is liable at any moment to get tired of playing a slow but sure system."—Washing ton Star. HAVE GOOD HEALTH Take Hood's S&raaparllla, the Old Sellable Spring Tonic fwt let the idea that you may feel better in a day or two prevent you from getting a bottle of Hood's SaraapariUa to-day from any drug store and start ing at once on the road to health and strength. When your blood is impure and im poverished it lacks vitality, your diges tion is imperfect, your appetite is poor, and all the functions of your body are impaired. Hood's Sarsaparilla is a wonderful blood tonic. It will build you up quicker than any other medicine. It gives strength to do and power to en dure. It is the old standard tried and true all-the-year-round blood purifier and enricher, tonic and appetizer. Nothing else acts like it, for nothing else has the same formula or ingredi ents. Be sure to ask for Hood's; insist on having it.—Adv. [Tongue-End Top ics | Gives the Senators Chocolates Senator Frank P. Croft, of Mont gomery, who resides at Marion, is sen ior member of the firm of Croft & Al len, Philadelphia, one of the largest confectionery manufacturing firms in the country, with a specialty in choco lates. Senator Croft, a very modest young man, by the way, does not for get that there are a number of bis fellow Senators who have what is known as the "sweet tooth." and ev ery week he has sent to him numerous boxes of confections from his factory, which he generously distributes among his colleagues. There was nioro candy eaten in the Senate this year than ever before in its history. Wihenever a committee, of which Senator Croft is a member, holds a meeting there is sure to be a big box of most delicious con fections at the head of the table and between hearing arguments on bills and deliberations there is much munch ing of sweetmeats. * . * Fred Fruit a Son of "Jim'' Representative Fred" T. Fruit, of Mercer, resides in Sharon and is a son of James S. Fruit, who served in the House from ISS7 to 1892 and then in tho Senate to 1896. Like his father, the younger lawmaker is the very em bodiment of geniality, with a keen fund of humor. He has been described as '"a live wire with streaks of sunshine." In the old yuay days Senator "Jim" Fruit, State Treasurer "Ben" Hay wood, Major Alexander McDowell, aft erward secretary of the National House of Representatives, and Judge "Sam" Miller, recently elected to Congress, formed a political quartet in Mercer that held sway for years and was a power in State politics. Their county was called "The Diocese of Messer," and Henry Hall, the Washington corre spondent, who represented it in the Houso of Representatives, used to say that the costume in the diocese was '"a red wammus and gum boots." This is disputed by former Deputy Attorney General James A. Stranahan, of Harris burg, who is one of " Messer's original sons." • • * "Jeff" Smith in House Now Representative Jefferson W. Smith, who represents the Eighth Philadelphia district in the House, was formerly a resident of Harrisburg, years ago, and is a printer by trade. He learned the trade of compositor in the old "Pa triot" office when it was at Third and Strawberry streets, and his recollection of the old-time printer days in Har risburg, when all of the type-setting was done by hand, is very interesting. "Jeff," as he was known by every other printer, cast his lot in Philadel phia, where he has prosperecTand be came a politician of local note. * • * At Last a Republican From Lehigh Lehigh county was organized in 1812 from a part of Northampton county, and in the entire history of tho county it never elected a Republican Senator until last year, when it chose Horace W. Schantz, Republican, of Macungie. To obtain the Democratic nomination for Senator in Lehigh in the last hun dred years was equivalent to an elec tion, but Senator Schantz broke the rule and when he was nominated by the Republicans he started out to do some tail work among the voters. There were two candidates against him, a Democrat and a Washington party man, the latter dividing the Republican vote, but Senator Schantz won out by 168 plurality, the first Republican to accomplish the feat. * • • Catlin's Picturesque Career Senator Sterling R. Catlin, of Wilkes-Barre, serving his third term in ,the Senate, is the oldest member in point of age in that body, being in his 73d year. He served all through the Civil war as a member of a Pennsylva nia regiment, and then set out for the great West. He was one of the orig inal settlers of Helena, Montana, but later went to San Francisco, where he was superintendent of machinery at Mare Island navy yard for five years. Then he returned to Pennsylvania, in vested his spare cash in wild lands in the Luzerne coal regions, on which the finest kind of anthracite coal was found, and now his greatest manual la bor consists of cutting coupons. De spite his age, be is one of the young est men in the Senate, and is noted for his biting wit. T. M. J. Arranging New Turkish War Loan London, May 1, 1.49 A. M.—Tele graphing from Copenhagen, the "Daily Mail's" correspondent says that Ber lin advices received there are to the effect that Djavid Bey, the Turkish Minister of Finance, has returned to Constantinople after having arranged in Berlin for a new Turkish war loan. PEOPWSCOLUHN The Star-Independent doea Ml make Itself responsible for opinions •xpreiaed In this column. Why Ro Amended Censor Bill Editor of the Star-Independent: Dear Sir—One of the legislative news items of the week has been fur nished by my action in having the Sen ate moving picture censor bill amended ao as to strike out the words, "or prejudice the public mind." 1 was prompted to do this for several reasons. This phrase is ambiguous, un definable, unstatutory. The power it conveys to the censors is wholly dis cretionary. It creates a (board of despots instead of a "board of censors. Surely it is euough power to give this board, which has not been shown to be neces sary, the right to prevent the ex|>osure of pictures that are sacrilegious, ob scene, indecent, immoral, or which might endanger the public peace? It is not wise to clothe any set of persons with unlimited authority and the elimi nated n'hrnse does so. By its power there are but few pic tures, if any, that could be shown if the censors said ' no." They need give no reason for disqualifying a picture hut that it tends "to prejudice ttie public mind." Kverv picture is. in some sense, instructive, as well as amusing, and every picture would thus be sub ject to the '/prejudices" in the minds of the censors. "'Prejudice the public mind," is elastic enough to be stretched to fit nnv condition and, until men have become angerfs and infallible, I shall tight against giving to oue, or three ot them, anv such prerogative. As the 'bill is now, it complies with all that is religiously and morally neces sary. Carrying the now eliminated phrase, we should have had to flgiit against the passage of fhe act. James H. Maurer. Harrisburg, Pa.. April 30, 1915, SEE Aim MOTOR CAR View the Historic Points in This Coun try Keynote of National High ways Transcontinental Tours See America is the keynote of the National highway transcontinental tours. Mo better opportunity has ever been offered for those who are desirous of seeing their country than these tours, the first leaving the headquar ters of National Highways Association at 18 Old Slip, New York City, June 15, over the Old Trails route. The battlefield of Gettysburg, ST'/a miles motor road to Harrisburg, the Old Cumberland Road which served as the first means of communication be tween the coast and the settlere in Ohio and Indiana and then the Old Santa Fee Trail—a succession of won der sights. Relics of the past life of the trail, the excitement and bloody Indian strife, trappers and trad posts, the shades of Kit Carson and Dick Woodin and others famous as early American pioneers. The peaceful pres ent day Indian villages, the vestages of a civilization antidating anything in America, standing and in good pres ervation, the oldest house in America built in 1520. Old, missions, old pueb los and oldest of all the works of na ture, desert vegetation, a riot of color defying even the iuipreesionest school of art. Sunsets that for vividness and splendor are unequalled auywhere in the world. The petrified forest, the megaphone rock and the grandest of all the Grand Canyon. Then slipping down gradually into California's beauty and the gem exposition, San Diego, a coast ride along the Pacific and finally the Golden Gate. SEVERE TESTS FOR THE PAIGE Local Dealer Takes Pride in Demon strating Good Points of Auto George R. Bentley, owner of the Riverside Auto Company, and local dealer in the Paige car, takes pride in demonstrating its flexibility and pow er. Without apparent effort he controls it on high gear by partially shutting off the flow of gas, so as to reduce the speed to a pace of from four to five miles an hour. Mr. Bentley reports that he has giveu the car recently some very se vere tests over rough places and ex perienced no difficulties whatever. Adv.* DELIVER 3 TRUCKS AND JITNEY International Harvester Company Sends Out a Few of Latest Models Tho International Harvester Com pany motor truck department, 615 Wal nut street, has just delivered three of its latest model trucks locally, one to the Worden Paint Roof Comfiany, of Harrisburg; o ne to the Steelton Store Company, of Steelton, and one to the Herr Hardware Company, of Co lli m hi a. During the past week the company also delivered a Jitney passenger car to be used between IMt" IHolly and Car lisle. —Adv.* King George Sends Congratulations London, May 1, 12.20 A. M. —King George has sent to Acting Vice Ad miral John Michael De Robeck^com mander of the allied fleet at the* Dar danelles and to General Sir Hamilton, commander-in-chief of the Dardanelles land forces, a dispatch conveying to all ranks "hearty congratulations on this splendid achievement." A palatable pleasing drink. Fink's Extra Pale Beer.—Adv. Cora Your Com* fithout Cutting Baser** Cora Bot*eotto« real oorn remedy— am wapatn, but Baaer*s Corn A raat kUls thesorn for all time. H'sgsirwlirf. Queue bottle win care a dozen of the worst AM<. __ botttev— «« the wont oral or bunions you «wr ow. .Don't Niter MT looter—den'twante jour money on tbe ehlro- MM Ist or throw U away on worthless ao-oalM torn am'Bv a ISO bottle of Baser** Con ktfnot tad* end be iM of every oornoayoar let* Immediate, without the least bit of Dain. Btij at tbe dnkM aamed below or ieod Mo |>Wm.g. Ud Cbemtst, Saoif For sale in Harrlsburf by Geo. A. Gorgas. | A UTOM I 1 OWNERS 1 | WHY WORRY? j * Shift the responsibility to us ❖ * w j." oceu .!; Th «" »ome other machine mav t * run into yours while stundinj; still. ' ♦ * WE PROTECT YOU FULLY * W"* Ll *bility for injury to the Public; also against Fire, Theft and + T collision. VAN HAAGEN & BACKENSTOSS I | 406 itunkel Building J MOTORCYCLE NOTES Detroit motorcyclists have made a 'bid for the 1916 convention of the Federation of American Motorcyclists. Soon the horse-mounted policeman will bo unknown in Gotham. To this tnd the (Board of Aldermen recently! appropriated $25,000 for the pur chase of motorcycles and bievles. Eight 'hundred and eighty-five new memberships and renewals" were re ceived by the F. A. M. during March as against 797 during the same month last year. If the War Department will grant permission for the use of the Potomac Pnik priveways, the National Capital Motorcycle Club of Washington, D. C., proposes to stage a 300-mile motorcycle race this summer. The club expects to make this an event of international im portance, inviting the best riders of the country to participate. The course is altout three miles in length, and since it : s located on a government reserva tion, the event will be open to the pub lic tree of charge. MIDDLETOWN Silver Trophies of Gun Club Now on Exhibition Middletown, May I.—Mr. and Mrs. Abrani Noll and son arc spending sev eral days at Philadelphia ani],Lancaster. Charles Zorgrer, of Alfoona, spent Wednesday in town on business. Quite a number of persons from town will take in the special excursion to New York City on Sunday over the Pennsylvania railroad. The two silver trophies offered by the Middletown Gun Club, two tine sil ver cups, are on exhibition in the show window of Detweller Bros. Several of the club members attended the shoot at Elizabethtown this afternoon. Miss Lola Winters spent Friday at j Newport, Pa. Albert Kling moved into the Baum bach property on Pine street. The Rev. G. W. Izer, D. D., district superintendent of the East District of the M. E. church, will preach in the j M. E! church Sunday morning and on j Harrisbv/rg Light 1 I THE GREATEST ELECTRICAL BARGAIN EVER OFFERED Beginning to-day and continuing for sixty days you can buy for cash only a $3.50 Electric Iron, guaranteed for live years, for $1.85 We have just received a large supply of these irons and they must go in the next sixtv davs. BUY AT ONCE r^nininr^y Impressions Verified OUR bank building is unpretentious in architecture but it impresses one with the solid character of its construc tion. For many year* it has been a Market Street landmark, with its clean white exterior and its four massive col umns, proving a familiar picture to all. This feeling of strength and enduring service imparted, really typifies the character of the banking business within. "Eighty-three Years of Continuous Banking" Q213 Market Street Capital, SBOO,OOO Surplus. fttoo.ooo Monday evening the first quarterly con ference will be held. He will also visit both Sunday schools. (laude \\ it hauer, of Washington, , D. C„ is spending several davs in town > j on business. The three Are companies will hold their regular monthly meetings on Mon i day evening. Raymond Gilbert is spending some | time at Williamsport. The car company will finish the con crete wall