6
THE STAR-INDEPENDENT
( £*lablt*hrd in 1576)
Published by
THE STAR PRINTING COMPANY.
Star.lndependent Building.
IBSO-22 South Third Street, Harrlaburg. Pa..
Every Evening Except Sunday.
Offittrs : IhncforS ;
BKHAMIN r. M*T**S. *"* j OHN l. l. KCHN,
President.
W*. W. WALLOWER. _ K
Vice President. K *»*«*».
WM. K. MITERS,
Secretary and Treasurer. WJI W. WALLOPER.
WM. H. WABSIR. V. HCUMEL BERGHACS, JR .
Business Manager. Editor.
All communications should be addressed to STAR INDEPENDENT,
Business. Editorial. Job Printing or Circulation Department,
according to the subject matter.
Entered at the Post Office in Hirrisburg as second class matter.
Benjamin & Kentnor Company,
New York and Chicago Representative*.
New York Office, Brunswick Building, 225 Kifth Avenue.
Chicago Office. People's Has Building. Michigan Avenue.
Delivered liy carriers at 6 cents e week. Mailed to subscribers
for Three Dollars a year iu advance
THE STAR-INDEPENDENT
The paper with the largest Home Circulation in Harrisburg and
cearby towns.
Circulation Examined ky
THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN ADVERTISERS.
TELEPHONES: BELL
Private Branoh Exohange. .... • No. 3250
CUMBERLAND VALLEY
Private Branoh Exchange. No. 245-246
Wednesday, May 5, 1915.
MAY
Sun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat.
1
.2 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 31
MOON'S PHASES—
Last Quarter, (ith: New Moon, 13t.1i;
First Quarter, 21st; Full Moon, 28th.
'igjar™ WEATHER FORECASTS
TpiT,'' O Harrisburg and vicinity: Fair to
f® • night and Thursday. Not much change
lin temperature.
WM J Eastern Pennsylvania: Partly cloudy
'Qf* - to-night and Thursday. Moderate north
west and west winds.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG
Highest, 55; lowest, 49; § a. m., 49; 8 p. m., 53.
THE SIX-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL PLAN
The ideal plan of education, according to some
authorities, comprises six years of instruction by
parents in the home, six years of elementary school
training, six years of high school teaching and six
years of college discipline. If that plan is to be
carried out there will be necessary a rearrangement
of the work in all the grades in the public schools.
Some rather impressive arguments have been ad
vanced in an endeavor to prove such an arrange
ment would be decidedly beneficial, at least as it
relates to high schools and grammar schools.
The ordinary arrangement in the public schools
at present is eight years of primary and grammar
school work and four years of high school study.
The Bureau of Education in Washington advocates
six years of elementary and six years of high school
training, the latter to be divided into three years
of junior high school and three years of senior
high school. It is this latter plan which offers most
advantages, in the opinion of many experienced
educators.
Of the children in this country who finish eight
or nine years of elementary school training, three
fourths do not go on with their education, having
reached the end of the compulsory attendance peri
od. If the new plan were to be adopted generally,
as it is most likely to be in the course of time, the
pupils would be in high school two years before
they would be free to leave their books, and would
be better trained thus than under the old system.
In the seventh and eighth grades, as commonly
arranged at present, the students are to a large
extent merely marking time.
The advisability of teaching domestic science in
the upper grammar grades in this city has been
under consideration of late. In the junior high
school, under the proposed plan, the seventh and
eighth year pupils could not only be given useful
vocational training, but could be started in their
6tudies of foreign languages, elementary sciences,
history and literature as well.
The Harrisburg Rotary Club, in its meeting last
night, voted'to procure the services of some quali
fied man to report to the Club, and through the
Club to the Harrisburg School Board, on the ad
visability of the adoption in this city of the six
year high school plan. This step may or may not
have a direct effect on the solving of Harrisburg's
vexing high school problem, but it is at any rate
a step worth looking into.
This city has been one of the last in the state to
make a move to get rid of the detrimental ninth
grade, reducing the elementary course to the usual
eight years. It has the opportunity to be among
the first to arrange for a six-year high school. In
the general rearrangement of courses of study
which must necessarily accompany the abolition of
the ninth grade, and the introduction of domestic
science and possibly of manual training in the sev
enth and eighth years, the new plan could be
adopted with but little additional confusion.
TEN TWENTIETH CENTURY HEROES
It has remained for the twentieth century to have
wireless heroes. Through all the heroic ages, com
monly so-called, there were no men with similar
accomplishments. The invention of wireless tele
graphy in modern times has brought into being
the hero who stays at his post in a sinking ship and
;almlv sends calls for help through the air in the
mdeavor to save the lives of steamship passengers.
A week from to-day there will be unveiled in
Battery Park, New York City, a memorial to the
HAKRTSBTTRG STAR-TOPEPEXPENT, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 5. 3915.
wireless heroes who have died at sea in the brave
performance of their duty. Ten names will be in
scribed on the monument. Seveu wireless heroes
lost their lives on the Pacific, two on the Atlantic
and one on the Great Lakes.
Shortly after the Titanie went down, three years
ago last month, the proposal was made that a me
morial be erected to Jack Phillips, the wireless
operator on that vessel whose courageous conduct
at the time of the disaster, when recounted, evoked
the admiration of the world. The plan was later
made to include all wireless operators who have
similarly lost their lives.
Two of such had gone down prior to the Titanic
disaster. George C. Eeeles perished on the steam
ship Ohio on the Pacific, August 26, 1909, and
Stephen F. Sczepanek sacrificed his life on the
steamship Pere Marquette on Lake Michigan, Sep
tember 9. 1910. In the year 1911 there were no
like losses of life, but there were several each
intervening year until this one. The latest was tin
death of Walter E. Keker on the steamship Admiral
Sampson in Puget Sound. August 23, 1914.
It is fitting that these men, heroes of a distinctly
twentieth century sort, should not be permitted to
be forgotten. More brave men like them will join
their little group from time to time. The memorial
will be to them all, a testimonial of public apprecia
tion of the heroism required of a dispatcher of calls
of distress on a ship doomed to go to the bottom,
and to carry him with it, beyond the reach of the
rescuers he summons.
COLLECTING WHAT OTHERS DISCARD
There have been many eolleetors of many differ
ent objects in a world so full of things. One whose
hobby is as remarkable as any is a resident of
Saginaw, Michigan, reported to have the biggest
and most complete collection of theatre programs in
the United States.
That person would be a dull person indeed who
could not find much to interest him in such a collec
tion, —a collection which is said to go back more
than a hundred years to the time when the first
theatre programs were published in England, and
then to show the origin of the theatrical business
in the United States and trace its development up
to the present time. The programs reposing in that
collection, copies of which had been discarded by
theatre patrons as useless after the performances,
are now interesting records of the amusements of
other days.
There may be persons who have from time to
time formed little collections of programs which
they have preserved after attending theatrical per
formances or musical entertainments. Such pro
grams would be of personal interest to the pos
sessore because the casts and the scenes which they
list have been actually seen and enjoyed. They
would be of no value, however, in tracing the his
tories of theatres, of productions and of performers
in this country and England.
The difficulty in the way of collecting old theatre
programs, of course, is that hardly anybody is in
terested in them, and as a consequence specimens
have not been preserved as have valuable coins,
stamps, autographs, books, pieces of ehinaware and
other common objects of collection. The thousands
of dollars recently paid for autographs of the sign
ers of the Declaration of Independence could not
purchase specimens of desirable theatre programs
of which no copies had been preserved at the time
of their issuance because they had seemed worth
less.
Gnindy is a bad loser.
A few more of Commissioner Taylor's $9,000-an-acre
purchases would make a good sized hole in the SIOO,OOO
park loan.
When the City Commissioners picked to-morrow after
noon for a special meeting they must have forgot that it
is circus day.
Noxious animals become exceedingly noxious when' their
pelts, several years old, are sent to the capitol to prove
claims for bounties.
The burglar who stole six brand new suits of clothes from
a tailor must be a foresighted fellow who is planning a
heart-smashing campaign at the seashore well ahead of time.
TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN
A DIFFERENCE
"Have you been operating in the stock market of late J"
"Xo. I've been operated upon."—Judge.
DEFINED AT LAST
Willie Willis—"What's a 'neutral,' pop!"
Papa Willie —"It is the punehing-bag on which the
belligerents practice between rounds."—Puck.
FEELS BETTEB
"Your husband is looking so much better nowadays, Mrs.
Xurich."
"Yes, it's the new treatment. He's been trying some
immunity baths."—Buffalo Express.
CONSIDERATE
Rider—"Why didn't you sound your horn when you saw
the man in the road?"
Driver—"l thought it would be more humane if he never
knew what struck him." —Judge.
APT COMPARISON
"Why do you compare my marksmanship with light
ning?" asked the recruit.
"Because," replied the instructor, "it never hits twice in
the same place."—Washington Btar.
HE'S A BRUTE
A New York woman who is suing for divorce testified
that she used to play penny ante poker with her husband
to keep him at home, but without success. A man who
could be indifferent to such devotion must be utterly heart
less.—Washington He^dd.
TRADE PICKING UP
"I see our traffic with Iceland is increasing."
"How so?"
"Leif Ericson landed on these shores, sailing from there
in the year 1000."
"Well!"
"And I notice last week another ship from Iceland
arrived."—Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
HARD RED PIIPLES
ON FffiJD NECK
Itched Terribly. So Disfiguring
Dreaded to Go Out. Used Cuti
cura Soap and Ointment. In a
>Month Completely Healed.
3167 Gaul St.. Philadelphia, Pa.—
"Small pimples broke out over ray f&c« i
and neck and gradually swelled Into hard
r,xl •pimples. They ;
t Itched terribly and were
so disfiguring that I
dreaded to go ouw
Sometimes the itching
was so Intense that I
i scratched until they bled. j
" I used all kinds of j
remedies without relief
r .1 until I heard a friend
mention Cuticura Soap
and Ointment. I soni for a free sample and
afterward bought some. After using them a
week I saw signs of improvement and in a
month's time I was completely healed and
have never been troubled since." (Signed)
Miss l.ena M. Guntr. Sept. 3. 1914.
Keep your skin dear, scalp dean and
free from dandruff, and hair live and glossy.
I Cuticura Soap, with an occasional use of
| Cuticura Ointment will doit.
Sample Each Free by Mail
With 32-p. Skin Book on request. Ad
: dress poet-card "Cuticura. Dept. T. Bos
i ton." Sold throughout the world.
/' 11
[Tongue-End Topics |
Britain Bans Higher Wages
The British Postmaster General has
definitely refused to grant the request
of the postal employes for a bonus of
a dollar a week to meet the increased
cost of living caused 'by the war. The
bonus asked for was to be paid only
to workers receiving less than S2O a
week. The Postmaster General stated
that the rise in the cost of living is not
by itself sufficient reason at the pres
ent time for increasing wages. He re
gards this rise as a burden which must
be shared in common Iby all classes in
the country. Moreover, he explains,
compliance with this request from tihe
IKistoffice workers would make neces
sary corresponding grants to all gov
ernment employes of a similar status
and would, therefore, impose a very
heavy burden on the treasury. The pos
tal employes are arranging for protest
meetings with the object of urging the
cabinet to reconsider its decision.
• * *
Belgians Cheered Against Orders
Seventy Belgian prisoners who re
cently passed through 'Bruges in charge
of a guard of German cavalry received j
a resounding welcome from the Belgian
inhabitants of the town, notwifhstand- j
ing the orrlers of the German municipal '
authorities that no demonstrations were
to take place. The pri>ouers. who in- '
eluded infantrymen and engineers, were
captured near Driegrachten. As they
fassed down the streets of Bruges, the
people of the town gathered along the,
sidewalks. Hats and handkerchiefs were
waved in the air and there were shouts
of "Vive la Belgigue,"' "L.ova. Belgie" j
and "Jieve de Kouing." The prisoners' l
smiled and answered back, "Courage, j
comrades.'' Meanwhile the crowd show- |
ered thom with gifts of fruit, chocolate,
sandwiches and cheese. While the eu
thusiasm was at its height, some of Hie
German horsemen charged t'he crowd, j
It is said that the municipal authorities !
will assess a tine against the populace |
for the unauthorized demonstration.
• . •
New British Navy List
The first official British navy list ever i
issued without the names of ships has
just appeared. It was evidently consid- j
ered necessary to .'oneeal from the Her- i
mans any data which might reveal the
full strength of the B>rit'sh navy. The 1
list of officers and men on active serv- !
ice covers eighty pages of double col
umns, while the Royal Naval Reserve I
and the Volunteer Naval Reserve occu- j
fies 8" pages more. A large number of
the volunteer reservists hold temporary
commissions. Among them are the fol
lowing rated as lieutenant commanders:
The Duke of LVLanchester, the Duke of
Westminster, Filson Young, novelist; D. ;
C. Calthorp. novelist; Lord Loughbor
ough. of Olympic games fame; L, G. |
Chiozza-Money, the writer of economics, |
and others. There are several pages
of names of ladies composing Queen !
Alexandra's Royal Naval N'ursing Serv
ice. The lost of sick quarters in ail
parts of the United Kingdom covers
eight pages.
** * -
French Commander's Frankness
General Trenieau, who recently died
from injuries received in an aj/tomobile j
accident, was virtually the commander- j
in-ehief of the French army during the !
period of his service as vice president |
of the Higher War Council. He is well
remembered 'by all the officers who j
served under him for his vigor, quick
ness of decision and plain way of speak
ing. After the annual army maneuvers
in 1910 in the Champagne province, he 1
addressed the general officrs as is usual
under s uch circumstances. 'He started
out in the usual honeyed tone and fin
ished as follows:
"Gentlemen," he said, "if tfce
Great Kmperor had been able to come
back among us and witness the
maneuvers that we have just accom
plished upon tihe scene of his glorious
exploits, he would find that we have
bojne ourselves in a particularly piti
able manner."
The severity of his criticisms made
him a great many political enemies and
it was his, more than anything else,
that brought about his resignation in
1911.
LAWYERS' PAPER BOOKS
Printed at this office in best style, at
lowest prices and ou short notice.
THE GLOBE OPEN TILL SIX THE GLOBE
a short story of the quickest and best clothing trans
action we've ever made —a story of our purchase of a large por
tion of the surplus stock of L. Adler, Bros. & Co., of Rochester,
N. Y m makers of the celebrated ADLER-ROCHESTER CLOTHES.
Monday 5.00 P. M., Proposition made.
Monday 5.05 P. M., Proposition accepted.
Monday 6.00 P. M., Order wired to house.
Tuesday A. M., Goods shipped by express.
Wednesday 4 P. M., Suits arrived.
Wednesday 8 P. M., Suits on display in our windows.
To-morrow (Thursday) Morning at 8 O'clock Suits Will
Be Placed On Sale —All at One Price
$14.75
When you consider that ADLER-ROCHESTER CLOTHES arc never sold
less than S2O. you can form an idea of what this sale really means to you. You
need not lie much of a mathematician to liprnre out liovv easily you save $5.25 AT LEAST—a
hiji saving "worth while."
BenlUifill Worsteds, elegant Cheviots, Shepherd's Plaids. Sioteli Homespuns. English Tweeds.
Natty 1' tunnels and 1 ropical Worsteds, in three and two-piece models —many of them silk
trimmed.
And the Boys, Too, Come in For Their Share of the
Savings—A Great Sale of Boys' Sturdy Suits at JmS
Prices "Way Down" From Regular KrxTlfara.
Hoys' $4.00 and $5.00 (JJj Hoys' $6.50 Suits spe- gg
Boys' $5.50 and SH.OO tfl ftC Boys* $7.50 and $8.50 <J>E OC
Suits at Ri^ht-Posture Suits at. .
AN ear-resisting Cheviots, CassimenN, and Serges that won't fade—many of
the suits have two pairs of pants—all sizes 6 to 18 years. , -
Boys' 50c Khaki Pants Beys' Tapeless Blouse Waists $ gf
at 39c at 290 f/ tg
The kind that "wear like iron" anil I Of splendid quality madras in plain
wash well. I and striped effects. ■» { 4
1 - " '\J
THE Fr/cnd/y J
CARDINAL GIBBONS TO ATTEND PEACE CONGRESS
According to report. Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, will attend the World Court Congress to be held at Cleve
land, Ohio, May 12-14. The congress has for its purpose the establishment of an international court of justice through
which it is hoped to eliminate war. Others who will utteud include Mr. William H. Taft aud Mr. Altou B. Parker.
J§ B. V. D.
an< ®
)M MANHATTAN
/ I| I nlon Suit*
1/1 * SI.OO to $5.00
1 I J Shirts nntl Draweri
Qpf 50c to $3.00
(X Forry's,V.ZV
I I
REPORTING* LEBANON COURT
Klmer W. Peck, an expert stenog
rapher, of this city, is acting as court
?t( nographer at tlie special -May sessions
' of common pleas court, of Judge Henry,
at Lebanon, in the absence of John
Iluth, the regular stenographer, who is
i in attendance on the session of the
Ktate Senate. Mr. Deck will report the
r.nnual convention of the Pennsylvania
Federation of Labor in Harrisburg,
May 11 to 14.
I
A Bald Head Only Indicates
| that the scalp haa been neglected. Wo
recommend that you use
Hai r Tonic
Kills the germ that causes the hair to
fall out and will keep the scalp healthy.
George A. Oorgas
LAWYERB' PAPER BOOKS
Printed at this ottice in best style, at
lowest prices and on short uotieo.