6 -THE STAR-INDEPENDENT i ( Established in 1876) Published by THB STAR PRINTING COMPANY. Star-lndepandant Building, l»10-2* South Third Btr*«t. Harrltburf. P*» Every Evening B»e«pt Sunday. ! Officer*; ~ Virteftrt. kXJAMtx F. MITERS. ' JOHN L. L. KCHN, President. FTF* W. WALLOWRK, TP|| W MMTRRI Vice President. WM K fu. K. MITERS, PT Secretary and TreM«ter. WM. W. WILWWI*. ?h. H. WARNER. V. HDRMII BEROHAUS. J*. Business Manager. Editor. communications should be addressed to STAR INDEPENDENT, luslness. Editorial, Job Printing or Circulation Department, icording to the subject matter. tatered at thTpost Office in Harrisburg as second class matter. tonlamin £ Kentnor Company, _ " J >j ew york and Chicago Representatives. few York Office, Brunswick Building, 225 Fifth Avenue. Ifeleago Office, People's Gas Building, Michigan Avenue. by carriers at 6 cents ■ week. Mailed to subscribers br Three Dollars a year In advance i- — THE STAR.INOSPKNDSNT iThe paper with the largest Home Circulation In Harrisburg and towus. Circulation Eaaaalncd by THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN APVBRTISERS. ~ TELEPHONES: »_j w _a_ ■ rßll rh ElflhinlO NOe 3180 'rtvato ■rancn c.*on. » CUMBERLAND VALLEY Iffvat* Branch Wo - * 48,246 Friday, May 7, 1915. MAY ? Bun. Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Frl. Sat. 1 2345 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, 6th; New Moon. 13th; First Quarter, 21st; Full Moon, 28th. r . I WEATHER FORECASTS MMj x&fi Harrisburg and vicinity: Rain this K afternoon and to night; Saturday fair LtttL 1 * P aD d somewhat cooler. yHTj/ Eastern Pennsylvania: Rain to-night. TJCw'v/i; Saturday partly cloudy and somewhat y '' .. cooler. Moderate to fresh southwest to west winds. p *ii»Ti;RDAi"S TEMPERATURE IN HARRISBURG ' Highest, 72; lowest, 46; 8 a. in., 52; 8 p. m., 67. OVERWORKING THE GOVERNOR While there appears to be little likelihood of adoption this year of any one of the plans that lave been suggested for rearranging the time for jolding the biennial sessions of the Legislature so Jiat they will not be opened coincidently with the nauguration of a new governor, there are. some forceful arguments that can be advanced in favor if some such readjustment at a future time. ; in a recent semi-public utterance Governor Brum mugli said that when he went into office last Janu ary he had made up his mind personally to read tiery bill that came to him from the Legislature,— i thing that he has thus far succeeded in doing, >ut he admitted that, by reason of the immense (mount of time and expenditure of mental energy ; hat this plan involves, he has many times been empted to break his resolution. It is common knowledge that the Governor has devoted night liter night to burning the midnight oil in exam lung carefully every one of the hundreds of pro posed laws sent *to him by the Legislature for his approval or rejection, notwithstanding the vast imuunt of other very important work that falls to the lot of any governor at the outset of his ad ministration. i, The benefit that the Commonwealth derives from ihis painstaking scrutiny on the part of the Gov srnor of every measure that is offered to him for final determination as to whether it shall find a place on the statute books is, we believe, generally idmitted. Governor Brumbaugh could, as the gov jrnors of many other states do, depend on the udgmeut of his advisors in passing on some of the >ills, but few if any persons will take the ground that it is not far better for the Governor person illy to know the meaning of every line in the measures he passes on. But while Governor Brumbaugh is doing this work so thoroughly, besides attending to a thou sand and one other duties that absolutely must be performed by him, one result is bound to be that he nill not have the same amount of time and mental energy to devote to many important matters that arise outside of the business of the legislative halls. Governor Brumbaugh is only human. lie can do only a certain amount of work in a day, even if he prolongs his working day to 16 to 18 hours of the 84. When he has the Legislature on his hands at the outset of his administration he is bound to be eompelled to let some important things hang fire until after adjournment of the law-makers which, without a session, he would have been able to dis pose of long ago. i "JVe need only point to the case of the Public Service Commission in which, the Governor has made it evident, he plans some readjustments. If it had not been that the Legislature's work had occupied so much of his time he could, doubtless, by now have had the Public Service • Commission readjustments made. It may perhaps be assumed that the Governor has in mind other departmental Changes or readjustments that he plans to make but on which he also has had to defer action while reading bills from the Legislature, f, If the time for holding Legislative sessions were Shifted so as to fall six months or a year later ;han it does, succeeding governors would not have to be confronted with the necessity of crowding 10 much important work in a few brief months or ;o postpone pressing administrative matters, as un ler the present arrangement. UNIVERSITY PROSPECTS BRIGHT i The academic year now drawing to a close, — itudents are starting about this time to prepare for HARRJBBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1915. their semester examinations, —seems to have been a successful one so far as the college and univer sity enrollments are concerned. Despite outside influences such as the war and changing economic conditions the numbers of students attending -the higher institutions of learning have had large increases. The war of course has drawn many foreign students to their native countries. The Russian government has recently called Russian university students to the colors, exempting nQne. The losses in students to American universities in direct con sequence of the war are, however, comparatively small, and the gains will doubtless be more than sufficient compensation when hostilities have ceased and our schools obtain from the present belligerent countries students who for the time will not care to study in the universities of their wartime foes. During the present academic year there has been reported an increase of a thousand students over the preceding year in /each of three universities, — Pittsburgh, California and Columbia. The nearby University of Pennsylvania registered a gain of five hundred, as did the universities of New York, Ohio, Minnesota and Wisconsin. An increase of three hundred each is reported from Cornell, Cin cinnati, Illinois, Michigan and Nebraska. In view of the fact that large classes left our principal universities last year, and that the new students matriculating in the Pall were far in excess of the number of these graduates, it does not seem that there are hard times in the educational field. Prospects were never brighter in American universities, from all reports. The war has been in progress throughout the academic year, just closing, yet its full effects on American universities have hardly been felt as yet. That these cannot but be beneficial effects ulti mately seems certain. Students who would be abroad, or would be planning to go there if there were no war, will get their masters' and doctors' degrees from schools in this country instead. There will be much encouragement for our universities in increased enrollments in their graduate schools, and their usefulness will increase with that encourage ment. TOLERATING THE BOOK AGENT If there is any person whom a busy housewife is less eager to find at her door than an unexpected guest it must be a book agent. The ringing of her doorbell is seldom a welcome sound to a woman actively engaged in doing necessary household work, and when the person responsible for the ringing reveals himself or herself, after much cir cumlocution, to be the accredited representative of a very prominent and reliable publishing house of which the prospective patron has never heard, the interruption is generally regarded as anything but delightful. "The lady of the house" when busily performing her manifold daily duties is not usually thinking of buying books, no matter how instructive or "in dispensable" those books may or may not be. Her mind is on her work aud she does not welcome dis tractions. When she is stopped by a canvasser and requested to give her undivided attention to a recital of the merits of a particular publishing house product, which is described as absolutely essential for the proper education of her children and without which no home can be happy, she cannot experience much of the agent's enthusiasm over the wonderful work which is being offered to her. The chances are that she will take more and more of a dislike to the book, the longer the in truder talks about it. If she finally puts her name to a subscription, it is because of some particular trick in the agent's plea, or perhaps because of her desire to be rid of the entreater. The average book agent has no higher ambition than to be thus gotten rid of. Although he is, of course, deeply interested in the welfare of all the children of all his prospects, and is firmly con vinced that'what he is offering will be of lasting benefit to those dear children, his principal object is to make a sale. It is none of his concern if the little rowdies never so much as glance at his treas ury of knowledge after it is delivered. The door-to-door canvasser, especially the woman canvasser, has very pleasant ways of greeting a prospect when the doorbell is answered. He or she, having previously learned the name of the prospect from a neighbor, gayly addresses the latter as though the two had been friends since childhood. It is such deception that often gains entrance into the house for the agent, and once that optimistic person is seated in a parlor chair there is little opportunity for the escape of the prospect. A harsh world has dubbed book agents as nuis ances. "The lady of the house" has little love for them and sometimes has difficulty being civil in their presence. She is of the opinion that she need not devote parts of her valuable time listen ing to all self-appointed distributors of knowledge who ring her doorbell, and that she is surely not obliged to purchase all the "indispensable" litera ture which is offered to her by those persistent persons. Competition seems only to increase the jitney 'bus business. The business of the steam laundries should boom if the Heathen Chinee goes to war. Would the Japs dare harass China if the European powers were not too busy fighting each other to interfere? We think it safe to say that the overworked Governor will not be the least bit disappointed at an early adjourn ment of the Legislature. The growing possibilities of a war between China and Japan should relieve to some extent the fears of those Americans who have clung to the idea that the Japs are eager to take Uncle Sam on for a bout. TOLD IN LIGHTER VEIN HOPELESS Mr. Newrich—"My dear, this tower goes back to Wil liam the Conqueror." Mrs. Newrich—"What's the matter? Isn't it satisfac tory?"— Life. The Plainest Girl Can Be Good-Looking There is economy in good loolcs. It pays every girl to be good-looking and every woman owes it to herself to be as attractive aa possible. It is unfortunate that all women are not born beautiful, but nearly all can acquire good looks. The plain girl not only must use care in the selection of her clothes but give especial attention to her hair—thin, wispy, dull and faded locks will de stroy half the beauty of even a pretty face. If your hair is not beautiful, lack ing that enviable softness, lustre and fluffiness, or is falling out, full of dandruff, too dry, by all means use Parisian Sage, an inexpensive liquid tonic, easily obtained at any drug counter or from H. C. Kennedy. Simply rub Parisian Sage well into the scalp. It will go right to the hair roots, nourish them, and stimulate the hair to grow strong and luxuriant. It removes all dandruff, thoroughly cleanses the hair of dust and excess oil, and makes it appear twice as abundant. Parisian Sage is a scientific tonic that gives the hair just what is needed to make it fluffy, soft and gloriously radiant; and pretty hair will surely increase the charm and beauty of even the plainest girl. —Adv. [Tong lie- Eitd Top ics | Flood of Old Metal In Berlin So great has been the flood of old metals in Berlin for melting purposes, that the war ministry has had to issue a statement, thanking the donors but declaring the lack of metal is not suf ficient to necessitate such sacrifice. "Of late," says the ministry, "there have been accumulating in the raw ma terials of war division of the ministry metal objects of all kinds from the household and the factory, even church bells, for the use of the army. It is impossible to thank each sender for his laudable interest, so the war ministry bespeaks in this way its gratitude. The army authorities do not wish to take advantage of this movement, because at the present there is no shortage in old metal. Aside from this fact, the less well-to-do circles of our population would be apt to compete in a spirit of sacrifice in giving to the Fatherland their metal, while in the case of a real shortage, larger supplies and objects such as roofs, could be used." * • * Women Conductors in Wales The first women conductors appeared on the Cardiff street cars on April 23 and were received enthusiastically by the townspeople. Almost the entire pop ulation of the place made an effort to obtain a ride on one or another of the cars officered by the new conductors, with the result that the novices ex perienced a rush which would have tried the ability of a veteran. That the new conductors were somewhat nervous was quite evident during the first few hours, but before the day was over they had become more confident. All the passengers, they said, were very polite, except over occasional mistakes in making change. Some of the mon who boarded the cars seemed to be in doubt as to whether or not to remove their hats inside the cars. For the present, the women will start work at 10 o'clock in the morning and quit at 8 in the evening. * • * Locusts a Menace to Egypt The locust invasion in Egypt and Palestine is proving a far more serious matter than war. The locusts, not withstanding energetic measures taken by the government and farmers, have spread the length and ibreadth of Egypt and are more numerous than at any time within twenty yea r s. They con stitute a very serious menace to the cotton crop, which is already well above ground. • . * 100,000 American Horses Shipped Cavalry has been so little used in this war and transportation so depend ant on motor vehicles that it is doubt ful whether the demand for American horses is as heavy now as it will be aft er the war, when the shortage will be felt on the farms of Europe. The United States has shipped fewer than 100,000 horses to the warring powers since hostilities began. If the number is raised to 240,000, only one per cent, of the American horse supply have been touched. The Swedish Government has agreed to the export of 10,600 horses, or ten per c6nt. of all the horses in Sweden. The entire number is to go to a single Danish dealer, presumably for export to Germany. * * * Pensions for Boy Soldiers The French Minister of War has de cided that boys under seventeen years old adopted by regiments or who have succeeded irregularly in joining the army, and have made regular campaigns and are wounded in the field, shall re ceive pensions as if regularly incorpor ated. RUSSIA ISSUES DENIAL OF DEFEATJN GALICIA Washington, May 7.—The Bussian Embassy yesterday received the follow ing dispatch from the Bussian Minister of Foreign Affairs: "Petrograd, May 5, 1915. "The reports from Berlin and Vi enna of a victory gained by the Ger mans and Austrians in Western Ga licia are absolutely unfounded. The battles that are proceeding now in that region give no foundation whatever to talk even of a partial success of our enemies. You are asked to contradict most emphatically the reports spread by the Germans. "SAZANOFF." THE GLOBE OPEN SATURDAY TILL 10 P. M. 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