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lie OWfIRSHIP OF PIIE LIS H. Kinnard, Noted Telephone Expert, Writes Article on Sub ject For the Telegraph Br L. H. Kinnard \'o more important question now pre its Itself for public consideration m the advocated acquisition and op ition of the nation-wide telephone items by the Federal Government. The people of this country, who alone II decide the issue, have had but nt opportunity to post themselves on ; subject: aside from the lengthy ar ments which have been submitted in iommendation form to both branches Congress, and which havo been given isiderablo circulation, practically thing has been directly said or wrlt i from which the public might de mine the real significance of such a •position. Certain factors are, however, well )reciateii- Telephone service in this I intry is universally conceded to be j i finest in tho world; the telephone Is j re widely used, and its availability, represented by tho number In sor e, is far greater than in any foreign d. In the Bell system alone there | inow 8,200,000 telephones as against s than 4,000,000 in Kurope and lees I m 1.000,000 In all other countries of i i world. As regards the number of j opliones per 100 population, here and ■oad, the latest reports that i k figures are nine for the ignited. tes and less than one for all of Eu- Herr and In Europe >espite this comparison, champions j the project of Government ownership nt to the European State-owned sys is as examples of successful develop nt and administration of the tele 3ne business. Even casual reference authoritative data indicates that the •rcise of Government monopoly and nershlp has hail the effect of dis uaging the development of the tele }ne and the perfection of the service Lhout exception. In most European intrios. the telephone plant has not sn modernized and still consists Rely of a type of Apparatus which s in use here fifteen or twenty years j. The great obstacle which lies in > path of telephone advancement ' oughout Europe is ihe Influence of : itics and lack of sufficient capital to : »vide facilities for the constantly In- j aslng demand. Tnvariably it is the ; ictlce to let the telephone traffic ] •rwhelm the facilities, and, as a re- j t. there is not only a long list of iple waiting from two to six months ' telephone service, but communlca- j ii within and between the large cities subject to long, exasperating delays. | 0 Government officials express their i fret, but declare that they can do .hing. This, too, notwithstanding the t that the average cost of telephone vice in the important, countries of rope is—figured Iti American dollars 1 cents—but SI less per year than in s country. AVheti we make proper nwance for the relative purchasing ver of money in this country and ■oad, we are impressed with the fact .t the average cost of service on the ;er side is greatly in excess of what s here. In many cases to the extent 100 to 200 per cent. In England n England,, where conditions are st comparable with those In this intry, it is found that the telephone terns, which were taken over bv the i-ernment a few years ago, have" now eriorated to such extent as to call th the widespread protest of the iple. Calls are handled Inefficiently, expansion of the telephone system 0 new territory or even to meet the reasing demand for service in thi ckly settled communities has not ' n carried on. and rates, in which isantial reductions were promised ! the Government, have undergone no mges. The employes, as well as the rons of the service, are dissatisfied, 1 the toll and long-distance service the laughing stock of the English iple. 'his and the telephone service of er State-owned European systems of illar character, however, is the ser e which advocates of Government nership on this side of the water are ding up as examples for comparison h that of our own country. 'here has been presented before lgress an array of figures which pur ts to show that Uncle Sam could ;e over the telephone systems, ln ase the efficiency of the service, still ro widely extend it, and, at the same e. reduce the rates. If this were sible, the arguments for Govern nt ownership would, indeed, be engthened. But in order to furnish n the same efficient and extended iphone service at rates Mppreclably ■er than aro now in efTect. it would necessary to reduce the operating tenses and construction costs. Is it hin the realm of probability that s could or would be done? Is there r striking example of efficiency and nomy in the administration of our ional business undertakings which uld lead the people of this country to expect? Considering- the wonted ravagance and Inertia of our neces ily changing political institutions, it oly does not seem that any substan . rate reductions could be promised this score. Political Anpevtm s regards the political aspect of the 'stion, tho transfer of the great army telephone employes to Federal ser e would only enhance the power of political party in control, and would vide additional seope for patronage rginia Darky Princess Will Help Convert Zulus With Husband She Found at Hampton Institute ,'„W..,/.*- ' Princess Madikane Quandiyane Cele, who was Julia Smith, a little darky before she went to Hampton Institute, Is going with her lu husband, son of a Zulu king, to convert the African negroes to Chrla nity. They married four months ago, and next week Cele and his bride I sail for Durban, on the east coast of Africa, and thence overland to the lu settlement, where they plan to build a school, where Cele will * » t ti e m ?i? ,h° w t0 read and write and maktj wagons and build houses, 3 Julia will instruct the women in housekeeping arte. Julia is a serious, plump, steady-eyed young person, who looks for rd to her new life with calmneaa and confidence, albeit the old father to om her husband is taking her la a reformed polygamist. He was once a Ehty prince in Zululand, was thla old savage, and, aa became his dignity, had many wives. But he had a yearning for greater wisdom and, hear that there were white men in th land who could give him wisdom, traveled many leagues to sit at their feet. They were missionaries, these Ite men. and through them he became a Christian—so much a Christian t lie renounced his princedom and turned missionary. He put away his es. all except Cole's mother. "My mother was the youngest and the prettiest: that is why he kept <>l« explained yesterday in a matter-of-fact *r»y. THURSDAY EVENING, "WATCHFUL WAITING" ALL RIGHT FOR /^tsTwOODm\ and favoritism which Is now recognized as the great disrupting force in the management of our national undertak ings. Tf we may place any reliance on the experience of telephone employes in England, among whom only dissatisfac tion has resulted from their transfer to the Government employment, there can be foreseen only a serious deteriora tion of the telephone service in this country as resulting from a like change over here. Good service the American people must and will have. And they should not lose sight of the fact that good service Is possibly only when the contentment of the employes ie pre served and their interests safeguarded in a vastly more substantial manner than now obtains under civil service employment, wherein ambition is chill ed and initiative discouraged. Under our present system of Federal and State regulations, all the benefits of public ownership obtain, without the manifold disadvantages which would result from Government ownership. The United States now has the widest avail ability and utilization of the telephone, the best service in the world, the high est degree of efficiency in every grade of the working force, and rates which are subject to complete review and regulation. Notwithstanding the propa ganda of the advocates of Government ownership provides that the telephone systems Bhall be delivered over to the political elements, despite the by no means uncertain evldonce of the com plete failure of the experiment in Eng land and in the other countries of Eu rope. It is essential that this subject be civen the fullest public consideration, lest, led on by promises that are im possible of fulfillment .the American people may be induced to take a step from which there is no turning back when the gravity of their error is—as it would Inevitably be—impressed up on them. IXJUNCTION HEARJXG MARCH 30 March 30 was fixed to-day by Presi dent Judge Kunkel as the date for the hearing of injunction asked for by Louis Begelfer, to restrain Mark E. Winfield and A. K. Thomas from cora , pleting the sale of a property at Sec j ond and Liberty streets. The injunc- I tion was asked for by Begelfer through Robert Rosenberg, his coun sel. According to the plaintiff's state ment. he had commissioned Winfield lo arrange with Mr. Thomas for the purchase of the property for $5,100. The teims stipulated were SSOO cash and a mortgage fofr the remainder. Winfield. Begelfer contends, endeav- I ored to close the deal by representing I that ho himself was the purchaser, 1 and not the plaintiff. TEJili HER THE TRUTH iDKAR MISS FAIRFAX: I am twenty, and have been keep | lng company with a girl two years I older for the last four yearn. I loved I this girl very much for the first three j years, and now my love Is growing | colder toward her all the time, and my salary is small and I must give my parents part of it, because they are poor and old. So I ask you for your advice about this girl, and what I should tell her and what excuse. GEORGE. Your letter is proof of the tragedy a long engagement always brings to the girl. If you do not love her, of course you must not marry her. So tell her what you have told me, and be sure you never do such an injustice to an other girl. "Dree" Boyer Isn't Much of a Judge of Mules, It Is Said Poor Director Charley Boyer took a little "flier" in mules yesterday, but the result wasn't Joyous; it caused quite a ! little flurry at yesterday's session of l the Poor Directors in fact, isot that j the mules Mr. Boyer purchased weren't j nice, well-behaved, regular mules; but j they weren't heavy enough for the j work a new pair of mules were requir- I ed to do at the Almshouse. That's the ; whole story in fact. Here are a few de- j tails: Two mules were needed at the Alms- j house. Mr. Boyer heard of a sale across j the river and essayed to agreeably sur- j prise his fellow-members of the board j by going down to the sale and buying | the mules. He doesn't know much about> 'em. about mules, that is, but the pair i seemed all right, and Mr. Boyer said 1 he thought he could save the county money. When the Almshouse steward saw the pair, however, he guffawed; when President Walter and Director Man- j ning, of the Poor Board, heard about the weight of Mr. Boyer's purchases, they guffawed likewise. They're both —President Walter and Director Man ning, that Is—are authorities on mules. Hence the laughter. The fact that the mules were entire- 1 ly too light for the heavy work of the I poor farm was borne in doubly upon Mr. Boyer, and be effected another trade and got a pair of heavier mules.' That's all there is to the story. Tango and Other Present Day Dances Are Aiding Manufacturers of Silk By .Associated Press New York, March 28.—The tango. ! and other South American dances, ■ which have caused a notable revival j of this form of amusement through out the country have had a direct and stimulating effect upon silk industry' "by reason" said Ramsay Peugnet, secretary of the Silk Association of, America, in his report at the annual meeting of that body yesterday, "of the greater number of dancing gowns required." Continuing Mr. Peugnet said: "The custom of dancing in the afternoons as well as at dinner and after the theater has become almost universal in New York city and the craze for this form of amusement is rapidly spreading to other cities and towns throughout the country. "Every woman who yields herself to this most popular fad, needs a much larger wardrobe, which usually means a greater variety of dancing and din ner costumes of silk. To meet this rapidly increasing demand our silk manufacturers have brought out many ; fabrics especially designed for dancing, gowns." TEACHERS TO ORGANIZE By Associated Press East Liverpool. Ohio, March 26. Teachers in the public schools here to day announced that steps were being taken (o organize a labor union and, they would seek affiliation with the American Federation of Labor. J HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Son of Oil Magnate Flayed by Court HEM H. New York, March 26. —Justice Clark of the Appelate Division of the Su preYne Court severely criticized Henry H. Rodgers, Jr., son of thd late Stand ard Oil magnate. In a suit being brought by the Messiah Home for Crippled Children against young Rogers, who clouded the title to the home by claiming that he holds a $600,000 morrgage against the institu tion. The home asserts that the entire property of tHe home was donated out right by the elder Rogers. ULIDDEN TOUR PLANS Chicago, March 26.—The 1814 Glid den tour will be a nonmotorstop run .between Chicago and Boston, if the event is awarded to the Chicago Auto-i mobile Club, it was announced to-day. I IT CM ABOUT GETTING UP EARLY Reluctance to Early Rising isn't Indication of Insanity, Though, Court Says TT"I I -Mi 1 Iteiuctance, even J/Vjl-JLLA peevishness, at ' Sijn rustling out of bed ! room * took yester j day in directing the release of Jacob jSenft from the State Insane hospital, following habeas corpus proceedings. ! Son ft had been an inmat® of the | asylum for more than a year and in j that time he declares he hadn't been I treated as well as he would have | liked. Anyway he wanted to get out j and applied to the Dauphin county | court for release through his attor iney, Paul A. Kunkel. j Physicians at the asylum didn't J think that Senft should be allowed his j liberty yet. And on the witness stand ! yesterday one of them told of the I moodiness of Senft, of his queev ideas, and of his fits of temper. I "He's got to the point where he j won't get up in the morning when he's 'called." declared one witness. "The j other patients get up at a certain hour but lie just won't. And his behavior then " j "Well, how does he behave when j he's finally awakened In the morn jing?" Inquired the court, interestedly. [ "Oh, he's irritable and peevish." ! Judge Henry decided that Senft is j sane. ' To Print Mercantile Appraiser's 'jList. —The Telegraph, the Star Inde : pendent and the Lykens Standard • were selected by the county commis i sioners yesterday to fcrint the mercan | tile appraiser's list for 1914. lleatiug Plant at Almshouse.-—Bids | for the installation of a brand new I steam heating system at the county | almshouse will be opened within a jfew sveel<s by the poor directors, plans j having been approved yesterday at ! the meeting of the board. The plans I were drawn by H. B. Eowe and the .preparation of the specifications is | now under way. Got First Mercantile Ijicense,—El j len Gutelius, proprietress of one. of i the city's oldest and most widely- I known women's notion stores, is the | ilrst city merchant to obtain a mer- I cantile license for 1914. County | Treasurer A. H. Bailey issued the li | cense to her yesterday. ! Got Uast Quarterly Repair Hill.— i A warrant for $3,875 for street re i pairing was paid over yesterday to Contractor Charles P. Walter by th.i I city treasurer. Th<» money is the last iof the annual appropriation set aside : last year for the purpose and repre sents the past quarter's work. Date Permits Yesterday. —Among ! the later building permits issued yes- Iterday were: Francis Blessing, dwell ing, Zarker street, $3,400; John Hor |bine, alterations, 434 South Seven teenth, SIOO. i Kunkel to Conduct Juvenile Court. —President Judge Kunkel will con- I duct March juvenile court to-morrow I morning and the youthful offenders j will be arraigned by District Attorney j Stroup. Suspended sentences will be heard in the afternoon. To-day's Building Permits.—Augus tus Wildman, five 3-story mansard, .north side of Schuylkill west of Jeffer son, $6,000; George and Stephen 1-iego, two 3-story mansard, south side of Cumberland east of Fourteenth, $3,000; William Haines, addition to 1713 North Twelfth, SSO. At the Register's Office. —The will of Elizabeth Lenlier, Washington township, was probated and letters were issued to Philip linker; letters on the estate of J. F. Horstick, Swa tara township, to J. H. Horstick. Realty Transfers.—Among to-day's realty transactions were: E. F. Caster to State. 411 Filbert street, $1,500: W. Webster to J. Nebinger, Steelton, $4,000; Mary A. Klinger to D. W. Chubb, Halifax township, $5,660; W. L. Gorgas to Charles A. Wilson, 78 North Eighteenth, $3,000. WGHT AT THIRD AND MARKE7T In the presence of several hundred people, who gathered around to see the fray, J. B. Winn and W. B. Sour bier, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, en gaged in a fist fight which landed both in jail. The fight started, it Is said, when Sourbier saw Winn with his wife. He ordered Winn to leave Mrs. Sourbler's side and lie refused to do so, say the police. Then the battle wus on. HIT BY BRICKBAT Using a heavy board for a bat ana bricks for a ball during a game of baseball yesterday afternoon. George Ensminger, of 1552 Fulton street, had bis middle finger on his right hand smashed. A brick hit George on the finger. J MARCH 26,1914. By Associated Press Houghton, Mich. Earth shocks were felt throughout the Michigan cop per country to-day. No damage was done. The distrtibance is supposed to have been caused by an air blast in one of the mines. These blasts are believed I to be explosions of Imprisoned air In old workings. l.ondon. Slackness of business is expected In financial circles here to i lead many members of the London Stock Exchange to drop their member- I ship for a year. Twenty-one resigna- | Hons have thus far been posted. Rome. lt was tentatively decided j to-day by the Pope to hold a consistory either at the end of April or the be ginning of May. unless unforeseen cir cumstances should intervene. It is as sumed that about a dozen cardinals will be appointed. Stcubenville. Olilo. Officers of the United Mine Workers' of America came here to-day to advise the striking min ers from Colliers, W. Va„ who were last night driven from their camp on the ; property of the Welt Virginia and ; Pittsburgh Coal Company, across the Ohio river to this place. Norfolk. Yn. The wreck of the I steamer Monroe, sunk in January by ] the Nantucket with a loss of forty-one | lives, has been blown up by the reve nue cutter Onondaga, which returned | to port here to-day. WlUemHtnd, Curacao. The politi- , oal situation in Caracas is reported to be extremely unsettled. Many promi nent persons have been placed under arrest, Including Colonel Samuel Me- Uill. instructor of the Venezuelan army, who, however, was afterward re leased. Terre Haute, lnd. Ernest Mc-Wil liams, the 15-year-old boy who on Tues day fought a forty-flve minutes' gun battle with the police, and who received numerous wounds, died of his injuries i at a hospital here 'early to-day. Uoston, Mnna. Woman suffragists from all parts of the State planned to | fill the galleries of the House to-day to listen to the debate on the suffrage ; resolve, which already has passed the I Senate, I.cxliiKtou, Ky, The baseball team ! of the Kentucky State University, went on strike here to-day because of an announcement that the Spring I schedule had been cut from fourteen I games to twelve games. Chicago. 1.. John W. Martin, an • actor, to-day testified to the identity of John 13. Koettcrs as the man who ] registered at a hotel in November, 1912, with Mrs. Emma Kraft, of Cincinnati. ! who was found slain witli a hammer in a room of the hotel later. Kanna* City, Kan. Andrew Jack son Sheridan, a writer of verse, was , drowned to-day, his friends believe in I Kansas river, a stream he often me- I morialized in poems. LEADERS CANNOT VOTE ' Special la The Telegraph Greenwich, Conn., March 26.—Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton and Mrs. ITer ' man Pauli, suffrage leaders, after • years of work for the suffrage cause • have discovered that even if the wo -1 men of Connecticut should receive the " right to vote, they individually could ' neither vote nor hold office. Both mar , ricd foreigners who never have be come naturalized American citizens. | QL'EEX COMING TO AMERICA i Sofia, March 26. —Queen Eleanor's , plans for her forthcoming visit to \ America were definitely announced to ' day. She will start on May 21, sailing ! for New York on board the steamer - Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. King Fer dinand will also visit America but later if the present plans hold good. He 1 intends to go to the San Francisco Ex s position. ] MARKIEI) BY ALDERMAN Miss Ruth Baker and Steve Makek. of South Ninth street, were married this morning by Alderman Charles I Emmet Murray. Sdfu &fr&ctic&l 7(ome Vress Prepared Especially For This Newspaper FOR AFTERNOON WEAR. A dressy design carried out In two different kinds of silk and trimmed with moire belt and revers. The vest and turn-over collar are of lace. Here one sees an unusually smart version of the frock developed In wide ly contrasting materials. The skirt Is made up of twlUed sills, while the little jacket blouse Is carried out in Dresden silk, trimmed with a belt and revers of moire and turn-down collar of hand some lace. ■ • To make the dress requires 2% yards ef H-ineh material for the blouse and yards of 44-inch or I yards of 27- PILMEH Will HIVE OPPONENT, BUN SIB Warns of Democratic Defeat Un less Stroudsbnrg Man Is Beaten at Primaries Special la The Telegraph Wilkes-Barre, Pa., March 26. With Michael J. Ryan and Judge Bon niwell, of Philadelphia, us the speak ers, opponents of the Palmer-McCor micl: faction in this county opened the county campaign here last night with a mass meeting held at Hamp ton Hall. Mr. Ryan startled his hearers by an open and emphatic demand for a Democratic candidato to oppose A. Mitchell Palmer for the nomination for United States Senator, and declared he had information from men emi nent in Mr. Palmer's own county, the publication of which would Jeopard I Democratic victory, if Mr. Palmer ! should be the nominee for Senator. I After the adjournment of the meet | ing Mr. Ryan said he would not, at ! present, reveal the source of this in \ formation, adding: "Sufficient unto the day." He did say, however, that announce ment of a candldae to oppose Palmer would be made at the Jefferson dinner to be held ift Philadelphia April 2. No intimation was given as to the iden tity of the candidate. FOREIGN LABOR NOT TOLERATED IN JAPAN Impressed by the substantial indus ! trial progress of Japan, Mr. Brown j observed that the low wages paid : seemed almost unbelievable. In on» institution where more than a thou sand people were employed, largely; skilled labor, he found that the sal j arles were only about ten to fifteen I per cent, of what similar workers in ! Massachusetts would receive. In tho i factories, practically all of the Super intendents and foremen are natives: foreign engineers are employed in an advlsoir capacity, however. Bright-. Japanese students are sent to the United Slates. England and Germany. | to study engineering, and on their re turn are prepared for positions of au- I thorlty. The Japanese foremen oould 1 do more with native help than with | foreigners, and the efficiency of the i native is marked. Foreign labor is not j tolerated in Japan, and any attempt, to bring in outside labor would, it is felt, result In a revolution. A very important man in tho industrial life of Japan claimed that the world-wide ' problem of the high cost of living ex ' ists in Japan, as it. does in the rest of the world, and the only solution he i could see in the country's Industrial life depends on the introduction of more labor-saving machinery. Public utilities are managed and owned by Japanese in conjunction with foreigners, but the wage-earners are entirely Japanese. While the Ja i panese welcome foreign capital, they i i are willing to help finance the risks, if i! they feel that there is an opportunity for the advancement of Japanese ln • j dustries on a broad scale. ■ Already we have the report of one ..Japanese house, having a branch in • iSan Francisco, underbidding American . j publishers for a lot of textbooks re .! quired by the public schools. The or der was sent to Japan, the books pub lished in that country, and within the specified time delivered to the schools in San Francisco. Is this not food for thought for our free trade theorists? — i "An American Observer in Asia," \ Mitchell Mannering, in National Maga zine for February, 1914. Inch material for the skirt. The blouse is a particularly desirable design be cause it may be worn with any skirt. There are two pieces of the pattern to be placed on a lengthwise fold of the goods—the peplum (M) snd the back (H). The outer front and sleeve, (O) and <J) respectively, are arranged on a lengthwise thread of the material. Small "o" perforations outline the square or round neck, likewise the short sleeve. For the lining, % yard of 36-inch ma-" terlal will be required. To make the lining, take up dart in front as per forated, turn hem at notches. Adjust shield on right front centers, neck and shoulder edges even. Close seams as notched, close center-back and shoul der seams. Sew square and standing collars to neok edge as notched. Close under-arm seam of outer blouse as notched, close shoulder seam. Gath er lower edge between double "TT" perforations and 2 Inches above. Cen ter-front Indicated by large "O" per forations. Sew round collar te neck edge as notched. » For short sleeve, turn under edge on slot perforations, lap to small "o" per forations, notches even and stitch. Sew cuff to lower edge as notched. Sew sleeve in armhole of outside as notched, double "oo" perforation at un-t der-arm seam, easing in any fullness. Arrange outside on lining, oentera and under-arm seams even; stitch lower edges together. If made with round neck, sew square collar te neck edge, center-backs even and to neck edge of outer front. Peplum.—Turn hem on single email "o" perforations. Gather upper edge between double "TT" perforations. Adjust to position, stitching upper edge over upper row of gathers In out. er front and back, center-backs even, bringing front edge to small "o" per foration near front edge of lining, and notch at under-arm seam. This model Is also effective In ratine, cotton crepe and linen. CUTTING CtllOß BAIf . m» ** cr Waist No. 6411. Sizee 22, 14, >l, 11. 40, 42 and 44 bust. Price of pattern, 16 cents. Skirt No. 6474. Sites 12, 14. SI, SI, 40, 42 and 44 bust Price of It cents. 7