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8 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME ' Pounded 1831 Published evenings except Sunday by THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.. Telegraph Building;, Federal Square. E. J. STACKPOLE, Pres't and Editor-in-Chief F. R. OYSTER, Business Manager. ©US M. BKEINMETZ, Managing Editor. * Member American latlon and Penn rjßj S sylvanla Assoclat- Eaatern office, Has 'lS 3 IflS Bf Brooks, Fifth Ave |g| g m nue Building, New Gcs Building, Chi -I—— — — cago. 111. Entered at the Post Office in Harris burg, Pa., as second class matter. -ijSiggfo;. By carriers, six cents a week; by mall. $3.00 a year in advance. Inora dally average circulation for the three months ending April 1, 1010, it 22,432 * These figures are net. All returaed, unsold and damaged copies deducted. WEDNESDAY EVENING, APROL 26 Occupation is the scythe of time.— NAPOLEON I. THE "REVOI/T" IN IRELAND EARLY reports of the disturbance in Dublin yesterday indicate that it was more in the nature of a riot than a revolt. The fact that the disorder followed close upon the heels of the capture of Sir Roger Casement red-handed in 1 lie midst of an effort to land German arms in Ire land indicates that the Dublin trou ble is most likely an echo of the Case ment plot. It is not probable that Gernfitny sent munitions to Ireland unless the imperial government was assured that they would fall into hands unfriendly to England, and Dublin would be most naturally the center of any revolutionary organization. That the uprising was isolated also leads to the belief that it was sporadic and no part of a concerted movement for a general call to arms in all parts of the country at once. It is not likely that the disorder will spread. At the very outset of the war Germany predicted that with England attacked in front Ireland would take opportunity to rise in the rear, but in a moment, almost, the home rule dis pute was lost to sight and regiment after regiment of loyal Irish entered the service of the King and are now fighting with distinction in France and elsewhere. At the beginning of the war, with the British government striving fev erishly to raise and equip armies with which to meet the sledge-hammer blows of Germany, an uprising in Ire land might have had serious results, hut with millions of men now in uni form and ready for service, who have not. stirred out of England, anything that discontented Irish might attempt could be easily forestalled. Germany's plan for harassing England through Ireland is two years two late. SIGNS OF A GREAT OFFENSIVE IT would not be surprising, in the light of recent events, if develop ments show the attack on Verdun by the Germans to have been designed primarily to interfere with Joffre's plans for a great offensive. The terrific onslaught, we now know, could not have brought the Ger man armies one step nearer Paris, but it was hurled at a point which could be successfully defended only by vast numbers of men and a great number of big guns. Perhaps the German war staff hoped to harry Joffre Into hurry ing the offensive that all signs indi rate he is planning. If so, it has failed, for Verdun still stands staunchly as ever and Joffre goes »h pa if, frosh mll lions from England into position, bringing up the quarter million Rus sians that have been detailed for serv ice in France and piling high the stores of ammunition that must be used if an efTort is to be made to blast the Germans out of their trenches in France. It may well be that the French drive which began so unexpectedly last Fall and stopped so suddenly was meant to show that the Germans could be dislodged and that the campaign now helng worked out is the result of this demonstration. At all events. Joffre appears to be preparing to hurl another of those "thunderbolts" which he is said to ha-ve "conjured up" when he threw the Germans back at the battle of the Marne, HOPE IN DELAY EVERY day of delay, every new conference of officials, increases the hope that Germany is framing a note that will accede to American demands in the U-boat controversy. It may be, however, that the imperial government is merely endeavoring to formulate a reply that will bring about more negotiations and more note writ ing. while the sinking of neutral ships goes on. Germany's promises are made so lightly and broken so easily that this country in all events must be guided In the future by deeds rather than by expressed intentions. It Is difficult to understand how, should an other American life be lost or endan gered by Illegal submarine activities, the President could do other than sum marily sever friendly relations with Berlin. . Rut even should the imperial gov ernment sincerely enter into an agree ment not to violate the rights of neu trals in its submarine warfare against WEDNESDAY EVENING, the shipping of its enemies, the con cession will be as much an indictment of the weakness and inefficiency of the Wilson administration as a victory for its statesmanship. As Colonel Roose velt said the other day. If Germany yields to the threats of the United States now, it would have yielded even more readily at the very start of the war had this government assumed a firm and unyielding attitude with re spect to the rights of its citizens. Whatever happens now, the deaths of Hundreds of men, women and children aboard torpedoed ships "must tor charged up to the tardiness and weak kneed policies of the Wilson adminis tration. No belated diplomatic victory, desirable though It may be at this time, can removi that stain. LEST WK FORGOT WOODROW WILSON, in an ar ticle in the American lawyer two months after Theodore Roosevelt's retirement from the presi dency, said: \ Government control, which we are undertaking so extensively and with so light a heart, sets up, not a reign of law, but a reign of discretion and individual Judg ment on the. part of Govern ment officials in the regulation of the business of stock companies owned by innumerable private indi viduals and supplying the i.hief In vestments of thousands of commu nities. I can see no radical differ ence between Governmental owner ship and Governmental regulation of this discretionary kind. * * * There is no logical stopping place between that and the actual conduct of business enterprises by the Government. Such methods of regulation, it may be safely pre dicted, will sooner or later be com pletely discredited by experience. President Wilson Is sponsor for the bill providing for government owner ship of the merchant marine. Legis lation is pending for a government owned munitions plant, and an appro priation of $20,000,000 is being consid ered for a government-owned nitrate plant. The government will construct the Alaska railroad and probably our battleships. The Federal Trade Com mission is attending to the regulation of business to the minutest detail, while the Federal Reserve Board brow beats the banks. The country is being regulated until a man doesn't dare make a move without the advice of expert counsel and then he lies awake nights fearing that counsel may not have read the law in the light of the Washington bureaucracy's interpre tation. Meanwhile the transformation from a representative to a commission form of government finds "no logical stopping place." A "MELTING POT" EXAMPLE S OEM BODY called the United States a "melting pot" for hu manity and the name stuck. An Incident occurring in New York yesterday recalls an interesting phase ( of our national history and shows that the "melting" process is as old as the country and that It works under even very difficult conditions. Contractors dug up a long buried row of huts In New York, used during the Revolu tion as quarters for the Hessians brought over here by the English to fight Americans. The bulk of these hirelings were captured by the Amer icans and the foreigners liked their new-found friends so well they de cided to stay with them. They came to fight us and they remained to be come American citizens. Their de scendants served in the Civil War on the side of the Union and In the Span ish-American war. A LESSON FOR HARRISBURG THE activities planned by Steelton in observance of Arbor Day, April 28, shoudl be a lesson against the lethargy shown in regard to such events in Harrisburg. Scarcely an Arbor Day passes in the thriving mill town to the south of the city that is not celebrated in some practical way. This time it is planned io have the school children plant hun dreds of trees in the Kelker Park tract. Will not the Harrisburg authorities do something to instill in the coming citizenry of this municipality a proper civic duty and a proper appreciation of the beautiful? There is no good reason why every child in Harrisburg should not take some part in an Arbor Day celebration. Thousands of spots in the city parks, nooks about the school buildings and barren stretches of street could be made beautiful for all time by the planting of trees. Why not do something constructive along this line hereafter? It may not be too late to plan a city-wide observance for the coming Arbor Day. STEELTON PROGRESSING TWO commendable accomplish ments stand forth In to-day's news of the campaign now being waged in Steelton to obtain an ade quate system of parks and playgrounds for the borough. First of these is the welcome an nouncement that the Pennsylvania Steel Company, recently acquired by the Schwab interests, has thrown its great influence on the side of progress ! by announcing through General Man ager Quincy Bent that It will con tribute S6OO to the fund for establish ing playgrounds. Such a course on the part of the borough's chief industry cannot help but instill a feeling of confidence In the minds of Steelton people that the bor ough will prosper under the new order of things. The effect It will have upon the success of the entire recreation movement is almost inestimable. With the big corporation forces in favor of such a purely welfare project, political and other forces will surely "see the light" and also line up to help assure success for the movement. The second commendable accom plishment is the endorsement by the Municipal league of an ordinance creating a parks and playgrounds com mission to direct the recreation work. Such a commission should be looked upon with favor by the borough coun cil, whose burdensome duties It will lessen without in any way curtailing Its powers. It will also assure a care ful expenditure of any money entrusted to its care and will obtain for the borough nonpolitical management of i its parks and playgrounds. i | TELEGRAPH'S PERISCOPE —Looking forward over the long road leading to the November elec tions, running for office just now has all the appearances of a marathon. —The world may owe every man a living, but it's hard to collect for the fellow who comes around only on payday. —lf only the other fellow enjoyed "our talk US mctcfr ts we tie, what a world of wonderful conversationalists this would be. —Says Bouck White, "It's hell to be poor," and the Bible says it's a pretty hard squeeze for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of Heaven, so the prospects seem mighty poor for most o? us, —Slowly but surely Nebraska is learning some things about Bfyan that the country at large knew long since. —Ah, ha, now we have it! Colonel Watterson has discovered that Wall Street is behind the Ford candidacy in I order to elect Roosevelt. Strong logic from Kentucky! 1 EDITORIAL COMMENT 1 A British opponent of conscription says that a conscript army can't fight. The German Army, for example.— Nashville Southern Lumberman. Captain Franz Von Papen has been sent to Holland to "do work similar to that which he did in America." The Dutch do have their troubles. New York World. Mr. Roosevelt says that President Wilson is the 'friendi of Mexican ban ditry. But General Villa probably thinks that he has an odd way of dis playing his friendship. Nashville Southern Lumberman. Germany apologizes to Switzerland for unintentional intrusion. How changed!— Syracuse Post-Standard. New York's Better Morals [New York World] After teaching Sunday school in New York continuously since 1861, Mrs. Miles E. Jenkins, now eighty four years old, thinks that private morals are better than tliey used to be. She sees fewer drunkards on the streets and believes there is less vice in proportion to the population than there was fifty years ago. Young people are 'cleaner and more moral," and this notwithstanding their greater personal liberty. "In 1860 a girl was afraid to go out on the street alcne. Now even a child can go to theaters, but most women would not go in 1860." Of course all professional moralists know how mistaken this venerable observer is in her conclusions, and social service workers and uplift in vestigators will smile at lier credulity. Is not everything rotten in this mod ern Denmark? Mrs. Jenkins even has a kindly word for the present styles of women's clothes. "Some of them were pretty bad in 1860, too," she says. A woman who sees only the good side of things would never do for social research. What perversity of spirit moves her to laud the present when her obvious duty was to contrast its shortcomings with the golden past? It is comforting to have the testimony of even one survivor from a, former generation that the good old times were worse than these degenerate modern times which in tlieir turn will be held up to the re proof of a generation to come. Navy Yard Activity [Philadelphia Bulletin] "Hurry orders" are said to have gone out to all the navy yards in the country to get every available ship at the stations ready for commission at the earliest possible moment. Civilian workmen not being available in sufficient number at some of the yards, the enlisted men have donned the overaalls and been assigned to the various tasks. Activity at the Philadelphia yard, and also at Boston, where there are thirty vessels of various kinds and sizes, is described as "feverish." Certainly, preparation of this character is not In good order. The emergency, if one exists, is not of sudden nature. The Lusitania was sunk nearly a year ago, and ever since that time there has been a reasonable possibility at least that this nation misht be compelled to flglit for its rights and honor. The possibility lias been developing all the time, as crisis has given way to crisis; Congress has been in session the greater part of the time; the con dition of the navy has been a matter of open discussion. The Secretary of th» Navy, at one time asserting that the navy was fit to meet any fleet in the world, finally has been induced to admit that it is inadequate. But wllhal. the fleet is nearly as unready as it was* a yeaTago.artt ho riant ion for needed personnel is wanting, new work is still held up and such repair work as has been within the province of the yards has been the subject of dawdling. Explanation is offered, officially, that the hurry orders are a test of the capacity of the Navy to make reody at short notice. They are, at least, evidence of the incapacity of the system of naval administration In cluding Congressional authority, to he ready, as a navy should be for an emergency, not to speak of a situa tion which might have been foreseen for months. Militant Harvard [New York Times] There are some pacillsts at Har vard, but they have not been allowed to create an exaggerated impression as to either their number or their importance. The Harvard the Amer ican public sees and hears is distinct ly militant, or at least enthusiastic ally willing to be. and not only have considerably more than 200 Harvard men demonstrated practical sympathy for the Allies in Europe by enlisting for service of one or another kind in the field, but the undergraduate students as a body have gone into actual and active training to fit them selves for becoming officers of volun teers. They are not only advocates of preparedness, but they are prepar ing. Ex-President Eliot and Presi dent Lowell have not. labored in vain, and the results they have achieved by preaching a sound and efficient patriotism must—well, they deserve the attention it is to be hoped they are receiving from the other Amer ican colleges. Air Power of Future [Hartford Courant] When the flying machines become lords of the air, Great Britain's supremacy on Iho seas will be a hol low possession. She will have to be come also mistress of the air if the tisrht little island Is to remain practi cally immune from attack. Militar ism. with its hlphly developed aviation department, will become more danger ous than navaliism. HARRISBURG tfefcfc TELEGRAPH foltttC* fcK By the Ex-Oomn>itteemMi Men who have been following the trend of national politics the last six or eight weeks to-day expressed the opinion that the conditions which pre vailed in Massachusetts and other States which held primary elections yesterday wotrld be found in other Commonwealths. There was a dis position last night to consider Massa chusetts as indicative of the general sentiment of the nation, some men harking back to the campaign of 1912 for parallels between the Bay State and Pennsylvania and Illinois. The most striking thing about the Massachusetts result, in addition to the big portion of men elected as un instructed delegates, was the light vote. In this State there are many men active in politics who admit that the general run of Republican voters are not interested in factional fights and that this is not a year in which to stir tip a row. If Massachusetts is any thing to go by there will be a light vote in Pennsylvania and more un instructed delegates that some people are now counting upon. —Mayor Thomas B. Smith declared in Philadelphia last night that he was still for harmony and would be glad to do anything to bring It about. Some significance is attached to the reiteration of this harmony platform by the Mayor and the Philadelphia Inquirer to-day expressed the belief that there is still a possibility of har mony. (In the other hand the Philadelphia Press and North Amer ican can not see any glimmerings. This is what the Mayor is Quoted as saying: ' X haven't talked politics to-day, simply because no one came to see me on the subject. I have nothing to say concerning my interview on Monday with Senator McNichol. As to whether the Vares and the Penrose factions are getting together, you will have to ask them. I am still ready to do anything in my power to bring about harmony." —The row between the rehabilita tion and reorganization wings of the Pennsylvania State Democracy has been extended to the county organ izations and a battle is now on for the chairmanship of the Allegheny county Democratic committee. Joe GuiTey, who made a harmony flicker with the old Guffey-Brennen faction, has op position. Some of the officers of tha committee have resigned and are out In the open making war on the besses. —Congressman Liebel is touring the State in his campaign against the leadership of A. Mitchell Palmer and Palmer is to start out next week on a tour which will cover this city and other counties which have been favor able to the reorganizers. —Director William H. Wilson has refused to interfere with Philadelphia firemen or policemen being members of political clubs. The charges of activity of police in politics are being investigated. The situation in Phila delphia is meanwhile becoming strained and some fights have occur red right in city hall over politics. To add to the general lively state it lias been found that a new subway contract is necessary. —Luzerne county Republicans are looking for a fine old fight to take place this year among the Democratic clpns. They have already started to call names and It looks as though there would be an old time Garinan- Lenahan row. —The Brumbaugh people are much encouraged by the interest shown in the Scranton conference held by FredeHc W. Flletz in the interest of the Governor's candidacy. The work outlined at that time is to be pushed with vigor. —Speaker Ambler toured Lancaster and York counties yesterday. He was accompanied by Congressman Lafean and R. S. Frey in York county. —Penrose was given quite a send off by Eighteenth ward Republicans in Philadelphia. Prominent men made speeches in favor of uninstruct ed delegates. —The Brumbaugh organization is being perfected in Lehigh and Berks counties according to word sent out from Reading last night. —The Philadelphia North American says that it is the Penrose plan to defeat the big loan as a drive at Mayor Smith. The Mayor will go on the stump for the loan. —The Philadelphia Press in dis cussing the opening of the head quarters of the Penrose committee In Philadelphia yesterday says the ob jects of the Penrose people as set forth are as follows: Public agitation for the impeach ment of Governor Brumbaugh. Similar agitation for the impeach ment of Mayor Smith. Defeat of the *47,000,000 general improvement loan. Enactment by the next Legislature of an amendment to the Shern bill making it a malfeasance for a public official, either municipal or State, to issue political orders. —The—new—plank,—which- was added yesterday, provides for the organiza tion of a rival central committee if the Administration forces as a result of the May primaries retains its ma jority influence in the Republican City Committee. —The Philadelphia Record to-day says of the Democratic party row: "Organizations to support the Llebel ticket are now being perfected in every county and a headquarters to direct the tight in Western Pennsyl vania has been opened In Pittsburgh. Congressman Llebel last night took occasion to stamp as falsehoods the rumors emanating from the opposi tion to the effect that he has been opposed to President Wilson. "As a member of Congress,' Mr. Llebel said, 'I have always supnorted all the policies of President Wilson and ex pect to continue to do so.' His declaration is also expected to put at rest any rumors that the National Administration would interfere in the Pennsylvania Tight." Not Good For Labor Measured solely as an industrial en terprise. the manufacture and sale of liauor Is not a good thing for labor. What I mean is this: Take $10,000,000 and invest it in farms, machine shops, railroads, coal mines, saw mills, steel works or brew eries and distilleries and you will dip cover that far fewer men are hired to operate the liquor manufactories than to operate any of the other Industries. Liquor-making is an industry that requires big capital and little labor. Tt takes plenty of money out of the worker's pocket without nuttlnr much money In it.—Glrard, in Public ledger. OXE COJTSOI.ATIOX By Wing Dinger Prices on this thing and that thing Have been rising while the war Has been raging, till they're higher Than they've ever been before. There is just one consolation That I'm sure will chase the frown Caused by such conditions—prices On suit balls have downward icons. THE CARTOON OF THE DAY ANOTHER DRIVE HALTED? —From (hr New York World. r _ . BRIGHT COLORS I—'' , " , By Frederic J. Haskin k. J AFTER dressing him for several | fenerations in the dullest and I most monotonous of clothes, the style designers are now hestowlng up- 1 on man a touch of decoration and color. The readiness with which men adopt j the new styles, may indicate that they are secretly rebellious at the somber monotony of their apparel, which for- j merly consisted of gay plumes, ricli velvets and laces, and that they are going to insist upon a recrudescence of ; gay effects. I.a x t Spring the modish man wore his favorite flowers on his necktie and j this year they are marvelous crea- \ tions of colors, consisting largely of striped foliage and designs usually as- ; sociated with wallpaper. Shirts, too, which used to be quiet and unobtrusive atTalrs, have become distinctly self-assertive. Moreover, certain sartorial equipment which for j years enjoyed a permanent and es- | tabllshed position has been attacked { on the charge of discomfort. Thus the derby has been thrust from its high j status of popularity, and under the leadership of Pierre IjOtl many coura- ! geous males are discarding the stilt: collars. Men, who were wont to raise loud j and raucous voices in the discussion of the idiosyncrasies of woman's wear, I have suddenly begun to realise that} there are a few Improvements to be desired In their own clothing—that the j feminine slave to fashion Is no more restricted by decrees from Paris than Is the modern masculine person by | styles created in New York and I*on- j don. In fact, the latter is even more j bound by convention. No woman is ever publicly ridiculed because she | wears a straw hat after the fifteenth of September, but a man who attempts such a thing rarely enjoys it. When he does buy his new Kail hat it is , certain to be like thousands of other men's hats, even to the band around the crown. Indeed, it has long been the popular idea that no greater cala- ; I mity could befall a man than to wear , a hat, or a suit or a pair of shoes which was absolutely unique and dif ferent from anybody else's. In his ties, shirts and hose only is there any de- > gree of freedom of choice, and this ' : season it amounts to actual liberty. I The latest shipments- of shirt ma- i terials from abroad include various j color combinations, such as pale blue | with old gold stripes, old rose with [ I black stripes, gray with green and lavender stripes; and plain colors such as peony pink, violet, deep heliotrope | and tulip yellow. Apparently, this is | a striped season—there are also strip- i ; ed suits, striped ties and striped hose. j I Checks are also coming in for their, I share of attention, in which the most I , recent novelty Is the checked hat to j match the checked suit. AVith stripes and checks of all ma- j j terials and colors ranging from old gold to violet; with highly ornate neck- j ties and hose; gaily colored handker-; ; chiefs and shirts, and with the col-, lar cut at every conceivable angle and , trimmed with small pearl buttons, it j I would appear to the casual observer i that there was every chance for a man | ! to express any individuality he posses-! THE STATF- FROM DAf TO DW There Is a Philadelphia man, Rosenthal by name, who is unique in his line, that of evading work. Hav ing proved liis ability to maintain his entity for a period of ten years with out doing a bit of work, he is now making a visit to the county prison untl! he can provide concrete evidence of liis good faith to protect wife and children. "It was too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer," said he. A frisky wind, one of the sort lhat snatches caps and imitates the famous Flatlron corner for mischief, seized upon bills to the amount of $l5O which little Louis Sclilanger, of Berwick, was carrying to the bank for his father, and carried them gaily across lots to spots unknown, at least to Louis. Louis is just tall enough to reach the mantelpiece, too! Montgomery County Commissioners are advising the constables to get after all dogs which do not bear license tags. Death is stalking in their canine footsteps. • Mrs. Martha E. Lewis, an pcto genarian of Spring City, has an Easter eg? that she dyed when a little girl. No, hard boiled! A band of youths living in Lansdale have become entirely too conversant with the plots that find their origin and completion in hair-raising dime novels, that class of literature at once harmful and instructive. Robberies have been committed which have been traced to "Dead-Eye Dick's" power ful influence. Amelia Paulik, a four-year-old girl of Millmont, a suburb of Reading, was drowned in a rain barrel near her home day before yesterday. The little tot evidently fell into the barrel while at play. Hilltown township, Rucks county, wants Ave things and has started a cajxiuaiuu to get them. They are: APRIL 26, 1916. i sed and get away with it. With the I exception of draped trousers and pur ple frock coat, the designers of men's 1 wear seem to have covered the field jof radical innovations, i Yet the fact remains that the men | who are pointed out as the nation's best dressed are those with the most conservative ideas of clothes; who in- I terpret most accurately the somber routine of styles marked London. The well-cut blue serge sack suit, and | plain contrasting tie, are every bit as | conspicuous as the black and white ; check suit of elaborate cut, red tie and | tan shoes, but the impression created, lof course, is entirely different. Actors, who as a matter of professional ex- | pedlency alone devote a great deal of | attention to the proper modes of dress, are very partial to blue serge, and they almost never wear clamorous ties and hose. j Lou Tcllegen, recently married to jMiss Geraldlne Farrar, Is considered | one of the best dressed men in New York. He wants very plain tailored j clothes, with an occasional bright tie and fancy shirt. Donald Brian, at pres ent one of the most conspicuous the j atrical ligures in New York, would not | create half so great an Impression if : he did not understand the value of simple, weli-talloredi clothes. His lat est walking apparel Is a dark blue (serge suit, white shirt and dark tie, shoes with gray tops—not to mention | a mustache. Good clothes are not only of vital importance In the theatrical profession, but In other walks of life as well. Ask I the successful businessman what' he | thinks about clothes, and he will tell 'you that the well-dressed man Is ten | times as valuable as the carelessly dressed one. Ills intelligence may not be any greater, but the fact that his i apparel Is Impeccable lends him an , assurance that carries forcible sug ! gestion. If in requesting a job you are better dressed than the man to whom jyou apply, your advantage Is half the ; battle. One of the first laws of ora , tory Is first to please the eye of the audience, after which they will listen ; to anything you have to say. I The increasing importance attached i to clothes is illustrated by the numer ous varieties of sport attire now on ; the market. The man who plays tennis i or golf no longer wears an old suit and ties a handkerchief arounrl his j forehead. He traverses the links in Norfolk jacket, long stockings, cap and : brogans, and he plays tennis In white j linen helmet manufactured for the ex- I press purpose. The polo helmet, in troduced by English players, has cap i tured the American fancy and has now j been adopted for all sports In this I country. There are golf helmets, rid- I ing helmets, tramping helmets, tennis i helmets and fishing helmets. The wide j use of this headdress In the tropics j lias demonstrated its value as a pro j tection against the sun. ' The question is constantly being ; raised as to what are good clothes, and why. Why should it not be in ; good taste to wear a Uoman tunio in | the summer, or a bird of paradise on ' one's hat, or a colonial lace collar? j Why is man's evening dress the same !as the uniform of waiters? Good roads, conveyance for school children to —a —centralized school, abandonment of one-room township schools, a new school building and a community center. April Swelling bud and fond suggestion, Wafting of perfume. Tearful rapture, thrilling question Ol restraint or bloom, Life all dreamlessly aslceping As in death, but now. Upward to the sunshine creeping— April, that is thou! Mystery's authentic dwelling. Faith's expanding wing. Maiden loveliness foretelling Fuller blossoming. Prophet of the new creation. Priestess of the bough. Month of the imagination— April, that is thou! —Florence Earle Coates, In Lippin cott's Magazine. OUR DAILY LAUGH _ BUM OUTLOOK. VHR 1 : advantages of an I ducaUon M well me you ' a * et the i infifV > adv an t ages of I 1 mine as soon as » HIV | we're married. rh e speedfool J makes the angels weep, t' The swim fool f.j* has ambition, ■ "■>© lcefool is be- The coldest icbrning (Chat Harrisburfr, which has gone on re moving many of its landmarks with out paying much attention to their historic associations or even to mat-k --in?: the sites, as is done in many other cities of the country, may take a lesson from the city of Chester. The authorities of the enterprising Dela ware river city concluded the other day that the prominence of the mu nicipality justified the erection of a city hall in keeping with modern ideas. For years the city has had the remodelled city hall for its offices. Now that a new city hall is to be erected the officials will have the old city hall restored to its original appearance. The city 2hall of which they think so much is 188 years old. In this city no one knows where the first borough offices were located and only a scrap of paper tells where the first courts were held in this Important, county seat. The first executive mansion site 1s traditional and as for the place where the first State Treasury stood is more or less legendary. The court house stands on the site of the first courthouse, but there is no marker to tell that it was once the meeting place of the legislature. Zlon Luth eran church has nothing to show that in It William Henry Harrison was nominated. The John Harris mansion is a private residence. The place where George Washington and Abraham IJncoln stopped In Harris burg bears no marker, camp Curtin is perpetuated only by a marker on a school. There are many sites in Harrisburg, as has been frequently pointed out in this column which have historic interest not only for the visitor, but for many of our own people. The example of Chester might be considered here. * . • ♦ "Why. does a mail wagon always take the most crowded street on a Saturday night and why does Charley Bojer run his joy car up and down Market street on Saturday afternoons when there is a rush of traffic?" asked a man who had read some comments upon fire apparatus, crowds and congested streets with near ac cidents in this column. "I do not know why the mail wagon must, chase up and down Third street. Why not Walnut to Dewberry and then down Strawberry or any one of sev eral other routes? Third street is narrow, crowded and on Saturday night requires regulation. The mail wagon bangs down the street when the crowd is thickest." * » • Gus Catherman, manager of the Western Union, did some bprrowing of wires yesterday to enable Governor Brumbaugh to press the button to ! open an exhibit in Philadelphia. The Western Union was to carry the cur- I rent from the executive mansion. So I Mr. Catherman hitched a line from the i Western Union to one owned by tlie Harrisburg Ulght and Power Coni | Pany and then coupled up with the Bell Telephone. It <vas a spliced wire, but it worked to a nicety. The current issue of the Telephone News, official journal of the Bell Tele phone Company, is right up to par and full of punch. This is meant as no implication against the editors, and if punch such as is apparently used in getting out this monthly publication has the effect of producing such a publication as is this one, we heartllv recommend it to all imbibers of lit erary refreshment. Two of the fea tures of this month's issue are of L. H. Kinneard. formerly of Har-" risburg, sitting at the Philadelphia switchboard conversing with Pitts burgh. It was nearly midnight on the evening of March 11, and the occasion was the simultaneous abandoning of the old switchboards in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and the putting into operation of two entirely new ones. Mr. Kinneard sat. down that niglit at the telephone and spoke to Mr. Ewing at Pittsburgh. "Hello. Ewing," he said, "do you know, as I sit here waiting, I'm "im pressed with the real note of sadness in all this. If they had lips to speak, what stories those old switchboards could tell us of the comedies and tragedies of life in which they have played their roles; what joys—yes. and what sorrows—it has been their lot to participate in! I am told that when the day force left the old Spruce op erating room for the last time this afternoon there was a lump in many a throat and not every eye was dry. And I understand. Hut soon the new switchboards will take on the tra ditions of the old; so let's look ahead to the bigger things to come." And the other feature is the pic ture of a section of the new Spruce board. The group of operators shown were handling calls at the rate of 6,855 per hour when the photograph was taken, establishing a record for the hour. WELL KNOWN PEOPLE ' —Magistrate Joseph Call, of Phila delphia, who was arrested for speed ing near Atlantic City, used to be in the Legislature. —Louis C.' Maderia, prominent in Slate coal operations, is one of the incorporators of one of the new coal [ companies just granted charter, | —Alexander Simpson was the | orator at. the presentation of the portrait of Justice Fell at Phila delphia. —Joseph Fornance, Montgomery historian, celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday this week and was called upon by members of historical so cieties. —Lewis Emery. Jr., the McKean county oil producer, who is a candi date for deleKate-at-large, has been in politics from his twenties. 1 DO YOU KNOW That Hnrrisburg tin is used In manufactiiring utensils for (ho South American trade? HISTORIC HARRISRURG —The first forge is supposed to have been erected here about 1800. 1* was the forerunner of the blast furnaces. * Does Newspaper Ad- V vertising Pay? A large paint manufacturer asked this question of retailers throughout the country: NO. 6 SAID: "In my opinion newspaper ad vertising Is the best means of publicity available. In my four teen years of business for myself I think the money I have put into newspaper advertising has brought me greater results as a trade getter than any money spent in any other mode of ad vertising. "It is very difficult to figure direct results from any adver tising, but I certainly think the papers have helped immensely." (Continued to-morrow)