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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-16
Man Who Wanted to
Pay Fine Acquitted

LOUISVILLE, KY. Feb. 16.-The
State lost $1,000 when it refused to
compromise on fine and a plea of
guilty with Joseph F. Burghard, who
ran down and killed a man after a
New Years celebration. The prosecu-
tor forced 'Burghard to trial for the
death of Edward Messmer.
Burghard admitted that he had
sped away after the accident, but the
jury acquitted him.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-16
Bandit Lopez Said
To Be in Montana

BILLINGS, MONT, Feb. 16.-Ralph
Lopez, the Mexican bandit who killed
six men before taking refuge in the
Bingham mine, Utah, and whose sub
sequent escape has baffled a CONT
nent, is believed by officers of two
States to be hiding in the hills near
Billings
Heavily armed, a man tallying ex
actly to the description of Lopez, was
arrested Friday night at Lowell, Wyo.,
and taken to jail. He escaped and
started north toward Billings.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-16
Radium Cures Blind,
Says Reading Doctor

NEW YORK. Feb. 16.-Dr. John
Eye, of Reading. Pa. who processes
to cure blindness by radium, has
treated twenty patients here. Sew
enty-five sightless persons appeared
at his free clinic, and of these he
chose hopeful" cases.
Notwithstanding the positive as
sertions of scientists in Europe and
America that sight can not be re-
stored by radium," said DR.. Eye, 81
can produce two patients who came
to me totally blind and who can now
read"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-16
200 Sea Birds, High
Tide Victims, Buried

HERMOSA BEACH, CAL, Feb. 16
More than 200 pelicans and sea gulls,
which met death in the recent high
tides, were buried by City Marshal
Wright GIBSON.
In many instances the birds perish
ed from lack of food. not having been
able to dive for fish in the seething
surf. an incident unparalleled, accord
ing TO old fishermen
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-16
Parcel Post Reduces
Adams Express Profit

NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-Loss of
business by reason of the parcel post
caused directors of the Adams Elk
press Company to decrease the divi-
dend to a 6 per cent basis by declar-
ing a quarterly payment of $3.50 a
share. The company has been pay
ing II per cent a year since 1900.
In 1908 per cent was paid and
from 1903 to 1907 10 per cent; in
1901 and 1902 per cent, and in
1900 9 per cent
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-16
Here's How to Avoid
Suit for Heart Balm

/ NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-Here's a
maxim for those who would avoid
breach Of promise suits:
DO right and fear no man. Don't
write and fear no woman"
United States District Attorney
Marshall delivered himself of the
above advice so it can be taken as
soundly legal
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-16
Pastor Fined for
Splitting on Floor

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 16.-The
Rev. DIR. Charles E. Mcclellan, pastor
of the Fair Hill Baptist Church, who
came into prominence several weeks
ago by stating that Pennsylvania had
no Senators fit to speak in church,
was arrested and fined $3.50 for vio-
lating an ordinance of the Council
against splitting in the City Hall.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-16
Aoki, First Japanese
Envoy to U. s., Dies
Special Gable to The Atlanta Georgian.

Special Gable to The Atlanta Georgian.
TOXIC, Feb. 16.-Viscount Aoki,
the first Japanese Ambassador to the
United States died here to-day. He
was 20 years old.
The Viscount always was friend
of America and sought to further
bonds of peace between Japan and
the United States. He was recalled
in 1908 because, it is said, he was at
tempting to institute negotiations be-
tween the two countries for mutual
guarantee of territorial rights
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-16
LINER ASHORE OFF CHINA.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.

Using TAO, CHINA. Feb. 16.--
The Hamburg American liner Sax
onia went ashore to-day in a dense
fog. The vessels position is not dan
gerous and she probably will be re-
1oated after her cargo is discharged.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-16
Danish King Enjoys
American Bill of Fare

Special Gable to The Atlanta Georgian.
COPENHAGEN, Feb. liking
Christian and Queen Alexandra ate
dinner composed exclusively of Ameri-
can dishes and liked it, The dinner was
given by the American Minister ana
Mrs Maurice Egan, and was followed
by a ball
Members of the diplomatic corps and
many prominent government officials
were guests, and were delighted with
The menu.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-16
Woman go Years in
One Church Is Dead

REDBANK, N. j., Feb. 16.-Mrs.
Daniel Wilson. the last of a family Of
thirteen children, died of apoplexy at
the home of her son, William p. Will
son. of Middletown, aged 81 years.
She was a member of the Middle
town Reformed Church for years.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-16
Glasgow Launches
Motor-Driven Liner
Special Gable to The American.

Special Gable to The American.
GLASGOW, Feb. 16.-The new liner
Mississippi, of the Atlantic Transport
line, has been launched.
She is the first motor driven ship
in the Atlantic service and will be
equipped with four Diesel engines,
each of 1900 horsepower. ...
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-16

tioHdl aSsOcidIoil; Is mere, 4ISs .
Louise Mayors, State regent Of South
Carolina, also is distinguished guest
Mrs. Foster to Open Meet.
The opening session will be held at
Wesleyan College to- night. A feature
will be an address by Mrs. Sheppard
Foster of Atlanta. the State regent,
and the expression of greetings from
the national association by Mrs. Will
liam Lawson Peel Mrs. w. H. De-
wee, Of Brunswick, will respond to
the addresses of welcome on behalf
of the visiting delegates. Mayor
Bridges Smith, who will give the la
dies the keys of the city, viii be
the only man on the program.
On Tuesday, Wednesd ny and Thurs
day there will be morning, afternoon
and night sessions or affairs. Off
GERS will be elected Wednesday. and
the next convention city chosen.
Either Mrs 7. c. Parker or Mrs, G. c.
Holt, of Macon, is in line for the
State regency. Several cities are ex-
peeted to contest for the 1915 meet
ing.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-16
BUSINESS NOTICE,

To Cure a Cold in One Day.
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE
Tablets. Druggists refund money If it
falls to cure. e. w. GROVES sigma
ture is on each box. 25c.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-04
MUNsEy,s FRANK CONFESSION

Perhaps no confession of failure has
ever been more frank than Frank A.
Munsey's explanation OF his suspension
of the Philadelphia Evening Times. He
SAYS:
"Every undertaking is an expert
ment until IL crystalizes into success.
The Evening Times has never passed
out of the experimental stage, and there
Is no evidence in sight looking toward
its doing so in the near future. II 1t
were nearing the clearing, II success
were within the sweep of a telescope,
I would continue its publication and
back 1t generously
ION the surface, Philadelphia was
the most alluring town in the world
for an evening newspaper venture
city of vast population. a city of homes,
and with fewer evening newspapers
than many cities of half or even one
third its size. It was this extraordi-
nary condition that led me to bring
out an evenings newspaper in Philadel-
phia.
considered on the basis of popula-
ton in Philadelphia. and the population
of the newspaper circuit outside Phila-
delphia, and the few evening news
papers In the field. there wasn't an
other opening on earth In its class.
'But the Evening Times hasn't work
ed out, and that's all there is to II. It
shares the fate of these other evening
newspaper ventures In Philadelphia
the Evening Star. the Evening News
and the Evening Item. There may be
others"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-04
POLITICAL SIDELICHTS

Apparently the Republican can
didates do not care if fusion is effect
ed.
DR.. Brumbaugh is speaking al
Cory this morning.
When it comes down to speaking
on agricultural topics DR.. Brumbaugh
has certain Democratic candidate
beaten a million ways.
Wonder if Bryan will come into
the State to make speeches for the
machine ticket this Fall?
Senator Penrose, DIR. Brumbaugh,
Congressman Kreider, L. S. Sadler and
a few friends were guests of the Gov
ernor at dinner last night
Frank b. McClain has been given
leave of absence by the city of Ian
caster to make his campaign for lieu
tenant-governor.
President Wilson's new tax
proposition is not enthusiastically re-
ceived even in the Central Democratic
Club.
Congressman Palmer has man
aged to accumulate some good hard
knocks in return for some gayeties of
statement this week.
Fusion appeare to be favored by
everyone but the Bull Moose leaders.
Palmer and Mccormick are on
the trail of Pinchot
apparently people are pretty sick
of the red tape necessary to vote.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-04
! EVENING CHAT

Industrially speaking, there is a
good bit in common between smoke
and whistling. When there is no
smoke there is not much doing in the
mills and when the whistling is not
heard from the railroads there is not
much of the life-giving traffic that
makes this city so great in transpor-
tatlon affairs. We are all glad to see
and smell smoke and to hear whistling
but as a matter of fact the control of
smoke is not proceeding as rapidly
here as it is in Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh, and there does not seem to be
much prospect of any abatement. So
we Will have to grin, wash and inhale
IL. However the proposition of whis-
ting is a good bit like blasting. Ordi-
nnarlly everyone is glad to hear the
FACTORY whistles blow-for starting
lunch or quitting-but there is a lot
or locomotive whistling that is no
more necessary than blasting at 6 so
A. Nj. when it could have been done at
the same hour on the previous even
ing. The Pennsylvania Railroad does
not permit whistling on certain sec
tons of its lines in the eastern part of
the state and some western railroads
We're hauled up short by the state au-
thoritles for the chorus of chime
siren and Shrek whistles that used to
smlte the tympans of residents of some
railroad towns And yet we are sa-
iuted by blasts from the west shore
lines OF the Pennsylva mia, by the howl
ing of the Western Maryland engines
on the lower bridge and by the shrill,
prolonged cries of the Reading in the
eastern part of the city. The men in
the towers are supposed to be alert
and on the job. They are in communi-
ties where whistling is tabood, and
Il
miles there are long. short, drawn-out,
chopped-off whistles that scream,
yowl, WOW and wop-wop, according to
the fancy of the frenzied auditor
studied out and boiled down. much of
1t is needless, annoying to sick people
ana wasteful, It's a wonder that
something has not been done to cur
tail the noises that are not necessary.
Congressman Aaron S. Kreider and
Karl Steward have considerable re-
semblance to each other and yesterday
when the congressman was in the city
on his way to the Grangers a friend
stepped up and hit him on the back
with a Hello" The congressman
turned around and said Hello" The
man gasped and said. Il thought you
were Steward"
"Oh. That's all right" replied Mr..
Kreider. 'T Just heard that some fell
low had told Steward a tale of woe in
tended for me-"
A couple of Huntingdon county men
We're talking yesterday at the Grangers'
Picnic and one said that he had
known DR.. Brumbaugh since 1889,
met him then standing waist deep
In the flood, trying to save some tele-
graph poles. he had cut down and
Whlch were heading down the stream"
When 1t comes down to big corn
TINS section is going some. A travel
ing man who gets over the country
and who visits western states said that
the Cumberland Valley could show a
rev II have never seen finer corn.
Inc stalks are high and burdened with
ears. The ears are immense. II the
wheat was anything like the corn and
the peaches, you will have a dandy
farm balance" said he.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-04
PROGRESS


The cave men fought with their knotty
fists,
And clubs that were tipped with
stone:
with heads held high, and with fear
less eye,
They guarded their rights alone.
They hacked at beasts that were huge
and fierce.
That prowlsd where their stores
were piled,
And they died at last, and their spirits
While the War God looked-and
smiled.
Long ages passed, and the srchers
came,
with arrows and plant bows;
They crouched in lines meath the noun
tain pines,
And slew as the reaper mows
And all the spears of the armored
Flashed bright as a shining sea:
And people died and their spirits cried,
While the War God laughed in glee.
They fight to-day and the bullets new
Are shaped like a needle fine;
And cannons roar on the ocean shore,
While blood flows red like wine
The airships fiutter against the sun
To shoot at the frightened earth.
And birdmen die in the heavy sky,
While the War God shouts In his
nlirth.
tian Herald.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-04
FAULTY TRANSPORTATION

THE American Society of Thrift
draws attention to the great
\ waste in American products
and those of the farm espec.
tally, resulting from lack of prone,
transportation facilities. The words
cost of hauling" are closely allied
with the trite high cost of living
phrase. The loss caused by lack OF
proper hauling facilities is so enor.
nous that it exceeds in Chicago about
$50,000,000 dollars year, while a
may reach the s150,0O0,OO mark I'm
New York. In other cities the loss is
in proportion to the size or import-
ance of the town.
Notwithstanding these facts practi-
cally nothing is done to rrform local
hauling from the primi We single.
nan-affair and methods into a mod
ern industrial enterprise.
The railroad as a common carrier
IS tied to tracks and has a fixed linn
tied sphere of operation. What COM
merce needs for broad and general
use, says the society in bulletin Just
issued, Is a common carrier not tied
to rails q trackless freight Carrier
with a wide range and unlimited
sphere of activity going wherever re-
anired to fill the needs Of transporta-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-04

THIS is Romper Day and no other
day in all the year means so
4 much for thousands of girls and
boys of Harrisburg as this par
ticular occasion. Romper Day has
grown to mean the grand finale of the
fun and recreation and sports of the
whole summer. 1t is the official fare
well to the Fairgrounds and recrea-
tion places which have attracted the
happy children throughout the hot
months
The older folk of the city do not
always realize what the Fairgrounds
and the parks and the bathing beaches
mean to the children of Harrisburg.
Nor is there always that appreciation
which is deserved for the good work
of the Department of Parks and those
officials who have direct supervision
of the outdoor life of the young
people.
The healthful and educational work
under the care of experienced in
structors on the several Fairgrounds
the interesting camp life on McCor-
to our splendid park system; the pub
lie Fairgrounds at Island Park, and
the joy-giving events at Reservoir
Park and other places all signalize
the splendid efforts of the city of
Harrisburg to take care of her coming
men and women.
City Commissioner Taylor, head Of
the Park Department, has had his
first seasons experience in the super
vision of the parks and Fairgrounds,
and the many kind things which have
been said of him to-day indicate, per-
haps. better than any public testi-
monial. the success of his endeavors.
But no Romper Day is ever sue
cessful without the feast which is the
big feature at the Reservoir Park
roundup. Hero Samuel KunkeI, a
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-04

TUSION is to be accomplished
- about October 1, 1t is announced
i from Democratic headquarters.
Why not now, If 1t is such an
excellent thing? Oh. for the reason,
comes the reply, that the real Pro-
gressives object and that bait must be
prepared to draw them into the trap.
Fusion, it appears, is the plan of
Senator Finn and Vance c. McCor-
mick. by which Finn saves the money
he would have had to spend to finance
the Lewis campaign and Mccormick
is given the privilege of opening an
other barrel. So hopeless is the stu
alton for the Democrats that they are
willing to fuse with the Washington
party and ignore the principles that
have brought them to ruin and the
country to serious depression.
The expression has been heard fire.
quently of late that the European
war. to all intents and purposes,
serves the United States in the same
manner and degree as a protective
tariff. In other words, if the produc-
ers of Europe are taken from the
fields and shops and sent to the front,
there will be serious falling off in
imports, leaving Americans in full
possession of their own markets. This
is the way Mr.. Palmer sees the situa-
tion.
Such a view is subject to various
qualifications. The essential factor is
to obtain the necessary ships. AS an
equivalent to the policy of protective
tariff a European war is sadly def
cient in that 1t lops off millions from
the tariff revenues of the government.
Whatever gain may accrue to the
manufacturers is at the expense of the
Treasury.
Fusion will not fool anybody. The
association on one ticket of free tariff
advocates and high tariff believers
shows clearly that such candidates
care only for the office. Principle
means nothing to them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-04

tion in the cities and extending its op-
'eration into the heart of the country.
into remote productive but undevel-
oped districts, bringing the market to
the consumer. This plan has already
been inaugurated by the Canadian Pa
/ cific Railway for moving the grain
crops of western Canada by motor
trucks from the barns of the farmers
i to the freight stations.
G.. A. Rankin has estimated the loss
! through inability of railroads to
handle the country's production in
1905-6 at a round billion dollars. A
well established trackless transporta-
tion system would add this billion
dollars regularly to our national
wealth. A trackless freight carrier
when once we'll under operation will
become an important instrument in
the country's prosperity and will re-
duce the dogma that prosperity de-
pends upon the railroad to a half
truth.
The prosperity of the country de-
pends upon the entire system of trans
portation, which includes, besides rail-
roads, all trackless transportation fa-
cilties and marine and air naviga-
ton.
1t is only the gross neglect of track
less transportation that has put rail-
roads in the limelight as a prosperity
producer and to save the untold mil
lions lost and squandered in hauling it
will be a part of wisdom-a duty of
and to the public-to develop trackless
transportation in cities as well as in
rural districts, making it a public util-
ity under control of commerce as a
cooperative association on the profit
sharing plan.
When the public can buy and con-
tract for transportation service as it
now contracts for telephone, electric
light and heat service, only with the
difference that by cooperative plan
they buy from themselves and pay
themselves-the cost of transportation
will drop about 20 per cent. on each
dollar of transportation charge, or
from $1,000 to $500, or still less, ex-
perts calculate
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-04

BNO-DA1 HreSlQent wilson a0-
dressed Congress on the neces-
i sity of raising 100000, 900
war tax by assessing the peo-
pie direct. Had there been a protec-
tive tariff for the past year there
would be no need for war tax" now.
Our industries would have been run
ming full blast and imports would have
been heavy, as they always are in
prosperous seasons, piling up a big
surplus In the national treasury. And
II the time came, by reason of the
length of the war, that additional
revenues were necessary, the nation
would have been in condition to meet
the added expense of direct taxation.
AS II Is the tax will find many out of
work, hundreds with empty pockets
and others hardly able to make ends
meet as it is, without the addition of
new burdens.
The war tax" however, may serve
one useful lesson by proving absolute
lv the fallacy of the Democratic doc
trine of placing high paid American
workmen IN competition with the
cheap labor of Europe. The present
situation will illustrate the economic
necessity of tariff protection at all
times. The principle of protection was
forcibly brought home to the Amer
ican people during the Napoleonic
wars, when American statesmen
showed clearly that the American
public should not be placed at the
mercy of Europe. The great argu-
ment for protection at that time was
to have industries so firmly establish
ed in the United States that no Euro
pean war could deprive us of manu-
featured articles. The present crisis
points to the same conclusion. It
shows that it is absolutely necessary
for the United States to be made in
dustrially Independent of foreign
countries and to be brought to the
point where it can produce for itself
everything needed by its own people.
And the only way this can be done is
under tariff protecting us from the
cheap labor of Europe.
1t has been favorite argument with
IiiS tdi liI-AOA A-lGNtAut-OHlN II men tnat
If any industry could not compete sue
cessfully with the cheap labor pro-
ducts of Europe such an industry in
line with real economy, should be
permitted to die. If such policy had
been followed, as long advanced by
the Democrats in the past, it would
now mean that the nation would be
utterly unable to support itself in the
present European crisis. Even now the
war will deprive the United States of
many articles such as chemicals used
in agriculture and manufacturing, and
would likewise deprive the country of
many manufactured articles, such as
textiles and metals, if such industries
had not been we'll established under
the protective tariff policy at home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-04
PENNSYLVANIA FARMERS

LFrom the Wilkes Barre Record1
1t is encouraging to note that Penn
sylvania is not tagging behind in the
movement to make farm life more at
tractive and more profitable. Two bills
passed by the Legislature hold great
possibilities. One provides for an ap-
preparation by the commissioners Of
each county of $1,000 annually for
agricultural extension work In con-
nection with the State College. This
college has received larger appropria-
tions from the State, and the Fed
eral government has promised to CO.
operate with the ultimate object of
placing trained agricultural agent
in every county. The other bill en-
powers the Secretary of Agriculture of
the State to appoint ten instructors
to give instruction at times and places
designated by him. This bill carries
an appropriation of $4,000.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-04
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

William E. Corey, the former
Steel corporation head, has given his
Paris grounds for a sheen pasture for
the f1ocks of the defenders.
DIR. Wayne Babcock. of PhiladeI-
phia, is hunting in Alaska,
Wallis ]. Tener, brother of the
Governor, spent the month of August
at the New York Chautauaua. where
he had a cottage.
delphia, has gone on his animal nntor
trip to New England.
DIR H. ]. Benz has been appointed
to take charge of child welfare work
in Pittsburgh.
Harry Daugherty, former legis-
lator OF Mercer, is seeking to have
colonel Roosevelt speak in his county